Frequency agile duplex filter
View Patent ↗Systems and methods are disclosed for an electronically adjustable signal filter system, which comprises, in some embodiments, a first filter coupled to an antenna coupling network and a second filter, a power amplifier coupled to the first filter, an antenna connected to an antenna coupling network, a pilot tone generator coupled to the first filter, and a first signal source connected to the power amplifier and first filter. In some embodiments, the power amplifier amplifies the first signal, the first filter places a notch into the first signal transmitted to the antenna coupling network, the antenna coupling network combines the first signal and a second signal received from the antenna and transmits a third signal to the second filter.
1. A signal filter, comprising:
a first vector modulator, a second vector modulator, and a third vector modulator coupled to a microprocessor;
an input signal line coupled to the first vector modulator; and
a pilot tone generator coupled to the second vector modulator, wherein the pilot tone generator is adjusted to generate a frequency at the center frequency of a radio transceiver receive channel, wherein the first vector modulator is capable of generating a transmit cancellation signal which when combined with the transmit signal results in transmit signal cancellation at and beyond the physical point of signal combination, wherein the third vector modulator is capable of generating an error signal based on an output of the signal filter, wherein the second vector modulator is capable of generating a receive noise cancellation signal based on the transmit signal cancellation generated by the first vector modulator and based on the error signal generated by the third vector modulator which, when combined with the receive hand noise, results in receive band noise cancellation at and beyond the physical point of combination.
2. The signal filter of claim 1 , wherein the first vector modulator contains a radio frequency vector modulator, adaptive controller, and error signal detector.
3. The signal filter of claim 1 , wherein the microprocessor controls the operating parameters of the first vector modulator, second vector modulator, and third vector modulator to realign the signal filter to different frequencies.
4. The signal filter of claim 1 , wherein the second vector modulator is capable of generating a noise cancellation signal, feeding forward the cancellation signal into a main path, and canceling the desired noise signal.
5. The signal filter of claim 2 , wherein the error signal detector can be an IQ demodulator, power detector, correlation detector or any other signal detection system envisioned by someone skilled in the art.
6. The signal filter of claim 2 , wherein the processor is capable of changing the operating parameters of the first vector modulator, second vector modulator, and third vector modulator.
7. The signal filter of claim 2 , wherein the second vector modulator is capable of generating a noise cancellation signal, feeding forward the cancellation signal into a main path, and canceling the desired noise signal.
8. The signal filter of claim 3 , wherein the second vector modulator is capable of generating a noise cancellation signal, feeding forward the cancellation signal into a main path, and canceling the desired noise signal.
9. The signal filter of claim 6 , wherein the second vector modulator is capable of generating a noise cancellation signal, feeding forward the cancellation signal into a main path, and canceling the desired noise signal.
10. The signal filter of claim 6 , wherein the error signal detector can be an IQ demodulator, power detector, correlation detector or any other signal detection system envisioned by someone skilled in the art.
11. The signal filter of claim 7 , wherein the error signal detector can be an IQ demodulator, power detector, correlation detector or any other signal detection system envisioned by someone skilled in the art.
12. The signal filter of claim 9 , wherein the error signal detector can be an IQ demodulator, power detector, correlation detector or any other signal detection system envisioned by someone skilled in the art.
13. The signal filter of claim 1 , wherein the signal filter implements a frequency agile band stop filter.
14. The signal filter of claim 1 , further comprising a plurality of power splitters, wherein the input signal line is coupled to the vector modulators.
15. The signal filter of claim 1 , further comprising a plurality of delay elements, wherein the input signal line is coupled to the first vector modulator.
16. The signal filter of claim 1 , further comprising a plurality of delay elements, wherein the input signal line is coupled to the second vector modulator.
17. The signal filter of claim 1 , comprising a fourth vector modulator coupled to the microprocessor.
18. The signal filter of claim 1 , comprising at least one signal joiner in the signal path feeding the third vector modulator.
19. The signal filter of claim 1 , further comprising a plurality of delay elements coupling the input signal line to the first vector modulator and a plurality of delay elements coupling the input signal line to the second vector modulator.
20. The signal filter of claim 1 , wherein the signal filter is a component of a frequency agile duplex filter.