Patents Examined by Sophia Vlahos
  • Patent number: 11108498
    Abstract: A receiving apparatus includes: a first decoder configured to decode a signal transmitted through a first layer from a layered division multiplexing (LDM) signal using a parity check matrix to generate low density parity check (LDPC) information word bits and parity bits; an encoder configured to encode the LDPC information word bits, generated by decoding the signal transmitted through the first layer, using the parity check matrix to generate parity bits corresponding only to preset columns in the parity check matrix; and a second decoder configured to decode a signal obtained by removing, from the LDM signal, a signal corresponding to the LDPC information word bits generated by decoding the signal transmitted through the first layer, the parity bits generated by the encoder, and the parity bits generated by the first decoder except the parity bits generated by the encoder, thereby to generate information word bits transmitted through a second layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jung-hyun Park, Jung-pil Yu, Sung-kyu Jung, Chang-hoon Choi
  • Patent number: 11101859
    Abstract: Disclosed are a communication technique for merging, with IoT technology, a 5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4G system, and a system therefor. The disclosure can be applied to an intelligent service (for example, smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, health care, digital education, retail, security and safety-related services, and the like) on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Balgeum Choe, Keunchul Hwang, Hyoyol Park
  • Patent number: 11101863
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for transmitting and receiving a channel state information (CSI)-reference signal (RS) in a wireless communication system. Specifically, the method performed by a base station may include: configuring control information indicating that an antenna port for all CSI-RS resources included in a CSI-RS resource set is same, wherein the CSI-RS resource set is used for tracking at least one of a time or a frequency; transmitting the configured control information to a user equipment (UE); and transmitting the CSI-RS to the UE through all the CSI-RS resources. In doing so, the UE is capable of performing time/frequency tracking more precisely.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jiwon Kang, Jonghyun Park, Kilbom Lee, Kijun Kim, Sukhyon Yoon
  • Patent number: 11070262
    Abstract: A range extension method and apparatus for highly directional beams are disclosed. In one aspect, a first network node that is suitable for supporting mmWave transmissions to a wireless device such as a UE may extend the range of at least one transmit beam to a UE by selecting a suitable repetition configuration that transmits repetition versions of an original signal. The first network node sends information about the repetition configuration to a second network node which can transmit a portion of the repetition configuration information to the UE using sub-6 GHz transmissions. The UE can configure a receive beam to receive mmWave communications from the first network node by using the portion of the repetition configuration information received from the second network node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yan Zhou, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11070415
    Abstract: An FBMC equalization and demodulation unit and corresponding method to process an FBMC signal includes FBMC symbols, each FBMC symbol comprising data mapped over M subcarriers, oversampled by a factor K, filtered by a prototype filter and transposed in the time-domain, comprising: a frequency domain transposition unit, configured to transpose a block of P*KM samples comprising at least one FBMC symbol into frequency domain samples, where P is an integer greater than one, an equalizer unit configured to multiply the frequency domain samples by one or more coefficients computed from a propagation channel estimate, at least one circular convolution unit, configured to perform P circular convolutions between subsets of the equalized samples and a frequency domain response of a frequency shifted version of the prototype filter, and adders, to sum corresponding outputs of each of the P circular convolutions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: INSTITUT MINES TELECOM-IMT ATLANTIQUE-BRETAGNE-PAYS DE LA LOIRE
    Inventors: Jérémy Nadal, Charbel Abdel Nour, Amer Baghdadi
  • Patent number: 11070265
    Abstract: Disclosed are a communication technique for merging, with IoT technology, a 5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4G system, and a system therefor. The disclosure can be applied to an intelligent service (for example, smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, health care, digital education, retail, security and safety-related services, and the like) on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Balgeum Choe, Keunchul Hwang, Hyoyol Park
  • Patent number: 11057154
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for rate matching interleaving for polar codes are provided. The method includes: obtaining a first codeword bit sequence; dividing the first codeword bit sequence to obtain one or more segments; performing intra-segment and/or inter-segment interleaving on the one or more segments to generate an interleaved bit sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Runxin Wang, Chongning Na, Satoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 11050513
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of transmitting broadcast signals. The method includes, encoding, by an encoder, PLP (Physical Layer Pipe) data; time interleaving, by a time interleaver, the encoded PLP data; frame mapping, by a framer, the time interleaved PLP data onto at least one signal frames; frequency interleaving, by a frequency interleaver, data in the at least one signal frames; and waveform modulating, by a waveform module, the frequency interleaved data in the at least one signal frame and transmitting, by the waveform module, broadcast signals having the modulated data, wherein the frequency interleaving is conducted according to an interleaving mode, wherein the interleaving mode is determined based on a FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jongseob Baek, Woosuk Ko, Sungryong Hong
  • Patent number: 11050469
    Abstract: This disclosure pertains to a network node for a wireless communication network, the network node being adapted for transmitting reference signaling utilising an antenna array, the network node further being adapted for transmitting the reference signaling in a pattern, the pattern being determined based on a beamforming state for transmitting the reference signaling and/or based on a beam reception state. The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Shaohua Li, Qingyu Miao, Jianfeng Wang
  • Patent number: 11050466
    Abstract: A method for alignment of an antenna in a microwave radio link system in Non-Line-Of Sight (NLOS) conditions. The method includes having a pointer indicating a first position on a surface to define a first candidate reflection/diffraction point on the surface, aligning a first antenna at a first node and a second antenna at a second node towards the first candidate reflection/diffraction point, and recording a relevant property concerning the channel quality between the first node and the second node via the first candidate reflection/diffraction point. The pointer may be a drone. Related devices and systems are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Mikael Coldrey, Mona Hashemi, Lars Manholm, Jonas Fridén
  • Patent number: 11043985
    Abstract: Technologies directed to cable-loss compensation are described. An apparatus includes a triplexer, a front-end module (FEM) circuit, and a control circuit. The triplexer is coupled to a radio frequency (RF) cable. The triplexer receives a first RF signal and a DC power signal from a device via the RF cable and sends a detection signal being indicative of a transmit power level of the first RF signal to the device via the RF cable. The transmit power level includes an insertion loss of the RF cable. The FEM circuit is coupled to the triplexer and includes a power amplifier (PA). The control circuit is coupled to the triplexer and measures the transmit power level of the first RF signal and converts the first RF signal into the detection signal. The control circuit sends the detection signal back to the device via the RF cable and enables the PA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan Labadie, Cheol Su Kim, Ravi Ichapurapu, Kalyan Teja Posani, Omar Fawazhashim Zakaria, In Chul Hyun
  • Patent number: 11025306
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the inventive concept, there is provided a signal processing method performed in a distributed antenna system, includes extracting at least a part of sample data corresponding to an occupied frequency band from a digitized analog RF signal; and combining the extracted sample data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: SOLiD, INC.
    Inventors: Doyoon Kim, Kwangnam Seo
  • Patent number: 11025316
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose a method used for data transmission. This method is applicable to coordinated transmission/reception in NR, and is relatively flexible. This method includes: determining, by a network device, a plurality of groups of antenna ports, where each group of antenna ports includes at least two antenna ports, and any two antenna ports in a same group of antenna ports meet quasi-co-location QCL; and sending, by the network device, at least one piece of first indication information to a terminal device, where the first indication information is used to determine QCL configuration information corresponding to a target antenna port used for sending first data, the QCL configuration information is used to indicate an antenna port that is QCLed with the corresponding target antenna port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shengyue Dou, Yuanjie Li, Haibao Ren
  • Patent number: 11019632
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described in which a UE may transmit an indication to a base station that the UE supports a beam update procedure that updates one or more beamforming parameters of one or more transmission beams. The UE may establish a connection with the base station via the one or more transmission beams. The UE may receive a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE) communication to initiate the beam update procedure, the received MAC-CE communication indicating one or more aperiodic sounding reference signal (SRS) resources to be used in the beam update procedure. The UE may perform the beam update procedure, based on the MAC-CE communication, to update one or more beamforming parameters of the one or more transmission beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Yan Zhou, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11012114
    Abstract: Methods and devices are discussed where a common bit loading table is constructed from minimum gain from a plurality of bit loading tables for different combinations of lines being in a transmit or quiet mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Lantiq Beteiligungs-GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Rainer Strobel, Lilia Smaoui, Vladimir Oksman
  • Patent number: 11012272
    Abstract: Techniques are described for wireless communication. A first method includes inserting channel or interference estimation modulation symbols into a sequence of data modulation symbols; performing a discrete Fourier transform (DFT) on a group of modulation symbols in the sequence of data modulation symbols, the group of modulation symbols including at least one of the channel or interference estimation modulation symbols; and generating a single-carrier frequency domain modulated (SC-FDM) symbol stream based at least in part on an output of the DFT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Peter Gaal, Wanshi Chen, Hao Xu, Tao Luo, Shimman Arvind Patel
  • Patent number: 10985949
    Abstract: It is desirable to provide a technology capable of supporting reverse connection in which the front and back of a connector are reversed while expansion of circuit scale is suppressed. A reception control device is provided including a polarity detection unit that detects, as a polarity determination result signal, at least one of a polarity of a first reception signal received by a first reception unit or a polarity of a polarity inversion result of a second reception signal received by a second reception unit and a reception control unit that controls output destinations of a third reception signal received after the first reception signal by the first reception unit and a fourth reception signal received after the second reception signal by the second reception unit, on the basis of the polarity determination result signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Mori, Toshihisa Hyakudai, Hiroshi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10985950
    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: November 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATON
    Inventors: Hiroki Matsuda, Ryota Kimura, Kazuyuki Shimezawa
  • Patent number: 10979256
    Abstract: A receiving circuit and method for increasing bandwidth are provided. The receiving circuit includes a linear equalizer circuit and a variable gain amplifier. The linear equalizer circuit includes a first negative impedance converter, to generate a first capacitance. The variable gain amplifier is coupled to the linear equalizer circuit. The variable gain amplifier includes a first-stage gain circuit and a feedback circuit. The first-stage gain circuit is coupled to the feedback circuit, and the feedback circuit generates a zero-point at the output end of the first-stage gain circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: SHANGHAI ZHAOXIN SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zhaoyang Sun
  • Patent number: 10958329
    Abstract: This application provides a data transmission method, a terminal device, and a network device. The method includes: sending, by a terminal device, first information to a network device, where the first information is used to indicate a first channel quality indicator (CQI) corresponding to a first block error rate; and sending, by the terminal device, second information to the network device by using radio resource control (RRC) signaling or media access control (MAC) signaling, where the second information is used to indicate a difference between the first CQI and a second CQI, the second CQI is a CQI corresponding to a second block error rate, and the first block error rate is greater than the second block error rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yawei Lu, Peng Zhang, Zhenfei Tang, Jun Zhu