Sony Corporation

Yrp Mobile Telecommunications Key Technology Research Laboratories Co., Ltd.

Naohiko Iwakiri

Katsuya Yamamoto

A spread spectrum communication receiver includes a plurality of fingers each including a despreader part, an inverse-orthogonal conversion part and a demodulation part. A channel combining part combines demodulated symbols of the plurality of fingers. A control part controls the plurality of fingers on the basis of orthogonal channel allocation information and channel state information so that the fingers execute a RAKE process when the channel information indicates that data to be transmitted is allocated to one orthogonal channel at a transmitter and the fingers perform parallel demodulation processes then the channel information indicates that data to be transmitted is allocated to a plurality of orthogonal channels at the transmitter.

Spread spectrum communication receiver

A received data decoding apparatus receives and decodes transmitted convolutional code data. The received data is formed of a first channel whose data rate is fixed and a second channel whose data rate is variable. The received data decoding apparatus includes a most likelihood decoder for decoding the received data on the basis of a Viterbi algorithm and a data rate decision unit for obtaining a predetermined data rate of the second channel determined according to a path metric amount which is a decoded output from the most likelihood decoder.

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Tokyo, Japan

Naohiko Iwakiri