Patents by Inventor Benoit Ledoux

Benoit Ledoux 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: 9479826
    Abstract: A system has a first transmitter for transmitting a first wireless signal within a first frequency. A second transmitter is for transmitting a second wireless signal with overlapping frequency. The first transmitter and the second transmitter are disposed sufficiently proximate to another such that the wireless signals substantially interfere resulting in a combined wireless signal with negative SNR for each of the first wireless signal and the second wireless signal, the negative SNR being a result of at least the other of the first wireless signal and the second wireless signal. A receiver is located for receiving a received wireless signal comprising substantially interfering encoded data signals having negative SNR. The receiver is for selecting from the substantially interfering encoded data signals a signal of interest and for decoding said signal of interest relative to at least the other substantially interfering data signal within the received wireless signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada as represented by the Minister of industry, through the Communications Research Centre Canada
    Inventors: Yiyan Wu, Bo Rong, Gilles Gagnon, Khalil Salehian, Sébastien Laflèche, Charles Nadeau, Benoit Ledoux, Robert Gagnon, Douglas Prendergast
  • Publication number: 20120257643
    Abstract: A system has a first transmitter for transmitting a first wireless signal within a first frequency. A second transmitter is for transmitting a second wireless signal with overlapping frequency. The first transmitter and the second transmitter are disposed sufficiently proximate to another such that the wireless signals substantially interfere resulting in a combined wireless signal with negative SNR for each of the first wireless signal and the second wireless signal, the negative SNR being a result of at least the other of the first wireless signal and the second wireless signal. A receiver is located for receiving a received wireless signal comprising substantially interfering encoded data signals having negative SNR. The receiver is for selecting from the substantially interfering encoded data signals a signal of interest and for decoding said signal of interest relative to at least the other substantially interfering data signal within the received wireless signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2012
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Applicants: the Communications Research Centre of Canada
    Inventors: Yiyan Wu, Bo Rong, Gilles Gagnon, Khalil Salehian, Sébastien Lafléche, Charles Nadeau, Benoit Ledoux, Robert Gagnon, Douglas Prendergast
  • Patent number: 7912118
    Abstract: The invention provides a method and device for iterative hybrid time-frequency domain block equalization of signals received via a communication channel subject to multipath interference. The equalization method includes frequency-domain equalization of blocks of received signals in a forward path, and time-domain inter-block echo correction and intra-block cyclic echo addition in the feedback path. The invention can be used for equalizing signals transmitted without cyclic prefix and subjected to multi-path interference with long delay spread.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Her Majesty the Queen in right of Canada, as represented by the Minister of Industry, Through the Communications Research Centre Canada
    Inventors: Xianbin Wang, Yiyan Wu, Benoit Ledoux, Sebastien Lafleche, Gilles Gagnon
  • Patent number: 7307666
    Abstract: The invention relates to a transmitter identification system, which utilizes an identification signal embedded into a digital television signal, enabling the transmitter of origin to be identified at a receiving station. Ideally the identification signal is an orthogonal pseudo-random sequence time synchronized to the signal frame structure of the digital television signal. Particularly designed for single frequency networks, identification of the various transmitted signals enables the network to be tuned to eliminate or minimize multi-path effects at certain locations, which receive transmissions from various transmitters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2007
    Assignee: Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada as represented by the Minister of Industry through the Communications Research Centre Canada
    Inventors: Yiyan Wu, Xianbin Wang, Sebastien Lafleche, Benoit Ledoux, Bernard Caron
  • Patent number: 7202914
    Abstract: The invention relates to a transmitter identification system, which utilizes an identification signal embedded into a digital television signal, enabling the transmitter of origin to be identified at a receiving station. Ideally the identification signal is an orthogonal pseudo-random sequence time synchronized to the signal frame structure of the digital television signal. Particularly designed for single frequency networks, identification of the various transmitted signals enables the network to be tuned to eliminate or minimize multi-path effects at certain locations, which receive transmissions from various transmitters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2007
    Assignee: Her Majest the Queen in Right of Canada as represented by the Minister of Industry, through the Communications Research Centre Canada
    Inventors: Yiyan Wu, Xianbin Wang, Sebastien Lafleche, Benoit Ledoux, Bernard Caron
  • Publication number: 20070064824
    Abstract: The invention provides a method and device for iterative hybrid time-frequency domain block equalization of signals received via a communication channel subject to multipath interference. The equalization method includes frequency-domain equalization of blocks of received signals in a forward path, and time-domain inter-block echo correction and intra-block cyclic echo addition in the feedback path. The invention can be used for equalizing signals transmitted without cyclic prefix and subjected to multi-path interference with long delay spread.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2006
    Publication date: March 22, 2007
    Inventors: Xianbin Wang, Yiyan Wu, Benoit Ledoux, Sebastien Lafleche, Gilles Gagnon
  • Publication number: 20050117070
    Abstract: The invention relates to a transmitter identification system, which utilizes an identification signal embedded into a digital television signal, enabling the transmitter of origin to be identified at a receiving station. Ideally the identification signal is an orthogonal pseudo-random sequence time synchronized to the signal frame structure of the digital television signal. Particularly designed for single frequency networks, identification of the various transmitted signals enables the network to be tuned to eliminate or minimize multi-path effects at certain locations, which receive transmissions from various transmitters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2004
    Publication date: June 2, 2005
    Inventors: Yiyan Wu, Xianbin Wang, Sebastien Lafleche, Benoit Ledoux, Bernard Caron
  • Publication number: 20040187162
    Abstract: The invention relates to a transmitter identification system, which utilizes an identification signal embedded into a digital television signal, enabling the transmitter of origin to be identified at a receiving station. Ideally the identification signal is an orthogonal pseudo-random sequence time synchronized to the signal frame structure of the digital television signal. Particularly designed for single frequency networks, identification of the various transmitted signals enables the network to be tuned to eliminate or minimize multi-path effects at certain locations, which receive transmissions from various transmitters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2004
    Publication date: September 23, 2004
    Inventors: Yiyan Wu, Xianbin Wang, Sabastien Lafleche, Benoit Ledoux, Bernard Caron