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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7643809 | Method and apparatus for tuning RF integrated LC filters Using low impedance switches and coupling to a virtual ground, one or more capacitors are selectively switched into or out of an inductive-capacitive resonant circuit portion of an integrated circuit filter to alter the resonant frequency based on a phase difference... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7389091 | High-frequency amplification circuit A resonance circuit comprising, for example, an inductor and a plurality of capacitors is provided as a load of a transistor. The capacitors are changed over by a switch. As the capacitors are changed over by the switch, a resonance frequency is changed according to... | 06/17/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7248838 | Wireless communication system within a system on a chip A communication system for transmitting data between cores embedded in an integrated circuit on a silicon chip. Communication system includes transmitter circuitry for wirelessly transmitting data between cores and receiver circuitry for wirelessly receiving the tra... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7245891 | Wireless mobile communication device having a speaker vibration alert and method of using same A mobile wireless communication device has a speaker that functions as a vibration alert in addition to an audio output device. The speaker is selected from a group of speakers having variation in mechanical vibration resonant frequency. A drive signal sweeps back a... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7228119 | Apparatus and method for a radio frequency (RF) receiver front end pre-selector tuning for improving the reduction in intermodulation distortion (IMD) A system and method of improving the rejection of intermodulation (IM) distortion in receivers (100) employing varactor tuning preselecters by exploiting the attenuating properties of a tunable preselecter at specific voltages. The invention takes advantage o... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7190933 | Method and apparatus for automatic tuning of a resonant loop antenna in a transceiver circuit Disclosed is a circuit and method for automatic tuning of a resonant circuit in a transceiver having a receiver and a transmitter that includes a power amplifier for driving the resonant circuit. During a transmit mode of the transceiver, a resonance voltage of the ... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7184733 | High frequency receiving device, integrated circuit used for the same, and TV receiver using them An oscillation frequency changing means is inserted between a tuner and an oscillator of local oscillator (56) of a high frequency receiving device, and the oscillation frequency changing means, in each frequency band received, changes the oscillation frequen... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7171178 | Tuning circuit having amplitude-varying function A tuning circuit having an amplitude-varying function is disclosed that comprises a coil, a capacitor, and a resistance-adjusting element connected in parallel to the coil and the capacitor for varying resistance at time of resonance of the tuning circuit, wherein t... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7146137 | High-frequency switch To provide a high frequency switch capable of dealing with multiple frequency bands without having plurality of switch circuits. A first diode that conducts due to a bias current when a first switch is closed is interposed between first signal terminal and a second ... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7142833 | Matching unit A matching unit includes a switching means for switching an inductance of a first inductor. This switching means sets an inductance such that a first inductor shows an inductance property to both of the VHF low-band and high-band, and shows a capacitance property to... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7116954 | Tunable bandpass filter and method thereof The present invention provides a tunable bandpass filter and method thereof. In a preferred embodiment, the tunable bandpass filter uses variable ferro-electric capacitors to adjust both the passband and the notch across the normal operating range of a wireless comm... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7103320 | Wireless communication system within a system on a chip A communication system (8) for transmitting data between cores (10) embedded in an integrated circuit on a silicon chip (12). Communication system (8) includes transmitter circuitry (24) for wirelessly transmitting data between cor... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7088984 | Electronic tuner An electronic tuner of the present invention is arranged such that between an input part of the amplifying circuit and the ground serially connected are a coil and a diode, and a capacitor is connected between the ground and a connecting part between the coil and th... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7065331 | Resonator configuration A resonator system and method are provided which includes/uses a tunable reference resonator, parts for tuning the reference resonator to a reference value via a controlled variable for the reference resonator, a tunable circuit resonator, and parts for tuning the c... | 06/20/2006 |
| 6940358 | Method and apparatus for tuning RF integrated LC filters Using low impedance switches and coupling to a virtual ground, one or more capacitors are selectively switched into or out of an inductive-capacitive resonant circuit portion of an integrated circuit filter to alter the resonant frequency based on a phase difference... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6933984 | Television tuner which maintains UHF band tuning circuit bandwidth constant in low to high band range A tuning circuit's bandwidth is maintained almost constant throughout a UHF low to high band range so as to prevent interference by a neighboring channel, particularly in receiving high band television signals, and also to improve NF in receiving low band television... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6889036 | Integrated frequency selectable resonant coupling network and method thereof An integrated center frequency selectable resonant coupling network suited for use in an integrated circuit is disclosed. The network includes an integrated coupling transformer having a secondary winding for coupling to a load and a primary winding for coupling to ... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6750734 | Methods and apparatus for tuning an LC filter A receiver, such as a television receiver, tunes an inductive (“L”) and capacitive (“C”) filter based on a desired frequency. The LC filter includes a plurality of inductors, configured in at least one inductive (“L”) bank, and a plurality of capacitors ... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6615031 | Heterodyne stage for high-frequency receivers In a heterodyne stage having a separating filter providing broadband termination for an output of a mixer, a resistance having the value of a system impedance is arranged between the separating filter and a following intermediate-frequency filter, the res... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6393264 | Radio terminal apparatus A portable radio terminal apparatus for transmitting and receiving signals in different frequency ranges which has an apparatus for switching the radio terminal apparatus over into a respective frequency range, an antenna and a first antenna matching circ... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6343208 | Printed multi-band patch antenna The present invention provides a miniature, built-in multi-band antenna which is suitable for use in future compact mobile terminals. According to exemplary embodiments, a built-in patch antenna is provided which includes patch elements of different sizes... | 01/29/2002 |
| 6134427 | Using a single low-noise amplifier in a multi-band wireless station A wireless communication device, such as a dual-mode cellular phone, receives radio frequency (RF) signals in either of two communication bands. Each received RF signal is passed to two bandpass filters, one for each communication band, the outputs of whi... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6125269 | TV FM receiver for multimedia applications A receiver for receiving both first-type reception signals, for example TV signals, and second-type reception signals, for example, FM-radio signals. The receiver may be used in multimedia applications. In the receiver, a reception signal is fed via an in... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6122493 | Radio receiver having automatic broadcasting-station selecting function The capacitance value of a variable capacitance element of an RF tuning circuit is controlled in accordance with a control signal Vx. When an automatic search start signal is supplied to a frequency control circuit, frequencies of the local oscillation si... | 09/19/2000 |
| 6064866 | Switchable bandpass filter for a multiband tuner To achieve a high passband attenuation, a switchable bandpass filter for a multiband tuner, includes at least a capacitance diode for frequency-tuning of at least a resonant circuit of the bandpass filter, and a switching diode arranged at the input and t... | 05/16/2000 |
| 5999793 | Satellite receiver tuner chip with frequency synthesizer having an externally configurable charge pump The problems outlined above are in large part solved by an improved DBS receiver front end architecture having a tuner chip and a demodulator/decoder chip. The front end includes a frequency synthesizer with an externally configurable charge pump on the t... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5978663 | Antenna tuning circuit An antenna tuning circuit of a tuner with a band switching device, which can eliminate an image disturbance and a disturbance due to a UHF band frequency at reception of a high band and further eliminate a disturbance at a frequency higher than the image ... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5739874 | Tuning system for a digital satellite receiver with fine tuning provisions An economical tuning system for a digital satellite television receiver includes a phase locked loop (PLL) tuning control IC of the which is normally used in a tuning system of a conventional terrestrial broadcast or cable television reciever to control t... | 04/14/1998 |
| 5548821 | Adaptive system for self-tuning and selecting a carrier frequency in a radio frequency communication system A system for adaptive self-tuning of a receiver in a radio communication system. Prior to transmission of each data packet from a transmitter to a receiver, the transmitter generates a sequence of predefined test bytes (test sequence) n times at an initia... | 08/20/1996 |
| 5524288 | Tuning of a radio receiver The present invention relates to a method of tuning a radio receiver to a desired frequency. The frequency of each tuning circuit in the radio receiver is controlled by controlling the capacitance diodes of the tuning circuits. The control is accomplished... | 06/04/1996 |
| 5491715 | Automatic antenna tuning method and circuit A method of matching the resonant frequency of an antenna resonant circuit (18, 46) to the output frequency of a transmitter output stage (26), the method includes the step of providing a powering signal from the transmitter output stage (26) to the anten... | 02/13/1996 |
| 5438699 | Adaptive system for self-tuning a receiver in an RF communication system A system for adaptive self-tuning of a receiver in a radio communication system. Prior to transmission of each data package from a transmitter to a receiver, the transmitter generates a sequence of predefined test bytes (test sequence) n times. An identic... | 08/01/1995 |
| 5428829 | Method and apparatus for tuning and aligning an FM receiver A method for tuning and aligning an electronically tuned FM broadcast receiver is described. The system described compensates for the mismatch of component values between the antenna and RF amplifier tuned circuits, and the IF offset between the local osc... | 06/27/1995 |
| 5408688 | Method and a device pertaining to an electro-mechanically controlled resonance module Method and apparatus in mobile telephone system including base stations with a plurality of resonance modules, for separately adjusting each resonance module to its own frequency for receiving and expediting telephone signals at this frequency. In each re... | 04/18/1995 |
| 5399977 | Microwave power source apparatus for microwave oscillator comprising means for automatically adjusting progressive wave power and control method therefor In a microwave power source apparatus for a microwave oscillator for generating a microwave, a DC power source supplies a DC power for generating the microwave to the microwave oscillator. A measuring section of a voltage standing wave detector is mounted... | 03/21/1995 |
| 5349700 | Antenna tuning system for operation over a predetermined frequency range A tunable antenna system operates over a predetermined frequency range with an antenna having a length and width each significantly less than a quarter wavelength within the predetermined frequency range. A controllable reactive element is coupled to the ... | 09/20/1994 |
