Phase Shift Keying Patents (Class 375/329)
  • Patent number: 12096364
    Abstract: A Wi-Fi wake-up receiver that receives wake-up signals encoded using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing based on-off keying (OFDM-OOK) modulation includes receiver circuitry having analog envelope detector circuitry configured to non-linearly down-convert an input signal and provide an energy signal for sampling by an analog-to-digital converter (ADC). A wake-up signal for waking up a main radio in a Wi-Fi device can be based on the digitized energy signal. The receiver circuitry can further include, upstream of the envelope detector circuitry and the ADC in the signal chain, an analog mixer for linearly down-converting the input signal and a low-pass filter for attenuating adjacent-channel interferer (ACI) signals prior to the non-linear down-conversion by the envelope detector circuitry. Sampling of the energy signal rather than the higher-bandwidth input signal yield power savings in the ADC and associated circuitry such as a modem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Sucheth Suresh Babu Kuncham, Arnab Das, Pranav Sinha, Meghna Agrawal
  • Patent number: 12081250
    Abstract: A technology is described for a repeater architecture having a combined direct digital channelizer (DDC). The DDC can be coupled to a signal combiner and a breakout signal divider to enable bidirectional signals to be communicated to the DDC. A first direction receive amplification and filtering path can be coupled between a first antenna port and the signal combiner. A second direction receive amplification and filtering path can be coupled between a second antenna port and the signal combiner. A first direction transmit amplification and filtering path can be coupled between the breakout signal divider and the first antenna port. A second direction transmit amplification and filtering path can be coupled between the breakout signal divider and the second antenna port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Wilson Electronics, LLC
    Inventors: Dale Robert Anderson, Christopher Ken Ashworth
  • Patent number: 12074753
    Abstract: A communication device including one or more processors configured to determine a first signal component of a received modulated signal; determine a second signal component of the received modulated signal; generate a phase shift of the first signal component; generate a phase shift of the second signal component; compare the phase shift of the first signal component and the phase shift of the second signal component with each other; and generate a plurality of constellation points, wherein each of the plurality of constellation point is based on the determination of the first signal component, the determination of the second signal component, and the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Oner Orhan, Hosein Nikopour, Mehnaz Rahman
  • Patent number: 12052077
    Abstract: There is provided mechanisms for configuring beamforming settings. A method is performed by a wireless radio transceiver device configured to communicate in directional beams. The method comprises obtaining a performance indication requiring configuration of the beamforming settings of the wireless radio transceiver device. The method comprises selecting a similarity measure objective based on what kind of performance indication was obtained. The method comprises determining, based on the similarity measure objective and results from a similarity measure procedure applied to pairs of received signals, an order in which to evaluate the directional beams when configuring the beamforming settings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Andreas Nilsson, Fredrik Athley, Sven Petersson
  • Patent number: 12009831
    Abstract: A system includes an ADC configured to generate a superposition signal by the ADC being configured to under-sample an input signal at a sampling frequency in which the input signal that is input to the analog to digital converter has a bandwidth and the sampling frequency is less than a Nyquist rate for the bandwidth of the input signal. The system includes a digital signal processor (DSP) configured to digitally process the superposition signal to separate the superposition signal into a plurality of bitstreams, where each of the plurality of bitstreams corresponds to information in a different one of a plurality of separable, distinct frequency bands within the input signal. The information in the superposition signal for at least one of the said plurality of bitstreams is present in the input signal at frequencies greater than the sampling frequency, and the DSP is configured to output said plurality of bitstreams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrei Alexandru Enescu, Wim Joseph Rouwet
  • Patent number: 11985019
    Abstract: An transmission apparatus of the present disclosure comprises a transmission signal generator which, in operation, generates a transmission signal that includes a legacy preamble, a non-legacy preamble and a data field, wherein the non-legacy preamble comprises a first signal field and a second signal field, the second signal field comprising a first channel field and a second channel field, each of the first channel field and the second channel field comprising a common field that carries resource unit (RU) allocation information and a user-specific field that carries per-user allocation information for one or more terminal stations, and wherein a part of the user-specific field of one of the first channel field and the second channel field whichever is longer than the other channel field in length before appending padding bits is relocated to the other channel field; and a transmitter which, in operation, transmits the generated transmission signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Lei Huang, Yoshio Urabe, Michael Hong Cheng Sim
  • Patent number: 11899120
    Abstract: A navigation processing system includes at least one processor configured to execute operational instructions that cause the at least one processor to perform operations that include generating navigation data. A data stream is generated based on the navigation data and a data channel spreading sequence. A pilot stream is generated based on a pilot channel spreading sequence. A navigation signal is generated based on applying a bandwidth-efficient modulation scheme to the data stream and the pilot stream. The navigation is signal is broadcast via a navigation signal transmitter for receipt by at least one client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Xona Space Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Martin Grayson, Andrew Michael Neish, Joshua Earl McGhee
  • Patent number: 11784777
    Abstract: A methods and apparatuses for providing and configuring channel state information (CSI) reports. A method of operating a user equipment includes receiving a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) and generating, based on the CSI-RS reception, a first CSI report and a second CSI report. The first CSI report includes a first channel quality indicator (CQI) index from a first set of CQI indexes and the second CSI report includes a second CQI index from a second set of CQI indexes. The method further includes transmitting the first CSI report in a first channel and the second CSI report in a second channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Aris Papasakellariou
  • Patent number: 11716687
    Abstract: An access point (AP) that supports the IEEE 802.11ba protocol may transmit a frame including a physical layer (PHY) preamble to one or more stations (STAs) over a channel. The PHY preamble may include a plurality of repeated modulated legacy signal (L-SIG) fields to spoof a recipient of the frame and protect a wake up signal (WUS) to be subsequently transmitted by the AP. The AP may transmit the WUS to at least a first STA of the one or more STAs, wherein the at least the first STA is a IEEE 802.11ba compliant STA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Alphan Sahin, Rui Yang, Frank La Sita, Hanqing Lou, Xiaofei Wang, Li Hsiang Sun
  • Patent number: 11658853
    Abstract: An operation method of a receiver, which includes setting a coefficient of an equalizer based on one of a plurality of first codes, setting a coefficient of an amplifier based on one of a plurality of second codes, performing offset calibration by driving the equalizer and the amplifier based on the coefficient of the equalizer and the coefficient of the amplifier, storing an offset code corresponding to a voltage offset generated when the equalizer and the amplifier are driven, determining whether the offset calibration is completed, performing a normal operation of obtaining reception data from an input signal, in response to determining that the offset calibration is completed, and removing the voltage offset based on the offset code, in the normal operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Younghwan Chang, Eun-Young Jin, Youngseo Kim, Kilhoon Lee, Hyunwook Lim, Seng-Sub Chun
  • Patent number: 11652759
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for preamble detection in a communication network are disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment, a method includes retrieving parameters from a parameter database, filling a buffer of preamble data received in an uplink transmission from user equipment, and frequency shifting the buffer of preamble data based on one or more first parameters to generate frequency shifted data. The method also includes oversampling the frequency shifted data to generates oversampled data, downsampling the over sampled data based on one or more second parameters to generate preamble samples, and updating the parameter database with updated values for the one or more first and second parameters. The method also includes repeating all the operations until a selected amount of preamble samples is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Marvell Asia Pte, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hyun Soo Cheon
  • Patent number: 11489656
    Abstract: A wireless station includes at least one oscillator to output a reference signal, and an error calculator to calculate a frequency of the reference signal and calculate a frequency error by subtracting a target frequency of the reference signal from the calculated frequency of the reference signal. The wireless station further includes a modulation data generator to generate modulation data by adding a correction value, varying in negative correlation with the frequency error calculated by the error calculator, to data to be transmitted, and a modulator to conduct frequency modulation on the basis of the modulation data and the reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: ICOM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Takeo Tomita, Masaki Akasaka, Yasuo Ueno
  • Patent number: 11349540
    Abstract: A beam allocation method and apparatus, relating to the field of communications. The method includes: determining a first network device set, where the first network device set includes to-be-scheduled first network devices; allocating transceivers in a second network device to n first network devices in the first network device set, where n?2; and respectively allocating n beams in different directions simultaneously generated by the transceiver to the n first network devices, where the n first network devices occupy different subbands in a frequency band corresponding to the beams. In this application, coverage of a beam during an instance during scheduling may be expanded. In addition, users may simultaneously transmit data, and there is no waiting latency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fei Wang, Longke He
  • Patent number: 11323231
    Abstract: A methods and apparatuses for providing and configuring channel state information (CSI) reports. A method of operating a user equipment includes receiving a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) and generating, based on the CSI-RS reception, a first CSI report and a second CSI report. The first CSI report includes a first channel quality indicator (CQI) index from a first set of CQI indexes and the second CSI report includes a second CQI index from a second set of CQI indexes. The method further includes transmitting the first CSI report in a first channel and the second CSI report in a second channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Aris Papasakellariou
  • Patent number: 11316506
    Abstract: A signal analysis method for analyzing a pulse modulated input signal is described. The signal analysis method includes: receiving the pulse modulated input signal, the input signal including a symbol sequence; recovering a clock signal from the input signal, the clock signal being associated with the input signal; sampling the input signal based on the clock signal, thereby obtaining a set of input signal samples, each of the input signal samples having a certain level being constant over time; determining at least two different levels of input signal samples being associated with different symbols of the symbol sequence; and determining at least one decision threshold based on the at least two different levels determined previously, the decision threshold being associated with a symbol transition of the symbol sequence. Further, a signal analysis apparatus is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Andrew Schaefer, Iqbal Bawa
  • Patent number: 11206163
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes a time-to-digital converter (TDC) based RF-to-digital (RDC) data converter for time domain signal processing polar receivers. Polar data conversion achieves better SNR tolerance owing to its phase convergence near the origin in a polar coordinate. The proposed RDC consists of a TDC for phase detection and an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) for amplitude conversion. Unlike the conversional data converter, the proposed ADC's sampling position is guided by the detected phase result from the TDC's output. This TDC assisted data-converter architecture reduces the number of bits required for the ADC. In addition, oversampling is no longer needed. With precisely controlled tunable delay cells and gain compensator, this hybrid data convertor is capable to directly convert Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) waveforms and Amplitude Phase Shift Keying (APSK) waveforms directly from the RF signal without down-conversion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Auburn University
    Inventors: Fa Dai, Hechen Wang
  • Patent number: 11165611
    Abstract: Methods and systems are described for generating two comparator outputs by comparing a received signal to a first threshold and a second threshold according to a sampling clock, the first and second thresholds determined by an estimated amount of inter-symbol interference on a multi-wire bus, selecting one of the two comparator outputs as a data decision, the selection based on at least one prior data decision, and selecting one of the two comparator outputs as a phase-error decision, the phase error decision selected in response to identification of a predetermined data decision pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: KANDOU LABS, S.A.
    Inventors: Ali Hormati, Richard Simpson
  • Patent number: 11121767
    Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a first wireless communication node for transmitting a data signal that is sent to a second wireless communication node by skywave propagation over at least two different data transmission paths. The first data transmission path includes at least one reflection point where the data signal is reflected by the atmosphere and the second data transmission path includes more reflection points than the first data transmission path. The data signal that travelled along the first data transmission path is decoded before the data signal that travelled along the second data transmission path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Skywave Networks LLC
    Inventor: Kevin J. Babich
  • Patent number: 11082280
    Abstract: System for adjusting a reference constellation for demodulating an optical signal include a coherent electro-optical receiver configured to convert a received optical signal to a plurality of electrical signals, an array of analog-to-digital convertors configured to digitize the plurality of electrical signals, and processor logic. The processor logic is configured to process the digitized plurality of electrical signals using a reference constellation to yield a plurality of decoded signals and a signal quality measurement. The reference constellation includes an inphase component equal to an ideal inphase component plus an inphase offset and a quadrature component equal to an ideal quadrature component plus a quadrature offset. The processor logic is configured to determine an optimal inphase offset and optimal quadrature offset. The processor logic is configured to update the reference constellation using the optimal inphase offset and the optimal quadrature offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Hong Liu, Xiang Zhou
  • Patent number: 11032103
    Abstract: Ethernet link extension methods and devices provide, in one illustrative embodiment, an Ethernet link extender with physical medium attachment (PMA) circuits each having a transmitter and receiver that communicate with a respective node in a sequence of communication phases. The sequence includes at least an auto-negotiation phase and a subsequent training phase, the phases occurring simultaneously for both PMA circuits. In the auto-negotiation phase, the PMA circuits operate in a pass-through mode, rendering the extender transparent to the two nodes. In the training phase, the PMA circuits operate independently, sending training frames to their respective nodes based in part on received back-channel information and locally-determined training status information. The training phases may be prolonged if needed to provide a simultaneous transition to a frame-forwarding phase of the sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Credo Technology Group Limited
    Inventors: Yifei Dai, Haoli Qian, Jeff Twombly
  • Patent number: 10972202
    Abstract: Systems and methods for classifying a P25 Phase 1 downlink transmission as using either C4FM modulation or CQPSK modulation are provided. Some methods can include calculating a first signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) at or near a middle of a first symbol of a received wireless signal, calculating a second SNR at or near an edge of the first symbol, calculating a difference between the second SNR and the first SNR, determining whether the difference is greater than a threshold, and classifying a modulation technique of the received wireless signal as either C4FM modulation or CQPSK modulation based on whether the difference is greater than the threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: PC-TEL, INC.
    Inventors: Wei Zha, Gang Wang
  • Patent number: 10735176
    Abstract: A data transmission link includes a transmitter superpositioning a data signal and a clock signal to generate a first signal. The transmitter transmits the first signal, through a link, wherein, the clock signal has a frequency equal to or higher than a Nyquist frequency of the data signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Inventor: Payam Heydari
  • Patent number: 10673591
    Abstract: Pilot tones are included within symbols (e.g., orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols) transmitted between wireless communication devices. The pilot tones occupy fewer than all tone locations in any given symbol, and the pilot tones occupy different respective locations within different symbols. Generally, these traveling pilots are assigned to different respective tone locations in different symbols. In total, the pilot tones did not cover every single tone location within the symbols used to convey information between devices. Considering for example, when pilots occupy fewer than all tone locations, even among multiple symbols, a device may perform interpolation to generate a pilot tone estimate corresponding to a tone location not occupied by pilot tone within any symbol. Also, power or magnitude of the pilot tones themselves may be boosted or amplified relative to power magnitude of other tones within such symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Avago Technologies International Sale Pte. Limited
    Inventor: Ron Porat
  • Patent number: 10656017
    Abstract: Methods and systems to extract a spectrum of a hyperspectral interferogram, with innovative treatment of off-axis spectral correction and other features, which may be efficiently performed on-board a satellite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Eagle Technology, LLC
    Inventors: Paul Maurer, Anna J. Glumb
  • Patent number: 10652820
    Abstract: Accordingly, systems and methods for managing power when the number of training and data tones are increased in a wireless communications system are provided. An L-SIG field is generated that includes a set of data and pilot tones, wherein the pilot tones are inserted between the data tones in the set of data and pilot tones. A plurality of training tones is added to the L-SIG field before and after the set of data and pilot tones. A symbol is generated that includes the L-SIG field, an L-LTF field, and a data field, wherein the training tones of the L-SIG field provide channel estimates for the data field. Power of the L-LTF field is managed relative to power of the L-SIG field in the generated symbol in a time domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Hongyuan Zhang, Mingguang Xu, Yakun Sun
  • Patent number: 10609464
    Abstract: A wireless microphone and/or in-ear monitoring system having at least one first mobile device for wirelessly transmitting first audio signals. The system also has at least one base station for wirelessly receiving the first audio signals transmitted by the mobile device. The wireless transmission is based on an orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing transmission (OFDM) during a time-division multiple access (TDMA) time slot. Each wireless microphone occupies at least one slot within 2 ms. Each of the TDMA frames has a plurality of slots which respectively have precisely one OFDM symbol. Accordingly, precisely one OFDM symbol is transmitted in each TDMA slot. During a time slot made available in accordance with the TDMA, a transmission is effected on the basis of an OFDM method. The TDMA frame length is so short as a latency of <4 ms is required for professional audio transmission, for example in the case of wireless microphone systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Sennheiser electronic GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Sebastian Georgi, Jan Watermann
  • Patent number: 10511409
    Abstract: An appropriate synthesized signal cannot be obtained by only correcting relative phase errors of a plurality of received signals; therefore, a received signal processor according to an exemplary aspect of the present invention includes a plurality of signal-to-noise ratio estimation means for estimating respective signal-to-noise ratios of a plurality of digital signal sequences in which relative phase errors of a plurality of received signal sequences having been corrected; a plurality of temporary decision means for performing symbol decisions of the plurality of digital signal sequences and outputting symbol signal sequences; symbol-map-rotation determination means for determining respective phase rotation amounts of the plurality of digital signal sequences from the plurality of symbol signal sequences and the respective signal-to-noise ratios of the plurality of digital signal sequences; and a plurality of phase rotation means for rotating phases of the plurality of digital signal sequences respectively
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kohei Hosokawa, Toshiharu Ito, Manabu Arikawa, Seigo Takahashi, Takashi Ishikawa, Yoshimasa Ono
  • Patent number: 10484230
    Abstract: System for adjusting a reference constellation for demodulating an optical signal include a coherent electro-optical receiver configured to convert a received optical signal to a plurality of electrical signals, an array of analog-to-digital convertors configured to digitize the plurality of electrical signals, and processor logic. The processor logic is configured to process the digitized plurality of electrical signals using a reference constellation to yield a plurality of decoded signals and a signal quality measurement. The reference constellation includes an inphase component equal to an ideal inphase component plus an inphase offset and a quadrature component equal to an ideal quadrature component plus a quadrature offset. The processor logic is configured to determine an optimal inphase offset and optimal quadrature offset. The processor logic is configured to update the reference constellation using the optimal inphase offset and the optimal quadrature offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Hong Liu, Xiang Zhou
  • Patent number: 10362379
    Abstract: A wireless microphone and/or in-ear monitoring system having at least one first mobile device for wirelessly transmitting first audio signals. The system also has at least one base station for wirelessly receiving the first audio signals transmitted by the mobile device. The wireless transmission is based on an orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing transmission (OFDM) during a time-division multiple access (TDMA) time slot. Each wireless microphone occupies at least one slot within 2 ms. Each of the TDMA frames has a plurality of slots which respectively have precisely one OFDM symbol. Accordingly, precisely one OFDM symbol is transmitted in each TDMA slot. During a time slot made available in accordance with the TDMA, a transmission is effected on the basis of an OFDM method. The TDMA frame length is so short as a latency of <4 ms is required for professional audio transmission, for example in the case of wireless microphone systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Sennheiser electronic GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Sebastian Georgi, Jan Watermann
  • Patent number: 10320403
    Abstract: Wideband polar receivers and method of operation are described. A phase-modulated input signal is received at a polar receiver that includes an injection-locked oscillator. The injection-locked oscillator includes a plurality of injection points. Based on the frequency of the input signal, a particular Nth harmonic is selected, and the input signal is injected at the set of injection points corresponding to the selected Nth harmonic. The injection-locked oscillator generates an oscillator output signal, and the phase of the input signal is determined from the phase of the oscillator output signal. In some embodiments, the oscillator output signal is frequency-multiplied by N, mixed with the input signal, and filtered for use in amplitude detection. The input signal is decoded based on the phase and amplitude information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Innophase Inc.
    Inventors: Yang Xu, Sara Munoz Hermoso, Roc Berenguer Perez
  • Patent number: 10247967
    Abstract: A Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM) includes a first optical path with a first diode coupled to a first voltage signal node and configured to modify a phase of a first light signal transmitted through the first optical path. A further diode is positioned in the first optical path and configured to introduce a phase shift to the first light signal. A second optical path includes a second diode coupled to a second voltage signal node and configured to modify a phase of a second light signal transmitted through the second optical path. A first voltage signal carried on the first voltage signal node and a second voltage signal carried on the second voltage signal node each vary between a reverse biasing voltage level and a forward biasing voltage level. An optical coupler is coupled to the first and second optical paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS SA
    Inventors: Valerie Danelon, Denis Pache
  • Patent number: 10171275
    Abstract: A wireless transmitter, comprises a frame generator configured to generate a frame by including an auxiliary preamble, an auxiliary syncword, a guard, a preamble, an address, a packet control, a payload and a CRC; a modulator communicatively coupled to the frame generator and configured to modulate the frame according to a variable transmission rate and include the transmission rate in the auxiliary syncword; and a RF front end communicatively coupled to the modulator and configured to transmit the modulated signal to a receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: BEKEN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yiming Huang, Weifeng Wang
  • Patent number: 10172105
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a radio frequency (RF) receiver having a multi-bit observation interval. The RF receiver includes a Coordinate Rotation Digital Computer (Cordic) circuit to receive a complex signal derived from RF signals and to generate a phase signal. The RF receiver further includes a timing correlator and frequency offset estimator coupled to receive data derived from a frequency signal derived from the phase signal. The RF receiver in addition includes a Viterbi decoder coupled to provide decoded data derived from the frequency signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Silicon Laboratories Inc.
    Inventors: Hendricus de Ruijter, Ping Xiong, Wentao Li
  • Patent number: 10122331
    Abstract: Aspects of this disclosure relate to systems and methods of performing dynamic impedance tuning. Certain aspects may be performed by or include a dynamic impedance matching network. The dynamic impedance matching network can determine a desired output power for a power amplifier, true power information for the power amplifier, and an output power delivered to a load by the power amplifier. In addition, the dynamic impedance matching network can determine whether the output power satisfies the true power information. Responsive to this determination, the dynamic impedance matching network may modify a load line impedance for the power amplifier using an impedance tuning network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Skyworks, Inc.
    Inventors: James Phillip Young, Joel Anthony Penticoff
  • Patent number: 10084481
    Abstract: A decoder includes circuitry and a soft decoder. The circuitry is configured to receive channel hard decisions for respective bits of a Generalized Low-Density Parity Check (GLDPC) code word that includes multiple component code words, including first and second component code words having one or more shared bits, to schedule decoding of the GLDPC code word, and following the decoding, to output the decoded GLDPC code word. The soft decoder is configured to receive the channel hard decisions corresponding to the first component code word, to further receive soft reliability measures that were assigned to the shared bits in decoding the second component code word, and to decode the first component code word based on the channel hard decisions and the soft reliability measures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Naftali Sommer, Moti Teitel, Micha Anholt
  • Patent number: 10009202
    Abstract: An apparatus for decoding a data modulated signal includes a signal receiver that receives a data modulated signal that is encoded with phase-shift keying (PSK) and provides an amplified signal corresponding to the data modulated signal, a tunable phase shifter that receives a local reference signal and a selected phase shift, applies the selected phase shift to the local reference signal to produce a phase shifted reference signal, a summing unit that sums the amplified signal and the phase shifted reference signal to produce a summed signal, an amplitude detector that determines an amplitude of the summed signal, and a symbol detector that varies the selected phase shift and determines a current symbol within the data modulated signal based on the amplitude of the summed signal as the selected phase shift is varied. A corresponding method is also disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Alberto Valdes Garcia, Wayne H. Woods, Jr., Bodhisatwa Sadhu
  • Patent number: 9887752
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing control signaling overhead for a multi-carrier HSDPA (MC-HSDPA) may be disclosed. In particular, a plurality of downlink carriers may be received and bundled or paired. Configuration information indicative of the bundling may then be generated and transmitted. Additionally, one or more components such as antennas, user equipment (UE), and the like may receive an indication of a configuration or state via a high speed shared control channel (HS-SCCH) order where the indication includes order bits and order types and the configuration may be applied to activate and/or deactivate the components or operations such as uplink closed-loop transmit diversity (CLTD), uplink multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO). The order bits and/or order types may also be extended to support the activation/deactivation of additional carriers of MC-HSDPA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Fengjun Xi, Lujing Cai, Joseph S. Levy, Benoit Pelletier, Hong O. Zhang
  • Patent number: 9836272
    Abstract: An audio signal processing apparatus that includes a band division section, an analysis section, a gain adjustment amount calculation section, and a gain adjustment section. The band division section is configured to generate a resonance in-band signal by band division on an audio input signal. The analysis section is configured to extract an amount of features from each of the resonance in-band signal and the input signal. The gain adjustment amount calculation section is configured to calculate a gain adjustment amount for a resonance frequency band in the input signal, the gain adjustment amount being calculated based on the amount of features of the resonance in-band signal and the amount of features of the input signal. The gain adjustment section is configured to perform a gain adjustment on the resonance frequency band in the input signal based on the gain adjustment amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akifumi Kono, Toru Chinen, Minoru Tsuji
  • Patent number: 9491018
    Abstract: A least squares estimator of carrier phase and amplitude in a receiver in a communication system using a phase shift keying modulation scheme that uses both known pilot symbols and unknown data symbols is described. That is, the method exploits knowledge of pilot symbols in addition to the unknown data symbols to estimate carrier phase and amplitude. Further, an efficient recursion based estimation method is described that only requires O(L. log L) arithmetic operations where L is the number of received signals. This method uses the M-Ary rounded phase offsets to sort the data symbols and this sorted order is used to recursively calculate candidate values in an optimization process. Simulation results show that the estimation methods Using data and pilot symbols outperform estimation methods using only data symbols (ie non-coherent detection methods). Further, the system can be used for systems using multiple M-ary phase shift keying digital modulation schemes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: University of South Australia
    Inventors: William George Cowley, Robert George McKilliam, Andre Polok
  • Patent number: 9438383
    Abstract: A device is configured to transmit uplink data to a base station using a resource. The device may receive an acknowledgment from the base station based on the uplink data. The acknowledgment may indicate a positive acknowledgment or a negative acknowledgment. The device may decode the acknowledgment as the positive acknowledgment or the negative acknowledgment. The device may receive a control message from the base station indicating resource assignments for user devices. The device may determine the acknowledgement is falsely decoded as the positive acknowledgment or the negative acknowledgment based on the resource assignments. The device may selectively retransmit the uplink data to the base station using the resource based on whether the acknowledgment is falsely decoded as the positive acknowledgment or the negative acknowledgment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventor: Jignesh S. Panchal
  • Patent number: 9425807
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a timing synchronization circuit for a digital receiver structure that includes a timing error detection module comprising a phase difference calculation unit arranged for calculating a phase difference between incoming samples of a digital data stream, and a timing error estimator arranged for determining a timing error estimate based on the calculated phase difference, and for generating, based on the determined timing error estimate, a signal indicative of timing error detection. The circuit also includes a timing error control module arranged for receiving the signal indicative of timing error detection, for evaluating the number of received signals indicative of timing error detection and for outputting, after comparison with a threshold value, a sampling adjustment command for adjusting the sampling instants applied for obtaining the digital data stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Stichting IMEC Nederland
    Inventors: Christian Bachmann, Yan Zhang
  • Patent number: 9407404
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing control signaling overhead for a multi-carrier HSDPA (MC-HSDPA) may be disclosed. In particular, a plurality of downlink carriers may be received and bundled or paired. Configuration information indicative of the bundling may then be generated and transmitted. Additionally, one or more components such as antennas, user equipment (UE), and the like may receive an indication of a configuration or state via a high speed shared control channel (HS-SCCH) order where the indication includes order bits and order types and the configuration may be applied to activate and/or deactivate the components or operations such as uplink closed-loop transmit diversity (CLTD), uplink multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO). The order bits and/or order types may also be extended to support the activation/deactivation of additional carriers of MC-HSDPA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Fengjun Xi, Lujing Cai, Joseph S. Levy, Benoit Pelletier, Hong O. Zhang
  • Patent number: 9313075
    Abstract: Logic may calculate predicted phase rotations based upon more than one previously determined phase rotation. Logic may access memory to store and retrieve previously determined phase rotations to calculate predicted phase rotations. Logic may determine channel information updates such as channel state information and phase correction information from pilot tones that do not travel close to the direct current (DC) tone or the band edge (or guard) tones and replace the missing phase rotations with predicted phase rotations. Logic may skip phase tracking from pilot tones that have traveled close to the DC tone or the edge tones or that experience channel fading, which may result in a predicted phase rotation being more accurate than a phase rotation determined by processing the corresponding pilot tone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Shahrnaz Azizi, Eldad Perahia, Thomas J. Kenney
  • Patent number: 9299362
    Abstract: An audio signal processing device 100 includes a period detecting unit 102 for detecting the fundamental period of an input audio signal 101; a square wave generating unit 106 for generating, according to the fundamental period the period detecting unit 102 detects, a square wave 107 whose period is an integer multiple of the fundamental period; an amplitude correction coefficient generating unit 103 for calculating an amplitude correction coefficient 109 approximately equal and proportional to the intensity of the input audio signal 101; a first multiplier 108 for generating an amplitude-corrected square wave 110 by multiplying the square wave 107 by the amplitude correction coefficient 109; and an adder 104 for adding the amplitude-corrected square wave 110 to the input audio signal 101.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masaru Kimura, Bunkei Matsuoka, Takashi Yamazaki, Asako Omote
  • Patent number: 9267978
    Abstract: Various aspects of the disclosure are directed to methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for identifying network events. In one aspect, a method includes monitoring signal characteristic values for signals transmitted over a communications channel of a power line communications system and determining that a signal level value for the channel is less than a threshold signal level value for the channel. In response to determining that the signal level value for the channel is less than the threshold signal level value for the channel, a signal to noise ratio for the communications channel is computer and it is determined that the signal to noise ratio for the channel exceeds a threshold value. In response to determining that the signal to noise ratio for the communications channel exceeds the threshold value, storing data received over the communications channel is stored as valid data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Landis+Gyr Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Rodney Kohout, Stanley E. McHann, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9209815
    Abstract: A charge pump circuit for an optical phase lock loop, which includes first and second optical thyristors configured to receive respective first and second digital optical signal inputs. A first control circuit receives a first digital electrical signal input corresponding to the second digital optical signal input, and a second control circuit receives a second digital electrical signal input corresponding to the first digital optical signal input. The first control circuitry controls switching operation of the first optical thyristor that sources current to a first filter circuit in response to the levels of the first digital optical signal input and the first digital electrical signal input. The second control circuitry control switching operation of the second optical thyristor that sinks current from a second filter circuit in response to the levels of the second digital optical signal input and the second digital electrical signal input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignees: Opel Solar, Inc., The University of Connecticut
    Inventor: Geoff W. Taylor
  • Patent number: 9161324
    Abstract: A transmission point device, user equipment, and method of reporting phase offsets between signals received from a serving cell and neighbor cells in a communication system are disclosed. The method comprises steps of: quantizing the phase offsets using a predetermined number of bits; utilizing another bit to indicate constellation of the phase offsets; reporting the quantized phase offsets and the constellation to transmission point. The present disclosure may improve the signal combining gain from multiple transmission points with minimum overhead increasing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Hui Tong, Masayuki Hoshino, Akihiko Nishio, Ming Xu, Daichi Imamura
  • Patent number: 9077517
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a method, distributed antenna system, and components that generate a jitter reduced clock signal from a binary encoded data stream transmitted over a communication medium. The method includes receiving a modulated signal that includes the binary encoded data stream and generating a recovered clock signal that is phase locked to the binary encoded data stream. The method further comprises generating a stable recovered clock signal by filtering the recovered clock signal to remove jitter, while allowing the clock signal to track long-term drift.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: Commscope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Donald Robert McAllister, Christopher Goodman Ranson, Fred William Phillips
  • Patent number: 9071494
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for fast and precise estimation of frequency with relatively minimal sampling and relatively high tolerance to noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: The Aerospace Corporation
    Inventor: Rajendra Kumar
  • Patent number: 9071482
    Abstract: A wireless communication device for a CDMA system is configured to generate power estimates with reduced estimation bias. The power estimates may be used for delay estimation, MMSE channel estimation, demodulation, or other purposes. The wireless communication device produces first set of power estimates for a first set of delays and generates a model of the signal powers at the first set of delays as a function of the power leakage from non-aligned signal images in the received signal into the first set of delays. The wireless communication device then computes a second set of power estimates with reduced estimation bias based on the first set of power estimates and the model of the signal powers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventor: Andres Reial