Patents Examined by Michael Neff
  • Patent number: 10063264
    Abstract: A communication system comprises a signal generator, polarizer, signal combiner, transmitter, positioning device, and controller. The signal generator converts first and second received data streams into respective first and second orthogonal linearly polarized signals. The polarizer is at a first rotation angle and converts first and second orthogonal linearly polarized signals into, respectively, a first right-hand-circularly polarized (RHCP) signal and first left-hand circularly polarized (LHCP) signal, which are combined in signal combiner into a signal sent by transmitter to a receiver. The positioning device adjusts the first rotation angle to substantially increase isolation between third and fourth orthogonal linearly polarized signals at the receiver. The controller performs the real-time analysis of transmission loss and directs the positioning device to adjust the first rotation angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: David D. Crouch, Kenneth W. Brown
  • Patent number: 10063354
    Abstract: A method for modulating data for transmission within a communication system. The method includes establishing a time-frequency shifting matrix of dimension N×N, wherein N is greater than one. The method further includes combining the time-frequency shifting matrix with a data frame to provide an intermediate data frame. A transformed data matrix is provided by permuting elements of the intermediate data frame. A modulated signal is generated in accordance with elements of the transformed data matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Inventors: Ronny Hadani, Selim Shlomo Rakib
  • Patent number: 10057102
    Abstract: A modulation system is configured to employ a dynamically reconfigurable M-ary modulation scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Adaptive Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael B. Propp, Khaled Saab, David L. Propp
  • Patent number: 10050690
    Abstract: A multi-beam module and method of performing an adaptive beam sweep in a multi-beam module of a vehicle includes obtaining information about the vehicle. The information relates to a motion state of the vehicle. The method also includes determining whether a sector sweep by the multi-beam module should be a limited sector sweep that covers less than a 360 degree span collectively based on applying a rule to the information about the vehicle, and performing the limited sector sweep with beams that cover less than the 360 degree span collectively based on determining that the sector sweep should be the limited sector sweep.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Yohay Buchbut, Nadav Lavi
  • Patent number: 10050812
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided to cancel a near-field reflected self-interference component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sheng Liu
  • Patent number: 10050672
    Abstract: A method is for processing an analog signal coming from a transmission channel. The analog signal may include a useful signal modulated on a sub-set of carriers. The method may include analog-to-digital converting of the analog signal into a digital signal, and synchronization processing the digital signal. The synchronizing may include determining, in a time domain, a limited number of coefficients of a predictive filter from an autoregressive model of the digital signal, and filtering the digital signal in the time domain by a digital finite impulse response filter with coefficients based upon the limited number of coefficients to provide a filtered digital signal. The method may include detecting of an indication allowing a location in the frame structure to be identified, using the filtered digital signal and a reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS (ROUSSET) SAS
    Inventors: Mark Wallis, Yoann Bouvet, Pierre Demaj
  • Patent number: 10050691
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method performed in a network node for transmitting data in a wireless network. The network node is configurable for controlling a multiple input multiple output antenna system. The method comprises beamforming user specific data streams to one or more communication devices, UE1, . . . , UEK, wherein the beamforming is based on respective channel information available for each of the one or more communication devices, UE1, . . . , UEK, precoding control information streams using a transmit diversity scheme; and transmitting the beamformed user specific data streams and the precoded control information streams in a same transmission resource. The disclosure relates to a network node, method in communication device, communication device and computer programs and computer program products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Erik Eriksson, Erik Larsson, Pål Frenger
  • Patent number: 10038581
    Abstract: For a wireless communications system, scalable orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) numerology is incorporated in a manner that can apply to radio link transmissions in future wireless network for frequency division duplex (FDD) and time division duplex (TDD) communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Liqing Zhang, Kelvin Kar Kin Au, Jianglei Ma, Wen Tong, Toufiqul Islam
  • Patent number: 10014895
    Abstract: A receiver has an oscillator to output an oscillation signal, a receiver to perform reception processing of a reception signal, a phase frequency detector to output a first signal in response to a phase and a frequency of the oscillation signal so as to generate a second signal indicating a reference phase, a differentiator to generate a third signal being a difference between the first signal and the second signal, an oscillator controller to generate a fourth signal for controlling a phase and a frequency of the oscillator, a phase initializer to output an initialization signal for synchronizing a phase of the second signal with a phase of the first signal, a trigger signal generator to output a trigger signal indicating timing with which the phase initializer outputs the initialization signal, and a power supply controller to control whether to supply a power supply voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Satoshi Kondo, Akihide Sai, Masanori Furuta
  • Patent number: 10009197
    Abstract: An intersymbol interference (ISI) compensation circuit includes a data input for receiving an input data signal including a plurality of bits. An adjustment circuit is configured to adjust bit periods of the bits to generate a first adjusted signal and a second adjusted signal. A sampling circuit is configured to generate a first sample signal by sampling the first adjusted signal, and generate a second sample signal by sampling the second adjusted signal. A decision generation circuit is configured to provide a first decision for a first bit. The first decision provides a chosen adjusted signal that is one of the first and second adjusted signals. A selection circuit is configured to determine a compensated value of the first bit based on a chosen sample signal that is one of the first and second sample signals. The chosen sample signal is generated by sampling the chosen adjusted signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: XILINX, INC.
    Inventors: Terence J. Magee, Asim A. Patel
  • Patent number: 10003477
    Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed herein for performing channel estimation for multi-stream packets. The method may include receiving a data packet comprising a plurality of training fields, wherein the plurality of training fields comprises a training field, wherein the training field comprises a plurality of tones, and wherein the plurality of tones comprises a first tone and a second tone. The method may include modifying the first tone based on a predetermined signal associated with the first tone. The method may include storing the first tone in a data structure associated with the first tone. The method may include modifying the data structure based on the second tone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.
    Inventors: Ankit Sethi, Swaroop Venkatesh, Sudhir Srinivasa, Hongyuan Zhang
  • Patent number: 9996855
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed to determine a consumer classification segment. A disclosed example method involves generating, with a processor, a list of consumer classification segments based on geographic indicators associated with a mobile device, associating, with the processor, the mobile device with a first consumer classification segment of the list of consumer classification segments if the geographic indicators were retrieved while a first application was executed, and associating, with the processor, the mobile device with a second consumer classification segment of the list of consumer classification segments if the geographic indicators were retrieved while a second application was executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Laura Cochran, David R. Miller, Jeff Stevens, Mark Nelson
  • Patent number: 9992046
    Abstract: Methods and systems for channel estimation using iterative channel tracking algorithm, in a communication system combined multiple input multiple output (MIMO) technology with orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), are disclose. The initial channel estimation of a data packet uses the first preamble inserted in front of the OFDM blocks. After demodulating subsequent one or more OFDM blocks, iterative channel tracking method is used for channel estimation until the next preamble is received. The iterative channel tracking is based on the received signals and the demodulated results of subsequent one or more OFDM blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: LILEE SYSTEMS, LTD
    Inventors: Yu-Wei Lee, Meng-Chang Doong
  • Patent number: 9991994
    Abstract: A method and terminal device for reducing an image distortion are provided. The terminal device generates a radio frequency signal from a first path that includes first and second low pass filters of in-phase and quadrature phase paths, produces a decomposed signal having in-phase and quadrature phase components in digital form based on the radio frequency signal, and determines a phase mismatch between the in-phase and quadrature phase components. Then the terminal device generates a bandwidth adjustment value based on the determined phase mismatch, further generates, based on the bandwidth adjustment value, first and second bandwidth control signals; and adjusts a bandwidth of first and second low pass filters based on the first and second bandwidth control signals to reduce the phase mismatch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Hong Jiang, Wael Al-Qaq, Zhihang Zhang, Eric Sung
  • Patent number: 9985776
    Abstract: A communication method for communication between a first and a second communication apparatus, where at least one wanted signal is transmitted from the second communication apparatus to the first communication apparatus is provided. The method includes sending a first carrier signal at a first frequency using the first communication apparatus. The method also includes receiving the first carrier signal using the second communication apparatus and generating a second carrier signal at a second frequency. The method includes changing the second frequency and/or a specified phase angle, and/or modulating the second carrier signal in each case as a function of the wanted signal in order to generate a transmit signal. The transmit signal is sent by the second communication apparatus, and the transmit signal is received and demodulated in order to recover the wanted signal using the first communication apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Jan Bollenbeck
  • Patent number: 9985812
    Abstract: Generally, in accordance with the various illustrative embodiments disclosed herein, an RF receiver can include an error correction system that executes a signal processing procedure upon a multi-tone digital I-signal and a multi-tone digital Q-signal to derive a wideband correction matrix. The wideband correction matrix can be used to correct one or more of: an amplitude error in any one or more frequency components of an RF input signal provided to the RF receiver, a phase error in any one or more frequency components of the RF input signal, a gain mismatch error between an analog I-signal circuit portion of the RF receiver and an analog Q-signal circuit portion of the RF receiver, or a phase mismatch error between the analog I-signal circuit portion of the RF receiver and the analog Q-signal circuit portion of the RF receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Keysight Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Reinhold Frederick Hollender
  • Patent number: 9967060
    Abstract: A transmission method and an FBMC transmitter to transmit at least a first and a second block of symbols (X0, X1), each symbols block including a temporal sequence of L vectors with predetermined size N. It uses a first and a second FBMC modulation channel, each FBMC modulation channel being associated with an antenna. During a first use of the channel, the vectors of the first block and the vectors of the second block are input to the first and to the second FBMC modulation channels respectively, in the order of the temporal sequence. During a second use of the channel, the vectors of the first and second blocks are multiplied by a factor jL 1 respectively and ?(jL 1) input to the second and to the first FBMC modulation channels respectively, in the inverse order of the temporal sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventor: Jean-Baptiste Dore
  • Patent number: 9960862
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and device for detecting a standing-wave ratio, which are used for realizing quick and accurate detection of the standing-wave ratio by only using a downlink service signal transmitted by a TD-LTE base station system, thereby preventing a special training sequence from causing additional interference to the base station system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shihua Wang, Tao Duan, Bin Xue, Jieli Wang
  • Patent number: 9954697
    Abstract: Provided is an apparatus for equalizing a channel and determining reception data of a packet communication receiver. The apparatus includes: an input interface unit which receives a reception sample string of a packet having a midamble and location information of the midamble; a sample dividing unit which divides the reception sample string into a first sub sample string and a second sub string stream using the location information of the midamble; and a channel equalizing unit which performs channel equalization on the first sub sample string and the second sub sample string, respectively, using a channel equalizing algorithm of the channel equalizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Seung Geun Kim, Yong Kon Lim, Chang Ho Yun, Jong Won Park
  • Patent number: 9949299
    Abstract: A communication system and method is provided for handling emergencies wherein public safety radios are used to directly communicate with normally incompatible radios used by organizations such as schools. The system includes a radio communication bridge that is selectively activated by emergency personnel to contact an organization undergoing an emergency. The bridge is activated via a TCP/IP command over an IP network or alternatively sent by a pre-programmed digital radio. Computer software or firmware at communication endpoints, emergency responder locations, and at an emergency call center facilitates functionality of the system to include emergency notifications, dissemination of information associated with a particular emergency, and the status of the system to include activation and deactivation of the radio bridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: SAFECOM 911, INC.
    Inventors: Patrick L. Hobby, David E. Petty