Patents Examined by Fitwi Y Hailegiorgis
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Patent number: 12294430Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a signal processing device and a base station antenna. The signal processing device comprises: a substrate; a beam-forming network, which is provided on one side of the substrate; and a calibration circuit, which is provided on the same side of the substrate on which the beam-forming network is provided; wherein the beam-forming network is connected to the calibration circuit via a connecting trace on the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2023Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: Outdoor Wireless Networks LLCInventors: Zhiwei Yin, Fangwen Wan, Dingshu Jin
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Patent number: 12289473Abstract: A decoding unit decodes data corresponding to an N×M array of quantized coefficients from a bit stream. An inverse quantization unit derives orthogonal transform coefficients from the N×M array of quantized coefficients by using at least a quantization matrix. An inverse orthogonal transform unit performs inverse orthogonal transform on the orthogonal transform coefficients generated by the inverse quantization unit to generate prediction residuals corresponding to a block of a P×Q array of pixels. An inverse quantization unit derives the orthogonal transform coefficients by using at least a quantization matrix of an N×M array of elements, and the inverse orthogonal transform unit generates prediction residuals for the P×Q array of pixels having a size larger than the N×M array.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2024Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Masato Shima
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Patent number: 12283984Abstract: Disclosed is a method comprising receiving, from a user equipment, information indicating at least: one or more channel characteristics of one or more received positioning reference signals of a set of frequency hops, and one or more identifiers of one or more missed positioning reference signals of the set of frequency hops; and compensating for the one or more missed positioning reference signals of the set of frequency hops based at least partly on the information.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2024Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks OyInventors: Muhammad Tayyab, Satya Krishna Joshi
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Patent number: 12284062Abstract: An Open Radio Access Network Radio Unit (O-RU) including a Radio Frequency (RF) unit and a baseband unit, wherein: the baseband unit includes two or more digital signal processing units; the two or more digital signal processing units are configured to execute digital signal processing with respectively defined higher-level units; and the baseband unit is configured so as to be able to make some of the two or more digital signal processing units execute the digital signal processing and so as to be able to switch between the digital signal processing units that are made to execute the digital signal processing.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2021Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: RAKUTEN MOBILE, INC.Inventors: Jin Nakazato, Saki Tanaka, Haruka Horiuchi
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Patent number: 12278679Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus includes a terminal selection unit that selects one or more user terminals, a prediction unit that derives a prediction value of an interference amount of a stream group transmitted from a plurality of antennas for the selected one or more user terminals, a collection unit that, when the prediction value of the interference amount is less than a threshold value, collects reception power values of streams included in the stream group from the selected one or more user terminals, an antenna selection unit that selects the plurality of streams in descending order of reception power values and selecting the plurality of antennas associated with the plurality of selected streams, and a transmission unit that transmits the plurality of selected streams by beam forming using the plurality of selected antennas.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2021Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Takuto Arai, Daisei Uchida, Tatsuhiko Iwakuni, Shuki Wai
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Patent number: 12267408Abstract: A method includes, at a first node: transmitting a first calibration signal at a first time-of-departure measured by the first node; and transmitting a second calibration signal at a second time-of-departure measured by the first node. The method also includes, at a second node: receiving the first calibration signal at a first time-of-arrival measured by the second node; and receiving the second calibration signal at a second time-of-arrival measured by the second node. The method further includes: defining a first calibration point and a second calibration point in a set of calibration points, each calibration point comprising a time-of-departure and a time-of-arrival of each calibration signal; calculating a regression on the set of calibration points; and calculating a frequency offset between the first node and the second node based on the first regression.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2024Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: ZaiNar, Inc.Inventors: Philip A. Kratz, Daniel M. Jacker, Mainak Chowdhury, Alexander Hooshmand
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Patent number: 12261730Abstract: A computer-implemented method for multi-user multiplexing for block transmissions by an electronic device includes generating a user signal that includes a number of first samples in the time domain. The number of first samples are generated based on a discrete-time baseband signal and a predetermined guard period. A discrete Fourier transform (DFT) operation is performed on the number of first samples to obtain a number of second samples in the frequency domain. An interleaving operation is performed on the number of second samples to obtain a number of third samples in the frequency domain. An inverse-DFT (IDFT) operation is performed on the number of third samples to obtain a number of fourth samples in the time domain. A time shifting is performed on the number of fourth samples to obtain a number of shifted fourth samples. A block transmission is sent using the number of shifted fourth samples.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2022Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Philipp Walk, Weimin Xiao
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Patent number: 12262056Abstract: A decoding unit decodes data corresponding to an N×M array of quantized coefficients from a bit stream. An inverse quantization unit derives orthogonal transform coefficients from the N×M array of quantized coefficients by using at least a quantization matrix. An inverse orthogonal transform unit performs inverse orthogonal transform on the orthogonal transform coefficients generated by the inverse quantization unit to generate prediction residuals corresponding to a block of a P×Q array of pixels. An inverse quantization unit derives the orthogonal transform coefficients by using at least a quantization matrix of an N×M array of elements, and the inverse orthogonal transform unit generates prediction residuals for the P×Q array of pixels having a size larger than the N×M array.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2024Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Masato Shima
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Patent number: 12261930Abstract: Technologies directed to the distribution of local oscillator (LO) signals and reference clock signals to beamforming circuits of a panel with an array of antenna elements are described. A communication system includes antenna elements, beamforming circuits, driver circuitry, and diplexing circuitry with signal paths between the diplexing circuitry and the beamforming circuits. The driver circuitry outputs a first signal having a first frequency and a second signal having a second frequency lower than the first frequency. The diplexing circuitry generates a combined signal comprising the first and second signals and sends the combined signal to each beamforming circuit.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2022Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Sean Timothy Nicolson, Joung Won Park, Satwik Patnaik
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Patent number: 12244377Abstract: In one embodiment, a method is disclosed for port reduction, comprising: calculating, at a distributed unit (DU), beamforming weights based on received DMRS channel estimates; sending the calculated beamforming weights to a radio unit (RU); applying, at the RU, port reduction to DMRS symbols based on the calculated beamforming weights; compressing IQ data and received DMRS symbol data to compensate for an underlying bandwidth increase, thereby enabling beamforming at the RU. PUSCH data may be compressed. Beamforming weight calculations may be performed in the O-DU. Beamforming weight calculations may be provided to the L2 scheduler. BFP format compression may be performed. Channel information may be compressed for non-signal data. DMRS compression may be performed at the CU. The DMRS pattern may be received from the control plane. An equalizer weight calculation may be performed to merge a plurality of CSI estimates from different RUs for a given user to calculate joint equalization.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2023Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: Parallel Wireless, Inc.Inventors: Praneet Chivate, Juwendo Denis
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Patent number: 12237894Abstract: A method, system and apparatus for an optimized radiation pattern for an indoor ceiling and/or wall mounted radio unit for distributed antenna systems/radio dot systems (DAS/RDS) are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method includes obtaining beam forming weights for generating a shaped radiation pattern that provides a same effective isotropic power radiated (EIPR) at multiple locations inside a target cell, and applying the obtained beam forming weights to signals directed to an array of antenna elements of the radio interface to generate the shaped radiation pattern.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2020Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventors: Hadi Bahramiabarghouei, Dongxun Jia, Xiaochuan Li, Izabela Kurek
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Patent number: 12231201Abstract: A reconfiguration intelligent surface device and a beamforming method thereof, the beamforming method adapted to the reconfiguration intelligent surface device is described below. A timing synchronization signal is received. A frame boundary synchronized with a radio signal transmission/reflection device is established according to the timing synchronization signal. Beam control information is received. A reflected beam is formed by reflecting a radio signal beam transmitted or reflected by the radio signal transmission/reflection device according to the beam control information based on the frame boundary synchronized with the radio signal transmission/reflection device.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2022Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Industrial Technology Research InstituteInventors: Chiu-Ping Wu, Shih-Hao Fang, Hsin-An Hou, Jen-Yuan Hsu
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Patent number: 12199724Abstract: A method includes determining one or more delay values and one or more phase shift values for generation of multiple desired frequency-dependent analog beams. The method also includes configuring one or more true-time delay (TTD) elements and one or more phase shifters of a transceiver based on the one or more delay values and the one or more phase shift values, the transceiver having one or more radio-frequency (RF) chains connected to multiple antennas via the one or more TTD elements and the one or more phase shifters. The method also includes operating the transceiver to generate the multiple desired frequency-dependent analog beams.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2022Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Vishnu Vardhan Ratnam, Shadi Abu-Surra, Jianhua Mo, Gang Xu, Jin Yuan, Ahmad AlAmmouri, Boon Loong Ng, Jianzhong Zhang
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Patent number: 12199619Abstract: A receiver includes a multi-phase clock generator to generate phases of a clock signal and a global phase interpolator (PI) circuit coupled to the multi-phase clock generator and to clock and data recovery (CDR) circuitry. The global PI circuit generates initial-adjusted phases from the phases of the clock signal based on a control signal received from the CDR circuitry. A first local PI receives the initial-adjusted phases of the clock signal and applies a first fixed phase shift to the initial-adjusted phases to generate first final-adjusted phases of the clock signal that are useable to sample a first level of multiple levels of a pulse-amplitude-modulated (PAM) data stream.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: NVIDIA CorporationInventors: Ofek Abadi, Omer Wolkovitz
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Patent number: 12200576Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for determining a feedback resource associated with groupcast data. One method includes receiving a configuration associated with a resource pool for PSFCH. The method includes receiving groupcast data via sidelink and determining HARQ feedback based at least in part on the received groupcast data. The method includes determining a PSFCH resource for the HARQ feedback based at least in part on the resource pool for the PSFCH and transmitting the HARQ feedback using the determined PSFCH resource.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Karthikeyan Ganesan, Prateek Basu Mallick, Joachim Loehr, Alexander Johann Maria Golitschek Edler von Elbwart, Ravi Kuchibhotla, Vijay Nangia, Robert T. Love
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Patent number: 12192040Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for wireless communications by an apparatus. Certain techniques include sending an indication that the apparatus is capable of supporting lattice reduction (LR) demodulation; receiving a first LR transformation matrix (to be used for demodulating a modulated signal); and receiving the modulated signal.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Jacob Pick, Shay Landis, Peer Berger, Tomer Geva
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Patent number: 12188963Abstract: An oscilloscope includes a memory that stores instructions; and a processor that executes the instructions. When executed by the processor, the instructions cause the oscilloscope to obtain a measurement of a first radio frequency signal; split a first spectrum based on the first radio frequency signal into a first low-frequency band and a first high-frequency band; perform a first Fourier transform to compute a first new spectrum based on the first spectrum; compute a first waveform of the first new spectrum with noise of the oscilloscope reduced by performing a first inverse Fourier transform based on the first new spectrum; and combine the first new spectrum with noise of the oscilloscope reduced with the first low-frequency band.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2022Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: KEYSIGHT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventor: David L. Gines
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Patent number: 12192485Abstract: An on-vehicle device uploads information concerning a vehicle to an external device with a predetermined period, and includes a processor that uploads, to an external device, trimming information where a target area is trimmed from image information that is captured by the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: DENSO TEN LimitedInventor: Hideaki Miyazaki
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Patent number: 12184365Abstract: A dual-polarized multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) mobile device is provided that includes a first array of antennas and a second array of antennas. Based upon a blockage of at least one of the array of antennas being less than a blockage threshold, the mobile device operates in a default configuration in which a default polarization selection from the second array is used in combination with a fixed polarization selection from the first array to form a first MIMO layer signal and a second MIMO layer signal. Should the blockage exceed the blockage threshold and an optional performance threshold be satisfied, the mobile device may operate in a dynamic configuration in which a dynamic polarization selection from the second array is reversed as compared to the default polarization selection.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2023Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Vasanthan Raghavan, Sinan Adibelli, Mohammad Ali Tassoudji, Junyi Li
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Patent number: 12170559Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless communication device may identify, based at least in part on a scaling factor, one or more phase weights associated with a transmit beam of the wireless communication device. The scaling factor is associated with a frequency in a frequency band associated with the wireless communication device. The wireless communication device may generate, based at least in part on the one or more phase weights, the transmit beam. The wireless communication device may transmit a wireless communication using the transmit beam. Numerous other aspects are described.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2023Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Surendra Kompala, Sachin Jain, Mihir Vijay Laghate, Isan Doshi, Raghu Narayan Challa