Patents Examined by Phuong Phu
  • Patent number: 10644778
    Abstract: Per given time instance, K samples b are acquired from a signal r, which is based at least on K transmitted symbols x and a transfer matrix H of a communication channel, and a linear detection matrix A of a size K×K is acquired, which is based at least on the transfer matrix H (S101). For the K samples b and the linear detection matrix A, at most K(K?1) tentative parameters b{tilde over (?)} and at most K(K?1) tentative parameters A{tilde over (?)} are iteratively calculated (S102). It is checked whether or not the tentative parameters b{tilde over (?)} and A{tilde over (?)} have converged (S103). If b{tilde over (?)} and A{tilde over (?)} have converged, K estimation values x{circumflex over (?)} are decided for the K transmitted symbols x based on b{tilde over (?)} and A{tilde over (?)} (S104). If b{tilde over (?)} and A{tilde over (?)} have not converged, it is returned to the iteratively calculating b{tilde over (?)} and A{tilde over (?)} for the K samples b.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies, Oy
    Inventor: Ori Shental
  • Patent number: 10644905
    Abstract: A transmission device of the disclosure includes a first selector configured to select one of a first signal and a second signal, and output the selected signal; a second selector configured to select one of an inversion signal of the first signal, the second signal, and an inversion signal of the second signal, and output the selected signal; a first control signal generator configured to generate a first control signal, a second control signal, and a third control signal, based on the first signal, the second signal, and a third signal; a first driver configured to set a voltage of a first output terminal, based on an output signal of the first selector and the first control signal; and a second driver configured to set a voltage of a second output terminal, based on an output signal of the second selector and the second control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Takanori Saeki
  • Patent number: 10637529
    Abstract: Generated chirp pulses are modified so that they have an increased time bandwidth product to compensate for noise and/or attenuation in a communication channel. In certain circumstances, the modification alone may be inefficient so a counterbalancing modification may be applied at the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Raptor Oil Limited
    Inventors: Colin Maclean, Gordon Cowie
  • Patent number: 10637451
    Abstract: A pulse position modulation circuit includes a delay locked loop circuit configured to include a plurality of delay circuits coupled in a cascade, each of the plurality of delay circuits being configured to delay an input signal by a time width corresponding to a control signal so as to generate an output signal, a plurality of pulse generation circuits, each of which is configured to generate a pulse with a pulse width corresponding to a phase difference between a first signal and a second signal which have different phases from each other at different timings corresponding to states of the first signal and the second signal, each of the first signal and the second signal being the input signal or the output signal of the plurality of delay circuits, and a selection circuit configured to select pulses generated by the plurality of pulse generation circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Ikuo Soga
  • Patent number: 10635322
    Abstract: A computing device and a method of operating the same are provided. The computing device includes a modem that communicates with an external device, a storage device, an application processor that accesses the storage device, and a switch that selectively provides one of a first communication path connecting the modem and the application processor and a second communication path connecting the modem and the storage device without passing through the application processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chang-eun Choi, Su Hwa Yoo, Hwaseok Oh
  • Patent number: 10630369
    Abstract: A transmission method for transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal in the same frequency at the same time. Each signal has been modulated according to a different modulation scheme. The transmission method applies precoding on both signals using a fixed precoding matrix, applies different power change to each signal, and regularly changes the phase of at least one of the signals, thereby improving received data signal quality for a reception device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUST
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi
  • Patent number: 10616011
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides for distortion cancelled by receiving a collided signal, the collided signal comprising a first signal carrying a first packet and a second signal carrying a second packet; amplifying and digitizing the collided signal into a first digital signal at a first gain and a second digital signal at a second gain that is greater than the first gain; determining a nonlinear interference component of the first packet on the second packet from the first digital signal; decoding the first packet from the first digital signal; re-encoding the first packet with a first estimated channel effect into an estimated signal; calculating a linear interference component of the first packet on the second packet from the estimated signal; removing the linear interference component and the nonlinear interference component from the second digital signal to produce a de-interfered signal; and decoding the second packet from the de-interfered signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Khashayar Mirfakhraei, Ardalan Alizadeh, Xu Zhang, Gautam D. Bhanage, Daniel J. Lyons, Brian D. Hart
  • Patent number: 10616008
    Abstract: Systems and methods for performing focused blind deconvolution of signals received by a plurality of sensors are disclosed. In some embodiments, this may include determining a cross-correlation of first and second signals, obtaining a cross-correlation of a first response function and a second response function based on the cross-correlation of the first and second signals and subject to a first constraint that the first and second response functions are maximally white, and obtaining the first and second response functions based on the cross-correlation of the first and second response functions and subject to a second constraint that the first and second response functions are maximally front-loaded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Pawan Bharadwaj Pisupati, Laurent Demanet, Aime Fournier
  • Patent number: 10608718
    Abstract: A first-transceiver system for use in an antenna diversity scheme. The first-transceiver system comprising: a first-receiver; a first-time/clock-generation-unit; a first-transmitter; and a timing-controller. The first-receiver is configured to receive a wireless first-common-signal from a third-party-transmitter, wherein the first-common-signal is representative of a common-signal transmitted by the third-party-transmitter. The timing-controller is configured to: receive signaling representative of the first-common-signal; receive signaling representative of a wireless second-common-signal as received at a second-transceiver, the wireless second-common-signal being representative of the common-signal; and generate a timing-signal based on the first-common-signal and the second-common-signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Lars van Meurs, Alessio Filippi, Arie Koppelaar, Marinus van Splunter
  • Patent number: 10608709
    Abstract: A wireless communication system is disclosed. The system performs data transmission from a first terminal including N antennas to a second terminal including M antennas using spatially multiplexed streams (N and M are integers larger than or equal to 2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Tomoya Yamaura
  • Patent number: 10601631
    Abstract: A receiving method for receiving a plurality of carriers and generating one or a plurality of streams. The method includes a first demodulating step of processing a first transmission signal and generating a first demodulation output; a second demodulating step of processing a second transmission signal different from the first transmission signal and generating a second demodulation output; a combining step of generating one stream based on the first demodulation output and the second demodulation output; a selecting step of selecting one among the first demodulation output and the one stream, and generating a selected stream; and a back-end processing step of generating an output for a display from the selected stream and the second demodulation output. In the selecting step, the first demodulation output is selected in a receiving mode in single channel transmission, and the one stream is selected in a receiving mode in multiple channel transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: SOCIONEXT INC.
    Inventors: Hisateru Kobatake, Teruaki Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 10574318
    Abstract: A first-transceiver system for use in an antenna diversity scheme. The first-transceiver system comprising: a first-receiver; a first-time/clock-generation-unit; a first-transmitter; and a timing-controller. The first-receiver is configured to receive a wireless first-common-signal from a third-party-transmitter, wherein the first-common-signal is representative of a common-signal transmitted by the third-party-transmitter. The timing-controller is configured to: receive signaling representative of the first-common-signal; receive signaling representative of a wireless second-common-signal as received at a second-transceiver, the wireless second-common-signal being representative of the common-signal; and generate a timing-signal based on the first-common-signal and the second-common-signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Lars van Meurs, Alessio Filippi, Arie Koppelaar, Marinus van Splunter
  • Patent number: 10574319
    Abstract: Methods and systems for communication between a network base station and a remote device are disclosed. Disclosed methods include providing, at a base station coupled to the network, a modulated signal to mixers in a retro-directive metamaterial antenna, and receiving an RF transmission beam from the remote device, at the retro-directive metamaterial antenna, and radiating from the antenna a modulated retro-directed beam, using mixer products, directed toward the remote device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Donna L. Polehn, Fred Weisbrod
  • Patent number: 10574277
    Abstract: The present invention teaches a system and method for improved signal recovery for range and coverage extension in a heterogeneous cooperative network of digital chaos transmissions with OFDM component signal transmission. The invention improves upon the state of art in side channel information from the transmit side containing information on the clipped amplitude. In-band transmission of the side information is achieved by exploiting the sparsity of the resulting clip amplitude position with improved levels of compression over the prior art using Gabor Transform Multiple Symbol Encoding transmitter. The information rate of the clipped amplitude is sub-Nyquist relative to the original OFDM component signal transmission, which allows very low power spreading by a cooperative digital chaos sequences at a transmit side and recovery of the clipped amplitude at a receive side. Further, an improved noise resistance side channel performance is achieved by decoding Gabor Transform symbols for symbol recovery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Inventors: John David Terry, Anthony Reid
  • Patent number: 10567203
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides example channel parameter estimation methods and related apparatuses. In one example method, a cable modem (CM) obtains a second data frame through a downlink channel between the CM and a cable modem termination system (CMTS). The second data frame is generated after a first data frame sent by the CMTS is modulated through the downlink channel, a zero-bit-loaded symbol of the first data frame includes no valid codeword, but includes a zero-bit-loaded NCP and an idle codeword identified by the zero-bit-loaded NCP, and the idle codeword includes a data sequence used for channel parameter estimation. The CM can estimate a channel parameter of the downlink channel based on a data sequence in an obtained zero-bit-loaded symbol of the second data frame and the data sequence in the zero-bit-loaded symbol of the first data frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fan Wang, Tao Ouyang, Li Zhang, Xiaolong Zhang
  • Patent number: 10560292
    Abstract: A transmission apparatus includes a waveform processing circuit. The waveform processing circuit is configured to receive a modulated signal indicating each of values of pulses by one of four signal levels including first, second, third, and fourth signal levels ascending in this order. The waveform processing circuit is configured to output a signal corresponding to the modulated signal. A portion of the output signal corresponding to a portion of the modulated signal that transitions between the first and fourth signal levels, transitions between a first adjusted signal level different from the first signal level and a second adjusted signal level different from the fourth signal level. The transmission apparatus is configured to transmit a signal corresponding to the signal output from the waveform processing circuit through a wired communication path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MEMORY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yutaka Shimizu
  • Patent number: 10554183
    Abstract: A DPD operates at a sampling rate at which the input signal not up sampled at an upstream of the DPD is sampled. The DPD includes a polynomial structure comprising a pseudo-interpolation and sub-sample shift processing unit configured to pseudo-interpolate a sample point between the sample points of the input signal and shift the pseudo-interpolated sample point by a sub-sample, and an FIR (Finite Impulse Response) filter disposed at a downstream of the polynomial structure and including a sub-sample delay filter configured to delay the sample point of the input signal by the sub-sample. The DPD uses the polynomial structure and the FIR filter to compensate distortion by the sample point of the input signal and also compensate distortion by a sub-sample point between the sample points of the input signal for the digital predistorter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshiaki Doi
  • Patent number: 10554282
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a 5G or pre-5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate than a 4G communication system such as LTE. The present invention relates to a method and a device for determining rank-related information, the method of user equipment according to the present invention comprising: a step of transmitting, to an eNB, a user equipment capability information message including capability information of the user equipment; a step of receiving a configuration message from the eNB; and a step of determining rank-related information on the basis of whether or not layer-related information is included in the configuration message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Sangbum Kim, Soenghun Kim, Jaehyuk Jang, Himke Van Der Velde, Seunghoon Choi
  • Patent number: 10554453
    Abstract: A decision feedback equalizer (DFE) comprises four charge-steering (CS) primary latches and four primary taps. Two of the four CS primary latches are driven by complementary in-phase quarter-rate clocks and the other two of the four CS primary latches are driven by complementary quadrature quarter-rate clocks. No element of the DFE is driven by any half-rate clocks. In some implementations, each of the primary latches including a respective differential pair of n-channel output transistors and each primary tap includes a respective differential pair of p-channel input transistors connected via their gate nodes to a respective one of the four CS primary latches. In other implementations, each of the primary latches including a respective differential pair of p-channel input transistors and each primary tap includes a respective differential pair of n-channel output transistors connected via their gate nodes to a respective one of the four CS primary latches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Ciena Corporation
    Inventors: Mahdi Parvizi, Jacob Pike, Naim Ben-Hamida, Sadok Aouini, Calvin Plett
  • Patent number: 10541763
    Abstract: A wireless receiver and method of wireless communication determines levels of noise, including interference, in communication channels without need of calibration. A digital test signal is digitally added to digitized noise, and a signal-to-noise-and-interference (SNIR) value is determined from a resulting bit error rate and/or message error rate. The level of noise is then determined from the SNIR. The amplitude of the digital test signal is adjusted to cause the SNIR to be sensitive to the noise level, which can require an SNIR between 1 dB and 10 dB. The system can include a digital test signal generator, or the digital test signal can be stored in a memory. The system can further include a channelizer, demodulator, data correlator, decryptor, and message assembler. Noise and interference level determinations can be used to select an optimal communication channel, and to adjust a transmission power and/or rate to suitable values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
    Inventors: John H Chongoushian, James W Lang