Plural Diversity Patents (Class 375/299)
  • Patent number: 10224989
    Abstract: All data symbols used in data transmission of a modulated signal are precoded by switching between precoding matrices so that the precoding matrix used to precode each data symbol and the precoding matrices used to precode data symbols that are adjacent to the data symbol along the frequency axis and the time axis all differ. A modulated signal with such data symbols arranged therein is transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUST
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi
  • Patent number: 10211959
    Abstract: Provided is a radio communication device which can separate propagation paths of antenna ports and improve a channel estimation accuracy even when using virtual antennas. The device includes: a mapping unit which maps a data signal after modulation to a virtual antenna and a virtual antenna; a phase inversion unit which inverts the phase of S0 transmitted from an antenna port in synchronization with a phase inversion unit between the odd-number slot and the even-number slot; the phase inversion unit which inverts the phase of R0 transmitted from the antenna port; a phase inversion unit which inverts the phase of S1 transmitted from an antenna port in synchronization with a phase inversion unit; and the phase inversion unit which inverts the phase of R1 transmitted from an antenna port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Seigo Nakao, Masayuki Hoshino, Atsushi Sumasu, Katsuhiko Hiramatsu
  • Patent number: 10198313
    Abstract: A device that provides for redundancy of error correction encoded data includes at least one processor circuit. The at least one processor circuit is configured to perform error correction encoding on data items to generate corresponding codewords, where at least one of the data items may have a different length than at least one other of the data items and each of the codewords is the same length. The at least one processor circuit is further configured to generate a redundancy data item based at least in part on the codewords. The at least one processor circuit is further configured to write the codewords and the redundancy data item to separate blocks of at least one flash memory circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard David Barndt, Majid Nemati Anaraki
  • Patent number: 10187127
    Abstract: Distributed communications systems (DCSs) supporting automated analysis of MIMO communications stream distribution to remote units in a distributed communication system (DCS) to support configuration of interleaved MIMO communications services are disclosed. In this regard, MIMO analysis circuits can be employed to determine the actual routing of MIMO communications signals and locations of the remote units to automatedly determine any MIMO cell bonding between the remote units to determine the configured interleaved MIMO configuration in effect in the DCS. The determined interleaved MIMO configuration of the DCS infrastructure is used to determine other possible interleaved MIMO configurations and their associated performance, along with the associated configurations and changes needed to realize such possible interleaved MIMO configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Corning Research & Development Corporation
    Inventor: Aravind Chamarti
  • Patent number: 10158454
    Abstract: The described technology is generally directed towards adaptive interleaving in network communications systems based on one or more conditions with respect to user equipment. When conditions such as the speed of the user equipment indicate that performance can be increased by interleaving the data traffic, data is transmitted to the user equipment using an adaptive interleaver in the coding chain of MIMO systems. The adaptive interleaver is not used when conditions indicate performance is unlikely to improve. Adaptive interleaving may be performed in the frequency domain, in the frequency and time domain, or the frequency time and space domain. Multiple interleavers with different interleaving patterns may be used in the frequency domain and in the frequency and time domain. Adaptive interleaving may be based on one or more various criteria corresponding to the condition data received from the user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: SaiRamesh Nammi, Arunabha Ghosh
  • Patent number: 10158405
    Abstract: Interference alignment for a multiple-input multiple-output communications network with partial connectivity is provided. A method is provided that includes determining assignments for data streams transmitted in the multiple-input multiple-output communications network. The method also includes suppressing inter-cell interference and suppressing intra-cell interference. Also provided is inter-cell/intra-cell decomposition and exploitation of partial connectivity in a multiple-input multiple-output communications network. The multiple-input multiple-output communications network can comprise three or more cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Liangzhong Ruan, Vincent Kin Nang Lau, Xiongbin Rao
  • Patent number: 10153791
    Abstract: A method, in a telecommunications system, for transmitting radio signals from a base station comprising at least a pair of transmission branches configured to supply output signals for respective antennae of the base station, to at least one terminal comprising at least one antenna, the method comprising splitting a signal for transmission into at least first and second components, applying a phase shift to the first component to generate a modified first component and providing the modified first component and the second component to respective power amplifiers for transmission over the antennae.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Nidham Ben Rached, Patrick Krief
  • Patent number: 10145935
    Abstract: A wireless telecommunications system that employs a distributed-antenna system is described in which different combinations of radio signals are assigned to antennas so as to facilitate locating a wireless terminal based on the identity of the radio signals it receives above a threshold signal strength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Polaris Wireless, Inc.
    Inventor: Vittorio Degli-Esposti
  • Patent number: 10142007
    Abstract: A device a radio communication device may be provided. The radio communication device may include: an antenna configured to operate in a plurality of operation modes; a receiver configured to receive a first channel signal and a second channel signal using the antenna; and a mode switching circuit configured to switch an operation mode of the antenna if the first channel signal fulfils a first channel specific criterion or configured to switch an operation mode of the antenna if the second channel signal fulfils a second channel specific criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Intel Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Thorsten Clevorn, Christian Drewes, Pablo Herrero, Juergen Kreuchauf
  • Patent number: 10135582
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for introducing time diversity in a transmitter. The systems and methods may include receiving, at the transmitter, a request from a receiver to retransmit data. The systems and methods may further include receiving an input of data corresponding to the data requested for retransmission at a first transmitter block. The systems and methods may further include operating on the signals using the first transmitter block in at least one of a first mode and a second mode, such that an output of signals from the first transmitter block is dependent on a time-varying function and corresponds to the data requested by the receiver for retransmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.
    Inventors: Yakun Sun, Hongyuan Zhang, Liwen Chu, Hui-Ling Lou
  • Patent number: 10129066
    Abstract: An Alamouti coding method includes mapping real number data symbols to a first subcarrier to an (N/2?1)th subcarrier, based on indices of the subcarriers, mapping the mapped real number data symbols and real number data symbols constituting an Alamouti coded symbol pair to an (N/2+1)th subcarrier to an (N?1)th subcarrier, in a frequency inversion scheme with reference to an (N/2)th subcarrier, adjusting a phase of each real number data symbol mapped to the first subcarrier to the (N/2?1)th subcarrier, by using a first phase adjustment value, based on indices of the mapped subcarriers and an index of a time interval, and adjusting a phase of each real number data symbol mapped to the (N/2+1)th subcarrier to the (N?1)th subcarrier, by using a conjugate value of a first phase adjustment value for a corresponding real number data symbol and the real data symbols constituting the Alamouti coded symbol pair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: RESEARCH COOPERATION FOUNDATION OF YEUNGNAM UNIVERSITY
    Inventor: Kwonhue Choi
  • Patent number: 10110293
    Abstract: Systems and methods for full-duplex communication in a communications network, including generating a combined channel matrix including two or more channel matrices and determining a null space and a basis for the combined channel matrix. Common, individual, and disjoint vector spaces are determined, and common vector space is determined for each of one or more receiving nodes and each or one or more transmitting nodes, disjoint vector spaces for each of the one or more nodes are determined based on the common vector space for each of the one or more nodes, and individual vector spaces are determined based on the common and the disjoint vector spaces. Signals are mapped at each of the nodes to determine corresponding vector spaces; and interference alignment is performed in common vector spaces and zero forcing in disjoint vector spaces using a hardware processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Mohammad Khojastepour, Karthikeyan Sundaresan
  • Patent number: 10110297
    Abstract: A flying machine or other vehicle includes at least two antenna units and a central control unit. In a first mode of operation, the two antenna units send and/or receive signals independent of each other in different, non-overlapping frequency bands. The central control unit is adapted to control the two antenna units in a second mode of operation such that the two antennas transmit and/or receive a common signal in a common frequency band using a Multiple Input Multiple Output transmission technique.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE GMBH
    Inventors: Dominik Rieth, Volker Ziegler, Christoph Heller
  • Patent number: 10097248
    Abstract: Disclosed are a data transmission method and apparatus. The method includes encoding a data stream of a first receive end by using a first encoding mode, to obtain a first encoded data stream. The method also includes encoding a data stream of a second receive end by using a second encoding mode, to obtain a second encoded data stream. The method also includes encoding the first encoded data stream and the second encoded data stream by using a third encoding mode, to obtain a to-be-sent data stream. The method also includes sending the to-be-sent data stream to a corresponding receive end by using antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Ye Wu
  • Patent number: 10079628
    Abstract: A physical layer (PHY) preamble of a multi-user (MU) PHY data unit is generated. The PHY preamble is generated to include formatting information regarding the MU PHY data unit, including a field to be transmitted within a first individual communication channel among a plurality of individual communication channels that collectively span a bandwidth of a composite channel, each individual communication channel including a plurality of basic resource allocation (RA) units that collectively span a bandwidth of the individual communication channel. The field is generated to indicate one or more groupings of basic RA units, wherein at least one of the one or more groupings of basic RA which includes basic RA units of one or more other individual communication channels. A data portion of the MU PHY data unit is generated according to the formatting information in the PHY preamble, and the MU PHY data unit is generated to include the PHY preamble and the data portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: Marvell World Trade Ltd.
    Inventors: Yakun Sun, Hongyuan Zhang, Liwen Chu, Lei Wang, Jinjing Jiang
  • Patent number: 10069547
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provide a beamforming based communications method and apparatus. The method includes: obtaining, by a transmit end, a transmit-end precoding matrix TrBB, a transmit-end intermediate-frequency beamforming matrix TrIF, and a transmit-end radio-frequency-end beamforming matrix TrRF according to feedback information that is from a receive end; acquiring a first data stream, and performing precoding processing on the first data stream according to TrBB, to generate a first analog signal; performing weighting and power amplification processing on the first analog signal according to TrIF, to generate a second analog signal; performing weighting and power amplification processing on the second analog signal according to TrRF, to generate a third analog signal; and determining an antenna array matching the third analog signal, and transmitting the third analog signal to the receive end by using the antenna array matching the third analog signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Guangjian Wang, Miaomiao Zhang, Jingjing Cheng
  • Patent number: 10063351
    Abstract: A method is provided for communication in a wireless telecommunication system. The method comprises designating, by a network element, a first set of time-frequency resources for transmitting a first set of downlink control channels for a plurality of UEs, wherein the first set of time-frequency resources is known to the plurality of UEs, and wherein the first set of time-frequency resources varies from a first time interval to a second time interval. The method further comprises mapping, by the network element, a first downlink control channel to the first set of time-frequency resources. The method further comprises transmitting, by the network element, the first downlink control channel together with a downlink data channel in a frequency-division multiplexing manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Yufei Wu Blankenship, Shiwei Gao, Hua Xu
  • Patent number: 10038578
    Abstract: A multi-modulation transmitter configured to transmit a multicarrier signal to multiple different receivers. At least one of the receivers is a receiver using a modulation scheme other than Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM). The multi-modulation transmitter includes a data mapping unit configured to map data targeting the different receivers to mutually orthogonal subcarrier signals, in accordance with the respective modulation schemes of the different receivers. An Inverse Fast Fourier Transform unit is configured to transform the mutually orthogonal subcarrier signals to a multicarrier signal in the time domain. A cyclic prefix unit is configured to determine a Cyclic Prefix length of the multicarrier signal based on a symbol rate of the receiver using a modulation scheme other than OFDM, and to insert the determined Cyclic Prefix in the multicarrier signal. A radio unit is configured to transmit the multicarrier signal to the multiple different receivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Leif Wilhelmsson, Miguel Lopez
  • Patent number: 10033505
    Abstract: Techniques are described for wireless communication. A first method includes generating uplink control information at a wireless device, and transmitting the uplink control information over an interlace of a component carrier of an unlicensed radio frequency spectrum band. The interlace includes a plurality of non-contiguous concurrent resource blocks in the unlicensed radio frequency spectrum band, and at least two resource blocks in the interlace include different portions of the uplink control information. A second method includes generating uplink control information at a wireless device, and transmitting the uplink control information over an uplink control channel of an unlicensed radio frequency spectrum band. Resources of the uplink control channel are divided into a plurality of discrete dimensions and the uplink control information of the wireless device is transmitted over a number of the discrete dimensions allocated to the uplink control information of the wireless device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Durga Prasad Malladi, Yongbin Wei, Wanshi Chen, Peter Gaal, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 10027395
    Abstract: A method and device for reporting channel state information in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method for reporting channel state information (CSI) by means of a terminal in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: measuring a first reference signal transmitted from a first subset of antenna ports from among a plurality of antenna ports in a base station; measuring a second reference signal transmitted from a second subset of antenna ports from among the plurality of antenna ports; and reporting the CSI to the base station based on at least one of the measurement of the first reference signal and the measurement of the second reference signal, wherein at least one of the plurality of antenna ports is included in both the first subset and the second subset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignees: LG Electronics Inc., SOGANG UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Jonghyun Park, Yoonsoo Kim, Wonjin Sung, Jihoon Sung, Hosik Kang
  • Patent number: 10021677
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices are described for wireless communication employing two-stage control channel messaging. Systems, methods, and apparatuses for two stage two-stage physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) with a downlink control information (DCI) flag and DCI format size indicator are described. For instance, the present disclosure presents an example method of wireless communication at a wireless device, which may include receiving, at a first bandwidth and during a transmission time interval (TTI), a first control channel message. In addition, the example method may include determining, based on a flag in the first control channel message, whether a second control channel message is present in the TTI. Furthermore, the example method may include receiving, at a second bandwidth, the second control channel message where the flag indicates that the second control channel message is present for the TTI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Siddhartha Mallik, Taesang Yoo, Arumugam Chendamarai Kannan, Yongbin Wei, Jelena Damnjanovic, Durga Prasad Malladi, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 9998189
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an adaptive device and method for wireless network. The method comprises: detecting RSSI (Received Signal Strength Indicator) of a plurality of antenna pairs of a MIMO system; selecting a first antenna pair which has the highest RSSI; using the first antenna pair to perform data transmission; detecting a data rate of the first antenna pair; and determining whether to adjust other antenna pairs to perform the data transmission according to the data rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: ACCTON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: I-Ru Liu, Pei-Sam Ho
  • Patent number: 9998266
    Abstract: One or more LDPC encoders generate two or more LDPC code words to be included entirely in an OFDM symbol. A frequency segment parser parses content of the two or more LDPC code words into a first frequency segment corresponding to a first subband of the communication channel and a second frequency segment corresponding to a second subband of the communication channel. A constellation mapper maps first content of the two or more LDPC code words to first constellation points corresponding to first OFDM tones in the first subband, and maps second content of the two or more LDPC code words to second constellation points corresponding to second OFDM tones in the second subband. A tone ordering unit reorders the first OFDM tones and the second OFDM tones such that the first content is distributed over the first subband, and the second content is distributed over the second subband.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Marvell World Trade Ltd.
    Inventors: Sudhir Srinivasa, Hongyuan Zhang
  • Patent number: 9979523
    Abstract: Provided is a radio communication device which can separate propagation paths of antenna ports and improve a channel estimation accuracy even when using virtual antennas. The device includes: a mapping unit which maps a data signal after modulation to a virtual antenna and a virtual antenna; a phase inversion unit which inverts the phase of S0 transmitted from an antenna port in synchronization with a phase inversion unit between the odd-number slot and the even-number slot; the phase inversion unit which inverts the phase of R0 transmitted from the antenna port; a phase inversion unit which inverts the phase of S1 transmitted from an antenna port in synchronization with a phase inversion unit; and the phase inversion unit which inverts the phase of R1 transmitted from an antenna port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Seigo Nakao, Masayuki Hoshino, Atsushi Sumasu, Katsuhiko Hiramatsu
  • Patent number: 9967012
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for CSI reporting mechanisms are provided. A user equipment (UE) apparatus includes a transceiver and a processor. The transceiver is configured to receive configuration information for a channel state information (CSI) reporting and receive configuration information for a plurality of precoding codebook parameters. The processor is operably connected to the transceiver, and configured to calculate, in response to receipt of the configuration information for the CSI reporting and the configuration information for the plurality of precoding codebook parameters, a first precoding matrix indicator (PMI) and a second PMI, wherein the first PMI includes one or two codebook indices. The transceiver is further configured to transmit the CSI reporting on an uplink channel, the CSI reporting including a channel quality indicator (CQI), a rank indicator (RI), and the calculated first and second PMIs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eko Onggosanusi, Young-Han Nam
  • Patent number: 9967016
    Abstract: A method for taking measurements with a smart antenna in a wireless communication system having a plurality of STAs begins by sending a measurement request from a first STA to a second STA. At least two measurement packets are transmitted consecutively from the second STA to the first STA. Each measurement packet is received at the first STA using a different antenna beam. The first STA performs measurements on each measurement packet and selects an antenna beam direction based on the measurement results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Ana Lucia A. Pinheiro, Arty Chandra, Inhyok Cha, Paul Marinier, Vincent Roy
  • Patent number: 9960829
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a channel state information feedback method and apparatus. User equipment determines a PMI and a CQI, and a feedback expression manner of the PMI and the CQI, where the feedback expression manner includes a first or a second feedback expression manner, and sends the PMI and the CQI to a network device in the determined feedback expression manner of the PMI and the CQI, where the first feedback expression manner includes: using T CQI values to express CQI of M codewords, and using one PMI value to indicate one PMI, where T is less than M, and there is at least one CQI value that can express CQI of at least two codewords; and the second feedback expression manner includes: using M CQI values to express CQI of M codewords. The present invention may be applied to a scenario in which an antenna quantity increases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qiang Wu, Leiming Zhang, Jianghua Liu
  • Patent number: 9954585
    Abstract: A distributed antenna system includes a master unit including a downlink RF input operable to receive an RF input signal from a downlink port of a base station, a first optical port, and a second optical port. The distributed antenna system also includes a first remote unit coupled to the first optical port. The first remote unit comprises a downlink antenna port and a first uplink antenna port and a second remote unit coupled to the second optical port of the master unit. The second remote unit comprises a downlink antenna port and a second uplink antenna port. The master unit is operable to transmit a first RF signal associated with the first RF uplink signal to a first uplink port of the base station and transmit a second RF signal associated with the second RF uplink signal to a second uplink port of the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Dali Systems Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Paul Lemson, Shawn Patrick Stapleton, Sasa Trajkovic
  • Patent number: 9948259
    Abstract: Methods and systems for amplitude estimation and gain adjustment using noise as a reference are described. An example receiver can include an antenna and a front end amplifier coupled to the antenna. The receiver can also include a detector circuit coupled to the front end amplifier. The receiver can be configured to determine a power of a received signal at the antenna based on a gain of the receiver. The gain of the receiver can be determined based on a noise figure of the front end amplifier and a noise amplitude.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION
    Inventor: James A. Johnson
  • Patent number: 9941754
    Abstract: The embodiments described herein include a transmitter that transmits a power transmission signal (e.g., radio frequency (RF) signal waves) to create a three-dimensional pocket of energy. At least one receiver can be connected to or integrated into electronic devices and receive power from the pocket of energy. The transmitter can locate the at least one receiver in a three-dimensional space using a communication medium (e.g., Bluetooth technology). The transmitter generates a waveform to create a pocket of energy around each of the at least one receiver. The transmitter uses an algorithm to direct, focus, and control the waveform in three dimensions. The receiver can convert the transmission signals (e.g., RF signals) into electricity for powering an electronic device. Accordingly, the embodiments for wireless power transmission can allow powering and charging a plurality of electrical devices without wires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Energous Corporation
    Inventors: Michael A. Leabman, Gregory Scott Brewer
  • Patent number: 9887748
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide an interference suppression method and apparatus. The method includes: determining a precoding matrix according to a channel fading matrix, where the channel fading matrix is an N×M matrix, M is a quantity of antennas of a transmit end candidate device, N is a quantity of antennas of a receive end device, and each element in the channel fading matrix represents channel fading that occurs when each antenna of the transmit end candidate device transmits a signal to each antenna of the receive end device; acquiring a receiving base vector according to the precoding matrix, signal power of the transmit end candidate device, and a channel fading matrix from a signal to the receive end device; and determining receiving subspace according to the receiving base vector and receiving, in the receiving subspace, a signal sent by a transmit end selected device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Xuesong Wang
  • Patent number: 9886812
    Abstract: In this disclosure, methods for antenna combining to meet the pilot requirement of the massive MIMO system, and apparatuses for the same are provided. In a user equipment (UE) perspective of view, the UE transmits first pilot signals via each of multiple antennas of the UE, and receives antenna combining information from a base station. Here, the antenna combining information combines the multiple antennas into one or more antenna groups based on the first pilot signals, and each of orthogonal sequences is allocated to each of the antenna groups. The UE transmits second pilot signals using the allocated orthogonal sequences for each of the antenna groups. The second pilot signals can be used for estimating downlink channel from the base station to the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Kilbom Lee, Jaehoon Chung, Ilmu Byun, Hyunsoo Ko, Jiwon Kang
  • Patent number: 9866305
    Abstract: A method is presented for transmitting a data packet in a wireless local area network. A physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) is generated, The PPDU indicates that the PPDU is to be transmitted to a plurality of receivers. The PPDU includes a legacy-short training field (L-STF), a legacy-long training field (LTF), a legacy-signal field (L-SIG), a signal field and a plurality of data streams. The PPDU is transmitted to the plurality of receivers through a plurality of subchannels. The signal field includes stream information and subchannel information. The stream information indicates at least one of the plurality of data streams assigned to each of the plurality of receivers. The subchannel information indicates at least one of the plurality of subchannels through which a corresponding data steam assigned to each of the plurality of receivers is transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Yongho Seok
  • Patent number: 9866290
    Abstract: The embodiments provide a method implemented by a first station (STA) for transmitting a frame to an Access Point (AP) as part of an uplink multi-user simultaneous transmission. The method avoids unintentional beamforming at the AP. The method includes receiving a first frame from the AP, where the first frame includes scheduling information for scheduling a simultaneous uplink transmission for the first STA and one or more other STAs, generating a second frame having a common part and a user-specific part, where the second frame is to be transmitted simultaneously with other frames according to the scheduling information, determining a cyclic shift value to be applied to the common part, where the cyclic shift value is determined to be different from one or more cyclic shift values to be applied by each of the other STAs, applying the cyclic shift value to the common part and transmitting the second frame to the AP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: NEWRACOM, Inc.
    Inventor: Young Hoon Kwon
  • Patent number: 9853751
    Abstract: In a digital communication system there is provided a method for OFDM channel estimation that jointly considers the effects of coarse timing error and multipath propagation. The method uses an iterative channel estimation technique, which considers the practical scenario of fractional timing error and non-sample space echo delays. The method does not require channel state information such as second-order statistic of the channel impulse responses or the noise power. Moreover, timing error can be conveniently obtained with the proposed technique. Simulation shows that, when comparing OFDM channel estimation techniques under DOCSIS 3.1 realistic channel conditions, the proposed algorithm significantly outperforms conventional methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Vecima Networks Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Michael Berscheid, Tung Trong Nguyen, Joseph Eric Salt, Ha Hoang Nguyen
  • Patent number: 9839018
    Abstract: Embodiments are provide for communicating data or other non-control information messages within a downlink control channel directly, rather than in a data channel or broadcast channel. Thereby, radio resource utilization can be substantially improved in the cellular system, such as in the case of transmitting smaller data packets. In an embodiment, a transmitter arranges a set of time-frequency radio resources, associated with a downlink control channel, for transmitting information other than control information sent on the downlink control channel. The transmitter then sends, on the set of time-frequency radio resources, a data information message comprising the information other than the control information. The information other than the control information comprises one of user-specific data information and broadcast data information. A receiver then receives on the downlink control channel, control information and the data information message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Fredrik Berggren, Anthony C. K. Soong
  • Patent number: 9832488
    Abstract: The invention concerns a test stream generator for generating a compressed video stream for testing a video decoder, the generator including: a context-aware pseudo-random generator (202) adapted to generate pseudo-random values of syntax elements based on decoding context data; a decoding process module (206, 206?) adapted to process the syntax element values and to generate the decoding context data and binarization context data; and a binarizer module (204) adapted to encode the syntax element values based on the binarization context data in order to generate the compressed video stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Allegro DVT
    Inventors: Sébastien Alaiwan, Frédéric Barbier
  • Patent number: 9800365
    Abstract: A transmitting apparatus is disclosed. The transmitting apparatus includes an encoder to perform channel encoding with respect to bits and generate a codeword, an interleaver to interleave the codeword, and a modulator to map the interleaved codeword onto a non-uniform constellation according to a modulation scheme, and the constellation may include constellation points defined based on various tables according to the modulation scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Se-ho Myung, Belkacem Mouhouche, Daniel Ansorregui Lobete, Kyung-joong Kim, Hong-sil Jeong
  • Patent number: 9787422
    Abstract: A transmitting apparatus is disclosed. The transmitting apparatus includes an encoder to perform channel encoding with respect to bits and generate a codeword, an interleaver to interleave the codeword, and a modulator to map the interleaved codeword onto a non-uniform constellation according to a modulation scheme, and the constellation may include constellation points defined based on various tables according to the modulation scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Se-ho Myung, Belkacem Mouhouche, Daniel Ansorregui Lobete, Kyung-joong Kim, Hong-sil Jeong
  • Patent number: 9787381
    Abstract: In a spatial modulation multiple-input-multiple-output (SM-MIMO) wireless communication system, multiple transmitting antennae and multiple receiving antennae may be utilized to respectively transmit and receive wireless signals for the communication. A selection of a combination of the multiple transmitting antennae may be configured to represent one or more binary digits in a signal sequence. The signal sequence may be produced at the receiving end without the knowledge of the selection of the combination of the multiple transmitting antennae.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: EMPIRE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT LLC
    Inventors: Yue Xiao, Zongfei Yang, Ping Yang, Jun Fang
  • Patent number: 9787375
    Abstract: Spatial spreading is performed in a multi-antenna system to randomize an “effective” channel observed by a receiving entity for each transmitted data symbol block. For a MIMO system, at a transmitting entity, data is processed (e.g., encoded, interleaved, and modulated) to obtain ND data symbol blocks to be transmitted in NM transmission spans, where ND?1 and NM>1. The ND blocks are partitioned into NM data symbol subblocks, one subblock for each transmission span. A steering matrix is selected (e.g., in a deterministic or pseudo-random manner from among a set of L steering matrices, where L>1) for each subblock. Each data symbol subblock is spatially processed with the steering matrix selected for that subblock to obtain transmit symbols, which are further processed and transmitted via NT transmit antennas in one transmission span. The ND data symbol blocks are thus spatially processed with NM steering matrices and observe an ensemble of channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jay Rodney Walton, Lizhong Zheng, John W. Ketchum, Mark S. Wallace, Steven J. Howard
  • Patent number: 9780917
    Abstract: A transmitting apparatus is disclosed. The transmitting apparatus includes an encoder to perform channel encoding with respect to bits and generate a codeword, an interleaver to interleave the codeword, and a modulator to map the interleaved codeword onto a non-uniform constellation according to a modulation scheme, and the constellation may include constellation points defined based on various tables according to the modulation scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Se-ho Myung, Belkacem Mouhouche, Daniel Ansorregui Lobete, Kyung-joong Kim, Hong-sil Jeong
  • Patent number: 9780852
    Abstract: Provided is a transmission control apparatus that determine a first phase difference for a phase difference between an electric wave output by a first antenna and an electric wave output by a second antenna, and for a phase difference between an electric wave output by a third antenna and an electric wave output by a fourth antenna, based on a determined polarization characteristic; determines a second phase difference for a phase difference between the electric wave output by the first antenna and the electric wave output by the third antenna and for a phase difference between the electric wave output by the second antenna and the electric wave output by the fourth antenna, based on the determined beam direction; and controls phases of the electric waves output by the first to fourth antennas, according to the first and second phase differences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: SoftBank Corp.
    Inventor: Takeo Kanai
  • Patent number: 9780855
    Abstract: Provided is a transmission control apparatus that, at a first transmission timing, causes a first symbol to be transmitted from a first antenna, causes the first symbol having the same phase as the first symbol transmitted from the first antenna to be transmitted from a second antenna that is orthogonal to the first antenna and has a path to a mobile terminal that is the same as a path between the first antenna and the mobile terminal, causes a second symbol to be transmitted from a third antenna arranged parallel to the first antenna, and causes the second symbol having the inverse phase of the second symbol transmitted from the third antenna to be transmitted from a fourth antenna that is orthogonal to the third antenna and has a path to the mobile terminal that is the same as a path between the third antenna and the mobile terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: SoftBank Corp.
    Inventor: Takeo Kanai
  • Patent number: 9780916
    Abstract: A transmitting apparatus is disclosed. The transmitting apparatus includes an encoder to perform channel encoding with respect to bits and generate a codeword, an interleaver to interleave the codeword, and a modulator to map the interleaved codeword onto a non-uniform constellation according to a modulation scheme, and the constellation may include constellation points defined based on various tables according to the modulation scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Se-ho Myung, Belkacem Mouhouche, Daniel Ansorregui Lobete, Kyung-joong Kim, Hong-sil Jeong
  • Patent number: 9749022
    Abstract: In a system having a first communication device with a first plurality of radio-frequency (RF) chains coupled to a first plurality of antennas and a second communication device with a second plurality of RF chains coupled to a second plurality of antennas, the second communication device receives consecutive training packets that were transmitted by the first communication device, the consecutive training packets having been produced at the first communication device by a power level rule to the first plurality of RF chains. The second communication device determines respective channel measurements corresponding to the consecutive training packets based on the power level rule, and selects a transmit parameter based on the respective channel measurements, the transmit parameter to be used by the first communication device when transmitting to the second communication device. The second communication device transmits and indication of the selected transmit parameter to the first communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Marvell World Trade Ltd.
    Inventors: Hongyuan Zhang, Rohit U. Nabar, Peter Loc
  • Patent number: 9749999
    Abstract: Hierarchical modulation is performed by an access node in a communication network, by identifying, by the access node, a plurality of user devices in the communication network for hierarchical modulation reception, and sending, via a transceiver in the access node, control information to each of the identified user devices, the control information comprising an identification of a shared radio resource for use by two of the identified user devices in support of hierarchical modulation reception.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ahmed ElArabawy, David Gell, Kenneth L. Stanwood
  • Patent number: 9735847
    Abstract: In an SM-MIMO wireless communication system, multiple transmitting antennae may be utilized to transmit wireless signals that carry signal sequences. A selection of the multiple transmitting antennae may be configured to represent a portion of the signal sequences so that channel state information (CSI) is not required at the receiving end of the SM-MIMO system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: EMPIRE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT LLC
    Inventors: Yue Xiao, Lixia Xiao, Jun Fang
  • Patent number: 9729371
    Abstract: In a method of generating an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol, a plurality of information bits is encoded to generate a plurality of coded bits. The plurality of information bits corresponds to a first bandwidth, while the OFDM symbol includes a number of data tones corresponding to a second bandwidth. The coded bits are mapped to a plurality constellation symbols. The constellation symbols are mapped to a first plurality of data subcarriers corresponding to a first portion of the OFDM symbol and to a second plurality of data subcarriers corresponding to a second portion of the OFDM symbol. A subset of data subcarriers in the first plurality of data subcarriers and in the second plurality of data subcarriers are set to one or more predetermined values. The OFDM symbol is then generated to include at least the first plurality of data subcarriers and the second plurality of data subcarriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: Marvell World Trade Ltd.
    Inventors: Hongyuan Zhang, Sudhir Srinivasa
  • Patent number: 9698846
    Abstract: A method of controlling a mobile communication terminal including a first antenna and a second antenna is provided. The method includes receiving transmission data to be transmitted, applying first power smaller than a first threshold value to the first antenna, applying second power smaller than the first threshold value to the second antenna, and cooperatively transmitting the transmission data based on the first power and the second power, respectively, by the first antenna and the second antenna, wherein a sum of the first power and the second power is larger than a second threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Soo-Pyoung Park, Yong-Yi Kim, Jea-Dong Jang