Plural Diverse Modulation Techniques Patents (Class 370/204)
  • Patent number: 9491745
    Abstract: A method for transmitting and receiving Uplink Control Information (UCI), a terminal, and a base station are provided. The transmitting method includes: calculating the number (Q?) of modulation symbols occupied by the UCI to be transmitted; dividing the information bit sequence of the UCI to be transmitted into two parts; using Reed Muller (RM) (32, 0) codes to encode each part of information bit sequence of the UCI to be transmitted to obtain a 32-bit coded bit sequence respectively, and performing rate matching so that the rate of the first 32-bit coded bit sequence is ?Q?/2?×Qm bits and that the rate of the second 32-bit coded bit sequence is (Q???Q?/2?)×Qm bits; and mapping the two parts of coded bit sequences that have undergone rate matching onto a Public Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH), and transmitting the coded bit sequences to a base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yan Cheng, Yongxia Lv
  • Patent number: 9479381
    Abstract: Disclosed is a transmission method of transmitting at least one multicarrier signal made up of OFDM-OQAM symbols to a receive antenna of a receiver device, the transmission method being for use by a transmitter device having at least one transmit antenna. In one embodiment, the method comprises, for each transmit antenna of the transmitter device, filtering OFDM-OQAM symbols associated with the transmit antenna using a time-reversal prefilter defined from an estimate of the transmission channel between the transmit antenna and the receive antenna and transmitting the filtered OFDM-OQAM symbols via the transmit antenna over the transmission channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: Orange
    Inventors: Pierre Siohan, Bruno Jahan, Dinh Thuy Phan Huy, Maryline Helard, Thierry Dubois
  • Patent number: 9479237
    Abstract: Provided is a vector selection modulation-based multi-antenna transmission method, including: for a group of data to be transmitted, using part of bit information in the group of data to select a weight corresponding to the group of data from K preconfigured weights; and performing constellation mapping modulation on residual bit information in the group of data, and using the selected weight corresponding to the group of data to weight the group of data after the constellation mapping modulation, wherein, the K is a natural number. Based on the method of the present document, the spectrum efficiency of the system can be greatly improved under the condition without adding a transmission antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Yunfeng Sun, Xun Yang, Junfeng Zhang, Yu Ngok Li
  • Patent number: 9465097
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose systems and methods for providing enhanced features using an ATC Overlay data link. Further, there are provided systems and methods for ADS-B Mode Control that enable a transponder to selectively transmit data on a desired link, such as the ADS-B or ATC Overlay link, based on the control inputs such as current active ADS-B applications, thus reducing RF interference while maximizing the amount of pertinent data being transmitted. In various embodiments, ADS-B Mode Control also offers a mechanism to include pilot-entered data onto the ADS-B or ATC Overlay link, thereby producing flexibility for future ADS-B In applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Aviation Communication & Surveillance Systems LLC
    Inventors: Gregory T. Stayton, Robert J. McCullen
  • Patent number: 9461728
    Abstract: A method of transmitting a signal of a base station in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes transmitting a first signal to the relay station through the transmission period in a subframe including a transmission period and a guard time for transmission/reception switching of a relay station, and transmitting a second signal to a macro user equipment through the guard time. Accordingly, a signal can be effectively transmitted in the wireless communication system employing the relay station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Han Byul Seo, Byoung Hoon Kim
  • Patent number: 9462487
    Abstract: In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus comprises a transceiver configured to receive a transmission signal from a radio node; a processor configured to, based on the received transmission signal, determine membership of the apparatus and the radio node in a common synchronization group and based at least in part on the determination, adjusting at least one transmission parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventor: Markus Nentwig
  • Patent number: 9450664
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing-Space-time Block Codes (OFDMSTBC) mappings for code rate 1, 2 and 4 codes for 4 Transmit Antennas. To overcome the innate weakness of known codes, a new class of STBC codes is provided which is particularly suited for OFDM applications, although other applications are also contemplated. Codes for STBC mappings in the time direction, the frequency direction and a combined time frequency mapping for multiple antennas are provided. In OFDM applications, these codes exploit the properties of OFDM and FEC codes to substantially maintain the advantages of Alamouti codes. Furthermore, while the detailed examples given herein focus on four antenna applications, they can be easily extended to systems with more than four antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Ming Jia, Wen Tong, Jianglei Ma, Peiying Zhu, Dong-Sheng Yu
  • Patent number: 9444593
    Abstract: A transmitter for transmitting signals to a receiver is provided. The transmitter generates a padded code sequence including a plurality of symbols with the last symbol being a duplication of the first symbol, and transmit the padded code sequence with the symbols therein respectively corresponding to a plurality of first sub-carriers to the receiver via an air interface using a first antenna in a time period. Also, the transmitter duplicates the padded code sequence and transmits the duplicated padded code sequence with the symbols therein respectively corresponding to a plurality of second sub-carriers to the receiver via the air interface using a second antenna in the time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: ACER INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Yan-Xiu Zheng
  • Patent number: 9432164
    Abstract: A wireless communication method implemented in a multi-user, multi-input multi-output MU-MIMO system is disclosed which includes forming one or more antenna port sets, wherein an antenna port set comprises two or more antenna ports and allocating transmission resources to a user equipment reference signal UE-RS, the allocating being based at least in part on an antenna port set index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wanshi Chen, Peter Gaal, Juan Montojo, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 9407408
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for mapping a bit of an enhanced physical downlink control channel (e-PDCCH) in a wireless communication system are provided. A base station maps an e-PDCCH bit on a first region to which the e-PDCCH is allocated from a data region within a subframe, and maps a redundant bit of the e-PDCCH bit on a second region, which is between a control region and the first region within the subframe, including at least one orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbol (OFDM). The e-PDCCH bit is mapped from a kth OFDM symbol within the subframe in the direction of an increasing OFDM symbol index, and the redundant bit is mapped from a (k?1)th OFDM symbol in the direction of a decreasing OFDM symbol index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jin Young Chun, Ki Tae Kim, Su Nam Kim, Ji Won Kang, Bin Chul Ihm, Sung Ho Park
  • Patent number: 9391699
    Abstract: A hybrid communications system implements different communication technologies to communicate data and information for particular communications directions in different portions of the system. Power line communications (PLC) signaling is used to deliver data and information from a gateway device to a light access point. Visible light communications (VLC) signaling is used to communicate data and information from the light access point to a user equipment (UE) device. Wireless radio signaling, wireless infrared (IR) signaling, or a combination of wireless IR signaling and PLC signaling is used to communicate data/information from the UE device to the gateway device. To efficiently control the VLC communications channel between the light access point and UE device, the UE device measures the VLC channel, e.g., calculating SNRs on a per VLC tone basis, and communicating VLC channel quality feedback information to the gateway device, which is forwarded to the light access point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Aleksandar Jovicic, Junyi Li, Thomas Joseph Richardson
  • Patent number: 9363126
    Abstract: A method and receiver for processing a composite signal (112) in a wireless communication system (100) is provided. The method includes receiving a composite signal (112) within a channel bandwidth, wherein the composite signal comprises one or more symbol streams (108, 110, 116) from a plurality of communication units (103, 104). The method also includes sampling the composite signal at a sampling rate, wherein the sampling rate comprises one of equal to a symbol rate of the composite signal or larger than the symbol rate of the composite signal. In addition, the method includes selecting a symbol sampling phase for each of the symbol streams from a plurality of communication units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Vijay Nangia, Kevin L. Baum, Margot Karam
  • Patent number: 9361260
    Abstract: A first communication speed setting unit sets a data communication speed of data transmitted and received between the master device and the slave device during the period from the time when the master device is activated to the time when the preparation to drive the motors is completed, to a first communication speed. A second communication speed setting unit sets a data communication speed of data transmitted and received between the master device and the slave device when the preparation to drive the motor is completed, to a second communication speed lower than the first communication speed. A change notification unit notifies the change of the data communication speed from the first communication speed to the second communication speed to the slave device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Taku Sasaki
  • Patent number: 9363003
    Abstract: A transmitter that has a plurality of antenna elements and executes spatially multiplexed transmission of data to a receiver via the antenna elements, where the data is weighted utilizing a transmission weight. Channel state information, which indicates propagation characteristics between the antenna elements and an antenna element of the receiver, is obtained or estimated. When the channel state information has been updated, an updated transmission weight is computed based on the previous channel state information before the updating thereof and/or the updated channel state information, and the previous transmission weight before the updating thereof, which was computed for the previous channel state information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Nipon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Koichi Ishihara, Yasushi Takatori, Masato Mizoguchi, Yusuke Asai, Tomoki Murakami
  • Patent number: 9357517
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for receiving and transmitting signals are provided. A baseband processor includes receiver circuitry including single carrier receiver circuitry for demodulating a received single carrier signal and multi-carrier receiver circuitry for demodulating a received multi-carrier signal. The single carrier receiver circuitry includes a first digital interpolator, and the multi-carrier receiver circuitry includes a second digital interpolator. Symbol timing recovery is executed by adjusting an interpolation phase of the first digital interpolator or the second digital interpolator. The baseband processor also includes transmitter circuitry for encoding a signal to be transmitted. The baseband processor further includes a clock coupled to the receiver circuitry and coupled to the transmitter circuitry. The clock is configured to supply a clock signal that is processed to generate clock sampling frequencies for sending and receiving a single carrier signal and a multi-carrier signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: MARVELL WORLD TRADE LTD.
    Inventor: Mao Yu
  • Patent number: 9350497
    Abstract: A Physical Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ) Indicator CHannel (PHICH) transmission method performed by a base station is provided. The method includes determining whether any PHICH resources are allocated to a current subframe; allocating, upon a determination that the current subframe does not have any PHICH resources allocated, a new PHICH resource; and transmitting a PHICH through the allocated new PHICH resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Hyoungju Ji, Jinkyu Han, Youngbum Kim, Joonyoung Cho, Seunghoon Choi
  • Patent number: 9319984
    Abstract: A wireless receiver is activated periodically to measure the level of received signals. It measures the average received level over a plurality of the activation periods, and enables the supply of power to receiver circuitry dependent on the measured average value. In one embodiment the power is enabled if an increase in the average value is detected which is greater than a predetermined margin. The average value may be measured in a sliding or stepped window. In another embodiment the power is enabled if the level in an activation period exceeds the average value by a predetermined margin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: NXP Semiconductors
    Inventors: Denis Noel, Steven Aerts, Harry Neuteboom
  • Patent number: 9287951
    Abstract: A method of spatially precoding data includes determining a transmission rank of a communication channel and selecting a set of one or more precoding filters derived from a single generator matrix based on said transmission rank. The method also includes precoding data for transmission to a remote device using said precoding filters in a predetermined order according to a predetermined precoding sequence. The precoding may include using different ones of said precoding filters during different precoding intervals in a predetermined precoding period of the predetermined precoding sequence. Additionally, precoding data for transmission may involve traversing an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) resource block in an alternating pattern during said predetermined precoding period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Inventor: George Jöngren
  • Patent number: 9264195
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and more particularly, to a downlink signal transmission and reception method and device taking into account antenna port relationship. A method for the reception of a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) signal by a terminal in a wireless communication system, according to one embodiment of the present invention, can comprise: a step for determining a start symbol index for the PDSCH in a downlink subframe; and a step for receiving the PDSCH signal on the basis of the start symbol index. The PDSCH start symbol index (k) when the downlink subframe belongs to a specific subframe set is determined according to k=min(KThreshold, K), KThreshold being a prescribed threshold, K being the PDSCH start symbol index when the downlink subframe does not belong to the specific subframe set, and min(KThreshold, K) being the minimum value among KThreshold and K.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jonghyun Park, Eunsun Kim, Hanbyul Seo, Kijun Kim, Byounghoon Kim
  • Patent number: 9240861
    Abstract: A pathway control system, implementing control and setting for a communication pathway between wireless communication devices each implementing wired communication and wireless communication and each equipped with an AMR function, detects communication speed with respect to uplink wireless communication and downlink wireless communication in each wireless communication device, thus determining which one of uplink wireless communication and downlink wireless communication undergoes communication failure. It carries out adaptive modulation control on uplink wireless communication or downlink wireless communication, which undergoes communication failure, calculates new communication speed, and carries out STP pathway control based on new communication speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshiaki Hayakawa
  • Patent number: 9210022
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals thereof are disclosed. The apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals comprises an encoder encoding service data, a time interleaver interleaving the encoded service data, a mapper mapping the interleaved service data into a plurality of OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex) symbols to build at least one signal frame, a frequency interleaver interleaving data in the at least one signal frame by using a different interleaving-seed which is used for every OFDM symbol pair comprised of two sequential OFDM symbols, wherein the frequency interleaver calculates an interleaving address for the different interleaving-seed based on a main-PRBS sequence and a cyclic shifting value, a modulator modulating the frequency interleaved data by an OFDM scheme and a transmitter transmitting the broadcast signals having the modulated data, wherein an interleaving-seed is generated based on a cyclic shift value and an FFT size of the modulating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jongseob Baek, Jaehyung Kim, Woosuk Ko, Sungryong Hong
  • Patent number: 9184943
    Abstract: A multicarrier-signal transmitting apparatus sets a phase rotation amount for each subcarrier of a plurality of subcarrier groups, wherein the phase rotation amount being set with a setting among at least three settings. The settings being phase rotation amounts for subcarrier groups which each include a plurality of continuous subcarrier groups where each number of the continuous subcarrier groups included in each subcarrier group set is different from each other. Also, the multicarrier-signal transmitting apparatus adds, based on the phase rotation amount, a phase rotation to reference signals and a data signal of each subcarrier of the plurality of subcarrier groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kimihiko Imamura, Yasuhiro Hamaguchi, Yasuyuki Kato, Daiichiro Nakashima
  • Patent number: 9166762
    Abstract: In one or more embodiments, a system and method of managing network channel quality in a wireless communications network includes reporting a channel quality measurement from the particular user to a base station (BS) over an available CQICH, and determining a MCS based, at least in part, upon the channel quality measurement. If a threshold network CQICH capacity is reached during a subsequent data frame such that a CQICH is no longer available, MAC level messages are generated between the BS and the particular user to trigger reporting of signal quality information to the BS by the particular user. After the next CQICH cycle commences and if a CQICH is still unavailable, the signal quality information is continued to be provided via MAC level messages. Otherwise, a CQICH is reallocated for a particular user and channel quality measurement reporting is transitioned back to the CQICH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Clearwire IP Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Sungki Park, Masoud Olfat
  • Patent number: 9166741
    Abstract: A multi-antenna transmitter is configured for orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) communications. The multi-antenna transmitter includes circuitry to receive an input bit sequence for code block segmentation including adding filler bits based on a selected code block size, a encoder to encode the bit sequence and an interleaver configurable to perform interleaving operations on blocks of bits of various code block sizes of the bit sequence. A controller is to select the code block size for the interleaver and OFDM transmitter circuitry to transmit OFDM symbols on subcarriers utilizing more than one antenna. The OFDM symbols are generated at least in part from the interleaved blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander A. Maltsev, Ali S. Sadri, Alexei V. Davydov
  • Patent number: 9154343
    Abstract: A method for transmitting and receiving uplink signals using an optimized rank 3 codebook is disclosed. The optimized rank 3 codebook includes 6 precoding matrix groups, each of which has 1 variable having an amplitude of 1. Preferably, the optimized 4Tx rank 3 codebook has 12 precoding matrix, two precoding matrixes are selected from each the above 6 precoding matrix groups considering chordal distance and the number of precoding matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Yu Jin Noh, Dong Wook Roh, Byeong Woo Kang, Bong Hoe Kim, Dae Won Lee
  • Patent number: 9124478
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method for cancelling inter-subcarrier interferences and an apparatus for the same. The method according to an example embodiment may comprise dividing total available subcarriers into a plurality of sub-blocks, composing Alamouti code symbol pairs by mapping input symbols to subcarriers included in each of the plurality of sub-blocks, and performing inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) on the Alamouti code symbol pairs. Therefore, inter-subcarrier interferences due to frequency error between transmit antennas of a distributed antenna system or a cooperative transmission apparatus may be cancelled in the frequency selective fading channel environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignees: POSTECH ACADEMY-INDUSTRY FOUNDATION, INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, YEUNGNAM UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Kwon Hue Choi, Bong Seok Kim
  • Patent number: 9119196
    Abstract: Provided are a base station, whereby the erroneous detection of control information can be reduced, thereby preventing the degradation of the system throughput. A base station (100) maps a downstream allocation control information unit, which is addressed to a terminal (200), to a first resource region, which can be used for any of a downstream control channel region and a downstream data channel region, or to a second resource region, which can be used only for the downstream control channel, so as to transmit the downstream allocation control information unit. In the base station (100), a control unit (102) establishes a scale of the PDCCH region, and a transmission region establishing unit (131) establishes, on the basis of a scale value established by the control unit (102), a mapping region to which the DCI is mapped within the R-PDCCH region and the PDCCH region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Akihiko Nishio, Seigo Nakao, Yasuaki Yuda, Ayako Horiuchi, Sujuan Feng, Michael Einhaus
  • Patent number: 9107177
    Abstract: Provided is a wireless base station including a power measurement unit for measuring a power of a reference signal for synchronization at a downlink adjacent frequency; a base station type acquisition unit for acquiring a type of a base station that transmits the signal at the downlink adjacent frequency; and a power setting unit for setting a maximum transmission power based on a measurement value of the power measured by the power measurement unit and the type of the base station acquired by the base station type acquisition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Nishiki Mizusawa
  • Patent number: 9100144
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method in which a base station transmits signals to a relay node in a multiuser multi-antenna (MIMO) wireless communication system. More particularly, the method includes: allocating one or more antenna ports to one or more relay nodes, respectively; mapping each of a plurality of downlink grant signals for the one or more relay nodes to a preset resource domain from among resource domains corresponding to one of the allocated antenna ports; mapping uplink grant signals or data signals for the one or more relay nodes to the resource domains corresponding to the allocated antenna ports; and transmitting the mapped signals to the one or more relay nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hak Seong Kim, Han Byul Seo, Byoung Hoon Kim, Ki Jun Kim, Dae Won Lee
  • Patent number: 9094842
    Abstract: Systems and methods for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing are provided. In one embodiment, a multi-carrier modem comprises: a receiver configured to de-modulate symbols from at least one of a plurality of spectrally overlapping carrier signals to produce a receiver output; a transmitter configured to modulate symbols onto at least one of a plurality of the spectrally overlapping carrier signals; a processor coupled to the transmitter, wherein the processor outputs data for transmission by the transmitter, wherein the processor applies an inverse Fourier transform to the data transmitted by the transmitter; the processor coupled to the receiver, wherein the processor applies a Fourier transform to the receiver output; and a controller programmed to instruct the transmitter to transmit at least one symbol representing a request for bandwidth allocation on a first carrier; wherein the controller is further programmed to determine when a collision has occurred on the first carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: HTC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Michael J. Geile
  • Patent number: 9084274
    Abstract: Disclosed is a wireless data transceiving method in a multi-point transmission environment. A data transmitting method of a base station includes determining priorities of a plurality of terminals, allocating a symbol to be transmitted to a low-priority terminal to a base layer, allocating a symbol to be transmitted to a high-priority terminal to an enhancement layer, performing hierarchical modulation, and transmitting the hierarchically modulated symbol. Accordingly, by combining CoMP transmission technology and hierarchical modulation, a data capacity for a cell edge terminal increases and necessary resources decrease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventor: Jun Hwan Lee
  • Patent number: 9070972
    Abstract: A beam forming device and method as well as to a beam steering device and method are described. The imaging beam forming device comprises a wideband transmit unit comprising at least one transmit antenna, a receiver unit comprising at least two receive antennas and at least one receive element that receive radiation from said scene and that generate receive signals from said received radiation, and a beam forming unit that performs beam forming to form a receive beam and obtain beam formed output signals from said receive signals by use of beam forming weights. For different samples or groups of subsequent samples of a receive signal, a sample representing said receive signal at a different frequency, a frequency-dependent weight is used for beam forming, which frequency-dependent weights are adapted to result in a predetermined shape of said receive beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Qi Wang, Richard Stirling-Gallacher, Ralf Boehnke
  • Patent number: 9071521
    Abstract: A method in a first node of a network comprises computing a packet duration when using a first unicast profile with a first type preamble and a packet duration when using a second unicast profile with a second type preamble; comparing the computed packet durations so as to determine one from the first and second unicast profiles which yields a shorter duration; and sending the packet to a second node by using the determined unicast profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: MARVELL INTERNATIONAL LTD.
    Inventors: Yehuda Azenkot, Zvi Bernstein
  • Patent number: 9066335
    Abstract: A base station can prevent deterioration of data channel application control accuracy due to influence of transmission power control to a control channel. In the base station, each encoding sect ion performs encoding processing to an SCCH (Shared Control Channel) of each mobile station, each modulating section performs modulation processing to the encoded SCCH, an arranging section arranges the SCCH to each mobile station to one of a plurality of subcarriers which configure an OFDM symbol, and transmission power control section controls transmission power of the SCCH based on reception quality information reported from each mobile station. The arranging section arranges a plurality of the SCCH to be under transmission power control to one of the subcarriers so that combinations at resource blocks are the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Akihiko Nishio, Masaru Fukuoka
  • Patent number: 9060304
    Abstract: A radio frame and method are provided for sending a sounding reference signal (SRS) in a mobile communication system, which is used to solve the problem of shortage of resources for sending the SRS in the mobile communication system. The method includes a user equipment (UE) sending the SRS to eNB in time-frequency resources corresponding to a guard space in the radio frame, wherein, the guard space is one or more of downlink to uplink guard space, uplink to downlink guard space, reserved subframes, or reserved idle resources. A device is also provided for sending the SRS, applied to the UE in the mobile communication system, wherein the device includes a radio frame construction module and a sounding reference signal transmission module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Bo Dai, Peng Hao, Yuxin Wang, Chunli Liang, Bin Yu
  • Patent number: 9014290
    Abstract: There is provided a method performed by a transmitter in a multi-user communication system. The method includes transmitting a first part of a codeword to a plurality of receivers over a communication channel in a transmission. The method further includes receiving feedback on the transmission of the first part of the codeword. The method also includes providing an artificial channel having channel parameters adjustable responsive to the received feedback. The method additionally includes virtually feeding the artificial channel with the first part of the codeword to generate artificial channel output data. The method further includes encoding a second part of the codeword for transmission to the plurality of receivers over the communication channel responsive to the artificial channel output data. The method also includes transmitting the encoded signals to the plurality of receivers over the communication channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: NEC Laboratories America, Inc.
    Inventors: Mohammad A. Khojastepour, Sampath Rangarajan
  • Patent number: 9001637
    Abstract: A method for automatically detecting a packet mode in a wireless communication system supporting a multiple transmission mode includes: acquiring at least one of data rate information, packet length information and channel bandwidth information from a transmitted frame; and determining the packet mode on the basis of the phase rotation check result of a symbol transmitted after a signal field signal and at least one of the data rate information, the packet length information and the channel bandwidth information acquired from the transmitted frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Il-Gu Lee, Eun-Young Choi, Sok-Kyu Lee
  • Patent number: 9001770
    Abstract: A method for allocating a physical hybrid ARQ indicator channel (PHICH) is discussed. The method includes allocating a CDM group according to a cyclic prefix type in consideration of a ratio of the numbers of necessary CDM groups according to spreading factors, and allocating a PHICH to the allocated CDM group. The PHICH includes an ACK/NACK signal multiplexed by code division multiplexing (CDM). Therefore, resources for PHICH transmission are efficiently allocated and a transmission structure can be maintained irrespective of a spreading factor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jung Hoon Lee, Joon Kui Ahn
  • Patent number: 8988978
    Abstract: A system and method to select a modulation coding scheme of a mobile device including establishing a connection between the mobile device and a remote device through a wireless communication network, monitoring at least two measured properties of a radio frequency access link between the mobile device and the wireless communication network, selecting an updated derived C value based on the measured properties of the radio frequency access link, and inducing a change in a modulation coding scheme based on the updated derived C value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yu-lin Wang, Johnson O. Sebeni
  • Patent number: 8982867
    Abstract: A system and method for wireless communications is provided. A method for operating in a communications network includes receiving a codebook, the codebook includes a plurality of codewords, and determining if the codebook satisfies a constant modulus property. The method also includes in response to determining that the codebook does not satisfy the constant modulus property, converting the codebook into a codebook satisfying the constant modulus property, and storing the codebook satisfying the constant modulus property. The method further includes storing the codebook in response to determining that the codebook does satisfy the constant modulus property, and causing to transmit a transmission to a communications device, wherein the transmission is encoded using a codeword in the stored codebook.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Yang Tang
  • Patent number: 8982684
    Abstract: A radio base station 100 judges a receiving state of a radio signal in conformity with the orthogonal frequency division multiplexing scheme, and changes a symbol string configuration of a symbol string defined by a size in a frequency axis direction and in a time axis direction, on the basis of the judged receiving state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Kusano, Takanori Tanaka
  • Patent number: 8976836
    Abstract: A sounding reference signal transmission method which is efficient in an uplink wireless telecommunications system using a multiple antenna technique and sounding reference signal hopping. A terminal using the multiple antenna technique is equipped with a plurality of antennas, and a base station receives the sounding reference signal transmitted from these antennas and estimates the uplink channel state of each antenna. Moreover, the sounding reference signal performs frequency hopping so that the base station determines the channel condition for the entire bandwidth to which data is transmitted in the uplink system. The sounding reference signal is transmitted through an antenna pattern in which the sounding reference signal can be transmitted through the entire data transmission bandwidth of the uplink system for each antenna of the terminal without additional overhead in this environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Sang Min Ro, Joon Young Cho, Ju Ho Lee, Yingyang Li, Jin Kyu Han
  • Patent number: 8976643
    Abstract: A wireless communication method for a transmission apparatus that transmits an OFDM (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing) signal using a communication band, which comprises a plurality of subcarrier groups each including a plurality of subcarriers. The method includes specifying which subcarrier group and how many subcarriers are to be used to transmit the OFDM signal, determining a configuration of a transmission frame, generating the OFDM signal by mapping data symbols according to the determined configuration of the transmission frame, and transmitting the generated OFDM signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Shinichiro Takabayashi, Masayuki Orihashi, Akihiko Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 8971458
    Abstract: The present invention relates to space-time or space-frequency coding in cellular systems. The same data is transmitted from different antennas with different coverage areas, corresponding to different cells. The different data streams have different parts of the space-time block codes applied. A mobile terminal can combine the different parts of the space-time block codes in different received signals. This provides better performance than the known techniques for single frequency networks. The invention can also be applied to antennas with different coverage areas from the same site, and different beams formed with antenna arrays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignees: Koninklijke Philips N.V., Sharp Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy James Moulsley, David Keith Roberts, Matthew Peter John Baker, Xusheng Wei
  • Patent number: 8958456
    Abstract: A composite wireless device including a WLAN device and a BT device. The composite wireless device includes a wireless-channel control unit that determines usable FH channels that can be used for frequency hopping of the BT device, based on communication quality information of the WLAN channel, and notifies the BT device of the usable frequency bands, and a BT-communication control unit that acquires communication quality information of an extended frequency band, which is a frequency band other than the usable frequency bands, as extended communication quality information. The wireless-channel control unit adds the FH channels in the WLAN channel, which are determined as being unused based on the extended communication quality information, as the usable FH channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Yukimasa Nagai
  • Patent number: 8947994
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided that enable an OFDM transmitter to be used for transmitting conventional OFDM or a form of transformed OFDM. A technique is provided for transforming a coded and modulated sequence of samples prior to an IFFT that enables the transformed sequence of samples to be transmitted using conventional OFDM or transformed OFDM. The selection of a transform function for transforming the coded and modulated sequence of samples may be based on optimizing the transform function for particular operating conditions between the transmitter and receiver. In some embodiments of the invention OFDM and time transformed OFDM are multiplexed in time and/or frequency in a transmission frame. In some embodiments of the invention a pilot pattern is provided in which the pilot are sent using OFDM and data is sent using OFDM and/or transformed OFDM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jianglei Ma, Wen Tong, Ming Jia, Hua Xu, Peiying Zhu, Hang Zhang
  • Patent number: 8942079
    Abstract: A method for mapping wireless resources of reference symbols for channel state estimation and modulation symbols for user information transmission in a transmitter of an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) mobile communication system is disclosed. The mapping method includes channel-encoding and modulating a user information stream to be transmitted, and then generating a systematic symbol stream and a parity symbol stream; and preferentially arranging systematic modulation symbols in resource elements of a symbol including no reference symbol, and then arranging parity modulation symbols in remaining resource elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Jin-Kyu Han, Ju-Ho Lee, Joon-Young Cho, Hwan-Joon Kwon
  • Patent number: 8938028
    Abstract: A radio communications apparatus transmitting data using multiple antennas is disclosed that includes a data link layer control information generation part configured to generate multiple data link layer control information items from generated data link layer control information; a data unit generation part configured to generate multiple data units to be transmitted through the corresponding antennas, based on the data link layer control information items generated by the data link layer control information generation part, so that the data units include the data link layer control information items; and a physical layer processing part configured to perform adaptive modulation and coding on the data units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Kenji Suda, Hitoshi Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 8934327
    Abstract: The subject matter disclosed herein provides methods and apparatus for providing MBS (multicast broadcast service) with outer coding and adjusted frame reference indexing. In one aspect, there is provided a method. The method includes receiving data packets from a network, dividing the data packets into one or more data streams, applying outer encoding on the one or more data streams and providing the one or more encoded data streams to an air interface for transmission to a user equipment over a wireless communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Wi-LAN, Inc.
    Inventors: Erik Colban, Dennis Connors, Yoav Nebat, Kenneth Stanwood, Sina Zahedi
  • Patent number: 8934328
    Abstract: System and method for dimension reduction and for channel and interference condition feedback in a Multi-User Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MU MIMO) wireless communication systems are provided herein. The method for dimension reduction includes determining a number of virtual antennas, vk, for beamformees pertaining to a multi user (MU) transmission group, reducing the dimension of the matrix by selecting a sub-set of antennas or by Eigen mode selection and sending a reduced dimension candidate transmit beamforming matrix or an effective channel matrix to a beamformer. The method for channel and interference condition feedback Interference condition includes sending to a beamformee metric indicative of the interference level from other streams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Celeno Communications Ltd.
    Inventors: Nir Shapira, Yaron Shany