Abstract: A scheme for sharing antenna control pins in a wireless communications device implemented on a single CMOS integrated circuit is described. By providing a routing circuit for coupling the antenna control signal to the appropriate transceiver circuitry in a multi-transceiver system, antenna control signals may be efficiently processed using a minimum of pins on the wireless communication device.

Abstract: A system and method for maximizing throughput in a telecommunications system is disclosed. The system includes an antenna system using fixed narrow beams that transmits and allows improved capacity gain to be realized without degrading call performance. The system can include: forming a plurality of directional narrow uplink beams at a main antenna; receiving communications signals on the plurality of directional uplink beams; periodically scanning across the plurality of uplink beams associated with a given call; assessing a set of beams from the plurality of uplink beams based upon a quality of reverse link information; selecting a first subset from the set of beams to be turned off when the quality of reverse link information reaches a first predetermined value; and instructing the subset to not transmit a traffic channel and to continue to transmit the power control sub channel.

Abstract: There is provided a transmit antenna array device with at least two antennas and a method thereof in which a transmission beam is appropriately formed based on a weight vector to be transmitted to a specific mobile station in a mobile communication system. For this purpose, a base station device has a reverse processor for processing a reverse signal received through the antenna array, a forward fading information extraction unit for extracting forward fading information from the received reverse signal, a beam formation controller for generating a weight vector for formation of a transmission beam using the forward fading information and the received reverse signal, and a forward processor having a transmission beam generator for generating a transmission beam for a transmission message based on the weight vector.

Abstract: The present invention reduces the degradation in performance of one or more radio signals that are co-transmitted with a first radio signal from the same transmitting antenna in the same frequency channel and received by the same antenna due to multipath or other shared interference, where the one or more radio signals can be separated from the first radio signal.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication device, such as a transponder, that has a plurality of antennas for multi-frequency usage. The wireless communication device comprises a control system, communication electronics, memory, and the aforementioned antennas. A wireless communication device having a pole antenna may be used with one or more loop conductor antennas to achieve the desired operating frequencies. A wireless communication device having a dipole antenna may be coupled across a loop conductor antenna to provide different loop conductor configurations depending on the frequency.

Abstract: A diversity reception handset includes a receiver for receiving pilot and plural increments of traffic sent from a base station within a service area of a wireless communications network. The handset includes at least two antennas, a switch for switching a receiver between the two antennas, a time-of-arrival searcher circuit connected to the receiver and responsive to the pilot for determining time of arrival of the received signals and expected time of arrival of each increment, and a controller for controlling the switch based upon determined expected time of arrival of each increment.

Abstract: A dual polarization transmission receiving system includes a reception unit including two RF local oscillators and a demodulation unit. The local oscillators receive signals transmitted by using two orthogonal polarized waves (V and H polarized waves) and convert the respective received signals into IF (Immediate Frequency) signals. The demodulation unit branches each IF signal into two paths, and then demodulates the respective IF signals for each polarized wave by a digital coherent detection scheme.

Abstract: An adaptive transmit antenna array having a reduced pilot set is disclosed. The adaptive transmit antenna array utilizes a decision-directed mechanism for the estimation of maximal ratio combining (MRC) weights to be used at a receiver rather than requiring a user-specific pilot to provide estimation information.

Abstract: A radio communication system includes a base station having a directional antenna for generating a plurality of beams. A first set of the beams is used to receive signals which are decoded at the base station. A second set of the beams is used for interrogating a cell to identify beams which should be added to the first set of beams (for example, in response to mobile terminals entering the cell). In one embodiment, the second set of beams comprises a plurality of searcher beams produced by a fixed-beam phased array antenna. In a second embodiment, the second set of beams comprises a single searcher beam which is scanned through the cell by an adaptive phased array antenna. The radio communication system can be used to communicate with indoor mobile terminals through a plurality of radio heads, and also can be used to communicate with orbiting satellites.

Abstract: A repeating method for a wireless communication system which provides time and space diversities, and an apparatus thereof are disclosed. The method of repeating a forward link communication signal for a wireless communication system includes the steps of: a) transmitting the forward link communication signal through a first transmitting antenna; b) delaying the forward link communication signal for a predetermined time period; and c) transmitting a delayed forward link communication signal which is generated by step b) through a second transmitting antenna. According to the method, when repeating forward and reverse link communication signals, time and space diversities are respectively provided to the base station and the mobile stations.

Abstract: A circuit and method to locate a cellular phone or noisy laptop computer in an aircraft uses and antenna each in the front and back of the plane. Arrival time differences of cellular phone pulses are used to locate the offending phone. Three receivers are used to locate a cell phone in a theater audience. Broad band correlation is used to locate an offending laptop computer.

Abstract: Generation of a compensation signal for canceling the distortion component of a distorted signal at an affected node, where the distortion component is caused by electro-magnetic coupling from a distortion-causing signal source. The distortion-causing signal is coupled into a distortion cancellation system using capacitive or electro-magnetic coupling techniques, resulting in the generation of an induced voltage. The induced voltage is fed to an impedance network and then to a plurality of cells, one for each of the affected nodes. The compensation signal appearing at the output of the cell is combined with the distorted signal at the corresponding affected node. By appropriately selecting the impedance values of the components in the corresponding cell, substantial cancellation of the distortion from the distortion-causing signal source can be achieved. The system can be simplified if the degree to which the distortion-causing signal source couples into the distorted signal is determined ahead of time.

Abstract: A method of effectuating frequency switching by using two self-oscillating frequency reducers having a common input includes the use of a three-way coupler to connect two field effect transistors (or two bipolar junction field effect transistors) and two dielectric resonator oscillators between a low-noise amplifier and an intermediate frequency (IF) amplifier, so as to effectuate switching between different frequency ranges. Thus, a simplified switch circuit for switching frequencies is possible to enable reduced manufacturing cost and reduced volume of device.

Abstract: A base station of a radiocommunication system has at least two antennas and can select one of the antennas. It determines if a channel to transmit to at least one mobile station is unidirectional and switches from one antenna to another in accordance with a predetermined random or pseudo-random law if the channel to transmit is unidirectional.

Abstract: An antenna network system comprises a server including a transmitter and an antenna, and a client including a receiver and a steerable antenna. There is also included a control path which is independently operable of the antennas for communicating control data between the server and client. The server is responsive to signal quality data communicated via the control path for steering at least one of the server antenna and client antenna in a direction for optimising the signal quality of communications transmitted between them.

Abstract: A weaker signal receiving system inclusive of stronger nearby-sourced interference signal cancellation capability. Stronger interference signal cancellation is accomplished by actively canceling or subtracting from the received signal an intermediate signal in which the weaker signal has been attenuated but the stronger signal remains. Attenuation of the weaker signal in this intermediate signal is accomplished in a feedback loop arrangement by an amplitude-responsive signal processing element embodied from for example a ferrite material such as yttrium iron garnet disposed in a physical wave propagating and wave amplitude sensitive film. The cancellation or subtracting is accomplished using received signals and without need for a direct output sample of the stronger signal at its source. Military aircraft use of the disclosed system in the microwave and other spectral regions with transmission mode as opposed to reflection mode signal amplitude discrimination by the ferrite device is included.

Abstract: A tire monitor for monitoring a characteristic of tires on a vehicle includes a circuit configured to receive a first wireless signal having tire characteristic data and a first wireless protocol. The circuit is further configured to receive a second wireless signal having tire characteristic data and a second wireless protocol. The second wireless protocol is different than the first wireless protocol. The circuit is configured to monitor first tire data on the first wireless signal and second tire data on the second wireless signal.

Abstract: The invention relates to an adaptive radio system that includes a plurality of mobile stations and at least one base station. In the radio system, at least the base station includes a plurality of independent transmitting and receiving branches to transfer signals between the base station and mobile stations. The radio system is according to the invention characterized in that it additionally includes means (401, 402) for connecting said transmitting branches and receiving branches in parallel and for numerical, dynamic assigning thereof to transfer of a single signal. The invention further relates to a method for assigning transmitting and receiving branches in a radio system.

Abstract: The outputs of antenna elements 111 to 11M of a wide directional pattern 12 are distributed by a distributor 13 to respective channel parts 141 to 14N, and in each channel part 14i (i=1, 2, . . . , N), its connection points 311 to 31M to the distributor 14 are divided in groups of P=4; four connecting ends of the respective groups are connected via level-phase regulators 231to 234 to combiners 221 to 22L (L=M/P), then the combined outputs therefrom are applied to receivers 151 to 15L, and the outputs therefrom are combined after being applied to regulators 161 to 16L which are adaptively controlled.

Abstract: A portable telephone apparatus, includes a body and an antenna section. The antenna section includes an antenna element, and a plurality of reflectors provided near the antenna element. The antenna section is provided at a end side where a microphone is provided of the body.

Abstract: Outputs of A/D converters 110, 111, and 112 are input to correlation devices 117, 118, and 119. The correlation devices 117, 118, and 119 output ratios of these signals to an output signal of a modulator 116 for modulating an output of a switching device 115. Each of standardizing devices 120, 121, and 122 cancels a gain component from an input signal, and selects a signal having a maximum signal-to-interference power ratio. A switching device 124 switches a transmitting antenna in accordance with the selection result so as tc send a transmitting message. A switching device 125 switches a unique word in a synchronous burst, and a unique word in a communication channel signal, or a receiving message to be sent to the correlation devices as a reference signal.

Abstract: A base station equipment for receiving and transmitting a signal of a desired user, which signal to be received may arrive at the equipment along several different paths with several different delays, and which equipment includes one or more antenna arrays composed of several elements, one or more channel units having components for phasing the signal to be transmitted and received by the antenna array in such a way that the gain from the antenna array is the greatest in the desired directions. Each channel unit includes components for searching for the incoming directions and delays of the received signal components, and components for controlling the phasing components on the basis of the information in such a way that the angle of the greatest gain of the antenna beams is deflected in the environment of the desired directions.

Abstract: Diversity and inter-frequency mobile-assisted handoff (MAHO) are achieved under continuous reception cellular access methods by using strategic timing and switching optimizations. Strategic timing is achieved by avoiding the non-reception of power control bits. For example, the mobile terminal can make measurements for diversity in the last eight bits of a sub-frame of an IS-95 downlink transmission. Switching is optimized, for example, by storing rake taps for a first antenna prior to switching to a second antenna so that the rake tap positions can be restored upon returning to the first antenna. With these and other disclosed measurement techniques, the benefits of diversity and inter-frequency MAHO can be achieved in continuous reception cellular systems.

Abstract: Weighting coefficients for a phased array antenna are iteratively refined to optimal values by a ‘bootstrapped’ process that starts with a coarse set of weighting coefficients, to which received signals are subjected, to produce a first set of signal estimates. These estimates and the received signals are iteratively processed a prescribed number of times to refine the weighting coefficients, such that the gain and/or nulls of antenna's directivity pattern will maximize the signal to noise ratio. Such improved functionality is particularly useful in association with the phased array antenna of a base station of a time division multiple access (TDMA) cellular communication system, where it is necessary to cancel interference from co-channel users located in cells adjacent to the cell containing a desired user and the base station.