Patents Examined by Eva Y Puente
  • Patent number: 11632281
    Abstract: A system and method utilizing a novel waveform structure based on unique word (UW)—orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is proposed for the applications of joint radar-sensing and communication (JRC). A predetermined chirp sequence is used as the UW in the waveform. The predetermined chirp sequence is used to perform radar functionality, which also increases power efficiency of linear power amplifier that is critical for radar applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: University of South Florida
    Inventors: Huseyin Arslan, Mehmet Mert Sahin
  • Patent number: 11632214
    Abstract: A method, wireless device and network node for performing sounding reference signal (SRS) transmission. According to one aspect a method includes receiving a definition of one or more SRS resource sets to be configured, comprising at least one SRS transmission setting. The method further includes receiving an indication of a selected SRS resource set to use for a SRS transmission, from the one or more configured SRS resource sets and determining a precoding configuration for the SRS transmission based on the selected SRS resource set and the at least one SRS transmission setting. The method also includes transmitting a SRS according to the determined precoding configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Sebastian Faxér, Andreas Nilsson
  • Patent number: 11621741
    Abstract: An adaptive modulation, coding and spreading (AMCS) transmitter is configured to map modulation symbols to a plurality of OFDM subcarriers to generate symbol-modulated subcarriers. For AMCS, some of the modulation symbols may be mapped to individual subcarriers (e.g., similar to conventional OFDM) and one or more of the modulation symbols may be mapped to (i.e., spread across) more than one of the subcarriers (i.e., unlike conventional OFDM) based on a spreading ratio. An IFFT may be performed on the symbol-modulated subcarriers prior to transmission. AMCS allows for adaptation to lower capacity and/or frequency-selective channels by optionally spreading existing modulations over multiple carriers and/or time slots. AMCS expands the catalog for possible modulations/codings by splitting a symbol across multiple carriers and/or time slots. AMCS is particularly useful when channel conditions are highly frequency-dependent or uniformly low capacity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: Michael Brandon Kremer, Andrew C. Marcum
  • Patent number: 11606239
    Abstract: In one aspect, performing, by a wireless communication device, a non-coherent encoding operation on first data to generate a first transmission, wherein the non-coherent encoding operation encodes data independent of channel state information (CSI); and transmitting, by the wireless communication device, the first transmission, wherein the first transmission is non-coherently encoded. In another aspect, receiving, by a wireless communication device, a first transmission, wherein the first transmission is non-coherently encoded independent of channel state information (CSI); and performing, by the wireless communication device, a non-coherent decoding operation on the first transmission to decode the first transmission. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Shay Landis, Assaf Touboul, Amit Bar-Or Tillinger, Gideon Shlomo Kutz, Michael Levitsky, Guy Wolf
  • Patent number: 11595086
    Abstract: A calibration circuit 2 according to the present disclosure is a calibration circuit 2 in a radio base station system 1 including a remote unit part 10 and a plurality of distributed antenna parts 20 connected to the remote unit part 10 through a plurality of respective cables, the calibration circuit 2 including: a detection unit 2a configured to detect a plurality of local oscillation signals that are output from a local oscillator 13 of the remote unit part 10 and are respectively reflected from the plurality of distributed antenna parts 20 through the plurality of cables; and a phase adjustment unit 2b configured to adjust a phase of each of the plurality of local oscillation signals output through the plurality of respective cables from the remote unit part 10 based on a result of the detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Noriaki Tawa
  • Patent number: 11588524
    Abstract: A channel measurement method and a communications apparatus. The method includes: a terminal device receives precoded reference signals from a network device, where the precoded reference signals are obtained by precoding reference signals based on K angle vectors; and generates and sends first indication information, where the first indication information is used to indicate P weighting coefficients corresponding to P angle-delay pairs, the P weighting coefficients are determined based on the precoded reference signals, each of the P angle-delay pairs includes one angle vector and one delay vector corresponding to the angle vector, a delay vector corresponding to each angle vector is preconfigured, each angle vector and the delay vector corresponding to each angle vector are obtained through uplink channel measurement, and the P angle-delay pairs and the P weighting coefficients corresponding to the P angle-delay pairs are used to determine a precoding matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Huangping Jin, Zhimeng Zhong, Haitan Yin, Xiaoyan Bi
  • Patent number: 11588538
    Abstract: This application provides a beam information obtaining method and an apparatus, relates to the field of communications technologies, and resolves a problem that resources of positioning reference signals are wasted because the positioning reference signals need to be omnidirectionally sent because of an unknown direction, of a terminal, caused by use of a beam, when the terminal is positioned in, e.g., a 5G system. The method in this application resolves the problem and saves overheads of sending a reference signal. The method includes: The terminal receives a beam information request sent by a location management device, where the beam information request is used to request the terminal to provide measurement information of a downlink beam. The terminal obtains beam information, where the beam information includes information about a reference signal that is sent by at least one network device and that is measured by the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei Chen, Lei Chen, Su Huang, Zhenyu Shi
  • Patent number: 11588523
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a downlink communication that includes one or more codepoints indicating a plurality of transmit precoder matrix indicator (TPMI) indices and/or a sounding reference signal (SRS) resource indicator (SRI) codepoint indicating one or more SRS resources. The UE may identify, based at least in part on the one or more codepoints, one or more TPMI indices, of the plurality of TPMI indices, for one or more repetitions of a codebook-based PUSCH transmission and/or may identify, based at least in part on the SRI codepoint, one or more SRS resources for the one or more repetitions. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Mostafa Khoshnevisan, Xiaoxia Zhang, Jing Sun
  • Patent number: 11585914
    Abstract: A system and method for generating communications waveforms that can operate in congested frequency spaces and in applications in which the receiver is moving with respect to the transmitter is provided. In one or more examples, each symbol to be encoded and transmitted is converted into a sequence of frequency chirps. The sequence of frequencies used by the sequence of chirps is based on the symbol that is to be encoded. Each chirp can have a center frequency, and the frequency can be swept over the duration of the chirp. In this way each chirp can have a varying frequency over the duration of the chirp, but the phase of the chirp can be continuous throughout the duration of the chirp. The bandwidth and sweep rate of the chirp can be based on the expected maximum velocity of the receiver and the transmitter relative to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: The MITRE Corporation
    Inventors: Perry F. Hamlyn, William A. Dowling, Charles Mazzola
  • Patent number: 11582004
    Abstract: A method performed by a terminal in a wireless communication system includes: receiving, from a base station, configuration information associated with a channel state information (CSI) report including at least one information associated with a CSI resource setting; receiving, from the base station, information associated with channel occupancy duration; determining whether at least one symbol for receiving a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) is within channel occupancy duration, based on the at least one information associated with the CSI resource setting and the received information associated with the channel occupancy duration; receiving, from the base station, at least one CSI-RS on the at least one symbol, based on a result of the determining; and when the CSI report is determined to be transmitted, transmitting; to the base station, the CSI report based on the configuration information associated with the CSI report and the received at least one CSI-RS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hoondong Noh, Jinyoung Oh, Hyoungju Ji
  • Patent number: 11580194
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a sparse element detection part, a sparse location weight addition part, a multiplication part, a non-sparse data operation part, and an addition part. The sparse element detection part detects a predetermined sparse element from input data and outputs information about the sparse element. The sparse location weight addition part adds a first weight elements corresponding to the sparse element. The multiplication part multiplies an output of the sparse location weight addition part by the sparse element. The non-sparse data operation part performs an operation on non-sparse elements, each other than the sparse element in the input data. The addition part adds an output of the multiplication part and an output of the non-sparse data operation part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Seiya Shibata
  • Patent number: 11575855
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to perform an automated gain control protocol with an amplifier based on historical data corresponding to contextual data are disclosed. Example apparatus disclosed herein are to select an automatic gain control (AGC) parameter for an AGC protocol based on historical data corresponding to contextual data, the contextual data including at least one of a time during which the AGC protocol is performed, a panelist identified by a meter, demographics of an audience identified by the meter, a location of the meter, a station identified by the meter, a media type identified by the meter, or a sound pressure level identified by the meter. The disclosed example apparatus are also to perform the AGC protocol based on the selected AGC parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: John T. Livoti, Susan Cimino, Rajakumar Madhanganesh, Stanley Wellington Woodruff
  • Patent number: 11563409
    Abstract: Some embodiments herein describe a radio frequency communication system that can include a transmitter to output an radio frequency (RF) transmit signal, the transmitter including a digital pre-distortion system (DPD) that pre-distorts the RF transmit signal. The DPD system can include a configurable non-linear filter, such as a Laguerre filter, having multiple rows where at least one row operates with a configurable decimation ratio. The DPD system can further include decimators and a crossbar switch coupled between the decimators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Analog Devices International Unlimited Company
    Inventors: Anand Venkitasubramani, Stephen Summerfield, Bhavana Muralikrishna, Praveen Chandrasekaran
  • Patent number: 11563615
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A transmitting device (e.g., a user equipment (UE) or base station) may reduce a peak to average power ratio (PAPR) by clipping signals transmitted to a receiving device according to a clipping level. The receiving device may receive, from the transmitting device, an indication of the clipping level associated with a reference signal. The receiving device may receive the reference signal and identify distortions based on the clipping level. The receiving device may iteratively reconstruct peaks of the clipped reference signal until the receiving device is able to obtain accurate pilot symbols for use in channel estimation. The techniques described herein may enable receiving devices to improve efficiency and reliability of communications by improving channel estimation, which may increase the probability of successfully decoding transmitted information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ory Eger, Assaf Touboul, Yehonatan Dallal, Noam Zach, Sharon Levy, Guy Wolf, Shay Landis, Ran Berliner, Jacob Pick
  • Patent number: 11546869
    Abstract: Provided are a method and an apparatus for performing, by a first device, wireless communication. The method may comprise the steps of: receiving, from a base station, first information related to SL synchronization priority; receiving, from the base station, second information indicating whether a base station-related synchronization reference can be selected as a synchronization source; and performing synchronization according to one synchronization reference of a GNSS-related synchronization reference and other terminals on the basis of the second information indicating that the base station-related synchronization reference cannot be selected as a synchronization source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seungmin Lee, Hanbyul Seo, Daesung Hwang
  • Patent number: 11546085
    Abstract: Aspects described herein relate to configuring a search space size for a demodulator to use in generating log likelihood ratios (LLRs) in demodulating received signals. In an aspect, an indication of a search space size for a demodulator to use in generating LLRs can be received from a base station, and a demodulation of one or more signals received in wireless communication can be performed by a node using the demodulator and based on the search space size. In another aspect, a search space size for the demodulator of the node to use in generating log likelihood ratios (LLRs) can be determined based on one or more signals transmitted by the node, and an indication of a search space size can be transmitted to the node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Shlomit Shaked, Shay Landis, Jacob Pick
  • Patent number: 11539407
    Abstract: The embodiments herein relate to a method performed by a network node and a network node. The method comprises setting a higher-layer parameter usage in at least one sounding reference signal, SRS, resource set configuration to nonCodebook or Codebook, wherein each configured SRS resource set comprises one or more SRS resources, and scheduling a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission via a downlink control information (DCI) wherein at least two SRS resources are indicated via a sounding reference signal resource indicator (SRI) field of the DCI, wherein each SRS resource is associated with a different SRS resource set; and receiving from the user equipment a physical uplink shared channel that is transmitted using the ports associated with the indicated SRS resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Inventors: Sutharshun Varatharaajan, Marcus Grossmann, Markus Landmann
  • Patent number: 11533203
    Abstract: Methods, systems and devices for lattice reduction in decision feedback equalizers for orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation are described. An exemplary wireless communication method, implementable by a wireless communication receiver apparatus, includes receiving a signal comprising information bits modulated using OTFS modulation scheme. Each delay-Doppler bin in the signal is modulated using a quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) mapping. The method also includes estimating the information bits based on an inverse of a single error covariance matrix of the signal, with the single error covariance matrix being representative of an estimation error for all delay-Doppler bins in the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Cohere Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Vamadevan Namboodiri, Ronny Hadani, James Delfeld
  • Patent number: 11528045
    Abstract: A signal transmission device has a multi-point wiring structure in which termination resistors are mounted on both ends of a cable, and a plurality of PCBs connected to the cable transmit a signal through the cable. The PCB of a host node includes: a connector connected to the cable; a transformer unit that is connected to the connector via a first PCB transmission line and insulates the connector; an RS 485 transceiver that is connected to the transformer unit via a second PCB transmission line and transmits the signal to the PCB of another node or receives the signal from the PCB of another node; and AC termination that is provided in at least one of the first PCB transmission line and the second PCB transmission line and suppresses resonance and antiresonance in a reflection frequency characteristic of noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Goro Hamamoto, Yutaka Uematsu, Masahiro Shiraishi, Tatsuyuki Ootani
  • Patent number: 11528083
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for emulating optical modules. A method includes receiving, from an optical module emulator, a first serial data stream having the plurality of upstream signals multiplexed into a plurality of bits; wherein the first data stream includes a plurality of frames, each frame having a multi-frame alignment bit; and de-multiplexing the plurality of upstream signals based on each multi-frame alignment bit within each respective frame. A method includes receiving, from an emulator controller, a second serial data stream having a plurality of downstream signals multiplexed into a plurality of bits; wherein the second serial data stream includes a plurality of frames, each frame having a multi-frame alignment bit; and de-multiplexing the plurality of downstream signals based on each multi-frame alignment bit within each respective frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Pierluigi Dito, Fabio Fontana, Davide Sanguinetti