Systems Using Alternating Or Pulsating Current Patents (Class 375/259)
  • Patent number: 8913672
    Abstract: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate indicating a type of waveform utilized for uplink transmission in a wireless communication environment. An access terminal can select a type of waveform from a set of possible waveform types. Moreover, a reference signal can be generated based upon the selected type of waveform. For instance, a sequence employed to yield the reference signal can be generated and/or chosen as a function of the selected type of waveform. According to another illustration, a tone location and/or a symbol location of the reference signal can be based upon the selected type of waveform. Further, the reference signal can be sent as part of the uplink transmission to the base station from the access terminal. The base station can detect the selected type of waveform utilized by the access terminal for the uplink transmission based upon parameter(s) recognized from the reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Tao Luo, Juan Montojo, I-Hsiang Wang
  • Patent number: 8913679
    Abstract: A method for decoding a wireless channel includes generating hypotheses of how many antennas each of at least two base stations have in a synchronized network and how received signals are being transmitted for each of the at least two base stations, detecting a MIMO signal using the hypotheses and signal components received from the at least two base stations, decoding the signal, and determining whether the decoded signal is valid by performing a cyclical redundancy check calculation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventors: Franz Eder, Axel Clausen, Tobias Kurpjuhn, Xiaofeng Wu
  • Patent number: 8913705
    Abstract: A mechanism for dynamic skew correction in a multi-lane communication link includes a receiver unit including, for each of the lanes, a first-in first-out (FIFO). The FIFO may store received symbols to locations pointed to by a write pointer and output to downstream logic, symbols stored at locations pointed to by a read pointer. The receiver may also include a symbol drop unit that disables the write pointer in response to receiving a start alignment symbol, and enables the write pointer in response to receiving an end alignment symbol. The receiver also includes an alignment unit that disables the read pointer in response to detecting that the end symbol has been received at least one lane but not all lanes. In addition, the alignment unit may enable the read pointer in response to a determination that the end symbol has been received on all lanes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventor: Bruce J. Chang
  • Publication number: 20140362933
    Abstract: By reducing the serial transmission amount of pulses between a driving IC and a control IC, the transmission times of various commands other than the transmission time of the pulses can be secured, so that the improvement of reliability and high performance of the entirety of an electronic control device can be realized. The serial transmission between the driving IC and the control IC is started at the time when the edges of the pulses are detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2013
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Teppei Hirotsu, Nobuyasu Kanekawa, Takuya Mayuzumi, Tsutomu Yamada, Chihiro Sato
  • Patent number: 8908785
    Abstract: To improve a quality of a combined signal obtained by maximum ratio combining performed when a transmission signal of OFDM system is diversity-received with a small computation amount or a small circuit size. In a receiving apparatus, a combining unit corrects, when combining a sub-carrier signal of each branch obtained by performing Fourier transform on a reception signal of each branch at a maximum ratio for each sub-carrier, a weighting coefficient of each branch according to a magnitude relation of an intensity of the reception signal of each branch before Fourier transform. Specifically, the combining unit corrects the weighting coefficient of each branch so as to weaken an influence of a transmission path response estimated for a sub-carrier signal of the branch in branches with smaller reception signal intensities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Kichung Kim, Hiroki Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 8909145
    Abstract: A torque measurement system that includes a rotor device and a stator device can perform automatic tuning to improve the initial tuning performed during design and assembly. The stator device can include a variable capacitive element and a micro-controller configured to adjust a capacitance value of the variable capacitive element. Additionally or alternatively, the rotor device can include a variable capacitive element and a micro-controller configured to adjust a capacitance value of the variable capacitive element. The adjustment of the capacitive elements can be based on the quality of signal detected at either the rotor device or stator device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Vishal Malhan, Gourango Biswas, Narayan Singh Rana, Gautham Ramamurthy, Balaji Mahadev
  • Patent number: 8908782
    Abstract: In a method for asynchronously transmitting control signals from a transmitter end to at least one receiver via a plurality of control lines, control signals received via the individual control lines are logically combined with one another at the receiver end and the result of the logic combination is transmitted to the transmitter end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventor: Jens Barrenscheen
  • Patent number: 8908781
    Abstract: A receiver and method for receiving and processing a sequence of transmitted symbols in a digital communication system utilizing soft pilot symbols. A set of soft pilot symbols are transmitted with higher reliability than the remaining symbols in the sequence by modulating the soft pilot symbols with a lower order modulation such as BPSK or QPSK while modulating the remaining symbols with a higher order modulation such as 16 QAM or 64 QAM. The receiver knows the modulation type and location (time/frequency/code) of the soft pilot symbols, and demodulates them first. The receiver uses the demodulated soft pilot symbols as known symbols to estimate parameters of the received radio signal. Unlike traditional fixed pilots, the soft pilots still carry some data. Additionally, the soft pilots are particularly helpful in establishing the amplitude reference essential in demodulating the higher order modulation symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Douglas Cairns, Elias Jonsson
  • Patent number: 8908778
    Abstract: A rail-to-rail comparator including a first comparison unit connected to a first terminal and configured to compare differential input signals to differential reference voltages; a second comparison unit connected to a second terminal and configured to compare the differential input signals to the differential reference voltages; and an output unit configured to be driven in response to a clock signal and to generate a complementary output signal according to comparison results of the first and second comparison units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: SK Hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Jin Il Chung, Jun Hyun Chun, Jin Wook Burm, Dae Ho Yun
  • Patent number: 8908791
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to channel state feedback in a communication system. The method includes obtaining a reference signal from an access point; deriving a rank indication, a codebook subset selection indication and a precoding matrix index based on the obtained reference signal; sending a first feedback message conveying the rank indication and the codebook subset selection indication, and sending a second feedback message conveying the precoding matrix index, to the access point; and receiving, from the access point, data precoded by a matrix derived based on the rank indication, the codebook subset selection indication and the precoding matrix index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: David Mazzarese, Yongxing Zhou
  • Patent number: 8908786
    Abstract: Systems and methods to optimize QAM transmission are provided. In some implementations, a QAM transmitter can operate to optimize QAM transmissions by reducing high peak signals levels via a QAM subgroup inversion. In additional implementations, systems and methods can provide for a QAM transmitter to optimize QAM transmissions by applying a recursive inversion process of QAM blocks to minimize peak output. In still further implementations, systems and methods can provide for a QAM transmitter to optimize QAM transmissions by suppressing QAM subgroups in a circular QAM constellation. Optimizing QAM transmission can provide enhancement in power efficiency of active transmission equipment thereby avoiding high peak signal levels and reducing the instances of clipping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventor: Marcel F. Schemmann
  • Patent number: 8908794
    Abstract: A wireless sending apparatus with a change judging means to judge whether changing an interference causing avoiding transmission means on the basis of predetermined change judging information, and to output the judgment as a change judgment result; a signal separating means to separate the sending signal into each the group on the basis of the change judgment result; a first interference causing avoiding transmission means to input the sending signal which is separated into each the group, and to reduce leak power by a time-domain process; a second interference causing avoiding transmission means to input the sending signal which is separated into each the group, and to reduce the leak power by a frequency-domain process; and a synthesizing means to synthesize the sending signals which the first interference causing avoiding transmission means and the second interference causing avoiding transmission means carry out the interference causing avoiding process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunori Futatsugi, Masayuki Ariyoshi
  • Patent number: 8908795
    Abstract: A transmit apparatus having a supply modulator is provided. The apparatus includes a detector and the supply modulator. In the method, the detector detects an output signal of the supply modulator. Also, the supply modulator receives the detected output signal of the supply modulator from the detector and calibrates a modulation characteristic of the supply modulator. The transmit apparatus having a supply modulator includes a modulator/demodulator (modem) and the supply modulator. The modem provides a calibration signal for calibrating a modulation characteristic of the supply modulator, to the supply modulator. The supply modulator outputs a modulated signal in accordance with the calibrated modulation characteristic of the supply modulator based on the calibration signal from the modem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ji-Seon Paek, Hee-Sang Noh, Hyung-Sun Lim, Dong-Ki Kim, Jun-Seok Yang
  • Publication number: 20140355700
    Abstract: A system for communicating modulated EHF signals may include a modulation circuit responsive to a bi-level transmit information signal for generating a transmit output signal. The transmit output signal may have an EHF frequency when the transmit information signal is at a first information state and may be suppressed when the transmit information signal is at a second information state. A transmit transducer operatively coupled to the modulation circuit may be responsive to the transmit output signal for converting the transmit output signal into an electromagnetic signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Inventors: Gary D. McCormack, Ian A. Kyles
  • Patent number: 8903008
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a network node and a mobile node, and to related methods for wideband precoding. The methods comprise determining a phase compensation vector which is frequency dependent for the at least one predefined precoding weight vector in a precoding codebook for multi-antenna transmission. The methods further comprise determining a second precoding weight vector which is phase compensated by multiplying the at least one predefined precoding weight vector by the phase compensation vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Andreas Nilsson, Fredrik Athley
  • Patent number: 8903002
    Abstract: A computational processor uses a binary signal, being a set of 1- or 0-valued elements of a same number as a number of elements in an input signal, to generate computational data whose elements are exclusive OR values between each element of the input signal and a corresponding element in the binary signal at a same position. The modulator 13 modulates the input signal and the computational data according to a primary modulation scheme, and generates primary-modulated signals. An IFFT calculator applies an inverse fast Fourier transformation to the primary-modulated signals to generate inverse transformation data. A transmitter generates a baseband signal based on generated inverse transformation data whose peak-to-average power ratio matches a standard, and generates and transmits a transmission signal from the baseband signal and data specifying computations conducted to generate the inverse transformation data that matches the standard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Icom Incorporated
    Inventor: Nobuyoshi Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 8897383
    Abstract: A wireless communication device to improve multipath environments for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless networks comprises a wireless communication transceiver and a processing system. The wireless communication transceiver is configured to receive MIMO performance information for a plurality of locations of a premises. The processing system is configured to process the MIMO performance information to determine individual ranks associated with each of the locations, wherein higher ones of the ranks indicate better MIMO performance, compare each of the individual ranks to a threshold to determine a group of suboptimal locations of the plurality of locations that have ranks falling below the threshold, and process the suboptimal locations with an in-building geometry of the premises to identify at least one location to install a scattering agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Sreekar Marupaduga, Nicholas David Kullman
  • Patent number: 8897408
    Abstract: A method for operating an automation system with a plurality of communication users linked for communication purposes via a serial connection, of which at least one functions as sender and at least one as a receiver, includes determining at a sender an offset value between an occurrence of a synchronous signal and a communication clock cycle, transmitting the determined offset value in a data transmission to the at least one receiver, waiting at the at least one receiver until a time period commensurate with the offset value has elapsed, and generating at the at least one receiver an output signal after the time period has elapsed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Peter Jänicke
  • Patent number: 8897120
    Abstract: A transmitting apparatus for transmitting signals in a multi carrier system on the basis of a frame structure, each frame comprising at least two preamble patterns adjacent to each other in the frequency direction and at least two data patterns, said transmitting apparatus comprising a pilot mapper configured to map the same sequence of pilot signals on frequency carriers of each of said at least two preamble patterns in a frame, each preamble pattern having the same length, a data mapper configured to map data on frequency carriers of said at least two data patterns in a frame a transformer configured to transform said preamble patterns and said data patterns from the frequency domain into the time domain in order to generate a time domain transmission signal, and a transmitter configured transmit said transmission signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Lothar Stadelmeier, Dietmar Schill, Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri, Antonio Alarcon Gonzalez
  • Patent number: 8897397
    Abstract: A method and system for a reconfigurable orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) chip supporting single weight diversity are provided. The reconfigurable OFDM chip may be configured to process signals such as IEEE 802.11, 802.16, and digital video broadcasting (DVB). The OFDM chip may generate channel weights to be applied to signals received in receive antennas. The weighted signals may be combined into a single received signal and channel estimates may be generated from the single received signal. Updated channel weights may be generated from the generated channel estimates. Updates to the channel weights may be performed dynamically. The configurable OFDM chip may be utilized to provide collaborative cellular and OFDM-based communication. The reconfigurable OFDM chip and the cellular chip may communicate data and/or control information via a memory coupled to a common bus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventor: Pieter van Rooyen
  • Patent number: 8891635
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a transmitting apparatus includes a generation unit, a division unit, an imparting unit and a transmitting unit. The generation unit generates first control information in accordance with a first information format. The division unit divides the first control information into control information pieces in accordance with information format divisions into which the first information format is divided and which include respective pointer regions, each of the information format divisions having a same data length as a second information format. The imparting unit imparts, to the pointer region of each of the information format divisions, a pointer indicating a wireless communication resource used to transmit one of the control information pieces corresponding to one of the information format divisions other than the each control information format division. The transmitting unit transmits the control information pieces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Ren Sakata, Tsuyoshi Kogawa, Kaoru Inoue, Koichiro Ban, Noritaka Deguchi, Takahiro Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8891651
    Abstract: The present invention provides a data transmission device and method in a wireless communication system. The device comprises a processor which is connected with the M antennas and which is formed so as to generate data to be transmitted through the M antennas, on the basis of a precoding matrix; the precoding matrix is generated based on a plurality of matrices; and a first matrix, which is one matrix among the plurality of matrices, is selected from within a codebook for N antennas (where N<M).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Moon Il Lee, Ja Ho Koo, Hyun Soo Ko, Jae Hoon Chung, Bin Chul Ihm, Yeong Hyeon Kwon
  • Patent number: 8891703
    Abstract: A wireless device that operates in accordance with the IEEE 802.11 standard receives the preamble of a packet with the highest number of receive chains enabled, thereby obtaining the highest gain, detection sensitivity and range. The wireless device determines a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in response to two different short training fields (STFs) in the preamble. The wireless device also determines a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) and a number of spatial streams (Nss) used to transmit the received packet in response to a signal field of the preamble. The wireless device uses these determined parameters to identify a minimum number of the receive chains required to reliably receive the packet. The wireless device uses only the identified minimum number of receive chains to perform channel estimation and receive the data portion of the packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sandip HomChaudhuri, Kai Shi, Alireza Raissinia, Ning Zhang
  • Patent number: 8891636
    Abstract: In a wireless communication method, a first wireless communication apparatus transmits through a first wireless resource to a second wireless communication apparatus a first signal generated from a second signal for use in processing performed by the second wireless communication apparatus and a third signal for use in error checking of the second signal. The second wireless communication apparatus detects a second wireless resource to be used in the processing on the basis of the first signal, and performs the processing by using the second signal and the detected second wireless resource. For the detection, a section of the first signal corresponding to the second wireless resource is scrambled, or the first signal is scrambled with a scrambling sequence corresponding to the second wireless resource, or the bit order in at least part of the first signal is changed in a manner corresponding to the second wireless resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Tetsuya Yano, Yoshihiro Kawasaki, Yoshinori Tanaka, Shunji Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 8891654
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for configuring, for each of one or more ranks in the DAS (distributed antenna system), a codebook for a DAS, including pre-coding matrices for the DAS, wherein the matrices include information on at least one or more antennas used for communication with a specific terminal, from among the whole antenna of the base station which belongs to the DAS, and information on the ratio of electric power allocated to each of the antennas of the base station. The present invention also relates to a method for transmitting a signal which is pre-coded using the thus-configured pre-coding matrices for the DAS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Ji Won Kang, Wook Bong Lee, Bin Chul Ihm, Jin Young Chun
  • Patent number: 8891660
    Abstract: A system includes a vehicle and logic that performs predictive pairing of multiple antenna of the vehicle with multiple fixed antenna of a port the vehicle is approaching, the predictive pairing performed using data obtained about the multiple fixed antenna obtained via a satellite, the predictive pairing prioritizing maximum spatial diversity in the pairings of the antenna of the vehicle with the fixed antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Maritime Telecommunications Network Inc
    Inventor: Robert M Wise
  • Patent number: 8885759
    Abstract: A noise and interference tolerant bit communication system, which requires no conventional modulation/demodulation, with its' associated digital-hardware-implemented mechanisms for bit transmission, bit reception, and channel balancing; are presented, where electrical, photonic, or EM pulses (signals); representing binary information bits; are carried from a transmitter point over an (Nx2)-channel transmission medium, to a receiver point. The binary value of a transmitted pulse is identified at the receiver by means of the actual channel the pulse is travelling through. For example, if at a given time, any pulse transmitted and received through the first channel represents logic one, while any pulse transmitted and received through the second channel represents logic zero; thus reducing pulse's binary state representation per channel from two to one. The proposed system is capable of error-free communication at any signal-to-noise plus interference ratio value greater than zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Inventor: Fahad S H Z Alkhaled
  • Patent number: 8885735
    Abstract: A receiver is to enter a reduced power state and identify a differential signal transmitted, by a transmitter, over a differential, point-to-point serial data link. The signal is interpreted as a wake signal and can be used to transition at least a portion of the receiver from the reduced power state to a normal power state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Theodore Schoenborn
  • Patent number: 8885764
    Abstract: Error vector magnitude (EVM) is pooled and adaptively distributed among carriers in a multi-standard or multi-carrier system to reduce peak to average power ratios (PAPR) without exceeding EVM limits. Correction tone injection is used to reduce PAPR. The amplitude of each correction tone, and number of correction tones assigned to a carrier, are adjusted to control the EVM and out-of-band distortion of each carrier, to comply with EVM limits imposed by the respective radio access technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Robert Baldemair, Ali Behravan, Farshid Ghasemzadeh, Daniel Larsson
  • Patent number: 8885756
    Abstract: A system includes a vehicle and logic that performs predictive pairing of multiple antenna of the vehicle with multiple fixed antenna of a port the vehicle is approaching, the predictive pairing performed using data obtained about the multiple fixed antenna obtained via a satellite, the predictive pairing prioritizing maximum spatial diversity in the pairings of the antenna of the vehicle with the fixed antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Maritime Telecommunications Network Inc.
    Inventor: Robert M Wise
  • Patent number: 8885763
    Abstract: A pre-distortion circuit that may introduce a pre-distortion signal in a communication channel by determining a harmonic signal of the signal to be output. One or more image correction signals of the signal to be output may be determined. The one or more image correction signals may be complex conjugate signal variations of the signal to be output. The harmonic signal, the one or more image correction signals and the signal to be output may be combined into a combined output signal. The combined output signal may be transmitted to a digital-to-analog converter. The predistortion circuit may be implemented in a FPGA, an ASIC, a digital-to-analog converter, and/or a separate IC package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Analog Devices, Inc.
    Inventor: Ganesh Ananthaswamy
  • Patent number: 8885757
    Abstract: A system and method of maintaining performance of an RF Distribution Network that combines signals (phases and amplitudes) passing through components that are subjected to parameters variations due to aging and temperature is disclosed; resultant distortion is reduced or eliminated via a real time calibration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Magnolia Broadband Inc.
    Inventors: Haim Harel, Eduardo Abreu, Kenneth Kludt
  • Patent number: 8885734
    Abstract: A system (21) comprises a first circuit (23) for transmitting information to a second circuit (22). The first circuit (23) comprises a signal generator (34) arranged to generate a signal (31) for transmission to the second circuit (22). The signal (31) has a first state for causing the second circuit (22) to perform a first operation and a second state for causing the second circuit (22) to perform a second operation. The signal generator (34) comprises means to modulate the generated signal (31) during a data burst period (52) to encode data into the generated signal (31). The data burst period (52) occurs within a period in which the generated signal (31) is in the second state. The signal (31) is modulated such that the encoded data is distinguishable from the generated signal (31). In an embodiment, a data burst period (52a, 52b) comprises a plurality of data periods (54) during which the state of the signal is representative of the data encoded in the signal (31).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: ST-Ericsson SA
    Inventors: Janne Peltonen, Antti Rauhala, Mika Salmi
  • Patent number: 8885742
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving a demodulation reference signal (DM RS) are disclosed. A method for controlling a base station (BS) to transmit a demodulation reference signal (Demodulation RS or DM RS) in a wireless communication system includes transmitting, by the base station (BS), a DM RS for a relay node (RN) to the relay node (RN) through a specific backhaul subframe to which an extended cyclic prefix (CP) is applied. The DM RS is transmitted over two resource elements (REs) of individual subcarriers having subcarrier frequency indexes 2, 5, 8 and 11 in a frequency axis within a second slot of the specific backhaul subframe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Han Byul Seo, Eun Sun Kim, Byoung Hoon Kim, Hak Seong Kim, Dae Won Lee
  • Patent number: 8885748
    Abstract: A wireless communication system with multiple inputs and multiple outputs for simultaneously transmitting or receiving a plurality of sub-signals with a first direction of polarization or a second direction of polarization is disclosed. The system includes N antennas, an expansion module and N signal processors. The expansion module is connected to each of the antennas and each of the signal processors, to be selectively operated under a receiving mode or a transmitting mode, for integrating or allocating the sub-signal with the first direction of polarization corresponding to one of the antennas and the sub-signal with the second direction of polarization corresponding to another antenna, based on control signals provided by each of the signal processors. Accordingly, the system can expand the number of input and output interfaces by twice without additional and complete components for receiving or transmitting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Transystem Inc.
    Inventor: Lee-Chuan Chang
  • Publication number: 20140328419
    Abstract: A method for setting a filter coefficient for a communication system, which adjusts a frequency bandwidth by setting a filter coefficient of a wireless communication system over a communication network, is provided. In the method, a wireless communication system that includes a controller having a filter coefficient database and a web server, and a Digital Signal Processing device requests a filter coefficient and attribute information related to a set target frequency bandwidth from a management terminal. The wireless communication system receives the filter coefficient and the attribute information from the management terminal and stores the filter coefficient and the attribute information in the filter coefficient database. The wireless communication system sets a frequency bandwidth of the digital signal processing device as a set target frequency bandwidth based on the stored filter coefficient and the attribute information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2013
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicant: Advanced RF Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Tae-Gil Kang
  • Publication number: 20140328427
    Abstract: Various embodiments of systems for transmitting and receiving digital and/or analog signals across a single isolator, solid state lighting systems, or DC/DC converter feedback regulation control systems are disclosed. In one embodiment, a first signal may be modulated into a first modulated signal. The first modulated signal is then modulated into a second modulated signal in accordance to a second signal. The second modulated signal is in turn, modulated into a third modulated signal in accordance to a third signal. At least some of the apparatuses, circuits, systems and methods disclosed herein may be implemented using conventional CMOS design and manufacturing techniques and processes to provide, for example, at least one or more integrated circuits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Inventors: Kwee Chong Chang, Jia Peng, Gek Yong Ng, Kok Keong Richard Lum
  • Patent number: 8879609
    Abstract: A communication system includes a first communication device and a second communication device that performs power line communication with the first communication device via an electric power line, wherein the first communication device transmits a plurality of times an initial packet signal added with an error detection code in each of reference timing at regular intervals in the vicinity of zero crossing timing. The second communication device determines whether a reception state is good or poor based on a result of the error detection on each of the received initial packet signals, and when the reception state is poor, the second communication device transmits an ACK signal in timing shifted by micro time from the reference timing after receiving the initial packet signal. Then, the first communication device transmits a data packet signal in timing at the regular interval after the timing of receiving the ACK signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: MegaChips Corporation
    Inventor: Handa Chen
  • Patent number: 8879650
    Abstract: Systems and methods are presented for controlling the peak-to-average-power of a baseband orthogonal-frequency-domain multiplexing (OFDM) signal by designating a subset of the available subcarriers as information-bearing data-subcarriers, and loading remaining subcarriers by symbols that are a function of the symbols loading the data-subcarriers. At the receiver, the data-dependent subcarriers are optionally combined with data-subcarriers to increase error protection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: TrellisWare Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Keith M. Chugg, Cenk Kose
  • Patent number: 8879660
    Abstract: Provided is an antipodal demodulation method and an antipodal demodulator for non-coherent unitary space-time modulation in MIMO wireless communication. The invention comprises: traversing L/2 constellation points in each sub-constellation of a non-coherent unitary space-time diagram for maximum likelihood demodulation calculation, determining a maximum trace ?max and a minimum trace ?min from traces of L/2 matrix products, calculating a maximum trace ?max of a matrix product corresponding to the constellation matrix in the other sub-constellation according to ?max=tr(YH ?j ?hHY)=tr(YHY)?tr(YH?j?jHY)=???min, and outputting a constellation point corresponding to the greater one of ?max and ?max as a demodulation signal. The antipodal demodulation method of the invention reduces calculation workload by ½ and features lower calculation complexity over the conventional maximum likelihood demodulation method without degrading demodulation performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Huazhong University of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Li Peng, Dawei Fu
  • Patent number: 8879646
    Abstract: A microwave backhaul architecture for remodulating data to increase a capacity of a corresponding wireless link is provided. The microwave backhaul architecture includes an indoor communication unit (IDU) configured to perform modulation and/or demodulation of the data and to perform a conversion of the data. The data is configured to have a modulation and baud rate dictated by performance capabilities of the IDU. The microwave backhaul architecture also includes an outdoor communication unit (ODU) configured to adjust at least one of the modulation and baud rate of the data in accordance with communication constraints to produce remodulated data. The ODU is configured to adjust the modulation and baud rate of the data such that the remodulated data has a higher-order modulation and lower baud rate when communicated over the wireless link than the modulation and baud rate of the data when communicated between the IDU and the ODU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventor: Kobi Sturkovich
  • Patent number: 8873666
    Abstract: In order to suppress deterioration of the throughput performance of the whole system in the MIMO system performing MIMO transmission, the present invention is characterized in that in a codebook in which there are defined a plurality of precoding weights and a plurality of PMIs (Precoding Matrix Indicators) assigned to the precoding weights, bit information of the PMIs assigned to the precoding weights is adjusted in such a manner as to suppress an effect of feedback error from a mobile station apparatus. The bit information of the PMIs assigned to the precoding weights is adjusted in such a manner as to suppress an effect of a transmission beam formed with a PMI in which feedback error is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuichi Kakishima, Katsutoshi Kusume, Hidekazu Taoka
  • Patent number: 8873655
    Abstract: Technology is discussed for increasing the spectral efficiency of an Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbol. Spectral efficiency can be increased by adding information to a band edge of the OFDM symbol in connection with measures taken to reduce OOB spectral leakage from the OFDM symbol. Spectral leakage reduction measures can include application of a tapering window to at least a portion of OFDM data in the time domain to reduce power in side-lobes in the frequency domain. In some examples, such measures can comprise reducing transmission power at certain frequencies for a set of adjacent sub-carriers within the OFDM symbol at or near the band edge of the OFDM symbol. The additional bandwidth at the OFDM symbol can be used for many different applications, such as, without limitation, Device-to-Device (D2D) communication and/or Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Bhaskar Rao, Qinghua Li
  • Patent number: 8873660
    Abstract: A method and apparatus controls diversity reception in a wireless communication device. By determining a value based on a number of active set pilot signals received from a set of base stations, the wireless communication device dynamically enables or disables diversity reception. Diversity reception can be controlled by adjusting a diversity threshold based on the determined value. A channel quality indicator of a channel is measured and compared against the adjusted diversity threshold. The diversity reception mode is then enabled or disabled based on the comparison. For example, if the number of active pilot signals is above a predetermined value, indicating “good” coverage, the diversity threshold is decreased. The measured channel quality indicator is compared against the adjusted threshold, and diversity reception is enabled when the channel quality indicator is less than the decreased diversity threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Matthew F. Valentine, Steve L. Sheya
  • Publication number: 20140314162
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, an apparatus, and a system for sending and receiving service data, where the method includes: first, obtaining, by a sending end, a target modulation mode different from a current modulation mode; and then, generating, by the sending end, invalid data, and temporarily storing service data at the same time; and then, performing encapsulation and mapping on the invalid data, switching the current modulation mode to the target modulation mode, modulating encapsulated and mapped invalid data according to the target modulation mode, and sending modulated invalid data to a receiving end; and finally, after the sending end completes the encapsulation and mapping on the invalid data, performing encapsulation and mapping on the temporarily stored service data, modulating encapsulated and mapped service data according to the target modulation mode, and sending modulated service data to the receiving end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Inventors: Teng MA, Zihuan CHEN, Ning LIU
  • Publication number: 20140314163
    Abstract: A transmitting device includes a parallel data generation unit and a transmitting unit. The parallel data generation unit generates first serial data and second serial data from a data packet, converts the first serial data and second serial data respectively into first parallel data and second parallel data, transmits the first parallel data and second parallel data respectively through first and second parallel transmission paths, and performs the transmission of the first parallel data and the transmission of the second parallel data in parallel. The transmitting unit receives the first parallel data and second parallel data respectively through the first and second parallel transmission paths, re-converts the first parallel data and second parallel data respectively into the first serial data and second serial data, and transmits the first serial data and second serial data to a receiving device respectively through first and second serial transmission paths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2014
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Inventor: Yusuke Fujita
  • Publication number: 20140314164
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a grid-controlled X-ray source, a space X-ray communication system and a space X-ray communication method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2011
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: XI'AN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND PRECISION MECHANICS OF CAS
    Inventors: Baosheng Zhao, Qiurong Yan, Lizhi Sheng, Yongan Liu
  • Patent number: 8868122
    Abstract: A user apparatus to which radio access schemes that are a single-carrier scheme and a multicarrier scheme are applied, includes: a radio access scheme setting unit configured to set a radio access scheme; a discrete Fourier transform unit configured to perform discrete Fourier transform on a modulated symbol sequence when the set radio access scheme is the single-carrier scheme; a serial parallel conversion unit configured to perform serial parallel conversion on a modulated symbol sequence when the set radio access scheme is the multicarrier scheme; a frequency domain signal generation unit configured to assign a radio resource to the modulated symbol sequence on which discrete Fourier transform has been performed or to the modulated symbol sequence on which serial parallel conversion has been performed to generate a frequency domain signal; a transmission signal generation unit configured to perform inverse fast Fourier transform on the frequency domain signal to generate a transmission signal; a transmissi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Hidekazu Taoka, Teruo Kawamura, Nobuhiko Miki, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Patent number: 8867632
    Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication system including a first communication device configured to perform spectral shaping on a frequency signal and transmit the signal, and a second communication device configured to receive the signal transmitted by the first communication device, and the second communication device includes: a frequency averaging unit configured to dividing information on transmission power gains in all the discrete frequencies into blocks by a plurality of discrete frequencies, information being necessary for the first communication device to perform the spectral shaping; a quantizing unit configured to quantize representative values of the blocks; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the quantized signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazunari Yokomakura, Yasuhiro Hamaguchi, Osamu Nakamura, Jungo Goto, Hiroki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 8866660
    Abstract: A system and method for mitigating Analog to Digital (A/D) clipping is disclosed. The mean and variance of analog input data are tracked and the bits of A/D are dynamically reassigned to keep the input signal within their range. The quantization levels of A/D are dynamically re-mapped to avoid changes in sensitivity of sensor system. The method is based on random walk statistic and keeps the sensitivity of the sensor system constant. Also the system and method provides a way to mitigate A/D clipping that avoids changing the sensitivity by dynamically re-mapping the quantization levels of the A/D, keeping the sensitivity of the system constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
    Inventors: Edward C. Real, Joanne K. Como