Patents by Inventor Pierre-Jean Bouvet

Pierre-Jean Bouvet 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: 7961805
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for coding an OFDM/OQAM-type multi-carrier signal formed by a temporal succession of symbols comprising a set of data elements. Each of the data elements modulates a carrier frequency of the signal. Each of the data elements is formed by adding two real values in quadrature, which each correspond to a binary word of a source signal, which is modulated using a pre-determined modulation constellation, such as to transmit information over a real channel and an imaginary channel of the OFDM/OQAM symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: France Telecom
    Inventors: Jean-Philippe Javaudin, Pierre-Jean Bouvet
  • Patent number: 7924945
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for receiving a data signal by NR receiving antennas. The data signal undergoes, before transmission, a channel coding and is transmitted on NT antennas each transmitting a portion of this signal. Upon reception the transmission channel between the transmitting antennas and the receiving antennas is estimated. The method of the aforementioned type involves at least one iteration for improving an estimation of the received signal according to the received signal and involves a preceding estimation of said received signal, comprising the following steps: filtering this received signal; determining an interference affecting the received signal while furnishing an estimated interference; subtracting this estimated interference form the filtered signal whereby obtaining an improved signal; equalizing this improved signal and furnishing an equalized signal, and; estimating, from this equalized signal, the emitted data signal, called the estimated signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: France Telecom
    Inventors: Pierre-Jean Bouvet, Maryline Helard, Vincent Le Nir
  • Publication number: 20100260205
    Abstract: A method and system for providing enhanced encoding and correction capability while retaining backward compatibility with existing DVB-T transport systems is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of encoding a plurality of transport stream bytes into a transport stream matrix, wherein each column of said matrix represents a predetermined number of encoded transport stream bytes and a known number of parity bytes, and encoding said encoded bytes within said columns within corresponding ones of rows of said matrix, wherein a known number of parity bytes are associated with said encoded bytes within said row.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2009
    Publication date: October 14, 2010
    Inventor: Pierre-Jean BOUVET
  • Patent number: 7729436
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for decoding a received signal comprising symbols which are distributed in space and time with the aid of a space-time coding matrix, comprising a space-time decoding stage and at least two iterations, each of which comprising the following sub-stages: diversity pre-decoding, the opposite of diversity pre-decoding carried out when the signal is emitted, providing precoded data; estimation of symbols forming said signal on the basis of said pre-decoded data, providing estimated symbols; diversity preceding identical to diversity preceding carried out during emission, applied to the estimated symbols in order to provide an estimated signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: France Telecom
    Inventors: Maryline Helard, Rodolphe Le Gouable, Pierre-Jean Bouvet, Vincent Le Nir
  • Patent number: 7489748
    Abstract: A method for the reception of a data signal which, before being sent, has undergone a linear precoding by means of a unitary preceding matrix, and a channel coding, comprises at least one iteration to improve an estimation of the received signal, as a function of the received signal and of a preceding estimation of the received signal. This iteration comprises the following steps: the estimation of the interference due especially to the linear precoding and affecting the received signal, as a function of the preceding estimation, so as to obtain an estimated interference; the subtraction of the estimated interference from the preliminarily filtered and de-precoded received signal, so as to obtain an improved signal; the equalization of the improved signal, delivering an equalized signal; the estimation of the received signal, delivering an estimation of the received signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2009
    Assignee: France Telecom
    Inventors: Pierre-Jean Bouvet, Maryline Helard, Vincent Le Nir
  • Publication number: 20080260061
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for coding an OFDM/OQAM-type multi-carrier signal formed by a temporal succession of symbols comprising a set of data elements. Each of the data elements modulates a carrier frequency of the signal. Each of the data elements is formed by adding two real values in quadrature, which each correspond to a binary word of a source signal, which is modulated using a pre-determined modulation constellation, such as to transmit information over a real channel and an imaginary channel of the OFDM/OQAM symbols.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2006
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Applicant: France Telecom
    Inventors: Jean-Philippe Javaudin, Pierre-Jean Bouvet
  • Publication number: 20080260078
    Abstract: A method is provided for the reception of a data signal comprising multiple carriers, known as a multi-carrier signal, which undergoes channel coding at transmission, said method employing an estimation of the received signal. One such reception method comprises at least one iteration for improving the estimation of the received signal, as a function of the received signal and of an estimation preceding from said received signal. One such iteration comprises, for each of the carriers of the received signal, a step involving the equalisation of the carrier with the cancellation of an interference affecting the received signal as a function of at least one statistical parameter of the estimation preceding from said received signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2006
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Inventors: Pierre-Jean Bouvet, Maryline Helard
  • Publication number: 20070280371
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for receiving a data signal by NR receiving antennas. The data signal undergoes, before transmission, a channel coding and is transmitted on NT antennas each transmitting a portion of this signal. Upon reception the transmission channel between the transmitting antennas and the receiving antennas is estimated. The method of the aforementioned type involves at least one iteration for improving an estimation of the received signal according to the received signal and involves a preceding estimation of said received signal, comprising the following steps: filtering this received signal; determining an interference affecting the received signal while furnishing an estimated interference; subtracting this estimated interference form the filtered signal whereby obtaining an improved signal; equalizing this improved signal and furnishing an equalized signal, and; estimating, from this equalized signal, the emitted data signal, called the estimated signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2005
    Publication date: December 6, 2007
    Applicant: France Telecom
    Inventors: Pierre-Jean Bouvet, Maryline Helard, Vincent Le Nir
  • Publication number: 20070140370
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for decoding a received signal comprising symbols which are distributed in space and time with the aid of a space-time coding matrix, comprising a space-time decoding stage and at least two iterations, each of which comprising the following sub-stages: diversity pre-decoding, the opposite of diversity pre-decoding carried out when the signal is emitted, providing precoded data; estimation of symbols forming said signal on the basis of said pre-decoded data, providing estimated symbols; diversity preceding identical to diversity preceding carried out during emission, applied to the estimated symbols in order to provide an estimated signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2004
    Publication date: June 21, 2007
    Applicant: France Telecom
    Inventors: Maryline Helard, Rodolphe Le Gouable, Pierre-Jean Bouvet, Vincent Le Nir
  • Publication number: 20050281357
    Abstract: A method for the reception of a data signal which, before being sent, has undergone a linear precoding by means of a unitary preceding matrix, and a channel coding, comprises at least one iteration to improve an estimation of the received signal, as a function of the received signal and of a preceding estimation of the received signal. This iteration comprises the following steps: the estimation of the interference due especially to the linear precoding and affecting the received signal, as a function of the preceding estimation, so as to obtain an estimated interference; the subtraction of said estimated interference from said preliminarily filtered and de-precoded received signal, so as to obtain an improved signal; the equalization of said improved signal, delivering an equalized signal; the estimation of the received signal, delivering an estimation of the received signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2005
    Publication date: December 22, 2005
    Applicant: France Telecom
    Inventors: Pierre-Jean Bouvet, Maryline Helard, Vincent Le Nir