Patents by Inventor Carles NAVARRO MANCHON

Carles NAVARRO MANCHON 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: 11764907
    Abstract: A device of a receiver, a method and a machine readable medium to implement the method. The method includes: determining a residual rate to identify a decoding estimate for a first packet sent from a wireless first transmitter; determining a grouping of transmitters including the first transmitter and a wireless second transmitter scheduled to transmit a second packet; performing power optimization by determining lowest necessary transmission powers corresponding, respectively, to transmissions of the first packet from the first transmitter and of the second packet from the second transmitter, wherein the transmissions of the first and second packets are within a same time-frequency resource and together define a signal to be received at the receiver; and encoding for transmission to the first and second transmitters information on the signal based on the residual rate, the grouping and the power optimization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Radoslaw Kotaba, Nuno Manuel Kiilerich Pratas, Tommaso Balercia, Carles Navarro Manchon, Petar Popovski
  • Publication number: 20210399841
    Abstract: A device of a receiver, a method and a machine readable medium to implement the method. The method includes: determining a residual rate to identify a decoding estimate for a first packet sent from a wireless first transmitter; determining a grouping of transmitters including the first transmitter and a wireless second transmitter scheduled to transmit a second packet; performing power optimization by determining lowest necessary transmission powers corresponding, respectively, to transmissions of the first packet from the first transmitter and of the second packet from the second transmitter, wherein the transmissions of the first and second packets are within a same time-frequency resource and together define a signal to be received at the receiver; and encoding for transmission to the first and second transmitters information on the signal based on the residual rate, the grouping and the power optimization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventors: Radoslaw Kotaba, Nuno Manuel Kiilerich Pratas, Tommaso Balercia, Carles Navarro Manchon, Petar Popovski
  • Patent number: 11152988
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to techniques for beamforming in multi-user systems. The disclosure particularly relates to a base station for communication with multiple user terminals, the base station comprising: a digital precoder and an analog precoder which are configured to precode a first training signal; a radio transceiver configured to transmit the precoded first training signal and to receive a precoded second training signal upon transmission of the precoded first training signal; and a controller configured to adjust a precoding of the digital precoder based on processing of the second training signal with respect to a normalization criterion and to adjust a precoding of the analog precoder based on processing of the second training signal with respect to a multi-user beamforming criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Elisabeth De Carvalho, Carles Navarro Manchon
  • Publication number: 20200389214
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to techniques for beamforming in multi-user systems. The disclosure particularly relates to a base station for communication with multiple user terminals, the base station comprising: a digital precoder and an analog precoder which are configured to precode a first training signal; a radio transceiver configured to transmit the precoded first training signal and to receive a precoded second training signal upon transmission of the precoded first training signal; and a controller configured to adjust a precoding of the digital precoder based on processing of the second training signal with respect to a normalization criterion and to adjust a precoding of the analog precoder based on processing of the second training signal with respect to a multi-user beamforming criterion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2018
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventors: Elisabeth De Carvalho, Carles Navarro Manchon
  • Patent number: 10797767
    Abstract: A wireless device, comprising: a hybrid antenna array configured to receive a signal transmitted by another wireless device over a wireless channel; and a transceiver configured to update analog radio frequency precoders of a hierarchical codebook based on magnitudes of multipath components of the wireless channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: Carles Navarro Manchön, Elisabeth De Carvalho, Xavier Carreno Bautista De Lisbona, Tommaso Balercia
  • Publication number: 20190222276
    Abstract: A wireless device, comprising: a hybrid antenna array configured to receive a signal transmitted by another wireless device over a wireless channel; and a transceiver configured to update analog radio frequency precoders of a hierarchical codebook based on magnitudes of multipath components of the wireless channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventors: Carles Navarro Manchón, Elisabeth De Carvalho, Xavier Carreno Bautista De Lisbona, Tommaso Balercia
  • Patent number: 10110401
    Abstract: A method of estimating a channel for mobile systems with insufficient cyclic prefix length, wherein the channel comprises a plurality of multipath components (?,?), includes: receiving a signal (yn) comprising a plurality of contributions of a transmit signal (xn[k], xn-1[k]) transmitted during a plurality of transmission time intervals (n, n?1) on a plurality of sub-carriers of known pilots (k?Pb) and a plurality of sub-carriers of unknown data (k?Pb); determining an estimate of the plurality of multipath components (?,?) based on a probabilistic relation between the plurality of first contributions (xn[k], xn-1[k]) of the transmit signal, wherein the plurality of first contributions are transmitted during adjacent transmission time intervals (n, n?1), and an observation of the received signal (yn[k]) at a subcarrier (k?Pb) of the known pilots, wherein the probabilistic relation is based on statistical properties of the plurality of first contributions (xn[k], xn-1[k]) of the transmit signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: Oana-Elena Barbu, Carles Navarro Manchon, Mihai Badiu, Christian Rom, Bernard Fleury
  • Publication number: 20180123837
    Abstract: A method of estimating a channel for mobile systems with insufficient cyclic prefix length, wherein the channel comprises a plurality of multipath components (?,?), includes: receiving a signal (yn) comprising a plurality of contributions of a transmit signal (xn[k], xn-1[k]) transmitted during a plurality of transmission time intervals (n, n-1) on a plurality of sub-carriers of known pilots (k?Pb) and a plurality of sub-carriers of unknown data (k?Pb); determining an estimate of the plurality of multipath components (?,?) based on a probabilistic relation between the plurality of first contributions (xn[k], xn-1[k]) of the transmit signal, wherein the plurality of first contributions are transmitted during adjacent transmission time intervals (n, n-1), and an observation of the received signal (yn[k]) at a subcarrier (k?Pb) of the known pilots, wherein the probabilistic relation is based on statistical properties of the plurality of first contributions (xn[k], xn-1[k]) of the transmit signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2016
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Inventors: Oana-Elena Barbu, Carles Navarro Manchon, Mihai Badiu, Christian Rom, Bernard Fleury
  • Patent number: 9806912
    Abstract: A method (200) for channel estimation includes receiving (201) a receive symbol (206) comprising: a plurality of interfering transmissions from: a first transmit symbol (202), the first transmit symbol (202) comprising a plurality of unknown modulated symbols interleaved with a plurality of known modulated symbols and a second transmit symbol (204), the second transmit symbol (204) comprising a plurality of unknown modulated symbols interleaved with a plurality of known modulated symbols, wherein the plurality of transmissions from the first transmit symbol (202) and the second transmit symbol (204) are a plurality of transmissions of different time instances; and estimating (203) a channel based on the receive symbol (206) and a plurality of estimates of the first transmit symbol (202) and the second transmit symbol (204).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: Oana-Elena Barbu, Carles Navarro-Manchon, Guillaume Monghal, Bernard H. Fleury, Christian Rom
  • Patent number: 9614632
    Abstract: A method for processing one or more received radio signals is provided. The method may include performing a channel estimation of a transmission channel for at least a portion of the one or more radio signals received, to identify at least one soft channel parameter representing a channel impulse response of the transmission channel, and identifying at least one soft intercarrier interference parameter representing an interference for the one or more radio signals received using a first frequency carrier. The interference is caused by the one or more radio signals received using a second frequency carrier. The method may further include detecting soft data from the one or more radio signals based at least on the at least one soft channel parameter and the at least one soft intercarrier interference parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: INTEL IP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Oana-Elena Barbu, Carles Navarro Manchon, Bernard Fleury, Christian Rom, Tommaso Balercia
  • Publication number: 20160380715
    Abstract: A method for processing one or more received radio signals is provided. The method may include performing a channel estimation of a transmission channel for at least a portion of the one or more radio signals received, to identify at least one soft channel parameter representing a channel impulse response of the transmission channel, and identifying at least one soft intercarrier interference parameter representing an interference for the one or more radio signals received using a first frequency carrier. The interference is caused by the one or more radio signals received using a second frequency carrier. The method may further include detecting soft data from the one or more radio signals based at least on the at least one soft channel parameter and the at least one soft intercarrier interference parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: Oana-Elena Barbu, Carles Navarro Manchon, Bernard Fleury, Christian Rom, Tommaso Balercia
  • Publication number: 20160315791
    Abstract: A method (200) for channel estimation includes receiving (201) a receive symbol (206) comprising: a plurality of interfering transmissions from: a first transmit symbol (202), the first transmit symbol (202) comprising a plurality of unknown modulated symbols interleaved with a plurality of known modulated symbols and a second transmit symbol (204), the second transmit symbol (204) comprising a plurality of unknown modulated symbols interleaved with a plurality of known modulated symbols, wherein the plurality of transmissions from the first transmit symbol (202) and the second transmit symbol (204) are a plurality of transmissions of different time instances; and estimating (203) a channel based on the receive symbol (206) and a plurality of estimates of the first transmit symbol (202) and the second transmit symbol (204).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Inventors: Oana-Elena Barbu, Carles Navarro-Manchon, Guillaume Monghal, Bernard H. Fleury, Christian Rom
  • Patent number: 9042468
    Abstract: A method includes determining a sequence of first coefficient estimates of a communication channel based on a sequence of pilots arranged according to a known pilot pattern and based on a receive signal, wherein the receive signal is based on the sequence of pilots transmitted over the communication channel. The method further includes determining a sequence of second coefficient estimates of the communication channel based on a decomposition of the first coefficient estimates in a dictionary matrix and a sparse vector of the second coefficient estimates, the dictionary matrix including filter characteristics of at least one known transceiver filter arranged in the communication channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventors: Oana-Elena Barbu, Guillaume Damien Andre Monghal, Christian Rom, Bernhard H. Fleury, Niels Lovmand Pedersen, Carles Navarro Manchon
  • Publication number: 20150003542
    Abstract: A method includes determining a sequence of first coefficient estimates of a communication channel based on a sequence of pilots arranged according to a known pilot pattern and based on a receive signal, wherein the receive signal is based on the sequence of pilots transmitted over the communication channel. The method further includes determining a sequence of second coefficient estimates of the communication channel based on a decomposition of the first coefficient estimates in a dictionary matrix and a sparse vector of the second coefficient estimates, the dictionary matrix including filter characteristics of at least one known transceiver filter arranged in the communication channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventors: Oana-Elena BARBU, Guillaume Damien Andre MONGHAL, Christian ROM, Bernhard H. FLEURY, Niels Lovmand PEDERSEN, Carles NAVARRO MANCHON