Patents by Inventor Dominique Brunel

Dominique Brunel 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: 9059795
    Abstract: A method for dynamically clocking one component located into a Wireless telecommunication apparatus comprising a RF transceiver subject to desensizitation by said component EMI, characterized in that it involves the steps of performing an adaptive control on the clock rate of said component so as to locate a wideband noise PSD null just to the left or to the right, in the frequency domain, of the RF transceiver wanted carrier frequency (fw) Particularly, the control is performed by means of the control of programmable frequency dividers, and under the control of a general control unit (UCM) for the purpose of performing a contextual analysis of the current mode of operation of said wireless telecommunications and, in response to said contextual analysis, for determining the fine tuning of the clock rate to be applied to said component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: ST-Ericsson SA
    Inventors: François Sittler, Dominique Brunel, Laurent Noel
  • Patent number: 8938203
    Abstract: A radio transceiver including—an antenna (201) switch having a control lead (226); —a RF and front end circuit (202) coupled to said antenna switch and operating in at least one 2G mode and at least one 3G mode; —a RF transceiver (209) coupled to said RF front end and operating in at least a first 2G and a second 3G mode; —a baseband (210) communicating with a set of peripherals and external devices; The radio transceiver is characterized by the fact that it includes: —control means (221) for controlling said antenna switch (201) in a isolated mode; —an programmable adaptive filter controlled by said control means for the purpose of introducing at least one notch for eliminating one corresponding spur. The radio transceiver preferably includes means (215) for performing, under control of said control means (221) a FFT computation for the purpose of elaborating a representation, in the time domain, of the different spurs and/or jammers spoiling the received signal when in isolated mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Assignee: ST-Ericsson SA
    Inventors: Andrea Ancora, Dominique Brunel, Laurent Noel
  • Publication number: 20140301339
    Abstract: A method of operating a wireless communication apparatus (400) comprises selecting, for non-contiguous carrier aggregation of a plurality of carriers, between a single-receiver architecture and a dual-receiver architecture, depending on a level of an interferer in a gap in the carriers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2012
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Inventors: Stefania Sesia, Dominique Brunel
  • Patent number: 8755751
    Abstract: A wireless telecommunication apparatus comprising—a baseband for the purpose of generating and receiving base-band signals; —a RF transceiver for the purpose of transmitting and receiving a RF signals, —at least one centralized clock derived from at least one central oscillator; —at least one individual element located within said apparatus and having a EMI coupling with said RF transceiver, and which clocking is likely to generate spurs being modulated with the Tx carrier of said RF transceiver; Characterized in that it further includes: —a least one controllable clocking system for said at least one individual element; —a general control unit (UCM) for the purpose of performing a contextual analysis of the current mode of operation of said wireless telecommunications and, in response to said contextual analysis, for determining a clocking frequency which results in modulated Tx clock spurs out of the receive bands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: ST-Ericsson SA
    Inventors: Dominique Brunel, Laurent Noel
  • Publication number: 20130196609
    Abstract: A radio transceiver including—an antenna (201) switch having a control lead (226); —a RF and front end circuit (202) coupled to said antenna switch and operating in at least one 2G mode and at least one 3G mode; —a RF transceiver (209) coupled to said RF front end and operating in at least a first 2G and a second 3G mode; —a baseband (210) communicating with a set of peripherals and external devices; The radio transceiver is characterized by the fact that it includes: —control means (221) for controlling said antenna switch (201) in a isolated mode; —an programmable adaptive filter controlled by said control means for the purpose of introducing at least one notch for eliminating one corresponding spur. The radio transceiver preferably includes means (215) for performing, under control of said control means (221) a FFT computation for the purpose of elaborating a representation, in the time domain, of the different spurs and/or jammers spoiling the received signal when in isolated mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2011
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Applicant: ST-Ericsson SA
    Inventors: Andrea Ancora, Dominique Brunel, Laurent Noel
  • Publication number: 20130122958
    Abstract: A method for dynamically clocking one component located into a Wireless telecommunication apparatus comprising a RF transceiver subject to desensizitation by said component EMI, characterized in that it involves the steps of performing an adaptive control on the clock rate of said component so as to locate a wideband noise PSD null just to the left or to the right, in the frequency domain, of the RF transceiver wanted carrier frequency (fw) Particularly, the control is performed by means of the control of programmable frequency dividers, and under the control of a general control unit (UCM) for the purpose of performing a contextual analysis of the current mode of operation of said wireless telecommunications and, in response to said contextual analysis, for determining the fine tuning of the clock rate to be applied to said component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2011
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: ST-Ericsson SA
    Inventors: François Sittler, Dominique Brunel, Laurent Noel
  • Patent number: 8437725
    Abstract: Process for controlling the switching of the data rate at a digital interface exchanging data and control messages between a Radio Frequency (RF) circuit and a digital circuit, comprising the steps of: setting by default the data rate to a low speed (LS) rate having a density presenting a first lobe being inferior to the frequency band considered in said RF circuit so as to prevent desensitization of the LNAs by the noise produced by said digital interface; storing the data and control messages message into a FIFO and monitoring the level of said FIFO; whenever the level of said FIFO reaches a predetermined threshold value, then controlling said interface to switch to a second high speed (HS) rate in order to flush said FIFO. In one embodiment, the LS frequency is set to a value of 832 MHz, thus preventing simultaneously desensitization of the GSM band and also the GPS band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: St-Ericsson SA
    Inventors: Dominique Brunel, Laurent Noel
  • Patent number: 8396096
    Abstract: A communication receiver implements receive space diversity to combine or select signals received from a same source on at least two spatially separated antennas in which the signals may vary in their fading characteristics at a given time. The receiver includes a RF processing module for down-converting and multiplexing the signals and a baseband processing module for converting the signals into digital signals, generating code sequences, producing despreaded and demultiplexed in-phase signals, and retrieving data initially contained within the received signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: ST-Ericsson SA
    Inventors: Laurent Noel, Dominique Brunel
  • Publication number: 20120295557
    Abstract: A wireless telecommunication apparatus comprising—a baseband for the purpose of generating and receiving base-band signals; —a RF transceiver for the purpose of transmitting and receiving a RF signals, —at least one centralized clock derived from at least one central oscillator; —at least one individual element located within said apparatus and having a EMI coupling with said RF transceiver, and which clocking is likely to generate spurs being modulated with the Tx carrier of said RF transceiver; Characterized in that it further includes: —a least one controllable clocking system for said at least one individual element; —a general control unit (UCM) for the purpose of performing a contextual analysis of the current mode of operation of said wireless telecommunications and, in response to said contextual analysis, for determining a clocking frequency which results in modulated Tx clock spurs out of the receive bands.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2011
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Applicant: ST-Ericsson SA
    Inventors: Dominique Brunel, Laurent Noel
  • Publication number: 20120033720
    Abstract: Process for controlling the switching of the data rate at a digital interface exchanging data and control messages between a Radio Frequency (RF) circuit and a digital circuit, comprising the steps of: setting by default the data rate to a low speed (LS) rate having a density presenting a first lobe being inferior to the frequency band considered in said RF circuit so as to prevent desensitization of the LNAs by the noise produced by said digital interface; storing the data and control messages message into a FIFO and monitoring the level of said FIFO; whenever the level of said FIFO reaches a predetermined threshold value, then controlling said interface to switch to a second high speed (HS) rate in order to flush said FIFO. In one embodiment, the LS frequency is set to a value of 832 MHz, thus preventing simultaneously desensitization of the GSM band and also the GPS band.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2009
    Publication date: February 9, 2012
    Inventors: Dominique Brunel, Laurent Noel
  • Patent number: 7684461
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a receiver for processing a received signal (SEQ), said receiver being multimode. The invention is characterized in that it comprises; a) a single RF chip for processing the received signal (SEQ) in any mode, said chip comprising a spreading section (SPREAD SEC) for spreading and downconverting to baseband a received signal (SEQ), and a channel filtering section (CH SEC) for DC offsets rejection on a received signal (SEQ), and b) a single baseband chip (BB) comprising despreading means (DSPR) for despreading a spread signal (SEQ).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: ST-Ericsson SA
    Inventors: Dominique Brunel, Laurent Noel
  • Publication number: 20100067602
    Abstract: A communication receiver implements receive space diversity to combine or select signals received from a same source on at least two spatially separated antennas in which the signals may vary in their fading characteristics at a given time. The receiver includes a RF processing module for down-converting and multiplexing the signals and a baseband processing module for converting the signals into digital signals, generating code sequences, producing despreaded and demultiplexed in-phase signals, and retrieving data initially contained within the received signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2007
    Publication date: March 18, 2010
    Inventors: Laurent Noel, Dominique Brunel
  • Patent number: 7645920
    Abstract: The invention relates to the production of plants with reduced development and a mutant gene of the GRAS family.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2010
    Assignee: Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)
    Inventors: Michel Renard, Regine Delourme, Pierre Barret, Dominique Brunel, Nicole Froger, Xavier Tanguy
  • Patent number: 7333554
    Abstract: A signal processing unit is described relates to a communication system by radio waves with frequency modulation comprising a signal processing unit, a transmission stage for transmitting a transmission signal in response to a modulated control signal and in response to a first frequency reference signal, a modulator connected between the processing unit and the transmission stage for forming the modulated control signal in response to an output signal of the processing device and in response to a second frequency reference signal and means for providing the first frequency signal to the transmission stage and for providing the second frequency reference signal to the modulator wherein the first and second frequency reference signal are derived from a signal oscillator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2008
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventor: Dominique Brunel
  • Patent number: 7245889
    Abstract: The invention relates to a signal source (S) which comprises a local oscillator (5) for generating a reference frequency signal fo. The signal source comprises: a frequency divider by N (6) connected to the local oscillator (5) and delivering two quadratic square-wave signals (Id, Qd) at a frequency fo/N,N being equal to 2 or 4×n, and n being an integer number, and a multiphase filter (7) which supplies two sinusoidal quadratic signals (Is, Qs) at a frequency equal to m·fo/N on the basis of the quadratic signals (Id, Qd) issued by the frequency divider, m being an odd number. The invention finds its application in direct frequency conversion circuits and transmission circuits used in the field of telecommunication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Assignee: NXP BV.
    Inventors: Dominique Brunel, Sever Cercelaru
  • Publication number: 20060245474
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a receiver for processing a received signal (SEQ), said receiver being multimode. The invention is characterized in that it comprises; a) a single RF chip for processing the received signal (SEQ) in any mode, said chip comprising a spreading section (SPREAD_SEC) for spreading and downconverting to baseband a received signal (SEQ), and a channel filtering section (CH_SEC) for DC offsets rejection on a received signal (SEQ), and b) a single baseband chip (BB) comprising despreading means (DSPR) for despreading a spread signal (SEQ).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2003
    Publication date: November 2, 2006
    Applicant: Koninklijke Philips Electronics, N.V.
    Inventors: Dominique Brunel, Laurent Noel
  • Patent number: 6703901
    Abstract: A frequency synthesizer comprising a phase-locked loop (10) and comprising: a frequency divider (14) having integral dividing ratios, a sigma-delta modulator (30) connected to the frequency divider for obtaining a resulting mean dividing ratio having a fractional component, the modulator having an input for an adjusting instruction, and at least a frequency divider (100) having a fixed fractional dividing ratio, and means (120, 40) for activating the divider having a fractional dividing ratio when the fractional component (k) of the mean dividing ratio is contained in at least a given value range, and for modifying the adjusting instruction in corresponding manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2004
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Fabrice Jovenin, Dominique Brunel, Zhizhong Wang
  • Publication number: 20020186713
    Abstract: A communication system by radio waves with frequency modulation, comprising: a signal processing unit (120), a transmission stage (110), a modulator (130) connected between the processing unit (120) and the transmission stage (110), and means (170, 173) for providing a frequency reference signal to the transmission stage (110) and to the modulator (130). According to the invention, said means for providing the first and the second frequency reference signal comprise a single local oscillator (174). Application: mobile telephones.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2001
    Publication date: December 12, 2002
    Inventor: Dominique Brunel
  • Publication number: 20020113658
    Abstract: A frequency synthesizer comprising a phase-locked loop (10) and comprising:
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2001
    Publication date: August 22, 2002
    Inventors: Fabrice Jovenin, Dominique Brunel, Zhizhong Wang
  • Publication number: 20020081983
    Abstract: The invention relates to a signal source (S) which comprises a local oscillator (5) for generating a reference frequency signal fo.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2001
    Publication date: June 27, 2002
    Inventors: Dominique Brunel, Sever Cercelaru