Modulating circuit
View Patent ↗There are included a first quadrature modulation part ( 5 ) that divides an input signal into an I signal and a Q signal having a phase orthogonal to the phase thereof and uses a baseband frequency to perform frequency conversions of the I and Q signals, thereby performing a quadrature modulation; and a second quadrature modulation part ( 8 ) that uses in-phase and quadrature carriers of FM frequencies, which are 90 degrees out of phase with respect to each other, to perform frequency conversions of the I and Q signals, which are generated by the first quadrature modulation part ( 5 ), thereby performing a quadrature modulation. Thus, the phases of the I and Q signals, which are shifted by 90 degrees with respect to each other by the first quadrature modulation part ( 5 ), are further shifted by 90 degrees with respect to each other by the second quadrature modulation part ( 8 ), thereby providing frequency components the phases of which have been inverted, whereby the unwanted harmonic components at the spurious sides of a target frequency can be attenuated.
1. A modulating circuit, comprising:
a stereo signal generation part which synthesizes a sum signal of an L-channel signal and an R-channel signal, a difference signal of the L-channel signal and the R-channel signal, and a pilot signal, and outputs its result as a stereo composite signal;
a first quadrature modulation part which divides the stereo composite signal into an in-phase signal and a quadrature signal having a phase orthogonal to the phase of the in-phase signal and performs a quadrature modulation by performing frequency conversion of the in-phase and quadrature signals using a first frequency; and
a second quadrature modulation part which performs a quadrature modulation by performing frequency conversion of the in-phase and quadrature signals, which are generated by the first quadrature modulation part, by using in-phase and quadrature carriers which have a second frequency which is higher than the first frequency, and whose phases are shifted by 90 degrees with respect to each other.
2. The modulating circuit according to claim 1 , further comprising a frequency offset part between the first quadrature modulation part and the second quadrature modulation part:
the frequency offset part performs frequency conversion so as to provide a third frequency which is higher than the first frequency and lower than the second frequency by applying an offset to the frequency of the in-phase signal and quadrature signal which are generated by the first quadrature modulation part;
wherein the frequency offset part shifts the frequency of the in-phase signal and quadrature signal by using in-phase and quadrature carriers whose phases are shifted by 90 degrees mutually.
3. The modulating circuit according to claim 1 ,
the first quadrature modulation part is constructed in digital circuits, and the second quadrature modulation part is constructed in analog circuits.
4. The modulating circuit according to claim 2 ,
the first quadrature modulation part and the frequency offset part are constructed in digital circuits, and the second quadrature modulation part is constructed in analog circuits.
5. The modulating circuit according to claim 1 ,
the first frequency is a baseband frequency.