Phase Shift Keying Or Quadrature Amplitude Demodulator Patents (Class 329/304)
  • Patent number: 11984963
    Abstract: A radio device receives data from a base station that transmits a first radio signal, carrying a first data block, in a first time window, and a second radio signal, also carrying the first data block, in a different, second time window. The radio device comprises first and second antennas, receive circuitry, and a switch for selectively connecting the receive circuitry to the first antenna or to the second antenna. It is configured to sample the first radio signal, received by the first antenna in the first time window, to generate first sampled data; disconnect the first antenna from the receive circuitry and connect the second antenna; sample the second radio signal, received by the second antenna in the second time window, to generate second sampled data; and use both the first sampled data and the second sampled data to decode the first data block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Nordic Semiconductor ASA
    Inventor: Mauri Nissilä
  • Patent number: 11971439
    Abstract: A fault detection device executes a test signal supply process for changing a frequency of a carrier wave within a frequency range predetermined as a range of a resonance frequency of an antenna, modulating the carrier wave with a test signal as an input signal, amplifying the carrier wave that is modulated, and supplying the carrier wave that is amplified as an output target signal to the antenna. While executing the test signal supply process, the fault detection device measures an antenna current corresponding to the frequency each time the frequency of the carrier wave is changed The fault detection device detects a fault caused by a difference or a change in a characteristic of the antenna by using a value of the antenna current on a larger side among the antenna currents measured during the test signal supply process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Bunsei Murakami
  • Patent number: 11949497
    Abstract: An optical network communication system utilizes a passive optical network including an optical hub having an optical line terminal, downstream transmitter, an upstream receiver, a processor, and a multiplexer. The upstream receiver includes a plurality of TWDMA upstream subreceivers. The system includes a power splitter for dividing a coherent optical signal from the optical hub into a plurality of downstream wavelength signals, a long fiber to carry the coherent optical signal between the optical hub and the power splitter, and a plurality of serving groups. Each serving group includes a plurality of optical network units configured to (i) receive at least one downstream wavelength signal, and (ii) transmit at least one upstream wavelength signal. The system includes a plurality of short fibers to carry the downstream and upstream wavelength signals between the power splitter and the optical network units, respectively. Each upstream subreceiver receives a respective upstream wavelength signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhensheng Jia, Luis Alberto Campos, Curtis Dean Knittle
  • Patent number: 11943085
    Abstract: A circuit includes a polar transmitter to generate a radio frequency output from amplitude and phase signal components. The polar transmitter includes an amplifier to combine amplitude and phase signal components. A processor is coupled to the polar transmitter to provide the amplitude and phase signal components. The processor includes: a digital modulation circuit to generate a modulated digital signal including in-phase and quadrature signal components and a correction circuit to calculate and apply a complex digital offset for local oscillator feedthrough of the amplifier. The complex digital offset includes an in-phase offset correction factor and a quadrature offset correction factor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wael Al-Qaq, Xiaobao Yu, Zhihang Zhang, Min Yi
  • Patent number: 11934908
    Abstract: A device for detection of a signal of passive RFID chips comprises an antenna for transmitting a source radio signal and receiving a RFID chip radio signal. A signal processed by a peak detector is fed to an input of first and second parallel branches. An output of these branches is connected to a computing unit. The first and second branches each comprise a filter and a bit decoder. The filter and bit decoder of the first and second branches each processes a signal modulated by first and second types of modulation. The computing unit comprises at least first and second modules connected in parallel comprising a protocol for detection of a signal processed by the protocol, wherein the first and second module protocols are different.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Y Soft Corporation
    Inventors: Vladislav Kasík, Pavel Stan{hacek over (e)}k
  • Patent number: 11838157
    Abstract: A signal processing device including an acquisition unit configured to acquire signal waveform data corresponding to a frequency signal, a generation unit configured to generate a sine wave and a cosine wave of demodulation waveform data having a demodulation frequency between the first frequency and the second frequency, a first phase calculation unit configured to calculate a first phase based on a multiplication result of the sine wave and the signal waveform data at a first time and a multiplication result of the cosine wave and the signal waveform data at the first time, a second phase calculation unit configured to calculate a second phase based on a multiplication result of the sine wave and the signal waveform data at a second time advanced from the first time by a specified time interval less than one cycle of the demodulation frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideaki Emoto, Mitsuyuki Shirae
  • Patent number: 11789607
    Abstract: A system includes an electronic display to display a virtual keyboard and a processor communicatively coupled to the electronic display. In some embodiments, the virtual keyboard includes a plurality of keys. In certain embodiments, the electronic display receives a first string of erased characters and a second string of replacement characters. In certain embodiments, the processor compares the first string and the second string to determine a difference at corresponding character locations of the first string and the second string. In some embodiments, the processor increments a counter based on the comparison, the counter corresponding to a first character of the first string and a second character of the second string. In certain embodiments, the processor adjusts at least one of the plurality of keys of the virtual keyboard in response to the counter meeting a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Roland P. Wooster, Alexander Conrad Erdman
  • Patent number: 11775589
    Abstract: Generally, the present disclosure is directed to systems and methods of quantizing a database with respect to a novel loss or quantization error function which applies a weight to an error measurement of quantized elements respectively corresponding to the datapoints in the database. The weight is determined based on the magnitude of an inner product between the respective datapoints and a query compared therewith. In contrast to previous work, embodiments of the proposed loss function are responsive to the expected magnitude of an inner product between the respective datapoints and a query compared therewith and can prioritize error reduction for higher-ranked pairings of the query and the datapoints. Thus, the systems and methods of the present disclosure provide solutions to some of the problems with traditional quantization approaches, which regard all error as equally impactful.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Ruiqi Guo, David Simcha, Quan Geng, Felix Chern, Sanjiv Kumar, Xiang Wu
  • Patent number: 11689866
    Abstract: Hearing devices capable of performing a self-test as well as a method for automatically testing a hearing device. A hearing device includes a measurement bridge circuit connected to the receiver of the hearing device in parallel with the audio amplifier of the hearing device. A method for self-testing a hearing device includes the steps of i) disabling the audio amplifier connected to the receiver, in particular by putting the amplifier in a high impedance state, ii) applying with a measurement bridge circuit a direct current (DC) and/or an alternating current (AC) to the receiver, iii) measuring with the measurement bridge circuit (5) a voltage at the receiver, and iv) detecting a presence or absence of a fault condition based on the measured voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: SONOVA AG
    Inventor: Fethi Cherigui
  • Patent number: 11646742
    Abstract: A phase-locked loop (PLL) device includes a first phase detector to receive an in-phase reference clock and an in-phase feedback clock, the first phase detector to output a first phase error; a second phase detector to receive a quadrature reference clock and a quadrature feedback clock, the second phase detector to output a second phase error; a proportional path component to generate first current pulses from the first phase error and second current pulses from the second phase error; an integrator circuit coupled to the proportional path component, the integrator circuit to sum, within a current output signal, the first current pulses and the second current pulses; a ring oscillator to be driven by the current output signal; and a pair of phase interpolators coupled to an output of the ring oscillator, the pair of phase interpolators to respectively generate the in-phase feedback clock and the quadrature feedback clock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Yi-Chieh Huang, Ying Wei, Bo-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 11522606
    Abstract: It is an object to enable offline measurement with a high SN ratio of the phase of scattered light of an optical fiber to be measured in an optical receiving system for real-time measurement (direct measurement). The phase measurement method according to the present invention performs coherent detection of scattered light using a 90-degree optical hybrid, obtains an estimated quadrature component value by averaging a measured quadrature component value that is directly measured and a calculated quadrature component value obtained by Hilbert transforming a measured in-phase component value that is directly measured, obtains an estimated in-phase component value by averaging the measured in-phase component value and a calculated in-phase component value obtained by inverse Hilbert transforming the measured quadrature component value, and calculates the phase of scattered light based on the estimated quadrature component value and the estimated in-phase component value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Wakisaka, Daisuke Iida, Keiji Okamoto, Hiroyuki Oshida
  • Patent number: 11522573
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a transceiver apparatus having phase-tracking mechanism. A phase detection circuit of a receiver circuit performs sampling and phase detection on an input data signal according to a sampling clock signal to generate a phase detection result. A proportional gain circuit of the receiver circuit applies a proportional gain operation on the phase detection result to generate a phase adjusting signal. A CDR circuit of the receiver circuit receives a source clock signal to generate the sampling clock signal and performs phase-adjusting according to the phase adjusting signal. The integral gain circuit apples an integral gain operation on the phase detection result to generate a frequency adjusting signal. The source clock generating circuit receives a reference clock signal to generate the source clock signal and perform frequency-adjusting according to the frequency adjusting signal. The transmitter circuit performs signal transmission according to the source clock signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yao-Chia Liu, Chi-Kung Kuan
  • Patent number: 11454696
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a millimeter-wave system includes a first circuit having M channels, one or more antennas coupled to the first circuit, and a controller that includes a resource scheduler module. The controller is configured to operate the millimeter-wave system as a radar device and as a communication device based on an output of the resource scheduler module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Ivan Tsvelykh, Ashutosh Baheti, Samo Vehovc, Avik Santra
  • Patent number: 11424725
    Abstract: The present invention, a Digital Power Amplifier (DPA) with filtered output relates to the transmission circuitry of wireless communications systems and more particularly to high frequency power amplifier circuits using digital intensive techniques on cost efficient semiconductor technologies. Today, we experience an ever-increasing need for low cost, low power wireless transmitters in the millimeter wavelength region. Current solutions rely on analog PA circuits. The background art does not contain a solution for bridging the gap between the operation frequencies of the digital circuits on a cost-efficient technology such as CMOS and the millimeter wavelength transmission frequencies demanded in numerous applications. The DPA allowing the direct feeding of digital data to a high frequency amplifying circuit. In this way, design challenging and costly analog processing up-conversion stages are avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: ARGO SEMICONDUCTORS FS LTD (HE 359654)
    Inventors: Konstantinos Vrysas, Emmanouil Frantzeskakis, Georgios Sfikas
  • Patent number: 11362756
    Abstract: An optical network communication system utilizes a passive optical network including an optical hub having an optical line terminal, downstream transmitter, an upstream receiver, a processor, and a multiplexer. The upstream receiver includes a plurality of TWDMA upstream subreceivers. The system includes a power splitter for dividing a coherent optical signal from the optical hub into a plurality of downstream wavelength signals, a long fiber to carry the coherent optical signal between the optical hub and the power splitter, and a plurality of serving groups. Each serving group includes a plurality of optical network units configured to (i) receive at least one downstream wavelength signal, and (ii) transmit at least one upstream wavelength signal. The system includes a plurality of short fibers to carry the downstream and upstream wavelength signals between the power splitter and the optical network units, respectively. Each upstream subreceiver receives a respective upstream wavelength signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhensheng Jia, Luis Alberto Campos, Curtis Dean Knittle
  • Patent number: 11290132
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a data decoding circuit. A data reforming circuit receives encoded data encoded by using tail-biting convolutional code to identify a first unknown bit section, a known bit section and a second unknown bit section in an order to further connect the second unknown bit section and the first unknown bit section in series to generate data to be decoded. A decoding circuit decodes the data to be decoded by using Viterbi algorithm and at least one piece of known bit information to generate a decoded result that includes a second decoded bit section and a first decoded bit section respectively corresponding to the second unknown bit section and the first unknown bit section. A data restoring circuit connects the first decoded bit section, a known decoded bit section corresponding to the known bit section and the second decoded bit section in series to generate decoded data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Feng-Xiang Wang, Jyun-Wei Pu
  • Patent number: 11277289
    Abstract: A demodulation unit for recovering a transmitted symbol from a received signal that has been modulated using an MDPSK modulation scheme is described. The demodulation unit is configured to, for a current time instant, derive a current sample of a phase signal indicative of a phase of the received signal. Furthermore, the demodulation unit is configured to determine a set of discrimination signals for the current sample of the phase signal, based on the current sample of the phase signal and based on one or more previous samples of the phase signal for one or more previous time instants. In addition, the demodulation unit is configured to determine the transmitted symbol for the current time instant based on the set of discrimination signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Dialog Semiconductor B.V.
    Inventor: Hamed Kenawy
  • Patent number: 11248910
    Abstract: A method of demodulating a MEMS sensor pickoff signal from a vibrating resonator of said sensor, the method comprising: sampling the pickoff signal with an asynchronous ADC at a sampling rate of at least 50 times the resonant frequency of the resonator to generate a stream of samples; generating a first value by combining samples from said stream of samples according to a selected operation, said operation being selected in dependence on a synchronous clock signal that is synchronous to the resonant frequency of the resonator, said synchronous clock signal having a frequency at least twice the resonant frequency of the resonator; and counting the number of samples contributing to the first value. The increased sampling rate of the pickoff signal allows a much higher number of samples to be taken into account, thereby reducing noise. However, the ADC asynchronously from the resonator of the MEMS sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: ATLANTIC INERTIAL SYSTEMS LIMITED
    Inventors: John Keith Sheard, Matthew Williamson
  • Patent number: 11179559
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for wireless power transfer and communications are provided. In one embodiment, a wireless power transfer system comprises an external transmit resonator configured to transmit wireless power, an implantable receive resonator configured to receive the transmitted wireless power from the transmit resonator, and a user interface device comprising a resonant coil circuit, the resonant coil circuit being configured to receive magnetic communication signals from the transmit resonator or the receive resonator and to display information relating to the magnetic communication signals to a user of the user interface device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: TC1 LLC
    Inventor: John Freddy Hansen
  • Patent number: 11149543
    Abstract: A communication system can include a first transceiver and a second transceiver that can communicate digital baseband data via a direct current (DC) power line bus in the wellbore. One or more of the transceivers includes a demodulator for demodulating the digital baseband data received from the DC power line bus into multiple digital data streams, and includes a digital processor for filtering and applying error correction to the digital data streams to produce a decoded digital data stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Peng Li, Wei Sun, Xiang Tian
  • Patent number: 11101891
    Abstract: An optical communication system that comprises a transmitter adapted to generate a signal by modulating a transmission data as low power consumption symbols of an amplitude modulation format and a monitoring data (MD) as high power consumption symbols of the amplitude modulation format, the MD comprising at least one transmitter parameter and/or at least one receiver parameter of communicating the transmission data. A binary logarithm of a total number of the low power consumption symbols and the high power consumption symbols is a non-integer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nebojsa Stojanovic, Liang Zhang, Cristian Prodaniuc, Jinlong Wei, Changsong Xie
  • Patent number: 11072310
    Abstract: One general aspect includes a system to receive a virtual key at a vehicle, the system includes a memory configured to include a plurality of executable instructions and a processor configured to execute the executable instructions, where the executable instructions enable the processor to establish a dummy short-range wireless communications (SRWC) connection with a mobile computing device; establish a standard SRWC connection with the mobile computing device; receive the virtual key from the mobile computing device through the standard SRWC connection; and where the dummy SRWC connection is configured to cause the mobile computing device to cease attempting to establish one or more additional SRWC connections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventor: Marcelo Lazarini
  • Patent number: 11038496
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an isolator and a signal generation method. The isolator includes an input-side circuit, an output-side circuit and a signal transmission unit. The input-side circuit is configured to receive an input signal and to generate an encoding signal according to the input signal. The signal transmission unit is coupled to the input-side circuit and configured to receive and transmit the encoding signal. The output-side circuit is coupled to the signal transmission unit and configured to receive the encoding signal from the signal transmission unit. The encoding signal includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion is a pulse signal, and the second portion is a non-amplitude encoding signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Hsuan-Yu Tsai, Yuan-Tai Chang
  • Patent number: 11025405
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a multi-channel IM-DD optical transceiver comprising at least one transmitter and a receiver, and a method for equalizing input samples at an adjusted sampling phase using a quality parameter linearly proportional to a BER. The data transmission and reception use a single master channel and slave channels, which have a baud rate equal to or lower than the baud rate of the master channel. A reliable and identical clocking of all the channels is obtained through either the receiver clock of the master channel when they are received from a single transmitter or a reference clock whose frequency is higher than the highest clock frequency amongst all the channels when they are received from a combination of transmitters. An enhanced timing recovery circuit is also provided to select optimized finite impulse response filters, calculate filter coefficients and generate the receiver clock of the master channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nebojsa Stojanovic, Changsong Xie
  • Patent number: 11003283
    Abstract: An embodiment provides a touch sensing device configured to divide one driving cycle into two parts and to summate or subtract touch sensing data regarding respective parts, thereby removing periodic noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: SILICON WORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mohamed Gamal Ahmed Mohamed, Mun Seok Kang, Hee Jin Lee, Jun Seop Lee, Kyung Min Shin
  • Patent number: 10999124
    Abstract: A method for fast link recovery for an Ethernet link is disclosed. The method includes detecting a drop in link quality and performing a first fast retrain sequence, including determining and exchanging THP coefficients based on the drop in link quality. If the performed fast retrain fails to recover the link, a data rate associated with the link is reduced, and a second fast retrain sequence performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Marvell Asia Pte, LTD.
    Inventors: Hossein Sedarat, Ramin Farjadrad, Kamal Dalmia, Ramin Shirani, Seid Alireza Razavi Majomard
  • Patent number: 10964306
    Abstract: Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) systems and methods that reduce latency to improve performance. In certain embodiments the systems sample a noise signal using a sample period to create a stream of digital signal data that is representative of the noise signal. A data transport layer carries the digital signal data to a signal processor. The transport layer temporally organizes the digital signal data to place the digital signal data within an initial phase of a sample period. The remaining phase of the sample period is set to a duration that allows the signal processor to process the digital signal data carried in the initial phase and to output the processed data during the same sample period. In this way, the processing of data occurs within one sample period and the latency is reduced and predictable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: ANALOG DEVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Mikael Mortensen, Melissa Nolet, Khiem Quang Nguyen
  • Patent number: 10958371
    Abstract: An optical network communication system utilizes a passive optical network including an optical hub having an optical line terminal, downstream transmitter, an upstream receiver, a processor, and a multiplexer. The upstream receiver includes a plurality of TWDMA upstream subreceivers. The system includes a power splitter for dividing a coherent optical signal from the optical hub into a plurality of downstream wavelength signals, a long fiber to carry the coherent optical signal between the optical hub and the power splitter, and a plurality of serving groups. Each serving group includes a plurality of optical network units configured to (i) receive at least one downstream wavelength signal, and (ii) transmit at least one upstream wavelength signal. The system includes a plurality of short fibers to carry the downstream and upstream wavelength signals between the power splitter and the optical network units, respectively. Each upstream subreceiver receives a respective upstream wavelength signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhensheng Jia, Luis Alberto Campos, Curtis Dean Knittle
  • Patent number: 10890957
    Abstract: Techniques for low-power USB Type-C receivers with high noise rejection are described herein. In an example embodiment, a USB-enabled device comprises a receiver circuit coupled to a Configuration Channel (CC) line of a USB Type-C subsystem. The receiver circuit is configured to reject the incoming signal even when the incoming signal includes noise with a magnitude of more than 300 mVpp, and to operate in the presence of a VBUS charging current that is compliant with a USB-PD specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Rishi Agarwal, Nicholas Alexander Bodnaruk
  • Patent number: 10887022
    Abstract: An optical transport system configured to compensate nonlinear signal distortions using a backward-propagation algorithm in which some effects of polarization mode dispersion on the nonlinear signal distortions are accounted for by employing two or more different approximations of said effects within the bandwidth of the optical communication signal. In an example embodiment, the corresponding digital signal processor (DSP) is configured to switch between different approximations based on a comparison, with a fixed threshold value, of a difference between frequencies of various optical waves contributing to the nonlinear signal distortions, e.g., through four-wave-mixing processes. In different embodiments, the backward-propagation algorithm can be executed by the transmitter's DSP or the receiver's DSP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: NOKIA OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ronen Dar, Cristian B. Czegledi
  • Patent number: 10880022
    Abstract: Described are methods and circuits for margin testing digital receivers. These methods and circuits prevent margins from collapsing in response to erroneously received data and can thus be used in receivers that employ historical data to reduce intersymbol interference (ISI). Some embodiments detect receive errors for input data streams of unknown patterns and can thus be used for in-system margin testing. Such systems can be adapted to dynamically alter system parameters during device operation to maintain adequate margins despite fluctuations in the system noise environment due to e.g. temperature and supply-voltage changes. Also described are methods of plotting and interpreting filtered and unfiltered error data generated by the disclosed methods and circuits. Some embodiments filter error data to facilitate pattern-specific margin testing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Rambus Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Ho, Vladimir Stojanovic, Bruno W. Garlepp, Fred F. Chen
  • Patent number: 10868548
    Abstract: A PLL device includes a voltage control oscillation unit, an analog/digital converter, a quadrature demodulation unit, a comparison signal output unit, a phase difference detection unit, a loop filter, and a digital/analog converter. The quadrature demodulation unit quadrature-demodulates the digital feedback signal to obtain an in-phase component (I component) and a quadrature-phase component (Q component). The comparison signal has a set frequency of the output signal when the feedback signal is the output signal and has a frequency obtained by dividing the set frequency by the dividing number when the feedback signal is the frequency division signal. The phase difference detection unit obtains a phase difference between the digital feedback signal and the digital comparison signal based on the I component and the Q component of the digital feedback signal and the I component and an Q component of a comparison signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: NIHON DEMPA KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsukasa Kobata, Kazuo Akaike
  • Patent number: 10797788
    Abstract: Techniques for improving the power consumption of a communications device are described. In an example, the communications device generates a first digital signal based at least in part on an analog signal. The communications device also determines a second digital signal that corresponds to a predefined direct current (DC) signal. Further, the communications device generates a third digital signal based at least in part on the first digital signal and the second digital signal and compares a power estimate of the third digital signal with a power threshold. The power threshold is defined based at least in part on the predefined DC signal. The communications device determines that the analog signal corresponds to a data packet based at least in part on an outcome of the comparing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Jung Joo Lee
  • Patent number: 10785079
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided. The method includes receiving a reference signal from a transceiver, estimating a time offset (TO) of the reference signal in the frequency domain based on a spectral phase ramp introduced by the TO, compensating the TO of the reference signal based on the estimated TO in the frequency domain by applying the spectral phase ramp to the received reference signal, and providing a TO compensated signal of the reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Amir Dezfooliyan, Vignesh Sethuraman, Hamed Maleki, Linbo Li, Kee-Bong Song
  • Patent number: 10778496
    Abstract: An OFDM system synchronization tracking method includes: A1: performing OFDM symbol segmentation on a received digital signal, performing FFT on OFDM symbols obtained through the segmentation, performing step A2 to A5 on each frequency domain OFDM symbol in a frequency domain OFDM symbol sequence; A2: extracting information subcarrier symbols, pilot symbols, a DC subcarrier from a current frequency domain OFDM symbol, detecting and implementing a decision on the information subcarrier symbols, generating a recovery information subcarrier symbol; A3: recovering the OFDM symbol; A4: performing frequency offset estimation and timing offset estimation on the recovery OFDM symbol; A5: performing phase compensation on a next frequency domain OFDM symbol in the frequency domain OFDM symbol sequence by using a frequency offset estimation phase rotation value and a timing offset estimation phase rotation value, setting the compensated frequency domain OFDM symbol to a current frequency domain OFDM symbol, returning to
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: ALLWINNER TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jiajun Zhu
  • Patent number: 10760893
    Abstract: The present invention related to an apparatus and method for master slave interferometry, referred to as Complex Master Slave (CMS). The method and apparatus can be used to provide complex-valued measurements of a signal reflected from an axial position inside an object or of signals reflected from points at several axial positions inside an object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF KENT
    Inventors: Adrian Podoleanu, Sylvain Rivet, Adrian Bradu, Michael Maria
  • Patent number: 10721092
    Abstract: Disclosed is a high-speed controller area network (CAN) communication system, which is compatible with a CAN communication system, using passband modulation. The system includes: a high-speed CAN controller configured to provide a standard CAN transmission bit stream and a high-speed CAN transmission bit stream; and a high-speed CAN transmitter configured to synthesize a passband CAN signal obtained by modulating the high-speed CAN transmission bit stream in a passband and a standard CAN signal based on the standard CAN transmission bit stream and to transmit it to a CAN bus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: VSI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Suwon Kang
  • Patent number: 10650309
    Abstract: High dynamic range, high class count, high input rate winner-take-all on neuromorphic hardware is provided. In some embodiments, a plurality of thermometer codes are received by a neurosynaptic core. The plurality of thermometer codes are split into a plurality of intervals. One of the plurality of intervals is selected. A local maximum is determined within the one of the plurality of intervals. A global maximum is determined based on the local maximum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Alexander Andreopoulos, Steven K. Esser, Jeffrey A. Kusnitz
  • Patent number: 10613577
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a detection signal generation circuit generating a detection signal by detecting a phase difference of an input signal and an internal clock, and generating delayed input signals by delaying the input signal. The semiconductor device further includes an output enable signal generation circuit outputting an output enable signal by selecting one of the delayed input signals in response to the detection signal and latching the selected one of the delayed input signals in synchronization with the internal clock. The output enable signal may initiate a data transfer operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Hak Song Kim, Dong Kyun Kim, Dong Uk Lee
  • Patent number: 10581653
    Abstract: A local oscillator outputs a local oscillation signal. A orthogonal detector subjects a received signal to orthogonal detection by using the local oscillation signal so as to output an I-phase baseband signal and a Q-phase baseband signal. A first HPF and a second HPF reduce a direct current component of each of the I-phase baseband signal and the Q-phase baseband signal. A demodulator demodulates the I-phase baseband signal and the Q-phase baseband signal output from the first HPF and the second HPF. A distribution detector detects an unevenness in a distribution of the I-phase baseband signal and the Q-phase baseband signal with the reduced direct current component. When the distribution detector detects an unevenness in the distribution, the distribution detector changes a status of the first HPF and the second HPF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: JVCKENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasuhide Okuhata
  • Patent number: 10541721
    Abstract: Aspects of this disclosure relate to transmitting and/or receiving a frequency-shift keying signal including a packet that includes a preamble and a payload. The preamble has a first modulation index that has a smaller magnitude than a second modulation index of the payload. This can enhance frequency correction in a receive device that receives the packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: Analog Devices Global Unlimited Company
    Inventors: Michael W. O'Brien, Sudarshan Onkar
  • Patent number: 10511470
    Abstract: A transmission device includes: a data symbol generation unit; a static sequence generation unit generating a sequence of static symbols; a multiplexing unit generating a block signal in which static symbols are arranged in leading and trailing parts, while data symbols are arranged in a central part; a DFT unit transforming the block signal to a frequency-domain signal; a band reduction processing unit removing a predetermined number of signals in parts of both ends from the block signal after having been transformed to a frequency-domain signal; an interpolation processing unit performing interpolation processing on the block signal after a predetermined number of signals in parts of both ends have been removed; an IDFT unit transforming the block signal after having undergone the interpolation processing to a time-domain signal; and a transmission unit transmitting the block signal after having been transformed to a time-domain signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Fumihiro Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 10476998
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to techniques and apparatus for increasing decoding performance and/or reducing decoding complexity. A transmitter may divide data of a codeword into two or more sections and then calculate redundancy check information (e.g., a cyclic redundancy check or a parity check) for each section and attach the redundancy check information to the codeword. A decoder of a receiver may decode each section of the codeword and check the decoding against the corresponding redundancy check information. If decoding of a section fails, the decoder may use information regarding section(s) that the decoder successfully decoded in re-attempting to decode the section(s) that failed decoding. In addition, the decoder may use a different technique to decode the section(s) that failed decoding. If the decoder is still unsuccessful in decoding the section(s), then the receiver may request retransmission of the failed section(s) or of the entire codeword.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jamie Menjay Lin, Yang Yang, Joseph Binamira Soriaga
  • Patent number: 10469187
    Abstract: A system and method for detecting passive intermodulation (PIM) interference in cellular networks are provided that do not require the base station or any sectors of it to be taken offline, that eliminate the need for a technician to make a visit to the cellular site to perform PIM testing, that enable multiple uplink connections to be remotely tested simultaneously, that enable cellular networks to be tested that do not have an accessible connection point to the RF chain, and that enable gradually deteriorating performance due to PIM interference and intermittent PIM interference problems to be detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Keysight Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Alan Anderson
  • Patent number: 10469030
    Abstract: Systems and methods for synchronous demodulation using passive sampled analog filtering are disclosed. A system for synchronous demodulation includes an input channel for accepting an input signal, a first passive sampled analog filter for filtering the input signal, a mixer for mixing the filtered input signal and outputting a mixed signal, a second passive sampled analog filter for filtering the mixed signal, and an output channel for outputting the filtered mixed signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: ANALOG DEVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Eric G. Nestler, Christopher Lynn Magruder, John Brian Harrington
  • Patent number: 10461796
    Abstract: A multimode receiving device configured to receive a standard Bluetooth data packet and a physical layer data packet with enhanced performance, can include: a receiving circuit configured to convert a received radio frequency signal to a baseband modulated signal; a demodulation circuit configured to select a demodulation scheme that conforms to a Bluetooth standard or one of a plurality of despread demodulation schemes, in order to demodulate the baseband modulated signal; and the plurality of despread demodulation schemes being configured to correspond to a plurality of predetermined spread-spectrum modulation schemes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Silergy Semiconductor Technology (Hangzhou) LTD
    Inventor: Junjie Qiao
  • Patent number: 10382244
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided. The method includes receiving a reference signal from a transceiver, estimating a time offset (TO) of the reference signal in the frequency domain based on an accumulation of subcarriers before cross-correlation, providing a TO compensated signal of the reference signal based on the estimated TO in the frequency domain, transforming the TO compensated signal into the time domain, and estimating a frequency offset (FO) based on the time domain TO compensated signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Amir Dezfooliyan, Vignesh Sethuraman, Hamed Maleki, Linbo Li, Kee-Bong Song
  • Patent number: 10374718
    Abstract: An I component compensation unit calculates an I component in which a distortion has been compensated, by forming a first polynomial expressing the distortion of the I component based on an I component and a Q component of a quadrature modulation signal and multiplying each term of the first polynomial by a first coefficient. A Q component compensation unit calculates a Q component in which a distortion has been compensated, by forming a second polynomial expressing the distortion of the Q component based on the I component and the Q component of the quadrature modulation signal and multiplying each term of the second polynomial by a second coefficient. A coefficient calculation unit calculates the first and second coefficients by comparing outputs of the I component compensation unit and the Q component compensation unit and a known signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignees: NTT ELECTRONICS CORPORATION, NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuharu Onuma, Etsushi Yamazaki, Hiroyuki Nouchi, Tomohiro Takamuku, Katsuichi Oyama, Kazuhito Takei, Masanori Nakamura, Mitsuteru Yoshida, Masahito Tomizawa
  • Patent number: 10326632
    Abstract: A synchronizing radio receiver is disclosed, comprising: an analog baseband receive chain and a digital baseband receive chain. The digital baseband receive chain may comprise an analog to digital converter, a frame synchronization module, a frequency synchronization module, and an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) demodulator, wherein the frequency synchronization module is configured to cross-correlate a plurality of in-phase and quadrature samples to generate a synchronization signal and output the synchronization signal to a local oscillator in the analog baseband receive chain. The digital baseband receive chain may also further comprise a carrier frequency offset (CFO)/sampling frequency offset (SFO) correction module coupled to a frequency synchronization module configured to cross-correlate a plurality of in-phase and quadrature samples, with the CFO/SFO correction module configured to apply correction in a digital domain before outputting a corrected signal to the OFDM demodulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: PhasorLab, Inc.
    Inventors: Jian Cui, Joshua C. Park
  • Patent number: 10320596
    Abstract: Circuit and method for modulating filter coefficients of a frequency channelizer having a filter bank include: receiving a wide spectrum input signal; modulating the filter coefficients of the filter bank to sweep a center frequency of each channel of the frequency channelizer, using a modulation scheme; and inputting frequency offset compensation caused by the modulation, and output signals of the frequency channelizer to an application processing circuit to convert the output signals to their original center frequencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Daniel Thompson, Harry B. Marr