Baseband signal communication apparatus

• US 5,201,060 A
• Filed: 04/16/1990
• Issued: 04/06/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 04/19/1989
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Yamatake-Honeywell Company Limited, Yokowo Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Yamatake-Honeywell Company Limited, Yokowo Company Limited
• Inventors: Ishikawa, Ko, Haruyama, Shinichi, Kawashima, Yoshikazu, Sekiguchi, Fusao
• Primary Examiner(s): Eisenzopf, Reinhard J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): BELZER, CHRISTINE
• Application Number:
  US07/509,955
• Time in Patent Office: 1,086 Days
• Field of Search: 455/45, 455/324, 455/61, 455/63
• US Class Current: 455/45
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 13/82 wherein continuous-type signals are transmitted
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 14/08 characterised by the use of a sub-carrier

Abstract

A baseband signal communication apparatus includes a transmission unit and a reception unit. The transmission unit superposes a subcarrier on one value of a baseband signal consisting of binary values, modulates a carrier with the baseband signal on which the subcarrier is superposed, and transmits the baseband signal as a transmission signal wave. The reception unit demodulates the baseband signal having the subcarrier superposed thereon by using a demodulator upon reception of the transmission signal wave, extracts the subcarrier from the demodulated signal by using a bandpass filter, and demodulates the baseband signal by causing a detector to detect an envelope of the subcarrier.

Claims

1. A baseband signal communication apparatus comprising:

first transmission means for superposing a subcarrier on one value of a baseband signal consisting of binary values, phase-modulating a first carrier with the baseband signal on which the subcarrier is superposed, and transmitting the baseband signal as a first transmission signal wave;

second transmission means for amplitude-modulating a second carrier with the baseband signal on which the subcarrier is superposed, and transmitting the baseband signal as a second transmission signal wave;

first reception means for receiving the first transmission signal wave, detecting the first transmission signal wave by using a homodyne detector so as to obtain a first demodulated signal, extracting the subcarrier from the first demodulated signal by using a first bandpass filter, and obtaining a first baseband demodulated signal by detecting an envelope of the subcarrier by using a first detector;

second reception means for receiving the second transmission signal, frequency-converting the second transmission signal by using a frequency converter so as to obtain an intermediate frequency signal, detecting an envelope of the intermediate frequency signal by using a second detector so as to obtain a second demodulated signal, extracting the subcarrier from the second demodulated signal by using a second bandpass filter, and detecting an envelope of the subcarrier by using a third detector so as to obtain a second baseband signal demodulated signal; and

comparing means for comparing the first and second baseband demodulated signals, and outputting at least one of the first and second baseband demodulated signals as a demodulated signal of the baseband signal when the first and second baseband demodulated signals coincide with each other.

3. An apparatus according to any one of claim 1 or 2 wherein in a communication system in which an interrogation signal is transmitted from an interrogator to a responsor, and a response signal corresponding to the received and demodulated interrogation signal is transmitted from said responsor to said interrogator, the baseband signal as the response signal on which the subcarrier is superposed is transmitted from said responsor to said interrogator.

2. A baseband signal communication apparatus comprising:

transmission means for superposing a subcarrier on one value of a baseband signal consisting of binary values, phase-modulating a carrier wave with the baseband signal on which the subcarrier is superposed, and transmitting the baseband signal as a transmission signal wave;

first reception means for receiving the transmission signal wave, performing homodyne detection of the transmission signal wave by using a homodyne detector so as to obtain a first demodulated signal, extracting the subcarrier from the first demodulated signal by using a first bandpass filter, and detecting an envelope of the subcarrier by using a first detector so as to obtain a first baseband demodulated signal;

second reception means for receiving a harmonic wave which is amplitude-modulated by the baseband signal having the subcarrier superposed thereon and radiated upon phase modulation in said transmission means, frequency-converting the harmonic wave by using a frequency converter so as to obtain an intermediate frequency signal, detecting an envelope of the intermediate frequency signal by using a second detector, extracting the subcarrier from the second demodulated signal by using a second bandpass filter, and detecting an envelope of the subcarrier by using a third detector so as to obtain a second baseband demodulated signal; and

comparing means for comparing the first and second baseband demodulated signals, and outputting at least one of the first and second baseband demodulated signals as a demodulated signal of the baseband signal when the first and second demodulated signals coincide with each other.