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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7894786 | Gain controlled and multi-band processing receiver Provided is a receiver capable of automatically controlling a gain of the receiver and receiving three or more band signals. A gain controlled receiver includes a low noise amplifier, a first variable gain control amplifier, a frequency mixer, a filter, a second var... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7787850 | Multi-input multi-output transceiver with power consumption management based on receiver parameter and method for use therewith An integrated circuit (IC) includes a plurality of RF receivers for receiving a corresponding one of a plurality of received signals. Each of the plurality of the RF receivers includes an AGC module that generates an automatic gain control (AGC) signal based on the ... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7787849 | Power consumption management based on receiver parameter and method for use therewith An integrated circuit (IC) includes an RF receiver having an AGC module that generates an automatic gain control (AGC) signal based on a strength of a received signal, and a low noise amplifier that amplifies the received signal based on the AGC signal. A processing... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7738849 | Output impedance insensitive power amplifier architecture An apparatus and method for adapting a power amplifier to a variable load includes comparing the actual output power to the expected output power, modifying a drive signal to the power amplifier, measuring the value of at least one electrical parameter, determining ... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7463872 | Methods and apparatus for controlling a gain state of a wireless receiver operating in an idle mode The settling time of a wireless receiver is reduced by providing a previously utilized gain control state value to a low noise amplifier (LNA) of a receiver front end during a warm-up portion of a wake-up period of the wireless receiver which follows a sleep period.... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7457598 | Signal amplifier system for a broadcast receiver A signal amplifier system is provided for a mobile or portable broadcast receiver. The signal amplifier system includes an operational circuitry, a signal generator and a voltage supply. The signal generator receives a field strength signal that indicates a field st... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7436913 | Automatic gain control apparatus The present invention relates an automatic gain control device, which performs a high-speed gain control operation in high-speed data communication using burst signals, generates a gain code without using a memory or storage device to simplify a system configuration... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7433702 | Power status for wireless communications A wireless local area network (LAN) is operated so that a mobile terminal (MT) transmits various power-related information over an air interface to a power status repository (PSR) of the wireless local area network (LAN). For example, in one aspect of the invention,... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7430403 | Method and apparatus for hysteresis control A hysteresis control method for a control system includes setting an arbitrary reference value for an existing position of a control width and calculating a difference between a present input value and the arbitrary reference value. A direction of increase/decrease ... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7430404 | Tuner circuit and digital broadcast receiver with the same A tuner circuit according to the invention includes two AGC control units supplying AGC voltages V1 and V2 to an AGC amplifier, respectively. When the AGC voltage V1 is higher the AGC voltage V2, a voltage on a cathode of a diode becomes ... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7418242 | Transmission device and gain control method An apparatus that can lower the possibility of failing reception modulation in communication where data is transmitted with and without directivity and prevent deterioration of transmission efficiency caused by retransmission. With this apparatus, a gain control sig... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7406300 | Extending wireless communication RF coverage inside building A wireless communication system includes at least one repeater antenna assembly for providing adequate RF coverage within a building, such as a home. An example repeater antenna assembly has an automatically adjustable gain that is controlled responsive to a pathlos... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7403759 | Method for the filtering of noise from measured signals The present invention concerns a method for eliminating interference in measuring signals (SM) which are corrupted by pulsed interference signals (SST) having a known or determinable interference pulse interval (TSt), whereby the det... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7400870 | Hardware loop for automatic gain control A hardware control loop (19) derives an AGC setting for a communication receiver based on signal strength information (16), without incurring program execution delay of a baseband processor. ... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7389093 | Call method, call apparatus and call system A call apparatus, a call method and a call system, are disclosed, in which the problem otherwise caused by fixed setting of the sound volume level of the BGM or the effect sound with respect to the call voice may be overcome. A decoded output of a decoder 17 ... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7386285 | Automatic gain control adaptive for plural modulation schemes An AGC circuit controls LNA and VGA amplifiers such that a received signal is converted at a high speed with tracking errors prevented according to each modulation scheme. The AGC circuit generates LNA and VGA control signals controlling the LNA and VGA amplifiers, ... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7386288 | Input signal detecting apparatus and method An input signal detecting apparatus and method in a digital receiver is provided. The input signal detecting apparatus includes an outer AGC for receiving an input signal and thereby controlling gains of RF and IF AGC amplifiers and generating an IF AGC gain value; ... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7373127 | Digital beam forming for communications systems An antenna-receiver communications system and method is provided to mechanize multibeam mobile antenna-receive subsystems. Digital beam forming for modern wideband mobile communications systems is provided. In an aspect, subsystems can simultaneously receive, acquir... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7366483 | System and method for RF power control The present invention provides a system and method for radio frequency (RF) power control that can adjust and transmit the RF power to the transmitting device according to the data rate under which the RF signal is going to transmit. ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366263 | Radio communication terminal and radio signal receiving method When a radio communication terminal including an AGC receiver starts, a set gain of the AGC receiver is switched in a short updating period. At this time, the terminal switches among antennas, and calculates and stores a received power of a received radio signal thr... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7359692 | Method of and device for antennae diversity switching The invention relates to the field of wireless communications, more particularly to a method of and device for switching between antennae in communication with a diversity receiver, each of the antennae receiving signals transmitted from a single source. A packet fr... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359686 | Radio-frequency amplifier system A device for measuring voltage levels includes a root mean square (RMS) detector. The RMS detector includes a linear multiplier, a log converter, a low-pass filter and a temperature compensator. The linear multiplier multiplies a voltage of an input signal by the vo... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356321 | Radio frequency tuner A radio frequency tuner is provided for selecting channels from a cable distribution network or other reception system. The tuner has one or more stages whose performance, such as signal to noise plus intermodulation, and gain are functions of the stage power consum... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356110 | Gain control method for a receiver of signals transmitted in bursts and receiver exploiting it The method is applicable to a receiver (1) of signals corresponding to packets of digital data transmitted in bursts, which comprises an analogue pickup subassembly (3) connected to a digital processing subassembly (8) by means for converting an... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356315 | Outphasing modulators and methods of outphasing modulation In one exemplary embodiment of the invention, an outphasing modulator may include at least a multiplier to multiply an amplitude modulation signal by a phase modulated carrier signal to generate a modulated signal. The outphasing modulator may also include a phase s... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7353010 | Techniques for fast automatic gain control An automatic gain control (AGC) technique can quickly sense signal size over a large dynamic range by using a peak detector block in the analog portion of the receiver. The peak detector block can compare a received signal to predetermined thresholds (chosen to divi... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353169 | Transient detection and modification in audio signals A system and method are disclosed for transient detection and modification in audio signals. Digital signal processing techniques are used to detect transients and modify an audio signal to enhance or suppress such transients, as desired. A transient audio event is ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7333467 | Receiver circuit and method using selectively variable amplification for receiving time signals from different transmitters A time signal carrying encoded time information transmitted at a transmission frequency from any one of plural time signal transmitters is received, amplified, and evaluated to acquire the time information. The transmission frequency of the received time signal is d... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7321324 | Unconditionally stable analog-to-digital converter In one embodiment, the present invention includes a delta-sigma modulator formed of a loop filter coupled to receive an incoming signal, and a quantizer coupled to the loop filter to receive an output of the loop filter and to generate a quantized output. The loop f... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7317903 | Wireless communication circuit, wireless communication apparatus, and wireless communication system A wireless communication circuit in accordance with the present invention, is the wireless communication circuit having an amplifier for amplifying a signal, includes an amplification route in which the signal passes through the amplifier; a bypass route for bypassi... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7317410 | System and method for spectral shaping of dither signals A digital modulator includes a quantizer and a mapper. The quantizer converts a dithered signal value to a voltage. The mapper provides a modulated signal based on the voltage received from the quantizer. The mapper may maintain a substantially identical average cen... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7313203 | Method and system for estimating and compensating IQ imbalance A method of determining IQ imbalance introduced on an RF multicarrier signal received via a channel on a direct conversion analog receiver is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises i) receiving a training signal on the receiver, ii) demodulating the trai... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7313376 | DC offset correction for a wireless communication system A system and method for performing DC offset correction in a wireless communication receiver during “dead time” are provided. The receiver includes amplifier circuitry that amplifies a received radio frequency (RF) signal, downconversion circuitry that downconve... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7302022 | Automatic gain control device and method in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system with DC offset compensation function, and recording medium storing program containing the method Disclosed is an AGC (automatic gain control) device and method of an OFDM system with a DC offset compensation function, and a recording medium storing a program including the method. The AGC device calculates an energy of input signals with DC offsets as the summat... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7295073 | Automatic gain control apparatus An automatic gain control apparatus receiving an analog signal and outputting a digital signal includes a variable gain amplifier, an A/D converter, and a feedback circuit. The variable gain amplifier amplifies the analog signal with a gain. The A/D converter conver... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7292119 | Phase locked loop frequency synthesizer The phase locked loop frequency synthesizer, includes: an LC-tank circuit which includes an inductor and a variable capacitor in which the capacity changes depending on the input voltage; a group of fixed-value capacitors which is connected to the LC-tank circuit in... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7289778 | Power circuit and communication device provided with same A power circuit in a battery powered portable communication terminal, having a battery and a transmission power amplifier for TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access) or TDD (Time Division Duplex) signals includes a power accumulator, a battery output current limiter, a... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7286074 | Semiconductor integrated circuit for communication including analog-to-digital conversion circuit A semiconductor integrated circuit having a built-in A/D conversion circuit which enables, where the A/D conversion circuit is to be built into a semiconductor chip, the required capacitance of the stabilization capacitor to be connected to the output terminals of r... | 10/23/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7286795 | System and method for effective reception and transmission of satellite signals The present invention relates to a system and method for terrestrial transmission of RF signals comprising: an antenna, where said antenna includes an active device and a passive device and a decoder. The passive device receives RF signals and passes the signals to ... | 10/23/2007 |
