Patents Assigned to Timi Technologies Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 8576696
    Abstract: A mobile multimedia broadcast transmission system is provided, which comprises: a Reed-Solomon (RS) coding and byte interleaving unit, a Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) coder, a bit interleaver, a constellation mapping unit, a frequency domain symbol generator, a scrambler, an Inverse Fast Fourier Transform (IFFT) unit, a time domain framing unit, and a transmitter. According to the technical solutions provided in the present invention, the system can provide high-quality mobile multimedia services for users in a 6 MHz operation bandwidth. Furthermore, an optimized selection is performed on RS coding according to the operation bandwidth of the system, thereby selecting an appropriate coding mode according to different channel conditions. Accordingly, the byte interleaver is optimized, such that suitable interleaving parameters can be used to perform byte interleaving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Timi Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qihong Ge, Dong Bai, Tao Tao, Qiusheng Wang, Wen Chen
  • Patent number: 8428160
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a multi-carrier digital multimedia broadcast system and the digital information transmission method thereof. After RS encoding and byte interleaving, LDPC encoding, bit interleaving and constellation mapping to an upper layer of data streams in turn, the obtained data symbol is multiplexed with scattered pilots and continual pilots which include the system information to form an OFDM frequency domain symbol and scrambled; an OFDM time domain symbol is generated by IFFT transforming, and after inserted with the frame head to build a time slot, it is connected to form a signal frame of the physical layer; the signal frame of the physical layer is transmitted after being low-pass filtered and orthogonal upconverted. The system and method thereof provide wireless broadcast with high quality such as audio, video and multimedia data and the like for mobile, fixed and portable receivers, and can use the satellite transmission and terrestrial transmission method for transmitting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: TIMI Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tao Tao, Dong Bai, Qihong Ge, Huishi Song, Wen Chen, Yibin Liang, Qinghua Yang, Lian Wang, Qun Li, Hongbing Shen
  • Patent number: 8351323
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for transmitting/receiving a continuous pilot code in a multi-carrier system. The method for transmitting comprises: performing a time-frequency domain two dimensional encoding on an information bit stream to be transmitted; mapping the encoded bit stream to obtain a continuous pilot carrying encoding information; multiplexing a load, a discrete pilot and the mapped continuous pilot carrying the encoding information based on distribution of the load, the discrete pilot and the continuous pilot on a sub-carrier, to generate a frequency domain signal; and performing a frequency-time domain transforming on the generated frequency domain signal, to obtain a time domain sample. The method for receiving comprises: extracting the continuous pilot from an active carrier of a multi-carrier signal; and performing a time-frequency domain decoding on the extracted continuous pilots to obtain the decision of transmitted information bits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: TIMI Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Guanbin Xing, Dong Bai, Yibin Liang, Qihong Ge, Wen Chen
  • Patent number: 8335963
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for constructing LPDC code check matrix and encoding and decoding devices using the same. The present invention constructs the LDPC code check matrix using an algebraic structure, obtaining the LDPC code with stable performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Timi Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong Bai, Binbin Liu, Tao Tao, Qihong Ge, Wen Chen, Huishi Song, Qun Li, Hongbing Shen, Qinghua Yang
  • Patent number: 8321747
    Abstract: An efficient general QC-LDPC code decoder includes a general-purpose processor for distributing the storage storage space of the data memory block, and establishing an index for data addressing; a data memory block for storing the information used during decoding; a hardware accelerator for conducting part or all of the information processing operations including parity check, check node updating and variable node updating. A corresponding QC-LDPC code decoding method includes initializing the variable node information and performing parity check on the check matrix row block by row block; updating the check node row block by row block and updating the variable node column block by column block if any check equation is not met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: TIMI Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong Bai, Tao Tao, Qun Li, Ju Ma, Qinghua Yang, Qiusheng Wang, Ruirui Ye, Wen Chen, Xiaowei Cao, Hongbing Shen
  • Patent number: 8255782
    Abstract: A method for constructing LDPC (Low-Density Parity-Check) code in the mobile digital multimedia broadcast system is provided, wherein the Low-Density Parity-Check matrix of the LDPC code is iteratively constructed according to a code-table and expansion method, and the code-table is a part of the constructed Low-Density Parity-Check matrix. According to the constructing method of the present invention, the LDPC code having excellent performance of error correcting coding which is applicable to the mobile digital multimedia broadcast system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: TIMI Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Huishi Song, Hongbing Shen, Qun Li, Qinghua Yang, Wen Chen
  • Publication number: 20120173949
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present invention provide a method of constructing parity-check matrix of LDPC code. The method comprises the following steps of: constructing a MB×NB base matrix B for an LDPC code with code rate R and code length N, wherein MB=M/K, NB=N/K, M=N (1?R), K is the expansion factor of the base matrix, K??, and ? is the set of the common factors of M and N; and replacing the elements of the base matrix B with a K×K matrix, and expanding the base matrix B into a parity-check matrix H with size of M×N for the encoding or decoding of the LDPC code. An encoding method and apparatus of LDPC code are also provided by the embodiments of the present invention. The technical solutions provided by the embodiments of the present invention can construct LDPC codes with good performance, solve the storage problem of the parity-check matrix, and effectively reduce the implementation complexity of the encoding apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2010
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Applicant: TIMI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Binbin Liu, Dong Bai, Qihong Ge, Tao Tao, Junwei Wang, Wen Chen
  • Patent number: 8176383
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of constructing a low density Parity Check code, a method of decoding the same and a transmission system using the same. The method comprises steps of: constructing a low density Parity Check matrix of the low density Parity Check code by using a fixed pattern; blocking data sent from an information source (101), encoding the data by directly or indirectly using the constructed low density Parity Check matrix to obtain codewords of the low density Parity Check code; and outputting the codewords of the low density Parity Check code. The low density Parity Check code can be encoded by using the Parity Check matrix or a generation matrix. According to the proposed constructing method, a Parity Check matrix of a low density Parity Check code having excellent performance, a method of constructing the low density Parity Check code and a complexity-reduced decoding method can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: TIMI Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Huishi Song, Wen Chen, Hongbing Shen, Qinghua Yang
  • Patent number: 8139622
    Abstract: A system and method for generating and detecting identifier sequence of a bandwidth-limited transmitter are disclosed, comprising an identifier sequence generating portion and a detection portion. The identifier sequence generating portion comprises: generating a frequency-domain random sequence; generating a frequency-domain orthogonal sequence; performing frequency-domain truncation; performing frequency-time transformation; and performing cycle extension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: TIMI Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junwei Wang, Qihong Ge, Tao Tao, Dong Bai, Wen Chen, Qinghua Yang, Qun Li
  • Publication number: 20110299381
    Abstract: A mobile multimedia broadcast transmission system is provided, which comprises: a Reed-Solomon (RS) coding and byte interleaving unit, a Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) coder, a bit interleaver, a constellation mapping unit, a frequency domain symbol generator, a scrambler, an Inverse Fast Fourier Transform (IFFT) unit, a time domain framing unit, and a transmitter. According to the technical solutions provided in the present invention, the system can provide high-quality mobile multimedia services for users in a 6 MHz operation bandwidth. Furthermore, an optimized selection is performed on RS coding according to the operation bandwidth of the system, thereby selecting an appropriate coding mode according to different channel conditions. Accordingly, the byte interleaver is optimized, such that suitable interleaving parameters can be used to perform byte interleaving.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2010
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Applicant: Timi Technologies Co., Ltd.,
    Inventors: Qihong Ge, Dong Bai, Tao Tao, Qiusheng Wang, Wen Chen
  • Publication number: 20110268206
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of communication technology. A channel estimation device for an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) system is provided for performing channel estimation on data based on synchronization signal and pilot, which comprises: a synchronization signal based initial channel estimation module for performing initial channel estimation based on a synchronization signal in the data; a pilot channel tracking module for performing pilot channel tracking on the result of the initial channel estimation; a noise reduction module for performing noise reduction on the result of the pilot channel tracking; and an effective sub-carrier extraction module for extracting channel estimation values of effective sub-carriers from the result of the noise reduction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2009
    Publication date: November 3, 2011
    Applicant: Timi Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qihong Ge, Junwei Wang, Binbin Liu, Dong Bai, Tao Tao
  • Patent number: 7978593
    Abstract: A method for transmitting control information to indicate a receiver, comprising following steps: the control information is formed at transmitting side and is encoded based on the working status of the transmitting side of the system; after the encoded control information is mapped, it is multiplexed with other pilot symbol and service load, then an OFDM symbol is generated; the OFDM symbol is transformed from frequency domain to time domain, then a time domain sampling signal is obtained and transmitted to the receiving side of the system; at the receiving side, the time domain sampling signal transmitted by the transmitting side is received and transformed from time domain to frequency domain to form OFDM symbol; the control information is obtained from the valid sub carrier of the OFDM symbol, and the control information is decoded; each work information is extracted form the decoded control information, and the receiving terminal is indicated to execute respective receive process based on the extracted w
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Timi Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fajun Yan, Tao Tao, Wen Chen, Qihong Ge, Dong Bai, Qinghua Yang
  • Publication number: 20090100311
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of constructing a low density Parity Check code, a method of decoding the same and a transmission system using the same. The method comprises steps of: constructing a low density Parity Check matrix of the low density Parity Check code by using a fixed pattern; blocking data sent from an information source (101), encoding the data by directly or indirectly using the constructed low density Parity Check matrix to obtain codewords of the low density Parity Check code; and outputting the codewords of the low density Parity Check code. The low density Parity Check code can be encoded by using the Parity Check matrix or a generation matrix. According to the proposed constructing method, a Parity Check matrix of a low density Parity Check code having excellent performance, a method of constructing the low density Parity Check code and a complexity-reduced decoding method can be obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2006
    Publication date: April 16, 2009
    Applicant: TIMI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Huishi Song, Wen Chen, Hongbing Shen, Qinghua Yang