Patents by Inventor Wilhelmus Van Houtum

Wilhelmus Van Houtum 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: 20070275669
    Abstract: Transmitters (116) for transmitting information and receivers (126) for receiving the information are defined by the information comprising a primary message and a secondary message combined in a same transmission or a same reception, which primary and secondary messages comprise communication protocol signaling messages, to avoid that a protocol conversion arrangement needs to be added to and to be placed between the transmitter (116) and the receiver (126). This increases the efficiency of the transmitter (116) and the receiver (126). The primary and secondary communication protocol messages are in accordance with first and second standards such as 802.11 a and later standards such as 802.11 n. The receiver (126) is able to detect the primary or secondary communication protocol message in case of the receiver (126) being in accordance with the first or second standard.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2005
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS, N.V.
    Inventors: Ronald Rietman, Job Oostveen, Wilhelmus Van Houtum, Ludovicus Marinus Tolhuizen, Sebastian Egner, Constant Baggen, Johan Linnartz
  • Publication number: 20070105520
    Abstract: A method of canceling a narrow-band interference signal in a receiver is provided. A reference signal (ref_in) is subtracted from a received input signal (in). the phase of a result of the subtraction is calculated on the basis of an arctangent function. An unwrap function on the output signal from the arctangent function is performed by removing the modulo 2? limitation introduced with the arctangent function, in order to produce an absolute phase representation. A frequency offset is determined by comparing phase representation values which are shifted predetermined in time. The narrow-band interference signal is canceled based on the result of the determined frequency offset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2004
    Publication date: May 10, 2007
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.
    Inventor: Wilhelmus Van Houtum
  • Publication number: 20050084042
    Abstract: A method of detecting frequency errors in a receiver during frame synchronization. A fast synchronization and reliable reception of the data requires a fast determination of frequency errors in the received signal. In CPFSK and OFDM, the frequency offset is even more important because of potential subcarrier interference. The method operates in the time domain and removes the 2p limitation in the phase representation by an unwrap function allowing a precise frequency determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2002
    Publication date: April 21, 2005
    Applicant: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventor: Wilhelmus Van Houtum