Patents by Inventor Richard Stirling-Gallacher

Richard Stirling-Gallacher 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).

  • System and Method for Interference Coordination in Cellular Millimeter Wave Communications Systems
    Publication number: 20160183232
    Abstract: A method for communicating in a communications system using beamformed transmissions includes blanking an interference antenna beam out of a plurality of available antenna beams that one of causes interference to and receives interference from at least one neighboring base station during a conflict time interval of a frame, wherein the blanking is in accordance with configuration information comprising frame configuration information received from the at least one neighboring base station and frame configuration information of a serving base station (SBS), thereby producing a plurality of candidate antenna beams, scheduling communications opportunities for user equipments (UEs) in the conflict time interval on the plurality of candidate antenna beams, and communicating with scheduled UEs using the communications opportunities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventors: Richard Stirling-Gallacher, Lili Zhang
  • Pilot pattern design for a STTD scheme in an OFDM system
    Patent number: 9369323
    Abstract: A transmitting device for transmitting data symbols and pilot symbols in an OFDM transmission system; the device comprising symbol generating means for generating said data symbols and said pilot symbols, means for transmitting said data symbols and pilot symbols respectively by using a plurality of subcarriers of said OFDM transmission system, wherein said symbol generating means is designed to selectively generate a first type pilot symbol and a second type pilot symbol being orthogonal to said first type pilot symbol so that a pilot symbol pattern in the frequency dimension comprises at least said first type pilot symbol to be transmitted by using a predefined subcarrier and second type pilot symbol to be transmitted by using other predefined subcarrier, and wherein said pilot symbol pattern has a different pattern from a succeeding pilot symbol pattern in time dimension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: SONY DEUTSCHLAND GmbH
    Inventors: Zhaocheng Wang, Richard Stirling-Gallacher
  • System and Method for Beam-Formed Channel State Reference Signals
    Publication number: 20160134352
    Abstract: A method for operating a reception point includes receiving a plurality of first directional reference signals spanning a first plane, selecting at least one first directional reference signal from the plurality of received first directional reference signals that meets a first selection criterion, sending a first feedback indicating the selected at least one first directional reference signal, receiving a plurality of second directional reference signals spanning a second plane oriented in accordance with the selected at least one first directional reference signal, selecting at least one second directional reference signal from the plurality of received second directional reference signals that meet a second selection criterion, and sending a second feedback indicating the selected at least one second directional reference signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventor: Richard Stirling-Gallacher
  • Antenna arrangement and beam forming device
    Patent number: 9203160
    Abstract: An antenna arrangement comprises a first antenna array comprising a systematic arrangement of first antennas, at least two second antenna arrays, arranged adjacent to said first antenna array and each comprising a systematic arrangement of second antennas, at least two third antenna arrays each comprising at least one third antenna, wherein a third antenna array is arranged at a border area of said first antenna array and a second antenna array and replaces a first antenna closest to the adjacent second antenna array and a second antenna closest to the adjacent first antenna array. Said first or second antennas are transmitting and the other of said first or second antennas are receiving radiation. The at least one third antenna is transmitting and/or receiving radiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Marcel Blech, Richard Stirling-Gallacher, Furkan Dayi
  • Apparatus and methods for flexible RF configuration in multi-antenna wireless systems
    Patent number: 9185705
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a baseband signal processing block, processing circuitry, and at least one radio frequency (RF) communication module communicably coupled to the baseband signal processing block and configured to communicate using a selected mode of communication in a channel. The processing circuitry is configured to detect a sub-channel band of unavailable spectrum within the channel, the band of unavailable spectrum being less than a whole of the channel. The channel includes one contiguous band of frequencies divisible into at least two non-overlapping non-adjacent sub-channels. The processing circuitry is configured to select one mode of communication selected from a plurality of modes including: a carrier aggregation (CA) only mode, a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) only mode, and a carrier aggregation multiple input multiple output (CA-MIMO) hybrid mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sridhar Rajagopal, Richard Stirling-Gallacher, Krishna Sayana, Jianzhong Zhang, Farooq Khan
  • Beam forming device and method
    Patent number: 9121943
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a beam forming device, comprising a transmit unit comprising at least two transmit elements that transmit radiation towards a scene, a receiver unit comprising at least two receive elements that receive radiation from said scene and that generate receive signals from said received radiation, and a beam forming unit that performs beam forming to obtain beam formed output signals from said receive signals by use of beam forming weights, wherein said beam forming weights are adapted to a distance between the scene and one or more transmit elements and/or receive elements, said distance being indicated by a distance indicator, and wherein said beam forming weights are changed if said distance changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Richard Stirling-Gallacher, Qi Wang, Ralf Boehnke
  • Wideband beam forming device; wideband beam steering device and corresponding methods
    Patent number: 9070972
    Abstract: A beam forming device and method as well as to a beam steering device and method are described. The imaging beam forming device comprises a wideband transmit unit comprising at least one transmit antenna, a receiver unit comprising at least two receive antennas and at least one receive element that receive radiation from said scene and that generate receive signals from said received radiation, and a beam forming unit that performs beam forming to form a receive beam and obtain beam formed output signals from said receive signals by use of beam forming weights. For different samples or groups of subsequent samples of a receive signal, a sample representing said receive signal at a different frequency, a frequency-dependent weight is used for beam forming, which frequency-dependent weights are adapted to result in a predetermined shape of said receive beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Qi Wang, Richard Stirling-Gallacher, Ralf Boehnke
  • PILOT PATTERN DESIGN FOR A STTD SCHEME IN AN OFDM SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20150156046
    Abstract: A transmitting device for transmitting data symbols and pilot symbols in an OFDM transmission system; the device comprising symbol generating means for generating said data symbols and said pilot symbols, means for transmitting said data symbols and pilot symbols respectively by using a plurality of subcarriers of said OFDM transmission system, wherein said symbol generating means is designed to selectively generate a first type pilot symbol and a second type pilot symbol being orthogonal to said first type pilot symbol so that a pilot symbol pattern in the frequency dimension comprises at least said first type pilot symbol to be transmitted by using a predefined subcarrier and second type pilot symbol to be transmitted by using other predefined subcarrier, and wherein said pilot symbol pattern has a different pattern from a succeeding pilot symbol pattern in time dimension.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2015
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Applicant: SONY DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Zhaocheng Wang, Richard Stirling-Gallacher
  • Multi-user and single user MIMO for communication systems using hybrid beam forming
    Patent number: 9008222
    Abstract: A station in a wireless communication system includes a processor circuitry configured to form at least a first plurality of data streams and a second plurality of data streams, and a digital precoder configured to receive the first plurality of data streams and the second plurality of data streams. The wireless station can further include a plurality of radio frequency (RF) beamforming chains connected to the digital precoder and configured to form at least one RF envelope, wherein the digital precoder is configured to steer a plurality of digital beams within the at least one RF beam envelope, the digital beams forming a plurality of spatially distinct paths for the first plurality of data streams and a plurality of spatially distinct paths for the second plurality of data streams, and a plurality of antennas operably connected to the RF beamforming chains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Richard Stirling-Gallacher, Kaushik Morapakkam Josiam, Sridhar Rajagopal, Young-Han Nam
  • Pilot pattern design for a STTD scheme in an OFDM system
    Patent number: 8953632
    Abstract: A transmitting device for transmitting data symbols and pilot symbols in an OFDM transmission system; the device comprising symbol generating means for generating said data symbols and said pilot symbols, means for transmitting said data symbols and pilot symbols respectively by using a plurality of subcarriers of said OFDM transmission system, wherein said symbol generating means is designed to selectively generate a first type pilot symbol and a second type pilot symbol being orthogonal to said first type pilot symbol so that a pilot symbol pattern in the frequency dimension comprises at least said first type pilot symbol to be transmitted by using a predefined subcarrier and second type pilot symbol to be transmitted by using other predefined subcarrier, and wherein said pilot symbol pattern has a different pattern from a succeeding pilot symbol pattern in time dimension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Zhaocheng Wang, Richard Stirling-Gallacher
  • Receiving apparatus for high frequency imaging system
    Patent number: 8885774
    Abstract: A receiving apparatus, a receiving method, and an imaging apparatus and method, adapted to receive high frequency image signals. The apparatus includes two or more receiver channels, each receiver channel including an antenna pattern including plural antenna elements to receive high frequency image signals, a receiving mechanism to process the high frequency image signals received by the antenna elements into baseband signals, an analog-to-digital conversion mechanism to convert the baseband signals from the receiving mechanism into digital signals, a phase shifting mechanism to phase shift the digital signals, and a combining mechanism to combine the phase shifted digital signals from the receiver channels into combined signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Richard Stirling-Gallacher, Ralf Boehnke, Qi Wang, Stefan Koch, Marc Guthoerl
  • Active radar system and method
    Patent number: 8797208
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an active radar system and a corresponding method. The proposed system comprises at least two transmit antennas that each transmits radiation to a scene as a transmit signal, said transmit signal comprising a series of frequency modulated pulses, at least one receive antenna that receives radiation from said scene as a receive signal, a controller that controls said at least two transmit antennas. The transmissions of the transmit signals are subsequently initiated with time offsets, controlled to be larger than the time delay between transmission of a first transmit signal of said two transmit signals and reception of radiation of said first transmit signal by said at least one receive antenna and to be smaller than the time duration of a complete frequency modulated pulse of said first transmit signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Richard Stirling-Gallacher, Qi Wang
  • Transmitting device and method for transmitting signals in a wireless communication system, receiving device and method for receiving signals in a wireless communication system
    Patent number: 8773972
    Abstract: A transmitting device for transmitting signals carrying data in a wireless communication system, including at least two beam antennas, each beam antenna having a main beaming direction at a different angle; a generator configured to generate a number of signal streams to be transmitted over a wireless communication channel within the wireless communication system, wherein each of the signal streams includes a different version of the data and the number of signal streams corresponds to the number of the at least two beam antennas, wherein each signal stream is transmitted over the wireless communication channel via a different beam antenna of the at least two beam antennas; and a cyclic delay diversity unit configured to cyclically shift each different version of data and to use cyclic delay diversity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: SONY DEUTSCHLAND GmbH
    Inventors: Richard Stirling-Gallacher, Zhaocheng Wang
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RANDOM ACCESS IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM WITH LARGE NUMBER OF ANTENNAS
    Publication number: 20140177607
    Abstract: A method for performing random access by a User Equipment (UE) in a wireless network, comprises configuring at least one UE transmit beam for a transmission of a random access signal, generating the at least one UE transmit beam using an antenna array according to the configuration, and transmitting the random access signal to a base station (BS) on the at least one UE transmit beam. An user equipment for performing random access in a wireless network, the User Equipment comprises a processing circuit configured to configure at least one UE transmit beam for a transmission of a random access signal, and generate the at least one UE transmit beam using an antenna array according to the configuration, and transmit the random access signal to the Base Station (BS) on the at least one UE transmit beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Inventors: Ying Li, Richard Stirling-Gallacher, Zhouyue Pi, Rakesh Taori
  • MULTI-USER AND SINGLE USER MIMO FOR COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS USING HYBRID BEAM FORMING
    Publication number: 20140050280
    Abstract: A station in a wireless communication system includes a processor circuitry configured to form at least a first plurality of data streams and a second plurality of data streams, and a digital precoder configured to receive the first plurality of data streams and the second plurality of data streams. The wireless station can further include a plurality of radio frequency (RF) beamforming chains connected to the digital precoder and configured to form at least one RF envelope, wherein the digital precoder is configured to steer a plurality of digital beams within the at least one RF beam envelope, the digital beams forming a plurality of spatially distinct paths for the first plurality of data streams and a plurality of spatially distinct paths for the second plurality of data streams, and a plurality of antennas operably connected to the RF beamforming chains.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2013
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Richard Stirling-Gallacher, Kaushik Morapakkam Josiam, Sridhar Rajagopal, Young-Han Nam
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS TO SUPPORT CHANNEL REFINEMENT AND MULTI-STREAM TRANSMISSION IN MILLIMETER WAVE SYSTEMS
    Publication number: 20140044044
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for sending and receiving mobile station (MS) specific channel state indication reference symbols (CSI-RS) is provided. A common CSI-RS is sent from a base station (BS) and is received by an MS. First feedback is sent to the BS from the MS based on the common CSI-RS. A configuration of an MS-specific CSI-RS is sent from the BS and received by the MS. An MS specific CSI-RS is sent from the BS and is received by the MS. Second feedback is sent to the BS from the MS based on the MS specific CSI-RS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2013
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Inventors: Kaushik Morapakkam Josiam, Richard Stirling-Gallacher, Zhouyue Pi
  • APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RANDOM ACCESS WITH MULTIPLE ANTENNAS IN A WIRELESS NETWORK
    Publication number: 20140016573
    Abstract: A base station enables a mobile station to employ a random access retransmission scheme in a wireless communication network. The mobile station includes a plurality of antennas configured to communicate with the base station. The mobile station also includes a processing circuitry coupled to the plurality of antennas. The processing circuitry is configured to perform a random access during a random access channel (RACH) burst. The processing circuitry also is configured to at least one of: transmit a random access signal with at least one of an initial transmit power level and an initial transmit beamwidth, and, in response to a random access attempt failure, change at least one of a transmit (Tx) power level and a Tx beamwidth and retransmit the random access signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Pavan Nuggehalli, Ying Li, Zhouyue Pi, Richard Stirling-Gallacher
  • Active imaging device and method for speckle noise reduction
    Patent number: 8625006
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an active imaging device and a corresponding device for imaging a scene, in particular for effectively reducing speckle noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Richard Stirling-Gallacher
  • APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR FLEXIBLE RF CONFIGURATOIN IN MULTI-ANTENNA WIRELESS SYSTEMS
    Publication number: 20130336242
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a baseband signal processing block, processing circuitry, and at least one radio frequency (RF) communication module communicably coupled to the baseband signal processing block and configured to communicate using a selected mode of communication in a channel. The processing circuitry is configured to detect a sub-channel band of unavailable spectrum within the channel, the band of unavailable spectrum being less than a whole of the channel. The channel includes one contiguous band of frequencies divisible into at least two non-overlapping non-adjacent sub-channels. The processing circuitry is configured to select one mode of communication selected from a plurality of modes including: a carrier aggregation (CA) only mode, a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) only mode, and a carrier aggregation multiple input multiple output (CA-MIMO) hybrid mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2013
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., LTD
    Inventors: Sridhar Rajagopal, Richard Stirling-Gallacher, Krishna Sayana, Jianzhong Zhang, Farooq Khan
  • Multiple-input multiple-output spatial multiplexing system with dynamic antenna beam combination selection capability
    Patent number: 8611455
    Abstract: A spatial diversity receiver for wirelessly receiving a modulated RF signal and a method for wirelessly transmitting and receiving the modulated RF signal. The spatial diversity receiver includes at least two antenna arrays and an antenna beam selection control unit. Each antenna array of the spatial diversity receiver includes at least two fixed beam antennas with distinct radiation patterns, and combinations of the fixed beam antennas are selectable for wireless receipt of the modulated RF signal. The antenna beam selection control unit is configured to control at least one antenna switching and/or combining unit in order to select a specific combination of fixed beam antennas from each antenna array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Deutschland GmbH
    Inventor: Richard Stirling-Gallacher