By Filtering (e.g., Digital) Patents (Class 375/350)
  • Patent number: 11838068
    Abstract: A transceiver having a shared filter for both transmit and receive modes is disclosed. A transceiver includes a transmitter having an output coupled to a signal node, wherein the transmitter is configured to transmit signals onto the signal node during transceiver operation in a transmit mode. The transceiver also includes a receiver having an input coupled to the signal node, and configured to receive signals from the signal node during operation in the receive mode. The transceiver further includes a first filter coupled to the signal node, wherein the filter is shared by the transmitter and the receiver. The filter is coupled between the transceiver and a first terminal of a transmission line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yashar Rajavi, Sohrab Emami-Neyestanak, Abbas Komijani
  • Patent number: 11832287
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic device including a first communication circuit configured to support a first communication scheme, a second communication circuit configured to support a second communication scheme and at least one processor connected to the first communication circuit and the second communication circuit, wherein the memory stores instructions configured to, when executed, enable the processor to enable first communication of the first communication scheme, control the first communication circuit to perform the first communication with an external device, enable second communication of the second communication scheme, based on a channel map of the first communication when first information related to a network state of the first communication satisfies a first predetermined condition, acquire second information related to the second communication, and modify the channel map by blocking one of a plurality of channels in the channel map when the second information satisfies a second predetermined co
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Inventors: Ukho Lee, Taesik Yun
  • Patent number: 11817937
    Abstract: Techniques for differentiating orthogonally modulated symbols from different transmitters using one or more antenna arrays are described. According to some techniques, symbols received at one or more antenna arrays are grouped together by matching respective sets of receive beams for each symbol. In this manner, symbols received from a first transmitter at a first location can be differentiated from symbols received from a second transmitter at a second location, and both sets of symbols can be successfully decoded. When the symbols are received using frequency hopping, the receive beams for each symbol can be sorted according to path length, which improves performance, and also enables precise location of the transmitter(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Hubble Network Inc.
    Inventor: Ben Juda Wild
  • Patent number: 11816180
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for classifying mixed signals, comprising: receiving mixed signals; performing calculation on a matrix corresponding to the mixed signals by means of a preset Principal Component Analysis method to obtain to-be-classified mixed signals and to determine the number of types of signals contained in the to-be-classified mixed signals; determining a separation matrix based on the number of types of signals contained in the to-be-classified mixed signals; separating individual signals in the to-be-classified mixed signals by means of the separation matrix to obtain to-be-identified signals; calculating a preset number of high-order cumulants corresponding to each to-be-identified signal in the to-be-identified signals respectively; taking the calculated high-order cumulants as characteristics of the to-be-identified signal corresponding to the high-order cumulants respectively; inputting the characteristics of the to-be-identified signal into a preset classification model; and obtaining a modu
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS
    Inventors: Zhiyong Feng, Kezhong Zhang, Zhiqing Wei, Li Xu, Che Ji
  • Patent number: 11804233
    Abstract: A device includes one or more processors configured to perform signal processing including a linear transformation and a non-linear transformation of an input signal to generate a reference target signal. The reference target signal has a linear component associated with the linear transformation and a non-linear component associated with the non-linear transformation. The one or more processors are also configured to perform linear filtering of the input signal by controlling adaptation of the linear filtering to generate an output signal that substantially matches the linear component of the reference target signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Lae-Hoon Kim, Dongmei Wang, Cheng-Yu Hung, Erik Visser
  • Patent number: 11796672
    Abstract: This document describes techniques and systems for frequency division multiplexing (FDM) with polyphase shifters. A radar system can include transmitters, receivers, polyphase shifters, and a processor. The transmitters emit electromagnetic (EM) signals in an FDM scheme, and the receivers detect EM signals reflected by objects. The received EM signals include multiple channels. The processor controls the polyphase shifters to introduce phase shifts to the EM signals. The processor can also divide a Doppler-frequency spectrum of the received EM signals into multiple sectors representing a respective frequency range. Each channel is associated with a respective sector. The processor can determine, using non-coherent integration across the sectors, potential detections of the objects, including aliased and actual detections. The processor can then determine the actual detections. In this way, the described FDM techniques with polyphase shifters can resolve Doppler ambiguities in received EM signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Aptiv Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Zhengzheng Li, Christopher D. Gianelli
  • Patent number: 11799698
    Abstract: A PAM transceiver configured to process an electrical data signal having at least three states includes an electronic circuit comprising: a data interface configured to connect to a duplex communication channel; a first circuit section connected to the data interface; and a second circuit section connected to the data interface. The first circuit section includes an equalizer for compensating for distortions in the data signal and an interpreter downstream of the equalizer for recognizing symbols. The second circuit section includes a delay unit for time-shifting the data signal and an MMA processor for recognizing a signal phase of the data signal. The first circuit section and the second circuit sections are routed to the MMA processor. The second circuit section has a finite impulse response filter configured to monotonize an impulse response of the communication channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventors: Jannis Kappertz, Alexander Stutz, Markus Wucher
  • Patent number: 11784729
    Abstract: There is provided a calibration device including: a calibration signal supply unit configured to supply, as a calibration input signal, a multitone signal having tones at a plurality of frequency bands to a converter configured to multiply an input signal by each of a plurality of signal patterns and limit a band to obtain each of a plurality of bandpass signals, and reconstruct an output signal in accordance with the input signal from the plurality of bandpass signals; a calibration bandpass signal acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of calibration bandpass signals obtained by the converter in response to the multitone signal; and a calibration processing unit configured to calibrate a parameter for the reconstruction in the converter based on the plurality of calibration bandpass signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignees: ADVANTEST CORPORATION, The University of Tokyo
    Inventors: Koji Asami, Tetsuya Iizuka, Zolboo Byambadorj
  • Patent number: 11784655
    Abstract: An analog-to-digital converter (1) includes an S/H circuit (10) that samples and holds an analog input signal in synchronization with a first sampling clock signal (CLK1), a filter circuit (20) that smooths an output signal of the S/H circuit (10), and an ADC circuit (30) that samples an output signal of the filter circuit (20) in synchronization with a second sampling clock signal (CLK2) different from the first sampling clock signal (CLK1), and outputs a digital signal corresponding to an amplitude of the output signal that is sampled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Takehiko Suyama, Takahiro Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11763827
    Abstract: A method and device for extracting information from acoustic signals receives acoustic signals by a microphone, processes them in an analog front-end circuit, converts the processed signals from the analog front-end circuit to digital signals by sampling at a rate of less than 1 kHz or more preferably less than 500 kHz; and processes the digital signals by a digital back-end classifier circuit. The analog front-end processing decomposes the received signals into frequency components using a bank of analog N-path bandpass filters having different subband center frequencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: Boris Murmann, Daniel Augusto Villamizar
  • Patent number: 11736893
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for utilizing notch filters to overcome narrowband jamming. An example method for determining a range to a satellite vehicle with a receiver includes receiving a signal from the satellite vehicle, determining one or more notch filter configurations, determining a pseudorandom noise code and a doppler frequency associated with the signal, determining a codephase correction value based at least on the one or more notch filter configurations, the pseudorandom noise code and the doppler frequency, and computing the range to the satellite vehicle based at least in part on the signal and the codephase correction value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Siddhant, Mukesh Kumar, Jordan Cookman
  • Patent number: 11737038
    Abstract: A method for communicating between a first radio frequency communications device including a first local oscillator and a second radio frequency communications device including a second local oscillator includes generating phase values based on samples of a received signal. Each of the phase values indicates an instantaneous phase of the received signal. The method includes unwrapping the phase values to generate unwrapped phase values. The method includes generating frequency offset estimates based on the unwrapped phase values. The method includes generating an average frequency offset estimate based on the unwrapped phase values. The method includes wrapping the average frequency offset estimate to generate a residual frequency offset estimate. The method includes adjusting the first local oscillator based on the residual frequency offset estimate, thereby reducing a frequency offset between the first local oscillator and the second local oscillator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Silicon Laboratories Inc.
    Inventors: Michael A. Wu, Wentao Li, John M. Khoury, Yan Zhou
  • Patent number: 11677593
    Abstract: Various embodiments provide for a data sampler with built-in decision feedback equalization (DFE) and offset cancellation. For some embodiments, two or more data samplers described herein can be used to implement a data signal receiver circuit, which can use those two or more data samplers to facilitate half-rate or quarter-rate data sampling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Vinod Kumar, Thomas Evan Wilson
  • Patent number: 11671162
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a cross-polarization interference compensation module is included in a receiver of a wireless communication system. The module includes first and second input lines configured to receive respective first and second down-converted digital polarized signals based on receipt of a wireless transmission. The module further includes first and second output lines electrically coupled to at least one modem. The module further includes a first complex finite impulse response (FIR) filter configured to receive the second down-converted digital polarized signal and generate a correction factor that cancels cross-polarization components in the first down-converted digital polarized signal. The module further includes a first filter coefficient engine in communication with the first complex FIR filter and configured to adapt the first complex FIR filter over time based on the first and second down-converted digital polarized signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Space Exploration Technologies Corp.
    Inventor: Martin S. McCormick
  • Patent number: 11646945
    Abstract: A system for noise profile generation includes a customer gateway communicatively coupled to one or more end devices over a communication medium, at least one noise information node communicatively coupled to the customer gateway and programmed to extract noise information present on a communication path from the customer gateway to at least one of the one or more end devices, a noise profile database storing one or more noise profiles, and a noise profile generator. The noise profile generator includes at least one processor and non-transitory computer readable media having a set of instructions executable by the at least one processor to retrieve the extracted noise information associated with the communication path, determine whether the at least one noise characteristic of the extracted noise information matches with one or more noise profiles and identify at least one noise source on the communication path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
    Inventors: Charles I. Cook, Paul A. Keator
  • Patent number: 11558881
    Abstract: According to an aspect, there is provided an apparatus for a radio receiver or transceiver of a first access node. The apparatus is configured to perform the following. Upon receiving data via at least one antenna, the apparatus performs resource mapping on the received data based on scheduling information defining currently allocated uplink time-frequency resources to isolate at least a first data set corresponding to non-allocated uplink time-frequency resources. The apparatus compares the first data set against one or more first pre-defined criteria for detecting interference. In response to detecting interference in the first data set according to said one or more first pre-defined criteria, the apparatus instructs a scheduler entity of the first access node to avoid scheduling uplink time-frequency resources affected by said interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY
    Inventors: Mikko Simonen, Toni Aleksi Levanen, Lasse Harju
  • Patent number: 11558115
    Abstract: Methods and systems for low complexity interference cancellation in multichannel optical transmission. Local or self-iteration is performed one or more times between an expected propagation decision feedback equalizer and a soft demapper. Following local iteration, a soft decision forward error correction decoder determines bit log-likelihood ratios, which are fed back to the expected propagation decision feedback equalizer and soft demapper for further self-iteration. Global iteration involving the decoder can also be performed one or more times before a bitstream is decoded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jeebak Mitra, Mrinmoy Jana, Lutz Hans-Joachim Lampe, Jin Wang, Chuandong Li
  • Patent number: 11552731
    Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program is described comprising receiving data at a receiver of a transmission system; using a receiver algorithm to convert data received at the receiver into an estimate of the first coded data, the receiver algorithm having one or more trainable parameters; generating an estimate of first data bits by decoding the estimate of the first coded data, said decoding making use of an error correction code of said encoding of the first data bits; generating a refined estimate of the first coded data by encoding the estimate of the first data bits; generating a loss function based on a function of the refined estimate of the first coded data and the estimate of the first coded data; updating the trainable parameters of the receiver algorithm in order to minimise the loss function; and controlling a repetition of updating the trainable parameters by generating, for each repetition, for the same received data, a further refined estimate of the first coded data, a further loss functi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Sebastian Cammerer, Sebastian Dörner, Stefan Schibisch, Jakob Hoydis
  • Patent number: 11552776
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for a hybrid physical layer that supports data communications using both Ethernet and ASA. Ethernet and ASA are communication standards that are commonly used in automotive environments; however, are not interoperable. The hybrid physical layer supports data communications using both Ethernet and ASA. For example, the hybrid physical layer may be configured into either a first mode of operation to support data communications using Ethernet or a second mode of operation to support data communications using ASA. Devices utilizing the hybrid physical layer can therefore be used with other components that utilize either communication standard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Ethernovia Inc.
    Inventors: Hossein Sedarat, Christopher Mash, Darren S. Engelkemier, Ramin Shirani, Roy T. Myers, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11540279
    Abstract: A radio for determining the occupancy of a variable width channel for secondary use, the variable width channel with a bandwidth equal to an integer multiple of the bandwidth of a plurality of narrowband channels in an RF frequency band. The radio decides whether the variable width channel in the RF band is occupied by whether classifying each of the narrowband channels corresponding to the variable width channel and each of a plurality of sub-bands with bandwidths of narrowband channels but center frequencies shifted by one-half of the bandwidth of the narrowband channel and overlap with the bandwidth of the variable width channel as containing signal or noise based on measured energy levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Meteorcomm, LLC
    Inventors: Shiva Sarrafan, Arun Naidu, Mark Davies
  • Patent number: 11539375
    Abstract: Systems and methods for direct signal down-conversion and decimation in a digital receiver. The digital receiver produces a decimated passband version of the signal without the problems associated with use of digital mixers. The digital receiver includes a passband-to-passband decimator/down-converter that implements an algorithm which takes the signal band (frequency and bandwidth or lower and upper frequencies) where a signal is present and produces a decimation rate and phase for use by a low-pass mixer-free down-conversion. The digital receiver technology may be efficiently implemented on a digital signal processor or field-programmable gate array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Gary A. Ray
  • Patent number: 11533203
    Abstract: Methods, systems and devices for lattice reduction in decision feedback equalizers for orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation are described. An exemplary wireless communication method, implementable by a wireless communication receiver apparatus, includes receiving a signal comprising information bits modulated using OTFS modulation scheme. Each delay-Doppler bin in the signal is modulated using a quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) mapping. The method also includes estimating the information bits based on an inverse of a single error covariance matrix of the signal, with the single error covariance matrix being representative of an estimation error for all delay-Doppler bins in the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Cohere Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Vamadevan Namboodiri, Ronny Hadani, James Delfeld
  • Patent number: 11502028
    Abstract: A semiconductor package is described. The semiconductor packager includes a chip stack mounted over a package substrate, a first wire disposed over the package substrate, and a molding layer surrounding the chip stack and the first wire. The first wire has an acute angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Chae Sung Lee, Jong Hoon Kim
  • Patent number: 11412347
    Abstract: Described in this document are ways to accomplish high resolution and high dynamic range Doppler-Effect measurements for use in wireless communications and other applications such as positioning. Doppler Effect (interchangeably called Doppler shift or Doppler frequency shift) measurements have traditionally been done with purpose-built devices, such as pulse-based radars. Presented in this document are alternative ways to incorporate Doppler frequency shift measurement using modulated carrier signals with a conventional radio, without additional hardware.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: PhasorLab, Inc.
    Inventors: Cuneyt Demirdag, Joshua C. Park, Glen Wolverton, Devang Topiwala
  • Patent number: 11381279
    Abstract: A transceiver having a shared filter for both transmit and receive modes is disclosed. A transceiver includes a transmitter having an output coupled to a signal node, wherein the transmitter is configured to transmit signals onto the signal node during transceiver operation in a transmit mode. The transceiver also includes a receiver having an input coupled to the signal node, and configured to receive signals from the signal node during operation in the receive mode. The transceiver further includes a first filter coupled to the signal node, wherein the filter is shared by the transmitter and the receiver. The filter is coupled between the transceiver and a first terminal of a transmission line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yashar Rajavi, Sohrab Emami-Neyestanak, Abbas Komijani
  • Patent number: 11356314
    Abstract: Pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) encoding for a communication bus is disclosed. In particular, various two-wire communication buses may encode bits using three-level PAM (PAM-3) or five-level PAM (PAM-5) to increase bit transmission without requiring increases to clock frequencies or adding additional pins. Avoiding increases in clock frequencies helps reduce the risk of electromagnetic interference (EMI), and avoiding use of extra pins avoids cost increases for integrated circuits (ICs).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Lalan Jee Mishra, Richard Dominic Wietfeldt, George Alan Wiley, Radu Pitigoi-Aron
  • Patent number: 11329848
    Abstract: A wireless communication method includes receiving, by a first wireless device during a training phase, reference tones using a first number of resource elements from a transmitter of a second wireless device, wherein the first wireless device comprises multiple receiving antennas, estimating, by the first wireless device, from the receiving the reference tones, a second order statistics of wireless channels between the multiple receiving antennas and the transmitter of the second wireless device, and performing channel estimation, during an operational phase subsequent to the training phase, using the second order statistics and reference tones received on a second number of resource elements, wherein the second number is less than the first number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Cohere Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Shachar Kons, Ronny Hadani, Paul Harris
  • Patent number: 11308774
    Abstract: Described herein are methods and systems of distributed acoustic sensing, such as in an urban or metropolitan area involving a dedicated and established fibre optic communications network including a data centre. In general, the disclosed method and system includes the steps of (a) selecting an optical fibre cable installation having a path extending across a selected geographical area, the optical fibre cable installation including a bundle of optical fibres and forming part of a fibre-optic communications network, (b) determining characteristics associated with the optical fibre and/or the selected optical fibre installation, (c) transmitting outgoing light in the optical fibre, (d) receiving reflected light back scattered along the optical fibre, and (e) based on the reflected light and the determined characteristics, generating an alert signal representative of an acoustic event. The disclosed method and system are applied to detect acoustic events near or within the selected geographical area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Fiber Sense Limited
    Inventor: Mark A. Englund
  • Patent number: 11303354
    Abstract: A relay station configured to orbit a celestial body and configured to receive data from a population of devices arranged at the celestial body, the relay station and the devices configured to travel with respect to one another. The relay station includes a receiver configured to receive signals from the devices, the signals including a signal that is part of the signals, the signal including signal data in data packages that are at least part of the data. The relay station also includes a signal-processing device configured to receive the signal from the receiver and extract the signal data from the signal. The signal-processing device is configured to correct the signal for a positive Doppler shift or a negative Doppler shift. The relay station also includes a transmitter configured to transmit the signal data from the signal processing device to a server arranged remotely from the relay station at the celestial body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: HIBER B.V.
    Inventor: Maarten Johannes Engelen
  • Patent number: 11289106
    Abstract: A method for decoding an encoded audio bitstream is disclosed. The method includes receiving the encoded audio bitstream and decoding the audio data to generate a decoded lowband audio signal. The method further includes extracting high frequency reconstruction metadata and filtering the decoded lowband audio signal with an analysis filterbank to generate a filtered lowband audio signal. The method also includes extracting a flag indicating whether either spectral translation or harmonic transposition is to be performed on the audio data and regenerating a highband portion of the audio signal using the filtered lowband audio signal and the high frequency reconstruction metadata in accordance with the flag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Dolby International AB
    Inventors: Kristofer Kjoerling, Lars Villemoes, Heiko Purnhagen, Per Ekstrand
  • Patent number: 11277871
    Abstract: Physical layer structures and access schemes for use in such networks are described and in particular initial access channel (IACH) structures are proposed. A spectrum efficient downlink (DL) IACH design supports different types of User Equipment (UE) capabilities and different system bandwidths. An IACH includes the synchronization channel (SCH) and broadcast-control channel (BCH). A non-uniform SCH for all system bandwidths is provided, as well as scalable bandwidth BCH depending on system bandwidth. An initial access procedure is provided, as well as an access procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jianglei Ma, Hua Xu, Ming Jia, Sarah Boumendil, Evelyne Le Strat, Hang Zhang, Peiying Zhu, Wen Tong
  • Patent number: 11277238
    Abstract: Provided are phase tracking reference signal (PTRS) configuration, determination and information feedback methods and devices. The PTRS configuration method includes: transmitting, by a first node, the control information to a second node, where the control information is used for indicating a configuration parameter of the PTRS to the second node and the PTRS is transmitted by the first node or the second node. The second node determines the configuration parameter of the PTRS through the control information transmitted by the first node and/or an agreed implicit rule. A third node transmits control information to a fourth node, where the control information is used for feeding received power or quality information of the PTRS back to the fourth node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: XI'AN ZHONGXING NEW SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yijian Chen, Zhaohua Lu, Hao Wu, Bo Gao, Nan Zhang
  • Patent number: 11271658
    Abstract: A coherent receiver performing coherent detection on polarization multiplex light into which first polarization light and second polarization light are multiplexed, and splitting the polarization multiplex light into the first polarization light and the second polarization light, an adaptive equalizer compensating the waveform distortion of a signal superimposed onto the first polarization light by using a first FIR filter, compensating the waveform distortion of a signal superimposed onto the second polarization light by using a second FIR filter, and by decoding each of the signals whose waveform distortion has been compensated, generating their respective decoded data, an error ratio calculator calculating the bit error ratio of each decoded data generated by the adaptive equalizer, a margin calculator calculating a margin from the bit error ratio of an error correction limit in each bit error ratio calculated by the error ratio calculator, and a tap number controller setting up the numbers of taps of the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masashi Binkai, Tsuyoshi Yoshida, Keisuke Matsuda
  • Patent number: 11271598
    Abstract: An apparatus that implements DPD in a manner that can address OOB instability issues, PE instability issues, or both, is disclosed. The apparatus includes an actuator circuit configured to use a model of a power amplifier (PA) to apply a predistortion to at least a portion of an input signal, and an error correction circuit configured to generate an error signal indicative of a deviation of the output of the actuator circuit from the target output, e.g., in terms of OOB or PE. The apparatus also includes an adaptation circuit configured to update the model based on the error signal. By using such an error in adapting the model used for the DPD, undesirable effects of performing DPD, such as creation or amplification of OOB frequency components, or increasing amplitude of some samples, may be reduced or eliminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: ANALOG DEVICES INTERNATIONAL UNLIMITED COMPANY
    Inventors: Patrick Pratt, David Jennings
  • Patent number: 11269057
    Abstract: A system for radar object simulation is provided. The system comprises a filter unit with a plurality of filter paths, a processing unit and a communication interface. In this context, each of the plurality of filter paths comprises a number of coefficients corresponding to the distance of a simulated object. In addition, the processing unit is configured to select a filter path of the plurality of filter paths based on the number of coefficients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Oomke Weikert
  • Patent number: 11223911
    Abstract: The present invention is in the field of an intra ear canal hearing aid, a pair of said hearing aids and use of said hearing aids. Such a hearing aid is designed to improve or support hearing. It typically relates to an electroacoustic device that is capable of transforming sound, thereby reducing noise and typically amplifying certain parts of the audio frequency spectrum. In addition such as hearing aid may improve directional perception of sound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignees: AXIGN B.V., NOVIOSOUND B.V.
    Inventors: Jeroen Langevoort, Arthur Perry Berkhoff, Arnoldus Johannes Maria Baltussen, Reinier van 'T Hooft, David George Bradford
  • Patent number: 11218225
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to communication method and techniques. In a specific embodiment, the present invention provides a receiver that interleaves data signal n-ways for n slices. Each of the n slices includes feedforward equalizer and decision feedback equalizers that are coupled to other slices. Each of the n slices also includes an analog-to-digital converter section that includes data and error slicers. There are other embodiments as well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: MARVELL ASIA PTE, LTD.
    Inventor: Basel Alnabulsi
  • Patent number: 11177619
    Abstract: A transmitter is configured to generate a signal carrying data. A signal splitter is configured to generate multiple copies of the signal. A slip ring includes first and second portions, one configured to rotate relative to the other. The slip ring also includes a first interface associated with the first portion and configured to receive the multiple copies of the signal. The slip ring further includes a second interface associated with the second portion. In addition, the slip ring includes multiple electrical pathways electrically coupling the first and second interfaces, where at least some of the electrical pathways are configured to transport the multiple copies of the signal from the first interface to the second interface. A signal combiner is configured to receive the multiple copies of the signal from the second interface and to generate a recovered signal. A receiver is configured to recover the data from the recovered signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: William L. Cram, Alan G. Stuessy
  • Patent number: 11172345
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for transmitting at least one data packet between a first communication subscriber of a communication arrangement and at least one second communication subscriber of the communication arrangement, wherein the at least one data packet is transmitted from the first communication subscriber to the second communication subscriber at least partially via a bidirectional direct connection set up between a communication module of the first communication subscriber and a communication module of the at least one second communication subscriber, wherein the first communication subscriber and/or the at least one second communication subscriber is a vehicle, and wherein the at least one second communication subscriber feeds back a receipt for respective data of the at least one data packet to the first communication subscriber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Audi AG
    Inventor: Jürgen Spehl
  • Patent number: 11082135
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and method of processing a digital signal, wherein an input signal is transformed into the frequency domain by applying a fast Fourier transformation (FFT) processing to obtain a transformed input signal. Positive and negative frequency components of the transformed input signal are separated and respective ones of the separated positive and negative frequency components are separately processed by respective digital filtering to obtain filtered frequency components. The filtered frequency components are combined in the frequency domain using a down-sampling operation for down-sampling the filtered frequency components from an input number of samples per symbol to a different output number of samples per symbol, and the combined output components are converted into the time domain by applying an IFFT processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Michael Zarubinsky, Doron Cohen, Qingsong Xue, Dori Gidron, Ling Liu, Changsong Xie, Liangchuan Li, Ming Chen
  • Patent number: 11069331
    Abstract: A noise reduction filter for data signals is implemented using two orthogonal coordinates comprising intensity and differential intensity values generated from sampling and sorting the data signals. A weighting function is used to amplify or reduce different portions of a data set distribution generated using the intensity and differential intensity values. The weighting function may also include scalar constants to further enhance the capability of the noise reduction filter. The noise reduction filter can be used to reduce the noise components or increase the useful signal components of a noisy data signal, thereby increasing the signal-to-noise ratio, and also increasing spectral resolution. The noise reduction filter can also be used in special cases where the intensity and frequency spectra of the noisy data signal are overlapping. The noise reduction filter may be used in various applications including spectroscopy and image processing, among others.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: PerkinElmer Health Sciences, Inc.
    Inventor: V. Sergey Rakov
  • Patent number: 11038736
    Abstract: A method by which a first network node cancels a self-interference signal when operating in a full duplex radio (FDR) mode in a wireless network can comprise the steps of: cancelling a self-interference signal on the basis of frequency synchronization estimation of the self-interference signal when frequencies of a reception signal received from a second network node and the self-interference signal are asynchronous; and estimating frequency synchronization of the reception signal by using a residual signal according to the cancellation of the self-interference signal, and detecting the reception signal on the basis of the frequency synchronization estimation of the reception signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignees: LG ELECTRONICS INC., INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, YONSEI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Kwangseok Noh, Daesik Hong, Haesoon Lee, Jaeyeong Choi, Dongkyu Kim
  • Patent number: 11025347
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices are provided for compensating for distortion of a contactless communication channel. The electronic device may include a radio frequency system that itself includes antenna to transmit and receive data using near-field communication (NFC) and an NFC signal processing circuitry. The NFC signal processing circuitry may receive an NFC signal via a communication channel formed between the electronic device and another electronic device and may determine a baseband reference waveform associated with the electromagnetic NFC signal and may determine an error between a portion of the electromagnetic NFC signal and the baseband reference waveform. Furthermore, the NFC signal processing circuitry may determine whether the error is outside of an acceptable error threshold range and, in response to the error being outside of the acceptable error threshold range, train a filter response of the NFC signal processing circuitry to estimate the communication channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Xinping Zeng, Vusthla Sunil Reddy, Peter M. Agboh
  • Patent number: 11018905
    Abstract: Signal cancellation is implemented by way of a non-linear filter model feeding to an FIR channel. Parameters defining each element are iteratively established, first by initially estimating the FIR channel then jointly estimating the two elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Seifallah Jardak
  • Patent number: 11005493
    Abstract: A digital-to-analog conversion circuit (60) for converting a digital input sequence to an analog representation is disclosed. It comprises a first DAC, (100) wherein the first DAC (100) is of a capacitive voltage division type having a capacitive load (110). Furthermore, it comprises a second DAC (120) having a resistive load (130). An output (104) of the first DAC (100) and an output (124) of the second DAC (120) are connected, such that said capacitive load (110) and said resistive load (130) are connected in parallel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Henrik Fredriksson, Martin Anderson, Henrik Sjöland
  • Patent number: 10979262
    Abstract: IQ mismatch correction for analog chain IQ mismatch impairments is based on a two-filter architecture. In either RX or TX, an IQmc mismatch corrector (digital chain) filters I and Q digital signals, and includes an I-path to receive the I signal, and a Q-path to receive the Q signal, and is configured with two filters: an in-path filter to filter either the I signal or the Q signal received in the same path; and a cross-path filter to filter either the I signal or the Q signal received in the other path. The IQmc mismatch corrector can include: an I-path delay element to provide a delay to the I signal corresponding to a delay through either the in-path filter or the cross-path filter; and a Q-path delay element to provide a delay to the Q signal corresponding to a delay through either the in-path filter or the cross-path filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Jawaharlal Tangudu, Sthanunathan Ramakrishnan, Jaiganesh Balakrishnan
  • Patent number: 10979208
    Abstract: A Digital Time Processing (DTP) disclosed herein is contributing methods, systems and circuits for filtering out a phase noise of a timing referencing signal, producing a timing implementing signal from a free running local clock and time processing over time sensitive networks (TP TSN) enabling improved utilization of IEEE 1588 PTP and better accuracy of time distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Inventor: John W Bogdan
  • Patent number: 10972315
    Abstract: A signal estimator for an OFDM radio receiver is configured to generate a signal power estimate for a reference signal received on a subcarrier from a plurality of OFDM subcarriers. The signal estimator generates a first channel estimate as a first function of a first set of one or more unfiltered reference-signal channel estimates, where the first set includes an unfiltered reference-signal channel estimate. It generates a second channel estimate as a second function of a second set of one or more unfiltered reference-signal channel estimates, where the second set has no unfiltered reference-signal channel estimate in common with the first set. The signal estimator then generates the signal power estimate by multiplying the first channel estimate with the second channel estimate, such that the generated signal power estimate does not increase with the absolute square of any of the unfiltered reference-signal channel estimates in the first and second sets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Nordic Semiconductor ASA
    Inventor: Mauri Nissilä
  • Patent number: 10972318
    Abstract: A data stream processing device includes a plurality of data providing units, a plurality of processing units, and control circuitry. The data providing units are configured to output data values received via a plurality of data inputs, respectively. The processing units are configured to generate data outputs based on the data values, respectively. The control circuitry includes a mode selection input and is configured to simultaneously provide data values of different data streams to the data inputs of the data providing units, respectively, in response to the mode selection input receiving a signal indicating a first mode, and simultaneously provide a plurality of successive groups of data values of one of the data streams to the data inputs of the data providing units, respectively, in response to the mode selection input not receiving the signal indicating the first mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: HUGHES NETWORK SYSTEMS, LLC
    Inventor: Tony Huang
  • Patent number: 10965438
    Abstract: A signal receiving circuit, a memory storage device and a signal receiving method are provided. The signal receiving circuit includes an equalizer module, a clock and data recovery (CDR) circuit and a controller. The equalizer module is configured to receive a first signal and compensate the first signal to generate a second signal. The CDR circuit is configured to perform a phase locking on the second signal. The controller is configured to open or close a signal pattern filter of the CDR circuit according to the second signal, wherein the signal pattern filter is configured to filter a signal having a specific pattern in the second signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: PHISON ELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Shih-Yang Sun, Sheng-Wen Chen, Yen-Po Lin, Bo-Jing Lin, Po-Min Cheng