Patent ID: 9294329
Filing Date: 2016-03-22
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A transmission apparatus configured to communicate with a reception apparatus, the transmission apparatus comprising: a monitoring unit configured to monitor a total amount of deviations of signal levels in signals forming an unmodified transmission symbol string; a symbol specifying unit configured to specify target symbols from the unmodified transmission symbol string based on the total amount of deviations of the signal levels, and wherein each of the target symbols has a signal level at a position which is the outermost position of a corresponding constellation diagram, that also includes separate inner positions, on an opposite side of the total amount of deviations of the signal levels; a signal point moving unit configured to move each position of each signal point of each of the target symbols outward; and a transmission unit configured to transmit a signal forming a modified transmission symbol string including the symbols, in which the positions of the signal points are moved outward, to the reception apparatus.