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US 10,419,082 · App. 16/102,078 · Granted Sep 17, 2019

Transmission device, transmission method, reception device, and reception method

Inventors: Tomohiro Kimura (Osaka, JP); Yutaka Murakami (Kanagawa, JP); Mikihiro Ouchi (Osaka, JP)
Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
H04B7/0413H04B1/16H04B7/0404H04B7/0697H04B7/0874H04N21/2365H04N21/4263H04N21/42615H04W4/06H04W16/26H04W16/28H04W76/40H04B7/10
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Patent No.
US 10,419,082
App. No.
16/102,078
Granted
Sep 17, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

By a transmission method according to one aspect of the present disclosure, in a broadcasting system that generates a first broadcasting signal and a second broadcasting signal by performing multi-antenna encoding on program data, and wirelessly transmits a first broadcasting signal and a second broadcasting signal, a first transmit station transmits the first broadcasting signal, a second transmit station transmits the second broadcasting signal, the first transmit station and the second transmit station transmit the first broadcasting signal and the second broadcasting signal to an overlapping area at an identical time using an overlapping frequency band, polarized wave transmitted from the first transmit station differs from polarized wave transmitted from the second transmit station, and arrangement of the first transmit station differs from arrangement of the second transmit station.

Claims (50)

1. A transmission method for transmitting a first broadcasting signal and a second broadcasting signal each generated using a multi-antenna encoding scheme,

wherein a first transmit station transmits the first broadcasting signal to a first service area,

a second transmit station transmits the second broadcasting signal to a second service area, at least part of the second service area overlapping the first service area,

the first broadcasting signal and the second broadcasting signal are transmitted from the first transmit station and the second transmit station at an identical time using an identical frequency band,

the second service area is narrower than the first service area,

the first broadcasting signal includes a first pilot signal,

the second broadcasting signal includes a second pilot signal, and

density of the second pilot signal in a frequency direction is lower than density of the first pilot signal in the frequency direction.

2. The transmission method according to claim 1 , wherein the second transmit station is densely arranged compared with the first transmit station.

3. A transmission method for transmitting a first broadcasting signal and a second broadcasting signal each generated using a multi-antenna encoding scheme,

wherein a first transmit station transmits the first broadcasting signal to a first service area,

a second transmit station transmits the second broadcasting signal to a second service area, at least part of the second service area overlapping the first service area,

the first broadcasting signal and the second broadcasting signal are transmitted from the first transmit station and the second transmit station at an identical time using an identical frequency band,

the second service area is narrower than the first service area,

first data and second data are generated from identical program data, the first data and the second data differing from each other in a transmission rate, and

multi-antenna encoding is performed on the first data and the second data to generate the first broadcasting signal and the second broadcasting signal.

4. The transmission method according to claim 3 , wherein the second transmit station is densely arranged compared with the first transmit station.

5. A transmission device comprising a generator that generates a first broadcasting signal and a second broadcasting signal using a multi-antenna encoding scheme,

wherein the first broadcasting signal is transmitted from a first transmit station to a first service area,

the second broadcasting signal is transmitted from a second transmit station to a second service area, at least part of the second service area overlapping the first service area,

the first broadcasting signal and the second broadcasting signal are transmitted from the first transmit station and the second transmit station at an identical time using an identical frequency band,

the second service area is narrower than the first service area,

the first broadcasting signal includes a first pilot signal,

the second broadcasting signal includes a second pilot signal, and

density of the second pilot signal in a frequency direction is lower than density of the first pilot signal in the frequency direction.

6. A reception method for receiving a first broadcasting signal and a second broadcasting signal each generated using a multi-antenna encoding scheme,

wherein a first transmit station transmits the first broadcasting signal to a first service area,

a second transmit station transmits the second broadcasting signal to a second service area, at least part of the second service area overlapping the first service area,

the first broadcasting signal and the second broadcasting signal are transmitted from the first transmit station and the second transmit station at an identical time using an identical frequency band,

the second service area is narrower than the first service area,

the first broadcasting signal includes a first pilot signal,

the second broadcasting signal includes a second pilot signal,

density of the second pilot signal in a frequency direction is lower than density of the first pilot signal in the frequency direction, and

at least one of the first broadcasting signal and the second broadcasting signal is modulated using the first pilot signal and the second pilot signal.

7. A reception device that receives a first broadcasting signal and a second broadcasting signal, the first broadcasting signal and the second broadcasting signal being generated using a multi-antenna encoding scheme,

wherein a first transmit station transmits the first broadcasting signal to a first service area,

a second transmit station transmits the second broadcasting signal to a second service area, at least part of the second service area overlapping the first service area,

the first broadcasting signal and the second broadcasting signal are transmitted from the first transmit station and the second transmit station at an identical time using an identical frequency band, and

the second service area is narrower than the first service area,

the first broadcasting signal includes a first pilot signal,

the second broadcasting signal includes a second pilot signal, and

density of the second pilot signal in a frequency direction is lower than density of the first pilot signal in the frequency direction,

the reception device comprising a demodulator that modulates at least one of the first broadcasting signal and the second broadcasting signal using the first pilot signal and the second pilot signal.

8. A transmission device comprising a generator that generates a first broadcasting signal and a second broadcasting signal using a multi-antenna encoding scheme,

wherein the first broadcasting signal is transmitted from a first transmit station to a first service area,

the second broadcasting signal is transmitted from a second transmit station to a second service area, at least part of the second service area overlapping the first service area,

the first broadcasting signal and the second broadcasting signal are transmitted from the first transmit station and the second transmit station at an identical time using an identical frequency band,

the second service area is narrower than the first service area,

first data and second data are generated from identical program data, the first data and the second data differing from each other in a transmission rate, and

multi-antenna encoding is performed on the first data and the second data to generate the first broadcasting signal and the second broadcasting signal.

Priority Claims (2)
JP 2014-022450 · Feb 7, 2014 · national
JP 2014-022451 · Feb 7, 2014 · national
Continuity (3)
Division 15222934 · Jul 28, 2016
Continuation PCTJP2015000459 · Feb 3, 2015
Related Publication 20190007105A1 · Jan 3, 2019