Patent ID: 6047019
Filing Date: 2000-04-04
Classification: H04B

Abstract:
A receiver in a spread spectrum communication system employing direct spread modulation, comprising:a plurality of receive antennas spaced from each other at predetermined intervals;a plurality of receiver circuits arranged in correspondence to said receive antennas respectively and configured to receive a transmitted spread spectrum signal and output respective output signals, said transmitted spread spectrum signal having been spread with a spread code sequence at a transmitter;signal intensity measurement means for measuring at each of said plurality of receiver circuits a signal intensity of said transmitted spread spectrum signal, prior to being despread, comprising means for sampling said transmitted spread spectrum signal at each of said receiver circuits at a speed set to be n times as large as one chip of the spread code sequence, where n is an integer, said signal intensity measuring means for measuring the signal intensity based on one or more samples that span less than a time interval for said chip; anda path switching circuit configured to select a selected output signal from one of the output signals of said receiver circuits depending on measurement results from said signal intensity measuring means and configured to provide said selected output signal to a demodulation circuit.