Patents by Inventor VINCENT PIERRE MARTINEZ

VINCENT PIERRE MARTINEZ 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).

  • Publication number: 20160105861
    Abstract: A telecommunication receiver is arranged for receiving related data originating from multiple antennas, which data have different times of arrival due to, for example, different delays. The receiver comprises an input buffer for buffering data, a transform unit for Fourier transforming the data received from the input buffer into transformed data, and an output buffer for buffering the transformed data received from the transform unit. The input buffer is arranged for passing each set of data items to the transform unit when the relevant data item has been received in the input buffer, while the transform unit is arranged for removing redundant parts of the data. In addition, the output buffer is arranged for synchronizing the transformed data. Thus the buffering for delay compensation is carried out in the output buffer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2015
    Publication date: April 14, 2016
    Applicant: FREESCALE SEMICONDUCTOR, INC.
    Inventor: VINCENT PIERRE MARTINEZ
  • Publication number: 20160087741
    Abstract: An equalizer for equalizing a composite signal originating from a given number of simultaneous data streams able to be received over a communication channel, on a given number of antennas, at one or more radio units, in a wireless communication system. The equalizer performs matrix operations when the number of receiving antennas associated with the composite signal is lower than the number of antennas supported by the equalizer. The channel matrix and the signal and interference covariance matrices are manipulated. The antenna dimension is increased, padding is then added and the transmitted signal vector is finally determined based on the altered matrices. A baseband processing unit, a method and a computer program are also claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2015
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Applicant: FREESCALE SEMICONDUCTOR, INC.
    Inventors: IGOR LEVAKOV, HAIM BEN-LULU, VINCENT PIERRE MARTINEZ
  • Patent number: 9246721
    Abstract: A digital up-converter (DUC) circuit for performing digital channel filtering of an incoming baseband digital signal. The proposed circuit reduces the complexity of the channel module filter of the DUC. This is achieved by taking advantage of the structure of the underlying symbol waveforms carried by the incoming baseband digital signal which have one or more known discontinuities comprising random amplitude and/or phase. Namely, the channel filter module is activated only for the digital samples located around the known discontinuities and is deactivated for the remaining digital samples. Further, the switching of the channel filter module from one state to another can be performed according to a smooth function so that further discontinuities are not introduced in the incoming baseband digital signal. A method and a computer program are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: FREESCALE SEMICONDUCTOR, INC.
    Inventor: Vincent Pierre Martinez
  • Publication number: 20150270997
    Abstract: A signal decoder in a communication system is for decoding signal elements in a communication signal having interleaved carrier frequencies. The decoder receives antenna signals in a frequency domain, and has a multiplier for multiplying the antenna signals by a complex-valued mathematical sequence such as the Zadoff-Chu sequence, to generate multiplied antenna signals. An inverse frequency to time converter converts the multiplied antenna signals to time domain signals. A signal quality detector detects a signal quality from the time domain signals based on a subset of the carrier frequencies. The complex-valued mathematical sequence is provided with zero values corresponding to carrier frequencies that are not included in the subset, and the inverse frequency to time converter has a transform size corresponding to the multiplied antenna signals including all carrier frequencies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2014
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Applicant: FREESCALE SEMICONDUCTOR, INC.
    Inventor: VINCENT PIERRE MARTINEZ