Patents Examined by David C. Payne
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Patent number: 10965393Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 26, 2019Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: Mu Xu, Zhensheng Jia, Haipeng Zhang, Luis Alberto Campos
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Patent number: 10948670Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 10, 2020Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: Lumentum Japan, Inc.Inventors: Sachiko Mizuseki, Hideki Sato
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Patent number: 10945259Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 25, 2020Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.Inventor: Hai Tang
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Patent number: 10938480Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 27, 2019Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE LTDInventors: Hirohide Komiyama, Masayuki Amano, Tabito Miyamoto, Masato Itoh
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Patent number: 10938482Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 9, 2020Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventor: Kuniyuki Ishii
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Patent number: 10931486Abstract: Highly efficient digital domain sub-band based receivers and transmitters.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2019Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: TECHNION RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION LTD.Inventors: Moshe Nazarathy, Alex Tolmachev
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Patent number: 10931435Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 5, 2019Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: II-VI DELAWARE, INC.Inventor: Jason Y. Miao
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Patent number: 10917276Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 22, 2019Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteInventors: Sung-Ik Park, Jae-Young Lee, Sun-Hyoung Kwon, Heung-Mook Kim
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Patent number: 10911143Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 23, 2019Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventor: Wenbo Li
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Patent number: 10873170Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 3, 2019Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignee: Ubicquia LLCInventors: Ronald B. Zimmerman, III, Ian B. Aaron, Bradford Brian Hutson, Jeffrey T. Root
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Patent number: 10855375Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 11, 2019Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Zhiguang Xu, Yue Wen
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Patent number: 10855374Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 29, 2017Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventor: Hideo Asada
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Patent number: 10848216Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 27, 2016Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Kitae Kim, Jiwon Kang, Kilbom Lee, Heejin Kim, Kungmin Park
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Patent number: 10848359Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 10, 2017Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Yi Huang, Peter Gaal, Wei Zeng, Wanshi Chen, Hao Xu, Tingfang Ji
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Patent number: 10841814Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 1, 2017Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Dong-Sik Kim, Hui-Won Je, In-Hyoung Kim, Se-Bin Im, Young-Seok Jung
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Patent number: 10833907Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 30, 2016Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Jan Ellenbeck, Thorsten Clevorn
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Patent number: 10830399Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 20, 2017Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: ORANGEInventors: Philippe Dussaume, Micheline Perrufel, Christophe Cutullic
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Patent number: 10833901Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 17, 2016Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: Metrotech CorporationInventors: Stephen John Petherick, George Mainescu, Ion Dracea, Razvan Gabriel Stefanoiu, John Mark Royle
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Patent number: 10826600Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 7, 2019Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: Ciena CorporationInventors: Trevor John Ibach, Rahim Amarsi, Sebastien Gareau
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Patent number: 10826729Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 19, 2019Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: EAGLE TECHNOLOGY, LLCInventors: Charles F. Middleton, Elliott J. Grafer, George William Miles, IV, John Richard Desalvo