The Interference Being Multi Path Interference, E.g., Rake Receivers (epo) Patents (Class 375/E1.032)
  • Patent number: 11843489
    Abstract: Described are systems and methods for identifying the phase and polarization of independent modulation streams in quadrature channels of a coherent transmission system by using digital code. As a result, phase rotation and polarization of streams that during transmission may have become rotated and swapped around in the channel are correctly labeled and depermuted according to a known and predictable order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Maxim Integrated Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Charles Razzell
  • Patent number: 11831363
    Abstract: A communications system includes at least one receiver having receiving elements and a transmitter having transmitting elements to transmit signals to the receiving elements via wireless propagation channels. The transmitter includes a beam-forming network and a channel measurement unit. The beam-forming network receives input signal streams at its input ports and outputs one or more signals as shaped beams based on a set of composited transfer functions. The channel measurement unit performs measurements of components of channel status information to generate a set of point-to-point transfer functions and generates the composited transfer functions by computing linear combinations of the point-to-point transfer functions. Each of the point-to-point transfer functions characterizes propagation paths from one of the transmitting elements to one of the receiving elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: SPATIAL DIGITAL SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Donald C. D. Chang, Juo-Yu Lee
  • Patent number: 11729650
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine, for a combination of a first band and a second band, whether a measurement offset is to be applied for a neighbor measurement on the second band based at least in part on an estimated impact of interference from the first band on the second band; and selectively apply the measurement offset for the neighbor measurement based at least in part on whether the measurement offset is to be applied; or selectively report the measurement offset to a base station associated with the neighbor measurement based at least in part on whether the measurement offset is to be applied. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Arvind Vardarajan Santhanam, Carlos Cabrera Mercader, Brian Clarke Banister, Reza Shahidi, Leena Zacharias
  • Patent number: 11664966
    Abstract: A co-frequency co-time full duplex (CCFD) signal receiving method includes: taking the sent baseband signal as the self-interference reference signal, reconstructing self-interference, and then performing primary self-interference cancellation on the received signal; processing, by using a timing synchronization loop, the signal after the primary self-interference cancellation, realizing timing recovery at the optimal sampling point of the useful signal through resampling a, and controlling resampling b1 and resampling b2 after performing low-pass filtering on the timing error signal in the timing synchronization loop, to recover the optimal sampling points of the self-interference reference signal and the received signal respectively; and performing joint self-interference cancellation and equalization on the resampled self-interference reference signal and the resampled received signal, and receiving the useful signal through signal demodulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG LAB
    Inventors: Changming Zhang, Xianbin Yu, Xuemin Li, Jie Shen
  • Patent number: 11650330
    Abstract: Embodiments describe determining position by selecting a set of digital pseudorandom sequences. The magnitudes of the cross-correlation between any two sequences of the chosen set are below a specified threshold. A subset of digital pseudorandom sequences are selected from the set such that the magnitudes of the autocorrelation function of each member of the subset, within a specified region adjacent to the peak of the autocorrelation function, are equal to or less than a prescribed value. Each transmitter transmits a positioning signal, and at least a portion of the positioning signal is modulated with at least one member of the subset. At least two transmitters of the plurality of transmitters modulate respective positioning signals with different members of the subset of digital pseudorandom sequences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: NextNav, LLC
    Inventors: Arun Raghupathy, Norman F. Krasner
  • Patent number: 11646777
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless communication device may determine, based at least in part on two or more measurements on a channel taken at different points in time, that the channel is classified as static. The wireless communication device may perform at least one optimization based at least in part on determining that the channel is classified as static. For example, the at least one optimization may include modifying a channel state feedback procedure, reducing a periodicity associated with a measurement gap, modifying a filtering associated with measurements of the channel, reducing a threshold associated with beam switching, and/or refraining from performing at least one filtering at a radio frequency receiver of the wireless communication device. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Abhinav Sridhar, Paolo Minero, Yongle Wu, Ashok Mantravadi, Hari Sankar, Alexei Yurievitch Gorokhov
  • Patent number: 11564244
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may receive, when operating in a multiple link communication system, one or more downlink control information (DCI) messages scheduling one or more downlink communications. The user equipment may determine, based at least in part on the one or more DCI messages, whether a communication constraint is satisfied for the one or more downlink communications. The user equipment may determine a communication configuration for the one or more downlink communications based at least in part on whether the communication constraint is satisfied. The user equipment may receive, in the multiple link communication system, the one or more downlink communications based at least in part on the communication configuration. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Alexandros Manolakos, Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang, Wanshi Chen, Juan Montojo
  • Patent number: 11552673
    Abstract: A method is provided for use in a cooperative broadcast multi-hop network that employs broadcast flood routing and multi-hop transmission using a direct-sequence spread-spectrum (DSSS) waveform. DSSS signals are received from other nodes on different channels. ASSW is performed to detect and remove interference signals received on the different channels. MDFT analysis banks each receive a beam in the spectral domain that can be channelized to generate a channelized beam that comprises multiple spectral channels. An adaptive interference mitigation space-frequency whitener module can then be applied to remove interference and generate interference-mitigated spatial-spectral domain channels. MDFT synthesis banks can each perform a MDFT synthesis operation on one of the spatial-spectral domain channels. A multi-user RAKE receiver can then combine the interference mitigated time-domain channelized signals to generate a subset (1 . . .
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: General Dynamics Mission Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott David Blanchard, David Kunil Lee
  • Patent number: 9912374
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a full-duplex wireless communication method, an antenna device and a full-duplex wireless communication system. The method includes steps of: within a training period, acquiring a relevant parameter for cancelling a self-interference signal from an antenna itself as a first estimated value, and a relevant parameter for cancelling a cross-interference signal between the antenna and the other antenna as a second estimated value; and within a data transmission period, receiving and transmitting signals simultaneously by the antenna using an identical frequency, cancelling the self-interference signal from the antenna itself in accordance with the first estimated value, and cancelling the cross-interference signal between the antenna and the other antenna in accordance with the second estimated value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: University of Science & Technology Beijing
    Inventor: Zhongshan Zhang
  • Patent number: 9730173
    Abstract: This document discloses a solution for synchronizing two apparatuses of the same or different wireless network. A synchronization control apparatus may receive measurement reports from a first apparatus and a second apparatus, wherein at least one of the measurement reports comprises at least one information element indicating an offset between clocks of the first apparatus and the second apparatus. The synchronization control apparatus may synchronize the first apparatus and the second apparatus with each other on the basis of the measurement reports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: 9Solutions Oy
    Inventors: Antti Hiltunen, Arto Pesonen
  • Patent number: 8779979
    Abstract: Described herein is a multi-antenna signal receiving device that includes a plurality of reception antennas that is capable of maximizing a diversity gain while eliminating a multi-path interference (MPI). The device receives a first received signal of a first antenna that includes components corresponding to a plurality of first paths and the device receives a second received signal of a second antenna that includes components corresponding to a plurality of second paths. The multi-antenna signal receiving device detects a component corresponding to a first path among the plurality of first paths, and a component corresponding to a second path among the plurality of second paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tetsuhiko Miyatani
  • Patent number: 8548029
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for monitoring an antenna system comprising at least two antenna branches providing antenna diversity. At least a first signal branch measure and a second signal branch measure are repeatedly generated in response to a first signal branch and a second signal branch received by a respective one of the at least two antenna branches, thus generating a first plurality of second signal branch measure values in a manner so that the first and second pluralities reflect the quality of the first and second signal branches, respectively, at different points in time. The first and second pluralities are analysed in order to distinguish any differences in the performance of the first and second antenna branches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventor: Stefan Willgert
  • Patent number: 8467462
    Abstract: To suppress effects produced on other terminals as much as possible, while obtaining the advantage of soft-combining. A multicarrier receiving apparatus that receives a packet comprised of at least a propagation path estimation symbol and a scrambled information symbol to demodulate, and has propagation path estimating sections 3-a and 3-b that respectively estimate propagation paths of radio signals transmitted from a plurality of transmission antennas, scramble multiplying sections 5-a and 5-b that respectively perform the same scrambling on propagation path estimation values output from the propagation path estimating sections 3-a and 3-b as scrambling provided in the information symbol on the transmission antennas sides, an adding section 3-c that adds scrambled propagation path estimation values, and a propagation path compensating section 7 that performs propagation path compensation of the information symbol included in the received packet using a signal output from the adding section 3-c.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Hamaguchi, Minoru Kubota, Shimpei To, Shoichi Shitara, Kimihiko Imamura
  • Patent number: 8446972
    Abstract: A reception device which communicates with a transmission device including multiple transmission antennas, the reception device including: at least one reception antenna which receives multiple transmission signals transmitted by the transmission device from the multiple transmission antennas; a propagation channel response estimation unit which estimates propagation channel responses among the multiple transmission antennas and the reception antenna; a block division unit which divides a reception signal of at least one of the reception antennas into multiple blocks based on a multipath; and a transmission signal detection unit which detects the transmission signals transmitted by the transmission device based on the reception signal divided by the block division unit into the multiple blocks and the propagation channel responses estimated by the propagation channel response estimation unit. The transmission signal detection unit includes: an interference cancellation unit and a signal separation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ryota Yamada, Takashi Yoshimoto, Kazuyuki Shimezawa
  • Patent number: 8379692
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for detecting a pilot signal in a wireless receiver using coherent combining/noncoherent detection techniques. Coherent combining/noncoherent detection techniques are used to detect the pilot signal whenever the receiver is already frequency locked, or otherwise known to have a small frequency offset Conventional noncoherent combining/noncoherent detection techniques are utilized to initially acquire the timing of the forward channel. Once the receiver is frequency locked, coherent combining/noncoherent detection techniques may be used to continuously detect the pilot signals. After the receiver is frequency locked, the residue frequency error is small over several consecutive correlator outputs The correlator outputs can thus be combined coherently (since the frequency error is known to be small), and the phase dependency is then eliminated by noncoherent detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Agere Systems LLC
    Inventor: Xiao-an Wang
  • Patent number: 8073076
    Abstract: An access terminal for processing a communication signal includes a receiver. The receiver is configured to determine a bias point for the communication signal based on a quality measurement of the communication signal, the quality measurement having a carrier-to-interference (C/I) estimate associated therewith. The receiver is further configured to determine a C/I cap for the communication signal using the C/I estimate, the C/I cap being configured to cap a signal to interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) of the communication signal. In addition, the receiver is configured to process the communication signal using the determined bias point and the determined C/I cap. A method is also provided for processing a communication signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: James Young Hurt, Preethi Chandrasekhar, Roland Reinhard Rick
  • Patent number: 8064496
    Abstract: Interference in a wireless communication is minimized, or at least reduced, by scaling the symbols received from an interfering transmitter. Input samples from the interfering transmitter are isolated and decovered to generate received symbols. The gains of the received symbols are scaled to reduce the interference and the scaled symbols are covered to produce output samples that are spread to generate interference cancelled samples with reduced interference from the interfering transmitter. The function applied to scale the symbols may be linear or nonlinear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Thomas B. Wilborn, Brian Clarke Banister
  • Patent number: 7447481
    Abstract: Systems and techniques are disclosed relating to reducing the number of fingers in a rake receiver used for rake finger processing in wireless networks. Determining Ebefore, captured energy of all fingers before increasing transmit power. Increasing transmit power by a delta transmit power. Determining Eafter, captured energy of i fingers. Determining i fingers needed for processing, such that Eafter is essentially greater than or equal to Ebefore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Ranganathan Krishnan