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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7567788 | Transmitter and receiver gain calibration by means of feedback in a transceiver The invention relates to gain calibration in a transceiver unit (100) having a transmitter unit and a receiver unit and a feed back coupling (165) between these. A signal level measurement unit (163) measures signal levels of a feedback signal t... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7551908 | High-frequency signal level detection apparatus and high-frequency signal receiver apparatus using the same In a high-frequency signal level detection apparatus for detecting an inputted signal level of a high-frequency signal, an AGC circuit executes an AGC on an intermediate frequency (IF) signal obtained by converting a frequency of a received high-frequency signal, us... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7515889 | Scaling adjustment using pilot signal A demodulator (10) converts television signals to video baseband signals and audio baseband signals including stereo signals representing a right channel signal value, a left channel signal value and a pilot signal having an amplitude. A DSP (60) recur... | 04/07/2009 |
| 6909761 | Digital communication system having improved pilot encoding A time division multiple access communication system is provided having multiple sub-channels according to known quadrature amplitude modulation techniques. Each sub-channel has a pre-determined time duration and is divided by a pre-determined number of symbol posit... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6859238 | Scaling adjustment to enhance stereo separation A demodulator (10) converts television signals to video baseband signals and audio baseband signals including stereo signals representing a right channel signal value and a left channel signal value. A DSP (60) recursively finds a preferred coefficient... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6832078 | Scaling adjustment using pilot signal A demodulator (10) converts television signals to video baseband signals and audio baseband signals including stereo signals representing a right channel signal value, a left channel signal value and a pilot signal having an amplitude. A DSP (60) recur... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6567118 | Frequency agile adaptive automatic gain control circuit An amplifier (125) includes at least one gain stage (210) for amplifying a signal received by the amplifier (125). The amplifier (125) also includes an AGC circuit (400, 500) that adjusts the amplification of the gain stage (210). The AGC circuit (400, 50... | 05/20/2003 |
| 5634191 | Self-adjusting RF repeater arrangements for wireless telephone systems An RF repeater arrangement for exchanging transmit and receive signals between a handset and a base station in a wireless telephone system automatically compensates for attenuation losses. The RF repeater arrangement includes first and second RF repeater ... | 05/27/1997 |
| 5546421 | Self compensating spread-spectrum hybrid A communications station (10) couples a bidirectional input-output signal path (16') to two unidirectional signal paths; a transmit signal path (12') and a receive signal path (14'), using a controllable hybrid (20). A feedback control system in the stati... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5440586 | Receiver having reduced influence of oscillator radiation and parasitic crosstalk effects on gain control Receiver having an RF input for applying an RF input carrier thereto, which receiver is coupled to a phase-locked loop (PLL) whose signal path incorporates a phase detector, a loop filter, a controlled amplifier and a controlled oscillator, and a signal g... | 08/08/1995 |
| 5093930 | Directly mixing synchronous AM receiver A directly mixing synchronous AM receiver includes a synchronous demodulator coupled to an antenna input for synchronously demodulating an RF-AM reception carrier and a phase-locked loop (PLL) incorporating a phase detection arrangement, a loop filter, a ... | 03/03/1992 |
| 4707730 | Sync extraction for a broadcasting system with time multiplexing of digital and analog signals In a broadcasting system with time division multiplexing of digital signals containing a synchronization pattern and analog signals, sync extraction is achieved with a process including detecting the extreme values of the signals to be subjected to decodi... | 11/17/1987 |
| 4481678 | Signal receiving circuit for optical communication A signal receiving circuit for optical communication, which receives light modulated with frequencies corresponding to two values, to receive data, comprises an addition circuit provided in the front stage of a demodulator, the addition circuit adapted to... | 11/06/1984 |
| 4355417 | Squelch control circuit for amplitude modulated RF receivers A noise squelching circuit for an AM radio in which a phase-locked loop extracts a tone signal which gates an audio frequency amplifier. Tone injection can be accomplished either by frequency modulating the intermediate frequency signal or the output of t... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4031469 | Receiver gain calibration Receivers with bilateral input stages, such as microwave receivers that are used in noise and RF interference measuring instruments, are gain calibrated in the field by injecting a fixed level calibration signal at the IF frequency into the circuitry betw... | 06/21/1977 |
| 4030035 | Circuit for preventing output clipping of R.F. stage in radio receiver In a receiver comprising a radio frequency amplifier stage, a frequency converter stage, an intermediate frequency amplifier stage and a detector, so that the gains of the radio frequency amplifier stage and the intermediate frequency amplifier stage are ... | 06/14/1977 |
| 3965422 | System channel distortion weighting for predetection combiners A tropo system channel distortion weighting apparatus for predetection combiners for modifying the predetection combiner algorithm to improve the output carrier to noise ratio in the presence of signal distortion.... | 06/22/1976 |
