Angle Modulation Patents (Class 375/302)
  • Publication number: 20110176636
    Abstract: A low cost high-efficiency all-digital transmitter using all-digital power amplifiers (“DPA”) and various mapping techniques to generate an output signal, which substantially reproduces a baseband signal at a carrier frequency. A baseband signal generator generates a baseband signal which is quantized by a signal processor using a quantization map. A DPA control mapper outputs control signals to phase selectors using the quantized signal and a quantization table. Each phase selector receives one of the control signals and outputs a waveform at a carrier frequency with a phase corresponding to the control signals, or an inactive signal. Each DPA in a DPA array has an assigned weight, receives one of the waveforms from the phase selectors, and outputs a power signal according to the weight of the DPA and the phase of the received waveform. The combined power signal substantially reproduces the baseband signal at the carrier frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2010
    Publication date: July 21, 2011
    Inventors: Hua Wang, Toru Matsuura, Gregoire Ie Grand de Mercey, Paul Cheng-Po Liang, Koji Takinami, Richard W. D. Booth
  • Patent number: 7978785
    Abstract: The present invention provides an improved frequency doubling circuit, with adjustable phase offset. Briefly, rather than using the traditional equations cos (2?t)=cos 2(?t)?sin 2(?t) and sin(2?t)=2 sin(?t)cos(?t), the quadrature output signals are generated utilizing mixers, each having two input signals, separated in phase by the same offset. This minimizes the effects of the non-linearities introduced by the mixer, which therefore reduces amplitude mismatch between the quadrature signals. Also, the phase offset of the quadrature output signals can be tuned and calibrated using a phase shifting circuit. This phase shifting circuit realizes a tuning range of approximately 5° in programmable steps. This combination of circuits can be used to minimize the amplitude mismatch and phase errors, thereby reducing the amplitude of and interference caused by transmission of the image frequency to the receivers input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Edgewater Computer Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Curtis Leifso
  • Patent number: 7965805
    Abstract: Frequency and phase of an output signal is adjusted to track an input signal. A control signal is adjusted to control a frequency of an oscillating signal from which the output signal is derived. In some aspects the frequency of the oscillating signal is adjusted by reconfiguration of reactive circuits coupled to an oscillator circuit. Phase of the output signal may be adjusted based on comparison of the oscillating signal with an adjustable threshold. For example, the adjustable threshold may comprise an adjustable bias signal for a transistor circuit whereby the oscillating signal is provided as an input to the transistor circuit and the output of the transistor circuit provides the output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2011
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Chong U. Lee, David Jonathan Julian, Amal Ekbal, Pavel Monat, Wei Xiong
  • Patent number: 7961815
    Abstract: Receiver network for receiving a first filtered modulated transmitted signal in a first RF band and a second modulated transmitted signal in a second RF band and for providing received signals to one or more demodulators. A demodulator and baseband filter for demodulating and filtering the first filtered modulated received signal and for providing filtered demodulated baseband signal by a baseband filter mismatched to the filter of the first filtered modulated transmitted signal and demodulating the second modulated signal providing a demodulated baseband signal and a selector for selecting either the first or the second demodulated baseband signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: Wi-LAN, Inc.
    Inventor: Kamilo Feher
  • Publication number: 20110134972
    Abstract: An active antenna, a base station, a method for refreshing the amplitude and phase, and a signal processing method are disclosed to simplify the structure of a phase shifter and guarantee the reliability of the phase shifter. The active antenna or the base station includes an antenna dipole array, a transceiver array, a digital processing unit (DPU), and a transceiving calibration unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2011
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuanrong ZHU, Jianjun CHEN, Zhuobiao HE, Jianfeng WU, Ming XU, Yi ZHANG, Yuntao ZHU, Pinghua HE
  • Publication number: 20110129008
    Abstract: It is disclosed a method comprising including transmitting indication information indicating network cells of a first type different from network cells of a second type, the transmitting comprising including a) broadcasting control information, the indication information to be transmitted being an indication flag, b) assigning a set of synchronization information to the network cells of the first type, and broadcasting control information, the indication information to be transmitted being the synchronization information, c) reserving at least one signaling code information for the network cells of the first type, the indication information to be transmitted being the signaling code information, d) transmitting signaling information subjected to modulation by at least one predefined phase modulation or scrambling by at least one predefined scrambling sequence, the modulation or scrambling being indicative of network cells of the first and second types, and/or e) transmitting i) a PSS and a RS, ii) a SSS and a
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2008
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Inventors: Mieszko Chmiel, Juergen Michel, Bernhard Raaf
  • Patent number: 7953182
    Abstract: Transmitters, receivers and associated methods are disclosed for providing phase and amplitude modulation in a carrier-less communication system (e.g., an ultra-wide band communication system). An approximate quadrature signal is provided by delaying the in-phase signal by an amount determined by various criteria, such as the bandwidths of the component signals, minimizing the mean square error between an approximate quadrature signal and the true quadrature signal, and minimizing the auto-correlation function of the in-phase signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Assignee: Ultrabit Communications LLC
    Inventor: Stephan V. Schell
  • Publication number: 20110122969
    Abstract: A transmission apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention comprises a serial/parallel (S/P) converter for converting an input bit stream into a plurality of symbols each including 3 bits, a differential modulator for generating differential encoded symbols by applying ?/4 phase rotation to each of the symbols, up-samplers for up-sampling the differential encoded symbols, filters for filtering the up-sampled symbols, digital/analog (D/A) converters for converting the filtered symbols into analog signals, and a quadrature modulator for performing quadrature modulation on the converted analog signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2010
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Jung-yeol Oh, Jaehwan Kim, Hyung Soo Lee, Jae Young Kim
  • Publication number: 20110122970
    Abstract: The present invention provides a single modulator capable of transmitting an input according to a first and a second modulation technique. The first modulation technique represents changes in the input using a first set of carrier waveform parameters, such as phase variations, whereas the second modulation technique represents changes in the input using a second set of carrier waveform parameters, such as alternative phase variations. The present invention performs both modulation techniques by expressing the 10 second set of carrier waveform parameters as a subset of the first set of carrier waveform parameters. In a preferred embodiment, the first and second modulation techniques comprise the ?/2-offset 2PSK (a good approximation of differential GMSK) and 3?/8-offset 8PSK (also known as EDGE) modulation techniques.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2009
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Inventor: David Chappaz
  • Patent number: 7949072
    Abstract: A single sideband mixer circuit includes a voltage controlled oscillator operable a tunable frequency f1. The mixer circuit outputs a frequency signal at a frequency f1±f2. A tracking filter operates to filter the frequency signal and generate a first output signal at the frequency f1±f2. A resonance frequency fr of the tracking filter is tunable to substantially match the frequency f1±f2 of the frequency signal. The output signal of the tracking filter may be processed by a phase lock loop circuit to generate a control signal for controlling the setting of the tunable frequency f1 and resonance frequency fr. Alternatively, the output signal of the tracking filter may be divided and the divided signal processed by a phase lock loop circuit to generate the control signal for controlling setting of the tunable frequency f1 and resonance frequency fr.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: ST-Ericsson SA
    Inventors: Ivan Krivokapic, Thierry Divel
  • Patent number: 7949078
    Abstract: In a high-precision signal detection apparatus and method for a high-speed receiver, signal detection occurs asynchronously of the incoming data. A comparison clock is generated by an oscillator whose effective capacitance is varied by a second, lower speed oscillator connected to the capacitance. This prevents the asynchronous sampling that occurs in a zero-crossing position in the incoming data from remaining in that position in subsequent sampling cycles, so that a valid signal is not missed by the detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.
    Inventors: Jafar Savoj, Pierte Roo
  • Patent number: 7944989
    Abstract: An RF signal, which has been obtained by a quadrature modulation, is corrected without performing quadrature demodulation. There are included an in-phase multiplier, a quadrature multiplier, an adder, a power detector, and an error determining part. The in-phase multiplier outputs an in-phase conversion signal by mixing an in-phase local signal of a predetermined local frequency with an in-phase correction user signal obtained by adding an in-phase user signal to an in-phase correction signal of a sinusoidal voltage outputted from an in-phase correction signal output unit. The quadrature multiplier outputs a quadrature conversion signal by mixing a quadrature local signal, which is different in phase by 90 degrees from the in-phase local signal, with a quadrature correction user signal obtained by adding a quadrature user signal to a quadrature correction signal, which is different in phase by 90 degrees from the in-phase correction signal, from a quadrature correction signal output unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: Advantest Corporation
    Inventor: Takashi Kato
  • Patent number: 7944994
    Abstract: A data converter that converts an input signal to a signal to be inputted to an amplifier. Specifically, the data converter includes: an amplitude detection section that detects an amplitude level of the input signal; a region determination section that determines whether or not an input power to the amplifier is in a non-linear region of the amplifier based on the amplitude level of the input signal detected by the amplitude detection section; and a signal processing section that converts the input signal to a signal having a lower resolution than that of the input signal if the region determination section determines that the input power to the amplifier is in the non-linear region of the amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Toru Matsuura, Hisashi Adachi
  • Patent number: 7933359
    Abstract: Provided is a polar transmitter which increases a modulation rate using a multi-phase generator and includes: a data processor which processes and separates incoming data to an amplitude component and a phase component; a multi-phase generator which generates a plurality of carriers having a plurality of phase components by processing a carrier having a certain frequency; a selection output part which selects and outputs a carrier having a phase substantially equal to the phase component; and a carrier output part which synthesizes the output carrier with the amplitude component and outputs a carrier. Accordingly, the modulation rate of the carrier can be increased and the bandwidth can be extended with the related art polar transmitter. Therefore, the polar transmitter is applicable to the wideband communications, the multi-mode, and the multi-band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jeong-hoon Lee, Seung-woo Kim, Jae-sup Lee, Eun-chul Park
  • Patent number: 7929926
    Abstract: Apparatus is presented for broadcasting an RF signal. This includes a signal divider that receives a composite RF signal and provides therefrom first and second signals each having digital and analog components. A phase extractor receives the first signal and provides therefrom a phase modulated RF signal for application to an amplifier. A gain controller varies the gain of the amplifier in accordance with amplitude variations of the second signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: Harris Corporation
    Inventor: Geoffrey Norman Mendenhall
  • Patent number: 7929637
    Abstract: A transmitter using quadrature modulation includes a rectangular to polar converter for converting data symbols into a polar form, where each polar symbol has a magnitude signal and an angle signal. Digital phase modulation circuitry includes an all digital PLL circuit for generating a phase modulated RF carrier signal responsive to the angle signal frequency control word (FCW) and a carrier frequency FCW. A digitally controlled amplifier for amplifying the phase modulated signal is controlled by a digital amplitude control circuitry for controlling the gain of the digitally controlled amplifier responsive to the magnitude signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Robert B. Staszewski, Sameh Rezeq, Dirk Leipold
  • Patent number: 7916808
    Abstract: A modulation circuit uses pre-calculated and stored data to generate the modulated output. The modulator architecture uses pre-calculated, Gaussian filtered sine and cosine responses that are stored in a ROM (read-only memory) or other memory structure. The modulator output is then calculated as a simple sum of values read from the ROM and controlled by the input burst data stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Peter Considine, Nathalie Messina, Jean-Christophe Jiguet
  • Publication number: 20110069784
    Abstract: Disclosed are hybrid heterodyne transmitters and receivers for use in communications systems, or other systems, and the corresponding methods for hybrid heterodyne transmitting and receiving. A heterodyne receiver for converting a continuous time modulated signal to a discrete time digital baseband signal includes a sigma-delta modulator. The sigma-delta modulator is a signal-delta analog-to-digital converter constructed and arranged to receive a modulated signal at an RF carrier frequency and provide a quantized output at a first intermediate frequency. The heterodyne receiver may also include a digital mixer constructed and arranged to receive a data stream quantized by the sigma-delta analog-to-digital converter and receive a signal at a second mixing frequency. The digital mixer then provides digital signals representative of a baseband signal suitable for digital signal processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2010
    Publication date: March 24, 2011
    Applicant: Intrinsix Corporation
    Inventor: Eugene M. Petilli
  • Patent number: 7912145
    Abstract: In some exemplary embodiments of the invention, a transfer function of a filter for a fractional-N sigma-delta modulator may be calculated to be optimized according to predefined optimization criteria. For example, the optimization criteria may include spectral cleanliness at the output of the modulator, or the mean squared error of the input to the filter and the input to a voltage controlled oscillator of the fractional-N phase locked loop (PLL). In some exemplary embodiments, the filter may be adjusted to compensate for variations and/or impairments in the analog fractional-N PLL. A non-exhaustive list of examples for the transfer function includes a finite impulse response and an infinite impulse response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Marvell World Trade Ltd.
    Inventors: Daniel Yellin, Kobby Pick
  • Publication number: 20110051783
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for generating a composite signal includes electronics configured to modulate a carrier utilizing a finite set of composite signal phases to generate a composite signal, the finite set of composite signal phases being determined through an optimization process that minimizes a constant envelope for the phase modulated carrier, subject to constraints on desired signal power levels of the signals to be combined and either zero or one or more relative phase relationships between the signals. The apparatus and method can be extended to generating an optimized composite signal of different frequencies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2009
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Inventors: Charles Robert Cahn, Philip A. Dafesh
  • Publication number: 20110033011
    Abstract: A method of providing a multi-resolution transmission with a MIMO scheme may include employing a selected modulation scheme to generate a first data stream including basic information and a second data stream including both enhanced information and the basic information, and employing a modulation and multiple input/multiple output (MIMO) scheme to generate data for transmission. The data for transmission may employ a combination of spatial multiplexing and transmit diversity techniques. A corresponding apparatus is also provided. Another method of providing selective recovery of received data at a mobile terminal may include receiving data at a mobile terminal including at least one antenna, receiving information indicative of a data reception condition at the mobile terminal, determining, between spatial multiplexing and transmit diversity mode options, a reception mode to be employed for decoding the data received based on the information indicative of the data reception condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2010
    Publication date: February 10, 2011
    Inventors: Ren-Jr Chen, Chang-Lung Hsiao
  • Patent number: 7881399
    Abstract: Provided is a transmission circuit which is small in size, operates with high efficiency, and outputs a transmission signal having high linearity. A signal generation section 11 generates an amplitude signal m(t) and a phase signal. An angle modulation section 17 angle-modulates the phase signal to output an angle-modulated signal. An amplitude calculation section 12 outputs a discrete value signal V(t) having a plurality of discrete values corresponding to a magnitude of the amplitude signal m(t). A dividing section 13 divides the amplitude signal m(t) by the discrete value signal V(t) to output an amplitude signal M(t). A delta-sigma modulation section 14 delta-sigma modulates the amplitude signal M(t) to output a delta-sigma modulated signal. A variable gain amplifier section 15 amplifies the delta-sigma modulated signal by a gain corresponding to the discrete value signal V(t).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Toru Matsuura
  • Publication number: 20110007844
    Abstract: Provided are a frequency modulation/demodulation apparatus using a frequency selective baseband and a transmitting/receiving apparatus using the same. In a frequency selective baseband transmission technique or an FS-CDMA technique, a transmission rate is controlled according to communication channel environment, spread code groups are repeatedly selected in a receiving side so as to obtain a frequency diversity gain. Accordingly, it is possible to reduce interference between users. In addition, even in a case where strong interference induced from electronic exists, it is possible to implement low-power, stable human-body communication and to ensure a communication quality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2008
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Hyung Il Park, In Gi Lim, Tae Wook Kang, Sung Weon Kang, Kyung Soo Kim, Jung Bum Kim, Chang Hee Hyoung, Jung Hwan Hwang, Jin Kyung Kim, Sung Eun Kim, Duck Gun Park, Ki Hyuk Park, Jae Hoon Shim
  • Publication number: 20110007843
    Abstract: An FM transmitter operates at low power by maintaining a substantially constant transmit voltage over the FM frequency band. A transmit signal strength indicator (TSSI) is provided at the output of the FM transmitter to measure the power at the output of the power amplifier. The TSSI generates a power control signal indicative of the output power and inputs the power control signal to the baseband processor. The baseband processor generates gain control signals to control the gain of various analog stages of the FM transmitter based on the power control signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2009
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Applicant: BROADCOM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shahla Khorram, Frank (Bo-Shiou) Ke, Amir Ibrahim
  • Patent number: 7865152
    Abstract: The disclosed system, device and method for a signal modulation apparatus generally includes a first signal generator suitably configured to generate a first continuous wave radio frequency (RF) signal, and a second signal generator suitably configured to generate a second continuous wave RF signal. A dual-circular polarized antenna may be adapted to receive the first continuous wave RF signal into a right-hand port and the second continuous wave RF signal into a left-hand port, where the signals are combined into a modulated RF signal in the dual-circular polarized antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventor: Kenneth Brown
  • Patent number: 7864663
    Abstract: The technology in this application spreads a signal over an available discontinuous spectrum, such as a radio frequency band, so that the spread signal only occupies the non-contiguous spectrum. In this way, CDMA transmission and reception can be used in a fragmented or non-contiguous spectrum that otherwise would not be useable for direct sequence spreading. Spreading over non-contiguous portions of spectrum is preferably performed without producing unacceptable interference in portions of unavailable spectrum located between the allowed spectrum. By avoiding unacceptable interference in portions of unavailable spectrum located between the allowed spectrum, the unavailable spectrum may be used by other users or services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventor: Paul W. Dent
  • Patent number: 7860187
    Abstract: An FSK signal modulator is provided in a transmitter which receives desired information to be transmitted on its input and which modulates the information to be transmitted to transmit a binary FSK signal. A counter counts a value of addition with the value of addition modified in accordance with a predetermined rule, depending on the value specified by the information to be transmitted, and for holding the counted value. The count value is determined by a threshold value decision circuit with respect to a threshold value. The result from the decision is output in the form of binary FSK signal. An FSK signal modulator will be provided which is simplified in circuit constitution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Oki Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroji Akahori
  • Patent number: 7860188
    Abstract: A digital modulator in a radio transmitter includes circuitry for switching between Gaussian Minimum Shift Keying (GMSK) and Phase-Shift Keying (PSK) while maintaining spectral mask requirements. The digital modulator of the present invention includes both GMSK and PSK symbol mappers that produce PSK in-phase and quadrature symbols and GMSK symbols, respectively, to a pulse shaping block. Based on opposite phases of a modulation control signal, the symbol mappers produce either modulated data or a steam of logic zeros to the pulse shaping block. The pulse shaping block filters the received data and multiplexes the data so that each modulated data stream receives non-zero data during a guard time to avoid abrupt changes in the modulated signal that would violate the spectral mask requirements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventor: Henrik T. Jensen
  • Patent number: 7852970
    Abstract: A programmable hybrid transmitter includes a baseband processing module, an up-conversion module, and a power amplifier circuit. The baseband processing module is coupled to convert outbound data into a complex signal when the programmable hybrid transmitter is in a first mode and to convert the outbound data into a normalized complex signal, offset information, and/or transmit property information when the programmable hybrid transmitter is in a second mode. The up-conversion module is coupled to mix the complex signal with a local oscillation to produce an up-converted signal when the programmable hybrid transmitter is in the first mode and to mix the normalized complex signal with the local oscillation based on the offset information to produce a normalized up-converted signal when the programmable hybrid transmitter is in the second mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventor: Ahmadreza (Reza) Rofougaran
  • Patent number: 7848455
    Abstract: Provided is a transmission circuit which is capable of compensating for an offset voltage and a sensitivity characteristic of a PA, and operating with low distortion and high efficiency. A regulator 18 supplies, to a PA 201, a voltage which is controlled in accordance with an amplitude signal to which a first offset value has been added. A regulator 19 supplies, to a PA 202, a voltage which is controlled in accordance with an amplitude signal to which a second offset value has been added. The PA 201 amplifies, in accordance with the voltage supplied from the regulator 18, a phase-modulated signal outputted from a phase modulator 13. The PA 202 amplifies, in accordance with the voltage supplied from the regulator 19, an output signal of the PA 201. A digital block 11 controls the first and second offset values in accordance with temperature information T measured by a temperature measuring section 21.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeru Morimoto, Kaoru Ishida
  • Patent number: 7839954
    Abstract: Sampled IQ values at the origin are revalued by applying a minimum distance, or radius, away from the (0,0) coordinate in the IQ domain, and applying a rotation about the origin for consecutive (0,0) samples, thereby improving communication performance. A direction of rotation is able to be predetermined or dynamically determined according to a correction look-up table or an IQ trajectory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Wayne S. Lee
  • Patent number: 7835696
    Abstract: A wireless multicarrier transmission method in which a multicarrier transmission uses n modulated frequency subcarriers (n is an integer number), and a fading condition of each subcarrier is detected to generate fading channel profile information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Ralf Bohnke, Seiichi Izumi
  • Patent number: 7831215
    Abstract: Embodiments of methods, transceiver circuits, and systems can compensate an IQ mismatch (e.g., Tx or Rx) or a carrier leakage using a plurality of local oscillators. One embodiment of a transceiver can include a first up-conversion IQ mixer, a second up-conversion IQ mixer, a first down-conversion IQ mixer with an input to receive an output of the second up-conversion IQ mixer, a second down-conversion IQ mixer with an input to receive an output of the first up-conversion IQ mixer, a first local oscillator to generate a first IQ LO signal for the first up-conversion IQ mixer and the first down-conversion IQ mixer, and a second local oscillator to generate a second IQ LO signal for the second up-conversion IQ mixer and the second down-conversion IQ mixer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: GCT Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Joonbae Park, Kyeongho Lee
  • Patent number: 7831224
    Abstract: A radio-frequency IC (3) for a mobile radio transmitter (1) has an analogue/digital converter unit (5) for digitizing baseband signals (AB), a recovery unit (6, 7, 8, 9, 10) for recovering determined data information (Rot, TxSymbPhase) on which the baseband signals (AB) are based, a digital/analogue converter unit (11) and a frequency converter unit for producing transmitted signals on the basis of the signals produced by the digital/analogue converter unit (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Burkhard Neurauter, Guenter Maerzinger, Clemens Troebinger, Thorsten Tracht
  • Patent number: 7826552
    Abstract: The present invention provides a structure in which an amplitude-modulation mode and a frequency-modulation mode are switched.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidetomo Kobayashi, Tomoaki Atsumi
  • Patent number: 7826563
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for multi-modulus division. The method accepts an input first signal having a first frequency and divides the first frequency by an integral number. A second signal is generated with a plurality of phase outputs, each having a second frequency. Using a daisy-chain register controller, phase outputs are selected and supplied as a third signal with a frequency. Selecting phase outputs using the daisy-chain register controller includes supplying the third signal as a clock signal to registers having outputs connected in a daisy-chain. Then, a sequence of register output pulses is generated in response to the clock signals, and register output pulses are chosen from the sequence to select second signal phase outputs. By using 8-second signal phase outputs, a third signal is obtained with a frequency equal to the second frequency multiplied by one of the following numbers: 0.75, 0.875, 1, 1.125, or 1.25.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Applied Micro Circuits Corporation
    Inventors: Hongming An, Simon Pang, Viet Linh Do
  • Publication number: 20100270867
    Abstract: A non-contact power supply system includes a power supply device for transmitting high frequency power and a load device which receives the high frequency power in a non-contact mode by electromagnetic induction to supply it to a load. The power supply device includes a power transmission unit having a primary power coil and an inverter circuit, an inquiry unit having at least one primary signal coil and an oscillation circuit, a signal detection unit and a control unit. The load device includes a power reception unit having a secondary power coil magnetically coupled to the primary power coil and a power conversion unit, a secondary signal coil magnetically coupled to the primary signal coil, and a response unit which is operated by electromotive force induced in the secondary signal coil. The control unit stops power transmission when no signal is detected and executes power transmission which a signal is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2010
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Applicant: Panasonic Electric Works Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideaki Abe
  • Patent number: 7822149
    Abstract: Additional data may be added to the current SDARS satellite signals as a phase and/or amplitude offset from the legacy quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) modulated data and transmitted by the SDAR terrestrial repeaters. However, in the case where a legacy receiver architecture for a differential modulation system outputs angular/phase differences between carriers, the phase and/or amplitude information appears as distortion to the legacy receiver. The present invention provides a method for optimizing the SDARS infrastructure more efficiently by allowing independent adjustment of the phase and/or amplitude offset (610) at each terrestrial site. The present invention provides a method for adjusting the performance of each signal together or separately as needed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric A. Dibiaso, Michael L. Hiatt, Jr., Glenn A. Walker
  • Patent number: 7813444
    Abstract: A method and arrangement is shown for measuring an indicator of delay mismatch between a phase information path and an amplitude information path of a polar modulator. In the solution according to the invention a substantially sinusoidal measurement signal (301, 302) is injected both into the amplitude information path (351) and into the phase information path (352). An indicator of the delay mismatch is obtained by measuring a quantity that is proportional to a difference between power represented by a lower side band of a spectrum of a polar modulated signal and power represented by an upper side band of the spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventor: Niall Eric Shakeshaft
  • Patent number: 7809082
    Abstract: To minimize abrupt changes in modulated signal amplitude when switching between modulation types in a multi-modulation system, a “smoothing” circuit is used. When the modulation type is changed in a multi-slot modulation, the last symbol of the previous slot is overwritten and modulation is controlled by a smoothing circuit during the time of the final symbol of the previous slot to effect the trajectory smoothing. The IQ-plane is divided into two (or more) zones, each with an associated safe point. After the next-to-last symbol is modulated, modulation is made to jump to the safe point associated with the zone and modulation continues to a starting point. From the starting point, the next slot can be modulated using the new modulation type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Peter Brendan Considine, Jean-Christophe Lombardo, Céline Pignatari
  • Patent number: 7804918
    Abstract: An apparatus for independently extracting streams from a hierarchically-modulated signal and performing a soft-decision, and a method thereof are provided. The apparatus includes: a synchronizing unit for receiving a hierarchically-modulated signal configured of an I-channel signal and a Q-channel signal from an external device and performing a synchronizing process on the received signal; a divaricating unit 410 for divaricating the synchronized signal configured of the I-channel signal and the Q-channel signal from the synchronizing unit; a high priority (HP) stream extracting and soft-decision unit for extracting a HP stream from one of the divaricated signals, and performing a soft-decision; a processing unit for processing the other of the divaricated signals to allow constellation points to be distinguished; and a low priority (LP) stream extracting and soft-decision unit for extracting a LP stream from the processed signal from the processing unit and performing a soft-decision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2010
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Tae-Hoon Kim, Seung-Hyun Choi, Cheon-In Oh, Pan-Soo Kim, Dae-Ig Chang
  • Publication number: 20100232482
    Abstract: Digital values representing an audio signal are formed in a FM transmitter. The deviation of the amplitude of the audio signal as represented by the digital values, from a reference amplitude level, is measured. The audio signal is filtered based on the deviation measured by processing the digital values, with the filtering designed to filter different frequency components of the audio signal with different respective magnitudes. Another set of digital values representing the filtered audio signal is generated, and used to frequency modulate a carrier signal to generate a FM signal. Over-modulation of the FM signal is thereby controlled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2010
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Inventor: Sriram Murali
  • Publication number: 20100226459
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for I/Q modulation are provided. According to the apparatus and method, the symbol error probability performance of a conventional I/Q modulation method can be improved by a maximum of 3dB, and when the same symbol error rate (SER) as that of the conventional method is obtained, the power consumption can be reduced to half that required by the conventional method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2006
    Publication date: September 9, 2010
    Inventors: Seung-Keun Park, Jin-A Park, Pyung-Dong Cho, Sanghoon Kim
  • Patent number: 7792214
    Abstract: Provided is a transmitter circuit capable of operating with low distortion and high efficiency even in a modulation method using wide modulation bandwidth. In the transmitter circuit, a signal generation section (11) generates an amplitude signal and an angle-modulated signal. Based on a predetermined characteristic, a compensating filter (12) wave-shaping-processes the amplitude signal. A regulator (14) outputs a signal in accordance with a magnitude of the signal which has been wave-shaping-processed by the compensating filter (12). An amplitude modulator section (15) amplitude-modulates the angle-modulated signal by using the signal outputted from the regulator (14). A characteristic of the compensating filter (12) is an inverse of a transfer characteristic between an input at the regulator (14) and an output at the amplitude modulator section (15).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Toru Matsuura, Shigeru Morimoto
  • Publication number: 20100215119
    Abstract: A reception apparatus includes a plurality of antennas for receiving modulation signals of channels in the same frequency band, an received signal strength intensity estimation unit for estimating the reception received signal strength intensity of each reception signal, transmission path fluctuation estimation units for estimating a transmission path fluctuation of each channel of the reception signal, phase difference estimation units for calculating a phase difference of the transmission path fluctuation estimation signal of a predetermined channel of each antenna and outputting it as a phase difference signal, and a signal selection unit for selecting and outputting a reception quadrate baseband signal for isolating a signal of each channel from the reception signals and a transmission path fluctuation estimation signal of each channel. Thus, by isolating and demodulating a plurality of multiplexed modulated signals received, it is possible to improve the data transmission rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2010
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Masayuki Orihashi, Akihiko Matsuoka
  • Publication number: 20100208779
    Abstract: A transmitter for reducing time selectivity and/or frequency selectivity in a wireless communication system includes a plurality of transmit antennas, a phase shifter which is disposed for each transmit antenna and is configured to shift a phase of data transmitted through the transmit antenna by a phase shift value, and a channel selectivity processor configured to obtain the phase shift value by using a channel phase value fed back from a receiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2008
    Publication date: August 19, 2010
    Inventors: Hyung Ho Park, Min Seok Oh, Doo Hyun Sung, Jin Soo Choi, Jae Hoon Chung, Sung Ho Moon, Kyu Jin Park, Eun Jong Lee
  • Patent number: 7778354
    Abstract: A communicating apparatus includes: a local signal generator, an orthogonal modulator, an orthogonal demodulator, and two orthogonal error compensators. The local signal generator generates a first local signal and a second local signal. The orthogonal modulator modulates an input signal into a modulation signal by using the first local signal. The orthogonal demodulator demodulates the modulation signal into a demodulation signal by using the second local signal. Each of the two orthogonal error compensators corrects orthogonal modulation error generated in the orthogonal modulator and an orthogonal demodulation error generated in the orthogonal demodulator respectively. Set values to be set to the orthogonal error compensators are calculated based on (1) a phase difference between the first local signal and the second local signal, (2) the input signal and (3) the demodulation signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Keiichi Yamaguchi, Atsushi Yamaoka
  • Patent number: 7778356
    Abstract: A modulator including a direct modulation synthesizer circuit, a reference frequency oscillator for providing an input reference signal to the direct modulation synthesizer circuit for locking a carrier frequency to a stable frequency and a pre-emphasis unit for data bits and for producing a modulating signal for direct modulation of the direct modulation synthesizer circuit, the modulating signal having data bit dependent voltage levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: Given Imaging Ltd.
    Inventor: Ido Bettesh
  • Patent number: 7769096
    Abstract: A quadrature-multiplexed continuous phase modulation (QM-CPM) signal is made up of the real parts of two underlying CPM signals whose information content can be recovered from just their real parts. The real parts of two such signals are I/Q multiplexed and transmitted onto a single channel to approximately double the bits/Hz of the underlying CPM signals, while maintaining the same or similar minimum distance. A class of QM-CPFSK (QM-continuous phase frequency shift keyed) signals are presented that use binary signaling but more phase states, and M2-ary QM-CPFSK signals are derived from constant envelope M-ary CPFSK signals. M2-ary multi-amplitude CPFSK signaling schemes are constructed that maintain the same distance as known multi-amplitude CPFSK schemes, but more than double the bandwidth efficiency in bits/Hz. In addition to these CPFSK based embodiments, embodiments are provided that more generally use CPM, non-continuous phase modulated signals, and even trellis-based PAM based signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Trellis Phase Communications, LP
    Inventors: John P. Fonseka, Eric Morgan Dowling
  • Publication number: 20100183093
    Abstract: The present disclosure is concerned with a digital transmitter using Delta-Sigma modulators (DMSs) that uses an up-sampler and modulator block that follows the DSMs to generate the RF equivalent of the baseband signal to be transmitted. The up-sampler and modulator block is simple to implement and contains only one or a few multiplexers implemented in high speed logic technology.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2008
    Publication date: July 22, 2010
    Inventors: Fadhel M. Ghannouchi, Mohamed Helaoui, Safar Hatami, Renato Negra