Patents by Inventor Uri Landau

Uri Landau 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: 7856052
    Abstract: Methods and systems for processing signals in a receiver are disclosed herein and may include updating a plurality of filter taps utilizing at least one channel response vector and at least one correlation vector, for a plurality of received clusters, based on initialized values related to the at least one channel response vector and the at least one correlation vector. At least a portion of the received signal clusters may be filtered utilizing at least a portion of the updated plurality of filter taps. The update may be repeated whenever a specified signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) for the received signal clusters is reached. The initialized values may be updated during a plurality of iterations, and the update may be repeated whenever a specified number of the plurality of iterations is reached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2010
    Inventors: Mark Kent, Uri Landau, Severine Catreux-Erceg, Vinko Erceg, Ning Kong, Pieter Roux
  • Publication number: 20100260252
    Abstract: A system and method for processing signals are disclosed. The method may include performing by one or more processors and/or circuits in a wireless device that includes a plurality of transmit and/or receive antennas for one or more of HSDPA, space-time transmit diversity (STTD), Closed Loop, Normal Mode and spatial multiplexing, the one or more processors and/or circuits comprising a minimum mean square error (MMSE) equalizer, generating a plurality of chip-rate synchronously sampled signals utilizing a plurality of received clusters. At least a portion of said generated plurality of chip-rate synchronously sampled signals may be simultaneously equalized in time domain and in spatial domain, based on a plurality of weight values calculated for the plurality of received clusters. The plurality of weight values may be iteratively computed utilizing a time-based adaptation method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2010
    Publication date: October 14, 2010
    Inventors: Uri Landau, Mark Kent, Severine Catreux-Erceg, Vinko Erceg
  • Patent number: 7738607
    Abstract: Methods and systems for processing signals in a receiver are disclosed herein and may include generating a plurality of chip-rate synchronously sampled signals utilizing a plurality of received clusters. At least a portion of the generated plurality of chip-rate synchronously sampled signals may be simultaneously equalized in time domain and in spatial domain. The equalization may be based on a plurality of weight values calculated for the plurality of received clusters. The weight values may be iteratively computed utilizing a time-based adaptation method, such as a conjugate gradient (CG) search. The equalized portion of the generated plurality of chip-rate synchronously sampled signals may be added to generate a total equalized signal. The total equalized signal may be demodulated to generate a demodulated signal. At least one convolutional code and/or turbo code within the demodulated signal may be decoded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Uri Landau, Mark Kent, Severine Catreux-Erceg, Vinko Erceg
  • Publication number: 20090180446
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the method and system for implementing a single weight spatial multiplexing multi-input multi-output (MIMO) system without insertion loss may comprise receiving a plurality of spatially multiplexed communication signals for processing in a first reference processing path and at least a second processing path. At least one control signal may be generated that controls processing of at least a portion of the received plurality of spatially multiplexed communication signals in at least the second processing path. At least one phase adjustment signal may be generated from outside at least the second processing path. A phase of at least a portion of the received plurality of spatially multiplexed communication signals may be adjusted, which are processed in at least the second processing path via at least one generated phase adjustment signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2005
    Publication date: July 16, 2009
    Inventors: Mark Kent, Vinko Erceg, Uri Landau, Pieter Rooyen, Pieter Roux
  • Publication number: 20080273624
    Abstract: Aspects of a method and system for CQI/PMI feedback for precoded MIMO systems utilizing differential codebooks may include generating one or more feedback messages for one or more Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) reporting units based on at least channel state information associated with the one or more CQI reporting units. One or more differential feedback messages may be generated for one or more Pre-coding Matrix Index (PMI) reporting units based on at least channel state information associated with the one or more PMI reporting units, wherein the one or more PMI reporting units span a useable bandwidth. A bandwidth and a feedback period may be assigned to each of the one or more CQI reporting units and the one or more PMI reporting units to define the one or more CQI reporting units and the one or more PMI reporting units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2007
    Publication date: November 6, 2008
    Inventors: Mark Kent, Vinko Erceg, Jun Zheng, Sirikiat Ariyavisitakul, Uri Landau
  • Publication number: 20080192852
    Abstract: Aspects of a method and system for an alternating channel delta quantizer for 2×2 MIMO pre-coders with finite rate channel state information feedback may include quantizing a change in channel state information in a 2×2 MIMO pre-coding system onto a codebook using a cost function, and alternating the codebook between two codebooks, each of which comprises one or more unitary matrices. The channel state information may be a matrix V that may be generated using Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) or Geometric Mean Decomposition (GMD). The cost function f(A) may be defined by the following relationship: f ? ( A ) = ( 1 N ? ? j = 1 N ? ? a jj ? 2 ) where A is a matrix of size N by N and aij is element (i,j) of matrix A. The one or more unitary matrices may be generated from a first matrix and a second matrix. The first matrix and the second matrix may be generated using a Givens decomposition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2007
    Publication date: August 14, 2008
    Inventors: Mark Kent, Vinko Erceg, Jun Zheng, Uri Landau
  • Publication number: 20080192717
    Abstract: Aspects of a method and system for an alternating delta quantizer for limited feedback MIMO pre-coders may comprise quantizing a change in channel state information in a MIMO pre-coding system onto at least a first and a second codebook, each of which comprises one or more unitary matrices, using a cost function; feeding back, in an alternating manner, an index to an element of at least the first codebook or the second codebook, associated with the quantizing, from a receiver to a transmitter in said MIMO pre-coding system, and generating the at least first and second codebook based on at least the channel state information. The channel state information may be a matrix V and the cost function may be defined by the following relationship: f ? ( A ) = ( 1 N ? ? j = 1 N ? ? a jj ? 2 ) where A is a matrix of size N by N and aij is element (i,j) of matrix A.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2007
    Publication date: August 14, 2008
    Inventors: Mark Kent, Vinko Erceg, Jun Zheng, Uri Landau
  • Publication number: 20080192853
    Abstract: Aspects of a method and system for a delta quantizer for rate reduction pre-coding matrices may include quantizing a change in channel state information in a MIMO pre-coding system onto a codebook and generating a pre-coding matrix based on at least the channel state information. The channel state information may be a matrix V and one or more associated singular values. The matrix V may be generated using Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) or Geometric Mean Decomposition (GMD). One or more columns of the matrix V may be selected based on the one or more associated singular values and may be combined to enable the generation of the pre-coding matrix. The codebook may comprise one or more unitary matrices. An index of an element of the codebook, onto which the change in channel state information is quantized, may be transmitted from a receiver to a transmitter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2007
    Publication date: August 14, 2008
    Inventors: Mark Kent, Vinko Erceg, Jun Zheng, Uri Landau
  • Publication number: 20080192704
    Abstract: Aspects of a method and system for an alternating channel delta quantizer for MIMO pre-coders with finite rate channel state information feedback may include quantizing a change in channel state information in a MIMO pre-coding system onto a codebook using a cost function and selecting the codebook from a set of codebooks; and generating the set of codebooks from a plurality of codebooks, where each may comprise one or more unitary matrices. The channel state information may be a matrix V that may be generated using Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) and/or Geometric Mean Decomposition (GMD). The selecting of the codebooks may be enabled by alternating between the elements of the set of codebooks. The cost function f(A) may be defined by the following relationship: f ? ( A ) = ( 1 N ? ? j = 1 N ? ? a jj ? 2 ) where A is a matrix of size N by N and aij is element (i,j) of matrix A.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2007
    Publication date: August 14, 2008
    Inventors: Mark Kent, Vinko Erceg, Jun Zheng, Uri Landau
  • Publication number: 20080165836
    Abstract: Aspects of a method and system for controlling and regulating services and resources in high-performance downlink channels may include receiving, at a second communication device, from a first communication device, one or more process data packets. For one or more feedback classes, at least one feedback message may be generated from the one or more process data packets associated with a process that may be associated with the one or more feedback classes. One or more feedback messages may be generated from the at least one generated feedback message and transmitted from the second communication device to the first communication device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2007
    Publication date: July 10, 2008
    Inventors: Uri Landau, Mark Kent
  • Publication number: 20080165839
    Abstract: Aspects of a method and system for dynamic adaptation and communicating differences in frequency-time dependent systems may include generating a time difference weighting factor and a frequency difference weighting factor, based on at least channel estimates. A time-frequency difference may be computed by forming a weighted sum comprising a time difference and a frequency difference, where forming the weighted sum uses at least the time difference weighting factor and the frequency weighting factor. A channel quality indicator (CQI) feedback message may be generated, comprising the time-frequency difference. The time difference weighting factor and/or the frequency difference weighting factor may be generated adaptively at a base station or a mobile terminal. The time difference and/or the frequency difference may be generated from estimated Signal-to-Noise-Ratios (SNRs) associated with the channel estimates. The SNRs may be based on at least the output of an MMSE receiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2007
    Publication date: July 10, 2008
    Inventors: Uri Landau, Mark Kent, Vinko Erceg
  • Publication number: 20080130732
    Abstract: Methods and systems for processing signals in a receiver are disclosed herein and may include updating a plurality of filter taps utilizing at least one channel response vector and at least one correlation vector, for a plurality of received clusters, based on initialized values related to the at least one channel response vector and the at least one correlation vector. At least a portion of the received signal clusters may be filtered utilizing at least a portion of the updated plurality of filter taps. The update may be repeated whenever a specified signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) for the received signal clusters is reached. The initialized values may be updated during a plurality of iterations, and the update may be repeated whenever a specified number of the plurality of iterations is reached.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2006
    Publication date: June 5, 2008
    Inventors: Mark Kent, Uri Landau, Severine Catreux-Erceg, Vinko Erceg, Ning Kong, Pieter Roux
  • Publication number: 20080130777
    Abstract: Methods and systems for processing signals in a receiver are disclosed herein and may include generating a plurality of chip-rate synchronously sampled signals utilizing a plurality of received clusters. At least a portion of the generated plurality of chip-rate synchronously sampled signals may be simultaneously equalized in time domain and in spatial domain. The equalization may be based on a plurality of weight values calculated for the plurality of received clusters. The weight values may be iteratively computed utilizing a time-based adaptation method, such as a conjugate gradient (CG) search. The equalized portion of the generated plurality of chip-rate synchronously sampled signals may be added to generate a total equalized signal. The total equalized signal may be demodulated to generate a demodulated signal. At least one convolutional code and/or turbo code within the demodulated signal may be decoded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2006
    Publication date: June 5, 2008
    Inventors: Uri Landau, Mark Kent, Severine Catreux-Erceg, Vinko Erceg
  • Publication number: 20080107193
    Abstract: Aspects of a method and system for an improved MIMO modulation coding set feedback system may include determining, for each one of a plurality of spatial streams in a MIMO system, an index associated with an element of a modulation coding set, based on at least a reference index and an offset variable. The plurality of spatial streams may be modulated and coded, based on the determined index. A reference feedback variable may be fed back from a receiver to a transmitter in the MIMO system. The reference index may be determined based on at least the reference feedback variable. The offset variable for each one of the plurality of spatial streams may be fed back from a receiver to a transmitter in the MIMO system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2007
    Publication date: May 8, 2008
    Inventors: Vinko Erceg, Mark Kent, Uri Landau
  • Publication number: 20080063046
    Abstract: Estimating error signals in a communication system may include determining a frequency error of a received RF signal utilizing a plurality of correlators, where one or more of the correlators may be fed with a carrier frequency of the received RF signal and a remaining portion of the plurality of correlators may be fed with one or more other carrier frequency. This carrier frequency fed to the remaining portion of the plurality of correlators may differ from the carrier frequency of the received RF signal. The received RF signal may comprise a primary synchronization channel (PSC) code for wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA). The carrier frequency of the received RF signal may be rotated in an I and Q coordinate system so as to generate the other carrier frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2006
    Publication date: March 13, 2008
    Inventors: Johannes Hendrik Conroy, Francis Swarts, Mark Kent, Uri Landau
  • Publication number: 20070237212
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for new cell identification in a WCDMA network with a given neighbor set are described. Aspects of a system for new cell identification in a WCDMA network with a given neighbor set may include a baseband processor that enables determination of a primary synchronization position and at least one scrambling code based on received configuration information from one or more base stations. The baseband processor may also enable determination of a slot boundary in at least one signal received from the one or more base stations based on the determined primary synchronization position. The system may also include a multipath detector that enables unscrambling of the received at least one signal based on the determined slot boundary and at least a portion of the one or more scrambling codes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2006
    Publication date: October 11, 2007
    Inventors: Mark Kent, Francis Swarts, Uri Landau
  • Publication number: 20070201422
    Abstract: Methods and systems for dual frequency timing acquisition for compressed WCDMA communication networks may include processing received WCDMA signals. The WCDMA signals, which may be primary synchronization channel signals, may comprise signals transmitted by one base station at one frequency band and by another base station at a different frequency band, during a compressed frame. Samples of the received WCDMA signals from the different base stations may be stored in portions of a memory allocated for signals from each base station. The received WCDMA signals having the first frequency band may be processed via the processing circuitry during a non-compressed frame. The samples corresponding to the signals with the first frequency band during the non-compressed frame may be stored in the memory. The received WCDMA signals may be sampled at a faster rate during the non-compressed frame than during the compressed frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2006
    Publication date: August 30, 2007
    Inventors: Francis Swarts, Mark Kent, Uri Landau
  • Publication number: 20070202928
    Abstract: Aspects of a method and apparatus for user equipment (UE) channel acquisition in the presence of large frequency uncertainty in wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA) signals are provided. An efficient time-frequency domain search that may be utilized in cell communications may be performed by devising criteria that eliminates the unlikely frequencies hypotheses. An estimate for the frequency offset may be estimated in the remaining subset. For WCDMA applications, a UE may comprise a baseband processor that is enabled to detect a primary synchronization channel (P-SCH) code (PSC) for initial network synchronization. A portion of the baseband processor may generate a plurality of signal peak-to-noise-floor-average ratios associated with a plurality of test frequencies produced by a crystal oscillator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2006
    Publication date: August 30, 2007
    Inventors: Uri Landau, Francis Swarts, Mark Kent
  • Publication number: 20070191048
    Abstract: A method and system for determining synchronization status in a wide band CDMA (WCDMA) network may comprise calculating a signal to noise ratio (SNR) of a downlink dedicated physical channel (DPCH) based on a plurality of transmit power control (TPC) bits received via the downlink dedicated physical channel (DPCH), wherein the value of at least one of the plurality of TPC bits is not known when at least one of the plurality of TPC bits is received. The transmit circuitry may be controlled based on the calculated signal to noise ratio. The transmit circuitry may be disabled if the calculated SNR of the plurality of TPC bits is below a first channel threshold. The transmit circuitry may be enabled if the calculated SNR of the plurality of TPC bits is above a second channel threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2006
    Publication date: August 16, 2007
    Inventors: Severine Catreux-Erceg, Mark Kent, Uri Landau, Vinko Erceg
  • Publication number: 20070191046
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for processing transmit power control (TPC) commands in a wideband CDMA (WCDMA) network are disclosed and may include calculating a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of a downlink dedicated physical channel (DPCH) based on a plurality of transmit power control (TPC) bits received via the downlink DPCH. A value of at least one of said plurality of TPC bits is not known when said at least one of said plurality of TPC bits is received. Transmit power for at least one uplink communication path may be adjusted based on the calculated SNR of the downlink dedicated physical channel. At least one reliability weight value may be calculated for at least a portion of the received TCP bits, based on the calculated SNR.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2006
    Publication date: August 16, 2007
    Inventors: Severine Catreux-Erceg, Mark Kent, Uri Landau, Vinko Erceg