Patents by Inventor Lewis Farrugia

Lewis Farrugia 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: 9759754
    Abstract: A phase angle can be measured between an analog signal and a reference signal by converting the analog signal to digital samples in a residue number system (RNS) analog-to-digital converter (ADC), based on a RNS scheme. The phase angle can be measured directly from the RNS values output by the RNS ADC, or the RNS values can be converted to a binary scheme, such as straight binary, offset binary or two's complement, before calculating the phase angle measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Airbus Defence and Space Limited
    Inventor: Lewis Farrugia
  • Patent number: 9628123
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for mitigating a phase anomaly in an analogue-to-digital converter (ADC) output signal is disclosed. A plurality of codewords output by the ADC are received and information about an estimated level of interference between an output of the ADC and an input of the ADC due to the codeword is obtained for each codeword based on the logic values of bits in the codeword. In-phase (I) and quadrature (Q) corrections are obtained based on the information about the estimated level of interference, and applied to I and Q values obtained from the ADC output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE LIMITED
    Inventors: Lewis Farrugia, Mark Gibson, Ryan Pearson
  • Publication number: 20160291069
    Abstract: A phase angle can be measured between an analogue signal and a reference signal by converting the analogue signal to digital samples in a residue number system (RNS) analogue-to-digital converter (ADC), based on a RNS scheme. The phase angle can be measured directly from the RNS values output by the RNS ADC, or the RNS values can be converted to a binary scheme, such as straight binary, offset binary or two's complement, before calculating the phase angle measurement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Inventor: Lewis FARRUGIA
  • Publication number: 20160248461
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for mitigating a phase anomaly in an analogue-to-digital converter (ADC) output signal is disclosed. A plurality of codewords output by the ADC are received and information about an estimated level of interference between an output of the ADC and an input of the ADC due to the codeword is obtained for each codeword based on the logic values of bits in the codeword. In-phase (I) and quadrature (Q) corrections are obtained based on the information about the estimated level of interference, and applied to I and Q values obtained from the ADC output signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Applicant: AIRBUS DEFENCE & SPACE LIMITED
    Inventors: Lewis Farrugia, Mark Gibson, Ryan Pearson
  • Publication number: 20150078496
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for mitigating a phase anomaly in an analogue-to-digital converter (ADC) output signal is disclosed. A plurality of codewords output by the ADC are received and information about an estimated level of interference between an output of the ADC and an input of the ADC due to the codeword is obtained for each codeword based on the logic values of bits in the codeword. In-phase (I) and quadrature (Q) corrections are obtained based on the information about the estimated level of interference, and applied to I and Q values obtained from the ADC output signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Applicant: AIRBUS DEFENCE & SPACE LIMITED
    Inventors: Lewis Farrugia, Mark Gibson, Ryan Pearson
  • Publication number: 20130191427
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a pseudo-noise generator comprising a plurality of pseudo-random number generators and an averaging unit. The averaging unit is arranged to receive a plurality of pseudo-random numbers from the plurality of pseudo-random number generators, calculate a mean value of the plurality of pseudo-random numbers, and output said mean value as a digital pseudo-noise signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Publication date: July 25, 2013
    Applicant: ASTRIUM LIMITED
    Inventor: Lewis Farrugia