Portable radio terminal and AFC control method
AssigneeNEC Corporation
InventorsMariko Matsumoto, Shigeru Ono
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Abstract
A portable radio terminal for realizing automatic frequency control (AFC) for automatically controlling the oscillation frequency of an oscillator includes a unit for intermittently performing AFC operation, and a unit for shortening an AFC operation stop period when the frequency shift of the oscillation frequency is large. An AFC control method is also disclosed.
Claims6
A portable radio terminal for realizing automatic frequency control (AFC) for automatically controlling an oscillation frequency of an oscillator, comprising:
- means for detecting whether a frequency shift value in a received signal is greater than a frequency shift threshold;
- means for setting, if the frequency shift value in the received signal is greater than or equal to the frequency shift threshold and a current AFC intermittent operation performing period is greater than a minimum threshold period, an AFC intermittent operation performing period to a first value less than the current AFC intermittent operation performing period;
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- means for setting, if the frequency shift value in the received signal is less than the frequency shift threshold and the current AFC intermittent operation performing period is greater than a maximum threshold period, an AFC intermittent operation performing period to a second value greater than the current AFC intermittent operation performing period,
- wherein the maximum threshold period is greater than the minimum threshold period.
A portable radio terminal for realizing automatic frequency control (AFC) for automatically controlling an oscillation frequency of an oscillator, comprising:
- means for intermittently performing AFC operation;
- means for detecting a frequency shift in a received signal;
- means for detecting whether an out-of-sync state currently exists for the portable radio terminal;
- means for determining whether the received signal can be correctly decoded;
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- means for performing an AFC operation at a next intermittent time period based on the detected frequency shift only when both:
- a) the out-of-sync state is detected to currently exist for the portable radio terminal, and b) the received signal is determined to be correctly decoded,
- wherein the AFC operation is not performed at the next intermittent time period when the out-of-sync state is not detected to currently exist for the portable radio terminal or when the received signal is not determined to be correctly decoded.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.