Dual mode transmitter

• US 5,771,442 A
• Filed: 11/13/1995
• Issued: 06/23/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 11/11/1994
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: OKI Electric Industry Company Limited
• Inventors: Wang, Hefeng, Onodera, Tetsuo
• Primary Examiner(s): Eisenzopf, Reinhard J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): TO, DORIS HA
• Application Number:
  US08/556,001
• Time in Patent Office: 953 Days
• Field of Search: 455/33.1, 455/422, 455/42, 455/73, 455/75-76, 455/78, 455/80-82, 455/84-86, 455/88-89, 455/575, 455/91, 455/93, 455/95, 455/102-103, 455/110, 455/118, 455/119 , 455/129, 455/127, 455/205, 455/208, 455/209, 455/255-256, 455/260, 455/265, 455/313, 455/318, 455/321, 455/323, 455/553, 332/119, 332/127, 332/128, 375/216, 375/295-297, 375/308, 375/284, 375/385, 375/779
• US Class Current: 455/93
• CPC Class Codes: H03D 2200/0025 Gain control circuits
• CPC Class Codes: H03D 7/1433 using bipolar transistors H03D7/145 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H03D 7/1458 Double balanced arrangements, i.e. where both input signals are differential
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/04 Circuits
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/406 with more than one transmission mode, e.g. analog and digital modes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2071 in which the data are represented by the carrier phase, e.g. systems with differential coding

Abstract

In a dual mode transmitter for modulating, in a digital mode, an input digital signal and transmitting a modulated digital signal and modulating, in an analog mode, an input analog signal and transmitting a modulated analog signal, a digital modulating section modulates the input digital signal to thereby generate the modulated digital signal, and outputs the modulated digital signal. An analog modulator/carrier generator modulates the input analog signal to thereby generate the modulated analog signal, and outputs it. Also, the analog modulator/carrier generator generates a carrier signal for up-converting the modulated digital signal. The up-converter up-converts, in the digital mode, the modulated digital signal by using the carrier signal and receives, in the analog mode, the modulated analog signal and passes it therethrough.

Claims

1. A dual mode transmitter for modulating, in a digital mode, an input digital signal and transmitting a modulated digital signal and modulating, in an analog mode, an input analog signal and transmitting a modulated analog signal, the transmitter comprising:

digital modulating means for modulating the input digital signal to thereby generate the modulated digital signal, and outputting the modulated digital signal;

analog modulating means for modulating the input analog signal to thereby generate the modulated analog signal, and outputting the modulated analog signal;

carrier generating means for generating a carrier signal for up-converting the modulated digital signal;

a first up-converter for up-converting, in the digital mode, the modulated digital signal by using the carrier signal and receiving, in the analog mode, the modulated analog signal and passing the modulated analog signal therethrough;

a second up-converter following said first up-converter;

a first filter connected between said first up-converter and said second up-converter, and passing the modulated analog signal therethrough;

a second filter connected between said first up-converter and said second up-converter, and passing the modulated digital signal therethrough; and

selecting means for selecting an output signal of said first filter in the analog mode and selecting an output signal of said second filter in the digital mode.

2. A transmitter in accordance with claim 1, wherein said analog modulating means and said carrier generating means comprise a single phase-locked loop which outputs the modulated analog signal in the analog mode and outputs the carrier signal in the digital mode.

3. A transmitter in accordance with claim 2, further comprising disconnecting means for disconnecting said digital modulating means from said first up-converter in the analog mode.

4. A transmitter in accordance with claim 1, further comprising disconnecting means for disconnecting said digital modulating means from said first up-converter in the analog mode.

5. A dual mode transmitter for modulating, in a digital mode, an input digital signal and transmitting a modulated digital signal and modulating, in an analog mode, an input analog signal and transmitting a modulated analog signal, the transmitter comprising:

digital modulating means for modulating the input digital signal to thereby generate the modulated digital signal, and outputting the modulated digital signal;

analog modulating means for modulating, in the analog mode, the input analog signal to thereby generate the modulated analog signal, and outputting the modulated analog signal, and for generating, in the digital mode, a carrier signal for up-converting the modulated digital signal;

an up-converter for up-converting, in the digital mode, the modulated digital signal by using the carrier signal;

a second up-converter following said up-converter;

a first filter connected between said up-converter and said second up-converter;

a second filter connected between said up-converter and said second up-converter; and

selecting means for selecting an output signal of said first filter in the analog mode and selecting an output signal of said second filter in the digital mode.

6. A transmitter in accordance with claim 5, wherein in the analog mode said up-converter receives the modulated analog signal and passes the modulated analog signal therethrough.