Broadcasting apparatus using OFDM modulation method

• US 20020064173A1
• Filed: 11/30/2001
• Published: 05/30/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 11/29/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Watanabe, Shinji
• Application Number:
  US09/998,445
• Publication Number:
  US 20020064173A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/430
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/28 Arrangements for simultaneous broadcast of plural pieces of information
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/46 specially adapted for broadcast systems covered by groups H04H20/53-H04H20/95
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/67 Common-wave systems, i.e. using separate transmitters operating on substantially the same frequency
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 11/02 for frequency-division multiplexing H04Q11/0001 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13036 Serial/parallel conversion, parallel bit transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13166 Fault prevention
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13174 Data transmission, file transfer
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13199 Modem, modulation
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13291 Frequency division multiplexing, FDM

Abstract

A modulation level of a carrier for video and a modulation level of a carrier for voice are adjusted in a modulation level setting circuit 5 and a modulation level setting circuit 10, respectively, so that receivable ranges of a video signal and a voice signal become the same range. Next, both of video and voice modulation signals are amplified in a transmission device 23, and are transmitted.

Claims

1. A broadcasting apparatus using an OFDM modulation method, in which a band is divided into a plurality of layers, and a modulation method is set for each layer,

characterized in that the broadcasting apparatus using an OFDM modulation method comprises modulation level setting means for setting a modulation level of a carrier for each layer, and in said modulation level setting means, the modulation level of said carrier is set so that a receivable range of a modulation signal of each layer becomes the same range as each other.

2. A broadcasting apparatus using an OFDM modulation method recited in claim 1, characterized in that, in said modulation level setting means, a modulation level of a layer for video signal modulation is held at a predetermined level, and a modulation level of a layer for voice signal modulation is reduced below a predetermined level.

3. A broadcasting apparatus using an OFDM modulation method recited in claim 1, characterized in that the apparatus further comprises amplification means for amplifying a modulation signal of each layer after modulation level setting to predetermined transmission electric power.

4. A broadcasting apparatus using an OFDM modulation method recited in claim 3, characterized in that said predetermined transmission electric power is average electric power of a band in a case where a modulation level of each layer is the same as each other.

5. A broadcasting apparatus using an OFDM modulation method recited in claim 1, characterized in that any of 64QAM modulation, 16QAM modulation and DQPSK modulation is used for the video signal modulation, and QPSK modulation is used for the voice signal modulation.

6. A broadcasting apparatus using an OFDM modulation method recited in claim 1, characterized in that said each layer is further divided into a singular segment or a plurality of segments.

7. A broadcasting apparatus using an OFDM modulation method recited in claim 1, wherein the apparatus comprising:

a serial-parallel conversion circuit for converting a serial data for each layer into a parallel data in accordance with a modulation method,

an interleave circuit for delaying and interleaving a parallel data for every bit, which is output from said serial-parallel conversion circuit,

a carrier modulation circuit for conducting mapping on coordinates of I and Q axes in accordance with a modulation method of each carrier,

a modulation method setting circuit for extracting a modulation method of a carrier from a control data corresponding to a serial data for said every layer, and setting a modulation method in each block, and

said modulation level setting means for setting a modulation level of a carrier to be mapped, based on a modulation method set in said modulation method setting circuit.

8. A broadcasting apparatus using an OFDM modulation method recited in claim 7, characterized in that an arrangement between said serial-parallel conversion circuit and said modulation level setting means is constructed by only one layer, and a data of a modulation method different from others is included in a data for said one layer.

9. A broadcasting apparatus using an OFDM modulation method recited in claim 7, characterized in that the apparatus further comprises:

an OFDM frame generating circuit for conducting a carrier arrangement of a data mapped in said carrier modulation circuit in accordance with an arrangement of a symbol and a frame of OFDM, and

a frame information generating circuit for extracting OFDM frame arrangement information from said control data, and outputting it to said OFDM frame generating circuit.

10. A broadcasting apparatus using an OFDM modulation method recited in claim 1, characterized in that the apparatus is constructed of a studio device for conducting digital conversion and signal compression of video and voice, an OFDM modulation device for conducting OFDM modulation of a digital signal after the compression, and a transmission device for amplifying the digital signal after the OFDM modulation and transmitting it, and said OFDM modulation device includes said modulation level setting means.

11. A broadcasting apparatus using an OFDM modulation method recited in claim 10, characterized in that said transmission device comprises said amplification means for amplifying the digital signal after the OFDM modulation to a predetermined transmission electric power.

13. A broadcasting apparatus using an OFDM modulation method recited in claim 10, characterized in that said OFDM modulation device includes an inverse Fourier transform section for conducting inverse Fourier transform of I channel and Q channel modulation data from said OFDM frame generating circuit, a first local oscillator, a phase shift section for shifting a phase of an output from said first local oscillator, an integration section for integrating each output from said inverse Fourier transform section and an output from said phase shift section, an adder for adding outputs from said integration section, a digital/analog converter for converting an output from said adder into an analog data, a second local oscillator, and an integration section for integrating an output from said second local oscillator and an output from said digital/analog converter.

12. A broadcasting apparatus using an OFDM modulation method recited in claim, characterized in that said OFDM modulation device comprises a layer division section for conducting layer division of the digital signal from said studio device, an error correction coding section for conducting error correction coding of the signal for every layer after the layer division, a byte-interleave section for byte-interleaving the digital signal after the error correction coding, a convolution coding section for conducting convolution coding of the byte-interleaved digital signal, and a punctured coding section for conducting punctured coding of the convolution-coded digital signal.