Patents by Inventor Charles L. Sobchak

Charles L. Sobchak 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: 9031526
    Abstract: A communication device includes a receiver that is capable of canceling in-channel interference. The receiver includes an antenna for receiving a wireless signal comprising in-channel components and an out-of-channel component, wherein the in-channel components comprise a desired component and an in-channel interference component. A first filter of the receiver filters the wireless signal by blocking at least a portion of the out-of-channel component to produce a first signal comprising the in-channel components, and at least a second filter of the receiver filters the wireless signal by blocking at least a portion of the in-channel components to produce a second signal comprising the out-of-channel component. An in-channel interference estimator of the receiver generates an in-channel interference estimation signal based on the second signal. And a combiner of the filter combines the first signal and the second signal to at least partially cancel the in-channel interference component of the first signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Motorola Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Spyros Kyperountas, Neiyer S. Correal, Qicai Shi, Charles L. Sobchak
  • Publication number: 20130337761
    Abstract: A communication device includes a receiver that is capable of canceling in-channel interference. The receiver includes an antenna for receiving a wireless signal comprising in-channel components and an out-of-channel component, wherein the in-channel components comprise a desired component and an in-channel interference component. A first filter of the receiver filters the wireless signal by blocking at least a portion of the out-of-channel component to produce a first signal comprising the in-channel components, and at least a second filter of the receiver filters the wireless signal by blocking at least a portion of the in-channel components to produce a second signal comprising the out-of-channel component. An in-channel interference estimator of the receiver generates an in-channel interference estimation signal based on the second signal. And a combiner of the filter combines the first signal and the second signal to at least partially cancel the in-channel interference component of the first signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2012
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Spyros Kyperountas, Neiyer S. Correal, Qicai Shi, Charles L. Sobchak
  • Patent number: 7929650
    Abstract: An automatic gain control (AGC) system for a receiver and corresponding method facilitate AGC in a receiver. The automatic gain control system includes an on-channel signal detector 123 configured to provide an on-channel signal level indication corresponding to a narrow band on-channel signal and a wideband signal detector 121 configured to provide a wideband signal level indication corresponding to a wideband signal, where the wideband signal includes the narrow band on-channel signal. Further included is a controller 149 that is coupled to the wideband signal level indication and the on-channel signal level indication and that is configured to provide a gain control signal corresponding to the wideband signal level and one or more of a plurality of states of the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles L. Sobchak, Mahibur Rahman
  • Patent number: 7899431
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for providing improved radio frequency (RF) receiver signal correction. For RF receiver circuitry (106) having receive path and a warmup period associated therewith and including at least one analog baseband gain control stage (218) having a gain associated therewith, the method includes the step of performing a DC correction calculation operation during the warmup period to derive a DC correction value having a first component and a second component for each of the at least one gain control stage (218). The DC correction calculation step includes the steps of performing a first closed loop correction (460) of a baseband path to derive the first component of the DC correction value and performing a second closed loop correction (462) of the receive path as a function of the (218) gain during the warmup period to derive the second component of the DC correction value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Mahibur Rahman, Manish N. Shah, Charles L. Sobchak
  • Patent number: 7693242
    Abstract: Methods (1500) and corresponding systems (400, 500) for determining and correcting a DC offset in a receiver operate to sample (1503) a signal to provide complex samples; estimate (1505) a Direct Current (DC) offset corresponding to each of the complex samples, the estimating the DC offset further including solving a plurality of equations relating to the plurality of complex samples, e.g., N simultaneous equations in N samples with a power of the signal invariant across the N samples, to deterministically derive offset values; and then remove (1517) the DC offset from the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles L. Sobchak, Mahibur Rahman
  • Patent number: 7603094
    Abstract: A direct current (DC) offset correction system for a direct conversion receiver and corresponding receiver and methods facilitate reduction of DC offsets in such receivers. One method includes calibrating a DC offset correction system in a closed loop configuration over each of a plurality of gain settings to provide a plurality of offset data for an operating mode of the direct conversion receiver; selecting one of the plurality of offset data based on a current gain setting of the direct conversion receiver as supplied, e.g., by an AGC system; and operating the DC offset correction system in an open loop configuration using the one of the plurality of offset data to correct for a DC offset in the direct conversion receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2009
    Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor Inc.
    Inventors: Mahibur Rahman, Charles L. Sobchak
  • Patent number: 7486941
    Abstract: Dynamic gain and phase compensation is provided in a radio frequency (RF) receiver (106) including at least one switched Low Noise Amplifier (LNA) (212) coupled to an RF gain control unit (226) providing a gain control signal to the at least one switched LNA (212) for control thereof. The RF receiver also includes an analog-to-digital (A/D) converter (222) for digitizing the RF signal and outputting an N-bit digital signal to the RF gain control unit (226). The method for gain compensation includes dynamically adjusting the N-bit digital signal to compensate for the at least one switched LNA (212) in response to the gain control signal. The method for phase compensation includes dynamically normalizing the N-bit digital signal into an M-bit signal range to derive an M-bit digital signal, where M?N and dynamically phase adjusting the M-bit digital signal to compensate for the at least one switched LNA (212) in response to the gain control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2009
    Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Mahibur Rahman, Charles L. Sobchak, James David Hughes
  • Patent number: 7324616
    Abstract: A narrowband interference cancellation system, method and digital signal processor is disclosed that removes narrowband interference in wide band communication systems. The system includes a narrowband processing component, wideband processing component, soft metric generator and at least one filter. The system is configured to receive a signal, identify one or more narrowband interferers in the received signal and filter out identified narrowband interferers. The narrowband processing component includes a filter bank configured to separate the received signal into a predetermined number of channel bands and identify a band with interference. The wide band processing component provides an average level for an unfiltered version of the received signal. The soft decision metric generator produces metrics based on predetermined thresholds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2008
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles L. Sobchak, Mahibur Rahman, David R. Haub, Louis J. Vannatta
  • Publication number: 20070293180
    Abstract: A direct current (DC) offset correction system for a direct conversion receiver and corresponding receiver and methods facilitate reduction of DC offsets in such receivers. One method includes calibrating a DC offset correction system in a closed loop configuration over each of a plurality of gain settings to provide a plurality of offset data for an operating mode of the direct conversion receiver; selecting one of the plurality of offset data based on a current gain setting of the direct conversion receiver as supplied, e.g., by an AGC system; and operating the DC offset correction system in an open loop configuration using the one of the plurality of offset data to correct for a DC offset in the direct conversion receiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2006
    Publication date: December 20, 2007
    Inventors: Mahibur Rahman, Charles L. Sobchak