Patents Examined by Helene Tayong
  • Patent number: 9794102
    Abstract: A method for transmitting broadcast signals in a transmitter includes encoding data for Physical Layer Pipes (PLPs), mapping the encoded data onto constellations according to modulation types, multi-input multi-output (MIMO) processing the mapped data for the MIMO processing by multiplying a rotation matrix with a pair of symbols of the mapped data and applying a phase rotation matrix to the multiplied symbols, time interleaving the MIMO processed data, building frames by mapping the time interleaved data, frequency-interleaving data in the built frames, modulating the frequency-interleaved data by an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) scheme, and transmitting the broadcast signals including the modulated data. The frames includes signaling information for signaling data in the frames. The signaling information includes information on a PLP identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sangchul Moon, Seoyoung Back, Woosuk Ko
  • Patent number: 9793965
    Abstract: A WAP including: a spatial mapper component, a partial sounding feedback expander circuit and a beamforming matrix calculator. The spatial mapper component spatially maps the transmission of a single MIMO sounding packet with either a single full spatial mapping matrix (SMM) or a set of “N” partial SMM responsive respectively to a full or composite sounding mode designation. The partial sounding feedback expander circuit in the composite sounding mode, expands partial sounding feedback received from a targeted station in response to the single MIMO sounding packet into a full sounding feedback. The beamforming matrix calculator calculates a full beamforming matrix for transmitting downlink communications to the targeted station from the full sounding feedback provided by either the partial sounding feedback expander circuit in the composite sounding mode, or the full sounding feedback received directly from the targeted station in the full sounding mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Quantenna Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Evgenii Pustovalov, Hossein Dehghan, Sigurd Schelstraete
  • Patent number: 9780794
    Abstract: A clock and data recovery apparatus which includes a voltage controlled delay line (VCDL), a phase detector (PD) and a control voltage generating circuit is provided. The VCDL generates a plurality of clock signals with different phases according to a reference clock signal and a control voltage. The PD detects the phase relationship between a first input signal and a second input signal, and produces a detection result. A data signal or one of the clock signals is used as the first input signal, and one or more of the clock signals is/are used as the second input signal. The control voltage generating circuit generates the control voltage to the VCDL according to the detection result of the PD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Chao-Kai Tu, Rong-Sing Chu
  • Patent number: 9780969
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus and methods are described including operations for demodulating, via a front end demodulator of an analog front end processor, at least a portion of digital sample data into front end demodulated data. A framer of the analog front end processor may frame data from a selection of the front end demodulated data as well as undemodulated digital sample data remaining from the digital sample data, into frames of front end demodulated data and/or undemodulated digital sample data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Shaul Shulman, Amos Klimker, Elihay Shalem, Eran Eran Vodevoz
  • Patent number: 9780975
    Abstract: A Faster-Than-Nyquist (FTN) signal transmission apparatus and method thereof. The signal transmission apparatus includes a pilot interference estimator and compensator configured to estimate interference on pilot symbols by a Faster-Than-Nyquist (FTN) signal generated by FTN modulating a sequence of data symbols, and generate a compensated pilot symbol sequence to cancel the estimated interference; a pilot FTN modulator configured to generate an FTN pilot signal in which inter-pilot symbol interference does not occur, by performing FTN pulse-shaping on the compensated pilot symbol sequence; and a transmitter configured to transmit an FTN data signal and the FTN pilot signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Sang Woon Kwak, Joung Il Yun, Myung Sun Baek, Young Su Kim, Hyoung Soo Lim, Nam Ho Hur
  • Patent number: 9774374
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system and method embodiments for selection of transmission parameters for transmit diversity terminals. According to an aspect, a method for controlling wireless receive/transmit unit transmission parameters may include configuring a WRTU to transmit dual stream when a first stream is using a predetermined transport format (TF) or subset of the TF. The method may also include applying the configuration to the WRTU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Benoit Pelletier, Hong O. Zhang, Diana Pani
  • Patent number: 9772393
    Abstract: One of the embodiments of the present invention relates to a method for modulation. The method comprises: providing a first bit sequence of continuous bits “1” or continuous bits “0” generating a second bit sequence by replacing, in each of a plurality of modulation intervals with a predetermined bit number, at least one bit of the first bit sequence at least one fixed position of the respective modulation interval with one information bit from an information bit sequence; and modulating the second bit sequence so as to generate a positioning packet with a modulated continuous wave signal for transmission. The embodiments further relate to a method for demodulation. Embodiments of the present invention also provide corresponding apparatuses and computer program products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Xianjun Jiao, Xin Zhang, Canfeng Chen
  • Patent number: 9774480
    Abstract: A process for automatic electrical signal discovery and decoding includes detecting electrical disturbances in a serial or parallel bus, or from a transducer with a signal monitor and demodulating the signals by configuring a signal filter window on a frequency filter to maximize time domain signal resolution. Filtering out each frequency captured by the filter and adapting the signal filter window to increase frequency resolution until maximal frequency resolution is attained, demodulating the signal based on the detected encoding and transforming the demodulated signal into a binary code string for transcription to a channel code file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: Kirio Inc.
    Inventor: Franck D Rougier
  • Patent number: 9774405
    Abstract: A system for frequency-isolated self-interference cancellation includes a transmit coupler, that samples an RF transmit signal to create a sampled RF transmit signal having a first RF carrier frequency, an RF self-interference canceller that transforms the sampled RF transmit signal to an RF self-interference cancellation signal, a receive coupler, that combines the RF self-interference cancellation signal with an RF receive signal to form a reduced-interference receive signal, and a frequency shifter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: Kumu Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Dinesh Bharadia, Jeffrey Mehlman, Wilhelm Steffen Hahn
  • Patent number: 9768812
    Abstract: A passive intermodulation detection system is provided to remotely identify passive intermodulation at a base station site and diagnose the type of intermodulation and location of the non-linearity that is the source of the passive intermodulation. The passive intermodulation detection system can generate a test signal in a first band that is transmitted by an antenna. Another antenna can receive a signal in another band, and the passive intermodulation detection system can analyze the received signal to determine whether an intermodulation product due to a non-linearity is present. Based on the type of intermodulation product, period, order, frequency, and etc, the type and location of the non-linearity can be identified and canceled via a passive intermodulation canceling mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Ernest Tsui, Paul Maxwell, Vibhav Kapnadak
  • Patent number: 9755791
    Abstract: Method and system for estimating an eye diagram display of a real signal passing through a data communication channel, according to which decoded symbols of the transmitted real signal are captured, along with their corresponding ADC sample values and sampled at a rate of 1 SPS or more. Then statistic data is collected for each captured sequence of bits/symbols for each particular phase and a synthetic signal is created, based on the collected statistics, using a signal generator that produces samples by randomly creating a bit stream by generating a corresponding one or more samples for any symbol sequences in the bit stream according to the number of collected phases. Interpolation on the corresponding samples is then performed, according to required display time resolution and the synthetic signal is then displayed as a two-dimensional eye diagram image, representing all the statistics collected at all phases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: MULTIPHY LTD.
    Inventor: Hanan Leizerovich
  • Patent number: 9749157
    Abstract: A sequence estimation device includes a grouping unit, a sequence estimation unit and a combination unit. The grouping unit groups a first plurality of equalized signals into a plurality of equalized signal groups according to a grouping rule. The sequence estimation unit, coupled to the grouping unit, processes the plurality of equalized signal groups according to a sequence estimation rule to obtain a plurality of estimated signal groups, respectively. The combination unit, coupled to the sequence estimation unit, permutes the plurality of estimated signal groups to a plurality of estimated signals according to the grouping rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: MStar Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Yi-Ying Liao, Tai-Lai Tung
  • Patent number: 9748932
    Abstract: A phase locked loop includes a signal receiver configured to generate a mixed signal based on the received signal and an oscillator signal, and a frequency control circuit configured to compare the mixed signal to a reference signal, and adjust the oscillator signal based on a result of the comparing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Jaesup Lee, Sang-Gug Lee, Jae-Seung Lee, Seok-Kyun Han
  • Patent number: 9742510
    Abstract: A packet detection method of a receiver estimates noise power based on received samples and an orthogonal sequence that is orthogonal to a preamble sequence of a transmitter. The method verifies whether a packet is present in a radio channel based on the noise power. Also provided is a transmitter that selects a preamble sequence, modulates a transmission packet, and transmits the modulated transmission packet for reception by such a receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chang Soon Park, Joonseong Kang, Young Jun Hong
  • Patent number: 9742538
    Abstract: Systems and methods for automatically configuring a distributed antenna system are provided. A configuration sub-system of the distributed antenna system can identify signal parameters for downlink signals received from one or more base stations via inputs of a unit in the distributed antenna system. The configuration sub-system can automatically determine a configuration plan for the distributed antenna system based on the automatically identified signal parameters. The configuration plan specifies how to combine subsets of the downlink signals for routing to remote antenna units of the distributed antenna system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Van E. Hanson, Michael Williamson
  • Patent number: 9742599
    Abstract: New partial response signaling systems and methods for high spectral efficiency communications are described. In a first implementation, a communication system includes a partial response signaling transmitter and a nonlinear satellite transponder. The partial response signaling transmitter includes a partial response transmit filter configured to convert complex-valued data symbols to a transmit signal using a partial response pulse shaping function; and a modulator configured to modulate the transmit signal onto a carrier wave. The transponder receives and non-linearly amplifies the modulated transmit signal for broadcast to receivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Rohit Iyer Seshadri, Bassel F. Beidas
  • Patent number: 9742480
    Abstract: A method for channel-state information determination in a wireless network comprises determining an initial channel-state information for a wireless channel based on a search of a plurality of sets of precoding codebook elements stored in a multiple input multiple output user equipment (UE) and determining a subsequent channel-state information based on the initial channel-state information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Sairamesh Nammi, Xiao-Feng Qi
  • Patent number: 9722768
    Abstract: A carrier recovery unit is provided including: separation-and-output section that outputs separated symbol group formed into block; a priori state-estimation section that obtains a priori estimate acquired by estimating values processed this time from among values of intra-block frequency and central phase processed last time; provisional compensation section that provisionally compensates the phase of each separated symbol based on the a priori estimation phase; decision section that performs decision based on the reference signal for the symbol before decision, and obtains symbol after decision; error-estimation section that calculates the frequency and phase errors; a posteriori state-estimation section that obtains a posteriori estimate based on the frequency and phase errors; actual compensation section that actually compensates the phase based on the a posteriori estimation phase; and feedback processing section that feeds back the a posteriori estimate as the values processed last time to the a priori
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
    Inventor: Takashi Inoue
  • Patent number: 9722820
    Abstract: A method of calibrating coefficients of a calibrated decision feedback equalizer (DFE) across a process, voltage, and temperature (PVT) range, the calibrated DFE comprising a plurality of DFE taps for reducing distortions of an input signal, and a sampler for sampling the input signal, the method including applying a preset voltage to an input of the calibrated DFE, setting a DFE tap of the plurality of DFE taps to a maximum value, generating a source reference, via a source reference calibrator, to apply to the DFE tap, changing the source reference to a first level that causes an output of the sampler to transition from a first state to a second state, determining the first level as a calibrated source reference, and applying the calibrated source reference to the DFE tap during normal operation of the calibrated DFE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mohammad Hekmat, Amir Amirkhany
  • Patent number: 9716529
    Abstract: A transceiver includes an equalizer, an adaptation module, an error detector, and a controller. The equalizer receives an input signal via the single twisted-pair Ethernet cable, including outputs of an analog front end of the receiver and an echo canceller, to cancel electromagnetic interference from the input signal. The adaptation module adapts parameters of one or more of i) the equalizer, ii) the analog front end, and iii) the echo canceller based on an error in an output of the equalizer due to the electromagnetic interference. The error detector detects when the error is greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold and in response sets an error indicator to indicate no error for a predetermined period of time. The controller controls adaptation of the parameters of the one or more of i) the equalizer, ii) the analog front end, and iii) the echo canceller based on the error indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: Marvell Interntational LTD.
    Inventors: Shaoan Dai, Kok-Wui Cheong, Zhenzhong Gu, Junqing Sun, Xing Wu