Frequency Or Phase Modulation Patents (Class 455/42)
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Patent number: 7921183Abstract: A communication system includes a storage device having a storage area accessed in one of a page unit and a sector unit; a control device operable to request access to data in a file unit; and a predetermined transmission line for transmitting data between the storage device and the control device. The control device transmits to the storage device via the transmission line a request for access to one of each page and each sector forming a file for which access has been requested, and the storage device sequentially accesses one of a requested page and a requested sector, whereby a request for access to the entire file is realized in the storage area.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2005Date of Patent: April 5, 2011Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Hirofumi Kawamura
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Publication number: 20110076952Abstract: This invention describes a programmable, digital implementation to shift an arbitrary frequency, or various frequencies in various communication systems of the original signal in the frequency domain. The correspondent phase accumulation to perform the desired frequency shift per sampling instant is perfectly tracked by counting up or down a simple integer. Several arbitrary frequency shifters with different mathematical models are provided. The correspondent implementations with Look-Up-Tables (LUT) are derived for high-speed implementations without further calculations of the values of the sine and cosine functions every sampling instant. Furthermore, a simple shift-and-add phase rotation is described to replace the four required real multiplications. If the original complex signal contains only one-bit each from real part and imaginary part, a surprisingly simple implementation is derived and disclosed for the overall arbitrary frequency shift operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2009Publication date: March 31, 2011Inventor: Jeng-Hong CHEN
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Patent number: 7917093Abstract: A wireless monitoring system using a base station and a child station, includes the base station including a base-station transmitting and a base-station receiving antenna, and the child station including a child-station receiving antenna, a nonlinear, a smoothing circuit, a first high-frequency band-pass filter, an intermediate-frequency band-pass filter, a demodulator, a baseband, a modulator, and a child-station transmitting antenna. The base-station transmitting antenna and the child-station receiving antenna include circularly-polarized antennas which have a same rotating direction, and the child-station transmitting antenna and the base-station receiving antenna include circularly-polarized antennas which have a polarization characteristic rotating in a direction opposite to the base-station transmitting antenna and the child-station receiving antenna.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2007Date of Patent: March 29, 2011Assignee: Hitachi Cable, Ltd.Inventor: Ken Takei
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Patent number: 7917102Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 8, 2007Date of Patent: March 29, 2011Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Kiyotaka Kobayashi, Yutaka Murakami, Masayuki Orihashi
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Patent number: 7904578Abstract: Systems, methods, and equipment for use in the management of network topology and bandwidth for computing networks are provided. In an illustrative implementation of a device acting as a patch panel is provided. The patch panel works on both the physical wire and on the frequencies of the wire to route data to appropriate destination points. For example, both ADSL and telephony could be bridged among copper wires, using several independent busses. Home Phone Network Alliance Association (HPNA) standardized data could either be bridged among wires, or connected to an internal switching device, that would store and forward the native Ethernet packets used by HomePNA in a way similar to that done by Ethernet switches today. Additionally, an Ethernet uplink could attach the HPNA ports to a larger network or to a DSL Modem, and HPNA/ADSL could be removed from wires that might have privacy concerns or otherwise need filters to perform properly.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2003Date of Patent: March 8, 2011Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Thomas Anschutz, Randy S. Zimler
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Patent number: 7885609Abstract: A multimedia mobile communication system and method capable of updating functions of a multimedia mobile communication terminal is provided, wherein the system and method may add to or modify the functions by modifying a software program. The multimedia mobile communication system and method comprises an intermediate frequency processing unit for correcting an error of an intermediate frequency signal through a convolution coding method or a turbo coding method, downloading a software program and allocating, setting, modifying and upgrading specific functions corresponding to the downloaded software program.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2004Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventor: Jae-Wook Yu
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Patent number: 7881669Abstract: A transmitter sets a time length, determines a time point at which phases of frequency signals coincide within a range of the time length, defines a determined time point as a time reference point, aligns the phases of the frequency signals based on the time reference point, combines phase-aligned frequency, and transmits combined frequency signals to a receiver by the time length as the communication signals. The receiver receives the communication signals, extracts the phases of the frequency signals, obtains a time point at which the phases coincide, and determines an obtained time point as the time reference point.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2007Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Assignee: Inter-University Research Institute Corporation/Research Organization of Information and SystemsInventors: Hiromichi Hashizume, Masanori Sugimoto
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Patent number: 7873100Abstract: In a reception apparatus, a matched filter that has conventionally been arranged in a searcher unit is mounted on an acquisition unit together with a large scale memory. The large scale memory once stores reception chip signals, and thereafter outputs them to the matched filter and to the delay profile calculation unit. A setting register receives an acquisition signal and outputs it to the matched filter. The matched filter performs acquisition of the reception chip signals outputted from the large scale memory, and outputs a despread timing signal to a despread circuit, a code generation circuit and the delay profile calculation unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2004Date of Patent: January 18, 2011Assignee: Renesas Electronics CorporationInventor: Masayuki Koyama
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Publication number: 20100330913Abstract: Various embodiments are disclosed relating to wireless systems, and also relating to transmitter amplifiers, such as, for example, polar transmitter amplifiers with variable output power. According to an example embodiment, a circuit is provided including a plurality of selectable amplifier cells. Each amplifier cell may receive a phase or frequency modulated signal and an amplitude modulated signal. Each amplifier cell may output a signal based upon a combination of the received amplitude modulated signal and the received phase or frequency modulated signal if the amplifier cell is selected. The circuit may provide a variable output current or output power based upon the selection of one or more of the amplifier cells.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2010Publication date: December 30, 2010Applicant: BROADCOM CORPORATIONInventor: Alireza Zolfaghari
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Patent number: 7853212Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 21, 2007Date of Patent: December 14, 2010Assignee: Infineon Technologies AGInventor: Stefan van Waasen
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Publication number: 20100311340Abstract: A Method and system for remote power distribution and networking for passive devices is provided. In this regard, a sensor comprising a leaky wave antenna may be powered utilizing energy from a radio frequency signal received via the leaky wave antenna. The sensor may be operable to recover a baseband signal from the received radio frequency signal. The sensor may be operable to generate one or more sensor readings in response to the received baseband signal. The sensor may be operable to communicate the sensor reading to a source of the received radio frequency signal via a backscattered signal. The backscattered signal may be generated by controlling spacing between surfaces of the leaky wave antenna. The backscattered signal may be generated by switching a load in and out of a receive path of the sensor and/or by switching between a plurality of feed points of the leaky wave antenna.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2010Publication date: December 9, 2010Inventors: Ahmadreza Rofougaran, Maryam Rofougaran
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Publication number: 20100311341Abstract: Wireless microphone signals are detected by processing an input signal to determine a number of frequency bins within a channel frequency band having an energy level above a first predefined threshold (S510); identifying locations of the frequency bins having an energy level above the first predefined threshold, when the number of bins is greater than zero (S520, S530); for each frequency bin having an energy level above the first predefined threshold, processing signals within a narrow frequency band of the frequency bin (S570); determining a number of signal peaks within the narrow frequency band that are above a second predefined threshold (S575); and generating a message indicating a presence or an absence of a microphone signal based on the number of signal peaks (S590, S595).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2009Publication date: December 9, 2010Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS, N.V.Inventors: Vasanth R. Gaddam, Monisha Ghosh
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Publication number: 20100304677Abstract: Systems and methods which place a spurious signal within a capture bandwidth of a tuner. Placement of the spur is preferably controlled to dispose the spur within a spur placement window, such as may be defined between traffic channels of an input signal. A tuner system operating in accordance with embodiments may be controlled to select a particular input frequency band comprising a plurality of traffic channels for frequency conversion and to determine local oscillator frequencies which result in most relevant spurs being placed outside of the tuner capture bandwidth. The local oscillator frequencies may be shifted to place a relevant spur remaining within the capture bandwidth of the tuner between traffic channels of the plurality of traffic channels. Embodiments operate to determine frequency offset between a transmitter and a tuner to determine the midpoint between channels.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2009Publication date: December 2, 2010Applicant: Microtune, Inc.Inventors: Marius Pop, David Dessert
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Patent number: 7835696Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 11, 2007Date of Patent: November 16, 2010Assignee: Sony Deutschland GmbHInventors: Ralf Bohnke, Seiichi Izumi
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Publication number: 20100285751Abstract: A wireless network connection system remotely connects to a network without the use of crystal reference oscillators. This provides communication at long range using a low transmit Effective Isotropic Radiated Power (EIRP). Operation is obtained through a combination of injection locking the system clock to the fundamental frequency of a remote reference oscillator, injection locking the transmitter to the third harmonic of the remote reference oscillator, a micro-watt RF receiver, and a network connection.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2009Publication date: November 11, 2010Applicant: BAE SYSTEMS INFORMATION AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS INTEGRATION INC.Inventors: Candice L. Brittain, Gary J. Lawrence, Brian M. Tomaselli
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Publication number: 20100279614Abstract: To adaptively switch a modulation mode according to an operation form of quality-priority and capacity-priority in a multi-value applicable radio device having an active/standby configuration. The comparison unit 28a compares a reception monitoring signal c1 of an active transmission line with a lower-limit threshold LS and an upper-limit threshold HS, while the comparison unit 28b compares a reception monitoring signal c2 of a standby transmission line with the lower-limit threshold and the upper-limit threshold. Then, they output their respective results to a determination unit 28c. The determination unit 28c has therein a low-level flag and a high-level flag that are set/reset based on comparison results in the comparison units 28a and 28b. Conditions for the set/reset are different depending on the operation form.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2008Publication date: November 4, 2010Inventors: Takeshi Hagiwara, Kazuhito Souma
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Patent number: 7826800Abstract: The present application describes a method and system for determining a time delay between a transmission and a reception of an RF signal in a noisy environment. The method comprises: transmitting the RF signal; shifting a phase of the RF signal after a first time period of the transmitting of the RF signal, starting at a known transition time; receiving a received RF signal comprising a received phase shift corresponding to the shifting of the phase of the transmitted RF signal, the received phase shift occurring at a receive transition time equivalent to a sum of the time delay and the known transition time; determining the receive transition time by detecting a time corresponding to the received phase shift; and calculating the time delay using the receive transition time and the known transition time.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2007Date of Patent: November 2, 2010Assignee: Orthosoft Inc.Inventor: Jean-Louis Laroche
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Patent number: 7826807Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 13, 2005Date of Patent: November 2, 2010Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Rajiv Laroia, Junyi Li, Frank A. Lane
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Patent number: 7822392Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 7, 2007Date of Patent: October 26, 2010Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventor: Toru Matsuura
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Patent number: 7817962Abstract: Various embodiments are disclosed relating to wireless systems, and also relating to transmitter amplifiers, such as, for example, polar transmitter amplifiers with variable output power. According to an example embodiment, a circuit is provided including a plurality of selectable amplifier cells. Each amplifier cell may receive a phase or frequency modulated signal and an amplitude modulated signal. Each amplifier cell may output a signal based upon a combination of the received amplitude modulated signal and the received phase or frequency modulated signal if the amplifier cell is selected. The circuit may provide a variable output current or output power based upon the selection of one or more of the amplifier cells.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2006Date of Patent: October 19, 2010Assignee: Broadcom CorporationInventor: Alireza Zolfaghari
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Patent number: 7796947Abstract: Provided is a display system for transmitting FM signals to an external audio system having an FM reception function. The display system includes: a tuner for receiving an RF signal and dividing the RF signal into a video signal and an audio signal; an audio processor for receiving the audio signal from the tuner; an FM detector for searching usable channels or unused channels among FM frequency bands of a reception area and transmitting information on the unused channels; a microprocessor for setting at least one of the unused channels as an available channel, the unused channels being provided from the FM detector; a memory for storing the available channel under control of the microprocessor; and an FM transmitter for receiving the audio signal from the audio processor and transmitting the audio signal over at least one channel selected among the channels stored in the memory under control of the microprocessor.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2006Date of Patent: September 14, 2010Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventor: Hong Ki Kim
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Publication number: 20100222001Abstract: A speed parameter or channel quality parameter are determined in a mobile device based on variation in frequency offset measurement. A higher variation in the frequency offset measurement reflects a poorer channel quality and a higher speed; a lower variation in the frequency offset measurement reflects a better channel quality and a lower speed. The parameter(s) may be fed back to the system and used, for example, to make adaptive modulation and coding decisions.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2009Publication date: September 2, 2010Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITEDInventors: Nagula Tharma Sangary, Sean Bartholomew Simmons, David Blaine Dietz, Perry Jarmuszewski, Oleksiy Kravets
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Patent number: 7769358Abstract: A radio system having an improved phase noise characteristic and a thereby improved communication quality, a radio transmitter, and a radio receiver. In the radio system, a radio transmitter (101) transmits a multiplexed signal so multiplexed that a pilot signal transmitted at the center frequency.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2005Date of Patent: August 3, 2010Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Makoto Sasaki, Takashi Enoki, Katsumi Iizuka
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Patent number: 7746939Abstract: A spectral notch modulation technique for encoding information in a signal involves transforming the signal into the frequency domain via a fast Fourier transform (FFT) of length N, such that the signal is represented by N frequency bins, selectively nulling M of the N frequency bins, where nulled combinations of M frequency bins respectively correspond to encoded information bits, transforming the selectively nulled signal to the time domain via an inverse FFT, and transmitting the selectively nulled signal. At the receiving end, the signal is demodulated to recover the encoded information by transforming the signal into the frequency domain via a fast Fourier transform (FFT) of length N, identifying the set of M nulled frequency bins among the N frequency bins, and converting the set of M nulled frequency bins to corresponding information bits.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2005Date of Patent: June 29, 2010Assignee: ITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc.Inventor: Dennis D. McCrady
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Publication number: 20100159836Abstract: An automatic preset following system for use with portable multimedia playback devices. The system uses RDS protocols including, at a minimum, AF and PI. Apparatus include an RDS enabled FM transmitter for use with a portable multimedia playback device, the transmitter having a user interface with buttons for presetting the transmitter to broadcast a signal at preset PM frequencies, and an RDS enabled FM receiver for automatically tuning to the different preset FM frequencies entered into the RDS enabled FM transmitter.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2007Publication date: June 24, 2010Inventors: Francis Lau, John Haggis
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Publication number: 20100112951Abstract: In a radio communication system defining a plurality of bandwidths, mobile terminals of kinds respectively corresponding to the plurality of bandwidths are accommodated in the system, and a minimum transmission bandwidth of the plurality of bandwidths is set as a transmission bandwidth of a downlink common channel. Or, every mobile terminal accommodated in the radio communication system is provided with a capability for processing a bandwidth equal to or greater than a predetermined value, and equal to or more than two transmission bandwidths that are equal to or less than a predetermined value are set as a transmission bandwidth of a downlink common channel. In the latter case, the mobile terminal identifies a bandwidth of a received downlink common channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2006Publication date: May 6, 2010Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Kenichi Higuchi, Hiroyuki Atarashi, Mamoru Sawahashi
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Patent number: 7702295Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for an electronically adjustable signal filter system, which comprises, in some embodiments, a first filter coupled to an antenna coupling network and a second filter, a power amplifier coupled to the first filter, an antenna connected to an antenna coupling network, a pilot tone generator coupled to the first filter, and a first signal source connected to the power amplifier and first filter. In some embodiments, the power amplifier amplifies the first signal, the first filter places a notch into the first signal transmitted to the antenna coupling network, the antenna coupling network combines the first signal and a second signal received from the antenna and transmits a third signal to the second filter.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2006Date of Patent: April 20, 2010Assignee: Nortel Networks LimitedInventors: Charles Nicholls, Alain Roussel
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Publication number: 20100093281Abstract: A wireless access node provides a wireless communication service to a plurality of wireless communication devices over a first frequency band class, where a set of the wireless communication devices are currently in idle mode. A node control system detects a condition for the first frequency band class, and in response, transitions a subset of the wireless communication devices that are currently in idle mode to a second frequency band class. The wireless access node then provides the wireless communication service to the subset of the wireless communication devices over the second frequency band class.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2008Publication date: April 15, 2010Applicant: Sprint Communications Company L.P.Inventors: Bhagwan Singh Khanka, Anoop Kumar Goyal, Hemanth Balaji Pawar, Shilpa Kowdley Srinivas
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Patent number: 7697627Abstract: A rotary encoder is used to select a transmission frequency for an FM transmitter associated with a portable electronic device such as a cellular telephone, MP3 player or other portable type electronic device. The rotary encoder is turned in a clockwise or counterclockwise direction to raise or lower the transmission frequency of the FM transmitter. Movement of the rotary encoder is translated into a frequency change on a linear, circular or exponential basis by a microprocessor. The transmission frequency of the FM transmitter is then altered to the selected frequency and the selected frequency is displayed on an LCD screen of the portable electronic device. The rotary encoder may also be used in connection with an accessory for a portable electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2006Date of Patent: April 13, 2010Assignee: Griffin Technology, Inc.Inventor: Paul Griffin
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Publication number: 20100081386Abstract: In a method for communication, first and second signals for timing synchronization are generated. Frequencies of the first and second signals are converted to other frequencies to obtain a first and second RF signals, which have a specific frequency gap therebetween. The first and second RF signals are combined to obtain a transmission signal, and the transmission signal is transmitted. When the transmission signal is received as a received signal, the frequency of the received signal is shifted by the specific frequency gap to obtain a converted signal. A complex conjugation of the converted signal calculated to obtain a complex conjugation signal. The received signal and the complex conjugation signal are multiplied to obtain a multiplication signal to calculate cross-correlation between a product of the first and second signals and the multiplication signal. A peak of the cross-correlation is detected to set a base time for timing synchronization.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2009Publication date: April 1, 2010Inventors: Ren Sakata, Tazuko Tomioka
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Patent number: 7689228Abstract: Various embodiments are described to address the need for providing wireless backhaul that may reduce operator startup costs while avoiding some of the drawbacks present in the prior art approaches. Generally expressed, the wireless network equipment (WNE) (121) of a collector cell provides access to a backhaul network (151) to one or more neighboring cells (122) via in-band wireless signaling. Given the frequency bands used by the collector cell WNE for communication with remote units, one portion of each band used for user traffic while another portion of each band is used for backhaul traffic. Having backhaul and user traffic share the assigned frequency bands can eliminate the need to license additional bands for wireless backhaul. Moreover, utilizing a portion of the existing, in-band orthogonal channels may be more spectrally efficient than using a separate radio in the same band.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2006Date of Patent: March 30, 2010Assignee: Motorola, Inc.Inventor: Gerald P. Labedz
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Publication number: 20100075607Abstract: A method of controlling a wireless communication system including a plurality of communication devices is disclosed. In the method, firstly, one of the communication devices establishes a fixed beam pattern and transmits a training signal, and another communication device receives the training signal while scanning a beam direction by changing the AWVs of an antenna array. Next, it obtains a data string describing a relation between an incoming direction and a received-signal characteristic at the other communication device based on a reception result of the training signal. Then, it obtains first AWVs with which a beam is formed in a plurality of incoming directions of the received signal based on the data string. The roles of these two communication devices are interchanged and similar processes are performed in order to obtain second AWVs, and then one of AWV combinations combining first and second AWVs are used for wireless communication between these communication devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2009Publication date: March 25, 2010Inventors: KENICHI HOSOYA, Kenichi Maruhashi, Naoyuki Orihashi
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Patent number: 7684756Abstract: A wireless multicarrier transmission method wherein subcarriers of the transmission are adaptively modulated. The fading condition of each subcarrier is detected to generate fading channel profile information. Adaptive loading tables are calculated for lower, standard, and higher modulation schemes. One of the adaptive loading tables is selected and those subcarriers having low fading channel profile information are modulated with the lower modulation scheme, subcarriers having medium fading channel profile information are modulated with the standard modulation scheme, and subcarriers having high fading channel profile information are modulated with the higher modulation scheme.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2001Date of Patent: March 23, 2010Assignee: Sony Deutschland GmbHInventors: Ralf Böhnke, Seiichi Izumi
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Patent number: 7684759Abstract: The present invention is a novel device, system, and method for determining the damped natural frequencies of a dynamic system whose characteristics are available in the form of a “frequency response function” FRF. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, the method identifies the dampened natural frequencies associated with the poles and zeros of a transfer function. The method is especially useful for analysis of measurements that contain some degree of contamination due to noise or non-linear effects. It is based on a set of rules that may be more successful than a direct approach based on a least squares criteria.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2007Date of Patent: March 23, 2010Assignee: Siemens Industry, Inc.Inventor: Stephen J. Yutkowitz
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Publication number: 20100062716Abstract: A wireless communication device including a controller communicably coupled to a transceiver. In one embodiment, the controller generates a QPSK sequence having multiple elements wherein each element includes real and imaginary parts. In another embodiment, the sequence is selected from a groups of sequences stored on a user terminal. Thereafter, the controller generates a reference signal based on the information representative of the selected QPSK sequence.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2008Publication date: March 11, 2010Applicant: MOTOROLA INCInventors: VIJAY NANGIA, BRIAN K. CLASSON, HYEJUNG JUNG
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Patent number: 7672642Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate to uplink communication in a GSM/EDGE telecommunication system. A method according to certain embodiments of the invention include at least one wide-band carrier wave in the group of carrier waves being generated in a mobile station by applying linear modulation at a first modulation symbol rate, the first modulation symbol rate being a multiple of a second modulation symbol rate, while preserving a predefined carrier spacing and allowing the at least one wide-band carrier wave to overlap with at least one adjacent carrier wave.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2005Date of Patent: March 2, 2010Assignee: Nokia CorporaationInventor: Olli Piirainen
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Patent number: 7668509Abstract: A frequency selective leveling loop that performs phase and amplitude control of multiple signals within a phased array structure is disclosed. The leveling loop sensor components are embedded into the array structure. The frequency selective leveling loop can be used with multiple signal amplifiers, and a conventional phase array jamming system can be used to radiate multiple signals simultaneously. The conversion of phase information to baseband eliminates the need for phase matched cables. The frequency selective leveling that is enabled is tolerant of multiple signals and provides the individual signal phase and amplitude feedback by utilizing analytic sampling.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2004Date of Patent: February 23, 2010Assignee: Sensor and Antenna Systems, Lansdale, Inc.Inventor: John S Greeley
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Patent number: 7656960Abstract: In a radio communication system, transmitter and receiver stations share information on a maximum number of bits communicated per symbol. The transmitter station encodes a signal with sufficient error correcting capabilities to create a codeword. The transmitter station allocates the bits from the codeword to each symbol, modulates the symbols using a modulation type which processes symbols each having a number of bits equal to or smaller than the maximum number of bits per symbol, and transmits the modulated symbols. The receiver station demodulates the symbols using a modulation type which processes a larger number of bits per symbol as the transmission path quality is higher from among modulation types which process symbols having a number of bits equal to or smaller than the maximum number of bits per symbol.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2005Date of Patent: February 2, 2010Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi Tamaki, Takashi Yano, Seishi Hanaoka, Toshiyuki Saito
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Patent number: 7650118Abstract: A wireless transmission system is provided. The system includes a wireless transmission apparatus for sending radio signals in a selected frequency and a wireless reception apparatus for receiving the radio signals in the selected frequency and playing audio signals corresponding to the radio signals. The wireless transmission apparatus includes a scan unit for periodically scanning interference frequencies of candidate frequencies, and recording characteristics of each interference frequency; an evaluation value calculating module for calculating an evaluation value of each candidate frequency according to the characteristics of the corresponding interference frequencies; a frequency selection module for choosing one of the candidate frequencies as a current transmission frequency according to the evaluation values; and a transmission unit for sending radio signals in the current transmission frequency. A wireless transmission method is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2006Date of Patent: January 19, 2010Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kuan-Hong Hsieh, Wen-Chuan Lian, Shin-Hong Chung
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Patent number: 7646258Abstract: A system, method and apparatus are described for digitally synthesizing a signal for FM transmission. A complex variable frequency digital IF signal is generated for use by a digital modulator in transmission of a signal with an integrated circuit. In some examples, the integrated circuit includes various baseband processing blocks, an up-sampler, a summer, a numerically controlled oscillator (NCO) and a complex rotator, all arranged in cooperation with one another. The complex variable frequency digital IF signal can be used by a digital quadrature modulator for generation of the synthesized analog RF transmission signal, and optionally for use with an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) scheme.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2008Date of Patent: January 12, 2010Inventor: Lawrence J. Karr
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Patent number: 7636380Abstract: Orthogonal pulse polarity modulation involves wireless communication in which the polarity of modulating pulses are set responsive to positive and negative character values of a corresponding code sequence. In a described implementation, data is converted to chip waveforms, spectrum lines are removed, and pulses are appropriately shaped. For example, a data bit stream may be converted into chip waveforms using a bit stream-to-symbol segmenter, a symbol-to-code sequence mapper, and a code sequence-to-chip waveform transformer. The polarities of respective individual chips in a given chip waveform match the signs of respective individual characters in a corresponding code sequence.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2004Date of Patent: December 22, 2009Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Richard Yuqi Yao, Zihua Guo, Weiyu Xu, Wenwu Zhu
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Publication number: 20090298432Abstract: A base station is operable in a local area communication radio network within the coverage of a wide area communication radio network. The base station comprises a code generator configured to generate an acquisition code, and a modulator configured to modulate the acquisition code onto an acquisition signal to be broadcast by the base station. The acquisition signal is broadcast over a listening channel of the wide area communication radio network. The acquisition code associated with the local area communication radio network is different from all acquisition codes used by the wide area communication radio network.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2008Publication date: December 3, 2009Applicant: Infineon Technologies AGInventor: Thomas Ruprich
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Patent number: 7623827Abstract: A transmission circuit for an RF inductive link, particularly for an implanted device such as a cochlear implant. In a preferred form, the transmission circuit 1 includes a transmitter coil 24 and a damping device, including an auxiliary coil 4 and switch 6. The switch is operated to close the coil circuit when data zeros are transmitted. This has the advantage of improving modulation depth without placing stress on the RF driver output switches.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2004Date of Patent: November 24, 2009Assignee: Cochlear LimitedInventor: Ibrahim Ibrahim
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Patent number: 7620372Abstract: A technology for realizing real-time frequency hopping in an environment containing a plurality of masters. A game machine includes a plurality of communication modules which carry out the frequency hopping, and a control section which controls communication by the communication modules. The control section controls the frequency hopping of at least one communication module to prevent frequency channels used by the plurality of communication modules from temporally overlapping. As a method for achieving the control, for example, a frequency band may be divided, and a divided frequency band may be assigned to each communication module. Alternatively, each communication module may use the same reference hopping pattern by shifting its phase, or may use the reference hopping pattern by adding a predetermined offset.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2004Date of Patent: November 17, 2009Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.Inventor: Yoshio Miyazaki
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Publication number: 20090264074Abstract: An integrated multimode radio includes a multimode receiver and a multimode transmitter. The multimode receiver includes a shared receiver front-end, a receiver multiplexor, and a plurality of receiver IF stages. The multimode transmitter includes a shared transmitter front-end, a transmitter multiplexor, and a plurality of transmitter IF stages.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2009Publication date: October 22, 2009Applicant: BROADCOM CORPORATIONInventors: Hooman Darabi, Brima Ibrahim, Ahmadreza Rofougaran
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Publication number: 20090258599Abstract: A wireless communication system including a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter includes a first mixing module, a phase-locked loop module, reference oscillator, and a second mixing module. The first mixing module is configured to combine a low-frequency data signal and an audio signal, and to generate a first combined signal. The phase-locked loop module is configured to generate a phase error signal based on a reference signal and a frequency modulated signal. The reference oscillator generates the reference signal having a frequency based on the low-frequency data signal. The second mixing module is configured to combine the first combined signal and the phase error signal, and to generate a second combined signal. The transmitter generates the frequency modulated signal based on the second combined signal and transmits the frequency modulated signal. The receiver is configured to receive the frequency modulated signal, and extract the low-frequency data signal and the audio signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2009Publication date: October 15, 2009Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBHInventor: Bob Basine
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Patent number: 7603080Abstract: A wireless headphone device may include a receiver for receiving a wireless digital signal containing a plurality of digital audio streams combined with control codes according to a predetermined format, a manually operated selector switch for selecting one or more of the plurality of digital audio streams to be produced as audio for the user, and a decoder for extracting the selected audio streams from the received signal in accordance with the predetermined format and for responding to the control codes in the received signal to perform predetermined functions.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2006Date of Patent: October 13, 2009Inventors: Lawrence Richenstein, Michael A. Dauk, Robert J. Withoff
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Publication number: 20090253375Abstract: The invention relates to the establishment of a radio link using at least two spatial modes (in other words at least horizontal and vertical or right and left circular modes) by means of corresponding antennae or a line link using at least three conductors and the use of at least one transmission oscillator and no oscillator on the reception side, wherein the transmitter has amplitude and/or phase and/or frequency modulation and the at least two different polarized modes are received by means of at least two antennae and processed by one or more multipliers, mixers, phase comparators, frequency comparators, or power detectors.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2006Publication date: October 8, 2009Applicant: FACHHOCHSCHULE AACHENInventor: Holger Heuermann
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Patent number: 7599887Abstract: A method and system for prepaying roaming minutes including crediting a user's account with prepaid roaming minutes at a discounted rate. The roaming minutes are subtracted from the user's account when calls are made outside the home calling area defined by the user's calling plan. Software for implementing the method may be implemented in a number of environments, including a computer system accessible remotely or a processor located on the user's telephone.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2001Date of Patent: October 6, 2009Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventor: Shannon M. Short
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Patent number: 7593737Abstract: A disclosed transportation management system includes a database including operational information and operator information that correspond to a target object, a transmission control part for transmitting a transmission radio wave to an information storage medium attached to the target object and a reception control part for receiving a reception radio wave, including identification information of the target object, from the information storage medium, a transport information obtaining part for obtaining transport information of the target object, an operational information retrieving part for retrieving the operational information from the database in accordance with the identification information of the target object, an information comparing part for comparing the transport information of the target object and the operational information, a notification information generating part for generating notification information indicative of the result of the comparison; and a notification information transmittingType: GrantFiled: September 2, 2005Date of Patent: September 22, 2009Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Tetsuo Noji, Yoshihiro Sugiyama, Wakoh Hamada, Hideki Kawashima, Hideo Sakurai, Atsushi Kutami, Tatsuro Saitoh