Interference Or Noise Reduction Patents (Class 375/346)
  • Patent number: 9628124
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide techniques and configurations for an apparatus for mitigating interference in sensor signals. In one instance, the apparatus may include sensors and a processing block couplable with the sensors. The processing block may include a front end block to receive sensor signals, and tunable filter block to filter the sensor signals. The apparatus may further include a correction block. The correction block may include a replica of the front end block, and may be configured to receive interference information. A controller may operate the correction block to adjust the tunable filter block, based on interference information, and connect the sensors with the processing block after adjustment. The controller may operate the processing block, in response to connection of the processing block with the sensors, to initiate processing of sensor signals filtered by the filter block, to mitigate interference. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Amit Kumar Srivastava
  • Patent number: 9578161
    Abstract: The use of a data link between two or more smart devices for voice communication allows for the enhancement of voice quality in a collaborative way through the exchange of well-defined meta-data between the smart devices. The meta-data may be exchanged on a separate IP data link or as part of the exchanged voice data packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Vlatko Milosevski, Edwin Zuidema, Ralf Franciscus Magdalena Funken, Benoit Brieussel, Wouter Joos Tirry, Rob Goyens
  • Patent number: 9577773
    Abstract: A station assisted interference measurement scheme is described containing a system and devices that facilitate the measurement of interference levels or path loss values between nearby potentially interfering transmitting transceivers and candidate victim receivers. Such interference levels or path loss values are used to assist intelligent assignment of communication channels in an authorized shared access system (ASAS). Using control signals from a controller of the ASAS, suspected interfering devices transmit specialized signals on specific channels at specific times that may have a waveform and/or bit format different from typically used data communication signals. A candidate victim receiver may receive one or more of the specialized signals and measure a signal parameter of the received specialized signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
    Inventor: Max A. Solondz
  • Patent number: 9571239
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for transmitting channel information used by a station form among TV white space channels, and a method and apparatus for performing channel switching are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignees: LG Electronics Inc., SNU R&DB Foundation
    Inventors: Eunsun Kim, Yongho Seok, Whasook Jeon, Dongheon Lee
  • Patent number: 9568521
    Abstract: A distortion estimation apparatus for estimating distortion includes a feedback element, a nonlinearity determiner, and a distortion simulator. The feedback element provides a feedback signal derived from a distorted output signal of the distorting element. A signal processing quality of the feedback element is lower than an associated signal property of the distorted output signal. The nonlinearity determiner receives the feedback signal and an input signal to the distorting element or a signal derived from the input signal. The nonlinearity determiner determines an estimated transmission characteristic of the distorting element by relating signal properties of the feedback signal and the input signal or the signal derived from the input signal. The distortion simulator estimates the distortion caused by the distorting element based on the input signal or the signal derived from the input signal and the estimated transmission characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: Intel Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Bernhard Sogl, Alexander Belitzer, Andrea Camuffo, Jan-Erik Mueller
  • Patent number: 9559672
    Abstract: In one or more embodiments, an integrated circuit includes a programmable memory, a key generation module and a module. The programmable memory is to maintain a first key portion. The key generation module is to generate a key using the first key portion from the programmable memory and a second key portion received via a memory interface. The module is to encrypt or decrypt data using the key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.
    Inventors: Vinay Chitturi, Oscar M. Siguenza
  • Patent number: 9553700
    Abstract: A control channel of a communication method and an apparatus includes at least one timeslot, and the method includes: obtaining, according to a first data symbol sequence to be transmitted in a timeslot and coefficients a(i) and d(i), a second data symbol sequence and a third data symbol sequence, where, in a(i)+d(i), at least one pair of a(u)+d(u) and a(v)+d(v) have moduli unequal to each other; and using the same extension sequence [w(0), w(1), . . . , w(N?1)] to process the second data symbol sequence and the third data symbol sequence, mapping the processed data respectively onto the same time-frequency resources corresponding to a first antenna array and a second antenna array, and transmitting the data, where i, u, and v are integers, 0?i?M?1, and u?v.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xiaofeng Chen
  • Patent number: 9544128
    Abstract: A method of data-aided timing recovery for Ethernet systems is disclosed. A first device negotiates a pseudorandom number sequence with a second device and receives a data signal from the second device. The first device samples the received data signal to recover a first training sequence. The first device also generates a second training sequence based on the pseudorandom number sequence. The second training sequence is then synchronized with the first training sequence. The synchronized second training sequence is used to align a receive clock signal of the first device with the data signal received from the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hai Jiang, Yin Huang, Changlong Xu, Jian Li, Yisheng Xue
  • Patent number: 9530604
    Abstract: A method for operating a traveling-wave tube module of a communication satellite involves receiving of a high-frequency signal from an antenna of the satellite and determining that the high-frequency signal is to be amplified. The cathode current of a traveling-wave tube is increased to a predetermined operating value if the high-frequency signal is to be amplified and the high-frequency signal is amplified by the traveling-wave tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Tesat-Spacecom GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Hanspeter Katz, Gerhard Reinwald
  • Patent number: 9529078
    Abstract: An adaptive parameter for adjusting a threshold in a sensor system that provides a constant false alarm rate is disclosed. A projection space generator performs projection operations to create a matched projection space and first and second mismatched projection spaces such that each mismatched projection space is orthogonal or nearly orthogonal to the matched projection space. A mitigation engine receives the matched and first mismatched projection spaces and generates a set of weights from one of the first mismatched projection space or both of the matched and first mismatched projection spaces. A second mismatched projection space that is mismatched to both the matched and first mismatched projection spaces is provided to a clutter characterization engine that generates samples from the second mismatched projection space and the set of weights. The adaptive parameter is generated from the samples and is used as an input to a threshold adjuster in a target detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Propagation Research Associates, Inc.
    Inventor: Ernest Jefferson Holder
  • Patent number: 9521432
    Abstract: Correction of errors within over-the-air signaling is contemplated. The error correction may include correcting over-the-air signaling used to facilitate transmitting content, broadcast television, etc. according to error correction data transmitted separately from the over-the-air signaling. A receiver may be configured to process the over-the-air signaling according to the error correction data so as to facilitate the contemplated error correction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Donley, Isaac Elliott, Thomas Williams, Belal Hamzeh
  • Patent number: 9515860
    Abstract: Systems and methods provide a receiver design capable of both wideband (high symbol rate) and narrowband (low symbol rate) operations requirements without compromising narrowband performance. Moreover, such a receiver design can be very low cost, and eschewing the need for any expensive and/or specialized elements. A receiver configured in accordance with various embodiments utilizes a fully integrated tuner in which narrowband filters are configured to be bypassable when in wideband (high symbol rate) mode in favor of fixed wideband filters. Additionally, an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) can be implemented with digital gain for wideband operation, as well as digital data bit mapping to accommodate industry standard application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) interfaces, such as from a 12 bit ADC core to an 8 bit digital interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventors: George Eapen, Yong Kang Yuan, Emanuel Harrington
  • Patent number: 9509426
    Abstract: At a wireless node in a wireless network, multiple interference estimation resources are received in a time-frequency resource space. The multiple interference estimation resources are resource elements in an assigned physical shared channel of the time-frequency resource space that do not contain physical shared channel data for the wireless node. An interference covariance matrix is determined from received signals on the multiple interference estimation resources. Symbol estimates are determined for a desired signal based in part by using the interference covariance matrix. Methods, computer programs and products and apparatus are disclosed. The techniques may be used for uplink, downlink, or D2D communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Weidong Yang, Xiaoyi Wang, Klaus Hugl, Rapeepat Ratasuk, Jun Tan, Timo Erkki Lunttila
  • Patent number: 9509352
    Abstract: A noise cancellation method comprises receiving, by an adaptive phase-noise cancellation apparatus, a noise-corrupted symbol from a receiver, performing a hard decision process on the noise-corrupted symbol to generate a substantially clean symbol based upon the noise-corrupted symbol, calculating a phase deviation of the noise-corrupted symbol based upon the substantially clean symbol and the noise-corrupted symbol, generating a phase error based upon the phase deviation and transmitting, at an output of the adaptive phase-noise cancellation apparatus, a phase corrected symbol determined in accordance with a subtraction of the generated phase error from the received noise-corrupted symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Marek Klemes
  • Patent number: 9503154
    Abstract: A method for interference estimation and mitigation includes receiving a high-resolution digital signal. The high-resolution digital signal comprises a signal of interest and an interfering signal. An estimate of the interfering signal is generated using a quantizer. The signal of interest is in a quantization noise of the quantizer. An interference-mitigated signal of interest is generated based on a difference of the estimate of the interfering signal and the high-resolution digital signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: TrellisWare Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Keith M. Chugg, Cenk Kose
  • Patent number: 9479826
    Abstract: A system has a first transmitter for transmitting a first wireless signal within a first frequency. A second transmitter is for transmitting a second wireless signal with overlapping frequency. The first transmitter and the second transmitter are disposed sufficiently proximate to another such that the wireless signals substantially interfere resulting in a combined wireless signal with negative SNR for each of the first wireless signal and the second wireless signal, the negative SNR being a result of at least the other of the first wireless signal and the second wireless signal. A receiver is located for receiving a received wireless signal comprising substantially interfering encoded data signals having negative SNR. The receiver is for selecting from the substantially interfering encoded data signals a signal of interest and for decoding said signal of interest relative to at least the other substantially interfering data signal within the received wireless signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada as represented by the Minister of industry, through the Communications Research Centre Canada
    Inventors: Yiyan Wu, Bo Rong, Gilles Gagnon, Khalil Salehian, Sébastien Laflèche, Charles Nadeau, Benoit Ledoux, Robert Gagnon, Douglas Prendergast
  • Patent number: 9473259
    Abstract: Various embodiments are generally directed to techniques for testing a receiver incorporated into an IC to receive a bitstream. An apparatus includes a precharge component to set a VGA to output a differential bias voltage; a taps component to set a tap to form a feedback loop that extends from an output of the bit slicer to the input of the bit slicer through a delay circuit and the tap, the tap to output a first differential voltage to the input of the bit slicer to invert a polarity of a sum of differential voltages at the input of the bit slicer to enable oscillation of the bit slicer, the sum generated from at least the differential bias voltage and the first differential voltage; and a capture component coupled to the output of the bit slicer to capture a series of bit values therefrom. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Itamar Levin, Kevan A. Lillie, Dima Hammed, Elior Segev, Mingming Xu, Tomer Fael
  • Patent number: 9467218
    Abstract: This interference reduction method in a receiver (2) comprising at least two antennas (4, 6), each receiving a signal transmitted through a radio propagation channel, comprises the following steps: —weighting (20) of each of the signals received with a weighting vector associated respectively with a respective antenna of the receiver; —combination (22) of the weighted signals received to obtain a combined received signal; —weighting (24) of a reference signal with another weighting vector; —comparison (26) of the combined received signal and the weighted reference signal to obtain an error; and —determination (28) of the weighting vectors with the help of the maximum a posteriori criterion by maximizing the probability of realization of the said weighting vectors conditionally with the error obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: AIRBUS DS SLC
    Inventors: Philippe Mege, Laurent Martinod, Luc Fety, Olivier Perrin, Nicolas Gregis
  • Patent number: 9455847
    Abstract: The present invention is a method and apparatus for mitigating phase noise in data communication systems. The present invention provides effective phase noise mitigation with very low latency by combining the decision feedback equalizer and carrier recovery loop effectively. The phase noise estimate is obtained by calculating the phase difference between the input and output of the decision device (DD) in the decision feedback equalizer (DFE) and then applying a digital phase locked loop (DPLL) on the phase difference. Deriving the phase noise estimate from the phase noise estimation process, phase noise mitigation is obtained by multiplying the phase noise estimate at the input signal of the feedforward filter (FFF) and at the input signal of the DD in DFE. An accurate signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) estimate is also obtained in the process of the filter coefficient update process in the DFE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Inventor: Sanguoon Chung
  • Patent number: 9450685
    Abstract: A system and methods for cancelling spatial interference associated with an original multi-carrier signal carrying at least one data transmission sent by a transmitter to an antenna array comprising a plurality of antennae and having a receiver operatively associated therewith, the system receiving a plurality of received signals respectively including interference and the original signal as received by a respective individual antenna from among the plurality of antennae, the system comprising a spatial nulling device for generating a cleaner signal by reducing at least one spatial component of the interference; and a signal manipulator operative to manipulate a derivative of the received signal so as to cause the at least one data transmission to be more concentrated in a subset of frequency bands in which the spatial nulling device is more effective and to be less concentrated in frequency bands which do not belong to the subset of frequency bands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: ELTA SYSTEMS LTD.
    Inventors: Gil Koifman, Yaakov Shoshan
  • Patent number: 9444661
    Abstract: A receiver system includes a DC (direct current) offset estimation block configured to capture a plurality of sample pairs, each sample pair including a first sample of a first signal and a second sample of a second signal. The first and second signals are passed through one or more gain elements. The DC offset estimation block is also configured to apply a modified circle-fit algorithm to the plurality of sample pairs to estimate a first DC offset exhibited by the first signal and a second DC offset exhibited by the second signal, the first and second DC offsets generated by the gain elements, the modified circle-fit algorithm includes a magnitude approximation term used to iteratively estimate the first and second DC offsets. The receiver system also includes a DC offset correction block configured to calculate one or more correction control signals based on the first and second DC offsets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Khurram Waheed, Kevin B. Traylor
  • Patent number: 9438284
    Abstract: Various embodiments are disclosed for implementing joint non-linear interference cancellation (NLIC) in communication receivers with multiple receiver antennas to cancel or mitigate self-jamming interference from the same aggressor transmitter. A victim receiver may exploit the correlated nature of the interference signals received by the multiple receiver antennas to reduce the computational complexity of an NLIC scheme and improve performance. The victim receiver may select an Rx antenna/Rx chain that experiences the strongest interference from the aggressor transmitter and may perform a full NLIC operation using Tx data from the aggressor transmitter to estimate the strongest interference signal. The NLIC operation may estimate each remaining interference signal by applying a complex coefficient from a single-tap adaptive filter to the estimate of the strongest interference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jibing Wang, Roberto Rimini, Joseph Patrick Burke
  • Patent number: 9438277
    Abstract: Systems and methods for bandpass sampling of a continuous analog signal according to several embodiments can use a linear relationship between sampling frequency and intermediate frequency f IF = ( - 1 ) n + 1 ? ( - ? n 2 ? ? F S ? + f C ) where fIF is the intermediate frequency and FS is the sampling frequency of the bandpass sampling, fC is the carrier frequency, B is a bandwidth and fU is an upper frequency for the signal, and n is an integer such that 1 ? n ? ? f U B ? . The sampling frequency FS can be chosen first and the IF can be calculated without iteration using the relationship above. Or, when fIF is the most important design parameter, fIF can be selected first, and sample frequencies which will not cause aliasing can be solved by calculating FS given IF using the equation above, for all values of n so that 1 ? n ? ? f U B ? , and then selecting a particular FS. fIF can be chosen to be FS/4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Sunil Ramlall, Rohan Ramlall
  • Patent number: 9433007
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: NETGEAR, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Clegg
  • Patent number: 9419785
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an initial synchronization apparatus assisted by inherent diversity over time-varying frequency-selective fading channels. Based on motivation from statistical derivations, the present invention provides a novel initial synchronization method for estimating timing error and carrier frequency offset (CFO) by embedding matched filters into RAKE fingers to approach modified CramerRao lower bounds (MCRLBs). In addition, the present invention is then built to approach modified CramerRao lower bounds by taking advantage of a maximum ratio combining (MRC) criterion. In practice, the proposed technique can significantly outperform a conventional initial synchronization technique on the timing error and CFO estimations over multipath fading channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jia-Chin Lin, Yu-Ting Sun
  • Patent number: 9419826
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an adaptive filtering method and system based on an error sub-band. The present invention includes performing analysis filtering processing on an error signal and an input signal to obtain an error sub-band signal and an input sub-band signal respectively; and performing calculation according to the input sub-band signal and the error sub-band signal to obtain a new adaptive filtering weight, and updating a weight in an adaptive filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dongyuan Shi, Dongmei He, Meng Cai
  • Patent number: 9419829
    Abstract: Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and/or methods of Direct Current (DC) estimation. For example, an apparatus may include an estimator to estimate a DC component of a received wireless communication packet based on a first value, a second value and an estimated frequency offset, wherein the first value is based on a first plurality of samples including at least a plurality of samples of a first sequence of a preamble of the wireless communication packet, the second value is based on a second plurality of samples including at least a plurality of samples of a second sequence of the preamble, immediately successive to the first sequence, and the estimated frequency offset corresponds to a frequency offset between the first and second pluralities of samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Moshe Teplitsky, Michael Genossar, Elan Banin
  • Patent number: 9398480
    Abstract: Systems and methods for obtaining effective measurements in a cellular communications network are disclosed. In one embodiment, a node (i.e., a measuring node) in a cellular communications network performs a reference measurement at the node, where the reference measurement contains one or more interference components. The node then mitigates at least one of the interference components contained in the reference measurement to thereby provide an effective measurement. In one embodiment, the effective measurement is used by the measuring node, reported to another node, or both used by the measuring node and reported to another node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventor: Iana Siomina
  • Patent number: 9369310
    Abstract: An apparatus, method and program for processing a signal received over a wireless channel. The apparatus comprises: a channel searcher configured to determine a profile of the channel in the form of energy values for a plurality of rays at respective channel positions, and an equalizer for equalizing the signal based on a variable window of the equalizer. The channel searcher is configured to estimate dispersion of the channel by determining a measure of variance of ray distance from a reference position within the channel profile weighted by ray energy. The equalizer is coupled to the channel searcher and arranged to adapt the window in dependence on the measure of energy-weighted ray distance variance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Icera, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Allpress, Edward Andrews, Simon Huckett, Laolu Lijofi, Jonathan Peter Lucas, Carlo Luschi, Simon Nicholas Walker
  • Patent number: 9362964
    Abstract: A microwave radio receiver includes a first down-converter, a second down-converter, and a combined receiver signal level (RSL) and interference detector. The first down-converter is configured to convert a RF signal into a first IF signal. The second down-converter is configured to convert the first IF signal into a second IF signal. The combined RSL and interference detector is configured to determine one or more RSLs and generate an interference indicator based on the first IF signal from the first down-converter and a control signal from the second down-converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: ZTE (USA) INC.
    Inventors: Ying Shen, Thanh Nguyen, Aleksandr Semenyshev, Shawn Walsh, William Schmid
  • Patent number: 9363117
    Abstract: A method (100) for providing a baseband signal comprises monitoring (102) a disparity between a first magnitude of a first signal component (202) and a second magnitude of a second signal (204) component. If the disparity is below a threshold, the first signal component (202), the second signal component (204) or a combination of the first signal component (202) and the second signal component (204) is modified to provide a first modified signal component and a second modified signal component to increase the disparity between the magnitudes of the modified signal components above the threshold. The first modified signal component (202) and the second modified signal component (204) are combined to provide the baseband signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventor: Staffan Sahlin
  • Patent number: 9363543
    Abstract: A system and method for wirelessly transmitting audiovisual information. Training information may be stored in a memory. A plurality of packets may be generated, including the training information. The plurality of packets may also include audiovisual information. The plurality of packets may include first information identifying a first training pattern of a plurality of possible training patterns. The first training pattern may specify one or more locations of the training information in the plurality of packets. The first information may be usable by a receiver to determine the first training pattern of the plurality of possible training patterns. The plurality of packets may be transmitted in a wireless manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Coherent Logix, Incorporated
    Inventors: Kevin A. Shelby, Peter J. Nysen, Michael B. Doerr
  • Patent number: 9344246
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods for allowing a relay base station to more efficiently decode relay control information transmitted from a donor base station. A relay base station may determine a configuration of resource elements used for transmission of reference signals and decode sets of resource elements based on the configuration of reference signals. According to aspects, a donor base station may transmit relay control information in a data portion of a subframe based on the configuration of reference signals transmitted by the donor base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kapil Bhattad, Wanshi Chen, Peter Gaal
  • Patent number: 9344203
    Abstract: Methods and test equipment for measuring jitter in a Pulse Amplitude Modulated (PAM) transmitter. Under one procedure, a first two-level PAM signal test pattern is used to measure clock-related jitter separated into random and deterministic components, while a second two-level PAM signal test pattern is used to measure even-odd jitter (EOJ). Under another procedure, A four-level PAM signal test pattern is used to measure jitter-induced noise using distortion analysis. Test equipment are also disclosed for implementing various aspects of the test methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Adee O. Ran
  • Patent number: 9337885
    Abstract: A system for hybrid self-interference cancellation includes a transmit coupler that samples an RF transmit signal, a RF self-interference canceller that transforms the sampled RF transmit signal to an RF self-interference cancellation signal, an IF self-interference canceller that transforms a downconverted version of the RF transmit signal to an ISRF self-interference cancellation signal, and a receive coupler that combines the RF and ISRF self-interference cancellation signals with an RF receive signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Kumu Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Mehlman, Mayank Jain, Jung-II Choi, Dinesh Bharadia
  • Patent number: 9325408
    Abstract: A satellite receiver module for telecommunication equipment includes circuitries configured to receive timing information from one or more satellites and to form timing messages based on a clock signal in accordance with the received timing information. The clock signal is a stream of temporally successive clock pulses and the pulse-rate of the clock signal is accordant with a pace indicating signal received. from a body device of the telecommunication equipment. The satellite receiver module further includes a data interface including a connector for detachably attaching to the body device and for transferring the timing messages to the body device. Because the pulse-rate, i.e. the frequency, of the clock signal is accordant with the pace indicating signal received from the body device, a high-quality local oscillator is not necessary in the satellite receiver module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: CORIANT OY
    Inventor: Pertti Parkkonen
  • Patent number: 9319791
    Abstract: A method for signal processing, receiving a time domain signal having a sample-rate Fs and generating N time domain signal bands, each having a bandwidth equal to Fs/N. Receiving the N signal bands and transforming a first time domain signal band to a frequency domain at a first resolution and a second time domain signal band to the frequency domain at a second resolution, where the first resolution may be different from the second resolution. Determining one or more first filter coefficients using the frequency domain components from the first signal band and one or more second filter coefficients using the frequency domain components from the second signal band. Transforming the first and second filter coefficients from the frequency domain to a time domain. Applying the first and second time domain filter coefficients to the first and second time domain signals, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: CONEXANT SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventor: Yair Kerner
  • Patent number: 9319054
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for utilizing slave (receive) time-stamp clock rates that are different from master (sender) time-stamp clock rates to randomize and thereby reduce systematic time-stamp granularity errors in the communication of network packets. The slave (receive) time-stamp clock rate for some embodiments is set to be a fixed value that has a relationship with the master (sender) time-stamp clock rate such that the ratio of the slave (receive) clock rate to the master (sender) clock rate is a rational number. Other embodiments use a time-varying frequency for the slave (receive) time-stamp clock rate to randomize the slave (receive) time-stamp clock with respect to the master (sender) time-stamp clock. Additional time-stamps can also be generated using a slave (receive) time-stamp clock having a rate set to equal the rate of the master (sender) time-stamp clock signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Anue Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles A. Webb, III, Kishan Shenoi
  • Patent number: 9312968
    Abstract: A computing system includes: an antenna configured to receive a receiver signal for representing a serving signal and an interference signal; a communication unit, coupled to the antenna, configured to: calculate a signal likelihood from the receiver signal based on a Gaussian approximation mechanism; calculate an interference power estimate based on the signal likelihood for characterizing the interference signal; and estimating the serving signal based on the interference power estimate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoo Jin Choi, Dongwoon Bai, Jungwon Lee, Inyup Kang
  • Patent number: 9294136
    Abstract: A system for detecting and correcting for spurious frequencies that may coincide in a bandwidth of interest in an RF metrology system. The system can (1) utilize a deterministic scheme to detect an interference by a spurious frequency and correct the distortion effect or (2) utilize a mixed signal processing architecture to avoid the occurrence of spurious frequency contamination. A detection scheme identifies the event of distortion and triggers either (a) a shift in the analog to digital convert sample rate or (b) a mathematical vector manipulation. The shift of the analog to digital convert sample rate moves an aliased image of the spurious frequency outside of the frequency of interest. The mathematical vector correction removes the distortion and restores the signal of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: MKS Instruments, Inc.
    Inventor: David J. Coumou
  • Patent number: 9271259
    Abstract: Provided are a method and device for testing the moving speed of a terminal, which are used for testing the moving speed of a terminal according to the pilot and noise power, thereby improving measurement accuracy. The method comprises: a receiving end receiving a signal which comprises a pilot sequence and is sent by a sending end; according to the known pilot sequence and the signal comprising the pilot sequence, the receiving end determining an estimated value of a time-domain channel corresponding to each pilot symbol of the pilot sequence in a transmission process, and selecting a time-delay path according to the estimated value of the time-domain channel; and according to the time-delay path selected in a preset time length, the receiving end determining the moving speed of a terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: CHINA ACADEMY OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventor: Xiaojiao Li
  • Patent number: 9270393
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for reducing a noise signal added to an amplitude modulated (AM) broadcast signal while travelling from a broadcasting antenna to a receiving antenna is provided. The method includes capturing a signal representative of the AM broadcast signal corrupted by the noise signal via the receiving antenna, inverting the captured signal, and determining a carrying frequency of the AM broadcast signal and delaying the inverted waveform by a fraction of a cycle of the carrying frequency. The method further includes generating a difference signal by subtractively combining the captured signal and the delayed inverted signal, generating an estimate noise signal by reducing an amplitude of the generated difference signal using a noise-reduction control multiplier, and minimizing the corrupting noise signal component of the captured signal by subtractively combining the captured signal and the generated estimate noise signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Visteon Global Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Yao H. Kuo
  • Patent number: 9264182
    Abstract: A method includes receiving a signal, which carries data that is encoded with an Error Correction Code (ECC), and correcting the received signal with an adaptive receiver loop. Soft input metrics for the data are computed over the corrected signal. The ECC is decoded using a decoder, which estimates soft output metrics based on the soft input metrics, by operating the decoder in an alternating pattern of external iterations that update one or more of the soft input metrics based on one or more of the soft output metrics, and internal iterations that update the soft output metrics but not the soft input metrics. The adaptive receiver loop is adjusted in a schedule that is defined relative to the pattern of the external and the internal iterations of the decoder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: NOVELSAT LTD.
    Inventors: Mor Miller, Amit Steinberg, Daniel Wajcer, Dan Peleg, Guy Cohen
  • Patent number: 9240911
    Abstract: A digital communications receiver can comprise a digital filter that can be configured and later reconfigured multiple times as, for example, a matched filter, an equalizer, a matched filter and equalizer, or the like. For example, the digital filter can be initially configured as a matched filter for use with a correlation module to detect pilot symbols. Detected pilot symbols can be utilized to estimate characteristics of a channel from the distant transmitter to the receiver, and the estimated channel characteristics can be used to determine coefficients for an equalizer for reducing channel distortion in future transmissions received over the channel. The digital filter can then be configured as an equalizer or a matched filter and equalizer. If the later, the digital filter can both equalize incoming transmissions from the distant transmitter and, with a correlation module, identify any pilot symbols in the transmissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: L-3 Communications Corp.
    Inventors: Stephen A. Laraway, Anthony D. Smith, Dan M. Griffin, Jeffrey B. Bench, David G. Landon
  • Patent number: 9240910
    Abstract: A transmission signal pre-processing method and apparatus for out-of-band emission cancellation are disclosed. For each of N subchannels in a band weighting each of N subchannel symbols by a calculated value in the range from 0 to 1 is performed. Precoding said N weighted symbols, organised as an NĂ—1 matrix, by multiplication by a unitary matrix is then performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
    Inventors: Xiaojing Huang, Yingjie Jay Guo
  • Patent number: 9231675
    Abstract: A multi-user MIMO receiver of a UE in question for detecting a pre-coded signal includes a unit configured to blindly estimate information concerning a pre-coding vector for a paired UE, which is operated on the same resource as the multi-user MIMO receiver, based on received data. Further, the multi-user MIMO receiver comprises an equalizer configured to equalize the pre-coded signal based on the estimated information concerning the pre-coding vector for the paired UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Intel Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Tobias Scholand, Biljana Badic, Rajarajan Balraj, Peter Jung, Guido Bruck, Zijian Bai, Stanislaus Iwelski
  • Patent number: 9231628
    Abstract: A system may comprise circuitry that includes a sequence estimation circuit and a non-linearity modeling circuit. The circuitry may be operable to receive a single-carrier signal that was generated by passage of symbols through a partial response filter and through a non-linear circuit. The circuitry may be operable to generate estimated values of the symbols using the sequence estimation circuit and using the non-linearity modeling circuit. An output of the non-linearity modeling circuit may be equal to a corresponding input of the non-linearity modeling circuit modified according to a non-linear model that approximates the non-linearity of the non-linear circuit through which the received signal passed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: MagnaCom Ltd.
    Inventor: Amir Eliaz
  • Patent number: 9219458
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for automatic gain control (AGC) and DC calibration for orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) or orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) systems are provided in an effort to avoid saturation of the analog-to-digital converter (ADC) in a radio frequency (RF) front end of a receiver, to handle dynamic received signal power, or to avoid interruptions in a communication link for DC calibration. For certain embodiments, the quantization error in the RF front end may also be decreased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Chae Kwan Lee
  • Patent number: 9215017
    Abstract: A computing system includes: an inter-device interface configured to receive a receiver signal for representing a serving signal and an interference signal; a communication unit, coupled to the inter-device interface, configured to: dynamically generate a decoding target for decoding of the receiver signal, and decode the receiver signal based on the decoding target for decoding the receiver signal for the serving signal or the interference signal with an interference-aware receiver according to the decoding target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyukjoon Kwon, Jungwon Lee, Inyup Kang
  • Patent number: 9203659
    Abstract: A computing system includes: an antenna configured to receive a receiver signal for representing a serving signal and an interference signal; a communication unit, coupled to the antenna, configured to: calculate a decoding result based on the receiver signal, generate an interference modulation estimate based on the decoding result and the receiver signal, and calculate a content result based on the interference modulation estimate for representing the serving signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoo Jin Choi, Dongwoon Bai, Jungwon Lee, Inyup Kang