Particular Pulse Demodulator Or Detector Patents (Class 375/340)
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Patent number: 10263723Abstract: Processing a received optical signal in an optical communication network includes equalizing a received optical signal to provide an equalized signal, demodulating the equalized signal according to an m-ary modulation format to provide a demodulated signal, decoding the demodulated signal according to an inner code to provide an inner-decoded signal, and decoding the inner-decoded signal according to an outer code. Other aspects include other features such as equalizing an optical channel including storing channel characteristics for the optical channel associated with a client, loading the stored channel characteristics during a waiting period between bursts on the channel, and equalizing a received burst from the client using the loaded channel characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2018Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Inventors: Alexander Soto, Walter Soto
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Patent number: 10263715Abstract: A post-cursor compensation system includes a state detector that receives a signal on a data line to detect a predefined state, and accordingly generates a clear control signal; a synchronization detector that receives the signal on the data line and the clear control signal to detect at least one synchronization state, and accordingly generates a trigger signal; and a compensation generator that receives the trigger signal and accordingly generates a compensation signal.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2018Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignee: M31 Technology CorporationInventor: Shuo-Ting Kao
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Patent number: 10257742Abstract: Embodiments herein describe control logic for seamlessly switching client devices between radios co-located on the same network device or between radios located on different network devices that have overlapping coverage areas. In one embodiment, the radios are assigned different channels in the same frequency band. To move the client devices between the radios, one of the radios transmits a Channel Switch Announcement (CSA) which instructs the client devices serviced by a first radio to switch to a channel assigned to a second, different radio. For example, the CSA may be used when the first radio fails, is upgraded, performs a Channel Availability Check (CAC), is overloaded, and the like. After the CSA is transmitted, the second radio spoofs the service identifier of the first radio so to the perspective of the client devices, they are still communicating with the first radio.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2017Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: Pooya Monajemi, Vishal S. Desai, Young Il Choi, Tak Ming F. Pang
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Patent number: 10243770Abstract: A method and an apparatus for receiving broadcast signals thereof are disclosed. The apparatus for receiving broadcast signals, the apparatus comprises a receiver to receive the broadcast signals, a demodulator to demodulate the received broadcast signals by an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex) scheme, a frame parser to parse a signal frame from the demodulated broadcast signals, a time deinterleaver to time deinterleave data in the parsed signal frame and a decoder to decode the time deinterleaved data.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2018Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Jongseob Baek, Woosuk Ko, Seoyoung Back, Sungryong Hong
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Patent number: 10237029Abstract: A transmitter transmitting payload data using OFDM symbols includes a frame builder configured to receive the payload data, receive signalling data for use in detecting and recovering the payload data at a receiver, and form the payload data with the signalling data into transmission frames. A modulator is configured to modulate a first OFDM symbol with the signalling data forming a part of each of the frames and to modulate one or more second OFDM symbols with the payload data to form each of the frames. The transmitter combines a signature sequence with the first OFDM symbol, so that the first OFDM symbol can be detected within the frame before the second OFDM symbol. The transmitter includes a pilot signal inserter configured to insert a number of pilot symbols on selected sub-carriers of the first OFDM symbol sufficient to estimate a coarse frequency offset of the transmitted OFDM symbol.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2014Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLCInventor: Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri
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Patent number: 10237108Abstract: A method for receiving broadcast signals, includes receiving the broadcast signals, demodulating the received broadcast signals by an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (OFDM) scheme, parsing a signal frame from the demodulated broadcast signals, and bit deinterleaving data in the parsed signal frame, wherein the bit deinterleaving includes block deinterleaving the data with each set of a number of bit groups. The number of bit groups is based on modulation type. When the modulation type is Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (QPSK), the number of bit groups is 2. When the modulation type is 16 Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM), the number of bit groups is 4. When the modulation type is 64 Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM), the number of bit groups is 6. When the modulation type is 256 QAM, the number of bit groups is 8. When the modulation type is 1024 QAM, the number of bit groups is 10.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2017Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Yonghak Suh, Sangchul Moon, Jongwoong Shin, Woosuk Ko, Sungryong Hong
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Patent number: 10230437Abstract: It is possible to secure radio resources allocated to an uplink data channel even when radio resources allocated to an uplink control channel increase. A user terminal according to the present invention includes: a control section that maps an uplink data channel and an uplink control channel on different layers; and a transmission section that multiplexes on an identical radio resource the uplink data channel and the uplink control channel mapped on the different layers to transmit.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2016Date of Patent: March 12, 2019Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Hiroki Harada, Satoshi Nagata
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Patent number: 10231228Abstract: A method of two-stage scheduling in downlink control channel is proposed to enhance downlink control information (DCI) forward compatibility and hardware flexibility. The DCI comprises a basic DCI and an extended DCI. The basic DCI provides basic scheduling information of the scheduled data. The extended DCI provides extended scheduling information of the scheduled data channel. The basic DCI can be unicast to a single UE over UE-specific search space. The basic DCI can also be broadcast or multicast to a group of UEs over common search space. UE performs blind detection of the basic DCI only, while the location and size of the extended DCI can be provided by the basic DCI or provided by a higher layer signaling. Cross-slot/subframe and Multi-slot/subframe scheduling can also be applied in the two-stage scheduling.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2017Date of Patent: March 12, 2019Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.Inventors: Pei-Kai Liao, Yi-Ju Liao
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Patent number: 10230408Abstract: A transmitter includes a power amplifier coupled to amplify an input signal and provide an output signal. A radio frequency coupler is coupled to receive the output signal and provide a measured signal on a coupler output. A measurement receiver multiplexor is coupled to receive the measured signal on the coupler output to produce either a non-phase adjusted signal or a phase adjusted signal on one of a plurality of multiplexor outputs. Multiple receiver paths are coupled to the plurality of multiplexor outputs to receive either the non-phase adjusted signal or the phase adjusted signal. Receive path processing circuitry is configured to produce in-phase and quadrature phase digital signals based on the plurality of multiplexor outputs to digital processing circuitry to cancel 3rd or 3rd and 5th order measurement receiver distortions.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2016Date of Patent: March 12, 2019Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Wael Al-Qaq, Hong Jiang
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Patent number: 10218442Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a Space-Time coding device for encoding a digital data sequence according to a predefined space-time coding rate, said data sequence comprising a set of modulated symbols to be transmitted over at least two propagation modes, during a number of time slots, through an optical transmission channel in a single-core multimode optical fiber transmission system, wherein the device comprises: a codebook generator (53) configured to determine a set of codeword matrices defining a space-time code represented by a space dimension and a temporal dimension, each codeword matrix comprising complex values and a number of columns equal to said code temporal dimension, and a number of rows equal to said code space dimension, the codebook generator (53) being further configured to associate a difference codeword matrix and a distance metric to each pair of codeword matrices among said set of codeword matrices, each component of a difference codeword matrix associated with a given pair oType: GrantFiled: May 12, 2017Date of Patent: February 26, 2019Assignee: INSTITUT MINES-TELECOMInventors: El-Mehdi Amhoud, Ghaya Rekaya Ben-Othman, Yves Jaouen
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Patent number: 10212096Abstract: A method, reception device and host device are provided for aligning data streams at a multi-source receiver. Portions of data for a plurality of data streams are received at a reception device, the plurality of data streams carrying respective content, wherein the content of each data stream is misaligned with at least one other data stream with respect to time. The portions of data are forwarded to a host device to be stored in respective delay buffers. Indexing information is maintained for each of the delay buffers. The portions of data are forwarded to the host device along with the indexing information.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2016Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: NXP B.V.Inventors: Sebastian Bohn, Matthias Schattka
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Patent number: 10200754Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for media monitoring and audience measurement. For example, an optical capture meter can capture data of an optical pulse stream detected from a media remote control. A key code detector can determine a key code, based on a query optical pulse signature including a query symbol alphabet. The key code corresponds to the key activated on the media remote control to control a media activity (e.g., changing television channels.) The foregoing can provide a generalized way of key code detection of media remote controls from various different manufacturers without complete prior knowledge and/or implementations of various different infrared signaling protocols employed in various media remote controls.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2016Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLCInventor: Matja{hacek over (z)} Finc
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Patent number: 10200803Abstract: Embodiments of wireless audio systems and methods for synchronizing wireless headphones are disclosed herein. In one example, a wireless audio system includes an audio source, a first wireless headphone, and a second wireless headphone. The audio source is configured to separately transmit a left-channel audio signal and a right-channel audio signal using a short-range wireless communication protocol. The first wireless headphone is configured to receive the left-channel audio signal and synchronize a first clock of the first wireless headphone with the audio source based on the left-channel audio signal. The second wireless headphone is configured to receive the right-channel audio signal and synchronize a second clock of the second wireless headphone with the audio source based on the right-channel audio signal, so that the first clock of the first wireless headphone is synchronized with the second clock of the second wireless headphone.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2018Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: BESTECHNIC (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.Inventors: Weifeng Tong, Dongsheng Cui, Hua Zeng, Yulong Wang
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Patent number: 10200977Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provided techniques that for wireless communications by a user equipment (UE). An exemplary method, performed by a UE, generally includes determining one or more locations for receiving system information for machine type communication (MTC) over a bundled transmission and decoding the system information received at the locations over the bundled transmission.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2016Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: Qualcomm IncorporatedInventors: Hao Xu, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Peter Gaal, Wanshi Chen, Madhavan Srinivasan Vajapeyam
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Patent number: 10193593Abstract: A transfer function calculation unit (522) calculates a diagonal matrix G(f) on the basis of a band limit condition g(t) used in a transmission device (20). A transfer function calculation unit (524) calculates a diagonal matrix C(f) on the basis of a wavelength dispersion amount c(t) incurred in an optical transmission path. A transfer function combination unit (526) combines the diagonal matrix G(f) with the diagonal matrix C(f) so as to calculate a diagonal matrix H(f)=G(f)×C(f). An equalization coefficient calculation unit (528) calculates an equalization coefficient matrix W(f)=H(f)H(H(f)HH(f)+(1/Es)×??)?1 used in a multiplication unit (506) by using the diagonal matrix H(f). Here, H(f)H is a Hermitian transposed matrix of a matrix H(f), Es is power of an optical signal, and ?? is a diagonal matrix with N rows and N columns.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2016Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Wakako Yasuda, Kazunori Hayashi
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Patent number: 10187237Abstract: An apparatus and method for broadcast signal frame using layered division multiplexing are disclosed. An apparatus for generating broadcast signal frame according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a combiner configured to generate a multiplexed signal by combining a core layer signal and an enhanced layer signal at different power levels; a power normalizer configured to reduce the power of the multiplexed signal to a power level corresponding to the core layer signal; a time interleaver configured to generate a time-interleaved signal by performing interleaving that is applied to both the core layer signal and the enhanced layer signal; and a frame builder configured to generate a broadcast signal frame including a preamble for signaling, type information of Physical Layer Pipes (PLPs) and time interleaver information shared by the core layer signal and the enhanced layer signal.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2016Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteInventors: Jae-Young Lee, Sung-Ik Park, Sun-Hyoung Kwon, Heung-Mook Kim
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Patent number: 10181967Abstract: Methods and apparatus for soft MIMO detection of high order QAM with initial candidate reduction are described. A method includes receiving a plurality of signals including Q-order quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) symbols; determining, based on linear minimum mean square error (MMSE) estimation using detection of I and Q signs around a target layer, a reduced candidate set including C potential candidates, where C is less than Q; calculating Euclidean distances (EDs) based on the reduced candidate set; and generating log-likelihood ratio (LLR) information based on the calculated EDs.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2017Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., LtdInventors: Mojtaba Rahmati, Dongwoon Bai, Jungwon Lee
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Patent number: 10182400Abstract: Systems and methods are described for a wireless electronic device including a primary wireless transceiver and a secondary wireless transceiver. An electronic processor is configured to operate the wireless device and communicate through the primary wireless transceiver when in an active mode and to monitor the secondary wireless receiver for a wake-up signal when in a sleep mode. The electronic processor transitions from the sleep mode into the active mode in response to detecting the wake-up signal through the secondary wireless receiver.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2016Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Alex Khazanov, Othmane Bennis, Brian Vorees
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Patent number: 10178576Abstract: Various communication systems may benefit from the appropriate logging of measurements. For example, communication systems employing multimedia broadcast multicast service may benefit from logging multicast-broadcast single-frequency network measurements. A method can include logging, by a user equipment, a multicast-broadcast single-frequency network measurement corresponding to a logging period. The method can also include storing, at the time the multicast-broadcast single-frequency network measurement is made, cell measurement results.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2017Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Ilkka Antero Keskitalo, Jorma Johannes Kaikkonen, Lars Dalsgaard
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Patent number: 10171120Abstract: An apparatus for suppressing an intermodulation distortion component in a reception signal executes acquisition to acquire a plurality of transmission signals transmitted at frequencies different from each other, executes reception to receive a reception signal including an intermodulation distortion component caused by the plurality of transmission signals, executes generation to generate a replica of the intermodulation distortion component according to the plurality of transmission signals, executes normalization to normalize the reception signal so that the reception signal has certain amplitude, executes calculation to calculate a correlation value between the normalized reception signal and the replica, executes adjustment to adjust delay in the replica relative to the reception signal according to the correlation value, and executes combination to combine the replica for which the delay is adjusted with the reception signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 2018Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventor: Mitsuharu Hamano
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Patent number: 10148390Abstract: Techniques herein support enhanced multi-rate encoding and decoding of signals in multiple formats. In one embodiment, input data is received at a first device at one of a plurality of data rates. Encoder units are activated to produce streams of encoded input data. The encoder units are configured to operate at the same data rate. Differential encoding operations are performed to produce an encoded output stream. The encoded output stream is modulated for transmission to a second device. In another embodiment, a first device receives an encoded data stream that is transmitted from a second device. The modulated data stream includes encoded data at one of a plurality of data rates. Differential decoding is performed on the encoded data by activating one or more of a plurality of decoder units, where each of the plurality of decoder units is configured to operate at the same rate.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2017Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventor: Andreas Bisplinghoff
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Patent number: 10133297Abstract: A method for transmitting a plurality of data bits and a clock signal on a return to zero (RZ) signal includes: transmitting a first voltage that is greater than a first threshold, the first voltage being decodable to first order of data bits; transmitting a second voltage that is between a second threshold and the first threshold, the second voltage being decodable to a second order of data bits; transmitting a third voltage that is between a third threshold and a fourth threshold, the third voltage being decodable to a third order of data bits; transmitting a fourth voltage that is greater in magnitude than the fourth threshold, the fourth voltage being decodable to a fourth order of data bits; and transitioning the clock signal in response to the RZ signal being between the second threshold and the third threshold.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2017Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATEDInventor: Robert Floyd Payne
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Patent number: 10135657Abstract: A broadcast signal receiver is disclosed. A broadcast signal receiver according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises a synchronization & demodulation module performing signal detection and OFDM demodulation on a received broadcast signal; a frame parsing & deinterleaving module performing parsing and deinterleaving of a signal frame of the broadcast signal; a demapping & decoding module performing conversion of data of at least one Physical Layer Pipe (PLP) of the broadcast signal into the bit domain and FEC decoding of the converted PLP data; and an output processing module outputting a data stream by receiving the at least one PLP data.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2017Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Jongseob Baek, Woosuk Ko, Sungryong Hong
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Patent number: 10116468Abstract: Methods and systems are described for receiving symbols of a codeword via wires of a multi-wire bus, the codeword representing an aggregate sum of a plurality of sub-channel constituent codewords, each sub-channel constituent codeword representing a weight applied to an associated sub-channel vector of a plurality of sub-channel vectors of an orthogonal matrix, generating a plurality of comparator outputs using a plurality of common-mode resistant multi-input comparators (MICs), each common-mode resistant MIC having a set of input coefficients representing a corresponding sub-channel vector of the plurality of sub-channel vectors, each sub-channel vector (i) mutually orthogonal and (ii) orthogonal to a common-mode sub-channel vector, outputting a set of forward-channel output bits formed based on the plurality of comparator outputs, obtaining a sequence of reverse-channel bits, and transmitting the sequence of reverse-channel bits by sequentially transmitting common-mode codewords over the wires of the multi-Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2017Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: KANDOU LABS, S.A.Inventor: Ali Hormati
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Patent number: 10110215Abstract: Provided is a comparator configured to compare input voltages, which are input to a first dynamic comparator and a second dynamic comparator, with a reference voltage, select either an output signal of the first dynamic comparator or an output signal of the second dynamic comparator based on the comparison result, output the selected output signal, and control clock signals, which are input to the first dynamic comparator and the second dynamic comparator respectively, based on the comparison result, so as to stop the operation of the dynamic comparator of which output signal is not selected.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2017Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Hideki Shimauchi, Kanji Kitamura, Mutsuo Daito, Akio Kamimurai, Masatoshi Uchino, Yoshinori Tatenuma, Akira Koshimizu
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Patent number: 10111193Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium stores a program that causes a computer to execute a process. The process includes receiving radio signals from base stations, the radio signals being generated by the base stations based on a modulated signal received at the base stations; determining one or more reception target signals in the received radio signals, the reception target signals having a predetermined target frequency and being modulated according to a predetermined target modulation scheme; aligning the reception target signals with each other; generating a demodulation target signal based on the aligned reception target signals; and demodulating the generated demodulation target signal.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2016Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventor: Taki Kono
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Patent number: 10097382Abstract: A receiver for a modulated signal of a communication system is disclosed. The receiver includes a demodulator to demodulate the received modulated symbols of a received signal into received soft-bits. The receiver also includes a hard-decision decoder that is configured to decode the received soft-bits into decoded bits. A feedback loop is included to provide feedback from the hard decision decoder to the demodulator. The feedback loop is configured to re-encode the decoded bits from the hard-decision decoder into re-encoded bits. The demodulator is further configured to iteratively demodulate the received modulated signal using an output of the feedback loop.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2017Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: NXP B.V.Inventors: Semih Serbetli, Nur Engin, Alessio Filippi
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Patent number: 10085266Abstract: According to aspects of the present disclosure, a method and system are provided for wireless communication between a user equipment device (UE) and a base station using carrier aggregation and transmission time internal (TTI) bundling. The base station serves the UE with carrier aggregation on multiple carriers and determines, per carrier, a respective bundling size for transmitting a wireless communication between the UE and the base station with transmission TTI bundling on that component carrier. The determined bundling size for at least one of the plurality of component carriers is different than the determined bundling size for another one of the plurality of component carriers. While serving the UE with carrier aggregation on the multiple carriers, the base station invokes TTI bundling to transmit the wireless communication between the UE and the base station on each carrier with the respectively determined bundling size for that component carrier.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2015Date of Patent: September 25, 2018Assignee: Sprint Spectrum L.P.Inventors: Hemanth B. Pawar, Shilpa Kowdley Srinivas, Krishna Sitaram, Chunmei Liu
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Patent number: 10057828Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for communicating in a wireless network include a signal processor for combining a plurality of signals transmitted by respective eNBs by processing the signals as multipath instances of a single signal. Embodiments include utilizing multi-point transmissions; multiple transmission time intervals; and transmission time interval bundling/repetition. Other embodiments are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2015Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: INTEL IP CORPORATIONInventors: Seunghee Han, Gi Wan Choi, Hwan-Joon Kwon, Apostolos Papathanassiou, Jong-Kae Fwu
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Patent number: 10056960Abstract: For example, a wireless station may be configured to modulate a plurality of data bit sequences into a plurality of data blocks in a frequency domain according to a dual carrier modulation, a data bit sequence of the plurality of data bit sequences to be modulated into first and second consecutive symbols in a data block of the plurality of data blocks; to map the plurality of data blocks to a plurality of spatial streams by mapping the first symbol to a first data subcarrier in a first sub-band of a signal band in a first spatial stream of the plurality of spatial streams, and mapping the second symbol to a second data subcarrier in a second sub-band of the signal band in a second spatial stream of the plurality of spatial streams; and to transmit a Multi-In-Multi-Out (MIMO) transmission based on the plurality of spatial streams.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2016Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: INTEL CORPORATIONInventors: Artyom Lomayev, Alexander Maltsev, Michael Genossar, Carlos Cordeiro
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Patent number: 10050730Abstract: A transmitting apparatus is provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2016Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jae-hyeon Bae, Young-ho Oh, Sung-hee Hwang
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Patent number: 10038489Abstract: Systems and methods for adaptive demodulation of cellular device communications signals are provided. Cellular communications over a Long Term Evolution network can involve determining a demodulations scheme based on a service cell transmission mode, an interfering cell transmission mode, a modulation order (QAM) of interferer and an interference-to-noise ratio of cellular communications signals.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2017Date of Patent: July 31, 2018Assignee: Ceva D.S.P. Ltd.Inventors: Gideon Kutz, Hagay Rozin, Zeev Kaplan, Jeffrey Allan (Alon) Jacob (Yaakov)
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Patent number: 10027394Abstract: Embodiments of methods and apparatus for determining and/or quantizing a beamforming matrix are disclosed. In some embodiments, the determining and/or quantizing of the beamforming matrix may include the use of a base codebook and a differential codebook. Additional variants and embodiments are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2017Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Yuan Zhu, Qinghua Li, Xintian E. Lin, Huaning Niu, Alexei Davydov
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Patent number: 10020965Abstract: An approach for increasing transmission throughput of a non-linear wireless channel, and efficient decoding of the transmitted signal via a simplified receiver, is provided. A signal reflects a source signal, and includes linear inter-symbol interference based on a faster-than-Nyquist signaling rate and a tight frequency roll-off, and non-linear interference based on high-power amplification for transmission over the wireless channel. The signal is received over a non-linear wireless channel, and is processed via a plurality of decoding iterations. A set of soft information of a current decoding iteration is generated based on a current estimate of the source signal and a final set of soft information from a previous decoding iteration. The current estimate of the source signal is based on an estimate of the linear ISI and the non-linear interference, which is based on the final set of soft information from the previous decoding iteration.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2017Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLCInventors: Bassel Beidas, Rohit Iyer Seshadri, Mustafa Eroz, Lin-Nan Lee
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Patent number: 10009196Abstract: Multiple symbol noncoherent soft output detectors in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In a number of embodiments, the multiple symbol noncoherent soft output detector uses soft metrics based on the Log Likelihood Ratio (LLR) of each symbol to provide information concerning the reliability of each detected symbol. One embodiment of the invention includes a receiver configured to receive and sample a phase modulated input signal, and a multiple symbol noncoherent soft output detector configured to receive the sampled input signal and to generate a soft metric indicative of the reliability of a detected symbol based upon observations over multiple symbols.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2017Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: Mojix, Inc.Inventors: Dariush Divsalar, Ramin Sadr
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Patent number: 9998317Abstract: A method, communication device, and user equipment (UE) for detecting a synchronization signal in a wireless communication system are provided.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2016Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., LtdInventors: Seong-Hyun Jang, Niranjan Nayak Ratnakar
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Patent number: 9998309Abstract: A transmitter and a method therein for transmitting CPM signals to a receiver. The transmitter divides bits into first and second bit sequences; obtains third and fourth bit sequences by appending bits to the first and second bit sequences. First and second intermediate sequences are generated based on the third and fourth bit sequences. The transmitter time-reverses the first and second intermediate sequences. The time-reversed first sequence is mapped to a third intermediate sequence, and the time-reversed second sequence is mapped to a fourth intermediate sequence. The transmitter generates fifth and sixth bit sequences from the third and fourth intermediate sequences. First and second CPM signals corresponding to first and second CPM bursts are created, which first burst is based on the third and sixth bit sequences, and which second burst is based on the fourth and fifth bit sequences. CPM signals are transmitted through a respective antenna.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2014Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventors: Miguel Lopez, Dennis Hui
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Patent number: 9992046Abstract: Methods and systems for channel estimation using iterative channel tracking algorithm, in a communication system combined multiple input multiple output (MIMO) technology with orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), are disclose. The initial channel estimation of a data packet uses the first preamble inserted in front of the OFDM blocks. After demodulating subsequent one or more OFDM blocks, iterative channel tracking method is used for channel estimation until the next preamble is received. The iterative channel tracking is based on the received signals and the demodulated results of subsequent one or more OFDM blocks.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2017Date of Patent: June 5, 2018Assignee: LILEE SYSTEMS, LTDInventors: Yu-Wei Lee, Meng-Chang Doong
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Patent number: 9967126Abstract: A method to generate a wireless waveform for use in a wireless communication system, a wireless communication system and computer program product thereof The method comprises the generation of a waveform for application in the wireless communication system characterized by significant phase noise, Doppler spread, multipath, frequency instability, and/or low power efficiency by at the transmitter side: creating a discrete-time instantaneous frequency signal {tilde over (f)}[n]; appending a cyclic prefix with length LCP to the beginning of the discrete-time instantaneous frequency signal {tilde over (f)}[n]; constructing a discrete-time unwrapped instantaneous phase ?[n]; constructing a discrete-time complex baseband signal, and appending at the beginning a Constant Amplitude Zero Autocorrelation, CAZAC, signal of length LCP for multipath detection; and passing the constructed discrete-time complex baseband signal through a digital-to-analog, DAC, converter to yield the continuous-time radio frequency signal s(Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2017Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: Telefonica, S.A.Inventor: Javier Lorca Hernando
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Patent number: 9960643Abstract: A system and method for demodulating a wireless power signal onto which binary data has been modulated involves processing the wireless power signal with analog circuitry to produce a modified power signal in accordance with the type of demodulation used, periodically capturing digital samples of the modified power signal to produce a series of digital samples, applying, with an MCU, at least two digital filtering algorithms to the digital samples to determine transitions associated with the modulation, and recovering, with the MCU, the binary data as a function of the determined transitions. The demodulator is applicable to bidirectional power transfer capable devices and includes algorithms that can be applied similarly to both ASK and FSK demodulations with little or no modification.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2015Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: NXP USA, INC.Inventors: Xiang Gao, Zhendong Fei, Wanfu Ye
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Patent number: 9954704Abstract: A transmitter transmits payload data using Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed (OFDM) symbols, the transmitter comprising frame builder circuitry configured to receive the payload data to be transmitted and to receive signalling information for use in detecting and recovering the payload data at a receiver, and to form the payload data into frames with the signalling information as a preamble to each of the frames for transmission. Modulator circuitry is configured to modulate one or more first OFDM symbols with the signalling information to form the preamble of each frame and to modulate one or more second OFDM symbols with the payload data to form post preamble waveform of each frame. Transmission circuitry is configured to transmit the one or more first OFDM symbols as a preamble and the second OFDM symbols as the post preamble waveform.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2017Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri, Lachlan Bruce Michael
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Patent number: 9942004Abstract: This invention discloses apparatus and methods for detecting transmit symbols from the receiving waveform samples at the receiver side for communications systems. The receiving waveform samples are corrupted by channel and noise effects and the detection is carried out with a maximum likelihood optimality criterion. This invention utilizes a successive linear constraint exchange scheme that formulates a sequence of linearly constrained minimization subproblems to allow the solutions to these subproblems, combined with certain quantization and mapping operations, to converge to the optimal maximum likelihood estimate. This invention is applicable to any digitally modulated communications systems, including but not limited to Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) communications systems.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2016Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Inventor: Ching-Yih Tseng
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Patent number: 9942069Abstract: A method and mobile communication device adapted for frequency synchronization with a radio access network (RAN) based on frequency shift detection in a first signal received at the mobile communication device, including: offsetting the first signal's frequency by a first value extracted from a second signal received at the mobile communication device; generating a replica of the first signal from a second value extracted from a third signal received at the mobile communication device; multiplying a component of the offset first signal with the replica to generate a product; transforming the product into a frequency-domain signal; and detecting a peak in the frequency-domain signal to determine the frequency shift.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2016Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignee: Intel IP CorporationInventors: Matthew Hayes, Goochul Chung, Chris Quanbeck, Xiangyang Zhuang
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Patent number: 9942028Abstract: A timing error detection circuit for calibrating a serial transmitter is disclosed. The circuit includes a data source configured to provide data for serial transmission and a clock source configured to produce N versions of a sampling clock that are at N different phases of the sampling clock. The detection circuit has a first sampler configured to sample the data source by using a first phase of the sampling clock to generate a first sampled signal and a second sampler configured to sample the data source by using a second phase of the sampling clock to generate a second sampled signal. The detection circuit also includes a first comparator configured to compare the first and second sampled signals to generate a difference signal and a first low-pass filter configured to filter the difference signal to generate an average difference voltage. A second comparator in the detection circuit is configured to compare the average difference voltage with a reference voltage.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2017Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Timothy O. Dickson, Mounir Meghelli
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Patent number: 9930666Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and base station for Multiple User-Multiple Input Multiple Output (MU-MIMO) transmission in a wireless communication system. The base station re-allocates frequency resources of a DMRS port which are allocated to N first data flows to M second data flows, wherein M is greater than N, and N first data flows may be used by N first UEs or less than N first UEs. The base station designates a DMRS port for K second UEs involved in joint scheduling according to the re-allocation result of frequency resources of a DMRS port, and sends information of the designated DMRS port via a downlink control signaling to the K second UEs, where K is lower than M or equal to M.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2016Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Xin Wang, Xiaolin Hou, Huiling Jiang
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Patent number: 9922569Abstract: A system and method for monitoring a communication channel and displaying information. A signal is received via the communication channel and signal information is extracted from the signal. The signal information is monitored for a predetermined indicator. Selected information is extracted from the signal information when the predetermined indicator is detected in the signal information and then displayed.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2016Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Jan Bilek, Ivan Lacko, Jiri Vasek
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Patent number: 9923270Abstract: The Active Electronically Scanned Lens Array design for a phased array reduces the cost of the phased array with minimal sacrifice to array performance. The design replaces transmit/receive (T/R) modules at the front end of the array with low cost and low lost phase shifters. A tradeoff in this design is a periodic phase quantization error that leads to quantization lobes. To reduce quantization lobes, a phase addition approach is presented to break up with the periodicity. In the presented approach, a phase offset is added at a T/R module and then corrected for at each radiating element in the array. The applied phase offset can be either deterministic or random.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2014Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Raytheon CompanyInventors: Matthew P. Little, Landon L. Rowland, Douglas M. McKay
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Modulation method and apparatus for signal transmission and reception in mobile communication system
Patent number: 9917722Abstract: A method and a transmission device of a mobile communication system are disclosed. The method includes determining a modulation method for data transmission, determining the level of a quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) according to the determined modulation method, determining the amplitude of a carrier wave and the phase of the carrier wave on the basis of the determined QAM level and the data to be transmitted, and, when the determined modulation method is a first modulation method, determining a sequence length, selecting a sequence form among sequences having the determined length according to the data to be transmitted, and generating a symbol modulating the data to be transmitted, on the basis of the selected sequence, the determined amplitude of the carrier wave, and the determined phase of the carrier wave.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2015Date of Patent: March 13, 2018Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sungnam Hong, Min Sagong, Chiwoo Lim -
Patent number: 9917723Abstract: Circuits for producing signals representative of mean and variance estimations for quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) are provided where the circuits comprise: sequentially repeated first circuit modules and sequentially repeated second circuit modules configured for producing updates in the corresponding estimation iterations. In one embodiment, a closest negative integer power of 2 is used as a substitute multiplicand when multiplying together two or more outputs of hyperbolic function generating units where the substituted for output is less than one. Size and complexity of the corresponding multiplier can then be reduced.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2016Date of Patent: March 13, 2018Assignee: FUTUREWEI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Guosen Yue, Xiao Feng Qi
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Patent number: 9917629Abstract: A method for providing multi-hypothesis channel quality indicator (MH-CQI) feedback is described. Hypotheses corresponding to rank indicator (RI) and precoding matrix indicator (PMI) assumptions associated with a dominant interferer are selected. Multi-hypothesis channel quality indicator (MH-CQI) values based on the selected hypotheses are generated. The multi-hypothesis channel quality indicator (MH-CQI) values are encoded. The multi-hypothesis channel quality indicator (MH-CQI) values are sent as feedback.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2012Date of Patent: March 13, 2018Assignee: QUALCOMM IncoroporatedInventors: Stefan Geirhofer, Peter Gaal, Tingfang Ji, Alan Barbieri