Patent 7706222 was granted and assigned to Sony on April, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A demodulator for demodulating an input signal including a predetermined modulated signal includes a multiplication fundamental wave generator for outputting a multiplication fundamental wave for the predetermined modulated signal, a calculator for multiplying the multiplication fundamental wave by the input signal and for integrating the multiplication result, a demodulated signal generator for generating a demodulated signal of the modulated signal using the output from the calculator, a phase determiner for determining a cross-phase state of the input signal and the multiplication fundamental wave on the basis of a balance of levels of a plurality of integrated values, obtained as the integration result, for an interval containing the modulated signal in the input signal, and a phase adjuster for adjusting a phase of the multiplication fundamental wave to be supplied to the calculator on the basis of the determination result of the phase determiner.