Patents by Inventor Josef Nossek

Josef Nossek 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: 10587183
    Abstract: An electronic amplifier for amplifying an input signal has a branching node, a supply branch, a balance branch, an auxiliary branch and a load branch. All of the branches are connected in parallel to each other relative to the branching node and a reference potential. The supply branch supplies a DC voltage to the branching node. The balance branch absorbs and/or storing electric energy. A current supply device supplies a DC current. The control switch, the current valve and the current source are in different branches. The control switch, in a pass current state, establishes a current flow from the supply branch into either the auxiliary branch or the balance branch. In the block current state, current flows from the current supply device to the balancing device. The supply, balance and auxiliary branches provide an amplified signal to the load, controlled only by the input signal at the control switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Technische Universitaet Muenchen
    Inventors: Bernhard Lehmeyer, Amine Mezghani, Josef Nossek
  • Publication number: 20190173375
    Abstract: An electronic amplifier for amplifying an input signal has a branching node, a supply branch, a balance branch, an auxiliary branch and a load branch. All of the branches are connected in parallel to each other relative to the branching node and a reference potential. The supply branch supplies a DC voltage to the branching node. The balance branch absorbs and/or storing electric energy. A current supply device supplies a DC current. The control switch, the current valve and the current source are in different branches. The control switch, in a pass current state, establishes a current flow from the supply branch into either the auxiliary branch or the balance branch. In the block current state, current flows from the current supply device to the balancing device. The supply, balance and auxiliary branches provide an amplified signal to the load, controlled only by the input signal at the control switch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Inventors: BERNHARD LEHMEYER, AMINE MEZGHANI, JOSEF NOSSEK
  • Patent number: 9923752
    Abstract: A method is provided for demodulation of an analog receive signal carrying information, wherein a number of more than two analog signals is formed from the receive signal in separate channels such that the receive signal is multiplied in each case by a period function, the phase thereof respectively differing in the channels, and wherein the multiple signals are each low-pass filtered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN
    Inventors: Josef Nossek, Manuel Stein, Sebastian Theiler
  • Patent number: 8379747
    Abstract: A spatial sub-channel selection and pre-coding apparatus for being operative in a first communication device, the first communication device being adapted for communicating with a second and a third communication device using MIMO (Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output) radio channels, a first MIMO radio channel extending between the first communication device and the second communication device having at least one spatial sub-channel, a second MIMO radio channel extending between the first communication device and the third communication device having at least one spatial sub-channel, wherein one of the first MIMO radio channel or the second MIMO radio channel has at least two spatial sub-channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Christian Guthy, Wolfgang Utschick, Guido Dietl, Josef Nossek, Pedro Tejera
  • Patent number: 8031584
    Abstract: Subchannel allocation apparatus for allocating subchannels of a MIMO radio channel to a plurality of users, the MIMO radio channel having a first number of subchannels, each subchannel having a transmission capacity. The subchannel allocation apparatus includes a subspace determiner for determining a subspace of the MIMO radio channel, the subspace having a second number of subchannels, the second number being lower than the first number and each subchannel of the second number of subchannels having a higher transmission capacity than the subchannel with the lowest transmission capacity of the first number of subchannels. The subchannel allocation apparatus further includes a subchannel allocator responsive to the subspace determiner for allocating a subchannel from the second number of subchannels of the subspace to a user based on an allocation metric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Christian Guthy, Wolfgang Utschick, Josef Nossek, Guido Dietl
  • Publication number: 20080291851
    Abstract: Subchannel allocation apparatus for allocating subchannels of a MIMO radio channel to a plurality of users, the MIMO radio channel having a first number of subchannels, each subchannel having a transmission capacity. The subchannel allocation apparatus includes a subspace determiner for determining a subspace of the MIMO radio channel, the subspace having a second number of subchannels, the second number being lower than the first number and each subchannel of the second number of subchannels having a higher transmission capacity than the subchannel with the lowest transmission capacity of the first number of subchannels. The subchannel allocation apparatus further includes a subchannel allocator responsive to the subspace determiner for allocating a subchannel from the second number of subchannels of the subspace to a user based on an allocation metric.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2008
    Publication date: November 27, 2008
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Christian Guthy, Wolfgang Utschick, Josef Nossek, Guido Dietl
  • Publication number: 20070177551
    Abstract: A method transmits signals of a link between a transmitting station and a receiving station of a radiocommunication system, wherein at least one pilot signal is transmitted between the stations NB and UE in order to enable estimation of at least one channel of said link by the receiving station. The channel estimation results are determined in order to detect data to be transmitted to the receiving station by means of the signals of the link. Deviation between the transmission characteristics of the pilot signal used for channel estimation and the transmission characteristics of the signals of the link is taken into account when the signals of the link which are to be transmitted are produces by the transmitting station and/or when the received signals of the link are processed by the receiving station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2004
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Inventors: Michael Joham, Josef Nossek, Alexander Seeger, Wolfgang Utschick, Benno Zerlin
  • Patent number: 7039442
    Abstract: According to the invention, a base station has an antenna device with a plurality of antenna elements and is connected to a subscriber station via a radio interface. The direction of incidence, the attenuation and the delay times of connection paths used for beam forming for signal sections for channel estimation purposes are determined from the transmissions of the other radio station in a known manner. The beam-forming vector for the transmit signal is constant during these signal sections for channel estimation purposes, for which the radio station can estimate a reception characteristic of the other radio station. Outside the signal sections for channel estimation, a symbol-specific beam-forming vector is determined which takes into account variable symbol-related properties of the transmit signal (for example correlation properties of CDMA codes) which are not constant during a time slot but rather vary from symbol to symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2006
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Michael Joham, Josef Nossek, Wolfgang Utschick
  • Patent number: 5203029
    Abstract: A combiner circuit employs the maximum power method, in which the phase of one of the signals is varied such that the power of the aggregate signal (main and diversity) is varied such that the power of the aggregate subsequently formed is optimally high. In order to improve this combining method that becomes less and less efficient with increasing bandwidth and number of steps of signals, particularly given selective fading, it is provided that the combiner circuit contains a control circuit for the combination phase, the control circuit being composed of a maximum power control circuit and of two preceding, supplementary circuits for varying the amplitudes of the main and diversity signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 13, 1993
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hermann Betzl, Josef Nossek
  • Patent number: 4626808
    Abstract: An electrical filter circuit for processing analog sampling signals consists of N+1 capacitors interconnected to cyclically circulate N signal charges, the capacitors all being of approximately the same size, and interconnected with an operational amplifier. A plurality of switches are employed, controlled by a clock signal having N+1 phases. Phase controlled switches supply an input signal to the input of the operational amplifier, and provide an output from the filter circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1981
    Date of Patent: December 2, 1986
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Josef Nossek
  • Patent number: 4364116
    Abstract: A switched-capacitor filter circuit having at least one simulated inductor and having an operational amplifier with a capacitor interconnected between its output and inverting input and a non-inverting input connected to a reference potential has a switch leading from the inverting input of the amplifier to a first circuit node from which a first capacitor is connected to the reference potential and also from which a second switch leads to a second circuit node from which another capacitor is connected to the reference potential, and has a third switch leading from the second circuit node to the inverting input of the amplifier and a fourth switch connected between the output of the amplifier and the second circuit node and a fifth switch connected to an input terminal. Each of the switches is controlled by one of a series of sequential non-overlapping clock pulse voltages with the first and fifth switches being simultaneously closed followed by sequential closing of the second, third and fourth switches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1980
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1982
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Josef Nossek
  • Patent number: 4354169
    Abstract: An easily integratable switched-capacitor filter circuit which can be employed to simulate a parallel resonance circuit has an operational amplifier having an inverting input connected to a first circuit node through a first switch, a capacitor interconnected between the first circuit node and a reference potential, a third switch interconnected between the first circuit node and a second circuit node, a capacitor interconnected between the second circuit node and the reference potential, a third switch interconnected between the second circuit node and the output of the operational amplifier, a fourth switch interconnected between the output of the operational amplifier and the first circuit node, and a fifth switch interconnected between the first circuit node and a non-grounded input terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 1981
    Date of Patent: October 12, 1982
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Josef Nossek
  • Patent number: 4353044
    Abstract: A switched-capacitor filter circuit having at least one simulated inductor and having a resonance frequency which is one-sixth of the sampling frequency as pulse-controlled switches co-operatively operable for connecting a first capacitor to a pair of input terminals during a first clock phase and simultaneously connecting a second capacitor to the output of an inverting integration circuit, followed by discharge of the first capacitor to a capacitor in the integration circuit during a second clock pulse phase, followed by a third clock pulse phase during which the first capacitor is charged from the output of the integration circuit and the second capacitor is simultaneously connected to the pair of input terminals and during a fourth clock pulse phase the second capacitor discharges to the capacitor in the integration circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 1981
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1982
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Josef Nossek
  • Patent number: 4253069
    Abstract: An active filter circuit has a biquadratic transfer function and is constructed without coils with the smallest possible number of passive components, particularly capacitors, and comprises a single operational amplifier. A first resistor is connected from the filter input to the non-inverting input of an operational amplifier and a second resistor connects the same input of the operational amplifier to a reference potential. A third resistor is connected between the output of the operational amplifier and the non-inverting input. A first capacitor is connected from the output of the operational amplifier to the inverting input and the same input is connected, by way of a fourth resistor to the reference potential for representation of a low-pass transfer function and a fifth resistor is connected between the input of the filter and the inverting input of the operational amplifier for representing a high-pass transfer function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 1979
    Date of Patent: February 24, 1981
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Josef Nossek