Patents by Inventor Wilhelmus Johannes Van Houtum

Wilhelmus Johannes Van Houtum 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: 20240125918
    Abstract: Joint communication and sensing by a joint communication and sensing system in a wireless network is disclosed. A transmitter is arranged to transmit a first beam in a direction selected from a plurality of directions stored in a memory, where each direction corresponds to a direction of a respective remote device. The first beam comprises communication symbols to be communicated to the remote device in the direction during a communication session with the remote device. A reflection of the transmitted first beam is received via a receive antenna during the communication session, where the reflected first beam comprises the communication symbols. A position of one or more objects is identified based on a timing of transmission and receipt of the communication symbols in the transmitted first beam and the reflected first beam respectively and the sense symbols in the transmitted second beam and the reflected second beam respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Ashish Pandharipande, Wilhelmus Johannes van Houtum
  • Publication number: 20240103152
    Abstract: Radar localization systems and methods are provided to determine the location of an object. The radar localization systems and methods can determine the location of an object based on data obtained from at least two radar measurements made by the radar localization device. In some embodiments, a radar localization system can be included in a wireless communications system that conducts both wireless communications and radar sensing. Radar localization systems include at least a computing unit that performs a radar localization method. Radar localization methods may use map data in object localization to eliminate non-feasible locations of the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Ashish Pandharipande, Wilhelmus Johannes van Houtum, Leendert Albertus Dick van den Broeke, Paul Mattheijssen
  • Publication number: 20230314562
    Abstract: Phase noise reduction is described for symmetric bistatic radar. In one example, a first beat signal is generated of a second signal received at a first antenna and a third beat signal is generated at a second antenna of a first linear antenna array. A second beat signal is generated of a first signal received at a first antenna of a second linear antenna array. The first beat signal and the third beat signal are multiplied with the complex conjugate of the second beat signal to generate products that are combined to generate a phase estimation correction term that is applied to first and second sets of radar return signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Wilhelmus Johannes van Houtum, Arie Geert Cornelis Koppelaar
  • Publication number: 20220376727
    Abstract: A wireless receiver wireless receiver unit (200) having a plurality of antennas comprises a spatial phase corrector circuit (234) connected to a first and second receiver (220, 222) and comprises: a computation circuit (330) configured to generate a spatial-covariance matrix, SCM, of a received first and second AM signal; a signal decomposition circuit (334) configured to generate an Eigen-value decomposition, EVD, (336) of the SCM; and a processor (340) configured to analyse the EVD of the SCM of the received first and second AM signal and select and output a principal Eigen-vector that is representative of at least a first weight (350) and a second weight (352). A combiner (240) is configured to apply the first weight (350) to the first AM signal received and apply the second weight (352) to the second AM signal received and coherently combine and output (250) the received weight-applied first and second AM signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventor: Wilhelmus Johannes van Houtum
  • Patent number: 7392031
    Abstract: A method of canceling a narrow-band interference signal in a receiver is provided. A reference signal (ref_in) is subtracted from a received input signal (in). the phase of a result of the subtraction is calculated on the basis of an arctangent function. An unwrap function on the output signal from the arctangent function is performed by removing the modulo 2? limitation introduced with the arctangent function, in order to produce an absolute phase representation. A frequency offset is determined by comparing phase representation values which are shifted predetermined in time. The narrow-band interference signal is canceled based on the result of the determined frequency offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2008
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventor: Wilhelmus Johannes Van Houtum
  • Patent number: 7305053
    Abstract: A method of detecting frequency errors in a receiver during frame synchronization. A fast synchronization and reliable reception of the data requires a fast determination of frequency errors in the received signal. In CPFSK and OFDM, the frequency offset is even more important because of potential subcarrier interference. The method operates in the time domain and removes the 2p limitation in the phase representation by an unwrap function allowing a precise frequency determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2007
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventor: Wilhelmus Johannes Van Houtum
  • Patent number: 7103061
    Abstract: The CDMA communication system according to the invention comprises at least one primary station (2) and a plurality of secondary stations (4). The primary station (2) and the secondary stations (4) can exchange CDMA signals (18) via a communication medium (6). The secondary stations (4) each comprise a modulator (10) for modulating data signals (16) with code words (14) in order to obtain the CDMA signals (18). A modulator (10) of a secondary station (4) initially modulates its data signal (16) with an initial code word until that secondary station (4) is synchronized with the primary station (2). From that moment on the data signal (16) is modulated with a final code word. Ideally, an initial code word is used which is, for every possible time shift of that code, substantially orthogonal to all the final code words in use by the already synchronized secondary stations (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2006
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Wilhelmus Johannes Van Houtum, Carel Jan Leendert Van Driel