Patents Examined by Shuwang Liu
  • Patent number: 10700735
    Abstract: A transmission device, method, and program for signal transmission with reduced intersymbol interference are disclosed. In one example, a mapping unit maps binary data to symbols and a generating unit generates a signal from the mapped symbols. A transmission band-limiting filter performs band limitation of the signal at a corner frequency higher than half a frequency of a symbol rate. A frequency modulating unit performs frequency modulation on a carrier wave on the basis of the band limitation and the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Sachio Iida
  • Patent number: 10693508
    Abstract: Various embodiments disclosed herein provide for a low complexity transmitter structure for active antenna arrays by reducing the number of digital predistortion extraction loops that need to be performed. Digital predistortion (DPD) corrects any non-linearities in a power amplifier. By determining which power amplifiers have similar characteristics in an array, and thus may use similar predistortion coefficients, once the DPD coefficients are determine for one of the grouped power amplifiers, DPD can be performed on each of the grouped power amplifiers based on the DPD coefficients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventor: SaiRamesh Nammi
  • Patent number: 10693539
    Abstract: A method for indicating a combination between a codeword and a layer in a MIMO communication, system, a layer mapping method, and a data transmission method using the same are disclosed. A minimum number of codeword-layer mapping combinations from among all available combinations based on the' numbers of all codewords and all layers are pre-defined in consideration of a ratio of a codeword to a layer, a reception performance of a receiver, and reduction of combinations, so that a data transmission method using the predefined combinations is implemented. If a. specific one codeword is mapped to at least two layers, a diversity gain can be acquired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Dongwook Roh, Bonghoe Kim, Youngwoo Yun, Dongyoun Seo, Joonkui Ahn, Kijun Kim
  • Patent number: 10693588
    Abstract: A transmission device that performs multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transmission of transmit data using a plurality of fundamental bands. The transmission device includes an error correction coding unit, a mapping unit, and a MIMO coding unit. The error correction coding unit, for each data block of predefined length, performs error correction coding and thereby generates an error correction coded frame. The mapping unit maps each predefined number of bits in the error correction coded frame to a corresponding symbol and thereby generates an error correction coded block. The MIMO coding unit performs MIMO coding with respect to the error correction coded block. Components of data included in the error correction coded block are allocated to at least two of the fundamental bands and transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUST
    Inventors: Mikihiro Ouchi, Noritaka Iguchi, Tomohiro Kimura
  • Patent number: 10686493
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, a system for receiving electromagnetic waves that propagate along a transmission medium, generating, according to the electromagnetic waves, signals that convey data and routing information, and providing the signals to a switch that facilitates routing, according to the routing information, a first portion of the data conveyed by the signals to an access point, a second portion of the data conveyed by the signals to a second waveguide system, or a combination thereof. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Farhad Barzegar, Giovanni Vannucci, Paul Shala Henry, Thomas M. Willis, III, Irwin Gerszberg, Robert Bennett, Donald J. Barnickel
  • Patent number: 10686649
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, a communication system that facilitates monitoring communications associated with a second particular device, where a group of devices operate in a premises, where a first subset of the group of devices communicate directly with a monitoring device located at the premises via a local area network of the premises, where a second subset of the group of devices do not communicate directly with the monitoring device, where the first subset of the group of devices includes the first particular device, and where the second subset of the group of devices includes the second particular device. The communications can be analyzed to detect an anomaly associated with the second particular device. A plurality of messages can be transmitted, via the local area network, to the monitoring device over a time period indicating the anomaly. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Cristina Serban, Donald Levy, Jayaraman Ramachandran, David Gross
  • Patent number: 10686613
    Abstract: A network includes a power over data link, a data switch coupled to a data bus and configured to transmit and/or receive data from and/or to the data bus via the power over data link, and a service device coupled to the data switch via the power over data link and configured to transmit and/or receive data from and/or to the data switch via the power over data link. The service device has a power splitter to split the data signal of the power over data link from the power supply, service functions coupled to the power splitter and configured to receive power from the power splitter, and a voltage comparator coupled to the power splitter. The voltage comparator is configured to detect voltage level of the power supply, and based on the detected voltage level, to selectively activate and/or deactivate one or more of the service functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Klose, Wolfgang Fischer
  • Patent number: 10680632
    Abstract: A TI ADC circuit (30) comprises a plurality of L analog inputs (32-1, 32-2, 32-3) and a plurality of L digital outputs (34-1, 34-2, 34-3). The i:th analog input (32-i) is for receiving an i:th analog input signal. The i:th digital output (34-i) is for outputting an i:th digital output signal, which is a digital representation of the i:th analog input signal. TI ADC circuit (30) comprises a set (90) of sub ADCs (100-1—100-K). The TI ADC circuit (30) is configured to generate one sample of each of the L digital output signals per conversion cycle. Each sub ADC (100-1—100-K) is configured to generate a digital output sample in M conversion cycles, wherein M is an integer >1. The number K of sub ADCs in the set (90) of sub ADCs (100-1—100-K) exceeds L·M.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Lars Sundström, Martin Anderson
  • Patent number: 10666470
    Abstract: A device including an equalizer that includes a first input configured to receive an input signal, a second input configured to receive a reference signal, and a third input configured to receive an adjustment signal. The equalizer also includes a first output configured to transmit a corrected signal, wherein the corrected signal is generated based on data outputs controlled via the input signal, the reference signal, and a clock signal, wherein the data outputs are modified based on the first adjustment signal, wherein corrected signal offsets inter-symbol interference on the input signal based on a data bit received at the first input prior to reception of the input signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Jennifer E. Taylor, Raghukiran Sreeramaneni
  • Patent number: 10666387
    Abstract: A transmission device that performs multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transmission of transmit data using a plurality of fundamental bands. The transmission device includes an error correction coding unit, a mapping unit, and a MIMO coding unit. The error correction coding unit, for each data block of predefined length, performs error correction coding and thereby generates an error correction coded frame. The mapping unit maps each predefined number of bits in the error correction coded frame to a corresponding symbol and thereby generates an error correction coded block. The MIMO coding unit performs MIMO coding with respect to the error correction coded block. Components of data included in the error correction coded block are allocated to at least two of the fundamental bands and transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUST
    Inventors: Mikihiro Ouchi, Noritaka Iguchi, Tomohiro Kimura
  • Patent number: 10666385
    Abstract: A transmission device that performs multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transmission of transmit data using a plurality of fundamental bands. The transmission device includes an error correction coding unit, a mapping unit, and a MIMO coding unit. The error correction coding unit, for each data block of predefined length, performs error correction coding and thereby generates an error correction coded frame. The mapping unit maps each predefined number of bits in the error correction coded frame to a corresponding symbol and thereby generates an error correction coded block. The MIMO coding unit performs MIMO coding with respect to the error correction coded block. Components of data included in the error correction coded block are allocated to at least two of the fundamental bands and transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUST
    Inventors: Mikihiro Ouchi, Noritaka Iguchi, Tomohiro Kimura
  • Patent number: 10659265
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of transmitting and a method of receiving signals, and corresponding apparatus. One aspect of the present invention relates to a method of obtaining a field for indicating a time de-interleaving depth from a layer 1 (L1) header of preamble symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Woo Suk Ko, Sang Chul Moon
  • Patent number: 10652072
    Abstract: Circularly pulse-shaped waveforms for communication systems are disclosed herein, including a single carrier modulation in which pulse-shaping is performed using a circular convolution by the transmitter for various modulation schemes. A transmitter, related method, and corresponding receiver are also disclosed for demodulation of the single carrier circularly pulse-shaped signal and data extraction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC
    Inventors: Hussein Moradi, Behrouz Farhang
  • Patent number: 10651913
    Abstract: A base station transmits to a wireless device, a first request to measure synchronization signal(s) of a first cell. The base station receives from the wireless device, measurement report(s) of at least one synchronization signal of the synchronization signal(s). The base station transmits to the wireless device, a second request to measure CSI-RS(s) of the first cell. The base station receives from the wireless device, second measurement report(s) of the CSI-RS(s). The second measurement report(s) are generated in response to the second request. The base station selects first CSI-RS(s) of the CSI-RS(s) based on the second measurement report(s). The base station transmits a downlink control information to the wireless device via one or more control channels. The downlink control information initiates a random access procedure of the first cell. The downlink control information comprises an indication of the first CSI-RS(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
    Inventors: Hyoungsuk Jeon, Esmael Dinan, Kyungmin Park, Hua Zhou, Alireza Babaei
  • Patent number: 10651894
    Abstract: A transceiver capable of common mode operating range and output voltage tolerance set by an isolation boundary and not limited by the device type used in the circuitry. The subject technology is a powered isolated transceiver, where the isolated generated supply and ground nodes are concealed and thus do not participate in tests that stress electrostatic discharge (ESD)/electrical overstress (EOS) or voltage tolerance. The architecture of the subject technology has the advantage of extremely high common mode performance and robust performance using low voltage devices and simplified architecture, which in turn provides less capacitive loading, faster operation, less expensive die development, electromagnetic interference (EMI) advantages, and simple active termination. The subject technology includes an isolation architecture that can be used in environments where isolation is used but is also advantageous in systems without the need for isolation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Linear Technology Holding LLC
    Inventor: Steven John Tanghe
  • Patent number: 10651903
    Abstract: Examples described herein include systems and methods which include wireless devices and systems with examples of an autocorrelation calculator. An electronic device including an autocorrelation calculator may be configured to calculate an autocorrelation matrix including an autocorrelation of symbols indicative of a first radio frequency (“RF”) signal and a second RF signal. The electronic device may calculate the autocorrelation matrix based on a stored autocorrelation matrix and the autocorrelation of symbols indicative of the first RF signal and symbols indicative of the second RF signal. The stored autocorrelation matrix may represent another received signal at a different time period than a time period of the first and second RF signals. Examples of the systems and methods may facilitate the processing of data for wireless and may utilize less memory space than a device than a scheme that stores and calculates autocorrelation from a large dataset computed from various time points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Fa-Long Luo, Tamara Schmitz, Jeremy Chritz, Jaime Cummins
  • Patent number: 10644906
    Abstract: A transceiver system includes a transmitter circuit having a line driver with a programmable signal level to generate a transmit signal for transmission in an automotive environment over an unshielded-twisted pair (UTP) cable. The transceiver system further includes a physical layer (PHY) receiver. The PHY receiver includes a high-pass filter (HPF), an adaptive feed-forward equalizer (FFE) block and a noise aware adaptation block. The HPF rejects transient noise of a received signal, and the FFE block receives a digital signal and adaptively filters out narrowband continuous wave (CW) noise using an adaptation signal. The digital signal is based on the received signal, and the noise aware adaptation block receives an error signal and generates the adaptation signal. The error signal is generated based on an equalized signal of the FFE block and an estimated signal. The combined transmit and receive circuitry allow lowering emission while rejecting strong receiver automotive noises.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited
    Inventors: Ahmad Chini, Peiqing Wang, Mehmet Vakif Tazebay
  • Patent number: 10616056
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, a system for receiving first electromagnetic waves that propagate along a transmission medium, where the first electromagnetic waves convey first data, generating first signals by frequency-shifting the first electromagnetic waves without demodulating the first electromagnetic waves, and providing the first signals to one or more modems that facilitate demodulation of the first signals to second signals, and distribution of a first portion of data conveyed by the second signals to an access point, a second portion of the data to a second waveguide system, or combinations thereof. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Farhad Barzegar, Giovanni Vannucci, Paul Shala Henry, Thomas M. Willis, III, Irwin Gerszberg, Robert Bennett, Donald J. Barnickel
  • Patent number: 10615880
    Abstract: A method and structure for equalization in coherent optical receivers. Block-based LMS (BLMS) algorithm is one of the many efficient adaptive equalization algorithms used to (i) increase convergence speed and (ii) reduce implementation complexity. Since the computation of the equalizer output and the gradient of the error are obtained using a linear convolution, BLMS can be efficiently implemented in the frequency domain with the constrained frequency-domain BLMS (FBLMS) adaptive algorithm. The present invention introduces a novel reduced complexity constrained FBLMS algorithm. This new approach replaces the two discrete Fourier transform (DFT) stages required to evaluate the DFT of the gradient error, by a simple frequency domain filtering. Implementation complexity can be drastically reduced in comparison to the standard constrained FBLMS. Furthermore, the new approach achieves better performance than that obtained with the unconstrained FBLMS in ultra-high speed coherent optical receivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: INPHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mario R. Hueda, Nestor D. Campos
  • Patent number: 10601486
    Abstract: A method for providing a compressed beamforming feedback of a communication channel includes receiving, at a first communication device, a plurality of training signals from a second communication device via the communication channel, determining a channel matrix corresponding to the communication channel based on the plurality of training signals, precomputing a sequence of column sorting orders and/or a sequence of scaling factors based on a first intermediate matrix derived from the channel matrix in advance of performing a modified QR decomposition, performing the modified QR decomposition to derive the compressed beamforming feedback based on the first intermediate matrix with the precomputed column sorting orders and/or scaling factors as an input, and transmitting the compressed beamforming feedback from the first communication device to the second communication device to enable the second communication device to steer at least one subsequent transmission to the first communication device based on the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Sayak Roy, Ankit Sethi, Sudhir Srinivasa