Receiver Or Analog Modulated Signal Frequency Converter Patents (Class 455/130)
  • Patent number: 9014639
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods of notifying a user of a smartphone event through use of an energizable ophthalmic lens. In some embodiments, the smartphone may be paired with a specified ophthalmic lens, wherein the pairing may limit wireless communication to communication between the two specified devices. The smartphone may transmit smartphone event data, which may activate an indicator in the ophthalmic lens. In some embodiments, the user may respond to the notification of the smartphone event. The response may trigger an internal action within the ophthalmic lens, or the response may be transmitted to the smartphone, triggering an action in the smartphone. The present invention further describes a method of using an ophthalmic lens with a smartphone event indicator, including methods of pairing an ophthalmic lens with the specified smartphone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.
    Inventors: Randall Braxton Pugh, Camille A. Higham
  • Patent number: 9002295
    Abstract: A SAW-less receiver includes an FEM interface module, an RF to IF receiver section, and a receiver IF to baseband section. The RF to IF receiver section includes a mixing module, a mixed buffer section, and a frequency translated BPF (FTBPF) circuit module. The mixing module converts an inbound RF signal into an in-phase (I) mixed signal and a quadrature (Q) mixed signal. The mixed buffer section filters and buffers the I mixed signal and filter and buffer the Q mixed signal. The FTBPF circuit module frequency translates a baseband filter response to an IF filter response such that the FTBPF circuit module filters undesired signal components of the IF I signal and the IF Q signal to produce an inbound IF signal. The receiver IF to baseband section converts the inbound IF signal into one or more inbound symbol streams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Ahmad Mirzaei, Hooman Darabi
  • Patent number: 8995940
    Abstract: A technique includes receiving data that is communicated in a frame over a wireless network and processing the data through a filter. A response of the filter is changed during the processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Silicon Laboratories Inc.
    Inventors: Srihari Adireddy, Brian D. Green
  • Patent number: 8995919
    Abstract: In at least one embodiment, a method includes receiving a first transmission from a device, the first transmission transmitted at a first frequency. In response to receiving the first transmission, a transceiver is disabled and a second transmission is transmitted to the device, the second transmission transmitted at a second frequency. The method further includes receiving a third transmission from the device, the third transmission transmitted at the second frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Randy Zimler, George B. Bolam, James A. Worsham, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8982974
    Abstract: Receiver synchronization techniques (RST), contributing more accurate synchronization of receiver clock to OFDM composite frame combined with much faster acquisition time and better stability of the receiver clock, and phase and frequency recovery techniques, comprising a software controlled clock synthesizer (SCCS) for high accuracy phase & frequency synthesis producing synchronized low jitter clock from external time referencing signals or time referencing messages wherein SCCS includes a hybrid PLL (HPLL) enabling 1-50,000 frequency multiplication with very low output jitter independent of reference clock quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Inventor: John W Bogdan
  • Patent number: 8983421
    Abstract: In an organic memory which is included in a radio chip formed from a thin film, data are written to the organic memory by a signal inputted with a wired connection, and the data is read with a signal by radio transmission. A bit line and a word line which form the organic memory are each selected by a signal which specifies an address generated based on the signal inputted with a wired connection. A voltage is applied to a selected memory element. Thus writing is performed. Reading is performed by a clock signal or the like which are generated from a radio signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihiko Saito, Kiyoshi Kato
  • Patent number: 8976302
    Abstract: A radio frequency front end for a television band receiver and spectrum sensor includes a low noise amplifier that amplifies a received signal output of a radio frequency antenna connected to the radio frequency front end, a pin diode attenuator circuit that selectively attenuates an output of the low noise amplifier, and a buffer amplifier that amplifies an output of the pin diode attenuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Wi-LAN, Inc.
    Inventors: Neil Birkett, Vajira Samarasooriya, Jung Yee
  • Patent number: 8977225
    Abstract: A unidirectional sampling mixer utilizes a stepped phase modulation to shift the frequency of an input signal. An RF input signal is supplied to an RF input switch from an RF input port. An ordered set of phase shift values to be applied to the RF input signal and a set of times each element of which correspond to a time at which a phase shift value is be applied to the RF signal are determined. For each phase shift value within the ordered set of phase shift values, a controller controls the RF input switch to select an input of a phase shifting device and controls an RF output switch to select an output of the phasing shifting device. The input of the phase shifting device and the output of the phase shifting device are selected to apply the phase shift value at its corresponding time to the RF input signal. A frequency shifted signal is supplied to an RF output port from an output of the RF output switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Invertix Corporation
    Inventors: Brecken H. Uhl, Daniel A. Law
  • Patent number: 8977216
    Abstract: A wireless device is described. The wireless device includes a tunable front end module. The tunable front end module includes a Tx microelectromechanical system bandpass filter. The tunable front end module also includes a first Rx microelectromechanical system bandpass filter. The wireless device also includes a power amplifier. The wireless device further includes a low noise amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Haim M. Weissman, Avigdor Brillant, David Pezo
  • Publication number: 20150065198
    Abstract: A continuous-time ??-ADC (1) is disclosed. It comprises a sampled quantizer (5) arranged to generate samples y(n) of a digital output signal of the ??-ADC (1) at sample instants nT, where n is an integer sequence index and T is a sampling period, based on an analog input signal to the quantizer (5). Furthermore, the ??-ADC (1) comprises one or more DACs (10a-b), each arranged to generate an analog feedback signal based on the samples of the digital output signal generated by the sampled quantizer (5). Moreover, the ??-ADC (1) comprises a continuous-time analog network (20) arranged to generate the analog input signal to the quantizer (5) based on the feedback signal(s) from the one or more DACs (10a-b) and an analog input signal to the ??-ADC (1). At least one DAC (10b) of the one or more DACs (10b) comprises two switched-capacitor DACs (40, 50) arranged to operate on the same input but with a mutual delay in time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2012
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventors: Martin Anderson, Lars Sundström
  • Patent number: 8971465
    Abstract: A receiver receives a repeating or periodic signal and, based on the signal, estimates a carrier frequency offset for the receiver. Based on the signal and the estimated carrier offset, an I/Q mismatch for the receiver is estimated and compensation for the estimated I/Q mismatch is performed. After compensating for the estimated receiver I/Q mismatch, the carrier frequency offset is re-estimated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Nicola Varanese, Christian Pietsch, Juan Montojo
  • Patent number: 8971836
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of adjusting the receive frequency of a radio frequency (RF) receiver die (4), the RF receiver die (4) comprising a mixer (8) with an associated local oscillator (10) and a first low-noise amplifier (6) arranged to operate over a first frequency range, the method comprising affixing a second low-noise amplifier (40) arranged to operate over a second frequency range to the RF receiver die (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Telekom Malaysia Berhad
    Inventors: Syahrizal Salleh, Mohamad Faizal Hashim, Zulkalnain Mohd Yussof
  • Patent number: 8953718
    Abstract: A receiver assembly for the wireless reception of data that are modulated onto a carrier signal includes an analog receiver, an evaluating device and a control device. The control device controls the receiver by means of sampling pulses such that the receiver is activated during the sampling pulses and is ready to receive transmission signals and is deactivated during the sampling pauses. The evaluating device generates a data bit sequence from the received signals that are supplied by the receiver during the sampling pulses. The control device is further designed to actuate the receiver between phases having differing sampling frequency ranges in dependence on at least one predefined switching criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Frank Oehler, Heinrich Milosiu
  • Patent number: 8954026
    Abstract: An electronic device includes an adjustable filter with a first filter element, and a second filter element coupled to the first filter element. The second filter element includes a field effect transistor (FET) including a source terminal, a drain terminal, and a gate terminal. The source terminal and the gate terminal are coupled to a reference voltage. A control circuit is coupled to the drain terminal and is configured to apply a control voltage thereto to vary a capacitance between the source and drain terminals to adjust the adjustable filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Harris Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew Mui, Anthony C. Manicone
  • Patent number: 8954019
    Abstract: A mobile wireless communications device may include an antenna, LTE RF differential inputs, and a front end circuit. The front end circuit may include band pass filters coupled to the antenna, LNAs coupled respectively to the band pass filters, and RF switching circuits. Each RF switching circuit may be respectively coupled between each LNA and a pair of LTE RF differential inputs and configured to switch to one or both of the pair of LTE RF differential inputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Liviu George, Simon Andrew Hughes, Christopher Robert Little, Tajinder Manku
  • Patent number: 8948048
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for characterizing an infrastructure of a wireless network are disclosed. For example, the method obtains a first data set from a server log, and obtains a second data set from a plurality of wireless endpoint device. The method characterizes a parameter of the infrastructure of the wireless network using the first data set and the second data set and optimizes a network resource of the wireless network based on the parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., University of Michigan
    Inventors: Alexandre Gerber, Seungjoon Lee, Zhuoqing Mao, Feng Qian, Subhabrata Sen, Zhaoguang Wang, Qiang Xu
  • Patent number: 8942888
    Abstract: In an example, a processing device sends, to a remote network device, a request for an application of a mobile device to utilize a resource of a vehicle head unit, the request including a first profile of the vehicle head unit and a second profile of the mobile device. Responsive to sending the request, the processing device receives an instruction from the remote network device, the instruction to be executed by embedded software of the vehicle head unit so as to enable the application to utilize a resource of the vehicle head unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Airbiquity Inc.
    Inventors: Darren L. Garrett, Leon Hong
  • Patent number: 8942659
    Abstract: A method for selecting the state of a reconfigurable antenna installed at either the receiver or transmitter of a communication system is provided. The proposed method uses online learning algorithm based on the theory of multi-armed bandit to perform antenna state selection. The selection technique utilizes the Post-Processing Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PPSNR) as a reward metric and maximizes the long-term average reward over time. The performance of the learning based selection technique is empirically evaluated using wireless channel data. The data is collected in an indoor environment using a 2×2 MIMO OFDM system employing highly directional metamaterial Reconfigurable Leaky Wave Antennas. the learning based selection technique shows performance improvements in terms of average PPSNR and regret over conventional heuristic policies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Drexel University
    Inventors: Nikhil Gulati, David Gonzalez, Kapil R. Dandekar
  • Patent number: 8934859
    Abstract: One embodiment of the invention includes a radio frequency (RF) receiver system. The system includes an antenna configured to receive an RF input signal and an RF signal front-end system configured to process the RF input signal to generate an equivalent digital signal. The system also includes a spoof detection system configured to analyze a power spectral density (PSD) of the equivalent digital signal and to compare the PSD of the equivalent digital signal with a predetermined baseline PSD to detect the presence of a spoofing signal component in the RF input signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Jeff Dickman, Reza Ahmadi, Mathew A. Cosgrove, Sanjeev Gunawardena
  • Patent number: 8934520
    Abstract: A method, receiver and program for processing radio signals to identity an n-ray channel condition. The method comprises: receiving signal samples and estimating a plurality of channel taps from the samples; estimating for each of the channel taps a signal power and a disturbance power; filtering the signal power to provide a filtered signal power quantity; filtering the disturbance power to provide a filtered disturbance power quantity; using the filtered power quantities to determine n strongest channel taps; generating first and second comparison parameters using the strongest channel taps and at least one other channel tap; providing a comparison result based on the first and second comparison parameters and a threshold value, and; identifying an n-ray channel condition from the comparison result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Icera Inc.
    Inventors: Carlo Luschi, Abdelkader Medles, Gang Wang
  • Patent number: 8934842
    Abstract: In a method and a mobile communications receiver for processing signals from a first cell and a second cell a timing of the signal from the first cell and the second cell is obtained. A timing difference (?) between the timings of signals from the first and the second cell is determined and based on that a timing (?) for a window for discrete Fourier transform, DFT, processing is adjusted. DFT processing of the signals using the timing (?) of the DFT window is then performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Fredrik Nordstrom, Bengt Lindoff
  • Patent number: 8928400
    Abstract: A device receives ASK signals by using an ASK signal receiving circuit that is different from an ASK signal receiving circuit for R/W mode, when an NFC-enabled semiconductor device operates in a mode other than the R/W mode. An ASK signal receiving circuit for 100% ASK is provided on the side of a pair of transmitting terminals. This arrangement eliminates the influence of an ESD provided within an ASK signal receiving circuit for 10% ASK coupled to a pair of receiving terminals. There is no need for management of threshold values that are different according to type of ASK and it is possible to support different modulation schemes by a smaller circuit configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventor: Takayuki Tsukamoto
  • Patent number: 8929933
    Abstract: Embodiments include processes, systems, and devices that allow a white space base station to request available frequency ranges for white space transmission in a local area. A white space finder service models a primary user device's transmission signal propagation area using terrain data associated with the local area of the primary user device. The white space finder service also determines, based on the location of the white space base station and the modeled propagation area, one or more locally available, non-interfering frequency ranges and provides them to the white space base station. The white space base station compares the provided frequency ranges to policies and selects one or more of the available frequencies that accommodate the policies. The white space base station also maps the transmission frequency ranges to virtual frequency ranges for transmission by a software-defined radio employing spectrum virtualization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Kun Tan, Jiansong Zhang, Yongguang Zhang, Ranveer Chandra, Yong He, Thomas Moscibroda, Paramvir Bahl, Haichen Shen
  • Patent number: 8918325
    Abstract: A signal processing device is provided, including a prediction error calculating unit that calculates an error signal between a left signal l(n) and a prediction signal of the left signal l (n) predicted from a right signal r(n), a gain adjusting unit that makes a gain adjustment and outputs an error signal, a first adder that adds the left signal l(n) and the error signal and outputs, and a second adder that adds the right signal r(n) and the error signal in opposite phase and outputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masaru Kimura, Bunkei Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 8913975
    Abstract: An adaptive stepped gain amplifier, for example for use in broadband receivers, has a step size which is dynamically compensated (for each received frequency) to cope with step error caused by frequency dependence of the amplifier performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Fabien Laurent Michel Deforeit, Sebastien Robert, Sebastien Amiot
  • Patent number: 8909137
    Abstract: An apparatus and method are provided for transmitting data and control information in a wireless communication system. The method include determining if the control information is to be transmitted via a data channel; and if the control information is to be transmitted in the data channel, determining a number of symbols for coded control information in consideration of the data, generating the coded control information based on the number of symbols for the coded control information, generating coded data based on an MCS for the data, multiplexing the coded data and the coded control information, modulating the multiplexed coded control information and coded data by a modulation scheme, performing FT on the modulated coded control information and coded data, performing IFT on the FTed coded control information and coded data based on sub-carrier mapping, and transmitting the IFTed coded control information and coded data via the data channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Youn-Hyoung Heo, Ju-Ho Lee, Joon-Young Cho
  • Patent number: 8909161
    Abstract: A transceiver front-end for a communication device comprises a transmit frequency blocking arrangement and a receive frequency blocking arrangement. The transmit frequency blocking arrangement has a blocking frequency interval associated with the transmit frequency and a non-blocking frequency interval associated with the receive frequency, and is configured to block passage of transmit frequency signals between the signal transmission and reception arrangement and the receiver. The receive frequency blocking arrangement has a blocking frequency interval associated with the receive frequency and a non-blocking frequency interval associated with the transmit frequency, and is configured to block passage of receive frequency signals between the signal transmission and reception arrangement and the transmitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Imad ud Din, Stefan Andersson, Daniel Eckerbert, Henrik Sjöland, Tobias Tired, Johan Wernehag
  • Patent number: 8903349
    Abstract: A receiver is operated in a first power mode, for example a high power mode, during a first portion of a particular connection state (for example, a RRC_CONNECTED state in LTE when the UE receiver is on) of a communication protocol being used by the telecommunications network, and a second power mode during a second portion of the particular connection state, for example a low power mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Bengt Lindoff, Fredrik Nordström
  • Patent number: 8891710
    Abstract: A method of channel estimation includes receiving a signal after transmission over a media having a plurality of sub-carriers in a frequency band. The signal is preprocessed including performing a fast Fourier transform (FFT) to generate a plurality of frequency-domain samples. Channel estimating is applied to the plurality of frequency-domain samples using (i) least squares (LS) estimation, wherein the LS estimation generates intermediate LS channel estimates for each of the sub-carriers, and (ii) frequency-domain filtering and scaling the intermediate LS channel estimates. The frequency-domain filtering uses a common frequency-domain filter consisting of a single filter coefficient vector having a plurality of frequency-domain filter coefficients to generate refined channel estimates for each of the plurality of sub-carriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventor: June Chul Roh
  • Patent number: 8885453
    Abstract: Enhanced stomp-and-restart techniques are provided. At a plurality of antennas of a wireless communication device, energy is received in a channel in which one or more frames may be transmitted to the wireless communication device from any one of a plurality of other wireless communication devices. A first frame is acquired from the received energy. Channel state information is computed for the first frame and the channel state information associated with the first frame is stored. Interference suppression parameters are computed for the first frame from the channel state information. It is determined whether a stronger second frame is being received by the wireless communication device. The received energy associated with the first frame is nulled-out using the interference suppression parameters when the stronger second frame is determined to be received so that start-of-packet processing and decoding is performed on the stronger second frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Paul J. Stager
  • Patent number: 8886141
    Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor device that is capable of performing background calibration during a reception operation without adversely affecting reception characteristics. During a reception operation, the semiconductor device detects a timing at which an invalid received signal occurs upon a gain change or a reception channel change and performs background calibration at the detected timing. In this instance, as the received signal is invalid, performing the calibration does not further decrease the substantial accuracy of reception. Moreover, an unnecessary signal component, which would arise when the background calibration is performed at fixed intervals, will not be generated as far as the background calibration is performed at random timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Hideo Nakane, Keisuke Kimura, Takaya Yamamoto, Tatsuji Matsuura, Ryuichi Ujiie
  • Patent number: 8873660
    Abstract: A method and apparatus controls diversity reception in a wireless communication device. By determining a value based on a number of active set pilot signals received from a set of base stations, the wireless communication device dynamically enables or disables diversity reception. Diversity reception can be controlled by adjusting a diversity threshold based on the determined value. A channel quality indicator of a channel is measured and compared against the adjusted diversity threshold. The diversity reception mode is then enabled or disabled based on the comparison. For example, if the number of active pilot signals is above a predetermined value, indicating “good” coverage, the diversity threshold is decreased. The measured channel quality indicator is compared against the adjusted threshold, and diversity reception is enabled when the channel quality indicator is less than the decreased diversity threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Matthew F. Valentine, Steve L. Sheya
  • Publication number: 20140315506
    Abstract: A wireless device operating within a wireless communication channel can detect radar signals in one or more sub-channels using sub-channel counter information. The wireless device can receive signal pulses and generate Fast Fourier Transform values based on the signal pulses. The sub-channel counters can be incremented based on the Fast Fourier Transform values. The wireless device can determine whether the received signal pulses include a radar signal based, at least in part, on the values of the sub-channel counters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2014
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Meriam Khufu Ragheb Rezk, Richard Melvin Mosko, JR., Mahboobul Alem
  • Patent number: 8868007
    Abstract: Communication processing paths include distortions, such as DC offset in the baseband analog path which needs to be accounted for. The use of a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) to inject a DC offset cancellation signal can bring about noise/area/power advantages. The DAC is driven by a mixed signal low pass filter loop. However, the DAC could also be driven in an open loop system, or a combination of open and closed loop. A low noise sign and magnitude DAC with low area and power requirements is implemented using selectively connected programmable current sources to virtual earth input terminals on a transimpedance amplifier (TIA) op-amp circuit. The constant virtual earth voltage eliminates linearity problems that would otherwise exist due to the finite current source output impedance. Current sources are only switched in when required so unneeded sources are out of circuit and do not contribute noise or use any power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventor: Andrew Terry
  • Patent number: 8867671
    Abstract: A conversion circuit (20) for converting a complex analog input signal having an in-phase, I, component and a quadrature-phase, Q, component resulting from frequency down conversion of a radio-frequency, RF, signal (XRF) to a frequency band covering 0 Hz into a digital representation is disclosed. It comprises a channel-selection filter unit (40) arranged to filter the complex analog input signal, thereby generating a channel-filtered I and Q components, and one or more processing units (53, 53a-b). Each processing unit comprises four mixers (60-75) for generating a first and a second frequency-translated I component and a first and a second channel-filtered Q component based on two LO signals with equal LO frequency and a 90° mutual phase shift. Furthermore, each processing unit comprises a combiner unit (85, 120) for generating a first, a second, a third, and a fourth combined signal proportional to sums and differences between said frequency translated I and Q components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Lars Sunström, Roland Strandberg
  • Patent number: 8867640
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a method of transmitting a broadcasting signal includes: encoding data; encoding signaling data by an LDPC (Low Density Parity Check) scheme; building a signal frame based on at least one preamble data symbol having the encoded signaling data and a data slice having the encoded data; inserting at least one pilot into the signal frame with a specific pattern and modulating the signal frame by an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) method; and transmitting the modulated signal frame. A signaling block having the signaling data is repeated in the at least one preamble data symbol in a frequency domain by a bandwidth. The bandwidth of the signaling block corresponds to a number of active subcarriers assigned to a single channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Woo Suk Ko, Sang Chuk Moon
  • Publication number: 20140308043
    Abstract: Power management for a remote antenna unit(s) (RAUs) in a distributed antenna system. Power can be managed for an RAU configured to power modules and devices that may require more power to operate than power available to the RAU. For example, the RAU may be configured to include power-consuming RAU modules to provide distributed antenna system-related services. As another example, the RAU may be configured to provide power through powered ports in the RAU to external power-consuming devices. Depending on the configuration of the RAU, the power-consuming RAU modules and/or external power-consuming devices may demand more power than is available at the RAU. In this instance, the power available at the RAU can be distributed to the power-consuming modules and devices based on the priority of services desired to be provided by the RAU.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2013
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Applicant: CCS Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Christian Heidler, Jonathan Richard Hull, John Kedziora, Michael Sauer, Wolfgang Gottfried Tobias Schweiker
  • Patent number: 8862087
    Abstract: A method for reciprocal-mixing noise cancellation may include receiving, from a first mixer, a first signal comprising a wanted signal at a first frequency and a modulated signal at a second frequency. The modulated signal may be a product of a reciprocal-mixing of an unwanted signal with a phase noise. One or more portions of the modulated signal may overlap the wanted signal, adding a reciprocal-mixing noise to the wanted signal. A second signal may be generated by mixing, at a second mixer, the first signal with a third signal, which is at a third frequency related to a blocker offset frequency. A gain may be applied to the second signal to generate an amplified second signal that may be subtracted from the first signal to generate a fourth signal. The fourth signal may be filtered to generate the wanted signal at the first frequency without the reciprocal-mixing noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Mohyee Mikhemar, David Murphy, Hooman Darabi
  • Patent number: 8855250
    Abstract: A wireless communication device is disclosed that includes an automatic gain controller capable of accurately adjusting gain of a received signal. The received signal includes a plurality of symbols, including pilot symbols that each includes at least one pilot tone, and data symbols that do not include any pilot tones. A power of a pilot symbol is determined, and a power of a data symbol is determined. The determined data symbol power is then scaled by a scaling factor (that depends on various system parameters) and is subtracted from the determined pilot symbol power to provide an estimate of a power of the pilot tones within the signal. From the estimated pilot tone power, the automatic gain controller can accurately determine a preferred gain for amplifying future frames of the received signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Sam Alex, Rajesh Manakkal, Shashidhar Vummintala
  • Publication number: 20140295773
    Abstract: The present disclosure pertains to a transmitter for waking up electronic systems with a first signal generator which is designed to generate a carrier signal with a first frequency, a second signal generator which is designed to generate an informational signal with a second frequency, a single-sideband modulator which is designed to modulate the information signal by the carrier signal, and a transmission device which is designed to emit the generated carrier signal and the modulated information signal. The present disclosure also pertains to a receiver, an aircraft and spacecraft and a method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBH
    Inventors: Georg BÖCK, Alexander KRAVETS, Heiko TRUSCH
  • Patent number: 8849228
    Abstract: A receiver having a mixer for mixing a radio frequency signal and a local oscillator signal so as to generate a base band signal, a detecting unit for generating from the base band signal a detection signal that represents an extent of local oscillation leakage, and an adjusting unit coupled electrically to said mixer for outputting a control signal thereto to control a current operating state of said mixer, said adjusting unit being further coupled electrically to said detecting unit, and determining whether there is a reduction in the extent of local oscillation leakage based on the detection signal from said detecting unit. In operation, the adjusting unit maintains an adjusting direction for the control signal upon determining that the extent of local oscillation leakage is reduced, reverses the adjusting direction upon determining that the extent of local oscillation leakage is not reduced, and adjusts the control signal according to the adjusting direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
    Inventors: Hong-Ta Hsu, Ying-Hsi Lin
  • Patent number: 8849224
    Abstract: The invention provides a receiver comprising an input end, an Rx-chain with at least one regulating means and an output end. The receiver further comprises a feedback loop in the Rx-chain, the regulating means arranged for providing a higher or lower gain setting. The feedback loop comprises an AGC Multilevel threshold detector unit, AMU. The AMU comprises at least one Low Multilevel Threshold Detector, LMTD, and the LMTD comprises at least two threshold detectors, each detector having an associated low threshold level and detection interval, the length of the detection interval being shorter the lower the low threshold level is arranged to be set. The higher gain setting being arranged to be initiated through the feedback loop when the absolute level of an AGC input signal has been below at least one of the low threshold levels during the entire detection interval associated with that low threshold level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Optis Cellular Technology, LLC
    Inventor: Vimar Björk
  • Patent number: 8824992
    Abstract: Aspects of a method and system for wireless local area network (WLAN) phase shifter training are presented. Aspect of the system may enable a receiving station, at which is located a plurality of receiving antennas, to estimate the relative phase at which each of the receiving antennas receives signals from a transmitting station. This process may be referred to as phase shifter training. After determining the relative phase for each of the receiving antennas, the receiving station may process received signals by phase shifting the signals received via each of the receiving antennas in accordance with the relative phase shifts determined during the phase shifter training process. Signals received via a selected one of the receiving antennas may be unshifted. The processed signals may be combined to generate a diversity reception signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventor: Mark Gonikberg
  • Publication number: 20140242933
    Abstract: One aspect of the present invention includes an RF including a first mixer receiving an RF signal. A second mixer also receivers the RF signal. A resonant circuit couples to a common input of the first mixer and the second mixer. A second polyphase reactive circuit coupled to an output of the second mixer. In one embodiment, a direct current circuit coupled to the output of the first mixer, injecting direct current into the system. The resonant circuit is set at a resonance frequency such that a voltage across the second polyphase reactive circuit is a predetermined voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: MStar Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas McKay, Jonathan Gowing
  • Patent number: 8818313
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of communication technologies and discloses a method and an apparatus for auto gain control (AGC) in a radio receiver, which can ensure that a radio frequency device, an analog device, and various nodes in a digital domain are non-saturated and that useful signal power is adjusted to a certain power level. According to the present invention, total signal power on an air interface is subtracted from a preset first target power to obtain an analog auto gain control (AAGC) gain, and then a second target power is subtracted from an interference signal power in a digital baseband to obtain a digital auto gain control (DAGC) gain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jianhua Qin, Junshi Chen, Yunbao Zeng
  • Patent number: 8818338
    Abstract: A single platform for the provision of multiple services over a cellular telephone network, comprises a generic definition of a cellular service, which is designed to take specific service-defining parameters, and a parameter setting mechanism for inputting respective service defining parameters to the generic definition, thereby to implement a desired service through the generic definition. The platform thus provides an infrastructure to support numerous services, and reduces the development time for individual services since they can be added as plug-ins to the platform using the generic definition which is shared.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Yoad Gidron, Shai Kapon, Yaron Gur-Ari, Benny Reich
  • Patent number: 8817861
    Abstract: A complex condition determination unit is provided, having an error-pulse switching determination unit which outputs, as error-pulse determination information, information indicating whether an accumulated value of the number of error pulses is equal to or greater than a predetermined error-pulse threshold value; a CNR (carrier to noise ratio) modulation scheme determination unit which outputs, as CNR determination information, a modulation scheme determined in accordance with CNR information indicating the CNR of the received signal; an RSL (receive signal level) modulation scheme determination unit which outputs, as RSL determination information, a modulation scheme determined in accordance with RSL information indicating the RSL of the received signal; and a complex modulation scheme determination unit which determines the modulation scheme for the transmission source, in accordance with the error-pulse determination information, the CNR determination information, the RSL determination information, and the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Mitsuhiro Honda
  • Patent number: 8812641
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus includes a processing unit for processing data, including receiving data packets from a sender and sending acknowledgements to the sender, the processing unit having a first and second mode of operation, the second mode of operation requires more power than the first mode, and the processing unit switches between the first and second modes of operation based on a processing load; a metric module for determining a metric indicative of the processing load; an acknowledgement module for sending one acknowledgement in respect of n received data packets; and an acknowledgement configuration module for setting n to be a value m greater than a first predetermined value if the metric lies in a predetermined range that includes a value that the metric assumes when the processing unit switches between the first mode of operation and the second mode of operation, and to the first predetermined value otherwise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventor: Jean-Luc Robin
  • Patent number: 8798195
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of generating codebook in a wireless communication system with multiple antenna arrays, as well as a wireless communication system, base station and terminal using the codebook for communication. The method comprises steps of: providing a basic codebook which contains multiple pre-coding matrices; and assigning phase offsets to certain pre-coding matrices in the basic codebook to form a codebook with phase offset. The feedback overhead from a client to a base station side is reduced and a good precision of feedback for multi-antenna array is kept by applying the method of generating codebook and using the generated codebook in the wireless communication system, base station and terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Hui Tong, Masayuki Hoshino, Ming Xu, Seigo Nakao, Daichi Imamura
  • Patent number: 8792844
    Abstract: An electronic circuit arrangement for receiving low-frequency electromagnetic waves is proposed, having an inductor (L) acting as an antenna for generating a received signal, having a first receiver (2), connected to the inductor (L), for decoding a first component of the received signal and having a second receiver (3), connected to the inductor (L), for decoding a second component of the received signal, wherein at least the second receiver (3) is connected to the inductor (L) via an attenuator element (4) having adjustable attenuation, wherein at least one adjustment signal generation circuit (5, 6) is provided for generating an adjustment signal corresponding to a voltage of the received signal which is fed to the attenuator element (4) for adjusting the attenuation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Maxim Integrated Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Rahim Akbari-Dilmaghani