Patents Examined by Zewdu Kassa
  • Patent number: 11444684
    Abstract: A repeater device includes a first antenna array having a plurality of antenna configuration modes, where each mode defines a unique configuration of one or more sub-arrays of a plurality of different sub-arrays of the first antenna array. The repeater device further includes control circuitry configured to select one of the plurality of antenna configuration modes. A first configuration of one or more sub-arrays of the first antenna array is activated based on the selected antenna configuration mode and a beam of radio frequency (RF) signal is directed to UE from the activated first configuration of the one or more sub-arrays. The beam of RF signal is directed to the UE present in first or second communication range such that one or more signal path parameters of the beam of RF signal are substantially equalized at the first and the second communication range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Movandi Corporation
    Inventors: Alfred Grau Besoli, Ahmadreza Rofougaran, Brima Ibrahim, Farid Shirinfar, Maryam Rofougaran, Nemat Dolatsha, Yifan Wang
  • Patent number: 11444656
    Abstract: Ultra-Wideband (UWB) technology exploits modulated coded impulses over a wide frequency spectrum with very low power over a short distance for digital data transmission. Today's leading edge modulated sinusoidal wave wireless communication standards and systems achieve power efficiencies of 50 nJ/bit employing narrowband signaling schemes and traditional RF transceiver architectures. However, such designs severely limit the achievable energy efficiency, especially at lower data rates such as below 1 Mbps. Further, it is important that peak power consumption is supportable by common battery or energy harvesting technologies and long term power consumption neither leads to limited battery lifetimes or an inability for alternate energy sources to sustain them. Accordingly, it would be beneficial for next generation applications to exploit inventive transceiver structures and communication schemes in order to achieve the sub nJ per bit energy efficiencies required by next generation applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Transfert Plus, Societe En Commandite
    Inventors: Frederic Nabki, Dominic Deslandes, Mohammad Taherzadeh-Sani, Michiel Soer
  • Patent number: 11438040
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a data transmission apparatus and method using a polarized antenna in a wireless AV system, and a data reception apparatus and method. The present specification provides a method for performing polarization alignment for a downlink on the basis of reciprocity, a method for performing polarization alignment for an uplink, and a method for performing polarization alignment independently for each DMG antenna when one data transmission apparatus or one data reception apparatus uses multiple DMG antennas. Optimal MIMO performance can be guaranteed by aligning polarization between multiple antennas of the data transmission apparatus and the data reception apparatus in the wireless AV system, the polarization alignment for a downlink or an uplink may be selectively performed on the basis of reciprocity, and polarization distortion can be reduced through the independent polarization alignment between each DMG antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jinmin Kim, Jaewook Song, Hyowon Bae, Jinsoo Choi, Kyuin Lee
  • Patent number: 11424798
    Abstract: An access point includes a data encoder, a first transmit/receive chain coupled to the data encoder, the first transmit/receive chain including a first radio and a first antenna that are configured to transmit RF signals in a first frequency band, a second transmit/receive chain coupled to the data encoder, the second transmit/receive chain including a second radio and a second antenna that are configured to transmit RF signals in the first frequency band, and a switchable ground element that comprises a conductive member that is connected to a ground reference via a switch. The first antenna is separated from the second antenna by a distance that is less than one wavelength of a center frequency of the first operational frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLC
    Inventors: Anand Krishnamachari, Rajesh Koganti, Douglas Kough, James Jervis
  • Patent number: 11424797
    Abstract: Disclosed are a data transmission method and apparatus. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal, a media access control (MAC) signaling sent by a base station; receiving, by the terminal, downlink control information (DCI) sent by the base station; searching for a preset mapping relationship by the terminal; determining, by the terminal, a target beam used by the target antenna panel to transmit data according to the target beam indication information corresponding to the target antenna panel; and transmitting data by the terminal with the base station via the target beam corresponding to the target antenna panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mingju Li
  • Patent number: 11411623
    Abstract: One example method includes receiving one or more precoded reference signals, where the one or more precoded reference signals are obtained by precoding one or more reference signals based on K angle vectors. First indication information can then be generated, where the first indication information is used to indicate at least one delay vector and P weighting coefficients corresponding to P angle-delay pairs, the at least one delay vector and the P weighting coefficients are determined based on the one or more precoded reference signals, each of the P angle-delay pair includes one of the K angle vectors and one of the at least one delay vector, and the P angle-delay pairs and the P weighting coefficients are used to determine a precoding matrix, where P and K are positive integers, and where P?1, K?1. The first indication information can then be sent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haifan Yin, Huangping Jin, Zhimeng Zhong, Xiaoyan Bi, Li Fan
  • Patent number: 11387881
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, a channel state information reference signal that includes a plurality of resource blocks. The UE may sub-sample one or more portions of the plurality of resource blocks prior to performing one or more channel state feedback computations. Accordingly, the UE may perform the one or more channel state feedback computations based at least in part on the one or more sub-sampled portions of the plurality of resource blocks and transmit, to the base station, a channel state feedback report based at least in part on the one or more channel state feedback computations that are performed using the one or more sub-sampled portions of the plurality of resource blocks. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Parisa Cheraghi, Anas Tom, Alexei Yurievitch Gorokhov
  • Patent number: 11387888
    Abstract: The present invention relates to precoding and feedback channel information in wireless communication system. A method includes receiving a first Precoding Matrix Index (PMI) and a second PMI from a terminal; mapping one or two codewords into layers; precoding symbols mapped into the layers using a first precoding matrix derived from the first PMI and a second precoding matrix derived from the second PMI; and transmitting the precoded symbols to the terminal, wherein the reception of the first PMI is less frequent than the reception of the second PMI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: PANTECH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jianjun Li, Kyoungmin Park
  • Patent number: 11374635
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes a method and apparatus for sensor assisted beam selection. A method for sensor assisted beam selection includes receiving an input from a sensor indicating a presence of an obstacle proximate to the sensor. The method further includes identifying an antenna module proximate to the sensor. The method further includes deactivating at least a portion of the identified antenna module based on the input from the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Pengda Huang, Jianhua Mo, Boon Loong Ng, Mandar Narsinh Kulkarni, Won-Suk Choi, Jianzhong Zhang
  • Patent number: 11374730
    Abstract: According to certain embodiments, a method (500) by a wireless device (110) includes receiving information relating to a Narrowband Secondary Synchronization Signal (NSSS) transmit diversity scheme. The information indicates a number of NSSS occasions that use different NSSS transmit diversity configurations. Based on the NSSS transmit diversity scheme, at least one measurement is performed across NSSS occasions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Olof Liberg, Joakim Axmon, Mats Folke, Andreas Höglund, Yutao Sui, Martin Van Der Zee, Yi-Pin Eric Wang
  • Patent number: 11374311
    Abstract: A millimeter-wave radar cover housing a millimeter-wave radar including an antenna and an electronic circuit configured to drive the antenna includes: a first site provided in front of the millimeter-wave radar to protect the millimeter-wave radar and transmit millimeter waves emitted from the antenna; and a second site including a housing space in which the antenna and the electronic circuit except for the first site are housed. The first site is made of a stacked structural body obtained by stacking at least one layer of a first constituent material having a negative relative permittivity in the frequency band of the millimeter waves and a second constituent material having a positive relative permittivity in the frequency band of the millimeter waves, and the stacked structural body is curved in a convex shape in a direction centered at an emission source of the millimeter electromagnetic waves and departing from the emission source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Yamada, Kento Tada
  • Patent number: 11368164
    Abstract: An interleaver for combining at least two incoming signals into an analog output signal includes at least a first signal path and a second signal path. Each signal path has: an input terminal, a first gain stage for multiplying a signal coming from the input terminal with a first gain (a) to obtain a first signal, a mixer and a second gain stage for multiplying a signal coming from the input terminal with a second gain (b) before or after mixing it with a clock signal to obtain a second signal, an adder for adding the first and second signal to obtain an output signal of the signal path wherein the first and second gain are different from zero. The interleaver comprises an adder for adding the output signals from the signal paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignees: UNIVERSITEIT GENT, IMEC VZW
    Inventors: Guy Torfs, Hannes Ramon, Xin Yin
  • Patent number: 11362711
    Abstract: An antenna selection method includes selecting M1 antenna sets from CN-L1L2 antenna combinations, where L1 is a quantity of reserved antennas, a sum of L1 and L2 is equal to L, determining an antenna set with a maximum channel capacity, in M2 antenna sets, as a target antenna set to perform a preset-duration data transmission, where the M2 antenna sets are antenna sets formed by the M1 antenna sets and the L1 reserved antennas. The L1 reserved antennas include a maximum SNR in a target antenna set used in previous preset-duration data transmission. Each of the M2 antenna sets includes the L1 reserved antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chih-Hua Chang, Chien-Jen Huang, Chien-Ming Lee, Yuan-Hao Lan
  • Patent number: 11362760
    Abstract: Example Polar code rate matching methods and apparatus are described. One example method includes determining indexes of Z polarized channels on which forced frozen bits are placed, where the Z polarized channels are a subset of N polarized channels corresponding to N to-be-encoded bits, where N=2n, Z<N, and n and Z are positive integers. A first codeword with a length of N is obtained by performing Polar coding on the N to-be-encoded bits. Rate matching is performed on the first codeword to obtain a second codeword with a length of M, where M<N and M is a positive integer. The second codeword with a length of M is sent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jian Wang, Lingchen Huang, Yunfei Qiao, Rong Li
  • Patent number: 11356130
    Abstract: A wireless device comprising a first antenna and second antenna, a transceiver and a radio frequency front end system electrically coupled between the transceiver and the antennas. The RF front end system includes a first module operable to provide a high band transmit signal to the first antenna, receive a first high band receive signal and a first mid band receive signal from the first antenna. The first high band receive signal has a frequency range greater than that of the first mid band receive signal. The RF front end system further includes a second module operable to provide a mid band transmit signal to the second antenna, receive a second mid band receive signal and a second high band receive signal from the second antenna. The second high band receive signal has a frequency range greater than that of the second mid band receive signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: John Chi-Shuen Leung
  • Patent number: 11349555
    Abstract: A technology is described for direction finding. An example of the technology can include executing stages of an N stage search for a direction finding estimate of a plane wave X. The stages of the N stage search include searching a search space in a calibration set having a plurality of points in space and calculating a direction finding estimate, wherein a first search space is a coarse set of points in space and subsequent search spaces selected for subsequent stages of the N stage search are increasingly finer sets of points in the space, and a solution for the direction finding estimate output by a stage of the N stage search is used to select a next search space for a next stage of the N stage search. A direction finding estimate output by a final stage of the N stage search is the final direction finding estimate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: James Furgerson, William P. Harokopus, Patrick W. Cunningham, John Clancy
  • Patent number: 11343670
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for transmitting, by a first device, a transmission signal that includes a carrier signal modulated with a TM signal. Receiving a response signal from a second device in response to the transmission signal. Determining, whether the response signal includes the TM signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: TM IP HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventors: Richard C. Gerdes, Daniel L. Hodges, Quinn Colin McIntosh
  • Patent number: 11342975
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a transceiver associated with a plurality of antennas, and at least one processor configured to: transmit a first signal by using a preset first antenna of the plurality of antennas; receive a second signal coupled from the first signal; determine a comparison result by comparing the first signal and the second signal; perform antenna switching based on the comparison result; and use a second antenna based on the antenna switching.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seungbum Ju, Changwon Jang
  • Patent number: 11329703
    Abstract: A method of transmitting an amplitude shift keyed signal uses a multi-layered transmission over a plurality of transmit antennas with different precoding of different symbols for the respective layers. The method comprises obtaining a sequence of bits to be conveyed, keying the sequence of bits to a signal, precoding the signal to respective layer, and transmitting the precoded signal. A transmitter for transmitting the amplitude shift keyed signal, and a computer program for implementing the method are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Leif Wilhelmsson, Erik G. Larsson, Emil Björnson
  • Patent number: 11323158
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for beamforming communication systems with power control based on antenna pattern configuration are provided. In certain embodiments, a beamforming communication system includes an antenna array including a plurality of antenna elements. The beamforming communication system further includes a plurality of signal conditioning circuits operatively associated with the antenna elements, and an antenna array management circuit that generates a plurality of control signals that individually control the signal conditioning circuits. The antenna array management circuit achieves a desired level of power control based on generating the control signals to select an antenna pattern configuration associated with a desired power control level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Dominique Michel Yves Brunel, William J. Domino, Stephen Joseph Kovacic