Wireless transmission/reception system

• US 7,317,930 B2
• Filed: 02/14/2005
• Issued: 01/08/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 02/16/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Ikeda, Yasunari
• Primary Examiner(s): Trinh; Sonny
• Application Number:
  US11/057,243
• Publication Number:
  US 20050198672A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,058 Days
• Field of Search: 455/426.2, 455/39, 455/42, 455/500, 455/502, 455/526, 455/69, 455/70, 455/7, 725/62, 725/81, 725/123, 725/131
• US Class Current: 455/500
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0002 by adapting the transmission rate
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2626 Arrangements specific to the transmitter only
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/90 Arrangement of cameras or camera modules, e.g. multiple cameras in TV studios or sports stadiums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/28 Mobile studios

Abstract

A wireless transmission/reception system is provided which can use a limited frequency band most effectively and operates flexibly. A receiver (wireless receiver) has a transmission processing unit for transmitting a control signal, which defines a wireless frequency band and a transmission frequency for each of wireless transmission signals, to a plurality of cameras (wireless transmitter) #C1 to #C5, and the cameras have reception processing units for receiving the controls signal. Each of the cameras can change the frequency band and a center frequency of the wireless transmission signal according to the input control signal. As a result, output channels (Ch1 to Ch5) of the receiver can be changed to a broadband channel or a narrowband channel arbitrarily.

Claims

1. A wireless transmission/reception system, comprising:

a plurality of wireless transmitters for generating an information code series from an input signal, modulating a carrier wave in accordance with said information code series, and transmitting said modulated wave as a wireless transmission signal from a transmission unit; and

a wireless receiver for receiving and demodulating a plurality of wireless transmission signals transmitted from said plurality of wireless transmitters, and extracting said information code series corresponding to each of said wireless transmitters;

wherein

said wireless receiver includes a control circuit for generating a control signal which assigns a wireless frequency band and a transmission frequency to each of wireless transmission signals, and a transmission processing unit for transmitting said control signal to each of said wireless transmitters; and

each of said plurality of wireless transmitters includes a reception processing unit for executing reception processing of said received control signal, and is configured to be able to change a wireless frequency band and a transmission frequency of a wireless transmission signal to be transmitted in accordance with said received control signal.

2. The wireless transmission/reception system, according to claim 1, wherein

each of said plurality of wireless transmission signals is an OFDM modulation signal modulated using OFDM;

and

with said control signal, each wireless frequency band of each of said plurality of wireless transmission signals is defined in the unit of a unit sub-carrier wave group constituted of a plurality of OFDM unit sub-carrier waves having a constant frequency interval and each transmission frequency of said plurality of wireless transmission signals is defined so that all of unit sub-carrier wave groups of said plurality of wireless transmission signals form one OFDM modulation signal.

3. The wireless transmission/reception system, according to claim 2, wherein

said wireless receiver transmits said control signal generated by said control circuit for independently changing a transmission rate of said information code series generated by each of said plurality of wireless transmitters;

and

said plurality of wireless transmitters change the number of said unit sub-carrier wave group constituting said wireless transmission signal to be transmitted in accordance with said changed transmission rate.

4. The wireless transmission/reception system, according to claim 2, wherein

said wireless receiver has a plurality of demodulation processing units, which are provided for each of a plurality of output channels, for receiving said one OFDM modulation signal sent from said plurality of wireless transmitters, executing quadrature modulation of said unit sub-carrier wave group in a particular frequency band, and extracting said information code series generated by any one of said plurality of wireless transmitter;

wherein

each of said plurality of demodulation processing units changes a correspondence between said information code series to be output to a corresponding output channel and said wireless transmitter by changing said particular frequency band of said unit sub-carrier wave group to be subjected to quadrature demodulation and a center frequency of said particular frequency band in accordance with said control signal.

5. The wireless transmission/reception system, according to claim 2, wherein

said control circuit defines a wireless frequency band and a transmission frequency of each of said wireless transmission signals by said control signal so that a plurality of wireless transmission signals output from said plurality of wireless transmitter forms one OFDM modulation signal having a guard band several fold larger than intervals of said unit sub-carrier wave between said unit sub-carrier wave groups.