Reception device and method for adjusting reception device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9973226-B2
Application number	US-201615050380-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 22, 2016
Priority date	Feb 23, 2015
Publication date	May 15, 2018
Grant date	May 15, 2018

Abstract

A reception device receives a radio frequency (RF) signal and obtains a data signal from the RF signal in a desired reception channel. The reception device includes a bandpass filter, and first and second test signals are input to the bandpass filter in the test mode to obtain bandpass-filtered first and second test signals, respectively. Each of frequencies of the first and second test signals is lower and higher than a frequency of the desired reception channel, respectively. The reception device detects lower and higher frequency signal intensities from the bandpass-filtered first and second test signals, respectively, in the test mode, and adjusts a central frequency of the passband of the bandpass filter using a difference between the lower and higher frequency signal intensities so as to reduce a difference between the central frequency of the passband and the frequency of the desired reception channel.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A reception device for receiving a radio frequency (RF) signal and for obtaining a data signal from the RF signal in a desired reception channel, the reception device being operable in a normal mode and a test mode, the reception device comprising:
a frequency conversion circuit configured to convert the RF signal to an intermediate frequency (IF) signal in the normal mode;
a bandpass filter configured to bandpass-filter a signal input therein, including
in the normal mode, to bandpass-filter the IF signal to obtain a selection IF signal, and
in the test mode, to bandpass-filter a first test signal and a second test signal to respectively obtain bandpass-filtered first and second test signals, the first test signal being within a lower transition band of the bandpass filter and having a first frequency that is lower than a frequency of the desired reception channel by a first prescribed frequency, the second test signal being within a higher transition band of the bandpass filter and having a second frequency that is higher than the frequency of the desired reception channel by a second prescribed frequency;
a test signal generator configured to generate the first and the second test signals in the test mode;
a reception intensity detection circuit configured to detect a lower frequency signal intensity from the bandpass-filtered first test signal, and a higher frequency signal intensity from the bandpass-filtered second test signal in the test mode; and
an adjustment control circuit configured to control the reception
device to work in the normal mode or the test mode, and in the test mode,
receive the lower frequency signal intensity and the higher frequency signal intensity, and
adjust a central frequency of a passband of the bandpass filter using the received lower frequency signal intensity and the received higher frequency signal intensity, so as to reduce a difference between the central frequency of the passband and the frequency of the desired reception channel.

2. The reception device according to claim 1 , wherein, if the first prescribed frequency of the first test signal is the same as the second prescribed frequency of the second test signal, the adjustment control circuit changes the central frequency of the passband of the bandpass filter until the lower frequency signal intensity is substantially the same as the higher frequency signal intensity.

3. The reception device according to claim 1 , wherein the adjustment control circuit repeatedly adjusts the central frequency of the passband of the bandpass filter, by a predetermined value at each time, until the central frequency of the passband of the bandpass filter substantially matches the frequency of the desired reception channel.

4. The reception device according to claim 1 , wherein
the first frequency of the first test signal is a frequency of a first channel that is adjacent to the desired reception channel at a lower frequency side thereof, and
the second frequency of the second test signal is a frequency of a second channel that is adjacent to the desired reception channel at a higher frequency side thereof.

5. The reception device according to claim 4 , further comprising:
a switch that is connected between the bandpass filter and the test signal generator, and is switchable between an ON state and an OFF state by the adjustment control circuit, wherein
the adjustment control circuit
sets the switch to the ON state so that the first and second test signals are supplied to the bandpass filter through the switch in the test mode, and
sets the switch to the OFF state so that the first and second test signals are not supplied to the bandpass filter through the switch in the normal mode.

6. The reception device according to claim 1 , wherein
the test signal generating unit is further configured to generate a third test signal, a frequency of which changes over time within the passband of the bandpass filter,
the bandpass filter is further configured to bandpass-filter the third test signal in the test mode, to thereby generate the bandpass-filtered third test signal,
the reception intensity detection circuit is further configured to
in the normal mode, detect a reception intensity from the selection IF signal,
in the test mode, detect first to nth signal intensities corresponding, respectively, to first to nth frequencies within the passband of the bandpass filter, n being an integer of two or greater, from the bandpass-filtered third test signal, and

the reception device further comprises:
a frequency detection circuit configured to,
in the normal mode, detect a frequency from the selection IF signal, and
in the test mode, detect the first to nth frequencies from the bandpass-filtered third test signal; and

a reception intensity correction circuit configured to correct the reception intensity of the selection IF signal.

7. The reception device according to claim 6 , wherein
the adjustment control circuit is further configured to determine a difference between each of the first to nth signal intensities and a reference intensity corresponding thereto, and to generate a correction table in which the determined differences correspond to the first to nth frequencies, and
the reception intensity correction circuit is further configured to correct each of the reception intensities using one of the differences corresponding to a frequency of said each reception intensity, with reference to the correction table.

8. The reception device according to claim 6 , wherein the frequency of the third test signal changes in the range of a lower limit to an upper limit of the passband of the bandpass filter.

9. The reception device according to claim 1 , wherein the adjustment control circuit is configured to stop an operation of the frequency conversion unit in the test mode.

10. The reception device according to claim 1 , wherein, further comprising a demodulator that demodulates the selection IF signal to generate the data signal in the normal mode.

11. A method for adjusting a reception device configured to receive a radio frequency (RF) signal and to obtain a data signal from the RF signal in a desired reception channel, the reception device including a bandpass filter configured to bandpass-filter a signal input therein, the method comprising:
inputting a first test signal and a second test signal to the bandpass filter, to obtain bandpass-filtered first and second test signals, respectively, the first test signal being within a lower transition band of the bandpass filter and having a first frequency that is lower than a frequency of the desired reception channel by a first prescribed frequency, the second test signal being within a higher transition band of the bandpass filter and having a second frequency that is higher than the frequency of the desired reception channel by a second prescribed frequency;
detecting a lower frequency signal intensity and a higher frequency signal intensity from the bandpass-filtered first test signal and the bandpass-filtered second test signal, respectively; and
adjusting a central frequency of the passband of the bandpass filter using the detected lower frequency signal intensity and the detected higher frequency signal intensity, so as to reduce a difference between the central frequency of the passband and the frequency of the desired reception channel.

Assignees

• Lapis Semiconductor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Nakanishi Seiji

Classifications

• H04B1/1615 Primary

  Switching on; Switching off, e.g. remotely (battery saving circuits associated with selective call operation H04W52/00; details of power consumption reduction in a PLL, H03L7/0802, H03L7/14, H03L2207/08, H03L2207/18; muting amplifiers by gain control see H03G3/34) · CPC title

• H04B1/1036 Primary

  with automatic suppression of narrow band noise or interference, e.g. by using tuneable notch filters (H04B1/123 takes precedence; filter circuits H03H) · CPC title