Patents by Inventor Roberto Rimini

Roberto Rimini 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: 10305611
    Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for proximity detection using a hybrid-transceiver. In an example aspect, the apparatus includes a hybrid transceiver coupled to a first antenna and a second antenna. The hybrid transceiver is configured to generate, in a digital domain, a digital baseband radar signal. The hybrid transceiver is also configured to transmit, via the first antenna, a radio-frequency transmit signal that is derived from the digital baseband radar signal. Via the second antenna, the hybrid transceiver is configured to receive a radio-frequency receive signal, which includes a portion of the radio-frequency transmit signal that is reflected by an object. In an analog domain, the hybrid transceiver is configured to generate an analog receive signal that includes a beat frequency, which is indicative of a frequency offset between the radio-frequency transmit signal and the radio-frequency receive signal. The analog receive signal is derived from the radio-frequency receive signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Roberto Rimini, Udara Fernando, Shahin Mehdizad Taleie
  • Publication number: 20190044561
    Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for proximity detection based on an electromagnetic field perturbation. In an example aspect, the apparatus includes an antenna array including at least two feed ports and a wireless transceiver coupled to the antenna array. The wireless transceiver is configured to generate an electromagnetic field via the antenna array. The wireless transceiver is also configured to receive energy from the electromagnetic field via the at least two feed ports. The wireless transceiver is additionally configured to adjust a transmission parameter based on the energy received via the at least two feed ports. The transmission parameter varies based on a range to an object that is present within the electromagnetic field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Inventors: Udara Fernando, Roberto Rimini, Mustafa Emin Sahin, Seunghwan Kim, Nikhil Anand Muthya
  • Publication number: 20180287651
    Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for range-based transmission parameter adjustment. In an example aspect, the apparatus includes a first antenna, a second antenna, and a wireless transceiver. The wireless transceiver is coupled to the first antenna and the second antenna. The wireless transceiver is configured to transmit a proximity detection signal via the first antenna. The wireless transceiver is also configured to receive a reflected proximity detection signal via the second antenna. The reflected proximity detection signal including a portion of the proximity detection signal that is reflected by an object. The wireless transceiver is additionally configured to adjust a transmission parameter based on the reflected proximity detection signal. The transmission parameter varies according to a range to the object. The wireless transceiver is further configured to transmit an uplink signal using the transmission parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventors: Udara Fernando, Sang-June Park, Shrenik Patel, Roberto Rimini, Steven Charles Ciccarelli
  • Patent number: 10069587
    Abstract: In aspects, apparatus and methods of wireless communication, and more specifically of improved mitigation of interference caused by a transmitter are provided. For example, in aspects, a method of interference mitigation of wireless communication is provided including transmitting at least one transmit signal from at least one transmit chain of a user equipment (UE) over a wireless medium, receiving a composite signal that includes a desired receive signal transmitted from a device and a distortion signal, generating a modified composite signal by removing at least a portion of the desired receive signal from the composite signal, generating a distortion signal estimate based on the modified composite signal, and canceling the distortion signal estimate from the composite signal. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Roberto Rimini, Sheng-Yuan Tu, Nicola Varanese
  • Patent number: 9548776
    Abstract: A first receiver of a victim communication device may detect a first signal from an aggressor transmitter that potentially may interfere with a second signal intended to be received at a second receiver of the victim communication device. It may be determined whether the first signal interferes with the second signal based, at least in part, on the characteristics of the first signal and the second receiver. If the first signal may interfere with the second signal, the second receiver may implement reconstruction and cancelation of the interference attributable to the first signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jibing Wang, Roberto Rimini
  • Patent number: 9490855
    Abstract: Embodiments include systems and methods for managing an adaptive interference filter performed by a device processor of a mobile communication device. A device processor may determine whether a transmission power from the mobile communication device is greater than or equal to a transmit power threshold. The device processor may determine whether a ratio of interference in a received signal to a level of the received signal including noise (interference ratio) is greater than or equal to an interference ratio threshold in response to determining that the transmission power is greater than or equal to the transmit power threshold. The device processor may perform interference cancellation with the adaptive interference filter in response to determining that the interference ratio is greater than or equal to the interference ratio threshold. In some embodiments the adaptive interference filter may be a non-linear interference cancellation filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Roberto Rimini, Nicholas Michael Carbone, Taesang Yoo, Muhammad Abdelghaffar, Sung Hwang, Wooseok Nam
  • Patent number: 9438284
    Abstract: Various embodiments are disclosed for implementing joint non-linear interference cancellation (NLIC) in communication receivers with multiple receiver antennas to cancel or mitigate self-jamming interference from the same aggressor transmitter. A victim receiver may exploit the correlated nature of the interference signals received by the multiple receiver antennas to reduce the computational complexity of an NLIC scheme and improve performance. The victim receiver may select an Rx antenna/Rx chain that experiences the strongest interference from the aggressor transmitter and may perform a full NLIC operation using Tx data from the aggressor transmitter to estimate the strongest interference signal. The NLIC operation may estimate each remaining interference signal by applying a complex coefficient from a single-tap adaptive filter to the estimate of the strongest interference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jibing Wang, Roberto Rimini, Joseph Patrick Burke
  • Publication number: 20160071007
    Abstract: The various embodiments include methods and apparatuses for canceling nonlinear interference during concurrent communication of multi-technology wireless communication devices. Nonlinear interference may be estimated using a radial basis function neural network with Hammerstein structure by executing a radial basis function on aggressor signals at a hidden layer of the radial basis function neural network with Hammerstein structure to obtain hidden layer outputs, augmenting aggressor signal(s) by weight factors and, executing a linear combination of the augmented output, at an intermediate layer to produce a combined hidden layer outputs. At an output layer, a linear filter function may be executed on the hidden layer outputs to produce an estimated nonlinear interference used to cancel the nonlinear interference of a victim signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2015
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Inventors: Sheng-Yuan TU, Farrokh Abrishamkar, lnsung Kang, Roberto Rimini
  • Publication number: 20160072591
    Abstract: The various embodiments include methods and apparatuses for canceling nonlinear interference during concurrent communication of multi-technology wireless communication devices. Nonlinear interference may be estimated using a block least squares function interference filter by generating aggressor kernel matrices from the aggressor signals, augmenting the aggressor kernel matrices by weight factors and executing a linear combination of the augmented output, at an intermediate layer to produce intermediate layer outputs. At an output layer, a linear filter function may be executed on the intermediate layer outputs to produce an estimated nonlinear interference used to cancel the nonlinear interference of a victim signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2015
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Inventors: Sheng-Yuan TU, Farrokh Abrishamkar, Brian Clarke Banister, Roberto Rimini, Nicholas Michael Carbone, Insung Kang
  • Publication number: 20160072649
    Abstract: The various embodiments include methods and apparatuses for cancelling nonlinear interference during concurrent communication of multi-technology wireless communication devices. Nonlinear interference may be estimated using a minimum mean squares interference filter by generating aggressor kernels from the aggressor signals, augmenting the aggressor kernels by weight factors and executing a linear combination of the augmented output, at an intermediate layer to produce intermediate layer outputs. At an output layer, a linear filter function may be executed on the intermediate layer outputs to produce an estimated nonlinear interference used to cancel the nonlinear interference of a victim signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2015
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Inventors: Sheng-Yuan TU, Farrokh Abrishamkar, Brian Clarke Banister, Roberto Rimini, lnsung Kang, Taesang Yoo
  • Publication number: 20160065251
    Abstract: A method for wireless communication by a wireless communication device is described. The wireless communication device determines that an aggressor radio in the wireless communication device is causing (or can potentially cause) self-jamming to a victim radio in the wireless communication device. A precoding configuration is selected based on one or more link throughput metrics and one or more self-jamming metrics. The precoding configuration is applied to transmissions of the aggressor radio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2014
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventors: Taesang Yoo, Roberto Rimini, Richard Neil Braithwaite, Jibing Wang
  • Patent number: 9252831
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments are directed to systems, devices, and methods for mitigating effects of transmit signal leakage. A transceiver may include a transmitter and a receiver. The transceiver may further include a multi-tap analog adaptive filter coupled to each of the transmitter and the receiver and configured to generate an estimated transmit leakage signal based on at least a portion of a transmit signal from the transmitter and an error signal from the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Roberto Rimini, Cong T Nguyen, Peter D Heidmann, Joseph Patrick Burke, Vladimir Aparin
  • Patent number: 9231801
    Abstract: A wireless communication device including two or more aggressor transmitters and a victim receiver that is adversely affected by intermodulation distortion (IMD) components associated with the signals transmitted by the two or more aggressor transmitters. Because the aggressor transmitters and the victim receiver are located on the same device, the transmit waveforms that contribute to the IMD components are known and available. More specifically, digital baseband samples used by the aggressor transmitters to generate the transmit waveforms are available. These digital baseband samples are used to reconstruct the IMD component on the wireless device. This reconstructed (estimated) IMD component is provided to the victim receiver, and is subtracted from a signal received by the victim receiver, thereby effectively removing the IMD component present in this received signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Roberto Rimini, Jibing Wang
  • Patent number: 9197264
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices are described for reducing interference for wireless communication in a wireless device with multiple receive antennas. In aspects for reducing interference, a combined signal may be generated by combining a plurality of received signals from a plurality of respective receive antennas of the wireless device, for example, using one or more different types of combining A common distortion of the plurality of received signals may be estimated based at least in part on the combined signal, and interference reduction may be performed on one or more of the plurality of received signals based at least in part on the estimated common distortion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM, Incorporated
    Inventors: Taesang Yoo, Wooseok Nam, Roberto Rimini, Jibing Wang, Yongbin Wei, Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar, Joseph Patrick Burke
  • Publication number: 20150311929
    Abstract: A communication device can independently determine an interference magnitude component and an interference phase component for interference cancellation. The interference magnitude component may be estimated based, at least in part, on a magnitude polynomial expansion and a transmit signal of the communication device. The interference phase component may be estimated based, at least in part, on a phase polynomial expansion and the transmit signal. The magnitude polynomial expansion and the phase polynomial expansion may have different polynomial terms. The interference signal may be determined based, at least in part, on the interference magnitude component and the interference phase component. At least a portion of the interference signal may be cancelled from a receive signal received by the communication device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2014
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Nicholas Michael Carbone, Roberto Rimini, Jibing Wang
  • Patent number: 9166635
    Abstract: Self-jamming interference associated with a transmitted signal of an aggressor transmitter may affect a received signal of a victim receiver in a communication device. A victim receiver may obtain a non-linear interference cancelation (NLIC) signal from an aggressor transmitter of a communication device. The NLIC signal may be based, at least in part, on a source transmit signal that has been distorted by digital pre-distortion (DPD) at the transmitter. An NLIC unit may reconstruct a cancelation signal based on the NLIC signal. A receiver may remove the cancelation signal from a received signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Nicholas Michael Carbone, Roberto Rimini
  • Patent number: 9160386
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed to implement non-linear interference cancellation (NLIC) across chips or dies in communication systems to cancel or mitigate self-jamming interference. A victim transceiver may receive an analog baseband transmit (Tx) signal from an aggressor transceiver. The analog baseband Tx signal may be tapped from a digital analog converter (DAC) of the aggressor transceiver. Alternatively, the analog baseband Tx signal may be generated by the aggressor transceiver using an auxiliary down-conversion and filtering stage. The victim transceiver may receive a composite baseband Rx signal from the victim transceiver front-end. The composite baseband Rx signal includes the desired Rx signal and an interference signal. The victim transceiver may sample the analog baseband Tx signal to generate a digital signal replica of the analog baseband Tx signal for the NLIC operation to cancel or mitigate the interference signal present in the composite baseband Rx signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Roberto Rimini, Jibing Wang, Geert Arnout Awater
  • Patent number: 9136914
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments are directed to wireless power transfer. Energy from a transmit antenna is coupled to internal signals on a transmitter. An impedance measurement circuit generates an impedance indication signal for indicating an impedance difference between the coupled internal signals by comparing them. A controller samples the impedance indication signal and determines digital signaling values responsive to changes in the impedance indication signal. The impedance measurement circuit measures one or more of magnitude difference of the internal signals, phase difference of the internal signals, and changes in power consumed by an amplifier coupled between the RF signal and the transmit antenna. A transmitter generates the electromagnetic field with a transmit antenna responsive to a Radio Frequency (RF) signal to create a coupling-mode region within a near field of the transmit antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: William H Von Novak, Stanley S Toncich, Roberto Rimini, Kevin D Lee
  • Patent number: 9113481
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) may reduce non-linear interference on a signal received at a receiving RAT by using a determined operating parameter of a transmitting radio access technology (RAT) of the user equipment (UE), which transmits a signal according to the operating parameter. The UE may estimate the non-linear interference in digital baseband to a receiving RAT of the UE from a digital baseband portion of the transmitted signal of the transmitting RAT by applying non-linear transformation based on the determined operating parameter of the transmitting RAT and cancel the estimated non-linear interference in baseband from a signal received by the receiving RAT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Roberto Rimini, Jibing Wang
  • Patent number: 9100110
    Abstract: Disclosed is non-linear interference cancellation (NLIC) on a victim receiver in a communication system in which there is self-jamming interference from multiple aggressor transmitters. The victim receiver may implement cascaded NLIC operations using multiple interference signals in succession to remove the multiple interference signals from the Rx signal and to cancel or mitigate the self-jamming interference. The reconstruction and removal of the interference signals may be ordered based on the expected level of interference from the interference signals on the desired Rx signal. The victim receiver may first perform NLIC operation using the Tx signal from the transmitter aggressor estimated to generate the strongest interference signal to remove the strongest interference signal from the Rx signal first.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jibing Wang, Roberto Rimini