IP Library Granted Patent US 12,689,407
Granted Patent B2
US 12,689,407 · App. 18/858,593 · Granted Jul 21, 2026

Timing detection method, communication system and receiving apparatus

Inventors: Hiroyuki Fukumoto (Musashino, JP); Seiji Omori (Musashino, JP); Yosuke Fujino (Musashino, JP); Miharu Oiwa (Musashino, JP); Ryota Okumura (Musashino, JP); Yuya Ito (Musashino, JP)
Assignee: NTT, Inc.
H04B1/7073H04L27/22
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 12,689,407
App. No.
18/858,593
Filed
Oct 21, 2024
Granted
Jul 21, 2026
Kind
B2
Art Unit
2632
USPC
375/150
Abstract

The transmission apparatus intermittently transmits a physical frame of a transmitted signal. The receiving apparatus includes a correlation calculation unit and a determination unit. The correlation calculation unit calculates a correlation between the received signal and each of the correlation sequences subjected to Doppler shift of a plurality of types of shift amounts. The determination unit determines that the physical frame has been received in a case where any one of the calculation results obtained by the correlation calculation unit exceeds the threshold.

Claims (24)

1 . A timing detection method comprising:

intermittently transmitting, by a transmission apparatus, a physical frame of a transmitted signal;

calculating, by a receiving apparatus, a correlation between a received signal and each of correlation sequences subjected to Doppler shift of a plurality of types of shift amounts; and

determining, by the receiving apparatus, that the physical frame has been received in a case where any one of calculation results exceeds a threshold,

wherein each of the plurality of types of shift amounts is any value obtained by multiplying a reciprocal of a product of a sequence length of a correlation sequence and a symbol rate of the physical frame by an integer.

2 . A timing detection method comprising:

calculating a correlation between a received signal having been transmitted from a transmission apparatus that intermittently transmits a physical frame of a transmitted signal and each of correlation sequences subjected to Doppler shift of a plurality of types of shift amounts; and

determining that the physical frame has been received in a case where any one of calculation results exceeds a threshold,

wherein each of the plurality of types of shift amounts is any value obtained by multiplying a reciprocal of a product of a sequence length of a correlation sequence and a symbol rate of the physical frame by an integer.

3 . A communication system comprising a transmission apparatus and a receiving apparatus,

wherein the transmission apparatus intermittently transmits a physical frame of transmitted signal, and

the receiving apparatus includes:

a correlation calculation circuitry that calculates a correlation between a received signal and each of correlation sequences subjected to Doppler shift of a plurality of types of shift amounts; and

a determination circuitry that determines that the physical frame has been received in a case where any one of calculation results obtained by the correlation calculation circuitry exceeds a threshold,

wherein each of the plurality of types of shift amounts is any value obtained by multiplying a reciprocal of a product of a sequence length of a correlation sequence and a symbol rate of the physical frame by an integer.

4 . A receiving apparatus comprising:

a correlation calculation circuitry that calculates a correlation between a received signal having been transmitted from a transmission apparatus that intermittently transmits a physical frame of a transmitted signal and each of correlation sequences subjected to Doppler shift of a plurality of types of shift amounts; and

a determination circuitry that determines that the physical frame has been received in a case where any one of calculation results obtained by the correlation calculation circuitry exceeds a threshold,

wherein each of the plurality of types of shift amounts is any value obtained by multiplying a reciprocal of a product of a sequence length of a correlation sequence and a symbol rate of the physical frame by an integer.

5 . The receiving apparatus according to claim 4 ,

wherein the plurality of types of shift amounts are values shifted by a predetermined Doppler frequency, and

a ratio of signal power and noise power of a received signal calculated using a correlation sequence of the predetermined Doppler frequency matches a ratio of signal power and noise power of a received signal at a detection threshold calculated using a correlation sequence of a reference shift amount in a case where one of the plurality of types of shift amounts is regarded as the reference shift amount.

6 . The receiving apparatus according to claim 4 ,

wherein the received signal has been transmitted underwater.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Oct 3, 2025
From: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
To: NTT, INC.
Reel/Frame 072996/0032 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 21, 2024
From: FUKUMOTO, HIROYUKI; OMORI, SEIJI; FUJINO, YOSUKE; OIWA, MIHARU; OKUMURA, RYOTA; ITO, YUYA
To: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 068961/0821 →
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