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6714603 Asynchronous timing for interpolated timing recovery  
A quotient (y 2 −y 0 )/(y 3 −y 1 ) is generated by circuitry where Y k are asynchronous samples from a sequence of asynchronous samples, the quotient (y 2 −y 0 )/(y 3 −y 1 ) is compared to...
6714601 Method in digital quadrature modulator and demodulator, and digital quadrature modulator and demodulator  
Method measures imperfections in the digital quadrature demodulator from the amplitude of the output signal of the demodulator quadrature mixer, i.e. from the amplitude of a vector formed by the I...
6714596 BS digital broadcast receiver  
A BS digital broadcast receiver having no 8PSK-demapper and a less number of delay circuits for Trellis encoding. A QPSK baseband signal based upon a reception signal point position of an...
6707862 Predictive data rate control in wireless transmitters  
A wireless transmitter includes a data rate controller operating to predictively determine a traffic channel data rate for a frame of data stream using a previous data rate, transmitted bit energy...
6707863 Baseband signal carrier recovery of a suppressed carrier modulation signal  
A multidetector ( 40 ) circuit for use in a plurality of carrier recovery systems ( 10, 70 ) for recovery for a suppressed carrier modulated signal. The multidetector ( 40 ) receives demodulated,...
6704374 Local oscillator frequency correction in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system  
An Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) receiver that detects and corrects a carrier frequency offset of a received signal is provided. The OFDM receiver samples an incoming signal in...
6700943 Digital bit synchronizer for low transition densities  
An apparatus and method for synchronizing a derived bit clock with a transmit bit clock of a transmitted data signal is disclosed. The present invention uses a divide-only direct digital...
6700940 Carrier reproduction circuit  
A carrier reproduction circuit which can perform stable carrier reproduction even when reception takes place with low C/N values is provided. The reception phase of the demodulated known-pattern...
6697609 Carrier reproducing apparatus and method of the same  
A carrier reproducing apparatus and method enabling stable operation even at a low S/N, wherein, when phase signals are locked and exceed a predetermined value, a tracking circuit generates a...
6697439 Carrier acquisition in a DC/MA system  
Carrier wave frequency is quickly acquired without burdensome MIPs requirements by limiting the spectral analysis of the incoming channel to the expected band edges. The right and left band edges...
6697440 Demodulator of receiver  
A small scale circuit can be realized. A timing circuit 30 detects a burst symbol signal period from outputs I and Q of a demodulating circuit 1 A for orthogonally detecting a received signal...
6693978 Carrier reproducing circuit  
A carrier reproducing circuit capable of reproducing a carrier quickly, wherein: a signal point arrangement converting circuit ( 14 ) detects the signal point arrangement of a demodulating baseband...
6693979 Adaptive smoothing system for fading communication channels  
An adaptive smoother includes a phase lock loop, a scintillation amplitude estimator and a fixed delay smoother operating on amplitude estimates for providing improved phase and/or code delay...
6690747 Method for reference signal generation in the presence of frequency offsets in a communications station with spatial processing  
A method for generating a reference signal from a modulated signal transmitted to a communications station that includes an array of antenna elements and spatial processing means including:...
6687309 System for estimating carrier frequencies of quadrature amplitude modulated signals having high symbol rates  
A first system includes a converter, complex signal generator, exponentiator, FFT module and processor to estimate carrier frequency of a high symbol rate quadrature amplutide modulated (QAM)...
6687315 Single chip VLSI implementation of a digital receiver employing orthogonal frequency division multiplexing  
The invention provides a single chip implementation of a digital receiver for multicarrier signals that are transmitted by orthogonal frequency division multiplexing. Improved channel estimation...
6683493 Timing reproducing device and demodulator  
In-phase and orthogonal components of a base band signal having a preamble symbol are squared to obtain squared in-phase orthogonal components. Amount of correlation is obtained between the squared...
6683920 Dual-loop system and method for frequency acquisition and tracking  
A dual loop system for the acquisition and tracking of a carrier signal is presented. The acquisition loop uses a bang-bang phase detector which permits the carrier to be acquired without a clock...
6680653 VCO tuning curve compensated charge pump current synthesizer  
A system provided for controlling an output frequency of a voltage controlled oscillator relative to a reference frequency. A method includes the steps of detecting a phase error between a divided...
6680991 Detection of frequency differences between signals  
A lock detector is described for detecting a difference between the frequencies of a first and a second input signal. The lock detector includes first and second beat generators configured to...
6680970 Statistical methods and systems for data rate detection for multi-speed embedded clock serial receivers  
Methods and systems for data rate detection for multi-speed embedded clock serial receivers are described. In one embodiment, a method of determining a data rate of a high speed serially...
6674814 Frequency error estimating apparatus and a frequency error estimating method  
A frequency error estimating apparatus for estimating a frequency error between a local oscillation frequency and a carrier frequency of a received signal in a receiver includes a frequency error...
6671331 Carrier detecting circuit for detecting the level of a received signal and communication apparatus  
An RSSI block cumulating circuit block-cumulates an RSSI signal that has been A/D converted and calculates an RSSI signal in a low level. An RSSI level raising circuit raises the level of the RSSI...
6671339 Lock detecting apparatus and method for multimedia digital broadcasting receiver  
A lock detecting apparatus for a multimedia digital broadcasting receiver is disclosed. The present invention is a general purpose lock detecting apparatus applicable to a channel equalizer as well...
6668025 Tuning demodulator for digitally modulated RF signals  
A tuning demodulator for digitally modulated signals tunes and detects a desired RF signal by an I/Q detection circuit and a tuning oscillation circuit composed of a PLL synthesizer having an...
6665355 Method and apparatus for pilot-aided carrier acquisition of vestigial sideband signal  
An inexpensive synchronous detection module is disclosed for a sideband signal receiver that provides for flexibility in design of the tuner. The detection module is adaptable to detection of upper...
6661852 Apparatus and method for quadrature tuner error correction  
An apparatus for quadrature tuner error correction includes an offset correction circuit adapted to receive a digital in-phase signal and a digital quadrature signal from a quadrature tuner. The...
6658042 Method and apparatus for time tracking a signal using hardware and software  
A method of providing time tracking between a first signal and a second signal in a communication device. In one embodiment, a first signal is generated by the communication device and a second...
6650699 Methods and apparatus for timing recovery from a sampled and equalized data signal  
Methods and apparatus for use in a communication channel receiver for generating a sampling phase error signal for adjustment of a sampling clock signal associated with the receiver are provided....
6643340 Carrier phase derived symbol timing  
A method and apparatus for symbol timing initialization in a multi-carrier receiver. The method uses phase measurements from a plurality of the individual carriers to make an initial determination...
6643334 Bandpass tracker for DTV receiver, with VSB I-F signal filtered for more symmetrical AFPC Loop response  
Digital radio receivers for digital television signals often employ bandpass trackers in which the bandwidth of the automatic-frequency-and-phase-control (AFPC) loop is determined in the baseband...
6639909 Receiver having functions for cancelling DC offset and measuring carrier detection threshold value, and control method thereof  
An improved system and method for canceling a DC offset and measuring a carrier detection threshold value. A control circuit provides a signal based upon a frame synchronizing signal for shutting...
6636570 Phase detection apparatus for compensating phase rotation error  
A phase detection apparatus for receiving an I-channel signal an a Q-channel signal as a received signal modulated with a quadrature phase-shift keying and compensating a phase rotation error of...
6631174 Automatic frequency control apparatus  
A transmitting side periodically inserts a known signal consisting of successive N P symbols into an information signal consisting of (N F −N P ) symbols and transmits the N F symbol signal....
6628926 Method for automatic frequency control  
A radio signal transmitted from a transmitter to a receiver of a mobile communications system, such as the GSM system, often suffers from a phenomenon known as frequency offset by which the...
6611570 Programmable digital intermediate frequency transceiver  
A monolithic CMOS programmable digital intermediate frequency receiver includes a programmable memory, a clock generator, a sigma delta converter, a digital downconverter, and a decimation filter...
6608869 Dual-carrier heterodyne for separating orthogonal components of complex amplitude-modulation signals  
A method for receiving a modulated carrier wave with asymmetrical upper and lower sidebands, which carrier wave may be suppressed, is described. A first down-converter in the receiver heterodynes...
6603803 Global positioning system receiver for monitoring the satellite transmissions and for reducing the effects of multipath error on coded signals and carrier phase measurements  
A Global Positioning System receiver includes an intermediate frequency (IF) processor configured to downconvert broadcast signal to generate a first channel signal which is further downconverted...
6603821 Wireless communication terminal capable of correctly specifying position of burst and having small frequency error of recovered carrier  
A power calculator calculates the power of an input signal in accordance with a component of an input received signal. A comparator asserts an unmodulated signal detection signal when the power...
6600793 Minimal overhead early late timing recovery  
A timing recovery circuit and method which determines whether a sample point in a generated bit sequence is early or late based on binary logic which is already available used in generating a bit...
6600778 Method and apparatus for VSB symbol sync recovery  
The HDTV receiver system includes a pre-detection processor to filter a digitized signal before detecting the sync signal. The pre-detection processor eliminates the effects of ghost signal which...
6597754 Compensation of frequency pulling in a time-division duplexing transceiver  
A carrier-recovery loop for compensating frequency pulling in TDD and TDMA radio transceivers. The digital carrier-recovery loop includes a signal input, a digitally-controlled oscillator (DCO), a...
6597725 Carrier phase follower and frequency hopping receiver  
A carrier phase follower is provided that can follow the carrier phase even when the carrier phase angle varies with respect to a reference frequency signal. Demodulation data is decided, without...
6594328 Method and apparatus for facilitating an estimation of a carrier frequency error in a receiver of a wireless communication system  
A receiver ( 200 ) receives ( 402 ) a first signal including a sync portion ( 308 ) having a carrier acquisition segment ( 302 ) and a timing synchronization pattern ( 304 ), and a processing...
6594320 Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed (OFDM) carrier acquisition method  
In all wireless systems, the first operation that must take place at the receiver is the acquisition of the carrier and timing. OFDM systems are particularly sensitive to carrier offsets since...
6590942 Least squares phase fit as frequency estimate  
A method and apparatus for estimating the frequency of a carrier signal associated with a modulated signal carrying digital data in which the signal is demodulated by a demodulator that includes a...
6587503 Information processing apparatus and method  
An information processing apparatus in which an eye center measuring unit determines a code judgment point from a peak timing signal supplied from a timing signal generation circuit and an...
6587157 Storing digital video broadcast signals  
In order to reduce memory requirements in a chip for demodulating digital video broadcast signals, symbol data values stored for a channel equalisation process have their scattered pilots removed,...
6587523 Radio signal receiving apparatus and a method of radio signal reception  
A radio signal receiving apparatus and a method of radio signal receiving for improving the receiving characteristic by limit the excessive compensation in the AFC circuit are realized. The base...
6580770 Information regenerating apparatus and information regenerating method  
Input data is converted into digital data in a A/D converter in synchronization with a regenerated clock, a zero-cross detecting signal of the digital data is detected in a zero-cross detector, a...