Patents by Inventor Robert William Young
Robert William Young 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: 11736267Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of wireless communications technologies, relates to a signal sending device, a signal receiving device, a symbol timing synchronization method, and a system, and resolves a problem that complexity of symbol timing synchronization performed by a terminal with relatively low crystal oscillator accuracy is high. In a receiving device, a receiving module receives a synchronization signal including a first signal and a second signal. The first signal includes N1 generalized ZC sequences, and the second signal includes N2 generalized ZC sequences. The second signal is used to distinguish different cells or different cell groups. There are at least two generalized ZC sequences with different root indexes in (N1+N2) generalized ZC sequences.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2020Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Tong Ji, Yiling Wu, Guangwei Yu, Robert William Young, Brian Martin Gaffney
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Publication number: 20200295915Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of wireless communications technologies, relates to a signal sending device, a signal receiving device, a symbol timing synchronization method, and a system, and resolves a problem that complexity of symbol timing synchronization performed by a terminal with relatively low crystal oscillator accuracy is high. In a receiving device, a receiving module receives a synchronization signal including a first signal and a second signal. The first signal includes N1 generalized ZC sequences, and the second signal includes N2 generalized ZC sequences. The second signal is used to distinguish different cells or different cell groups. There are at least two generalized ZC sequences with different root indexes in (N1+N2) generalized ZC sequences.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2020Publication date: September 17, 2020Inventors: Tong JI, Yiling WU, Guangwei YU, Robert William YOUNG, Brian Martin GAFFNEY
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Patent number: 10693624Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of wireless communications technologies. In a receiving device, a receiving module receives a synchronization signal including a first signal and a second signal. The first signal includes N1 generalized ZC sequences, and the second signal includes N2 generalized ZC sequences. The second signal is used to distinguish different cells or different cell groups. There are at least two generalized ZC sequences with different root indexes in (N1+N2) generalized ZC sequences. A processing module performs a first sliding correlation operation and a second sliding correlation operation on the synchronization signal, and performs symbol timing synchronization according to a relationship between a sliding correlation peak generated when a sliding correlation is performed on the N1 generalized ZC sequences and a sliding correlation peak generated when a sliding correlation is performed on the N2 generalized ZC sequences.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2018Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Tong Ji, Yiling Wu, Guangwei Yu, Robert William Young, Brian Martin Gaffney
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Publication number: 20180248680Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of wireless communications technologies. In a receiving device, a receiving module receives a synchronization signal including a first signal and a second signal. The first signal includes N1 generalized ZC sequences, and the second signal includes N2 generalized ZC sequences. The second signal is used to distinguish different cells or different cell groups. There are at least two generalized ZC sequences with different root indexes in (N1+N2) generalized ZC sequences. A processing module performs a first sliding correlation operation and a second sliding correlation operation on the synchronization signal, and performs symbol timing synchronization according to a relationship between a sliding correlation peak generated when a sliding correlation is performed on the N1 generalized ZC sequences and a sliding correlation peak generated when a sliding correlation is performed on the N2 generalized ZC sequences.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2018Publication date: August 30, 2018Inventors: Tong JI, Yiling WU, Guangwei YU, Robert William YOUNG, Brian Martin GAFFNEY
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Patent number: 7330523Abstract: Frequency offset estimation apparatus for estimating the offset from a predetermined centre frequency of an input signal carrying a plurality of frequency shifted symbols, the apparatus comprising: a demodulator for demodulating the input signal to estimate the symbols; a first filter for forming a first estimate of the offset by determining the average of a first predetermined number of the last maxima and minima of the instantaneous frequency difference between the input signal and a signal at the centre frequency; a second filter for forming a second estimate of the offset by determining the average of the values of the instantaneous frequency difference between the input signal at the centre frequency associated with the estimation by the demodulator of those of the symbols having the greatest positive and negative frequency shifts; and selector for selecting the first estimate or the second estimate as an output estimate of the frequency error.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2002Date of Patent: February 12, 2008Assignee: Cambridge Silicon Radio Ltd.Inventor: Robert William Young
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Patent number: 6788819Abstract: An apparatus for processing images comprise means (2) to scan in an image. The image data is stored and a variance calculator (6) calculates a variance for the scanned image. An image categoriser (16) determines what further processing of the image is appropriate in dependence on the variance.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2000Date of Patent: September 7, 2004Assignee: Consignia PLCInventors: Robert Edward Meredith Swann, Robert Wei Liang Tan, Robert William Young
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Publication number: 20040114697Abstract: Frequency offset estimation apparatus for estimating the offset from a predetermined centre frequency of an input signal carrying a plurality of frequency shifted symbols, the apparatus comprising: a demodulator for demodulating the input signal to estimate the symbols; a first filter for forming a first estimate of the offset by determining the average of a first predetermined number of the last maxima and minima of the instantaneous frequency difference between the input signal and a signal at the centre frequency; a second filter for forming a second estimate of the offset by determining the average of the values of the instantaneous frequency difference between the input signal at the centre frequency associated with the estimation by the demodulator of those of the symbols having the greatest positive and negative frequency shifts; and selector for selecting the first estimate or the second estimate as an output estimate of the frequency error.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2004Publication date: June 17, 2004Inventor: Robert William Young
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Patent number: 6081617Abstract: In a data processing method and apparatus, an image signal representative of features in a space of two or more dimensions is progressively filtered at monotonically increasing filtering scales, the signal being input to the first filtering scale, and the input to the or each subsequent filtering scale is the output signal from the previous scale. Each input has a number of data samples each of which represents a respective region of the space, and at each filtering scale those samples are sorted into connected-sets, each of which contains a plurality of substantially equal value to data samples or a respective individual data sample not in other sets. The process then selects those connected-sets which contain data samples having values which are local maxima or local minima and which represent a composite region of a size related in a predetermined way to the current filtering scale.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 1998Date of Patent: June 27, 2000Assignee: Cambridge Consultants LimitedInventors: James Andrew Bangham, Nigel Lawrence Bragg, Robert William Young
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Patent number: 5912826Abstract: A method of filtering a signal conglomerate using a datasieve having a plurality of filtering stages in cascade, at least one of the filtering stages comprising a recursive ordinal value filter. A typical arrangement comprises a sequence of recursive median filters of increasing scale (window size), providing low pass outputs from differing stages to enable a bandpass output to be formed by taking the difference between the low pass outputs.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 1997Date of Patent: June 15, 1999Assignee: Cambridge Consultants LimitedInventors: James Andrew Bangham, Robert William Young, Nigel Lawrence Bragg