Receiving apparatus, communication system, receiving method and program

• US 8,259,826 B2
• Filed: 11/18/2008
• Issued: 09/04/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/27/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Yamasuge, Hiroyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Leon-Viet
• Application Number:
  US12/273,229
• Publication Number:
  US 20090135929A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,386 Days
• Field of Search: 370/218, 370/342, 370/389, 370/412, 375/260
• US Class Current: 375/260
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/7183 Synchronisation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/0012 arrangements for identifying the type of modulation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2655 Synchronisation arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0007 the frequencies being orthogonal, e.g. OFDM(A), DMT

Abstract

A receiving apparatus according to the present invention has a plurality of synchronizing circuits which is provided corresponding to different preamble signals of a reception signal and operate simultaneously at the time of receiving the preamble signals so as to output synchronous signals, a correlation value comparing section which compares correlation values of the synchronous signals output from the plurality of synchronizing circuits, and a synchronizing section which determines whether the received signal is for the subject apparatus based on a comparison result from the correlation value comparing section.

Claims

1. A receiving apparatus comprising:

a plurality of synchronizing circuits which is provided corresponding to different preamble signals of a reception signal and operates simultaneously at the time of receiving the preamble signals so as to output correlation values of synchronous signals;

a correlation value comparing section which compares the correlation values output from the plurality of synchronizing circuits; and

a synchronizing section which outputs a synchronism acquisition signal based on a comparison result from the correlation value comparing section;

wherein an initial time-frequency code (TFC) pattern used by the receiving apparatus for comparing correlation values is set in advance; and

wherein the reception signal is subject to fast Fourier Transformation only when the synchronism acquisition signal indicates that one of the preamble signals of the reception signal correlates to the initial TFC pattern.

2. The receiving apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when a synchronizing circuit which outputs the largest correlation value is a synchronizing circuit corresponding to the preamble signal with a TFC pattern of a subject apparatus based on the comparison result from the correlation value comparing section, the synchronizing section outputs the output from the synchronizing circuit as the synchronism acquisition signal.

3. The receiving apparatus according to claim 2, wherein when the synchronizing circuit which outputs the largest correlation value is not the synchronizing circuit corresponding to the preamble signal with the TFC pattern of the subject apparatus based on the comparison result from the correlation value comparing section, a receiving process thereafter is halted and the process waits for synchronism by the plurality of synchronizing circuits.

4. The receiving apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the correlation value comparing section compares the correlation values output within predetermined time previously defined according to a preamble signal or a TFC pattern.

5. A communication system in which a transmitting apparatus and a receiving apparatus are connected via a wireless communication network, the receiving apparatus comprising:

a plurality of synchronizing circuits which is provided corresponding to different preamble signals of a reception signal and operates simultaneously at the time of receiving the preamble signals so as to output correlation values of synchronous signals;

a correlation value comparing section which compares the correlation values output from the plurality of synchronizing circuits; and

a synchronizing section which outputs a synchronism acquisition signal based on a comparison result from the correlation value comparing section;

wherein an initial time-frequency code (TFC) pattern used by the receiving apparatus for comparing correlation values is set in advance; and

wherein the reception signal is subject to fast Fourier Transformation only when the synchronism acquisition signal indicates that one of the preamble signals of the reception signal correlates to the initial TFC pattern.

6. A receiving method comprising the steps of:

outputting correlation values of synchronous signals at the time of receiving preamble signals from a plurality of synchronizing circuits provided corresponding to the different preamble signals of a reception signal;

comparing the correlation values output from the plurality of synchronizing circuits; and

outputting a synchronism acquisition signal based on a result of comparing the correlation values;

wherein an initial time-frequency code (TFC) pattern used by the receiving apparatus for comparing correlation values is set in advance; and

wherein the reception signal is subject to fast Fourier Transformation only when the synchronism acquisition signal indicates that one of the preamble signals of the reception signal correlates to the initial TFC pattern.

7. A non-transitory computer-readable medium for causing a computer to function as:

a unit which outputs correlation values of synchronous signals at the time of receiving preamble signals from a plurality of synchronizing circuits provided corresponding to the different preamble signals of a reception signal;

a unit which compares the correlation values output from the plurality of synchronizing circuits; and

a unit which outputs a synchronism acquisition signal based on a result of comparing the correlation values;

wherein an initial time-frequency code (TFC) pattern used by the receiving apparatus for comparing correlation values is set in advance; and

wherein the reception signal is subject to fast Fourier Transformation only when the synchronism acquisition signal indicates that one of the preamble signals of the reception signal correlates to the initial TFC pattern.