Receiving circuit and receiving method

• US 7,711,345 B2
• Filed: 01/19/2007
• Issued: 05/04/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 02/16/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Okada, Hiroki
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen; Lee
• Application Number:
  US11/625,034
• Publication Number:
  US 20070205913A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,201 Days
• Field of Search: 455/303, 455/306, 455/552.1, 455/553.1, 333100-101, 333/105, 333/110, 375/343, 375/349
• US Class Current: 455/306
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 23/0433 Radio signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/001 Channel filtering, i.e. selecting a frequency channel within the SDR system multiplexing of multicarrier modulation signals being represented by different frequencies H04L5/06; multiplexing of multicarrier modulation signals H04L5/023
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/28 the receiver comprising at least one semiconductor device having three or more electrodes

Abstract

A received circuit receives a plurality signals generated by modulating carrier waves having the substantial same frequency according to digital signals having different bitrates output from a plurality of systems. The receiving circuit includes a front-end portion that tunes and outputs the signals received by an antenna; an analog-to-digital converting portion that converts the signals output from the front-end portion to digital signals; a signal processing portion that processes and demodulates the digital signals; and a plurality of digital filter portions each of which extracts a digital signal output from a corresponding system among the plurality of systems, from the demodulated signals output from the signal processing portion, based on a bitrate of the digital signal output from the corresponding system.

Claims

1. A receiving circuit that receives a plurality of digital signals output from a wireless smart key system and a tire pressure monitoring system, comprising:

an antenna that receives the plurality of signals generated by modulating carrier waves having a substantially same frequency according to digital signals having different bitrates output from the wireless smart key and tire pressure systems;

a front-end portion that tunes and outputs the signals received by the antenna;

an analog-to-digital converting portion that converts the signals output from the front-end portion to digital signals;

a signal processing portion that processes and demodulates the digital signals;

a transmitting portion that transmits a request signal to a portable device; and

a variable digital filter portion in which a passband is switched in accordance with a bitrate of a digital signal output from the wireless smart key system for a predetermined time after the transmitting portion transmits the request signal to the portable device, and which extracts the digital signal output from the wireless smart key system from the demodulated signals output from the signal processing portion.

2. The receiving circuit according to claim 1, wherein

the variable digital filter portion is connected to the signal processing portion.

3. The receiving circuit according to claim 1, wherein the demodulated signals are input to the variable digital filter portion.

4. The receiving circuit according to claim 1, wherein the wireless smart key and tire pressure systems generate the signals by modulating the carrier waves using frequency shift keying, and the signal processing portion demodulates the digital signals using frequency shift keying.

5. The receiving circuit according to claim 1, wherein the front end portion tunes and outputs the signals received by the antenna without limiting the signals using a limiter amplifier.

6. A method of receiving a plurality of digital signals output from a wireless smart key system and a tire pressure monitoring system;

comprising;

receiving the plurality of signals generated by modulating carrier waves having a substantially same frequency according to digital signals having different bitrates output from the wireless smart key and tire pressure systems;

tuning and outputting the signals received by an antenna;

converting the output signals to digital signals;

processing and demodulating the digital signals;

transmitting a request signal to a portable device;

switching a passband of a variable digital filter in accordance with a bitrate of a digital signal output from the wireless smart key system for a predetermined time after transmitting the request signal to the portable device; and

extracting the digital signal output from the wireless smart key system from the demodulated digital signals.

7. The method of receiving according to claim 6, wherein the wireless smart key and tire pressure systems generate the signals by modulating the carrier waves using frequency shift keying, and the processing and demodulating includes demodulating the digital signals using frequency shift keying.

8. The method of receiving according to claim 6, wherein the tuning and outputting is accomplished without limiting the signals using a limiter amplifier.

9. A method of receiving a plurality of digital signals from a wireless smart key system and a tire pressure monitoring system, comprising:

receiving the plurality of signals generated by modulating carrier waves having a substantially same frequency according to digital signals having different bitrates output from the wireless smart key and tire pressure systems;

tuning and outputting the signals received by an antenna;

converting the output signals to digital signals;

processing and demodulating the digital signals;

transmitting a request signal to a portable device;

switching a passband of a variable digital filter in accordance with a bitrate of a digital signal output from a system designated among the wireless smart key and tire pressure systems; and

extracting the digital signal output from the designated system, from the demodulated signals, by passing the demodulated signals through the variable digital filter.

10. The method of receiving according to claim 9, wherein the wireless smart key and tire pressure systems generate the signals by modulating the carrier waves using frequency shift keying, and the processing and demodulating includes demodulating the digital signals using frequency shift keying.

11. The method of receiving according to claim 9, wherein the tuning and outputting is accomplished without limiting the signals using a limiter amplifier.