Transmission/reception apparatus and transmit power control method

• US 6,507,574 B1
• Filed: 08/25/2000
• Issued: 01/14/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 09/17/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Kitade, Takashi, Miya, Kazuyuki, Hiramatsu, Katsuhiko
• Primary Examiner(s): VANDERPUYE, KENNETH N
• Application Number:
  US09/645,522
• Time in Patent Office: 872 Days
• Field of Search: 370/320, 370/335, 370/342, 370/441, 370/479, 370/318, 375/142, 375/143, 375/144, 375/148, 375/150, 375/152, 375/227, 375/267, 375/347, 375/130, 455/522, 455/69, 455/88, 455/273, 455/562
• US Class Current: 370/335
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/707 using direct sequence modulation
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/04 using two or more spaced independent antennas
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0615 of weighted versions of same signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0842 Weighted combining
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/42 in systems with time, space, frequency or polarisation diversity

Abstract

Spreading sections 104 and 105 of the base station spread the respective distributed data using mutually orthogonal spreading codes and they are transmitted from antennas 106 and 107. Despreading sections 202 and 203 of the mobile station despread the received signals using the same spreading codes as those used at the base station, demodulation sections 204 and 205 demodulate the despread signals, received signal power measuring sections 207 and 208 measure their received signal powers from the demodulation result, received signal power measuring section 209 combines the measured received signal powers and transmit power control section 212 controls transmission power based on the combined received signal power. When carrying out diversity reception through a plurality of antennas at the base station, this suppresses transmit power control errors to a small level at the mobile station.

Claims

1. A communication terminal apparatus that receives transmit signals which are spread with a plurality of different spreading code sequence and which are transmitted in parallel from different antennas respectively, said communication terminal apparatus comprising:

a plurality of receiver circuits, each having a despreading section, that receive the transmit signals and despread the transmit signals with the different spreading code sequences respectively to obtain a plurality of received signals;

data combination circuitry that combines the received signals obtained in the plurality of receiver circuits to obtain combined received data;

measurement circuitry that measures received power of said plurality of received signals in the receiver circuits;

combination circuitry that combines measured received power of the plurality of received signals of said measurement circuitry to obtain combined received power; and

transmit power control circuitry that performs open-loop transmit power control using the combined received power.

2. A communication terminal apparatus that receives a plurality of signals which are obtained by spreading data allocated corresponding to respective ones of a plurality of antennas with a spreading code sequence different from one another and which are transmitted in parallel from different antennas of said plurality of antennas, said communication terminal apparatus comprising:

measurement circuitry that measures received power of said plurality of signals received by the communication terminal apparatus;

combination circuitry that combines measured received power of the plurality of signals of said measurement circuitry to obtain combined received power; and

transmit power control circuitry that performs open-loop transmit power control using the combined received power.

3. A radio communication method in a communication terminal apparatus that receives transmit signals which are spread with a plurality of different spreading code sequences and which are transmitted in parallel from different antennas respectively, said method comprising the steps of:

(a) receiving the transmit signals and despreading the transmit signals with the different spreading code sequences respectively to obtain a plurality of received signals;

(b) combining the plurality of received signals obtained in step (a) to obtain combined received data;

(c) measuring received power of the plurality of received signals obtained in step (a);

(d) combining said received power of the plurality of received power measured in step (c) to obtain combined received power; and

(e) performing open-loop transmit power control using the combined received power obtained in step (d).

4. A radio communication method in a communication terminal apparatus that receives a plurality of signals which are obtained by spreading data-allocated-corresponding to respective ones of a plurality of antennas with a spreading code sequence different from one another and which are transmitted in parallel from different antennas of a plurality of antennas, said method comprising the steps of:

(a) measuring received power of said plurality of signals received by the communication terminal apparatus;

(b) combining measured received power of the plurality of signals obtained in step (a) to obtain combined received power; and

(c) performing open-loop transmit power control using the combined received power.