Patents Examined by Siu M. Lee
  • Patent number: 11165617
    Abstract: An electronic device may include a baseband processor and P antenna elements. The antenna elements may concurrently convey signals within M signal beams. The baseband processor may have a demultiplexer that receives a stream of M symbols. The processor may have M parallel data paths coupled between the demultiplexer and a beam former. The beam former may be coupled to amplifier circuitry over P parallel data paths. Inverse fast Fourier transformers (IFFTs) may be interposed on the M parallel data paths. A feedback path may be coupled between the M parallel data paths and the P parallel data paths. Crest factor reduction (CFR) circuitry may be interposed on the feedback path. The CFR circuitry may perform CFR operations on signals from the P parallel data paths iteratively and concurrently. This may minimize PAR in the system while supporting concurrent transmission of radio-frequency signals in multiple signal beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Shahram Talakoub, Matthew N. Ettus
  • Patent number: 11165515
    Abstract: A circuit includes an amplifier and pre-distortion circuit. The amplifier amplifies a modulated signal. The signal pre-distortion circuit performs a feed-forward pre-distortion of the modulated signal in a signal path in which the amplifier resides. The signal pre-distortion circuit includes: i) an envelope detector configured operative to provide an envelope information describing an envelope of the modulated signal; and ii) a built-in test circuit that determines distortion information describing a distortion in the signal path caused by amplitude variations. The signal pre-distortion circuit performs the feed-forward pre-distortion of the modulated signal on the basis of the distortion information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Marc Tiebout, Michele Caruso, Daniele Dal Maistro, Carlo Rubino
  • Patent number: 11159350
    Abstract: Methods and systems are described for receiving a plurality of signals via a plurality of wires of a multi-wire bus, the plurality of signals corresponding to symbols of a codeword of a vector signaling code, generating, using an interconnected resistor network connected to the plurality of wires of the multi-wire bus, a plurality of combinations of the symbols of the codeword of the vector signaling code on a plurality of output nodes, the plurality of output nodes including a plurality of pairs of sub-channel output nodes associated with respective sub-channels of a plurality of sub-channels, and generating a plurality of sub-channel outputs using a plurality of differential transistor pairs, each differential transistor pair of the plurality of differential transistor pairs connected to a respective pair of sub-channel output nodes of the plurality of pairs of sub-channel output nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Kandou Labs, S.A.
    Inventors: Armin Tajalli, Chen Cao, Kiarash Gharibdoust
  • Patent number: 11146431
    Abstract: Computers communicating in 5G, 4G, 3G and 2G cellular systems and in wireless Wi-Fi networks. Computers having location finding information and touchscreen generated signals for control of communications or of location of the computer. A fingerprint generated signal is used for authentication of the computer. Receiving, in a computer, a signal from a digital cellular communication system, processing the received digital cellular communication signal into a processed signal and transmitting the processed signal. Generating, in computer, a first data signal and transmitting this data signal to a wireless network. Receiving in the computer a second data signal from the wireless network. Generating, in the computer, a third data signal and transmitting the third data signal to a cellular system. Receiving in computer, a fourth data signal from the cellular system. The wireless network and the cellular system are distinct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Inventor: Kamilo Feher
  • Patent number: 11146319
    Abstract: An antenna system and a data processing method are provided. The system may include: a control module; and a processing module, an information collection module and a transceiver module. The information collection module is configured to collect moving device information and antenna attitude information. The transceiver module is configured to receive a data request instruction through the communication satellite. The control module is configured to determine a request content and a processing time according to the data request instruction, and send the request content, the moving device information and the antenna attitude information to the processing module when the processing time arrives. The processing module is configured to process the moving device information and the antenna attitude information according to the request content obtain data to be sent corresponding to the request content, and send the data to be sent to the communication satellite through the transceiver module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: XI'AN ZHONGXING NEW SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jinhuang Xiao, Xiaowen Chen, Rongjian Xiao, Dagang Gong
  • Patent number: 11139781
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of reducing the Instantaneous to Average Power Ratio, IAR, of a transmitter system, comprising the steps of: receiving an input digital signal comprising a plurality of samples; extracting magnitude information for each of the plurality of samples; selecting a plurality of samples whose magnitude exceeds a predefined threshold; sorting, by magnitude, the selected plurality of samples; selecting from the sorted plurality of samples, only those samples having a spacing more than a first pre-defined spacing and filtering those samples, using an FIR filter; subtracting the output of the FIR filter from a delayed version of the input digital signal to produce an output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: National University of Ireland, Maynooth
    Inventors: Pooria Varahram, John Dooley, Keith Finnerty, Ronan Farrell
  • Patent number: 11139845
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for wireless communication are described. Input data for in-phase branch/quadrature branch (I/Q) imbalance or mismatch may be compensated for or non-linear power amplifier noise may be used to generate compensated input data. In some examples, a transmitter may be configured to transmit communications signaling via a first antenna, the transmitter including a filter configured for digital mismatch correction; a receiver may be configured to receive communications signaling via a second antenna; and a switch may be configured to selectively activate a first switch path to couple the transmitter and the first antenna and a second switch path to couple the receiver and the transmitter to provide communications signaling received via the transmitter as feedback for the filter through the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Fa-Long Luo, Jaime Cummins, Tamara Schmitz, Jeremy Chritz
  • Patent number: 11139867
    Abstract: An antenna displacement correction method for an OAM multiplexing communication system includes: a step of estimating a displacement amount by evaluating an evaluation function defined such that a theoretical channel response between a transmitting antenna and a receiving antenna matches a measured channel response estimated in a receiving station by using a known signal transmitted from a transmitting station, wherein the theoretical channel response has, as a parameter, the displacement amount indicating an amount of displacement of a reference axis predefined for each of the transmitting antenna and the receiving antenna from a predetermined position with respect to a desired relative positional relationship between the transmitting antenna and the receiving antenna; and a step of correcting a displacement of each of the transmitting antenna and the receiving antenna according to the estimated displacement amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirofumi Sasaki, Doohwan Lee, Hiroyuki Fukumoto, Hiroyuki Shiba
  • Patent number: 11133908
    Abstract: One embodiment is directed to a method comprising generating information related to resource which can be used for allocating a data transmission; transmitting the information to a user equipment, and sending the data transmission within the resource. In some embodiments, the resource is a frequency domain resource and the information indicates whether the resource comprises a RMSI CORESET bandwidth or a RMSI CORESET bandwidth and a SS/PBCH block frequency allocation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Sami-Jukka Hakola, Timo Koskela, Jorma Johannes Kaikkonen
  • Patent number: 11128353
    Abstract: A radio base station making it possible to perform efficient scheduling of user terminals by reducing feedback information to be received from the user terminals is provided. A radio base station includes a position-related-information obtaining section configured to obtain position-related information indicating positional relationships among multiple user terminals. In addition, the radio base station includes a scheduler configured to determine user groups of the user terminals to be spatially multiplexed in the same time and frequency resources based on the position-related information obtained by the position-related-information obtaining section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Anass Benjebbour, Yuuya Saitou, Yoshihisa Kishiyama
  • Patent number: 11115795
    Abstract: A communication system (100) comprises a service terminal (ST) and a first transmitter function (TX1) in or at the service terminal (ST). The first transmitter function (TX1) is configured for sending a first short-range wireless communication signal (S1) to cause a first reaction (R1) when received by a mobile device (MD) being located within a first distance (D1) or distance range (DR1) from the service terminal (ST). The communication system (100) also comprises a second transmitter function (TX2) in or at the service terminal (ST). The second transmitter function (TX2) is configured for sending a second short-range wireless communication signal (S2) to cause a second reaction (R2) when received by the mobile device (MD) being located within a second distance (D2) or distance range (DR2) from the service terminal (ST), the second distance (D2) or distance range (DR2) being closer to the service terminal (ST) than the first distance (D1) or distance range (DR1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: CRUNCHFISH DIGITAL CASH AB
    Inventors: Kristian Sylwander, Joachim Samuelsson
  • Patent number: 11115088
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for controlling operations of an antenna array comprising two or more controllable sections and antenna ports connected to transceiver circuitry. The method includes determining a scenario of transmission or reception by the antenna array, and configuring the transceiver circuitry responsive to the determined scenario. The scenario is defined in terms of a requirement for a number of users intended as receivers or transmitters, respectively, of the transmission or reception and in terms of one or more of: a path loss requirement, a peak rate requirement, and a traffic capacity requirement. The configuration includes, for the transmission or reception, one or more of: allocating a number of sections of the two or more sections of the antenna array and determining a sub-division of the allocated sections, determining a number of information data layers for multiple-input multiple-output application, and allocating a bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Peter Jakobsson, Martin Isberg
  • Patent number: 11108443
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product is provided to select at least one channel based on one or more channel characteristics and initiate a first transmission to a first multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO)-capable portable wireless device, and further initiate a second transmission to a second multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO)-capable portable wireless device, such that at least a portion of the first transmission occurs simultaneously with at least a portion of the second transmission and both occur via a first wireless protocol; and is further configured to initiate a third transmission to a third multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO)-capable portable wireless device via a second wireless protocol including a 802.11n protocol, where the first wireless protocol includes another 802.11 protocol other than the 802.11n protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: WOODBURY WIRELESS, LLC
    Inventors: Roc Lastinger, John Spenik, Brian C Woodbury
  • Patent number: 11108442
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A wireless device may determine that a channel is reciprocal and perform an implicit sounding process. During the implicit sounding process, the wireless device may estimate the uplink channel by measuring a first uplink multi-user multiple input multiple output (MU-MIMO) transmission. The wireless devices may then update the uplink channel estimation based by measuring a second MU-MIMO transmission that is received after a downlink transmission from the wireless device. Based on the updated uplink channel estimation, the wireless device may send a beamformed MU-MIMO transmission to a number of other wireless devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Bin Tian, Lin Yang, Sameer Vermani, Lochan Verma
  • Patent number: 11101857
    Abstract: Disclosed are a communication method and a base station. The method includes: the base station, through a controller thereof, receiving a baseband signal to be transmitted which is sent by a first intelligent mobile terminal, generating precoding information for immediate data transmission according to a number of antennas and carrier information, sending the baseband signal and the precoding information to a baseband processor of the base station, processing the baseband signal by the baseband processor according to the precoding information, modulating the processed baseband signal, and sending the modulated signal through a radio frequency (RF) circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: JRD Communication (Shenzhen) LTD.
    Inventor: Yanbo Tang
  • Patent number: 11095340
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic device including housing, a first antenna array positioned on the housing and/or inside the housing, a second antenna array spaced from the first antenna array and positioned on the housing and/or inside the housing, at least one wireless communication circuit electrically connected to the first antenna array and the second antenna array, and at least one communication processor transmitting and/or receiving a signal through the at least one wireless communication circuit, using beamforming. In addition, various embodiments as understood from the specification are also possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sungchul Park, Suha Yoon, Euichang Jung
  • Patent number: 11096110
    Abstract: Provided is a communication system comprising a wireless base station and a communication apparatus capable of wirelessly communicating with the wireless base station. The wireless base station comprises a regulatory-signal informing unit that informs the communication apparatus of type information indicating a type of the communication apparatus and a regulatory signal for restricting transmission to the wireless base station, in response to a predetermined condition being satisfied. The communication apparatus comprises a communication-controlling unit that restricts transmission to the wireless base station based on the regulatory signal, when the type of the communication apparatus and the type indicated by the type information are matched.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masaru Otaka
  • Patent number: 11089447
    Abstract: A method for configuring a mobile radio includes: accessing an initial button configuration assigning a first group to a first push-to-talk button; and accessing a first trigger condition; loading the initial button configuration onto the mobile radio at a first time; in response to detecting activation of the first push-to-talk button at a second time succeeding the first time, initiating communication between the mobile radio and the first group; accessing a set of contextual data; in response to detecting first trigger condition based on the set of contextual data, generating a second group based on the set of contextual data and assigning the second group to the first push-to-talk button at a third time; and in response to detecting activation of the first push-to-talk button at a fourth time succeeding the third time, initiating communication between the mobile radio and the second group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Inventor: Thilina Mallawa Arachchi
  • Patent number: 11089567
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a communication system, a base station, a host node, and a communication method in order to address one or more of the above-described problems. A communication system according to the present invention is a communication system including: a base station (10) and a host node (40) that communicates with the base station (10). The base station (10) included in the communication system transmits to the host node (40) setting information indicating whether or not a paging message transmitted from the host node (40) can be transmitted to other base stations, and the host node (40) receives the setting information from the base station (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Sadafuku Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11082102
    Abstract: A beam forming antenna in which directivity directions of beams can be controlled at higher resolution of control is provided. The beam forming antenna includes a matrix circuit having multiple final output terminals and multiple antenna elements connected to the multiple final output terminals respectively. The matrix circuit includes a first sub-matrix, a second sub-matric, and adders which combine outputs of the first sub-matrix and outputs of the second sub-matrix. By selecting any input terminal out of the multiple input terminals of the first sub-matrix or the multiple input terminals of the second sub-matrix and inputting a signal, a signal having a predetermined phase difference between output terminals is output at the multiple final output terminals and the phase difference between output terminals has a differing value according to a selected input terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI KOKUSAI ELECTRIC INC.
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Nagasaku