Signal transceiving apparatus and method having echo-canceling mechanism

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11711111-B2
Application number	US-202117358402-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 25, 2021
Priority date	Dec 18, 2020
Publication date	Jul 25, 2023
Grant date	Jul 25, 2023

Abstract

The present invention discloses a signal transceiving apparatus having echo-canceling mechanism. A mixer circuit includes a Wheatstone bridge and a transformer winding circuit. The Wheatstone bridge includes another transformer winding circuit and a variable load and includes a first input terminal, a first output terminal, a second input terminal and a second output terminal located at each two neighboring arms in an order. A transmission circuit is coupled to the first input terminal and the second input terminal to perform signal transmission through the mixer circuit. A receiving circuit is coupled to the first output terminal and the second output terminal to perform signal receiving through the mixer circuit. A control circuit adjusts the impedance of the variable load when a residual echo noise amount does not satisfy a minimum echo noise amount condition, and stops to adjust the impedance when the residual echo noise amount satisfies the condition.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A signal transceiving apparatus having echo-canceling mechanism, comprising:
a mixer circuit comprising:
a Wheatstone bridge comprising a first transformer winding circuit disposed on two diagonal arms and a pair of variable loads disposed on other two diagonal arms, and further comprising a first input terminal, a first output terminal, a second input terminal and a second output terminal at each two of the neighboring arms that are arranged in either a clockwise direction or a counter-clockwise direction; and
a second transformer winding circuit electrically coupled to an external connection device through a pair of wires;

a transmission circuit electrically coupled to the first input terminal and the second input terminal to perform signal transmission through the mixer circuit;
a receiving circuit is coupled to the first output terminal and the second output terminal to perform signal receiving through the mixer circuit; and
a control circuit configured to calculate a residual echo noise amount when the receiving circuit performs signal receiving, determine whether the residual echo noise amount satisfies a minimum echo noise amount condition, adjust the impedances of the variable loads when the residual echo noise amount does not satisfy the minimum echo noise amount condition and stop to adjust the impedances when the residual echo noise amount satisfies the minimum echo noise amount condition.

2. The signal transceiving apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the first transformer winding circuit comprises a first winding and a second winding, the first winding is electrically coupled between the first input terminal and the second output terminal, and the second winding is electrically coupled between the first output terminal and the second input terminal;
wherein the pair of variable loads comprises a first variable load and a second variable load, the first variable load is electrically coupled between the second output terminal and the second input terminal, and the second variable load is electrically coupled between the first input terminal and the first output terminal.

3. The signal transceiving apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the second transformer winding circuit comprises a third winding and a fourth winding electrically coupled between a first terminal and a second terminal in parallel, and the first terminal and the second terminal are electrically coupled to the external connection device through the wires.

4. The signal transceiving apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the transmission circuit comprises a transmission filter and the receiving circuit comprises a receiving filter, the control circuit is further configured to receive a signal from the external connection device by using the receiving circuit through the mixer circuit to determine a wire length of the wire according to the signal, so as to set a group of filter parameters of the transmission filter and the receiving filter according to the wire length.

5. The signal transceiving apparatus of claim 4 , wherein the control circuit selects one of a plurality of groups of pre-stored filter parameters to set the group of filter parameters of the transmission filter and the receiving filter.

6. The signal transceiving apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the pair of the variable loads is a pair of variable resistor circuits or a pair of variable resistor and capacitor circuits.

7. The signal transceiving apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the control circuit selects one of a plurality of groups of pre-stored impedances according to the residual echo noise amount to set the group of impedances of the variable loads.

8. The signal transceiving apparatus of claim 7 , wherein when the residual echo noise amount has a minimum value when the variable loads is set to have one of the pre-stored impedances, the control circuit determines that the residual echo noise amount satisfies the minimum echo noise amount condition.

9. The signal transceiving apparatus of claim 7 , wherein when the residual echo noise amount is lower than a threshold value when the variable loads is set to have one of the pre-stored impedances, the control circuit determines that the residual echo noise amount satisfies the minimum echo noise amount condition.

10. A signal transceiving method having echo-canceling mechanism, comprising:
performing signal transmission by a transmission circuit through a mixer circuit, wherein the mixer circuit comprises a Wheatstone bridge having a first transformer winding circuit, and the mixer circuit further comprises a second transformer winding circuit, the Wheatstone bridge comprises the first transformer winding circuit disposed on two diagonal arms and a pair of variable loads disposed on other two diagonal arms, and further comprises a first input terminal, a first output terminal, a second input terminal and a second output terminal at each two of the neighboring arms that are arranged in either a clockwise direction or a counter-clockwise direction, in which the second transformer winding circuit is electrically coupled to an external connection device through a pair of wires and the transmission circuit is electrically coupled the first input terminal and the second input terminal;
performing signal receiving by a receiving circuit through the mixer circuit, wherein the receiving circuit is electrically coupled to the first output terminal and the second output terminal;
calculating a residual echo noise amount when the receiving circuit performs signal receiving by a control circuit;
determining whether the residual echo noise amount satisfies a minimum echo noise amount condition by the control circuit; and
adjusting the impedances of the variable loads when the residual echo noise amount does not satisfy the minimum echo noise amount condition and stopping to adjust the impedances when the residual echo noise amount satisfies the minimum echo noise amount condition by the control circuit.

11. The signal transceiving method of claim 10 , wherein the first transformer winding circuit comprises a first winding and a second winding, the first winding is electrically coupled between the first input terminal and the second output terminal, and the second winding is electrically coupled between the first output terminal and the second input terminal;
wherein the pair of variable loads comprises a first variable load and a second variable load, the first variable load is electrically coupled between the second output terminal and the second input terminal, and the second variable load is electrically coupled between the first input terminal and the first output terminal.

12. The signal transceiving method of claim 10 , wherein the second transformer winding circuit comprises a third winding and a fourth winding electrically coupled between a first terminal and a second terminal in parallel, and the first terminal and the second terminal are electrically coupled to the external connection device through the wires.

13. The signal transceiving method of claim 10 , wherein the transmission circuit comprises a transmission filter and the receiving circuit comprises a receiving filter, the signal transceiving method further comprises:
receiving a signal from the external connection device by using the receiving circuit through the mixer circuit by the control circuit to determine a wire length of the wire according to the signal, so as to set a group of filter parameters of the transmission filter and the receiving filter according to the wire length.

14. The signal transceiving method of claim 13 , further comprising:
selecting one of a plurality of groups

Assignees

• Realtek Semiconductor Corp

Inventors

• Li Cheng-Hsien

Classifications

• H04B3/21 Primary

  using a set of bandfilters · CPC title

• H04B1/0475

  with means for limiting noise, interference or distortion (H04B1/0483 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H04B3/23

  using a replica of transmitted signal in the time domain, e.g. echo cancellers · CPC title