IP Library Granted Patent US 7,003,050
Granted Patent B2
US 7,003,050 · App. 10/182,569 · Granted Feb 21, 2006

Radio transmitter, radio receiver, and multilevel modulation communication system

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Patent No.
US 7,003,050
App. No.
10/182,569
Granted
Feb 21, 2006
Kind
B2
Abstract

P/S conversion section 302 performs parallel/serial conversion of data sequences # 1 through # 4 input in parallel, in accordance with control by assignment control section 303 , so that data to a higher-priority communication terminal is assigned to an upper bit in one symbol; M-ary modulation section 304 performs M-ary modulation on the data that has been subject to parallel/serial conversion; S/P conversion section 305 converts a symbol that has been subject to M-ary modulation to parallel form; multipliers 306 - 1 through 306 - 4 execute spreading processing on the symbols output in parallel; multiplexing section 309 multiplexes the symbol that has been subject to spreading processing with an assignment notification signal that has been subject to spreading processing; and radio transmitting section 310 transmits the multiplex signal.

Claims (23)

1. A data transmission apparatus, comprising:

a modulating unit that modulates data into a 16QAM symbol, and

a transmitting unit that transmits said data modulated into said 16QAM symbol,

wherein said modulating unit, in a first transmission, modulates data into a 16QAM symbol as a string of 4 bits and, in a retransmission, modulates data into a 16QAM symbol that contains all of said 4 bits as a rearranged string of said 4 bits, and said rearranged string is provided by exchanging the positions of the upper 2 bits and the lower 2 bits of said string in the first transmission.

2. A data transmission apparatus, comprising:

a modulating unit that modulates data into a 16QAM symbol, and

a transmitting unit that transmits said data modulated into said 16QAM symbol,

wherein said transmitting unit, in a first transmission, transmits data modulated into a 16QAM symbol as a string of 4 bits, and, in a retransmission, retransmits data modulated into a 16QAM symbol that contains all of said 4 bits as a rearranged string of said 4 bits, and said rearranged string is provided by exchanging the positions of the upper 2 bits and the lower 2 bits of said string in said first transmission.

3. A base station apparatus equipped with the data transmission apparatus according to claim 1 .

4. A base station apparatus equipped with the data transmission apparatus according to claim 2 .

5. A communication terminal apparatus equipped with the data transmission apparatus according to claim 1 .

6. A communication terminal apparatus equipped with the data transmission apparatus according to claim 2 .

7. A transmission method comprising:

modulating data into a 16QAM symbol;

transmitting, in a first transmission, said data modulated into said 16QAM symbol as a string of 4 bits; and

retransmitting, in a retransmission, data modulated into a 16QAM symbol that contains all of said 4 bits as a rearranged string of said 4 bits, wherein said rearranged string is provided by exchanging the positions of the upper 2 bits and the lower 2 bits of said string in the first transmission.

8. A transmission system comprising:

a transmitting apparatus that:

modulates data into a 16QAM symbol;

transmits, in a first transmission, said data modulated into said 16QAM symbol as a string of 4 bits; and

retransmits, in a retransmission, data modulated into a 16QAM symbol that contains all of said 4 bits as a rearranged string of said 4 bits, wherein said rearranged string is provided by exchanging the positions of the upper 2 bits and the lower 2 bits of said string in the first transmission; and

a receiving apparatus that:

receives said data transmitted in said first transmission and retransmitted in said retransmission.

Assignments (4)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 3, 2016
From: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
To: PANASONIC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 039551/0064 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 27, 2014
From: PANASONIC CORPORATION
To: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
Reel/Frame 033033/0163 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Mar 23, 2009
From: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
To: PANASONIC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 022434/0348 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 31, 2002
From: MATSUMOTO, ATSUSHI; UESUGI, MITSURU; MIYOSHI, KENICHI; UEHARA, TOSHIYUKI
To: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 013308/0330 →