Patents by Inventor Volker Jungnickel

Volker Jungnickel 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: 11601971
    Abstract: Techniques (e.g., method, apparatuses, etc.) for permitting communications, e.g., optical communications are described. In one example, a first communication apparatus may send a bit allocation table, BAT, message, to a second communication apparatus. The BAT update information has a BAT update information signalling update information for updating a BAT which is signalled to be updated. The BAT update information groups information into different groups of subcarriers, wherein the BAT update information has, for each group of subcarriers, information indicating the number of carriers in the group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Volker Jungnickel, Kai Lennert Bober
  • Patent number: 11324038
    Abstract: Techniques (e.g., method, apparatuses, etc.) for permitting communications, e.g., optical communications are described. In one example, a first communication apparatus for the communication with a second communication device may obtain a channel state information from the reception of one or more reference signals and/or beacon signals from one or more frontends of the second apparatus. The first communication apparatus may transform the channel state information from a frequency domain to a time domain, to obtain a time domain channel state information. The first communication apparatus may encode the time domain channel state information. The first communication apparatus may transmit the time domain channel state information to one or more frontends. The first communication apparatus may transmit channel information for association and updated channel information for network coordination in a contention access period and collision-free period, CFP, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Volker Jungnickel, Kai Lennert Bober
  • Publication number: 20220046699
    Abstract: Techniques (e.g., method, apparatuses, etc.) for permitting communications, e.g., optical communications are described. In one example, a first communication apparatus may send a bit allocation table, BAT, message, to a second communication apparatus. The BAT update information has a BAT update information signalling update information for updating a BAT which is signalled to be updated. The BAT update information groups information into different groups of subcarriers, wherein the BAT update information has, for each group of subcarriers, information indicating the number of carriers in the group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventors: Volker JUNGNICKEL, Kai Lennert BOBER
  • Patent number: 11212003
    Abstract: Examples relating to techniques for wireless communications, e.g., visible light communication, VLC, are disclosed. In particular, there is disclosed a communication device for communicating with a plurality of other devices, using a wireless link. The device provides individual reference signals using a number of subcarriers or time slots in accordance to the optical clock reference and the number of transmitting devices in the set or streams to be transmitted in parallel. The device defines the position of subcarriers or of signals at the time slots in accordance to an identification number associated to an individual device within the whole set of transmitting devices or in dependence on an identification number identifying a specific stream or transmitter. The device transmits the reference signal which enables the plurality of receiving devices to identify the signal coming from the individual communication device in the whole set of devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.
    Inventors: Volker Jungnickel, Jonas Hilt, Kai Lennert Bober, Pablo Wilke-Berenguer, Dominic Schulz, Anagnostis Paraskevopoulos, Malte Hinrichs
  • Publication number: 20210195632
    Abstract: Techniques (e.g., method, apparatuses, etc.) for permitting communications, e.g., optical communications are described. In one example, a first communication apparatus for the communication with a second communication device may obtain a channel state information from the reception of one or more reference signals and/or beacon signals from one or more frontends of the second apparatus. The first communication apparatus may transform the channel state information from a frequency domain to a time domain, to obtain a time domain channel state information. The first communication apparatus may encode the time domain channel state information. The first communication apparatus may transmit the time domain channel state information to one or more frontends. The first communication apparatus may transmit channel information for association and updated channel information for network coordination in a contention access period and collision-free period, CFP, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Volker JUNGNICKEL, Kai Lennert BOBER
  • Patent number: 10819431
    Abstract: It are provided an optical communication system and an optical communication method. The system comprising at least two optical channels for communicating optical data signals; at least one optical filter arrangement for compensating distortions of the optical data signals communicated via the optical channels and/or crosstalk between the optical channels. The optical filter arrangement comprises at least one optical filter assigned to one of the optical channels and at least one optical filter assigned to the other one of the optical channels, wherein each one of the optical filters is configurable in such a way that different wavelength components of an incoming optical signal will be modified individually.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.
    Inventors: Christian Schmidt, Volker Jungnickel
  • Publication number: 20200195344
    Abstract: Examples relating to techniques for wireless communications, e.g., visible light communication, VLC, are disclosed. In particular, there is disclosed a communication device for communicating with a plurality of other devices, using a wireless link. The device provides individual reference signals using a number of subcarriers or time slots in accordance to the optical clock reference and the number of transmitting devices in the set or streams to be transmitted in parallel. The device defines the position of subcarriers or of signals at the time slots in accordance to an identification number associated to an individual device within the whole set of transmitting devices or in dependence on an identification number identifying a specific stream or transmitter. The device transmits the reference signal which enables the plurality of receiving devices to identify the signal coming from the individual communication device in the whole set of devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Volker JUNGNICKEL, Jonas HILT, Kai Lennert BOBER, Pablo WILKE-BERENGUER, Dominic SCHULZ, Anagnostis PARASKEVOPOULOS, Malte HINRICHS
  • Patent number: 10355705
    Abstract: It is provided a signal processing system, comprising at least a first, a second and a third digital-to-analog converter (DAC); a processing unit configured for splitting a sampled signal into a first and a second signal corresponding to different frequency portions of the sampled signal, transmitting the first signal to the first DAC, splitting the second signal into a first and a second subsignal and transmitting the first subsignal to the second DAC and the second subsignal to the third DAC, the first subsignal corresponding to the real part of the second signal and the second subsignal corresponding to the imaginary part of the second signal; an IQ mixer configured for mixing an analog output signal of the second DAC and an analog output signal of the third DAC and a combiner for combining an analog output signal of the first DAC and an output signal of the IQ mixer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignees: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V., TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN
    Inventors: Christian Schmidt, Christoph Kottke, Volker Jungnickel, Jonas Hilt
  • Patent number: 10326524
    Abstract: A system for providing a wireless communication with a mobile device includes a plurality of frontends coupled to a central point, each of the plurality of frontends configured to provide for a wireless communication with the mobile device, and a network controller coupled to the central point. The network controller includes a data flow control device configured to control the data flow between each of the frontends and the central point, the data flow control device being configured to operate responsive to a control signal from the network controller, the control signal indicating which of the plurality of frontends serves the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Volker Jungnickel, Hagen Woesner, Maria de la Luz Fernandez Del Rosal, Anagnostis Paraskevopoulos, Dominic Schulz, Ronald Freund, Liane Termer, Jonas Hilt
  • Publication number: 20190132048
    Abstract: It are provided an optical communication system and an optical communication method. The system comprising at least two optical channels for communicating optical data signals; at least one optical filter arrangement for compensating distortions of the optical data signals communicated via the optical channels and/or crosstalk between the optical channels. The optical filter arrangement comprises at least one optical filter assigned to one of the optical channels and at least one optical filter assigned to the other one of the optical channels, wherein each one of the optical filters is configurable in such a way that different wavelength components of an incoming optical signal will be modified individually.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicant: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.
    Inventors: Christian SCHMIDT, Volker JUNGNICKEL
  • Patent number: 10128977
    Abstract: It is described a method for transmitting channel quality information between a second network element and a first network element. The method comprises includes (a) dividing a range of possible radio channel qualities between the two network elements into a fixed number of quality classes, (b) measuring the quality of a radio channel between the two network elements, (c) selecting one quality class out of the fixed number of quality classes based on the measured quality of the radio channel, (d) transmitting from the second network element to the first network element a first channel quality information being indicative for the selected quality class, and (e) transmitting from the second network element to the first network element a second channel quality information being indicative for the measured quality within the limits of the selected quality class. It is further described the first and the second network element, which in conjugation with each other are adapted to carry out the described method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignees: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V., Nokia Siemens Networks GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Forck, Thomas Haustein, Volker Jungnickel, Malte Schellmann, Lars Thiele, Thomas Wirth
  • Patent number: 10103921
    Abstract: A method for transmitting a signal is described, wherein the method has transforming a signal into a frequency domain to obtain a spectrum, forming a filtered spectrum according to a filter spectrum and occupying a set of subcarriers of a frequency domain representation of an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (OFDM) signal with the filtered spectrum. A temporary signal is obtained by transforming the frequency domain representation of the OFDM signal into a time domain. The temporary signal is subjected to a phase modulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Volker Jungnickel, Liane Grobe
  • Publication number: 20180254826
    Abstract: A system for providing a wireless communication with a mobile device includes a plurality of frontends coupled to a central point, each of the plurality of frontends configured to provide for a wireless communication with the mobile device, and a network controller coupled to the central point. The network controller includes a data flow control device configured to control the data flow between each of the frontends and the central point, the data flow control device being configured to operate responsive to a control signal from the network controller, the control signal indicating which of the plurality of frontends serves the mobile device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Inventors: Volker JUNGNICKEL, Hagen WOESNER, Maria de la Luz FERNANDEZ DEL ROSAL, Anagnostis PARASKEVOPOULOS, Dominic SCHULZ, Ronald FREUND, Liane TERMER, Jonas HILT
  • Publication number: 20180159548
    Abstract: It is provided a signal processing system, comprising at least a first, a second and a third digital-to-analog converter (DAC); a processing unit configured for splitting a sampled signal into a first and a second signal corresponding to different frequency portions of the sampled signal, transmitting the first signal to the first DAC, splitting the second signal into a first and a second subsignal and transmitting the first subsignal to the second DAC and the second subsignal to the third DAC, the first subsignal corresponding to the real part of the second signal and the second subsignal corresponding to the imaginary part of the second signal; an IQ mixer configured for mixing an analog output signal of the second DAC and an analog output signal of the third DAC and a combiner for combining an analog output signal of the first DAC and an output signal of the IQ mixer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2015
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Applicants: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V., TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN
    Inventors: Christian SCHMIDT, Christoph KOTTKE, Volker JUNGNICKEL, Jonas HILT
  • Patent number: 9893783
    Abstract: Data in a mobile communications system is transmitted on at least one channel between at least one base station with multiple antennas and at least one user equipment. A base station applies precoding to the data based on a set of predefined codebooks. A first tracking mode with a first codebook from the set of predefined codebooks is used for the precoding, and at least a second tracking mode with at least a second codebook from the set of predefined codebooks is used for the precoding. The base station switches between the first tracking mode and the second tracking mode depending on at least one condition of the channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Josef Martin Eichinger, Volker Jungnickel, Egon Schulz, Wolfgang Zirwas
  • Publication number: 20180034676
    Abstract: A method for transmitting a signal is described, wherein the method has transforming a signal into a frequency domain to obtain a spectrum, forming a filtered spectrum according to a filter spectrum and occupying a set of subcarriers of a frequency domain representation of an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (OFDM) signal with the filtered spectrum. A temporary signal is obtained by transforming the frequency domain representation of the OFDM signal into a time domain. The temporary signal is subjected to a phase modulation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Inventors: Volker JUNGNICKEL, Liane GROBE
  • Patent number: 9813276
    Abstract: A method for transmitting a signal is described, wherein the method has transforming a signal into a frequency domain to obtain a spectrum, forming a filtered spectrum according to a filter spectrum and occupying a set of subcarriers of a frequency domain representation of an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (OFDM) signal with the filtered spectrum. A temporary signal is obtained by transforming the frequency domain representation of the OFDM signal into a time domain. The temporary signal is subjected to a phase modulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Volker Jungnickel, Liane Grobe
  • Patent number: 9800297
    Abstract: A method and a device for data processing in a communication network are provided, wherein a mobile terminal receives several input signals from at least one base station; and wherein the mobile terminal processes said several input signals into a feedback information that is conveyed to at least one base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Nokia Siemens Networks Oy
    Inventors: Lars Thiele, Thomas Wirth, Thomas Haustein, Volker Jungnickel, Malte Schellmann, Egon Schulz, Wolfgang Zirwas
  • Patent number: 9793930
    Abstract: In a method, an apparatus and a system for data transmission, a plurality of transmitters are provided, which operate according to a communications standard for data transmission with a bandwidth that is higher than the transmission bandwidth. The transmitter is adapted to the transmission bandwidth, and the plurality of the adapted transmitters are allocated to different carrier frequencies in the transmission bandwidth for parallel data transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Volker Jungnickel, Miguel Gutierrez, Udo Krueger
  • Publication number: 20160182270
    Abstract: A method for transmitting a signal is described, wherein the method has transforming a signal into a frequency domain to obtain a spectrum, forming a filtered spectrum according to a filter spectrum and occupying a set of subcarriers of a frequency domain representation of an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (OFDM) signal with the filtered spectrum. A temporary signal is obtained by transforming the frequency domain representation of the OFDM signal into a time domain. The temporary signal is subjected to a phase modulation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventors: Volker JUNGNICKEL, Liane GROBE