Patents Examined by Khanh C. Tran
  • Patent number: 10879941
    Abstract: There is presented mechanisms for providing information for determining beamforming weights or decoding user data for terminal devices. A method is performed by an RE of an access node. The RE has an interface to an REC of the access node. The method comprises obtaining information from the terminal devices to be used by the REC for determining the beamforming weights or decoding the user data. The method comprises selecting, according to a selection criterion, a part of the information to be provided to the REC in order for the REC to determine the beamforming weights or decode the user data based on the selected part of the information. The method comprises providing the selected part of the information to the REC over the interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Jacob Österling, Fredrik Huss, Jonas Karlsson, Oskar Mauritz, Christer Östberg, Jan Roxbergh, Alex Stephenne
  • Patent number: 10880041
    Abstract: A transmitting device is disclosed. The transmitting device includes a controller that groups a plurality of transmitters into a plurality of groups including three or more groups and a plurality of code units that generate different output streams based on a data stream with respect to the plurality of groups. The controller delivers the output streams to the plurality of groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO.. LTD.
    Inventors: Gaurav Pooniwala, Young Ho Oh
  • Patent number: 10873353
    Abstract: A signal processing device is usable in a communication system and includes a signal path, a signal detector, a signal synthesizer, a transmission unit, and a receive path including an analog-to-digital converter. The signal path transmits a transmission signal that was transmitted by the communication system and that contains a communication signal. The signal detector detects, and generates an activation signal in response to, an interference signal contained in the transmission signal and occurring due to narrowband interferences. The signal synthesizer generates an approximation signal for the interference signal upon the presence of the activation signal. The transmission unit receives the transmission signal transmitted by the signal path and the approximation signal, and outputs a difference signal between the transmission signal and the approximation signal. The analog-to-digital converter converts a signal generated based on the difference signal into a digital signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Wenqing Liu, Nicola Mingirulli, Thomas Buck
  • Patent number: 10868592
    Abstract: A method for wireless communication in a reflective environment includes (a) receiving first wireless signals at a first antenna assembly at least partially via a first reflective environment, (b) generating a first electrical signal from a first antenna element of the first antenna assembly in response to the first wireless signals, the first antenna element having a first polarization, (c) generating a second electrical signal from a second antenna element of the first antenna assembly in response to the first wireless signals, the second antenna element having a second polarization different from the first polarization, (d) shifting phase of at least one of the first electrical signal and the second electrical signal, and (e) after shifting phase, combining at least the first electrical signal and the second electrical signal to generate a combined electrical signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: CABLE TELEVISION LABORATORIES, INC.
    Inventors: John C. Bahr, Thomas J. Ellis
  • Patent number: 10862666
    Abstract: An asynchronous data capture device comprises an edge spread detector circuit, a clock generator, and a data sampling circuit. The edge spread detector circuit uses a first clock frequency that is a multiple of a second clock frequency, identifies transitions in a data stream transmitted to the device at the second clock frequency, and determines a sampling point based on the identified transitions. The clock generator adjusts a phase offset based on the sampling point and generates a clock signal having the second clock frequency and the adjusted phase offset. The data sampling circuit uses the second clock frequency and samples the data stream at the sampling point. In some implementations, the edge spread detector determines a sampling point that is isolated from the identified transitions, and the clock generator adjusts the phase offset to cause a rising edge at the sampling point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Venkataratna Subrahmanya Bharathi Akondy Raja Raghupathi
  • Patent number: 10862609
    Abstract: In some embodiments of the invention, OFDM symbols are transmitted as a plurality of clusters. A cluster includes a plurality of OFDM sub-carriers in frequency, over a plurality of OFDM symbol durations in time. Each cluster includes data as well as pilot information as a reference signal for channel estimation. In some embodiments, a plurality of clusters collectively occupy the available sub-carrier set in the frequency domain that is used for transmission. In some embodiments of the invention data and/or pilots are spread within each cluster using code division multiplexing (CDM). In some embodiments pilots and data are separated by distributing data on a particular number of the plurality of OFDM symbol durations and pilots on a remainder of the OFDM symbol durations. CDM spreading can be performed in time and/or frequency directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jianglei Ma, Ming Jia, Wen Tong, Peiying Zhu, Hua Xu, Hang Zhang, Mo-Han Fong
  • Patent number: 10862537
    Abstract: A power line communication device includes a DC power source device, a power line, and a master station that modulates a supply voltage VBUS supplied to the power line according to transmission data to be transmitted. The master station includes a modulation capacitor that is precharged with a modulation amplitude voltage, a polarity switch unit that determines a polarity of the modulation capacitor connected to the power line according to transmission data, and an inductor connected between the DC power source device and the power line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventor: Tomohiko Yano
  • Patent number: 10862562
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that provide for refinement of receive beam beamforming parameters at a user equipment (UE). A UE may transmit two or more signals in an uplink transmission that have different beamforming parameters. A base station receiving the uplink transmission may measure the two or more signals, and identify a first signal of the two or more signals based at least in part on the measuring. The base station may inform the UE of the identified first signal, which the UE may use to set receive beam beamforming parameters for one or more subsequent downlink transmissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Rahul Malik, Srinivas Yerramalli, Tamer Kadous, Kaushik Chakraborty
  • Patent number: 10855504
    Abstract: Described is a method performed by an encoder of a base station system (100) of a wireless communication network, for handling a bit stream for transmission over a transmission link (165) between a remote unit (160) and a base unit (170) of the base station system. The remote unit is arranged to transmit wireless signals to and receive from mobile stations (180). The bit stream comprises a first OFDM symbol and a second OFDM symbol, each OFDM symbol comprising a number of consecutive IQ samples. The method comprises, for a first number of the IQ samples situated at a boundary between the first and the second OFDM symbol, transmitting, over the transmission link to a decoder of the base station system, the first number of IQ samples having a representation spanning a first amplitude range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Chenguang Lu, Miguel Berg, Nilma Fonseca, Stefan Höst, Aldebaro Klautau, Leonardo Ramalho, Elmar Trojer
  • Patent number: 10848290
    Abstract: An apparatus reports feedback messages for channel state information estimation with respect to a channel between a first antenna of a first device and a second antenna of a second device. The apparatus is configured to determine a frequency response across a predetermined bandwidth of the channel between the first antenna and the second antenna, sample a phase of the determined frequency response in order to obtain a number of samples of the phase of the determined frequency response, and send to a further apparatus at least a first feedback message including information of at least a subset of the obtained samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Van Minh Nguyen, Merouane Debbah, Marco Maso
  • Patent number: 10840919
    Abstract: A clock data recovery circuit includes a phase detector (PD) having a data input, a second input, and an output. The circuit also includes a filter, first and second charge pumps, a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO), and a frequency detector (FD). The first charge pump couples between the output of the PD and the filter. The VCO has first and second inputs and an output. The first input of the VCO couples to the filter, and the VCO output couple to the second input of the PD. The FD has a data input, a second input, and first and second outputs. The FD second output couples to the second input of the VCO. The FD data input couples to the data input of the phase detector, and the FD second input couples to the output of the VCO. The second charge pump couples between the FD first output and the filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Shyam Subramanian, Nagalinga Swamy Basayya Aremallapur, Jagannathan Venkataraman, Aravind Ganesan
  • Patent number: 10833711
    Abstract: In one embodiment an apparatus includes: a mixer to downconvert a radio frequency (RF) spectrum including at least a first RF signal of a first channel of interest and a second RF signal of a second channel of interest to at least a first second frequency signal and a second second frequency signal; a first digitizer to digitize the first second frequency signal to a first digitized signal, the first digitizer configured to operate as a low-pass analog-to-digital converter (ADC); a second digitizer to digitize the second second frequency signal to a second digitized signal, the second digitizer configured to operate as a band-pass ADC; and a digital processor to digitally process the first digitized signal and the second digitized signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Silicon Laboratories Inc.
    Inventors: Jacob Pihl, Peter Østergaard Nielsen
  • Patent number: 10819463
    Abstract: A wireless communication with modulation and demodulation set based on channel information is disclosed. An operating method of a first wireless communication device includes: transmitting a pilot signal via a wireless channel to a second wireless communication device; receiving channel state information, estimated by and transmitted from the second wireless communication device in response to the pilot signal, the channel state information including amplitude information and phase information of a wireless channel; setting a modulation method for data transmission based on the amplitude information and the phase information of the wireless channel; generating modulated data based on the modulation method; and transmitting the modulated data via the wireless channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kwon-yeol Park, Dong-woo Kim, Jong-han Kim, Joon-sang Ryu, Sang-hyun Lee
  • Patent number: 10805045
    Abstract: Disclosed are a polar code encoding method and device and a polar code decoding method and device. The polar code encoding method comprises: reading a known first sequence; and for an information sequence to be encoded, combining the information sequence with the first sequence, and performing polar code encoding on the combined sequence. In the polar code encoding method provided by embodiments of the present disclosure, a known first sequence is read and polar code encoding is performed on an information sequence and the first sequence. Thus, polar code encoding on the information sequence to be encoded is implemented, and a new polar code encoding solution is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: CHINA ACADEMY OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Jiaqing Wang, Shaohui Sun, Xueming Pan
  • Patent number: 10804944
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a narrowband filter coupled to a signal path of a first system. The narrowband filter includes a first frequency converter, an integrator, and a second frequency converter coupled to each other in a sequence. The first frequency converter has a first input terminal receiving an input signal from the first system. The narrowband filter also includes a current generator. The current generator has a first terminal coupled to the input signal, a second terminal coupled to a first voltage, and a control terminal coupled to an output terminal of the second frequency converter. The narrowband filter dynamically adjusts a current being drawn from the signal path of the first system, as to detect and eliminate the frequency band of the unwanted signal generated by an influence of a second system close to the first system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: ALI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Christian Eichrodt
  • Patent number: 10804998
    Abstract: Embodiments of inventive concepts are provided wherein a mobile device, such as a smartphone, may transmit information to a base station, either directly or via auxiliary/slave devices, using first and second spatial polarizations, in order to increase spectral efficiency. Pre-processing at the mobile device and/or post-processing at the base station may be used to reduce cross-polarization interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: ENK Wireless, Inc.
    Inventor: Peter D. Karabinis
  • Patent number: 10804986
    Abstract: An electronic device at a base station end includes a processing circuit, the processing circuit being configured to: configure, in response to request signalling from a user equipment, an aperiodic beam-forming reference signal relevant to a first beam group for the user equipment, wherein the first beam group is determined by a base station according to channel state information periodically fed back by the user equipment; generate downlink control information, so as to indicate that the user equipment feeds back beam selection information according to the aperiodic beam-forming reference signal; determine, according to the beam selection information, one or a plurality of candidate beams and one or a plurality of corresponding second pre-coding codebooks; and determine an effective pre-coding codebook based on the one or multiple second pre-coding codebooks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jin Xu, Cheng Gao, Siqi Liu, Chaonan He, Jianfei Cao
  • Patent number: 10804961
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving, by each of a plurality of receivers, one of a plurality of electromagnetic waves, each electromagnetic wave of the plurality of electromagnetic waves guided by a different one of a plurality of twin-lead transmission lines, each twin-lead transmission line sharing a wire, and each electromagnetic wave of the plurality of electromagnetic waves including a different one of a plurality of communication signals, and obtaining, by each of the plurality of receivers, one of the plurality of communication signals. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Robert Bennett, Paul Shala Henry, Farhad Barzegar, Irwin Gerszberg, Donald J. Barnickel, Thomas M. Willis, III
  • Patent number: 10805967
    Abstract: There is provided a fast paging procedure in which a master device repeatedly sends the paging message to a slave device using predetermined channel frequencies, wherein a selection of the predetermined channel frequencies is not calculated or predicted from the slave's Bluetooth device address. When the master device receives a slave page response message at one frequency among the predetermined channel frequencies, the master device transmits an FHS packet to the slave device at the same frequency in which the slave page response message was received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: AUDIOWISE TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Hsinhsiang Liu, Chih-Wei Sung, Jing-Syuan Jia, Kuang-Hu Huang
  • Patent number: 10797929
    Abstract: A method is disclosed of generating a frequency shift keying (FSK) signal comprised in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signal comprising a plurality of sub-carriers. The FSK signal comprises FSK symbols wherein each FSK symbol has a corresponding FSK symbol frequency. The method comprises assigning a set of adjacent sub-carriers to transmission of the FSK signal (wherein the set is a sub-set of the plurality of sub-carriers), and associating each FSK symbol frequency with a corresponding sub-carrier in the set of adjacent sub-carriers. The method also comprises selecting, for each FSK symbol to be transmitted, an FSK symbol phase such that an FSK signal phase at a start of the FSK symbol to be transmitted meets a phase difference criterion in relation to the FSK signal phase at an end of an immediately previous FSK symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (publ)
    Inventors: Leif Wilhelmsson, Miguel Lopez