MOBILE RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND FREQUENCY CONTROL METHOD THEREOF

• US 20110217934A1
• Filed: 11/11/2009
• Published: 09/08/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/11/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Lenovo Innovations Ltd Hong Kong (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Lenovo Innovations Ltd Hong Kong (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Inventors: Oga, Toshiyuki
• Application Number:
  US13/128,748
• Publication Number:
  US 20110217934A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/62
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 11/02 using radio waves G01S19/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H03J 7/047 Automatic frequency control using an auxiliary signal, e.g. low frequency scanning of the locking range or superimposing a special signal on the input signal
• CPC Class Codes: H03L 7/187 using means for coarse tuning the voltage controlled oscillator of the loop H03L7/191 - H03L7/195 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 2001/70706 using a code tracking loop, e.g. a delay locked loop
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/01 Reducing phase shift
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2027/0026 Correction of carrier offset
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/02 Details ; arrangements for supplying electrical power along data transmission lines systems for transmitting signals via power distribution lines H04B3/54
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 56/0035 detecting errors in frequency or phase

Abstract

A mobile communication device and a frequency control method for the device are provided that can have an internal reference frequency follow a change in reception frequency even when the reception frequency changes abruptly. In a mobile radio communication system including a mobile station and a stationary base station, the mobile station includes: a transceiver that receives a high-frequency signal from the base station; and an information processing section that predicts a frequency change in the reception high-frequency signal received from the base station based on mobile environment information on the mobile station provided from outside and controls a frequency of a local oscillator signal of the transceiver section based on a prediction result.

Claims

1. A mobile radio communication system including a mobile station and a stationary base station, wherein

the base station transmits a high-frequency signal to the mobile station, and

the mobile station predicts a frequency change in a reception high-frequency signal received from the base station based on mobile environment information on the mobile station provided from outside and controls a frequency of a local oscillator signal based on a prediction result.

2. The mobile radio communication system according to claim 1, wherein the mobile environment information includes location information on the mobile station and on the base station and velocity information on the mobile station along a movement path thereof, the location information and velocity information being required to calculate relative velocity of the mobile station along a direction in which radio waves from the base station arrive.

3. The mobile radio communication system according to claim 2, wherein the mobile environment information further includes location information on a radio wave reflector that changes the direction in which radio waves from the base station arrive.

4. The mobile radio communication system according to claim 1, wherein at timing of passing the base station, the mobile station predicts the frequency change from a reception high-frequency signal frequency immediately before the passing to a reception high-frequency signal frequency immediately after the passing and performs following-control of the frequency of the local oscillator signal.

5. The mobile radio communication system according to claim 1, wherein the base station provides the mobile environment information to the mobile station.

6. The mobile radio communication system according to claim 1, wherein the mobile radio communication system further includes a mobile unit with the mobile station mounted thereon, and the mobile unit provides the mobile environment information to the mobile station.

7. A mobile communication device in a mobile radio communication system including at least one stationary base station, comprising:

a transceiver for performing radio communication with the base station; and

a controller that predicts a frequency change in a reception high-frequency signal received from the base station based on mobile environment information provided from outside and controls a frequency of a local oscillator signal of the transceiver based on a prediction result.

8. The mobile communication device according to claim 7, wherein the mobile environment information includes location information on the mobile communication device and on the base station and velocity information on the mobile communication device along a movement path thereof, the location information and velocity information being required to calculate relative velocity of the to mobile communication device along a direction in which radio waves from the base station arrive.

9. The mobile communication device according to claim 8, wherein the mobile environment information further includes location information on a radio wave reflector that changes the direction in which radio waves from the base station arrive.

10. The mobile communication device according to claim 7, wherein at timing of passing the base station, the controller predicts the frequency change from a reception high-frequency signal frequency immediately before the passing to a reception high-frequency signal frequency immediately after the passing and performs following-control of the frequency of the local oscillator signal.

11. The mobile communication device according to claim 7, wherein the mobile environment information is received from the base station.

12. The mobile communication device according to claim 7, wherein the mobile radio communication system further includes a mobile unit capable of communicating with the mobile communication device, and to the mobile environment information is acquired from the mobile unit when the mobile communication device is mounted on the mobile unit.

13. A frequency control method for a mobile communication device performing radio communication with a stationary base station, comprising:

a) receiving a reception high-frequency signal from the base station by using a local oscillator signal; and

b) predicting a frequency change in the reception high-frequency signal received from the base station based on mobile environment information provided from outside; and

c) controlling a frequency of the local oscillator signal based on a prediction result.

14. The frequency control method according to claim 13, wherein the mobile environment information includes location information on the mobile communication device and on the base station and velocity information on the mobile communication device along a movement path thereof, the location information and velocity information being required to calculate relative velocity of the mobile communication device along a direction in which radio waves from the base station arrive.

15. The frequency control method according to claim 14, wherein the mobile environment information further includes location information on a radio wave reflector that changes the direction in which radio waves from the base station arrive.

16. The frequency control method according to claim 13, wherein

the step b) includes, at timing of passing the base station, predicting the frequency change from a reception high-frequency signal frequency immediately before the passing to a reception high-frequency signal frequency immediately after the passing;

and

the step c) includes performing following-control of the frequency of the local oscillator signal.

17. The frequency control method according to claim 13, wherein the mobile environment information is acquired from the base station.

18. The frequency control method according to claim 13, wherein the mobile communication device is mounted on a mobile unit, and the mobile environment information is acquired from the mobile unit.

19. A program, stored in a non-transitory recording medium, causing a control processor of a mobile communication device in a mobile radio communication system including at least one stationary base station to execute frequency control processing, comprising:

a) receiving a reception high-frequency signal from the base station by using a local oscillator signal;

b) predicting a frequency change in the reception high-frequency signal received from the base station based up mobile environment information provided from outside; and

c) controlling a frequency of the local oscillator signal based on a prediction result.

20. The program according to claim 19, wherein

the processing b) includes, at timing of passing the base station, predicting the frequency change from a reception high-frequency signal frequency immediately before the passing to a reception high-frequency signal frequency immediately after the passing;

and

the processing c) includes performing following-control of the frequency of the local oscillator signal.