Patents by Inventor Paulo Miguel Carvalho

Paulo Miguel Carvalho 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: 10511359
    Abstract: A transmission method using a massive MIMO (Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output) scheme with an arrangement 108 of Nm×Nb antenna elements at the transmitter, arranged in Nm sets of Nb antenna elements or Nb sets of Nm antenna elements based on SC-FDE (Single-Carrier with Frequency Domain Equalization) schemes with large constellations that is compatible with low-cost, highly-efficient, nonlinear amplifiers 106, while allowing spatial multiplexing gains. The transmission structure of this transmission method decomposes in 103 the modulated symbols from 102 associated to a given constellation as the sum of Nm polar components that are modulated as Nm BPSK (Binary Phase Shift Keying) signals. Each of these BPSK signals can be regarded as an OQPSK (Offset Quadrature Phase Shift Keying) signal in the serial format that is specially designed to have good tradeoffs between reduced envelope fluctuations and a compact spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Inventors: Paulo Miguel Carvalho, Marco Alexandre Gomes, Rui Miguel Dinis, Vitor Manuel Silva, Pedro Daniel Bento
  • Patent number: 10142144
    Abstract: A transmission method based on multiple antennas with directivity at the information level. In this transmission system, the directivity is introduced in the transmitted information by an optimization of the constellation's symbols only in the desired direction, keeping at same time an isotropic radiation power pattern by the antenna array The method allows the transmission of modulations with multilevel constellations based on M-QAM (M-ary Quadrature Amplitude Modulation) constellations, Voronoi constellations or M-PSK (M-ary Phase Shift Keying), using a decomposition of multilevel modulation into a sum of M? polar or BPSK (Binary-PSK) constellations that are amplified and transmitted by separate antennas. Therefore it uses up to M? parallel modulators, each one followed by an amplifier connected to an antenna. This transmission scheme transmits up to M? uncorrelated BPSK signals, that are added in the transmission channel to form a multilevel constellation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Inventors: Paulo Miguel Carvalho, Rui Miguel Dinis, Vitor Hugo Astucia
  • Publication number: 20180091195
    Abstract: A transmission method using a massive MIMO (Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output) scheme with an arrangement 108 of Nm×Nb antenna elements at the transmitter, arranged in Nm sets of Nb antenna elements or Nb sets of Nm antenna elements based on SC-FDE (Single-Carrier with Frequency Domain Equalization) schemes with large constellations that is compatible with low-cost, highly-efficient, nonlinear amplifiers 106, while allowing spatial multiplexing gains. The transmission structure of this transmission method decomposes in 103 the modulated symbols from 102 associated to a given constellation as the sum of Nm polar components that are modulated as Nm BPSK (Binary Phase Shift Keying) signals. Each of these BPSK signals can be regarded as an OQPSK (Offset Quadrature Phase Shift Keying) signal in the serial format that is specially designed to have good tradeoffs between reduced envelope fluctuations and a compact spectrum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2016
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Inventors: Paulo Miguel Carvalho, Marco Alexandre Gomes, Rui Miguel Dinis, Vitor Manuel Silva, Pedro Daniel Bento
  • Publication number: 20180048369
    Abstract: A transmission method based on multiple antennas with directivity at the information level. In this transmission system, the directivity is introduced in the transmitted information by an optimization of the constellation's symbols only in the desired direction, keeping at same time an isotropic radiation power pattern by the antenna array The method allows the transmission of modulations with multilevel constellations based on M-QAM (M-ary Quadrature Amplitude Modulation) constellations, Voronoi constellations or M-PSK (M-ary Phase Shift Keying), using a decomposition of multilevel modulation into a sum of M? polar or BPSK (Binary-PSK) constellations that are amplified and transmitted by separate antennas. Therefore it uses up to M? parallel modulators, each one followed by an amplifier connected to an antenna. This transmission scheme transmits up to M? uncorrelated BPSK signals, that are added in the transmission channel to form a multilevel constellation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2016
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Inventors: Paulo Miguel Carvalho, Rui Miguel Dinis, Vitor Hugo Astucia