Patents Examined by Dac V. Ha
  • Patent number: 11451262
    Abstract: An illustrative spread spectrum clocking (SSC) converter includes: a deserializer to receive a data stream with an unmodulated clock; a memory coupled to the deserializer to buffer the data stream; and a serializer coupled to the memory to retransmit the data stream with a spread spectrum clock. One illustrative conversion method, which may be implemented on a monolithic integrated circuit device, includes: receiving a data stream from an external transmitter in an unmodulated clock domain; storing the data stream in a buffer; and retransmitting the data stream with a spread spectrum clock. Such converters and methods may be employed in an illustrative system having: a test module to generate test data streams and to analyze result data streams for verifying operation of one or more devices under test in a spread spectrum clock domain as the test module operates in an unmodulated clock domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Credo Technology Group Limited
    Inventors: Yifei Dai, Haoli Qian
  • Patent number: 11444813
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for adapting an equalizer coefficients to a channel comprising filtering a high frequency error monitor slicer output and a data slicer output to isolate selected high frequency symbol values. Filtering a low frequency error monitor slicer output and the data slicer output to isolate selected low frequency symbol values. Generating a high frequency error monitor slicer threshold signal with a first adaptation module. Generating a low frequency error monitor slicer threshold signal with the first adaptation module or a second adaption module. Combining the high frequency error monitor slicer threshold signal and the low frequency error monitor slicer threshold signal to generate a difference signal. Integrating the difference signal with an accumulator to generate equalizer coefficients to adapt the equalizer to the channel. Providing the high frequency and low frequency error monitor slicer threshold signal to respective slicers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Jian Wang, Nicolas Nodenot
  • Patent number: 11438199
    Abstract: A transmitter device having a calibrator circuit is disclosed. The calibrator circuit performs duty cycle calibration and phase calibration on a plurality of clock signals of the transmitter device. In one embodiment, the phase calibration is performed based on a comparison of the clock signals to a reference clock signal from the plurality of clock signals. In another embodiment, the calibrator circuit uses fixed patterns of data signals to perform phase calibration on the plurality of clock signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: eTopus Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Danfeng Xu, Xiaolong Liu, Hon Man Yau, Paul K. Lai, Kai Keung Chan
  • Patent number: 11438039
    Abstract: Provided is a feedback method in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. The method includes enabling a receiver to acquire a reception signal vector including a channel component and a noise component, enabling the receiver to generate feedback information by performing one or more of the following on the reception signal vector: processing through one or more first layers; processing through a second layer, and processing through a quantization layer, and enabling the receiver to transmit the feedback information to a transmitter. In the feedback method, the quantization includes stochastic binarization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Korea University Research and Business Foundation
    Inventors: Inkyu Lee, Jeong Hyeon Jang
  • Patent number: 11438026
    Abstract: An inverter in a power generation system converts a direct current that is input from a direct-current-side device into an alternating current for power supply. The inverter includes a control apparatus and a communications apparatus. The control apparatus controls the inverter to convert the direct current that is input from the direct-current-side device into an alternating current for power supply. The communications apparatus is coupled to the control apparatus, and sends a networking information request signal used to request networking information to the direct-current-side device in the power generation system through a direct-current power line, where a frequency of the networking information request signal is within a first frequency band. The communications apparatus also receives the networking information from the direct-current-side device; and sends a control signal to the direct-current-side device, where a frequency of the control signal is within a second frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI DIGITAL POWER TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yongbing Gao, Yanzhong Zhang, Tiansan Lin, Wei Shui, Chen Wang
  • Patent number: 11431535
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a multiple sinusoid signal sub-Nyquist sampling method based on a multi-channel time delay sampling system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Harbin Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Ning Fu, Zhiliang Wei, Liyan Qiao, Zhenlong Yan, Xiyuan Peng
  • Patent number: 11418314
    Abstract: On the basis of the peak point of the integrated waveform of the reception signal for each one-bit time, a timing of resetting the integrated value of the reception signal for each one-bit time and a timing of determining whether a voltage of the reception signal for each one-bit time is high or low are indicated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Kuwahara, Koji Shibuya, Tetsu Owada
  • Patent number: 11411783
    Abstract: Front-end circuitry for a data receiver and related systems, methods, and devices are disclosed. The front-end circuitry includes a passive equalizer, which includes a signal input, an equalizer output including a first equalizer output and a second equalizer output, a first signal path, and a second signal path. The first signal path is between the signal input and the first equalizer output. The first signal path has a first frequency response. The second signal path is between the signal input and the second equalizer output. The second signal path has a second frequency response. The second frequency response exhibits substantially inverse behavior to that of the first frequency response. An amplifier circuit is configured to combine a first equalizer output signal from the first equalizer output with a second equalizer output signal from the second equalizer output to obtain an equalized output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Microchip Technology Incorporated
    Inventor: Johannes G Ransijn
  • Patent number: 11397446
    Abstract: A circuit device is used in an electronic device including a receiver, a control circuit that performs processing on reception data received by the receiver using a clock signal, a transmitter that transmits transmission data generated by performing processing based on the reception data by the control circuit. The circuit device includes a time-to-digital conversion circuit that measures a time difference between a transition timing of a start signal based on the reception data and a transition timing of a stop signal based on the transmission data or the clock signal, and an output interface that outputs, to the control circuit, a measurement result of the time difference of the time-to-digital conversion circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Inventors: Hisahiro Ito, Hideo Haneda, Yasuhiro Sudo, Akio Tsutsumi
  • Patent number: 11394436
    Abstract: A system and method are described for distributed antenna wireless communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: REARDEN, LLC
    Inventors: Antonio Forenza, Stephen G. Perlman
  • Patent number: 11381438
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for multiple access with interference mitigation are described. A wireless communication method is provided to comprise: generating, from information bits, a modulated signal; spreading the modulated signal using a spreading code to provide a spread data signal; processing the spread data signal through a randomization; and transmitting an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signal based on an output of the processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Chunlin Yan, Zhifeng Yuan, Yifei Yuan
  • Patent number: 11381267
    Abstract: In one aspect, an apparatus includes: a fast Fourier transform (FFT) engine to receive orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) samples of one or more OFDM symbols and convert the one or more OFDM samples into a plurality of frequency domain carriers; and a tone cancellation circuit coupled to the FFT engine to receive the one or more OFDM samples and generate a plurality of frequency carriers for the one or more OFDM samples, identify a highest magnitude frequency carrier of the plurality of frequency carriers, and remove tone interference from the OFDM samples based at least in part on the highest magnitude frequency carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Silicon Laboratories Inc.
    Inventor: Alexander Kleinerman
  • Patent number: 11374617
    Abstract: A communications node operable to communicate with another communications node over a communications channel having a plurality of frequency resources, the communications node includes data defining a division of the communications channel into a plurality of contiguous sub-bands each having N frequency resources, wherein each frequency resource in a sub-band has a corresponding frequency resource in each of the other sub-bands, data defining an initial allocation of the frequency resources, a resource determination module operable to apply a frequency shift to the initially allocated frequency resources in accordance with a frequency hopping sequence to determine frequency resources to use for communicating information with the other communications node, wherein the frequency shift applied moves the initially allocated frequency resources to corresponding frequency resources in another sub-band, a transceiver for communicating information with the other communications node using the determined frequency reso
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Robert Arnott, Yassin Aden Awad
  • Patent number: 11368277
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein relate to improving a power output of a transmitter of an electronic device. To do so, the transmitter may include signal selection circuitry to adjust a sign selection signal to accurately transition between polarities of a quadrature (e.g., I or Q) component signal stored in or for which an indication is stored in a storage cell of a radio frequency digital-to-analog converter. The sign selection signal may generate a separate adjusted sign selection signal for each polarity of each quadrature component signal such that a transition of the selection signal between a first value and a second value (e.g., logic high and low) occurs when the respective quadrature (e.g., +/? and I/Q component signal is a logic low. In this way, the signal selection circuitry reduces an error pulse in the output of the transmitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Voravit Vorapipat, Morteza Nick, Krishna Chaitanya Reddy Gangavaram, Antonio Passamani
  • Patent number: 11368197
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to a network system having multiple users, multiple inputs, and multiple outputs to transmit data from a data source through a link to a data sink. One example of a Multi-user multiple input multiple output (MU-MIMO) system relates to the use of primary transceivers and secondary transceivers in respective networks that effectuate data transmission. The primary transceivers are coupled with a data source and broadcast or transmit the data source signal to a plurality of secondary transceivers in a local area network. The signal is then transmitted over a long link to another set of secondary transceivers that then pass the signal to another primary transceiver. This another primary transceiver is coupled with the data sink to effectuate signal transmission to the data sink. The data is synchronized in manner that requires minimal processing and does not require closed loop phase control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
    Inventor: Matthew J. Sherman
  • Patent number: 11356302
    Abstract: An illustrative digital communications method includes: filtering a receive signal to provide a filtered receive signal; deriving symbol decisions from the filtered receive signal; detecting a baud rate of the receive signal; adapting one or more coefficients of the filter if the baud rate is above a predetermined rate; and inhibiting coefficient adaptation if the baud rate is below the predetermined rate. The method may be implemented in a receiver having: a filter to convert a receive signal into a filtered receive signal; a decision element coupled to the filter to derive symbol decisions; a baud rate detector to detect a baud rate of the receive signal; and an adaptation module to adapt one or more coefficients of the filter if the baud rate is above a predetermined rate, the baud rate detector inhibiting adaptation if the baud rate is below the predetermined rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Credo Technology Group Limited
    Inventors: Junqing Sun, Haoli Qian
  • Patent number: 11356563
    Abstract: The amplified cable modem includes a master circuit, a data network circuit, a telephony circuit, and a housing. The master circuit, a data network circuit, a telephony circuit are electrically interconnected. The housing contains the master circuit, the data network circuit, and the telephony circuit. The master circuit: a) receives the input signal; b) splits the input signal into the data network signal and the telephony signal; c) recombines signals from the data network circuit and the telephony circuit into the output signal; and, d) transmits the output signal to the external data source. The amplified cable modem includes a collection of amplifiers configured to maximize transmission power while generating minimal electrical noise in the amplified signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Inventor: Andre Greene
  • Patent number: 11349535
    Abstract: Provided are M signal processors that respectively generate modulated signals for M reception apparatuses (where M is an integer equal to 2 or greater), a multiplexing signal processor, and N antenna sections (where N is an integer equal to 1 or greater). When transmitting multiple streams, each of the M signal processors generates two mapped signals, generates first and second precoded signals by precoding the two mapped signals, periodically changes the phase of signal points in the IQ plane with respect to the second precoded signal, outputs the phase-changed signal, and outputs the first precoded signal and the phase-changed second precoded signal as two modulated signals. When transmitting a single stream, each of the M signal processor outputs a single modulated signal. The multiplexing signal processor multiplexes the modulated signals output from the M signal processors, and generates N multiplexed signals. The N antenna sections respectively transmit the N multiplexed signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi
  • Patent number: 11336493
    Abstract: A system includes a processor and a memory. The memory stores instructions executable by the processor to identify an equalization response for equalizing an output signal of a modulator of a satellite gateway, generate a compensation response based on the equalization response and a sample rate of a pre-distorter of the modulator, and send the equalization response to the pre-distorter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Kumudchandra Patel, Robert Kepley, Jack Edwin Lundstedt, Jr., Yogesh Sethi, Gaurav Bhatia, Vinay Gandla
  • Patent number: 11336758
    Abstract: Disclosed is a field device adapter for HART communication with a field device. The field device adapter includes an adapter housing with an adapter chamber; arranged in the adapter chamber, an adapter electronics, which is adapted wirelessly to receive a second radio signal and by means of the second radio signal to control a circuit for shunting the communication resistor in such a manner that at least one communication resistor is selectively switchable in and out per radio, so that in a shunted condition a first radio signal received by the adapter electronics can be converted into a, preferably HART based, two conductor signal and modulated via the tapping point onto the loop current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: ENDRESS+HAUSER SE+CO. KG
    Inventors: Harald Schäuble, Dirk Lill