Pulse Number Modulation Patents (Class 375/237)
  • Patent number: 10523190
    Abstract: A modulator having a pulse density modulator configured to generate from bit stream information a Pulse Density Modulation (PDM) stream based on a PDM clock; and a bit stream adjuster configured to divide the PDM clock into a PDM multi-phase clock, adjust a duration of at least one pulse of the generated PDM stream by selecting a PDM clock phase of the PDM multi-phase clock for sampling the generated PDM stream, and output an adjusted PDM stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Pedro Costa, Ketan Dewan
  • Patent number: 8923444
    Abstract: A receiver for decoding a communication signal is disclosed. The receiver includes an input port and a filter. The input port receives the communication signal from a communication medium. The communication signal comprises a sequence of symbols. Each symbol of the symbol sequence is an analog pulse that has a leading edge of exponential shape. The exponential shape has an exponential growth parameter value that has been selected from values ?0 and ?1, which are distinct positive values. For each symbol of the symbol sequence, the exponential growth parameter value for the leading edge of the symbol has been selected based on a corresponding bit from a stream of information bits. The filter receives the communication signal from the input port and filters the communication signal to obtain an output signal. The transfer function of the filter has one or more zeros at ?0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
    Inventor: Robert H. Flake
  • Patent number: 8891355
    Abstract: A communication device is provided for transmitting information incorporated into at least one message packet. The device includes components for encoding the message packet as a signal, which is afterwards transmitted and analyzed. The encoder assigns the message packet to correspond to a specific pulse width. The transmitter sends the signal across a channel. The processor parses the signal as corresponding to the specific pulse width subsequently decoded to obtain the message packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventor: William M. Huttle
  • Patent number: 8873616
    Abstract: A pulse width modulator has a first clock source providing a clock signal to a set input of an output controller configured to set a pulse width output signal and having a reset input to reset the pulse width output signal. A duty cycle control unit is coupled with the reset input of the output controller, wherein the duty cycle control unit has a numerical controlled oscillator (NCO) being coupled with a register and configured to provide for a direct digital synthesis to produce a specified frequency according to a value set in the register. Furthermore, logic is provided for receiving a signal from a second clock source and the pulse width output signal to trigger the numerical controlled oscillator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Microchip Technology Incorporated
    Inventors: Michael Garbutt, Jacobus Albertus van Eeden, David Martin
  • Patent number: 8867591
    Abstract: A discrete digital transceiver includes a receiver sample and hold module, a discrete digital receiver conversion module, a transmitter sample and hold module, a discrete digital transmitter conversion module, clock generation module, and a processing module. The receiver sample and hold module samples and holds an inbound wireless signal in accordance with a receiver S&H clock signal. The discrete digital receiver conversion module converts the receiver frequency domain sample pulse train into an inbound baseband signal. The transmitter sample and hold module samples and holds an outbound signal to produce a transmitter frequency domain sample pulse train. The discrete digital transmitter conversion module converts a transmitter frequency domain sample pulse train into the outbound wireless signal. The clock generation module generates S&H clock signals in accordance with a control signal. The processing module generates the control signal such that the S&H clock signals are shifted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Ahmadreza (Reza) Rofougaran, Hooman Darabi
  • Patent number: 8867657
    Abstract: A first transmitter transmits symbols. The leading edge of each symbol has the form Djexp{?jt}, where Dj is real, where ?j is selected from N possible values based on a current group of bits. The receiver has N filters whose transfer functions correspond respectively to the N possible values. The filter outputs are used to recover the group of bits. A second transmitter transmits an exponential symbol or a zero symbol depending on a current bit to be transmitted. The zero symbol has zero amplitude over the symbol period. The corresponding receiver applies threshold detection to estimate the transmitted bits. A third transmitter transmits a sequence of analog pulses with known interpulse time separation(s). The pulse sequence reflects from a moving object. A receiver captures the reflected pulse sequence. The interpulse separation(s) of the reflect pulse sequence is used to determine the radial velocity of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
    Inventor: Robert H. Flake
  • Patent number: 8797837
    Abstract: Systems and methods for multiplexing signals are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving a first signal having at least a real component, receiving a second signal having at least a real component, generating an in-phase signal based, at least in part, on the first signal, the in-phase signal being real in a first domain, generating a quadrature signal based, at least in part, on the second signal, the quadrature signal being imaginary in the first domain, adding the in-phase signal and the quadrature signal to generate a multiplexed signal, and transmitting the multiplexed signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaochen Li, Chiu Ngo
  • Patent number: 8774263
    Abstract: A transmitter (TX) for transmitting a pulse density modulated signal comprises means (SDM) for generating a pulse density modulated input signal (SI) and an encoder (ENC). The encoder (ENC) comprises a first input for receiving the pulse density modulated input signal (SI) and a second input for receiving additional information (AI) comprising at least one data bit. The encoder (ENC) is configured to generate a multi-bit telegram (TG) on the basis of the additional information (AI), the telegram (TG) comprising a predefined bit-sequence, and to replace an appropriate number of consecutive bits of the input signal (SI) with the telegram (TG) in order to generate an output signal (SO).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: ams AGe
    Inventors: Richard Forsyth, Thomas Fröhlich, Matthias Steiner
  • Patent number: 8655301
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for an electronically adjustable signal filter system, which comprises, in some embodiments, a first filter coupled to an antenna coupling network and a second filter, a power amplifier coupled to the first filter, an antenna connected to an antenna coupling network, a pilot tone generator coupled to the first filter, and a first signal source connected to the power amplifier and first filter. In some embodiments, the power amplifier amplifies the first signal, the first filter places a notch into the first signal transmitted to the antenna coupling network, the antenna coupling network combines the first signal and a second signal received from the antenna and transmits a third signal to the second filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Alain Roussel, Charles W. T. Nicholls
  • Patent number: 8654832
    Abstract: A communication method includes: receiving input data at a transmitter, the transmitter including at least one convolutional encoder and at least one modulator; applying the input data to a trellis-coded modulation (TCM) scheme to encode the input data and produce one or more TCM symbols representing the encoded data; applying the one or more TCM symbols to a second modulation scheme, the second modulation scheme including a pulse modulation in combination with an additional modulation; and generating one or more modulation symbols representing the encoded data based on the second modulation scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Incorporated
    Inventors: Christian Hansen, Ingolf Wassermann
  • Patent number: 8644360
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for transmitting and receiving ultra wide band (UWB) signals. By this method, application systems such as wireless UWB communication, wireless UWB positioning and UWB target detecting radar can be achieved. In this method, an UWB device periodically generates pulse signals. In each pulse repetition period, an output signal can be a positive-polarity pulse (positive pulse), or a negative-polarity pulse (negative pulse), or an empty signal (empty signal) without any change. A method of UWB device controlling the output signal to shift between the positive pulse, negative pulse and empty signal is very simple and easy to implement. A transmitter can transmit any variable pulse sequence (the arranging order of the positive pulse, negative pulse and empty signal; the length of the sequence).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Inventor: Boan Liu
  • Patent number: 8594175
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for modulating and demodulating data. The method composes symbols by grouping a plurality of symbols for pulse position modulation to newly add symbol compositions to fixed symbols used for the pulse position modulation of the related art. Further, the method uses grouped symbols to improve data transmission rate as the average amount of information increases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignees: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Inha-Industry Partnership Institute
    Inventors: Hyung Soo Lee, Jaehwan Kim, Jae Young Kim, Jae Ho Hwang, Jae Moung Kim, Sung Jeen Jang, Nack Hyun Choi, Jong Seok Park
  • Patent number: 8576904
    Abstract: The pulse train of a signal is modulated by a DPIM modulation involving a discrete random time parameter. A first processing is performed on the signal to deliver a sampled signal. A second processing is performed on the sampled signal, comprising a correlation processing including at least one elementary correlation processing with a correlation mask corresponding to the shape of at least part of a sampled pulse, and delivering second information items. A third processing is performed for detecting the pulses following a first pulse by taking account of the position of the first pulse, on packets of second information items, which are separated by a duration related to the discrete random parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignees: STMicrolelectronics (Rousset) SAS, Universite de Provence Aix Marseille I
    Inventors: Hervé Chalopin, Anne Collard-Bovy, Philippe Courmontagne
  • Publication number: 20130208783
    Abstract: A transmitter (TX) for transmitting a pulse density modulated signal comprises means (SDM) for generating a pulse density modulated input signal (SI) and an encoder (ENC). The encoder (ENC) comprises a first input for receiving the pulse density modulated input signal (SI) and a second input for receiving additional information (AI) comprising at least one data bit. The encoder (ENC) is configured to generate a multi-bit telegram (TG) on the basis of the additional information (AI), the telegram (TG) comprising a predefined bit-sequence, and to replace an appropriate number of consecutive bits of the input signal (SI) with the telegram (TG) in order to generate an output signal (SO).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2013
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Applicant: AMS AG
    Inventor: Ams AG
  • Patent number: 8451939
    Abstract: A radio communication apparatus includes a baseband signal generator to generate digital data; a clock generator to generate 2N pulse signals corresponding to the digital data; a selector to select one of the 2N pulse signals; and a short pulse generator to reduce a pulse width of the signal selected by the selector, wherein the 2N pulse signals include a whole-period non-transmission pulse, a whole-period transmission pulse, and 2N-2 partial-period transmission pulses, when the partial-period transmission pulse is selected, a band pass filter outputs a signal that lasts for part of a period having a 1-symbol length, when the whole-period non-transmission pulse is selected, the band pass filter outputs a signal attenuated by offsetting signals corresponding to the whole-period non-transmission pulse, and when the whole-period transmission pulse is selected, the band pass filter outputs a signal that lasts for a whole of the period having the 1-symbol length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Nakasha
  • Patent number: 8451887
    Abstract: A multi-channel regulator system includes serially connected PWM integrated circuits, each of which determines a PWM signal for a respective channel to operate therewith, and individually controls its operation mode according to whether or not an external clock is detected. Therefore, each channel will not be limited to operate under a constant mode and could become a master channel or a slave channel. Additionally, each of the PWM integrated circuits generates a phase shifted synchronous clock for its next channel during it is enabled, and thus all the channels operate in a synchronous but phase interleaving manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Richtek Technology Corp.
    Inventors: An-Tung Chen, Shao-Hung Lu, Isaac Y. Chen
  • Patent number: 8433017
    Abstract: A system and method for transmit signal pulse shaping in automotive applications. Automotive vehicle manufacturers that incorporate electronic components into an automotive vehicle must consider emission requirements masks that can be dependent on particular geographic markets as well as the other electronic components contained within a particular automotive vehicle design. A physical layer device is provided that can be configured to operate in multiple emissions configurations using configurable parameters specified for the modulation and wave shaping modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Ahmad Chini, Seyed Hamidi, Mehmet Tazebay
  • Patent number: 8422947
    Abstract: A communication device includes a communication circuit part, a transmission path for signals, a ground, a coupler electrode, and a resonance part. The coupler electrode includes an upper flat part as an electrode, a support, and a connecting portion. The support supports the upper flat part. Thus, the upper flat part faces the ground and is separately placed therefrom at a height only enough to ignore the wavelength of the signal, while having a flexible portion which is elastically deformable in the height direction. On the connecting portion, the other end of the support is connected to the transmission path. The resonance part enlarges a current flowing into the coupler electrode through the transmission path. A micro dipole is a line segment connecting between the center of accumulated electric charge in the coupler electrode and the center of mirror charge accumulated in the ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Inventor: Satoshi Konya
  • Patent number: 8355431
    Abstract: A Decision Feedback Equalizer (DFE) capable of preventing incremental increases of a jitter of a recovered clock and reduction of a voltage margin of decided data due to delay of feedback data. The DFE includes a combiner for combining received data with feedback data and outputting the combined data as equalization data, a decision circuit for deciding recovery data by receiving the equalization data, a feedback loop for supplying the recovery data to the combiner as feedback data and a clock recovery circuit for removing a delay data component from the equalization data through the feedback loop, recovering a clock with respect to the other equalization data except the delay data component and supplying the recovered clock for decision operation of the decision circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: Hynix Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventor: Ki-Hyuk Lee
  • Patent number: 8351889
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for an electronically adjustable signal filter system, which comprises, in some embodiments, a first filter coupled to an antenna coupling network and a second filter, a power amplifier coupled to the first filter, an antenna connected to an antenna coupling network, a pilot tone generator coupled to the first filter, and a first signal source connected to the power amplifier and first filter. In some embodiments, the power amplifier amplifies the first signal, the first filter places a notch into the first signal transmitted to the antenna coupling network, the antenna coupling network combines the first signal and a second signal received from the antenna and transmits a third signal to the second filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Alain Roussel, Charles W. T. Nicholls
  • Patent number: 8351483
    Abstract: Provided are transmitter topology, receiver topology and methods for generating and transmitting a radio signal at a transmitter and detecting and processing a radio signal at a receiver. The radio signals are transmitted across a wireless interface using Ultra Wideband (UWB) pulses. A transmitted reference approach is utilized. The radio signal include pairs of UWB pulses with each pair of pulses separated by a fixed time delay. The two pulses are then combined to provide for improved noise immunity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: University of South Florida
    Inventor: James L. Tucker
  • Patent number: 8311151
    Abstract: A radio transmission apparatus has a first duty adjustment circuit which changes a duty ratio of a clock signal, a second duty adjustment circuit which changes the duty ratio of the clock signal to a duty ratio different from the duty ratio of the clock signal changed by the first duty adjustment circuit, a first AND circuit which takes a logical product between a data signal and the clock signal having passed through the first duty adjustment circuit, and a second AND circuit which takes a logical product between an output signal of the first AND circuit and the clock signal having passed through inversion of the output of the second duty adjustment circuit to generate a pulse signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Nakasha
  • Patent number: 8306813
    Abstract: An encoding device reduces the encoding distortion as compared to the conventional technique and obtains a preferable sound quality for auditory sense. In the encoding device, a shape quantization unit quantizes the shape of an input spectrum with a small number of pulse positions and polarities. The shape quantization unit sets a pulse amplitude width to be searched later upon search of the pulse position to a value not greater than the pulse amplitude width which has been searched previously. A gain quantization unit calculates a gain of a pulse searched by the shape quantization unit for each of bands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Morii, Masahiro Oshikiri, Tomofumi Yamanashi
  • Publication number: 20120275508
    Abstract: A device of dynamic communication of information allows, on the average, non-integer bits per symbol transmission, using a compact code set or a partial response decoding receiver. A stream of selectable predetermined integer bits, e.g., k or k+1 data bits, is grouped into a selectable integer number of bit vectors which then are mapped onto corresponding signal constellations forming transmission symbols. Two or more symbols can be grouped and further encoded, so that a symbol is spread across the two or more symbols being communicated. Sequence estimation using, for example, maximum likelihood techniques, as informed by noise estimates relative to the received signal. Each branch metric in computing the path metric of a considered sequence at the receiver is weighted by the inverse of the noise power. It is desirable that the constellation selection, sequence estimation and noise estimation be performed continuously and dynamically.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2011
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Applicant: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Thuji Simon Lin, Steven Jaffe, Robindra Joshi
  • Patent number: 8175540
    Abstract: A wireless communications device comprising duplexing means for directing signals from a transmit path towards an antenna and for providing signals from the antenna to a receive path, wherein the transmit path is arranged to send a first signal to the duplexing means, the receive path is arranged to recover a second signal and the device further comprises detecting means for detecting the presence in the receive path of a third signal that will interact with the first signal to produce intermodulation distortion tending to hamper recovery of the second signal and control means responsive to the detecting means for enhancing linearity in the receive path to reduce said intermodulation distortion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Ubinetics (VPT) Limited
    Inventor: Steven Robert Jones
  • Publication number: 20110310953
    Abstract: Information is modulated onto frequency components of a signal. The resulting modulated signal includes at least some redundancy in frequency enabling a portion of the information modulated onto selected frequency components to be recovered from fewer than all of the selected frequency components. Controlling the spectrum of the modulated signal includes enabling the amplitude of at least some frequency components of the modulated signal to be set below a predetermined amplitude used for modulating the information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2011
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Inventor: Lawrence W. Yonge, III
  • Patent number: 7960866
    Abstract: A pulse generation circuit for outputting a pulse with a predetermined waveform to an output terminal in response to a start signal includes a circuit adapted to generate a plurality of signals {Di|i denotes an integer in a predetermined range}, which has predetermined amounts of time differences from the start signal, based on the start signal, a plurality of power supplies {Ej|j denotes an integer} adopted to supply electric energy of a predetermined electric quantity, and a switching circuit adapted to sequentially switch the power supplies {Ej} in a predetermined order in accordance with logical function values of at least a part of the signals {Di} to connect the power supplies {Ej} to the output terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Masayuki Ikeda
  • Patent number: 7940841
    Abstract: A communication system includes a modulating circuit to increase the amount of information to be transmitted, a transmitting apparatus capable of easily generating a desired waveform even for any very short wavelets, a receiving apparatus capable of easily separating wavelets even if the intervals thereof are narrow. The modulating circuit includes clock generating, transmission signal generating, control signal generating, delay and wavelet generating parts. The clock generating part generates a clock signal at predetermined time interval “Tp”. The transmission signal generating part generates a transmission signal at interval “Tp”. The control signal generating part outputs a control signal of a predetermined duration based on the clock signal. The delay part generates the control signal as a delay signal that has been delayed by a delay amount based on the transmission signal. The wavelet generating part generates a wavelet at the generation timing of the delay signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Mimura, Kazuaki Takahashi, Suguru Fujita, Yoshinori Kunieda, Noriyuki Ueki
  • Patent number: 7826525
    Abstract: A method for communicating data is disclosed. The method includes receiving a sequence of electrical pulses during an interval having a pre-determined time period, the sequence of electrical pulses representing a message from one of a plurality of devices, determining the number of received electrical pulses in the sequence of electrical pulses, and decoding the message based on the determined number of electrical pulses received during the interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas A. Mignone
  • Patent number: 7822113
    Abstract: In an integrated decision feedback equalizer and clock and data recovery circuit one or more flip-flops and/or latches may be shared. One or more flip-flops and/or latches may be used in retiming operations in a decision feedback equalizer and in phase detection operations in a clock recovery circuit. Outputs of the flip-flops and/or latches may be used to generate feedback signals for the decision feedback equalizer. The output of a flip-flop and/or latches may be used to generate signals that drive a charge pump in the clock recovery circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Davide Tonietto, Afshin Momtaz
  • Patent number: 7800518
    Abstract: A pulse modulation method divides code comprising 4N-bit data into 2-bit units of data. For each pulse signal having a fixed pulse width tw, a code modulated signal is generated by pausing between pulse pause intervals Tr. An adjusted time width of between ½ and 1 times the fixed pulse width tw is taken to be ?t. One of time widths 0, ?t, 2?t, and 3?t is added to a fixed pause period tm of time intervals according to a corresponding value of the 2-bit data. If the sum total time TD of the code modulated signal is an interval of at least [(2tw+2tm+3?t)N+?t], each pulse pause interval Tr is substituted by a pulse pause interval Tr corresponding to the inverted 2-bit data. An inversion flag signal expresses that inversion information is added to the code modulated signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: SMK Corporation
    Inventor: Kenichi Miwa
  • Patent number: 7613255
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for transmitting data by means of at least one pulse sequence carried by a radio signal, in the course of which a power value representative of an amount of power carried by said pulse sequence is computed. The method according to the invention provides estimated values of noise affecting the radio transmission and of an amount of power which would be carried by each pulse sequence in the absence of noise, respectively, prior to the determination of a threshold value to which the power value is to be compared. The knowledge of such estimated values enables to compute a threshold value adapted to the communication conditions affecting any given pulse sequence, and hence to perform an optimal demodulation of any power-modulated UWB signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2009
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Louis-Marie Aubert, Stephane Paquelet
  • Patent number: 7463682
    Abstract: This invention presents a coding method for binary digits coding and its circuit for digits transmission. With this coding method, the binary digits are corresponding to a sequence of pulse groups. The binary digits “0” and “1” are corresponding to the two pulse groups with same defined number of pulses and with two special defined pulse frequencies respectively. The two pulse groups have the same defined number of pulses. The number is at least 2. The corresponding decoding method divides the sequence of pulse groups, according to the same defined number, into a set of pulse groups. The duration time of each pulse group is measured. The binary digits “0” and “1” are corresponding to the differences of the duration time of the pulse groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2008
    Assignee: Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Inventors: Zhangyuan Yang, Li Guo, Yanhua Wang
  • Publication number: 20080267279
    Abstract: A method for decoding a Miller-encoded signal having first and second quadrature components is provided. A Miller sub-carrier signal, synchronized with the Miller-encoded signal, is recovered from the quadrature components. A first, a second, a third, and a fourth half-bit correlation coefficient are calculated from at least one quadrature component and the Miller sub-carrier signal. A cross-correlation result of the first, the second, the third, and the fourth half-bit correlation coefficient is calculated. A value for an output bit is determined from the inverse sign of the cross-correlation result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2007
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Applicant: Symbol Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Yuri Okunev
  • Patent number: 7352806
    Abstract: A method of communicating over a wideband communication channel divided into a plurality of sub-channels comprises dividing a single serial message intended for one of the plurality of communication devices into a plurality of parallel messages, encoding each of the plurality of parallel messages onto at least some of the plurality of sub-channels, and transmitting the encoded plurality of parallel messages to the communication device over the wideband communication channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Assignee: Tensorcom, Inc.
    Inventor: Ismail Lakkis
  • Patent number: 7336736
    Abstract: The invention allows the detection and processing in a radio signal received by a receiver, of any signal of “pulsed” type present in radio signals applied to the input of a radiofrequency receiver, the receiver having an analogue/digital converter for performing the coding into digital on N bits of P successive samples of the analogue signal applied to the input of the receiver and a computer for processing the said digital signals, characterized in that on the basis of a histogram of the rate of occupancy of the digitized samples, graded in ranges Fx of amplitude-increasing sample levels, is determined, from among the ranges Fx, a range Fn onwards of which the total number of digitized samples Nnor contained in the ranges Fn and those below Fn is greater than or equal to a normality threshold Nn, Nn being a number predetermined as a function of the sensitivity of the detection of pulsed signals that one wishes to achieve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2008
    Assignee: Thales
    Inventors: Valéry Leblond, Franck Letestu, Alain Renard
  • Patent number: 7289425
    Abstract: A parallel orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) communications system includes a transmitter and receiver, the transmitter having a parallel fast Fourier transform (FFT) module operating in parallel to a conventional inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) module for providing respective orthogonal outputs received by the receiver. The receiver has a parallel IFFT module and a conventional FFT module for providing respective orthogonal outputs. The respective orthogonal outputs are combined to form a composite signal that provides improved insensitivity to relative frequency offsets and Doppler frequency offsets. The parallel FFT and IFFT modules in the OFDM communication system provides improved signal diversity and performance in the presence of relative frequency offsets and Doppler frequency offsets, and provides improved tracking capability for the receiver with backward compatibility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2007
    Assignee: The Aerospace Corporation
    Inventors: Hen-Geul Yeh, Charles C. Wang
  • Patent number: 7283012
    Abstract: A tri-state pulse density modulator includes a first switch device coupled to a high voltage, and a second switch device coupled to a low voltage. An adder receives a pulse density modulation (PDM) input signal and a latched input signal to generate an output sum signal and a carry signal. A latch module coupled with the adder latches the output sum signal with a clock signal to generate the latched input signal. A control circuit module responsive to the carry signal for selectively turns off the first and second switch devices to generate the PDM output signal at a tri-state voltage between the first and second voltages, or turns on the first or second switch device to generate the PDM output signal at the first or second voltage, respectively. Thus, the PDM output signal only switches between the tri-state voltage and either the first voltage or the second voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: Via Telecom., Ltd.
    Inventor: Meoung-Jin Lim
  • Patent number: 7221911
    Abstract: The present invention provides ultra-wide band communication systems and methods, including multi-band ultra-wide band communication systems and methods. Methods and systems are provided in which frequency sub-bands of an ultra-wide band spectrum are allocated for signal transmission. An ultra-wide band transmission including the information is sent, including sending a signal over each of the plurality of sub-bands. Methods are further provided in which a first data signal containing information is converted into an encoded signal using an Inverse Fast Fourier Transform. The encoded signal is converted into an encoded ultra-wide band signal that can be pulsed or transmitted using burst symbol cycles. The encoded pulsed ultra-wide band signal is decoded using a Fast Fourier Transform to obtain the information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2007
    Assignee: Wisair Ltd.
    Inventors: Yaron Knobel, Gadi Shor, David Yaish, Sorin Goldenberg, Amir Krause, Erez Wienberger
  • Patent number: 7003031
    Abstract: A PWM signal is made to rise synchronously with a pixel clock by inputting of a pulse to a set terminal (S terminal) of an R-S flip-flop. One of a reference clock, which is generated by a reference clock generator, and a delay clock, which is obtained by a delay circuit delaying the reference clock, is selected in accordance with delay selection data. The PWM signal is made to fall synchronously with a selected clock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2006
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yukio Sugita
  • Patent number: 6952159
    Abstract: A coupling apparatus (1) having a mains connection (2) for connection to a low-voltage mains power supply system, and having an appliance connection (3) for connection of any appliance for transmitting and/or receiving an RF signal has a voltage converter (5) and a high-pass filter (6.1, 6.2). The voltage converter converts the mains voltage which is present at the mains connection to a very-low voltage, which is suitable for supplying the appliance connected to the appliance connection. Inductances (4.3 to 4.6) of suitable size are interposed in the appropriate connecting lines as low-pass filters for decoupling the RF signal path from the supply signal path, and for suppressing undesirable, radio-frequency signal components in the supply voltages. RF signals which are transmitted or are to be transmitted via the low-voltage mains power supply system are coupled from the mains connection via the high-pass filter to the appliance connection, and from the appliance connection to the mains connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2005
    Assignee: Ascom Powerline Communications AG
    Inventor: Kurt Müller
  • Publication number: 20040120395
    Abstract: A pulse modulation arrangement for a switch mode regulator includes a frequency controlled oscillator. A counter is enabled by a clock signal for the regulator to count a controlled number of output pulses of the oscillator and thereby produce a pulse modulation signal. The oscillator frequency and count number are controlled by digital and optionally analog feed forward and/or feedback control signals of the regulator. The oscillator can comprise binary weighted current sources and/or capacitors, or delay elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2003
    Publication date: June 24, 2004
    Inventors: Raymond K. Orr, Yan-Fei Liu
  • Patent number: 6741045
    Abstract: A bicycle control apparatus includes a bicycle component control unit having one of a control transmitter and a control receiver; a computer control unit having the other one of the control transmitter and the control receiver; and a transmission path coupled to the bicycle component control unit and to the computer control unit. The control transmitter communicates both power and data to the control receiver over the transmission path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2004
    Assignee: Shimano, Inc.
    Inventor: Satoshi Kitamura
  • Publication number: 20040071208
    Abstract: This invention presents a coding method for binary digits coding and its circuit for digits transmission. With this coding method, the binary digits are corresponding to a sequence of pulse groups. The binary digits “0” and “1” are corresponding to the two pulse groups with same defined number of pulses and with two special defined pulse frequencies respectively. The said two pulse groups have the same defined number of pulses. The said number is at least 2. The corresponding decoding method divides the said sequence of pulse groups, according to the same defined number, into a set of pulse groups. The duration time of each pulse group is measured. The binary digits “0” and “1” are corresponding to the differences of the duration time of the pulse groups. This invention presents the improvement in data transmission rate and reach in comparing with the relative technology.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2003
    Publication date: April 15, 2004
    Applicant: INSTITUTE OF PROCESS ENGINEERING ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Zhangyuan Yang, Li Guo, Yanhua Wang
  • Patent number: 6651036
    Abstract: A circuit that provides the root-mean-square (RMS) value of an input signal and that detects and independently recovers from an output fault condition is provided. The circuit includes reconfigurable circuitry that changes from normal operating mode to fault recovery mode when an output fault is detected. During fault recovery mode, the circuit provides a modified output signal that allows independent recovery from an output fault condition. Once recovery is complete, the circuit returns to normal operating mode and provides a DC output signal proportional to the RMS value of an AC input signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2003
    Assignee: Linear Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Joseph Gerard Petrofsky
  • Patent number: 6560279
    Abstract: A data acquisition system that utilizes a two wire network having a plurality of randomly located remote units connected to a central unit which is adapted to transfer voltage values to and from the remote units. A pulsewidth and pulse count protocol is employed that allows remote unit mode control, addressing each of the remote units for transferring sensor voltage inputs or control voltage outputs, and maintenance of network synchronization. The system does not require special wire type or routing constraints, provides automatic calibration means at the sensor location, allows multi-sensor inputs as well as multi-control voltage outputs, provides power to remote unit electronics, and provides electrical power for sensor operation utilizing the two wire network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2003
    Inventor: John F. Renz
  • Patent number: 6463104
    Abstract: This invention concerns a method of increasing coding levels. In this method, an increase in levels is achieved with multi-level coding, where uninterrupted periodic sequences such as an alternating current of the same frequency and phase relation are provided as the code elements, and where the code elements are flagged with respect to one another by changes in amplitude; this increase in levels is achieved by the fact that the next code element begins or ends either with a positive or negative half-period, so that two levels can be marked with one code element. This has the effect, for example, that six levels are obtained instead of three. In numbers, this means that with three levels and two, three, four and five places there are 9, 27, 81 and 243 combinations, and with six levels and two, three four and five places there are 36, 216, 1296 and 7776 combinations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2002
    Inventor: Josef Dirr
  • Patent number: 6400928
    Abstract: A method and system for blind detection of modulation in a wireless telecommunications network. In accordance with the method and system, a plurality of bursts are transmitted over an air interface to a receiving station using a first modulation scheme. Modulation detection statistics for the plurality of received bursts are calculated at the receiving station. Based on the modulation statistics, however, it is determined that at least one of the plurality of received bursts has been transmitted using a second modulation scheme. As a result, the modulation detection statistics are analyzed to identify a single modulation scheme that was most likely used in modulating the plurality of bursts. Any faulty received bursts, for which a detected modulation scheme differs from the identified single modulation scheme, are then processed to reduce the effect of the faulty bursts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2002
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Anders Khullar, Niklas Stenström
  • Publication number: 20020048318
    Abstract: A pulse density modulator unit transforms an N-bit input signal representing an input value, into an output digital signal having a digital pulse density which is a linear function of the input value. The pulse density modulator unit includes a first pulse density modulator which produces a binary signal representing a multiplication factor as a pulse density. It further includes a combination module which receives the input signal, the binary signal from the first pulse density modulator and an offset control signal. The combination module produces a combined signal which, on average, represents the product of the input signal and the amplification control signal, offset by an amount dependent upon the offset control signal. A second pulse generator uses the combined signal to generate the output digital signal. The combination module may be a selector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2001
    Publication date: April 25, 2002
    Applicant: Oki Techno Centre Pte Ltd
    Inventors: Tao Zhang, Hiroshi Katsuragawa, Noriyoshi Ito
  • Patent number: 6317457
    Abstract: A pulse density modulator for performing a modulation process by changing a pulse density per unit time. The pulse density modulator includes a counting circuit for counting supplied clock signals, a first waveform data generating circuit for synthesizing count data outputted from the counting circuit to generate basic waveform data, a second waveform data generating circuit for synthesizing the basic waveform data outputted from the first waveform data generating circuit to generate pulse density modulated waveform data corresponding to digital data supplied externally, a clock correction signal generating circuit for generating a clock correction signal indicating the phase of an unequal cycle component included in the clock signals, and a waveform data correcting circuit for correcting the pulse density modulated waveform data based on the clock correction signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2001
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuya Naruse, Satoshi Konya