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8150325 Blanking system  
An exemplary signal interference control system is disclosed that utilizes a computer system, such as programmable logic circuits or computer controlled logic gates, to generate blanking or control...
8116689 Determination of antenna noise temperature for handheld wireless devices  
Antenna noise temperature is determined for a handheld wireless communication device which typically includes a radio, e.g. having a wireless transceiver and associated circuitry connected thereto,...
8072284 Split delay-line oscillator for secure data transmission  
A split delay-line oscillator for secure data transmission is disclosed. In one embodiment, an apparatus for a split delay-line oscillator for secure data transmission includes a first...
7894775 Determination of antenna noise temperature for handheld wireless devices  
Antenna noise temperature is determined for a handheld wireless communication device which typically includes a radio, e.g. having a wireless transceiver and associated circuitry connected thereto,...
7805120 Noise blanker circuit and method for removing noise and correcting a signal  
A noise blanker circuit and method of removing impulse noise from a signal and correcting the signal is provided. The circuit includes a detection stage, a pulse removal stage, and a pulse removal...
7676209 Method and system for allocating channels in a cellular communication network  
A method of channel allocation in a cellular communication network wherein a radio channel is to be selected for establishment of a connection in an environment with potentially interfering...
7676204 Radio receiver having ignition noise detector and method therefor  
An AM receiver including an AM demodulator for demodulating an AM signal received by an antenna coupled to the AM demodulator is provided. The AM receiver further includes a bandpass filter for...
7613438 Method for reducing the effect of impulse noise in a motor vehicle radio  
Methods are provided for reducing impulse noise effects in a motor vehicle radio. One method includes the steps of first detecting impulse noise received by the motor vehicle radio. The received...
7599674 Overload protection for receiver front end  
An embodiment is a receiver for a communications system that may substantially block unwanted signals in a frequency range to protect the receiver from overload. Simultaneously, the receiver of an...
7519329 Determination of antenna noise temperature for handheld wireless devices  
Antenna noise temperature is determined for a handheld wireless communication device which typically includes a radio, e.g. having a wireless transceiver and associated circuitry connected thereto,...
7499686 Method and apparatus for multi-sensory speech enhancement on a mobile device  
A mobile device is provided that includes a digit input that can be manipulated by a user's fingers or thumb, an air conduction microphone and an alternative sensor that provides an alternative...
7489915 Squelch circuit and communication apparatus used with the same  
A squelch circuit and a communication apparatus used with the same that are able to generate a squelch signal even if a squelch period is short and an operation of a squelch detecting circuit is...
7440737 Noise blanker control  
A noise blanker for use in a radio receiver includes an audio blanker (115) configured to mitigate impulse noise associated with a signal received by the radio receiver and a blanker controller...
7386327 Apparatus and method for controlling noise in a mobile communication terminal  
An apparatus and method for controlling a volume of comfort noise in a mobile communication terminal. The mobile communication terminal includes a vocoder for detecting a decoding rate of voice...
7348824 Auto-zero circuit  
An auto-zero circuit is disclosed. The auto-zero circuit includes a first set of circuits for implementing a first auto-zero phase and a second set of circuits for implementing a second auto-zero...
7180933 Squelch circuitry for high speed high frequency operation  
A squelch circuit for operating at high speed and at high frequencies includes a squelch input unit, a low swing pre-amplifier and a sampling and decision circuit. The squelch input unit...
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...
6961396 Digital banking circuit  
A digital blanking circuit allows a first digital input signal transition to be passed on to a following stage, but prohibits the passing of subsequent transitions for a predetermined blanking...
6925114 Weak signal processing based on impulse noise blanking  
An improved noise reduction system (20) is provided for a radio frequency audio processor having one or more weak signal processing components for generating one or more corresponding control...
6799026 Handset diversity in wireless communications system  
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...
6795559 Impulse noise reducer detecting impulse noise from an audio signal  
An impulse noise reducer detects impulse noise in an audio signal by detecting and smoothing the high-frequency amplitude of the audio signal, attenuating the non-smoothed amplitude according to...
6788923 Receiver noise reduction with expanding gated pulses  
A noise reducer generates a gate signal by detecting noise in a demodulated signal, and changes the lengths the gate pulses indicating the presence of noise according to the electric-field strength...
6775526 Modulated input signal filter  
A modulated input signal is filtered to reduce noise. The state of the input signal controls the state of a switch. Depending upon its state, the switch connects one of two circuits to a gate. The...
6671503 Wireless microphone system  
There is provided an improved receiver unit for wireless microphone system. The receiver unit accomplishes desirable mute control in accordance with state transmitting conditions of electric wave...
6671504 Radio squelch techniques  
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...
6577851 Impulse noise blanker  
A radio back-end integrated circuit that includes a blanking switch having a signal input which receives an IF signal, a control input, and a signal output. Also included is a demodulator having an...
6535724 Receiver portion of a telephone  
A receiver portion of a telephone includes a differential amplifier stage with a single output, an electroacoustic transducer connected between the output, via a capacitor and ground and a unit for...
6292654 Digital noise blanker for communications systems and methods therefor  
A digital noise reduction for a radio frequency receiver communication systems that is field programmable to function with a large variety of signaling schemes or waveforms. The noise reduction...
6259904 Fast squelch circuit and method  
A technique is used by a squelch circuit (200) that generates a fast squelch. The technique involves generating a noise signal (211) from a demodulated signal (105), generating a squelch check...
6137888 EM interference canceller in an audio amplifier  
A problem in hearing aids or other audio/acoustic amplifier circuits is that external sources of EM energy may be coupled into the electronics of the hearing aid so as to contribute to the acoustic...
6055421 Carrier squelch method and apparatus  
A radio receiver operates primarily in a first operating mode to process received signals (410). When a carrier signal detect is triggered while in the first operating mode (415, 420), the receiver...
5893056 Methods and apparatus for generating noise signals from speech signals  
In methods and apparatus for generating an LPC-encoded noise signal from an LPC-encoded speech signal, excitation parameters of the LPC-encoded speech signal for a current frame are randomized upon...
5889821 Low noise front-end blanking and interleaving for satellite reception in pulsed interference environments  
A method and apparatus to enable high-quality digital transmissions to a satellite terminal operating in proximity to a radar source combines interleaving a sequence of channel symbols at a land...
5890059 Impulse noise blanking apparatus  
A method and apparatus for suppressing noise in a radio receiver or the like due to electromagnetic interference generated by the firing of a spark plug which coordinates the operation of a noise...
5884151 Switching device for short time mute switching of reproduction of NF-signal in radio receiver  
A circuit arrangement for brief mute switching of the reproduction of an LF signal in a radio receiver for performing additional control operations is described, in which the mute switching is...
5684840 System for eliminating the affected by transmission errors in a digital stream  
A system for eliminating the effects of transmission errors in a digital stream is characterized by the presence of a predictor. The output signal of this system is taken from a predicted signal...
5630217 Error-free pulse noise canceler used in FM tuner  
A pulse noise canceler in which the sensibility of FM pulse noise detection is decreased when an FM wave exceeding the minimum bandwidth which is predetermined of an FM wave detector is input to...
5598431 Method and apparatus for signal quality detection in a communication system  
A signal quality detector (200) determines the quality of an incoming received data signal within a communication device (100). The audio output of the communication device is muted and unmuted...
5594799 Circuit for suppression of short-lived noise-phenomena in a digital audio signal  
In a circuit for suppressing short-lived noise phenomena in a digital audio signal, in particular during a temporary test reception of another transmitter, the audio signal is multiplied by a...
5537675 Splatter controlling noise blanker  
A splatter control circuit (28) for a noise blanking receiver (10) includes a SAW filter (40) having an output (115) in a main signal path. A noise blanker (27) having a control input (86) and a...
5493711 Radio receiver for locating the strongest signal carrying a selected program  
A receiver has a random counter, which outputs a timer signal to a control circuit. A zero-cross point detection circuit generates a detection signal which is input to the control circuit. When the...
5463662 Apparatus and method for reducing errors in data caused by noise through use of blanking  
An apparatus for snubbing or blanking digital signals representing a band of signals that includes an encoded carrier signal transmitted over a power line. An average signal level is compared with...
5333153 Signal quality detection method and apparatus for optimum audio muting  
A digital communication device (10) comprises a signal quality detector (18) that determines the quality of the received signals and instantaneously mutes and unmutes the voice output (22) of the...
5303414 Method and device for minimizing interference, in particular in connection with FM reception  
A method and circuit for suppressing periodic noise interference in a broadcast signal received by a receiver, in which, during reception of the broadcast signal a dip occurs in the amplitude of...
5263190 Vehicular radio receiver having muting circuitry for suppressing noises caused by receiver data pulses  
A vehicular radio receiver includes a receiver main body provided adjacent to an antenna mounted on a vehicle body, a receiver operation unit provided in a compartment of the vehicle spaced from...
5261004 Noise blanking circuit for AM stero  
An AM stereo input signal is processed by an envelope detector, an in-phase detector and a quadrature phase detector to yield outputs which may carry short noise impulses. Each output is low pass...
5255319 Noise suppressing circuit in an FM tuner  
A noise suppressing circuit has a gate for controlling a composite signal applied to a stereo demodulator of an FM tuner, and a detector for detecting a noise included in the composite signal and...
5212827 Zero intermediate frequency noise blanker  
An essentially zero intermediate frequency receiver (100) for recovering an information signal from a received signal (110), which includes means for blanking noise signals which may otherwise...
5210518 Apparatus and method for reducing errors in data caused by noise  
In a power line communications apparatus an improvement for blanking or snubbing impulse noise. The impulse noise is detected and used to snub the detected signal. The duration of the snubbing...
5208494 Method for the elimination of transients from the operating voltage of TDMA system  
This invention relates to a method by which transients can be eliminated in an apparatus comprising a current source and several functional blocks at least one of which produces transients in the...
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