Patents Examined by Emmanuel Bayard
  • Patent number: 10855507
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of receiving a broadcast signal. The method comprises receiving the broadcast signal; an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) demodulating on the received broadcast signal; parsing at least one signal frame from the demodulated broadcast signal to extract service data or service component data; converting the service data or service component data into bits; decoding the converted bits; and outputting a data stream comprising the decoded bits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jongseob Baek, Woosuk Ko, Sungryong Hong
  • Patent number: 10849064
    Abstract: Power management for remote units in a wireless distribution system. Power can be managed for a remote unit configured to power modules and devices that may require more power to operate than power available to the remote unit. For example, the remote unit may be configured to include power-consuming remote unit modules to provide communication services. As another example, the remote unit may be configured to provide power through powered ports in the remote unit to power-consuming devices. Depending on the configuration of the remote unit, the power-consuming remote unit modules and/or power-consuming devices may demand more power than is available at the remote unit. In this instance, the power available at the remote unit can be distributed to the power-consuming modules and devices based on the priority of services desired to be provided by the remote unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Corning Optical Communications LLC
    Inventors: Christian Heidler, Jonathan Richard Hull, Jessica Joy Kedziora, Michael Sauer, Wolfgang Gottfried Tobias Schweiker
  • Patent number: 10848220
    Abstract: It is provided a method for compressing beamspace coefficients to be applied when transferring data between a radio network node and a specific user device, the method being performed in a coefficient encoder and comprising the steps of: obtaining beamspace coefficients, wherein each beamspace coefficient comprises a complex value and a direction; determining at least one cluster based on proximity, in a complex plane, of the complex values of the beamspace coefficients; determining, for each beamspace coefficient, a cluster to which it belongs; determining a representative complex value for each one of the at least one cluster; outputting the representative complex values for each cluster; and outputting, for each beamspace coefficient, an identity of the cluster to which the beamspace coefficient belongs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Andre Mendes Cavalcante, Igor Almeida, Eduardo Lins De Medeiros, Keke Zu, Miguel Berg
  • Patent number: 10848299
    Abstract: A phase interpolator includes a phase adjusting circuit. The phase adjusting circuit includes a first phase adjusting module and a second phase adjusting module, the first phase adjusting module outputs a first clock signal, and the second phase adjusting module outputs a second clock signal; the first phase adjustment module and the second phase adjustment module are connected in parallel to output an interpolation signal. Through the first phase adjustment module and the second phase adjustment module the first clock signal and the second clock signal with the same frequency and different phases are mixed in proportion by adopting a voltage mode to generate an interpolation so as to achieve the purpose of phase adjustment, and meanwhile, the circuit can be carried out under lower voltage, so that the power consumption of the phase adjusting circuit is further reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: AMLOGIC (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ming Shi
  • Patent number: 10834773
    Abstract: The same or similar physical signals can be used for both user equipment (UE) and an integrate access backhaul (IAB) node. Different configurations of the resources and/or transmission periods of the signals can be used for initial access for access UEs and IAB nodes. In addition, to support topology formation, mobility/multi-connectivity procedures, and backhaul link management, periodic measurements and reports can be configured by a parent IAB node to a child IAB node UE function. This can comprise radio resource management (RRM), radio link monitoring (RLM), and beam management (L1-BM) measurements and reports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Thomas Novlan, Arunabha Ghosh, Salam Akoum, Xiaoyi Wang
  • Patent number: 10833753
    Abstract: A wireless device receives one or more messages comprising configuration parameters indicating a timer value of a bandwidth part (BWP) inactivity timer. The BWP inactivity timer associated with the timer value is started in response to switching to a first BWP as an active BWP. A random-access procedure for a beam failure recovery is initiated based on reaching a number of beam failure instance indications for at least one downlink control channel of the first BWP. The BWP inactivity timer is stopped based on initiating the random-access procedure. The at least one downlink control channel is monitored for a control information addressed to the wireless device. The random-access procedure for the beam failure recovery is stopped in response to receiving the control information via the at least one downlink control channel. The BWP inactivity timer is restarted based on the stopping the random-access procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
    Inventors: Ali Cagatay Cirik, Esmael Dinan, Hua Zhou, Hyoungsuk Jeon, Alireza Babaei
  • Patent number: 10826727
    Abstract: Embodiments of a method and a device are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method for operating an impulse radio ultra-wideband (IR-UWB) device is disclosed. The method involves acquiring a signal, integrating one or more synchronization symbols in a synchronization field of the signal to determine an initial channel impulse response (CIR) measurement, and detecting whether a start-of-frame delimiter (SFD) field of the signal is identified during integration. When the SFD field of the signal is identified, the method further involves ceasing integration of the one or more synchronization symbols, scaling the initial CIR measurement, and determining a final CIR measurement based on the scaled CIR measurement. When the SFD field is not identified, the method further involves incrementing a counter configured to count the number of the one or more synchronization symbols integrated, and continuing integration of the one or more synchronization symbols until the SFD field is identified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Jun Zhou, Radha Srinivasan, Brima Babatunde Ibrahim
  • Patent number: 10819548
    Abstract: A wireless device generates a Legacy preamble, a 20 MHz Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbol, and a Wake-Up (WU) signal portion. The Legacy Preamble includes a Legacy Short Training Field (L-STF), a Legacy Long Training Field (L-LTF) and a Legacy Signal (L-SIG) field. The 20 MHz OFDM symbol has a duration of 4 ?s. The WU signal portion has a frequency bandwidth that is narrower than a frequency bandwidth of the Legacy preamble. The wireless device transmits a frame, which includes transmitting the Legacy preamble, transmitting the 20 MHz OFDM symbol immediately after transmitting the Legacy preamble, and transmitting the WU signal portion immediately after transmitting the 20 MHz OFDM symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: NEWRACOM, INC.
    Inventors: Dae Won Lee, Yujin Noh
  • Patent number: 10812157
    Abstract: A wireless device according to the present invention is configured to execute a beamforming weight training function for acquiring in advance, by mutual communication between a base station and a terminal station, transmission quality information at a time when a combination of a base station beamforming weight and a terminal station beamforming weight is used, and identifying a suitable beamforming weight, and is configured to search for, based on the transmission quality information identified in the training step, a suitable beamforming weight while performing mutual communication, and execute processing of updating the suitable beamforming weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroki Iura
  • Patent number: 10812168
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). In a wireless communication system, a base station apparatus may include at least one transceiver, and at least one processor operatively coupled with the at least one transceiver. The at least one transceiver may transmit, to a terminal, configuration information associated with a primary beam and a secondary beam. The processor may determine the primary beam and the secondary beam based on feedback information regarding beams of the base station, received from the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yohan Kim, Chulhee Jang, Eunyong Kim
  • Patent number: 10812151
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present application is a method by which a terminal having a plurality of distributed antenna groups transmits and receives a signal in a wireless communication system. Particularly, the method comprises the steps of: calculating channel quality indicators for each of distributed antenna groups; selecting a preferred distributed antenna group among the distributed antenna groups on the basis of the channel quality indicators; and reporting information on the channel quality indicators to a base station, wherein the method further comprises a step for reporting information on the preferred distributed antenna group to the base station when the preferred distributed antenna group differs from the preselected specific distributed antenna group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Heejin Kim, Jiwon Kang, Sunam Kim, Hanbyul Seo, Sangwook Lee
  • Patent number: 10797853
    Abstract: The invention relates to a high-speed decision device that comprises a first branch and a second branch that are connected in parallel between a power supply end and a clock signal input end; wherein the first branch is used for providing a normal-phase input end, and the second branch is used for providing an inverted-phase input end; a first adjusting point and a second adjusting point are arranged; and an adjusting branch is arranged between the first adjusting point and the second adjusting point, and the adjusting branch is used for adjusting the response speed when the clock signal changes. The benefit of the invention is that the response time of the circuit is further improved, the resolution of the high-speed decision device is improved, and the clock and data recovery performance of the high-speed decision device is further improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: AMLOGIC (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ming Shi
  • Patent number: 10797747
    Abstract: A signal processing method comprising rearranging transmission data so that a predictable portion of the transmission data is spread more uniformly in the transmission data, the predictable portion including information that is predictable by a receiver side. The phase of a carrier signal can be modulated based on the rearranged transmission data, and the modulated signal may be transmitted. The transmitted signal is received by the receiver side. A header position of each frame of the received signal is detected based on the information predictable to the receiver side. Once detected, the frames of the received signal are integrated, and the transmission data is decoded based on the integration. A signal processing device, a transmitter, and/or a receiver may utilizes these methods to transmit, receive, and/or process signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Seiji Kobayashi, Toshiyuki Hiroi, Takehiro Sugita
  • Patent number: 10784892
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a first memory interface circuit and a decompression circuit coupled to the first memory interface circuit. The decompression circuit may be configured to (i) receive a reduced size representation of a coding block of data comprising a first bit map, a second bit map, and zero or more non-zero values from an external memory via the first memory interface circuit, (ii) losslessly restore the coding block of data from the reduced size representation of the coding block using the first bit map, the second bit map, and the zero or more non-zero values, and (iii) transfer the restored coding block of data to a processing circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Ambarella International LP
    Inventors: Junqiang Lan, Zhijian Lu
  • Patent number: 10778307
    Abstract: A beam scanning and search tracking method and device are provided. The method includes constructing analog beams and performing digital beam-forming to the analog beams so as to form equivalent beams; transmitting reference signals to a second communication node by using the equivalent beams; receiving beam information about the equivalent beams and corresponding channel state information fed back by the second communication node according to the reference signals; performing a beam scanning operation and a search tracking operation by using the beam information and the channel state information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: CHINA ACADEMY OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Xin Su, Qiubin Gao, Rakesh Tamrakar, Runhua Chen, Chuanjun Li, Mengjun Wang, Hui Li, Qiuping Huang
  • Patent number: 10778476
    Abstract: According to an aspect, there is provided a waveform processing device. The waveform processing device includes circuitry for receiving an input signal including one or more subsequent orthogonal frequency division multiplexing, OFDM, symbol blocks each of which includes a cyclic prefix and an OFDM data block and corresponds to one or more subbands. Further, the waveform processing device includes circuitry for segmenting each OFDM symbol block of the input signal into a set of a pre-defined number of partially overlapping signal blocks of equal length so that non-overlapping samples of the pre-defined number of partially overlapping signal blocks in each set include, in combination, an OFDM data block. Moreover, the waveform processing device includes circuitry for filtering each signal block in each set and for combining the filtered signal blocks in each set using overlap-and-save processing to produce one or more filtered OFDM data blocks for each subband.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Markku Renfors, Kari Pekka Pajukoski, Toni Aleksi Levanen, Juha Yli-Kaakinen, Alaa Eddin Loulou
  • Patent number: 10756833
    Abstract: A transmitting apparatus is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae-hyeon Bae, Young-ho Oh, Sung-hee Hwang
  • Patent number: 10750442
    Abstract: Power management for remote units in a distributed communication system. Power can be managed for a remote unit configured to power modules and devices that may require more power to operate than power available to the remote unit. For example, the remote unit may be configured to include power-consuming remote unit modules to provide distributed antenna system-related services. As another example, the remote unit may be configured to provide power through powered ports in the remote unit to external power-consuming devices. Depending on the configuration of the remote unit, the power-consuming remote unit modules and/or external power-consuming devices may demand more power than is available at the remote unit. In this instance, the power available at the remote unit can be distributed to the power-consuming modules and devices based on the priority of services desired to be provided by the remote unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Corning Optical Communications LLC
    Inventors: Christian Heidler, Jonathan Richard Hull, Jessica Joy Kedziora, Michael Sauer, Wolfgang Gottfried Tobias Schweiker
  • Patent number: 10749587
    Abstract: A new radio (NR) capable user equipment (UE) to determine whether to skip cellular measurements using s-Measure configuration based on measurements of a synchronization signal (SS) block (SSB) and/or Channel State Information Reference Signal (CSI-RS) using an s-Measure configuration. For example, an s-Measure configuration can include a reference signal received power (RSRP) value and an indicator whether to apply the value to an NR SS block or a CSI-RS. If the value meets or exceeds the measurement for the indicated signal measurement, the s-Measure is satisfied. For example, in an embodiment, the network configures a single s-Measure configuration (e.g., either an NR SS s-Measure configuration or a CSI-RS s-Measure configuration), which when satisfied the UE does not perform further measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Candy Yiu, Jie Cui, Yang Tang, Youn Hyoung Heo
  • Patent number: 10742449
    Abstract: Embodiments are presented herein of apparatuses, systems, and methods for a wireless device to perform improved channel estimates for sensing applications such as ranging. The wireless device may determine noise characteristics, e.g., a spectrum of the variance of noise on a channel and may use the noise characteristics to estimate a response of an analog front end of the wireless device. The wireless device may correct a channel estimate based on the estimated response of the analog front end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yuval Avner, Michael Kerner, Ran Forte