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).

  • Patent number: 11736267
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tong Ji, Yiling Wu, Guangwei Yu, Robert William Young, Brian Martin Gaffney
  • Publication number: 20200295915
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Tong JI, Yiling WU, Guangwei YU, Robert William YOUNG, Brian Martin GAFFNEY
  • Patent number: 10693624
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tong Ji, Yiling Wu, Guangwei Yu, Robert William Young, Brian Martin Gaffney
  • Publication number: 20180248680
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventors: Tong JI, Yiling WU, Guangwei YU, Robert William YOUNG, Brian Martin GAFFNEY
  • Patent number: 7330523
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2008
    Assignee: Cambridge Silicon Radio Ltd.
    Inventor: Robert William Young
  • Patent number: 6788819
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2004
    Assignee: Consignia PLC
    Inventors: Robert Edward Meredith Swann, Robert Wei Liang Tan, Robert William Young
  • Publication number: 20040114697
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2004
    Publication date: June 17, 2004
    Inventor: Robert William Young
  • Patent number: 6081617
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2000
    Assignee: Cambridge Consultants Limited
    Inventors: James Andrew Bangham, Nigel Lawrence Bragg, Robert William Young
  • Patent number: 5912826
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 15, 1999
    Assignee: Cambridge Consultants Limited
    Inventors: James Andrew Bangham, Robert William Young, Nigel Lawrence Bragg