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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120071127 | AUTOMATIC GAIN CONTROL DEVICE, RECEIVER, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND AUTOMATIC GAIN CONTROL METHOD An automatic gain control device includes an amplifier which amplifies an input signal based on a gain control signal, and outputs an amplified signal, a converter which converts the amplified signal into a converted signal having a value corresponding to an absolute va... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120034893 | ENVELOPE POWER SUPPLY CALIBRATION OF A MULTI-MODE RADIO FREQUENCY POWER AMPLIFIER The present disclosure relates to envelope power supply calibration of a multi-mode RF power amplifier (PA) to ensure adequate headroom when operating using one of multiple communications modes. The communications modes may include multiple modulation modes, a half-dupl... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120021699 | Compact low-power receiver architecture and related method According to one embodiment, a compact low-power receiver comprises a front-end producing a front-end gain and a back-end producing a back-end gain. The front-end includes a transconductance amplifier providing digital gain control and outputting an amplified receive si... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120021712 | Compact low-power receiver including transimpedance amplifier, digitally controlled interface circuit, and low pass filter According to one embodiment, a compact low-power receiver comprises first and second analog circuits connected by a digitally controlled interface circuit. The first analog circuit has a first direct-current (DC) offset and a first common mode voltage at an output, and ... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20110235758 | Mixed-Mode Receiver Circuit Including Digital Gain Control A receiver circuit includes an analog front-end and a digital processing unit. The analog front-end includes an input for receiving a radio frequency (RF) signal, a first control input for receiving a gain adjustment signal, a second control input for receiving a timing... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110228171 | AUTOMATICALLY SETTING AN OPERATIVE STATE OF A WIDEBAND AMPLIFIER A multi-channel receiver (200) comprises: an input (111) for receiving a wideband signal potentially comprising multiple channels, a tuner stage (110), a wideband amplifier (201) connected between the input (111) and the tuner (110<... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110230156 | Dynamic Gain Assignment in Analog Baseband Circuits A system and method is provided for filtering and amplifying a signal where amplification can be distributed between stages of a filter and gain can be assigned throughout the filter to optimize system performance. Such a system can be implemented in the baseband sectio... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110223878 | Signal Strength Detecting Device and Related Method A signal strength detecting device of a communication system is disclosed. The signal strength detecting device is coupled to a frequency down mixer of the communication system and the frequency down mixer is used for receiving and converting a first signal to a second ... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110217943 | OSCILLATION PROTECTED AMPLIFIER WITH BASE STATION OVERLOAD AND NOISE FLOOR PROTECTION An amplifier is provided for optimizing gain. The amplifier determines an optimal gain from inputs including the forward link and reverse link input power. The inputs are processed to determine an optimal gain of the amplifier. The optimal gain may be accessed from a lo... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110188489 | MULTI-CHANNEL RECEIVER WITH IMPROVED AGC An improved multi-channel receiver for satellite broadcast applications or the like. In an exemplary embodiment, a primary AGC loop controls an analog sub-receiver adapted to simultaneously receive multiple signals. Multiple digital demodulators, coupled to the sub-rece... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110176644 | AUTOMATIC GAIN CONTROL IN RADIO FREQUENCY RECEIVERS An automatic gain controller (AGC) in white space devices is configured with two operational modes. When entering a quiet time of the white space device, the AGC selects the first operational mode. The first operational mode is associated with detecting licensed signals... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110177789 | LOW NOISE AMPLIFIER AND THE USES THEREOF A low noise amplifier (110) is disclosed that is particularly suitable for ultra wideband telecommunications. The low noise amplifier (110) provides a variable gain by a current controller (115) to amplify signals received directly from an antenna (... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110105070 | Direct conversion receiver architecture A direct downconversion receiver architecture having a DC loop to remove DC offset from the signal components, a digital variable gain amplifier (DVGA) to provide a range of gains, an automatic gain control (AGC) loop to provide gain control for the DVGA and RF/analog c... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110092175 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION APPARATUS A transceiver suitable for larger scale of integration employs direct conversion reception for reducing the number of filters. Also, the number of VCOs is reduced by utilizing dividers to supply a receiver and a transmitter with locally oscillated signals at an RF band.... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110085625 | RECEIVER AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE A receiver includes an automatic gain control (AGC) loop and a filter group that is arranged downstream of the AGC loop. The filter group includes an active filter. The receiver further includes a power difference detector and a switch circuit. The power difference dete... | 04/14/2011 |
| 20110076976 | RADIO FREQUENCY RECEIVER, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION UNIT AND METHOD OF OPERATION A wireless communication unit (200) comprises a radio frequency (RF) receiver for receiving an RF signal and providing the received RF signal to an off-channel signal detector (218) and a quadrature down conversion mixer circuit comprising at least one dyn... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110076977 | Signal Processor Suitable for Low Intermediate Frequency (LIF) or Zero Intermediate Frequency (ZIF) Operation A signal processor for a radio frequency (RF) receiver includes a plurality of distributed signal processing elements, in which a first one receives an input signal and a last one provides an output signal, and a plurality of gain elements interspersed between pairs of ... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110070856 | AGC LOW THRESHOLD SIGNAL LEVEL DETECTION The invention provides a receiver comprising an input end, an Rx-chain with at least one regulating means and an output end. The receiver further comprises a feedback loop in the Rx-chain, said regulating means arranged for providing a higher or lower gain setting. The ... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110059711 | WCDMA AGC RECEIVER SNR ADJUSTMENT AND SIGNALLING The present invention relates to a method, an Automatic Gain Control control unit and a receiver for Noise change output signalling. It also relates to an Adjustment Unit, a receiver and a base band detector for adjustment of an Automatic Gain Control output signal on t... | 03/10/2011 |
| 20110053541 | DYNAMIC RANGE ON-DEMAND FOR RECEIVER APPLICATIONS Receiver power techniques are disclosed that allow for real-time adjustment of receiver dynamic range by virtue of supplied DC power, based on signal strengths currently received by the receiver. The disclosed techniques use real-time monitoring of receiver output to de... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110028089 | Amplifying circuit, semiconductor integrated circuit, wireless transmission system, and communication apparatus An amplifying circuit includes: an amplifying cell portion configured by cascade-connecting a plurality stage of amplifying cells each including a pair of N-type transistors differentially connected to each other, load resistors and a current source for generating an op... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110028112 | Detection of false modulated signals in wireless communications There is provided a method for use in a wireless communication to avoid detection of a false modulated signal in a paged device. In one embodiment, a modulated signal is received by the paged device. Then, the modulated signal is identified by the paged device as a prel... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110021168 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECEIVER WITH DUAL MODE AUTOMATIC GAIN CONTROL (AGC) A method and apparatus for toggling between a first mode and a second mode of a receiver based on an input signal level comprising comparing a gain state of the receiver to at least one gain state thresholds; determining the presence of a jammer; and switching a current... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110007780 | Receiver with automatic gain control An automatic gain control (AGC) system and corresponding method is configured to increase signal to noise in a receiver. The AGC system includes: a signal level detector for determining a signal level for a desired signal; a wideband signal detector for determining a wi... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20100328546 | Tracking Filter For A Television Tuner In one embodiment, a set of tracking filters to be coupled between an amplifier and a mixer is provided. The tracking filters may be differently configured depending on band of operation. For example, a first set of the filters can be configured to maintain a substantia... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100304700 | SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD AND RECEPTION SYSTEM Disclosed herein is a signal processing device including an adjustment section configured to adjust the power of each of subinterval signals by multiplying the subinterval signals by a gain adapted to bring the power to a given level, the subinterval signals being input... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100273431 | GAIN INDEX BASED RADIO CALIBRATION A wireless device includes an antenna, Radio Frequency (RF) circuitry, and baseband processing circuitry. The baseband processing circuitry couples to the RF circuitry and is operable to determine operational calibrations settings that may include pre-distortion charact... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100267351 | RECEIVER AND GAIN CONTROL METHOD A receiver capable of performing optimum automatic gain control responsive to a peak factor of an input signal before subjected to A/D conversion is provided in a simple configuration. A peak detector 104 is placed at the later stage of a variable gain amplifier ... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100235707 | Wireless receiver system and method with automatic gain control A wireless receiver system with automatic gain control, which includes a receiving path, an analog to digital converter, an automatic gain control (AGC) device and a controller. The controller has an adjacent channel interference off mode, an adjacent channel interferen... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100197262 | RECEPTION DEVICE AND RECEPTION METHOD The noise amount information storage unit 161 stores noise amount information which indicates relationships between gain value of the variable gain amplification units 121 and 125 and the amount of noise included in BB signals output from the down c... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100190459 | AUTOMATIC GAIN CONTROL IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK Techniques for performing automatic gain control (AGC) at a terminal in a wireless communication network are described. In an aspect, the terminal may use different receiver gain settings to receive different types of signals in different time intervals. The terminal ma... | 07/29/2010 |
| 20100184397 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DC COMPENSTATION A technique for performing AGC and DC compensation in a receiver. The receiver comprises an energy estimator for generating an estimate of the level of a received signal; an RF device to apply gain to the received signal; an AGC for controlling the RF device gain based ... | 07/22/2010 |
| 20100159863 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING ATTENUATION FUNCTION IN CABLE BROADCAST RECEIVER An apparatus and a method for performing an attenuation function on a signal using an attenuator in a cable broadcast receiver having a Low Noise Amplifier (LNA) that does not perform an attenuation function on a signal are provided. In the method, an input Radio Freque... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20100158167 | AUTO GAIN CONTROL METHOD IN DIGITAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM Provided is an auto gain control method in a digital communication system. The auto gain control method checks a distribution of a signal and a distribution of a signal envelope during a regular check interval, and determines a state of a current gain value from the dis... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20100151898 | TRANSMITTER/RECEIVER FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM A transmitter/receiver for a wireless communication system is provided. The transmitter for a wireless communication system includes: an external amplifier connected to a next stage of a power amplifier amplifying a signal to be transmitted to a required power level; a ... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100080327 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR AUTOMATIC GAIN CONTROL A method for automatic gain control used in a receiver of a multi-carrier telecommunication system, the method comprising: receiving an input signal digitalized by an A/D converter; determining distribution of the input signal; and controlling gain of a variable gain am... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20100062736 | AUTO GAIN CONTROLLER AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF An auto gain controller (AGC) and a control method thereof are provided. An input signal is amplified by a radio frequency (RF) amplifier and an intermediate frequency (IF) amplifier. When strength of the input signal is lower than a threshold, a gain curve of the RF am... | 03/11/2010 |
| 20100048155 | MULTI-BAND RF RECEIVER A first RF receiving path and a second RF receiving path are activated selectively. An interstage filter is connected with the first RF receiving path and the second RF receiving path, and passes a prescribed frequency band of an RF signal output from an active RF recei... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100046679 | AUTOMATIC GAIN CONTROL SYSTEM An apparatus comprising an amplifier configured to amplify a received signal; a filter coupled to an output of said amplifier and configured to filter the amplified signal; and a controller configured to control a first gain for said amplifier in dependence on a charact... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100040178 | Transceiver with Receive Path Performance Diversity and Combiner with Jammer Detect Feedback Methods and apparatus for implementing a wireless communication transceiver having receive path performance diversity. The transceiver implements a plurality of signal paths that can be configured as diversity receive paths. Each of the plurality of signal paths include... | 02/18/2010 |
