Patents Assigned to Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
  • Image processing devices and image processing methods of moving objects
    Patent number: 8994837
    Abstract: In an embodiment, an image processing device is provided. The image processing device may include: a first image acquirer configured to acquire a first image of a first spatial resolution; a second image acquirer configured to acquire a second image of a second spatial resolution, wherein the second spatial resolution may be higher than the first spatial resolution; a determiner configured to determine in the first image a location of a part of the first image that corresponds to a pre-determined part of the second image based on a pre-determined similarity criterion; and a copying circuit configured to copy the pre-determined part of the second image to a location in an output image based on the determined location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Wasserbauer, Manfred Meindl, Juergen Haas, Andreas Gstoettner
  • Emergency call capable wireless device provisioning
    Patent number: 8995978
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates provisioning a wireless capable device as an emergency call apparatus. In one implementation, a wireless capable device or apparatus receives a provisioning message from a provider of wireless voice and data services, the message including emergency call provisioning information to provision the wireless capable device or apparatus as an emergency call device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventor: Gruber Roland
  • Electronic circuit and electronic circuit arrangement
    Patent number: 8994449
    Abstract: In accordance with one exemplary embodiment, an electronic circuit is provided, wherein the electronic circuit comprises a first transistor and also a second transistor coupled in series with the first transistor. Furthermore, the electronic circuit comprises a capacitor, wherein a first terminal of the capacitor is coupled to a control terminal of the second transistor, and wherein a second terminal of the capacitor is coupled to an electrical potential which is dependent on a radio-frequency input signal of the electronic circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventors: Uwe Hodel, Stephan Leuschner, Jan-Erik Mueller
  • Digital-to-time converter and calibration of digital-to-time converter
    Patent number: 8994573
    Abstract: A digital-to-time converter (DTC) comprises a gate controller configured to generate a gate enable signal based on first and second digital values so that the gate enable signal has a first enable period and a second enable period for each pair of a first digital value and a second digital value. A gate conditionally passes a main clock signal to a gate output in response to the gate enable signal, the gate thus providing a gated signal at a gate output. A frequency divider generates a frequency divided signal as the output signal of the digital-to-time converter based on the gated signal. The DTC may be calibrated by a time-to-digital converter connected between an input for the main clock signal and an output of a delay element of the DTC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventors: Stephan Henzler, Markus Schimper
  • Communication terminal device, communication device, communication network server and method for controlling
    Patent number: 8989807
    Abstract: In various aspects of this disclosure, a communication terminal device may be provided. The communication terminal device may include a cellular wide area radio communication technology circuit. The cellular wide area radio communication technology circuit may be configured to provide a communication according to a cellular wide area radio communication technology. The communication terminal device may further include a circuit. The circuit may be configured to provide a direct communication terminal device to communication terminal device communication bypassing a radio access network according to information received via the radio access network. The communication terminal device may further include a message generator. The message generator may be configured to generate a message to transmit to a base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Schmidt, Maik Bienas
  • Method for transmitting a signal
    Patent number: 8989309
    Abstract: The method includes providing a stream of data to be transmitted, and processing the data by means of channel coding with a time-varying code rate, thereby generating a stream of channel coded data. The method further includes forming succeeding transmission time intervals and distributing the channel coded data on the transmission time intervals, and adjusting a transmission power of the signal to be transmitted by timely positioning a transmission power slope between two succeeding transmission time intervals so that the transmission power slope is contained completely within one transmission time interval of the two transmission time intervals, wherein the one transmission time interval comprises a lower nominal code rate or a lower nominal transmission power than the other one of the two transmission time intervals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventor: Tobias Scholand
  • Satellite-based position determination
    Patent number: 8988282
    Abstract: Method and apparatuses involving satellite position signals are disclosed. Based on data indicating a usage environment, parameters, for example acquisition parameters or calculation parameters, are adapted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventors: Markus Hammes, Andreas Schmid
  • Method for determinng the type of a mobile radio base station; radio communication terminal and network devices; radio communication smart card device
    Patent number: 8989748
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a method for determining the type of a mobile radio base station is provided. The method may include receiving a synchronization message comprising a mobile radio base station identifier, and determining the type of a mobile radio base station using a previously signaled and stored piece of mobile radio base station type determining information indicating a rule as to how the type of a mobile radio base station out of a plurality of types of a mobile radio base station can be derived from a mobile radio base station identifier and the received mobile radio base station identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventors: Markus Dominik Mueck, Thomas Ruprich, Andreas Schmidt, Hyung-Nam Choi
  • Radio communication devices and methods for controlling a radio communication device
    Patent number: 8989784
    Abstract: A radio communication device may include: a receiver configured to receive a first signal in a first shared radio communication channel of a first cell and configured to receive a second signal in a second shared radio communication channel of a second cell, wherein the first signal includes an information and the second signal includes the same information; and a determination circuit configured to determine the information based on the received first signal and the received second signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventor: Thorsten Clevorn
  • Data detection and receiver circuit
    Patent number: 8989322
    Abstract: A method includes a first step of receiving a signal at a first receiver circuit on the basis of a mobile communications standard supporting multiple predefined modulation alphabets wherein the received signal includes first data dedicated to the first receiver circuit and second data dedicated to a second, different receiver circuit, a second step of determining a modulation alphabet of the multiple predefined modulation alphabets during an operation of the first receiver circuit and a third step of detecting data depending on the second data at the first receiver circuit on the basis of the determined modulation alphabet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventors: Rajarajan Balraj, Biljana Badic
  • Communication device including multiple LO receivers
    Patent number: 8983413
    Abstract: Some embodiments of the present disclosure relate to multiband receivers that include at least one divider unit having a divisor that is other-than-two. For example, in some embodiments the divisor is an odd integer (e.g., three). Such divisors allow oscillators for respective receiver subunits in a multi-band receiver to have frequencies that are sufficiently different from one another so as to limit cross-talk interference there between, even when the receiver subunits are concurrently receiving data on adjacent channels. To facilitate this other-than-two divisor, a phase error compensation block is often used to compensate for the effects of using the other-than-two divisor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Herzinger, Volker Neubauer
  • Apparatus and method for processing an input signal
    Patent number: 8982972
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a digital processing unit configured to process input signals comprising a variable number of data frequency bands. The digital processing unit is configured to set its processing frequency range for processing the input signal based on the number of data frequency bands in the input signal to be processed. Other embodiments are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventor: Andreas Menkhoff
  • Communication device, method for providing a data service, communication terminal, and method for requesting a data service
    Patent number: 8984603
    Abstract: A communication device is described comprising a receiver configured to receive a message from a communication terminal indicating that the communication terminal requests a data service and indicating that a cost of providing the data service is to be associated with a provider of the data service and including security information; a determining circuit configured to determine, based on the security information, whether the communication terminal is authorized to be provided with the requested data service with a cost of providing the data service being associated with a provider of the data service; and a controller, configured to establish a communication connection for providing the data service and to associate a cost of the communication connection with the provider of the data service if the authorization has been successful.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventor: Frank Kowalewski
  • Receiver circuit and method for operating a receiver circuit
    Patent number: 8983000
    Abstract: A receiver circuit includes a unit configured to determine filter coefficients based on a sampling time error of a received signal and a phase error of the received signal, as well as a filter configured to filter a signal, which is based on the received signal, based on the filter coefficients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Senst, Manfred Zimmermann, Clemens Buchacher, Peter Noest
  • Method for selecting a mobile radio area, mobile radio communication device, method for transmitting signals into a mobile radio area, and mobile radio network unit
    Patent number: 8977273
    Abstract: A method for selecting a mobile radio area includes a mobile radio communication device, which is in a state without having a signaling communication connection and a data communication connection with a mobile radio network unit in a first mobile radio area, leaving the first mobile radio area. The mobile radio communication device enters a second mobile radio area and receives in the mobile radio communication device first signals from the mobile radio network unit of the first mobile radio area and second signals from a mobile radio network unit of the second mobile radio area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Eckert, Martin Hans, Hyung-Nam Choi
  • Method for device configuration, database, mobile communication device and network entity
    Patent number: 8977254
    Abstract: A method for device configuration is described comprising storing information about whether a mobile communication system comprising a mobile communication device operates correctly when a configuration is applied in a context of a configuration history to the mobile communication device; receiving a request for a configuration to be applied to mobile communication devices; and determining a configuration to be applied to the mobile communication devices based on the stored information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignees: Intel Corporation, Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventors: Markus Mueck, Srikathyayani Srikanteswara, Reza Arefi, Vladimir Ivanov
  • Computer-aided mapping of system information medium access control protocol messages
    Patent number: 8977271
    Abstract: A method for computer-aided mapping of system information medium access control protocol messages onto a plurality of transport channels for transmission using an orthogonal frequency division multiple access method, wherein a scheduling of system information data packets information in the context of the mapping on a transport channel of the plurality of transport channels is carried out dependent on the type of the system information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventors: Hyung-Nam Choi, Michael Eckert, Maik Bienas, Florian Steinmann
  • Bipolar time-to-digital converter
    Patent number: 8970420
    Abstract: Representative implementations of devices and techniques provide bipolar time-to-digital conversion. For example, either a positive time duration or a negative time duration may be converted to a digital representation by a linear time-to-digital converter (TDC). A set of logic functions may be applied to the input of the TDC to provide start and/or stop signals for the TDC. Further, a correction component may be applied to an input or an output of the TDC to compensate for a delay offset of the TDC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventors: Stephan Henzler, Markus Schimper, Stefan Tertinek
  • Receiver with wide dynamic range and low power consumption
    Patent number: 8971835
    Abstract: Some embodiments of the invention relate a circuit having a first and a second electrically connected voltage domains, respectively biased at different supply voltages (e.g., the first voltage domain biased at a low bias voltage and the second voltage domain biased at a second, different supply voltage). The apparatus further comprises a first DC current source coupled to one of the voltage domains (e.g., the first voltage domain having a low DC voltage potential) and a second DC current source coupled to the other voltage domain (e.g., the second voltage domain having a high DC voltage potential). The first and second DC current sources are configured to provide a DC cancellation current having a value that cancels a DC current generated by the potential difference between the first and second voltage domains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventors: Krzysztog Dufrene, Elmar Wagner
  • Devices for synchronizing a communication end device with a base station, methods for synchronizing a communication end device with a base station, devices for generating a secondary synchronization signal, and methods for generating a secondary synchronization signal
    Patent number: 8964723
    Abstract: In an aspect of this disclosure, a device for synchronizing a communication end device with a base station may be provided. The device may include: a primary synchronization determiner configured to determine a first synchronization parameter; and a secondary synchronization signal generator configured to simultaneously generate a plurality of bits of a secondary synchronization signal based on the first synchronization parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventor: Wen Xu