End-to-end Transmission System Patents (Class 375/141)
  • Patent number: 9219506
    Abstract: A wireless transmitter transmits a first transmission wave having a first carrier frequency (f0+?f), modulated by a modulator with an information signal having a frequency band f1 which is predetermined, from a transmitting antenna, and transmits a second transmission wave having a second carrier frequency (f0??f), modulated by a modulator with such information signal. An average frequency f0 between the first carrier frequency (f0+?f) and the second carrier frequency (f0??f) is kept constant, whereas the first carrier frequency (f0+?f) and the second carrier frequency (f0??f) are varied by controlling a frequency difference ?f to vary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventor: Ken Takei
  • Patent number: 9215731
    Abstract: Techniques for sending a message for random access by a user equipment (UE) are described. In an aspect, the UE may send the message on a control channel for random access and may send a reserved channel identifier to indicate the message being sent on the control channel. In another aspect, the UE may send the message in a protocol data unit (PDU) and may send additional information (e.g., a buffer status report) in the PDU if it can accommodate the additional information. In yet another aspect, the UE may generate a short message authentication code for integrity protection (MAC-I) for the message. The short MAC-I may have a smaller size and may be used to authenticate the UE. In yet another aspect, the UE may send a UE ID of one of multiple types for random access and may convey the UE ID type via a format field in the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Masato Kitazoe, Arnaud Meylan
  • Patent number: 9215704
    Abstract: As channel state information of multiple nodes in a multiple node system, the present invention relates to a method and a device for transmitting and receiving information showing a correlation between said multiple nodes. Also, the present invention relates to a method and a device for transmitting and receiving a Channel Quality Indication (CQI), in consideration of signal through transmitted by multiple nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Binchul Ihm, Jinyoung Chun, Kitae Kim, Sunam Kim, Jiwon Kang, Sungho Park
  • Patent number: 9178985
    Abstract: An apparatus for and method of encapsulating Ethernet frames over a Very high speed Digital Subscriber Line (VDSL) transport facility. The VDSL frames are transmitted over a point to point VDSL link where they are subsequently extracted and forwarded as standard Ethernet frames. The VDSL facility transport system comprises an Ethernet to VDSL Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) coupled to a DSL Access Multiplexor (DSLAM) over a VDSL transport facility. The Ethernet to VDSL CPE functions to receive a 10BaseT Ethernet signal and encapsulate the Ethernet frame into a VDSL frame for transmission over the VDSL facility. The DSLAM is adapted to receive VDSL frames, extract Ethernet frames therefrom and generate and output a standard Ethernet signal. Ethernet frames are encapsulated within VDSL frames and transmitted on the wire pair without regard to the state of the SOC signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Spinel Ektronix LLC
    Inventors: Amit Lewin, Eytan Mann, Yackov Sfadya, Yuri Poddobny
  • Patent number: 9177596
    Abstract: A decoding device includes: an interference canceling circuit (104) which extracts, from states of 2K-number (where K is a natural number) of detected signals that are likely within a range of K bit width where an interference between bits of the digital information occurs due to predetermined frequency characteristics, most likely 2M-number (where M is a natural number) of detected signals respectively corresponding to states of 2M-number of detected signals which exist within a range of M bit width that is included in the range of K bit width; and a Viterbi decoding circuit (105) which generates a decoded signal by calculating differences between the 2M-number of detected signals extracted by the interference canceling circuit (104) and expectation signals respectively corresponding to the 2M-number of detected signals and also by selecting a transition sequence of a state of a detected signal for which the calculated difference is smallest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kohei Nakata, Yasumori Hino, Yuji Takagi, Tsuyoshi Nakasendo
  • Patent number: 9178494
    Abstract: A symmetric discrete-time square-root-raised-cosine filter may be utilized to process a serial input signal and to produce an output square in each clock cycle. The filter may be adapted to decrease the computational complexity of the resulting calculations, making the filter amenable to use in power sensitive applications and in those situations where the available processor's performance is relatively limited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Tinku Acharya, George J. Miao
  • Patent number: 9154195
    Abstract: A method of connecting base stations by a one-way cooperative channel forming a beam is provided. Since it is possible to determine directions of beams and to distribute power components by small amounts of calculations, it is possible to realize the base stations in a one-way cooperative situation with small expenses. In addition, the base stations according to the exemplary embodiment of the present invention may minimize the influence of interference generated by signals transmitted by other base stations through the one-way cooperative channel and the influence of interference generated by signals transmitted to other terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Juyul Lee, Keun Young Kim, Seong Chul Cho, Seung-Hwan Lee
  • Patent number: 9148409
    Abstract: Upon providing (101) message content (such as a remote control instruction) to be transmitted, and in conjunction with provision (102) of a plurality of different transmission characteristics (as correspond, for example, to different types of transmission) and a corresponding plurality of correlated recovery identifiers (103), a particular transmission characteristic is selected (104) and used to transmit (105) a joint message. n particular, in a preferred approach, the selected transmission characteristic (106) is used when transmitting at least a portion of the message content portion of the joint message while another part of the joint message carries the recovery identifier to thereby facilitate selection of an appropriate reception technique by a receiver when receiving the joint message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: The Chamberlain Group, Inc.
    Inventors: James J. Fitzgibbon, Edward T. Laird
  • Patent number: 9130624
    Abstract: Reducing interference on an input signal which includes a desired signal and an interfering signal, including: processing the input signal in frequency and time domain to separate the desired signal from the interfering signal by: characterizing the interfering signal without a priori knowledge of characteristics of the interfering signal; generating a clean copy of a carrier of the input signal using the characterized interfering signal; inverting the clean copy of the carrier and correcting for gain and phase; and summing the inverted clean copy of the carrier with the input signal to generate an output signal which is substantially close to the desired signal, wherein the generated output signal has adequate signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) so that it can be processed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: Kratos Integral Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Stuart Daughtridge, Robert Potter
  • Patent number: 9124387
    Abstract: Dynamic adaption of transmission rate for multiuser MIMO networks is disclosed. The invention controls a first communication device to transmit data at rates optimal determined under the condition that the channel is occupied by the first communication device, a second communication device to transmit data at rates optimal determined under the condition that the channel is shared by the first and second communication devices and a third communication to transmit data at rates optimal determined under the condition that the channel is shared by the first, second and third communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: ACADEMIA SINICA
    Inventors: Kate Ching-Ju Lin, Wei-Liang Shen, Shyamnath Gollakota, Dina Katabi
  • Patent number: 9112654
    Abstract: A wireless communications device includes a receiver, and a decoder coupled downstream from the receiver. The decoder is configured to alternatively decode a first signal using a first trellis state transition map including first valid transitions, the first signal having a first modulation order, and second signals using second trellis state transition maps including respective second valid transitions defined from the first valid transitions. The second signals have respective modulation orders less than the first modulation order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: HARRIS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Joseph B. Shaver, John Wesley Nieto, Michael Patrick Snook
  • Patent number: 9083813
    Abstract: A communication terminal includes: a communication section configured to perform non-contact communication with an external apparatus; an alarming section; and a control section configured to determine a communication state of the communication section with the external apparatus, and if the communication state is determined to be a communication error state, the control section configured to cause the alarming section to give an alarm prompting a user to change a relative position of the communication terminal with the external apparatus on the basis of communication data at the time of the communication error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: FELICA NETWORKS, INC.
    Inventor: Suguru Sekita
  • Patent number: 9071341
    Abstract: Presented is a random non-cyclical binary code generator for communications systems. A random non-cyclical sequence of integers from a random number generator is extended in length to form an extended integer sequence. This integer set is immediately loaded into a 10-minute epoch memory consistent with 10 minutes of chips. These integers are then synchronously retrieved from memory under GPS time-of-day control. Retrieved integers are immediately converted into pulse pairs of all ones followed by all zeros with each pulse width equal to the integer value in chips. The chips are immediately concatenated to a chipping clock shifting memory wherein each memory location is a unique phase source of the binary code. The memory length in chips is twice the range uncertainty for a 10 MHz chip rate, with the center chip of the shifting memory maintained as the source of universal time synchronized local binary code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Inventor: Rupert Theodore Neff
  • Patent number: 9066275
    Abstract: A method and system are provided for determining the network status of a mobile device. A wireless connection between the mobile device and a wireless packet data communication network is established. The mobile device sends a data packet through the network and monitors for a response via the network one or more times within a period or until a response via the network is received. If no response is received via the network, a test message is sent to a dummy server a predetermined number of times within a period or until a response from the dummy server is received. Upon determining that a response from the dummy server has been received, the mobile device deactivates or blocks network access requests originating from the mobile device to the network, unless initiated by a user of the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: Cellco Partnership
    Inventors: Lixia Yan, Ravikumar Pattabiraman
  • Patent number: 9065585
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for generating a reference signal sequence in a wireless communication system. User equipment receives a cell-specific sequence hopping parameter from a base station, receives, from the base station, a user equipment (UE)-specific sequence group hopping (SGH) parameter which is specific to said user equipment, and generates a reference signal sequence on the basis of a base sequence number of a base sequence, wherein the base sequence number is determined for each slot on the basis of the cell-specific sequence hopping parameter and of the use equipment-specific sequence group hopping parameter. Here, the determination of whether or not to apply sequence hopping to the base sequence number indicated by the user equipment-specific sequence group hopping parameter overrides that of whether or not to apply sequence hopping to the base sequence number indicated by the cell-specific sequence hopping parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Min Seok Noh, Jae Hoon Chung, Hyun Soo Ko, Seung Hee Han, Moon Il Lee
  • Patent number: 9054652
    Abstract: Enhancing the intermodulation performance of an RF power amplifier by determining a coarse time delay represented by an integer T1; determining a reference point for a transmitted signal waveform of the RF power amplifier; shifting the waveform by a set of offsets comprising a plurality of non-integer fractional steps from (T1?Xd) to (T1+Xd) where T1 is the integer and Xd is a non-integer fractional step size value for defining fractional steps about the integer T1 such that the non-integer fractional steps progress in a positive direction as well as a negative direction; correlating the transmitted signal waveform with a feedback signal waveform to obtain a respective correlation value for each of corresponding fractional steps; obtaining an accurate fractional delay value by selecting a fractional step having a highest respective correlation value; applying the obtained correct fractional delay value to the transmitted signal waveform to provide a compensated transmitted signal waveform, and combining the c
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Shavantha Kularatna, Christian Reichl, Bjoern Jelonnek, Glenn Schedeen, Sandeep Mehta
  • Patent number: 9048936
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for communicating in a wireless network are described herein. In an aspect, a method of transmitting a data unit includes generating a data unit. The data unit includes one or more short training field (STF) sequences. The method further includes encoding each of the STF sequences with a pseudo-random spreading code. The code is based on an addressee of the data unit. The method further includes transmitting, at a transmitter, the data unit over a wireless channel. In another aspect, a method of processing a data unit includes receiving, at a receiver, a data unit. The data unit includes one or more STF sequences. The method further includes determining whether the data unit comprises one or more differentially encoded symbols. The method further includes receiving one or more long training field (LTF) sequences when the data unit does not comprise one or more differentially encoded symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sameer Vermani, Lin Yang, Eugene J. Baik, Hemanth Sampath
  • Patent number: 9042427
    Abstract: A method for generating multi-level (or multi-bit) pseudo-random sequences is disclosed. This embodiment relates to communication systems, and more particularly to generating multi-level pseudo random symbol sequence. Present day systems do not employ effective mechanisms for generation of multi level PRBS in order to increase the data communication rates. Further, these systems do not cover all the possible transitions for the outputs of the system. The proposed system employs mechanisms in order to generate PRBS signals for producing multi levels signals to the electronic components. The mechanism employs alternate bit tapping techniques. In the alternate bit tapping technique, bits are tapped alternatively to determine the current state and the next state of the system. In addition, the mechanism also covers all the possible states of the output vector with transitions between the output states. This ensures that high data rates are obtained for a given bandwidth of operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Inventors: Mohit Singh, Shalabh Gupta
  • Patent number: 9036684
    Abstract: Compressive sampling is used to generate pilot symbols to be transmitted over an array of antennas in a MIMO wireless communications device. A pilot symbol is transmitted over the array of antennas according to a spatially randomized antenna transmission function that randomly changes across the array of antennas. The randomized antenna transmission function may randomly select/deselect antennas and/or randomly change amplitude and/or phase of the pilot symbol transmission. Channel estimates can be constructed at a receiver based on the spatially randomized pilot symbols that were transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Dennis Hui, Kumar Balachandran, Jung-Fu Cheng, Jiann-Ching Guey
  • Publication number: 20150124855
    Abstract: A communication method for transmitting meta-data through a meta-carrier signal comprising encoding meta-data using an encoder, the meta-data comprising information that identifies a repeating relay to which a spread meta-carrier signal is to be transmitted, encoded using an encoder, modulating, using a modulator and spreading, using a spreader, the encoded meta-data such that the spread meta-carrier signal results, and transmitting, by a transmitting device, the spread meta-carrier signal to the repeating relay wherein the repeating relay does not process or modify the spread meta-carrier signal, the spread meta-carrier signal being transmitted over at least a portion of a bandwidth of the repeating relay.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2015
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventors: Frederick Morris, Michael Beeler
  • Publication number: 20150110160
    Abstract: A method for data transmission in a radio data transmission system having a plurality of parallel single-input single-output or multiple-input multiple-output channels over which the data is transmitted, the data represented by a plurality of data symbols, the data symbols being spread prior to transmission by a plurality of spreading sequences is described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2013
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Inventor: Mustafa Gurcan
  • Patent number: 9008152
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide signaling mechanisms for wireless networks composed of a large number of stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Krishna C. Garikipati, Sayantan Choudhury
  • Patent number: 9009039
    Abstract: Technologies are described herein for noise adaptive training to achieve robust automatic speech recognition. Through the use of these technologies, a noise adaptive training (NAT) approach may use both clean and corrupted speech for training. The NAT approach may normalize the environmental distortion as part of the model training. A set of underlying “pseudo-clean” model parameters may be estimated directly. This may be done without point estimation of clean speech features as an intermediate step. The pseudo-clean model parameters learned from the NAT technique may be used with a Vector Taylor Series (VTS) adaptation. Such adaptation may support decoding noisy utterances during the operating phase of a automatic voice recognition system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Lewis Seltzer, James Garnet Droppo, Ozlem Kalinli, Alejandro Acero
  • Patent number: 8995578
    Abstract: A receiver apparatus includes a propagation channel estimating unit that estimates a propagation channel. The propagation channel estimating unit includes a path detector unit that repeatedly performs a process of detecting paths in the order of increase in a propagation channel goodness of fit. The receiver apparatus that estimates a propagation channel at a high accuracy level with a small amount of calculation operation involved is thus provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Katsuya Kato, Takashi Yoshimoto, Ryota Yamada
  • Patent number: 8995497
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating a secondary station, the secondary station communicating with at least one primary station by means<MIMO transmissions, the method comprising the secondary station signaling a single precoding indicator representative of a set of recommended precoding coefficients to the primary station, wherein the same precoding indicator applies for a plurality of available transmission modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Timothy James Moulsley, Milos Tesanovic
  • 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: 8989287
    Abstract: A circuit for use in a complementary Golay sequence generator or in a complementary Golay sequence correlator includes an input configured to receive an input signal, a set of delay elements, including delay elements corresponding to respective delays of 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, and 64, and a set of multipliers interconnected with the input and the set of delay elements. The set of multipliers is configured to apply weight factors, and the weight factors define the sequence 1,1,?1,1,?1,1,?1. The circuit also includes a pair of outputs configured to output, in response to the input signal, one of (i) a pair of complementary Golay sequences or (ii) a pair of correlation output signals, using (a) the set of delay elements and (b) the set of weight multipliers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Marvell World Trade Ltd.
    Inventors: Hongyuan Zhang, Rohit U. Nabar, Songping Wu, Hui-Ling Lou
  • Patent number: 8982998
    Abstract: A transmission apparatus includes a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) modulation signal generators, which generate a first OFDM modulation signal and a second OFDM modulation signal. The transmission apparatus also includes a transmitter that transmits the first OFDM modulation signal from a first antenna and the second OFDM modulation signal from a second antenna, in an identical frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Masayuki Orihashi, Akihiko Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 8982926
    Abstract: Disclosed is a spectrum spread communication system which is hardly influenced by noises, and in which a frame structure can be identified at a receiving side without use of a frame synchronization signal. A spread code generator switches spread codes (“Scai” and “Scbi”) in each frame, and outputs it to a spread modulation unit. The spread modulation unit performs spread modulation of transmission data, and transmits it to a direct current power line. A reference code generator generates reference codes (“Scai” and “Scbi”) in the same code phase. Spread demodulation units performs spread demodulation of the received signal with use of the reference codes (“Scai” and “Scbi”), and output it to a selection unit. A frame synchronization detection unit identifies a frame structure on the basis of switching of a synchronization state of a code phase in a code phase synchronization detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
    Inventors: Yuji Kasai, Masahiro Murakawa, Tetsuya Higuchi
  • Patent number: 8976838
    Abstract: An apparatus for assigning transmission symbols to a media data stream of information symbols is described, the media data stream including a first substream for representing media content in a basic quality and a second substream including additional data for representing the media content, along with the first substream, in an improved quality. The apparatus includes a first assigner for assigning first transmission symbols to the information symbols of the first substream and a second assigner for assigning second transmission symbols to the information symbols of the second substream, the first transmission symbols being transmissible, via a transmission channel, with reduced error probability as compared to the second transmission symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Stephan Jaeckel, Volker Jungnickel, Thomas Schierl, Cornelius Hellge, Thomas Haustein
  • Patent number: 8976839
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method, device and system for configuring codebooks. The method comprises a transmitting end selecting a code word restricted sub-set and informing a receiving end of the code word restricted sub-set, the code word restricted sub-set containing part or all of code words in a first codebook and/or a second codebook; and the receiving end selecting an optimal pre-coded code word from the code word restricted sub-set and informing the transmitting end of an index of the optimal pre-coded code word. By the present invention, code word restriction is implemented in the case of dual codebooks in the LTE-A system such that the calculation complexity is reduced when the receiving end selects the code word, occurrences of the case where the receiving end selects the code word wrongly are decreased, and the signaling structure in the LTE system can be inherited very well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Yijian Chen, Hui Yu, Yu Ngok Li, Jun Xu
  • Patent number: 8976841
    Abstract: A transmitting/receiving installation of microwave radio signals including a transmitting/receiving unit. The unit includes a receiving module to receive electrical signals, known as terrestrial electrical signals, issued from the transformation of radio signals received terrestrially, a module to transform the electrical signals modulated according to a spread spectrum protocol, known as satellite electrical signals, into radio signals able to be transmitted by satellite, a transmitter to transmit to a satellite of the microwave radio signals obtained after transformation of the satellite electrical signals and an amplifier to amplify the satellite electrical signals. The installation includes a box including a modulator of electrical signals according to a spread spectrum protocol and a coaxial cable connecting the transmitting/receiving unit and the box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Eutelsat S A
    Inventors: Antonio Arcidiacono, Daniele Vito Finocchiaro
  • Patent number: 8976842
    Abstract: A method of detecting PN code synchronization for a DSSS signal comprising receiving a DSSS data signal of data frames comprised of I and Q symbols, at least a portion of each data frame comprising a unique word, demodulating the data signal into I and Q chip samples, filtering the I and Q chip samples and outputting the filtered I and Q chip samples to a chip stream controller which outputs the plurality of chip streams to a correlation matrix that correlates the plurality of chip streams with the chipped unique word and outputs a correlated data stream. A plurality of FFTs is run on the correlated output data stream and a processor searches for a maximum frequency bin power of each FFT. A PN synchronization detector searches for a maximum frequency bin power of each FFT. A PN synchronization detector searches for a maximum frequency bin power among the plurality of FFT rounds and determines whether PN synchronization is present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Comtech EF Data Corp.
    Inventor: Lianfeng Peng
  • Patent number: 8971421
    Abstract: A millimeter wave wireless (M2W2) interconnect is used for transmitting and receiving signals at millimeter-wave frequencies for short-range wireless communication with high data rate capability. The transmitter and receiver antennae may comprise an on-chip differential dipole antenna or a bond-wire differential dipole antenna. The bond wire differential dipole antenna is comprised of a pair of bond wires connecting between a pair of pads on an integrated circuit (IC) die and a pair of floating pads on a printed circuit board (PCB).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Sai-Wang Tam, Mau-Chung F. Chang
  • Patent number: 8971382
    Abstract: A code generating apparatus, demodulation reference signal generating apparatus, and methods thereof. The demodulation reference signal generator includes generating a non-correlation sequence for RS of a first resource block; spreading spectrums of elements in the non-correlation sequence for RS to be mapped to a first frequency resource of the first resource block, by using a first group of codes; second spreading spectrums of elements in the non-correlation sequence for RS to be mapped to a second frequency resource of the first resource block, by using a second group of Codes; the first and second frequency resources are adjacent frequency resources in frequency resource elements used for RS transmission in the first resource block, and the first and second groups of Codes are mirrors in column to each other; and mapping the spectrum-spread elements to the first and second frequency resources, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Yi Wang, Yuantao Zhang, Hua Zhou, Jianming Wu
  • Patent number: 8971381
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and discloses a method and a device for transmitting/receiving a downlink reference signal in a wireless communication system. The present invention provides a way for maintaining orthogonality of a reference signal between cells in a multi-cell operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hanbyul Seo, Kijun Kim, Inkwon Seo
  • Patent number: 8971380
    Abstract: A machine-implemented system and method are described for removing interference between adjacent distributed-input-distributed-output (DIDO) clusters comprising. For example, a method according to one embodiment comprises: detecting signal strength at a first client from a main DIDO cluster; detecting interference signal strength at the first client from an interfering DIDO cluster; if the signal strength from the main DIDO cluster reaches a specified value relative to the value of the interference signal strength from the interfering DIDO cluster, then generating channel state information (CSI) defining channel state between one or more antennas of the first client and one or more antennas of the interfering DIDO cluster; transmitting the CSI from the first client to a base transceiver station (BTS) in the interfering DIDO cluster; and implementing DIDO precoding with inter-DIDO-cluster interference (IDCI) cancellation at the BTS in the interfering DIDO cluster to avoid RF interference at the first client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Rearden, LLC
    Inventors: Antonio Forenza, Stephen G. Perlman
  • 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: 8948705
    Abstract: In one aspect of a multiple-access OFDM-CDMA system, data spreading is performed in the frequency domain by spreading each data stream with a respective spreading code selected from a set of available spreading codes. To support multiple access, system resources may be allocated and de-allocated to users (e.g., spreading codes may be assigned to users as needed, and transmit power may be allocated to users). Variable rate data for each user may be supported via a combination of spreading adjustment and transmit power scaling. Interference control techniques are also provided to improve system performance via power control of the downlink and/or uplink transmissions to achieve the desired level of performance while minimizing interference. A pilot may be transmitted by each transmitter unit to assist the receiver units perform acquisition, timing synchronization, carrier recovery, handoff, channel estimation, coherent data demodulation, and so on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jay R. Walton, John W. Ketchum, Steven J. Howard, Mark Wallace
  • Patent number: 8942493
    Abstract: An image coding method for performing compression-coding on image data includes: binarizing a signal to be coded of the image data, to generate a binary signal; determining a low-order context which is a context associated with a type of the signal to be coded, and a high-order context that is common to the low-order context and a context associated with another type; calculating coding probability information to be used in arithmetic coding of the binary signal, using (i) high-order probability information corresponding to the determined high-order context and (ii) low-order probability information corresponding to the determined low-order context; performing the arithmetic coding on the binary signal using the coding probability information; and updating the high-order probability information and the low-order probability information based on the binary signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Hisao Sasai, Takahiro Nishi, Youji Shibahara, Kyoko Tanikawa
  • Patent number: 8934518
    Abstract: A communication method for transmitting meta-data through a meta-carrier signal comprising encoding meta-data using an encoder, the meta-data comprising information that identifies a repeating relay to which a spread meta-carrier signal is to be transmitted, encoded using an encoder, modulating, using a modulator and spreading, using a spreader, the encoded meta-data such that the spread meta-carrier signal results, and transmitting, by a transmitting device, the spread meta-carrier signal to the repeating relay wherein the repeating relay does not process or modify the spread meta-carrier signal, the spread meta-carrier signal being transmitted over at least a portion of a bandwidth of the repeating relay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Comtech EF Data Corp.
    Inventors: Frederick Morris, Michael Beeler
  • Patent number: 8923364
    Abstract: In general, the subject matter described in this disclosure can be embodied in methods, systems, and program products for transmitting data over discontiguous portions of radio frequency spectrum. Data that is to be wirelessly transmitted to a remote computing device is received. A first signal that encodes the data across a band of radio frequencies is generated. The first signal is split into multiple signals, each of the multiple signals being associated with a different portion of the band of radio frequencies. Each of the multiple signals is filtered to isolate each respective one of the multiple signals to its associated portion of the band of radio frequencies. At least one of the multiple signals is frequency translated. Each of the multiple signals are combined after the filtering of each of the multiple signals. The second signal is provided for wireless transmission by an antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: C. Philip Gossett
  • Patent number: 8917950
    Abstract: A simplified parametric loop filter uses a set of fixed filters to remove or reduce noise and artifacts introduced during video coding. The simplified parametric loop filter uses the parameters such as direction and bandwidth to uniquely identify a fixed filter from the set of filters. The simplified parametric loop filter implements symmetry between filters, symmetry within each filter, unity DC gain and zero-forcing to 1) reduce the storage space in memorizing the fixed filters, and 2) reduce the computational complexity for performing filtering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Wei Liu, Lina Dong
  • Patent number: 8918099
    Abstract: A method and system is disclosed enabling deconfliction between a ground-based radio and an airborne radio while both radios are in wireless data communication with a ground-based cellular network via the same ground-based connection node or tower. An orthogonal plurality of time/frequency segments is divided into a ground group of segments and an air group of segments by dynamically placing a frequency barrier between the two groups. Through dynamic allocation between groups and between the plurality of time/frequency segments within each group, interference free communication may coexist while both radios are wirelessly connected to the same tower. Additionally, an uplink (from airborne radio to tower) frequency may be moved to a second, distant frequency band to deconflict with the uplink and downlink first frequency band allotted to the ground-based radio while the downlink from tower to airborne radio remains within the first frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventor: James P. Mitchell
  • Patent number: 8913100
    Abstract: A mobile device, and a method and computer program product for displaying a streaming video image at the mobile device during a packet based video call via a channel established over a wireless communication network, the method includes receiving a speed indication of the mobile device and sending said indication to a communication client application; and responsive to receiving said indication, the communication client application is configured to limit the amount of information in the streaming video image that is supplied for display on a display of the mobile device during the video call when the speed of the mobile device is greater than, or equal to, a first predetermined speed threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Skype
    Inventor: Sten Tamkivi
  • Patent number: 8913686
    Abstract: A computationally feasible encoding and decoding arrangement and method for transmission of data over an additive white Gaussian noise channel with average codeword power constraint employs sparse superposition codes. The code words are linear combinations of subsets of vectors from a given dictionary, with the possible messages indexed by the choice of subset. An adaptive successive decoder is shown to be reliable with error probability exponentially small for all rates below the Shannon capacity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Yale University
    Inventors: Andrew R. Barron, Antony Joseph
  • Patent number: 8891589
    Abstract: Techniques for controlling diversity beamforming antenna array is disclosed. One aspect of the techniques is to utilize low-power and low area circuits to achieve combining gains, mitigate the effects of multipath fading, provide spatial suppression and diversity gains to a single input receiver. The device is radiofrequency transparent yet provides antenna gain by selective three G and four G code acquisition and tracking of a desired downlink channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Renda Trust
    Inventors: James June-Ming Wang, Menno Marringa
  • Publication number: 20140334528
    Abstract: A CDMA communication system includes a signal processor which encodes voice and nonvoice signals into data at various rates, e.g. data rates of 8 kbps, 16 kbps, 32 kbps, or 64 kbps as I and Q signals. The signal processor selects a specific data rate depending upon the type of signal, or in response to a set data rate. When the signal is received and demodulated, the baseband signal is at the chip level. Both the I and Q components of the signal are despread using the conjugate of the pn sequence used during spreading, returning the signal to the symbol level. Carrier offset correction is performed at the symbol level. A lower overall processing speed is therefore required.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventor: John D. Kaewell
  • Patent number: 8885743
    Abstract: A method of transmitting a control signal in a wireless communication system includes allocating a first sequence to spread a first control signal in a radio resource, allocating a second sequence to spread a second control signal in the radio resource, selecting one of the first control signal and the second control signal, generating a spread control signal by spreading the selected control signal, and transmitting the spread control signal in the radio resource, wherein the first sequence and the second sequence use different cyclic shifts of a base sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jin Sam Kwak, Seung Hee Han, Min Seok Noh, Yeong Hyeon Kwon, Hyun Woo Lee, Dong Cheol Kim
  • Patent number: 8879605
    Abstract: A mobile station receives system time information from a source base transceiver station (BTS) in a spread spectrum communication system. The mobile station estimates a distance between the mobile station and the source BTS. The mobile station calculates a propagation delay based on the estimated distance. The mobile station develops a propagation-delay-adjusted time reference based on the system time information and the calculated propagation delay. The mobile station uses the propagation-delay-adjusted time reference to search for a target pseudonoise (PN) offset corresponding to a target BTS in the spread spectrum communication system. The mobile station may be closer to the target BTS than the source BTS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Sprint Spectrum L.P.
    Inventors: Maulik K. Shah, Sachin R. Vargantwar, Maneesh Gauba