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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2000
Filed:
May. 27, 1999
Sumaru Niida, Saitama, JP;
Toshinori Suzuki, Tokyo, JP;
KDD Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An apparatus for combining signals includes RAKE receivers 10, 20, noise-power measuring apparatuses 30, 40, and a branch combiner 50. The RAKE receivers 10, 20 are the same in number as the antenna branches, and each RAKE receiver combines received signals by using a weight based on an amplitude of each received signal. Each of the noise-power measuring apparatus 30, 40 measures a sum of an interference power and a background-noise power in an output signal from each RAKE receiver. The branch combiner 50 multiplies the output signal from each RAKE receiver by an inverse of the sum measured by the noise-power measuring apparatus, and then adds up the value obtained by each multiplication.