Angle Modulation Patents (Class 375/271)
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Patent number: 7916804Abstract: Aspects of a method and system for a fast-switching Phase-Locked Loop using a Direct Digital Frequency synthesizer may include generating a second signal from a first signal by: translating an inphase component of said first signal in frequency via a filtered fast-switching oscillating signal generated using at least a direct digital frequency synthesizer (DDFS), and translating a corresponding quadrature component of said first signal in frequency via a phase-shifted version of said generated filtered fast-switching oscillating signal. The inphase and quadrature components of the first signal may be multiplied with the filtered fast-switching oscillating signal and a phase-shifted version of the filtered fast-switching oscillating signal, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2009Date of Patent: March 29, 2011Assignee: Broadcom CorporationInventor: Ahmadreza Rofougaran
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Patent number: 7898352Abstract: The present invention relates in general to transferring the envelope information of a polar modulated signal to a varying pulsewidth signal, while the phase modulation is direct transferred to the phase modulation of this PWM signal. Accordingly, the resultant signal is a PWM-PPM-signal. Such a signal can efficiently amplified by use of switching amplifying stages. By the present invention four pre-distorted baseband signals are applied basically to 4 linear RF mixers and a two adders, which are, the only needed external RF building blocks to build the modulator according to the invention. That is, the basic idea of the invention resides in the way of modulation of the four baseband signals and the way of combining of the RF modulated signals.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2007Date of Patent: March 1, 2011Assignee: NXP B.V.Inventors: Jan Vromans, Gerben W. De Jong, Mihai A. T. Sanduleanu
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Patent number: 7835468Abstract: A radio receiver includes a processing unit that may generate a respective phase value corresponding to each of a plurality of digital samples of a received complex frequency modulation (FM) signal. The receiver also includes an impulse unit that may detect whether a linear combination of a phase value of a current sample and a phase value of one or more previous samples will produce an impulse at an output of an FM demodulator. If the impulse unit detects that an impulse will be produced at the output, the impulse unit may replace the output of the FM discriminator with a predetermined value.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2006Date of Patent: November 16, 2010Assignee: Silicon Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: Javier Elenes, Dana J. Taipale
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Patent number: 7826550Abstract: Aspects of a method and system for a high-precision frequency generator using a direct digital frequency synthesizer for transmitters and receivers may include generating a second signal from a first signal by frequency translating an inphase component of the first signal utilizing a high-precision oscillating signal that may be generated using at least a direct digital frequency synthesizer (DDFS) and at least a Phase-Locked Loop (PLL). A corresponding quadrature component of the first signal may be frequency translated utilizing a phase-shifted version of the high-precision oscillating signal. The inphase component of the first signal may be multiplied with the high-precision oscillating signal and the quadrature component of the first signal may be multiplied with the phase-shifted version of the high-precision oscillating signal. The second signal may be generated from the first signal by adding the frequency translated inphase component to the frequency translated quadrature component.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2007Date of Patent: November 2, 2010Assignee: Broadcom Corp.Inventor: Ahmadreza Rofougaran
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Publication number: 20100272208Abstract: Most modern integrated circuit transceivers, especially wireless LAN, utilize a direct conversion radio architecture, which is highly advantageous from the perspectives of cost and flexibility, there exist several performance impairments, including gain and phase imbalances between the in-phase (I) and quadrature (Q) of a transmitter or receiver. Disclosed herein is a signal processing methodology and system for compensation of I/Q imbalance for a direct conversion packet-switched OFDM communications system. The imbalance, which accounts for transmitter I/Q imbalance, RX I/Q imbalance, phase/frequency error, and dispersive multipath fading. Both frequency dependent I/Q imbalance and frequency independent cases are considered, covering both wideband and narrowband modulation. The proposed estimation algorithms operate within the fully compliant framework of existing multi-user OFDM radio standards (WLAN, LTE, WimAX).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2008Publication date: October 28, 2010Inventors: Jeffrey Ross Feigin, David Paul Brady
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Patent number: 7787551Abstract: An improvement for a phasor fragmentation engine and method, whereby a phasor flipping algorithm is applied when determining fragment phasors for a non-constant envelope modulation signal (e.g. OFDM). The phasor flipping algorithm avoids sharp phase transitions for the fragment phasors, which cause an increase in bandwidth, by performing a comparison of the phasor angle separation between the prior and current time samples. This comparison corresponds to a determination of whether the modulation signal V has passed near or through zero.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2006Date of Patent: August 31, 2010Inventors: Kevin R. Parker, Stephen R. Hobbs, Jean-Paul R. DeCruyenaere
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Patent number: 7782964Abstract: A method for selecting a frequency band, from among a plurality of frequency bands controllable by a radio network controller (RNC), to carry a data communication. The method may include obtaining frequency band usage measurements for a plurality of frequency bands, and using the frequency band usage measurements to select a particular frequency band of the plurality of frequency bands to carry the data communication. Frequency band usage measurements may be based on how many idle slots (and/or data channels) are carried through each of the plurality of frequency bands during a measurement time period. A comparison of the frequency band usage measurements can be used to determine which frequency band sent the greatest number of idle slots (or the fewest number of data channels). The method provides for selecting a frequency band best suited (e.g., has the most available capacity for carrying a data communication) for carrying the data communication.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2005Date of Patent: August 24, 2010Assignee: Sprint Spectrum L.P.Inventors: Ryan S Talley, Kristin Hayne, Tom Trueman, Jerry Wade, Robert Pippert
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Patent number: 7769096Abstract: A quadrature-multiplexed continuous phase modulation (QM-CPM) signal is made up of the real parts of two underlying CPM signals whose information content can be recovered from just their real parts. The real parts of two such signals are I/Q multiplexed and transmitted onto a single channel to approximately double the bits/Hz of the underlying CPM signals, while maintaining the same or similar minimum distance. A class of QM-CPFSK (QM-continuous phase frequency shift keyed) signals are presented that use binary signaling but more phase states, and M2-ary QM-CPFSK signals are derived from constant envelope M-ary CPFSK signals. M2-ary multi-amplitude CPFSK signaling schemes are constructed that maintain the same distance as known multi-amplitude CPFSK schemes, but more than double the bandwidth efficiency in bits/Hz. In addition to these CPFSK based embodiments, embodiments are provided that more generally use CPM, non-continuous phase modulated signals, and even trellis-based PAM based signals.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2006Date of Patent: August 3, 2010Assignee: Trellis Phase Communications, LPInventors: John P. Fonseka, Eric Morgan Dowling
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Patent number: 7715483Abstract: A method of allocating sub-channel signal interleaving patterns to BSs forming a wireless communication system that divides a frequency band into a plurality of sub-carriers and including a plurality of sub-channels, which are a set of predetermined adjacent sub-carriers. The method includes: creating a basic orthogonal sequence having a length identical to a number of the sub-carriers forming the sub-channel; creating a plurality of sequences having a same length as the basic orthogonal sequence by cyclic-shifting the basic orthogonal sequence a predetermined number of times or performing a modulo operation based on a number of the sub-carriers forming the sub-channel, after adding a predetermined offset to the cyclic-shifted basic orthogonal sequence; selecting a predetermined number of sequences corresponding to a number of the BSs from among the plurality of sequences; and allocating the selected sequences as the sub-channel signal interleaving patterns for the BSs.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2005Date of Patent: May 11, 2010Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., LtdInventors: Jae-Hee Cho, Jae-Ho Jeon, Soon-Young Yoon, Sang-Hoon Sung, Ji-Ho Jang, In-Seok Hwang, Hoon Huh, Jeong-Heon Kim, Seung-Joo Maeng
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Patent number: 7715484Abstract: The invention relates to an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system with PN-sequence. In the synchronization of the invention, both timing offset and frequency offset are estimated and compensated by utilizing a time and frequency synchronization device. In addition, the PN-sequence with the cyclic prefix is added to the OFDM symbol before transmitting. The time and frequency synchronization device of the invention comprises two synchronization circuits from the cyclic prefix and PN-sequence when calculating the timing offset and frequency offset of receiving signal. As a result, the OFDM system of the invention not only has better performance in fading channel, but also has the better bandwidth utilization without extra bandwidth for transmitting the PN-sequence.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2005Date of Patent: May 11, 2010Assignee: Industrial Technology Research InstituteInventors: Yun-Yen Chen, Chih-Peng Li, Wei-Wen Hu
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Patent number: 7702299Abstract: The amplitude modulator comprises: an angle modulator for angle-modulating a phase signal to be inputted; a waveform shaping means in which, (1) when the magnitude of an amplitude signal to be inputted becomes smaller than a first prescribed value, a waveform of the amplitude signal is shaped so that the magnitude of the amplitude signal of the portion which becomes small becomes the first prescribed value; and/or (2) the waveform shaping means in which, when the magnitude of the amplitude signal to be inputted becomes larger than the second prescribed value which is larger than the first prescribed value, the waveform of the amplitude signal is shaped so that the magnitude of the amplitude signal of the portion which becomes larger becomes the second prescribed value; and an amplitude modulator for amplitude modulating the signal of the output of the angle modulator by the signal of the output of the waveform shaping means.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2007Date of Patent: April 20, 2010Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Toru Matsuura, Hisashi Adachi, Masaharu Udagawa
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Patent number: 7664203Abstract: Methods and systems for processing a single sub-channel that includes two or more combined channels. Using intermediate frequency sub-sampling, two or more channels from a broad band signal are combined into a single sub-channel for further analog and digital processing. Each of the two or more channels is down converted to an intermediate frequency, filtered to remove certain undesired channels, and combined such that the two or more channels are adjacent to each other. A digital representation of the sub-channel is produced from the combined intermediate frequency channels. Each channel within the digital representation is down converted to baseband, and the in-phase and quadrature components are separated from each other. Compared to one direct down conversion technique, intermediate frequency sub-sampling as described in the application may reduce the number of analog to digital converters and control amplifiers used in analog processing by a factor of four.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2005Date of Patent: February 16, 2010Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Dan Q. Tu, Louis F. Coffin, III
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Patent number: 7664168Abstract: The present invention has an object enabling stable data communication hard to perform a malfunction in a simple circuit configuration which can miniaturize a system and does not need any strict accuracy by executing data communication in a connection using two terminals or less. The present invention is featured by being related to a data carrier device including a signal terminal for performing signal input from a data carrier driving device. The data carrier device includes a data communication circuit receiving an input of a pulse having a part having a different duty ratio and a pulse frequency constant on the whole from the data carrier driving device through the signal terminal to generate a data signal.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2005Date of Patent: February 16, 2010Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yoshikazu Yamazaki
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Publication number: 20100027705Abstract: A method for calculating zero-crossing reference sequences ({ti}) for the data detection of a sequence of zero crossings ({{circumflex over (t)}i}) of a received signal is disclosed. The data detection is determined in a receiver, wherein the received signal is based on a data symbol sequence ({dk}) angle-modulated at a transmitter and transmitted to the receiver. The zero-crossing reference sequences ({ti}) are calculated in accordance with an equation specifying an output of a finite state machine that describes, at least approximately, the signal generation in the transmitter.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2009Publication date: February 4, 2010Inventors: Andre NEUBAUER, Juergen NIEDERHOLZ
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Publication number: 20100020892Abstract: The present invention relates a symbol generation apparatus for multiple antennas having low receiving complexity and having flexibility with respect to an increase in the number of antennas. The symbol generation apparatus includes a plurality of space-time channel encoders respectively corresponding to a plurality of channels, and an inverse fast Fourier transformer group. The respective space-time channel encoders receive a digital-modulated symbol group from the corresponding channel, perform a space-time encoding operation with respect to a plurality of space areas and at least one time area, shift phases by using a plurality of phase values, and generate a plurality of phase-shifted space-time codewords.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2007Publication date: January 28, 2010Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Seung-Joon Lee, Dong-Seung Kwon
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Patent number: 7646824Abstract: Aspects of a method and system for a fast-switching Phase-Locked Loop using a Direct Digital Frequency synthesizer may include generating a second signal from a first signal by: frequency translating an inphase component of the first signal utilizing a filtered fast-switching oscillating signal generated using at least a direct digital frequency synthesizer (DDFS), and frequency translating a corresponding quadrature component of the first signal utilizing a phase-shifted version of the generated and filtered fast-switching oscillating signal. The inphase and quadrature components of the first signal may be multiplied with the filtered fast-switching oscillating signal and a phase-shifted version of the filtered fast-switching oscillating signal, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2007Date of Patent: January 12, 2010Assignee: Broadcom CorporationInventor: Ahmadreza Rofougaran
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Patent number: 7636386Abstract: A multiple path angle modulator includes a closed secondary loop added to a main control loop to automatically adjust a scaling factor related to high frequency gain. The main control loop is configured as a primary path to process the low frequency portion of the angle modulation signal, and the secondary loop is configured as an auxiliary path to process the high frequency portions of the angle modulation signal. The secondary loop senses calibration information and uses it to continuously calibrate the gain within the modulation loop in real time while the system performs its primary operation, thereby eliminating the need for a system shut down or calibration specific timing, such as a lapse time, to balance the modulation paths. Calibration is continuously performed as a background process. The angle modulator is applicable to all modulation type systems.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2005Date of Patent: December 22, 2009Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Earl W. McCune, Jr., Wendell B. Sander
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Publication number: 20090310786Abstract: Systems for audio and data transmission in a broadcast band are disclosed. The system comprises a channel condition assessment module at the transmit side to identify an un-occupied or empty channel to transmit. The system also comprises a means to achieve automatic channel coordination between the transmit side and the receive side. Further, the transmit side includes a digital interface module and the receive side includes a digital output interface module configured to control an embedding electronic device. Means for enhancing audio privacy and digital data rate are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2009Publication date: December 17, 2009Applicant: QUINTIC HOLDINGSInventors: Yifeng Zhang, Victor Ren, Bo Xia
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Patent number: 7623604Abstract: A communications receiver may include an adaptive filter unit for removing coherent interference components from a received signal. In the absence of a signal of interest, the filter may adapt dynamically to remove current interference components. When a signal of interest is detected, the filter may be controlled to stop (or at least reduce) its adaptation, to prevent removal of the signal of interest. The received signal may be down-converted to a complex baseband by conditioning circuitry. A detector may detect the signal of interest, and control the filter. Autocorrelation may be used to estimate a characteristic of the signal of interest in the complex baseband. The detector may include hysteresis to react quickly to the start of signal of interest, and more slowly to an end of the signal of interest. The signal of interest may be a frequency shift keyed (FSK) signal. A demodulator may demodulate FSK components based on the autocorrelation result.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2004Date of Patent: November 24, 2009Assignee: IMRA Europe S.A.Inventors: Philippe Loiseau, Michel Gaeta, Luc Haumonte
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Patent number: 7599627Abstract: An optical homodyne communication system and method in which a side carrier is transmitted along with data bands in an optical data signal, and upon reception, the side carrier is boosted, shifted to the center of the data bands, and its polarization state is matched to the polarization state of the respective data bands to compensate for polarization mode dispersion during transmission. By shifting a boosted side carrier to the center of the data bands, and by simultaneously compensating for the effects of polarization mode dispersion, the provided system and method simulate the advantages of homodyne reception using a local oscillator. The deleterious effects of chromatic dispersion on the data signals within the data bands are also compensated for by applying a corrective function to the data signals which precisely counteracts the effects of chromatic dispersion.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2001Date of Patent: October 6, 2009Assignee: Teradvance Communications, LLCInventors: Marcel F. C. Schemmann, Zoran Maricevic, Antonije R. Djordjevic, Darby Racey
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Publication number: 20090220024Abstract: The invention relates to a FM simulcast broadcast signal, in which an analogue and digital signal are combined for a transmission in a transmission channel with limited bandwidth as a total signal (s), which has a first phase speed (vs), an auxiliary signal (hs) is prepared in the complex region from the modulated digital signal (ds) for transmission and the FM modulated analogue signal (as) for transmission, which has a second phase speed (vas). Said auxlliary signal (hs) is placed in an used or at least largely unused frequency range of the digital signal (ds). The total signal (s) for transmission comprises the auxiliary signal (hs) and the FM modulated digital signal (ds) and the first phase speed (vs) of the total signal (s) corresponds at least approximately to the second phase speed (vas) of the analogue signal (as).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2007Publication date: September 3, 2009Applicant: MICRONAS GMBHInventors: Carsten Noeske, Christian Bock
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Patent number: 7532673Abstract: A broadband communications system uses modulation symbol transport over communications links to replace baseband or bandpass signal transport, thereby providing longer communication distances, lower communication link bandwidth, and greater signal quality. Subsequent to transporting the modulation symbols, the symbols are modulated and further transmitted over the RF transmission network.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2004Date of Patent: May 12, 2009Assignee: Scientific-Atlanta, Inc.Inventors: James E. Cannella, Jr., Larry S. McKinney, William D. Woodward, Jr.
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Patent number: 7532678Abstract: During data transmission by multi-carrier modulation of data blocks modulated by Inverse Discrete Fourier Transformation (IDFT), carriers that are not occupied by data are occupied in such a way as to generate temporal functions that, after filtration, are Dirac-like temporal functions that reach maxima in an oversampled temporal resolution of different, preferably adjacent positions. A pair of the oversampled Dirac-like temporal functions and corresponding filter input functions that are not oversampled is iteratively selected. The pair is displaced to a position of a peak value resulting from the data occupation of the remaining carriers, subtracted from the oversampled Dirac-like temporal functions after being weighted and, as iterative modifications, applied in parallel to the Dirac-like temporal functions and a corresponding temporal signal without oversampling and without filtration.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2002Date of Patent: May 12, 2009Assignee: Infineon Technologies AGInventors: Werner Henkel, Valentin Zrno
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Patent number: 7529313Abstract: An apparatus includes: an affine transformer that subjects input complex IF signals I(t) and Q(t) to affine transformation according to affine transformation coefficients, and outputs compensated signals a(t) and b(t); a quadrature modulator that applies quadrature modulation on a local oscillation signal according to the compensated signals, and outputs a modulated signal (RF transmission signal); a quadrature wave detector that removes a carrier component from the modulated signal and outputs complex feedback signals I?(t) and Q?(t); and a control portion that extracts linear distortions remaining in the complex feedback signals I?(t) and Q?(t) as plural distortion coefficients (DC offsets of the I-phase and the Q-phase, an IQ gain ratio, and a deviation in orthogonality), and updates the current affine transformation coefficients in accordance with updating equations including the distortion coefficients to set updated affine transformation coefficients again in the affine transformation portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2005Date of Patent: May 5, 2009Assignee: Hitachi Kokusai Electric Inc.Inventors: Masashi Naito, Yasuhiro Takeuchi, Takashi Okada
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Patent number: 7522672Abstract: The present invention provides a digital (computational) branch calibrator which uses a feedback signal sensed from an RF transmit signal path following the combining stage of LINC circuitry of a transmitter to compensate for gain and phase imbalances occurring between branch fragment signals leading to the combiner. The calibrator feeds a quiet (zero) base band signal through the transmit path during the calibration sequence (i.e. a period when data is not transmitted) and adjusts the phase and gain of the phasor fragment signals input thereto by driving the sensed output power to zero. The calibration is performed by alternating phase and gain adjustments with predetermined (programmable) and multiple update parameters stages (speeds). A baseband modulation is preferably used to distinguish false leakage (e.g. due to local oscillator, LO, feed through and DC offset in the base band Tx) from imbalance leakage.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2007Date of Patent: April 21, 2009Inventor: Aryan Saed
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Publication number: 20090080563Abstract: A signal generating apparatus is disclosed. The signal generating apparatus includes a test data generator for generating a test data; a fractional-N phase-locked loop device coupled to the test data generator for generating a synthesized signal according to the test data when the test data is received; and a calibrating device coupled to the fractional-N phase-locked loop device for measuring power of the synthesized signal to generate a calibration signal utilized for adjusting the fractional-N phase-locked loop device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2007Publication date: March 26, 2009Inventors: Hsin-Hung Chen, Ling-Wei Ke, Tai-Yuan Yu, Tser-Yu Lin
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Patent number: 7499490Abstract: Methods and apparatus to encode message input symbols in accordance with an accumulate-repeat-accumulate code with repetition three or four are disclosed. Block circulant matrices are used. A first method and apparatus make use of the block-circulant structure of the parity check matrix. A second method and apparatus use block-circulant generator matrices.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2005Date of Patent: March 3, 2009Assignees: California Institute of Technology, The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventors: Dariush Divsalar, Aliazam Abbasfar, Christopher R. Jones, Samuel J. Dolinar, Jeremy C. Thorpe, Kenneth S. Andrews, Kung Yao
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Publication number: 20090003484Abstract: A method and system for modulating a signal includes providing a carrier including periodic waves, peaks of the periodic waves defining a carrier shape of the carrier; changing a plurality of the periodic waves so that peaks of the changed waves form a shaped signal having a signal shape which is different from the carrier shape; and detecting the shaped signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2007Publication date: January 1, 2009Inventors: Wei Li, John Benko
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Patent number: 7469020Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus for reducing dynamic range requirements of a power amplifier in a wireless device are provided. An exemplary method may include modulating a symbol stream to generate a modulated waveform. The exemplary method may further include generating at least one pulse having a peak aligned with an anticipated position of a peak or a null corresponding to the modulated waveform, where the anticipated position of the a peak or the null corresponding to modulated waveform may be determined by detecting a transition in a phase or an amplitude of the modulated waveform.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2005Date of Patent: December 23, 2008Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.Inventors: James Wesley McCoy, Kevin B. Traylor
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Patent number: 7457370Abstract: A frequency modulation method is proposed that enables an imprinting of a digital message formed by a sequence of symbols on a set of frequency bands. Each symbol of the digital message is hereby assigned just one symbol value out of a defined set of symbol values. According to the method at least two symbol transmission channels are defined with each symbol transmission channel being formed by a sub-set of frequency bands selected from the set of frequency bands and with each frequency band of a symbol transmission channel being allocated to a symbol value of the set of symbol values in a one-to-one relation such, that the symbol transmission channels defined differ from each other in at least one frequency band selected and/or in an allocation of a frequency band to a symbol value. Further, each of the defined symbol transmission channels is successively modulated with a single symbol value of the digital message according to the channel allocation scheme of the respective symbol transmission channel.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2005Date of Patent: November 25, 2008Assignee: Sony Deutschland GmbHInventors: Jens-Uwe Jürgensen, Richard Stirling-Gallacher
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Patent number: 7450669Abstract: An OFDM modulation apparatus receives a signal composed of OFDM symbols each of which is composed of an effective symbol and a guard interval, generates K delayed signals by delaying the received signal by K effective symbol periods, generates a signal by adding up all the K delayed signals, generates a first correlation signal that shows a correlation between the received signal and the addition-result signal, generates K×L second correlation signals from the first correlation signal, based on K×L combinations of K effective symbol periods and L fractions used to indicate the guard interval period, detects one among the K×L second correlation signals that indicates a largest correlation level, and detect periods of the effective symbol and the guard interval of the received signal in accordance with the detected second correlation signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2004Date of Patent: November 11, 2008Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventor: Ryosuke Mori
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Patent number: 7440515Abstract: A system and method for controlling modulation. The system includes a plurality of modulators and a transmitting unit. The plurality of modulators decodes data from a data signal and also encodes the data into a clock signal. The transmitting unit transmits the encoded clock signal. According to the system and method disclosed herein, the present invention provides optimized coding efficiency while minimizing overall power consumption.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2004Date of Patent: October 21, 2008Assignee: Atmel CorporationInventors: Mikhail Itskovich, Daniel S. Cohen
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Publication number: 20080205542Abstract: Aspects of a method and system for efficient transmission and reception of RF energy in MIMO systems using polar modulation and direct digital frequency synthesis are provided. A plurality of carrier signals in a MIMO system may be polar modulated utilizing polar modulation. One or more direct digital frequency synthesizer may be utilized to phase modulate the plurality of carrier signals. The direct digital frequency synthesizer may be modulated utilizing a single reference clock. The clock may be a single fixed-frequency reference clock. The plurality of carrier signals may be amplitude modulated by controlling a gain of a power amplifier.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2007Publication date: August 28, 2008Inventor: Ahmadreza Rofougaran
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Publication number: 20080205543Abstract: Aspects of a method and system for a high-precision frequency generator using a direct digital frequency synthesizer for transmitters and receivers may include generating a second signal from a first signal by frequency translating an inphase component of the first signal utilizing a high-precision oscillating signal that may be generated using at least a direct digital frequency synthesizer (DDFS) and at least a Phase-Locked Loop (PLL). A corresponding quadrature component of the first signal may be frequency translated utilizing a phase-shifted version of the high-precision oscillating signal. The inphase component of the first signal may be multiplied with the high-precision oscillating signal and the quadrature component of the first signal may be multiplied with the phase-shifted version of the high-precision oscillating signal. The second signal may be generated from the first signal by adding the frequency translated inphase component to the frequency translated quadrature component.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2007Publication date: August 28, 2008Inventor: Ahmadreza Rofougaran
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Patent number: 7359457Abstract: A transmission apparatus includes a frame configuration determiner that determines a modulation system from among a plurality of modulation systems on a communication situation. A first symbol generator modulates a digital transmission signal according to the modulation system determined by the frame configuration determiner and generates a first symbol, the first symbol comprising a first quadrature baseband signal. A second symbol generator modulates the digital transmission signal according to a predetermined modulation system and generates a second symbol, the second symbol comprising a second quadrature baseband signal.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2004Date of Patent: April 15, 2008Assignee: Matsushita Electric Indutrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Shinichiro Takabayashi, Masayuki Orihashi, Akihiko Matsuoka
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Publication number: 20080076355Abstract: A method for protecting Security Accounts Manager (SAM) files within a Windows® operating system is disclosed. A SAM file encryption key is generated by encrypting a SAM file via a syskey utility provided within the Windows® operating system. The SAM file encryption key is then stored in a virtual floppy disk by selecting an option to store SAM file encryption key to a floppy disk under the syskey utility. A blob is generated by performing a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) Seal command against the SAM file encryption key along with a value stored in a Performance Control Register and a TPM Storage Root Key. The blob is stored in a non-volatile storage area of a computer.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2006Publication date: March 27, 2008Inventors: Rod D. Waltermann, David C. Challener, Philip L. Childs, Norman A. Dion, James Hunt, Nathan J. Peterson, David Rivera, Randall S. Springfield, Arnold S. Weksler
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Publication number: 20080031376Abstract: There is provided with a transmission apparatus including: a first modulator configured to perform modulation processing on data to be transmitted to a first reception apparatus and thereby generate amplitude-phase data made up of data of amplitude and phase; a second modulator configured to perform modulation processing so as to decompose data to be transmitted to a second reception apparatus into a plurality of frequency components and thereby generate frequency data which is data on a frequency domain; and a transmitter configured to allocate the amplitude-phase data to first subcarriers out of a plurality of subcarriers and allocate the frequency data to second subcarriers which are different from the first subcarriers out of the plurality of subcarriers, thereby generate subcarrier data and transmit generated subcarrier data to the first reception apparatus and the second reception apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2007Publication date: February 7, 2008Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventor: Koichiro BAN
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Patent number: 7305046Abstract: An I/Q modulator used for processing an I/Q signal to obtain a predistorted output signal. The I/Q signal has an I component and a Q component, and comprises a predistorter for predistorting, with a predistortion signal, a carrier signal, which comprises a first subcomponent and a second subcomponent that is substantially orthogonal to the first subcomponent, to obtain first and second predistorted subcomponents of the carrier signal. The predistortion signal depends on the I and Q components. A first multiplier multiples the I component by the first predistorted subcomponent to obtain a multiplied I component. A second multiplier multiples the Q component by the second predistorted subcomponent to obtain a multiplied Q component. An adder adds the multiplied I component and the negative multiplied Q component to obtain the predistorted output signal. Thus, a simplification of the I/Q modulator and a reduction in the number of necessary multipliers is achieved.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2001Date of Patent: December 4, 2007Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Eberhard Gamm, Reiner Retkowski, Gerald Ulbricht, Heinz Gerhaeuser
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Publication number: 20070274412Abstract: A signal transmitting device and a method for transmitting via a signal transmitting device is disclosed. In one embodiment the transmitting device comprises a first resonant circuit with a resonant circuit inductance and a resonant circuit capacitance and a second resonant circuit with a resonant circuit inductance and a resonant circuit capacitance, a coupling element which couples the first resonant circuit to the second resonant circuit, a first excitation circuit, coupled to the first resonant circuit, and at least one further excitation circuit coupled to the second resonant circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2007Publication date: November 29, 2007Applicant: Infineon Technologies AGInventor: Martin Feldtkeller
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Patent number: 7260361Abstract: A method, apparatus and system relate to detecting an interfering device in a wireless network such as a wireless local area network (WLAN). In wireless networks using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) and adaptive bit loading (ABL), adaptive modulation information should be somewhat symmetric in uplink and downlink directions. By comparing modulation adaptations in the uplink and downlink directions of a communication channel between at least two terminals, identified differences can indicate the presence of a potential interferer in the wireless network. A location of the potential interferer can be estimated if a location of one or more network terminals experiencing interference is known or can be determined. An exemplary implementation for a device of the invention may be as an Access Point (AP) in the WLAN.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2003Date of Patent: August 21, 2007Assignee: Intel CorporationInventor: Eric A. Jacobsen
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Patent number: 7239846Abstract: The present invention relates to a signal modulation loop for the multi-mode mobile communication. The adaptive up-conversion modulation loop is applied in the multi-mode mobile communication, and is used for signal integration for the communication system comprising the second generation communication system, the global system for mobile communication (GSM), and the third generation communication system, the wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA), so as to achieve the object of multi-mode communication by using a single modulation loop.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2004Date of Patent: July 3, 2007Assignee: Industrial Technology Research InstituteInventors: Huan-Ke Chiu, June-Ming Hsu, Tzu-Yi Yang
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Patent number: 7230993Abstract: A digital communication system (20) in which a signal constellation (30) of a dimensionality of at least four is used, with distance properties chosen to reduce the bit error rate compared to that of digital communication systems using signal constellations of half the dimensionality. A symbol generator (21) uses the higher dimensional signal constellation (30), or any orthogonal transformation of the higher dimensional signal constellation (30), to translate a bit stream into a stream of higher dimensional symbols, which it then provides to a modulator (22). The modulator (22) transmits each higher dimensional symbol in at least two parts, using a modulation scheme according to the prior art, such as QAM or QPSK.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2002Date of Patent: June 12, 2007Assignee: Nokia CorporationInventors: Keijo Ruotsalainen, Markku Heikkilä
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Patent number: 7228100Abstract: Program data is provided in association with a main audio program to a receiver of a duplicative radio broadcasting system wherein a duplicative broadcast (such as a hybrid IBOC broadcast) includes a primary channel and a backup channel in a predetermined frequency allocation. Both the primary channel and the backup channel transmit the main audio program, and the primary channel transmits program data not included in the backup channel. The receiver includes an audio output for reproducing the main audio program and a display for displaying the program data. The method includes recurrently compiling a program event list of the program data corresponding to a current program event and a plurality of upcoming program events. The program event list is recurrently transmitted within the primary channel. The receiver recurrently recovers the program event list and stores the program data in a memory. The program data of the current program event is displayed.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2003Date of Patent: June 5, 2007Assignee: Visteon Global Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Todd A. Toporski, J. William Whikehart
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Patent number: 7221718Abstract: An I/Q demodulator optimized with a minimum amount of hardware. First and second multiplexers generate I and Q signals with respect to an input data signal; and first and second 2-decimation units decimate the I and Q signals generated by the first and second multiplexers, to output effective I and Q signals. A filtering unit filters the effective I and Q signals. As a result, a size of the hardware is reduced, and an operation frequency of the filter is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2003Date of Patent: May 22, 2007Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Chan-sub Park
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Patent number: 7167528Abstract: A method and system for modulating data onto a carrier signal in a plurality of channels, each of the channels having a channel bandwidth, can be created for use in any two-way satellite communication system or other wireless communication application where frequency hopping with or without Doppler compensation is desired. The system preferably includes a digital modulator that outputs a modulated baseband signal, an intermediate frequency modulator that receives the modulated baseband signal and outputs an intermediate frequency signal derived from the modulated baseband signal, a frequency synthesizing system that outputs a synthesized intermediate frequency signal to the intermediate frequency modulator, and a circuit (numerically controlled oscillator) connected to the digital modulator which provides a signal to the digital modulator.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2002Date of Patent: January 23, 2007Assignee: General Instrument CorporationInventors: Keming Joseph Chen, Mark Steven Schmidt
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Patent number: 7162000Abstract: A delay locked loop circuit (200) in which multiple outputs are produced. A single delay line (24) is shared among multiple tap selection circuits (256A, 265B, 265C). Fixed phase shifts (412) can be introduced between multiple outputs. A modulating signal can be used in the tap selection processing to produce digital amplitude, frequency and/or phase modulation.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2002Date of Patent: January 9, 2007Assignee: Motorola, Inc.Inventors: Robert E. Stengel, Joseph P. Heck, David E. Bockelman
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Patent number: 7127002Abstract: A system and a method for multiplying data throughput in a SCSI bus includes identifying multiple frequencies within a bandwidth of a SCSI bus. A binary value is assigned to each one of the multiple frequencies. One of the multiple frequencies is selected. The assigned binary value of the selected frequency corresponds to a set of bits to be transmitted during a first sampling cycle. The selected frequency is transmitted on the SCSI bus during the first sampling cycle.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2002Date of Patent: October 24, 2006Assignee: Adaptec, Inc.Inventor: Fadi A. Mahmoud
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Patent number: 7120202Abstract: In a wireless communication apparatus which has the functions of both ASK modulation and QPSK modulation, which can be manufactured at a low cost, and which is small in size, an output terminal of a QPSK modulator is connected to a carrier wave input terminal of an ASK modulator via a switch. Also, an antenna is connected to an output terminal of the ASK modulator via a switch. Furthermore, a mixer is provided between the switches and. The switch connects the QPSK modulator and the ASK modulator at the time of a transmission, whereas it connects the QPSK modulator and the mixer at the time of a reception. The switch connects the ASK modulator and the antenna at the time of a transmission, whereas it connects the antenna and the mixer at the time of a reception. Thus, at the time of a transmission, an ASK-modulated wave or a QPSK-modulated wave is output using the ASK modulator and the QPSK modulator.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2002Date of Patent: October 10, 2006Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventor: Akihiro Sasabata
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Patent number: RE40134Abstract: At the transmitter side, carrier waves are modulated according to an input signal for producing relevant signal points in a signal space diagram. The input signal is divided into, two, first and second, data streams. The signal points are divided into signal point groups to which data of the first data stream are assigned. Also, data of the second data stream are assigned to the signal points of each signal point group. A difference in the transmission error rate between first and second data streams is developed by shifting the signal points to other positions in the space diagram expressed at least in the polar coordinate system. At the receiver side, the first and/or second data streams can be reconstructed from a received signal. In TV broadcast service, a TV signal is divided by a transmitter into low and high frequency band components which are designated as first and second data streams respectively.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2000Date of Patent: March 4, 2008Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mitsuaki Oshima, Seiji Sakashita
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Patent number: RE40206Abstract: At the transmitter side, carrier waves are modulated according to an input signal for producing relevant signal points in a signal space diagram. The input signal is divided into, two, first and second, data streams. The signal points are divided into signal point groups to which data of the first data stream are assigned. Also, data of the second data stream are assigned to the signal points of each signal point group. A difference in the transmission error rate between first and second data streams is developed by shifting the signal points to other positions in the space diagram expressed at least in the polar coordinate system. At the receiver side, the first and/or second data streams can be reconstructed from a received signal. In TV broadcast service, a TV signal is divided by a transmitter into low and high frequency band components which are designated as first and second data streams respectively.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2003Date of Patent: April 1, 2008Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mitsuaki Oshima, Seiji Sakashita