Patents Examined by Bahman Badipour
  • Patent number: 8897386
    Abstract: A method for reducing the quantization effect of precoding operations utilizing a finite codebook in MIMO systems is provided. First, at the receiver side, downlink channel state information is obtained and a set of indices of precoding matrices within a plurality of finite codebooks are selected accordingly. The selected indices of precoding matrices for each of the finite codebooks and a set of scalar coefficients are transmitted from the receiver to the transmitter. Thereafter, at the transmitter side, at least a first and a second refined precoding matrices are generated based on the selected set of indices of precoding matrices for all of the finite codebooks, and the one or more scalar coefficients and a final precoding matrix is generated at least based on the first refined precoding matrix and the second refined precoding matrix. The final precoding matrix is applied for transmission between the transmitter and the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventors: Ping-Cheng Yeh, Ling-San Meng, Pang-Chang Lan, Chih-Yao Wu, Yu-Chih Jen
  • Patent number: 8885760
    Abstract: A method for signal transmission between a first and a second system; wherein the first and the second system are connected with one another via a current loop. A direct current signal is transmitted in a first frequency range and an alternating current signal in a second frequency range via the current loop. The direct current signal and the alternating current signal are superimposed and the alternating current signal is used for digital signal transmission and the direct current signal is used for analog signal transmission. By means of a control unit, a first data stream is produced, in which the direct current signal and alternating current signal to be set in the current loop are digitally encrypted. The first data stream is transmitted to an electrical current output circuit and the transmitted first data stream is converted by the electrical current output circuit into an electrical current signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Endress + Hauser Conducta Gesellschaft für Mess- und Regeltechnik mbH + Co. KG
    Inventors: Bjorn Haase, Bernd Maringer
  • Patent number: 8873680
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with a single stream wireless communication with a greenfield preamble that uses a short guard interval are described. According to one embodiment, a wireless communication device includes a receiver configured to receive an orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) signal. The OFDM signal includes a greenfield preamble. The wireless communication device includes an interval select logic configured to determine a type of guard intervals in the OFDM signal based, at least in part, on the greenfield preamble. The wireless communication device includes a signal processor configured to process the OFDM signal based, at least in part, on the type of the guard intervals as determined by the interval select logic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Marvell World Trade Ltd.
    Inventor: Hongyuan Zhang
  • Patent number: 8855224
    Abstract: A synchronization method for a receiver includes generating, by a beacon detector, an operating signal by performing a logic operation on a baseband signal, and calculating, by a coarse sync block, a coarse FFT window start position value where a signal-to-noise ratio becomes maximized by estimating a noise level of the operating signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Laktyushkin Anton
  • Patent number: 8855243
    Abstract: A method and system for performing complex sampling of signals using two or more sampling channels and calculating time delays between these channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Elta Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Moshe Fireaizen, David Karasik
  • Patent number: 8848772
    Abstract: Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and/or methods of phase quantization. For example, a device may include a phase quantizer to receive a plurality of non-quantized phase values corresponding to a plurality of antenna elements of a phased-array antenna, based on the plurality of non-quantized phase values to select a predefined rotation angle, to determine a plurality of rotated non-quantized phase values by rotating the plurality of non-quantized phase values by the selected rotation angle, and to generate a plurality of quantized phase values by quantizing the plurality of rotated non-quantized phase values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Maxim Greenberg, Tom Harel, Yuval Lomnitz
  • Patent number: 8848840
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for receiving control information by a terminal in a wireless communication system. More specifically, the method comprises the steps of receiving setup information on component carriers which are allocated to a terminal from a base station, determining one of 1st decoding and 2nd decoding modes as a decoding mode for receiving the control information by using the setup information, and receiving control information corresponding to each component carrier according to the determined decoding mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Yeong Hyeon Kwon, Dong Youn Seo, Jae Hoon Chung, Joon Kui Ahn, So Yeon Kim
  • Patent number: 8842782
    Abstract: An apparatus for decoding a received signal is provided. The received signal has been transmitted by conducting a transmission. The apparatus for decoding includes a detector and a filter application unit. The detector is configured to detect whether the transmission is a SU-MIMO transmission or a MU-MIMO transmission. The filter application unit is configured to apply either a first receive filter or a second different receive filter on the received signal depending on whether the transmission is the SU-MIMO transmission or the MU-MIMO transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventors: Biljana Badic, Tobias Scholand, Rajarajan Balraj, Peter Jung, Guido Horst Bruck, Zijian Bai, Stanislaus Iwelski
  • Patent number: 8831151
    Abstract: Method and associated apparatus of data extraction, including: sampling a signal and obtaining a plurality of sampled values, providing a reference sample quantity when the sampled values transit, providing a unit bit sample quantity according to the reference sample quantity, and corresponding each of the sampled values to each data bit of the signal according to the unit bit sample quantity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Faraday Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Yen-Yin Huang, Chien-Heng Wong, Ming-Shih Yu
  • Patent number: 8817928
    Abstract: A sequence generator implemented on a receiver is synchronized with a sequence generator at a transmitter. The receiver receives k n-state symbols, with k>1 and n>1 wherein each of the k n-state symbols is associated with a generating state of the sequence generator at the transmitter. A processor in the receiver evaluates an n-state expression that generates an n-state symbol that is associated with a synchronized state of the receiver. Coefficients related to the n-state expression are stored on a memory and are retrieved by the processor. The synchronized state in one embodiment is part of a code hop. The sequence generator in the receiver may be part of a descrambler, of a communication device, of a data storage device and/or of an opening mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Ternarylogic LLC
    Inventor: Peter Lablans
  • Patent number: 8817901
    Abstract: To more accurately generate a virtual waveform of channel estimate values outside a bandwidth upon their interpolation in OFDM system while preventing the circuit size from increasing, a converter (104) performs a linear interpolation between channel estimate values corresponding to reference signals arranged at both ends of a predetermined bandwidth among first channel estimate values estimated based on reference signals, thereby estimating second channel estimate values corresponding to subcarriers outside the bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Igura
  • Patent number: 8811452
    Abstract: A receiver capable of decoding encoded transmissions. The receiver includes a number of receive antennas configured to receive data; a plurality of memory units that store the received data; and a plurality of decoders configured to perform a Turbo decoding operation. Each of the plurality of decoders decodes at least a portion of the received data using at least a portion of a decoding matrix. The receiver also includes a data switch coupled between the plurality of decoders and the plurality of memory units. The data switch configured to vary a decode operation from an long term evolution (LTE) based operation to a Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eran Pisek, Yan Wang
  • Patent number: 8798119
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for processing a received spread spectrum signal containing multiple signals of interest and one or more interfering signals with known spreading codes. An example method begins with the generation of a despread signal vector for each signal of interest, for a given symbol time, using a corresponding group of correlators for each of the signals of interest. The method continues with the calculating of a covariance matrix for the given symbol time, the covariance matrix representing impairment correlations among the correlators from sources other than the signals of interest, as well as from inter-symbol interference in and among the signals of interest. The covariance matrix includes diagonal blocks that each represent impairment correlations among a single one of the groups of correlators; the diagonal blocks are calculated based on first terms that account in a code-specific manner for same-symbol-time interference from each of the interfering signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Stephen Grant, Michael Samuel Bebawy
  • Patent number: 8787473
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for performing noise estimation in an OFDM system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventor: Junling Zhang
  • Patent number: 8781027
    Abstract: An apparatus for determining a target precoding matrix from a plurality of precoding matrix candidates is provided. The apparatus includes a covariance matrix value provider, a real part determiner and a precoding matrix determiner. The precoding matrix determiner is adapted to determine the target precoding matrix from the plurality of precoding matrix candidates, wherein the precoding matrix determiner is configured to determine the target precoding matrix based on at least one of the one or more real covariance values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventors: Biljana Badic, Tobias Scholand, Rajarajan Balraj, Peter Jung, Guido Horst Bruck, Zijian Bai, Stanislaus Iwelski
  • Patent number: 8774260
    Abstract: A delay between a first signal and a second signal is estimated. The first signal and second signals are received and for each of a plurality of candidate delays between the signals, a correlation value is determined. Based on the correlation values, one of the candidate delays is selected to be used as an estimate of the delay between the first and second signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventor: Karsten Vandborg Sorensen
  • Patent number: 8774256
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising a first transceiver at a central office (CO) coupled to a second transceiver at a customer premise equipment (CPE) via a digital subscriber line (DSL), a crosstalk precoder coupled to the first transceiver at the CO, and a vectoring control entity (VCE) coupled to the transceiver via a feedback channel and to the crosstalk precoder, wherein the second transceiver comprises a noise monitor configured to detect non-crosstalk noise in a downstream signal from the CO to the CPE, and wherein the first transceiver is configured to receive a predefined special feedback signal from the second transceiver that indicates whether non-crosstalk noise is detected in the downstream signal instead of a measured error value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Raphael Jean Cendrillon, Liming Fang, Guozhu Long
  • Patent number: 8750440
    Abstract: A method includes receiving at a receiver a signal including reference symbols that is sent over a communication channel from a transmitter to the receiver. A response of the communication channel is estimated by applying one or more weighting values to the reference symbols. A noise correction factor is computed based on the weighting values. An estimate of a noise level in the received signal is computed based on the estimated response of the communication channel and the noise correction factor. The received signal is decoded based on the estimate of the noise level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Marvell International Ltd
    Inventors: Ronen Mayrench, Daniel Yellin, Yona Perets
  • Patent number: 8750423
    Abstract: A data receiving device includes a receiving unit, an inverse conversion unit and an error correction unit. The receiving unit receives converted data, which is obtained by converting data including transfer data of a plurality of bits, and an error detection code for error detection of the transfer data, according to a predetermined first procedure. The inverse conversion unit inversely converts the received converted data according to a predetermined second procedure. If it is impossible for the inverse conversion unit to inversely convert the converted data, if it is possible for the inverse conversion unit to inversely convert inverted data obtained by inverting a portion of the bits of the converted data, and if an error is not detected in data obtained by inversely converting the inverted data based on the error detection code, the error correction unit performs error correction by inversely converting the inverted data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Hamada, Manabu Akamatsu
  • Patent number: 8737519
    Abstract: A method for channel coding by a transmitter in a communication system is provided. The method includes determining a degree of coded bits of a Luby-Transform (LT) code based on a coding rate of a pre-code and the number of coded bits of the LT code, selecting at least one associated bit used for coding of the coded bits of the LT code from among information bits of the LT code, depending on the determined degree, and generating the coded bits of the LT code by applying a coding function to the selected associated bits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, Postech Academy Industry Foundation
    Inventors: Hong-Sil Jeong, Hyun-Koo Yang, Seho Myung, Kyeong-Cheol Yang, Kyung-Joong Kim, Seok-Ki Ahn