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| 8175560 | Method and system for tuning an antenna Method and system for tuning a tunable antenna uses a comparison between a signal response at two different tuning frequencies to determine how or if the tuning needs to be further adjusted. With the approach, the method and system arrive at a frequency shift that i... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8131237 | Radio wave receiving apparatus Disclosed is a radio wave receiving apparatus including: an antenna to receive a radio wave; a tuning member to allow a reception frequency of the antenna to be tuned to an intended frequency, in which tuning member a frequency characteristic is variable; a receivin... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8103233 | Tuner The present disclosure relates to a tuner capable of receiving a television broadcasting signal of a wide band having an operating frequency bandwidth of 48 MHz˜1 GHz, wherein the tuner filters a radio frequency (RF) signal outputted from the low noise amplifier us... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8081941 | Method and system for RF front-end calibration scheme using fractional-N frequency synthesized signals and RSSI Aspects of a method and system for an RF front-end calibration scheme using signals from a fractional-N frequency synthesized and received signal strength indicator (RSSI) are provided. A frequency synthesizer within a wireless receiver may generate a signal for dyn... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8081940 | Method and system for dynamically tuning and calibrating an antenna using an on-chip digitally controlled array of capacitors Methods and systems for dynamically tuning and calibrating an antenna using on-chip digitally controlled array of capacitors are disclosed. Aspects of one method may include dynamically tuning a mobile terminal antenna (MTA) using on-chip arrays of capacitive device... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8073415 | Tunable receiving apparatus and method therefor A tunable receiving apparatus, includes a variable capacitative member, a tunable antenna having a resonant frequency controlled by the variable capacitative member, a tuner outputting a control signal related to a receiving-sensitivity of the tunable antenna, and a... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8068800 | Adaptive impedance matching (AIM) for electrically small radio receiver antennas A method of tuning an antenna circuit includes: (a) receiving a signal on an antenna, (b) producing a received signal strength indication based on the received signal, (c) using the received signal strength indication to produce a control voltage, (d) using the cont... | 11/29/2011 |
| 7917112 | Method and system for dynamically tuning and calibrating an antenna using antenna hopping Methods and systems for dynamically tuning and calibrating an antenna using antenna hopping are disclosed. In this regard, in a wireless device comprising an antenna that is configurable into a plurality of configurations, determining a subset of the configurations,... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7877070 | Method and system for tuning an antenna using injection Certain aspects of a method and system for tuning an antenna using injection may include mixing a received DVB-H signal with a reference oscillator signal to generate an added DVB-H signal. A mixed signal may be generated from the added DVB-H signal using the refere... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7848721 | Antenna damping circuit and high frequency receiver employing same An antenna damping circuit in which the frequency characteristics of damping amount can be made substantially flat by providing a resistor (Ra) between PIN diodes (D1, D2) having a resistance varying upon application of a control voltage (Vc) and a cap... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7813708 | Tuner module An RF input portion is formed on a printed circuit board and is operable to input a high-frequency signal received by an antenna device. An electronic component is mounted on the printed circuit and is operable to process the input high-frequency signal. The RF inpu... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7796963 | Mobile station acquisition state antenna tuning systems and methods Wireless communication device tuning an antenna matching circuit to favor a receive band efficiency over a transmit band efficiency in an acquisition state. Systems and methods are provided that increase the antenna efficiency in the receive band when the wireless c... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7761070 | Amplifier device for an antenna operable in at least one mode An amplifier device for a mode antenna has a number of amplifiers and a number of outputs. An input signal is fed to each amplifier, which is amplified by the respective amplifier into an amplified input signal. The amplified input signals are fed to an output matri... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7689188 | Method and system for dynamically tuning and calibrating an antenna using antenna hopping Methods and systems for dynamically tuning and calibrating an antenna using antenna hopping are disclosed. Aspects of one method may include dynamically tuning a mobile terminal antenna, to antenna hop to a plurality of different center frequencies to receive RF sig... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7680472 | Device and method for receiving and processing RF signals, a method for providing digital calibration values for such a device and a receiver incorporating the device A device for receiving a RF signal over multiple channels, a receiver incorporating the device, a method of providing digital calibration values for a digitally-tunable resonant circuit of the device, and a method of processing an RF signal. In one embodiment the de... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7668521 | Method and system for RF front-end calibration scheme using fractional-N frequency synthesized signals and RSSI Aspects of a method and system for an RF front-end calibration scheme using signals from a fractional-N frequency synthesized and received signal strength indicator (RSSI) are provided. A frequency synthesizer within a wireless receiver may generate a signal for dyn... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7603091 | Hybrid balun apparatus and receiver comprising the same The present invention relates to a hybrid balun apparatus and a receiver thereof. The hybrid balun apparatus comprises a passive unit, a first active unit, and a second active unit. The passive unit receives an input signal, and outputs an in-phase signal having an ... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7583942 | Tuning device and radio-wave corrected timepiece A tuning apparatus is provided, wherein the on and off resistances of semiconductor switches within an tuning IC are optimized, so as to provide high sensitivity and superior stability, a wide range of tuned frequency variation, compactness and high performance. The... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7577411 | Mobile station access and idle state antenna tuning systems and methods Wireless communication device tuning an antenna matching circuit responsive to a receive signal quality indicator and, optionally, responsive to a failed access probe is provided. Systems and methods are provided that increase the antenna efficiency in either the tr... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7505746 | IC receiver to minimize tracking error A multi-band receiver in which characteristics including a tracking error are improved is provided with a variable frequency oscillator circuit, a variable divider circuit (39) for dividing an oscillation signal (SVCO) of the variable frequency oscillator cir... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7444118 | Electronic communications system In order that an electronic communications system (100) equipped with: [a.1] at least one base station (10), to which [a.2] at least one LC resonant circuit (13, 16) [a.2.1] with at least one antenna unit (16) in the form of a coil, and [... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7433332 | Managed microcell wireless mesh network architecture A wireless network with tiered centralized control is provided. The wireless network includes a controlling node and a plurality of participant nodes. Each participant node includes an electronically steerable antenna. The plurality of participant nodes report vario... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7426373 | Electrically tuned resonance circuit using piezo and magnetostrictive materials An impedance tuning system, especially for a cellular telephone system. The system can be used to match the impedance of an antenna element with that of an output stage of a transmitter driving the antenna element. The system includes a piezo capacitor in parallel w... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7409197 | Transceiver with receive path overload protection and method A transceiver includes a detuning circuit to generate an impedance mismatch in a receive signal path in response to a control signal provided by loop-control circuitry. The loop-control circuitry generates the control signal based on a comparison of detected peak si... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7369828 | Electronically tunable quad-band antennas for handset applications An electronically tunable quad-band antenna which includes a tunable high band antenna tuned by at least one tunable varactor associated therewith; the tunable high band antenna further includes a substrate, a patch element on said substrate, at least one voltage tu... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366473 | Method and apparatus for diversity switching control A method and apparatus for diversity switching control are generally described herein. According to one embodiment, a diversity control network is introduced which effectively reduces the number of coaxial cables required to interface with N antennas from the conven... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7359681 | Transmitting apparatus and method of mobile communication terminal A mobile communication terminal transmitter comprises a detecting unit for detecting at least one of a first power level and a first power of reflection; a baseband signal processing unit for outputting at least one of a bias voltage and a power control signal, wher... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7349691 | System and apparatus for performing broadcast and localcast communications Described is a communication system including mobile communication devices. In the described system, the mobile devices many be wrist-worn watches such as are in common use today, except that the watches are specially configured to receive data in a “broadcast” ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349675 | Low latency data stream encoding and transmission Described is a communication system including mobile communication devices. In the described system, the mobile devices may be wrist-worn watches such as are in common use today, except that the watches are specially configured to receive data in a “broadcast” m... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7333835 | Method and apparatus for providing user specific downlink beamforming in a fixed beam network The disclosed embodiments relate to a system and method for providing user specific beams in a fixed beam network. In one embodiment, there is provided a mobile transceiver comprising a first device configured to receive phase reference signal data from a base stati... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7330708 | Tuning circuit with amplitude attenuation function and integrated circuit for radio communication apparatus There is disclosed a tuning circuit having a coil and a capacitor comprises a resistance-adjustment circuit connected in parallel with the coil and the capacitor. The resistance-adjustment circuit changes a resistance of the tuning circuit when resonant. The resista... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7315564 | Analog signal separator for UWB versus narrowband signals A system, method, and computer program product for removing “narrowband” interference from a broader spectrum containing a UWB signal, in a receiver of the UWB signal. The RFI is extracted from a broader spectrum to remove interference from the UWB signal, by em... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7295822 | Radio wave receiver, radio-controlled timepiece and tuning capacitance setting method A radio wave receiver for receiving radio waves having a predetermined frequency, the receiver comprises an antenna, an variable capacitor connected to the antenna, a memory, and a controller which determines an optimum capacitance of the variable capacitor with whi... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295251 | Television tuner capable of improving image disturbance with receiving UHF band The present invention provides to provide a television tuner capable of improving image disturbance when receiving a UHF band television signal. The television tuner comprises a tuning circuit having a tuning circuit having two varactor diodes connected in series wi... | 11/13/2007 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7269396 | Method and device for suppressing multipath interference in a receiver for electromagnetic waves A method and a device for a receiver for electromagnetic waves having at least two antennas are described; using this method and this device it is possible to effectively suppress multipath interference, while a portion of the antenna signals may also be utilized fo... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7269399 | Receiver of double conversion system with antenna tuning with variable capacitance using digital-to-analog converter having temperature coefficient setting section A receiver of double conversion system wherein unwanted components included in received signals can be removed without fail and wherein the number of constituent parts has been reduced. The receiver comprises an antenna tuning circuit 10 including a tuning co... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7263339 | Tuner comprising a voltage converter The invention relates to a tuner for converting a radio frequency signal into an intermediate frequency signal, said tuner comprising a voltage converter supplying a control signal, a mixer associated with an oscillator which is voltage-controlled by said control si... | 08/28/2007 |
