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Communication system

a communication system and communication system technology, applied in the field of communication systems, can solve the problems of tv broadcast service, inability to go further, and large and achieve the effect of minimizing signal attenuation or shadow regions of its service area

Inactive Publication Date: 2004-05-11
PANASONIC CORP
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"The present invention provides a communication system that can be used for both existing NTSC and HDTV broadcast services via satellite. It minimizes signal attenuating or shadow regions in its service area. The system includes input means for inputting image signals, image compression means, error correction encoding means, modulating means, transmitting means, receiving means, demodulating means, error correction means, image expansion means, and output means. The system uses an n-value VSB modulation signal and a Trellis decoder for error correction. The receiving digital signal is divided into high and low priority signals, and the error correction means includes a first error correction means with a high code gain and a second error correction means with a low code gain to correct the high priority signal. The technical effects of the invention include improved compatibility, reduced signal attenuation, and improved image quality."

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However, the TV broadcast service is a public business and cannot go further without considering the interests and benefits of viewers.
In any analogue TV broadcast service, there are developed a lot of signal attenuating or shadow regions within its service area due to structural obstacles, geographical inconveniences, or signal interference from a neighbor station.
When the TV signal is an analogue form, it can be intercepted more or less at such signal attenuating regions although its reproduced picture is low in quality.
This disadvantage is critically hostile to the development of any digital TV system.

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embodiment 1

FIG. 1 shows the entire arrangement of a signal transmission system according to the first embodiment of the present invention. A transmitter 1 comprises an input unit 2, a divider circuit 3, a modulator 4, and a transmitter unit 5. In action, each input multiplex signal is divided by the divider circuit 3 into three groups, a first data stream D1, a second data stream D2, a third data stream D3, which are then modulated by the modulator 4 before being transmitted from the transmitter unit 5. The modulated signal is sent up from an antenna 6 through an uplink 7 to a satellite 10 where it is intercepted by an uplink antenna 11 and amplified by a transponder 12 before being transmitted from a downlink antenna 13 towards the ground.

The transmission signal is then sent down through three downlinks 21, .[.32.]. .Iadd.31.Iaddend., and 41 to a first 23, a second 33, and a third receiver 43 respectively. In the first receiver 23, the signal intercepted by an antenna 22 is fed through an inp...

embodiment 2

A second embodiment of the present invention is featured in which the physical multi-level arrangement of the first embodiment is divided into small levels through e.g. discrimination in error correction capability, thus forming a logic multi-level construction. In the first embodiment, each multi-level channel has different levels in the electric signal amplitude or physical demodulating capability. The second embodiment offers different levels in the logic reproduction capability such as error correction. For example, the data D.sub.1 in a multi-level channel is divided into two, D.sub.1-1 and D.sub.1-2, components and D.sub.1-1 is more increased in the error correction capability than D.sub.1-2 for discrimination. Accordingly, as the error detection and correction capability is different between D.sub.1-1 and D.sub.1-2 at demodulation, D.sub.1-1 can successfully be reproduced within a given error rate when the C / N level of an original transmitting signal is so low as to disable t...

embodiment 3

A third embodiment of the present invention will be described referring to the relevant drawings.

FIG. 29 is a schematic total view illustrating the third embodiment in the form of a digital TV broadcasting system. An input video signal 402 of super high resolution TV image is fed to an input unit 403 of a first video encoder 401. Then, the signal is divided by a divider circuit 404 into three, first, second, and third, data streams which are transmitted to a compressing circuit 405 for data compression before .Iadd.being .Iaddend.further delivered.

Similarly, three other input video signals 406, 407, and 408 are fed to a second 409, a third 410, and a fourth video encoder 411 respectively which all are arranged identical in construction to the first video encoder 401 for data compression.

The four first data streams from their respective encoders 401, 409, 410, 411 are transferred to a first multiplexer 413 of a multiplexer 412 where they are time multiplexed by .Iadd.a .Iaddend.TDM p...

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Abstract

At the transmitter side, carrier waves are modulated according to an input signal for producing relevant signal points in a signal space diagram. The input signal is divided into, two, first and second, data streams. The signal points are divided into signal point groups to which data of the first data stream are assigned. Also, data of the second data stream are assigned to the signal points of each signal point group. A difference in the transmission error rate between first and second data streams is developed by shifting the signal points to other positions in the space diagram expressed at least in the polar coordinate system. At the receiver side, the first and / or second data streams can be reconstructed from a received signal. In TV broadcast service, a TV signal is divided by a transmitter into, low and high, frequency band components which are designated as a first and a second data streams respectively. Upon receiving the TV signal, a receiver can reproduce only the low frequency band component or both the low and high frequency band components, depending on its capability. Furthermore, a communication system based on an OFDM system is utilized for data transmission of a plurality of subchannels, wherein the subchannels are differentiated by changing the length of a guard time slot or a carrier wave interval of a symbol transmission time slot, or changing the transmission electric power of the carrier.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION1. Field of the InventionThe present invention relates to a communication system for transmission / reception of a digital signal through modulation of its carrier wave and demodulation of the modulated signal.2. Description of the Prior ArtDigital signal communication systems have been used in various fields. Particularly, digital video signal transmission techniques have been improved remarkably.Among them is a digital TV signal transmission method. So far, such digital TV signal transmission system are in particular use for e.g. transmission between TV stations. They will soon be utilized for terrestrial and / or satellite broadcast service in every country of the world.The TV broadcast systems including HDTV, PCM music, FAX, and other information service are now demanded to increase desired data in quantity and quality for satisfying millions of sophisticated viewers. In particular, the data has to be increased in a given bandwidth of frequency allocated f...

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Patent Type & Authority Patents(United States)
IPC IPC(8): H04L27/26H03M13/35H04L27/02H03M13/25H04L1/00H03M13/00H04N5/00H04L27/38H04L27/18H04N7/58H04L27/04H04L27/34H04N7/24H04N7/52H04N7/26H04N7/30H04N5/455H04N5/44H04L27/00H04N7/015G11B20/00G11B23/28G11B27/034G11B27/10
CPCG11B20/00086G11B27/034G11B27/105G11B2220/213G11B2220/2545H03M13/253H03M13/256H03M13/2936H03M13/35H03M13/6538H04L1/0041H04L1/0045H04L1/0057H04L1/006H04L27/02H04L27/04H04L27/183H04L27/2602H04L27/2604H04L27/2605H04L27/34H04L27/3416H04L27/3488H04L27/3854H04L2027/0036H04L2027/0053H04L2027/0067H04N5/455H04N5/782H04N7/015H04N7/24H04N21/234327H04N21/2365H04N21/2383H04N21/2385H04N21/4347H04N21/4382H04N21/440227H04N21/44209H04N21/4425H04N21/4621H04N21/631H04N21/64792H04N19/63H04N19/60H04N19/37H04N21/426H04L5/0044H04L27/2603
Inventor OSHIMA, MITSUAKI
Owner PANASONIC CORP