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20080208939 | Decoder device and decoding method - A decoder having an element decoding unit generating external information for input data, including an exponent position determining unit, when the external information output from the element decoding unit is input, of information excluding a sign bit from the external information, specifying an exponent that is a bit position where a value different from a sign bit first appears, a mantissa obtaining unit obtaining information of 1-bit or a plurality of bits in a position next to the exponent as a mantissa out of the external information, a storage unit storing the exponent and the mantissa and a restoring unit restoring the external information by reading the exponent and the mantissa stored in the storage unit, wherein the element decoding unit performs iteration decoding based on the restored external information is utilized. | 08-28-2008 |
20090132893 | RECEIVING DEVICE AND DECODING METHOD THEREOF - A receiving device in a communication system that separates one frame of information bits into plural blocks, performs turbo encoding of the information bits of each block and transmits the result, and decodes the encoded information bits, where the receiving device includes plural decoders number of which is less than the number of blocks per frame. Each decoder performs a decoding process on encoded information bits of each block that have been expressed by likelihood, when a condition for stopping decoding is met, executes the decoding process of encoded information bits of another block for which decoding has not yet been performed. When the condition for stopping decoding has been met for all block before the number of times decoding has been performed for each decoder reaches a preset maximum number of repetitions, the decoding results of all the blocks are serially combined, an error detection process is executed, and when no error is detected, the decoding results are output. | 05-21-2009 |
20100098045 | Apparatus, System, And Method For Communication - A communication apparatus communicates with a receiving apparatus which receives, combines and decodes first and second data sections as part of a coded data block. The communication apparatus includes a controller that controls the ratio of how much part of the second data section overlaps with the first data section according to a difference of communication quality between a first resource used to transmit the first data section and a second resource used to transmit the second data section. | 04-22-2010 |
20100098185 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM, TRANSMITTING APPARATUS AND RECEIVING APPARATUS - In a transmitter | 04-22-2010 |
20100234055 | MOBILE USER TERMINAL, MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A mobile user terminal, which transmits downlink quality information indicating downlink channel quality and an uplink pilot signal to a base station, in which a carrier frequency used for transmitting the downlink quality information and a carrier frequency used for transmitting the uplink pilot signal are selectable respectively from among a plurality of carrier frequencies assigned to a mobile user terminal, a mobile user terminal comprising of a radio transmitting unit, which transmits said downlink quality information and said uplink pilot signal by using the same carrier frequency among a plurality of carrier frequencies or by using adjacent carrier frequencies among a plurality of carrier frequencies. | 09-16-2010 |
20110075645 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM, BASE STATION, AND MOBILE STATION - A wireless communications system including a mobile station MS and base stations BS | 03-31-2011 |
20110078542 | TURBO DECODING DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A turbo decoding device includes a memory unit that stores data in an interleaving process performed in a process of decoding a coded signal encoded with a turbo code and an access unit that accesses the memory unit to read and write the data. The memory unit includes memory circuits and is formed as one memory space by coupling the memory circuits. Furthermore, the memory circuit functions as a first bank configuration by which a first capacity is assigned to each bank or a second bank configuration by which a second capacity is assigned to each bank in accordance with a combination of the memory circuits. Moreover, the access unit selects by which of the first bank configuration and the second bank configuration the memory unit functions in accordance with a communication method of a coded signal and accesses the memory unit in accordance with the selected bank configuration. | 03-31-2011 |
20110263210 | MOBILE USER TERMINAL, MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A mobile user terminal includes a receiver which receives a signal, and a processor which measures downlink channel quality based on the signal and does not transmit downlink channel quality information and an uplink pilot signal simultaneously at a period which the mobile user terminal is a state of transmission off in an intermittent fashion. | 10-27-2011 |
20120084620 | TRANSMISSION DEVICE AND RECEIVING DEVICE - A transmission device according to the present invention splits information bits, calculates two parity bit sequences from the split information bits, combines the parity bit sequences with information bits (encoded information bit) such that the calculated two parity bit sequences are not added to the same information bits. Then, the transmission device changes the order of the combined information, distributes each of the reordered information to levels L | 04-05-2012 |
20120089891 | RATE ADJUSTMENT APPARATUS AND A RATE ADJUSTMENT METHOD - A rate adjustment apparatus includes a calculating section to calculate a number of outputs where bits of input data are sequentially output when a number of times of puncturing of the input data to be punctured is smaller than a number of remaining bits after puncturing, and a processing section to sequentially output bits of the input data and puncture the bits of the input data based on the number of outputs calculated by the calculating section. | 04-12-2012 |
20120106662 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, DECODING PROCESSING METHOD AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A wireless communication apparatus includes a demodulator that demodulates data on which coding processing is performed for each first block unit and channel coding processing included in the coding processing is performed for each second block unit smaller than the first block unit by a transmission side wireless communication apparatus, and a decoder that performs decoding processing of the demodulated data for each unit of processing including at least one second block unit. | 05-03-2012 |
20120110422 | TRANSMISSION DEVICE - A transmission device in a communication system where a systematic code obtained by systematic encoding of information bits into which dummy bits are inserted and by deletion of the dummy bits from the results of the systematic encoding is transmitted. The transmission device inserts dummy bits into information bits based on an interleaving pattern of an interleaving portion in a turbo encoder; performs systematic encoding of the information bits into which the dummy bits are inserted, and then deletes the dummy bits from the results of the systematic encoding to generate a systematic code; and transmits the systematic code. By considering the interleaving pattern, original bit positions, which, after interleaving, exists within the ranges of stipulated numbers of bits at the beginning and at the end, are determined in advance, and the dummy bit insertion portion executes control so as not to insert dummy bits into the original bit positions. | 05-03-2012 |
20120204083 | TRANSMISSION DEVICE - A method in a communication system, where a systematic code obtained by systematic encoding of information bits having dummy bits inserted and by deletion of the dummy bits from results of the systematic encoding is transmitted. On a receiving side, the deleted dummy bits are inserted into the received systematic code and then decoded. The method includes: deciding a size of dummy bits for insertion into information bits; segmenting the information bits into a number of code blocks when a bit size of the information bits is greater than a stipulated size; inserting dummy bits into each block of the segmented information bits in conformity with a dummy bit insertion pattern; performing systematic encoding of each block of the information bits into which the dummy bits are inserted, and deleting the dummy bits from the results of the systematic encoding to generate a systematic code. | 08-09-2012 |
20120230215 | MOBILE USER TERMINAL, MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A method for using a mobile user terminal includes a receiving a signal and a measuring downlink channel quality based on the signal; wherein downlink channel quality information and an uplink pilot signal simultaneously is not transmitted at a period which the mobile user terminal is a state of transmission off in an intermittent fashion. | 09-13-2012 |
20120230321 | MOBILE USER TERMINAL, MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A mobile user terminal includes a receiver which receives a signal, and a processor which measures downlink channel quality based on the signal and does not transmit downlink channel quality information and an uplink pilot signal simultaneously at a period which the mobile user terminal is a state of transmission off in an intermittent fashion. | 09-13-2012 |
20130007558 | ERROR CORRECTING CODE DECODING DEVICE, DECODING METHOD, AND MOBILE STATION APPARATUS - An error correcting code decoding device includes a first decoding circuit, a word-length reduction circuit configured to reduce bit lengths of a first external values corresponding to a plurality of bits obtained after decoding process performed by the first decoding circuit a first predetermined number of times and to reduce bit lengths of words included in word string, and a second decoding circuit configured to decode the bit string by executing a decoding process a second predetermined number of times for calculating second external values and posterior values of the bits included in the bit string in accordance with the word string including the words having the reduced bit lengths using the first external values having the reduced bit lengths as second prior probabilities that corresponding bits among the plurality of bits are the predetermined value. | 01-03-2013 |
20130016683 | MOBILE USER TERMINAL, MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A mobile user terminal, which transmits downlink channel quality information indicating downlink channel quality and an uplink pilot signal to a base station, whereby a carrier frequency used for transmitting the downlink quality information and a carrier frequency used for transmitting the uplink pilot signal are selectable respectively from among a plurality of carrier frequencies assigned to the mobile user terminal; the mobile user terminal includes a radio transmitter, which transmits the downlink quality information and the uplink pilot signal in an intermittent fashion to the base station; and the radio transmitter transmits the downlink quality information and the uplink pilot signal by using a same carrier frequency among the plurality of carrier frequencies or by using adjacent carrier frequencies among the plurality of carrier frequencies, in a period corresponding to a state of intermittent communicate. | 01-17-2013 |
20130028240 | MOBILE USER TERMINAL, MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A mobile user terminal, which communicates with a base station in an intermittent fashion, the mobile user terminal includes a radio transmitter which transmits downlink channel quality information indicating downlink channel quality and an uplink pilot signal to a base station in an intermittent fashion; and a transmit time controller which synchronizes transmit time of the downlink quality information and transmit time of the uplink pilot signal relative to each other, such that the downlink quality information and the uplink pilot signal are sent in adjacent different timings in a period corresponding to a state of intermittent communicate. | 01-31-2013 |
20130086443 | ITERATIVE DECODING METHOD FOR ENCODED SIGNAL AND ITERATIVE DECODING APPARATUS FOR ENCODED SIGNAL - A iterative decoding method for iteratively carrying out a decoding process for an encoded segmented and signal transmitted in a plurality of (N | 04-04-2013 |
20130301616 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM, BASE STATION, AND MOBILE STATION - A wireless communications system including a mobile station MS and base stations BS | 11-14-2013 |
20130301762 | RECEPTION APPARATUS AND RECEPTION METHOD - A reception apparatus including: a receiver configured to receive a symbol including a plurality of bits and to calculate each of likelihoods for each of the plurality of bits, and a processor configured to quantize each of the likelihoods based on each of numbers of quantization bits for each of the plurality of bits, wherein all of the numbers of quantization bits are not same. | 11-14-2013 |
20140079161 | RECEIVER AND RECEIVING METHOD - A receiver including: a memory, and a processor configured to calculate a plurality of soft decision values based on a received symbol to which a plurality of bits are mapped, to select at least one first soft decision value of the plurality of soft decision values, to calculate at least one relative value of at least one second soft decision value of the plurality of soft decision values other than the at least one first soft decision value, based on the at least one first soft decision value, to store the at least one first soft decision value and the at least one relative value, in the memory, and to estimate the plurality of bits based on the at least one first soft decision value and the at least one relative value which are stored in the memory. | 03-20-2014 |
20140112417 | RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD - A radio communication device including: a processor configured to store each of quantization values of codeword to a memory in accordance with a transmission format, so as to fit each of the quantization values within a specified number of areas which are allocated in the memory, each of the areas having a specified size, and so as to satisfy at least one of a first condition and a second condition, the first condition indicating that the specified number is fewer than the maximum first bit number corresponding to a first transmission format with which a first bit number of the codeword is maximum among the predetermined transmission formats, and the second condition indicating that the specified size is fewer than the maximum second bit number corresponding to a second transmission format with which a second bit number of each of the quantization values is maximum among the predetermined transmission formats. | 04-24-2014 |
20140301505 | RECEIVING DEVICE AND RECEIVING METHOD - A receiving device including: a demodulation circuit configured to generate first likelihood data of reception symbols based on a transmission format of the reception symbols, the transmission format being selected from transmission formats and including a modulation scheme applied to the reception symbols, the modulation scheme being one of amplitude modulation schemes, a processor configured to estimate a scale ratio of an implementation scale to a theoretical scale, the implementation scale being a scale of the first likelihood data, the theoretical scale being a scale of second likelihood data of the reception symbols, the second likelihood data being defined by a theory and not depending on an implementation of the receiving device, and to generate the second likelihood data based on the first likelihood data and the scale ratio, and a decoding circuit configured to decode the second likelihood data based on the transmission format. | 10-09-2014 |
20140344638 | SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A signal processing device including: a first memory, and a processing circuit coupled to the first memory and configured to perform decoding of a first received signal based on first likelihood data of the first received signal, transfer the first likelihood data to a second memory that is external to the signal processing device, only when the decoding is unsuccessful, and combine the first likelihood data loaded from the second memory with second likelihood data of a second received signal that corresponds to retransmitted signal of the first received signal. | 11-20-2014 |
20150049846 | DECODING APPARATUS AND DECODING METHOD - A decoding apparatus including an operation unit to calculate a branch metric between first and second instants of time based on receiving likelihood data and an anterior likelihood, and to use, in a state transition in a butterfly represented by first and second states at the first instant of time and third and fourth states at the second instant of time, a first anterior cumulative metric for the first state, a second anterior cumulative metric for the second state and a first difference based on the branch metric between the first state and the third state and on a second difference between the first anterior cumulative metric and the second anterior cumulative metric to calculate a third anterior cumulative metric for the third state and a fourth anterior cumulative metric for each butterfly and at each instant of time, and a storage unit to store the second difference. | 02-19-2015 |
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20090019338 | Communications device and wireless communications system - Turbo coding and decoding devices provide interleaving in the error correction coding process, which improves error correction capability. A turbo decoding device for decoding data obtained by performing error detection coding on a plurality of data blocks and further subjecting that data to turbo coding that includes interleaving in the coding process, comprises a rearrangement unit to perform interleaving between a first decoding a second decoding, an error detection unit to perform error detection processing for each block based on data after the first decoding, and an adjustment unit to adjust a likelihood indicated by data obtained after decoding in the first decoder but prior to the interleaving and corresponding to blocks evaluated as having no errors by the error detection unit. | 01-15-2009 |
20100138716 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING TRANSMITTING, RECEIVING, AND RE-TRANSMISSION - The present invention relates to a method and apparatus that are capable of executing the error correction decoding process while controlling the increase in the amount of data that is stored in the receiving apparatus. There is provided a transmitting apparatus for transmitting the data to a receiving apparatus to execute the error correction decoding process using, for example, the received data and the re-transmitted data, comprising a transmitting data generating means for generating a first transmitting data by executing the rate matching process to a first part of the error correction coded data and generating a second transmitting data including at least the data not included in the first part by executing the rate matching process on the basis of the error correction coded data, and a transmitting means for executing the transmission of the second transmitting data as the re-transmission after the transmission of the first transmitting data. | 06-03-2010 |
20100278282 | TRANSMITTING APPARATUS WITH BIT ARRANGEMENT METHOD - A method of transmitting data including controlling generation of bit sequences to adjust an occupation rate occupied with predetermined bits included in a first data block, which is obtained by encoding first data, to be closer to an occupation rate occupied with predetermined bits included in a second data block, which is obtained by encoding second data. With regard to first bit positions of the predetermined bits, the first bit positions being distinguished from second bit positions based on an error tolerance resulting from a correspondence to a signal point on a phase plane. Wherein a sum of a number of the predetermined bits included in the first data block and the predetermined bits included in the second data block is less than a total number of the first bit positions. Also including performing multi-level modulation for transmission based on the generated bit sequences. | 11-04-2010 |
20110058625 | TRANSMITTING APPARATUS WITH BIT ARRANGEMENT METHOD - A method of transmitting data by transmitting apparatus, that includes controlling generation of bit sequences to adjust an occupation rate of systematic bits in a first data block including systematic bits and parity bits, which is obtained by encoding first data in a first encoding process, and is equal or closer to an occupation rate of systematic bits in a second data block including systematic bits and parity bits, which is obtained by encoding second data in a second encoding process, and to adjust an occupation rate of parity bits in the first data block that is closer to an occupation rate of parity bits in the second data block, in regard to first bit positions of the bit sequences generated using bits included in the first and second data blocks and performs multi-level modulation for transmission based on the generated bit sequences. | 03-10-2011 |
20110142167 | TRANSMITTING APPARATUS WITH BIT ARRANGEMENT METHOD - A transmitting apparatus, that includes a means for generating bit sequences to adjust an occupation rate occupied with predetermined bits included in a first data block, which is obtained by encoding first data in a first encoding process, to be equal or closer to an occupation rate occupied with predetermined bits included in a second data block, which is obtained by encoding second data in a second encoding process, in regard to first bit positions of the bit sequences generated using bits included in the first and second data blocks and a modulator for performing multi-level modulation for transmission based on the generated bit sequences. | 06-16-2011 |
20110142168 | TRANSMITTING APPARATUS WITH BIT ARRANGEMENT METHOD - A method of transmitting data that includes controlling generation of bit sequences to adjust an occupation rate occupied with predetermined bits included in a first data block, which is obtained by encoding first data in a first encoding process, to be equal or closer to an occupation rate occupied with predetermined bits included in a second data block, which is obtained by encoding second data in a second encoding process, in regard to first bit positions of the bit sequences generated using bits included in the first and second data blocks; and performing multi-level modulation for transmission based on the generated bit sequences. | 06-16-2011 |