Antinoise Or Distortion (includes Predistortion) Patents (Class 375/296)
  • Patent number: 11955935
    Abstract: The signal processing device includes: an offset adjuster; an amplitude adjuster; and a delay adjuster, wherein the offset adjuster adjusts the DC offset using a first parameter regarding the DC offset determined based on an output of the offset adjuster which is output when no signal is input to the signal processing circuit by the subtractor, the amplitude adjuster adjusts the amplitude using a second parameter regarding the amplitude determined based on (i) an output of the amplitude adjuster which is output when a first test signal is input to the signal processing circuit and (ii) the first test signal, and the delay adjuster adjusts the delay using a third parameter regarding the delay determined based on the difference signal that is an output of the subtractor when a second test signal is input to the signal processing circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tadayoshi Okuda
  • Patent number: 11942904
    Abstract: A digital predistortion (DPD) system includes an input configured to receive an input signal. In some examples, a first signal path configured to generate a first signal based on the input signal. In some examples, an error model provider configured to generate an error model signal modeled after a gate bias error voltage associated with the DPD system. In some examples, a first combiner configured to combine the first signal and the error model signal to generate a first intermediate signal, and the DPD system generates an output signal based at least on the first intermediate signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: XILINX, INC.
    Inventors: Hongzhi Zhao, Xing Zhao, Vincent C. Barnes, Xiaohan Chen, Hemang M. Parekh
  • Patent number: 11943025
    Abstract: There is provided mechanisms for controlling transmission from an antenna panel. The method is performed by a network apparatus. A method comprises performing time-domain beamformed communication with terminal devices served by the network apparatus using the antenna panel split into N>1 subpanels. Each subpanel has two input ports and is fed, via the input ports, by signals and configured to generate beams by application of antenna element weights to its antenna elements. The subpanels are at least phase-wise synchronized with each other. When one and the same signal is fed into the input ports of all the subpanels, signals as transmitted from the subpanels add up coherently to represent a 1-layer transmission by a time reference being shared between the subpanels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Magnus Hurd, Zhiming Yin, Jonas Karlsson
  • Patent number: 11942905
    Abstract: A method of determining filter coefficients of an equalizer circuit for equalizing a non-linear electronic system is described. The equalizer circuit includes a Volterra filter circuit. Further, an equalizer circuit for equalizing a non-linear electronic system and an electronic device are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Bernhard Nitsch
  • Patent number: 11909441
    Abstract: This application provides an example base station for an example wireless communication network and an example method. One example base station includes a central unit and a remote radio unit (RRU). The RRU includes one or more antennas. The RRU is coupled to the central unit via one or more optical transmission fibers. Each optical transmission fiber defines a respective downlink transmission channel for transmitting a respective downlink transmission signal from the central unit to the respective antenna of the RRU. The RRU is configured to provide a respective uplink feedback signal based on the respective downlink transmission signal via an uplink feedback channel to the central unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hongqiang Bao, Zhipeng Zhao, Ramin Khayatzadeh, Ganghua Yang
  • Patent number: 11902056
    Abstract: Dual mode T-switches driven by at least one low-impedance switch driver, to connect at least four wires of a multiwire bus to a multi-input comparator (MIC) of a plurality of MICs in a first mode of Orthogonal Vector Signaling operation, and in a full-duplex mode of operation, using the low-impedance switch driver to disable a corresponding subset of T-switches to selectively disconnect a pair of wires of the multiwire bus from the MIC while using low-impedance enable signal paths in the low-impedance switch drivers to shunt capacitively-coupled interfering outbound signals received at the MIC from the selectively disconnected pair of wires in the full-duplex mode of operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: KANDOU LABS SA
    Inventors: Suhas Rattan, Kiarash Gharibdoust
  • Patent number: 11902404
    Abstract: A network device may monitor a TCP session with another network device, and may identify ingress and/or egress packets, a TCP header, and a socket of the TCP session. The network device may inspect the ingress and/or egress packets, the TCP header, and the socket to identify a zero window advertisement, details of a last quantity of packets sent or received, synchronize, finish, or reset packets sent or received, negotiated TCP options, or buffer space utilization, and may temporarily record identified data based on the inspection. The network device may detect a TCP session flap when a finish packet or a reset packet is identified and recorded, and may store, in a dead TCP session list, the identified data based on the TCP session flap being detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Amit Arora, Erin C. MacNeil, Harmeet Singh, Sairam Neelam
  • Patent number: 11871261
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a transformer configuration that includes a transmitter neural network configured to be used to generate at least one latent vector corresponding to one or more computation tasks of a plurality of computation tasks associated with a transformer-based cross-node machine learning system. The UE may transmit the at least one latent vector based at least in part on instantiating the transmitter neural network. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: June Namgoong, Yang Yang, Hyojin Lee, Taesang Yoo
  • Patent number: 11855825
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for providing additional bandwidth to receivers that can decode a higher modulation comprising trading a peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) reduction induced constellation noise of all or a subset of in-band on-channel (IBOC) carriers within an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (ODFM) waveform with data carrying superposition modulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: NAUTEL LIMITED
    Inventor: Philipp Schmid
  • Patent number: 11855669
    Abstract: A method for cancelling radio frequency interference (RFI) and a communication system thereof are provided. In the communication system, digital signals of a frequency domain are converted from analog signals and received by the communication system generally carry RFI, and the signals are processed by an equalizer and a far-end crosstalk canceller. Then, for preventing erroneous signals from forming due to an occurrence of a notch, masking parameters applied to the equalizer and the far-end crosstalk canceller are modified for not processing frequency bands that are RFI-affected. The frequency bands can be ignored by masking corresponding bins in the frequency domain after a fast Fourier transformation. The signals processed by the equalizer and the far-end crosstalk canceller are then outputted to an RFI canceller, and the signals with RFI cancellation can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORP.
    Inventors: Po-Hsiu Hsiao, Liang-Wei Huang
  • Patent number: 11849483
    Abstract: A dynamic configuration of crest factor reduction in a licensed assisted access radio system. A processing device comprises a detecting block, a clipping pulse generator, a first storage block, a selecting block, a full clipping block and a simplified clipping block. The detecting block performs a listen-before-talk (LBT) procedure on a plurality of carriers in parallel and generates a trigger signal in response to LBT success on one or more carriers. The clipping pulse generator generates, for the carrier(s) with LBT success, a clipping pulse within a time period from the receipt of the trigger signal to the start of user traffic transmission. The first storage block stores the clipping pulse for use by the full clipping block. The selecting block selects the full clipping block when there is user traffic on the carrier(s) and selects the simplified clipping block when there is no user traffic on the carrier(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Gan Wen, Jinsong Yang
  • Patent number: 11838040
    Abstract: Described are concepts, systems, devices and methods that enhance decoding performance of channels subject to correlated noise. The concepts, systems, devices and methods can be used with any combination of codes, code-rates and decoding techniques. In embodiments, a continuous realization of effective noise is estimated from a lead channel by subtracting its decoded output from its received signal. This estimate is then used to improve the accuracy of decoding of an otherwise orthogonal channel that is experiencing correlated effective noise. In this approach, channels aid each other through the post-decoding provision of estimates of effective noise. In some embodiments, the lead channel is not pre-determined, but is chosen dynamically based on which of a plurality of decoders completes first, or using soft information including an estimate of effective noise that is least energetic or most likely to have occurred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignees: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
    Inventors: Muriel Medard, Kenneth R. Duffy, Amit Solomon, Alejandro Cohen
  • Patent number: 11824700
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for reducing peak-to-average power ratio (“PAPR”) in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (“OFDM”) signal having reference tones by introducing modified pilot tones to cancel peaks in OFDM symbols in the OFDM signal array. The modified pilot tones are added to the original OFDM signal, which in turn conditions the OFDM symbols of the signal to effectively reduce the PAPR. Such systems and methods provide PAPR reduction for OFDM signals generated by an OFDM Signal Processor through the addition of tone reservation PAPR reduction methods, which use reserved tones such as pilot tones to improve PAPR. Such methods offer an advantage of improving the PAPR without introducing distortion to the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Morgan State University
    Inventor: Richard Dean
  • Patent number: 11811571
    Abstract: Wireless communication techniques that include techniques for allocating resources for peak reduction tones are discussed. A UE may receive from a base station an indication of one or more frequency resources that are allocated for uplink communication. The UE may also receive from the base station an indication of a subset of the one or more frequency resources allocated for uplink communication that are also allocated for transmission of one or more peak reduction tones. The UE may transmit to the base station at least one peak reduction tone on at least one frequency resource of the subset of the one or more frequency resources. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli, June Namgoong, Taesang Yoo, Naga Bhushan, Saeid Sahraei, Tingfang Ji
  • Patent number: 11777683
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose a method and an apparatus for transmitting a DMRS, and relate to the field of communications technologies. The method and the apparatus are applicable to an NR system. The method for transmitting a DMRS may include: determining a time-frequency resource used to carry a DMRS; and then sending the DMRS by using the time-frequency resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiang Ren, Yong Liu, Shibin Ge, Xiaoyan Bi
  • Patent number: 11765763
    Abstract: A method and system are provided for scheduling data transmission in a Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) system. The MIMO system may comprise at least one MIMO transmitter and at least one MIMO receiver. Feedback from one or more receivers may be used by a transmitter to improve quality, capacity, and scheduling in MIMO communication systems. The method may include generating or receiving information pertaining to a MIMO channel metric and information pertaining to a Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) in respect of a transmitted signal; and sending a next transmission to a receiver using a MIMO mode selected in accordance with the information pertaining to the MIMO channel metric, and an adaptive coding and modulation selected in accordance with the information pertaining to the CQI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: MALIKIE INNOVATIONS LIMITED
    Inventors: Ming Jia, Jianming Wu, Dong-Sheng Yu, Peiying Zhu, Wen Tong
  • Patent number: 11757690
    Abstract: A transmitter includes: a frame generator configured to generate a frame including a frame starting symbol, at least one data symbol and a frame closing symbol; a pilot and reserved tone inserter configured to insert pilots and reserved tones in at least one of the frame starting symbol, the data symbol and the frame closing symbol such that positions of the reserved tones do not overlap positions of the pilots in the at least one of the frame starting symbol, the data symbol and the frame closing symbol; and a transmitter configured to transmit the frame in which the pilots and the reserved tones are inserted, wherein the reserved tones are not used to transmit data in the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sung-ryul Yun, Young-ho Oh
  • Patent number: 11748452
    Abstract: The method includes: obtaining a plurality of pieces of feature data; automatically performing two different types of nonlinear combination processing operations on the plurality of pieces of feature data to obtain two groups of processed data, where the two groups of processed data include a group of higher-order data and a group of lower-order data, the higher-order data is related to a nonlinear combination of m pieces of feature data in the plurality of pieces of feature data, and the lower-order data is related to a nonlinear combination of n pieces of feature data in the plurality of pieces of feature data, where m?3, and m>n?2; and determining prediction data based on a plurality of pieces of target data, where the plurality of pieces of target data include the two groups of processed data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ruiming Tang, Huifeng Guo, Zhenguo Li, Xiuqiang He
  • Patent number: 11750326
    Abstract: A terminal device receives a DMRS and data from a network device. The DMRS and the data undergo Alamouti coding in space domain and frequency domain, or the DMRS and the data undergo Alamouti coding in space domain and time domain, and a DMRS obtained through the Alamouti coding is mapped to a first DMRS port and a second DMRS port. A modulation symbol of the first DMRS port is related to a modulation symbol of the second DMRS port. The terminal device demodulates the data based on the DMRS. Therefore, the DMRS corresponds to a transmission scheme of the data, to help the terminal device demodulate the data. This can reduce interference estimation complexity of the terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ye Wu, Xiaoyan Bi
  • Patent number: 11716093
    Abstract: A method of applying digital pre-distortion includes: outputting, by a look-up table, a first table value based on an input digital signal; adding the first table value and the input digital signal to generate a first combined signal comprising a first combined value having a first integer coefficient and a first fractional coefficient; separating the first integer coefficient from the first fractional coefficient to generate a first integer signal representing the first integer coefficient and a first fractional signal representing the first fractional coefficient; generating a delta-sigma modulated signal based on the first fractional signal; converting, by a first digital-to-analog, a first digital signal into a first analog signal, wherein the first digital signal is representative of the first integer signal; and converting, by a second DAC, a second digital signal into a second analog signal, wherein the second digital signal is representative of the delta-sigma modulated signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Dmytro Cherniak, Luigi Grimaldi
  • Patent number: 11716233
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to selection and use of peak reduction tones (PRTs) including obtaining a predetermined sequence of PRTs corresponding to a set of granted resources including a plurality of tones, mapping a set of data to a first subset of the plurality of tones outside of the predetermined sequence of PRTs and mapping a set of PRTs to a second subset of the plurality of tones within the predetermined sequence of PRTs. At least one peak of a time domain representation of the first subset of the plurality of tones is canceled using a time domain representation of the second subset of the plurality of tones. A transmitted waveform comprising the first subset of the plurality of tones and the second subset of the plurality of tones is transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Saeid Sahraei, Gokul Sridharan, Peter Gaal, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli, June Namgoong
  • Patent number: 11711153
    Abstract: Disclosed are a wireless signal performance adjustment apparatus and method, and a wireless communication terminal. The wireless signal performance adjustment apparatus comprises a monitoring unit, a control unit, a measurement unit and an adjustment unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shuai Guo
  • Patent number: 11700034
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method and a device for extracting broadband error calibration parameters, and a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes: performing frequency band splitting on link broadband signals of an ultra-wide band system according to a received frequency band index table to generate sub-bands; extracting an amplitude error and a phase error of each sub-band; and iteratively weighting and accumulating, according to the frequency band index table and a preset broadband weight table, the amplitude error and the phase error of each sub-band one by one to an initial amplitude error compensation parameter and an initial phase error compensation parameter respectively, to synthesize and extract broadband error calibration parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hongxing Zhou
  • Patent number: 11700023
    Abstract: An apparatus comprises: a first plurality of first radio frequency chains; a second plurality of second radio frequency chains, the first radio frequency chains being configured to produce wider side-band emissions than the second radio frequency chains; at least one antenna array comprising antenna elements, each of a first plurality of the antenna elements being coupled with a corresponding one of the first plurality of first radio frequency chains, the first plurality of first radio frequency chains being configured to cause transmissions predominately in a first band within a channel, each of a second plurality of the antenna elements being coupled with a corresponding one of the second plurality of second radio frequency chains, the second plurality of second radio frequency chains being configured to cause transmissions predominately in at least one second band within the channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Karthik Upadhya, Carl Nuzman, Alexei Ashikhmin, Stefan Wesemann, Hong Yang
  • Patent number: 11695445
    Abstract: A cross-division duplex (XDD) system includes an apparatus having a transceiver configured to communicate via an uplink channel and a downlink channel concurrently. The apparatus also includes a transmit antenna, a receive antenna, and a processor. The processor is configured to: estimate a non-linear component corresponding to a transmit path in the transceiver; apply an equalizer function to a received signal; and subtract, in a self-interference cancel (SIC) circuitry, the estimated non-linear component from the equalized signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Khurram Muhammad, Yu Liu, Chance Tarver
  • Patent number: 11695611
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for communicating scalar information that indicates frequency locations. One apparatus includes a processor that determines a first frequency location, determines a second frequency location, and determines a first scalar and a second scalar based on the first and second frequency locations. The apparatus includes a transceiver that transmits information of the first scalar and the second scalar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Hyejung Jung, Ravikiran Nory, Vijay Nangia, Ziad Ahmad
  • Patent number: 11695608
    Abstract: A transmitting device communicates with a receiving device an indication to apply PAPR reduction for a data transmission. The transmitting device applies a first PAPR reduction signal and a second PAPR reduction signal to the data transmission to reduce at least one signal peak of the data transmission to yield a transmission signal, where the first PAPR reduction signal includes a first set of PRTs that does not overlap with data tones and the second PAPR reduction includes a second set of PRTs that overlaps with the data tones and does not overlap with reserved tones. The transmitting device transmits the transmission signal to the receiving device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Peter Gaal, Saeid Sahraei, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli, June Namgoong, Gokul Sridharan
  • Patent number: 11677604
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and systems for reducing Peak Average Power Ratio (PAPR) in signal transmissions are described. In one example aspect, a wireless communication method includes determining, for an input sequence, an output sequence corresponding to an output of a convolutional modulation between a plurality of values and an intermediate sequence. The intermediate sequence is generated by inserting a set of coefficients between coefficients of the input sequence. Each non-zero coefficient of the set of coefficients is inserted between a first adjacent coefficient and a second adjacent coefficient. Each non-zero coefficient has a power that is between a first power of the first adjacent coefficient and a second power of the second adjacent coefficient and a phase value between a first phase value of the first adjacent coefficient and a second phase value of the second adjacent coefficient. The method also includes generating a waveform using the output sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Yu Xin, Guanghui Yu, Jian Hua, Jin Xu, Jun Xu
  • Patent number: 11677435
    Abstract: Wide bandwidth digital pre-distortion (DPD) in a remote unit(s) for a wireless communications system (WCS) is disclosed. In embodiments disclosed herein, a remote unit(s) includes at least two transceiver circuits, each configured to process (e.g., perform DPD) a respective downlink digital communications signal corresponding to a portion of the carrier bandwidth. Each of the transceiver circuits is further configured to convert the respective downlink digital communications signal into a respective downlink RF communications signal. The respective downlink RF communications signals generated by the transceiver circuits are subsequently combined to form a downlink RF communications signal(s) associated with the carrier bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yury Abramov, Roi Yosy Ziv
  • Patent number: 11671123
    Abstract: A wireless communications system includes a pre-distortion actuator configured to receive a carrier-modulated signal and convert the carrier-modulated signal into an output signal. The system includes one or more antennas configured to receive the output signal and transmit the output signal, one or more power amplifiers electrically coupled between the pre-distortion actuator and the one or more antennas and a receiver configured to receive the output signal over-the-air and generate feedback based on the output signal. The pre-distortion actuator is configured to generate the output signal by applying a correction to the carrier-modulated signal that cancels out nonlinearities associated with the one or more antennas and/or the one or more power amplifiers. The pre-distortion actuator is configured based on the feedback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Space Exploration Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: Martin S. McCormick, Feipeng Wang
  • Patent number: 11671794
    Abstract: A device includes a tuner configured to tune a broadcast signal; a pilot detector configured to detect pilots in the tuned broadcast signal; a de-framer configured to parse a signal frame of the broadcast signal. Further, the signal frame carries Physical Layer Pipe (PLP) data, and the signal frame includes a preamble and at least one subframe. The device also includes a decoder configured to decode the PLP data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jaehyung Kim, Woosuk Ko, Chulkyu Mun, Sungryong Hong
  • Patent number: 11640826
    Abstract: A communication system includes at least one first device and at least one second device which are linked in a manner that enables data transfer with each other. The first device enables the speech signal that it receives as the input to be expressed in terms of the energy functions representing the energy patterns, information functions representing the information patterns and the noise functions of the frames of the real speech samples; and transfers the indexes of these functions in the database and the frame gain factor of each frame to the second device. The second device finds the functions via the indexes from the copy database which is a copy of the database and reconstructs the speech signal by these functions and the frame gain factor, enabling it to be provided as the voice output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Inventor: Bekir Siddik Binboga Yarman
  • Patent number: 11637599
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a precoding matrix indication method, a communications apparatus, and a storage medium. A precoding matrix of each of K frequency-domain units satisfies W=W1×W2, and elements in W2 in the K frequency-domain units are represented by P elements that are relatively few. A terminal device reports third indication information, where the third indication information includes first indication information and the second indication information, and the first indication information and the second indication information are independently encoded. The first indication information is used to indicate the P elements, and the second indication information is used to indicate P. Therefore, the terminal device can adjust a quantity of information bits of the second indication information based on a channel condition change, thereby improving precoding matrix reporting efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ruiqi Zhang, Xueru Li
  • Patent number: 11621876
    Abstract: A system and method for communication of digital data includes receiving a plurality of data bits to be transmitted, and generating an output signal for transmission by a transmitter circuit. The generating includes generating a portion of the output signal comprising values of the output signal with magnitude less than a specified threshold, the specified threshold corresponding to a specified transmitter circuit maximum output power; and generating a portion of the output signal comprising a representation of values of the output signal with magnitude greater than the specified threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: University of Virginia Patent Foundation
    Inventors: Maite Brandt-Pearce, Jie Lian
  • Patent number: 11621749
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communications, and more specifically to increased diversity for devices with limited communications resources. An example method generally includes transmitting data as a bundled transmission to a device with limited communications resources, the bundled transmission comprising multiple bursts wherein each burst spans a plurality of transmission time intervals (TTIs) and the same data is transmitted in each burst, and taking action to increase diversity (e.g., at least one of spatial diversity, time diversity, frequency diversity, etc.) for the bundled transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hao Xu, Peter Gaal, Wanshi Chen, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian
  • Patent number: 11606123
    Abstract: The described techniques provide for the use of sub-band-specific reference signal precoding. A user equipment (UE) may apply multiple precoding matrices to a reference signal to generate a set of precoded reference signals and may transmit the precoded reference signals over respective sub-bands within a given reference signal resource set. In some cases, the UE may transmit a different set of precoded reference signals in each of multiple reference signal resource sets. Upon receiving the precoded reference signals, a base station may perform wideband channel estimation for each sub-band in the given reference signal resource set. The base station may compute an average spectral efficiency for each reference signal resource set and may transmit a report to the UE. The report may include one or more communication parameters for future communications between the UE and base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Chenxi Hao, Yu Zhang, Chao Wei, Liangming Wu, Wanshi Chen
  • Patent number: 11601134
    Abstract: A system and method for generating and using fixed-point operations for neural networks includes converting floating-point weighting factors into fixed-point weighting factors using a scaling factor. The scaling factor is defined to minimize a cost function and the scaling factor is derived from a set of multiples of a predetermined base. The set of possible scaling function is defined to reduce the computational effort for evaluating the cost function for each of a number of possible scaling factors. The system and method may be implemented in one or more controllers that are programmed to execute the logic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Akshay Malhotra, Thomas Rocznik, Christian Peters
  • Patent number: 11595066
    Abstract: A method comprising determining a plurality of digital pre-distortion engines, determining signals for the pre-distortion engines, determining terms for a matrix and filter the matrix, based on the filtered matrix, determining correlation matrixes, obtaining pre-distorted signals from the digital pre-distortion engines, wherein the pre-distorted signals are pre-distorted based on the determined correlation matrixes, and combining the pre-distorted signals to a combined pre-distorted signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Shavantha Kularatna, Tian He, Christian Reichl, Aki Korhonen
  • Patent number: 11575401
    Abstract: An apparatus includes an estimation circuitry configured to receive a first set of one or more digital signals of transmitters of a communication system, and capture a set of one or more radio frequency signals that have been generated from the first set of digital signals The set of radio frequency signals being input of an antenna system of the communication system. Based on the first set of digital signals and the corresponding set of radio frequency signals, a set of weights related to a distortion effect caused by the generation of the radio frequency signals is derived. A received second set of digital signals is weighted using the set of weights, resulting in filtered signals. Using the filtered signals, a correction signal indicative of an interference caused by transmission of the second set of digital signals at a receiver of the communication system is estimated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY
    Inventors: Marko Fleischer, Jan Hellmann, Rene Röschke, Björn Jelonnek, Jürgen Hellstab
  • Patent number: 11569887
    Abstract: In one aspect, a method for wireless communication includes transmitting a first message indicating a precoding matrix identifier configured to identify a particular precoding matrix for precoding by another wireless communication device for at least one future transmission; and receiving a second message indicating information about whether the particular precoding matrix was or will be used for the at least one future transmission. In another aspect, a method for wireless communication includes receiving a first message indicating a precoding matrix identifier configured to identify a particular precoding matrix for precoding by the wireless communication device for at least one future transmission; and transmitting a second message indicating information about whether the particular precoding matrix was or will be used for precoding for the at least one future transmission. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Igor Gutman, Shay Landis, Gideon Shlomo Kutz, Assaf Touboul, Guy Wolf
  • Patent number: 11563408
    Abstract: Systems and methods for linearizing a radio system are disclosed. In some embodiments, a radio system comprises an antenna array, transmit branches comprising respective power amplifiers, a predistortion subsystem comprising predistorters for the transmit branches respectively, a receive antenna element, a transmit observation receiver having an input coupled to the receive antenna element, and an adaptor. The predistorters predistort respective transmit signals to provide predistorted transmit signals to the respective transmit branches for transmission via respective active antenna elements in the antenna array. The transmit observation receiver is operable to receive, via the receive antenna element, a combined receive signal due to coupling between the receive antenna element and the active antenna elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Leonard Rexberg, Göran Nilsson, Tomas Andersson, Pär Holmgren, Anders Martinsson
  • Patent number: 11552655
    Abstract: A digital radio frequency (RF) transmitter including processing circuitry configured to generate first through third pattern signals based on a pattern of an inphase (I)-quadrature (Q) binary data pair and a pattern of an inverted I-Q binary data pair, the first through third pattern signals having a same pattern and different phases, and a switched-capacitor digital-to-analog converter (SC-DAC) configured to remove an n-th harmonic component of an RF analog signal by amplifying the first through third pattern signals to have a certain magnitude ratio and synthesizing the amplified first through third pattern signals into the RF analog signal, where “n” is an integer of at least 3, may be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Youngsea Cho, Jiseon Paek, Wan Kim, Daechul Jeong
  • Patent number: 11531639
    Abstract: Techniques for denoising an electromagnetic signal are disclosed. The techniques utilize an antenna, a weight adaptation component, a reservoir computer including a computer interpretable neural network, a delay embedding component, and an output layer computer. The techniques include passively acquiring an electromagnetic signal by the antenna, producing a plurality of reservoir state values by the reservoir computer based on the electromagnetic signal, collecting the plurality of reservoir state values by the delay embedding component into a historical record, determining a plurality of reservoir state value weights by the weight adaptation component based at least in part of the historical record, scaling, by the plurality of reservoir state value weights, to produce a plurality of output values, the plurality of reservoir state values by the output layer computer, and outputting the plurality of output values, where the scaling occurs over a plurality of clock cycles of a clock for the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Peter Petre, Shankar Rao, Gabriel Virbila
  • Patent number: 11522586
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for non-linear precoding are provided. One method may include combining, by a network node, of linear and non-linear precoding, for example based on specific channel state information acquisition from at least one user equipment, and generating two types of demodulation reference signals for the concatenated linear and non-linear precoding. The method may include multiplexing, by the network node, the two types of demodulation reference signals with data. A first of the two types of demodulation reference signals may be linearly precoded with one linear precoding matrix from a first-stage linear precoder, and another one of the two types may be linearly precoded with both the first-stage linear precoder and a feedforward filter in a second-stage non-linear precoder from the concatenation of linear and nonlinear precoders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Nuan Song, Eugene Visotsky, Frederick Vook, Mihai Enescu
  • Patent number: 11515846
    Abstract: An in-band extraction unit is configured to extract an in-band from an output signal. An out-band extraction unit is configured to extract at least one pair of out-bands including a low frequency side out-band and a high frequency side out-band from the output signal. An ADC is configured to convert the extracted in-band and out-bands to digital signals. A signal processing unit is configured to process information included in the digital signals converted by the analog to digital converter and adjust an operation of predistorting an input baseband digital signal to generate the output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Soubhik Deb, Masaaki Tanio
  • Patent number: 11502738
    Abstract: An apparatus includes multiple signal paths for signal transmission, and control circuitry. The multiple signal paths include a first signal path and a second signal path. The first signal path is configured to convert a digital baseband signal to a first radio frequency (RF) signal having a first frequency and a first gain. The second signal path is configured to convert a digital baseband signal to a second RF signal having a second frequency and a second gain, wherein the second gain is less than the first gain. The control circuitry is coupled to the plurality of signal paths and is configured to receive one or more control signals to enable selective activation of at least one signal path of the plurality of signal paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sudipto Chakraborty, Rajiv Joshi
  • Patent number: 11502405
    Abstract: A transmission/reception baseband-processing device includes a calibration-processing unit configured to correct an input signal input to a transmission unit on the basis of a first characteristic according to characteristics of the transmission unit of a transmission/reception front end-processing unit and a calibration reception unit that is a reception unit of a calibration transmission/reception unit and a second characteristic according to a characteristic of the calibration reception unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takuji Mochizuki
  • Patent number: 11496706
    Abstract: A serializer includes: an I2C controller, an I2C command analysis circuit, a system control circuit, a low-speed data transmission circuit, a high-speed data conversion circuit, a low-speed data processing circuit, a parallel-serial conversion bidirectional circuit, a serial-parallel conversion circuit, a protocol analysis circuit, a video data processing circuit and an I2C receiver. The serializer can receive the external control command from the external controller through the I2C controller, and can also receive the external control command and the internal control command through the parallel-serial conversion bidirectional circuit. In addition, the serializer can also receive the video data from the external video source through the serial-parallel conversion circuit, and receive the audio data from the external source through the I2C receiver. Therefore, the serializer in the present disclosure can be applied to both two application scenarios, which is more flexible in application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: LONTIUM SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shenghui Bao, Jin Su, Hui Bian, Xinrun Xing, Lei Li
  • Patent number: 11469782
    Abstract: A communication system for equipment in airborne operations comprising: at least one first double transceiver and at least one second double transceiver, wherein the at least one first double transceiver is configured to send data to the at least one second double transceiver in two redundant main channels and wherein the data to be sent through each redundant main channel is first compared with each other so as to ensure that the data sent through a first main channel is the same data sent through a second main channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Airbus Defence and Space SAU
    Inventors: Manuel González Rodríguez, Andrés Jiménez Olazábal, Gonzalo Martín Gómez
  • Patent number: 11456762
    Abstract: A control unit (control device) (12) is configured to be connectable to radio units (11-1 to 11-N), respectively, and each path unit (13) includes path units (13-1 to 13-N) having a first input path (L1) and a second input path (L2). The first input path (L1) is a path on which a corresponding DPD unit (14) is provided and through which a transmission baseband signal compensated for the non-linear distortion is input to a corresponding radio unit (11). The second input path (L2) is a path through which a transmission calibration signal for calibrating a path and amplitude deviation between the radio units (11) is input to the corresponding radio unit (11) without passing through the DPD unit (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takuji Mochizuki