Patents Examined by Sarah Hassan
  • Patent number: 10931486
    Abstract: Highly efficient digital domain sub-band based receivers and transmitters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: TECHNION RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION LTD.
    Inventors: Moshe Nazarathy, Alex Tolmachev
  • Patent number: 10917276
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for broadcast signal frame using a bootstrap and a preamble are disclosed. An apparatus for generating broadcast signal frame according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a time interleaver configured to generate a time-interleaved signal by performing interleaving on a BICM output signal; and a frame builder configured to generate a broadcast signal frame including a bootstrap and a preamble using the time-interleaved signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Sung-Ik Park, Jae-Young Lee, Sun-Hyoung Kwon, Heung-Mook Kim
  • Patent number: 10848216
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for transmitting an uplink beam scanning signal in a wireless communication system is provided. A terminal first performs downlink beam scanning, and then transmits the uplink beam scanning signal to a base station through a time-frequency resource corresponding to a beam selected according to the downlink beam scanning. The terminal may transmit information on the downlink beam scanning to the base station. The base station may divide a plurality of terminals into a plurality of groups on the basis of information on downlink beam scanning, received from the plurality of terminals, and perform uplink beam scanning for only uplink beams which are selected corresponding to the plurality of groups among all the uplink beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Kitae Kim, Jiwon Kang, Kilbom Lee, Heejin Kim, Kungmin Park
  • Patent number: 10848359
    Abstract: Techniques are described that provide for virtual symbol splitting for uplink and/or downlink wireless transmissions. A wireless transmitter, such as a UE or a base station, may identify a pilot signal and a payload to be transmitted in a full symbol. The transmitter may format the pilot signal and the payload into separate sub-symbols that are nested within the first full symbol, with each sub-symbol including an associated sub-symbol cyclic prefix, and the full symbol including a full symbol cyclic prefix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yi Huang, Peter Gaal, Wei Zeng, Wanshi Chen, Hao Xu, Tingfang Ji
  • Patent number: 10841814
    Abstract: A chipset including at least one processor is provided. The at least one processor of the chipset is configured to acquire an interference whitening (IW) and detection scheme and demodulate an interference signal based on the acquired IW and detection scheme, wherein the IW and detection scheme is determined based on an interference characteristic of the interference signal, and the interference characteristic is determined based on whether a region in which the interference signal is included collides with a reference signal region of a serving cell and whether the interference signal is a reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong-Sik Kim, Hui-Won Je, In-Hyoung Kim, Se-Bin Im, Young-Seok Jung
  • Patent number: 10833907
    Abstract: A mobile communication device may include a storage element and a baseband processing component operatively coupled to the storage element. The baseband processing component may generate representations of one or more symbols, provide the representations of the one or more symbols through an interface to a buffer element to process, and reduce communications through the interface to the buffer element during at least a portion of the processing of the representations of the one or more symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Jan Ellenbeck, Thorsten Clevorn
  • Patent number: 10833901
    Abstract: A transmitter and receiver for performing a signal select algorithm are provided. A transmitter for providing a signal on a line to be located includes at least one direct digital synthesizer, the direct digital synthesizer producing two component frequencies in response to an input square wave signal; and a feedback loop providing the input square wave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Metrotech Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen John Petherick, George Mainescu, Ion Dracea, Razvan Gabriel Stefanoiu, John Mark Royle
  • Patent number: 10820280
    Abstract: A method for controlling a transmit power of a terminal, and a terminal, where the method and the terminal include, working states of a first antenna and a second antenna may be monitored, and then a transmit power of the first antenna or that of the second antenna may be controlled according to a preset correspondence. Therefore, according to the method and the terminal, a transmit power of an antenna in a working state in the first antenna and the second antenna may be accurately controlled. If the transmit power is less than a standard transmit power, a Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jian Luo, Hui Jin, Songping Yao, Hongyu Li, Yingwei Li, Hongming Zhang, Xuyang Du
  • Patent number: 10784906
    Abstract: A transmitting device of the present disclosure include: a first driver that includes a first sub-driver unit which operates on a basis of a first control signal and a second sub-driver unit which operates on a basis of, of the first control signal and a second control signal, a signal selected through a first selecting operation, and is configured to be able to set a voltage at a first output terminal; and a controller that controls the first selecting operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Takanori Saeki
  • Patent number: 10784935
    Abstract: A wireless transmitter includes a signal processing circuit configured to generate a plurality of first and second spatial streams signals. The transmitter includes a frequency shift circuit configured to selectively apply different frequency shifts to the first and second spatial streams signals. A wireless receiver includes a frequency shift circuit configured to selectively apply different frequency shifts to the received first and second spatial streams signals. The receiver also includes a signal processing circuit configured to process the first and second frequency shifted signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Phazr, Inc.
    Inventors: Farooq Khan, Robert Clark Daniels, Khurram Muhammad, Eran Pisek, Paul Gilliland, Khalil Haddad
  • Patent number: 10778369
    Abstract: A method and device for acquiring Channel State Information (CSI) are provided. In the method, a second node receives a first-type signal and/or a second-type signal sent by a first node; the second node acquires CSI based on measurement of the first-type signal and the second-type signal, or based on measurement of the second-type signal only; the first-type signal may include a measurement Reference Signal (RS), and the second-type signal may include one of: a demodulation RS, a data sharing channel signal, and a signal combination of the data sharing channel signal and the demodulation RS; the second node feeds back the CSI to the first node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: XI'AN ZHONGXING NEW SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zewei Chen, Jun Xu, Yu Ngok Li
  • Patent number: 10778498
    Abstract: A direct conversion wireless transmitter includes IQ mismatch pre-compensation using direct learning adaptation to adjust IQ pre-compensation filtering. Widely-linear IQ_mismatch pre-compensation filtering compensates for IQ mismatch in the TX analog chain, filtering of input data x(n) to provide pre-compensated data y(n) with a compensation image designed to interfere destructively with the IQ_mismatch image. A feedback receiver FBRX captures feedback data z(n) used for direct learning adaptation. DL adaptation adjusts IQ_mismatch filters, modeled as an x(n)_direct and complex conjugate x(n)_image transfer functions w1 and w2, including generating an adaptation error signal based on a difference between TX/FBRX-path delayed versions of x(n) and z(n), and can include estimation and compensation for TX/FBRX phase errors. DL adaptation adjusts the IQ pre-comp filters w1/w2 to minimize the adaptation error signal. Similar modeling can be used for IQ mismatch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Charles K. Sestok, IV
  • Patent number: 10749580
    Abstract: A method and device for adjusting a channel precoding matrix for one or more users operating in a virtualized Massive Multi-Input Multi-Output (M-MIMO) wireless network managed by a neutral host. Each of the users receive wireless services from one or more service providers (SP). For each service provider, a set of N antennas are selected from all available antennas managed by the neutral host. Channel information for each user of each service provider is obtained. A precoding matrix from each SP is defined according to each SP channel and state information. If all channel state information (CSI) parameters are known, and if the CSI parameters are all known, a final precoding matrix based on the known CSI is derived, whereas if only a subset of CSI parameters are known, a final precoding matrix based on the known subset CSI parameters is derived.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Gary David Boudreau, Ben Liang, Seyed Hossein Seyedmehdi, Mohammadmoein Soltanizadeh
  • Patent number: 10742278
    Abstract: An orthogonalization matrix calculation circuit may include a scaling coefficient calculation circuit configured to calculate a scaling coefficient for each of a plurality of candidate update operations for the orthogonalization matrix, wherein each of the plurality of candidate update operations comprises combining linearly at least one of a first column or a second column of the orthogonalization matrix previously utilized to update the orthogonalization matrix, an update operation selection circuit configured to select an optimum candidate update operation from the plurality of candidate update operations, and a matrix update circuit configured to update the orthogonalization matrix according to the scaling coefficient of the optimum candidate update operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Farhana Sheikh, Alexios Konstantinos Balatsoukas Stimming
  • Patent number: 10727800
    Abstract: This disclosure provides a method for gain control in a wireless receiver. The wireless receiver comprises a first receiver chain adapted to receive a first signal in a first frequency range, a second receiver chain adapted to receive a second signal in a second frequency range, and a common amplifier module operatively connected to the first receiver chain and the second receiver chain. The method comprises determining a first target gain level for a first path comprising the common amplifier module and the first receiver chain, and determining a second target gain level for a second path comprising the common amplifier module and the second receiver chain. The method comprises setting a gain GA of the common amplifier module and a gain GRx1 in the first receiver chain and a gain GRx2 in the second receiver chain based on the first target gain level and the second target gain level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Nikolai Kajakine, Peter Jakobsson, Victoria Slavinskaya
  • Patent number: 10700897
    Abstract: Highly efficient digital domain sub-band based receivers and transmitters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Technion Research and Development Foundation Ltd
    Inventors: Moshe Nazarathy, Alex Tolmachev
  • Patent number: 10700756
    Abstract: A user equipment UE includes: a measurer that measures, for each of a plurality of candidate beams, a benchmark pertaining to communication quality; a comparer that compares the benchmark with a first threshold value and a second threshold value; and a feedback unit that transmits the benchmark to the base station as feedback information pertaining to an interference beam if the benchmark is the first threshold value or higher and lower than the second threshold value, transmits the benchmark to the base station as feedback information pertaining to a desired beam if the benchmark is the second threshold value or higher, and transmits no feedback information to the base station if the benchmark is lower than the first threshold value, based on the comparison results of the comparer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tatsuki Okuyama, Satoshi Suyama, Tatsunori Obara, Yukihiko Okumura
  • Patent number: 10686583
    Abstract: Generating, during a first and second signaling interval, an aggregated data signal by forming a linear combination of wire signals received in parallel from wires of a multi-wire bus, wherein at least some of the wire signals undergo a signal level transition during the first and second signaling interval; measuring a signal skew characteristic of the aggregated data signal; and, generating wire-specific skew offset metrics, each wire-specific skew offset metric based on the signal skew characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: KANDOU LABS, S.A.
    Inventors: Roger Ulrich, Armin Tajalli, Ali Hormati, Richard Simpson
  • Patent number: 10659214
    Abstract: A clock and data recovery (CDR) circuit includes first through ninth samplers, a clock recovery circuit, a level finding circuit, an offset voltage generator, and a data recovery circuit. Each of the first through ninth samplers samples a data signal based on one of first through ninth reference offset voltage levels to generate first through ninth intermediate signals, respectively. The clock recovery circuit generates the first through fourth clock signals based on the first, second, fifth, and eighth intermediate signals. The level finding circuit generates a band level signal by varying the third intermediate signal. The offset voltage generator generates one of: the fourth and seventh reference offset voltage levels, the fifth and eighth reference offset voltage levels, and the sixth and ninth reference offset voltage levels based on the band level signal. The data recovery circuit detects an output data signal based on the fourth through ninth intermediate signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Synopsys, Inc.
    Inventors: Biman Chattopadhyay, Ravi Mehta, Sanket Naik, Jayesh Wadekar
  • Patent number: 10659269
    Abstract: A system and method for waveform modulation includes encoding input digital data at selected phase angles of an unmodulated sinusoidal waveform. The encoding includes selectively reducing a power of the unmodulated sinusoidal waveform at the selected phase angles in accordance with bit values of the input digital data so as to respectively define first, second, third and fourth data notches in the modulated sinusoidal waveform. An encoded analog waveform is then generated from a digital representation of the modulated sinusoidal waveform. The encoding is performed so that energies associated with the first and third data notches are balanced and energies associated with second and fourth data notches are also balanced. Each of the energies corresponds to a cumulative power difference between a power of the unmodulated sinusoidal waveform and a power of the modulated sinusoidal waveform over a phase angle range subtended by one of the data notches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Inventor: Torsten Schultze