Patents Issued in March 31, 2015
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Patent number: 8995543Abstract: The method comprises receiving a signal comprising a symbol-carrier matrix, the symbol-carrier matrix comprising a predetermined pattern of reference symbols, the reference symbols comprising a target reference symbol, determining a first channel estimate vector based on demodulating received reference symbols with known reference symbols, and determining a second channel estimate vector by multiplying the first channel estimate vector with an interference cancellation matrix, wherein the second channel estimate vector includes an interference cancelled channel estimate at a position of the target reference symbol.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2013Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbHInventors: Stefan Fechtel, Andreas Bury
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Patent number: 8995544Abstract: The disclosure discloses a measurement method. The method includes: a conjugate multiplication operation is performed on reference signals corresponding to a subcarrier within adjacent time slots to remove phase interference of the reference signals; the reference signals from which the phase interference has been removed are descrambled; and all the descrambled reference signals are accumulated. The disclosure further provides a measurement apparatus. With the technical solution of the disclosure, the operation complexity of measurement can be reduced.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2011Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: ZTE CorporationInventor: Yan Li
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Patent number: 8995545Abstract: A method for transmitting to a UE control information comprising: channelization-code-set information (xccs,1, xccs,2, . . . , xccs,7); modulation-scheme and number of transport blocks information (xms,1, xms,2, xms,3, xms,4, xms,5); and precoding weight information (xpwipb,1, xpwipb,2, xpwipb,3, xpwipb,4). The method includes: multiplexing the channelization-code-set information, the modulation-scheme and number of transport blocks information and the precoding weight information to give a sequence of sixteen bits x1,1, x1,2, . . . , x1,16, where x1,i=xccs,i for i=1, 2, . . . , 7; x1,i=xms,i-7 for i=8, 9, 10, 11, 12; and x1,i=xpwipb,i-12 for i=13, 14, 15, 16; applying rate 1/2 convolutional coding to the sequence of bits x1,1, x1,2, . . . , x1,16 to obtain bit sequence z1,1, z1,2, . . . , z1,48; and puncturing the bits z1,1, z1,2, z1,4, z1,8, z1,42, z1,45, z1,47, z1,48 from sequence z1,1, z1,2, . . . , z1,48 to obtain an output sequence r1,1, r1,2 . . . r1,40.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)Inventor: Sairamesh Nammi
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Patent number: 8995546Abstract: A software defined radio is disclosed. The software defined radio may utilize a method for encoding a bit stream into non-periodic spiral-based symbol waveforms for transmission and reception. The method includes transmitting a signal constructed from one or more non-periodic modulation sets residing on a memory system of the software defined radio, where each modulation set corresponds to a symbol alphabet and provides non-periodic symbol waveforms corresponding to symbol bit sequences segmented by a microprocessor according to alphabet size. The method also includes receiving the signal constructed from one or more spiral modulation sets, wherein the signal from one or more spiral modulation sets are filtered and then fed to an analog to digital converter, where the signal constructed from the one or more spiral modulation sets is digitized and are fed to the microprocessor. A non-transitory computer storage media may also execute the method.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2014Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Astrapi CorporationInventors: Nigel Jones, Jerrold Prothero
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Patent number: 8995547Abstract: Systems and methods for improving the performance of a MIMO wireless communication system by reducing the amount of uplink resources that are needed to provide channel performance feedback for the adjustment of data rates on the downlink MIMO channels. In one embodiment, a method comprises encoding each of a set of data streams according to corresponding data rates, permuting the data streams on a set of MIMO channels according to a full permutation of combinations, transmitting the permuted data streams, receiving the permuted data streams, decoding and determining an SNR for each of the data streams, computing a condensed SNR metric for the set of data streams, providing the condensed metric as feedback, determining a set of individual SNR metrics for the data streams based on the condensed SNR metric, and adjusting the data rates at which the data streams are encoded based on the individual SNR metrics.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2005Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventor: Byoung-Hoon Kim
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Patent number: 8995548Abstract: An Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing communication system is provided that schedules a transmission of uplink sounding signals or channel quality feedback signals in sounding intervals, or sounding zones, that are outside of the sub-frames, thereby preserving sub-frame capacity for other overhead and data transmissions.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2009Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLCInventors: Michael N. Kloos, Mark G. Spiotta, Frederick W. Vook
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Patent number: 8995549Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for transmitting a source signal including a plurality of binary sequences to NR receiving antennas, where NR is no lower than 2. The method implements, for at least one first binary sequence of the source signal, pre-filtering for focusing a signal to be transmitted on at least one of the reception antennas, referred to as the target antenna. The target antenna and the associated focus pre-filtering step are selected according to a value of the first binary sequence intended for being considered as received. The method also includes transmitting the pre-filtered signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2010Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: OrangeInventors: Rodolphe Legouable, Dinh Thuy Phan Huy, Isabelle Siaud
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Patent number: 8995550Abstract: High transmission efficiency is realized by allowing extension to a number of ports greater than the conventional number of ports through efficient signaling. In a communication system, the highest number of ranks that is the number of spatial multiplex of transmission data transmitted to a terminal device from a base station is 8. The base station generates control information including 3-bit rank information indicating the rank of transmission data, and transmits the transmission data, a reference signal used for demodulating a physical downlink shared channel having the transmission data mapped, and the control information. The terminal device receives the transmission data, the reference signal, and the control information to identify the reference signal using the control information.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2011Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshizo Nogami, Kazuyuki Shimezawa
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Patent number: 8995551Abstract: An apparatus and method for generating a codebook in a wireless communication system are disclosed. The codebook generation apparatus includes a processor for generating a covariance matrix of a channel between the transmitting end and a receiving end, using a unitary matrix including a first vector corresponding to at least one quantized dominant singular singular vector of the channel and a second vector corresponding to at least one basis vector of a null space of the first vector, and transforming a predefined first codebook by applying the covariance matrix of the channel to the first codebook.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2011Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Hyung Tae Kim, Han Byul Seo, Byoung Hoon Kim, Ki Jun Kim
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Patent number: 8995552Abstract: A method of transmitting communication signals to a plurality of targeted receivers includes transmitting one or more information streams for individual ones of the targeted receivers according to ongoing transmission scheduling, and controlling the ongoing transmission scheduling to reduce the number of impairment contributors that must be considered in received signal processing by scheduled ones of the targeted receivers. In one embodiment the controlling comprises scheduling the targeted receivers to avoid transmissions to more than one targeted receiver at a time. In the same or another embodiment, the controlling comprises at least one of using equal transmit power allocations for one or more information streams, and using fixed transmit power allocations for one or more of the information streams.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2013Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)Inventors: Elias Jonsson, Andres Reial
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Patent number: 8995553Abstract: Methods and apparatus for mitigation of radio interference between two or more wireless concurrently operating interfaces in a wireless device having an aggressive form factor. In one embodiment, the interfaces are used for different tasks (e.g., WLAN for data and PAN for human interface devices), and the device includes logic configured to evaluate the priority of the tasks and adjust the operation of one or more of the interfaces accordingly.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2013Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Camille Chen, David Cheung, Hsin-Yao Chen, Michael J. Giles, Christopher B. Zimmermann
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Patent number: 8995554Abstract: A method and apparatus of reducing interference in space frequency block coding (SFBC) communication are disclosed. SFBC encoding is performed on at least one pair of symbols. The symbols are assigned to subcarriers in accordance with a frequency assignment pattern assigned to a cell. Different frequency assignment patterns are assigned to neighboring cells. Cells in the network may be divided into a plurality of groups and a different frequency assignment pattern may be assigned to each group of cells. The frequency assignment pattern may be defined such that subcarriers mapped to a pair of symbols in one cell are interlaced to subcarriers mapped to a pair of symbols in a neighbor cell. Alternatively, the frequency assignment pattern may be defined such that subcarriers mapped to a pair of symbols in one cell are shifted in a neighbor cell.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2014Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: InterDigital Technology CorporationInventors: Afshin Haghighat, Yingxue Li
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Patent number: 8995555Abstract: A base station is provided. The base station includes a transmit path circuitry to transmit an uplink grant to a subscriber station, the uplink grant indicating a first modulation and coding scheme (MCS) value for a first codeword transmission and a second MCS value for a second codeword transmission. The base station also includes a receive path circuitry to receive a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) uplink subframe from the subscriber station, the MIMO uplink subframe having a first subset of layers used for the first codeword transmission and a second subset of layers used for the second codeword transmission. Acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) information and rank indication (RI) information are mapped onto both the first subset of layers and the second subset of layers. Channel quality information (CQI) is only mapped onto either the first subset of layers or the second subset of layers.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2014Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Young-Han Nam, Jianzhong Zhang
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Patent number: 8995557Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of generating codebook in a wireless communication system with multiple antenna arrays, as well as a wireless communication system, base station and terminal using the codebook for communication. The method comprises steps of: providing a basic codebook which contains multiple pre-coding matrices; and assigning phase offsets to certain pre-coding matrices in the basic codebook to form a codebook with phase offset. The feedback overhead from a client to a base station side is reduced and a good precision of feedback for multi-antenna array is kept by applying the method of generating codebook and using the generated codebook in the wireless communication system, base station and terminal.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2014Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of AmericaInventors: Hui Tong, Masayuki Hoshino, Ming Xu, Seigo Nakao, Daichi Imamura
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Patent number: 8995558Abstract: A system includes a vehicle and logic that performs predictive pairing of multiple antenna of the vehicle with multiple fixed antenna of a port the vehicle is approaching, the predictive pairing performed using data obtained about the multiple fixed antenna obtained via a satellite, the predictive pairing prioritizing maximum spatial diversity in the pairings of the antenna of the vehicle with the fixed antenna.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2014Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: MTN Satelite Communications Inc.Inventor: Robert M Wise
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Patent number: 8995559Abstract: Techniques for sending signaling messages in a wireless communication network are described. In an aspect, a signaling message (e.g., a reduce interference request) may be sent by mapping it to at least one specific subcarrier among a set of subcarriers reserved for sending the signaling message. The at least one subcarrier may be selected based on the message value. A signal may be sent on the at least one subcarrier in multiple symbol periods to convey the signaling message. In another aspect, a reduce interference request may be sent based on an orthogonal resource among orthogonal resources available for sending reduce interference requests. In one design, an orthogonal sequence may be selected based on the request and may be spread across a resource segment. In another design, the reduce interference request may be processed to obtain modulation symbols, and each modulation symbol may be spread across multiple subcarriers in one symbol period.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2009Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Ravi Palanki, Alexei Y. Gorokhov
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Patent number: 8995560Abstract: An apparatus and method measures power of channels generated by a multiple-carrier transmitter that upconverts a plurality of baseband signals to a corresponding plurality of assigned carrier frequencies to generate an RF wideband signal. A measurement module's input interface receives a selected baseband signal and a corresponding assigned carrier frequency as well as the RF wideband signal. An undersampling component undersamples the RF wideband signal for a sampling interval to generate a plurality of measured aliased samples. A determination component determines a plurality of determined aliased samples based on the selected baseband signal upconverted to the corresponding assigned carrier frequency. A correlator correlates the plurality of measured aliased samples with the plurality of determined aliased samples to produce a correlation result.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2011Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLCInventors: Anders S. Mattsson, Sean R. Rogers
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Patent number: 8995561Abstract: In a radio communication method non-contiguously using a frequency, notification information is reduced, while suppressing an effect on performance. In a communication apparatus which switches between a communication method contiguously using a frequency and a communication method non-contiguously using the frequency, sets a parameter corresponding to each communication method, and performs radio communication, the communication apparatus sets a same parameter to an entire frequency band in the communication method contiguously using the frequency, while dividing a frequency band into a plurality of frequency bands and setting a different parameter for each divided frequency band in the communication method non-contiguously using the frequency. The communication method contiguously using the frequency and the communication method non-contiguously using the frequency mutually have different PAPR (Peak to Average Power Ratio) characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2010Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazunari Yokomakura, Yasuhiro Hamaguchi, Osamu Nakamura, Jungo Goto, Hiroki Takahashi, Yosuke Akimoto
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Patent number: 8995562Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling DC balance in a digital communication system in which data frames are transmitted, wherein the data frames include a header portion that is transmitted unscrambled and a payload portion that is scrambled before transmission. The header portion includes a frame counter field. A value for the frame counter field is randomly generated and an effect on the DC balance is estimated. It is then determined whether the estimated effect on the DC balance meets defined requirements for DC balance. When the estimated effect does not meet the defined requirements for DC balance, a new random value for the frame counter field is generated and checked. When the estimated effect meets the requirements, the randomly generated value is utilized in the frame counter field in transmitted data frames.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2011Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Einar In De Betou, Peter Öhlén
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Patent number: 8995563Abstract: A method is provided for transmitting uplink control information by a terminal in a cellular communication system. The method includes receiving system information associated with uplink transmission of a Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) from a base station; determining an orthogonal sequence having a first length or a second length predefined; transmitting uplink control information to which a first orthogonal sequence is applied, if the first orthogonal sequence having the first length is determined; and transmitting uplink control information to which a second orthogonal sequence is applied, if the second orthogonal sequence having the second length is determined. The SRS is selectively transmitted with the uplink control information, based on the received system information, and the uplink control information, to which the first orthogonal sequence having the first length is applied, is transmitted regardless of whether or not the SRS is transmitted in a corresponding slot.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2012Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., LtdInventors: Joon-Young Cho, Ju-Ho Lee, Sang-Min Ro, Aris Papasakellariou
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Patent number: 8995564Abstract: Systems and techniques for wireless communication are described.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2013Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Marvell World Trade Ltd.Inventors: Yong Liu, Raja Banerjea, Harish Ramamurthy
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Patent number: 8995565Abstract: This invention includes a waveform analyzing means (13) for calculating an estimated value of a back-off value required by a power amplifier (2), which amplifies a high-frequency signal generated from a baseband signal (I, Q) to a predetermined transmission power, by analyzing the waveform of the baseband signal (I, Q), and a control means (14) for controlling at least one of the amplitude of high-frequency power input to the power amplifier (2) and the supply power of the power amplifier (2) on the basis of the estimated value. The invention calculates the estimated value of a back-off value by analyzing the waveform of a baseband in this manner, and hence need not generate a table in advance by calculating a back-off value for each combination of code channels. The invention can therefore be applied to even a case in which the number of code channels greatly increases, and can effectively prevent an increase in adjacent channel leakage power due to a signal obtained by multiplexing these code channels.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2007Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Lenovo Innovations Limited (Hong Kong)Inventor: Masaki Ichihara
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Patent number: 8995566Abstract: A modulator generates a modulation signal from an input signal, and a serial-parallel converter generates a subcarrier modulation signal from the modulation signal. An IFFT unit performs an inverse fast Fourier transformation on the subcarrier modulation signal, and a decomposer decomposes a calculation result into a real part data and an imaginary part data. A calculator applies a predetermined calculation with respect to each element the value of which is equal to or greater than a positive threshold value and each element the value of which is equal to or less than a negative threshold value among the real part data and the imaginary part data. A synthesizer synthesizes the real part data and the imaginary part data to generate a baseband signal, and a transmitter generates a transmission signal from the baseband signal, and transmits it to another apparatus via an antenna.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2012Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Icom IncorporatedInventor: Nobuyoshi Nishikawa
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Patent number: 8995567Abstract: Aspects of a method and system for power supply adjustment and polar modulation in a MIMO system are provided. In each RF transmit chain of a MIMO system that utilizes polar modulation, aspects of the invention may enable generating a signal representative of an amplitude of a pair of phase-quadrature baseband signals; and controlling a voltage and/or current regulator utilizing said generated signal. In this regard, a voltage and/or current supplied to a power amplifier and/or mixer of one or more of the transmit chains may be controlled based on the generated signal. Additionally, a gain of a power amplifier for each RF transmit chain may be controlled utilizing said signal representative of an amplitude. The signal representative of an amplitude may be generated by squaring each of the phase-quadrature baseband signals and calculating a square root of a sum of the squared signals.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2007Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Broadcom CorporationInventors: Ahmadreza Rofougaran, Maryam Rofougaran
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Patent number: 8995568Abstract: Devices, systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with phase based transformation of repeated signals are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes duplication logic configured to duplicate a string of data to form a duplicate string of data. Transformation logic is configured to modify phases associated with the string of data to generate a modified string of data. Signal generation logic is configured to generate a signal for wireless transmission where the signal having at least the modified string of data and the duplicate string of data.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2009Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.Inventors: Songping Wu, Quan Zhou, Manyuan Shen, Hongyuan Zhang, Hui-Ling Lou
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Patent number: 8995569Abstract: An RF transmitter comprises a digital-to-IF circuit block configured to receive a digital in-phase baseband signal and a digital quadrature baseband signal and to up-convert the digital in-phase and quadrature baseband signals to a digital in-phase IF signal and to a digital quadrature IF signal. The wireless RF transmitter further comprises an IF-to-RF circuit block configured to convert the digital in-phase and quadrature IF signals to analog signals and to up-convert the analog in-phase and quadrature IF signals to an RF output signal. The digital-to-IF circuit block comprises pre-compensation circuitry configured to reduce analog impairments associated with the IF-to-RF circuit block.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2011Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Lup Meng Loh, Imtinan Elahi, Naveen Yanduru, Michael L. Brobston
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Patent number: 8995570Abstract: Signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) and/or amplifier performance can be improved in crest factor reduction (CFR) applications by steering clipping noise in a different direction than the data signal achieving upon reception. Indeed, using clipping noise signals that have a different amplitude-phase relationship than the input/baseline signal causes the clipping noise signal and data signal to exhibit different antenna patterns, effectively steering the clipping noise in a different direction than the data signal. For instance, clipping noise can be steered away from potential receivers to improve received signal quality. In addition, higher magnitude clipping noise can be used to achieve improved power amplifier performance without increasing received SNR.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2013Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: FutureWei Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Leonard Piazzi, Zhengxiang Ma
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Patent number: 8995571Abstract: An amplifier may include a predistorter receiving an input signal to generate a predistortion signal, a first converter receiving the predistortion signal to generate a preamplified signal, a power amplifier receiving the preamplified signal to generate an output signal based on the preamplified signal and the input signal, and a second converter sampling the output signal to generate a feedback signal. The predistorter may separately and independently generate a predistortion signal component for the in-phase input signal and a predistortion signal component for the quadrature input signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Analog Devices GlobalInventor: Dong Chen
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Patent number: 8995572Abstract: Systems and techniques relating to wireless communications are described. A described technique includes aligning a received data sequence with a transmitted data sequence to produce an aligned data sequence, the received data sequence being based on an output of a power amplifier having one or more nonlinear characteristics that is responsive to the transmitted data sequence; dividing the aligned data sequence into N segments; obtaining first nonlinear parameters for the power amplifier based at least on first segments of the N segments; obtaining a second nonlinear parameter(s) corresponding to a second segment(s) of the N segments based on an extrapolation of the first nonlinear parameters, the second segment(s) having a lower transmitted data sequence value(s) than the first segments; and performing digital predistortion on a transmit data sequence based on the nonlinear predistortion parameters to compensate for the one or more nonlinear characteristics of the power amplifier.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2014Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.Inventor: Songping Wu
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Patent number: 8995573Abstract: Octagonal non-rectangular Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) is disclosed. Grid points from a uniform rectangular grid, which includes points that have equal horizontal and vertical spacing, are selected to form a non-rectangular octagonal grid that approximates an octagonal shape. QAM symbols are mapped to respective grid points in the non-rectangular octagonal grid to form a non-rectangular octagonal QAM constellation that also approximates the octagonal shape. Input signals can then be modulated using the non-rectangular octagonal QAM constellation.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2012Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Dragonwave, Inc.Inventors: Ahikam Aharony, Chunyao Li, Mikhail Prokoptsov
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Patent number: 8995574Abstract: A method for transmitting signals in a multi-carrier radio transmission system is provided. The method includes a transmission block composed of N consecutive Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols in a time domain and M consecutive physical sub-carriers in a frequency domain, where N and M are each an integer not less than 1. The method further includes encoding and interleaving data at a transmitting end, transmitting a pilot signal in a frequency area of a pilot stream for transmission of the pilot signal, performing, at the transmitting end, an IFFT operation on the encoded and interleaved data and the pilot signal, and transmitting, at the transmitting end, the data and the pilot signal through at least one antenna after inserting a preamble signal, wherein at least one pilot stream exists at the transmitting end, and wherein at most one pilot signal is transmitted in a group of OFDM symbols.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2009Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hai Wang, Lei Zhou
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Patent number: 8995575Abstract: Techniques for processing a navigation signal are disclosed. In one particular embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method processing a navigation signal, the method comprising the steps of: receiving, using a receiver, the navigation signal, the navigation signal comprising a carrier signal, a data signal and at least one ranging code modulated by at least one stepped subcarrier modulation signal, the at least one stepped subcarrier modulation signal comprising a number, m, of amplitude levels, where m>2, and wherein the amplitude levels have respective magnitudes and durations arranged to influence the power spectrum of the navigation signal is constrained in a predetermined manner, processing the navigation signal to recover the modulated at least one ranging code; and processing the recovered at least one modulated ranging code to recover at least one demodulated ranging code.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2012Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Secretary of State for DefenceInventors: Anthony R. Pratt, John Ivor Rewbridge Owen
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Patent number: 8995576Abstract: The invention relates to a method for estimating frequency bias negatively affecting a digital signal representative of a symbol frame, wherein said method comprises the steps of: generating the digital signal at a sampling period Te that is shorter than a predefined period of each of the symbols of the frame; calculating values for a plurality of pairs of samples of the digital signal, each value being representative of a phase difference between the samples of a pair; estimating the frequency bias negatively affecting the digital signal on the basis of the values calculated for Np pairs of samples selected such that a plurality of said Np pairs belong strictly to a single symbol in the frame. The present invention also relates to a module for implementing the estimation method, as well as to a telecommunication method and system.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2012Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: SIGFOXInventors: Cédric Artigue, Christophe Fourtet, Marc Vertes
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Patent number: 8995577Abstract: Apparatus for measurement of the reception time of a pulse in a receiving system, which contains at least one receiving channel with a non-linear transmission response, which receiving channel produces at its output a received signal, having a memory, in which the received signals of reference pulses with a predetermined different amplitude are available as reference signals with respect to a time scale, and having an evaluation device, which is connected to the receiving system and to the memory and compares a received signal with each reference signal with a variant time offset in order to determine that reference signal and that time offset for which the comparison discrepancy is a minimum, and outputs this time offset as the reception time with respect to the time scale.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2009Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Riegl Laser Measurement Systems GmbHInventors: Andreas Ullrich, Martin Pfennigbauer, Walter Schubert, Wolfgang Zierlinger, Andreas Hofbauer, Gerhard Ederer
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Patent number: 8995578Abstract: A receiver apparatus includes a propagation channel estimating unit that estimates a propagation channel. The propagation channel estimating unit includes a path detector unit that repeatedly performs a process of detecting paths in the order of increase in a propagation channel goodness of fit. The receiver apparatus that estimates a propagation channel at a high accuracy level with a small amount of calculation operation involved is thus provided.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2011Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Katsuya Kato, Takashi Yoshimoto, Ryota Yamada
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Patent number: 8995580Abstract: In one embodiment, a transmitter includes a binary sequence generator unit configured to provide a sequence of reference signal bits, wherein the sequence is an inseparable function of a cell identification parameter, a cyclic prefix mode corresponding to the transmitter and one or more time indices of the sequence. The transmitter also include a mapping unit that transforms the sequence of reference signal bits into a complex reference signal, and a transmit unit configured to transmit the complex reference signal. In another embodiment, a receiver includes a receive unit configured to receive a complex reference signal and a reference signal decoder unit configured to detect a sequence of reference signal bits from the complex reference signal, wherein the sequence is an inseparable function of a cell identification parameter, a cyclic prefix mode corresponding to a transmitter and one or more time indices of the sequence.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2014Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Texas Instruments IncorporatedInventors: Badri N. Varadarajan, Anand Ganesh Dabak, Tarkesh Pande, Eko N. Onggosanusi
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Patent number: 8995581Abstract: Provided are a soft demapping apparatus and method that may cancel interference included in a rotated quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) signal, using at least one interference cancellation unit, and may perform one-dimensional (1D) soft demapping of the interference-cancelled rotated QAM signal.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2012Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kyeong Yeon Kim, Ki Taek Bae, Ho Yang
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Patent number: 8995582Abstract: An apparatus for decoding digital data includes a processor for recreating a priori training information received with the digital data for provision to a maximum a posteriori (MAP) decoder. The processor detects locations of symbols in the input data stream and regenerates data corresponding to each location. The regenerated data is used by the processor to recreate a priori information suitable to each location of the input data stream location and provides the recreated a priori information to the MAP decoder to aid in the decoding of the digital data. In a preferred implementation, the a priori training data is structured so that after deterministic processing and trellis encoding at the transmitter, it can be regenerated by the processor as a pseudo noise (PN) sequence using a PN sequence generator.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2010Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Thomson LicensingInventor: Ivonete Markman
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Patent number: 8995583Abstract: A technique for decoding a signal in a communication network is provided. A method implementation of the technique comprises the steps of receiving a signal; identifying a position in the signal; initializing a Viterbi state metric; and decoding the encoded signal by means of a wrap-around Viterbi algorithm. The received signal comprises information, wherein the signal is encoded by a tail-biting convolutional code. The identified position relates to a known portion of the information. The initialized Viterbi state metric is consistent with the known portion of the information. The decoding uses the initial Viterbi state metric, wherein the decoding starts at a decoding step following the identified position.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2010Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Stefan Mueller-Weinfurtner, Matthias Kamuf
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Patent number: 8995584Abstract: In a method of demodulating a signal transmitted via a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) communication channel, a data symbol vector is received at a communication device, the data vector comprising a plurality of data symbols that are received via a plurality of antennas. The received data symbol vector corresponds to a transmitted data symbol vector comprising a plurality of transmitted data symbols. A plurality of candidate vectors for the transmitted data symbol vector are generated at the communication device using a plurality of non-maximum likelihood detection techniques. One candidate vector is selected from the plurality of candidate vectors at the communication device using a maximum likelihood technique.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2014Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.Inventors: Jiwoong P. Choi, Jungwon Lee, Hui-Ling Lou
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Patent number: 8995585Abstract: The invention regards to Carrier recovery device, especially estimator device for carrier recovery, for pseudo random noise based systems, comprising a coarse estimator (13), a fine estimator (14), a switch (15) to select estimator output, and a sweeper (20) to sweep input data carrier frequency offset within a certain range, wherein the coarse estimator (13) is arranged to estimate a residual frequency offset by using a correlation of pseudo random noise (PN), and the fine estimator (14) is arranged to estimate the residual frequency offset by using an estimated channel information, and wherein the switch (15) is controlled to select data outputted out of the coarse estimator (13), the fine estimator (14) or the sweeper (20) as the estimator output.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2007Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Entropic Communications, Inc.Inventors: Yuanli Wang, Bowei Song, Yu Pan
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Patent number: 8995586Abstract: A device and method are disclosed for reducing the power consumption of a wireless radio device in establishing a wireless connection by predicting a probability of a positive correlation. The wireless radio device may power up a radio receiver of a connectable device to receive a portion of a sync word from a requesting device, determine a correlation value based on the received portion of the sync word and an expected sync word and if the correlation value is less than a threshold value, power down the radio receiver of the connectable device. Additionally, if the correlation value is greater than a threshold value, the entire sync word may be received from the requesting device and a correlation value may be determined based on the entire sync word and the expected sync word.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2011Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Yann Ly-Gagnon, Paul Husted, Olaf Josef Hirsch
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Patent number: 8995587Abstract: A method for processing a preamble of a data unit transmitted via a communication channel includes receiving a signal via a plurality of antennas, applying a plurality of distinct steering vectors to the received signal to generate a plurality of respective outputs, and using the plurality of outputs to perform at least one of carrier sensing and symbol timing synchronization associated with the preamble.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2013Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.Inventors: Hongyuan Zhang, Sudhir Srinivasa, Rohit U. Nabar
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Patent number: 8995588Abstract: A system and method are provided for implementing improved frequency estimation for wireless communication that involves lower power transmissions with reduced signal-to-noise ratios for receivers particularly in systems configured according to the pending IEEE 802.11ah standard. These systems and methods provide frequency estimation over that prescribed for devices operating according other IEEE 802.11 standards and the proposed frequency estimator specified for IEEE 802.11ac systems. The disclosed techniques use schemes that reuse a short training field (STF) stored in memory, employ joint STF-long training field (LTF) estimation, use portions of a guard interval (GI), and create of multiple-phase estimates, with different symbol separation to improve a signal-to-noise ratio of the frequency estimate.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2012Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Thomas J. Kenney, Eldad Perahia, Shahrnaz Azizi
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Patent number: 8995589Abstract: An accurate channel frequency response is obtained by processing an extracted number of pilot tones provided at different locations within a received OFDM symbol. This includes filtering the extracted pilot tones with a first window function, converting the thus filtered pilot tones to a first channel impulse response signal that may include a main tap and a plurality of adjacent taps, removing taps whose absolute values or energy levels are below a predetermined level, processing the remaining taps having sufficient absolute values or energy levels into a second channel impulse response signal that is significantly free of noises, converting the second channel impulse response signal to a frequency-domain signal, and filtering the frequency-domain signal with a second window function having an inverse characteristic of that of the first window function to obtain an accurate channel frequency response.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2011Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Inventor: James Qiu
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Patent number: 8995590Abstract: An apparatus including a configurable demodulation architecture which includes a control module and a demodulation engine. The control module includes a set of one or more control fields. The demodulation engine includes a spatial whitening module, a Minimum Mean Square Estimation (MMSE) module, at least a first Maximal Ratio Combining (MRC) module, and at least one multiplexer. Further, the multiplexer is coupled to the instruction module and controlled based on the control fields to select at least one of the MMSE module or MRC module.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2009Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Qualcomm IncorporatedInventors: Raghu N. Challa, Hemanth Sampath, Gwendolyn D. Barriac
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Patent number: 8995591Abstract: A wireless communication device configured for receiving multiple signals is described. The wireless communication device includes a single-chip carrier aggregation receiver architecture. The single-chip carrier aggregation receiver architecture includes a first antenna, a second antenna, a third antenna, a fourth antenna and a transceiver chip. The transceiver chip includes multiple carrier aggregation receivers. The single-chip carrier aggregation receiver architecture reuses at least one of the carrier aggregation receivers for secondary diversity.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: QUALCOMM, IncorporatedInventors: Prasad Srinivasa Siva Gudem, Liang Zhao, Jin-Su Ko, Hong Sun Kim
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Patent number: 8995592Abstract: Various devices and methods are provided that use signaling to support advanced wireless receivers. For example, a method includes receiving an input signal at a user equipment. The input signal includes a desired signal and an interfering signal, where the desired signal defines symbols using constellations. The method also includes obtaining information identifying a wireless channel used by the interfering signal and a modulation type used to modulate data in the interfering signal. The method further includes recovering the symbols from the desired signal using the information.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2012Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Ngoc Dung Dao, Aaron Callard, Mohammadhadi Baligh, Hang Zhang, Ho Ting Cheng
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Patent number: 8995593Abstract: In a MIMO communications system a communication device receives one or more receive signals on at least one receiver port. A receiver unit recovers, from the at least one receive signal, at least a first transmit signal transmitted to the receiving communication device via a transmission channel. A multi-link decoder unit decodes the receive signals using a multi-link decoder algorithm with parameters derived from a first channel state information describing the transmission channel and second channel state information describing at least one interference channel via which one or more second transmit signals arrive at the communication device.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2011Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Andreas Schwager, Daniel Schneider
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Patent number: 8995594Abstract: Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a platform may comprise a receiver to receive a signal that includes an error in the received signal due to a noise signal generated in the platform, and a processor configured to calculate a noise vector from a source of the noise signal and to send the noise vector to the receiver, The receiver may include a digital signal processor configured to estimate an error vector based at least in part on the noise vector and to subtract the estimated error vector from the received signal to cancel the noise signal from the received signal. The noise cancelled from the received signal may include platform noise generated by a bus, a memory circuit, a clock, a power supply, a circuit ground or integrated circuit substrate, or input/output circuit of the platform.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2012Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Dawson W. Kesling, Andrew W. Martwick