Phase Shift Keying Patents (Class 375/308)
  • Patent number: 9529775
    Abstract: A hierarchical ring network comprising a plurality of nodes coupled in a base ring configuration such that each node is coupled to two adjacent nodes via base links, wherein the nodes are further coupled via a first level binary shortcut ring such that alternating nodes along the base ring act as first level nodes, and wherein each first level node is coupled to two nearest adjacent first level nodes via the first level binary shortcut ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Iulin Lih, William Lynch
  • Patent number: 9444654
    Abstract: Multi-drop communications channels can have significantly deep notches in their frequency response causing a corresponding limitation of the effective data transmission rate. A special time-ordered coding method is described which results in the emitted spectrum of the data stream transmitted into the channel having a notch at the same frequency as the notch in the channel frequency response, permitting channel receivers to successfully decode the transmitted data stream. The described coding method may be applied at various multiples of the channel notch frequency to support different throughput rates, and may be combined with other coding techniques such as group or vector signaling codes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: KANDOU LABS, S.A.
    Inventors: Ali Hormati, Amin Shokrollahi
  • Patent number: 9385902
    Abstract: Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for transmitting a tag. The apparatus for transmitting a tag converts 2 bits of a plurality of bit data into one symbol using phase information and orthogonal information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Sang Hyun Mo, Kyu Won Han, Chan-Won Park, Hyochan Bang, Dong-Beom Shin
  • Patent number: 9379930
    Abstract: A transmitter device with I/Q mismatch compensation and a method thereof are provided. The transmitter device includes a transmitter circuit, a loop-back circuit and a baseband circuit. The transmitter circuit is configured to convert a baseband signal into an RF signal based on a specific gain configuration of a plurality of gain configurations. The loop-back circuit is configured to retrieve the RF signal from the transmitter circuit. The baseband circuit is configured to compensate the baseband signal by specific transmitter I/Q mismatch corresponding to the specific gain configuration, wherein a plurality of transmitter IQ mismatches are determined for the plurality of gain configurations by the retrieved RF signal, and the specific transmitter I/Q mismatch among the plurality of transmitter IQ mismatches is determined by the retrieved RF signal, which is converted in response to the specific gain configuration, from the loop-back circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Hsin-Hung Chen, Hsiang-Hui Chang
  • Patent number: 9342716
    Abstract: Devices and methods for reading multiple types of RFID tags having different frequencies and/or encoding schemes are disclosed. One or more search signals covering a plurality of RFID bands are transmitted. A presence indication of an RFID tag in one of the plurality of RFID bands is detected. An interrogating signal having a carrier frequency tuned to a frequency at which the presence indication is detected is transmitted. A tag response signal comprising tag information associated with the RFID tag is received. A digital response signal based on the tag response signal is digital signal processed to obtain the tag information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: CareFusion 303, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Raptis, Graham Ross
  • Patent number: 9325551
    Abstract: This application discusses, among other things, apparatus and methods for suppressing irrelevant edges of a phase modulated signal. In an example, a method can include receiving phase modulation information at a suppression circuit of a communication device, computing distances between transitions of a phase modulation signal, the phase modulation signal associated with the phase modulation information, comparing the distances to a threshold distance at a comparator of the suppression circuit, and suppressing a first transition of the phase modulation signal associated with the phase modulation information if a first distance is less than the threshold distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Stefan Meier, Matthias Schoebinger, Lajos Gazsi
  • Patent number: 9294321
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a communication device comprises a differential encoder to receive data for transmission and encode the data for transmission using a set of codes that, when processed by the differential encoder, place the differential encoder in a known state and generate uncorrelated output sequences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Gregory M. Gutt
  • Patent number: 9276632
    Abstract: A multichannel communications medium may have two or more channels available for transmitting information. A first transmission signal and a second transmission signal may be prepared from a same analog signal to be transmitted on a first channel and a second channel. For example, a phase shift or amplitude shift may be performed on the first transmission signal or the second transmission signal. The first transmission signal may be transmitted via the first channel, and the second transmission signal may be transmitted via the second channel. The phase shift or amplitude shift may be performed by analog components that are less complex than digital signal processors used for digital signal diversity. The analog components may be digitally controlled. The analog signal diversity may utilize cost effective analog components to improve the performance of the communications system over single channel communications without requiring complex digital signal processing of multiple signal paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Richard Joseph McConnell, Faisal Mahmood Shad
  • Patent number: 9264540
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for presenting multimedia content to a caller and/or a called party in association with a telephone call. Content may be presented pre-ring (before the called party's telephone rings), in-call, and/or post-call. Content presented to a party may be related to another party participating in the call or may be related to a third party (e.g., an advertiser that paid for the ability to have its content presented). Presented content may be actuable, to allow a caller to change the destination of a call, take advantage of an offer presented to him or her, redeem a coupon, schedule or queue a subsequent call, etc. To find a desired destination party, a caller may initiate a manual or automatic search of his or her local contacts (on his telephone) and/or a central or global directory or contact list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Inventor: Wendell D. Brown
  • Patent number: 9172472
    Abstract: Method for modulating a carrier light wave to achieve, a modulated light wave which carries information by symbols selected from a set of at least two different symbols. The light led through each path is phase-shifted by a respective total variable part phase shift, which for each path is the sum of at least three respective variable part phase shifts. Each variable part phase shift for each modulation state assumes one of two respective predetermined values, and each symbol is modulated using a respective combination of two such total variable part phase shifts. The modulation performed by the two paths is a PSK (Phase Shift Keying) modulation scheme, the group of symbols includes 2N unique symbols, the light led through each respective path is phase shifted using 2N?1 variable part phase shifts, and the respective difference between the respective predetermined values is the same for all variable part phase shifts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: FINISAR SWEDEN AB
    Inventors: Christopher Daunt, Peter Szabo, Jan-Olof Wesstrom, Urban Eriksson
  • Patent number: 9160587
    Abstract: A receiver determines phase and frequency information from data signals that carry information from a transmitter to a receiver, instead of or in addition to, information from control signals. In a specific embodiment, the information is obtained from data signals modulated as a binary phase-shift keying (“BPSK”) waveform by demodulation. Other phase-shift keyings might be used instead. Encoded information might be recovered in received OFDM packets by receiving OFDM subcarriers modulated with the two low data rates supported by IEEE 802.11 standard(s) wherein the subcarriers encoding the packet are modulated using binary phase shift keying and the encoding information is at a zero phase or a ? (pi) phase offset on each of the subcarriers. Determining the carrier frequency might be done by calculating the square of each of subcarrier signal and/or determining the phase offset of the subcarriers even with information modulated onto the subcarriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: Atmel Corporation
    Inventors: Athos Kasapi, Sriram Sundararajan
  • Patent number: 9130806
    Abstract: A wideband phase modulator comprises a multiphase generator, a phase selector, and a phase adjuster. The wideband phase modulator is configured to receive an N-bit digital phase-modulating signal comprising a timed sequence of N-bit phase-modulating words, where N is a positive integer representing the bit resolution of the N-bit digital phase-modulating signal. The multiphase generator generates a plurality of coarse carrier phases, all having the same carrier frequency but each offset in phase relative to the other. The M most significant bits of the N-bit phase-modulating words are used to form M-bit phase select words that control the output phase of the phase selector. The phase adjuster performs a precision rotation operation, whereby a selected coarse carrier phase is adjusted so that the phase of the resulting final precision phase-modulated signal more closely aligns with a desired precision phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Inventor: Earl W. McCune, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9077406
    Abstract: A precoding processing method and user equipment are disclosed. The precoding processing method includes: selecting a codebook vector for performing precoding processing for data among a codebook set of Nt antennas, where the codebook set includes a first codebook vector ? [ A B ] of a uniform linear array and a second codebook vector ? [ A - B ] generated according to the first codebook vector, where A is a (Nt/2)×1 vector composed of a first half of elements of the first codebook vector, B is a (Nt/2)×1 vector composed of a last half of elements of the first codebook vector, and Nt is a positive even number; and sending an index number of the codebook vector to a base station, whereupon the base station uses the codebook vector corresponding to the index number to perform precoding processing for the data to be transmitted by the antennas. Embodiments of the present invention make the codebook set compatible with two types of antenna configuration modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yongxing Zhou, Qiang Wu, Chi Gao
  • Patent number: 9071362
    Abstract: A method of transmitting data. The method comprises preliminarily providing a modulation scheme comprising an N-symbol constellation defined in an M-dimensional space, wherein N<2M, and a composite distance between a given pair of symbols within the constellation increases with increasing Hamming distance between data words encoded in each of those symbols. During run-time, a data signal to be transmitted is encoded as symbols of the constellation, and modulated onto at least M dimensions of a carrier light in accordance with the symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: CIENA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mahmoud Taherzadehboroujeni, Shahab Oveis Gharan, Kim B. Roberts
  • Patent number: 9042486
    Abstract: In an angle modulated radio transmitter, the total power is the same when modulated or unmodulated. Angle modulation produces multiple sideband pairs. The power in the sidebands is derived from the carrier. When a complex modulating waveform is used, the power (and therefore the amplitude) of the carrier varies. A system and method is provided for dramatically minimizing, to nearly zero, the bandwidth needed to transmit digital information using sideband suppression of angle modulated signals. The systems described use various techniques to suppress sideband pairs, leaving the carrier signal. The amplitude variations of the carrier are used to convey information. In some examples, techniques are used to filter and/or phase out one or more sideband pairs, leaving the carrier signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: ZBW LLC
    Inventor: Sam Cowan
  • Patent number: 9031165
    Abstract: In a phased-array communications system with a distributed processing architecture, channelized beamforming is used to minimize sampling and computational requirements, as well as reduce the data rates required for the communication of data and control information between system components. A central processor within the phased array system performs parallelized synthesis of channelized beams to form beams composite beams in sub-bands that overlap multiple channels. The phased array system incorporates a flexible scheme for channelization, channelized beamforming, and synthesis so that any number of composite beams may be synthesized in parallel at any one time. The system is capable of simultaneously processing beams that occupy overlapping subbands, and does not require restriction on the bandwidths or center frequencies of the subbands which the beams occupy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Cubic Corporation
    Inventor: Wayne Edward Richards
  • Publication number: 20150117570
    Abstract: In an angle modulated radio transmitter, the total power is the same when modulated or unmodulated. Angle modulation produces multiple sideband pairs. The power in the sidebands is derived from the carrier. When a complex modulating waveform is used, the power (and therefore the amplitude) of the carrier varies. A system and method is provided for dramatically minimizing, to nearly zero, the bandwidth needed to transmit digital information using sideband suppression of angle modulated signals. The systems described use various techniques to suppress sideband pairs, leaving the carrier signal. The amplitude variations of the carrier are used to convey information. In some examples, techniques are used to filter and/or phase out one or more sideband pairs, leaving the carrier signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventor: Sam Cowan
  • Patent number: 9020066
    Abstract: Single-bit transmitter modulator having a digital pulse shaping filter configured to shape data pulses of an inphase signal and quadrature signal; an upsampling filter configured to increase the sample rate of the inphase signal and quadrature signal; a sigma-delta modulator providing a one-bit inphase output signal and a one-bit quadrature output signal; an inphase low-order analog low pass filter coupling the one-bit inphase output signal to an inphase channel input of a quadrature modulator, and a quadrature low-order analog low pass filter coupling the one-bit quadrature output signal to a quadrature channel input of a quadrature modulator; and, wherein the quadrature modulator is connected to a carrier signal generator and is configured to generate an inphase and quadrature modulated carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Innophase Inc.
    Inventors: Yang Xu, Xuejun Zhang
  • Patent number: 9019031
    Abstract: A method for phase modulation of a carrier signal from a transmitter to a contactless transponder in which data is coded as consecutive symbols, each corresponding to a predefined number of carrier cycles, and in which a symbol time is at least two cycles of the carrier signal includes, at the transmitter, spreading a phase jump of a symbol in relation to a preceding symbol over a first part of the symbol time. The establishment of the phase jump is completed in the first part of the symbol time. The periods of the cycles are constant during a second part of the symbol time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives
    Inventors: Jacques Reverdy, Elisabeth Crochon, Francois Dehmas, Florian Pebay-Peyroula
  • Patent number: 9001929
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for a transmitter to transmit data in a wireless communication system are provided. This method includes: generating a first signal field including at least one symbol; generating a second signal field configured by repeating at least one symbol of the first signal field; and transmitting a frame including the first signal field, the second signal field, and a data field and a first symbol of the second signal field is modulated through binary phase shift keying (BPSK) and symbols from a second symbol of the second signal field are modulated through Q-BPSK. According to the present invention, a service filed can be extended while maintaining compatibility with a wireless communication system in the related art by transmitting a frame using symbol repetition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Il Gu Lee, Heejung Yu, Hun Sik Kang, Sok Kyu Lee
  • Patent number: 9001939
    Abstract: Provided is a transmitter for transmitting signals by means of the STBC method or the DSTBC method, wherein communication is carried out effectively. The transmitter for transmitting signals by means of the STBC method or the DSTBC method has the following configuration. A frame in which synchronization words are arranged at specified positions is used. An encoding means in the transmitter encodes the entire frame to be transmitted including the synchronization words, by means of the STBC method or the DSTBC method. It is also possible to implement a communication system and a communication method for communicating signals by means of the STBC method or the DSTBC method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Hitachi Kokusai Electric Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Akutagawa, Takehiko Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9001930
    Abstract: Signal (SIF) field capacity can be significantly increased by encoding SIG field data using two streams in accordance with a space-time block code (STBC) encoding scheme. Dual-stream SIG field encoding allows for the utilization of higher order modulation schemes, such as quadrature phase-shift keying (QPSK), which increases SIG field capacity. Dual-stream encoded SIG fields are transmitted using an omnidirectional beam to allow mobile stations to accurately decode the SIG field irrespective of their spatial location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: FutureWei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Junghoon Suh, Osama Aboul-Magd, Kwok Shum Au
  • Patent number: 9001931
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a digital modulation method and a corresponding modulator. The modulator comprises a transcoder (110) followed by a FIFO register (120) and a 2-PSK modulator (130). The transcoder codes a binary word of fixed size into a code word of variable size using a transcoding table. The transcoding table codes at least one first binary word, leading to a first number of phase transitions at the output of the modulator, into a second word of size greater than that of the first word, leading to, at the output of the modulator, a second number of phase transitions less than the first number of phase transitions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'énergies Atomique et aux énergies alternatives
    Inventors: Florian Pebay-Peyroula, Jean-Baptiste Dore
  • Patent number: 9002301
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide system and method for generating a transmission signal. A transmitter generates and transmits a transmission signal based on signal components. Circuitry that is coupled to the transmitter receives complex plane components of a signal to be transmitted and alters the signal such that a complex plane trajectory of the signal passes nearer to an origin of a complex plane of the complex plane trajectory than does an original complex plane trajectory of the signal. The circuitry determines the signal components to be transmitted by the transmitter based on the altered signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.
    Inventors: Luca Vercesi, Fernando De Bernardinis
  • Publication number: 20150092888
    Abstract: An transmitting apparatus is provided. The transmitting apparatus includes a modulator which performs a QPSK-modulation for original data by using a different constellation combination pattern by predetermined unit, and a transmitter which transmits the QPSK-modulated data. Accordingly, BEP performance may be improved by transmitting additional data according to a constellation combination patter in hidden form.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventors: Dong Seog Han, Eun Su Kang
  • Patent number: 8995537
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for transmitting uplink control information in a wireless communication system. A method for transmitting uplink control information in a wireless communication system according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises a step of repetition coding information bit of N-bit to generate an encoded bit; and a step of transmitting the encoded bit via a physical uplink shared channel, wherein bit inversion can be applied to the bit obtained by repeating the information bit of N-bit, on the basis of the number 1 contained in the information bit of N-bit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hyun Soo Ko, Moon Il Lee, Ji Woong Jang, Jae Hoon Chung, Seung Hee Han
  • Publication number: 20150078487
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a method for modulating single carrier signals using constant envelope 2-CPM modulation and quasi-constant envelope filtered continuously rotated pseudo-PSK modulation in a wireless communication system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventor: Ismail Lakkis
  • Patent number: 8982990
    Abstract: Wireless communication wherein channel estimation accuracy is improved while keeping the position of each bit in a frame, even when a modulation system having a large modulation multiple value is used for a data symbol. An encoding operation encodes and outputs transmitting data (bit string) and a bit converting operation converts at least one bit of a plurality of bits constituting a data symbol to be used for channel estimation, among the encoded bit strings, into or ‘0’ or ‘0’. A modulating operation modulates the bit string inputted from the bit converting operation by using a single modulation mapper and a plurality of data symbols are generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Kenichi Miyoshi, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Katsuhiko Hiramatsu, Christian Wengerter, Alexander Golitschek Edler Von Elbwart
  • Publication number: 20150071385
    Abstract: A system and method that scrambles the phase characteristic of a carrier signal are described. The scrambling of the phase characteristic of each carrier signal includes associating a value with each carrier signal and computing a phase shift for each carrier signal based on the value associated with that carrier signal. The value is determined independently of any input bit value carried by that carrier signal. The phase shift computed for each carrier signal is combined with the phase characteristic of that carrier signal so as to substantially scramble the phase characteristic of the carrier signals. Bits of an input signal are modulated onto the carrier signals having the substantially scrambled phase characteristic to produce a transmission signal with a reduced PAR.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Inventor: Marcos C. Tzannes
  • Patent number: 8976901
    Abstract: A phase shift keying transmitter circuit that includes: a variable frequency conversion stage adapted to receive a first data signal, wherein the variable frequency conversion stage comprises a plurality of frequency modulating elements, wherein the first data signal controls the number of the plurality of frequency modulating elements that are operated so as to control an operating frequency of the variable frequency conversion stage; and an output stage configured to switch between one of two possible outputs, the signals provided by one of the two possible outputs having an opposite polarity to the other, wherein the output stage is configured to receive a second data signal to control the switching between the two possible outputs, wherein the output stage is coupled to the variable frequency conversion stage and wherein the switching between the two possible outputs changes the phase of a signal from the variable frequency conversion stage by 180°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Agency for Science, Technology and Research
    Inventors: Shengxi Diao, Yuan Gao, Yuanjin Zheng
  • Patent number: 8971450
    Abstract: A transmission device for transmitting a signal in a wireless communication system is provided. The transmission device includes: a serial-to-parallel converter configured to convert an input serial bit stream into a parallel bit stream having three bits; and a phase rotation symbol mapper configured to map the parallel bit stream to a symbol having phase rotation characteristics, wherein when the parallel bit stream includes first to third bits, the phase rotation symbol mapper maps the second and third bits to a complex variable and sequentially maps a real number part and an imaginary number part of the complex variable to the front part and the rear part of a symbol in this order or to the rear part and the front part of the symbol in this order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Jung Yeol Oh, Hyungsoo Lee, Sang Sung Choi
  • Publication number: 20150043680
    Abstract: This invention proposes an alternative modulation format for channels that present improved performance when such channels co-propagate with existing intensity modulated channels. This modulation format is named Rhombic-QPSK (R-QPSK) and it is designed in such a way that it presents more tolerance to phase noise created by the nonlinear interaction with the legacy channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2014
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Applicant: NEC LABORATORIES AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Eduardo Mateo Rodriquez, Fatih Yaman, Shaoliang Zhang, Ting Wang
  • Patent number: 8948308
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method of transmitting hierarchically modulated signals are provided. The present invention includes: a basic layer symbol generator generating a first layer signal; an enhancement layer symbol generator generating a second layer signal synchronized with the first layer signal and having different signal power; and a hierarchical modulator hierarchically modulating the first layer signal and the second layer signal, wherein the enhancement layer symbol generator performs constellation rotation rotating bundles configured as constellation points formed by the second layer signal based on constellation points of the first layer signal by a predetermined angle. According to the exemplary embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to improve the receiving performance of the second layer signals by applying the constellation rotation technology to the second layer signals in regards of the signal transmission system using the hierarchical modulation technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Hyoung Soo Lim, Tae Jin Jung
  • Patent number: 8948292
    Abstract: In determining an angle for a phase modulation scheme, a key is generated from a prescribed set of bits contained in a symbol. The symbols have an in-phase (I) data word and a quadrature phase (Q) data word that identify coordinates of the symbols in a complex number plane. An angle is retrieved from a memory table from a storage location identified by the key. Each angle in the memory table is established in accordance with constraints under which the memory table was populated so as to be mapped to a phase angle identifying other coordinates in the complex number plane that are within a specified neighborhood about the coordinates of each of the symbols. A signal is generated to convey the symbols as phase differentials at each sample time between a reference phase and the phase angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Exelis Inc.
    Inventor: William J. Taft
  • Patent number: 8942327
    Abstract: The present invention employs hierarchical modulation to simultaneously transmit information on different modulation layers using a carrier RF signal. Initially, first data to be transmitted is assigned to a first modulation layer and second data is assigned to a second modulation layer. In one embodiment of the present invention, the first and second data are assigned based on reliability criteria. The first and second modulation layers are hierarchical modulation layers of the carrier RF signal. Once assigned, the first data is transmitted using the first modulation layer of the carrier RF signal and the second data is transmitted using the second modulation layer of the carrier RF signal. In one embodiment of the present invention, information may be transmitted to one end user using one modulation layer, and information may be transmitted to a different end user using a different modulation layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ming Jia, Jianglei Ma, Peiying Zhu, Wen Tong, Curt Dodd
  • Patent number: 8942298
    Abstract: Data communication apparatus comprising transmission means adapted to transmit data as the ratio of pairs of frequencies between objects that are moving relative to one another. It is particularly applicable to acoustic data communications at ultrasound frequencies in air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Sonitor Technologies AS
    Inventors: Sverre Holm, Rune Holm
  • Publication number: 20150016570
    Abstract: A transmission method simultaneously transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal at a common frequency performs precoding on both signals using a fixed precoding matrix and regularly changes the phase of at least one of the signals, thereby improving received data signal quality for a reception device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventors: Yutaka MURAKAMI, Tomohiro KIMURA, Mikihiro OUCHI
  • Publication number: 20150016569
    Abstract: An antenna modulation method applicable to a transmitter comprising a processing unit which is configured to execute functions including at least but not limited to receiving a symbol represented by a bit stream; converting the bit stream into a coordinate point of a signal constellation comprising a horizontal-axis component and a vertical-axis component; converting, from the horizontal-axis component of the coordinate point, a first vector having at least a first entry and a second entry; converting, from the vertical-axis component of the coordinate point, a second vector having at least a third entry and a fourth entry; generating a third vector having at least a fifth entry and a sixth entry by summing the first vector and the second vector; and activating at least one of the first antenna and the second antennas based on one or more non-zero entries of the third vector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2014
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventor: Ping-Heng Kuo
  • Publication number: 20150003567
    Abstract: A transmitting device, a receiving device, and a communication method for transmitting and receiving data modulated on frequency subcarriers of an OFDM communication system. An OFDM burst includes a preamble part and payload data part, whereby the preamble includes a section of pilot symbols mapped onto every n-th frequency subcarrier and signaling data mapped onto the frequency subcarriers between the frequency subcarriers with the pilot symbols. A first channel estimation on the basis of the received pilot symbols is performed, the result of which is used to reconstruct the entire section of the received preamble as a training pattern for an accurate channel estimation, which is used for a channel equalization of the received payload part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2014
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicant: Sony Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Lothar STADELMEIER, Markus ZUMKELLER, Andreas SCHWAGER, Stephen TIEDEMANN, Gralf GAEDEKEN
  • Patent number: 8923439
    Abstract: A method of performing complementary mixing may include performing an exclusive OR (XOR) function with respect to an I-channel symbol based on an oscillator signal to produce an I-channel output signal with bits that alternate between the I-channel symbol and a complement of the I-channel symbol in response to the oscillator signal rising and falling. The method may also include performing the XOR function with respect to a Q-channel symbol based on the oscillator signal to produce a Q-channel output signal with bits that alternate between the Q-channel symbol and a complement of the Q-channel symbol in response to the oscillator signal. Further, the method may include combining the I-channel output signal and the Q-channel output signal based on adding operations performed with respect to an I-channel extra bit signal, a Q-channel extra bit signal, the I-channel output signal, and the Q-channel output signal to generate a complementary mixed signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: Chuanzhao Yu, Mark Kirschenmann
  • Patent number: 8923438
    Abstract: A dual rate transmitter may include a modulator circuit configured to modulate orthogonal signals to generate a quadrature modulated signal. An amplifier may be configured to amplify the quadrature modulated signal to produce an amplified signal. A quadrature partial response (QPR) filter may be configured to process the amplified signal to generate an output signal. The QPR filter may allow for full rate QPR and half rate QPSK operation of the transmitter device. The output signal may be transmitted via an antenna. This transmitter approach provides a bandwidth efficiency improvement, as the QPR signal may be operated at twice the rate within the same bandwidth as the quadrature modulated signal using a common saturated transmitter implementation, reducing quantity of components and the resulting mass and cost reduction for a space transmitter solution. Additionally, this approach of using QPR signaling provides greater power efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventors: William J. Taft, Anthony Eddy, George Silverman, James E. Bowe, Harold D. Babb, David O. Sieberns, Christopher C. Bianchi
  • Patent number: 8909159
    Abstract: Embodiments of a system and methodology are disclosed for aperiodic (i.e., non-periodic) feedback of channel-side information, such as channel rank information, to a base station by having the receiver/UE initiate the feedback instead of using a scheduled feedback approach. The autonomous feedback of channel-side information may use one of several different types of physical channel structures for uplink scheduling requests, such as those being discussed for inclusion in the emerging LTE platform standard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jayesh H. Kotecha, James W. McCoy
  • Publication number: 20140355719
    Abstract: A mobile communications method, device, and system for adjusting a phase parameter in a diversity signal, based at least in part on phase feedback from a base station. While in uplink communication with a base station, a mobile device may receive a phase feedback signal from the base station. The mobile device may calculate a modified value of a phase parameter based on the phase feedback signal in order to transmit diversity signals with a gradual change in phase difference. The modified value may be between a phase parameter value indicated by the base station's phase feedback signal and a phase parameter value initially transmitted by the mobile device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Inventors: Sherwin J. WANG, Eduardo ABREU, Haim HAREL
  • Publication number: 20140341321
    Abstract: A transmitter and a transmitting method thereof are provided. The transmitter is configured to generate a first symbol sequence which includes a plurality of first symbols in which adjacent symbols correspond to different users, modulate the first symbol sequence into a second symbol sequence which includes a plurality of second symbols in which every two adjacent symbols correspond to one of the first symbols, and transmit the second symbol sequence. The transmitter is also configured to generate a first symbol sequence which includes a plurality of first symbols corresponding to a user, modulate the first symbol sequence into a second symbol sequence which includes a specific symbol and a plurality of second symbols, and transmit the second symbol sequence. The specific symbol and one of the second symbols correspond to one of the first symbols.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2014
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Applicant: Institute For Information Industry
    Inventors: Tsung-Yu TSAI, Hsuan-Li LIN
  • Patent number: 8891680
    Abstract: A transmission arrangement for modulating useful signals onto a carrier frequency signal has a frequency generator for generating the carrier frequency signal, a first modulation path for modulating a first useful signal onto the carrier frequency signal, and a second modulation path for modulating a second useful signal onto the carrier frequency signal. The first modulation path has a digital modulator for providing an amplitude signal and a Cartesian signal pair from the first useful signal and a Cartesian modulator for modulating the Cartesian signal pair onto the carrier frequency signal in order to provide an intermediate signal. The first modulation path is configured in such a manner that the amplitude signal is modulated onto the intermediate signal in order to provide an output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd Adler, Andre Hanke
  • Patent number: 8890634
    Abstract: A modulator generates a baseband digital signal from an information-bearing digital signal. The baseband signal has time-varying phase and amplitude defined by a sequence of complex data words, each having an in-phase (I) component and a quadrature (Q) component. A noise-shaping modulator generates a noise-shaped digital signal from the baseband digital signal such that quantization noise in the noise-shaping modulator is attenuated by a spectral null of its noise transfer function. The spectral null is selected by a noise-shaping parameter corresponding to a selected one of a plurality of output frequencies. A signal converter generates an analog signal conveying the information of the information-bearing digital signal on an analog carrier signal having the selected output frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: MStar Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Dennis Mahoney, Bernard Ginetti, Zhongxuan Zhang, Khurram Muhammad, Chih-Ming Hung, Ming-Yu Hsieh
  • Patent number: 8885768
    Abstract: Some embodiments relate to a phase shifter that includes an I/Q phase shifter and at least one LC balun. Compared to conventional phase shifters, phase shifter has primarily only LC components, thereby limiting losses relative to conventional solutions. In one embodiment, for example, a phase shifter shows a large bandwidth at 77 GHz center frequency (e.g., 1 dB amplitude error bandwidth is approximately 40 GHz; 1° phase error bandwidth is about 16.5 GHz). The inductors included in phase shifter, in contrast to the quarter wave transmission lines used in conventional phase shifters, reduces chip area compared with conventional solutions. In some embodiments, an emitter follower helps to provide a relatively constant output that is largely independent of temperature, input power, VCC, manufacturing variation, and so on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Shoujun Yang, Johann Peter Forstner, Guenter Haider
  • Patent number: 8885769
    Abstract: A transmission method simultaneously transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal at a common frequency performs precoding on both signals using a fixed precoding matrix and regularly changes the phase of at least one of the signals, thereby improving received data signal quality for a reception device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignees: Panasonic Corporation, Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi
  • Publication number: 20140328435
    Abstract: A method for transmitting a data unit, performed by a transmitting station, in a wireless local area network system is provided. The method includes generating a repeated bit sequence, generating an interleaved bit sequence by interleaving the repeated bit sequence, generating at least one symbol by modulating the interleaved bit sequence, generating at least one OFDM symbol by performing IDFT (Inverse Discrete Fourier Transform) on the at least one symbol and transmitting the at least one OFDM symbol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2012
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyang Sun YOU, Yong Ho SEOK, Jong Hyun PARK
  • Publication number: 20140328434
    Abstract: The invention relates to a transmitter front-end device for generating output signals representing a digital stream, wherein the device has at least one first input for a first input signal and at least one second input for a second input signal, with the first input signal and the second input signal representing a complex data signal of the digital stream and being intended to influence an output signal of the transmitter front-end device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2012
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicant: RWTH Aachen
    Inventors: Renato Negra, Bjorn Thorsten Thiel