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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 04, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 09, 1998
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A radio transmitter has a quadrature modulating portion and an RF power amplifier. The RF power amplifier follows the quadrature modulating portion. A nonlinearity-caused distortion compensating system provided in the radio transmitter includes a power calculating portion for calculating a value related to a power of a transmission signal from first baseband signals quadrature with respect to each other. First distortion compensating coefficients are determined in response to the calculated power-related value. The first distortion compensating coefficients are designed to compensate for a signal distortion caused by a nonlinearity of the quadrature modulating portion. Second distortion compensating coefficients are determined in response to the calculated power-related value. The second distortion compensating coefficients are designed to compensate for a signal distortion caused by a nonlinearity of the RF power amplifier. A compensation-coefficient calculating portion operates for calculating final distortion compensating coefficients from the first distortion compensating coefficients and the second distortion compensating coefficients. A distortion compensating portion operates for converting the first baseband signals into second baseband signals quadrature with respect to each other in response to the final distortion compensating coefficients to compensate for signal distortions caused by the nonlinearity of the quadrature modulating portion and the nonlinearity of the RF power amplifier. The second baseband signals are fed to the quadrature modulating portion.