Patent ID: 8183951

Claim:
A modulator, comprising: a multiplier that multiplies an in-phase baseband signal and an in-phase local signal by each other; an anti-phase leak component outputter that outputs, based on the in-phase local signal, an anti-phase leak component equivalent to a signal obtained by inverting the phase of a leak component which is the in-phase local signal leaked from the multiplier; and an adder that adds an output from the multiplier and an output from the anti-phase leak component outputter to each other, wherein: the anti-phase leak component outputter comprises: an anti-phase multiplier that receives the in-phase local signal and multiplies the received in-phase local signal and a predetermined signal by each other; and a phase inverter that inverts the phase of an output from the anti-phase multiplier; and a leak characteristic of the anti-phase multiplier is identical with a leak characteristic of the multiplier.