Patents Examined by Emmanuel Bayard
  • Patent number: 11336550
    Abstract: A signal analysis method comprising: receiving an input signal, the input signal comprising a symbol sequence; receiving samples of a reference signal based on a known sample rate, the reference signal comprising the same symbol sequence as the input signal; determining symbol points of the symbol sequence based on the samples; determining measurement times based on the symbol points; and determining at least one signal quality parameter at the measurement times, wherein the at least one signal quality parameter is indicative of a signal quality of the input signal. Further, a measurement system is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Susanne Hirschmann, Florian Ramian
  • Patent number: 11336341
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a first communication device with multiple antennas, operably coupled to a processor and configured to access a codebook of transformation matrices. The processor generates a set of symbols based on an incoming data, and applies a permutation to each of the symbols to produce a set of permuted symbols. The processor transforms each of the permuted symbols based on at least one primitive transformation matrix, to produce a set of transformed symbols. The processor applies, to each of the transformed symbols, a precode matrix selected from the codebook of transformation matrices to produce a set of precoded symbols. The codebook of transformation matrices is accessible to a second communication device. The processor sends a signal to cause transmission, to the second communication device, of multiple signals, each representing a precoded symbol from the set of precoded symbols, each of the signals transmitted using a unique antenna from the plurality of antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Rampart Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: Matthew Brandon Robinson
  • Patent number: 11336345
    Abstract: A signal transmission device includes a first antenna, a second antenna, a demodulation device, and a fixing member. The first antenna transmits radio waves containing a signal modulated at a first frequency. The second antenna receives the radio waves containing the signal via a medium. The demodulation device demodulates the signal and connected to the second antenna. The fixing member fixes the first antenna and the second antenna to the medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiro Shinkawa, Hirokazu Suzuki, Toshiyuki Sugawara
  • Patent number: 11336315
    Abstract: A radio frequency module includes a module board including a first principal surface and a second principal surface on opposite sides of the module board, a transmission power amplifier connected to a transmission path, a first circuit component connected to a reception path, and a control circuit that controls the transmission power amplifier. The control circuit is disposed on the first principal surface, and the first circuit component is disposed on the second principal surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki Shinozaki, Yukiya Yamaguchi, Morio Takeuchi, Yoichi Sawada
  • Patent number: 11329859
    Abstract: A transmitter includes: a phase rotation sequence generation unit that generates, on the basis of transmit bits being input, a phase rotation sequence in which a frequency response has a bandwidth; an up-sampling unit that changes a sample rate of the phase rotation sequence and further replicates the phase rotation sequence; and a frequency shift unit that shifts, by a specified amount of shift on a frequency axis, a frequency component of the phase rotation sequence acquired from the up-sampling unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masatsugu Higashinaka, Hiroyasu Sano
  • Patent number: 11316707
    Abstract: A method includes receiving an input signal at a filter, where the filter includes a plurality of filter taps, and where each of a first filter tap and a second filter tap has a weighting coefficient. The method also includes shutting down the first filter tap based on the weighting coefficient of the first filter tap being below a threshold and the weighting coefficient of the second filter tap being below the threshold, where the second filter tap is next to the first filter tap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Kalpesh Laxmanbhai Rajai, Saravanakkumar Radhakrishnan, Gaurav Aggarwal, Raghu Ganesan, Rallabandi V Lakshmi Annapurna
  • Patent number: 11316575
    Abstract: Methods related to wireless communication systems and performing link adaption for multiple user-multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) communications using multiple expected channel quality indicators are presented. A base station (BS) transmits, to a first user equipment (UE) of a plurality of UEs, a channel state report configuration indicating a set of one or more measurement resources and at least one of precoding information or rank indications associated with the set of one or more measurement resources. The BS receives, from the first UE, a channel state report including a plurality of expected channel quality indicators (CQIs) over a time period based on the set of one or more measurement resources and the at least one of the precoding information or rank indications. The BS uses the channel state report to determine a link adaptation for the first UE. Other features are also claimed and described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sharon Levy, Guy Wolf
  • Patent number: 11303310
    Abstract: It is provided a method designed, for OFDM-based communication systems, to slightly modify the signal to be emitted before the power amplifier input of the transmitter. The guiding idea is that the minimal IBO value for which the slightly modified signal still fulfills the standard requirements is inferior to the smallest IBO value for which the transmitted signal still meets the standard requirements in terms of EVM and spectral mask without implementing the proposed method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: RIVIERA WAVES SAS
    Inventors: Lisa Meilhac, Ahmad Bazzi
  • Patent number: 11296736
    Abstract: A time-sharing detection control circuit connected to a plurality of amplification links, includes: a control module to sequentially output a number of switching control signals at preset intervals; a detection module electrically connected to the control module, and a change-over switch. The detection module converts output signals from the amplification links into detection signals and output the detection signals to the control module. The change-over switch is connected to the control module, the detection module and each of the amplification links, and sequentially selects one of the amplification links to be connected to the detection module at preset intervals under control of the switching control signals so as to enable the output signals from the one of the amplification links to be inputted into the detection module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN HUAPTEC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yanwei Wang, Songlin Zhou, Ziping Zhao
  • Patent number: 11290224
    Abstract: A method of operating a radio transmitter configured to transmit at least one sequence of logic values by transmitting transmission signals selected in a constellation diagram having a certain cardinality comprises selecting said transmission signals out of a first subset of transmission signals in said constellation diagram, said first subset comprising a first number of transmission signals, and a second subset of transmission signals in said constellation diagram, said second subset comprising a second number of transmission signals, wherein. The transmission signals in the second subset of transmission signals have an energy higher than the transmission signals in the first subset of transmission signals. The sum of said first number of transmission signals and said second number of transmission signals is less than said cardinality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L.
    Inventors: Alessandro Tomasoni, Daniele Lo Iacono, Fabio Osnato
  • Patent number: 11290311
    Abstract: Methods and an apparatus for reference signal (RS) configuration. A method implemented in a network device is provided in which a plurality of reference signal (RS) ports to be used for RS transmission are determined based on at least one of different RS configuration patterns, different port multiplexing types and different number of symbols to be used for RS transmission. Each of the plurality of RS ports is indexed with a respective port index and at least two of the plurality of RS ports share a same port index. A plurality of RS configurations are determined at least based on the plurality of RS ports. In addition, at least one RS configuration from the plurality of RS configurations is allocated for a terminal device served by the network device. The at least one RS configuration indicates at least one RS port to be used for RS transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukai Gao, Gang Wang
  • Patent number: 11290174
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine, based at least in part on a determination that a scheduling offset is less than a beam switching latency threshold, a set of beams for communicating with a set of transmit-receive points (TRPs), that use single downlink control information for scheduling, based at least in part on at least one of a transmission configuration indicator codepoint mapping or a control resource set configuration. The UE may communicate with the set of TRPs using the set of beams based at least in part on determining the set of beams. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yan Zhou, Mostafa Khoshnevisan, Xiaoxia Zhang, Tao Luo, Arumugam Chendamarai Kannan, Hamed Pezeshki
  • Patent number: 11290250
    Abstract: A line card in a network box receives a SyncE clock signal and an input SYNC signal. A phase-lock loop (PLL) in the line card receives the SyncE clock signal as a reference clock signal and generates an output SyncE clock signal. The line card regenerates a SYSCLK signal using a digitally controlled oscillator that receives a timing signal from the SyncE PLL and receives a control signal from control logic on the line card. The frequency and phase information contained in the SYNC signal is utilized to control the DCO. The SYSCLK signal is divided to generate an output SYNC signal. The control logic uses the time difference between the input SYNC signal and a SYNC feedback signal to control the DCO to provide a zero delay SYNC output signal. The output SYNC signal and the SYSCLK signal control a time of day counter in the line card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Vivek Sarda
  • Patent number: 11283653
    Abstract: A decision feedback equalizer for generating an output signal according to an input signal includes: a feedforward equalizer, a feedback equalizer and a weight coefficient control unit. The feedforward equalizer includes a plurality of tapped delay lines and is controlled by a set of first weight coefficients. The feedback equalizer includes a plurality of tapped delay line and is controlled by a set of second weight coefficients. The weight coefficient control unit is employed to selectively adjust at least one of the set of first weight coefficients and determine a set of first boundary values for at least one of the set of second weight coefficients. When the at least one of the set of second weight coefficients does not exceed the set of first boundary values, the weight coefficient control unit increments the at least one of the set of first weight coefficients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
    Inventors: Tsung-Chen Wu, Liang-Wei Huang
  • Patent number: 11271632
    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: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yohan Kim, Chulhee Jang, Eunyong Kim
  • Patent number: 11271597
    Abstract: There is provided wireless transmitter that includes a poly phase filter (PPF) configured to receive an input differential intermediate frequency (IF) signal and to generate an in-phase differential IF signal and a quadrature differential IF signal. The wireless transmitter further includes a transformer-based circuit configured to receive an input differential local oscillator (LO) signal and to generate an in-phase differential LO signal and a quadrature differential LO signal based on the input differential LO signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: SWIFTLINK TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Min-Yu Huang, Thomas Chen
  • Patent number: 11271572
    Abstract: Embodiments may relate to techniques or circuitry for the control of a clock signal by a phase-locked loop (PLL) circuit. The technique may include the identification of a first parameter related to a gain of a digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) and a second parameter related to a resolution of a time-to-digital converter (TDC). The technique may then include the identification of a third parameter related to filter coefficients of a loop filter of the PLL circuit based on the first and second parameter. The circuit may then output a clock signal based on the first, second, and third parameters. Other embodiments may be described or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: ANALOG DEVICES INTERNATIONAL UNLIMITED COMPANY
    Inventors: Wreeju Bhaumik, Batna Suryanarayana, Dheeraj Arimboor
  • Patent number: 11267342
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a battery control system which enables extending the communication range between a cell controller and a battery controller while keeping power consumption in the cell controller low and which is capable of ensuring communication reliability. In this battery control system, after transmitting a response request to the cell controller, the battery controller transmits to the cell controller a non-modulated wave having a power level lower than that of the response request, and the cell controller generates a response signal by performing amplitude-modulation on the non-modulated wave (see FIG. 6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Vehicle Energy Japan Inc.
    Inventors: Takanori Yamazoe, Kei Sakabe
  • Patent number: 11265071
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to electronic device, method and storage medium for a wireless communication system. One embodiment of the present disclosure proposes beam management based on matching condition of channel path parameters under different beams. An electronic device includes a processing circuitry configured to: estimate, based on reference signals which are transmitted from the transmitter of the wireless communication system based on at least one second beam included in coverage of a first beam, parameters for channel paths from the transmitter to the receiver corresponding to the second beam, and wherein a particular second beam of the at least one second beam is selected based on the estimated parameters for channel paths, and the estimated parameter for channel path corresponding to the particular second beam matches parameter for channel path corresponding to the first beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Peiyao Zhao, Zhaocheng Wang, Jianfei Cao
  • Patent number: 11265070
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may perform a digital simulation to determine a precoding matrix indicator (PMI) associated with a digital reception beam. A base station may send, to the UE, a reference signal. The UE may perform a coarse beam search on the reference signal using non-oversampled digital reception beams. The UE may measure the signal strength of the reference signal for each of the non-oversampled digital reception beams and select the non-oversampled digital reception beam with the strongest signal. The UE may perform a refined beam search procedure on the selected beam by using a set of oversampled digital reception beams which correspond to the selected non-oversampled digital reception beam. The UE may determine the PMI associated with the strongest oversampled digital reception beam and send the PMI in a report to the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Parisa Cheraghi, Veljko Boljanovic, Anas Tom, Alexei Yurievitch Gorokhov