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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2008

Filed:

Mar. 22, 2005
Applicant:

Paul M. Astrachan, Austin, TX (US);

Inventor:

Paul M. Astrachan, Austin, TX (US);

Assignee:

ViXS Systems Inc., Toronto, Ontario, CA;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/06 (2006.01); H04B 1/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A first direct current (DC) component of a first amplified representation of a received signal at an output of an amplifier set to a first gain setting is determined during a first expected idle period of a received signal. A second DC component of a second amplified representation of the received signal at the output of the amplifier set to the first gain setting is determined during a second expected idle period of the received signal. A first average DC component is determined based at least in part on the first and second DC components and a DC offset used by the amplifier when set to the first gain setting is adjusted based on a comparison of the first average DC component to one or more threshold values.


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