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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7787841 | Receiving module and receiving device using the same The demodulator in the receiving module of the invention supplies a signal produced based on a signal level detected by a first detector to a second amplifier as an amplification degree adjustment signal. With this arrangement, when a second receiver works, an AGC v... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7436793 | System and method for effectively performing a transmit power adjustment procedure A system and method for effectively performing a transmit power adjustment procedure in a wireless network includes a forward receiver that monitors a wireless forward link for forward data that is transmitted over the wireless forward link by a forward transmitter.... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7430403 | Method and apparatus for hysteresis control A hysteresis control method for a control system includes setting an arbitrary reference value for an existing position of a control width and calculating a difference between a present input value and the arbitrary reference value. A direction of increase/decrease ... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7426376 | Receiver having digital automatic gain control An apparatus includes a semiconductor package, a radio receiver and a processor. The radio receiver is located in the semiconductor package and includes at least one gain stage. The processor is located in the semiconductor package to execute stored instructions to ... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7406300 | Extending wireless communication RF coverage inside building A wireless communication system includes at least one repeater antenna assembly for providing adequate RF coverage within a building, such as a home. An example repeater antenna assembly has an automatically adjustable gain that is controlled responsive to a pathlos... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7400867 | Radio broadcast receiver A radio broadcast receiver is provided which reduces the degradation in quality of diversity-received signals. When a difference in level between a reception signal of a main antenna and a reception signal of a sub antenna is less than a predetermined threshold valu... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7398070 | Variable gain amplifying circuit with matchable input/output impedance A variable gain amplifying circuit includes a gate-grounded amplifying FET and a collector-grounded amplifying transistor. A gate voltage of the FET and a base voltage of the transistor are adjusted by a supplied AGC voltage. When an input RF signal has small amplit... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7398066 | Communication system control using reliability data A method and apparatus for recovering a data symbol from a communication signal in which the communication signal is processed to produce a baseband waveform that is then sampled to obtain a channel sequence. The channel sequence is decoded to obtain an estimate of ... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7394796 | Wireless access point service coverage area management A Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) infrastructure includes a wired backbone network, an air controller, and a plurality of wireless access points (WAPs). Each WAP includes a processor, a wired backbone interface, a first radio, a directional antenna, a second radi... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7386285 | Automatic gain control adaptive for plural modulation schemes An AGC circuit controls LNA and VGA amplifiers such that a received signal is converted at a high speed with tracking errors prevented according to each modulation scheme. The AGC circuit generates LNA and VGA control signals controlling the LNA and VGA amplifiers, ... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7373129 | Radio communication terminal A radio communication terminal disposed in close proximity to or built in electronic equipment is provided with a receiver connected to a receiving antenna and an interference canceller for removing from a received signal a radiated noise component from the electron... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369834 | Impedance-matched IQ network for an image rejection circuit An impedance-matched IQ network includes a phase shift circuit and a back termination. The phase shift circuit includes an in-phase mixer port for receiving the in-phase signal, a quadrature-phase mixer port for receiving the quadrature phase signal, a termination p... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7356110 | Gain control method for a receiver of signals transmitted in bursts and receiver exploiting it The method is applicable to a receiver (1) of signals corresponding to packets of digital data transmitted in bursts, which comprises an analogue pickup subassembly (3) connected to a digital processing subassembly (8) by means for converting an... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7353010 | Techniques for fast automatic gain control An automatic gain control (AGC) technique can quickly sense signal size over a large dynamic range by using a peak detector block in the analog portion of the receiver. The peak detector block can compare a received signal to predetermined thresholds (chosen to divi... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349709 | Rate dependent transmission gain control for WLAN systems A WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network) transmission technique is provided where data is transmitted in two or more different transmission modes at different transmission rates. A transmission gain is determined to be applied when transmitting data. The transmission ga... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7339987 | Device for correcting a receiving signal The invention relates to a device for correcting a receiver signal which is associated with an emission signal transmitted in a distorted transmission system. The emission signal comprises periods which can be determined by analyzing the received signal wherein dete... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7333462 | Wireless terminal operations within wireless local area network A wireless terminal operates within a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) and includes a directional antenna, a radio frequency unit operably coupled to the directional antenna, and a processor operably coupled to the radio frequency unit. The processor controls the ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7327807 | Method for controlling generation of transmission power control information, method of controlling characteristics of receiver circuit based on overflow information, and CDMA communication apparatus A wireless communication apparatus capable of minimizing a danger involved in transmit power control based on control information containing errors and securing reliability of a system. In this apparatus, an overflow error detector and a reception state monitoring s... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7313166 | Multicode receiver A code division multiple access (CDMA) receiver detects, de-scrambles, and de-spreads multiple channels that utilize different binary codes. The processing that is common to all channels can be performed once thus saving gate count and power consumption. ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7313377 | System, method, and circuit for dynamic range enhancement in a communication system A circuit includes one or more first amplifiers operable to amplify an incoming signal to produce an amplified incoming signal. The incoming signal is associated with a desired signal. The circuit also includes a controller. In response to the amplified incoming sig... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7302241 | Wireless receiver without AGC A wireless communication unit (300) incorporates a receiver comprising radio frequency circuitry (210, 220, 230, 240) for receiving a radio frequency signal and converting the radio frequency signal to a low frequency signal. A signal level adjustment circuit receiv... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7295813 | Current reduction by dynamic receiver adjustment in a communication device A method for reducing current drain in a communication device includes a first step of detecting interference including intermodulation and crossmodulation products. A next step includes determining a frequency offset of the interference with reference to the operat... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7286795 | System and method for effective reception and transmission of satellite signals The present invention relates to a system and method for terrestrial transmission of RF signals comprising: an antenna, where said antenna includes an active device and a passive device and a decoder. The passive device receives RF signals and passes the signals to ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7277679 | Method and apparatus to provide multiple-mode spatial processing to a terminal unit Methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for spatial processing in a remote terminal unit. One embodiment is a wireless remote terminal receiver in a wireless terminal unit for operation in a wireless communication system. The wireless remote te... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7263143 | System and method for statistically directing automatic gain control The present invention is directed to a system and method which statistically determines when regularly occurring interference events of a predictable duration will occur, for example radar pulses and dynamically adjusts an automatic gain control (AGC) for RF data tr... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7257383 | Method and system for improving dynamic range for communication systems using upstream analog information The receiver is provided which comprises a mixer, a low pass filter coupled to the mixer and a plurality of gain controllers serially coupled to an output of the low pass filter (LPF). A plurality of analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) is coupled so that an input of... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7245221 | Inventory control A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for inventory control of items in a location are disclosed. In an embodiment, this comprises a surveillance system comprising a plurality of cameras and at least one display, at least one identification tag, at least o... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7236743 | Method and arrangement for noise rejection in a receiver circuit In a method for interference suppression using a quality-adjustable bandpass filter in a receiver circuit for carrier-modulated received signals (SIN), the bandpass filtered received signal (Bout) is demodulated, and a switching process is trig... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7227915 | Receiver and AGC method A receiver receives a multiplex broadcasting wave of a terrestrial wave and a satellite wave and executes AGC. As for the terrestrial wave, only a frequency band of the terrestrial wave is extracted by a filter for the terrestrial wave, and the AGC on the terrestria... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7212587 | Apparatus for reducing DC offset in a receiver Apparatus for reducing DC offset in a signal path of a conversion system comprising a front end circuit for providing an input signal having an a DC offset; an amplifier system coupled to the front end circuit to receive and amplify the input signal; a multi-bit sig... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7203472 | Method and apparatus providing calibration technique for RF performance tuning A method is disclosed for operating a RF receiver of a communications equipment, as is circuitry for implementing the method. The method includes, while operating under the control of a data processor of the communications equipment, generating a calibration signal;... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7197291 | Multimode receiver and method for controlling signal interference A multimode wireless receiver circuit (10) includes multi-receiver control and interference detection logic (50) and least two separate receivers: a first receiver (20) associated with a first radio access technology and a second receiver (30... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7194049 | Digital automatic level control system A digital automatic level control system employs delay elements, which enable information about a signal parameter from the past, present and future to be processed to provide an optimal gain that can be used to level rapidly varying signals, such as bursty signals.... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7184725 | Pole switch down converter with symmetric resonator A pole switch down-converter with symmetric resonator which reduce the non resonating phase to approximately half of the RF carrier period of the modulated signal is proposed. The down-converter comprises a first and second λ/2 resonator for collecting RF energy, w... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7184729 | Digital automatic gain control for transceiver devices An automatic gain controller for transceiver elements uses a digital topology to achieve an efficient and rapid gain settling so that an output signal of the variable gain section is within a predefined range. In one embodiment, an input signal is periodically sampl... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7176726 | Integrated loss of signal detection with wide threshold range and precise hysteresis A loss-of-signal (LOS) detector includes a variable gain amplifier with an input receiving an input signal, a threshold comparator with a first input receiving a signal derived from an output of the variable gain amplifier, a second input receiving a reference level... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7170954 | Cayley-encodation of unitary matrices for differential communication Differential unitary space-time (DUST) communication is a technique for communicating via one or more antennas by encoding the transmitted data differentially using unitary matrices at the transmitter, and decoding differentially without knowing the channel coeffici... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7164738 | Signal canceling method and device In a signal cancellation method and device which can cancel input signals quickly and reliably (stably), an input signal is split into a first and second signal. The second signal is split into mutually orthogonal first and second subsignals which are recombined aft... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7133461 | Stream transmission method and device A transmitter for implementing a stream transmission method is disclosed. Optionally, the transmitter first determines an equal weighting of a plurality of stream weights and transmits a plurality of transmission signals as a function of a plurality of data streams ... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7124076 | Encoding apparatus and decoding apparatus The present invention relates to encoding apparatuses which allow encoding to be performed such that the occurrence of pre-echo and post-echo is suppressed. A predetermined waveform analysis is applied to a low-frequency-component input time-sequential signal which ... | 10/17/2006 |
