Patents Examined by Sophia Vlahos
  • Patent number: 11411629
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for receiving a reference CSI configuration information and a following CSI configuration information which is configured to report a same RI (Rank Indicator) as the reference CSI configuration information, receiving a first precoding codebook subset information for the reference CSI configuration information and a second precoding codebook subset information for the following CSI configuration information, set of RIs according to the second precoding codebook subset information is same as set of RIs according to the first precoding codebook subset information, and transmitting CSI determined based on at least one of the first precoding codebook subset information and the second preceding codebook subset information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hyungtae Kim, Byounghoon Kim, Kijun Kim
  • Patent number: 11411617
    Abstract: Methods (50, 60) are provided for operating first and second network nodes (80, 90) of a wireless network which participate (51, 61) in a multiple input multiple output, MIMO, wireless transmission. The network nodes (80, 90) respectively comprise an antenna array (20, 30, 91) having antenna elements (11, 12) being associated with respective ones of two mutually orthogonal planes of polarization. The respective method (50, 60) comprises: communicating (54, 64), by the first network node (80) and to the second network node (90), a sequence of pilot symbols, each of which is associated with one of a set of mutually distinct states of polarization for transmission of the respective pilot symbol; and communicating (55, 65), by the second network node (90) and to the first network node (80), at least one feedback signal associated with the pilot symbols. The at least one feedback signal is indicative of a set state of polarization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Olof Zander, Fredrik Rusek, Erik Bengtsson
  • Patent number: 11381427
    Abstract: A continuous-time linear equalizer (CTLE) having a common-source amplifier configured to receive an input signal and output an output signal in accordance with a biasing current; a current source controlled by a first bias voltage and configured to output the biasing current; an active load controlled by a second bias voltage and configured to be a load of the common-source amplifier; a common-mode sensing circuit configured to sense a common-mode voltage of the output signal; a current source controller configured to output the first bias voltage in accordance with the common-mode voltage and a reference voltage derived from a supply voltage of the active load and a first reference current; and an active load controller configured to output the second bias voltage in accordance with the supply voltage of the active load and a second reference current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORP.
    Inventors: Chia-Liang (Leon) Lin, Ting-Hsu Chien
  • Patent number: 11368186
    Abstract: The invention refers to a transmitter that emits data in the form of a group of at least two partial telegrams that together include the data and that are shorter than an individual telegram comprising the data. The transmitter emits the group of partial telegrams according to a hopping pattern that refers to times and/or transmission frequencies of the emission of the individual partial telegrams. Furthermore, the transmitter emits the group of partial telegrams several times and at least twice. Furthermore, the invention relates to a receiver and corresponding methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Gerd Kilian, Josef Bernhard, Wolfram Strauss, Jakob Kneissl, Johannes Wechsler
  • Patent number: 11356158
    Abstract: A device and method for improving the accuracy of angle of arrival and departure computations is disclosed. The device and method rely on manipulation of the antenna switching pattern to achieve an improved calculation of arrival angle. In one embodiment, the device calculates an estimate angle of arrival using conventional methods. The device then determines which of a plurality of different antenna switching pattern yields the more accurate results at this estimated angle of arrival. The AoA measurement is then repeated using the preferred antenna switching pattern. In another embodiment, the device captures the amplitude and/or phase of the signal from each antenna element. The device then sorts these antenna elements and defines a preferred antenna switching pattern based on the sort list. The AoA measurement is then performed using the preferred antenna switching pattern. In another embodiment, neural networks may be utilized to determine the preferred antenna switching pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Silicon Laboratories Inc.
    Inventor: Sauli Johannes Lehtimaki
  • Patent number: 11356135
    Abstract: A method includes generating a first current through a first node based on a differential pair of signals received by a differential pair of input nodes of a differential circuit of a first integrated circuit die of an isolator product. The method includes generating a second current through a second node. The second current matches the first current through the first node and is based on an attenuated version of an output measurement signal. The method includes generating the output measurement signal having a level corresponding to an average amplitude of the differential pair of signals based on the first current and the second current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Carlos J. Briseno-Vidrios
  • Patent number: 11336322
    Abstract: Provided is a high frequency communication apparatus for vehicle. The high frequency communication apparatus includes a single cable; a communication module connected to an end of the single cable and configured to transmit a radio frequency (RF) signal and a transmit (TX) serial communication signal, the communication module including a TX serial communication modulation circuit and a receive (RX) serial communication demodulation circuit; and an antenna module connected to the other end of the single cable and configured to receive and branch the RF signal and the TX serial communication signal, the antenna module including a front end module, a TX serial communication demodulation circuit, a controller configured to receive a demodulated TX serial communication signal to control the front end module and output an RX serial communication signal, and an RX serial communication modulation circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Houn Baek, Jeonghoon Lee, Jihyuk Lim, Young Heo
  • Patent number: 11329740
    Abstract: The conversion circuit adapts a legacy radio to play digital broadcasts using a sensing circuit coupled to a control device of the legacy radio to produce a control device position signal. A processor detects changes in this position signal and interprets a pattern of predetermined changes in position signals to generate at least digital radio broadcast scan command. The conversion circuit also includes a digital radio receiver that performs a scan operation in response to the scan command and supplies the processor with a channel list of detected digital stations. The processor associates each of the detected digital stations to a different positional setting of the control device. The processor also interprets different positional settings of the control device as a content selection commands, which it uses to cause the receiver to select a particular content component for playback through an audio amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Inventor: Darryl Hock
  • Patent number: 11329709
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for configuring antenna arrays for scalable radio frequency (RF) architecture are dis-closed. A subset of antenna arrays are grouped into K groups and a receive or transmit weight vector is applied to each of the antenna arrays in each of the K groups. A channel response is measured for each of the antenna in the K groups. The response is summed for each group and complex scaling factors are calculated based on the summed response. Based on the scaling factors the antenna weight vectors arc updated and the updated weight vectors arc applied to the antenna arrays. The steps of grouping the antennas and refining the weight vectors are performed till the antenna weight vectors reach a steady point, i.e. the current antenna weight does not improve the beamforming gain by a predetermined threshold in comparison to the previous antenna weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Shi Cheng, KeangPo Ricky Ho
  • Patent number: 11314107
    Abstract: The present invention facilitates optical modulation skew adjustment. Components of an on chip optical device driver system can cooperatively operate to provide modulated driver signals to drive configuration of optical signals. A serializer is configured to receive parallel data signals and forward corresponding serial data signals. A multiplexing component is configured to selectively output an in-phase component and a quadrature component of the serial data signals, including implementing skew adjustments to aspects of a first output signal and a second output signal. An output stage is configured to output signals that modulate an optical signal, including the first output signal and the second output signal. An on chip skew detector is configured to detect a skew difference between the first output signal and the second output signal. A skew calibration component is configured to direct skew adjustment between the first output signal and the second output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Naga Rajesh Doppalapudi, Echere Iroaga
  • Patent number: 11309950
    Abstract: A data transmission method and an apparatus are disclosed. The method includes: generating, by a first transmit device, a data frame sequence, where the first data frame sequence includes a first data frame, the first data frame includes a switching interval, the switching interval includes first identification information, and the first data frame corresponds to a first data period; detecting, by the first transmit device, whether a beam adjustment request is received within the first data period, and if the beam adjustment request is received, setting the first identification information in the switching interval of the first data frame to invalid; or if no beam adjustment request is received, setting the first identification information to valid; and sending, by the first transmit device, the first data frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Rui Lyu
  • Patent number: 11303323
    Abstract: A frequency hopping configuration method can be applied to a base station. The base station can configure at least one bandwidth part BWP for a terminal. The method can include: configuring a frequency hopping rule for each configured BWP; when the terminal is instructed to perform uplink transmission hopping, determining, according to the configured hopping rule, a hopping rule corresponding to a BWP currently being used by the terminal; and sending the corresponding hopping rule to the terminal, such that the terminal determines a second frequency domain resource position after frequency hopping has been performed according to the corresponding frequency hopping rule and a first frequency domain resource position prior to performing frequency hopping, and performs uplink transmission at the second frequency domain resource position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Qun Zhao
  • Patent number: 11296767
    Abstract: A method for reporting channel state information (CSI) in a wireless communication system is disclosed. More specifically, the method performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving, from a base station, configuration information related to the channel state information, wherein the configuration information includes a number of a plurality of subbands allocated to the UE; measuring parameter values related to a channel state of one or more subbands of the plurality of subbands based on the configuration information; and reporting, to the base station, channel state information of the one or more subbands including the measured parameter values, wherein a number of the one or more subbands is determined based on a value of a rank indicator (RI).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Haewook Park, Jiwon Kang, Hyungtae Kim, Sukhyon Yoon
  • Patent number: 11296909
    Abstract: An apparatus including: a communication unit configured to perform radio communication; and a control unit configured to perform control such that control information regarding a filter length of a filter for limiting a width of a guard band in a frequency band to be used in the radio communication is transmitted to an external apparatus through the radio communication. The filter length is determined in accordance with at least one of a frequency resource and a time resource for the radio communication. The apparatus enables a filter improving frequency use efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki Matsuda, Ryota Kimura, Kazuyuki Shimezawa
  • Patent number: 11283665
    Abstract: A method for determining a signal propagation time mismatch in a modulator comprises generating a predetermined signal shape of a amplitude component of a radio frequency signal generating one or more predetermined conditions in a frequency component of the radio frequency signal at a first time interval relative to the predetermined signal shape and detecting the one or more predetermined conditions in the frequency component at a second time interval. The method further includes determining the amplitude component at the second time interval and calculating a signal propagation time mismatch value based on the signal shape of the amplitude component, on the first time interval and the second time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Timo Gossmann, Dirk Friedrich
  • Patent number: 11277291
    Abstract: An apparatus for constructing a pre-DFT sample sequence for an OFDM-signal is provided. The apparatus comprises: a processor configured to construct a pre-DFT sample sequence with a pre-defined length such that it comprises data; and a PTRS-group, wherein the last sample of the PTRS-group is placed within the pre-DFT sample sequence at a pre-defined position located B samples before the end of the pre-DFT sample sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoav Levinbook, Ezer Melzer, Doron Ezri, Minghui Xu, Xi Zhang
  • Patent number: 11228474
    Abstract: A method of recovering information encoded by a modulated sinusoidal waveform having first, second, third and fourth data notches at respective phase angles, where a power of the modulated sinusoidal waveform is reduced relative to a power of an unmodulated sinusoidal waveform within selected ones of the first, second, third and fourth data notches so as to encode input digital data. The method includes receiving the modulated sinusoidal waveform and generating digital values representing the modulated sinusoidal waveform. A digital representation of the unmodulated sinusoidal waveform is subtracted from the digital values in order to generate a received digital data sequence, which includes digital data notch values representative of the amplitude of the modulated sinusoidal waveform within the first, second, third and fourth data notches. The input digital data is then estimated based upon the digital data notch values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: TeraWave, LLC
    Inventor: Torsten Schultze
  • Patent number: 11222526
    Abstract: A two-wire transmitter is connected to an external circuit via two transmission lines and outputs a current signal to the external circuit while using the external circuit as a power source. The two-wire transmitter includes: a measured data processing circuit that is connected to a sensor that outputs an electrical signal based on measured data and configured to output a first signal based on the measured data; a current output circuit configured to determine a current signal based on the first signal; and a shunt regulator circuit configured to determine a circuit voltage of the two-wire transmitter based on the first signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Youichi Iwano
  • Patent number: 11211989
    Abstract: Methods for beam adjustment are disclosed. A method includes: determining, by a first node, whether a beam adjustment is required; and when the beam adjustment is required, at least adjusting, by the first node, its beam, or informing, by the first node, a neighboring second node of adjusting the second node's beam, so that relationship between the beam of the first node and the beam of the second node meets a preset condition. There are also provided associated nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: JRD COMMUNICATION (SHENZHEN) LTD.
    Inventors: Qiaoling Yu, Ting Zhou
  • Patent number: 11206156
    Abstract: The present application discloses a method for storing data of a transmission signal, which includes: upon the reception of the transmission signal, analyzing a clock signal corresponding to the transmission signal to obtain a signal frequency of the clock signal; according to the signal frequency, acquiring zero-volt time points of a clock signal after signal superposition with the transmission signal; acquiring a preset time length, and according to the zero-volt time points and the preset time length, generating data storage time periods with each of the zero-volt time points as a central time point; and storing data of the transmission signal within each of the data storage time periods. The present application further provides an apparatus for storing data of a transmission signal and a computer readable storage medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignees: HKC Corporation Limited, Chongqing HKC Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mingliang Wang