Spread spectrum communication receiver

• US 5,594,754 A
• Filed: 06/06/1995
• Issued: 01/14/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 10/13/1993
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Sawahashi, Mamoru, Adachi, Fumiyuki, Dohi, Tomohiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Chin, Stephen
• Assistant Examiner(s): PHAN, HAI
• Application Number:
  US08/448,396
• Time in Patent Office: 588 Days
• Field of Search: 375/200, 375/206, 375/205, 375/344, 455/255, 455/260
• US Class Current: 375/148
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/7097 Interference-related aspects
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/7117 Selection, re-selection, allocation or re-allocation of paths to fingers, e.g. timing offset control of allocated fingers

Abstract

A spread spectrum communication receiver which can obviate a highly accurate, highly stable VCO used in a local signal oscillator. The receiver includes a corrector for correcting by a correcting signal a baseband signal obtained by spectrum despreading; a RAKE circuit for recovering information by demodulating corrected baseband signal; a remodulator for remodulating the demodulated signal outputted from the RAKE circuit, thereby generating a signal corresponding to a primary modulated signal at a transmitter; a multiplier for multiplying the baseband signal by the complex conjugate of the output of the remodulator; an averaging circuit for averaging the output of the multiplier to eliminate noise components of the baseband signal, thereby outputting only frequency offset component of the received signal and the local signal; and a circuit for producing a correcting signal with an angular velocity obtained from said frequency offset component and a polarity opposite to that of the baseband signal, thereby eliminating the frequency offset component by the corrector.

Claims

1. A spread spectrum communication receiver comprising:

a detector for detecting a received signal using a local signal, thereby converting the received signal into a first baseband signal;

a despreader for despreading said first baseband signal using a spreading code, thereby outputting a second baseband signal corresponding to a primary modulated signal at a transmitter;

a corrector for correcting said second baseband signal by a correcting signal;

an interference eliminator for suppressing an interference component in a third baseband signal outputted from said corrector, thereby generating a desired signal component;

a remodulator for modulating said desired signal component, thereby generating a remodulated signal corresponding to the primary modulated signal at said transmitter;

a multiplier for multiplying said second baseband signal by a complex conjugate signal of said remodulated signal, thereby outputting a signal including a frequency offset component representing an offset frequency corresponding to a deviation of the frequency of said local signal with respect to the center frequency of said received signal;

an averaging circuit for averaging an output of said multiplier to eliminated noise components of the output of said multiplier, thereby outputting said frequency offset component; and

a correcting signal generator for generating said correcting signal by extracting said offset frequency from said frequency offset component.

2. The spread spectrum communication receiver as claimed in claim 1, wherein said correcting signal generator comprises a fast Fourier transform circuit for Fourier transforming said frequency offset component, a peak detector for detecting a peak of an output of said fast Fourier transform circuit, and a digital voltage controlled oscillator for generating said correcting signal by oscillating at a frequency corresponding to the peak.

3. The spread spectrum communication receiver as claimed in claim 2, wherein said interference eliminator comprises an adaptive RAKE circuit.

4. The spread spectrum communication receiver as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

a memory circuit for storing a pattern of a known unique word;

a detector for detecting a start of receiving said unique word from said second baseband signal; and

a selector for selectively providing said remodulator with said unique word from said memory circuit when said detector detects the start of receiving said unique word, and with an output of said interference eliminator when said detector detects an end of receiving said unique word.