Control signal detection method with calibration error and subscriber unit therewith

• US 5,657,356 A
• Filed: 06/21/1996
• Issued: 08/12/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/1995
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Ozaki, Shinji
• Primary Examiner(s): Chin, Stephen
• Assistant Examiner(s): GHAYOUR, MOHAMMAD H
• Application Number:
  US08/670,748
• Time in Patent Office: 417 Days
• Field of Search: 375/344, 375/346, 375/349, 375/350
• US Class Current: 375/346
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/24 Testing correct operation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/062 Setting decision thresholds using feedforward techniques only
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/20 Modulator circuits; Transmitter circuits

Abstract

In a control signal detection method, a calibration error value is obtained by obtaining the mean value of the received continuous (4×n) data, and the calibration error is compensated with respect to the received data by subtracting the obtained calibration error value from the received data, and the correlation value is obtained on the basis of the corrected received data, so that the control signal is detected. Therefore, it is able to compensate the calibration error with ease and to detect the control signal efficiently, with a simple construction.

Claims

1. A control signal detection method for detecting the control signal in received continuous (4×

n) data, signal points of said control signal being rotated by 90°

in the same direction on the same circle on a complex plane, comprising the steps of;

obtaining a mean value of said received continuous (4×

n) data existing on said complex plane, where n is a natural number, for obtaining a calibration error value for data demodulation;

error-calibrating said received continuous data on the basis of the obtained calibration error value for compensating an error of said received continuous data; and

obtaining a correlation value on the basis of the error-compensation received continuous data, thereby detecting said control signal.

2. The control signal detection method according to claim 1, wherein

said step of obtaining a calibration error value includes obtaining a mean value of four data of said received continuous data.

3. The control signal detection method according to claim 1, wherein

said step of obtaining a mean value includes using even-numbered data or odd-numbered data out of said received continuous (4×

n) data.

4. A subscriber unit for receiving data transmitted from a base station and for detecting a control signal in received continuous (4×

n) data, in which signal points in said control signal are rotated by 90°

in the same direction on the same circle on a complex plane, comprising;

calibration error value operation means for obtaining a mean value of said received continuous (4×

n) data existing on said complex plane, where n is a natural number, for obtaining a calibration error value for data demodulation;

error compensation means for error-calibrating with respect to said received continuous data on the basis of the calibration error value from said calibration error value operation means for compensating an error of said received continuous data; and

control signal detection means for obtaining a correlation value on the basis of the error-calibrated received data, so that said control signal is detected.

5. The subscriber unit according to claim 4, wherein

said calibration error value operation means includes means for obtaining the mean value of four data of said received continuous data.

6. The subscriber unit according to claim 4, wherein

said calibration error value operation means includes means for obtaining the mean value by the use of even-numbered data or odd-numbered data out of said received continuous (4×

n) data.

7. The subscriber unit according to claim 4, further comprising

means for performing timebase adjustment with respect to said subscriber unit on the timing of said control signal which has been detected by said control signal detection means.

8. The subscriber unit according to claim 4, further comprising

means for compensating the oscillation frequency of a local oscillator provided in said subscriber unit on the basis of the received data which has been error-corrected by said error correction means.