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Radio receiver having a dynamic bandwidth filter and method therefor

US6658245B2 · kind B2 · utility

16Cited by
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21Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateMar 28, 2001
Grant dateDec 2, 2003
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Expiry dateMay 9, 2022

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04B1/1036
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

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 circuits (308, 310, 312), and weighting circuits (314, 316, 318). The filter bank (301) generates sub-bands, each sub-band having a predetermined frequency range. The power/amplitude estimators (308, 310, 312) provide an estimated power/amplitude in each sub-band. A filter control (320) uses the power/amplitude estimates to determine a percentage of each sub-band signal that is permitted to be coupled a summation circuit (319). The summation circuit (319) sums the weighted sub-band signals to provide a filtered output signal to a demodulator (212).

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