Correlation-type Receiver Patents (Class 375/150)
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Publication number: 20120114019Abstract: Techniques for extending transmission range in a WLAN are described. In an aspect, a receiving station determines the frequency error between a transmitting station and the receiving station based on one or more initial packet transmissions and corrects this frequency error for subsequent packet transmissions received from the transmitting station. The residual frequency error is small after correcting for the frequency error and allows the receiving station to perform coherent accumulation/integration over a longer time interval to detect for a packet transmission. The longer coherent accumulation interval improves detection performance, especially at low SNRs for extended transmission range. The techniques may be used whenever the receiving station knows the identity of the transmitting station, e.g., if the subsequent packet transmissions are scheduled. Other aspects, features, and embodiments are also claimed and described.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2011Publication date: May 10, 2012Applicant: QUALCOMM INCORPORATEDInventors: Mark S. Wallace, Jay Rodney Walton
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Patent number: 8175136Abstract: A noise cancellation method includes: inputting an interference wave signal detected near a receiver section, and changing the phase and the amplitude of the input signal to generate a cancellation signal that cancels the input signal; performing correlation calculations on a signal obtained by adding the cancellation signal to a communication signal received by the receiver section and a code replica of a PRN code used for the communication signal, within a given correlation calculation target range that is included within a code phase range and a frequency range; and performing the correlation calculations within a non-signal range outside the correlation calculation target range, and controlling a phase shift amount and an amplitude change rate of the input signal based on the correlation calculation result.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2008Date of Patent: May 8, 2012Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Kazumi Matsumoto
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Patent number: 8175195Abstract: The invention relates to method and device for detecting propagation paths in pulse transmission, wherein a received signal comprises pulses on each time symbol. After synchronizing a pulse-based reception, the inventive method consists (A) in determining the arrival times of pulses of the same current time symbol, (B) in generating a path hypotheses by assigning an initial score to each dated pulse, (C) in determining the arrival times of pulses of the time symbol following the current symbol, (D) in relatively comparing the arrival times of pulses of the following time symbol with the arrival times of the path hypotheses and (E) in updating scores according to the relative comparison results. Said path detecting method is suitable for pulse information transmission, in particular in UWB.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2006Date of Patent: May 8, 2012Assignee: France TelecomInventors: Jean Schwoerer, BenoƮt Miscopein
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Patent number: 8175137Abstract: In a GNSS receiver data sequences derived from a digital signal each with an internally generated correlation sequence derived from a basic sequence and mixed with frequency signals corresponding to various Doppler frequencies and in various phase positions with respect to the data sequence are correlated and the correlation values evaluated. In difficult conditions, e.g., RF levels of the signal of ?145 dBm and less, correlation values produced with the same correlation sequence and phase position but with a plurality of data sequences are evaluated together in that, in an evaluator (49), every-correlation value is, in a comparator (52), compared with at least a first value threshold and a second value threshold, with the latter having a value between 1.3 and 1.7 times the value of the first and values ?1, 0 or +1 assigned accordingly to a correlation term which is then added to an integer correlation counter which varies over a counter interval, e.g., [0, 15], in an adding unit (53).Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2009Date of Patent: May 8, 2012Assignee: u-blox AGInventors: Michael Ammann, Heinz Mathis
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Patent number: 8170087Abstract: Apparatus and method for providing correlation in a CDMA receiver. A Generic Correlation Coprocessor comprises one or more correlation blocks. Each correlation block comprises a correlation input buffer coupled to one or more correlators. The correlators are coupled to an interpolator input buffer and to a correlator output buffer. One or more interpolators are coupled to the interpolation input buffer and to the correlation output buffer. The correlators correlate the received signal with PN codes to produce a correlated signal. The correlated signal is stored in the correlator output buffer and/or the interpolation input buffer, and provided from the interpolation input buffer to the one or more interpolators. The one or more interpolators interpolate the correlated signal to produce an interpolated signal. The interpolated signal is stored in the correlator output buffer. Signals are provided from the correlator output buffer to other receiver processing systems.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2007Date of Patent: May 1, 2012Assignee: Texas Instruments IncorporatedInventors: Filip Jozef Moerman, Raphael Defosseux
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Patent number: 8169546Abstract: A technique for providing stable tracking performance to an AGC loop circuit comprises amplifying a wideband radio frequency signal; detecting signals and blockers adjacent to the radio frequency signal; lowering a gain of the radio frequency signal; mixing a local oscillator signal with the radio frequency signal; shifting a frequency of the radio frequency signal from a radio frequency to an intermediate frequency; continuously varying a gain of the intermediate frequency signal; converting the intermediate frequency signal into a digital output signal; comparing the digital output signal with predefined thresholds comprising an upper threshold and a lower threshold; switching a post mixer amplifier (PMA) to a high gain state when an input of a variable gain amplifier (VGA) is greater than the upper threshold, and switching the PMA to a low gain state when an input of the VGA is lower than the lower threshold.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2008Date of Patent: May 1, 2012Assignee: Newport Media, Inc.Inventors: Xiaoyu Fu, Jun Ma, Waleed M. Younis, Nabil Yousef, Janakan Sivasubramaniam, Edward Youssoufian
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Patent number: 8170085Abstract: The invention presented in this disclosure gives methods to estimate and compensate for the multi-path in a typical navigational or spread spectrum receiver. The multi-path delay is estimated based on the outputs of different correlators of the receiver. Unlike three correlators normally used, the present disclosure uses five correlators, namely, Early2 (E2), Early1 (E1), Prompt (P), Late1 (L1) and Late2 (L2). The possible multi-path scenarios are classified into six different cases depending upon the reflected signal delay and the errors are computed. Further, the algorithm in the present disclosure can be extended to any correlators spacing.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2006Date of Patent: May 1, 2012Assignee: CSR Technology Holdings Inc.Inventor: Shaowel Han
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Patent number: 8170086Abstract: A method of computing a correlation between a pseudorandom reference code and a satellite signal is provided. The method comprises receiving a satellite signal having a repeating code modulated thereon, wherein the satellite signal comprises a pseudorange; correlating the satellite signal with less than an entire length of the pseudorandom reference code with a portion of the satellite signal to produce a correlation over a period less than a period of the repeating code; and processing the correlation to form values representative of magnitude or power of the correlation to produce an energy signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2007Date of Patent: May 1, 2012Assignee: Global Locate, Inc.Inventors: Charles Abraham, Serge de la Porte, Sergei Podshivalov
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Patent number: 8170082Abstract: Embodiments related to cross-talk mitigation are described and depicted.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2008Date of Patent: May 1, 2012Assignee: Infineon Technologies AGInventor: Andreas Schmid
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Patent number: 8165254Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for receiving signal for extent of timing synchronization in MB-OFDM UWB System. The invention divides the digital samples completed of sampling twice as much as minimum sampling clock required to restore the MB-OFDM received signal into ODD data path and EVEN data path, executes the packet detection and timing synchronization for each of divided path and selects the data of path with larger cross correlation value at the timing synchronization point to secure the stable receiving performance in system environment with severe frequency offset and prevent the FTT window shift within preamble section through adding minimum hardware and structural change without increasing the system clock.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2008Date of Patent: April 24, 2012Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteInventors: Cheol Ho Shin, Byoung Hak Kim, Sang Sung Choi, Kwang Rho Park
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Patent number: 8165186Abstract: Techniques for deriving channel estimates with different channel estimation filters are described. In one scheme, a filter selection metric is determined for a signal to be recovered, a channel estimation filter is selected based on the filter selection metric, and a channel estimate is derived with the selected channel estimation filter. In another scheme, a first channel estimate is derived with a first channel estimation filter having a first filter response, a first signal is recovered with the first channel estimate, and interference due to the first signal is estimated and removed. A second channel estimate is derived with a second channel estimation filter having a second filter response that is different from the first filter response.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2006Date of Patent: April 24, 2012Assignee: Qualcomm IncorporatedInventors: Tao Luo, Aleksandar Damnjanovic, Durga Prasad Malladi
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Patent number: 8165230Abstract: An apparatus and method for estimating Doppler frequency in a wireless communication network, wherein the method comprises determining a first correlation coefficient (c1) between a currently received Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed (OFDM) symbol and an OFDM symbol received previous to the currently received OFDM symbol, and a second correlation coefficient (c2) between the currently received OFDM symbol and an OFDM symbol received immediately previous to the OFDM symbol received previous to the currently received OFDM symbol; performing a leaky integration across OFDM symbols of the resulting first and second correlation coefficients (c1, c2) to obtain an estimate of the first and second correlation coefficients; dividing the second correlation coefficient (c2) by the first correlation coefficient (c1) to obtain a correlation coefficient ratio; and using the correlation coefficient ratio as an estimate of the Doppler frequency in the wireless communication system.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2008Date of Patent: April 24, 2012Assignee: Newport Media, Inc.Inventors: Ahmed Ragab, Nabil Yousef
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Patent number: 8160124Abstract: A discriminator for a code tracking block of a navigation satellite system (NSS) receiver is provided. This discriminator can advantageously use only four complex correlators, i.e. early (E), prompt (P), late (L), and one of very early (VE) and very late (VL), while providing optimized multipath mitigation. This NSS discriminator can be derived from the first-order derivative of a Teager-Kaiser (TK) operator. This differential TK (DiffTK) discriminator is more sensitive to multipath dispersions than other discriminators or correlators, thereby providing enhanced performance in the presence of multipath.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2009Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Assignee: Qualcomm Atheros, Inc.Inventor: Elena Simona Lohan
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Patent number: 8160123Abstract: Described is a device for receiving radio-navigation signals by satellite, said received signals being transmitted at a carrier frequency. The device includes at least means for generating a local signal at a local frequency and a tracking device including a feedback loop called carrier loop for phase-locking the local frequency on the carrier frequency. The loop includes a hardware portion and a software portion. The software portion performs the functions of discrimination of the phase of the correlated signal and filtering of said phase. The software portion also includes correlation functions mainly dependent on the linear variation coefficients between the local phases ?local delivered after each basic computation cycle. The device makes it possible to increase the loop band and the dynamic stability without changing the pre-detection band and the workload of the software.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2008Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Assignee: ThalesInventors: Nicolas Martin, David Depraz, Patrice Guillard
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Patent number: 8155168Abstract: A modulator for a communications system includes a spread spectrum coder and a pulse code modulator having a signal input port connectable to a signal output port of the spread spectrum coder. The modulator performs a robust and error free modulation and coding scheme by using a modified spread spectrum scheme combined with pulse code modulation. The communication system contains a low data rate, noise robust modulation and coding scheme using a very simple transmitter. This results in a very straightforward transmitter circuit, reducing size and costs of the transmitter.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2006Date of Patent: April 10, 2012Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics, N.V.Inventors: Jeroen Thijs, Olaf Such, Robert Pinter, Jens Muehlsteff
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Patent number: 8155170Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for modulating a communication signal in a code division multiple access (CDMA) environment using orthogonal N by N Hadamard spread spectrum codes Orthogonal spreading codes are used that have lengths that are not a power-of 2 to provide additional channel variability for various multimedia applications and increase the flexibility of the number of channels/bandwidth relationship. The Hadamard codes are multiples of 4 (4n) and demonstrate a good cross-correlation property, making them very useful in the flexible design of code division multiple access (CDMA) systems. A transmitter encodes each of N data streams (N not being a power of 2), to be transmitted using a 4n codeword, Ni. The received signal is passed through a filter matched to the characteristics of the appropriate codeword, Ni, and PN spreading sequence.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2007Date of Patent: April 10, 2012Assignee: Alcatel LucentInventor: Zulfiquar Sayeed
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Patent number: 8150321Abstract: A near field RF communicator has: an antenna operable to generate an RF signal to enable inductive coupling via the magnetic field of the RF signal between the antenna and another near field RF communicator or RF transponder in near field range; and a signal generator operable to generate a multi-level digital sine wave drive signal to drive the antenna to generate the RF signal, wherein the signal generator comprises a selector operable to select one or more digital sequences to provide one or more digital signals from which the digital sine wave drive signal is generated.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2007Date of Patent: April 3, 2012Inventors: Ian Winter, Alastair Lefley, Robin Wilson
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Patent number: 8149963Abstract: A method and apparatus for use in connection with wireless communication to adjust the frequency of an oscillator to synchronize with a received signal by correlating a synchronization code channel with training sequences to estimate relative offsets which are employed to estimate an error, which is then filtered. The filtered output preferably provides a voltage controlling a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO). The same technique may be employed to control a numeric controlled oscillator (NCO).Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2008Date of Patent: April 3, 2012Assignee: InterDigital Technology CorporationInventor: Alpaslan Demir
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Patent number: 8149900Abstract: A low complexity acquisition method and a receiver implemented such a method are disclosed. In the present invention, a cyclical shifted-and-combined (CSC) code is generated by intercepting sub-codes from a full code and combining the sub-codes with an equal gain. The CSC code is correlated with a received signal to find a candidate peak. The other candidate peak(s) can be deduced accordingly. Thus, hypotheses can be significantly reduced. A true peak can be easily and rapidly found by verifying the candidate peaks.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2009Date of Patent: April 3, 2012Assignee: MEDIATEK Inc.Inventors: Dong-hong Liu, Hen-wai Tsao
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Publication number: 20120076177Abstract: The subject matter disclosed herein relates to a system and method for processing a signal received from a satellite positioning system (SPS) in the presence of a multi-tone jammer. In one particular implementation, processing of a signal may be altered in response to detection of one or more conditions.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2011Publication date: March 29, 2012Applicant: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Emilija M. Simic, Shiou-Hung Chen, Douglas Grover
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Patent number: 8144751Abstract: A satellite signal receiver apparatus by which the hardware scale can be suppressed while high speed synchronization is assured. A carrier frequency component is removed from a satellite signal. Then, adding those of signals obtained after every period interval of spread spectrum codes and signals stored in a memory which have a same phase at the period intervals and writing an addition result back into the memory are repeated by a number of times corresponding to plural periods thereby to accumulate signals corresponding to sums of the signals added over the plural periods at the period intervals into the memory. Then, correlation calculation is performed between the signals for the one period of the spread spectrum codes corresponding to the plural periods and a spread spectrum code of the receiver side to detect a correlation point between the satellite signal and the receiver side spread spectrum code.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2006Date of Patent: March 27, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Manabu Nitta, Hideki Awata, Hideki Takahashi
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Patent number: 8144754Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for detecting the presence or the absence of a spread spectrum signal in a frequency band of interest of a received signal, wherein: the autocorrelation function of said received signal is calculated for a set (S*) of non-zero time shift values (m); at least one cyclic correlation coefficient on (Rek?(m)) of the autocorrelation function is determined for said time shift values; the energy of the autocorrelation function is estimated from the quadratic sum of the values assumed by said cyclic correlation coefficient for said time shift values; the thereby estimated energy is compared with a predetermined threshold value and the presence or absence of said spread spectrum signal in the received signal is inferred from the result of the comparison.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2008Date of Patent: March 27, 2012Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie AtomiqueInventor: Pierre Jallon
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Patent number: 8144752Abstract: Disclosed is a receiver and a method for receiving a radio-electric navigation signal modulated by a carrier at a frequency fp, a sub-carrier at a frequency fsp and a pseudo-random code at a frequency fc, in which the radio-electric signal is converted into a two-way base band I, Q, characterized in that K modified pseudo-random codes, where K=?Ā·fsp/fc, a being a predetermined integer, are generated locally by a modified code generator, each modified code having, during a time duration Tk where Tk=1/?Ā·fsp, the shape of the pseudo-random code without the sub-carrier, and being offset in time by a duration Tk of the preceding modified pseudo-random code; in both ways, the signal is multiplied by the K modified codes and is phase- and quadrature-correlated by two phase and quadrature sub-carriers generated locally.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2007Date of Patent: March 27, 2012Assignee: Centre National d'Etudes SpatialesInventor: Antoine Richard de Latour
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Patent number: 8144753Abstract: An A/D converted and inputted signal is stored in a memory. A sliding correlator sequentially reads the signal stored in the memory and despreads this signal. A despreading timing is adjusted and then the candidate for a despreading code is outputted from a code generation circuit. The despreading code outputted at a predetermined timing is used for obtaining a correlation value of signals outputted from the memory, using the sliding correlator. Thus, by storing signals in the memory, fluctuation of a correlation value caused by fading does not occur while specifying a code or detecting a despreading timing.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2009Date of Patent: March 27, 2012Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Koji Matsuyama, Masahiko Shimizu, Takeshi Inoue
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Patent number: 8139622Abstract: A system and method for generating and detecting identifier sequence of a bandwidth-limited transmitter are disclosed, comprising an identifier sequence generating portion and a detection portion. The identifier sequence generating portion comprises: generating a frequency-domain random sequence; generating a frequency-domain orthogonal sequence; performing frequency-domain truncation; performing frequency-time transformation; and performing cycle extension.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2006Date of Patent: March 20, 2012Assignee: TIMI Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Junwei Wang, Qihong Ge, Tao Tao, Dong Bai, Wen Chen, Qinghua Yang, Qun Li
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Patent number: 8139691Abstract: Provided is a correlation scheme selecting apparatus and method that can acquire initial synchronization efficiently by calculating frequency error criterion threshold between correlation schemes and selecting a correlation scheme for each region when a correlation value is calculated for initial sync in a communication system with carrier frequency errors. The method for selecting a correlation scheme based on a carrier frequency error includes: calculating mis-detection probability values based on a normalized frequency offset for each correlation scheme; determining as a frequency-error criterion threshold a crossing point of graphs of the calculated mis-detection probability values for each correlation scheme; and selecting a correlation scheme based on the determined frequency-error criterion threshold.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2008Date of Patent: March 20, 2012Assignees: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Sogang UniversityInventors: Pansoo Kim, Dae-Ig Chang, In-Ki Lee, Sangtae Kim, Wonjin Sung
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Patent number: 8135078Abstract: A device and method for performing a channel profile estimation for an OFDM-based wireless communication system uses an averaged frequency coherence metric to select a particular channel profile, which is a current channel profile estimate. The averaged frequency coherence metric is derived using correlations between pilot subcarriers of an OFDM-based signal at predefined subcarrier locations for multiple frames of the OFDM-based signal. The selected channel profile may be used for channel estimation, as well as for link adaptation, to improve the performance of these processes.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2008Date of Patent: March 13, 2012Assignee: Amicus Wireless Technology Ltd.Inventors: Kee-Bong Song, Won-Joon Choi
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Patent number: 8130848Abstract: A device and method for performing a channel estimation for an OFDM-based wireless communication system using sparsely spaced pilot subcarriers estimates missing pilot subcarriers in an interpolation window using pilot subcarriers that are outside of the interpolation window to produce estimated pilot subcarriers for the interpolation window. The pilot subcarriers in the interpolation window and the estimated pilot subcarrier are used to compute pilot channel estimates for the interpolation window, which are then used to derive data channel estimates for the interpolation window.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2008Date of Patent: March 6, 2012Assignee: Amicus Wireless Technology Ltd.Inventors: Kee-Bong Song, Won-Joon Choi
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Patent number: 8125973Abstract: A rake receiver having a rake receiver finger operated in a time multiplexed manner to perform the task a plurality of fingers, each of these fingers being a virtual finger allocated to a time slot in an operation cycle of the rake receiver finger, and wherein a buffer is provided for buffering at least one received chip of data, and where a spare virtual finger is provided such that any virtual finger may request extra processing within an operation cycle of the time multiplexed rake receiver finger.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2008Date of Patent: February 28, 2012Assignee: Mediatek Inc.Inventors: Timothy Fisher-Jeffes, Dilip Muthukrishnan, Thomas Keller
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Patent number: 8125383Abstract: A positioning method includes (a) adding cumulatively each of an I component and a Q component of a received signal of a positioning signal per polarity, the positioning signal being spread-modulated with a spread code reversed in polarity by a navigation data, (b) calculating sum of squares of the results of the cumulative addition in step (a), (c) executing correlation calculation of the sum of squares calculated in step (b) with a replica code of the spread code, and (d) executing predetermined positioning calculation based on the result of the correlation calculation in step (c) to perform positioning of the present location.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2009Date of Patent: February 28, 2012Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Maho Terashima, Akira Kimura
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Patent number: 8121228Abstract: A detector (109) and corresponding method is configured for detecting presence of a data frame. The detector includes a first correlator (123) that is configured to provide a first plurality of correlations corresponding to similarity between data as received and first information, e.g., an ordered set of coefficients, that denotes the data frame and a second correlator (125) that is configured to provide a second plurality of correlations corresponding to similarity between the data as received and second information, e.g., another ordered set of coefficients, that denotes the data frame, where the second information includes a portion of the first information. Further included is decision logic (129) coupled to the first correlator and the second correlator, where the decision logic is configured to provide an indication (111) that the data frame is present based on the first plurality of correlations and the second plurality of correlations.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2005Date of Patent: February 21, 2012Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.Inventor: Robert M. Gorday
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Patent number: 8116690Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of the present invention described and shown in the specification and drawings is a transceiver with a receiver, a transmitter, a local oscillator (LO) generator, a controller, and a self-testing unit. All of these components can be packaged for integration into a single IC including components such as filters and inductors. The controller for adaptive programming and calibration of the receiver, transmitter and LO generator. The self-testing unit generates is used to determine the gain, frequency characteristics, selectivity, noise floor, and distortion behavior of the receiver, transmitter and LO generator. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract which will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or the meaning of the claims.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2008Date of Patent: February 14, 2012Assignee: Broadcom CorporationInventors: Ahmadreza Rofougaran, Maryam Rofougaran, Shahla Khorram
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Patent number: 8116355Abstract: A method is provided for processing a signal emanating from a multi-path transmission medium. A number L of echoes of the signal received are detected, with L being greater than the number N of fingers of a āRakeā receiver, and there are selected N echoes from among the L echoes that are detected. At least some of the L echoes that are detected are echoes temporally correlated according to a determined correlation criterion. The selection step includes determining, as a function of the initial complex amplitudes associated with at least the temporally correlated echoes, weighted individual energies corresponding respectively to temporally decorrelated virtual echoes, and selecting from among the L echoes of N echoes as a function of a determined power criterion using at least the weighted individual energies.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2005Date of Patent: February 14, 2012Assignee: ST-Ericsson SAInventor: Corinne Bonhomme
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Publication number: 20120033716Abstract: Techniques are provided which may be implemented using various methods and/or apparatuses in a receiver and/or other like device to determine an SPS time using SPS signals based on a correlation process. A verification process may be performed, for example, that verifies a maximum peak in comparison with other peak information resulting from the correlation process, for example, by considering a ratio of a maximum peak to a next maximum peak. A time-setting algorithm may be selected, for example, based, at least in part, on a time uncertainty and/or on a type of demodulation performed on the SPS signal. The time-setting algorithm may operatively control one or both of the correlation and/verification processes in a desired manner given the time uncertainty and/or type/mode of demodulation performed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2010Publication date: February 9, 2012Applicant: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Duong A. Hoang, Douglas Neal Rowitch, Jie Wu, Emilija M. Simic, Dominic Gerard Farmer
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Patent number: 8111781Abstract: An RFID interrogator includes a signal processing module for converting a transmission signal transmitted from an RFID tag into an input signal; a first matched filter coupled to the signal processing module for generating a first matched signal according to the input signal and a first predetermined signal pattern; a second matched filter coupled to the signal processing module for generating a second matched signal according to the input signal and a second predetermined signal pattern; a control unit for generating a control signal according to the input signal; and a decision unit, coupled to the first matched filter, the second matched filter and the control unit, for comparing the first matched signal with the second matched signal according to the control signal to generate a read-back signal.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2007Date of Patent: February 7, 2012Assignee: MStar Semiconductor, Inc.Inventor: Hsu-Hung Chang
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Patent number: 8111735Abstract: A correlator for a GNSS receiver and a code generator used in the correlator as well as a correlation method are disclosed. In the GNSS, each satellite transmits a data signal and a pilot signal. The correlator is adaptable for executing correlation to the data signal, the pilot signal and various combinations thereof, such as non-coherent and coherent combinations. The code generator generates primary ranging codes of the data and pilot signals as well as various combinations thereof, such as sum or difference of the primary ranging codes of the data and pilot signals. By using the various codes, the correlator is adaptable and flexible for different correlation requirements.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2008Date of Patent: February 7, 2012Assignee: Mediatek Inc.Inventor: Kun-tso Chen
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Patent number: 8111736Abstract: A method and apparatus for receiving a signal from transmitters such as GPS satellites, for fixing the location of the receiver. Each of the transmitted signals includes a unique periodically-repeating sequence. A received signal is stored by the receiver for at least two repetitions of the periodically-repeating sequence. FFT operations are performed, and the resulting data frequency samples are pruned responsive to a hypothesized residual frequency, a procedure which significantly reduces the total number of subsequent calculations and therefore significantly reduces processing time. A correlation series is determined from the pruned samples and reference frequency samples corresponding to a hypothesized transmitter. If a match is found in the examination of this series, a code phase offset is determined; if not the process is repeated with another hypothesized residual frequency. Multiple correlation series similarly obtained may also be incoherently combined prior to this examination.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2010Date of Patent: February 7, 2012Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventor: Norman F. Krasner
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Patent number: 8107512Abstract: There is provided a method for generating an error signal for an automatic frequency control (AFC) loop in a Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) system. Sign information relating to phase differences in received pilot signals is accumulated. In one embodiment, the accumulated sign information is compared against predetermined threshold levels. The error signal is generated when at least one of the predetermined threshold levels is satisfied. In a second embodiment, the accumulated sign information is decimated. An output of the decimating step is utilized as the error signal for the AFC loop.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2004Date of Patent: January 31, 2012Assignee: Thomson LicensingInventors: Wen Gao, Zoran Kostic, Alton Shelbourne Keel
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Patent number: 8107513Abstract: In one embodiment, a detection unit includes a sequence providing unit to provide a third group of derived sequences. The sequence providing unit has a counting unit and multiplexers connected to the counting unit. Fixed values are applied at the inputs of the multiplexers and the sequence providing unit provides the derived sequences of the third group at the outputs of the multiplexers. The third group for each first pseudo noise (PN) sequence has a derived sequence assigned to the first PN sequence. The detection unit includes a correlation unit, which is connected to the sequence providing unit and formed to calculate correlation results by correlating the differentially demodulated signal with each derived sequence of the third group. The detection unit includes an evaluation unit, which is connected to the correlation unit and is formed to derive the values of the data symbols by evaluating the correlation results.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2006Date of Patent: January 31, 2012Assignee: Atmel CorporationInventors: Frank Poegel, Tilo Ferchland, Thomas Hanusch
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Patent number: 8107520Abstract: Receiving a transmission line estimation sequence, a wireless communication apparatus generates a transmission line characteristic estimation value for each of a plurality of sub-carriers and smoothes the transmission line characteristic estimation value of a target sub-carrier to be processed and the transmission line characteristic estimation value of its adjacent sub-carrier. The apparatus includes a determination unit for determining whether or not the adjacent sub-carrier, is a null sub-carrier and a smoothing unit for smoothing the transmission line characteristic estimation value of the target sub-carrier by excluding the transmission line characteristic estimation value of the adjacent sub-carrier determined as a null carrier by the determination unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2007Date of Patent: January 31, 2012Assignee: Renesas Electronics CorporationInventor: Takahiro Kawano
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Patent number: 8102894Abstract: In a communication system including a plurality of pairs of a transmitting device 2 and a receiving device 3, the transmission performance in the pairs is to be improved. The transmitting device 2-k transmits a transmission signal sk(t) to the receiving device 3-k a plurality of number of times. The receiving device 3-k updates the weight matrix Wk and the hopping pattern Pk used by the FIR filter which performs filtering on the transmission signal rk(t) at a predetermined time interval. The receiving device 3-k transmits the updated hopping pattern Pk to the transmitting device 2-k. The transmitting device 2-k receives the hopping pattern Pk to be used for subsequent spread spectrum.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2008Date of Patent: January 24, 2012Assignee: Kochi University of TechnologyInventors: Masanori Hamamura, Kazuki Chiba
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Patent number: 8102900Abstract: A method and an apparatus for efficient Gold code generation and management in WCDMA systems are presented. Aspects of the method may include simultaneously generating, based on the codeword sequence, a plurality of scrambling code segments associated with a scrambling code. A plurality of scrambling code segments, where each is associated with a corresponding one of a plurality of scrambling codes, may also be simultaneously generated. The plurality of scrambling codes may form a scrambling code group. Based on the codeword sequence, a plurality of time shifted versions of at least one scrambling code segment associated with a scrambling code may also be simultaneously generated.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2006Date of Patent: January 24, 2012Assignee: Broadcom CorporationInventors: Mark Kent, Francis Swarts
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Patent number: 8102897Abstract: Direct sequence spread spectrum communications can use composite codes and can operate at a plurality of different chipping rates. The composite codes can be formed using a plurality of component codes, wherein the component codes can be relatively prime and at least one of the nominal lengths of the component codes can include a plurality of prime number multiplicands. The chipping rate and code length can be reduced by dividing a master rate by one or more of the prime number multiplicands. Symbol timing and time division multiple access timing can be tied to epochs of the component codes.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2009Date of Patent: January 24, 2012Assignee: L-3 Communications, Corp.Inventors: Vaughn L. Mower, Merle L. Keller, Kent R. Bruening
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Patent number: 8098765Abstract: Methods and systems for processing a Global Positioning System (GPS) signal are provided. A method includes: transforming a time domain GPS signal to a frequency domain GPS signal; storing a frequency domain pseudorandom noise (PRN) signal; correlating the frequency domain GPS signal with the PRN signal at a plurality of frequencies, said correlating including: shifting the frequency domain GPS signal by an amount corresponding to one of the plurality of frequencies; downsampling the shifted frequency domain GPS signal; and multiplying the shifted frequency domain GPS signal by the stored frequency domain PRN signal to produce a correlated signal.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2005Date of Patent: January 17, 2012Assignee: SIRF Technology, Inc.Inventors: Paul Eric Beckmann, Andrew Chou, Julien Basch
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Patent number: 8098716Abstract: A method and apparatus for tracking a signal comprises correlating a digital signal with a code using a hypothesis at a plurality of frequencies and at least one delay to produce correlation results, measuring an energy value of the correlation results, adjusting at least one of the frequency or delay in response to the measured energy value to form the hypothesis.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2008Date of Patent: January 17, 2012Assignee: Broadcom CorporationInventors: Jason Goldberg, Charles Abraham
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Patent number: 8098712Abstract: Optical correlators are discussed, suitable for in-vehicle distance measurement. The correlators use modulation sequences based on maximal length sequences. A number of different modulation sequences are obtained by generator (32) from a single maximal length sequence, either by adding a variable number of cycles to the end of the maximal length sequence or by starting the maximal length sequence at different points in the sequence.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2005Date of Patent: January 17, 2012Assignee: Instro Precision LimitedInventor: Christopher John Morcom
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Patent number: 8098717Abstract: A method for communication includes receiving signals at a receiver from multiple sources, including a target signal transmitted by a given transmitter, and estimating a channel response from the given transmitter to the receiver. A filter response is computed by taking a sum including a first autocorrelation of the received signals with a second autocorrelation of the channel response, and applying the sum to the estimated channel response. The filter response is applied to the received signals in order to recover the target signal.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2009Date of Patent: January 17, 2012Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.Inventor: Meir Griniasty
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Patent number: 8094808Abstract: A method and apparatus provide an IP telephone or similar device with a mechanism to receive and at least briefly loop back discovery signals received from a telecommunications device such as an Ethernet switch while not permitting the loop back of data packet signals. No mechanical relays are required and the circuitry can be fully integrated on an integrated circuit using commonly available techniques, if desired.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2008Date of Patent: January 10, 2012Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: James Molenda, Maurilio Tazio De Nicolo, Karl Nakamura, Roger Karam
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Patent number: 8094758Abstract: The present invention provides systems and methods for downloading navigation data to a satellite receiver under weak signal conditions. In an embodiment, the receiver uses a tracking algorithm to estimate the Doppler frequency and rate of change of the Doppler frequency to compensate the phases of the I/Q samples from the received signal to reduce the effect of the Doppler frequency. In an embodiment, differential detection based data bit decoding is provided. In another embodiment, phase compensation based data bit decoding is provided, in which the phase of samples are rotated to compensate for phase error. In an embodiment, a multiple frame strategy is provided to increase signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and improve sensitivity, in which similar placed samples in consecutive frames are coherently summed over the consecutive frames. In an embodiment, the samples are weighted to reduce the impact of noise in the multiple frame strategy.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2006Date of Patent: January 10, 2012Assignee: SiRF Technology Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Chi-Shin Wang, Yue-Meng Chen, Zhike Jia, EnYuan Tu
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Patent number: 8094702Abstract: The subject matter disclosed herein relates to a system and method for processing a signal received from a satellite positioning system (SPS) in the presence of a multi-tone jammer. In one particular implementation, processing of a signal may be altered in response to detection of one or more conditions.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2008Date of Patent: January 10, 2012Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Emilija M. Simic, Shiou-Hung Chen, Douglas Grover