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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8095068 | Broadcast receiving apparatus When an RF signal is output, noise is prevented from appearing in the RF signal without degrading convenience. The MPU of the set top box has a functionally of an RF determination portion, which determines whether or not the RF signal is being output, the antenna se... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8036594 | Circularly polarized omnidirectional in-building signal booster apparatus and method A rebroadcasting apparatus for mobile media includes a receiving antenna and a transmitting antenna. The signal to be rebroadcast is received with a circularly polarized directional antenna. The transmitting antenna has circular polarization opposite to the polariza... | 10/11/2011 |
| 7979024 | Systems and methods for satellite forward link transmit diversity using orthagonal space coding Methods of transmitting communications signals from a satellite to a wireless terminal include determining a location of the wireless terminal, selecting a plurality of antenna feed elements at the satellite in response to the determined location of the wireless ter... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7970348 | Two fixed-beams TX-diversity A solution is disclosed for minimizing the amount of hardware and hardware accuracy requirements to simultaneously give the feature of both cell and narrow beams transmission, while enabling methods for capacity/coverage increase. The main property utilized by the p... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7856206 | System and method for manually adjustable directional antenna Systems and methods for a manually adjustable directional antenna are disclosed. The device includes a housing and the housing includes a wireless modem, a directional antenna and an adjustment mechanism. The adjustment mechanism is coupled to the directional antenn... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7792489 | Light emitting device, electronic appliance, and method for manufacturing light emitting device To provide a light emitting device that has a structure in which a light emitting element is sandwiched by two substrates to prevent moisture from penetrating into the light emitting element, and a method for manufacturing thereof. In addition, a gap between the two... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7725076 | System and method for maximizing throughput in the forward packet data channel of a 1xEVDV wireless network A base station for use in a wireless network that communicates with wireless mobile stations. The base station comprises: 1) a transceiver for transmitting forward channel data to a first mobile station via a beam-forming antenna array; and 2) a beam-forming circuit... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7668506 | Receiving apparatus and reception antenna setting method In a receiving apparatus equipped with a plurality of tuners, if a reception antenna is controlled in such a manner that a reception condition of a channel tuned by one tuner may become suitable, then a reception condition of the channel tuned by another tuner does ... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7643794 | Multi-sector antenna apparatus Methods and systems for constructing multi-sector antenna for packet-by-packet transmission. The transmission of each packet can be performed by a different antenna sector. The system can consist of a plurality of various antenna types: flat panel, parabolic dish, s... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7580674 | Intelligent interface for controlling an adaptive antenna array An antenna control interface is integrated with common integrated circuit components, such as radio transceiver or baseband modem signal processing control logic. The antenna control interface controls the operation of an adaptive antenna array used with wireless co... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7502590 | Broadcast receiver receiving broadcasts utilizing variable directional antenna In a broadcast receiver, determination is made, as channel search, whether a broadcast wave is valid for reception for all reception directions by a variable directional antenna with respect to only the frequency having the information stored as being invalid for re... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7454168 | Radio communication system, base station apparatus, and downlink transmission directing characteristic method used therefor A communication bit rate computing unit (24) computes the cumulative bit rate of downlink communication data, at which a base station communicates with a terminal, and totalizes the bit rates for each sector area. A amplitude/phase control unit (23) ch... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7437159 | Method and system for overcoming pilot pollution in a wireless communications network An apparatus and method for overcoming pilot pollution in a wireless communications network. The apparatus boosts a preferred pilot signal within a geographical area that is suffering from pilot pollution. The boosted pilot signal is stronger than the pollution in t... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7430399 | Broadcast receiver receiving broadcasts utilizing variable directional antenna A broadcast receiver is connected to a variable directional antenna qualified as an antenna capable of modifying a reception direction of a broadcast wave. When arriving at a prestored timing, the broadcast receiver executes channel search utilizing the variable dir... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7415244 | Multi-channel millimeter wave imaging system A broad-band millimeter wave imaging system with improved thermal resolution as compared to prior art devices. The system is useful for producing images of metal and non-metal objects such as guns, knives and explosives hidden under clothing. A cylindrical antenna f... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7389127 | Radio communication apparatus Short-distance radio communication equipment having a Bluetooth communication feature can maintain a stable reception status by automatically adjusting the reception status of an antenna when the reception status thereof deteriorates. ... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7379708 | Mobile receiver A mobile receiver apparatus is provided where its antenna directivity is controllably determined for improving the response to a desired signal as it moves and its surrounding geographical features and thus its environment for signal reception are varied. The mobile... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7372911 | Beam forming and transmit diversity in a multiple array radio communications system A method and apparatus are provided for selecting transmission parameters for multiple transmit antenna arrays. In one embodiment, the invention includes receiving a signal from a remote radio, measuring the transmit coherency of the received signal, selecting, base... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369878 | Radio base station apparatus, radio terminal apparatus, mobile communication system, and reception operation control program In response to a connection request from a terminal, a base station provides a signal indicating a reception operation adapted to a transmission operation of the base station to the terminal. Based on the indicating signal, the terminal selects and performs the opti... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366544 | Mote networks having directional antennas A mote network having and/or using one or more directional antennas. ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366120 | Method and apparatus for improving quality of service over meshed bachaul facilities in a wireless network Redundant wireless links in a meshed backhaul network may be used to improve quality of service on the backhaul network by confining knowledge of the duality to the attached network elements. Globally, an aggregate bandwidth of the redundant wireless links may be ad... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366464 | Access point operating with a smart antenna in a WLAN and associated methods An access point operates in an 802.11 wireless communication network communicating with a client station, and includes a smart antenna for generating directional antenna beams and an omni-directional antenna beam. An antenna steering algorithm scans the directional ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366463 | Military UHF and commercial Geo-mobile system combination for radio signal relay A radio signal relay device such as satellite is used to cover several relatively small geographical regions with relatively narrow beams as well as a relatively large geographical region with a single beam. This relatively wide beam permits legacy equipment to be u... | 04/29/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7363011 | Method and apparatus for estimating the impulse response of a radio channel based on a calculated correlation sequence A method and a correspondingly operative radio receiver (10) (in either user equipment or a base transceiver station of a cellular telecommunication system) by which the radio receiver (10), in receiving signals transmitted over a radio channel, estima... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359735 | Radio communication apparatus and packet scheduling method A radio communication apparatus enhances cell throughput by adaptive selection of spatially multiplexed channels in consideration of interferences in a local cell and reducing load for calculation of array weights by storing them in advance as fixed values and outpu... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356014 | Apparatus and method for controlling data communication in wireless local area network An apparatus and method for controlling data communication in a wireless local area network (LAN) can check a remaining power level of a host computer battery and determine a data transmission characteristic such as a data transfer speed and/or power save mode perio... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7353533 | Administration of protection of data accessible by a mobile device The administration of protection of data on a client mobile computing device by a server computer system such as within an enterprise network or on a separate mobile computing device is described. Security tools are described that provide different security policies... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7348928 | Slot antenna having a MEMS varactor for resonance frequency tuning Briefly, in accordance with one embodiment of the invention, a slot antenna may include a primary slot and one or more secondary slots. The size of the antenna may be reduced by adding one or more of the secondary slots which may add additional inductance to the ant... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7340279 | Wireless communications with an adaptive antenna array Systems and techniques for parallel demodulation and searching using an adaptive antenna array with a processor configured to control the adaptive antenna to search for a first signal with the first beam and to receive a second signal for demodulation with a second ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340277 | Adaptive antenna for controlling the weighting on a plurality of antenna elements An optical subscriber system according to the present invention has an adaptive antenna having a plurality of antenna elements, for controlling the weighting on the antenna elements thereby to radiate beams that are adapted to radio wave environments, a position est... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340281 | Method and system for enhancing reception of wireless communication signals A method and system is disclosed for enhancing reception of wireless communication signals. A beam pattern including at least one set of beams is generated. Where the beam pattern includes at least two sets of beams, the beam sets may be offset with respect to each ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7324784 | Transmission beam control method, adaptive antenna transmitter/receiver apparatus and radio base station Changes in instructions for increasing/decreasing transmission power that have been decoded from TPC bits are monitored, and when the increase/decrease instructions in a prescribed time interval are biased toward instructions for increasing the transmission power, t... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7324782 | Location based adaptive antenna scheme for wireless data applications A system is provided for adapting and customizing a reverse link beam and a forward link beam that couple a particular mobile unit with a base station for transmitting/receiving data. The forward and reverse links may be dynamically customized for changing data rate... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7313417 | Transceiver for a base station with smart antenna and a switched beamforming method in downlink Disclosed is a transceiver for a base station with a smart antenna having a plurality of antennas. The transceiver comprises: a multipath searching unit for searching multipath delay information for each demodulation channel; a demodulating unit for forming an adapt... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7295806 | Using directional antennas to enhance wireless mesh networks The principles of the present invention provide for using directional antennas to adaptively communicate in a wireless mesh network. A number of infrastructure components are included in a wireless mesh network environment. Each infrastructure component includes an ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7289834 | Antenna signal processing systems Antenna techniques particularly for orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) communications systems. A signal processing system determines weights for an adaptive antenna, the antenna including plural antenna elements each receiving a signal including plural... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7286855 | Method and apparatus for adaptive transmission beam forming in a wireless communication system A method for forming an adaptive phased array transmission beam pattern at a base station without any knowledge of array geometry or mobile feedback is described. The approach is immune to the problems which plague methods which attempt to identify received angles o... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7277728 | Base station of a communication network, preferably of a mobile telecommunication network The invention relates to a base station of a communication network which comprises a casing, a transmitting and receiving device housed in the casing, and an antenna connected to the transmitting and receiving device. The antenna is formed as a patch antenna which c... | 10/02/2007 |
