Method of generating pulse waveform

• US 8,660,206 B2
• Filed: 12/16/2003
• Issued: 02/25/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/25/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ryuji Kohno, Yokohama TLO Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Ryuji Kohno, Yokohama TLO Company Limited
• Inventors: Kohno, Ryuji
• Primary Examiner(s): Vlahos, Sophia
• Application Number:
  US10/546,630
• Publication Number:
  US 20060140249A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,724 Days
• Field of Search: 375/130, 375/295, 375/257, 375/260, 375/296, 375/299, 375/309
• US Class Current: 375/296
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/7172 Pulse shape in general H04L25/03834
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/719 Interference-related aspects
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 2001/6912 using chirp

Abstract

The present invention forms, in UWB communications in which a pulse of short duration is transmitted, a transmission signal with a desired frequency characteristic by adjusting the shape of a pulse signal used in data transmissions. As a result, radio interference with other wireless systems in UWB communications is reduced. As aspects for adjusting the pulse signal, the present invention comprises an aspect for generating a pulse signal having a desired frequency characteristic by adjusting the shape of a single pulse itself, an aspect for generating a pulse signal having a desired frequency characteristic by combining a plurality of pulses, and an aspect for finding a combination of pulse signals from the frequency characteristic of an object transmission signal.

Claims

1. A method of generating a pulse waveform, comprising:

generating a pulse by an Ultra Wide Band (UWB) transmitter with a desired frequency characteristic by adjusting a temporal shape of a single pulse in UWB communications in which a single pulse of short duration is transmitted, wherein adjusting the temporal shape includes dividing a desired frequency characteristic of the pulse in a frequency region, obtaining a plurality of pulses according to components of the divided frequency characteristic, selecting pulses from the obtained pulses and adding the selected pulses to generate the pulse which satisfies the desired frequency characteristic, said selected pulses are each formed by means of a waveform represented by a predetermined function, said predetermined function is constituted by selecting a suitable Kernel function and performing expansion or synthesis based on said Kernel function.

2. A method of generating a pulse waveform, comprising:

generating a pulse by an Ultra Wide Band (UWB) transmitter with a desired frequency characteristic by adjusting a temporal shape of a single pulse in UWB communications in which a single pulse of short duration is transmitted, wherein adjusting the temporal shape includes subjecting a desired frequency characteristic or an approximate frequency characteristic of the pulse to an inverse Fourier transform, obtaining a plurality of waveforms on a time axis in accordance with divided components of the frequency characteristic in a frequency region, selecting waveforms from the obtained plurality of waveforms and adding the selected waveforms to generate the pulse which satisfies the desired frequency characteristic, said selected waveforms are each formed by means of a waveform represented by a predetermined function, said predetermined function is constituted by selecting a suitable Kernel function and performing expansion or synthesis based on said Kernel function.