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7369826 Method for monitoring broadcast signals at alternative frequencies and gain control unit  
Many broadcast stations transmit their programs via a variety of different frequencies. The invention relates to monitoring alternative frequencies during the reception of a broadcast signal at a...
7369825 Selection of radio station based on preferred program content  
A method and apparatus for selecting radio stations for reception based on a preferred program content. A list of radio station identifiers is stored in a memory and organized according to program...
7366663 Measuring a talking quality of a telephone link in a telecommunications network  
For measuring the influence of noise on the talking quality of a telephone link in a telecommunications network, a talker speech signal (s(t)) and a degraded speech signal (s′(t)) are fed to an...
7359676 Systems and methods for adaptively scanning for wireless communications  
This application is directed to systems and methods for adaptively scanning for wireless communications. Scan data associated with scanning one or more wireless network channels based upon a scan...
7353002 Measuring a talking quality of a communication link in a network  
Device and method for measuring a talking quality of a communication link in a communications network ( 10 ). The device comprises measurement means ( 22; 31, 36 ) connected to the communication...
7330707 Hetrodyne receiver and IC  
In a heterodyne receiver, the effect of an image interference signal that occurs in a case where a low intermediate frequency is used is alleviated. Circuits ( 12 I), ( 12 Q), ( 13 I), ( 13 Q), and...
7308235 Audio broadcast receiver and automatic broadcasting-station selecting method  
While a plurality of seek object frequencies decided in advance is being set as a receiving frequency in order, seek object frequencies meeting at least the following conditions are selected. The...
7299019 Cellular handoff based on traffic load sharing  
A method of effecting a handoff in a cellular network. The method includes monitoring a set of frequencies listed in a mobile assisted handoff (MAHO) list for their respective signal strengths,...
7277686 Antenna and frequency diversity receiving apparatus  
An apparatus determines an optimal antenna and frequency combination by selecting the optimal antenna from among a plurality, N, of antennas associated with a receiver and also selects the optimal...
7274918 Apparatus for automatically finding an am radio program  
The invention relates to a method for automatically finding an AM radio program, by which an AM radio receiver is tuned through in discrete steps, such that, for each set AM frequency, the...
7269397 Method and apparatus for measuring communications link quality  
A method and apparatus for measuring communications link quality provides accurate on-chip estimation of the difficulty of achieving a particular bit error rate (BER) for a communications link. A...
7236755 Broadcast wave receiving apparatus  
Herein disclosed is a broadcast wave receiving apparatus, comprising: first and second tuning circuits each having a resonance frequency; first controlling means for controlling one of the first...
7224980 Radio system  
A stationary device 20 sends a portable-device finding signal to a portable device 10 from a plurality of stationary-device side antennae 24 and 25 , which are located at different...
7212832 Communication system switching method, and terminal device using this method  
A W-LAN communication unit, a personal handyphone communication unit and an EV-DO communication unit include communication functions corresponding to their communication systems. A W-LAN quality...
7174186 Method for selecting broadcasting tower, program for selecting broadcasting tower, storage medium storing same program and broadcast receiving device  
The broadcasting tower selecting method for selecting one broadcasting tower out of a plurality of broadcasting towers each being able to transmit together broadcast waves on a plurality of...
7174141 Apparatus, and associated method, for facilitating communications in a radio communication system through use of ultrawide band signals  
Apparatus, and an associated method, for a radio communication system having a sending station and a receiving station. The sending station sends data pursuant to a communication service and...
7162215 Method and system for setting user preference satellite radio music selections in a mobile vehicle  
A system and method is directed to setting user preference satellite radio music selections in a mobile vehicle. The method provides creating at least one vehicle preference selection list...
7149518 Method of reconnecting radiocommunication terminal to a network, and a corresponding terminal  
A method of connecting to a radiocommunication network a terminal which is in a standby mode because of temporary unavailability of the signal from the network includes a step of periodically...
7149486 Mobile communication system including scheduler and mobile communication terminal of the system  
Each mobile communication terminal receives an evaluation function threshold value of each base station transmitted from the base station, and calculates the evaluation function value of each base...
7136114 Television receiver with dynamically adjustable filtering  
A television receiver includes a tuner stage, a selective filter stage connected to the tuner stage, and a intermediate-frequency stage connected to the selective filter stage. A...
7133654 Method and apparatus for measuring communications link quality  
A method and apparatus for measuring communications link quality provides accurate on-chip estimation of the difficulty of achieving a particular bit error rate (BER) for a communications link. A...
7130653 Power allocation of wireless transmission apparatus  
The present invention relates to a wireless transmission apparatus. The wireless transmission apparatus is used for transmitting a RF signal by a selected power allocation to meet the requirement...
7127218 Scanning antenna diversity system for FM radio for vehicles  
A scanning antenna diversity system for mobile FM radio having an antenna system with controllable logic switch, wherein a different high-frequency reception signal is passed to a receiver. An IF...
7096016 High-speed all-band-cell search cellular phone  
A cellular phone includes a RSSI measurement circuit for measuring power levels of received baseband signal at divided band portions of the whole band, a band sorting circuit sorting the divided...
7092706 Apparatus and method for signal strength compensation of highly time-variant mobile radio channels and reception unit for mobile radio transmission  
A signal strength compensation unit for mobile radio receivers is connected upstream of the channel estimator and the channel equalizer and compensates for, in particular, the great, brief signal...
7050784 Weather radio with channel acquisition system  
A weather radio adapted to automatically select a preferred channel of operation. A receiver is coupled to a signal quality circuit that outputs signal quality parameters. A controller is coupled...
7031680 Stop-on-station method and apparatus  
A method for stopping on a radio station includes calculating a radio signal quality ( 205 ) using a multipath echo indicator and determining if the radio signal quality is greater than a...
7020178 Microprocessor decoder frequency hopping spread spectrum communications receiver  
The present invention is directed to a frequency hopping spread spectrum transceiver. The transceiver includes a microcontroller; a transmitter having a voltage controlled oscillator, a direct...
6980784 System and method of reducing noise in an electronic shelf label system  
A system and method of reducing noise in an electronic shelf label system which shifts operation of the receiver away from noise frequencies. The system includes a controller for receiving signal...
6961548 Method for masking interruptions on playback of received radio signals  
A method of masking interruptions in the playback of received radio signals is provided, in which lengthy interruptions are allowed only when modulation of the radio broadcast program currently...
6957053 Method for selection of a receiver tuning frequency  
Method for tuning the reception of radio broadcast signals to an FM RDS transmitter using program related data and transmitter related data and receiver executing the method, providing a band...
6950638 Method and system for scheduling user preference satellite radio station selections in a mobile vehicle  
A system and method is directed to scheduling user preference satellite radio station selections in a mobile vehicle. The method provides creating at least one vehicle preference selection schedule...
6865379 Automatic radio button mute  
A system and method of eliminating static while utilizing pre-programmed tuner buttons on a radio is disclosed. The system of the present invention mutes a pre-programmed tuner button frequency...
6850743 Radio having adaptable seek sensitivity control and method therefor  
A tuneable radio and method for automatically adjusting the seek sensitivity alignment for seek operations. The radio has a radio receiver for receiving broadcast radio wave signals, and a tuner...
6842609 Radio having adjustable seek sensitivity based on average signal strength and method therefor  
A tuneable radio and method for automatically adjusting the seek sensitivity alignment for seek operations. The radio has a radio receiver for receiving broadcast radio wave signals, and a tuner...
6836660 Methods and systems for communicating in a cellular network  
A microcellular communications network includes a plurality of base station units and corresponding antenna units. The microcells connected to their respective base station units over a telephone...
6816715 Wideband receiver and channel scanning method  
A wideband receiver ( 10 ) comprises a frequency converter ( 16 ) for converting the frequency of a signal inputted through an antenna ( 12 ) by using a local oscillation signal from a local...
6754500 Channel grouping system and method for a wireless communication system  
A channel grouping system and method for a wireless communication system in which channels are allocated to channel groups according to received signal strength (RSS) data of mobile station...
6741293 Digital and analog broadcast receiver, and digital and analog broadcast reception and output method  
A digital TV receiver 2 receives digital TV broadcasts and an analog TV receiver 1 receives analog TV broadcasts. A switching control 6 switches between either digital or analog signals to a...
6714771 Broadcast radio signal seek circuit  
A broadcast radio frequency receiver includes an improved seek circuit receiving analog radio signals via an antenna according to a signal seek process wherein the frequency of the analog radio...
6711390 Program related data in an FM RDS receiver  
Method for processing transmitter and program related data in an FM RDS receiver and receiver executing the method, providing a band scanning search for detecting FM RDS transmitters exceeding a...
6674813 Integrated circuit for detecting a received signal and circuit configuration  
In order to detect a received signal quickly and reliably, an integrated circuit for detecting a received signal has an intermediate frequency detector which supplies a first search run stop signal...
6633762 Smart mobile assisted handoff (MAHO) method that disables MAHO  
The present invention provides a methodology for selectively enabling and disabling mobile assisted handoff (MAHO) in a TDMA wireless communication system on a per-mobile station basis based on a...
6624743 Automatic adjusting responder with no self-contained power supply  
In a non-contact IC card, a driving portion 5 sequentially switches a resonance frequency of a resonance circuit 1 . A reference voltage generating portion 6 receives an output voltage of...
6615043 Efficient carrier raster scanning  
A scanning operation in a mobile terminal includes storing identifiers of sub-carrier frequencies known to be in use without regard to operator identity or location of use. A first scanning of only...
6611678 Device and method for trainable radio scanning  
A trainable radio scanner, including a station monitoring circuit to scan a plurality of radio frequencies and extract audio samples of a predetermined duration from each one of the plurality of...
6567663 Method for continuous home public land mobile network search  
In a mobile station (MS) of a cellular radiotelephone system, a method of searching for the MS's home public land mobile network (HPLMN) when the MS is camped on a non-HPLMN. The method is...
6535752 Radio receiver with power saving during synchronization retries  
A method and apparatus for reducing battery drain in a mobile station of a radio communication system characterizes and stores the radio environment in which it failed to acquire synchronization...
6453156 Scanning radio receiver for a wireless communication system  
A method for use in a receiver in a time division multiple access (TDMA) wireless communication system to determine whether a channel is occupied and whether the transmitter occupying the channel...
6356746 Direct converting receiver  
Signal levels of received signals are detected within a plurality of different frequency bands by a first electric field strength detecting means 15 and a second electric field strength detecting...
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