Patents by Inventor Norman Beamish

Norman Beamish 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: 11689226
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for transmitting signals, the transmitter including a memory storing instructions and a controller configured to execute the instructions to cause the transmitter to determine whether a value of transmitter power is less than a threshold, responsive to a determination that the value of transmitter power is less than the threshold: mix a baseband signal with a first oscillator signal to produce a very-low intermediate frequency (VLIF) signal; mix the VLIF signal with a second oscillator signal to produce a radio frequency (RF) signal, and transmit the RF signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: u-blox AG
    Inventors: Norman Beamish, Robert Ronan, Graham Smith
  • Publication number: 20230078300
    Abstract: An example method for enabling coherent reception of a radio signal includes, in some implementations, tuning a radio receiver to a first receiver frequency, generating within the radio receiver a test signal having a first test frequency, and measuring a first phase of the test signal while the radio receiver is tuned to the first receiver frequency. The example method also includes tuning the radio receiver to a second receiver frequency, which is different from the first receiver frequency, measuring a second phase of the test signal while the radio receiver is tuned to the second receiver frequency, and calculating a phase relationship depending on the first and second phases of the test signal. A radio receiver for coherent reception of a radio signal also is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Norman Beamish, Christopher Brian Marshall
  • Patent number: 11573594
    Abstract: A method for providing a reference clock signal, comprising: generating, by an oscillator, a first clock signal having a first frequency, the first clock signal being coupled to a frequency synthesizer; generating, by the frequency synthesizer, a second clock signal based on the first clock signal, the second clock signal having a second frequency different from the first frequency; outputting a reference clock signal to one or more components of an electronic device, the reference clock signal being one of the first clock signal or the second clock signal; identifying one or more spurious frequency components; and monitoring the reference clock signal for a presence of the one or more spurious frequency components, the monitoring comprising: in response to determining the presence of at least one of the one or more spurious frequency components, selecting a different one of the first clock signal or the second clock signal to be the reference clock signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: U-BLOX AG
    Inventors: Norman Beamish, Brian Morley
  • Publication number: 20230011122
    Abstract: A method for providing a reference clock signal, comprising: generating, by an oscillator, a first clock signal having a first frequency, the first clock signal being coupled to a frequency synthesizer; generating, by the frequency synthesizer, a second clock signal based on the first clock signal, the second clock signal having a second frequency different from the first frequency; outputting a reference clock signal to one or more components of an electronic device, the reference clock signal being one of the first clock signal or the second clock signal; identifying one or more spurious frequency components; and monitoring the reference clock signal for a presence of the one or more spurious frequency components, the monitoring comprising: in response to determining the presence of at least one of the one or more spurious frequency components, selecting a different one of the first clock signal or the second clock signal to be the reference clock signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Inventors: Norman BEAMISH, Brian MORLEY
  • Publication number: 20220302934
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for transmitting signals, the transmitter including a memory storing instructions and a controller configured to execute the instructions to cause the transmitter to determine whether a value of transmitter power is less than a threshold, responsive to a determination that the value of transmitter power is less than the threshold: mix a baseband signal with a first oscillator signal to produce a very-low intermediate frequency (VLIF) signal; mix the VLIF signal with a second oscillator signal to produce a radio frequency (RF) signal, and transmit the RF signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Norman Beamish, Robert Ronan, Graham Smith
  • Patent number: 11108420
    Abstract: A receiver includes one or more mixers configured to sample an input analog signal at a plurality of discrete points in time to obtain a discrete-time sampled signal based on a local oscillating signal provided by a local oscillator; and a sample reordering circuit coupled to the one or more mixers and configured to reorder a sequence of samples received from the one or more mixers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: u-blox AG
    Inventors: Norman Beamish, Mici McCullagh
  • Publication number: 20210067187
    Abstract: A receiver includes one or more mixers configured to sample an input analog signal at a plurality of discrete points in time to obtain a discrete-time sampled signal based on a local oscillating signal provided by a local oscillator; and a sample reordering circuit coupled to the one or more mixers and configured to reorder a sequence of samples received from the one or more mixers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Norman BEAMISH, Mici MCCULLAGH
  • Patent number: 10903867
    Abstract: A receiver includes one or more mixers configured to sample an input analog signal at a plurality of discrete points in time to obtain a discrete-time sampled signal based on a local oscillating signal provided by a local oscillator; and a sample reordering circuit coupled to the one or more mixers and configured to reorder a sequence of samples received from the one or more mixers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: U-BLOX AG
    Inventors: Norman Beamish, Mici McCullagh
  • Patent number: 9655130
    Abstract: Circuitry for any of a transceiver, a transmitter, and a receiver, has radio frequency (RF) circuitry, digital circuitry, a carrier signal generator to provide a carrier signal to the RF circuitry and a clock generator for generating a digital clock for clocking at least some of the digital circuitry. The RF circuitry is susceptible to interference from harmonics of the clocking, and the clock generator derives a frequency of the digital clock based on a frequency divided down from a frequency of the carrier signal so that the interference to the RF circuitry occurs at frequencies which are harmonics of the carrier signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Patrick Vandenameele, Norman Beamish
  • Patent number: 8942655
    Abstract: An integrated circuit comprising processing logic for operably coupling to radio frequency (RF) receiver circuitry arranged to receive a wireless network signal. The receiver circuitry generates in-phase and quadrature digital baseband representations of the wireless network signal. The processing logic determines quadrature (I/Q) imbalance of the RF receiver circuitry based on the in-phase and quadrature digital baseband representations of the wireless network signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Norman Beamish, Conor O'Keeffe, Patrick Pratt
  • Publication number: 20140177609
    Abstract: Circuitry for any of a transceiver, a transmitter, and a receiver, has radio frequency (RF) circuitry, digital circuitry, a carrier signal generator to provide a carrier signal to the RF circuitry and a clock generator for generating a digital clock for clocking at least some of the digital circuitry. The RF circuitry is susceptible to interference from harmonics of the clocking, and the clock generator derives a frequency of the digital clock based on a frequency divided down from a frequency of the carrier signal so that the interference to the RF circuitry occurs at frequencies which are harmonics of the carrier signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2014
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Patrick Vandenameele, Norman Beamish
  • Patent number: 8693968
    Abstract: A very low intermediate frequency (VLIF) receiver comprising a first and second mixer circuits, characterised in that receiver comprises a means of estimating the energy in a desired signal band; a means of estimating the energy in a band of frequencies comprising the desired signal band; and a means of altering a VLIF of the receiver according to the ratio of the energy in a desired signal band and the energy in the band of frequencies comprising the desired signal band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Norman Beamish, Michael Milyard, Conor O'Keeffe
  • Patent number: 8676149
    Abstract: A method of communicating between a mobile communication device including a power supply, and a base station. The mobile device has first and second alternative communication modes, the first communication mode having higher quality of service and higher power consumption than the second communication mode. The second communication mode is adopted in response to a characteristic of the mobile device power supply indicative of a reduced reserve of power in the power supply, and a state indication is transmitted from the mobile device to the base station. The base station can respond to the state indication from the mobile device by modifying a communication characteristic of the base station with the mobile device, whereby to tend to compensate for the mobile device switching between the first and second communication modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventor: Norman Beamish
  • Patent number: 8630593
    Abstract: A semiconductor device comprises synthesized frequency generation logic arranged to receive a reference signal, and to provide an output frequency signal. The synthesized frequency generation logic comprises divider logic arranged to receive the reference signal and to generate a divided signal comprising a frequency with a period equal to N times that of the reference signal. The synthesized frequency generation logic is further arranged to generate the synthesized frequency signal comprising a frequency with a period equal to 1/M that of the divided signal. The synthesized frequency generation logic comprises or is operably coupled to decision logic module and comprises or is operably coupled to a switching logic module such that the decision logic module is arranged to determine whether a near-integer spur arises in using the synthesized frequency signal, and configures the switching logic module to select the synthesized frequency signal in response thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Norman Beamish, Niall Kearney, Aidan Murphy
  • Patent number: 8532225
    Abstract: Receiver circuitry for processing a received Very Low Intermediate Frequency signal wherein the receiver circuitry comprises a main processing path. The main processing path comprises mixing circuitry arranged to mix a received VLIF signal with a frequency down conversion signal to produce a main path signal. The receiver circuitry further comprises a direct current cancellation path comprising mixing circuitry arranged to mix a DC element of the received VLIF signal with the frequency down conversion signal to produce a DC cancellation signal. The receiver circuitry still further comprises signal summing circuitry arranged to add the DC cancellation signal in anti-phase with the main path signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Conor O'Keeffe, Norman Beamish, Richard Verellen
  • Patent number: 8532583
    Abstract: A semiconductor device comprises synthesized frequency generation logic arranged to receive a reference signal, and to generate a synthesized frequency signal from the reference signal. The synthesized frequency generation logic comprises programmable divider logic arranged to receive the reference signal and to generate a divided signal comprising a frequency with a period substantially equal to N times that of the reference signal, where N comprises a programmable integer value. The synthesizer frequency generation logic is arranged to generate the synthesized frequency signal comprising a frequency with a period substantially equal to 1/M that of the divided signal, where M comprises a further programmable integer value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Norman Beamish, Niall Kearney
  • Patent number: 8442456
    Abstract: A wireless communication unit comprises a transmitter having a power amplifier and a feedback path operably coupled to the power amplifier. The feedback path comprises a coupler for feeding back a portion of a signal to be transmitted and a detector for detecting a power level of the fed back signal. A controller provides a ramp signal to the power amplifier that controls an amplitude characteristic of the signal to be transmitted. Averaging logic is operably coupled to the detector and arranged to average the detected power level over a first period. Comparison logic is operably coupled to the averaging logic and arranged to compare the average detected power level with a reference value. The controller is operably coupled to the comparison logic and arranged to scale a ramp signal applied to the power amplifier in response to the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Norman Beamish, Conor O'Keeffe, Patrick Pratt, David Redmond, Jacques Trichet
  • Patent number: 8406702
    Abstract: A clock signal generating arrangement for a communication device generates a system clock signal at an output for use as a timing reference. The clock signal generating arrangement comprises a reference clock generator for generating a reference clock signal, a main clock generator for generating a main clock signal having a greater accuracy than the reference clock signal, a clock adjust circuit coupled to the reference clock generator for generating a compensated reference clock signal to compensate for error in the reference clock signal and a clock signal selector coupled to the reference clock generator the main clock generator and the clock adjust circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Crowley, Norman Beamish, Sean Sexton, Kenneth Stebbings
  • Patent number: RE48374
    Abstract: Circuitry for any of a transceiver, a transmitter, and a receiver, has radio frequency (RF) circuitry, digital circuitry, a carrier signal generator to provide a carrier signal to the RF circuitry and a clock generator for generating a digital clock for clocking at least some of the digital circuitry. The RF circuitry is susceptible to interference from harmonics of the clocking, and the clock generator derives a frequency of the digital clock based on a frequency divided down from a frequency of the carrier signal so that the interference to the RF circuitry occurs at frequencies which are harmonics of the carrier signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Patrick Vandenameele, Norman Beamish
  • Patent number: RE49526
    Abstract: Circuitry for any of a transceiver, a transmitter, and a receiver, has radio frequency (RF) circuitry, digital circuitry, a carrier signal generator to provide a carrier signal to the RF circuitry and a clock generator for generating a digital clock for clocking at least some of the digital circuitry. The RF circuitry is susceptible to interference from harmonics of the clocking, and the clock generator derives a frequency of the digital clock based on a frequency divided down from a frequency of the carrier signal so that the interference to the RF circuitry occurs at frequencies which are harmonics of the carrier signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Patrick Vandenameele, Norman Beamish