Particular Pulse Demodulator Or Detector Patents (Class 375/340)
  • Patent number: 8903025
    Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting data in a received multiple-input-multiple-output signal are provided. First, second, and third signals are received and form a vector y. The received signals are associated with first, second, and third data values that form a vector x. A channel matrix (H) is received, and a QR decomposition of the channel matrix is performed, such that H=QR. The vector y is transformed into a vector z according to z=QHy. A distance value between the rector z and the vector x is determined for each possible third data value. A nearest constellation point is calculated based on a first of the possible third data values. The calculating step is repeated for each of the possible third data values to generate a set of constellation point triplets. The distance values are determined using the set of constellation point triplets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.
    Inventors: Manikandan Chandrasekar, Ping Gao, Lokesh Sundaramurthy Satrasala, Swaroop Venkatesh, Rohit U. Nabar
  • Patent number: 8902960
    Abstract: Eye diagram scan circuit and associated method for a receiver circuit, including a level adjust circuit, a phase interpolator and a control module. The receiver circuit provides a first data signal and a primary phase data according to a received signal. The control module provides a phase offset data and a level offset data. The level adjust circuit adjusts a level of the received signal in respond to the level offset data; the phase interpolator triggers according to a sum of the phase offset data and the primary phase data, so a second data signal is provide in response to the level-adjusted received signal. The control module compares the first data signal and the second data signal, and accordingly provides an eye diagram scan result for the phase offset data and the level offset data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignees: Global Unichip Corporation, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Liang-Hung Chen, Yen-Chung Chen, Jung-Chi Huang
  • Patent number: 8903024
    Abstract: Provided is an apparatus and method for iteratively detecting and decoding a received signal in a wireless communication system. An apparatus for iterative detection and decoding (IDD) in a wireless communication system may determine a predetermined group to be updated in a first soft decision sequence, may transmit detection control information of the determined group, and may generate a second soft decision sequence based on a detection operation result of a predetermined received signal portion that is extracted based on the detection control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Yong Ho Lee, Pan Soo Kim, Deock Gil Oh
  • Publication number: 20140348272
    Abstract: Embodiments of user equipment and methods for determining IQ imbalance parameters are described. In some embodiments, a method for determining in-phase (I) and Quadrature (Q) imbalance (IQ imbalance) parameters based on a known signal in a dual-carrier receiver using at least one controllable frequency offset includes receiving a known signal modulated onto a first radio frequency (RF) carrier frequency and a second RF carrier frequency different than the first RF carrier frequency. The known signal is downconverted to a baseband signal for the carriers by conversion from the respective RF carrier frequencies to an intermediate frequency (IF) using a common RF local oscillator (LO) and by further conversion from IF to baseband using carrier specific IF LOs, where a controllable frequency offset is used. Any controllable frequency offset is removed from the baseband signal for the first and second carriers to produce representations of the received signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Inventors: Chester Park, Jim Svensson
  • Publication number: 20140348271
    Abstract: Aspects of the invention include methods and devices for inserting data and pilot symbols into Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) frames having a time domain and a frequency domain. A method involves inserting in at least one zone of a first type a two dimensional array of data and pilot symbols in time and frequency and inserting in at least one zone of a second type a two dimensional array of data and pilot symbols in time and frequency. In some implementations the zone of the first type comprises common pilot symbols that can be detected by all receivers receiving the OFDM frame. In some implementations the zone of the second type comprises dedicated pilot symbols that are only detectable by a receiver that is aware of pre-processing used to encode the dedicated pilot symbols.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Inventors: Jianglei Ma, Ming Jia, Wen Tong, Peiying Zhu, Hang Zhang, Mo-Han Fong
  • Publication number: 20140348270
    Abstract: A signal handling device (14) for handling a signal (S2, S3, S4) transmitted through a body, where the signal is coded with a coding scheme and associated clock rate, comprises a receiving unit (22) configured to receive the signal (S2), a signal sampler (30) configured to sample at least a section of the signal with a sample rate that is higher than the clock rate of the coding scheme and form at least one series of samples of the signal (S4), where the samples of a series have been sampled at a sampling position periodically recurring according to the clock rate, and a data analyser (32) configured to investigate if said at least one series fulfils a data sequence detection criterion, and set a sampling position for which a series of samples fulfils the data sequence detection criterion to be an operative sampling position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2012
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Bibin Babu, Kiran Kariyannavar, Dilip Kumar Vajravelu
  • Patent number: 8897393
    Abstract: In one or more embodiments, in a communications terminal an estimated channel matrix is constructed based on a codebook. A modified estimated channel matrix is calculated based on both the estimated channel matrix and a protection matrix, and a channel submatrix is selected from the modified estimated channel matrix. A selection matrix is calculated from the channel submatrix, and fed back to be used in generating a steering matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.
    Inventors: Hongyuan Zhang, Rohit U. Nabar, Atul Salhotra
  • Patent number: 8897387
    Abstract: A method and system for configuring one or both of a transmitter pulse-shaping filter and a receiver pulse-shaping filter to generate a total partial response that incorporates a predetermined amount of inter-symbol interference (ISI), based on one or more defined performance-related variables and one or more set constraints that are applicable to one or both of the transmitter pulse-shaping filter and the receiver pulse-shaping filters. The predetermined amount of ISI is determined based on an estimation process during extraction of data from an output of the receiver pulse-shaping filter, such that performance of total partial response based communication matches or surpasses performance of communication incorporating filtering based on no or near-zero ISI. The configuring may comprise determining optimized filtering configuration, by applying an optimization process which is based on, at least in part, the one or more constraints and the one or more performance-related variables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: MagnaCom Ltd.
    Inventor: Amir Eliaz
  • Patent number: 8897396
    Abstract: Provided is a pulse receiver capable of receiving a burst signal and decoding the burst signal with a bit error rate reduced to a target value or less by controlling a determination threshold such that decoding success rate is equal to or less than a predetermined value. A decode unit 140 decodes a pulse train 20 to information 30, counts the number of decoding successes for a predetermined time period and outputs the counted number (decoding success rate DR) to a control unit 150. The control unit 150 uses as a basis the decoding success rate DR communicated from the decode unit 140 to control the set value of reference voltage Vth used in the comparator 130.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignees: Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd., Furukawa Automotive Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Itohara, Kazutaka Kamimura, Yasushi Aoyagi
  • Patent number: 8897397
    Abstract: A method and system for a reconfigurable orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) chip supporting single weight diversity are provided. The reconfigurable OFDM chip may be configured to process signals such as IEEE 802.11, 802.16, and digital video broadcasting (DVB). The OFDM chip may generate channel weights to be applied to signals received in receive antennas. The weighted signals may be combined into a single received signal and channel estimates may be generated from the single received signal. Updated channel weights may be generated from the generated channel estimates. Updates to the channel weights may be performed dynamically. The configurable OFDM chip may be utilized to provide collaborative cellular and OFDM-based communication. The reconfigurable OFDM chip and the cellular chip may communicate data and/or control information via a memory coupled to a common bus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventor: Pieter van Rooyen
  • Patent number: 8897390
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of transmitting and a method of receiving signals and corresponding apparatus. One aspect of the present invention relates to an efficient L1 signaling method for an efficient transmitter and an efficient receiver using the efficient L1 signaling method for an efficient cable broadcasting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Woo Suk Ko, Sang Chul Moon
  • Patent number: 8897353
    Abstract: An OFDM receiver receives OFDM symbols in the frequency domain and comb filters and then punctures the OFDM symbols to leave symbols with actual pilot information and with null values at the data symbols. The receiver provides the punctured OFDM symbols to an OFDM symbol queue. A virtual pilot interpolator is coupled to the punctured OFDM symbol storage to generate virtual pilot information introduced to OFDM symbols. The interpolator may be a two dimensional Wiener filter. The receiver also includes a time domain channel estimator that processes a first OFDM symbol including virtual pilot information to generate a channel impulse response for the first OFDM symbol. A frequency equalizer equalizes the OFDM symbol in response to the channel impulse response for the first OFDM symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Acorn Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven C Thompson, Fernando Lopez de Victoria
  • Patent number: 8897399
    Abstract: A communication system includes: a module configured to decode a remainder portion of a receiver message using a mechanism with a compensation channel value calculated from decoding an evaluation portion of the receiver message with a different mechanism, or using a mechanism-controller generated using a mismatch characterization based on determining a partial-sensitive output and a partial-insensitive output, or a combination thereof for communicating with a device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mostafa El Khamy, Jinhong Wu, Heejin Roh, Jungwon Lee, Inyup Kang
  • Publication number: 20140341320
    Abstract: A method for transmitting data streams in a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) system is provided, where each data stream is mapped to multiple layers in an MIMO channel space for transmission, and the method includes: performing inter-layer interleaving for N data streams to obtain N interleaved data streams; mapping the N interleaved data streams respectively to N layers in the MIMO channel space, and transmitting the N interleaved data streams that are mapped to the N layers. By using the method of the present invention, a combined CQI can be used in a better way to improve MIMO transmission performance. Further, an impact of inter-layer interference is canceled by using an interference cancellation technology (for example, an SIC technology) based on the inter-layer interleaving.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2014
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Applicant: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Meng Hua, Zongjie Wang, Carmela Cozzo, Xiaolei Tie, Shurong Jiao, Shuju Fan, Gengshi Wu
  • Patent number: 8891591
    Abstract: A receiver circuit includes an estimation unit configured to estimate a noise power of a transmission channel, a calculation unit configured to calculate a decision variable based on the noise power, and a decision unit configured to make a ternary decision based on the decision variable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventors: Rajarajan Balraj, Thorsten Clevorn, Herbert Dawid
  • Patent number: 8891689
    Abstract: Embodiments for demodulating data streams are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, at a multiple-input device, a plurality of data streams. The method also includes determining a degree of correlation among the plurality of data streams. The method also includes selecting a demodulator based on the degree of correlation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: MediaTek Singapore Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Kiran Uln
  • Patent number: 8891683
    Abstract: A broadcast receiver suitable for receiving broadcast signals transferred by use of signal format of IBOC system. The broadcast receiver comprises a receiving means that holds information related to channels that can be acquired by a digital signal decoding process. If information related to a channel is to be used and is held by the information holding means, then it is used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoki Nakajima, Kazuyoshi Inako, Masanori Ishida, Kazuo Koyama
  • Patent number: 8891690
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for transmitting a preamble for multiple channel estimation. The method includes generating a channel estimation sequence, allocating the channel estimation sequence to some of a plurality of symbols in which a preamble is transmitted, and transmitting the preamble. The channel estimation sequence is generated by bisecting a sequence having a length N, generating a first sequence and a second sequence by adding a Zero-padded Suffix (ZS) having a zero value to a last part of each of the two bisected sequences, copying the first sequence and the second sequence at least once, and allocating the first sequences and the second sequences to some of the symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Jee Hoon Kim, Hyoung Kyu Song
  • Patent number: 8891692
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus is arranged to map input data symbols to be communicated onto a predetermined number of sub-carrier signals of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed OFDM symbols. The predetermined number of sub-carrier signals is determined in accordance with one of a plurality of operating modes and the input data symbols are divided into first sets of input data symbols and second sets of input data symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew Paul Athol Taylor, Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri, John Nicholas Wilson
  • Patent number: 8891704
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes applying, by a transimpedance amplifier at a receiving end of a communication link, equalization to a signal carried by the communication link at the receiving end of the communication link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Scott McLeod, Nikola Nedovic
  • Patent number: 8890591
    Abstract: A Time-Average-Frequency direct period synthesizer is used to improve crystal-less frequency generator's frequency stability. It includes (a) a temperature sensor circuit to compensate temperature-induced frequency instability; (b) a voltage sensor circuit to compensate voltage-induced frequency instability; (c) a calibration circuit to correct manufacture-related frequency error; (d) a frequency control word update circuit to receive the temperature- and voltage-related frequency adjustments, and the calibration-related adjustment, to generate the corresponding frequency control word in a predetermined schedule; (f) a Time-Average-Frequency direct period synthesizer to receive said frequency control word in the predetermined schedule and produce a clock signal with a frequency that is stable and accurate by counteracting the frequency variation caused by crystal-less oscillators' temperature and voltage dependence and correcting the frequency error introduced in manufacture process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Inventor: Liming Xiu
  • Patent number: 8891691
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus maps input symbols to be communicated onto a predetermined number of sub-carrier signals of an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed (OFDM) symbol. The data processor includes an interleaver memory which reads-in the predetermined number of data symbols for mapping onto the OFDM sub-carrier signals. The interleaver memory reads-out the data symbols on to the OFDM sub-carriers to effect the mapping, the read-out being in a different order than the read-in, the order being determined from a set of addresses, with the effect that the data symbols are interleaved on to the sub-carrier signals. The set of addresses are generated from an address generator which comprises a linear feedback shift register and a permutation circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Samuel Asanbeng Atungsiri, Matthew Paul Athol Taylor, John Nicholas Wilson
  • Patent number: 8891635
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a transmitting apparatus includes a generation unit, a division unit, an imparting unit and a transmitting unit. The generation unit generates first control information in accordance with a first information format. The division unit divides the first control information into control information pieces in accordance with information format divisions into which the first information format is divided and which include respective pointer regions, each of the information format divisions having a same data length as a second information format. The imparting unit imparts, to the pointer region of each of the information format divisions, a pointer indicating a wireless communication resource used to transmit one of the control information pieces corresponding to one of the information format divisions other than the each control information format division. The transmitting unit transmits the control information pieces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Ren Sakata, Tsuyoshi Kogawa, Kaoru Inoue, Koichiro Ban, Noritaka Deguchi, Takahiro Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8892425
    Abstract: A multi-layered speech recognition apparatus and method, the apparatus includes a client checking whether the client recognizes the speech using a characteristic of speech to be recognized and recognizing the speech or transmitting the characteristic of the speech according to a checked result; and first through N-th servers, wherein the first server checks whether the first server recognizes the speech using the characteristic of the speech transmitted from the client, and recognizes the speech or transmits the characteristic according to a checked result, and wherein an n-th (2?n?N) server checks whether the n-th server recognizes the speech using the characteristic of the speech transmitted from an (n?1)-th server, and recognizes the speech or transmits the characteristic according to a checked result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jaewon Lee, Jeongmi Cho, Kwangil Hwang, Yongbeom Lee, Jeongsu Kim
  • Patent number: 8891590
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with processing wireless signals. According to one embodiment, a wireless receiver includes at least one antenna configured to receive a wireless signal. The wireless signal comprises pilot symbols dispersed irregularly throughout a two-dimensional grid. The pilot symbols of the wireless signal are usable by the wireless receiver to estimate the wireless channel at each point in the two-dimensional grid. The wireless receiver includes a pattern logic including hardware configured to generate additional pilot symbols in the two-dimensional grid. The additional pilot symbols generated by the pattern logic along with the pilot symbols dispersed irregularly throughout the two-dimensional grid form a regular distribution of pilot symbols in the two-dimensional grid. The wireless receiver is configured to estimate the wireless channel at each point in the two-dimensional grid based on the regular distribution of pilot symbols in the two-dimensional grid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.
    Inventors: Raphael Cendrillon, Yakun Sun, Jiwoong Choi, Hui-Ling Lou
  • Patent number: 8891678
    Abstract: A receiver receives, using a plurality of antennas, a multiplexed signal that includes (i) a first OFDM modulation signal with a subcarrier carrying a symbol including multiplex information and a subcarrier carrying a pilot symbol and a subcarrier carrying a data symbol and (ii) a second OFDM modulation signal with a subcarrier carrying a symbol including multiplex information and a subcarrier carrying the pilot symbol and a subcarrier carrying the data symbol. A decoder uses the symbol including multiplex information and decodes the data symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Wi-Fi One, LLC
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Masayuki Orihashi, Akihiko Matsuoka
  • Publication number: 20140334570
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals thereof are disclosed. The apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals comprises an encoder for encoding DP (Data Pipe) data corresponding to each of a plurality of DPs, wherein the each of a plurality of DPs carries at least one service component, a mapper for mapping the encoded DP data onto constellations, a time interleaver for time interleaving the mapped DP data at DP level by skipping cells having zero values of the DP data, a frame builder for building at least one signal frame including the time interleaved DP data, a modulator for modulating data in the built at least one signal frame by an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex) scheme and a transmitter for transmitting the broadcast signals having the modulated data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Inventor: Jongseob Baek
  • Publication number: 20140334578
    Abstract: Provided is a method of scanning for broadcast services in a broadcast signal to generate a broadcast service list for use with a digital radio receiver system, and the digital radio receiver system used for scanning for broadcast services to generate a broadcast service list. The system utilises spectrum awareness data, which includes data defining one or more frequencies at which broadcast services may be receivable, in order to reduce the number of frequencies to scan such that the overall scan time may be reduced. The data in the spectrum awareness data is a filtered subset of the plurality of frequencies at which the broadcast services may be received, which allows the controller of a digital radio receiver to tune a tuner to only the frequencies that are likely to contain a broadcast service when generating or updating a broadcast service list.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: Frontier Silicon Limited
    Inventors: Ivan Griffin, Daire McNamara, Billy O'Mahony, David O'Reilly, Darren Bane
  • Publication number: 20140334576
    Abstract: Provided is a digital radio receiver system and method for switching from receiving a first broadcast service to an alternative broadcast service. Also provided is a digital radio receiver system and method for scanning for broadcast services in a broadcast signal to generate an alternative broadcast service list for use in controlling the digital radio receiver system. A digital radio receiver utilises spectrum awareness data, which includes data defining one or more frequencies at which broadcast services may be receivable, in order to faster selection of an alternative broadcast service from an alternative broadcast service list containing data relating to alternative broadcast services that are linked by a relationship to other broadcast services. By using the spectrum awareness data, only entries that are considered valid (i.e.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: Frontier Silicon Limited
    Inventors: Ivan Griffin, Daire McNamara, Billy O'Mahony, David O'Reilly, Darren Bane
  • Publication number: 20140334575
    Abstract: The invention provides a receiver associated with a body, e.g., located inside or within close proximity to a body, configured to receive and decode a signal from an in vivo transmitter which located inside the body. Signal receivers of the invention provide for accurate signal decoding of a low-level signal, even in the presence of significant noise, using a small-scale chip, e.g., where the chip consumes very low power. Also provided are systems that include the receivers, as well as methods of using the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: Proteus Digital Health, Inc.
    Inventors: Lawrence Arne, Kit Yee Au-Yeung, Kenneth C. Crandall, Timothy Robertson
  • Publication number: 20140334577
    Abstract: A communication system includes: a partial-calculation module configured to determine a partial-sensitive output and a partial-insensitive output for a receiver message; a characterization module, coupled to the partial-calculation module, configured to calculate a mismatch characterization with a control unit using the partial-sensitive output and the partial-insensitive output; and a selection module, coupled to the partial-calculation module, configured to generate a mechanism-controller based on the mismatch characterization for communicating with a device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2013
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mostafa El Khamy, Jinhong Wu, Heejin Roh, Jungwon Lee, Inyup Kang
  • Patent number: 8885767
    Abstract: A transmitter includes first generator to generate pilot source signal by modulating pilot sequence, second generator to generate data source signal with time length longer than that of pilot source signal by modulating data sequence, first cyclic shifter to perform cyclic shift of first shift amount to pilot source signal to generate first pilot signal, second cyclic shifter to performs cyclic shift of second shift amount to data source signal to generate first data signal, third cyclic shifter to perform cyclic shift of third shift amount to pilot source signal to generate second pilot signal, fourth cyclic shifter to perform cyclic shift of fourth shift amount to data source signal to generate second data signal, first transmit antenna to transmit first pilot signal and first data signal, and second transmit antenna to transmit second pilot signal and second data signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Ren Sakata, Koji Akita
  • Patent number: 8885779
    Abstract: A signal detector/decoder is implemented in multiple stages. The beginning stage is configured to input channel data bits and to output hard data bits based on the channel bits and a maximum likelihood (ML) path. The next stage includes a postcoder coupled to receive channel domain information from the first stage and to convert the channel domain information to user domain information. The final stage includes a reliability unit coupled to receive the user domain information from the postcoder and to output user domain soft information for the hard data bits based on the ML path estimation and the user domain information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Rishi Ahuja, Raman Venkataranmani
  • Patent number: 8885777
    Abstract: A digital signal processing (DSP) apparatus can be used to process a serial stream of digital signal samples of a plurality of “n” number of different signals. The DSP apparatus can include a DSP module configured to perform a DSP algorithm on digital signal samples of the signals. The DSP apparatus can have a delay memory with an “n” number of memory cells that each corresponding to one of the signals. The delay memory can also have a digital signal sample input connected to said initial input of said DSP module, a signal-number-in input, a signal-number-out input, and a digital signal sample output connected to said delay input of said DSP module. The delay memory can be configured to store a digital signal sample at the digital signal sample input in a memory cells identified by a signal identifier at said signal-number-in input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: L-3 Communications Corp
    Inventors: Dan M. Griffin, David J. Moore, Teren G. Jameson
  • Patent number: 8885775
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods are directed to maintaining optimal carrier tracking performance in view of operating conditions that prevail. Such configurations employ a phase lock loop that configured to generate an estimated phase error value, a variance module configured to calculate a phase noise variance based on the estimated phase error value, and a loop control bandwidth module that calculates a loop bandwidth value based on a detected lower phase noise variance, generates modified loop filter values in accordance with the calculated loop bandwidth value, and updates the phase lock loop with the modified loop filter values. During subsequent iterations, the modified loop filter values are incrementally adjusted along a particular direction until the phase noise variance increases at which point the modified loop filter values are incrementally adjusted in an opposite direction to converge on an optimal loop bandwidth value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Thushara Hewavithana, Bernard Arambepola
  • Patent number: 8885786
    Abstract: A receiver may process a received signal to generate a processed received signal. The receiver may generate, during a sequence estimation process, an estimate of a phase error of the processed received signal. The receiver may generate an estimate of a value of a transmitted symbol corresponding to the received signal based on the estimated phase error. The generation of the estimate of the phase error may comprise generation of one or more phase candidate vectors. The generation of the estimate may comprise calculation of a metric based on the one or more phase candidate vectors. The calculation of the metric may comprise phase shifting the processed received signal based on the estimated phase error resulting in a phase-corrected received signal. The calculation of the metric may comprise calculating a Euclidean distance based on the phase-corrected received signal and one or more symbol candidate vectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: MagnaCom Ltd.
    Inventor: Amir Eliaz
  • Patent number: 8885107
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a signal processing device, a signal processing method, and a program capable of appropriately demodulating a desired signal from a multiplexed signal obtained by multiplexing a plurality of signals. A preamble signal is detected from a multiplexed signal obtained by multiplexing a plurality of signals. When information for discriminating each of the signals that is contained in the preamble signal indicates a first signal, demodulation by a demodulator is continued and the first signal is demodulated. When information for discriminating each of the signals that is contained in the preamble signal indicates a second signal, demodulation is not performed by stopping the demodulation by the demodulator. The present technology can be applied to a signal processing device that processes signals for digital broadcasting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Yokokawa, Lachlan Bruce Michael, Yuken Goto, Kenichi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8885776
    Abstract: A symbol error detector can be configured to detect symbol errors of a Bluetooth enhanced data rate (EDR) packet without relying solely on a CRC error detection mechanism. After a phase of a current symbol is demodulated to determine a demodulated current symbol, the phase of the demodulated current symbol can be subtracted from the phase of the current symbol prior to demodulation to yield a phase error. The phase error can be compared against a phase error threshold to determine a potential unreliability of the demodulated current symbol. The phase error being greater than the phase error threshold can indicate that the demodulated current symbol may be unreliable. Accordingly, a symbol error notification can be generated to indicate that the demodulated current symbol may be unreliable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Soner Ozgur
  • Publication number: 20140328437
    Abstract: Systems and methods in accordance with embodiments of the invention include converting satellite signals to an intermediate frequency signal for content decoding, and selecting modulated digital data within the satellite signals for content decoding using digital signal processing. One embodiment includes a system configured to select at least one content channel from an input signal including a plurality of content channels modulated onto a carrier, the system including: a digital channelizer switch including: a high speed analog to digital converter configured to digitize the intermediate frequency signal; a digital channelizer configured to digitally tune a content channel from the digitized intermediate frequency signal; and a high speed digital to analog converter configured to generate an analog output signal using the content channel digitally tuned from the digitized intermediate frequency signal by the digital channelizer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2014
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Inventor: Tommy Yu
  • Publication number: 20140328436
    Abstract: A receiver front-end includes a receive path configured to receive an input signal. Additionally, the receiver front-end also includes a low noise amplifier having a common input stage and multiple separate output stages, wherein each separate output stage is configured to be separately activated and connected to a receive signal mixer that provides signal demodulation of the input signal employing one of an aggregation of receiver carriers. A method of operating a receiver front-end and a receiver front-end system are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2013
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicant: Nvidia Corporation
    Inventors: Abdellatif Bellaouar, Frank Zhang, Essam Atalla
  • Publication number: 20140328438
    Abstract: The present document discloses an apparatus and method for cancelling in-band interference in a cellular telecommunication system which using multiple-input multiple-output technique. The method includes: receiving a transmitted signal and obtaining an interfering data stream; calculating a value of a credit; deciding whether the credit is above a predefined threshold; regenerating an interference signal by using the interfering data stream if the credit is above the predefined threshold; subtracting the regenerated interference signal from the received transmitted signal to obtain a target signal; and demodulating and decoding the target signal. By using the apparatus and method, the concerned signal can be regenerated even when there is only small number of error bits while all the other bits are correctly decoded. Also, the target stream would be able to know whether the interfering stream can be regenerated or not, before the decoding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2012
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicant: ZTE Wistron Telecom AB
    Inventors: Aijun Cao, Thorsten Schier, Yonghong Gao
  • Patent number: 8879675
    Abstract: A synchronization system for initial setup of phases of local oscillators in a wireless receiver of a communication system characterized by transmission of data packets having a predetermined preamble consisting of M identical sections of L symbols followed by a single section of the same kind, multiplied by ?1, and wherein the wireless receiver is operative to perform decimation in an RF demodulator. The synchronization system includes a twofold correlator, an accumulator, a multiplier, a threshold comparator, a carrier phase former and a clock phase former, and operates at a decimated symbols frequency, and performs not only preamble detection, but also symbols clock phase detection together with carrier phase detection, while enabling the theoretically possible noise immunity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Guzik Technical Enterprises
    Inventors: Anatoli B. Stein, Semen P. Velfbeyn
  • Patent number: 8879653
    Abstract: This invention concerns soft-decision demapping of Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) signals to enable soft-decision channel decoding in a communications system. In a first aspect the invention is a method for performing the soft-decision demapping of Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) signals to enable soft-decision channel decoding in a communications system. The method comprises the steps of Extracting baseband signals from both I-and-Q channels. Sampling the baseband signals to extract a stream of complex numbers. Converting the stream of complex numbers to frequency domain vectors with components for each subcarrier frequency. Approximating bit log-likelihood ratios for each symbol directly from the real and imaginary parts of the corresponding frequency vector, without equalization by the estimated channel. And, soft-decoding of the channel codes using the approximated log-likelihood ratios.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Nitero Pty Limited
    Inventor: Yunxin Li
  • Patent number: 8878945
    Abstract: A phasor-based pulse detection system includes a first multiplier stage configured to apply a first delayed conjugate multiplication operation to an input signal. The system can also include a second multiplier stage coupled to the first multiplier stage and configured to apply a second delayed conjugate multiplication operation to an output of the first multiplier stage, and an absolute value unit coupled to the second multiplier stage and configured to perform an absolute value operation on an output of the second multiplier stage. The system can further include video filter stage coupled to the absolute value unit and configured to perform a video filtering operation on an output of the absolute value unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventor: James A. Johnson
  • Patent number: 8879640
    Abstract: A computer processor implementable method of decoding low-density parity-check (LDPC) code, comprising: receiving a log-likelihood-ratio (LLR) input bitstream; performing a combined bit-deinterleaving and reordering process on the LLR input bitstream and storing in a physical memory space, comprising: determining a logical memory address for each LLR bit in the LLR input bitstream, determining a physical memory address for each LLR bit in the LLR input bitstream from logical memory address of the LLR bit; decoding the LLR input bitstream stored in the physical memory space; and performing a combined de-reordering and de-mapping process on the decoded LLR input bitstream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited
    Inventors: Felix Chow, Chun Hang Lee
  • Patent number: 8879680
    Abstract: A transmitting interconnect interface inserts clock mismatch compensation symbols into a transmitted data stream so as to allow the receiving interconnect interface to compensate for clock frequency mismatch between transmit-side and receive-side clocks. The transmitting interconnect interface adjusts the rate of insertion of these symbols based on a determination of the clock frequency mismatch. The transmitting interconnect interface can incrementally adjust the insertion rate to change substantially proportionally with changes in the clock frequency mismatch. Alternatively, the transmitting interconnect interface can set the insertion rate to one of two levels. By adapting the insertion rate to the current measured clock frequency mismatch, the bandwidth penalty incurred by transmitting clock mismatch compensation symbols in excess of that necessary to permit receiver clock tolerance compensation can be reduced, thereby permitting more transmit bandwidth to be used for transmitting data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: ATI Technologies ULC
    Inventors: Michael Tresidder, Gordon F. Caruk
  • Patent number: 8879655
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for obtaining channel state information required for beamforming, comprising: estimating current channel state information according to a received signal; predicting future channel state information which is expected to be used by a transmitter in the next beamforming based on the current channel state information and historical channel state information; reading previous channel state information used by the transmitter in the current beamforming; determining feedback information based on the future channel state information and the previous channel state information; and sending the feedback information to the transmitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: NEC (China) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yu Zhang, Ye Wu, Ming Lei
  • Patent number: 8879671
    Abstract: A device such as a worker, window-size and iteration control unit (WWICU) is proposed. The WWICU determines processing, iteration, and window information based on format information indicative of one or more formats to be processed by a decoding process. The processing information may include a number of parallel workers, the iteration information may include a number of half-iterations, and the window information may include a window size to be used in the decoding process. The WWICU then determines time information including a total cycle count based on the processing information, the iteration information, and the window information. In response to determining that the total cycle count is not beyond a threshold value, the WWICU may transmit configuration information including the processing, iteration, and window information to a device, such as a turbo decoding device, configurable to perform the decoding process based on the configuration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventors: Axel Huebner, Jens Berkmann, Maria Fresia, Armin Hautle
  • Patent number: 8879607
    Abstract: A method and a system for storing a constant path loss exponent corresponding to free space; transmitting a signal; receiving the signal via a rake receiver of a user device; identifying a maximum received signal strength based on a signal strength associated with the signal relative to fingers of the rake receiver; storing a current maximum received signal strength value; determining whether the current maximum received signal strength value is a first maximum received signal strength value; calculating a current indoor position of the user device based on the constant path loss exponent and the current maximum received signal strength value when a determination is that the current maximum received signal strength value is the first maximum received signal strength value; and outputting the current indoor position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications AB
    Inventor: Carl Filip Erik Skarp
  • Patent number: 8879670
    Abstract: A configurable Turbo-LDPC decoder having A set of P>1 Soft-Input-Soft-Output decoding units (DP0-DPP-1; DPi) for iteratively decoding both Turbo- and LDPC-encoded input data, each of the decoding units having first (I1i) and second (I2i) input ports and first (O1i) and second (O2i) output ports for intermediate data; First and second memories (M1, M2) for storing the intermediate data, each of the first and second memories comprising P independently readable and writable memory blocks having respective input and output ports; and A configurable switching network (SN) for connecting the first input and output ports of the decoding units to the output and input ports of the first memory, and the second input and output ports of the decoding units to the output and input ports of the second memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Agence Spatiale Europeenne
    Inventors: Giuseppe Gentile, Massimo Rovini, Paolo Burzigotti, Luca Fanucci