Patents Examined by David B. Lugo
  • Patent number: 10979276
    Abstract: Provided is a transmission method that improves data reception quality in radio transmission using a single-carrier scheme and/or a multi-carrier scheme. The transmission method includes: generating a plurality of first modulated signals s1(i) and second modulated signals s2(i) from transmission data, the plurality of first modulated signals s1(i) being signals generated using a QPSK modulation scheme, and the plurality of second modulated signals s2(i) being signals generated using 16QAM modulation; generating, from the plurality of first modulated signals s1(i) and the plurality of second modulated signals s2(i), a plurality of first signal-processed signals z1(i) and a plurality of second signal-processed signals z2(i) which satisfy a predetermined equation; and transmitting the plurality of first signal-processed signals z1(i) and the plurality of second signal-processed signals z2(i) using a plurality of antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi
  • Patent number: 10972248
    Abstract: A method of calibrating a clock phase and a voltage offset includes receiving an input data signal that is periodically toggled. A clock phase calibration operation is performed based on an up signal and a down signal, such that phases of a plurality of clock signals are adjusted. The up signal and the down signal are generated based on the input data signal, a reference voltage and the plurality of clock signals. A voltage offset calibration operation is performed based on the up signal, the down signal and a first sample data signal, such that a voltage level of the reference voltage is adjusted. The first sample data signal is generated by sampling the input data signal based on one of the plurality of clock signals. The clock phase calibration operation and the voltage offset calibration operation are performed independently of each other and not to overlap with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Inventors: Soomin Lee, Kihwan Seong
  • Patent number: 10951293
    Abstract: The present invention discloses wireless communication method and wireless communication apparatus. Provided is an electronic equipment for a first communication apparatus of a wireless communication system, comprising: a number of antenna sub-arrays, each sub-array comprising a plurality of antennas, each column or row in the sub-array corresponding to one input terminal; a plurality of groups of first direction phase shifter, wherein the first direction phase shifters in each group are disposed between the input terminal of the corresponding sub array and a radio frequency chain, wherein each group of the plurality of groups of first direction phase shifters is configured to adjust a first direction angle of an antenna wave beam for transmitting a corresponding radio frequency chain signal in a first direction in accordance with a first control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Peiyao Zhao, Zhaocheng Wang, Jianfei Cao
  • Patent number: 10924312
    Abstract: A system and a method of demodulating a frequency shift keying signal are provided. The method includes steps of: inputting the frequency shift keying signal; accumulating cycles of the frequency shift keying signal to a reference cycle number from a time point; finding an initial point of each of pulse waves of the frequency shift keying signal; accumulating the cycles to the reference cycle number multiple times from the initial point and extracting data of each accumulation; determining whether or not the number of times of extracting the data reaches a preset value, if not, returning to the previous step, if yes, performing the next step; determining whether or not a difference between the data is larger than a threshold, if not, outputting a first bit value, if yes, outputting a second bit value; and packing the first and second bit values into a demodulated signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: ANPEC ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yun-Li Liu
  • Patent number: 10924175
    Abstract: Network devices and systems in 5G and new radio (NR) infrastructures can utilize beam management operations to ensure communications for beam management procedure triggering including beam reporting, even during fall-back mode when the current receive (Rx) beam for downlink (DL) and transmit (Tx) beam for uplink (UL) fail. Additionally, reduction in overhead can be achieved with a reference beam pair link based beam reporting in a fall-back mode or not. This beam reporting can be a group based beam reporting and based on Reference Signal Received Powers (RSRPs) of beams and a differential RSRP corresponding thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Guotong Wang, Yushu Zhang, Alexei Davydov, Gang Xiong
  • Patent number: 10924160
    Abstract: Diversity receiver front end systems with fixed impedance matching circuits to improve signal processing. The fixed impedance matching circuits can be configured to reduce out-of-band metrics such as noise figure and/or gain for a plurality of out-of-band frequency bands while reducing or not increasing above a certain threshold an in-band metric for the associated in-band frequency band. Each of a plurality of paths through the front-end systems can include fixed impedance matching circuits that accomplish this tuning to improve performance for the front-end systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: SKYWORKS SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Stephane Richard Marie Wloczysiak
  • Patent number: 10917150
    Abstract: According to certain embodiments, a method for use in a wireless transmitter for simultaneously transmitting a plurality of wireless signals using a plurality of antenna elements comprises selecting a non-constant modulus (NCM) spatial precoder from a NCM codebook comprising a plurality of NCM spatial precoders. The plurality of the NCM spatial precoders are based on a unit-power beamforming vector optimized so that the wireless transmitter transmits up to the full power of each antenna element of the plurality of antenna elements while an overall transmitted power remains constant. The method further comprises applying the selected NCM spatial precoder to a data signal for generating a plurality of coded signals; and transmitting the plurality of coded signals as wireless signals via a power amplifier operating at full power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Heunchul Lee, Sebastian Faxér, Niklas Wernersson, Robert Mark Harrison
  • Patent number: 10917227
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a data transmission method, includes: multiplying a frequency of a basic clock, so as to obtain a frequency-multiplied clock, in which a maximum number of high levels in the frequency-multiplied clock is greater than a maximum numerical value that the bit number can represent; removing an invalid bit width from the data to be transmitted, and determining a bit number of an effective bit width thereof and a numerical value represented by the effective bit width; determining a data period, according to the bit number of the effective bit width in the data to be transmitted; determining an actual number of high levels, according to a numerical value represented by the effective bit width in the data to be transmitted; and transmitting the data to be transmitted based on the frequency-multiplied clock, according to the data period and the actual number of the high levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xitong Ma, Ran Duan, Lihua Geng, Yanfu Li
  • Patent number: 10892930
    Abstract: Provided are a communication method based on a peak-to-average ratio (PAPR) and a transmission apparatus and a receive apparatus using the same and a communication method based on a peak-to-average ratio (PAPR) by a transmission apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure includes: obtaining each of PAPR values corresponding to respective data symbols from a lookup table having a unique PAPR value; Generating a synchronization signal configured in a random sequence based on a the PAPR value of each data symbol; and transmitting the synchronization signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University
    Inventors: Kang Yoon Lee, Muhammad Riaz Ur Rehman, Truong Thi Kim Nga, Ali Imran, Hamed Abbasi Zadeh, Kwan Tae Kim, Sang Yun Kim, Dong In Kim
  • Patent number: 10873487
    Abstract: A communication device includes a signal determiner determining whether there is a reception signal, and a period estimator estimating an interruption period of interruption of a signal transmitted from a device as a source of the reception signal, using a determination result from the signal determiner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akinori Ohashi, Masatsugu Higashinaka, Shusaku Umeda
  • Patent number: 10855352
    Abstract: A binning-based transmit beamforming for wireless communication systems includes determining a time correlation and a frequency correlation of a beamforming vector estimated from a previous transmission on a current hopping channel and one or more neighboring channels using one or more binning architectures that exploit channel correlation in both frequency and time dimensions. These binning architectures include global binning, local binning, and adaptive version of global and local binning. The subject system determines one or more beamforming weights for the current hoping channel according to the binning architecture, and provides, for transmission, a signal using transmit beamforming based on the one or more beamforming weights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited
    Inventors: Gozde Sahinoglu, Vincent Yves Francois Roussel, Siukai Mak
  • Patent number: 10855497
    Abstract: A semiconductor device including a signal generator and decoding and timing skew adjusting circuit is provided. The signal generator is configured to receive n multi-level signals having m signal levels and convert the n multi-level signals into n*(m?1) single level signals having two signal levels. The decoding and timing skew adjusting circuit is configured to receive the single level signals, perform a predefined operation on the single level signals to generate an output signal, and compensate for timing skew between the n multi-level signals, using the single level signals. The n and m are natural numbers, where n>=2 and m>=3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Hayashi, Shinya Namioka, Chang Eun Lee, Sung-Yeol Kim, Si Young Koh, Hyung-Sun Ryu, Jang Yeob Lee, Shin Ki Jeong
  • Patent number: 10841134
    Abstract: The equalizer has a first differential pair having a first transistor and a second transistor and a second differential pair having a third transistor and a fourth transistor. A first terminal of the first transistor and a first terminal of the third transistor are connected to each other, and a first terminal of the second transistor and a first terminal of the fourth transistor are connected to each other, so that the first differential pair and the second differential pair have common input terminals. Also, resistors are respectively connected to second terminals of the first, second, third, and fourth transistors, a first zero point generation circuit is connected between the second terminal of the first transistor and the second terminal of the second transistor, and a second zero point generation circuit is connected between the second terminal of the third transistor and the second terminal of the fourth transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Wachi, Takayasu Norimatsu
  • Patent number: 10840997
    Abstract: A repeater includes a donor device, a service device, a control board circuit and a processing circuit. The repeater provides beam selection mechanisms applicable to several scenarios for base stations and CPE, in which an adaptive gain control mechanism can be utilized to reduce oscillations in a down-link circuit and an up-link circuit of the control board circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: WISTRON NEWEB CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chieh-Wen Cheng, Horen Chen, Tsun-Che Huang, Shoou-Hann Huang
  • Patent number: 10841021
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a circuit for calibrating a baud rate. The circuit includes: a first counter connected to a receiving module of a serial port chip and configured to record a first low level duration of a data frame received by the receiving module; a second counter configured to: receive a bit sampling pulse generated from sampling the data frame according to a current baud rate of the receiving module, and record a quantity of the bit sampling pulse in the first low level duration; a divider, connected to the first counter and the second counter and calculate a calibration baud rate according to the first low level duration and the quantity of the bit sampling pulse in the first low level duration; and a selector, connected to the receiving module and the divider and configured to output the calibration baud rate to the receiving module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Huizhao Wang
  • Patent number: 10841076
    Abstract: Examples described herein include systems and methods which include wireless devices and systems with examples of cross correlation including symbols indicative of radio frequency (RF) energy. An electronic device including a statistic calculator may be configured to calculate a statistic including the cross-correlation of the symbols. The electronic device may include a comparator configured to provide a signal indicative of a presence or absence of a wireless communication signal in the particular portion of the wireless spectrum based on a comparison of the statistic with a threshold. A decoder/precoder may be configured to receive the signal indicative of the presence or absence of the wireless communication signal and to decode the symbols responsive to a signal indicative of the presence of the wireless communication signal. Examples of systems and methods described herein may facilitate the processing of data for wireless communications in a power-efficient and time-efficient manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Fa-Long Luo, Tamara Schmitz, Jeremy Chritz, Jaime Cummins
  • Patent number: 10833903
    Abstract: An apparatus generating a packet of signals, a number of preamble signals of a preamble portion for each of a number of radio transmission units, and a number of data signals of a data portion, wherein a phase rotation in frequency domain is equal to a time shift in time domain is applied to each symbol of the number of preamble signals separately, the same phase rotation is applied to each symbol separately, the amount of the phase rotation is different for each preamble signal and each data signal, the amount of the phase rotation of one of the number of data signals and one of the number of preamble signals is both zero, and the amount of the phase rotation is equal between one of the preamble signals and one of the data signals for the same radio transmission unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shimpei To, Yasuhiro Hamaguchi, Hideo Nanba, Seiichi Sampei, Hiroshi Harada, Masafumi Moriyama
  • Patent number: 10833801
    Abstract: There is provided a method of generating a space-time block code (STBC) for encoding a digital data sequence comprising a set of independent symbols to be transmitted through a transmission channel in a communication system, the space-time block code being represented by a set of linear dispersion matrices in a linear dispersion representation, each linear dispersion matrix comprising components having complex values, the method comprising, generating at least some of the linear dispersion matrices depending on component-wise conditions related to a set of selected pairs of the linear dispersion matrices, each pair comprising a first linear dispersion matrix and a second linear dispersion matrix, said component-wise conditions comprising a component-wise condition between the components of the first linear dispersion matrix and the components of the second linear dispersion matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: INSTITUT MINES-TELECOM
    Inventors: Ghaya Rekaya-Ben Othman, Asma Mejri, Mohamed-Achraf Khsiba
  • Patent number: 10826731
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods are provided for noise-whitening post-compensation in a receiver. A first apparatus includes a first whitening filter configured to filter a received signal comprising symbols to generate a first filtered signal. The first apparatus further includes a first decision feedback equalizer having an input coupled to an output of the first whitening filter to receive the first filtered signal. The first decision feedback equalizer is configured to apply decision feedback equalization to the first filtered signal to generate estimates for the symbols of the received signal. A second apparatus includes a decision device configured to generate a symbols decision based on a received signal comprising symbols, a noise predictor configured to predict noise in the received signal, and a subtractor configured to subtract the predicted noise from the received signal to generate a symbols estimate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ahmed Mohamed Ibrahim Medra, Hossein Najafi, Zhuhong Zhang
  • Patent number: 10805821
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable storage media for communicating a base station signal, such as a data signal, a control signal, or both, from a base station to a user equipment (UE) during a measurement window. In some aspects, the UE signals its availability corresponding to a measurement window to a serving base station. In some aspects, the UE signals a guard period associated with the measurement window to the serving base station. In other aspects, the serving base station signals a guard period to the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Valentin Alexandru Gheorghiu, Andrea Garavaglia, Awlok Singh Josan