Transmitters Patents (Class 375/295)
  • Patent number: 9722591
    Abstract: A phase adjustment device includes: a detection signal generator configured to generate a pair of first and second detection signals for detecting a phase difference between two signals whose phases have been adjusted by two phase adjusters, respectively, a maximum sensitivity phase difference of one of the first and second detection signals being not overlap with that of the other, and detection sensitivity of the phase difference becoming maximum at the maximum sensitivity phase difference; a detection signal selector configured to select one of the first and second detection signals whose predetermined range around the maximum sensitivity phase difference covers a preset phase difference; and a phase controller configured to control an amount of phase-adjusting by at least one of the two phase adjusters based on a difference between the phase difference detected within the predetermined range using the selected detection signal and the preset phase difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Toshihiro Shimura
  • Patent number: 9722816
    Abstract: There is provided a method for processing a set of input symbols. The method is performed by a transmitter. The method comprises acquiring a set of input symbols. The method comprises generating a set of precoded symbols from the set of input symbols by subjecting the set of input symbols to a coding vector. The method comprises generating a transmission signal comprising a sequence of pulse forms from the set of precoded symbols by pulse shaping the set of precoded symbols. The coding vector is based on a model vector modelling intersymbol interference experienced by the pulse forms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventor: Martin Sjödin
  • Patent number: 9716516
    Abstract: A transmitting apparatus is provided. The transmitting apparatus includes: an encoder configured to perform a low-density parity check (LDPC) encoding on input bits using a parity check matrix to generate an LDPC codeword comprising information word bits and parity bits; an interleaver configured to interleave the LDPC codeword; and a modulator configured to map the interleaved LDPC codeword onto a modulation symbol, wherein the modulator is further configured to map a bit included in a predetermined bit group from among a plurality of bit groups constituting the LDPC codeword onto a predetermined bit of the modulation symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hong-sil Jeong, Kyung-joong Kim, Se-ho Myung, Daniel Ansorregui Lobete, Belkacem Mouhouche
  • Patent number: 9712350
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a transmission device that includes at least one transceiver configured to modulate data to generate a plurality of first electromagnetic waves in accordance with channel control parameters. A plurality of couplers are configured to couple at least a portion of the plurality of first electromagnetic waves to a transmission medium, wherein the plurality of couplers generate a plurality of second electromagnetic waves that propagate along the outer surface of the transmission medium. A training controller is configured to generate the channel control parameters based on channel state information received from at least one remote transmission device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Paul Shala Henry, Robert Bennett, Irwin Gerszberg, Farhad Barzegar, Donald J Barnickel, Thomas M. Willis, III
  • Patent number: 9712361
    Abstract: Method for generating a built-symbol including plurality of sub-symbols for transmission including data of an original symbol of an orthogonal multi-carrier modulation-signal reducing the peak-to-average power-ratio (PAPR) and increase its robustness against Doppler-effects of the orthogonal multi-carrier modulation-signal, the original symbol lasting a duration, Ts and carried by N-tones; also including: applying intrinsic temporal diversity properties of complex N-points Inverse-Fast-Fourier-Transform to the original symbol, where plurality of sub-symbols number is M, each M sub-symbols lasts Ts/M and is carried by N/M disjoint-tones, the M sub-symbols are time-multiplexed, so the time-multiplexed built-symbol contains all-data at the same rate of the original symbol. The built-symbol is demodulated, utilizing an orthogonal multi-carrier receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: GREENWAVES TECHNOLOGIES
    Inventor: Denis Julien Gilles Mestdagh
  • Patent number: 9712346
    Abstract: A continuous phase modulation method comprises the following steps: receiving a sequence of digital data symbols a(n) to be emitted; transforming the sequence of symbols a(n) to be emitted into a transformed sequence of symbols b(n), each symbol b(n) of which is equal to the sum of a symbol a(n) to be emitted and of a corrective factor equal to a transformation Tf applied to a plurality of differences (a(n)-a(n?1)) between two consecutive symbols to be emitted, the transformation Tf applied being a combination c of at least two differences between two consecutive symbols of the sequence to be emitted, transformed by the application of a non-linear function f; filtering the sequence of transformed symbols b(n) with a shaping filter and modulating the filtered sequence with a phase modulator; said transformation Tf being defined so as to minimize interference between modulated symbols filtered by a receiving filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Thales
    Inventors: François Baptiste, Adrien Le Naour, Alban Denicourt, Célien Vincent, Valentin Felix
  • Patent number: 9706315
    Abstract: A frequency-shift-keying (FSK) transceiver for use in a hearing aid system and having a resonant circuit including a transceiver inductance (L1), the resonant circuit having a resonance frequency, and a transfer function where gain and phase are frequency dependent, wherein the transceiver includes an FSK modulator receiving a data stream, and in response thereto outputting an FSK modulated signal to the resonant circuit for wireless transmission. The transceiver includes a controller monitoring the data stream received by the FSK modulator, and a phase equalizer unit controlled by the controller for substantially equalizing the phase distortion introduced by the frequency dependent resonant circuit. The invention also provides a hearing aid and a method of operating an FSK transceiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: WIDEX A/S
    Inventor: Niels Ole Knudsen
  • Patent number: 9706514
    Abstract: Techniques are presented herein for improving location determination of a wireless device in environments where there can be multipath issues. A wireless device having a plurality of antennas receives a wireless transmission from a target device whose location is to be determined. Channel state information data is generated based on reception of the transmission at the plurality of antenna. The channel state information data is separated or partitioned into subcarrier group specific data for each of a plurality of groups of subcarriers within a bandwidth of the received transmission. Location probability data is computed for each of the plurality of groups of subcarriers from the subcarrier group specific data for respective ones of the plurality of groups of subcarriers. The location probability data for the plurality of groups of subcarriers is combined to produce aggregate location probability data, from which a location of the target device is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew A. Silverman, Paul J. Stager, Brian D. Hart
  • Patent number: 9705990
    Abstract: The disclosure includes a system and method for communicating digital data from a mobile client device to a mobile system. The system includes a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the system to: obtain journey context data that includes data describing a future journey; determine digital data to transmit to the mobile system based on the journey context data; detect a presence of the mobile system; verify that the digital data is valid for the mobile system based on the journey context data; and send the digital data to the mobile system responsive to detecting the presence of the mobile system and the digital data being valid for the mobile system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Inventors: Matthew Kresse, Vinuth Rai, Roger Melen
  • Patent number: 9705958
    Abstract: Disclosed is a transmission apparatus or the like that is able to transmit information efficiently. The transmission apparatus, on the basis of history information which includes a service identifier and a message identifier associated therewith, transmits a difference between a third message having a large similarity ratio to a second message included in a specific service and the second message, and a message identifier identifying the second message via a communication network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kyohei Ando
  • Patent number: 9705575
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) capable of communicating with a base station includes a transceiver configured to receive a signal comprising a CSI process configuration, wherein the CSI process configuration comprises a plurality of CSI-RS resource configurations to identify CSI-RS resources, and a controller configured to derive a first PMI index, i11 utilizing a first non-precoded CSI-RS on a first non-precoded CSI-RS resource, derive a second PMI index, i12 utilizing a second non-precoded CSI-RS on a second non-precoded CSI-RS resource, derive a third PMI index, i2 utilizing a beamformed CSI-RS on a beamformed CSI-RS resource, and cause the transceiver to transmit a CSI feedback comprising the three PMI indices i11, i12 and i2 to the base station. A base station capable of communicating with UE a transmitter configured to transmit a signal comprising a CSI process configuration, wherein the CSI process configuration comprises a plurality of CSI-RS resource configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young-Han Nam, Md. Saifur Rahman, Taeyoung Kim, Eko Onggosanusi, Jeehwan Noh
  • Patent number: 9705718
    Abstract: An apparatus including an encoder for encoding service data corresponding to each of a plurality of data transmission path, an encoder for encoding signaling data, wherein the signaling data includes static data and dynamic data, a frame builder for building signal frames, wherein each of signal frames includes the encoded service data and the encoded signaling data, wherein each of signal frames belongs to one of the broadcast services, wherein the static data remain constant in the signal frames belonging to the broadcast service in a duration of a super frame and the dynamic data changes by the signal frames, a modulator for modulating the signal frames by an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex) scheme and a transmitter for transmitting the broadcast signals carrying the modulated signal frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jinwoo Kim, Jongwoong Shin, Woosuk Ko, Jaeho Hwang, Sungryong Hong
  • Patent number: 9698852
    Abstract: A wireless data transceiver comprises a local oscillator configured to generate a first time-varying signal of a first frequency at an output of the local oscillator. The transceiver further comprises a local oscillator interface circuit coupled to the local oscillator. The local oscillator interface circuit is configured to generate a second time-varying signal of the first frequency with negative conductance at an output of the local oscillator interface circuit. The negative conductance is generated based on capacitive degeneration. The transceiver further comprises a frequency mixer coupled to the output of the local oscillator interface circuit. The frequency mixer is configured to generate a third time-varying signal of a second frequency based on the second time-varying signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Maja Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Joy Laskar
  • Patent number: 9699785
    Abstract: A distributed antenna and backhaul system provide network connectivity for a small cell deployment. Rather than building new structures, and installing additional fiber and cable, embodiments described herein disclose using high-bandwidth, millimeter-wave communications and existing power line infrastructure. Above ground backhaul connections via power lines and line-of-sight millimeter-wave band signals as well as underground backhaul connections via buried electrical conduits can provide connectivity to the distributed base stations. An overhead millimeter-wave system can also be used to provide backhaul connectivity. Modules can be placed onto existing infrastructure, such as streetlights and utility poles, and the modules can contain base stations and antennas to transmit the millimeter-waves to and from other modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Paul Shala Henry, Donald J Barnickel, Farhad Barzegar, George Blandino, Irwin Gerszberg, Thomas M. Willis, III
  • Patent number: 9697438
    Abstract: Image description and image recognizable method, it contain (a) It obtain an image which possess plural pixels. (b) It determines a starting position in the image. (c) In the image, From the starting point along the trajectory of the former spiral aggregation makes a pixel sampling, and the pixel on the trajectory rank to the former spiral aggregation. (d) the angle increases with the increase of the variance, it forming a the angle of the latter spiral aggregation. From the starting point along a trajectory of the former spiral aggregation makes the pixel sample, and the pixel on the trajectory rank to the former spiral aggregation. (e) It decides how many frequencies the angle variation increase, and repeatedly performs the step (d). After obtaining a plurality of the latter spiral aggregation, the pixel corresponds to the value. (f) It ranks the former spiral aggregation and the latter spiral aggregation. Then, spiral aggregation map will be formed and recorded the every value of the pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: YUAN-ZE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Huang-Chia Shih, Kuan-Chun Yu
  • Patent number: 9698953
    Abstract: Provided are a method and an apparatus for signal transmission in a wireless communication system. The apparatus comprises: an information processor for generating a first information sequence based on a first transmission symbol and a first resource index, and a second information sequence based on a second transmission symbol and a second resource index; a reference signal generator for generating a different reference signal depending upon whether a first resource block indicated by the first resource index and a second resource block indicated by the second resource index are the same; and an antenna for transmitting a signal generated based on the first information sequence, the second information sequence, and the reference signal sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Seung Hee Han, Moon Il Lee
  • Patent number: 9692528
    Abstract: The present document discloses a device for improving receiving and transmitting performance of radio frequency link, comprising a radio frequency transmitting link, a radio frequency receiving link and a test link, wherein a first node is set between a power amplifier and a contact spring of first antenna in the radio frequency transmitting link, the first node is connected to a first on-off port of a radio frequency main switch in the test link; a second node is set between a receiving filter and a contact spring of second antenna in the radio frequency receiving link, the second node is connected to a third on-off port of the radio frequency main switch in the test link; and a second on-off port of the radio frequency main switch in the test link is connected to ground via a resistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Zhenyu Wang, Chengzan Zhang, Yuqiang Lai
  • Patent number: 9693339
    Abstract: In a single-carrier frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) system that utilizes interleaved FDMA (IFDMA) or localized FDMA (LFDMA), a transmitter generates modulation symbols for different types of data (e.g., traffic data, signaling, and pilot) and performs code division multiplexing (CDM) on at least one data type. For example, the transmitter may apply CDM on signaling and/or pilot sent on frequency subbands and symbol periods that are also used by at least one other transmitter. To apply CDM to a given data type (e.g., signaling), the transmitter performs spreading on the modulation symbols for that data type with an assigned spreading code. CDM may be applied across symbols, samples, samples and symbols, frequency subbands, and so on. The transmitter may perform scrambling after the spreading. The transmitter generates SC-FDMA symbols of the same or different symbol durations for traffic data, signaling, and pilot and transmits the SC-FDMA symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ravi Palanki, Aamod Dinkar Khandekar, Arak Sutivong
  • Patent number: 9692494
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described for dynamic switching between wireless multiple access schemes. In some aspects, a plurality of characteristics corresponding to a respective plurality of transmit/receive beam forming direction pairs of a wireless communication channel may be identified, and a wireless multiple access schemes used for communication in the wireless communication channel may dynamically be switched based at least in part on the identified plurality of characteristics, the wireless multiple access schemes comprising orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) and single-carrier frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jung Ho Ryu, Sundar Subramanian, Junyi Li, Ashwin Sampath
  • Patent number: 9693175
    Abstract: A wireless communication device generates and transmits wireless broadband signals at a power level that is below a spurious emissions mask such that the transmitted wireless broadband signals occupy a designated frequency spectrum band. A bandwidth of the wireless broadband signals may occupy approximately 800 MHz within a range of 0 Hz to 1 GHz. The transmit power utilized for transmitting the wireless broadband signals may be spread over a bandwidth of approximately 300 MHz within the 800 MHz bandwidth. The spreading results in a power spectral density of the transmitted wireless broadband signals approximating thermal noise at a distance of approximately 3 meters. Available channels within the designated frequency spectrum band may be sensed for the transmission of the wireless broadband signals. A plurality of the sensed available channels may be aggregated for the transmission of the wireless broadband signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: MAXLINEAR, INC.
    Inventors: Curtis Ling, Timothy Gallagher
  • Patent number: 9692519
    Abstract: An apparatus includes an optical transmitter configured to provide an optical signal amplitude-modulated among M different levels. A constellation control module is configured to provide a drive signal to control the optical signal. A feedback module is configured to receive a measure of spacing between amplitude peaks of a symbol constellation of the optical signal. The feedback module is further configured to regulate the constellation control module to adjust the optical signal in response to the measure of spacing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Chongjin Xie, Po Dong, Peter J Winzer
  • Patent number: 9692628
    Abstract: Various embodiments of wireless communication systems and methods in which the system seamlessly dual-uses a receiver chain for incoming transmissions and for other signal sensing purposes. The system is configured such that there are multiple receiver chains, and at least one receiver chain alternates between receiving a communication signal with information payload and receiving other signals solely for the purposes of monitoring and/or improving some aspects of the system. In various embodiments, the alternating receiver chain receives alternatively signals with information payloads and signals which have passes through a power amplifier with amplifier distortion characteristics. In various embodiments, the alternating receiver chain receives alternatively signals with information payloads and signals which may be associated with background noise, or other radio transmissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: Redline Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Mohammad Janani, Jahan Ghofraniha, Med A. Nation
  • Patent number: 9680615
    Abstract: A method of operating an eNB in a wireless communication network is provided. The method comprises transmitting, by the eNB to a UE, configuration information of first and second sets of CSI-RS resources, wherein the first set of CSI-RS resources is used for long term measurement and the second set of CSI-RS resources is used for short term CSI feedback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Shiwei Gao, Hua Xu, Shiguang Guo, Jack Anthony Smith, Yongkang Jia, Masoud Ebrahimi Tazeh Mahalleh, Dongsheng Yu, Robert Mark Harrison
  • Patent number: 9681386
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to low energy communication techniques. According to some embodiments, a wireless transmission may be received by a wireless device. The wireless transmission may include a physical layer (PHY) preamble and PHY data. The PHY preamble may include destination information indicating a destination and length information indicating a length (or duration) of the wireless transmission. The destination and length information may be included prior to a portion of the PHY preamble configured for channel estimation. The wireless device may determine whether the wireless transmission is destined to the wireless device based on the destination information. If the wireless transmission is not destined to the wireless device, the wireless device may drop a remainder of the wireless transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Syed Aon Mujtaba, Joonsuk Kim
  • Patent number: 9673837
    Abstract: Techniques to increase the capacity of a W-CDMA wireless communications system. In an exemplary embodiment, early termination (400) of one or more transport channels on a W-CDMA wireless communications link is provided. In particular, early decoding (421, 423) is performed on slots as they are received over the air, and techniques are described for signaling (431, 432) acknowledgment messages (ACK's) for one or more transport channels correctly decoded to terminate the transmission of those transport channels. The techniques may be applied to the transmission of voice signals using the adaptive multi-rate (AMR) codec. Further exemplary embodiments describe aspects to reduce the transmission power and rate of power control commands sent over the air, as well as aspects for applying tail-biting convolutional codes (1015) in the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yisheng Xue, Mingxi Fan, Jiye Liang
  • Patent number: 9667383
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of transmitting and a method of receiving signals, and corresponding apparatus. One aspect of the present invention relates to a method of obtaining a field for indicating a time de-interleaving depth from a layer 1 (L1) header of preamble symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Woo Suk Ko, Sang Chul Moon
  • Patent number: 9667396
    Abstract: A method of a first cell for supporting a downlink channel demodulation at a user equipment. The method according to one embodiment includes transmitting, by the first cell to the user equipment, information on a Cell-specific Reference Signal (CRS) of a second cell including at least one CRS antenna port count information of the second cell or Multicast/Broadcast over Single Frequency Network (MBSFN) subframe configuration information of the second cell; and transmitting, by the first cell to the user equipment, a downlink signal on the downlink channel. The information on the CRS of the second cell is used by the user equipment to demodulate the downlink channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hanbyul Seo, Hakseong Kim, Inkwon Seo, Byounghoon Kim, Kijun Kim, Daewon Lee
  • Patent number: 9660786
    Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems for the transmission of information in a wireless communication system are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for the transmission of information in a wireless communication system comprises receiving a downlink message, wherein the downlink message includes a first control channel element; determining a first index using the location of the first control channel element; determining a second index; determining a first orthogonal resource using the first index; determining a second orthogonal resource using the second index; spreading an uplink message using the first orthogonal resource to form a first spread signal; spreading the uplink message using a second orthogonal resource to form a second spread signal; transmitting the first spread signal using a first antenna; and transmitting the second spread signal using a second antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Hua Xu, Youn Hyoung Heo, Zhijun Cai, Andrew Mark Earnshaw, Mo-Han Fong, Sean Michael McBeath, Robert Mark Harrison
  • Patent number: 9661616
    Abstract: The present invention relates to reporting the channel state information in a communication system. The channel state information is reported from the user terminal to a base station. Accordingly, the user terminal determines a first channel state information value from a first set of values (levels) and a second channel state information value from another set of values, preferably a larger set of values. Then a difference or other relative measure is calculated between the first and the second channel state information value and transmitted to the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Alexander Golitschek Edler Von Elbwart, Masayuki Hoshino
  • Patent number: 9654253
    Abstract: An optical module processes first FEC (Forward Error Correction) encoded data produced by a first FEC encoder. The optical module has a second FEC encoder for further coding a subset of the first FEC encoded data to produce second FEC encoded data. The optical module also has an optical modulator for modulating, based on a combination of the second FEC encoded data and a remaining portion of the first FEC encoded data that is not further coded, an optical signal for transmission over an optical channel. The second FEC encoder is an encoder for an FEC code that has a bit-level trellis representation with a number of states in any section of the bit-level trellis representation being less than or equal to 256 states. In this manner, the second FEC encoder has relatively low complexity (e.g. relatively low transistor count) that can reduce power consumption for the optical module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: INPHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Benjamin P. Smith, Arash Farhoodfar
  • Patent number: 9648593
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for transmitting data to a remote node via each of two or more transmitted carrier signals, wherein a distinct outbound packet data traffic channel is mapped to each transmitted carrier signal. In an exemplary method, aggregated control channel data is formed by combining control channel data corresponding to each of two or more received carrier signals, simultaneously transmitting traffic channel data to the remote node on each of the two or more outbound packet data traffic channels, and transmitting the aggregated control channel data using one or more physical control channels mapped to a first one of the transmitted carrier signals. In particular, these methods and apparatus may be applied to a multi-carrier High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA) system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Stephen Grant, Anders Wallén, Yi-Pin Eric Wang
  • Patent number: 9641292
    Abstract: Disclosed are a load modulation-based beamspace MIMO transmission method and apparatus. The beamspace MIMO transmission apparatus may include a plurality of impedance loading circuits each including a plurality of imaginary impedance devices, a beamspace MIMO control unit calculating loading values of the plurality of imaginary impedance devices, corresponding to a spatial multiplexing orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) sample, and an RF chain unit generating a first signal having a predetermined carrier frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Seung Eun Hong, Il Gyu Kim, Seung Chan Bang
  • Patent number: 9641288
    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, a bit deinterleaver to bit deinterleave data in the parsed signal frame and a decoder to decode the bit deinterleaved data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Yonghak Suh, Sangchul Moon, Jongwoong Shin, Woosuk Ko, Sungryong Hong
  • Patent number: 9628922
    Abstract: A hearing aid includes: an input transducer configured to output an audio signal based on a signal applied to the input transducer; a processor configured to compensate a hearing loss of a user of the hearing aid and output a hearing loss compensated audio signal; an output transducer configured to output an auditory output signal based on the hearing loss compensated audio signal, wherein the auditory output signal is to be received by a human auditory system; a wireless communication unit configured to communicate wirelessly with another device; an energy storage unit coupled to supply the wireless communication unit with power; and a current limiting unit coupled for control of replenishment of the energy storage unit with energy from a power supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: GN HEARING A/S
    Inventors: Kim Rasmussen, Ebbe Skammelsen
  • Patent number: 9628973
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals thereof are disclosed. The method for transmitting broadcast signals includes encoding data of PLPs (Physical Layer Pips); building at least one signal frame by mapping the encoded data of the PLPs; and modulating data in the built signal frame by OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) method and transmitting the broadcast signals having the modulated data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Woochan Kim, Sungryong Hong, Woosuk Ko, Jaeho Hwang, Byounggill Kim, Jaehyung Kim
  • Patent number: 9628240
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and device for simultaneous transmission of ACK/NACK feedback information and periodic CQI/PMI/RI feedback bits. By way of using the technical solution of the embodiments of the present invention, the periodic CQI/PMI/RI feedback bits and ACK/NACK feedback information can be simultaneously transmitted in the same uplink sub-frame using PUCCH format 3 in an LTE-A system, thus avoiding the situation that the transmission of the periodic CQI/PMI/RI information needs to be abandoned when the ACK/NACK feedback information and the periodic CQI/PMI/RI information are transmitted simultaneously in the same uplink sub-frame, improving the feedback efficiency of the uplink control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD
    Inventors: Xuejuan Gao, Zukang Shen, Yanan Lin
  • Patent number: 9628313
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals thereof are disclosed. The method includes encoding service data, mapping the encoded service data, wherein at least one Forward Error Correction (FEC) block of the mapped service data is grouped into at least one interleaving frame, and time interleaving the mapped service data based on the at least one interleaving frame. The time interleaving further includes block interleaving the mapped service data by writing cells of the mapped service data in a memory and reading the cells in the memory, wherein virtual cells belonging to virtual FEC blocks are skipped during the reading; spreading out the block interleaved service data over at least one signal frame; building a signal frame including the time interleaved service data; modulating data in the built signal frame by an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (OFDM) scheme; and transmitting the broadcast signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jongseob Baek, Woosuk Ko, Seoyoung Back, Sungryong Hong
  • Patent number: 9621392
    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: February 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jinyong Choi, Woosuk Ko, Sangchul Moon, Sungryong Hong
  • Patent number: 9613398
    Abstract: Image description and image recognizable method, it contain (a) It obtain an image which possess plural pixels. (b) It determines a starting position in the image. (c) In the image, From the starting point along the trajectory of the former spiral aggregation makes a pixel sampling, and the pixel on the trajectory rank to the former spiral aggregation. (d) the angle increases with the increase of the variance, it forming a the angle of the latter spiral aggregation. From the starting point along a trajectory of the former spiral aggregation makes the pixel sample, and the pixel on the trajectory rank to the former spiral aggregation. (e) It decides how many frequencies the angle variation increase, and repeatedly performs the step (d). After obtaining a plurality of the latter spiral aggregation, the pixel corresponds to the value. (f) It ranks the former spiral aggregation and the latter spiral aggregation. Then, spiral aggregation map will be formed and recorded the every value of the pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: YUAN-ZE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Huang-Chia Shih, Kuan-Chun Yu
  • Patent number: 9608706
    Abstract: Embodiments are provided to enable effective cancellation or reduction of the self-interference (SI) introduced when applying full-duplex (FD) transmission to Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) systems. A method embodiment includes forming, using a precoding matrix generated in accordance with channel conditions, a plurality of beams for a plurality of transmit signals and a plurality of self-interference cancellation signals corresponding to the plurality of transmit signals. The method further includes transmitting, at a plurality of antennas, the plurality of beams for the transmit signals, and receiving, via the plurality of antennas, a plurality of receive signals. A corresponding self-interference cancellation signal is then added to each of the plurality of receive signals to obtain a plurality of corrected receive signals, and the plurality of corrected receive signals are detected at a plurality of receivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Canada Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tho Le-Ngoc, Sean Huberman
  • Patent number: 9608846
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for transmitting data with conditional zero padding is provided. In accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure, a transmitter transmits data to a receiver by transmitting symbols such that each symbol is preceded by a cyclic prefix of a fixed length and the symbol conditionally includes enough zero padding to avoid ISI (Inter-Symbol Interference) between consecutive symbols. In some implementations, if the fixed length for cyclic prefixes is long enough to avoid ISI between consecutive symbols, then the symbols may omit zero padding. Otherwise, the symbols may include enough zero padding to avoid ISI between consecutive symbols. The zero padding may be zero tail or zero head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ming Jia, Jianglei Ma, Wen Tong
  • Patent number: 9596678
    Abstract: Provided are a base station, whereby the erroneous detection of control information can be reduced, thereby preventing the degradation of the system throughput. A base station (100) maps a downstream allocation control information unit, which is addressed to a terminal (200), to a first resource region, which can be used for any of a downstream control channel region and a downstream data channel region, or to a second resource region, which can be used only for the downstream control channel, so as to transmit the downstream allocation control information unit. In the base station (100), a control unit (102) establishes a scale of the PDCCH region, and a transmission region establishing unit (131) establishes, on the basis of a scale value established by the control unit (102), a mapping region to which the DCI is mapped within the R-PDCCH region and the PDCCH region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Akihiko Nishio, Seigo Nakao, Yasuaki Yuda, Ayako Horiuchi, Sujuan Feng, Michael Einhaus
  • Patent number: 9596688
    Abstract: Techniques for group-based spatial stream assignment signaling in 60 GHz wireless networks are described. According to various such techniques, a 60 GHz-capable transmitting device may be configured to define one or more DL MU-MIMO groups, each of which may comprise one or more respective 60 GHz-capable receiving devices. In various embodiments, the 60 GHz-capable transmitting device may include a DL MU-MIMO group ID within DL control information in a PHY header of a PPDU in order to indicate that the PPDU is directed to a DL MU-MIMO group corresponding to that DL MU-MIMO group ID. In some embodiments, DL MU-MIMO control information may comprise information specifying spatial stream assignments for the 60 GHz-capable receiving devices of that DL MU-MIMO group. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: INTEL IP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chittabrata Ghosh, Carlos Cordeiro
  • Patent number: 9591637
    Abstract: A wireless device at least demodulates, descrambles and decodes a first control signal to generate a first signal. The wireless device processes the first signal by at least encoding, scrambling, modulating and scaling the first signal. The wireless device subtracts the processed first signal from received signals to generate a second signal. The wireless device at least demodulates, descrambles and decodes the second signal to generate a physical broadcast message. The wireless device determines a plurality of system parameters of a base station employing the physical broadcast message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Ofinno Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Esmael Hejazi Dinan
  • Patent number: 9590795
    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: June 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Woo Suk Ko, Sang Chul Moon
  • Patent number: 9584276
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for a first transmission point to transmit a downlink signal to a terminal in a wireless communication system, including a step of mapping a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) to resource elements (REs) in a first area, with the exception of an RE corresponding to a cell-specific reference signal (CRS) of a second transmission point from among the REs available for the PDSCH, and further including a step of, when the terminal is a second type of terminal, mapping the PDSCH to REs in a second area corresponding to the CRS of the second transmission point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Eunsun Kim, Byounghoon Kim, Kijun Kim
  • Patent number: 9577731
    Abstract: The inventors have recognized that in RF communication systems, by switching between transmit antennas of an RF transmitter on a sub-symbol basis (antenna index coding), and/or by adaptively determining how often antenna switching occurs (adaptive antenna hopping), an increased amount of data may be wirelessly transmitted to an RF receiver without significantly increasing energy consumption. The inventors have determined that in certain systems, such as ZigBee, data symbols consist of elementary waveform patterns, and that such waveform patterns for transmit antennas may be stored by an RF receiver for later determining transmit antennas for data symbols. The inventors have also determined that the invention may be applied in the frequency domain, such as to OFDM, by storing subcarrier waveform patterns for particular transmit antennas and later determining transmit antennas for subcarriers of data symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: National Science Foundation
    Inventors: Xinyu Zhang, Sanjib Sur, Teng Wei
  • Patent number: RE46312
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for transmitting digital broadcast signal are provided. The apparatus includes a group formatter to format a data group including mobile service data, where the group formatter further maps the mobile service data into a data group of interleaved format, adds N training sequences into a corresponding location of the data group of interleaved format, adds signaling data into the data group of interleaved format, inserts place holder bytes for MPEG header and non-systematic Reed-Solomon (RS) parity into the data group of interleaved format, and deinterleaves the mobile service data in the data group of interleaved format, a non-systematic RS encoder to non-systematic RS encode the mobile service data in the formatted data group and insert non-systematic RS parity obtained from the non-systematic RS encoding into the formatted data group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyoung Gon Lee, Byoung Gill Kim, Won Gyu Song, In Hwan Choi, Jin Woo Kim
  • Patent number: RE46354
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for transmitting digital broadcast signal are provided. The apparatus includes a group formatter to format a data group including mobile service data, where the group formatter further maps the mobile service data into a data group of interleaved format, adds N training sequences into a corresponding location of the data group of interleaved format, adds signaling data into the data group of interleaved format, inserts place holder bytes for MPEG header and non-systematic Reed-Solomon (RS) parity into the data group of interleaved format, and deinterleaves the mobile service data in the data group of interleaved format, a non-systematic RS encoder to non-systematic RS encode the mobile service data in the formatted data group and insert non-systematic RS parity obtained from the non-systematic RS encoding into the formatted data group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyoung Gon Lee, Byoung Gill Kim, Won Gyu Song, In Hwan Choi, Jin Woo Kim
  • Patent number: RE46458
    Abstract: A digital television transmitting system includes a frame encoder, a block processor, a group formatter, and a multiplexer. The frame encoder forms an enhanced data frame and encodes the data frame for error correction and for error detection. The block processor further encodes the encoded data frame at a rate of 1/2 or 1/4, and the group formatter divides the encoded data frame into a plurality of enhanced data blocks and maps the divided data blocks into a plurality of enhanced data groups, respectively. The multiplexer multiplexes the enhanced data groups with main data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyoung Gon Lee, In Hwan Choi, Kook Yeon Kwak, Byoung Gill Kim, Won Gyu Song, Sung Ryong Hong, Jong Moon Kim, Jae Hyung Kim, Jin Woo Kim