Patents Examined by David B. Lugo
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Patent number: 11139875Abstract: Dynamic reconfiguration of CSI-RS resources for CSI reporting is described for full dimension multiple input, multiple output (FD-MIMO) systems. While a larger number of channel state information (CSI) reference signal (CSI-RS) resources with independent resource configuration are configured and associated with a CSI process, only a subset of resources that are activated by additional signaling are used for CSI measurement and reporting. The set of activated CSI-RS resources may include only a single CSI-RS resource. Both periodic and aperiodic CSI reporting may then be based on the same set of the activated CSI-RS resources. Medium access control (MAC) control elements may be used to provide activation/deactivation of the CSI-RS resources. Additionally, CSI reporting may be based on both the activated CSI-RS resources and the associated number of antenna ports.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2016Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventor: Chao Wei
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Patent number: 11140009Abstract: The invention provides a frequency offset estimation method for an OFDM-IM system. The method includes: S1. performing preliminary frequency offset compensation on a received signal subjected to non-uniform frequency offset by using a two-step method of: (1) resampling and down conversion; and (2) unified compensation for residual frequency offset ?, wherein in the step (2), a sum of energy of null sub-carriers is used as a cost function, an initial estimation value of ? is obtained by one-dimensional search, and the preliminary compensation is performed; S2. estimating positions of non-activated sub-carriers in the OFDM-IM system by using the signal subjected to the preliminary compensation; and S3. assigning certain weights to the estimated sub-carriers, adding energy of the estimated sub-carriers into the cost function according to different weights, obtaining a final estimation value of ? by the one-dimensional search performed on ?, and performing secondary compensation.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2018Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Fangjiong Chen, Zhibin Yang, Jing Liu, Fei Ji, Hua Yu
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Patent number: 11133973Abstract: Methods and apparatus for facilitating wireless communication using digital Quadrature Amplitude Modulation are disclosed. A wireless communication device utilizes a signal constellation for quadrature modulating a signal for transmission or quadrature demodulating a received signal. The signal constellation includes multiple constellation symbols and associated bit sequences, which can be translated there between. Specific signal constellations are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2019Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Guido Montorsi, Sergio Benedetto, Yan Xin, Min Yan, Wei Lin
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Patent number: 11108455Abstract: A method for selecting a geometry of an antenna array in a multiple-input multiple-output, MIMO, radio communication system (100), the method comprising; obtaining a first parameter set comprising a first communication distance D1 and a first carrier frequency f1, and a second parameter set comprising a second communication distance D2 and a second carrier frequency f2, determining a first radio communication performance measure based on the first parameter set in dependence of antenna array geometry, and a second radio communication performance measure based on the second parameter set in dependence of antenna array geometry, and selecting the antenna array geometry based on the first radio communication performance measure and on the second radio communication performance measure.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2018Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Mikael Coldrey, Lei Bao, Jonas Hansryd, Martin Johansson, Christina Larsson
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Patent number: 11108459Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to millimeter wave (mmWave) device discovery for relay communication using pseudo-omnidirectional beams. A first user equipment (UE) may transmit a synchronization signal over each pseudo-omnidirectional beam to enable a second UE to discover a presence of the second UE within a range of the first UE. Upon the occurrence of an external event, a base station may either trigger a beam training procedure with the second UE to establish a relay link between the first and second UEs or broadcast a message to all UEs requesting a relay link be established with the first UE. The first and second UEs may then select a directional beam pair link (BPL) for the relay link and establish the relay link to enable information to be relayed between the base station and the first UE via the relay link.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2019Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Vasanthan Raghavan, Tianyang Bai, Jung Ho Ryu, Junyi Li
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Patent number: 11101860Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and an electronic device of determining beam reciprocity of a device, and a computer readable storage medium are provided. The method includes: instructing a second device to transmit, by using a transmission beam obtained based on beam reciprocity, a reference signal; receiving the reference signal transmitted by the second device, and calculating a reception quality of the reference signal; receiving a plurality of beam training signals transmitted by the second device, and calculating reception qualities of the plurality of beam training signals, respectively; comparing the reception quality of the reference signal with a reference reception quality obtained based on the reception qualities of the plurality of beam training signals, and determining, based on a result of the comparison, whether the beam reciprocity of the second device is established or not.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2018Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Qiubin Gao, Rakesh Tamrakar, Xin Su, Qiuping Huang, Hui Li
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Patent number: 11101865Abstract: In an aspect of the present invention, a method for reporting channel state information (CSI) of a UE in a wireless communication system includes: receiving, from an eNB, CSI-RS resource information related to a CSI-RS resource to which a channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) is mapped; receiving the CSI-RS transmitted through one or more antenna ports from the eNB based on the received CSI-RS resource information; and reporting CSI generated based on the received CSI-RS to the eNB, in which the CSI-RS resource is configured by aggregating a plurality of CSI-RS resources, and the aggregated CSI-RS resources are respectively positioned in different subframes on a time axis or in different resource blocks on a frequency axis.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2020Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Haewook Park, Jonghyun Park, Kijun Kim, Hyukjin Chae
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Patent number: 11102049Abstract: Methods and apparatus for facilitating wireless communication using digital Quadrature Amplitude Modulation are disclosed. A wireless communication device utilizes a signal constellation for quadrature modulating a signal for transmission or quadrature demodulating a received signal. The signal constellation includes multiple constellation symbols and associated bit sequences, which can be translated there between. Specific signal constellations are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2019Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Guido Montorsi, Sergio Benedetto, Yan Xin, Min Yan, Wei Lin
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Patent number: 11095347Abstract: There is provided mechanisms for transmitting a two-port reference signal from an analog antenna array of an antenna arrangement. The analog antenna array comprises antenna elements of two polarizations. All antenna elements of each polarization are connected to a respective physical antenna port. A method comprises generating two virtual antenna ports, one for each of the two ports of the reference signal. The method comprises feeding the reference signal from the two virtual antenna ports to the two physical antenna ports via a virtualization network. The method comprises transmitting, via the antenna elements, the reference signal from the two physical antenna ports over a composite beamwidth in different spatial coverage per polarization for each of the two physical antenna ports whereby the transmitted reference signal, over the composite beamwidth, varies between having rank 1 and rank 2.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2018Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Andreas Nilsson, Sven Petersson, Fredrik Athley, Niklas Wernersson
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Patent number: 11070246Abstract: A method of operating a digital radio receiver comprising: receiving a radio signal; passing said radio signal to a correlator for correlating said radio signal with a predetermined pattern to provide an output signal comprising a plurality of peaks separated in time; determining an amplitude of a first peak in the plurality of peaks; calculating a selection threshold based on said first peak amplitude; determining an amplitude of a second peak in the plurality of peaks; comparing said second peak amplitude to the selection threshold; and identifying the second peak as a correlation peak if the second peak amplitude is greater than the selection threshold.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2017Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: Nordic Semiconductor ASAInventor: Wei Li
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Patent number: 11070399Abstract: In a general aspect, a set of observed frequency-domain channel responses is filtered to remove noise or distortions that are not related to changes in the physical environment. In some aspects, for each frequency-domain channel response, a time-domain channel response is generated based on the frequency-domain channel response; and a filtered time-domain channel response is generated based on a constraint applied to the time-domain channel response. Additionally, a reconstructed frequency-domain channel response is generated based on the filtered time-domain channel response. An error signal is also generated, and a determination is made as to whether the error signal satisfies a criterion. The error signal can be indicative of a difference between the frequency-domain channel response and the reconstructed frequency-domain channel response. In response to each of the error signals satisfying the criterion, motion of an object in a space is detected based on the set of frequency-domain channel responses.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2020Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: Cognitive Systems Corp.Inventors: Mohammad Omer, Mikhail Alexand Zakharov
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Patent number: 11070403Abstract: The invention introduces a non-transitory computer program product for adjusting equalization when executed by a processing unit of a storage device. The non-transitory computer program product includes program code to: repeatedly adjust a parameter of an equalizer after a symbol decoding error is detected until an adjustment failure is detected or successive waveforms output from the equalizer belong to an eye open state.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2020Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: SILICON MOTION, INC.Inventor: Fu-Jen Shih
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Patent number: 11070402Abstract: A receiving apparatus includes a first sample circuit configured to extract first binary data based on a first voltage and a clock timing of a received signal, a second sample circuit configured to extract second binary data based on an adjustable second voltage and a clock timing of the received signal, and a waveform processor configured to acquire a plurality of the second binary data from the second sample circuit using a pattern, the pattern corresponding to the first binary data extracted by the first sample circuit with consecutive sampling timings, determine an appearance frequency of the received signal based on the plurality of second binary data and the first binary data, and generate waveform information of the received signal according to the determined appearance frequency.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2019Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: TOSHIBA MEMORY CORPORATIONInventor: Takaya Yamamoto
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Patent number: 11063563Abstract: An emitter identification system arranged to: receive a detected signal including one or more emitter signals from one or more emitters respectively where each of the emitter signals includes a unique signal characteristic related to a unique physical feature of a hardware structure associated with each of the emitters; apply a modulation signal to the detected signal to generate pulse in-phase and quadrature (IQ) data associated with the one or more emitter signals; extract one or more amplitude envelopes associated with the one or more emitter signals, where each amplitude envelope is related to the unique signal characteristic associated with each of the one or more emitters; estimate the unique signal characteristic of each of the one or more emitter signals; estimate a number of clusters related to a number of emitter signals; and identify each of the emitters by applying an unsupervised learning function.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2020Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Raytheon CompanyInventors: Edward M. Jackson, Phuoc T. Ho, David Wilson
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Patent number: 11057070Abstract: A signal receiving device adapting to a signal input mode and a signal processing method for the same are provided. The signal receiving device can determine various signal input modes, such as a differential signal or a single-ended signal, and select an appropriate signal source, such that the signal receiving device can not only receive the input signal correctly, but also adjust the received input signal to a differential signal with the same amplitude and opposite phases to make subsequent data analysis work easier.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2020Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORP.Inventors: Chen-Kang Lin, Hung-Yi Chang, Bing-Juo Chuang
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Patent number: 11025328Abstract: The present disclosure provides a transmission beam determination method, a transmitting end device and a receiving end device.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2018Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: China Academy of Telecommunications TechnologyInventors: Qiubin Gao, Runhua Chen, Rakesh Tamrakar, Mengjun Wang, Xin Su
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Patent number: 11018742Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that provide for identification of beamforming parameters for a downlink transmission beam based at least in part on a set of rules that define a priority order for control transmission and data transmissions. Downlink resources may be allocated to a user equipment (UE) for a downlink transmission via a first set of downlink beamforming parameters, and the UE may also be configured to monitor a control resource set using a different set of downlink beamforming parameters within a same transmission time interval (TTI) as the downlink transmission. A UE and a base station may identify which beamforming parameters to use for the downlink transmission based on the priority order. The set of rules may define which set of downlink beamforming parameters are to be used, whether the downlink transmission is rate-matched around the control resource set, or combinations thereof.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2019Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Makesh Pravin John Wilson, Tao Luo, Sony Akkarakaran, Bilal Sadiq, Xiao Feng Wang, Yan Zhou
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Patent number: 11005643Abstract: A communication receiving device includes a clock data recovery circuit, an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), a channel evaluating circuit, a first equalizer, and a selector. The clock data recovery circuit is configured to generate a clock signal according to a first digital signal. The ADC is coupled to the clock data recovery circuit, and configured to convert a first analog signal to a second digital signal according to the clock signal. The channel evaluating circuit is configured to analyze the second digital signal to output a selection signal. The first equalizer is coupled to the ADC, and configured to equalize the second digital signal to generate a third digital signal. The selector is coupled between the first equalizer, the ADC, and the clock data recovery circuit. The selector is configured to output the second digital signal or the third digital signal as the first digital signal according to the selection signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2019Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignees: GLOBAL UNICHIP CORPORATION, TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Wen-Juh Kang, Yu-Chu Chen, Hsun-Wei Kao
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Patent number: 10997342Abstract: Systems and methods for application specific integrated circuit design using Chronos links are disclosed. A Chronos Link is an ASIC on-chip and off-chip interconnect communication protocol that allows interfaces to transmit and receive information. The protocol may utilize messages or signals to indicate the availability and/or readiness of information to be exchanged between a producer and a consumer allowing the communication to be placed on hold and to be resumed seamlessly. A method includes inserting gaskets and channel repeaters connected to interfaces of multiple intellectual property (IP) blocks in order to replace traditional links with Chronos Links; performing simplified floorplanning; performing simplified placement; performing simplified clock tree synthesis (CTS) and routing; and performing simplified timing closure.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2020Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: Chronos Tech LLCInventors: Stefano Giaconi, Giacomo Rinaldi
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Patent number: 10985964Abstract: Techniques are described herein that allow a user equipment (UE) to configure a subcarrier spacing value while monitoring synchronization signals of neighboring cells. In some wireless communication systems, synchronization signals in given radio frequency spectrum band may be transmitted using one of a plurality of different subcarrier spacings. In some cases, a network entity, such as a base station, may transmit an indication to the UE that indicates the subcarrier spacing used by a cell to transmit a specific set of synchronization signals. In some cases, the UE may select a subcarrier spacing based on a database of subcarrier spacings stored locally by the UE. In some cases, the UE may select the subcarrier spacing based on a predetermined configuration.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2018Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Chinmay Shankar Vaze, Hung Dinh Ly, Alexei Yurievitch Gorokhov, Nathan Yee, Hari Sankar, Raghu Narayan Challa