Receiving apparatus for spectrum spread system

• US 5,822,364 A
• Filed: 03/26/1997
• Issued: 10/13/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 03/29/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Optis Wireless Technology, LLC (Brevet Capital)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Yamada, Daisuke, Takakusaki, Keiji
• Primary Examiner(s): TSE, YOUNG TOI
• Application Number:
  US08/824,833
• Time in Patent Office: 566 Days
• Field of Search: 375/200, 375/207, 375/208, 375/260, 375/343, 370/320, 370/335, 370/342, 370/441, 370/479
• US Class Current: 375/147
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/7085 using a code tracking loop, e.g. a delay-locked loop

Abstract

A spectrum spread receiver is provided with a delayed waveform phase determination circuit which determines whether or not a detected delayed waveform is in the phase as the previously-detected delayed waveform, and outputs a delayed waveform switch signal if they are out of phase with each other. If the delayed waveform switch signal is in an ON state, on the basis of the signal despread by a second despreading circuit 7 and the delayed waveform switch signal, a demodulation circuit 9 demodulates the first half and second half of a received signal, as a boundary is a received signal at which a delayed waveform switch signal is turned on, by using the phase estimated from a first known signal and the phase estimated from a second known signal, thereby preventing the received signal from becoming degraded.

Claims

1. A spectrum spread receiving apparatus for coherent detection scheme with interpolation using pilot symbol spectrum spread mobile communication system, comprising:

first and second despreading circuit for despreading a received signal which is a predetermined number of bits of a digital signal oversampled by an A/D converter circuit;

a delay profile measurement instrument for averaging the profile of each chip phase of the signal despread by said first despreading circuit;

a searcher circuit for detecting a delayed waveform of a predetermined number of higher-level samples having high receiving levels from the signal output from said delay profile measurement instrument, constantly continuing to detect the predetermined number of higher-level samples, and reproducing a symbol clock signal from a position of the peak of the delayed waveform;

a delayed waveform phase determination circuit for determining whether or not the delayed waveform detected by said searcher circuit is in the same phase as the previously detected delayed waveform, and outputting a delayed waveform switch signal if the delayed waveforms are out of phase with each other; and

a demodulation circuit which, if the delayed waveform switch signal is in an ON state on the basis of the signal despread by said second despreading circuit and the delayed waveform switch signal, respectively demodulate a first half and a second half of the received signal, as a boundary is a received signal at which the delayed waveform switch signal is turned on, by using a phase estimated from a first known signal and a phase estimated from a second known signal, without interpolating the phases estimated from the first and second known signals included in both ends of an information signal.

2. The spectrum spread receiving apparatus as defined in claim 1, wherein said demodulation circuit sequentially updates the phase estimated by the first known signal and demodulates the first half signal by using thus updated phase, and updates the phase estimated by the second known signal and demodulates the second half signal by using thus updated phase.

3. The spectrum spread receiving apparatus as defined in claim 1, further comprising a fading estimation circuit for detecting variations in the level of the signal output from the delay profile measurement instrument and detecting a fading pitch from the amount of change in the output signal level, when the delayed waveform switch signal is in the ON state;

wherein if the fading pitch detected by said fading estimation circuit is slower than a cycle of interpolation of the known signals and the delayed waveform switch signal is in the ON state, the demodulation circuit respectively demodulates the first half and second half of the received signal by using the phase estimated from the first known signal and the phase estimated from the second known signal, without interpolating the phases estimated from the first and second known signals included in both ends of the information signal;

wherein if the fading pitch detected by said fading estimation circuit is faster than the interpolation period of the known signal and the delayed waveform switch signal is in the ON state, said demodulation circuit sequentially updates the phase estimated by the first known signal and demodulates the first half signal by using thus updated phase, and updates the phase estimated by the second known signal and demodulates the second half signal by using thus updated phase.

4. The spectrum spread receiver as defined in claim 1, further comprising a fading estimation circuit for detecting variations in the level of the signal output from the delay profile measurement instrument and detecting a fading pitch from the amount of change in the output signal level, when the delayed waveform switch signal is in the ON state;

wherein on the basis of the phase estimated from the first and second known signals, the demodulation circuit demodulates a predetermined number of samples after the first known signal and a predetermined number of samples before the second known signal of the received signal, and then, estimates the phase of new first and second known signals containing the first and second known signals and the demodulated signals;

wherein if the fading pitch detected by said fading estimation circuit is slower than a cycle of interpolation of the first and second known signals, said demodulation circuit demodulates the first half of the received signal by using the phase which is estimated from the new first known signal, and demodulates the second half of the received signal by using the phase which is estimated from the new second known signal; and

if the fading pitch detected by said fading estimation circuit is faster than the interpolation cycle of the first and second known signals, second demodulation circuit sequentially updates the phase estimated from the new first known signal and demodulates the first half signal by using thus updated phase, and sequentially updates the phase estimated from the new second known signal and demodulates the second half signal by using thus updated phase.