Patents Examined by Sung S Ahn
  • Patent number: 11546027
    Abstract: A base station apparatus is capable of adjusting antenna gains in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction of the plurality of antennas included in the base station apparatus, by adjusting a phase and an amplitude of a signal addressed and transmitted to a terminal apparatus, stores a codebook which is shared with the terminal apparatus and describes a plurality of linear filters associated with antenna gains in the horizontal direction and antenna gains in the vertical direction, acquires control information indicating at least one out of a plurality of linear filters described in the codebook, of which notification is sent from the terminal apparatus, performs precoding on the signal addressed to the terminal apparatus, based on the control information and the first codebook, and transmits the signal subjected to the precoding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiromichi Tomeba, Takashi Onodera, Minoru Kubota
  • Patent number: 11539558
    Abstract: A transmitter for a chaos communications system employing chaotic symbol modulation that perform auto-indexing, temporal gain control, increased path diversity and sequence lock up prevention. The transmitter includes a symbol mapper that converts a series of information bits to a series of bit symbols, and a chaos modulator providing chaotic spreading modulation of the bit symbols. The chaos modulator includes a plurality of chaos generators, one for each bit symbol, providing a chaos sequence for the bit symbols. Each chaos modulator includes a RAM/ROM that provides auto-indexing where a chaos sequence output from the RAM/ROM is fed back to an input of the RAM/ROM from which a chaos sequence at a next address in the RAM/ROM is selected as the output of the modulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ameesh N. Pandya, Armin Azizian, Christopher W. Walker, Marlon Marquez
  • Patent number: 11528052
    Abstract: A data transmission method, a first chip, an electronic device, and a storage medium are provided. Data transmission of the first chip with a second chip is performed in one of a standard working mode based on a standard Bluetooth protocol and a non-standard working mode including at least one of: a first working mode in which data is transmitted with the second chip in a designated first fixed channel of the standard channels; a second working mode in which data is transmitted with the second chip by frequency hopping among extended extension channels; a third working mode in which data is transmitted with the second chip in a designated second fixed channel of the extended extension channels; and a fourth working mode in which data is transmitted with the second chip by frequency hopping among the standard channels and the extended extension channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shilin Guo
  • Patent number: 11509377
    Abstract: A method for adjusting a half-power angle of an antenna, to adjust a maximum half-power angle or a maximum beam gain of an individual transceiver channel, includes: first determining that M antenna elements in N antenna elements connected to a first transceiver channel of an access network device need to be turned on or off, where N>M?1, and both N and M are integers, that is, a quantity of antenna elements driven by the first transceiver channel needs to be adjusted; and then sending first indication information to the access network device, where the first indication information is used to indicate to turn on or off the M antenna elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Quanzhong Gao, Hui Gao, Hongjie Hu, Fengyong Qian, Chengzhi Zhu
  • Patent number: 11502877
    Abstract: A signal transmitting device includes an output control circuit and a transmitting circuit. The output control circuit generates a first encoded symbol, a second encoded symbol, a third encoded symbol, and a fourth encoded symbol and an inverted flag signal by inverting the logic levels of second bits of a first symbol, a second symbol, a third symbol, and a fourth symbol, and generates a first output control signal and a second output control signal based on the first to fourth encoded symbols, when the maximum transition is present among the first to fourth symbols. The transmitting circuit may transmit the inverted flag signal and a Tx (Transmit) signal generated based on the first and second output control signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventor: Hyun Bae Lee
  • Patent number: 11496338
    Abstract: Embodiments of a method and an apparatus for beamforming are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method for beamforming involves transmitting, by a beamformer to a beamformee, a sounding packet that includes training symbols, receiving, at the beamformee, the sounding packet that includes the training symbols, deriving, at the beamformee, channel estimates from the training symbols included in the sounding packet, computing, at the beamformee, a feedback matrix from the derived channel estimates, transmitting, by the beamformee to the beamformer, a packet that includes two sets of symbols, where the feedback matrix is applied to at least one of the two sets of symbols, receiving, at the beamformer, the packet that includes the two sets of symbols, and operating the beamformer according to the two sets of symbols included in the packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Sayak Roy, Ankit Sethi, Sudhir Srinivasa
  • Patent number: 11496187
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving data. A data transmission method from a sender terminal to a receiver terminal in a MIMO system using a variable frequency band according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: repeatedly generating a signal field depending on a frequency band that is applied to the transmission of a data frame; generating a data field including the data; generating a data frame including the signal field and the data field; and transmitting the data frame to the receiver terminal. The present invention is advantageous in that a signal field which is transmitted together with the data being transmitted from the sender terminal to the receiver terminal in the MIMO system can be sent more efficiently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Jong-Ee Oh, Minho Cheong, Sok-Kyu Lee
  • Patent number: 11490451
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a receiver device may identify an analog to digital converter (ADC) clipping rate for one or more measurement windows. The receiver device may modify, based at least in part on a determination that the ADC clipping rate does not satisfy a threshold, a low noise amplifier (LNA) gain value to be used by the receiver device. The receiver device may receive a signal using the modified LNA gain value. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Siavash Ekbatani
  • Patent number: 11489696
    Abstract: A single wire digital communication system for use with an ultrasonic surgical instrument and an ultrasonic surgical instrument including a single wire digital communication system. The single wire digital communication system includes first transmitter logic buffer and first receiver logic buffer operably coupled to a first single wire device via a first single wire communication bus. The single wire digital communication system also includes a first differential transceiver operational amplifier operably coupled to the first transmitter logic buffer via a first transmitter signal line and operably coupled to the first receiver logic buffer via a first receiver signal line. A second differential transceiver operational amplifier is operably coupled to the first differential transceiver operational amplifier via at least one differential bus. A second single wire device is operably coupled to the differential bus and configured to communicate with the first single wire device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Covidien LP
    Inventor: Travis Jones
  • Patent number: 11483191
    Abstract: A wireless device includes a radio transceiver, and a digital transmitter configured to transmit, via the radio transceiver, a first data symbol, and to transmit, via the radio transceiver, a repetition of the first data symbol immediately after the first data symbol, where the first data symbol forms a cyclic prefix for the repetition of the first data symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Roland Hellfajer, Michael Speth, Peter Ascheuer, Frank Huertgen, Tobias Scholand, Jan Ellenbeck, Admir Burnic, Giuseppe Lipuma, Sven Dortmund, Thomas Esch, Romeo Lopez Soto, Markus Schlamann
  • Patent number: 11476914
    Abstract: The present invention provides a massive MIMO antenna for wireless communication, the massive MIMO antenna comprising a plurality of antenna elements configured to receive upstream wireless signals and to transmit downstream wireless signals, the antenna elements being arranged in a matrix-like arrangement comprising rows and/or columns of antenna elements, a plurality of transceivers, each coupled to at least one of the antenna elements, and a control unit configured to selectively activate and/or deactivate specific ones of the transceivers. In addition, the present invention provides a respective method for operating a massive MIMO antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: XILINX, INC.
    Inventor: Peter Meyer
  • Patent number: 11456784
    Abstract: An AP/PCP may perform user selection/pairing/grouping based on a measurement of an analog transmission (e.g., signal to noise ratio (SNR) or signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR)). The SNRs may be used, for example by the station, to determine best beams and/or beam pairs and/or worst beams and/or beam pairs. A station may feed back the best few beams and/or beam pairs for a Tx and Rx virtual antenna pair. A station may feed back the worst few beams for the Tx and Rx virtual antenna pair. The AP/PCP may receive the indication(s) and/or use the indication(s) to group the stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Hanging Lou, Alphan Sahin, Xiaofei Wang, Rui Yang, Oghenekome Oteri, Li-Hsiang Sun
  • Patent number: 11443177
    Abstract: Artificial neuromorphic circuit includes synapse circuit and post-neuron circuit. Synapse circuit includes phase change element, first switch, and second switch. Phase change element includes first terminal and second terminal. First switch includes first terminal and second terminal. Second switch includes first terminal, second terminal, and control terminal. First switch is configured to receive first pulse signal. Second switch is coupled to phase change element and first switch. Second switch is configured to receive second pulse signal. Post-neuron circuit includes capacitor and input terminal. Input terminal of post-neuron circuit charges capacitor in response to first pulse signal. Post-neuron circuit generates firing signal based on voltage level of capacitor and threshold voltage. Post-neuron circuit generates control signal based on firing signal. Control signal controls turning on of second switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignees: JIANGSU ADVANCED MEMORY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., ALTO MEMORY TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chung-Hon Lam, Ching-Sung Chiu
  • Patent number: 11444654
    Abstract: A system and method of index modulation based joint mode frequency hopping with vortex electromagnetic waves for anti-jamming are provided. The system is additionally provided with a transmit signal carrier selector that provides diversified options, a receive signal carrier selector that is strictly synchronized with the transmit signal carrier selector, and a group of fast Fourier transformation modules to output a binary demodulation signal with jamming eliminated. The method includes: binary information division; index modulation and information modulation; information loading and hopping; information transmission, de-hopping, and jamming filtering; and calculation of the jamming probability and an average bit error rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: XIDIAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Wenchi Cheng, Liping Liang, Hailin Zhang
  • Patent number: 11438195
    Abstract: A method performed by a first radio node for estimating channels in a wireless communication network is provided. The first radio node receives a signal from a second radio node in the wireless communication network. The signal has multiple beams. For each of at least some of the multiple beams the first radio node obtains information about a beam-specific signal quality, adapts (3039 any one or more out of: channel estimation parameters and channel estimation methods related to the beam, based on the beam-specific signal quality, and estimates a channel of the beam using any one or more out of: the adapted channel estimation parameters and the channel estimation methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Ning He, Virgile Garcia
  • Patent number: 11438205
    Abstract: Systems and methods for ultra-wideband Crest Factor Reduction (CFR) are provided. In some embodiments, a method performed by a wireless node for performing CFR includes performing a first CFR step on a plurality of input signals at a first sampling rate with joint peak detection and band-specific noise shaping; and performing a second CFR step on the resulting plurality of input signals at a second sampling rate with joint peak detection and joint noise shaping where the second sampling rate is higher than the first sampling rate. In this way, Peak-to-Average Power Ratio (PAPR) reduction may be increased while the computational complexity is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Rui Hou, Leonard Rexberg, Bo Göransson, Richard Hellberg, Mats Klingberg, Stefan Engström
  • Patent number: 11423287
    Abstract: A computer based on a spiking neural network, includes at least one maximum pooling layer. In response to an input spike received by a neuron of the maximum pooling layer, the device is configured so as to receive the address of the activated synapse. The device comprises an address comparator configured so as to compare the address of the activated synapse with a set of reference addresses. Each reference address is associated with a hardness value and with a pooling neuron. The device activates a neuron of the maximum pooling layer if the address of the activated synapse is equal to one of the reference addresses and the hardness value associated with this reference address has the highest value from among the hardness values associated with the other reference addresses of the set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Vincent Lorrain, Olivier Bichler
  • Patent number: 11424786
    Abstract: A wireless transmission system includes first and second transmission line couplers. The first transmission line coupler is arranged in an annular shape and formed of a pair of signal lines that transmit a differential signal. The second transmission line coupler is shorter than the first transmission line coupler and formed of a pair of signal lines that transmit a differential signal. The first and second transmission line couplers are arranged so that, if at least one of the first and second transmission line couplers rotates about a rotational axis and if one of the signal lines of the second transmission line coupler crosses a gap between the ends of one of the signal lines of the first transmission line coupler, the other signal line of the second transmission line coupler does not cross a gap between the ends of the other signal line of the first transmission line coupler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yu Tanaka, Hidetada Nago
  • Patent number: 11423296
    Abstract: A device for distributing the convolution coefficients of the least one convolutional kernel of a convolutional neural network is provided, the coefficients being carried by an input bus, to a set of processing units in a processor based on a convolutional-neural-network architecture. The device comprises at least one switching network that is controlled by at least one control unit, the switching network comprising a set of switches that are arranged to apply circular shifts to at least one portion of the input bus. For each convolution kernel, each control unit is configured to dynamically control certain at least of the switches of the switching networks in response to an input event applied to the convolution kernel and at least one parameter representing the maximum size of the convolution kernels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Olivier Bichler, Antoine Dupret, Vincent Lorrain
  • Patent number: 11424963
    Abstract: A channel prediction method and a related device, where the method includes: obtaining a first channel coefficient sequence in a first time period, where the first channel coefficient sequence includes a plurality of complex values of a channel coefficient; and determining a prediction value of the channel coefficient in a second time period based on the first channel coefficient sequence and a preset vocabulary of channel changes, where the preset vocabulary of channel changes includes a mapping relationship between a channel change value index and each change value of the channel coefficient, and where the second time period is later than the first time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yourui Huangfu, Rong Li, Jian Wang, Shengchen Dai, Jun Wang, Rongdao Yu