| 序号 | 专利名 | 申请号 | 申请日 | 公开（公告）号 | 公开（公告）日 | 发明人 |
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| 121 | Methods and Systems for Down-Converting a Signal Using a Complementary Transistor Structure | US14085008 | 2013-11-20 | US20140308912A1 | 2014-10-16 | David F. Sorrells; Michael J. Bultman; Robert W. Cook; Richard C. Looke; Charley D. Moses Jr. |
| Methods, systems, and apparatuses for down-converting an electromagnetic (EM) signal by aliasing the EM signal is described herein. Briefly stated, such methods, systems, and apparatuses operate by receiving an EM signal and an aliasing signal having an aliasing rate. The EM signal is aliased according to the aliasing signal to down-convert the EM signal. The term aliasing, as used herein, refers to both down-converting an EM signal by under-sampling the EM signal at an aliasing rate, and down-converting an EM signal by transferring energy from the EM signal at the aliasing rate. In an embodiment, the EM signal is down-converted to an intermediate frequency (IF) signal. In another embodiment, the EM signal is down-converted to a demodulated baseband information signal. In another embodiment, the EM signal is a frequency modulated (FM) signal, which is down-converted to a non-FM signal, such as a phase modulated (PM) signal or an amplitude modulated (AM) signal. | ||||||
| 122 | Method and System for Down-Converting an Electromagnetic Signal, and Transforms for Same, and Aperture Relationships | US14172392 | 2014-02-04 | US20140241464A1 | 2014-08-28 | David F. Sorrells; Michael J. Bultman; Robert W. Cook; Richard C. Looke; Charley D. Moses; Gregory S. Rawlins; Michael W. Rawlins |
| Methods, systems, and apparatuses, and combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for down-converting an electromagnetic (EM) signal are described herein. Briefly stated, in embodiments the invention operates by receiving an EM signal and recursively operating on approximate half cycles (½, 1½, 2½, etc) of the carrier signal. The recursive operations can be performed at a sub-harmonic rate of the carrier signal. The invention accumulates the results of the recursive operations and uses the accumulated results to form a down-converted signal. In an embodiment, the EM signal is down-converted to an intermediate frequency (IF) signal. In another embodiment, the EM signal is down-converted to a baseband information signal. In another embodiment, the EM signal is a frequency modulated (FM) signal, which is down-converted to a non-FM signal, such as a phase modulated (PM) signal or an amplitude modulated (AM) signal. | ||||||
| 123 | Methods and systems for down-converting a signal using a complementary transistor structure | US13428816 | 2012-03-23 | US08594607B2 | 2013-11-26 | David F. Sorrells; Michael J. Bultman; Robert W. Cook; Richard C. Looke; Charley D. Moses, Jr. |
| Methods, systems, and apparatuses for down-converting an electromagnetic (EM) signal by aliasing the EM signal are described herein. Such methods, systems, and apparatuses operate by receiving an EM signal and an aliasing signal having an aliasing rate. The EM signal is aliased according to the aliasing signal to down-convert the EM signal. The term aliasing, as used herein, refers to both down-converting an EM signal by under-sampling the EM signal at an aliasing rate, and down-converting an EM signal by transferring energy from the EM signal at the aliasing rate. In an embodiment, the EM signal is down-converted to an intermediate frequency (IF) signal. In another embodiment, the EM signal is down-converted to a emodulated baseband information signal. In another embodiment, the EM signal is a frequency modulated (FM) signal, which is down-converted to a non-FM signal, such as a phase modulated (PM) signal or an amplitude modulated (AM) signal. | ||||||
| 124 | Systems, methods and devices for dual closed loop modulation controller for nonlinear RF amplifier | US13425254 | 2012-03-20 | US08521116B2 | 2013-08-27 | David R. Lang |
| In accordance with various exemplary embodiments of the present invention, systems, methods and devices are configured to facilitate RF envelope amplitude control. For example, a RF envelope amplitude control system comprises: a RF amplifier, wherein the RF amplifier is associated with a feedback device that is configured to create a first feedback signal representing the power in an RF output signal; a transmit waveform generator configured to generate a reference waveform signal; an adaptive table waveform generator configured to compare the reference waveform signal and the first feedback signal and to create a second feedback signal based on that comparison; and a loop filter configured to combine the reference waveform signal, the first feedback signal, and the second feedback signal to form an amplifier control signal, wherein the amplifier control signal is provided to the RF amplifier to adjust the RF output signal to conform to a specified RF envelope. | ||||||
| 125 | Up-conversion based on gated information signal | US12615326 | 2009-11-10 | US08233855B2 | 2012-07-31 | David F. Sorrells; Michael J. Bultman; Robert W. Cook; Richard C. Looke; Charley D. Moses, Jr. |
| A method and system is described wherein an information signals is gated at a frequency that is a sub-harmonic of the frequency of the desired output signal. In the modulation embodiments, the information signal is modulated as part of the up-conversion process. In a first modulation embodiment, one information signal is phase modulated onto the carrier signal as part of the up-conversion process. In a second modulation embodiment, two information signals are multiplied, and, as part of the up-conversion process, one signal is phase modulated onto the carrier and the other signal is amplitude modulated onto the carrier. In a third modulation embodiment, one information signal is phase modulated onto the “I” phase of the carrier signal as part of the up-conversion process and a second information signal is phase modulated onto the “Q” phase of the carrier as part of the up-conversion process. In a fourth modulation embodiment, four information signals are phase and amplitude modulated onto the “I” and “Q” phases of the carrier as part of the up-conversion process. There are at least two implementations of each of the aforementioned embodiments. | ||||||
| 126 | Negative Amplitude Polar Transmitter | US13419375 | 2012-03-13 | US20120170681A1 | 2012-07-05 | Paul J. Husted; David J. Weber; William J. McFarland; William W. Si |
| A polar transmitter includes a phase monitoring unit for monitoring input modulating data. When a phase transition exceeds a phase transition threshold, the phase monitor unit can signal an amplitude negation unit to invert the amplitude data coupled to the polar amplifier. The phase monitoring unit can also add an offset to the phase data that is provided to a frequency synthesizer. In another embodiment, when the phase transition threshold is exceeded, the phase monitoring unit can trigger inverting differential frequency data coupled to the polar amplifier. In one embodiment, the phase offset and the amplitude negation are applied until a second phase transition value exceeding the phase transition threshold is detected. If such an event is detected, then the input amplitude data is no longer inverted and the phase offset value is no longer added to the modulating data. | ||||||
| 127 | Methods and systems for down-converting a signal using a complementary transistor structure | US13040570 | 2011-03-04 | US08190116B2 | 2012-05-29 | David F. Sorrells; Michael J. Bultman; Robert W. Cook; Richard C. Looke; Charley D. Moses, Jr. |
| Methods, systems, and apparatuses for down-converting an electromagnetic (EM) signal by aliasing the EM signal are described herein. Briefly stated, such methods, systems, and apparatuses operate by receiving an EM signal and an aliasing signal having an aliasing rate. The EM signal is aliased according to the aliasing signal to down-convert the EM signal. The term aliasing, as used herein, refers to both down-converting an EM signal by under-sampling the EM signal at an aliasing rate, and down-converting an EM signal by transferring energy from the EM signal at the aliasing rate. In an embodiment, the EM signal is down-converted to an intermediate frequency (IF) signal. In another embodiment, the EM signal is down-converted to a demodulated baseband information signal. In another embodiment, the EM signal is a frequency modulated (FM) signal, which is down-converted to a non-FM signal, such as a phase modulated (PM) signal or an amplitude modulated (AM) signal. | ||||||
| 128 | Systems, methods and devices for dual closed loop modulation controller for nonlinear RF amplifier | US12492264 | 2009-06-26 | US08165540B2 | 2012-04-24 | David R. Lang |
| In accordance with various exemplary embodiments of the present invention, systems, methods and devices are configured to facilitate RF envelope amplitude control. For example, a RF envelope amplitude control system comprises: a RF amplifier, wherein the RF amplifier is associated with a feedback device that is configured to create a first feedback signal representing the power in an RF output signal; a transmit waveform generator configured to generate a reference waveform signal; an adaptive table waveform generator configured to compare the reference waveform signal and the first feedback signal and to create a second feedback signal based on that comparison; and a loop filter configured to combine the reference waveform signal, the first feedback signal, and the second feedback signal to form an amplifier control signal, wherein the amplifier control signal is provided to the RF amplifier to adjust the RF output signal to conform to a specified RF envelope. | ||||||
| 129 | Negative amplitude polar transmitter | US12110236 | 2008-04-25 | US08160515B1 | 2012-04-17 | Paul J. Husted; David J. Weber; William J. McFarland; William W. Si |
| A polar transmitter includes a phase monitoring unit for monitoring input modulating data. When a phase transition exceeds a phase transition threshold, the phase monitor unit can signal an amplitude negation unit to invert the amplitude data coupled to the polar amplifier. The phase monitoring unit can also add an offset to the phase data that is provided to a frequency synthesizer. In another embodiment, when the phase transition threshold is exceeded, the phase monitoring unit can trigger inverting differential frequency data coupled to the polar amplifier. In one embodiment, the phase offset and the amplitude negation are applied until a second phase transition value exceeding the phase transition threshold is detected. If such an event is detected, then the input amplitude data is no longer inverted and the phase offset value is no longer added to the modulating data. | ||||||
| 130 | Apparatus and method for communicating an input signal in polar representation | US11582367 | 2006-10-18 | US07529522B2 | 2009-05-05 | David F. Sorrells; Michael J. Bultman; Robert W. Cook; Richard C. Looke; Charley D. Moses; Gregory S. Rawlins; Michael W. Rawlins |
| A method and system is described wherein a signal with a lower frequency is up-converted to a higher frequency. In one embodiment, the higher frequency signal is used as a stable frequency and phase reference. In another embodiment, the invention is used as a transmitter. The up-conversion is accomplished by controlling a switch with an oscillating signal, the frequency of the oscillating signal being selected as a sub-harmonic of the desired output frequency. When the invention is being used as a frequency or phase reference, the oscillating signal is not modulated, and controls a switch that is connected to a bias signal. When the invention is being used in the frequency modulation (FM) or phase modulation (PM) implementations, the oscillating signal is modulated by an information signal before it causes the switch to gate the bias signal. In the amplitude modulation implementation (AM), the oscillating signal is not modulated, but rather causes the switch to gate a reference signal that is substantially equal to or proportional to the information signal. In the FM and PM implementations, the signal that is output from the switch is modulated substantially the same as the modulated oscillating signal. In the AM implementation, the signal that is output from the switch has an amplitude that is a function of the information signal. In both embodiments, the output of the switch is filtered, and the desired harmonic is output. | ||||||
| 131 | Transmitter and communication apparatus | US11907380 | 2007-10-11 | US20090098839A1 | 2009-04-16 | Yoshihiro Hara; Shigeru Morimoto |
| A modulator 23 corrects an amplitude signal Rd by adding thereto an offset value α and generates, based on the corrected amplitude signal Rd, an amplitude signal Ra for amplitude-modulating a radio-frequency signal. The modulator 23 includes: an offset voltage measurement section 109 operable to measure an offset voltage V2cal of the amplitude signal Ra; a correction value calculation section 110 operable to obtain a difference value ΔV2cal between the offset voltage V2cal measured by the offset voltage measurement section 109 and an initial value of the offset voltage V2cal and operable to calculate, based on the difference value ΔV2cal, a correction value VODAC for correcting the offset voltage V2cal; and an addition section 106 operable to add the correction value VODAC calculated by the correction value calculation section 110 to a signal processed until the amplitude signal Ra is generated from the amplitude signal Rd. | ||||||
| 132 | Method and circuit for down-converting a signal | US12007342 | 2008-01-09 | US20080272441A1 | 2008-11-06 | David F. Sorrells; Michael J. Bultman; Robert W. Cook; Richard C. Looke; Charley D. Moses; Michael W. Rawlins; Gregory S. Rawlins |
| Methods, systems, and apparatuses for down-converting an electromagnetic (EM) signal by aliasing the EM signal are described herein. Briefly stated, such methods, systems, and apparatuses operate by receiving an EM signal and an aliasing signal having an aliasing rate. The EM signal is aliased according to the aliasing signal to down-convert the EM signal. The term aliasing, as used herein, refers to both down-converting an EM signal by under-sampling the EM signal at an aliasing rate, and down-converting an EM signal by transferring energy from the EM signal at the aliasing rate. In an embodiment, the EM signal is down-converted to an intermediate frequency signal. In another embodiment, the EM signal is down-converted to a demodulated baseband information signal. In another embodiment, the EM signal is a frequency modulated (FM) signal, which is down-converted to a non-FM signal, such as a phase modulated signal or an amplitude modulated signal. | ||||||
| 133 | Methods and Systems for Down-Converting a Signal Using a Complementary Transistor Structure | US12059333 | 2008-03-31 | US20080182544A1 | 2008-07-31 | David F. SORRELLS; Michael J. BULTMAN; Robert W. COOK; Richard C. LOOKE; Charley C. MOSES |
| Methods, systems, and apparatuses for down-converting an electromagnetic (EM) signal by aliasing the EM signal are described herein. Briefly stated, such methods, systems, and apparatuses operate by receiving an EM signal and an aliasing signal having an aliasing rate. The EM signal is aliased according to the aliasing signal to down-convert the EM signal. The term aliasing, as used herein, refers to both down-converting an EM signal by under-sampling the EM signal at an aliasing rate, and down-converting an EM signal by transferring energy from the EM signal at the aliasing rate. In an embodiment, the EM signal is down-converted to an intermediate frequency (IF) signal. In another embodiment, the EM signal is down-converted to a demodulated baseband information signal. In another embodiment, the EM signal is a frequency modulated (FM) signal, which is down-converted to a non-FM signal, such as a phase modulated (PM) signal or an amplitude modulated (AM) signal. | ||||||
| 134 | Method and circuit for down-converting a signal | US11173021 | 2005-07-05 | US07218907B2 | 2007-05-15 | David F. Sorrells; Michael J. Bultman; Robert W. Cook; Richard C. Looke; Charley D. Moses, Jr. |
| Methods, systems, and apparatuses for down-converting an electromagnetic (EM) signal by aliasing the EM signal are described herein. Briefly stated, such methods, systems, and apparatuses operate by receiving an EM signal and an aliasing signal having an aliasing rate. The EM signal is aliased according to the aliasing signal to down-convert the EM signal. The term aliasing, as used herein, refers to both down-converting an EM signal by under-sampling the EM signal at an aliasing rate, and down-converting an EM signal by transferring energy from the EM signal at the aliasing rate. In an embodiment, the EM signal is down-converted to an intermediate frequency (IF) signal. In another embodiment, the EM signal is down-converted to a demodulated baseband information signal. In another embodiment, the EM signal is a frequency modulated (FM) signal, which is down-converted to a non-FM signal, such as a phase modulated (PM) signal or an amplitude modulated (AM) signal. | ||||||
| 135 | Method and system for frequency up-conversion with modulation embodiments | US09548923 | 2000-04-13 | US07039372B1 | 2006-05-02 | David F. Sorrells; Michael J. Bultman; Robert W. Cook; Richard C. Looke; Charley D. Moses, Jr. |
| A method and system is described wherein an information signals is gated at a frequency that is a sub-harmonic of the frequency of the desired output signal. In the modulation embodiments, the information signal is modulated as part of the up-conversion process. In a first modulation embodiment, one information signal is phase modulated onto the carrier signal as part of the up-conversion process. In a second modulation embodiment, two information signals are multiplied, and, as part of the up-conversion process, one signal is phase modulated onto the carrier and the other signal is amplitude modulated onto the carrier. In a third modulation embodiment, one information signal is phase modulated onto the “I” phase of the carrier signal as part of the up-conversion process and a second information signal is phase modulated onto the “Q” phase of the carrier as part of the up-conversion process. In a fourth modulation embodiment, four information signals are phase and amplitude modulated onto the “I” and “Q” phases of the carrier as part of the up-conversion process. There are at least two implementations of each of the aforementioned embodiments. | ||||||
| 136 | Method and circuit for down-converting a signal | US11173021 | 2005-07-05 | US20050272395A1 | 2005-12-08 | David Sorrells; Michael Bultman; Robert Cook; Richard Looke; Charley Moses; Michael Rawlins; Gregory Rawlins |
| Methods, systems, and apparatuses for down-converting an electromagnetic (EM) signal by aliasing the EM signal are described herein. Briefly stated, such methods, systems, and apparatuses operate by receiving an EM signal and an aliasing signal having an aliasing rate. The EM signal is aliased according to the aliasing signal to down-convert the EM signal. The term aliasing, as used herein, refers to both down-converting an EM signal by under-sampling the EM signal at an aliasing rate, and down-converting an EM signal by transferring energy from the EM signal at the aliasing rate. In an embodiment, the EM signal is down-converted to an intermediate frequency (IF) signal. In another embodiment, the EM signal is down-converted to a demodulated baseband information signal. In another embodiment, the EM signal is a frequency modulated (FM) signal, which is down-converted to a non-FM signal, such as a phase modulated (PM) signal or an amplitude modulated (AM) signal. | ||||||
| 137 | Methods and systems for down-converting electromagnetic signals, and applications thereof | US11020547 | 2004-12-27 | US20050202797A1 | 2005-09-15 | David Sorrells; Michael Bultman; Robert Cook; Richard Looke; Charley Moses |
| Methods, systems, and apparatuses for down-converting an electromagnetic (EM) signal by aliasing the EM signal are described herein. Briefly stated, such methods, systems, and apparatuses operate by receiving an EM signal and an aliasing signal having an aliasing rate. The EM signal is aliased according to the aliasing signal to down-convert the EM signal. The term aliasing, as used herein, refers to both down-converting an EM signal by under-sampling the EM signal at an aliasing rate, and down-converting an EM signal by transferring energy from the EM signal at the aliasing rate. In an embodiment, the EM signal is down-converted to an intermediate frequency (IF) signal. In another embodiment, the EM signal is down-converted to a demodulated baseband information signal. In another embodiment, the EM signal is a frequency modulated (FM) signal, which is down-converted to a non-FM signal, such as a phase modulated (PM) signal or an amplitude modulated (AM) signal. | ||||||
| 138 | Amplifier power control in frequency hopping applications and methods | US10667794 | 2003-09-22 | US06927627B2 | 2005-08-09 | Lawrence R. Schumacher; Vimalkaushik Natarajan |
| A method in an amplifier, for example, a power amplifier in a wireless transmitter, including monitoring (310) a characteristic of the amplifier during a first active interval of the first set of active intervals, storing (320) the amplifier characteristic monitored during the first active interval of the first set of active intervals, correcting (340) an open-loop control signal to the amplifier based on the stored amplifier characteristic monitored during the first active interval of the first set of active intervals, and providing (350) the corrected control signal during a second active interval of the set of first active intervals subsequent to the first active interval of the set of first active intervals. | ||||||
| 139 | Method and system for down-converting and up-converting an electromagnetic signal, and transforms for same | US09838387 | 2001-04-20 | US06813485B2 | 2004-11-02 | David F. Sorrells; Michael J. Bultman; Robert W. Cook; Richard C. Looke; Charley D. Moses, Jr.; Gregory S. Rawlins; Michael W. Rawlins |
| Methods, systems, and apparatuses, and combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for down-converting and up-converting an electromagnetic (EM) signal are described herein. Briefly stated, in embodiments the invention operates by receiving an EM signal and recursively operating on approximate half cycles (½, 1½, 2½, etc.) of the carrier signal. The recursive operations can be performed at a sub-harmonic rate of the carrier signal. The invention accumulates the results of the recursive operations and uses the accumulated results to form a down-converted signal. In an embodiment, the EM signal is down-converted to an intermediate frequency (IF) signal. In another embodiment, the EM signal is down-converted to a baseband information signal. In another embodiment, the EM signal is a frequency modulated (FM) signal, which is down-converted to a non-FM signal, such as a phase modulated (PM) signal or an amplitude modulated (AM) signal. Up-conversion is accomplished by controlling a switch with an oscillating signal, the frequency of the oscillating signal being selected as a sub-harmonic of the desired output frequency. | ||||||
| 140 | Power oscillator for control of waveshape and amplitude | US10078850 | 2002-02-19 | US06621357B2 | 2003-09-16 | Thomas Busch-Sorensen |
| An RF power oscillator for contactless card antennas shapes a carrier signal at the operating frequency utilizing a delay circuit having a number of taps for delaying the carrier signal by different lengths of time. The delayed signals are input into a buffer and output through resistors to a node coupled to the antenna. The resulting waveform for a square wave input signal, and equal-length delay taps, is a trapezoidal wave output. Any input wave form can be shaped in a variety of ways depending upon the combinations of delay taps used. Since the buffer drivers for each delayed wave switch state at slightly different times, the amplitude and bandwidth of emitted electromagnetic interference (EMI) is reduced for the transmission circuit. | ||||||
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