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Wireless communication apparatus, wireless communication method and wireless communication system

US7970344B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateDec 21, 2005
Grant dateJun 28, 2011
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Expiry dateJan 18, 2028

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04B7/155
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The objective of the present invention is to suppress an increase in the power consumption for the relaying of signals. A relay station unit 150 is a relay station unit that has as a function the relaying of a signal, and includes: a wireless receiving unit 15; a relay determination unit 23, for determining that a signal received by the wireless receiving unit 15 does not satisfy a predetermined quality, and for permitting reception of a signal from a different relay station unit; a synthesizing unit 18, for generating a transmission signal based on a signal received from a base station unit and a signal received from the different relay station unit; and a wireless transmitting unit 13, for transmitting the signal that is generated.

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