Patents by Inventor Stefan Fechtel

Stefan Fechtel 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: 11791861
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a transceiver comprising a transmitter with transformation circuitry configured to transform a frequency-domain transmit symbol from frequency domain to time domain to generate a time-domain transmit signal, a receiver with inverse transformation circuitry configured to transform a time-domain receive signal from time domain to frequency domain to generate a frequency-domain receive symbol, and self-interference cancellation circuitry configured to modify the frequency-domain receive symbol based on at least one frequency-domain transmit symbol and a frequency-domain crosstalk channel estimate of a crosstalk channel between the transmitter and the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Andreas Menkhoff, Stefan Fechtel
  • Patent number: 11751025
    Abstract: A communication device for multi-radio access technology (RAT) communications includes one or more processors and a plurality of transceivers. Each transceiver is configured to operate in at least one RAT of a plurality of RATs. The processors are configured to establish connection with a second communication device using a first transceiver of the plurality of transceivers and a first RAT of the plurality of RATs. A first data stream associated with a communication link connected to the second communication device and a third communication device is receive via a convergence function at the second communication device. The communication link uses a second RAT of the plurality of RATs. A code sequence is applied to a second data stream to generate an encoded second data stream, which is transmitted to the third communication device via a second communication link established based on information received via the first data stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Stefan Fechtel, Kilian Roth, Bertram Gunzelmann, Markus Dominik Mueck, Ingolf Karls, Zhibin Yu, Thorsten Clevorn, Nageen Himayat, Dave A. Cavalcanti, Ana Lucia Pinheiro, Bahareh Sadeghi, Hassnaa Moustafa, Marcio Rogerio Juliato, Rafael Misoczki, Emily H. Qi, Jeffrey R. Foerster, Duncan Kitchin, Debdeep Chatterjee, Jong-Kae Fwu, Carlos Aldana, Shilpa Talwar, Harry G. Skinner, Debabani Choudhury
  • Publication number: 20220353652
    Abstract: A communication device for multi-radio access technology (RAT) communications includes one or more processors and a plurality of transceivers. Each transceiver is configured to operate in at least one RAT of a plurality of RATs. The processors are configured to establish connection with a second communication device using a first transceiver of the plurality of transceivers and a first RAT of the plurality of RATs. A first data stream associated with a communication link connected to the second communication device and a third communication device is receive via a convergence function at the second communication device. The communication link uses a second RAT of the plurality of RATs. A code sequence is applied to a second data stream to generate an encoded second data stream, which is transmitted to the third communication device via a second communication link established based on information received via the first data stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Stefan Fechtel, Kilian Peter Anton Roth, Bertram Gunzelmann, Markus Dominik Mueck, Ingolf Karls, Zhibin Yu, Thorsten Clevorn, Nageen Himayat, Dave A. Cavalcanti, Ana Lucia Pinheiro, Bahareh Sadeghi, Hassnaa Moustafa, Marcio Rogerio Juliato, Rafael Misoczki, Emily H. Qi, Jeffrey R. Foerster, Duncan Kitchin, Debdeep Chatterjee, Jong-Kae Fwu, Carlos Aldana, Shilpa Talwar, Harry G. Skinner, Debabani Choudhury
  • Patent number: 11304037
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and techniques for V2X communications using multiple radio access technologies (RATs) are described herein. A communication associated with one or more of the multiple RATs may be received at a device. The device may include a transceiver interface with multiple connections to communicate with multiple transceiver chains. The multiple transceiver chains can be configured to support multiple RATs. Additionally, the multiple transceiver chains may be controlled via the multiple connections of the transceiver interface to coordinate the multiple RATs to complete the communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Stefan Fechtel, Kilian Peter Anton Roth, Bertram Gunzelmann, Markus Dominik Mueck, Ingolf Karls, Zhibin Yu, Thorsten Clevorn, Nageen Himayat, Dave A. Cavalcanti, Ana Lucia Pinheiro, Bahareh Sadeghi, Hassnaa Moustafa, Marcio Rogerio Juliato, Rafael Misoczki, Emily H. Qi, Jeffrey R. Foerster, Duncan Kitchin, Debdeep Chatterjee, Jong-Kae Fwu, Carlos Aldana, Shilpa Talwar, Harry G. Skinner, Debabani Choudhury
  • Publication number: 20220069861
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a transceiver comprising a transmitter with transformation circuitry configured to transform a frequency-domain transmit symbol from frequency-domain to time domain to generate a time-domain transmit signal, a receiver with inverse transformation circuitry configured to transform a time-domain receive signal from time domain to frequency domain to generate a frequency-domain receive symbol, and self-interference cancellation circuitry configured to modify the frequency-domain receive symbol based on at least one frequency-domain transmit symbol and a frequency-domain crosstalk channel estimate of a crosstalk channel between the transmitter and the receiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Andreas MENKHOFF, Stefan FECHTEL
  • Patent number: 11245557
    Abstract: A method of generating channel estimates of a communication channel in an OFDM system includes receiving references symbols from at least one time frequency observation block of a predetermined block size in frequency and time; generating subspace-transformed reference symbols from the received reference symbols; and subspace filtering the subspace-transformed reference symbols to generate a channel estimate for a communication channel target time; wherein a latency between a communication channel time instant of a currently received reference symbol and the communication channel target time is smaller than the observation block size in time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Placido Mursia, Stefan Fechtel
  • Patent number: 11018708
    Abstract: A communication device is provided that includes a receiver configured to receive a signal. The communication device further includes a circuit configured to determine an interference reference signal based on an interference signal, to multiply the received signal with the interference reference signal in the time domain to form a multiplication signal and to filter the multiplication signal to form a filtered signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventor: Stefan Fechtel
  • Publication number: 20210135915
    Abstract: A method of generating channel estimates of a communication channel in an OFDM system includes receiving reference symbols from at least one time-frequency observation block of a predetermined block size infrequency and time. Subspace-transformed reference symbols are generated from the received reference symbols. The subspace-transformed reference symbols are subspace filtered to generate a channel estimate for a communication channel target time. A latency between a communication channel time instant of a currently received reference symbol and the communication channel target time is smaller than the observation block size in time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Applicant: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: Placido MURSIA, Stefan FECHTEL
  • Publication number: 20200280827
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and techniques for V2X communications using multiple radio access technologies (RATs) are described herein. A communication associated with one or more of the multiple RATs may be received at a device. The device may include a transceiver interface with multiple connections to communicate with multiple transceiver chains. The multiple transceiver chains can be configured to support multiple RATs. Additionally, the multiple transceiver chains may be controlled via the multiple connections of the transceiver interface to coordinate the multiple RATs to complete the communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Inventors: Stefan Fechtel, Kilian Roth, Bertram Gunzelmann, Markus Dominik Mueck, Ingolf Karls, Zhibin Yu, Thorsten Clevorn, Nageen Himayat, Dave A. Cavalcanti, Ana Lucia Pinheiro, Bahareh Sadeghi, Hassnaa Moustafa, Marcio Rogerio Juliato, Rafael Misoczki, Emily H. Qi, Jeffrey R. Foerster, Duncan Kitchin, Debdeep Chatterjee, Jong-Kae Fwu, Carlos Aldana, Shilpa Talwar, Harry G. Skinner, Debabani Choudhury
  • Patent number: 10742450
    Abstract: A channel estimation coefficients generator (200) for generating channel estimation coefficients for channel estimation filtering includes: a parameter acquisition unit (205) configured to acquire a first set of input parameters (208) and to acquire a second set of input parameters (209), wherein a time variability of the first set of input parameters (208) is smaller than a time variability of the second set of input parameters (209); a first channel estimation coefficients generator (201) configured to generate a prototype set of channel estimation coefficients (202) based on the first set of input parameters (208); and a second channel estimation coefficients generator (203) configured to generate a refined set of channel estimation coefficients (204) based on the prototype set of channel estimation coefficients (202) and based on the second set of input parameters (209).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: INTEL IP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Stefan Fechtel, Cecilia Carbonelli, Stefan Franz
  • Patent number: 10708091
    Abstract: A channel estimation circuit (100) includes an input interface (110). The input interface (110) is configured to receive a plurality of pilot symbols from a communication channel. Furthermore, the channel estimation circuit (100) includes processing circuitry (120). The processing circuitry (120) is configured to generate a channel autocorrelation matrix and at least one channel cross-correlation vector. The generating of the channel autocorrelation matrix and the channel cross-correlation vector can be based on predetermined statistical information on the communication channel. Additionally, the processing circuitry (120) is configured to generate a subspace mapping for a subspace transformation based on the channel autocorrelation matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventor: Stefan Fechtel
  • Publication number: 20200083919
    Abstract: A communication device is provided that includes a receiver configured to receive a signal. The communication device further includes a circuit configured to determine an interference reference signal based on an interference signal, to multiply the received signal with the interference reference signal in the time domain to form a multiplication signal and to filter the multiplication signal to form a filtered signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2018
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Inventor: Stefan Fechtel
  • Patent number: 10587043
    Abstract: Examples provide a determination circuit and apparatus, a mobile transceiver, a communication device, a method for determining, a computer program and a storage to determine a spatial transmission or reception mode. The determination circuit (10) is configured to determine a spatial transmission or reception mode for a mobile transceiver (100). The determination circuit (10) comprises at least one sensor (12) configured to sense attenuating object information, and a control module (14) configured to determine the spatial transmission or reception mode based on the sensed attenuating object information. The control module (14) is configured to control the spatial transmission or reception mode of the mobile transceiver (100).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yeong-Sun Hwang, Holger Neuhaus, Stefan Fechtel, Bertram Gunzelmann
  • Publication number: 20200052931
    Abstract: A channel estimation circuit (100) includes an input interface (110). The input interface (110) is configured to receive a plurality of pilot symbols from a communication channel. Furthermore, the channel estimation circuit (100) includes processing circuitry (120). The processing circuitry (120) is configured to generate a channel autocorrelation matrix and at least one channel cross-correlation vector. The generating of the channel autocorrelation matrix and the channel cross-correlation vector can be based on predetermined statistical information on the communication channel. Additionally, the processing circuitry (120) is configured to generate a subspace mapping for a subspace transformation based on the channel autocorrelation matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2018
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventor: Stefan FECHTEL
  • Patent number: 10530504
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a cluster detection device for detecting clusters in a beam-formed transmission, the cluster detection device comprising: a receiver, configured to receive a radio signal comprising time-frequency resources, wherein the time-frequency resources comprise a plurality of reference signals; a delay profile detector, configured to detect a set of delay profiles based on frequency-direction filtering of the plurality of reference signals; a Doppler profile detector, configured to detect a set of delay-Doppler profiles based on time-direction filtering of the set of delay profiles; and a cluster detection postprocessor, configured to derive a set of cluster parameters from the set of delay-Doppler profiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventor: Stefan Fechtel
  • Patent number: 10461962
    Abstract: A communication terminal is described comprising a receiver configured to receive pilot signal samples via a plurality of communication channels and to determine an interference matrix which includes, for each pilot signal sample, interference information representing an amount of interference included in the pilot signal sample and a channel estimator configured to determine a channel autocorrelation matrix for the plurality of communication channels and to determine a linear transformation which diagonalizes or triagonalizes the autocorrelation matrix, to transform the interference matrix by the transformation and to reduce the transformed interference matrix by discarding components corresponding to predetermined eigenvectors of the autocorrelation matrix, to determine filter weights for the signal samples based on the reduced interference matrix and to determine channel estimates by filtering the pilot signal samples using the determined filter weights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventor: Stefan Fechtel
  • Patent number: 10419146
    Abstract: A method for detecting a transmission from an interfering radio cell includes: receiving a signal comprising transmissions from a serving radio cell and from a plurality of interfering radio cells, wherein a reference symbol of a transmission from at least one interfering radio cell of the plurality of interfering radio cells is colliding with a reference symbol of a transmission from the serving radio cell; generating a set of transmission signal hypotheses, each of which is dependent on at least one interferer parameter of the at least one interfering radio cell; obtaining at least one interferer radio cell identifier; and detecting a transmission from at least one interfering radio cell of the plurality of interfering radio cells in the received signal based on the at least one interferer radio cell identifier and the set of transmission signal hypotheses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: Manoj Ravichandran, Andrey Chervyakov, Franz Eder, Stefan Fechtel, Sabine Roessel
  • Publication number: 20190115657
    Abstract: Examples provide a determination circuit and apparatus, a mobile transceiver, a communication device, a method for determining, a computer program and a storage to determine a spatial transmission or reception mode. The determination circuit (10) is configured to determine a spatial transmission or reception mode for a mobile transceiver (100). The determination circuit (10) comprises at least one sensor (12) configured to sense attenuating object information, and a control module (14) configured to determine the spatial transmission or reception mode based on the sensed attenuating object information. The control module (14) is configured to control the spatial transmission or reception mode of the mobile transceiver (100).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventors: Yeong-Sun Hwang, Holger Neuhaus, Stefan Fechtel, Bertram Gunzelmann
  • Publication number: 20190074999
    Abstract: A communication terminal is described comprising a receiver configured to receive pilot signal samples via a plurality of communication channels and to determine an interference matrix which includes, for each pilot signal sample, interference information representing an amount of interference included in the pilot signal sample and a channel estimator configured to determine a channel autocorrelation matrix for the plurality of communication channels and to determine a linear transformation which diagonalizes or triagonalizes the autocorrelation matrix, to transform the interference matrix by the transformation and to reduce the transformed interference matrix by discarding components corresponding to predetermined eigenvectors of the autocorrelation matrix, to determine filter weights for the signal samples based on the reduced interference matrix and to determine channel estimates by filtering the pilot signal samples using the determined filter weights.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventor: Stefan Fechtel
  • Publication number: 20190068304
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a cluster detection device for detecting clusters in a beam-formed transmission, the cluster detection device comprising: a receiver, configured to receive a radio signal comprising time-frequency resources, wherein the time-frequency resources comprise a plurality of reference signals; a delay profile detector, configured to detect a set of delay profiles based on frequency-direction filtering of the plurality of reference signals; a Doppler profile detector, configured to detect a set of delay-Doppler profiles based on time-direction filtering of the set of delay profiles; and a cluster detection postprocessor, configured to derive a set of cluster parameters from the set of delay-Doppler profiles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2017
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventor: Stefan Fechtel