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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8155609 | Switch-able band-tracking input filter for combination tuner The present invention relates to a combination RF tuner capable of receiving signals from the FM radio band and from the TV band. Prior art combination tuners had to compromise in quality resulting in combination tuners that neither exhibited high-end FM nor TV-sign... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8121568 | Radio frequency handling device A radio frequency signal handling device and a mobile communication device comprising such a radio frequency signal handling device. The radio frequency signal handling device comprises a first terminal interfacing external entities in the form of an input where rad... | 02/21/2012 |
| 7937055 | Timeshifting for a multiple-tuner vehicle radio system Methods and apparatus are provided for timeshifting audio content in a multiple tuner audio system comprising a first tuner and a second tuner. One operating method involves maintaining a first data storage element for the first tuner, maintaining a second data stor... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7720452 | Reception circuit, radio-controlled timepiece, and reception circuit control method A reception circuit can receive a plurality of standard time signals and has a reception means for selectively receiving and demodulating any one of the plural standard time signals, and a control means for outputting a control signal that controls the reception mea... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7515887 | Radio-controlled timepiece In a radio-controlled timepiece, a tuning unit outputs a signal corresponding to a radio signal. An amplifier unit amplifies a signal output from the tuning unit. A receiving unit that extracts the time code from the amplified signal has a filter unit that selective... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7447489 | Digital tuner A digital tuner of a digital broadcast receiver provided. The digital tuner includes: an IB IF unit for converting an IB signal of the RF signal output into an ID IF signal; an OOB IF unit for converting an OOB signal of the RF signal output into an OOB IF signal. T... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7437134 | Tuner arrangement A tuner arrangement is provided comprising one or more tuners. Each tuner has two or more frequency changers, each comprising a mixer and a local oscillator. A controller controls the local oscillators in response to receipt of a channel select request. The controll... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7403756 | Highly-integrated MEMS-based miniaturized transceiver The present invention is directed to a highly-integrated MEMS-based miniaturized transceiver. The transceiver utilizes a low band front-end to direct sample low band signals and a high band front-end to translate high band signals that cannot be directly sampled to ... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7369827 | System and method for communicating stored power measurement parameters between devices in a communications system During tuner manufacture, the unique power parameters as a function of frequency and channel are stored on a memory unique to each tuner. When the tuner is subsequently incorporated into another device, such as a modem, the stored power parameters are made available... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366478 | Partitioned radio-frequency apparatus and associated methods Radio-frequency (RF) apparatus includes receiver analog circuitry that receives an RF signal and provides at least one digital signal to receiver digital circuitry that functions in cooperation with the receiver analog circuitry. The receiver analog circuitry and th... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363015 | Wide-frequency-range television tuner A television tuner includes a tuning circuit having two first varactor diodes for changing a tuning frequency, a mixer for converting a television signal to an intermediate frequency signal, an oscillator having a second varactor diode, and a PLL circuit for outputt... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7304533 | Integrated channel filter using multiple resonant filters and method of operation A circuit includes a first filter comprising a first inductor coupled to a first variable capacitor, wherein the first filter is associated with a first resonant frequency. The circuit further comprises an amplifier coupled to the first filter and a second filter co... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7292829 | Power amplifier efficiency The present invention relates to a method and an arrangement for optimizing the efficiency of a power amplifier (1) that is utilized for transmission of radio signals in a portable radio communication device, such as a mobile phone. The impedance loading the ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7292831 | Radio communicate method and system A transmitter 1 transmits from a transmission antenna 7 a mixture signal containing a radio-frequency (RF)-band modulated signal, and a portion of power of a local oscillation signal used for frequency conversion. Meanwhile, a receiver 8 detects... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7286804 | Receiver digital-analog converter and tuning circuit An object of the present invention is to provide a receiver, a digital-analog converter and a tuning circuit in which temperature compensating components can be formed on a semiconductor substrate while reducing component costs. An FM receiver 100 is constitu... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7236756 | Tuning signal generator and method thereof A front end tuning system includes a tuning signal generator. The tuning signal generator includes a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) to receive a pre-conditioned tuning signal at a reference input, to receive a digital value at a digital control input, and to prod... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7212793 | Radio reception apparatus and radio reception method A radio reception apparatus is a radio reception apparatus for demodulating a multicarrier signal modulated according to multicarrier modulation. It includes a plurality of antenna sections, each for receiving a multicarrier signal, a plurality of carrier selection ... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7196739 | Multi-channel tuner apparatus A multi-channel tuner apparatus is provided which is capable of simultaneously and independently selecting a plurality of channels for reception. The apparatus comprises a plurality of tuners, each of which converts a selected channel to a near-zero intermediate fre... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7161416 | Programmable filter A filter wherein the poles and zeroes are programmable in a high speed control loop to form a particular desired filter profile. The control loop retrains the filter's poles and zeroes during the “off” time between the reception or transmission time slots. Desir... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7120407 | Receiver and its tracking adjusting method A receiver such that the period required for tracking adjustment, temperature compensation is not needed, and tracking errors due to fluctuation of the power supply voltage are prevented from increasing, and a tracking adjusting method for the receiver. A DAC 4 | 10/10/2006 |
| 7095454 | Broadband single conversion tuner integrated circuits A tunable receiver is disclosed including a plurality of select filters to perform an initial band selection, a variable-gain low noise amplifier (LNA) whose gain is controlled to prevent its output power level to exceed a pre-determined power threshold, a plurality... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7046960 | Relay apparatus While a spectrum waveform of an output signal from a subtracter (207) is visibly monitored, an operator controls a variable phases shifter (208) based upon a second control signal (CL2) so that a shape of a spectrum waveform of an output signal ... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7002639 | Dual digital television tuner A dual digital television tuner includes first and second direct conversion circuits, each having a pair of mixers and a local oscillator, in which a digital television signal is input to the pair of mixers, which directly output baseband signals. The first direct c... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6950639 | Local oscillator for generating an HF signal for direct mixing by using avalanche photodiodes A local oscillator for use in an optoelectronic distance measurement system for generating a narrow-band HF signal for direct signal mixing with a reception signal generated by an avalanche photodiode (2) from a light signal impinging on the latter, with the ... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6927805 | Compactly-designed television receiver A television receiver intended to decrease the number of expensive SAW filters to achieve low cost and a compact design. A trap circuit is interposed between a mixer and a SAW filter. During reception of a television signal, one of the trap frequencies at which the ... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6925291 | Electronic alignment system for a television signal tuner An electronic alignment system for a television signal tuner utilizes first and second controllers for generating respective first and second control signals for respective first and second signal processing circuits of a signal processing arrangement, with the firs... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6925289 | Broadcast receiver and channel scanning method A channel scanning method in a multi-channel digital broadcast is provided for enabling a user to identify the broadcast contents of a channel being currently received with accuracy during the channel scan, even though the broadcast contents may change within a chan... | 08/02/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6822697 | Television tuner that generates no interfering signal Needless signal that causes interference is prevented from entering to eliminate the generation of interfering signal. A television tuner is provided with a band switching circuit to which television signals of a plurality of channels arranged in a predetermined fre... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6799022 | Input circuit for FM/AM radio receiver An input circuit for an AM/FM radio receiver having an FM intermediate frequency rejection circuit and an AM image frequency rejection circuit, an FM input circuit for receiving frequency-modulated input signals and an AM input circuit for receiving amplitude-modula... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6760079 | TV tuner unit having a resonance network A TV tuner unit uses a frequency-selective element before or after the resonance stage of either a UHF or VHF tuner for separation of UHF signals from VHF signals. Thus, performance is preserved while eliminating the need for circuitry including high and low pass fi... | 07/06/2004 |
| 6737945 | Digital broadcast receiving tuner suitable for miniaturization by placing tuner units on oppos surfaces on a board A low-priced digital broadcast receiving tuner suitable for miniaturization will be provided. According to the present invention, it is possible to provide a low-priced digital broadcast receiving tuner having higher productivity as well as a less number of componen... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6625431 | Tuner device A phase-locked loop (PLL) tuning controller monitors a voltage value of an automatic frequency control (AFC) signal, and detects a first frequency at which a first threshold voltage value accords with the AFC voltage value while varying an oscillation fre... | 09/23/2003 |
| 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 |
| 6535722 | Television tuner employing micro-electro-mechanically-switched tuning matrix A tuning circuit, as for a television receiver or video recorder, employs switchable tuning circuits including micro-electronic electro-mechanical switches for selecting the ones of an array of capacitors and/or inductors as is useful in tunable circuits.... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6456832 | Antenna circuit An antenna circuit which is improved the deterioration of amplitude characteristic in a strong electric field, an antenna circuit for AM broadcasting which can surely inhibit and damp FM-band signals in the strong electric field and amplifies to output AM... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6424824 | Apparatus for setting the tuning voltage of tunable resonant circuits A setting apparatus for setting the tuning voltage of a tunable resonant circuit has an amplification device which amplifies an oscillator tuning voltage, output by a phase locked loop, nonlinearly to produce the tuning voltage. The gain of the amplificat... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6400419 | Television tuner system In a television tuner system, a printed board is disposed within a frame having a side plate. A tuner and an intermediate frequency circuit are disposed adjacent to each other on the printed board. The tuner has a mixer and a local oscillator. The interme... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6321077 | Reception control system for automobile A reception control system for automobiles according to the present invention includes tuners for a plurality of receivers for receiving various types of waves including at least an AM/FM broadcast wave, a TV broadcast wave and a GPS wave. The tuners are ... | 11/20/2001 |
| 6317168 | Digital TV receiver for performing channel selection using stored channel information and method performing the same Disclosed is a digital TV receiver performing a channel selection using stored channel information and a method for selecting a channel. With respect to a broadcasting signal which is not being currently viewed, the receiver activated at a predetermined p... | 11/13/2001 |
