Patents by Inventor Nanjian WU

Nanjian WU 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).

  • Patent number: 9991895
    Abstract: A wireless radio-frequency transmission apparatus includes a phase frequency detector, a charge pump, a loop filter and a twin voltage-controlled oscillator. The twin voltage-controlled oscillator includes a first oscillator and a second oscillator. When the twin voltage-controlled oscillator is in a reception mode, the first and the second oscillators are coupled to each other to form a quadrature voltage-controlled oscillator, and the quadrature voltage-controlled oscillator, the phase frequency detector, the charge pump and the loop filter constitute a phase-locked loop to generate quadrature carriers. When the twin voltage-controlled oscillator is in a transmission mode, the first oscillator, the phase frequency detector, the charge pump and the loop filter constitute a phase-locked loop, and the second oscillator performs frequency modulation on transmitted data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: INSTITUTE OF SEMICONDUCTORS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Jingjing Chen, Nanjian Wu, Haiyong Wang, Weiyang Liu, Peng Feng
  • Patent number: 9941892
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a multi-standard performance reconfigurable I/Q orthogonal carrier generator. The generator may implement a continuously covered I/Q carrier output of 0.1-5 GHz and continuously covered differential signal outputs of 5-10 GHz and 1.5-3 GHz by means of reasonable frequency assignment; also, carrier signals under various frequencies with different loop bandwidths, different phase noises, different power consumption levels and different locking times can be generated by configuring a programmable charge pump (102), a loop filter (103) parameter, a multi-path voltage-controlled oscillator (104) and a first multiplexer (105) corresponding thereto, a five-stage-division-by-two frequency division link (109) and a corresponding second multiplexer (110) and third multiplexer (112), so as to implement generation of a multi-standard performance reconfigurable I/Q orthogonal carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Institute Of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy Of Sciences
    Inventors: Xiaodong Liu, Nanjian Wu, Haiyong Wang, Wenfeng Lou, Jingjing Chen, Zhao Zhang
  • Patent number: 9930284
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an analog readout preprocessing circuit for a CMOS image sensor and a control method thereof. The analog readout preprocessing circuit comprises an extended count-type integration cycle-successive approximation hybrid analog-to-digital conversion capacitor network 1 configured to achieve readout and analog-to-digital conversion of signals output from the CMOS image sensor; an operational amplifier configured to utilize “virtual short” of two input terminals of the operational amplifier and the charge conservation principle, to achieve a function of extended count-type integration cycle-successive approximation hybrid analog-to-digital conversion, where the extended count-type integration can effectively reduce a thermal noise and a flicker noise within the image sensor; a comparator configured to compare voltages at two terminals to achieve a function of quantization of signals; and a control signal generator configured to provide control signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: INSTITUTE OF SEMICONDUCTORS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Liyuan Liu, Nanjian Wu, Zhiqiang Guo
  • Publication number: 20170353685
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an analog readout preprocessing circuit for a CMOS image sensor and a control method thereof. The analog readout preprocessing circuit comprises an extended count-type integration cycle-successive approximation hybrid analog-to-digital conversion capacitor network 1 configured to achieve readout and analog-to-digital conversion of signals output from the CMOS image sensor; an operational amplifier configured to utilize “virtual short” of two input terminals of the operational amplifier and the charge conservation principle, to achieve a function of extended count-type integration cycle-successive approximation hybrid analog-to-digital conversion, where the extended count-type integration can effectively reduce a thermal noise and a flicker noise within the image sensor; a comparator configured to compare voltages at two terminals to achieve a function of quantization of signals; and a control signal generator configured to provide control signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2014
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Inventors: Liyuan Liu, Nanjian Wu, Zhiqiang Guo
  • Publication number: 20170163270
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a multi-standard performance reconfigurable I/Q orthogonal carrier generator. The generator may implement a continuously covered I/Q carrier output of 0.1-5 GHz and continuously covered differential signal outputs of 5-10 GHz and 1.5-3 GHz by means of reasonable frequency assignment; also, carrier signals under various frequencies with different loop bandwidths, different phase noises, different power consumption levels and different locking times can be generated by configuring a programmable charge pump (102), a loop filter (103) parameter, a multi-path voltage-controlled oscillator (104) and a first multiplexer (105) corresponding thereto, a five-stage-division-by-two frequency division link (109) and a corresponding second multiplexer (110) and third multiplexer (112), so as to implement generation of a multi-standard performance reconfigurable I/Q orthogonal carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2014
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Inventors: Xiaodong Liu, Nanjian Wu, Haiyong Wang, Wenfeng Lou, Jingjing Chen, Zhao Zhang
  • Publication number: 20170141780
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a wireless radio-frequency transmission apparatus, comprising: a phase frequency detector, a charge pump, a loop filter and a twin voltage-controlled oscillator, wherein the twin voltage-controlled oscillator comprises a first voltage-controlled oscillator and a second voltage-controlled oscillator which are of the same structure, wherein when the twin voltage-controlled oscillator is in a reception mode, the first voltage-controlled oscillator and the second voltage-controlled oscillator are coupled to each other to form a quadrature voltage-controlled oscillator, and the quadrature voltage-controlled oscillator, the phase frequency detector, the charge pump and the loop filter constitute a phase-locked loop to generate quadrature carriers for receiving information; and when the twin voltage-controlled oscillator is in a transmission mode, the first voltage-controlled oscillator, the phase frequency detector, the charge pump and the loop filter constitute a phase-locked loop,
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventors: Jingjing CHEN, Nanjian WU, Haiyong WANG, Weiyang LIU, Peng FENG
  • Patent number: 9449257
    Abstract: The present invention proposes a dynamically reconfigurable multi-level parallel single instruction multiple data array processing system which has a pixel level parallel image processing element array and a row-parallel array processor. The PE array mainly implements a linear operation which is adapted to be executed in parallel in the low and middle levels of image processing and the RP array implements an operation which is adapted to execute in row-parallel in the low and middle levels of image processing or more complex nonlinear operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Inventors: Cong Shi, Nanjian Wu, Xitian Long, Jie Yang, Qi Qin
  • Publication number: 20150310311
    Abstract: The present invention proposes a dynamically reconfigurable multistage parallel single instruction multiple data array processing system which has a pixel level parallel image processing element array and a row processor array parallel. The PE array mainly implements a linear operation which is adapted to be executed in parallel in the low and middle levels of image processing and the RP array implements an operation which is adapted to be executed in row-parallel in the low and middle levels of image processing or more complex nonlinear operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2012
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Inventors: Cong SHI, Nanjian WU, Xitian LONG, Jie YANG, Qi QIN