Using Specified Filter Patents (Class 455/213)
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Patent number: 7587010Abstract: A pseudo-image signal producing section produces a pseudo-image signal imitating an actual image signal. An amplitude detection section detects the amplitude of the pseudo-image signal having passed through a complex filter circuit. A filter control section controls an element value control section in the complex filter circuit so as to decrease the detected amplitude. The element value control section performs an element value adjustment so that absolute element values of a pair of elements corresponding to each other in two filter circuits in the complex filter circuit increase/decrease in opposite directions.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2005Date of Patent: September 8, 2009Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Takashi Morie, Hiroya Ueno, Hirokuni Fujiyama, Joji Hayashi, Akinori Matsumoto, Katsumasa Hijikata
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Patent number: 7567533Abstract: A packet detector for a multi-band orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system includes a plurality of packet detection units each corresponding to a time frequency code for detecting packets according to a spreading sequence of the time frequency code, a comparison unit for comparing correlation values provided by division units of the plurality of packet detection units, and a packet decision module for determining a time frequency code and size of a fast Fourier transform sampling window according to output signals of the comparison unit, allowing a frequency band to be selected and synchronization to be executed.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2006Date of Patent: July 28, 2009Assignee: Faraday Technology Corp.Inventor: Jyh-Ting Lai
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Patent number: 7519342Abstract: An integrated tuner circuit has an arbitrary IF (intermediate frequency) output. The tuner includes an integrated circuit with a fixed-frequency control loop and a matched external variable capacitance Ct, to achieve tracking of a tuned LC band-pass filter with an arbitrary oscillator.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2003Date of Patent: April 14, 2009Assignee: NXP B.V.Inventor: Leonardus Joseph Michael Ruitenburg
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Patent number: 7499695Abstract: A configurable all-digital coherent demodulator system for spread spectrum digital communications is disclosed herein. The demodulator system includes an extended and long code demodulator (ELCD) coupled to a traffic channel demodulator (TCD) and a parameter estimator (PE). The demodulator also includes a pilot assisted correction device (PACD) that is coupled to the PE and the TCD. The ELCD provides a code-demodulated signal to the TCD and the PE. In turn, the TCD provides a demodulated output data signal to the PE. The PACD corrects the phase error of the demodulated output data based on an error estimate that is fed forward from the PE. Accumulation operations in the ELCD, TCD, and PE are all programmable. Similarly, a phase delay in the PACD is also programmable to provide synchronization with the error estimate from the PE.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2005Date of Patent: March 3, 2009Assignee: Infineon Technologies AGInventor: Ravi Subramanian
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Patent number: 7463874Abstract: A fully-integrated tuner for performing signal channel selection and image rejection in an analog cable television system is provided. Various embodiments disclose a tuner including an analog RF section to process an analog RF input signal and generate complex low intermediate frequency digital signals, and a signal processing section configured to reduce image and signal leakage in the complex low intermediate frequency signals. The signal processing section selects a signal channel of the complex low intermediate frequency signals and suppresses channel components adjacent to the signal channel. In one embodiment, the signal processing section includes a complex digital signal channel select filter to select the signal channel and suppress the adjacent channel components. In other embodiments, the complex digital signal channel select filter selects the signal channel, shapes the selected signal channel to generate a shaped signal channel, and equalizes a group delay of the shaped signal channel.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2004Date of Patent: December 9, 2008Assignee: Chrontel, Inc.Inventors: David Dukho Kang, Chun-Huat Heng
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Patent number: 7460831Abstract: A signal filtering system and method that may be used in conjunction with a repeater or an input stage of a base-station. The system may include an analog to digital converter adapted to sample a received signal and to produce a data stream corresponding to the received signal in the time domain, a filtering block having one or more digital filter elements, wherein each of said one or more filter elements is adapted to filter one or more sets of frequency bands associated with one or more communication channel, and a controller adapted to configure said one or more digital filter elements based on parameters stored on a database and/or based on parameters received via a modem.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2005Date of Patent: December 2, 2008Assignee: Dekolink Wireless Ltd.Inventor: Abraham Hasarchi
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Patent number: 7444129Abstract: A comb-line wireless filter (5) includes an input end (505a), an output end (505b), a first transmission line (501b), a second and third transmission line (501a, 501c) each having a curved shape, and a first, second, and third capacitor (503b, 503a, 503c). The first transmission line has a first transmission line part and a second transmission line part. The second transmission line and the third transmission line are separately on the two sides of the first transmission line part of the first transmission line. The input end and the output end are separately connected to first ends of the second transmission line and the third transmission line. The capacitors are separately connected to first ends of the transmission lines. According to the curved shape of the second transmission line and the third transmission line, the size of the comb-line wireless filter is significantly reduced.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2005Date of Patent: October 28, 2008Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Teng-Huei Chu, Cho-Ju Chung
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Patent number: 7352911Abstract: A method for processing an image using a bilateral filter. The bilateral filter is reformulated at each pixel location in the image into a sum of the original signal value of a central pixel at said pixel location and a bilateral correction term which is a function of local signal differences between the central pixel and its neighbors. The bilateral correction term is calculated using a computationally efficient approximation.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2003Date of Patent: April 1, 2008Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventor: Ron Maurer
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Patent number: 7319797Abstract: An adaptive filter according to one embodiment includes an N×N two-dimensional convolution, where N is an odd integer greater than one. Pixels of an image are filtered by moving the N×N kernel across the image. At each pixel location, the kernel coefficients are determined by the image pixels within the N×N region, such that the kernel coefficients may change from one pixel location to the next. Such a filter may be implemented to use a lookup table to approximate a floating-point operation.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2005Date of Patent: January 15, 2008Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventor: Szepo Robert Hung
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Publication number: 20080003970Abstract: Embodiments of an active bandpass filter are described generally herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2006Publication date: January 3, 2008Inventors: Nick Cowley, David Albert Sawyer
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Patent number: 7266351Abstract: A complex filter such as the channel select filter in a radio transceiver is implemented using a transconductance/C topology to benefit from the ability to tune such filters and thereby stabilize the output transfer function of the filter over variations in temperature, power supply voltage and process. The topology is based on an active R/C biquadratic topology to achieve the additional benefit of independently controlled stages. The problem created by the R in the output impedance is can be overcome by separately tuning the R value along with the transconductance/C ratio, by implementing the R as a transconductance amplifier having common mode feedback, or by implementing the transconductance amplifiers of the topology using Nauta transconductors, and unbalancing the common mode circuit of the Nauta transconductor to achieve a differential resistance that can be used to implement the R in the output impedance.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2006Date of Patent: September 4, 2007Assignee: Broadcom CorporationInventor: Bojko F. Marholev
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Patent number: 7254200Abstract: A system, method and computer program product for detecting a frequency burst in a received signal at a wireless receiver is disclosed. The invention predicts the current sample of the received signal by filtering the past samples of the received signal through an adaptive filter. A prediction error is further obtained by subtracting the actual current sample and the predicted current sample. The prediction error is then used to adapt the adaptive filter. Since the frequency burst is a substantially predictable signal, the adaptive filter adapts to accurately predict the samples of the frequency burst. Therefore, the prediction error decreases when the frequency burst is received at the receiver. The end of the frequency burst is identified using the prediction error at each discrete time instant.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2004Date of Patent: August 7, 2007Assignee: Hellosoft, Inc.Inventors: Gottimukkala Narendra Varma, Usha Sahu, Garapati Prabhu Charan
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Patent number: 7181187Abstract: A radio frequency transmitter includes a digital baseband and coding module, an inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) module, a complex digital filter, a complex digital-to-analog converter and a radio frequency modulation module. The digital baseband and coding module is operably coupled to convert outbound data into outbound symbols in accordance with a baseband encoding protocol. The IFFT module is operably coupled to convert the outbound symbols into a complex time domain sample sequence. The complex digital filter is operably coupled to filter the complex time domain sequence such that signal strength of outbound RF signals in an exclusion RF band is at or below a specified signal strength with negligible attenuation on in-band signal strength.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2004Date of Patent: February 20, 2007Assignee: Broadcom CorporationInventors: Jason A. Trachewsky, Alan Corry
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Patent number: 7142836Abstract: The present invention is to provide a microwave filter distributed on a circuit board of a wireless communication product, which comprises an input terminal, a resonant chamber of double frequencies, and an output terminal of the microwave filter directly distributed on the circuit board of the wireless communication product as a plurality of microstrips by utilizing a manufacturing technique of printed circuit board for eliminating the harmonic spurious of double frequencies and higher frequency caused by nonlinear distortion of a power amplifier of the wireless communication product.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2003Date of Patent: November 28, 2006Assignee: Alpha Networks Inc.Inventor: Kuei Chi Yang
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Patent number: 7103334Abstract: A method for tuning quality factor (Q) in a high-Q, high-frequency filter is provided that includes filtering an input signal to generate a filtered signal. The input signal comprises a specified frequency. The filtered signal comprises an actual phase shift with respect to the input signal. The actual phase shift is compared to a desired phase shift for the filtered signal to determine a difference between the actual phase shift and the desired phase shift. The desired phase shift corresponds to the specified frequency. The filter is tuned based on the difference between the actual phase shift and the desired phase shift.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2003Date of Patent: September 5, 2006Assignee: National Semiconductor CorporationInventor: Ajay Kumar
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Patent number: 7054610Abstract: In a cellular telephone provided with a receiving circuit of a direct conversion type, a passive low-pass filter is arranged between a mixer for an I-channel and a base band circuit for removing interference waves of or above a channel next to a channel neighboring to the I-channel, and another passive low-pass filter is arranged between a mixer for a Q-channel and the base band circuit for removing interference waves of or above a channel next to a channel neighboring to the Q-channel. Since the low-pass filters for removing the interference waves of or above the channel next to the neighboring channel are of a differential type, the circuit scale can be small, and the power consumption is small. Since the interference waves are removed by the passive low-pass filters and the active low-pass filters, only the desired channel can be reliably received.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2000Date of Patent: May 30, 2006Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kenji Itoh, Hiroaki Nagano, Takatoshi Katsura, Shinjirou Fukuyama, Mitsuru Mochizuki, Yoshinori Matsunami, Mitsuhiro Shimozawa, Fumio Ishizu, Ryoji Hayashi
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Patent number: 7054606Abstract: An apparatus comprising a first circuit, a second circuit and a third circuit. The first circuit may be configured to filter an analog input signal in an analog domain in response to one or more control signals. The second circuit may be configured to convert the analog input signal to a digital signal. The third circuit may be configured to generate the control signals in response to the digital signal. The third circuit may also be configured to control skewing of the analog input signal within the first circuit to partially compensate for frequency dependent effects associated with a transmission medium.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2001Date of Patent: May 30, 2006Assignee: LSI Logic CorporationInventors: Samuel W. Sheng, Lapoe E. Lynn, Ivan C-Y Eng
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Patent number: 7020448Abstract: A method for detecting a tone signal having a predetermined tone frequency includes receiving an analog communication signal, using a sampling frequency to convert the analog communication signal into a digital communication signal, selecting a plurality of signal sectors corresponding to a predetermined frequency range of the digital communication signal where the predetermined tone frequency agrees with the predetermined frequency range, and using the number of samples of each signal sector to determine whether the analog communication signal contains the tone signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2003Date of Patent: March 28, 2006Assignee: Conwise Technology Corporation Ltd.Inventor: Chau-Kai Hsieh
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Patent number: 7002403Abstract: A complex filter such as the channel select filter in a radio transceiver is implemented using a transconductance/C topology to benefit from the ability to tune such filters and thereby stabilize the output transfer function of the filter over variations in temperature, power supply voltage and process. The topology is based on an active R/C biquadratic topology to achieve the additional benefit of independently controlled stages. The problem created by the R in the output impedance is can be overcome by separately tuning the R value along with the transconductance/C ratio, by implementing the R as a transconductance amplifier having common mode feedback, or by implementing the transconductance amplifiers of the topology using Nauta transconductors, and unbalancing the common mode circuit of the Nauta transconductor to achieve a differential resistance that can be used to implement the R in the output impedance.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2003Date of Patent: February 21, 2006Assignee: Broadcom CorporationInventor: Bojko F. Marholev
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Patent number: 6985698Abstract: In an impedance matching circuit for a multi-band radio frequency device, a first radio frequency signal in a first sub-band of a multi-band radio frequency signal is selectively outputted. Further, a second radio frequency signal in a second sub-band of the multi-band radio frequency signal is selectively outputted. Selective outputting is done through partly shared and partly non-shared reactive elements, without the need to switch reactive elements.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2001Date of Patent: January 10, 2006Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.Inventors: Sudhir Aggarwal, Matthias Locher
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Patent number: 6980771Abstract: A digital CDMA wireless communication system. The system includes one or more of said transmitters with a base station baseband processor, a finite impulse response (FIR) filter, a pre-distortion phase equalizer and a digital-to-analog (DAC) converter. Receivers have an analog-to-digital (ADC) converter, a FIR filter, a phase equalizer and a receiver baseband processor. The receiver FIR filter is matched to the transmitter FIR filter and the receiver phase equalizer is matched to the pre-distortion phase equalizer.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2002Date of Patent: December 27, 2005Assignee: VIA Technologies, Inc. of R.O.C.Inventor: Hong Kui Yang
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Patent number: 6961551Abstract: Squelch circuit and method useful in frequency-scanned radio receivers are provided. Generally, the squelch circuit includes an audio-removal filter coupled to receive an audio signal. The passband of the audio-removal filter is selected sufficiently high relative to frequency components of the audio signal. An absolute value detector is coupled to the audio-removal filter to supply an output signal having a positive polarity regardless of the polarity of the signal supplied by the audio-removal filter. An integrating filter is coupled to receive the output signal from the absolute value detector and supply an integrated signal. The integrating filter has at least one selectable filter coefficient indicative of the response time of the integrating filter.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2002Date of Patent: November 1, 2005Assignee: M/A-COM Private Radio Systems, Inc.Inventor: Richard Duane Taylor
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Patent number: 6937871Abstract: The invention relates to an anti-demodulator circuit which is fundamentally built up in the same way as a demodulator circuit but, instead of a bandpass filter as generally used in a demodulator, comprises a notch filter which receives an input signal comprising a useful signal and an interference signal, and generates a filtered signal. The notch filter has a center frequency which approximately corresponds to the frequency of the input signal so as to suppress at least a part of the useful signal. The anti-demodulator circuit further comprises a mixer circuit which receives the filtered signal and a phase-shifted input signal and supplies a demodulated output signal which substantially corresponds to the interference signal.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2002Date of Patent: August 30, 2005Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.Inventor: Burkhard Dick
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Patent number: 6922454Abstract: A radio receiving system, which receives an input signal in a direct conversion receiving mode through the use of a plurality of cascaded channel filters, each including a complex coefficient filter, to obtain a desired waveform, wherein a center frequency of a preliminary channel filter corresponds more closely with the frequency of the desired waveform than a center frequency of a subsequent channel filter.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2002Date of Patent: July 26, 2005Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Gen-ichiro Ohta, Kazunori Inogai, Hiroaki Sudo, Fujio Sasaki
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Patent number: 6904179Abstract: A method for implementing a filter on a signal is disclosed wherein interval membership information is computed and stored in such a manner so as to use a minimal amount of memory thereby allowing filter computation by a small number of deterministic sequence of table lookups and bit-wise logical operations. In general, the present invention involves using a non-linear filter represented as a plurality of intervals and the discrete values a sample may take. Each sample corresponds to a component in a vector. Each interval is comprised of a lower and upper vector. Each sample value is compared to the lower and upper values of the sample's associated coordinate. A table for that sample is then constructed with binary entries where a ‘1’ denotes that a sample value is within the lower and upper values of the coordinate and ‘0’ denoting otherwise. A table is built for each sample.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2002Date of Patent: June 7, 2005Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventor: John C. Handley
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Patent number: 6898419Abstract: Remotely controllable actuators are provided to alter the cavity size of bandpass cavity filters to alter the bandpass characteristics. In one embodiment, a stepper motor is used to provide lateral movement of a tuning plate to alter the size of the cavity. The neck of the cavity is also changed in length through the use of a tuning motor. A feedback loop is used to provide fine tuning of the length of the neck in response to changes due to temperature and vibration to offer maximum propagation of the signal to be transmitted. A coupling tuner is used to adjust to the resulting change in Q to the cavity. A tuning processor is used to receive signals from a remote location identifying the desired characteristics of the filter.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2001Date of Patent: May 24, 2005Assignee: Nortel Networks CorporationInventors: Eric S. Fayeski, Brad W. Carlson
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Patent number: 6856797Abstract: A programmable band-pass filter in a radio-frequency receiver. The band-pass filter has a bandwidth substantially covering a channel bandwidth. Once the appropriate channel in use is determined, the frequency band of the band-width filter is set to correspond to it.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2000Date of Patent: February 15, 2005Assignee: Siemens Communications, Inc.Inventor: Juergen Kockmann
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Publication number: 20040248542Abstract: A filter arrangement includes one first resonator circuit connected between a first node and a second node. A second resonator circuit is connected between a third node and a fourth node. The first resonator circuit and the second resonator circuit are intercoupled. Further, an inductive device is provided, connected between the first node and the third node.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2004Publication date: December 9, 2004Inventors: Holger Heuermann, Jens Ruediger
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Publication number: 20040203909Abstract: A wireless system provides location dependent information to a user upon request by the user. The user request typically includes location information, user identification information, and a service indication. The network identifies the type of information to be provided, obtains the information as necessary from an information service provider, and downloads the information. The information downloaded depends at least on the geographical location of the user as well as information contained in the user's service profile. Downloaded information may include text, graphical, audio, or a combination of types. Further interactions with the user are defined by the information service invoked. A typical application would allow a mobile telephone user standing near a movie theater to receive information regarding a movie showing and purchase tickets to a particular movie.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 1, 2003Publication date: October 14, 2004Inventor: Karl H. Koster
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Publication number: 20040198384Abstract: A mobile communications device integrating positioning function and a method for displaying positioning information in real time thereof are proposed, wherein a mobile phone and a receiver for receiving satellite signals are connected and assembled together. The receiver is connected to a connection interface of the mobile phone. The receiver has a GPS module and a microprocessor therein. The receiver receives digital data emitted by satellites through the GPS module. The microprocessor converts the received digital data into data of positioning parameters, which are transmitted to the mobile phone. A user thus can directly know coordinates and information of his position in real time from the screen of the mobile phone, hence accomplishing satellite positioning function with a lower cost.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2002Publication date: October 7, 2004Applicant: Kinpo Electronics, Inc.Inventor: Chun I Sun
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Patent number: 6785522Abstract: The invention relates to a cellular phone terminal system, and in particular to a method for changing timbre of a voice signal during conversation in a cellular phone terminal system having a filter for filtering a PCM input signal. The method comprises the steps of: waiting for a timbre selector key input for a desired timbre when a timbre converter key is inputted during conversation; and setting a filter coefficient of the filter correspondingly to the timbre selector key input and filtering the PCM signal to change timbre.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2000Date of Patent: August 31, 2004Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Byung-Seok Ryu
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Publication number: 20040110482Abstract: An apparatus and method for radio signal parallel processing are provided, wherein the apparatus, which receives and processes in parallel a first and second carrier signal of frequencies &ohgr;1 and &ohgr;2 (&ohgr;2>&ohgr;1), includes: a first local oscillator which outputs a signal of frequency &ohgr; to a first frequency mixer which converts the first carrier signal into a signal of a first intermediate frequency (&ohgr;−&ohgr;1) and a signal of another first intermediate frequency (&ohgr;+&ohgr;1), and outputs the converted signals; and a second frequency mixer which converts the second carrier signal into a signal of a first intermediate frequency (&ohgr;2−&ohgr;) and a signal of another first intermediate frequency (&ohgr;2+&ohgr;), and outputs the converted signals. With the above, the capacity of data reception and transmission increases, the complexity of implementing the apparatus is low, and the cost of manufacturing the apparatus is reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2003Publication date: June 10, 2004Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Jae-Ho Chung
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Publication number: 20040087290Abstract: An equalizing device with notch compensation for a direct conversion receiver is disclosed. The baseband signal of a direct conversion receiver comprises a notch in the frequency response after the required DC compensation is performed. A bandpass generates a notch compensation signal on from a decision signal and a interference compensation signal of a decision feedback loop. Therefore, the reliability of the decision signal is enhanced and allows an improved data rate in WLAN applications.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2003Publication date: May 6, 2004Inventors: Michael Schmidt, Wolfram Kluge, Tilo Ferchland
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Publication number: 20040077325Abstract: A SAW device includes two surface-acoustic-wave filter elements arranged so as to have a balanced-to-unbalanced conversion function. The surface-acoustic-wave filter elements include two first reflectors and two second reflectors. In each surface-acoustic-wave filter element, three IDTs are arranged on a piezoelectric substrate in a direction in which surface acoustic waves are transmitted so as to be positioned between one first reflector and one second reflector. The first reflectors differ in structure from the second reflectors.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2003Publication date: April 22, 2004Inventor: Yuichi Takamine
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Patent number: 6725023Abstract: A radio FM receiver is provided with a receiver portion with quadrature channels for converting received radio frequency signals into center frequency quadrature signals, a center frequency filter circuit connected to the former for suppressing undesirable image frequencies, and a first quadrature PLL demodulator for demodulating the obtained center frequency quadrature signals, said PLL being tuned to the carrier frequency within the selected frequency band. An error detector is furthermore present for detecting amplitude and phase errors in the quadrature channels, which error detector in response to the quadrature components of the center frequency signals, the quadrature signals of a VCO in the quadrature PLL demodulator, and the filtered difference said quadrature components of the center frequency signal, supplies amplitude and phase correction signals to a quadrature channel correction network which is provided between the filter circuit and the quadrature PLL demodulator.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2001Date of Patent: April 20, 2004Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.Inventor: Wolfdietrich Georg Kasperkovitz
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Patent number: 6724246Abstract: The present invention relates to a demodulation structure and method for downconverting and demodulating a digitally modulated signal So, with a local oscillator means (1; 5; 8) for providing a local oscillator signal Slo a mixer means (2) for mixing said local oscillator signal Slo and said digitally modulated signal S0 in order to obtain a mixed signal, a lowpass filter means (3) for lowpass filtering the mixed signal from the mixer means (2) and an analog-to-digital converting means (4) for converting the filtered signal from the lowpass filter means (3) into a downconverted and demodulated digital signal Sl, whereby the local oscillator signal is set in respect to the modulated digital signal so that the downconverted and demodulated digital signal output from the analog-to-digital converting means comprises to serially arranged information parts. The present demodulation structure provides a very simple structure with improved amplitude and phase imbalances.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2001Date of Patent: April 20, 2004Assignee: Sony International (Europe) GmbHInventors: Gerald Oberschmidt, Veselin Brankovic, Dragan Krupezevic, Tino Konschak, Thomas Dölle
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Publication number: 20040053590Abstract: A complex filter such as the channel select filter in a radio transceiver is implemented using a transconductance/C topology to benefit from the ability to tune such filters and thereby stabilize the output transfer function of the filter over variations in temperature, power supply voltage and process. The topology is based on an active R/C biquadratic topology to achieve the additional benefit of independently controlled stages. The problem created by the R in the output impedance is can be overcome by separately tuning the R value along with the transconductance/C ratio, by implementing the R as a transconductance amplifier having common mode feedback, or by implementing the transconductance amplifiers of the topology using Nauta transconductors, and unbalancing the common mode circuit of the Nauta transconductor to achieve a differential resistance that can be used to implement the R in the output impedance.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2003Publication date: March 18, 2004Applicant: Broadcom CorporationInventor: Bojko F. Marholev
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Publication number: 20040023630Abstract: A radio transmission apparatus for performing radio transmission by use of a plurality of carrier frequencies, including signal processing systems for respective channels. Each signal processing system includes a transmission signal generator that modulates transmission data with a predetermined carrier frequency signal to generate a transmission signal, an amplifier that amplifies the transmission signal, and a variable band-pass filter connected to the output of the amplifier. The outputs of the signal processing systems are combined with a radio transmission signal. At least the center frequency of a pass band of the variable band-pass filter can be changed, with the pass band determined based on the carrier frequency signal of the channel. The apparatus also includes a fault detector configured to detect a fault of each variable band-pass filter.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2003Publication date: February 5, 2004Inventors: Hiroyuki Kayano, Yasuo Suzuki
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Publication number: 20040002360Abstract: A data transmitting and receiving method between a mobile terminal and an information center in a navigation system is disclosed. The present invention is characterized in that if lower items of a destination are not received from the information center in the middle of receiving destination setting items to set the destination after the mobile terminal transmits a destination setting request message to the information center, the mobile terminal sends a reconnection request message and stored destination setting data.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2002Publication date: January 1, 2004Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Kyong-Joon Chun, Jung-A Yun
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Patent number: 6671504Abstract: A radio carrier signal is detected (20) after being converted to digital form and is filtered (22). A noise estimator (24) generates a noise estimate signal by estimating the noise in the detected signal due to atmospheric conditions and the noise due to the gain in noise figure properties of the circuitry. The output of the noise estimator is used to calculate a threshold signal (50) and another detection operation (52) determines whether the power of a signal derived from the detected signal exceeds the threshold. If the threshold is exceeded, the detected signal is passed through a signal conditioner, such as a switch (54) to an output path (56).Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2000Date of Patent: December 30, 2003Assignee: Northrop Grumman CorporationInventor: Michael H. Myers
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Publication number: 20030216122Abstract: A multiple carrier adaptive notch filter (ANF) module selectively filters a received wideband communication signal to eliminate narrowband interference that lies within the frequency spectrum of the wideband communication signal. To determine the presence of narrowband interference, the multiple carrier ANF module scans various known narrowband channels that lie within the frequency spectrum of the wideband communication signal and determines signal strengths for each of the narrowband channels. The signal strengths from the narrowband channels are compared to a threshold that is derived from a statistical combination of the narrowband signal strengths. Narrowband channels having signal strengths that are greater than the threshold are determined to have interference.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2002Publication date: November 20, 2003Inventors: Sean S. Cordone, Tan D. Nguyen
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Publication number: 20030125005Abstract: A receiver for rejecting an image signal is provided that does not require a phase-shifter and that requires less mixers than prior receivers. Thus, the phase imbalances and gain mismatches imparted by phase shifters are avoided, and harmonics due to non-liner effects in the mixers are reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2002Publication date: July 3, 2003Applicant: LG Electronics Inc.Inventor: Se-Hyun Lee
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Patent number: 6405030Abstract: A system for interception of digital cellular phone communication which is required by Communication Assistance for Law Enforcement Agency CALEA. The system includes a plurality of wide area networks which control the transmission of voice, data, file and other types of messages in a reconfigured exchange area, each area network including a plurality of air interface Base Station (BS) controlled by a central regional service point Mobile Switch Center (MSC) which is connected to an activator unit. The activator is a computer based system controlled by microprocessor and having database for permanently and temporarily storing predetermined cellular phone subscribers information and messages from and intendant for selected end users. The activator communicates with other wide area network via a physical communication network which provides communication links between the networks and the end users whether wireless or wired.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 1999Date of Patent: June 11, 2002Inventor: Peter Suprunov
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Patent number: 6122496Abstract: When the frequency band of an intermediate frequency (IF) signal input to a filter rises due to temperature variation, the center voltage corresponding to the IF signal also rises. As a result, a difference occurs between the center voltage and a preselected reference voltage. An output current produced by converting the difference is so output as to increase a control current, thereby shifting the frequency characteristic of the filter to the higher frequency side. When the frequency band of the IF signal falls due to temperature variation, the center voltage also falls. The resulting difference between the center voltage and the reference voltage is also transformed to an output current. This output current is so output as to reduce the control current with the result that the frequency characteristic of the filter is shifted to the lower frequency side.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 1998Date of Patent: September 19, 2000Assignee: NEC CorporationInventor: Kenji Yoshioka
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Patent number: 6122404Abstract: A visible Stokes polarimetric imager (80) that separately and contemporaneously measures each of the four separate Stokes polarization parameters of a visible light beam reflected from a scene. The imager (80) includes a compound prism assembly (50) including five prism elements (52-58). The reflected beam from the scene is collected by an input lens (84) in the imager (80), and is directed to the prism assembly (50) at a certain location. The prism elements (52-58) split the beam (82) into four separate beams (62-68) of substantially equal intensity that are emitted from the prism assembly (50) in different directions. Four separate polarimetric filters (86) and imaging devices (88) are positioned relative to the prism assembly (50) to separately receive each of the four beams (62-68) emitted from the prism assembly (50).Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 1998Date of Patent: September 19, 2000Assignee: TRW Inc.Inventors: James D. Barter, Peter H. Y. Lee
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Patent number: 5963273Abstract: The circuit for the digital filtering of IF intermediate frequency video signals comprises an A/D (analog/digital) converter and a Nyquist filter (N); an analog prefilter, suitable for selecting the desired channel, is placed upstream of the A/D converter. The Nyquist filter (N) is a digital filter placed downstream of the A/D converter, composed of two IIR filters (15, 16) placed in cascade, one (16) of these IIR filters being produced in non-causal form with spectrum conjugate to the other IIR filter (15) produced in causal form, and of an FIR filter (17) in series, for correcting the IIR filters.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 1996Date of Patent: October 5, 1999Assignee: Thomson multimedia S.A.Inventors: Werner Boie, Elias Bou Sleiman
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Patent number: 5649321Abstract: A squelch circuit (111) that is contained in an communications receiver (100) estimates (403, 405) the energy of an input signal in an audio band and in a first portion of the audio band. The squelch circuit (111) then determines (407) whether the energy in the first portion of the audio band is at least a predetermined proportion of the total energy in the audio band. When the energy in the first portion of the audio band is at least a predetermined proportion of the total energy in the audio band, the squelch circuit increases (409) the audio band energy estimate to produce an updated audio energy estimate. The squelch circuit (111) can then use the updated audio energy estimate to adjust (413) a so-called squelch threshold that is subsequently used to determine (419) the presence of the radio frequency signal at an input (101) to the communications receiver (100).Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 1995Date of Patent: July 15, 1997Assignee: Motorola, Inc.Inventor: Jane Ann Kellenberger
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Patent number: 5572552Abstract: Demodulation of a CDMA downlink signal is performed by filtering correlations of the received signal with a known signature sequence. Unlike the conventional RAKE receiver, the filtering is not necessarily a FIR filter with coefficients equal to the conjugates of channel tap estimates. Instead, the present invention filters in such a way as to maximize the output signal-to-noise ratio, accounting for the fact that part of the noise comes from the same base station as the signal, so that it is colored by the same channel as the signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 1994Date of Patent: November 5, 1996Assignee: Ericsson GE Mobile Communications Inc.Inventors: Paul W. Dent, Gregory E. Bottomley
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Patent number: 5535238Abstract: A system and method for adaptive-power control of a spread-spectrum transmitter of a mobile station operating in a cellular-communications network using spread-spectrum modulation. A mobile station transmits a first spread-spectrum signal. A base station has an automatic-gain-control circuit for generating an AGC-output signal, from a received signal. The received signal includes the first spread-spectrum signal and an interfering signal. The base station also has a correlator for despreading the AGC-output signal, a power-measurement circuit responsive to processing the received signal with the despread AGC-output signal for generating a received-power level, a comparator coupled to the power-measurement circuit for generating a comparison signal by comparing the received-power level to a threshold level, a transmitter for transmitting a second spread-spectrum signal, and an antenna.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 1994Date of Patent: July 9, 1996Assignee: InterDigital Technology CorporationInventors: Donald L. Schilling, Joseph Garodnick, Gary Lomp, Timothy F. Moore, III
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Patent number: 5495507Abstract: A filter for implementing a least squares method receives samples x(n+1) and produces error signals e(n+1) based on reference signals y(n+1). Filtered samples y(n+1) are available at an output 28. The filtered samples are calculated based on: angle functions .theta..sub.i (i=1 to n) that form part of rotation matrices; a gain vector G.sub.N (n+1) that is based on the rotation matrices; and the error signals. Because the filtered samples are available the filter is suitable for use in an equalizer in which the reference signal is formed by from the filtered signals, as well as in other applications such as echo cancelers.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 1993Date of Patent: February 27, 1996Assignee: U.S. Philips CorporationInventor: Maurice Bellanger