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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120083230 | SIGNAL ACQUISITION APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTED COMPRESSIVE SENSING AND JOINT SIGNAL RECOVERY Disclosed is a multiple sensor system including a plurality of different sensor devices to acquire respective signals sensed from a single signal source, and a signal acquisition apparatus to recover an original signal generated from the signal source. The signal acquis... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120069879 | CONFIGURABLE BASEBAND PROCESSING FOR RECEIVER AND TRANSMITTER AND METHODS FOR USE THEREWITH A configurable transceiver includes an RF receiver section that generates at least one downconverted signal from a received RF signal. A receiver processing module processes at least one downconverted signal in a plurality of receiver stages to produce a stream of inbou... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120071122 | A/D CONVERSION CIRCUIT AND RECEIVER The A/D conversion circuit according to one aspect of the present invention includes: a first sampling capacitor; a first sampling switch; a buffer circuit; a second sampling capacitor; a second sampling switch; a first converter; a first reset switch; and a second rese... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120051461 | RECEIVING APPARATUS OF COMMUNICATION SYSTEM The present invention relates to a receiving apparatus of a communication system, which comprises a receiving module, a selection unit, and a processing module. The receiving module receives an input signal and produces a first signal and a second signal. The phases of ... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120028592 | SHARED SOFT METRIC BUFFER FOR CARRIER AGGREGATION RECEIVERS A method in a receiver includes receiving from a transmitter an aggregated-spectrum signal including at least first and second component carriers in respective spectral bands. Information related to processing one or more of the component carriers is buffered in at leas... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120009967 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION APPARATUS, TERMINAL APPARATUS, AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD FOR RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM A radio communication system including: a base station apparatus; and a terminal apparatus, wherein the base station apparatus and terminal apparatus performs radio communication, the base station apparatus includes: a scheduler which divides a radio frequency band used... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20110306310 | MULTI-ANTENNA WIRELESS TRANSCEIVING DEVICE The present invention is applicable to the technical field of communications and provides a multi-antenna wireless transceiving device that is suitable for mobile communication terminals. The multi-antenna wireless transceiving device comprises a baseband chip, a radio ... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110300819 | Receiver and a Method for Mobile Communications In a method and a mobile communications receiver for processing signals from a first cell and a second cell a timing of the signal from the first cell and the second cell is obtained. A timing difference (δ) between the timings of signals from the first and the second ... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110275337 | DIVERSITY RECEIVER AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING DIVERSITY RECEIVING OPERATION Power consumption is reduced in a diversity receiver. A diversity receiver (10) comprises a condition determination circuit (26) determining whether a predefined condition is satisfied; and a control circuit (28) suspending diversity reception if th... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110275365 | Wireless Communication Network Accessibility Performance Measurement A method and respectively adapted components of a wireless communication network are described for determining a connection setup request success rate in the wireless communication system. In a first step, carried out in a mobile station, a connection setup request is t... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110256840 | SYNCHRONIZATION DEVICE, RECEPTION DEVICE, SYNCHRONIZATION METHOD, AND RECEPTION METHOD A synchronization device including a plurality of counter sections each outputting a numerical signal indicating a counted number by detecting a clock, the synchronization device includes: a first counter section which outputs the numerical signal; a counter synchroniza... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110244811 | Demodulator and Method for Demodulating a Modulated Carrier Signal A demodulator includes a sampler configured to sample a plurality of first amplitude values of a modulated carrier signal using a constant sampling frequency and a plurality of second amplitude values of the modulated carrier signal at different times using the same con... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110244908 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM A wireless communication system, method and apparatus cooperate to use a wireless coordination signal from a control station in a first frequency band to establish direct links in a second frequency band between different terminals. Once established, the direct links in... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110237211 | Reconfigurable Diversity Receiver A method may include reconfigurably enabling one of a first downconverter and a second converter and disabling the other the second downconverter, wherein the first downconverter and the second downconverter are integral to a receiver unit of as wireless communications ... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110223951 | RADIO COMMUNICATION BASE STATION APPARATUS AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD Provided is a base station capable of performing cell search of all mobile stations having different communicable frequency band widths in a scalable band width communication system to which a multi-carrier communication method such as the OFDM method is applied. The ba... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110217941 | AMPLIFIER AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS An amplifier includes first and second amplifier circuits. The first amplifier circuit amplifies positive-phase input signal to obtain a first positive-phase signal and amplifies negative-phase input signal to obtain a first negative-phase signal. The second amplifier c... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110189967 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMMUNICATING DATA WITH AN INACCESSIBLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE The invention relates to a method of communicating data with an electronic device, comprising the step of receiving signals conveyed by an electrical lead. The method is distinguished in that it comprises the following steps: fitting an RF radiofrequency interface with ... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110136461 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR APPLICATIONS ON MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS DEVICES The functionality of smartphone applications may be extended to a basic phone, i.e., a phone lacking a particular smartphone capability, by providing a data synthesizer in the basic phone that synthesizers required data points. The data synthesizer may communicate with ... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110039506 | Adaptive Encoding and Compression of Audio Broadcast Data Various techniques for adaptively encoding and compressing audio broadcast data to create a digital representation of the broadcast for storage on an electronic device are provided. In one embodiment, the audio broadcast data may be encoded and stored onto the electroni... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110038303 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING CONTROL CHANNEL A method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving control channels through a wireless backhaul in an OFDM-based communication system including relay nodes is provided. A method for transmitting a control channel includes arranging control resources for at least one rece... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110009072 | TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, RECEPTION APPARATUS, TRANSMISSION METHOD, RECEPTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM A transmission apparatus transmits a part of a message by a first protocol and a remainder of the message by a second protocol to the reception side, and further transmits a processing module for receiving the remainder on the reception side by the second protocol, to t... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20100327920 | Mixing Waveforms A local oscillator circuit for a signal transmitter or receiver, the circuit comprising: an input for receiving a master oscillating signal from a master oscillator; and signal processing circuitry configured to be clocked by the master oscillating signal to generate a ... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100323685 | Receiver for MUROS Adapted to Estimate Symbol Constellation using Training Sequences from Two Sub-Channels A receiver is provided that is configured to estimate the symbol constellation of a signal modulated using a quaternary symbol constellation where data is transmitted to two mobile stations multiplexed on a shared channel comprising two branches, where the branches corr... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100304696 | TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING SYSTEM, TRANSMITTING APPARATUS AND RECEIVING APPARATUS A transmission and reception system includes a transmission apparatus and reception apparatuses. The transmission apparatus transmits a storage identifier for identifying a storage medium and data. The reception apparatuses each include a receiving section for receiving... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100265995 | TIME DIVIDED PILOT CHANNEL DETECTION PROCESSING IN A WCDMA TERMINAL HAVING A SHARED MEMORY A method for operating a Radio Frequency (RF) receiver of a wireless terminal. During a first time interval, an RF front end is enabled and the RF receiver receives and processes an RF signal, e.g., a Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) signal, to produce a b... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100261440 | MULTI-BEAM ACTIVE PHASED ARRAY ARCHITECTURE In an exemplary embodiment, a phased array antenna comprises multiple subcircuits in communication with multiple radiating elements. The radio frequency signals are adjusted for both polarization control and beam steering. In a receive embodiment, multiple RF signals ar... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100248642 | Gated RF Control Channel Demodulation Methods and Apparatuses Methods and apparatuses are provided for use in devices that are enabled to receive control channel information over a link having a plurality of interlaced slots. The methods and apparatuses may be implemented to selectively disable/enable one or more circuits within a... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100235429 | A METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM An approach is provided for enabling access to content in a network service. Location information is received, at a server, relating to a first remote apparatus and another remote apparatus. The received location information is utilized to determine that the first remot... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100234063 | MOBILE RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICES AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING A MOBILE RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE In an embodiment, a mobile radio communication device is provided. The mobile radio communication device may include a receiver configured to receive radio pilot information via a predefined physical radio channel according to a radio communication technology family, wh... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100130141 | Account Tracking System The present invention is directed to a system and method for identifying and responding to missing or absent receivers. The invention includes determining, at a particular receiver that is a member of a group of receivers, that one member of the group is currently or wa... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100105345 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETECTING PRESENCE OF A CARRIER SIGNAL IN A RECEIVED SIGNAL A device receives a signal and, prior to demodulating the signal determines whether carrier is present in the received signal based on the correlation depth of the received signal. The device determines a plurality of values for the received signal that indicate the amo... | 04/29/2010 |
| 20100067918 | ULTRA-MINIATURIZED THZ COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND SYSTEM Ultra-miniaturized THz spectrometer/multi-channel receiver devices are provided. THz communication devices employ a THz transmitter, a THz receiver and a modulator, wherein the THz transmitter is configured to introduce a THz signal to the modulator and the THz receiver... | 03/18/2010 |
| 20100056079 | RETRANSMISSION BETWEEN DCI FORMAT 1A AND FORMAT 2/2A A transmitter is for use with a cellular communication network and includes a downlink control information (DCI) configuration unit that designates a DCI format for a downlink transmission selected from a first DCI format intended for a single transport block contiguous... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100048152 | MIXER CIRCUIT AND METHOD OF OPERATION A mixer circuit to mix a RF (Radio Frequency) signal with a LO (Local Oscillator) signal to generate an IF (Intermediate Frequency) signal including a dummy branch connected in parallel of a mixing branch, the dummy branch including a transconductance stage having an in... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100041356 | True Root-Mean-Square Detection with a Sub-Threshold Transistor Bridge Circuit A sub-threshold transistor bridge circuit for use in detecting the signal level of an input radio-frequency signal is disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment each branch of the sub-threshold transistor bridge circuit comprises a transistor configured to operate in the sub... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100029230 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING A TRANSMISSION AT A RECEIVER An embodiment of the invention may include a method of receiving a transmission at a receiver. The method may include setting a receive window duration for receiving the transmission based on an elapsed time since last receiving a good transmission. The receive window d... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20100030352 | SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE An AV amplifier (signal processing device) includes a DSP that performs predetermined processing on a digital audio signal inputted thereto, a D/A converter that converts the digital audio signal into an analog audio signal, and a controller that sets a clock frequency ... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20090253391 | Frequency planning for switching devices for multi-band broadcast radios Systems and methods are disclosed that use multiple DC-DC (direct-current-to-direct-current) regulators and configurable DC-DC regulators with respect to multi-band audio receivers in order to allow for the use of different DC-DC regulator switching clock signals for di... | 10/08/2009 |
| 20090253384 | Dual Mode Radio Frequency Front End Circuit A dual mode radio frequency (RF) front end circuit includes a first transformer for conversion between a balanced and an unbalanced RF signal and a second transformer for conversion between a balanced and an unbalanced RF signal. A first switch is configured to selectiv... | 10/08/2009 |
| 20090247177 | ADAPTING DECISION PARAMETER FOR REACTING TO RESOURCE UTILIZATION MESSAGES An adaptable decision parameter is used to determine whether to react to resource utilization messages. The decision parameter may comprise a decision threshold that is adapted based on received resource utilization messages. The decision parameter may comprise a probab... | 10/01/2009 |