Patent ID: 7197336

Claim:
An antenna receiver coupled to two or more antennas, the antenna receiver comprising: a radio frequency (RF) section which includes a first antenna weighted value generator to output a pair of first real and first imaginary antenna weighted radio frequency (RF) signal components, a second antenna weighted value generator to output a pair of second real and second imaginary antenna weighted radio frequency (RF) signal components, a first adder to combine the first and second real radio frequency (RE) signal components, and a second adder to combine the first and second imaginary radio frequency (RF) signal components; a radio frequency (RF) to intermediate frequency (IF) quadrature downconverter to receive a combined antenna weighted radio frequency (RF) real signal from said first adder and a combined antenna weighted radio frequency (RF) imaginary signal from said second adder, and to output an in-phase portion and a quadrature portion of an intermediate frequency (IF) signal; and an intermediate frequency (IF) to baseband downconverter operably coupled to said radio frequency (RF) to intermediate frequency (IF) quadrature downconverter, to downconvert said in-phase portion and said quadrature portion of said intermediate frequency signal to an in-phase portion and a quadrature portion of a baseband signal.