Hum Or Noise Or Distortion Bucking Introduced Into Signal Channel Patents (Class 330/149)
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Patent number: 9451218Abstract: A wireless synchronous system includes an apparatus and a sensor device. The apparatus has a radio communication unit for performing synchronous communication with an external apparatus. The apparatus generates a radio synchronizing signal having a predetermined cycle synchronized with the synchronous communication and determines a timing of controlling the apparatus based on the radio synchronizing signal. The sensor device has a radio communication unit for performing synchronous communication with the external apparatus. The sensor generates a radio synchronizing signal having a predetermined cycle being synchronized with the synchronous communication, obtains detection-data representing a state of the sensor device, and determines a timing of obtaining the detection-data in accordance with the radio synchronizing signal.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2013Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Toshio Hanabusa
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Patent number: 9444412Abstract: A distortion compensation apparatus includes a pre-distorter, a gain control unit, and a learning unit. The pre-distorter adds distortion according to compensation coefficients to individual input signals prior to the input signals being input to a power amplifier. The gain control unit applies gain control to individual feedback signals fed back from the power amplifier according to a maximum level of the feedback signals within a time frame. The learning unit updates the compensation coefficients used by the pre-distorter, using the feedback signals subjected to the gain control by the gain control unit.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2014Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventor: Alexander Nikolaevich Lozhkin
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Patent number: 9438191Abstract: An RF power amplifier circuit has an input terminal for receiving an input signal having an input power, and an output terminal for outputting an output signal. The RF power amplifier circuit comprises three amplifier stages and an input power splitter for providing respective power fraction signals to respective inputs of each amplifier stage. The input power splitter comprises a first input transmission line arranged between a first node and a second node, a second input transmission line arranged between a third node and a fourth node, and an electrical reactive element having a first terminal electrically connected to both the first and the second nodes, and a second terminal electrically coupled to a third one of the respective three inputs.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2014Date of Patent: September 6, 2016Assignee: FREESCALE SEMICONDUCTOR, INC.Inventor: Igor Ivanovich Blednov
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Patent number: 9438186Abstract: A device and a method for an amplifier having reduced intermodulation (IM) distortion output products are presented. An amplifier has an output, and at least one of a gate bias input and a drain supply input. The amplifier is configured to receive an input signal and output an amplified signal at the output of the amplified. An input is configured to receive an envelope signal. The input is connected to the at least one of the gate bias input and the drain supply input and the envelope signal is at least partially determined by an attribute of the input signal to the amplifier. A controller is configured to modify at least one of an amplitude and a phase of the envelope signal to reduce a magnitude of an intermodulation distortion product of the amplifier.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2014Date of Patent: September 6, 2016Assignee: FREESCALE SEMICONDUCTOR, INC.Inventors: Ramanujam Srinidhi Embar, Abdulrhman M. S Ahmed, Roy McLaren, Sarmad K. Musa, Joseph Staudinger
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Patent number: 9438177Abstract: A pre-distortion method includes: receiving an input data; and obtaining a pre-distorted output by inputting the input data into a pre-distortion function, wherein the pre-distortion function is determined according to a power amplifier. A pre-distortion apparatus includes a receiver and a pre-distortion unit. The receiver is utilized for receiving an input data. The pre-distortion unit is utilized for obtaining a pre-distorted output by inputting the input data into a pre-distortion function, wherein the pre-distortion function is determined according to a following power amplifier. A non-transitory machine readable medium stores a program code executed for performing steps of the proposed pre-distortion method.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2014Date of Patent: September 6, 2016Assignee: Realtek Semiconductor Corp.Inventor: Yuan-Shuo Chang
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Patent number: 9413539Abstract: A Pre-distortion mechanism for transmit path non-linearity in xDSL AFE is disclosed in the present invention. The AFE includes a line driver and a pre-distortion signal generator. The line driver receives an input differential signal and generates an output differential signal. The input differential signal includes a first input signal and a second input signal. The output differential signal includes a first output signal and a second output signal. The line driver receives the first input signal to generate the first output signal and receives the second input signal to generate the second output signal. The pre-distortion signal generator is coupled to input ends and output ends of the line driver.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2014Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORP.Inventors: Hung-Chen Chu, Yung Tai Chen, Shian-Ru Lin
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Patent number: 9408157Abstract: Measures for enabling per-carrier power control for inter-band multi-carrier capable devices, such as for example inter-band carrier aggregation capable devices. Such measures may for example comprise calculating a desired cumulative output power value for a combination of at least two uplink carriers of a terminal device, said two uplink carriers operating on different bands, setting an output power value for each of the at least two uplink carriers of the terminal device based on the calculated desired cumulative output power value, and providing, for the terminal device, a power control instruction for the at least two uplink carriers at the terminal device in accordance with the output power values set for the at least two uplink carriers.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2013Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Inventors: Antti Oskari Immonen, Jouni Kristian Kaukovuori
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Patent number: 9408001Abstract: A method and device for compensating sensorineural hearing loss in a manner that allows dysfunction of the inner and outer hair cells to be separately compensated is described. The disclosed techniques involve providing separately adjustable compression pathways for the received sound.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2014Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: Starkey Laboratories, Inc.Inventor: Thomas A. Scheller
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Patent number: 9379744Abstract: The radio system comprises a radio unit and an antenna unit coupled to the radio unit. The antenna unit is physically separate and located remote from the radio unit. The antenna unit further comprises a digital pre-distortion engine configured to pre-distort a modulated digital data signal; a digital to analog converter configured to convert the pre-distorted digital data signal to a pre-distorted analog data signal; and a power amplifier configured to amplify the pre-distorted analog data signal which distorts the pre-distorted analog data signal. The distortion introduced by the power amplifier is opposite to the pre-distortion introduced by the digital pre-distortion engine such that the pre-distortion introduced by the digital pre-distortion engine approximately cancels the distortion introduced by the power amplifier.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2014Date of Patent: June 28, 2016Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Jan Bilek, Alfonso Malaga, Radek Zaruba, Vit Stencel, Martin Mlaskac
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Patent number: 9379742Abstract: A radio frequency (RF) transmitter including at least one digital signal processing module is described. The at least one digital signal processing module is arranged to receive a complex digital input signal, successively apply pre-distortion to the received complex digital input signal with a progressively finer granularity, simultaneously progressively increase a sampling rate of the received complex digital input signal, and output a first, in-phase digital control word and a second, quadrature, digital control word for controlling at least one digital power amplifier component to generate an RF signal representative of the received complex digital input signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2012Date of Patent: June 28, 2016Assignee: Mediatek Singapore Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Hua Wang, Paul Cheng Po Liang, Chun-Hsien Peng, Ho-Chi Huang
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Patent number: 9379673Abstract: A device includes a main two-stage low noise amplifier (LNA) configured to amplify a carrier aggregation (CA) communication signal, the main two-stage LNA comprising a first LNA stage and a second LNA stage, an output of the first LNA stage having a first stage second order intermodulation product, the second LNA stage comprising a phase-inverter configured to phase-invert the output of the first LNA stage to generate a second stage phase-inverted output, and an auxiliary LNA stage coupled to the main two-stage LNA, the auxiliary LNA stage configured to cancel the first stage second order intermodulation product.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2014Date of Patent: June 28, 2016Assignee: Qualcomm IncorporatedInventors: Chuan Wang, Dongling Pan, Yiwu Tang, Klaas van Zalinge, Muhammad Hassan
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Patent number: 9374055Abstract: A hybrid, translinear amplifier has at least one gain stage including first and second gain transistors, at least a first load transistor electrically coupled to the first gain transistor and at least a second load transistor electrically coupled to the second gain transistor, and load resistors electrically coupled to the load transistors. A hybrid, translinear amplifier with selectable gain has a first hybrid, translinear amplifier cell having at least first and second load transistors, each load transistor having a load resistor, at least one additional hybrid, translinear amplifier cell having at least third, fourth, fifth and sixth load transistors, each load transistor having a load resistor, at least two switches electrically coupled to the amplifier cells to allow selection of one of the amplifier cells, and a differential output signal having a gain corresponding to a selected amplifier cell.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2014Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: Analog Devices, Inc.Inventor: Barrie Gilbert
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Patent number: 9374112Abstract: A digital pre-distortion component includes: a first capturing component that captures a first sample set of data; a first generating component that generates a first change matrix associated with a portion of the first sample set of data; a first memory component that stores the first change matrix; a second capturing component that captures a second sample set of data; a second generating component that generates a second change matrix associated with a portion of the second sample set of data; a second memory component that stores the second change matrix; a third capturing component that captures a third sample set of data; a third generating component that generates a third change matrix associated with a portion of the third sample set of data; a comparing component that compares the third change matrix with the first change matrix to obtain a first comparison, and compares the third change matrix with the second change matrix to obtain a second comparison; and an adapting component that adapts the digiType: GrantFiled: September 2, 2014Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATEDInventors: Zigang Yang, Raul Blazquez, Hardik Prakash Gandhi, Xiaohan Chen, Lars Jorgensen
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Patent number: 9369092Abstract: The present application discloses a feed-forward amplifier device and the method thereof. The device comprises: a splitter for splitting an input signal into two portions; a non-linear amplifier for amplifying the input signal and producing inter-modulation products; a carrier canceling unit for generating pure inter-modulation products; a linear amplifier for amplifying the pure inter-modulation products; and a coupler for generating final output signal by counteracting the inter-modulation products with the amplified pure inter-modulation products; wherein the splitter and the carrier canceling unit are provided in digital base band. According to the present disclosure, pure inter-modulation products can be generated and adjusted more flexibly and more accurately in digital base band, and hence ideal output signal may be generated.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2012Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M EricssonInventors: Xiang Zeng, Changjiang Yang, Tao Huang
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Patent number: 9362967Abstract: Systems and methods for suppressing transmitter noise in a receive band of a co-located receiver that are suitable for wideband applications are disclosed. In one embodiment, an analog radio frequency transmit signal output by a transmitter includes a desired signal in a transmit band of the transmitter and transmitter noise in a receive band of a main receiver. A secondary receiver obtains a secondary receiver input signal that is representative of at least the transmitter noise in the receive band of the main receiver and outputs a digital feedforward signal. A digital feedforward transmit noise cancellation subsystem generates a digital transmitter noise cancellation signal that is representative of the transmitter noise in the receive band based on the digital feedforward signal and subtracts the digital transmitter noise cancellation signal from a digital receive signal output by the main receiver to thereby provide a compensated digital receive signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2015Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)Inventor: Mark Wyville
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Patent number: 9362869Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer program for modeling mathematically an effect of a plurality of factors on signal distortion caused by a non-linear amplifier are provided. First, there is computed a global model which incorporates a combined effect of the plurality of factors on signal distortion caused by the non-linear amplifier. Before applying the pre-distorted transmission signal to the non-linear amplifier, a transmission signal is pre-distorted with coefficients derived from the global model thus compensating for the signal distortion caused by the non-linear amplifier.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2011Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks OyInventors: Frank Dechen, Bjoern Jelonnek, Michael Weber
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Patent number: 9362942Abstract: A digital to analog converter samples a first digital signal to produce first digital values and that outputs a first analog signal corresponding to the first digital values to a system. A mixer mixes a second analog signal output by the system in response to the first analog signal with a periodic signal to produce a mixed signal. An integrator integrates the mixed signal and generates an integrator signal based on the integration. An analog to digital converter converts samples of the integrator signal into second digital values. A correction module generates third digital values based on the first digital values and corrections for the integrator and the DAC. A correction determination module determines coefficients based on pairs of ones of the third digital values and ones of the second digital values. A pre-distortion module pre-distorts a second digital signal based on the coefficients to produce the first digital signal.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2015Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: Maxim Integrated Products, Inc.Inventor: Nikolaus Hammler
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Patent number: 9350580Abstract: An aspect of the solution herein is directed to a receiver arrangement (100) including multiple RF-filters (RF1, RF2, RF3) and RF-attenuators (RF-A1, RF-A2, RF-A3), one for each of multiple frequency bands (RX1, RX2, RX3), where each RF-attenuator (RF-A1, RF-A2, RF-A3) is provided with a respective power splitter (PS1, PS2, PS3) that connects the RF-attenuator to an average power detector (Pave), which is configured to monitor an average power of each frequency band, where all frequency bands share a common antenna arrangement (110), at least one common LNA (112, 112a, 112b) and a common mixer arrangement (114) configured to mix all frequency bands into a common analog signal, and where a peak power monitor arrangement (201) is configured to monitor the peak power of the common analog signal, wherein, the receiver arrangement includes a digitizer arrangement (200) configured to control the gain of each RF-attenuator based on the monitored average power of each band from the average power detector and a detectType: GrantFiled: September 25, 2013Date of Patent: May 24, 2016Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventors: Georgios Sidiropoulos, Karl-Erik Assarsson, Vimar Björk
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Patent number: 9342868Abstract: An image display device is capable of realizing an effective corrected shape of the image. The image display device includes an image input section to which an image is input, an aspect ratio determination section adapted to determine an aspect ratio of the image input to the image input section, a correction section adapted to perform a correction on the image input to the image input section so that the image has an aspect ratio corresponding to an aspect ratio determined by the aspect ratio determination section, and a projection section adapted to project the image on which the correction is performed by the correction section.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2013Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Shiki Furui
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Patent number: 9337783Abstract: A distortion compensation apparatus includes: a storage unit that stores a distortion compensation coefficient; a distortion-compensation-coefficient selecting unit that takes a logarithm of power of an input signal and exponentiates a value obtained by taking the logarithm, and that selects a distortion compensation coefficient that is stored in the storage unit according to a value obtained by the exponentiating; a distortion-compensation processing unit that acquires the selected distortion compensation coefficient from the storage unit, and that performs distortion compensation processing on the input signal to the distortion-compensation-coefficient selecting unit using the acquired distortion compensation coefficient; an amplifier that amplifies the signal subjected to the distortion compensation processing; and a distortion-compensation-coefficient updating unit that updates the distortion compensation coefficient stored in the storage unit based on the amplified signal and the input signal to the distType: GrantFiled: November 24, 2014Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Satoshi Matsubara, Mitsuharu Hamano, Hideharu Shako
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Patent number: 9337782Abstract: Integrated circuits are provided with wireless communications circuitry having digital predistortion (DPD) circuitry, peak canceling circuitry, a power amplifier, and signal conditioning circuitry for controlling the DPD and peak canceling circuitry. The peak canceling circuitry may receive transmit signals and may clip peaks in the transmit signals that exceed a magnitude threshold value. The DPD circuitry may compensate for non-linear characteristics of the power amplifier by outputting a predistorted version of the clipped transmit signals. The power amplifier may receive the predistorted signals and may perform amplification to generate amplified signals. The signal conditioning circuitry may identify power transfer characteristics of the power amplifier and DPD circuitry using the predistorted signals and the amplified signals.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2014Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: Altera CorporationInventors: Volker Mauer, Nima Safari, Shahin Gheitanchi, Richard Maiden
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Patent number: 9312892Abstract: The present invention discloses a digital pre-distortion circuit capable of compensating an analog circuit for its non-linear characteristic. An embodiment of said digital pre-distortion circuit comprises: a pre-distortion training circuit and a pre-distortion circuit. Said pre-distortion training circuit is operable to process a digital feedback signal according to a Cholesky Decomposition related algorithm and thereby generate a plurality of coefficients in which the digital feedback signal is derived from an output signal of the analog circuit and the output signal of the analog circuit is derived from an original digital signal; and said pre-distortion circuit is operable to process the original digital signal according to the plurality of coefficients under a compensation mode and thereby generate a digital pre-distortion signal whose non-linear characteristic is able to compensate the non-linear characteristic of the analog circuit.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2015Date of Patent: April 12, 2016Assignee: REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATIONInventor: Yu-Ping Chang
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Patent number: 9300256Abstract: An amplification device includes a first filter configured to pass a predetermined frequency component of a first digital signal phase-modulated with a constant amplitude; a first distortion compensator configured to compensate the signal output from the first filter in advance for distortion occurring in an amplified signal, based on a first distortion compensation coefficient dependent on an amplitude of the signal output from the first filter; a first converter configured to convert the signal compensated by the first distortion compensator into a first analog signal; and a first amplifier configured to amplify the first analog signal.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2013Date of Patent: March 29, 2016Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventor: Toshio Kawasaki
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Patent number: 9300333Abstract: Methods for performing predistortion calibration on wireless communications circuitry are provided. The wireless communications circuitry may be adjusted using a digital gain setting and a radio gain index setting. A particular channel in a given band exhibiting the maximum dynamic range may be selected for measurement. Predistortion coefficient values may be computed based on measured results in the select channel. A power list may be obtained for the selected channel based on a maximum peak power level. A reference power list may then be obtained based on the minimum dynamic range in the given band. The predistortion coefficients associated with the selected channel may be translated from its power list to the reference power list. Predistortion coefficients for the remaining channels in the given band may similarly be computed by interpolating/extrapolating based on the values in their respective power lists and the reference power list.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2014Date of Patent: March 29, 2016Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Gurusubrahmaniyan Subrahmaniyan Radhakrishnan
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Patent number: 9300462Abstract: Methods, devices and algorithms for the linearization of nonlinear time variant systems and the synchronization of a plurality of such systems. An example of such a system would be a transmit path, including the power amplifier, as used in wireless transmit systems. Advances made in CMOS technology, digital to analog converter (DAC) technology make it possible to implement a substantial part of such a system in the digital domain. Another aspect is the integration of a substantial part of such a transmit system in a single integrated circuit (IC). A digital implementation that allows for linearization of a broad range of nonlinear and time variant effects. Since this digital implementations operate a high clock frequency a energy efficient implementation is essential to keep the power consumption under control. Another aspects is the reuse of methods, devices and algorithms used for the linearization a transmit system to synchronize multiple transmit systems.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2014Date of Patent: March 29, 2016Inventor: Bernd Schafferer
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Patent number: 9298161Abstract: An apparatus for the recording and multiplexing of pulsed reflection holograms made possible with the invention of the Hollow Core Photonic Crystal Fiber is disclosed herein. This holographic imaging apparatus uses the Hollow Core Photonic Crystal Fiber as a waveguide in which the highly coherent property of the lightwave required for recording interference fringes can propagate through this waveguide without this coherency of the lightwave diminishing. This apparatus enables the multiplexing of several reflection holograms in a single recording medium using the reference beam with several object beams in sequenced intervals of time and space; several multiplexed recordings are made within a brief interval in time with the object beam emanating from incremental points in space; around a 120 degree tangential arc in space to achieve parallax around this 120 degree tangential arc. This disclosure makes possible apparatus which is transportable and shoulder mountable for pulsed reflection holography.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2011Date of Patent: March 29, 2016Inventor: Jeffrey Max Belicofski
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Patent number: 9301036Abstract: A microphone comprises a microphone unit; and a HOT terminal and a COLD terminal that produce a balanced output of output signals of the microphone unit, and no filter circuit is disposed between the microphone unit and the HOT terminal and a low-pass filter is disposed only between the microphone unit and the COLD terminal.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2014Date of Patent: March 29, 2016Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Audio-TechnicaInventor: Hiroshi Akino
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Patent number: 9294046Abstract: Circuitry, which includes a package interface, an RF amplification circuit, and a closed-loop phase linearization circuit, is disclosed. The package interface receives an RF signal and provides an amplified RF signal. The RF amplification circuit amplifies the RF signal to generate the amplified RF signal, such that an intermediate RF signal is generated during amplification of the RF signal. The closed-loop phase linearization circuit endogenously establishes a target phase of the amplified RF signal using the RF signal. Further, the closed-loop phase linearization circuit applies a phase-shift to the intermediate RF signal based on a difference between the target phase and a measured phase, which is representative of a phase of the amplified RF signal, wherein the phase-shift reduces phase distortion in the amplified RF signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2014Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignee: RF Micro Devices (Cayman Islands), Ltd.Inventors: Baker Scott, George Maxim, Dirk Robert Walter Leipold
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Patent number: 9294047Abstract: A power amplifier apparatus includes an amplifier configured to amplify an input signal converted into an analog signal, a distortion compensator circuitry configured to perform a pre-distortion process to an input signal at a second sampling rate higher than a first sampling rate at which the input signal is converted into an analog signal, a remover configured to remove a frequency component exceeding a frequency band corresponding to the first sampling rate from the input signal subjected to the pre-distortion process, a first rate converter configured to convert a sampling rate of the input signal from which the frequency component is removed from the second sampling rate to the first sampling rate, and a first signal converter configured to convert the input signal the sampling rate of which is converted into an analog signal at the first sampling rate to supply the input signal converted into the analog signal to the amplifier.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2014Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Toshio Kawasaki, Hiroyoshi Ishikawa, Kazuo Nagatani, Yuichi Utsunomiya, Alexander Nikolaevich Lozhkin, Hajime Hamada
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Patent number: 9294045Abstract: Embodiments of a radio frequency (RF) amplification device having an RF amplification circuit and an amplifier control circuit operably associated with the RF amplification circuit are disclosed. The RF amplification circuit is configured to amplify an RF signal in accordance with a transfer function. The amplifier control circuit includes a closed-loop linearization circuit and a calibration circuit. The closed-loop linearization circuit is configured to be activated so that the transfer function defines a closed-loop response and inactive so that the transfer function defines an open-loop response. For example, the closed-loop linearization circuit may become inactive at small-signal power levels. Accordingly, the amplifier control circuit also includes a calibration circuit configured to reduce a difference between the open-loop response and the closed-loop response of the transfer function.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2014Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignee: RF Micro Devices, Inc.Inventors: Baker Scott, George Maxim, Dirk Robert Walter Leipold
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Patent number: 9287833Abstract: An improved DPD system includes a predistortion module having at least one predistortion function. The predistortion module is configured to receive and subsequently process a baseband signal. The system also includes a power amplifier configured to receive the processed baseband signal from the predistortion module. The system further includes a model calculator configured to program priorities for predistortion functions so that the processed baseband signal transmitted from the predistortion module corresponds to the transmission power of the power amplifier. The model calculator is further configured to send a trigger signal to indicate when data capture from the power amplifier should begin so as to update the predistortion functions. A trigger module in the system is configured to receive the trigger signal and to initiate data capture from the power amplifier upon receipt of the trigger signal.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2011Date of Patent: March 15, 2016Assignees: ZTE Corporation, ZTE Wistron Telecom ABInventors: James Peroulas, Aimin You, Qun Liao, Xiaowei Yan, Yiqun Mo, Zhaoquan Zeng
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Patent number: 9281784Abstract: A preamplifier includes a differential pair of transistors receiving a bias current having a differential input and a differential output, a first resistor coupled to a first differential output node, a first transistor having a current path coupled between the first resistor and a power supply, a second resistor coupled to the first differential output node, a second transistor having a current path coupled between the second resistor and the power supply, a third resistor coupled to a second differential output node, a third transistor having a current path coupled between the third resistor and the power supply, a fourth resistor coupled to the second differential output node, and a fourth transistor having a current path coupled between the fourth resistor and the power supply, wherein a source of the second and third transistors are coupled together.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2014Date of Patent: March 8, 2016Assignee: Aeroflex Colorado Springs Inc.Inventors: Alfio Zanchi, Shinichi Hisano
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Patent number: 9281782Abstract: The switching frequency in an envelope amplifier is set below that of a transmission RF signal. A transmitter according to the present invention includes a transmission amplifier (3) that amplifies an input signal and generates an output signal, a voltage control amplifier (6) that controls a power supply voltage of the transmission amplifier (3), and an envelope calculation unit (4) that calculates an approximate envelope signal that is an envelope signal of the input signal and is sampled at a lower frequency than the input signal. The voltage control amplifier (6) controls the power supply voltage of the transmission amplifier (3) based on the approximate envelope signal.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2012Date of Patent: March 8, 2016Assignee: KYOCERA CorporationInventor: Hiromi Ajima
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Patent number: 9281852Abstract: A method includes setting a circuit to a mode. A test tone having a first frequency is provided to the circuit for use in calibrating the circuit. A received signal is generated based on an output signal of the circuit, the received signal including a component having a second frequency that is a harmonic of the first frequency. A magnitude of the component having the second frequency in the received signal is measured. A delay of the circuit corresponding to the mode is adjusted according to the magnitude of the component.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2013Date of Patent: March 8, 2016Assignee: MARVELL WORLD TRADE LTD.Inventors: Qiang Li, Brian T. Brunn
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Patent number: 9276533Abstract: A distortion compensation apparatus compensates for non-linear distortion of a power amplifier. The distortion compensation apparatus includes a pre-distorter, a learning unit, and a gain control unit. During training of the pre-distorter, the learning unit repeatedly updates a compensation coefficient on the basis of signals output from the power amplifier. While the training continues after update of the compensation coefficient, the gain control unit performs gain control on a signal before input to the power amplifier.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2014Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventor: Alexander Nikolaevich Lozhkin
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Patent number: 9276535Abstract: A transconductance amplifier comprises a set of amplifier stages. The last stage of the amplifier is split with a certain ratio whereby one part is used to deliver output current and other part to deliver feedback current to the input.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2014Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: NXP B.V.Inventors: Jan van Sinderen, Johannes Brekelmans
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Patent number: 9270231Abstract: A distortion compensation apparatus that compensates nonlinear distortion of an amplifier that amplifies power of a multi-carrier signal includes a band limiting unit that places a first frequency band limitation on a first signal fed back from the amplifier to output a second signal after the first frequency band limitation, a decision unit that decides a first cutoff frequency of the first frequency band limitation based on a carrier interval of the multi-carrier signal, and an updating unit that updates a distortion compensation coefficient to be used for compensation of the nonlinear distortion, based on an error between the second signal and the multi-carrier signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2015Date of Patent: February 23, 2016Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Yuichi Utsunomiya, Hiroyoshi Ishikawa, Kazuo Nagatani
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Patent number: 9270260Abstract: A distortion compensation device compensates a distortion component generated in a nonlinear circuit having a nonlinear input-output characteristic. The distortion compensation device includes a predistorter and an estimator. The predistorter converts an input signal into an inverse characteristic signal by using a compensation coefficient so that an estimation value of an inverse characteristic to the nonlinear input-output characteristic is given to the input signal. The estimator generates the compensation coefficient based on the input signal, the inverse characteristic signal and an output signal of the nonlinear circuit.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2014Date of Patent: February 23, 2016Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Makoto Tanahashi, Yoshimasa Egashira, Keiichi Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 9270498Abstract: An amplification system, connected to a modem delivering a signal to be amplified, includes at least one amplification device, at least one first determination device for determination of a first difference and at least one second determination device for determination of a variable gain. Moreover, the system is characterized in that the second determination device is capable of the determination of said variable gain on the basis of said signal to be amplified, said amplified signal and said first difference.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2014Date of Patent: February 23, 2016Assignee: THALESInventors: Jessica Bouvier, Bruno Costa, Pierre Guern
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Patent number: 9263994Abstract: An amplifying device including: a first amplifier configured to generate a first output signal by amplifying an input signal, a second amplifier configured to generate a second output signal by amplifying the first output signal, and a processor configured to perform a first compensation by compensating a distortion for the second amplifier in accordance with the first output signal and the second output signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2014Date of Patent: February 16, 2016Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Nobukazu Fudaba, Hiroyoshi Ishikawa, Yuichi Utsunomiya, Toshio Kawasaki, Kazuo Nagatani
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Patent number: 9264006Abstract: A cable connector configured to receive a sound signal and alter the tonality of the sound by switching among a plurality of capacitors. The cable connector comprises a switch coupled to a binary coded plurality of capacitors. The cable connector receives an input signal corresponding to a sound through a conductor, which is also coupled to the switch. The switch may be used to select one of a plurality of capacitances, affecting the tonality of the sound. A cable implementing the cable connector and a method for using the cable connector are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2013Date of Patent: February 16, 2016Inventors: Eric E. Dodd, Larry S. Jasper
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Patent number: 9260962Abstract: Technologies are described for reducing distortion in amplified signals in well logging tools based on spectral analyses of the amplified signals. For example, a system includes a well logging tool. The well logging tool includes an excitation source to direct an excitation signal towards an environment adjacent a wellbore and a receiver to amplify a probe signal received from the environment adjacent the wellbore in response to the excitation signal. The system also includes a feedback module to receive the amplified signal. The feedback module includes a spectrum analyzer module to spectrally analyze the amplified signal to generate spectral information of the amplified signal; and a controller module to determine, from the spectral information, whether the amplified signal includes distortion, and if so, to issue a feedback signal to the excitation source or the receiver to cause at least a reduction of the distortion in the amplified signal.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2013Date of Patent: February 16, 2016Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Dalong Zhang, George David Goodman, Abdul Qadir Shabbir
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Patent number: 9264005Abstract: A method adjusts an amplitude of a power amplifier output voltage based on an amplitude feedback signal and adjusts a phase of the power amplifier output voltage based on a phase feedback signal. The method also controls a power efficiency of the power amplifier output voltage.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2013Date of Patent: February 16, 2016Assignee: MARVELL INTERNATIONAL LTD.Inventors: SeongHwan Cho, Renaldi Winoto, Li Lin
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Patent number: 9264359Abstract: The invention concerns a method for transmission of a data signal from a transmitting device (BS) to a receiving device (RAH1) using a LINC amplifier (LINC1, LINC2) for signal amplification, wherein the data signal is represented by two phase modulated signal components of constant amplitude in a first part of the LINC amplifier (LINC1, LINC2) located in the transmitting device (BS), at least one of the two phase modulated signal components of constant amplitude is transmitted over at least one optical connection (OF1, 0F2, 0F4) from the transmitting device (BS) to the receiving device (RAH1), and the at least one of the two phase modulated signal components of constant amplitude is converted from an optical signal into an electrical signal in at least one opto-electrical converter (OE1, 0E2) located in said receiving device (RAH1), a LINC amplifier, a transmitting device, a receiving device, and a communication network therefor.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2010Date of Patent: February 16, 2016Assignee: Alcatel LucentInventors: Dirk Wiegner, Wolfgang Templ
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Patent number: 9252719Abstract: A power amplifier circuit includes an amplifier MOSFET and a predistorter MOSFET. The predistorter MOSFET source and drain are connected together, and the predistorter MOSFET is connected between the gate of the amplifier MOSFET and a second bias voltage signal. This biasing of the predistorter MOSFET causes it to provide a nonlinear capacitance at the gate of the amplifier MOSFET. The combined non-linear capacitances of the amplifier MOSFET and predistorter MOSFET provide predistortion that promotes cancellation of the distortion or nonlinearity contributed by the amplifier MOSFET alone.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2015Date of Patent: February 2, 2016Assignee: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Hamid R. Amir Firouzkouhi, Bipul Agarwal, Hasan Akyol
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Patent number: 9245072Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided to select coefficients for modeling a system. Data collected from the system is used to generate a data matrix. An upper triangular matrix can be generated in accordance with the data matrix, and the upper triangular matrix can be pruned to remove selected rows and columns from the upper triangular matrix, thereby generating a pruned data matrix. A coefficient vector can be generated in accordance with the pruned data matrix. Various alternative methods of selecting coefficients for modeling the system, as well as apparatus, devices, and systems for performing said methods, are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2012Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ming Jia, Hosein Nikopour
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Patent number: 9240761Abstract: Systems and methods for use in configuring a power amplifier system are provided. The method includes generating a phase error compensation signal using a phase error model configured to determine the phase error compensation signal based at least in part on an amplitude and a phase of an input signal for the power amplifier system. The phase error model is configured to estimate a time and frequency-dependent phase error in a power amplifier output signal associated with the amplitude and the phase of the input signal, and the phase error compensation signal is configured to at least partially correct the time and frequency-dependent phase error in the power amplifier output signal. The method further includes applying the phase error compensation signal to the input signal to generate a corrected input signal and providing the corrected input signal to the power amplifier system.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2014Date of Patent: January 19, 2016Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.Inventor: John M. Reyland, Jr.
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Patent number: 9236893Abstract: A distortion compensation device which compensates for a distortion of an amplifier includes an FIR filter, a calculation unit that calculates an error between a reference signal and a feedback signal from the amplifier, an update unit that updates a coefficient set to the FIR filter on the basis of the error, and a delay unit that, on the basis of a magnitude of the coefficient, delays the feedback signal while controlling a delay of the feedback signal with respect to the reference signal.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2015Date of Patent: January 12, 2016Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Hiroyoshi Ishikawa, Kazuo Nagatani
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Patent number: 9225308Abstract: An apparatus for amplifying a transmit signal comprises a transmit path comprising a power amplifier module to be coupled to an antenna module. The power amplifier module is configured to amplify a transmit signal. Further, the apparatus comprises an envelope tracking path comprising a variable delay module and a power supply module. The variable delay module is configured to vary a signal delay within the envelope tracking path according to a delay control parameter. Further, the apparatus comprises a delay control module configured to provide the delay control parameter based on a current characteristic transmit frequency of the transmit signal.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2015Date of Patent: December 29, 2015Assignee: Intel IP CorporationInventors: Andreas Langer, Gunther Kraut
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Patent number: 9225293Abstract: Disclosed are advances in the arts with novel and useful electronic circuitry with pop and click noise reduction. A load circuit is connected with a full or single-ended half-H bridge circuit and another circuit mechanism in a configuration by which a signal may be used to selectably bring the load circuit terminals to a selected voltage level when an externally applied signal is not present.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2012Date of Patent: December 29, 2015Assignee: TRIUNE SYSTEMS, LLCInventors: Ross E. Teggatz, Wayne T. Chen, Brett Smith