Signal transmission system, transmitting device, receiving device, electronic device, and signal transmission method

• US 8,824,529 B2
• Filed: 01/19/2011
• Issued: 09/02/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/10/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Fukuda, Satoshi, Kawasaki, Kenichi, Shinke, Satoru
• Primary Examiner(s): Fan, Chieh M
• Assistant Examiner(s): Koeth, Michelle M
• Application Number:
  US12/929,358
• Publication Number:
  US 20110194627A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,322 Days
• Field of Search: 455/76, 455/41.2, 455/39, 455/90.3, 455/73, 455/128, 455/91, 375/219, 375/220, 375/301, 375/300, 375/295, 505/866, 505/825
• US Class Current: 375/220
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/40 Circuits
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 505/825 Apparatus per se, device per se, or process of making or operating same
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 505/866 Wave transmission line, network, waveguide, or microwave storage device

Abstract

A signal transmission system includes: a transmitting section including a first carrier signal generating section configured to generate a carrier signal for modulation and a first frequency converting section configured to generate a transmission signal by frequency-converting a transmission object signal by the carrier signal for modulation, the carrier signal for modulation being generated by the first carrier signal generating section; and a receiving section including a second carrier signal generating section configured to generate a carrier signal for demodulation and a second frequency converting section configured to frequency-convert the transmission signal received by the carrier signal for demodulation, the carrier signal for demodulation being generated by the second carrier signal generating section.

Claims

1. A signal transmission system comprising:

a transmitting side local oscillating section configured to generate a carrier signal at a carrier wave frequency, a carrier frequency band being a frequency band of the carrier signal;

a modulation section configured to modulate a data signal into a modulated signal;

a frequency section configured to frequency convert the modulated signal from a baseband to the carrier frequency band to generate an electric signal;

an amplifying section configured to amplify said electric signal, an amplified signal being said electric signal that has been amplified, the amplifying section having a use band set to shift the center of the band of said amplified signal, thus creating an asymmetry of the band of said amplified signal with respect to said carrier wave frequency; and

a transmission medium receiving said amplified signal and propagating said amplified signal, wherein a transmission characteristic of said transmission medium is calculated in advance,

wherein said amount of said shift to the center of the band of said amplified signal is dependent upon said transmission characteristic of said transmission medium calculated in advance.

2. The signal transmission system according to claim 1, wherein said carrier frequency band differs from said band of said amplified signal.

3. The signal transmission system according to claim 1, wherein a center frequency of the carrier frequency band differs from a center frequency of a transmission frequency band.

4. The signal transmission system according to claim 1, wherein said carrier wave frequency is a frequency from the group consisting of a millimeter wave band and a submillimeter wave band.

5. The signal transmission system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a demodulation signal generating section configured to demodulate an object signal from a transmission signal, said transmission signal being said amplified signal that has been output from said transmission medium.

6. The signal transmission system according to claim 5, wherein a demodulated signal is said object signal that has been demodulated from said transmission signal.

7. The signal transmission system according to claim 6, wherein said demodulation signal generating section is configured to synchronize said demodulated signal with said modulated signal.

8. The signal transmission system according to claim 6, wherein a frequency of the demodulated signal is a frequency from the group consisting of a millimeter wave band and a submillimeter wave band.

9. The signal transmission system according to claim 6,

wherein a center frequency of the demodulated signal is other than said carrier wave frequency.

10. The signal transmission system according to claim 9,

wherein said demodulation signal generating section is configured to perform a demodulated signal transformation by frequency converting said transmission signal to said baseband.

11. The signal transmission system according to claim 10, wherein subsequent to said demodulated signal transformation, said center frequency of the demodulated signal is at said carrier wave frequency.

12. The signal transmission system according to claim 6, wherein said demodulation signal generating section is configured to output an injection locking signal.

13. The signal transmission system according to claim 12, further comprising:

a reference carrier signal processing section configured to adjust a phase and amplitude of the modulated signal, said phase and amplitude being adjusted in relation to said injection locking signal.

14. The signal transmission system according to claim 6, further comprising:

a casing, said demodulation signal generating section and said transmission medium being housed within said casing.

15. The signal transmission system according to claim 14, further comprising:

a transmission line within said casing, said amplified signal being transmissible over said transmission line.