Patents by Inventor Andreas Menkhoff

Andreas Menkhoff 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: 10491247
    Abstract: A transmitter for generating an analog radio frequency transmit signal is provided. The transmitter includes a digital-to-analog converter configured to receive an oscillation signal and a first digital data signal to generate an analog radio frequency transmit signal. Further, the transmitter includes an oscillation signal generator configured to generate the oscillation signal with an oscillation frequency based on a second digital data signal. The transmitter additionally includes a controller configured to change a first sample frequency of the first digital data signal from a first frequency to a value different than the oscillation frequency, wherein the first frequency is at least the oscillation frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: INTEL IP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Andreas Menkhoff, Thomas Bauernfeind, Dirk Friedrich, Timo Gossmann
  • Patent number: 10455511
    Abstract: Described herein are architectures, platforms and methods for implementing scalable power in a wireless device. Multiple radio access technology architectures running different operating clock frequencies are supported by providing a scaled static clock frequency and dynamic clock frequencies by dynamically switching parallel paths of processing resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventor: Andreas Menkhoff
  • Patent number: 10432173
    Abstract: An apparatus for shifting a digital signal having a first sample rate by a shift time to provide a shifted signal having a second sample rate is provided. The apparatus includes a sample rate converter configured to provide a value of an interpolated signal at a compensated sample time as a sample of the shifted signal, the interpolated signal being based on the digital signal. The sample rate converter is configured to modify a time interval between a sample time of the digital signal and the compensated sample time based on the shift time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas Bauernfeind, Andreas Menkhoff, Michael Bruennert
  • Patent number: 10404519
    Abstract: A method for determining a noise shaped quantized parameter contributing to generation of an output signal comprises estimating an error within the output signal using a quantization of the parameter and a quantization of a further parameter contributing to generation of the output signal. The quantization of the parameter is used as the noise shaped quantized parameter according to a selection criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: Andreas Menkhoff, Mohamed Ibrahim
  • Patent number: 10374861
    Abstract: An apparatus for generating a radio frequency signal is provided. The apparatus includes a modulator configured to generate the radio frequency signal based on an input signal. Further, the apparatus includes a controller configured to control the modulator to generate the radio frequency signal using polar modulation, if the input signal has a first characteristic. The controller is configured to control the modulator to generate the radio frequency signal using quadrature modulation, if the input signal has a different second characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventor: Andreas Menkhoff
  • Publication number: 20190181889
    Abstract: A transmitter for generating an analog radio frequency transmit signal is provided. The transmitter includes a digital-to-analog converter configured to receive an oscillation signal and a first digital data signal to generate an analog radio frequency transmit signal. Further, the transmitter includes an oscillation signal generator configured to generate the oscillation signal with an oscillation frequency based on a second digital data signal. The transmitter additionally includes a controller configured to change a first sample frequency of the first digital data signal from a first frequency to a value different than the oscillation frequency, wherein the first frequency is at least the oscillation frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Inventors: Andreas MENKHOFF, Thomas BAUERNFEIND, Dirk FRIEDRICH, Timo GOSSMANN
  • Patent number: 10320366
    Abstract: A filter having an impulse response including a first partial impulse response and a second partial impulse response includes a supplementary filter having a supplementary impulse response. A first filter has the first partial impulse response using an output of the supplementary filter as an input and a second filter has the second partial impulse response using an output of the supplementary filter as an input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventor: Andreas Menkhoff
  • Patent number: 10237113
    Abstract: A method for approximating a first signal having a first oscillation period within a quantized time interval using a second signal is provided. The second signal has a second oscillation period. The method includes calculating a phase offset of the first signal at at least one position within the quantized time interval. Further, the method comprises shifting the second signal within the quantized time interval until a phase offset of the second signal at the at least one position satisfies a quality criterion related to the phase offset of the first signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventor: Andreas Menkhoff
  • Publication number: 20190052354
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for communicating in a wireless network including apparatus comprising transceiver circuitry to send and receive data in a plurality of time periods, defined by a time division duplex (TDD) time grid, to another entity, the plurality of time periods corresponding to a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols and the transceiver circuitry being operable to switch from receive mode to transmit mode and/or from transmit mode to receive mode according to a flexible uplink and downlink allocation of the plurality of time periods; and baseband circuitry coupled to the transceiver circuitry to control the transceiver circuitry to switch during a switching interval embedded within a time period corresponding to an OFDM symbol of the plurality of OFDM symbols.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Inventors: SABINE ROESSEL, HOLGER NEUHAUS, YEONG-SUN HWANG, BERTRAM GUNZELMANN, ANDREAS MENKHOFF, ELMAR WAGNER, JONG-KAE FWU, XIANGYANG ZHUANG
  • Publication number: 20190036486
    Abstract: An envelope tracking system for controlling a power amplifier supply voltage includes envelope circuitry and a feed forward digital to analog converter (DAC) circuitry. The envelope circuitry is configured to generate a target envelope signal based on a selected power amplifier supply voltage. The feed forward DAC circuitry includes a voltage source circuitry and a selector circuitry. The voltage source circuitry is configured to generate a plurality of voltages. The selector circuitry is configured to select one of the plurality of voltages based at least on the target envelope signal. The feed forward DAC circuitry is configured to provide the selected voltage to a supply voltage input of a power amplifier that amplifies a radio frequency (RF) transmit signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Inventors: Stephan Henzler, Andreas Menkhoff, Thomas Eichler, Wolfgang Walthes, Alexander Belitzer, Yifan Wang
  • Publication number: 20190028321
    Abstract: A method for approximating a first signal having a first oscillation period within a quantized time interval using a second signal is provided. The second signal has a second oscillation period. The method includes calculating a phase offset of the first signal at at least one position within the quantized time interval. Further, the method comprises shifting the second signal within the quantized time interval until a phase offset of the second signal at the at least one position satisfies a quality criterion related to the phase offset of the first signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Inventor: Andreas Menkhoff
  • Publication number: 20190028319
    Abstract: An apparatus for generating a radio frequency signal is provided. The apparatus includes a modulator configured to generate the radio frequency signal based on an input signal. Further, the apparatus includes a controller configured to control the modulator to generate the radio frequency signal using polar modulation, if the input signal has a first characteristic. The controller is configured to control the modulator to generate the radio frequency signal using quadrature modulation, if the input signal has a different second characteristic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Inventor: Andreas Menkhoff
  • Patent number: 10116341
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for transmitting a signal over a wireless channel using a device including a polar transmitter joinable with a modulator are disclosed. For example, the method, by a circuit of the device, generates first and second streams of data from received data based on a type of modulator, a type of combiner and a channel frequency, each stream having at least some portion of the received data that is distinct from data included in the other stream, the type of combiner comprising a multiplicative or an additive combiner, the method, by the circuit, generates a first analog signal based on the first stream and generates a supply voltage based on the second stream, and the method by an amplifier coupled to the circuit, generates a Radio Frequency (RF) signal based on the supply voltage and the type of combiner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: Andreas Menkhoff, Stephan Henzler
  • Publication number: 20180287563
    Abstract: An envelope tracking system for controlling a power amplifier supply voltage includes envelope circuitry and a feed forward digital to analog converter (DAC) circuitry. The envelope circuitry is configured to generate a target envelope signal based on a selected power amplifier supply voltage. The feed forward DAC circuitry includes a voltage source circuitry and a selector circuitry. The voltage source circuitry is configured to generate a plurality of voltages. The selector circuitry is configured to select one of the plurality of voltages based at least on the target envelope signal. The feed forward DAC circuitry is configured to provide the selected voltage to a supply voltage input of a power amplifier that amplifies a radio frequency (RF) transmit signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventors: Stephan Henzler, Andreas Menkhoff, Thomas Eichler, Wolfgan Walthes, Alexander Belitzer, Yifan Wang
  • Patent number: 10090808
    Abstract: An envelope tracking system for controlling a power amplifier supply voltage includes envelope circuitry and a feed forward digital to analog converter (DAC) circuitry. The envelope circuitry is configured to generate a target envelope signal based on a selected power amplifier supply voltage. The feed forward DAC circuitry includes a voltage source circuitry and a selector circuitry. The voltage source circuitry is configured to generate a plurality of voltages. The selector circuitry is configured to select one of the plurality of voltages based at least on the target envelope signal. The feed forward DAC circuitry is configured to provide the selected voltage to a supply voltage input of a power amplifier that amplifies a radio frequency (RF) transmit signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: Stephan Henzler, Andreas Menkhoff, Thomas Eichler, Wolfgang Walthes, Alexander Belitzer, Yifan Wang
  • Publication number: 20180262384
    Abstract: A method for determining a noise shaped quantized parameter contributing to generation of an output signal comprises estimating an error within the output signal using a quantization of the parameter and a quantization of a further parameter contributing to generation of the output signal. The quantization of the parameter is used as the noise shaped quantized parameter according to a selection criterion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Inventors: Andreas MENKHOFF, Mohamed IBRAHIM
  • Patent number: 10044322
    Abstract: A radio frequency signal synthesizer circuit includes a digital to analog converter configured to generate an analog output signal for each clock cycle of a clock signal to provide the radio frequency signal and a controlled oscillator to generate the clock signal. The controlled oscillator is configured to vary a cycle time of the clock signal for a radio frequency signal in a first frequency range in a first operation mode or to maintain a constant cycle time for a radio frequency signal in a second frequency range in a second operation mode, the second frequency range being different than the first frequency range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: Andreas Menkhoff, Zdravko Boos
  • Patent number: 10009013
    Abstract: A first stage of a digital filter received input data to be filtered, the first stage of a digital filter operating at a first clock; a second stage of the digital filter outputs filtered output data, the second stage of the digital filter operating on a second clock, wherein a ratio of a frequency of the first clock and a frequency of the second clock is a fractional number, and a frequency of the second clock is higher than a frequency of the first clock; the first stage receives an indication of a ratio of the first clock and the second clock; and the first stage receives an indication of a time offset between (1) a clock pulse of the second clock, which occurs between a first clock pulse and (2) the first clock pulse of the first clock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: INTEL DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventor: Andreas Menkhoff
  • Publication number: 20180167056
    Abstract: An apparatus for shifting a digital signal having a first sample rate by a shift time to provide a shifted signal having a second sample rate is provided. The apparatus includes a sample rate converter configured to provide a value of an interpolated signal at a compensated sample time as a sample of the shifted signal, the interpolated signal being based on the digital signal. The sample rate converter is configured to modify a time interval between a sample time of the digital signal and the compensated sample time based on the shift time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Inventors: Thomas Bauernfeind, Andreas Menkhoff, Michael Bruennert
  • Patent number: 9985815
    Abstract: A signal processing device including a first signal processing chain having a first output signal; a second signal processing chain comprising a second output signal with a higher accuracy than the first output signal; a controller configured to switch, based on a desired accuracy, whether to switch between the first and second signal processing chains as a path for an original input signal; and a modifier configured to modify the original input signal, the first output signal, or the second output signal to generate a modified input, a modified first output, or a modified second output signal when the controller switches between the first and second signal processing chains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: Andreas Menkhoff, Guenther Hackl