Patents by Inventor Vitor Hugo Astucia

Vitor Hugo Astucia 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: 10142144
    Abstract: A transmission method based on multiple antennas with directivity at the information level. In this transmission system, the directivity is introduced in the transmitted information by an optimization of the constellation's symbols only in the desired direction, keeping at same time an isotropic radiation power pattern by the antenna array The method allows the transmission of modulations with multilevel constellations based on M-QAM (M-ary Quadrature Amplitude Modulation) constellations, Voronoi constellations or M-PSK (M-ary Phase Shift Keying), using a decomposition of multilevel modulation into a sum of M? polar or BPSK (Binary-PSK) constellations that are amplified and transmitted by separate antennas. Therefore it uses up to M? parallel modulators, each one followed by an amplifier connected to an antenna. This transmission scheme transmits up to M? uncorrelated BPSK signals, that are added in the transmission channel to form a multilevel constellation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Inventors: Paulo Miguel Carvalho, Rui Miguel Dinis, Vitor Hugo Astucia
  • Publication number: 20180048369
    Abstract: A transmission method based on multiple antennas with directivity at the information level. In this transmission system, the directivity is introduced in the transmitted information by an optimization of the constellation's symbols only in the desired direction, keeping at same time an isotropic radiation power pattern by the antenna array The method allows the transmission of modulations with multilevel constellations based on M-QAM (M-ary Quadrature Amplitude Modulation) constellations, Voronoi constellations or M-PSK (M-ary Phase Shift Keying), using a decomposition of multilevel modulation into a sum of M? polar or BPSK (Binary-PSK) constellations that are amplified and transmitted by separate antennas. Therefore it uses up to M? parallel modulators, each one followed by an amplifier connected to an antenna. This transmission scheme transmits up to M? uncorrelated BPSK signals, that are added in the transmission channel to form a multilevel constellation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2016
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Inventors: Paulo Miguel Carvalho, Rui Miguel Dinis, Vitor Hugo Astucia