Abstract:
In a phase-locked circuit which is operable in response to an input complex signal to produce an output complex signal, a first complex multiplication is carried out between the input and the output complex signals to obtain a phase difference therebetween which appears as a complex phase difference. The complex phase difference is composed of a real part and an imaginary part which are individually allowed to pass through a low pass filter and to be supplied to a numerically controlled oscillator as a control signal. The control signal includes a frequency component even when the phase-locked circuit is put into an asynchronous state. The low pass filter may be replaced by a digital circuit comprising phase dividers.
Abstract:
A propagation time detecting system wherein a transmitting station transmits to a receiving station, over a plurality of transmitting paths or lines having different propagation times, a transmission signal comprising a sequence of transmission data digitized by a clock signal of a clock frequency. The receiving station receives the transmission signal through the respective transmitting paths or lines as different received signals, and reproduces the sequence of transmission data and the clock signal as different reproduced sequences of transmission data and different reproduced clock signals, from which differences are detected among the different propagation times. In order to improve the accuracy of the detected differences, at least one subcarrier signal with a frequency higher than the clock frequency is also transmitted together with the transmission signal. The receiving station also reproduces the subcarrier signals as different reproduced subcarrier signals which are compared with each other to determine time differences therebetween with a reduced time order. In an application to a radar system, the transmission signal including the subcarrier signal is compared with an echo of the transmission signal from an target to determine the propagation time between the radar and the target.
Abstract:
A variable-bandwidth frequency-division multiplex communication system which needs no interpolation circuits, but uses switch element of simple structure. The system includes a signal combining circuit which has N A/D converters associated respectively with independent information signals to be transmitted, a complex local oscillator for generating complex signals each having a frequency k.DELTA.f (1.ltoreq.k.ltoreq.N-1), .DELTA.f being the channel frequency interval, N complex multipliers for multiplying the outputs of the A/D converters by the respective complex signals, and producing N output signals, a circuit for effecting an inverse Fourier transform of N points, an N.times.N switch circuit connected between the outputs of the complex multipliers and input terminals of the inverse Fourier transform circuit, N digital subfilters connected respectively to the outputs of the inverse Fourier transform circuit, N delay units connected respectively to outputs of the digital subfilters, and an adder for adding output signals from the delay units and outputting a sum signal.
Abstract:
A TDMA timing control method and apparatus for use in a TDMA satellite communication network synchronizes land earth stations in a global beam system and even in a multi beam system having generally no return channel. A land earth station of the satellite network generates a transmission timing thereof on the basis of its own time base and detects a receiving time of a signal from another land earth station. Times of the land earth stations are synchronized by exchanging the information of their own transmission timing and the receiving times of the signals with other land earth stations through control bursts, calculating time errors of their own time bases by solving simultaneous equations including time errors of the time bases of the other land earth station and propagation times to the satellite as unknown quantities and correcting the times of the time bases on the basis of the time errors.
Abstract:
A satellite communication system includes a plurality of mobile stations which are situated on the earth and a communication satellite which is communicable with the mobile stations by radio signals over a plurality of spot beams. The satellite applies single sideband amplitude modulation (SSB-AM) to analog signals which are sent from the mobile stations, applies digital modulation to coded voice and data, and separates signals in the form of frequency-division-multiplexed (FDM) signals on a channel basis by a transmultiplexer method which is implemented by demultiplexers of a transponder. Baseband matrix means is provided for connecting an output of any of the demultiplexers to one of the spot beams to be transmitted. Further, transmitting means is provided for time-division-multiplexing outputs of the baseband matrix means to form a transmit frame and transmitting it in the form of a TDM signal. On the other hand, each mobile station includes a receiver for selecting a channel signal to be received out of the TDM signal which is sent from the transmitting means of the onboard transponder, and demodulates it to regenerate a signal.
Abstract:
A modulator/demodulator operation mode control system specifies an operation mode, which is a combination of particular data transmission rate, multi-phase PSK modulation system, error-correction coding rate and others, in which a modulator/demodulator is to operate, while deciding the operation mode and controlling the modulator/demodulator. A transmit station designates a particular operation mode in a plurality of bits in terms of polarities of unique words, while a receive station switches a demodulator thereof to the designated operation mode responsive to an output of mode switchover signal decision means and based on signal representative of detection of the unique words.
Abstract:
In a communication system for carrying out satellite communication through a satellite among users, a satellite communication center is located in a terrestrial network, such as an internet, and has a program table accessible through the terrestrial network and representative of a time schedule of each program to be broadcast through the satellite. The program table can be reserved to broadcast contents by a sender through the internet when an empty time zone is left on the program table. When the reservation is accepted, the contents are sent from the sender through the internet to the satellite communication center and are broadcast at a reserved time through the satellite to other users in accordance with the program table. The contents may be stored in advance in an information storage of the satellite communication center once before they are broadcast or be directly broadcast to the satellite at the reserved time.
Abstract:
Connected to a satellite earth station for transmitting a broadcast signal to a communication satellite, a data (distribution) center publishes contents of stored information on a home page (HP) of the Internet to submit retrieval of users. When each user determines date to be gotten by retrieving on HP, the user transmits a request signal to the date center via a ground Internet or the communication satellite. Responsive to the request signal, the date center returns a reservation signal including a group address and a distribution scheduled time instant to a request source via the communication satellite. A user's terminal receives date with the group address at a reserved time instant, deciphers the date using a key given from the date center separately, and stores deciphered date in a memory thereof.
Abstract:
A radio communication device includes a transmission carrier generating circuit, a reception intermediate-frequency local signal generating circuit), a transmission radio-frequency local signal generating circuit and a reception radio-frequency local signal generating circuit, each of which is in the form of a frequency synthesizer. The radio communication device further includes a channel connection signal control circuit which cooperatively controls the transmission carrier generating circuit and the transmission radio-frequency local signal generating circuit and cooperatively controls the reception intermediate-frequency local signal generating circuit and the reception radio-frequency local signal generating circuit.
Abstract:
A first clock signal of fl in frequency is converted into a second clock signal having a frequency of f2=(n/m) f1. The first clock signal is converted by a tank circuit (12) and a converter (13) into an R-bit first phase signal (.theta.1) indicating the phase of the first clock signal. The first phase signal is multiplied by n (mod 2.sup.R) by a multiplier to provide a second phase signal (.theta.3). The second phase signal is supplied to a digital phase-locked loop (PLL) (3) comprising a subtractor (15), a low-pass filter (LPF) (16), a numerically controlled oscillator (NCO) (17) and a multiplier (18). The multiplier in the digital PLL (3) multiplies a third phase signal by m (mod 2.sup.R), indicating the phase of a second clock signal which is the output of the NCO (17), to generate a fourth phase signal. The subtractor (15) generates a signal representing the phase error between the second and fourth phase signals. This phase error signal is filtered by the LPF (16) to control the oscillating phase of the NCO (17). A clock generating circuit generates the second clock signal, on the basis of the third phase signal.