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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110319042 | Integrated Radio Frequency Front-end Circuit An integrated RF front-end circuit comprising a balun, a receiver amplifier, a power amplifier, and a selector circuit is provided. The balun comprises a center-tapped inductor having a first node, a center-tap switchlessly coupled to a fixed voltage, and a second node.... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110275338 | PHASE PULSE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BANDWIDTH AND ENERGY EFFICIENT CONTINUOUS PHASE MODULATION A new pulse shape for CPM is introduced which is obtained by a linear combination of well-known RC and REC pulse shapes. The new pulse shape addresses the tradeoff between the width of the PSD main lobe and the rate of decay of the side lobe to improve the coded perform... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110230154 | SINGLE CARRIER COMMUNICATION IN DYNAMIC FADING CHANNELS Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, in response to receiving a single carrier signal that is not phase locked, channel equalization may be applied to the signal via a channel equalizer. The equalized signal may be phase averaged to provide a signal that... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110111714 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FALSE FREQUENCY LOCK FREE AUTONOMOUS SCAN IN A RECEIVER Method and system for false lock free autonomous scan in a receiver is disclosed. The method includes identifying a presence of a desired signal to avoid false frequency lock in a Frequency Modulation receiver. The method includes receiving a signal. The method further ... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110053535 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS A wireless communication apparatus includes an analog receiving unit, a phase calculator, a time variation calculator, and a chirp radar determination unit. The analog receiving unit obtains a receiving signal from a radio wave. The phase calculator calculates a phase o... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20100317306 | DIVERSITY ANTENNA SYSTEM AND METHOD UTILIZING A THRESHOLD VALUE An antenna system for receiving an RF signal from a first antenna and a second antenna includes a phase shift circuit. The phase shift circuit shifts a phase of the RF signal from the second antenna by one of a plurality of possible phase shifts to produce a phase shift... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100297972 | ANTENNA ARRANGEMENT WITH REDUCED COMM-MODE SIGNALS In one embodiment of the present invention, an antenna arrangement apparatus includes a dipole reception antenna including a first pole portion and a second pole portion. A length of coaxial cable is provided and constitutes a feedline, the length of coaxial cable inclu... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100291890 | RECEIVER A receiver including an amplifier module, a control unit, a mixer and an IF amplifier is provided. The amplifier module, including multiple amplifier units with different gains, amplifies an input signal. The control unit enables at least one of the amplifier units acco... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100291891 | IMPROVEMENTS IN OR RELATING TO RADIO RECEIVERS A radio receiver comprises an input (14) for a modulated radio frequency signal, a frequency down converter (16) coupled to the input, the frequency down converter including quadrature mixers (32, 34) for demodulating a received modulated radio freq... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100253537 | Advanced Steering Tool System, Method and Apparatus A steering tool is movable by a drill string to form an underground bore along an intended path. A sensing arrangement of the steering tool detects its pitch and yaw orientations at a series of spaced apart positions along the bore, each position is characterized by a m... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100220878 | FSK RECEIVER FOR A HEARING AID AND A METHOD FOR PROCESSING AN FSK SIGNAL A hearing aid (40) comprises a frequency-shift-keying (FSK) receiver (30) comprising a first amplifier stage (13), a limiter stage (14) and a plurality of phase detection stages. Each phase detection stage comprises a local oscillator (15<... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100183095 | RECEPTION SYSTEM FOR SUMMATION OF PHASED ANTENNA SIGNALS A diversity antenna system and method comprising a plurality of antennas, a plurality of switches and a plurality of phase shifters, wherein the switches and the antennas are selectively opened and closed or switched on an off to achieve equiphasing. This system separat... | 07/22/2010 |
| 20100184396 | CONFIGURABLE ALL-DIGITAL COHERENT DEMODULATOR SYSTEM FOR SPREAD SPECTRUM APPLICATIONS A configurable all-digital coherent demodulator system for spread spectrum digital communications is disclosed herein. The demodulator system includes an extended and long code demodulator (ELCD) coupled to a traffic channel demodulator (TCD) and a parameter estimator (... | 07/22/2010 |
| 20100159861 | DELTA-THETA FREQUENCY ESTIMATION Systems, devices, processors, and methods are described which may be used for the reception of a wireless broadband signal at a user terminal from a gateway via satellite. A physical layer header may be identified, the header including a number of subcode blocks. A phas... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20100144297 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION METHOD A communication device and a communication method capable of implementing high-speed and high-quality communication processing such as handover. A mobile communication terminal is configured such that, in cases where it is judged by a power measurement unit that a recep... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100144296 | Carbon Nanotubes for Wireless Communication and Radio Transmission Described herein are systems and methods in which a carbon nanotube (CNT) is used as a demodulator of amplitude-modulated (AM) signals. Due to the nonlinear current-voltage (I-V) characteristics of a CNT, the CNT induces rectification of an applied RF signal enabling th... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100144298 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING IN-PHASE SIGNAL AND QUADRATURE SIGNAL OF MULTI-PORT NETWORK Provided is an apparatus and method for generating I/Q signals in a multi-port network, which can generate I/Q signals with accurate coordinates and sizes by repeatedly controlling the coordinates and size of an initial parameter in accordance with a predetermined refer... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100136937 | Polar Feedback Receiver for Modulator This disclosure relates to linearization in polar modulators of wireless communication devices, to attain linear amplification and high power efficiency during transmission.... | 06/03/2010 |
| 20100120388 | WIRELESS RECEIVER A wireless receiver that includes a reception unit which, in the case in which the frequency bandwidth of the chunk is Fc, receives a) data to which phase rotation for controlling the maximum delay time between the plurality of transmission antennas is added so that the... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100093297 | FM RECEIVER FM receiver including an RF input circuit followed by a tunable mixer stage for frequency conversion of an RF FM signal into an IF FM signal, which is coupled to an FM input of a first narrow-band IF filter. The center frequency of the first narrow-band IF filter is con... | 04/15/2010 |
| 20100069030 | FREQUENCY MEASURING BROADBAND DIGITAL RECEIVER A microwave receiver configured for measuring the frequency F of a microwave signal received by the receiver, in a band of frequencies whose maximum frequency is Fmax. The receiver comprises N frequency measuring digital stages E1, E2, . . . Ek, . . . EN p... | 03/18/2010 |
| 20100068998 | WIRELESS INTERFACE In one embodiment of the present invention, a wireless interface is provided for supplying all signals and power exclusively wirelessly from a transmitting section to a receiving section. The transmitting section includes a transmitter arranged to modulate a carrier wit... | 03/18/2010 |
| 20100003937 | Receiver Device, System, and Method for Low-Energy Reception of Data A receiver device, A system and a method for reception of a signal having an amplitude that has been modulated with information, wherein a resistive element is provided that converts an electrical quantity into a physical parameter.... | 01/07/2010 |
| 20090325524 | METHOD AND AN APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING AN AUDIO SIGNAL A signal processing apparatus and method thereof are disclosed. The present invention includes receiving a low frequency downmix signal including a multi channel signal, phase shift information and spatial information corresponding to parameter band of the low frequency... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20090325525 | RECEIVER AND METHOD OF REDUCING OPERATING CURRENT THEREOF Disclosed is a receiver so adapted that even it receives a signal having the same communication frequency and frequency band as its own, restart of a receive-signal processor is inhibited for a fixed period of time if the receive signal is not a desired signal. The resu... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20090311984 | FM Band Availability Based on GPS Methods and apparatus for determining an available FM frequency channel for interfacing with FM modulated output signals from a wireless device are described herein. A SPS receiver, such as a GPS receiver, can determine its position based on conventional techniques. The... | 12/17/2009 |
| 20090311983 | Method and Apparatus for Storing Frequencies A method, in a wireless communications apparatus, the method comprising: identifying a previously used frequency as incompatible with a parameter storage area; performing an arithmetical operation on the value of the previously used frequency to give a modified value of... | 12/17/2009 |
| 20090298453 | Combining multiple frequency modulation (FM) signals in a receiver In one embodiment, the present invention provide a method for detecting signal quality metrics of a constant modulo (CM) signal received in two different signal paths, and combining the signal from the two signal paths based at least in part on the detected first and se... | 12/03/2009 |
| 20090280762 | HIGH-ORDER HARMONIC REJECTION MIXER USING CURRENT STEERING TECHNIQUE A mixer includes, an input current generation unit generating an input current; a first path circuit unit including n number of transistors having sources connected in common to an output node of the input current generation unit; and a second path circuit unit includin... | 11/12/2009 |
| 20090280763 | METHOD FOR DEMODULATING A MODULATED SIGNAL, DEMODULATOR AND RECEIVER A demodulator (6) for demodulating a modulated signal (3) comprises a Hubert transformer (7) for generating a Hubert transformed modulated signal (18) of the modulated signal (3). The Hubert transformed modulated signal (18) com... | 11/12/2009 |
| 20090264149 | CELLULAR HANDHELD DEVICE WITH FM RADIO DATA SYSTEM RECEIVER A handheld device includes an FM receiver to receive FM radio signals and a processor that is configured to monitor Radio Data System (RDS) data within FM radio broadcasts and to activate an application when a particular RDS data pattern is received. Methods for recogni... | 10/22/2009 |
| 20090156146 | DUTY-TO-VOLTAGE AMPLIFIER, FM RECEIVER AND METHOD FOR AMPLIFYING A PEAK OF A MULTIPLEXED SIGNAL A FM receiver comprises an IF filter, a demodulator and a decoder. The IF filter generates an RSSI and a FM modulated signal in response to a FM signal. The demodulator comprises a duty-to-voltage amplifier for amplifying a peak of a MPX signal. The duty-to-voltage ampl... | 06/18/2009 |
| 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 |
| 20090088109 | Circuit Arrangement for Processing a Radio-Frequency Signal Described herein is a circuit arrangement for processing a radio-frequency signal.... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090061802 | RECEIVER HAVING MULTIPATH EQUALIZER An FM receiver includes a receiving unit that receives a signal from a broadcasting station and outputs a receiving signal, an equalizer that equalizes the receiving signal by using a calculated weight, and obtains an equalized output signal, a demodulator that demodula... | 03/05/2009 |
| 20090054023 | AUDIO AMPLIFIER AND METHODS OF GENERATING AUDIO SIGNALS Audio amplifiers and methods of generating audio signals are disclosed. A disclosed example amplifier comprises a first driver to receive a first signal; a second driver to receive a second signal; a configurable signal delivery circuit; and a mode selector in communica... | 02/26/2009 |
| 20090036077 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PHOTONICALLY ASSISTED RF FILTERING Systems and methods for improved photonically-assisted RF filtering. Presently, processing of wide-band RF signals involves the use of multiple specialized equipment to isolate a region of interest from the spectrum. The present invention discloses the use of a modulati... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090036076 | SECURITY SYSTEM WITH DYNAMIC RANGE ENHANCEMENT FOR FM DEMODULATION A system and method for communicating between a base and a remote device in a security system. The base receives an audio signal from a telephone network via a panel and then frequency modulates the audio signal at a carrier frequency to generate an FM signal. The remot... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090029664 | Crest factor reduction A device for generating a crest factor reduced signal is disclosed. The device comprises an interface for receiving an input signal; a peak identifier for identifying one or more peak regions of the input signal; a squelch level determiner for determining a reduction of... | 01/29/2009 |
| 20090023409 | Receiving device A waveform shaping circuit wave-shapes a demodulated signal after FM demodulation to generate a binary value. A smoothing circuit smoothes the demodulated signal to generate a reference voltage. A comparator compares the reference voltage with the demodulated signal to ... | 01/22/2009 |
