Patents Examined by Sophia Vlahos
  • Patent number: 10819401
    Abstract: A multiple-input multiple output transmit and receive system includes a first antenna that transmits a first signal at a channel frequency that propagates in a first path and that simultaneously receives a pilot signal at the channel frequency with the transmitting the first signal at the channel frequency, where the pilot signal propagates in a second path. A single-channel duplex transmit-receive system is coupled to an output of the first antenna. A processor is coupled to an output of the single-channel duplex transmit-receive system and configured to determine channel state information of the first path at the channel frequency using the received pilot signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Photonic Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Charles H. Cox
  • Patent number: 10812173
    Abstract: Systems and technologies described herein provide functionality for a cellular base station to dynamically indicate a reception (Rx) beam to be used by a user equipment (UE). The Rx beam can be indicated explicitly or implicitly. The UE can, for example, use the Rx beam for Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) reception, Channel State Information Reference Signal (CSI-RS) measurements, and/or Channel State Information (CSI) calculation at the UE. Systems and technologies described herein are generally useful for systems that use multiple transmission (Tx) beams and/or that support Coordinated Multipoint (CoMP) transmission technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Alexei Davydov, Hyejung Jung, Gregory Morozov
  • Patent number: 10805924
    Abstract: A time interval measurement code-division multiple access (CDMA) transceiver including a clock manager, a transmit channel, one or more receive channels, and a processor for performing time interval measurement in two-way satellite time and frequency transfer and satellite ranging, is provided. The transmit channel generates a spread signal that is digitally phase modulated to generate and transmit the modulated intermediate frequency signal. The baseband processing of the received signal from each of the remote ground stations is performed in receive channels. A transmission time generation module generates a transmission time measurement and a reception time generation module generates a reception time measurement. The transmission time measurement and the reception time measurement are generated on a latch measurement signal that is received from a latch epoch generation module in each of the receive channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: ACCORD IDEATION PRIVATE LIMITED
    Inventors: Pranav Purushottam Ginde, Sushma Bhupal Bavache
  • Patent number: 10790895
    Abstract: Various embodiments may be generally directed to antenna array weight vector selection techniques for 60 GHz multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communications. In some embodiments, using one or more such techniques, a 60 GHz-capable transmitting device may select respective antenna array weight vectors for two or more transmit antenna arrays, and a 60 GHz-capable receiving device may select respective antenna array weight vectors for two or more receive antenna arrays. In various embodiments, in order to obtain information for use in selecting such antenna array weight vectors, the transmitter and receiver may utilize one or more existing beamforming training algorithms defined for 60 GHz single-input single-output (SISO) communications. In some embodiments, for example, the transmitter and receiver may utilize one or more beamforming training algorithms defined in IEEE 802.11ad-2012. The embodiments are not limited in this context.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: INTEL IP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Assaf Kasher, Michael Genossar
  • Patent number: 10791014
    Abstract: A method of recovering information encoded by a modulated sinusoidal waveform having first, second, third and fourth data notches at respective phase angles, where a power of the modulated sinusoidal waveform is reduced relative to a power of an unmodulated sinusoidal waveform within selected ones of the first, second, third and fourth data notches so as to encode input digital data. The method includes receiving the modulated sinusoidal waveform and generating digital values representing the modulated sinusoidal waveform. A digital representation of the unmodulated sinusoidal waveform is subtracted from the digital values in order to generate a received digital data sequence, which includes digital data notch values representative of the amplitude of the modulated sinusoidal waveform within the first, second, third and fourth data notches. The input digital data is then estimated based upon the digital data notch values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: TeraWave, LLC
    Inventor: Torsten Schultze
  • Patent number: 10790875
    Abstract: Methods and devices are discussed where a common bit loading table is constructed from minimum gain from a plurality of bit loading tables for different combinations of lines being in a transmit or quiet mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Lantiq Beteillgungs-GmbH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Rainer Strobel, Lilia Smaoui, Vladimir Oksman
  • Patent number: 10784845
    Abstract: Various aspects provide for error detection and compensation for a multiplexing transmitter. For example, a system can include an error detector circuit and a duty cycle correction circuit. The error detector circuit is configured to measure duty cycle error for a clock associated with a transmitter to generate error detector output based on a clock pattern for output generated by the transmitter in response to a defined bit pattern. The duty cycle correction circuit is configured to adjust the clock associated with the transmitter based on the error detector output. Additionally or alternatively, the error detector circuit is configured to measure quadrature error between an in-phase clock and a quadrature clock in response to the defined bit pattern. Additionally or alternatively, the system can include a quadrature error correction circuit configured to adjust phase shift between the in-phase clock and the quadrature clock based on quadrature error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Naga Rajesh Doppalapudi, Echere Iroaga
  • Patent number: 10785083
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for measuring a displacement of an object according to steps of: dividing a signal into an I signal and a Q signal according to a phase of the signal, wherein the signal is reflected by the object after a transmission signal having a plurality of frequencies is emitted toward the object by the radar measurement system; estimating a direct current (DC) component from an N-tuple information acquired from the I signal and the Q signal; removing the estimated DC component to correct the I signal and the Q signal; and measuring the displacement of the object based on the corrected I signal and Q signal are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventor: Dong Kyoo Kim
  • Patent number: 10778205
    Abstract: A transmitter includes: a pulse amplitude modulation encoder that encodes serial data to multi-bit transmission data of a first data group and a second data group; a first driver that converts first multi-bit transmission data of the first data group to a first differential signal having a first voltage swing width; a second driver that converts second multi-bit transmission data of the second data group to a second differential signal having a second voltage swing width narrower than the first voltage swing width; a first voltage regulator that provides to the second driver a first low swing voltage for generating the second differential signal; a second voltage regulator that provides to the second driver a second low swing voltage less than the first low swing voltage; and a constant current load switch that provides a current path between the first and second voltage regulators depending on deactivation of the second driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung-Ha Kim, Jung Hoon Chun, Hwaseok Oh
  • Patent number: 10778293
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for dynamic transmit diversity fallback are provided. One method may include configuring a user equipment with a maximum number of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) layers used for transmission mode 9 or transmission mode 10 scheduling, and performing, by a network node, at least one of transmission mode 9 or transmission mode 10 scheduling. The configuring may include indicating to the user equipment to use a modified mapping table providing transmit diversity fallback for the at least one of transmission mode 9 or transmission mode 10 scheduling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Klaus Hugl, Timo Lunttila
  • Patent number: 10763794
    Abstract: Disclosed is a harmonic compensation device capable of effectively reducing the harmonic distortion of an analog output signal. The harmonic compensation device includes a harmonic compensator, a mixer, a digital-to-analog converter, and an analog output circuit. The harmonic compensator is configured to generate a digital compensation signal according to a digital input signal, in which the digital compensation signal includes the harmonic components of the digital input signal. The mixer is configured to generate a digital output signal according to the digital input signal and the digital compensation signal. The digital-to-analog converter is configured to generate an analog input signal according to the digital output signal. The analog output circuit is configured to generate an analog output signal according to the analog input signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chung-Chieh Cheng, Yi-Chang Tu
  • Patent number: 10764096
    Abstract: A new demodulator with consistent sensibility to signals received from different directions and low power consumption is provided. The demodulator may include a first demodulator branch and a second demodulator branch electrically connected in parallel, and a DC circuit to provide DC power to the demodulator. The DC circuit has a first diode and a second diode electrically connected in series between a DC power supply Vcc and the ground. The second demodulator branch can multiplex or reuse a bias current from the first demodulator branch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Beken Corporation
    Inventors: Cunliang Nai, Jiazhou Liu
  • Patent number: 10707917
    Abstract: An instrument system for locating leakage at a subscriber's premises is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: VIAVI SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Dexin Sun, Terry W. Bush
  • Patent number: 10693527
    Abstract: A distributed antenna system includes a plurality of head-end devices for each receiving mobile communication signals from at least one corresponding base station, a hub communicatively coupled to the plurality of head-end devices, and a plurality of remote devices communicatively coupled to the hub, wherein the hub configured to distribute the mobile communication signals received from each of the plurality of head-end devices to the plurality of remote devices, wherein each of the plurality of remote devices is remotely disposed to transmit the distributed mobile communication signals to a terminal in service coverage, and wherein the hub includes a mixing processing stage configured to perform digital mixing processing on the mobile communication signals respectively received from the plurality of head-end devices, and a crest factor reduction (CFR) module disposed posterior to the mixing processing stage, with respect to a signal transmission direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: SOLiD, INC.
    Inventors: Hyoungho Kim, Doyoon Kim, Kwangnam Seo
  • Patent number: 10686488
    Abstract: A method for demodulating a received signal resulting from the modulation of a basic chirp signal including estimating of a symbol carried by the received signal, implementing the following sub-steps: determining N decision components from the received signal and from a reference chirp signal obtained by modulating the basic chirp signal by a reference symbol corresponding to a symbol of rank r, a decision component of index I, denoted as a component Dl, being a function of a term, the phase of which depends quadratically on I, with I being an integer from 0 to N?1; and deciding the rank {circumflex over (k)} of the symbol carried by the received signal, from the decision component, of index k, denoted as a component Dk, having an extremum value among the N decision components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: B-COM
    Inventors: Stephane Paquelet, Patrick Savelli
  • Patent number: 10680740
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for determining a modulation scheme in direct link-based communication. A method implemented in a transmitting (TX) terminal device is provided. According to the method, a link quality of a direct link for transmission of information from the TX terminal device to one or more receiving (RX) terminal devices is determined based on one or more of the following: a context of the TX terminal device, or one or more reference signal received qualities (RSRQs) from the one or more RX terminal devices. A modulation scheme for modulating the information is determined based on the link quality. The information is modulated with the determined modulation scheme and the modulated information is transmitted to the one or more RX terminal devices via the direct link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Zhang Zhang, Mikael Fallgren
  • Patent number: 10680856
    Abstract: A disclosed DFE selection element reduces the degree of unrolling that might otherwise be required. In one illustrative embodiment of a method for converting a receive signal from a communication channel into a sequence of symbol decisions, the method includes, for each sampling interval: (a) generating a set of tentative symbol decisions each having a thermometer-coded representation with a least significant bit and a most significant bit; (b) providing each least significant bit as a thermometer-coded input to a first multiplexer; (c) providing each most significant bit as a thermometer-coded input to a second multiplexer; (d) applying a thermometer-coded representation of a preceding output symbol decision as selection inputs to the first and second multiplexers; and (e) capturing a current output symbol decision having a thermometer-coded representation that includes outputs of the first and second multiplexer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: CREDO TECHNOLOGY GROUP LIMITED
    Inventors: Kaibo Miao, Haihui Luo, Xuemei Liu
  • Patent number: 10680728
    Abstract: A radio communication system is provided with: a transmission apparatus that responds to OAM radio communication, a receiving apparatus that responds to OAM radio communication, and a correction apparatus. The correction apparatus corrects antenna axes of the transmission apparatus and the receiving apparatus, based on correlation information that associates: information related to the antennas of the transmission apparatus and the receiving apparatus, and an inter-mode interference pattern that characterizes interference by a transmission mode when the transmission apparatus transmits a signal, on a receiving mode when the receiving apparatus receives a signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ryuji Zenkyu
  • Patent number: 10673496
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatus for enhancing a sector sweep. The apparatus generally includes a processing system configured to generate a first set of frames and a second set of frames. The apparatus also includes a first interface configured to output the first set of frames for transmission to a wireless node via a first set of beams, wherein each beam of the first set is wider in a first dimension than a second dimension, and output the second set of frames for transmission to the wireless node via a second set of beams, wherein each beam of the second set is wider in the second dimension than the first dimension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Alecsander Petru Eitan, Assaf Yaakov Kasher
  • Patent number: 10666481
    Abstract: A data communications system and method having high spectral efficiency. The method includes encoding input digital data using a plurality of symbol waveforms. Each symbol waveform occupies a period of a composite encoded waveform and represents one or more bits of the input digital data. Each symbol waveform has a first elliptical segment and a second elliptical segment of opposite polarity. The encoding includes defining each symbol waveform so that (i) a zero crossing from the first elliptical segment to the second elliptical segment of the symbol waveform is different for each of the symbol waveforms, and (ii) an energy of the first elliptical segment of the symbol waveform is substantially equal to an energy of the second elliptical segment of the symbol waveform. An encoded analog waveform is generated, using a digital-to-analog converter, from a digital representation of the composite encoded waveform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Inventor: Torsten Schultze