Loopback Mode Patents (Class 375/221)
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Patent number: 9232530Abstract: It is described a method for managing a radio transmission between a base station and a user equipment, wherein a communication channel is used for the radio transmission, wherein the communication channel includes a plurality of channel resources and is based on a MIMO transmission scheme. The method includes dividing the plurality of channel resources into a set of channel resource regions, assigning a MIMO rank to each channel resource region, wherein the MIMO rank is indicative for a number of channel resources to be used for a radio transmission within a corresponding channel resource region, selecting a channel resource region for the radio transmission between the base station and the user equipment, and managing the radio transmission between the base station and the user equipment based on the selected channel resource region and the corresponding assigned MIMO rank.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2011Date of Patent: January 5, 2016Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks OyInventors: Yuanye Wang, Klaus Ingemann Pedersen
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Patent number: 9203598Abstract: Systems and methods of supporting video streaming operations may involve transmitting a pulse width modulated (PWM) control signal to an imaging device, wherein the imaging devices identifies control data based on a duty cycle of the control signal. The imaging device can configure a video stream based on the control data and synchronize transmission of the video stream based on a frequency of the control signal.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2011Date of Patent: December 1, 2015Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Huimin Chen, Duane G. Quiet, David J. Harriman
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Patent number: 9197281Abstract: An apparatus and method for applying digital pre-distortion (DPD) technology in an electronic device which uses an envelope tracking (ET) method is provided. The electronic device includes an antenna, a modem, a transceiver configured to convert a signal generated in the modem into a radio frequency signal, an ET modulator configured to supply power to a power amplifier based on an amplitude component of the signal generated in the modem, and the power amplifier configured to amplify power of a signal received from the transceiver based on an output signal of the ET modulator. The modem generates a signal by using a DPD) variable corresponding to output impedance of the power amplifier caused by the antenna from among a plurality of DPD variables.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2015Date of Patent: November 24, 2015Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ju-Ho Van, Hyun-Ju Hong
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Patent number: 9191183Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for using decision feedback phase error correction during signal processing. When an input signal comprises a plurality of sub-carriers, each of the plurality of sub-carriers may be processed separately, wherein the processing may comprise determining for each one of the plurality sub-carriers error related information; and the determined error related information may be applied as separate feedback, such as to allow separately adjusting subsequent processing of the corresponding one of the plurality of sub-carriers. The error related information may comprise phase error related information. At least part of the error related information based on data carried by the corresponding one of the plurality of sub-carriers. The plurality of sub-carriers comprises orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) based sub-carriers. Error related information obtained from processing of at least some of the plurality of sub-carriers may be shared.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2014Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Inventors: Curtis Ling, Timothy Gallagher
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Patent number: 9170837Abstract: A transaction concurrent execution control system carries out a control of concurrently executing a transaction. The transaction concurrent execution control system includes a transaction execution unit for executing the transaction, a back-off time determination unit for determining a waiting time until the transaction is re-executed when a commitment of the transaction has failed, and a transaction pooling unit for causing the transaction to stand by for re-execution until the waiting time has elapsed when the commitment of the transaction has failed.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2012Date of Patent: October 27, 2015Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventor: Teruki Sukenari
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Patent number: 9106502Abstract: Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, systems and/or methods of In-phase/Quadrature (I/Q) imbalance compensation. For example, an apparatus may include an I/Q imbalance calibrator to determine, based on first and second phasors, a plurality of calibration parameters for calibrating I/Q imbalance of both a Radio Frequency (RF) Receive (Rx) path of a transceiver and a RF Transmit (Tx) path of the transceiver, the first phasor including a phasor of an image component of a first signal transmitted via the Tx path, shifted by a first phase shift and received via the Rx path, and the second phasor including a phasor of an image component of a second signal transmitted via the Tx path, shifted by a second phase shift, different from the first phase shift, and received via the Rx path.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2012Date of Patent: August 11, 2015Assignee: INTEL CORPORATIONInventors: Moshe Teplitsky, Elan Banin, Michael Genossar
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Patent number: 9100169Abstract: A system and method for channel state information feedback in wireless communications systems are provided. A method for reporting channel information includes determining, at a user equipment, a channel information type for first channel information to be reported to a communications controller, determining the first channel information conditioned on previously reported channel information and on the channel information type, and reporting the first channel information, the channel information type, or a combination thereof, to the communications controller.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2011Date of Patent: August 4, 2015Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Jianguo Wang, Yang Tang, Yongxing Zhou, David Mazzarese, Mattias Frenne
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Patent number: 9042431Abstract: A transceiver with non-deterministic delay characteristics is analyzed and adjusted to provide a transceiver with deterministic delay characteristics. The transceiver may be implemented with a variety of device types to support high bandwidth operation over a wide range of frequencies. Deterministic behavior allows use of the transceiver in source synchronous interfaces. The transceiver may also be dynamically analyzed and adjusted during operation as operation frequency changes.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2009Date of Patent: May 26, 2015Assignee: Altera CorporationInventors: Venkat Yadavalli, Sridhar Krishnamurthy, Gerardo Orlando, David Richardson King, Ken Clauss, Mark Krumpoch, Peter Markou
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Patent number: 9037437Abstract: System and method for testing a high speed data path without generating a high speed bit clock, includes selecting a first high speed data path from a plurality of data paths for testing. Coherent clock data patterns are driven on one or more of remaining data paths of the plurality of data paths, wherein the coherent clock data patterns are in coherence with a low speed base clock. The first high speed data path is sampled by the coherent clock data patterns to generate a sampled first high speed data path, which is then tested at a speed of the low speed base clock.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2013Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Miao Li, Xiaohua Kong, Nam Van Dang, Cheng Zhong
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Patent number: 9025646Abstract: A transceiver for reducing transmit signal leakage is described. The transceiver includes a downconverter that downconverts a receive signal to produce a feedback signal. The transceiver also includes a weight learning module that correlates the feedback signal with a transmit signal to obtain a weight. The transceiver further includes a transmit leakage estimator that obtains an estimated transmit leakage signal based on the weight and the transmit signal. The transceiver also includes a transmit leakage reducer that reduces the transmit leakage in the receive signal based on the estimated transmit leakage signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: QUALCOMM, IncorporatedInventor: Vladimir Aparin
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Patent number: 9025693Abstract: Systems and methods that facilitate on-chip testing are provided. An integrated circuit can include a transmitter configured to transmit a communications signal via a communications channel. The integrated circuit can also include a receiver configured to receive the communications signal via the communications channel. A jitter creation module also can form part of the integrated circuit and can introduce jitter into the system thereby allowing for on-chip jitter testing. The jitter creation module can form either part of the transmitter or receiver and can introduce the jitter by phase interpolation.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2012Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Broadcom CorporationInventors: John Wang, Vasudevan Parthasarathy
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Patent number: 9008157Abstract: A transceiver and a method of controlling aberrant transceiver operation. In one embodiment, the transceiver includes: (1) a processor, (2) an interrupt system coupled to the processor and having a flag register associated therewith, (3) detection circuits associated with corresponding functional units of the transceiver and configured to detect conditions regarding the corresponding functional units and set corresponding flags in the flag register, the interrupt system configured to assert interrupts in response thereto and (4) an interrupt-handing routine executable in the processor and configured to respond to the interrupts by carrying out at least one of loading parameters and generating warnings based on identities of the flags.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2008Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: Texas Instruments IncorporatedInventor: Khurram Muhammad
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Patent number: 9008161Abstract: A method for calibrating mismatches of an in-phase signal path and a quadrature signal path of a transmitter, including: additionally configuration at least one mixer calibration coefficient at a transmitting part of the transmitter; obtaining at least one mixer testing signal from the transmitting part via loopback for spectrum analysis to derive at least one mixer spectrum analysis result; adjusting the mixer calibration coefficient of the transmitting part according to the mixer spectrum analysis result; and additionally utilizing an in-phase signal path finite impulse response filter and a quadrature signal path finite impulse response filter to calibrate mismatches between a low pass filter of the in-phase signal path of the transmitting part of the transmitter and a low pass filter of the quadrature signal path of the transmitting part of the transmitter. A similar mismatch calibration operation may be applied to a receiver.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2014Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: Realtek Semiconductor Corp.Inventors: Yuan-Shuo Chang, Ching-Chia Cheng
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Patent number: 9001875Abstract: The disclosure can provide methods and systems for autocalibrating a transceiver. The method can include upconverting a bandpass input signal by mixing the bandpass input signal with a first local oscillator signal to form an initial transmitter signal. The initial transmitter signal can be looped back to a receiver and downconverted with a second local oscillator signal having a frequency that is different from the first local oscillator to form an intermediate frequency signal. At least one of a gain and a phase of the transmitter can be adjusted based on a transmitter image sideband of the intermediate frequency signal to generate a calibrated transmitter signal having minimized transmitter image sideband.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2013Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.Inventors: Lydi Smaini, Neric Fong, Sang Won Son, Bo Wang
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Patent number: 8995517Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for the location of passive intermodulation faults in a coaxial cable network. The test apparatus (100) according to one embodiment of the present invention utilizes a pair of high-power, frequency-synthesized, unmodulated RF carriers v1(t) (101) and v2(t) (102) are generated inside the HPA module of the apparatus. The power and frequency of v1(t) (101) and v2(t) (102) can be independently set to a range of values, v1(t), v2(t) are combined inside the instrument and then applied to the input of the device under test (DUT). The PIM signals (107,108,109) generated in the DUT are combined to produce the primary PIM signal vIM(t) (103). The apparatus also includes two receivers (110,111, 112,113,114,115) for the detection of vIM(t) 103 and vREF(t) (104). These signals are downconverted to 455 kHz.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2011Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Kaelus Pty LtdInventors: Greg Delforce, Brendan Horsfield
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Patent number: 8995932Abstract: Systems and methods for suppressing transmitter noise in a receive band of a co-located receiver that are suitable for wideband applications are disclosed. In one embodiment, an analog radio frequency transmit signal output by a transmitter includes a desired signal in a transmit band of the transmitter and transmitter noise in a receive band of a main receiver. A secondary receiver obtains a secondary receiver input signal that is representative of at least the transmitter noise in the receive band of the main receiver and outputs a digital feedforward signal. A digital feedforward transmit noise cancellation subsystem generates a digital transmitter noise cancellation signal that is representative of the transmitter noise in the receive band based on the digital feedforward signal and subtracts the digital transmitter noise cancellation signal from a digital receive signal output by the main receiver to thereby provide a compensated digital receive signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2013Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)Inventor: Mark Wyville
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Patent number: 8989307Abstract: A power amplifier system including a composite digital predistorter (DPD) ensuring optimized linearity for the power amplifier is described. In this system, a digital-to-analog converter (DAC), an analog filter, a first mixer, and the power amplifier are serially coupled to the composite DPD. A second mixer, a receive gain block, and an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) are serially coupled to the output of the power amplifier. A DPD training component is coupled between the inputs of the composite DPD and the ADC. The composite DPD includes a memory-based DPD, e.g., a memory polynomial (MP) DPD, a memoryless-linearizing DPD, e.g., a look-up table (LUT) DPD, and two multiplexers.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2013Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Hao Zhou, Ning Zhang
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Patent number: 8982933Abstract: A communications system includes a target receiver having a passband and configured to receive an intended signal within the passband. The communications system also includes a jammer configured to jam the target receiver from receiving the intended signal. The jammer has at least one antenna, a jammer receiver coupled to the at least one antenna, a jammer transmitter coupled to the at least one antenna, and a controller configured to cooperate with the jammer receiver. The controller is configured to detect the intended signal and to generate an interfering signal comprising a continuous phase modulation (CPM) waveform having a constant envelope so that the interfering signal at least partially overlaps the passband of the target receiver.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2011Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Assignee: Harris CorporationInventor: James A. Norris
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Patent number: 8976847Abstract: A communications system provides a first communications device, which is connected via a bidirectional transmission channel to a second communications device, wherein the communications devices each comprise a data reconstruction unit. Each communications device comprises a control unit, which is provided for a configuration of various transmission parameters such as modulation type and/or code rate and/or transmitter power and/or size of data packets dependent upon a reliability value evaluated within the control unit. The reliability value indicates a probability for a reliability or a quality of a data reconstruction, which reconstructs transmitted data from received signals within the data reconstruction unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2008Date of Patent: March 10, 2015Assignee: Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Henrik Schober, Torsten Langguth
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Patent number: 8976848Abstract: A method and device for reducing interference between a first signal of the carrier current type (Se) transmitted between modems (MCPL) in an electrical network (Re) and a second signal (S) transmitted between modems (M) in another network (R), the signals (Se, S) being coded by distribution of the data over allocated carrier frequencies in the same reserved frequency band (BF). The method includes: a step of measurement, by each modem (MCPL) in the electrical network, of transmission characteristics of each carrier frequency (F) that may be used for coding the first signal (Se), a step of detection, by analysis of the measured transmission characteristics, of at least one second carrier frequency (F2,n), which is allocated or may be allocated for coding the second signal (S) and is common with at least one first carrier frequency (F1,m), which is allocated for coding the first signal (Se), and a step of optimization of the distribution of the data of the first signal (Se) over carrier frequencies.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2013Date of Patent: March 10, 2015Assignee: SAGEMCOM Broadband SASInventor: Roger Samy
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Patent number: 8976874Abstract: In a modular signal mirroring system each point-to-point RF transceiver end has a controller module coupled to one or more I/O modules. The I/O modules have various input and output circuits. A signal received at the near end is reconstructed at the far end after being transmitted in an RF packet. The reconstructed signal may be the same as the input signal, inverted from the input signal or level-shifted from the input signal. It is representative of the input signal following the input signal's state after a time-quantization latency. Transmission between the two ends is via a periodic transmission controlled in a master slave protocol. If a transmission is not received in a timely manner or, in some systems, if intentional interference with transmissions is detected, the reconstructed signal is forced to a safe state determined by local switch settings. The settings include the last known good state.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2014Date of Patent: March 10, 2015Assignee: OleumTech CorporationInventor: Matthew A. Tanner
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Patent number: 8976850Abstract: Provided is a channel state information (CSI) sharing method and apparatus in a Multiple User Multiple Input Multiple Output (MU-MIMO) environment. Each node may use network-coding to reduce overhead necessary for sharing CSI between all nodes in the MU-MIMO environment. A transmitter may dynamically select, based on the CSI between receivers, a path used for transmitting data to each receiver and a receiver to be used as a relay based on the global CSI. A decoding performance may be improved based on the CSI between the transmitter and the receivers.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2010Date of Patent: March 10, 2015Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Purdue Research FoundationInventors: Bruno Clerckx, Jun Il Choi, Taejoon Kim, Obadamilola Aluko, David J. Love
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Patent number: 8971391Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide systems for incorporating bonding processors while avoiding bonding processor buffer overflow by initiating retransmission requests on all data lines whenever corrupted data is encountered on one data line. Initiating these “extra” retransmission requests equalizes retransmissions delays over all transmission lines, preventing the bonding processor from receiving excess data that cannot be reassembled until the retransmission request is processed.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2011Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Broadcom CorporationInventor: Mike Locke
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Patent number: 8971823Abstract: Techniques to enhance the performance in a wireless communication system using segments called subbands and using precoding are shown. According to one aspect, the bandwidth for transmission to an access terminal is constrained to a preferred bandwidth which is less than the bandwidth available for transmission to an access terminal and precoding information related to the subcarriers within the constrained bandwidth is provided to a transmitter. The precoding information related to the subcarriers within a constrained bandwidth provides feedback about the forward link channel properties relative to different subbands and may be fed back on a channel associated with the bandwidth.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2013Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Dhananjay Ashok Gore, Hemanth Sampath, Jibing Wang, Tamer Kadous, Gwendolyn D. Barriac
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Patent number: 8964820Abstract: The present invention is directed to integrated circuits. In a specific embodiment, high frequency signals from an equalizer are directly connected to a first pair of inputs of a sense amplifier. The sense amplifier also has a second pair of inputs, which can be selectively coupled to output signals from a DAC or high frequency loopback signals. There are other embodiments as well.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2014Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: Inphi CorporationInventors: Parmanand Mishra, Michael S. Harwood
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Patent number: 8953660Abstract: Devices and methods for providing a pilot structure for a virtual diversity receiver (VDR) scheme are disclosed. In order to improve the performance of a communication network, a VDR scheme is implemented to facilitate the exchange of information between user devices via an intermediary device, such as a base station. The pilot structure supports estimation of channel parameters at the receivers, including true channel taps, as well as estimations of the virtual channels created by the VDR scheme in order to enable the use of receive-diversity signal processing techniques.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2012Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (PUBL)Inventors: Ali S. Khayrallah, Yi-Pin Eric Wang
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Patent number: 8953663Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for calibration of quadrature imbalance in direct conversion transceivers are contemplated. A transceiver controller may perform a self-calibration to address quadrature imbalance. The controller may isolate the transmitter and receiver from any antennas, couple the radio frequency (RF) section of the transmitter to the RF section of the receiver via a loopback path, and inject a calibration signal into the transmitter. In the loopback path, the controller may phase-shift the signal that propagates through the transmitter using two different phase angles to produce two different signals that propagate into the receiver. By measuring the two different signals that exit the receiver, the controller may be able to calculate correction coefficients, or parameters, which may be used to adjust elements that address or correct the quadrature imbalance for both the transmitter and receiver.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2009Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: Intel CorporationInventor: Lior Kravitz
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Publication number: 20150036727Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for calibration of quadrature imbalance in direct conversion transceivers are contemplated. A transceiver controller may perform a self-calibration to address quadrature imbalance. The controller may isolate the transmitter and receiver from any antennas, couple the radio frequency (RF) section of the transmitter to the RF section of the receiver via a loopback path, and inject a calibration signal into the transmitter. In the loopback path, the controller may phase-shift the signal that propagates through the transmitter using two different phase angles to produce two different signals that propagate into the receiver. By measuring the two different signals that exit the receiver, the controller may be able to calculate correction coefficients, or parameters, which may be used to adjust elements that address or correct the quadrature imbalance for both the transmitter and receiver.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2014Publication date: February 5, 2015Inventor: Lior Kravitz
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Publication number: 20150030058Abstract: The present disclosure provides a receiver, a transmitter and methods of operating a receiver and a transmitter. In one embodiment, the receiver includes a receive portion employing transmission signals from a transmitter, having multiple transmit antennas, that is capable of transmitting at least one spatial codeword and adapting a transmission rank. The receiver also includes a feedback generator portion configured to provide a channel quality indicator that is feedback to the transmitter, wherein the channel quality indicator corresponds to at least one transmission rank.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2007Publication date: January 29, 2015Applicant: Texas Instruments Inc.Inventors: Badri Varadarajan, Eko N. Onggosanusi
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Publication number: 20150016493Abstract: The present invention is directed to integrated circuits. In a specific embodiment, high frequency signals from an equalizer are directly connected to a first pair of inputs of a sense amplifier. The sense amplifier also has a second pair of inputs, which can be selectively coupled to output signals from a DAC or high frequency loopback signals. There are other embodiments as well.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2014Publication date: January 15, 2015Inventors: Parmanand MISHRA, Michael S. HARWOOD
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Patent number: 8934851Abstract: A PDMA terminal (1000) establishes communication by forming a plurality of spatial paths to another single radio apparatus. A plurality of antennas constituting an array antenna are divided into a plurality of subarrays corresponding to the plurality of spatial paths respectively. An adaptive array processing unit (USP) can perform an adaptive array processing for each of the plurality of subarrays. A memory (MMU) stores in advance information on the number of antennas associated with the number of spatial paths that can be formed by the array antenna. A control unit (CNP) controls a processing to transmit possible multiplicity information to another radio apparatus at a prescribed timing.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2013Date of Patent: January 13, 2015Assignee: Hera Wireless S.A.Inventor: Yoshiharu Doi
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Patent number: 8923454Abstract: A method, an apparatus and a system for eliminating aliasing noise in a multi-carrier modulation system are disclosed. The method includes: acquiring a first power spectrum density template; acquiring information of in-band subcarriers whose aliasing noise is greater than background noise, and acquiring a difference between the aliasing noise and the background noise of the in-band subcarriers; adjusting the first power spectrum density template according to the information of the in-band subcarriers and the corresponding difference to obtain a second power spectrum density template; and sending signals according to the second power spectrum density template. The method, the apparatus, and the system disclosed herein eliminate the aliasing crosstalk noise, improve the performance and stability of in-band services without involving upgrade or modification of the Customer Premises Equipment (CPE), and are easy to implement.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2012Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Huijian Bo, Tao Wu, Yongjun Zhang
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Patent number: 8923370Abstract: A digital radio module comprises a modular architecture for use in a multi-band multi-standard radio communication apparatus. The digital radio module comprises one or more digital transmitter sub modules, each digital transmitter sub module comprising a plurality of digital transmitter chains, and one or more digital receiver sub modules, each digital receiver sub module comprising a plurality of digital receiver chains. Each of the digital transmitter sub modules and digital receiver sub modules comprises a respective control unit for individually configuring each digital transmitter sub module and digital receiver sub module such that the digital radio module is operable to transmit and/or receive multiple different carrier frequency signals in one or more different modes of operation.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2012Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Bernt Johansson, Bo Berglund
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Patent number: 8917759Abstract: A transceiver is described. The transceiver includes a first injection-locked oscillator and a second injection-locked oscillator. The transceiver also includes a first phase-locked loop coupled with the first injection-locked oscillator. The first phase-locked loop is configured to generate a first frequency reference. Further, the transceiver includes a second phase-locked loop coupled the second injection-locked oscillator. The second phase-locked loop is configured to generate a second frequency reference. The transceiver includes a mixer configured to receive the first phase-locked loop output and configured to receive said second injection-locked oscillator output. The mixer is also configured to generate a carrier frequency signal based on the first injection-locked oscillator output and the second injection-locked oscillator output. And, the transceiver includes a modulator configured to receive said carrier frequency signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2013Date of Patent: December 23, 2014Assignee: Innophase Inc.Inventor: Yang Xu
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Patent number: 8913676Abstract: The invention relates to a method of receiving a signal corresponding to a multicarrier signal transmitted via at least one transmission channel, the method comprising an estimation step (11) of estimating said channel and delivering overall information about said channel in the frequency domain, referred to as a “frequency response” and comprising frequency samples. According to the invention, such a method also comprises: a sharing step (12) of sharing said frequency samples in at least two frequency sample vectors; a transform step (13) of transforming said frequency sample vectors from the frequency domain to a transform domain and delivering, for at least one frequency sample vector, a partial response of said channel in said transform domain; and a feedback step (14) of transmitting a return signal back to said transmitter, the return signal conveying samples extracted from said partial responses and representative of said channel in said transform domain.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2011Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignee: OrangeInventors: Laurent Cariou, Moussa Diallo
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Patent number: 8913507Abstract: A method for enabling virtual data loopback in a computing system may include forwarding a data packet from a first device to a second device; the second device identifying from the data packet egress interface information indicating a first interface for forwarding the data packet out of the computing system; based on the first interface identified from the egress interface information, automatically determining a second interface to the first interface; inserting into the data packet ingress interface information that indicates the second interface; forwarding the data packet, including the ingress interface information, back to the first device; and the first device identifying the ingress interface information indicating the second interface; such that the data packet is looped back to the first device without being communicated via the first or second interface, and such that from the perspective of the first device the data packet was received via the second interface.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2012Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignee: Breakingpoint Systems, Inc.Inventors: Mark Veteikis, Dennis James Cox, Michael Moriarty
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Patent number: 8891600Abstract: A network device includes: a connector connected to a network; a receiving line connected to the connector; a transmitting line connected to the connector; a communication control unit configured to control communication with an external network device by receiving a signal from the network through the connector and the receiving line, and transmitting the signal to the network through the transmitting line and the connector; and a loop-back processing unit configured to loop back the signal transmitted through the receiving line, to the transmitting line when the communication control unit is in a power-off state or a standby state.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2012Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventor: Yohei Kaneko
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Patent number: 8891598Abstract: A communication device operating in time division duplex (TDD) mode using multiple antennas is provided herein. The communication device uses receive channel estimation measurements to perform transmit beamforming and multiple input multiple output (MIMO) transmission, based on self-calibration of the various up/down paths via a method of transmission and reception between its own antennas, thus achieving reciprocity mapping between up and down links. Either user equipment (UE) or a base station may routinely perform this self-calibration to obtain the most current correction factor for the channel reciprocity to reflect the most current operating conditions present during TDD MIMO operation.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2013Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: Magnolia Broadband Inc.Inventors: Sherwin J. Wang, Phil F. Chen, Haim Harel
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Patent number: 8891599Abstract: A transmission and reception apparatus includes: a transmitter circuit to transmit to an object a transmission signal including a comb-shaped wave in which a first plurality of pulses are arranged in a comb shape; and a receiver circuit to receive a reflection signal based on the transmission signal.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2011Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventor: Yasuhiro Nakasha
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Patent number: 8885692Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide an apparatus comprising a transceiver having a receiver and a transmitter connected through a segment of a calibration loop back path. The apparatus also comprises a control system configured to communicate with the transceiver. The calibration loop back path has an intentional phase shift that can be toggled between an off state and an on state by the control system. The control system is configured to calculate the intentional phase shift by examining the difference of a first and second phase angle. The first phase angle is obtained from the transmission of a first pair of signals with the intentional phase shift in the off state. The second phase angle is obtained from the transmission of a second pair of signals with the intentional phase shift in the on state.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2013Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventor: Yann Ly-Gagnon
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Publication number: 20140321516Abstract: Local oscillator (LO) in-phase/quadrature (IQ) imbalance correction data are generated for one or both of the transmitter and receiver of a radio-frequency (RF) communication device. An RF transmitter output signal is generated by the transmitter from a known test signal and transmitted to the receiver, where a baseband receiver signal is produced. A signal characteristic of the receiver baseband signal is measured in the presence of phase shifts introduced in the transmitter output signal. Joint LO IQ imbalance figures of merit are computed from the signal characteristic measurements, each characterizing signal processing artifacts in the receiver baseband signal caused by joint signal processing in the transmitter and the receiver under influence of transmitter LO IQ imbalance and receiver LO IQ imbalance.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2013Publication date: October 30, 2014Applicant: MStar Semiconductor, Inc.Inventors: Wael Al-Qaq, Ryan L. Bunch, Dennis Mahoney, Paul Brey
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Patent number: 8873671Abstract: A system involves a transmitting device (for example, a first wireless communication device) and a receiving device (for example, a second wireless communication device). In the receiving device, LLR (Log-Likelihood Ratio) values are stored into an LLR buffer. LLR bit width is adjusted as a function of packet size of an incoming transmission to reduce the LLR buffer size required and/or to prevent LLR buffer capacity from being exceeded. The receiver may use a higher performance demodulator in order to maintain performance despite smaller LLR bit width. In the transmitting device, encoder code rate is adjusted as a function of receiver LLR buffer capacity and packet size of the outgoing transmission such that receiver LLR buffer capacity is not exceeded. Any combination of receiver LLR bit width adjustment, demodulator selection, and encoder code rate adjustment can be practiced to reduce LLR buffer size required while maintaining performance.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2009Date of Patent: October 28, 2014Assignee: Qualcomm IncorporatedInventors: Hemanth Sampath, Avneesh Agrawal, Jeremy H. Lin
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Patent number: 8862906Abstract: Control of platform control of platform power consumption using selective updating of a display image. An embodiment of an apparatus includes a display controller to transfer pixel data from a frame buffer to a video display and a detection element to track updates to the frame buffer, the detection element to identify a portion of the pixel data that has been changed from a previous image, where the display controller is to provide the video display with the identified portion of the pixel data.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2011Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Nithyananda S. Jeganathan, Paul S. Diefenbaugh, Kyungtae Han, Jinjun Liu, James A. Bish, Paul C. Drews
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Patent number: 8861566Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods for managing message communications in systems employing frequency hopping. One method according to the invention involves transmitting a message via a frequency of a frequency hopping sequence, and determining when the same frequency will reoccur in the frequency hopping sequence. Relevant portions of the device enter a sleep mode, and the device emerges from the sleep mode when the frequency at which the message was transmitted reoccurs in the frequency hopping sequence. The device monitors for a response to the message via the frequency at which the message was transmitted when the frequency reoccurs in the frequency hopping sequence.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2012Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventor: Steven Nichols
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Patent number: 8861644Abstract: The device with IQ mismatch compensation includes a transmitter oscillator, a transmitter module, and a loop-back module. The transmitter module is arranged to up-convert a transmitter signal with the oscillator signal to generate an RF signal. The loop-back module is arranged to down-convert the RF signal with the oscillator signal to determine a transmitter IQ mismatch parameter, and effects of IQ mismatch of the loop-back module are calibrated by inputting a test signal and the oscillator signal before the down-converting of the RF signal. The transmitter module is arranged to reduce effects of IQ mismatch of a transmitter path in the transmitter module according to the transmitter IQ mismatch parameter.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2011Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignee: Mediatek Inc.Inventors: Hsin-Hung Chen, Hsiang-Hui Chang
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Patent number: 8855175Abstract: The present disclosure relates to compensation for Passive Intermodulation (PIM) distortion in a receiver. In one embodiment, a communication device includes a transmitter that is configured to receive a digital input signal and output a radio frequency transmit signal, a main receiver configured to receive a radio frequency receive signal and output a digital output signal, and a PIM compensation subsystem. The radio frequency receive signal includes PIM distortion that is a non-linear function of the radio frequency transmit signal output by the transmitter. In order to compensate for the PIM distortion, a PIM compensation subsystem receives the digital input signal of the transmitter, generates a digital PIM estimate signal that is an estimate of the PIM distortion in the digital output signal of the main receiver, and subtracts the digital PIM estimate signal from the digital output signal of the main receiver.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 2013Date of Patent: October 7, 2014Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Mark Wyville, Lars Johan Thorebäck
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Patent number: 8855176Abstract: The present invention is directed to integrated circuits. In a specific embodiment, high frequency signals from an equalizer are directly connected to a first pair of inputs of a sense amplifier. The sense amplifier also has a second pair of inputs, which can be selectively coupled to output signals from a DAC or high frequency loopback signals. There are other embodiments as well.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2014Date of Patent: October 7, 2014Assignee: Inphi CorporationInventors: Parmanand Mishra, Michael S. Harwood
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Patent number: 8848816Abstract: An access point is disclosed herein that comprises a wireless network adapter configured to support a backhaul connection for a peer node to a network; a processing system configured to calculate precoding matrices that define spatial streams; and a transceiver configured to transmit data to the nodes on the spatial streams.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2008Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Vinay Sridhara, Sanjiv Nanda, Santosh P. Abraham
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Patent number: 8848807Abstract: An apparatus for transmission of electrical energy and data between a primary side and a secondary side. At least one transferring unit is provided between the primary side and the secondary side, that, on the secondary side, at least a first data channel is provided, which has at least one address, that, on the primary side, at least one frequency control unit is provided, which is embodied in such a manner that the frequency control unit sets the working frequency of the transferring unit corresponding to data to be transferred and/or corresponding to the addressing of at least the first data channel, that, on the secondary side, at least one load setting unit is provided, which is embodied in such a manner that the load setting unit sets the electrical load, which lies on the secondary side on the transferring unit, corresponding to data to be transferred and/or corresponding to the address at least of the first data channel.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2008Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: Endress + Hauser Wetzer GmbH + Co. KGInventors: Markus Wohrle, Michael Warnking
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Publication number: 20140269863Abstract: A method and apparatus for estimating and compensating TX LO leakage using circuitry on a loopback path connecting the transmitter and receiver are provided. The TX LO leakage may be estimated by measuring the DC signal on the receiver, measuring the phase difference between the received LO signal and the receiver LO signal, and filtering LO harmonics that may arise from the use of non-linear mixers. The DC signal on the receiver may be measured by opening and closing the loopback path, or changing the gain of the loopback path, or flipping the phase of looped back TX signal. The method may be used in an initialization or tracking calibration scheme.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2013Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: Analog Devices, Inc.Inventors: Jianxun Fan, Reza Alavi, Steven R. Bal, David J. McLaurin