Patents Examined by Brian J Stevens
  • Patent number: 8385395
    Abstract: A method for determining a quantized channel vector in a terminal of a Multiple Input Multiple Output communication system includes determining a channel quality of a channel between a base station and the terminal and determining the quantized channel vector from a plurality of quantized channel vectors based on the determined channel quality. The determined quantized channel vector provides a predefined channel property value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Guido Dietl, Olivier Labreche
  • Patent number: 8385402
    Abstract: A transmission element having at least one input and at least one output is described, the transmission element delivering a functional relationship (t=F(R)) between the input quantity (R) applied to the input and the output quantity (t) that may be picked up at the output and the functional relationship (t=F(R)) being stored in a characteristics map, wherein the characteristics map comprises at least one segment having a lower limit (N(bi)) and an upper limit (N(b(i+1)), a function value (t_(i)=F(N(b_i))) being assigned to the lower limit (N(bi)) and a function value (t(i+1)=F(N(b(i+1))) being assigned to the upper limit (N(bi+1)), and the output quantity (t) being interpolated between the lower limit and the upper limit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Eichler, Matthias Beckert
  • Patent number: 8379707
    Abstract: Constellation display allows a user to evaluate the quality of a signal under test with the constellation display even if the signal is a digital modulation signal that has many possible ideal phases. A signal analyzer 10 acquires time domain data of the signal under test that has N ideal phases. The signal analyzer 10 demodulates the signal under test to measure the phases ?m and amplitudes Am of the symbols of the signal. Phase differences d? between the ideal and measured phases of the measured symbols are calculated. K group phases ?gi are assigned to N of the ideal phases. The signal analyzer displays a constellation using phases ?gi+d? and the measured amplitudes Am. That is, points are plotted at locations of X=Am*cos(?gi+d?)+jAm*sin(?gi+d?) on a complex plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Tektronix, Inc.
    Inventor: Yoneo Akita
  • Patent number: 8379703
    Abstract: A signal analyzer provides frequency domain data at different time and frequency resolution. First type frequency domain data is derived from time domain data of a signal under test by first type frames and displayed as a spectrogram. A selecting box is displayed on the spectrogram for selecting the first type frames. The signal analyzer produces second type frequency domain data by treating the time domain data corresponding to the first type frequency domain data included in the selected first type frames with the selecting box as one frame by FFT calculation. The resultant second type frequency domain data are displayed as a spectrum that has different time and frequency resolution from the spectrogram.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Tektronix, Inc.
    Inventor: Akira Nara
  • Patent number: 8379737
    Abstract: An interface module for communication with at least a first electronic or electromechanical device of a medium voltage interruption unit which comprises at least a power supply port through which the first device receives electric power. The interface module further comprises first interface means that are electrically connected to the power supply port, the first interface means exchanging information with the first device through the power supply port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: ABB Technology AG
    Inventors: Gabriele Valentino De Natale, Fabio Mannino
  • Patent number: 8369395
    Abstract: A portable apparatus including: a Radio Frequency (RF) unit to control a frequency of a signal to be measured, to broadcast the signal to be measured through multiple transmission antennas, to control a frequency of a received signal, and to send the received signal to the baseband unit, the received signal being received through multiple receiving antennas; and a baseband unit to generate and transmit, to the RF unit, the signal to be measured, to measure wireless channels for each of the multiple transmission antennas and wireless channels for each of the multiple receiving antennas based on the received signal output from the RF unit, to calculate a correlation for each of the multiple transmission antennas, and to calculate a correlation for each of the multiple receiving antennas based on the wireless channels for each of the multiple transmission and receiving antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Myung Don Kim, Jae Joon Park, Won Sop Kim, Young-Hoon Kim, Hyun Kyu Chung
  • Patent number: 8369449
    Abstract: A method (600) of communicating a plurality of data bits over L diversity channels uses a constellation set comprising a plurality (L) of M-point quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) constellations corresponding to the L diversity channels. The constellations do not exhibit overlapping data points, and provide full diversity. The method includes mapping (650) k*L data bits to L QAM transmission symbols in the L QAM constellation sets, and transmitting (660) the L QAM symbols where M=2k*L. Each of each of the k*L data bits is directly mapped into all of the L QAM symbols of the QAM constellation set, and for all combinations of k*L bits, changing a value of one of k*L data bits changes all of the L symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventor: Seyed-Alireza Seyedi-Esfahani
  • Patent number: 8355469
    Abstract: A flexible timebase for eye diagrams uses a stable free running oscillator as a sample clock for equivalent time sampling of an input serial digital signal and of a reference signal, derived from a subdivided recovered clock of the input serial digital signal. The reference signal samples are provided to a digital phase-locked loop that provides the flexible timebase to an eye pattern generator. The eye pattern generator accumulates the input serial digital signal samples at times corresponding to the reference signal samples to produce the eye diagram. A linear phase detector in the digital phase locked loop converts the reference signal samples to a complex signal using a Hilbert transform and then to a linear ramp of phase values using a CORDIC algorithm with arctangent lookup table. A subtractor then subtracts the digital phase-locked loop feedback from the linear ramp to provide the input to the loop filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: Tektronix, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel G. Baker, Barry A. McKibben, Michael D. Nakamura, Evan Albright, Scott E. Zink, Michael S. Overton
  • Patent number: 8351495
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for detection and analysis of interference and noise in a received signal within a bandwidth of a predetermined communication channel. A receiver receives a modulated signal and generates a demodulated digital baseband signal. A digital quadrature demodulator receives the digital baseband data signal and demodulates the digital baseband data signal to generate complex digital signal soft-symbol decisions at its output at the received symbol rate. A processor interface in communication with the digital quadrature demodulator and the controller transfers data between the digital quadrature demodulator and the controller. The controller reconstructs a transmitted signal from the transferred data and subtracts the transmitted signal from the modulated signal to generate a third signal representative of noise and interference underlying the transmitted signal within a predetermined communications channel containing the transmitted signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Teledyne Paradise Datacom, LLC
    Inventor: David Skeet
  • Patent number: 8345729
    Abstract: Provided is a radio communication device which can surely prevent inter-code interference while maintaining the use efficiency of an upstream line control channel and suppress separation characteristic of a response signal. The device includes: a control unit (209) which controls a cyclic shift amount of a ZC sequence used for a primary diffusion in a diffusion unit (214) and a Walsh sequence used for secondary diffusion in a diffusion unit (217) according to a PUCCH number inputted from a judgment unit (208); the diffusion unit (214) which performs primary diffusion of the response signal by the ZC sequence set by the control unit (209); and the diffusion unit (217) which performs secondary diffusion of the response signal by the Walsh sequence set by the control unit (209).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Daichi Imamura, Seigo Nakao, Yoshihiko Ogawa
  • Patent number: 8340158
    Abstract: Provided are a system and method for human body communication using a limited passband. The system includes a transmission frame generating unit for human body communication which generates a transmission frame for human body communication based on data information including user identification (ID) and data scrambled into an orthogonal code generated by the user ID; a symbol mapping unit for symbolizing the generated transmission frame for human body communication according to a predetermined modulating method; a spreading unit for spreading the symbol outputted in the symbol mapping unit; a waveform generating unit for generating a baseband signal whose band is limited to a predetermined range with respect to the data spread in the spreading unit; and a middle band transmitting unit for modulating the baseband signal into a predetermined limited passband signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: In-Gi Lim, Jung-Hwan Hwang, Sung-Weon Kang, Kyung-Soo Kim, Jung-Bum Kim, Hyung-Il Park, Chang-Hee Hyoung, Duck-Gun Park, Sung-Eun Kim, Jin-Kyung Kim, Tae-Joon Kim, Jin-Bong Sung, Hyuk Kim, Ki-Hyuk Park
  • Patent number: 8340157
    Abstract: A method for wireless communication in a wireless communication system may include receiving signal contributions from within a predefined frequency range, categorizing the received signal contributions in a plurality of different frequency bands being sub-bands of the frequency range, comparing content in each of the plurality of sub-bands with a predetermined criteria, selecting a sub-set of the plurality of sub-bands corresponding to the criteria, determining a frequency hopping pattern based on the selected sub-set of sub-bands, generating a frequency key including information as to the selected sub-set of sub-bands and frequency hopping pattern, and broadcasting the frequency key to nodes of the wireless communication system. A wireless communication device for wireless communication in a wireless communication system may include an antenna, a receiver module connected to the antenna, a control unit connected to the receiver module, and a transmitter module connected to the control unit and antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Interlite Aktiebolag
    Inventors: Niclas Arvidsson, Daniel Benjamin Darrington
  • Patent number: 8335248
    Abstract: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate equalization of received signals in a wireless communication environment. Using multiple transmit and/or receive antennas and MIMO technology, multiple data streams can be transmitted within a single tone. During equalization, receivers can separate data received within a tone into individual data streams. The equalization process generally is computationally expensive. Equalizer functions include the inverse operation, which can be computed using the fast square root method; however, the fast square root method involves large numbers of computations for a set of matrices, where the size of a matrix in the set of matrices increases with the number of transmit or receive antennas. Utilizing a modification of the fast square root method, a subset of the elements of the matrices can be selected and updated to reduce the number and/or complexity of computations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Dhananjay A. Gore, Hemanth Sampath, Edward Harrison Teague
  • Patent number: 8335290
    Abstract: A receiving circuit includes a clock generation circuit that generates a clock signal, an integration filter that stores a signal potential of an input signal and generates a first storage potential in a period in which the clock signal indicates one logic, a first analog-to-digital circuit that converts the first storage potential into a first digital value, and a data determination circuit that determines a logic of the input signal on a basis of the first digital value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Yoshiyasu Doi, Hirotaka Tamura
  • Patent number: 8331418
    Abstract: A system and method (600) of communication by a wireless device (200) operating according to a first communication protocol in at least a first set of frequency bands (320), provides a silent period for detecting the presence of a second wireless device operating according to a second communication protocol in a second set of frequency bands (310) that at least partially overlaps the first set of frequency bands (320).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Koininklijke Philips Electronics, N.V.
    Inventor: Chun-Ting Chou
  • Patent number: 8331518
    Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus is provided for receiving packets transmitted with delay amounts different for the respective transmission branches. The wireless communication apparatus includes a plurality of reception branches, a synchronous processing unit for detecting synchronous timing independently for the respective reception branches; and a signal processing unit for performing decoding processing and other kinds of processing subsequent to the synchronous timing for the respective reception branches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ryou Sawai, Hiroaki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 8331424
    Abstract: By partially serializing the transmission of a sequence keyed UWB symbol (FIG. 2), the number of parallel receiver branches required to receive such a transmission is reduced. The reduced number of receiver paths are re-used during the reception of each of the partially serialized portions of a UWB symbol, and the local oscillator (312, 332, 334, 336) output frequencies are changed for reception of each of those portions. Reducing the number of parallel receiver paths advantageously reduces the amount of power consumed by such a receiver. Similarly, the amount of area required to implement such a receiver in an integrated circuit is advantageously reduced. In a further aspect of the present invention, a synchronization sequence uses less than the complete set of frequency bands (402-408) available for transmission of a UWB symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventor: Charles Razzell
  • Patent number: 8315346
    Abstract: A method for transmitting/receiving feedback information in a multi-antenna system using a closed-loop scheme supporting multiple users, and a feedback system supporting the same. Multiple feedback protocol scenarios are predefined on the basis of communication environments affecting feedback information configurations. The feedback information is transmitted in a feedback protocol scenario determined by a communication environment. The feedback information is constructed with information required by the communication environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ho-Jin Kim, Sung-Jin Kim, Jianjun Li, Yong-Xing Zhou
  • Patent number: 8300712
    Abstract: The system, apparatus, and method (300) of the present invention provide sub-optimal channel equalization techniques for zero-prefixed orthogonal frequency division modulation (OFDM) systems that retain the performance of least-squares equalization but are not as complex. The technique of the present invention improves equalization performance with less complexity than required by minimum-mean-squared-error (MMSE) equalization as well. The channel matrix is rendered circulant and then truncated where the eigenvalues are small.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventor: Monisha Ghosh
  • Patent number: 8300682
    Abstract: A multi-channel signal processing system includes a filter unit arranged at a signal transmitting end and a feedback unit arranged at a signal receiving end. The filter unit includes a signal synthesis unit and a filter, where the filter is adapted to filter crosstalk source signals of signals to be transmitted and perform subsequent filtering in accordance with received feedback information; the signal synthesis unit is adapted to receive the signals to be transmitted which are input and the crosstalk source signals filtered by the filter, and synthesize the signals to be transmitted and the crosstalk source signals; and the feedback unit is adapted to make a feedback to the filter in accordance with the received signals to be transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Liming Fang