Patents Examined by Berhanu Tadese
  • Patent number: 11742578
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for a digital beamformed phased array feed. The system may include a radome configured to allow electromagnetic waves to propagate; a multi-band software defined antenna array tile; a power and clock management subsystem configured to manage power and time of operation; a thermal management subsystem configured to dissipate heat generated by the multi-band software defined antenna array tile; and an enclosure assembly. The multi-band software defined antenna array tile may include a plurality of coupled dipole array antenna elements; a plurality of frequency converters; and a plurality of digital beamformers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: BlueHalo, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Thomas Pace, David Gregory Baur, Theodore Lyman Schuler-Sandy, William Kennedy, Jeffrey Gerard Micono, William Louis Walker, Garrett James Newell
  • Patent number: 11728815
    Abstract: A semiconductor device outputs, as an output signal synchronized to a phase-locked loop clock signal, a synchronized input signal that is synchronized to a reference clock signal of a phase-locked loop circuit. The semiconductor device includes the phase-locked loop circuit, a first flip-flop that receives the input signal in synchronization with the reference clock signal on the basis of a feedback signal inputted to a phase comparator of the phase-locked loop circuit 10, and a second flip-flop that receives an output from the first flip-flop on the basis of the phase-locked loop clock signal. The second flip-flop outputs the output from the first flip-flop as the output signal. A setup time to synchronize the input signal to the phase-locked loop clock signal is set to one half of a period of the reference clock signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: LAPIS SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junya Ogawa, Katsuaki Matsui
  • Patent number: 11721900
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for a digital beamformed phased array feed. The system may include a radome configured to allow electromagnetic waves to propagate; a multi-band software defined antenna array tile; a power and clock management subsystem configured to manage power and time of operation; a thermal management subsystem configured to dissipate heat generated by the multi-band software defined antenna array tile; and an enclosure assembly. The multi-band software defined antenna array tile may include a plurality of coupled dipole array antenna elements; a plurality of frequency converters; and a plurality of digital beamformers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: BlueHalo, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Thomas Pace, David Gregory Baur, Theodore Lyman Schuler-Sandy, William Kennedy, Jeffrey Gerard Micono, William Louis Walker, Garrett James Newell
  • Patent number: 11716121
    Abstract: An access point (AP) configured for multi-AP coordinated beamforming (CBF) and multi-AP joint transmission (JT) in an Extremely High Throughput (EHT) wireless local area network (WLAN), when operating as a master AP (AP1) in a multi-AP network, is configured to encode a null data packet announcement (NDPA) frame for multi-AP channel sounding. The NDPA is configured for transmission to a second AP (AP2) and a plurality of stations (STAs) of an EHT group. The NDPA may be encoded to have an information field indicating whether a sounding sequence type is for JT channel sounding or CBF channel sounding. The NDPA may further be encoded to include fields identifying the APs participating in the channel sounding. In these embodiments, the channel sounding sequence for JT can be reused for the channel sounding on CBF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Feng Jiang, Qinghua Li, Xiaogang Chen, Po-Kai Huang, Danny Alexander, Chen Kojokaro, Assaf Gurevitz, Ziv Avital
  • Patent number: 11711178
    Abstract: An EVM measurement value is appropriately determined while CPE/ICI correction is taken into account. In a measurement apparatus (300), an EVM measurer (305) measures a modulation quality of a signal transmitted from a transmission apparatus. An EVM determiner (306) determines whether or not the measurement value of the modulation quality is equal to or less than a first requirement value, in a case where correction relating to a phase noise of the transmission apparatus is necessary in a reception apparatus. The first requirement value herein is higher than a second requirement value used in the determination of the measurement value in a case where the correction relating to the phase noise of the transmission apparatus is unnecessary in the reception apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Shotaro Maki, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Lilei Wang
  • Patent number: 11695209
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for a digital beamformed phased array feed. The system may include a radome configured to allow electromagnetic waves to propagate; a multi-band software defined antenna array tile; a power and clock management subsystem configured to manage power and time of operation; a thermal management subsystem configured to dissipate heat generated by the multi-band software defined antenna array tile; and an enclosure assembly. The multi-band software defined antenna array tile may include a plurality of coupled dipole array antenna elements; a plurality of frequency converters; and a plurality of digital beamformers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: BLUEHALO, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Thomas Pace, David Gregory Baur, Theodore Lyman Schuler-Sandy, William Kennedy, Jeffrey Gerard Micono, William Louis Walker, Garrett James Newell
  • Patent number: 11695462
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications that support coordinated beamforming in millimeter wave (mmW) systems. A user equipment (UE) may indicate a number of supported antennas for signal reception. A plurality of transmission-reception points (TRxPs) may coordinate a beam training with the supported antennas, in determining a beam estimation for coordinated reception at the UE. The coordinated beam training may be carried over combined beams of the associated TRxPs, and may be based on co-phasing factors within a single antenna panel for each of the TRxPs. Based on the coordinated beam training, the UE may determine a matched filtering beam estimate for reception and receive coordinated beamformed transmissions from the plurality of TRxPs as part of coordinated multipoint (CoMP) transmissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Vasanthan Raghavan, Jung Ho Ryu, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11695457
    Abstract: Disclosed is a precoding method comprising the steps of: generating a first coded block and a second coded block with use of a predetermined error correction block coding scheme; generating a first precoded signal z1 and a second precoded signal z2 by performing a precoding process, which corresponds to a matrix selected from among the N matrices F[i], on a first baseband signal s1 generated from the first coded block and a second baseband signal s2 generated from the second coded block, respectively; the first precoded signal z1 and the second precoded signal z2 satisfying (z1, z2)T=F[i] (s1, s2)T; and changing both of or one of a power of the first precoded signal z1 and a power of the second precoded signal z2, such that an average power of the first precoded signal z1 is less than an average power of the second precoded signal z2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUST
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi
  • Patent number: 11683771
    Abstract: The method of synchronizing data frames between 5G baseband processing stations by a global position system (GPS)-integrated local oscillator block control, including the following steps: step 1: synchronize the baseband processor's local oscillator block with the GPS's 1 pps (pulse per second) pulse and generate a 10 ms (millisecond) pulse from the local oscillator; step 2: use the 10 ms synchronous pulse sync monitor block to get the sync offset between this pulse and the GPS 1 pps pulse; step 3: use the control algorithm to reconfigure the local oscillator so that the 10 ms synchronous pulse can follow the 1 pps GPS pulse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: VIETTEL GROUP
    Inventors: Hong Quan Dau, Quoc Thanh Phan, Thien Vu Tang, Quoc Viet Ta, Chi Linh Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11677480
    Abstract: A method may include generating an estimated time offset based on a reference signal in a communication system, and adjusting a transform window in the communication system based on the estimated time offset, wherein the estimated time offset is generated based on machine learning. Generating the estimated time offset may include applying the machine learning to one or more channel estimates. Generating the estimated time offset may include extracting one or more features from one or more channel estimates, and generating the estimated time offset based on the one or more features. Extracting the one or more features may include determining a correlation between a first channel and a second channel. The correlation may include a frequency domain correlation between the first channel and the second channel. Extracting the one or more features may include extracting a subset of a set of features of the one or more channel estimates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yacong Ding, Hyukjoon Kwon
  • Patent number: 11670855
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for a digital beamformed phased array feed. The system may include a radome configured to allow electromagnetic waves to propagate; a multi-band software defined antenna array tile; a power and clock management subsystem configured to manage power and time of operation; a thermal management subsystem configured to dissipate heat generated by the multi-band software defined antenna array tile; and an enclosure assembly. The multi-band software defined antenna array tile may include a plurality of coupled dipole array antenna elements; a plurality of frequency converters; and a plurality of digital beamformers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: BlueHalo, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Thomas Pace, David Gregory Baur, Theodore Lyman Schuler-Sandy, William Kennedy, Jeffrey Gerard Micono, William Louis Walker, Garrett James Newell
  • Patent number: 11671149
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for beam management are disclosed. A WTRU may include a plurality of antenna panels, each antenna panel comprising a plurality of antennas configured to transmit on directional transmit (TX) beams. The WTRU may send, to a transmission reception point (TRP), antenna panel capability information for the plurality of antenna panels and receive a reference signal (RS) configuration for configuring RS resource sets. The WTRU may send an RS transmission trigger frame identifying triggered RS resource sets from the configured RS resource sets. The WTRU may identify a set of antenna panels to be used with the triggered RS resource sets. The WTRU may determine an UL TX beam sweeping mode and an association between the triggered RS resources sets and the set of antenna panels. The WTRU may perform UL beam sweeping using the triggered RS resource sets and associated set of antenna panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Wei Chen, Fengjun Xi, Kyle Jung-Lin Pan
  • Patent number: 11665029
    Abstract: A feed forward equalizer including a first set of filter taps having a first set of filter tap coefficients to be adapted and a second set of one or more filter taps having one or more filter tap coefficients to be constrained. The feed forward equalizer includes an adaptation component to determine a set of adapted filter tap coefficient values corresponding to the first set of filter tap coefficients and a constraint function component to determine a constrained filter tap coefficient value for the second set of the one or more filter taps having the one or more filter tap coefficients to be constrained using a constraint function based on at least a portion of the set of adapted filter tap coefficient values. The feed forward equalizer generates, based at least in part on the constrained filter tap coefficient value, an equalized signal including a set of estimated symbol values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Vishnu Balan, Pervez Mirza Aziz, Guo Hau Gau
  • Patent number: 11664594
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for a digital beamformed phased array feed. The system may include a radome configured to allow electromagnetic waves to propagate; a multi-band software defined antenna array tile; a power and clock management subsystem configured to manage power and time of operation; a thermal management subsystem configured to dissipate heat generated by the multi-band software defined antenna array tile; and an enclosure assembly. The multi-band software defined antenna array tile may include a plurality of coupled dipole array antenna elements; a plurality of frequency converters; and a plurality of digital beamformers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: BlueHalo, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Thomas Pace, David Gregory Baur, Theodore Lyman Schuler-Sandy, William Kennedy, Jeffrey Gerard Micono, William Louis Walker, Garrett James Newell
  • Patent number: 11646781
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure describe methods, apparatuses, storage media, and systems for adequately measuring reference signals while a user equipment (UE) uses beamforming for optimal receiving. Embodiments describe how a UE may measure received-beamformed reference signals as well as how to determine a reported value while multiple beams are measured or a receiver diversity is in use by the UE. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jie Cui, Yang Tang
  • Patent number: 11632151
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of a first wireless communication device configured for massive multi-user multiple-input multiple output (MU-MEMO) communication with two or more second wireless communication devices. The first wireless communication device comprises a plurality of antenna ports, each antenna port associated with at least one of a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) and an analog-to-digital converter (ADC). The method comprises acquiring an estimation of a communication channel between the first wireless communication device and the second wireless communication devices and acquiring an estimation of a quantization distortion caused by either DACs or ADCs. The method also comprises jointly determining (for the two or more second wireless communication devices) a transmission power and a transmission resource for each of the second wireless communication devices, wherein the joint determination is based on the estimation of the communication channel and on the estimation of the quantization distortion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Sven Jacobsson, Mikael Coldrey, Andreas Nilsson, Giuseppe Durisi
  • Patent number: 11627015
    Abstract: A signal relay system includes an input terminal, an output terminal, a signal detector, a signal repeater, an input terminal circuit, an output terminal circuit, a switch and a switch controller. The signal detector is for detecting a wakeup signal from the input terminal. The signal repeater is for receiving a transmission signal and to amplify and forward the transmission signal. The input terminal circuit is for reducing impedance between the input terminal and the signal repeater. The output terminal circuit is for reducing impedance between the output terminal and the signal repeater. The switch is for coupling the output terminal to the signal repeater or the input terminal. The switch controller is for operating the switch according to a detection result of the signal detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: ITE Tech. Inc.
    Inventors: Tsung-Han Wu, Dong-Shan Chen
  • Patent number: 11611446
    Abstract: A plurality of intermediary devices may be interposed in a hybrid data/power connection between a power source and a powered device. In one aspect, the intermediary devices may be connected in series. Such connecting may be referred to as “daisy chaining.” In other aspects, the intermediary devices may be connected in a tree or a mesh. Each intermediary device may be configured to consume, for its own use, power that is supplied over the hybrid data/power connection and to deliver remaining power over the hybrid data/power connection to at least one other device. Furthermore, each intermediary device may be configured to independently route data and power to downstream devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Genetec Inc.
    Inventors: Danny Roy, Louis-Philippe Brais, Benoit Lemieux, Jean-Yves Pikulik
  • Patent number: 11611455
    Abstract: The present application relates to a method for communication detection. The method comprises: determining a length level of a communication link according to a time length of pulse data during transmission of data over the communication link, and determining a detection time point according to the length level of the communication link. The length level of the communication link is determined according to the time length of pulse data during transmission of data over the communication link, and then the detection time point of the data is confirmed, thereby realizing dynamic determination of the detection time point of data according to the time length of the pulse data, and data waveform attenuation caused by an excessively long distance is avoided by means of automatic adjustment of the detection time point, so that the correctness of data detection is ensured, and the stability of long-distance homebus communication is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignees: QINGDAO HAIER AIR-CONDITIONING ELECTRONIC CO., LTD., HAIER SMART HOME CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shaojiang Cheng, Defang Guo, Bin Shi, Baitian Zhuo, Jun Wang, Ruigang Zhang
  • Patent number: 11601307
    Abstract: Disclosed are Methods and apparatuses for estimating one or more characteristics of the communications channel. The method comprises receiving a first wireless signal transmitted by a transmitter at a first set of frequencies in a first time slot; and receiving a second wireless signal transmitted by the transmitter at a second set of frequencies in a second time slot. The second set of frequencies partially overlaps with the first set of frequencies and the second time slot is different from the first time slot. The method further comprises jointly processing the first wireless signal and the second wireless signal to estimate the one or more characteristics of the communications channel. Corresponding apparatuses are configured to implement the methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: u-BLOX AG
    Inventors: Christopher Marshall, Alessandro Pin, Roberto Rinaldo, Marco Driusso, Alessandro Biason