Patents Examined by David C. Payne
  • Patent number: 10965393
    Abstract: An optical communication network includes a downstream optical transceiver. The downstream optical transceiver includes at least one coherent optical transmitter configured to transmit a downstream coherent dual-band optical signal having a left-side band portion, a right-side band portion, and a central optical carrier disposed within a guard band between the left-side band portion and the right-side band portion. The network further includes an optical transport medium configured to carry the downstream coherent dual-band optical signal from the downstream optical transceiver. The network further includes at least one modem device operably coupled to the optical transport medium and configured to receive the downstream coherent dual-band optical signal from the optical transport medium. The at least one modem device includes a downstream coherent optical receiver, and a first slave laser injection locked to a frequency of the central optical carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Mu Xu, Zhensheng Jia, Haipeng Zhang, Luis Alberto Campos
  • Patent number: 10948670
    Abstract: An optical module for transmitting an optical signal may include a circuit board on which electronic components are disposed, a high-frequency component that is disposed on a main surface of the circuit board and operates at a frequency equal to or higher than a predetermined reference value according to a frequency of the optical signal, a low-frequency component that is disposed on another main surface of the circuit board so as to overlap at least partly with the high-frequency component in a plan view and operates at a frequency less than the reference value, and an electromagnetic wave absorber that is disposed on an upper surface of the low-frequency component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Lumentum Japan, Inc.
    Inventors: Sachiko Mizuseki, Hideki Sato
  • Patent number: 10945259
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a data transmission method, a terminal device and a network device, to reduce complexity of blindly detecting a PDCCH by the terminal device. The method includes: receiving by a terminal device, an SFI sent by a network device; determining, by the terminal device according to the SFI, at least one of a slot format in one time unit and a time length suitable for the slot format; and detecting, by the terminal device, a PDCCH according to the slot format corresponding to the one of the one or more slot format indices indicated by the SFI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Hai Tang
  • Patent number: 10938480
    Abstract: A transceiver is disclosed. The transceiver includes a first unit capable of a full-duplex communication using an electromagnetic wave, and a second unit capable of a full-duplex communication using an electromagnetic wave. The first unit includes a transmitter and a receiver arranged in this order at a predetermined interval in a first direction. The second unit includes a receiver and a transmitter arranged in this order at a predetermined interval in the first direction. The second unit is placed adjacent to the first unit in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD
    Inventors: Hirohide Komiyama, Masayuki Amano, Tabito Miyamoto, Masato Itoh
  • Patent number: 10938482
    Abstract: An optical transceiver according to an embodiment includes a plurality of optical sub-assemblies, a circuit board, an optical receptacle, a WDM module, support member and a housing including the plurality of optical sub-assemblies, the circuit board, the optical receptacle, the WDM module, and the support member. The transmission sleeve and the reception sleeve have respective protrusions coupled to the plurality of first internal fibers in one to one. The housing has holes configured to allow the transmission sleeve and the reception sleeve for being inserted to the housing. The support member has a retaining part configured to retain the protrusions of the transmission sleeve and the reception sleeve for positioning the transmission sleeve and the reception sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kuniyuki Ishii
  • Patent number: 10931486
    Abstract: Highly efficient digital domain sub-band based receivers and transmitters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: TECHNION RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION LTD.
    Inventors: Moshe Nazarathy, Alex Tolmachev
  • Patent number: 10931435
    Abstract: A system may include a clock and data recovery circuit that includes one or more analog components. The system may also include processing circuitry configured to control the clock and data recovery circuit. The processing circuitry and the clock and data recovery circuit may be formed on a single substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: II-VI DELAWARE, INC.
    Inventor: Jason Y. Miao
  • Patent number: 10917276
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for broadcast signal frame using a bootstrap and a preamble are disclosed. An apparatus for generating broadcast signal frame according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a time interleaver configured to generate a time-interleaved signal by performing interleaving on a BICM output signal; and a frame builder configured to generate a broadcast signal frame including a bootstrap and a preamble using the time-interleaved signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Sung-Ik Park, Jae-Young Lee, Sun-Hyoung Kwon, Heung-Mook Kim
  • Patent number: 10911143
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a visible light communication device and a method for driving the same, a door lock and a visible light communication method. The visible light communication device includes an array substrate, the array substrate including a display region having a plurality of pixels and a photosensitive region having at least one photosensitive sensor, the at least one photosensitive sensor is configured to convert a received visible light signal carrying encoded information into an electric signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wenbo Li
  • Patent number: 10873170
    Abstract: A system to couple a controller to a roadside aerial lighting fixture includes a primary male connector integrated with the controller and a primary female connector integrated with the roadside aerial lighting fixture. The primary male and female connectors are compliant with a roadway area lighting standard promoted by a standards body. The primary male connector protrudes from a first substantially planar surface of the controller. The primary female connector is recessed within a second substantially planar surface of the roadside aerial lighting fixture. A controller-side high speed communications data element is integrated with the primary male connector, and a fixture-side high speed communications data element is integrated with the primary female connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: Ubicquia LLC
    Inventors: Ronald B. Zimmerman, III, Ian B. Aaron, Bradford Brian Hutson, Jeffrey T. Root
  • Patent number: 10855375
    Abstract: Embodiments provide an optical transceiver assembly for resolving a problem that an optical assembly has a large size. The optical transceiver assembly may include a first cavity, a second cavity and WDMs. The first cavity may include at least two optical receivers, which may be configured to receive light of different wavelengths, respectively. The second cavity may include at least two optical transmitters, may be configured to emit light of different wavelengths, respectively. Each of the at least two optical receivers and each of the at least two optical transmitters may correspond to different WDMs, respectively. The WDM corresponding to one of the at least wo optical receivers can be configured to: separate, from light emitted from an optical fiber, light of a wavelength receivable by the corresponding optical receiver, transmit the light to the corresponding optical receiver, and reflect the other wavelengths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhiguang Xu, Yue Wen
  • Patent number: 10855374
    Abstract: Provided is a technology for simultaneously monitoring a plurality of relay devices. A relay device 1 comprises a superimposing unit 2 and a monitor unit 3. The relay device 1 is interposed on an optical transmission path between optical communication devices that send and receive an optical signal, and has a function for relaying the optical signal flowing through the optical transmission path. The monitor unit 3 monitors the operation status of the relay device 1. At a predetermined timing, the superimposing unit 2 superimposes monitor unit 3 monitoring-information onto an optical signal of a primary signal flowing through the optical transmission path, by performing modulation processing on the basis of an oscillation signal having a predetermined oscillation frequency. The relay device 1 can spontaneously superimpose the monitoring information onto an optical signal and transmit same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hideo Asada
  • Patent number: 10848216
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for transmitting an uplink beam scanning signal in a wireless communication system is provided. A terminal first performs downlink beam scanning, and then transmits the uplink beam scanning signal to a base station through a time-frequency resource corresponding to a beam selected according to the downlink beam scanning. The terminal may transmit information on the downlink beam scanning to the base station. The base station may divide a plurality of terminals into a plurality of groups on the basis of information on downlink beam scanning, received from the plurality of terminals, and perform uplink beam scanning for only uplink beams which are selected corresponding to the plurality of groups among all the uplink beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Kitae Kim, Jiwon Kang, Kilbom Lee, Heejin Kim, Kungmin Park
  • Patent number: 10848359
    Abstract: Techniques are described that provide for virtual symbol splitting for uplink and/or downlink wireless transmissions. A wireless transmitter, such as a UE or a base station, may identify a pilot signal and a payload to be transmitted in a full symbol. The transmitter may format the pilot signal and the payload into separate sub-symbols that are nested within the first full symbol, with each sub-symbol including an associated sub-symbol cyclic prefix, and the full symbol including a full symbol cyclic prefix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yi Huang, Peter Gaal, Wei Zeng, Wanshi Chen, Hao Xu, Tingfang Ji
  • Patent number: 10841814
    Abstract: A chipset including at least one processor is provided. The at least one processor of the chipset is configured to acquire an interference whitening (IW) and detection scheme and demodulate an interference signal based on the acquired IW and detection scheme, wherein the IW and detection scheme is determined based on an interference characteristic of the interference signal, and the interference characteristic is determined based on whether a region in which the interference signal is included collides with a reference signal region of a serving cell and whether the interference signal is a reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong-Sik Kim, Hui-Won Je, In-Hyoung Kim, Se-Bin Im, Young-Seok Jung
  • Patent number: 10833907
    Abstract: A mobile communication device may include a storage element and a baseband processing component operatively coupled to the storage element. The baseband processing component may generate representations of one or more symbols, provide the representations of the one or more symbols through an interface to a buffer element to process, and reduce communications through the interface to the buffer element during at least a portion of the processing of the representations of the one or more symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Jan Ellenbeck, Thorsten Clevorn
  • Patent number: 10830399
    Abstract: A lighting device includes at least one first fixed light source dedicated to lighting, at least one second light source dedicated to data transmission by light modulation, and first and second refractor optical devices positioned respectively with respect to the first and second light sources, so as to sense the light emitted by said sources and form respectively first and second distinct light beams, said second light beam delimiting a data transmission zone. The lighting device also includes a variator of the brightness and/or the color of the first light beam, which is accentuates or decreases the visibility of the data transmission zone delimited by said second light beam, according to the availability or the unavailability respectively of the data transmission service in the data transmission zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: ORANGE
    Inventors: Philippe Dussaume, Micheline Perrufel, Christophe Cutullic
  • Patent number: 10833901
    Abstract: A transmitter and receiver for performing a signal select algorithm are provided. A transmitter for providing a signal on a line to be located includes at least one direct digital synthesizer, the direct digital synthesizer producing two component frequencies in response to an input square wave signal; and a feedback loop providing the input square wave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Metrotech Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen John Petherick, George Mainescu, Ion Dracea, Razvan Gabriel Stefanoiu, John Mark Royle
  • Patent number: 10826600
    Abstract: A network element includes one or more ports forming a plurality of optical carriers (Optical Tributary Signal (OTSi)) that transport a single Optical Transport Unit Cn (OTUCn) in a network; and circuitry communicatively coupled to the one or more ports and configured to, subsequent to an optical carrier failure of the plurality of optical carriers, determine which services in the OTUCn are affected, cause signaling of a partial failure for the OTUCn and signaling a failure for the affected services, and cause adjustment of some or all of the affected services on non-failed optical carriers of the plurality of optical carriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Ciena Corporation
    Inventors: Trevor John Ibach, Rahim Amarsi, Sebastien Gareau
  • Patent number: 10826729
    Abstract: A communication system may include an RF source configured to generate a swept frequency RF signal, and a photonic local unit coupled to the RF source and configured to generate a modulated optical carrier signal based upon the swept frequency RF signal. The photonic local unit may have adjustable equalization levels. The communication system may include a photonic remote unit configured to generate a demodulated swept frequency RF signal from the modulated optical carrier signal from the photonic local unit, and an optical fiber path connecting the photonic local unit and the photonic remote unit. The communication system may include feedback circuitry cooperating with the optical fiber path to set the adjustable equalization levels of the photonic local unit based upon the demodulated swept frequency RF signal at the photonic remote unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: EAGLE TECHNOLOGY, LLC
    Inventors: Charles F. Middleton, Elliott J. Grafer, George William Miles, IV, John Richard Desalvo