Patent ID: 7733953

Claim:
An apparatus for adaptively correcting I/Q imbalance, which is used in a receiver for correcting a received I/Q imbalanced signal having an in-phase signal and a quadrature-phase signal, to thus eliminate the I/Q imbalance, the apparatus comprising: a quadrature-phase signal interference predicting device, which computes an interference amount caused by interference from an imbalanced quadrature-phase signal to an imbalanced in-phase signal; a summing device, which subtracts the interference amount from the imbalanced in-phase signal to thus obtain a corrected in-phase signal without phase imbalance; an in-phase signal gain adapting device, which compares a power of output quadrature-phase signal, a power of output in-phase signal, and a target to accordingly determine a quadrature-phase scaling factor and an in-phase scaling factor; a first multiplying device, which multiplies the imbalanced quadrature-phase signal by the quadrature-phase scaling factor to thus obtain the output quadrature-phase signal; and a second multiplying device, which multiplies the corrected in-phase signal by the in-phase scaling factor to thus obtain the output in-phase signal.