Filter In At Least One Path Patents (Class 455/306)
  • Patent number: 8498584
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for an electronically adjustable signal filter system, which comprises, in some embodiments, a first filter coupled to an antenna coupling network and a second filter, a power amplifier coupled to the first filter, an antenna connected to an antenna coupling network, a pilot tone generator coupled to the first filter, and a first signal source connected to the power amplifier and first filter. In some embodiments, the power amplifier amplifies the first signal, the first filter places a notch into the first signal transmitted to the antenna coupling network, the antenna coupling network combines the first signal and a second signal received from the antenna and transmits a third signal to the second filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Alain Roussel, Charles W. T. Nicholls
  • Patent number: 8494471
    Abstract: A receiver 1 is comprised of a first frequency changing circuit 13 for converting a received signal including two or more broadcast waves into a first intermediate frequency signal with a local oscillation, a band separation filter 14 consisting of a multistage FIR type filter for allowing bands included in the two or more broadcast waves converted into the above-mentioned first intermediate frequency signal to pass therethrough simultaneously, and a second frequency changing circuit 15 for converting the received signal which is outputted by the above-mentioned band separation filter 14 and which is limited to the above-mentioned two or more broadcast waves which the receiver desires to receive into a second intermediate frequency signal from which each of the broadcast waves can be sampled at a frequency at which the broadcast waves do not interfere with one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuru Takeuchi, Eiji Arita
  • Patent number: 8489056
    Abstract: The present invention is a hybrid RF-digital signal processor-based filter for multiband radio architectures, systems capable of spectrum re-farming and software defined radios It performs low-loss frequency agile multiple notch filtering at RF where a large dynamic range exists at a filter input between signals in a stopband and passband It is a frequency dependent signal attenuation apparatus having two paths connected together by directional couplers The first path comprising a component such as a delay component or duplexer The second path comprising, in series, a down converter, a digital filter, an up converter, and a bandstop filter At the output of a power amplifier, the invention can be used to attenuate spurs, or noise within bands with strict emission constraints At the input of a low noise amplifier, the invention can be used to attenuate blockers and transmitter noise outside of the receiver passband.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Rockstar Consortium US LP
    Inventor: Mark Wyville
  • Patent number: 8483644
    Abstract: The component, fully integrated onto a monolithic substrate, includes a tuner, a demodulator, and a channel decoder. The overall filtering is carried out in two parts, a baseband analog filtering and a digital Nyquist filtering removing the information of adjacent channels. It outputs a stream of MPEG data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics SA
    Inventors: Pierre Busson, Bernard Louis-Gavet, Pierre-Olivier Jouffre
  • Patent number: 8483642
    Abstract: A SAW-less receiver includes a front end module (FEM) interface module, an RF to IF section, and an IF to baseband section. The RF to IF section includes a frequency translated bandpass filter (FTBPF), an LNA, and a mixing section. The FTBPF includes a switching network and a complex baseband filter having an offset baseband filter response. The switching network is operable to frequency translate the offset baseband filter response to an RF frequency response such that the FTBPF filters the inbound RF signal by passing, substantially unattenuated, a desired RF signal component and by attenuating an image signal component and/or an undesired signal component. The LNA amplifies the filtered inbound RF signal and the mixing section mixes the amplified inbound RF signal with a local oscillation to produce an inbound IF signal. The IF to baseband section converts the inbound IF signal into an inbound symbol stream(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Ahmad Mirzaei, Hooman Darabi
  • Patent number: 8448207
    Abstract: An apparatus for providing an interactive service during a broadcast service includes a transmitting element and a processing element. The transmitting element is capable of communicating broadcast content of the broadcast service to a plurality of receiving terminals. The processing element is configured to at least partially control the transmitting element. The processing element is configured to communicate with a network device in order to request a program specific group for communication of the interactive service to a receiving terminal that is a member of the program specific group. The interactive service is communicated to the receiving terminal that is a member of the program specific group with reception of the broadcast service. The content associated with the interactive service originates from the receiving terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventor: Francesco Balestrieri
  • Patent number: 8428537
    Abstract: A receiver includes an input to receive data of a pilot channel having a carrier frequency associated therewith, and a first unit to obtain a quantity, wherein the quantity depends on a frequency broadening of the received data and a frequency shift of the received data with respect to the carrier frequency. The receiver also includes a second unit to adjust the bandwidth of a channel estimation unit, wherein the adjustment depends on the quantity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventors: Edgar Bolinth, Herbert Dawid, Thorsten Clevorn
  • Patent number: 8428526
    Abstract: A system and method for tuning baseband filters in wireless transceivers. A method comprises coupling a radio frequency (RF) signal generated by the wireless transmitter at an input of a wireless receiver, the RF signal having a desired frequency, measuring a magnitude of the coupled RF signal at an output of an analog-to-digital converter at an output of an analog baseband filter, wherein the magnitude is measured at the desired frequency, and adjusting a corner frequency of the analog baseband filter in response to the determining that the measured magnitude differs from a specified value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Yongtao Wang, Khurram Muhammad
  • Patent number: 8410963
    Abstract: In an embodiment, an oversampled data converter includes a lowpass filter having a filter stage comprising a dynamic limiter, where the dynamic limiter having a limit set by an signal level at an input to the oversampled data converter. The oversampled data converter also includes a quantizing block comprising an input coupled to an output of the lowpass filter and an output coupled to an input of the lowpass filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventor: Torsten Hinz
  • Patent number: 8396427
    Abstract: A system and method provide adaptive filtering of radio frequency (RF) signals. Multiple signals are received in a predetermined RF spectrum, the signals including a desired signal and multiple potentially interfering signals. A first signal of the potentially interfering signals is down-converted to a baseband signal, and a power of the baseband signal is determined. When the power exceeds a predetermined threshold power, a first notch filter, corresponding to a frequency of the first signal, is activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Yann Le Guillou, Frederic Pirot, Sebastien Amiot
  • Patent number: 8385871
    Abstract: The present invention is a hybrid RF-digital signal processor-based filter for multiband radio architectures systems capable of spectrum re-farming and software defined radios. It performs low-loss frequency agile multiple notch filtering at RF where a large dynamic range exists at a filter input between signals in a stopband and passband. It is a frequency dependent signal attenuation apparatus having two paths connected together by directional couplers. The first path comprising a component such as a delay component or duplexer. The second path comprising a bandstop filter connected to a down converter, a digital filter, and an up converter. At the output of a power amplifier, the invention can be used to attenuate spurs, or noise within bands with strict emission constraints. At the input of a low noise amplifier, the invention can be used to attenuate blockers and transmitter noise outside of the receiver passband.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Rockstar Consortium US LP
    Inventor: Mark Wyville
  • Patent number: 8369817
    Abstract: An analog finite impulse response (AFIR) filter including at least one variable transconductance block having an input for receiving an input voltage and being adapted to sequentially apply each of a plurality of transconductance levels to the input voltage during at least one of a plurality of successive time periods to generate an output current at an output of the variable transconductance block, the at least one variable transconductance block including a plurality of fixed transconductance blocks each receiving the input voltage and capable of being independently activated to supply the output current; and a capacitor coupled to the output of the variable transconductance block to receive the output current and provide an output voltage of the filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.A.
    Inventors: Eoin Ohannaidh, Stéphane Le Tual, Loïc Joet
  • Patent number: 8358997
    Abstract: A system for correcting a mismatch between an in-phase path and a quadrature path in a receiver, the system including one or more processors operable to correlate a received signal with a complex training sequence having periodic, uncorrelated real and imaginary components, thereby generating a complex correlation. The one or more processors estimate a gain mismatch and a phase mismatch based on the complex correlation over a unit period. The one or more processors control a first receive filter in the in-phase path via a first digital-to-analog controller, and control a second receive filter in the quadrature path via a second digital-to-analog controller. The cutoff frequency and bandwidth of the first receive filter is controlled independently of the second receive filter to enable the output of the first receive filter and the output of the second receive filter to be tightly matched.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Larry Y. L. Mo, Akira Yamanaka
  • Patent number: 8358665
    Abstract: Described herein are various techniques for remotely controlling the presentation of multimedia data contained within a multiplex signal by various devices on a local area network. According to one aspect, a method is provided that allows for controlling the presentation of multimedia data being delivered to one or more devices on a local area network. Control is provided through the steps of receiving at least a portion of a multiplex signal at a control device, determining at the control device the one or more logical channels contained within the multiplex signal, detecting the presence of a controllable device on the local area network, receiving at least a portion of the multiplex signal at the controllable device, and transmitting instructions from the control device to the controllable device that instructs the controllable device to present to a user at least one type of multimedia data associated with one or more of the logical channels of the multiplex signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Vijayalakshmi R. Raveendran
  • Patent number: 8355430
    Abstract: An embodiment of the invention pertains to demodulating a data communication into a sequence of symbols. In this embodiment, a first filter generates a first convolution between a first plurality of coefficients and the data communication. The data communication is a distortion of a first sequence of symbols selected from a plurality of symbols in a constellation. A first error circuit maps the first convolution to a second sequence of symbols. An adaption circuit adjusts the first coefficients until a convergence at a last one of the symbols in the second sequence. A second filter generates a second convolution between a second plurality of coefficients and the data communication. The second coefficients are initialized to the first coefficients from the adaption circuit. A second error circuit maps the second convolution to a third sequence of symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: Xilinx, Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher H. Dick
  • Patent number: 8351889
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for an electronically adjustable signal filter system, which comprises, in some embodiments, a first filter coupled to an antenna coupling network and a second filter, a power amplifier coupled to the first filter, an antenna connected to an antenna coupling network, a pilot tone generator coupled to the first filter, and a first signal source connected to the power amplifier and first filter. In some embodiments, the power amplifier amplifies the first signal, the first filter places a notch into the first signal transmitted to the antenna coupling network, the antenna coupling network combines the first signal and a second signal received from the antenna and transmits a third signal to the second filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Alain Roussel, Charles W. T. Nicholls
  • Patent number: 8340616
    Abstract: A tuner uses a bank of tracking filters to preselect a channel to be received. Each tracking filter covers a range of frequencies. The tracking filters are tunable in frequency using switched capacitors and are tunable in gain by using switched resistors. The switched resistors can be controlled by an automatic gain control circuit that monitors the selected signal and adjust the tracking filter gain to achieve a desired signal level. A switch directs the received signal or signal from a test tone generator into the tracking filters. The test tone, generated by a frequency agile circuit, can be used to calibrate the filters, both in frequency and gain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Entropic Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Jivan Shah, YongSik Youn, Martin Christopher Alderton
  • Patent number: 8285237
    Abstract: A receiving apparatus comprising: a frequency-fluctuation-detection unit to detect a frequency difference between a received and desired signals; a first-undesired-level-detection unit to output as a first-undesired level an amplitude-level-difference between the signals having passed through first-and-second-band-pass filters in the received signals; one or a plurality of second-undesired-level-detection units to output amplitude levels of signals having passed through third-and-fourth-band-pass filters in the received signals as second-and-third-undesired levels, respectively, and output a sum of the second-and-third-undesired levels as a fourth-undesired level; and a determination unit to determine whether an undesired state, where an adjacent-undesired signal is present, occurs according to the fourth-undesired level if an absolute value of the frequency difference is equal to or greater than a predetermined-reference value, and select any one of the first-to-third-undesired levels to be outputted accordi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignees: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Sanyo Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaaki Taira, Masaya Suto
  • Patent number: 8243864
    Abstract: A technique for noise reduction in a wireless communication system uses controllable bandwidth filters (120) to filter a received signal. In a typical implementation, the filters (120) are used at baseband frequencies. A measurement (RSSI) is indicative of the strength of the received signal. A control circuit (144) generates a control signal (146) to control the bandwidth of the filters (120). If the received signal strength is above a first threshold, a wider bandwidth may be used for the filters (120). If the received signal is below a second threshold, the control circuit (144) generates the control signal (146) to set the filters (120) to a more narrow bandwidth. The system (100) may also be used with digital filters (150, 152) following digitization by analog to digital converters (ADCs) (130, 132). The system (100) is particularly well-suited for operation with noise-shaped ADCs (130, 132), such as Delta-Sigma converters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: QUALCOMM, Incorporated
    Inventors: Steven Ciccarelli, Arun Raghupathy, Brian C. Banister
  • Patent number: 8238410
    Abstract: A positioning system receiver that mitigates narrowband interference by dynamically choosing the mitigation technique that yields the best interference mitigation capability with the least signal degradation to maximize receiver performance parameters such as receiver sensitivity, multipath resolution, and low power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: CSR Technology Inc.
    Inventor: Gary Lennen
  • Patent number: 8233873
    Abstract: A signal processing device is provided, the device having a signal input for receiving a signal conveyed over a channel and defining a received signal. The device further includes one or more filters for generating a signal response based upon the received signal. The signal response includes an estimated value of a correntropy statistic. Additionally, the device includes a decision module connected to at least one of the filters for probabilistically deciding whether the received signal contains an information signal component based upon the estimated value of the correntropy statistic. The device further includes a signal output to convey a signal output indicating the received signal corresponds to a known signal template if the decision module decides that the received signal contains the information signal component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Jose C. Principe, Rati Agrawal, Puskal P. Pokharel
  • Patent number: 8233523
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a system includes one or more digital feedback equalizers (DFEs) that include one or more residual intersymbol interference (ISI) detectors, one or more column balancers, and one or more weight selectors. The residual ISI detectors produce a first output signal indicating whether the residual ISI of a received input signal has a positive sign or a negative sign. The column balancers select one of the first output signals to produce a second output signal. The weight selectors access one of the weight values. The weight value corresponds to the column balancer, the residual ISI detector, and the sign of the residual ISI, and has a magnitude that is dependent on the sign of the residual ISI. The weight selectors produce a third output signal based on the weight value and the sign of the residual ISI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventor: Yasuo Hidaka
  • Patent number: 8224275
    Abstract: Embodiments of a SAW-less RF receiver front-end that includes a frequency translated notch filter (FTNF) are presented. An FTNF includes a passive mixer and a baseband impedance. The baseband impedance includes capacitors that form a low-Q band-stop filter. The passive mixer is configured to translate the baseband impedance to a higher frequency. The translated baseband impedance forms a high-Q notch filter and is presented at the input of the FTNF. The FTNF can be fully integrated in CMOS IC technology (or others, e.g., Bipolar, BiCMOS, and SiGe) and applied in wireless receiver systems including EDGE/GSM, Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA), Bluetooth, and wireless LANs (e.g., IEEE 802.11). In addition, embodiments of a multi-band SAW-less RF receiver front-end and techniques to share components of FTNFs included within the multi-band SAW-less RF receiver front-end are presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Ahmad Mirzaei, Hooman Darabi
  • Patent number: 8213494
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a system includes one or more digital feedback equalizers (DFEs) that include one or more residual intersymbol interference (ISI) detectors, one or more column balancers, and one or more weight selectors. The residual ISI detectors produce a first output signal indicating whether the residual ISI of a received input signal has a positive sign or a negative sign. The column balancers select one of the first output signals to produce a second output signal. The weight selectors access one of the weight values. The weight value corresponds to the column balancer that produced the second output signal and the residual ISI detector that produced the first output signal, and has a magnitude that is substantially independent of the sign of the residual ISI. The weight selectors produce a third output signal based on the weight value and the sign of the residual ISI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventor: Yasuo Hidaka
  • Patent number: 8189654
    Abstract: A receiver in which computation is simplified can be obtained by using a common factor for filter coefficients of FIR filters corresponding to a plurality of transmitting antennas and by using only the middle column of an inverse matrix of a gain matrix when the common factor is computed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Allen Yuan, Holly He, Thanh Bui
  • Patent number: 8160526
    Abstract: A filter arrangement for a receiver for multiple broadcast signals includes a first filter for receiving a broadcast signal from a tuner, a second filter coupled to an output of said first filter, said second filter having a variable bandwidth response, said second filter providing an output for a demodulator; and a filter control responsive to said broadcast signal for controlling said variable bandwidth response of said second filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing
    Inventor: Clint Alan Ecoff
  • Patent number: 8126147
    Abstract: A terminal data loading device on a mobile platform includes a media unit for receiving a transportable media element containing media data and outputting a media signal to a control processor unit. The control processor unit outputs an information signal to a wireline communication unit. The wireline communication unit outputs a wireline signal to a network on the mobile platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Systems and Software Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Rodney Farley, Joseph Renton
  • Patent number: 8107911
    Abstract: A signal processing device and signal processing method is provided that includes a detection unit for detecting a signal strength of a signal, whereby the detection unit is configured to output a detection value that represents the signal strength of the signal; a settable digital filter connected upstream of the detection unit, whereby filter coefficients for setting a transfer characteristic of the filter are assigned to an amplification or attenuation of the signal by the filter; a digital multiplication unit, which is connected upstream of the detection unit for amplification or attenuation of the signal, whereby the multiplication unit is configured to compensate partially for the amplification or attenuation of the filter, whereby the compensation is encumbered with a residual error; and a correction unit to apply to the detection value a correction value at least partially compensating for the residual error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Atmel Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Dvorszky, Ulrich Grosskinsky, Lourans Samid, Marco Schwarzmueller
  • Patent number: 8102293
    Abstract: A digital direct conversion receiving apparatus, including: a phase conversion unit to down-convert a Radio Frequency (RF) signal into a plurality of sample signals, and generate a certain phase difference among the plurality of sample signals when the RF signal is down-converted; and a variable complex gain unit to remove an image component from the plurality of sample signals using the generated phase difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Hyung Jung Kim, Jae Hyung Kim
  • Patent number: 8095092
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for transistor matching. The power transmitter comprises a first, second, and third amplification path. The paths are selectively activated and deactivated to output a received signal with high efficiency and linearity. The first amplification path is configured to receive a first signal and output a first amplified signal to a first port of a output power combiner when activated and provide an impedance that results in a high reflection factor when deactivated. The second amplification path is configured to receive a second signal with 90° phase shift with respect to the first signal and output a second amplified signal to a second port of the combiner when activated and provide an impedance that results in a high reflection factor when deactivated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Jan-Erik Muller, Bernhard Sogl, Wolfgang Thomann
  • Publication number: 20120003948
    Abstract: A quadratic amplitude matching system and associated method with an associated tuning control system is provided for continuously and automatically tuning a quadratic amplitude matching filter (QAMF) to a band center of an interfering signal to provide improved rejection of an interfering signal coupled from a transmission antenna into a local receive antenna in the presence of local multi-path, thereby providing improved interference cancellation system performance. The matching control system is provided as an element of an interference cancellation system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2011
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Applicant: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Intergration Inc.
    Inventor: Raymond J. Lackey
  • Patent number: 8078132
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of selectively skipping one or more listen windows during power saving (i.e., sleep mode) operation in a multi-mode radio handset capable of operating on a plurality of radio access networks (RANs). A multi-mode radio handset signals a base station to which it is currently in communication to request that one or more listen windows be skipped considering the delay and jitter requirements of the most time critical application currently running. The request includes data defining a different listen and sleep window sequence. The multi-mode radio handset receives an acknowledgment from the base station indicating that the request has been granted. The acknowledgement includes a start frame parameter that defines when the different listen and sleep window sequence will begin. Upon completion of the different listen and sleep window sequence, the multi-mode radio handset reverts back to the original alternating sequence of listen and sleep windows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB
    Inventor: Huaiyuan Wang
  • Patent number: 8064838
    Abstract: An information handling system includes a digital circuit having a first terminal connected to a first voltage reference, and a second terminal connected to a second voltage reference. The digital circuit is configured to be coupled to a radio device. The system also includes a band pass filter having a first terminal connected to the first voltage reference, and a second terminal connected to the second voltage reference. The bandpass filter is configured to produce a low impedance response, to reduce a radio frequency noise generated at a specific frequency band of the band pass filter, and to reduce a radio frequency interference produced by the digital circuit and received at the radio device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Dell Products, LP
    Inventors: Jeffrey C. Hailey, Ernest W. Lentschke, III
  • Patent number: 8045948
    Abstract: A receiving apparatus includes a receiving portion to receive a radio signal generated based on one baseband signal of a baseband signal having a prescribed frequency band and a baseband signal having a partial frequency band being a part of the prescribed frequency band, a signal processing portion to generate the baseband signal by converting a frequency of the radio signal, a filter portion to output a plurality of partial signals, each having a frequency component of each partial frequency band extracted from the baseband signal generated by the signal processing portion, and an analysis portion to analyze characteristics of each partial signal of the plurality of partial signals output from the filter portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Seiichi Izumi, Hiroaki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 8019314
    Abstract: A radio communication apparatus using a direct conversion method capable of receiving a radio signal having a predetermined frequency band. The radio communication apparatus includes: a low-noise amplifier section including one or a plurality of low-noise amplifiers receiving input of a receiving signal having a predetermined frequency band; and a mixer section including in-phase and quadrature mixers demodulating an output of the low-noise amplifier into in-phase-component and quadrature-component signals, respectively, wherein the mixer section includes a capacitor in an input section, separates the in-phase component and the quadrature component by the capacitor, and supplies the components to the corresponding in-phase and quadrature mixers, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hitoshi Tomiyama
  • Patent number: 8014724
    Abstract: Methods and systems for processing a signal with a corresponding noise profile are disclosed. Aspects of the method may comprise analyzing spectral content of the noise profile. At least one noise harmonic within the signal may be filtered based on said analyzed spectral content. The filtered signal may be limited. The noise profile may comprise a phase noise profile. The signal may comprise at least one of a sinusoidal signal and a noise signal. At least one filter coefficient that is used to filter said at least one noise harmonic may be determined. The filtering may comprise low pass filtering and the limiting may comprise hard-limiting the filtered signal. The signal may be modulated prior to the filtering. The signal may be downconverted prior to the modulating. At least one signal component of the signal may be downconverted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Inventor: Shervin Moloudi
  • Patent number: 8005452
    Abstract: A wideband receiver comprises a comb limiter combiner wherein the limiting is conducted by digitization and frequency excision in the frequency domain. The received signal is divided up into sub-bands by a bank of bandpass filters having contiguous pass bands spanning the entire receiver range. In each sub-band the band limited signal is digitized and subjected to digital signal processing. A threshold is set such that any frequency with a magnitude that exceeds the threshold is excised in the frequency domain. When converted back to the time domain, the high-power interference frequencies will no longer be present, thereby leaving only the low-power noise and the desired signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: Sentel Corporation
    Inventor: Michael A. Maiuzzo
  • Patent number: 8000958
    Abstract: The device and method of the present invention improves electronic communication which have behavioral consequences, including for example, flight communication, two-way closed circuit communication such as for fire, police, miners, scuba divers and other heath and safety workers, and even for mobile communication which happens during activities such as cellular or mobile conversations during driving. Dichotic listening techniques are altered to enhance dyadic (involving two people) interactions with a partner. The speech of at least the first member of the dyad is filtered to isolate the component below 0.5 Khz, which will be input with a gain to the left ear of the second person (provided that they are right-handed), and thus their right cerebral hemispheres, and the component with a frequency above 0.5 Khz. will be input to their right ears, and thus their left cerebral hemispheres.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Kent State University
    Inventors: Stanford W. Gregory, Jr., Will Kalkhoft
  • Patent number: 7970371
    Abstract: A receiving portion for receiving a wireless signal generated on the basis of a baseband signal having either a predetermined frequency band or a baseband signal having any of partial frequency bands; a signal processing portion for generating the baseband signal; a band shifter for shifting the frequency band of the baseband signal by such an amount of shift that the center frequency of at least a specific partial frequency band is in the vicinity of 0 Hz; a filter portion for outputting a partial signal, which is gained by sampling a signal component of the frequency band having a bandwidth of the specific partial frequency band with approximately 0 Hz as the center frequency, from the baseband signal; and a determining portion for determining the frequency band of the baseband signal on the basis of the partial signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Seiichi Izumi, Norihito Mihota
  • Patent number: 7907924
    Abstract: A semiconductor device interconnecting unit configured to input/output a high-frequency signal having a millimeter wave band to/from a semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor or device interconnecting unit includes a part of a band pass filter configured to pass therethrough the high-frequency signal having a millimeter wave band by using an LC resonance circuit, and a remainder of the band pass filter, wherein the part and the remainder are separated from each other. The part is provided inside the semiconductor device, and the remainder is provided outside the semiconductor device. The part and the remainder include capacitors having variable capacitors added thereto, respectively. A pass band for the high-frequency signal having a millimeter wave band is changed by changing capacitance values of the variable capacitors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Kenichi Kawasaki
  • Patent number: 7904047
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses for filtering received radio frequency signals are provided. A first RF communication signal is received that includes a desired information signal portion and an undesired blocker signal portion that is offset in frequency from the desired portion. The first RF communication signal is amplified in a first signal path and is filtered in a second signal path. The filtering of the first RF communication signal in the second signal path includes: down-converting the first RF communication signal to a down-converted signal, high pass filtering the down-converted signal, and up-converting the high pass filtered down-converted signal to a second RF communication signal. The filtering of the first RF communication signal filters out the desired information signal portion from the second signal path. A signal phase is adjusted in the second signal path to match phase shifts between the first and second signal paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventor: Hooman Darabi
  • Patent number: 7904027
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are branching filter suitable for connection with a transmission/reception integrated radio device, and a multiplex transceiver which utilizes the branching filter. A band pass filter unit separates an outgoing wave from an incoming wave. An antenna duplexer transmits an outgoing wave from the band pass filter unit to an antenna, and transmits an incoming wave from the antenna to the band pass filter unit. The band pass filter unit has two ports on the antenna side, and one port on the radio device side. A transmission/reception integrated radio device is connected to the port of the branching filter on the radio device side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Takanori Onoda
  • Patent number: 7904048
    Abstract: A multi-tap direct sub-sampling mixing system for wireless receivers is provided with a dynamically configurable passive switched capacitor filter. A front end amplifier is connected to receive a signal. The passive switched capacitor filter is connected to receive the amplified signal and has an output for providing a filtered signal. The switched capacitor filter has at least two sections that are each operable as a pole, wherein a first section of the at least two sections has sets of at least two stacked capacitors interconnected with a set of switches operable to amplify in input voltage provided to an input of the first section in response to operation of the set of switches; and a back end section connected to the output of the switched capacitor filter to receive the filtered signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Meng-Chang Lee, Khurram Muhammad
  • Patent number: 7860478
    Abstract: Provided is a poly-phase filter capable of removing an image frequency of a terrestrial digital multimedia broadcasting (T-DMB) receiver in a low intermediate frequency (IF) structure applied to a mobile communication terminal and a receiver having the poly-phase filter. The poly-phase filter includes: a calibration control block for generating first and second filter characteristic control signals which determine electrical characteristics of the filter in response to a control signal including instructions for changing the characteristics of the poly-phase filter and holding the changed values; and a poly-phase filter block for performing filtering on a plurality of input signals having different phases from each other in response to the first and second filter characteristic control signals. Accordingly, the poly-phase filter has advantages of having constant electrical characteristics regardless of changes in a manufacturing process and temperature and a high-performance image rejection function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: FCI, Inc.
    Inventors: Kyoo Hyun Lim, Sun Ki Min
  • Patent number: 7860477
    Abstract: Techniques for self-calibrating filtering circuits with feedback are described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventor: Volker Christ
  • Patent number: 7860476
    Abstract: Communication techniques are described that can improve signal reception from an implanted wireless device to a main control unit (MCU) while in the presence of a narrowband interferer. The implanted wireless device can be any appropriate device such as a microtransponder, microstimulator, a sensor device or a drug delivery device. The MCU captures samples of signals emanating from the wireless device during an expected transmission time interval. The captured samples are evaluated and transformed into a series of spectral terms that are then evaluated to identify narrowband interference signals. The identified narrowband interference terms can be initialized to a null value to remove the signal spectrum resulting from the communication, and an inverse transformation can be used to generate a time domain signal that is free from interference. Overlapping windows and other signal processing techniques can also be applied to improve overall communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Alfred E. Mann Foundation For Scientific Research
    Inventors: Lawrence J. Karr, Joseph H. Schulman, Howard H. Stover
  • Patent number: 7844213
    Abstract: Systems for delivering a plurality of broadcast programs where the transmitter and receiver roll-off factors are mismatched. A system in accordance with the present invention comprises a transmitter comprising a modulator, and a plurality of receivers, each receiver in the plurality of receivers receiving the plurality of broadcast programs, each receiver in the plurality of receivers further comprising a demodulator; wherein the modulator has a first root-raised cosine filter having a first roll-off factor and each receiver has a second root-raised cosine filter having a second roll-off factor, the first roll-off factor being smaller than the second roll-off factor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: The DIRECTV Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Ernest C. Chen, Joseph Santoru, Shamik Maitra, Dennis Lai, Tung-Sheng Lin, Guangcai Zhou
  • Patent number: 7822385
    Abstract: Adjacent channel interference (ACI) suppression is achieved by selectively applying one or more pre-calculated fixed filters only when necessary, thereby preserving the sensitivity of the receiver. An energy detector accurately detects adjacent channel interference in the frequency band of the desired signal so that the likelihood of a false detection of ACI is very low. If the energy detector detects adjacent channel interference is present in the band of the desired signal, then the received signal is selected to be filtered by the pre-calculated filter, e.g., a low pass filter. Otherwise, the pre-calculated filter is bypassed. In either case, additional ACI suppression processing may be employed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventor: Miguel Lopez
  • Patent number: 7796716
    Abstract: A wireless device receives an input signal representing a signal of interest (e.g., one or more portions of a packet) on a wireless medium. The input signal may, in addition, contain narrowband interference signals. The wireless device removes the signal of interest from the input signal to produce a residue signal, and analyzes the residue signal to determine the presence of any interference bands in which narrowband interference signals may be present. The wireless device then removes the detected interference bands from the input signal. The residue signal may reveal the presence of interference signals, which might otherwise be hard to distinguish in the input signal. Thus, interference signals with power levels much lower than the power of the signal of interest may be detected and removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Bijoy Bhukania, Raghu Ganesan, Naga Saty Srikanth Puvvada, Sthanunathan Ramakrishnan, Jaiganesh Balakrishnan
  • Patent number: 7729664
    Abstract: During a telephony session, a determination is made on a mobile computing device that one or more designated conditions exist by which radio interference generated from the mobile computing device is to be reduced. In response, a power state of a set of one or more components of the mobile computing device is lowered. This reduces radio interference from those components. The set of components are ancillary to the mobile computing device's ability to maintain the telephony session, so that the telephony session is not affected by the reduction of power to the components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: Palm, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Sorensen, Jerome Tu