Equalizers Patents (Class 375/229)
  • Patent number: 11838153
    Abstract: A digital signal processor includes analog to digital converters to convert an analog voltage to digital voltage in unit intervals of an analog signal. A decision feedback equalizer (DFE) determines a first level of a digital sum of a digital voltage in a first UI and digital voltages of adjacent UIs (taps). The DFE identifies predetermined sequences of levels of consecutive UIs that include the first level and selects one of the predetermined sequences to decode digital data encoded in the analog signal in the UI. The DSP may be programmable to include taps from UIs that may affect the first UI. The predetermined sequences may include levels of the digital sums of consecutive UIs of the analog signal. The predetermined sequences may be identified in a look-up table based on the first level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Md Masum Hossain, Charles Boecker, Michael Raymond Trombley, Simon S. Li, Shaishav A. Desai
  • Patent number: 11831066
    Abstract: An antenna system of a vehicle includes a glass antenna installed on a surface of a glass of the vehicle, configured to receive a first broadcast signal and a second broadcast signal; and a broadcasting receiver configured to receive the first broadcast signal and the second broadcast signal, and to cancel and remove a harmonic components of the first broadcast signal from the second broadcast signal. The antenna system can ensure a free space of a loop antenna by implementing an integrated glass antenna, and realize installing an additional antenna module in the free space of the loop antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Jungnam Bae
  • Patent number: 11784857
    Abstract: Various embodiments relate to an adaptive linear driver, including: a continuous time linear equalizer (CTLE); a programmable transmit driver coupled with an output of the CTLE, wherein the transmit driver includes a first control port configured to receive a first control signal configured to adjust the output level of the programmable transmit driver; an output comparator coupled to an output of the programmable transmit driver, wherein the output comparator is configured to compare the output of the programmable transmit driver with a reference signal and to produce a first comparison signal; and a controller coupled to the output comparator and the first control port, wherein the controller produces a first control signal based upon the first comparison signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Siamak Delshadpour, Peng Yan
  • Patent number: 11777459
    Abstract: A front-end module of a wireless device can replace a passive duplexer with an active duplexer that uses metamaterial matching circuits. The active duplexer can be formed from a power amplifier circuit and a low noise amplifier circuit that each include a metamaterial matching circuit. The combination of a power amplifier circuit and a low noise amplifier circuit that each utilize metamaterials to form the associated matching circuit can provide the functionality of a duplexer without including the additional circuitry of a stand-alone or passive duplexer. Thus, in certain cases, the front-end module can provide duplexer functionality without including a separate duplexer. Advantageously, in certain cases, the size of the front-end module can be reduced by eliminating the passive duplexer. Further, the loss introduced into the signal path by the passive duplexer is eliminated improving the performance of the communication system that includes the active duplexer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Hanseung Lee
  • Patent number: 11757681
    Abstract: To compensate for intersymbol interference, a serial data receiver circuit included in a computer system may include an equalizer circuit that includes a digital-to-analog converter circuit. Based on previously received symbols, the equalizer circuit modifies a signal received via a communication channel or link prior to clock and data recovery. In cases when the digital-to-analog converter circuit becomes saturated, the equalizer circuit additionally uses a dither signal to modify the received signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jose A. Tierno, Haiming Jin, Brian S. Leibowitz, Sanjeev K. Maheshwari, Chintan S. Thakkar
  • Patent number: 11755555
    Abstract: The described technology is generally directed towards efficiently organizing data in a single, non-distributed database as an ordered associated array of key-value pairs implemented on top of a storage medium that allows only data appends. A table segment in an append-only storage medium is accessed by table keys. The table keys are hashed into key values used to access information in an attribute index (a search tree) that contains offsets to the table segment entries. Hashing the table keys can result in a series of hash parts, including a primary hash part corresponding to a node in the attribute index, and as needed in the event of hash collisions, secondary hash parts that map to child nodes in the attribute index. The table keys are additionally organized in a sorted data structure which is stored within the table segment along with other keys.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
    Inventor: Andrei Paduroiu
  • Patent number: 11706065
    Abstract: A device generates a symbol sequence by performing adaptive equalization by an estimation inverse transfer function of a transmission line on a reception signal sequence extracted from the transmission line, and performing provisional determination on the symbol sequence generated; generates a plurality of the symbol sequences indicating transmission line states in a range of a provisional determination symbol provisionally determined and nearby symbols of the provisional determination symbol; generates, based on the plurality of the symbol sequences indicating the transmission line states generated and an estimation transfer function of the transmission line, an estimation reception symbol sequence for each of the transmission line states; calculates a metric between the symbol sequence obtained from the reception signal sequence and each of a plurality of the estimation reception symbol sequences; selects a most likelihood estimation reception symbol sequence of the plurality of the estimation reception sym
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki Taniguchi, Masanori Nakamura, Shuto Yamamoto, Akira Masuda, Yoshiaki Kisaka
  • Patent number: 11677609
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive an indication of a non-linearity model associated with one or more downlink communications. The UE may receive the one or more downlink communications based at least in part on the non-linearity model. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Shay Landis, Amit Bar-Or Tillinger, Idan Michael Horn
  • Patent number: 11671287
    Abstract: An interconnect module device is provided. The interconnect module device includes a line control command (LCC) detecting circuit configured to identify an LCC signal; an equalizer control circuit configured to generate a control signal based on the LCC signal; a receiving equalizer configured to perform receiving equalization on a first signal received from a first universal flash storage (UFS) device based on the control signal to generate a second signal; and a transmitting equalizer configured to perform transmitting equalization on the second signal to generate a third signal based on the control signal, and transmit the third signal to a second UFS device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Youngsan Kang, Byungyo Lee
  • Patent number: 11663039
    Abstract: Aspects of the invention include determining, by a machine learning model, a predicted workload for a system and a current system state of the system, determining an action to be enacted for the system based at least in part on the predicted workload and the current system state, enacting the action for the system, evaluating a state of the system after the action has been enacted, determining a reward for the machine learning model based at least in part on the state of the system after the action has been enacted, and updating the machine learning model based on the reward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Elpida Tzortzatos, Anastasiia Didkovska, Karin Genther, Toni Pohl, Dieter Wellerdiek, Marco Selig, Tobias Huschle
  • Patent number: 11575437
    Abstract: An optical module configured to electrically connect to a host. A linear equalizer performs equalization on a host equalized signal to create a module equalized signal, and a driver configured to present the module equalized signal from the linear equalizer to an optical conversion device at a magnitude suitable for the optical conversion device. An optical conversion device receives the module equalized signal from the driver, converts the module equalized signal to an optical signal, and transmit the optical signal over an optical channel. Also part of the optical module is an interface which communicates supplemental equalizer settings to the host. A memory stores the supplemental equalizer settings which reflect the optical modules effect on a signal passing through the optical module. A controller oversees communication of the supplemental equalizer settings to the host such that the host uses the supplemental equalizer settings to modify host equalizer settings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc.
    Inventor: Ryan Latchman
  • Patent number: 11570548
    Abstract: An integration unit IU for tuning an OEM sound system augmented with aftermarket components, such as an amplifier or a subwoofer. The integration unit is contained in a small housing that can be installed inconspicuously in most vehicles without removing the original head unit. The unit may comprise a DSP-based active line output converter that is configured to automatically detect the frequency response and phase of the OEM head unit. The unit performs various algorithms to detect and analyze crossovers, EQ, time delay, and allpass filters and then matches left and right audio channels. The IU may allow for low bass correction detecting and defeating the factory high pass filter. Still further, the IU can correct the various filters to ensure a clean, uncolored audio signal for the augmented components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Stillwater Designs & Audio, Inc.
    Inventors: Austin Brody Cole, Joe H. Hobart
  • Patent number: 11531657
    Abstract: A data store system may include at least one storage device to store a plurality of data and at least one processor with access to the storage device. The at least one processor may receive a plurality of features associated with an environment. The at least one processor may further generate a state representation of the environment based on the plurality of features. The at least one processor may further generate a plurality of predicted future states of the environment based on the state representation. The at least one processor may further generate at least one action to be performed by the environment based on the plurality of predicted future states. The at least one processor may provide the at least one action to the environment to be performed. A method and computer-readable medium are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Teradata US, Inc.
    Inventors: Naveen Thaliyil Sankaran, Lovlean Arora, Sourabh Maity, Jaiprakash G. Chimanchode, Stephen Andrew Brobst, Bhashyam Ramesh, Douglas P. Brown
  • Patent number: 11533205
    Abstract: A system for selecting an equalizer setting of an equalizer to equalize signals received via a communications link. Starting with a first (e.g., minimum) equalizer setting and a threshold voltage near the mid-eye voltage of the equalized output signal, the system estimates the amplitude of the inner eye of the equalized output signal by comparing the equalized output signal to a series of threshold voltages. If the amplitude of the equalized output signal is less than ideal, the system dynamically increases the equalizer setting. The system quickly converges on the equalizer setting for the communication link because, rather than comparing the output signal at every voltage offset using every equalizer setting, the system only evaluates the equalizer settings necessary to select the equalizer setting for the communications link and uses only the voltage offsets necessary to evaluate each equalizer setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Suzanne Mary Vining, Amit S. Rane, Charles Michael Campbell
  • Patent number: 11489710
    Abstract: A method is used for frequency offset estimation in a wireless communication network that employs time based scheduling of packets. The method is performed by a packet receiver in the wireless communication network. The method includes receiving a packet from a packet transmitter. The packet includes a preamble that is composed of samples of a single orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing symbol. The preamble has a cyclic prefix (CP) defined by a repetition of samples from an end-portion of the preamble and the preamble, except for the CP, is free from any repeated sequence of samples. The method also includes determining a sequence of similarity measure values between the CP of the preamble and the end-portion of the preamble, applying a low-pass filter to the sequence of similarity measure values, resulting in a filtered sequence of similarity measure values, and performing frequency offset estimation on the filtered sequence of similarity measure values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi Energy Switzerland AG
    Inventors: Zhibo Pang, Michele Luvisotto, Dacfey Dzung
  • Patent number: 11457405
    Abstract: A power control method of a base station in a wireless communication system based on Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) is provided for reducing power consumption by turning off the bias of the power amplifier for the duration of a symbol carrying no user data. The method includes checking scheduling information of radio resources, detecting a symbol carrying no user data, based on the scheduling information, and turning off a bias of the power amplifier for a symbol duration of the symbol carrying no user data. The transmission power control method is capable of reducing power consumption of the base station by turning off the bias of the power amplifier of the base station for the symbol duration in which no user data is transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong Geun Lee, Young Bae Park, Young Kyu Choi, Ki Back Kim
  • Patent number: 11450256
    Abstract: A signal adjusting circuit includes an identification circuit, an analysis circuit and an adjusting circuit; where the identification circuit is configured to acquire row data to be transmitted and identify the type of each data; the analysis circuit is connected with the identification circuit and is configured to analyze the data type of the row data according to the type of each data and output an adjusting instruction when the row data type meets or exceeds a preset data type criterion; the adjusting circuit is connected with the analysis circuit and is configured to adjust the transmission amplitude of the output data signal according to the adjusting instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventor: Mingliang Wang
  • Patent number: 11436708
    Abstract: Methods, an apparatus, and software media are provided for removing unwanted information such as moving or temporary foreground objects from a video sequence. The method performs, for each pixel, a statistical analysis to create a background data model whose color values can be used to detect and remove the unwanted information. The method assumes that for each pixel the background is present in a majority of the frames. The camera that records the video sequence may move relative to the geometry of the video scene. A pixel in a first frame is matched to a location in the geometry. The method determines color values of pixels, matched to the location in the geometry, in successive frames and clusters color values to determine a background color value range. It may use quadratic or better interpolation and extrapolation to determine background color values for unavailable frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: UNITY TECHNOLOGIES SF
    Inventors: Andrew Glassner, Peter Hillman
  • Patent number: 11438064
    Abstract: A communication interface comprising a host with non-linear equalizers configured to perform non-linear equalization. Also part of the interface is a host to optic module channel electrically connecting the host to an optic module and the optic module. The optic module comprises a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter includes a linear equalizer and an electrical to optical module configured to convert the equalized signal from the driver to an optical signal, and transmit the optical signal over a fiber optic cable, such that the transmitter does not perform non-linear processing. The receiver includes a photodetector, configured to convert the received optic signal to a received electrical signal, and a linear amplifier configured to perform linear amplification on the received electrical signal. A driver sends the amplified received signal over an optic module to host channel, such that the receive does not perform non-linear processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc.
    Inventor: Ryan Latchman
  • Patent number: 11425458
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to to estimate population reach from marginal ratings. An example apparatus includes an interface to access marginal ratings of the media for a recorded audience, marginal ratings of the media for a population audience, and reach of the media for the recorded audience; a reach determiner to iteratively estimate a reach of the media for the population audience based on the marginal ratings for the recorded audience, the marginal ratings for the population audience, and the reach for the recorded audience; and the interface to output the estimated reach for the population audience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Michael Sheppard, Jonathan Sullivan, Edward Murphy, Michael D. Morgan, Ludo Daemen
  • Patent number: 11424842
    Abstract: A signal analysis method is described. The signal analysis method includes: receiving a time-and-value discrete input signal, the input signal being associated with a signal source; determining at least one jitter component of the input signal; determining a step response based on the input signal, the step response being associated with at least the signal source; determining a counter function based on the step response, the counter function being configured to cancel error terms in a finite-time transform of the step response to frequency domain; superposing the step response and the counter function, thereby obtaining a modified step response; and transforming the modified step response to frequency domain, thereby obtaining a transfer function being associated with at least the signal source. Further, a signal analysis module for analyzing a time-and-value discrete input signal being associated with a signal source is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Maier, Mathias Hellwig
  • Patent number: 11418180
    Abstract: An equalizer has a first tapped delay line in which N taps (N is a positive integer) are connected in cascade, a second tapped delay line having one tap and connected in parallel with the first tapped delay line, a first multiplier configured to multiply signals extracted from the N taps by corresponding coefficients, a second multiplier configured to multiply a signal output from the second tapped delay line by a second coefficient, and an adder configured to add products of the first multiplier and a product of the second multiplier. The first tapped delay line has a fixed delay, and the second tapped delay line has a variable delay changeable at a 1/M resolution of the fixed delay, where M is a number greater than 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: FUJITSU OPTICAL COMPONENTS LIMITED
    Inventor: Toshio Ishii
  • Patent number: 11418367
    Abstract: A method in a wireless receiver for estimating a channel. The method includes receiving a signal comprising a plurality of transmission layers, each layer having at least one reference signal according to a predefined reference signal sequence; determining a window size for performing a sampling operation, wherein the operation is performed in a transformed domain of the received signal; selecting a channel tap length, from a range of channel tap lengths, wherein the selection is based on the window size, a noise mean and a noise variance. The channel estimation is performed from a reference signal sequence for the at least one reference signal and based on samples corresponding to the selected channel tap length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Efthymios Stathakis, Zhao Wang
  • Patent number: 11418232
    Abstract: An inference processing apparatus includes an input data storage unit that stores pieces X of input data, a learned NN storage unit that stores a piece W of weight data of a neural network, a batch processing control unit that sets a batch size on the basis of information on the pieces X of input data, a memory control unit that reads out, from the input data storage unit, the pieces X of input data corresponding to the set batch size, and an inference operation unit that batch-processes operation in the neural network using, as input, the pieces X of input data corresponding to the batch size and the piece W of weight data and infers a feature of the pieces X of input data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nikolaos-Panteleimon Diamantopoulos, Takaaki Kakitsuka, Shinji Matsuo
  • Patent number: 11394523
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a method receives a first signal that is sent in a first direction in a network. Communications in the network are full duplex communications in a same frequency band. The first signal is amplified in the first direction. The method trains a first echo canceller to cancel a first echo signal from the first signal where the first echo signal is received in a second direction. After training the first echo canceller, the trained first echo canceller is enabled. The method receives a second signal in the second direction that is sent in the second direction in the network. The second signal is amplified in the second direction. The method trains a second echo canceller to cancel a second echo signal received in the first direction from the second signal where the first echo canceller cancels the first echo signal that is received in the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLC
    Inventors: Thomas J. Cloonan, Ayham Al-Banna, Francis Joseph O'Keeffe
  • Patent number: 11362872
    Abstract: Wireless communication techniques for transmitting and receiving reference signals is described. The reference signals may include pilot signals that are transmitted using transmission resources that are separate from data transmission resources. Pilot signals are continuously transmitted from a base station to user equipment being served. Pilot signals are generated from delay-Doppler domain signals that are processed to obtain time-frequency signals that occupy a two-dimensional lattice in the time frequency domain that is non-overlapping with a lattice corresponding to data signal transmissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Cohere Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronny Hadani, Shlomo Selim Rakib, Anthony Ekpenyong, Clayton Ambrose, Shachar Kons
  • Patent number: 11352033
    Abstract: Method and system for communicating data between a transmitter and a receiver via a physical transmission medium interposed there between, wherein the transmitter outputs over the transmission medium towards the receiver, a predefined precursor signal followed by a target signal carrying data packet. Based on the precursor signal received at the receiver, estimated values of actual electrical parameters of the physical transmission medium are computed via a predetermined model of the physical transmission medium, wherein the computed estimated values of the electrical parameters are indicative of a distortion caused by the physical transmission medium on the predefined precursor signal outputted by the transmitter. The data packets originally outputted by the transmitter are estimated based on the computed estimated values of the actual electrical parameters and on the target signal received at the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: ALSTOM TRANSPORT TECHNOLOGIES
    Inventors: John Ross, Jeffrey Fries
  • Patent number: 11350452
    Abstract: A transmitting device (e.g., a base station, a user equipment (UE)) may pre-generate waveform components, for a transmission to be sent subsequent to a listen before talk (LBT) procedure, based on a waveform generation capability of the transmitting device (e.g., based on their memory storage capability, their ability to combine waveform components in the time domain following a per subband LBT procedure, etc.). Further, certain behavior or rules (e.g., which waveform components are generated, how many subbands are included in a waveform component, etc.) may be expected by both a base station and a UE depending on the waveform generation capability of the transmitting device and the resource allocation. Additionally, resource block group (RBG) configurations (e.g., RBG definitions) for improved resource allocation are also described. A bases station may indicate one or more guard band boundaries to a UE to indicate such RBG configurations that account for guard bands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang
  • Patent number: 11343125
    Abstract: There is provided a method including receiving, by a multiplexer, input signals having a first rate, applying, by an equalizer in the multiplexer, equalization on the input signals passed through respective signal paths in the multiplexer, and outputting, by the multiplexer, an output signal comprising a selected signal of equalized versions of the input signals produced by the equalization, the output signal having a second rate greater than the first rate. There is further provided a device that includes a multiplexer and a signal driver having an input connected to the output of the equalizer. The multiplexer includes a plurality of inputs to receive respective input signals, an output to provide an output signal selected from among the input signals, and an equalizer to apply equalization on the input signals that are passed through the multiplexer, the equalization to provide the selected signals as equalized signals at the output of the multiplexer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Euhan Chong
  • Patent number: 11323298
    Abstract: There is disclosed integrated circuitry having a bit receiving arrangement adapted for receiving, in parallel, a plurality of data bits, the bit receiving arrangement further being adapted for receiving a data bit inversion bit associated to the plurality of data bits, the data bit inversion bit being for indicating whether the bits of the plurality of data bits are inverted. The integrated circuitry also has a bit inversion arrangement adapted for inverting the bits of the plurality of data bits based on a comparison between the received data bit inversion bit and an inversion estimate bit, the inversion estimate bit being determined based on the plurality of data bits. The disclosure also pertains to related methods and devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventor: Lars Gustav Bohlin
  • Patent number: 11246188
    Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus performs communication for which a receiving timing and a transmitting timing are defined by using time slots. The wireless communication apparatus includes a control circuitry configured to control the wireless communication apparatus. The control circuitry includes a decoding circuitry configured to start a decoding process, on data received in a first time slot, immediately after a start of a second time slot subsequent to the first time slot. When a result of the decoding process is information requesting the wireless communication apparatus to perform transmission, the control circuitry is configured to perform a transmission preparation process from an end of the decoding process to a start of a third time slot subsequent to the second time slot, within a period of the second time slot for enabling the wireless communication apparatus to perform transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: JVCKENWOOD Corporation
    Inventor: Tomohiro Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 11212143
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for signal equalization are provided. Multiple decision components are arranged in a sequence, beginning with a history portion and ending with a decode portion. Each decision component performs a decode decision on a symbol. Decode decisions are passed forward to other decision components where they can be used to compensate for intersymbol interference. Decode decision output by the history portion are otherwise discarded, while decode decisions output by the decode portion are output as a decoded signal. In the next decode cycle, input previously provided to the decode portion is again provided to the history portion, in a sliding, overlapping block manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: James Raymond Bailey, Mohammad Hossein Shakiba
  • Patent number: 11204888
    Abstract: A circuit for receiving serial data. In some embodiments, the circuit has an input for receiving an analog input signal, and includes a first sampler for sampling the analog input signal relative to a first reference voltage, a second sampler for sampling the analog input signal relative to a second reference voltage, and a reference voltage control circuit. The second reference voltage may have a sign opposite to that of the first reference voltage; and the reference voltage control circuit may be configured to adjust the first reference voltage or the second reference voltage, based on a first sample of the analog input signal, the first sample having been taken at a sampling time corresponding to a one bit, in the serial data, preceded by a one bit and followed by a one bit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Amr Khashaba, Amir Amirkhany
  • Patent number: 11206159
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a signal equalization apparatus. A channel length estimation circuit determines a transmission channel length of the input signal such that a processing circuit retrieves predetermined feed-forward equalizer coefficients. A feed-forward equalizer equalizes the input signal according to operation feed-forward equalizer coefficients. An auto gain circuit amplifies the input signal according to an offset signal. A signal adding circuit adds the amplified input signal and a feedback adjusting signal to generate an added input signal. A data slicer generates a data-slicing result and the offset signal according to reference thresholds based on the added input signal. A feedback equalizer equalizes the data-slicing result to generate the feedback adjusting signal according to operation feedback equalizer coefficients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsung-En Wu, Cheng-Hsien Li
  • Patent number: 11193512
    Abstract: There are disclosed a method and a lifting mechanism for actively damping in mobile working machines vibrations which may occur as a result of raised attachments during travel. The method or the lifting mechanism has a prediction or a predictor for estimating the future vibration. The prediction is preferably carried out with a recursive least squares algorithm. The mobile working machine may, for example, be a tractor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Gernot Becker, Quang Huy Nguyen, Steffen Rose
  • Patent number: 11190846
    Abstract: A method for receiving a broadcast signal includes receiving the broadcast signal; frequency deinterleaving data in the broadcast signal based on an address generator the address generator including a sequence generator generating a sequence, a symbol offset generator generating a symbol offset, after applying the symbol offset to the sequence, the sequence to which the symbol offset is applied is checked whether an address of the sequence is within a range for the frequency deinterleaving, the address within the range is used for the frequency deinterleaving; decoding the frequency deinterleaved data of a signal frame in the broadcast signal, the decoded signal frame including one or more components included in a content and content information describing the content, the content information including component information including role information for at least one of an audio component, a video component, a closed caption component or an application component of the one or more components; and displaying i
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Minsung Kwak, Seungryul Yang, Kyoungsoo Moon, Woosuk Ko, Sungryong Hong
  • Patent number: 11190898
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable storage media are disclosed for rendering scene-aware audio based on acoustic properties of a user environment. For example, the disclosed system can use neural networks to analyze an audio recording to predict environment equalizations and reverberation decay times of the user environment without using a captured impulse response of the user environment. Additionally, the disclosed system can use the predicted reverberation decay times with an audio simulation of the user environment to optimize material parameters for the user environment. The disclosed system can then generate an audio sample that includes scene-aware acoustic properties based on the predicted environment equalizations, material parameters, and an environment geometry of the user environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: ADOBE INC.
    Inventors: Zhenyu Tang, Timothy Langlois, Nicholas Bryan, Dingzeyu Li
  • Patent number: 11184199
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic apparatus including: a substrate; and an integrated circuit (IC) and an inductor provided in the substrate, the IC including: a plurality of subcircuits; and an equalizer configured to receive a signal from an outside of the IC, compensate the received signal for distortion or interference, and output the compensated signal to the subcircuit, and the inductor of which: a first end is connected to a power and a second end is connected to a power supplying terminal of the equalizer, and an inductance corresponds to an operation frequency of the equalizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Baekseok Ko
  • Patent number: 11159352
    Abstract: An adaptive equalizer includes a sample buffer that temporarily stores data obtained by fractional sampling at a sampling rate that is larger than one time and smaller than two times a symbol rate; and a processor coupled to the sample buffer and configured to: specify position of a training sequence in the data based on a correlation value between a first set of (f×T) samples and a second set of (f×T) samples following the first set of samples, assuming that the sampling rate is f, and a symbol length of a code pattern included in the training sequence inserted in the data is T, and calculate an initial value of a tap coefficient set to a tap of an adaptive equalization filter based on the specified training sequence, wherein the symbol length is set to be changeable so that f×T is an integer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Daisuke Sasaki, Hisao Nakashima, Nobukazu Koizumi
  • Patent number: 11153028
    Abstract: A grant-free transmission method, a terminal, and a network device are disclosed. In an embodiment, a grant-free transmission method includes sending, by a network device, information about P dedicated transmission resources used for grant-free transmission to a terminal, wherein P is a positive integer and P?2, detecting, by the network device, a dedicated transmission resource, and detecting, by the network device, data based on a transmission parameter set corresponding to the dedicated transmission resource when grant-free transmission is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yinggang Du, Yan Chen, Xiuqiang Xu
  • Patent number: 11153124
    Abstract: A channel estimation method of a steel penetration system is configured to reduce computational complexity and required memory. The method includes: reconstructing, at a receiving end, a channel estimation with a compressed-sensing sparse reconstruction algorithm according to a received pilot signal to obtain estimation values of a channel state response of the steel penetration system; and equalizing a received signal of the receiving end according to the estimation values of the channel state response to obtain an equalized signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BEIJING
    Inventors: Tao Liu, Hongwei Zhang, Jiajia Liu
  • Patent number: 11153135
    Abstract: Methods and systems of adaptive equalization to compensate channel loss are disclosed. A method includes detecting a peak amplitude of an equalizer output signal and selecting a set of reference voltage levels from M sets based on the peak amplitude of the equalizer output signal, each of the M sets having N reference voltage levels. The method includes continuing to increase an equalization level in predetermined steps to a next higher equalization level if the applied equalization level does not correspond to the over-equalization level and evaluating the distribution of the resulting hit counts for each increase to the next higher equalization level until the applied equalization level corresponds to the over-equalization level. The method includes decreasing to the previously applied lower equalization level if the applied equalization level corresponds to the over-equalization level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Shita Guo, Yanli Fan, Mustafa Ulvi Erdogan, Douglas Edward Wente
  • Patent number: 11120863
    Abstract: Signal timing drift in a synchronous dynamic random access memory (SDRAM) system may be compensated for by performing write signal timing training using a multi-purpose command (MPC) first-in-first-out (FIFO) write and MPC FIFO read at periodic intervals interspersed with mission-mode SDRAM traffic. The test result samples obtained from the write signal timing training may be analyzed independently of mission-mode SDRAM traffic. The mission-mode timing of the SDRAM data bit signals relative to the SDRAM write clock signal may be adjusted based on the analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Farrukh Aquil, Vaishnav Srinivas, Mahalingam Nagarajan, Yong Xu
  • Patent number: 11062687
    Abstract: An active noise reduction (ANR) device includes a first sensor configured to generate an input signal indicative of an environment of the active noise reduction device, in which the first sensor has a measured roll-off frequency. A first compensator processes the input signal to generate a compensated input signal to compensate a difference between the measured roll-off frequency and a predetermined roll-off frequency for the first sensor. A second compensator processes the compensated input signal to generate a first signal for an acoustic transducer of the active noise reduction headphone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Bose Corporation
    Inventor: Masanori Honda
  • Patent number: 11063791
    Abstract: A receiver is equipped with an adaptive phase-offset controller and associated timing-calibration circuitry that together shift the timing for a data sampler and a digital equalizer. The sample and equalizer timing is shifted to a position with less residual inter-symbol interference (ISI) energy relative to the current symbol. The shifted position may be calculated using a measure of signal quality, such as a receiver bit-error rate or a comparison of filter-tap values, to optimize the timing of data recovery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Rambus Inc.
    Inventors: Qi Lin, Brian Leibowitz, Hae-Chang Lee, Jihong Ren, Kyung Suk Oh, Jared L. Zerbe
  • Patent number: 11050604
    Abstract: A method includes selecting a block size, via a processor of a communications system, and identifying a set of constellation points of a constellation diagram, based on a received set of bits and the constellation diagram. The constellation diagram is associated with a modulation scheme. A set of symbol blocks, based on the set of constellation points, is generated. Each symbol block from the set of symbol blocks has a size equal to the block size and includes a subset of constellation points from the set of constellation points. A unitary braid division multiplexing (UBDM) transformation is applied to each symbol block from the set of symbol blocks to produce a set of complex numbers. The set of complex numbers is then sent via the processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Rampart Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: Matthew Brandon Robinson
  • Patent number: 11024213
    Abstract: A driving device, driving method and display system are disclosed. The driving device includes: a RGB module, a first protocol processing module and a second protocol processing module, a selector, a first deserializer and a second deserializer, and multiple transmitters and multiple connection terminals. The present invention can use two communication methods to achieve the driving, reduce the communication interface and circuit scale, and reduce the cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Lijun Shen
  • Patent number: 11010572
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). An electronic device and an operation method thereof are provided for testing performance of a radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) in a wireless communication system. The method includes checking a connection state of elements operable as combiners and a plurality of RF chains of the RFIC; performing control to output RF signals from the plurality of RF chains; acquiring an integrated signal by combining the RF signals via the combiners; and determining a quality indicator for the RFIC based the integrated signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Inventors: Sangho Lee, Seokhyeon Kim, Donggyu Minn, Youngchang Yoon, Juho Son, Kyuhwan An
  • Patent number: 10999026
    Abstract: A method for receiving orthogonal time, frequency and space (OFTS) basis allocation information by an user equipment in a wireless communication system using an OTFS transmission scheme includes receiving control information including information on an OTFS basis size N from a base station; and receiving data on OTFS bases of a predetermined size indexed according to a pre-defined rule in an N×N OTFS transform matrix on time and frequency domains corresponding to the OTFS basis size, wherein the OTFS bases of the OTFS basis size N is represented into an N×N OTFS transform matrix, wherein in the N×N OTFS transform matrix, a row index represents a cyclic frequency shift index, and a column index represents a cyclic time shift index, wherein the indexing according to the pre-defined rule includes indexing the OTFS bases of the predetermined size in an order such that the cyclic frequency shift and the cyclic time shift in the N×N OTFS transform matrix are maximized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hojae Lee, Sangrim Lee, Kwangseok Noh, Dongkyu Kim
  • Patent number: 10984803
    Abstract: A frame error concealment method is provided that includes predicting a parameter by performing a regression analysis on a group basis for a plurality of groups formed from a first plurality of bands forming an error frame and concealing an error in the error frame by using the parameter predicted on a group basis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ho-sang Sung