Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090040905 | Objective lens driving device, control circuit, optical disc device and objective lens driving method - An objective lens driving device includes an objective lens holder | 02-12-2009 |
20090177954 | CODE ERROR DETECTING DEVICE, WIRELESS SYSTEM AND CODE ERROR DETECTING METHOD - A code error detecting device that can more precisely detect a code error due to a delayed wave is disclosed. The code error detecting device includes a receiving antenna ( | 07-09-2009 |
20100008441 | MULTIANTENNA RECEIVING DEVICE - A multiantenna receiving device is provided to make it possible to cope with both improvement in error rate characteristic and simplification in structure. The multiantenna receiving device is comprised of soft judgement output units ( | 01-14-2010 |
20100046658 | MULTI-ANTENNA TRANSMISSION DEVICE, MULTI-ANTENNA RECEPTION DEVICE, MULTI-ANTENNA TRANSMISSION METHOD, MULTI-ANTENNA RECEPTION METHOD, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND BASE STATION DEVICE - Provided is a multi-antenna transmission device ( | 02-25-2010 |
20100070828 | TRANSMISSION METHOD, TRANSMITTER APPARATUS AND RECEPTION METHOD - A transmitter apparatus wherein a simple structure is used to successfully suppress the degradation of error rate performance that otherwise would be caused by fading or the like. There are included encoding parts ( | 03-18-2010 |
20100077276 | TRANSMITTING DEVICE, RECEIVING DEVICE, ENCODER, AND ENCODING METHOD - In such a relationship between information transmitted by a primary BCH, for example, and information transmitted by a non-primary BCH as a case of the transmission for a first information sequence that is easy to keep receiving quality and a second information sequence that is difficult to keep receiving quality, a transmitting device and a receiving device are disclosed for making it possible to improve an error rate of the second information sequence. In the devices, an encoder ( | 03-25-2010 |
20100091910 | Reception Device and Reception Method - Provided is a reception device which can reduce a parallel interference canceller processing delay. The reception device ( | 04-15-2010 |
20100103919 | RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD AND RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE - When the SC-FDMA method is used in combination with the multi-antenna transmission technique, a radio transmission method effectively improves the frequency use efficiency by performing appropriate frequency allocation to a plurality of antennas while suppressing degradation of the reception quality caused by interference. In the radio transmission method of the SC-FDMA type, according to the number of terminals simultaneously accessing a base station within a usable frequency band, it is possible to allocate all the transmission signals (transmission stream) to be transmitted by different antennas to different frequency bands or to use the MIMO transmission in combination. Moreover, according to the number of terminals making an access, the number of terminals which perform the MIMO transmission can be varied. | 04-29-2010 |
20100104044 | RADIO TRANSMISSION DEVICE AND RADIO RECEPTION DEVICE - Provided is a radio transmission device ( | 04-29-2010 |
20100172421 | MIMO RECEIVER AND MIMO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An MIMO receiver and MIMO communication system which can have a small hardware scale even if the number of antennas used for MIMO communication. In a radio communication device ( | 07-08-2010 |
20100177845 | MULTI-ANTENNA TRANSMISSION DEVICE AND MULTI-ANTENNA TRANSMISSION METHOD - Provided is a multi-antenna transmission device which can improve the reception quality when performing a repeated detection using a software value at the reception device side in a spatial multiplex MIMO system. A transmission device ( | 07-15-2010 |
20100180176 | ENCODING METHOD, ENCODER, AND TRANSMITTER - An encoding method by which an encoding speed is improved is disclosed. An encoder ( | 07-15-2010 |
20100192047 | TRANSMITTING DEVICE AND TRANSMITTING METHOD - A transmitting device and method enabling improvement of the reception quality on the receiving side when the LDPC-CC (Low-Density Parity-Check Convolutional Codes) encoding is used. The transmitting device ( | 07-29-2010 |
20100199153 | LOW-DENSITY PARITY CHECK CONVOLUTION CODE (LDPC-CC) ENCODER AND LDPC-CC DECODER - It is possible to provide and an LDPC-CC (Low-Density Parity-Check Convolution Codes) encoder and an LDPC-CC decoder which performs an error correction encoding and decoding while reducing the amount of a termination sequence required for encoding/decoding the LDPC-CC encoding/decoding and suppressing degradation of the transmission efficiency. The LDPC-CC encoder ( | 08-05-2010 |
20110041044 | ENCODER, DECODER, AND ENCODING METHOD - An encoder and decoder using LDPC-CC (Low Density Parity Check-Convolutional Codes) is disclosed. The encoder exhibits encoding rates realized with a small circuit-scale and a high data reception quality. In the encoder ( | 02-17-2011 |
20110087948 | LOSS CORRECTION ENCODING DEVICE AND LOSS CORRECTION ENCODING METHOD - A loss correction encoding device having an improved capability of loss correction using LDPC-CC is disclosed. In the loss correction encoding device ( | 04-14-2011 |
20110099446 | TRANSMISSION METHOD USING PARITY PACKETS, TRANSMITTER AND REPEATER - Problem: A packet error rate in a receiver needs to be effectively reduced. | 04-28-2011 |
20110138258 | ENCODING DEVICE AND DECODING DEVICE - An encoding device and decoding device for improving an error floor while taking advantage of the features of a convolutional code capable of encoding/decoding an information sequence with an arbitrary length are disclosed. An error correction encoding section ( | 06-09-2011 |
20110197105 | ENCODER, TRANSMISSION DEVICE, AND ENCODING METHOD - Disclosed are an encoder, a transmission device, and an encoding method with which the transmission amount is reduced and a deterioration in transmission efficiency is suppressed while improving reception quality when QC-LDPC or a like block encoding is used. A puncture pattern setting unit ( | 08-11-2011 |
20110264984 | ENCODING METHOD, ENCODER AND DECODER - Disclosed is an encoding method to change an encoding rate of an erasure correcting code, while decreasing a circuit scale of an encoder and a decoder. 12k bit (wherein k represents a natural number) which is an encoding output using LDPC-CC with an encoding rate of ½, and comprises information and parity, is defined as one cycle. From the one cycle, only the information is arranged in the output order of the encoding output to obtain 6k bit information X6i, X6i+1, X6i+2, X6i+3, X6i+4, X6i+5, . . . , X6(i+k−1) X6(i+k−1)+1, X6(i+k−1)+2, X6(i+k−1)+3, X6(i+k−1)+4, and X6(i+k−1)+5. Known information is inserted, in 3k pieces of information (Xj) among the 6k bit information, so that when 3k pieces of mutually different j is divided by 3, there is a remainder of 0 regarding k pieces, there is a remainder of 1 regarding k pieces, and there is a remainder of 2 regarding k pieces, to thereby obtain the parity from the information containing the known information. | 10-27-2011 |
20110283162 | ENCODING METHOD, DECODING METHOD, CODER AND DECODER - An encoding method and encoder of a time-varying LDPC-CC with high error correction performance are provided. In an encoding method of performing low density parity check convolutional coding (LDPC-CC) of a time varying period of q using a parity check polynomial of a coding rate of (n−1)/n (where n is an integer equal to or greater than 2), the time varying period of q is a prime number greater than 3, the method receiving an information sequence as input and encoding the information sequence using equation 1 as a g-th (g=0, 1, . . . q−1) parity check polynomial to satisfy 0: | 11-17-2011 |
20110320906 | ENCODER, DECODER, AND ENCODING METHOD - An encoder and decoder using LDPC-CC which avoid lowering the transmission efficiency of information while not deteriorating error correction performance, even at termination; and an encoding method of the same. A termination sequence length determining unit ( | 12-29-2011 |
20120121034 | TRANSMISSION METHOD, TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, RECEPTION METHOD AND RECEPTION APPARATUS - All data symbols used in data transmission of a modulated signal are precoded by hopping between precoding matrices so that the precoding matrix used to precode each data symbol and the precoding matrices used to precode data symbols that are adjacent to the data symbol in the frequency domain and the time domain all differ. A modulated signal with such data symbols arranged therein is transmitted. | 05-17-2012 |
20120128105 | MULTIANTENNA RECEIVING DEVICE - A multiantenna receiving device is provided to make it possible to cope with both improvement in error rate characteristic and simplification in structure. The multiantenna receiving device is comprised of soft judgement output units for carrying out a soft judgement of a modulation signal in accordance with signal point distances between a plurality of candidate signal points with respect to a plurality of multiplexed modulation signals and a receiving signal, decoding units for obtaining digital data of the modulation signals by using the judged results obtained by the soft judgement output units, and signal point decreasing units for decreasing the number of the candidate signal points used in the soft judgement output units by recursively using a part of the digital data except self-modulation signals obtained by the decoding units. | 05-24-2012 |
20120219089 | TRANSMISSION METHOD AND TRANSMISSION APPARATUS - All data symbols used in data transmission of a modulated signal are precoded by switching between precoding matrices so that the precoding matrix used to precode each data symbol and the precoding matrices used to precode data symbols that are adjacent to the data symbol along the frequency axis and the time axis all differ. A modulated signal with such data symbols arranged therein is transmitted. | 08-30-2012 |
20120224651 | SIGNAL GENERATION METHOD AND SIGNAL GENERATION APPARATUS - A transmission method simultaneously transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal at a common frequency performs precoding on both signals using a fixed precoding matrix and regularly changes the phase of at least one of the signals, thereby improving received data signal quality for a reception device. | 09-06-2012 |
20120300877 | PRECODING METHOD, TRANSMITTING DEVICE, AND RECEIVING DEVICE - A transmission scheme for transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal in the same frequency at the same time. According to the transmission scheme, a precoding weight multiplying unit multiplies a precoding weight by a baseband signal after a first mapping and a baseband signal after a second mapping and outputs the first modulated signal and the second modulated signal. In the precoding weight multiplying unit, precoding weights are regularly hopped. | 11-29-2012 |
20120324309 | DECODING METHOD AND DECODING APPARATUS - A decoding device allowing a high-speed decoding operation. In a decoding section ( | 12-20-2012 |
20130055049 | ENCODING METHOD, DECODING METHOD, ENCODER, AND DECODER - An encoding method generates a parity bit sequence by encoding an information sequence with feed-forward LDPC convolutional codes based on a plurality of parity check polynomials each having a coding rate of (n−1)/n, then performs an interleaving process and an accumulation process. The accumulation process is an exclusive OR operation performed on bits of the interleaved parity bit sequence and on bits of a delayed accumulated parity bit sequence. A coded sequence is then generated from the information sequence and the accumulated parity bit sequence. | 02-28-2013 |
20130089164 | PRE-CODING METHOD AND TRANSMITTER - Disclosed is a transmission scheme for transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal over the same frequency at the same time. According to the transmission scheme, a precoding weight multiplying unit multiplies a baseband signal after a first mapping and a baseband signal after a second mapping by a precoding weight and outputs the first modulated signal and the second modulated signal. In the precoding weight multiplying unit, precoding weights are regularly hopped. | 04-11-2013 |
20130114752 | TRANSMISSION METHOD, TRANSMITTER APPARATUS, RECEPTION METHOD AND RECEIVER APPARATUS - Transmission quality is improved in an environment in which direct waves dominate in a transmission method for transmitting a plurality of modulated signals from a plurality of antennas at the same time. All data symbols used in data transmission of a modulated signal are precoded by hopping between precoding matrices so that the precoding matrix used to precode each data symbol and the precoding matrices used to precode data symbols that are adjacent to the data symbol in the frequency domain and the time domain all differ. A modulated signal with such data symbols arranged therein is transmitted. | 05-09-2013 |
20130121306 | SIGNAL GENERATION METHOD AND SIGNAL GENERATION DEVICE - A transmission method simultaneously transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal at a common frequency performs precoding on both signals using a fixed precoding matrix and regularly changes the phase of at least one of the signals, thereby improving received data signal quality for a reception device. | 05-16-2013 |
20130121307 | METHOD OF SIGNAL GENERATION AND SIGNAL GENERATING DEVICE - A transmission method simultaneously transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal at a common frequency performs precoding on both signals using a fixed precoding matrix and regularly changes the phase of at least one of the signals, thereby improving received data signal quality for a reception device. | 05-16-2013 |
20130121438 | PRECODING METHOD, AND TRANSMITTING DEVICE - Disclosed is a transmission scheme for transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal in the same frequency at the same time. According to the transmission scheme, a precoding weight multiplying unit multiplies a precoding weight by a baseband signal after a first mapping and a baseband signal after a second mapping and outputs the first modulated signal and the second modulated signal. In the precoding weight multiplying unit, precoding weights are regularly hopped. | 05-16-2013 |
20130121441 | TRANSMISSION METHOD, TRANSMISSION DEVICE, RECEPTION METHOD, AND RECEPTION DEVICE - Provided is a precoding method for generating, from a plurality of baseband signals, a plurality of precoded signals to be transmitted over the same frequency bandwidth at the same time, including the steps of selecting a matrix F[i] from among N matrices, which define precoding performed on the plurality of baseband signals, while switching between the N matrices, i being an integer from 0 to N−1, and N being an integer at least two, generating a first precoded signal z | 05-16-2013 |
20130136208 | SIGNAL GENERATION METHOD AND SIGNAL GENERATION DEVICE - A transmission method simultaneously transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal at a common frequency performs precoding on both signals using a fixed precoding matrix and regularly changes the phase of at least one of the signals, thereby improving received data signal quality for a reception device. | 05-30-2013 |
20130145228 | ENCODING METHOD - An encoder and decoder using LDPC-CC (Low Density Parity Check-Convolutional Codes) is disclosed. The encoder exhibits encoding rates realized with a small circuit-scale and a high data reception quality. In the encoder ( | 06-06-2013 |
20130155989 | TRANSMISSION METHOD - A transmission method includes generating a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signals, each signal including different data and some of the plurality of OFDM signals including pilot symbols. The pilot symbols are assigned to a predetermined subcarrier in predetermined time. At least one of the plurality of OFDM signals is assigned the pilot symbols to the predetermined subcarrier in the predetermined time, and other OFDM signals are assigned data to the predetermined subcarrier in the predetermined time. The method further includes converting each of the plurality of OFDM signals to a radio signal and transmitting each of the radio signals from a different antenna. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159816 | TRANSMITTING METHOD, RECEIVING METHOD, RECEIVING APPARATUS AND TRANSMITTING APPARATUS - A transmitter apparatus wherein a simple structure is used to successfully suppress the degradation of error rate performance that otherwise would be caused by fading or the like. There are included encoding parts ( | 06-20-2013 |
20130176965 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD AND TRANSMISSION APPARATUS - A wireless communication method for a transmission apparatus that transmits an OFDM (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing) signal using a communication band, which comprises a plurality of subcarrier groups each including a plurality of subcarriers. The method includes specifying which subcarrier group and how many subcarriers are to be used to transmit the OFDM signal, determining a configuration of a transmission frame, generating the OFDM signal by mapping data symbols according to the determined configuration of the transmission frame, and transmitting the generated OFDM signal. | 07-11-2013 |
20130223371 | RECEIVING APPARATUS AND RECEIVING METHOD - A multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) transmission apparatus includes a modulation signal generating section and a MIMO transmitting section. The modulation signal generating section generates: (i) a first OFDM modulation signal, in which a plurality of subcarriers include a subcarrier carrying a pilot symbol and a subcarrier carrying a data symbol, in both a first time period and a second time period; and (ii) a second OFDM modulation signal, in which the plurality of subcarriers include a subcarrier carrying a pilot symbol and a subcarrier carrying a data symbol in the first time period, while in the second time period an in-phase component and a quadrature-phase component of every subcarrier included in the plurality of subcarriers are zero. The MIMO transmitting section transmits the first OFDM modulation signal from a first antenna and transmits the second OFDM modulation signal from a second antenna. | 08-29-2013 |
20130223567 | TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION APPARATUS AND METHOD - A transmission apparatus includes a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) modulation signal generators, which generate a first OFDM modulation signal and a second OFDM modulation signal. The transmission apparatus also includes a transmitter that transmits the first OFDM modulation signal from a first antenna and the second OFDM modulation signal from a second antenna, in an identical frequency band. A reception apparatus is provided, which includes a plurality of antennas that receive a plurality of OFDM modulation signals; a plurality of OFDM demodulators that transform the plurality of OFDM modulation signals to a plurality of reception signals using Fourier transform; an estimator that outputs a distortion estimation signal using one or more symbols for demodulation included in the plurality of reception signals; and a demodulator that compensates for distortion of the reception signals using the distortion estimation signal and demodulates a data symbol included in the reception signals. | 08-29-2013 |
20130254638 | ENCODER, DECODER, TRANSMITTING APPARATUS, AND RECEIVING APPARATUS - There is provided an encoder that provides a termination sequence with a simple structure for LDPC-CC encoding and reduces an amount of the termination sequence transmitted to a transmission line. The LDPC-CC encoder connects a first encoder to a second encoder to perform encoding and thereby carry out LDPC-CC encoding, the first encoder performing encoding based on an partial parity check matrix for information bits obtained by extracting a sequence corresponding to the information bits in a parity check matrix and the second encoder performing encoding based on a partial parity check matrix for parity bits obtained by extracting a sequence corresponding to the parity bits in the parity check matrix. A termination sequence generator generates a termination sequence including the same number of bits as the memory length of the first encoder and provides the generated termination sequence as an input sequence. | 09-26-2013 |
20130262955 | DECODER, RECEIVING APPARATUS, DECODING METHOD, AND RECEIVING METHOD - Disclosed are an encoder, a transmission device, and an encoding method with which the transmission amount is reduced and a deterioration in transmission efficiency is suppressed while improving reception quality when QC-LDPC or a like block encoding is used. A puncture pattern setting unit searches for a puncture pattern for each integral multiple of the number of columns or for each divisor of the number of columns of a sub block matrix that forms a check matrix (H) of a QC-LDPC code, and a puncture unit (data reduction unit) switches the puncture pattern for each integral multiple of the number of columns or for each divisor of the number of columns of the sub block matrix that forms the check matrix of the QC-LDPC code. | 10-03-2013 |
20130297993 | ENCODING METHOD, AND DECODING METHOD - An encoding method generates an encoded sequence by performing encoding of a given coding rate according to a predetermined parity check matrix. The predetermined parity check matrix is a first parity check matrix or a second parity check matrix. The first parity check matrix corresponds to a low-density parity check (LDPC) convolutional code using a plurality of parity check polynomials. The second parity check matrix is generated by performing at least one of row permutation and column permutation with respect to the first parity check matrix. An eth parity check polynomial that satisfies zero, of the LDPC convolutional code, is expressible by using a predetermined mathematical formula. | 11-07-2013 |
20130311857 | ENCODING METHOD, DECODING METHOD - An encoding method generates an encoded sequence by performing encoding of a given coding rate according to a predetermined parity check matrix. The predetermined parity check matrix is a first parity check matrix or a second parity check matrix. The first parity check matrix corresponds to a low-density parity check (LDPC) convolutional code using a plurality of parity check polynomials. The second parity check matrix is generated by performing at least one of row permutation and column permutation with respect to the first parity check matrix. An eth parity check polynomial that satisfies zero, of the LDPC convolutional code, is expressible by using a predetermined mathematical formula. | 11-21-2013 |
20130315343 | TRANSMITTING APPARATUS, RECEIVING APPARATUS, TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND RECEPTION METHOD - In a communication system in which propagation path error tolerance is improved by switching the modulation method or error correction method adaptively according to the state of the propagation path, signals MX, MY, CX, and CY indicating the modulation method and error correction method used by the transmitting side are transmitted arranged at discrete locations within the same frame. By this means, the possibility of discretely arranged signals MX and MY, or CX and CY, both degrading is made low even if the transmit signal experiences fading or propagation path fluctuations. As a result, it is possible for the modulation method information signal and/or error correction method information signal to be restored correctly on the receiving side. | 11-28-2013 |
20130322564 | TRANSMISSION METHOD AND TRANSMISSION APPARATUS - Of any one of a transmission method X of transmitting modulated signal A and modulated signal B including the same data from a plurality of antennas and a transmission method Y of transmitting modulated signal A and modulated signal B having different data from the plurality of antennas, a base station apparatus does not change the transmission method during data transmission and changes only the modulation scheme. The base station apparatus transmits modulated signal A and modulated signal B to a communication terminal apparatus using the determined transmission method and modulation scheme. In this way, it is possible to improve data transmission efficiency when transmitting data using the plurality of antennas. | 12-05-2013 |
20130322566 | PRECODING METHOD, PRECODING DEVICE - Disclosed is a precoding method for generating, from a plurality of baseband signals, a plurality of precoded signals that are transmitted in the same frequency bandwidth at the same time. According to the precoding method, one matrix is selected from among matrices defining a precoding process that is performed on the plurality of baseband signals by hopping between the matrices. A first baseband signal and a second baseband signal relating to a first coded block and a second coded block generated by using a predetermined error correction block coding scheme satisfy a given condition. | 12-05-2013 |
20130329836 | TRANSMITTING APPARATUS, TRANSMITTING METHOD, RECEIVING APPARATUS AND RECEIVING METHOD - Modulated signal A is transmitted from a first antenna, and modulated signal B is transmitted from a second antenna. As modulated signal B, modulated symbols S2(i) and S2(i+1) obtained from different data are transmitted at time i and time i+1 respectively. In contrast, as modulated signal A, modulated symbols S1(i) and S1(i)′ obtained by changing the signal point arrangement of the same data are transmitted at time i and time i+1 respectively. As a result the reception quality can be changed intentionally at time i and time i+1, and therefore using the demodulation result of modulated signal A of a time when the reception quality is good enables both modulated signals A and B to be demodulated with good error rate performances. | 12-12-2013 |
20130346832 | TRANSMISSION APPARATUS AND RECEPTION APPARATUS - A transmitter apparatus wherein a relatively simple structure is used to suppress burst errors without changing the block sizes of encoded blocks even when the number of modulation multi-values is increased. An encoding part subjects transport data to a block encoding process to form block encoded data. A modulating part modulates the block encoded data to form data symbols; and an arranging (interleaving) part arranges(interleaves) the block encoded data in such a manner that the intra-block encoded data of the encoded blocks, which include their respective single different data symbol, get together, and then supplies the arranged(interleaved) block encoded data to the modulating part. In this way, there can be provided a transmitter apparatus wherein a relatively simple structure is used to suppress burst errors without changing the block sizes of encoded blocks even when the number of modulation multi-values is increased. | 12-26-2013 |
20140010331 | TRANSMISSION METHOD, TRANSMISSION APPARATUS AND RECEPTION APPARATUS - A method of generating modulation signals is disclosed including generally three steps. A plurality of modulation signals are generated, each of which is to be transmitted from a different one of a plurality of antennas in an identical frequency band, wherein each modulation signal includes a pilot symbol sequence including a plurality of pilot symbols used for demodulation. Each of the pilot symbol sequences is inserted at the same temporal point in each modulation signal, wherein the pilot symbol sequences are orthogonal to each other with zero mutual correlation among the plurality of modulation signals, each pilot symbol having a non-zero amplitude, the quantity of the plurality of pilot symbols in each sequence being greater than the quantity of the plurality of modulation signals to be transmitted. The plurality of modulation signals each including different transmission data and one of the pilot symbol sequences are output to the antennas. | 01-09-2014 |
20140029509 | SIGNAL GENERATING METHOD AND SIGNAL GENERATING DEVICE - A transmission method of simultaneously transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal at a common frequency performs precoding on both signals using a fixed precoding matrix and regularly changes the phase of at least one of the signals. One of signal generation processing in which phase change is performed and signal generation processing in which phase change is not performed is selectable, thereby improving general versatility in signal generation. | 01-30-2014 |
20140032988 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, TERMINAL APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A loss correction encoding device having an improved capability of loss correction using LDPC-CC includes a rearranging unit that rearranges information data contained in n information packets according to the constraint length Kmax and the encoding rate (q−1)/q of a check polynomial of the loss correction code used in a loss correction encoding unit. Specifically, the rearranging unit rearranges the information data in such a way that continuous Kmax×(q−1) pieces of information data after rearrangement are contained in different information packets. The rearranging unit distributes the information data to information blocks from n information packets, where n satisfies the formula Kmax×(q−1)≦n. | 01-30-2014 |
20140037029 | RELAY METHOD AND RELAY DEVICE - Disclosed is a relay method including: receiving, as input, respective reception signals by two receive antennas, the reception signals each including a reception signal resulting from multiplexing respective transmission signals transmitted by two transmission antennas in a first frequency band; performing frequency conversion on the reception signal received by one of the receive antennas so as to obtain a signal of a third frequency band; and performing frequency multiplexing on the signal having the third frequency band and the reception signal received by the other of the receive antennas. | 02-06-2014 |
20140044218 | PRE-CODING METHOD AND PRE-CODING DEVICE - Disclosed is a precoding method comprising the steps of: generating a first coded block and a second coded block with use of a predetermined error correction block coding scheme; generating a first precoded signal z1 and a second precoded signal z2 by performing a precoding process, which corresponds to a matrix selected from among the N matrices F[i], on a first baseband signal s1 generated from the first coded block and a second baseband signal s2 generated from the second coded block, respectively; the first precoded signal z1 and the second precoded signal z2 satisfying (z1, z2) | 02-13-2014 |
20140047304 | ENCODER, DECODER, ENCODING METHOD AND DECODING METHOD - An encoding method and encoder of a time-varying LDPC-CC with high error correction performance are provided. In an encoding method of performing low density parity check convolutional coding (LDPC-CC) of a time varying period of q using a parity check polynomial of a coding rate of (n−1)/n (where n is an integer equal to or greater than 2), the time varying period of q is a prime number greater than 3, the method receiving an information sequence as input and encoding the information sequence using Equation 1 as a g-th (g=0, 1, . . . , q−1) parity check polynomial to satisfy 0. | 02-13-2014 |
20140053048 | ENCODER, TRANSMITTING APPARATUS, CODING METHOD AND TRANSMISSION METHOD - Disclosed are an encoder, a transmitting device, a coding method and a transmission method with which the transmission amount is reduced and a deterioration in transmission efficiency is suppressed while improving reception quality when QC-LDPC or a like block coding is used. A puncture pattern setting unit searches for a puncture pattern for each integral multiple of the number of columns or for each divisor of the number of columns of a sub block matrix that forms a check matrix (H) of a QC-LDPC code, and a puncture unit (data reduction unit) switches the puncture pattern for each integral multiple of the number of columns or for each divisor of the number of columns of the sub block matrix that forms the check matrix of the QC-LDPC code. | 02-20-2014 |
20140068370 | CONVOLUTIONAL CODE ENCODING METHOD - An encoder and decoder using LDPC-CC (Low Density Parity Check-Convolutional Codes) is disclosed. In the encoder ( | 03-06-2014 |
20140075260 | TRANSMISSION METHOD USING PARITY PACKETS, TRANSMITTER AND REPEATER - Problem: A packet error rate in a receiver needs to be effectively reduced. | 03-13-2014 |
20140086366 | RECEIVING APPARATUS AND RECEIVING METHOD - A transmitting apparatus and method transmits different modulated signals from a plurality of antennas, and employs a configuration that includes a modulation section that obtains a modulated signal by performing signal point mapping of transmit bits using a signal point arrangement that is divided into a plurality of signal point sets on the IQ plane, whereby the minimum distance between signal points within a signal point set is smaller than the minimum signal point distance between signal point sets; and an antenna that transmits a modulated signal obtained by the modulation section. A signal point generating apparatus generates a first and second symbols to be transmitted by first and second antennas, respectively. | 03-27-2014 |
20140093013 | TRANSMISSION DEVICE, TRANSMISSION METHOD, RECEIVING DEVICE AND RECEIVING METHOD - Provided is a frame configuration usable for both SISO transmission and MISO and/or MIMO transmission. According to the frame configuration, a frame has a preamble, a control symbol, and transmission data symbols. A transmission device includes the designation of a transmission scheme of the transmission data symbols in the control symbol and includes the designation of a transmission scheme of the control symbol in the preamble. This improves the reception performance (detection performance) of a reception device. | 04-03-2014 |
20140098914 | RECEIVING METHOD AND RECEIVING APPARATUS - All data symbols used in data transmission of a modulated signal are precoded by switching between precoding matrices so that the precoding matrix used to precode each data symbol and the precoding matrices used to precode data symbols that are adjacent to the data symbol along the frequency axis and the time axis all differ. A modulated signal with such data symbols arranged therein is transmitted. | 04-10-2014 |
20140105322 | TRANSMISSION DEVICE, TRANSMISSION METHOD, RECEIVING DEVICE AND RECEIVING METHOD - Provided is a frame configuration usable for both SISO transmission and MISO and/or MIMO transmission. A frame configurator of a transmission device configures a frame by gathering data for SISO and configures a frame by gathering data for MISO and/or MIMO data, thereby to improve the reception performance (detection performance) of a reception device. | 04-17-2014 |
20140126412 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - A communication method of a base station transmits a modulation signal based on an OFDM (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing) modulation scheme to a plurality of communication terminals. The method includes forming a transmission frame on which a first subcarrier group and a second subcarrier group are arranged, and determining on a per frame basis, which subcarrier group of the first subcarrier group and the second subcarrier group is allocated to each of the plurality of communication terminals and what number of subcarriers are selected from the subcarrier group that is allocated to each of the plurality of communication terminals. The method further includes forming the transmission frame based on the determined subcarrier group and the determined number of subcarriers, transmitting the modulation signal including the transmission frame, and receiving feedback information including radio propagation condition estimation information from each of the plurality of communication terminals. | 05-08-2014 |
20140133589 | TRANSMISSION DEVICE, TRANSMISSION METHOD, RECEIVING DEVICE AND RECEIVING METHOD - A transmission device transmits by performing SISO using a first polarization and by performing MISO and MIMO using the first (V) polarization and a second (H) polarization. For SISO communication, transmission is performed using an antenna having the first (V) polarization. For MISO and MIMO communication, transmission is performed using the antenna having the first (V) polarization and an antenna having the second (H) polarization. Accordingly, a reception device equipped only with a system for the antenna having the first (V) polarization is able to continue receiving the transmit data by SISO. | 05-15-2014 |
20140133598 | TRANSMISSION SIGNAL GENERATION APPARATUS, TRANSMISSION SIGNAL GENERATION METHOD, RECEPTION SIGNAL GENERATION APPARATUS, AND RECEPTION SIGNAL GENERATION METHOD - MIMO-OFDM communication is provided which allows high accuracy estimation of frequency offset, high accuracy estimation of a transmission path fluctuation and high accuracy synchronization/signal detection. Pilot symbol mapping is provided for forming pilot carriers by assigning orthogonal sequences to corresponding subcarriers among OFDM signals which are transmitted at the same time from respective antennas in the time domain. Even when pilot symbols are multiplexed among a plurality of channels (antennas), this allows frequency offset/phase noise to be estimated with high accuracy. | 05-15-2014 |
20140133599 | TRANSMISSION DEVICE, TRANSMISSION METHOD, RECEIVING DEVICE AND RECEIVING METHOD - Provided is control information related to polarizations of antennas for MISO communication. The control signal generator generates polarization information indicating whether antennas used for transmission by MISO have only a first polarization or have a second polarization as well as the first polarization. With this structure, the present invention allows for the use of combinations of SISO, MISO and MIMO, taking the polarization of antennas. Furthermore, the present invention enables the receiver to reduce the power consumption. | 05-15-2014 |
20140136921 | ENCODING METHOD, DECODING METHOD - An encoding method generates an encoded sequence by performing encoding of a given coding rate according to a predetermined parity check matrix. The predetermined parity check matrix is a first parity check matrix or a second parity check matrix. The first parity check matrix corresponds to a low-density parity check (LDPC) convolutional code using a plurality of parity check polynomials. The second parity check matrix is generated by performing at least one of row permutation and column permutation with respect to the first parity check matrix. An eth parity check polynomial that satisfies zero, of the LDPC convolutional code, is expressible by using a predetermined mathematical formula. | 05-15-2014 |
20140177619 | TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION APPARATUS AND METHOD - A transmission apparatus includes a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) modulation signal generators, which generate a first OFDM modulation signal and a second OFDM modulation signal. The transmission apparatus also includes a transmitter that transmits the first OFDM modulation signal from a first antenna and the second OFDM modulation signal from a second antenna, in an identical frequency band. A reception apparatus is provided, which includes a plurality of antennas that receive a plurality of OFDM modulation signals; a plurality of OFDM demodulators that transform the plurality of OFDM modulation signals to a plurality of reception signals using Fourier transform; an estimator that outputs a distortion estimation signal using one or more symbols for demodulation included in the plurality of reception signals; and a demodulator that compensates for distortion of the reception signals using the distortion estimation signal and demodulates a data symbol included in the reception signals. | 06-26-2014 |
20140205032 | SIGNAL GENERATING METHOD AND SIGNAL GENERATING DEVICE - A transmission method for transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal in the same frequency at the same time. Each signal has been modulated according to a different modulation scheme. The transmission method applies precoding on both signals using a fixed precoding matrix, applies different power change to each signal, and regularly changes the phase of at least one of the signals, thereby improving received data signal quality for a reception device. | 07-24-2014 |
20140215287 | DECODER, RECEPTION APPARATUS, DECODING METHOD, AND RECEPTION METHOD - Disclosed are an encoder, a transmitting device, a coding method and a transmission method with which the transmission amount is reduced and a deterioration in transmission efficiency is suppressed while improving reception quality when QC-LDPC or a like block coding is used. A puncture pattern setting unit searches for a puncture pattern for each integral multiple of the number of columns or for each divisor of the number of columns of a sub block matrix that forms a check matrix (H) of a QC-LDPC code, and a puncture unit (data reduction unit) switches the puncture pattern for each integral multiple of the number of columns or for each divisor of the number of columns of the sub block matrix that forms the check matrix of the QC-LDPC code. | 07-31-2014 |
20140215293 | TRANSMISSION APPARATUS AND TRANSMISSION METHOD - An encoding method and encoder of a time-varying LDPC-CC with high error correction performance are provided. In an encoding method of performing low density parity check convolutional coding (LDPC-CC) of a time varying period of q using a parity check polynomial of a coding rate of (n−1)/n (where n is an integer equal to or greater than 2), the time varying period of q is a prime number greater than 3, the method receiving an information sequence as input and encoding the information sequence using Equation 1 as a g-th (g=0, 1, . . . , q−1) parity check polynomial to satisfy 0. | 07-31-2014 |
20140219389 | SIGNAL GENERATING METHOD AND SIGNAL GENERATING APPARATUS - A transmission method for simultaneously transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal at the same frequency includes performing precoding on both signals using a fixed precoding matrix and regularly changing the phase of at least one of the signals. In this method, the power ratio between a plurality of signals transmitted from a plurality of antennas at the same frequency and at the same time differs from the power ratio between a plurality of pilot signals transmitted from the plurality of antennas at the same frequency and at the same time, whereby the accuracy of channel estimation by a reception device is improved. | 08-07-2014 |
20140241476 | RECEIVING METHOD AND RECEIVING APPARATUS - All data symbols used in data transmission of a modulated signal are precoded by switching between precoding matrices so that the precoding matrix used to precode each data symbol and the precoding matrices used to precode data symbols that are adjacent to the data symbol along the frequency axis and the time axis all differ. A modulated signal with such data symbols arranged therein is transmitted. | 08-28-2014 |
20140245110 | TRANSMISSION APPARATUS AND TRANSMISSION METHOD - An encoding method changes an encoding rate of an erasure correcting code. One cycle is defined as 12k bits (wherein k represents a natural number) which is an encoding output using LDPC-CC with an encoding rate of 1/2, and includes information and parity. From the one cycle, only the information is arranged in the output order of the encoding output to obtain 6k bit information X6i, X6i+1, X6i+2, X6i+3, X6i+4, X6i+5, . . . , X6(i+k−1) X6(i+k−1)+1, X6(i+k−1)+2, X6(i+k−1)+3, X6(i+k−1)+4, and X6(i+k−1)+5. Known information is inserted in 3k pieces of information (Xj) among the 6k bit information, so that when 3k pieces of mutually different j is divided by 3, there is a remainder of 0 regarding k pieces, there is a remainder of 1 regarding k pieces, and there is a remainder of 2 regarding k pieces, to thereby obtain the parity from the information containing the known information. | 08-28-2014 |
20140247899 | TRANSMISSION SIGNAL GENERATOR, TRANSMISSION SIGNAL GENERATING METHOD, RECEPTION SIGNAL GENERATOR, AND RECEPTION SIGNAL GENERATING METHOD - Modulated signal A is transmitted from a first antenna, and modulated signal B is transmitted from a second antenna. As modulated signal B, modulated symbols S2(i) and S2(i+1) obtained from different data are transmitted at time i and time i+1 respectively. In contrast, as modulated signal A, modulated symbols S1(i) and S1(i)′ obtained by changing the signal point arrangement of the same data are transmitted at time i and time i+1 respectively. As a result the reception quality can be changed intentionally at time i and time i+1, and therefore using the demodulation result of modulated signal A of a time when the reception quality is good enables both modulated signals A and B to be demodulated with good error rate performances. | 09-04-2014 |
20140254721 | TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, RECEPTION APPARATUS AND DIGITAL RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD - A transmission method includes modulating a transmission signal using a modulation scheme selected from a plurality of modulation schemes, to generate a first symbol sequence and generating at least one second symbol including a pilot symbol generated using a PSK modulation scheme. The method includes changing an insertion interval of the second symbol to be inserted in the first symbol sequence, to generate a modulation signal and transmitting the modulation signal. The second symbol is configured for synchronization in a reception apparatus. | 09-11-2014 |
20140286451 | PRECODING METHOD, TRANSMITTING DEVICE, AND RECEIVING DEVICE - A transmission scheme for transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal in the same frequency at the same time. According to the transmission scheme, a precoding weight multiplying unit multiplies a precoding weight by a baseband signal after a first mapping and a baseband signal after a second mapping and outputs the first modulated signal and the second modulated signal. In the precoding weight multiplying unit, precoding weights are regularly hopped. | 09-25-2014 |
20140289585 | SIGNAL GENERATING APPARATUS AND SIGNAL GENERATING METHOD - In a multi-antenna communication system using LDPC codes, a simple method is used to effectively improve the received quality by performing a retransmittal of less data without restricting applicable LDPC codes. In a case of a non-retransmittal, a multi-antenna transmitting apparatus transmits, from two antennas, LDPC encoded data formed by LDPC encoding blocks. In a case of a retransmittal, the multi-antenna transmitting apparatus uses a transmission method, in which the diversity gain is higher than in the previous transmission, to transmit only a part of the LDPC encoded data as previously transmitted. For example, the only the part of the LDPC encoded data to be re-transmitted is transmitted from the single antenna. | 09-25-2014 |
20140307828 | TRANSMISSION SIGNAL GENERATION METHOD, TRANSMISSION SIGNAL GENERATION APPARATUS, RECEPTION SIGNAL GENERATION METHOD, AND RECEPTION SIGNAL GENERATION APPARATUS - Of any one of a transmission method X of transmitting modulated signal A and modulated signal B including the same data from a plurality of antennas and a transmission method Y of transmitting modulated signal A and modulated signal B having different data from the plurality of antennas, a base station apparatus does not change the transmission method during data transmission and changes only the modulation scheme. The base station apparatus transmits modulated signal A and modulated signal B to a communication terminal apparatus using the determined transmission method and modulation scheme. In this way, it is possible to improve data transmission efficiency when transmitting data using the plurality of antennas. | 10-16-2014 |
20140310567 | TRANSMISSION APPARATUS INCLUDING ENCODER, RECEPTION APPARATUS INCLUDING DECODER, AND ASSOCIATED METHODS - An encoder and decoder using LDPC-CC which avoid lowering the transmission efficiency of information while not deteriorating error correction performance, even at termination; and an encoding method of the same. A termination sequence length determining unit determines the sequence length of a termination sequence transmitted added to the end of an information sequence, according to the information length (information size) and encoding rate of the information sequence. A parity calculation unit carries out LDPC-CC coding on the information sequence and the known-information sequence necessary for generating a termination sequence of the determined termination sequence length, and calculates a parity sequence. | 10-16-2014 |
20140325304 | ENCODING METHOD, ENCODER, AND DECODER - A low-density parity check convolution code (LDPC-CC) is made, and a signal sequence is sent after being subjected to an error-correcting encodement using the low-density parity check convolution code. In this case, a low-density parity check code of a time-variant period (3g) is created by linear operations of first to 3g-th (letter g designates a positive integer) parity check polynomials and input data. | 10-30-2014 |
20140341317 | TRANSMISSION METHOD, TRANSMISSION DEVICE, RECEPTION METHOD, AND RECEPTION DEVICE - Provided is a precoding method for generating, from a plurality of baseband signals, a plurality of precoded signals to be transmitted over the same frequency bandwidth at the same time, including the steps of selecting a matrix F[i] from among N matrices, which define precoding performed on the plurality of baseband signals, while switching between the N matrices, i being an integer from 0 to N−1, and N being an integer at least two, generating a first precoded signal z1 and a second precoded signal z2, generating a first encoded block and a second encoded block using a predetermined error correction block encoding method, generating a baseband signal with M symbols from the first encoded block and a baseband signal with M symbols the second encoded block, and precoding a combination of the generated baseband signals to generate a precoded signal having M slots. | 11-20-2014 |
20140348257 | PRE-CODING METHOD AND TRANSMITTER - Disclosed is a transmission scheme for transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal over the same frequency at the same time. According to the transmission scheme, a precoding weight multiplying unit multiplies a baseband signal after a first mapping and a baseband signal after a second mapping by a precoding weight and outputs the first modulated signal and the second modulated signal. In the precoding weight multiplying unit, precoding weights are regularly hopped. | 11-27-2014 |
20140362948 | TRANSMISSION METHOD, TRANSMITTER APPARATUS, RECEPTION METHOD AND RECEIVER APPARATUS - Transmission quality is improved in an environment in which direct waves dominate in a transmission method for transmitting a plurality of modulated signals from a plurality of antennas at the same time. All data symbols used in data transmission of a modulated signal are precoded by hopping between precoding matrices so that the precoding matrix used to precode each data symbol and the precoding matrices used to precode data symbols that are adjacent to the data symbol in the frequency domain and the time domain all differ. A modulated signal with such data symbols arranged therein is transmitted. | 12-11-2014 |
20150016570 | METHOD OF SIGNAL GENERATION AND SIGNAL GENERATING DEVICE - A transmission method simultaneously transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal at a common frequency performs precoding on both signals using a fixed precoding matrix and regularly changes the phase of at least one of the signals, thereby improving received data signal quality for a reception device. | 01-15-2015 |
20150039974 | TRANSMISSION APPARATUS AND ASSOCIATED METHOD OF ENCODING TRANSMISSION DATA - An encoder and decoder using LDPC-CC (Low Density Parity Check—Convolutional Codes) is disclosed. In the encoder ( | 02-05-2015 |
20150063271 | RECEIVING APPARATUS AND RECEIVING METHOD - A receiver receives, using a plurality of antennas, a multiplexed signal that includes (i) a first OFDM modulation signal with a subcarrier carrying a symbol including multiplex information and a subcarrier carrying a pilot symbol and a subcarrier carrying a data symbol and (ii) a second OFDM modulation signal with a subcarrier carrying a symbol including multiplex information and a subcarrier carrying the pilot symbol and a subcarrier carrying the data symbol. A decoder uses the symbol including multiplex information and decodes the data symbol. | 03-05-2015 |
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