Patents by Inventor Sheng-Hong Yan

Sheng-Hong Yan 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: 9100078
    Abstract: A radio frequency (RF) receiver includes a digital tuning engine; I-path and Q-path analog filters, tuned by the digital tuning engine; and a digital compensation circuit. The digital tuning engine executes a RC (resistor-capacitor) time constant calibration to adjust respective cut-off frequencies of the I-path analog filter and the Q-path analog filter. The digital tuning engine executes a filter mismatch calibration to match the I-path analog filter and the Q-path analog filter. The digital tuning engine executes a filter residual mismatch calibration to match an I-path response from the I-path analog filter to the digital compensation circuit and a Q-path response from the Q-path analog filter to the digital compensation circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Sheng-Hong Yan, Sheng-Hao Chen, Paul Cheng Po Liang, Jen-Che Tsai
  • Publication number: 20150194988
    Abstract: A communication unit includes a radio frequency, RF, transmitter having: a power amplifier, PA, module; and an envelope tracking system operably coupled to the PA module and having a supply modulator arranged to variably control a supply voltage for the PA module in response to a number of input samples of an envelope signal; wherein the envelope tracking system further includes at least one slew rate module arranged to re-distribute a maximum slew rate across the number of input samples in a provision of a variable power supply to the PA module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2014
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Applicant: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Sheng-Hong Yan, Hao-Ping Hong
  • Publication number: 20150195118
    Abstract: A communication unit has an envelope tracking system operably coupled to a power amplifier, PA, module. The envelope tracking system has at least one slew rate module arranged to re-distribute a slew rate across a number of input samples according to a maximum slew rate of the number of input samples; and a supply modulator arranged to variably control a supply voltage for the PA module in response to an output of the at least one slew rate module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2015
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Inventors: Sheng-Hong Yan, Hao-Ping Hong
  • Patent number: 9065509
    Abstract: A communication unit includes a radio frequency, RF, transmitter having: a power amplifier, PA, module; and an envelope tracking system operably coupled to the PA module and having a supply modulator arranged to variably control a supply voltage for the PA module in response to a number of input samples of an envelope signal; wherein the envelope tracking system further includes at least one slew rate module arranged to re-distribute a maximum slew rate across the number of input samples in a provision of a variable power supply to the PA module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Sheng-Hong Yan, Hao-Ping Hong
  • Publication number: 20140273907
    Abstract: A method of configuring at least one frequency dependent (FD), in-phase/quadrature (I/Q), imbalance compensation filter within a radio frequency (RF) module is described. The method includes applying an input signal to an input of the RF module, receiving a filtered I-path signal for the RF module and deriving at least one I-path filtering estimate value therefrom, receiving a filtered Q-path signal for the RF module and deriving at least one Q-path filtering estimate value therefrom, and configuring the at least one FD I/Q imbalance compensation filter based at least partly on at least one ratio between the derived I-path and Q-path filtering estimate values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: MediaTek Singapore Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Balachander Narasimhan, Charles Chien, Sheng-Hong Yan, Paul Cheng Po Liang
  • Publication number: 20140187182
    Abstract: A method of calibrating an envelope tracking system for a supply voltage for a power amplifier module within a radio frequency (RF) transmitter of a wireless communication unit is described. The method comprising, within at least one signal processing module of the wireless communication unit, applying a training signal comprising an envelope that varies with time to an input of the RF transmitter, receiving at least an indication of instantaneous output signal values for the power amplifier module in response to the training signal, calculating instantaneous gain values based at least partly on the received output power values, and adjusting a mapping function between an instantaneous envelope of a waveform signal to be amplified by the power amplifier module and the power amplifier module supply voltage to achieve a power amplifier module gain, for example that is monotonically increasing as a function of power amplifier output power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2013
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Sheng-Hong Yan, Paul Cheng Po Liang
  • Publication number: 20130266102
    Abstract: A radio frequency (RF) receiver includes a digital tuning engine; I-path and Q-path analog filters, tuned by the digital tuning engine; and a digital compensation circuit. The digital tuning engine executes a RC (resistor-capacitor) time constant calibration to adjust respective cut-off frequencies of the I-path analog filter and the Q-path analog filter. The digital tuning engine executes a filter mismatch calibration to match the I-path analog filter and the Q-path analog filter. The digital tuning engine executes a filter residual mismatch calibration to match an I-path response from the I-path analog filter to the digital compensation circuit and a Q-path response from the Q-path analog filter to the digital compensation circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Applicant: MEDIATEK Inc.
    Inventors: Sheng-Hong Yan, Sheng-Hao Chen, Cheng-Po Liang, Jen-Che Tsai
  • Publication number: 20130036147
    Abstract: An infinite impulse response (IIR) filter is provided. The IIR filter includes an amplifier and a filter coupled in a feedback path of the amplifier. The amplifier generates an output signal according to an input signal. The filter filters the output signal according to a first transfer function and provides the filtered output signal to an input of the amplifier. The IIR filter and the first filter have the same order larger than one.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2011
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicant: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventor: Sheng-Hong Yan