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8160267 Car audio equipment  
In order to enable a driver to obtain traffic jam information or to listen to a navigation guidance voice from a car navigation system without interrupting the reproduction of music when a...
8150563 Anti-theft system for a vehicle, and method for the operation of an anti-theft system  
An anti-theft system, especially in the form of an access and/or starting system for a vehicle has a vehicle-mounted receiver for receiving a request signal containing the instruction to find out...
8144897 Adjusting acoustic speaker output based on an estimated degree of seal of an ear about a speaker port  
A degree of seal of an ear about a speaker port may be estimated by detecting touch contact between the ear and at least one touch sensor in fixed relation to the speaker port. The degree of seal...
8068801 Electric wave receiving apparatus  
An electric wave receiving apparatus comprises: an antenna; an amplifier; filter circuits that extract signals in different frequency bands from an output of the amplifier; detector circuits that...
7738847 Automatic gain control for a tuner  
The circuit arrangement comprises a tuner with a control amplifier and a mixer connected downstream, and an automatic gain control. The automatic gain control contains a weighting filter, which is...
7729673 Method and apparatus for multichannel signal limiting  
A method and apparatus provide multichannel signal limiting to prevent any channel signal within a multichannel signal from exceeding defined limits, while still preserving the gain and/or...
7714654 Amplifier and amplifier gain adjustment circuitry using current steering, and multimode communication device containing same  
Disclosed is a multi-mode radio frequency amplifier. The amplifier includes a plurality of input transistors, a plurality of output branches, and a switching stage interposed between the plurality...
7680519 Handsfree apparatus including volume control  
In a vehicular navigation system, “AT command +CIEV” is received from a cellular phone by a BLUETOOTH communications. The received “+CIEV” is determined to identify a phoning state (or call state) ...
RE41131 Portable telephone capable of increasing facility of operation  
In a portable telephone which transmits and receives data having at least one of a voice signal and an image datum which are radio signals, the controlling device controls an amplifier so that a...
7653159 Narrowband gain control of receiver with digital post filtering  
An Automatic Gain Control (AGC) circuit as used in a digital receiver that utilizes a main loop filter that is of a relatively wide bandwidth. A pre-filter, wideband variance is determined from the...
7596355 System and method capable of closed loop MIMO calibration  
An embodiment of the present invention provides a method of closed loop MIMO calibration in a wireless communication system, comprising detecting that station calibration is obsolete and requires...
7469051 Method and apparatus for maintaining audio level preferences in a communication device  
An intelligent automatic volume control technique (100) for a communication device is provided that takes a measurement of the background audio environment at the time a user manually selects the...
7469132 Transmission signal generating apparatus  
In a transmission signal generating apparatus according to the present invention, a voice signal is amplified by a variable amplifier which varies its amplification factor in accordance with an...
7412222 Quadrature correction method for analog television reception using direct-conversion tuners  
A direct conversion radio frequency (RF) tuner includes a mixer generating I and Q quadrature components. A phase detection circuit generates a phase error measurement between the I quadrature...
7389102 Method to improve CMFB phase margin of variable-output-bandwidth mixer  
An improved method and apparatus for using common mode feedback to maintain a predetermined DC level for an intermediate frequency output signal. A common mode feedback capacitor-select switch...
7283800 Adaptive mixer output filter bandwidth control for variable conversion gain down-conversion mixer  
An improved adaptive mixer for use in the down conversion module of a wireless transceiver. The adaptive mixer comprises a conversion gain module that is operable to receive a radio frequency...
7221918 Digital DC-offset correction circuit for an RF receiver  
An RF receiver comprising a radio-frequency (RF) down-converter for receiving and down-converting an input RF signal to a lower frequency analog signal (e.g., an IF signal or baseband signal) and...
7203471 System and method for selectively utilizing an attenuation device in a two-way radio receiver based on squelch detect and radio signal strength indication (RSSI)  
A system and method used for controlling an attenuator in a two-way communication device (100, 200) includes the steps of measuring (211) a relative signal strength indication (RSSI) at the input...
7200141 Bandwidth detection in a heterogeneous network with parallel and proxy modes  
Effective bandwidth of a communication link is determined in a heterogeneous, packet switched network between a source and a destination, where effective bandwidth is defined as the actual...
7171178 Tuning circuit having amplitude-varying function  
A tuning circuit having an amplitude-varying function is disclosed that comprises a coil, a capacitor, and a resistance-adjusting element connected in parallel to the coil and the capacitor for...
7171176 Tuner system self adaptive to signal environment  
A circuit and method for adjusting the operating characteristics of a tuner in accordance with information derived from the signals being processed by the tuner. Depending upon signal type and/or...
7035609 Method and apparatus for automatically identifying an antenna connected to a radio transmitter and for automatically controlling a transmitter  
A transmission system or apparatus includes a transmitter or source of transmitted RF or microwave power which is selectively connectable via a transmitter connector to an antenna having an antenna...
7003335 Sensing phone apparatus and method  
Sensors measuring body conditions forward their data to a concentration point which transmits to a cellular phone through a wireless communication. The cellular phone incorporates a program which...
6785522 Method for changing timbre during conversation in cellular phone  
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...
6760635 Automatic sound reproduction setting adjustment  
Apparatus, article of manufacture, and method for automatic adjustment of sound reproduction settings on an audio or audio/visual system based on listener preference and/or experience is provided....
6748092 Hearing aid with improved percentile estimator  
The invention relates to a hearing aid, preferably a programmable hearing aid, having at least one microphone (1), at least one signal processor with at least one channel, an output amplifier (9)...
6658245 Radio receiver having a dynamic bandwidth filter and method therefor  
A radio receiver (100) has an IF (intermediate frequency) filter (200) for dynamically adjusting its intermediate frequency. The filter (200) includes a filter bank (301), power/amplitude estimator...
6553084 Digital automatic gain control linearizer and digital automatic gain control circuit using the same  
A digital automatic gain control linearizer for controlling a variable gain control element for automatically controlling gain, using an analog signal obtained by converting input digital data...
6433673 Digital enunciator, process and communication system employing same  
A receiver in a communication system is coupled to a transmission channel for receiving communication signals transmitted over a transmission channel. The receiver includes signal receiving...
6242982 Amplifier with self setting automatic gain control circuit  
An amplifier (125) having automatic gain control (AGC) includes a gain stage (220), having a variable amplifier (215), for amplifying a signal received by the amplifier (125). The amplifier (125)...
6233462 Portable terminal device for automatically controlling transmitting voice level and calling sound level  
A comparing unit 18, when a radio unit 1 receives a radio signal, compares an ambient noise level detected by a noise sensor 17 with a preset threshold value. If the ambient noise level is smaller...
6175730 Radio receiver with a potentiometer as volume control  
A radio receiver with a potentiometer as the volume control is described, wherein an unintentional displacement of the potentiometer during the switched-off phase becomes effective only with a...
6169569 Cable modem tuner  
A cable modem is configured to include a tuner having a front end which includes a duplex filter stage and a decoupler stage and a rear end which includes a single conversion tuner. The duplex...
6137397 ***WITHDRAWN PATENT AS PER THE LATEST USPTO WITHDRAWN LIST***
Digital enunciator, process and communication system employing same
 
A receiver in a communication system is coupled to a transmission channel for receiving communication signals transmitted over a transmission channel. The receiver includes signal receiving...
6128478 Apparatus and method for amplifying a radio frequency signal  
A communication device employs a method and apparatus for amplifying a radio frequency (RF) signal that eliminates the need for a signal splitter. An RF input signal (202) is coupled to a first RF...
6049722 Radio communication apparatus for use in dual-mode radio communication system and having factor variable control means dependent on the set mode  
A dual mode radio communication apparatus according to the invention has a reception speech signal output circuit for processing an analog demodulation signal in an analog mode and a digital...
6043721 Dual band amplifier  
An amplifier (104) for a dual band device includes multiple amplifier stages coupled between an input (103) and output (105). The amplifier stages include a first amplifier stage (200) having a...
5940143 High-definition television signal receiving apparatus and gain control circuit thereof  
An automatic gain controlling circuit and a high-definition television signal receiving apparatus includes an input terminal for receiving a signal including first and second signal components...
5884153 Delayed automatic gain control circuit  
A delayed automatic gain control circuit using a simple delayed AGC voltage generation section and capable of fixing a start point of AGC in an RF amplification section at a predetermined received...
5805979 Control apparatus and control method for attenuating radio signal  
A radio apparatus judges whether the electric field intensity of a radio signal detected by a level detector is high by a comparator. The radio apparatus detects a synchronizing signal for making...
5749056 Audio ramping technique for a radio  
An audio ramping technique (200) reduces acoustic shock in radio (100) that has multiple operating modes each having a different nominal audio speaker level. The ramping technique (200) sets the...
5678221 Apparatus and method for substantially eliminating noise in an audible output signal  
A method and apparatus, performed by a communication unit (101), for substantially eliminating undesired noise in an audible output signal (113) while a determined quality measure (114) of a...
5649307 Method and apparatus for option control in a radio accessory  
An option select scheme (300) and circuit (200) allows a single analog-to-digital (A/D) line (211) to be used between an accessory (204) and a portable radio (202) to control first and second...
5631714 Apparatus for automatically adapting the mean sound level of a television receiver  
A system for automatically adapting the mean sound level of a television receiver. The system for automatically adapting the mean sound level of a television receiver comprises an adapting module...
5604927 Receiver having an adjustable bandwidth filter  
A radio receiver has a frequency down conversion stage including a first passive filter tuned to a lower frequency. An amplifier functioning as a voltage-to-current converter includes a resistor...
5584056 Dual-bandwidth cellular telephone switching apparatus  
A dual-bandwidth cellular telephone switching apparatus comprising a signal receiver, the signal receiver including an antenna for receiving radio frequency signals on a field corresponding to...
5561433 Apparatus and method for aligning a receiving antenna utilizing an audible tone  
A satellite receiver for digitally encoded television signals includes apparatus for generating a signal indicating the alignment of the receiving antenna which is responsive to the number of...
5555451 High-quality reception indicating circuit for scanning AM recievers  
The reception quality of an AM broadcast signal is determined within a very short time of tuning to the channel frequency by modifying the intermediate frequency signal to remove the audio...
5548830 Dual-band frequency-selective attenuator for automatic gain control  
Automatic gain control in a radio receiver is provided using a pair of saturable reactors in resonant circuits for providing variable attenuation. One resonant circuit has a frequency above the...
5542102 Method and apparatus for simultaneously controlling base station and external electronic device functions  
A base station (102) automatically remotes to a speakerphone mode of operation and connects an incoming call while an external electronic device (104) is simultaneously controlled.
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