Interference Or Noise Reduction Patents (Class 375/346)
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Patent number: 9991972Abstract: Embodiments herein describe calibrating a plurality of radio heads having a plurality of wireless antennas. In one embodiment, the plurality of radio heads communicate a calibration signal in a round robin fashion such that each of the radio heads communicates a respective calibration signal to the remaining radio heads. In one embodiment, at least one of the radio heads is isolated from the remaining radio heads. The received calibration signals are then used to calibrate the radio heads. In one embodiment, a controller coupled with the plurality of radio heads calibrates the radio heads. The calibrated radio heads then communicate to one or more client devices.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2017Date of Patent: June 5, 2018Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: Mithat C. Dogan, Matthew A. Silverman, Paul J. Stager, Brian D. Hart, Jiunming Huang
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Patent number: 9986580Abstract: Technologies are generally described to provide multi-objective dynamic resource optimization for self-organizing networks. In some examples, a system employing dynamic resource optimization may allocate network resources to a group of subscribers to enable granular policy management per cell, per subscriber type, per service, and/or per user resource. The dynamic resource optimization may be based on optimization/improvement of a throughput objective and a quality of experience (QoE) objective. Users maybe segmented into different groups according to subscriber types with each group having a priority level assigned. Resources may be allocated first to a highest or relatively higher priority group of users, and remaining resources may be consecutively allocated to lower priority groups. The QoE objective may be quantitatively determined by mapping real time quality of service (QoS) parameters associated with the subscriber group.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2013Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: EMPIRE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT LLCInventors: Henry Leung, Xiaoxiang Liu
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Patent number: 9986035Abstract: A synchronous measurement system includes a main controller, a plurality of sub-controllers connected to the main controller, and a plurality of sensor units connected to the sub-controller. The sub-controllers include a sub-controller master and a sub-controller slave connected to the sub-controller master. The main controller transmits a start command to the sub-controller master. The sub-controller master generates a trigger signal according to reception of the start command and transmits the trigger signal to the sub-controller slave. Each of the plurality of sub-controllers transmits a synchronization command to the plurality of sensor units on the basis of the trigger signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2014Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Kazuyoshi Takeda, Takao Katayama, Mikimoto Jin
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Patent number: 9979531Abstract: In one example, a wireless communication device adapted for multi-band operation includes a first antenna, a first diplexer configured to pass signals within first and second sets of frequency bands, first and second signal paths, wherein each signal path includes a set of notch filters tunable to attenuate a different frequency. The wireless communication device includes a second antenna, a second diplexer configured to pass the first and second frequency bands, third and fourth signal paths, wherein each of the third and fourth signal paths includes one or more notch filters tunable to attenuate a different frequency, and a transceiver coupled to each signal path.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2013Date of Patent: May 22, 2018Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLCInventors: Dale G. Schwent, Gregory R. Black, Richard E. Mach
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Patent number: 9973299Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a waveguide system for detecting a condition that adversely affects a propagation of electromagnetic waves generated by the waveguide system on a surface of the wire, and adjusting characteristics of the electromagnetic waves generated by the waveguide system to reduce adverse effects caused by the condition. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2014Date of Patent: May 15, 2018Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Paul Shala Henry, Robert Bennett, Irwin Gerszberg, Farhad Barzegar, Donald J. Barnickel, Thomas M. Willis, III
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Patent number: 9966995Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus for wireline communication. Independent control of probing signals transmitted on different power line couplings may be used to characterize power line communication (PLC) signal leakage on a set of digital subscriber line (DSL) lines. For example, PLC packets may be sent on a primary coupling and an alternate coupling, and PLC signal leakage from these couplings may be measured by a device, such as a PLC device or a DSL device, connected to the set of DSL lines. The measurements from each coupling may enable a determination as to which of the couplings (either primary or alternate) is more imbalanced and results in relatively more PLC signal leakage into the set of DSL lines. Accordingly, a transmission power and a precoder may be determined based on the measured PLC signal leakage to mitigate interference on the twisted pair.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2016Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventor: Laurent Alloin
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Patent number: 9961575Abstract: A process of wireless communication for obtaining channel quality information alignment includes predicting a channel state of a future downlink subframe of a signal. The process also includes providing a base station with a set of parameters based on the predicted channel state. For example, a user equipment (UE) can obtain a recommended transport block size (RTBS) from the predictor process, and return the RTBS to the base station as one of the set of parameters.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Farrokh Abrishamkar, Chao Jin, Insung Kang, Surendra Boppana
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Patent number: 9960796Abstract: Provided are a multi-input multi-output system which overcomes a disadvantage that optimal receiving performance cannot be maintained according to an installation environment and a performance change of a receiver when a receiving module is configured by using a fixed attenuator and a fixed phase in a line-of-sight multi-input multi-output system configuration and analogously controls an interference removing module of a receiver including a variable attenuator and a phase shifter which are controllable to enhance a receiving performance and increase frequency efficiency, in order to maximize a signal-to-interference ratio of each path and an operating method thereof.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2016Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Bong Su Kim, Min Soo Kang, Kwang Seon Kim, Woo Jin Byun, Myung Sun Song
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Patent number: 9954625Abstract: A method performed under control of a first device capable of full duplex radio communications may include transmitting a first frame to a second device; estimating a channel response of self interference cancellation (SIC), based, at least in part, on the first frame; and determining whether the estimated channel response is usable.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2014Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: EMPIRE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT LLCInventor: Hyoung-Gon Lee
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Patent number: 9954596Abstract: Disclosed in an embodiment of the disclosure is an interference rejection combining (IRC) method supporting transmit diversity, in which an N*N interference and noise covariance matrix corresponding to one subcarrier is generated from signals, in a transmit diversity mode, received at cell reference signal (CRS) resource positions via N receiving antennas, where N is greater than or equal to 3; Cholescy decomposition and upper triangular matrix inversion is performed on the N*N interference and noise covariance matrix to obtain an N*N block matrix; the N*N block matrix is expanded to a 2N*2N noise whitening matrix; and the received signals and channel estimation values are whitened according to the noise whitening matrix, and the whitened received signals and channel estimation values used to obtain a minimum mean square error-IRC (MMSE-IRC) processing result. Also disclosed are an IRC device supporting the transmit diversity, and a computer storage medium.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2015Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: Sanechips Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Gang Wu
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Patent number: 9942020Abstract: Embodiments herein describe recovering data packets received by a plurality of wireless antennas of a radio head. In one embodiment, the signals received by the radio head are filtered using a single filter to recover at least one data packet. In another embodiment, the signals received by the radio head are filtered using a plurality of filters to recover at least one data packet. In one embodiment, a controller coupled with the radio head filters the received signals and recovers the at least one data packet.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2017Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: Mithat C. Dogan, Brian D. Hart, Matthew A. Silverman
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Patent number: 9929742Abstract: A circuit includes a first amplifying stage, a noise extraction circuit and a noise cancellation circuit. The first amplifying stage is arranged for receiving an input signal to generate an amplified input signal. The noise extraction circuit is coupled to the first amplifying stage, and is arranged for receiving at least the amplified input signal to generate a noise signal associated with noise components of the amplified input signal. The noise cancellation circuit is coupled to the first amplifying stage and the noise extraction circuit, and is arranged for cancelling noise components of the amplified input signal by using the noise signal generated by the noise extraction circuit, to generate a noise-cancelled amplified input signal.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2017Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.Inventor: Hung-Chieh Tsai
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Patent number: 9929783Abstract: A system and method for orthogonal time frequency space communication and waveform generation. The method includes receiving a plurality of information symbols and creating a plurality of modulation symbols by using each of the plurality information symbols to modulate one of a plurality of two-dimensional basis functions on a time-frequency plane Each of the plurality of two-dimensional basis functions is uniquely associated with one of the plurality of information symbols. The method further includes generating a transmit waveform comprised of a plurality of pulse waveforms. Each of the plurality of pulse waveforms corresponds to a combination of one of the plurality of modulation symbols and one of a plurality of time-translated and frequency-modulated versions of a fundamental transmit pulse.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2016Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Inventors: Shlomo Selim Rakib, Ronny Hadani
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Patent number: 9912358Abstract: A method of reducing the noise from a transmitter at an associated receiver is disclosed. Noise contributions in active channels are identified and used to update a shared noise cancellation filter. Excluding signals from inactive channels speeds up the filter convergence to a near optimal solution. Sharing a filter across multiple channels reduces component count and power consumption.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2015Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: Analog Devices GlobalInventors: Patrick Joseph Pratt, Peadar Antony Forbes
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Patent number: 9907077Abstract: A computer-implemented method, system, and computer-readable storage media for mitigating interference in a communication system is described. A user equipment operating near an edge of its base station coverage cell may transmit a strong uplink signal, which can interfere with a nearby base station. When a serving base station recognizes a high downlink signal from a nearby base station, an interference mitigation algorithm is enabled by the serving base station. The interference mitigation algorithm of the serving base station will control the uplink signal from the user equipment, so the user equipment does not interfere with the nearby base station.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2016Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.Inventors: Sungki Park, Saied Kazeminejad, Brett Lee Christian, Senthil K. Veeraragavan
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Patent number: 9906310Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a signal receiving method and a receiver. The signal receiving method includes: sequentially preprocessing a received first signal to obtain to-be-processed second signals; generating filtering coefficients for the second signals by converting colored noise of the second signals into white noise; and filtering the corresponding second signals according to the filtering coefficients. Filtering can be performed according to different channel conditions and transmission requirements, thereby improving system performance of the receiver.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2016Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Ling Liu, Liangchuan Li
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Patent number: 9906384Abstract: Corrections are provided for mismatches between an in-phase (I) signal and a quadrature-phase (Q) signal, the I and Q signals having a first frequency band. A frequency filter circuit filters the I and Q signals to produce a filtered I and Q output with a second frequency band that is a subset of the first frequency band. Digital circuitry includes a multiple-tap correction filter having a plurality of taps and configured to generate I and Q output signals by filtering the I and Q signals according to respective sets of coefficients for the plurality of taps. A coefficient estimator generates the sets of coefficients relative to different frequency bands.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2016Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: NXP B.V.Inventors: Robert Rutten, Lucien Johannes Breems, Johannes Hubertus Antonius Brekelmans, Jan Niehof, Muhammed Bolatkale, Shagun Bajoria
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Patent number: 9876626Abstract: A microwave backhaul system having quadruple capacity. In one embodiment, an outdoor communication unit in a microwave backhaul system is provided, which includes a first and second dual channel processing modules that are each configured to process two transmission/reception channels. The outdoor communication unit also includes two transmitter modules that are each configured to upconvert two channels for transmission at vertical polarization and a horizontal polarization.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2013Date of Patent: January 23, 2018Assignee: Maxlinear Asia Singapore PTE LTDInventor: Kobi Sturkovich
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Patent number: 9871688Abstract: Described herein are architectures, platforms and methods for implementing cancellation of asymmetric quadrature gain imbalance due to frequency selective quadrature baseband coupling in a transceiver of device. Radio frequency (RF) are converted to quadrature baseband signals, estimation is made as to coupling between in-phase (I) and quadrature-phase (Q) channels of the quadrature baseband signals. The quadrature baseband signals are converted into digital baseband signals, and digital compensation is applied on the digital baseband signal based on the estimated amount of coupling.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2015Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Assignee: Intel IP CorporationInventor: Oren E. Avraham
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Patent number: 9871542Abstract: A noise canceller device for removing interference signals from other systems and improving communication quality of a desired signal is provided. The noise canceller device comprises a first calculation unit performing cross-correlation processing on interference signals received by sub-antennas, a first peak detection unit detecting peaks of the interference signals, a first information acquisition unit acquiring first interference signal information, a composition unit composing the interference signals, a second calculation unit performing correlation processing between a signal received by a main antenna and the composed interference signal, a second peak detection unit detecting a peak of the composed interference signal, a second information acquisition unit acquiring second interference signal information, an interference signal replica generation unit generating an interference signal replica, and a removal unit subtracting the interference signal replica from the received signal by the main-antenna.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2016Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Assignee: HITACHI KOKUSAI ELECTRIC INC.Inventors: Yoichi Kushioka, Koji Yotsumoto, Mitsuhiro Takashima
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Patent number: 9852614Abstract: A remote control device includes a digital audio storage device, a talk button, and an optical distance measurer. The digital audio storage device is configured to continually record an audio input for a specific amount of time. The talk button is coupled to the digital audio storage device and is configured to initiate a transmission of the audio input to a set-top box device. The optical distance measurer is coupled to the talk button and is configured to automatically measure a distance to a user in response to the talk button being pressed.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2015Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.Inventors: Hisao Chang, Iker Arizmendi
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Patent number: 9838075Abstract: Methods, devices and systems of supporting discontinuous operation in communication systems using vectoring Methods, devices and techniques are disclosed where vectoring is adapted to lines becoming inactive and active, for example in a discontinued operation. In some embodiments, the vectoring is modified based on already present coefficients.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2014Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: Lantiq Deutschland GmbHInventors: Rainer Strobel, Vladimir Oksman
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Patent number: 9838185Abstract: A method of a transceiver arranged to operate in a cellular communication system comprising cells is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a transmission from a first cell; determining an interfering signal and its occupation in time and/or frequency; determining reduced values in the received signal corresponding to the occupation in time and/or frequency of the interfering signal; and measuring a quotient between desired signal and non-desired signal of reference symbols of the received signal. A channel quality index, CQI, is formed taking into account reduction of values performed at the reducing, and the CQI is reported to the communication system. A transceiver and computer program for the same are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2016Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Bengt Lindoff, Fredrik Nordström
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Patent number: 9819524Abstract: In one aspect, an apparatus includes: a mixer to receive a radio frequency (RF) signal and downconvert the RF signal into a second frequency signal; an amplifier coupled to the mixer to amplify the second frequency signal; an image rejection (IR) circuit coupled to the programmable gain amplifier (PGA) to orthogonally correct a gain and a phase of the amplified second frequency signal to output a corrected amplified second frequency signal; and a complex filter to filter the corrected amplified second frequency signal.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2014Date of Patent: November 14, 2017Assignee: Silicon Laboratories Inc.Inventors: John M. Khoury, Navin Harwalkar
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Patent number: 9813143Abstract: An interference cancellation repeater for canceling an interference signal included in an input signal including a first adaptive filter configured to generate a first estimated signal; a second adaptive filter configured to generate a second estimated signal; a first scaler configured to scale the first estimated signal based on a first scale factor determined according to a channel state; a second scaler configured to scale the second estimated signal based on a second scale factor determined according to the channel state; a first canceller configured to generate a first interference canceled signal based on the input signal and the scaled first estimated signal; and a second canceller configured to generate a second interference canceled signal based on the first interference canceled signal and the scaled second estimated signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2016Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: SOLiD, INC.Inventors: Nagwon Kwon, Hyunchae Kim
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Patent number: 9807774Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and devices for transmission of discovery signal signals and detection of discovery signal signals for device-to-device communication. According to some aspects, the disclosure relates to a method executed in a first wireless terminal for transmitting a control signal for enabling device-to-device, D2D, discovery, wherein the control signal carries an identity. According to one aspect, the method comprises hashing the control signal, taking a time stamp used for the control signal transmission as one input parameter, encoding the hashed control signal and transmitting the encoded signal.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2014Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventor: Stefano Sorrentino
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Patent number: 9806912Abstract: A method (200) for channel estimation includes receiving (201) a receive symbol (206) comprising: a plurality of interfering transmissions from: a first transmit symbol (202), the first transmit symbol (202) comprising a plurality of unknown modulated symbols interleaved with a plurality of known modulated symbols and a second transmit symbol (204), the second transmit symbol (204) comprising a plurality of unknown modulated symbols interleaved with a plurality of known modulated symbols, wherein the plurality of transmissions from the first transmit symbol (202) and the second transmit symbol (204) are a plurality of transmissions of different time instances; and estimating (203) a channel based on the receive symbol (206) and a plurality of estimates of the first transmit symbol (202) and the second transmit symbol (204).Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2015Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: Intel IP CorporationInventors: Oana-Elena Barbu, Carles Navarro-Manchon, Guillaume Monghal, Bernard H. Fleury, Christian Rom
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Patent number: 9800437Abstract: An apparatus and method for optimizing the performance of satellite communication system receivers by using the Soft-Input Soft-Output (SISO) BCJR (Bahl, Cocke, Jelinek and Raviv) algorithm to detect a transmitted information sequence is disclosed. A Sliding Window technique is used with a plurality of reduced state sequence estimation (RSSE) equalizers to execute the BCJR algorithm in parallel. A serial data stream is converted into a plurality of data blocks using a serial-to-parallel converter. After processing in parallel by the equalizers, the output blocks are converted back to a serial data stream by a parallel-to-serial converter. A path history is determined using maximum likelihood (ML) path history calculation.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2016Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: Northrop Grumman Systems CorporationInventors: Robert S. Kingery, Daniel N. Liu
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Patent number: 9800310Abstract: An embodiment of a transmitter includes a first number of antennas and a signal generator. The antennas are each spaced from another of the antennas by approximately a distance, and are configured to provide, at one or more wavelengths that are greater than twice the distance, a channel capacity that exceeds a saturation channel capacity. The signal generator is configured to generate a second number of signals each having a wavelength that is greater than twice the distance, the second number being related to a third number of signal pipes. And the signal generator is configured to couple each of the signals to a respective one of the antennas. Such a transmitter can be a multiple-input-multiple-output orthogonal-frequency-division-multiplexing (OFDM-MIMO) transmitter that can be configured to increase the information-carrying capacity of a channel (i.e., increase the channel capacity) above and beyond a saturation capacity of the channel.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2016Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: Elwha LLCInventor: Yaroslav Aleksandrovich Urzhumov
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Patent number: 9794555Abstract: A sampling filter process for scalable video coding provides correction for phase shift occurring during downsampling. The process uses video data obtained from an encoder or decoder process of a base layer (BL) in a multi-layer system using adaptive phase shifting based on downsampling to improve quality. Examples of a multi-layers are MPEG-4 Advanced Video Coding (AVC) and High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC). The re-sampled BL data can be used in higher layers in a scalable video coding system. For example, the re-sampled or upsampled data can be used as a basis for prediction of the higher resolution video data.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2014Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLCInventors: David M Baylon, Ajay K Luthra, Koohyar Minoo
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Patent number: 9780853Abstract: An embodiment of a receiver includes a first number of antennas and a signal analyzer. The antennas are each spaced from another of the antennas by approximately a distance, and are configured to provide, at one or more wavelengths that are greater than twice the distance, a channel capacity that exceeds a saturation channel capacity. The signal analyzer is configured to recover information from a second number of signals each received by at least one of the antennas over a respective one of a third number of signal pipes, and each having a wavelength that is greater than twice the distance, the second number being related to the third number. Such a receiver can be a multiple-input-multiple-output orthogonal-frequency-division-multiplexing (OFDM-MIMO) receiver that can be configured to increase the information-carrying capacity of a channel (i.e., increase the channel capacity) above and beyond a saturation capacity of the channel.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2016Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: Elwha LLCInventor: Yaroslav Aleksandrovich Urzhumov
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Patent number: 9780816Abstract: In one example, an apparatus includes: a delay unit to delay a demodulated signal obtained from an input radio frequency (RF) frequency modulation (FM) signal; a filter to filter the demodulated signal and output a filtered demodulated signal; an impulse detection circuit to receive the filtered demodulated signal and detect presence of an impulse in the demodulated signal; and an impulse removal circuit to remove the detected impulse from the demodulated signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2016Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: Silicon Laboratories Inc.Inventors: Javier Elenes, Dana Taipale, Alex Hakkola
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Patent number: 9749068Abstract: A system and method are provided for calibrating the IQ-imbalance in a low-IF receiver. A Test Signal can be generated in a mirror frequency and conveyed to the receiver. The power of the signal produced in the receiver from the conveyed Test Signal can be measured. In the absence of an IQ-imbalance, the Test Signal can be completely eliminated in the receiver and the corresponding measured power of the produced signal can be minimized. Accordingly, a two dimensional algorithm is described for calibrating a receiver and correcting the IQ-imbalance by adjusting the phase and gain difference between the I and Q channels in the receiver based on the measured power of the signal produced in the receiver.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2016Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: SiTune CorporationInventors: Mahdi Khoshgard, Saeid Mehrmanesh, Vahid Mesgarpour Toosi
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Patent number: 9743288Abstract: A method and apparatus to mitigate radio frequency interference by a broadband mobile device by detecting, at the broadband mobile device, a geographically or physically proximate narrowband uplink transmission, wherein the narrowband uplink transmission is in close enough spectral proximity to at least one bearer channel of the broadband mobile device to result in interference on the narrowband reception when the broadband mobile device is transmitting and a narrowband mobile device is receiving, determining, based on the detected narrowband uplink transmission, a corresponding narrowband downlink frequency, monitoring the determined narrowband downlink frequency, detecting a narrowband downlink transmission at the monitored narrowband downlink frequency, and in response to detecting the narrowband downlink transmission at the monitored narrowband downlink frequency, modifying a broadband uplink transmission to ensure the broadband uplink transmission does not interfere with narrowband downlink reception.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2012Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.Inventors: John K. Grosspietsch, Michael H. Baker, Isam R. Makhlouf, Mark Shahaf
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Patent number: 9740653Abstract: Dynamic lane management for interference mitigation is disclosed. In one aspect, an integrated circuit (IC) is provided that employs a control system configured to mitigate electromagnetic interference (EMI) caused by an aggressor communications bus. The control system is configured to receive information related to EMI conditions and adjust which lanes of the aggressor communications bus are employed for signal transmission. The IC includes an interface configured to couple to the aggressor communications bus. The interface is configured to transmit signals to and receive signals from the aggressor communications bus. The control system is configured to use the information related to the EMI conditions to assign signals to be transmitted via particular lanes of the aggressor communications bus to mitigate the EMI experienced by a victim receiver. The control system provides designers with an additional tool that may reduce the performance degradation of the victim receiver attributable to EMI.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2014Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventor: Richard Dominic Wietfeldt
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Patent number: 9715437Abstract: Systems and methods for error recovery include determining an error in at least one stage of a plurality of stages during a first cycle on a hardware circuit, each of the plurality of stages having a main latch and a shadow latch. A first signal is transmitted to an output stage of the at least one stage to stall the main latch and the shadow latch of the output stage during a second cycle. A second signal is transmitted to an input stage of the at least one stage to stall the main latch of the input stage during the second cycle and to stall the main latch and the shadow latch of the input stage during a third cycle. Data is restored from the shadow latch to the main latch for the at least one stage and the input stage to recover from the error.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2016Date of Patent: July 25, 2017Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Jae-Joon Kim, Yu-Shiang Lin, Insup Shin
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Patent number: 9712294Abstract: A wireless communication system includes an infrastructure device for transmitting and receiving communications to and from a plurality of wireless user terminals. Each wireless user terminal includes a receiver and a controller that receives a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signals on a first carrier frequency of a downlink. Each of the plurality of OFDM signals includes carrier frequency assignment information indicating a carrier frequency to transmit uplink data and spatial pattern information indicating a spatial pattern. In response to the carrier frequency assignment information of each of the plurality of OFDM signals, a transmitter and the controller of the wireless user terminal transmit a plurality of uplink signals. Each of the plurality of uplink signals are transmitted on the indicated carrier frequency and using the indicated spatial pattern.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2014Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: InterDigital Technology CorporationInventors: Juan Carlos Zuniga, Teresa J. Hunkeler
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Patent number: 9693352Abstract: Wireless communication under IEEE 802.11 standards utilizing carrier specific interference mitigation where an AP or UE employs an ultra-wideband tuner to evaluate available spectrum between several communication bands. Rather than being constrained to communicate in a single communication band, the AP and UEs may utilize more than one communication band to communicate with one another. In doing so, the AP and UE search across several bands and measure interference on a carrier-by-carrier basis across those bands. Either of the AP and UE may select a cluster of carriers for communication, where the cluster of carriers may comprise 1) contiguous carriers in a single sub-channel, 2) contiguous carriers spanning across more than one sub-channel, 3) discontinuous carriers in a single sub-channel, or 4) discontinuous carriers spanning across more than one sub-channel. The mapping between a cluster and its carriers can be fixed or reconfigurable.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2016Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: NETGEAR, Inc.Inventor: Michael Clegg
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Patent number: 9680307Abstract: Systems and methods for regulating the voltage at a point of interconnection of a renewable energy plant, such as a solar plant, with a grid are provided. A voltage signal indicative of the voltage at the point of interconnection can be received and filtered with a high pass filter to generate a filtered error signal. The high pass filter can block components of the voltage signal at a frequency less than a threshold frequency. A reactive power command for the renewable energy plant can be generated based on the filtered error signal. One or more inverters of the renewable energy plant can be controlled to output reactive power based on the reactive power command. A rejection module can be implemented to prevent adverse interaction with other voltage control devices. In addition, a reset module can be implemented to preserve dynamic reactive power range of the inverters.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2012Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Miaolei Shao, Jovan Bebic, Owen Jannis Samuel Schelenz, Patrick Hammel Hart
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Patent number: 9674093Abstract: A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and apparatus for adapting resources of the cluster of nodes for a real-time streaming workflow are disclosed. For example, the method receives a notification that a node of the cluster of nodes associated with an instance of a process of the real-time streaming workflow is predicted to be a bottleneck, identifies a number of hops to send a resource statement when the bottleneck is predicted that minimizes a ripple effect associated with transmitting the resource statement, transmits the resource statement to at least one or more nodes of the cluster of nodes within the number of hops, receives a response from one of the at least one or more nodes within the cluster of nodes and adapts a resource usage to the at least one of the one or more nodes within the cluster of nodes that the response was received from.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2014Date of Patent: June 6, 2017Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Hyun Joo Kim, Nathan Gnanasambandam, Gueyoung Jung
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Patent number: 9667355Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention provides a method for removing interference. The method for removing interference may include obtaining PBCH information by decoding PBCH transmitted by a cell that neighbors a serving cell to cause interference in a received signal, estimating a channel for PBCH based on the obtained PBCH information, generating an interference signal based on the PBCH information and the estimated channel for PBCH, and removing the generated interference signal from the received signal.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2015Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventor: Byunguk Kwon
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Patent number: 9667449Abstract: A channel estimator, comprises: a receiver receives a first time-domain training sequence; a first convolution circuit generates an estimated value for the first time-domain training sequence by convoluting a second time-domain training sequence with a current channel estimation value; a first subtractor generates an error by subtracting the estimated value for the first time-domain training sequence from the value of the first time-domain training sequence; an updating circuit generates an updated channel estimation value by updating the current channel estimation value with the error; the receiver iteratively receives a next symbol of the first time-domain training sequence, the first convolution circuit, the subtractor and the updating circuit repeat their operation until completion of receipt of a last symbol of the first time-domain training sequence. The updating circuit outputs the current updated channel estimation value upon completion of receipt of a last first time-domain training sequence.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2015Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: MONTAGE TECHNOLOGY (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.Inventor: Zhen Lu
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Patent number: 9661643Abstract: Cognitive interference management in Cellular wireless network with relays and micro/pico/femto cells operated in distributed scheduling mode. A cellular system may use RS to improve capacity or for coverage extension. ARS relays the signals between BS 104 and MS by using wireless links between BS-RS and RS-MS during both downlink and uplink transmissions. Embodiments herein disclose a mechanism to explicitly indicate to the MS whether the MAC management messages sent by the BS to the MS are to inform it to perform scanning for interference measurement. Also, disclosed herein is a mechanism to explicitly indicate to the BS whether the message sent by the MS is related to interference measurement.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2015Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN WIRELESS TECHNOLOGYInventors: Sheetal Kalyani, Sunil Kaimalettu, Rajet Krishnan, Nadeem Akhtar, Jeniston Deviraj Klutto Milleth, Kiran Kumar Kuchi, Bhaskar Ramamurthi
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Patent number: 9654160Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to a method and an apparatus for processing signal interference, including: splitting a first self-interference signal into at least two same sub self-interference signals, adjusting amplitudes and phases of the sub self-interference signals to obtain adjusted sub-signals, superposing the adjusted sub-signals and received signals, to obtain superposed sub-signals, filtering the superposed sub-signals by using filters of corresponding channels, to obtain wanted sub-signals, and merging each of the wanted sub-signals to obtain a complete wanted signal. Because received signals are separately filtered by using n different channels, it can be implemented that a self-interference signal can be effectively filtered out on each frequency band.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2016Date of Patent: May 16, 2017Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Long Luo, Huajiong Lin, Linjun Lv, Bo Han
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Patent number: 9651671Abstract: A global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receiver includes radio frequency front end and digital processing functionality. Radio frequency front end includes radio frequency input; first variable gain amplifier adjusts first gain of first frequency range of first analog GNSS signal received from radio frequency input by first amount; and second variable gain amplifier adjusts second gain of second frequency range of second analog global navigation satellite system signal received from radio frequency input by second amount. Digital processing functionality compares first amount of adjustment of first gain of first frequency range with second amount of adjustment of second gain of second frequency range; and detects first interference signal present in first frequency range or second frequency range when first amount of adjustment of the first gain of first frequency range differs from second amount of adjustment of second gain of second frequency range by more than first threshold amount.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2014Date of Patent: May 16, 2017Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Jussi Raasakka, Martin Orejas, Ondrej Kutik
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Patent number: 9654128Abstract: Provided are, among other things, systems, methods and techniques for converting a continuous-time, continuously variable signal into a sampled and quantized signal. According to one implementation, an apparatus includes multiple processing branches, each including: a bandpass noise-shaping circuit, a sampling/quantization circuit, and a digital bandpass filter. A combining circuit then combines signals at the processing branch outputs into a final output signal. The bandpass noise-shaping circuits include adjustable circuit components for changing their quantization-noise frequency-response minimum, and the digital bandpass filters include adjustable parameters for changing their frequency passbands.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2016Date of Patent: May 16, 2017Assignee: Syntropy Systems, LLCInventor: Christopher Pagnanelli
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Patent number: 9648509Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided that facilitate providing access point measurements to restricted access points. Restricted access points can lessen restrictions to allow devices to register with the restricted access point for providing measurements thereto. Additionally or alternatively, access point measurements can be provided to a minimization of drive tests (MDT) server for providing to the restricted access points. Thus, restricted access points can obtain the access point measurements for performing enhanced interference management or other functionality based at least in part on the measurements.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2014Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Andrei Dragos Radulescu, Mehmet Yavuz, Damanjit Singh, Farhad Meshkati, Jen Mei Chen, Gavin Bernard Horn, Sanjiv Nanda, Peerapol Tinnakornsrisuphap, Vinay Chande
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Patent number: 9641369Abstract: A digital load side transmission lighting control apparatus has at one least control gear for controlling at least one lighting source. The control gear includes a period timer to establish an inter-transition time period between each transition within each data packet frame. An inter-transition comparator is in communication with the period timer and configured to compare each of the inter-transition periods with valid inter-transition periods between each transition of the bi-phase encoded data for determining if the inter-transition periods represent valid patterns or are an error has occurred. A data extractor is configured to receive valid bi-phase encoded data from the inter-transition comparator for extracting transmitted data from within the data packet frames. A command formatter is configured to receive the extracted frame data from the data extractor for assembling the telegram bit data pattern for transfer for the subsequent processing.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2015Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: Dialog Semiconductor (UK) LimitedInventor: Julian Tyrrell
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Patent number: 9626954Abstract: A control signal filter 2 receives a sound source signal determined by a control frequency specified in conformity with the vibration/noise source that produces vibration/noise, and outputs a control signal. A filter coefficient update unit 4 updates coefficients of the control signal filter 2 in response to a sound source signal and an error signal. A signal-to-interference ratio measuring unit 5 outputs a signal-to-interference ratio determined from the vibration/noise and the interference contained in the error signal in response to the control frequency and error signal. An update controller 6 adjusts an update step of the filter coefficient update unit 4 in accordance with the signal-to-interference ratio.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2013Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Atsuyoshi Yano
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Patent number: 9629013Abstract: A plurality of interference measurements are obtained at a first communication device. The interference measurements correspond to interference experienced by the first communication device. A filter is applied to the plurality of interference measurements to obtain a filtered interference measurement, wherein the filtered interference measurement is a function of a current interference measurement and one or more past interference measurements. A channel quality indicator (CQI) corresponding to a communication channel between the first communication device and a second communication device is determined based at least in part on the filtered interference measurement. The CQI is transmitted from the first communication device to the second communication device.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2014Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: Marvell World Trade Ltd.Inventors: Yan Zhang, Yakun Sun