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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 2002
Filed:
May. 14, 1998
Hajime Ishikawa, Tokyo, JP;
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In a transmitter, at least some of synchronization patterns in a signal having frame structure are inverted in a bit inverting circuit, and a plurality of channels of signals which include a signal having the inverted synchronization patterns are multiplexed and transmitted in a time-division manner. In a receiver, the time-division multiplexed channels are demultiplexed into individual channels. Then, frame synchronization is performed on the basis of the channel having the inverted synchronization patterns among the demultiplexed channels. With the frame synchronized channel as a reference, the remaining channels are identified. There is no need to provide a synchronization circuit in each channel, and the size of the system is not increased.