Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080232506 | Reception Device, Transmission Device, and Radio System - A transmitter using a plurality of pulse signals having different pulse sequence times, a receiver for steadily demodulating pulse signals of only desirable wave, and a wireless system are disclosed. In the transmitter, a control signal generating circuit outputs a control signal for generating a plurality of pulse signals having different pulse sequence generating times, a pulse generating circuit generates a plurality of pulse signals by using the control signal. In the receiver, reception front end receives the plurality of pulse signals having different pulse sequence generating times, delay circuit delays at least one of reception front-end output signals supplied from the reception front-end by a given time, delay pulse composition circuit combines delay signal with reception front-end output signal so that the receiver steadily demodulates the pulse signals of only the desirable wave. | 09-25-2008 |
20080248768 | Radio Communication Method and Radio Communication Device - A first receiving unit typically receives a control frame in a narrowband channel. A communication data selection unit controls power saving of a second receiving unit performing reception in a UWB channel, based on the control frame. A communication data generation unit generates communication time reservation response information by adding information reporting a normal reception to the received request for communication time reservation, and transmits this information from transmitting units in the narrowband channel, so that a second receiving unit is set to an operating mode only during a time slot when UWB communication is performed, and use of the time slot for performing UWB communication is reported to the radio communication device which has made the communication request and the radio communication devices in the area where transmission is possible. | 10-09-2008 |
20080267324 | Impulse Radio Communication Device - An impulse radio communication device includes a wave detector for generating a detected signal, a switching section for selecting either a received signal or the detected signal in accordance with an external control signal and outputting it as a demodulation target signal, a reference waveform generating section synchronized with the demodulation target signal and generating a reference waveform signal having a different waveform in accordance with the external control signal, a demodulator for generating a demodulated signal from the demodulation target signal in accordance with the reference waveform signal, and a decoding section for decoding received data from the demodulated signal. This impulse radio communication device switches the demodulation target signal and the reference waveform signal simultaneously in accordance with a receiving and synchronizing state. This makes it difficult that synchronization is pulled in a correlation position having low electric power, and can reduce a acquisition time. | 10-30-2008 |
20080279214 | Radio Communication Method and Radio Communication Device - A radio communication device includes a beacon reception unit extracting a frame from a received beacon and a frame judgment unit judging whether the extracted frame is one requiring data transmission/reception or one giving notice of a collision with a beacon of another network, a frame constructing unit used when the frame judgment unit has judged that the frame is a collision notification, generating a frame for relaying the collision notification and a movement notification to a new beacon transmission period, and a beacon transmission instruction unit instructing transmission of the frame at the beacon transmission timing. Accordingly, since these notifications can be relayed, all radio communication devices of the same network can move to a new beacon transmission period while avoiding a collision with a beacon from a radio communication device of another network. | 11-13-2008 |
20080292037 | Master Side Communication Apparatus and Slave Side Communication Apparatus - A master side communication apparatus and a slave side communication apparatus wherein the structure of a receiving part of the slave side communication apparatus is simplified to achieve a reduced size, a reduced power consumption and a reduced cost. The master side communication apparatus performs a communication in synchronism with the slave side communication apparatus having no synchronization timing adjusting function. A transport signal generating timing adjusting part of the master side communication apparatus acquires, from the slave side communication apparatus, synchronization signal generation timing information used when the slave side communication apparatus receives the transport signal from the master side communication apparatus. The transport signal generating timing adjusting part varies and adjusts, based on the acquired information, the transmission timing of the signal to be transmitted to the slave side communication apparatus. A transmitting part transmits the transport signal at the adjust transmission timing. The occurrence timing of the transport signal is varied and adjusted until the slave side communication apparatus becomes able to receive the transport signal from the master side communication apparatus. | 11-27-2008 |
20090041169 | PULSE MODULATION TYPE TRANSMITTER APPARATUS AND PULSE MODULATION TYPE RECEIVER APPARATUS - A pulse modulation type transmitter apparatus and a pulse modulation type receiver apparatus wherein both a fast synchronization establishment and a low power consumption of a synchronizing part can be achieved at the same time and wherein the data transmission/reception can be performed soon after a commencement of communication, and further a fast data transmission and a low power consumption can be achieved. A first template signal ( | 02-12-2009 |
20090052366 | COMMUNICATION METHOD AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A frame such as a beacon in wireless communication, with a maximum MAC address, hop count, and maximum hop count, described therein is exchanged between nodes. All the nodes measure the number of hops from a node with the maximum MAC address, and exchange the maximum hop count (hmax) out of the numbers with each other. Hop count H(a,b) between arbitrary nodes a and b is expressed by H(a,b)≦H(a,max)+H(max,b)≦2*hmax, where hmax is a hop count from node (max) with the maximum MAC address to the farthest node. That is, the number of hops between two arbitrary nodes in the group is always 2*hmax or less. Herewith, a numeric value assuredly exceeding the maximum value out of the numbers of hops between nodes in an ad-hoc network can be propagated in the entire ad-hoc network. | 02-26-2009 |
20090074117 | Pulse Radio Receiver - A pulse radio receiver not needing re-setting of the threshold for reception synchronization, judging the direction and amount of adjustment of the synchronization even if the signal strength varies, and having a shortened pull-in time of the synchronization position. The receiver comprises a detect ( | 03-19-2009 |
20090135974 | IMPULSE WAVEFORM GENERATING APPARATUS AND RADIO-FREQUENCY PULSE WAVEFORM GENERATING APPARATUS - An impulse waveform generating apparatus includes a multistage delay pulse signal generating part for generating a plurality of delay pulse signals by a timing signal; a signal source signal generating part for generating a signal source signal indicating the frequency component of an impulse waveform signal by the delay pulse signals; an envelope formation signal generating part for generating an envelope formation signal indicating the amplitude component of the impulse waveform signal by the delay pulse signals; and a mixer part for multiplying the signal source signal by the envelope formation signal to generate a prescribed impulse waveform signal. The impulse waveform generating apparatus generates the impulse waveform signal from the timing signal. Therefore, the circuit arrangement requires no digital-to-analog converter, the operational frequency of each element can be reduced, and the power consumption can be reduced. | 05-28-2009 |
20090232056 | RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD AND RADIO COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A beacon slot position control section of a radio communication apparatus constituting a radio network system which detects whether empty beacon slots are present in a beacon period. When an empty beacon slot is present before the period in which the radio communication apparatus transmits a beacon, a movable counter starts counting a specified number of super frames. When the count is completed, the radio communication apparatus transmits a beacon of the radio communication apparatus at the earlier empty beacon slot. Consequently, since the empty beacon slots are eliminated and the beacon period is compacted, even if the number of radio communication apparatuses joining the radio network system fluctuates dynamically, the radio communication apparatus can perform radio communication with high efficiency and less waste of consumed electricity. | 09-17-2009 |
20090232057 | RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD AND RADIO COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A beacon slot position control section of a radio communication apparatus constituting a radio network system which detects whether empty beacon slots are present in a beacon period. When an empty beacon slot is present before the period in which the radio communication apparatus transmits a beacon, a movable counter starts counting a specified number of super frames. When the count is completed, the radio communication apparatus transmits a beacon of the radio communication apparatus at the earlier empty beacon slot. Consequently, since the empty beacon slots are eliminated and the beacon period is compacted, even if the number of radio communication apparatuses joining the radio network system fluctuates dynamically, the radio communication apparatus can perform radio communication with high efficiency and less waste of consumed electricity. | 09-17-2009 |
20090232197 | PULSE MODULATED WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE - The transmission device includes a first transmission RF part for RF modulating the pulse signal generated at the timing of a clock signal so as to generate a clock RF signal and for outputting the clock RF signal to a synchronization signal channel; a transmission data generator for generating transmission data in synchronization with the timing of the clock signal; a PPM modulator for PPM modulating the transmission data and for outputting a PPM modulation signal; and a second transmission RF part for RF modulating the PPM modulation signal so as to generate a data RF signal and for outputting the data RF signal to a data signal channel different from the synchronization signal channel. The reception device receives reference synchronization information so as to maintain phase synchronization in data reception. | 09-17-2009 |
20100002659 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A wireless communication method wherein the power consumption can be reduced as compared with the conventional one and a wireless communication apparatus can synchronize its super-frame with the super-frame of another wireless communication apparatus in an ad hoc network. According to this method, in the ad hoc network where a plurality of wireless communication apparatuses use broadband signals to data-communicate with each other, a wireless communication apparatus transmits an end tone ( | 01-07-2010 |
20100008334 | RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD AND RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A radio communication device includes a communication data selection unit for selecting from the received radio communication data containing communication time reservation request information in which a time slot for performing data transmission source radio communication device is described and a communication information analysis unit for extracting an identifier of the source radio communication device and the data transmission reservation time slot from the communication time reservation request information in the radio communication data. When the received radio communication data is addressed to the local device, a communication/response information generation unit correlates the identifier to the reservation time slot, records them in a communication reservation table, and generates communication time reservation response information including information of the reservation time slot. | 01-14-2010 |
20100040168 | TRANSMITTING APPARATUS, RECEIVING APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A transmitting apparatus, receiving apparatus and communication system are disclosed, and great improvement in an S/N ratio, preventing an actual throughput from decreasing, and preventing the number of circuits for synchronizing spread spectrum signals from increasing can be expected at the receiving apparatus side. The transmitting apparatus includes a pulse generating circuit, pulse repetition cycle determining circuit, peak power determining circuit, and modulator. The pulse generating circuit generates pulse strings, pulse repetition cycle determining circuit determines, based on a clock signal, a pulse repetition cycle of the pulse string generated by the pulse generating circuit. The peak power determining circuit determines a pulse peak power of the pulse string. The modulator modulates the pulse string with transmission data, and then generates a transmission signal. | 02-18-2010 |
20100316043 | RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD AND RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE - Provided is a radio communication method which can reduce the power consumption as compared to the conventional technique while realizing coexistence of a plurality of radio communication methods and can perform synchronization with a super frame of other radio communication device. The super frame has life confirmation slots ( | 12-16-2010 |
20120281740 | TRANSMITTING APPARATUS, RECEIVING APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A transmitting apparatus, receiving apparatus and communication system are disclosed, and great improvement in an S/N ratio, preventing an actual throughput from decreasing, and preventing the number of circuits for synchronizing spread spectrum signals from increasing can be expected at the receiving apparatus side. The transmitting apparatus includes a pulse generating circuit, pulse repetition cycle determining circuit, peak power determining circuit, and modulator. The pulse generating circuit generates pulse strings, pulse repetition cycle determining circuit determines, based on a clock signal, a pulse repetition cycle of the pulse string generated by the pulse generating circuit. The peak power determining circuit determines a pulse peak power of the pulse string. The modulator modulates the pulse string with transmission data, and then generates a transmission signal. | 11-08-2012 |