Radio receiving apparatus for receiving communication signals of different bandwidths

• US 6,101,226 A
• Filed: 12/08/1999
• Issued: 08/08/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 03/27/1996
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Inogai, Kazunori, Sudo, Hiroaki, Ohta, Gen-ichiro, Sasaki, Fujio
• Primary Examiner(s): TSE, YOUNG TOI
• Application Number:
  US09/456,447
• Time in Patent Office: 244 Days
• Field of Search: 375/279, 375/280, 375/281, 375/316, 375/324, 375/326, 375/329, 375/332, 375/344, 329/304, 329/306, 455/179.1, 455/180.1, 455/188.1, 455/190.1, 455/131, 455/150.1, 455/168.1, 455/142, 455/323
• US Class Current: 375/332
• CPC Class Codes: H03D 3/006 by sampling the oscillations and further processing the samples, e.g. by computing techniques H03D3/007 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H03D 3/007 by converting the oscillations into two quadrature related signals H03D3/245 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H03D 3/009 Compensating quadrature phase or amplitude imbalances
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/0014 using DSP [Digital Signal Processor] quadrature modulation and demodulation
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/0039 using DSP [Digital Signal Processor] quadrature modulation and demodulation
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/26 for superheterodyne receivers multiple frequency-changing H03D7/16
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/30 for homodyne or synchrodyne receivers demodulator circuits H03D1/22

Abstract

A received signal obtained from an antenna is subjected to high-frequency amplification. The amplified signal is supplied to a first bandpass filter, which extracts only signals of all the channels of a communications system concerned while filtering out other radio signals. The extracted signals are frequency-converted by using a local oscillation frequency, and only a desired wave is passed by a second bandpass filter. The desired wave is supplied to a sample-and-hold circuit, which performs sampling according to the bandwidth-limiting sampling theorem. A resulting discrete signal is supplied to an I-axis-component and Q-axis-component separating circuits, where the polarity of sample values is inverted for every other clock pulse with respect to each of the I and Q axes to thereby effect Hilbert transform. Resulting two orthogonal components on a phase plane are supplied to a complex coefficient filter.

Claims

1. A radio receiving apparatus for a radio system in which carrier frequencies are channel-positioned at equal frequency intervals or positioned in a manner similar thereto and which employs a quadrature demodulation scheme or a demodulation scheme similar thereto, said radio receiving apparatus comprising:

means supplied with a received signal including a signal of a reception-desired channel, for selectively converting, into a DC-inclusive band, a frequency band including up to approximately three channels on each of upper and lower sides of a center frequency that is an upper or lower end of the reception-desired channel or a boundary frequency with an adjacent channel thereof;

means for sampling the frequency- converted signal at a frequency that is 16-fold a bandwidth of the reception-desired channel or 16-fold of a 1/2 frequency of a channel interval frequency of the radio system;

means for extracting orthogonal components in a phase domain from the sampled signal; and

means for extracting the signal of the reception desired channel from a real-axis signal component and an imaginary-axis signal component of the extracted orthogonal components.

2. The radio receiving apparatus according to claim 1, comprising:

a frequency converter supplied with the received signal including the signal of the reception-desired channel, for selectively converting, into a zero frequency, the upper or lower end of the reception-desired channel or the boundary frequency with the adjacent channel thereof;

a low-frequency stage for passing part of a frequency-converted output of the frequency converter in a frequency band including up to approximately three channels on each of upper and lower sides of a center frequency that is the zero frequency;

a sample-and-hold circuit for sampling an output of the low-frequency stage at a frequency that is 16-fold the bandwidth of the reception-desired channel or 8-fold the channel interval frequency of the radio system;

a Hilbert transformer for extracting the orthogonal components in the phase domain from a sampled output of the sample-and-hold circuit, and for generating the real-axis signal component and the imaginary-axis signal component;

a complex coefficient filter for rejecting a signal of the three adjacent channels on each of the upper and lower sides of the signal of the desired channel from the real-axis signal component and the imaginary-axis signal component;

two phase equalizers for receiving respective outputs of the complex coefficient filter; and

two lowpass filters for receiving respective outputs of the two phase equalizers,

whereby the signal of the reception-desired channel is extracted.

3. The radio receiving apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising:

a decimation circuit for performing frequency decimation on the real-axis signal component and the imaginary-axis signal component of the reception-desired channel which are outputted from the two lowpass filters; and

an image-rejecting frequency conversion circuit for eliminating an offset frequency from two outputs of the decimation circuit.

4. The radio receiving apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising:

an averaging circuit for averaging the real-axis signal component and the imaginary-axis signal component of the reception-desired channel which are outputted from the two phase equalizers; and

an image-rejecting frequency conversion circuit for eliminating an offset frequency from two outputs of the averaging circuit.

5. The radio receiving apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the Hilbert transformer includes a buffer amplifier and an inverted amplifier, each being a switched-capacitor circuit, and a switch.

6. The radio receiving apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the complex coefficient filter has only two kinds of values as absolute values of coefficients.

7. The radio receiving apparatus according to claim 2, wherein operational amplifiers of the two phase equalizers are respectively used in common with those of the two lowpass filters ensuing the two phase equalizers.

8. The radio receiving apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the two lowpass filters are constituted by using a CCD, to reduce the number of operational amplifiers.