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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120108188 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVED POWER YIELD AND LINEARIZATION IN RADIO FREQUENCY TRANSMITTERS In one example system, the system comprises a linearizer module, a first upconverter module, a power amplifier module, a signal sampler module, and a downconverter module. The linearizer module may be configured to receive a first intermediate frequency signal and to ad... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120071117 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING MAGNETIC RESONANCE SIGNALS WITH DOUBLE FREQUENCY CONVERSION Front bandpass filters that are essentially transmissive only between a minimum frequency and a maximum frequency filter the magnetic resonance signals. Front frequency mixers mix output signals of each of the bandpass filters with a front LO frequency that is standard ... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120046004 | High performance transmitter preamplification chain with calibration feedback According to one embodiment, an improved preamplification chain for implementation in a transmitter comprises a frequency conversion stage for up-converting a baseband signal to a transmit signal, a variable gain control power amplifier driver for preamplifying the tran... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20110255452 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INCREASING UPSTREAM CAPACITY IN A BROADBAND COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM A method for providing enhanced broadband services over a communications network includes the steps of: receiving from the communications network at least first signals in a first frequency band, the first signals comprising programming material that has been converted ... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110237206 | SWITCHED POWER AMPLIFIER TOPOLOGY PROVIDING HIGH EFFICIENCY A switched power amplifier contained in a circuit is implemented to receive a single-ended input signal and generate a single-ended output signal, the single-ended output signal being a power-amplified version of the single-ended input signal. The switched power amplifi... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110189965 | Differential to Single-Ended Converter Embodiments enable a multi-band transmitter with significantly reduced architecture area by allowing maximum reuse of transmitter stages across supported frequency bands and signal standards. Further, embodiments allow a monolithic transmitter implementation by providin... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110105057 | HARMONIC GENERATION OF A FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCY SYSTEM AND METHOD A system and method for generating for efficiently obtaining a desired harmonic from a fundamental frequency the prior art is needed. The system and method of the present invention produces a desired harmonic by employing techniques using gain stages (or limiter/compara... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110092169 | LR POLYPHASE FILTER An LR polyphase filter implemented with inductors and resistors and capable of operating at high frequencies is described. In one design, the LR polyphase filter includes first and second paths, with each path including an inductor coupled to a resistor. The first and s... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110092174 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING SIGNAL A signal transmitting apparatus includes a signal distributor, a frequency converter, and a frequency synthesizer. The signal distributor is configured to baseband signals corresponding respectively to a plurality of frequency band. The frequency converter is configured... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20100323643 | FREQUENCY SYNTHESIS A frequency synthesiser (100) has a first variable frequency oscillator (10) for generating a first oscillator signal having a frequency responsive to a first control signal, a second variable frequency oscillator (50) for generating a second oscill... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100311362 | Gain compensation device over temperature and method thereof A gain compensation device for adjusting gain of an amplifier over temperature is disclosed. The gain of the amplifier is controlled by signals on a gain control end of the amplifier. The gain compensation device comprises a temperature compensation generator, an adder,... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100261500 | MULTIPLE FREQUENCY BAND MULTIPLE STANDARD INFORMATION SIGNAL MODULAR BASEBAND PROCESSING MODULE A wireless device includes processing circuitry and Radio Frequency (RF) receiver and transmitter sections. An antenna transmits and receives a Radio Frequency (RF) Multiple Frequency Bands Multiple Standards (MFBMS) signal having a plurality of RF information signals w... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100261443 | MULTIPLE FREQUENCY BAND INFORMATION SIGNAL UNIVERSAL FRONT END WITH ADJUSTABLE ANALOG SIGNAL PATH COMPONENTS A wireless device includes processing circuitry, a receiver section, a transmitter section, and an antenna. The processing circuitry determines a set of information signals of a RF Multiple Frequency Bands Multiple Standards (MFBMS) signal. The receiver section down-con... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100248761 | RADIO COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD A radio communication apparatus includes a characteristic data extraction unit receiving a radio signal from one or more radio stations and calculating characteristic data representing a waveform characteristic indicating statistical properties of the received signal; a... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100240330 | DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE AND RADIO COMMUNICATION APPARATUS A digital signal processing device includes: a memory for coefficient storage including partial memories that dividedly store, for each plurality of bits, a plurality of filter coefficients as divided data; a control unit that outputs, to the memory for coefficient stor... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100167669 | DISCRETE FILTER, SAMPLING MIXER, AND RADIO DEVICE Provided is a discrete filter capable of adjusting the number of notches and the notch frequency and easily eliminating a particular frequency component. In a sampling mixer (100), a control signal generation unit (104) generates a plurality of control sig... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100120377 | DUAL-MODE MIXER CIRCUIT AND METHOD The present invention relates to a mixer circuit and method of frequency transformation, wherein an input signal is switched in accordance with a first local oscillator signal and in accordance with at least one second local oscillator signal having a smaller duty cycle... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100056084 | Frequency Conversion Based on Gated Information Signal A method and system is described wherein an information signals is gated at a frequency that is a sub-harmonic of the frequency of the desired output signal. In the modulation embodiments, the information signal is modulated as part of the up-conversion process. In a fi... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100022196 | TRANSMITTER DEVICE WITH QUASI-CONSTANT LO LEAKAGE, FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT WITH A DIRECT CONVERSION ARCHITECTURE A transmitter device for wireless communication equipment, comprises at least one path (Pl) comprising i) a low-pass filter (LPF 1+, LPFl−) for filtering differential signals and applying a chosen first attenuation to each of them to decrease their amplitudes, ... | 01/28/2010 |
| 20090325515 | BEAMFORMING AND/OR MIMO RF FRONT-END An RF front-end includes a transmit adjust module, a PA module, an antenna coupling circuit, a LNA module, and a receive adjust module. The transmit adjust module adjusts coordinates of up-converted analog signals when in a first transmit mode and adjusts coordinates of... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20090318097 | Method and System for Frequency Up-Conversion A method and system is described wherein a signal with a lower frequency is up-converted to a higher frequency. In one embodiment, the higher frequency signal is used as a stable frequency and phase reference. In another embodiment, the invention is used as a transmitte... | 12/24/2009 |
| 20090318098 | MULTI-FREQUENCY TRANSMITTER FOR A METAL DETECTOR A method for generating a transmit signal for transmission including the steps of a) generating at least two selected rectangular wave signals, each having a different fundamental frequency; b) mixing the selected rectangular wave signals to produce a driving signal; an... | 12/24/2009 |
| 20090291652 | FILTER CIRCUIT, WIRELESS TRANSMITTER, AND WIRELESS RECEIVER A filter circuit is constructed of a passive mixer and a frequency response device. The passive mixer generates a frequency-converted signal by mixing an input signal transmitted through a transmission line and a local oscillation signal, and outputs the frequency-conve... | 11/26/2009 |
| 20090268847 | PHASE LOCKED LOOP MODULATOR CALIBRATION TECHNIQUES A method for calibrating a phase locked loop begins by determining a gain offset of a voltage controlled oscillator of the phase locked loop. The processing then continues by adjusting current of a charge pump of the phase locked loop based on the gain offset.... | 10/29/2009 |
| 20090258605 | Transmitter and Transceiver, in particular for Mobile Radio, and Transmission Method A receiver, in particular for mobile radio, includes a receiver branch with a mixer, downstream of an analog/digital converter. A reference generator generates a reference clock, which is fed to the converters or PLL synthesizers of the mixer by integral multiplication ... | 10/15/2009 |
| 20090258615 | Compensation of an asymmetric frequency response of a radio A method and apparatus of compensating for an asymmetric frequency response of a radio are disclosed. One method includes estimating a slope control signal, the slope control signal indicating a slope of a frequency response of an amplifier chain of the radio. A differe... | 10/15/2009 |
| 20090253390 | WCDMA TRANSMIT ARCHITECTURE Wideband-Code Division Multiple Access (W-CDMA) transmit architecture. A baseband digital processing module operates cooperatively with an analog signal processing module to effectuate highly adjustable and highly accurate gain adjustment in accordance with transmitter ... | 10/08/2009 |
| 20090253389 | EFFICIENT POWER AMPLIFIER A technique for efficient power amplification includes providing multiple baseband signals to an amplifier. The signals may be converted to RF and combined through one or more impedance inverters.... | 10/08/2009 |
| 20090203345 | Method and system for down-converting an Electromagnetic signal, transforms for same, and Aperture relationships Methods, systems, and apparatuses, and combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for down-converting an electromagnetic (EM) signal are described herein. Briefly stated, in embodiments the invention operates by receiving an EM signal and recursively operating on approx... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090181627 | Applications of Universal Frequency Translation Frequency translation and applications of same are described herein. Such applications include, but are not limited to, frequency down-conversion, frequency up-conversion, enhanced signal reception, unified down-conversion and filtering, and combinations and application... | 07/16/2009 |
| 20090170452 | Integrated RF-IF converter A frequency conversion apparatus includes a frequency generation circuit, which is based on a first semiconductor material having a first elemental composition and is coupled to generate one or more Local Oscillator (LO) signals. The apparatus further includes a convers... | 07/02/2009 |
| 20090111390 | RADIO COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM DESIGNED FOR A LOW-POWER RECEIVER The invention relates to methods by which radio signals can be transmitted to, and received by, a radio receiver such that the receiver consumes very little power from a battery or energy source. The invention also relates to methods by which radio signals, modulated wi... | 04/30/2009 |
| 20090088095 | AMPLIFIER, RADIO TRANSMITTING APPARATUS, AND RADIO RECEIVING APPARATUS An amplifier includes: an input terminal configured to have an input signal of a center frequency f0 input; a dividing unit that divides the input signal; first through ith blocks configured to have the divided input signal transmitted; a combining unit that ... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090054017 | Signal amplifier structure for radio transmitter There is provided a modular amplifier structure that includes a plurality of parallel amplifier sub-units. Each amplifier sub-unit is configured to amplify a received payload signal under control of at least one received control signal. Outputs of the amplifier sub-unit... | 02/26/2009 |
| 20090036069 | LO 2LO Upconverter For An In-Phase/Quadrature-Phase (I/Q) Modulator An upconverter includes a switching architecture configured to receive an input signal, a first local oscillator (LO) signal, and a second local oscillator (2LO) signal that is at a frequency that is twice a frequency of the local oscillator (LO) signal, wherein the swi... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20080274703 | CIRCUIT AND METHOD Implementations related to circuits including an oscillator and a switch-mode DC/DC converter are presented herein.... | 11/06/2008 |
| 20080261650 | Radio integrated circuit with integrated power amplifier A radio system includes a radio frequency (RF) integrated circuit (IC), a baseband digital signal processing (DSP) IC, and a serial digital interface coupling data there-between. In one embodiment of the invention, the RF IC has an input receiver to receive a serial dig... | 10/23/2008 |
| 20080254755 | Radio Receiver and Radio Transmitter In a radio receiver including an aerial wire (1) that receives a radio signal in which a transmission signal is superimposed on a carrier, a (VCXO 2) that oscillates a local oscillation signal, a frequency multiplier (3), and a demodulation circuit ... | 10/16/2008 |
| 20080220733 | Fast frequency range selection in ranged controlled oscillators Methods and apparatus for fast frequency range selection in ranged controlled oscillators. An exemplary frequency range selection apparatus includes a ranged voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) configured within a frequency control loop (e.g., within a phase-locked loop... | 09/11/2008 |
| 20080096498 | Multi-octave differential upconverter An apparatus in one example comprises a differential amplifier and a differential mixer. The differential amplifier is configured to receive a multi-octave differential input signal and output an amplified multi-octave differential output signal. The differential amplif... | 04/24/2008 |
