Plural Modulation Patents (Class 455/102)
  • Patent number: 7937047
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for using an Adaptive Modulation and Coding (AMC) scheme together with a method of controlling a transmitting power to increase a data transfer rate. The method of transmitting data in a transmitter including a plurality of antennas, includes receiving a Received Signal Strength (RSS) from a receiving portable terminal and determining whether data can be transmitted at the RSS; if the data cannot be transmitted at the RSS, integrating transmitting powers allocated to the plurality of antennas into one antenna to transmit the data when the data cannot be transmitted at the RSS; and transmitting the data using an AMC scheme when the data can be transmitted at the RSS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Young-Ho Yoon
  • Publication number: 20110098006
    Abstract: A transmitter circuit of the present invention includes: a signal generator 101 that generates an amplitude signal and a phase signal based on an input signal; a signal processor 103 that divides the phase signal into a real component and an imaginary component, and performs a signal process on each of the real component and the imaginary component; BEFs 104, 105 that attenuate unnecessary frequency bands of a real component signal and an imaginary component signal, respectively, which are obtained as a result of the signal process performed by the signal processor; a coordinate system converter 106 that converts an orthogonal coordinate system, which is represented by the real component signal and the imaginary component signal of which the unnecessary frequency bands have been attenuated by the BEFs, to a polar coordinate system, which is represented by an amplitude component signal and a phase component signal; an adder 102 that adds the amplitude component signal provided by the coordinate system converte
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2009
    Publication date: April 28, 2011
    Inventor: Toru MATSUURA
  • Patent number: 7933306
    Abstract: A transmitting device of the present invention comprises an encoder (20), a transmitting unit (100) including a pulse generator (30) and a parallel-to-serial converter (50), a transmitting control unit (40), and an antenna (90). The pulse generator (30) comprises a first pulse train generator (31), a second pulse train generator (32), . . . and an n-th pulse train generator (33). A k-bit information bit train is inputted from the information signal source (10), The encoder (20) encodes the k-bit information bit train into an n-bit encoded bit train at a coded rate of (k/n). The pulse generator (30) generates n-piece repetitive pulse trains corresponding to the n-bit encoded bit train. The antenna (90) transmits the n-piece repetitive pulse trains as UWB-IR.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Naotake Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 7929923
    Abstract: A novel out-phasing-array transmitter system and method are disclosed. The method is based on decomposing the input signal into an array of signals to drive a general, multiple paths out-phasing-array transmitter. This decomposition is less sensitive to the phase difference between the multiple paths, and extends the dynamic range of the out-phasing-array transmitter system. The wide dynamic range and the multiple transmission paths increase the maximum achievable output power, in accordance with the WiMAX specifications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Mostafa Elmala
  • Patent number: 7929926
    Abstract: Apparatus is presented for broadcasting an RF signal. This includes a signal divider that receives a composite RF signal and provides therefrom first and second signals each having digital and analog components. A phase extractor receives the first signal and provides therefrom a phase modulated RF signal for application to an amplifier. A gain controller varies the gain of the amplifier in accordance with amplitude variations of the second signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: Harris Corporation
    Inventor: Geoffrey Norman Mendenhall
  • Patent number: 7925224
    Abstract: An apparatus to facilitate wireless communication where one side of the link is designed for ultra-low power consumption. The apparatus comprises two types of transceivers: a full function transceiver (called the “Controller”) and a reduced function transceiver (called the “Terminal”), which are normally connected in a “star” network configuration (i.e. several Terminals communicating with one Controller). The Controller communicates with Terminals directly using chirp signals which contain the modulated data to be transmitted. The Terminal communicates with the Controller by re-transmitting “carrier” chirp signals which have been sent to it by the Controller. In this way the Terminal does not generate any of its own RF signals, thereby reducing its power consumption. The Terminals may not communicate directly with each other, only indirectly through the Controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Telecommunications Research Laboratories
    Inventor: John A. Pinkney
  • Patent number: 7925225
    Abstract: Systems and methods for MIMO wireless transmission are provided. At the transmitter, a plurality of encoded packets are modulated, and the symbols are divided between several transmit antennas. The transmitter spreads some of the symbols of each packet using a respective subset of an available Walsh code space. A given transmit antenna then transmits part of each packet spread by the respective subset. In some implementations, this achieves the benefits of the PARC system, and at the same time achieves part of the benefits of the STTD system. Advantageously, only a single reverse link control channel is required if adaptive coding and modulation is to be performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Ericsson AB
    Inventors: Jianming Wu, Wen Tong, Mo-Han Fong
  • Patent number: 7920527
    Abstract: A real-time/non-real-time/RF IC includes first and second baseband processing modules, an RF section, a wireline interface, and a bus structure. The first baseband processing module converts real-time outbound data into real-time outbound symbols and converts real-time inbound symbols into real-time inbound data. The second baseband processing module converts non-real-time outbound data into non-real-time outbound symbols and converts non-real-time inbound symbols into non-real-time inbound data. The RF section converts the real-time outbound symbols into real-time outbound RF signals, converts real-time inbound RF signals into the real-time inbound symbols, converts the non-real-time outbound symbols into non-real-time outbound RF signals, and converts non-real-time inbound RF signals into the non-real-time symbols. The wireline interface couples the non-real-time outbound data, the non-real-time inbound data, the real-time outbound data, and/or the real-time inbound data to an off-chip wireline connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Vafa James Rakshani, Frederic Christian Marc Hayem, Claude G. Hayek, Nelson R. Sollenberger, Ahmadreza (Reza) Rofougaran, Maryam Rofougaran
  • Patent number: 7917103
    Abstract: Wired and mobile cascaded communication systems and processors used in wired and wireless local area network (WLAN) and mobile systems with touch screen generated communication and control signal and position finding signals. Systems with distinct modulators for wired, WLAN and mobile systems operated in separate network and systems. The WLAN includes use of orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) signal, the mobile communication system includes use of time division multiple access (TDMA) signal and Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) signal. Cascaded communication system includes receiving, processing and transmitting a Bluetooth signal. Communication system and WLAN has non-linearly amplified amplifier and linearly amplified amplifier for signal amplification and transmission and non-quadrature modulator and a quadrature modulator. Quadrature modulator is used for modulation of TDMA or CDMA filtered cross-correlated in-phase and quadrature-phase baseband signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Inventor: Kamilo Feher
  • Patent number: 7917102
    Abstract: A radio transmitting apparatus that has a plurality of antennas and changes the number of modulated signals transmitted simultaneously according to the propagation environment and so forth. A transmission power changing section 12 of a radio transmitting apparatus of the present invention adjusts the pilot symbol signal level so as to match the data symbol composite signal level according to the number of transmit modulated signals set by a modulated signal number setting section 11. By this means, the operating range of received pilot symbols and the operating range of received data symbols become approximately the same on the receiving side, enabling pilot symbol quantization error to be reduced. As a result, the precision of radio wave propagation environment estimation, time synchronization, and frequency offset estimation using pilot symbols improves, and consequently data reception quality improves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kiyotaka Kobayashi, Yutaka Murakami, Masayuki Orihashi
  • Patent number: 7912144
    Abstract: A modulating means for modulating and/or demodulating data for transmission from a first device to a second device, wherein the modulating means is capable of modulating and/or demodulating data according to at least a first and a second modulation technique.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Terence Edwin Dodgson, Charles Tibenderana
  • Patent number: 7907919
    Abstract: According to one embodiment of the invention, a system and a method for maintaining a first history of strength of a first transmission path between a first wireless node and a second wireless node in a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) communication system, maintaining a second history of strength of a second transmission path between a third wireless node and the second wireless node in the MIMO communication system, performing a spatiotemporal correlation between the first history and the second history to determine if any changes in the strength of the first transmission path is observed, and predicting future changes to strength of the second transmission path between the third wireless node and the second wireless node based on the performed special correlation between the first history and the second history.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Behram daCosta
  • Patent number: 7904106
    Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus and method for adaptively allocating transmission power for beamforming combined with orthogonal space-time block codes (OSTBC) in a distributed wireless communication system, the apparatus comprising: a plurality of sub-arrays for beamforming, which are geographically distributed and each of which comprises a plurality of distributed antennas placed in random groups; and a central processing unit for identifying performances of subsets by applying a predetermined power allocation scheme according to subsets which can be obtained by combining the sub-arrays, by means of a Nakagami fading parameter and information about large-scale fading of each of the sub-arrays, fed back from a receiving party, for determining a subset having a best performance as an optimal subset according to the identified performances, and for performing power allocation based on the subset set as the optimal subset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuangfeng Han, Seong-Taek Hwang, Hoon Kim, Sang-Ho Kim, Jae-Hun Cho, Jae-Hoon Lee, Ki-Uk Song
  • Patent number: 7904036
    Abstract: A modulation circuit for use in a radiofrequency transmitter includes a local oscillator circuit configured to generate one or more local oscillator signals at a desired frequency and with a duty cycle at or about twenty-five percent, and a modulator configured to generate one or more modulated signals responsive to the one or more local oscillator signals and one or more baseband information signals. In at least one embodiment, the modulation circuit includes a modulator comprising a combined mixing and transconductance circuit that includes a transistor circuit for each baseband information signal serving as a modulation input to the modulator. Each transistor circuit comprises a first transistor driven by the baseband information signal and coupling a modulator output node to a corresponding transconductance element, and a second transistor driven by one of the one or more local oscillator signals and coupling the corresponding transconductance element to a signal ground node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Sven Mattisson, Magnus Nilsson
  • Patent number: 7899491
    Abstract: A position finder and communication system processes signals received from multiple satellite and land based locations and generates processed position finder signal. A first cross-correlator and a transmit baseband filter generates cross-correlated in-phase and quadrature-phase processed filtered baseband signals from an input signal and a second cross-correlator generates cross-correlated in-phase and quadrature-phase processed spread spectrum signals. A processor processes data, voice or video signal into Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed (OFDM) or into Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) processed data, voice or video signal. The processed position finder signal is further processed jointly with one or more of the signals generated by the first or second processed cross-correlated signal or with the processed OFDM or OFDMA signal and the jointly processed signal is provided to a quadrature modulator for quadrature modulation and transmission of the quadrature modulated signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Inventor: Kamilo Feher
  • Patent number: 7894792
    Abstract: In a multi-carrier and multi-rate CDMA system, a base station transmits an index tag to a number of mobile stations. The index tag has a length indicating a transmission rate and all index tags are nodes in a code tree. In the code tree, mother nodes and their child nodes block each other and are not assigned to the mobile stations at the same time. At the same time, index tags of nodes in the same level of the code tree map are orthogonal to each other. The mobile station constructs an index tag matrix according to the index tag. Then, the index tag matrix is multiplied with a generating matrix that is stored in every mobile station to generate a spreading factor matrix whose rows respectively correspond to different carriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: Accton Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Guu-Chang Yang
  • Patent number: 7894810
    Abstract: The problem of being able to use in a practical way a single communication and remote control device, instead of requiring the use of multiple communication and multiple remote control devices for communication and automobile door opener and or ignition starters, is solved by this invention. A wireless signal is transmitted by cellular transmission, received and processed in an automobile for control of a door lock or control of ignition. Processed location finder, touch screen, time division multiple access (TDMA), Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM) signals are provided for wireless transmission. Location finder Global Positioning System (GPS) signal and non GPS signals are received and processed. In addition to cellular system components, wireless local area networks (WLAN) and/or other wideband/broadband network devices, such as orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM) transmitters and receivers are incorporated into the cellular devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Inventor: Kamilo Feher
  • Patent number: 7894851
    Abstract: An integrated circuit (IC) includes a baseband processing module and a radio frequency (RF) section. The baseband processing module is coupled to convert outbound data or an outbound voice signal into at least one of amplitude modulation information, phase modulation information, and frequency modulation information. The RF section includes an oscillation module, a frequency divider, and power amplifier modules. The oscillation module produces an RF oscillation that it modulates based on the phase or frequency modulation information to produce a modulated RF signal. The frequency divider divides the frequency of the modulated RF signal to produce a frequency divided modulated RF signal. The first power amplifier module amplifies the modulated RF signal in accordance with the amplitude modulation information or a constant to produce a first frequency band outbound RF data or voice signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventor: Ahmadreza (Reza) Rofougaran
  • Patent number: 7881683
    Abstract: RF signal generators (1) are disclosed, having an amplitude-modulated amplifier (80) whose supply voltage (70) is a signal non-linearly filtered (33) dependent on a signal (30) being representative to an envelope signal of a desired output RF signal (81). The non-linear filtering (33) is performed preferably using an envelope-dependent boundary. An input RF signal (65) to the amplifier (80) is amplified using the supply voltage (70) to produce the desired output RF signal (81). The present invention also presents methods for driving such generators (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Richard Hellberg, Tony Fonden
  • Patent number: 7869769
    Abstract: A frequency generator (100) takes a signal source (clock or carrier) (101) and generates a edge encoded direct digital modulated differential output signal (110). The differential signal (110) is applied to a frequency extension quadrature generator (FEQG) (112). The FEQG (112) includes a fractional differential wavelength delay locked loop (DLL) (280) and a frequency multiplier (240). The DLL (280) generates a control voltage (214) with which to control delays of the edge encoded modulation signal (110). A frequency extended quadrature function is applied to the periodic steady state input signal with edge encoded modulation (110), to provide the output signal set 113.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert E. Stengel, Thomas L. Gradishar, Stephen T. Machan
  • Patent number: 7860188
    Abstract: A digital modulator in a radio transmitter includes circuitry for switching between Gaussian Minimum Shift Keying (GMSK) and Phase-Shift Keying (PSK) while maintaining spectral mask requirements. The digital modulator of the present invention includes both GMSK and PSK symbol mappers that produce PSK in-phase and quadrature symbols and GMSK symbols, respectively, to a pulse shaping block. Based on opposite phases of a modulation control signal, the symbol mappers produce either modulated data or a steam of logic zeros to the pulse shaping block. The pulse shaping block filters the received data and multiplexes the data so that each modulated data stream receives non-zero data during a guard time to avoid abrupt changes in the modulated signal that would violate the spectral mask requirements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventor: Henrik T. Jensen
  • Patent number: 7860465
    Abstract: Apparatus, and an associated method, for providing transmit diversity to an open-loop MIMO communication scheme, such as a point to multipoint broadcast service in a cellular system. Multiple data streams of the broadcast data are broadcast by way of transmit diversity antennas of a sending station. The data symbols of the separate data streams are phase-shifted to be offset in phase from one another. The data streams, once the data symbols thereof are selectably phase-shifted by a phase shifter, are applied by an applier to sending nodes of the respective cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventor: Zhijun Cai
  • Patent number: 7852746
    Abstract: Techniques for efficiently transmitting various types of signaling on the forward and reverse links in an OFDM-based system are described. Instead of specifically allocating subbands to individual signaling channels, signaling data for a signaling channel on a given link is sent as “underlay” to other transmissions that may be sent on the same link. Each wireless terminal is assigned a different PN code. The signaling data for each terminal is spectrally spread over all or a portion of the system bandwidth using the assigned PN code. For the reverse link, a wireless terminal may transmit signaling on all N usable subbands and may transmit traffic data on L subbands assigned for data transmission, which may be a subset of the N usable subbands. For the forward link, a base station may transmit signaling and traffic data for all terminals on the N usable subbands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventor: Ahmad Jalali
  • Patent number: 7853212
    Abstract: A multi-mode modulator includes a first data path to process in-phase signals in a quadrature modulation mode, a second data path to process quadrature signals during the quadrature modulation mode, and a first multiplexer to selectively switch polar amplitude data onto one of the first and second data paths in response to a selection signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventor: Stefan van Waasen
  • Patent number: 7840193
    Abstract: A modulator 23 corrects an amplitude signal Rd by adding thereto an offset value ? and generates, based on the corrected amplitude signal Rd, an amplitude signal Ra for amplitude-modulating a radio-frequency signal. The modulator 23 includes: an offset voltage measurement section 109 operable to measure an offset voltage V2cal of the amplitude signal Ra; a correction value calculation section 110 operable to obtain a difference value ?V2cal between the offset voltage V2cal measured by the offset voltage measurement section 109 and an initial value of the offset voltage V2cal and operable to calculate, based on the difference value ?V2cal, a correction value VODAC for correcting the offset voltage V2cal; and an addition section 106 operable to add the correction value VODAC calculated by the correction value calculation section 110 to a signal processed until the amplitude signal Ra is generated from the amplitude signal Rd.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Hara, Shigeru Morimoto
  • Publication number: 20100291885
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a multimode polar modulation device and a multimode radio communication method for making it possible to decrease the distortion compensation processing data capacity while maintaining the distortion compensation accuracy and also making it possible to efficiently store the distortion compensation processing data corresponding to a multimode modulation signal adaptively acquired in memory. At the distortion compensation coefficient calibration operation time of a polar modulation circuit 1901, a control section 1903 selects a modulation signal with a narrower dynamic range of amplitude signal than at the transmission operation time, an adaptive operation control section 1711 measures a spectrum in output of a power amplifier 1 for each predetermined output level, and a distortion compensation processing circuit 1701 finds optimum coefficient information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2006
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshito Shimizu, Akihiko Matsuoka, Tomoya Urushihara
  • Patent number: 7835706
    Abstract: An RF transmitter (104) includes a shared local oscillator circuit (126), transmit path circuitry (120, 122, 124), a divider (134), and a lowpass filter (322). The shared local oscillator circuit (126) generates a shared LO signal (116). The transmit path circuitry (120, 122, 124) mixes a baseband signal (107) and an IF mixing signal (116) to provide an IF signal (112), and converts the IF signal (112) to an RF transmit signal (105) at a desired frequency using an RF mixing signal received at a mixing input thereof. The divider (134) divides the shared LO signal (116) to provide an unfiltered RF mixing signal. The lowpass filter (322) has an input for receiving the unfiltered RF mixing signal, and an output coupled to the mixing input of the transmit path circuitry (120, 122, 124) for providing the RF mixing signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Silicon Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: David R. Welland, Ramkishore Ganti, CaiYi Wang
  • Patent number: 7835696
    Abstract: A wireless multicarrier transmission method in which a multicarrier transmission uses n modulated frequency subcarriers (n is an integer number), and a fading condition of each subcarrier is detected to generate fading channel profile information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Ralf Bohnke, Seiichi Izumi
  • Patent number: 7830220
    Abstract: A modulator arrangement includes a power amplifier which receives a carrier signal and has a current control input and a voltage supply input. The modulator arrangement further includes a supply voltage modulator having an output coupled to the voltage supply input and an input coupled to the data input and a bias current modulator with an output coupled to the current control input and an input coupled to the data input. A control unit is provided which has a power control output coupled to the supply voltage modulator and to the bias current modulator to control the supply voltage modulator and the bias current modulator depending on a power control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Nazim Ceylan, Jan-Erik Müller
  • Patent number: 7826865
    Abstract: An integrated circuit (IC) includes a baseband processing module and a radio frequency (RF) section. The baseband processing module is coupled to convert outbound data into amplitude modulation information and phase modulation information when the IC is in a cellular data mode and to convert an outbound radio frequency identification (RFID) signal into RFID amplitude modulation information when the IC is in an RFID mode. The RF section is coupled to generate an outbound RF data signal in accordance with the amplitude modulation information and the phase modulation information when the IC is in the cellular data mode and to generate an outbound RF RFID signal in accordance with the RFID amplitude information when the IC is in the RFID mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventor: Ahmadreza (Reza) Rofougaran
  • Patent number: 7826807
    Abstract: Base stations transmit strip signals using strip signal segments and self supporting modulation scheme techniques facilitating rapid channel estimate. A strip segment occupies one OFDM symbol time interval and uses a set of downlink tones; some, e.g., half, of the tones are left unused facilitating SIR measurement. The strip segments are advantageously timed to correspond to uplink access intervals in which connected wireless terminals do not typically transmit uplink signals. Connected wireless terminals including: multiple antennas used in combination, an antenna duplex module, single RF receiver chain and single RF transmitter chain, switch antenna coefficient combinations based on strip signal segment timing. The wireless terminal determines an independent downlink channel quality measurement, e.g., SNR and/or SIR for each strip signal segment and for on-going non-strip signaling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Rajiv Laroia, Junyi Li, Frank A. Lane
  • Patent number: 7822392
    Abstract: Provided is a frequency modulation circuit for outputting a frequency-modulated signal with a high precision. A VCO 13 includes a first variable capacitor 132 having a predetermined capacitance change rate, and a second variable capacitor 133 having a greater capacitance change rate than that of the first variable capacitor 132. When the frequency modulation circuit is applied in a narrowband modulation method, a switch 15 switches a connection path of an open loop such that an input terminal and the first variable capacitor 132 are connected. On the other hand, when the frequency modulation circuit is applied in a wideband modulation method, the switch 15 switches the connection path of the open loop such that the input terminal and the second variable capacitor 133 are connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Toru Matsuura
  • Patent number: 7812684
    Abstract: A communication apparatus has a local oscillator which performs phase modulation based on a phase component of a baseband signal and outputs a phase modulated signal, a controlling circuit which is supplied with an integer portion included in an amplitude component of the baseband signal and generates and outputs a controlling signal based on a size of the integer portion, a subtractor which is supplied with the integer portion and the controlling signal, subtracts a value of the controlling signal from the integer portion, and outputs a result, a MASH (Multi-stAge-noise-Shaping) circuit which is a second-order delta-sigma modulation means supplied with a fractional portion of the amplitude component, an order of the MASH circuit being switchable between a first order and a second order based on the controlling signal, and an amplifier which sets a voltage value based on an output of the MASH circuit and an output of the subtractor, multiplies the voltage value and the phase modulated signal, and outputs a re
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20100240328
    Abstract: A radio frequency (RF) transmitter front-end includes a digital to analog conversion module and a power amplifier module. The digital to analog conversion module is coupled to convert amplitude information into analog amplitude adjust signals when a first mode is active and is coupled to convert power level information into analog power level signals when a second mode is active. The power amplifier module is coupled to amplify first phase modulated RF signals in accordance with the analog amplitude adjust signals to produce first outbound RF signals when the first mode is active and is coupled to amplify second phase modulated RF signals in accordance with the analog power level signals to produce second outbound RF signals when the second mode is active.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Publication date: September 23, 2010
    Applicant: BROADCOM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mohammad NARIMAN, Alireza ZOLFAGHARI, Hooman DARABI
  • Patent number: 7792214
    Abstract: Provided is a transmitter circuit capable of operating with low distortion and high efficiency even in a modulation method using wide modulation bandwidth. In the transmitter circuit, a signal generation section (11) generates an amplitude signal and an angle-modulated signal. Based on a predetermined characteristic, a compensating filter (12) wave-shaping-processes the amplitude signal. A regulator (14) outputs a signal in accordance with a magnitude of the signal which has been wave-shaping-processed by the compensating filter (12). An amplitude modulator section (15) amplitude-modulates the angle-modulated signal by using the signal outputted from the regulator (14). A characteristic of the compensating filter (12) is an inverse of a transfer characteristic between an input at the regulator (14) and an output at the amplitude modulator section (15).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Toru Matsuura, Shigeru Morimoto
  • Publication number: 20100222015
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a polar modulation transmitter that can perform adaptive distortion compensation processing without the need for a synchronization adjustment circuit for synchronizing an input baseband signal and an output signal of a power amplifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2006
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshito Shimizu, Tomoya Urushihara
  • Patent number: 7787836
    Abstract: A wireless communication device to transmit and receive signals of two or more wireless networks is disclosed. The wireless communication device includes a first radio to transmit a first type of modulated signals in at least first and second frequency bands and a second radio to transmit a second type of modulated signals in at least third and forth frequency bands. The wireless communication device further includes a first front end module to transmit simultaneously the first and the third frequency bands of the first and second radio through two or more antennas utilizing multiple input multiple (MIMO) output transmission scheme and a second front end module to transmit simultaneously the second and the fourth frequency bands of the first and second radio through two or more antennas utilizing multiple input multiple (MIMO) output transmission scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Melanie Daniels, Peter D. Mueller
  • Patent number: 7783262
    Abstract: The present invention pertains to a transmitter that can exploit feedback to help it organize information which is subsequently sent to a receiver. More specifically, the transmitter receives a feedback signal from the receiver and then uses data about a channel in the feedback signal to adapt at least one of a coding, interleaving and modulating scheme to organize information which is subsequently transmitted to the receiver. In this way, the transmitter can obtain the best match of a channel and a given information payload.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventor: Ali S. Khayrallah
  • Patent number: 7778612
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a polar modulation circuit capable of reducing the capacity of data stored in memory and suppressing an increase in the circuit scale related to distortion compensation while assuring the compensation accuracy. The polar modulation circuit according to the invention stores output signal characteristic relative to the control voltage at the steady state after input of the control voltage for a predetermined input amplitude of an input high frequency signal as the basis of distortion compensation of an amplifier separately into an offset storage section 101a which stores data used to add a predetermined DC offset voltage and a coefficient storage section 102 which stores data used for multiplication by a predetermined constant, thus reducing the circuit scale related to distortion compensation while assuring the compensation accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshito Shimizu, Noriaki Saito
  • Publication number: 20100203851
    Abstract: A wireless transmission device includes an adding/subtracting unit configured to subtract a second signal and a third signal from a first signal to generate the second signal; a modulating unit configured to modulate the second signal to generate a fourth signal; a demodulating unit configured to demodulate the fourth signal to generate the third signal; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the fourth signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2009
    Publication date: August 12, 2010
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Hiroaki Ishihara, Masahiro Hosoya, Kohei Onizuka, Shoji Otaka, Osamu Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20100203852
    Abstract: A bandpass type delta sigma modulation section 15 performs delta sigma modulation on an inputted modulation signal such that quantization noise is reduced in a frequency band which requires low noise. An LPF 16 removes a noise component in a high frequency region from the signal on which the delta sigma modulation has been performed. A frequency modulation circuit 1 reduces noise in the frequency band which requires low noise with the bandpass type delta sigma modulation section 15 and the LPF 16, and reduces noise in the vicinity of a direct current component DC with a feedback comparison section 11 and a loop filter 12.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2010
    Publication date: August 12, 2010
    Inventor: Toru MATSUURA
  • Patent number: 7769402
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing adaptive bearer configuration for MBMS delivery is disclosed. A first aspect of the present disclosure is a method of operating a wireless infrastructure entity (103) wherein a plurality of common radio resources (303) are allocated for receiving combined responses from a plurality of mobile stations (109). A request message, similar to a request for counting, is broadcast to all mobile stations (109) within a coverage area (105) and may indicate a range, for example a signal-to-noise-and-interference ratio range. Mobile stations (109) responding to the request, use specific resources (303) corresponding to respective range values. The infrastructure (103) may use the received information to determine a modulation and coding scheme for PTM broadcast. The total number of responses to the request message may be limited by providing a probability factor within the request message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhijun Cai, Mansoor Ahmed, Robert M. Harrison
  • Patent number: 7764934
    Abstract: A frequency synthesizer for use in a transmitter operates to receive outbound transmit data and to modulate the outbound transmit data to produce a modulated RF signal. The modulated RF signal can then be amplified to produce an outbound RF signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2010
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventor: Henrik T. Jensen
  • Patent number: 7738843
    Abstract: Provided is a transmitter for a multi-input multi-output system including: a memory for storing a modulation system and power allocation coefficient for each antenna; a modulating unit for modulating data to be transmitted using the modulation system for each antenna stored in the memory when the data to be transmitted is input; and a power adjusting unit for adjusting the power according to the power allocation coefficient for each antenna stored in the memory to transmit the data to be transmitted, modulated at the modulating unit, via a corresponding antenna. A higher performance gain can be provided compared to a conventional open loop V-BLAST system by using a different modulation system and power for each antenna of a transmitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Tae Joon Kim, Ik Soo Eo, Hyoun Kuk Kim, Hyun Chul Park
  • Patent number: 7734261
    Abstract: The object of the invention, which relates to a method and an arrangement for calibrating an analog I/Q modulator in a high-frequency transmitter, is to provide a method and an associated circuit arrangement by means of which a calibration of the I/Q modulator is carried out without a balancing operation and thus the complexity is minimized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventor: Andreas Bury
  • Patent number: 7729724
    Abstract: An RF front-end includes a receiver frequency band filter module, a low noise amplifier, a first power amplifier module, a second power amplifier module, and a transmit frequency band filter module. The receiver frequency band filter module filters a received RF signal and the low noise amplifier amplifies the signal in accordance with the first or the second RF front-end configuration signal. The first power amplifier module is enabled in accordance with the first RF front-end configuration signal to amplify the first outbound RF signal and the second power amplifier module is enabled in accordance with the second RF front-end configuration signal to amplify the second outbound RF signal. The transmitter frequency band filter module is enabled in accordance with the second RF front-end configuration signal to filter the second transmit RF signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Ahmadreza (Reza) Rofougaran, Maryam Rofougaran, Hooman Darabi
  • Publication number: 20100130143
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a polar transmission method and a polar transmitter for transmitting phase and amplitude components derived from in-phase (I) and quadrature-phase (Q) components of an input signal. A first conversion is provided for converting the in-phase (I) and quadrature-phase (Q) components into the phase and amplitude components at a first sampling rate. Additionally, a second conversion is provided for converting the phase component into a frequency component, wherein the second conversion comprises a rate conversion for converting the first sampling rate into a lower second sampling rate at which the frequency component is provided. Thereby, the second sampling rate can be used as a lower update rate in a digitally controlled oscillator in order to save power or because of speed limitations, while the surplus phase samples obtain due to the higher first sampling rate enable better approximation of the phase component after the digitally controlled oscillator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2007
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Applicant: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Manel Collados Asensio, Vojkan Vidojkovic, Paulus T. M. Van Zeijl
  • Patent number: 7725076
    Abstract: A base station for use in a wireless network that communicates with wireless mobile stations. The base station comprises: 1) a transceiver for transmitting forward channel data to a first mobile station via a beam-forming antenna array; and 2) a beam-forming circuit for maximizing data throughput to the first mobile station by jointly optimizing i) selection of a beam for transmitting the forward channel data to the first mobile station, ii) a level of Walsh code multiplexing of the forward channel data, and iii) a modulation scheme used to transmit the forward channel data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Cornelius van Rensburg
  • Patent number: 7711330
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method and an apparatus for transmitting/receiving signals in an multiple input multiple output (MIMO) wireless communication system. The method and apparatus including beam forming of a reference signal while predetermined codes are mapped on a one-to-one basis to each of a plurality of beams available for the transmitter and thereafter transmitting the beam-formed reference signal to a receiver. Also, if information representing an optimum beam, which maximizes reception performance, is received from the receiver, beam forming of data signals is performed by means of a beam corresponding to the information on the optimum beam and the beam-formed data signals are transmitted to the receiver. Therefore, it is possible to apply a beam forming scheme having minimum operation complexity and maximizing reception performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ho Yang, Hyoung-Woon Park, Ho-Jin Kim, Ashish Pandharipande
  • Patent number: 7710926
    Abstract: An arrangement and method for channel mapping in a UTRA TDD HSDPA wireless communication system by applying interleaving functions in first (530) and second (540) interleaving means to a bit sequence to produce symbols for mapping to physical channels, the first and second interleaving means being arranged to map symbols from respectively systematic and parity bits in a predetermined scheme, e.g., mapping symbols in a forward direction when a channel has an even index number, and in a reverse direction when a channel has an odd index number. The symbols may comprise bit-pairs, each of a systematic bit and parity bit. Systematic bits are preferably mapped to high reliability bit positions in TDD HSDPA, achieving a performance gain of between 0.2 dB and 0.5 dB. The forwards/reverse mapping allows a degree of interleaving that improves system performance in fading channels or channels disturbed by short time period noise or interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: IPWireless, Inc.
    Inventor: Martin Beale