Patents Examined by Janice N Tieu
  • Patent number: 11888656
    Abstract: Provided is an equalizer including: an input amplifier configured to amplify and output an input signal; a first equalization circuit including a first sampling circuit, a first arithmetic circuit, and a second arithmetic circuit, the first sampling circuit being configured to generate and output 1-1 to 1-N feedback signals, wherein N is a natural number greater than or equal to 2; and a second equalization circuit including a second sampling circuit, a third arithmetic circuit, and a fourth arithmetic circuit, the second sampling circuit being configured to generate and output 2-1 to 2-M feedback signals, wherein M is a natural number greater than or equal to 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyeongjoon Ko, Hanseok Kim, Jaehyun Park, Junhan Bae, Gyeongseok Song, Jongjae Ryu
  • Patent number: 11888506
    Abstract: A system for signal detection including a receiver, a transforming block, a noise reduction block, and an object detection block. The receiver is adapted to provide an initial dataset sampled in a time domain over a frequency range. The transforming block is adapted to receive the initial dataset and convert the initial dataset from the time domain to a multi-channel time-frequency domain array. The noise reduction block is adapted to receive the multi-channel time-frequency domain array and provide a clean data set, wherein the clean data set is defined as a noise signal subtracted from the multi-channel time-frequency domain array. The object detection block is adapted to receive the clean dataset and to provide a bounded data set, wherein the bounded data set is defined by a bounding box associated with a portion of the multi-channel time-frequency domain array containing a signal with energy above a threshold level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Aeronix, Inc.
    Inventor: Steven L. Iezzi
  • Patent number: 11888672
    Abstract: Different solutions for an apparatus comprising a predictor predicting decodability of received symbols are disclosed. Decoding is performed based on the prediction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Jakob Hoydis, Vahid Aref, Ahmed Elkelesh, Sebastian Cammerer
  • Patent number: 11881883
    Abstract: An integrated circuit that includes a feedback loop to adapt receiver parameters. The feedback loop includes a receiver to sample a signal and produce a sampled signal sequence. The feedback loop also includes a first pattern counter to detect and count occurrences of a first pattern in the sampled signal sequence, and a second pattern counter to detect and count occurrences of a second pattern in the sampled signal sequence. Control circuitry coupled to the receiver adapts a parameter value of the receiver to minimize a difference between a first ratio and a second ratio. The first ratio is a target ratio. The second ratio is between a first counted number of occurrences of the first pattern in the sampled signal sequence and a second counted number of occurrences of the second pattern in the sample signal sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Nanyan Wang, Marcus Van Ierssel
  • Patent number: 11876598
    Abstract: Various arrangements for performing transmodulation of a forward feeder link are presented. A first data stream and a second data stream can be modulated into a higher-order modulation forward feeder link having a higher-order digital modulation scheme. A satellite can receive the higher-order modulation forward feeder link. The satellite can demodulate the higher-order modulator forward feeder link into a bit stream. This bit stream may then be remodulated and retransmitted as multiple forward user links.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Liping Chen, Rohit Iyer Seshadri, Mustafa Eroz, Lin-Nan Lee, Stan Kay
  • Patent number: 11876662
    Abstract: A signal demodulation method, a signal transmission method, and a related apparatus. The signal demodulation method includes: a terminal device receives a first tracking reference signal from a first transmission reception apparatus of a single frequency network cell; a second tracking reference signal occupying different time-frequency from the first tracking reference signal from a second transmission reception apparatus of the single frequency network cell; and receives indication information indicating tracking reference signals from the first transmission reception apparatus or the second transmission reception apparatus; determines, based on the one or more tracking reference signals for receiving the downlink signal, a first carrier frequency on which the downlink signal is to be received; receives the demodulation reference signal and the downlink data based on the first carrier frequency; and demodulates the downlink data based on the demodulation signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zijie Xu, Yu Gao, Guohua Zhou, Jinlin Peng, Shengyue Dou, Yubo Yang
  • Patent number: 11870614
    Abstract: An electronic-system for implementing decision-feedback equalization (DFE) includes a first stage including a first-amplifier. The first amplifier including an in-built adder circuit. The first amplifier being configured to charge one or more output nodes of the first amplifier to a first voltage using a summed signal based on input data and a feedback signal in response to a first-clock variation, wherein the feedback signal is a partially-regenerated analog output from a regenerating amplifier. A second stage is includes a second amplifier configured as the regenerating amplifier and connected to the one or more output nodes of the first amplifier, the second amplifier configured to amplify charged output nodes of the second stage to a second voltage in response to a second-clock variation and apply a regenerative gain to the amplified second-voltage during the second-clock variation to generate the partially-regenerated analog output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sushrant Monga
  • Patent number: 11855815
    Abstract: An apparatus for detecting a Q-demodulator's real-time phase and offset error includes an RF signal path configured to receive an RF signal from an RF component, a first chopper to chop the RF signal at a first frequency to generate a chopped RF signal, an LO signal path configured to receive an LO signal, a second chopper to chop the LO signal at a second frequency to generate a chopped LO signal, a summing mechanism to combine the chopped LO signal to the chopped RF signal into a combination signal. The apparatus further includes a Q-demodulator comprising a phase shifter configured to shift a phase of the combination signal and a phase of the LO signal, and a mixer configured to multiply the shifted combination signal by the shifted LO signal to generate a baseband signal, and at least two filters configured to extract different signals contained in the baseband signal for analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mohammad Maymandi Nejad, Ronald J. Lipka
  • Patent number: 11849347
    Abstract: The disclosed invention uses computer-implemented algorithms, including machine learning algorithms, to detect radiofrequency (RF) transmissions within a congested RF environment. Some embodiments include a method for sampling an RF environment, mapping the sampled signals onto a spectrogram, extracting signal start times from the spectrogram and loading the start times into a bit array. The method continues by correlating a subset of start times with each other, each subset representing a potential pulsed signal. The subsets are selected for strength of correlation by threshold analysis, and then are subject to sine wave analysis to precisely identify start times within the selected subsets before selecting strongly matched subsets by another threshold analysis. In other embodiments, a system for detecting pulsed RF signals includes a RF receiver, a signal detector, a converter for creating a bit array, a correlator, a first threshold discriminator, a sine wave analyzer, and a second threshold discriminator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: PARSONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Joseph Payton, Samantha Palmer, Kyle Roberts
  • Patent number: 11843410
    Abstract: Signal processing to compensate for gain control output spikes caused by steps in a digital step attenuator. A method includes receiving a changing power input signal at a receiver. The method includes determining that a change in power of the input signal will cause a step attenuator to change its attenuation in a step of a predetermined amount. The method further includes based on determining that the change in power of the input signal will cause a digital step attenuator to change its attenuation in a step of a predetermined amount, causing a variable attenuator to change its attenuation by an amount related to the predetermined amount at a time coinciding with a time when the step attenuator changes its attenuation by the predetermined amount. The method further includes outputting a gain-controlled output signal resulting from applying the step attenuator and the variable attenuator to the changing power input signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Joshua D. Gunn, Ryan W. Hinton, David W. Thorson
  • Patent number: 11838086
    Abstract: In a method of sending a frame using a cyclic shift diversity (CSD) sequence, a wireless device generates a frame comprising a legacy short training field (L-STF), a legacy long training field (L-LTF), a legacy signal (L-SIG) field, a repeated legacy signal (RL-SIG) field, an extremely high throughput signal A (EHT-SIG A) field, and an extremely high throughput signal B (EHT-SIG B) field. The wire device sends the frame through a set of transmit antennas by performing cyclic shift over the fields according to a CSD sequence. The number of transmit antennas is greater than 8. The number of cyclic shift diversities in the CSD sequence is equal to a number of the transmit antennas, and each cyclic shift diversity has a value that is a multiple of 12.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kaifeng Xia, Ming Gan, Xin Zuo, Xun Yang
  • Patent number: 11838224
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to generating and receiving radio frames with multiple portions that have different target geographic areas. A data frame may include a first partition that includes a physical layer encoding of first data to be transmitted in a first geographic area, where the first geographic area is defined by a first threshold distance from the one or more transmitters. The data frame may include a second that includes a physical layer encoding of second data to be transmitted in a second geographic area, where the second geographic area is defined by a second, greater threshold distance from the one or more transmitters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: ONE MEDIA , LLC
    Inventors: Michael J. Simon, Kevin A. Shelby, Mark Earnshaw
  • Patent number: 11838099
    Abstract: A reception apparatus includes a demodulation circuit configured to demodulate packets obtained with respect to each of multiple PLPs included in a broadcast signal; and a processing circuit configured to process the packets demodulated by the demodulation circuit. The demodulation circuit and the processing circuit are connected with each other via a single interface or interfaces fewer than the number of the PLPs. The demodulation circuit adds identification information to a specific packet among the packets obtained with respect to each of the PLP, the identification information identifying the PLP to which each of the packets belongs. The processing circuit identifies the PLP to which belongs each of the packets input from the demodulation circuit via the single interface or the interfaces fewer than the number of the PLPs, based on the identification information obtained from the specific packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Okada, Kazuyuki Takahashi, Takeshi Ohno
  • Patent number: 11831474
    Abstract: A decision-feedback equalizer (DFE) samples an input signal with respect to a gamut of p reference-voltage levels to place the symbol represented by the input signal within a voltage region. The DFE derives a set of tentative decisions for the voltage region, the set excluding at least one of the possible values for the symbol under consideration. A feedback stage then selects a final decision from among the tentative decisions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Nanyan Wang
  • Patent number: 11811567
    Abstract: A serial data receiver is disclosed. In one embodiment, a receiver includes an amplifier circuit configured to receive one or more signals that encode a serial data stream that includes a plurality of data symbols and to perform a comparison of the one or more signals to a threshold value to generate a recovered data symbol. The receiver circuit further includes a threshold circuit configured to generate a delayed version of the one or more signals. The threshold circuit is further configured to generate a delayed data symbol using the delayed version of the one or more signals and adjust the threshold value using the delayed data symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Battaje Vimalesh Rao, Jacob S. Schneider, Mitesh D. Katakwar
  • Patent number: 11796669
    Abstract: An advanced system and method is provided. The advanced system and method comprises: a set of antennas including a set of transmit antennas and a set of receive antennas; a digital beamformer; and a processor operably connected to the set of antennas and the digital beamformer, the processor configured to; identify a set of orthogonal multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) signals, generate a first set of beams via the digital beamformer, and map the set of orthogonal MIMO signals into each of the generated set of beams. The advanced system and method further comprises a transceiver operably connected to the processor, the transceiver configured to: transmit, to a target scene via the set of transmit antenna of the set of antennas, a first signal based on the first set of beams; and receive, via the set of receive antennas of the set of antennas, a second signal based on a second set of beams that is reflected or backscattered from the target scene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Aura Intelligent Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Jungah Lee
  • Patent number: 11799512
    Abstract: When signals are simultaneously received from K transmission-side apparatuses by a receiving antenna, and repetition is performed by the K transmission-side apparatuses, an information processing apparatus is configured to: in order to obtain a transmitted reference signal x(k,n) transmitted from a transmission-side apparatus k (k=1, . . . , K) by the n-th reference signal transmission in the repetition, acquire a phase rotation amount ?(g,n) given to a transmitted reference signal x(k) and assigned to a group g to which the transmission-side apparatus k belongs and transmit the phase rotation amount ?(g,n) to the transmission-side apparatus k. The phase rotation amount ?(g,n) is acquired so that received reference signals from transmission-side apparatuses not belonging to the group g are cancelled when a phase rotation amount opposite to the phase rotation amount ?(g,n) is given to a received reference signal r(n), and the first to N-th received reference signals in the repetition are added.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenichi Takizawa, Masafumi Moriyama
  • Patent number: 11791869
    Abstract: A communication system for point to multipoint communications by grouping client devices based on associated modes is provided. In one example implementation, point to multipoint communication improvements are achieved by grouping a plurality of client devices by their optimal modes for communication. For example, the communication system can determine, based on channel quality indicators (CQIs) that two client devices of a plurality of client devices are associated with an optimal first mode of a modal antenna. The system can group the two client devices into a first group, the first group associated with communication using the first mode of the modal antenna. The modal antenna can communicate with the first group using the first mode of a modal antenna during a single frame of communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Kyocera AVX Components (San Diego), Inc.
    Inventors: Sebastian Rowson, Norik Dzhandzhapanyan, Jeffrey L. Hilbert
  • Patent number: 11784691
    Abstract: A method and system for beamforming in a wireless communication system for intelligent three-dimensional aerial wireless transmission are disclosed. In an embodiment, the method includes: identifying at least one obstruction in at least one three-dimensional aerial view image of a current location of the at least one transmitting antenna; forming at least one set of virtual layers comprising of one or more virtual layers corresponding to the at least one obstruction; determining a collective attenuation value for the at least one set of virtual layers based on an attenuation value of the one or more virtual layers; and forming at least one first beam based on the collective attenuation value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sachin Kumar Agrawal, Kapil Sharma
  • Patent number: 11777566
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may precode a sounding reference signal (SRS) transmission using a delay-Doppler precoder. The UE may transmit, after precoding the SRS transmission using the delay-Doppler precoder, the SRS transmission in an SRS symbol in a slot. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Raviteja Patchava, Jun Ma, Morteza Soltani, Xiaoxia Zhang