Receiver Patents (Class 375/147)
  • Patent number: 9398599
    Abstract: Efficient spectrum sensing is implemented taking into account the fading caused by multipath fading and shadow fading in a mobile environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Haris Kremo, Onur Altintas
  • Patent number: 9375638
    Abstract: An apparatus for dividing a split screen video game display into two separate video displays, for displaying two different screens. The apparatus includes a main switch box which connects to the game console and emulates all the connections expected by the game console. The main switch box wirelessly connects to a receiver switch box. The main switch box takes the video signal from the game console, divides the split screen into two halves, and outputs one half on a first screen connected to the main switch box and sends the other half to the receiver switch box for output on a second screen connected to the receiver switch box. The main switch box also takes a first headset input signal and a second headset input signal from the receiver switch box and combines the headset signals into one signal for sending to the game console.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Inventor: Lloyd A. Weaver
  • Patent number: 9380563
    Abstract: A cell2 configured by only a DL CC2 being a resource for downlink is configured. The cell2 does not include a resource for uplink, that is, a UL CC to be associated with the DL CC2 by a DL/UL link. The link information indicating the above is notified a communication terminal device by a base station device using the DL CC2. A DL CC1 and a UL CC1 constitute a cell1. The downlink communication from the base station device to the communication terminal device is performed using the cell1 and the cell2, and the uplink communication from the communication terminal device to the base station device is performed using the cell1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuru Mochizuki, Miho Maeda, Yasushi Iwane, Takayuki Nonami
  • Patent number: 9363776
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices are described that provide for high precision synchronization between pairs of APs within a tracking area of a position location network. These tools and techniques may provide for incrementally synchronizing timers and oscillators located at respective APs. An AP may transmit a course frequency and timing acquisition signal that a second AP utilizes to estimate a frequency offset and/or time offset. The AP may transmit a subsequent fine frequency and timing acquisition signal which may be used to accurately adjust the estimated frequency offset and/or time offset of the second AP. The second AP may thus incrementally synchronize its oscillator(s) and/or timer(s). These techniques may be utilized over a multi-hop wireless network. The methods, systems, and devices may be applicable to single- and multi-floor location tracking systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Alok Kumar Gupta, William E. Stein, Scott Howard King
  • Patent number: 9356752
    Abstract: The embodiments utilize OFDM symbols to communicate network IDs. The IDs are encoded into symbols utilizing the network IDs as seeds to scramble respective pilots that are then transmitted by utilizing the symbols. The pilots can be structured into a single OFDM symbol and/or multiple OFDM symbols. The single symbol structure for transmitting the network IDs is independent of the number of network ID bits and minimizes frequency offset and Doppler effects. The multiple symbol structure allows a much coarser timing accuracy to be employed at the expense of transmitting additional symbols. Several embodiments employ a search function to find possible network ID candidates from a transmitted symbol and a selection function to find an optimum candidate from a network ID candidate list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Michael Mao Wang, Bojan Vrcelj, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli, Raghuraman Krishnamoorthi, Rajiv Vijayan
  • Patent number: 9344961
    Abstract: A network device (e.g., a cable modem) may support a normal mode of operation and a sleep mode of operation. While in the normal mode, a PHY of the network device may process a received signal to recover MPEG-TS packets, and convey the MPEG-TS packets to other components of the network device for further processing. While in the sleep mode, the PHY may process received MPEG-TS packets having a particular packet identifier and drop received MPEG-TS packets not having the particular packet identifier. The PHY may control transitions between the normal mode and the sleep mode in response to received signals having particular physical layer characteristics. The PHY may demodulate a received signal to recover an MPEG-TS packet; descramble portions of the MPEG-TS packet; inspect portions of the MPEG-TS packet; and control a mode of operation of the network device based on the contents of the MPEG transport stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: MaxLinear, Inc.
    Inventors: Curtis Ling, Timothy Gallagher, Sridhar Ramesh
  • Patent number: 9313059
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices are described for mitigating an unwanted increase in a coding rate of a wireless communication signal. A plurality of symbols including a transmitted codeword is received. The plurality of symbols including a first group of data symbols with a first modulation and coding scheme and a second group of data modulated pilot symbols with a second modulation and coding scheme. Applicable demodulation schemes are adaptively switched for each group of the plurality of symbols. The second group of data modulated pilot symbols are used in lieu of pilot symbols. The second modulation and coding scheme is a more reliable modulation and coding scheme than the first modulation and coding scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Maxim Gotman, Ronen Greenberger, Ziv Alina
  • Patent number: 9294937
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods are disclosed for selecting between a Rake receiver and an interference cancellation engine (ICE) for receiving forward link signals in a wireless communication network. Selection can be based on one or more of various factors in the channel. These factors can include an average SINR of at least one of the first receiver or the second receiver, a dispersion of a downlink channel, a flatness metric, a number of locked fingers at the first receiver or the second receiver, or a size of an Active Set. Other aspects, features, and embodiments are claimed and described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jing Sun, Peter P. Ang, Ameer Dabbagh, Rashid Ahmed Akbar Attar
  • Patent number: 9288025
    Abstract: A memory 21 of a pilot processing circuit 2 holds in advance a pilot sequence converted into a frequency region signal obtained by subjecting a pilot signal symbol transmitted in one block to Ntx_p-point DFT. The pilot sequence held in the memory 21 is subjected to a series of processes including a roll-off filtering by a roll-off filter circuit 22, subcarrier mapping process by subcarrier mapping circuit 23, an Ndft_p-point IDFT operation by an IDFT circuit 24, and a cyclic prefix adding process by a cyclic prefix adding circuit 25.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: LENOVO INNOVATIONS LIMITED (HONG KONG)
    Inventors: Kengo Oketani, Yoshikazu Kakura, Toshifumi Sato, Shousei Yoshida
  • Patent number: 9287964
    Abstract: Embodiments of a wireless station to operate as a per-symbol relay device and method for retransmission of symbols between client devices and a master device using millimeter-wave links is generally disclosed herein. In some embodiments, the relay device may receive one or more of independent symbol streams from the master device. Each independent symbol stream may comprise packets that include groups of one or more symbols. Each group within a packet may be destined for a different one of the client devices. The relay device may separately decode each symbol or group of symbols to generate an independent stream of symbols for retransmission to the client devices using beamforming. The relay device may be arranged to receive, decode, and retransmit each symbol or group of symbols within a delay that is bounded by the number of symbols in the group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Adrian P. Stephens, Carlos Cordeiro, Thomas J. Kenney
  • Patent number: 9270370
    Abstract: Embodiments are provided for applying pilot tone modulations to optical signals by introducing bias bits to data frames carried on the optical signals. Since the modulation is done by modifying data, the modulation depth is accurate, and there is no need for calibration or feedback control, which can improve power monitoring accuracy and simplify implementation. In an embodiment, a transmitter determines a period of a pilot tone modulation for tracking or identifying an optical channel. The transmitter inserts a sequence of bias bits, periodically according to the determined period, in a plurality of frames comprising original data bits. The amplitudes of the optical signals carrying the frames are modulated at a higher frequency than the pilot tone modulation. The optical signals are then transmitted including the bias bits within the frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhiping Jiang, Jian Zhong
  • Patent number: 9264194
    Abstract: A preamble generation method of a station includes: generating a base sequence for channel estimation; generating an antenna channel estimation sequence for at least one or more antennas of the station; generating a preamble by allocating at least one or more modified sequences to frequency domains for at least one or time periods. The modified sequences are generated by using the base sequence, the antenna channel estimation sequence, and a control sequence for estimating at least one or more channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Kapseok Chang, Wooyong Lee, Hyun-Kyu Chung
  • Patent number: 9258079
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for generating soft-decision information in a multiple antenna system are provided. The method includes determining Q candidate symbol vectors for a first transmission symbol of a received signal vector by performing parallel detection on a received signal vector and a channel matrix, determining a candidate symbol vector having a shortest Euclidean distance to the received signal vector from among the Q candidate symbol vector, as an approximate Maximum Likelihood (ML) symbol vector, determining (Q?1) candidate symbol vectors for each of the remaining transmission symbols of the received signal vector by performing partial parallel detection on the received signal vector and the channel matrix using the approximate ML symbol vector, and calculating Log Likelihood Ratios (LLRs) of bits of the first transmission symbol using the candidate symbol vectors, wherein Q represents a modulation order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tae-Ho Im, Kyung-Whoon Cheun
  • Patent number: 9237560
    Abstract: Methods and systems are proposed for transmitting data from a source (110) to a destination (130) via a relay station (120) having multiple antennae (122, 124). The relay station (120) receives from the source a message containing the data and a first cyclic prefix. It does this using each of its antennae (122, 124), so producing multiple respective received signals. In certain embodiments, the relay station (120) removes the first cyclic prefix from the received signals, replacing it with a new one. In other embodiments, the relay station (120) removes only a portion of the first cyclic prefix. In either case, the relay station (120) may apply space-time coding to generate second signals, which it transmits to the destination (130), which extracts the data. Methods are also proposed for estimating parameters of the channel, to enable the destination (130) to decode the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: AGENCY FOR SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH
    Inventors: Lokesh Bheema Thiagarajan, Sumei Sun, Chau Yuen, Quee Seng Tony Quek
  • Patent number: 9231710
    Abstract: A method of reducing an on-chip memory associated with storing frame buffer in WCDMA receiver includes obtaining, at a WCDMA front end receiver, an signal, transmitting, by an analog to digital convertor, input samples to a digital to digital sigma-delta converter, converting, by a sample rate convertor, a sampling rate associated with the input samples to a desired sampling rate for a rake receiver, quantizing, by the digital to digital sigma-delta converter, the input samples with a first number of bits to a converted data samples of a reduced number of bits, storing, at a memory unit, the converted data samples of the reduced number of bits, filtering the noise from the converted data samples to obtain a noise filtered converted data samples of the reduced number of bits, and decoding, at a WCDMA receiver processing unit, the noise filtered converted data samples over an entire radio frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Signalchip Innovations Private Limited
    Inventor: Himamshu Gopalakrishna Khasnis
  • Patent number: 9225566
    Abstract: The present subject matter discloses a system and a method for estimating a frequency offset in communication devices. In one embodiment, the method of estimating a frequency offset in a communication device comprises generating a reconstructed signal based at least in part on a channel impulse response (CIR) corresponding to a received signal. Further, a normalization matrix is determined for the reconstructed signal. Thereafter, based at least in part on the normalization matrix and the reconstructed signal, the frequency offset is estimated such that the frequency offset corresponds to a maximum normalized-correlation between the reconstructed signal and the received signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: ST-ERICSSON SA
    Inventors: Leela Srikar Muppirisetty, Aravindh Krishnamoorthy
  • Patent number: 9214970
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the method includes determining, at a network element, a first filter component based on reference sequences for user equipments in a first set. The method further includes determining a second filter component. The second component is based on a plurality of received signals and has estimated contributions to the plurality of received signals by the user equipments in the first set removed. The plurality of received signals are associated with a plurality of antennas. The method further includes filtering a selected received signal based on the first and second filter components to obtain an estimated signal for a selected user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Krishna Balachandran, Joseph H. Kang, Kemal M. Karakayali, Kiran M. Rege
  • Patent number: 9198104
    Abstract: A method in a network node for enhancing a channel estimate based on a Dedicated Physical Control Channel, DPCCH, between a user node and the network node is provided. The DPCCH has a first power. The network node receives (501) the DPCCH. The first power of the DPCCH is boosted with additional power, resulting in a second power. The network node then obtains (502) a channel estimate based on the DPCCH comprising the second power. As soon as said channel estimate is obtained, the network node removes (503) the additional power from the DPCCH based channel estimate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Erik Larsson, Michael Samuel Bebawy, Peter Von Wrycza, Yi-Pin Eric Wang
  • Patent number: 9197285
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for ameliorating signal reception. An example method disclosed herein includes receiving a composite satellite signal comprising a desired signal component and an interference signal component, converting the received composite satellite signal to a digital received composite signal, receiving a first group of samples from the digital received composite signal, generating an interference estimate of the interference signal component based on the first group of samples, combining the interference estimate and a second sample belonging to a second group of samples to remove, partially or entirely, the interference signal component from the composite satellite signal, the first group of samples received prior to the sample belonging to the second group of samples, wherein the removal is generally independent of the code chip rate of the desired signal component and substantially retains the undistorted chip edge characteristics of the desired signal component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventor: Wei Yu
  • Patent number: 9188678
    Abstract: In accordance with the teachings described herein, system and methods are provided for a GPS PRN code interpolation scheme with a reduced memory requirement. An example GPS receiver system may include a memory, a local PRN code generator, and an interpolator. The memory may be used to store GPS PRN code received from a global positioning satellite. The local PRN code generator generates a replica PRN code having a repeating code that includes at least a first epoch and a second epoch. The interpolator determines an offset point in the first epoch of replica PRN code and interpolates the replica PRN code at a predetermined sample rate to generate an interpolated replica PRN code for use in correlating with the GPS PRN code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: MARVELL INTERNATIONAL LTD.
    Inventors: Xiangdong Jin, Mao Yu, Jianwei Bei, Xiaotao Xu
  • Patent number: 9178691
    Abstract: An apparatus for correcting a signal, includes a correction value calculator that determines a transmission distance of a transmission path through which a timing signal is propagated, the timing signal having a periodically changing frequency, and determines a deviation between a frequency of the timing signal and a frequency of received data, as a correction value, from the transmission distance; and a corrector that corrects the frequency of the timing signal by the correction value for synchronizing transmitted data with the timing signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Takashi Shimizu, Jun Matsui, Tsuyoshi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9178681
    Abstract: A method is provided for sending at least a first data signal and a second data signal, the data being divided into data blocks of fixed size including a header field of predetermined size, the data signals being sent to at least one data processing device adapted to apply a cyclic autocorrelation function with parameter k enabling the first and second data signals to be identified. The value of the parameter k is a function of a ratio between the size of the data blocks and the predetermined size of the header field. The method includes modifying the size of the header field of the data blocks before sending the first data signal, the value of the parameter k and the size of the data blocks remaining unchanged. A method is also provided for processing signals sent in accordance with the sending method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: FRANCE TELECOM
    Inventors: Ahmad Alamayreh, Jérôme Le Masson
  • Patent number: 9178578
    Abstract: A base station receiver, a computer program product operable at a base station, and a method operable at a base station receiver, for receiving uplink transmit diversity transmissions utilizing a master/slave scheme at the receiver. One or more tracking loops, such as a searcher task, a time tracking loop, or a frequency tracking loop may be implemented at the base station receiver to determine compensation values, such as finger timings for a rake receiver or frequency compensation values, in accordance with characteristics of a first received pilot channel transmitted utilizing a first precoding weight vector. Here, corresponding compensation values may be derived for the reception of a secondary pilot channel transmitted utilizing an precoding weight vector orthogonal to the first precoding weight vector, simply based on those determined for the first pilot channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yibo Jiang, Sharad Deepak Sambhwani, Jilei Hou
  • Patent number: 9167579
    Abstract: A method and corresponding devices for processing and transmitting information are described. A sequence of binary signals is mapped to symbols that forms a two-dimensional matrix of symbols in one of the frequency-time or time-time or time-frequency or frequency-frequency domain and which may be filtered in that domain. Selecting the diagonal elements of said matrix forms a transmit vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Vodafone Holding GmbH
    Inventors: Gerhard Fettweis, Nicola Michailow, Stefan Krone, Michael Lentmaier, Eckhard Ohlmer
  • Patent number: 9160465
    Abstract: Spur cancellation systems and related methods are disclosed for radio frequency (RF) receivers and other implementations. Disclosed embodiments effectively remove spurs caused by digital clock signals or other spur sources by determining which spurs will fall within a channel selected to be tuned, utilizing a spur cancellation module to generate a cancellation signal, and subtracting this cancellation signal from the digital information. The cancellation signal can be initially generated with a known frequency and estimated values for unknown spur parameters, such as amplitude and phase. Digital feedback signals are then used to adjust the spur parameters. If the spur frequency is not known precisely, digital feedback signals can also be used to adjust the frequency of the cancellation signal. Where multiple receive paths are provided within a multi-receiver system, multiple spur cancellation modules can be used to remove spurs generated by digital clocks within each of the receive paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: Silicon Labortories Inc.
    Inventor: Guner Arslan
  • Patent number: 9143177
    Abstract: A technique for performing Automatic Gain Control for a receiver (102) of a device (100) connected to a communication system is provided. As for a method embodiment, a method (200) comprises the steps of receiving (205) a signal using a gain setting (310; 410; 510; 610) of the receiver (102); at least partially decoding (210) the received signal (301; 401; 501; 601) to obtain a decoding result; and selecting (215) the gain setting based on the decoding result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Leif Wilhelmsson, Bengt Lindoff
  • Patent number: 9143191
    Abstract: An interface including filter modules, receiver modules, and a summer. The filter modules are configured to receive from multiple antennas multipath components of a signal as transmitted to the interface. Each of the filter modules is configured to (i) receive corresponding ones of the multipath components of the signal as received at a respective one of the antennas, and (ii) according to a wireless communication protocol standard, filter the signal as received at the respective one of the antennas to generate a filtered signal. The wireless communication protocol standard is designed for a receiver having only a single antenna for receiving signals. The receiver modules are configured to respectively receive the filtered signals. Each of the receiver modules is configured to combine the multipath components in the respective filtered signal to generate an output signal. The summer is configured to sum the output signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Marvell World Trade Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhiyu Yang, Hongyuan Zhang
  • Patent number: 9106298
    Abstract: A channel filter (200) with a variable pass bandwidth has a first low-pass filter (200.2) on the input side and is driven by a means (30) for controlling the pass bandwidth as a function of the adjacent channel interference. A first input of the control means (30) is connected to the first low-pass filter (200.2), and a second input is connected to a bandpass filter (200.4) which is connected in parallel with the channel filter (200). The signal path which contains the low-pass filter (200.2) contains a means (37) for removing a DC signal component or DC component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventors: Bertram Gunzelmann, Xiaofeng Wu
  • Patent number: 9077399
    Abstract: Certain aspects of a method and system for achieving space and time diversity gain are disclosed. Aspects of one method may include modifying a generalization code of at least one pilot channel, to measure signal strengths for each of a plurality of received multipath signals. A portion of the plurality of received multipath signals may be combined based on the measured signal strengths. The signal strengths of the plurality of received multipath signals may be measured on a primary pilot channel by assigning its generalization code to zero. The signal strengths of the plurality of received multipath signals on a secondary pilot channel may measured by assigning its generalization code to a non-zero value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Louis Botha, Philip Koekemoer, Sang Hun Sung, Ning Kong
  • Patent number: 9059789
    Abstract: A signal processing method, a connector and a memory storage device are provided. The signal processing method is for the connector which does not include a crystal oscillator. The signal processing method includes: receiving a first signal stream from a host system; tracking a transmission frequency of the first signal stream, and obtaining a frequency shift quantity of the first signal stream relative to the transmission frequency; determining if a spread spectrum operation is performed on the first signal stream according to the frequency shift quantity to generate a determination result; generating a second signal stream according to the determination result and the transmission frequency. Accordingly, the spread spectrum operation is handled under the situation without a crystal oscillator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: PHISON ELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: An-Chung Chen, Chih-Ming Chen
  • Patent number: 9042502
    Abstract: A wideband multi-channel receiver comprises an antenna configured to receive a radio frequency band. A band-pass filter is in signal communication with the antenna, and a low-noise amplifier is in signal communication with the band-pass filter. A mixer is in signal communication with the low-noise amplifier and is configured to translate a radio frequency band to an intermediate frequency (IF) band. A tunable local oscillator is in signal communication with the mixer. At least one fixed-frequency notch filter is in signal communication with the mixer, with the notch filter configured to reject at least one interference signal in the IF band while passing remaining signals in the IF band. An analog-to-digital converter is in signal communication with the notch filter and is configured to convert the remaining signals in the IF band to digital signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Alfonso Malaga, Timothy P. Gibson, Jeffrey K. Hunter, Gregory Triplett
  • Publication number: 20150139279
    Abstract: System and methods are provided for clock calibration. A satellite navigation system includes: a timing component configured to determine a counting period for clock calibration; a counter network configured to determine a first number of local clock periods associated with a local clock of the satellite navigation system during the counting period and determine a second number of external clock periods associated with an external clock during the counting period; and a processor configured to perform calibration for the local clock based at least in part on the first number of the local clock periods and the second number of the external clock periods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2014
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventors: Jiangping Deng, Zhike Jia, Jian Cheng, Hongquan Liu, Mengxin Liao
  • Patent number: 9036719
    Abstract: Some example embodiments may be directed towards improving a secondary system channel estimation by using a primary channel estimate. Specifically, some example embodiments may be directed towards a method in an user equipment, which may be comprised in a Radio Network, for estimating a primary and a secondary channel. The method may comprise receiving from at least one Base Station a combined wireless communication signal through at least a portion of the primary channel. The method may also comprise determining an estimation of the primary channel. The method may further comprise determining an estimation of the secondary channel. The method may further comprise determining at least one common sub-component between the estimations of the primary and secondary channels, and determining an updated estimation of the secondary channel based on the at least one common sub-component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Yngve Selén, Robert Baldemair, Joachim Sachs
  • Publication number: 20150131706
    Abstract: There is proposed a method and system for determining a phase-alignment between first and second clock signals of differing frequency. The method comprise: sampling a value of the first clock signal at instants defined by an edge of the second clock signal; defining a sequence of the sampled values of the first clock signal, wherein consecutive sample values in the sequence are separated by N cycles of the second clock signal, and wherein N is an integer greater than 1; and detecting the occurrence of a predetermined pattern of values in the defined sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2014
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Inventor: Andrew Gough
  • Patent number: 9031117
    Abstract: Techniques for handling fingers with large delay spread through utility optimization are described. A first signal may be received, through a finger of a plurality of fingers in a receiver, at a time that is later than a reference time after a reference signal is received by a reference finger of the plurality of fingers. The reference signal may be included in an on-time group corresponding to a cell. The first signal may be included in a late group corresponding to a virtual cell. The first signal and the reference signal may be compared to one another. Based on the comparing, it may be determined whether to wait for additional signals in the late group or process the signals in the on-time group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Tao Cui, Wei Zhang, Guang Xie
  • Patent number: 9025639
    Abstract: Provided are a modulation method and a demodulation method for satellite communication using a widespread signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), the method including: adding a dummy frame to a broadcasting/communication signal frame for signal transmission of a digital video broadcasting-satellite second generation (DVB-S2) modulator; verifying a spreading factor; adding the same physical layer header to the broadcasting/communication signal frame to which the dummy frame is added, repeatedly the number of times corresponding to the verified spreading factor; and repeating the same data, for example, PL frame data as the physical layer header.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Pan Soo Kim, Deock Gil Oh
  • Patent number: 9025640
    Abstract: A method and apparatus is provided for intra-PIT signal decomposition of a signal received with RF front end hardware. The method begins by aligning a signal received by RF front end hardware into integer multiples of a duration of a pseudorandom noise code sequence. A search grid is computed based on an integer multiple of the aligned signal. A plurality of initial ray parameters associated with the computed search grid is coarsely estimated. Using the coarsely estimated plurality of initial ray parameters, a fine estimation of the plurality of initial ray parameters is initiated utilizing stochastic search and optimization techniques. A stopping criteria statistic is computed by comparing a peak power of the search grid with a noise power present in the search grid. Finally, in response to determining the stopping criteria statistic being less than a stopping criteria threshold, processing a next integer multiple of the aligned signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventors: Marshall E Haker, John F Raquet
  • Publication number: 20150117496
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of producing a chip block for wireless transmission in a Direct Sequence Code Division Multiple Access (DS-CDMA) communication system. The method comprises spreading a symbol over at least one chip block (17). The method also comprises segmenting the chip block to form a first sub-block (a0) of the chip block. The method also comprises segmenting the chip block to form a second sub-block (a15) of the chip block. The method also comprises arranging a first sub-sequence (18) of chips furthest to a first end of the chip block in the first sub-block. The first sub-sequence is identical to a second sub-sequence (19) furthest to a second end of the chip block in the second sub-block. The method also comprises modifying at least one chip contained in the first sub-block and not being part of the first sub-sequence. The modifying is dependent on said first sub-sequence such that the symbol can be at least partially despread from the chip block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Applicant: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventor: Niklas Johansson
  • Publication number: 20150117498
    Abstract: Code detection to assist a symbol-level equalizer in a receiver is described. In an embodiment, code detection uses adaptive Infinite Impulse Response (IIR) filtering to determine spreading code usage information and active code channels in a received signal. The spreading code usage information indicates if a spreading code associated with a code channel is among spreading codes used in the received signal. In another embodiment, the spreading code usage information is determined based on a forgetting factor associated with the filtering of a symbol power associated with the code channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2013
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Applicant: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Hou-Shin CHEN, Fu-Hsuan CHIU
  • Patent number: 9020020
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for a symbol level Krylov method equalizer implemented in a wireless communications device. An HSDPA or WCDMA signal is input to the wireless communications device. A conjugate gradient method is applied to symbol-level samples of the signal until a termination condition is met. The termination condition may comprise having zero residual error, residual error below a threshold, or a specified number of iterations. Additionally, a preconditioning matrix may be applied to the inputs of the conjugate gradient method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventor: Chun-Hsuan Kuo
  • Publication number: 20150103871
    Abstract: A satellite signal reception device can reliably execute a satellite signal reception process. The satellite signal reception device has a reception time setting unit 71 that sets a reception time; a timekeeping unit that keeps internal time; and a scheduled reception control unit 72 that executes a time-based reception process that operates the reception unit when the time kept by the timekeeping unit reaches the reception time. By having a scheduled reception control unit 72, the reception process can be executed when the internal time goes to the reception time set by the reception time setting unit 71. The reception process is therefore executed once a day. The satellite signal reception process can therefore be executed reliably without being affected by how the device is used, the season, weather, or other factors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Inventors: Toshikazu Akiyama, Katsuyuki Honda, Norimitsu Baba, Jun Matsuzaki
  • Patent number: 9008155
    Abstract: Acquiring a satellite signal, by, receiving a CDMA-modulated signal; generating a plurality of CDMA-type test signals comprising a reference test signal having a first chip duration, and a plurality of test signals delayed/anticipated of a corresponding time offset from the respective test reference signal, less than the chip duration; calculating correlations between the CDMA-modulated signal and the plurality of test signals for obtaining a plurality of correlation results; selecting, based on the correlation results, acquisition parameters associated to a candidate satellite signal; acquiring or rejecting the acquisition parameters selected based on the correlation results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
    Inventor: Domenico Di Grazia
  • Patent number: 9001866
    Abstract: A communication node (115) with is arranged to receive signals from at least one antenna (120). A frequency domain conversion is executed (201) for two or more antenna signals by receiving (201a) a continuous signal from one of the at least one antenna (120), splitting (201b) the continuous antenna signal into windowed signals, and performing (201e) a frequency domain conversion of the windowed signals. Then, a channel estimate based on a frequency converted pilot signal is provided (202) by extracting (202a) a pilot signal, splitting (202b) the pilot signal into windowed signals, performing (202d) a frequency domain conversion of the split pilot signal; and providing (202e) a channel estimate of the frequency converted pilot signal. Diversity combined signals are provided (203) by performing (203a) diversity combining based on the frequency converted windowed signals and the channel estimate, and by combining (203c) the diversity combined signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Unwired Planet, LLC
    Inventors: Bjorn Sihlbom, Bo Lyckegard
  • Patent number: 9001938
    Abstract: A method of detecting a received signal, includes determining correlation between a received signal in a predetermined signal interval and training symbols, and determining a median absolute deviation (MAD) of the received signal in a predetermined reference interval. The method further includes detecting a presence of the received signal based on the correlation and the MAD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Yonsei University
    Inventors: Jong Han Kim, Un Sun Cho, Young Jun Hong, Joon Seong Kang, Jae Seok Kim, Chang Soon Park
  • 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: 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: 8989234
    Abstract: A method and a device for signal processing in a communication system are provided. The method includes: performing sampling and time-frequency transform on a received first time domain signal to obtain a first frequency domain signal; performing modulus operation on the first frequency domain signal with respect to a preset threshold to obtain a second frequency domain signal; performing inverse time-frequency transform on the second frequency domain signal to obtain a second time domain signal, and performing despreading on the second time domain signal. The embodiments of the present invention can avoid the problem in the prior art that not only the NBI signal but also the SS signal which is a useful signal are filtered out, which results from frequency domain signals of a certain number of frequency points being set to zero, and thereby improve the reliability of signal reception.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaojun Luo, Hui Zhao
  • Patent number: 8989289
    Abstract: A method and system for transmitting three distinct electromagnetic signals on a same frequency are provided. One or more transmitting devices transmit a first data signal and an inverse of the first data signal in two orthogonal linear polarities of an antenna maintaining their inverted phase relationship and a same amplitude as propagated. Transmitting devices also transmit a second data signal in a linear polarity with a 45 degree rotation around the transmit axis of the first data signal. Transmitting devices also transmit a third data signal in linear polarity orthogonal to the second data signal and consequently 315 degree rotation around the transmit axis from the first data signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Inventor: Nigel Iain Stuart Macrae
  • 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: 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