With Plural Conversion Patents (Class 455/207)
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Patent number: 6137406Abstract: A double superheterodyne type microwave detector is constructed from a reception antenna; a first local oscillator; a second local oscillator; reception means for detecting microwaves having prescribed frequencies based on signals obtained by carrying out a first mixing in which the output of the first local oscillator is mixed with the microwaves picked up by the antenna, and a second mixing in which the signals obtained from the first mixing are mixed with the output of the second local oscillator; judgement means for judging whether or not an actual microwave signal which forms a detection target has been detected by the reception means; alarm means for outputting an alarm when the judgement means judges an actual microwave signal to have been received by the reception means; and first control means for suspending the first mixing when the reception means detects a microwave signal having a prescribed frequency; wherein the judgement of whether or not the prescribed frequency microwave signal detected by tType: GrantFiled: September 17, 1999Date of Patent: October 24, 2000Assignee: Yupiteru Industries Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hisao Ono
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Patent number: 6118499Abstract: A first mixer outputs a TV signal of a first intermediate frequency (the first IF) by up-converting an input signal. A second mixer outputs a TV signal of the second intermediate frequency (the second IF) by down-converting the TV signal of the first IF. The second IF is chosen to be different and below the conventional intermediate frequency used by single super-heterodyne analog TV tuners. By choosing a sufficiently low second IF, the passband signal can be directly sampled by an analog to digital converter after being filtered by a low pass filter. Thus, a digital television broadcast receiver tuner is achieved which can be used with a direct passband sampling type digital demodulator.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 1997Date of Patent: September 12, 2000Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventor: George Fang
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Patent number: 6112069Abstract: A radio receiver, and a method therefore, for efficiently suppressing attenuation properties of a low frequency signal, in an analog frequency modulation type radio communication system. The radio receiver includes a first down-converter for mixing a modulated, high-frequency signal received by the radio receiver and a predetermined local oscillating signal to generate an intermediate frequency signal. A modulator modulates the predetermined local oscillating signal by an aural signal transmitted from the transmitter and generates a mixing signal for down-mixing the electrical signal representative of modulated, high-frequency signal. The mixed signal is then applied to the first down-converter. A second down-converter down-converts, in frequency, the intermediate frequency signal generated from the first down-converter into a baseband signal to generate the down-converted signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 1998Date of Patent: August 29, 2000Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Bo-Gyu Na
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Patent number: 6112065Abstract: An improved receiver architecture utilizing active filters for frequency conversion, wherein the final IF stage operates at a frequency higher than the previous IF stage, is disclosed to facilitate the processing by a baseband system operating at higher IF of signals from receivers operating at lower IFs and to enable the continued use of existing post-IF devices with multiple-conversion receivers. A low IF signal output is digitally mixed with a divided local oscillator signal to achieve a higher IF which is suited for processing by post-IF components such as a detector. The mixed signal is then filtered by a low dynamic range active filter and limited.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 1997Date of Patent: August 29, 2000Assignee: Ericsson Inc.Inventors: Alan R. Holden, Antonio Montalvo
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Patent number: 6088569Abstract: A first mixer (306) shifts a first end (208) of a desired signal frequency bandwidth (206) of a desired signal (202) to an edge (508) of a first filter frequency bandwidth (502) of a first filter (312), wherein the first filter frequency bandwidth (502) is greater than the desired signal frequency bandwidth (206). Signals within a first undesired frequency spectrum (504) are attenuated by the first filter (314). A second mixer (316) shifts a second end (210) of the desired signal frequency bandwidth (206) to an edge (608) of a second filter frequency bandwidth (602) of a second filter (320) to receive the desired signal (202).Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 1998Date of Patent: July 11, 2000Assignee: Motorola, Inc.Inventors: Christopher R. Bach, Patrick D. Smith
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Patent number: 6031583Abstract: A high frequency video isolation circuit comprising: a modulating signal source for producing a modulating signal having a frequency of several hundred megahertz; an input multiplier for multiplying the modulating signal with an input video signal having frequency components in a frequency range from about several hertz to about one hundred or more megahertz, to produce a modulated video signal having frequency components in a frequency range from about one hundred megahertz to about several hundred megahertz; a first isolation transformer having an input and an output, for transforming the modulated video signal from the input to the output; and an output multiplier for multiplying the transformed modulated video signal with the modulating signal to produce an isolated output video signal having the frequency components of the input video signal.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 1998Date of Patent: February 29, 2000Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Sreeram Dhurjaty, Martin E. Trzcinski
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Patent number: 5956098Abstract: To make it possible to receive a modulated signal which is obtained by suppressing a carrier signal such as a high definition TV signal which is digitally demodulated such as QAM (quadrature amplitude modulation), a receiver of the double super-heterodyne system having the first and second mixers 9 and 13 is a basic constitution. A band pass filter having a flatness in pass band and a small deviation of group delay which will prevent the demodulation of a high definition TV signal from degradation is used a first intermediate frequency filter 11. An SAW filter is used as a second intermediate frequency filter 16. The third mixer 28 for converting a second intermediate frequency signal to a third intermediate frequency signal in frequency is installed and the frequency of the third intermediate frequency signal to be converted is set to a value lower than the frequency of the second intermediate frequency signal.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 1996Date of Patent: September 21, 1999Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Mizukami, Yutaka Igarashi, Toshio Nagashima
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Patent number: 5937341Abstract: An RF tuner and tuning method employs analog quadrature mixing with a coarse-stepwise tunable local oscillator to a near-baseband passband region, followed by A/D conversion of the I and Q signals, correction of phase, group delay, and amplitude errors, image rejection, and translation to baseband by (1) fixed frequency translation, (2) stepwise channelized translation, or (3) essentially continuously variable tuning over a given digital tuning range. The near-baseband passband region is sized and located such that alternating image rejection provides non-redundant and complete tuning coverage of a desired high frequency spectrum with a local oscillator step size equal to about twice the digital tuning range or about twice the number of channels digitally stepwise tunable times the channel width, effectively doubling the typical local oscillator step size. The digital tuning is preferably performed by a continuously variable bandpass decimating filter with aliasing to within R.sub.D of baseband, where R.sub.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 1996Date of Patent: August 10, 1999Assignee: University Of WashingtonInventor: Edwin A. Suominen
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Patent number: 5878087Abstract: In a dual CDMA mode and FM mode receiver, a local oscillator selectively outputs a local oscillation signal for a CDMA mode or a local oscillation signal for an FM mode in response to a command. A mixer mixes the local oscillation signal with an intermediate frequency signal to produce a signal having a predetermined frequency. Filters assigned to a CDMA mode and an FM mode, respectively, each filters the output of the mixer. After an AGC amplifier has amplified the output of the filter, a digital signal processor demodulates the output of the amplifier. Switches are provided for selecting either a CDMA mode or an FM mode.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 1994Date of Patent: March 2, 1999Assignee: NEC CorporationInventor: Masaki Ichihara
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Patent number: 5857004Abstract: A digital data receiver comprising a first frequency converter for converting a high frequency digital orthogonal modulation signal into a first intermediate frequency signal based on a first local oscillation signal, a second frequency converter for converting the first intermediate frequency signal into a second intermediate frequency signal based on a second local oscillation signal, and a demodulator for performing a orthogonal demodulation to the second intermediate frequency signal based on a third local oscillation signal, wherein the first local oscillation signal is generated by a variable oscillator for a PLL frequency synthesizer, the second local oscillation signal is generated by a high frequency oscillator in which its oscillation frequency is controlled based on the frequency control signal generated by the modulator to perform the orthogonal demodulation processing, and the third local oscillation signal is generated by a fixed oscillator in which its oscillation frequency is fixed.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 1995Date of Patent: January 5, 1999Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventor: Shuji Abe
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Patent number: 5841814Abstract: A radio frequency (rf) receiver adapted to receive a number of different digitally modulated rf input signals such as quadrature amplitude modulated (QAM) and vestigial side band (VSB) rf input signals includes circuitry for down converting the rf input signals to an intermediate frequency (IF) range having a center frequency fc2 and a bandwidth of Bhz and converter circuitry for sampling the IF signals and then producing corresponding baseband signals. In a preferred embodiment, the intermediate frequency signals are applied to a sample and hold circuit which is sampled at a frequency fs and whose output is coupled via a low pass filter to an analog-to-digital converter whose output is then applied to a Hilbert filter for demodulating the sampled signals and producing baseband signals. In-phase (I) and quadrature (Q) signals are produced whose phase and amplitude are not a function of different components and their tolerance of different conduction paths, as in the prior art.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 1995Date of Patent: November 24, 1998Assignee: Paradyne CorporationInventor: Robert L. Cupo
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Patent number: 5724653Abstract: The present invention relates to a radio receiver adapted for use in a time division multiple access (TDMA) system. The radio receiver includes DC compensator circuits configured to decrease the time required to cancel DC offset before received data bursts by DC coupling a radio frequency (RF) demodulator to a baseband channel. The radio receiver may also employ AC capacitive coupling having time modification so as to increase the AC coupled setting time and provide a low pole in a RF-to-Baseband interface.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 1994Date of Patent: March 3, 1998Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.Inventors: Thomas Wesley Baker, Paul Cooper Davis, Douglas D. Lopata, Owe George Petersen, Trudy Dawn Stetzler
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Patent number: 5572164Abstract: An FM demodulator having two input terminals (11, 12), to which FM input signals having 90.degree. phase relation are applied, the said FM demodulator including a phase comparator (1) and a tunable, phase shifting circuit (2), the phase shifting circuit (2) being tuned by the FM demodulator output signal via a feedback path comprising a loop, filter. By adding a compensation filter (5) to the tuning control loop the phase shifting circuit is effectively cancelled from the tuning control loop, thereby making the tuning control loop independent of the bandwidth of the phase shifting circuit (2). Thus the bandwidth of the phase shifting circuit (2) can be reduced for threshold extension.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 1995Date of Patent: November 5, 1996Assignee: U.S. Philips CorporationInventors: Wolfdietrich G. Kasperkovitz, Robert F. E. Kokke
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Patent number: 5572264Abstract: To make it possible to receive a modulated signal which is obtained by suppressing a carrier signal such as a high definition TV signal which is digitally demodulated such as QAM (quadrature amplitude modulation), a receiver of the double super-heterodyne system having the first and second mixers 9 and 13 is a basic constitution. A band pass filter having a flatness in pass band and a small deviation of group delay which will prevent the demodulation of a high definition TV signal from degradation is used a first intermediate frequency filter 11. An SAW filter is used as a second intermediate frequency filter 16. The third mixer 28 for converting a second intermediate frequency signal to a third intermediate frequency signal in frequency is installed and the frequency of the third intermediate frequency signal to be converted is set to a value lower than the frequency of the second intermediate frequency signal.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 1995Date of Patent: November 5, 1996Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Mizukami, Yutaka Igarashi, Toshio Nagashima
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Patent number: 5564098Abstract: A GPS receiver downconverter combines on a single integrated circuit, a first super-heterodyne mixer, a voltage controlled oscillator, a phase locked loop, a pair of quadrature mixers and a pair of quantizers with in-phase and quadrature-phase sampler outputs operable at twenty-five MHz and 2.5 MHz. Emitter-coupled logic and special low-voltage bipolar semiconductor technology are combined for 3.3 volt operation at under one hundred milliwatts.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 1994Date of Patent: October 8, 1996Assignee: Trimble Navigation LimitedInventors: Eric B. Rodal, Gary L. Wagner, Chung Y. Lau
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Patent number: 5548831Abstract: An FM receiver includes an RF section, a first mixer stage for converting a desired RF reception signal into a first IF signal having a carrier frequency located on average at a first intermediate frequency, a first IF section for selecting the first IF signal, and a second mixer stage for converting the first IF signal into a second IF signal having a carrier frequency located on average at a second intermediate frequency. The second intermediate frequency is below the first intermediate frequency. A second IF section selects the second IF signal and is coupled to an FM demodulator for demodulating the baseband modulation signal of the desired RF reception signal, followed by a low-pass filter for selecting the baseband modulation signal.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 1993Date of Patent: August 20, 1996Assignee: U.S. Philips CorporationInventors: Wolter Bijker, Wolfdietrich G. Kasperkovitz, Hendricus C. De Ruyter, Willem A. Sloof
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Patent number: 5537676Abstract: A method of receiving a data signal in a radio transceiver by passing an input receive signal through an input bandpass filter having a bandwidth sufficient to reject signals with frequencies equal to or greater than the receive signal frequency plus a first intermediate frequency (IF) signal frequency plus a first standard IF signal frequency and also to reject signals with frequencies less than the receive signal frequency minus twice the first IF frequency, and downconverting the input filter filtered input receive signal by the transmit frequency to produce the first IF signal. The first IF signal is filtered in an LC filter, and the filtered first IF signal is mixed with a local oscillator signal having a difference frequency therefrom which is equal to the first standard IF frequency to produce the first standard IF signal.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 1994Date of Patent: July 16, 1996Assignee: Lanser Technologies CorporationInventor: Gyles Panther
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Patent number: 5434893Abstract: The component essentially comprises two correlators (TR1, F1), (TR2, F2) shifted by one period or cycle from the information element. This component fulfils both the correlation and delay functions. The component also comprises a transmission channel with a filter identical to the correlator of the reception channel.Application to radiocommunications.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 1993Date of Patent: July 18, 1995Inventors: Alain Le Roy, Louis Penavaire, Charles Fort
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Patent number: 5361406Abstract: A television receiver includes a single tuner for tuning both television channels and broadcast FM stations. The tuner serves as the first conversion stage of a double conversion FM receiver, wherein the mixer of an FM radio integrated circuit serves as the second conversion stage. A single discriminator circuit is employed for tuning FM radio signals having a first deviation, such as broadcast FM radio signals, and FM radio signals having a second deviation, such as signals of the National Weather Service. Circuitry for amplifying the output signal of the discriminator circuit exhibits a first gain when amplifying FM signals having the first deviation, and exhibiting a second gain when amplifying FM signals having the second deviation.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 1993Date of Patent: November 1, 1994Assignee: Thomson Consumer Electronics, Inc.Inventors: Leroy S. Wignot, Dal F. Griepentrog
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Patent number: 5222106Abstract: Interference detection and reduction is disclosed in which an interference carrier is reduced by processing a signal of an input frequency to a demodulator such as a PSK signal appended with bit sequence for carrier recovery and bit timing recovery for use in the TDMA system, for example, a signal of the intermediate frequency (IF) band of a 140 MHz center frequency, so that the attenuation of a band-elimination filter is limited to a value smaller than a certain one, or for the frequency bands in which spectra are produced by the bit sequence, the IF signal is combined with the band-elimination filter output via a narrow band-pass filter to control the attenuation in each of these frequency bands to a value smaller than a certain one, thereby preventing the signal quality of the TDMA signal from being degraded by the insertion of the band-elimination filter.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 1990Date of Patent: June 22, 1993Assignee: Kokusai Denshin Denwa Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Gunkichi Satoh, Toshinari Kimura, Takashi Inoue
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Patent number: 5204972Abstract: A first control circuit is provided with a temperature detector and a memory in which temperature related control data is stored. The control circuit outputs a control signal, which varies with ambient temperature, to a local oscillator which is connected with a mixer. The mixer receives an incoming radio frequency signal and a local frequency signal from the local oscillator and outputs an IF signal. The local oscillator is controlled in a manner wherein the frequency of the IF signal parallels the temperature dependent shift in center frequency of a surface acoustic wave type IF filter. The IF signal is applied to a second mixer to which a second control circuit is coupled. The second control circuit maintains the output of the second mixer at a predetermined value to compensate for the first IF's frequency shift caused by the first control circuit.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 1992Date of Patent: April 20, 1993Assignee: NEC CorporationInventor: Kazuya Hashimoto
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Patent number: 5204983Abstract: Both the low and high intermediate frequencies (IF) are amplified simultaneously in a single IF amplifier strip. For proper operation it is required that the two IFs be sufficiently isolated from each other so that independent tuning can be achieved. In operation, the RF signal is amplified and mixed down by a first local oscillator (LO). The RF signal is amplified in the IF strip to obtain IF #1. IF #1 from the strip is mixed down with a second LO in a feedback arrangement to obtain IF #2 simultaneously with IF #1 from the strip.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 1990Date of Patent: April 20, 1993Inventor: Thomas J. Jones
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Patent number: 5148452Abstract: A digital GPS (Global Positioning System) receiver for receiving a plurality of coded satellite signals. The plurality of satellite signals are transmitted by a corresponding plurality of satellites. Since these satellites are moving rapidly with respect to the receiver, Doppler shifting of the signals is exhibited. The signals are converted from analog to digital at intermediate frequency levels. The signals are then separated simultaneously into a plurality of digital signals corresponding to I and Q channel information for each transmitting satellite. A processor then converts these I and Q channel information signals to pseudo-range and broadcast data for navigation and time purposes.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 1990Date of Patent: September 15, 1992Assignee: Motorola, Inc.Inventors: Howard L. Kennedy, Thomas M. King
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Patent number: 5060297Abstract: A TVRO receiver for the reception of frequency modulated satellite broadcast signals is provided with the capability of efficiently rejecting image frequencies generated as the received signals undergo intermediate frequency translation. A TVRO tuner, which includes a super-heterodyne circuit having a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO), means for supplying a controlling tuning voltage to the VCO, and a mixer for combining incoming 1st IF signals with the output frequency of the VCO to reduce the frequency of the 1st IF signals to a selected 2nd IF frequency, is provided with a tracking filter which is adapted to pass only the incoming 1st IF signals and effectively reject any image frequencies generated at the received signal frequencies.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 1988Date of Patent: October 22, 1991Inventors: John Y. Ma, Bonnie Houston
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Patent number: 4998261Abstract: In a digital data receiver (80) for demodulating a direct sequence spread spectrum differential phase shift keyed data signal, the signal is applied to the input transducer (140) of a SAW device (100) which has first and second output transducers (142, 144) spaced apart on the SAW substrate (130) so as to produce first and second output signals on output lines (102, 104), which are relatively delayed by a time corresponding to a symbol period. The output transducers are of identical construction and are matched to the spread spectrum code utilized in the data signal. Thus, a single SAW device (100) effects both correlation and delay. The output signals on the output lines (102, 104) are processed by a circuit including multipliers (106, 110) and a phase shifter (108) to produce output data signals representing the received data.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 1989Date of Patent: March 5, 1991Assignee: NCR CorporationInventors: Hans van Driest, Jacobus C. Haartsen, Bruce T. Tuch, Maarten Visee
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Patent number: 4944025Abstract: A direct conversion FM receiver that includes AC coupling and automatic gain control employs an offset frequency at the first local oscillator. The offset frequency prevents the frequency spectrum occupied by the signal modulation from being affected by AC coupling. The offset frequency is chosen so that it translates the frequency spectrum of the received signal outside the DC notch created in the spectrum by the AC coupling. To conserve battery supplied power, an error amplifier coupled between the output of the receiver and the first local oscillator maintains the offset frequency after it has been established by a frequency synthesizer, which is then turned off.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 1988Date of Patent: July 24, 1990Assignee: AT&E CorporationInventors: Mark R. Gehring, Richard R. Suter, Lawrence H. Ragan
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Patent number: 4918532Abstract: The threshold-extension receiving system combines parallel multiple direct-demodulating FM demodulators each demodulating the direct RF or IF signal, in conjunction with restricted bandwidth associated with each direct demodulator for removing the noise which is present from the band occupied at a given instant by a part of the modulated signal. Each FM direct-demodulator of the receiving system is tuned to a bandwidth centered on the instantaneous RF or IF frequency of a selected direct modulation component, rather than on the mid-frequency of the signal as a whole, such modulation component being treated as undergoing a relatively limited displacement within the total FM band occupied by the signal. The individual restricted bandwidths may be fixed or adaptively tuned.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 1987Date of Patent: April 17, 1990Inventor: Edward O'Connor
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Patent number: 4903331Abstract: A pair of signal paths 3-1 and 3-2 are connected in parallel to an input 2, each composed of the respective mixing stages 4-1, 4-2, low-pass filters 5-1, 5-2 and mixing stages 6-1, 6-2. The mixing stages 4-1, 4-2 are connected to the oscillator 8 in a phase-quadrature relationship. The mixing stages 6-1, 6-2 are connected to the oscillator 9 in a phase-quadrature relationship and are both connected to a superposition circuit 7 having an output 10. For obviating the drawback of unbalance in the signal processing in the signal paths 3-1, 3-2, the receiver 1 includes a control signal arrangement 11, which is constituted by the respective further mixing stages 14, 25, low-pass filters 47, 48, and mixing stages 17, 29 for producing at the control signal outputs 22, 34 an amplitude and a phase control signal for correcting this unbalance.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 1988Date of Patent: February 20, 1990Assignee: U.S. Philips CorporationInventor: Wolfdietrich G. Kasperkovitz
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Patent number: 4882768Abstract: An FM communication device employs a logarithmic amplifier which performs logarithmic conversion of a frequency modulated signal. The beat component level of the output signal of the logarithmic amplifier is checked with a reference level for detecting interference. With the construction set forth above, the FM communication device, according to the invention, detects the ripple of the received FM signal caused by interference of another FM signal by means of the logarithmic amplifier which converts the received FM signal logarithmically and the detection circuit which AM-detects the output signal of the logarithmic amplifier, so that the interference can be detected via the output signal of the detection circuit. In the preferred construction set forth above, the logarithmic amplifier which is often utilized in a detection system for reception magnitude is sufficient as an amplifier circuit required for detecting the interference, and no high-gain and high-performance amplifier is required.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 1988Date of Patent: November 21, 1989Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Bunichi Obana, Kenichi Kanazawa
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Patent number: 4783848Abstract: An improved satellite receiver system is provided which automatically locates audio signals among the various audio subcarriers received by an earth station; manual scanning of transmissions received from different transponders in order to locate audio signals embedded therein is eliminated. The improved receiver system does not require any input data characterizing the frequencies or bandwidth of the incoming audio signals and locates desired audio subcarriers in response to a command signal, without need for any manual intervention after generation of the command signal.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 1985Date of Patent: November 8, 1988Assignee: Capetronic (BSR) Ltd.Inventors: John Y. Ma, David H. McCracken
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Patent number: 4777449Abstract: A carrier-tracking FM demodulator system for providing threshold extension relative to the demodulation of an FM signal, such as a television signal, is disclosed, wherein an effective system filtering response tracks the instantaneous carrier frequency of the FM signal, without frequency compression, utilizing filters of substantially fixed-tuned characteristics. The waveform fidelity of the demodulated output signal is substantially independent of the action of the carrier-tracking feedback control loop utilized in the demodulator system. In order to track the instantaneous carrier frequency, the invention employs a number of mixer means, in cascade, each of which is utilized in conjunction with a local-oscillator means or other local-carrier-frequency generator means.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 1987Date of Patent: October 11, 1988Inventor: Edward O'Connor
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Patent number: 4776039Abstract: A receiver suitable for use at very high frequency bands in which an antenna output is filtered, amplified and then mixed with a local oscillator in a frequency convertor to provide an intermediate frequency. The intermediate frequency is provided to a quadrature detector which directly converts the intermediate frequency into two baseband signals whose phases differ by 90.degree.. The baseband signals are independently amplified and demodulated in a common demodulator which provides a single output signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 1986Date of Patent: October 4, 1988Assignee: NEC CorporationInventor: Yoshihiko Akaiwa
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Patent number: 4677690Abstract: A demodulator of the type employed in a "zero-IF" system uses a local oscillator for providing quadrature output signals at the center frequency of a received signal to be demodulated. The demodulator has first and second mixers for separately mixing the received signal with the quadrature signals to provide a first and second output signal each in quadrature at the outputs of said mixers. These signals are low pass filtered. The demodulator includes third and fourth mixers with each mixer respectively receiving at an input one of the first and second low pass signals. At another input the mixers receive third and fourth signals. The third and fourth signals are derived from mixing a variable controlled oscillator (VCO) signal with local oscillator quadrature signals the frequency of said is independent of the center frequency of the received signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 1985Date of Patent: June 30, 1987Assignee: International Telephone and Telegraph CorporationInventor: Joseph Reed
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Patent number: 4627100Abstract: A circuit arrangement for a wide band superheterodyne radio receiver for receiving wide band FM, narrow band FM, and AM modulated radio signals between 25 and 550 MHz. The first LO is a phase locked loop controlled VCO, with central processing unit control of the phase locked loop circuitry. The first IF frequency is higher than the highest received frequency and the output frequency of the first LO is higher than the first IF. A second LO and second mixer convert the signal to a second IF lower than the first IF. Separate third and fourth IF band pass filters are provided at the second IF for WFM and for NFM/AM, respectively. The output of the third IF filter (WFM) is converted by a third LO and third mixer to a third IF lower than the second IF. A WFM demodulator is provided at the third IF. The output of the fourth IF filter (NFM/AM) is converted by a fourth LO and fourth mixer to a fourth IF lower than the second IF frequency. A fifth IF band pass filter is provided at the fourth IF.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 1984Date of Patent: December 2, 1986Assignee: Regency Electronics, Inc.Inventor: Shigeru Takano
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Patent number: 4599743Abstract: A demodulator of the type employed in a "zero-IF" system uses a local oscillator for providing quadrature output signals at the center frequency of a received signal to be demodulated. The demodulator has first and second mixers for separately mixing the received signal with the quadrature signals to provide a first and second output signal each in quadrature at the outputs of said mixers. These signals are low pass filtered. The demodulator includes third and fourth mixers with each mixer respectively receiving at an input one of the first and second low pass signals. At another input the mixers receive third and fourth signals. The third and fourth signals are derived from mixing a variable controlled oscillator (VCO) signal with local oscillator quadrature signals the frequency of said is independent of the center frequency of the received signal.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 1984Date of Patent: July 8, 1986Assignee: ITT CorporationInventor: Joseph Reed
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Patent number: 4583047Abstract: The circuit comprises a surface acoustic wave device. On the substrate (32) f the surface acoustic wave device, are provided two pairs of input transducers (33, 34, 35, 36) connected, in parallel, to the input of the circuit. The transducers (33, 34, 35, 36) initiate surface acoustic waves corresponding to the signals applied on two pairs of paths (41, 42, 43, 44) ending at two pairs of reception transducers (37, 38, 39, 40). The outputs of the output transducers of the first pair (37, 38) are connected to the two inputs of a mixer (28) whose output yields the received digital signal. The outputs of the second pair of transducers (39, 40) are connected to the inputs of two limiters (26, 27) whose outputs are connected to the two inputs of a mixer (29) whose output yields the analog signal.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 1984Date of Patent: April 15, 1986Assignee: Etablissement Public de Diffusion dit "Telediffusion de France"Inventors: Jeannine Le Goff epouse Henaff, Jacques Veillard, Daniel Pommier
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Patent number: 4562472Abstract: A double conversion television tuner has first and second mixers and uses both the sum and difference frequency signals from the second mixer. The picture component of the difference frequency is separated from the output of the second mixer using a first filter and then demodulated. A second filter passes the sum frequency signal and the second harmonic of the nominally fixed frequency local oscillator signal applied to the second mixer. A third mixer is coupled to the second filter and mixes the converted sum frequency signal with the second harmonic signal. The audio component of the resulting sound signal is demodulated. Because the sum and difference signals at the output of the second mixer are far apart in frequency, the first and second filters can be easily designed so as not to interact.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 1983Date of Patent: December 31, 1985Assignee: RCA CorporationInventor: David J. Carlson
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Patent number: 4496979Abstract: A processor providing high-quality audio signals from television sound channels by signal recovery using induced intermodulation between the picture carrier and the sound subcarrier signal. The resulting intermodulation products are filtered and the FM audio subcarrier is recovered and converted to the FM radio band. Subsequently the detected audio signal is enhanced by stereo synthesis and noise reduction systems, producing a high-quality reproduction of television audio signals with a minimum of distortion and noise, suitable for a full-range stereo system. The recovery of the audio subcarrier by inducing intermodulation between the signal carriers avoids the frequency shifts or phase noise induced by satellite and/or CATV translator circuits, in particular, the phase jitter of translating phase-lock loop (PLL) circuits. The converter is also applicable for use with VCR and other equipment to provide high-quality sound recovery.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 1983Date of Patent: January 29, 1985Assignee: Casat Technology, Inc.Inventors: Hong Yu, Sai W. Kwok
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Patent number: 4476585Abstract: A demodulator of the type employed in a "zero-IF" system uses a local oscillator for providing guadrature output signals at the center frequency of an FM signal to be demodulated. The demodulator has first and second mixers for separately mixing the FM signal with the quadrature signals to provide a first and second output signal each in quadrature at the outputs of said mixers. These signals are low pass filtered. The demodulator includes third and fourth mixers with each mixer receiving at an input one of the low pass signals. At another input the mixers receive third and fourth signals. The third and fourth signals are derived from mixing a variable controlled oscillator (VCO) signal with the local oscillator guadrature signals. The outputs of the third and fourth mixers are applied to the inputs of a difference amplifiers, the output of which controls the frequency of the VCO in an automatic frequency control mode (AFC) to cause the output of the difference amplifier to provide demodulated signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 1982Date of Patent: October 9, 1984Assignee: International Telephone and Telegraph CorporationInventor: Joseph Reed
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Patent number: 4262361Abstract: A system which provides frequency conversion and continuously variable bandwidth control uses fixed filters to which opposite edges of the passband of the signal are applied in inverted frequency relationship. A channel contains the filters and three mixers to which injection signals derived from a single variable frequency oscillator and a fixed oscillator are applied to vary the bandwidth of the system without affecting the center frequency of the signal after processing in the system. The system may be designed to obtain either a variable bandpass or rejection band filtering characteristic.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 1979Date of Patent: April 14, 1981Assignee: EDMAC Associates, Inc.Inventor: Frederick W. Hauer
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Patent number: 4236252Abstract: A first intermediate frequency amplifier stage which executes the amplitude limiting operation of a double-converting FM tuner employing the integrated circuit technology is constructed in the form of an integrated circuit. An output signal of the first intermediate frequency amplifier stage is put into a square pulse waveform on the basis of the amplitude limiting operation, and therefore has higher harmonic components of high frequencies. When the higher harmonic components are injected into a second mixer circuit in a second frequency converter circuit, various higher harmonic components which have frequencies higher than a second intermediate frequency appear at the output of the second mixer conduit. When the higher harmonic components at the output of the second mixer circuit are injected into an FM demodulator circuit, beat trouble is induced.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 1979Date of Patent: November 25, 1980Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Yasuo Kominami, Masanori Ienaka, Takeshi Wada, Yukihiko Miyamoto, Tsuneo Yamada
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Patent number: 4232191Abstract: A double super heterodyne FM receiver having a first local oscillator for deriving a first intermediate frequency signal from an FM input signal, tuning means for varying the frequency of the first local oscillator to tune the FM receiver to a predetermined frequency, a second local oscillator for deriving a second intermediate frequency signal from the first intermediate frequency signal, an FM detector for demodulating the second intermediate frequency and means for processing the demodulated signal, means for deriving the direct current component of an output signal occurring at a point after the FM detector, first control means for controlling the frequency of the second oscillator in response to the direct current component so that the direct current component is reduced to substantially zero to thereby lessen shock noise during the tuning of the receiver, second control means responsive to the tuning means being operated to tune the FM receiver so that the control means controls the means for deriving tType: GrantFiled: February 17, 1978Date of Patent: November 4, 1980Assignee: Trio Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Takeshi Matsuzuka
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Patent number: 4225974Abstract: A double superheterodyne receiver comprising a first mixer responsive to a frequency modulated signal and a first local oscillator signal for providing a first intermediate frequency signal having a frequency f.sub.1 and a positive side frequency deviation of +.DELTA.f.sub.1 and a negative side frequency deviation of -.DELTA.f.sub.2 where .DELTA.f.sub.1 =.DELTA.f.sub.2, a second mixer responsive to the first intermediate frequency signal and a second local oscillator signal having a frequency f.sub.s for providing a second intermediate frequency signal having a frequency of f.sub.2 and harmonics nf.sub.2 and (n+1)f.sub.2 where n is positive integer indicating the harmonic of f.sub.2 in the lower side of f.sub.1 which substantially deviates to f.sub.1 +.DELTA.f.sub.1 or to f.sub.1 -.DELTA.f.sub.2 and n+1 indicates the harmonic of f.sub.2 in the upper side of f.sub.1 which substantially deviates to f.sub.1 -.DELTA.f.sub.2 (when nf.sub.2 substantially deviates to f.sub.1 +.DELTA.f.sub.1) or to f.sub.1 +.DELTA.f.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 1977Date of Patent: September 30, 1980Assignee: Trio Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yukihiko Miyamoto