Patents Examined by Quochien B. Vuong
  • Patent number: 9402148
    Abstract: A method for testing an Integrated Circuit (IC) with Near Field Communication (NFC) technology according to a first embodiment of the present invention includes: utilizing a BB modem of the IC to generate a known data pattern; modulating the known data pattern to generate a modulated data pattern; sending the modulated data pattern on the transmitting path to an NFC antenna of the IC and utilizing the NFC antenna to loop the modulated data pattern back to the receiving path; demodulating the modulated data pattern; and determining if the data pattern on the transmitting path is the same as the data pattern on the receiving path. When the data pattern on the transmitting path is not the same as the data pattern on the receiving path, it is determined that the IC fails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: MediaTek Singapore Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Ying Chow Tan, Tieng Ying Choke, Yuan Sun, Osama K A Shana'a
  • Patent number: 9397709
    Abstract: A light device includes a light emitting module in which a plurality of light sources are provided; caps that are provided at two ends of the light emitting module and are to be mounted in a lighting fixture; and a positional information transmission part that is provided between an outermost one of the plurality of light sources of the light emitting module and the corresponding cap and transmits predetermined positional information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Shin Kusakari
  • Patent number: 9397718
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a mobile telephone holding device which includes a main body, an arm, at least two clamping elements, a wireless electrical charging device with which a mobile telephone can be charged and an electrical switching device, wherein the arm s mounted on the main body in such a way that the arm can be moved between an inoperative position (R) and at least one holding position (H) against a restoring force, wherein the electrical switching device, depending on the position of the arm, interrupts an electrical line which leads to the charging device in the inoperative position (R) of the arm, and closes the electrical line which leads to the charging device in each holding position (H) of the arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Peiker Acustic GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Jens Lachnitt
  • Patent number: 9391720
    Abstract: A receiver apparatus adapted to be synchronized with a link transmitter to identify and isolate a transmitted, modulated carrier signal from other RF transmissions by obtaining A/D samples at each integer ? zero crossing of a transmitted signal and at the half Hertz cycles (?/2 and 3 ?/2) of the modulated carrier signal. The integer ? A/D samples are at the carrier signal zero crossings and thus contain only the other RF and noise in the receiving antenna. The half Hertz cycle A/D samples contain both the carrier signal and the other RF being received at that instant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Custom Link Corporation
    Inventor: William A. Ganter
  • Patent number: 9385760
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a wireless signal receiving device and method capable of receiving three or more signals of different central frequencies. An embodiment of said device comprises: a receiving circuit operable to generate a reception signal according to a wireless signal including a first, second, and third wireless signals of different central frequencies; a mixer operable to generate a mixing signal by processing the reception signal according to an oscillation clock in which the mixing signal includes a first, second and third intermediate-frequency (IF) signals and the central frequency of the third IF signal is higher than the other two; and a digital signal generating circuit operable to generate a first, second and third digital signals by processing the first, second and third IF signals according to a sampling frequency in which the sampling frequency is lower than two times the maximum frequency of the third IF signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ming-Chung Huang
  • Patent number: 9385762
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for digital predistortion for a concurrent multi-band transmitter that compensates for both in-band and out-of-band intermodulation products according to a memory polynomial based baseband model. In one embodiment, a concurrent multi-band transmitter includes a digital predistortion subsystem, power amplifier circuitry, and an adaptation subsystem. The digital predistortion subsystem includes multiple digital predistorters configured to process digital input signals for frequency bands of a concurrent multi-band signal to provide predistorted digital input signals each being for a different one of the frequency bands of the concurrent multi-band signal and one or more intermodulation distortion compensation signals each being for a different one of one or more intermodulation distortion frequency bands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Pierre-Andre Laporte, Mark Edward Rollins, Haiying Cao
  • Patent number: 9374139
    Abstract: A MIMO radio transceiver to support processing of multiple signals for simultaneous transmission via corresponding ones of a plurality of antennas and to support receive processing of multiple signals detected by corresponding ones of the plurality of antennas. The radio transceiver provides, on a single semiconductor integrated circuit, a receiver circuit or path for each of a plurality of antennas and a transmit circuit or path for each of the plurality of antennas. Each receiver circuit downconverts the RF signal detected by its associated antenna to a baseband signal. Similarly, each transmit path upconverts a baseband signal to be transmitted by an assigned antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: IPR Licensing, Inc.
    Inventors: Gary L. Sugar, Robert M. Masucci, David G. Rahn
  • Patent number: 9369094
    Abstract: An exemplary system comprises a linearizer module, a first upconverter module, a power amplifier module, a signal sampler module, and a downconverter module. The linearizer module may be configured to receive a first intermediate frequency signal and to adjust the first intermediate frequency signal based on a reference signal and a signal based on a second intermediate frequency signal. The first upconverter module may be configured to receive and up-convert a signal based on the adjusted first intermediate frequency signal to a radio frequency signal. The power amplifier module may be configured to receive and amplify a power of a signal based on the radio frequency signal. The signal sampler module may be configured to sample a signal based on the amplified radio frequency signal. The downconverter module may be configured to receive and down-convert a signal based on the sampled radio frequency signal to the second intermediate frequency signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Aviat U.S., Inc.
    Inventors: Frank Matsumoto, Youming Qin, David C. M. Pham
  • Patent number: 9362975
    Abstract: A low noise amplifier for carrier aggregation and non-carrier aggregation is provided. The low noise amplifier includes a plurality of symmetrical half circuits, a plurality of bias circuits, where each of the plurality of bias circuits is connected to one of the plurality of symmetrical half circuits, a plurality of capacitors, where each of the plurality of capacitors is connected to one of the plurality of symmetrical half circuits for Alternating Current (AC) coupling an RF signal containing at least one component carrier, and a control logic circuit connected to each of the plurality of symmetrical half circuits for configuring the low noise amplifier to process one component carrier or a plurality of component carriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jianxin Wu, Xiaohua Yu, Sangwon Son, Naveen Alluri
  • Patent number: 9356637
    Abstract: Upon sending out a first power-supply voltage having a first value to first and second power supply lines in a first mode and sending out a second power-supply voltage having a second value lower than the first value to the second power supply line in a second mode, when switching a power-supply device from the first mode to the second mode, the value of the first power-supply voltage generated in a first power-supply circuit is changed to the second value first, the first and second power supply lines are temporarily connected together and then cut off from each other, and then the generating operation of the first power-supply voltage is stopped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: LAPIS SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takashi Taya
  • Patent number: 9356560
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for transmitting communication signals through a multi-mode power amplifier. For at least some embodiments, a communication signal may be amplified by an amplifier of the multi-mode power amplifier selected based on a desired transmit output power. The output of the selected amplifier may be coupled through a configurable inductive element to an antenna. The inductive element may be configured as a balun or as an inductive load element based on an operating mode of the multi-mode power amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Saihua Lin, Alan Ngar Loong Chan
  • Patent number: 9350835
    Abstract: A mobile electronic device is provided. In one aspect, the mobile electronic device comprises a chassis including a ground plane; a processor carried by the chassis; a frequency tunable antenna carried by the chassis and fed by an inductor; a communications interface carried by the chassis and operative with the processor for receiving and transmitting RF signals via the frequency tunable antenna; audio circuitry carried by the chassis and operative with the communications interface and processor; an audio transducer having a coil in proximity to the frequency tunable antenna for at least one of receiving and transmitting audio signals from and to the audio circuitry; and at least one RF choke configured for blocking RF energy from the frequency tunable antenna through the audio transducer to the ground plane and decoupling the antenna from the audio transducer to minimize any detuning of antenna impedance match and degradation in antenna gain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: BLACKBERRY LIMITED
    Inventors: Lizhong Zhu, Michael Stephen Corrigan, Rafaele Pini
  • Patent number: 9350298
    Abstract: In certain embodiments, a circuit for image frequency rejection includes an analog adder-amplifier that has a transistor pair. The adder-amplifier is configured to receive a plurality of downmixed or upmixed in-phase and quadrature-phase signals, and to add an in-phase signal and a quadrature-phase signal applied at control inputs of both transistors of the transistor pair. Both transistors of the transistor pair are connectable to a same load resistor for addition of the in-phase signal and the quadrature-phase signal applied at the control inputs of both transistors. The adder-amplifier is configured to output, based on adding the in-phase signal and the quadrature-phase signal applied at the control inputs of both transistors of the transistor pair, one or more summed signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: Atmel Corporation
    Inventor: Marco Schwarzmueller
  • Patent number: 9350839
    Abstract: A mobile telephone integration system including an adapter having a main body and a clip which, from an edge of the main body, projects, in a clamping position under prestress in the direction of the bearing surface, over the bearing surface such that a mobile telephone can be pushed into a holding position between a free end of the clip and the bearing surface. A noise-generating means generates a warning noise when the clip is deflected in the opening direction into an overload position by virtue of a rotation process in which the clip is moved out of its release position owing to an increased action of force in the opening direction. The clip pivots back into the release position again by virtue of a return rotation process in which the clip is moved from its overload position owing to an action of force in the closing direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: Peiker Acustic GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jens Lachnitt, Oliver Rast, Torsten Hartmann, Sinisa Trifunovic
  • Patent number: 9351175
    Abstract: A system for determining an actual interferer transmitting an interfering signal including first frequency portions of the interfering signal in a predetermined frequency band of a useful signal is provided. The system includes a signal evaluator configured to determine for each possible interferer of the plurality of possible interferers coefficient information of the possible interferer based on representation information of the possible interferer and based on processing information, such that the coefficient information of the possible interferer and the representation information of the possible interferer together indicate the preprocessed signal, wherein the processing information and the preprocessed signal together indicate the compressed signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Alexander Ruegamer, Ivana Lukcin
  • Patent number: 9350401
    Abstract: Analog interference filter devices and methods for isolation of desirable portions of a radio frequency signal. Signal compensation is used to provide desirable center frequency, passband width, ripple, rolloff, stopband and distortion performance. The filter is implemented with passive and/or active components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: PHYSICAL DEVICES, LLC
    Inventor: Jonathan Ryan Wilkerson
  • Patent number: 9350313
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and device for performing automatic gain control of a received signal. The method comprises the steps of receiving (S101) the signal and amplifying the received signal on the basis of a difference between a power reference value and actual power of the amplified signal. The method further comprises the steps of determining (S102) signal-to-interference ratio of the received signal and controlling (S103) amplification such that the amplified signal attains a target power level by further taking into account the determined signal-to-interference ratio, which target power level is increased as the determined signal-to-interference ratio decreases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Leif Wilhelmsson, Lars Sundström
  • Patent number: 9344590
    Abstract: An embodiment of this invention is directed to a technique capable of appropriately performing a charging process for recharging in an apparatus which is wirelessly rechargeable during communication. According to the embodiment, a mobile terminal which operates by a rechargeable battery, includes a recharge unit configured to recharge the rechargeable battery by wireless power supply, and can transmit a job to an information processing apparatus by short distance wireless communication is operated as follows. An inquiry message for inquiring of a user whether to recharge the rechargeable battery by wireless power supply, which is subject to a paid system, is displayed at the time of transmission of the job. At this time, transmission of the job by short distance wireless communication and display of the inquiry message are controlled to be performed at different timings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Taketomo Naruse, Akihiro Chiba
  • Patent number: 9338266
    Abstract: In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus comprises a housing part and a control part. Said housing part and said control part are configured to be moveable in relation with each other. Said housing part comprises a front surface and said control part comprises a front surface. Said front surface of said housing part and said front surface of said control part are configured next to each other, and the control part is configured to be movable in at least one dimension in relation with said housing part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventor: Sami Saila
  • Patent number: 9331728
    Abstract: Methods and circuits for reducing power dissipation in wireless transceivers and other electronic circuits and systems. Embodiments of the present invention use bias current reduction, impedance scaling, and gain changes either separately or in combination to reduce power dissipation. For example, bias currents are reduced in response to a need for reduced signal handling capability, impedances are scaled thus reducing required drive and other bias currents in response to a strong received signal, or gain is increased and impedances are scaled in response to a low received signal in the presence of no or weak interfering signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: Theta IP, LLC
    Inventor: Yannis Tsividis