Transmitters Patents (Class 375/295)
  • Patent number: 10085252
    Abstract: The present disclosure aims at allowing a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) pattern suitable for a terminal to be selected from among a plurality of DMRS patterns including Legacy DMRS and Reduced DMRS. Disclosed is a terminal including: reception section 21 that receives uplink control information; control section 23 that determines a specific mapping pattern from among a plurality of mapping patterns for an uplink DMRS on the basis of the control information; and DMRS generating section 24 that generates a DMRS according to the specific mapping pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Lilei Wang, Kazuki Takeda, Ayako Horiuchi, Alexander Golitschek Edler von Elbwart, Masayuki Hoshino, Yoshihiko Ogawa
  • Patent number: 10075272
    Abstract: A transmission apparatus maps a first stream of input data to first complex symbols in serial format and convert them into first complex symbols in parallel format. They are inverse Fourier transformed into OFDM signals associated with multiple subcarriers that are transmitted via a first antenna over the multiple subcarriers in a same frequency band over a same time period that includes a same set of time slots. First pilot information is transmitted via a first antenna on a first one of a plurality of pilot subcarriers during the same set of time slots, and second pilot information is sent via a first antenna on a second one of a plurality of pilot subcarriers during the same set of time slots. The second pilot information is different from the first pilot information. A second stream of input data is similarly transformed to form second OFDM signals transmit via a second antenna over the multiple subcarriers in the same frequency band over the same time period that includes the same set of time slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Wi-Fi One, LLC
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Kiyotaka Kobayashi, Masayuki Orihashi
  • Patent number: 10075255
    Abstract: A method and system for allocating PDCCH resources in a wireless communication system are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method includes detecting at a first base station a condition of inter-cell interference, ICI, between a first cell and a neighboring cell, indicating that the first cell is in a coordination need state. The method includes generating at the first base station serving the first cell a request to lower a first PDCCH load of the neighboring cell to reduce the ICI between the first cell and the neighboring cell, a PDCCH load of a cell being defined as a ratio of used resource elements to total available resource elements within the cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Shiguang Guo, Hong Ren
  • Patent number: 10070425
    Abstract: A method implemented in a wireless device includes receiving an uplink grant from a network node indicating to the wireless device at least one data subframe and at least one control subframe. The at least one data subframe is one where the wireless device is scheduled to transmit a channel for carrying a data stream and optional control data, and the at least one control subframe is one where the wireless device is scheduled to transmit a channel for carrying control data only. The method further includes transmitting in at least one of the at least one data subframe and the at least one control subframe indicated by the uplink grant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventor: Amitav Mukherjee
  • Patent number: 10070160
    Abstract: A digital television (DTV) receiving system includes an information detector, a resampler, a timing recovery unit, and a carrier recovery unit. The information detector detects a known data sequence which is periodically inserted in a digital television (DTV) signal received from a DTV transmitting system. The resampler resamples the DTV signal at a predetermined resampling rate. The timing recovery unit performs timing recovery on the DTV signal by detecting a timing error from the resampled DTV signal using the detected known data sequence. The carrier recovery unit performs carrier recovery on the resampled DTV signal by estimating a frequency offset value of the resampled DTV signal using the detected known data sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jong Moon Kim, In Hwan Choi, Kook Yeon Kwak, Byoung Gill Kim, Won Gyu Song, Jin Woo Kim, Hyoung Gon Lee
  • Patent number: 10069522
    Abstract: The present invention teaches a system and method for improved signal recovery for range and coverage extension in a heterogeneous cooperative network of digital chaos transmissions with OFDM component signal transmission. The invention improves upon the state of art in side channel information from the transmit side containing information on the clipped amplitude. In-band transmission of the side information is achieved by exploiting the sparsity of the resulting clip amplitude position with improved levels of compression over the prior art using Gabor Transform Multiple Symbol Encoding transmitter. The information rate of the clipped amplitude is sub-Nyquist relative to the original OFDM component signal transmission, which allows very low power spreading by a cooperative digital chaos sequences at a transmit side and recovery of the clipped amplitude at a receive side. Further, an improved noise resistance side channel performance is achieved by decoding Gabor Transform symbols for symbol recovery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Inventors: John David Terry, Anthony Reid
  • Patent number: 10063307
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals thereof are disclosed. The apparatus for receiving broadcast signals, the apparatus comprises a receiver to receive the broadcast signals, a demodulator to demodulate the received broadcast signals by an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex) scheme, a frame parser to parse a signal frame from the demodulated broadcast signals, wherein the signal frame includes at least one service data, a time deinterleaver to time deinterleave each the service data, wherein the time deinterleaving is performed depending on a number of physical paths for each the service data, a damapper to demap the time deinterleaved data and a decoder to decode the demapped service data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jongseob Baek, Seoyoung Back, Woosuk Ko, Sungryong Hong
  • Patent number: 10050724
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a communication system. The communication system includes a radio wave receiver; a transmission node that transmits data; and a reception node that receives the data from the transmission node. The transmission node changes a transmission rate of the data so that a notch point at which a spectrum of a communication waveform decreases overlaps with a frequency selected by the radio wave receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hironobu Akita
  • Patent number: 10051507
    Abstract: A method of uplink shaping and extending UE in RRC Idle Mode is proposed. The UE processes a data packet to be sent to the network. The data packet is associated with a traffic type. If the data packet belongs to a normal traffic type, then the UE enters RRC Connected mode and thereby transmitting the data packet to the network. If the data packet belongs to a background traffic type, then the UE buffers the data packet and the UE is prohibited from entering RRC Connected mode until a triggering condition is satisfied for uplink transmission. The proposed mechanism achieves power saving by reducing the activity of uplink transmission. In addition, the proposed mechanism also reduces signaling overhead to enhance network efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: MediaTek Inc.
    Inventors: Chia-Chun Hsu, Chie-Ming Chou
  • Patent number: 10051333
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of transmitting broadcast signals. The method includes, encoding Data Pipe, DP, data according to a code rate, wherein the encoding further includes Low-Density Parity-Check, LDPC, encoding the DP data, Bit interleaving the LDPC encoded DP data, and mapping the bit interleaved DP data onto constellations; building at least one signal frame by mapping the encoded DP data; and modulating data in the built signal frame by an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing, OFDM, method and transmitting the broadcast signals having the modulated data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sanchul Moon, Woosuk Ko, Sungryong Hong, Jinwoo Kim, Jongwoong Shin
  • Patent number: 10034182
    Abstract: Detection and mitigation of signal conflict, such as a primary synchronization signal conflict, between broadcast cells in a wireless communication network is provided. Multiple broadcast cells may be provided in the network to provide sectors of coverage. A mobile communication device may operate within the network and attempt to attach to one or more of the broadcast cells. A synchronization signal conflict between neighboring broadcast cells may be identified and mitigated using one or more adjustments to the broadcast cells or signals emitted therefrom, which may allow for improved network performance, among other benefits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Chaitanya Chukka, Matthew J. Masters, Patrick Jacob Schmidt, Andrew Mark Wurtenberger
  • Patent number: 10033407
    Abstract: Techniques are described for optimizing a parity-check matrix for a low density parity check (LDPC) encoder. In an example, a first parity-check matrix is accessed. Based on a set of rules, an independent set of check nodes and variable nodes is determined. The set of rules specifies that a check node associated with the first parity-check matrix belongs to the independent set when the check node is connected to only one variable node from the independent set. The set of rules further specifies that a variable node associated with the first parity-check matrix belongs to the independent set when the variable node is connected to only one check node from the independent set. A size of the independent set is based on the set of rules. A second parity-check matrix is generated by at least applying a permutation to the first parity-check matrix based on the independent set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: SK Hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Aman Bhatia, Wei-Hao Yuan, Yi-Min Lin, Naveen Kumar, Fan Zhang, Johnson Yen
  • Patent number: 10033568
    Abstract: A method, carried out by a gateway transmitter (400), aims at compensating the nonlinearities of a communication channel (500) comprising a repeater (510). A plurality of digital signals is modulated (s10) on a plurality of carriers, wherein symbols of the constellation diagram used for modulation of each carrier are distorted in accordance with a pre-distortion function. The modulated signals are then frequency division multiplexed (s20), and sent (s30) for transmission, through the communication channel (500), to at least one receiver (600). The pre-distortion function involves a plurality of polynomial functions, each of which taking as input the symbols from all the carriers. The polynomial functions' coefficients, called “pre-distortion coefficients”, are computed according to a direct learning approach, performed jointly for the plurality of carriers. The pre-distortion coefficients are iteratively updated based on received signals being fed back from a receiver (600).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: SES S.A.
    Inventors: Roberto Piazza, Bhavani Shankar Bysore Rama Rao, Bjorn Ottersten
  • Patent number: 10028292
    Abstract: A device and method for use in a Multi-Input Multi-Output MIMO wireless communication system are provided. The device used in the MIMO wireless communication system comprises: a matching unit configured to determine a matching degree of channel estimation information of a communication device to be scheduled with one or more reference vectors included in a reference vector group, wherein the reference vector group depends on an antenna array configuration of the MIMO wireless communication system; and a channel characteristic determining unit configured to determine correlation information of the one or more reference vectors with the matching degree satisfying a predetermined condition as one or more parameters reflecting channel characteristic(s) associated with the communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jinhui Chen, Chen Sun, Xin Guo
  • Patent number: 10027520
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5G communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4G system with a technology for IoT. 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, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The present application discloses a method and device for transmitting and receiving signals based on a filter bank. The device comprises: a CS-DFT spreading unit for generating two data flows by applying a CS-DFT spreading operation to a first complex-value data flow input thereto; a sub-carrier mapping unit for mapping each of the two data flows to corresponding sub-carriers; and an OQAM modulator for generating OQAM signals by applying an OQAM operation to the data flows mapped on sub-carriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dalin Zhu, Bin Yu, Pengfei Sun
  • Patent number: 10020964
    Abstract: In various embodiments, techniques are provided to determine channel characteristics of various communication systems such as OFDM systems or systems using a plurality of transmit antennas by using various sets of training symbols that produce zero cross-correlation energy. Channel communication can accordingly be simplified as the zero cross-correlation property allows for channel estimation without a matrix inversion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Geoffrey Ye Li
  • Patent number: 10020814
    Abstract: An analog-to-digital converter circuit having a simple design and capable of preventing an increase in surface area and other problems. An analog-to-digital converter circuit for converting an analog input signal to a digital quantity includes an analog-to-digital converter unit that converts analog input signals to pre-correction digital values, and a corrector unit that digitally corrects the pre-connection digital values output from the analog-to-digital converter unit. The corrector unit includes a weighting coefficient multiplier unit that outputs a post-correction digital value obtained by multiplying the weighting coefficients provided for each bit by each bit of the pre-correction digital value output from the A/D converter unit and summing them, and a weighting coefficient search unit that searches for weighting coefficients so as to minimize an error signal generated based on the post-correction digital value and an approximate value for the post-correction digital value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Keisuke Kimura, Yuichi Okuda, Hideo Nakane, Takaya Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10015439
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system for frequency modulation of high definition composite video broadcast signals in a wireless transmission environment and a method thereof, comprising: a transmitting unit and a receiving unit. An image sensor of the transmitting unit converts an image to a digital signal. A signal processor converts the digital signal to a composite video broadcast signal. A frequency modulator modulates the composite video broadcast signal to a first modulated signal. The receiving unit receives the first modulated signal. A low noise amplifier converts the first modulated signal to a second modulated signal. A frequency demodulator restores the second modulated signal to the composite video broadcast signal. After an image decoder decodes the composite video broadcast signal, the image decoder outputs a digital signal in a specific format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: Scientronic Inc.
    Inventors: Cheng-Ta Fan, Shiang-Joe Lee
  • Patent number: 10009855
    Abstract: Methods and systems for communicating a message through a communication network are provided. A method for transmitting a message through a communication network may include: partitioning the message into at least two parts; generating at least two bit sequences each of which carries a corresponding part of the message; modulating the at least two bit sequences to form a modulated signal frame which includes at least two modulated parts corresponding to the at least two bit sequences, respectively, where the at least two modulated parts of the modulated signal frame have different power levels; and transmitting the modulated signal frame through the communication network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: HARMAN INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIES, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Zeng Yang, Qingshan Zhang, Jianjun Ma, Guoxia Zhang
  • Patent number: 9998314
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for broadcasting a for broadcasting a modulated signal. A plurality of peaks is detected within a waveform envelope signal of the modulated signal. For each of the plurality of peaks, a pulse having substantial spectral content that is outside of a passband of a high power filter is constructed. The constructed pulse for each peak is subtracted from its associated peak to provide a peak-reduced signal. The peak-reduced signal is amplified at a power amplifier to provide an amplified signal. The amplified signal is filtered at the high power filter to provide a filtered signal. The filtered signal is broadcast at an associated antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Gatesair, Inc.
    Inventors: Anders Mattsson, Kevin Berndsen
  • Patent number: 9999069
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods are disclosed that may allow a wireless device to dynamically select a bandwidth for MU-MIMO communications. A wireless device may transmit, on each of a plurality of wireless channels, a clear-to-send-to-self (CTS2S) frame that reserves medium access on a number of wireless channels and/or confirms the continued availability of the wireless channels. The bandwidth for a subsequent sounding operation may be based on the bandwidth used to transmit the CTS2S frames. Thereafter, the wireless device may transmit one or more MU-MIMO data frames to a number of other wireless devices using the selected bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Madhavan Nair, Pradeep Baliganapalli Nagaraju, Qinghai Gao
  • Patent number: 9999074
    Abstract: A method for a base station to configure a channel state information (CSI)-reference signal (RS) is provided. The base station configures a CSI-RS antenna port for a terminal. The base station selects one of at least one port number mapping rule for mapping a port number on the CSI-RS antenna port for the terminal. The base station notifies the terminal of the selected port number mapping rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Sung-Hyun Moon, Cheulsoon Kim, Wooram Shin, Gi Yoon Park, Young Jo Ko, Junyoung Nam
  • Patent number: 9986583
    Abstract: System and method embodiments are provided for channel sounding in a frequency division duplex (FDD) system. The embodiments enable a transmission point (TP) to determine channel information about a downlink channel from an uplink channel sounding signal received on the downlink channel frequency band during a time window reserved for uplink channel sounding on the downlink channel frequency band. In an embodiment, a method in a controller includes determining with the controller a schedule for an uplink sounding window in a downlink frequency band, wherein the uplink sounding window comprises a transmission window in at least a partial downlink frequency band that is reserved for uplink channel sounding, instructing a TP to signal the schedule to at least one wireless device in a coverage area of the TP, receiving a channel sounding signal in the downlink frequency band, and obtaining downlink channel state information from the channel sounding signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jianglei Ma, Ming Jia
  • Patent number: 9985747
    Abstract: Disclosed is a broadcast signal receiver. The broadcast signal receiver includes a synchronization and demodulation unit configured to perform signal detection and OFDM demodulation on a reception signal comprising layer division multiplexing (LDM) data, a frame parsing/deinterleaving unit configured to parse the signal frame of the reception signal and to deinterleave the LDM data, a first demapping/decoding unit configured to obtain the data of a first layer by demapping and forward error correction (FEC)-encoding the LDM data, an interference removal unit configured to remove the data of the first layer from the LDM data and to output the data of a second layer, and a second demapping/decoding unit configured to demap and FEC-decode the data of the second layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jongseob Baek, Jongwoong Shin, Woosuk Ko, Sungryong Hong
  • Patent number: 9980283
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a radio communication method, a user equipment, and a network side device, the radio communication method includes: receiving, by a network side device, a random access preamble signal transmitted by a user equipment, where duration of the random access preamble signal is one SC-FDMA symbol or one OFDM symbol, thus air interface overhead of random access can be greatly reduced in a condition that a user equipment can access a cell randomly. The cell may be a microcell or other similar cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chaojun Li, Sha Ma
  • Patent number: 9979987
    Abstract: The present invention proposes a method for transmitting a broadcast signal. The method for transmitting a broadcast signal according to the present invention proposes a system capable of supporting next-generation broadcast service in an environment supporting a next-generation hybrid broadcast which uses a terrestrial broadcasting network and an internet network. Also, the present invention proposes an efficient signaling method which can encompass both the terrestrial broadcasting network and the internet network in an environment supporting next-generation hybrid broadcast.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jangwon Lee, Sejin Oh, Woosuk Ko, Minsung Kwak, Woosuk Kwon, Kyoungsoo Moon, Sungryong Hong
  • Patent number: 9973225
    Abstract: A device includes one or more antennas configured to receive a first signal and a second signal from a second device. The first signal includes a non-precoded signal. The device further includes a receiver coupled to the one or more antennas. The receiver is configured to determine a first channel estimate based on the first signal and determine a second channel estimate based on the second signal. The receiver is also configured to determine an estimated distortion based at least in part on the first channel estimate and the second channel estimate. The receiver is further configured to perform a distortion reduction operation on the second signal based on the estimated distortion to generate a reduced-distortion signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Louay Jalloul, Ahmad Abdulrahman Mohammed
  • Patent number: 9973365
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided that enable an OFDM transmitter to be used for transmitting conventional OFDM or a form of transformed OFDM. A technique is provided for transforming a coded and modulated sequence of samples prior to an IFFT that enables the transformed sequence of samples to be transmitted using conventional OFDM or transformed OFDM. The selection of a transform function for transforming the coded and modulated sequence of samples may be based on optimizing the transform function for particular operating conditions between the transmitter and receiver. In some embodiments of the invention OFDM and time transformed OFDM are multiplexed in time and/or frequency in a transmission frame. In some embodiments of the invention a pilot pattern is provided in which the pilot are sent using OFDM and data is sent using OFDM and/or transformed OFDM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jianglei Ma, Wen Tong, Ming Jia, Hua Xu, Peiying Zhu, Hang Zhang
  • Patent number: 9966979
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a transmission circuit is configured to transmit a signal to a reception circuit through a transmitting AC coupling element. The reception circuit receives a signal through a receiving AC coupling element. The transmitting AC coupling element is AC coupled to the receiving AC coupling element. The transmission circuit includes a drive signal generation circuit and a drive circuit. The drive signal generation circuit is configured to generate a drive signal in synchronization with a transmission signal to be transmitted. The drive circuit is configured to cause, in response to the drive signal, a drive current to flow through the transmitting AC coupling element in synchronization with a rising edge and a falling edge of the transmission signal during a driving period set in advance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Shibayama, Shinsuke Fujii
  • Patent number: 9964555
    Abstract: A field device for determining or monitoring a physical or chemical process variable in automation technology, comprising at least one transmitting/receiving element, wherein an FPGA component is provided, the transmitting/receiving element is configured in the form of a spiral from existing internal connecting lines of the FPGA component, and the spiral of the transmitting/receiving element transmits data inductively to a second transmitting/receiving element in the form of a spiral.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: Endress + Hauser GmbH + Co. KG
    Inventors: Romuald Girardey, Michael Hubner
  • Patent number: 9967069
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system and, more specifically, to a method and an apparatus for transmitting and receiving a reference signal (RS). The method for enabling user equipment (UE) of the wireless communication system to transmit an uplink signal according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: receiving information on a plurality of parameter sets used for generating a sequence of RS; and generating and transmitting the sequence of the RS using one parameter set determined among the plurality of parameter sets. The parameters constituting the plurality of parameter sets can comprise the parameters commonly applied to the plurality of parameter sets and the parameters individually applied to the plurality of parameter sets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jonghyun Park, Kijun Kim, Hakseong Kim, Byounghoon Kim, Hanbyul Seo
  • Patent number: 9960888
    Abstract: Methods and systems for an optoelectronic built-in self-test (BIST) system for silicon photonics optical transceivers are disclosed and may include, in an optoelectronic transceiver having a transmit (Tx) path and a receive (Rx) path, where the Rx path includes a main Rx path and a BIST loopback path: generating a pseudo-random bit sequence (PRBS) signal, generating an optical signal in the Tx path by applying the PRBS signal to a modulator, communicating the optical signal to the BIST loopback path and converting to an electrical signal utilizing a photodetector, the photodetector being a replica of a photodetector in the main Rx path, and assessing the performance of the Tx and Rx paths by extracting a PRBS signal from the electrical signal. The transceiver may be a single complementary-metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) die or in two CMOS die, where a first comprises electronic devices and a second comprises optical devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Luxtera, Inc.
    Inventors: Steffen Gloeckner, Subal Sahni, Joseph Balardeta, Simon Pang, Scott Denton
  • Patent number: 9960884
    Abstract: A system and method for channel state information feedback in wireless communications systems are provided. A method for reporting channel information includes determining, at a user equipment, a channel information type for first channel information to be reported to a communications controller, determining the first channel information conditioned on previously reported channel information and on the channel information type, and reporting the first channel information, the channel information type, or a combination thereof, to the communications controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: FUTUREWEI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Jianguo Wang, Yang Tang, Yongxing Zhou, David Jean-Marie Mazzarese, Mattias Frenne
  • Patent number: 9948377
    Abstract: A transmitter includes a plurality of antennas for beamforming with different angles of departure (AoD), an information interface to receive a sequence of symbols including a first symbol and a second symbol and a modulator to cause the plurality of antennas to form a transmission beam with an AoD selected according to a value of the first symbol and modulated according to a value of the second symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Kyeong Jin Kim, Yacong Ding, Toshiaki Koike-Akino, Milutin Pajovic, Philip Orlik
  • Patent number: 9935696
    Abstract: A system and method for system and method for multiplexing control and data channels in a multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) communications system are provided. A method for transmitting control symbols and data symbols on multiple MIMO layers includes selecting a first set of codewords from Ncw codewords, distributing control symbols onto the first set of layers, placing data symbols of the first set of codewords onto the first set of layers, placing data symbols of the (Ncw?Ncw1) remaining codewords to remaining layers if Ncw>Ncw1, and transmitting the multiple MIMO layers. The first set of codewords is associated with a first set of layers from the multiple MIMO layers, and the Ncw codewords are to be transmitted simultaneously and the first set of codewords comprises Ncw1 MIMO codewords, where Ncw and Ncw1 are integers greater than or equal to 1. The remaining layers are MIMO layers from the multiple MIMO layers not in the first set of layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Yufei Blankenship, Weimin Xiao, Ying Jin
  • Patent number: 9935809
    Abstract: A broadcast signal receiver includes a demodulator configured to perform Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) demodulation on a received broadcast signal; a frame parser configured to derive service data by parsing a signal frame of the received broadcast signal based on a number of carriers of the signal frame; a decoder configured to perform error correction on the service data; and an output processor configured to receive the service data and output a data stream, wherein the number of carriers of the signal frame is determined by equation: NoC=NoC_max?k*?, the NoC being the number of carriers, the NoC_max being maximum number of carriers, the k being a reducing coefficient and the ? being a control unit value, wherein the k ranges from 0 to 4 and the ? is 96 for 8K Fast Fourier Transform (FFT), 192 for 16K FFT, 384 for 32K FFT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jaehyung Kim, Chulkyu Mun, Woosuk Ko, Jongseob Baek, Sungryong Hong
  • Patent number: 9930384
    Abstract: The present invention proposes a method for transmitting a broadcast signal. The method for transmitting a broadcast signal according to the present invention proposes a system capable of supporting next-generation broadcast service in an environment supporting a next-generation hybrid broadcast which uses a terrestrial broadcasting network and an internet network. Also, the present invention proposes an efficient signaling method which can encompass both the terrestrial broadcasting network and the internet network in an environment supporting next-generation hybrid broadcast.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jangwon Lee, Sejin Oh, Woosuk Ko, Minsung Kwak, Woosuk Kwon, Kyoungsoo Moon, Sungryong Hong
  • Patent number: 9930692
    Abstract: This disclosure describes methods, apparatus, and systems related to early indication system. A device may identify a high efficiency frame in accordance with a high efficiency communication standard, received from a first device, the high efficiency frame including, at least in part, one or more legacy signal fields and one or more high efficiency signal fields. The device may determine a length field included in one of the one or more legacy signal fields, wherein the length field includes an indication bit. The device may determine a position of a high efficiency short training field within the high efficiency frame based at least in part on the indication bit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Qinghua Li, Xiaogang Chen, Ran Shimon, Robert Stacey, Assaf Gurevitz
  • Patent number: 9929812
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. One method includes identifying a plurality of intermediate precoders corresponding to a plurality of tone subsets. The plurality of intermediate precoders define a plurality of vectors across the plurality of tone subsets. The method further includes selecting, for each vector of the plurality of vectors, a subset of non-frequency domain components of the vector, such as time-domain components; modifying the plurality of intermediate precoders to a plurality of smoothed precoders based at least in part on the selected subset of non-frequency domain components for each vector; and precoding a plurality of transmit streams using the plurality of smoothed precoders. The plurality of smoothed precoders is smoothed in a frequency domain compared to the plurality of intermediate precoders. Smoothing precoders may enable application of wideband channel estimation techniques using user equipment (UE)-specific reference signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Alexandros Manolakos, June Namgoong, Raghuraman Krishnamoorthi, Jing Jiang, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Tingfang Ji, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli
  • Patent number: 9924206
    Abstract: A digital television (DTV) receiving system includes an information detector, a resampler, a timing recovery unit, and a carrier recovery unit. The information detector detects a known data sequence which is periodically inserted in a digital television (DTV) signal received from a DTV transmitting system. The resampler resamples the DTV signal at a predetermined resampling rate. The timing recovery unit performs timing recovery on the DTV signal by detecting a timing error from the resampled DTV signal using the detected known data sequence. The carrier recovery unit performs carrier recovery on the resampled DTV signal by estimating a frequency offset value of the resampled DTV signal using the detected known data sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jong Moon Kim, In Hwan Choi, Kook Yeon Kwak, Byoung Gill Kim, Won Gyu Song, Jin Woo Kim, Hyoung Gon Lee
  • Patent number: 9917718
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for receiving broadcast signals thereof are disclosed. The method for receiving broadcast signals, the method comprises receiving the broadcast signals, demodulating the received broadcast signals by an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex) scheme, parsing a signal frame from the demodulated broadcast signals, MIMO (Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output) decoding service data in the parsed signal frame, decoding signaling data in the parsed signal frame and decoding the MIMO decoded service data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jinyong Choi, Woosuk Ko, Sangchul Moon, Sungryong Hong
  • Patent number: 9917715
    Abstract: A method of transmitting and receiving a signal and an apparatus for transmitting and receiving a signal are provided. The method includes receiving the signal of a first frequency band, obtaining Layer-1 (L1) information from a preamble of a first time-frequency slicing (TFS) signal frame of the received signal, the layer-1 information including a radio frequency (RF) channel identifier of the first TFS signal frame including a physical layer pipe (PLP) in a super frame of TFS structure and including an identifier of a starting radio RF channel that can receive the PLP in the first TFS signal frame, parsing the first TFS signal frame using the L1 information and obtaining a PLP of the first TFS signal frame, and converting the PLP to a service stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Woo Suk Ko, Sang Chul Moon
  • Patent number: 9917586
    Abstract: A digital signal up-converting apparatus includes: a clock generating circuit arranged to generate a reference clock signal; an adjusting circuit coupled to the clock generating circuit and arranged to generate a first clock signal and a second clock signal according to the reference clock signal; a baseband circuit coupled to the adjusting circuit for receiving the first clock signal, wherein the baseband circuit further generates a digital output signal according to the first clock signal; and a sampling circuit coupled to the adjusting circuit and the baseband circuit for receiving the second clock signal and the digital output signal, wherein the second clock signal and the digital output signal are non-overlapping; wherein the sampling circuit samples the digital output signal based on the second clock signal and then combines the sampled digital output signal in order to generate a combined digital signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: MediaTek Inc.
    Inventors: Yang-Chuan Chen, Chi-Hsueh Wang, Hsiang-Hui Chang, Bo-Yu Lin
  • Patent number: 9918240
    Abstract: Communications may be performed in a communications system using multi-dimensional antenna configurations. A WTRU may receive communications from a base station via one or more channels. The communications may be performed using multiple component codebooks. The WTRU may send channel state information (CSI) feedback for each component codebook to the base station for consideration when performing communications with the WTRU. The WTRU may determine the CSI feedback for each component codebook based on channel measurements. The component codebooks may include a horizontal component codebook and/or a vertical component codebook. The WTRU may send the CSI feedback for each component codebook to the base station independently or in the form of a composite codebook. The WTRU may determine a composite codebook a function of the component codebooks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Moon-il Lee, Allan Y. Tsai, Shahrokh Nayeb Nazar, Changsoo Koo
  • Patent number: 9912460
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided for wireless communication. First offset information and second offset information are identified. A size of uplink data for a user equipment (UE) is identified. The uplink data is transmitted with at least one of acknowledgement/non-acknowledgment (ACK/NACK) information and channel quality indicator (CQI) information on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH). A number of symbols for the ACK/NACK information is determined based on the first offset information and the size of uplink data. A number of symbols for the CQI information is determined based on the second offset information and the size of uplink data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Aris Papasakellariou, Joon-Young Cho
  • Patent number: 9906251
    Abstract: There is provided a reception device including first and second reception circuits configured to receive transmission signals, a first oscillation circuit configured to generate a differential signal having a predetermined frequency on the basis of an oscillation signal acquired from a connected crystal oscillator, and to supply the generated differential signal to the first reception circuit as a reference frequency signal, and a second oscillation circuit configured to be supplied with an oscillation signal having one of phases in the differential signal acquired by the first oscillation circuit, to generate a differential signal having a predetermined frequency on the basis of the supplied oscillation signal, and to supply the generated differential signal to the second reception circuit as a reference frequency signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Tomonori Nakajima, Norihiro Murayama, Toshikazu Yoshida
  • Patent number: 9906279
    Abstract: The present invention provides a precoding matrix indicator feedback method, a receive end, and a transmit end. The method includes: selecting, by a receive end based on a reference signal, a precoding matrix W from a codebook, where a coefficient ? is used to perform phase adjustment on ?n in W, ?n represents a phase difference between weighted values of a first antenna group and a second antenna group of a transmit end for a transmission signal from a same transmission layer, ? n ? { e j ? ? 2 ? ? ? ? ? n Q } , and the first antenna group and the second antenna group belong to a same multi-antenna system; and sending, by the receive end, a precoding matrix indicator (PMI) to the transmit end. In this way, using the coefficient ? to perform the phase adjustment on ?n can increase a size of a codebook set applicable to different antenna configurations, and improve precision of the receive end to feed back a PMI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Leiming Zhang, Qiang Wu, Jianghua Liu
  • Patent number: 9906397
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for transmitting messages using a channel combining/splitting transmission scheme for a 5G or pre-5G communication system. The method comprising: splitting the messages into a first part to be transmitted to a first channel, which is a degradation channel, and a second part to be transmitted to a second channel, which is an enhancement channel, generating first modulation signals by performing a channel encoding and frequency quadrature amplitude modulation on the first part and generating second modulation signals by performing a channel encoding and quadrature amplitude modulation on the second part, generating first transmission signals by combining the first modulation signals with a part of or all the second modulation signals and generating second transmission signals using the second modulation signals, and transmitting the generated first transmission signals and second transmission signals through the first channel and the second channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Woo-Myoung Park, Seok-Ki Ahn, Chi-Woo Lim
  • Patent number: 9900073
    Abstract: A CSI feedback method and device, including: acquiring a code identifier; acquiring a code parameter group corresponding to the code identifier from multiple preset code parameter groups; compressing an initial CSI according to the code parameter group to generate a compressed CSI, wherein the initial CSI is acquired by measuring a current downlink channel of a base station; and feeding back the compressed CSI to the base station, wherein the compressed CSI is used for reestablishment according to the code parameter group by the base station to obtain an initial CSI for next data sending of the base station. In the present invention, the precision of the CSI fed back by the UE may be adaptively modified according to the uplink and downlink communication conditions of the current base station, thus optimizing the data transmission capability of a system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yongping Zhang
  • Patent number: 9900046
    Abstract: A composite signal may be generated with code division multiplexing (CDM) and time division multiplexing (TDM) pilots. A first pilot sequence may be a CDM pilot sequence. A second pilot sequence may have TDM pilot sequences including a cyclic prefix. The composite signal may have a cyclic prefix time domain portion based on the cyclic prefix and a base portion of the composite signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Intellectual Ventures Holding 81 LLC
    Inventor: Nicholas William Anderson