Plural Receivers Patents (Class 455/132)
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Patent number: 7839957Abstract: A method of updating a multipath search that has located one or more multipath component peaks in a received signal, the method comprising repeating the search using a delay spread window extending either back from the latest peak or forward from the earliest peak.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2005Date of Patent: November 23, 2010Assignees: MStar Semiconductor, Inc., MStar Software R&D (Shenzhen) Ltd., MStar France SAS, MStar Semiconductor, Inc.Inventor: Francesc Boixadera Espax
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Patent number: 7835711Abstract: Method and apparatus to dynamically configure the signal reception selectivity of a plurality of transceivers is described. In one embodiment, a transceiver includes a receiver circuit having two or more filter circuits. Each of the filter circuits is configured to pass RF signals from a different portion of an overall receiver bandwidth. When two or more receivers in proximity to one another are simultaneously operating, the filter circuits of the respective receiver are dynamically configured to different RF frequency passbands to minimize interference and cross talk between receivers and transmitters.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2007Date of Patent: November 16, 2010Assignee: Atheros Communications, Inc.Inventor: William J. McFarland
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Patent number: 7830980Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention provides a wireless station (STA) capable of implicit feedback in a wireless local area network, comprising at least one power amplifier, a plurality of antennas capable of being connected with said at least one power amplifier, and a switch capable of switching the connection between said plurality of antennas and said at least one power amplifier thereby enabling said wireless station to sound a complete channel matrix for an access point (AP) in communication with said wireless station (STA).Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2004Date of Patent: November 9, 2010Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Qinghua Li, Xintian Lin
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Patent number: 7826547Abstract: A preamble of a frame for a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) wireless communication for a first transmit antenna of the MIMO communication includes a legacy preamble portion in accordance with a legacy wireless communication protocol. The preamble of the frame for the MIMO wireless communication for the first transmit antenna also includes a current protocol preamble portion in accordance with a protocol of the MIMO wireless communication. The preamble of a frame for at least a second antenna of the MIMO communication includes a cyclically shifted legacy preamble portion for the frame. The preamble of the frame for the MIMO wireless communication for the second transmit antenna also includes a second current protocol preamble portion in accordance with a protocol of the MIMO wireless communication.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2005Date of Patent: November 2, 2010Assignee: Broadcom CorporationInventors: Christopher J. Hansen, Jason A. Trachewsky, R. Tushar Moorti, Christopher Young
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Patent number: 7822133Abstract: In an OFDM receiver, one of a plurality of antennas is selected based on a ratio X of two moving average integration values (first moving average integration value and second moving average integration value) that are calculated from a non-delay symbol and a delay symbol. It could be said that the second moving average integration value represents excessive false information (that is, whether the state of the transmission line is good). Accordingly, determination of the ratio X between the second moving average integration value and the first moving average integration value and selection of one of the plurality of antennas based on the ratio X enables judgment on whether the state of the transmission line is good even during a period other than a guard interval period Tg, that is, during an effective symbol period Tu.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2007Date of Patent: October 26, 2010Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yoshiaki Nakamura
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Patent number: 7822141Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention include systems and methods for optimizing the transmitter and receiver weights of a MIMO system. In one embodiment, the weights are optimized to create and steer beam nulls, such that each transmitted signal is substantially decoupled from all other signals between a MIMO transmitter a MIMO receiver. In another embodiment, the weights are selected such that, the signal strength of each weighted signal transmitted through a communications channel along a respective signal path is substantially equivalent, but for which the weighting vectors are not necessarily orthogonal. In a further embodiment, each transmitted signal is coupled only between its own transmitter and receiver antennas with a gain, or eigenvalue, that is a consequence of the weights, and which is bounded to within a desired range of values while at the same time the weighing vectors are orthogonal. Embodiments employing various decomposition techniques are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2006Date of Patent: October 26, 2010Inventor: James Wight
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Patent number: 7822442Abstract: A system and method are provided for configuring an antenna array having a predetermined number of antennas. After providing an antenna correlation matrix for all antennas with regard to a mobile terminal, the antenna array is virtually partitioned into two or more sub-arrays based on the antenna correlation matrix such that correlations among antennas within each sub-array are higher than correlations among antennas belonging to different sub-arrays. One or more beamforming weights are generated corresponding to each antenna within the sub-arrays for applying to one or more signals transmitted therefrom, and at least one predetermined multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) mechanism is further applied among the sub-arrays by treating each sub-array as a virtual antenna.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2008Date of Patent: October 26, 2010Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: Hang Jin, John Grabner
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Patent number: 7818635Abstract: In a digital broadcast receiver, when a bit error rate (BER) is larger than a threshold in a BER determining part, power is supplied to a first tuner and a second tuner for diversity reception. When the BER is smaller than the threshold, power supply to one of the first tuner and the second tuner is stopped for single reception. This structure allows power supply to one of the tuners to be stopped in excellent reception environments, thus reducing power consumption.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2006Date of Patent: October 19, 2010Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Yasunobu Tsukio, Hiroaki Ozeki, Keiichi Kitazawa
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Patent number: 7817730Abstract: An improved training sequence for acquiring symbol boundary timing at a receiver of a data transmission system is disclosed. One aspect pertains to an improved training sequence wherein groups of identical symbols are transmitted by a transmitter. These symbols can be supplied to the transmitter in a time domain or a frequency domain manner. The improved training sequence facilitates symbol boundary determination at a receiver.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2004Date of Patent: October 19, 2010Assignee: Marvell World Trade Ltd.Inventors: Jacky S. Chow, Pak Hei Matthew Leung, King-Fuk Luk, Nicholas Philip Sands, Eugene Yuk-Yin Tang
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Patent number: 7813458Abstract: A network entity in a multi-transmit antenna system, such as a transmitting or receiving entity, includes a component such as a pre-coder or a receiver, and is configured for full-spatial-rate coding data. The network entity is capable of providing a full-spatial-rate codebook having been designed by selecting an underlying partial-spatial-rate codebook designed for a system configured for partial-spatial-rate coding data. The full-spatial-rate codebook can then be designed in a manner including defining the full-spatial-rate codewords based upon partial-spatial-rate codewords of the partial-spatial rate codebook and basis vectors of a null space of the respective partial-spatial-rate codewords in a multidimensional vector space. The network entity can also be capable of selecting codewords of the codebook in accordance with a sub-space tracking method whereby the codewords of the codebook can be selected in a manner that exploits correlations therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2005Date of Patent: October 12, 2010Assignee: Nokia CorporationInventors: Nico van Waes, Hua Zhang, Juha Heiskala, Victor Stolpman, Jian Zhong Zhang, Tony Reid, Jae Son
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Patent number: 7813455Abstract: A MIMO wireless communication system and method reduces the number of recursive operations when decoding received data symbols by decoding the data symbols in pairs rather than on a per symbol basis. Decoding in pairs is facilitated by the determination that errors between selected pairs of data symbols are uncorrelated and identically distributed with a determined variance. Additionally, the system and method can order the pairs and provide decoding rules that result in an insignificant loss of performance for a wide range of signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs). Furthermore, the system and method exploit the structure of the error covariance matrix to reduce computational demands.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2006Date of Patent: October 12, 2010Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.Inventor: Jayesh H. Kotecha
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Patent number: 7809343Abstract: An improved multi-channel receiver for satellite broadcast applications or the like. In an exemplary embodiment, an AGC loop, under the control of an AGC processor, controls the gain of an analog sub-receiver adapted to simultaneously receive multiple signals to achieve a desired AGC setpoint signal intensity from the sub-receiver. Multiple digital demodulators, coupled to the sub-receiver by an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), demodulate the multiple received signals. The AGC controller, based upon which of the received signals are being demodulated, selects the desired AGC setpoint from a table of setpoints. The AGC controller may also provide selective power control to circuitry in the receiver and select the resolution of the ADC. The controller updates the AGC loop with step values selected from a group of values by an AGC control algorithm. Different groups of step values may be used by the controller depending on whether the signals are fading or not.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2007Date of Patent: October 5, 2010Assignee: Agere Systems Inc.Inventors: Yhean-Sen Lai, Jie Song, Zhenyu Wang, Jinguo Yu
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Publication number: 20100248664Abstract: Methods, software and apparatuses for decoding received delayed path signals are described. A receiver receives a signal via different paths with relative delay, e.g., on the same frequency channel. The signal is sampled at at least one sample per symbol. A channel estimator determines channel coefficients associated with the channel over which the signals were transmitted. A processor selects samples that include a dependence on a particular symbol being decoded and computes an error metric for each possible value of the particular symbol, for combinations of hypothesized future symbol values on which the selected samples depend, and for single values of previous symbols on which the selected samples depend. Error metrics calculated for each symbol are stored in memory. A soft symbol is generated based on said signal samples from the sampler, the channel coefficients and estimates of symbols computed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2009Publication date: September 30, 2010Inventor: Paul Wilkinson DENT
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Patent number: 7804917Abstract: An ultra-wideband clear channel assessment system uses a double-window energy technique for energy detection, which indicates a clear or busy channel.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2006Date of Patent: September 28, 2010Assignee: Sigma Designs, Inc.Inventors: Catherine A. French, Ruoyang Lu, Hung C. Nguyen
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Patent number: 7800523Abstract: There is provided a signal processor with a plurality of antennas connected for transmitting and receiving wireless signals, including a plurality of analog reception processing units, AD converters, DA converters, and analog transmission processing units, wherein each of the analog reception processing units converts the wireless signal received through the antenna into an analog baseband signal and outputs the signal to the AD converter, each of the DA converters converts the digital baseband signal into analog format and outputs the signal, and each of the analog transmission processing units shifts the frequency band of the analog baseband signal output from the DA converter to the high frequency side. The signal processor further includes a transmission switch which switches among the DA converters respectively connected to the analog transmission processing units and a reception switch which switches among the AD converters respectively connected to the analog reception processing units.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2009Date of Patent: September 21, 2010Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hiroaki Takano, Tomoya Yamaura
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Patent number: 7801239Abstract: The present invention discloses a base transceiver station (BTS) equipped with a plurality of antennas for improving the robustness of spatial division multiple access via nulling. The BTS comprises of a first matrix module receiving a plurality of signals from one or more customer premises equipments (CPEs) through the plurality of antennas and producing correspondingly a first plurality of covariance matrices representing the plurality of signals, a second matrix module receiving the first plurality of covariance matrices and generating correspondingly a set of derivative spatial signature matrices representing the CPEs respectively, a third matrix module receiving the derivative spatial signature matrices and producing correspondingly a second plurality of covariance matrices representing interferences of the CPEs, and an eigenvector module generating a plurality of beamforming vectors for the CPEs from the plurality of derivative spatial signature matrices and the second plurality of covariance matrices.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2008Date of Patent: September 21, 2010Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: Hang Jin, Li Guo
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Patent number: 7801237Abstract: The present invention relates to a transmitter and a transmission method in communication system using three Tx antennas in order to maximize STFBC coding gain. An input symbol sequence is transmitted through a plurality of Tx antennas in a predetermined method.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2005Date of Patent: September 21, 2010Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., LtdInventors: Chan-Byoung Chae, Hong-Sil Jeong, Sung-Ryul Yun, Won-Il Roh, Jeong-Tae Oh, Kyun-Byoung Ko, Young-Ho Jung, Seung-Hoon Nam, Jae-Hak Chung
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Patent number: 7796703Abstract: A method of processing data by using a plurality of antennas and by applying weight to each signal received via a corresponding antenna in a wireless communication system is disclosed. More specifically, the method includes estimating a channel matrix corresponding to the received signal and dividing columns of the channel matrix into at least two groups. Here, each group includes at least one column. Furthermore, the method includes applying a Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) scheme to each group.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2005Date of Patent: September 14, 2010Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Bin Chul Ihm, Yong Suk Jin, Jin Young Chun
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Patent number: 7792227Abstract: The present invention provides a method for carrier detection associated with the receipt of MIMO RF packet communications. This involves receiving multiple MIMO RF packet communications with multiple receiver pathways, wherein the RF packet communications each comprise a preamble and data. The RF packet communications are sampled by a carrier detector before, during or after conversion to baseband. The carrier detectors are used to produce a set of carrier detection metrics for each reception pathway. These carrier detection metrics may be combined arithmetically with those of other reception pathways to produce a multi-reception pathway carrier detect. Alternatively, these carrier detection metrics can be processed to produce a logical decision or binary detection signal value associated with each reception pathway, which is then logically combined with the logical decisions of other reception pathways to produce a multi-reception pathway carrier detect.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2005Date of Patent: September 7, 2010Assignee: Broadcom CorporationInventors: R. Tushar Moorti, Rohit V. Gaikwad, Amit G. Bagchi
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Patent number: 7787841Abstract: The demodulator in the receiving module of the invention supplies a signal produced based on a signal level detected by a first detector to a second amplifier as an amplification degree adjustment signal. With this arrangement, when a second receiver works, an AGC voltage supplied to the second receiver is already close to an ultimately converging certain value. The AGC voltage supplied to the second receiver is thus stabilized in its value, from the value close to the ultimately converging certain value to the certain value. Accordingly, a time period required from the second receiver starts working until the AGC voltage supplied to second amplifier ultimately converges into the certain value is shortened.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2006Date of Patent: August 31, 2010Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Yasunobu Tsukio, Hiroaki Ozeki
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Patent number: 7787817Abstract: Disclosed is a method for providing heterogeneous services using a PIP function in a terrestrial DMB receiver. The method includes: a first step of receiving a key input for activating the PIP function and displaying a list of services in an available ensemble during use of a desired DMB service; a second step of selecting a desired item in the list of services; a third step of identifying if the desired item selected at the second step is an “exchange” function and identifying if PIP function of the terrestrial DMB receiver is activated when the selected item is the “exchange” function; a fourth step of exchanging a service of a main screen for a service of a PIP screen, when it is identified that the PIP function is activated at the third step; and a fifth step of identifying if the desired item selected at the second step is the “exchange” function and displaying the selected item on the PIP screen when the selected item is not the “exchange” function.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2006Date of Patent: August 31, 2010Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jeong-Sik Cho, Young-Jip Kim, Byoung-Dai Lee, Jun-Young Choe, Ji-Wuck Jung
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Patent number: 7787552Abstract: A wireless communication network is configured to provide distributed diversity transmissions, wherein different diversity-coded versions of the same information signal are transmitted from each of two or more network sectors. The diversity-coded versions of the information signal are based on space-time or space-frequency codes, and the information signal may comprise a dedicated channel signal targeted to an individual user or a broadcast signal targeted to one or more users. Thus, spaced-apart network transmitters, which may be located at the same cell site, or at different cell sites, are configured to transmit diversity-coded versions of a given information signal and, in this manner, the advantages of space-time and/or space frequency transmission coding may be applied across multiple sectors of a communication network.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2005Date of Patent: August 31, 2010Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Wanshi Chen, Young C. Yoon
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Patent number: 7787555Abstract: Provided is a receiver of a multi-input multi-output system using multiple antennas, the receiver including: a first multiplying unit for multiplying a vector r received via the antenna by a Hermitian matrix Q; a candidate transmitting vector generating unit for detecting a signal on a lowest modulation order transmitting antenna from the received vector y output from the first multiplying unit, creating as many symbol candidates as the modulation order of the detected signal, and generating a candidate transmitting vector using each symbol candidate; a transmitting vector determining unit for obtaining a distance between each candidate transmitting vector generated by the candidate transmitting vector generating unit and the received vector y to determine a final transmitting vector; and a demodulating unit for demodulating the final transmitting vector determined by the transmitting vector determining unit.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2007Date of Patent: August 31, 2010Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteInventors: Tae Joon Kim, Ik Soo Eo, Hyoun Kuk Kim, Hyun Cheol Park
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Patent number: 7778615Abstract: An indicator of a strength of a signal comprising a training sequence portion received in a radio propagation environment is provided. Samples are taken from the training sequence portion, an energy value of the samples over an estimated channel impulse response is computed and the indicator of the strength of the signal is estimated from the energy value.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2007Date of Patent: August 17, 2010Assignee: Nokia CorporationInventors: Mikko Saily, Olli Piirainen, Kari Niemela, Jari Hulkkonen
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Patent number: 7773706Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus includes a plurality of antennas, transmits a plurality of known symbol sequences each including a plurality of known symbols by using the antennas, each of the known symbols having subcarrier arrangement on which plural known information of the each of the known symbols are carried on, and inversion/non-inversion of a phase of known information on one of two adjacent subcarriers of the subcarrier arrangement being controlled in accordance with the number of the known symbols and time position of the each of the known symbols, and transmits data symbols by using the antennas after the known symbol sequences are transmitted.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2008Date of Patent: August 10, 2010Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Yoshimasa Egashira, Daisuke Takeda, Tsuguhide Aoki, Yasuhiko Tanabe
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Patent number: 7769357Abstract: An improved multi-channel receiver for satellite broadcast applications or the like. In an exemplary embodiment, an AGC loop, under the control of an AGC processor, controls the gain of an analog sub-receiver adapted to simultaneously receive multiple signals to achieve a desired AGC setpoint signal intensity from the sub-receiver. Multiple digital demodulators, coupled to the sub-receiver by an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), demodulate the multiple received signals. The AGC controller, based upon which of the received signals are being demodulated, selects the desired AGC setpoint from a table of setpoints. The AGC controller may also provide selective power control to circuitry in the receiver and select the resolution of the ADC. The controller updates the AGC loop with step values selected from a group of values by an AGC control algorithm. Different groups of step values may be used by the controller depending on whether the signals are fading or not.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2007Date of Patent: August 3, 2010Assignee: Agere Systems Inc.Inventors: Yhean-Sen Lai, Jie Song, Zhenyu Wang, Jinguo Yu
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Patent number: 7769107Abstract: Complex antennas weights for use in beamforming in a multiple-antenna system are determined based upon clear channel assessment (CCA) information in a wireless networking environment.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2004Date of Patent: August 3, 2010Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Sumeet Sandhu, William J. Chimitt
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Patent number: 7760814Abstract: A radio transmission method and a wireless transmission system comprising multiple transmitter and receiver antennae simultaneously operating within the same frequency range and space-time encoders and decoders. Data transmission and channel matrix measurement can take place synchronously. Characteristic pilot signals that are unequivocally recognizable are superimposed with low noise on the data subsignals in the transmitter and are used in the receiver for the analog measurement of the channel matrix in a weighting unit and for the analog recovery of the transmitted data subsignals from the received signals. The measured analog values are digitally processed in a signal processor. The weightings thus determined are then summed in an analog signal processing unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2003Date of Patent: July 20, 2010Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Volker Jungnickel, Udo Krueger, Volker Pohl, Clemens von Helmolt, Thomas Haustein, Slawomir Stanczak
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Patent number: 7761069Abstract: The present invention is a radio communications system. The system includes a first Line-Replaceable Unit (LRU) and a second Line-Replaceable Unit (LRU). Each LRU includes two transmitters, a multi-channel receiver, a passive hybrid combiner-splitter, and a bypass relay. The first LRU and the second LRU are communicatively coupled via a crosslink connection, such as a coax cable connection. The system includes first and second antennas, which are communicatively coupled with the first and second LRUs respectively. The system includes a crosslink bus configured for communicatively coupling the first and second LRUs, thereby allowing the LRUs to coordinate operation of the relays via the crosslink bus. Still further, the system is configured for providing concurrent transmit and receive operation.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2007Date of Patent: July 20, 2010Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.Inventors: Fred J. Studenberg, Jr., Bradley P. Baker
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Patent number: 7756546Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide methods and apparatuses for incorporating fixed terminal devices within an integrated wireless system using a fixed terminal adaptor, and to indicate the capabilities of the fixed terminal adaptor. In accordance with one embodiment, a fixed terminal adaptor is enabled to indicate its capabilities to the network controller of the integrated wireless system. For one such embodiment, the network controller is able to select the appropriate bearer mechanisms to support the expected fixed terminal services.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2005Date of Patent: July 13, 2010Assignee: Kineto Wireless, Inc.Inventor: Rajeev Gupta
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Publication number: 20100167672Abstract: A mobile terminal having multiple antennas and an antenna information display method of the mobile terminal are disclosed. Downlink signals are received through the multiple antennas, a channel state of each antenna is measured, and whether or not each antenna needs to be adjusted or an actual channel measurement value are displayed based on the measured channel state information and an antenna setting mode. Thus, a user can check an antenna with a poor reception performance by using the antenna adjustment information or the actual channel measurement value for antenna adjustment, and easily adjust the direction of the antennas.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2009Publication date: July 1, 2010Inventors: Seung-Jin Ahn, Won-Yong Yoon, Byong-Yol Lee, Kwang-Il Kim, Su-Hwan Lim
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Patent number: 7747232Abstract: A method and apparatus for operating a radio reception system, which comprises a plurality of receivers assigned to a common output device, in which one of the receivers is designated as audio receiver and is tuned to a frequency of a radio transmitter, and outputs a signal received from the transmitter to the output device. At least one second receiver is designated as search receiver, and continuously searches its own reception frequency band for a frequency of the same transmitter. The system changes to a frequency of this transmitter, which was found by the search receiver, if the quality of the signal received by the audio receiver falls below a certain limit.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2006Date of Patent: June 29, 2010Assignee: Harman Becker Automotive Systems GmbHInventor: Stefan Gierl
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Patent number: 7746951Abstract: A Log-Likelihood Ratio (LLR) generating apparatus and method in a communication system using a spatial multiplexing scheme. The reception method includes acquiring at least one estimated transmit vector by demodulating a receive vector using at least one Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) detection process; selecting one of the at least one estimated transmit vector as an optimum estimated transmit vector; calculating LLRs with respect to the optimum estimated transmit vector; calculating a weight to be applied to each of elements constructing the optimum estimated transmit vector; and applying the weight to each of the calculated LLRs. Accordingly, the present invention can generate the LLRs with high reliability similar to the LLRs of a Maximum Likelihood receiver by applying the weight to the LLRs generated from the estimated transmit vector.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2006Date of Patent: June 29, 2010Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., LtdInventors: Keun-Chul Hwang, Soon-Young Yoon, Young-Hoon Kwon
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Patent number: 7746948Abstract: Disclosed is a wireless communication apparatus which synthesize signals received from a plurality of antennas to separate the signals into synthesis signals of a plurality of logical channels. The apparatus has a first phase corrector correcting a phase of a reception signal by estimating an amount of phase correction by a frequency offset of each reception signal from the plurality of antennas; a synthesizer synthesizing reception signals after phase correction by the first phase corrector to separate the reception signals into synthesis signals of a plurality of logical channels; and a second phase corrector correcting a phase of a synthesis signal by estimating an amount of phase correction by a residual frequency offset after phase correction by the first phase corrector based on the synthesis signal synthesized by the synthesizer.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2005Date of Patent: June 29, 2010Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Seiichi Izumi
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Patent number: 7733974Abstract: According to transmission control as taught herein, a transmission control system is configured for controlling the transmission of data via two or more data streams to a subscriber in a wireless communication network. In one or more embodiments, the transmission control system comprises a first control circuit to evaluate performance requirements associated with the data and prevailing network conditions, and a second control circuit to determine the number of per-sector data streams to be used for transmitting the data to the subscriber, and to determine whether the per-sector data streams provide spatial multiplexing, spatial diversity, or some mix thereof, based on the evaluation. Such operations may be applied to a variety of network types, including those that use per-sector shared packet data channels. In such cases, multi-sector transmission control may include transmission scheduling coordination across the involved shared channels.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2005Date of Patent: June 8, 2010Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventor: Wanshi Chen
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Patent number: 7729438Abstract: A MIMO wireless system includes a transmitter having a parser that parses a bit stream into multiple spatial data streams and multiple interleavers corresponding to the multiple spatial data streams, where each interleaver interleaves the bits in the corresponding spatial data stream by performing multiple column rotations and row rotation, to increase diversity of the wireless system. The MIMO wireless system also includes a receiver that has deinterleavers that deinterleaves spatial bit streams transmitted by the transmitter.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2005Date of Patent: June 1, 2010Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Xuemei Ouyang, Huaning Niu, Chiu Ngo
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Patent number: 7725085Abstract: Apparatus and systems, a well as methods and articles, may operate to determine whether to communicate using a space-time communications technique responsive to an indication derived from processing a short time sequence.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2006Date of Patent: May 25, 2010Assignee: Intel CorporationInventor: Sondur Lakshmipathi
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Patent number: 7720472Abstract: A system has a stratospheric platform with a payload controller and a phased array antenna having a plurality of elements. A gateway station communicates with the stratospheric platform. The gateway station scales the plurality of elements to form a reconfigurable plurality of beams. The gateway station communicates a control signal to the stratospheric platform to communicate a scaling of the elements. The stratospheric platform configures the elements of the phased array antenna according to the scaling using adaptive interference rejections.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2000Date of Patent: May 18, 2010Assignee: The DIRECTV Group, Inc.Inventors: Ying Feria, Ming Chang, Donald C. D. Chang
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Patent number: 7720506Abstract: A software defined radio system is described. The software defined radio comprises a modem bank at least partially defined by software running on a processor. The SDR also comprises an antenna group translator coupled to the modem bank. Further, the SDR comprises at least one antenna coupled to the antenna group translator. The antenna group translator comprises an antenna switch comprising RF filtering functions and RF front ends comprising frequency conversion functions. To greatly reduce the complexity and cost of the system, the architecture includes an antenna group translator having RF front end hardware that is specific to the frequency band of each antenna. In addition, the modem bank includes banded frequency converters.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2006Date of Patent: May 18, 2010Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.Inventor: David A. Gribble
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Patent number: 7715566Abstract: An apparatus and a method of automatically compensating a difference between audio signals of an analog broadcast and a digital broadcast depending on a difference of a modulation degree of an analog audio signal and a digital audio signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2005Date of Patent: May 11, 2010Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., LtdInventor: Young-joo Seo
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Patent number: 7711341Abstract: Various embodiments of the present invention adjust an operating mode of a configurable receiver based at least in part on a selected communication service to be provided and an available signal quality. A control unit receives data related to one or more selected communication services to be provided. The control unit also receives information about the environmental operating conditions in which the configurable receiver is operating, via one or more signal quality metrics. The control unit adjusts the operating mode of the configurable receiver by modifying the gain of a received signal, the channel bandwidth, or controlling the synthesizers or equalizers.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2006Date of Patent: May 4, 2010Assignee: Spreadtrum Communications Inc.Inventor: David Ryan Haub
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Patent number: 7706463Abstract: Methods and apparatus for decoding frame packet data in a communication system to reduce latency for decoding particular types of broadcast signals in a frame. In particular, decoding of a communication signal includes demodulating at least a particular type of encoded broadcast channel modulation symbol received in a frame before completion of reception of a certain number of frames each including the particular type of encoded broadcast channel modulation symbol are received. After demodulation, the demodulated encoded broadcast channel modulation symbol is then decoded by a decoder. A determination is then made whether decoding of the first broadcast channel modulation symbol is successful. If decoding is successful, decoding of subsequent broadcast channel modulation symbols is terminated. Otherwise, decoding is incrementally or iteratively continued (i.e., a next received frame and so on) until decoding is determined to be successful.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2006Date of Patent: April 27, 2010Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventor: Michael Mao Wang
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Patent number: 7702298Abstract: Methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for spatial processing in a radio receiver. One embodiment is a radio receiver for operation in a wireless communication system. The radio receiver may include a receive processing unit to process signals received by an antenna array by applying a selected spatial processing mode of a plurality of spatial processing modes. The modes include one or more modes of one or more spatial processing methods. The receiver also includes a selector to select the spatial processing mode from the plurality of spatial processing modes. The selecting includes selecting the spatial processing method in the case that the set of spatial processing modes are of more than one spatial processing method.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2007Date of Patent: April 20, 2010Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Craig H. Barratt, Athanasios A. Kasapi
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Patent number: 7693544Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a system, method, and apparatus of receiving signals of a plurality of communication services. The apparatus may include, for example, a plurality of multimode receivers to receive signals of a plurality of wireless communication services, wherein the number of the plurality of communication services is equal to or greater than the number of the plurality of multimode receivers; and a controller to control a receive mode of the plurality of receivers. Other embodiments are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2006Date of Patent: April 6, 2010Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Eran Segev, Daniel Yellin, Eliav Zipper, Avi Brillant
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Patent number: 7689187Abstract: A dual input low noise amplifier (LNA) for multi-band frequency operation is disclosed. The dual input LNA (100) simultaneously operates in two amplifier configurations for the two inputs (101 and 103), of a first frequency band and a second frequency band, to produce a common output (113). Matching networks (102 and 104) receive and pass the inputs (101 and 103) to a transistor device (106). The transistor device is coupled to a series resonant circuit (108) at a first input node (107) to ground AC signal energy from a second input node (109) of the transistor device. The grounding causes the transistor device to simultaneously amplify and combine the signals at the first and the second input nodes to produce the common output of the first frequency band and the second frequency band at a common output node (111) of the transistor device.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2007Date of Patent: March 30, 2010Assignee: Motorola, Inc.Inventor: Ariel J. Galan
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Patent number: 7684525Abstract: A receiver is configured to receive a plurality of signals. The receiver includes receiving elements each of which is configured to receive a composite signal including at least some of the signals. The receiver receives the signals at the same time. The receiver also includes a processor configured to receive the receiving elements composite signal and providing an estimate of at least two of the signals. The processor is also configured to provide an estimate of a first one of the signals and to provide an estimate of a second one of the signals. The processor is configured, for each already determined estimate, to extend the estimate with a plurality of potential values. The estimate of the second one of the signals takes into account the estimate of the first signal and the estimate of the first signal is modified in dependence on the estimate of the second signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2002Date of Patent: March 23, 2010Assignee: Nokia CorporationInventor: Mikko Kokkonen
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Patent number: 7684761Abstract: A closed-loop signalling method controls multiple transmit beams. The method also includes transmitting a plurality of beams from a first transceiver via a plurality of transmission channels to a second transceiver, evaluating, at the second transceiver, characteristics of the plurality of transmitted beams received at the second transceiver. The method also includes deriving, at the second transceiver, beamforming information for being fed back from the second transceiver to the first transceiver based on the evaluated characteristics. The beamforming information is usable for controlling, at the first transceiver, the transmitting of the plurality of beams. The method also includes selecting, at the second transceiver, at least one set of beamforming information for being fed back from the second transceiver via a feedback path to the first transceiver.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2005Date of Patent: March 23, 2010Assignee: Nokia CorporationInventor: Ari Hottinen
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Patent number: 7676243Abstract: A mobile station is disclosed that includes a first antenna, at least one second antenna, and a receiver coupled to the first antenna. The receiver includes first control logic configured to generate a notification of the receiver being able to receive a reception frequency band and includes a transmitter coupled to the at least one second antenna and the receiver. The transmitter communicates radio frequency (RF) signals in a transmission frequency band over an RF transmit path to the at least one second antenna. The transmitter includes a tunable filter coupleable to the RF transmit path, and second control logic configured to adjust at least one characteristic of the tunable filter based at least in part on the notification. The adjustment is performed to reduce, when the tunable filter is coupled to the RF transmit path, interference caused by transmission in the transmission frequency band with reception in the reception frequency band.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2006Date of Patent: March 9, 2010Assignee: Nokia CorporationInventors: Marko E. Leinonen, Juha Valtanen
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Patent number: 7676007Abstract: Transmit beamforming with receive combining uses the significant diversity provided by multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, and the use of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) enables low complexity implementation of this scheme over frequency selective MIMO channels. Optimal beamforming uses channel state information in the form of the beamforming vectors corresponding to all the OFDM subcarriers. In non-reciprocal channels, this information should be conveyed back to the transmitter. To reduce the amount of feedback information, transmit beamforming combines limited feedback and beamformer interpolation. In this architecture, the receiver sends back a fraction of information about the beamforming vectors to the transmitter, and the transmitter computes the beamforming vectors for all subcarriers through interpolation of the conveyed beamforming vectors.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2005Date of Patent: March 9, 2010Inventors: Jihoon Choi, Robert W. Heath, Jr.
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Patent number: 7676000Abstract: A technique for signal distortion compensation using a filter that can support a higher delay spread distortion without substantially increasing hardware complexity. In one example embodiment, an adaptive receiver design compensates for signal distortions with the use of non-uniform tap delay filters. The non-uniform tap delay filters are used to output an adaptively channel matched signal for decoding.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2004Date of Patent: March 9, 2010Assignee: Ittiam Systems (P) Ltd.Inventors: Rahul Garg, Shobha Ramaswamy, Kiran Devanahalli, Satyanarayana Sanpini