Patents by Inventor Jan Zoellner
Jan Zoellner 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).
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Patent number: 11968072Abstract: A coding and modulation apparatus and method are presented. The apparatus comprises an encoder that encodes input data into cell words, and a modulator that modulates said cell words into constellation values of a non-uniform constellation. The modulator is configured to use, based on the total number M of constellation points of the constellation and the code rate, a non-uniform constellation from one or several groups of constellations each comprising one or more constellations.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2023Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLCInventors: Nabil Loghin, Lothar Stadelmeier, Jan Zoellner, Yuji Shinohara
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Patent number: 11843458Abstract: A control device for use in a broadcast system includes a broadcast controller that controls a broadcast transmitter of the broadcast system that broadcasts broadcast signals in a coverage area for reception by terminals including a broadcast receiver and a broadband receiver, and a broadband controller that controls a broadband server of a broadband system that provides redundancy data to terminals within the coverage area. The broadband controller is configured to control the provision of redundancy data by the broadband server for use by one or more terminals which use the redundancy data together with broadcast signals received via said broadcast system for recovering content received within the broadcast signals and/or provided via the broadband system.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2019Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLCInventors: Junge Qi, Joerg Robert, Jan Zoellner, Lothar Stadelmeier, Nabil Loghin
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Patent number: 11824703Abstract: A coding and modulation apparatus and method are presented. The apparatus (10) comprises an encoder (11) that encodes input data into cell words, and a modulator (12) that modulates said cell words into constellation values of a non-uniform constellation. The modulator (12) is configured to use, based on the total number M of constellation points of the constellation, the signal-to-noise ratio SNR in dB and the channel characteristics, a non-uniform constellation from a group of constellations comprising one or more of predetermined constellations defined by the constellation position vector u1 . . . v, wherein v=sqrt(M)/2?1.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2022Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLCInventors: Lothar Stadelmeier, Jan Zoellner, Nabil Loghin
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Publication number: 20230327938Abstract: A coding and modulation apparatus and method are presented. The apparatus comprises an encoder that encodes input data into cell words, and a modulator that modulates said cell words into constellation values of a non-uniform constellation. The modulator is configured to use, based on the total number M of constellation points of the constellation and the code rate, a non-uniform constellation from one or several groups of constellations each comprising one or more constellations.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2023Publication date: October 12, 2023Applicant: Saturn Licensing LLCInventors: Nabil LOGHIN, Lothar STADELMEIER, Jan ZOELLNER, Yuji SHINOHARA
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Patent number: 11716238Abstract: A coding and modulation apparatus and method are presented. The apparatus comprises an encoder that encodes input data into cell words, and a modulator that modulates said cell words into constellation values of a non-uniform constellation. The modulator is configured to use, based on the total number M of constellation points of the constellation and the code rate, a non-uniform constellation from one or several groups of constellations each comprising one or more constellations.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2022Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLCInventors: Nabil Loghin, Lothar Stadelmeier, Jan Zoellner, Yuji Shinohara
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Publication number: 20230231755Abstract: A coding and modulation apparatus and method are presented. The apparatus (10) comprises an encoder (11) that encodes input data into cell words, and a modulator (12) that modulates said cell words into constellation values of a non-uniform constellation. The modulator (12) is configured to use, based on the total number M of constellation points of the constellation, the signal-to-noise ratio SNR in dB and the channel characteristics, a non-uniform constellation from a group of constellations comprising one or more of predetermined constellations defined by the constellation position vector u1 . . . v, wherein v=sqrt(M)/2?1.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2022Publication date: July 20, 2023Inventors: Lothar STADELMEIER, Jan ZOELLNER, Nabil LOGHIN
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Patent number: 11627382Abstract: A transmitter for transmitting payload data and emergency information using data symbols in a single-carrier or multi-carrier broadcast system comprises a modulator configured to modulate one or more transmission symbols with signaling data for use in detecting and recovering the payload data at a receiver and to modulate one or more transmission symbols with the payload data. An emergency information receiver receives emergency information carrying information of an actual emergency. An emergency information embedder embeds emergency information into one or more transmission symbols, wherein the emergency information is embedded within a predetermined time period after its reception by using a resource used for carrying signaling data and/or payload data if no emergency information shall be transmitted. A transmission unit transmits the transmission symbols.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2021Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLCInventors: Lothar Stadelmeier, Makiko Kan, Nabil Loghin, Daniel Schneider, Jan Zoellner, Lachlan Bruce Michael, Yuji Shinohara, Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri, Gholam Hosein Asjadi, Matthew Paul Athol Taylor
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Publication number: 20230088730Abstract: A coding and modulation apparatus and method are presented. The apparatus comprises an encoder that encodes input data into cell words, and a modulator that modulates said cell words into constellation values of a non-uniform constellation. The modulator is configured to use, based on the total number M of constellation points of the constellation and the code rate, a non-uniform constellation from one or several groups of constellations each comprising one or more constellations.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2022Publication date: March 23, 2023Applicant: Saturn Licensing LLCInventors: Nabil LOGHIN, Lothar STADELMEIER, Jan ZOELLNER, Yuji SHINOHARA
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Patent number: 11539569Abstract: A coding and modulation apparatus and method are presented. The apparatus comprises an encoder that encodes input data into cell words, and a modulator that modulates said cell words into constellation values of a non-uniform constellation. The modulator is configured to use, based on the total number M of constellation points of the constellation and the code rate, a non-uniform constellation from one or several groups of constellations each comprising one or more constellations.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2021Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLCInventors: Nabil Loghin, Lothar Stadelmeier, Jan Zoellner, Yuji Shinohara
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Patent number: 11522746Abstract: A coding and modulation apparatus and method are presented. The apparatus (10) comprises an encoder (11) that encodes input data into cell words, and a modulator (12) that modulates said cell words into constellation values of a non-uniform constellation. The modulator (12) is configured to use, based on the total number M of constellation points of the constellation, the signal-to-noise ratio SNR in dB and the channel characteristics, a non-uniform constellation from a group of constellations comprising one or more of predetermined constellations defined by the constellation position vector u1 . . . v, wherein v=sqrt(M)/2?1.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2020Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLCInventors: Lothar Stadelmeier, Jan Zoellner, Nabil Loghin
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Publication number: 20220376967Abstract: A coding and modulation apparatus and method are presented. The apparatus comprises an encoder that encodes input data into cell words, and a modulator that modulates said cell words into constellation values of a non-uniform constellation. The modulator is configured to use, based on the total number M of constellation points of the constellation and the signal-to-noise ratio SNR in dB, a non-uniform constellation from a group of constellations comprising one or more of predetermined constellations defined by the constellation position vector w0 . . . b?1, wherein b=M/4.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2022Publication date: November 24, 2022Applicant: SATURN LICENSING LLCInventors: Lothar STADELMEIER, Nabil Sven LOGHIN, Jan ZOELLNER
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Patent number: 11431544Abstract: A coding and modulation apparatus and method are presented. The apparatus (10) comprises an encoder (11) that encodes input data into cell words, and a modulator (12) that modulates said cell words into constellation values of a non-uniform constellation. The modulator (12) is configured to use, based on the total number M of constellation points of the constellation and the signal-to-noise ratio SNR in dB, a non-uniform constellation from a group of constellations comprising one or more of predetermined constellations defined by the constellation position vector w0 . . . b?1, wherein b=M/4.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2021Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLCInventors: Lothar Stadelmeier, Nabil Sven Loghin, Jan Zoellner
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Publication number: 20220248106Abstract: A transmitter for transmitting payload data and emergency information using data symbols in a single-carrier or multi-carrier broadcast system comprises a modulator configured to modulate one or more transmission symbols with signaling data for use in detecting and recovering the payload data at a receiver and to modulate one or more transmission symbols with the payload data. An emergency information receiver receives emergency information carrying information of an actual emergency. An emergency information embedder embeds emergency information into one or more transmission symbols, wherein the emergency information is embedded within a predetermined time period after its reception by using a resource used for carrying signaling data and/or payload data if no emergency information shall be transmitted. A transmission unit transmits the transmission symbols.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2021Publication date: August 4, 2022Applicant: Saturn Licensing LLCInventors: Lothar STADELMEIER, Makiko KAN, Nabil LOGHIN, Daniel SCHNEIDER, Jan ZOELLNER, Lachlan Bruce MICHAEL, Yuji SHINOHARA, Samuel Asangbeng ATUNGSIRI, Gholam Hosein ASJADI, Matthew Paul Athol TAYLOR
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Publication number: 20220045894Abstract: A coding and modulation apparatus and method are presented. The apparatus comprises an encoder that encodes input data into cell words, and a modulator that modulates said cell words into constellation values of a non-uniform constellation. The modulator is configured to use, based on the total number M of constellation points of the constellation and the code rate, a non-uniform constellation from one or several groups of constellations each comprising one or more constellations.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2021Publication date: February 10, 2022Applicant: Saturn Licensing LLCInventors: Nabil LOGHIN, Lothar STADELMEIER, Jan ZOELLNER, Yuji SHINOHARA
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Patent number: 11206460Abstract: A transmitter for transmitting payload data and emergency information using data symbols in a single-carrier or multi-carrier broadcast system includes a modulator configured to modulate one or more transmission symbols with signaling data for use in detecting and recovering the payload data at a receiver and to modulate one or more transmission symbols with the payload data. An emergency information receiver receives emergency information carrying information of an actual emergency. An emergency information embedder embeds emergency information into one or more transmission symbols, wherein the emergency information is embedded within a predetermined time period after its reception by using a resource used for carrying signaling data and/or payload data if no emergency information shall be transmitted. A transmission unit transmits the transmission symbols.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2014Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLCInventors: Lothar Stadelmeier, Makiko Kan, Nabil Loghin, Daniel Schneider, Jan Zoellner, Lachlan Bruce Michael, Yuji Shinohara, Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri, Gholam Hosein Asjadi, Matthew Paul Athol Taylor
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Patent number: 11201692Abstract: A receiver for receiving data in a broadcast system includes a broadcast receiver that receives, via the broadcast system, a receiver input data stream including plural channel symbols represented by constellation points in a constellation diagram. A demodulator demodulates the channel symbols into codewords and a decoder decodes the codewords into output data words. A broadband receiver obtains redundancy data via a broadband system, the redundancy data for a channel symbol including one or more least robust bits of the channel symbol or a constellation subset identifier indicating a subset of constellation points including the constellation point representing the channel symbol. The demodulator and/or the decoder is configured to use the redundancy data to demodulate the respective channel symbol and to decode the respective codeword, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2019Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLCInventors: Junge Qi, Joerg Robert, Jan Zoellner
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Patent number: 11190387Abstract: A coding and modulation apparatus and method are presented. The apparatus comprises an encoder that encodes input data into cell words, and a modulator that modulates said cell words into constellation values of a non-uniform constellation. The modulator is configured to use, based on the total number M of constellation points of the constellation and the code rate, a non-uniform constellation from one or several groups of constellations each comprising one or more constellations.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2020Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLCInventors: Nabil Loghin, Lothar Stadelmeier, Jan Zoellner, Yuji Shinohara
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Patent number: 11115255Abstract: A transmitter and a receiver for communicating data using at least two separate RF channels using channel bundling. The transmitter includes a data stream partitioner configured to partition a data stream of data to be communicated into two or more stream partitions, two or more modulators configured to each receive a stream partition and to generate modulated data from the received stream partition, and an interleaver configured to assign the modulated data generated by a modulator from a received stream partition to different RF channels for transmission.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2020Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLCInventors: Jan Zoellner, Lothar Stadelmeier, Nabil Sven Loghin, Daniel Schneider
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Publication number: 20210184910Abstract: A coding and modulation apparatus and method are presented. The apparatus (10) comprises an encoder (11) that encodes input data into cell words, and a modulator (12) that modulates said cell words into constellation values of a non-uniform constellation. The modulator (12) is configured to use, based on the total number M of constellation points of the constellation and the signal-to-noise ratio SNR in dB, a non-uniform constellation from a group of constellations comprising one or more of predetermined constellations defined by the constellation position vector w0 . . . b?1, wherein b=M/4.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2021Publication date: June 17, 2021Applicant: SATURN LICENSING LLCInventors: Lothar STADELMEIER, Nabil Sven LOGHIN, Jan ZOELLNER
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Publication number: 20210144044Abstract: A coding and modulation apparatus and method are presented. The apparatus comprises an encoder that encodes input data into cell words, and a modulator that modulates said cell words into constellation values of a non-uniform constellation. The modulator is configured to use, based on the total number M of constellation points of the constellation and the code rate, a non-uniform constellation from one or several groups of constellations each comprising one or more constellations.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2020Publication date: May 13, 2021Applicant: Saturn Licensing LLCInventors: Nabil LOGHIN, Lothar STADELMEIER, Jan ZOELLNER, Yuji SHINOHARA