Transmitting/receiving apparatus switchable between digital and analog modulation modes

• US 5,179,360 A
• Filed: 03/20/1992
• Issued: 01/12/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 03/20/1991
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Suzuki, Mitsuhiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Grimm, Siegfried H.
• Application Number:
  US07/854,149
• Time in Patent Office: 298 Days
• Field of Search: 455/42, 455/74, 455/83, 455/84, 455/86, 455/87, 455/93, 455/110, 455/142, 455/143, 455/144, 455/214, 455/216, 455/337, 375/52, 375/56, 375/67, 375/80, 375/83, 375/84, 332/103, 332/117, 332/119, 329/304, 329/306, 329/315, 329/316, 329/323, 329/341
• US Class Current: 332/103
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/406 with more than one transmission mode, e.g. analog and digital modes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/0008 arrangements for allowing a transmitter or receiver to use more than one type of modulation negotiating modulation type for two-way transmission paths H04L5/1453

Abstract

Upon transmission, when the digital transmission mode is set, an analog audio signal is A/D converted, the digital audio signal is coded, a first carrier is modulated by the coded signal and multiplied by a first multiplier, and the multiplied signal is sent to an orthogonal modulating and D/A converting circuit. When the analog transmission mode is set, a second carrier is modulated by the digital audio signal and multiplied by a second multiplier, and the multiplied signal is sent to the orthogonal modulating and D/A converting circuit. A signal of a frequency which is equal in both of the digital transmission mode and the analog transmission mode is given to the orthogonal modulating and D/A converting circuit. Upon reception, when the digital transmission mode is set, an output of an A/D converting and orthogonal demodulating circuit is frequency divided by a first frequency divider and demodulated and decoded. When the analog transmission mode is set, the output of the A/D converting and orthogonal demodulating circuit is frequency divided by a second frequency divider and demodulated. A frequency of a reference frequency signal is set to a common multiple of a coding rate of the A/D converter, the frequency of the first carrier, and the frequency of the second carrier, so that a necessary signal of each section can be easily formed from an output of a reference frequency signal generator.

Claims

1. A transmitting apparatus comprising:

A/D converting means for converting an input audio signal into a digital audio signal;

mode setting means which is switched between a digital transmission mode to transmit a digitally modulated audio signal and an analog transmission mode to transmit an analog modulated audio signal;

digital transmission signal processing means to which the digital audio signal is given when said mode setting means is set into the digital transmission mode and which encodes the digital audio signal and modulates a first carrier by the coded signal;

analog transmission signal processing means which modulates a second carrier by the digital audio signal when the mode setting means is set into the analog transmission mode;

first multiplying means for multiplying a frequency of an output signal of the digital transmission signal processing means by integer times;

second multiplying means for multiplying a frequency of an output signal of the analog transmission signal processing means by integer times;

orthogonal modulating and D/A converting means for orthogonal modulating an output of the first multiplying means or an output of the second multiplying means and for D/A converting; and

reference signal generating means for supplying signals of necessary frequencies to the A/D converting means, the digital transmission signal processing means, and the analog transmission signal processing means on the basis of a reference frequency signal,

wherein the frequency of the reference frequency signal is set to a common multiple of a coding rate of the A/D converting means, a frequency of the first carrier, and a frequency of the second carrier.

2. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein multiplying ratios of said first and second multiplying means are selected so that the carrier frequency of the signal which is supplied to the orthogonal modulating and D/A converting means is set so as to be equal in both of the digital transmission mode and the analog transmission mode.

3. An apparatus according to claim 1, further having transmitting frequency setting means for setting a transmitting frequency every predetermined frequency interval, and wherein the frequency of the reference frequency signal is set to a common multiple of the coding rate of the A/D converting means, the frequency of the first carrier, the frequency of the second carrier, and said frequency interval.

4. An apparatus according to claim 3, further having transmission data processing means for enabling data to be transmitted in the analog transmission mode, and wherein the frequency of the reference frequency signal is set to a common multiple of the coding rate of the A/D converting means, the frequency of the first carrier, the frequency of the second carrier, the frequency interval, and a data rate of said data.

5. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when it is assumed that the coding rate of the A/D converting means is equal to 8 kHz and the frequency of the first carrier is equal to 97.2 kHz and the frequency of the second carrier is equal to 120 kHz, the frequency of the reference frequency signal is set to a value which is integer times as high as 9.72 MHz.

6. An apparatus according to claim 2, wherein when it is assumed that the frequency of the first carrier is equal to 97.2 kHz and the frequency of the second carrier is equal to 120 kHz, the multiplying ratio of the first multiplying means is set to 100 and the multiplying ratio of the second multiplying means is set to 81, thereby allowing the signal of the carrier frequency of 9.72 MHz which is equal in both of the digital transmission mode and the analog transmission mode to be given to the orthogonal modulating and D/A converting means.

7. An apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the frequency of the reference frequency signal is set to a value which is integer times as high as 9.72 MHz, the coding rate of the A/D converting means is set to 8 kHz, the frequency of the first carrier is set to 97.2 kHz, the frequency of the second carrier is set to 120 kHz, and the transmitting frequency interval which is set by the transmitting frequency setting means is set to 30 kHz.

8. An apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the frequency of the reference frequency signal is set to a value which is integer times as high as 9.72 MHz, the coding rate of the A/D converting means is set to 8 kHz, the frequency of the first carrier is set to 9.72 kHz, the transmitting frequency interval which is set by the transmitting frequency setting means is set to 30 kHz, and the transmission rate of the data which is processed by the transmission data processing means is set to 20 kHz.

9. A receiving apparatus comprising:

A/D converting and orthogonal demodulating means for A/D converting and orthogonal demodulating a reception signal;

mode setting means which is switched in accordance with a digital transmission mode to receive a digitally modulated audio signal and an analog transmission mode to receive an analog modulated audio signal;

first frequency dividing means to which an output of the A/D converting and orthogonal demodulating means is supplied and which forms a signal of a first carrier frequency;

second frequency dividing means to which the output of the A/D converting and orthogonal demodulating means is supplied and which forms a signal of a second carrier frequency;

digital reception signal processing means for demodulating an output of the first frequency dividing means when the mode setting means is set into the digital transmission mode and for decoding the demodulated signal and forming a first digital audio signal;

analog audio signal processing means for demodulating an output of the second frequency dividing means when the mode setting means is set into the analog transmission mode and for forming a second digital audio signal;

D/A converting means for converting the first or second digital audio signal from the digital reception signal processing means or the analog reception signal processing means into an analog audio signal; and

reference signal generating means for supplying signal of necessary frequencies to the digital reception signal processing means, the analog reception signal processing means, and the D/A converting means,

wherein a frequency of the reference frequency signal is set to a common multiple of the frequency of the first carrier, the frequency of the second carrier, and a coding rate of the digital audio signal.

10. An apparatus according to claim 9, wherein frequency dividing ratios of the first and second frequency dividing means are selected in a manner such that when a carrier of a frequency which is equal in both of the digital transmission mode and the analog transmission mode is generated from the A/D converting and orthogonal demodulating means, a signal of the first carrier frequency is supplied to the digital reception signal processing means and a signal of the second carrier frequency is supplied to the analog reception signal processing means.

11. An apparatus according to claim 9, further having receiving frequency setting means for setting a receiving frequency every predetermined frequency interval, and wherein a frequency of the reference frequency signal is set to a common multiple of the frequency of the first carrier, the frequency of the second carrier, a coding rate of the digital audio signal, and said frequency interval.

12. An apparatus according to claim 11, further having reception data processing means for enabling data to be transmitted in the analog transmission mode, and wherein the frequency of the reference frequency signal is set to a common multiple of the frequency of the first carrier, the frequency of the second carrier, the coding rate of the digital audio signal, the frequency interval, and a data rate of said data.

13. An apparatus according to claim 9, wherein when it is assumed that the frequency of the first carrier is equal to 97.2 kHz and the frequency of the second carrier is equal to 120 kHz and the coding rate of the digital audio signal is equal to 8 kHz, the frequency of the reference frequency signal is set to a value which is integer times as high as 9.72 MHz.

14. An apparatus according to claim 10, wherein when a signal of the carrier frequency is 9.72 MHz which is equal in both of the digital transmission mode and the analog transmission mode is generated from the A/D converting and orthogonal modulating means, a frequency dividing ratio of the first frequency dividing means is set to 1/100, a frequency dividing ratio of the second frequency dividing means is set to 1/81, the signal of the first carrier frequency of 97.2 kHz is generated from the first frequency dividing means in the digital transmission mode, and the signal of the second carrier frequency of 120 kHz is generated from the second frequency dividing means in the analog transmission mode, respectively.

15. An apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the frequency of the reference frequency signal is set to a value which is integer times as high as 9.72 MHz, the frequency of the first carrier is set to 97.2 kHz, the frequency of the second carrier is set to 120 kHz, the coding rate of the digital audio signal is set to 8 kHz, and the receiving frequency interval which is set by the receiving frequency setting means is et to 30 kHz.

16. An apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the frequency of the reference frequency signal is set to a value which is integer times as high as 9.72 mHz, the frequency of the first carrier is set to 97.2 kHz, the frequency of the second carrier is set to 120 kHz, the coding rate of the digital audio signal is set to 8 kHz, the receiving frequency interval which is set by the receiving frequency setting means is set to 30 kHz, and transmission rate of the data which is processed by the reception data processing means is set to 20 kHz.