US 7,469,134 B2
Mobile communication terminal apparatus, a variable gain amplifier circuit and a gain control circuit
Atsushi Yoshizawa, Kanagawa (Japan); and Masahisa Tamura, Kanagawa (Japan)
Assigned to Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan, Inc., Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Nov. 29, 2004, as Appl. No. 10/998,891.
Claims priority of application No. 2003-402317 (JP), filed on Dec. 01, 2003.
Prior Publication US 2005/0136872 A1, Jun. 23, 2005
Int. Cl. H04B 1/06 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 455—234.2  [455/234.1; 455/239.1; 455/136; 455/138; 455/245.1; 375/345; 330/254; 330/279] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A mobile communication terminal apparatus comprising:
variable gain amplifying means having a plurality of coarse adjustment variable amplifying sections and fine adjustment variable gain amplifying sections, to which at least one received signal is inputted, and amplifying the inputted received signal with controlled gain for output;
memory means for storing a history of gain control with regard to said variable gain amplifying means; and
gain control means for controlling the gain of said variable gain amplifying means on the basis of signal strength of said received signal and the history stored in said memory means,
wherein: said gain control means individually controls gain of each variable gain amplifying section in such a manner that gain fluctuation frequency of said coarse adjustment variable gain amplifying section arranged on an input side becomes lower than gain fluctuation frequency of other variable gain amplifying section arranged on an output side,
wherein said gain control means holds a first threshold and a second threshold with regard to said signal strength, and on the basis of the history stored in said memory means, in a case where said signal strength is determined to fluctuate exceeding a first fluctuation width determined by said first and second thresholds, controls gain of said coarse adjustment variable gain amplifying section, and
wherein the first threshold and the second threshold is predetermined so that the first fluctuation width between the first threshold and the second threshold is larger than a second fluctuation width of a normalized received signal power obtained from a relationship between a cumulative probability distribution and a spreading bandwidth of the received signal.