Plural Receivers Patents (Class 455/132)
  • Patent number: 8670507
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for decoding signal vectors in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, where the receiver has received one or more signal vectors from the same transmitted vector. The receiver combines the received vectors by vector concatenation The concatenated vector may then be decoded using, for example, maximum-likelihood decoding. In some embodiments, the combined signal vector is equalized before decoding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Marvell World Trade Ltd.
    Inventors: Jungwon Lee, Woong Jun Jang, Leilei Song
  • Patent number: 8670498
    Abstract: A method and apparatus of reducing interference in space frequency block coding (SFBC) communication are disclosed. SFBC encoding is performed on at least one pair of symbols. The symbols are assigned to subcarriers in accordance with a frequency assignment pattern assigned to a cell. Different frequency assignment patterns are assigned to neighboring cells. Cells in the network may be divided into a plurality of groups and a different frequency assignment pattern may be assigned to each group of cells. The frequency assignment pattern may be defined such that subcarriers mapped to a pair of symbols in one cell are interlaced to subcarriers mapped to a pair of symbols in a neighbor cell. Alternatively, the frequency assignment pattern may be defined such that subcarriers mapped to a pair of symbols in one cell are shifted in a neighbor cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Afshin Haghighat, Yingxue Li
  • Patent number: 8670733
    Abstract: A multimode communication device with a shared signal path programmable filter and a method for utilizing a shared signal path programmable filter in a multimode communication device. Various aspects of the present invention comprise a first module adapted to receive a first communication signal (e.g., corresponding to a first communication protocol) and a second module adapted to receive a second communication signal (e.g., corresponding to a second communication protocol). A shared filter, communicatively coupled to the first and second modules, may be adapted to filter the first and/or second communication signals in accordance with a plurality of selectable sets of filter response characteristics (e.g., associated with the first and second communication protocols). A filter control module may be adapted to select a set of filter response characteristics from a plurality of such sets and program the shared filter to filter a communication signal in accordance with the selected set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Arya Behzad, Ahmadreza Rofougaran
  • Patent number: 8665978
    Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus prevents deterioration of communication characteristics because of a transmission weight of a highest common factor and enhances the communication characteristics of feedback MIMO.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventor: Taku Nakayama
  • Patent number: 8665993
    Abstract: Methods are disclosed for transmitting a plurality of information bits using resource selection on multiple antennas. In one or more embodiments, the methods include: selecting a first and a second orthogonal resource from an allocation of more than two orthogonal resources according to the state of the plurality of information bits; transmitting a first symbol in a first symbol instant on a first antenna using the first orthogonal resource; and transmitting a second symbol in the first symbol instant on a second antenna using the second orthogonal resource. In some embodiments, the first and second orthogonal resources are different and the first symbol is either a reference symbol or a modulation symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Masoud Ebrahimi Tazeh Mahalleh, Robert Mark Harrison, Youn Hyoung Heo, Yongkang Jia
  • Patent number: 8660104
    Abstract: Certain aspects of a method and system for communicating information in a multi-antenna system are disclosed. Aspects of one method may include receiving at least one narrowband RF signal via at least one of a plurality of receiving antennas that is unused within a wideband diversity radio frequency (RF) receiver comprising a plurality of receiving antennas, when the wideband diversity RF receiver is operating in a narrowband receiving mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventor: Ahmadreza Rofougaran
  • Patent number: 8654820
    Abstract: The signaling amount in selecting a plurality of beams is reduced in pre-coding to enhance throughput. When notification of a beam number is provided in a feedback signal from a user equipment to a radio base station, a superior beam number, having a high quality rank with small time variation, is bound up and fixed for a predetermined time period and notification of only a inferior beam number is provided within the predetermined time period. For example, to select three beams among six beams, first, notification of the superior two beam numbers (beam numbers ‘b’ and ‘c’) is provided. These beam numbers are fixed for a predetermined time period and then notification of only the inferior one beam number (beam number ‘e’) is provided within the predetermined time period. Thus, the signaling amount for providing beam number notification is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Hoshino, Katsuhiko Hiramatsu, Yasuaki Yuda, Ryohei Kimura
  • Patent number: 8644407
    Abstract: An apparatus, and an associated methodology, for facilitating communication of data in a wireless communication systems. Binary data are modulated to form modulated symbols on parallel paths. The symbols formed on one of the parallel paths are phase-offset by a phase rotator to form phase-offset symbols. The parallel paths of symbols provide the symbols, both the phase-offset symbols and the symbols that are not phase-offset, to an Alamouti encoder. As a result, the dynamic range of the transmitted RF signals is reduced due to the introduction of the phase offset between the symbols of the parallel paths applied to the Alamouti encoder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventor: Shouxing Qu
  • Patent number: 8644367
    Abstract: An antenna beam scan unit includes: a Rotman lens that performs power division and synthesis between plural antenna ports and three or more beam ports; plural antenna elements which are connected to the respective antenna ports and to or from which radio waves are inputted or outputted; plural amplifiers that are connected to the respective beam ports of the Rotman lens and perform amplitude modulation on a signal; input paths for a transmission signal disposed in association with the amplifiers; switches for switching the input paths; and a beam control unit. The input paths include first paths and second paths on which a signal that is out of phase with a signal on the first paths is produced. The beam control unit selects two adjoining beam ports, and can switch the first paths and second paths as the input paths for the two beam ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Hideyuki Nagaishi, Nobuhiko Shibagaki, Yuichi Shimayama
  • Patent number: 8644409
    Abstract: Systems and methodologies are described herein that facilitate improved modulation and coding techniques for a multiple-in multiple-out (MIMO) communication system. As described herein, data to be transmitted over a set of physical layers (e.g., corresponding to antennas, beams, etc.) can be processed such that encoding is performed on a per-codeword basis and modulation is performed on a per-layer basis, thereby mitigating performance degradation experienced by traditional systems due to layer imbalance. As further described herein, per-codeword code rate parameters and per-layer modulation parameters can be signaled to a device in various manners, such as through modulation and coding scheme (MCS) signaling, explicit code rate and/or modulation scheme signaling, relative code rate and/or modulation scheme signaling, or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Alexei Y. Gorokhov, Juan Montojo, Xiaoxia Zhang, Peter Gaal, Xiliang Luo
  • Patent number: 8632457
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to receive, with a high sensitivity, a radio signal transmitted within a short time before a capsule endoscope reaches the stomach of a subject and acquire, in a satisfactory state, information on the interior of the subject such as image data picked up by the capsule endoscope. The receiving apparatus according to the invention includes a plurality of receiving antennas including a specified receiving antenna for receiving a radio signal from a capsule endoscope before the stomach is reached, a switching controller, an arrival determining unit and a mode switching unit. The switching controller performs a control operation for switching to and maintaining the receiving antenna in an initial mode or a control operation for switching to the receiving antennas in a normal mode. The arrival determining unit determines whether the capsule endoscope has reached the stomach or not.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Ayako Nagase, Seiichiro Kimoto, Manabu Fujita, Toshiaki Shigemori, Akira Matsui, Kazutaka Nakatsuchi
  • Patent number: 8634785
    Abstract: In a radio frequency (RF) receiver, a receiver RF chain is tuned to a first (e.g., global positioning system (GPS)) channel to permit receipt of a first (e.g., GPS) signal over the first (e.g., GPS) channel on the receiver RF chain during a first time duration. The receiver RF chain is tuned to a second (e.g., cellular page) channel to permit receipt of a second (e.g., cellular page) signal over the second (e.g., cellular page) channel on the receiver RF chain during a second time duration, following the first time duration. The first (e.g., GPS) signal is processed during the first time duration and the second time duration, without any apparent interruption of the first (e.g., GPS) signal during the second time duration. The processing, for example, provides a bridge signal (e.g., an estimated GPS signal on the receiver RF chain) during the second time duration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ashok Bhatia, Dominic Gerard Farmer, Douglas Neal Rowitch, Douglas Grover, Arie Rahmat, Chang Shik Row
  • Patent number: 8629763
    Abstract: An RFID transponder is provided which includes an automatic gain control (AGC) stage for amplifying a radio frequency (RF) signal and for providing an amplified RF signal. The AGC stage has a control signal indicating an increase of the amplitude of the RF signal. A demodulator is coupled to receive the amplified RF signal for demodulating the amplified RF signal. The demodulator provides a data signal. A burst detector is coupled to receive the control signal of the AGC stage and adapted to provide a start signal in response to a change of the control signal. A wake pattern detector is coupled to receive the data signal and the start signal. The wake pattern detector is adapted to detect a predefined wake pattern in the data signal after having received the start signal and to issue a wake signal if the predefined wake pattern is detected for switching the RFID transponder from a first operating mode into a second operating mode having higher power consumption than the first operating mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Hagl, Ernst Muellner
  • Patent number: 8630600
    Abstract: Various embodiments provide for systems and methods for signal conversion of one modulated signal to another modulated signal using demodulation and then re-modulation. According to some embodiments, a signal receiving system may comprise an I/Q demodulator that demodulates a first modulated signal to an in-phase (“I”) signal and a quadrature (“Q”) signal, an I/Q signal adjustor that adaptively adjusts the Q signal to increase the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of a transitory signal that is based on a second modulated signal, and an I/Q modulator that modulates the I signal and the adjusted Q signal to the second modulated signal. To increase the SNR, the Q signal may be adjusted based on a calculated error determined for the transitory signal during demodulation by a demodulator downstream from the I/Q modulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Aviat U.S., Inc.
    Inventors: Emerick Vann, Yen-Fang Chao, Youming Qin, Roland Matian
  • Patent number: 8630376
    Abstract: Cophasing angles for a plurality of antennas are received from a hardware device by one or more processors separate from the hardware device. When steering vector feedback is to be transmitted, the one or more processors generate the steering vector feedback based on the cophasing angles. When explicit channel state information (CSI) feedback is to be transmitted, the one or more processors generate the explicit CSI feedback using the cophasing angles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.
    Inventor: Hongyuan Zhang
  • Patent number: 8626088
    Abstract: A data communication scheduling system (300) of a radio base station (100) serving multiple cells (10-30) comprises multiple radio equipment, REs, (101-103) and antenna interfaces (115, 125, 135) connectable to antennas (110, 120, 130). In order to reduce the power consumption, only a subset of the RE (101) is active, while the other REs (102, 103) are turned off. A transmitter controller (155) is arranged for controlling the active RE (101) to be shared among multiple cells (10-30) during a radio frame (40) so that each cell (10-30) is guaranteed at least one sub frame (50-58) for downlink transmission. A receiver antenna system multiplexer(140) selectively interconnects the active RE (101) with the antenna interfaces (115, 125, 135) according to the operation of a receiver controller (145).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Jacob Österling, Fredrol Lindgren
  • Patent number: 8625702
    Abstract: A transmitting apparatus and method transmits different modulated signals from a plurality of antennas, and employs a configuration that includes a modulation section that obtains a modulated signal by performing signal point mapping of transmit bits using a signal point arrangement that is divided into a plurality of signal point sets on the IQ plane, whereby the minimum distance between signal points within a signal point set is smaller than the minimum signal point distance between signal point sets; and an antenna that transmits a modulated signal obtained by the modulation section. A signal point generating apparatus generates a first and second symbols to be transmitted by first and second antennas, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Kiyotaka Kobayashi, Masayuki Orihashi, Akihiko Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 8626109
    Abstract: A method for controlling receive diversity of an antenna system of a computer device, the antenna system including two or more antenna elements. The method includes establishing a session with a remote transmitting system and determining whether a predetermined criteria detected by the computer device is satisfied within the session. If the predetermined criteria is satisfied within the session, the method includes activating at least two of the antenna elements for receiving transmissions, enabling performance of receive diversity on the received transmissions, and performing receive diversity on the received transmissions. If the predetermined criteria is not satisfied within the session, the method includes activating at least one of the antenna elements, disabling performance of receive diversity on the received transmissions, and performing a default signal processing on the received transmissions. A mobile communication device may be used to perform the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: David Ma, Asif Hossain, Rakesh Gupta
  • Patent number: 8619918
    Abstract: A method for sparse channel estimation in MIMO OFDM systems with a plurality of subchannels having the same sparsity structure is presented. The inventive method comprises initializing a plurality of residual vectors and observation generating matrices modeling the channel, sending a pilot signal for each subcarrier, converting the pilot signals to tap positions, detecting an optimal tap position, updating the residual vectors by removing the one residual vector having the optimal tap position, updating the generating matrices in accordance with the optimal residual vector, calculating weighted residuals based on the updated residual vectors, and repeating the steps, except initializing, until a stopping condition is met, wherein the updated observation matrices estimate the sparse channel. In one embodiment, the observation generating matrices are omitted. In one embodiment, multiple vectors are removed during one iteration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: NEC Laboratories America, Inc.
    Inventors: Mohammad A. Khojastepour, Krishna S. Gomadam
  • Patent number: 8620244
    Abstract: An electrical component with a diversity front-end circuit that is exclusively designed to transmit received signals is disclosed. The diversity front-end circuit is capable of receiving incoming signals in at least two frequency bands simultaneously. The diversity front-end circuit includes at least two receiving paths coupled to a diversity antenna, wherein the received signals of the respective frequency band are transmitted in each receiving path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: EPCOS AG
    Inventors: Christoph Roeckl, Peter Hagn, Torsten Moebes
  • Patent number: 8619927
    Abstract: A system for selectively and discretely amplifying or attenuating antennas in a hybrid multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) radio distribution network (RDN) receiving system is provided herein. The system includes a MIMO receiving system comprising a MIMO baseband module having N branches; an RDN connected to the MIMO receiving system, the RDN comprising at least one beamformer fed by two or more antennas, so that a total number of antennas in the system is M, wherein M is greater than N, wherein each one of the beamformers include a passive combiner configured to combine signals coming from the antennas coupled to a respective beamformer into a combined signal, wherein the at least one beamformer is further configured to selectively amplify or attenuate in discrete steps, one or more of the signals coming from the M antennas, based on qualitative metrics measured by the MIMO baseband module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Magnolia Broadband Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth Kludt, Eduardo Abreu, Haim Harel
  • Patent number: 8619910
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for decision feedback equalization (DFE) in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ). Using a pre-equalization approach, the receiver combines received vectors by vector concatenation before equalization using DFE. Using a post-equalization approach, the receiver equalizes received vectors using DFE before combining the vectors. Cholesky factorization and QR decomposition may be used for DFE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.
    Inventor: Jungwon Lee
  • Patent number: 8620245
    Abstract: A mobile device having at least two antennas can circumvent transmission problems caused by a user's grasp of the device. A sensor unit is disposed at a specific location of a device body and creates a sensor signal by detecting the contact or proximity of a particular object such a user's hand. When receiving the sensor signal, a control unit selects one of the antennas depending on the sensor signal and establishes a communication path based on the selected antenna. The selected antenna involved in the communication path is typically relatively free from degradation in transmission caused by a user's grasp of the mobile device. The radiation property of the mobile device, which may be degraded due to a user's grasp, can exhibit relatively little or no degradation as compared to the typical degradation in performance when the mobile device is being grasped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chang Gwon Chung, Hyun Kim, Myeong Hwa Kim, Geun Woo Kim, Kyung Hwan Jo, Doo Na Kim
  • Patent number: 8619749
    Abstract: A distributed architecture system for receiving radio frequency (RF) signals includes a receiving unit receiving a plurality of RF signals. The receiving unit includes means for combining the plurality of RF signals into a multiplexed signal. A head unit receives and separates the multiplexed signal into a plurality of information signals. The head unit prepares the information signals for presentation to a user. The head unit is disposed remotely from the receiving unit. A multiplexed link carries the multiplexed signal from the receiving unit to the head unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America
    Inventor: Hans Alfred Troemel, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8615191
    Abstract: A distribution apparatus which distributes to multiple regions includes: a storage unit which stores each of radio communications systems usable for each of the regions; a selecting unit which selects, out of the multiple regions to which the distribution apparatus distributes, first regions in which a radio communications system in operation is the same; and a distribution unit which distributes, based on each of the radio communications system usable for each of the regions that is stored in the storage unit, all or some of information on the radio communications system for each of the first regions selected by the selecting unit. One or multiple radio communications systems are usable in each of the regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuta Sagae, Hitoshi Yoshino
  • Patent number: 8614594
    Abstract: A downconverter capable of being normally operated even in the case where a universal dual downconverter is made up by use of multiple downconverter circuits. The downconverter includes first and second downconverter circuits, and an amplification unit having at least a first amplifier LNA for receiving a horizontally polarized wave signal, and a second amplifier LNA for receiving a vertically polarized wave signal. If a Tone/Pola signal is a signal indicating a power-saving mode, a control circuit of the first downconverter circuit causes both a local oscillator and a frequency converter to be in a non-operating state, controlling a bias circuit such that power is supplied to the first amplifier LNA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshiaki Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8611939
    Abstract: A delivery apparatus for delivering to multiple areas, wherein one or more radio communication systems are available in each of the areas, includes a storage unit configured to store system information for each of the areas, the system information being required to connect to the available radio communication systems, a detection unit configured to detect a second delivery apparatus for delivering to a portion of the delivery areas of the delivery station and a delivery unit configured to deliver system information for each of the areas as control information, the system information being required to connect to a radio communication system available in the area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuta Sagae, Hitoshi Yoshino
  • Patent number: 8611288
    Abstract: A method includes determining parameters corresponding to a communication channel, transmitting the parameters from a first wireless device to a second wireless device via the communication channel, wherein the parameters include at least one of (i) an estimated quality of the communication channel or (ii) a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) for transmission via the communication channel, receiving the parameters at the second wireless device, and based on at least one of the parameters, selecting a MCS for transmission from the second wireless device to the first wireless device via the communication channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Marvell International Ltd
    Inventors: Hongyuan Zhang, Hui-Ling Lou, Rohit U. Nabar, Yong Liu
  • Patent number: 8611445
    Abstract: A wireless transceiver includes a receiver and a transmitter, the receiver and transmitter implemented to have multiple receive and transmit channels respectively, to provide multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) capability. In an embodiment, the transceiver is implemented to include two transmit channels and two receive channels. Some blocks/circuitry of each of the receive and transmit channels are implemented with reduced area and current consumption, with a corresponding increase in noise. In a single-input single-output (SISO) mode of operation, the receiver combines the output of both the receive channels to compensate for the increase in noise due to the implementation with smaller area and lower current consumption. Similarly, the transmitter combines the output of both the transmit channels to compensate for the increase in noise. The transceiver operates with no signal degradation in SISO mode, and with a small degradation in signal quality in the MIMO mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Gireesh Rajendran, Anand Kannan, Krishnaswamy Thiagarajan
  • Patent number: 8611480
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for decoding a signal vector in a transmit diversity scheme for varying channels. Information obtained in more than one symbol period are treated as a single received vector, and each of the received signal vectors may be processed to reduce the effects of varying channel characteristics. The received signal vectors may be combined by addition and decoded using a maximum-likelihood decoder. In some embodiments, the received signal vectors are processed separately and then combined. In other embodiments, the received signal vectors are combined and then processed. In some embodiments, zero-forced linear equalization techniques are used to processed the received signals. In some embodiments the signal vectors and varying channel response matrices are broken down to equivalent forms in order to simplify the processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.
    Inventors: Jungwon Lee, Rohit U. Nabar, Hui-Ling Lou
  • Patent number: 8611451
    Abstract: A method of operation in a receive circuit is disclosed. The method comprises entering an initialization mode followed by receiving training data from a lossy signaling path. The training data originates from a transmit circuit. The received training data is sampled and minimax transmit equalizer coefficients are generated based on the sampled data. The minimax transmit equalizer coefficients are then transmitted back to the transmit circuit. The initialization mode is exited and an operating mode initiated, where transmit data precoded by the minimax transmit equalizer coefficients is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Aquantia Corporation
    Inventor: Hossein Sedarat
  • Patent number: 8606196
    Abstract: A method may include reconfigurably enabling one of a first downconverter and a second converter and disabling the other the second downconverter, wherein the first downconverter and the second downconverter are integral to a receiver unit of as wireless communications terminal. The method may also include frequency downconverting received wireless communication signals by the enabled downconverter. The method may also include processing the downconverted wireless communication signals by a primary path if the first downconverter is enabled, and processing the downconverted wireless communication signals by a diversity path if the second downconverter is enabled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: Mohammed Shah Alam, Manish N. Shah
  • Patent number: 8606194
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a receiver and a method for receiving data transmitted via a combination of a first signal modulated at a first carrier frequency, and a second signal modulated at a second carrier frequency, different to the first carrier frequency. In one embodiment the receiver includes a local oscillator and is configured to adaptively configure the local oscillator to operate at a first local oscillator frequency and a second local oscillator frequency, different to the first frequency, in dependence on a signal strength of the first signal relative to a signal strength of the second signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Renesas Mobile Corporation
    Inventors: Jouni Kristian Kaukovuori, Aarno Tapio Parssinen, Antti Oskari Immonen
  • Patent number: 8594220
    Abstract: A method and device for transmitting and receiving data. A device comprises a code book and a transmitter. The code book comprises a plurality of codewords, wherein the plurality of codewords correspond to a plurality of vectors having a largest minimum chordal distance with respect to the plurality of vectors. The transmitter is configured to send a number of wireless signals using the code book. A receiver receives and decodes the number of wireless signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Alireza Bayesteh, Farzaneh Kohandani, Yongkang Jia
  • Patent number: 8594242
    Abstract: A method for receiving modulation signals includes receiving a plurality of multiplexed modulation signals each transmitted from multiple antennas of a communication partner, wherein each modulation signal includes a pilot symbol sequence consisting of plural pilot symbols used for demodulation. Each of the pilot symbol sequences is inserted at the same temporal points in the each modulation signal. The pilot symbol sequences are orthogonal to each other with zero cross correlation among the plurality of modulation signals, each pilot symbol having a non-zero amplitude, the quantity of the plural pilot symbols in each sequence being greater than the quantity of the plurality of transmitted modulation signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Masayuki Orihashi, Akihiko Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 8594598
    Abstract: A method for processing signals in a receiver includes receiving a plurality of wireless signals via a plurality of M receive antennas coupled to M corresponding signal amplifiers. The method may also include measuring corresponding signal strengths of M signals generated when each of M phase-shifters is coupled to each of the M receive antennas, while one or more of the M signal amplifiers are disabled. One of the M generated signals may be selected for processing without the use of an antenna switch, where the selecting may be based on the measured signal strength. Each of the plurality of received wireless signals may be amplified prior to the measuring. One or both of an in-phase (I) component and/or a quadrature (Q) component may be generated for each of the M generated signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Arya Behzad, Ali Afsahi, Mark Gonikberg
  • Patent number: 8594230
    Abstract: A system and method of construction of unique word sets together with an efficient method of implementing correlation with the members of the set is presented. The set of UWs is constructed by breaking a UW sequence in to equal length segments, and then multiplying this vector by an orthogonal matrix. First an arbitrary vector U is chosen of length K for a set of N UWs. Then a matrix H of size N×N is chosen. The columns of H are then repeated L times to form a matrix H?. The set of N UW consists of the rows of H?UT. N sub-correlations of the N segments of the vector U with the segments of the (suitably delayed) received signal is performed at the receiver. Then the N different outputs are obtained as Z=HCT, where C=[C0 . . . CN-1] is the vector of correlated outputs. The receiver only requires N correlators, each of length L, instead of length K, which provides a less complex and more efficient solution for detection of UW sets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventor: Neal Becker
  • Patent number: 8588709
    Abstract: A switching apparatus in a wireless communication system using multi-channels includes: a first antenna unit configured to transmit and receive data of a first multi-channel among the multi-channels; a second antenna unit configured to transmit and receive data of a second multi-channel among the multi-channels; a first transceiver configured to receive the data from the first antenna unit and transmit the data to the first transceiver; and a selection unit configured to transmit an output of the second antenna unit to the first transceiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Jong-Ee Oh, Sok-Kyu Lee
  • Patent number: 8588324
    Abstract: The specification and drawings present a new method, apparatus and software related product (e.g., a computer readable memory) for implementing precoding for a coordinated multi-point joint transmission in LTE wireless systems using a specific product structure for a multi-point precoding matrix with designed and/or specified usage of multi-point codebooks for generating spatial data stream between a UE having multiple antennas and a plurality of cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Nokia Siemens Networks Oy
    Inventors: Bishwarup Mondal, Timothy A. Thomas, Eugene Visotsky
  • Patent number: 8583057
    Abstract: Techniques to control a shared antenna architecture for multiple co-located radio modules is disclosed. For example, a method may comprise receiving power state information for a set of transceivers, receiving activity information for the set of transceivers, and generating control signals for simultaneous operations or mutually-exclusive operations for a shared antenna structure connecting the set of transceivers to an antenna based on the power state information and activity information. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Palm, Inc.
    Inventors: Jerome C Tu, Mike Robinson, James Beninghaus
  • Patent number: 8576937
    Abstract: A transmission apparatus in a Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO)-based wireless communication system. The transmission apparatus includes at least two antenna groups each having at least two antennas, wherein the antenna groups are spaced apart by a first distance and transmit antennas in each antenna group are spaced apart by a second distance which is shorter than the first distance. A channel coding and modulation unit channel-codes and modulates a desired transmission data stream. A precoding unit precodes the channel-coded and modulated signal separately for each antenna group and each antenna in the same antenna group. Thereafter, a transmission processing unit transmission-processes the output signal from the precoding unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Jin-Kyu Han, Clerckx Bruno, Ju-Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 8577305
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention may be used to generate oscillating signals. One embodiment of the present invention includes a circuit that receives a differential signal to be divided. The circuit converts the differential signal into an injection signal. The injection signal is coupled to an oscillator, and the oscillator generates an output signal having a frequency that is a fraction of the frequency of the differential input signal. In another embodiment, the present invention includes a MIMO wireless communication system. The MIMO system may use the divider circuit to divide a local oscillator signal with reduced common mode distortion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.
    Inventors: Paolo Rossi, Sang Won Son
  • Patent number: 8576896
    Abstract: Implementations of improved OSTC decoding are disclosed where received channel output corresponding to a partial OSTC codeword may be used to generate estimated channel output, and where the received channel output and the estimated channel output may be used to reconstruct the OSTC codeword.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: New Jersey Institute Of Technology
    Inventors: Yeheskel Bar-Ness, Amir Laufer
  • Patent number: 8576901
    Abstract: A modem is provided for a wireless device that is capable of providing service for at least two SIMs. The modem has at least a first set of modem components and a second set of modem components. The modem selectively reconfigures the arrangement of the plural sets of modem components. In a first configuration, the first set of modem components provides wireless connection service for a first SIM of the wireless device and the second set of modem components provides wireless connection service for a second SIM of the wireless device. This allows active wireless connections to be made on behalf of both SIMs simultaneously by the sets of modem components. In a second configuration, the first set of modem components and the second set of modem components provide wireless connection service for the first SIM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Renesas Mobile Corporation
    Inventors: Nguyen Quan Tat, Stuart Ian Geary, Jari Juhani Ruohonen, Andrew Bishop, Sami Jutila, Alexander Graham Charles, Roy Hansen
  • Patent number: 8576931
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for increasing throughput in a wireless communication system by reducing the amount of overhead transmitted to certain user terminals. Overhead due to control information may be reduced for these certain user terminals by selecting a low repetition factor. Overhead may be further reduced for these certain user terminals by selecting a modulation/coding scheme with a higher data rate for transmitting the control information. The selection may be based on channel conditions associated with the user terminals, such as signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratios (SINRs).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Serguei A. Glazko, Matthias Brehler, Je Woo Kim, Mahesh Makhijani
  • Publication number: 20130288623
    Abstract: A receiver circuit comprising first and second receivers for demodulating first and second parts, respectively, of a received signal. The receiver circuit also comprises an adjustment circuit for adjusting the demodulated signal from the first receiver. The output signal from the adjustment circuit is used as output signal from the receiver circuit which also comprises an adjustment value circuit for determining an adjustment value for the adjustment circuit in adjusting the output signal from the first receiver. The adjustment value circuit receives the demodulated signal from the second receiver and the output signal from the adjustment circuit and uses differences between these input signals for forming said adjustment value. The first receiver and the second receiver have different transfer functions within one and the same frequency range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2010
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Derek Hagen, Vimar Bjork, Claes Rolen, Torbjorn Gunnar Widhe
  • Patent number: 8571493
    Abstract: Transmit and/or receive diversity is achieved using multiple antennas. In some embodiments, a single transmitter chain within a wireless terminal is coupled over time to a plurality of transmit antennas. At any given time, a controllable switching module couples the single transmitter chain to one the plurality of transmit antennas. Over time, the switching module couples the output signals from the single transmitter chain to different transmit antennas. Switching decisions are based upon predetermined information, dwell information, and/or channel condition feedback information. Switching is performed on some dwell and/or channel estimation boundaries. In some OFDM embodiments, each of multiple transmitter chains is coupled respectively to a different transmit antenna. Information to be transmitted is mapped to a plurality of tones. Different subsets of tones are formed for and transmitted through different transmit chain/antenna sets simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Rajiv Laroia, Junyi Li, Sundeep Rangan, Murari Srinivasan, Frank A. Lane, Prashanth Hande
  • Patent number: 8570988
    Abstract: Techniques are described to calibrate the downlink and uplink channels to account for differences in the frequency responses of the transmit and receive chains at an access point and a user terminal. In one method, pilots are transmitted on the downlink and uplink channels and used to derive estimates of the downlink and uplink channel responses, respectively. Correction factors for the access point and correction factors for the user terminal are determined based on (e.g., by performing matrix-ratio computation or minimum mean square error (MMSE) computation on) the downlink and uplink channel response estimates. The correction factors for the access point and the correction factors for the user terminal are used to obtain a calibrated downlink channel and a calibrated uplink channel, which are transpose of one another. The calibration may be performed in real time based on over-the-air transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Mark S. Wallace, John W. Ketchum, J. Rodney Walton, Steven J. Howard
  • Patent number: 8565700
    Abstract: Provided are a reception apparatus and transmission apparatus for supporting a scalable bandwidth in a carrier aggregation environment. The reception apparatus and transmission apparatus can link carrier aggregation technology and scalable bandwidth technology by supporting a scalable bandwidth having different bandwidths in size in a carrier aggregation environment, thereby enhancing compatibility between different wireless communication systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventor: Moon-Sik Lee
  • Patent number: 8559545
    Abstract: A channel information feedback method adapted in a receiving end of a multiuser multiple input multiple output (MU MIMO) system has following steps. A subspace matrix and a magnitude matrix related to a transmitting end of the MU MIMO system are obtained according to a channel matrix corresponding to the receiving end. A first quantization is performed on the subspace matrix to generate a quantized subspace matrix. A second quantization is performed on an auxiliary information matrix to generate a quantized auxiliary information matrix, where the auxiliary information matrix is corresponding to the magnitude matrix and a residual subspace matrix, and the residual subspace matrix includes residual subspace information after the first quantization is performed on the subspace matrix. The quantized subspace matrix and the quantized auxiliary information matrix are fed back to the transmitting end through an uplink channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Chun-Yao Chen, Hsuan-Jung Su