Fourier Transform Patents (Class 370/210)
  • Patent number: 9362993
    Abstract: The present invention relates to transmit power allocation in multi-carrier, multiplexing MIMO communication systems. The present invention especially relates to a MIMO communication device, a method of assigning transmit power to two or more communication channels and a software program product. A multiple-input-multiple-output, MIMO, communication device according to the present invention comprises a link controller adapted to assign transmit power to two or more transmission channels, each of said transmission channels having preassigned a portion of transmit power for each of a group of subcarriers, said link controller being further adapted to assign, for each subcarrier of said group of subcarriers, at least part of the preassigned transmit power portion of a transmission channel that is not used for transmitting information at the subcarrier, to one or more transmission channels that are used for transmitting information at the subcarrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Lothar Stadelmeier, Daniel Schneider
  • Patent number: 9363120
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) communication of non-OFDM radio signals are disclosed. The non-OFDM radio signals are force-modulated into OFDM signals. In one example, a non-OFDM signal is received and is processed into an OFDM signal to produce a created OFDM signal. An actual OFDM signal is also received and is processed together with the created OFDM signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Amer A. Hassan, Christian Huitema
  • Patent number: 9357537
    Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for transmitting uplink data. The method for transmitting data in a uplink subframe comprises the steps of: determining whether or not a hybrid automatic retransmission request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) and uplink control information (UCI) are being simultaneously transmitted in the uplink subframe; selecting either the HARQ-ACK or UCI on the basis of the HARQ-ACK state for HARQ-ACK upon the occurrence of simultaneous transmission; and transmitting the selected HARQ-ACK or UCI in the uplink subframe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Daesung Hwang, Dongyoun Seo, Yunjung Yi, Joonkui Ahn, Suckchel Yang
  • Patent number: 9356667
    Abstract: A method for data transmission, comprises the steps of modulating data to be transmitted via a transmitter into a plurality of modulated symbols, generating a codebook comprising a plurality of codewords, selecting a codeword from the codebook as a precoding matrix by a predetermined cycling selection, precoding the modulated symbols with the precoding matrix selected, and transmitting the precoded modulated symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Jianzhong Zhang, Cornelius Van Rensburg
  • Patent number: 9319113
    Abstract: Aspects disclosed in the detailed description include simplified multiple input multiple output (MIMO) communication schemes for interchip and intrachip communications. In exemplary aspects, MIMO techniques are applied to interchip and intrachip communication systems. In particular, a programmable control function is provided at an electrical signal source and supports a default MIMO communication scheme on a MIMO channel comprising possible communication paths among a plurality of transmitting and receiving endpoints. In addition, the programmable control function can opportunistically employ a simplified MIMO communication scheme when the MIMO channel is determined to be a tri-diagonal MIMO channel. The simplified MIMO communication scheme uses an Inverse Fast Fourier Transformation (IFFT) with reduced computational complexity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: RaviKiran Gopalan
  • Patent number: 9319888
    Abstract: A technique for enabling utilization of a one-way link in wireless communication systems of the type using whitespaces is disclosed. A wireless communication system is arranged to include a transmitting station which transmits data by wireless communication and receiving stations which receive data as sent thereto, for performing wireless communication by using a whitespace. The receiving station detects data receivability at a specific frequency and sends communication quality information which is a detection result thereof to the transmitting station. The transmitting station holds this communication quality information. Then, upon startup of data reception by wireless communication, the receiving station sends to the transmitting station a packet indicating required quality which is a condition for the data reception.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: HITACHI KOKUSAI ELECTRIC, INC.
    Inventors: Keigo Hasegawa, Masayuki Takekawa, Keat Beng Toh
  • Patent number: 9319099
    Abstract: A system and method to reduce and/or eliminate interference between an indoor unit (IDU) and an outdoor unit (ODU) in a split backhaul architecture. The interference can be present in, for example, an N-plexer in the IDU and/or the ODU. For example, interference on an outbound signal that is introduced by an inbound signal in the N-plexer can be reduced and/or eliminated by introducing a cancellation signal that is combined with the outbound signal. Further, the N-plexer can include two or more signal cancellation modules configured such that the output of a first signal cancellation module is connected to both a common pathway and the input of the second signal cancellation module. The input of the first signal cancellation module and the output of the second signal cancellation module can be configured as the Tx and Rx pathways of the IDU and/or ODU with respect to the common pathway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Serguei Demine, Hanan Leizerovich, Yaacov Sturkovich
  • Patent number: 9313775
    Abstract: There is implemented a clipping technique that does not require a reception apparatus or a transmission apparatus to notify a transmission apparatus or a reception apparatus of information on clipping. A wireless transmission apparatus performs clipping processing not to transmit a spectrum of part of a frequency domain signal when transmitting data to a wireless reception apparatus and determines a frequency band to be subjected to the clipping processing using information other than information notified from the wireless reception apparatus and directly specifying a frequency band to be subjected to the clipping processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroki Takahashi, Yasuhiro Hamaguchi, Kazunari Yokomakura, Osamu Nakamura, Jungo Goto
  • Patent number: 9313074
    Abstract: A method and system for detecting FSS by a peak threshold, and a receiver include: a peak search module configured to perform peak search on a set of inputted CIR average values to obtain a set of CIR peaks; a threshold generation module configured to search for a maximum value from the obtained set of CIR peaks, obtain an FSS search threshold according to the maximum value and a preset threshold, and provide the FSS search threshold to an FSS detection module; and the FSS detection module configured to utilize the FSS search threshold to detect an FFT windowing position of a receiving antenna. The technical solutions according to the disclosure improve the protection capability from exceptions for FSS detection while reducing the detection complexity of FSS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventor: Junling Zhang
  • Patent number: 9313007
    Abstract: The number of OFDM symbols for channel estimation is reduced, overhead due to a pilot signal and a feedback signal is reduced, and the throughput is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Riichi Kudo, Yusuke Asai, Tomoki Murakami, Koichi Ishihara, Masato Mizoguchi
  • Patent number: 9307559
    Abstract: A mobile telecommunications system including mobile terminals of first type and second type configured to transmit uplink data to a network over a radio interface using plural sub-carriers. The mobile terminals of first type configured to transmit uplink data on a first group of the sub-carriers over a first bandwidth and the mobile terminals of second type configured to transmit uplink data on a second group of the sub-carriers within the first group of sub-carrier over a second bandwidth smaller than the first bandwidth. The mobile terminals of first type transmit random access request messages to a base station of the network requesting uplink radio resources on a first random access channel. The mobile terminals of second type transmit random access request messages to the base station of the network requesting uplink radio resources on a second random access channel on sub-carriers within the second sub-carrier group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: SCA IPLA HOLDINGS INC
    Inventors: Darren McNamara, Andrew Lillie, Peter Darwood, Martin Beale
  • Patent number: 9306584
    Abstract: A delay circuit provides a quadrature-delayed strobe, a tightly controlled quadrature DLL and write/read leveling delay lines by using the same physical delay line pair. By multiplexing different usage models, the need for multiple delay lines is significantly reduced to only two delay lines per byte. As a result, the delay circuit provides substantial saving in terms of layout area and power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Cavium, Inc.
    Inventors: David Lin, Suresh Balasubramanian
  • Patent number: 9306773
    Abstract: A method of processing communication signals, is described. The method includes receiving a communication signal in a time domain, converting the communication signal to a frequency domain, providing resource blocks, the resource blocks including a first resource block and a second resource block, the first resource block having a first boundary and a second boundary, the first boundary being adjacent to the second resource block, the second boundary being non-adjacent to other resource blocks, the first resource block including pilot signals, generating a third resource block based on the one or more pilot signals, providing a first waveform based on the resource blocks and the third resource block, applying a smoothing filter against the first waveform to generate a second waveform, and converting the second waveform from the frequency domain to the time domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: SPREADTRUM COMMUNICATIONS (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xuqiang Shen, Qiang Cao, Xiaojian Dong
  • Patent number: 9300370
    Abstract: An uplink signaling method is described where the UE transmits an indication of its ability to maintain relative transmit phase continuity with respect to a plurality of transmit chains thereof in place of being required to actually maintain the phase difference between its transmitters. The signaling method utilizes straightforward signaling with very little overhead, because the indication may be provided by setting the value of a bit in an uplink transmission. In response, a base station adopts an uplink transmission format for communications by the UE based, at least in part, upon the received indication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Peter Gaal
  • Patent number: 9294243
    Abstract: A base station apparatus for transmitting a reference signal in a wireless communication system is provided in which a processor generates the same sequence for resource elements (REs) allocated to each layer for reference signal transmission and spreads or covers Walsh codes for a user equipment-specific reference signal sequence such that sequences generated for the REs can be orthogonal to each other on a time axis. The Walsh code spreading or covering by the processor is applied on a frequency axis based on a plurality of resource blocks (RBs) or based on a pair of RBs such that mutually different sequences having mutually different sequence values can be mapped between RBs or between pairs of RBs. A transmission module transmits the reference signal, to which the generated reference signal sequence is applied to user equipment via each layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Dae Won Lee, Seung Hee Han, Ki Jun Kim, Joon Kui Ahn
  • Patent number: 9294324
    Abstract: A signal generator for creating a measuring signal comprising a cyclic prefix comprises a baseband signal generator for generating a baseband measuring signal and a channel emulator for emulating a channel in the baseband measuring signal resulting in a channel modified signal. Moreover, it comprises a modulator for modulating the channel modified signal and a cyclic prefix generating unit for generating and inserting a cyclic prefix into the modulated signal. The cyclic prefix generating unit is set up for generating the cyclic prefix in such a manner that a channel modified cyclic prefix is emulated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Stefan Schmidt
  • Patent number: 9270353
    Abstract: A method of spatially-encoded wireless transmission using a wireless communications device that is configured with an electromagnetic radiator involves applying a modulated carrier to one or more radiator elements of the electromagnetic radiator. The radiator elements are selected based on instantaneous samples of baseband information, and the modulated carrier is generated from the baseband information. The modulated carrier is then transmitted via the selected radiator elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Inventor: Warren Grossman
  • Patent number: 9270300
    Abstract: A method for generating a radio frequency signal, wherein a signal to be transmitted is decomposed into a weighted sum of periodic basic signals of different frequencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignees: STMICROELECTRONICS SA, INSTITUT POLYTECHNIQUE DE BORDEAUX, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, UNIVERSITE DE BORDEAUX
    Inventors: Didier Belot, Yann Deval, Francois Rivet
  • Patent number: 9265042
    Abstract: Where first and second reference signals for a first and second communication system, respectively, are transmitted, resources that affect a reception apparatus compatible only with the first communication system can be minimized, and the throughput can be prevented from being deteriorated. As resources for a reference signal CSI-RS for LTE-A, last half symbols in a time direction of a resource unit RB/Sub-frame defined in a frequency-time domain are used, and the CSI-RS is allocated in a position up to the last two symbols or in the last symbol, or the like, of a particular RB/Sub-frame and transmitted when a reference signal 4RS for LTE is transmitted to a reception apparatus in addition to transmitting CSI-RS for LTE-A. The reception apparatus receives CSI-RS allocated in the last half symbol of RB/Sub-frame based on CSI-RS allocation information, measures channel quality by using this CSI-RS, and transmits and reports feedback information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Masayuki Hoshino, Akihiko Nishio, Seigo Nakao, Daichi Imamura
  • Patent number: 9258150
    Abstract: The disclosed methods and systems for improved OFDM channel estimation filtering take advantage of the presence of highly correlated adjacent subcarriers to reduce the computational intensiveness of channel estimation filtering. Specifically, baseband signals corresponding to a channel are received. The cyclic prefixes of the baseband signals are removed, and the resulting signal is transformed into the frequency domain, and compensated by a first time offset of the baseband receive signal. Subcarrier signals used to transmit the baseband signal are then extracted. Adjacent subcarriers having channel responses highly correlated to the subcarriers of the channel are identified, and the signal is compensated by a second time offset that corresponds to a minimal angle of the autocorrelation function of the subcarrier and adjacent subcarriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: ZTE Wistron Telecom AB
    Inventors: James Peroulas, Patrick Svedman
  • Patent number: 9246567
    Abstract: Of any one of a transmission method X of transmitting modulated signal A and modulated signal B including the same data from a plurality of antennas and a transmission method Y of transmitting modulated signal A and modulated signal B having different data from the plurality of antennas, a base station apparatus does not change the transmission method during data transmission and changes only the modulation scheme. The base station apparatus transmits modulated signal A and modulated signal B to a communication terminal apparatus using the determined transmission method and modulation scheme. In this way, it is possible to improve data transmission efficiency when transmitting data using the plurality of antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Wi-Fi One, LLC
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Kiyotaka Kobayashi, Masayuki Orihashi, Akihiko Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 9215617
    Abstract: A method for estimating an unwanted component that a receiver introduces into a signal at a known frequency, the method comprising applying a frequency offset to a signal, which comprises a wanted component at the known frequency, to form an offset signal having a frequency spectrum in which the wanted component is not positioned at the known frequency, processing the offset signal in the receiver and estimating a component positioned at the known frequency in the frequency spectrum of the processed signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Neul Ltd.
    Inventor: Robert Young
  • Patent number: 9203575
    Abstract: A base station performs an association between frequency range and combinations of a plurality of base stations including an local base station to notify a terminal of the association. According to the notified association, the terminal, for each frequency, calculates quality of communication with one base station or quality of communication with the combination of the plurality of base stations. The base station and the control station determine the base station/the plurality of base stations that communicate with the terminal, the wireless resource and the transmission scheme, based on the result. Further, the base station selects whether to notify an entirety of or a part of the association to the terminal using positional information of the terminal. Since the association information that is unnecessary for the terminal is not communicated, it is possible to further lighten the load of control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Yunjian Jia, Kenzaburo Fujishima
  • Patent number: 9204435
    Abstract: A method of downlink subchannelization in a wireless communication system includes: transmitting a network entry and network discovery information including an open loop (OL) region parameter; and mapping a physical resource unit (PRU) to a contiguous resource unit (CRU) or a distributed resource unit (DRU) with respect to ith frequency partition based on the OL region parameter, wherein a permutation sequence used for mapping a PRU of the ith frequency partition (PRUFPi) to a CRU of the ith frequency partition (CRUFPi) or a DRU of the ith frequency partition (DRUFPi) is determined by a seed value, and the seed value is set to be a particular value according to the value of the OL region parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Wook Bong Lee, Jin Young Chun, Han Gyu Cho, Jin Soo Choi, Bin Chul Ihm
  • Patent number: 9197386
    Abstract: A base station apparatus for transmitting a reference signal in a wireless communication system is provided in which a processor generates the same sequence for resource elements (REs) allocated to each layer for reference signal transmission and spreads or covers Walsh codes for a user equipment—specific reference signal sequence such that sequences generated for the resource elements can be orthogonal to each other on a time axis. The Walsh code spreading or covering by the processor is applied on a frequency axis based on a plurality of resource blocks (RBs) or based on a pair of resource blocks such that mutually different sequences having mutually different sequence values can be mapped between resource blocks or between pairs of resource blocks. A transmission module transmits the reference signal, to which the generated reference signal sequence is applied to user equipment via each layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Dae Won Lee, Seung Hee Han, Ki Jun Kim, Joon Kui Ahn
  • Patent number: 9198132
    Abstract: A mobile phone terminal has a transition request function in which the mobile phone terminal transmits to a network a state transition request that the state of communication with the network be set to a pocket idle state if a packet communication idle state continues for a predetermined time in a state in which the mobile phone terminal is connected to the network in an RRC (Radio Resource Control) state. The mobile phone terminal includes a control section that controls the transition request function based on a communication history of the mobile phone terminal, based on a transmission power value of the mobile phone terminal, or based on a reception electric field value of the mobile phone terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takashi Tadaki
  • Patent number: 9178603
    Abstract: Techniques for supporting communication by a relay station are described. In an aspect, the relay station may support NACK Type 1 when operating in an amplify-and-forward (AF) mode. The relay station may receive a first transmission of a packet from an upstream station, determine PAPR of the first transmission, and send NACK Type 1 to the upstream station if high PAPR is detected. In another aspect, the relay station may support NACK Type 1 and NACK Type 2 when operating in a decode-and-forward (DF) mode. The relay station may perform PAPR decoding for the first transmission, send NACK Type 1 if PAPR decoding fails, perform channel decoding if PAPR decoding passes, and send NACK Type 2 to the upstream station if channel decoding fails. In yet another aspect, the relay station may operate in the AF mode or the DF mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Nagendra Nagaraja
  • Patent number: 9178675
    Abstract: A platform to facilitate updating an equalizer in addition to other receiver functionality is disclosed. A transmitting entity transmits one or more pilot tones in each protocol data unit (PDU) such as a packet. A receiving entity is able to derive a sufficiently accurate channel response estimate with the pilot tones under most channel conditions. The method and apparatus rotates the pilot tones through each of the subcarriers over the packet. The pilot tones would be separated by some number of data subcarriers so that estimation of slope and intercept for subcarrier tracking could be maintained. As the pilot tones are swept across the subcarriers, the taps for the equalizer for the subcarriers for which the pilot tones currently populate would be updated as well. This approach allows the system to track channel changes over time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Thomas J. Kenney, Eldad Perahia
  • Patent number: 9173157
    Abstract: A method and a wireless system. The system including a cluster of wireless stations (STAs), an access point (AP), and at least one cluster lead configured to send and receive data from the STAs and the AP and to retransmit the received data to other cluster leads, or to the AP, or both. The at least one cluster lead includes an STA designated by the AP from the cluster of STAs based at least partially on channel coherence time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventor: Sushanta Das
  • Patent number: 9172561
    Abstract: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate adaptively communicating data to wireless devices. An access point can precode a dedicated reference signal (DRS) for transmitting to a wireless device, and the wireless device can receive the precoded DRS. The wireless device can determine the precoder by estimating a channel of the DRS and can provide channel condition feedback to the access point. The access point can create data signals including a single or a burst of data transmissions according to the feedback and can precode the data signals using the same precoder. The wireless device can additionally decode the data signals using the precoder. Moreover, the access point can cycle through precoders according to a patterned, random, pseudo-random, and/or similar sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Tao Luo, Durga Prasad Malladi, Xiaoxia Zhang, Yongbin Wei, Juan Montojo, Ke Liu
  • Patent number: 9154198
    Abstract: The number of active antenna ports used for uplink and/or downlink MIMO transmissions to a given user are dynamically adjusted, based on user data traffic payload size per period of time, and based on RF conditions. An example method, in a radio transceiver that supports two or more MIMO transmission and reception modes, begins with evaluating channel conditions between the radio transceiver and a remote wireless device and comparing a throughput demand for the remote wireless device to a forward link capacity and/or reverse link capacity. A forward link transmission mode or a reverse link transmission mode is changed, based on the channel conditions and the throughput demand. The transmission mode is changed from a first multi-stream mode to a second multi-stream mode having fewer streams than the first multi-stream mode, despite that channel conditions for the corresponding link support the first multi-stream mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Jad El-Najjar, Nader El Chebib, Monil Joshi
  • Patent number: 9155005
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for wireless communication in a mobile device that includes relinquishing a client side high level operation system (HLOS) internet protocol (IP) context of a user equipment (UE), when the UE, connected to a network via a Wireless Wide Area Network (WWAN) connection, is transported to a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) connection area. Aspects of the methods and apparatus include maintaining a Packet Data Protocol (PDP) context of the UE, when the UE, connected to the network via the WWAN connection, is transported to a WLAN connection area. Aspects of the methods and apparatus include setting a linger timer for a certain period of time to defer deactivation of the PDP context and deactivating the PDP context when the linger timer expires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hariharan Sukumar, Sundar Raman, Vamsi Krishna Dokku, Vidula Rajeev Kurundkar, Gerardo Giaretta
  • Patent number: 9143293
    Abstract: A wireless communication terminal including a transceiver coupled to a processor and corresponding methods are disclosed. The processor is configured to determine resource elements that carry data intended for the terminal from a set of allocated resource elements that carry data intended for the terminal excluding at least resource elements associated with a first set of one or more resource elements of a particular type that are shifted relative to a known reference signal pattern. The processor is also configured to decode the resource elements that carry the data intended for the terminal based on the resource elements that carry the data intended for the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Krishna Kamal Sayana, Tyler Brown, Xiangyang Zhuang
  • Patent number: 9136933
    Abstract: A demultiplexing apparatus includes: a demultiplexed-signal selecting and distributing unit configured to apply frequency conversion processing and down-sampling processing to one or more reception signals and output reception signals to a designated output destination; frequency converting and reception low-pass filter units configured to apply frequency conversion processing and low-pass filter processing to reception signals and output reception signals while down-sampling reception signals; selector units configured to switch an input source of a signal output to the frequency converting and reception low-pass filter unit at a next stage; reception-channel filter units configured to subject signals from the frequency converting and reception low-pass filter units to waveform shaping with a desired frequency characteristic and output the signals; and a filter-bank control unit configured to generate, based on channel information estimated from one or more reception signals, a control signal controlling the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Akinori Fujimura
  • Patent number: 9130626
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices are described for compensating for transmit I/Q impairments in a digital signal. A frequency domain version of a first one of the components may be scaled at a wireless modem according to a frequency dependent I/Q impairment compensation function to obtain a compensated frequency domain version of the first one of the components. The compensated frequency domain version of the first one of the components may be combined with a frequency domain version of a second one of the components at the wireless modem to produce a compensated frequency domain version of the digital signal. The compensated frequency domain version of the digital signal may be transformed to the time domain at the wireless modem to produce a compensated time domain version of the digital signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Maxim Gotman, Tal Oved
  • Patent number: 9118534
    Abstract: A multicarrier transmitter has a first mode, in which the transmitter is configured to transmit a first component carrier signal modulated onto a first carrier by using a first LO signal, and a second mode, in which the transmitter is configured to transmit the first component carrier signal modulated onto the first carrier and a second component carrier signal modulated onto a second carrier by using a second LO signal. The multicarrier transmitter is coupled to a controllable oscillator and configured to adapt a frequency of an LO signal output by the controllable oscillator dependent on the multicarrier transmitter being activated in the first or second mode to output the first LO signal or the second LO signal. For example, the multicarrier transmitter may be configured to switch between the first mode and the second mode while transmitting the component carrier signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: Intel Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Mayer, Jan Zaleski, Thomas Mayer
  • Patent number: 9118285
    Abstract: There is described a method for compensating the phase and gain distortions of a transmitter analog front end affected by a leakage of a local oscillator. The method comprises generating a single complex tone signal in a digital front end, wherein the generation comprises compensating the signal gain and phase with gain and phase offsets. The method comprises feeding the compensated signal into the transmitter analog front end. The method comprises feeding a corresponding output signal of the transmitter analog front end into a nonlinear component, thereby generating an inter-modulation between the complex tone signal and at least one tone signal due to the local oscillator leakage. The method comprises feeding the output of the nonlinear component into a measurement receiver analog front end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: ST-ERICSSON SA
    Inventor: Fabio Epifano
  • Patent number: 9100091
    Abstract: The present disclosure outlines mechanisms, systems, methods, techniques and devices that reposition a RMC symbol in a TDD frame. In one aspect, a method queues data transmission units (DTUs) for transmission in a TDD OFDM communication system, with each of the DTUs occupying a single symbol partially or fully, or multiple symbols, of a series of symbols in a TDD frame. The method also forms a management symbol for transmission in a kth symbol position of the series of symbol positions, k>1. The method further transmits the symbols sequentially in the TDD frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: Metanoia Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Chun-Che Chang, Sam Mungall
  • Patent number: 9100106
    Abstract: A transmitter for Electric Field Communication (EFC) is provided. The transmitter includes a preamble code generator, a preamble symbol generator, and a transmission electrode. The preamble code generator masks each of at least two repetitive preamble codes so that information indicating broadcast information is included in the at least two repetitive preamble codes. The preamble symbol generator multiplies a spreading code to spread the masked at least two repetitive preamble codes and generate preamble symbols. The transmission electrode transmits the preamble symbols. Since additional information transferred based on the size of a correlation value of a preamble symbol is used, a broadcast frame can be retrieved even when all packets inside a superframe are not demodulated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hyun-Kuk Choi
  • Patent number: 9100978
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the method for allocating resources in a wireless system supporting a first radio access technology (RAT) and a second RAT operating in a narrower frequency band than the first RAT includes assigning at least one physical resource block (PRB) of a plurality of PRBs of the frequency band to the second RAT. The method further includes transmitting, in a first sector, over the at least one assigned PRB using the second RAT. The method further includes transmitting, in the first sector, control signals on unassigned PRBs using the first RAT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventor: Harish Viswanathan
  • Patent number: 9094178
    Abstract: A correcting apparatus for timing recovery of a receiver is provided. The receiver includes a timing recovery module that outputs a first symbol and a second symbol. The correcting apparatus includes: a channel impulse response module, configured to generate a first set of peak times and a second set of peak times according to the first symbol and the second symbol, respectively; and a calculation module, configured to calculate a correction signal according to a relationship between the first and second sets of peak times and to send the correction signal to the timing recovery module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: MSTAR SEMICONDUCTOR, INC.
    Inventors: Chih-Cheng Kuo, Ching-Fu Lan, Tai-Lai Tung
  • Patent number: 9094269
    Abstract: A transmitter may comprise a first domain translation circuit, a first PAPR suppression circuit, and a descriptor generation circuit. The first domain translation circuit may convert a plurality of frequency-domain symbols of a first OFDM symbol to a corresponding plurality of first time-domain signals. The first PAPR suppression circuit may group the plurality of first time-domain signals into a plurality of sub-bands of the first time-domain. The first PAPR suppression circuit may invert one or more of the sub-bands of the first time-domain signals according to a value of a first descriptor. The descriptor generation circuit may determine the value of the first descriptor using an iterative process in which each iteration comprises random selection of a value of the first descriptor, determination of a PAPR of the first OFDM symbol processed using the randomly-selected value, and determination of whether said PAPR meets one or more determined criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: MaxLinear, Inc.
    Inventors: Curtis Ling, Timothy Leo Gallagher
  • Patent number: 9088332
    Abstract: Devices, systems and methods for mitigating the interference introduced by mobile relay nodes in a heterogeneous network are described. The techniques described apply fractional frequency reuse and power controlled beamforming to mitigate such interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Gary David Boudreau, Konstantinos Dimou
  • Patent number: 9088385
    Abstract: Transmission of uplink control message for a wireless system. The uplink control message may be encoded according to one of multiple possible schemes. The choice of encoding scheme may be made based on the control message size and/or based on the available transmission resources and/or based on the detection scheme used on the receiving end. A modulation scheme may also be selected based on such factors. CDM may be used for certain control messages. Block code encoding, such as Reed-Muller encoding may be used for certain control messages. Different transmission resources may be allocated for different control message uses. The encoding specifics may be selected to obtain a certain hamming distance and/or size of the encoded message or based on other factors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Dong-Sheng Yu, Hosein Nikopourdeilami, Sophie Vrzic, Mo-Han Fong, Robert Novak, Jun Yuan
  • Patent number: 9084163
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for performing a carrier switching operation in the perspective of a terminal in a multicarrier system, the method including establishing an enhanced-multicast broadcast service (E-MBS) service connection with a base station for E-MBS service reception, sending an E-MBS report message to the base station in the E-MBS service connected state with the base station, the E-MBS report message including connection information related to E-MBS channels, which the terminal is receiving or E-MBS channels, which the terminal intends to receive, receiving an E-MBS response message from the base station in response to the E-MBS report message, and performing a carrier switching operation for the E-MBS service reception based upon unicast available interval information included in the E-MBS response message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jeongki Kim, Kiseon Ryu, Youngsoo Yuk
  • Patent number: 9081684
    Abstract: In one or more embodiments, a data processing apparatus is configured to receive data symbols transmitted from one or more endpoint devices. Each of the data symbols is transmitted in a respective temporal position assigned for communication by one of the plurality of endpoints. The data processing apparatus is configured to recover data from two or more transmission(s)/retransmission(s) (of the same data) that are received in error and have different temporal positions. The corresponding data symbols in error are phase-aligned per a common reference point and energy is accumulated therefrom. The data processing apparatus discerns correct data values from the accumulated energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: Landis+Gyr Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Stuart L. Haug, Damian Bonicatto
  • Patent number: 9066338
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for transmitting resource allocation information between a mobile communication device and a base station in a wireless mobile communication system that supports a plurality of communication modes. The method comprises the steps of: creating information relating to the number of resource units available for the mobile communication device operating in a second communication mode from all of the whole resource units which can be used by a first mobile communication device operating in a first communication mode and a second mobile communication device operating in the second communication mode; and broadcasting the information relating to the number of available resource units created in the previous step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jin Soo Choi, Han Gyu Cho
  • Patent number: 9065658
    Abstract: An Ethernet outlet senses the presence of an Ethernet signal and transmits an Ethernet ID signal in response to the restoration of an Ethernet signal that was interrupted. The sensing circuit is designed to have no detrimental effect on Ethernet signals. Using this system, the locations of Ethernet outlets and network endpoint devices connected to the outlets can be determined following the interruption and reestablishment of network communications. Outlets according to the present invention can be used in copper-based networks or in networks having fiber optic components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: Panduit Corp.
    Inventors: Jack E. Caveney, Ronald A. Nordin
  • Patent number: 9059765
    Abstract: A reception device includes signal receiving units that generate received signals from signals obtained by receiving a transmitted signal at antennas, signal processing units that perform processes of generating received frequency domain signals by transforming the received signals to signals in the frequency domain, calculating channel impulse responses of the received signals, calculating estimated received signals from the channel impulse responses, and calculating residual error weights with values that decrease with increasing differences between the received signals and the estimated received signals, a combining ratio calculation unit that calculates combining ratios for the received frequency domain signals such that the ratios decrease as the residual error weights decrease, a diversity combining unit that combines the received frequency domain signals according to the combining ratios to generate a diversity combined signal, and an inverse Fourier transform unit that transforms the diversity combine
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naosuke Ito, Jun Ido
  • Patent number: 9058541
    Abstract: Object detection receives an input image to detect an object of interest. It determines feature matrices based on the received image, wherein each matrix represents a feature of the received image. The plurality of matrices are Fourier transformed to Fourier feature matrices. Fourier filter matrices are provided, each representing a feature of an object transformed in Fourier space. Each filter matrix is point-wise multiplied with one of the feature matrices corresponding to the same feature. The plurality of matrices are summed, resulting by point-wise multiplying each Fourier filter matrix with the corresponding Fourier feature matrix to obtain a Fourier score matrix. An inverse Fourier transform of the Fourier score matrix is performed, resulting in a score matrix, which is used to detect the object in the input image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: Fondation De L'Institut De Recherche IDIAP
    Inventors: Charles Dubout, Francois Fleuret