Plural Signal Paths In Receiver Patents (Class 375/349)
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Patent number: 8824577Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for encoding and decoding multi-channel signals. The apparatus for encoding the multi-channel signals may shift a phase of the multi-channel signals based on a characteristic of the multi-channel signals. An encoded bitstream with respect to the multi-channel signals may be generated using a downmix signal and a residual signal extracted from the phase-shifted multi-channel signals.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2011Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hwan Shim, Eun-Mi Oh, Mi-Young Kim, Anton V. Porov
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Patent number: 8824536Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices enable spectrum management by identifying, classifying, and cataloging signals of interest based on radio frequency measurements. In an embodiment, signals and the parameters of the signals may be identified and indications of available frequencies may be presented to a user. In another embodiment, the protocols of signals may also be identified. In a further embodiment, the modulation of signals, data types carried by the signals, and estimated signal origins may be identified.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2013Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: DGS Global Systems, Inc.Inventors: Gabriel R. Garcia, Daniel Carbajal
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Patent number: 8824584Abstract: A method for transmitting a sounding reference signal in a MIMO wireless communication system and an apparatus therefor are disclosed. The method for transmitting sounding reference signals (SRSs) in a MIMO wireless communication system comprises receiving sounding reference signal parameters from a base station; receiving information of the number of sounding reference signals which will be transmitted at a transmission time instant from the base station; if a plurality of sounding reference signals are provided, generating the sounding reference signals corresponding to each of the plurality of antennas by using the sounding reference signal parameters; and transmitting the generated sounding reference signals to the base station through their corresponding antennas at a specific transmission instant.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2010Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Bong Hoe Kim, Byeong Woo Kang, Yu Jin Noh, Hak Seong Kim, Dae Won Lee
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Method and apparatus for implementing signal quality metrics and antenna diversity switching control
Patent number: 8817917Abstract: A method for detecting the digital quality of a radio signal includes: receiving a radio signal including a digital portion modulated by a series of symbols each including a plurality of samples; computing correlation points between endpoint samples in cyclic prefix regions of adjacent symbols; and using the correlation points to produce a digital signal quality metric. Receivers that implement the method are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2011Date of Patent: August 26, 2014Assignee: iBiquity Digital CorporationInventors: Brian W. Kroeger, Paul J. Peyla -
Patent number: 8817864Abstract: A communication device includes multiple paths that are provided in the device and transmit signals; an adjuster that adjusts transmission characteristics to be a favorable state by adjustment of the waveform of the signals on the paths; and a controller that controls the adjustment of the transmission characteristics of the paths by the adjuster, identifies other path(s) that affects a path to be adjusted, and controls suppression of crosstalk due to the other path(s).Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2011Date of Patent: August 26, 2014Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventor: Masato Kobayashi
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Patent number: 8817927Abstract: A digital phased array may include a plurality of antenna elements forming a main array of the digital phased array, a plurality of mixers configured to down-convert data received at respective ones of the antenna elements, a plurality of analog-to-digital converters configured to digitize data provided by corresponding ones of the mixers, and a digital signal processor. The digital signal processor may be configured to receive digitized data including at least one interference signal and at least one desired signal, determine an angle of arrival of the at least one interference signal, steer a beam of the main array toward the at least one interference signal based on the determined angle of arrival, and perform interference cancellation relative to the at least one interference signal.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2012Date of Patent: August 26, 2014Assignee: The Johns Hopkins UniversityInventors: Andrew W. Zai, Cesar A. Lugo, Matthew D. Sharp, Minhtri T. Ho
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Patent number: 8817902Abstract: A receiving device according to the present invention includes: a receiver for receiving an OFDM symbol that is modulated by phase shift keying; an FFT processor for applying an FFT process to the received OFDM symbol to obtain a subcarrier signal; a demapping unit for demapping the subcarrier signal to generate a bit string; a norm calculator for calculating the norm of the subcarrier; a weighting factor generator for generating a weighting factor by taking the statistics of the calculated norm; and a weighting unit for obtaining a soft decision value by weighting the bit string after demapping, based on the particular weighting factor. Thus, the receiving device can obtain a soft decision value to achieve good decoding performance with a small number of known signals and processes.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2012Date of Patent: August 26, 2014Assignee: Renesas Electronics CorporationInventors: Kiyoshi Yanagisawa, Osamu Inagawa
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Patent number: 8817825Abstract: Methods and systems for processing signals in a receiver are disclosed herein and may comprise receiving spatially multiplexed signals via M receive antennas. A plurality of multiple data streams may be separated in the received spatially multiplexed signals to detect MIMO data streams. Each of the MIMO data streams may correspond to a spatially multiplexed input signal. Complex phase and/or amplitude may be estimated for each detected MIMO data streams utilizing (M-1) phase shifters. Complex waveforms, comprising in-phase (I) and quadrature (Q) components for the MIMO data streams within the received spatially multiplexed signals may be processed and the processed complex waveforms may be filtered to generate baseband bandwidth limited signals. Phase and/or amplitude for one or more received spatially multiplexed signals may be adjusted utilizing the estimated complex phase and amplitude. Phase and/or amplitude may be adjusted continuously and/or at discrete intervals.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2013Date of Patent: August 26, 2014Assignee: Broadcom CorporationInventors: Mark Kent, Vinko Erceg, Uri Landau, Pieter Van Rooyen
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Publication number: 20140233686Abstract: There are provided a device for removing partial discharge noise and a method of diagnosing the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2012Publication date: August 21, 2014Applicant: KOREA ELECTRIC POWER CORPORATIONInventors: Kwang Sik Choi, Jung Cheol Seo
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Publication number: 20140233661Abstract: A multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) capable system is contemplated. The communication system may include a signal processor configured to separate an input stream into multiple signal paths to facilitate simultaneous transport through a communication medium. The capability to simultaneously transmit multiples signal paths may be beneficial in order to maximize throughput and/or minimize expense.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2014Publication date: August 21, 2014Inventors: Luis Alberto Campos, Jennifer Andreoli-Fang, Joey Padden
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Patent number: 8811508Abstract: A system including a first network device, a second network device, and a third network device. The first network device is configured to transmit a first starting signal. The second network device configured to transmit a second starting signal, wherein at least one of the first network device and the second network device is further configured to change a ratio between at least one of respective phases of carriers of the first starting signal and the second starting signal and respective amplitudes of the carriers of the first starting signal and the second starting signal. The third network device is configured to receive the first starting signal and the second starting signal, selectively allow communication with the first network device based on the ratio, and ignore communication from the second network device based on the ratio.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2013Date of Patent: August 19, 2014Assignee: Marvell Hispania, S.L.U.Inventors: Jorge Vicente Blasco Claret, Salvador Iranzo Molinero, Luis Manuel Torres Canton, Agustin Badenes Corella
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Patent number: 8811537Abstract: Provided are a receiving apparatus and method for a wireless communication system using multiple antennas. A receiving method for a wireless communication system using multiple paths, the receiving method comprising: receiving signals through a predetermined number of multiple paths; sensing a carrier according to saturation state degrees of the signals, and providing saturation state information; calculating automatic gain components of the received signals by using the received signals and the saturation state information of the received signals; and performing a noise matching process to amplify noises on the predetermined multiple paths according to the automatic gain components during a predetermined period.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2009Date of Patent: August 19, 2014Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteInventors: Il-Gu Lee, Jung-Bo Son, Je-Hun Lee, Eun-Young Choi, Sok-Kyu Lee
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Patent number: 8811200Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure present physical layer metrics for supporting adaptive station-dependent channel state information feedback rate in multi-user communication systems. For certain aspects, the physical layer metrics may be calculated at the stations and communicated to the AP. For certain aspects, the metrics may be calculated at an access point utilizing information about channel characteristics of stations available at the access point.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2010Date of Patent: August 19, 2014Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Gregory Alan Breit, Sameer Vermani, Santosh Paul Abraham, Hemanth Sampath
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Patent number: 8811523Abstract: Some of the embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method comprising selecting, by a user equipment (UE), a preferred interference precoding matrix from a plurality of candidate precoding matrices included in a codebook; and transmitting, by the user equipment to a communication node, a preferred interference precoding matrix index (PMI) corresponding to the preferred interference precoding matrix included in the codebook. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2013Date of Patent: August 19, 2014Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.Inventors: Krishna Srikanth Gomadam, Daniel Yellin, Yu-Ngok Li
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Patent number: 8811515Abstract: To realize quick adaptation to a communication link between a transmitter and a receiver by using two different frequency carriers. A receiver detects a preamble from a transmission bit string. When determining that a total sum of the number of modified bits exceeds a certain threshold in a range of a payload following the preamble (when detecting that a reception state of a communication link has been degraded), the receiver issues, to a transmitter, a request for changing a transmission parameter (four parameters may be used for enhancement/lowering) for the transmission bit string by using a communication link, which is a relatively-low-frequency carrier. On the other hand, the transmitter receives the request for change, and executes the request for changing the transmission parameter for the transmission bit string while maintaining transmission of a payload in the transmission bit string.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2012Date of Patent: August 19, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Yasuteru Kohda, Daiju Nakano, Kohji Takano
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Patent number: 8811525Abstract: The present invention relates to a general active array antenna apparatus capable of environmentally and temporally controlling radio frequency (RF) polarization resource necessary for wireless communication in order to improve communication quality and increase communication capacity. The antenna according to the present invention has a form of an active array antenna element, wherein each active array antenna element has a structure in which it may generate orthogonal dual polarizations and includes two input terminals and output terminals. An end orthogonal dual polarization antenna is connected to a polarization control apparatus that may process analog or digital signals, and the polarization control apparatus is controlled by or communicate with an antenna main controlling apparatus performing a polarization control algorithm. Ultimately, an object of this antenna apparatus is to improve communication quality and increase communication capacity.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2012Date of Patent: August 19, 2014Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteInventors: Soon Young Eom, Young Bae Jung, Soon Ik Jeon, Jae Ick Choi
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Publication number: 20140226701Abstract: A configurable transceiver and method of operation are disclosed that may dynamically switch between a direct-conversion mode and a direct-sampling mode based, at least in part, upon a frequency component of a receive and/or transmit signal. When in the direct-conversion mode, the transceiver may operate as a direct-conversion transceiver, and when in the direct-sampling mode, the transceiver may operate as a direct-sampling transceiver. For some embodiments, a frequency of the receive signal and/or the transmit signal may be compared with a predetermined frequency threshold value to generate a mode signal, and the mode signal may be used to select between the direct-conversion mode and the direct-sampling mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2013Publication date: August 14, 2014Applicant: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventor: Salvatore PENNISI
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Publication number: 20140226706Abstract: In various embodiments, a first and second complex multiplier may be configured to receive an input signal and provide a baseband I component signal and a baseband Q component signal, respectively. A first and second filter may be configured to filter the baseband I component signal and the baseband Q component signal, respectively. An equalizer may be configured to equalize the filtered baseband I component signal and the filtered baseband Q component signal. A carrier recovery portion may be configured to generate a reference signal based on the equalized filtered baseband I component signal and the equalized filtered baseband Q component signal. A first and second multilevel comparator may be configured to receive the equalized filtered baseband I component signal from the carrier recovery portion and provide an output I and receive the equalized filtered baseband Q component signal and provide an output Q signal for further modulation.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2014Publication date: August 14, 2014Applicant: AVIAT U.S., INC.Inventors: Tjo San Jao, Richard Bourdeau
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Patent number: 8803730Abstract: A system, method, and apparatus for radar pulse detection using a digital radar receiver are disclosed herein. In electronic warfare (EW), radars operate in an environment with highly dense electronic waveforms. As a result, the radars may receive thousands or millions of radar pulses every second. To detect and sort out radar pulses emitted from different radars is a challenging problem in electronic warfare. The present disclosure teaches a radar pulse detection system that utilizes digital channelization and joint-channel detection techniques to detect and separate radar pulses that are sent from different radar emitters. The main features of the present disclosure are: 1.) a digital channelization technique to separate radar pulses from their mixtures; 2.) a multi-channel detection technique to detect radar pulses; and 3.) an innovative technique to separate overlapped radar pulses.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2011Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventor: Qin Jiang
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Patent number: 8804867Abstract: According to one or more aspects, the teachings herein improve user equipment (UE) Channel State Information (CSI) feedback, by letting the precoder part of a CSI feedback report comprise factorized precoder feedback. In one or more such embodiments, the factorized precoder feedback corresponds to at least two precoder matrices, including a recommended “conversion” precoder matrix and a recommended “tuning” precoder matrix. The recommended conversion precoder matrix restricts the number of channel dimensions considered by the recommended tuning precoder matrix and, in turn, the recommended tuning precoder matrix matches the recommended precoder matrix to an effective channel that is defined in part by said recommended conversion precoder matrix.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2013Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)Inventors: George Jöngren, David Hammarwall
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Patent number: 8804866Abstract: Disclosed is a digital broadcast receiver which includes a TS processing unit. The TS processing unit comprises reference packet detection units (162a, 162b), that detect timing information of two sets of received TS packet data, a delay adjustment unit (163) that aligns the processing timings of both sets of TS packet data by delaying one of the two sets of TS packet data based on the detected timing information, and a selection unit (165) that selects by packet one of the two sets of TS packet data for output.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2011Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Kohsuke Yamamoto, Tomohiko Taniguchi
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Publication number: 20140219404Abstract: A system and a method for applying a blind tuning process to M antennas coupled via N beamformers to a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) receiving system having N channels, wherein M>N, are provided herein. The method includes the following steps: Periodically measuring channel fading rate at a baseband level to determine the number of antennas L out of K antennas connected to each one of the beamformers, to be combined at each one of the N beamformers; assigning the antennas to the subset L according to some criteria such as best quality indicator; repeatedly applying a tuning process to L antennas in each one of the N beamformers.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: Magnolia Broadband Inc.Inventors: Haim HAREL, Eduardo ABREU, Kenneth KLUDT
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Patent number: 8798216Abstract: A circuit for down-converting an RF signal to a baseband signal includes a trans-admittance amplifier adapted to receive the RF signal and generate in response a pair of differential current signals. The circuit further includes a trans-impedance amplifier having at least four mixers and at least four linear amplifiers. The four mixers frequency down-convert the pair of differential current signals to generate four pairs of differential baseband current signals, wherein each pair of the differential baseband current signals has a different phase and is associated with each of the linear amplifiers. Additionally, the circuit includes a summing block that generates an in-phase signal using a first weighted sum of the four different baseband current signals and a quadrature signal using a second weighted sum of the four different baseband current signals. The circuit further includes an analog-to-digital converter for converting the in-phase and quadrature signals to respective digital representations.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2011Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: MaxLinear, Inc.Inventors: Raja Pullela, Yu Su, Wenjian Chen
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Patent number: 8798117Abstract: Methods and apparatus for efficiently implementing a rake receiver which allows for rake receiver elements, e.g., fingers, to be dynamically assigned to antenna elements are described. In at least some embodiments multiple antennas are used. Rake elements are allocated to antennas in a dynamic manner with sets of weights also being assigned dynamically, e.g., based on channel estimates. Rake finger assignment to antenna's is made, in some embodiments, to maximize signal recovery taking into consideration the channel conditions detected by each antenna for the various delays that may be supported. Through the dynamic assignment of rake finger's to antenna's, a single rake finger may be coupled to different antennas at different times allowing for more efficient use as compared to systems where rake fingers are dedicated on a fixed basis to an individual antenna.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2009Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: Spidercloud Wireless IncInventors: Colin Campbell, Oliver Charlesworth
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Patent number: 8798214Abstract: Techniques for assigning multipaths to finger processors to achieve the desired data performance and low power consumption are described. A search is initially performed to obtain a set of multipaths for a transmission from at least one base station. At least one multipath (e.g., the minimum number of multipaths) having a combined performance metric (e.g., a combined SNR) exceeding a threshold is identified. The at least one multipath is assigned to, and processed by, at least one finger processor to recover the transmission from the base station(s).Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2007Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: Qualcomm IncorporatedInventors: Michael Alexander Howard, June Namgoong, Hanfang Pan
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Patent number: 8792541Abstract: An RC generating unit generates a first ranging code by performing a logical operation to first seed data, repeats a process for generating a second ranging code by performing the logical operation to second seed data generated when generating the first ranging code until generation of a Nth ranging code, stores the 1st through Nth seed data corresponding to the 1st through Nth ranging codes in the memory. And the RC generating unit generates a transmission ranging code, in response to a reception of specification data of a transmission ranging code transmitted from a base station, by performing the logical operation to the seed data corresponding to the specification data.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2011Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Fujitsu Semiconductor LimitedInventors: Yuki Sakai, Miyoshi Saito
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Patent number: 8787853Abstract: A receiver circuit comprising first and second receivers for demodulating first and second parts, respectively, of a received signal. The receiver circuit also comprises an adjustment circuit for adjusting the demodulated signal from the first receiver. The output signal from the adjustment circuit is used as output signal from the receiver circuit which also comprises an adjustment value circuit for determining an adjustment value for the adjustment circuit in adjusting the output signal from the first receiver. The adjustment value circuit receives the demodulated signal from the second receiver and the output signal from the adjustment circuit and uses differences between these input signals for forming said adjustment value. The first receiver and the second receiver have different transfer functions within one and the same frequency range.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2010Date of Patent: July 22, 2014Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)Inventors: Derek Hagen, Vimar Bjork, Claes Rolen, Torbjorn Gunnar Widhe
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Patent number: 8781005Abstract: Techniques for reporting channel state information (CSI) are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive data transmission from one or more cells among a plurality of cells and may report CSI for each of the plurality of cells. In an aspect, the UE may generate CSI with different quantization granularity (e.g., different codebook sizes), or different frequency granularity (e.g., different subband sizes), and/or different time granularity (e.g., different reporting intervals) for different cells based on the performance impact of each cell for data transmission to the UE. The performance impact of each cell may be determined based on a long-term channel gain or received power of the cell at the UE. The UE may quantize the CSI for each cell based on the codebook size for the cell. The UE may generate the CSI for each cell based on the subband size and/or the reporting interval for the cell.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2010Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Siddhartha Mallik, Alexei Yurievitch Gorokhov, Wooseok Nam
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Patent number: 8781016Abstract: A receiving station receives a waveform that includes at least a first symbol of a predetermined symbol length and comprising a first set of frequency components at predetermined carrier frequencies modulated with preamble information and a second set of frequency components at predetermined carrier frequencies modulated with information. The receiving station processes sampled values from the first symbol based on channel characteristics estimated from the first set of frequency components to decode information encoded on a first subset of the second set of frequency components. The receiving station processes sampled values from the first symbol based on channel characteristics estimated from the first set of frequency components and the first subset of the second set of frequency components to decode information encoded on a second subset of the second set of frequency components.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2011Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Lawrence W. Yonge, III, Hassan Kaywan Afkhamie, Arun Avudainayagam
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Patent number: 8781013Abstract: An apparatus and method for power control are provided. In a receiver in a mobile communication system, a Receive (Rx) signal received through a plurality of antennas is estimated. A power ratio between a traffic channel of the Rx signal and a pilot channel of the Rx signal is determined. A Log Likelihood Ratio (LLR) value is determined using the power ratio between the traffic channel and the pilot channel, a symbol of the traffic channel, and an Rx signal estimation value to which precoding is applied.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2009Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., LtdInventors: Young-Seok Jung, Bong-Gee Song, Kwang-Man Ok, Chae-Man Lim
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Patent number: 8781034Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and system for communication in a mobile device. First and second OFDM symbols containing first and second received cell-specific reference subcarriers, respectively, are received. First and second received cell-specific reference subcarriers of the first and second OFDM symbols are extracted. A pair of received subcarriers is generated by computing the scalar product of the first received cell-specific reference subcarrier and the conjugate of the second received cell-specific reference subcarrier. A reference sequence is provided, that contains pairs of reference subcarriers for multiple, possible combinations of cell-IDs. The pair of received subcarriers is correlated with each pair of reference subcarriers of the reference sequence to generate cell-specific correlation values associated with each cell-ID of a plurality of cell-specific correlation values. The cell-ID of the strongest cell is determined by searching for the highest correlation value.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2012Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbHInventors: Tianyan Pu, Volker Aue
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Patent number: 8774253Abstract: Disclosed is a wireless relay device wherein the number of stream multiplexes between a wireless transmission device and a wireless reception device can be increased without increasing the number of antennas for the wireless transmission device or the number of antennas for the wireless reception device.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2010Date of Patent: July 8, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Kenichi Miyoshi, Daichi Imamura, Yoshiko Saito
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Patent number: 8774334Abstract: Techniques for dynamically selecting a number of downconversion paths used in a variety of receiver, wideband receiver architectures, for example, zero-IF or low-IF. In an exemplary embodiment, a first downconversion path is configured to downconvert a signal derived from an RF signal using a first mixing frequency. A second downconversion path is further configured to downconvert a signal derived from the RF signal using a second mixing frequency distinct from the first mixing frequency. The second downconversion path may be selectively enabled or disabled based on a detected level of an interferer in the frequency spectrum. For example, if the interferer level is less than a predetermined threshold, a fewer number of downconversion paths, for example, one path, may be enabled. If the interferer level is greater than a predetermined threshold, then a greater number of downconversion paths, for example, two or more paths, may be enabled.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2012Date of Patent: July 8, 2014Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventor: Udara C. Fernando
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Patent number: 8774749Abstract: A virtual Weaver architecture filter is implemented using a sampling mixer that successively processes samples of the input signal in round-robin fashion and provides a sum of the samples as multiplied by coefficients emulating quadrature sinusoidal waveforms. A virtual rather than actual local oscillator is reliably implemented without mismatch. Filtering between the Weaver mixers is eliminated in favor of filtering at the sampling input and effective time division multiplexing is achieved by selecting between resistor combinations that implement different scaling coefficients, resulting in an efficient analog implementation of a virtual Weaver architecture.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2009Date of Patent: July 8, 2014Assignee: ESS Technology, Inc.Inventors: Martin Mallinson, Dustin Forman
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Patent number: 8774331Abstract: This disclosure is directed to wireless communication systems having a receiver configured to search for transmitted packets using a single chain and then receive the transmitted packets using multiple chains. Such receivers feature a chain controller that operates a single chain during search mode and turns on additional chains after packet detection. As will be appreciated, the techniques of this disclosure take advantage of the structure of the mixed mode data packet preamble to allow multiple chains to be brought on line after detection of a packet by a single chain.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2011Date of Patent: July 8, 2014Assignee: Qualcomm IncorporatedInventor: Paul J. Husted
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Patent number: 8774327Abstract: The present invention provides adjusting of a radio frequency (RF) receiver that includes processing that begins by enabling an initial setting of the RF receiver, wherein the initial setting is based on a bandwidth of a channel of a plurality of channels. The processing continues by receiving an RF signal containing a preamble of a frame via one of the plurality of channels. The processing continues by converting the RF signal to a baseband signal based on the initial setting. The processing continues by determining channel type of the one of the plurality of channels based on the baseband signal. The processing continues by determining whether the channel type corresponds to the bandwidth of the initial setting. The processing continues by, when the channel type does not correspond to the bandwidth of the initial setting, adjusting setting of the RF receiver based on the channel type.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2005Date of Patent: July 8, 2014Assignee: Broadcom CorporationInventors: Arya Reza Behzad, Michael S. Kappes, Jason A. Trachewsky, Christopher J. Hansen
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Publication number: 20140185711Abstract: A wideband phase detector configured to receive an intermediate frequency (IF) signal having a plurality of information signals at predetermined carrier frequencies and to generate a carrier indication signal used to control one or more attenuators to equalize the signal levels of the information signals thereby enabling a multichannel receiver to process the two information signals in a parallel fashion using a common analog front-end and analog to digital conversion circuit. The circuit may include an attenuation controller configured to provide control signals to the one or more attenuators to attenuate one or more corresponding information signals based on an average of the carrier indication signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2012Publication date: July 3, 2014Applicant: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.Inventors: CHARLES R. RUELKE, YADYBABDABA N. RAO, GEETHA K. THAMPI
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Patent number: 8767880Abstract: A method includes receiving a signal including first data precoded on the basis of a first codebook entry of a codebook, wherein the codebook includes at least one further codebook entry, averaging a set of matrices to obtain a mean matrix wherein each matrix of the set of matrices is determined on the basis of a respective other codebook entry of the at least one further codebook entry and determining a covariance matrix on the basis of the mean matrix.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2012Date of Patent: July 1, 2014Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbHInventors: Rajarajan Balraj, Tobias Scholand, Biljana Badic
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Patent number: 8767860Abstract: A method for communication includes performing by one or more processors and/or circuits in a communication device functions including determining transmit power weights, which are to be utilized for communicating one or more wireless signals via a wireless channel, as a function of frequency of a wireless signal communicated via the wireless channel. The determining may be based on a transmission mode of the wireless signal and a state of the wireless communication channel. Transmit antenna spatial weights may be determined for communicating the one or more wireless signals via a plurality of antennas. The one or more wireless signals may be weighted with the transmit power weights and/or one of the transmit antenna spatial weights. The weighted one or more wireless signals may be transmitted via one of a plurality of antennas in accordance with the transmission mode.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2011Date of Patent: July 1, 2014Assignee: Broadcom CorporationInventors: Severine Catreux, Vinko Erceg, Pieter Roux, Pieter van Rooyen, Jack Winters
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Patent number: 8768279Abstract: A first signal having a first polarization direction and a second signal having a second polarization direction crossing the first polarization direction are received. A phase of the second signal is controlled using a phase control signal. An interference compensation signal is generated by weighted combination on a time-series of a signal whose phase has been controlled. Weighting coefficients used for the weighted combination are set so that the interference compensation signal becomes a cross-polarization interference component of the first signal. A phase difference between the first signal and the second signal is estimated using the weighting coefficients. The phase control signal is generated using the estimated phase difference so that a phase of the first signal and the phase of the second signal become identical. The first signal is compensated for cross-polarization interference caused by the second signal using the interference compensation signal and the first signal.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2011Date of Patent: July 1, 2014Assignee: NEC CorporationInventor: Yuuzou Suzuki
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Patent number: 8767895Abstract: A target link signal may be received at a receiving device with the target link signal being received in a received signal also including an interfering link signal. A quality of the interfering link signal in the received signal may be estimated at the receiving device to provide an estimated interfering link signal quality. One of a plurality of interference cancellation techniques may be selected responsive to the estimated interfering link signal quality, and an interference cancellation signal may be generated using the selected one of the plurality of interference cancellation techniques. Information of the interference cancellation signal may be incorporated in the received signal. Responsive to incorporating information of the interference cancellation signal in the received signal, the received signal may be demodulated to provide a demodulated target link signal, and the demodulated target link signal may be decoded to provide a target link bit stream.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2011Date of Patent: July 1, 2014Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)Inventor: Andres Reial
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Patent number: 8767849Abstract: A wireless receiver is constructed to equalize a time-domain received signal, detect a plurality of symbols of the equalized time-domain received signal, and perform interference cancellation on the time-domain received signal. The interference cancellation can be performed using a partial result produced by an IDFT, and may use only neighboring symbols in a detected plurality of symbols. The resulting wireless receiver can be constructed to operate efficiently under a plurality of wireless standards.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2012Date of Patent: July 1, 2014Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Bei Yin, Kiarash Amiri, Joseph R. Cavallaro, Yuanbin Guo
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Patent number: 8767844Abstract: A data processing device (100, 300) is described forming part of a receiver for a multicarrier communications system. The data processing device is configured to process at least one observed symbol to generate an information bit estimate for the symbol, and includes a channel prediction stage configured to receive an observed symbol and at least one feedback signal representing an estimate of a transmitted symbol and to generate a channel prediction. At least one initial processing stream (104) is configured to process the observed symbol on the basis of a channel prediction calculated at a respective time by the channel prediction stage and to output a signal representing an estimate of a transmitted symbol corresponding to the observed symbol for feed back into the channel prediction stage.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2007Date of Patent: July 1, 2014Assignee: Cohda Wireless Pty. Ltd.Inventors: Paul Dean Alexander, Alexander James Grant, David Victor Lawrie Haley
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Publication number: 20140177748Abstract: A wideband multi-channel receiver comprises an antenna configured to receive a radio frequency band. A band-pass filter is in signal communication with the antenna, and a low-noise amplifier is in signal communication with the band-pass filter. A mixer is in signal communication with the low-noise amplifier and is configured to translate a radio frequency band to an intermediate frequency (IF) band. A tunable local oscillator is in signal communication with the mixer. At least one fixed-frequency notch filter is in signal communication with the mixer, with the notch filter configured to reject at least one interference signal in the IF band while passing remaining signals in the IF band. An analog-to-digital converter is in signal communication with the notch filter and is configured to convert the remaining signals in the IF band to digital signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2014Publication date: June 26, 2014Applicant: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Alfonso Malaga, Timothy P. Gibson, Jeffrey K. Hunter, Gregory Triplett
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Publication number: 20140177768Abstract: A receiver is disclosed that is capable of correcting for harmonic distortion injected into received analog signals. The receiver splits the analog signal in the analog front-end and modifies the split analog signals with a difference signal. After amplification and/or sampling, the modified analog signals are recombined in a main data pathway and are kept separate in a secondary pathway. Utilizing the difference signal, a feedback loop that includes distorters and an LMS filter detects the distortion coefficient of the harmonic distortion. A distorter in the main data pathway utilizes the detected distortion coefficient to correct the harmonic distortion in the analog signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2012Publication date: June 26, 2014Applicant: Broadcom CorporationInventors: Frank van der Goes, Jan Roelof Westra
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Patent number: 8761323Abstract: In a receive node of a wireless network, an iterative multi-user multi-stage interference cancellation receiver is used. After each stage of interference cancellation, interference characteristics change. An adaptive strategy is used in which after each stage of interference cancellation, impairment covariance is parametrically updated and combining weights of the receiver are adapted to reflect the updated impairment covariance.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2011Date of Patent: June 24, 2014Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Yi-Pin Eric Wang, Gregory Bottomley, Jung-Fu Cheng, Stephen Grant, Ning He, Niklas Johansson, Cagatay Konuskan
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Patent number: 8755450Abstract: To realize quick adaptation to a communication link between a transmitter and a receiver by using two different frequency carriers. A receiver detects a preamble from a transmission bit string. When determining that a total sum of the number of modified bits exceeds a certain threshold in a range of a payload following the preamble (when detecting that a reception state of a communication link has been degraded), the receiver issues, to a transmitter, a request for changing a transmission parameter (four parameters may be used for enhancement/lowering) for the transmission bit string by using a communication link, which is a relatively-low-frequency carrier. On the other hand, the transmitter receives the request for change, and executes the request for changing the transmission parameter for the transmission bit string while maintaining transmission of a payload in the transmission bit string.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2012Date of Patent: June 17, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Yasuteru Kohda, Daiju Nakano, Kohji Takano
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Patent number: 8755760Abstract: A radio receiver including a sampling unit, a provider, an arithmetic operation unit, an estimator, and a converter. The sampling unit samples a baseband signal transmitted from the radio transmitter, at a fractional multiple of a symbol rate, and generates fractional-multiple-sampling data. The provider provides reference data in which the known symbol sequence arranged in a frame by the radio transmitter is interpolated at a rate of the fractional multiple. The arithmetic operation unit performs an arithmetic operation for evaluation data in which the degree of consistency in waveform between the fractional-multiple-sampling data and the reference data is evaluated. The estimator estimates a reference timing from a shift amount at which the evaluation data shows the maximum degree of consistency in waveform. The converter converts the fractional-multiple-sampling data by using the reference timing as a reference thereby recovering the data having the symbol rate.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2012Date of Patent: June 17, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Yasunao Katayama, Daiju Nakano
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Patent number: 8755762Abstract: A radio frequency (RF) receiver includes an amplifier stage, a blocking module, and a down conversion module. The amplifier stage amplifies an inbound RF signal (includes a desired component and a blocking component) to produce an amplified inbound RF signal. The blocking module generates an oscillation corresponding to a frequency of the blocking component and filters the amplified inbound RF signal based on the oscillation to substantially attenuate the blocking component and to pass, substantially unattenuated, the desired component. The down conversion module converts the desired RF signal component into a baseband or near baseband inbound signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2009Date of Patent: June 17, 2014Assignee: Broadcom CorporationInventors: Mohyee Mikhemar, Hooman Darabi
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Patent number: 8750430Abstract: A data receiver circuit for converting received serial data into parallel data in accordance with a data rate signal and for outputting the converted parallel data, the data receiver circuit includes a clock generator for generating a reference clock based on an input clock, a data latch for latching the received serial data and outputting first latched serial data in accordance with the reference clock, a first data output section for converting the first latched serial data into first parallel data with a first reference clock, in case that the data rate signal indicates a first data rate same as a data rate of the reference clock, and a second data output section for converting the first latched serial data into second parallel data with a second reference clock, in case that the data rate signal indicates a second data rate slower than the data rate of the reference clock.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2011Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventor: Yoichi Koyanagi