Patent ID: 7873116

Claim:
A transmitter which processes a signal to be a transmission target, the transmitter comprising: baseband limiter means operable to apply a peak reduction process to digital signals to be transmitted by the transmitter on a plurality of carriers in a baseband; band limiting filter means operable to apply a band limitation process to the digital signal on each of the carriers output from the baseband limiter means to which the peak reduction process is applied by the baseband limiter means; quadrature modulation processing means operable to apply a quadrature modulation process to the digital signal on each of the carriers output from the band limiting filter means to which the band limiting process is applied by the band limiting the filter means; adding means operable to add the digital signal on each of the carriers output from the quadrature modulation processing means to which the quadrature modulation process is applied by the quadrature modulation processing means; and intermediate frequency limiter means operable to apply a peak reduction process to a signal that is a result of adding the digital signals by the adding means in an intermediate frequency band, wherein the intermediate frequency limiter means comprises: peak detecting means operable to detect a peak of a level of an input signal; peak relating value generating means operable to generate (i) a value obtained by dividing a difference between the level of the peak detected by the peak detecting means and a predetermined threshold by the level of the peak, or (ii) a correction value of the value obtained by dividing the difference between the level of the peak detected by the peak detecting means and the predetermined threshold by the level of the peak; level reduction coefficient generating means operable to generate a coefficient, based on the value, or the correction value, generated by the peak relating value generating means and a predetermined window function, for generating a level reduction signal; level reduction signal generating means operable to generate a level reduction signal by multiplying the coefficient generated by the level reduction coefficient generating means by the input signal; and level reduction signal subtraction means operable to subtract the level reduction signal generated by the level reduction signal generating means from the input signal to form an output signal from a subtracted result.