Patents by Inventor Farrokh Etezadi
Farrokh Etezadi has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11296816Abstract: A method of signal demodulation includes receiving, by a signal receiver, a first signal modulated by a symbol corresponding to a point in a constellation; generating, by the signal receiver and on the basis of the first signal, a modulation estimate; identifying, by the signal receiver and on the basis of the modulation estimate, a row or column of a candidate lookup table, the row or column corresponding to a region of the constellation; reading, by the signal receiver, from the row or column of the candidate lookup table one or more candidate points of the constellation, at least one among the one or more candidate points being more distant, from a center of the region, than a point, in the constellation, not among the one or more candidate points, and demodulating, by the signal receiver and on the basis of the one or more candidate points, the first signal.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2020Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Farrokh Etezadi, Hyukjoon Kwon, Jooyeol Yang
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Patent number: 10862615Abstract: A method and system are herein disclosed. The method includes receiving sounding reference signals (SRS) at a massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) base station (BS) from a user equipment (UE), determining, at the BS, beamformers for known channels of the SRS, determining, at the BS, beamformers for unknown channels of the SRS based on the determined beamformers for the known channels, and selecting a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) based on the determined beamformers.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2019Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Inventors: Hyukjoon Kwon, Jungwon Lee, Farrokh Etezadi, Kee-Bong Song
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Publication number: 20200374035Abstract: A method of signal demodulation includes receiving, by a signal receiver, a first signal modulated by a symbol corresponding to a point in a constellation; generating, by the signal receiver and on the basis of the first signal, a first initial modulation estimate; identifying, by the signal receiver and on the basis of the first initial modulation estimate, a row or column of an initial candidate lookup table, the row or column corresponding to a region of the constellation; reading, by the signal receiver, from the row or column of the initial candidate lookup table one or more first initial candidate points of the constellation, at least one among the one or more first initial candidate points being more distant, from a center of the region, than a point, in the constellation, not among the one or more first initial candidate points, and demodulating, by the signal receiver and on the basis of the one or more first initial candidate points, the first signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2020Publication date: November 26, 2020Inventors: Farrokh ETEZADI, Hyukjoon KWON, Jooyeol YANG
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Patent number: 10790929Abstract: A system and method for receiving a quadrature amplitude modulation symbol. In some embodiments, the symbol has a plurality of bits and is associated with a point in a constellation of quadrature amplitude modulation points, each point of the constellation having associated with it a binary word. The method includes receiving a first analog signal carrying a modulation; performing initial estimation, to generate a first initial modulation estimate, for a portion of the first analog signal carrying a modulation; identifying, based on the first initial modulation estimate, a row of an initial candidate lookup table, the row corresponding to a region of the constellation; and reading from the row of the initial candidate lookup table a first plurality of initial candidate points of the constellation.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2018Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Farrokh Etezadi, Hyukjoon Kwon, Jooyeol Yang
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Patent number: 10680745Abstract: A system and method for blind detection of preempted resources in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system is herein disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method for blind detection of resources in an eMBB pre-empted by a URLLC includes receiving soft information including at least one code block, attempting to decode the at least one code block, and running URLLC blind detection on the at least one code block with the decoding attempt fails.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2018Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Farrokh Etezadi, Hyukjoon Kwon, Kee-Bong Song
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Publication number: 20200153537Abstract: A method and system are herein disclosed. The method includes receiving sounding reference signals (SRS) at a massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) base station (BS) from a user equipment (UE), determining, at the BS, beamformers for known channels of the SRS, determining, at the BS, beamformers for unknown channels of the SRS based on the determined beamformers for the known channels, and selecting a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) based on the determined beamformers.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2019Publication date: May 14, 2020Inventors: Hyukjoon KWON, Jungwon Lee, Farrokh Etezadi, Kee-Bong Song
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Publication number: 20200119835Abstract: A system and method for receiving a quadrature amplitude modulation symbol. In some embodiments, the symbol has a plurality of bits and is associated with a point in a constellation of quadrature amplitude modulation points, each point of the constellation having associated with it a binary word. The method includes receiving a first analog signal carrying a modulation; performing initial estimation, to generate a first initial modulation estimate, for a portion of the first analog signal carrying a modulation; identifying, based on the first initial modulation estimate, a row of an initial candidate lookup table, the row corresponding to a region of the constellation; and reading from the row of the initial candidate lookup table a first plurality of initial candidate points of the constellation.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2018Publication date: April 16, 2020Inventors: Farrokh ETEZADI, Hyukjoon KWON, Jooyeol YANG
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Publication number: 20190319740Abstract: A system and method for blind detection of preempted resources in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system is herein disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method for blind detection of resources in an eMBB pre-empted by a URLLC includes receiving soft information including at least one code block, attempting to decode the at least one code block, and running URLLC blind detection on the at least one code block with the decoding attempt fails.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2018Publication date: October 17, 2019Inventors: Farrokh ETEZADI, Hyukjoon Kwon, Kee-Bong Song
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Patent number: 10432391Abstract: A receiver of a modulated signal is presented. The receiver includes a synchronization detector configured to receive a signal indicative of the modulated signal that includes a synchronization header and a data payload, and to detect an end of the synchronization header. The synchronization detector is configured to generate a differential signal based on the signal, perform cross-correlation of the differential signal with a reference differential signal to generate a cross-correlation output, compare a first sample of the cross-correlation output at a sample index associated with a hypothesized start frame delimiter (SFD) peak index with a second sample of the cross-correlation output at a sample index associated with a hypothesized preamble peak index, and detect an end of the synchronization header in response to a comparison result in which a magnitude of the first sample is greater than a magnitude of the second sample of the cross-correlation output.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2018Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Farrokh Etezadi, Linbo Li, Chun Kin Au Yeung, Xiaoqiang Ma
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Patent number: 10355792Abstract: A system and method for removing bias from a frequency estimate. A simulation is used to predict, for various values of the signal to noise ratio, a bias in a raw frequency estimate produced by a frequency estimation algorithm. A straight line is fit to simulated frequency offset estimates as a function of true frequency offset, and the reciprocal of the slope of the line is stored, as a multiplicative bias removal term, in a lookup table, for the simulated signal to noise ratio. In operation, the raw frequency estimate is multiplied by a multiplicative bias removal term, obtained from the lookup table, to form a corrected frequency offset estimate.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2017Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoo Jin Choi, Dongwoon Bai, Linbo Li, Farrokh Etezadi, Jungwon Lee
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Patent number: 10129014Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a receiver of modulated signals comprises a signal mixer, a synchronization detector, and a data demodulator. The signal mixer is configured to perform baseband down-conversion of a signal according to a mixer frequency, the signal including a synchronization header and a data payload. The synchronization detector is configured to: generate a differential signal based on the signal, perform cross-correlation of the differential signal with a reference differential signal to generate a cross-correlation output, and analyze the cross-correlation output to detect an end of the synchronization header. The data demodulator is configured to demodulate the data payload in response to detection of the end of the synchronization header.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2017Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Farrokh Etezadi, Linbo Li, Chun Kin Au Yeung, Xiaoqiang Ma
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Publication number: 20180323955Abstract: A receiver of a modulated signal includes a synchronization detector configured to receive a signal indicative of the modulated signal and to detect an end of the synchronization header in the signal. The synchronization detector is configured to generate a differential signal based on the signal, perform cross-correlation of the differential signal with a reference differential signal to generate a cross-correlation output, compare a first sample of the cross-correlation output at a sample index associated with a hypothesized start frame delimiter (SFD) peak index with a second sample of the cross-correlation output at a sample index associated with a hypothesized preamble peak index, and detect an end of the synchronization header in response to a comparison result in which a magnitude of the first sample of the cross-correlation output is greater than a magnitude of the second sample of the cross-correlation output.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2018Publication date: November 8, 2018Inventors: Farrokh Etezadi, Linbo Li, Chun Kin Au Yeung, Xiaoqiang Ma
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System and method of tracking and compensating for frequency and timing offsets of modulated signals
Patent number: 10079660Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a receiver of modulated signals comprises a signal sampling unit configured to sample a signal, a zero-crossing demodulator, and a timing offset tracking unit. The zero-crossing demodulator includes: a zero-crossing counter configured to determine a number of zero crossings for each pulse of the signal, and a symbol selector configured to decode a sequence of pulses as a symbol based on the number of zero crossings in the sequence of pulses. The timing offset tracking unit is configured to: calculate a metric based on an accumulation of the number of zero crossings and corresponding pulse values of the decoded symbol, compare the metric to a predetermined threshold value, and compensate a timing offset of the signal by causing the signal sampling unit to sample the signal at an earlier interval or a later interval in response to the comparison.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2017Date of Patent: September 18, 2018Assignee: Samsung Electroncis Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chun Kin Au Yeung, Farrokh Etezadi, Xiaoqiang Ma, Linbo Li, Kee-Bong Song -
SYSTEM AND METHOD OF TRACKING AND COMPENSATING FOR FREQUENCY AND TIMING OFFSETS OF MODULATED SIGNALS
Publication number: 20180212724Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a receiver of modulated signals comprises a signal sampling unit configured to sample a signal, a zero-crossing demodulator, and a timing offset tracking unit. The zero-crossing demodulator includes: a zero-crossing counter configured to determine a number of zero crossings for each pulse of the signal, and a symbol selector configured to decode a sequence of pulses as a symbol based on the number of zero crossings in the sequence of pulses. The timing offset tracking unit is configured to: calculate a metric based on an accumulation of the number of zero crossings and corresponding pulse values of the decoded symbol, compare the metric to a predetermined threshold value, and compensate a timing offset of the signal by causing the signal sampling unit to sample the signal at an earlier interval or a later interval in response to the comparison.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2017Publication date: July 26, 2018Inventors: Chun Kin Au Yeung, Farrokh Etezadi, Xiaoqiang Ma, Linbo Li, Kee-Bong Song -
Publication number: 20180212749Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a receiver of modulated signals comprises a signal mixer, a synchronization detector, and a data demodulator. The signal mixer is configured to perform baseband down-conversion of a signal according to a mixer frequency, the signal including a synchronization header and a data payload. The synchronization detector is configured to: generate a differential signal based on the signal, perform cross-correlation of the differential signal with a reference differential signal to generate a cross-correlation output, and analyze the cross-correlation output to detect an end of the synchronization header. The data demodulator is configured to demodulate the data payload in response to detection of the end of the synchronization header.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2017Publication date: July 26, 2018Inventors: Chun Kin Au Yeung, Farrokh Etezadi, Xiaoqiang Ma, Linbo Li
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Publication number: 20180205470Abstract: A system and method for removing bias from a frequency estimate. A simulation is used to predict, for various values of the signal to noise ratio, a bias in a raw frequency estimate produced by a frequency estimation algorithm. A straight line is fit to simulated frequency offset estimates as a function of true frequency offset, and the reciprocal of the slope of the line is stored, as a multiplicative bias removal term, in a lookup table, for the simulated signal to noise ratio. In operation, the raw frequency estimate is multiplied by a multiplicative bias removal term, obtained from the lookup table, to form a corrected frequency offset estimate.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2017Publication date: July 19, 2018Inventors: Yoo Jin Choi, Dongwoon Bai, Linbo Li, Farrokh Etezadi, Jungwon Lee