Frequency Or Phase Modulation Patents (Class 455/42)
  • Patent number: 7917102
    Abstract: A radio transmitting apparatus that has a plurality of antennas and changes the number of modulated signals transmitted simultaneously according to the propagation environment and so forth. A transmission power changing section 12 of a radio transmitting apparatus of the present invention adjusts the pilot symbol signal level so as to match the data symbol composite signal level according to the number of transmit modulated signals set by a modulated signal number setting section 11. By this means, the operating range of received pilot symbols and the operating range of received data symbols become approximately the same on the receiving side, enabling pilot symbol quantization error to be reduced. As a result, the precision of radio wave propagation environment estimation, time synchronization, and frequency offset estimation using pilot symbols improves, and consequently data reception quality improves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kiyotaka Kobayashi, Yutaka Murakami, Masayuki Orihashi
  • Patent number: 7917093
    Abstract: A wireless monitoring system using a base station and a child station, includes the base station including a base-station transmitting and a base-station receiving antenna, and the child station including a child-station receiving antenna, a nonlinear, a smoothing circuit, a first high-frequency band-pass filter, an intermediate-frequency band-pass filter, a demodulator, a baseband, a modulator, and a child-station transmitting antenna. The base-station transmitting antenna and the child-station receiving antenna include circularly-polarized antennas which have a same rotating direction, and the child-station transmitting antenna and the base-station receiving antenna include circularly-polarized antennas which have a polarization characteristic rotating in a direction opposite to the base-station transmitting antenna and the child-station receiving antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi Cable, Ltd.
    Inventor: Ken Takei
  • Patent number: 7904578
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and equipment for use in the management of network topology and bandwidth for computing networks are provided. In an illustrative implementation of a device acting as a patch panel is provided. The patch panel works on both the physical wire and on the frequencies of the wire to route data to appropriate destination points. For example, both ADSL and telephony could be bridged among copper wires, using several independent busses. Home Phone Network Alliance Association (HPNA) standardized data could either be bridged among wires, or connected to an internal switching device, that would store and forward the native Ethernet packets used by HomePNA in a way similar to that done by Ethernet switches today. Additionally, an Ethernet uplink could attach the HPNA ports to a larger network or to a DSL Modem, and HPNA/ADSL could be removed from wires that might have privacy concerns or otherwise need filters to perform properly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Thomas Anschutz, Randy S. Zimler
  • Patent number: 7885609
    Abstract: A multimedia mobile communication system and method capable of updating functions of a multimedia mobile communication terminal is provided, wherein the system and method may add to or modify the functions by modifying a software program. The multimedia mobile communication system and method comprises an intermediate frequency processing unit for correcting an error of an intermediate frequency signal through a convolution coding method or a turbo coding method, downloading a software program and allocating, setting, modifying and upgrading specific functions corresponding to the downloaded software program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2011
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Jae-Wook Yu
  • Patent number: 7881669
    Abstract: A transmitter sets a time length, determines a time point at which phases of frequency signals coincide within a range of the time length, defines a determined time point as a time reference point, aligns the phases of the frequency signals based on the time reference point, combines phase-aligned frequency, and transmits combined frequency signals to a receiver by the time length as the communication signals. The receiver receives the communication signals, extracts the phases of the frequency signals, obtains a time point at which the phases coincide, and determines an obtained time point as the time reference point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Inter-University Research Institute Corporation/Research Organization of Information and Systems
    Inventors: Hiromichi Hashizume, Masanori Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 7873100
    Abstract: In a reception apparatus, a matched filter that has conventionally been arranged in a searcher unit is mounted on an acquisition unit together with a large scale memory. The large scale memory once stores reception chip signals, and thereafter outputs them to the matched filter and to the delay profile calculation unit. A setting register receives an acquisition signal and outputs it to the matched filter. The matched filter performs acquisition of the reception chip signals outputted from the large scale memory, and outputs a despread timing signal to a despread circuit, a code generation circuit and the delay profile calculation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventor: Masayuki Koyama
  • Publication number: 20100330913
    Abstract: Various embodiments are disclosed relating to wireless systems, and also relating to transmitter amplifiers, such as, for example, polar transmitter amplifiers with variable output power. According to an example embodiment, a circuit is provided including a plurality of selectable amplifier cells. Each amplifier cell may receive a phase or frequency modulated signal and an amplitude modulated signal. Each amplifier cell may output a signal based upon a combination of the received amplitude modulated signal and the received phase or frequency modulated signal if the amplifier cell is selected. The circuit may provide a variable output current or output power based upon the selection of one or more of the amplifier cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2010
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: BROADCOM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Alireza Zolfaghari
  • Patent number: 7853212
    Abstract: A multi-mode modulator includes a first data path to process in-phase signals in a quadrature modulation mode, a second data path to process quadrature signals during the quadrature modulation mode, and a first multiplexer to selectively switch polar amplitude data onto one of the first and second data paths in response to a selection signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventor: Stefan van Waasen
  • Publication number: 20100311341
    Abstract: Wireless microphone signals are detected by processing an input signal to determine a number of frequency bins within a channel frequency band having an energy level above a first predefined threshold (S510); identifying locations of the frequency bins having an energy level above the first predefined threshold, when the number of bins is greater than zero (S520, S530); for each frequency bin having an energy level above the first predefined threshold, processing signals within a narrow frequency band of the frequency bin (S570); determining a number of signal peaks within the narrow frequency band that are above a second predefined threshold (S575); and generating a message indicating a presence or an absence of a microphone signal based on the number of signal peaks (S590, S595).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2009
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS, N.V.
    Inventors: Vasanth R. Gaddam, Monisha Ghosh
  • Publication number: 20100311340
    Abstract: A Method and system for remote power distribution and networking for passive devices is provided. In this regard, a sensor comprising a leaky wave antenna may be powered utilizing energy from a radio frequency signal received via the leaky wave antenna. The sensor may be operable to recover a baseband signal from the received radio frequency signal. The sensor may be operable to generate one or more sensor readings in response to the received baseband signal. The sensor may be operable to communicate the sensor reading to a source of the received radio frequency signal via a backscattered signal. The backscattered signal may be generated by controlling spacing between surfaces of the leaky wave antenna. The backscattered signal may be generated by switching a load in and out of a receive path of the sensor and/or by switching between a plurality of feed points of the leaky wave antenna.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2010
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Inventors: Ahmadreza Rofougaran, Maryam Rofougaran
  • Publication number: 20100304677
    Abstract: Systems and methods which place a spurious signal within a capture bandwidth of a tuner. Placement of the spur is preferably controlled to dispose the spur within a spur placement window, such as may be defined between traffic channels of an input signal. A tuner system operating in accordance with embodiments may be controlled to select a particular input frequency band comprising a plurality of traffic channels for frequency conversion and to determine local oscillator frequencies which result in most relevant spurs being placed outside of the tuner capture bandwidth. The local oscillator frequencies may be shifted to place a relevant spur remaining within the capture bandwidth of the tuner between traffic channels of the plurality of traffic channels. Embodiments operate to determine frequency offset between a transmitter and a tuner to determine the midpoint between channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2009
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicant: Microtune, Inc.
    Inventors: Marius Pop, David Dessert
  • Patent number: 7835696
    Abstract: A wireless multicarrier transmission method in which a multicarrier transmission uses n modulated frequency subcarriers (n is an integer number), and a fading condition of each subcarrier is detected to generate fading channel profile information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Ralf Bohnke, Seiichi Izumi
  • Publication number: 20100285751
    Abstract: A wireless network connection system remotely connects to a network without the use of crystal reference oscillators. This provides communication at long range using a low transmit Effective Isotropic Radiated Power (EIRP). Operation is obtained through a combination of injection locking the system clock to the fundamental frequency of a remote reference oscillator, injection locking the transmitter to the third harmonic of the remote reference oscillator, a micro-watt RF receiver, and a network connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2009
    Publication date: November 11, 2010
    Applicant: BAE SYSTEMS INFORMATION AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS INTEGRATION INC.
    Inventors: Candice L. Brittain, Gary J. Lawrence, Brian M. Tomaselli
  • Publication number: 20100279614
    Abstract: To adaptively switch a modulation mode according to an operation form of quality-priority and capacity-priority in a multi-value applicable radio device having an active/standby configuration. The comparison unit 28a compares a reception monitoring signal c1 of an active transmission line with a lower-limit threshold LS and an upper-limit threshold HS, while the comparison unit 28b compares a reception monitoring signal c2 of a standby transmission line with the lower-limit threshold and the upper-limit threshold. Then, they output their respective results to a determination unit 28c. The determination unit 28c has therein a low-level flag and a high-level flag that are set/reset based on comparison results in the comparison units 28a and 28b. Conditions for the set/reset are different depending on the operation form.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2008
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Inventors: Takeshi Hagiwara, Kazuhito Souma
  • Patent number: 7826807
    Abstract: Base stations transmit strip signals using strip signal segments and self supporting modulation scheme techniques facilitating rapid channel estimate. A strip segment occupies one OFDM symbol time interval and uses a set of downlink tones; some, e.g., half, of the tones are left unused facilitating SIR measurement. The strip segments are advantageously timed to correspond to uplink access intervals in which connected wireless terminals do not typically transmit uplink signals. Connected wireless terminals including: multiple antennas used in combination, an antenna duplex module, single RF receiver chain and single RF transmitter chain, switch antenna coefficient combinations based on strip signal segment timing. The wireless terminal determines an independent downlink channel quality measurement, e.g., SNR and/or SIR for each strip signal segment and for on-going non-strip signaling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Rajiv Laroia, Junyi Li, Frank A. Lane
  • Patent number: 7826800
    Abstract: The present application describes a method and system for determining a time delay between a transmission and a reception of an RF signal in a noisy environment. The method comprises: transmitting the RF signal; shifting a phase of the RF signal after a first time period of the transmitting of the RF signal, starting at a known transition time; receiving a received RF signal comprising a received phase shift corresponding to the shifting of the phase of the transmitted RF signal, the received phase shift occurring at a receive transition time equivalent to a sum of the time delay and the known transition time; determining the receive transition time by detecting a time corresponding to the received phase shift; and calculating the time delay using the receive transition time and the known transition time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Orthosoft Inc.
    Inventor: Jean-Louis Laroche
  • Patent number: 7822392
    Abstract: Provided is a frequency modulation circuit for outputting a frequency-modulated signal with a high precision. A VCO 13 includes a first variable capacitor 132 having a predetermined capacitance change rate, and a second variable capacitor 133 having a greater capacitance change rate than that of the first variable capacitor 132. When the frequency modulation circuit is applied in a narrowband modulation method, a switch 15 switches a connection path of an open loop such that an input terminal and the first variable capacitor 132 are connected. On the other hand, when the frequency modulation circuit is applied in a wideband modulation method, the switch 15 switches the connection path of the open loop such that the input terminal and the second variable capacitor 133 are connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Toru Matsuura
  • Patent number: 7817962
    Abstract: Various embodiments are disclosed relating to wireless systems, and also relating to transmitter amplifiers, such as, for example, polar transmitter amplifiers with variable output power. According to an example embodiment, a circuit is provided including a plurality of selectable amplifier cells. Each amplifier cell may receive a phase or frequency modulated signal and an amplitude modulated signal. Each amplifier cell may output a signal based upon a combination of the received amplitude modulated signal and the received phase or frequency modulated signal if the amplifier cell is selected. The circuit may provide a variable output current or output power based upon the selection of one or more of the amplifier cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventor: Alireza Zolfaghari
  • Patent number: 7796947
    Abstract: Provided is a display system for transmitting FM signals to an external audio system having an FM reception function. The display system includes: a tuner for receiving an RF signal and dividing the RF signal into a video signal and an audio signal; an audio processor for receiving the audio signal from the tuner; an FM detector for searching usable channels or unused channels among FM frequency bands of a reception area and transmitting information on the unused channels; a microprocessor for setting at least one of the unused channels as an available channel, the unused channels being provided from the FM detector; a memory for storing the available channel under control of the microprocessor; and an FM transmitter for receiving the audio signal from the audio processor and transmitting the audio signal over at least one channel selected among the channels stored in the memory under control of the microprocessor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Hong Ki Kim
  • Publication number: 20100222001
    Abstract: A speed parameter or channel quality parameter are determined in a mobile device based on variation in frequency offset measurement. A higher variation in the frequency offset measurement reflects a poorer channel quality and a higher speed; a lower variation in the frequency offset measurement reflects a better channel quality and a lower speed. The parameter(s) may be fed back to the system and used, for example, to make adaptive modulation and coding decisions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
    Inventors: Nagula Tharma Sangary, Sean Bartholomew Simmons, David Blaine Dietz, Perry Jarmuszewski, Oleksiy Kravets
  • Patent number: 7769358
    Abstract: A radio system having an improved phase noise characteristic and a thereby improved communication quality, a radio transmitter, and a radio receiver. In the radio system, a radio transmitter (101) transmits a multiplexed signal so multiplexed that a pilot signal transmitted at the center frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Sasaki, Takashi Enoki, Katsumi Iizuka
  • Patent number: 7746939
    Abstract: A spectral notch modulation technique for encoding information in a signal involves transforming the signal into the frequency domain via a fast Fourier transform (FFT) of length N, such that the signal is represented by N frequency bins, selectively nulling M of the N frequency bins, where nulled combinations of M frequency bins respectively correspond to encoded information bits, transforming the selectively nulled signal to the time domain via an inverse FFT, and transmitting the selectively nulled signal. At the receiving end, the signal is demodulated to recover the encoded information by transforming the signal into the frequency domain via a fast Fourier transform (FFT) of length N, identifying the set of M nulled frequency bins among the N frequency bins, and converting the set of M nulled frequency bins to corresponding information bits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Assignee: ITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventor: Dennis D. McCrady
  • Publication number: 20100159836
    Abstract: An automatic preset following system for use with portable multimedia playback devices. The system uses RDS protocols including, at a minimum, AF and PI. Apparatus include an RDS enabled FM transmitter for use with a portable multimedia playback device, the transmitter having a user interface with buttons for presetting the transmitter to broadcast a signal at preset PM frequencies, and an RDS enabled FM receiver for automatically tuning to the different preset FM frequencies entered into the RDS enabled FM transmitter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2007
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Inventors: Francis Lau, John Haggis
  • Publication number: 20100112951
    Abstract: In a radio communication system defining a plurality of bandwidths, mobile terminals of kinds respectively corresponding to the plurality of bandwidths are accommodated in the system, and a minimum transmission bandwidth of the plurality of bandwidths is set as a transmission bandwidth of a downlink common channel. Or, every mobile terminal accommodated in the radio communication system is provided with a capability for processing a bandwidth equal to or greater than a predetermined value, and equal to or more than two transmission bandwidths that are equal to or less than a predetermined value are set as a transmission bandwidth of a downlink common channel. In the latter case, the mobile terminal identifies a bandwidth of a received downlink common channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2006
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kenichi Higuchi, Hiroyuki Atarashi, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Patent number: 7702295
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for an electronically adjustable signal filter system, which comprises, in some embodiments, a first filter coupled to an antenna coupling network and a second filter, a power amplifier coupled to the first filter, an antenna connected to an antenna coupling network, a pilot tone generator coupled to the first filter, and a first signal source connected to the power amplifier and first filter. In some embodiments, the power amplifier amplifies the first signal, the first filter places a notch into the first signal transmitted to the antenna coupling network, the antenna coupling network combines the first signal and a second signal received from the antenna and transmits a third signal to the second filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: Nortel Networks Limited
    Inventors: Charles Nicholls, Alain Roussel
  • Publication number: 20100093281
    Abstract: A wireless access node provides a wireless communication service to a plurality of wireless communication devices over a first frequency band class, where a set of the wireless communication devices are currently in idle mode. A node control system detects a condition for the first frequency band class, and in response, transitions a subset of the wireless communication devices that are currently in idle mode to a second frequency band class. The wireless access node then provides the wireless communication service to the subset of the wireless communication devices over the second frequency band class.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2008
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Bhagwan Singh Khanka, Anoop Kumar Goyal, Hemanth Balaji Pawar, Shilpa Kowdley Srinivas
  • Patent number: 7697627
    Abstract: A rotary encoder is used to select a transmission frequency for an FM transmitter associated with a portable electronic device such as a cellular telephone, MP3 player or other portable type electronic device. The rotary encoder is turned in a clockwise or counterclockwise direction to raise or lower the transmission frequency of the FM transmitter. Movement of the rotary encoder is translated into a frequency change on a linear, circular or exponential basis by a microprocessor. The transmission frequency of the FM transmitter is then altered to the selected frequency and the selected frequency is displayed on an LCD screen of the portable electronic device. The rotary encoder may also be used in connection with an accessory for a portable electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignee: Griffin Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Paul Griffin
  • Publication number: 20100081386
    Abstract: In a method for communication, first and second signals for timing synchronization are generated. Frequencies of the first and second signals are converted to other frequencies to obtain a first and second RF signals, which have a specific frequency gap therebetween. The first and second RF signals are combined to obtain a transmission signal, and the transmission signal is transmitted. When the transmission signal is received as a received signal, the frequency of the received signal is shifted by the specific frequency gap to obtain a converted signal. A complex conjugation of the converted signal calculated to obtain a complex conjugation signal. The received signal and the complex conjugation signal are multiplied to obtain a multiplication signal to calculate cross-correlation between a product of the first and second signals and the multiplication signal. A peak of the cross-correlation is detected to set a base time for timing synchronization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2009
    Publication date: April 1, 2010
    Inventors: Ren Sakata, Tazuko Tomioka
  • Patent number: 7689228
    Abstract: Various embodiments are described to address the need for providing wireless backhaul that may reduce operator startup costs while avoiding some of the drawbacks present in the prior art approaches. Generally expressed, the wireless network equipment (WNE) (121) of a collector cell provides access to a backhaul network (151) to one or more neighboring cells (122) via in-band wireless signaling. Given the frequency bands used by the collector cell WNE for communication with remote units, one portion of each band used for user traffic while another portion of each band is used for backhaul traffic. Having backhaul and user traffic share the assigned frequency bands can eliminate the need to license additional bands for wireless backhaul. Moreover, utilizing a portion of the existing, in-band orthogonal channels may be more spectrally efficient than using a separate radio in the same band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventor: Gerald P. Labedz
  • Publication number: 20100075607
    Abstract: A method of controlling a wireless communication system including a plurality of communication devices is disclosed. In the method, firstly, one of the communication devices establishes a fixed beam pattern and transmits a training signal, and another communication device receives the training signal while scanning a beam direction by changing the AWVs of an antenna array. Next, it obtains a data string describing a relation between an incoming direction and a received-signal characteristic at the other communication device based on a reception result of the training signal. Then, it obtains first AWVs with which a beam is formed in a plurality of incoming directions of the received signal based on the data string. The roles of these two communication devices are interchanged and similar processes are performed in order to obtain second AWVs, and then one of AWV combinations combining first and second AWVs are used for wireless communication between these communication devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2009
    Publication date: March 25, 2010
    Inventors: KENICHI HOSOYA, Kenichi Maruhashi, Naoyuki Orihashi
  • Patent number: 7684759
    Abstract: The present invention is a novel device, system, and method for determining the damped natural frequencies of a dynamic system whose characteristics are available in the form of a “frequency response function” FRF. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, the method identifies the dampened natural frequencies associated with the poles and zeros of a transfer function. The method is especially useful for analysis of measurements that contain some degree of contamination due to noise or non-linear effects. It is based on a set of rules that may be more successful than a direct approach based on a least squares criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: Siemens Industry, Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen J. Yutkowitz
  • Patent number: 7684756
    Abstract: A wireless multicarrier transmission method wherein subcarriers of the transmission are adaptively modulated. The fading condition of each subcarrier is detected to generate fading channel profile information. Adaptive loading tables are calculated for lower, standard, and higher modulation schemes. One of the adaptive loading tables is selected and those subcarriers having low fading channel profile information are modulated with the lower modulation scheme, subcarriers having medium fading channel profile information are modulated with the standard modulation scheme, and subcarriers having high fading channel profile information are modulated with the higher modulation scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Ralf Böhnke, Seiichi Izumi
  • Publication number: 20100062716
    Abstract: A wireless communication device including a controller communicably coupled to a transceiver. In one embodiment, the controller generates a QPSK sequence having multiple elements wherein each element includes real and imaginary parts. In another embodiment, the sequence is selected from a groups of sequences stored on a user terminal. Thereafter, the controller generates a reference signal based on the information representative of the selected QPSK sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2008
    Publication date: March 11, 2010
    Applicant: MOTOROLA INC
    Inventors: VIJAY NANGIA, BRIAN K. CLASSON, HYEJUNG JUNG
  • Patent number: 7672642
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate to uplink communication in a GSM/EDGE telecommunication system. A method according to certain embodiments of the invention include at least one wide-band carrier wave in the group of carrier waves being generated in a mobile station by applying linear modulation at a first modulation symbol rate, the first modulation symbol rate being a multiple of a second modulation symbol rate, while preserving a predefined carrier spacing and allowing the at least one wide-band carrier wave to overlap with at least one adjacent carrier wave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Nokia Corporaation
    Inventor: Olli Piirainen
  • Patent number: 7668509
    Abstract: A frequency selective leveling loop that performs phase and amplitude control of multiple signals within a phased array structure is disclosed. The leveling loop sensor components are embedded into the array structure. The frequency selective leveling loop can be used with multiple signal amplifiers, and a conventional phase array jamming system can be used to radiate multiple signals simultaneously. The conversion of phase information to baseband eliminates the need for phase matched cables. The frequency selective leveling that is enabled is tolerant of multiple signals and provides the individual signal phase and amplitude feedback by utilizing analytic sampling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignee: Sensor and Antenna Systems, Lansdale, Inc.
    Inventor: John S Greeley
  • Patent number: 7656960
    Abstract: In a radio communication system, transmitter and receiver stations share information on a maximum number of bits communicated per symbol. The transmitter station encodes a signal with sufficient error correcting capabilities to create a codeword. The transmitter station allocates the bits from the codeword to each symbol, modulates the symbols using a modulation type which processes symbols each having a number of bits equal to or smaller than the maximum number of bits per symbol, and transmits the modulated symbols. The receiver station demodulates the symbols using a modulation type which processes a larger number of bits per symbol as the transmission path quality is higher from among modulation types which process symbols having a number of bits equal to or smaller than the maximum number of bits per symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Tamaki, Takashi Yano, Seishi Hanaoka, Toshiyuki Saito
  • Patent number: 7650118
    Abstract: A wireless transmission system is provided. The system includes a wireless transmission apparatus for sending radio signals in a selected frequency and a wireless reception apparatus for receiving the radio signals in the selected frequency and playing audio signals corresponding to the radio signals. The wireless transmission apparatus includes a scan unit for periodically scanning interference frequencies of candidate frequencies, and recording characteristics of each interference frequency; an evaluation value calculating module for calculating an evaluation value of each candidate frequency according to the characteristics of the corresponding interference frequencies; a frequency selection module for choosing one of the candidate frequencies as a current transmission frequency according to the evaluation values; and a transmission unit for sending radio signals in the current transmission frequency. A wireless transmission method is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2010
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kuan-Hong Hsieh, Wen-Chuan Lian, Shin-Hong Chung
  • Patent number: 7646258
    Abstract: A system, method and apparatus are described for digitally synthesizing a signal for FM transmission. A complex variable frequency digital IF signal is generated for use by a digital modulator in transmission of a signal with an integrated circuit. In some examples, the integrated circuit includes various baseband processing blocks, an up-sampler, a summer, a numerically controlled oscillator (NCO) and a complex rotator, all arranged in cooperation with one another. The complex variable frequency digital IF signal can be used by a digital quadrature modulator for generation of the synthesized analog RF transmission signal, and optionally for use with an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2010
    Inventor: Lawrence J. Karr
  • Patent number: 7636380
    Abstract: Orthogonal pulse polarity modulation involves wireless communication in which the polarity of modulating pulses are set responsive to positive and negative character values of a corresponding code sequence. In a described implementation, data is converted to chip waveforms, spectrum lines are removed, and pulses are appropriately shaped. For example, a data bit stream may be converted into chip waveforms using a bit stream-to-symbol segmenter, a symbol-to-code sequence mapper, and a code sequence-to-chip waveform transformer. The polarities of respective individual chips in a given chip waveform match the signs of respective individual characters in a corresponding code sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Richard Yuqi Yao, Zihua Guo, Weiyu Xu, Wenwu Zhu
  • Publication number: 20090298432
    Abstract: A base station is operable in a local area communication radio network within the coverage of a wide area communication radio network. The base station comprises a code generator configured to generate an acquisition code, and a modulator configured to modulate the acquisition code onto an acquisition signal to be broadcast by the base station. The acquisition signal is broadcast over a listening channel of the wide area communication radio network. The acquisition code associated with the local area communication radio network is different from all acquisition codes used by the wide area communication radio network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2008
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Applicant: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventor: Thomas Ruprich
  • Patent number: 7623827
    Abstract: A transmission circuit for an RF inductive link, particularly for an implanted device such as a cochlear implant. In a preferred form, the transmission circuit 1 includes a transmitter coil 24 and a damping device, including an auxiliary coil 4 and switch 6. The switch is operated to close the coil circuit when data zeros are transmitted. This has the advantage of improving modulation depth without placing stress on the RF driver output switches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2009
    Assignee: Cochlear Limited
    Inventor: Ibrahim Ibrahim
  • Patent number: 7620372
    Abstract: A technology for realizing real-time frequency hopping in an environment containing a plurality of masters. A game machine includes a plurality of communication modules which carry out the frequency hopping, and a control section which controls communication by the communication modules. The control section controls the frequency hopping of at least one communication module to prevent frequency channels used by the plurality of communication modules from temporally overlapping. As a method for achieving the control, for example, a frequency band may be divided, and a divided frequency band may be assigned to each communication module. Alternatively, each communication module may use the same reference hopping pattern by shifting its phase, or may use the reference hopping pattern by adding a predetermined offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2009
    Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Yoshio Miyazaki
  • Publication number: 20090264074
    Abstract: An integrated multimode radio includes a multimode receiver and a multimode transmitter. The multimode receiver includes a shared receiver front-end, a receiver multiplexor, and a plurality of receiver IF stages. The multimode transmitter includes a shared transmitter front-end, a transmitter multiplexor, and a plurality of transmitter IF stages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2009
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Applicant: BROADCOM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hooman Darabi, Brima Ibrahim, Ahmadreza Rofougaran
  • Publication number: 20090258599
    Abstract: A wireless communication system including a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter includes a first mixing module, a phase-locked loop module, reference oscillator, and a second mixing module. The first mixing module is configured to combine a low-frequency data signal and an audio signal, and to generate a first combined signal. The phase-locked loop module is configured to generate a phase error signal based on a reference signal and a frequency modulated signal. The reference oscillator generates the reference signal having a frequency based on the low-frequency data signal. The second mixing module is configured to combine the first combined signal and the phase error signal, and to generate a second combined signal. The transmitter generates the frequency modulated signal based on the second combined signal and transmits the frequency modulated signal. The receiver is configured to receive the frequency modulated signal, and extract the low-frequency data signal and the audio signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2009
    Publication date: October 15, 2009
    Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Bob Basine
  • Patent number: 7603080
    Abstract: A wireless headphone device may include a receiver for receiving a wireless digital signal containing a plurality of digital audio streams combined with control codes according to a predetermined format, a manually operated selector switch for selecting one or more of the plurality of digital audio streams to be produced as audio for the user, and a decoder for extracting the selected audio streams from the received signal in accordance with the predetermined format and for responding to the control codes in the received signal to perform predetermined functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2009
    Inventors: Lawrence Richenstein, Michael A. Dauk, Robert J. Withoff
  • Publication number: 20090253375
    Abstract: The invention relates to the establishment of a radio link using at least two spatial modes (in other words at least horizontal and vertical or right and left circular modes) by means of corresponding antennae or a line link using at least three conductors and the use of at least one transmission oscillator and no oscillator on the reception side, wherein the transmitter has amplitude and/or phase and/or frequency modulation and the at least two different polarized modes are received by means of at least two antennae and processed by one or more multipliers, mixers, phase comparators, frequency comparators, or power detectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2006
    Publication date: October 8, 2009
    Applicant: FACHHOCHSCHULE AACHEN
    Inventor: Holger Heuermann
  • Patent number: 7599887
    Abstract: A method and system for prepaying roaming minutes including crediting a user's account with prepaid roaming minutes at a discounted rate. The roaming minutes are subtracted from the user's account when calls are made outside the home calling area defined by the user's calling plan. Software for implementing the method may be implemented in a number of environments, including a computer system accessible remotely or a processor located on the user's telephone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2009
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Shannon M. Short
  • Patent number: 7593695
    Abstract: A dual-use PLL frequency synthesizer for use in a transceiver is capable of operating as a local oscillation generator in a receiving mode and as a transmitter in a transmitting mode. The PLL frequency synthesizer includes a digital processor, a Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC), a low pass filter and a phase locked loop. The digital processor generates a digital signal, in which the digital signal is a modulated digital signal in the transmitting mode, and the digital signal is a reference digital signal in the receiving mode. The DAC converts the digital signal to an analog signal, and the low pass filter filters the analog signal to produce a filtered analog signal. The phase locked loop up-converts the filtered analog signal to an RF signal. In the transmitting mode, the RF signal is a modulated RF signal, and in the receiving mode, the RF signal is a reference RF signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2009
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventor: Henrik T. Jensen
  • Patent number: 7593737
    Abstract: A disclosed transportation management system includes a database including operational information and operator information that correspond to a target object, a transmission control part for transmitting a transmission radio wave to an information storage medium attached to the target object and a reception control part for receiving a reception radio wave, including identification information of the target object, from the information storage medium, a transport information obtaining part for obtaining transport information of the target object, an operational information retrieving part for retrieving the operational information from the database in accordance with the identification information of the target object, an information comparing part for comparing the transport information of the target object and the operational information, a notification information generating part for generating notification information indicative of the result of the comparison; and a notification information transmitting
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2009
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuo Noji, Yoshihiro Sugiyama, Wakoh Hamada, Hideki Kawashima, Hideo Sakurai, Atsushi Kutami, Tatsuro Saitoh
  • Patent number: 7586975
    Abstract: Disclosed is a code tracking apparatus and method under a multi-path environment in a DS-CDMA communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2009
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong-Ryeol Ryu, Hoon-Geun Song