Multilevel modulator capable of producing a composite modulated signal comprising a quadrature amplitude modulated component and a phase modulated component

Abstract From the Canadian patent

Responsive to a first and a second main data signal and a subdata signal, a multilevel modulator produces a composite modulated signal which comprises a quadrature amplitude modulated component modulated by the first and the second main data signals and represented by a radius on a phase plane and a phase modulated component modulated by the subdata signal are represented by a clockwise and a counterclockwise shift on the phase plane. A multilevel demodulator carries out an inverse operation to reproduce the composite modulated signal into first and second reproduced main data signal and a reproduced subdata signal.