Patents by Inventor Alan N. Willson

Alan N. Willson has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9787288
    Abstract: A method and system for the design and implementation of an optimally factored filter is presented. Pairs of angle values are organized in pairing candidates and a threshold is defined to indicate an upper bound on the number of pairing candidates. A first pairing candidate is exchanged above the threshold with a second pairing candidate below the threshold and a matrix is generated based on the pairing candidates below the threshold. A lowest predicted total quantization cost between all pairing candidates represented within the matrix is determined and the pairing candidates that result in the lowest predicted total quantization cost are used to determine the coefficients of the filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Inventors: Alireza Mehrnia, Alan N. Willson, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9705476
    Abstract: A method and system for the design and implementation of an optimally factored filter is presented. Pairs of angle values are organized in pairing candidates and a threshold is defined to indicate an upper bound on the number of pairing candidates. A first pairing candidate is exchanged above the threshold with a second pairing candidate below the threshold and a matrix is generated based on the pairing candidates below the threshold. A lowest predicted total quantization cost between all pairing candidates represented within the matrix is determined and the pairing candidates that result in the lowest predicted total quantization cost are used to determine the coefficients of the filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Inventors: Alireza Mehrnia, Alan N. Willson, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9547327
    Abstract: Systems and methods for a split phase accumulator having a plurality of sub phase accumulators are provided. Each sub phase accumulator receives a portion of a frequency control word. The first sub phase accumulator includes a first register and the remaining sub phase accumulators include a register and an overflow register. At each discrete point in time, the first sub phase accumulator is configured to be responsive to the first portion of the frequency control word at that discrete point in time and to the first sub phase accumulator value at the immediately previous discrete point in time, and each of the remaining sub phase accumulators is configured to be responsive to a value of its corresponding portion of the frequency control word at that discrete point in time and to the same second sub phase accumulator value at the immediately previous discrete point in time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Inventors: Alan N. Willson, Jr., Tianyu Hu, Yunfan Liu
  • Publication number: 20160322958
    Abstract: A method and system for the design and implementation of an optimally factored filter is presented. Pairs of angle values are organized in pairing candidates and a threshold is defined to indicate an upper bound on the number of pairing candidates. A first pairing candidate is exchanged above the threshold with a second pairing candidate below the threshold and a matrix is generated based on the pairing candidates below the threshold. A lowest predicted total quantization cost between all pairing candidates represented within the matrix is determined and the pairing candidates that result in the lowest predicted total quantization cost are used to determine the coefficients of the filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Inventors: Alireza Mehrnia, Alan N. WILLSON, JR.
  • Publication number: 20160322959
    Abstract: A method and system for the design and implementation of an optimally factored filter is presented. Pairs of angle values are organized in pairing candidates and a threshold is defined to indicate an upper bound on the number of pairing candidates. A first pairing candidate is exchanged above the threshold with a second pairing candidate below the threshold and a matrix is generated based on the pairing candidates below the threshold. A lowest predicted total quantization cost between all pairing candidates represented within the matrix is determined and the pairing candidates that result in the lowest predicted total quantization cost are used to determine the coefficients of the filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Inventors: Alireza Mehrnia, Alan N. Willson, JR.
  • Patent number: 9391591
    Abstract: A method and system for the design and implementation of an optimally factored filter is presented. Pairs of angle values are organized in pairing candidates and a threshold is defined to indicate an upper bound on the number of pairing candidates. A first pairing candidate is exchanged above the threshold with a second pairing candidate below the threshold and a matrix is generated based on the pairing candidates below the threshold. A lowest predicted total quantization cost between all pairing candidates represented within the matrix is determined and the pairing candidates that result in the lowest predicted total quantization cost are used to determine the coefficients of the filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Pentomics, Inc.
    Inventors: Alireza Mehrnia, Alan N. Willson, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9374067
    Abstract: A method and system for the design and implementation of an optimally factored interpolated finite impulse response (IFIR) filter is presented. Techniques used to increase the implementation efficiency of the filter include joint sequencing of the filter stages, use of an nested IFIR filter, taming of a stage by relocation of that stage, fusing two or more stages together to form a single stage, and manual manipulation of a post-stage multiplier. IFIR filters using this approach may be realized as low pass filters or high pass filters, and in either analog or digital form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Pentomics, Inc.
    Inventors: Alireza Mehrnia, Alan N. Willson, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20160161975
    Abstract: Systems and methods for a split phase accumulator having a plurality of sub phase accumulators are provided. Each sub phase accumulator receives a portion of a frequency control word. The first sub phase accumulator includes a first register and the remaining sub phase accumulators include a register and an overflow register. At each discrete point in time, the first sub phase accumulator is configured to be responsive to the first portion of the frequency control word at that discrete point in time and to the first sub phase accumulator value at the immediately previous discrete point in time, and each of the remaining sub phase accumulators is configured to he responsive to a value of its corresponding portion of the frequency control word at that discrete point in time and to the same second sub phase accumulator value at the immediately previous discrete point in time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2016
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Inventors: Alan N. WILLSON, JR., Tianyu HU, Yunfan LIU
  • Patent number: 9268529
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for angle rotation is disclosed to rotate a complex input by the angle ? to produce a rotated complex output signal. A memory storage device generates control information based on a coarse angle ?M. A coarse rotation butterfly circuit uses the control information to rotate the complex input signal by the coarse angle ?M to produce an intermediate complex number. The control information controls one or more multiplexers and/or adders in the coarse rotation butterfly circuit to rotate the complex input signal. The fine rotation butterfly circuit uses the control information to rotate the intermediate complex number by a fine angle ?L to produce the complex output signal. The control information controls one or more multiplexers and/or adders in the fine rotation butterfly circuit to rotate the intermediate complex number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Pentomics, Inc.
    Inventor: Alan N. Willson, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9244483
    Abstract: Systems and methods for a split phase accumulator having a plurality of sub phase accumulators are provided, Each sub phase accumulator receives a portion of a frequency control word. The first sub phase accumulator includes a first register and the remaining sub phase accumulators include a register and an overflow register. At each discrete point in time, the first sub phase accumulator is configured to be responsive to the first portion of the frequency control word at that discrete point in time and to the first sub phase accumulator value at the immediately previous discrete point in time, and each of the remaining sub phase accumulators is configured to be responsive to a value of its corresponding portion of the frequency control word at that discrete point in time and to the same second sub phase accumulator value at the immediately previous discrete point in time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Pentomics, Inc.
    Inventor: Alan N. Willson, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20150256150
    Abstract: A method and system for the design and implementation of an optimally factored interpolated finite impulse response (IFIR) filter is presented. Techniques used to increase the implementation efficiency of the filter include joint sequencing of the filter stages, use of an nested IFIR filter, taming of a stage by relocation of that stage, fusing two or more stages together to form a single stage, and manual manipulation of a post-stage multiplier. IFIR filters using this approach may be realized as low pass filters or high pass filters, and in either analog or digital form.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2015
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Inventors: Alireza MEHRNIA, Alan N. Willson, JR.
  • Publication number: 20150236669
    Abstract: A method and system for the design and implementation of an optimally factored filter is presented. Pairs of angle values are organized in pairing candidates and a threshold is defined to indicate an upper bound on the number of pairing candidates. A first pairing candidate is exchanged above the threshold with a second pairing candidate below the threshold and a matrix is generated based on the pairing candidates below the threshold. A lowest predicted total quantization cost between all pairing candidates represented within the matrix is determined and the pairing candidates that result in the lowest predicted total quantization cost are used to determine the coefficients of the filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2015
    Publication date: August 20, 2015
    Inventors: Alireza MEHRNIA, Alan N. WILLSON, JR.
  • Publication number: 20140195579
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for angle rotation is disclosed to rotate a complex input by the angle ? to produce a rotated complex output signal. A memory storage device generates control information based on a coarse angle ?M. A coarse rotation butterfly circuit uses the control information to rotate the complex input signal by the coarse angle ?M to produce an intermediate complex number. The control information controls one or more multiplexers and/or adders in the coarse rotation butterfly circuit to rotate the complex input signal. The fine rotation butterfly circuit uses the control information to rotate the intermediate complex number by a fine angle ?L to produce the complex output signal. The control information controls one or more multiplexers and/or adders in the fine rotation butterfly circuit to rotate the intermediate complex number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2013
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicant: Pentomics, Inc.
    Inventor: Alan N. WILLSON,, JR.
  • Patent number: 8694569
    Abstract: A method and system for the design and implementation of an inverse-sinc function that can efficiently process signals produced by high-speed systems is presented. An integrated inverse-sinc module accepts multiple data streams that may result from parallel sub-systems and creates multiple outputs that can be interleaved to produce a sequence that has been filtered by an inverse-sinc function. The multiple-input, multiple-output system may be beneficially operated at a low data rate, such as the data rate used by each of the sub-systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Pentomics, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan N. Willson, Jr., Tzu-Chieh Kuo
  • Patent number: 8645441
    Abstract: A method and system for the design and implementation of filters is presented in which the filter's transfer function can be provided with a significant insensitivity to the filter's tap coefficient values. A desensitized digital filter includes a first halfband filter and a second filter coupled in cascade between an input of the digital filter and the output of the digital filter. In embodiments, the first filter has the transfer function F(z)=K(1+z?1)(1+z?1) wherein K?0 is a scale factor. The digital filter may also interact with an up-sampler or a down-sampler. A desensitized Hilbert transformer includes an FIR filter having filter-tap coefficients whose absolute values equal the absolute values of the coefficients of an FIR filter F(z) for which the product (1+z?1)F(z) is a halfband filter coupled in cascade with a second filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Pentomics, Inc.
    Inventor: Alan N. Willson
  • Patent number: 8645443
    Abstract: A method and system for the design and implementation of desensitized digital filters with droop correction. The desensitized digital filter includes a first filter configured to receive an input signal, a decimator or upsampler, and a modified desensitized half-band filter. The first filter introduces droop into the passband of the desensitized digital filter. The desensitized half-band filter has a transfer function F(z)=K(1+z?1)G(z) wherein K?0 is a scale factor, that is modified to omit a (1+z?1) factor block. The modified desensitized half-band filter compensates for the passband droop introduced by the first filter. The first filter may be a sinc filter, CIC filter, or filter having similar properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Pentomics, Inc.
    Inventor: Alan N. Willson, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8131793
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for angle is disclosed to rotate a complex input by the angle ? to produce a rotated complex output signal. A memory storage device generates control information based on a coarse angle ?M. A coarse rotation butterfly circuit uses the control information to rotate the complex input signal by the coarse angle ?M to produce an intermediate complex number. The control information controls one or more multiplexers and/or adders in the coarse rotation butterfly circuit to information to rotate the complex input signal. The fine rotation butterfly circuit uses the control information to rotate the intermediate complex number by a fine angle ?L to produce the complex output signal. The control information controls one or more multiplexers and/or adders in the fine rotation butterfly circuit to rotate the intermediate complex number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: Pentomics, Inc.
    Inventor: Alan N. Willson, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20100235420
    Abstract: A method and system for the design and implementation of desensitized digital filters with droop correction. The desensitized digital filter includes a first filter configured to receive an input signal, a decimator or upsampler, and a modified desensitized half-band filter. The first filter introduces droop into the passband of the desensitized digital filter. The desensitized half-band filter has a transfer function F(z)=K(1+z?1)G(z) wherein K?0 is a scale factor, that is modified to omit a (1+z?1) factor block. The modified desensitized half-band filter compensates for the passband droop introduced by the first filter. The first filter may be a sinc filter, CIC filter, or filter having similar properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2010
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Inventor: Alan N. WILLSON, JR.
  • Publication number: 20100121523
    Abstract: A mobile wireless local area communications network includes a pair of relatively movable nodes, such as a vehicle and a house, which are movable into and out of a defined and limited area of communications relative to the fixed node. Each node has a computer and human interface capabilities to enable transfer of data between the nodes. Each has the ability to automatically connect/disconnect the nodes when the movable node moves into/out of the area of communications. The system causes performance of a function extrinsic to the communication itself as a result of the initiation or the cessation of the communication, even after the nodes have been disconnected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2009
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Inventors: Alan N. Willson, Arthur Torosyan
  • Publication number: 20100100576
    Abstract: A method and system for the design and implementation of filters is presented in which the filter's transfer function can be provided with a significant insensitivity to the filter's tap coefficient values. A desensitized digital filter includes a first halfband filter and a second filter coupled in cascade between an input of the digital filter and the output of the digital filter. In embodiments, the first filter has the transfer function F(z)=K(1+z?1)(1+z?1) wherein K?0 is a scale factor. The digital filter may also interact with an up-sampler or a down-sampler. A desensitized Hilbert transformer includes an FIR filter having filter-tap coefficients whose absolute values equal the absolute values of the coefficients of an FIR filter F(z) for which the product (1+z?1)F(z) is a halfband filter coupled in cascade with a second filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2008
    Publication date: April 22, 2010
    Applicant: Pentomics, Inc.
    Inventor: Alan N. WILLSON, JR.