Patents Examined by Betsy Deppe
  • Patent number: 11309892
    Abstract: A circuit includes signal conditioner circuitry, level shifter circuitry, and state detector and controller circuitry coupled between the signal conditioner circuitry and the level shifter circuitry. The state detector and controller circuitry includes receiver circuitry and a finite state machine coupled to the receiver circuitry. The finite state machine is configured to detect a first data rate from signals, control operation of the signal conditioner circuitry responsive to detecting the first data rate, and control operation of the level shifter circuitry during a second data rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Win Naing Maung, Bharath Kumar Singareddy, Soumi Paul, Mayank Garg, Suzanne Mary Vining
  • Patent number: 11309993
    Abstract: This application provides a coding and decoding method and apparatus. The method includes: performing polarization coding on first to-be-coded information, to obtain first coded information with a bit sequence length of M, where M is a positive integer; sending the first coded information on a first channel corresponding to the first to-be-coded information; performing polarization coding on second to-be-coded information, to obtain second coded information with a bit sequence length of 2M, where the second to-be-coded information includes the first to-be-coded information, and differences between sequence numbers of information bits corresponding to the first to-be-coded information and sequence numbers of information bits at (M+1)th to 2Mth bit positions in information bits corresponding to the second to-be-coded information are sequentially M in ascending order of sequence numbers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jian Wang, Yunfei Qiao, Gongzheng Zhang, Chaolong Zhang, Guijie Wang
  • Patent number: 11296746
    Abstract: Provided in embodiments of the present disclosure are a method for selecting spreading sequences, a method for adjusting a transmission power and communication apparatuses. The method for selecting spread sequences according to the embodiments of the present disclosure includes: obtaining received powers of a plurality of user groups at a receiving end; determining spread sequence groups for the user groups in a spreading sequence set according to the obtained received powers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Wenjia Liu, Xiaolin Hou, Qin Mu, Liu Liu
  • Patent number: 11283657
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Postech Academy-Industry Foundation
    Inventors: Yeohun Yun, Joon Ho Cho, Jubum Kim, Chanhong Kim, Jongbu Lim, Sungnam Hong
  • Patent number: 11283588
    Abstract: A physical layer transceiver for a serial data channel includes receiver circuitry having a local clock. Received signals arrive on the channel according to a remote clock. Clock-data recovery circuitry aligns the local clock with the remote clock by correcting phase and frequency error between the local and remote clocks. The clock-data recovery circuitry includes digital phase error detection circuitry operating according to a digital clock to detect phase error between the local and remote clocks, analog phase rotation circuitry to correct the detected phase error, distribution circuitry to divide the detected phase error into multiple phase error steps, and an analog clock source configured to provide the local clock to the analog phase rotation circuitry, and to provide to the distribution circuitry a distribution clock that is slower than the local clock, to correct the local clock by at least one step during one digital clock period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Marvell Asia Pte, Ltd.
    Inventors: Khitish Chandra Behera, Seid Alireza Razavi Majomard, Ragnar Hlynur Jonsson
  • Patent number: 11283580
    Abstract: A method of generating a reference signal includes acquiring a base sequence and acquiring a reference signal sequence with a length N from the base sequence. Good PAPR/CM characteristics of the reference signal can be kept to enhance performance of data demodulation or uplink scheduling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Optis Cellular Technology, LLC
    Inventors: Seung Hee Han, Minseok Noh, Daewon Lee
  • Patent number: 11271710
    Abstract: A quadrature phase clock generator includes a tunable polyphase filter and a phase detector. The tunable polyphase filter is configured to receive an input clock signal and generate four quadrature phase clock signals. The phase detector is coupled to receive at least two of the four quadrature phase clock signals and generate a control signal adapted to tune the polyphase filter based on the received quadrature phase clock signals. Further, the phase detector is configured to provide the control signal to the polyphase filter in a feedback loop. Based on the control signal from the phase detector, the tunable polyphase filter generates four tuned quadrature phase clock signals as output phase clock signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ilhyun Cho, Kwang-Seok Han, Soonseob Lee, Heewon Suh, Gilpyo Lee
  • Patent number: 11233545
    Abstract: The present application discloses a method for operating a wireless communication system. The method includes receiving a series of input data bits in a current timeslot by a transmitter and encoding the input data bits with a cross-Gray coding scheme to obtain coded information bits. Additionally, the method includes mapping the coded information bits to obtain respective multiple transmission symbols Xt for the current timeslot in a constellation diagram. Furthermore, the method includes converting the multiple transmission symbols Xt to generate a space-time matrix St of the current timeslot by incorporating spatial bits associated with orders of respective transmitting antennas based on a space-time matrix St-1 of a previous timeslot. Moreover, the method includes transmitting a respective one of elements in the space-time matrix St using a respective one transmitting antenna activated in the transmitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignees: CHONGQING BOE SMART ELECTRONICS SYSTEM CO., LTD., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yunyan Xie, Lichun Chen, Bo Liu, Qiangeng Cheng, Han Wang
  • Patent number: 11228417
    Abstract: Various embodiments provide a data sampling circuit comprising a first sampling module configured to respond to a signal from the data signal terminal and a signal from the reference signal terminal and to act on the first node and the second node; a second sampling module configured to respond to the signal from the first node and the signal from the second node and to act on the third node and the fourth node; a latch module configured to input a high level to the first output terminal and input a low level to the second output terminal; and an offset compensation module connected in parallel to the second sampling module and configured to compensate an offset voltage of the second sampling module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: CHANGXIN MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Jianfei Hu
  • Patent number: 11211987
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus and systems for performing channel measurement in a multi-beam wireless communication are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method performed by a wireless communication node is disclosed. The method comprises: transmitting a channel measurement frame based on a plurality of beams to a wireless communication device through a channel between the wireless communication node and the wireless communication device; and receiving a feedback frame from the wireless communication device. The channel measurement frame comprises a training sequence including a plurality of repetitive segments. Each of the plurality of repetitive segments is transmitted based on a respective one of the plurality of beams. The feedback frame comprises channel information of the channel with respect to at least one beam of the plurality of beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bo Zhang, Kaiying Lv, Bo Sun, Chen Lu
  • Patent number: 11212072
    Abstract: A circuit for processing a data stream is described. The circuit comprises a burst phase detector configured to receive a data input signal; a clocking circuit coupled to the burst phase detector, wherein the clocking circuit is configured to receive a delayed data input signal and to receive a data stream phase signal and a data stream detect signal; and a programmable clock generator configured to receive a plurality of clock signals; wherein a selected clock signal of the plurality of clock signals is generated by the programmable clock generator and provided to the burst phase detector and the clocking circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: XILINX, INC.
    Inventor: Paolo Novellini
  • Patent number: 11206062
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to wireless communication. A communication node first performs X first-type measurement(s) in a target time-frequency resource pool, the X first-type measurement(s) respectively being used for acquiring X first-type measurement value(s); performs a target second-type measurement; and transmits a first radio signal. The target time-frequency resource pool is one of Q alternative time-frequency resource pools, the Q alternative time-frequency resource pools respectively correspond to Q Rx parameter groups; an Rx parameter group of the Q Rx parameter groups corresponding to the target time-frequency resource pool is associated with a Tx parameter group for the first radio signal; the X first-type measurement(s) is(are) used for the target second-type measurement, a second measurement value acquired after performing the target second-type measurement is used for determining an MCS adopted by the first radio signal and radio resources occupied by the first radio signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: SHANGHAI LANGBO COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Lu Wu, XiaoBo Zhang, Lin Yang
  • Patent number: 11206157
    Abstract: A calibration method of an equalizer circuit for a memory storage device is disclosed. The calibration method includes: receiving a first signal; adjusting, by the equalizer circuit, the first signal according to a control parameter to output a second signal; generating a first sampling signal according to a first reference signal and the second signal, wherein the first sampling signal reflects data transmitted by the first signal; and generating a second sampling signal according to a second reference signal and the second signal and adjusting the control parameter according to the second sampling signal to calibrate the equalizer circuit, wherein a voltage value of the first reference signal is different from a voltage value of the second reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: PHISON ELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Zhen-Hong Hung, Sheng-Wen Chen, Shih-Yang Sun
  • Patent number: 11201694
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for optimizing average bit error probability via a deep multi-armed bandit in an orthogonal-frequency division multiplexing and index modulation system for low power communication are proposed. The method proposed in the present invention comprises: detecting BPSK symbols and subcarriers among all subcarriers; defining a combination of selected subcarriers as a subcarrier selection pattern; selecting the subcarrier selection pattern through learning to minimize the average bit error probability for all combinations of selected subcarriers; and updating a learning parameter of the subcarrier selection pattern selected through learning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Wan Choi, Jinkyu Lee, Junil Choi
  • Patent number: 11171817
    Abstract: Methods related to wireless communication systems and reducing peak-to-average-power ratio (PAPR) in MU-MIMO transmissions are provided. A base station (BS) generates a plurality of communication signals including data for a plurality of user equipment (UE) devices in a plurality of serving beam subspaces. The BS may also generate a peak-to-average-power ratio (PAPR) reduction signal for one or more of the plurality of communication signals. A first portion of the PAPR reduction signal is in a first serving beam subspace of the plurality of serving beam subspaces based on a first error vector magnitude (EVM) associated with a first UE of the plurality of UEs. A second portion of the PAPR reduction signal is in a non-serving beam subspace. The BS may also transmit, to the plurality of UEs, the plurality of communication signals and the PAPR reduction signal. Other features are also claimed and described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Noam Zach, Guy Wolf, Sharon Levy, Ory Eger, Assaf Touboul
  • Patent number: 11165480
    Abstract: This application provides a data transmission method and apparatus. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal device, a first reference signal sent by a network device; measuring, by the terminal device, a downlink channel based on the first reference signal, to obtain a channel status of the downlink channel; determining, by the terminal device, a target mode from a plurality of modes based on the channel status of the downlink channel, where information that is used to feed back channel state information (CSI) and that is sent by the terminal device in different modes of the plurality of modes is different; and sending, by the terminal device, indication information to the network device, where the indication information is used to indicate the target mode. The data transmission method and apparatus in the embodiments of this application are conducive to improve flexibility of feeding back CSI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Huangping Jin, Xiaoyan Bi, Min Zhang, Wei Han
  • Patent number: 11133920
    Abstract: A display device including: a timing controller outputting a reference clock signal and a data packet, wherein the data, packet includes a clock signal embedded in a data signal; a clock and data recovery (CDR) circuit receiving the reference clock signal and the data packet; and a display panel displaying an image based on the data packet, wherein, when the CDR circuit receives the reference clock signal, a frequency band of the reference clock signal is detected using a first internal clock signal, a parameter associated with jitter characteristics of the clock and data recovery circuit is adjusted according to the detected frequency band, and a second internal clock signal is output by adjusting a frequency of the first internal clock signal and when the CDR circuit receives the data packet, the data signal and a clock signal synchronized with the data signal are recovered from the data packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jungpil Lim, Kyungho Ryu, Kilhoon Lee, Hyunwook Lim
  • Patent number: 11050593
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a synchronization apparatus and method for a upstream system. The synchronization apparatus for a upstream system includes one or more processors, and execution memory for storing at least one program that is executed by the one or more processors, wherein the at least one program is configured to receive a signal and calculate a first channel estimation value for the received signal using a predefined pilot, and calculate a second channel estimation value using a predefined complementary pilot and the first channel estimation value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Kwan-Woong Ryu, Jin-Hyuk Song, Joon-Young Jung, Dong-Joon Choi
  • Patent number: 11025358
    Abstract: A method of mitigating interference in a wireless signal of interest (SOI) received on an active frequency channel due to a common template multi-channel jamming attack includes selecting at least one reference channel from among a plurality of monitored frequency channels in which correlated jamming patterns are present without the SOI. The method further includes generating a plurality of weights according to data obtained from the active and reference channels, and applying an adaptive digital filter to the active channel according to the generated weights. The monitored frequency channels can be centered about the active frequency channel. The selection of reference channels can be varied and optimized. The data from each reference channel can be used to create a single virtual antenna tap or a plurality thereof. Assignment of the active channel can be time-varied to match a hopping pattern of a frequency hopping SOI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
    Inventor: Jonathan P. Beaudeau
  • Patent number: 11005691
    Abstract: A method (50) for estimating a frequency shift and a frequency drift affecting a useful signal including a code word formed by a channel encoder, including an analysis phase (51) including: for two analysis frequency drifts: a compensation (52) of the analysis frequency drift on the useful signal, an estimation (53) of the frequency shift on each useful signal obtained after compensation, a selection (54) of frequency hypotheses, and an estimation phase (55) including: for each frequency hypothesis: a frequency recalibration (56) of the useful signal depending on the frequency hypothesis, in order to obtain sample sequences, an evaluation (57) of the probability of each sample sequence to be a code word of said channel encoder, an estimation (58) of the frequency shift and of the frequency drift depending on the most probable frequency hypothesis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE SAS
    Inventors: Benjamin Gadat, Mehdi Anteur