Patents Examined by Lihong Yu
  • Patent number: 11431384
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose a channel estimation method and apparatus, and relate to the field of communications technologies. The method may include: generating and sending indication information, where the indication information is used to indicate L space-frequency basis vectors for constructing an M×N-dimensional space-frequency vector; the space-frequency vector includes M N-dimensional precoding vectors, each precoding vector is used in one of M frequency bands, and the space-frequency vector is generated by performing a weighted combination on L space-frequency component vectors; each of the L space-frequency component vectors is a vector including M×N elements that are in one of the L space-frequency basis vectors, and each of the L space-frequency basis vectors is an Nf×N-dimensional vector; the space-frequency basis vector is a three-dimensional oversampled (DFT) vector; and L?2, Nf?M?1, N?2, and L, M, N, and Nf are all integers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Huangping Jin, Xiaohan Wang, Xiaoyan Bi
  • Patent number: 11424776
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure utilizes the natural properties of RFI noise on a wireline link. Since differential RFI noise in the system has some correlation with the common mode noise on the cable, a replica of RFI noise can be regenerated by an adaptive filter based on information about the common mode noise. The replica RFI is subtracted from the equalizer output prior to the data decision circuitry or slicer. In this method, the system does not require expensive cable, nor does the equalizer suffer additional loss due to an RFI notch filter. Since RFI can be detected and mitigated, this information can also be coupled to safety systems to increase functional safety under high EMI conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Axonne Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth Thet Zin Oo, Hiroshi Takatori, William Lo
  • Patent number: 11425719
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some wireless communications systems, a base station may signal quasi co-location (QCL) information to a first user equipment (UE). Based on the QCL information, the first UE may determine one or more QCL parameters for communications (such as a receive beam or a transmit beam) for uplink, downlink, or sidelink operations. The first UE may signal the determined QCL parameters to a second UE using a sidelink channel. The second UE may use the QCL parameters to configure a beam for a communication link that the second UE may use to communicate with one or more of the first UE via the sidelink channel, one or more other UEs via additional sidelink channels, or one or more base stations via uplink or downlink transmissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Tao Luo, Sony Akkarakaran, Jung Ho Ryu, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11411781
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a signal receiving apparatus capable of improving signal compensation performance and a signal processing method thereof. The signal receiving apparatus includes a terminal configured to receive a signal from an external device; and an equalizer configured to reduce inter-symbol interference of the signal received through the terminal. A swing level of an output signal output from the equalizer is maintained in a preset range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Eunkwang Jang
  • Patent number: 11405083
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an un-manned aerial vehicle having a control unit, a body part and an antenna arrangement that includes an antenna element panel and at least one antenna port that is adapted to provide at least one antenna beam that is electrically steerable to at least two different directions. The aerial vehicle further has a direction unit that connects the antenna element panel to the body part, where the direction unit is adapted to set the antenna element panel in at least two different positions relative the body part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventor: Andreas Nilsson
  • Patent number: 11405002
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a harmonic rejection mixing circuit device and a receiver. In the harmonic rejection mixing circuit device, outputs of first and fourth mixers are combined with the input terminal of the fourth mixer being connected to a capacitor, the first mixer samples a first group of local oscillator (LO) signals, and the fourth mixer phase-invertedly samples the first group of LO signals, thus the noise introduced by a fundamental LO signal input to the first mixer may be eliminated using the double balance feature of the fourth mixer core, thereby ensuring a high signal-to-noise ratio of the receiver. Similarly, the noises introduced by fundamental LO signals input to second and third mixers may be eliminated respectively using the double balance features of the fifth and sixth mixer cores, thereby lowering the noise figure to ensure a high signal-to-noise ratio of the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Hangzhou Geo-Chip Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chun Geik Tan
  • Patent number: 11405116
    Abstract: A method of optimizing at least one IQMC parameter value for an IQMC includes: generating a set of tested IQMC candidate parameter values by performing an iterative method including selecting a first IQMC candidate parameter value for the at least one parameter of the IQMC; determining, using the first IQMC candidate parameter value, a performance metric value that comprises at least one of (i) an image rejection ratio (IRR) value, (ii) a signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) value, or (iii) a signal-to-image ratio (SImR) value; and determining a second IQMC candidate parameter value that is an update to the first IQMC candidate parameter value. The method of optimizing at least one IQMC parameter value for an IQMC further includes determining an IQMC candidate parameter value of the set of tested IQMC candidate parameter values that optimizes the performance metric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Elina Nayebi, Pranav Dayal, Kee-Bong Song
  • Patent number: 11398858
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for preparing channel state information (“CSI”). One apparatus includes a processor and a transceiver configured to communicate with a base unit over a radio access network using at least one transmission layer and determining a total number of non-zero coefficients over a set of layers. The processor determines an indication of the total number of non-zero coefficients, where determining the indication of the total number of non-zero coefficients comprises encoding the total number of non-zero coefficients by selecting a codeword from a plurality of candidate codewords. The processor prepares CSI, where the CSI comprises the indication of the total number of non-zero coefficients and the transceiver transmits the CSI to the base unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Udar Mittal, Tyler Brown, Khalid Zeineddine, Jiho Song
  • Patent number: 11387887
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for generating a channel state information report having information corresponding to a set of layers. The method includes receiving a set of reference signals transmitted from a network including at least one base station. A set of beams are identified based on the set of reference signals. A pair of amplitude and phase coefficient vectors are obtained by transforming the received set of reference signals, wherein each pair of the amplitude and phase coefficient vectors corresponds to a beam in the set of beams in each layer of the set of layers. The layers from the set of layers are partitioned into a set of layer-groups. A beam bitmap vector is generated for each layer-group indicating a subset of a selected set of beams within the layer-group. A coefficient bitmap vector is generated for each of the selected set of beams in each layer indicating the coefficients with non-zero amplitude values, based on the beam bit map vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Ahmed Hindy, Tyler Brown, Udar Mittal
  • Patent number: 11381293
    Abstract: A method for operating a user equipment (UE) comprises receiving, from a base station (BS), CSI feedback configuration information; determining, based on the CSI feedback configuration information, CSI feedback including, for each layer l of a total number of v layers, an indicator i1,8,l indicating an index of a strongest coefficient among KNZ,l coefficients, wherein l?{1, . . . , v} is a layer index, v?1 is a rank value, and KNZ,l is a number of non-zero coefficients for layer l; determining a payload of the indicator i1,8,l for each layer l based on the rank value; and transmitting, to the BS, over an uplink (UL) channel, the CSI feedback including the indicator i1,8,l each layer l of the total number of v layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Md. Saifur Rahman, Eko Onggosanusi
  • Patent number: 11381294
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for rate matching PDSCH around NZP CSI RS transmissions in multi-TRP scenarios. In some cases, a network entity may signal a rate matching behavior to a user equipment (UE) for processing a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) configured with a first quasi co-location association and transmitted from a first transmission reception point (TRP) that potentially collides with one or more types of non-zero power (NZP) reference signals (RS) configured with a second quasi co-location association and transmitted from a second TRP using one or more resource sets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Alexandros Manolakos, Huilin Xu, Wanshi Chen, Heechoon Lee, Peter Gaal
  • Patent number: 11368198
    Abstract: A calibration control apparatus (30) includes a receiving-side correction coefficient calculation unit (31) that calculates a receiving-side correction coefficient for calibrating a characteristic difference between reception units (23) based on a propagation path estimation matrix which has, as a matrix element, a propagation path estimation value of each propagation path from transmission units to reception units (23) in a plurality of transmission units of an OAM mode multiplex transmission apparatus and a plurality of reception units (23) of an OAM mode multiplex reception apparatus (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masashi Hirabe
  • Patent number: 11356307
    Abstract: One aspect of the present invention includes a bi-phase communication receiver system. The system includes an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) configured to sample a bi-phase modulation signal to generate digital samples of the bi-phase modulation signal. The system also includes a bi-phase signal decoder configured to decode the bi-phase modulation signal based on the digital samples. The system further includes a preamble detector comprising a digital filter configured to evaluate the digital samples to generate an output and to detect a preamble of the bi-phase modulation signal for decoding the bi-phase modulation signal based on the output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventor: Eric Gregory Oettinger
  • Patent number: 11356153
    Abstract: Provided in the present disclosure are a device and method in a radio communication system, and a computer-readable storage medium. The device comprises a processing circuit configured to: decode a group common physical downlink control channel (group common PDCCH) of a user equipment group comprising a target user equipment so as to acquire control information related to multi-user multiple input multiple output (MU-MIMO) transmission of a control channel; and decode a user equipment-specific physical downlink control channel (UE-specific PDCCH) of the target user equipment on the basis of the control information so as to acquire specific transmission control information related to the target user equipment, where the UE-specific PDCCH of the target user equipment and UE-specific PDCCH of the other user equipment are stacked on a same transmission resource for transmission. MU-MIMO transmission with respect to a downlink control channel is effectively implemented, thus increasing resource utilization rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jianfei Cao, Tao Cui
  • Patent number: 11349537
    Abstract: A method, in a radio network node, comprises identifying, among a predetermined codebook of precoding matrix codewords, a subset of precoding matrix codewords that are not to be reported by the wireless device in channel-state-information, CSI, feedback, and transmitting, to the wireless device, a bitmap identifying the subset of precoding matrix codewords that are not to be reported by the wireless device; where each bit in the bitmap corresponds to only one combination of a first dimension index l?1 and a second dimension index l?2 out of the possible combinations of the first dimension index l?1 and the second dimension index l?2, and where the first dimension index l?1 and the second dimension index l?2 identify a two-dimensional beam, the two-dimensional beam being defined by a vector of complex numbers comprised within at least one column of a precoding matrix codeword in the codebook.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Siva Muruganathan, Mattias Frenne, Shiwei Gao, Robert Mark Harrison
  • Patent number: 11329662
    Abstract: Describe is a buffer which comprises: a differential source follower coupled to a first input and a second input; first and second current steering devices coupled to the differential source follower; and a current source coupled to the first and second current steering devices. The buffer provides high supply noise rejection ratio (PSRR) together with high bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Yitzhak Elhanan Schifmann, Yoel Krupnik, Ariel Cohen
  • Patent number: 11316726
    Abstract: Receiver circuitries having multiple branches, such as unrolled feedback equalizers and fractional-rate receivers, may present differences between filtering elements of different branches with common filter inputs. Embodiments include devices capable of calibration that compensates such differences. The devices may be capable of introducing front-end offsets to emphasize the mismatches, and sweep filter input values to calculate the mismatches, and introducing offsets in the branches to compensate for the mismatches. Methods for use of the calibration devices are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Dinesh Patil, Jihong Ren, Reza Navid
  • Patent number: 11296756
    Abstract: All data symbols used in data transmission of a modulated signal are precoded by switching between precoding matrices so that the precoding matrix used to precode each data symbol and the precoding matrices used to precode data symbols that are adjacent to the data symbol along the frequency axis and the time axis all differ. A modulated signal with such data symbols arranged therein is transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUST
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi
  • Patent number: 11290306
    Abstract: A signal processing device includes a decision feedback equalizer and a coefficient adjusting circuit. The decision feedback equalizer includes a first equalizer configured to perform filtering on a first signal according to a set of first coefficients to generate a first filtered signal. The set of first coefficients includes multiple first coefficients. The coefficient adjusting circuit is configured to adaptively adjust one or more of the first coefficients according to an error signal. A limit operation of the first coefficients is selectively performed. When the limit operation of the first coefficients is performed, at least one of the first coefficients is set to a first predetermined value to generate a set of limited first coefficients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
    Inventors: Chi-Hsi Su, Liang-Wei Huang
  • Patent number: 11290240
    Abstract: One or more nodes transmit CSI-RS symbols in a set of N CSI-RS elements, each CSI-RS element in the set corresponding to at least one resource element in a time-frequency grid of resource elements. The nodes select, from the N CSI-RS elements, a first set of CSI-RS elements to be measured by a first wireless device, the first set comprising one or several of the N CSI-RS elements. The nodes also transmit, to the first wireless device, a message comprising a first K-bit indicator identifying the first set of CSI-RS elements, wherein K<N. The nodes then receive a measurement report. The first K-bit indicator is one of a predetermined set of K-bit indicators, where each member of the predetermined set of K-bit indicators uniquely corresponds to a CSI-RS element or group of CSI-RS elements from among the N CSI-RS, according to a predetermined mapping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Mattias Frenne, Stephen Grant, Robert Mark Harrison