Patent ID: 11860264
Assignee: TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATION
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A ranging apparatus adopting communication type ranging by a phase detection scheme, the ranging apparatus comprising:
a transmitting circuit configured to enable transmission using a plurality of carriers in data communication in which a carrier frequency spacing is set to a frequency spacing specified by a data communication scheme and configured to transmit a transmission signal obtained by modulating transmission data; and
a control circuit configured to control the transmission circuit to cause a plurality of continuous waves each having a frequency that deviates from a center frequency of the carriers by a mutually different frequency deviation amount smaller than the carrier frequency spacing to be generated as continuous waves used for ranging by the phase detection scheme,
wherein the transmitting circuit obtains the transmission signal by FSK modulation, the ranging apparatus further comprises a ranging signal transmitting processing circuit configured to generate continuous 1s and continuous 0s as the transmission data and provide the continuous 1s and the continuous 0s to the transmitting circuit, and in a ranging mode, the control circuit causes the ranging signal transmitting processing circuit to generate the continuous 1s and the continuous 0s and supply the continuous 1s and the continuous 0s to the transmitting circuit to cause the plurality of continuous waves to be generated, and
wherein the control circuit is further configured to generate the mutually different frequency deviations such that that frequency deviation corresponding to data representing at least one 1 of the continuous 1 s is a positive deviation, and frequency deviation corresponding to data representing at least one 0 of the continuous 0s is a negative deviation.