Patents by Inventor Way-Shing Lee
Way-Shing Lee 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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Publication number: 20110217969Abstract: A mobile communication device with multiple subscriptions includes a single baseband-radio frequency (BB-RF) resource chain. A first identity module, such as a subscriber identity module (SIM), a second identity module (e.g., a second SIM), and a controller are communicatively coupled to the single BB-RF resource chain. The first identity module is associated with a first subscription, and the second identity module is associated with a second subscription. The controller may be configured to arbitrate access to the single BB-RF resource chain to perform a first activity that corresponds to the first subscription or a second activity that corresponds to the second subscription. For example, the controller may interrupt a data session processed by the single BB-RF resource chain in response to receiving information indicating that a voice call is to be processed by the single BB-RF resource chain.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2011Publication date: September 8, 2011Applicant: QUALCOMM, IncorporatedInventors: Michael K. Spartz, Rajiv R. Nambiar, Way-Shing Lee, Glenn A. Salaman, Francis M. Ngai, Reza Shahidi
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Patent number: 7873815Abstract: DSP architectures having improved performance are described. In an exemplary architecture, a DSP includes two MAC units and two ALUs, where one of the ALUs replaces an adder for one of the two MAC units. This DSP may be configured to operate in a dual-MAC/single-ALU configuration, a single-MAC/dual-ALU configuration, or a dual-MAC/dual-ALU configuration. This flexibility allows the DSP to handle various types of signal processing operations and improves utilization of the available hardware. The DSP architectures further includes pipeline registers that break up critical paths and allow operations at a higher clock speed for greater throughput.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2004Date of Patent: January 18, 2011Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Gilbert C. Sih, De D. Hsu, Way-Shing Lee, Xufeng Chen
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Patent number: 7684474Abstract: Demodulator architectures for processing a received signal in a wireless communications system. The demodulator includes a number of correlators coupled to a combiner. Each correlator typically receives and despreads input samples (which are generated from the received signal) with a respective despreading sequence to provide despread samples. Each correlator then decovers the despread samples to provide decovered “half-symbols” and further demodulates the decovered half-symbols with pilot estimates to generate correlated symbols. The decovering is performed with a Walsh symbol having a length (T) that is half the length (2T) of a Walsh symbol used to cover the data symbols in the transmitted signal. The combiner selectively combines correlated symbols from the assigned correlators to provide demodulated symbols. One or more correlators can be assigned to process one or more instances of each transmitted signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2007Date of Patent: March 23, 2010Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Douglas Neal Rowitch, Way-Shing Lee, Thunyachate Ekvetchavit
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Patent number: 7623566Abstract: Demodulator architectures for processing a received signal in a wireless communications system. The demodulator includes a number of correlators coupled to a combiner. Each correlator typically receives and despreads input samples (which are generated from the received signal) with a respective despreading sequence to provide despread samples. Each correlator then decovers the despread samples to provide decovered “half-symbols” and further demodulates the decovered half-symbols with pilot estimates to generate correlated symbols. The decovering is performed with a Walsh symbol having a length (T) that is half the length (2T) of a Walsh symbol used to cover the data symbols in the transmitted signal. The combiner selectively combines correlated symbols from the assigned correlators to provide demodulated symbols. One or more correlators can be assigned to process one or more instances of each transmitted signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2007Date of Patent: November 24, 2009Assignee: Qualcomm IncorporatedInventors: Douglas Neal Rowitch, Way-Shing Lee, Thunyachate Ekvetchavit
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Patent number: 7278043Abstract: A method for overload detection according to one embodiment of the invention includes a control process and a data process. In response to a timing signal, the control process sets a state of a timing indicator. Upon execution of a time-constrained operation, the data process checks the state of the timing indicator. In other embodiments, subsequent to an overload detection, an auxiliary data process is configured to execute in a mode that consumes fewer processing cycles.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2002Date of Patent: October 2, 2007Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventor: Way-Shing Lee
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Publication number: 20070116102Abstract: Demodulator architectures for processing a received signal in a wireless communications system. The demodulator includes a number of correlators coupled to a combiner. Each correlator typically receives and despreads input samples (which are generated from the received signal) with a respective despreading sequence to provide despread samples. Each correlator then decovers the despread samples to provide decovered “half-symbols” and further demodulates the decovered half-symbols with pilot estimates to generate correlated symbols. The decovering is performed with a Walsh symbol having a length (T) that is half the length (2T) of a Walsh symbol used to cover the data symbols in the transmitted signal. The combiner selectively combines correlated symbols from the assigned correlators to provide demodulated symbols. One or more correlators can be assigned to process one or more instances of each transmitted signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2007Publication date: May 24, 2007Applicant: QUALCOMM, INC.Inventors: Douglas Rowitch, Way-Shing Lee, Thunyachate Ekvetchavit
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Publication number: 20070116101Abstract: Demodulator architectures for processing a received signal in a wireless communications system. The demodulator includes a number of correlators coupled to a combiner. Each correlator typically receives and despreads input samples (which are generated from the received signal) with a respective despreading sequence to provide despread samples. Each correlator then decovers the despread samples to provide decovered “half-symbols” and further demodulates the decovered half-symbols with pilot estimates to generate correlated symbols. The decovering is performed with a Walsh symbol having a length (T) that is half the length (2T) of a Walsh symbol used to cover the data symbols in the transmitted signal. The combiner selectively combines correlated symbols from the assigned correlators to provide demodulated symbols. One or more correlators can be assigned to process one or more instances of each transmitted signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2007Publication date: May 24, 2007Applicant: QUALCOMM, INC.Inventors: Douglas Rowitch, Way-Shing Lee, Thunyachate Ekvetchavit
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Patent number: 7184463Abstract: Demodulator architectures for processing a received signal in a wireless communications system. The demodulator includes a number of correlators coupled to a combiner. Each correlator typically receives and despreads input samples (which are generated from the received signal) with a respective despreading sequence to provide despread samples. Each correlator then decovers the despread samples to provide decovered “half-symbols” and further demodulates the decovered half-symbols with pilot estimates to generate correlated symbols. The decovering is performed with a Walsh symbol having a length (T) that is half the length (2T) of a Walsh symbol used to cover the data symbols in the transmitted signal. The combiner selectively combines correlated symbols from the assigned correlators to provide demodulated symbols. One or more correlators can be assigned to process one or more instances of each transmitted signal.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2003Date of Patent: February 27, 2007Assignee: Qualcomm, IncorporatedInventors: Douglas Neal Rowitch, Way-Shing Lee, Thunyachate Ekvetchavit
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Patent number: 7031269Abstract: An apparatus and method for echo cancellation is presented. The echo canceller comprises an adaptive filter that tracks the impulse response of the echo path and produces an estimate of the echo. Filter adaptation is controlled by a controller based on the rate of the far-end speech signal, the rate of the near-end signal, an acoustic loss measure, and a double talk hangover indicator. The controller may also comprise a step size adaptation unit for determining the adaptation step size of the adaptive filter. In addition, the controller may comprise a noise replacement unit, which controls replacement of the echo residual signal with comfort noise to ensure echo is completely rejected when only the far-end speaker is talking.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2003Date of Patent: April 18, 2006Assignee: Qualcomm IncorporatedInventor: Way-Shing Lee
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Publication number: 20050198472Abstract: DSP architectures having improved performance are described. In an exemplary architecture, a DSP includes two MAC units and two ALUs, where one of the ALUs replaces an adder for one of the two MAC units. This DSP may be configured to operate in a dual-MAC/single-ALU configuration, a single-MAC/dual-ALU configuration, or a dual-MAC/dual-ALU configuration. This flexibility allows the DSP to handle various types of signal processing operations and improves utilization of the available hardware. The DSP architectures further includes pipeline registers that break up critical paths and allow operations at a higher clock speed for greater throughput.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2004Publication date: September 8, 2005Inventors: Gilbert Sih, De Hsu, Way-Shing Lee, Xufeng Chen
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Publication number: 20040042536Abstract: Demodulator architectures for processing a received signal in a wireless communications system. The demodulator includes a number of correlators coupled to a combiner. Each correlator typically receives and despreads input samples (which are generated from the received signal) with a respective despreading sequence to provide despread samples. Each correlator then decovers the despread samples to provide decovered “half-symbols” and further demodulates the decovered half-symbols with pilot estimates to generate correlated symbols. The decovering is performed with a Walsh symbol having a length (T) that is half the length (2T) of a Walsh symbol used to cover the data symbols in the transmitted signal. The combiner selectively combines correlated symbols from the assigned correlators to provide demodulated symbols. One or more correlators can be assigned to process one or more instances of each transmitted signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2003Publication date: March 4, 2004Inventors: Douglas Neal Rowitch, Way-Shing Lee, Thunyachate Ekvetchavit
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Patent number: 6700922Abstract: A spread spectrum wireless device (100) may include a receiver (110), a searcher (128), a search controller (130) and other features. The search controller (130) selectively generates control signals to control the searcher (128), which searches for a spread-spectrum signal. In one embodiment, the architecture of the searcher (128) is dynamically configurable by the search controller (130) to selectively search multiple channels using multiple frequency bins for the signal.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2003Date of Patent: March 2, 2004Inventors: Raghu Challa, Farrokh Abrishamkar, Ian Fevrier, Serguei Glazko, Way-Shing Lee, Christopher Patrick, Gil Sih
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Publication number: 20030193992Abstract: A spread spectrum wireless device (100) may include a receiver (110), a searcher (128), a search controller (130) and other features. The search controller (130) selectively generates control signals to control the searcher (128), which searches for a spread-spectrum signal. In one embodiment, the architecture of the searcher (128) is dynamically configurable by the search controller (130) to selectively search multiple channels using multiple frequency bins for the signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2003Publication date: October 16, 2003Inventors: Raghu Challa, Farrokh Abrishamkar, Ian Fevrier, Serguei Glazko, Way-Shing Lee, Christopher Patrick, Gil Sih
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Patent number: 6628702Abstract: Demodulator architectures for processing a received signal in a wireless communications system. The demodulator includes a number of correlators coupled to a combiner. Each correlator typically receives and despreads input samples (which are generated from the received signal) with a respective despreading sequence to provide despread samples. Each correlator then decovers the despread samples to provide decovered “half-symbols” and further demodulates the decovered half-symbols with pilot estimates to generate correlated symbols. The decovering is performed with a Walsh symbol having a length (T) that is half the length (2T) of a Walsh symbol used to cover the data symbols in the transmitted signal. The combiner selectively combines correlated symbols from the assigned correlators to provide demodulated symbols. One or more correlators can be assigned to process one or more instances of each transmitted signal.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2000Date of Patent: September 30, 2003Assignee: Qualcomm, IncorporatedInventors: Douglas Neal Rowitch, Way-Shing Lee, Thunyachate Ekvetchavit
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Publication number: 20030174661Abstract: An apparatus and method for echo cancellation is presented. The echo canceller comprises an adaptive filter that tracks the impulse response of the echo path and produces an estimate of the echo. Filter adaptation is controlled by a controller based on the rate of the far-end speech signal, the rate of the near-end signal, an acoustic loss measure, and a double talk hangover indicator. The controller may also comprise a step size adaptation unit for determining the adaptation step size of the adaptive filter. In addition, the controller may comprise a noise replacement unit, which controls replacement of the echo residual signal with comfort noise to ensure echo is completely rejected when only the far-end speaker is talking.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2003Publication date: September 18, 2003Inventor: Way-Shing Lee
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Publication number: 20030171826Abstract: A method for overload detection according to one embodiment of the invention includes a control process and a data process. In response to a timing signal, the control process sets a state of a timing indicator. Upon execution of a time-constrained operation, the data process checks the state of the timing indicator. In other embodiments, subsequent to an overload detection, an auxiliary data process is configured to execute in a mode that consumes fewer processing cycles.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2002Publication date: September 11, 2003Inventor: Way-Shing Lee
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Patent number: 6615341Abstract: A digital signal processor (DSP) employs a variable-length instruction set. A portion of the variable-length instructions may be stored in adjacent locations within memory space with the beginning and ending of instructions occurring across memory word boundaries. The instructions may contain variable numbers of instruction fragments. Each instruction fragment causes a particular operation, or operations, to be performed allowing multiple operations during each clock cycle. The DSP includes multiple data buses, and in particular three data buses. The DSP may also use a register bank that has registers accessible by at least two processing units, allowing multiple operations to be performed on a particular set of data by the multiple processing units, without reading and writing the data to and from a memory. an instruction fetch unit that receives instructions of variable length stored in an instruction memory. An instruction memory may advantageously be separate from the three data memories.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2001Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.Inventors: Gilbert C. Sih, Qiuzhen Zou, Inyup Kang, Quaeed Motiwala, Deepu John, Li Zhang, Haitao Zhang, Way-Shing Lee, Charles E. Sakamaki, Prashant A. Kantak, Sanjay K. Jha, Jian Lin
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Patent number: 6606700Abstract: The invention is a digital signal processor architecture that is designed to speed up frequently-used signal processing computations, such as FIR filters, correlations, FFTs, and DFTs. The architecture uses a coupled dual-MAC architecture (MAC1), (MAC2) and attaches a dual-MAC coprocessor (MAC3), (MAC4) onto it in a unique way to achieve a significant increase in processing capability.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2000Date of Patent: August 12, 2003Assignee: Qualcomm, IncorporatedInventors: Gilbert C. Sih, Hemant Kumar, Way-Shing Lee
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Patent number: 6580746Abstract: A spread spectrum wireless device (100) may include a receiver (110), a searcher (128), a search controller (130) and other features. The search controller (130) selectively generates control signals to control the searcher (128), which searches for a spread-spectrum signal. In one embodiment, the architecture of the searcher (128) is dynamically configurable by the search controller (130) to selectively search multiple channels using multiple frequency bins for the signal.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2001Date of Patent: June 17, 2003Assignee: Qualcomm IncorporatedInventors: Raghu Challa, Farrokh Abrishamkar, Ian Fevrier, Serguei Glazko, Way-Shing Lee, Christopher Patrick, Gil Sih
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Patent number: 6563803Abstract: An apparatus and method for echo cancellation is presented. The echo canceller comprises an adaptive filter that tracks the impulse response of the echo path and produces an estimate of the echo. Filter adaptation is controlled by a controller based on the rate of the far-end speech signal, the rate of the near-end signal, an acoustic loss measure, and a double talk hangover indicator. The controller may also comprise a step size adaptation unit for determining the adaptation step size of the adaptive filter. In addition, the controller may comprise a noise replacement unit, which controls replacement of the echo residual signal with comfort noise to ensure echo is completely rejected when only the far-end speaker is talking.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 1998Date of Patent: May 13, 2003Assignee: Qualcomm IncorporatedInventor: Way-Shing Lee