End-to-end Transmission System Patents (Class 375/141)
  • Patent number: 8873605
    Abstract: A method for estimating a scrambling code used on an uplink of a WCDMA system. The scrambling code is obtained from a Gold code, sum of a first specific M-sequence of the user and of a second M-sequence known from the receiver. After sampling of the signal received at the chip frequency of the scrambling code, the successive samples are subject to a differential treatment and the sequence of differential values is multiplied by the second M-sequence. The observables thereby obtained are decoded with the aid of a belief propagation iterative decoding. The decoded values then serve to determine the content of the shift register of the generator of the first M-sequence. One then deduces therefrom the Gold code and an estimation of the scrambling code, ?.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives
    Inventor: Mathieu Bouvier des Noes
  • Patent number: 8873604
    Abstract: The present invention teaches method and apparatus to transform a featureless, unpredictable, and non-repeatable chaos waveform into digital chaos waveforms that maintain featureless characteristics to serve as a for wireless communications protocol, whereby unintended observers cannot detect or disrupt yet imprint a small measure of predictability and repeatability to aid intend observers in recovering embedded information. This invention discloses wireless communication systems with multiple signal aggregation at the transmitter and multiple detection at the receiver that uses embedding digital signals and digital information within multiple digital chaos waveforms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Inventor: John David Terry
  • Patent number: 8867663
    Abstract: An orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signal transmission apparatus which transmits OFDM signals by using a plurality of transmission antennas includes a subcarrier setting device which sets signals for subcarriers so as to use some of the subcarriers of the OFDM signals as pilot subcarriers to transmit pilot signals and use the remaining subcarriers as data subcarriers to transmit data signals, the subcarrier setting device changing polarities of signals for the pilot subcarriers for each transmission antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Tsuguhide Aoki
  • Patent number: 8867647
    Abstract: A system is provided for transmitting a low code rate spatially multiplexed channel on multiple antennas. The system includes a transmitter and a processor. The processor is configured such that the processor encodes a block of information bits to form channel coded bits, wherein the ratio of the number of channel coded bits to the number of information bits is greater than one; and the processor maps the channel coded bits to modulation symbols, and each channel coded bit is mapped once to a modulation symbol. The transmitter is configured to transmit a first portion of the modulation symbols using a spreading sequence on a first antenna of the multiple antennas and to transmit a second portion of the modulation symbols using the spreading sequence on a second antenna of the multiple antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Robert Mark Harrison, Hua Xu, Andrew Mark Earnshaw, Zhijun Cai
  • Patent number: 8861569
    Abstract: The present invention proposes an LTE eNodeB receiver channel estimation technique that is referred to as reduced complexity minimum mean squared error (MMSE) technique for channel estimation. From the invention's assumptions, estimations and modified calculations, the present invention generates precise channel estimates of RS using the reduced complexity MMSE matrix and previously computed LS channel estimates HLS is as follows: (Formula I) which generates precise channel estimates of RS using the reduced complexity MMSE matrix and previously computed LS channel estimates. As a second aspect of the present invention, it is desired that the SNR be estimated within ?3 dB of the actual channel SNR. As a third aspect of the invention, an adaptive method of data channel interpolation from RS channel is being proposed in this invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: John P. Panicker, Gary Boudreau, Michael Petras, Ed Illidge
  • Publication number: 20140301430
    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: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2014
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Inventors: Yi WANG, Yuantao ZHANG, Hua ZHOU, Jianming WU
  • Patent number: 8855169
    Abstract: The present invention provides backscatter interrogators, communication systems and backscatter communication methods. According to one aspect of the present invention, a backscatter interrogator includes a data path configured to communicate a data signal; a signal generator configured to generate a carrier signal; and a modulator coupled with the data path and the signal generator, the modulator being configured to spread the data signal to define a spread data signal and amplitude modulate the carrier signal using the spread data signal, the modulator being further configured to phase modulate the carrier signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Round Rock Research, LLC
    Inventors: David K. Ovard, Roy Greeff
  • Publication number: 20140294048
    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: June 16, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Inventors: Frederick Morris, Michael Beeler
  • Patent number: 8848763
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and a device for transmitting uplink control information (UCI) by a terminal in a wireless communication system. The UCI transmission method comprises the steps of: generating an encoding information bit stream by performing channel coding for a UCI bit stream; generating complex modulation symbols by performing modulation for the generated encoding information bit stream; spreading the complex modulation symbols in block-wise on the basis of an orthogonal sequence; and transmitting the spread complex modulation symbols to a base station. The encoding information bit stream is generated by a channel coding for circularly repeating the UCI bit stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seung Hee Han, Ji Woong Jang, Jae Hoon Chung, Han Gyu Cho, Yeong Hyeon Kwon, Seung Hyun Kang
  • Patent number: 8842713
    Abstract: A method implemented in a multiple-antenna transceiver includes adapting a plurality of sets of rake coefficients based on a plurality of signals received via a plurality of single-input, multiple-output (SIMO) channels. Each signal of the plurality of signals corresponds to a single signal transmitted by a remote transceiver, and each set of the adapted sets of rake coefficients corresponds to an estimate of a respective one of the plurality of SIMO channels. The method also includes selecting, according to at least one selection criterion, one coefficient from each set of the plurality of sets of rake coefficients, generating a transmit steering vector based on the selected coefficients, and applying the transmit steering vector to a signal to be transmitted to the remote transceiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.
    Inventors: Hongyuan Zhang, Zhiyu Yang
  • Patent number: 8842555
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a rate-adaptation unit may be configured to receive local as well as end-to-end feedback information associated with data transmission (such as data delay, packet loss, transmit power headroom, channel condition; sector loading, the amount of buffered data, etc.) from a wireless access module in communication with wireless/wired networks, and adapt the real-time information encoding in accordance with such feedback information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Peerapol Tinnakornsrisuphap, Christopher Gerard Lott, Guan-Ming Su
  • Patent number: 8837640
    Abstract: Implementation and operation of a multiple protocol receiver are described herein. In one example, a multiple protocol receiver in a node may alternate between first and second states. In a first state, the multiple protocol receiver listens simultaneously for a plurality of differently modulated signals. Such listening may be performed in a parallel manner, wherein a plurality of preamble detection processes each listens for a specific preamble. The listening may result in detection of a preamble of a packet, which triggers transition to the second state. The detected preamble may indicate a protocol used in transmission of the packet. The received packet may then be demodulated according to, for example, a data rate, synchronization, redundancy and/or other factors indicated by the protocol. The received packet may be utilized by the node or retransmitted. The multiple protocol receiver may return to the first state to repeat and continue the procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Itron, Inc.
    Inventor: Gilles Picard
  • Patent number: 8837257
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments provide a computer-implemented method for generating a modulated acoustic carrier signal for wireless transmission from a speaker of a transmit device to a microphone of a receive device. Aspects of the exemplary embodiments include converting a message to binary data; modulating one or more selected frequencies for one or more acoustic carrier signals based on the binary data to generate one or more modulated acoustic carrier signals; filtering the one or more modulated acoustic carrier signals to remove any unintended audible harmonics created during modulation, including; equalizing the modulated acoustic carrier signal to pre-compensate for known degradations that will occur further along a signal path; setting a level of the modulated acoustic carrier signal for the intended application; and storing the modulated acoustic carrier signal in a buffer for subsequent output and transmission by the speaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Verifone Systems, Incorporated
    Inventors: Richard S. Surprenant, Chad G. Seguin, Brett L. Paulson
  • Patent number: 8831067
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for feeding back channel information, which includes: configuring a same codebook space at a data transmitting end and a data receiving end (101); the data receiving end selecting, from the codebook space, a codeword matched with a channel, and transmitting a sequence number corresponding to the codeword to the data transmitting end (102); and the data transmitting end extracting, according to the sequence number, a corresponding codeword from a locally-configured codebook space to obtain channel state information (103). The present invention also discloses a system for feeding back channel information, which includes a data transmitting end and a data receiving end. The method and system for feeding back channel information solve the problem that there is no channel information feedback method for dual-polarized channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Yijian Chen, Guanghui Yu, Junfeng Zhang, Shupeng Li
  • Patent number: 8824578
    Abstract: A system, method and node of single-carrier layer shifting for multiple-stream transmission in a network. Per-symbol layer shifting for multiple-stream transmission is implemented using DFTS-OFDM as an access technique. Code word-to-layer mapping is fixed within a DFTS-OFDM symbol and only shifted across consecutive DFTS-OFDM symbols. The method begins by receiving a multiple-stream transmission by a mapping module for transmission. The transmission includes a plurality of subframes and information carrying symbols transmitted on a plurality of layers. A per-symbol layer shifting scheme is then implemented on the transmission where layer shifting is conducted upon each symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Chester Park, George Jongren
  • Patent number: 8817844
    Abstract: A method of transmitting a plurality of signals from a transmitting station to a plurality of receiving stations in a transmission channel having a plurality of sub-channels, the method comprising: transmitting a first signal in a first sub-channel to a first receiving station; transmitting a second signal in a second sub-channel to a second receiving station; whereby the first and second signals are transmitted simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Cambridge Silicon Radio Limited
    Inventor: Fei Tong
  • Patent number: 8817891
    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: June 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Sai-Wang Tam, Mau-Chung Frank Chang
  • Patent number: 8811273
    Abstract: A method of power saving for a wireless transceiver (FIGS. 1 and 2) is disclosed. The transceiver has an active power mode (504) and a reduced power mode (510). The transceiver is operated in the reduced power mode (510) and monitors transmissions from a remote wireless transmitter while in the reduced power mode. The transceiver identifies a transmission from the remote wireless transmitter by a transceiver identity included in the transmission (FIG. 6, UE identification). The transceiver transitions to the active power mode (512) in response to identifying the transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Timothy M. Schmidl, Eko N. Onggosanusi, Anand G. Dabak, Aris Papasakellariou
  • Patent number: 8811507
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for wireless communication. In one aspect, an apparatus for wireless communication is provided. The apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive a wireless signal comprising a packet over a bandwidth. The packet includes a preamble portion comprising a signaling (SIG) field. A first portion of the SIG field is received over a first bandwidth within the bandwidth. A second portion of the SIG field is received after the first portion, the second portion received over a second bandwidth within the bandwidth. The first bandwidth is different than the second bandwidth, The second portion is replicated at least once within the bandwidth. The apparatus further includes a processor configured to evaluate the wireless signal including at least one of the first or second portions of the SIG field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Eugene J. Baik, Sameer Vermani
  • Patent number: 8811454
    Abstract: Provided are a method for dynamically acquiring a PN synchronization of a blink signal in a reader according to a channel state when a tag transmits a direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) blink signal having a predetermined period and the reader receives the blink signal in a 2.4 GHz RTLS system which complies with an ISO/IEC24730-2 standard, and a method for synchronizing a frame using a preamble.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: LSIS Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jae Wook Kim
  • Patent number: 8804790
    Abstract: A method for communicating comprises generating at least one generalized Golay code from a concatenation of constituent Golay codes, and spreading at least a portion of a data stream with the at least one generalized Golay code. Generalized Golay codes comprise pseudo-complementary sequences having code lengths that differ from Golay complementary sequences and are characterized by low autocorrelation sidelobes relative to the autocorrelation peak.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Adeptence, LLC
    Inventor: Ismail Lakkis
  • Patent number: 8792534
    Abstract: A terminal and a communication method thereof whereby, even in a case of employing the asymmetric carrier aggregation system and further employing the MIMO transmission method for upstream channels, the error characteristic of control information can be prevented from being degraded. In the terminal (200), a transport signal forming unit (212) forms transport signals by arranging, based on a arrangement rule, ACK/NACK and CQI in a plurality of layers. According to the arrangement rule, an error detection result is arranged, on a priority basis, in a layer that is different from a layer in which the channel quality information is arranged. In this way, the puncturing of CQI using ACK/NACK can be minimized, with the result that the error characteristic of control information can be prevented from being degraded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Ogawa, Seigo Nakao, Akihiko Nishio, Masayuki Hoshino, Daichi Imamura, Atsushi Sumasu
  • Patent number: 8787468
    Abstract: A method for multi-radio coexistence receives historical frequency usage information and historical time usage information from a first radio. The method creates a time and frequency mask by extrapolating the historical frequency and time usage information to future times and frequencies when the first radio will be active and uses the time and frequency mask to schedule a second radio to avoid receiving when the first radio will likely be active. A related apparatus has a collocated radio input for receiving timing usage information, a non-collocated radio input for receiving frequency usage information, and a time and frequency mask generator for creating a time and frequency mask using the timing usage information and the frequency usage information. The method and apparatus predicts collocated and non-collocated radio activity in both the time and frequency dimensions to reduce interference among radios operating in overlapping or adjacent frequency bands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Phan Dao Minh Truong, Michael E Russell, Indranil S. Sen
  • Publication number: 20140177680
    Abstract: A communication system including a host transceiver, one or many device transceivers, and a wireless or wired link, in which encoded digital audio data and optionally also other auxiliary data are transmitted and received between the host transceiver and one or many device transceivers. The wireless link can but need not be a Certified Wireless USB (“CWUSB”) link, which utilizes WiMedia Ultra-Wideband (“UWB”) radio technology. For certain embodiments, packets of encoded audio data are transmitted from a host to a device or multiple devices over the wireless link utilizing a variety of data packet transfer methods, with the host adapting its algorithms dynamically to provide the digital audio content over a changing wireless error rate environment. The host intelligently controls the method of data transmission, including data encoding format, synchronization, latency, and transmission rate, in response to data transfer error information it detects or receives from each individual device in the system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2013
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Inventors: Jano Banks, Jeffrey D. Boone, Bradley Bozarth
  • Patent number: 8761290
    Abstract: Technologies are generally described for cognitive radio spectrum sensing via Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) receiver coding. A CDMA module in the front-end of a cognitive radio system may be used to sense spectrum. When the system is not decoding or transmitting signals, a modified CDMA receiver coding may replace a pseudorandom code used in decoding with relatively pure, non-random detection frequency to scan for energy from primary users of the spectrum. Multiplication of the received signal by spectrally pure codes in place of the CDMA code renders the CDMA processor effectively a scanning spectrum analyzer and may detect energy at multiple frequencies. The allocation of sub-bands and/or timing may be adjusted to account for the detected energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Empire Technology Development, LLC
    Inventor: Ezekiel Kruglick
  • Patent number: 8761231
    Abstract: Provided are a frequency modulation/demodulation apparatus using a frequency selective baseband and a transmitting/receiving apparatus using the same. In a frequency selective baseband transmission technique or an FS-CDMA technique, a transmission rate is controlled according to communication channel environment, spread code groups are repeatedly selected in a receiving side so as to obtain a frequency diversity gain. Accordingly, it is possible to reduce interference between users. In addition, even in a case where strong interference induced from electronic exists, it is possible to implement low-power, stable human-body communication and to ensure a communication quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Hyung Il Park, In Gi Lim, Tae Wook Kang, Sung Weon Kang, Kyung Soo Kim, Jung Bum Kim, Chang Hee Hyoung, Jung Hwan Hwang, Jin Kyung Kim, Sung Eun Kim, Duck Gun Park, Ki Hyuk Park, Jae Hoon Shim
  • Publication number: 20140169409
    Abstract: System and method embodiments are provided for open-loop spatial multiplexing for radio access virtualization. In an embodiment, a system includes a plurality of antenna ports and a processor coupled to the plurality of antenna ports and configured to spread a spreading sequence over at least a portion of the plurality of antenna ports in a spatial domain, wherein the processor is configured to cause the antenna ports to transmit multiple spreading sequences simultaneously by sequence superposition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: FutureWei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jianglei Ma, Hosein Nikopour, Alireza Bayesteh, Ming Jia, Peiying Zhu
  • Publication number: 20140169407
    Abstract: The present invention teaches method and apparatus to transform a featureless, unpredictable, and non-repeatable chaos waveform into digital chaos waveforms that maintain featureless characteristics to serve as a for wireless communications protocol, whereby unintended observers cannot detect or disrupt yet imprint a small measure of predictability and repeatability to aid intend observers in recovering embedded information. This invention discloses wireless communication systems with multiple signal aggregation at the transmitter and multiple detection at the receiver that uses embedding digital signals and digital information within multiple digital chaos waveforms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Inventor: John David Terry
  • Publication number: 20140169408
    Abstract: A method for transmitting data includes mapping a first coded information bit stream intended for a first transmit antenna onto at least one first spreading sequence of a plurality of first spreading sequences to generate a first data stream, mapping a second coded information bit stream intended for a second transmit antenna onto at least one second spreading sequence of a plurality of second spreading sequences to generate a second data stream. The method also includes transmitting the first data stream and the second data stream on respective transmit antennas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: FUTUREWEI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Alireza Bayesteh, Hosein Nikopour, Jianglei Ma
  • Patent number: 8755425
    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: February 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Comtech EF Data Corp.
    Inventors: Frederick Morris, Michael Beeler
  • Patent number: 8743928
    Abstract: An adaptive equalizer and operating method thereof are disclosed. The adaptive equalizer is oversampling-based. The adaptive equalizer includes a searching module, a compensation module, and an operating module. The searching module searches the equalizer setting from a lower compensation to a higher compensation to obtain a first equalizer setup value according a first monitored result of a monitor and then searches the equalizer setting from a higher compensation to a lower compensation to obtain a second equalizer setup value according to a second monitored result of the monitor. The operating module performs an operation on the first equalizer setup value and the second equalizer setup value to obtain an optimized equalizer setup value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Raydium Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Min-Chung Chou, Da-Rong Huang
  • Patent number: 8744005
    Abstract: A method of generating modulation signals is disclosed including generally three steps. A plurality of modulation signals are generated, each of which is to be transmitted from a different one of a plurality of antennas in an identical frequency band, wherein each modulation signal includes a pilot symbol sequence including a plurality of pilot symbols used for demodulation. Each of the pilot symbol sequences is inserted at the same temporal point in each modulation signal, wherein the pilot symbol sequences are orthogonal to each other with zero mutual correlation among the plurality of modulation signals, each pilot symbol having a non-zero amplitude, the quantity of the plurality of pilot symbols in each sequence being greater than the quantity of the plurality of modulation signals to be transmitted. The plurality of modulation signals each including different transmission data and one of the pilot symbol sequences are output to the antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Masayuki Orihashi, Akihiko Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 8737515
    Abstract: A roulette table, including an electronic system having at least one electronic circuit, a number of M antennas, a Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) transmitter for sending a number of M orthogonal code sequences via the antennas, and a contactless communication interface for receiving the position from an electronic memory of the electronic circuit, in which the antennas are arranged below stake fields of the roulette table, and having chips, in which each chip is equipped with an electronic circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Inventor: Christoph Ruland
  • Publication number: 20140140374
    Abstract: A method and a system are provided for transmitting data in a motor vehicle by wireless communication. The data from a first transmitting data node is divided, transmitted to a second receiving data node via at least two different communication routes, and reassembled upon being received. Redundant data is generated from the data to be transmitted, the redundant data allowing a reconstruction of the data to be transmitted in the event that a communication route fails.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Inventors: Marc Menzel, Ulrich Staehlin
  • Patent number: 8730255
    Abstract: There is provided a video signal processing method for performing predetermined signal processing on an input video signal to transmit an output video signal in a form of a specified transmission format through a video signal line including invalid bit polarity setting processing to be performed by an invalid bit polarity setting unit, wherein, when there exists an invalid bit having no data corresponding to data making up the input video signal in the specified transmission format of the output video signal, to count the number of low and high levels of gray-level data of the input video signal to compare a numerical size between the number of low levels and the number of high levels for judgment and to set a polarity of the invalid bit based on the judgment result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: NLT Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kouichi Ooga
  • Patent number: 8718118
    Abstract: There are several exemplary ways to more efficiently communicate an out-of-domain seed to a receiver—in a first technique, the seed can be indicated in the header portion or data portion of a packet. For example, the header portion of the packet could contain one or more bit fields that indicate the value of the LFSR seed used for the preamble portion of the packet. The receiver would learn the out-of-domain seed after receiving a first out-of-domain packet and decoding the header portion of that packet. After learning the out-of-domain seed, the receiver could send a packet indicating the value of the out-of-domain seed to the local master. The local master could then transmit the value of the out-of-domain seed in the header portion or data portion of a local MAP frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Aware, Inc.
    Inventors: Marcos Tzannes, Joon Bae Kim, Stuart Sandberg
  • Patent number: 8705459
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for multiplexing control signals between a plurality of users when control signals for the plurality of users are allocated within one resource block. That is, a method for multiplexing control signals includes coding control signals for at least one user signals to correspond to a structure of a transmission block for the control signals among one or more dedicated resource block, multiplexing the control signals for the at least one user signals in the dedicated resource block, and transmitting the control signals, wherein the dedicated resource block is allocated for transmitting the control signals separately from data signals among a plurality of transmission resource blocks. A frequency division multiplexing (FDM) mode and a code division multiplexing (CDM) mode are used to multiplex the control signals for the plurality of users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jin Young Chun, Bin Chul Ihm, Wook Bong Lee, Jae Won Chang, Moon II Lee
  • Patent number: 8705656
    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: April 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Masayuki Orihashi, Akihiko Matsuoka
  • Publication number: 20140104109
    Abstract: A GNSS receiver communicates with any connectivity device, such as a WiFi device that is, in turn, in communication with a wired network having access to the DTI timing. Such connectivity devices may set their timing and frame synchronization to the DTI and thus serve as Geopositioning beacons, thereby enabling the GNSS receiver to accurately determine its position. The GNSS receiver may also use the DTI timing supplied by such a network to perform relatively long integration time so as to achieve substantially improved sensitivity that is necessary for indoor Geopositioning applications. Furthermore, the GNSS data, such as satellite orbital information, may also be propagated by such devices at high speed. By providing this data to the GNSS receivers via such connectivity devices in a rapid fashion, the GNSS receivers are enabled to receive the transmitted data associated with the satellite without waiting for the GNSS transmission from the satellites.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Inventor: Curtis Ling
  • Publication number: 20140105251
    Abstract: The present document describes a method for detecting a leak in an all-digital cable distribution network comprising a head station for transmitting content to subscribers using channels that are encoded using quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM), the method comprising: injecting at the head station, through the cable distribution network and using a direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) transmitter, a DSSS signal of a frequency range not overlapping with an adjacent QAM channel; travelling the area where the cable distribution network is deployed, with a DSSS receiver tuned to the DSSS transmitter at the head station; and upon detecting, at the DSSS receiver, a DSSS signal leaking through the leak of the cable distribution network, determining the location of leak for repair, or generating a leakage event data package that may be transmitted or stored.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: Effigis Geo Solutions
    Inventor: Magella Bouchard
  • Patent number: 8699544
    Abstract: System and method for enabling the cohabitation of licensed and unlicensed communications devices. A method comprises at a receiver, receiving transmitted data, demodulating the transmitted data to produce spread symbols, despreading the spread symbols to produce received data, wherein the despreading comprises using an orthogonal sequence selected from a list of orthogonal sequences for use by all transmissions in the wireless network, and processing the received data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: FutureWei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Soo-Young Chang
  • Patent number: 8699633
    Abstract: A method for communication includes receiving in a receiver signals, which include one or more dedicated reference signals and are transmitted from a transmitter over a communication channel in multiple blocks. The signals in each block, including the dedicated reference signals, are transmitted on a respective group of subcarriers over a respective time interval and are precoded using a respective precoding scheme that maps the signals onto multiple antenna ports of the transmitter. One or more parameters of the communication channel are estimated over the dedicated reference signals included in two or more of the blocks whose respective precoding schemes do not differ from one another. The signals are decoded based on the estimated parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Marvell World Trade Ltd.
    Inventors: Adoram Erell, Daniel Yellin
  • Patent number: 8693523
    Abstract: Filtering and modulating a first rate data signal into a Quadrature Amplitude Modulated (QAM) Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) and a second rate data signal into a Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) modulated signal and selecting between the transmission of the CDMA and TDMA modulated signals. A method for nonlinearly and linearly amplifying TDMA and CDMA signals. A diversity receiver and demodulator method for receiving and demodulating transmitted modulated signals. Processing, transmit baseband filtering and modulating signals for providing cross-correlated in-phase and quadrature-phase Gaussian filtered Gaussian Minimum Shift Keying (GMSK) and other cross-correlated modulated signals and spread spectrum Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (QPSK) modulated signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Inventor: Kamilo Feher
  • Patent number: 8693602
    Abstract: Method and system for separating a plurality of users in a communication system including two transmitter antennas and N receiver antennas, said signals transmitted by said users containing symbols an, x( ) corresponding to the vector of the envelopes of the output signals of the 1 to N receiver antennas after a shaping filtering operation, characterized in that it uses a linear mean square filter extended over an observation vector {tilde over (x)}=[x(2n?1)T x(2n)T x(2n?1)H x(2n)H]T where x(2n?1) and x(2n) correspond to the (N×1) (N?1) observations at the symbol times 2n?1 and 2n.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Thales
    Inventors: Pascal Chevalier, Florian Dupuy
  • Patent number: 8693522
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a pilot sending method and an apparatus, which relate to the communication field and can save network resources. The solution is: performing spreading on at least two signature sequences by using a spreading code, where each signature sequence of the at least two signature sequences corresponds to at least one user equipment (UE), and is used as a dedicated pilot of at least one data stream of the at least one UE, and the dedicated pilot is used by the UE to perform precoding matrix estimation; and performing precoding on the spread signature sequences, and sending the precoded spread signature sequences to the UE. The embodiments of the present invention are applicable to the sending of pilots in MU-MIMO.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jie Ma, Chuanfeng He, Huan Zhou, Liang Xia, Yue Li
  • Patent number: 8693526
    Abstract: This invention teaches a way to multiplex and de-multiplex unipolar signals using spread spectrum methods. While bipolar spread spectrum signal multiplexing may be used in may applications, for example for systems using radio signals, when using unipolar signals there is a loss of orthogonally which makes the standard algorithms unworkable. This invention teaches a method to recover orthogonally and make spread spectrum multiplexing useful for unipolar signals. One example is in the measurement of optical absorbance along multiple paths simultaneously using light signals, as for functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Inventor: Chester Roy Wildey
  • Publication number: 20140079095
    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: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2013
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yi WANG, Yuantao ZHANG, Hua ZHOU, Jianming WU
  • Patent number: 8670477
    Abstract: An apparatus and technique for measuring and coping with interfering signals in a wireless communications system. The apparatus and technique rapidly and regularly measures the signals present in the wireless communication system's band of operation. The apparatus and technique then makes this information available to all the transceivers on the network, so that each transceiver has information the interference other transceivers see, and the system can make intelligent decisions about radio transmission parameters to optimize the network performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Myotis Wireless, Inc.
    Inventor: John Pinkney
  • Patent number: 8665975
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for receiving data in a Multi Input Multi Output (MIMO) system, the method comprising: decoding data transmitted from a transmitter by using one beam-forming vector included in a codebook that beam-forming vectors are formed in a hierarchical structure according to at least one of change directions of radio channels, the number of channel change directions, and a change rate; determining whether to update the beam-forming vector based on the radio channel changes; selecting other beam-forming vector included in the codebook having a hierarchical structure when it is determined that update for the beam-forming vector is required; feed-backing information about an index indicating where the selected beam-forming vector is located in the hierarchical structure of the codebook to the transmitter; and decoding data received from the transmitter by using the selected beam-forming vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignees: LG Electronics Inc., Industry University Cooperation Foundation, Sogang University
    Inventors: Jaewon Kim, Jaewon Chang, Dong-Uk Lee, Wonjin Sung, Byoung-Hoon Kim, Jun-Ho Jo
  • Patent number: 8665856
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus includes a scrambling processing unit and a sending unit. The scrambling processing unit is configured to generate a Pseudo-Random Binary Sequence (PRBS), perform a modulo-2 addition on the pseudo-random sequence and data frame data to scramble the data frame data including first load data, use one section of a part of the pseudo-random sequence on which the modulo-2 addition is performed with the data frame data as an identification sequence, and carry status information corresponding to the identification sequence in frame header information. The sending unit is configured to send the frame header information carrying the status information and the scrambled first load data. Through the scrambling process, continuous run-lengths of “1” and “0” in the data frame data are quite short, while basically the same probability of occurrence is maintained, which is favorable to transmission of the data frame data, thereby alleviating error code problems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daowei Wang, Chunxing Huang, Daochun Mo