Patents Examined by Leon-Viet Nguyen
  • Patent number: 8718184
    Abstract: In a chip-to-chip communication system and apparatus, a set of physical signals to be conveyed over a communication bus is provided, and mapped to a codeword of a vector signaling code using the physical signals and a state information, wherein a codeword is representable as a vector of plurality of real-valued components, and wherein a vector signaling code is a set of codewords in which the components sum to zero and for which there is at least one component and at least three codewords having different values in that component; and wherein the state information is a plurality of information present in continuous or discrete form which may have been obtained from previous codewords transmitted over the communication bus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Kandou Labs S.A.
    Inventors: Harm Cronie, Amin Shokrollahi
  • Patent number: 8705592
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a data transmission apparatus, a data reception apparatus, and a data transmission method. The data transmission apparatus, the data reception apparatus, and the data transmission method are capable of simplifying the circuit structure of a decoder because an assumption of the time related to a request signal and a data signal is not necessary and an additional logic for generating a clock signal for the decoder is not necessary by using a Finite State Machine (FSM) logic without storing a state via a delay device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Myeong-Hoon Oh, Chi-Hoon Shin, Sung-Nam Kim, Seong-Woon Kim
  • Patent number: 8699596
    Abstract: A method for detecting a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) signal in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes: selecting from a first antenna each of the first candidate signal constellations in which a first path metric for at least one first survivor path is minimal; acquiring at least one second survivor path based on the first candidate signal constellations; updating a second survivor path so as to remove an effect on the second survivor path due to the first candidate signal constellations; selecting from a second antenna each of the second candidate signal constellations in which a second path metric for the at least one updated second survivor path is minimal; acquiring at least one final survivor path based on the second candidate signal constellations; and acquiring a transmitting symbol among the final survivor paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Jong Ee Oh, Yu Ro Lee, Sok Kyu Lee
  • Patent number: 8699618
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for generating a plurality of demodulation reference signal (DM-RS) sequences, a communication terminal device using same, and a base station using same, which generate N DM-RS sequences by adding additional parameters having N (?2) values or N numbers of cases after designing a basic DM-RS sequence for one or more layers. Thereby, each terminal can easily obtain layer information assigned thereto except for basic precoder information from DM-RS and can further predict interference and the like among terminals by obtaining layer information of other terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Pantech Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyoungmin Park, Sungjin Suh
  • Patent number: 8699632
    Abstract: An OFDM reception device receives an OFDM symbol that includes a signal for a useful symbol duration generated based on transmission information and a signal for a guard interval duration generated based on the signal for the useful symbol duration. The OFDM reception device includes a first orthogonal transformation unit configured to perform an orthogonal transformation on the signal for the useful symbol duration, a second orthogonal transformation unit configured to perform an orthogonal transformation on the signal for the guard interval duration, and a decoding unit configured to decode the OFDM symbol in accordance with results of the orthogonal transformation by the first orthogonal transformation unit and results of the orthogonal transformation by the second orthogonal transformation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshinobu Matsumura
  • Patent number: 8699625
    Abstract: A coded multidimensional modulation system called generalized OFDM (GOFDM) uses orthogonal subcarriers as bases functions, and the signal constellation points of corresponding multidimensional constellation diagram are obtained as N-dimensional Cartesian product of one-dimensional PAM/two-dimensional QAM. In GOFDM, the N-dimensional/2N-dimensional signal constellation point is transmitted over all N subcarriers/2N-subcarriers, which serve as individual bases functions. Even if some of the subcarriers are severely affected by channel distortion, the overall signal constellation point will face only small distortion, when strong channel capacity achieving channel codes are used. In addition, because the channel capacity is a linear function of number of dimensions, the spectral efficiency of optical transmission systems is significantly improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: NEC Laboratories America, Inc.
    Inventors: Ivan B. Djordjevic, Lei Xu, Ting Wang
  • Patent number: 8693608
    Abstract: An endpoint or other communication device of a communication system includes a clock recovery loop having a phase error estimator. The communication device is operative as a slave device relative to another communication device that is operative as a master device. The clock recovery loop is configured to control a slave clock of the slave device responsive to a phase error estimate generated by the phase error estimator so as to synchronize the slave clock with a master clock of the master device. The phase error estimator comprises a plurality of filters each configured to generate a different estimate of master clock phase using at least a subset of a plurality of packets received from the master device, and control logic for adaptively selecting at least a particular one of the plurality of filters for use in generating the phase error estimate to be processed in the clock recovery loop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Ilija Hadzic, Dennis R. Morgan
  • Patent number: 8687733
    Abstract: A method, circuit, and a system for performing digital predistortion are disclosed. Digital predistortion may be used to compensate for or null the distortion caused by power amplifiers. The distortion of power amplifiers is usually larger at higher magnitudes or powers, and therefore, a larger percentage of the samples collected for the digital predistortion may be of higher magnitude or power. At least one sample of lower magnitude or power may be ignored or not collected. Accordingly, fewer samples can be used to perform digital predistortion, thereby allowing digital predistortion to be performed more quickly and efficiently with fewer resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventors: Shahin Gheitanchi, Lei Xu
  • Patent number: 8687730
    Abstract: A wireless device includes a channel covariance matrix calculating unit that calculates a covariance matrix based on a channel matrix estimated based on radio signal transmitted from a transmitting station. The wireless device further includes a first metric calculating unit that calculates a first metric based on the calculated covariance matrix. The wireless device further includes a W1 determining unit that calculates a first precoding matrix common to a plurality of bands based on the calculated first metric. The wireless device further includes second metric calculating units that calculate a second metric using the calculated first precoding matrix. The wireless device further includes an optimal CQI/PMI/RI determining unit that calculates a second precoding matrix of each band based on the calculated second metric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Daisuke Ogawa, Takashi Dateki
  • Patent number: 8681841
    Abstract: A method of communication comprises partitioning a single-carrier data stream into equal-size blocks, and partitioning each block into a plurality of equal-size sub-blocks. A first set of cyclic prefixes and/or postfixes is inserted into the blocks to allow a linear convolution of a frequency-selective multipath channel having a long delay spread to be modeled as a circular convolution at a receiver. A second set of cyclic prefixes and/or postfixes is inserted into the sub-blocks to allow a linear convolution of a frequency-selective multipath channel having a short delay spread to be modeled as a circular convolution at the receiver. Upon receiving a transmitted data frame from the multipath channel, the receiver measures a link quality index (LQI) of a short channel impulse response; and selects block-by-block equalization or sub-block by sub-block equalization based on the LQI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Adeptence, LLC
    Inventor: Ismail Lakkis
  • Patent number: 8681905
    Abstract: A MIMO detector for use in MIMO-OFDM wireless communication that forms a plurality of propagation paths by using a plurality of transmitting and receiving antennas includes: an inverse matrix calculator operating as an inverse matrix calculation unit configured to calculate an inverse matrix of a matrix of the propagation path based on a signal received by a receiver; a detection speed controller operating as an estimation unit configured to estimate a variation in the propagation path over time; and a phase synchronization circuit and a regulator configured to variably control a processing time required to calculate the inverse matrix by the inverse matrix calculator, according to the variation in the propagation path over time estimated by the detection speed controller. The MIMO detector is provided on the side of the receiver of the wireless communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: RayTron, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Miyanaga, Shingo Yoshizawa
  • Patent number: 8681891
    Abstract: A cellular communication system Multiple-In Multiple-Out, MIMO, transmitter includes a plurality of antennas, a selector that selects training sequences for messages, a generator that generates messages including selected training sequences, and a transmitter that transmits the messages on the plurality of antennas. The selector selects a training sequence for a message from a set of training sequences in response to an associated antenna on which the message is to be transmitted. The set of training sequences is associated with a cell of the MIMO transmitter and includes disjoint subsets of training sequences for each of the plurality of antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Peter B. Darwood, Vishakan Ponnampalam, Alan Edward Jones
  • Patent number: 8681898
    Abstract: A signal amplifying apparatus, a wireless transmitting apparatus, and a signal amplifying method are provided. The signal amplifying apparatus modulates an envelope signal using a multi-bit quantizer, thereby increasing coding efficiency and tracking optimal supply voltage with respect to envelope variation due to the use of the multi-bit quantizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Joon-Hyung Kim, Sung-Jun Lee, Jae-Ho Jung
  • Patent number: 8654906
    Abstract: A receiving device includes a FFT unit performing FFT on an input signal of a time domain to transform the input signal into a plurality of signals of frequency domains and outputting the plurality of signals of the frequency domains, a signal extracting unit extracting a signal with a power that is greater than a threshold value from among the plurality of signals of the frequency domains output from the first FFT unit and outputting the extracted signal, an IFFT unit performing IFFT on the extracted signal output from the signal extracting unit, a subtracting unit subtracting the extracted signal output from the IFFT unit from the input signal and outputs a subtracted signal, and a second FFT unit transforming the subtracted signal output from the subtracting unit into a signal of the frequency domain by performing the FFT on the subtracted signal output from the subtracting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 8654826
    Abstract: The embodiments provide a multi-stage phase estimation method and apparatus. The apparatus is a multi-stage phase estimation configuration. Each stage of the phase estimation configuration includes metric computation modules. Each of the metric computation modules computing a distance metric and search phase angles according to an input signal and an initial search phase angle or a search phase angle of the former stage phase estimation configuration. The number of the metric computation modules is equal to that of the search phase angles of this stage. A selection module selects the search phase angle corresponding to the minimal distance metric as the phase estimation result output of this stage according to the computation results of all metric computation modules. The average time window length of the former stage phase estimation configuration is larger than that of the subsequent stage phase estimation configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Jianqiang Li, Zhenning Tao, Lei Li
  • Patent number: 8654827
    Abstract: A system and method for identifying minor echoes present in an input signal in the situation where a set of major echoes has already been identified from the input signal. The method includes: computing a spectrum F corresponding to a sum of the major echoes; computing a weighted power spectrum SM of the spectrum F; subtracting the weighted power spectrum SM from a weighted power spectrum PIN of the input signal to obtain a difference spectrum; performing a stabilized division of the difference spectrum by a conjugate of the spectrum F to obtain an intermediate spectrum; computing an inverse transform of the intermediate spectrum to obtain a time-domain signal; and estimating parameters one or more of the minor echoes from the time-domain signal. The echo parameters are usable to remove at least a portion of the one or more estimated minor echoes from the input signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Coherent Logix, Incorporated
    Inventor: Jan D. Garmany
  • Patent number: 8644415
    Abstract: An objective problem of the invention is to provide a mechanism for improving the performance of a radio access network. According to a first aspect of the present invention, the object is achieved by a method in a first node for adapting a multi-antenna transmission to a second node over an effective channel. The first node and the second node are comprised in a wireless communication system. The method comprises the steps of obtaining at least one symbol stream and determining a precoding matrix having a block diagonal structure. The method comprises the further steps of precoding the at least one symbol stream with the determined precoding matrix, and transmitting the at least one precoded symbol stream over the effective channel to the second node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: George Jöngren, Bo Göransson
  • Patent number: 8644429
    Abstract: A wide band receiver to select and demodulate an input signal with single scan spectrum sensing by performing filtering on the input signal in digital domain to achieve improved selectivity and sensitivity is provided. The input signal includes one or more narrowband radio frequency (RF) signals. The wide band receiver includes a wide band tuner that down converts the one or more narrowband RF signals to one or more IF signals. An analog to digital converter (ADC) converts the one or more IF signals to one or more digital signals. A filter rejects out-of-band signals from the one or more digital signals to achieve the improved selectivity. A numeric controlled oscillator (NCO) selects at least one narrowband digital signal from the digital signals based on a phase value obtained from a spectrum selection control unit. A demodulator demodulates the narrowband digital signal to obtain a demodulated digital signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Saankhya Labs Private Limited
    Inventors: Subramanian Harish Krishnan, Saurabh Mishra, Parag Naik, Subrahmanya Kondageri Shankaraiah, Gururaj Padki, Santosh Billava
  • Patent number: 8638833
    Abstract: A system is disclosed with a first transceiver configured to communicate with a second transceiver. The first transceiver includes a message encoded by a spreading code and a transmitter configured to use beam forming to send the message as a beamformed transmit message to the second transceiver in one of multiple regions repeatedly targeted by the beam forming. The transceivers include a receiver configured to operating without beam forming in receiving to decode the message using the spreading code with a spreading length to compensate for the lack of beam forming. Other embodiments may include an integrated circuit with a processor operating a transmitter and a receiver of the first or the second transceiver. The integrated circuit may act as a central point, a base station and/or an access point communicating with a client, or operate the transceiver as the client, a station or as a cellular phone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sundar G. Sankaran, Tevlik Yucek, Paul Petrus, Matthew Smith
  • Patent number: 8638834
    Abstract: Energy in a frequency band is received at a wireless communication device and data is generated representing samples of a received time domain waveform from the received energy. Data for groups of samples of the received time domain waveform is processed to transform the data for the received time domain waveform to produce data for an intermediate domain signal that is in neither the time domain nor the frequency domain. The data representing the intermediate domain signal is analyzed to determine whether a sequence having a predetermined pattern from a set of possible sequences is present in the received energy, and ultimately to determine a sequence of the predetermined pattern whose presence is detected in the received energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Ahmadreza Hedayat, Mohammad Janani, Hang Jin