Patents by Inventor Bertram Gunzelmann

Bertram Gunzelmann 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).

  • Publication number: 20210175919
    Abstract: A circuit arrangement including one or more processors configured to: detect a presence of one or more human object proximities based on sensor data; identify one or more coverage sectors of one or more antenna arrays, operably coupled to the one or more processors, in response to the detected presence of the one or more human object proximities; determine whether radio waves within the one or more identified coverage sectors satisfy a transmit power criteria; select one or more candidate coverage sectors of the one or more antenna arrays based the one or more identified coverage sectors; and determine at least one radio link quality for the radio waves of the one or more candidate coverage sectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: Biljana BADIC, Michael GLIK, Bertram GUNZELMANN, Tom HAREL, Yeong-Sun HWANG, Andre JANSSEN, Jonathan KOSLOFF, Sebastian MITELBERG, Markus Dominik MUECK, Bernhard RAAF, Jianqiang RAO, Nir TISHBI, Zhibin YU
  • Publication number: 20210050898
    Abstract: A wireless device includes a radio frequency transceiver, an antenna array, and one or more processors configured to transmit and receive signals with the radio frequency transceiver and the antenna array, and further configured to transmit, with a first antenna beam, a first plurality of blocks of payload data, transmit, with a second antenna beam, a second plurality of blocks of payload data, receive from a receiver device, feedback on the first plurality of blocks and the second plurality of blocks that requests retransmission or transmit power adjustments, select, based on the feedback, an antenna beam as a transmit antenna beam, and transmit payload data to the receiver device with the transmit antenna beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Inventors: Zhibin YU, Bertram GUNZELMANN, Francois DEPARIS, Qing XU
  • Patent number: 10911199
    Abstract: A wireless device includes a digital receiver configured to receive data via an antenna array, and to determine a load metric based on a load of subcarriers around reference subcarrier signals of a reference signal, and a controller configured to compare the load metric to a load threshold to determine whether the load of the subcarriers is less than a predefined level, and if the load of the subcarriers is less than the predefined level, identify at least one time point where the reference signal repeats itself during a symbol period, and control the antenna array to switch among the plurality of antenna beamforming patterns based on the at least one time point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Zhibin Yu, Bertram Gunzelmann, Yeong-Sun Hwang, Andre Janssen, Holger Neuhaus
  • Publication number: 20200396035
    Abstract: A wireless device includes a digital receiver configured to receive data via an antenna array, and to determine a load metric based on a load of subcarriers around reference subcarrier signals of a reference signal, and a controller configured to compare the load metric to a load threshold to determine whether the load of the subcarriers is less than a predefined level, and if the load of the subcarriers is less than the predefined level, identify at least one time point where the reference signal repeats itself during a symbol period, and control the antenna array to switch among the plurality of antenna beamforming patterns based on the at least one time point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Inventors: Zhibin Yu, Bertram Gunzelmann, Yeong-Sun Hwang, Andre Janssen, Holger Neuhaus
  • Patent number: 10812125
    Abstract: A communication device includes an evaluator configured to evaluate one or more criteria, wherein a first criterion of the one or more criteria includes detecting an object, a determiner configured to determine one or more beam pairs from a plurality of potential beam pairs to use in communications with a second device based on the evaluation of the one or more criteria and transmit an indication of one or more partner-side beams of a selected beam pair of the one or more beam pairs to the second device, and a beam controller configured to adjust an antenna to communicate with the second device via a device-side beam of the selected beam pair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Biljana Badic, Michael Glik, Bertram Gunzelmann, Tom Harel, Yeong-Sun Hwang, Andre Janssen, Jonathan Kosloff, Sebastian Mitelberg, Markus Dominik Mueck, Bernhard Raaf, Jianqiang Rao, Nir Tishbi, Zhibin Yu
  • Publication number: 20200280827
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and techniques for V2X communications using multiple radio access technologies (RATs) are described herein. A communication associated with one or more of the multiple RATs may be received at a device. The device may include a transceiver interface with multiple connections to communicate with multiple transceiver chains. The multiple transceiver chains can be configured to support multiple RATs. Additionally, the multiple transceiver chains may be controlled via the multiple connections of the transceiver interface to coordinate the multiple RATs to complete the communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Inventors: Stefan Fechtel, Kilian Roth, Bertram Gunzelmann, Markus Dominik Mueck, Ingolf Karls, Zhibin Yu, Thorsten Clevorn, Nageen Himayat, Dave A. Cavalcanti, Ana Lucia Pinheiro, Bahareh Sadeghi, Hassnaa Moustafa, Marcio Rogerio Juliato, Rafael Misoczki, Emily H. Qi, Jeffrey R. Foerster, Duncan Kitchin, Debdeep Chatterjee, Jong-Kae Fwu, Carlos Aldana, Shilpa Talwar, Harry G. Skinner, Debabani Choudhury
  • Publication number: 20200267039
    Abstract: A communication device is provided that includes a receiver configured to receive a radio frequency signal. The communication device further includes a processor configured to determine a shift frequency based on a component radio frequency signal. The processor is configured to determine a second signal based on the radio frequency signal. The component radio frequency signal is based on the radio frequency signal and associated with a frequency related to the radio frequency signal represented in the frequency domain. The second signal is determined based on shifting frequencies related to the radio frequency signal represented in the frequency domain by the shift frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Tobias Scholand, Jian Gu, Bertram Gunzelmann, Markus Jordan, Thomas Esch
  • Publication number: 20200259561
    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: February 14, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventors: Sabine Roessel, Holger Neuhaus, Yeong-Sun Hwang, Bertram Gunzelmann, Andreas Menkhoff, Elmar Wagner, Jong-Kae Fwu, Xiangyang Zhuang
  • Publication number: 20200229206
    Abstract: A central trajectory controller including a cell interface configured to establish signaling connections with one or more backhaul moving cells and to establish signaling connections with one or more outer moving cells, an input data repository configured to obtain input data related to a radio environment of the one or more outer moving cells and the one or more backhaul moving cells, and a trajectory processor configured to determine, based on the input data, first coarse trajectories for the one or more backhaul moving cells and second coarse trajectories for the one or more outer moving cells, the cell interface further configured to send the first coarse trajectories to the one or more backhaul moving cells and to send the second coarse trajectories to the one or more outer moving cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Inventors: Biljana BADIC, Steven A. BOWERS, Yang-Seok CHOI, Miltiadis FILIPPOU, Bertram GUNZELMANN, Nageen HIMAYAT, Ingolf KARLS, Nirlesh Kumar KOSHTA, Rajkumar KRISHNAPERUMAL, Markus Dominik MUECK, Hosein NIKOPOUR, Pradeep C. PANGI, Jerome PARRON, Bernhard RAAF, Sabine ROESSEL, Dario SABELLA, Bernd SCHALLER, Domagoj SIPRAK, Christopher STOBART, Shashanka T R, Sudeep VAMANAN, Zhibin YU, Jing ZHU
  • Patent number: 10615943
    Abstract: A scheduling device for scheduling an allocation of a set of link resources includes: a prediction circuit configured to generate a predicted link quality for a first link resource of the set of link resources; a classification circuit configured to classify the first link resource to a classification pattern based on the predicted link quality of the first link resource; and an allocation circuit configured to allocate the first link resource to a first transmission or retransmission subframe set based on the classification pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Holger Neuhaus, Xiaofeng Wu, Bertram Gunzelmann, Axel Huebner
  • Patent number: 10587043
    Abstract: Examples provide a determination circuit and apparatus, a mobile transceiver, a communication device, a method for determining, a computer program and a storage to determine a spatial transmission or reception mode. The determination circuit (10) is configured to determine a spatial transmission or reception mode for a mobile transceiver (100). The determination circuit (10) comprises at least one sensor (12) configured to sense attenuating object information, and a control module (14) configured to determine the spatial transmission or reception mode based on the sensed attenuating object information. The control module (14) is configured to control the spatial transmission or reception mode of the mobile transceiver (100).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yeong-Sun Hwang, Holger Neuhaus, Stefan Fechtel, Bertram Gunzelmann
  • Patent number: 10567074
    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: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sabine Roessel, Holger Neuhaus, Yeong-Sun Hwang, Bertram Gunzelmann, Andreas Menkhoff, Elmar Wagner, Jong-Kae Fwu, Xiangyang Zhuang
  • Patent number: 10491334
    Abstract: Technology for an eNodeB to communicate with a user equipment (UE) using a extended downlink (DL) self-contained frame within a wireless communication network is disclosed. The eNodeB can process data to form an extended downlink (DL) self-contained frame, comprising: a first self-contained subframe including a DL control data, DL data, uplink (UL) control data, and one or more reference symbols; an Mth subframe is located subsequent to the first self-contained subframe, the Mth subframe including one or more resource elements configured for DL data, wherein M is a positive integer greater that is greater than one; and an Nth subframe that is subsequent to the Mth subframe, the Nth subframe including one or more resource elements configured for UL control data. The eNodeB can process the extended DL self-contained frame for transmission to the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: Sabine Roessel, Holger Neuhaus, Bertram Gunzelmann, Yeong-Sun Hwang, Jong-Kae Fwu, Xiangyang Zhuang
  • Patent number: 10306634
    Abstract: According to an example, a communication device is described comprising a receiver configured to receive a signal, a divider configured to divide the signal into signal components, an estimator configured to estimate, for each signal component, an expected processing error which is made when, instead of a first processing scheme, a second processing scheme is used to process the signal component, wherein the first has a higher processing effort than the second, a determiner configured to determine, for each signal component, whether to process the signal component by the first or by the second processing scheme based on the expected processing errors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: Holger Neuhaus, Rajarajan Balraj, Christian Faber, Bertram Gunzelmann
  • Publication number: 20190115657
    Abstract: Examples provide a determination circuit and apparatus, a mobile transceiver, a communication device, a method for determining, a computer program and a storage to determine a spatial transmission or reception mode. The determination circuit (10) is configured to determine a spatial transmission or reception mode for a mobile transceiver (100). The determination circuit (10) comprises at least one sensor (12) configured to sense attenuating object information, and a control module (14) configured to determine the spatial transmission or reception mode based on the sensed attenuating object information. The control module (14) is configured to control the spatial transmission or reception mode of the mobile transceiver (100).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventors: Yeong-Sun Hwang, Holger Neuhaus, Stefan Fechtel, Bertram Gunzelmann
  • 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
  • Patent number: 10158464
    Abstract: A mobile terminal device may include a receiver circuit and a processing circuit. The receiver circuit may be configured to receive a composite signal comprising a plurality of reference signal patterns associated with a plurality of transmit locations. The processing circuit may be configured to identify a first reference signal pattern and a second reference signal pattern from the plurality of reference signal patterns; generate a first offset estimate and a second offset estimate based on the first reference signal pattern and the second reference signal pattern; determine a refined offset estimate based on the first offset estimate and the second offset estimate, wherein first offset estimate has a greater offset estimation range than the second offset estimate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: Dae Jung Yoon, Bertram Gunzelmann, Ansgar Scherb
  • Patent number: 10128882
    Abstract: A mobile communications radio receiver for multiple radio network operation includes an RF unit for generating a first down-converted signal from a radio signal received from a first radio network and a second down-converted signal from a radio signal received from a second radio network. Further, it includes a first receiver comprising a paging indicator channel demodulator for demodulating a paging indicator channel of the first radio network based on the first down-converted signal, and a second receiver including a pilot channel demodulator for demodulating a pilot channel of the second radio network based on the second down-converted signal. A first data connection is configured to couple paging information contained in the second down-converted signal to an input of the paging indicator channel demodulator of the first receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Intel Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Thorsten Clevorn, Herbert Dawid, Bertram Gunzelmann
  • Publication number: 20180270024
    Abstract: A scheduling device for scheduling an allocation of a set of link resources includes: a prediction circuit configured to generate a predicted link quality for a first link resource of the set of link resources; a classification circuit configured to classify the first link resource to a classification pattern based on the predicted link quality of the first link resource; and an allocation circuit configured to allocate the first link resource to a first transmission or retransmission subframe set based on the classification pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2016
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: Intel lP Corporation
    Inventors: Holger Neuhaus, Xiaofeng Wu, Bertram Gunzelmann, Axel Huebner
  • Publication number: 20180254851
    Abstract: Technology for an eNodeB to communicate with a user equipment (UE) using a extended downlink (DL) self-contained frame within a wireless communication network is disclosed. The eNodeB can process data to form an extended downlink (DL) self-contained frame, comprising: a first self-contained subframe including a DL control data, DL data, uplink (UL) control data, and one or more reference symbols; an Mth subframe is located subsequent to the first self-contained subframe, the Mth subframe including one or more resource elements configured for DL data, wherein M is a positive integer greater that is greater than one; and an Nth subframe that is subsequent to the Mth subframe, the Nth subframe including one or more resource elements configured for UL control data. The eNodeB can process the extended DL self-contained frame for transmission to the UE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2016
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Inventors: SABINE ROESSEL, HOLGER NEUHAUS, BERTRAM GUNZELMANN, YEONG-SUN HWANG, JONG-KAE FWU, XIANGYANG ZHUANG