Patents by Inventor Zhenning Tao

Zhenning Tao 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: 8666262
    Abstract: The present application discloses a method for adaptive blind equalization of a PSK signal, an equalizer and a receiver. According to embodiments as provided, a conjugate product of a current output and a precedent output of an FIR filter is calculated, an equalization coefficient is updated using the conjugate product, and then an input signal is filtered using the FIR filter with the updated equalization coefficient. The embodiments as provided is applicable to adaptive blind equalization of any phase shift keying signal including a BPSK signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Meng Yan, Huijian Zhang, Zhenning Tao, Shoichiro Oda
  • Patent number: 8655195
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an average length magnitude detecting apparatus and method, and an optical coherent receiver. The average length magnitude detecting method is adopted for detecting whether an average length of an averager used by a polarization crosstalk canceling apparatus in a receiver is long or short, comprising: determining a magnitude of a residual polarization crosstalk coefficient of the receiver; and determining an index that indicates whether the average length of the averager is long or short according to the determined magnitude of the residual polarization crosstalk coefficient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Weizhen Yan, Zhenning Tao, Lei Li
  • Patent number: 8654826
    Abstract: The embodiments provide a multi-stage phase estimation method and apparatus. The apparatus is a multi-stage phase estimation configuration. Each stage of the phase estimation configuration includes metric computation modules. Each of the metric computation modules computing a distance metric and search phase angles according to an input signal and an initial search phase angle or a search phase angle of the former stage phase estimation configuration. The number of the metric computation modules is equal to that of the search phase angles of this stage. A selection module selects the search phase angle corresponding to the minimal distance metric as the phase estimation result output of this stage according to the computation results of all metric computation modules. The average time window length of the former stage phase estimation configuration is larger than that of the subsequent stage phase estimation configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Jianqiang Li, Zhenning Tao, Lei Li
  • Publication number: 20140037291
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a butterfly filter coefficient setting method and device, a receiver, and a receiving method. The receiver is a DP-CO-OFDM receiver, comprising: a phase recovery device configured to perform a phase recovery of a received signal one OFDM symbol by one OFDM symbol, so as to obtain a phase-recovered first polarization signal and a phase-recovered second polarization signal; a butterfly filter configured to perform butterfly filtration of the phase-recovered first polarization signal and the phase-recovered second polarization signal one OFDM symbol by one OFDM symbol, so as to obtain a butterfly-filtered first polarization signal and a butterfly-filtered second polarization signal; a coefficient setting unit configured to set a filter coefficient used by the butterfly filter for the current OFDM symbol; and a data recovery device configured to recover data from the butterfly-filtered first polarization signal and the butterfly-filtered second polarization signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Meng YAN, Zhenning Tao
  • Publication number: 20140037032
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a receiver and a receiving method. The receiver comprises: a branch forming unit a plurality of signal branches; each of the signal branches comprising a joint processing unit; and the joint processing unit being used to eliminate an inter-carrier interference of the subcarrier signal in a present signal branch and the subcarrier signals in other signal branches adjacent to the present signal branch. With the embodiments of the present invention, the inter-carrier interference may be eliminated and the performance of the system may be improved; and the sampling rate of the analog digital converter may also be lowered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Meng YAN, Zhenning TAO
  • Publication number: 20140010533
    Abstract: The embodiments provide an automatic bias control method and apparatus for an optical transmitter. The apparatus includes: a detecting unit configured to monitor output optical power of an I/Q modulator of the optical transmitter; a calculating unit configured to calculate bias voltage indicating values of the I modulator, Q modulator and phase modulator of the I/Q modulator according to the output optical power and known modulation data; and an adjusting unit configured to adjust respectively Direct-Current (DC) bias voltages of the I modulator, Q modulator and phase modulator according to the bias voltage indicating values of the I modulator, Q modulator and phase modulator. With the embodiments, known modulation data are used to realize automatic bias control by monitoring the evenness of distribution of the power of output optical signals of the transmitter in the four quadrants of an I/Q plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Inventors: Meng YAN, Zhenning TAO
  • Patent number: 8571407
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an optical coherent receiver and an apparatus for and a method of monitoring performance thereof. The apparatus for monitoring performance of the optical coherent receiver makes use of a first signal and a second signal from the optical coherent receiver to monitor performance of the optical coherent receiver, and comprises a first subtracter, for subtracting the second signal from the first signal to obtain a first subtraction result; a squarer, for obtaining a square of the first subtraction result; a delayer, for delaying the first subtraction result; a multiplier, for multiplying the first subtraction result with the delayed first subtraction result; and a second subtracter, for subtracting the result of the multiplier from the result of the squarer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Lei Li, Zhenning Tao, Hisao Nakashima
  • Patent number: 8566073
    Abstract: A simulation method for a cascade communication system comprising a nodes sequence numbered as 1 to N from a transmitter to a receiver, comprises: acquiring simulation parameters; calculating reverse transfer functions of the nodes; determining a current node in the sequence; adding noise that should be added at the current node to a simulation signal of a previous node; simulating the current node to generate a simulation signal of the current node, by using the simulation signal of the previous node added with the noise that should be added at the current node, based on the reverse transfer function of the current node; judging whether simulations of all the nodes are completed; if yes, repeating the adding and the simulating; if not, determining a cost of the based on the simulation signal of the current node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Liang Dou, Zhenning Tao, Shoichiro Oda
  • Publication number: 20130272719
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present invention provide a method and an apparatus for compensating nonlinear distortions in an intensity modulation-direct detection (IM-DD) system; wherein the method comprises: calculating, according to nonlinear coefficients and differences between values of an input signal at different time, nonlinear distortions of the input signal, so as to eliminate the nonlinearity distortions. By applying the method and the apparatus provided by the embodiments of the present invention, nonlinear cost of the IM-DD system can be effectively reduced, thereby improving the system capacity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2013
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Weizhen YAN, Bo Liu, Lei Li, Zhenning Tao, Toshiki Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20130266311
    Abstract: A system for estimating cross-phase modulation (XPM) impairments, wherein the method comprises: determining, according to a pump Jones matrix of a pump channel and a probe Jones matrix of a probe channel of each of fiber spans except for the first fiber span in a fiber transmission system, a polarization mode dispersion (PMD)-induced relative polarization status rotation matrix between channels of the each of fiber spans; and determining, according to the rotation matrix of the each of fiber spans, dispersion of a pump signal of the each of fiber spans, differential delay of the pump signal relative to a probe signal of the each of fiber spans and a gain of the each of fiber spans, polarization crosstalk and phase noise of the XPM impairments in the fiber transmission system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2013
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yinwen CAO, Weizhen YAN, Zhenning TAO
  • Publication number: 20130243433
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present invention provide an inverse channel apparatus and transmitter, receiver and system containing the apparatus; wherein the inverse channel apparatus comprises: an inverse nonlinear calculating unit configured to perform nonlinear additive calculation and nonlinear multiplicative calculation on input signals, so as to obtain signals containing nonlinear damage of the input signals on at least one polarization state; and an inverse linear calculating unit configured to calculate signals containing nonlinear damage and linear damage of the input signals on at least one polarization state according to the signals containing nonlinear damage of the input signals on at least one polarization state and a linear function of a channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Weizhen YAN, Zhenning TAO
  • Patent number: 8532502
    Abstract: In present invention, a filter coefficient adjustment apparatus is used in a polarization demultiplexer which demultiplexes the input signals by using filters to obtain demultiplexed output signals, said filter coefficient adjustment apparatus being used for adjusting the coefficients of the filters, wherein said filter coefficient adjustment apparatus comprises: an logarithm partial derivative calculation unit for calculating the logarithm partial derivative value of a target probability density function of the demultiplexed output signals when its self-variable value is the present demultiplexed output signal value; a gradient calculation unit for calculating the gradient of a target optimizing function for optimizing the distribution of the multiplexed output signals based on the logarithm partial derivative value calculated by the logarithm partial derivative calculation unit; and a filter coefficient updating unit for updating the coefficients of the filters based on the gradient calculated by the gradie
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Huijian Zhang, Zhenning Tao, Takahito Tanimura
  • Publication number: 20130230313
    Abstract: The embodiments relate to a method and an apparatus for compensating nonlinear damage. The method and apparatus being used in a dual-polarization communication system, the method comprising: calculating, according to input time-domain signals, a plurality of multiplicative parameters indicative of nonlinear damages to the input signals; constructing a plurality of multiplicators by using the plurality of multiplicative parameters; and compensating the input time-domain signals by using the plurality of multiplicators.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2012
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Weizhen YAN, Zhenning Tao, Takeshi Hoshida
  • Patent number: 8521498
    Abstract: A simulation method for a cascade communication system comprising a nodes sequence numbered as 1 to N from a transmitter to a receiver, comprises: acquiring simulation parameters; calculating reverse transfer functions of the nodes; determining a current node in the sequence; adding noise that should be added at the current node to a simulation signal of a previous node; simulating the current node to generate a simulation signal of the current node, by using the simulation signal of the previous node added with the noise that should be added at the current node, based on the reverse transfer function of the current node; judging whether simulations of all the nodes are completed; if yes, repeating the adding and the simulating; if not, determining a cost of the based on the simulation signal of the current node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Liang Dou, Zhenning Tao, Shoichiro Oda
  • Patent number: 8514922
    Abstract: This invention relates to an apparatus and a method for controlling a filter coefficient. The filter coefficient control apparatus controls a coefficient of a filter of a phase recovering apparatus, and comprises a phase offset obtaining means, for obtaining a phase offset between a carrier and a local oscillation; an autocorrelation calculating means, for calculating an autocorrelation and related statistics of the phase offset; and a filter coefficient determining means, for determining the coefficient of the filter in accordance with the autocorrelation and related statistics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Lei Li, Zhenning Tao, Ling Liu, Shoichiro Oda
  • Patent number: 8472814
    Abstract: This application relates to an apparatus and a method for equalizing chromatic dispersion and a digital coherent optical receiver. The apparatus for equalizing chromatic dispersion comprising: a chromatic dispersion equalizing unit, for compensating chromatic dispersion of an input signal; and an additional time delay removing unit, for removing, in accordance with frequency offset of the input signal, chromatic dispersion equalization time delay generated by the chromatic dispersion equalizing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Huijian Zhang, Zhenning Tao, Shoichiro Oda
  • Patent number: 8452192
    Abstract: This invention relates to an apparatus and a method for monitoring statistical characteristics of phase noises, as well as to a coherent optical communication receiver. The apparatus for monitoring statistical characteristics of phase noises comprises an argument calculating unit (203), for obtaining an argument of a signal input thereto; an unwrapping unit (204), for unwrapping the argument obtained by the argument calculating unit (203) to obtain a phase signal (205); a delaying unit (207), for delaying the phase signal; a differentiating unit (209), for obtaining a difference between a phase signal currently obtained by the unwrapping unit (204) and a phase signal delayed by the delaying unit (207); a modulus squaring unit (210), for obtaining a square of the modulus of the difference; and an averaging unit (211), for averaging squares of moduli of a plurality of differences obtained by the modulus squaring unit (210) to obtain a mean-squared differential phase (MSDP) value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Weizhen Yan, Zhenning Tao, Shoichiro Oda
  • Patent number: 8442406
    Abstract: The present invention relates to filter, coherent receiver device and coherent receiving method. The filter is used for converting a partial response signal into a full response signal, wherein the filter uses the following transfer function HPre-Filter(z) with respect to a partial response signal having a transfer function H PR ? ( z ) = A ? ( 1 + z - 1 ) m ? ( 1 - z - 1 ) n : ? ? H Pre - Filter ? ( z ) = 1 A ? ( 1 + ? ? ? z - 1 ) m ? ( 1 - ? ? ? z - 1 ) n , in which A is other item, m and n are integers larger than or equal to 0 but not being 0 at the same time, 0<?<1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Jianqiang Li, Huijian Zhang, Zhenning Tao, Takahito Tanimura
  • Patent number: 8374512
    Abstract: The present invention provides a frequency offset monitoring device and an optical coherent receiver. A low speed frequency offset monitoring device comprises a signal speed lowering section, for lowering the speed of an inputted signal and outputting the speed lowered signal, and a frequency offset monitor, for monitoring frequency offset of the speed lowered signal outputted by the signal speed lowering section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Zhenning Tao, Huijian Zhang, Takeshi Hoshida, Lei Li
  • Patent number: 8331496
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a phase recovery device, phase recovery method and receiver for 16 QAM data modulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Meng Yan, Zhenning Tao, Shoichiro Oda