Patent ID: 7949071

Claim:
An information transmission system for generating a transmission signal by superposing sub-information on main information, the system comprising: a first encoder configured to encode main information; a second encoder configured to encode sub-information; a first modulator configured to modulate a carrier based on an output of the first encoder; a duplicating module configured to duplicate an output of the second encoder to generate encoded sub-information units, each of the units comprising data units; a shuffling module configured to shuffle an order of the data units, which form the encoded sub-information units generated by the duplicating module, based on a value unique to encoding units of the second encoder; and a second modulator configured to amplitude-modulate the output of the first encoder based on the encoded sub-information units in which the order of the data units is shuffled, wherein the second modulator is configured to amplitude-modulate with σ/(μ×(2 N ) 1/2 ) being 0.4 or less, wherein a noise power of the transmission signal is σ 2 , a number of the encoded sub-information units is N, signal levels after amplitude modulation, which correspond to bit 1 and bit 0 of the encoded sub-information units, are A and B, and a level difference A−B is μ.