Patents by Inventor Thomas Eriksson

Thomas Eriksson 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).

  • Publication number: 20190089403
    Abstract: There is provided mechanisms performed by a control device for suppressing interference in a received reception signal in a radio transceiver device. The radio transceiver device is configured to receive the reception signal as a radio reception signal and to generate a radio transmission signal. The radio transmission signal and the radio reception signal occupy at least partly non-overlapping frequency bands. A method comprises obtaining a transmission reference signal based on the radio transmission signal. The method comprises estimating an interference distortion component signal based on the transmission reference signal and on a model of nonlinearity in a radio circuit of the radio transceiver device. The method comprises suppressing interference in the reception signal by combining the reception signal with the distortion component signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Björn Gävert, Mats Rydström, Göran Nilsson, Thomas Eriksson, Robert Lindgren
  • Patent number: 10218421
    Abstract: A transmitter for radio transmission to one or more receivers over a channel described at least in part by a channel matrix H, the transmitter comprising a pre-coder connected to an antenna array via a transmit unit, the antenna array comprising a number M of antenna elements am, m=1, 2, . . . , M, each antenna element am being configured to receive a respective transmit signal component xm from the pre-coder via the transmit unit, the pre-coder being configured to receive a number K<M of data streams sk, k=1, 2, . . . , K, and to generate the M transmit signal components, wherein the generating comprises adding M shaping components em, m=1, 2, . . . , M, to respective transmit signal components xm, the shaping components em being generated based on a null-space of the channel matrix H and on one or more properties of the transmit unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Ulf Gustavsson, Thomas Eriksson
  • Patent number: 10153793
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to devices, methods, and computer programs in mobile communications in order to reduce signal distortions. Specifically, it relates to a transmitter system which comprises a plurality of signal paths. Each signal path is associated with an input transmission signal. Each signal path comprises an analog portion of the signal path. Each 5 signal path comprises a Dual-Input Digital Predistortion, DI DPD, module. The DI DPD is configured to provide a predistorted input transmission signal to the analog portion in response to a received Crosstalk and Mismatch, CTM, signal and the input transmission signal. The transmitter system further comprises one or more CTM modules configured to receive one or more input transmission signals. The CTM module comprises to separately generate for 10 each DI DPD module the CTM signal, where said CTM signals represent CTM distortions caused by one or more output transmission signals of each said analog portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Katharina Hausmair, Thomas Eriksson, Christian Fager, Ulf Gustavsson
  • Patent number: 10149741
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of attaching a dental component having an angulated screw channel to a dental implant. The present invention also relates to a dental component having an angulated screw channel and a metal adapter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: NOBEL BIOCARE SERVICES AG
    Inventors: Adrian Haus, Lars Jörneus, Thomas Fischer, Thomas Eriksson, Mikael Brunell
  • Publication number: 20180296915
    Abstract: A proximity sensor, including a housing, an array of lenses mounted in the housing, an array of alternating light emitters and light detectors mounted in the housing, each detector being positioned along the image plane of a respective one of the lenses so as to receive maximum light intensity when light enters the lens at a particular angle, an activating unit mounted in the housing and connected to the emitters and detectors, synchronously co-activating each emitter with at least one of the detectors, each activated emitter projecting light out of the housing along a detection plane, and a processor receiving outputs from the detectors corresponding to amounts of projected light reflected by an object in the detection plane to the detectors, and calculating a two-dimensional location of the object in the detection plane based on the detector outputs and the particular angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Inventors: Stefan Holmgren, Sairam Iyer, Richard Berglind, Karl Erik Patrik Nordström, Lars Sparf, Per Rosengren, Erik Rosengren, John Karlsson, Thomas Eriksson, Alexander Jubner, Remo Behdasht, Simon Fellin, Robin Kjell Åman, Joseph Shain
  • Publication number: 20180275865
    Abstract: An adjustable mirror, including a mirror within a fixed housing, whereby at least one angle of the mirror relative to the housing is adjustable, electrical equipment within the housing and attached to the rear of the mirror, operative to adjust the at least one angle of the mirror, a rounded surface projecting toward an operator of the mirror, and a sensor, connected to the electrical equipment, operative to detect the operator's hand following the rounded surface, and to instruct the electrical equipment to adjust the at least one angle of the mirror in response to the detection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Gunnar Martin Fröjdh, Simon Fellin, Thomas Eriksson, John Karlsson, Maria Hedin, Richard Berglind
  • Publication number: 20180241451
    Abstract: A transmitter for radio transmission to one or more receivers over a channel described at least in part by a channel matrix H, the transmitter comprising a pre-coder connected to an antenna array via a transmit unit, the antenna array comprising a number M of antenna elements am, m=1, 2, . . . , M, each antenna element am being configured to receive a respective transmit signal component xm from the pre-coder via the transmit unit, the pre-coder being configured to receive a number K<M of data streams sk, k=1, 2, . . . , K, and to generate the M transmit signal components, wherein the generating comprises adding M shaping components em, m=1, 2, . . . , M, to respective transmit signal components xm, the shaping components em being generated based on a null-space of the channel matrix H and on one or more properties of the transmit unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Inventors: Ulf Gustavsson, Thomas Eriksson
  • Patent number: 10020574
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an antenna arrangement and a method for radio transmission. The antenna arrangement comprises a pre-coder (310) connected to an antenna array (320). The antenna array (320) comprises a number N of antenna elements ai (321), i=1, 2, . . . , N, each antenna element ai being configured to receive a respective transmit signal component TXi from the pre-coder (310). The pre-coder (310) is configured to receive a number M<N of independent data streams sj, j=1, 2, . . . , M, and to generate the N transmit signal components, wherein the generating comprises suppressing a correlation between any two transmit signal components TXi1 and TXi2 received by antenna elements ai1 and ai2 arranged adjacently in the antenna array (320).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Ulf Gustavsson, Thomas Eriksson, Katharina Hausmair, Per Landin
  • Publication number: 20180181209
    Abstract: A proximity sensor including a housing, light emitters mounted in the housing for projecting light out of the housing along a detection plane, light detectors mounted in the housing for detecting amounts of light entering the housing along the detection plane, whereby for each emitter-detector pair (E, D), when an object is located at a target position p(E, D) in the detection plane, corresponding to the pair (E, D), then the light emitted by emitter E is scattered by the object and is expected to be maximally detected by detector D, and a processor to synchronously activate emitter-detector pairs, to read the detected amounts of light from the detectors, and to calculate a location of the object in the detection plane from the detected amounts of light, in accordance with a detection-location relationship that relates detections from emitter-detector pairs to object locations between neighboring target positions in the detection plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2018
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Inventors: Björn Thomas Eriksson, Alexander Jubner, Rozita Teymourzadeh, Håkan Sven Erik Andersson, Per Carl Sture Rosengren, Xiatao Wang, Stefan Johannes Holmgren, Gunnar Martin Fröjdh, Simon Greger Fellin, Jan Tomas Hartman, Per Oscar Sverud, Sangtaek Kim, Rasmus Dahl-Örn, Richard Tom Berglind, Karl Erik Patrik Nordström, Lars Bertil Sparf, Erik Anders Claes Rosengren, John Elis Gösta Karlsson, Remo Behdasht, Robin Kjell Åman, Joseph Shain, Oskar Bertil Hagberg, Joel Verner Rozada
  • Patent number: 10004985
    Abstract: A system including two handheld electronic devices, each device including a housing, a communicator mounted in the housing continuously receiving images from an internet server, a display mounted in the housing, and a sensor mounted in the housing and connected to the communicator, configured to detect sizes of objects in an adjacent detection zone, and including an analyzer recognizing the other handheld electronic device when the sensor detects that an object in the adjacent detection zone is as long as an edge of the housing, wherein the server receives outputs from the analyzer and partitions each of the images into two half-images, and continuously transmits one of each half-image to the handheld electronic device and the other of each half-image to the other handheld device, such that each full image spans the two device displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: Neonode Inc.
    Inventors: Stefan Holmgren, Sairam Iyer, Richard Berglind, Karl Erik Patrik Nordström, Lars Sparf, Per Rosengren, Erik Rosengren, John Karlsson, Thomas Eriksson, Alexander Jubner, Remo Behdasht, Simon Fellin, Robin Kjell Åman, Joseph Shain
  • Patent number: 10007422
    Abstract: A steering wheel for a vehicle, including front and back semi-toroidal surfaces joined at their outer circumferences by a light guide in the shape of a circular rim, and enclosing a toroidal volume having a cavity therein, a PCB mounted in the cavity, an alternating array of invisible-light emitters and receivers mounted on the PCB, such that the light guide projects invisible-light beams emitted by the emitters radially outward of the steering wheel, and directs reflections of the projected light beams off of a driver's hands radially inward to the steering wheel toward the receivers, and a processor connected to equipment mounted away from the steering wheel, the processor synchronously activating each emitter with a respective neighboring receiver, identifying a driver's hand gestures along an arc of the light guide based on reflected light detected by the receivers, and controlling the equipment in response to the thus-identified hand gestures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: Neonode Inc.
    Inventors: Gunnar Martin Fröjdh, Simon Fellin, Thomas Eriksson, John Karlsson, Maria Hedin, Richard Berglind
  • Publication number: 20180167092
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to devices, methods, and computer programs in mobile communications in order to reduce signal distortions. Specifically, it relates to a transmitter system which comprises a plurality of signal paths. Each signal path is associated with an input transmission signal. Each signal path comprises an analogue portion of the signal path. Each 5 signal path comprises a Dual-Input Digital Predistortion, DI DPD, module. The DI DPD is configured to provide a predistorted input transmission signal to the analogue portion in response to a received Crosstalk and Mismatch, CTM, signal and the input transmission signal. The transmitter system further comprises one or more CTM modules configured to receive one or more input transmission signals. The CTM module comprises to separately generate for 10 each DI DPD module the CTM signal, where said CTM signals represent CTM distortions caused by one or more output transmission signals of each said analogue portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Inventors: Katharina HAUSMAIR, Thomas ERIKSSON, Christian FAGER, Ulf GUSTAVSSON
  • Patent number: 9921661
    Abstract: A proximity sensor including a housing, light emitters mounted in the housing for projecting light out of the housing along a detection plane, light detectors mounted in the housing for detecting amounts of light entering the housing along the detection plane, whereby for each emitter-detector pair (E, D), when an object is located at a target position p(E, D) in the detection plane, corresponding to the pair (E, D), then the light emitted by emitter E is scattered by the object and is expected to be maximally detected by detector D, and a processor to synchronously activate emitter-detector pairs, to read the detected amounts of light from the detectors, and to calculate a location of the object in the detection plane from the detected amounts of light, in accordance with a detection-location relationship that relates detections from emitter-detector pairs to object locations between neighboring target positions in the detection plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Neonode Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Eriksson, Alexander Jubner, Rozita Teymourzadeh, Håkan Sven Erik Andersson, Per Rosengren, Xiatao Wang, Stefan Holmgren, Gunnar Martin Fröjdh, Simon Fellin, Jan Tomas Hartman, Oscar Sverud, Sangtaek Kim, Rasmus Dahl-Örn, Richard Berglind, Karl Erik Patrik Nordström, Lars Sparf, Erik Rosengren, John Karlsson, Remo Behdasht, Robin Kjell Åman, Joseph Shain, Oskar Hagberg, Joel Rozada
  • Publication number: 20180014959
    Abstract: An orthosis comprises a palmar splint section aligned with a palm of a hand of a human subject and a wrist and forearm splint section extending from the palmar splint section to a distance corresponding to at least a portion of a forearm of the human subject. A bladder support is pivotally connected to the palmar splint section and comprises a bladder connecting surface opposite to a surface of the bladder support facing the palmar splint section. An inflatable bladder is arranged on the bladder connecting surface and is aligned with MCP joints of the fingers of the hand. The orthosis is particularly useful for human subjects having suffered from neurological diseases or cerebrovascular accident (CVA).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Inventor: Thomas ERIKSSON
  • Patent number: 9831931
    Abstract: An antenna arrangement configured for digital beam-forming of a transmit signal comprising; a number N>1 of digital to analog converters, DACs, each of the N DACs being arranged to receive one respective digital transmit signal component, and to convert and output an analog transmit signal component, each of the N DACs having a respective resolution below a resolution required to fulfill a regulatory radio requirement in an interchangeable antenna arrangement arranged for transmission by a single antenna element connected to a single DAC; and N antenna elements, each of the N antenna elements being configured to receive one respective analog transmit signal component and to transmit the analog transmit signal component as part of the digitally beam-formed transmit signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Ulf Gustavsson, Thomas Eriksson
  • Patent number: 9811163
    Abstract: A device including an elastic layer that, when depressed by an object, causes a local indentation in the layer, the geometry of the local indentation being in accordance with a force of depression, light emitters, light detectors, a light guide between the emitters and the layer directing light beams from the emitters into the layer at an angle such that the light beams, after entering the layer, remain confined to the layer by total internal reflection, a light guide between the detectors and the layer that directs light beams exiting the layer onto the detectors, each detector having a reference output value corresponding to expected light detection when no object is touching the layer, and a processor determining the object's force of depression based on the geometry of the local indentation in the layer, as calibrated by a deviation between actual and reference output values for one of the detectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Neonode Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Eriksson, Michael Lawrence Elyan
  • Publication number: 20170308281
    Abstract: A user interface for a vehicle, including a steering wheel for the vehicle, including a grip, a sensor operable to detect objects at a plurality of locations along the grip, and an illuminator operable to illuminate different portions of the grip, a processor in communication with the sensor, with the illuminator and with a controller of vehicle functions, and a non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions which cause the processor: to identify, via the sensor, a location of a first object along the grip, to illuminate, via the illuminator, a portion of the grip, adjacent to the identified location, to further identify, via the sensor, a second object being at the illuminated portion of the grip, and to activate, via the controller, a vehicle function in response to the second object identified as being at the illuminated portion of the grip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2017
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Inventors: Alexander Jubner, Thomas Eriksson, Gunnar Martin Fröjdh, Simon Fellin, Stefan Holmgren
  • Publication number: 20170310000
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an antenna arrangement and a method for radio transmission. The antenna arrangement comprises a pre-coder (310) connected to an antenna array (320). The antenna array (320) comprises a number N of antenna elements ai (321), i=1, 2, . . . , N, each antenna element ai being configured to receive a respective transmit signal component TXi from the pre-coder (310). The pre-coder (310) is configured to receive a number M<N of independent data streams sj, j=1, 2, . . . , M, and to generate the N transmit signal components, wherein the generating comprises suppressing a correlation between any two transmit signal components TXi1 and TXi2 received by antenna elements ai1 and ai2 arranged adjacently in the antenna array (320).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Applicant: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Ulf GUSTAVSSON, Thomas ERIKSSON, Katharina HAUSMAIR, Per LANDIN
  • Patent number: 9799439
    Abstract: An electrical power component, such as a bushing. The power component includes a housing, a condenser core arranged in the housing and including an electrical insulation, a space formed between the condenser core and the housing, an expansion vessel positioned adjacent and in open communication with the space between the condenser core and the housing, and an electrically insulating fluid, such as oil, contained in the space between the condenser core and the. The power component further includes one or more filler elements having a higher density and lower thermal expansion coefficient than the fluid, and the one or more filler elements are movably arranged in the expansion vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Peter Sjöberg, Robert Floresjö, Simon Lindgren, Thomas Eriksson, Anders Östlund
  • Patent number: 9778794
    Abstract: A state machine for controlling a sensor including a chip package coupled with photo-emitters and photo-detectors mounted in a device, and with a host processor, including an emitter driver, a detector driver, a signal processor for generating signals representing amounts of light detected by the detectors, and a scan controller for controlling the emitter and detector drivers to activate an automated sequence of emitter-detector pairs, the scan controller including registers for storing parameters designating emitter-detector pairs that are to be activated during the automated sequence, and for storing the signals generated by the signal processor for the emitter-detector pair activations, and at least one input/output pin for receiving parameters from the host processor to be loaded into the registers, and for outputting the stored signals in the registers to the host processor, for the host processor to identify therefrom location coordinates of an object near or touching the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Neonode Inc.
    Inventors: Anders Jansson, Magnus Goertz, Thomas Eriksson, Joseph Shain, Niklas Kvist, Robert Pettersson, Lars Sparf, John Karlsson