Antinoise Or Distortion (includes Predistortion) Patents (Class 375/296)
  • Patent number: 11677435
    Abstract: Wide bandwidth digital pre-distortion (DPD) in a remote unit(s) for a wireless communications system (WCS) is disclosed. In embodiments disclosed herein, a remote unit(s) includes at least two transceiver circuits, each configured to process (e.g., perform DPD) a respective downlink digital communications signal corresponding to a portion of the carrier bandwidth. Each of the transceiver circuits is further configured to convert the respective downlink digital communications signal into a respective downlink RF communications signal. The respective downlink RF communications signals generated by the transceiver circuits are subsequently combined to form a downlink RF communications signal(s) associated with the carrier bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yury Abramov, Roi Yosy Ziv
  • Patent number: 11677604
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and systems for reducing Peak Average Power Ratio (PAPR) in signal transmissions are described. In one example aspect, a wireless communication method includes determining, for an input sequence, an output sequence corresponding to an output of a convolutional modulation between a plurality of values and an intermediate sequence. The intermediate sequence is generated by inserting a set of coefficients between coefficients of the input sequence. Each non-zero coefficient of the set of coefficients is inserted between a first adjacent coefficient and a second adjacent coefficient. Each non-zero coefficient has a power that is between a first power of the first adjacent coefficient and a second power of the second adjacent coefficient and a phase value between a first phase value of the first adjacent coefficient and a second phase value of the second adjacent coefficient. The method also includes generating a waveform using the output sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Yu Xin, Guanghui Yu, Jian Hua, Jin Xu, Jun Xu
  • Patent number: 11671123
    Abstract: A wireless communications system includes a pre-distortion actuator configured to receive a carrier-modulated signal and convert the carrier-modulated signal into an output signal. The system includes one or more antennas configured to receive the output signal and transmit the output signal, one or more power amplifiers electrically coupled between the pre-distortion actuator and the one or more antennas and a receiver configured to receive the output signal over-the-air and generate feedback based on the output signal. The pre-distortion actuator is configured to generate the output signal by applying a correction to the carrier-modulated signal that cancels out nonlinearities associated with the one or more antennas and/or the one or more power amplifiers. The pre-distortion actuator is configured based on the feedback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Space Exploration Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: Martin S. McCormick, Feipeng Wang
  • Patent number: 11671794
    Abstract: A device includes a tuner configured to tune a broadcast signal; a pilot detector configured to detect pilots in the tuned broadcast signal; a de-framer configured to parse a signal frame of the broadcast signal. Further, the signal frame carries Physical Layer Pipe (PLP) data, and the signal frame includes a preamble and at least one subframe. The device also includes a decoder configured to decode the PLP data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jaehyung Kim, Woosuk Ko, Chulkyu Mun, Sungryong Hong
  • Patent number: 11640826
    Abstract: A communication system includes at least one first device and at least one second device which are linked in a manner that enables data transfer with each other. The first device enables the speech signal that it receives as the input to be expressed in terms of the energy functions representing the energy patterns, information functions representing the information patterns and the noise functions of the frames of the real speech samples; and transfers the indexes of these functions in the database and the frame gain factor of each frame to the second device. The second device finds the functions via the indexes from the copy database which is a copy of the database and reconstructs the speech signal by these functions and the frame gain factor, enabling it to be provided as the voice output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Inventor: Bekir Siddik Binboga Yarman
  • Patent number: 11637599
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a precoding matrix indication method, a communications apparatus, and a storage medium. A precoding matrix of each of K frequency-domain units satisfies W=W1×W2, and elements in W2 in the K frequency-domain units are represented by P elements that are relatively few. A terminal device reports third indication information, where the third indication information includes first indication information and the second indication information, and the first indication information and the second indication information are independently encoded. The first indication information is used to indicate the P elements, and the second indication information is used to indicate P. Therefore, the terminal device can adjust a quantity of information bits of the second indication information based on a channel condition change, thereby improving precoding matrix reporting efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ruiqi Zhang, Xueru Li
  • Patent number: 11621876
    Abstract: A system and method for communication of digital data includes receiving a plurality of data bits to be transmitted, and generating an output signal for transmission by a transmitter circuit. The generating includes generating a portion of the output signal comprising values of the output signal with magnitude less than a specified threshold, the specified threshold corresponding to a specified transmitter circuit maximum output power; and generating a portion of the output signal comprising a representation of values of the output signal with magnitude greater than the specified threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: University of Virginia Patent Foundation
    Inventors: Maite Brandt-Pearce, Jie Lian
  • Patent number: 11621749
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communications, and more specifically to increased diversity for devices with limited communications resources. An example method generally includes transmitting data as a bundled transmission to a device with limited communications resources, the bundled transmission comprising multiple bursts wherein each burst spans a plurality of transmission time intervals (TTIs) and the same data is transmitted in each burst, and taking action to increase diversity (e.g., at least one of spatial diversity, time diversity, frequency diversity, etc.) for the bundled transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hao Xu, Peter Gaal, Wanshi Chen, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian
  • Patent number: 11606123
    Abstract: The described techniques provide for the use of sub-band-specific reference signal precoding. A user equipment (UE) may apply multiple precoding matrices to a reference signal to generate a set of precoded reference signals and may transmit the precoded reference signals over respective sub-bands within a given reference signal resource set. In some cases, the UE may transmit a different set of precoded reference signals in each of multiple reference signal resource sets. Upon receiving the precoded reference signals, a base station may perform wideband channel estimation for each sub-band in the given reference signal resource set. The base station may compute an average spectral efficiency for each reference signal resource set and may transmit a report to the UE. The report may include one or more communication parameters for future communications between the UE and base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Chenxi Hao, Yu Zhang, Chao Wei, Liangming Wu, Wanshi Chen
  • Patent number: 11601134
    Abstract: A system and method for generating and using fixed-point operations for neural networks includes converting floating-point weighting factors into fixed-point weighting factors using a scaling factor. The scaling factor is defined to minimize a cost function and the scaling factor is derived from a set of multiples of a predetermined base. The set of possible scaling function is defined to reduce the computational effort for evaluating the cost function for each of a number of possible scaling factors. The system and method may be implemented in one or more controllers that are programmed to execute the logic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Akshay Malhotra, Thomas Rocznik, Christian Peters
  • Patent number: 11595066
    Abstract: A method comprising determining a plurality of digital pre-distortion engines, determining signals for the pre-distortion engines, determining terms for a matrix and filter the matrix, based on the filtered matrix, determining correlation matrixes, obtaining pre-distorted signals from the digital pre-distortion engines, wherein the pre-distorted signals are pre-distorted based on the determined correlation matrixes, and combining the pre-distorted signals to a combined pre-distorted signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Shavantha Kularatna, Tian He, Christian Reichl, Aki Korhonen
  • Patent number: 11575401
    Abstract: An apparatus includes an estimation circuitry configured to receive a first set of one or more digital signals of transmitters of a communication system, and capture a set of one or more radio frequency signals that have been generated from the first set of digital signals The set of radio frequency signals being input of an antenna system of the communication system. Based on the first set of digital signals and the corresponding set of radio frequency signals, a set of weights related to a distortion effect caused by the generation of the radio frequency signals is derived. A received second set of digital signals is weighted using the set of weights, resulting in filtered signals. Using the filtered signals, a correction signal indicative of an interference caused by transmission of the second set of digital signals at a receiver of the communication system is estimated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY
    Inventors: Marko Fleischer, Jan Hellmann, Rene Röschke, Björn Jelonnek, Jürgen Hellstab
  • Patent number: 11569887
    Abstract: In one aspect, a method for wireless communication includes transmitting a first message indicating a precoding matrix identifier configured to identify a particular precoding matrix for precoding by another wireless communication device for at least one future transmission; and receiving a second message indicating information about whether the particular precoding matrix was or will be used for the at least one future transmission. In another aspect, a method for wireless communication includes receiving a first message indicating a precoding matrix identifier configured to identify a particular precoding matrix for precoding by the wireless communication device for at least one future transmission; and transmitting a second message indicating information about whether the particular precoding matrix was or will be used for precoding for the at least one future transmission. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Igor Gutman, Shay Landis, Gideon Shlomo Kutz, Assaf Touboul, Guy Wolf
  • Patent number: 11563408
    Abstract: Systems and methods for linearizing a radio system are disclosed. In some embodiments, a radio system comprises an antenna array, transmit branches comprising respective power amplifiers, a predistortion subsystem comprising predistorters for the transmit branches respectively, a receive antenna element, a transmit observation receiver having an input coupled to the receive antenna element, and an adaptor. The predistorters predistort respective transmit signals to provide predistorted transmit signals to the respective transmit branches for transmission via respective active antenna elements in the antenna array. The transmit observation receiver is operable to receive, via the receive antenna element, a combined receive signal due to coupling between the receive antenna element and the active antenna elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Leonard Rexberg, Göran Nilsson, Tomas Andersson, Pär Holmgren, Anders Martinsson
  • Patent number: 11552655
    Abstract: A digital radio frequency (RF) transmitter including processing circuitry configured to generate first through third pattern signals based on a pattern of an inphase (I)-quadrature (Q) binary data pair and a pattern of an inverted I-Q binary data pair, the first through third pattern signals having a same pattern and different phases, and a switched-capacitor digital-to-analog converter (SC-DAC) configured to remove an n-th harmonic component of an RF analog signal by amplifying the first through third pattern signals to have a certain magnitude ratio and synthesizing the amplified first through third pattern signals into the RF analog signal, where “n” is an integer of at least 3, may be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Youngsea Cho, Jiseon Paek, Wan Kim, Daechul Jeong
  • Patent number: 11531639
    Abstract: Techniques for denoising an electromagnetic signal are disclosed. The techniques utilize an antenna, a weight adaptation component, a reservoir computer including a computer interpretable neural network, a delay embedding component, and an output layer computer. The techniques include passively acquiring an electromagnetic signal by the antenna, producing a plurality of reservoir state values by the reservoir computer based on the electromagnetic signal, collecting the plurality of reservoir state values by the delay embedding component into a historical record, determining a plurality of reservoir state value weights by the weight adaptation component based at least in part of the historical record, scaling, by the plurality of reservoir state value weights, to produce a plurality of output values, the plurality of reservoir state values by the output layer computer, and outputting the plurality of output values, where the scaling occurs over a plurality of clock cycles of a clock for the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Peter Petre, Shankar Rao, Gabriel Virbila
  • Patent number: 11522586
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for non-linear precoding are provided. One method may include combining, by a network node, of linear and non-linear precoding, for example based on specific channel state information acquisition from at least one user equipment, and generating two types of demodulation reference signals for the concatenated linear and non-linear precoding. The method may include multiplexing, by the network node, the two types of demodulation reference signals with data. A first of the two types of demodulation reference signals may be linearly precoded with one linear precoding matrix from a first-stage linear precoder, and another one of the two types may be linearly precoded with both the first-stage linear precoder and a feedforward filter in a second-stage non-linear precoder from the concatenation of linear and nonlinear precoders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Nuan Song, Eugene Visotsky, Frederick Vook, Mihai Enescu
  • Patent number: 11515846
    Abstract: An in-band extraction unit is configured to extract an in-band from an output signal. An out-band extraction unit is configured to extract at least one pair of out-bands including a low frequency side out-band and a high frequency side out-band from the output signal. An ADC is configured to convert the extracted in-band and out-bands to digital signals. A signal processing unit is configured to process information included in the digital signals converted by the analog to digital converter and adjust an operation of predistorting an input baseband digital signal to generate the output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Soubhik Deb, Masaaki Tanio
  • Patent number: 11502405
    Abstract: A transmission/reception baseband-processing device includes a calibration-processing unit configured to correct an input signal input to a transmission unit on the basis of a first characteristic according to characteristics of the transmission unit of a transmission/reception front end-processing unit and a calibration reception unit that is a reception unit of a calibration transmission/reception unit and a second characteristic according to a characteristic of the calibration reception unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takuji Mochizuki
  • Patent number: 11502738
    Abstract: An apparatus includes multiple signal paths for signal transmission, and control circuitry. The multiple signal paths include a first signal path and a second signal path. The first signal path is configured to convert a digital baseband signal to a first radio frequency (RF) signal having a first frequency and a first gain. The second signal path is configured to convert a digital baseband signal to a second RF signal having a second frequency and a second gain, wherein the second gain is less than the first gain. The control circuitry is coupled to the plurality of signal paths and is configured to receive one or more control signals to enable selective activation of at least one signal path of the plurality of signal paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sudipto Chakraborty, Rajiv Joshi
  • Patent number: 11496706
    Abstract: A serializer includes: an I2C controller, an I2C command analysis circuit, a system control circuit, a low-speed data transmission circuit, a high-speed data conversion circuit, a low-speed data processing circuit, a parallel-serial conversion bidirectional circuit, a serial-parallel conversion circuit, a protocol analysis circuit, a video data processing circuit and an I2C receiver. The serializer can receive the external control command from the external controller through the I2C controller, and can also receive the external control command and the internal control command through the parallel-serial conversion bidirectional circuit. In addition, the serializer can also receive the video data from the external video source through the serial-parallel conversion circuit, and receive the audio data from the external source through the I2C receiver. Therefore, the serializer in the present disclosure can be applied to both two application scenarios, which is more flexible in application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: LONTIUM SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shenghui Bao, Jin Su, Hui Bian, Xinrun Xing, Lei Li
  • Patent number: 11469782
    Abstract: A communication system for equipment in airborne operations comprising: at least one first double transceiver and at least one second double transceiver, wherein the at least one first double transceiver is configured to send data to the at least one second double transceiver in two redundant main channels and wherein the data to be sent through each redundant main channel is first compared with each other so as to ensure that the data sent through a first main channel is the same data sent through a second main channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Airbus Defence and Space SAU
    Inventors: Manuel González Rodríguez, Andrés Jiménez Olazábal, Gonzalo Martín Gómez
  • Patent number: 11456762
    Abstract: A control unit (control device) (12) is configured to be connectable to radio units (11-1 to 11-N), respectively, and each path unit (13) includes path units (13-1 to 13-N) having a first input path (L1) and a second input path (L2). The first input path (L1) is a path on which a corresponding DPD unit (14) is provided and through which a transmission baseband signal compensated for the non-linear distortion is input to a corresponding radio unit (11). The second input path (L2) is a path through which a transmission calibration signal for calibrating a path and amplitude deviation between the radio units (11) is input to the corresponding radio unit (11) without passing through the DPD unit (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takuji Mochizuki
  • Patent number: 11444677
    Abstract: A first communication device receives a first signal, the first signal being transmitted by a second communication device using a first spatial-domain transmit filter; determines, based on the first signal, a Line-of-Sight characteristic associated with the first spatial-domain transmit filter, and transmits a first control message to the second communication device, the first control message indicating the Line-of-Sight characteristic associated with the first spatial-domain transmit filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chaitanya Tumula, Neng Wang, Bengt Lindoff
  • Patent number: 11444669
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to cellular technology applications of beamforming performed in the digital domain. In one aspect, an RF system for performing digital beamforming on a per-carrier basis is disclosed, where different phase and/or amplitude adjustments are applied to signals of different frequency ranges (i.e., to different carrier signals). In another aspect, an RF system for performing digital beamforming on a per-antenna basis is disclosed, where different phase and/or amplitude adjustments are applied to signals transmitted from or received by different antennas. In some embodiments, an RF system may be configured to implement both digital beamforming on a per-carrier basis and digital beamforming on a per-antenna basis. The RF systems disclosed herein allow implementing programmable beamforming in the digital domain in a manner that is significantly less complex than conventional implementations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: ANALOG DEVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Antonio Montalvo, David J. McLaurin
  • Patent number: 11418241
    Abstract: Methods (10) and devices (20; 30) for configuring multiple input multiple output, MIMO, wireless transmissions are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Erik Bengtsson, Fredrik Rusek
  • Patent number: 11405254
    Abstract: System and methods enabling radio communications that are operating in noisy environments using OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) are disclosed. A spread OFDM transmitter that generates OFDM symbols that may include multiple copies of IFFT symbols is disclosed. A spread OFDM receiver is disclosed for receiving the spread OFDM symbols. Other methods for symbol detection, frequency offset correction, and equalization are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: RURISOND, INC.
    Inventors: William Kurt Dobson, Wayne Radochonski, Tom Riddle
  • Patent number: 11388685
    Abstract: Network nodes, wireless devices and methods of reducing signaling overhead are provided. In one embodiment, a method includes transmitting to the wireless device at least one power threshold parameter to be used by the wireless device to determine a number of beams to be included in a multi-beam precoder codebook and transmitting to the wireless device a signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) to be used by the wireless device to determine to use one of a single beam precoder and a multiple beam precoder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Siva Muruganathan, Sebastian Faxér, Shiwei Gao, Stephen Grant, Robert Mark Harrison
  • Patent number: 11382131
    Abstract: There is disclosed method of operating a receiving radio node (10, 100) in a wireless communication network, the method comprising receiving data signaling based on a data signaling indication, the data signaling indication indicating data signaling of an unspecified duration. The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Robert Baldemair, Erik Eriksson, Ajit Nimbalker, Stefan Parkvall, John Skördeman
  • Patent number: 11381286
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for training and deploying machine-learned communication over multi-input-multi-output (MIMO) channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy James O'Shea, Tugba Erpek
  • Patent number: 11342999
    Abstract: An approach for pre-distorting an input signal for an optical transmitter so as to at least partially compensate in advance for linear and non-linear distortions of the optical transmitter is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Thomas Duthel, Soeren Gehrke
  • Patent number: 11343000
    Abstract: Optical network systems are disclosed, including a transmitter comprising a digital signal processor that receives data; circuitry that generate a plurality of electrical signals based on the data; a plurality of filters, each of which receiving a corresponding one of the plurality of electrical signals, a plurality of roll-off factors being associated with a respective one of the plurality of filters; a plurality of digital-to-analog converter circuits that receive outputs from the digital signal processor, the outputs being indicative of outputs from the plurality of filters; a laser that supplies light; and a modulator that receives the light and outputs from the digital-to-analog converter circuits, the modulator supplying a plurality of optical subcarriers based on the outputs of the digital-to-analog converter circuits, such that one of the plurality of optical subcarriers carrying information for clock recovery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Infinera Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey T. Rahn, Kuang-Tsan Wu, Steven Joseph Hand, Han Henry Sun
  • Patent number: 11335240
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic device including a display panel, an oscillator generating a clock signal, a display driving integrated circuit (DDI) generating first time information, using the clock signal, a sensor, and at least one processor identifying a variable measured by using the sensor or second time information corresponding to a reference time. The at least one processor is configured to measure a variable, using the sensor, to correct an error time between the first time information and second time information corresponding to a reference time, based on the variable, and to deliver the corrected error time or the second time information to the DDI such that the DDI corrects the first time information based on the corrected error time to display a screen of the display panel. Besides, various embodiments as understood from the specification are also possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yohan Lee, Jongkon Bae, Yunpyo Hong, Dongkyoon Han
  • Patent number: 11336493
    Abstract: A system includes a processor and a memory. The memory stores instructions executable by the processor to identify an equalization response for equalizing an output signal of a modulator of a satellite gateway, generate a compensation response based on the equalization response and a sample rate of a pre-distorter of the modulator, and send the equalization response to the pre-distorter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Kumudchandra Patel, Robert Kepley, Jack Edwin Lundstedt, Jr., Yogesh Sethi, Gaurav Bhatia, Vinay Gandla
  • Patent number: 11336349
    Abstract: An example method may include obtaining first beamforming feedback from a station based on first sounding signals from a first set of antennas selected from multiple antennas of an access point, and obtaining second beamforming feedback from the station based on second sounding signals from a second set of antennas selected from the multiple antennas of the access point. The method may also include, using the first beamforming feedback and the second beamforming feedback, determining correlational relationships between pairs of the multiple antennas of the access point, and deriving a beamforming steering matrix from the correlational relationships.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventor: Evgenii Dombrovskii
  • Patent number: 11329708
    Abstract: A CSI feedback method and a CSI feedback device are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hui Li, Qiubin Gao, Runhua Chen, Wenhong Chen, Rakesh Tamrakar
  • Patent number: 11323143
    Abstract: In certain aspects, a device for wireless transmission includes a transmission path, a feedback path, and a DPD control module. The transmission path includes a digital pre-distortion (DPD) conversion module configured to perform pre-distortion processing on an amplitude and a phase of a transmission signal based on a pre-distortion processing strategy. The transmission path further includes a power amplifier coupled to a downstream of the DPD conversion module and configured to amplify a power of the transmission signal. The feedback path is coupled to the transmission path at the downstream of the power amplifier and configured to generate a feedback signal. The DPD control module is coupled to the feedback path and the DPD conversion module and configured to adjust the pre-distortion processing strategy based on an amplitude difference and a phase difference between the transmission signal and the feedback signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: BESTECHNIC (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Weifeng Tong, Liang Zhang, Zhiqi Wang
  • Patent number: 11315584
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for decoding an encoded Unified Audio and Speech stream. The apparatus comprises a core decoder for decoding the encoded Unified Audio and Speech stream. The core decoder includes an eSBR unit for extending a bandwidth of an input signal, the eSBR unit including a QMF based harmonic transposer. The QMF based harmonic transposer is configured to process the input signal in the QMF domain, in each of a plurality of synthesis subbands, to extend the bandwidth of the input signal. The QMF based harmonic transposer is configured to operate at least in part based on pre-computed information. The present disclosure further relates to corresponding methods and storage media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Dolby International AB
    Inventors: Rajat Kumar, Ramesh Katuri, Saketh Sathuvalli, Reshma Rai
  • Patent number: 11316482
    Abstract: In an embodiment, an apparatus includes: a modulator to modulate a first signal; a distortion circuit coupled to the modulator to digitally pre-distort the first signal to compensate for a distortion of an amplifier; a distortion characterization circuit coupled to the distortion circuit to determine the distortion of the amplifier and configure the distortion circuit based on the determined distortion; a mixer coupled to the distortion circuit to upconvert the pre-distorted first signal to a pre-distorted radio frequency (RF) signal; and the amplifier coupled to the mixer to amplify the pre-distorted RF signal and output an amplified RF signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Silicon Laboratories Inc.
    Inventors: Luigi Panseri, Mustafa Koroglu, Emmanuel Gautier, Pascal Blouin
  • Patent number: 11310000
    Abstract: A wireless communication method for transmitting wireless signals from a transmitter includes dividing bits of the transport block into a number of code blocks, wherein each code block corresponds to a bit-level of a multi-level modulation scheme used for transmission, and wherein a size of each code block is inversely proportional to a corresponding coding rate used for coding the code block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Cohere Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Christian Ibars Casas, Shachar Kons, Ronny Hadani
  • Patent number: 11296658
    Abstract: Device and method are disclosed for downlink gain compensation at a radio unit. According to an embodiment, the device comprises a pre-distortion circuit, a digital gain adjuster, a gain determiner and a first gain controller. The pre-distortion circuit is configured to generate and apply a pre-distortion to an input signal. The digital gain adjuster is configured to apply an adjustable gain to an output signal from the pre-distortion circuit. The gain determiner is configured to determine a gain difference between a target downlink gain and current downlink gain. The first gain controller is configured to control the digital gain adjuster based on the gain difference. A radio unit comprising the device is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Peng Liu, Yahui Liu, Junfeng Jie, Gan Wen, Guangfeng Liu
  • Patent number: 11283666
    Abstract: A wireless communications system includes a stochastic pre-distortion actuator configured to receive a carrier-modulated signal and convert the carrier-modulated signal into an output signal. The system includes one or more antennas configured to receive the output signal and transmit the output signal, one or more power amplifiers electrically coupled between the pre-distortion actuator and the one or more antennas and a receiver configured to receive the output signal over-the-air and generate feedback based on the output signal. The pre-distortion actuator is configured to generate the output signal by applying a correction to the carrier-modulated signal that cancels out nonlinearities associated with the one or more antennas and/or the one or more power amplifiers. The pre-distortion actuator is configured based on the feedback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Space Exploration Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: Martin S. McCormick, Feipeng Wang
  • Patent number: 11277225
    Abstract: A probabilistic signal point shaping device comprises circuitry configured to map data blocks of input bits of an input bit stream onto mapping symbols, wherein said mapping symbols are distributed according to a predetermined probability distribution and represented by complex-valued signal points or non-uniformly spaced amplitude levels, assign bit labels to said mapping symbols, determine redundancy bits from the bits of said bit labels, transform said redundancy bits into a redundancy rule, and apply the redundancy rule to the mapping symbols to obtain output symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Coroporation
    Inventors: Thomas Handte, Reka Inovan
  • Patent number: 11277182
    Abstract: The present application relates to the field of communications, and in particular to a hybrid beam forming architecture-based calibration compensation method and apparatus for improving the accuracy and effectiveness of calibration compensation. The method comprises: a base station determining a preset calibration weight vector matrix W and a preset first calibration signal matrix S, then transmitting N times consecutively calibration signals through analog transmission channels, calculating, according to the calibration weight vector matrix W, the first calibration signal matrix S and a first received data vector matrix YTX, a transmission channel error matrix ETX, and then performing error compensation on the analog transmission channels based on ETX.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jingyan Ma, Shihua Wang, Tao Duan, Jian Wu, Yongli Zhang
  • Patent number: 11271601
    Abstract: Systems and methods for pre-distortion pattern recognition are provided. In certain embodiments, the system includes an electronic device that provides an output signal, wherein the electronic device applies distortion to the output signal. The system also includes a pre-distorter that provides an input signal to the electronic device, wherein the pre-distorter applies a pre-distortion to the input signal before the electronic device receives the input signal. Further, the system includes a pre-distorter design block that identifies the distortion from an association between the output signal and a finite set of symbols and updates the pre-distortion based on the association.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Pachner, Vladimir Havlena
  • Patent number: 11265127
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose a method and an apparatus for transmitting a DMRS, and relate to the field of communications technologies. The method and the apparatus are applicable to an NR system. The method for transmitting a DMRS may include: determining a time-frequency resource used to carry a DMRS; and then sending the DMRS by using the time-frequency resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiang Ren, Yong Liu, Shibin Ge, Xiaoyan Bi
  • Patent number: 11258521
    Abstract: A front-end circuit is used to test an RF signal from an RF device. The RF signal is generated by modulating a carrier signal having a carrier frequency with a wideband baseband signal. A variable frequency oscillator generates a local signal having a variable local frequency. The first frequency mixer frequency mixes a local signal and an RF signal to generate an IF signal having a frequency. A band-pass type first filter filters the IF signal. The local frequency can be selected from a plurality of frequencies having a frequency interval equal to or narrower than a bandwidth of the first filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: ADVANTEST CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Asami, Takahiro Kudo
  • Patent number: 11252396
    Abstract: An advanced communication system is provided. The advanced communication system comprises generating a first signal with a polyphase coding based on a DFT spread OFDM with at least one CAZAC sequence in accordance with a configuration condition, applying a digital transmit beamforming to the generated first signal, converting the first signal to analog from digital, modulating the converted first signal with an energy source, emitting, using at least one energy emit element, the modulated first signal, detecting a second signal comprising at least a portion of the emitted first signal that is reflected from at least one object in a scene in a field-of-view, demodulating the detected second signal, converting the second signal to digital from analog, converting the converted second signal to a computational image, and generating a 3D image by applying coherent detection to the computational image. The first signal comprises a polyphase sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Aura Intelligent Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Jungah Lee
  • Patent number: 11239866
    Abstract: A digital-to-analog conversion system is provided. The digital-to-analog conversion system includes a digital-to-analog converter configured to receive a pre-distorted digital signal from a digital circuit, and to generate an analog signal based on the pre-distorted digital signal. Further, the digital-to-analog conversion system includes a feedback loop for providing a digital feedback signal to the digital circuit. The feedback loop includes an analog-to-digital converter configured to generate the digital feedback signal based on the analog signal, and wherein a sample rate of the analog-to-digital converter is lower than a sample rate of the digital-to-analog converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel Gruber, Ramon Sanchez, Kameran Azadet, Martin Clara
  • Patent number: 11239870
    Abstract: This application relates to the field of communications technologies and discloses a transmitter device and a signal processing method. m transmit antenna groups of the transmitter are configured to send m training signals under control of the processor. A target feedback antenna of the transmitter is configured to receive, under control of the processor, a first mixed signal obtained by superimposing the m training signals in space, where a phase difference between the first mixed signal and a second mixed signal obtained by superimposing in space the m training signals received by a receiver device falls within a preset range. A processor of the transmitter is configured to: perform DPD parameter estimation and pre-distortion processing on a to-be-sent signal. The m transmit antenna groups are further configured to send, under control of the processor, the to-be-sent signal on which pre-distortion processing has been performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yibo Lv, Xu Li, Guangjian Wang, Jingjing Huang