Mobile radio wave receiver with adaptive automatic gain control

• US 6,070,062 A
• Filed: 03/27/1998
• Issued: 05/30/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 03/28/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Koh, Nozomi, Osawa, Yoshinori, Yoshida, Koutaro
• Primary Examiner(s): Bost, Dwayne D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Vuong, Quochien B.
• Application Number:
  US09/049,381
• Time in Patent Office: 795 Days
• Field of Search: 455/232.1, 455/234.1, 455/234.2, 455/239.1, 455/240.1, 455/241.1, 455/245.1, 455/246.1, 455/250.1, 455/254, 455/266, 455/340, 375/345, 375/346, 714/704
• US Class Current: 455/234.1
• CPC Class Codes: H03G 3/3052 in bandpass amplifiers (H.F. or I.F.) or in frequency-changers used in a (super)heterodyne receiver H03G3/32, H03G3/34 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/28 the receiver comprising at least one semiconductor device having three or more electrodes

Abstract

A mobile radio wave receiver including an automatic gain control amplifier, an electric field intensity detection circuit, an error correction circuit, and an error correction error detection circuit is disclosed. The automatic gain controlling is selectively effected in accordance with the detected electric field intensity and a degree of the detected error correction errors. The mobile radio wave receiver further includes a bandpass filter with a first variable bandwidth and a waveform shaping circuit with a second variable bandwidth, wherein the first and second variable bandwidths are controlled in accordance with the detected electric field intensity and the degree of the error correction errors.

Claims

1. A mobile radio wave receiver comprising:

an antenna for receiving a radio wave signal including a desired component which includes data and error correction code data;

automatic-gain-controlled-amplifying means for amplifying the received radio wave signal with a gain controlled in accordance with a gain control signal;

intermediate frequency signal generation means generating an intermediate frequency signal from an output of said automatic-gain-controlled-amplifying means;

demodulation means for demodulating said intermediate frequency signal and detecting said data and said error correction code data to output the detected data and the detected error correction code data including;

bandpass filter means for bandpass-filtering said intermediate frequency signal with a first variable bandwidth to detect said desired component;

demodulation signal generation means for generating a demodulation signal from the detected desired component; and

waveform shaping filter means with a second variable bandwidth for waveform-shaping said demodulation signal to output the detected data and the detected error correction code data;

electric field intensity detection means responsive to said intermediate frequency signal generation means detecting an electric field intensity of said radio wave signal;

comparing means for comparing said detected electric field intensity with a reference;

control means responsive to said comparing means and said electric field Intensity detection means for generating said gain control signal in accordance with said detected electric field intensity when the detected electric field intensity is not lower than a reference and holding said gain control signal when the detected electric field intensity is lower than said reference and

bandwidth control means for making said first and second variable bandwidths in a narrow bandwidth condition when the detected electric field intensity is lower than said reference and making said first and second bandwidths in a wide bandwidth condition when the detected electric field intensity is not lower than said reference.

2. The mobile radio wave receiver as claimed in claim 1, wherein said electric field intensity detection means detects said electric field intensity from the detected desired component.

3. The mobile radio wave receiver comprising:

an antenna for receiving a radio wave signal including a desired component which includes data and error correction code data;

automatic-gain-controlled-amplifying means for amplifying the received radio wave signal with a gain controlled in accordance with a gain control signal;

intermediate frequency signal generation means generating an intermediate frequency signal from an output of said automatic-gain-controlled-amplifying means;

demodulation means for demodulating said intermediate frequency signal and detecting said data and said error correction code data to output the detected data and the detected error correction code data;

electric field intensity detection means responsive to said intermediate frequency signal generation means detecting an electric field intensity of said radio wave signal;

comparing means for comparing said detected electric field intensity with a reference; and

control means responsive to said comparing means and said electric field Intensity detection means for generating said gain control signal in accordance with said detected electric field intensity when the detected electric field intensity is not lower than a reference and holding said gain control signal when the detected electric field intensity is lower than said reference;

error correction means for detecting and correcting errors in the detected data with the detected error correction code data to output error-corrected data and generating a pulse in response to each of said errors;

counting means for counting said pluses and outputting a count value; and

second comparing means for comparing said count value with a second reference, wherein said control means generates said gain control signal in accordance with said detected electric field intensity when the detected electric field intensity is not lower than said reference and said count value is higher than said second reference.

4. The mobile radio wave receiver as claimed in claim 3, wherein said control means firstly generates said gain control signal indicative of a first gain control range when the detected electric field intensity is not lower than said reference and said count value is higher than said second reference and then, said control means receives the comparing result from said second comparing means and secondly generates said gain control signal indicative of a second gain control range, said first gain control range being higher than said second gain control range.