Patents by Inventor Thomas Hafemeister

Thomas Hafemeister has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 8614769
    Abstract: Disclosed is an intermediate frequency processing device for processing both analogue and digital television intermediate frequency signals including vision and sound intermediate frequency signal components, comprising an intermediate frequency signal input for receiving digital or analogue intermediate frequency signals, a processing section, coupled to said intermediate frequency signal input means, for processing intermediate frequency signals, and an output for outputting signals processed in said processing section. The processing section comprises a first band pass filter (1,2,3) connected to said intermediate frequency signal input, and at least two parallel processing portions (4,6a,7,19-22,30-40,42-45;5,6b,8,18,23-29,46) coupled in parallel to said band pass filter (1,2,3), wherein each of said processing portions includes an inphase quadrature processing means (18,23;19,22).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignee: NXP, B.V.
    Inventor: Thomas Hafemeister
  • Publication number: 20100045874
    Abstract: Disclosed is an intermediate frequency processing device for processing both analogue and digital television intermediate frequency signals including vision and sound intermediate frequency signal components, comprising an intermediate frequency signal input for receiving digital or analogue intermediate frequency signals, a processing section, coupled to said intermediate frequency signal input means, for processing intermediate frequency signals, and an output for outputting signals processed in said processing section. The processing section comprises a first band pass filter (1,2,3) connected to said intermediate frequency signal input, and at least two parallel processing portions (4,6a,7,19-22,30-40,42-45;5,6b,8,18,23-29,46) coupled in parallel to said band pass filter (1,2,3), wherein each of said processing portions includes an inphase quadrature processing means (18,23;19,22).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2006
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Applicant: NXP B.V.
    Inventor: Thomas Hafemeister
  • Patent number: 7233368
    Abstract: A down-converter for processing frequency signals, preferably received, particularly digital, television signals, comprising two, preferably identical mixer stages (10a, 10b) for down-converting the signal, a local oscillator (12) controlling the mixer stages by a 90° phase shift, a complex filter (14) which couples the output signals of the mixer stages (10a, 10b) by means of a complex filtering method in such a way that the signal components outside a predetermined useful band are substantially suppressed, an adjusting device (13) for adjusting the frequency of the local oscillator (12) and a subsequent low-pass filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2007
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Joachim Brilka, Thomas Hafemeister, Wolfgang Weltersbach
  • Publication number: 20040130483
    Abstract: A down-converter for processing frequency signals, preferably received, particularly digital, television signals, comprising two, preferably identical mixer stages (10a, 10b) for down-converting the signal, a local oscillator (12) controlling the mixer stages by a 90° phase shift, a complex filter (14) which couples the output signals of the mixer stages (10a, 10b) by means of a complex filtering method in such a way that the signal components outside a predetermined useful band are substantially suppressed, an adjusting device (13) for adjusting the frequency of the local oscillator (12) and a subsequent low-pass filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2003
    Publication date: July 8, 2004
    Inventors: Joachim Brilka, Thomas Hafemeister, Wolfgang Weltersbach
  • Patent number: 6593974
    Abstract: A circuit arrangement for demodulating an intermediate-frequency video signal, comprising a video demodulator (1) and a phase-locked loop (5) formed as a Costas loop, in which an output signal of a controllable oscillator (12) arranged in the Costas loop and the intermediate frequency video signal are coupled to the video demodulator (1), should always supply a demodulated video signal of a predetermined polarity, independent of overmodulation occurring in the intermediate-frequency video signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2003
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Joachim Brilka, Thomas Hafemeister
  • Patent number: 6169585
    Abstract: In a circuit arrangement for demodulating an intermediate-frequency video signal generated while using a Nyquist edge, having a phase-locked loop (1) including a phase detector (3), a loop filter (4) and a voltage-controlled oscillator (5), and a video demodulator (2), the intermediate-frequency video signal being applied to the phase detector (3) and the output signal of the phase-locked loop (1) being applied to the video demodulator (2), which converts the intermediate-frequency video signal into a baseband video signal, phase fluctuations contained in the carrier of the intermediate-frequency video signal due to its generation while using a Nyquist edge are compensated in that the phase comparator (3) operates, by approximation, independently of modulation in the control range of the intermediate-frequency video signal, in that the baseband video signal is present in an inverted form with respect to the intermediate-frequency video signal, and in that a correction signal is derived from the baseband video
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2001
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventor: Thomas Hafemeister
  • Patent number: 5526061
    Abstract: Circuit arrangement for demodulating a video signal (IF signal) which is frequency-modulated on an intermediate-frequency carrier oscillation, including a first demodulation stage (a frequency or phase demodulator) for multiplicatively combining the IF signal with a carrier oscillation of a controllable oscillator and for supplying a first output signal, a second demodulation stage (a frequency or phase demodulator) for multiplicatively combining the IF signal with the carrier oscillation phase-shifted by a quarter period of the intermediate-frequency carrier oscillation, and for supplying a second output signal, a first filter stage for low-pass filtering the first output signal and for supplying a third output signal, a multiplier stage for multiplicatively combining the second output signal and the third output signal to form a fourth output signal, a superposition stage for forming a seventh output signal by additively combining a fifth output signal and a sixth output signal derived from the second outpu
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 11, 1996
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventors: Joachim Brilka, Thomas Hafemeister, Wolfgang Weltersbach