Patents by Inventor George Smoot

George Smoot 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).

  • Radio having a fast adapting direct conversion receiver
    Patent number: 6006079
    Abstract: A direct conversion receiver (200) is capable of recovering a filtered baseband signal (295) from a radio signal (201) modulated with a baseband signal (202). The direct conversion receiver (200) comprises a radio frequency mixer (205) for converting the radio signal (201) to the baseband signal (202), a lowpass amplifier (210) DC coupled to the radio frequency mixer (205), that amplifies the baseband signal (202) and substantially attenuates components of the baseband signal above a high corner frequency, and a DC offset compensation section (225) DC coupled to the lowpass amplifier (210), that provides a DC offset compensation and a controlled highpass filtering of the baseband signal. A low corner frequency of the DC offset compensation section is smoothly varied from a predetermined maximum value to a predetermined minimum value during a low frequency, low energy portion of the signaling protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1999
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: James I. Jaffee, Walter Grandfield, George Smoot