Patents Examined by Young T. Tse
  • Patent number: 11271613
    Abstract: An intelligent backhaul radio that has an advanced antenna system for use in PTP or PMP topologies. The advanced antenna system includes a plurality of directional antenna arrays, wherein each directional antenna array includes a plurality of directional antenna sub-arrays, and wherein each directional antenna sub-array includes a plurality of directional antenna elements. At least one of the plurality of directional antenna arrays includes at least one first directional antenna sub-array, said first directional antenna sub-array including a first number of directional antenna elements. At least one of the plurality of directional antenna arrays includes at least one second directional antenna sub-array, said second directional antenna sub-array including a second number of directional antenna elements. The first number is different than the second number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: SKYLINE PARTNERS TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventors: David Andrew G. Lea, Kevin J. Negus
  • Patent number: 11271634
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, apparatuses and computer program products for signal detection in a wireless communication system. A method implemented at a receiver device includes obtaining a set of received signals; determining a channel on which the set of received signals are transported; and detecting a set of transmitted signals from the set of received signals in an iterative manner based on the determined channel, a modulation mode for the set of transmitted signals, and the set of received signals, by using a gradient descent (GD) algorithm. Embodiments of the present disclosure may reduce computation complexity required in signal detection and/or improve detection performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Weiqiang Mao, Yong Chen
  • Patent number: 11265066
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications provide for identification of multiple antenna panels at a user equipment (UE), and determination of panel-specific capabilities for the multiple antenna panels. A UE may determine whether simultaneous communications using two or more antenna panels is supported. The UE may determine that simultaneous communications using two or more antenna panels is supported based on a predetermined rule that indicates such simultaneous communications are supported or unsupported. Whether simultaneous communications on multiple panels is supported may be dependent upon a capability of the UE. The UE may transmit panel-specific capabilities to the base station, that may be used by the base station for subsequent communications between the UE and the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yan Zhou, Tao Luo, Kiran Venugopal, Tianyang Bai, Jung Ho Ryu
  • Patent number: 11258493
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for uplink transmission and reception in a wireless communication system and an apparatus therefor. Specifically, a method for performing uplink transmission by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system may comprise the steps of: receiving downlink control information (DCI) including sounding reference signal (SRS) resource indication (SRI) and precoding indication from a base station; and transmitting an uplink to the base station by applying precoding indicated by the precoding indication on an antenna port of an SRS transmitted within an SRS resource selected by the SRI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jonghyun Park, Jiwon Kang, Kijun Kim, Haewook Park
  • Patent number: 11258641
    Abstract: Optimized continuous time linear equalization (CTLE) circuit parameters for a received signal are found using an iterative search process. The received signal is repeatedly sampled by an analog-to-digital converter (ADC). Certain samples containing interference that cannot be cancelled by a CTLE in the sampled series are filtered out (discarded). The remaining samples are used to generate, over a selected evaluation window, a histogram of the sampled values. This histogram is used to calculate a figure of merit for the current CTLE parameter settings. The figures of merit for various CTLE parameter settings are compared to find the set of CTLE parameter settings that optimize the figure of merit and by extension, optimize the CTLE circuitry's performance at equalizing the received signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Rambus Inc.
    Inventors: Nanyan Wang, Vadim Moshinsky, Prashant Choudhary
  • Patent number: 11252396
    Abstract: An advanced communication system is provided. The advanced communication system comprises generating a first signal with a polyphase coding based on a DFT spread OFDM with at least one CAZAC sequence in accordance with a configuration condition, applying a digital transmit beamforming to the generated first signal, converting the first signal to analog from digital, modulating the converted first signal with an energy source, emitting, using at least one energy emit element, the modulated first signal, detecting a second signal comprising at least a portion of the emitted first signal that is reflected from at least one object in a scene in a field-of-view, demodulating the detected second signal, converting the second signal to digital from analog, converting the converted second signal to a computational image, and generating a 3D image by applying coherent detection to the computational image. The first signal comprises a polyphase sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Aura Intelligent Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Jungah Lee
  • Patent number: 11251706
    Abstract: Multiphase switched mode power supply clock apparatus, systems, articles of manufacture, and related methods are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a first clock recovery circuit to in response to obtaining a first clock pulse, transmit the first clock pulse to a power converter to cause the power converter to switch based on the first clock pulse, in response to obtaining a second clock pulse after the first clock pulse re-transmit the second clock pulse to a second clock recovery circuit, and increment a count value, and in response to the count value meeting a phase selection value, reset the count value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Tawen Mei, Karen Huimun Chan
  • Patent number: 11251820
    Abstract: A circuit for processing radio frequency signal includes a first path and at least one other second path; herein the first path includes at least one radio frequency amplification device; a first radio frequency current generated by parasitic capacitance of the at least one radio frequency amplification device flows through the at least one second path; the circuit for processing the radio frequency signal further includes at least one resonance module, a first end of each of the at least one resonance module is connected with the first path, and a second end of each of the at least one resonance module is connected with at least a part of second paths of the at least one second path; and the at least one resonance module is configured to generate a resonance current opposite to the first radio frequency current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: SMARTER MICROELECTRONICS (GUANG ZHOU) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qiang Su, Dajie Dai, Zhenfei Peng
  • Patent number: 11245427
    Abstract: Disclosed is a frequency selective limiter with a switched multiplexer filter bank having a plurality of filters coupled between antenna and receiver ports, wherein the switched multiplexer filter bank is configured to enable and disable selected ones of the plurality of filters in response to control signals. First detector circuitry is coupled to the antenna port and configured to detect signal voltage at the antenna port and generate a first detector voltage. Second detector circuitry is coupled to the receiver port and configured to detect signal voltage at the receiver port and generate a second detector voltage, and a digital controller is coupled between the first detector circuitry, the second detector circuitry, and a control interface, wherein the digital controller is configured to limit interfering signals by sending control signals to the switched multiplexer filter bank in response to the first detector voltage and the second detector voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: QORVO US, INC.
    Inventor: Charles Forrest Campbell
  • Patent number: 11245402
    Abstract: Generating a composite interpolated phase-error signal for clock phase adjustment of a local oscillator by forming a summation of weighted phase-error signals generated using a matrix of partial phase comparators, each of which compare a phase of the local oscillator with a corresponding phase of a reference clock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: KANDOU LABS, S.A.
    Inventor: Armin Tajalli
  • Patent number: 11240084
    Abstract: A transmission method simultaneously transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal at a common frequency performs precoding on both signals using a fixed precoding matrix and regularly changes the phase of at least one of the signals, thereby improving received data signal quality for a reception device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUST
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi
  • Patent number: 11240069
    Abstract: A communication device is configured to correlate a first signal with a second signal at a designated interval, the second signal corresponding to the first signal and being received by the communication device where the other communication device transmits a signal including a pulse as the first signal, convert a correlation computation result that is a result of correlating the first signal with the second signal at the designated interval into a format including a matrix product of an expanded modal matrix and an expanded signal vector, the expanded modal matrix including a plurality of elements indicating the correlation computation result obtained when assuming that the signals are received at respective set times, the expanded signal vector being a vector including a plurality of elements, each of which indicates whether or not there is a signal received at each of the set times and amplitude and phase of the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO, NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yoshiki Oishi, Kenichi Koga, Tatsuya Koike, Nobuyoshi Kikuma
  • Patent number: 11233536
    Abstract: A wireless communication device can include an antenna array configured to receive a plurality of radio frequency (RF) signals, RF circuitry, and digital baseband receive circuitry. The RF circuitry is configured to process the plurality of RF signals received via the antenna array to generate a single RF signal. The digital baseband receive circuitry is coupled to the RF circuitry and is configured to generate a downconverted signal based on the single RF signal, amplify the downconverted signal to generate an amplified downconverted signal, and convert the amplified downconverted signal to generate a digital output signal for processing by a wireless modem. The digital baseband receive circuitry further includes at least a first filtering system configured to filter the downconverted signal prior to amplification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Mohammed Alam, Yiwen Chen, Ricardo Fernandez, John J. Parkes, Jr., James Riches, Werner Schelmbauer, Daniel Schwartz, Michael David Vicker, Dong-Jun Yang
  • Patent number: 11231741
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to electrical circuits. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention provide a clock generator that includes a source clock generates a source clock signal at a low frequency. A clock multiplier multiplies the source clock signal by a predetermined factor to generate a high frequency clock signal. The high frequency clock signal is corrected by a time adjustment module by applying a compensation signal. The compensation signal is determined by a jitter measurement module, which uses both the high frequency clock signal and a jitter reference signal to determine the compensation signal. There are other embodiments as well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: MARVELL ASIA PTE, LTD.
    Inventor: Aaron Buchwald
  • Patent number: 11218116
    Abstract: A power management integrated circuit (PMIC) can improve the ramp up speed of a boost converter with the inclusion of a controllable switch that may modify the connection of an output capacitor to reduce the ramp time as the output voltage is ramping to a desired boost setpoint. The switch may be controlled using jump start logic to switch a first plate or terminal of the output capacitor from a ground connection to a voltage supply connection. Once a threshold voltage is reached, the first plate of the capacitor may be switched from the supply voltage to ground. The PMIC may further include a quick start assembly that can drive the boost converter at a high duty-cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Wendy Ng, James Jason LoCascio
  • Patent number: 11211994
    Abstract: Compressive sensing (CS) channel recovery using history measurements. Both current and history measurements for AoAs estimation, and only use current measurement for coefficient estimation. The dominant angle of arrival (AoA) is estimated using history and current measurements. In Approach 1, the dominant AoA is invariant and the coefficients are uncorrelated. In Approach 2, the dominant AoA is invariant and the coefficients are fully correlated. The remaining AoAs are estimated. The coefficients corresponding to each estimated dominant AoA are estimated. And the channel is recovered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yanru Tang, Hongbing Cheng, Kee-Bong Song
  • Patent number: 11212073
    Abstract: A system for data and clock recovery includes a timing error detector, a phase detector, and a phase increment injector. The phase increment injector may be used to determine an increment to affect an output of the phase detector or a clocking element. A sign of the increment is determined from a sign or direction of an accumulated version of a clock and data recovery gradient value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corp.
    Inventors: Pervez Mirza Aziz, Vishnu Balan, Viswanath Annampedu
  • Patent number: 11211967
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to isolation methods for full-duplex communication. In one example, a full-duplex antenna system includes a Tx (transmit) signal path including one or more elements each, means a power amplifier, one or more filters, and a Tx port of a Tx patch antenna operating at a Tx frequency band to transmit an outgoing signal to a satellite, the one or more elements each further including an Rx (receive) signal path including a low noise amplifier driven by an Rx port of an Rx patch antenna operating at an Rx frequency band to receive an incoming signal from the satellite, the Rx frequency band being separated by a guard band from the Tx frequency band, wherein the filters together with a physical separation between the Tx and Rx signal paths provide sufficient isolation to reduce coupling between the Tx signal path and the Rx signal path, allowing the full-duplex antenna system to operate in full-duplex.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: UTVATE Corporation
    Inventors: Stefan William Turkowski, Amin Reda, Siamak Ebadi, Andres Felipe Osorio, Eric David Kwiatkowski
  • Patent number: 11199422
    Abstract: A demodulator for demodulating the in-phase component of an input signal which is in-phase and quadrature modulated. The demodulator includes a register storing a phase calibration value and a temperature sensor that performs a plurality of temperature sensings. A compensating stage generates for each temperature sensed a corresponding first sample on the basis of the difference between the sensed temperature and a calibration temperature and a compensation function indicative of a relationship existing between the phase of the input signal and the temperature. A combination stage generates a plurality of second samples, each second sample being a function of the phase calibration value and a corresponding first sample. A generating stage generates a demodulating signal having a phase which depends on the second samples and a demodulating stage demodulates the input signal by means of the demodulating signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l.
    Inventors: Matteo Quartiroli, Alessandro Mecchia, Paolo Pesenti, Stefano Facchinetti, Andrea Donadel
  • Patent number: 11201648
    Abstract: Systems and methods for closed loop MIMO (multiple input and multiple output) wireless communication are provided. Various transmit formats including spatial multiplexing and STTD are defined in which vector or matrix weighting is employed using information fed back from receivers. The feedback information may include channel matrix or SVD-based feedback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Wen Tong, Ming Jia, Jianglei Ma, Peiying Zhu, Hua Xu, Dong-Sheng Yu, Hang Zhang, Mo-Han Fong