Patents Examined by Sung Ahn
  • Patent number: 10334605
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a time domain pilot design solution suitable for a single-carrier MIMO system. The design solution comprises a time domain pilot location design and a training sequence design. In the present invention, several identical ZCZ sequences are uniformly inserted into each of the data blocks in the same data stream to serve as training sequences, wherein the training sequences inserted into different data streams are different. In addition, the present invention also discloses a simple algorithm for pilot tracking and phase correction suitable for the time domain pilot design solution for the single-carrier MIMO system. The time domain pilot design solution for a single-carrier MIMO system and the algorithm for pilot tracking and phase correction as disclosed in the present invention can improve the performance of a system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: ZTE Wavetone Science and Technology Ltd.
    Inventors: Shiwen He, Yu Sun, Yu Wang, Haiming Wang, Lyuxi Yang, Jun Zhang, Wei Hong, Hua Jiang
  • Patent number: 10284360
    Abstract: An electronic circuit receives transmission signals from three or more communication lines. The electronic circuit includes a clock-data recovery circuit and a control value generation circuit. The clock-data recovery circuit outputs a recovered clock based on a transition generated in reception signals. The clock-data recovery circuit outputs recovered signals based on the recovered clock and the reception signals. The recovered clock has a first edge in response to the transition generated in the reception signals. The recovered clock has a second edge in response to a reset signal generated based on a delay of the recovered clock. The delay of the recovered clock is adjusted based on a control value provided from the control value generation circuit. The control value is adjusted based on change of a communication condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dongho Choi, Younwoong Chung
  • Patent number: 10284398
    Abstract: A transmission device of the disclosure includes: a transmission symbol generator unit that generates, on the basis of a predetermined number of transition signals each of which indicates a transition in a sequence of transmission symbols, transmission symbol signals that are equal in number to the predetermined number; a serializer unit that serializes the predetermined number of the transmission symbol signals, to generate a serial signal; and a driver unit that operates on the basis of the serial signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Takashi Yokokawa
  • Patent number: 10284339
    Abstract: A receiver detects a plurality of information symbols. A first signal and a second signal are received from a first transmitted signal and a second transmitted signal, respectively, transmitted by a first plurality of antennas and received by a second plurality of antennas connected to the receiver. The second signal is received after the first signal. The receiver spatially filters the first signal using a spatial filter matrix. The receiver computes a conjugate of the first filtered signal to define a conjugate first signal, and spatially filters a second signal using the spatial filter matrix. The receiver computes a Hadamard product of the first filtered signal and the conjugate first signal to define a differential measurement signal. The receiver detects the plurality of information symbols from the differential measurement signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Akbar M. Sayeed, John H. Brady
  • Patent number: 10270626
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide an adaptive narrowband interference cancellation method and an apparatus. A receiving apparatus in the present invention includes: a channel type determining module, configured to: measure a delay spread of a multipath channel passed by a received time-domain signal, and determine a channel type according to a measurement result; a weighting coefficient selection module, configured to select a weighting coefficient according to the channel type; a time-domain windowing processing module, configured to perform time-domain windowing processing on the time-domain signal according to the weighting coefficient; and a frequency-domain interference cancellation processing module, configured to perform, according to the weighting coefficient, frequency-domain interference cancellation processing on the signal that is output after the time-domain windowing processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xi Chen, Zhiqiang Zou
  • Patent number: 10270637
    Abstract: A communication system (20) includes a base station (22) and a number of peak-managed user equipment apparatuses (26) that simultaneously transmit peak-reduced FDMA communication signals (128) to the base station (22). The communication system (20) exclusively assigns payload subcarriers (44) to the apparatuses (26) and assigns a few noise-bearing subcarriers (48) for common simultaneous use by all apparatuses (26). Each user equipment apparatus (26) includes a peak reduction section (92) that distorts an otherwise undistorted modulated communication signal (86) into a distorted, peak-reduced communication signal (128) by generating and adding peak-reduction noise (131) to the undistorted signal (86). The peak-reduction noise (131) is primarily mapped onto the noise-bearing subcarriers (48) without conforming to an in-band noise constraint and may be mapped onto the assigned payload subcarriers (44) to the extent permitted by an in-band noise constraint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: Crestcom, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald Duane McCallister, Eric M. Brombaugh
  • Patent number: 10270640
    Abstract: Various systems and methods are provided for channel estimation. These systems and methods (a) determine a coherence bandwidth for the channel, (b) adapt the channel estimation based on the coherence bandwidth, and (c) perform channel estimation by transmitting a channel estimation symbol over a channel. In some embodiments, the channel estimation is adapted based on the coherence bandwidth. This may include selecting a number of channel estimation symbols to transmit in a packet. Additionally, the number of channel estimation symbols transmitted in a packet can be selected by increasing the number of channel estimation symbols when the coherence bandwidth of the channel is high or decreasing the number of channel estimation symbols when the coherence bandwidth of the channel is low.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: Entropic Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Arndt J. Mueller
  • Patent number: 10181929
    Abstract: The object of the present invention can be achieved by providing a method of transmitting broadcast signals including encoding Data Pipe, DP, data, wherein the encoding further includes Forward Error Correction, FEC, encoding the DP data, Bit interleaving the FEC encoded DP data and mapping the bit interleaved DP data onto constellations; building at least one signal frame by mapping the encoded DP data; and modulating data in the at least one built signal frame by an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing, OFDM, method and transmitting the broadcast signals having the modulated data, wherein each of the at least one signal frame includes at least one preamble having repeated at least one signaling information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Byounggill Kim, Woochan Kim, Jaehyung Kim, Woosuk Ko, Sungryong Hong, Chulkyu Mun, Jinyong Choi, Jaeho Hwang, Jongseob Baek, Kookyeon Kwak, Byeongkook Jeong
  • Patent number: 10171116
    Abstract: A data transmission method and a data transmission device are provided. The method includes: establishing, by a transmitting end, N different first paths between the transmitting end and a receiving end in an established network; splitting, by the transmitting end, a fixed-length data frame into N first fragments; transmitting, by the transmitting end, the first fragments to the receiving end through the corresponding first paths respectively; splitting, by the transmitting end, the data frame into N-M second fragments in a case that a failure occurs in M of the first paths during transmission of the data frame; establishing, by the transmitting end, N-M different second paths between the transmitting end and the receiving end; transmitting, by the transmitting end, the second fragments to the receiving end through the corresponding second paths respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Gangxiang Shen, Longfei Li, Haomin Jiang
  • Patent number: 10164758
    Abstract: An electronic system includes transmitting circuitry of a first clock domain and receiving circuitry of a second domain. The transmitting circuitry re-times a digital input signal with rising edges of a clocking signal of the first clock domain when a phase of the clocking signal of the first clock domain leads a phase of a clocking signal associated with the digital input signal. Otherwise, the transmitting circuitry re-times the digital input signal with falling edges of the clocking signal of the first clock domain when the phase of the clocking signal of the first clock domain does not lead the phase of the clocking signal associated with a digital input signal. The receiving circuitry receives the re-timed digital input signal from the transmitting circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Taiwan Semicondcutor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shu-Chun Yang, Mu-Shan Lin, Wen-Hung Huang
  • Patent number: 10153775
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for phase interpolators are provided. An example apparatus comprises a phase interpolator and a controller coupled to the phase interpolator. The controller is configured to provide a digital timing code to the phase interpolator, and the phase interpolator is configured to apply a correction to the received digital timing code based, at least in part, on phase interpolator error correction data from a data structure containing phase interpolator error correction data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven G. Wurzer, Neil Petrie, Joseph P. Kerzman, Kevin R. Duncan
  • Patent number: 10148413
    Abstract: A method for synchronization of an emitter of FBMC system with a RACH channel. On the emitter, a pseudo-random sequence with an initial offset in relation to a reference sequence is inserted into the spectral band of the RACH channel. On the receiver, the sequence received on the RACH channel is estimated using a sliding FFT using a starting point and correlated with the reference sequence. The position of the starting point leading to the highest correlation peak is selected as well as the correlation position corresponding to this peak, with these two positions making it possible to determine the offset of the sequence received with the reference sequence. This offset is transmitted to the emitter and the latter deduces from it a delay to be compensated in the emission in order to synchronize with the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventor: Nicolas Cassiau
  • Patent number: 10142091
    Abstract: System and method of frame alignment at a receiver with power optimization mechanisms. A framer uses one or more comparators to search for the FAW in the incoming data, with each comparator configured to serially compare multiple windows of a parallel M-bit block (as provided from a parallel data bus) with the FAW. Multiple comparators in the framer may operate in parallel to search for the FAW at different windows. This configuration can significantly reduce the comparator count and so the gate count as well as the chip area in a framer. Power consumption can be advantageously reduced as one comparator operating serially consumes less power than multiple comparators in parallel because less gate toggling is involved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: MACOM CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS, LLC
    Inventors: Francesco Caggioni, Dimitrios Giannakopoulos
  • Patent number: 10128964
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are described that facilitate transmission of data, particularly between two devices within an electronic apparatus. In particular, a preamble for transmission in a sequence of symbols over a multi-wire communications interface, such as a MIPI C-PHY interface, is constructed to include one or more symbols each having a single state transition symbols for signaling a particular calibration preamble from a transmitter to a receiver over the multi-wire communications interface. The preamble, having only single state transition symbols, improves reliability of decoding the symbols at a receiver, including reception and decoding without the use of a calibration clock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: George Alan Wiley
  • Patent number: 10129070
    Abstract: Methods and systems for correcting carrier frequency offsets (CFOs) in a wireless transceiver are disclosed. The method includes receiving a first predetermined number of data packets and analyzing the first predetermined number of data packets to determine one or more wireless link quality metrics. The method includes adjusting a local oscillator in accordance with a first local oscillator adjustment strategy. The method includes receiving a second predetermined number of data packets and analyzing the second predetermined number of data packets to determine the one or more wireless link quality metrics. The method includes repeating the first local oscillator adjustment strategy if the wireless link quality metrics improve. The method includes changing to a second local oscillator adjustment strategy if the wireless link quality metrics worsen and adjusting the local oscillator in accordance with the second local oscillator adjustment strategy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Phazr, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Clark Daniels, Khurram Muhammad, Farooq Khan
  • Patent number: 10116362
    Abstract: A parametric generating method for a zero correlation zone sequence set, includes: determining a ZCZ sequence set to be generated; determining a limited symbol set; determining an initial non-periodic orthogonal complementary sequence set; constructing a discrete Fourier transformation matrix by using elements in the limited symbol set; constructing a coefficient matrix based on the number of sequences and the number of iterations in the sequence set; using the columns of the coefficient matrix respectively as the coefficients of each sequence in the ZCZ sequence set, iteratively generating ZCZ sequence sets by using a method of zero filling the tails of weighting coefficients; and traversing the coefficient matrix, and selecting a ZCZ sequence set meeting the criteria or an optimal ZCZ sequence set according to requirements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: ZTE Wavetone Science and Technology Ltd.
    Inventors: Haiming Wang, Yu Wang, Shiwen He, Yongming Huang, Lyuxi Yang, Jun Zhang
  • Patent number: 10116350
    Abstract: Methods and devices related to channel estimation for a communication system comprising a plurality of communication connections are provided. For channel estimation, test sequences are used having three different elements, for example ?1, 0 and +1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Lantiq Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Rainer Strobel, Vladimir Oksman
  • Patent number: 10110263
    Abstract: In a system, known digitizer signals (known analog signals or digital representations of known analog signals) are generated. The known digitizer signals are input into digitizers (analog-to-digital converter (ADCs) or digital-to-analog converter (DACs)) to output generated digitizer signals (generated digital representations or generated analog signals). The generated digitizer signals are analyzed in relation to the known digitizer signals to generate coupling coefficients, which can be either scalar quantities or finite-impulse-response (FIR) filter functions. Subsequent digitizer signals are generated. The subsequent digitizer signals are modified using the coupling coefficients to generate modified digitizer signals according to formulae. The modified digitizer signals are used directly as digital representations, or are input to the DACs to output modified analog signals that substantially match subsequent analog signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: Roshmere, Inc.
    Inventors: Eduardo Temprana Giraldo, Nikola Alic
  • Patent number: 10084628
    Abstract: Systems and methods for securing orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transmission of data are discussed herein. Transceivers can sense the signal strength of frequencies on an OFDM wireless channel. The transceivers can determine which of the frequencies are fading frequencies failing below a threshold. A transmitting transceiver can send artificial data on the failing frequencies and genuine data on the remaining frequencies. Artificial data can be designed to mitigate peak-average-power ratio (PAPR) to have an additional benefit without using extra resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: University of South Florida
    Inventors: Zekeriyya Esat Ankarali, Huseyin Arslan
  • Patent number: 10079647
    Abstract: A receiver system includes an automatic gain control (AGC) module configured to control a first gain control signal to a first gain element having variable gain control. The receiver system also includes a DC (direct current) offset correction block coupled to the AGC module, the DC offset correction block configured to trigger the AGC module to output a set of calibration gain control signals to the first gain element and capture a set of DC offset measurements of a first signal received at the DC offset correction block, where the first signal is passed by the first gain element. The DC offset correction block is further configured to estimate one or more DC offset components using the set of DC offset measurements, and calculate a first correction control signal corresponding to a first gain level of the first gain element using the one or more DC offset components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Khurram Waheed