Maximum Likelihood Decoder Or Viterbi Decoder Patents (Class 375/262)
  • Patent number: 11424797
    Abstract: Disclosed are a data transmission method and apparatus. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal, a media access control (MAC) signaling sent by a base station; receiving, by the terminal, downlink control information (DCI) sent by the base station; searching for a preset mapping relationship by the terminal; determining, by the terminal, a target beam used by the target antenna panel to transmit data according to the target beam indication information corresponding to the target antenna panel; and transmitting data by the terminal with the base station via the target beam corresponding to the target antenna panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mingju Li
  • Patent number: 11424805
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A base station may transmit, to a channel engineering device, a configuration for performing a downlink beam refinement procedure with a user equipment (UE). The channel engineering device may transmit one or more reference signals (e.g., one or more channel state information reference signals) to the UE. For instance, the channel engineering device may transmit the one or more reference signals to the UE over resources configured by the base station or may deflect (e.g., reflect, refract, or both) reference signals transmitted to the channel engineering device by the base station. After receiving the one or more reference signals, the UE may transmit a report to the channel engineering device that the channel engineering device may use to update a channel configuration of the channel engineering device (e.g., updating a downlink beam or angle of deflection at the channel engineering device).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Shay Landis, Ran Berliner, Yehonatan Dallal
  • Patent number: 11411668
    Abstract: This application discloses a multi-codeword transmission method and an apparatus. The method includes: generating, by a network device, downlink control information corresponding to each of a plurality of code words to be sent to a terminal device, where the downlink control information corresponding to each code word includes at least one of the following: a physical downlink shared channel resource element mapping and quasi-co-location indicator, and an antenna port(s), scrambling identity and number of layers; and sending, by the network device, downlink control information corresponding to the plurality of code words to the terminal device. Corresponding apparatuses are further disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaona Wang, Jingjing Cheng
  • Patent number: 11411787
    Abstract: A communication system comprises a transmitter and a receiver that communicate differential phase modulated data over a wireline channel pair. The transmitter encodes data symbols by generating first and second data signals with differentially phase shifted signal transitions with respect to one another. The receiver receives the first data signal and the second data signal and samples the first data signal based on a signal transition timing of the second data signal to generate a first output data symbol. The receiver furthermore samples the second data signal based on signal transition timing of the first data signal to generate a second output data symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Rambus Inc.
    Inventors: Masum Hossain, Richelle L. Smith, Carl W. Werner
  • Patent number: 11394398
    Abstract: According to certain embodiments, a method for use in a transmitter comprises selecting an information set or sequence of information sets for polar encoding. The information set or sequence of information sets are selected from a plurality of information sets based on one or more system parameters and/or one or more link measurements. The method further comprises performing polar encoding for a plurality of data bits to yield encoded data. The polar encoding is performed according to the selected information set or sequence of information sets. The method further comprises transmitting the encoded data to a receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Dennis Hui, Yufei Blankenship, Leefke Grosjean
  • Patent number: 11387891
    Abstract: A method for antenna selection, performed by a user equipment, UE, in a wireless communication system includes determining signal performance of a signal received by the UE. The signal is received by an array antenna of the UE for communication with a network node of the wireless communication system. The method includes determining a signal decay rate associated with the signal performance of the signal, and replacing the array antenna with an omni-directional antenna of the UE for communication with the network node, based on the signal decay rate. Related devices are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Zhinong Ying, Thomas Bolin, Olof Zander
  • Patent number: 11381257
    Abstract: A multi-carrier transmitter apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes an outer encoder, a shell mapper and an inner encoder. The outer encoder is configured to receive a signal, perform error correction using an outer code on the received signal and generate an outer encoder signal. The shell mapper is configured to perform constellation shaping on a subset of bits from the outer encoder signal and generate one or more constellation shaping bits. The inner encoder is configured to perform inner error correction/encoding using an inner code on a second subset of bits from the outer encoder signal and generate an inner correction signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: MaxLinear, Inc.
    Inventors: Rainer Strobel, Vladimir Oksman
  • Patent number: 11381294
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for rate matching PDSCH around NZP CSI RS transmissions in multi-TRP scenarios. In some cases, a network entity may signal a rate matching behavior to a user equipment (UE) for processing a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) configured with a first quasi co-location association and transmitted from a first transmission reception point (TRP) that potentially collides with one or more types of non-zero power (NZP) reference signals (RS) configured with a second quasi co-location association and transmitted from a second TRP using one or more resource sets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Alexandros Manolakos, Huilin Xu, Wanshi Chen, Heechoon Lee, Peter Gaal
  • Patent number: 11368248
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods are disclosed for determining a transport block size (TBS) as a function of various parameters without cyclic dependencies between the parameters and TBS. The disclosed function can determine a TBS in a single pass, and the determined TBS allows the use of code blocks with equal code block size (CBS) in a transport block segmentation process. The determined TBS can provide byte-aligned code block lengths and require no padding bits in a transport block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Gabi Sarkis, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Jing Sun, Jing Jiang
  • Patent number: 11362877
    Abstract: The invention discloses a method for fast detection scan of NB-IoT signals in networks. The object of the invention to provide a scanning procedure which is reliable and very fast in order to reduce the search time and hence the power consumption will be solved by a method for fast detection scan of NB-IoT signals in a network by applying a higher sampling rate than 240 kHz and observing a received signal at a receive bandwidth around a magnitude wider than the NB-IoT signal bandwidth of 180 kHz, wherein a set of 2M+1 NB-IoT signals each having a different E-UTRA absolute radio frequency channel number (EARFCN) can be observed simultaneously, whereas M is a natural number and 2M+1 indicates the number of concurrently observed channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: COMMSOLID GMBH
    Inventors: Gunnar Nitsche, Michael Schmidt
  • Patent number: 11356151
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for multi-TRP by a UE, including out of order delivery of PDSCH, PUSCH, and/or DL ACK/NACK. The UE may receive, from a base station, a configuration that may include multiple control resource set (CORESET) poos and each CORESET pool may be associated with an index value. The UE may determine that at least two DCIs of the multiple DCIs end at a common symbol and determine, based on one or more predetermined rules, when the UE may be scheduled to receive PDSCHs, transmit PUSCHs, and/or transmit ACK/NACKs from CORESETs associated with the at least two DCIs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Haitong Sun, Yushu Zhang, Wei Zeng, Dawei Zhang, Yuchul Kim, Hong He, Weidong Yang, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Oghenekome Oteri, Ismael Gutierrez Gonzalez, Ghaith N Hattab, Jie Cui, Yang Tang, Haijing Hu, Fangli Xu, Zhibin Wu, Yuqin Chen, Yeong-Sun Hwang
  • Patent number: 11336487
    Abstract: A system and method for optimizing a channel sounding procedure of a multi-link device (MLD) is disclosed. The improved channel sounding procedure disclosed herein involves an MLD requesting channel sounding information from a group of receivers on a first channel representing a first physical frequency, but receiving channel sounding information from a subgroup of the receivers on one or more other channels representing different physical frequencies. In this manner, the channel sounding procedure on a specific link of an MLD is optimized by offloading some of the sounding process to a different radio link that is also operational for the MLD as part of the same association context.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Abhiruchi Dakshinkar, Eldad Perahia, Mohd Shahnawaz Siraj, Gaurav Patwardhan, Sachin Ganu, Nitin A. Changlani
  • Patent number: 11329716
    Abstract: A signal processing device includes: a transmission path estimator that estimates a first transmission path characteristic of a transmission signal using a vertical signal out of vertical and horizontal signals resulting from being received by a vertical polarization antenna and a horizontal polarization antenna; a transmission path estimator that estimates a second transmission path characteristic of the transmission signal using the horizontal signal; a weight calculator that calculates a first weight for the vertical signal and a second weight for the horizontal signal, using the first transmission path characteristic and the second transmission path characteristic; and a weighting applier that applies weighted summation to the vertical signal and the horizontal signal using the first weight and the second weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Mikihiro Ouchi, Tomohiro Kimura, Takayuki Sotoyama, Naoki Adachi, Naoya Shibaike, Shutai Okamura
  • Patent number: 11323293
    Abstract: A wireless communication method and a wireless communication device. An electronic device for a user equipment in a wireless communication system, including a processing circuit configured to receive, from a base station, channel state information reference signal with a set of reception filters, perform channel estimation on a downlink channel from the base station to the user equipment, select, from the set of reception filters, one or more particular reception filters corresponding to respective channel estimation results that satisfy a first predetermined condition, and signal, from the user equipment to the base station, sounding reference signal with one or more particular transmission filters, wherein the one or more particular transmission filters and one or more particular reception filters are reciprocal respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Peiyao Zhao, Zhaocheng Wang, Jinhui Chen
  • Patent number: 11316542
    Abstract: A signal analysis method is described. The signal analysis method includes: receiving an input signal having unknown characteristic signal parameters; determining IQ data being associated with the input signal; determining at least one of the characteristic signal parameters based on the IQ data via an artificial intelligence circuit; and adapting at least one measurement parameter of a measurement instrument based on the at least one characteristic parameter by the artificial intelligence circuit. Moreover, a signal analysis circuit is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Annika Germer, Susanne Hirschmann, Jochen Pliquett
  • Patent number: 11290240
    Abstract: One or more nodes transmit CSI-RS symbols in a set of N CSI-RS elements, each CSI-RS element in the set corresponding to at least one resource element in a time-frequency grid of resource elements. The nodes select, from the N CSI-RS elements, a first set of CSI-RS elements to be measured by a first wireless device, the first set comprising one or several of the N CSI-RS elements. The nodes also transmit, to the first wireless device, a message comprising a first K-bit indicator identifying the first set of CSI-RS elements, wherein K<N. The nodes then receive a measurement report. The first K-bit indicator is one of a predetermined set of K-bit indicators, where each member of the predetermined set of K-bit indicators uniquely corresponds to a CSI-RS element or group of CSI-RS elements from among the N CSI-RS, according to a predetermined mapping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Mattias Frenne, Stephen Grant, Robert Mark Harrison
  • Patent number: 11290306
    Abstract: A signal processing device includes a decision feedback equalizer and a coefficient adjusting circuit. The decision feedback equalizer includes a first equalizer configured to perform filtering on a first signal according to a set of first coefficients to generate a first filtered signal. The set of first coefficients includes multiple first coefficients. The coefficient adjusting circuit is configured to adaptively adjust one or more of the first coefficients according to an error signal. A limit operation of the first coefficients is selectively performed. When the limit operation of the first coefficients is performed, at least one of the first coefficients is set to a first predetermined value to generate a set of limited first coefficients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
    Inventors: Chi-Hsi Su, Liang-Wei Huang
  • Patent number: 11283498
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a PHY frame generating circuit that generates a PHY frame including either of a short Sector Sweep frame and a Sector Sweep frame; and an array antenna that selects, based on the PHY frame, any sector from among a plurality of sectors and transmits the PHY frame. In a case where, in the PHY frame including the short Sector Sweep frame, a Direction field of the short Sector Sweep frame indicates Initiator Sector Sweep, the PHY frame generating circuit replaces a Short Sector Sweep Feedback field indicating a number of a selected best short Sector Sweep with a Short Scrambled Basic Service Set ID field indicating an abbreviated address generated from an address of a destination communication apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Motozuka, Masataka Irie, Takenori Sakamoto, Naganori Shirakata, Yao Huang Gaius Wee, Michael Hong Cheng Sim, Lei Huang
  • Patent number: 11277286
    Abstract: A PAM4 receiver including an adaptive continuous-time linear equalizer and a method for training the same are disclosed. The PAM4 receiver and the method for training the same of the present invention employs a training pattern including a first training data pattern and second training data pattern to adaptively tune the PAM4 receiver to achieve accurate data reception and long-distance, high-speed communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF SEOUL INDUSTRY COOPERATION FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Young-Gil Go, Hye-Seong Shin, Jae-Geol Lee, Hyeon-Woo Ahn, Yo-Han Kim, Yongsam Moon
  • Patent number: 11245426
    Abstract: A band-switching network includes a dual-band balun and a switch network. The dual-band balun includes a first output and a second output. The switch network includes a first switch and a second switch in which an input to the first switch is coupled to the first output and an input to the second switch is coupled to the second balanced output. The dual-band balun further includes a primary coil, a first secondary coil and a second secondary coil in which the first secondary coil is coupled to the first balanced output and the second secondary coil is coupled to the second balanced output. In one embodiment, the primary coil and the first secondary coil are coupled by a first coupling factor k1, and the primary coil and the second secondary coil are coupled by a second coupling factor k2 that is different from the first coupling factor k1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Inventors: Amitoj Singh, Ajaypat Jain, Xiaohua Yu, Tienyu Chang, Siu-Chuang Ivan Lu, Sang Won Son
  • Patent number: 11218184
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a data transmitter configured to divide data onto a plurality of sub-data packets and to transmit the plurality of sub-data packets distributed in correspondence with a time/frequency hopping pattern, wherein there are transmission intermissions where no transmission takes place, between the sub-data packets, the data transmitter being configured to transmit a synchronization sub-data packet on a fixed synchronization frequency channel, wherein the synchronization frequency channel and frequency channels in which the plurality of sub-data packets are transmitted in correspondence with the time/frequency hopping pattern are different.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Gerd Kilian, Josef Bernhard, Jakob Kneissl, Johannes Wechsler, Frank Obernosterer, Raimund Meyer
  • Patent number: 11218211
    Abstract: A fast beam training method for a couple of user equipment, UE, and base station, BS, belonging to a mobile communication network such as a 5G network. A pair of iterative loops involves the UE and the BS, and iteratively refine the respective orientation and beamwidth of the transmit beam at the BS side and receive beam at UE side, based on an iteratively refined estimate of the UE position and Angle of Arrival at the UE. The iterative loops can be performed in series or in parallel. The beam training method converges when predetermined constraints on the standard deviations of the estimated UE position and estimated angle of arrival of the downlink signal at the UE are both met. The refined position of the UE can be used for a subsequent localization-assisted communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Benoît Denis, Antonio De Domenico, Gourab Ghatak, Remun Koirala
  • Patent number: 11212858
    Abstract: The same or similar physical signals can be used for both user equipment (UE) and an integrate access backhaul (IAB) node. Different configurations of the resources and/or transmission periods of the signals can be used for initial access for access UEs and IAB nodes. In addition, to support topology formation, mobility/multi-connectivity procedures, and backhaul link management, periodic measurements and reports can be configured by a parent IAB node to a child IAB node UE function. This can comprise radio resource management (RRM), radio link monitoring (RLM), and beam management (L1-BM) measurements and reports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Thomas Novlan, Arunabha Ghosh, Salam Akoum, Xiaoyi Wang
  • Patent number: 11205131
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for calculating branch metrics, associated with possible transitions between states of a trellis, in a sequence detector for detecting symbol values corresponding to samples of an analog signal transmitted over a channel. For each sample and each transition, the method calculates a plurality of distance values indicative of distance between that sample and respective hypothesized sample values for that transition. In parallel with calculation of the distance values, the sample is compared with a set of thresholds, each defined between a pair of successive hypothesized symbol values arranged in value order, to produce a comparison result. An optimum distance value is selected as a branch metric for the transition in dependence on the comparison result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Hazar Yüksel, Giovanni Cherubini, Roy Cideciyan, Simeon Furrer, Marcel Kossel
  • Patent number: 11190213
    Abstract: A coding method, a wireless device, and a chip are described. A coding method may include obtaining, based on a sequence whose length is 2n?, a mother code sequence used for coding, where the sequence whose length is 2n? includes 2n? sequence numbers, a length of the mother code sequence is 2n, the mother code sequence includes 2n sequence numbers, the 2n sequence numbers are some or all of the 2n? sequence numbers, n? is a natural number, and n is a natural number less than or equal to n?. The method may also include coding an input to-be-coded bit by using the mother code sequence. According to this method, a system may store one or more long sequences, and then obtain a required mother code sequence from one of the long sequences according to a coding requirement, thereby reducing storage overheads of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Aleksei Eduardovich Maevskii, Vladimir Gritsenko, Yunfei Qiao, Jian Wang, Chaolong Zhang
  • Patent number: 11184921
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication technique for converging a 5G communication system, which is provided to support a higher data transmission rate beyond a 4G system with an IoT technology, and a system therefor. The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services (e.g., smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, health care, digital education, retail business, security and safety related service, or the like) based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT related technology. The disclosure relates to a method for recovering a beam into a correct beam according to a position of a terminal using a non-contention-based and contention-based beam failure recovery method in order to recover a beam failure in which communication is disconnected due to movement of a terminal or the like in a wireless communication system performing beam-based communication services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sangbum Kim, Soenghun Kim, Jaehyuk Jang, Seungri Jin, Donggun Kim, Alexander Sayenko
  • Patent number: 11165473
    Abstract: A method and system analog beamforming for a single-connected antenna array is herein disclosed. A method includes estimating analog channels on a per-antenna basis, calculating explicitly an analog beamforming matrix based on the estimated analog channels, and performing analog beamforming based on the calculated analog beamforming matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Inventors: Hongbing Cheng, Hyukjoon Kwon, Qi Zhan, Kee-Bong Song
  • Patent number: 11159201
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a data transmitter configured to divide data onto a plurality of sub-data packets and to transmit the plurality of sub-data packets distributed in correspondence with a time/frequency hopping pattern, wherein there are transmission intermissions where no transmission takes place, between the sub-data packets, the data transmitter being configured to transmit a synchronization sub-data packet on a fixed synchronization frequency channel, wherein the synchronization frequency channel and frequency channels in which the plurality of sub-data packets are transmitted in correspondence with the time/frequency hopping pattern are different.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Gerd Kilian, Josef Bernhard, Jakob Kneissl, Johannes Wechsler, Frank Obernosterer, Raimund Meyer
  • Patent number: 11139882
    Abstract: A method may include receiving, from a network node, association and configuration information for a plurality of sequences, where each sequence may be associated to at least one network-node beam or beam-pair link. The method may also include performing beam measurements of beams from the network node to obtain beam measurement information. The method may further include detecting beam misalignment of the beam based on the beam measurement information. In addition, the method may include transmitting a sequence among the plurality of sequences to the network node to inform the network node of the beam misalignment, and to trigger the network node to start a beam adjustment procedure and a monitoring procedure for a configured-grant configuration. Further, the method may include, after transmitting the sequence, considering the indicated preferred beam as a new serving beam, and switching to the configured-grant configuration associated with this new serving beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Matha Deghel, Mihai Enescu, Sami Hakola, Sigen Ye, Klaus Hugl
  • Patent number: 11133854
    Abstract: Digital predistortion (DPD) arrangements that use coding to differentiate between contributions from individual power amplifiers (PAs) is disclosed. When used with a phased antenna array having N antenna elements and N corresponding PAs, the arrangements may sequentially apply N codes to input signals provided to N PAs. Each code is a vector having N elements, where each element corresponds to a different PA in that the element is a complex gain applied to an input signal for the PA. Together, the N codes may be arranged as N rows or N columns of a matrix P. The disclosed arrangements may generate N feedback signals by applying the matrix P to a signal generated by a probe antenna element sensing wireless RF signals transmitted by the N antenna elements, and to update DPD coefficients based on the N feedback signals. The N codes may be either orthogonal or non-orthogonal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: ANALOG DEVICES INTERNATIONAL UNLIMITED COMPANY
    Inventors: Patrick Pratt, Ahmed Hassan Abdelaziz Abdelrahman, John Oates, Bijan Knight Tehrani
  • Patent number: 11128314
    Abstract: Techniques related to improving a performance related to at least data reads from a memory are described. In an example, data is stored in a block of the memory as codewords. A data read includes a determination of whether each bit from a portion of the block is a zero or a one based on voltage measurements. Prior to decoding the codewords by performing a decoding procedure by an ECC decoder of the memory, a first number of errors “E01” and a second number of errors “E10” are estimated, where the first number of errors “E01” is associated with bits each being a true zero and erroneously determined as a one, and where the second number of errors “E10” associated with bits each being a true one and erroneously determined as a zero. Thereafter, the decoding of the codewords based on the decoding procedure is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Fan Zhang, Chenrong Xiong, Meysam Asadi, Xuanxuan Lu
  • Patent number: 11128401
    Abstract: This application discloses a method and an apparatus for processing information, a communications device, and a communications system. The communications device is configured to obtain a starting position of an output bit sequence in a coded block in a circular buffer, and determine the output bit sequence in the coded block based on a length of the output bit sequence and the starting position. A value of the starting position is one of {p0, p1, p2 . . . , pkmax?1}, where 0?pk<NCB, Pk is an integer, k is an integer, 0?k<kmax, NCB is a size of the coded block, and kmax is an integer greater than or equal to 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Liang Ma, Xin Zeng, Yuejun Wei, Carmela Cozzo
  • Patent number: 11115086
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive multiple spatial dimension multiplexed (SDM) communications via a single antenna panel of the UE. The UE may perform phase noise correction for the multiple SDM communications based at least in part on phase tracking reference signals received via a single communication of the multiple SDM communications. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ran Berliner, Shay Landis, Yehonatan Dallal, Ronen Shaked, Assaf Touboul
  • Patent number: 11115104
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to signaling and use of multiple transmission chains. A device may determine bits indicative of eight or fewer spatial streams. The device may encode the bits by generating an indication of more than eight spatial streams. The device may determine one or more fields of a frame, the one or more fields including the encoded bits. The device may send the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Po-Kai Huang, Yaron Alpert, Laurent Cariou, Xiaogang Chen, Feng Jiang, Qinghua Li, Robert Stacey
  • Patent number: 11095349
    Abstract: An electronic device includes antennas, first radio frequency front ends (RFFEs) configured to pre-process a an RF signal having a frequency belonging to a first frequency band, second RFFEs connected to the antennas, respectively, wherein at least one of the second RFFEs is configured to pre-process an RF signal having a frequency belonging to a second frequency band different from the first frequency band, switches selectively connecting the first RFFEs to the respective antennas, a communication processor operatively coupled to the first RFFEs, the second RFFEs and the switches, and a memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to select a first antenna to support radio communication using the first frequency band among the antennas and control the switches to connect one of the first RFFEs to the first antenna and to open a connection between a remainder of the first RFFEs and a remainder of the antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Inventor: Namjun Cho
  • Patent number: 11095344
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments include methods for a network node to receive PUCCH transmissions by a user equipment (UE). Embodiments include sending, to the UE, a control message comprising: 1) identification of a first spatial relation of a plurality of spatial relations configured for the UE, wherein the plurality of spatial relations are associated with one or more reference signals (RS) transmitted by the network node or by the UE; and 2) an indication of whether the first spatial relation applies to a single PUCCH resource or at least one group of PUCCH resources configured for the UE. Embodiments also include receiving, from the UE, a PUCCH message transmitted according to the first spatial relation using a PUCCH resource, configured for the UE, to which the first spatial relation applies. Embodiments also include complementary methods performed by a UE, as well as network nodes and UEs configured to perform such methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Stephen Grant, Sebastian Faxér, Mattias Frenne, Siva Muruganathan, Claes Tidestav
  • Patent number: 11088778
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose an information transmission method and apparatus, and relate to the field of communications technologies. In this technical solution, impact of a beam on information transmission is taken into account, thereby improving robustness of a control channel. The method may include: performing rate matching on a first bit sequence based on beam indication information, to obtain a second bit sequence, where the first bit sequence is a bit sequence obtained by performing channel coding on an original bit sequence; mapping the second bit sequence onto a time-frequency resource; and sending, to a receive end by using a beam indicated by the beam indication information, the second bit sequence that is mapped onto the time-frequency resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Peng Guan
  • Patent number: 11064374
    Abstract: It is recognized herein that as the number of transmit antennas in cellular systems (e.g., NR or 5G systems) increase, the Channel State information (CSI) feedback overhead may increase to unacceptable levels, and the current CSI feedback might not support beamforming training for NR. Embodiments described herein provide an enhanced and more efficient design for Channel State Information feedback as compared to current approaches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Covida Wireless, LLC
    Inventors: Tianyi Xu, Qian Zhang, Allan Y. Tsai, Guodong Zhang, Lakshmi R. Iyer, Qing Li
  • Patent number: 11025465
    Abstract: Provided are a preamble symbol generation method and receiving method, and a relevant frequency-domain symbol generation method and a relevant device, characterized in that the method comprises: generating a cyclic prefix according to a partial time-domain main body signal truncated from a time-domain main body signal; generating a modulation signal based on a portion or the entirety of the partial time-domain main body signal; and generating time-domain symbols based on at least one of the cyclic prefix, the time-domain main body signal and the modulation signal, wherein the preamble symbol contains at least one of the time-domain symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Inventors: Wenjun Zhang, Guanbin Xing, Ge Huang, Hongliang Xu, Dazhi He, Yunfeng Guan
  • Patent number: 11018749
    Abstract: An OAM multiplexing communication system multiplexes signals of one or more sequences for each OAM mode. A transmitting station includes a transmitting antenna using an M-UCA, and an OAM mode generation unit that simultaneously generates one or more OAM modes from each UCA. A receiving station includes a receiving antenna equivalent to the M-UCA, an OAM mode separation unit that separates signals received by each UCA for each OAM mode, and a channel estimation/interference compensation unit that compensates for inter-mode interference between the OAM modes by using a weight. The channel estimation/interference compensation unit selects, for each OAM mode, signals of a subject mode and an adjacent mode from among the signals of the OAM modes separated by the OAM mode separation unit, and compensates for the inter-mode interference by multiplying an approximate weight calculated by using channel matrixes of the subject mode and the adjacent mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirofumi Sasaki, Doohwan Lee, Hiroyuki Fukumoto, Hiroyuki Shiba
  • Patent number: 10992725
    Abstract: A method or system configured for receiving a first single data stream representing a first multimedia file, the first single data stream including an interleaved sequence of data elements of a plurality of media, and/or transmitting a second single data stream representing a second multimedia file, the second single data stream including an interleaved sequence of data elements of said plurality of media, where the second multimedia file differs from said first multimedia file by at least one data element of a selected medium extracted from said first multimedia file, and/or by at least one data element of a selected medium added to the first multimedia file, and/or by at least one data element of a selected medium added to the first multimedia file being a converted version of the at least one data element of a selected medium extracted from the first multimedia file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: GLIDE TALK LTD.
    Inventors: Liron Hertz, Roi Ginat
  • Patent number: 10985846
    Abstract: A signal receiving apparatus includes at least one signal separating apparatus that separates a specific signal from a plurality of received signals. Each of the at least one signal separating apparatus includes a spatial filtering unit that separates at least one equalized signal and a decision signal outputting unit that generates a first decision signal by deciding the equalized signal and outputs the generated first decision signal. The spatial filtering unit separates the at least one equalized signal by multiplying at least the plurality of received signals among the plurality of received signals and either the first decision signal output from the decision signal outputting unit or a second decision signal output from another signal separating apparatus by predetermined weighting coefficients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kohki Shibahara, Takayuki Mizuno, Akira Isoda, Yutaka Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 10979082
    Abstract: A bit interleaver, a bit-interleaved coded modulation (BICM) device and a bit interleaving method are disclosed herein. The bit interleaver includes a first memory, a processor, and a second memory. The first memory stores a low-density parity check (LDPC) codeword having a length of 64800 and a code rate of 2/15. The processor generates an interleaved codeword by interleaving the LDPC codeword on a bit group basis. The size of the bit group corresponds to a parallel factor of the LDPC codeword. The second memory provides the interleaved codeword to a modulator for 256-symbol mapping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Sung-Ik Park, Sun-Hyoung Kwon, Heung-Mook Kim, Jae-Young Lee, Nam-Ho Hur
  • Patent number: 10958293
    Abstract: A method of near-lossless universal data compression using correlated data sequences includes detecting first target surroundings via a first sensor, encoding a first data sequence indicative of the detected target surroundings, and communicating to an electronic controller, the encoded first data sequence. The method additionally includes detecting the first target surroundings via a second sensor, and encoding a second data sequence indicative of the target surroundings detected by the second sensor. The method also includes communicating the encoded second data sequence to the controller. The method additionally includes decoding, via the controller, the encoded first and second data sequences. The method also includes, via the controller, determining a statistical correlation between the decoded first and second data sequences and formulating a mapping function having reduced cardinality and indicative of the determined statistical correlation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventor: Ronit Bustin
  • Patent number: 10951948
    Abstract: The present technique relates to signal processing apparatus and method that can reduce power consumption. A receiver that receives a broadcast signal includes a demodulation unit that demodulates the broadcast signal, and a reception control unit that controls the demodulation by the demodulation unit. In a section not including PLPs to be received in the broadcast signal, the reception control unit controls the demodulation unit to stop the demodulation by the demodulation unit on the basis of subframes or OFDM symbols. The present technique can be applied to a receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tatsuki Amimoto
  • Patent number: 10944426
    Abstract: A bit interleaver, a bit-interleaved coded modulation (BICM) device and a bit interleaving method are disclosed herein. The bit interleaver includes a first memory, a processor, and a second memory. The first memory stores a low-density parity check (LDPC) codeword having a length of 64800 and a code rate of 4/15. The processor generates an interleaved codeword by interleaving the LDPC codeword on a bit group basis. The size of the bit group corresponds to a parallel factor of the LDPC codeword. The second memory provides the interleaved codeword to a modulator for 256-symbol mapping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Sung-Ik Park, Sun-Hyoung Kwon, Jae-Young Lee, Heung-Mook Kim, Nam-Ho Hur
  • Patent number: 10944434
    Abstract: A bit interleaver, a bit-interleaved coded modulation (BICM) device and a bit interleaving method are disclosed herein. The bit interleaver includes a first memory, a processor, and a second memory. The first memory stores a low-density parity check (LDPC) codeword having a length of 16200 and a code rate of 4/15. The processor generates an interleaved codeword by interleaving the LDPC codeword on a bit group basis. The size of the bit group corresponds to a parallel factor of the LDPC codeword. The second memory provides the interleaved codeword to a modulator for 16-symbol mapping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Sung-Ik Park, Sun-Hyoung Kwon, Bo-Mi Lim, Jae-Young Lee, Heung-Mook Kim, Nam-Ho Hur
  • Patent number: 10944433
    Abstract: A bit interleaver, a bit-interleaved coded modulation (BICM) device and a bit interleaving method are disclosed herein. The bit interleaver includes a first memory, a processor, and a second memory. The first memory stores a low-density parity check (LDPC) codeword having a length of 64800 and a code rate of 3/15. The processor generates an interleaved codeword by interleaving the LDPC codeword on a bit group basis. The size of the bit group corresponds to a parallel factor of the LDPC codeword. The second memory provides the interleaved codeword to a modulator for 16-symbol mapping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Sung-Ik Park, Sun-Hyoung Kwon, Jae-Young Lee, Heung-Mook Kim, Nam-Ho Hur
  • Patent number: 10931387
    Abstract: A communication method and a system for converging a 5th-generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-generation (4G) system with a technology for internet of things (IoT) are provided. The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, etc. The method includes receiving a radio resource control (RRC) message including first information associated with a reference signal for a radio link monitoring (RLM) and second information associated with a threshold for the RLM, monitoring a radio link quality of at least one reference signal indicated by the first information, comparing the radio link quality of the at least one reference signal with the threshold and indicating an in-sync or an out-of-sync to a higher layer of the terminal based on the comparison result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: June Hwang, Hyunjeong Kang, Jungmin Moon, Seunghoon Park, Byounghoon Jung
  • Patent number: 10924311
    Abstract: The present document relates to a Viterbi-based GFSK (Gaussian frequency-shift keying) demodulator that supports different modulation index ranges. In particular, the present document relates to a circuit and a corresponding method for demodulating a base band signal. For example, the base band signal may have an in-phase component and a quadrature component. The method includes determining a phase-modulated signal based on the base band signal. The method includes determining a scaled phase signal by scaling the phase-modulated signal using a scaling factor. The method includes determining discrimination signals based on the scaled phase signal using a periodic discrimination function. The method includes applying a Viterbi algorithm to the discrimination signals for determining an output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Dialog Semiconductor B.V.
    Inventor: Hamed Kenawy