Patent 7664478 was granted and assigned to NEC Corporation on February, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Disclosed is a transmitter/receiver which performs transmitting and receiving operations based on CSMA/CA (Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance) system. The transmitter/receiver includes a first unit, a second unit and a DC offset control unit. The first unit obtains a DC offset value generated in the transmitter/receiver and holds the obtained DC offset value. The second unit removes the held DC offset value from received data. The DC offset control unit causses the first unit to operate upon response to at least one of transmission completion and reception completion.