Patents Examined by Janice N Tieu
  • Patent number: 11342951
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a portable communications system comprising an enclosure configured to house a plurality of components, a plurality of component holders attached to the enclosure, at least one wiring arrangement electrically coupled to the plurality of component holders, an internal power source configured to provide electrical energy to at least one component of the plurality of components, at least one input power connector configured to connect with a plurality of external power sources, a plurality of output power connectors configured to connect with a plurality of external electrical loads, a power selector switch, at least one power converter configured to convert electrical power from a first voltage level to a second voltage level, at least one transceiver comprising a plurality of antenna, at least one input device configured to receive input from a user, and at least one output device configured to present output to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Inventor: Matthew L. Perry
  • Patent number: 11336381
    Abstract: A reception apparatus includes a demodulation circuit configured to demodulate packets obtained with respect to each of multiple PLPs included in a broadcast signal; and a processing circuit configured to process the packets demodulated by the demodulation circuit. The demodulation circuit and the processing circuit are connected with each other via a single interface or interfaces fewer than the number of the PLPs. The demodulation circuit adds identification information to a specific packet among the packets obtained with respect to each of the PLP, the identification information identifying the PLP to which each of the packets belongs. The processing circuit identifies the PLP to which belongs each of the packets input from the demodulation circuit via the single interface or the interfaces fewer than the number of the PLPs, based on the identification information obtained from the specific packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Okada, Kazuyuki Takahashi, Takeshi Ohno
  • Patent number: 11336387
    Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication apparatus, comprising: a symbol synthesis circuit that synthesizes received symbols; a demodulation circuit that demodulates the received symbols each before and after the synthesis; an error correction circuit that corrects demodulated received data from the demodulation circuit; a detection circuit that detects a first error detection code from the error corrected received data; a second detection circuit that detects a second error detection code obtained by inverting a plurality of arbitrary bits from the error corrected received data; a received data selection circuit that selects the received data, wherein: the received data selection circuit determines a modulation scheme used upon transmission by using detection results of the first and second error detection codes and selects received data corresponding to the determined modulation scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignees: NEC CORPORATION, CENTRAL JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Igura, Takeshi Nishiyama, Yoshihiro Matsumura
  • Patent number: 11337080
    Abstract: The disclosure provides for a communication system. The communication system includes a station moving relative to a geographic area, a plurality of antennas, and one or more processors configured to control the plurality of antennas. For instance, the one or more processors may be configured to control a first antenna of the plurality of antennas to output a primary beam to cover the geographic area, wherein the primary beam is associated with a primary cell having a first center frequency, and to control a second set of antennas of the plurality of antennas to output a plurality of secondary beams to cover a plurality of locations within the geographic area, wherein the plurality of secondary beams each has a beam angle smaller than the primary beam, and wherein the plurality of secondary beams are all associated with a secondary cell having a second center frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: SoftBank Corp.
    Inventors: Sharath Ananth, Mitchell Trott, Paul Heninwolf
  • Patent number: 11336314
    Abstract: A radio frequency, RF, transmitter, comprises a digitally controlled oscillator, DCO, configured to generate an RF signal; and digital modulation circuitry connected to the DCO for modulation of the RF signal, and driven by an RF clock signal derived from the RF signal, wherein the digital modulation circuitry comprises a module configured to apply a compensation for modulation jitter due to the modulation circuitry being driven by the RF clock signal and a compensation for DCO non-linearity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Stichting IMEC Nederland
    Inventor: Johan van den Heuvel
  • Patent number: 11316269
    Abstract: A method of creating a timed array from a plurality of phased arrays is provided. The method comprises the steps of: phase steering each phased array to a desired pointing; applying processing to signals received from at least one of the phased arrays, wherein applying processing to the signals comprises applying, based on a reference, an adjustment to the signals from at least one of the phased arrays, such that the processed signals are substantially aligned in time with the reference; and combining the processed signals from each of the phased arrays; wherein the adjustment varies based at least in part on the desired pointing and the relative location of the phased arrays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: HANWHA PHASOR LTD.
    Inventors: John-Paul Szczepanik, Philip Schryber
  • Patent number: 11316717
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for error correction are provided. In one aspect, an error correction method includes: obtaining an output signal and an amplitude value of a feed forward equalizer (FFE), the amplitude value being a channel response amplitude value corresponding to an equivalent channel of the FFE, performing level decision on the output signal based on the amplitude value to obtain a first decision signal including (2M?1) decision symbols, M being an integer not less than 2, performing (1/(1+D)) decoding on the first decision signal to obtain a first decoded signal, determining a second decision signal based on the first decoded signal, the second decision signal including (M?1) decision symbols, determining that a burst error occurs in the second decision signal if an absolute value of the second decision signal is greater than (M?1), and correcting the burst error in the second decision signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuchun Lu
  • Patent number: 11310082
    Abstract: A communication device and methods for computing a noise covariance matrix by using unused resources as determined from a first information. The methods and devices are configured to demodulate and decode the first information; determine one or more resource elements during which data is not transmitted to the communication device based on the first information; obtain samples for the one or more determined resource elements; and compute a noise covariance matrix based on the obtained samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hossam Mohamed Shokr, Guang Xu, Rajarajan Balraj
  • Patent number: 11303341
    Abstract: The communication system is provided, where the communication system comprises multiple cluster distributed antenna system (MC-DAS) network and a controller. Each cluster in the MC-DAS comprises a cluster master (CM) and remote radio units (RRU), which are in the coverage area of the controller. The controller and the DAS clusters are synchronized using a hierarchical precision time protocol (HPTP). Each DAS cluster is configured to transmit messages independently from other DAS clusters in the plurality of DAS clusters using a distributed cyclic delay diversity (CDD) scheme with a determined length of a cyclic prefix. The controller further comprises a controller configured to transmit a message from the controller to a receiver through one or more DAS clusters of the plurality of the DAS clusters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Kyeong Jin Kim, Jianlin Guo, Philip Orlik
  • Patent number: 11296773
    Abstract: System and methods are provided for performing intra-cell beam switching based on customizable parameters for event detection. In embodiments, base station is configured with customized physical layer parameters, which the base station broadcasts. The base station uses reports of physical layer parameters of a beam, received from a user device, for example, to determine whether events have occurred that indicate beam switching should be performed. Based on the determinations, the base station may perform beam switching of the user device, in various embodiments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: T-Mobile Innovations LLC
    Inventors: Minho Song, Hadeel Fayad, Sanghoon Sung, Yun Sung Kim
  • Patent number: 11296730
    Abstract: A radio-frequency front-end circuit includes first and second radio-frequency switches and filters. The first radio-frequency switch includes a first antenna-side terminal and a plurality of first filter-side terminals selectively coupled to the first antenna-side terminal. The second radio-frequency switch includes a second antenna-side terminal and a plurality of second filter-side terminals selectively coupled to the second antenna-side terminal. Some of the filters are multiplexer filters and each includes a common terminal. The common terminals of the filters are coupled individually to some of the first filter-side terminals of the first radio-frequency switch. The second antenna-side terminal of the second radio-frequency switch is coupled to the remaining one of the first filter-side terminals of the first radio-frequency switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Morio Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 11290171
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatuses for signal detection in a MIMO communication system. A receiver device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure comprises a remote unit and a baseband unit. The remote radio unit is configured to receive a first set of signals from a first number of receiving antennas, and the baseband unit comprises: an interfacing unit, configured to obtain the first set of signals from the remote radio unit; a beamforming unit, configured to generate a second set of signals associated with a second number of virtual antennas by performing receiving beamforming for the obtained first set of signals, the second number being less than the first number; and a detecting unit, configured to detect the second set of signals generated by the beamforming unit. Embodiments of the present disclosure may reduce complexity of signal detection and cost of implementation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Zhijun Liao, Liang Xing, Junjie Zeng, Shenglin Shi
  • Patent number: 11283658
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for phased-based pre-carrier signal detection in a communication system are described. In embodiments, inphase and quadrature (IQ) data is generated from a received signal. A current phase delta value is determined from the IQ data and combined with existing phase delta value, such as an averaged phase delta value, which is compared with a threshold value to determine if a pre-carrier signal in the received signal has ended.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Megan J. Roberts, Michael R. Gabrovsek, Shawn Henderson
  • Patent number: 11277285
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and method for continuous time linear equalization. Embodiments include determining, using a decision feedback equalization (“DFE”) training block, a voltage value for one or more resistor values. Embodiments may further include determining, using the DFE training block, a voltage value for one or more capacitor values and identifying a voltage difference between the voltage value for one or more resistor values and the voltage value for one or more capacitor values. Embodiments may further include iteratively performing the determining of the voltage value and identifying of the voltage difference for each of the plurality of capacitor values until the voltage difference is at one or more minimum values to generate one or more optimal resistor and capacitor coefficients for a continuous time linear equalization filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Sachin Gugwad, Jaya Madhaba Panda
  • Patent number: 11271681
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide a transmission system, including: an encoder for encoding a set of information symbols into a set of encoded signals for transmission, wherein the encoder applies a full-diversity space-time block code (STBC) to the set of information symbols; and at least three antennas for transmitting the set of encoded signals over four epochs at a code rate of two.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: ANDRO COMPUTATIONAL SOLUTIONS, LLC
    Inventors: Anu Jagannath, Jithin Jagannath, Andrew Louis Drozd
  • Patent number: 11265091
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure describe apparatuses, methods and machine-readable storage medium for Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP) measurement and allocation of Downlink (DL) transmission resources. A user equipment (UE) may detect a first Synchronization Signal/Physical Broadcast Channel (SS/PBCH) block, and determine a subcarrier spacing (SCS) thereof. Mapping the first SS/PBCH block to OFDM symbols may be dependent on the SCS and a first SS/PBCH block index of the first SS/PBCH block. The UE may determine, based on the first SS/PBCH block and the SCS, a number of symbols of the slot or the slot pair for a CORESET for reception of a DL control channel associated with Remaining Minimum System Information (RMSI). The UE may decode the DL control channel in the CORESET. The DL control channel may be configured to indicate a DL data channel carrying the RMSI associated with the first SS/PBCH block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alexei Davydov, Seunghee Han, Debdeep Chatterjee, Gregory Morozov, Dae Won Lee, Yongjun Kwak
  • Patent number: 11258501
    Abstract: A wireless communication method is provided in which beam training phases alternate with data transmission phases. The method includes estimating a first channel based on a signal received using one or more first training beams in a first beam training phase, and calculating, based on the estimated first channel and a first objective function corresponding to the estimated first channel, a first data beam for a first data transmission phase from the one or more first training beams in the first beam training phase, the first data transmission phase following the first beam training phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junho Lee, Huiwon Je
  • Patent number: 11251857
    Abstract: A device may obtain, from a user equipment (UE), first information relating to one or more signal strengths measured by the UE. A signal strength of the one or more signal strengths may be associated with a beam of a radio node. The device may identify, based on the first information, a particular signal strength that is associated with a particular beam. The device may select, based on the particular beam, one or more related beams that are associated with the particular beam. The one or more related beams may be associated with the particular beam based on historical data relating to historical signal strengths measured by a plurality of UEs. The device may provide, to the UE, second information that identifies the one or more related beams selected, to permit the UE to communicate using the one or more related beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Jin Yang, David Chiang
  • Patent number: 11245557
    Abstract: A method of generating channel estimates of a communication channel in an OFDM system includes receiving references symbols from at least one time frequency observation block of a predetermined block size in frequency and time; generating subspace-transformed reference symbols from the received reference symbols; and subspace filtering the subspace-transformed reference symbols to generate a channel estimate for a communication channel target time; wherein a latency between a communication channel time instant of a currently received reference symbol and the communication channel target time is smaller than the observation block size in time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Placido Mursia, Stefan Fechtel
  • Patent number: 11245480
    Abstract: Devices and methods of simultaneous data reception and measurement are generally described. A UE transmits to an eNB antenna capacity and receives a Beamformed Reference Signal (BRS) configuration in response. Beamformed signals from the eNB include a BRS subframe in accordance with the BRS configuration. The BRS subframe has a BRS whose structure depends on the UE antenna capacity. If the UE has a single antenna panels, neither an EPDCCH nor a PDSCH for the UE is in the BRS frame. If the UE has a single antenna panels and multiple ports or multiple antenna panels, the BRS may contain an EPDCCH or PDSCH for the UE as different ports or antenna panels may be assigned different functionality. The UE measures BRS Received Power (BRS-RP) of the BRS, transmits a BRS report based on the BRS-RP and selects an optimal beam based on BRS-RPs from BRSs of the beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Yuan Zhu, Gang Xiong, Huaning Niu, Wenting Chang