Receiver

• US 6,577,686 B1
• Filed: 10/12/1999
• Issued: 06/10/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 10/13/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Intertechnology Global LLC (IP Edge LLC)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Koga, Hisao, Taromaru, Makoto
• Primary Examiner(s): Chin, Stephen
• Assistant Examiner(s): AHN, SAM K
• Application Number:
  US09/417,179
• Time in Patent Office: 1,337 Days
• Field of Search: 375/142, 375/200, 375/347, 375/346, 375/316, 455/132, 455/296
• US Class Current: 375/347
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0851 using training sequences or error signal minimizing error signal H04B7/0854

Abstract

The invention aims at adaptive array diversity reception of high convergence speed of combined weight by a simple signal processing, in a receiver by time division transmission system. Signals received by antennas (branches) are converted into base band signals in a receiving circuit, and are combined by a complex multiplying section and complex adder. The weight of the complex multiplying section is calculated by a weight calculating section. In the weight update algorithm of the weight calculating section, the step size in the least mean square is variable. That is, the initial value is set at a large value, and is decreased according to the lapse of time in each time slot, and is initialized at every change of time slot. As a result, by the same amount of calculation as in ordinary least mean square, the convergence speed of weight updating can be enhanced.

Claims

1. A receiver in time division transmission system for transmitting data by dividing in time into blocks called time slots, comprising:

(a) converting means provided individually in plural antennas for converting the signal received on each antenna into a base band signal,

(b) combining means for weighting said base band signal by the weight of complex number and for summing said weighted base band signal with the other said weighted base band signal,

(c) deciding means for deciding the transmission symbol from the combined base band signal added and combined by said combining means,

(d) reference signal generating means for generating a known symbol to be transmitted as a reference signal,

(e) error detecting means for issuing an error signal between said combined base band signal and reference signal, and

(f) weight calculating means for calculating the weight corresponding to each antenna from said error signal and base band signal, and updating this weight sequentially,

wherein the updating amount of each weight in said weight calculating means is the product of said error signal, step size function and each base band signal, and

said step size function is a function becoming smaller according to the lapse of time in each time slot, and is initialized at every change of time slot.

2. A receiver of claim 1, wherein said weight calculating means has a read-only memory, and said step size function is stored in said read-only memory.

3. A receiver of claim 1, wherein said step size function is the sum of a monotonously decreasing exponential function and a constant.

4. A receiver of claim 1, wherein said step size function is a linear function decreasing monotonously until a proper time, and remains a constant value after said time.

5. A receiver of claim 1, wherein said step size function consists of a first linear function decreasing monotonously until a first time, and a second linear function changing at a larger rate than said first linear function until a next time.

6. A receiver of claim 1, wherein said step size function is multiplied by the constant inversely proportional to the sum of receiving signal power values of each antenna or the maximum value among the receiving power values of each antenna.

7. A receiver in time division transmission system for transmitting data by dividing in time into blocks called time slots, comprising:

(a) plural antennas,

(b) converting means provided in each antenna for converting the signal received in the antenna into a base band signal,

(c) combining means for weighting said base band signal by the weight of complex number and for summing said weighted base band signal with the other said weighted base band signal,

(d) deciding means for deciding the transmission symbol from the combined base band signal added and combined by said combining means,

(e) reference signal generating means for generating a known symbol to be transmitted as a reference signal,

(f) error detecting means for issuing an error signal between said combined base band signal and reference signal, and

(g) weight calculating means for calculating the weight corresponding to each antenna from said error signal and base band signal, and updating this weight sequentially,

wherein the updating amount of each weight in said weight calculating means is the product of said error signal, step size function and each base band signal corresponding to each antenna, and

said step size function is converged to a constant value along with the time in each time slot, and is initialized at every change of time slot.

8. A receiver receiver in time division transmission system for transmitting data by dividing in time into blocks called time slots, comprising:

(a) plural antennas,

(b) quadrature detecting means provided in each antenna for detecting in quadrature the signal received in the antenna and issuing a base band signal of in-phase component and quadrature component,

(c) combining means for weighting said base band signal by the weight of complex number, with the in-phase component and quadrature component of said base band signal being respectively as real part and imaginary part of complex number, and for summing said weighted base band signal with the other said weighted base band signal,

(d) deciding means for deciding the transmission symbol from the combined base band signal added and combined by said combining means,

(e) reference signal generating means for generating a known symbol to be transmitted as a reference signal,

(f) error detecting means for issuing an error signal between said combined base band signal and reference signal, and

(g) weight calculating means for calculating the weight corresponding to each antenna from said error signal and base band signal, and updating this weight sequentially,

wherein the updating amount of each weight in said weight calculating means is the product of said error signal, step size function and each base band signal corresponding to each antenna, and

the absolute value of said step size function is converged to a constant value along with the time, said step size function is initialized at every change of time slot, and the absolute value of the initial value is larger than the converged constant value.

9. A receiver of claim 8, wherein said weight calculating means has a read-only memory, and said step size function is stored in said read-only memory.

10. A receiver of claim 8, wherein said step size function is the sum of a monotonously decreasing exponential function and a constant.

11. A receiver of claim 8, wherein said step size function is a linear function decreasing monotonously until a proper time, and remains a constant value after said time.

12. A receiver of claim 8, wherein said step size function consists of a first linear function decreasing monotonously until a first time, and a second linear function changing at a larger rate than said first linear function until a next time.

13. A receiver in time division transmission system for transmitting data by dividing in time into blocks called time slots, comprising:

(a) plural antennas,

(b) quadrature detecting means provided in each antenna, for receiving a high frequency signal received by the antenna or an intermediate frequency signal converted in frequency from the high frequency signal, detecting in quadrature said high frequency signal or said intermediate frequency signal by a local signal of a nearly same frequency as the nominal carrier frequency of said high frequency signal or said intermediate frequency signal, and issuing a base band signal of in-phase component and quadrature component,

(c) combining means for weighting said base band signal by the weight of complex number, with the in-phase component and quadrature component of said base band signal being respectively as real part and imaginary part of complex number, and for summing said weighted base band signal with the other said weighted base band signal,

(d) deciding means for deciding the transmission symbol from the combined base band signal added and combined by said combining means,

(e) reference signal generating means for generating a known signal portion contained in the receiving signal and the base band signal corresponding to the deciding result of said deciding means as a reference signal,

(f) error detecting means for issuing an error signal between said combined base band signal and reference signal, and

(g) weight calculating means for calculating the weight corresponding to each antenna from said error signal and base band signal, and updating this weight sequentially,

wherein the updating amount of each weight in said weight calculating means is the product of said error signal, step size function and each base band signal corresponding to each antenna, and

the absolute value of said step size function is converged to a constant value along with the time, said step size function is initialized at every change of time slot, and the absolute value of the initial value is larger than the converged constant value.

14. A receiver of claim 13, wherein said step size function is multiplied by the constant inversely proportional to the sum of receiving signal power values of each antenna or the maximum value among the receiving power values of each antenna.