Patents by Inventor Nagwon KWON
Nagwon KWON 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: 11909695Abstract: Provided is a method of operating a repeater operating in a time division duplex (TDD) mode which comprises detecting a synchronization signal from a received signal, determining a type of a communication period based on the detected synchronization signal and controlling an operation of a signal linearizer based on the determined type of the communication period.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignees: SOLiD, INC., HUNERGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Nagwon Kwon, Jongkuan Lee
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Publication number: 20230179272Abstract: A communication node included in a multi-antenna multi-carrier system, when precoding matrices corresponding to some subcarriers from among subcarriers allocated to another communication node connected to the communication node are input, obtains precoding matrices for at least some subcarriers from among the allocated subcarriers by performing spherical interpolation on the input precoding matrices, maps the obtained precoding matrices for the at least some subcarriers to the subcarriers allocated to the other communication node, and performs precoding on the plurality of vector signals using the mapped precoding matrices.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2022Publication date: June 8, 2023Applicants: SOLiD, INC., INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION KOREA AEROSPACE UNIVERSITYInventors: Nagwon KWON, Hyunchae Kim, Jihoon Choi
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Publication number: 20220394783Abstract: Provided are a method of operating a communication system using physical layer division, the method comprises extracting an initial random access signal from an uplink signal, in a first physical layer of a first communication node of the communication system reducing a data amount of the extracted initial random access signal in the first physical layer and calculating a time synchronization error using the initial random access signal with a reduced amount of data, in a second physical layer of a second communication node of the communication system.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2020Publication date: December 8, 2022Applicants: SOLiD, INC., INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION KOREA AEROSPACE UNIVERSITYInventors: HyunChae KIM, WooSik MOON, NagWon KWON, Jihoon CHOI
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Patent number: 11483059Abstract: A method of operating a TDD-based interference cancellation repeater, the method comprises setting a compensation gain of a gain compensator differently in an uplink communication period and a downlink communication period, setting an optimal coefficient of an adaptive filter in the uplink communication period and an optimal coefficient of the adaptive filter in the downlink communication period the same, based on the set compensation gain of the gain compensator and removing an interference signal in the uplink communication period or the downlink communication period according to the set optimal coefficient of the adaptive filter.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2020Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignees: SOLiD, INC., FOUNDATION OF SOONGSIL UNIVERSITY—INDUSTRY COOPERATIONInventors: Nagwon Kwon, Hyunchae Kim, Chonghoon Kim
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Publication number: 20220278817Abstract: Provided is a method of operating a repeater operating in a time division duplex (TDD) mode which comprises detecting a synchronization signal from a received signal, determining a type of a communication period based on the detected synchronization signal and controlling an operation of a signal linearizer based on the determined type of the communication period.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2020Publication date: September 1, 2022Applicants: SOLiD, INC. of SOLiD Space, HUNERGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Nagwon KWON, Jongkuan LEE
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Patent number: 11432298Abstract: A method of operating a communication device including a processor and a memory, the method comprises feeding back a downlink communication signal subjected to analog signal processing, generating signal modification information according to a comparison result of the fed-back downlink communication signal and a downlink communication signal before the analog signal processing, generating an interference cancellation signal for canceling interference occurring in an uplink communication signal by the downlink communication signal based on the generated signal modification information and canceling interference occurring in the uplink communication signal by using the generated interference cancellation signal.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2020Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: SOLiD, INC.Inventor: Nagwon Kwon
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Publication number: 20220271827Abstract: A method of operating a repeater comprises selecting some of adaptive filter coefficients among a plurality of adaptive filter coefficients of an adaptive filter used for interference cancellation, based on the size of a coefficient, generating a predicted interference signal using the selected adaptive filter coefficients and generating an interference-canceled communication signal from a received signal using the generated predicted interference signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2022Publication date: August 25, 2022Applicants: SOLiD, INC., FOUNDATION OF SOONGSIL UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COOPERATIONInventors: Nagwon KWON, Hyunchae KIM, Chonghoon KIM, Seungmo HONG, Sungbin IM
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Publication number: 20220264494Abstract: Provided are an interference cancellation repeater capable of selecting one of a plurality of adaptive filters based on a synchronization signal and canceling interference included in a received signal using the selected adaptive filter and a method of operation thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2020Publication date: August 18, 2022Applicant: SOLiD, INC.Inventor: Nagwon KWON
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Patent number: 11419076Abstract: Provided are a synchronization signal detection method performed by a receiver including a processor and a memory, the synchronization signal detection method comprises calculating a PSS correlation value for a primary synchronization signal (PSS) included in a received signal, detecting a frequency offset for the PSS and a timing offset for sampling timing of the received signal and detecting the PSS based on the PSS correlation value, the frequency offset, and the timing offset.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2020Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignees: SOLiD, INC., FOUNDATION OF SOONGSIL UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COOPERATIONInventors: Nagwon Kwon, Hyunchae Kim, Chonghoon Kim
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Patent number: 11362730Abstract: A method of operating a repeater comprises selecting some of adaptive filter coefficients among a plurality of adaptive filter coefficients of an adaptive filter used for interference cancellation, based on the size of a coefficient, generating a predicted interference signal using the selected adaptive filter coefficients and generating an interference-canceled communication signal from a received signal using the generated predicted interference signal.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2020Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignees: SOLiD, INC., FOUNDATION OF SOONGSIL UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COOPERATIONInventors: Nagwon Kwon, Hyunchae Kim, Chonghoon Kim, Seungmo Hong, Sungbin Im
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Patent number: 11240087Abstract: A synchronization detection method of a repeater comprises receiving a communication signal comprising a plurality of synchronization signal blocks respectively belonging to different frequency ranges, determining a priority of a frequency range in which the plurality of synchronization signal blocks are to be detected based on signal level for each frequency range and detecting a synchronization signal block included in each frequency range according to the determined priority.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2019Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: SOLiD, INC.Inventor: Nagwon Kwon
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Publication number: 20210160887Abstract: A method of operating a communication device including a processor and a memory, the method comprises feeding back a downlink communication signal subjected to analog signal processing, generating signal modification information according to a comparison result of the fed-back downlink communication signal and a downlink communication signal before the analog signal processing, generating an interference cancellation signal for canceling interference occurring in an uplink communication signal by the downlink communication signal based on the generated signal modification information and canceling interference occurring in the uplink communication signal by using the generated interference cancellation signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2020Publication date: May 27, 2021Applicant: SOLiD, INC.Inventor: Nagwon KWON
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Publication number: 20210058878Abstract: Provided are a synchronization signal detection method performed by a receiver including a processor and a memory, the synchronization signal detection method comprises calculating a PSS correlation value for a primary synchronization signal (PSS) included in a received signal, detecting a frequency offset for the PSS and a timing offset for sampling timing of the received signal and detecting the PSS based on the PSS correlation value, the frequency offset, and the timing offset.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2020Publication date: February 25, 2021Applicants: SOLiD, INC., FOUNDATION OF SOONGSIL UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COOPERATIONInventors: Nagwon KWON, Hyunchae KIM, Chonghoon KIM
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Publication number: 20210050909Abstract: A method of operating a repeater comprises selecting some of adaptive filter coefficients among a plurality of adaptive filter coefficients of an adaptive filter used for interference cancellation, based on the size of a coefficient, generating a predicted interference signal using the selected adaptive filter coefficients and generating an interference-canceled communication signal from a received signal using the generated predicted interference signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2020Publication date: February 18, 2021Applicants: SOLiD, INC., FOUNDATION OF SOONGSIL UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COOPERATIONInventors: Nagwon KWON, Hyunchae KIM, Chonghoon KIM, Seungmo HONG, Sungbin IM
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Publication number: 20210050908Abstract: A method of operating a TDD-based interference cancellation repeater, the method comprises setting a compensation gain of a gain compensator differently in an uplink communication period and a downlink communication period, setting an optimal coefficient of an adaptive filter in the uplink communication period and an optimal coefficient of the adaptive filter in the downlink communication period the same, based on the set compensation gain of the gain compensator and removing an interference signal in the uplink communication period or the downlink communication period according to the set optimal coefficient of the adaptive filter.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2020Publication date: February 18, 2021Applicants: SOLiD, INC., FOUNDATION OF SOONGSIL UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COOPERATIONInventors: Nagwon KWON, HyunChae KIM, Chonghoon KIM
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Publication number: 20200177432Abstract: A synchronization detection method of a repeater comprises receiving a communication signal comprising a plurality of synchronization signal blocks respectively belonging to different frequency ranges, determining a priority of a frequency range in which the plurality of synchronization signal blocks are to be detected based on signal level for each frequency range and detecting a synchronization signal block included in each frequency range according to the determined priority.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2019Publication date: June 4, 2020Applicant: SOLID, INC.Inventor: Nagwon KWON
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Patent number: 10291340Abstract: A repeater including an analog attenuator configured to attenuate an analog signal in response to a first control signal; an analog to digital converter (ADC) configured to convert the attenuated analog signal into a digital signal; a digital attenuator configured to attenuate the digital signal in response to a second control signal; and an attenuation controller configured to calculate average power and peak power of the attenuated digital signal, determine an attenuation value for each value of the calculated average power and peak power, and generate at least one of the first and second control signals based on the determined attenuation values.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2018Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: SOLiD, INC.Inventors: Nagwon Kwon, Hyunchae Kim
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Patent number: 10181892Abstract: An interference cancellation repeater for canceling an interference signal included in an input signal including a first adaptive filter configured to generate a first estimated signal; a second adaptive filter configured to generate a second estimated signal; a first scaler configured to scale the first estimated signal based on a first scale factor determined according to a channel state; a second scaler configured to scale the second estimated signal based on a second scale factor determined according to the channel state; a first canceller configured to generate a first interference canceled signal based on the input signal and the scaled first estimated signal; and a second canceller configured to generate a second interference canceled signal based on the first interference canceled signal and the scaled second estimated signal.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2017Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: SOLiD, INC.Inventors: Nagwon Kwon, Hyunchae Kim
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Publication number: 20180198540Abstract: A repeater including an analog attenuator configured to attenuate an analog signal in response to a first control signal; an analog to digital converter (ADC) configured to convert the attenuated analog signal into a digital signal; a digital attenuator configured to attenuate the digital signal in response to a second control signal; and an attenuation controller configured to calculate average power and peak power of the attenuated digital signal, determine an attenuation value for each value of the calculated average power and peak power, and generate at least one of the first and second control signals based on the determined attenuation values.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2018Publication date: July 12, 2018Applicant: SOLiD, INC.Inventors: Nagwon KWON, Hyunchae KIM
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Patent number: 9991943Abstract: An interference cancellation repeater including a subtractor configured to subtract an estimated signal from a digital reception signal and output an interference canceled signal; a first power calculator configured to calculate power of the digital reception signal; a second power calculator configured to calculate power of the interference canceled signal; and an attenuation controller configured to compare a power value of the calculated digital reception signal with a power value of the calculated interference canceled signal and determine an attenuation value of the interference canceled signal according to the comparison result.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2016Date of Patent: June 5, 2018Assignee: SOLiD, INC.Inventors: Nagwon Kwon, Hyunchae Kim