Patents Assigned to Broadcom
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Method and system for communicating up to extreme high frequencies using a mesh network of repeaters
Patent number: 9071324Abstract: A plurality of repeater devices, each of which may enable forwarding extreme high frequency (EHF) communication between EHF-enabled wireless devices, may form a repeater mesh network. One or more routes may be formed within the repeater mesh network to enable forwarding EHF RF signals via the repeater mesh network. Different technique may be utilized, while forming routes within the repeater mesh network, to reduce and/or prevent interference that might be caused by EHF RF signals received and/or transmitted by repeater devices in the routes to other repeater devices in the repeater mesh network. These techniques may comprise frequency shifting, spatial isolation, and/or polarization isolation. Multiple routes may be utilized simultaneously to forward EHF RF communication. The simultaneous use of multiple routes may enable increasing the bandwidth and/or improving reliability of forwarding EHF RF communication within the repeater mesh network.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2007Date of Patent: June 30, 2015Assignee: Broadcom CorporationInventors: Ahmadreza Rofougaran, Maryam Rofougaran -
Patent number: 9072035Abstract: A multiple-subscriber identity module (multi-SIM) multi-standby communication device includes a single operating system (OS) and a single radio resource unit that is shared by multiple virtual modems (VMs) within a virtual modem framework (VMF). The OS maps VM tasks of the multiple VM to OS resource spaces according to corresponding VM IDs. which may be embedded in global variables utilized in the single OS to access OS resources. The single OS may run the mapped VM tasks utilizing OS resources in the OS resource spaces. The OS may run VM tasks utilizing OS resources in OS resource spaces identified by corresponding VM IDs.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2010Date of Patent: June 30, 2015Assignee: Broadcom CorporationInventors: Zhijun Gong, Xiaoxin Qiu, Yuan Liu, Yaxin Cao, Yongqian Wang, Stephen Richards
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Patent number: 9071317Abstract: According to one exemplary embodiment, a transceiver for nullification of a noise component in a transmitter comprises a noise nullification module loading a selected node in the transmitter. The noise nullification module comprises a mixer that receives inputs from the selected node and a local oscillator, where the mixer is also coupled to a filter such that the noise nullification module presents a low impedance at an approximate frequency of a noise component so as to nullify the noise component. In one embodiment, the noise nullification module results in band-pass filtering of an approximate receive signal frequency so as to nullify a noise component at the receive frequency. In another embodiment, the noise nullification module results in notch filtering of an approximate transmit signal frequency so as to nullify a noise component at a receive signal frequency.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2007Date of Patent: June 30, 2015Assignee: BROADCOM CORPORTIONInventors: Ahmad Mirzaei, Hooman Darabi
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Patent number: 9071737Abstract: Embodiments of imaging devices of the present disclosure correct chromatic aberrations present in color images obtained from an image sensor having a color filter mosaic based on a series of several images taken at different focal positions of an optical imaging lens possessing uncorrected chromatic aberration(s).Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2013Date of Patent: June 30, 2015Assignee: Broadcom CorporationInventors: Ilya Blayvas, Konstantin Kraimer
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Patent number: 9071417Abstract: A method and system for packet synchronization may comprise receiving a plurality of bits from an incoming sample of data. The received plurality of bits may be sliced at a first sampling rate. A logic level of at least one of the received plurality of bits may be determined based on the slicing of the received plurality of bits. The received plurality of bits may be synchronized with a channel access code based on determining the logic level of at least one of the received plurality of bits. The channel access code may be sampled at a higher frequency, to increase the probability of detecting whether the incoming bit is LOGIC 1 or LOGIC 0.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2005Date of Patent: June 30, 2015Assignee: Broadcom CorporationInventors: Brima Ibrahim, Hea Joung Kim, Henrik Jensen
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Patent number: 9071848Abstract: Sub-band video coding architecture for packet based transmission. Video processing includes converting of a frame or picture of a video signal into a number of respective sub-bands or sub-frames (e.g., such that each respective one is a respective subsampled version of an original frame or picture) and subsequent assembly thereof into a reconstructed frame or picture. The reconstructed frame or picture then undergoes video encoding to generate an output bitstream that may subsequently undergo appropriate processing (e.g., packetization, continuous time signal generation, etc.) to generate a signal for transmission via one or more communication the links. Characteristics associated with each respective sub-band or sub-frame may be similar (e.g., similar characteristics) or different (e.g., two or more sub-bands or sub-frames have different characteristics, such as different respective number of pixels, aspect ratios, etc.). Respective sub-frames may undergo video encoding and transmission.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2012Date of Patent: June 30, 2015Assignee: Broadcom CorporationInventors: Gianluca Filippini, James F. Dougherty, III, William S. Bunch
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Patent number: 9069946Abstract: Methods and systems for authentication of a device are disclosed. An exemplary method includes transmitting an energy towards the device including a material, monitoring a response of the device to the transmitted energy, generating a signature of the device based on the response of the device to the transmitted energy, comparing the device signature to an enrolled signature for the device, and indicating that authentication of the device is successful when the generated signature matches the enrolled signature. An exemplary system includes a transmitter configured to transmit an energy towards the device, a receiver configured to monitor a response of the device, and a processor configured to generate a signature of the device based on the response of the device, compare the device signature to an enrolled signature for the device, and indicate that authentication of the device is successful when the generated signature matches the enrolled signature.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2013Date of Patent: June 30, 2015Assignee: Broadcom CorporationInventors: Shlomo Markel, Jacob Mendel
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Patent number: 9071831Abstract: A monoscopic camera comprising one or more image sensors and a depth sensor may generate video based on two-dimensional image data captured via the one or more image sensors and corresponding depth information captured via the depth sensor. The camera may process corresponding audio for the generated video based on the captured depth information. The audio processing may comprise mitigating noise in the corresponding audio, enhancing voice quality in the corresponding audio, and/or enhancing audio quality of the corresponding audio. The camera may be operable to determine, based on the captured depth information, one or more sound paths between a source of the corresponding audio and a microphone utilized to capture the corresponding audio emanating from the source. The processing of the audio may comprise removing portions of the captured audio arriving at the microphone via one or more reflection paths.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2011Date of Patent: June 30, 2015Assignee: Broadcom CorporationInventors: Nambi Seshadri, Jeyhan Karaoguz, Chris Boross, Xuemin Chen
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Patent number: 9069225Abstract: A method and system for enhanced viewing of a display device is disclosed in this application. In some implementations, a method and system for improving a perceived contrast of a screen of a display device is disclosed. Some implementations may also relate to a method and system for privately viewing content displayed on a screen.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2013Date of Patent: June 30, 2015Assignee: Broadcom CorporationInventors: Noam Sorek, Larry Alan Pearlstein
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Patent number: 9070627Abstract: An integrated circuit (IC) package includes an IC die having a first surface and a second surface opposite of the first surface. The IC package includes first contact members coupled to the second surface of the IC die. The IC package includes a bottom substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite of the first surface, where the first surface of the bottom substrate is coupled to the second surface of the IC die via the first contact members. The IC package includes an interposer substrate coupled to the first surface of the IC die via an adhesive material, where the adhesive material is disposed on at least a surface of the interposer substrate. The IC package includes second contact members coupled along a periphery of the interposer substrate, where the interposer substrate is coupled to the first surface of the bottom substrate via the second contact members.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2013Date of Patent: June 30, 2015Assignee: Broadcom CorporationInventors: Sam Ziqun Zhao, Rezaur Rahman Khan
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Publication number: 20150181437Abstract: Example embodiments generally relate to adapting a reception via first wireless technology to reduce or avoid interference with a transmission via a second wireless technology. For example, a user equipment (e.g. cell phone) can include radios operating according to first and second wireless radio technologies, which can include Long Term Evolution (LTE) and a technology using the industrial, scientific and medical (ISM) frequency band. In this example, the LTE radio may adapt, delay, or avoid the reception of certain scheduled system information from the network to reduce or avoid interference with transmission from the ISM radio.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2013Publication date: June 25, 2015Applicant: Broadcom CorporationInventors: Amit CHOUDHARY, Arzad KHERANI
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Publication number: 20150181542Abstract: Aspects of a method and system for power supply adjustment and polar modulation in a MIMO system are provided. In each RF transmit chain of a MIMO system that utilizes polar modulation, aspects of the invention may enable generating a signal representative of an amplitude of a pair of phase-quadrature baseband signals; and controlling a voltage and/or current regulator utilizing said generated signal. In this regard, a voltage and/or current supplied to a power amplifier and/or mixer of one or more of the transmit chains may be controlled based on the generated signal. Additionally, a gain of a power amplifier for each RF transmit chain may be controlled utilizing said signal representative of an amplitude. The signal representative of an amplitude may be generated by squaring each of the phase-quadrature baseband signals and calculating a square root of a sum of the squared signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2015Publication date: June 25, 2015Applicant: BROADCOM CORPORATIONInventors: Ahmadreza ROFOUGARAN, Maryam ROFOUGARAN
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Publication number: 20150179610Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods provided for semiconductor devices and integrated circuit (IC) packages that include compliant dielectric layers. In a through silicon via interposer or substrate, a compliant dielectric material may be added to a surface of silicon material body to form a compliant dielectric layer. The compliant dielectric layer provides a thermal buffer and a stress buffer for a resulting IC package. The compliant dielectric material may be selected such that the coefficient of thermal expansion of the compliant dielectric material approximately matches the coefficient of thermal expansion of the circuit board on which the IC package is mounted. The compliant dielectric material may be selected such that it has a deformability that is greater than the silicon material body. Multiple sub-layers of compliant dielectric material may be used.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2014Publication date: June 25, 2015Applicant: Broadcom CorporationInventors: Rezaur Rahman Khan, Sam Ziqun Zhao
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Publication number: 20150181563Abstract: An apparatus, comprising at least one processor configured to dynamically change a timing parameter, such as a Transmission Timing Interval for an E-DCH resource for a second apparatus in a cell.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2015Publication date: June 25, 2015Applicant: BROADCOM CORPORATIONInventors: Keiichi Kubota, Brian Martin, Tao Chen
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Publication number: 20150181404Abstract: A method, user equipment and non-transitory computer readable memory for establishing an emergency service using a wireless network includes unilaterally deactivating, at the user equipment when the user equipment needs to establish an emergency service, at least one active context with the wireless network without deactivating at least one other active context. Thereafter directing to the wireless network, a request to establish the emergency service that identifies the emergency service and one or more contexts that remain active after the unilateral deactivation of the at least one active context by the user equipment, synchronizing, in response to and based on the request, current context status information of the user equipment with the wireless network, and then establishing the emergency service using the wireless network with which the active context was deactivated.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2015Publication date: June 25, 2015Applicant: BROADCOM CORPORATIONInventors: Hannu P. HIETALAHTI, Marko T. AKSELIN
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Publication number: 20150177821Abstract: A processor core includes multiple execution units, such as a first execution unit and a second execution unit. The first execution unit may include a first functional component that supports a superscalar pipeline. The second execution unit may include a second functional component supporting a scalar pipeline. The processor core may operate in a high-performance mode by using the first execution unit and powering down the second execution unit and operate in a low-power mode by using the second execution unit and powering down the first execution unit. The processor core may include common elements shared between the multiple execution units, such as a common instruction cache, data cache, register file(s), and more.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2014Publication date: June 25, 2015Applicant: BROADCOM CORPORATIONInventors: Ramesh Senthinathan, Kenneth Yeager, Jason Alexander Leonard, Lief O'Donnell, Michael Belhazy
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Publication number: 20150180576Abstract: Embodiments enable a network operator to use any (and a single) network management system (NMS) that it desires to manage a network having mixed fiber to the home optical network units (ONUs) and coaxial connected cable modems. For example, embodiments enable a cable company operator to use a DOCSIS (Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification) NMS (which the cable company already uses to manage its DOCSIS network) to manage such mixed network, by a simple addition of a DOCSIS Mediation Layer (DML) module between the NMS and the optical line terminal (OLT). On the other hand, embodiments enable a telephone company operator to use a standard EPON (Ethernet Passive Optical Network) OLT NMS with minor OLT and OAM (Operations, Administration, and Maintenance) protocol modifications to manage the same mixed network.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2015Publication date: June 25, 2015Applicant: Broadcom CorporationInventors: Edward Wayne BOYD, Ernie Bahm, Joel I. Danzig, Rennie Gardner, Lawrence Drew Davis
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Publication number: 20150181566Abstract: A system and method for allocating one or more Physical downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) resource and correspondingly allocating one or more Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) resource within the PUCCH. The allocation of the one or more PUCCH resource can be based on the allocation of one or more previously allocated PUCCH resources within the PUCCH that are associated with one or more other mobile devices. For example, the allocation of the current PDCCH resource and corresponding PUCCH resource can include determining the interference between the current PUCCH resource and the one or more other PUCCH resources having been previously allocated. Based on the interference, a corresponding PDCCH resource can be re-allocated so as to re-allocate the current PUCCH resource.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2013Publication date: June 25, 2015Applicant: Broadcom CorporationInventor: Daniel STOPLER
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Publication number: 20150180430Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses for detecting and suppressing analog error in an output stage of a digital class-D amplifier are described. In embodiments, the digital class-D amplifier includes a PWM stage, an output stage, and a feedback circuit. The PWM stage receives the signal difference between an input digital signal and a feedback digital signal, generates a digital pulse-width modulated (PWM) signal based thereon, and provides the digital PWM signal as a first component of the digital feedback signal. The output stage receives the digital PWM signal and generates an analog output signal for driving a load responsive to the digital PWM signal. The feedback circuit combines an analog representation of the PWM signal and the analog output signal to generate a second component of the digital feedback signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2013Publication date: June 25, 2015Applicant: Broadcom CorporationInventors: Zhengyu Wang, Iuri Mehr, Jungwoo Song, Xicheng Jiang
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Publication number: 20150181511Abstract: A geo-fence capable device is disclosed that is capable of performing an accurate geo-fence operation while minimizing power consumption. The device includes sensors, Wi-Fi connectability and GNSS. Sensors intermittently detect whether the device is in motion. When determined to be in motion, Wi-Fi is used to acquire a wireless access point list and to compare the access point list to previously-stored access points in order to determine whether the device is still within a particular region. GNSS is used to confirm exit from a region and to intermittently monitor whether the device has entered a new region. GNSS and application processor use can be minimized by utilizing sensor and Wi-Fi functionality as preliminary region monitors.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2015Publication date: June 25, 2015Applicant: Broadcom CorporationInventors: Charles ABRAHAM, Frank van DIGGELEN