Patents Examined by Sarah Hassan
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Patent number: 10659101Abstract: An information processing device and method, a transmitting device and method, and a receiving device and method are disclosed for multiplexing transmission signals in the same channel. In one example, transmission signals are generated by performing chirp modulation on data to be transmitted, and the transmission signals are multiplexed by shifting transmission timings of a plurality of transmission signals in a time direction and transmitting the transmission signals. Further, a plurality of chirp-modulated transmission signals which are multiplexed by shifting the transmission timing in the time direction and transmitted from a transmission side are received, and the plurality of received transmission signals are dechirped at timings according to the transmission timings.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2017Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventors: Seiji Kobayashi, Sachio Iida, Katsuyuki Tanaka, Hiroshi Aoki
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Patent number: 10651986Abstract: A method for controlling an antenna array is provided, which includes following steps. Associations with a plurality of mobile devices are established, and at least one characteristic parameter table corresponding to the mobile devices is generated. When a plurality of transmission request signals are received simultaneously and the mobile devices are divided into a user group, a multi-user antenna index of the antenna array is generated based on the at least one characteristic parameter table, and a plurality of data streams corresponding to the mobile devices are transmitted simultaneously through the antenna array. When the transmission request signals are received simultaneously and the mobile devices are not divided into the user group, a single-user antenna index of the antenna array is generated based on the at least one characteristic parameter table, and the data streams corresponding to the mobile devices are transmitted one-by-one through the antenna array.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2016Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Wistron NeWeb Corp.Inventors: Nai-Yu Tseng, Fu-Ming Kang, Chieh-Wen Cheng, Chun-Hsiung Chuang, Ho-ren Chen
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Patent number: 10644772Abstract: Techniques are described for wireless communication at a wireless communication device. A determination may be made regarding the number of receive chains, of a plurality of receive chains, to enable for a channel. Power to the receive chains may be regulated based on the determined number of enabled receive chains. The determination may be based on a transmission scheduling rate for the wireless communication device and a rank for the channel. In some examples, the determination may further be based on a channel quality of the channel and/or a type of traffic scheduled for the channel.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2017Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Qijia Liu, Ashok Mantravadi, Jae Won Yoo, Amir Aminzadeh Gohari
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Patent number: 10644750Abstract: A method for implementing a convergence layer. Data is received on a first communication medium by a first transceiver. Data is transmitted on the first communication medium by the first transceiver. A signal is received. Causing, through the convergence layer, by a control logic in response to the signal, the data received and transmitted on the first communication medium as part of a communication session to be received and transmitted instead by a second transceiver on a second communication medium, wherein the convergence layer is configured to conceal from a routing layer at least one of: information related to the first signal, and information related to the data being received and transmitted on the second communication medium.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2015Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATEDInventors: Yanjun Sun, Gang Xu, Soon-Hyeok Choi, Bhadra Sandeep, Xiaolin Lu, Ariton E. Xhafa, Minghua Fu, Robert W. Liang, Susan Yim
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Patent number: 10637403Abstract: The present disclosure relates to digital up-conversion for a multi-band Multi-Order Power Amplifier (MOPA) that enables precise and accurate control of gain, phase, and delay of multi-band split signals input to the multi-band MOPA. In general, a multi-band MOPA is configured to amplify a multi-band signal that is split across a number, N, of inputs of the multi-band MOPA as a number, N, of multi-band split signals, where N is an order of the multi-band MOPA and is greater than or equal to 2. A digital upconversion system for the multi-band MOPA is configured to independently control a gain, phase, and delay for each of a number, M, of frequency bands of the multi-band signal for each of at least N?1, and preferably all, of the multi-band split signals.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2017Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Bradley John Morris, Harpreet Panesar
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Patent number: 10623076Abstract: There are provided a main beam direction determining device, a main beam direction determining method, and a program each of which is capable of shortening a time required for determination of a main beam direction of a head-mounted display. A secondary candidate sector selecting portion selects a part of a plurality of primary candidates as secondary candidates in response to a posture of an HMD. A sector level sweep processing executing portion determines a main beam direction of the HMD based on communication qualities when communications by the respective secondary candidates are performed from the secondary candidates.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2016Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Katsuyoshi Onishi, Issei Chigusa, Kazuo Miura, Tatsuto Suetomi
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Local oscillator feedthrough signal correction apparatus and method, and microprocessor control unit
Patent number: 10615827Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a local oscillator feedthrough signal correction apparatus, including a microprocessor control unit, a first digital-to-analog converter, a second digital-to-analog converter, a mixer, a local oscillator, a signal output line, a signal splitter, and a detector tube. The signal splitter is disposed in the signal output line, and the first digital-to-analog converter and the second digital-to-analog converter are configured to provide the mixer with quadrature direct current components VI and VQ used for local oscillator feedthrough signal correction. The mixer outputs a local oscillator feedthrough signal to the signal output line. The signal splitter obtains the local oscillator feedthrough signal by means of splitting, and the detector tube detects the local oscillator feedthrough signal.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2018Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Tengteng Ji, Junpeng Wang, Bin Ding, Haiming Fan -
Patent number: 10608696Abstract: A method and apparatus for communicating with a machine type communication user equipment (MTC UE) in a wireless communication system is provided. A base station (BS) configures a radio frame for the MTC UE based on a duration of a frequency hopping subframe group (FH-SFG), and communicates with the MTC UE by using the configured radio frame.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2016Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Yunjung Yi, Joonkui Ahn, Hanbyul Seo, Suckchel Yang
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Patent number: 10608699Abstract: Ultra-Wideband (UWB) technology exploits modulated coded impulses over a wide frequency spectrum with very low power over a short distance for digital data transmission. Today's leading edge modulated sinusoidal wave wireless communication standards and systems achieve power efficiencies of 50 nJ/bit employing narrowband signaling schemes and traditional RF transceiver architectures. However, such designs severely limit the achievable energy efficiency, especially at lower data rates such as below 1 Mbps. Further, it is important that peak power consumption is supportable by common battery or energy harvesting technologies and long term power consumption neither leads to limited battery lifetimes or an inability for alternate energy sources to sustain them. Accordingly, it would be beneficial for next generation applications to exploit inventive transceiver structures and communication schemes in order to achieve the sub nJ per bit energy efficiencies required by next generation applications.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2016Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: Transfert Plus Societe en CommanditeInventors: Frederic Nabki, Dominic Deslandes, Mohammad Taherzadeh-Sani, Michiel Soer
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Patent number: 10595066Abstract: Audio video synchronization and alignment or alignment of audio to some other external clock are rendered more effective or easier by treating fragment grid and frame grid as independent values, but, nevertheless, for each fragment the frame grid is aligned to the respective fragment's beginning. A compression effectiveness lost may be kept low when appropriately selecting the fragment size. On the other hand, the alignment of the frame grid with respect to the fragments' beginnings allows for an easy and fragment-synchronized way of handling the fragments in connection with, for example, parallel audio video streaming, bitrate adaptive streaming or the like.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2017Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Bernd Czelhan, Harald Fuchs, Ingo Hofmann, Herbert Thoma, Stephan Schreiner
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Patent number: 10594523Abstract: Disclosed is a decoder circuit for a pulse amplitude modulation signal and a method of decoding a pulse amplitude modulation signal. The pulse amplitude modulation signal has a zeroth signal level, a first signal level, a second signal level and a third signal level. The decoder circuit comprises a first decision circuit, and a mapping circuit. The first decision circuit receives the pulse amplitude modulation signal and generates a low output signal for the first and the zeroth signal level, and generates a high output signal for the third and the second signal level. The mapping circuit receives the pulse amplitude modulation signal and generates a low output signal for the second and first signal level, and generates a high output signal for the third and zeroth signal level. Optionally, the decoder circuit comprises a logic circuit.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2017Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: TETRA SEMICONDUCTOR AGInventors: Martin Bossard, Jörg Wieland
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Patent number: 10575071Abstract: Methods for use in a measurement system. Some embodiments comprise, at control unit, receiving a clock receive signal that represents a clock signal and configuration information; based on the clock receive signal, providing a control signal that represents the configuration information; and transmitting the control signal a sensor unit. Some embodiments comprise configuring the sensor unit according to the configuration information. Some embodiments comprise, at a control unit, configured to process data provided by the sensor unit. The method comprises receiving a data receive signal and selecting an interpretation of the data receive signal as one of at least: the sensor data signal and another data signal. Further disclosed herein are an interface, a control unit and a sensor unit for use in a measurement system.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2016Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: Infineon Technologies AGInventor: Jens Barrenscheen
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Patent number: 10567060Abstract: Methods and apparatus for vector quantization of feedback and processing of vector quantized feedback components. A method of operating a UE for vector quantization of feedback includes identifying a grouping method for grouping channel coefficients for vector quantization and identifying a vector quantization codebook for vector quantization of grouped vectors based on one or more control signals received from an eNB. The method includes computing channel coefficients based on at least one channel measurement and grouping the computed channel coefficients according to the identified grouping method to form a set of vectors. The method also includes performing vector quantization of the vectors using the identified vector quantization codebook and processing the quantized vectors into one or more feedback signals. Additionally, the method includes transmitting the one or more feedback signals to the eNB.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2015Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Md. Saifur Rahman, Eko Onggosanusi, Young-Han Nam, Yang Li
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Patent number: 10560192Abstract: In certain embodiments, a system for transmitting (electromagnetic or acoustic) wave-based signals towards a target includes a plurality of transceivers and a controller. Each transceiver transmits a probe signal towards the target and receives an associated backscatter signal corresponding to reflection of the probe signals from the target. The controller determines, for each transceiver, a Doppler frequency shift and a time delay, modifies each associated backscatter signal based on the corresponding Doppler frequency shift and time delay to generate an associated motion-compensated backscatter signal, and applies time reversal (TR) processing to each motion-compensated backscatter signal to generate an associated motion-compensated TR signal. Each transceiver transmits towards the target a transmission signal based the associated motion-compensated TR signal. In communications systems, the transmission signals are data-modulated versions of the motion-compensated TR signals.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2018Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignee: The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Jerry T. Kim, Margaret Cheney
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Patent number: 10560132Abstract: The present application discloses a reconfigurable transmitter and receiver, and methods for reconfiguring the same. A system adaptive control circuit generates a control signal according to frequency band information of an input signal; a system clock circuit generates a system clock; a preprocessing circuit preprocesses a received baseband signal according to the system clock and the control signal, to generate a frequency band signal; a digital intermediate frequency processing circuit processes the frequency band signal according to the system clock and the control signal, to generate a digital intermediate frequency signal; a digital-to-analog conversion circuit processes the digital intermediate frequency signal according to the system clock and the control signal, to generate an analog signal; and an analog transmitting circuit transmits the analog signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2016Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yunfu Dou, Tingjian Tian, Yanqing Zhao
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Patent number: 10560303Abstract: The systems and methods disclosed herein are generally directed to the real-time modification of symbol rates, during modulation, based on performance metrics such as noise and traffic levels. In one embodiment, machine learning algorithms may be used to determine programmatically expected channel conditions and, in turn, an optimized symbol rate. In one embodiment, adaptive bit loading can be used such that a lower order modulation scheme can be used to overcome the noise and increase the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the transmitted signal. In one embodiment, more throughput (for example, more bps/Hz) can be achieved in the network by using subcarriers that have a higher SNR. Further, the bit loading can serve to maximize the data rate subject to the power and bit error ratio (BER) constraints of the network. In one embodiment, the machine learning algorithms may dynamically change the symbol rate of modulation to enhance the network performance.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2017Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignee: Cox Communications, Inc.Inventor: Jeffrey L. Finkelstein
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Patent number: 10554278Abstract: Methods, devices and computer programs for determining new transmit directions to use for beamformed transmissions in case the link quality of an existing direction falters. A transmitting communication device and a receiving communication device cooperate via a beam tracking procedure to determine a new suitable transmit direction to use for upcoming beamformed transmissions. Information relating to the beam tracking procedure is communicated over an existing link that enables communication between the transmitting and receiving communication devices. The receiving communication device provides the transmitting communication device with information about a beam scan performed in order to detect tracking beams transmitted by the transmitting communication device. This information allows the transmitting communication device to determine suitable transmit directions to use.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2015Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Torbjörn Wigren, Oskar Mauritz
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Patent number: 10547387Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for equalizing input signals for communication systems. An example method includes receiving an input signal. The input signal encodes a plurality of bits in a number of amplitude levels. The example method further includes converting the input signal to an equalized output signal using a plurality of lookup table circuits. The equalized output signal encodes a plurality of symbols in a number of amplitude levels. The example method further includes feeding the equalized output signal to an output driver circuit.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2018Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignee: MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES DENMARK APS.Inventors: Juan Jose Vegas-Olmos, Steen Christensen, Johan Jacob Mohr
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Patent number: 10547374Abstract: A method for of communication in a satellite LTE network by a satellite base station includes transmitting to a terminal device in a satellite beam of the satellite base station a frame having embedded timing information. The timing information includes a lowest delay time associated with the satellite beam. An uplink acquisition message is received from the terminal device. The uplink acquisition message is received with a first timing advance (TA) value estimated by the terminal device based on the lowest delay time. An arrival time associated with the uplink acquisition message is estimated, and a second TA value is determined based on the estimated arrival time. The terminal device uses the sum of first TA and second TA to adjust its timing in subsequent transmissions.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2017Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignee: Lockheed Martin CorporationInventor: Xiangdong Liu
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Patent number: 10541732Abstract: A process for cooperative aerial inter-antenna beamforming for communication between (a) multiple moving platforms, each platform having an aerial antenna mounted thereon, such that the aerial antennas have variable positions and orientations over time, and (b) at least one user antenna mounted on user equipment having a lower altitude than the aerial antennas; the process involving a first beamforming operation which beamforming operation involves; transmitting data relating to the positions and orientations of the aerial antennas to a processing system, the processing system calculating and transmitting beamforming instructions to the aerial antennas, the aerial antennas thereby transmitting or receiving respective component signals for each user antenna, the component signals for each user antenna having essentially the same information content but differing in their phase and usually amplitude, so as to form a cooperative beam from the cooperative sum of the signals between the aerial antennas and the useType: GrantFiled: March 2, 2016Date of Patent: January 21, 2020Assignee: Stratospheric Platforms LimitedInventors: Paul Alexander, Peter Davidson, Andrew Faulkner