Patents Examined by Dac Ha
  • Patent number: 9716602
    Abstract: An approach for increasing transmission throughput of a non-linear wireless channel, and efficient decoding of the transmitted signal via a simplified receiver, is provided. A signal reflects a source signal, and includes linear inter-symbol interference based on a faster-than-Nyquist signaling rate and a tight frequency roll-off, and non-linear interference based on high-power amplification for transmission over the wireless channel. The signal is received over a non-linear wireless channel, and is processed via a plurality of decoding iterations. A set of soft information of a current decoding iteration is generated based on a current estimate of the source signal and a final set of soft information from a previous decoding iteration. The current estimate of the source signal is based on an estimate of the linear ISI and the non-linear interference, which is based on the final set of soft information from the previous decoding iteration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Bassel Beidas, Rohit Iyer Seshadri, Mustafa Eroz, Lin-Nan Lee
  • Patent number: 9712355
    Abstract: Various aspects described herein relate to distinguishing frequency shift keying (FSK) signals transmitted by each user of multiple users in a wireless communications system. One or more symbols for transmitting in an FSK-modulated signal can be obtained by a user. The one or more symbols can be encoded based on a tone location assignment corresponding to a unique spreading code associated with the user. Quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) and/or phase-shift keying (PSK) can be performed over at least one tone associated with the encoded symbols. Each user can transmit the encoded symbols to a receiving entity, where the receiving entity can decode each symbol received from the plurality of users to produce a distinguishable symbol for each user based on the unique spreading codes associated with each user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Seyong Park, Wei Zeng, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Jay Kumar Sundararajan, Tingfang Ji
  • Patent number: 9712257
    Abstract: An apparatus, and method therefor, relates generally to a transmitter. In such an apparatus, a decoder is configured to receive a data input and control signals and to generate state signals responsive to a control signal of the control signals and data polarity the data input. Select circuitry is configured to receive coded signals to replace the data input with a pull-up code and a pull-down code of the coded signals responsive to the state signals and the control signals for propagation of the pull-up code and the pull-down code in place of the data input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: XILINX, INC.
    Inventors: Sing Keng Tan, David S. Smith
  • Patent number: 9705575
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) capable of communicating with a base station includes a transceiver configured to receive a signal comprising a CSI process configuration, wherein the CSI process configuration comprises a plurality of CSI-RS resource configurations to identify CSI-RS resources, and a controller configured to derive a first PMI index, i11 utilizing a first non-precoded CSI-RS on a first non-precoded CSI-RS resource, derive a second PMI index, i12 utilizing a second non-precoded CSI-RS on a second non-precoded CSI-RS resource, derive a third PMI index, i2 utilizing a beamformed CSI-RS on a beamformed CSI-RS resource, and cause the transceiver to transmit a CSI feedback comprising the three PMI indices i11, i12 and i2 to the base station. A base station capable of communicating with UE a transmitter configured to transmit a signal comprising a CSI process configuration, wherein the CSI process configuration comprises a plurality of CSI-RS resource configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young-Han Nam, Md. Saifur Rahman, Taeyoung Kim, Eko Onggosanusi, Jeehwan Noh
  • Patent number: 9705721
    Abstract: A communication apparatus performs a communication using a communication frame corresponding to a predetermined frequency bandwidth including a first frequency bandwidth and a second frequency bandwidth. The communication frame includes a first communication channel that corresponds to the first frequency bandwidth and that has a plurality of subcarriers and a second communication channel that corresponds to the second frequency bandwidth and that has a plurality of subcarriers. The communication apparatus sets a first phase vector with respect to the first communication channel, sets a second phase vector with respect to the second communication channel, generates communication data by adjusting a phase of symbol data using the first phase vector and the second phase vector, and transmits the communication data using the communication frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisao Koga, Shigekiyo Nosaka, Koji Ikeda
  • Patent number: 9699011
    Abstract: A device includes a frequency offset (FO) estimation circuit and a frequency offset compensation circuit coupled with the frequency offset estimation circuit. The frequency offset compensation circuit is configured to (i) receive a continuous phase modulation (CPM) signal, (ii) receive, from the FO estimation circuit, an uncompensated frequency offset for a wth sampling window of the CPM signal, (iii) generate a frequency offset compensation value for a w+1st sampling window of the CPM signal based on the uncompensated frequency offset for the wth sampling window, (iv) adjust the CPM signal in the w+1st sampling window based on the frequency offset compensation value, and (v) provide the adjusted CPM signal to a filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.
    Inventors: Ankit Sethi, Swaroop Venkatesh
  • Patent number: 9699010
    Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus includes a generating unit, a detecting unit, and a suppressing unit. The generating unit generates, using signals at multiple carrier frequencies that are different from each other, a replica signal for passive inter modulation distortion that occurs in a reception signal from a terminal due to the transmission of a multicarrier signal that includes the signals at the multiple carrier frequencies. The detecting unit detects the correlation value between the replica signal for the passive inter modulation distortion and the reception signal. The suppressing unit suppresses the peak of the multicarrier signal when the correlation value is equal to or more than the threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yusuke Tobisu, Tadahiro Sato, Hideyuki Kannari
  • Patent number: 9698837
    Abstract: A communication device is provided comprising a frontend component configured to receive a signal being a combination of an information signal and an interference signal; a first interference removal component configured to reconstruct the interference signal and to subtract the reconstructed interference signal from the received signal to generate a first processed received signal; a second interference removal component configured to equalize the received signal based on channel information of a channel between the device and a sender of the information signal and channel information of a channel between the device and a sender of the interference signal to generate a second processed received signal; and a processor configured to reproduce information contained in the information signal based on the one of the processed received signals or a combination of the processed received signals based a comparison of the first processed received signal and the second processed received signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Silvano Gori
  • Patent number: 9698870
    Abstract: A system for transmission of data and electrical power comprising: a plurality of independent power sources, each one of the plurality of independent power sources being connected to a respective one of a plurality of electrical power lines; and a modulator configured to modulate a carrier signal with a data signal received at an input of the modulator so as to generate a modulated carrier signal at an output thereof, wherein the output of the modulator is coupled to each of the plurality of electrical power lines, to permit transmission of the modulated carrier signal over the plurality of electrical power lines, such that the plurality of electrical power lines form a data network while maintaining electrical isolation between each of the plurality of electrical power lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: ULTRA ELECTRONICS LIMITED
    Inventors: Francis Stratford, Kevin Chinn
  • Patent number: 9690751
    Abstract: In order to enhance the speed of a processing necessary for setting the factor of a filter and further maintain the accuracy of the filter, a digital processing apparatus includes: a Fourier transform unit that Fourier transforms a time domain digital signal, thereby generating N frequency domain signals; a filter unit that uses N first factors to process the frequency domain signals in the frequency domain; an inverse Fourier transform unit that transforms the frequency domain signals as processed by the filer unit to a time domain digital signal; a low accuracy factor calculation unit that uses m second factors to calculate N first A factors; a high accuracy factor calculation unit that includes a factor division unit for calculating respective ratios of N third factors to the N first A factors and that also includes a factor variable unit for calculating N first B factors varying stepwise from one to the respective ratios; a multiplication unit that multiplies the first A factors by the first B factors, th
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hidemi Noguchi
  • Patent number: 9692556
    Abstract: A communication system includes: an inter-device interface configured to receive received signal including communication content; a communication circuit, coupled to the inter-device interface, configured to: determine an in-phase signal-component and a quadrature signal-component based on the received signal, calculate an adjustment value including a first adjustment and a second adjustment based on the in-phase signal-component and the quadrature signal-component according to a maximum-likelihood mechanism, and adjust the received signal based on the adjustment value for reducing an in-phase/quadrature imbalance between the in-phase signal-component and the quadrature signal-component in processing the communication content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Pranav Dayal, Jungwon Lee, Gennady Feygin, Jaeyoung Kim
  • Patent number: 9686106
    Abstract: Vector signaling codes providing guaranteed numbers of transitions per unit transmission interval are described, along with methods and systems for their generation and use. The described architecture may include multiple communications sub-systems, each having its own communications wire group or sub-channel, clock-embedded signaling code, pre- and post-processing stages to guarantee the desired code transition density, and global encoding and decoding stages to first distribute data elements among the sub-systems, and then to reconstitute the received data from its received sub-system elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: KANDOU LABS, S.A.
    Inventors: Amin Shokrollahi, Brian Holden, Richard Simpson
  • Patent number: 9673856
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method comprises: allocating, to each network device in a time slotted channel hopping network, a corresponding swapping schedule that maps the network device to different unique sequence offsets for different timeslots allocated to the corresponding network device, each unique sequence offset identifying a corresponding shifted position in a prescribed repeating channel hopping sequence relative to an epochal start of a linearly increasing timeslot value; and causing each network device to transmit according to its corresponding swapping schedule, enabling a channel hopping sequence of each network device to be undetectable relative to the prescribed repeating channel hopping sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Pascal Thubert, Patrick Wetterwald, Jean-Philippe Vasseur, Eric Michel Levy-Abegnoli
  • Patent number: 9674020
    Abstract: Provided are a transmitting apparatus, a receiving apparatus and methods of controlling these apparatuses. The transmitting apparatus includes: a structurer configured to generate a transmission stream comprising an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol and add signaling data to the transmission stream; and a transmitter configured to insert at least one pilot into the OFDM symbol, determine a number of active carriers to be included in a frequency spectrum, corresponding to the OFDM symbol into which the pilot is inserted, which exists in a preset spectrum mask, and map the OFDM symbol, into which the pilot is inserted, onto the active carriers of the determined number, and transmit the mapped OFDM symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young-ho Oh, Hak-ju Lee, Jae-hyeon Bae
  • Patent number: 9674005
    Abstract: A communication device includes: a detecting unit, performing a mobility detection in a time interval to generate a detection result; a selecting unit, selecting a channel estimation method from a plurality of channel estimation methods according to the detection result; and a channel estimating unit, coupled to the selecting unit, performing a channel estimation on a channel for receiving a signal according to the selected channel estimation method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: MStar Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Cheng-Han Wu, Fong-Shih Wei, Chien-Chih Yu, Tai-Lai Tung
  • Patent number: 9673970
    Abstract: This invention relates to methods and systems for estimating and checking synchronization accuracy, in particular frequency synchronization accuracy. It is particularly applicable to synchronization methods and systems which involve a digital phase-locked loop (DPLL) and embodiments provide methods and systems for estimating and tracking how well the DPLL is frequency synchronized to a source frequency. In one embodiment, frequency synchronization accuracy is used as an additional quality metric for mobile call handover between base stations. Call handover is of major importance within any mobile network; without checking frequency synchronization before handover dropped calls and interrupted communication can result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignees: Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research, British Telecommunications plc, Emirates Telecommunications Corporation
    Inventors: James Aweya, Ivan Boyd
  • Patent number: 9667282
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided for adjusting a transmission gain in a transmitter of an electronic device. A transmitted signal is received at a digital signal processor (DSP) of the transmitter. The transmitted signal is also transmitted through a transmission path of the transmitter resulting in a load impedance. A looped-back signal is received at the DSP via a loop-back path of the transmitter that returns from the transmission path. The DSP estimates the load impedance from the transmitted signal and the looped-back signal. The DSP sets the transmission gain of the transmission path based on the load impedance and saturation values for a load current and a load voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Marco Merlin, Ian Appleton
  • Patent number: 9667289
    Abstract: Reduced noise and power with rapid settling time and increased performance in multi-modal analog multiplexed data acquisition systems. An example apparatus arrangement includes a circuit input configured to receive a plurality of analog input signals; an analog to digital converter circuit configured to output a digital representation of an analog voltage; a selection circuit configured to select one of the analog input signals received at the circuit input; a buffer coupled to receive the selected one of the analog input signals; a filter coupled to the buffer and configured to perform a high bandwidth sample operation and a low bandwidth sample operation and having a filter output, responsive to a control signal; and a sampling capacitor coupled to the filter to sample the filter output, and having an output coupled to the analog to digital converter. Methods and additional apparatus arrangements are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Arup Polley, Ajit Sharma, Seung Bae Lee, Sriram Narayanan, Srinath Ramaswamy
  • Patent number: 9667324
    Abstract: Diversity receiver front end system with amplifier phase compensation. A receiving system can include a first amplifier disposed along a first path, corresponding to a first frequency band, between an input of the receiving system and an output of the receiving system. The receiving system can include a second amplifier disposed along a second path, corresponding to a second frequency band, between the input of the receiving system and the output of the receiving system. The receiving system can include a first phase-shift component disposed along the first path and configured to phase-shift the second frequency band of a signal passing through the first phase-shift component based on a phase-shift caused by the first amplifier at the second frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: SKYWORKS SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Stephane Richard Marie Wloczysiak
  • Patent number: 9660799
    Abstract: Techniques for enabling a rapid clock frequency transition are described. An example of a computing device includes a Central Processing Unit (CPU) that includes a core and noncore components. The computing device also includes a dual mode FIFO that processes data transactions between the core and noncore components. The computing device also includes a frequency control unit that can instruct the core to transition to a new clock frequency. During the transition to the new clock frequency, the dual mode FIFO continues to process data transactions between the core and noncore components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander Gendler, Ernest Knoll, Ofer Nathan, Michael Mishaeli, Krishnakanth V. Sistla, Ariel Sabba, Shani Rehana, Ariel Szapiro, Tsvika Kurts, Ofer Levy