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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20130101012 | FULL BAND CABLE RECEIVER Systems and methods are described for the implementation of a full band cable receiver by using a combination of tuners (e.g., ultra-low power Tuners) and Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADCs) to attain the goal of digitization with reduced power and/or cost. The full-ban... | 04/25/2013 |
| 20100040128 | Equalizer and Method for Processing a Signal and Communication Receiving System Comprising the Same A communication receiving system, an equalizer, and a method for mitigating a burst noise effect of a signal are provided. The equalizer is configured to compensate the signal received from a communication channel. The communication receiving system comprises a receiver... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20090285278 | ADAPTIVE EQUALIZER AND RELATED METHODS An adaptive equalizer. Implementations of adaptive equalizers may include implementations of 8-QAM adaptive equalizers that may include a signal filter, an adaptive processor coupled to the signal filter and a slicer coupled to the signal filter and the adaptive process... | 11/19/2009 |
| 20090141788 | BALANCING AMPLITUDE AND PHASE A system for balancing a signal having I and Q components includes means for cross correlating the I and Q components to produce a cross correlation product; means for adjusting the gain of each I and Q signal component in accordance with said cross correlation product;... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090052517 | Diversity GMSK-receiver with interference cancellation and methods therein Method in a diversity antenna GMSK receiver of determining interference canceling equalizers and corresponding equalizers are described. The method includes providing a plurality of GMSK received signals; de-rotating and splitting each of the plurality of received signa... | 02/26/2009 |
| 20080267278 | RETRANSMISSION OF REORDERED/CODED DATA IN RESPONSE TO PRESUMED RECEIVER DECODING FAILURE A method having enhanced decoding operations associated with receiving multiple Radio Frequency (RF) Burst(s) is provided. Multiple RF burst(s) are received where the multiple RF Burst(s) include first RF bursts and second RF Burst(s). The second RF bursts may be transm... | 10/30/2008 |
| 20080137723 | EQUALIZATION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TIME DOMAIN SYNCHRONOUS ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING RECEIVER An equalization method and apparatus for a Time domain synchronous orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (TDS-OFDM) receiver. The equalization method includes estimating a channel impulse response (CIR) based on a baseband sampled complex signal and locally stored ... | 06/12/2008 |
| 20070230558 | Mixer Arrangement A quadrature connected passive mixer arrangement for frequency converting analog signals from a first to a second frequency. The arrangement comprises two parallel connected mixers provided as transistors. First and second LO signals and their inverse signals having sep... | 10/04/2007 |
| 20070041440 | Method and device for echo cancellation The invention relates to a repeater and a method for re-transmitting single frequency signals, in particular of the type used in single frequency signal repeaters for use in single frequency networks (SFNs) like digital video/audio broadcasting (DVB/DAB) networks. The e... | 02/22/2007 |
| 20060203901 | Apparatus and method for correcting IQ imbalance An apparatus and method for correcting IQ imbalance are presented. An exemplary receiver for processing I and Q signals from a tuner includes: a non-decision directed (NDD) imbalance canceller coupled to receive the I and Q signals, and a decision directed (DD) imbalanc... | 09/14/2006 |
| 20060146927 | System for, and method of, processing quadrature amplitude modulated signals Analog signals encoded with quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) pass through a coaxial cable at a particular baud rate. These signals have a carrier frequency individual to the TV station being received. They are mixed with signals from a variable frequency oscillator... | 07/06/2006 |
| 20060007999 | Method and system for enhancing image rejection in communications receivers using test tones and a baseband equalizer Certain embodiments of the invention provide a method and system for enhancing image rejection in communications receivers. A test tone signal may be injected into a receiver. A quadrature error in an in-phase (I) channel and a quadrature (Q) channel of the receiver may... | 01/12/2006 |
| 20050084005 | Configurable equalization apparatus for multicarrier communications A number of basic equalization and demodulation structures have been shown to be appropriate for DMT systems depending on the channel, noise, and system parameters. These include single path, dual path, oversampled, and double rate structures. Using the fundamental comp... | 04/21/2005 |
| 20050063458 | Communication control method and system A relay device 40, when it relays data blocks transmitted in succession from a transmitter device 20 to a receiver device 10, is caused to identify a state code showing a state of a communication resource used when the data blocks are transferred. R... | 03/24/2005 |
