Abstract:
There is provided a radio device including an antenna, a first impedance converting circuit, a second impedance converting circuit and a differential output unit. The antenna has a first terminal and a second terminal to receive a signal. The first impedance converting circuit and the second impedance converting circuit have a first impedance and a second impedance, respectively. The first impedance and the second impedance each are controllable. One end of the first impedance converting circuit and one end of the second impedance converting circuit are connected to the first terminal and the second terminal of the antenna, respectively. The differential output unit is connected to the other end of the first impedance converting circuit and the other end of the second impedance converting circuit through which the signal received by the antenna is input to the differential output unit, and transform the signal into a differential signal.
Abstract:
A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes a probe unit and a control/imaging unit. The probe unit includes a converter converting a sampled magnetic-resonance signal into a digital signal, a first transmitter converting the digital signal into a first-radio signal, a first receiver receiving and performing detection on the second-radio signal to obtain a first-received signal, and a clock-regeneration unit regenerating a clock component from the first-received signal to generate a regenerated-clock signals. The control/imaging unit includes a second-receiver receiving the first-radio signal to obtain a second-received signal, a data processor performing data processing on the second-received signal in synchronism with a reference-clock signal to obtain a video signal, and a second transmitter which modulates a carrier wave using the reference-clock signal, converts the reference-clock signal into the second-radio signal, and transmits the second-radio signal through the second-wireless channel.
Abstract:
An OFDM receiver apparatus mounted on a movable object for receiving an OFDM signal, includes a plurality of directional antennas which receive an OFDM signal, an estimator to estimate a center frequency of a spectrum of a Doppler component from one of the received signals or a multiplexed signal obtained by multiplexing the received signals, a shift quantity calculator to calculate a shift quantity from the estimated center frequency of the estimator and directivity information representing directivity directions of the directional antennas, a plurality of frequency shifters to subject the received signals to frequency shift according to the shift quantity to compensate for Doppler shift, a combining unit to diversity-combine frequency shifted signals of the frequency shifters, and a demodulator/decoder to demodulate and decode combining diversity signals of the combining unit.
Abstract:
A receiver comprising: an antenna which receives a radio signal including N possible symbols {c1(n), c2(n), . . . cM−1(n), cM(n)}, an N correlation units which are provided corresponding to the N possible symbols, respectively, each correlation unit detecting the degree of correlation with the radio signal received by the antenna, and a symbol determination unit which determines the symbol included in the radio signal received by the antenna based on the degree of correlation detected by the N correlation units. The N correlation units detect the degree of correlation between the radio signal received by the antenna and the N possible symbols represented by M chips {α0c1(n), α0c2(n)+α1c1(n), . . . , α0cM−1(n)+α1cM−2(n), α0cM(n)+α1cM−1(n)}.
Abstract:
A diversity antenna apparatus has N (N is 3 or more integer) elements of antennas which receive radio signals, a priority storage unit configured to store priority data of the N elements of antennas, a first antenna selector which selects two antennas from among the N elements of antennas based on the priority data, a second antenna selector which selects one of the selected two antennas based on a prescribed condition, and a priority update unit configured to update priority data of the N elements of antennas stored in the priority storage unit based on the antenna selected by the second antenna selector.
Abstract:
A signal receiving apparatus includes an antenna receiving an OFDM signal including a OFDM symbol, a first conversion unit configured to frequency-convert an OFDM signal received by the antenna, and a second conversion unit configured to analog-to-digital-convert the OFDM signal frequency-converted, sets a first section to be modulated in an interval time of the OFDM symbol and a second section that is other than the first section in the interval time, frequency-converts, by the first conversion unit, the OFDM signal received by the antenna, analog-to-digital-converts, by the second conversion unit, the OFDM signal frequency-converted, supplies power to the first and the second conversion units in the first section, and stopping supplying power to a part of the first conversion unit and a part of the second conversion unit in a second section, and demodulates the OFDM symbol which is in the first section, frequency-converted and analog-to-digital-converted.
Abstract:
An OFDM receiver apparatus mounted on a movable object for receiving an OFDM signal, includes a plurality of directional antennas which receive an OFDM signal, an estimator to estimate a center frequency of a spectrum of a Doppler component from one of the received signals or a multiplexed signal obtained by multiplexing the received signals, a shift quantity calculator to calculate a shift quantity from the estimated center frequency of the estimator and directivity information representing directivity directions of the directional antennas, a plurality of frequency shifters to subject the received signals to frequency shift according to the shift quantity to compensate for Doppler shift, a combining unit to diversity-combine frequency shifted signals of the frequency shifters, and a demodulator/decoder to demodulate and decode combining diversity signals of the combining unit.
Abstract:
A station determines the presence/absence of directional beam control in an access point, on the basis of received power measured when data transmitted from the access point are received, and the type of the received data. In accordance with the result of this determination, the station controls transmitting power to transmit data to the access point.
Abstract:
According to one embodiment, a quadrature error compensating circuit for acquiring an in-phase component signal and a quadrature component signal, includes a first filter, a first multiplier, a first subtractor, a second filter, a correlation calculating circuit. The first multiplier multiplies the in-phase component signal by a control value. The correlation calculating circuit calculates a cross-correlation value between an output of the first filter and an output of the second filter, and uses the cross-correlation value as the control value.
Abstract:
According to embodiments, a wireless communication apparatus supports at least a second wireless communication scheme between a first, wireless communication scheme and the second wireless communication scheme. The first wireless communication scheme requires that a wireless medium is determined to be busy when a reception level is equal to or greater than a minimum reception sensitivity level of physical scheme. The apparatus includes a first processing unit and a second processing unit. The first processing unit is configured to set a value lower than a maximum transmission power of the first wireless communication scheme, for a maximum transmission power of the second wireless communication scheme and set a value greater than the minimum reception sensitivity level, of the physical scheme, for a carrier sense level, when the second wireless communication scheme is used. The second processing unit is configured to carry out carrier sense using the carrier sense level.