Abstract: An ultra-wideband (UWB) beam forming system is disclosed. In one or more embodiments, the UWB beam forming system includes a plurality of radiating elements forming a circular, cylindrical, conical, spherical, or multi-faceted array and a beamformer coupled to the radiating elements. The beamformer includes one or more transformable reconfigurable integrated units (TRIUNs) configured to independently control individual radiating elements or groups of radiating elements of the plurality of radiating elements.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 1, 2021
Date of Patent:
January 3, 2023
Assignee:
B/E Aerospace, Inc.
Inventors:
James B. West, Russell D. Wyse, Jiwon L. Moran
Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein for providing full orthogonality between simultaneously used beams, e.g., in a Multi-User Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MU-MIMO) radio system. In some embodiments, a radio system comprises an antenna system and a processing unit. The processing unit is adapted to determine an initial set of null locations for a particular beam based on an initial set of beam weighting factors for the particular beam, and change one or more of the initial null locations based on one or more other beams to be used simultaneously with the particular beam, thereby providing a new set of null locations for the particular beam. The processing unit is further adapted to compute a new set of beam weighting factors for the particular beam based on the new set of null locations, and utilize the new set of beam weighting factors to transmit or receive on the particular beam.
Abstract: Techniques are provided for asset location using backscatter communication. A methodology according to an embodiment includes receiving a signal, generated by a tag associated with an asset in response to a broadcast signal. The broadcast signal comprising a base code sequence, and the received signal comprising the broadcast signal modulated by a tag code sequence and shifted in frequency by a frequency offset. The methodology further includes translating the received signal by the frequency offset to generate a translated received signal, demodulating the translated received signal to remove the tag code sequence modulation to generate a demodulated received signal, cross-correlating the base code sequence with the demodulated received signal to generate a correlation signal, and determining a range to the asset based on a time delay associated with a peak of the correlation signal. The tag may be located based on the range and an estimated direction to the tag.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 30, 2020
Date of Patent:
December 6, 2022
Assignee:
BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integrations Inc.
Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that provide for channel state information (CSI) feedback for multiple discrete Fourier transform (DFT) beams on multiple transmission layers. A user equipment (UE) may report a total number of non-zero power DFT beams across all of the transmission layers. The UE may be configured with a total number of leading beams (Ktotal) across all of the transmission layers for which to provide high quantization feedback. When the total number of non-zero DFT beams across all the transmission layers exceeds the configured total number of leading beams across all the transmission layers, the UE may report high-resolution quantization feedback for Ktotal non-zero power precoding coefficients having the highest amplitude coefficients, and may report low-resolution quantization feedback for the remaining non-zero power precoding coefficients. A base station may receive the CSI feedback to determine a precoding matrix.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 20, 2019
Date of Patent:
November 22, 2022
Assignee:
QUALCOMM Incorporated
Inventors:
Min Huang, Chao Wei, Chenxi Hao, Liangming Wu, Qiaoyu Li
Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first wireless device may receive a request for beamforming information associated with line-of-sight (LoS) multiple input multiple output (MIMO) communication from a second wireless device. The first wireless device may generate a channel estimation matrix for a channel between rectangular antenna arrays of the respective wireless devices, the channel estimation matrix including one or more quadratic terms for the LoS MIMO communication. The first wireless device may generate a first sub-matrix and a second sub-matrix based on the channel estimation matrix. The first wireless device may transmit an indication of a set of precoders for the LoS MIMO communication, the set of precoders based on a symmetry associated with the first and second sub-matrices, and may receive the LoS MIMO communication from the second wireless device based on the set of precoders.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 22, 2021
Date of Patent:
November 22, 2022
Assignee:
QUALCOMM Incorporated
Inventors:
Danlu Zhang, Naga Bhushan, Abdelrahman Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed Ibrahim, Pinar Sen, Renqiu Wang, Tingfang Ji, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli
Abstract: Preventing RF signal distortion and signal error producing memory events in a Radio Frequency (RF) power amplifier (RFPA). An element, disposed prior to the Radio Frequency (RF) power amplifier (RFPA) in a signal path of a RF signal input to the RFPA, may enforce a maximum allowable amplitude in a high PAPR instantaneous high peak of the RF signal. An element may also increase or supplement a bias of the Radio Frequency (RF) power amplifier (RFPA) when a high PAPR instantaneous high peak is detected in the RF signal prior to receipt by the RFPA. Additionally, a first element operable detects when an instantaneous output voltage of the Radio Frequency (RF) power amplifier (RFPA) is below a predetermined voltage, and in response, a second element supplies additional current to prevent the output voltage of the RFPA from falling below a predetermined threshold voltage.
Abstract: When the ultra-low power mm-scale sensor node does not have a crystal oscillator and phase-lock loop, it inevitably exhibits significant carrier frequency offset (CFO) and sampling frequency offset (SFO) with respect to the reference frequencies in the gateway. This disclosure enables efficient real-time calculation of accurate SFO and CFO at the gateway, thus the ultra-low power mm-scale sensor node can be realized without a costly and bulky clock reference crystal and also power-hungry phase lock loop. In the proposed system, the crystal-less sensor starts transmission with repetitive RF pulses with a constant interval, followed by the data payload using pulse-position modulation (PPM). A proposed algorithm uses a two-dimensional (2D) fast Fourier transform (FFT) based process that identifies the SFO and CFO at the same time to establish successful wireless communication between the gateway and crystal-less sensor nodes.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 29, 2021
Date of Patent:
November 8, 2022
Assignee:
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
Inventors:
Hun-Seok Kim, Chin-Wei Hsu, David T. Blaauw, Benjamin Kempke
Abstract: A method for providing a jitter signal for modulating a switching frequency of a power switch for a power converter. The method comprising receiving a drive signal representative of the switching frequency of the power switch, detecting the switching frequency from the drive signal, determining if the switching frequency is less than a first threshold frequency, and modulating a frequency of the jitter signal in response to determining if the switching frequency is less than the first threshold frequency.
Abstract: Calibration of devices communicating on a shared data bus may improve data integrity on the shared data bus by reducing duty cycle distortion. Duty cycle distortion may be reduced by adjusting timing of a transceiver in a device for communicating on the shared data bus using calibration codes. The calibration codes may be loaded into memory and used to reconfigure the transceiver timing on the shared data bus with reconfiguration occurring within one or more unit-intervals of time. The calibration code may be used, for example, to adjust a PMOS or NMOS trim circuit at the transceiver.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 15, 2021
Date of Patent:
November 1, 2022
Assignee:
Cirrus Logic, Inc.
Inventors:
Anthony Louviere, John L. Melanson, Gabriel Vogel
Abstract: Methods, systems, and storage media are described for the Embodiments discussed herein may relate to enhancements to radio link monitoring (RLM) for new radio (NR) systems. A user equipment (UE) may be configured to retrieve configuration information from a memory. The UE may further determine, based on the configuration information, that a radio link monitoring-reference signal (RLM-RS) resource is configured for quasi co-location (QCL) Type D with more than one control resource set (CORESET), and determine, based on the RLM-RS resource being configured for QCL Type D with more than one CORESET, a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) parameter for radio link monitoring (RLM). Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 9, 2019
Date of Patent:
October 25, 2022
Assignee:
Apple Inc.
Inventors:
Qiming Li, Hua Li, Manasa Raghavan, Jie Cui, Yang Tang
Abstract: A channel state information feedback method and an apparatus to flexibly feed back channel state information, to implement balance between feedback overheads and feedback precision of the channel state information. The method includes: sending a media access control (MAC) frame, where the MAC frame includes a processing mode bitmap, every n bits in the processing mode bitmap correspond to one feedback unit, and a value of the n bits is used to indicate a processing mode of channel state information of the corresponding feedback unit; and receiving a beamforming report, where the beamforming report includes one or more feedback fields, each feedback field corresponds to one feedback unit, the feedback field includes channel state information of the corresponding feedback unit, and the channel state information included in the feedback field is processed in a processing mode indicated by the processing mode bitmap.
Abstract: Provided are a transmitter and a method for transmitting a data block in a wireless communication system. The method comprises the following steps: deciding the number of bits (s) and encoders (NES) to allocate to one axis of a signal constellation; encoding an information bit based on the s and the NES and generating a coded block; parsing the coded block based on the s and the NES and generating a plurality of frequency sub-blocks; and transmitting the plurality of frequency sub-blocks to a receiver.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 16, 2020
Date of Patent:
October 18, 2022
Assignee:
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
Abstract: Systems and methods for maintaining synchronization of repeater networks with Global Positioning System (GPS) signals using phase locked loops (PLLs) and based on generation of predicted control words for controlling local oscillator frequencies is described. The predicted control words can be generated based on performing a linear fit of control words generated over a predetermined duration of time. Phase locked loops with additional false GPS pulse identification and GPS signal loss compensation circuitry can enforce a false pulse count threshold and/or an error threshold. The additional circuitry and prediction of control words can overcome errors in GPS receiver outputs and maintain accuracy of signal timings across single frequency networks using inexpensive local oscillators.
Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for adaptive modulo base selection for non-linear precoding. Aspects provide a method for wireless communications that can be performed by a base station (BS). The BS adaptively selects a modulo base for a data stream for at least one user equipment (UE) in a transmission to one or more UEs. The BS selects the modulo base based on one or more parameters. The BS transmits a signal for at least one UE of the one or more UEs to identify the selected modulo base. The BS performs the transmission to the one or more UEs. The UE receives the transmission from the BS and the signal for the identification of the selected modulo base. Based on the signal, the UE determines the modulo base for at least one data stream in the transmission and decodes the data stream using the modulo base.
Abstract: Wireless communications systems and methods related to indicating antenna configuration information and neural network information are disclosed. Neural network information may be selected for an encoder side based on an antenna configuration of a first device housing the encoder. This information may be transmitted with the antenna configuration information to a second device, which may jointly train the neural network with the first device. The first device may further transmit one or more weights after the training, which are stored with the antenna configuration information at the second device as well. When a third device with similar antenna configuration as the first device establishes communication with the second device, the second device may transmit neural network information, as well as weights, to the third device. The third device may use this information, instead of default information, to speed up neural network initialization and training.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 18, 2020
Date of Patent:
October 4, 2022
Assignee:
QUALCOMM Incorporated
Inventors:
Hamed Pezeshki, Tao Luo, Taesang Yoo, Mahmoud Taherzadeh Boroujeni, Arumugam Chendamarai Kannan, Jingchao Bao, Sony Akkarakaran, Ajay Gupta
Abstract: A network includes a first wireless node that communicates over a wireless network connection. The first wireless node includes a first encryption engine that processes a first initialization data set and a current transmit sequence associated with a current communication to generate a next transmit sequence that is employed to communicate with a second wireless node that derives a next received sequence that corresponds to the next transmit sequence to process a subsequent communication.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 29, 2020
Date of Patent:
September 27, 2022
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated
Inventors:
Ariton E. Xhafa, Xiaolin Lu, Janwei Zhou, Il Han Kim
Abstract: Systems and/or methods are disclosed of improving vehicular safety by acquiring data from a transceiver responsive to one or more signals that are received at the transceiver from one or more devices. The transceiver may be in a motor vehicle, and the one or more devices may include a base station and/or another transceiver of another motor vehicle. In some embodiments, the transceiver may transmit a signal responsive to having received a first signal from a first device, and the signal that is transmitted by the transceiver may cause a second device to transmit a second signal. Moreover, the transceiver may transmit data responsive to having received the second signal that is transmitted by the second device. In some embodiments, the transceiver may receive a signal from a first device, receive a signal from a second device, and transmit data responsive to having received both of the signals.
Abstract: An OAM reception apparatus (30) includes an OAM reception unit (34) and an interference compensation unit (35C) that are independent of each other. The OAM reception unit (34) and the interference compensation unit (35C) execute “OAM reception processing” and “interference compensation processing”, respectively, based on a plurality of vertical component signals and a plurality of horizontal component signals obtained by performing polarization separating and down-conversion on a plurality of reception radio signals received by a plurality of reception antenna elements (31-1 to 31-4).