(12) United States Patent
`Sorrells et al.
`
`US006266518B1
`US 6,266,518 B1
`*Jul. 24, 2001
`
`(10) Patent N0.:
`(45) Date of Patent:
`
`(54) METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR
`DOWN-CONVERTING ELECTROMAGNETIC
`SIGNALS BY SAMPLING AND
`INTEGRATING OVER APERTURES
`
`(75) Inventors: David F. Sorrells; Michael J.
`Bultman, both of Jacksonville; Robert
`W. Cook, Switzerland; Richard C.
`Looke; Charley D. Moses, Jr., both of
`Jacksonville, all of FL (US)
`
`(73) Assignee: ParkerVision, Inc., Jacksonville, FL
`(Us)
`Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this
`patent is extended or adjusted under 35
`U.S.C. 154(b) by 0 days.
`
`( * ) Notice:
`
`This patent is subject to a terminal dis
`claimer.
`
`(21) Appl. No.: 09/376,359
`(22) Filed:
`Aug. 18, 1999
`
`Related US. Application Data
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`(63) Continuation of application No. 09/176,022, ?led on Oct.
`21, 1998.
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`(56)
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`ABSTRACT
`
`Methods, systems, and apparatuses for down-converting an
`electromagnetic (EM) signal by aliasing the EM signal are
`described herein. Brie?y stated, such methods, systems, and
`apparatuses operate by receiving an EM signal and an
`aliasing signal having an aliasing rate. The EM signal is
`aliased according to the aliasing signal to doWn-convert the
`EM signal. The term aliasing, as used herein, refers to both
`down-converting an EM signal by under-sampling the EM
`signal at an aliasing rate, and down-converting an EM signal
`by transferring energy from the EM signal at the aliasing
`rate. In an embodiment, the EM signal is down-converted to
`an intermediate frequency (IF) signal. In another
`embodiment, the EM signal is down-converted to a demodu
`lated baseband information signal. In another embodiment,
`the EM signal is a frequency modulated (FM) signal, Which
`is down-converted to a non-FM signal, such as a phase
`
`modulated (PM) signal or an amplitude modulated signal.
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`99 Claims, 126 Drawing Sheets
`
`1201 \
`RECEIVING AN EN SIGNAL
`
`RECEIVING AN ALIASING SIGNAL
`HAVING AN ALIASING RATE
`
`I“ 1202
`
`1204
`
`DOWN-CONVERTING THE EM SIGNAL P1205
`
`GENERIC DOWN-CONVERTING
`FLOWCHAHT
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