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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 2003
Filed:
Jul. 07, 1999
Keizo Okuno, Nara, JP;
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A digital filter of the present invention is an FIR type digital filter arranged such that an input data converting circuit samples input data at a rate N times as fast as a sampling frequency fs, and outputs the input data for a 1/N period of a sign interval T and “0” for the rest of the period. A changeover switch switches between an output from a take-out tap of actual input data and interpolation data obtained by an adding action of an adder circuit, and outputs the switched data as output data. Hence, even if the input data shape a rectangular wave pulse, a resulting state is equivalent to the one when an impulse train is inputted. Thus, since the impulse response characteristics of a roll-off filter can be utilized, outputs from each pair of taps supplied with the same coefficient are added to each other by an adder, and each addition result is multiplied by their respective coefficients by a multiplier. Consequently, the number of multipliers each composed of a large number of elements can be reduced. The digital filter of the present invention can be suitably used for a wireless communication device adopting the spectrum diffusion communication, and provided as a digital filter which can remove unwanted sideband of a digital signal with a simple arrangement.