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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7369624 | Carrier suppression type modulator with encoded modulating signals A carrier suppressed information signal modulation arrangement employs a plurality of serially coupled modulators. Each of the serially coupled modulators has a carrier input, a modulating signal input and a modulated carrier output. A carrier is applied to the carr... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7358829 | Transmission apparatus, communication apparatus and mobile radio apparatus Transmission apparatus capable of reducing distortion of the vector modulation wave that is the transmission output to a sufficiently small level is provided. An amplifying section (105) generates a vector modulation wave based on an amplitude component modul... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7343015 | Method and apparatus for high fidelity wireless stereophonic transmission utilizing dual frequency carriers A method and system is disclosed for transmitting two related channels of signals through the air. A first channel of signals is modulated with a first carrier frequency, and a second channel of signals is modulated with a second carrier frequency. The modulated fir... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7343138 | Compensating for load pull in electromagentic signal propagation using adaptive impedance matching The invention relates to for processing an electromagnetic input signal, wherein the signal is passed through an input to be modified across a plurality of modifying segments using a characteristic of the signal, and wherein the plurality of segments have a pluralit... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7327202 | Optimization for an IQ modulator An IQ modulator's performance is optimized through determination of suitable control parameters by the application of known DC biases as the I and Q inputs. Also known are the relative amplitude and actual phase of the sine and cosine carriers to be modulated before... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7321735 | Optical down-converter using universal frequency translation technology A method and system for converting an optical signal to electrical information signals, including demodulated baseband information signals and modulated baseband signals at multiple harmonics. In an embodiment, the optical information signal is amplitude modulated w... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7321752 | Linear amplification arrangement with non-linear amplifier element for a mobile radio device A system and method to optimize the efficiency of an amplifier device is provided by the including a non-linear amplifier in a mobile radio device. A phase displaced signal in relation to the input signal is respectively produced in the amplifier device with a non-l... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7310381 | Power amplifier pre-distortion device and method for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing In some embodiments of the present invention the nature of an input signal is identified and the amplification of a pre-amplifier and a power amplifier in a transmitter system are modified responsive to whether the momentary content of the input signal is a preamble... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7295628 | Stereo multiplex encoder (MPX) for FM transmission A stereo multiplex encoder (MPX) for FM transmission with a digital signal processor utilizes residual sideband modulation in stereo transmission instead of the conventional double sideband modulation. The adjustment of the sampling frequency to the modulation frequ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295826 | Integrated frequency translation and selectivity with gain control functionality, and applications thereof Methods and apparatuses for frequency selectivity and frequency translation, and applications for such methods and apparatuses, are described herein. The method includes steps of filtering an input signal, and down-converting the filtered input signal. The filtering... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7292835 | Wireless and wired cable modem applications of universal frequency translation technology Frequency translation and applications of same are described herein, including cable modem applications. Such applications include, but are not limited to, frequency down-conversion, frequency up-conversion, enhanced signal reception, unified down-conversion and fil... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7276985 | Transmission modulation apparatus, communication apparatus and mobile wireless apparatus Provided is a transmission modulation apparatus, using polar modulation of two-point modulation scheme, capable of completing a timing adjustment of a BB phase modulation signal and BB amplitude modulation signal in a short time. A phase modulation section (10 | 10/02/2007 |
| 7254186 | Electromagnetic wave transmitter, receiver and transceiver systems, methods and articles of manufacture The invention is directed to a system for processing an electromagnetic wave by receiving rectangular coordinate information for the electromagnetic wave; and directly converting the rectangular coordinate information into a magnitude signal, a sin(Φ), and a cos(Φ... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7248626 | System and method of communication via embedded modulation A single subscriber line multi-point communication system is disclosed. In general, the multi-point communication system can include a first transceiver coupled to a subscriber line capable of transmitting and receiving at least two modulation methods, either of sai... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7245183 | Apparatus, methods and articles of manufacture for processing an electromagnetic wave A method of processing an electromagnetic wave comprises regulating at least two independently controllable current sources with a signal determined from at least one characteristic of the electromagnetic wave to generate a processed electromagnetic wave from at lea... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7235980 | Cable detection apparatus and method A cable detection apparatus is disclosed having a filter, the filter transmitting components of a signal detected substantially at certain harmonics of a first frequency. The filter may also attenuate the signal at certain even harmonics thereof. A method of detecti... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7218951 | Continuous closed-loop power control system including modulation injection in a wireless transceiver power amplifier A single continuous closed-loop power control feedback system provides seamless power control for a power amplifier and also enables an AM signal to be injected into the power amplifier through the power amplifiers' control port. The AM signal is developed by an I/Q... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7199844 | Quadratic nyquist slope filter A television demodulator circuit, for use in a television receiver, generates baseband video and audio outputs from a television signal, such as an intermediate frequency television signal. The I, Q demodulator circuit mixes the television signal with an in-phase (... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7183958 | Sub-ranging digital to analog converter for radiofrequency amplification An apparatus and method for amplifying a radiofrequency signal using a main Digital to Analog Converter (RFDAC) and a subordinate Digital to Analog Converter (Sub-DAC). The main RFDAC provides a first portion of a N-bit digital output, which specifies the amplificat... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7154329 | Method and apparatus for compensating amplifier output for temperature and process variations An amplifier circuit includes a calibration circuit with a controllable circuit element such as a digital resistor. One or more properties of the controllable circuit element (e.g., the resistance in a digital resistor) is varied by a digital calibration word such t... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7132969 | Configuration for digital-analog conversion of high-frequency digital input signal into carrier-frequency analog output signal A delay device has at least one first delay element and optional additional delay elements connected downstream from the first in a serially consecutive manner. The digital input signal is connected to an input of the first delay element and is connected to an input... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7110435 | Spread spectrum applications of universal frequency translation Frequency translation and spread spectrum applications of same are described herein. Such applications include, but are not limited to, unified down-conversion and de-spreading, unified up-conversion and spreading, RAKE receivers utilizing unified down-conversion an... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7110444 | Wireless local area network (WLAN) using universal frequency translation technology including multi-phase embodiments and circuit implementations Frequency translation and applications of the same are described herein, including RF modem and wireless local area network (WLAN) applications. In embodiments, the WLAN invention includes an antenna, an LNA/PA module, a receiver, a transmitter, a control signal gen... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7102465 | Frequency discrete LC filter bank An inductive (“L”)-capacitive (“C”) filter bank has application for use in a television receiver. The LC filter includes inductors configured in at least one inductive (“L”) bank, and capacitors configured in at least one capacitive (“C”) bank. The i... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7099373 | Noise shaping technique for spread spectrum communications A spread spectrum noise shaper uses a modulation technique to achieve a greater signal-to-noise or signal-to-interference ratio (SNR or SIR). The technique doubles the system SIR, in principle. This doubling yields a doubling in system capacity. SNR is increased by ... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7088202 | Methods and apparatus for an improved discrete LC filter A discrete inductive-capacitive (LC) filter selects between at least two inductor banks to tune the LC filter. The filter receives an input signal that includes one or more bands of frequencies. A control signal selects a band of frequencies for processing. A first ... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7082171 | Phase shifting applications of universal frequency translation A universal frequency translation module (UFT) frequency translates an electromagnetic (EM) input signal by sampling the EM input signal according to a periodic control signal (also called an aliasing signal). By controlling the relative sampling time, the UFT modul... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7072421 | IQ modulation systems and methods that use separate phase and amplitude signal paths and perform modulation within a phase locked loop A digital signal processor generates in-phase, quadrature-phase and amplitude signals from a baseband signal. A modulator modulates the in-phase and quadrature-phase signals to produce a modulated signal. A phase locked loop is responsive to the modulated signal. Th... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7072390 | Wireless local area network (WLAN) using universal frequency translation technology including multi-phase embodiments Frequency translation and applications of the same are described herein, including RF modem and wireless local area network (WLAN) applications. In embodiments, the WLAN invention includes an antenna, an LNA/PA module, a receiver, a transmitter, a control signal gen... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7054296 | Wireless local area network (WLAN) technology and applications including techniques of universal frequency translation Frequency translation and applications of same are described herein, including wireless local area network (WLAN) applications such as IEEE Standard 802.11 WLANs. Such applications include, but are not limited to, frequency down-conversion, frequency up-conversion, ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7054385 | Reduction of average-to-minimum power ratio in communications signals This invention, generally speaking, modifies pulse amplitude modulated signals to reduce the ratio of average power to minimum power. The signal is modified in such a manner that the signal quality remains acceptable. The signal quality is described in terms of the ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7039372 | Method and system for frequency up-conversion with modulation embodiments 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 ... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7027786 | Carrier and clock recovery using universal frequency translation Coherent detection of a received EM signal using universal frequency translation (UFT) is described herein. The received EM signal is sampled according to a sub-harmonic LO signal, where the LO signal is in frequency and phase coherence with the received EM signal. ... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7023292 | Polar modulation using amplitude modulated quadrature signals Polar modulators include a phase splitter, a controller, variable current sources, transistor circuits, and a combiner. The phase splitter splits a RF carrier signal into quadrature component signals that are 90 degrees out of phase with each other. The controller g... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7020452 | Actively matched center-tapped marchand balanced mixer An apparatus comprising an amplifier circuit, a tuning circuit and a mixer circuit. The amplifier circuit may be configured to generate an output signal at a first node in response to an input signal received through a second node. A tuning circuit may be (i) couple... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7012477 | Modulation using discrete amplitude adjustment and dual digital delay lines The present invention provides a means to implement amplitude and phase modulation digitally and directly at an RF frequency that benefits from high output power without the use of amplifiers. This is accomplished by the combination of two varying amplitude and phas... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7009447 | Outphasing modulator Briefly, an apparatus having an outphasing modulator that may provide at least first and second outphased signals to a power amplifier. The outphasing modulator may control amplitude of the first and second outphased signals by an amplitude modulation controller whi... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7010286 | Apparatus, system, and method for down-converting and up-converting electromagnetic signals Methods, systems, and apparatuses for down-converting and up-converting an electromagnetic signal. In embodiments, the invention operates by receiving an electromagnetic signal and recursively operating on approximate half cycles of a carrier signal. The recursive o... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7006805 | Aliasing communication system with multi-mode and multi-band functionality and embodiments thereof, such as the family radio service A receiver having multi-mode and multi-band functionality and capabilities is described herein. The receiver is capable of selectively operating over a plurality of bands and channels. The receiver operates in a plurality of modes, including but not limited to a sin... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6993312 | Double balanced diode mixer with high output third order intercept point A double balanced mixer consisting of an RF balun, a local oscillator balun and a diode “quad” bridge circuit connected between the two baluns and where the IF output is taken at the center tap of the RF balun secondary transformer. A second harmonic termination... | 01/31/2006 |
