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Selective call receiver having an apparatus for modifying an analog signal to a digital signal and method therefor

US6275540A · kind A · utility

46Cited by
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Filing dateOct 1, 1997
Grant dateAug 14, 2001
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Expiry dateOct 1, 2017

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH03M3/456
  • WIPO fieldBasic communication processes
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A selective call receiver (500) includes a radio receiver (501) and a processor (508). The radio receiver includes an antenna (502), a combination circuit (204), a bandpass filter (208), mixers (212, 214), analog-to-digital converters (222, 224), digital mixers (234, 236), a second combination circuit (242), and a digital-to-analog converter (246). The combination circuit receives an analog signal from the antenna and combines the same with an analog feedback signal generated by the digital-to-analog converter. The bandpass filter filters the output of the combination circuit and supplies its output to the mixers which down-convert the signal to baseband signals. These signals are modified by the analog-to-digital converters to digital signals which are up-converted by the digital mixers. The outputs of the digital mixers are combined by the second combination circuit to a digital output that is modified by the digital-to-analog converter to the analog feedback signal.

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