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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7437124 | Satellite radio receiver that displays information regarding one or more channels that are not currently being listened to A satellite radio receiver includes a display that displays information regarding one or more channels that are not currently being listened to. For a music channel, this information may include the name of the artist, the song title, time left in the song, etc. For... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7403755 | Searching receiver A monitoring receiver accepts program preferences from an operator. When active, the receiver automatically monitors alternate frequencies for programming that matches the program preferences, alerts the operator when a match is found, and may switch to a preferred ... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7398051 | Satellite radio receiver that displays information regarding one or more channels that are not currently being listened to A satellite radio receiver includes a display that displays information regarding one or more channels that are not currently being listened to. For a music channel, this information may include the name of the artist, the song title, time left in the song, etc. For... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7359206 | Radio frequency isolation system and cover assembly for vacuum electron device A self-guiding cover assembly for a vacuum electron device (VED) enclosure (704, 1316) has a cover (1002, 1302), a pair of guide plates, and a pair of guide elements (1304, 1306). The cover has at least one electrical connector (1314) dis... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7289780 | Band switchable type tuning circuit of television signal A band switchable type tuning circuit has first switch means interposed between a power supply Vcc and an anode of a switch diode, a first resistor whose one end is connected to a cathode of the switch diode, second switch means interposed between the other end of t... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7236755 | Broadcast wave receiving apparatus Herein disclosed is a broadcast wave receiving apparatus, comprising: first and second tuning circuits each having a resonance frequency; first controlling means for controlling one of the first and second tuning circuits to ensure that the resonance frequency of on... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7136648 | Candidate system search and soft handoff between frequencies in a multi-carrier mobile communication system The present invention encompasses a mobile station comprising a transmitter for transmitting outgoing signals from the mobile station and a receiver for receiving incoming signals, the receiver coupled to the transmitter and having N sub receivers, where N is an int... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7117743 | Multiple-transducer sensor system and method with selective activation and isolation of individual transducers A transducer-based sensor system, including a transducer array having a plurality of transducers, a selector coupled with the transducer array and an output processing subsystem. Defined between each transducer and the output processing subsystem is an output transm... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7054606 | Digitally calibrated narrowband filter with analog channel compensation An apparatus comprising a first circuit, a second circuit and a third circuit. The first circuit may be configured to filter an analog input signal in an analog domain in response to one or more control signals. The second circuit may be configured to convert the an... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7006162 | Tuner An analogue single conversion tuner comprises a plurality of channels (1, 2, 3) for covering the whole of a desired reception bandwidth. Each tuner comprises an image reject mixer (18) connected to the tuner input (4) by a single tracking filter... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6888580 | Integrated single and dual television tuner having improved fine tuning Improved television tuning circuits are disclosed. An example tuning circuit includes a fraction-N frequency synthesizer facilitating fine tuning. This tuning circuit may be formed using relatively few independent oscillators. The tuning circuit lends itself to the ... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6606485 | Candidate system search and soft handoff between frequencies in a multi-carrier mobile communication system The present invention encompasses a mobile station comprising a transmitter for transmitting outgoing signals from the mobile station and a receiver for receiving incoming signals, the receiver coupled to the transmitter and having N subreceivers, where N... | 08/12/2003 |
| 5905948 | High frequency channel selecting circuit for radio receiver and method of manufacturing tuning circuits therefor A therefor method of manufacturing tuning circuits for constituting a high frequency channel selecting circuit for a radio receiver. The method can eliminate the complicated coil inductance adjustment for tracking on the circuit board, so that the circuit... | 05/18/1999 |
| 5867771 | Circuit arrangement comprising a tuner and a splitter-modulator A circuit arrangement includes a tuner and a splitter-modulator having a splitter and a modulator. The splitter includes an RF signal input for receiving an RF input signal, an RF signal output for supplying an RF output signal, a first line for applying ... | 02/02/1999 |
| 5239701 | Radio receiver with improved channel selection and reception A radio receiver responsive to a received RF signal containing a plurality of channel frequencies each having broadcast information which includes a circuit for producing a wide band version of the received RF signal and a circuit for producing a narrow b... | 08/24/1993 |
| 4870696 | Mobile communications system capable of avoiding interference with control channel A mobile communications system having a fixed unit connected to a public telephone network by a subscriber line, and a portable unit connectable to the fixed unit by radio channels which comprise at least one control channel and a plurality of speech chan... | 09/26/1989 |
| 4758794 | Sound intermediate frequency discriminator A discriminator for a plurality of sound intermediate frequencies which are different from each other includes a plurality of selectively operable resonance circuits each of which is formed of a winding of a respective fixed inductance value and a capacit... | 07/19/1988 |
| 4517595 | Pay television channel selector In a pay television channel selector, a reception contract selecting portion comprises parallel circuits which are disposed in correspondence with channels and whose impedances are made different between the contracted and uncontracted channels, and a con... | 05/14/1985 |
| 4368541 | Multiplexing arrangement for a plurality of voltage controlled filters A multiplexing arrangement enables a plurality of control voltages for controlling respective ones of a plurality of varactor controlled tunable filters, employed, e.g., prior to the tuner of a television receiver to reject undesired signals, to be genera... | 01/11/1983 |
| 4305158 | Television tuner A television tuner comprises a high frequency amplifier for receiving a high frequency signal received by an antenna, a local oscillator, and a mixer for mixing the high frequency signal from the high frequency amplifier and the oscillation frequency sign... | 12/08/1981 |
| 4031470 | Operation program-presetting system An Operation Program-Presetting System comprising twelve program data-supplying switches arranged in the same order as the time-indicating notations on a clock dial with means for generating a unique coded signal corresponding to the data-supplying switch... | 06/21/1977 |
| 4011515 | Tunable scanning radio receiver A scanning radio receiver that is electronically tuned for station selectivity over a given band of frequencies. Varactor diodes contained in the RF and local oscillator stages of the scanning receiver circuitry are voltage controlled to select a finite n... | 03/08/1977 |
| 3949308 | Varactor control unit using Q variable inductances A circuit for providing TV channel selection and tuning voltages utilizes a plurality of fixed resistors and a plurality of Q variable inductances. A channel selection switch connects particular resistors and Q variable inductances for channel selection a... | 04/06/1976 |
