Invention Grant
- Patent Title: System and methods for performing antenna transmit diversity
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Application No.: US13631290Application Date: 2012-09-28
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Publication No.: US09444540B2Publication Date: 2016-09-13
- Inventor: Qishan Yu , James T. Yang
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Treyz Law Group, P.C.
- Agent Andrew C. Milhollin
- Main IPC: H04B7/08
- IPC: H04B7/08 ; H04B7/06

Abstract:
A wireless electronic device may include switching circuits that perform time division duplexing by toggling between a first configuration in which radio-frequency signals received from antennas are routed to the transceivers and a second configuration in which the antennas are coupled to antenna switching circuitry. The antenna switching circuitry may receive radio-frequency transmission signals from the transceivers and route the transmission signals to a selected one of the antennas. The antenna switching circuitry may be controlled by control circuitry such as baseband circuitry and/or storage and processing circuitry on the device. The antenna switching circuitry may be controlled to accommodate antenna transmit diversity without affecting reception of radio-frequency signals, because the switching circuits that perform time division duplexing may form signal reception paths that are unaffected by the configuration of the antenna switching circuitry.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130149975A1 System and methods for performing antenna transmit diversity Public/Granted day:2013-06-13
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