Patents Examined by Syed Haider
  • Patent number: 10979129
    Abstract: An active repeater device includes a primary sector and one or more secondary sectors, receives a first beam of input RF signals. A first set of analog baseband signals, are generated based on received first beam of input RF signals. The first set of analog baseband signals are converted to a first set of coded data signals and control information is extracted from the first set of coded data signals by decoding only a header portion of the first set of coded data signals without demodulation of data portion of the first set of coded data signals. Based on the extracted control information, the first set of coded data signals are transmitted as beams of output RF signals to remote user equipment. The transmission is independent of demodulation of the data portion within the active repeater device to reduce latency for transmission of the first set of coded data signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: SILICON VALLEY BANK
    Inventors: Sam Gharavi, Ahmadreza Rofougaran, Michael Boers, Seunghwan Yoon, Kartik Sridharan, Donghyup Shin, Farid Shirinfar, Stephen Wu, Maryam Rofougaran
  • Patent number: 10972320
    Abstract: This application provides a reference signal communication method and communication apparatus. The method includes determining a resource block offset of a frequency domain position of a phase tracking reference signal (PTRS) based on a frequency domain density of the PTRS, an identifier of a terminal device, and a first bandwidth, in accordance with a ratio of the first bandwidth to the frequency domain density of the PTRS being a non-integer. The first bandwidth is a bandwidth scheduled by a network device for the terminal device. The method further includes sending or receiving the PTRS based on the resource block offset of the frequency domain position of the PTRS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xi Zhang, Minghui Xu
  • Patent number: 10958411
    Abstract: Techniques to operate circuitry in an integrated circuit are provided. The circuitry may include rate detection circuitry, receiver circuitry, and configuration circuitry. The receiver circuitry may receive a data stream with an arbitrary data rate. The rate detection circuitry may receive a reference clock signal that is associated with the received data stream. The rate detection circuitry determines the frequency of the reference clock signal such that an appropriate clock signal may be generated for the receiver circuitry. The receiver clock signal may be generated by clock generation circuitry that is coupled to the rate detection circuitry. The configuration circuitry may accordingly configure the receiver circuitry based at least on the determined frequency of the reference clock signal so that the receiver circuitry may operate at the arbitrary data rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventors: Boon Hong Oh, Chee Seng Tan, Chau Perng Chin
  • Patent number: 10958486
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for enabling lower-bandwidth hardware components to support higher data rates. In particular, aspects of the disclosed systems and methods use Raised Cosine pulse shaping in short-reach links to band limit the signal spectra and thereby enable existing, such lower-bandwidth components to support higher data rates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
    Inventors: Siddharth Jacob Varughese, Joseph Justin Lavrencik, Stephen E. Ralph, Varghese Antony Thomas
  • Patent number: 10951266
    Abstract: In accordance with one or more embodiments, a coupling system includes a transmitter configured to generate a first signal conveying first data. A coupler is configured to transmit the first signal as a first guided electromagnetic wave that is guided by at least a portion of a surface of a wrap wire that secures an overhead telephony cable to a messenger wire, wherein the first guided electromagnetic wave propagates along the at least the portion of the surface of the messenger wire without requiring an electrical return path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Peter Wolniansky, Harold Lee Rappaport, Irwin Gerszberg
  • Patent number: 10943354
    Abstract: A method for extracting foreground image and electronic apparatus thereof is provided and implements infrared (IR) technology to perform the foreground image extraction to reduce ambient light effect and background noise. Furthermore, the method and electronic apparatus extract an IR light frame image indicating a light state, an IR dark frame image indicating a dark state, and a color image (e.g., RGB image, YUV image, or etc.) at different IR intensities. Then, the method and electronic apparatus calculate the relationship between the IR light frame image and the IR dark frame image to extract a better background image (including the user's face portion, body portion and hair portion) by a simple algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORP.
    Inventors: Zhong-Yi Qiu, Wen-Tsung Huang, Kai Liu
  • Patent number: 10944467
    Abstract: An active repeater device includes a primary sector and one or more secondary sectors, receives a first beam of input RF signals. A first set of analog baseband signals, are generated based on received first beam of input RF signals. The first set of analog baseband signals are converted to a first set of coded data signals and control information is extracted from the first set of coded data signals by decoding only a header portion of the first set of coded data signals without demodulation of data portion of the first set of coded data signals. Based on the extracted control information, the first set of coded data signals are transmitted as beams of output RF signals to remote user equipment. The transmission is independent of demodulation of the data portion within the active repeater device to reduce latency for transmission of the first set of coded data signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: SILICON VALLEY BANK
    Inventors: Sam Gharavi, Ahmadreza Rofougaran, Michael Boers, Seunghwan Yoon, Kartik Sridharan, Donghyup Shin, Farid Shirinfar, Stephen Wu, Maryam Rofougaran
  • Patent number: 10943347
    Abstract: Disclosed are an image processing method, an image processing apparatus, and a readable storage medium. First, an image to be processed is received, and the received image to be processed is divided into regions of interest by region segmentation means. Next, the regions of interest are detected by calling a pre-stored full convolution network structure model, to obtain probability image segments. Finally, the probability image segments are synthesized to generate a target probability image. Wherein, the pre-stored full convolution network structure model includes a full convolution structure. A linear regression layer is replaced by an equivalent convolution layer in the full convolution structure. A blank padding operation layer and an up-sampling layer are removed from the full convolution structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN IMSIGHT MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD
    Inventors: Huangjing Lin, Qi Dou, Hao Chen
  • Patent number: 10938605
    Abstract: A receiver includes a continuous-time equalizer, a decision-feedback equalizer (DFE), data and error sampling logic, and an adaptation engine. The receiver corrects for inter-symbol interference (ISI) associated with the most recent data symbol (first post cursor ISI) by establishing appropriate equalization settings for the continuous-time equalizer based upon a measure of the first-post-cursor ISI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Rambus Inc.
    Inventors: Hae-Chang Lee, Brian S. Leibowitz, Jade M. Kizer, Thomas H. Greer, Akash Bansal
  • Patent number: 10938351
    Abstract: An envelope tracking system having delay compensation circuitry is disclosed. The envelope tracking system includes transmit circuitry configured to receive an input transmit signal, a gain control signal, and delay compensation values. The envelope tracking system is further configured to generate an envelope tracking signal based on the input transmit signal, the gain control signal, and the delay compensation values, and generate an output transmit signal based on the input transmit signal. The envelope tracking system also includes a power amplifier configured to generate an amplified transmit signal based on the output transmit signal and an operating voltage. The envelope tracking system further includes an envelope tracking integrated circuit configured to control the operating voltage based on the envelope tracking signal. The delay compensation circuitry is configured to generate the delay compensation values based on a peak-to-average ratio of a given modulation type and the gain control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Qorvo US, Inc.
    Inventor: Nadim Khlat
  • Patent number: 10909415
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, a device and a computer readable medium for generating an image tag. According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, an index value of an image is determined based on contents of the image, similarities between a plurality of images is determined based on index values of the plurality of images, and thereby tags are generated for images. According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, images is further grouped depending on similarities between them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Sanping Li, Junping Zhao
  • Patent number: 10911110
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for transmitting and receiving channel state information in a multi-antenna wireless communication system are disclosed. Specifically, a method for reporting channel state information (CSI), by a User Equipment (UE), in a multi-antenna wireless communication system, the method comprising receiving, from a base station, configuration information for single CSI reporting in which a non-precoded CSI-RS based CSI reporting and a beamformed CSI-RS based CSI reporting are combined, reporting a first Precoding Matrix Indicator (PMI) and/or a first Rank Indicator (RI) derived based on a non-precoded CSI-RS to the base station, and reporting a Channel Quality Indicator (CQI), a second PMI, and a second RI based on a beamformed CSI-RS to the base station, wherein a value of the first RI is determined as only a value belonging to a previously determined set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Haewook Park, Jonghyun Park, Kijun Kim, Hyungtae Kim
  • Patent number: 10911037
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide a system having phase synchronized local oscillator paths. The system includes a first circuit, which in turn includes a first counter configured to generate a first counter output signal in response to a first clock signal controlling the first counter. The first circuit also includes a first phase-locked loop coupled to the first counter. The first phase-locked loop is configured to receive the first counter output signal as a first synchronization clock for the first phase-locked loop and to generate a first output signal having rising edges aligned according to the first counter output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Marvell Asia Pte, Ltd.
    Inventors: Luns Tee, Wanghua Wu, Xiang Gao
  • Patent number: 10897302
    Abstract: A user equipment is configured for use in a wireless communication system. The user equipment in this regard is configured to detect an orientation of an equipment coordinate frame defined for the user equipment relative to an earth coordinate frame defined for Earth. The user equipment is also configured to determine, based on the detected orientation, a set) of beams defined in the equipment coordinate frame which does not include any beam pointing in one or more predefined directions in the earth coordinate frame. The user equipment is further configured to perform a beam sweep or scan on the determined set of beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Johan Rune, Icaro L. J. Da Silva, Andres Reial, Henrik Sahlin
  • Patent number: 10897319
    Abstract: An apparatus for testing electromagnetic components includes electromagnetically-isolating external walls that define a chamber. An internal wall is attached to one or more of the electromagnetically-isolating external walls to form an internal test instrument chamber and an internal device testing chamber. An internal RF feed-through port passes through the internal wall to electrically couple a test instrument disposed in the internal test instrument chamber to a wireless device-under-test (DUT) disposed in the internal device testing chamber. One or more external RF feed-through ports can pass through one of the electromagnetically-isolating external walls to electrically couple the DUT and/or the test instrument to a second wireless device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: OCTOSCOPE INC.
    Inventors: Leigh Chinitz, Fanny Mlinarsky
  • Patent number: 10897294
    Abstract: The present invention relate to a method of extracting an optimum rank without considering a precoding matrix indicator (PMI) in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) receiver, the method including calculating a correlation matrix from a MIMO channel matrix between a base station antenna and an MIMO receiver antenna; obtaining an eigenvalue from the correlation matrix; calculating channel capacity for each rank on the basis of the obtained eigenvalue; and selecting a rank corresponding to a channel capacity having a maximum value among the calculated channel capacities for each rank as an optimum rank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: GCT RESEARCH, INC.
    Inventors: Ji Ho Jang, In Seok Hwang, Tae Won Park
  • Patent number: 10880144
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for processing a signal that is transmitted with a reduced peak to average power ratio are described. The processing includes applying (1650) a symbol constellation extension projection to at least one symbol in the constellation, the symbol constellation extension projection having an outward angular region from an original position for the at least one symbol in the constellation, the outward angular region defined by a value for an angle between a first boundary and a second boundary for the outward angular region, the value for the angle determined by a selection of the constellation used as part of the transmitted signal and a code rate used for encoding the stream of data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL MADISON PATENT HOLDINGS, SAS
    Inventors: Loic Fontaine, Anthony Pesin
  • Patent number: 10880137
    Abstract: A port of a computing device is to connect to another device over a link and use equalization logic to perform equalization of the link at a plurality of different data rates. The equalization logic may identify that the other device supports bypassing a sequential equalization mode, determine a maximum data rate supported by the devices on the link, and participate in equalization of the link at the maximum supported data rate before equalizing the link at one or more other data rates lower than the maximum supported data rate in the plurality of data rates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Debendra Das Sharma
  • Patent number: 10872445
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for tomosynthesis image reconstruction. It is described to provide (210) a first projection image data set and a second projection image data set acquired after acquisition of the first projection image data set, wherein, the first projection image data set comprises first projection data, and the second projection image data set comprises second projection data, and wherein the first projection image data set is useable for the reconstruction of a tomosynthesis image of at least a region of interest of a body part and wherein the second projection image data set is useable for the reconstruction of a tomosynthesis image of at least the region of interest of the body part. A subset of the first projection data is selected (220).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Harald Sepp Heese, Klaus Erhard, Frank Bergner, Ruediger Grewer, Hans Barschdorf, Thomas Buelow
  • Patent number: 10873372
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing improved cell-edge antenna performance are disclosed. The system can use various signal quality indicators (SQIs) for each user equipment (UE) on a particular wireless base station (WBS) or network. When one or more of these metrics reaches a first predetermined value for a particular UE, the WBS or the UE can decide to activate a diversity receive (Rx) antenna on the UE to improve reception. If one or more of these metrics continues to degrade to a second predetermined value, however, the WBS or the UE can deactivate the diversity Rx antenna and activate a primary Rx antenna. Deactivating the diversity antenna when signal quality/strength is poor can improve reception by reducing interference between the diversity Rx antennas. Disabling the diversity Rx antenna when signal quality/strength is poor can also decrease the number of retransmission requests from each UE, reducing traffic on the WBS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Ming Shan Kwok, Wafik Abdel Shahid