Telephone signal cancellation circuit, digital broadcasting reception circuit and portable digital broadcasting reception apparatus

• US 7,664,455 B2
• Filed: 11/30/2006
• Issued: 02/16/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 02/17/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Solum Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Inventors: Choi, Won Tae, So, Won Wook, Kwak, Boo Dong, Ko, Joo Yul, Kim, Hak Sun
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN, SIMON
• Application Number:
  US11/565,522
• Publication Number:
  US 20070207768A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,174 Days
• Field of Search: 455 301- 302, 455501-506, 455/63.1, 455/65, 455/67.13, 455/278.1, 455283-285, 455/295, 455/296, 375346-347
• US Class Current: 455/3.01
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/16 Circuits

Abstract

A telephone signal cancellation circuit, a digital broadcasting reception circuit and a portable digital broadcasting reception apparatus is provided. The telephone signal cancellation circuit, includes a signal coupler for separating a part of a reception signal, a telephone signal selection filter for passing a telephone signal among signals from the signal coupler, a phase shifter for performing phase inversion on the telephone signal among the signals from the telephone signal selection filter, and a combiner for combining the signal from the phase shifter and the reception signal, and canceling the telephone signal included in the reception signal.

Claims

1. A telephone signal cancellation circuit, comprising:

a signal coupler for separating a part of a reception signal;

a telephone signal selection filter for passing a telephone signal among signals in the part of the reception signal from the signal coupler;

a phase shifter for performing phase inversion on the telephone signal from the telephone signal selection filter; and

a combiner for combining the telephone signal from the phase shifter with the reception signal, and canceling the telephone signal included in the reception signal.

2. The cancellation circuit of claim 1, further comprising:

a noise cancellation controller for controlling the cancellation of the telephone signal included in the reception signal based on a pre-set transmission channel among telephone frequency bands.

3. The cancellation circuit of claim 2, wherein the telephone signal selection filter includes a variation filter for setting up a pass band having a frequency of the pre-set transmission channel as a mean frequency by control of the controller.

4. The cancellation circuit of claim 2, wherein the phase shifter performs phase inversion on the telephone signal corresponding to the pre-set transmission channel by control of the controller.

5. The cancellation circuit of claim 2, further comprising:

a power detector for detecting power of the telephone signal among output signals of the combiner.

6. The cancellation circuit of claim 5, further comprising:

an automatic gain control (AGC) amplifier for amplifying the telephone signal from the phase shifter based on the power of the telephone signal detected by the power detector and outputting the amplified telephone signal to the combiner.

7. The cancellation circuit of claim 5, wherein the noise cancellation controller controls phase shift in a frequency where a power value of the telephone signal is the minimum by changing a phase shift frequency of the phase shifter while monitoring the power of the telephone signal from the power detector.

8. The cancellation circuit of claim 1, wherein the telephone signal is a Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM) transmission signal that is in a frequency band ranging about 880 MHz to 915 MHz.

9. A digital broadcasting reception circuit, comprising:

a band-pass filter for passing a digital broadcasting signal as a reception signal;

a signal coupler for separating a part of the reception signal;

a telephone signal selection filter for passing a telephone signal among signals in the part of the reception signal from the signal coupler;

a phase shifter for performing phase inversion on the telephone signal from the telephone signal selection filter;

a combiner for combining the telephone signal from the phase shifter with the reception signal from the band-pass filter and canceling the telephone signal included in the reception signal; and

a Radio Frequency (RF) processor for receiving the digital broadcasting signal from the combiner.

10. The reception circuit of claim 9, further comprising:

a noise cancellation controller for controlling the cancellation of the telephone signal included in the reception signal based on a pre-set transmission channel among telephone frequency bands.

11. The reception circuit of claim 10, wherein the telephone signal selection filter includes a variation filter for setting up a pass band having a frequency of the pre-set transmission channel as a mean frequency by control of the controller.

12. The reception circuit of claim 10, wherein the phase shifter performs phase inversion on the telephone signal corresponding to the pre-set transmission channel by control of the controller.

13. The reception circuit of claim 9, further comprising:

a power detector for detecting power of the telephone signal among output signals of the combiner.

14. The reception circuit of claim 13, further comprising:

an automatic gain control (AGC) amplifier for amplifying the telephone signal from the phase shifter based on the power of the telephone signal detected by the power detector and outputting the amplified telephone signal to the combiner.

15. The reception circuit of claim 13, further comprising:

a noise cancellation controller for controlling phase shift in a frequency where a power value of the telephone signal is the minimum by changing a phase shift frequency of the phase shifter while monitoring the power of the telephone signal from the power detector.

16. The reception circuit of claim 9, wherein the telephone signal is a Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM) transmission signal that is in a frequency band ranging about 880 MHz to 915 MHz.

17. The reception circuit of claim 9, wherein the digital broadcasting signal is a digital video broadcasting handheld (DVB-H) signal which is in a frequency band ranging about 470 MHz to 860 MHz.

18. A portable digital broadcasting reception apparatus, comprising:

a main control unit for controlling a telephone call and digital broadcasting reception;

a telephone circuit for transmitting/receiving a telephone signal through a first antenna by control of the controller; and

a telephone signal cancellation circuit for receiving a digital broadcasting signal through a second antenna by control of the controller, performing phase inversion on the telephone signal included in a reception signal flowing through the second antenna, combining the phase-inverted telephone signal with the reception signal flowing through the second antenna, and canceling the telephone signal included in the reception signal.

19. The apparatus of the claim 18, further comprising:

a band-pass filter for passing the digital broadcasting signal as the reception signal from the second antenna to the telephone signal cancellation circuit; and

a Radio Frequency (RF) processor for receiving the digital broadcasting signal from the telephone signal cancellation circuit.

20. The apparatus of the claim 19, wherein the telephone signal cancellation circuit includes:

a signal coupler for separating a part of the reception signal flowing through the second antenna;

a telephone signal selection filter for passing the telephone signal among signals in the part of the reception signal from the signal coupler;

a phase shifter for performing phase inversion on the telephone signal from the telephone signal selection filter; and

a combiner for combining the telephone signal from the phase shifter with the reception signal, and canceling the telephone signal included in the reception signal.

21. The apparatus of the claim 20, wherein the telephone signal cancellation circuit further includes:

a noise cancellation controller for controlling the cancellation of the telephone signal included in the reception signal based on a pre-set transmission channel among the telephone frequency bands.

22. The apparatus of the claim 21, wherein the telephone signal selection filter includes a variation filter for setting up a pass band having a frequency of the pre-set transmission channel as a mean frequency by control of the controller.

23. The apparatus of the claim 21, wherein the phase shifter performs phase inversion on the telephone corresponding to the pre-set transmission channel by control of the controller.

24. The apparatus of claim 21, further comprising:

a power detector for detecting power of the telephone signal among output signals of the combiner.

25. The apparatus of claim 24, further comprising:

an automatic gain control (AGC) amplifier for amplifying the telephone signal from the phase shifter based on the power of the telephone signal detected by the power detector and outputting the amplified telephone signal to the combiner.

26. The apparatus of claim 24, wherein the noise cancellation controller controls phase shift in a frequency where a power value of the telephone signal is the minimum by changing a phase shift frequency of the phase shifter while monitoring the power of the telephone signal from the power detector.

27. The apparatus of claim 20, wherein the telephone signal is a Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM) transmission signal that is in a frequency band ranging about 880 MHz to 915 MHz.

28. The apparatus of claim 20, wherein the digital broadcasting signal is a digital video broadcasting handheld (DVB-H) signal which is in a frequency band ranging about 470 MHz to 860 MHz.