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20080198950 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING ABNORMAL SIGN - There is provided with a method including: acquiring string data made up of a plurality of monitoring items from an apparatus to be monitored at predetermined or arbitrary time intervals; storing each acquired string data in a storage temporarily; calculating an average and variation for each of the monitoring items and correlation information indicating a correlation between the monitoring items by using each string data stored in the storage; normalizing the acquired string data by using the average and the variation of each monitoring item; calculating a distance from the correlation information for normalized string data by carrying out a computation using the normalized string data and the correlation information; and deciding whether or not there is an abnormal sign in the apparatus to be monitored depending on whether or not calculated distance falls within a confidence interval set in advance for a certain probability distribution. | 08-21-2008 |
20080198951 | DATA DEMODULATION METHOD AND APPARATUS - A data demodulation method and apparatus to prevent a decrease in a data demodulation rate. The data demodulation method includes detecting a frame sync signal from input data, arranging the input data on a predetermined unit basis based on a detected position of the frame sync signal, obtaining N pieces of predetermined unit data with respect to the predetermined unit data by shifting the predetermined unit data by a predetermined unit amount, demodulating the N pieces of predetermined unit data using a demodulation table, and selecting and outputting one of the N pieces of demodulated data as demodulated data of the predetermined unit data. | 08-21-2008 |
20080198952 | Equalising Structure And Method With Maximum Likelihood Detection - The present invention relates to an equalising structure ( | 08-21-2008 |
20080205555 | Method and Apparatus for Channel Estimation - A channel estimation method, comprising the steps of: receiving radio signals transmitted through wireless channel; calculating the channel fading coefficients of pilot symbols, which inserted in a time slot allocated to the wireless signals; estimating the channel fading coefficients of each of predefined groups of chips in the time slot step by step, by utilizing the channel fading coefficients of the pilot symbols and the correlation between the pilot symbols and traffic data in the time slot, wherein each group of chips is composed of predefined number of chips. | 08-28-2008 |
20080205556 | Selecting Delay Values For a Rake Receiver - Multipath components of transmitted data symbols are received with individual delays and processed by a RAKE unit having a number of fingers. A delay profile is calculated, and delay values for peaks detected therein are determined. A number of peak delay values (PA | 08-28-2008 |
20080205557 | Systems and Methods for Performing External Correction - A system is provided for performing external correction to reduce, or eliminate, the frequency dependent response related to an external device for receiving analog signals. The system includes an ADC and a spectrum processor for converting time-domain digital data into a spectrum. An external correction is provided between the ADC and the spectrum processor to reduce, or eliminate, the frequency dependent response associated with the external device. A corresponding method is provided that determines the frequency response of the external device, determines the gain at the center frequency, determines the normalized frequency response, constructs and inverse filter and applies the inverse filter to the digitized time-domain data and scales the results prior to any conversion, or transformation, into the frequency domain. | 08-28-2008 |
20080205558 | Method and Rfid Reader For Detecting a Delimiter Pattern in a Signal Stream - A method for detecting a delimiter pattern (SOF) in a signal stream containing a carrier or subcarrier modulated by the delimiter pattern comprises: specifying an expected delimiter occurrence time (t | 08-28-2008 |
20080212718 | Multi-Rate Tracking Circuit - A multi-rate tracking circuit with an input for a signal, an output arranged to indicate a current proposed level related to the signal, and voting logic connected to the input, arranged to indicate of a direction of change in the current proposed level. A first counter is connected to the voting logic, and arranged to vary the current proposed level based on the indications received from the voting logic. A second counter is arranged to vary a value based on the indications from the voting logic. The variation of the current proposed level by the first counter is dependent on the value varied by the second counter. | 09-04-2008 |
20080212719 | Motion vector detection apparatus, and image coding apparatus and image pickup apparatus using the same - A search range setting unit sets a search range to be matched with a targeted region of an image to be coded, in a reference image. A computing unit performs computation in a manner such that matching between the targeted region and a region within the search range is computed from a resolution lower than that of an original image toward the resolution of the original image over a plurality of hierarchies and the search range is narrowed. The search range setting unit sets a plurality of search ranges in the reference image in at least one of the plurality of hierarchies. | 09-04-2008 |
20080219384 | Tfci Decoding Apparatus and Method - Wireless communication systems according to 3rd Generation standards allow for large flexibility in payload transmission. To signal the specific combination of transport block sizes multiplexed into one composite transport channel, a transport format combination indicator is transmitted in addition to the encoded payload data. The correct decoding of this transport format combination indicator codeword information is crucial to retrieve the correct number and size of transport blocks from the incoming data stream in the receiver, which can be both, the user equipment or the base station. The decoding apparatus ( | 09-11-2008 |
20080219385 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TRANSMISSION OF MULTIPLE MODULATED SIGNALS OVER WIRELESS NETWORKS - Receiver network for receiving a first filtered modulated transmitted signal in a first RF band and a second modulated transmitted signal in a second RF band and for providing received signals to one or more demodulators. A demodulator and baseband filter for demodulating and filtering the first filtered modulated received signal and for providing filtered demodulated baseband signal by a baseband filter mis-matched to the filter of the first filtered modulated transmitted signal and demodulating the second modulated signal providing a demodulated baseband signal and a selector for selecting either the first or the second demodulated baseband signal. A receiver and demodulation system receiving a first TDMA modulated signal having a first bit rate and for receiving a second modulated signal having a second bit rate and for providing the received signals to a one or more demodulators and for providing cross-correlated demodulated in-phase and quadrature-phase baseband signals and demodulating the second bit rate modulated signal and providing a demodulated baseband signal. | 09-11-2008 |
20080225991 | Method for searching pilot signals to synchronize a CDMA receiver with an associated transmitter - A method for synchronizing a CDMA receiver to a transmitter when an adaptive antenna is utilized to receive transmitted data, wherein a receiving antenna system is adapted between a 360° reception angle pattern (i.e., an omni-directional pattern) and a fixed reception angle (i.e., a directional pattern) by permitting the receiver to identify a pilot signal having the largest magnitude. The receiver minimizes interference from other pilot signals by steering antenna pattern nulls toward other transmitters. As a result, the time required for the receiver to acquire a valid pilot signal is significantly reduced. | 09-18-2008 |
20080225992 | Device and method for determining a symbol during reception of a signal coupled with a quadrature signal pair (I,Q) for QAM frequency control and/or rotation control - The invention relates to a device and a method for determining a symbol during reception of a signal coupled with a quadrature signal pair having a discriminator for the determination of a symbol with an analysis of a received signal in complex coordinate space, and a control loop for QAM frequency control and/or rotation control while control parameters are used, which are constructed and/or controlled depending on at least one of the symbols to be decided by the discriminator so that the control parameters are adjusted for decisions to be taken later, wherein one weighting device is constructed and/or controlled, providing in each case one weighting value for the symbols to be decided and/or decided by the discriminator among a plurality of weighting values depending on the symbol position in the complex coordinate space for the control loop. | 09-18-2008 |
20080225993 | HYBRID PILOT CONFIGURATION - Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate employing a hybrid pilot configuration in a wireless communications network. A hybrid pilot configuration includes common pilot symbols and dedicated pilots multiplexed together within a time transmission interval. The multiplexed pilot symbols can be received and utilized to demodulate channels. Common pilot symbols can be employed to demodulate control channels and dedicated pilot symbols can be utilized to demodulate data channels. Moreover, the dedicated pilot symbols can be employed to generate a channel estimate. The common pilot channels can be utilized in combination with the dedicated pilot symbols to augment the channel estimate. | 09-18-2008 |
20080232513 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PREAMBLE DETECTION AND INTEGER CARRIER FREQUENCY OFFSET ESTIMATION - This invention provides an apparatus and method for preamble detection and integer carrier frequency offset estimation, which method comprises the steps of: determining the window of useful subcarriers in preamble transformed to frequency domain based on pre-determined possible integer carrier frequency offset and the length of the preamble, so as to select the useful subcarriers; extracting a plurality of subcarrier sequences having a length equal to that of the preamble from the useful subcarriers; calculating conjugative multiplications of each subcarrier and its neighboring subcarriers in the subcarrier sequences extracted; acquiring the real part of the conjugative multiplications; calculating the cross correlations between the real part of the conjugative multiplications and known preambles modulated by DBPSK, and outputting the calculated correlation values; and detecting preamble index of a target base station with the calculated correlation values to select a target cell, and estimating integer carrier frequency offset with respect to the target base station. | 09-25-2008 |
20080240301 | ARCHITECTURES FOR UNIVERSAL OR SOFTWARE RADIO - A system and technique for providing to flexible, programmable frequency estimators and spectrum analyzers that can operate over extremely large bandwidths and yet provide high spectral resolution are described. The acquisition time and hardware complexity of one technique scale as O(N), where N denotes the number of frequency bins acquired. Embodiments are disclosed in which architectures are implemented using exponentially-tapered transmission lines and filter cascades. | 10-02-2008 |
20080240302 | Communication System with Receivers Employing Generalized Two-Stage Data Estimation - A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) is configure to receive and sample wireless signals in a shared spectrum where the wireless signal comprise encoded symbols. The WTRU has a channel estimation device configured to process received signal samples to produce an estimate of a channel response of the received signals corresponding to a matrix H. The channel estimation device is preferably configured to process the received signal samples to produce an estimate of noise variance of the received signals. The WTRU preferably has a two stage data estimator that includes a channel equalizer and a despreader. The channel equalizer is configured to process received signal samples using the estimated channel response matrix H and the estimate of noise variance to produce a spread signal estimate of the received signals. The despreader is configured to process the spread signal estimate of the received signals produced by said channel equalizer to recover encoded symbols of the received signals. | 10-02-2008 |
20080247492 | Signal Receiving Circuit and Signal Input Detection Circuit - In a signal receiving circuit including a plurality of input channels, there are provided N input detection circuits | 10-09-2008 |
20080260073 | Ecoding and decoding methods and apparatus for use in a wireless communication system - The claimed subject matter relates to encoding and decoding information in a wireless communication system using soft-demodulation and interleaving of concatenated code received in a strip channel. A set of symbols is received containing a plurality of information bits, dividing the received set of symbols into a plurality of subsets of symbols, each subset corresponding to the input of an inner code demodulation selecting a set of initial a priori values of the inner code demodulation for each subset of symbols, and demodulating each subset of symbols, using the initial a priori values of the subset of symbols and an inner code generator matrix, to generate a plurality of first soft information values as the output of the inner code demodulation. Each of the first soft information values is associated to one of the plurality of information bits using an outer code generator matrix, calculating a plurality of second soft information values as the output of the outer code demodulation, wherein each second soft information value corresponds to one of the information bits and is calculated using at least two of the first soft information values associated with the information bit, determining a new set of a priori values of the inner code demodulation for each subset of symbols, using the second soft information values and the outer code generator matrix, and replacing the initial a priori values with the new a priori values, and repeating the demodulating, associating, calculating and determining actions at least once. | 10-23-2008 |
20080260074 | Symbol Analyzing Device, Symbol Analyzing Method, and Information Storage Medium - To provide a symbol analyzing device capable of carrying out post hoc analysis of the meaning of a symbol used in communications. The symbol analyzing device comprises a symbol acquiring section ( | 10-23-2008 |
20080267321 | EXTENDED ALGORITHM DATA ESTIMATOR - A method of data estimation for a Time Division Duplex (TDD) Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) system or any other system using an extended algorithm (EA) in preference to a truncated algorithm (TA). The EA avoids implementation errors by choice of proper extended matrices, and accepts the use of one piece of hardware. The EA also obviates loss of multiple signals in the tail part of each data field, and avoids errors due to transformation of a Toeplitz matrix to a circulant matrix. | 10-30-2008 |
20080273627 | Information-Detecting Apparatus and Method - An information-detecting apparatus ( | 11-06-2008 |
20080273628 | Data sampling circuit and data sampling method - A data sampling circuit and a data sampling method for performing sampling at a frequency lower than a carrier frequency. An infrared communication signal converted to an electric signal is input to a data sampling circuit, and a signal in a band lower than or equal to the carrier signal frequency is extracted by an LPF. After the communication signal is input from the LPF, a detection information retention block specifies detection information indicating that the communication signal has been detected and retains the detection information. The detection information in a previous sampling cycle and the detection information in the current sampling cycle are compared to determine whether the communication signal has been input. A measurement block measures a period in which the input of the communication signal continues or a period in which the communication signal is not input, in accordance with the detection result. | 11-06-2008 |
20080273629 | UWB RECEIVER DESIGNS BASED ON A GAUSSIAN-LAPLACIAN NOISE-PLUS-MAI MODEL - Two novel receiver structures which surpass the performance of the conventional matched filter receiver are proposed for ultra-wide bandwidth multiple access communications. The proposed receiver structures are derived based on a more appropriate statistical model for the multiple access interference than the generally used Gaussian approximation. | 11-06-2008 |
20080279312 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR JOINTLY DECODING MESSAGES BASED ON APRIORI KNOWLEDGE OF MODIFIED CODEWORD TRANSMISSION - A method and apparatus for jointly decoding a first and second message is disclosed. The signaling scenario illustrated by FIG. | 11-13-2008 |
20080285687 | APPARATUS, AND ASSOCIATED METHOD, FOR DETECTING VALUES OF A SPACE-TIME BLOCK CODE USING SELECTIVE DECISION-FEEDBACK DETECTION - A selective decision-feedback detector for the space-time block code which provides both diversity and spatial multiplexing. To detect a received code block of transmitted symbols, the channel matrix is properly preprocessed with the real and imaginary parts decoupled, and the selective decision-feedback detector makes multiple decisions on the same block upon differently permuted channel matrix and generates multiple candidates for the results. The indicators of the decision errors associated with the candidates are compared, and one of the candidates with the minimum error is selected by a selector as the decided symbols to be used for further processing at a receiving station. | 11-20-2008 |
20080292025 | Low Density Parity Check (Ldpc) Code Decoder - A message-passing decoder for low-density parity-check codes (LDPC) is provided using a multi-value threshold scheme which is updated throughout the decoding iterations. In an embodiment the check node processing is implemented using the min-sum principle whereby for each corresponding row of the parity check matrix a first and a second minimum value among bit reliability values is determined. Each row of the decoder comprises one or more associative processing elements controlled by a row control element to determine the two minimum values. Each column comprises one or more associative processing elements, an input processing element, and a column control element to determine hard decision bits. The usage of processing elements to construct a decoder may reduce the gate count and decrease the interconnects used to couple the elements. | 11-27-2008 |
20080292026 | DIGITAL SIGNAL RECEIVER WITH Q-MONITOR - A digital signal receiver for a high-bitrate digital signal has a serial signal input ( | 11-27-2008 |
20080292027 | DRM receiver and demodulation method - A Digitial Radio Mondiale (DRM) receiver and demodulation method includes a programmable downsampler and a programmable N-point Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) to recover and demodulate the OFDM symbols in a received DRM-encoded RF signal. The received signal is digitally sampled at a rate operably integer downsampled to achieve a number N samples in the useful portion of the OFDM symbol for input to an N-point FFT, where N equal to a power of two. The downsampling rate and size (N-points) of the FFT depend on the DRM encoding and transmission parameters, notably the robustness mode and spectrum occupancy. This reduces the processing/computational requirements and the design complexity of the DRM receiver. | 11-27-2008 |
20080292028 | Method and Apparatus for Signal Processing and Encoding and Decoding Method, and Apparatus Therefor - There are disclosed a signal processing method and apparatus according to the present invention. The method includes the steps of acquiring pattern information corresponding to a pattern formed by a plurality of data, and pattern residual information generated in response to the pattern information, and acquiring the data based on the pattern information and the pattern residual information. Accordingly, efficient data coding is possible. | 11-27-2008 |
20080298511 | Soft-Output Demodulation Apparatus and Method - Provided is a soft-output demodulation apparatus and method having a relatively low complexity and capable of acquiring a channel reliability value to be inputted to an iterative decoder, in a digital communication system. The apparatus includes: a storage unit for pre-determining and storing opposite-bit nearest constellation points corresponding to constellation points by dividing a constellation point region according to a modulation scheme; a quantizer for quantizing a channel reception signal; a region decider for deciding the nearest constellation point corresponding to the quantized channel reception signal; a reverse constellation point detector for detecting an opposite-bit nearest constellation point corresponding to the decided nearest constellation point from the values pre-stored in the storage unit; and a soft-output demodulation value calculator for calculating a soft-output demodulation value based on the nearest constellation point, the nearest constellation point of the opposite bit, and the channel reception signal. | 12-04-2008 |
20080298512 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS - A data processing apparatus includes a channel demultiplexing circuit, a bus, a memory controller and a memory. The channel demultiplexing circuit has a first delay circuit which delays first channel data only of multi-channel data by one cycle and outputs first delayed channel data, a second delay circuit which delays second channel data only of the multi-channel data by one cycle and outputs second delayed channel data, and a channel data holding circuit which stores first coupled data obtained by coupling the first channel data and the first delayed channel data for multiple cycles and stores second coupled data obtained by coupling the second channel data and an output of the second delay circuit for multiple cycles. The channel demultiplexing circuit selectively outputs a first channel data group and a second channel data group to the bus. | 12-04-2008 |
20080304599 | Interface Circuit As Well As Method For Receiving And/Or For Decoding Data Signals - In order to provide an interface circuit ( | 12-11-2008 |
20080304600 | SIGNAL PROCESSOR FOR ESTIMATING SIGNAL PARAMETERS USING AN APPROXIMATED INVERSE MATRIX - A device that estimates information from a signal includes a receiver for receiving an input signal and electronic processing circuitry. The electronic processing circuitry generates a matrix associated with the input signal and determines an approximation of an inverse of the matrix based on the adjoint of the matrix and a scaling factor associated with the determinant of the matrix. This approximation avoids possible mathematical difficulties that may be encountered in certain situations when a typical matrix inversion is calculated. The approximated inverse matrix is applied to the input signal to transform the input signal into an output signal. Information associated with the input signal is then determined based on the output signal. | 12-11-2008 |
20080304601 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING SATELLITE POSITIONING SYSTEM SIGNALS TO OBTAIN TIME INFORMATION - A method and apparatus for processing satellite positioning system signals at a mobile receiver is described. In one example, first bit-transitions within satellite navigation data transmitted by at least one satellite are estimated at the mobile receiver. A bit pattern is generated that includes a known preamble and an extended preamble. The extended preamble includes expected data bits within the satellite navigation data. The first bit-transitions are compared with second bit-transitions of the bit pattern to generate match data. | 12-11-2008 |
20080310553 | Baseband Process Method Based on Doubling Sampling - A baseband processing method based on double sampling, including: subjecting a received signal to root raised cosine-filtering process; sampling said signal; conducting channel estimation for every user based on the sampled data; and conducting multi-user joint detection and demodulation for said data. Wherein, the step of sampling said signal includes the following steps: conducting double sampling for said signal, and the interval of the sampling being ½ chip; each chip selecting the average value of two sampling values as the sampling value of the chip; assembling the sampling value of every chip into a data stream. According to the present invention, in the case that the complexity of computation is not increased and only the memory space is doubled, the gain of the received signal in the system is improved effectively, especially when the synchronization of signals is bad, relatively large gain of the signals can be obtained, the system delay is reduced, and the real-time property of signal processing is improved. The method according to the present invention is suitable to the mobile communication system in a bad communication environment. | 12-18-2008 |
20080310554 | Method and apparatus for multiple antenna communications, and related systems and computer program - An embodiment of an arrangement for detecting sequences of digitally modulated symbols from multiple sources. The arrangement identifies a suitable set of candidate values for at least one transmitted sequence of symbols and determines for each candidate value a set of sequences of transmitted symbols. The arrangement estimates at least one further set of sequence of transmitted symbols, calculates a metric for each sequence of transmitted symbols and selects the sequence that maximizes the metric. At the end, a-posteriori bit soft output information for the selected sequence is calculated from the metrics for said sequences. Generally, these calculations are base on the information coming from a channel state information matrix and a-priori information on said modulated symbols from a second module, such as a forward error correction code decoder. | 12-18-2008 |
20080310555 | DISTRIBUTED DECODING DEVICE USING MULTI-CORE PROCESSOR AND METHOD FOR THE SAME - Provided is a distributed decoding device using a multi-core processor, including a multi-core processor that includes a plurality of cores which process data as threads; an MPEG division module that receives MPEG data, extracts decoding information from the MPEG data, divides the MPEG data into individual slices, and generates and provides a single-slice decoding function, which separately decodes one slice, such that threads which decode the divided slices allocated thereto are distributed to the cores within the multi-core processor; a memory that includes a plurality of buffers which receive the slices from the MPEG data division module to store therein and provide the stored slices to the cores of the multi-core processor; and a merging module that merges the data decoded through the cores of the multi-core processor. | 12-18-2008 |
20080310556 | Apparatus and method for detecting signal in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communication system - Receiving apparatus and method in a Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) wireless communication system are provided. The receiver having N-ary receive antennas includes a decomposer for decomposing a channel matrix to a matrix Q and a matrix R through a QR decomposition; a detector for determining a candidate group of an n-th phase by estimating a plurality of transmit signal vectors by substituting a plurality of transmittable symbols into symbol combinations of a candidate group of a (n−1)-th phase as an n-th symbol and detecting (n+1)-th through N-th symbols using characteristics of the matrix R; a calculator for calculating square Euclidean distance values between the transmit signal vectors and a receive signal vector; and a determiner for determining the candidate group of the n-th phase by selecting transmit signal vectors having the smallest square Euclidean distance value among the transmit signal vectors. | 12-18-2008 |
20080310557 | Carrier selection for multiple antennas - A method and apparatus is disclosed to process a received single stream communication signal and/or a multiple stream communication. A communications receiver is configured to receive the received communication signal. A communications receiver determines whether the received communication signal includes a single stream communication signal or a multiple stream communication signal. The communications receiver determines whether a received communication signal complies with a known single stream communications standard. The communications receiver determines whether the received communication signal complies with a known multiple stream communications standard. The communications receiver decodes the received communication signal according to the known single stream communications standard upon determining the received communication includes the signal single stream communication signal. The communications receiver decodes the received communication signal according to the known multiple stream communications standard upon determining the received communication includes the multiple stream communication signal. | 12-18-2008 |
20080310558 | Apparatus to reconfigure an 802.11a/n transceiver to support 802.11j/10 MHz mode of operation - A method and apparatus is disclosed to dynamically reconfigure a communications receiver to support one or more single stream modes of operation, multiple stream modes of operation, and/or propriety modes of operation. The communications receiver is configured to support according to a first single stream mode of operation, multiple stream mode of operation, and/or proprietary mode of operation according to a known single stream communications standard, a known multiple stream communications standard and/or a proprietary communications standard. The communications receiver may receive a single stream communications signal and/or a multiple stream communications signal having a second single stream mode of operation, multiple stream mode of operation, and/or proprietary mode of operation according to a known single stream communications standard, a known multiple stream communications standard and/or a proprietary communications standard. The communications receiver may be dynamically re-configured to the second single stream mode of operation, multiple stream mode of operation, and/or proprietary mode of operation to process the single stream communications signal and/or a multiple stream communications signal. | 12-18-2008 |
20080310559 | Gain control for reduced interframe spacing (RIFS) - A method and apparatus is disclosed to recover at least one information payload from a frame and/or to configure one or more reception parameters to receive a future frame to support RIFS. A physical layer device (PHY) receives at least a training sequence embedded in the frame of a transmitted communication signal using a receiver filter bandwidth corresponding to a variable filter training sequence bandwidth. The PHY determines an amount of gain necessary to recover an information payload embedded in the frame based on the recovery of the training sequence. The PHY determines an amount of gain necessary to recover an information payload embedded in the frame based on the recovery of the preamble. A previous communications receiver gain is adjusted by the difference between the amount of gain necessary to recover the information payload and the previous communications receiver gain. The PHY adjusts the receiver filter bandwidth from the variable filter training sequence bandwidth to a variable filter information payload bandwidth. The PHY recovers the at least one information payload embedded in frame using the variable filter information payload bandwidth. The PHY adjusts the receiver filter bandwidth from the information payload bandwidth to the variable filter training sequence bandwidth to receive the future frame. | 12-18-2008 |
20080317172 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SIGNAL DETECTION AND MATRIX DECOMPOSITION - A method for computing a factor matrix of an inversion of a matrix, wherein the method comprises the steps of: computing a factor matrix of an inversion of a sub-matrix of a matrix, and recursively obtaining the factor matrix of the inversion of the matrix by using the matrix and the computed factor matrix of the inversion of the sub-matrix of the matrix; and an apparatus for computing the factor matrix of the inversion of a matrix, which can reduce the computational complexity in the signal detection and matrix decomposition and can be implemented with hardware easily. | 12-25-2008 |
20090003492 | High Data Rate Demodulation System - The demodulation process of a wireless data transmission system using multi-level symbols makes use of templates corresponding to each of the possible symbol transitions, so that knowledge of previously decoded symbols can be use to decode the next one. The weighting and/or timing of individual samples of each symbol is varied in response to the performance of the symbol identification process. | 01-01-2009 |
20090010362 | Coding And Decoding Packetized Data - A method for coding a packet of information words into frames for transmission, includes receiving blocks of input data, including control words and the packet of information words. When the block consists exclusively of information words, a master transition having a first sense is scrambled and appended to the block to form one of the frames. When the block does not consist exclusively of information words: the block is condensed to accommodate a TYPE word; a TYPE word having a value that indicates a structural property of the block is generated and inserted into the block; and a master transition having a second sense, opposite to the first sense, is scrambled and appended to the block to form one of the frames. | 01-08-2009 |
20090010363 | Matched filter - Provided is a matched filter whose circuit scale can be made significantly smaller by reducing the number of multipliers for a despreading process and the number of adders for an accumulating process. For each in-phase/orthogonal component, the matched filter includes a dual-port RAM that separates written samples into 128 groups each of 32 samples which are collectively read out group by group in order at a speed faster than a write speed in write mode, a bit separating section that separates data read group by group into 32 samples and simultaneously outputs the 32 samples, and 32 despreading/accumulating circuits that, with 16 samples sequentially input from 16 groups being taken as one block, sequentially despread individual samples, accumulate despreading results, and output accumulated values for each block. The matched filter further includes an accumulating section that accumulates absolute values for each block from in-phase/orthogonal outputs of the despreading/accumulating circuits, and outputs correlation value data. | 01-08-2009 |
20090010364 | Parameter estimation for adaptive antenna system - There is proposed a technique for determining parameters, especially channel estimation, in the receiver of a communication system utilizing adaptive antenna techniques. The technique uses information transmitted in the antenna signals and in the beam signals to determine the parameters. | 01-08-2009 |
20090016467 | Noncoherent symbol clock recovery subsystem - A symbol clock recovery subsystem uses a tap delay line having a set of delays, uses a clock bank of samplers providing time-staggered sampled noncoherently received signals, and uses a set of mean magnitude generators, in channelized form, for providing a set of mean magnitudes to a maximum selector for selecting a maximum one of the time-staggered sampled received signals having the greatest signal to noise ratio so as to provide a signal effectively occurring at symbol epoch time for demodulating a symbol stream in a digital communication system receiver. | 01-15-2009 |
20090016468 | METHOD FOR ERROR COMPENSATION IN AN OFDM SYSTEM WITH DIVERSITY - A method provides for an improved compensation Fourier channel characteristics in a wireless communication embodiment. The method identifies one or more information carriers as pseudo pilot tones whose information may be realized to enhance the determination of the complex coefficient of the communication channel. | 01-15-2009 |
20090022248 | Method for Demodulating the Signal of Multiple-Position Frequency Manipulation with Equidistant Frequency Spreading, Demodulator for this Signal, and Computer-Readable Medium - This invention relates to signal transmitting engineering. The use of the inventive method demodulation of a signal of multiple position frequency manipulation with equidistant frequency spreading allows to reduce the threshold of demodulation and to ensure a quality of demodulation, which is at least identical to that of a quasi-optimal demodulator. To obtain such a result, a frequency grid is formed with a possibility of precise tuning of frequency spreading; during the reception, values having a maximum module of reception signal are extracted at all frequencies switchable values at clock frequency, this clock frequency is extracted from maximum of the received signals and is used for a precise tuning of the frequency spreading; a grid of tunable frequency is tuned with a precisely tuned frequency spreading for exact values of a frequency of received signal, and demodulation is effected by the way of coherent reception of the received signal, using only one from quadrature signals to decide whether a signal of a determined frequency is absent or present among the mentioned exact values of frequency. | 01-22-2009 |
20090022249 | DIGITAL BROADCAST RECEIVING DEVICE - A receiving apparatus includes a demodulation means for demodulating a transmission signal to output a demodulation output having a predetermined number of bits; a reliability calculation means for calculating reliability of the transmission signal to output reliability information; a conversion processing means for reducing the number of bits of the demodulation output on the basis of the reliability information, and for multiplexing the demodulation output having the reduced number of bits and the reliability information to output the multiplexed result; and a deinterleave means for deinterleaving the output of the conversion processing means. | 01-22-2009 |
20090028274 | PHASE-DIGITAL CONVERTER HAVING HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURE - A time to digital converter having a hierarchical structure is provided. The time to digital converter includes: a plurality of delay stages for sequentially delaying a first signal for a specific delay time; a plurality of flip-flops for comparing delay signals of the first signal delayed by the delay stages with a second signal, and generating different outputs before and after a phase difference between the delay signals of the first signal and the second signal becomes smaller than a resolution of the phase detector; a selection signal generator for generating a selection signal for selecting a signal most similar to the second signal among the delay signals of the first signal from the outputs of the flip-flops; and a Multiplexer (MUX) for receiving the delay signals of the first signal and the selection signal, and outputting the signal most similar to the second signal among the delay signals of the first signal. | 01-29-2009 |
20090034659 | PILOT SYMBOL ASSISTED MODULATION SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Pilot symbol assisted modulation (PSAM) techniques for Rayleigh and Rician fading channels are derived. Previous techniques implement PSAM signal detectors as an ad-hoc design, using pilot symbols to first estimate channel gain, and then using channel gain estimates in a conventional coherent detector to make data decisions. Although this structure may be effective for binary phase shift keying in Rayleigh fading, it is suboptimal for Rician fading and for 16-ary quadrature amplitude modulation in Rayleigh fading. According to techniques disclosed herein, a PSAM signal detector jointly processes pilot symbols and data symbols. The performance of signal detectors according to embodiments of the invention is analyzed and compared with that of conventional detectors. Numerical results are presented to show that the performance gain of a proposed new PSAM signal detector over conventional PSAM detectors can be as much as 2 or 3 dB for Rician fading in some cases. | 02-05-2009 |
20090034660 | LOW POWER RADIO TRANSMITTER USING PULSE TRANSMISSIONS - A radio receiver includes a low-noise amplifier, pulse-to-signal conversion module, and intermediate frequency stage. The low-noise amplifier is operably coupled to receive and amplify an M-bit signal at a radio frequency. The M-bit signal at a radio frequency is representative of a pulse signal that is carried on a radio frequency. The pulse-to-signal conversion module demodulates the M-bit signal to produce an N-bit signal at an intermediate frequency. For example, the pulse-to-signal conversion module performs pulse-width demodulation, pulse-density demodulation, or pulse-position demodulation to recapture the N-bit signal. The intermediate frequency stage steps down the frequency of the N-bit signal to produce a base-band digital signal. | 02-05-2009 |
20090041162 | SEARCHER FOR MULTIPLE ORTHOGONAL CHANNELS WITH KNOWN DATA WCDMA STEP2 SEARCH - A circuit and algorithm are disclosed for a step2 search of a three step search of synchronization channels in a W-CDMA system. A mobile terminal of the CDMA system includes an RF downconverter for receiving I and Q signals. A searcher, responsive to the I and Q signals, includes a first correlator for correlating the I and Q signals with a primary synchronization code on a primary synchronization channel, and a second correlator for correlating I and Q signals with a secondary synchronization code on a secondary synchronization channel. The correlated I and Q signals are added for each of the secondary synchronization codes. An energy calculator and a maximum energy detector use the correlated I and Q signals of both the primary and secondary synchronization channels to detect the most likely scrambling code group of secondary synchronization codes. | 02-12-2009 |
20090041163 | Selecting Delay Values for a RAKE Receiver - Multipath components of transmitted data symbols are received with individual delays and processed by a RAKE having a number of fingers. A delay profile indicating magnitudes for a first number of delay values is provided. Estimated magnitudes for a second number of delay values located between the first number of delay values are calculated by interpolation, and a combined delay profile is provided by combining the magnitudes for the first and second number of delay values. Delay values for peaks in the combined delay profile are determined, and a number of peak delay values (P | 02-12-2009 |
20090046815 | BROADCASTING RECEIVER AND BROADCAST SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - A digital broadcasting system which is robust against an error when mobile service data is transmitted and a method of processing data are disclosed. The mobile service data is subjected to an additional coding process and the coded mobile service data is transmitted. Accordingly, it is possible to cope with a serious channel variation while applying robustness to the mobile service data. | 02-19-2009 |
20090046816 | DIGITAL BROADCASTING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROCESSING DATA - A digital broadcast system and a method of processing data are disclosed. The receiving system of the digital broadcast system includes a signal receiving unit, a first data processor, a second data processor, and an A/V decoder. The signal receiving unit receives at least one of first mobile service data that is transmitted according to a first transmission method and second mobile service data that is transmitted according to a second transmission method. The first data processor performs demodulation on the first mobile service data received by the signal receiving unit using a first demodulation method and corrects errors occurring in the demodulated first mobile service data. The second data processor performs demodulation on the second mobile service data received by the signal receiving unit using a second demodulation method and corrects errors occurring in the demodulated second mobile service data. The A/V decoder performs A/V decoding on mobile service data outputted from at least one of the first and second data processors. | 02-19-2009 |
20090046817 | RECEIVING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A receiving apparatus includes a unit detecting a specific-bit sequence included in a data sequence, a unit counting, as a count value n | 02-19-2009 |
20090052584 | Selective Signal Demodulation Method and Apparatus - Signal quality estimation and demodulation are tailored to the received signal quality. According to one embodiment, a received signal is processed by determining a first set of combining weights based on a first impairment covariance estimate derived assuming a low signal quality environment. A second set of combining weights is determined based on a second impairment covariance estimate derived assuming a high signal quality environment. A metric is determined corresponding to the difference between symbol estimates derived from the second set of combining weights and hard symbol decisions. The received signal is demodulated based on the second set of combining weights if the metric satisfies a threshold indicating high signal quality and otherwise based on the first set of combining weights. | 02-26-2009 |
20090052585 | DIGITAL BROADCASTING SYSTEM AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD - A digital broadcasting system and a method of processing data are disclosed, which are robust to error when mobile service data are transmitted. To this end, additional encoding is performed for the mobile service data, whereby it is possible to strongly cope with fast channel change while giving robustness to the mobile service data. | 02-26-2009 |
20090052586 | PULSE RECEIVING CIRCUIT, PULSE RECEIVING METHOD AND PULSE WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A pulse receiving circuit which receives a receiving signal from the outside includes: a template pulse generating circuit which generates a first pulse signal and a second pulse signal having phase different from that of the first pulse signal based on a pulse position timing signal; a first multiplying circuit which multiplies the receiving signal by the first pulse signal and outputs a first multiplication signal; a second multiplying circuit which multiplies the receiving signal by the second pulse signal and outputs a second multiplication signal; a first low band pass filtering circuit which extracts low frequency component from frequency components of the first multiplication signal and outputs a first low frequency signal; a second low band pass filtering circuit which extracts low frequency component from frequency components of the second multiplication signal and outputs a second low frequency signal; and an envelope detection circuit which performs envelope calculation by using the first low frequency signal and the second low frequency signal and outputs a detection signal. | 02-26-2009 |
20090052587 | DIGITAL BROADCASTING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROCESSING DATA IN DIGITAL BROADCASTING SYSTEM - A digital broadcasting system and a data processing method are disclosed. The receiving system of the digital broadcasting system includes a baseband processor, a first handler, a second handler, and a storage unit. The baseband processor receives a broadcast signal including mobile service data and main service data. Herein, the mobile service data may configure an RS frame, and the RS frame may include the mobile service data and first signaling information of a first data type on the mobile service data. The first handler parses the first signaling information received from the RS frame, converts parsed data elements of the first data type to a second data type, and merges multiple identification information of the parsed first data type, thereby generating identification information of the second data type. The second handler receives second signaling information of the second data type on the mobile service data, the second signaling information including at least one fragment, uses the identification information of the second data type included in the first handler to search at least one fragment within the second signaling information, and maps data elements received through the searched fragment with the data elements converted to the second data type. | 02-26-2009 |
20090052588 | Apparatus and Method for Sensing an Atsc Signal in Low Signal-to-Noise Ratio - A Wireless Regional Area Network (WRAN) receiver comprises a transceiver for communicating with a wireless network over one of a number of channels, and an Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) signal detector for use in forming a supported channel list comprising those ones of the number of channels upon which an ATSC signal was not detected, wherein the ATSC signal detector includes a filter matched to a PN63 sequence of an ATSC signal for filtering a received signal on one of the number of channels for providing a filtered signal for use in determining if the received signal is an ATSC signal. The ATSC signal detector can be a coherent or a non-coherent ATSC signal detector. | 02-26-2009 |
20090052589 | TRANSPORT STREAM GENERATING DEVICE, TRANSMITTING DEVICE, RECEIVING DEVICE, AND A DIGITAL BROADCAST SYSTEM HAVING THE SAME, AND METHOD THEREOF - A transport stream (TS) generating apparatus, a transmitting apparatus, a receiving apparatus, a digital broadcast system having the above, and a method thereof are provided. The digital broadcast system includes a transport stream (TS) generating apparatus which generates a multi transport stream (TS) by multiplexing a normal stream and a turbo stream having a variable coding rate, a transmitting apparatus which re-constructs the multi TS by processing the turbo stream, and transmits the re-constructed multi TS, and a receiving apparatus which receives the re-constructed multi TS, and decodes the normal stream and the turbo stream respectively, to recover normal data and turbo data. Accordingly, a multi TS, which includes normal stream and a turbo stream of various coding rates, can be transmitted and received efficiently. | 02-26-2009 |
20090052590 | LAYERED MODULATION FOR DIGITAL SIGNALS - Signals, systems and methods for transmitting and receiving layered modulation for digital signals are presented. A layered signal for transmitting data, comprises a first signal layer including a first carrier and first signal symbols for a first digital signal transmission and a second signal layer including a second carrier and second signal symbols for a second signal transmission disposed on the first signal layer, wherein the layered signal has the first carrier demodulated and first layer decoded to produce the first signal symbols for a first layer transport, the first signal symbols are remodulated and subtracted from the layered signal to produce the second signal layer, and the second signal layer has the second carrier demodulated and decoded to produce the second signal symbols for a second layer transport. | 02-26-2009 |
20090060093 | MULTI-FUNCTION DECODER ENGINE IN WIRELESS RECEIVER - Systems, methods, devices, and processors are described for a wireless receiver. The receiver may be configured to receive signals transmitted according to various mobile digital television standards. The receiver may include a number of hardware engines. The hardware engines may be individually controlled in a number of aspects. Power to particular hardware engines may be controlled, and the speed of the different hardware engines may vary. The receiver may include a novel multi-function decoder engine. The receiver may be configured to dynamically avoid problems related to harmonics, and may include a novel tap configuration with taps at different locations in the data flow. | 03-05-2009 |
20090060094 | Transmitting/receiving apparatus and method for interleaver division multiple access system - Provided is a transmitting/receiving apparatus and method for an IDMA system. The receiving apparatus includes a channel estimator, an estimator, and a determiner. The channel estimator estimates a channel using a multi-user signal received through at least one RX antenna. The estimator estimates the noise power and the signal power for each transmission layer of each user by using the estimated channel value from the channel estimator. The determiner determines the number of transmission layers for each user and an MCS level for each transmission layer by using the signal power and the noise power estimated by the estimator. | 03-05-2009 |
20090067550 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REDUNDANCY-BASED DECODING OF AUDIO CONTENT - Aspects of a method and system for redundancy-based decoding of audio content are provided. A redundancy parameter may be generated for verifying a decoded bit sequence that comprises audio content, such as a decoded audio frame. The redundancy parameter may be a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) value and/or a length of frame value associated with the decoded audio frame. Information associated with the redundancy parameter may be comprised within a header of the audio frame. For example, a length of frame value, a bitrate value, a sampling rate frequency value, and/or a frame padding value may be comprised within the header of the audio frame. If the verification of the decoded audio frame fails, subsequent decoding of the previously decoded audio frame may be performed by imposing at least one physical constraint that results from the encoding of the audio frame. | 03-12-2009 |
20090067551 | GENERATING AND COMMUNICATING SOURCE IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION TO ENABLE RELIABLE COMMUNICATIONS - A method of generating Source Identification information from a source packet stream and reliably transmitting the Source Identification information from a source to a destination over a communications channel is provided. The method operates on a set of source packets, wherein Source Identification information for each source packet to be transmitted is derived and delivered with the Source Identification information of all or most other source packets of an associated source block. The method includes techniques to minimize the network bandwidth required to deliver Source Identification information and techniques to overcome network impairments. When combined with FEC techniques, retransmission techniques, or combinations of FEC techniques and retransmission techniques, the methods described herein allow receivers to recover lost source packets, while simultaneously ensuring that the original source packets are not modified and thereby ensuring backwards compatibility for legacy receivers. | 03-12-2009 |
20090074111 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING POST-DETECTION CONSTELLATION CORRECTION - A method and apparatus for correcting the phase and gain of data associated with a constellation pattern of a plurality of received individual symbols. Each symbol is divided into real and imaginary symbol components. The signs of the real and imaginary symbol components of each symbol are determined and used as a basis for determining whether the symbol is associated with a first or third quadrant of the constellation pattern or a second or fourth quadrant of the constellation pattern. The absolute values of the real and imaginary symbol components are determined and used to create a first sum and a second sum. A phase adjustment value θ and a gain adjustment value G are derived from the first and second sums, and are used to create a complex number. Each of the received individual symbols is multiplied by the created complex number to provide corrected constellation pattern data. | 03-19-2009 |
20090074112 | Method For Operating A Software Radio Receiver And Software Radio Receiver - The present invention disclosed a method for operating a software radio receiver. Said method comprises receiving a radio signal, determining a signal quality of said radio signal, selecting a suitable algorithm for a function in the receiver in accordance with said determined signal quality and applying said selected algorithm to the radio signal. | 03-19-2009 |
20090080574 | DIGITAL BROADCASTING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROCESSING DATA IN DIGITAL BROADCASTING SYSTEM - A digital broadcast receiver and a control method thereof are disclosed. The control method includes receiving a broadcast signal into which mobile service data and main service data are multiplexed, extracting transmission parameter channel (TPC) signaling information and fast information channel (FIC) signaling information from a data group in the received mobile service data, acquiring control data required to decrypt an encrypted service included in an ensemble by using the extracted FIC signaling information, the ensemble being a virtual channel group of the received mobile service data, and controlling such that the encrypted service is decrypted by using the acquired control data. | 03-26-2009 |
20090080575 | Method for near optimal joint channel estimation and data detection for COFDM systems - Joint channel estimation and maximum likelihood decoding method for Coded Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (COFDM) systems are presented. Using this method in conjunction with convolutional coding, robust and nearly optimal coherent detection can be achieved in rapid dispersive fading channels. Significant performance gain in packet data throughput is realized in a system with aggressive frequency reuse. A method for estimating channel characteristics in a multicarrier transmission system comprising the steps of receiving a multicarrier signal, applying Fast Fourier transformations to the multicarrier signal, estimating channel characteristics of a multicarrier channel over which the multicarrier signal was transmitted using a combination of iterative processing and iterative backward processing, and decoding the transformed multicarrier signal is presented. | 03-26-2009 |
20090086853 | Wireless Communication Systems and Methods Using Flexible Length Indicators - A wireless communication device includes a data receiving interface, a data processing device coupled with the data receiving interface, and a processing device coupled with the data receiving interface. The data receiving interface is configured to receive a first sub-group and a second sub-group of data for transmission. The first sub-group of data includes data contents for providing at least a portion of a first service, and the second sub-group of data includes data contents for providing at least a portion of a second service. The data processing device is configured to combine the first sub-group of data and the second sub-group of data as a portion of a data transmission group. The processing device is configured to provide a size of a first length indicator based at least on a size of the data transmission group. The first length indicator is configured to indicate a size of the first sub-group of data. The processing device is also configured to provide a size of a second length indicator based on one or more numbers or considerations, such as (a) the size of the first length indicator; (b) the size of the first sub-group of data; (c) the size of the data transmission group; and (d) the size of a header section. The second length indicator is configured to indicate the size of the second sub-group of data. | 04-02-2009 |
20090086854 | RECEIVER - In a receiver to process a received signal including one or more carrier signals, an FFT processing section executes FFT processing on the received signal to obtain FFT processing results at, for example, four points. On the basis of the FFT processing results from the FFT processing section, a selecting section selects one point from a plurality of, e.g., four points. An FFT processing result corresponding to the point selected by the selecting section is used for demodulation processing. | 04-02-2009 |
20090092205 | TABLE DATA GENERATION DEVICE AND METHOD - A table data generation device includes: a setting data storage section that stores setting data of a receiver for receiving broadcast waves; a bit width specification section that specifies a bit width from a reference position of the setting data; a number-of-shifts specification section that specifies a number of shifts of the setting data; and a table data generator that generates table data for the setting data by shifting the specified bit width of the setting data by the specified number of shifts. | 04-09-2009 |
20090097593 | BROADCAST DEMODULATION DEVICE - In a demodulation device with a plurality of branches, the receiving quality of each branch and signal quality after composing signals from the plurality of branches is inspected. If the signal quality is good, the operation of a branch whose receiving quality of each branch is the worst is stopped. When activating a stopped branch, the synchronous detection information of an already operated branch is applied to a branch to be newly activated and time needed for a newly activated branch to become synchronous is reduced. | 04-16-2009 |
20090097594 | MIRROR SUB-CARRIER DEMODULATION CIRCUIT, RECEIVING DEVICE WITH THE SAME, AND MIRROR SUB-CARRIER DEMODULATING METHOD - A mirror sub-carrier demodulation circuit includes a waveform generation unit | 04-16-2009 |
20090097595 | VECTOR DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A vector decoding method includes decomposing a code of an initial vector to obtain a sign code and an absolute vector code, decoding the sign code to obtain a sign vector, performing multi-level permutation-based decoding on the absolute vector code to obtain an initial absolute vector, and combining the sign vector and the initial absolute vector to obtain an initial vector, wherein each respective vector ha a plurality of elements. A vector decoding apparatus includes a decomposing unit configured to decompose a vector code to obtain a sign code and an absolute vector, a sign decoding unit configured to decode the sign code to obtain a sign vector, a multi-level permutation-based decoding unit configured to perform multi-level permutation-based decoding on the absolute vector to obtain an initial absolute vector, and a combining unit configured to combine the sign vector and the initial absolute vector to obtain an initial vector. | 04-16-2009 |
20090103657 | DIGITAL BROADCASTING TRANSMISSION/RECEPTION SYSTEM CAPABLE OF IMPROVING RECEIVING AND EQUALIZING PERFORMANCE AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF - A digital broadcast transmitting and receiving system and a signal processing method thereof that improves the receiving performance of the system. A digital broadcast transmitter includes a randomizer to receive and randomize a data stream into a specified position of which stuff bytes are inserted, a replacement sequence generator to generate known data including a predefined sequence, a stuff-byte exchange unit to insert the known data into the specified position of the data stream into which stuff bytes are inserted, an encoder to encode the data stream output from the stuff-byte exchange unit for an error correction, and a transmission unit to modulate the encoded data stream, RF-convert the modulated data stream and transmit the RF-converted data. The digital broadcast receiving performance is improved even in an inferior multi-path channel by detecting the known data from the received transmission and using the known data for synchronization and equalization in a digital broadcast receiver. | 04-23-2009 |
20090103658 | DIGITAL BROADCAST TRANSMISSION AND RECEIVING SYSTEM HAVING AN IMPROVED RECEIVING PERFORMANCE AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF - A digital broadcast transmitter comprising: a randomizer to receive a data stream of which stuff bytes are inserted into a specified position and to randomize the received data stream; a stuff-byte exchange unit to generate known data having a predefined pattern and to insert the known data into the specified position of the data stream into which the stuff bytes are inserted; an encoder to encode the data stream output from the stuff-byte exchange unit for an error correction; and a modulator and RF converter to modulate the encoded data stream, RF-convert the modulated data stream and transmit the RF-converted data. | 04-23-2009 |
20090110120 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS APPARATUS - Lattice reduction aided MIMO detection is disclosed for a packet based signal comprising a header and one or more data symbols. The detector comprises a pre-processing section operable to derive channel decoding information on the basis of a channel estimate from the header, storage means operable to store the channel decoding information, and a data processing section operable to process the one or more data symbols with reference to the stored channel decoding information. | 04-30-2009 |
20090110121 | Programmable Signal Slicer - Disclosed are various embodiments of a programmable slicer in a digital signal processing system and/or software radio system. In one embodiment, a plurality of demodulation schemes and a plurality of channel definitions are stored in a channel allocation table. An analog waveform is received and converted into at least one digital waveform. A specified frequency range is isolated from the at least one digital waveform. The magnitude of tones within the specified frequency range is measured and stored in a signal magnitude table. Symbols and/or bits are decoded from the signal magnitude table by applying a demodulation schemes and channel definitions to the magnitudes stored in the signal magnitude table. | 04-30-2009 |
20090110122 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ITERATIVE DECODING IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and a method for raising a data throughput by dynamically changing the maximum number of iterative decoding times of an iteratively decodable code in a mobile communication system are provided. The apparatus includes an early stop controller for determining whether an early stop condition is satisfied during a decoding process according to a maximum number of the iterative decoding times, a Connection IDentifier (CID) controller for detecting a CID of a Media Access Control (MAC) header after the early stop, and an iteration controller for, when determining that a Protocol Data Unit (PDU) is allocated to the receiver apparatus by detecting the CID of the MAC header, resetting the maximum number of iterative decoding times after identifying a decoding block of a next PDU, and for, when the CID is not detected, resetting the maximum number of the iterative decoding times after identifying a next decoding block of the current PDU. | 04-30-2009 |
20090110123 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING HIGH SPEED DATA BY SPECTRAL DECOMPOSITION OF THE SIGNALING SPACE - A method and apparatus of high speed multi-dimensional signaling via a modem has a processing method of utilizing prolate pulses to optimize the transmission capacity of the channel. The modem includes a process that segments the channel bandwidth and allocates the power and bit loading in relation to a measure of the noise in each spectral bin. Data are carried over a plurality of frequencies across the channel, and within each spectral bin, a plurality of orthogonal signaling dimensions. | 04-30-2009 |
20090116587 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING CONSTANT AMPLITUDE ZERO AUTOCORRELATION SEQUENCES - A method, system and apparatus for generating a constant amplitude zero autocorrelation (CAZAC) sequence to be transmitted on a wireless communication channel between a user equipment and a base station within a cellular communication network includes iteratively calculating elements of the CAZAC sequence according to a CAZAC sequence formula until a number of iterations has reached a predetermined iteration value determined in accordance with a number of subcarriers associated with the channel; obtaining a value of particular elements of the CAZAC sequence from a table of stored values at predetermined reset iteration values in order to limit error propagation; and generating the reference signal based upon the elements of the CAZAC sequence. The CAZAC sequence formula is one of a Chu sequence, Frank-Zadoff sequence, Zadoff-Chu (ZC) sequence, and Generalized Chirp-Like (GCL) Sequence. | 05-07-2009 |
20090116588 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS APPARATUS - A lattice reduction device is described for determining a reduced lattice for a MIMO decoder. The device comprises a data processing element operable to receive matrix information and to apply one or more data processing operations on the matrix information. The device further comprises first and second parallel operation means operable in conjunction with the data processing element so that any operation carried out by said data processing element on said matrix information is directly matched by an operation carried out on respective matrix information. The data processing element is operable, on an input triangular matrix being an R component of a QR decomposition of a channel state matrix, to tend non diagonal elements of said triangular matrix towards zero on the basis of matrix column operations and to make corresponding column operations at said first and second parallel operation means. The first parallel operation means is operable on the basis of an initial matrix which is an identity matrix and said second parallel operation means is operable on the basis of an initial matrix which is said channel state matrix. | 05-07-2009 |
20090122920 | DIGITAL BROADCASTING TRANSMISSION/RECEPTION DEVICES CAPABLE OF IMPROVING A RECEIVING PERFORMANCE AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed is a digital broadcasting transmission/reception system having an improved reception performance and in a signal-processing method thereof. A digital broadcasting transmitter comprises a TS stream generator for inputting robust and normal packets having stuff bytes in predetermined positions and generating dual TS stream by inserting the robust packets between the normal packets; a randomizer for randomizing the dual TS stream; a stuff byte exchanger for replacing the stuff bytes of a randomized data streams from the randomizer to a predetermined known data; and an encoder for encoding a data streams to which the known data is inserted. Accordingly, the present invention detects the known data from a signal received from a reception side and uses the detected known data for synchronization and equalization, so that the digital broadcasting reception performance can be improved at poor multipath channels. | 05-14-2009 |
20090129511 | STAGGEREDPILOT TRANSMISSION FOR CHANNEL ESTIMATION AND TIME TRACKING - To allow a receiving entity to derive a longer channel estimate while limiting overhead, a transmitting entity transmits a pilot on different groups of subbands in different time intervals. N subbands in the system are arranged into M non-overlapping groups. Each group includes P=N/M subbands that are uniformly distributed across the N subbands. The transmitting entity transmits the pilot on a different subband group in each time interval, and selects all M subband groups in M time intervals based on a pilot staggering pattern. The receiving entity derives (1) an initial impulse response estimate with P channel taps based on the pilot received on one subband group and (2) two longer impulse response estimates with different lengths used for data detection and time tracking. Each longer impulse response estimate may be derived by filtering initial impulse response estimates for a sufficient number of subband groups using a time-domain filter. | 05-21-2009 |
20090129512 | DIGITAL BROADCASTING TRASMISSION/RECEPTION SYSTEM HAVING IMPROVED RECEIVING PERFORMANCE AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF - A digital broadcasting transmission/reception system having improved receiving performance and signal processing method thereof. A digital broadcasting transmitter according to the present invention includes a data pre-processor which processed robust data and generates robust data packet of predetermined format, a TS stream generator which combines robust data packet with a normal data packet to generate a TS stream of a predetermined format, a randomizer which randomizes the TS stream output from the TS stream generator, a convolution encoder which performs convolution encoding with respect to the robust data of the data output from the randomizer, and a RS encoder which performs RS encoding with respect to the data output from the convolution g encoder. Accordingly, digital broadcasting receiving performance can be improved in a poor multipath channel, while maintaining compatibility with existing transmission/reception system. | 05-21-2009 |
20090129513 | Apparatus, methods, and computer program products providing partial MIMO reception and decoding - In a first aspect, there are received m transmitted signals of a multiple input/multiple output transmission comprising n transmitted signals corresponding to n streams of n different polarizations, where n is a positive integer greater than one, and m is an integer less than n. The m received signals are decoded to obtain information for the corresponding streams. Apparatus and computer programs to implement the invention are also detailed. | 05-21-2009 |
20090135958 | Controlled Transmission of Data in a Data Transmission System - This disclosure relates to controlled transmission of data in a data transmission system. Data from data interface elements may be transmitted in a controlled manner during the guard intervals or cyclic expansions of received RF signals. The received RF signals may be initially analyzed by a receiver to gather its characteristics. Based on the characteristics, the data interface elements are instructed to transfer the data during the guard intervals of the incoming RF signals. | 05-28-2009 |
20090135959 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING A MISSING PULSE IN COMPLEMENTARY CODED IRREGULAR SIGNALS - An apparatus and method for decoding complementary coded irregular data streams including a missing pulse detector circuit. The missing pulse detector circuit includes electrical circuit components configured to receive first and second irregular data streams, and output a data stream corresponding to a valid input data stream only when the two received data streams are bit-for-bit complements of each other. | 05-28-2009 |
20090135960 | Communication Device - In a communication device for receiving signals from devices that become communication partners, received signals from the respective devices are identified. Each of the devices that become communication partners is provided with a frequency spectrum of a pattern specific to each of the devices. In the communication device, storage means stores correspondence between information identifying the devices that become communication partners and the frequency spectrums provided to the respective devices, acquisition means acquires a frequency spectrum contained in a received signal, identification means compares the frequency spectrum acquired by the acquisition means with the frequency spectrums stored by the storage means to identify a device corresponding to the frequency spectrum that coincides with the frequency spectrum acquired by the acquisition means and which is stored by the storage means. | 05-28-2009 |
20090135961 | System and Method for Scanning Sequential Logic Elements - System and Method for Scanning Sequential Logic Elements A digital system and method for scanning sequential logic elements are disclosed. The digital system may comprise a plurality of sequential logic elements subdivided into power domains, wherein at least one of the power domains is power gated; a scan chain configured for processing a scan data sequence; a scan enable switch configured for controlling a scan mode; and at least one shadow engine, wherein the at least one shadow engine comprises a control circuit. At least some of the power domains may be interconnected to the scan chain with the scan enable switch, and the scan enable switch may control the scan mode by asserting a scan enable signal. The at least one power gated power domain with one or more sequential logic elements to be power gated may be bypassed via the at least one shadow engine. | 05-28-2009 |
20090135962 | Digital slicing device - A digital slicing device is provided for making a numerical value determination with respect to an inputted modulated symbol so as to output a corresponding symbol. The digital slicing device includes a demodulating unit, a slicing unit and a re-modulating unit. The demodulating unit is for collecting at least two successive modulated symbols and for demodulating the two modulated symbols according to a modulation algorithm so as to generate two demodulated symbols. The slicing unit is for rounding the two demodulated symbols so as to generate two rounded demodulated symbols. The re-modulating unit is for re-modulating the two rounded demodulated symbols according to the modulation algorithm so as to generate two re-modulated symbols corresponding to the two modulated symbols. The two modulated symbols are generated simultaneously through conversion using the modulation algorithm. | 05-28-2009 |
20090135963 | Apparatus and method for adaptive receive signal decoding based on channel variation in communication system - An apparatus for adaptively decoding based on a channel variation at a receiver of a communication system supporting an Alamouti mode is provided. The apparatus includes a channel variation estimator for estimating the channel variation; a channel estimator for estimating a channel value of successive channel periods or a channel value of each channel period by comparing the estimated channel variation with a threshold; an Alamouti decoder for decoding a receive signal using an Alamouti method when the estimated channel variation is less than or equal to the threshold; and a Spatial Multiplexing (SM) decoder for decoding the receive signal using an SM method having a square channel matrix when the estimated channel variation is greater than the threshold. | 05-28-2009 |
20090141833 | MULTI-CHANNEL TUNING RECEIVER AND MULTI-CHANNEL TUNING METHOD THEREOF - Provided are a multi-channel tuning receiver, including: a broadband radio frequency (RF) tuner to receive a broadband signal, divide the broadband signal into a plurality of signals, tune the divided signals, combine the tuned signals into a single signal, and output the combined single signal; an analog-to-digital (A/D) converter to convert the combined single signal to digital signal; a channelizer to extract only a bonded channel from the digital signal; and a plurality of demodulators to demodulate the bonded channel, and a multi-channel tuning method thereof. | 06-04-2009 |
20090147887 | METHOD OF CALCULATING SOFT VALUE AND METHOD OF DETECTING TRANSMISSION SIGNAL - The present invention relates to a method of calculating a soft value and a method of detecting a transmission signal. The present invention estimates a channel on the basis of a received signal and rearranges a plurality of data streams. Further, a plurality of substitute vectors are selected from the rearranged data streams and a metric corresponding to each of the substitute vector is calculated. Further, a threshold value is calculated from a metric calculated for each of the substitute vectors and a soft value of each bit of a transmission signal is calculated from the metric and threshold value corresponding to each of the substitute vectors. | 06-11-2009 |
20090147888 | Receiver Interface - The invention provides a receiver comprising a data input and a strobe input. The strobe signal transitions whenever two consecutive bits in the data signal are the same. The receiver comprises combining means for generating a recovered clock signal from a combination of the data and strobe signals. The receiver also comprises a first sampling stage arranged to sample the data signal in dependence on the recovered clock signal, the first sampling stage comprising a plurality of sampling circuits and being arranged to obtain consecutive samples of the data signal using alternating ones of the sampling circuits. A second sampling stage is arranged to sample the data from the first sampling stage in dependence on a local system clock signal. | 06-11-2009 |
20090154604 | MULTI-DIMENSIONAL DETECTOR FOR RECEIVER OF MIMO SYSTEM - Provided are a multi-dimensional detector for a receiver of an MIMO system and a method thereof. The multi-dimensional detector includes a first symbol detecting unit for calculating symbol distance values using an upper triangular matrix (R) obtained from QR decomposition to detect an m | 06-18-2009 |
20090161798 | WIRELESS RECEIVING SYSTEM WITH AN ADAPTIVELY CONFIGURABLE ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERTER - A circuit is disclosed that comprises a controller and an analog to digital converter (ADC) coupled to controller. The speed and/or the resolution of the ADC is configurable to provide optimum performance during the operation of the ADC. In an embodiment a wireless receiver with an adaptively configurable ADC for is provided. The speed and resolution the ADC is configurable depending on the operational mode of the receiver. Accordingly, through the use of an adaptively configurable ADC, power consumption and speed is optimized for each operational mode. | 06-25-2009 |
20090168924 | SCALABLE ARCHITECTURE FOR SATELLITE CHANNEL SWITCH - A frequency translation module for a broadband multi-channel communication system may include an analog signal converter, a digital channel selection device, and a digital-to-analog (D/A) converter. The analog signal converter is configured to receive a plurality of analog signals, to select analog signals residing in a predefined frequency band, and to convert each of the selected analog signals into a digital signal. The digital channel selection device is configured to process digital signals corresponding to the selected analog signals and to generate a composite output of digital signals representative of the selected analog signals. The D/A converter is configured to translate the composite output to an analog signal output decodable by a receiver. Further, the frequency translation module may include a mixer configured to upconvert the analog signal output to a frequency decodable by the receiver. | 07-02-2009 |
20090168925 | MULTIPATH SIGNAL JUDGING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND MULTIPATH SIGNAL JUDGING DEVICE - A multipath signal judging method includes: performing correlation calculation for I and Q components for a reception signal as a positioning signal modulated in a spread code and a replica code; judging code phase based on the correlation calculation; calculating an angle formed by position vectors of correlation values at advanced phase and delayed phase from the code phase in advanced and delayed directions by N chip (007-02-2009 | |
20090175386 | System and Method for Improved Vector Analysis - A system includes a “found two” module configured to receive an n-bit vector and to generate a “found two” signal indicating whether there are at least two bits of the n-bit vector in a predetermined state. The system also includes a “one's hot” module coupled to the “found two” module. The “one's hot” module is configured to generate, concurrently with the “found two” module, a first one's hot vector (OHV) based on the received n-bit vector. In one embodiment, the system and method indicate whether an input n-bit vector contains at least two high bits. | 07-09-2009 |
20090175387 | DECODING SCHEME USING MULTIPLE HYPOTHESES ABOUT TRANSMITTED MESSAGES - A method and apparatus for decoding encoded data bits of a wireless communication transmission are provided. A set of a-priori bit values corresponding to known bit values of the encoded data bits may be generated. Decoding paths that correspond to decoded data bits that are inconsistent with the a-priori bit values may be removed from the possible decoding paths to consider, and decoding the encoded data bits by selecting a decoding path from remaining decoding paths of the possible decoding paths that were not removed. Multiple hypotheses, each corresponding to a different set of a-prior bit values may be evaluated, with the decoded data for a hypothesis selected based on the evaluation output for further processing. | 07-09-2009 |
20090185641 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING NARROWBAND SIGNALS USING A RECEIVER WITH A WIDEBAND FRONTEND | 07-23-2009 |
20090185642 | AUTOMATIC GAIN CONTROL USING SIGNAL AND INTERFERENCE POWER TO OBTAIN EXTENDED BLOCKING PERFORMANCE - In a radio including analog and digital portions, with at least one A/D converter between the analog and digital portions, and the selectivity of the radio at least partly implemented in the digital domain, an AGC controller sets a first variable gain amplifier (VGA) ( | 07-23-2009 |
20090190696 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ESTIMATING PARAMETERS OF A MULTI-TONE SIGNAL - There is provided a method and a system for estimating parameters of a multi-tone signal made up of at least one single-tone signal, wherein the method comprises: generating time samples of the multi-tone signal by using a sampler; calculating the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) frequency samples by using a processing unit; calculating an intermediate vector from the calculated discrete Fourier transform (DFT) frequency samples by using the processing unit; defining coefficients of a polynomial from the components of the intermediate vector; calculating the roots of the polynomial by using the processing unit; calculating an amplitude-related vector from at least the roots of the polynomial by using the processing unit; and calculating estimates of the parameters of the multi-tone signal from the roots of the polynomial and the amplitude-related vector. | 07-30-2009 |
20090196377 | CORRELATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GNSS RECEIVER - A correlation system for a GNSS receiver uses an FFT engine to perform correlation and post-FFT operation. The FFT engine executes FFT operation to an input data stream so as to generate a frequency-domain correlation with frequency-domain C/A code and IFFT operation to the frequency-domain correlation result to generate post correlation data for each hypothesis, and executes FFT operation to the post correlation data of a selected hypothesis to generate a post-correlation FFT result in a programmable TDM manner. In the present invention, in addition to the FFT engine, some components such as a magnitude calculation unit and memory are shared by a correlation stage and a post-correlation stage. Therefore, hardware complexity can be reduced. | 08-06-2009 |
20090196378 | POST CORRELATION SYSTEM FOR GNSS RECEIVER - A post correlation system for a GNSS receiver uses an FFT engine to perform post-FFT operation to obtain spectrum data. The system has a contender selector for sieving magnitude results of the spectrum data meeting some specific conditions for selected hypotheses. The sieved magnitudes results rather than all the magnitude results are stored into a memory. By doing so, the requirement of the memory capacity can be significantly reduced. | 08-06-2009 |
20090196379 | MULTIPLE-INPUT MULTIPLE-OUTPUT SIGNAL DETECTORS BASED ON RELAXED LATTICE REDUCTION - System and methodologies for reduced-complexity signal detection and decoding in a wireless communication system are provided herein. Systems and methodologies presented herein can utilize a relaxed form of the Lenstra-Lenstra-Lovasz (LLL) lattice reduction algorithm to reduce the complexity of lattice reduction operations in the context of MIMO detection. Additional systems and methodologies presented herein can apply lattice reduction in the context of a maximum likelihood (ML) detector for spherical or elliptical lattice space-time (LAST) codes. | 08-06-2009 |
20090207945 | WIRELESS RECEIVER - A wireless receiver having improved receiving characteristics is provided. The wireless receiver ( | 08-20-2009 |
20090207946 | GROUPING BITS INTERLEAVING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - An grouping bits interleaver includes a grouping bits unit and a data storage unit. The grouping bits unit is used for storing N data bits of an input data and outputting an address signal. Wherein each data bit is stored according to a bit position. The data storage unit coupled to the grouping bits unit is used for saving the content of the grouping bits according to the address signal. Compared to the conventional interleaver, the grouping bits interleaver has better memory usage, less access time, and smaller memory size. | 08-20-2009 |
20090207947 | Efficient Diversity Combining for Wideband Downlink - A communication system employing site diversity combing to increase link availability includes at least two receivers at receive sites within a single downlink beam separated by enough distance to provide decorrelation of weather phenomena—such as rain fade outages. A signal transmits digital symbols to all the receivers and may use bandwidth efficient modulation with forward error correction coding. Sampled symbol values for each codeword are produced at each receiver, which are connected by one or more ground links so that all data can be collected at one site. At least two different soft-decision computation modules translate the sampled symbol values from the different receivers into different sets of soft-decision values—which may be log-likelihood-ratio (LLR) values reflecting the probability value for each bit of the codeword—that are digitally synchronized and combined for use by a decoder. The technique thus avoids disadvantages of either coherent waveform combining or BER-based digital switching. | 08-20-2009 |
20090220031 | METHOD FOR BLIND DEMODULATION AT HIGHER ORDERS OF SEVERAL LINEAR WAVEFORM TRANSMITTERS - Disclosed is a method of blind demodulation of signals arising from one or more transmitters, the signals including a mixture of symbols comprising at least one step of separating the transmitters by using the temporal independence of the symbol trains specific to a transmitter and the mutual independence of the transmitters. | 09-03-2009 |
20090220032 | Multi-Stage Combining Weight Calculation Method and Apparatus - Combining weights are calculated in multiple stages based on an overall system impairment covariance matrix and a grouping of signal processing delays. Computing the combining weights in multiple stages avoids having to invert the entire system impairment covariance matrix. Instead, smaller matrix inversions are performed. In one embodiment, a received signal is processed by calculating an impairment covariance matrix for a set of processing delays used to derive a plurality of signal values from the received signal. A set of intermediate combining weights is calculated for each of at least two different subsets of the processing delays based on the impairment covariance matrix. The signal values derived across the subsets of processing delays are combined using the sets of intermediate combining weights and the impairment covariance matrix. | 09-03-2009 |
20090238309 | Data exchange between channels in a data acquisition system - An apparatus and method for inter-channel data exchange in multi-channel data acquisition systems is disclosed. A multi-channel data acquisition system may include a data exchange layer coupling two or more channels of the data acquisition system. Data may be transmitted via the data exchange layer between the channels, enabling data from one channel to be processed and output by another channel. The data exchange layer may include serial or parallel communication means. | 09-24-2009 |
20090238310 | WEIGHT GENERATION METHOD FOR MULTI-ANTENNA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS UTILIZING RF-BASED AND BASEBAND SIGNAL WEIGHTING AND COMBINING BASED UPON MINIMUM BIT ERROR RATE - A method for processing communication signals is disclosed and may include, in a receiver and/or a baseband processor coupled to the receiver, the receiver comprising a plurality of antennas, generating a plurality of RF weighting values based on one or more output bit error rates of the receiver. A plurality of spatially-multiplexed RF signals, which are received by the receiver, may be weighted with the one or more of the generated plurality of RF weighting values, to form a plurality of weighted RF signals. Two or more of the generated plurality of weighted RF signals may be combined to form one or more combined RF signals. Each of the one or more combined RF signals may be processed by a different RF processing chain. The one or more output bit error rates of the receiver may be minimized by the generation of the plurality of RF weighting values. | 09-24-2009 |
20090245429 | SAMPLE RATE CONVERTER AND RECEIVER USING THE SAME - A sample rate converter includes a multiplexer which multiplexes input signals, an interpolator which interpolates a multiplexed output signal to generate a first feedback signal, a multiplier which multiplies the first feedback signal by a coefficient, a subtracter which subtracts the multiplied signal from the multiplexed input signal, an adder which adds the residual signal and a second feedback signal to sequentially generate integrated signals corresponding to the input signals, respectively, a register circuit configured to individually hold integrated signals, a multiplexer which multiplexes the integrated signals from the register circuit to generate the second feedback signal, a multiplexer which multiplexes the integrated signals from the register circuit to generate a decimation target signal, a decimator which subjects the decimation target signal to decimation to generate the multiplexed output signal, and a discrimination circuit configured to discriminate the multiplexed output signal to generate output signals. | 10-01-2009 |
20090245430 | EFFICIENT PARALLEL SUB-PACKET DECODING USING MULTIPLE DECODERS - A configurable decoder within a receiver (for example, within a wireless communication device) includes numerous decoders. In one mode, the multiple decoders are used to decode different sub-packets of a packet. When one decoder completes decoding the last sub-packet assigned to it of the packet, then that decoder generates a packet done indication. A control circuit receives the packet done indications, and when all the decoders have generated packet done indications then the control circuit initiates an action. In one example, the action is the interrupting of a processor. The processor responds by reading status information from the control circuit, thereby resetting the interrupt. End-of-packet markers are usable to generate packet done indications and to generate EOP interrupts. Similarly, end-of-group markers are usable to generate group done indications and to generate EOG interrupts. The decoder block is configurable to process sub-packets of a packet using either one or multiple decoders. | 10-01-2009 |
20090245431 | ZEROING-OUT LLRS USING DEMOD-BITMAP TO IMPROVE PERFORMANCE OF MODEM DECODER - A demodulation mask bitmap includes binary mask values. Each mask value corresponds to an input resource element to a demodulator. For each mask value of a first state, a demodulation engine of the demodulator is not clocked and the demodulator outputs a zero-valued resource element. For each mask value of a second state, the demodulation engine is clocked, the input resource element is demodulated, and the demodulator outputs a demodulated resource element. A demodulation mask bitmap is designed to mask pilot resource elements and corrupted resource elements. Power is conserved by not clocking the demodulation engine for corrupted and pilot resource elements. Subsequent LLR generation and decode operations are simplified. Decoder performance is improved because the decoder does not decode LLR values derived from corrupted resource elements and/or resource elements not relevant to the reconstruction of a communicated message. | 10-01-2009 |
20090252259 | RECEIVING DEVICE AND RECEIVING METHOD - A receiving device that receives as a received signal R | 10-08-2009 |
20090257530 | RADIUS ADAPTIVE SPHERE DECODING WITH PROBABILISTIC NOISE CONSTRAINT - Method and apparatus for decoding code words received over a communication channel are disclosed. A radius-adaptive sphere decoding methodology reduces the number of operations in sphere-constrained search. Imposing probabilistic noise constraint on top of sphere constraint, particularly at an early stage, provides a more stringent necessary condition. Hence, many branches that are unlikely to be selected are removed in the early stage of sphere search. The trade-off between computational complexity and performance can be controlled by adjusting the pruning probability. | 10-15-2009 |
20090257531 | SAMPLING FILTER APPARATUS AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - The present invention has an object to provide a sampling filter apparatus and a wireless communication apparatus, which are capable of changing a filter characteristic without employing complex waveforms as control signals, and also, capable of performing filtering process operations without performing a decimation, while utilizing a wide frequency space. A sampling filter apparatus | 10-15-2009 |
20090262867 | BITSTREAM NAVIGATION TECHNIQUES - A request may be received to navigate through a bitstream by a navigation time, the bitstream having a plurality of data sequences, each of the plurality being associated with a different presentation time of the bitstream. The navigation time may be correlated with a number of bytes from a current location of the bitstream to a target location of the bitstream. The bitstream may be navigated to reach the target location within the bitstream, based on the number of bytes. Navigation may then occur from an initial start code proximate to the target location within the bitstream to a further start code until a final start code is reached that has a timestamp which, compared to a timestamp of the current location, indicates a presentation time that corresponds to the navigation time and thereby satisfies the request. | 10-22-2009 |
20090262868 | SIGNAL DECODER WITH GENERAL PURPOSE CALCULATION ENGINE - Some embodiments disclosed herein provide a signal decoder with a general purpose calculation engine. A system for decoding signals in a wireless communication system can include: a controller including an instruction counter; a program memory configured to store program code for operating the controller; a general purpose calculation engine configured to perform primitive operations derived from algorithms for decoding a plurality of coded signals received via a plurality of receive antennas; and a data memory connected to the general purpose calculation engine for storing data generated by the general purpose calculation engine while performing the primitive operations. | 10-22-2009 |
20090262869 | Decision-Feedback Detection for Block Differential Space-Time Modulation - Time variation on fading channels hinders accurate channel estimation in differential space-time modulation and deteriorates the performance. Decision-feedback differential detection is employed for block differential space-time modulation, and compared with conventional differential space-time modulation. It is observed that the proposed scheme does not suffer effective fading bandwidth expansion, as does the conventional scheme. An improved effective signal-to-noise ratio approach is proposed for analyzing the performance of the proposed scheme in time-varying flat Rayleigh fading. Theoretical analysis and simulations show the improved performance of the proposed scheme over the conventional scheme. | 10-22-2009 |
20090268851 | Method for Detecting Paths in Pulse Transmission and a Device for Carrying Out Said Method - The invention relates to method and device for detecting propagation paths in pulse transmission, wherein a received signal comprises pulses on each time symbol. After synchronising a pulse-based reception, the inventive method consists (A) in determining the arrival times of pulses of the same current time symbol, (B) in generating a path hypotheses by assigning an initial score to each dated pulse, (C) in determining the arrival times of pulses of the time symbol following the current symbol, (D) in relatively comparing the arrival times of pulses of the following time symbol with the arrival times of the path hypotheses and (E) in updating scores according to the relative comparison results. Said path detecting method is suitable for pulse information transmission, in particular in UWB. | 10-29-2009 |
20090268852 | OFDM DEMODULATION DEVICE - An OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) demodulator includes: an FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) circuit ( | 10-29-2009 |
20090268853 | MULTIPLE INPUT, MULTIPLE OUTPUT CHANNEL, DIGITAL RECEIVER TUNER - The present invention teaches a compact and highly integrated multiple-channel digital tuner and receiver architecture, suitable for widespread field deployment, wherein each receiver demodulator channel may be remotely, automatically, dynamically, and economically configured for a particular cable, carrier frequency, and signaling baud-rate, from an option universe that includes a plurality of input cables, a plurality of carrier frequencies, and a plurality of available baud-rates. A multiple coax input, multiple channel output, digital tuner is partitioned into a multiple coax input digitizer portion and a multiple channel output front-end portion. The digitizer portion consists of N digitizers and accepts input signals from N coax cables and digitizes them with respective A/D converters. The front-end portion consists of M front-ends and provides M channel outputs suitable for subsequent processing by M respective digital demodulators. In a first clock domain, a fixed predetermined A/D sampling rate is chosen to provide oversampling of the inputs by a common integer multiple of all the symbol rates of interest. A plurality other clock domains operate at selectable sub-multiples of the first domain as required to deliver a constant number of symbol samples at the output of each front-end. At the input to each of the M front-ends is a respective input selector coupled to each of the N streams of digitized input data followed by a digital signal scaler that dynamically scales the selected incoming stream of digitized input data as a function of the signal power of the channel's associated carrier. | 10-29-2009 |
20090274245 | APPARATUS AND METHODS HAVING MAJORITY BIT DETECTION - Electronic apparatus and fabrication of the electronic apparatus that includes detection of the majority of values in a plurality of data bits may be used in a variety of applications. Embodiments include application of majority bit detection to process data bits in a device for further analysis in the device based on the results of the majority bit detection. In an embodiment, such further processing in a memory device after majority bit detection may include data bit inversion prior to outputting the data from the memory device. | 11-05-2009 |
20090279644 | MIMO DECODER AND MIMO DECODING METHOD - A MIMO decoder, which is capable of changing a search area of a transmission signal vector in accordance with a change in a channel matrix, includes: a generalized inverse vector matrix calculation unit for calculating a generalized inverse matrix of Moore-Penrose derived from a channel matrix indicative of a radiowave propagation environment; a search area limiting processing unit for performing weighting for each eigenvector calculated from the channel matrix in inverse proportion to a square root of an eigenvalue corresponding to the eigenvector, and determines the search area of the transmission signal vector centered at the generalized inverse matrix solution of Moore-Penrose based on the weighted result; and a most likelihood estimation unit for searching for a transmission signal vector by use of a most likelihood estimation based on the search area determined by the search area limiting processing unit. | 11-12-2009 |
20090279645 | Device for Reading Information on a Digital Bus Without a Wire Connection to the Network - A device for reading information recovers signals exchanged on a digital data communications bus ( | 11-12-2009 |
20090285336 | Wideband Out-Of-Band-Receiver - The disclosed embodiments relate to a system that processes a received signal. An exemplary embodiment of the system comprises a receiver circuit that is adapted to receive the received signal and separate an out-of-band data signal corresponding to an out-of-band frequency spectrum from the received signal, an analog-to-digital (A/D) converter that converts the out-of-band data signal to a digitized out-of-band frequency spectrum signal, and a circuit that is adapted to identify data corresponding to an out-of-band data channel within the digitized out-of-band frequency spectrum signal. | 11-19-2009 |
20090290659 | Channel stacking system and method of operation - A channel stacking system includes first and second downconverting stages, first and second analog to digital converters, and a digital switching and signal processor. The first downconverting stage includes a first downconverter circuit having an input for receiving a first RF input signal which includes a multitude of first channels. The first downconverter circuit frequency downconverts the first RF input signal to a first IF signal which includes the multitude of first channels. The first analog-to-digital converter converts the first IF signal to a first digital IF signal. The second downconverter stage includes a second downconverter circuit having an input for receiving a second RF input signal which includes a multitude of second channels. The second downconverter circuit frequency downconverts the second RF input signal to a second IF signal including said multitude of second channels. | 11-26-2009 |
20090290660 | Pseudo Noise Coded Communication Systems - Systems, apparatus and methods for acquiring code phase and multipath channel models in communication device. A fast Walsh transform engine is used to acquire a pseudo noise code phase and the pseudo noise code bit rate of a radiofrequency signal that has been broadcast. Multipath filter coefficients from the pseudo noise code phase and the pseudo noise code bit rate are recovered. A pseudo noise generator is initialized with the pseudo noise code phase acquired during the fast Walsh transform step. The pseudo noise code phase and pseudo noise code bit rate are tracked by a phase locked loop so that communication with the radiofrequency signal is maintained. Then, the received noise code phase and pseudo noise code bit rate are despread so that any data in the radiofrequency signal is recovered. | 11-26-2009 |
20090296859 | AUTOMATIC CORRECTION OF DATA POLARITY ON A DIFFERENTIAL SERIAL BUS - Methods and structure described herein provide for detecting data inversions between electronic devices in communication with one another and automatically correcting those that inversions. An electronic device may be configured with a receiver that is configured for receiving differential serial data from a transmitter of another electronic device. The differential serial data is formatted according to a particular communication protocol associated with the electronic devices. The receiver detects an invalid sequence in the received differential serial data, such as an inverted SAS primitive, and automatically change the receive logic of the receiver such that subsequent received differential serial data is in the proper polarity. The transmitting device does not require notification of the change in receive logic. | 12-03-2009 |
20090296860 | ADAPTIVE CORRELATION - A method is provided for correlating samples of a received signal and samples of an internally generated/stored sample sequence (“IGSSS”). The method involves performing a first iteration of a first-resolution correlation state. The first-resolution correlation state involves: selecting a first N sets of samples from the received signal; selecting a first set of samples from the IGSSS; and concurrently comparing each of the N sets of samples with the first set of samples to determine if a correlation exists between the same. If it is determined that a correlation does not exist between one of the N sets of samples and the first set of samples, then a second iteration of the first-resolution correlation state is performed. If it is determined that a correlation exists between one of the N sets of samples and the first set of samples, then a first iteration of a second-resolution correlation state is performed. | 12-03-2009 |
20090296861 | System and Method for Multiple Signal Carrier Time Domain Channel Estimation - The present invention provides a method of characterizing a frequency response of a transmission channel between a transceiver and a subscriber unit. The method includes once per predetermined interval of time, the transceiver transmitting a signal including multiple carriers, a plurality of the carriers including training symbols, a plurality of the carriers including information symbols. The subscriber unit generates frequency response estimates at the frequencies of the carriers including training symbols, each interval of time. The frequency response estimates are converted into a time domain response generating an impulse response once per interval of time. The impulse responses are filtered over a plurality of intervals of time. A channel profile is determined from the filtered impulse responses. The channel profile is converted to the frequency domain generating a channel interpolator. The characterized frequency response is generated from the channel interpolator and the frequency response estimates. The filtering can include averaging the impulse responses over a plurality of intervals of time, accumulating the impulse responses over a plurality of intervals of time, or weighted averaging of the impulse responses over a plurality of intervals of time. The weighted averaging can be dependent upon a phase error between the impulse responses, and/or an amplitude error between the impulse responses. | 12-03-2009 |
20090304114 | METHOD FOR DECODING DIGITAL INFORMATION ENCODED WITH A CHANNEL CODE - The performance of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, employing coding with multiple antennas depends heavily on the demapper algorithm which is used for MIMO detection. Soft-output demappers lead to better bit error rate (BER) performance compared to hard-decision demappers, but have a higher implementation complexity. The algorithm, proposed in this paper, relies on low-complexity harddecision MIMO detection. The reliability information for the received bits used to compute log-likelihood ratios is based on an estimate of the average bit error rate which is for example derived from the corresponding channel state information only. The algorithm is applicable to any hard-decision MIMO detector. As an example, we describe the application of the scheme to a linear MMSE detector and to sphere decoding with early termination. | 12-10-2009 |
20090304115 | DECODING MEDIA CONTENT AT A WIRELESS RECEIVER - A wireless receiver ( | 12-10-2009 |
20090304116 | HARDWARE ENGINE TO DEMOD SIMO, MIMO, AND SDMA SIGNALS - An apparatus including a configurable demodulation architecture which includes a control module and a demodulation engine. The control module includes a set of one or more control fields. The demodulation engine includes a spatial whitening module, a Minimum Mean Square Estimation (MMSE) module, at least a first Maximal Ratio Combining (MRC) module, and at least one multiplexer. Further, the multiplexer is coupled to the instruction module and controlled based on the control fields to select at least one of the MMSE module or MRC module. | 12-10-2009 |
20090304117 | CONCATENATED CODING/DECODING IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - A method and apparatus for improving performance in communication systems is provided. In one implementation received encoded data is decoded using an inner rateless decoder to produce a series of decoded rateless outputs. The series of decoded rateless outputs is combined to produce a block, and the block is decoded using an outer block decoder. In another implementation, encoded data for a data block encoded with a rateless code is received. It is determined that an initial predetermined amount of mutual information for the data block has been received, the initial predetermined amount being an amount expected to allow decoding of the received encoded data. Additional encoded data for the data block is received. It is determined that an extra predetermined amount of mutual information for the data block has been received beyond said initial predetermined amount of mutual information. | 12-10-2009 |
20090304118 | DIVERSITY RECEIVING DEVICE - A diversity receiving device includes a plurality of mixers which are provided to correspond to antennas arranged so as to be separated from each other and each of which multiplies a radio frequency signal output from the corresponding antenna by a local oscillation signal to modulate the radio frequency signal into an intermediate frequency signal; a reference signal source that generates a reference signal; a plurality of local oscillating units which are provided to correspond to the plurality of mixers, and each of which generates a local oscillation signal having a frequency corresponding to the phase of the reference signal and supplies the local oscillation signal to the corresponding mixer; a filter circuit that is provided between the reference signal source and the plurality of local oscillating units and changes the phase of the reference signal supplied to all the local oscillating units or the local oscillating units other than one local oscillating unit according to a predetermined passband frequency; an adder that combines the intermediate frequency signals output from the mixers; and a phase control circuit that detects a phase difference between the intermediate frequency signals output from the plurality of mixers and controls the passband frequency of the filter circuit such that there is no phase difference between the intermediate frequency signals. | 12-10-2009 |
20090304119 | RECEIVING APPARATUS, RECEIVING METHOD AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - There is provided a receiving apparatus including a plurality of antennas, a power detection unit to detect received power of respective received signals received by the plurality of antennas, and a plurality of reception processing units that includes a first reception processing unit to perform reception processing with a first bit width on a received signal received by any one of the plurality of antennas and a second reception processing unit to perform reception processing with a second bit width smaller than the first bit width on a received signal detected by the power detection unit as having lower received power than the received signal to be processed by the first reception processing unit. | 12-10-2009 |
20090304120 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM WITH IMPROVED BROADCAST COVERAGE - Techniques to transmit data with cyclic delay diversity and pilot staggering are described. For cyclic delay diversity, OFDM symbols having different cyclic delay durations are generated. The cyclic delay durations for the OFDM symbols may be selected to be time varying with respect to the cyclic delay durations for OFDM symbols transmitted by a neighboring base station. An FDM pilot is generated and multiplexed on multiple sets of subbands in different symbol periods. Waveforms for a second radio technology (e.g., W-CDMA) may be generated for data to be transmitted with this radio technology. The OFDM symbols are multiplexed onto time slots used for OFDM, and the waveforms for the second radio technology are multiplexed onto time slots used for this radio technology. One or multiple modulated signals may be generated based on the multiplexed OFDM symbols and waveforms. Each modulated signal is transmitted from a respective antenna. | 12-10-2009 |
20090310716 | CHANNEL BIT DETECTION SYSTEM - A channel bit detection system is provided. The channel bit detection system includes an RF front end, an analog-to-digital converter, a combiner, a length estimator, a length accumulator, an offset control, and a channel bit detector. The RF front end receives an RF signal, and is then digitized at a sampling rate R into a plurality of samples by the analog-to-digital converter. The combiner produces combined samples by shifting the plurality of samples an offset value. The length estimator estimates a length of each two consecutive combined samples. The length accumulator produces land lengths and pit lengths of the combined samples according to length of each two consecutive combined samples. The offset control provides the offset value according to the land lengths and the pits lengths. The channel bit detector recovers the channel bit from the plurality of combined samples. | 12-17-2009 |
20090310717 | SIGNAL CONVERTERS - A signal converter. The signal converter converts an analog inphase signal and an analog quasdrature phase signal into a digital baseband inphase signal and a digital baseband quadrature phase signal. The analog inphase signal and the analog quadrature phase signal are orthogonal to each other and are carried in a predetermined intermediate frequency. The digital baseband inphase signal and the digital baseband quadrature phase signal are carried in zero frequency. The signal converter comprises a signal combiner combining the analog inphase signal and the analog quadrature phase signal to obtain an analog combined signal, an analog to digital converter converting the analog combined signal to a digital combined signal, and a signal separator separating the digital combined signal to obtain the digital baseband inphase signal and the digital baseband quadrature phase signal. | 12-17-2009 |
20090310718 | Data distribution system and reception apparatus - In a data distributing party, original data is divided into sub-blocks. Each sub-block is encoded according to a predetermined encoding/decoding formula, to divide each sub-block into sub-symbols. In the predetermined encoding/decoding formula, data prior to encoding can be restored by obtaining a predetermined number of data from data posterior to encoding. Each symbol is generated by retrieving sub-symbols from respective sub-blocks and each generated symbol is distributed. In contrast, in a data receiving party, when completing the reception of the symbols not less than a predetermined number necessary for restoring, the sub-symbols are extracted from the respective received symbols in an order of receiving the symbols to restore the sub-blocks posterior to encoding. Each restored sub-block posterior to encoding is decoded according to the above encoding/decoding formula to restore each corresponding sub-block prior to encoding. The restored sub-blocks are then joined to one another to restore the original data. | 12-17-2009 |
20090316836 | SINGLE-WIRE, SERIAL, DAISY-CHAIN DIGITAL COMMUNICATION NETWORK AND COMMUNICATION METHOD THEREOF - A digital communication network including several receivers and a communication method for the digital communication network are provided. Each of the receivers includes a first port and a second port. The first port of the first receiver is coupled to the microcontroller. The first port of each of the receivers except the first receiver is coupled to the second port of the previous receiver. Each receiver further includes a chain register. The chain registers of the receivers are mutually connected through the first ports and the second ports, forming a virtual global queue. By utilizing the characteristics of the virtual global queue, the system and the method achieve bi-directional, single-wire, serial communication without the encumbrance of assigning addresses or identification codes to the receivers. | 12-24-2009 |
20090316837 | SAMPLE REARRANGEMENT FOR A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM WITH CYCLIC EXTENSION - Signal detectivity is improved by implementation of address adjustment to reorder samples and to discard undesired samples. Such reordering is utilized when the time order of received samples are distorted and/or corrupted, which can occur in at least three situations. If the samples are distorted in time order, the samples are rearranged to allow the samples to return to proper order. The samples, if corrupted, are discarded and replaced with zero samples. | 12-24-2009 |
20090316838 | Cordic based complex tuner with exact frequency resolution - Systems and methods are disclosed that include selecting a sampling frequency and a tuning resolution frequency. These systems and methods may further include determining a wordlength of the phase accumulator, a numeric representation of the phase range, and a reduced representable value of a phase accumulator. In addition, these systems and methods may include operating the phase accumulator, where the phase accumulator creates an output phase accumulator signal. These systems and methods may further includes adjusting the angle of the output phase accumulator signal, where the output phase accumulator signal is adjusted based upon the operation of the phase accumulator, where adjusting the angle of the output phase accumulator signal creates an adjusted output phase accumulator signal and operating a CORDIC module, and where the CORDIC module performs operations upon the output phase accumulator signal based upon the parameters of the phase accumulator. | 12-24-2009 |
20090316839 | Apparatus and method for adaptively correcting I/Q imbalance - An apparatus and method for adaptively correcting I/Q imbalance, which is used in a receiver for correcting a received I/Q imbalanced signal to thus eliminate the I/Q imbalance. First, an interference amount caused by interference from an imbalanced in-phase signal to an imbalanced quadrature-phase signal is computed and accordingly subtracted from the quadrature-phase signal, so that a corrected quadrature-phase signal without phase imbalance is obtained. Next, a power of output in-phase signal, a power of output quadrature-phase signal, and a target are compared to thus determine an in-phase scaling factor and a quadrature-phase scaling factor. Finally, the imbalanced in-phase signal is multiplied by the in-phase scaling factor to thus obtain the output in-phase signal, and the corrected quadrature-phase signal is multiplied by the quadrature-phase scaling factor to thus obtain the output quadrature-phase signal. | 12-24-2009 |
20090323866 | Demodulation method - A method of calculating at least one soft bit corresponding to a data symbol received by a radio receiver is described. In one form the method ( | 12-31-2009 |
20100002811 | SOFT REPETITION CODE COMBINER USING CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION - An embodiment is a method and apparatus to decode a signal using channel information. A channel state estimator generates a tone value representing channel information. A quantizer quantizes the tone value. A combiner combines de-interleaved symbols weighed by the quantized tone value. A comparator compares the combined de-interleaved symbols with a threshold to generate a decoding decision. | 01-07-2010 |
20100008450 | DEMODULATION USING BLIND CONSTELLATION IDENTIFICATION FOR COMMUNICATION SIGNALS - A receiver and a method to demodulate an unknown signal with an unknown linear modulation is described. The method of one of various embodiments comprises: sampling the unknown signal at a sampling rate to produce a sampled signal; applying carrier frequency offset estimation to the sampled signal to match the frequency of the sampled signal to that of the unknown signal and to change constellation rotation of the sampled signal; utilizing symbol period estimation to match the sampling rate of the sampled signal to a sampling rate of the unknown signal; applying blind equalization to the sampled signal to provide an equalized unknown signal; and demodulating the equalized unknown signal by utilizing a multistep windowed histogram clustering algorithm to generate constellation clusters; applying a rotation rate estimation algorithm to the clusters to estimate a phase rotation rate; and utilizing the phase rotation rate estimate to de-rotate the clusters. | 01-14-2010 |
20100014614 | Digital Radio Systems - Apparatus comprising a pre-filter rake architecture with various features designed to, in at least some circumstances, to lessen the data processing burden associated with the architecture. In one embodiment, the pre-filter aspect can be disabled. | 01-21-2010 |
20100014615 | Systems and methods for demodulating multiply-modulated communications signals - Embodiments of the present invention provide for an overall hardware and software approach to Mode-S demodulation, especially where the Mode-S signals (such as squitters) have been modulated with multiple modulation protocols. Various implementations utilize coherent phase detection, since coherently detecting phase transitions in a multiple modulated signal results in better sensitivity and improved interference rejection over non-coherent modulation techniques. Further, addressing the demodulation of multiply-modulated signals may also be approached in embodiments of the present invention as a unified demodulation system, rather than disjoint demodulation of the separately modulated protocols. | 01-21-2010 |
20100027717 | Equalization of OFDM Signals Based on Time and Then Frequency Interpolation - Two dimensional interpolation techniques are used to compensate for time-varying channel gain H in an OFDM system. The channel gain can be reasonably estimated at various times and at various frequencies due, for example, to the use of pilot tones. These channel estimates are used to estimate the channel gain at other times and/or frequencies by two-dimensional interpolation, interpolating first with respect to time (e.g., with respect to a symbol index s) and then with respect to frequency (e.g., with respect to a sub-carrier index c). | 02-04-2010 |
20100027718 | Preamble detection in a Multi-Antenna MIMO 802.16e Receiver - A preamble detector for a plurality of streams of baseband digitized signals has a plurality of preamble processors, each preamble processor coupled to an input and generating an output. Each preamble processor has an input coupled to a first delay, the output of the first delay coupled to a second delay generating an output. The first and second delay are substantially equal to a preamble part. A first multiplier generates an output from a conjugated output of the second delay output and a first delay output. A second multiplier generates an output from a conjugated first delay output and an input stream. The first and second multiplier outputs are accumulated over an interval, and the complex output of the accumulator is formed into a magnitude, thereby generating the output of each preamble processor. The outputs of the preamble processors are summed and compared to a threshold to generate a preamble detect. | 02-04-2010 |
20100027719 | Systems and methods for fine alignment of analog and digital signal pathways - Methods and systems for temporally aligning audio samples of a digital portion of a radio broadcast signal with audio samples of an analog portion of the radio broadcast signal are disclosed. The methods and systems comprise the steps of receiving a radio broadcast signal having an analog portion and a digital portion; separating the analog portion of the radio broadcast signal from the digital portion of the radio broadcast signal; producing a first plurality of audio samples representative of the analog portion of the radio broadcast signal; retrieving from a memory a stored first time interval corresponding to an approximate time for data representing a first sample of the digital portion to travel through a digital signal path in a receiver, wherein the digital signal path includes a digital demodulator; measuring a second time for data representing the first sample of the digital portion to travel from an input of the digital signal path to an input of the digital demodulator; generating a delay amount for delaying a second plurality of audio samples relative to the first plurality of audio samples such that the second plurality of audio samples is temporally aligned with the first plurality of audio samples by adding the first time to the second time; producing the second plurality of audio samples representative of the digital portion of the radio broadcast signal; delaying the second plurality of audio samples by the delay amount such that the second plurality of audio samples is temporally aligned to within a predetermined amount with the first plurality of audio samples; and digitally combining the first plurality of audio samples with the second plurality of audio samples to produce a combined audio output. | 02-04-2010 |
20100027720 | CHANNEL ESTIMATING METHOD AND CHANNEL ESTIMATOR - There is provided a channel estimating method of performing frequency conversion by a first fast Fourier transformation on a reception signal and extracting a desired signal after demodulating the reception signal, and deriving electrical energy against time delay of a channel by inverse fast Fourier transformation of the extracted result, wherein: values of a low pass filter, having an output from oversampling the input to the first fast Fourier transformation, are thinned by a plurality of thinning circuits with the same synchronization and different discrete times, and based on the outputs of the plurality of thinning circuits, the electrical energy against time delay related to the reception signal arrival time position is derived by respectively performing the first fast Fourier transformation and the inverse fast Fourier transformation. | 02-04-2010 |
20100034319 | DECODING OF BLOCKS IN RADIO COMMUNICATIONS - Apparatuses and methods are disclosed for decoding expected block messages transmitted as radio signals over an air interface in interleaved bursts from a shorter received burst. A method for detecting certain expected messages from received bursts is described, comprising: receiving a one to m bursts of n bursts of an interleaved block message; retrieving stored values for the expected m+1 to n bursts of the interleaved block message; forming an expected interleaved block message; deinterleaving and decoding the expected block message; determining from an error checking whether the expected block message is valid; and if valid, indicating the expected block message was received after receiving only the m bursts. Apparatuses are described for a receiver configured to detect an expected message after receiving m transmitted bursts of an interleaved n burst block message. The expected message may be an empty paging channel or broadcast message. | 02-11-2010 |
20100034320 | METHOD FOR DECODING 2X2 SPATIOTEMPORAL CODES, IN PARTICULAR GOLDEN TYPE CODE - A method is provided for decoding spatiotemporal codes, in particular Golden type code. The received vector is subjected to a MMSE-GDFE filtering, a constellation re-centering to define a Z-matrix, a permutation to obtain X-shaped matrices, a trellis base reduction and a ZF-DFE algorithm by processing the elements of the Z-matrix layer by layer. Each layer includes both elements of the diagonal or anti-diagonal of the Z-matrix. | 02-11-2010 |
20100040176 | Channel Impulse Response Estimate Management - A method of steering a channel estimation search window, the method comprising providing a series of raw CIR tap values to span a channel estimation search window containing a sub-window whose contents are intended to be passed for further processing to produce a refined CIR estimate, determining, amongst a plurality of groups of continuous tap values within the window, the group containing the largest amount of signal energy and time-shifting the window as necessary to arrange that the group so determined occupies the sub-window. | 02-18-2010 |
20100046674 | System and Method for Frequency Translation With Harmonic Suppression Using Mixer Stages - A method for generating phase signals includes triggering a phase register to output a binary number stored in the phase register, wherein the phase register is triggered based at least in part on a voltage signal provided by a voltage controlled oscillator. The method also includes providing an input signal to a decoder, wherein the input signal is based at least in part on the binary number output by the phase register and the decoder is operable to generate phase signals in response to the input signals. The method further includes incrementing the binary number stored in the phase register and repeating the triggering and providing steps after the binary number is incremented. | 02-25-2010 |
20100046675 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING LAYERED AND NON-LAYERED DATA VIA LAYERED MODULATION - A media access control (MAC) layer controller can manage base layer data and enhancement layer data in a layered modulation system. The MAC layer controller can process both base layer data and enhancement layer data and map the encoded symbols to a layered modulation constellation when both are present. If data for one of the layers terminates, then the MAC layer controller can generate and supply predetermined stuffing data to the layer lacking additional data. The MAC layer controller can send a control signal to the physical layer hardware to cause the hardware to map the layered signals having the stuffing data to a modified signal constellation. The MAC controller can also generate an overhead message that indicates the occurrence of the stuffing data. The receiver can receive the overhead message and can use the information to configure the receiver for the layered modulation constellation or the modified signal constellation. | 02-25-2010 |
20100054368 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO DETECT PACKETS OF DIFFERENT FORMATS IN A WIRELESS RECEIVER - A method and system for detecting packets of different formats in a receiver is disclosed. The method and system include initializing the receiver to be in a legacy mode; and receiving at least one data symbol by the receiver. The method and system include detecting if there is a high throughput (HT) signal field within a data packet and determining the format of the data packet based upon the detection of a HT signal field. | 03-04-2010 |
20100054369 | FILTER TUNING CIRCUIT FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A filter tuning circuit for a wireless communication system is provided. A filter tuning circuit includes a comparator and a counter which control a transconvertance value of a differential transconverter to tune a filter. | 03-04-2010 |
20100054370 | DEMODULATION METHOD AND DEMODULATOR OF PULSE-EDGE SHIFTED PULSE - A variable delay circuit delays a carrier signal having a predetermined frequency, and outputs a modulated signal. A delay setting unit sets a delay period for the variable delay circuit according to a data signal to be modulated. The delay setting unit assigns each symbol in the data signal to any one of positive edges and negative edges in the carrier signal, and sets a delay period for the variable delay circuit at the timing at which a positive edge in the carrier signal passes through the variable delay circuit, according to the symbol value in the data signal assigned to the positive edge. Furthermore, the delay setting unit sets a delay period for the variable delay circuit at the timing at which a negative edge in the carrier signal passes through the variable delay circuit, according to the symbol value in the data signal assigned to the negative edge. | 03-04-2010 |
20100054371 | Noise Variance Estimation In Wireless Communications For Diversity Combining and Log Likelihood Scaling - The present patent application comprises a method and means for demodulating symbols, comprising converting an OFDM symbol from a time domain to a frequency domain, selecting pilot tones, making a soft decision based on received data, and estimating a channel frequency response. In another example, the method and means further comprises selecting guard tones. In another example, the method and means further comprises generating channel estimates for in-band and band-edge pilot tones. | 03-04-2010 |
20100054372 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR GENERATING SOFT BIT INFORMATION IN A RECEIVER OF A MULTIPLE ANTENNA SYSTEM - The invention which relates to a method and to an arrangement for generating soft bit information in a receiver of a multiple antenna system is based on the object of reducing the calculation complexity for generating the soft bit information. In terms of the method, the object is achieved by virtue of the fact that the iterative deepening search for the Mh antenna is carried out in two substeps, in which case, in the first substep, when the last element of s is not assigned to the mth antenna, s is rotated in such a manner that m is associated with the last element of s, that the channel matrix H is likewise rotated and QR decomposition of the channel matrix H is carried out, that, in the second substep, the iterative deepening search is carried out using a search radius in the form of a vector (Formula (I)); in which (Formula (II)) denotes the number of bit positions in the mth antenna, that the comparison (Formula (III))≧d | 03-04-2010 |
20100061489 | Power Saving Apparatus and Method of Multiple-Antenna Receiver with Variable Rate - A multiple-antenna receiver can enable and disable receive radio frequency front-end and analog front-end circuits of specific antenna receiving routes according to a predetermined scheme during the receive data phase. The predetermined scheme calculates signal quality indices of the receiving route antennas by means of a preamble sequence, and derives the modulation and coding scheme and the number of spatial streams via the information provided by a header sequence. Indications of the signal quality indices are compared with threshold values to determine which receiving routes are to be turned on and which receiving routes are to be turned off. | 03-11-2010 |
20100067620 | REDUCED COMPLEXITY SLIDING WINDOW BASED EQUALIZER - A method and apparatus for use in data estimation in wireless communication are provided. A wireless communications signal is received and transformed to produce a received vector. The received vector is processed using a sliding window based approach that includes processing each of a plurality of windows. For each window, an approximate circulant channel response matrix is produced for use in estimating a data vector corresponding to the window. | 03-18-2010 |
20100074375 | SPHERE DECODING METHOD APPLIED TO MULTI-INPUT MULTI-OUTPUT (MIMO) CHANNEL - A sphere decoding method applied to a MIMO channel is provided. Multiple constellation points of an n | 03-25-2010 |
20100074376 | SPHERE DECODING METHOD APPLIED TO MULTI-INPUT MULTI-OUTPUT (MIMO) CHANNEL - A sphere decoding method applied to a MIMO channel is provided. Multiple constellation points of an n | 03-25-2010 |
20100074377 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE FOR RECEIVING AND TRANSMITTING OFDM SIGNALS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication device for receiving transmitted orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) signals in a wireless communication system. The device includes a plurality of antenna elements to receive a plurality of OFDM signals transmitted from a transmitter via a plurality of transmission channels. The device performs channel estimation processing and decoding processing on the plurality of received OFDM signals, and weights the plurality of received OFDM signals by weight vectors chosen to improve a performance of the plurality of received OFDM signals. | 03-25-2010 |
20100080326 | RDS/RBDS DECODER WITH RELIABLE VALUES - A method is provided that contemplates including filtered decode values in an RDS/RBDS output signal. The filtered decode values are generated from reliable values. The reliable values are generated from corresponding received values from each of at least two groups of RDS/RBDS data in an RDS/RBDS input signal. The method also comprises preventing an error correction code (ECC) unit from modifying the filtered decode values in the RDS/RBDS output signal. | 04-01-2010 |
20100086083 | RECEIVING APPARATUS AND RECEIVING METHOD - It is an object of the present invention to reduce deterioration of the receiving performance due to the inter-carrier interference after a discrete Fourier transform in a receiving apparatus with an OFDM signal. A frequency transform part transforms a frequency of a received signal to a desired frequency. A time axis data expansion part extracts at least K+N pieces of data corresponding to one symbol including a guard interval from output of the frequency transform part to generate 2N pieces of data by adding zero before and after the extracted data. A window shaping part shapes a waveform by multiplying output of the time axis data expansion part by a window coefficient, and a discrete Fourier transform part performs a discrete Fourier transform with respect to output of the window shaping part. A demodulation part performs a demodulation of a sub-carrier by extracting a sub-carrier component. An inter-carrier interference component calculation part calculates an inter-carrier interference component from output of the discrete Fourier transform part. A window coefficient generation part selects a window coefficient on the basis of output of the inter-carrier interference component calculation part to output to the window shaping part. | 04-08-2010 |
20100086084 | ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING DEMODULATOR - An OFDM demodulator which does not require a reference signal for synchronization of carriers and can reduce influence of phase rotation by a propagation path when carrier synchronization is made. The OFDM demodulator performs Fourier transform plural times in 2 or more different operation ranges for the same OFDM symbol, calculates phases of sub carriers from the plural-time results of the Fourier transform, compares the calculated phases for each of the plural-time results of the Fourier transform and detects an error in frequency of reproduction carrier from the compared results. | 04-08-2010 |
20100091910 | Reception Device and Reception Method - Provided is a reception device which can reduce a parallel interference canceller processing delay. The reception device ( | 04-15-2010 |
20100091911 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A wireless communication apparatus is provided for receiving packets transmitted with delay amounts different for the respective transmission branches. The wireless communication apparatus includes a plurality of reception branches, a synchronous processing unit for detecting synchronous timing independently for the respective reception branches; and a signal processing unit for performing decoding processing and other kinds of processing subsequent to the synchronous timing for the respective reception branches. | 04-15-2010 |
20100098193 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CLASSIFYING MODULATIONS IN MULTIPATH ENVIRONMENTS - A receiver supports a single carrier (SC) form of modulation and a multi-carrier form of modulation such as orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM). Upon receiving a signal, the receiver determines a maximum fluctuation range (MFR) as a function of at least a fourth-order cumulant of a received signal; and classifies a modulation type of the received signal as a function of the determined maximum fluctuation range. After determining the modulation type of the received signal, the receiver switches to that modulation mode to recover data from the received signal. | 04-22-2010 |
20100104046 | RECEIVER OF BINARY OFFSET CARRIER (BOC) MODULATED SIGNALS - Binary Offset Carrier (BOC) is the agreed modulation for signals of next generation Global Navigation satellite systems (GNSS). Compared to current phase shift keying (PSK) modulation by a code, there is a further modulation by a sub-carrier. There is a known major difficulty with BOC called ‘false lock’ where early/late gates settle on the wrong peak of the multi-peaked correlation function. This invention eliminates the problem by eliminating that correlation. Instead, a two dimensional correlation is tracked independently to realise a dual estimate. An unambiguous lower accuracy estimate derived from the code phase is used to make an integer correction to a higher accuracy but ambiguous independent estimate based on the sub-carrier phase. The actual receiver may adopt a triple loop, instead of the usual double loop, where carrier phase, sub-carrier phase and code phase are tracked independently but interactively. | 04-29-2010 |
20100104047 | MULTIPLE-ANTENNA SPACE MULTIPLEXING SYSTEM USING ENHANCEMENT SIGNAL DETECTION - The multiple-antenna space multiplexing system using enhancement signal detection comprising: a code modulation module for coding and modulating bit information; a signal transmission module for transmitting the modulated signals; a signal reception module for receiving the signals; a signal form transform module for transforming form of a channel matrix H and the received signal vector r; a signal detection module for detecting the received signals; a signal reconstruction module for reconstructing the detection results of in the signal detection module, and obtaining a detected signal; a demodulation decoding module for demodulating and decoding the output of the signal reconstruction module, and outputting bit information. Compared with the conventional detection methods, the system performance is improved in considering the realization complexity. | 04-29-2010 |
20100104048 | TIME DELAY MEASUREMENT - A method of processing first and second corresponding signals having a delay therebetween, at least the first signal being a binary signal having chip boundaries, comprises: introducing a plurality of different delays between the first and second signals, successive delay amounts differing from each other by less than the interval between chip boundaries, and for each introduced delay, summing samples of the second signal which are obtained at the times of, at least, chip boundaries between bits of the first signal which have the same state, to obtain a value; thereby to obtain a representation of how the value varies according to the introduced delay, which representation contains a level change associated with an introduced delay which bears a predetermined relationship to the delay between the first and second signals. | 04-29-2010 |
20100104049 | DUAL-RATE SINGLE BAND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A system, method, and apparatus for a multiple data rate communication system is presented herein. The communication system receives data samples that are either sampled at a narrowband rate or a wideband rate and provides various functions and services, such as echo cancellation, DTMF detection and generation, and call discrimination. For wideband signals, a down-sampled signal is provided for each of the foregoing function and service. The output of the function or services is then recombined with the wideband signal. | 04-29-2010 |
20100111231 | OFDM CHANNEL ESTIMATION METHOD AND APPARATUS - Smaller patterns of regularly-spaced pilot symbols are discerned from a larger pattern of irregularly-spaced pilot symbols transmitted in the time-frequency domain. Accordingly, the irregularly-spaced pilot symbols can be partitioned into at least two different groups of regularly-spaced pilot symbols in the time-frequency domain. Each group of regularly-spaced pilot symbols is individually processed with lower complexity and the results combined to generate an accurate time-frequency channel response estimate. According to an embodiment, a set of irregularly-spaced pilot symbols is transmitted over a time-frequency window. Channel response is estimated based on the pilot symbols by grouping the pilot symbols into subsets of regularly-spaced pilot symbols. An intermediate quantity is generated for each subset of regularly-spaced pilot symbols as a function of the pilot symbols included in the subset. The channel response is estimated over the time-frequency window as a function of the intermediate quantities. | 05-06-2010 |
20100111232 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ITERATIVE RECEIVER STRUCTURES FOR OFDM/MIMO SYSTEMS WITH BIT INTERLEAVED CODED MODULATION - The techniques and components described herein may improve the performance for a class of reduced-complexity receiver designs for coded OFDM MIMO systems with bit interleaved coded modulation. The receiver structures described are soft-input soft-output inner/outer decoder receiver structures that include one or more of the following: 1) an inner decoder that includes a linear front-end followed by a limited tree-search based on a soft-output M-algorithm; 2) a conventional near-optimal or optimal decoder for the outer binary code; and 3) iterative decoding (ID), whereby decoding (output) information is passed from one decoder module as input to the other and used to refine and improve the inner/outer decoding module outputs. | 05-06-2010 |
20100111233 | METHOD AND RECEIVER FOR ESTIMATING THE CHANNEL IMPULSE RESPONSE USING A CONSTANT MODULUS INTERFERENCE REMOVAL ITERATION - A receiver and associated method estimates a channel impulse response of the communications signal. A communications signal is received as a burst of transmitted symbols, including a known training sequence. The joint estimation of timing offset and initial channel impulse response is determined based on the cross-correlations of the known transmitted symbols and received communications signal. A constant modulus interference removal iteration is applied to improve the initial channel impulse estimation. | 05-06-2010 |
20100119016 | FFT-BASED PILOT SENSING FOR INCUMBENT SIGNALS - The presence of an incumbent signal is detected in order to allow secondary users to share spectrum white space with incumbent users who have pre-emptive access to the spectrum. The spectrum is relinquished to the incumbent user to preclude any potential harmful interference and enable spectrum sharing. The presence of an incumbent signal ( | 05-13-2010 |
20100119017 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR A 4X2 SFBC/STBC SYSTEM WITH 2 SPATIAL STREAMS USING ANGLE FEEDBACK - Aspects of a method and system for a 4×2 SFBC/STBC system with 2 spatial streams using angle feedback are presented. Aspects of the system include a 4×2 SFBC/STBC communication diversity system with 2 distinct spatial streams using angle feedback. A receiving station may concurrently receive signals. A channel estimate matrix may be computed based on the received signals. A rotation angle value may be computed based on the channel estimate matrix. The receiving station may transmit the computed rotation angle via feedback information to a transmitting station. The transmitting station may utilize the received feedback information to generate a plurality of 4 distinct transmit chain signals based on data symbols received via a plurality of 2 spatial streams. Each of the distinct transmit chain signals may comprise a plurality of codewords. The transmitting station may concurrently transmit the plurality of transmit chain signals via the plurality of transmitting antennas. | 05-13-2010 |
20100124300 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RECEIVER SYNCHRONIZATION - Provided is a method for synchronizing a multiple carrier receiver to receive a transmitted signal. The method includes determining a location of one or more scattered pilot carriers in a received symbol sequence and modulating the scattered pilot carriers in accordance with a single pseudorandom binary sequence. The method also includes performing phase error correction via the modulated scattered pilot carriers. | 05-20-2010 |
20100128821 | SIGNAL DEMODULATION METHOD BASED ON DVB-S2 - A satellite broadcasting frame signal demodulation method is disclosed. A demodulation method of a demodulator that demodulates a Digital Video Broadcasting-Satellite—Second Generation (DVB-S2) standard satellite broadcasting frame signal includes: performing symbol synchronization; performing frame synchronization after symbol synchronization; recovering a carrier wave after frame synchronization; and decoding mode code (MODCOD) information to obtain frame configuration information after recovering the carrier wave. This method ensures rapid demodulation and reliable demodulated data. | 05-27-2010 |
20100142653 | A/D CONVERSION APPARATUS, A/D CONVERSION METHOD, AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - An A/D conversion apparatus includes: a first and a second D/A converter to sample an analog signal and successively compare the analog signal and a reference signal to generate a first and a second comparison signal respectively; a first comparator to compare the first comparison signal generated by the first D/A converter with a benchmark signal; a second comparator to compare the second comparison signal generated by the second D/A converter with the benchmark signal; and a converter to convert the analog signal to a digital signal according to results of the comparisons by the first and second comparators. | 06-10-2010 |
20100142654 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SIGNAL DETECTION BASED ON MMSE IN MIMO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - In a multi-input multi-output communication system receiving signals transmitted through a plurality of transmission antennas by using a plurality of reception antennas, a matrix determining a position of a symbol to be detected from a received signal is calculated at a first symbol detection step, and from the subsequent step, a matrix at the current step is acquired through a simple relationship from the matrix calculated at the previous step to determine a position of a symbol to be detected. | 06-10-2010 |
20100142655 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RADIO SIGNAL RECONSTRUCTION USING SIGNAL PROCESSOR - A waveform reconstruction circuit receives an rf signal from an antenna, digitizes it, and then generates an undistorted reconstructed waveform. The reconstructed waveform can then be conventionally mixed and demodulated to extract useful signal information with enhanced receiver fidelity and sensitivity. | 06-10-2010 |
20100150274 | Method and System for Determining a Signal Vector - A method for determining a signal vector comprising a plurality of components from a received signal vector is provided comprising performing a QR decomposition of a channel matrix characterizing the communication channel via which the signal vector was received and being expanded by variance information about the noise on the communication channel carrying out a plurality of determination steps using the QR decomposition of the expanded channel matrix, wherein in each step a set of possible sub-vectors of the signal vector is determined and wherein in each step, the number of possible sub-vectors in the set is lower than a predefined maximum number, and selecting one vector of the set of possible sub-vectors determined in the last step of the plurality of determination steps as the signal vector. | 06-17-2010 |
20100150275 | Systems and Methods for Digitizing Multiple Channels in a Receiver - Systems and methods for mitigating multipath signals in a receiver are provided. In this regard, a representative system, among others, includes a radio frequency (RF) front-end and at least one analog-to-digital converter (ADC). The RF front-end receives FM signals and down-converts the received frequency signals to intermediate frequency (IF) signals. The analog-to-digital converter (ADC) receives the intermediate frequency signals and digitizes multiple FM channels around a desired FM channel associated with the down-converted signals. The system further includes multiple sets of digital processing components that are configured to simultaneously receive and process the digitized multiple channels. The multiple sets of digital processing components include at least two parallel channel selection and demodulation paths in which the respective digitized multiple channels are processed therethrough. | 06-17-2010 |
20100150276 | Digital Radio Tagging Using an RF Tuner Accessory - An accessory having an RF tuner for digital radio, such as HD radio, can be in communication with a media player such as a portable media device (“PMD”). The user can be given the ability to command the accessory to provide raw digital data, the ability to scan only for stations having digital audio content (or for all available stations), the ability to provide station lists of stations having digital audio content (or all available stations), and the ability to request and store metadata beyond that for stations actually being listened to provide enhanced search capabilities. Enhanced metadata and searching can provide the listener the ability to refine station choices without having to listen at length to any particular station, and further can facilitate tagging broadcast tracks for subsequent access and/or purchase. | 06-17-2010 |
20100150277 | METHOD FOR DETECTING RANDOM ACCESS SIGNAL - Provided is a method for detecting random access signal, and the method includes detecting a peak position of a random access signal in a first preamble section and ignoring the random access signal apart from the peak position for less than a certain distance in a second preamble section adjacent to the first preamble section. | 06-17-2010 |
20100150278 | RECEIVER FOR HIGH-SPEED WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An apparatus for reducing power consumption of a receiver in a high-speed wireless communication system and a control method thereof are provided. The apparatus for processing a signal in a receiver of a wireless communication system includes a carrier sensor configured to sense a carrier used in the wireless communication system, a decoder configured to decode the detected carrier signal to a signal and data, and a controller configured to control supplying power and a clock only to the carrier sensor during carrier sensing, and supplying power and a clock to an overall receiver when a carrier is sensed. | 06-17-2010 |
20100150279 | SIGNAL DETECTION IN MULTIPLE-INPUT-MULTIPLE-OUTPUT COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Methods and apparatuses for detecting signals in a MIMO communication system include receiving symbols coded into pairs using a space-time code. Estimating a channel matrix that identifies the response between multiple transmit and receive antennas in the MIMO communication system. Performing a QR factorization on the channel matrix to obtain Q and R matrices. Determining a receive vector corresponding to a plurality of transmitted symbols received by the multiple receive antennas and transforming the receive vector based upon the Q matrix. Estimating a value of at least two received symbols to determine at least two estimated symbols. Then removing a contribution of the estimated symbols from the receive vector to determine a revised received vector. Estimating a value of at least two additional received symbols to determine at least two additional estimated symbols. | 06-17-2010 |
20100158159 | EDA-BASED DETECTION OF COMMUNICATION SIGNALS - Methods and apparatus for recovering data from communication signals apply estimated distribution algorithms. Estimated probability distributions may be constructed to avoid deterministic values. Non-converging data elements may be resolved by performing selective local searches. Embodiments recover data from space-time-frequency block coded signals. | 06-24-2010 |
20100158160 | EXTRACTING INFORMATION FROM POSITIONING PILOT CHANNEL SYMBOLS IN FORWARD LINK ONLY SYSTEM - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer readable storage media, for extracting transmitter identification information from the Positioning Pilot Channel (PPC) of a MediaFLO superframe. One of a wide area differentiator (WID) value and a local area differentiator (LID) value associated with the transmitter is determined based on signaling in a first interlace of a symbol received via the PPC. A time domain channel estimate is computed for the PPC based on signaling in a plurality of interlaces of the symbol and also based on the one of the WID and LID values. The time domain channel estimate is used to obtain a frequency domain channel estimate for a second interlace of the symbol that carries the transmitter identification information, and the frequency domain channel estimate is used to determine the transmitter identification information. | 06-24-2010 |
20100166117 | DATA RECEIVING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A data receiving apparatus and method includes a current-voltage conversion block, which receives a current-type transmit signal including data and a clock signal inserted into the data at a different level from the data, and then converts the received signal into at least one first voltage and at least one second voltage having a different level from the first voltage, and a comparison block, which makes a comparison between the first and second voltages, and then outputs the received signal as one of the data and the clock signal based on a result of the comparison. The data receiving apparatus can easily recover a clock signal while exhibiting better characteristics during the recovery of the clock signal because it is insensitive to a variation in reference voltage and a variation in current at the transmitting state of the timing controller, which are caused by a process variation. | 07-01-2010 |
20100166118 | CHANNEL ESTIMATION FOR A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM WITH MULTIPLE PARALLEL DATA STREAMS - To recover multiple data streams transmitted simultaneously, a first channel estimate is derived for a wireless channel based on received pilot symbols. Detection is performed on received data symbols using the first channel estimate to obtain detected symbols for a first data stream. These detected symbols are decoded to obtain a decoded first data stream, which is re-encoded to obtain remodulated symbols. A second channel estimate is derived based on the remodulated symbols. The first and second channel estimates are combined to obtain a third channel estimate having higher quality. Interference due to the first data stream is estimated using the third channel estimate and canceled from the received data symbols. Detection is performed on interference-canceled symbols using the third channel estimate to obtain detected symbols for a second data stream. These detected symbols are further decoded to obtain a decoded second data stream. | 07-01-2010 |
20100172445 | RECEIVER APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECEIVING DATA UNITS OVER A CHANNEL - When transmitting medium access control protocol data units for the high speed downlink shared channel over a plurality of hybrid automatic repeat request processes, one of the processes can be in a retransmission procedure. In this case, stalling of the transmission can occur, because the medium access control layer for the high speed downlink shared channel of the receiver apparatus ( | 07-08-2010 |
20100172446 | FREQUENCY DRIFT ESTIMATION FOR LOW COST OUTDOOR UNIT FREQUENCY CONVERSIONS AND SYSTEM DIAGNOSTICS - Systems and devices for controlling frequency drift in satellite broadcast systems. A receiver antenna system for a direct broadcast satellite signal communications system in accordance with one or more embodiments of the present invention comprises an oscillator, a mixer, coupled to the oscillator, for converting satellite signals at a first frequency to signals at an intermediate frequency, an analog-to-digital (A/D) converter, coupled to the mixer, for receiving the signals at the intermediate frequency and for converting the signals at the intermediate frequency at near-real-time to a digital data stream, a Digital Signal Processor (DSP), coupled to the A/D converter, for processing the digital data stream, and a drift estimator, coupled to the DSP, the drift estimator determining a frequency drift of the oscillator, wherein the receiver antenna system corrects the frequency drift of the oscillator using the determined frequency drift. | 07-08-2010 |
20100177852 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TIME TRACKING IN OFDM SYSTEMS - Techniques proposed in the present disclosure may used to update an FFT window position and perform linear phase compensation for OFDM wireless systems with up to two antennas at the receiver. Techniques presented herein may help resolve a problem of determining an optimum FFT window position under the condition that the length of channel impulse response is larger than the length of cyclic prefix. | 07-15-2010 |
20100177853 | TIME INFORMATION RECEIVER, RADIO WAVE TIMEPIECE AND STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING PROGRAM STORED THEREIN - A time information receiver including a reception unit for receiving and demodulating a standard radio wave containing a time code in which data pulses are arranged at a predetermined period; a determining section for determining rising and falling points of a demodulated signal; a first calculator for calculating first differences between respective time intervals of any pair of the rising points and a time period concerned with the predetermined period, and calculating a rising dispersion amount; a second calculator for calculating second differences between respective time intervals of any pair of the falling points and a time period concerned with the predetermined period, and calculating a falling dispersion amount; a comparison section for comparing the rising dispersion amount and the falling dispersion amount; and a judger for judging a code type of the received time code on the basis of a comparison result of the comparison section. | 07-15-2010 |
20100177854 | TIME INFORMATION RECEIVER, RADIO WAVE TIMEPIECE AND STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING PROGRAM STORED THEREIN - A time information receiver including a reception unit for receiving and demodulating a standard radio wave containing a time code in which data pulses are arranged at a predetermined period; an analyzer for analyzing the time code from a demodulated signal obtained by demodulating the standard radio wave; a time-shift adder for executing an addition processing of adding a pulse waveform of the demodulated signal and a pulse waveform of a signal obtained by shifting the demodulated signal by a predetermined time; and a judger for judging a code type of the time code contained in the received standard radio wave on the basis of a addition result of the time-shift adder. | 07-15-2010 |
20100183097 | DIVERSITY RECEIVING APPARATUS AND DIVERSITY RECEIVING METHOD - There is provided a diversity receiving apparatus ( | 07-22-2010 |
20100183098 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF DIFFERENTIAL COMPLEX AND REAL MULTI-CARRIER DEMODULATION - A method and a receiver are provided for demodulating a received multi-carrier modulated signal. The demodulation procedure includes (a) multiplying the received multi-carrier modulated signal with its complex conjugate to obtain a squared signal; (b) multiplying the squared signal with a signal having a frequency | 07-22-2010 |
20100183099 | Reception Control Method and Wireless Communication Apparatus - When receiving a signal from the antenna # | 07-22-2010 |
20100183100 | RECEIVER AND RECEPTION METHOD - A receiver includes a propagation path estimation unit which produces a channel impulse response estimation value from a received signal, a replica signal creation unit which creates a replica signal as a replica of a transmitted signal based on the received signal, a time period setting unit which sets time periods into which the channel impulse response estimation value is divided, a received signal extraction unit which extracts received signals of the time periods set by the time period setting unit using the replica signal created by the replica signal creation unit, a combining unit which iterates a process for combining the signals of the time periods extracted by the received signal extraction unit, and a demodulation processing unit which performs a demodulation process for the signals combined by the combining unit. The number of time periods set in at least one iterative process is different. | 07-22-2010 |
20100189197 | RADIO RECEIVING DEVICE - A radio receiving apparatus capable of making compensation for both amplitude variations and phase variations and of suppressing image interference in a short period of time is provided. | 07-29-2010 |
20100189198 | Universal Systems and Methods for Determining an Incoming Carrier Frequency and Decoding an Incoming Signal - Consumer infrared (CIR) systems typically are used in remote control systems. Most CIR systems expect a known carrier frequency and encoding scheme. However, there are many applications of a universal CIR receiver which can receive and decode CIR signals regardless of the carrier frequency or encoding scheme. A CIR receiver circuit is disclosed which can both decompose a received CIR signal into run length representation and detect the carrier frequency. The result can then be supplied to a host device for further processing, interpretation and/or actions. | 07-29-2010 |
20100195772 | OFDM SYMBOL DETECTING METHOD, COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, AND CIRCUIT MODULE - A method of detecting symbols of an OFDM signal constituted by a plurality of carriers transmitted from another communication apparatus, includes selecting first carriers, where a phase difference between the symbols adjacent on a time domain is smaller than a predetermined value, from a plurality of carriers of a received signal, selecting second carriers, each of which has a phase of a predetermined relation of the OFDM signal with respect to another carrier, from the selected first carriers, and determining whether the received signal has the symbols of the OFDM signal transmitted from the another communication apparatus on the basis of the selection results of the first and second carriers. | 08-05-2010 |
20100195773 | MUTLIPHASE CODE GENERATOR AND GNSS RECEIVER - A code generator, for providing a PRN sequence in a GNSS receiver, has the capability to store an internal status at any given point of the generated sequence. The stored status can be reloaded in the generator, upon an external command, or after a given number of generation cycles, thus slewing the phase of the generated PRN sequence to the value corresponding to the stored status. A parallel-correlation GNSS receiver includes one or more slewable code generators, for successively generating local replicas of GNSS PRN sequences, having different code phases, corresponding to a plurality of candidate signals of different code and Doppler shifts. Each time the code generator must switch from one candidate to a second, it is preemptively controlled or programmed, while generating the code for the first candidate, to store the internal status at the phase point almost aligned with the start of the PRN sequence for the second candidate. When the correlation engine switches from the first candidate to the second one, the stored status is loaded in the code generator, and the small misalignment between the code generator and the desired sequence is corrected, thus setting it at the needed point in phase space. The generator and receiver of the invention are well suited to the search of several GNSS signal in parallel, and require less memory than a table-based code generator. | 08-05-2010 |
20100202568 | RECEIVER - Provided is a receiver including a receiving unit, a demodulator-decoder unit, a synchronization detecting unit, and an output control unit. The receiving unit receives digital broadcasting. The demodulator-decoder unit obtains an output including a transport stream through a demodulating processing and a decoding processing performed on a reception signal received by the receiving unit. The synchronization detecting unit secures synchronization on the basis of the reception signal received by the receiving unit, and generates a timing signal to be used in the demodulating processing and in the decoding processing. The output control unit outputs the output including the transport stream from the demodulator-decoder unit if the synchronization is secured. The output control unit fixes a logic level of the output including the transport stream if the synchronization is not secured. | 08-12-2010 |
20100202569 | RADIO RECEIVER - A radio receiver which is capable of improving the power consumption efficiency in the analog/digital conversion process. On a radio receiver ( | 08-12-2010 |
20100202570 | Method for estimating phase error in MIMO OFDM communications system - A method for estimating a phase error existing in a receiver of a MIMO OFDM communications system is disclosed. The method includes executing Hermitian transpose on channel coefficient matrix of the MIMO OFDM communications system for generating Hermitian-transposed channel coefficient matrix, multiplying received signal matrix of the receiver with the Hermitian-transposed channel coefficient matrix for generating converted signals, summing products of the converted signals and complex conjugates of pilot signals corresponding to the converted signals for generating a sum result, and generating the phase error according to the sum result, the converted signals, and the complex conjugates of the pilot signals. The pilot signals are extracted from the received signal matrix. | 08-12-2010 |
20100208847 | OFDM Receiver for Dispersive Environment - A received OFDM signal is processed to determine a plurality of reference delays, which may include the path delays of a multipath channel. The effective channel estimates corresponding to each reference delay are determined, as is the covariance of the ISI and noise components observed at each delay. Combining weights resulting in maximum post-combining SINR are determined for all subcarriers. A corresponding plurality of FFTs is applied to the incoming sample stream, one at each of the reference delays. The individual subcarriers from each FFT output are then combined using the combining weights. This produces a single FFT output with suppressed ISI, which is used in further processing. | 08-19-2010 |
20100208848 | MOBILE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE WITH SEPARATE IN-PHASE (I) AND QUADRATURE (Q) PHASE POWER AMPLIFICATION AND POWER AMPLIFIER PRE-DISTORTION AND IQ BALANCE COMPENSATION - A communications device, in one aspect as a portable wireless communications device, includes an in-phase modulator and power amplifier that receives a baseband I signal and modulates and amplifies the I signal. A quadrature modulator and power amplifier receives a baseband Q signal and modulates and amplifies the Q signal. A power combiner sums and outputs the I and Q signals. An I demodulator circuit receives a signal fed back from the I power amplifier and demodulates the fed back signal to produce demodulated I signals. A Q demodulator circuit receives a signal fed back from the Q power amplifier and demodulates the fed back signal to produce demodulated Q signals. A processor compares the digital, baseband I and Q signals with a demodulated I and Q signals to compensate for amplitude, frequency and phase modulation errors. | 08-19-2010 |
20100208849 | RECEIVING CIRCUIT, USE, AND METHOD FOR RECEIVING AN ENCODED AND MODULATED RADIO SIGNAL - A receiving circuit, use, and method for receiving an encoded and modulated radio signal is provided. The circuit comprise a demodulator and a digital filter connected downstream of the demodulator for moving averaging. The filter has at least two FIFO registers and subtractors. Whereby for subtracting an output value of the FIFO register from an input value of the FIFO register a subtractor is connected to each FIFO register. Wherein the filter has a weighting unit, which is connected downstream of each FIFO register, and wherein the filter has an integrator, which is connected downstream of the subtractors for integration. | 08-19-2010 |
20100208850 | SYNCHRONIZING INITIALIZATION DATA TO TIME BURSTS IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - An apparatus encodes a signal for providing an MPEG-2 encoded signal having associated initialization data such as I-frames; and transmits the signal, wherein the transmitted signal occurs in bursts for conveying the MPEG-2 encoded signal, wherein each burst has a duration and occurs in a time slicing cycle, each time slicing cycle comprising at least the burst duration and an off-time, and wherein at least one I-frame is conveyed in a burst and repeated in every following burst until a new I-frame is received for transmission. | 08-19-2010 |
20100208851 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPROVING RECEPTION IN WIRED AND WIRELESS RECEIVERS THROUGH REDUNDANCY AND ITERATIVE PROCESSING - A method and system for improving reception in wired and wireless systems through redundancy and iterative processing are provided. A multilayer decoding process may comprise a burst process and a frame process. Results from a first burst process may be utilized to generate a decoded bit sequence in the frame process. The frame process may utilize redundancy information and physical constraints to improve the performance of a decoding algorithm. Results from the frame process may be fed back for a second iteration of the burst process and of the frame process, to further improve the decoding operation. In some instances, the second iteration of the burst process may be based on a gradient search approach. | 08-19-2010 |
20100215129 | Power Reduction in Physical Layer Wireless Communications - Implementations related to power reduction in physical layer wireless communications are disclosed. | 08-26-2010 |
20100215130 | Method and Related Device for Detecting Signals in a TMDS Transmission System - A method for detecting signals in a TMDS transmission system is disclosed. A channel of the TMDS system is established between a receiver and a transmitter. The method includes separating loadings of the receiver from the channel, providing a first reference current in a first differential line of the channel, providing a second reference current in a second differential line of the channel, computing a difference between the first reference current and a current provided by the transmitter via the first differential line to obtain a first current difference, computing a difference between the second reference current and a current provided by the transmitter via the second differential line to obtain a second current difference, and determining an operating state of the transmitter according to the first current difference and the second current difference. | 08-26-2010 |
20100215131 | CIRCUIT, USE, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A RECEIVER CIRCUIT - A circuit, use, and method for controlling a receiver circuit is provided, wherein a complex baseband signal is generated from a received signal, a phase difference between a phase of the complex baseband signal and a phase precalculated from previous sampled values is determined, the phase difference is compared with a first threshold, a number is determined by counting the exceedances of the first threshold by the phase difference, a number of the counted exceedances is compared with a second threshold, and the receiver circuit is turned off if the number of counted exceedances exceeds the second threshold within a time period. | 08-26-2010 |
20100220818 | DIGITAL BROADCAST RECEPTION DEVICE - A digital broadcast reception device mounted on a mobile body includes a position information detection unit for detecting the position of the digital broadcast reception device, a database holding unit for storing reception quality of the digital broadcast in advance, a switching point calculation unit for obtaining a hierarchy switching point, and output switching unit for performing a hierarchy switching. The digital broadcast reception device acquires the hierarchy switching frequency generated during movement in advance based on reception quality information previously stored in the database holding unit, and controls the hierarchy switching so as to reduce the switching frequency, thereby reducing disconnections of video and audio. | 09-02-2010 |
20100226461 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A communication device includes: demodulating means for demodulating a transmission signal from another communication device that performs noncontact communication; calculating means for performing at least one of addition and subtraction of a predetermined voltage according to a logical value of a demodulated signal obtained by demodulation by the demodulating means; determining means for determining a communication system of the transmission signal transmitted by the other communication device by comparing a calculation result of the calculating means at predetermined timing after a lapse of a predetermined time from the start of communication with a threshold voltage; and transmitting means for transmitting predetermined data to the other communication device in the communication system determined by the determining means among plural communication systems that the device itself can support. | 09-09-2010 |
20100239052 | WIDEBAND DIGITAL RECEIVER WITH INTEGRATED DYNAMIC NARROWBAND CHANNELIZATION AND ANALYSIS - Wideband digital receiver with integrated dynamic narrowband channelization and analysis. Signals received in a wide band are channelized into a plurality of narrower band channels within said wide band and input into a programmable narrowband filter. A set of descriptors is formed, each descriptor corresponding to an associated output signal of each of the channels. The descriptors are analyzed to determine if further processing is warranted. For each descriptor warranting further processing, one or more corresponding analysis algorithms is/are selected from a library of available analysis algorithm and, based at least in part on the selected algorithms, the programmable narrowband filter is adjusted and a new descriptor is formed of its output. The initial set of descriptors is augmented with the new descriptor and the new descriptor is analyzed to determine if further processing of received signals is warranted. | 09-23-2010 |
20100246724 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECEIVING A RADIO SIGNAL - [Problem] The present invention relates to a radio frequency signal receiver, and more particularly, to a radio frequency signal receiver of a communication system, in which local devices exchange a radio frequency signal with each other. The object of the present invention is to provide a radio frequency signal receiver that exactly restores data from a received signal without a complex circuit restoring a phase of a received signal. It is another object of the present invention to provide a radio frequency signal receiver that eliminates noise when the noise is included in the received signal, estimates an exact data rate of the received signal, and exactly restores received information based on the estimated data rate thereof. | 09-30-2010 |
20100246725 | Selective diversity receiving method and apparatus - In a selective diversity receiver with two antennas, the strength of the signal received by each antenna is measured at a present and a past time, the difference between the present strengths of the signals received by the two antennas is calculated, and the difference between the present and past strengths of the signal received by each antenna is calculated. If the difference between the present strengths of the two signals is not too large, the signal with the smaller past-to-present strength difference and accordingly with less fading is selected for further reception. In a portable electronic device, this antenna switching strategy reduces susceptibility to human body interference. The present and past strengths can be measured during the preambles of different packets to avoid switching antennas during data reception. | 09-30-2010 |
20100246726 | RECEIVER AND METHOD OF RECEIVING - A receiver recovers data from Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed (OFDM) symbols, the OFDM symbols including sub-carrier symbols carrying data symbols and sub-carrier signals carrying pilot symbols. The receiver includes a Fourier transform processor arranged in operation to receive a time domain digital version of the OFDM symbols and to form a frequency domain version of the OFDM symbols, from which the pilot symbol sub-carriers and the data symbol bearing sub-carriers can be recovered, and a detector arranged in operation to recover the data symbols from the data bearing sub-carriers of the OFDM symbols. The receiver includes a noise estimator arranged in operation to generate a long term estimate of noise power in the frequency domain version of the OFDM symbols at a plurality of frequencies, by accumulating an average noise power at the plurality of frequencies from a plurality of the OFDM symbols, and for generating an estimate of a current level of the noise power in the frequency domain version of a current one of the OFDM symbols at the plurality of frequencies. An impulsive noise detector detects the presence of an impulse of noise in the current OFDM symbol, by comparing the noise power in the current OFDM symbol with the long term noise power at the plurality of frequencies, and to generate an impulse noise flag to indicate that the current OFDM symbol is affected by an impulse of noise if the comparison indicates the presence of an impulse of noise. Impulsive noise in the time domain will generate an increase in noise level across the frequency bandwidth of the OFDM symbols. If all frequencies experience an increase then an impulse of noise can be detected. Thereafter the detector can conceal the effect of the impulse noise on the recovering of the data symbols from the data bearing sub-carriers, for example by adapting channel state information for use in de-mapping modulated symbols into data symbols. | 09-30-2010 |
20100246727 | Multi-Antenna Subsystem for Software Defined Radio - The present invention relates to a multi-antenna subsystem for a SDR (software defined radio) capable of supporting a multi-antenna technique to an antenna system using a multi-antenna subsystem. The multi-antenna subsystem of a multi-antenna system includes an algorithm executing unit for carrying out an algorithm for a multi-antenna technique to be required in the multi-antenna system, a frame synchronization unit for a synchronization acquisition, and a control unit for controlling the algorithm executing unit and the frame synchronization. The algorithm executing unit has a plurality of functional blocks and the functional block has state information, which can be referred by other functional blocks, for supporting SDR system. | 09-30-2010 |
20100246728 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REACQUISITION OF A GATED PILOT - Systems and techniques are disclosed wherein a gated pilot signal can be re-acquired faster by searching a last known pilot offset and/or searching a last coset in which the last pilot signal was found. | 09-30-2010 |
20100246729 | SAMPLING METHOD, RECONSTRUCTION METHOD, AND DEVICE FOR SAMPLING AND/OR RECONSTRUCTING SIGNALS - Reconstruction method for reconstructing a first signal (x(t)) regularly sampled at a sub-Nyquist rate, comprising the step of retrieving from the regularly spaced sampled values (y | 09-30-2010 |
20100254493 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION RECEIVER HAVING DE-INTERLEVER AND RELATED SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF - A wireless communication receiver includes a first signal processing block, a second signal processing block, and a de-interleaver. The first signal processing block is configured for receiving a wireless communication signal and processing the wireless communication signal to generate a first output. The de-interleaver is coupled between the first signal processing block and the second signal processing block, and includes a plurality of branches implemented for de-interleaving the first output to generate a second output. The de-interleaver starts outputting the second output to the second signal processing block for further signal processing before all buffers included in the branches are full, and informs the second signal processing block of data derived from one or more unfull buffers included in the branches. | 10-07-2010 |
20100254494 | TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROCESSING BROADCAST SIGNAL IN TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING SYSTEM - A transmitting system, a receiving system, and a method for processing a broadcast signal are disclosed. The receiving system comprises a tuner, a channel equalizer, a turbo decoder, a demultiplexer, a first error correction decoder, a block deinterleaver, and a second error correction decoder. The tuner receives a broadcast signal including a data group. The data group comprises mobile service data, regularly spaced known data sequences, and signaling data. The turbo decoder performs turbo decoding for the signaling data included in the channel equalized broadcast signal in the channel equalizer. The block deinterleaver performs block deinterleaving for the turbo-decoded FIC data in a block unit of TNoG (the number of all data groups assigned to one subframe)×51 bytes. | 10-07-2010 |
20100260292 | BLIND MODULATION DETECTION - In receiving a radio block comprising a plurality of bursts, burst data is saved prior to demodulating each burst using an independent preliminary modulation technique decision. When a global modulation technique decision over the radio burst is formulated, if the preliminary modulation technique decision for one or more bursts disagrees, data associated with that burst may be retrieved and demodulated using the global modulation technique decision. In one embodiment, the mismatching burst is erased and decoding over the block is attempted, with the second demodulation being performed only if a decoding metric indicates decode errors. In another embodiment, each mismatching block is re-demodulated as soon as a global modulation technique decision is formulated and a mismatch to the preliminary modulation technique decision is detected. In both embodiments, an increase in the number of soft bits improves decoder performance. | 10-14-2010 |
20100260293 | CLOCK GENERATION IN MRI RECEIVERS - The invention relates to a nuclear magnetic resonance imaging radio frequency receiver, the receiver being adapted to receive analogue signals from at least one radio frequency receiver coil unit ( | 10-14-2010 |
20100266069 | ITERATIVE RECEIVER AND ITERATIVE DECODER - An iterative receiver and an iterative decoder are provided. The iterative receiver includes: an external decoder to decode the detected received signal; an impurity adder to add an impurity to an output signal of the external decoder; an interleaver to perform interleaving between the internal detector and the external decoder; and a de-interleaver to perform de-interleaving between the internal detector and the external decoder. | 10-21-2010 |
20100266070 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device is provided, which comprises a first demodulation circuit, a second demodulation circuit, a first bias circuit, a second bias circuit, a comparator, an analog buffer circuit, and a pulse detection circuit. An input portion of the pulse detection circuit is electrically connected to an output portion of the analog buffer circuit, a first output portion of the pulse detection circuit is electrically connected to an input portion of the first bias circuit, and a second output portion of the pulse detection circuit is electrically connected to an input portion of the second bias circuit. | 10-21-2010 |
20100284497 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND WIRELESS RECEPTION METHOD - A wireless communication apparatus, having a plurality of antennas | 11-11-2010 |
20100290566 | WIRELESS DEVICE - A wireless device is configured so that an RF-IC unit calculates a difference value between IQ data received by an antenna Ant | 11-18-2010 |
20100290567 | PROCESSING METHOD FOR PROVIDING, STARTING FROM SIGNALS ACQUIRED BY A SET OF SENSORS, AN AGGREGATE SIGNAL AND DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEM USING SUCH METHOD - Embodiment for forming an aggregate signal from a plurality of starting signals, comprising: | 11-18-2010 |
20100296610 | DEMODULATION DEVICE - Provided is a demodulation device that can reliably perform demodulation even in a communication environment where a modulation index changes. Upon reception of communication signals of different modulation indexes from other ships, a demodulation device ( | 11-25-2010 |
20100303175 | METHOD TO DISCRIMINATE A REAL ECHO PEAK FROM AN ALIASED ECHO PEAK - A method to discriminate a real echo peak from an aliased echo peak comprises: computing ‘a correlation between N samples of a digital data and a copy of the same N samples delayed by a time delay Δ | 12-02-2010 |
20100310015 | TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROCESSING BROADCAST SIGNAL IN TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING SYSTEM - A receiving system and a method of processing broadcast signals in the receiving system are disclosed. The receiving system includes a tuner, a known sequence detector, a carrier recovery unit, and a channel equalizer. The tuner receives a broadcast signal including a data group. Herein, the data group comprises mobile service data, a plurality of known data sequences, and signaling data. One of the plurality of known data sequences comprises a first M symbol sequence and a second M symbol sequence each having a first data pattern. The known sequence detector estimates an initial frequency offset and detects position information of each known data sequence based on the known data sequence having the first data pattern. The carrier recovery unit acquires initial frequency synchronization and performs carrier recovery from the broadcast signal based on the initial frequency offset estimated by the known sequence detector. The channel equalizer performs channel equalization on the broadcast signal based upon the position information of each known data sequence. | 12-09-2010 |
20100310016 | RECEIVER AND METHOD - A receiver for receiving a sequence of OFDM symbols transmitted via a channel. Each OFDM symbol comprises a plurality of data bearing sub-carriers on which data is transmitted and a plurality of pilot bearing sub-carriers on which pilot data. The pilot sub-carriers are distributed throughout the OFDM symbols of the sequence in accordance with a pilot sub-carrier pattern. The receiver includes a channel estimator, and the channel estimator includes a pilot data extractor for extracting pilot data from the pilot sub-carriers of each OFDM symbol; a pilot data extrapolator for generating extrapolated pilot data based on pilot data extracted from the pilot data sub-carriers; and a pilot data interpolator operable to process the pilot data by interpolating between the extrapolated pilot data in time and frequency to produce an estimate of the channel. The receiver also comprises a discontinuity detector for detecting a discontinuity in the pilot data processed by the channel estimator, and a controller, which upon detection of a pilot data discontinuity by the discontinuity detector, is operable to provide a control signal to the channel estimator which causes at least one of the pilot data extractor, the pilot data extrapolator and the pilot data interpolator to compensate for the pilot data discontinuity in the pilot data. | 12-09-2010 |
20100310017 | RECEIVER AND METHOD OF RECEIVING - A receiver is arranged to detect and recover data from Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed (OFDM) symbols, which are transmitted as first and second versions to form a multiple input multiple output (MISO) system and which carry pairs of data symbols encoded to form Alamouti cells. The receiver includes a channel estimator and corrector, which is arranged to form an estimate of the data symbols, by generating an estimate of first and second channels via which the first and second versions of the OFDM symbols are received. The receiver includes a channel estimator and corrector comprising a pilot data extractor which is arranged to extract the pilot data from the OFDM symbols, a frequency dimension interpolator which is arranged to interpolate between the pilot data received from each of the OFDM symbols in the frequency domain to form sum pilot data and difference pilot data, a sum and difference decoder arranged to combine the sum and difference pilot data to form for each data symbol of the Alamouti pairs an estimate of a sample of the first channel and an estimate of the sample of the second channel, and an Alamouti decoder. The Alamouti decoder is arranged to receive the data bearing sub-carriers from the OFDM symbols and to estimate the data symbols by performing Alamouti decoding using the estimates of the samples for the first and second channels. As such a receiver for a MISO communication system is arranged to recover an estimate of the data symbols, which have been Alamouti-type encoded using frequency dimension interpolation only. | 12-09-2010 |
20100310018 | MULTI-CHANNEL RECEIVER DEVICE - A device processes signals from a plurality of signal channels that are received in parallel. A channel processing circuit ( | 12-09-2010 |
20100316169 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPERATING A MIMO DECODER - Varying embodiments of the present invention provide a MIMO apparatus, such as a transceiver and a method of operation thereof. In an embodiment, the transceiver employs a parallelized., two-stage pipeline architecture that reduces the overall latency of the system. This reduction in latency translates to cost savings and higher data rates for the same hardware clock speed. | 12-16-2010 |
20100316170 | Method and System for Bandwidth Detection - A method detects a bandwidth that is transmitted by a transmitter in a radio communications system, which is based on transmission frames. The transmission frames comprise a fixed time extension and a variable spectral extension. The transmission frames consist of a plurality of sub-units. Each sub-unit of the transmission frames contains a control channel, which is subdivided into two sub-control channels. The two sub-control channels are arranged at the spectral edges of the sub-units of the transmission frames. The transmitted bandwidth is investigated by determining the spectral extension of the transmission frame. The spectral extension of the transmission frame is determined by determining the spectral position of the sub-control channels in the sub-units of the transmission frames. | 12-16-2010 |
20100322352 | SPHERE DETECTOR PERFORMING DEPTH-FIRST SEARCH UNTIL TERMINATED - Systems and methods detect a communication received at receiving antennas from transmitting antennas. Each transmitting antenna transmits a symbol in a constellation. A sphere detector performs a depth-first search until the depth-first search terminates in response to a terminate signal requesting the result from the sphere detector. The depth-first search evaluates respective distances of one or mode leaf nodes in response to the communication received at the receiving antennas. The depth-first search selects the result from these nodes in response to the respective distances. The result includes a selected leaf node that identifies a corresponding symbol in the constellation for each transmitting antenna, with this symbol detected as transmitted by the transmitting antenna. | 12-23-2010 |
20100322353 | NONLINEAR POST-PROCESSORS FOR CHANNELS WITH SIGNAL-DEPENDENT NOISE - A non-linear post-processor for estimating at least one source of signal-dependent noise is disclosed. The post processor may receive a set of preliminary decisions from a sub-optimal detector along with the sampled data signal. The post-processor may then compute the transition jitter and white noise associated with each preliminary decision in the set and assign a cost metric to each decision based on the total signal noise. The post-processor may output the decision with the lowest cost metric as the final decision of the detector. | 12-23-2010 |
20100322354 | TRANSMITTING METHOD, RECEIVING METHOD, TRANSMITTING DEVICE, RECEIVING DEVICE, TRANSMISSION APPARATUS AND TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - In current transmitting methods, an instantaneous interruption of a transmission data may occur at the time of switching a system. A sending method of the present invention is a sending method for transmitting a data string signal to a primary system and a backup system in which: a first periodic signal which becomes a reference signal and a second periodic signal with a longer cycle period than the first periodic signal are generated; a data string signal is synchronized with the first periodic signal; and the data string signal synchronized with the first periodic signal is multiplexed by a cycle period synchronized with the second periodic signal to transmit it to the primary system and the backup system. A receiving method of the present invention is a receiving method for receiving a data string signal multiplexed by a predetermined cycle period from a primary system and a backup system in which: synchronous processing of reception signals received from a primary system and a backup system is performed; processing for aligning phases of reception signals which are received from the primary system and the backup system and on which the synchronous processing has been performed with the phase of the predetermined cycle period is performed; and switching between a reception signal which is received from the primary system and on which said phase alignment processing has been performed and a reception signal which is received from the backup system and on which phase aligning processing have been performed is performed. | 12-23-2010 |
20100322355 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SIGNALING OFFSETS AND CHANGES IN DIGITAL BROADCAST NETWORKS - Systems and methods are provided for receivers of digital broadband broadcast signals to determine a time of delivery and a version of a particular signaling table. The receiver is able to determine whether an update of the signaling table is needed based on factors such as whether the update applies (e.g., a DVB-H specific change for a mobile terminal in a DVB-H network). The receiver may power down while awaiting delivery of the signaling table (or utilize the radio for other purposes), powering back up in time to receive the signaling table. | 12-23-2010 |
20100322356 | Method and System for Delay Matching in a Rake Receiver for WCDMA Closed Loop Modes - Certain aspects of a method and system for delay matching in a rake receiver for WCDMA closed loop modes are disclosed. Aspects of one method may include selecting a set of channel estimates from a plurality of channel estimates generated for a delay matched branch and/or a non-delay matched branch in a rake receiver. A plurality of weight factors may be generated based on the selected set of channel estimates. In the delay matched branch of the rake receiver, the application of the generated plurality of weight factors may be delayed by a particular time period. A delay associated with a control channel and/or a data channel may be compensated based on the delayed application of the generated plurality of weight factors. | 12-23-2010 |
20100329393 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RECEIVING DEVICE, AND METHOD - A transmitting device Fourier-transforms symbols in a transmission symbol sequence, maps the Fourier-transformed symbols to subcarriers, inverse-Fourier-transforms the mapped symbols, and transmits the inverse-Fourier-transformed symbols from multiple transmitting antennas. A receiving device Fourier-transforms received signals, extracts signal components mapped to the subcarriers, and estimates the symbols transmitted via the subcarriers by applying a QR decomposition algorithm to the extracted signal components. The receiving device obtains a unitary matrix Q | 12-30-2010 |
20100329394 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING I/Q UNBALANCE PARAMETERS IN OFDM RECEIVER - Provided are an apparatus and a method for estimating I/Q unbalance parameters in an OFDM receiver. The apparatus includes an unbalance parameter estimator and an I/Q unbalance compensator. The unbalance parameter estimator estimates an amplitude difference and a phase difference depending on positions of pilot tones in a preamble of a received signal. The I/Q unbalance compensator compensates for an I/Q unbalance using the amplitude difference and the phase difference estimated by the unbalance parameter estimator. | 12-30-2010 |
20110002418 | TIME -FREQUENCY SYNCHRONIZATION AND FRAME NUMBER DETECTION FOR DMB-T SYSTEMS - A DMB-T receiver supports a single carrier (SC) form of modulation and a multi-carrier form of modulation such as orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM). Upon receiving a broadcast signal, the DMB-T receiver downconverts the received broadcast signal to a received base-band signal and determines a frame number for each frame by correlating groups of the received symbols in adjacent signal frames. In particular, the receiver determines a maximum right-shift correlation value and a maximum left-shift correlation value. If the magnitude of the maximum right-shift correlation value is greater than, or equal to, the magnitude of the maximum left-shift correlation value, then the maximum right shift correlation value is used to retrieve a frame number from a look-up table. Otherwise, the negative value of the maximum left-shift correlation value is used to retrieve a frame number from the look-up table. | 01-06-2011 |
20110002419 | Low Power Digital Media Broadcast Receiver with Time Division - Systems and methods for providing a low power receiver device using fine grained time division are provided. In one embodiment, the receiver device comprises a tuner, a demodulator configured to demodulate at least one sampled signal, a payload processor configured to process at least one demodulated signal into an output format, and a time division control logic configured to generate a control signal to switch at least one component within the receiver device between modes to conserve power. The at least one component may be switched between an active mode, a standby mode, a power off mode, and a low power mode. In further embodiments, the at least one component may be switched between staggered modes. | 01-06-2011 |
20110002420 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DECODING SINGLE ANTENNA INTERFERENCE CANCELLATION (SAIC) AND REDUNDANCY PROCESSING ADAPTATION USING BURST PROCESS - Aspects of a method and system for decoding single antenna interference cancellation (SAIC) and redundancy processing adaptation using burst process are provided. A wireless receiver may decode bit sequences based on a first decoding algorithm that may utilize redundancy in the data and that may impose physical constraints. The receiver may also decode a received bit sequence based on a second decoding algorithm that utilizes SAIC. Received data may be processed in a burst process portion in either decoding algorithm. Burst processed data from one of the decoding algorithms may be selected based on signal-to-noise ratio and/or received signal level measurements. The selected burst processed data may be communicated to a frame processing portion of the corresponding decoding algorithm. | 01-06-2011 |
20110007849 | Multiple protocol software defined radio - A single software defined radio handles both AIS and ORBCOMM communications. A software defined software defined radio detects incoming signals and resolves whether they are AIS or ORBCOMM signals. The signal is directed to a processor in which an algorithm is selected in correspondence with the type of signal which has been recognized. The algorithm extracts intelligence when receiving or encodes intelligence when transmitting. The present software defined radio switches from the ORBCOMM mode to the AIS mode automatically as required in order to maintain a mandatory duty cycle in both the AIS and ORBCOMM modes as defined by regulations, and provides user configurable communications capabilities over both the AIS and ORBCOMM networks in a low-cost, integrated, hardware implementation | 01-13-2011 |
20110007850 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING RECEIVER BEAM FORMING VECTORS IN MULTI-USER MIMO SYSTEMS - According to one embodiment there is provided a method of determining receiver beam forming vectors for a plurality of receivers in a MIMO system. Each receiver comprises a plurality of receiver antennae. The MIMO system also comprises a plurality of transmitter antennae. The method comprises quantifying the properties of the channels of the MIMO system in a channel property matrix including interference between individual channels and performing Cholesky decomposition of the receiver property matrix row-by-row into a lower triangular matrix with unit elements along its diagonal, a diagonal matrix and the Hermitian transpose of said triangular matrix. Performing the Cholesky decomposition comprises determining, when performing a step of the Cholesky decomposition for a row, a receiver-beam forming vector associated with the row that maximises the component of the diagonal matrix in the row. | 01-13-2011 |
20110007851 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MULTIPLE INPUT-MULTIPLE OUTPUT DETECTION - A method and device for detecting a symbol transmitted over a communication channel in a multiple input-multiple output communication system are disclosed. In one aspect, the method includes receiving a symbol transmitted over a communication channel of a multiple input-multiple output communication system. The method may also include searching a subset of possible transmitted symbols, the subset having a predetermined size dependent on properties of the communication channel. The method may also include deciding to which symbol of the subset the received symbol corresponds. | 01-13-2011 |
20110013730 | Optimized Physical Broadcast Channel Reception - A receiver receives information from a physical broadcast channel signal, wherein the receiver includes a blind processing and decoding unit that utilizes a hypothesis about how many transmit antennas were used to transmit the signal. Received signal characteristics are detected that indicate how many transmit antennas were used. Each transmit antenna hypothesis in a stored list represents how many transmit antennas were used. For each of the stored hypotheses, a probability value is determined based, at least in part, on the detected signal characteristics. The list of hypotheses is modified to associate the probability values with respective ones of the transmit antenna hypotheses. The modified list is used to provide antenna hypothesis probabilities, and the blind processing and decoding unit is operated such it begins with a most probable antenna hypothesis and continues with increasingly less probable antenna hypotheses until successful decoding occurs or all antenna hypotheses have been made. | 01-20-2011 |
20110019773 | SIGNAL PROCESSING CIRCUIT AND METHOD WITH FREQUENCY UP-AND DOWN-CONVERSION - A signal processing circuit comprises a frequency up-conversion circuit ( | 01-27-2011 |
20110019774 | Wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication method - A wireless communication apparatus includes a wireless processing unit for performing communication by wireless and an application processing unit for executing an application. The wireless processing unit of the wireless communication apparatus detects reception of wireless function update information for updating a function of the wireless processing unit when update information for updating any function of the wireless communication apparatus is received. After that, the wireless processing unit updates the function of the wireless processing unit, if reception of wireless function update information is detected, by performing an update process specified in the wireless function update information without involving the application processing unit. | 01-27-2011 |
20110019775 | METHOD AND SYSTEMS FOR RECEIVING PLURAL INFORMATIONS FLOWS IN A MIMO SYSTEM - In a communication system, such as a Multiple Input Multiple Output system operating in a spatial multiplexing mode, for use, e.g., in a WLAN or HSPDA device, a plurality of information flows are received via a set of receive antennas by deriving from at least some, and possibly all, of the receive antennas, respective RF signals, and producing from the RF signals thus derived, a plurality of receive signals, each receive signal to be demodulated to recover one of the information flows transmitted. The receive signals are produced as combinations of the RF signals having applied thereto relative RF phase shift weights. | 01-27-2011 |
20110019776 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OBTAINING PORT INDEX INFORMATION - A method and apparatus are described for obtaining port index information. In one scenario, downlink (DL) control information (DCI) is received that includes new data indicator (NDI). The NDI has a value indicating an antenna port for single-port transmission. In response to receiving the DCI, a single-port transmission associated with the indicated antenna port is received. The NDI may be associated with a disabled codeword and the DCI may include a second NDI. The DCI may be received over a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH). The DCI may include a resource block (RB) assignment information field (IF), a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process identity (ID) IF, a transmit power control (TPC) IF and, for each of a plurality of transport blocks, a modulation and coding scheme (MCS), an NDI and a redundancy version (RV). | 01-27-2011 |
20110019777 | APPARATUS, AND ASSOCIATED METHOD, FOR DETECTING VALUES OF A SPACE-TIME BLOCK CODE USING SELECTIVE DECISION-FEEDBACK DETECTION - A selective decision-feedback detector for the space-time block code which provides both diversity and spatial multiplexing. To detect a received code block of transmitted symbols, the channel matrix is properly preprocessed with the real and imaginary parts decoupled, and the selective decision-feedback detector makes multiple decisions on the same block upon differently permuted channel matrix and generates multiple candidates for the results. The indicators of the decision errors associated with the candidates are compared, and one of the candidates with the minimum error is selected by a selector as the decided symbols to be used for further processing at a receiving station. | 01-27-2011 |
20110019778 | Estimating Frequency Offset at a Subscriber Station Receiver - A method and system of estimating frequency offset at a subscriber station is disclosed. The method includes the subscriber station receiving a composite signal, in which the composite signal includes multi-carrier signals transmitted from a plurality of base stations. The subscriber station selects a subset of the plurality of base stations. The subscriber station selects at least one pair of multi-carrier symbols of the composite signal, wherein each of the at least one pair of multi-carrier symbols include a plurality of pilot sub-carriers. The subscriber station selects a subset of the plurality of pilot sub-carriers of the at least one pair of multi-carrier symbols based on transmit pilot symbols of the pilot sub-carriers of the multi-carrier signals transmitted by the subset of the plurality of base stations. The frequency offset is estimated based on a conjugate product between received symbols across at least one pair of multi-carrier symbols of each of the pilot sub-carriers of the selected subset of the plurality of pilot sub-carriers. | 01-27-2011 |
20110019779 | RADIO APPARATUS - An RF unit receives multicarrier signals via a plurality of antennas. A division unit divides the multicarrier signals received into a plurality of groups in the frequency domain. The division unit acquires the channel quality for each subcarrier, contained in the multicarrier signal, in the frequency domain, and defines the plurality of groups according to the channel quality. The processing unit performs adaptive array signal processing for each of the divided groups. | 01-27-2011 |
20110019780 | PROCESSING DIGITAL SAMPLES IN A WIRELESS RECEIVER - A system and method for processing digital samples from a signal received via a wireless transmission channel in a wireless communications system. The method comprises: comparing a target signal quality value with an estimated received signal quality value; detecting if the estimated received signal quality value exceeds the target signal quality value for a period; and selecting one of a plurality of processing routines of differing sensitivities for processing the digital samples. | 01-27-2011 |
20110026644 | Method for processing received signal by applying channel status information based on orthogonal frequency division multiplexing - Provided is a method for processing received signal by applying channel status information based on OFDM. The method applies CSI to a soft-decided signal and thus can more enhance performance than a method applied to a typical decoder even without using an additional memory and the increase of a clock speed. The method appropriately perform adjustment suitable for a soft-decided and received signal in applying pre-estimated CSI to a decoder, thereby more enhancing performance and enabling adaptive application based on the change of a channel status. The method includes performing a first operation of calculating a new second Channel Status Information (CSI) value CSI | 02-03-2011 |
20110026645 | SYSTEMS, APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR BROADCAST CHANNEL DECODING - Techniques for reliable channel decoding in a wireless network are provided. In one aspect, a wireless device receives system information over a physical broadcast channel of a downlink transmission. The wireless device decodes the physical broadcast channel of a current radio frame using a plurality of hypotheses until the decoding passes a cyclic redundancy check. Thereafter, the wireless device compares system information from the current radio frame with information obtained from a previous radio frame. The information from the previous radio frame may include one or more network parameters which may be stored in a memory of the wireless device. In some aspects, the comparison may be performed over a plurality of radio frames. Based at least in part on a result of the comparing, the wireless device may selectively reject system information from one or more of the radio frames. | 02-03-2011 |
20110026646 | E8-VSB RECEPTION SYSTEM, APPARATUS FOR GENERATING DATA ATTRIBUTE AND METHOD THEREOF, AND APPARATUS FOR CHANNEL ENCODING AND METHOD THEREOF - An E8-VSB reception system, apparatus for generating data attribute and method thereof, and apparatus for channel encoding and method thereof are disclosed. In the present invention, E8-VSB data resulting from multiplexing a plurality of enhanced data encoded at different coding rates with main data is received. And, the main data and a plurality of the enhanced data are identified to be modulated from the received E8-VSB data. In particular, by generating M/E packet attribute information, enhanced packet attribute information, enhanced byte attribute information and E8-VSB symbol attribute information from the E8-VSB data attribute generating apparatus, the channel decoding apparatus can correctly identify to decode the main data, ½ enhanced data and ¼ enhanced data from one another. | 02-03-2011 |
20110033012 | CHANNEL ESTIMATOR - A channel estimator includes: a delay time estimation section configured to estimate a delay time of a received signal; an FFT parameter determination section configured to determine an FFT window position and an FFT size according to the estimated delay time; a first and a second FFT sections configured to transform the received signal and a known pattern signal, respectively, to the frequency domain based on the FFT window position and the FFT size that are determined; a channel response calculation section configured to perform division processing to divide the output of the first FFT section by the output of the second FFT section; and an IFFT section configured to apply IFFT to the output of the channel response calculation section based on the determined FFT size, and the delay time estimation section estimates a delay time based on the output of the IFFT section. | 02-10-2011 |
20110038441 | TRANSMISSION MODE DETECTION - A method of detecting if a transmitted signal was transmitted in a particular transmission mode, the method comprising receiving a signal in primary and secondary frequency bands and comparing a first part of a header of the signal in the primary frequency band with a corresponding first part of a header of the signal in the secondary frequency band. | 02-17-2011 |
20110038442 | Apparatus and Method for Measurement of the Reception Time of a Pulse - Apparatus for measurement of the reception time of a pulse in a receiving system, which contains at least one receiving channel with a non-linear transmission response, which receiving channel produces at its output a received signal, having a memory, in which the received signals of reference pulses with a predetermined different amplitude are available as reference signals with respect to a time scale, and having an evaluation device, which is connected to the receiving system and to the memory and compares a received signal with each reference signal with a variant time offset in order to determine that reference signal and that time offset for which the comparison discrepancy is a minimum, and outputs this time offset as the reception time with respect to the time scale. | 02-17-2011 |
20110038443 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION METHOD THEREFOR, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - When a button for setting a communication parameter is operated in a communication apparatus that has a communication-parameter receiving function (receiving apparatus) and that is currently participating in a network, the communication apparatus (receiving apparatus) sends a start notification message to another apparatus currently participating in the network. Upon receipt of the start notification message, a providing apparatus currently participating in the network starts a communication-parameter providing process. | 02-17-2011 |
20110044407 | ADAPTIVE QRD-M ALGORITHM BASED SIGNAL DETECTING METHOD BY USING CONSTELLATION SET GROUPING IN SPATIAL MULTIPLEXING MULTIPLE-INPUT MULTIPLE-OUTPUT SYSTEM - There is provided a signal detecting method using constellation set grouping in a spatial multiplexing multiple input multiple output system. The signal detecting method includes dividing a set of candidate symbols, a constellation set into a plurality of subsets by grouping the constellation set; dividing a tree search process of a QR-decomposition with M-algorithm (QRDM) algorithm into a plurality of partial detection phases; and performing the plurality of divided partial detection phases in parallel or iteratively. | 02-24-2011 |
20110044408 | OFDM RECEPTION - A received OFDM signal is demodulated by sampling the OFDM signal at successive time instants and computing a Fourier transform of the samples for a block of time instants. In addition, a sliding Fourier transform is computed at every new one of the same input samples, to extract a pilot frequency tone. From results of the sliding Fourier transform a frequency error signal is detected. This signal is fed back the in a frequency synchronization feedback loop. The frequency synchronization feedback loop may be used to track the pilot tone by adjusting a phase correction signal and/or to track sample clock frequency variations. | 02-24-2011 |
20110044409 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RECEPTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A communication device including: a reception unit which receives signals including an initial transmission signal and signals including retransmission signals for the same data; a signal detection unit which detects at least two signals among the initial transmission signal and the plurality of retransmission signals for the same data from the received signal using the result of a decoding process; a combining unit which combines at least two signals detected by the signal detection unit; and a decoding unit which obtains the result of the decoding process by decoding the combined signal; wherein the detection by the signal detection unit, the combining by the combining unit, and the decoding by the decoding unit are iteratively performed with respect to the plurality of signals for the same data. | 02-24-2011 |
20110044410 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ENCODING/DECODING - A method of and an apparatus for encoding/decoding video data are disclosed. Included in the decoding apparatus are: a tool box that stores functional units; a decompression unit that receives a compressed decoder description and decompresses a CDDL-based decoder description; a decoder description analyzing unit that transforms the CDDL-based decoder description to an XML-based decoder description; an ADM generation unit that generates an abstract decoding model (ADM) using the XML-based decoder description; and a decoding solution that loads functional units stored in the tool box and decodes input data to video data by using the ADM or XML-based decoder description. With the present invention, it is possible to reconfigure and reconstruct a decoder in various way using the decoder description. | 02-24-2011 |
20110051853 | SOFT VALUE GENERATION USING SERIAL LOCALIZATION WITH INDECISION - Soft bit values are generated for received symbols transmitted based on a modulation constellation by demodulating the received symbols via a sequence of demodulation stages, each demodulation stage producing a symbol decision based on an effective constellation. Each effective constellation used by a non-final one of the demodulation stages includes subsets of centroids approximating a region of the modulation constellation. Adjacent ones of the subsets have one or more common points so that at least two adjacent subsets overlap. The soft bit values for the symbol decisions are determined based on detection metrics computed during demodulation for the points included in the effective constellation constructed incrementally over the sequence of demodulation stages, the effective constellation produced by the final demodulation stage being devoid of one or more points included in the modulation constellation. | 03-03-2011 |
20110051854 | ERROR DETECTION AND OFFSET CANCELLATION DURING MULTI-WIRE COMMUNICATION - Embodiments of a circuit are described. In this circuit, a receive circuit includes M input nodes that receive a set of M symbols on M links during a time interval, where the set of M symbols are associated with a codeword. Moreover, the receive circuit includes a decoder, coupled to the M input nodes, that determines the codeword in a code space based on the set of M symbols and that decodes the codeword to a corresponding set of N decoded symbols. Additionally, the receive circuit may include a detector that detects an imbalance in a number of instances of a first value in the set of M symbols, and a number of instances of a second value in the set of M symbols, and, if an imbalance is detected, that asserts an error condition. | 03-03-2011 |
20110051855 | FRAME SYNC DETECTING CIRCUIT AND FSK RECEIVER USING THE SAME - A frame sync detecting circuit and FSK receiver sequentially derive a moving average value (□) from oversample values of a received word pattern, for given symbol periods, and a difference between the moving average value and an average value for the given symbol periods in a given sync word pattern is determined as DC offsets Δf. Subsequently, the DC offset Δf is subtracted from the received word pattern, and correlation processing with respect to the sync word pattern is performed to determine a correlation value (). If the correlation value exceeds a predetermined threshold, it is determined that a sync word candidate has been received, and symbol values of the received word pattern after the DC offset correction are compared with respective symbol values of the sync word pattern. A sync word pattern detection is determined if errors in the symbols are within a given range. | 03-03-2011 |
20110051856 | WIRELESS TRANSMISSION DEVICE, WIRELESS RECEPTION DEVICE, AND SYMBOL ARRANGING METHOD - A wireless transmission device enabled to improve an error rate performance at a receiver, by acquiring at least one of frequency diversity effect and a time diversity effect while keeping the interference resistance which is acquired by diffusion. In this transmission device, a modulation unit ( | 03-03-2011 |
20110058631 | Systems and Methods for Enhanced Flaw Scan in a Data Processing Device - Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for flaw scan in a data processing system. As one example, a data processing system is disclosed that includes a data detector circuit, a bit sign inverting circuit, and an LDPC decoder circuit. The data detector circuit receives a verification data set that is an invalid LDPC codeword, and applies a data detection algorithm to the verification data set to yield a detected output. The bit sign inverting circuit modifies the sign of one or more elements of a first derivative of the detected output to yield a second derivative of the detected output. The second derivative of the detected output is an expected valid LDPC codeword. The LDPC decoder circuit applies a decoding algorithm to the second derivative of the detected output to yield a decoded output. | 03-10-2011 |
20110058632 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SOFT-OUTPUT DETECTION IN MULTIPLE ANTENNA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - An embodiment of a method and device for detecting a signal and generating bit soft-output of a multiple-input multiple-output system is provided. The device includes at least one channel estimates pre-processing unit, one received vector processing and one detection and soft-output generation unit. The pre-processing unit calculates multiple QR Decompositions of the input channel estimation matrix. The detection and soft-output generation unit computes near optimal bit soft output information with a deterministic complexity and latency. It may implement a reduced complexity search method. Globally, embodiments of the invention may allow achieving low complexity, high data rate, scalability in terms of the dimension of the MIMO system and flexibility versus the supported modulation order, all potentially key factors for most MIMO wireless transmission applications. | 03-10-2011 |
20110064167 | System and Method for Transmitter and Receiver Operation for Multiple-Input, Multiple-Output Communications Based on Prior Channel Knowledge - A system and method for transmitter and receiver operation for multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) communications based on prior channel knowledge are provided. A method for receiver operations includes receiving a data block, determining if there is confidence in information related to a channel, detecting data in the data block with a first detector in response to determining that there is confidence in the information, and detecting the data in the data block with a second detector in response to determining that there is no confidence in the information. The data block is received over the channel. | 03-17-2011 |
20110064168 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING SPACE-TIME BLOCK CODES - A method for detecting a space-time block code is provided. The method includes randomly selecting one initial candidate layer (x | 03-17-2011 |
20110069790 | RECEIVER AND METHOD - A receiver detects and recovers data from Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed (OFDM) symbols, which include pilot sub-carriers as well as data bearing sub-carriers. The receiver comprises a channel estimation processor and a channel estimate post processor. The channel estimation processor includes a pilot acquisition unit adapted to generate a sample of the channel transfer function for each pilot sub-carrier in a received OFDM symbol, and a channel estimator which is arranged to generate an estimate of the channel transfer function providing samples of the channel transfer function at each sub-carrier position in the received OFDM symbol from the pilot derived samples provided by the pilot acquisition unit. The channel estimate post processor is arranged to process the estimate of the channel transfer function received from the channel estimation processor to generate a processed version of the channel transfer function. The channel estimate post processor includes a controller, and a plurality of prediction filters. The controller is arranged to filter the estimate of the channel transfer function produced by the channel estimation processor using the plurality of prediction filters to form the processed version of the channel transfer function to effect of reducing noise in the processed version of the channel transfer function with respect to the estimate of the channel transfer function provided by the channel estimation processor. | 03-24-2011 |
20110075767 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING A PLURALITY OF SYMBOL BLOCKS - Teachings presented herein offer reduced computational complexity for detecting a plurality of symbol blocks, even for symbol blocks that comprise the combination of a relatively large number of symbols. The teachings perform two or more stages of detection assistance to successively reduce the number of candidate combinations of symbols to be considered for a symbol block when detecting the plurality of symbol blocks. In particular, the teachings identify a reduced set of candidate symbol combinations for at least one symbol block in the plurality of symbol blocks, and then jointly detect each of one or more distinct groups of symbols in the symbol block to determine from that reduced set a final reduced set of candidate symbol combinations. Detection of the plurality of symbol blocks limits the candidate combinations of symbols considered for a symbol block to the final reduced set of candidate symbol combinations identified for that symbol block. | 03-31-2011 |
20110075768 | Successive Approximation Register (SAR) Analog-To-Digital Converter (ADC) Having Optimized Filter - A system such as a mechanically tuned radio can have a signal path to receive and process an incoming radio frequency (RF) signal and to provide the processed signal to a first analog-to-digital converter (ADC) to convert the processed signal to a digital signal and to digitally demodulate the digital signal to obtain an audio signal, where this first ADC is separate from an auxiliary ADC not part of the signal path. | 03-31-2011 |
20110080979 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MIMO DECODING - A method, a system, a wireless device and a computer program product are provided. A process for decoding transmitted symbols in MIMO systems is provided. The received point coordinates and estimated candidate coordinates are represented by a reduced bit representation naturally dividing each dimension into uniformly sized bit segments. A bounded region surrounding the received point is defined in the total number of dimensions, the bounded region being a hypercube. For each candidate, an elimination process is carried out including : determining a position of the candidate to be inside or outside the bounded region, eliminating the candidate if it is outside, storing it if it is inside, adding a further bit thereby reducing a size of the bounding region; repeating the elimination process for the candidates stored as potential solutions until a single solution is obtained; determining the transmitted symbols from the single solution found. | 04-07-2011 |
20110080980 | MULTI-FEED DIVERSITY RECEIVE SYSTEM AND METHOD - Embodiments disclosed herein relate to diversity receive systems and methods. An antenna system may comprise a reflector and a plurality of feed antennas configured to receive a wireless signal from a common source with directional diversity. A receive system may comprise such antenna system in combination with a plurality of receivers and/or demodulators, and in combination with a combiner and/or controller. | 04-07-2011 |
20110085622 | DTV RECEIVER AND METHOD OF PROCESSING BROADCAST SIGNAL IN DTV RECEIVER - A DTV receiver includes a tuner tuning to a channel to receive a broadcast signal, and a demodulator demodulating the broadcast signal. The receiver further includes a first decoder which decodes main and enhanced data included in the demodulated signal by calculating soft decision values for the enhanced data and hard decision values for the main data. The receiver further includes a second decoder for decoding the main and enhanced data for first forward error correction, and a third decoder for decoding the FEC-decoded enhanced data for second forward error correction. | 04-14-2011 |
20110090992 | OFDM RECEIVER AND METHOD FOR COMPENSATING FOR I/Q IMBALANCE - An OFDM receiver for compensating for I/Q imbalance is provided. The OFDM receiver includes an I/Q demodulator demodulating a received signal into a baseband in-phase (I) channel signal and a baseband quadrature (Q) channel signal, and an I/Q imbalance compensator compensating for imbalance between the I-channel signal and the Q-channel signal in a time domain. Accordingly, it is possible to solve the I/Q imbalance and suppress degradation in the performance of the OFDM communication device. | 04-21-2011 |
20110090993 | SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS - The present invention discloses a signal processing method and a data processing method and apparatus. A time-domain to frequency-domain signal processing method includes: pre-processing time-domain data; pre-rotating the pre-processed data by using a rotation factor a·W | 04-21-2011 |
20110096873 | METHOD FOR POST DETECTION IMPROVEMENT IN MIMO - A two-stage approach to MIMO detection improves receiver performance in a computationally tractable manner. A whitening joint detector processes a MIMO symbol stream. The whitening joint detector includes a pre-filter operative to suppress a first subset of the received MIMO streams as colored noise. The whitening joint detector further includes a primary joint detector operative to process a second subset of the MIMO streams and to output a preliminary solution obtained by minimizing a whitening joint detection metric. A secondary detector then operates in the vicinity of the primary joint detector preliminary solution. The secondary detector improves the preliminary solution by comparison to a full joint detection metric. | 04-28-2011 |
20110096874 | WIDEBAND PERSONAL-RADIO RECORDER - Methods and apparatuses for concurrently recording multiple radio channels. A recorder includes a wideband tuner having a complex mixer for converting a received wideband RF signal to a complex signal that is then digitized. A digital front end module applies a number of complex down-mixers to the digital complex signal to generate the multiple radio channels in the baseband. Each one of the multiple radio channels in the baseband is further filtered, decimated and demodulated. A digital signal processing unit encodes each demodulated channel according to an audio compression format and stores the then encoded audio content to a storage unit. An RBDS decoder parses radio data service information associated with the stored audio content. The radio data service information is stored in a first section of the storage unit while the encoded audio content is stored in a second section of the storage unit. | 04-28-2011 |
20110103519 | Systems and processes for decoding chain reaction codes through inactivation - A method for processing a chain reaction code includes first selecting a source symbol which is associated with an output symbol of degree two or higher (i.e., an output symbol which is itself associated with two or more input symbols), and subsequently deactivating the selected source symbol in an attempt to produce an output symbol of degree one. The inactivation process can be repeated either successively until an output symbol of degree one is identified, and/or whenever the decoding process is unable to locate an output symbol of degree one. | 05-05-2011 |
20110103520 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTERFERER PARAMETER ESTIMATION USING MULTIPLE RECEIVER ARBITRATION - In one embodiment, a receiver implements a method of demodulating a set of symbols dispersed within a time-frequency grid of a received OFDM signal. The method includes determining which one of two or more demodulators is preferred for use in a given region of the time-frequency grid by evaluating detection statistics generated by the demodulators for the set of symbols. Each demodulator operates according to different demodulation parameters that correspond to different interference assumptions. The method further includes recovering the set of symbols for decoding using whichever demodulator is preferred for each symbol according to the region from which the symbol is recovered. The method may be further extended by updating each demodulator's demodulation parameters using reference and/or data symbols from the region(s) where that demodulator is preferred, and recovering the desired symbols using the updated demodulation parameters. Such updating can be further iterated, for additional demodulation parameter refinement. | 05-05-2011 |
20110103521 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DECOMPOSING RECEIVED SYMBOL SIGNAL MODULATED WITH BIT REFLECTED GRAY CODE IN BIT INFORMATION - Disclosed is a method and apparatus for composing a received symbol signal modulated with a bit reflected Gray code into bit information. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a positive integer of the received symbol signal having bits is assigned according to the Gray mapping rule, and a sign is determined. A value that is indicative of an arrangement of the bits constituting the received symbol signal is calculated. A boundary value in at least one bit group consisting of the bits constituting the received symbol signal is acquired, and a difference from an absolute value of the received symbol signal is calculated. The received symbol signal is converted into information per bit using a value of the received symbol signal based on the positive integer and the determined sign, the value that is indicative of the bit arrangement, and the difference from the absolute value. Therefore, it is possible to reduce complexity in bitwise decomposition for an iterative decoder inevitably used in a receiver. | 05-05-2011 |
20110103522 | Soft Decision Method and Associated Signal Receiving System - A soft decision method for determining a soft decision coordinate associated with a constellation is provided. The soft decision coordinate includes a first soft decision sub-coordinate and a second soft decision sub-coordinate. The method includes receiving an input signal including a coordinate value; defining a first coordinate range on a coordinate axis in the constellation, the first coordinate range having a first limit and a second limit; obtaining the first soft decision sub-coordinate according to the first coordinate range; defining a second coordinate range on the coordinate axis in the constellation, the second coordinate range having a third limit and a fourth limit; and obtaining the second soft decision sub-coordinate according to the second coordinate range; wherein the first and the third limit do not simultaneously equal to the second and the fourth limit. | 05-05-2011 |
20110103523 | SINGLE-BURST ACQUISITION FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Techniques for performing acquisition of packets are described. First detection values may be determined based on a first plurality of samples, e.g., by performing delay-multiply-integrate on the samples. Power values may be determined based on the first plurality of samples, e.g., by performing multiply-integrate on the samples. The first detection values may be averaged to obtain average detection values. The power values may also be averaged to obtain average power values. Whether a packet is presence may be determined based on the average detection values and the average power values. Second detection values may be determined based on a second plurality of samples. The start or the packet may be determined based on the first and second detection values. A third detection value may be determined based on a third plurality of samples. Frequency error of the packet may be estimated based on the first and third detection values. | 05-05-2011 |
20110103524 | SIGNAL RECEIVING APPARATUS AND SIGNAL TRANSMITTING SYSTEM - A signal receiving apparatus | 05-05-2011 |
20110103525 | PULSE SIGNAL WAVEFORM ASYMMETRY IDENTIFICATION UTILIZING SYMBOLIC DYNAMICS - A method for identifying asymmetry in a pulse signal is disclosed. An asymmetrical condition is when the time interval of a first input pulse signal having a first value is longer than the time of a second input pulse signal having a second value. Identifying asymmetry includes receiving and detecting the instantaneous signal values of first and second input pulse signals, and associating a unique state symbol with each distinct pair of instantaneous signal values thereby producing a sequence of state symbols. A sequence of state symbols of a first type, a second type, and a third type is identified and associated with a distinct enveloping event pattern. A macroscopic behavioral signature pattern indicating an asymmetrical condition is identified when a first symmetry event symbol of a first kind is followed by a first interval having no identified symmetry event symbol, a second symmetry event symbol of a second kind, and a second interval having no identified symmetry event symbol. | 05-05-2011 |
20110103526 | Method and System for Mitigating the Effects of Pulling in Multiple Phase Locked Loops in Multi-Standard Systems - Certain aspects of a method and system for mitigating effects of pulling in multiple phase locked loops in multi-standard systems may include selecting an input frequency range of operation at a voltage controlled oscillator based on a particular wireless band of operation in a system that handles a first wireless communication protocol and a second wireless communication protocol. An image rejection mixer may be enabled to generate an output signal for the particular wireless band of operation based on mixing a plurality of received signals within a selected frequency range. An in-phase (I) component and a quadrature (Q) component of the generated output signal may be generated by utilizing a RC-CR quadrature network. | 05-05-2011 |
20110110466 | Method and System for a Sliding Window Phase Estimator for Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) Automatic Frequency Correction - Aspects of a method and system for a sliding window phase estimator for wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA) automatic frequency correction are presented. Aspects of the system may include one or more circuits that enable adjustment of a current demodulation frequency for receiving at least one subsequent symbol based on a computed weighted sum of a plurality of computed frequency error values. Each of the plurality of computed frequency error values may be derived from a current symbol, a corresponding previous symbol, and/or a previous frequency error value. The current symbol may include a current received symbol segment and one or more previously received symbol segments. | 05-12-2011 |
20110110467 | MULTI-USER MIMO RECEIVER AND METHOD FOR RECEIVING DATA UNITS OVER A WIDEBAND CHANNEL - A multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) receiver includes circuitry to receive a MIMO transmission through a plurality of antennas over a channel comprising two or more 20 MHz portions of bandwidth. The MIMO transmission comprises a plurality of streams, each transmitted over a corresponding spatial channel and configured for reception by multiple user stations. The MIMO receiver also includes circuitry to simultaneously accumulate signal information within at least two or more of the 20 MHz portions of bandwidth. Each 20 MHz portion comprises a plurality of OFDM subcarriers. The MIMO receiver also includes circuitry to demodulate at least one of the steams using receive beamforming techniques. In this way, multi-user protocol data units can be received. | 05-12-2011 |
20110116579 | Method and System for Utilizing Tone Grouping With Givens Rotations to Reduce Overhead Associated With Explicit Feedback Information - Aspects of a method and system for utilizing tone grouping with Givens rotations to reduce overhead associated with explicit feedback information are presented. In one aspect of the invention, Givens matrices may be utilized to reduce a quantity of information communicated in explicit feedback information via an uplink RF channel. The explicit feedback information may include specifications for a feedback beamforming matrix that may be utilized when transmitting signals via a corresponding downlink RF channel. The feedback beamforming matrix may represent a rotated version of an un-rotated matrix. The Givens matrices may be utilized to apply one or more Givens rotations to un-rotated matrix. The rotated matrix may reduce the quantity of information communicated in the explicit feedback information. The quantity of information communicated in the explicit feedback information may be further reduced by utilizing tone grouping. | 05-19-2011 |
20110116580 | DATA TRANSLATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A data translation system ( | 05-19-2011 |
20110122976 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING WHETHER A TRANSMITTED DATA SIGNAL COMPRISING A CYCLIC PREFIX IS PRESENT IN A RECEIVED SIGNAL - A method for determining whether a transmission signal comprising a cyclic prefix is present in a received signal is described which includes determining a plurality of received signal values from the received signal; forming a plurality of different pairs of the received signal values based on a predefined periodicity of the cyclic prefix; determining a correlation term value for each of the plurality of pairs of the received signal values; and determining whether a data signal is present in the received signal based on a combination of the correlation term values. | 05-26-2011 |
20110129041 | RECEIVER DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND RECEIVING METHOD - A receiver device receives a signal inputted to one or a plurality of ports as a plurality of received signals, and includes: a phase offset estimating unit that, on the basis of a unique word of each signal block contained in said received signal, estimates the phase offset, and a phase offset compensating unit that, on the basis of a phase offset estimated by said phase offset estimating unit, compensates the phase offset; the receiver device uses a known signal component (unique word) contained in a frequency-domain equalized signal to compensate the phase offset, whereby it compensates complex phase offset fluctuation, and estimates the phase offset of a signal obtained at each port. | 06-02-2011 |
20110135039 | Coding and decoding of 8-VSB digital television signals for mobile/handheld receivers - Modified systems for broadcasting M/H data employ two-dimensional coding of RS Frames that combines transverse RS coding with subsequent byte-error-locating block coding that generates codewords of a prescribed standard length. This prescribed standard length is chosen such that an integral number of codewords of the byte-error-locating block code fits exactly, or substantially so, into the portion of each RS Frame that is encoded in CCC for inclusion within an M/H Group. The byte-error-locating block coding is CRC coding by way of one specific example or is Reed-Solomon (LRS) forward-error-correction (FEC) coding by way of another specific example. M/H receivers are described in which codewords of this byte-error-locating block coding are decoded and used to influence the soft decisions concerning data bits. Then, these soft decisions are processed and used for locating byte errors for the transverse Reed-Solomon (TRS) codes on an individual basis. | 06-09-2011 |
20110135040 | DEMAPPING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MODIFIED DUAL CARRIER MODULATION SYSTEM - Disclosed herein is a demapping device and method for a Modified Dual Carrier Modulation (MDCM) system. The demapping device comprises: the received signal processing unit receives an MDCM signal preprocessed by an operation preparation unit, and calculates differences between squares of distances between the received signal and a plurality of constellation points; the index search unit searches for a constellation point closest to the received signal based on the differences between squares of distances between the received signal and each of a plurality of constellation points; and the demapping operation unit searches for constellation points close to the closest constellation point, and sends demapping result data to a decoding device. The demapping result is obtained by demapping based on differences between squares of distances between the closest constellation point and the close constellation points. | 06-09-2011 |
20110142174 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING IMPULSE SIGNAL AND IMPULSE SEQUENCE - Disclosed herein is an apparatus and method for detecting an impulse signal or impulse sequence to realize wireless real-time location system application in a multipath fading environment. The apparatus includes a band-pass filter, an RF analog unit, and a signal processing base-band unit. The band-pass filter removes unnecessary frequency bands from impulse signals received through a receiving antenna. The RF analog unit detects the envelope of the impulse sequence deprived of the unnecessary frequency bands and based on a multipath, and outputs a digital signal regarding the envelope based on a leading edge of the envelope. The signal processing base-band unit performs low-speed 1-bit sampling and then output data, and, if frame synchronization has been found or a ranging command has been detected, performs high-speed 1-bit sampling and then calculates and outputs the propagation time of the impulse signals. | 06-16-2011 |
20110142175 | System and method for television signal demodulation and decoding - A modem for use with a computer having a demodulator and a decoder, the modem comprises a hardware interface; a demodulator front-end having a first input and a first output, the first output of the demodulator front-end being configured to interface with the demodulator of the computer and to provide a demodulated front-end signal to the demodulator over the hardware interface; and a forward error correction (FEC) unit having a second input and a second output, the second input of the FEC unit being configured to interface with the demodulator of the computer and to receive a demodulated signal from the demodulator over the hardware interface, the demodulated signal being a demodulation of the demodulated front-end signal, and the second output of the FEC unit being configured to interface with the decoder of the computer and to provide an FEC signal to the decoder over the hardware interface. | 06-16-2011 |
20110142176 | RECIEVING APPARATUS AND METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECIEVING SYSTEM - Disclosed herein is a receiving apparatus for receiving an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing signal, namely, OFDM signal having a frame having one frame length of a plurality of patterns, including: an acquiring section configured to acquire information on a preamble signal from the OFDM signal transmitted from a transmitting apparatus in accordance with an OFDM system; a frame determining section configured to determine whether or not the one frame length is short in the frame based on the information on the preamble signal acquired from the acquiring section; and a time interpolating section configured to obtain transmission path characteristics by comparing a pilot contained in the preamble signal and a known pilot corresponding to the pilot in a phase of transmission with each other when the frame determining section determines that the one frame length is short in the frame, and interpolate a data portion in a time direction based on the transmission path characteristics thus obtained. | 06-16-2011 |
20110142177 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR COMPENSATING FOR DELAY MISMATCH BETWEEN AMPLITUDE COMPONENT SIGNAL AND PHASE COMPONENT SIGNAL - Provided are an apparatus and method for compensating for a delay mismatch between an amplitude component signal and a phase component signal. The apparatus includes an amplitude path delay obtainer configured to obtain amplitude-delay information on a delay occurring in a propagation path of an amplitude component signal, a phase path delay obtainer configured to obtain phase-delay information on a delay occurring in a propagation path of a phase component signal, a delay controller configured to calculate and output a difference between the obtained amplitude path delay and the obtained phase path delay, and a variable delayer configured to compensate for a delay by changing a delay value on the basis of the delay difference output from the delay controller. Using an asynchronous method, in which a signal obtained before and after a delay is used as the clock signal of a memory device and the clock signal of a register to find the delay, it is possible to reduce the complexity of the constitution and increase power efficiency. | 06-16-2011 |
20110142178 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING FREQUENCY RESONANCE POINT OF AN ANTENNA - The present invention disclosed an apparatus and method for receiving a plurality of broadcasting signals. The apparatus comprises: a control circuit for generating an analog control voltage signal according to a frequency-voltage look-up table and a desired frequency; an antenna module comprising an antenna and an antenna resonant control circuit comprising a voltage-controlled capacitor being controlled by the analog control voltage signal, wherein the antenna resonant control circuit comprises a voltage-controlled capacitor to control the bandwidth received by the antenna according to the analog control voltage signal; a tuner for tuning a broadcasting signal received by the antenna to generate an output signal; and a demodulator for demodulating the output signal of the tuner. | 06-16-2011 |
20110150144 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETECTING CYCLIC PREFIX LENGTH - A device for detecting a cyclic prefix length according to the present invention includes: a plurality of cyclic prefix length searchers that receive a received signal from a transmitting apparatus to search different cyclic prefix lengths for the received signal; a normalizer that receives and normalizes a plurality of search results received from each of the plurality of cyclic prefix length searchers and outputs a plurality of normalization values; and a determining unit that determines any of the normalization values as the cyclic prefix length of the received signal. | 06-23-2011 |
20110150145 | Multicode Transmission Using Walsh Hadamard Transform - A symbol sequence contained in a received signal comprising a cyclic convolution of a Walsh code multiplexed signal and a channel impulse response of a multipath channel is detected using Walsh Hadamard domain equalization techniques. The method comprises converting the received signal and the channel impulse response of the multipath channel from the time domain to the WHT domain, and determining the symbol sequence based on equalizing the received signal in the WHT domain using WHT spectra of the channel impulse response to remove inter-symbol interference from the received signal due to cross-correlation between Walsh codes. | 06-23-2011 |
20110150146 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR TAIL TERMINATION OF TURBO DECODING - Methods and apparatus for trellis termination of a turbo decoder are disclosed which simplifies the hardware implementation. As a given example, backward state metrics, which is required to be calculated with forward state metric as part of a constitute decoding, are initialized with pre-calculated values based on input bits. | 06-23-2011 |
20110158354 | RECEIVER, RECEIVING METHOD, PROGRAM AND RECEIVING SYSTEM - Disclosed herein is a receiver including a receiving section, a first sorting section, a second sorting section, and a switching section. | 06-30-2011 |
20110158355 | RECEPTION APPARATUS, RECEPTION METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECEPTION SYSTEM - A reception apparatus is disclosed which includes: a reception section configured to receive an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing signal known as an OFDM signal formed by modulating common packet sequences and data packet sequences, the common packet sequences being made up of packets common to a plurality of streams, the data packet sequences being constituted by packets unique to each of the plurality of streams; an acquisition section configured to acquire decoding information for decoding the original streams from the common packet sequences and the data packet sequences obtained by demodulating the received OFDM signal; and a search section configured to search for the common packet sequence needed to decode the original streams from the designated data packet sequence on the basis of the acquired decoding information. | 06-30-2011 |
20110158356 | Apparatus and Method for Determining Signal Power - An apparatus for determining signal power comprise an oscillating circuit and a determining circuit. The oscillating circuit generates an oscillating signal. When a to-be-detected signal has signal power greater than a threshold, the oscillating signal has a first frequency; when the signal power is smaller than the threshold, the oscillating signal has a second frequency. The determining circuit determines whether the oscillating signal has either the first frequency or the second frequency, and generates a determination result accordingly. | 06-30-2011 |
20110164706 | RECEPTION APPARATUS AND METHOD, PROGRAM AND RECEPTION SYSTEM - Disclosed herein is a reception apparatus, including: a reception section adapted to receive an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) signal obtained by modulating a first frame configured so as to include packets of a common packet sequence configured from a packet common to a plurality of streams and a second frame configured so as to include packets of a data packet sequence configured from packets individually unique to the plural streams; an acquisition section adapted to acquire specification information for specifying a combination of a first frame and a second frame obtained by demodulating the received OFDM signal; and a detection section adapted to detect a combination of a packet of the common packet sequence which configures the first frame and a packet of the data packet sequence which configures the second frame, whose combination is specified based on the acquired specification information. | 07-07-2011 |
20110170637 | SIGNAL SEPARATOR - A device for separating uncoordinated co-channel signals including a symbol detector. | 07-14-2011 |
20110170638 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SPATIAL CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION FEEDBACK BASED ON A KRONECKER PRODUCT - A spatial channel state information (CSI) feedback technique is incorporated into multiple-input multiple-output mobile communications technologies. Spatial channel state information is measured at receiving equipment and then decomposed into components. The components are then quantized using codebook(s) and fed back as multiple indices to transmitting equipment. | 07-14-2011 |
20110170639 | MULTIPLIER-LESS DATA PROCESSING TECHNIQUES AND RELATED IMPLEMENTATIONS ADAPTED FOR USE IN POLAR MODULATOR - A modulator performs data processing operations such as interpolation and fractional delay adjustment on amplitude and/or phase data by performing shift operations in lieu of multiplication operations. In selected embodiments, the modulator samples input data at a first rate, processes the sampled input data using the first rate, and then interpolates the processed data to produce interpolated data. The modulator then samples the interpolated data at a second rate higher than the first rate and generates output data at the second rate. | 07-14-2011 |
20110170640 | SAMPLING CIRCUIT AND RECEIVER - Disclosed are a sampling circuit and a receiver with which filter characteristics compatible with the reception of wideband signals can be realized with a high degree of freedom in the setting of the filter characteristics. More specifically, a sampling circuit capable of removing adjacent interfering wave signals while keeping in-band deviation small is disclosed. The sampling circuit ( | 07-14-2011 |
20110170641 | DOUBLE FREQUENCY-CONVERSION RECEIVING CIRCUIT AND METHOD USED FOR RADIO-FREQUENCY SIM CARD - A double frequency-conversion receiving circuit used for a radio-frequency SIM card, including a low-noise amplifier ( | 07-14-2011 |
20110176642 | Systems and Methods for Low-Complexity MIMO Detection Using Leaf-Node Prediction via Look-up Tables - A method for building a look-up table for a receiver in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) detection system simulates a MIMO detector over many channel realizations, tracks channel metric and parameter values used for each channel realization resulting from such simulating, and stores, in a look-up table, best values of the tracked values used for a particular channel metric. | 07-21-2011 |
20110176643 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECEIVING LAYERED DATA THROUGH MULTIPLE MULTICAST CHANNEL - Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for receiving layered data transmitted over a multiple multicast channel. The layered data receiving method includes receiving the data including a count number, arranging the received data in an order of reception and storing in a jitter buffer, rearranging the data in an order of the count number and storing in a data buffer. | 07-21-2011 |
20110182385 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RELIABILITY-AIDED PRUNING OF BLIND DECODING RESULTS - Reliability metric(s), based on output of a decoder module, associated with each possible hypothesis associated with blind decoding are provided that aids a pruning process by rejecting unreliable CRC-passed hypotheses. In an aspect, a downlink control channel carries scheduling assignments and other control information. As location, size, and CRC masking associated with downlink control information are not known to a receiver, blind decoding over possible hypotheses may be performed. The complex structure of the downlink control channel blind decoding results in increasing false alarm(s). Intelligent rules for pruning the decoding results are employed so that unreliable CRC-passed hypotheses are rejected as a function of respective reliability metric. | 07-28-2011 |
20110194651 | SERIAL DATA RECEIVER CIRCUIT APPARATUS AND SERIAL DATA RECEIVING METHOD - A serial data receiver circuit apparatus to receive serial data delimited by a first bit length, the circuit apparatus includes: a serial/parallel converter circuit to convert the serial data into parallel data of a second bit length that is smaller than the first bit length; a data hold circuit to hold a plurality of parallel data; a detector circuit to detect a delimiter position in the received serial data; a detected position hold circuit to generate a select signal to select data included in the parallel data stored in the data hold circuit; and a selector circuit to select data in units of the second bit length starting from the data delimiter position based on the select signal. | 08-11-2011 |
20110194652 | PHYSICAL LAYER CIRCUIT - Provided is a physical layer circuit. Upon detecting a connection recognition signal from an output of a differential input terminal, a first detection circuit outputs a first control signal for allowing an upper layer to output a power supply control signal for turning on a power supply of each of a receiver circuit and a recovery conversion circuit. Upon detecting “input absent” based on the bit configuration of parallel data, a second detection circuit outputs a second control signal for allowing the upper layer to output the power supply control signal for turning off the power supply of each of the receiver circuit and the recovery conversion circuit. A control circuit turns off a power supply of the first detection circuit when the second detection circuit detects “input present”, and turns on the power supply of the first detection circuit when the second detection circuit detects “input absent”. | 08-11-2011 |
20110194653 | RECEIVER AND RECEPTION METHOD FOR LAYERED MODULATION - A receiver for receiving a layer-modulated signal includes: a base layer decoding unit configured to calculate a bit metric including code bit information of a base layer based on the reception signal and decode an information bit of the base layer; and at least one enhancement layer decoding unit configured to decode an information bit of an upper layer of a lower layer based on the decoding results of the lower layer, wherein the base layer decoding unit and the at least one enhancement layer decoding unit are sequentially connected according to the order of the corresponding layers. | 08-11-2011 |
20110194654 | DECODING APPARATUS, DECODING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - Provided are a decoding apparatus and method. The decoding apparatus includes a repository and a configuration unit. The repository stores a plurality of functional units having an input port and an output port which are respectively represented as tokens. The configuration unit receives decoder description which includes an identifier of at least one of the functional units and connection relationship information between the functional units, selects each functional unit corresponding to the received identifier from the repository, and connects the selected functional units by using the token to configure a variable decoder. The decoding apparatus and method defines the connection relationships between a plurality of functional units that configure a decoder, and thus can quickly and dynamically configure a decoder suitable for various encoding schemes. Accordingly, the decoding apparatus and method enable to easily verify suitability in each level of encoding, decoding and standardization and achieve the concentration of information, thereby accelerating the progress and standardization of technologies. | 08-11-2011 |
20110200148 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LOW-COMPLEXITY MIMO DETECTION WITH ANALYTICAL LEAF-NODE PREDICTION - Systems and methods for providing multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) detection, comprising a leaf node predictor for receiving a processed communications stream, computing at least one channel metric corresponding to the communications stream for a given channel realization by optimizing a predetermined probability, and analytically generating at least one parameter to output, which at least one parameter corresponds to at least one predicted best leaf node candidate for the given channel realization. The leaf-node predictor may generate, in real-time and without using a look-up table, at least one parameter directly from a given channel metric. Some embodiments analytically generate at least one parameter value for use by a MIMO detector corresponding to a channel metric and store the generated at least one parameter value and corresponding channel metric in a look-up table. | 08-18-2011 |
20110206165 | MOBILE WIRELESS APPARATUS - A mobile wireless apparatus wherein matching circuits can be independently designed, while the increase in the circuit scale can be suppressed and the cost can be reduced. In this apparatus, a filter ( | 08-25-2011 |
20110211658 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PERFORMING DIGITAL MULTI-CHANNEL AUDIO SIGNAL DECODING - A system and method are disclosed for performing digital multi-channel decoding of a BTSC composite audio signal. Each subsequent stage of the digital multi-channel decoding process is performed at the lowest sampling rate that yields acceptable performance for that stage. Analog-to-digital conversion of the composite audio signal is performed first to generate a composite digital audio signal. After analog-to-digital conversion, all signal processing may be performed in the digital domain. The composite digital audio signal is digitally filtered to frequency compensate for variations caused by previous stages of processing, including IF demodulation. Digital channel demodulation and filtering are performed to isolate single channels of the composite digital audio signal such as SAP, L−R, and L+R channels. SAP and L−R channels are DBX decoded resulting in corresponding decoded signals using a unique combination of digital filters that are an efficient translation of a corresponding combination of analog filters. The decoded L−R channel and the L+R channel are re-matrixed to form left and right stereo signals. Any of the SAP signal, left and right stereo signals, and L+R channel signal may be sample rate converted and output at a standard audio output rate. | 09-01-2011 |
20110216856 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRE-AVERAGED STAGGERED CONVOLUTION DECIMATING FILTERS - Certain embodiments of the invention may include systems and methods for implementing a multirate digital decimating filter for filtering received symbol data. The method may include sampling the received symbol data at a selected sample rate, pre-averaging the sampled received data to provide two samples per symbol; convolving the pre-averaged samples with decimated finite impulse response (FIR) aperture impulse response coefficients to produce detected output samples, convolving the pre-averaged samples with shifted decimated FIR aperture impulse response coefficients to produce zero-crossing transition samples, and adjusting the sample rate based at least in part on averaging the zero-crossing transition samples. | 09-08-2011 |
20110222634 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM UTILIZING A HIERARCHICALLY MODULATED SIGNAL AND METHOD THEREOF - A communication system utilizing a hierarchically modulated signal and method thereof are provided, wherein a receiver system is configured to receive a hierarchically modulated signal. The receiver system includes a receiver device configured to receive the hierarchically modulated signal, which is a function of a time domain, and including a high priority data stream that has a single carrier type modulation, and a low priority data stream having data bits that are spread over a plurality of data symbols of a high priority data modulation. The receiver system further includes a low priority processor device, which includes an OFDM decoder configured to convert the low priority data stream of the hierarchically modulated signal that is a function of the time domain to be a function of a frequency domain by utilizing a FFT, such that an output is emitted that is representative of the low priority data stream. | 09-15-2011 |
20110222635 | High-Speed Communication Channel Techniques with Improved Robustness to Timing Uncertainty - A method and system using the principle of generalized maximum likelihood estimation to resolve sample timing uncertainties that are associated with the decoding of communication signals. By using generalized maximum likelihood estimation, sample timing uncertainty can be resolved by taking multiple samples of the received signal within a symbol period and determining which sample best corresponds to the optimal sample timing. The sample which best corresponds to the optimal sample timing can be determined from a timing index which can be calculated from ambiguity indicators that are based on the samples of the received signal. | 09-15-2011 |
20110222636 | METHOD AND RECEIVER FOR ESTIMATING THE CHANNEL IMPULSE RESPONSE USING A CONSTANT MODULUS INTERFERENCE REMOVAL ITERATION - A receiver and associated method estimates a channel impulse response of the communications signal. A communications signal is received as a burst of transmitted symbols, including a known training sequence. The joint estimation of timing offset and initial channel impulse response is determined based on the cross-correlations of the known transmitted symbols and received communications signal. A constant modulus interference removal iteration is applied to improve the initial channel impulse estimation. | 09-15-2011 |
20110235753 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - According to one embodiment, a wireless communication device includes a receiver, a physical layer processor, a MAC layer controller, and a channel setting unit. The receiver receives wireless signals received by using a plurality of communication channels as a baseband signal. The physical layer processor processes a physical layer of the baseband signal. The MAC layer controller recognizes a first frequency band used by a first communication channel, and determines whether a second frequency band is adjacent to the first frequency band or not. The channel setting unit supplies the first frequency band to the receiver, and controls the physical layer processor depending on information as to whether the first frequency band is adjacent to the second frequency band or not. | 09-29-2011 |
20110235754 | METHOD AND A DEVICE FOR DETERMINING IF AN INFORMATION WORD TRANSFERRED BY AT LEAST A SOURCE HAS TO BE RELAYED - The present invention concerns a method for determining if an information word transferred by a source has to be relayed by a telecommunication device. The signals transferred by the source are composed of complex symbols obtained from the information word. The telecommunication device:
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20110235755 | MIMO RADIO SYSTEM WITH ANTENNA SIGNAL COMBINER - Systems and methods for a MIMO radio with antenna signal combiners are presented. In one embodiment, a (MIMO) radio system for use in a multi-path environment is described. The system includes a plurality of antenna subsystems, each subsystem comprising two or more antennas and a combiner configured to combine signals received via the two or more antennas in a ratio. The system further includes a radio for each of the plurality of antenna subsystems configured to demodulate the combined signal and a MIMO processor configured to produce a single data stream from the demodulated signals. | 09-29-2011 |
20110235756 | SIGNAL LOSS DETECTOR FOR HIGH-SPEED SERIAL INTERFACE OF A PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC DEVICE - A loss-of-signal detector includes digital and analog monitoring of incoming data. The incoming signal is compared digitally to at least one predetermined pattern that may indicate a loss of signal, and also is monitored by an analog detector that detects transitions in the data. If the digital comparison fails to match any of the at least one predetermined pattern, or if transitions are detected by the analog monitoring, even if the digital comparison produces a pattern match, then loss of signal is not indicated. | 09-29-2011 |
20110243278 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SIGNALING CONTROL INFORMATION IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A method of decoding encoded information communicated over a radio channel includes receiving a vector of encoded information transmitted by a wireless terminal. The encoded information includes an encoded representation of unencoded information bits that have been encoded using a first order Reed-Muller code. The method also includes generating a vector of transform values by performing a Hadamard Transform on the received vector and identifying a subset of the transform values based on scheduling information associated with the wireless terminal. Additionally, the method includes selecting, from the subset of transform values, one of the transform values based on a magnitude of the selected transform value and determining an estimate of the unencoded information bits based on a bit sequence associated with the selected transform value. In accordance with another embodiment of the present disclosure, an apparatus is operable to implement this method. | 10-06-2011 |
20110243279 | DECODING FOR MIMO SYSTEMS - In one aspect there is provided a method. The method may include receiving a signal transmitted through a channel; receiving an estimate of the channel; determining from the estimate of the channel at least one statistic representative of a variability of the estimate of the channel; decoding the received signal by at least searching for an output using a plurality of cost metrics determined based on at least the estimate of the channel and the at least one statistic; and providing, based on at least one of the plurality of cost metrics, the output. Related apparatus, systems, methods, and articles are also described. | 10-06-2011 |
20110243280 | RECEIVER AND RECEIVING METHOD - A receiver is provided which is capable of proper demodulation and error correction in various transmission environments. A receiver for receiving a digitally modulated signal includes a demodulator which selects one demodulation scheme from a plurality of predetermined demodulation schemes based on the received signal, and which demodulates the received signal using the selected demodulation scheme to generate a demodulated signal, and a demapper which obtains metric data by making a soft decision on the demodulated signal. The demapper converts the demodulated signal into the metric data according to the selected demodulation scheme. | 10-06-2011 |
20110249775 | DATA RECEIVER CIRCUIT - A data receiver circuit for converting received serial data into parallel data in accordance with a data rate signal and for outputting the converted parallel data, the data receiver circuit includes a clock generator for generating a reference clock based on an input clock, a data latch for latching the received serial data and outputting first latched serial data in accordance with the reference clock, a first data output section for converting the first latched serial data into first parallel data with a first reference clock, in case that the data rate signal indicates a first data rate same as a data rate of the reference clock, and a second data output section for converting the first latched serial data into second parallel data with a second reference clock, in case that the data rate signal indicates a second data rate slower than the data rate of the reference clock. | 10-13-2011 |
20110255640 | RECEIVER, RECEIVING DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR TERRESTRIAL MOBILE MULTIMEDIA BROADCASTING - A receiver for Terrestrial Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting T-MMB, includes a radio frequency demodulation unit, for carrying out radio frequency demodulation for a received signal; a synchronization unit, for identifying the transmission mode and the synchronous position of the signal from the radio frequency demodulation unit; an OFDM demodulation unit, for extracting a phase reference symbol, Fast Information Channel FIC symbols and data symbols from the signal which is from the radio frequency demodulation unit according to the transmission mode and the synchronous position, carrying out OFDM demodulation and decoding for the FIC symbols to obtain FIC information, carrying out OFDM demodulation for the data symbols of the corresponding sub-channel according to the sub-channel indication information; and a demodulation and decoding unit, for carrying out differential demodulation for the data symbols after the OFDM demodulation, carrying out time-domain deinterleaving for the data symbols after differential demodulation according to the indication of the FIC information, and carrying out forward error correction decoding for the data symbols after the time-domain deinterleaving. The invention also discloses a receiving device and a receiving method for T-MMB. | 10-20-2011 |
20110261906 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MODULATION RECOGNITION IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and an apparatus for modulation recognition in communication system are provided. First, a plurality of constellation corresponding different modulation types are provided, wherein each constellation has a plurality of points. An input signal is de-mapped to find out a nearest point located nearest to a position of the input signal in each constellation. The distances from the nearest points to the position of the input signal are respectively counted to obtain a plurality of distance statistics values corresponding to different modulation types. The apparatus compares the distance statistics values for recognizing the modulation type of the input signal. | 10-27-2011 |
20110261907 | WIRELESS WAKE-UP SYSTEM AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF - A wireless wake-up system and an operation method thereof are provided to optimize power consumption when wireless data is received. The wireless wake-up system activates a wake-up detection module and then compares a wireless input signal received through an antenna with a pre-stored reference value. If the wireless input signal is equal to the reference value, the wireless wake-up system determines that the input signal is a wake-up signal with a low bit rate, and then generates a wake-up command corresponding to the wake-up signal. Also, the wireless wake-up system activates a selected module kept in an inactive state by sending the wake-up command to the selected module. The activated module may be a microcontroller unit (MCU). When the MCU is activated, the wireless wake-up system may inactivate the wake-up detection module. | 10-27-2011 |
20110268230 | OPTIMIZING A RECEIVER FOR MULTIPLE ANTENNA CONFIGURATIONS - A method for optimizing a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) receiver for multiple antenna configurations is disclosed. A noise covariance is determined based on a noise estimate of a wireless signal. A Cholesky decomposition matrix is determined based on the noise covariance. A whitening matrix is determined based on the Cholesky decomposition matrix. The wireless signal is whitened using the whitening matrix. | 11-03-2011 |
20110268231 | METHOD FOR QR-MLD DEMODULATION - A method for QR-MLD demodulation includes the steps of: determining a transmission reception mode; receiving symbols represented by a received symbol vector; generating a channel matrix; performing QR decomposition on the channel matrix to compute an unitary matrix and an upper triangular matrix; processing the received symbol vector by multiplying the received symbol vector by the Hermitian of the unitary matrix; determining whether a conjugate calculation will be required to set a conjugate flag; computing a first distance metric by performing a conjugate or non-conjugate first distance metric calculation depending on the conjugate flag; computing an estimated symbol by performing a conjugate or non-conjugate estimated symbol calculation depending on the conjugate flag; mapping the estimated symbol to a constellation; computing a second distance metric by performing a conjugate or non-conjugate second distance metric calculation depending on the conjugate flag; computing a total distance metric by summing the first and second distance metrics; and calculating the soft bits. | 11-03-2011 |
20110274217 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DEINTERLEAVING SIGNALS - There are provided method and system for deinterleaving signals. The method comprises: (a) recording plural signal reception events, wherein each signal reception event is associated with a received signal at a receiver, and represented by a space-time coordinate having a space component based on a location of the receiver and a time component based on an arrival time of the received signal; (b) selecting a subset of signal reception events from the recorded signal reception events, wherein the number of signal reception events in the subset is based on the dimension of the space component; and (c) determining whether the signal reception events in the selected subset satisfy a predetermined condition, and if the determination is in the affirmative, associating the signal reception events in the selected subset with an emission of an emitter. | 11-10-2011 |
20110274218 | DUAL POLARIZATION TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, DUAL POLARIZATION TRANSMISSION METHOD, RECEPTION APPARATUS, TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, RECEPTION METHOD, AND TRANSMISSION METHOD - A receiving device of a dual polarization transmission system includes: a receiver that receives an RF signal that is transmitted with the use of two orthogonal polarizations; two reception local oscillators that include PPL circuits to convert the received RF signal of each of the polarizations into an IF signal; and a demodulator that demodulates an IF signal of one polarization, which is obtained by the conversion, into a baseband signal. The reception local oscillators control a loop band of the PLL circuits in response to a signal from the demodulator. | 11-10-2011 |
20110286554 | RF receivers - A method and apparatus are provided for receiving an RF service. At least two RF channels | 11-24-2011 |
20110293045 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IMPROVING ITERATIVE SIGNAL PROCESSING - A method for iteratively decoding a set of encoded samples received from a transmission channel is provided. A data signal indicative of a noise level of the transmission channel is received. A scaling factor is then determined in dependence upon the data signal and the encoded samples are scaled using the scaling factor. The scaled encoded samples are then iteratively decoded. Furthermore, a method for initializing edge memories is provided. During an initialization phase initialization symbols are received from a node of a logic circuitry and stored in a respective edge memory. The initialization phase is terminated when the received symbols occupy a predetermined portion of the edge memory. An iterative process is executed using the logic circuitry storing output symbols received from the node in the edge memory and a symbol is retrieved from the edge memory and provided as output symbol of the node. Yet further an architecture for a high degree variable node is provided. A plurality of sub nodes forms a variable node for performing an equality function in an iterative decoding process. Internal memory is interposed between the sub nodes such that the internal memory is connected to an output port of a respective sub node and to an input port of a following sub node, the internal memory for providing a chosen symbol if a respective sub node is in a hold state, and wherein at least two sub nodes share a same internal memory. | 12-01-2011 |
20110293046 | COMPLEX SIGNAL PROCESSING CIRCUIT, RECEIVER CIRCUIT, AND SIGNAL REPRODUCTION DEVICE - An analog complex filter combines an in-phase signal and a quadrature signal to output first and second analog signals. An analog-to-digital converter converts the first and second analog signals into first and second digital signals. A digital complex filter attenuates components corresponding to the quadrature signal and the in-phase signal of the first and second digital signals, respectively. A digital bandwidth limited filter allows a target component and an image component contained in the digital complex signal composed of the first and second digital signals from the digital complex filter to pass therethrough, and attenuates an adjacent interference component. An IQ imbalance correction circuit corrects a quadrature error and an amplitude error between the first and second digital signals from the digital band-pass filter. | 12-01-2011 |
20110293047 | DATA RECEIVER CIRCUIT - A data receiver circuit includes: a clock/data recovery circuit to recover a clock and data from a received signal; a fixed pattern generation circuit to generate fixed pattern data; a first selection circuit to select and output one of the fixed pattern data generated by the fixed pattern generation circuit and recovered data recovered by the clock/data recovery circuit; a second selection circuit to select and output one of a reference clock and recovered clock recovered by the clock/data recovery circuit; and a switching circuit to make the first selection circuit output the fixed pattern data and to make the second selection circuit output the reference clock, when an input signal is lost or the clock/data recovery circuit is in a loss-of-lock state. | 12-01-2011 |
20110299630 | Method and Apparatus for Real Time Multiplexing with Receiver and Antenna Array Elements - A method of signal processing, or corresponding apparatus, includes providing multiple analog receive signals at respective antennas and selecting one antenna at a time in an iterative manner, to cycle through the antennas and provide a multiplexed analog signal. The multiplexed analog signal is filtered at a filter to pass a predetermined frequency band. The multiplexed analog signal is sampled at a single analog to digital converter to generate a multiplexed digital signal. The multiplexed digital signal is demultiplexed to generate multiple digital signals for digital processing. Sharing a receiver and ADC among multiple antennas results in reduced cost and power. Such cost and power reductions in turn enable larger antenna arrays than are available with prior art techniques, thereby promoting increased throughput and coverage. | 12-08-2011 |
20110299631 | SAW-LESS RECEIVER INCLUDING TRANSIMPEDANCE AMPLIFIERS - A SAW-less receiver includes an FEM interface module, an RF to IF receiver section, and a receiver IF to baseband section. The RF to IF receiver section includes inverter based LNA modules, a mixing module, and transimpedance amplifier modules. The inverter based LNA modules amplify inbound RF signal to produce a positive leg current RF signal and a negative leg current RF signal. The mixing module converts the positive and negative leg current RF signals into an in-phase (I) mixed current signal and a quadrature (Q) mixed current signal. The transimpedance amplifier modules convert the I mixed current signal into an I mixed voltage signal and the Q mixed current signal into a Q mixed voltage signal. The receiver IF to baseband section converts the I and Q mixed voltage signals into one or more inbound symbol streams. | 12-08-2011 |
20110299632 | SAW-LESS RECEIVER WITH RF FREQUENCY TRANSLATED BPF - A SAW-less receiver includes an FEM interface module, an RF to IF receiver section, and a receiver IF to baseband section. The RF to IF receiver section includes a frequency translated bandpass filter (FTBPF), an LNA, and a mixing section. The FTBPF includes a switching network and a plurality of baseband impedances. The switching network is operable to couple the plurality of baseband impedances to the FEM interface in accordance with a plurality of phase-offset RF clock signals to RF bandpass filter the inbound RF signal. The LNA amplifies the filtered inbound RF signal and the mixing section mixes the amplified inbound RF signal with a local oscillation to produce an inbound IF signal. The receiver IF to baseband section converts the inbound IF signal into one or more inbound symbol streams. | 12-08-2011 |
20110299633 | MULTIPLE BAND SAW-LESS RECEIVER INCLUDING A FREQUENCY TRANSLATED BPF - A SAW-less receiver includes an FEM interface module, an RF to IF receiver section, and a receiver IF to baseband section. The RF to IF receiver section includes a frequency translated bandpass filter (FTBPF), an LNA, and a mixing section. The FTBPF includes a switching network and baseband impedances. The switching network is operable to frequency translate a baseband filter response to a first RF band frequency response and/or to a second RF frequency band response. The FTBPF filters the inbound RF signal to pass, substantially unattenuated, the first and/or second RF band signal components. The LNA amplifies the first and/or second filtered inbound RF signals and the mixing section mixes the first and/or second amplified inbound RF signals with a corresponding first and/or second local oscillation. The IF to baseband section converts the first and/or second inbound IF signals into first inbound symbol stream(s) and/or second inbound symbol stream(s). | 12-08-2011 |
20110299634 | SAW-LESS RECEIVER WITH A FREQUENCY TRANSLATED BPF HAVING A NEGATIVE RESISTANCE - A SAW-less receiver includes an FEM interface module, an RF to IF receiver section, and a receiver IF to baseband section. The RF to IF receiver section includes an RF frequency translated bandpass filter (FTBPF), an LNA, and a mixing section. The RF FTBPF frequency translates a baseband filter response to an RF filter response and filters an inbound RF signal in accordance with the RF filter response, wherein the inbound RF signal includes a loss error due to switching loss and/or inductor loss. The RF FTBPF also compensates the loss error based on a negative resistance. The LNA amplifies the compensated inbound RF signal and the mixing section mixes the amplified inbound RF signal with a local oscillation to produce an inbound IF signal. The receiver IF to baseband section converts the inbound IF signal into one or more inbound symbol streams. | 12-08-2011 |
20110299635 | SAW-LESS RECEIVER INCLUDING AN IF FREQUENCY TRANSLATED BPF - A SAW-less receiver includes an FEM interface module, an RF to IF receiver section, and a receiver IF to baseband section. The RF to IF receiver section includes a mixing module, a mixed buffer section, and a frequency translated BPF (FTBPF) circuit module. The mixing module converts an inbound RF signal into an in-phase (I) mixed signal and a quadrature (Q) mixed signal. The mixed buffer section filters and buffers the I mixed signal and filter and buffer the Q mixed signal. The FTBPF circuit module frequency translates a baseband filter response to an IF filter response such that the FTBPF circuit module filters undesired signal components of the IF I signal and the IF Q signal to produce an inbound IF signal. The receiver IF to baseband section converts the inbound IF signal into one or more inbound symbol streams. | 12-08-2011 |
20110299636 | HIGH-POWER INDUCTION-TYPE POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM AND ITS BI-PHASE DECODING METHOD - A high-power induction-type power supply system includes a supplying-end module consisting of a supplying-end microprocessor, a power driver unit, a signal analysis circuit, a coil voltage detection circuit, a display unit, a power supplying unit, a resonant circuit, a supplying-end coil and a shunt resistor unit, and a receiving-end module consisting of a receiving-end microprocessor, a voltage detection circuit, a rectifier and filter circuit, an amplitude modulation circuit, a protection circuit breaker, a voltage stabilizer circuit, a DC-DC buck converter, a resonant circuit and a receiving-end coil. Subject to time series arrangement, the high-power induction-type power supply system allows transmission of data signal in a stable manner during a charging operation, assuring system operation stability and low power loss. By means of bi-phase decoding, data code is accurately decoded when the receiving-end module is at full load, ensuring system operating reliability. | 12-08-2011 |
20110305302 | METHOD FOR THE BLIND ESTIMATION OF OFDM SIGNAL PARAMETERS BY ADAPTED FILTERING - The present invention relates to a method for the blind estimation of at least one parameter of an OFDM signal by maximizing an objective function depending on said parameter. The objective function implements a parameterized model of the OFDM modulation and a matched filtering corresponding to that model. The OFDM signal, baseband demodulated and then sampled in an observation window, is the object of the adapted filtering to calculate the objective function. | 12-15-2011 |
20110310999 | Dynamic Optimization of Overlap-and-Add Length - A method of performing overlap-and-add length for zero-padded suffixes. The method includes derotating received information symbol samples. The derotated received information symbol samples include a first set of derotated received information symbol samples and a second set of derotated received information symbol samples. The first set of derotated received information symbol samples are stored in a buffer. The second set of derotated received information symbol samples are provided to a received sample processing unit. The received zero-padded suffix samples are deroted. Based upon an overlap-and-add length, at least a fraction of the derotated received zero-padded suffix samples is added with at least a fraction of the first set of derotated received information symbol samples to produce multiple summed samples. The multiple summed samples is provided to the received sample processing unit. | 12-22-2011 |
20110311000 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A communication device including a receiving unit and a signal processing module having a simulation unit and a decision unit is provided. The receiving unit receives a first burst of a paging message provided from a base station. Base on a reference burst code and an estimated channel impulse response of the communication channel, the simulation unit generates a simulation burst. The decision unit then determines if the paging message is a dummy message in accordance with the first burst and the simulation burst. The decision unit requests the receiving unit to stop receiving the paging message once the paging message is determined to be a dummy message. | 12-22-2011 |
20110311001 | SYSTEM FOR RECEIVING DIGITAL AUDIO DATA - A system for receiving digital audio data may include a diversity-receiving unit. The diversity-receiving unit may include at least two antennas and at least one receiving channel, which can be switched from one antenna to another antenna. To reduce audible disturbances in the receiving channel, a dropout concealment may be carried out when disturbances in the received audio signal occur. The dropout concealment may use intact audio signal parts before the disturbance and/or after the disturbance to synthesize the concealment signal. The receiving channel may be switched to another antenna as a function of whether the dropout concealment is activated. | 12-22-2011 |
20110317791 | OFDM receivers - A method and apparatus for filtering a received Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed (ODFM) signal to reduce noise. The ODFM signal includes a plurality of symbols n in the time direction, each symbol including a plurality of sub-carriers k in the frequency direction, each a-th sub-carrier of each symbol being transmitted as a pilot sub-carrier with known amplitude and phase, and each symbol having its pilot sub-carriers spaced by b sub-carriers relative to the adjacent symbol. An m-tap filter is utilized for producing a filtered version of a selected pilot sub-carrier to be used in subsequent interpolation, by inputting into respective taps of the m-tap filter, m pilot sub-carriers surrounding the selected pilot sub-carrier. The m pilot sub-carriers each satisfy a relationship between n and k, wherein the relationship defines a diagonal line in the n-k plane. | 12-29-2011 |
20120002759 | DEMODULATION METHOD FOR MIMO SYSTEMS - A method for processing a plurality of data streams from a transmitter, includes: receiving symbols via the plurality of data streams; generating a channel matrix; sorting the channel matrix to provide a sorted channel matrix; performing QR decomposition on the sorted channel matrix and a column-row-swapped-sorted-channel matrix; performing QR equalization on a sorted received symbol vector and a swapped received symbol vector to provide a equalized-sorted vector and a equalized-swapped-sorted vector; processing first and second portions of the equalized-sorted vector and the equalized-swapped-sorted vector via a QR-MLD demodulation scheme to determine soft bits and soft symbols; and rearrange soft bits in the above steps to provide an output vector. | 01-05-2012 |
20120002760 | VARIABLE LENGTH CORRELATOR - A method for processing a signal derived from a radio frequency signal at some rate in a range of allowable data rates according to one embodiment includes downconverting an incoming signal derived from a radio frequency signal to complex near-baseband signals; processing the complex near-baseband signals in two data correlators corresponding to data 0 and data 1; and changing effective lengths of the correlators based on a symbol data rate of the incoming signal. Such methodology may also be implemented as a system using logic for performing the various operations. Additional systems and methods are also presented. | 01-05-2012 |
20120002761 | Wireless Communication Method For Magnetic Field Communication Network and Demodulation Device of Coordinator - Disclosed herein is a wireless communication method for a magnetic field communication network. The wireless communication method is performed by a coordinator on the magnetic field communication network. The wireless communication method includes transmitting a request signal used to request response to each of sensor nodes; selecting any one of response signals received from the sensor nodes; transmitting an acknowledgement signal to a sensor node corresponding to the response signal; selecting any one of response signals transmitted again from sensor nodes which did not receive the acknowledgement signal; and transmitting an acknowledgement signal to a sensor node corresponding to the selected response signal. | 01-05-2012 |
20120008721 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, METHOD FOR RECEIVING DATA AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to one exemplary embodiment, a communication terminal is provided which has a receiver and has a controller which is configured for controlling the receiver in such a manner that the receiver receives a part of first data from a first network communication facility of a first communication network by means of a first communication channel in a first part of a period in which the transmission of the first data by the first network communication facility overlaps the transmission of the second data by the second network communication facility, and that the receiver receives a part of the second data from the second network communication facility by means of a second communication channel during a second part of the period so that the first part of the period and the second part of the period do not overlap and so that the part of the first data which is received in the first part of the period meets a predetermined criterion. | 01-12-2012 |
20120008722 | SIGNAL PROCESSOR, RECEIVER AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - A processor ( | 01-12-2012 |
20120014479 | SIGNAL RECEIVING APPARATUS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD OF THE SAME - A signal receiving apparatus and a signal processing method are provided. The signal receiving apparatus includes: a plurality of signal receiving units which receive analog signals; a plurality of radio frequency (RF) processing units which receive the analog signals from the plurality of signal receiving units and change frequencies of the received analog signals into intermediate frequencies; a plurality of analog-to digital (AD) converters which convert the analog signals having the intermediate frequencies into digital signals; a demodulating unit which demodulates the digital signals; a switching unit which is interposed between the plurality of AD converters and the demodulating unit; and a control unit which controls the switching unit to connect one of the plurality of AD converters to the demodulating unit based on a select signal to select one of the plurality of signal receiving units. | 01-19-2012 |
20120014480 | METHOD FOR SOFT MODULATION IN A WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORK - A method for soft remodulation in a receiver of transmissions over a wireless telecommunication system, the method including obtaining from a FEC decoder a-posteriori LLR values, converting the a-posteriori LLR values into bit probabilities and computing improved soft symbols estimates as expected values using the bit probabilities in a recursive algorithm. Preferably, the step of converting is implemented using a pre-computed Look Up Table (LUT). Preferably, the step of computing is implemented in a Multiplier-Accumulator having a SIMD structure. | 01-19-2012 |
20120020438 | RECEPTION APPARATUS - A reception apparatus is an apparatus for receiving serial data and includes a sampler portion, an edge detection portion, a logical addition operation portion, a timing determination portion, a register portion, a selector portion and a latch portion. The edge detection portion inputs data OSD[n] output from the sampler portion, performs an exclusive OR operation between the data OSD[n] and data OSD[n+1] which are adjacent to each other, and outputs data EDG[n] which is the result of the exclusive OR operation. The logical addition operation portion inputs the data EDG[n] output from the edge detection portion, performs, for a predetermined time period, an OR operation on the data EDG[n], with n | 01-26-2012 |
20120027133 | DEMODULATION OF DATA COLLECTED PRIOR TO BIT EDGE DETECTION - An apparatus and method begin creation and storage of correlation sums to be demodulated (“early-collected sums”) prior to determination of a location of a bit of data in a wireless signal relative to a local clock. Such early storage allows demodulation of these early-collected sums at a later time, specifically on determination of the data's location in the wireless signal, thereby to yield early-collected data bits. Additionally, after determination of the data bit's location in the wireless signal, additional data bits are further generated in the normal manner, by demodulating the wireless signal, thereby to yield normally-collected data bits. Use of early-collected data bits in generating navigation data reduces the time to start data demodulation, and enables fewer normally-collected data bits to be used to generate navigation data, in several aspects of the invention. | 02-02-2012 |
20120027134 | RECEIVING ENCODED DATA SLICES VIA WIRELESS COMMUNICATION - A method begins by a processing module determining a mapping of encoded data slices to wireless channels for wireless communication of data, wherein a data segment of the data is encoded in accordance with a dispersed storage error encoding protocol to produce a set of encoded data slices. The method continues with the processing module configuring, in accordance with the mapping, receivers of a wireless communication device to receive, via a set of wireless channels, at least some of the set of encoded data slices to produce configured receivers. The method continues with the processing module facilitating the configured receivers to receive encoded data slices of the set of encoded data slices to produce received encoded data slices and when at least a decode threshold number of received encoded data slices have been received, decoding the received encoded data slices to recapture the data segment. | 02-02-2012 |
20120033764 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUDIO NOISE REDUCTION OF FREQUENCY MODULATION (FM) RECEIVER - A method and an apparatus for audio noise reduction of frequency modulation (FM) receiver are described. After receiving FM signal having pilot tone, pilot carrier sync detector performs pilot carrier synchronization detection of FM signal, FM demodulator demodulates synchronized FM signal, multiplex decoder decodes audio signal of demodulated FM signal for outputting the decoded audio signal, and noise reduction controls multiplex decoder for controlling noise attenuation associated with the decoded audio signal according to RSSI, the method comprising the steps: (a) performing phase error detection for detecting phase error of phase-locked loop (PLL) of pilot carrier sync detector; (b) determining whether noise exists by comparing the phase error with threshold value to determine whether noise exists in the phase error; and (c) performing noise reduction step by outputting noise reduction control signal to noise reduction based on determination in step (b) for reducing noise in the noise existence interval. | 02-09-2012 |
20120033765 | RECEPTION DEVICE, PROGRAM, AND RECEPTION METHOD - A reception device provided with a broadcast reception unit which receives a broadcast at an instructed frequency, reproduces the broadcast, and outputs the result (steps | 02-09-2012 |
20120033766 | RECEIVER CIRCUIT AND RECEIVER APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - In a receiver circuit, an analog signal processor frequency-converts an input high frequency signal into a baseband signal, and performs low pass filtering at a cutoff frequency below a desired-wave band. An ADC converts an output of the analog signal processor into a digital signal. A digital signal processor compensates an output of the ADC for a signal component in the desired-wave band which has been attenuated by the filtering operation of the analog signal processor. | 02-09-2012 |
20120039419 | X-MIMO SYSTEMS WITH MULTI-TRANSMITTERS AND MULTI-RECEIVERS - A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving a wireless transmission of a plurality of data streams in a wireless communication system having a plurality of nodes is disclosed. Each node has multiple antennas. The method involves receiving first and second data streams from respective first and second nodes at a receiver node, causing the receiver node to generate a receive filter for decoding each of the received data streams, and causing the receiver node to transmit receive filter information for each of the first and second data streams, the receive filter information facilitating precoding of the first and second data streams for simultaneous transmission within a common frequency band to the receiver node. | 02-16-2012 |
20120039420 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE WITH MULTIPLE DEMODULATORS AND RELATED METHODS - A wireless communications device may be configured to perform a first demodulation based upon a first sampling rate of a received signal to generate a first demodulated signal and determine therefrom whether a first error value is not greater than a first threshold, and, if so then decode the first demodulated signal. If the first error value is greater than the first threshold, a second demodulation is performed based upon a second sampling rate of the received signal greater than or equal to the first sampling rate to generate a second demodulated signal and determine therefrom whether a second error value is not greater than a second threshold, and, if so, then decode the second demodulated signal. If the second error value is greater than the second threshold, the second demodulation is performed at least one additional time with at least one change thereto. | 02-16-2012 |
20120039421 | QUADRATURE IMBALANCE ESTIMATION USING UNBIASED TRAINING SEQUENCES - A system and method are provided for removing quadrature imbalance errors in received data. The method accepts an unbiased training sequence in a quadrature demodulation receiver. An unbiased training sequence has a uniform accumulated power evenly distributed in a complex plane, and includes predetermined reference signals (p) at frequency +f and predetermined mirror signals (p | 02-16-2012 |
20120039422 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING SURFACE MULTIPATH MITIGATION - Multipath mitigation can be performed in a surface environment by various systems and methods. For example, antenna beams from multiple antennas can be used to reduce the impact of multipath on a received signal. Thus, a method can include monitoring for a signal on at least one upper antenna beam of an aircraft. The method can also include monitoring for the signal on at least one lower antenna beam of the aircraft while monitoring on the at least one upper antenna beam. The method can further include processing the signal received by the at least one upper antenna beam and/or the at least one lower antenna beam. | 02-16-2012 |
20120057657 | Precoded Data Receiver - A multi-rank beamforming (MRBF) scheme in which the downlink channel is estimated and an optimal precoding matrix to be used by the MRBF transmitter is determined accordingly. The optimal precoding matrix is selected from a codebook of matrices having a recursive structure which allows for efficient computation of the optimal precoding matrix and corresponding Signal to Interference and Noise Ratio (SINR). The codebook also enjoys a small storage footprint. Due to the computational efficiency and modest memory requirements, the optimal precoding determination can be made at user equipment (UE) and communicated to a transmitting base station over a limited uplink channel for implementation over the downlink channel. | 03-08-2012 |
20120057658 | Authenticating a Signal Based on an Unknown Component Thereof - Authentication of a signal, signal | 03-08-2012 |
20120057659 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL AND METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A communication apparatus includes two or more receiving units differing in characteristics. The apparatus further includes a data detecting unit detecting data to be received, in an input signal, and a selecting unit that selects one out of the two or more receiving units, depending upon detected result and characteristics of receiving units. In case data to be received is not contained in the input signal, the selecting unit selects a receiving unit whose power consumption during a period of time of not receiving the data is smaller than that of the other receiving unit(s) during a period of time of not receiving the data. In case the data to be received is contained in the input signal, the selecting unit selects a receiving unit from which a most satisfactory receiving quality is expected depending upon propagation environments of the input signal. | 03-08-2012 |
20120063550 | Receiver with Orthogonal Beam Forming Technique - A receiver with orthogonal beam forming technique is achieved that is capable of differentiating different signal components within the received composite signal. An adaptive processor is used to eliminate the signal component whose phase information is known or can be calculated. The phase information of the major component of a signal can be easily acquired by using a limiter. The phase information of other signal components can be acquired by their direction information and other characteristics, such as modulation scheme, etc. Multiple orthogonal beams can be formed by eliminating one unwanted signal component each time by the adaptive processor until all unwanted signal is eliminated. Thus, a composite signal from multiple sources can be broken down into their component signals. | 03-15-2012 |
20120069936 | MOBILE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE AND RECEIVER WITH DEMODULATION AND RELATED METHODS - A mobile wireless communications device may include an antenna, and a receiver coupled to the antenna and being configured to use a modulation having memory for a received message in a block structure. The block structure may include a pair of mini-probes and a body therebetween. The receiver may be configured to demodulate the received message by determining a corresponding set of received signal characteristic values based upon the pair of mini-probes, and determining a decode starting point in the body based upon the set of received signal characteristic values. The receiver may be configured to demodulate the received message by at least, from the decode starting point, decoding the body in a first time direction, and decoding the body in a second time direction based upon a result of the decoding in the first direction. | 03-22-2012 |
20120069937 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IMPROVED CHANNEL ESTIMATION IN MULTI-CARRIER SYSTEMS - Wireless receiver circuits and methods include algorithms for switching between a least-squares/minimum mean-square error method of channel estimation known as the CE algorithm, and a continuous plot method of channel estimation known as the CPCE algorithm based upon channel characteristics to improve reception of wireless communications in different reception conditions. In an embodiment, the CPCE algorithm may be selected by a processor for use in channel estimation when a calculated number of candidate paths is less than or equal to a first threshold value, a calculated power ratio of the L strongest paths to the total of all paths is greater than or equal to a second threshold value, and the maximum Automatic Gain Control variation is greater than or equal to a third threshold value. Threshold values may be based on field testing, and set to values at which the CE or CPCE algorithm exhibits better performance. | 03-22-2012 |
20120069938 | Amplitude Monitor For High-Speed Signals - A serial communication system includes a receiver with an amplitude monitor. The amplitude monitor compares the input signal with a reference level in response to a sample clock. The sample clock is periodically phase shifted with respect to the incoming data so the amplitude monitor is sure to sample an incoming data eye at or near the peak amplitude over a selected sample period. The amplitude detector notes the detection of an input signal if the input signal surpasses the reference level for any sample phase. The amplitude monitor experiments with different sample-clock phases over a number of data symbols, but is capable of measuring amplitude fast enough to resolve amplitude-based signals used for rate negotiation.” | 03-22-2012 |
20120069939 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A wireless communication apparatus and a wireless communication method wherein even when the permissible delay amount of data is small, the permissible delay thereof can be satisfied. A data type determining part ( | 03-22-2012 |
20120076244 | WAVEFORM INTERPOLATOR ARCHITECTURE FOR ACCURATE TIMING RECOVERY BASED ON UP-SAMPLING TECHNIQUE - In one embodiment, an interpolator-based timing recovery system improves accuracy by calculating additional sampled signals of a digital signal and generating an interpolation based on the additional sampled signals and the digital signal, while employing a parallel architecture to maintain system clock frequency and a pipeline architecture to minimize sampled data memory requirement. | 03-29-2012 |
20120076245 | SIGNAL DETECTION APPARATUS - A signal detection apparatus detects the frequency of an input signal without using a PLL. The detection apparatus includes a first and a second orthogonalizer, a phase difference calculator and an integrator, to control the variable coefficient a | 03-29-2012 |
20120076246 | AUTOMATIC GAIN CONTROL DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An automatic gain control device includes amplifiers cascaded, each having a variable gain; level measurement portions respectively corresponding to the amplifiers, where each of the level measurement portions measures a level of an output signal of a corresponding one of the amplifiers in a level measurement period indicated by a level measurement signal; error calculators respectively corresponding to the level measurement portions, where each of the error calculators compares a level measured by a corresponding one of the level measurement portions with a threshold which is set so that a corresponding one of the amplifiers will not saturate, and outputs a comparison result as an error signal; a gain computation section which updates one of the gains of the amplifiers at a time corresponding to a gain update signal, based on the error signals; and an operation controller which generates the level measurement signal and the gain update signal. | 03-29-2012 |
20120082269 | METHOD FOR CHANNEL ESTIMATION AND DELAY SPREAD APPROXIMATION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for delay spread approximation used in a wireless communication system comprises the steps of: retrieving a plurality of pilot symbols from a channel of a wireless communication system; calculating at least one parameter representing the shape of the frequency response of the channel according to the values and the relative positions of the pilot symbols; determining a representative parameter value according to the at least one parameter; and determining a delay spread value according to the representative parameter value. | 04-05-2012 |
20120082270 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING A SINGLE WEIGHT (SW) SINGLE CHANNEL (SC) MIMO SYSTEM WITH NO INSERTION LOSS - In a RF communications system, aspects for implementing a single weight single channel MIMO system with no insertion loss may comprise generating at least one control signal that is utilized to control at least one of a plurality of received signals in a WCDMA and/or HSDPA system. A phase of a first of the plurality of received signals may be adjusted outside of a first processing path used to process that signal so that it is equivalent to a phase of at least a second of the plurality of received signals. A gain in the first processing path may be equivalent to a gain in a second processing path that is utilized to process the second of the plurality of received signals. The control signal may be utilized to adjust a phase and/or an amplitude of at least one of a plurality of received signals. | 04-05-2012 |
20120087446 | Systems and methods for sparse error removal in communications systems - A method for robust demodulation of the communications system in presence of sparse severe impulse noise is presented. In this invention, the application of impulse noise removal in orthogonal frequency domain multiplexing systems is investigated. The impulse noise causes catastrophic accuracy degradation at the output of the fast Fourier transform operations at the receiver. In this invention, an impulse noise identification scheme is proposed to determine the presence of the impulse noise. An impulse noise value search algorithm at known location based on the steepest descent method, an impulse noise location algorithm, and a novel iterative impulse error correction scheme are presented to remove the sparse error and demodulate the transmitted symbols accurately. | 04-12-2012 |
20120093263 | Method and Apparatus for Interference Suppression using a Reduced-Complexity Joint Detection - A method of detecting a desired signal within a composite signal provides for suppression of interfering signal(s). The method, implemented in a wireless communication apparatus, for example, includes receiving the composite signal and obtaining sample values therefrom. At least some of the sample values include desired and interfering signal components. The method further includes generating an interfering signal channel estimate by: forming sample pairs for some or all of the sample values; identifying sample pairs of interest as those sample pairs in which the interfering signal component is the same; and calculating the interfering signal channel estimate as an average value determined from one or more of the sample pairs of interest. The method further includes detecting desired signal symbols from the composite signal in a joint detection process that functionally depends on the interfering signal channel estimate. | 04-19-2012 |
20120093264 | TONE SIGNAL CIRCUIT AND WIRELESS RECEIVER - In a tone signal circuit and a wireless receiver of the present invention, a digital signal in a frequency band including at least a tone signal component is input into a Goertzel filter. Further, an envelope of an output from the Goertzel filter is detected, and a derivative value of the envelope is derived. Then, if the derivative value is maintained to be equal to or greater than a first threshold value, it is determined that a first prerequisite for existence of the tone signal component is satisfied. The above tone signal circuit and the wireless receiver can perform highly-accurate tone detection in a small calculation amount. | 04-19-2012 |
20120093265 | Decoding of Forward Error Correction Codes in the Presence of Phase Noise - A communication receiver includes a front end, which is arranged to receive a Radio Frequency (RF) signal, which includes modulated symbols carrying data that have been encoded by a block Forward Error Correction (FEC) code. The front end converts the RF signal to a sequence of soft received symbols, wherein the soft received symbols are subject to distortion by at least first and second noise components having respective at least first and second statistical distributions. A metric calculation unit is arranged to process the soft received symbols so as to extract parameters indicative of the at least first and second statistical distributions, and to compute FEC metrics based on the extracted parameters. A FEC decoder is arranged to accept the FEC metrics as input, and to process the metrics in an iterative FEC decoding process so as to decode the FEC code and reconstruct the data. | 04-19-2012 |
20120099676 | RECEPTION APPARATUS AND METHOD, DEMODULATION APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A reception apparatus includes: a reception section configured to receive a signal modulated by one of a single-carrier scheme and a multi-carrier scheme that are specified by a predetermined standard; a single-carrier demodulation section configured to execute single-carrier demodulation based on the single-carrier scheme onto the signal; a multi-carrier demodulation section configured to execute multi-carrier demodulation based on the multi-carrier scheme onto the signal; and a demodulation control section configured to control such that one of the single-carrier demodulation and the multi-carrier demodulation is tried on the received signal in accordance with a preset predetermined rule. | 04-26-2012 |
20120099677 | SIGNAL RECEIVING APPARATUS, SIGNAL RECEIVING METHOD AND SIGNAL RECEIVING PROGRAM - A signal receiving apparatus includes: a processing unit configured to carry out Fourier transform on Fourier-transform data serving as a Fourier-transform object and carry out Fourier transform on inverse-Fourier-transform data serving as an inverse-Fourier-transform object; and a control unit configured to output pieces of data obtained as a result of the Fourier transform carried out on the Fourier-transform data in an order, in which the pieces of data have been obtained, in a process of outputting the pieces of data and output other pieces of data obtained as a result of the Fourier transform carried out on the inverse-Fourier transform data by rearranging the other pieces of data in a process of outputting the other pieces of data. | 04-26-2012 |
20120099678 | Drift Cancellation Technique for Use in Clock-Forwarding Architectures - A circuit includes a frequency synthesizer, N phase mixers coupled to the frequency synthesizer, a plurality of receivers, and a calibration circuit. The frequency synthesizer is to receive a reference clock signal and is to output a primary clock signal. A respective phase mixer in the N phase mixers is to output a respective secondary clock signal having a corresponding phase. A respective receiver in the plurality of receivers is coupled to two of the N phase mixers, and at a respective time is to receive data in accordance with the respective secondary clock signal from one of the two phase mixers coupled to the respective receiver. The calibration circuit is to calibrate a secondary clock signal output by a respective phase mixer in the N phase mixers by adjusting the phase of the secondary clock signal of the respective phase mixer. | 04-26-2012 |
20120106679 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HANDLING DATA RATE CHANGES WITHIN A PACKET OR FRAME - Systems and methods for handling data rate changes within a packet or frame are described. In an embodiment, a system may include a radio frequency (RF) circuit operable to receive a message having a plurality of segments, including a first segment that is modulated according to a first modulation data rate. The system may also include a demodulator circuit coupled to the RF circuit and operable to demodulate the first segment into a first demodulated segment having a demodulation data rate, wherein the demodulation data rate is greater than the first modulation data rate. The system may further include a de-mapper circuit coupled to the demodulator circuit and operable to convert the first demodulated segment into a first converted segment having the first modulation data rate. | 05-03-2012 |
20120106680 | CREST FACTOR REDUCTION IN MULTICARRIER TRANSMISSION SCHEMES - A multicarrier transmission system uses a set of carriers spaced apart in frequency with a number of bits being assigned to each carrier. A transmitter has a mapper which maps a data signal to a parallel set of constellation values. A frequency domain-to-time domain transform stage converts the set of modulated carriers to a time-domain signal. A peak detector detects when the time-domain signal exceeds a predetermined criterion. A constellation modifier modifies the constellation value of at least one of the carriers to reduce the crest factor of the transmitted signal. A carrier is selected for modifying on the basis of a number of bits allocated to that carrier. The constellation modifier can select an alternative constellation value by an iterative method or by calculation. The constellation modifier can operate entirely in the time-domain. | 05-03-2012 |
20120106681 | METHOD FOR CONFIGURING A TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The invention relates to a method for configuring a telecommunication system comprising at least one sending entity and one receiving entity between which the same link transmits several transport channels with different qualities of service. The sending entity matches the rate between the different coded transport channels with separate qualities of service, and the different coded transport channels are then multiplexed. The matching rate specific to each coded transport channel is determined from at least one first parameter representative of the expected Eb/I ratio and a second parameter representative of the capacity of the physical channel. | 05-03-2012 |
20120106682 | Controlled Transmission of Data in a Data Transmission System - This disclosure relates to controlled transmission of data in a data transmission system. Data from data interface elements may be transmitted in a controlled manner during the guard intervals or cyclic expansions of received RF signals. The received RF signals may be initially analyzed by a receiver to gather its characteristics. Based on the characteristics, the data interface elements are instructed to transfer the data during the guard intervals of the incoming RF signals. | 05-03-2012 |
20120114079 | RADIO ARCHITECTURE FOR AN ULTRA LOW POWER RECEIVER - An ultra low power radio receiver architecture based on phase locked loop is provided. Embodiments of an ultra low power radio receiver architecture based on phase locked loop can detect a complex modulated MSK signal with only a single path receiver chain. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the overall power consumption of the radio receiver in the present invention can be reduced by almost fifty percent compared to that of the conventional complex path radio receiver architecture. The radio receiver architecture of the invention is suitable for the ultra low power radio application such as wireless sensor networks (WSN). | 05-10-2012 |
20120114080 | DETERMINING RESPONSES OF RAPIDLY VARYING MIMO-OFDM COMMUNICATION CHANNELS USING OBSERVATION SCALARS - In an embodiment, a channel estimator includes first, second, and third stages. The first stage is configurable to generate a first observation scalar for a first communication path of a first communication channel, and the second stage is configurable to generate a second observation scalar for a first communication path of a second communication channel. And the third stage is configurable to generate channel-estimation coefficients in response to the first and second observation scalars. For example, such a channel estimator may use a recursive algorithm, such as a Vector State Scalar Observation (VSSO) Kalman algorithm, to estimate the responses of channels over which propagate simultaneous orthogonal-frequency-division-multiplexed (OFDM) signals (e.g., MIMO-OFDM signals) that suffer from inter-carrier interference (ICI) due to Doppler spread. Such a channel estimator may estimate the channel responses more accurately, more efficiently, with a less-complex algorithm, and with less-complex software or circuitry, than conventional channel estimators. | 05-10-2012 |
20120114081 | Architectures For Universal Or Software Radio - A system and technique for providing to flexible, programmable frequency estimators and spectrum analyzers that can operate over extremely large bandwidths and yet provide high spectral resolution are described. The acquisition time and hardware complexity of one technique scale as O(N), where N denotes the number of frequency bins acquired. Embodiments are disclosed in which architectures are implemented using exponentially-tapered transmission lines and filter cascades. | 05-10-2012 |
20120121044 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - A wireless communication terminal includes an antenna selecting unit that selects, for each packet, an antenna for use in receiving signals from among a plurality of a plurality of antennas; a packet-destination judging unit that judges whether a packet obtained by demodulating a signal received by the receiving antenna selected by the antenna selecting unit is destined for the wireless communication terminal; and a stand-by-antenna determining unit that determines a stand-by antenna for use in receiving a packet to be received next based on a result of selection made by the antenna selecting unit and a result of judgment made by the packet-destination judging unit. | 05-17-2012 |
20120128102 | L-VALUE GENERATION IN A DECODER - An apparatus having a first circuit, a second circuit and a third circuit is disclosed. The first circuit may be configured to generate a plurality of load values corresponding to a trellis of a decoding process. The second circuit generally includes a plurality of calculation layers. The calculation layers may be configured to generate a plurality of maximum values in response to the load values. The third circuit may be configured to generate a plurality of L-values of the decoding process in response to the maximum values. | 05-24-2012 |
20120128103 | SYMBOL RATE DETECTOR AND RECEIVER - The symbol rate detector includes a nonlinear processing section configured to perform nonlinear processing on a digitally modulated signal, and to output a processed signal, and a phase-locked loop being in synchronization with the processed signal. The phase-locked loop includes an oscillator configured to generate a signal with a frequency corresponding to a detected symbol rate, a complex multiplier configured to multiply the processed signal by the signal generated by the oscillator, and to output a multiplication result, and a loop filter configured to smooth the multiplication result, and to output the smoothed multiplication result as the detected symbol rate. | 05-24-2012 |
20120134447 | RADIO COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, an analog unit performs frequency conversion of a reception signal. A digital unit performs demodulation processing of the reception signal subjected to the frequency conversion by the analog unit. A PLL circuit generates a clock of the digital unit. A PLL-setting changing unit performs, based on the reception signal, a setting change of parameters of the PLL circuit to thereby control the jitter of the clock. | 05-31-2012 |
20120134448 | DETECTION APPARATUS, DETECTION METHOD, AND RECEPTION APPARATUS - A detection apparatus detects, from a carrier signal which has been subjected to load modulation in accordance with information to be transmitted, the information. The detection apparatus includes a buffer configured to buffer the received carrier signal which has been subjected to the load modulation, and a detector configured to perform detection on the buffered carrier signal which has been subjected to the load modulation so as to detect the information. | 05-31-2012 |
20120134449 | SOFTWARE RADIO SYSTEM, DECODING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - The present invention relates to a software radio system and a decoding apparatus and method thereof. According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a forward error correction decoding apparatus for a software radio system, including: a receiving module for receiving decoding tasks from a plurality of uplink channels; and a decoder matrix for executing the decoding tasks, wherein the decoder matrix is shared by the plurality of uplink channels. The decoding apparatus and method as well as the software radio system according to the embodiments of the present invention can be well adapted to the high computing capabilities, sufficient flexibility and scalability as required by base station systems for next-generation wireless communication systems. | 05-31-2012 |
20120134450 | DETECTION AND MITIGATION OF TEMPORARY IMPAIRMENTS IN A COMMUNICATIONS CHANNEL - Systems and methods are disclosed for detecting temporary high level impairments, such as noise or interference, for example, in a communications channel, and subsequently, mitigating the deleterious effects of the dynamic impairments. In one embodiment, the method not only performs dynamic characterization of channel fidelity against impairments, but also uses this dynamic characterization of the channel fidelity to adapt the receiver processing and to affect an improvement in the performance of the receiver. For example, in this embodiment, the method increases the accuracy of the estimation of the transmitted information, or similarly, increases the probability of making the correct estimates of the transmitted information, even in the presence of temporary severe levels of impairment. The channel fidelity history may also be stored and catalogued for use in, for example, future optimization of the transmit waveform. | 05-31-2012 |
20120147996 | DEMODULATOR, A METHOD FOR DEMODULATING AN ASK SIGNAL AND AN ON-BOARD UNIT INCLUDING THE DEMODULATOR - A new demodulator with low power consumption and high gain which is suitable for CMOS integration is provided. The demodulator makes use of a MOS configured in a “common-source” status so as to achieve a desirable gain. | 06-14-2012 |
20120147997 | PREAMBLE GENERATING APPARATUS, PREAMBLE GENERATING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - A preamble generating apparatus used for synchronization of a reception apparatus in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system and generating a preamble to be added to a beginning of data at a time of communication, receives preamble length identifying information and position specifying information, and generates a plurality of elements constituting a preamble according to a predetermined sequence based on those information. The preamble generating apparatus creates a preamble model, and generates a plurality of preambles by setting the generated elements at positions of elements in element deciding information included in the preamble model, the positions indicating elements in the preamble model which are to be used in data communication. The preamble generating apparatus calculates PAPRs respectively corresponding to the plurality of preambles, and compares the PAPRs of the preambles with one another to decide the preamble corresponding to a minimum PAPR as a preamble to be used in communication. | 06-14-2012 |
20120147998 | Differential reception system in cellular receiver and method for realizing signal reception thereof - This disclosure provides a differential reception system in a cellular receiver and a method for realizing signal reception thereof, including: filtering a received signal and then transforming the filtered signal into differential signals; and performing amplification and phase discrimination process of differential signals and compensating the phase of either channel differential signal, and synthesizing the processed differential signals and demodulating the synthesized signal. By means of controlling the phases of differential lines, the disclosure improves the receiving sensitivity of a differential reception system and significantly reduces the requirement for layout of the differential lines. | 06-14-2012 |
20120147999 | RECEIVING DEVICE, RECEIVING METHOD AND PROGRAM - A receiving device includes: a buffer temporarily accumulating receive data received through a network; a data processing means for processing the receive data; a short-time variation value acquisition means for acquiring a short-time variation value indicating variation of accumulated quantity of the receive data sequentially accumulated in the buffer in a first unit time; a long-time variation value acquisition means for acquiring a long-time variation value indicating variation of accumulated quantity in a second unit time; and a clock control means for controlling a clock frequency for performing processing of the receive data by the data processing means in accordance with evaluation results of the acquired long-time variation value. The clock control means stops adjustment of the clock frequency when an error of the network or the receive data is detected, and starts the adjustment again after a given adjustment stop time passes from the detection of the error. | 06-14-2012 |
20120148000 | BICM DECODING IN THE PRESENCE OF CO-CHANNEL INTERFERENCE - Systems and methods are provided for computing soft information for digital information based on a received signal, where the received signal suffers from noise and interference. A receiver that decodes the received signal may estimate channel information, such as the channel gain, associated with the interfering source. The receiver may also obtain modulation information through a backbone network or by decoding control information transmitted by the interfering source. Using the modulation information and the channel information, the receiver may estimate the effect that interference has on the received signal, and may compute soft information (e.g., a log-likelihood ratio) for the digital information. | 06-14-2012 |
20120155575 | INTEGRATED DEMODULATOR, FILTER AND DECIMATOR (DFD) FOR A RADIO RECEIVER - A superheterodyne receiver includes an A/D converter for converting an IF signal to a stream of samples at a sampling frequency that is four times the IF and a splitter that splits the stream of samples into a first set of even samples and a second set of odd samples. A first quadrature demodulator demodulates just the first set of even samples to produce one of real (I) and imaginary (Q) components of a complex signal at one half of the sampling frequency, and a second, parallel quadrature demodulator demodulates just the second set of odd samples to produce the other of the I and Q components. The demodulated first set is filtered using a first subset of filter coefficients, and the demodulated second set is filtered using a second subset of filter coefficients. The filter outputs correspond to a baseband complex signal. The technology disclosed reduces overall hardware complexity and operating frequency by a factor of two or more. | 06-21-2012 |
20120155576 | Receiver Power Reduction Methods and Apparatus - Methods and apparatus for controlling a receiver based on a received signal include receiving the signal; generating, based on a portion of the signal, a SIR estimate; comparing the SIR estimate and a threshold value; and demodulating a remaining portion of the signal only if the SIR estimate passes the threshold value. | 06-21-2012 |
20120155577 | CHANNEL ESTIMATION FOR DVB-T2 DEMODULATION USING AN ADAPTIVE PREDICTION TECHNIQUE - According to various embodiments, a method is disclosed that includes receiving an orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) modulated signal at a modulator; filtering the received modulated signal using a plurality of sets of filter coefficients with a linear predictor algorithm; and estimating a channel frequency response based on the filtering. | 06-21-2012 |
20120155578 | MULTI-RAKE RECEIVER - A receiver includes a select module, an enable module, and a receiver module. The select module is configured to detect (i) a number of antennas in the receiver, or (ii) a number of enabled receiver paths in the receiver. The select module is also configured to generate a receiver select signal and an adjustment signal based on (i) the number of antennas detected, or (ii) the number of enabled receiver paths detected. The enable module is configured to, based on the receiver select signal, (i) determine that at least one of the enabled receiver paths is an unnecessary receiver path, and (ii) disable the at least one of the enabled receiver paths. The receiver module is configured to, based on the adjustment signal, adjust a bandwidth of the receiver or coefficient values of the receiver. | 06-21-2012 |
20120163507 | Carrier Recovery Method And Carrier Recovery Device For Pseudo Random Noise Based System - The invention regards to Carrier recovery device, especially estimator device for carrier recovery, for pseudo random noise based systems, comprising a coarse estimator ( | 06-28-2012 |
20120163508 | SUBCARRIER PLACEMENT STRATEGY FOR A MULTI-CARRIER SIGNAL - Communication devices and methods for transmitting and receiving a wideband signal using aggregated discontiguous narrowband channels in a band are presented. During transmission, a fold point is determined in which symmetric free channels are sufficient to transmit the signal. The signal is then synthesized by aggregating the data in the channels and transmitted using the fold point as the up-conversion modulation frequency. During reception, information regarding which channels are being used to provide data signals and which channels are occupied by interferers is received. This information is used to determine one or more fold points as the down-conversion modulation frequencies. The fold points are selected such that an image of each interferer falls on an unoccupied channel or a narrowband channel occupied by another interferer. | 06-28-2012 |
20120163509 | DIGITALLY DEMODULATING A MINIMUM-SHIFT KEYING (MSK) SIGNAL - A two stage process is applied for recovering the modulating content from the received I-Q waveforms of a MSK modulated signal. In the first stage, at each incoming symbol the I-Q waveform segments of the input belonging to the three most recently received symbols are used in hypothesis testing. A matched filter bank produces ratings for each of the possible three symbol modulating patterns in proportion to the likelihood that the combination in question may have produced the current but by now impaired input segment. While the three symbol window slides symbol-by-symbol over the input the successive hypothesis tests are not independent as each symbol is involved in three consecutive tests. The dependence thus created lays the foundation and provides the branch metrics for applying the Viterbi algorithm for the determination of the modulating symbols in the second stage. | 06-28-2012 |
20120163510 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICES AND METHODS - Provided are wireless communication methods. The wireless communication method receives communication information through a plurality of antennas, generates a plurality of beam directions, selects one of the beam directions on the basis of the received communication information, and performs communication using the selected beam direction. Communication information received through the unselected beam directions among the beam directions are ignored. | 06-28-2012 |
20120163511 | Frequency Division Multiplexing System with Selectable Rate - An OFDM system uses a normal mode which has a symbol length T, a guard time TG and a set of N sub-carriers, which are orthogonal over the time T, and one or more fallback modes which have symbol lengths KT and guard times KTG where K is an integer greater than unity. The same set of N sub-carriers is used for the fallback modes as for the normal mode. Since the same set of sub-carriers is used, the overall bandwidth is substantially constant, so alias filtering does not need to be adaptive. The Fourier transform operations are the same as for the normal mode. Thus fallback modes are provided with little hardware cost. In the fallback modes the increased guard time provides better delay spread tolerance and the increased symbol length provides improved signal to noise performance, and thus increased range, at the cost of reduced data rate. | 06-28-2012 |
20120163512 | PROCESSING NODES AND METHODS OF ESTIMATING INTERFERENCE IN A RADIO TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORK - A processing node ( | 06-28-2012 |
20120170688 | DEMODULATOR OF DIGITAL MODULATED SIGNAL, RECEIVER APPARATUS EMPLOYING THE DEMODULATOR, AND DEMODULATION METHOD - A demodulator comprising an input structured to receive at least one past value and a current value both associated with the same bit transmitted in different time instants, a bit decoder configured to provide a decoded bit from an input value, a quality signal evaluation module configured to provide a quality signal representing a quality of the current value, and a filtering module structured to provide a filtered value computed as a weighted average of said at least one past value and said current value. Moreover the demodulator comprises a selection module connected between said input and said bit decoder, configured to transfer the current value as the input value of the bit decoder if the quality is greater than a reference value or transfer the filtered value as the input value of the bit decoder if the quality is not greater than the reference value. | 07-05-2012 |
20120170689 | Geometry Based Efficient Decoder for Underdetermined MIMO Systems and Decoding Method Thereof - A decoder for underdetermined MIMO systems with low decoding complexity is provided. The decoder consists of two stages: 1. Obtaining all valid candidate points efficiently by slab decoder. 2. Finding the optimal solution by conducting the intersectional operations with dynamic radius adaptation to the candidate set obtained from Stage 1. A reordering strategy is also disclosed. The reordering can be incorporated into the proposed decoding algorithm to provide a lower computational complexity and near-ML decoding performance for underdetermined MIMO systems. | 07-05-2012 |
20120170690 | AUTO CONFIGURABLE 2/3 WIRE SERIAL INTERFACE - An automatically configurable 2-wire/3-wire serial communications interface (AC23SCI), which includes start-of-sequence (SOS) detection circuitry and sequence processing circuitry, is disclosed. When the SOS detection circuitry is coupled to a 2-wire serial communications bus, the SOS detection circuitry detects an SOS of a received sequence based on a serial data signal and a serial clock signal. When the SOS detection circuitry is coupled to a 3-wire serial communications bus, the SOS detection circuitry detects the SOS of the received sequence based on a chip select (CS) signal. The SOS detection circuitry provides an indication of detection of the SOS to the sequence processing circuitry, which initiates processing of the received sequence using the serial data signal and the serial clock signal upon the detection of the SOS. As such, the AC23SCI automatically configures itself for operation with some 2-wire and some 3-wire serial communications buses without external intervention. | 07-05-2012 |
20120170691 | INTERFERENCE CANCELLATION AND IMPROVED SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO CIRCUITS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS - Interference cancellation for wideband and narrowband communications systems is provided without apriori knowledge of statistical information about an interfering signal. In one embodiment a demodulator circuit can operate in an environment where a “no lock” situation would normally occur to remove the interference and acquire signals in low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) conditions and high signal-to-interference ration (SIR) conditions. In other embodiments, performance is improved by introducing statistics of the interfering signal, and these statistics regarding the communications channel and interference properties (i.e., characteristics of the interfering signal) can be adaptive or “learned” in other embodiments. | 07-05-2012 |
20120170692 | CLOCK DATA RECOVERY CIRCUIT AND CLOCK DATA RECOVERY METHOD - A clock data recovery circuit includes: a demodulation filter that receives a transmission signal transmitted by two orthogonal carrier waves having I and Q phases and executes demodulation to obtain a demodulated wave having an phase and a demodulated wave having a Q phase from the transmission signal; a first determination circuit that determines whether an absolute value of one of the two demodulated waves is greater than an eye opening maximum value at an ideal clock phase of the transmission signal; a second determination circuit that determines whether the one demodulated wave is greater than zero; a third determination circuit that determines whether the other one of the two demodulated waves is greater than zero; and a phase comparison unit that detects whether a phase of a clock signal included in the transmission signal is leading a phase of a data signal included in the transmission signal, based on determination results obtained by the first to third determination circuits. | 07-05-2012 |
20120177151 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ADAPTIVE I/Q IMBALANCE COMPENSATION - An I/Q imbalance compensation block of a RF receiver for compensating an imbalance between an in-phase component and a quadrature component of an RF signal is disclosed. The compensation block includes a conjugation block; an adaptive finite impulse response (FIR) filter; and an adder. The filter use filter coefficients iteratively updated at least partly in response to a compensated digital signal. The filter can have a complex number for at least one, but not all of filter taps, and real numbers for other filter taps. The filter can be provided with adaptation step sizes different from filter tap to filter tap. The filter can also be provided with an adaptation step size(s) varying over time. The filter can also be provided with an adaptation step size(s) divided by the square norm of the compensated signal. | 07-12-2012 |
20120183102 | Receiver Circuits and Systems for Receiving Medium Wave and Short Wave Signals - A receiver includes a first terminal for receiving an RF signal having a frequency of less than approximately 60 MHz, a second terminal, and a receive path having an input coupled to the first terminal and an output for providing a demodulated RF signal. The receiver further includes a detector coupled to the receive path for detecting a signal parameter in the RF signal and a controller coupled to the detector and to the second terminal. The controller provides the multiplex signal in a tuning state to the second terminal to selectively provide one of a first RF signal and a second RF signal to the first terminal and to determine at least one of a first parameter of the first RF signal and a second parameter of the second RF signal. The controller provides the multiplex signal in an operating state based on the first parameter and the second parameter. | 07-19-2012 |
20120183103 | Demodulation Method and Demodulator for Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing - Multiple Input Multiple Output System - A demodulation method and a demodulator for an (OFDM MIMO) system are provided, and by using a received reference signal, the channel estimation value at the reference signal sub-carrier in each channel is obtained by estimation; by using the channel estimation value, an equalization matrix at the reference signal sub-carrier is obtained; by using the obtained equalization matrix to carry out the interpolation calculation, equalization matrixes are obtained; by using the data signals in various paths and corresponding equalization matrixes, an intermediate estimation value is obtained by calculation; by using a precoding matrix to carry out de-precoding on the intermediate estimation value, a final estimation value is obtained. The demodulator comprises an OFDM demodulation module, a frame parsing module, a precoding matrix generation module, a partial channel estimation module, a partial equalization matrix generation module, an equalization matrix interpolation module, a MIMO demodulation module and a de-precoding module. | 07-19-2012 |
20120183104 | DIGITAL PHASE FREQUENCY DETECTOR, DIGITAL PHASE LOCKED LOOP INCLUDING THE SAME AND METHOD OF DETECTING PHASE AND FREQUENCY OF OUTPUT SIGNAL - A digital phase frequency detector includes a detection unit, a reset unit and a phase comparison unit. The detection unit detects edges of a reference signal and a feedback input signal to generate a reference edge signal and a feedback edge signal. The reset unit generates a reset signal resetting the detection unit based upon the reference edge signal and the feedback edge signal. The phase comparison unit generates first and second phase comparison signals based upon the reference edge signal and the feedback edge signal. The phase comparison unit includes a first flip-flop generating a first comparison signal based upon the reference edge signal and the feedback edge signal, a second flip-flop generating a second comparison signal based upon the reference edge signal and the feedback edge signal, and a latch block latching the first and second comparison signals to generate the first and second phase comparison signals. | 07-19-2012 |
20120189083 | Interference Cancellation Based On Interfering Link IL Signal Quality And Related Methods And Devices - A target link signal may be received at a receiving device with the target link signal being received in a received signal also including an interfering link signal. A quality of the interfering link signal in the received signal may be estimated at the receiving device to provide an estimated interfering link signal quality. One of a plurality of interference cancellation techniques may be selected responsive to the estimated interfering link signal quality, and an interference cancellation signal may be generated using the selected one of the plurality of interference cancellation techniques. Information of the interference cancellation signal may be incorporated in the received signal. Responsive to incorporating information of the interference cancellation signal in the received signal, the received signal may be demodulated to provide a demodulated target link signal, and the demodulated target link signal may be decoded to provide a target link bit stream. | 07-26-2012 |
20120189084 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTING DIGITAL CONTENT CHANNELS USING LOW NOISE BLOCK CONVERTERS INCLUDING DIGITAL CHANNELIZER SWITCHES - Systems and methods in accordance with embodiments of the invention include converting satellite signals to an intermediate frequency signal for content decoding, and selecting modulated digital data within the satellite signals for content decoding using digital signal processing. One embodiment includes a system configured to select at least one content channel from an input signal including a plurality of content channels modulated onto a carrier, the system including: a digital channelizer switch including: a high speed analog to digital converter configured to digitize an intermediate frequency signal; a digital channelizer configured to digitally tune a content channel from the digitized intermediate frequency signal; and a high speed digital to analog converter configured to generate an analog output signal using the content channel digitally tuned from the digitized intermediate frequency signal by the digital channelizer. | 07-26-2012 |
20120195397 | CHANNEL ESTIMATOR WITH HIGH NOISE SUPPRESSION AND LOW INTERPOLATION ERROR FOR OFDM SYSTEMS - A receiver with DFT based channel estimation having good noise suppression for both high and low signal-to-noise ratios providing advantages over conventional DFT estimators and Minimum-Mean-Square-Error (MMSE) estimators. The use of MMSE may be incorporated for estimation at the band edges providing further improvements. The received signal in the time domain, is transformed to the frequency-domain received signal via an N-point FFT ( | 08-02-2012 |
20120195398 | Virtual limited buffer modification for rate matching - Virtual limited buffer modification for rate matching. A reduced-size memory module is employed within a communication device to assist in storage of log-likelihood ratios (LLRs) employed in accordance with turbo decoding. This architecture is also applicable to other types of error correction code (ECC) besides turbo code as well. The memory size is selected to match the number of coded bits (e.g., including information bits and redundancy/parity bits) that is included within a transmission. The received signals may be various transmissions made in accordance with hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) transmissions. When the LLRs calculated from a first HARQ transmission is insufficient to decode, those LLRs are selectively stored in the memory module. When LLRs corresponding to a second HARQ transmission is received, LLRs corresponding to both the first HARQ transmission and the second HARQ transmission are passed from the memory module for joint use in decoding. | 08-02-2012 |
20120201332 | Memory-Aided Synchronization In A Receiver - In one embodiment, a method may include storing information from a first frame of an incoming broadcast signal in a memory coupled to a demodulator, decoding a first preamble symbol of the first frame to determine a transmission mode, accessing at least some of the stored information from the memory and decoding at least one second preamble symbol of the first frame from the accessed information to determine pilot pattern information, and receiving data symbols of the first frame and synchronizing the demodulator based on the received data samples and the pilot pattern information. | 08-09-2012 |
20120201333 | RECEIVER AND RECEIVING METHOD - Disclosed is a receiver in a communication system provided with one transmitting station or two or more transmitting stations and the receiver for reception from the transmitting stations. For a case where identical signals are sent from the one transmitting station or the two or more transmitting stations, the receiver includes a first demodulator which executes demodulation processing of the signals as a single signal group, a second demodulator which executes demodulation processing of the signals as multiple signal groups, a determination unit which discriminates between the single signal group and the multiple signal groups, and a control unit which controls which one of the first demodulator and the second demodulator is to execute the demodulation processing based on a determination result by the determination unit. | 08-09-2012 |
20120207247 | HIGH-SPEED FLASH ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERTER - Disclosed is at least one flash analog-to-digital converter embodiment having a linear voltage ladder, a set of comparators each of which is coupled to one or more operational amplifiers by a sampling switch. Each of the sampling switches samples the comparator output, using the parasitic capacitance of the operational amplifier to hold the voltage. The sampling switches may be single transistors. Some embodiments further include, for each comparator, multiple operational amplifiers each of which drives a binary latch via a gating switch. The gating switches operate in sequence to distribute sequential samples to different latches. At least some embodiments of the flash converter further include an automatic gain control (AGC) that has both differential input terminals and differential output terminals. In such embodiments the comparators compare the differential output of the AGC to a differential reference voltage, and may further provide the result as a differential signal. | 08-16-2012 |
20120207248 | Estimation of Sample Clock Frequency Offset Using Error Vector Magnitude - A low complexity system and method for operating a receiver in order to estimate an offset between the actual sample clock rate 1/T | 08-16-2012 |
20120207249 | INTERFERENCE CANCELLATION WITH A TIME-SLICED ARCHITECTURE - Example embodiments include methods of interference cancellation at NodeB receivers of baseband antenna signals including physical channels. The methods include canceling interference from a received baseband antenna signal by removing a reconstructed baseband signal from the processed received baseband antenna signal. The processed reconstructed baseband signal includes users whose physical data channel signals were successfully decoded. Methods also include removing interference from a received baseband signal to form an interference cancelled baseband signal that will be processed by the receiver. The interference cancelled baseband signal is the received baseband antenna signal minus users' signal interference contributions whose demodulated physical data channel signals have a determined user symbol energy value that exceeds a threshold. Methods further include removing interference from a user's signal to be error corrected. The interference is symbol interference from an earlier successfully decoded user's symbols. The user symbol interference is determined by cross correlations. | 08-16-2012 |
20120207250 | OFDM RECEPTION DEVICE, OFDM RECEPTION CIRCUIT, OFDM RECEPTION METHOD, AND OFDM RECEPTION PROGRAM - An OFDM reception device receives an OFDM symbol that includes a signal for a useful symbol duration generated based on transmission information and a signal for a guard interval duration generated based on the signal for the useful symbol duration. The OFDM reception device includes a first orthogonal transformation unit configured to perform an orthogonal transformation on the signal for the useful symbol duration, a second orthogonal transformation unit configured to perform an orthogonal transformation on the signal for the guard interval duration, and a decoding unit configured to decode the OFDM symbol in accordance with results of the orthogonal transformation by the first orthogonal transformation unit and results of the orthogonal transformation by the second orthogonal transformation unit. | 08-16-2012 |
20120213314 | DIGITAL DEMODULATION OF PULSE-WIDTH MODULATED SIGNALS - A digital PWM demodulator includes a first set of delay cells to receive a PWM signal and to propagate the PWM signal in a forward direction for a first interval. Delayed signals obtained at the end of the first interval are propagated in the reverse direction through the delay cells for a second interval. A logic zero feeds into the last cell at the start of the second interval. The output of a last cell in the delay cells at the end of the second interval is indicative of a data value modulated on the PWM signal. The digital PWM demodulator includes a second set of delay cells designed to operate identical to the first set of delay cells. The first set of delay cells and the second set of delay cells in conjunction with additional digital circuitry demodulate alternate periods of the PWM signal. | 08-23-2012 |
20120219095 | Blind Control Channel Detection - The present invention proposes a method, including receiving a sequence of channelization encoded correlated symbols x | 08-30-2012 |
20120224658 | GENERALIZED FREQUENCY MODULATION - A receiver may comprise a complex mixer for converting the modulated signal to a complex modulated signal comprising a first in-phase component and a first quadrature component. The receiver may further comprise a digital demodulator. The digital demodulator may comprise at least one processor circuit programmed for applying a phase differencer for generating an output function in terms of a phase difference of the complex modulated signal. Applying the phase differencer may comprise converting the first in-phase component to a function of a phase difference of the first in-phase component expressed in digital time, and converting the first quadrature component to a function of the phase difference of the first quadrature component expressed in digital time. The at least one processor circuit of the digital demodulator may also be programmed for applying a four quadrant inverse tangent to the output function to generate the information signal. | 09-06-2012 |
20120224659 | PILOT DESIGN FOR WIRELESS SYSTEM - The description herein relates to pilot designs for an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) based communication system. In the preferred embodiment, the communication system is one operating according to the IEEE 802.16m, or WiMax, standard. In general, an OFDM transmitter operates to insert pilot symbols into a resource of a transmit frame according to a predetermined staggered pilot symbol pattern defining pilot symbol locations within the resource of the transmit frame. The predetermined pilot symbol pattern is defined such that pilot symbols are located at or near time boundaries of the resource, at or near frequency boundaries of the resource, or both. By doing so, when generating a channel estimate for the communication channel between the OFDM transmitter and an OFDM receiver based on the pilot symbols, extrapolations needed to estimate the channel near the boundaries of the resource are optimized, thereby improving overall channel estimation accuracy. | 09-06-2012 |
20120230451 | DC OFFSET ESTIMATION DEVICE AND DC OFFSET ESTIMATION METHOD - A direct current (DC) offset estimation device includes a determining circuit and an estimation circuit. The determining circuit is arranged for comparing a plurality of bits of an access code in a packet with a first predetermined value, respectively, and accordingly generating a determining result. The estimation circuit is coupled to the determining circuit, for estimating a DC offset according to the determining result. | 09-13-2012 |
20120230452 | WIRELESS RECEIVING APPARATUS - Disclosed is a wireless receiving apparatus, whereby inter-antenna interference can be reduced without inducing an increase of a mounting area due to an increase of the number of antennas, and the number of RFIC input terminals, circuit scale and power consumption can be reduced. In the wireless receiving apparatus ( | 09-13-2012 |
20120236970 | System and Method for Signaling and Detecting in Wireless Communications Systems - A system and method for signaling and detecting in wireless communications systems are provided. A method for processing information includes operating in a first phase, operating in a second phase, and processing the detected information. The first phase includes iteratively inverting a first filtering operation on received signals, and the second phase includes iteratively inverting a second filtering operation on received signals with consideration given to a first estimation error of symbols of the first user and a second estimation error of symbols of the second user. | 09-20-2012 |
20120236971 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION IN SUB GIGAHERTZ BANDS - Systems, methods, and devices for wireless communication. In one aspect, an apparatus for wireless communication is provided. The apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive a wireless signal comprising a packet. At least a portion of the wireless signal is configured to be received over a bandwidth lower than or equal to 1.25 MHz. The packet is formed from at least one orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol comprising thirty-two tones. The thirty-two tones correspond to frequency subcarriers within the bandwidth. The thirty-two tones of the at least one OFDM symbol are allocated as: twenty-four data tones, two pilot tones, five guard tones, and one direct current (DC) tone. The apparatus includes a processor configured to evaluate the wireless signal. The processor includes a transform module configured to convert the at least one OFDM symbol into a frequency domain signal using a thirty-two point mode. | 09-20-2012 |
20120243642 | APPARATUS FOR DECODING GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEMS NAVIGATION DATA AND ASSOCIATED METHOD - An apparatus for decoding GNSS navigation data to generate at least a target string or subframe includes a demodulator and a processing unit. The demodulator is utilized for demodulating a received signal to generate at least a plurality of strings or subframes having a same string index or subframe index. The processing unit is coupled to the demodulator, and is utilized for determining the target string or subframe according to the plurality of strings or subframes. | 09-27-2012 |
20120243643 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DIFFERENTIAL IQ FREQUENCY UP-CONVERSION - A balanced transmitter up-converts I and Q baseband signals directly from baseband-to-RF. The up-conversion process is sufficiently linear that no IF processing is required, even in communications applications that have stringent requirements on spectral growth. In operation, the balanced modulator sub-harmonically samples the I and Q baseband signals in a balanced and differential manner, resulting in harmonically rich signal. The harmonically rich signal contains multiple harmonic images that repeat at multiples of the sampling frequency, where each harmonic contains necessary information to reconstruct the I and Q baseband signals. The differential sampling is performed according to control signals that are phase shifted with respect to each other. The control signals may have pulse widths (or apertures) that operate to improve energy transfer to a desired harmonic in the harmonically rich signal. A bandpass filter can then be utilized to select the desired harmonic of interest from the harmonically rich signal. | 09-27-2012 |
20120250801 | Intersymbol Interference Removal Method - An ISI removing method for a received signal executed by a receiver in an OFDM system to estimate a frequency-domain data signal carried on the received signal is provided. The method comprises the steps of: removing the first interference of known signal of the received signal; estimating a first data signal according to the received signal; performing a hard decision operation on the first data signal to generate a first frequency-domain signal; performing an Inverse Fast Fourier Transform operation on the first frequency-domain signal to generate a first time-domain signal; creating a tailing signal according to the first time-domain signal; removing a preamble signal from the received signal to generate a second signal; combining the first time-domain signal and the second signal to estimate the frequency-domain data signal. | 10-04-2012 |
20120250802 | RECEIVER, RECEPTION METHOD, PROGRAM AND RECEPTION SYSTEM - Disclosed herein is a receiver including a determination block adapted to determine, as a gain used to adjust the power of a received signal received with a fixed bandwidth, a gain different from that used when other band is not contained in a band of the received signal if the band of the received signal contains a desired signal band and the other band. | 10-04-2012 |
20120250803 | METHOD FOR ERROR COMPENSATION IN AN OFDM SYSTEM WITH DIVERSITY - A method provides for an improved compensation of Fourier channel characteristics in a wireless communication embodiment. The method identifies one or more information carriers as pseudo pilot tones whose information may be realized to enhance the determination of the complex coefficient of the communication channel. | 10-04-2012 |
20120257693 | CDR WITH SIGMA-DELTA NOISE-SHAPED CONTROL - In described embodiments, a receiver includes a clock and data recovery (CDR) module with a voltage control oscillator (VCO) and a Sigma-Delta modulator in an integral loop control of the VCO. Providing finer resolution by the Sigma-Delta modulator reduces quantization noise in the integral control loop when compared to a loop without a Sigma-Delta modulator in the integral loop. Sigma-Delta modulation within the integral loop control of a VCO-based CDR reduces effective quantization of the VCO integral word control, allowing the proportional loop control compensation to i) reduce effective quantization of the VCO integral word control and, ii) enhance receiver jitter tolerance in presence of periodic-jitter, serial data whose frequency is offset from the nominal rate and serial data whose nominal frequency is modulated by a spread spectrum clock. | 10-11-2012 |
20120257694 | METHODS, CIRCUITS, SYSTEMS AND APPARATUS PROVIDING AUDIO SENSITIVITY ENHANCEMENT IN A WIRELESS RECEIVER, POWER MANAGEMENT AND OTHER PERFORMANCES - A wireless receiver ( | 10-11-2012 |
20120257695 | Network Coding Method and Device in Cooperative Communication - Embodiments of the present invention provide a network coding method and device in cooperative communication. The method, application and device relate to the field of wireless network communications. The method includes: receiving a signal sent from a first source node by using an OFDM symbol, and receiving a signal sent from a second source node by using an OFDM symbol; and performing a time reversal on one part of received mixed signals, and performing a reversal of a complex conjugate operation on the other part of the received mixed signals. The method, application and device have the advantage of obtaining a full diversity gain. | 10-11-2012 |
20120263259 | BEARING DETERMINATION USING SIGNALS TRANSFORMED INTO FREQUENCY DOMAIN - An apparatus, a method and a computer program for determining a bearing. The apparatus may comprise: a first transformer configured to transform a first signal formed from a set of multiple orthogonal subcarriers and received via a first path, from a time domain to a frequency domain and produce for each of a plurality of the multiple orthogonal subcarriers a respective first coefficient; a second transformer configured to transform a second signal formed from the set of multiple orthogonal subcarriers and received via a second path, different from the first path, from a time domain to a frequency domain and produce for each of a plurality of the multiple orthogonal subcarriers a respective second coefficient; and processing circuitry configured to process the plurality of first coefficients and the plurality of second coefficients to determine a bearing for the apparatus. | 10-18-2012 |
20120263260 | Highly Optimized Digital IQ Transmitter Chain - Circuitry separates a modulation signal into digital sign and magnitude signal components. The digital magnitude signal is converted to an analog magnitude signal. The analog magnitude signal is the mixed with an in-phase or quadrature carrier signal under the influence of the digital sign signal and routed to a driver output stage. | 10-18-2012 |
20120269299 | Precoded Data Receiver - Methods and apparatus are disclosed for applying successive multi-rank beamforming strategies (e.g., successive precoding strategies) for the design of precoders over a set of parallel channels. Successive beamforming is applied to a narrow band channel model and is also applied for finer quantization of a single beamforming vector (e.g., recursive beamforming). A first embodiment provides the optimal approach with high complexity. An alternative embodiment provides successive beamforming for near optimal precoding selection with medium complexity. A low complexity method for precoder selection is also provided wherein a channel representative matrix for the set of parallel channels is determined and successive beamforming on the calculated channel representative is applied. | 10-25-2012 |
20120269300 | DIGITAL DOWNCONVERSION AND FAST CHANNEL SELECTION OF NARROWBAND SIGNALS USING A WIDE BAND RF TUNER - A wide band receiver to select and demodulate an input signal with single scan spectrum sensing by performing filtering on the input signal in digital domain to achieve improved selectivity and sensitivity is provided. The input signal includes one or more narrowband radio frequency (RF) signals. The wide band receiver includes a wide band tuner that down converts the one or more narrowband RF signals to one or more IF signals. An analog to digital converter (ADC) converts the one or more IF signals to one or more digital signals. A filter rejects out-of-band signals from the one or more digital signals to achieve the improved selectivity. A numeric controlled oscillator (NCO) selects at least one narrowband digital signal from the digital signals based on a phase value obtained from a spectrum selection control unit. A demodulator demodulates the narrowband digital signal to obtain a demodulated digital signal. | 10-25-2012 |
20120269301 | MIMO DETECTOR - A MIMO detector for use in MIMO-OFDM wireless communication that forms a plurality of propagation paths by using a plurality of transmitting and receiving antennas includes: an inverse matrix calculator operating as an inverse matrix calculation unit configured to calculate an inverse matrix of a matrix of the propagation path based on a signal received by a receiver; a detection speed controller operating as an estimation unit configured to estimate a variation in the propagation path over time; and a phase synchronization circuit and a regulator configured to variably control a processing time required to calculate the inverse matrix by the inverse matrix calculator, according to the variation in the propagation path over time estimated by the detection speed controller. The MIMO detector is provided on the side of the receiver of the wireless communication. | 10-25-2012 |
20120269302 | PROCESS FOR DECODING ALAMOUTI BLOCK CODE IN AN OFDM SYSTEM, AND RECEIVER FOR THE SAME - A process for decoding a signal being representative of a Space Time or Frequency Block coding during two signaling periods (STBC) or two parallel channels (SFBC) is provided. The process receives an OFDM signal received from at least one antenna. The process also performs an OFDM demodulation in order to generate N frequency domain representations of the received signal. Then the process performs a decoding process on said OFDM demodulated signal and groups the received signal in word code, Y=(y | 10-25-2012 |
20120275547 | Iterative demapper - Demodulation and/or demapping of a signal (e.g., based on a constellation whose points have a corresponding mapping with associated labels) is performed such that each dimension is processed separately without accounting for influences from the other dimension. For example, the demapping process operates on each respective dimension separately and independently. In some instances, the processing operates iteratively, in that, information identified from processing one of the dimensions is employed in directing the processing in another of the dimensions. Such operation may be performed iteratively by updating/modified information associated with one or more of the dimensions as well. Moreover, decoding may operate in accordance with iterative demapping (e.g., error correction code (ECC) and/or forward error correction (FEC) code by which information bits are encoded) to make estimates of bits within a signal sequence, and those estimates may be used in a subsequent iteration of demapping. | 11-01-2012 |
20120281789 | Characterizing channel response using data tone decision feedback - In addition, to pilot tones which may be existent within an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signal, one or more data tones within that same signal may be employed to assist with channel estimation (alternatively, detection). Once a data tone qualifies as a pseudo-pilot tone, it may be used with the pilot tones for channel estimation. A qualifier considers slicer error associated with hard decisions for a data tone to determine if it is a candidate for assistance within channel estimation. A frame within an OFDM signal may, in one situation, include no pilot tones at all, and a previously calculated channel estimate may be used to process that frame. In addition, fewer pilot tones than needed to perform accurate channel estimation (based on the channel delay spread) may be employed by using one or more pseudo-pilot tones (e.g., qualified data tones). | 11-08-2012 |
20120288034 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING COMPLEX SAMPLING OF SIGNALS BY USING TWO OR MORE SAMPLING CHANNELS AND FOR CALCULATING TIME DELAYS BETWEEN THESE CHANNELS - A method and system for performing complex sampling of signals by using two or more sampling channels and for calculating time delays between these channels. According to certain embodiments of the presently disclosed subject matter, the system and method are operable to enable a complex sampling of a signal in a frequency-domain by means of a predefined-order sampling, including utilizing a sampling channel for converting an analog signal to a corresponding substantially non-delayed digital signal; and transforming the digital signal to a plurality of corresponding frequency-domain substantially non-delayed discrete components; providing one or more additional sampling channels enabling to perform a predefined-order sampling, the predefined-order depending on a number of the one or more additional sampling channels, each additional sampling channel configured to perform a number of stage, giving rise to the multiplied frequency-domain delayed discrete components; and combining the multiplied frequency-domain delayed discrete components with the corresponding frequency-domain substantially non-delayed discrete components, giving rise to an output frequency-domain complex signal. | 11-15-2012 |
20120288035 | BASE-BAND TO RADIO FREQUENCY UP-CONVERTER - A base band to frequency up-converter is described wherein the base band to frequency up-converter comprises a first input for receiving a first base band signal of first base band samples and a second input for receiving a second base band signal of second base band samples and an output for providing up-converted radio signal samples. The base-band to radio frequency up-converter further comprises a phase converter for converting the first base band signal of first base band samples and the second base band signal of second base band samples into a first intermediate signal of first intermediate samples, a second intermediate signal of second intermediate samples, and a third intermediate signal of third intermediate samples. The intermediate samples are then up-converted into radio signal samples. | 11-15-2012 |
20120288036 | PREDICTING VALUES IN SEQUENCE - Multiple data prediction strategies are received. Each data prediction strategy may predict a next data value in a sequence of data values with a corresponding confidence value. Rather than rely on a single prediction strategy, the predictions of each of the data prediction strategies are linearly combined to generate a single prediction that is more accurate and has a lower overall loss than any of the individual prediction strategies. Further, a deviation is calculated based on the values in the sequence of values that have been observed so far using a weighted sum that favors more recent values in the sequence over less recent values in the sequence. A prediction of the next value in the sequence is generated based on the combined strategies and the calculated deviation. | 11-15-2012 |
20120288037 | COARSE BIN FREQUENCY SYNCHRONIZATION IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - For frequency bin error estimation, multiple hypotheses are formed for different frequency bin errors, pilot offsets, or combinations of frequency bin error and pilot offset. For each hypothesis, received symbols are extracted from the proper subbands determined by the hypothesis. In one scheme, the extracted received symbols for each hypothesis are despread with a scrambling sequence to obtain despread symbols for that hypothesis. A metric is derived for each hypothesis based on the despread symbols, e.g., by deriving a channel impulse response estimate based on the despread symbols and then deriving the metric based on the channel impulse response estimate. In another scheme, the extracted received symbols for each hypothesis are correlated, and a metric is derived based on the correlation results. For both schemes, the frequency bin error and/or the pilot offset are determined based on the metrics for all hypotheses evaluated. | 11-15-2012 |
20120288038 | SYSTEMS FOR PROCESSING DIFFERENTIATED HIERARCHICAL MODULATION USED IN RADIO FREQUENCY COMMUNICATIONS - The present invention employs hierarchical modulation to simultaneously transmit data over different modulation layers using a carrier RF signal. Each modulation layer may be of a higher or lower order than the other modulation layers. Certain embodiments of the present invention may transmit different information on the different modulation layers. Other embodiments of the present invention may use the different layers for processing information differently. | 11-15-2012 |
20120294392 | SHORT GUARD INTERVAL WITH GREEN FIELD PREAMBLE - Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with a single stream wireless communication with a greenfield preamble that uses a short guard interval are described. According to one embodiment, a wireless communication device includes a receiver configured to receive an orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) signal. The OFDM signal includes a greenfield preamble. The wireless communication device includes an interval select logic configured to determine a type of guard intervals in the OFDM signal based, at least in part, on the greenfield preamble. The wireless communication device includes a signal processor configured to process the OFDM signal based, at least in part, on the type of the guard intervals as determined by the interval select logic. | 11-22-2012 |
20120294393 | METHOD FOR POST DETECTION IMPROVEMENT IN MIMO - A two-stage approach to MIMO detection improves receiver performance in a computationally tractable manner. A whitening joint detector processes a MIMO symbol stream. The whitening joint detector includes a pre-filter operative to suppress a first subset of the received MIMO streams as colored noise. The whitening joint detector further includes a primary joint detector operative to process a second subset of the MIMO streams and to output a preliminary solution obtained by minimizing a whitening joint detection metric. A secondary detector then operates in the vicinity of the primary joint detector preliminary solution. The secondary detector improves the preliminary solution by comparison to a full joint detection metric. | 11-22-2012 |
20120294394 | DELAY DETECTOR CIRCUIT AND RECEIVER APPARATUS - The present invention provides a delay detector circuit that delivers performance at low cost and can reduce power consumption, and a receiver apparatus that uses this delay detector circuit. The delay detector circuit according to the present invention performs a part of decoding processing for decoding data transmitted by a transmitter apparatus based on a received wave of a two-phase modulation method. The receiver apparatus according to the present invention uses the delay detector circuit described above. Therefore the delay detector circuit and receiver apparatus of the present invention deliver performance at low cost and can reduce power consumption. | 11-22-2012 |
20120300882 | SYNCHRONIZATION CIRCUIT AND SYNCHRONIZATION METHOD - A synchronization circuit that synchronizes received data, includes: a determiner for determining whether or not data with a phase of a internal clock can be stably captured by the synchronization circuit, when the synchronization circuit accepts the data received from another device connected to the synchronization circuit with the phase of the internal clock of the synchronization circuit; a first flip-flop circuit accepting the data and the internal clock, capturing the data with the phase of the internal clock and synchronizing the data, when the determiner determines that the synchronization circuit can stably capture the data; a second flip-flop accepting the data and an inverted internal clock that has a phase obtained by inverting the phase of the internal clock, capturing the data with the phase of the inverted internal clock, and synchronizing the data, when the determiner determines that the synchronization circuit can not stably capture the data. | 11-29-2012 |
20120300883 | DEMODULATION CIRCUIT, DEMODULATION METHOD AND RECEIVING APPARATUS - A demodulation circuit includes a hard decision process unit and a soft decision process unit. The hard decision process unit is configured to perform a hard decision process using a demodulated signal, and the demodulated signal is a demodulated received signal. The soft decision process unit is configured to determine a range of assignment with respect to a transitioning part in the demodulated signal, calculate a likelihood value of a bit, and perform a soft decision process. | 11-29-2012 |
20120300884 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CHANNEL ESTIMATION IN ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING SYSTEM - The present invention discloses a channel estimation method and device in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system. The method includes steps of: A. grouping physical resource blocks in the bandwidth of the orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system; B. extracting at least one group from groups for channel estimation to acquire a channel coefficient, wherein the number of the extracted groups is less than the total number of groups; C. completing the MIMO demodulation by using the acquired channel coefficient; D. judging whether the channel estimation on the grouping has been completed, if yes, ending, otherwise, returning to step B. The device divides the physical resource blocks (PRB) in the bandwidth of the orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system into several groups and then carries out channel estimation processing on each group of resource blocks successively and individually, so as to achieve memory sharing and save storage amount. | 11-29-2012 |
20120307944 | RECEIVING APPARATUS AND RECEIVING METHOD - A receiving apparatus includes a symbol timing detection unit, a Fourier transform unit, a first symbol timing correction unit, and an interpolation synthesis unit. The symbol timing detection unit is configured to detect a Fourier transform start position from a received transmitting signal of a symbol unit, the Fourier transform unit is configured to perform a Fourier transform using the detected Fourier transform start position. The first symbol timing correction unit is configured to calculate and correct an amount of change between the Fourier transform start position of a reference symbol and the detected Fourier transform start position, and the interpolation synthesis unit is configured to perform an interpolation synthesis of a plurality of delay profiles corresponding to a plurality of symbols including the reference symbol and a symbol in which the amount of change is corrected. | 12-06-2012 |
20120307945 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION OF A CHANNEL MATRIX - A method and apparatus for decomposing a channel matrix in a wireless communication system are disclosed. A channel matrix H is generated for channels between transmit antennas and receive antennas. A Hermitian matrix A=H | 12-06-2012 |
20120314816 | ENVELOPE DETECTOR AND ASSOCIATED METHOD - An envelope detecting method performing squelch detection on a pair of differential signal includes: by a voltage divider, providing a real-time reference signal according to a sum of the pair of differential signals; and comparing two comparison signals associated with the real-time reference signals and the pair of differential signals to generate a squelch detection signal. | 12-13-2012 |
20120314817 | DATA RECEIVING DEVICE, SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING DATA RECEIVING DEVICE - A data receiving device capable of reducing power consumption. A data receiving device according to the present invention has a receiving circuit and a power reduction circuit. The receiving circuit includes a receiver for receiving differential signals, a decode circuit, and a control circuit. The power reduction circuit puts the receiver into an on state in accordance with timing of a data reception start by the receiving circuit, and puts the receiver into an off state in accordance with timing of a data reception end by the receiving circuit. Further, the control circuit puts the power reduction circuit into an off state in accordance with the timing of the data reception start by the receiving circuit, and puts the power reduction circuit into an on state in accordance with the timing of the data reception end by the receiving circuit. | 12-13-2012 |
20120314818 | DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVER AND METHOD OF ESTIMATING RESIDUAL CARRIER FREQUENCY OFFSET IN A RECEIVED SIGNAL - A carrier frequency offset can be present in a signal received by a communications receiver, when the receiver has a local frequency oscillator that generates a carrier frequency different from a carrier frequency generated by a local frequency oscillator at a transmitter that transmitted the signal. A residual carrier frequency offset can remain after most of the carrier frequency offset has been removed from the received signal using conventional techniques. The residual carrier frequency offset is estimated using first and second channel impulse responses derived from first and second portions of the received signal. An estimated phase difference between the first and second channel impulse responses is computed. An estimate of the residual carrier frequency offset is computed using the estimated phase difference. | 12-13-2012 |
20120314819 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RADIO SIGNAL RECONSTRUCTION USING SIGNAL PROCESSOR - A waveform reconstruction circuit receives an rf signal from an antenna, digitizes it, and then generates an undistorted reconstructed waveform. The reconstructed waveform can then be conventionally mixed and demodulated to extract useful signal information with enhanced receiver fidelity and sensitivity. | 12-13-2012 |
20120321021 | OFDM RECEPTION DEVICE, OFDM RECEPTION CIRCUIT, OFDM RECEPTION METHOD, AND OFDM RECEPTION PROGRAM - An OFDM reception device A comprises: a first orthogonal transformation unit A | 12-20-2012 |
20120321022 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING A PLURALITY OF SYMBOL BLOCKS USING A DECODER - Teachings presented herein offer a technique for using a demodulator to improve a demodulation process. For example, a demodulation unit according to an embodiment of the present invention may be a multi-stage demodulator and may include: a demodulator configured to receive a baseband signal and configured to produce modem bit likelihood values based on the received baseband signal; a decoder configured to receive and process the modem bit likelihood values to produce improved modem bit likelihood values; a candidate value generator configured to produce, based on the improved modem bit likelihood values, candidate symbol values for a group of one or more symbols; and a detector configured to receive the baseband signal and the candidate symbol values and configured to produce one of (a) final modem bit estimates and (b) candidate symbol values for a group of symbols. | 12-20-2012 |
20120328054 | RECEIVER AND SIGNAL RECEIVING METHOD THEREOF - A signal receiving method of a receiver includes the following steps. A time-domain received signal is transformed into a frequency-domain received signal, which includes multiple pilot symbols and multiple data symbols. Multiple channel impulse responses corresponding to the pilot symbols are estimated. Multiple inter-carrier interference and inter-block interference (ICIIBI) values corresponding to the pilot symbols are estimated based on the pilot symbols and the corresponding channel impulse responses. Multiple ICIIBI values corresponding to the data symbols are obtained via an interpolation operation according to the ICIIBI values corresponding to the pilot symbols. The estimated corresponding ICIIBI values are cancelled from the data symbols. The interference-cancelled data symbols are demapped to obtain soft-decision or hard-decision bits. | 12-27-2012 |
20120328055 | CHANNEL ESTIMATION CIRCUIT, CHANNEL ESTIMATION METHOD, AND RECEIVER - Disclosed is a channel estimation circuit that estimates a channel state of each sub-carrier, transforms the estimated channel state information into a time-domain complex delay profile, suppresses a noise by way of processing the complex delay profile, and transforms the complex delay profile into a frequency domain. The channel estimation circuit makes a judgment on the estimated channel state and carries out masking on a part of the complex delay profile in accordance with the judgment for suppressing the noise. | 12-27-2012 |
20120328056 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A wireless communication apparatus and a wireless communication method wherein even when the permissible delay amount of data is small, the permissible delay thereof can be satisfied. A data type determining part ( | 12-27-2012 |
20130003895 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE HAVING MAP TRELLIS DECODER WITH PARTIAL SUM TABLES AND RELATED METHODS - A wireless communications device includes a receiver, and a decoder coupled downstream from the receiver and using a modulation having memory for a received signal and to decode the received signal. The decoder decodes the received signal by at least determining a channel estimate for the received signal, generating partial sum tables based upon the channel estimate and possible values of a transmitted signal, correlating actual values of the received signal to the possible values from the partial sum tables to generate branch metrics associated with the modulation, and demodulating the received signal based upon the branch metrics using an iterative process based upon exchanging extrinsic information with an outer forward error correction (FEC) code. | 01-03-2013 |
20130003896 | MULTI USER MIMO DETECTION UTILIZING AVERAGED SPATIAL WHITENING - A system and method for decoding a Multi User (MU) Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) signal is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a selected symbol in a tone of an MU-MIMO signal at a mobile communication device. A channel response for the selected symbol is identified. Spatial whitening is applied to the tone and the channel response using an average of a co-user interference plus noise matrix that is averaged over a selected number of tones. Maximal ratio combining is performed for the spatially whitened tone and the spatially whitened channel response matrix to decode the selected symbol out of the spatially whitened tone. | 01-03-2013 |
20130003897 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DEMODULATING DOWNLINK SIGNAL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - There is provided a method and apparatus in which a user equipment demodulates a downlink signal in a wireless communication system. The user equipment receives a first orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signal from a first node serving the mobile station, receives a second OFDM signal from a second node different from the first node, and demodulates the first OFDM signal and the second OFDM signal in a fast Fourier transform (FFT) section. The first OFDM signal and the second OFDM signal are either normal mode signals each having a first cyclic prefix (CP) or cooperative mode signals each having a second CP, and the second CP has a longer length than the first CP. | 01-03-2013 |
20130003898 | Digital Broadcast Reception Processing Apparatus - A digital broadcast reception processing apparatus including: a plurality of antennas; a plurality of demodulation sections; a demodulation apportioning section configured to divide a plurality of demodulated signals into, and output the divided signals of, Process One unit and Process Two unit; a carrier-combining section configured to combine carrier in the demodulated signals of the Process One unit, and output the carrier-combined demodulated signals; a main processing section configured to process the carrier-combined demodulated signals; a sub-processing section configured to process the demodulated signal of the Process Two unit; and a sub-processing demodulation selecting section configured to control the division of the demodulation apportioning section. The sub-processing demodulation selecting section decides, and instructs the demodulation apportioning section as to, demodulated signals to be divided into the Process One unit and the Process Two unit on the basis of a plurality of signal intensities obtained from the plurality of demodulation sections. | 01-03-2013 |
20130003899 | Area and Power Efficient Architectures of Time Deinterleaver for Receivers - A method and apparatus for de-interleaving interleaved data in a deinterleaver memory in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) based Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting Terrestrial (ISDB-T) receiver. In different embodiments, the apparatus comprises of a OFDM symbol counter along with a divider or a buffer pointer RAM with circular pointer logic, a first lookup table to obtain delay buffer size and interleaving lengths for a given OFDM transmission layer, and a second lookup table to obtain buffer base address and interleaving lengths for a given OFDM transmission layer. | 01-03-2013 |
20130003900 | MICRO-CONTROLLER, PROCESSING METHOD AND DEVICE FOR POWER LINE CARRIER SIGNAL RECEPTION - The present invention provides a micro-controller, a processing method and device for power line carrier signal reception, where the method includes: an analog mixer mixes received power line carrier signals, an analog filter filters the mixed power line carrier signals, an analog-to-digital converter converts the filtered signals, a digital mixer mixes converted signals, a digital filter filters the mixed signals and a digital demodulator demodulates the filtered signals to obtain base band data. The present invention also provides a corresponding device and a micro-controller including the device. The technical solution of the present invention can modulate the carrier signals of any frequency to a fixed frequency through two-stage frequency mixing, so that demodulation of power line carrier signals with any frequency is possible. | 01-03-2013 |
20130010900 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MIMO DECODING - A method, a system, a wireless device and a computer program product are provided. A process for decoding transmitted symbols in MIMO systems is provided. The received point coordinates and estimated candidate coordinates are represented by a reduced bit representation naturally dividing each dimension into uniformly sized bit segments. A bounded region surrounding the received point is defined in the total number of dimensions, the bounded region being a hypercube. For each candidate, an elimination process is carried out including: determining a position of the candidate to be inside or outside the bounded region, eliminating the candidate if it is outside, storing it if it is inside, adding a further bit thereby reducing a size of the bounding region; repeating the elimination process for the candidates stored as potential solutions until a single solution is obtained; determining the transmitted symbols from the single solution found. | 01-10-2013 |
20130010901 | Method and System for Decoding Single Antenna Interference Cancellation (SAIC) and Redundancy Processing Adaptation Using Burst Process - Aspects of a method and system for decoding single antenna interference cancellation (SAIC) and redundancy processing adaptation using burst process are provided. A wireless receiver may decode bit sequences based on a first decoding algorithm that may utilize redundancy in the data and that may impose physical constraints. The receiver may also decode a received bit sequence based on a second decoding algorithm that utilizes SAIC. Received data may be processed in a burst process portion in either decoding algorithm. Burst processed data from one of the decoding algorithms may be selected based on signal-to-noise ratio and/or received signal level measurements. The selected burst processed data may be communicated to a frame processing portion of the corresponding decoding algorithm. | 01-10-2013 |
20130010902 | RADIO RECEIVER, RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A radio receiver including a sampling unit, a provider, an arithmetic operation unit, an estimator, and a converter. The sampling unit samples a baseband signal transmitted from the radio transmitter, at a fractional multiple of a symbol rate, and generates fractional-multiple-sampling data. The provider provides reference data in which the known symbol sequence arranged in a frame by the radio transmitter is interpolated at a rate of the fractional multiple. The arithmetic operation unit performs an arithmetic operation for evaluation data in which the degree of consistency in waveform between the fractional-multiple-sampling data and the reference data is evaluated. The estimator estimates a reference timing from a shift amount at which the evaluation data shows the maximum degree of consistency in waveform. The converter converts the fractional-multiple-sampling data by using the reference timing as a reference thereby recovering the data having the symbol rate. | 01-10-2013 |
20130010903 | Method and System for Diversity and Mask Matching in Channel Estimation in OFDM Communication Networks Using Circular Convolution - A mobile device in an OFDM system receives an OFDM signal comprising RS tones and data OFDM symbols. The received RS tones are extracted for channel estimation using a masking operation. Masking parameters are determined by matching channel time variance using corresponding time domain samples of the extracted RS tones. As approximated channel impulse responses of transmission channels, the time samples are masked to perform the channel estimation. The channel time variance comprising inter-carrier interference and delay spread are measured, respectively. A mean of differences in power between neighbor adjacent subcarriers of the extracted RS tones is used for the inter-carrier interference measurement. The delay spread measurement such as root-mean-squared (RMS) delay spread is calculated using the approximated channel impulse responses. Masking parameters are determined based on the inter-carrier measurement and the RMS-DS measurement for generating channel estimates by masking the approximated channel impulse responses. | 01-10-2013 |
20130010904 | SYSTEM AND METHOD PERFORMING QUADRATURE AMPLITUDE MODULATION BY COMBINING CO-SETS AND STRONGLY CODED CO-SET IDENTIFIERS - A method of encoding a stream of data elements is provided which involves splitting the stream of data elements into a first stream and a second stream; encoding the first stream to produce a first encoded stream; performing a constellation mapping using a combination of the first encoded stream and a third stream which is based on the second stream. This may involve defining a signal constellation; defining a plurality of co-sets within the constellation such that a minimum distance between constellation points within each co-set is larger than a minimum distance between any constellation points within the signal constellation; performing said constellation mapping by using the first encoded stream to identify a sequence of co-sets of said plurality of co-sets, and by using the third stream to identify a sequence of constellation points within respective co-sets of the sequence of co-sets identified by said first encoded stream. | 01-10-2013 |
20130016798 | ADAPTIVE DIGITAL RECEIVER - The present invention provides a high-performance adaptive digital receiver with adaptive background control that optimizes the performance in rapidly changing signal environments and provides 3.6 GH; instantaneous bandwidth, SFDR>90 dB, SNR=66 dB, with dynamic digital channelization. The receiver takes advantage of several levels of adaptivity that conventional approaches do not offer. In addition to a dynamic digital channelizer that is adaptively tuned based on detected signals, the present invention employs a powerful software reconfigurable digitizer that is adaptively optimized for the current signal environment to control important receiver parameters such as bandwidth, dynamic range, resolution, and sensitivity. | 01-17-2013 |
20130028353 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ITERATIVE BLIND WIDEBAND SAMPLING - Devices and methods are for iteratively sampling a wideband signal in order to recover one or more narrowband signals are disclosed. In one aspect, a wideband signal is received and the signal is sampled using a sampling device, which includes an amplifier with an initial gain level, to produce a plurality of sampled signals. A first set of narrowband signals may be recovered from the plurality of sampled signals. Then, the wideband signal is re-sampled to produce a second plurality of sampled signals. The re-sampling includes increasing the gain of the amplifier to a second level and suppressing a component of the wideband signal. A second set of narrowband signals may then be recovered from the second set of sampled signals. | 01-31-2013 |
20130028354 | Detecting a Transmitted OFDM Signal in a Receiver Having at Least Two Receiver Branches - A transmitted OFDM signal is detected in a receiver of a wireless communication system. The receiver has at least two receiver branches, each comprising an antenna, a front end receiver, a Discrete Fourier Transform unit, and a channel estimator. The receiver further comprises a detector for detecting received data symbols. The method comprises the steps of determining a system bandwidth associated with the transmitted signal; comparing the determined system bandwidth with a predetermined value; determining, if the system bandwidth is lower than the predetermined value, channel estimates separately for each branch, and detecting received data symbols from the received signals and corresponding channel estimates; and calculating, if the system bandwidth is higher than the predetermined value, a weighted sum of signals from each branch, determining a combined channel estimate, and detecting received data symbols from the weighted sum and the combined channel estimate. | 01-31-2013 |
20130028355 | DEMODULATION USING SERIAL LOCALIZATION WITH INDECISION - A receiver includes a constellation processing module and a plurality of demodulation stages. The constellation processing module groups points of a constellation associated with a transmitted signal into a plurality of subsets, were at least two adjacent ones of the subsets have one or more common constellation points so that the at least two adjacent subsets overlap. The constellation processing module also determines a centroid-based value for each of the subsets of constellation points and groups the centroid-based values into one or more sets. Each of the demodulation stages except for the last demodulation stage localizes a search for a final symbol decision using the set of centroid-based values input to or selected by the demodulation stage as constellation points. The last demodulation stage determines the final symbol decision using the subset of constellation points input to or selected by the last demodulation stage. | 01-31-2013 |
20130034193 | method and device for demodulating complex carriers - A method and device for complex carrier demodulation are provided by the disclosure. The method includes: demodulating modulated signals using complex signals e | 02-07-2013 |
20130039446 | FREQUENCY-DOMAIN FILTERING FOR CHANNEL ESTIMATION IN COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS - A method of channel estimation includes receiving a signal after transmission over a media having a plurality of sub-carriers in a frequency band. The signal is preprocessed including performing a fast Fourier transform (FFT) to generate a plurality of frequency-domain samples. Channel estimating is applied to the plurality of frequency-domain samples using (i) least squares (LS) estimation, wherein the LS estimation generates intermediate LS channel estimates for each of the sub-carriers, and (ii) frequency-domain filtering and scaling the intermediate LS channel estimates. The frequency-domain filtering uses a common frequency-domain filter consisting of a single filter coefficient vector having a plurality of frequency-domain filter coefficients to generate refined channel estimates for each of the plurality of sub-carriers. | 02-14-2013 |
20130044838 | LOAD TOLERANT VOLTAGE CONTROLLED OSCILLATOR (VCO), IC AND CMOS IC INCLUDING THE VCO - A voltage controlled oscillator (VCO), IC and CMOS IC including the VCO. The VCO includes an LC tank circuit, a pair of cross-coupled devices connected to the tank circuit and driving a pair of buffers. Each of the pair of cross-coupled devices includes a field effect transistor (FET) with an independently controllable body, e.g., the surface layer of a Silicon on Insulator (SOI) chip or the surface well of a multi-well chip. Diodes in the multi-well structure are biased off in each device. The tank circuit is coupled to the buffers solely through the FET drain to body capacitance | 02-21-2013 |
20130044839 | WIRELESS APPARATUS AND PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF - The present invention relates to a wireless apparatus and the processing method thereof. The wireless apparatus according to the present invention comprises a demodulating circuit, a computing circuit, and a compensating circuit. The demodulating circuit receives and demodulates an input signal for producing a baseband signal. The computing circuit is coupled to the demodulating circuit and receives the baseband signal. It performs inner product on the baseband signal for producing an output signal. The compensating circuit is coupled to the computing circuit, and produces and transmits a compensation signal to the demodulating circuit according to the output signal for adjusting the demodulating circuit. Accordingly, by means of the computing circuit according to the present invention, erroneous outputs sent to the compensation circuit due to erroneous judgment of a signal received with large frequency deviation can he avoided effectively, and hence enhancing the efficiency of the wireless apparatus. | 02-21-2013 |
20130044840 | DIGITAL BROADCAST RECEIVING APPARATUS AND DIGITAL BROADCAST RECEIVING METHOD - Disclosed is a digital broadcast receiver which includes a TS processing unit. The TS processing unit comprises reference packet detection units ( | 02-21-2013 |
20130051497 | Method and Apparatus for Implementing Slice-Level Adjustment - In one embodiment, a receiver may receive a signal from a transmitter. The receiver may include a first sampler that may sample the signal when the value of the signal is zero. The receiver may further include a second sampler that may sample the signal halfway between a time when the first sampler samples the signal and the next time when the first sampler samples the signal to produce a set of sampled values. The receiver may be further operable to determine that a sampled value in the set of sampled values is a logic 1 if the sampled value is greater than the value of a reference voltage and that the sampled value is a logic 0 if the sampled value is less than the value of the reference voltage. | 02-28-2013 |
20130051498 | INSTANTANEOUS PHASOR DETERMINATION FOR POLY-PHASE ELECTRICAL GRIDS - In one embodiment, three substantially simultaneous phase waveforms may be converted into a first quadrature signal and a zero sequence signal. For each phase waveform, a power system digital frequency may be determined through analysis of the first quadrature signal (e.g., and at least one additional prior quadrature signal) while eliminating waveform phase angles from the analysis. Subsequently, demodulation of the first quadrature signal and zero sequence signal based on the power system digital frequency results in a positive sequence phasor, a negative sequence phasor, and a zero sequence phasor. | 02-28-2013 |
20130058439 | Receiver - The present invention discloses a receiver for a communication system. The receiver includes at least one power detector, for detecting the power value of the processed signal of a received signal; a dynamic analog to digital converter (ADC), having a variable set point and a variable dynamic range; and a Digital Signal Processor (DSP), for adjusting the variable set point and the variable dynamic range according to the power value. | 03-07-2013 |
20130058440 | METHOD TO REDUCE PEAK TO AVERAGE POWER RATIO IN MULTI-CARRIER MODULATION RECEIVERS - A method for performing channel estimation in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signal includes choosing reserved tones to be part of a pilot pattern, and using the reserved tones in the pilot pattern to perform the channel estimation. An apparatus for use in performing channel estimation in an OFDM system includes a receiver configured to receive a transmitted OFDM signal; a pilot symbol extractor configured to extract pilot symbols from the OFDM signal; and a channel estimator configured to perform the channel estimation, including using reserved tones as pilot tones. | 03-07-2013 |
20130064327 | RECEIVER HAVING CONTROLLER TO SET LOCAL OSCILLATORS SO AS TO RENDER INTERFERING SIGNALS FILTERABLE AND ASSOCIATED METHODS - A receiver includes a first local oscillator (LO), with a pair of in-phase and quadrature (IQ) mixers coupled to the first LO and configured to generate complex IQ signals having an IQ imbalance. The receiver also includes a second LO, with a complex mixer coupled to the second LO and configured to mix the complex IQ signals and generate intermediate frequency (IF) signals based thereon. A controller is coupled between the pair of IQ mixers and the complex mixer and configured to set the first LO and the second LO so that the complex IQ signals and an interfering signal generated due to the IQ imbalance of the complex IQ signals have a same sign and non-overlapping bands at an input of the complex mixer. | 03-14-2013 |
20130064328 | RADIO FREQUENCY RECEIVER SYSTEM FOR WIDEBAND SIGNAL PROCESSING - Wireless communication is ubiquitous today and deployments are growing rapidly leading to increased interference, increasing conflicts, etc. As a result monitoring the wireless environment is increasingly important for regulators, service providers, Government agencies, enterprises etc. Such monitoring should be flexible in terms of the networks being monitored within the wireless environment but should also provide real-time monitoring to detect unauthorized transmitters, provide dynamic network management, etc. Accordingly, based upon embodiments of the invention, a broadband, real-time signal analyzer (RTSA) circuit that allows for the deployment of RTSA devices in a distributed environment wherein determination of policy breaches, network performance, regulatory compliance, etc. are locally determined and exploited directly in network management or communicated to the central server and network administrators for subsequent action. Beneficially the RTSA exploits a broadband RF front end in conjunction with parallel direct down conversion and FFT techniques. | 03-14-2013 |
20130064329 | PHASE SLIP REDUCTION METHOD - Disclosed herein are methods and techniques for reducing phase slips in optical communications systems and in particular methods and techniques that operate in receivers for a coherent communication system transmitting modulated data symbols exhibiting N-ary symmetrical constellation and predetermined reference symbols. | 03-14-2013 |
20130064330 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE - There is a need for reducing the scale of a circuit that determines and decodes code types for reception signals coded with different codes. A reception logic circuit determines and decodes code types for reception signals coded with different codes. The reception logic circuit determines one of code types for a demodulation signal corresponding to the reception signal based on a difference between codes detected during a modulation period or a non-modulation period occurring in the demodulation signal. The reception logic circuit decodes the code type in accordance with the determined code type based on the modulation period or the non-modulation period that alternately occurs in the demodulation signal. In this manner, the received data is reproduced. There is no need for a decoder specific to each code. | 03-14-2013 |
20130070875 | LOW POWER RADIO FREQUENCY TO DIGITAL RECEIVER - A radio frequency to digital receiver has a modulator sampling a signal at a first rate. The receiver has at least one processing unit. The processing unit has a plurality of digital bandpass filters separating the signal and recombining the signal at a rate less than the first rate. The processing unit has a digital down converter adjusting frequency offset or centering the signal at the rate less than the first rate. The receiver has at least one rate control buffer coupled to adjacent processing units when two or more processing units are within the receiver. | 03-21-2013 |
20130070876 | Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Low-Noise Block Downconverter and Low-Noise Module - A low-noise block downconverter (LNB) is disclosed. The low-noise block downconverter comprises a first input module, for outputting a first intermediate frequency (IF) signal after receiving a first polarization signal via a first input end; a second input module, for outputting a second IF signal after receiving a second polarization signal via a second input end; a first output module, coupled to the first input module, for amplifying the first IF signal, to output a first user signal to a first user; and a second output module, coupled to the second input module, for amplifying the second IF signal, to output a second user signal to a second user. | 03-21-2013 |
20130070877 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING PRODUCT INFORMATION OVER A CARRIER WAVE - A method is provided that comprises tuning a radio system to a frequency band that contains a locally-broadcast terrestrial radio signal. The locally-broadcast terrestrial radio signal comprising a main signal component and a side data component is thereby received. In response to receiving the locally-broadcast terrestrial radio signal a determination is made as to a permissible time for processing the side data component using a time slot schedule. The side data component is processed at the permissible time. A message corresponding to the side data component is outputted to an output device. In some instances, the side data component includes the message. In other instances, the method further includes searching a message lookup list using a code included in the side data component. When a stored code is found that matches the code, the message corresponding to the matching stored code is outputted. | 03-21-2013 |
20130077717 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING SEQUENCE DETECTION - An apparatus for performing sequence detection on a stream of incoming bits comprises a memory and circuitry coupled to the memory. The circuitry is operative, for each bit of the stream of incoming bits, to overwrite a first binary number presently stored in the memory with a second binary number, and to provide an output indicative of when the second binary number is equal to a predetermined value. The output indicative of when the second binary number is equal to the predetermined value is, in turn, indicative of when a binary number constructed by the stream of incoming bits is divisible by a prescribed integer. | 03-28-2013 |
20130077718 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING A FRAME FORMAT - A method for detecting a format of a frame in a communication system is presented. An embodiment of the method includes receiving the frame comprising a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols. The plurality of OFDM symbols may include at least one signal field symbol. The method further includes determining a modulation associated with the at least one signal field symbol. The modulation may be a first modulation or a second modulation. Also, the method includes estimating a position of the at least one signal field symbol among the plurality of symbols, and extracting a coding rate of the received frame. The method then includes detecting the format of the received frame based on the determined modulation and the estimated position of the at least one signal field symbol, and the extracted coding rate of the received frame. | 03-28-2013 |
20130077719 | DIVERSITY SCHEMES FOR 2-D ENCODED DATA - A method for communication includes receiving a signal carrying data including multiple data units using at least first and second reception channels. The data units are encoded with first and second codes such that, when the data units are arranged in rows and columns, the rows are encoded with the first code and the columns are encoded with the second code. The data units received by the first and second reception channels are selectively combined to produce composite data, which includes at least one row or column that includes a first data unit received from the first reception channel and at least a second data unit received from the second reception channel. The first and second codes for the composite data are decoded, including the at least one row or column, so as to reconstruct the data. | 03-28-2013 |
20130083870 | RECEIVING DEVICE AND RECEIVING METHOD - A synthesizing unit of a receiving device according to an embodiment synthesizes fixed components, which are fixed between carriers of an effective symbol, included in inter-carrier interference (ICI) in a broadcast signal on which fast Fourier transform (FFT) has been performed in view of an adding position of the guard interval in the broadcast signal and ICI in a broadcast signal on which FFT has been performed without considering the adding position, according to an addition amount of the guard interval. The ICI calculating unit calculates ICI to be removed from the broadcast signal based on the fixed component synthesized by the synthesizing unit. | 04-04-2013 |
20130089168 | RADIO TRANSMISSION DEVICE AND RADIO TRANSMISSION METHOD - It is possible to improve the CQI reception performance even when a delay is caused in a propagation path, a transmission timing error is caused, or a residual interference is generated between cyclic shift amounts of different ZC sequences. For the second symbol and the sixth symbol of the ACK/NACK signal which are multiplexed by RS of CQI, (+, +) or (−, −) is applied to a partial sequence of the Walsh sequence. For RS of CQI transmitted from a mobile station, + is added as an RS phase of the second symbol and − is added as an RS phase of the sixth symbol. A base station ( | 04-11-2013 |
20130094616 | DIGITAL DOWN CONVERSION AND DEMODULATION - A method and apparatus for digital down conversion and demodulation of a radio frequency (RF) signal are disclosed. A sampling frequency for sampling the RF signal is chosen, based on a bandwidth and a safety margin, so that a bandwidth of the sampled signal falls substantially within a predetermined frequency zone. The sampled signal may be digitally demodulated at a demodulation frequency selected to be substantially equal to a baseband alias of a carrier frequency of the signal. | 04-18-2013 |
20130094617 | DIGITAL BROADCAST RECEIVER APPARATUS AND DIGITAL BROADCAST RECEPTION METHOD - This invention provides detailed operations of a transmitter apparatus and a receiver apparatus that are capable of reproducing, possibly without delays, up-to-the minute earthquake reports conveyed via digital broadcasts. There are included a receiving unit for receiving the conveyed signal; a broadcast modulating unit for demodulating the digital broadcast signal from the conveyed signal received by the receiving unit; an emergency alarm broadcast activation flag detecting unit for detecting the emergency alarm broadcast activation flag from the conveyed signal received by the receiving unit; and an earthquake movement alarm information demodulating unit for demodulating the earthquake movement alarm information signal from the conveyed signal received by the receiving unit. | 04-18-2013 |
20130094618 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM UTILIZING A HIERARCHICALLY MODULATED SIGNAL AND METHOD THEREOF - A communication system utilizing a hierarchically modulated signal and method thereof are provided, wherein a receiver system is configured to receive a hierarchically modulated signal. The receiver system includes a receiver device configured to receive the hierarchically modulated signal, which is a function of a time domain, and including a high priority data stream that has a single carrier type modulation, and a low priority data stream having data bits that are spread over a plurality of data symbols of a high priority data modulation. The receiver system further includes a low priority processor device, which includes an OFDM decoder configured to convert the low priority data stream of the hierarchically modulated signal that is a function of the time domain to be a function of a frequency domain by utilizing a FFT, such that an output is emitted that is representative of the low priority data stream. | 04-18-2013 |
20130101072 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EFFICIENT DIGITAL BROADCASTING BASED ON SINGLE FREQUENCY NETWORK - The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for simultaneous channel estimation in a digital broadcast system based on a single frequency network | 04-25-2013 |
20130107991 | Fast Cross-Pole Corrector | 05-02-2013 |
20130107992 | PHASE DETECTION IN DIGITAL COMMUNICATION RECEIVERS | 05-02-2013 |
20130114764 | Physical Layer Frame Format Design for Wideband Wireless Communications Systems - Systems and methods are provided for processing a payload portion of a received signal in a single carrier mode or a multiple carrier mode using a wireless channel receiver based on a portion of the received signal, where a signaling portion of the received signal is a single carrier signal. A single carrier signaling portion is received, and whether the payload portion of the signal is a single carrier signal or a multiple carrier signal is detected from the received single carrier signaling portion. The payload portion of the received signal is demodulated in a single carrier mode if the detecting determines that the payload portion of the received signal is a single carrier signal, and the payload portion of the received signal is demodulated in a multiple carrier mode if the detecting determines that the payload portion of the received signal is a multiple carrier signal. Data from the demodulated payload portion of the received signal is stored in a computer-readable memory. | 05-09-2013 |
20130121446 | SIGNAL DETECTION DEVICE, METHOD OF CONTROLLING SAME, PROGRAM, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A signal detection device includes: a band limiting filter in which cutoff frequency is changeable; a signal detection unit that detects whether or not a signal of a specific frequency is present, from a received signal; and a control unit that executes a first signal detection that causes the signal detection unit to detect a signal, with a cutoff frequency of the band limiting filter less than the Nyquist frequency of an A/D converter, and a second signal detection that causes the signal detection unit to detect a signal, with a cutoff frequency of the band limiting filter greater than or equal to the Nyquist frequency of the A/D converter. | 05-16-2013 |
20130129021 | AUTOMATIC GAIN CONTROLLING DEVICE, ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING (OFDM) RECEIVER EMPLOYING HIGH-ORDER QUADRATURE AMPLITUDE MODULATION (QAM) AND USING AUTOMATIC GAIN CONTROLLING DEVICE, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF AUTOMATIC GAIN CONTROLLING DEVICE - Provided is an automatic gain controlling device that may prevent deterioration in performance of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) receiver, on a cable network that performs communication by an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) scheme using high-order quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM), the automatic gain controlling device including a power computing unit to compute a power of a signal received by the OFDM receiver, and a gain controller to control a gain of the received signal based on the computed power of the received signal. | 05-23-2013 |
20130136211 | RF Front-End for Intra-Band Carrier Aggregation - The method and apparatus described herein address problems associated with conventional wireless receivers configured for intra-band carrier aggregation. The disclosed solution applies the received signal to a single front-end amplifier, which may comprise a low-noise amplifier, and divides the amplified signal into two or more processing paths, where each path is associated with a different local oscillator frequency corresponding to a different reception band. To compensate for the impact of the additional processing paths on the amplifier performance, a negative resistor unit applies a negative resistance to the output of the front-end amplifier when two or more processing paths are active. | 05-30-2013 |
20130136212 | DIGITAL BROADCAST RECEIVER - The present invention provides a digital broadcast receiver which reduces the time needed for channel scans by performing efficient channel scanning when broadcasts in a plurality of broadcast protocols are received. As a first phase channel scan, a first controller and a second controller divide a plurality of channels included in an overlapping frequency band of a first broadcast protocol and a second broadcast protocol, and execute parallel channel scans. After the first phase channel scan, the first controller scans channels in which electrical signals generated from electromagnetic waves received by a second tuner in the first phase channel scan could not be demodulated by a second demodulator, and the second controller scans channels in which electrical signals generated from electromagnetic waves received by a first tuner could not be demodulated by a first demodulator. | 05-30-2013 |
20130136213 | RECEPTION SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE - A reception signal processing devices includes a converter which converts an analog signal amplified by an amplifying section to a digital signal, switches respectively provided in post-stages of variable gain amplifiers of the amplifying section, a bypass switch section which sets to open and close a path in which outputs of the variable gain amplifiers go around the variable gain amplifiers of the post-stages and are inputted to the converter, a switch controller which controls the switches and the bypass switch section and a DC offset controller which sets a correction value of a DC offset in accordance with a gain set to the variable gain amplifier as an object to be corrected. | 05-30-2013 |
20130142287 | RECEIVER WITH SELECTIVE SIGNAL PATH OPERATION AND ASSOCIATED METHODS - A receiver includes a first local oscillator, and an in-phase mixer and a quadrature mixer coupled to the first local oscillator and configured to generate in-phase and quadrature signals based upon received RF signals. A complex mixer is downstream from the in-phase and quadrature mixers. A controller is coupled to the in-phase and quadrature mixers and is configured to determine when the in-phase and quadrature signals include interference less than an interference threshold, and then powers off one of the in-phase and quadrature mixers. | 06-06-2013 |
20130142288 | Control Channel Detection - A wireless device at least demodulates, descrambles and decodes a first control signal to generate a first signal. The wireless device processes the first signal by at least encoding, scrambling, modulating and scaling the first signal. The wireless device subtracts the processed first signal from received signals to generate a second signal. The wireless device at least demodulates, descrambles and decodes the second signal to generate a second control message. | 06-06-2013 |
20130148762 | CIRCUIT AND METHOD FOR REMOVING FREQUENCY OFFSET, AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A circuit and a method for removing a frequency offset and a communication apparatus including the circuit, capable of removing the frequency offset by tracking rapidly and accurately in a payload section. A sequence of sample levels is obtained by sampling a frequency level of the baseband signal at every 0.5 symbol interval. Absolute values of differences between the frequency levels adjacent to each other at every 1 symbol are calculated as first difference absolute values. Absolute values of differences between the frequency levels adjacent to each other at every 1 symbol are calculated as second difference absolute values. When the first difference absolute values are greater than a predetermined first determination value or the second difference absolute values are less than a predetermined second determination value, the average value calculated is set as the frequency offset. | 06-13-2013 |
20130148763 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADAPTIVE SAMPLE QUANTIZATION - One embodiment includes an adaptive sample quantization system. The adaptive sample quantization system includes an antenna to receive a radio frequency (RF) signal having data encoded therein, and analog antenna electronics configured to convert the RF signal to an analog electrical signal. The system also includes an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) directly coupled to the antenna and configured to generate a plurality of consecutive digital samples of the RF signal. The system further includes a quantizer to determine a mode based on the plurality of consecutive digital samples and to select at least one threshold based on the determined mode. The quantizer can further compare each digital sample with the at least one threshold to generate a corresponding one of a plurality of output samples having a reduced number of bits relative to the respective digital sample to substantially mitigate potential interference and facilitate extraction of the data. | 06-13-2013 |
20130148764 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASK OFDM TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION - An OFDM system and method using amplitude shift keying (ASK) for subcarrier modulation is provided. Because ASK is used, the signal of each symbol in time domain is conjugate-symmetric. In addition, among the discrete numbers of each symbol, two of them are always real. These properties are utilized such that only half of the numbers of each symbol sequence are transmitted. The generated baseband signal can be a complex or a real signal. As a result, the bandwidth efficiency of the derived ASK-OFDM is the same as that of QAM-OFDM. | 06-13-2013 |
20130156133 | Flexible Channel Decoder - A configurable Turbo-LDPC decoder comprising:
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20130156134 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR A DUAL WATCH RECEIVER - A receiver for a wireless communication device provides a dual path receiver receiving first and second protocol-agnostic, uncorrelated receive signals simultaneously. The dual path receiver generating first and second offset IF signals from the simultaneously received first and second protocol-agnostic, uncorrelated receive signals. The receiver utilizes at least one converter for converting the first and second offset IF signals into at least one serial synchronous interface (SSI) signal representing the spectrum at IF. At least one processor receives the at least one SSI signal and applies parallel processing paths to demodulate the at least one SSI signal into separate baseband signals. The processor provides interference detection of, and level control for, the first and second offset IF signals. | 06-20-2013 |
20130156135 | I/Q DEMODULATION APPARATUS AND METHOD WITH PHASE SCANNING - An I/Q demodulation apparatus and method with phase scanning are provided. The demodulation apparatus includes a ring oscillator, a first latch unit, a decoding unit, a counter unit, a second latch unit, a first arithmetical unit and a second arithmetical unit. The first latch unit samples phase signals outputted from the ring oscillator. The decoding unit decodes the output of the first latch unit to correspondingly generate fine code of a first, a second, a third and a fourth codes. The counter unit counts the phase signals. The second latch unit samples the output of the counter unit to correspondingly generate coarse code of the first, the second, the third and the fourth codes. The first arithmetical unit performs an addition/subtraction operation by using the first code and the second code. The second arithmetical unit performs the addition/subtraction operation by using the third code and the fourth code. | 06-20-2013 |
20130156136 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ITERATIVE DETECTION AND DECODING IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Provided is an apparatus and method for iteratively detecting and decoding a received signal in a wireless communication system. An apparatus for iterative detection and decoding (IDD) in a wireless communication system may determine a predetermined group to be updated in a first soft decision sequence, may transmit detection control information of the determined group, and may generate a second soft decision sequence based on a detection operation result of a predetermined received signal portion that is extracted based on the detection control information. | 06-20-2013 |
20130156137 | RECEIVING APPARATUS THAT RECEIVES PACKET SIGNAL - An RF unit receives predetermined signals. The RF unit amplifies the received signals. A gain control unit controls the gain at the RF unit based on the amplified signal and has the RF unit use the controlled gain. The gain control unit performs different controls on the received signals, depending on the case when the received signal is a known signal placed in the beginning of packet signal and the case when the received signal is a signal other than the packet signal. | 06-20-2013 |
20130156138 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CHANNEL ESTIMATION - The present invention relates to a method and system for channel estimation. First, pilot signals are extracted from a received multi-path signal, in which each pilot signal includes a first pilot and a second pilot. Then, an initially estimated channel frequency-domain response is obtained based on the extracted first pilot. Afterward, a frequency-domain response estimate of each pilot frequency in the second pilot is calculated according to the obtained initially estimated channel frequency-domain response, an actual value of each pilot frequency in the second pilot is obtained based on the extracted second pilot, and a deviation between the frequency-domain response estimate and the actual value of each pilot frequency is calculated. When it is detected that aliasing components exist in the initially estimated channel frequency-domain response, a center of each aliasing component is determined according to the deviation, so as to determine an estimated position of each aliasing component. Finally, the initially estimated channel frequency-domain response is corrected according to the estimated positions of the aliasing components, so as to obtain an accurate channel estimation response. | 06-20-2013 |
20130163700 | Process for Suppressing Intercarrier Interference in a OFDM Receiver - Process for canceling Intercarrier Interference in a OFDM receiver receiving OFDM blocks in presence of Doppler, comprising the steps of: receiving a OFDM block comprising N samples; applying a FFT for the purpose of generating N frequency domain representations composing the received signal (R); multiplying said received signal (R) by the hermitian value of the channel (H | 06-27-2013 |
20130163701 | High-Speed Serial Data Transceiver and Related Methods - A high-speed serial data transceiver includes multiple receivers and transmitters for receiving and transmitting multiple analog, serial data signals at multi-gigabit-per-second data rates. Each receiver includes a timing recovery system for tracking a phase and a frequency of the serial data signal associated with the receiver. The timing recovery system includes a phase interpolator responsive to phase control signals and a set of reference signals having different predetermined phases. The phase interpolator derives a sampling signal, having an interpolated phase, to sample the serial data signal. The timing recovery system in each receiver independently phase-aligns and frequency synchronizes the sampling signal to the serial data signal associated with the receiver. A receiver can include multiple paths for sampling a received, serial data signal in accordance with multiple time-staggered sampling signals, each having an interpolated phase. | 06-27-2013 |
20130163702 | RECEIVING APPARATUS THAT RECEIVES PACKET SIGNAL IN WHICH A KNOWN SIGNAL IS PLACED IN THE BEGINNING OF PACKET SIGNAL - A detector receives detects a first known signal in a packet signal. An LTF correlation unit performs correlation processing on the packet signal received by a receiving unit. Upon detecting the arrival timing, an update correlation unit terminates a first window and performs correlation processing on the packet signal received by the receiving unit, in a second window. When correction timing is detected and when correction timing is more likely to be accurate than the arrival timing, an estimation unit changes the correction timing to the arrival timing; when the arrival timing is more likely to be accurate than the correction timing, the estimation unit maintains the arrival timing. | 06-27-2013 |
20130170587 | Systems and Methods for N-Dimensional Leaf-Node Prediction for MIMO Detection - Systems comprising a leaf node predictor for receiving a processed communications stream, determining at least one channel metric corresponding to the communications stream for a given channel realization, and generating at least three instructions to output, which at least one instruction corresponds to at least one predicted best leaf node candidate for the given channel realization. | 07-04-2013 |
20130170588 | ULTRA LOW POWER SUPER-REGENERATIVE RECEIVER AND METHOD THEREOF - An ultra low power super-regenerative receiver is provided. The ultra low power super-regenerative receiver includes a bit synchronizer configured to use a value sampled from a signal output from a super-regenerative oscillator to estimate a pulse-level position having a maximum amplitude value in a single period of a received symbol, a frame synchronizer configured to combine a plurality of pulse-level positions determined based on the estimated pulse-level position, and detect a predetermined bit sequence using the plurality of pulse-level positions combined, the frame synchronizer being configured to perform frame synchronization, and a data detector configured to detect data using the plurality of pulse-level positions determined after the frame synchronization is completed. | 07-04-2013 |
20130177107 | BANDPASS SAMPLING RECEIVER, AND METHOD FOR DESIGNING AND RECONSTRUCTING A FILTER THEREOF - Provided are a bandpass sampling receiver and a filter design and reconfiguration method thereof. The bandpass sampling receiver includes: an analog-digital converter converting an analog wireless signal into a digital baseband signal; and a complex baseband signal extraction unit generating a first path signal and a second path signal from the digital baseband signal and extracting a complex baseband signal using a relative sample delay difference between the first and second path signals, wherein the first path signal is a down sampled signal after the digital baseband signal is sample-delayed and the second path signal is a down sampled signal without sample-delaying the digital baseband signal. | 07-11-2013 |
20130182798 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DIGITAL STREAM SWAPPING BETWEEN SIGNAL SOURCES - Method, apparatus, and computer program product example embodiments for digital stream swapping between digital signal sources. A new event handler functionality enables swapping an existing digital stream to a next one if more than one digital stream is identified, enabling a user to easily and intuitively switch between the existing streams. | 07-18-2013 |
20130182799 | DM-RS BASED DECODING USING CSI-RS-BASED TIMING - Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a method of wireless communication that includes receiving one or more channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) resources. The method further includes performing timing estimation based on the one or more CSI-RS resources, receiving a demodulation reference signal (DM-RS) based transmission, and utilizing the timing estimation to decode the DM-RS based transmission. | 07-18-2013 |
20130182800 | Real Time Processing supported by Programmable Control Unit - The real time processing supported by programmable control unit (RTP PCU) includes a method, a system and an apparatus for implementing programmable algorithms for analyzing a very wide range of low and high frequency wave-forms. The RTP PCU comprises sequential processing stages (SPS) for real time capturing and processing of in-coming wave-form and a programmable control unit (PCU) for controlling SPS operations and supporting adaptive signal analysis algorithms. The RTP PCU further comprises a circuit for Sequential Data Recovery from Multi Sampled Phase (SDR MSP). | 07-18-2013 |
20130182801 | Diversity Receiver and Method Performed by a Diversity Receiver - A diversity receiver includes a plurality of receiver circuits that are configured to receive and process the received radio frequency signals. A channel estimator is coupled to at least one of the plurality of receiver circuits and is configured to determine at least one channel estimation value for the received radio frequency signals. A controller is coupled to the channel estimator and to at least one of the plurality of receiver circuits and is configured to selectively activate or deactivate the at least one of the plurality of receiver circuits based on the determined at least one channel estimation value. | 07-18-2013 |
20130182802 | RECEIVER APPARATUS, RECEPTION METHOD, AND RECEPTION PROGRAM - A receiver apparatus includes a propagation channel estimating unit that estimates a propagation channel. The propagation channel estimating unit includes a path detector unit that repeatedly performs a process of detecting paths in the order of increase in a propagation channel goodness of fit. The receiver apparatus that estimates a propagation channel at a high accuracy level with a small amount of calculation operation involved is thus provided. | 07-18-2013 |
20130188757 | ROBUST CHANNEL ESTIMATION AND INTERPOLATION - Present robust 2D-MMSE or minimax approach assumes significant time and frequency selectivity due to which it has a poor MSE performance for RBs with low/moderate frequency and/or time selectivity. Further, a filter cannot be designed assuming low frequency and/or time selectivity and use that for all channel models. The instant invention proposes Robust Adaptive (RA) MMSE filter that can bridge the gap between a robust 2D-MMSE/minimax and the optimal MMSE approach. Further, the RA-MMSE filter smoothens the filter coefficients of the robust 2D-MMSE filter with the degree of smoothing adaptively changing with amount of frequency and time selectivity within a RB. Further, the method uses multiple hypothesis tests on the maximum likelihood CFR estimates at the pilots. Further the RA-MMSE filter solves the minimax estimation problem with additional constraints on the autocorrelation sequence corresponding to the channel frequency response. | 07-25-2013 |
20130195225 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING 25% DUTY CYCLE SWITCHING MIXER LOCAL OSCILLATOR TIMING - Systems and methods for improving the timing alignment of 25% duty cycle non-overlapping waveforms are provided. A representative system includes a waveform synthesizer that generates a plurality of 25% duty cycle input waveforms and inverters that receive the input waveforms at the inputs of the inverters and invert the input waveforms, producing a plurality of inverted waveforms at the outputs of the inverters. The system also includes NOR gates that receive the plurality of inverted waveforms at the inputs of the NOR gates and pass through one of the inverted waveforms at the outputs of the NOR gates responsive to three inverted waveforms of the plurality of inverted waveforms being at logic “0”; and mixers having inputs that receive the pass-through waveform and a first radio frequency (RF) signal, wherein the mixers combine the pass-through waveform and the RF signal into an output signal. | 08-01-2013 |
20130195226 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SIGNAL DETECTION AND ESTIMATION - Systems and methods are disclosed for detecting and/or measuring signals contained in modulated sample data, and that may be implemented in one embodiment to detect and measure signals by producing a representation and/or visualization of the signal information of the wide band spectral environment. Signals may be detected and/or measured by demodulating and estimating signal spectra from the modulated sample data that contain the individual signals, and by then forming a frequency representation of the demodulated Nyquist zone spectral estimates into a visual representation in which the frequency of the original signals is visible or otherwise indicated. | 08-01-2013 |
20130195227 | Removal of a Band-Limited Distributed Pilot from an OFDM Signal - A technique for removing a band-limited distributed pilot signal from an orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) signal involves converting a received OFDM signal, which includes a distributed pilot signal and an OFDM data signal, into a frequency domain signal having populated frequency bins containing respective subcarrier signals, each including a constituent data signal of the OFDM data signal and component pilot signal of the distributed pilot signal. An average magnitude of the populated frequency bins is determined based on the absolute values of the complex components of the populated frequency bins of the frequency domain signal, and the average magnitude of the populated frequency bins is used to estimate a pilot signal magnitude. The distributed pilot signal is removed from the frequency domain signal using a stored replica of the pilot signal scaled in conjunction with the pilot signal magnitude to yield the OFDM data signal. | 08-01-2013 |
20130195228 | ADAPTIVE LOADING FOR ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEX (OFDM) COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - An orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM) transmitter may adaptively load each sub-carrier, buffering less than an OFDM frame in order to reduce hardware requirements and latency. The transmitter may use feedback information from the receiver regarding the quality of the sub-carriers. In addition, combining repetition and puncturing to achieve a desired date rate per class further reduces hardware by simplifying or even eliminating an interleaver. Additional mitigation and even performance enhancement techniques are incorporated to address inter-class boundaries within an OFDM frame, such as introducing transition classes. Channel state information may be reported in various formats including full bitmap, changed subchannels, and reported bad subchannels. | 08-01-2013 |
20130202063 | Extending the Set of Addressable Interferers for Interference Mitigation - Techniques for expanding the set of addressable interfering signals in an interference cancelling receiver are described, where the task of control message detection from interfering cells is integrated in an iterative receiver process where increasingly better a priori information on the received data signals from the previous iteration is used to detect additional control messages and successively grow the set of interfering signals included in the receiver's interference mitigation processing. In an example method, first estimated symbols for a desired signal are generated. A control channel corresponding to a first interfering signal is detected, where said detecting is based on the first estimated symbols. Signal characteristics information for the first interfering signal is then derived from the detected control channel signal, and used to generate second estimated symbols for the desired signal, using an interference-mitigation technique to mitigate the effects of the interfering signal. | 08-08-2013 |
20130202064 | ERROR SIGNATURE ANALYSIS FOR DATA AND CLOCK RECOVERY IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Described embodiments recover timing and data information from a signal received via a communication channel. An analog-to-digital converter (ADC) operating at a baud rate of the communication channel generates an actual ADC value corresponding to each bit sample of the received signal. A fast symbol estimation module estimates, based on the actual ADC value, a bit value corresponding to each bit sample. The fast symbol estimation module operates at a digital clock rate. The estimated bit values are provided to a timing recovery module. An ADC reconstruction module, based on a first number of pre-cursor estimated bit values, an estimated cursor bit value, and a second number of post-cursor estimated bit values, generates a reconstructed ADC value corresponding to each bit sample. Based on the reconstructed ADC values, the estimated bit values, and the actual ADC values, a corrected bit value is generated for each bit sample. | 08-08-2013 |
20130202065 | ADAPTATION USING ERROR SIGNATURE ANALYSIS IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Described embodiments provide method of adapting pulse response taps of a receiver. An analog-to-digital converter (ADC) generates an ADC value for each bit sample of a received signal. An error signature analysis (ESA) module defines a window of bit samples and, for the window, estimates a bit value corresponding to each sample based on the ADC value. The ESA module generates (i) a reconstructed ADC value corresponding to an estimated cursor bit based on a number of pre-cursor estimated bits, the estimated cursor bit, and a number of post-cursor estimated bits, and (ii) an error signature value based on the reconstructed ADC value and the ADC value. Based on the error signature value and a minimum pulse response value, it is determined whether the cursor bit corresponds to residual inter-symbol interference (ISI), and, if so, the error signature value is accumulated and tap values for each pulse response tap are adapted. | 08-08-2013 |
20130202066 | DUAL MODE RECEIVER CHANNEL SELECT FILTER - The dual mode receiver channel select filter includes a filter for a dual mode Bluetooth/Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) receiver portion of a BT/WLAN transceiver. The filter is a 4th order complex filter and is digitally programmable and reconfigurable. Implemented as the channel select filter for dual-mode receivers, the filter adopts low-IF for Bluetooth and zero-IF for WLAN (IEEE 802.11b). It is based on simple active elements, such as current and voltage followers. The center frequency is digitally tuned through programming active current division networks (CDNs). | 08-08-2013 |
20130202067 | Heterodyne Receiver Structure, Multi Chip Module, Multi Integrated Circuit Module, and Method for Processing a Radio Frequency Signal - A heterodyne receiver structure comprises a frequency conversion block arranged to convert an incoming analogue radio frequency (RF) signal to an analogue intermediate frequency (IF) signal; a filter block arranged to filter said analogue IF signal; and an analogue-to-digital (AD) converter block arranged to convert said filtered analogue IF signal to a digital signal, wherein the AD converter block ( | 08-08-2013 |
20130208832 | Partitioned radio-frequency apparatus and associated methods - Radio-frequency (RF) apparatus includes receiver analog circuitry that receives an RF signal and provides at least one digital signal to receiver digital circuitry that functions in cooperation with the receiver analog circuitry. The receiver analog circuitry and the receiver digital circuitry are partitioned so that interference effects between the receiver analog circuitry and the receiver digital circuitry tend to be reduced. | 08-15-2013 |
20130208833 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DECODING IN A DIFFERENTIAL ORTHOGONAL SPACE-TIME BLOCK CODED SYSTEM - A method and device for decoding in a differential orthogonal space-time block coded system are disclosed. The disclosed method includes: (a) receiving signals from a transmitter during a particular time slot segment, where the signals are encoded by differential orthogonal space-time block coding; (b) transforming to reception signals for two sub-systems by using a sum operation and a difference operation of the signals received in step (a), where the transformed reception signals for the two sub-systems maintain an orthogonality of an orthogonal space-time block coded system; and (c) performing decoding using the reception signals for the two sub-systems transformed in step (b). The method provides the advantage of lowering the level of operational complexity for decoding in a communication system that employs differential orthogonal space-time block coding. | 08-15-2013 |
20130208834 | RADIO COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING RADIO COMMUNICATION CONTROL PROGRAM - A combination of antennas to be used is selected based on a distance between a plurality of antennas or the polarization direction of a radio signal to be transmitted/received. | 08-15-2013 |
20130223571 | Mechanisms for the Correction of I/Q Impairments - Various embodiments of communication devices and associated methods for reducing I/Q impairments in signals used by the communication devices are described. A transmitter device | 08-29-2013 |
20130223572 | DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSOR WITH ADJUSTABLE DATA RATE AND METHODS THEREOF - As a digitized representation of an intermediate frequency television signal moves through a demodulator it undergoes a number of processes, including conversion from an analog signal to a digitized data, digital signal processing of the digitized data, and the like. The rate at which the digitized data moves through the digital signal processor of the demodulator for processing is referred to as the data rate of the DSP. The demodulator can vary the data rate based on a selected television channel, thereby reducing the level of interference at the demodulator resulting from noise. | 08-29-2013 |
20130223573 | MULTIPLE FREQUENCY BAND INFORMATION SIGNAL UNIVERSAL FRONT END WITH ADJUSTABLE ADC(S) - A wireless device includes processing circuitry, a receiver section, a transmitter section, and an antenna. The processing circuitry determines a set of information signals of a RF Multiple Frequency Bands Multiple Standards (MFBMS) signal. The receiver section down-converts a portion of the RF MFBMS signal by one or more respective shift frequencies to produce a corresponding baseband/low Intermediate Frequency (BB/IF) information signal from which the processing circuitry extracts data. The transmitter section converts a respective BB/IF information signal received from the processing circuitry by a respective shift frequency to produce a corresponding RF information signal and a combiner that combines the RF information signals to form a RF MFBMS signal. The receiver section and the transmitter section include ADCs and/or DACs, respectively, that are adjustable based upon characteristics of the RF MFBMS signal, the BB/IF MFBMS signal, and/or based upon signals carried therein, e.g., modulation type, SNR requirements, etc. | 08-29-2013 |
20130223574 | ITERATIVE DEMAPPER - Iterative demapper. Demodulation and/or demapping of a signal (e.g., based on a constellation whose points have a corresponding mapping with associated labels) is performed such that each dimension is processed separately without accounting for influences from the other dimension. For example, the demapping process operates on each respective dimension separately and independently. In some instances, the processing operates iteratively, in that, information identified from processing one of the dimensions is employed in directing the processing in another of the dimensions. Such operation may be performed iteratively by updating/modified information associated with one or more of the dimensions as well. Moreover, decoding may operate in accordance with iterative demapping (e.g., error correction code (ECC) and/or forward error correction (FEC) code by which information bits are encoded) to make estimates of bits within a signal sequence, and those estimates may be used in a subsequent iteration of demapping. | 08-29-2013 |
20130223575 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SENSING FREQUENCY FOR OFDM SYSTEMS - Provided is a frequency sensing method and apparatus in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system. Provided is a method of sensing a frequency of a received signal that is received from an outside in order to perform one of a plurality of radio communications. An OFDM apparatus may need to inspect a required frequency band before or after performing one of the plurality of radio communications, and to determine whether the frequency band is being used by another radio communication. | 08-29-2013 |
20130230126 | Physical Layer Frame Format Design For Wideband Wireless Communications Systems - Systems and methods are provided for processing a payload portion of a received signal in a single carrier mode or a multiple carrier mode based on a portion of the received signal. A single carrier signaling portion is received at a first rate, and whether the payload portion of the signal is a single carrier signal or a multiple carrier signal is detected from the received single carrier signaling portion. The payload portion of the received signal is received at the first rate and demodulated in a single carrier mode if the detecting determines that the payload portion of the received signal is a single carrier signal, and the payload portion of the received signal is demodulated in a multiple carrier mode if the detecting determines that the payload portion of the received signal is a multiple carrier signal. | 09-05-2013 |
20130230127 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SYNCHRONIZATION IN MULTIPLE-CHANNEL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - Methods and apparatus for processing multichannel signals in a multichannel receiver are described. In one implementation, a plurality of demodulator circuits may provide a plurality of outputs to a processing module, with the processing module then simultaneously estimating noise characteristics based on the plurality of outputs and generating a common noise estimate based on the plurality of outputs. This common noise estimate may then be provided back the demodulators and used to adjust the demodulation of signals in the plurality of demodulators to improve phase noise performance. | 09-05-2013 |
20130235955 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PEAK DETECTION IN AUTOMATIC GAIN CONTROL CIRCUITS IN HIGH-SPEED WIRELINE COMMUNICATIONS - Methods and systems for peak detection as part of automatic gain control in high-speed communications are provided. A peak detection system uses a portion of an input signal to generate a reference signal for comparison with the input signal. The comparison produces a differential error signal that is in turn used to produce one or more full swing pulses based on the comparison. A pulse counter counts the pulses, and if the count in a single clock cycle is above a determined threshold, a binary error signal is set to indicate a need for correction. | 09-12-2013 |
20130235956 | STABILITY CONTROL IN SIGNAL DETECTION THROUGH CODE AND TIME DOMAIN CONDITIONING - In wireless communication systems, received signal estimation and detection is computationally intensive. During such processing, received signal matrices may be conditioned prior to inversion to improve stability. In particular, code domain conditioning, followed by time domain conditioning prior to inversion results in improved receiver performance. Such code and time domain conditioning may be particularly suited to a Time Division-Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access (TD-SCDMA) system where code values are not averaged out of a received signal matrix. | 09-12-2013 |
20130243130 | RECEIVING APPARATUS IN OFDM SYSTEM AND RECEIVING METHOD - Disclosed are a receiving apparatus and a receiving method. More particularly, disclosed are a receiving apparatus and a receiving method in an OFDM system. The receiving apparatus in the OFDM system includes a receiver for receiving wireless signals transmitted through wireless channels, a transformer for transforming the wireless signals into signals of a frequency domain, an inverse transformer for inversely transforming reference signals into signals of a time domain based on a number of reference signals included in the signals of the frequency domain and an arrangement interval of the reference signals included in the signals of the frequency domain, and a determiner for determining a delay spread based on the inversely transformed signals of the time domain. | 09-19-2013 |
20130243131 | REAL-TIME I/Q IMBALANCE CORRECTION FOR WIDE-BAND RF RECEIVER - A receiver apparatus models and corrects the frequency-dependent and the frequency-independent mismatches between I and Q paths jointly by polynomial estimations. The receiver apparatus may sample digitized I and Q path signals. The sampled data point may be modeled in equations with real and imaginary components. The sampled discrete time-domain data may be converted to frequency-domain data. Multiple statistics values based on the frequency-domain data may be computed. Coefficients for the polynomial equations may be estimated based on the computed statistic values. The channel mismatches may be estimated from the polynomial equations and used to compensate the mismatch either on the I path or the Q path. | 09-19-2013 |
20130243132 | RECEPTION METHOD AND RECEPTION APPARATUS - 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 | 09-19-2013 |
20130251071 | RECEIVER - A receiver includes a channel selection filter that receives an input signal, filters the input signal, and outputs the filtered input signal as a first signal, an amplifier that receives the first signal from the channel selection filter, amplifies the first signal, and outputs the amplified first signal as a second signal, a first detector that receives the second signal from the amplifier and outputs a third signal after delaying and detecting the second signal, a second detector that receives the second signal from the amplifier and outputs a fourth signal after performing pulse count detection or quadrature detection on the second signal, a switching circuit that selects one of the third signal and the fourth signal and outputs the selected signal as a demodulated signal through an output terminal, and a control circuit that controls the switching circuit to select either the third signal or the fourth signal. | 09-26-2013 |
20130251072 | Low Power, Multi-Chip Diversity Architecture - A multi-chip antenna diversity architecture includes a first receiver chip including a first tuner, and a first demodulator directly connected to the tuner. The first demodulator demodulates the first input signal received from the first tuner. A first power sequencer that controls the first receiver chip, and a first chip ID including a voltage source V | 09-26-2013 |
20130251073 | Simplified High Frequency Tuner and Tuning Method - A disclosed method tunes a signal from a channelized spectrum having a predetermined channel spacing. A signal of interest having a predetermined maximum bandwidth is mixed with a local oscillator signal, which has a frequency that is an integer multiple of the channel spacing or one-half of a channel spacing displaced from an integer multiple of the channel spacing. The local oscillator signal is selected to frequency translate the signal of interest to within a near-baseband passband whose lower edge is spaced from DC by at least about the maximum bandwidth of the signal of interest. Problems associated with 1/f noise, DC offsets, and self-mixing products are avoided or substantially diminished. Other methods and systems are also disclosed. | 09-26-2013 |
20130259164 | ENHANCED METRICS FOR DEMODULATION AND SOFT INFORMATION GENERATION IN THE PRESENCE OF A NON-CONSTANT ENVELOPE MODULATED INTERFERER - Systems and methods utilize enhanced metrics for demodulation and/or soft bit information generation in the presence of a non-constant envelope modulated interfering signal. In one embodiment, a receiver includes a downconverter and a demodulator. The downconverter receives a radio frequency signal comprising a desired signal, noise, and a non-constant envelope modulated interfering signal, and downconverts the radio frequency signal to provide a downconverted signal. The demodulator demodulates the downconverted signal based on a demodulation metric that models the non-constant envelope modulated interfering signal as a stationary non-Gaussian random process with a probability distribution derived from a modulation constellation of a modulation used for the non-constant envelope modulated interfering signal. In one embodiment, the demodulator outputs demodulated symbols. In another embodiment, the demodulator outputs soft bit information. | 10-03-2013 |
20130259165 | CIRCUIT AND METHOD FOR DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN AN OFDM SIGNAL AND A RADAR SIGNAL - A radar detector determines whether an input signal is an orthogonally frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) signal or a radar signal by applying at least first and second bandpass filtering operations having substantially non-overlapping passbands to the input signal, each filtering operation having a passband of width substantially less than a relatively large instantaneous bandwidth characteristic of an OFDM signal and substantially greater than a relatively small instantaneous bandwidth characteristic of a radar signal. The detector multiplies power levels of output signals of the first and second filtering operations to form a power product signal and compares the power level of the power product signal with a threshold level and providing an indicating signal in a first state if the power level of the power product signal exceeds the threshold level and otherwise providing said indicating signal in a second state. | 10-03-2013 |
20130259166 | DATA TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, DATA RECEPTION APPARATUS, AND DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD - Disclosed herein are a data transmission apparatus, a data reception apparatus, and a data transmission method. The data transmission apparatus, the data reception apparatus, and the data transmission method are capable of simplifying the circuit structure of a decoder because an assumption of the time related to a request signal and a data signal is not necessary and an additional logic for generating a clock signal for the decoder is not necessary by using a Finite State Machine (FSM) logic without storing a state via a delay device. | 10-03-2013 |
20130259167 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING ENVELOPE USING DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SAMPLING SIGNALS - A method and an apparatus for detecting an envelope using a difference between sampling signals are provided. The method includes generating sampling sets based on sampling signals of a modulated signal, and determining a sampling set from the sampling sets. The method further includes determining an envelope component value associated with a sampling signal among sampling signals included in the determined sampling set, based on a difference between the sampling signals included in the determined sampling set, and a difference between sampling signals included in each of the sampling sets other than the determined sampling set. The method further includes detecting an envelope of the modulated signal based on the envelope component value. | 10-03-2013 |
20130266090 | Reconfigurable Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) Chip Supporting Single Weight Diversity - A method and system for a reconfigurable orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) chip supporting single weight diversity are provided. The reconfigurable OFDM chip may be configured to process signals such as IEEE 802.11, 802.16, and digital video broadcasting (DVB). The OFDM chip may generate channel weights to be applied to signals received in receive antennas. The weighted signals may be combined into a single received signal and channel estimates may be generated from the single received signal. Updated channel weights may be generated from the generated channel estimates. Updates to the channel weights may be performed dynamically. The configurable OFDM chip may be utilized to provide collaborative cellular and OFDM-based communication. The reconfigurable OFDM chip and the cellular chip may communicate data and/or control information via a memory coupled to a common bus. | 10-10-2013 |
20130266091 | SYSTEM AND A METHOD OF REGULATING A SLICER FOR A COMMUNICATION RECEIVER - The invention is directed to a system and method of regulating a slicer for a communication receiver. A zero-crossing accumulator receives a slicer output from the slicer and accordingly determines a zero-crossing length of the slicer output. A threshold decision unit regulates at least one threshold value of the slicer according to the zero-crossing length. | 10-10-2013 |
20130266092 | MULTIPLE-INPUT MULTIPLE-OUTPUT RADIO TRANSCEIVER - A MIMO radio transceiver to support processing of multiple signals for simultaneous transmission via corresponding ones of a plurality of antennas and to support receive processing of multiple signals detected by corresponding ones of the plurality of antennas. The radio transceiver provides, on a single semiconductor integrated circuit, a receiver circuit or path for each of a plurality of antennas and a transmit circuit or path for each of the plurality of antennas. Each receiver circuit downconverts the RF signal detected by its associated antenna to a baseband signal. Similarly, each transmit path upconverts a baseband signal to be transmitted by an assigned antenna. | 10-10-2013 |
20130266093 | Methods and Receiver for Positioning of Clock Related Spurious Signals - Methods and a receiver of positioning a spurious signal for reducing the impact of the spurious signal on a received Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing, OFDM signal, are presented. The method comprises determining the frequency of a spurious signal (steps | 10-10-2013 |
20130266094 | RECEIVER, RECEIVING METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - Deinterleaving and cyclic deshifting of the PDCCH are processed at the same time as the demodulation for de-mapping. As such, the receiving device has: a deinterleaver unit which uses a row counter and a column counter to calculate a location number in a deinterleave matrix; a cyclic shift amount calculation unit which calculates the cyclic shift amount applied to demodulation data, before that demodulation data is acquired; a counter initial value calculation unit which calculates the initial values of the row counter and the column counter from the calculated cyclic shift amount and sends the results to the deinterleaver unit; and an address changing unit which changes the address of the destination to which the demodulation data is to be written to the location number calculated by the deinterleaver unit. | 10-10-2013 |
20130272455 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CLOCK COMPENSATION - In a wireless communication system including a transmitter device and a receiver device, the receiver device may be configured to awake from a low power mode to receive beacons from the transmitter device. The receiver device may awaken an early reception interval prior to the beacon arrival time determined by the local clocks to account for inaccuracies in the local clocks and the transmitter clock. The early reception interval may be dynamically adjusted based upon an estimation of the clock errors to minimize the early reception interval. | 10-17-2013 |
20130272456 | DECODING APPARATUS AND DECODING METHOD FOR DECODING DATA ENCODED BY LDPC - A frame data storage unit inputs LDPC encoded data via a communication path. An estimation unit estimates, based on the inputted data, a situation of the communication path. A selection unit select, in accordance with the estimated situation of the communication path, one of a plurality of normalization constants that have been specified in advance and are to be used in updating an exterior value ratio based on a priori value ratio in check node processing according to a min-sum algorithm. A min-sum processing unit executes, on the inputted data, the min-sum algorithm by using the selected normalization constant. | 10-17-2013 |
20130272457 | GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITES SYSTEM (GNSS) RECORDING SYSTEM - The present disclosure provides methods for improving processing of GNSS signals. More particularly, the method reduces a bit resolution of a digital signal, by processing, based on a maximum threshold value and on a s-bit resolution value, the digital signal received with an n-bit resolution to generate requantized digital signal with the s-bit resolution. The method further determines an optimal gain of a Global Navigation Satellites Systems Radio Frequency (RF) signal recorder, by determining a range of values of a gain of the RF signal recorder corresponding to a selected range of values of a total noise of the RF signal recorder and RF signal receiver. The method also automatically detects disconnection of a RF signal recorder from a Global Navigation Satellites Systems (GGSN) Radio Frequency (RF) signal receiver, and synchronizes multiple RF recording systems. | 10-17-2013 |
20130272458 | Communication Signal Decoding and Soft Demapping - Symbol detection and soft demapping methods and systems are provided. Individual subset symbol detection according to one or more embodiments involves identifying a search subset of a transmission symbol set for a transmission symbol. For each other transmission symbol in communication signals, multiple search subsets of the transmission symbol set are identified. The multiple search subsets include respective search subsets based on each transmission symbol in either the search subset for the first identified one of the transmission symbols or each of the multiple search subsets identified for a different one of the other transmission symbols. Symbol detection errors may be detected by identifying competing symbols and computing competing distances. Soft demapping may be provided by calculating soft decision results based on detected symbols and weighting the soft decision result. | 10-17-2013 |
20130272459 | RECEIVER RECEIVING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A signal containing a frequency-domain channel estimation value is received and a time-domain channel estimation value is computed by way of DFT computations. An M | 10-17-2013 |
20130272460 | INTER CARRIER INTERFERENCE CANCELLATION FOR ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DOMAIN MULTIPLEXING RECEIVERS - Apparatus and methods are described to perform inter carrier interference (ICI) reduction or cancellation in an orthogonal frequency domain multiplexing (OFDM) receiver. A first and a second stage of ICI cancellation may be performed before inputting an estimated transmitted data carrier for forward error correction. Forward error correction may include a signal re-correction and reconstruction of the estimated transmitted data carrier prior to a further stage of ICI cancellation. | 10-17-2013 |
20130272461 | DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROCESSING SINGLE-CARRIER WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SIGNALS - Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and/or methods of processing single-carrier wireless communication signal. For example, a device may include a receiver to receive an analog single-carrier wireless communication signal representing a first plurality of time-domain samples at a first sampling rate; to convert the analog single-carrier wireless communication signal into a digital signal including a second plurality of time-domain samples at a second sampling rate, which is greater than the first sampling rate; to convert the second plurality of time-domain samples into a first plurality of frequency-domain samples; and to map the first plurality of frequency-domain samples into a second plurality of frequency-domain samples at the first sampling rate. | 10-17-2013 |
20130279634 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR ESTIMATING CHANNEL QUALITY - The invention relates to a method performed in a user equipment for estimating channel quality. The user equipment is adapted to operate in a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) mode in a communication system comprising a base station node supporting MIMO and serving the user equipment. The method comprises: receiving, from the base station node, a reference signal; performing joint demodulation of the reference signal, thereby obtaining soft values; and generating the channel quality using the soft values. The invention also relates to a user equipment, computer programs and computer program products. | 10-24-2013 |
20130287148 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM WITH ITERATIVE DETECTOR AND DECODER AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF - A method of operation of a communication system includes: receiving an input signal having an input primary codeword and an input parallel codeword; calculating a primary codeword signal by removing a parallel soft information average of the input parallel codeword from the input signal; filtering a residual parallel interference of the input parallel codeword from the primary codeword signal with a primary whitening filter to generate a primary codeword estimation of the input primary codeword; and calculating a primary detected soft information for the primary codeword estimation for communicating with a device. | 10-31-2013 |
20130287149 | MIMO RECEPTION DEVICE AND MIMO RECEPTION METHOD - Provided are a MIMO transmission device and a MIMO transmission method which can improve reception quality of a response signal. A terminal ( | 10-31-2013 |
20130294547 | Control Channel Demodulating and Decoding Method and Communication Apparatus Using the Same - Techniques are provided for a demodulation and decoding method and apparatus for a given user equipment device to receive a one or more Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (OFDM) symbols over a control channel, where the OFDM symbols comprise a plurality of resource element groups distributed in time and frequency that are combined to form control channel elements. Those resource element groups that form specific control channel elements for the user equipment device and those resource element groups that form common control channel elements for one or more user equipment devices including the given user equipment device are identified. The resource element groups that form the specific control channel elements and the resource element groups that form the common control channel elements are demodulated to generate encoded control messages comprising one or more control channel elements. | 11-07-2013 |
20130294548 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECEIVING MULTIPATH SIGNALS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Provided are an apparatus and method for receiving a multipath signal in a wireless communication system. The apparatus includes a weighting block for receiving an estimated channel gain value output from a channel estimator and outputting an estimated weighted channel gain value and a compensator unit for receiving the estimated weighted channel gain value, reflecting the weight, and compensating, for an estimated channel gain. | 11-07-2013 |
20130294549 | HIGH SENSITIVITY GPS RECEIVER - A high sensitivity GPS receiver includes an acquisition engine and a tracking engine. The acquisition engine processes GPS satellite data at data rate that is substantially equal to twice the coarse acquisition (CA) code chip rate. This data rate advantageously enables the acquisition engine to process GPS satellite data with relatively less hardware area than traditional GPS acquisition approaches. In one embodiment, the high efficiency acquisition engine may be over-clocked, thereby allowing different phases of a CA code to be correlated quickly. The tracking engine can advantageously process GPS satellite data at a data rate that does not have an integer relationship to the CA code chip rate. | 11-07-2013 |
20130301756 | Apparatus and Method for Decoding a Received Signal - An apparatus for decoding a received signal is provided. The received signal has been transmitted by conducting a transmission. The apparatus for decoding includes a detector and a filter application unit. The detector is configured to detect whether the transmission is a SU-MIMO transmission or a MU-MIMO transmission. The filter application unit is configured to apply either a first receive filter or a second different receive filter on the received signal depending on whether the transmission is the SU-MIMO transmission or the MU-MIMO transmission. | 11-14-2013 |
20130301757 | SIGNALING TO SUPPORT ADVANCED WIRELESS RECEIVERS AND RELATED DEVICES AND METHODS - Various devices and methods are provided that use signaling to support advanced wireless receivers. For example, a method includes receiving an input signal at a user equipment. The input signal includes a desired signal and an interfering signal, where the desired signal defines symbols using constellations. The method also includes obtaining information identifying a wireless channel used by the interfering signal and a modulation type used to modulate data in the interfering signal. The method further includes recovering the symbols from the desired signal using the information. | 11-14-2013 |
20130301758 | Method and Apparatus for Turbo Receiver Processing - One aspect of the present invention concerns the management of processing resource allocations for a Turbo receiver, where such resources are consumed from a finite resource budget within a defined processing time interval. The contemplated Turbo receiver attempts to allocate more processing resources to those demodulation and/or Turbo decoding tasks that make more valuable contributions with respect to the ultimate goal of successfully decoding all data streams that are of interest in a received signal. The advantageous management approach allows the Turbo receiver to obtain better results for a given consumption of processing resources, and further permits the Turbo receiver to quit upon either achieving a successful outcome within a defined processing time interval or exhausting the budgeted resources. | 11-14-2013 |
20130301759 | RECEIVING DEVICE AND RECEIVING METHOD - A receiving device for receiving OFDM signals in which arrangement of pilot signals changes with symbol time, includes: an inverse Fourier transform unit configured to calculate an impulse response by performing an inverse Fourier transform on pilot signals included in a received signal; a first Doppler frequency estimation unit configured to estimate a first Doppler frequency from a phase rotation amount at peak positions between impulse responses of pilot signals of different subcarriers of the impulse responses; a second Doppler frequency estimation unit configured to estimate a second Doppler frequency from a phase rotation amount between impulse responses of pilot signals of the same subcarrier of the impulse responses; and a Doppler frequency selection unit configured to select one of the first and the second Doppler frequency estimated by the first and the second Doppler frequency estimation unit so as to reduce influence of a multipath. | 11-14-2013 |
20130301760 | METHODS, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAMS FOR SIGNAL INTERFERENCE RATIO ESTIMATION - Methods, apparatus and computer programs are provided for performing signal interference ratio estimation with respect particularly to non-constant modulus data. A method is provided that includes causing one or more data symbols to be demodulated resulting in one or more soft bits. An estimate is determined for a second order moment and a fourth order moment for the one or more soft bits. A signal to noise ratio is determined based on a signal component and a noise component of the estimated second order moment and the estimated fourth order moment for the one or more soft bits. | 11-14-2013 |
20130301761 | Methods and Systems for Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) Multiple Zone Partitioning - Aspects of the invention include methods and devices for inserting data and pilot symbols into Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) frames having a time domain and a frequency domain. A method involves inserting in at least one zone of a first type a two dimensional array of data and pilot symbols in time and frequency and inserting in at least one zone of a second type a two dimensional array of data and pilot symbols in time and frequency. In some implementations the zone of the first type comprises common pilot symbols that can be detected by all receivers receiving the OFDM frame. In some implementations the zone of the second type comprises dedicated pilot symbols that are only detectable by a receiver that is aware of pre-processing used to encode the dedicated pilot symbols. | 11-14-2013 |
20130315348 | LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS FOR CARRIER AGGREGATION - Low noise amplifiers (LNAs) supporting carrier aggregation are disclosed. In an exemplary design, an apparatus includes first and second amplifier stages, e.g., for a carrier aggregation (CA) LNA or a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) LNA. The first amplifier stage receives and amplifies an input radio frequency (RF) signal and provides a first output RF signal to a first load circuit when the first amplifier stage is enabled. The input RF signal includes transmissions sent on multiple carriers at different frequencies to a wireless device. The second amplifier stage receives and amplifies the input RF signal and provides a second output RF signal to a second load circuit when the second amplifier stage is enabled. Each amplifier stage may include a gain transistor coupled to a cascode transistor. | 11-28-2013 |
20130315349 | LOW POWER AND COMPACT AREA DIGITAL INTEGRATOR FOR A DIGITAL PHASE DETECTOR - In an example embodiment, a phase-locked loop circuit may include a first circuitry to receive a reference signal and a source signal. The first circuitry may generate a correction signal for demonstrating a difference in phase between the reference signal and the source signal. The phase-locked loop may include a second circuitry to receive the correction signal. The second circuitry may generate a digital signal for demonstrating a phase-to-digital conversion of the correction signal. The phase-locked loop may include a third circuitry to receive the digital signal. The third circuitry may generate a control signal for demonstrating a converted voltage of the digital signal. The phase-locked loop may include a fourth circuitry to receive the control signal. The fourth circuitry may generate the source signal in response to the control signal. | 11-28-2013 |
20130315350 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM, WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS APPARATUS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION - In performing SVD-MIMO transmission, a set-up procedure is simplified while assuring a satisfactory decoding capability with a reduced number of antennas. A transmitter estimates channel information based on reference signals sent from a receiver, determines a transmit antenna weighting coefficient matrix based on the channel information, calculates a weight to be assigned to each of components of a multiplexed signal, and sends, to the receiver, training signals for respective signal components, the training signals being weighted by the calculated weights. On the other hand, the receiver determines a receive antenna weighting coefficient matrix based on the received training signals. | 11-28-2013 |
20130315351 | RECEPTION DEVICE, RECEPTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present technology relates to a reception device, a reception method, and a program therefor that enable improvement in reception performance when information on a frequency band in which no data is transmitted is known. The reception device receives a broadcast wave of an OFDM signal transmitted from a transmission device at a broadcast station that is not shown. A transmission parameter interpretation unit acquires band information indicating a “no signal” band contained in transmitted control information. An interference rejection filter unit performs filtering at least when a signal with a level higher than a predetermined level is detected on the basis of the band information from the transmission parameter interpretation unit. The disclosed technology can be applied to a reception device that receives OFDM signals, for example. | 11-28-2013 |
20130322570 | PHASE NOISE EXTRACTION APPARATUS AND TECHNIQUE - A phase noise extraction apparatus and technique that extracts phase noise induced by a component of a transmitter from a radio frequency (RF) signal and attenuates noise induced from other sources. The RF signal is digitized, modulation is removed, and the carrier is suppressed to provide a noise signal including the phase noise and the noise induced from the other sources. A complementary autocorrelation operation is applied to the noise signal to attenuate the noise from the other sources. The correlated signal is transformed into the frequency domain to generate a power spectrum of the phase noise that may be measured or displayed. | 12-05-2013 |
20130322571 | SAMPLE RATE ESTIMATOR FOR DIGITAL RADIO RECEPTION SYSTEMS - A method and apparatus for adjusting a sample rate for an asynchronous sample rate converter is disclosed. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes an asynchronous sample rate converter (ASRC) that is configured to receive a digital data stream provided at a first sample rate. The ASRC is configured to convert the digital data stream to a second sample rate at which it is output. The apparatus also includes a sample rate estimator coupled to an interface through which samples from the digital data stream are conveyed subsequent to conversion to the second sample rate. The sample rate estimator is further coupled to the ASRC, and configured to adjust the second sample rate based on information obtained from the interface. | 12-05-2013 |
20130322572 | ASYNCHRONOUS SAMPLE RATE CONVERTER FOR DIGITAL RADIO TUNERS - A radio tuner and corresponding method of operating are disclosed. A radio tuner includes a radio frequency (RF) unit, an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), and an asynchronous sample rate converter (ASRC). The RF unit is configured to receive a radio signal and output a corresponding analog signal. The ADC is configured to generate a digital data stream, output at a first sample rate, based on the analog signal. The ASRC is coupled to receive the digital data stream and configured to output the digital data stream at a second sample rate for output do a demodulator. The demodulator may in turn be coupled to provide a feedback signal to the ASRC. The | 12-05-2013 |
20130322573 | USING ANTENNA POOLING TO ENHANCE A MIMO RECEIVER AUGMENTED BY RF BEAMFORMING - A system having a multi-layer (multi-stream) multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) receiving system, having a MIMO baseband module and a radio distribution network (RDN) connected to the MIMO receiving system. The RDN has two or more beamformers that are fed by two or more antennas, so that a total number of antennas in the system are greater than the number of branches of the MIMO baseband module. Each of the beamformers combines RF signals coming from the antennas. The system further implements an antenna routing module that swaps antennas between different beamformers according to one or more qualitative indicators derived from the baseband module, thus increasing the probability of grouping antennas that have lower conflicts between best phases of different layers' transmitted signals. The system increases the range of antenna selection beyond the set of antennas available for each beamformer. | 12-05-2013 |
20130322574 | USING 3G/4G BASEBAND SIGNALS FOR TUNING BEAMFORMERS IN HYBRID MIMO RDN SYSTEMS - A hybrid MIMO RDN 3G/4G receiving system which include M antennas for N MIMO branches, wherein M>N is provided herein. Each branch has a beamformer so that each of the beamformers includes at least one combiner configured to combine signals coming from the antennas coupled to a respective beamformer into a combined signal. The system further includes a control module configured to tune at least one beamformer based on metrics derived by the baseband module. More specifically, the tuning of the beamformers is carried out, at least partially, using 3G/4G metrics that are generated but not usually reported in 3G/ | 12-05-2013 |
20130322575 | Method and User Equipment for Carrier Aggregation - User equipment is provided for receiving an OFDM signal. The user equipment includes a plurality of carrier processing chains and a carrier aggregation module, aggregating the signals received on each carrier processed by the plurality of carrier processing chains. The aggregation module delivers a set of aggregated signals of the plurality of carrier processing chains at the input of a Fast Fourier Transform module of a PHY layer processing subsystem of the user equipment. The Fast Fourier transform module is able to process a size of data according to a predetermined rate depending on the aggregated bandwidth of the set of aggregated signals of the plurality of carrier processing chains, and the carrier aggregation module includes at least one frequency shifter for frequency shifting carriers. | 12-05-2013 |
20130322576 | ACCELERATED CARRIER ACQUISITION METHOD FOR A DIGITAL COMMUNICATION RECEIVER - A method of accelerated carrier signal acquisition for a digital communication receiver, the method comprising receiving a carrier signal by a receiver comprising a carrier recovery loop (CRL), setting the CRL to an open loop setting using a processor. setting a numerically controlled oscillator (NCO) within the CRL at a center frequency of the NCO, determining, by the processor, one or more initial parameters of the CRL, calculating an estimate and polarity for a sign frequency detection frequency using a sign frequency detector while simultaneously estimating a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) frequency by running an FFT using the processor, comparing polarities of the estimates of the sign frequency detection frequency and FFT frequency and determining a frequency offset using the processor, and adjusting one or more parameters of the CRL based on the frequency offset using the processor. | 12-05-2013 |
20130322577 | DETECTING CIRCUIT AND RELATED DETECTING METHOD - A detecting circuit includes: a first offset generating circuit, arranged to apply a first offset to an input signal pair and accordingly generate a first output signal pair; and a first sampling circuit, coupled to the first offset generating circuit, the first sampling circuit arranged to sample the first output signal pair to generate a first sampling signal, wherein the first sampling signal is utilized to identify a data signal on the input signal pair, and the first sampling circuit is controlled by a first signal that is irrelevant to the input signal pair. | 12-05-2013 |
20130329835 | Signal Receiver with Group Delay and Amplitude Distortion Compensation - A signal receiver includes an antenna interface for receiving signals from an antenna, analog signal processing circuitry coupled to the antenna interface for processing the received signals to produce filtered signals, sampling circuitry to sample the filtered signals so as to produce digitized received signals, a digital compensator to receive the digitized received signals and compensate for non-uniform group delay and amplitude distortion introduced by the analog signal processing circuitry to produce compensated digitized received signals, and a digital processor to process the compensated digitized received signals so as to produce a result. | 12-12-2013 |
20130329836 | TRANSMITTING APPARATUS, TRANSMITTING METHOD, RECEIVING APPARATUS AND RECEIVING METHOD - Modulated signal A is transmitted from a first antenna, and modulated signal B is transmitted from a second antenna. As modulated signal B, modulated symbols S2(i) and S2(i+1) obtained from different data are transmitted at time i and time i+1 respectively. In contrast, as modulated signal A, modulated symbols S1(i) and S1(i)′ obtained by changing the signal point arrangement of the same data are transmitted at time i and time i+1 respectively. As a result the reception quality can be changed intentionally at time i and time i+1, and therefore using the demodulation result of modulated signal A of a time when the reception quality is good enables both modulated signals A and B to be demodulated with good error rate performances. | 12-12-2013 |
20130336430 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM WITH ITERATIVE DETECTOR AND DECODER AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF - A method of operation of a communication system includes: retaining an a-posteriori detector-data, a detector-extrinsic-information, an a-posteriori-decoder-data, a decoder-extrinsic-value, or a combination thereof calculated from a received signal; determining an a-priori-decoder-information or an a-priori detector-information from the a-posteriori detector-data, the detector-extrinsic-information, the a-posteriori-decoder-data, the decoder-extrinsic-value, or a combination thereof; and adjusting the a-posteriori detector-data, the detector-extrinsic-information, the a-posteriori-decoder-data, the decoder-extrinsic-value, or a combination thereof using the a-priori-decoder-information or the a-priori detector-information for communicating through a device. | 12-19-2013 |
20130343490 | Synchronizing Receivers in a Signal Acquisition System - A system and method for synchronizing a plurality of receivers. A tone from a signal generator is swept over a frequency band. A power splitter splits the tone into a plurality of resultant tones that are supplied to the respective receivers. For each receiver, a relative frequency response (including amplitude and phase responses) is measured between the receiver and a master receiver. A linear approximation to the phase response is computed. A digital filter is custom designed for the receiver to compensate for non-uniformity of the amplitude response and for deviations of the phase from the linear approximation. After applying the digital filter, further adjustments are made to remove the time delay corresponding to the linear approximation, e.g., by appropriately configuring a fractional resampler, by adjusting a numerically-controlled oscillator, and/or, by adjusting sample clock phase. | 12-26-2013 |
20130343491 | MULTI-MODE ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING RECEIVER FOR HIGHLY-SPECTRALLY-EFFICIENT COMMUNICATIONS - A receiver may comprise a sequence estimation circuit and operate in at least two modes. In a first mode, the sequence estimation circuit may process OFDM symbols received on a first number of data-carrying subcarriers to recover a number of mapped symbols per OFDM symbol that is greater than the first number. In a second mode, the sequence estimation circuit may process OFDM symbols received on a second number of data-carrying subcarriers to recover a number of mapped symbols per OFDM symbol that is equal to the second number. The second number may be equal to or different from the first number. While the receiver operates in the first mode, the sequence estimation circuit may be operable to generate candidate vectors and process the candidate vectors using a controlled ISCI model to generate reconstructed physical subcarrier values. | 12-26-2013 |
20130343492 | Controllable Frequency Offset for Inphase and Quadrature (IQ) Imbalance Estimation - Embodiments of user equipment and methods for determining IQ imbalance parameters are described. In some embodiments, a method for determining in-phase (I) and Quadrature (Q) imbalance (IQ imbalance) parameters based on a known signal in a dual-carrier receiver using at least one controllable frequency offset includes receiving a known signal modulated onto a first radio frequency (RF) carrier frequency and a second RF carrier frequency different than the first RF carrier frequency. The known signal is downconverted to a baseband signal for the carriers by conversion from the respective RF carrier frequencies to an intermediate frequency (IF) using a common RF local oscillator (LO) and by further conversion from IF to baseband using carrier specific IF LOs, where a controllable frequency offset is used. Any controllable frequency offset is removed from the baseband signal for the first and second carriers to produce representations of the received signals. | 12-26-2013 |
20130343493 | USING ANTENNA POOLING TO ENHANCE A MIMO RECEIVER AUGMENTED BY RF BEAMFORMING - A system having a multi-layer (multi-stream) multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) receiving system, having a MIMO baseband module and a radio distribution network (RDN) connected to the MIMO receiving system. The RDN has two or more beamformers that are fed by two or more antennas, so that a total number of antennas in the system are greater than the number of branches of the MIMO baseband module. Each of the beamformers combines RF signals coming from the antennas. The system further implements an antenna routing module that swaps antennas between different beamformers according to one or more qualitative indicators derived from the baseband module, thus increasing the probability of grouping antennas that have lower conflicts between best phases of different layers' transmitted signals. The system increases the range of antenna selection beyond the set of antennas available for each beamformer. | 12-26-2013 |
20140003556 | Method and Apparatus for Detecting the Presence of a Signal in a Frequency Band Using Non-Uniform Sampling | 01-02-2014 |
20140016728 | RECEPTION APPARATUS, RECEPTION METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECEPTION SYSTEM - The present technique relates to a reception apparatus, a reception method, a program, and a reception system capable of starting decoding of data in a short time. A reception apparatus according to an aspect of the present technique includes a demodulation unit configured to demodulate a modulated signal used to transmit transmission control information about data and the data to be transmitted, a first decoding unit configured to decode the transmission control information obtained by demodulation performed with the demodulation unit, a storage unit configured to store the data obtained by demodulation performed with the demodulation unit, and a second decoding unit configured to decode the data stored in the storage unit on the basis of the transmission control information decoded by the first decoding unit. The present technique can be applied to a receiver receiving an OFDM signal of DVB-C2. | 01-16-2014 |
20140016729 | SAW-LESS RECEIVER INCLUDING AN IF FREQUENCY TRANSLATED BPF - A SAW-less receiver includes an FEM interface module, an RF to IF receiver section, and a receiver IF to baseband section. The RF to IF receiver section includes a mixing module, a mixed buffer section, and a frequency translated BPF (FTBPF) circuit module. The mixing module converts an inbound RF signal into an in-phase (I) mixed signal and a quadrature (Q) mixed signal. The mixed buffer section filters and buffers the I mixed signal and filter and buffer the Q mixed signal. The FTBPF circuit module frequency translates a baseband filter response to an IF filter response such that the FTBPF circuit module filters undesired signal components of the IF I signal and the IF Q signal to produce an inbound IF signal. The receiver IF to baseband section converts the inbound IF signal into one or more inbound symbol streams. | 01-16-2014 |
20140023165 | OFDM MODULATION SIGNAL DEMODULATOR, RECEIVING APPARATUS, AND RECEIVING AND DISPLAYING APPARATUS - An OFDM modulation signal receiving apparatus by which a user can generally grasp a reception state of an OFDM modulation signal and take measures to improve the reception quality thereof. The OFDM modulation signal receiving apparatus includes: a demodulating part that demodulates an OFDM modulation signal to obtain a demodulation signal value on a modulation coordinate for each sub carrier; an intra-interval total sum value calculating part that sums up, for each frequency distribution interval of the sub carriers, comparison result values obtained by comparing the sub carrier signal value to a predetermined determination value to calculate an intra-interval total sum value of each frequency distribution interval; and a selection storage part that stores a piece of noise level data according to the intra-interval total sum value for each frequency distribution interval. | 01-23-2014 |
20140029701 | FRAME SYNC ACROSS MULTIPLE CHANNELS - Systems, methods, and devices synchronize data streams by hashing received data frames to generate a sequence of hash values, comparing the generated hash value sequence to a hash value sequence received in a control stream, and processing data frames when the hash value sequences match. A source device and multiple receiver devices may synchronize audio data encoded in data frames, applying a hash function to each data frame to generate a first sequence of hash values, transmitting the data frames on a first channel and the first sequence of hash values on a control channel, receiving the data frames and the first sequence of hash values in the receiver devices, applying the hash algorithm to received data frames to generate a second sequence of hash values, comparing the first and second sequences of hash values, and processing data frames when the first and second sequences of hash values match. | 01-30-2014 |
20140029702 | Receiver - The present invention discloses a receiver capable of enhancing accuracy of signal reception. The receiver includes a variable termination resistance unit, coupled to at least one channel, for utilizing at least one termination resistance corresponding to the at least one channel to perform impedance matching, and a signal detection and termination resistance adjustment unit, for detecting at least one external calibration signal corresponding to the at least one channel from at least one external signal generator, and adjusting the at least one termination resistance. | 01-30-2014 |
20140037027 | Methods and Systems for Processing Network Messages in an Accelerated Processing Device - The present method and system enables receiving a radio frequency (RF) signal. The received RF signal is assigned to a single instruction multiple data (SIMD) module in an accelerated processing device (APD) for processing to extract network messages. The extracted network layer messages are further processed by the SIMD module to obtain data transmitted via the RF signal. | 02-06-2014 |
20140037028 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING CODE - Disclosed is an apparatus and method for detecting a code. The code detecting apparatus may include a detector to detect symbol synchronous timing information associated with a PSS code from a first signal received during a predetermined first period, a compensator to extract and buffer the PSS code and the SSS code based on the symbol synchronous timing information detected from a second signal received during a predetermined second period, and compensate for a frequency offset with respect to the buffered PSS code, and a processor to re-detect the symbol synchronous timing information based on the PSS code in which the frequency offset is compensated for, and extract the buffered SSS code using the re-detected symbol synchronous timing information. | 02-06-2014 |
20140037029 | RELAY METHOD AND RELAY DEVICE - Disclosed is a relay method including: receiving, as input, respective reception signals by two receive antennas, the reception signals each including a reception signal resulting from multiplexing respective transmission signals transmitted by two transmission antennas in a first frequency band; performing frequency conversion on the reception signal received by one of the receive antennas so as to obtain a signal of a third frequency band; and performing frequency multiplexing on the signal having the third frequency band and the reception signal received by the other of the receive antennas. | 02-06-2014 |
20140050286 | RECURSION UNIT SCHEDULING - An embodiment of a decoder is disclosed. For this embodiment of the decoder, a first estimation unit and a second estimation unit are for iterative decoding. A scheduler is to receive a mode select signal to provide either an indication of first scheduling information or second scheduling information to the first estimation unit and the second estimation unit responsive to the mode select signal. | 02-20-2014 |
20140056387 | RECEIVING APPARATUS AND RECEIVING METHOD - Provided is a receiving apparatus that includes a receiving unit which receives a trellis-coded modulation signal in which data items modulated by a plurality of trellis-coded modulators have been multiplexed; a data processing unit which arranges the data items multiplexed in the trellis-coded modulation signal received by the receiving unit so that a given number of data items modulated by one of the trellis-coded modulators are arranged consecutively in first order in which the data items modulated by one of the trellis-coded modulators have been modulated as arrangement processing and the arrangement processing is repeated in remaining trellis-coded modulators; a trellis decoding unit which performs trellis decoding of the data items arranged by the data processing unit, thereby producing decoded data items; and a data rearranging unit which rearranges the decoded data items in second order in which the decoded data items have been multiplexed in the trellis-coded modulation signal. | 02-27-2014 |
20140056388 | RECEIVER CIRCUIT - In a receiver circuit, a binary signal is generated based on a signal level of a received signal that has been received via a transmission line from a driver of a transmitter circuit. Then, a first stable state and a second stable state are detected based on a reference signal whose signal level changes in accordance with the received signal. In the first stable state, the received signal is stable at a first signal level. In the second stable state, the received signal is stable at a second signal level. When the first stable state is detected and the received signal is changed from the first signal level into the second signal level, the generated binary signal is retained at a signal level corresponding to the second signal level, until the second stable state is detected. | 02-27-2014 |
20140064413 | WORKER AND ITERATION CONTROL FOR PARALLEL TURBO DECODER - A device such as a worker, window-size and iteration control unit (WWICU) is proposed. The WWICU determines processing, iteration, and window information based on format information indicative of one or more formats to be processed by a decoding process. The processing information may include a number of parallel workers, the iteration information may include a number of half-iterations, and the window information may include a window size to be used in the decoding process. The WWICU then determines time information including a total cycle count based on the processing information, the iteration information, and the window information. In response to determining that the total cycle count is not beyond a threshold value, the WWICU may transmit configuration information including the processing, iteration, and window information to a device, such as a turbo decoding device, configurable to perform the decoding process based on the configuration information. | 03-06-2014 |
20140064414 | Method of Handling Frequency-Domain Interpolation and Related Frequency-Domain Interpolator - A frequency-domain interpolator for estimating a plurality of channels corresponding to a plurality of subcarriers comprises an edge pilot estimation unit, for generating a plurality of pilots according to a plurality of input pilots, a pilot interval ratio and a complexity parameter; a first selection unit, for selecting a plurality of pilot groups from the plurality of pilots according to the pilot interval ratio and the complexity parameter; a second selection unit, for generating a plurality of coefficient groups corresponding to the plurality of channels according to a channel profile and a used pilot interval, wherein each of the plurality of coefficient groups corresponds to a set of the plurality of channels; and a filter unit, for generating the plurality of channels according the plurality of pilot groups, the plurality of coefficient groups, and a relation between the plurality of pilot groups and the plurality of coefficient groups. | 03-06-2014 |
20140064415 | Robust HARQ-ACK Design for MF-HSDPA - When a UE ( | 03-06-2014 |
20140064416 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING DEMODULATION CANDIDATES USING VECTOR CANDIDATE SAMPLING (VCS) - Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to techniques for generating likely demodulation candidates using Vector Candidate Sampling (VCS). VCS is used to generate high likelihood candidates for Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) demodulation that approaches optimal maximum a posteriori (MAP) performance with reasonable complexity. A receive data vector is recorded corresponding to a signal received at a MIMO receiver. A plurality of likely candidates are determined for MIMO demodulation via VCS, based at least on the receive data vector. Determining the likely candidates may include perturbing the receive data vector for each candidate based on a pre-determined perturb vector, and estimating a corresponding transmit data vector based at least on the perturbed receive data vector for the candidate and an estimator matrix, wherein the likely candidate comprises the estimated data vector. | 03-06-2014 |
20140072080 | Physical Layer Frame Format Design for Wideband Wireless Communications Systems - Systems and methods are provided for processing a payload portion of a received signal in a single carrier mode or a multiple carrier mode based on a portion of the received signal. A single carrier signaling portion is received at a first rate, and whether the payload portion of the signal is a single carrier signal or a multiple carrier signal is detected from the received single carrier signaling portion. The payload portion of the received signal is received at the first rate and demodulated in a single carrier mode if the detecting determines that the payload portion of the received signal is a single carrier signal, and the payload portion of the received signal is demodulated in a multiple carrier mode if the detecting determines that the payload portion of the received signal is a multiple carrier signal. | 03-13-2014 |
20140072081 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR USE IN AN INTERLEAVER SUITABLE FOR MULTIPLE OPERATING MODES - A data processing apparatus maps input symbols to be communicated onto a predetermined number of sub-carrier signals of an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed (OFDM) symbol. The data processor includes an interleaver memory which reads-in the predetermined number of data symbols for mapping onto the OFDM sub-carrier signals. The interleaver memory reads-out the data symbols on to the OFDM sub-carriers to effect the mapping, the read-out being in a different order than the read-in, the order being determined from a set of addresses, with the effect that the data symbols are interleaved on to the sub-carrier signals. The set of addresses are generated from an address generator which comprises a linear feedback shift register and a permutation circuit. | 03-13-2014 |
20140072082 | Receiving Circuit, Use, and Method for Receiving an Encoded and Modulated Radio Signal - A receiving circuit, use, and method for receiving an encoded and modulated radio signal is provided. The circuit comprise a demodulator and a digital filter connected downstream of the demodulator for moving averaging. The filter has at least two FIFO registers and subtractors. Whereby for subtracting an output value of the FIFO register from an input value of the FIFO register a subtractor is connected to each FIFO register. Wherein the filter has a weighting unit, which is connected downstream of each FIFO register, and wherein the filter has an integrator, which is connected downstream of the subtractors for integration. | 03-13-2014 |
20140079159 | PHASOR-BASED PULSE DETECTION - A phasor-based pulse detection system includes a first multiplier stage configured to apply a first delayed conjugate multiplication operation to an input signal. The system can also include a second multiplier stage coupled to the first multiplier stage and configured to apply a second delayed conjugate multiplication operation to an output of the first multiplier stage, and an absolute value unit coupled to the second multiplier stage and configured to perform an absolute value operation on an output of the second multiplier stage. The system can further include video filter stage coupled to the absolute value unit and configured to perform a video filtering operation on an output of the absolute value unit. The system can also include a hysteresis detector coupled to the video filter stage, the hysteresis detector configured for detecting a signal in a filtered video signal received from the video filter stage, the detecting including determining a signal start when the filtered video signal exceeds a predetermined detection threshold for a first predetermined number of consecutive samples, and determining a signal end when the filtered video signal falls below a predetermined rejection threshold for a second predetermined number of consecutive samples. | 03-20-2014 |
20140086363 | PULSE WIDTH MODULATION RECEIVER CIRCUITRY - Mechanisms and techniques to evaluate data for a high speed I/O receiver logic. In an embodiment, a receiver circuit shifts a bit into a shift circuit in response to a rising edge of a data signal, where a count is started in response to the bit being subsequently shifted out of the shift circuit. Based on a value of the count, the receiver circuit generates a control signal for preparing physical layer receiver logic to transition to a burst mode of operation. In another embodiment, a receiver circuit includes a frequency divider to operate based on a data signal and a clock signal, wherein, based on operation of the frequency counter, a control signal is generated to indicate a line reset for physical layer receiver logic. The receiver circuit provides a feedback signal, based on the control signal, which is to limit activation of the frequency divider. | 03-27-2014 |
20140086364 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR QUADRATURE CLOCK SIGNAL GENERATION - Apparatus and methods for quadrature clock signal generation are provided. In certain implementations, a quadrature clock signal generator includes a sine-shaping filter and a polyphase filter. The sine-shaping filter can receive an input clock signal such as a square or rectangular wave and can filter the input clock signal to generate a sinusoidal clock signal. Additionally, the polyphase filter can use the sinusoidal clock signal to generate in-phase (I) and quadrature-phase (Q) clock signals, which can have a phase difference of about ninety degrees. In certain configurations, the in-phase and quadrature-phase clock signals generated by the polyphase filter can be buffered by a buffer circuit to generate in-phase and quadrature-phase sinusoidal reference clock signals suitable for use in a clock and data recover (CDR) system. | 03-27-2014 |
20140086365 | RADIO FREQUENCY DIGITAL RECEIVER SYSTEM AND METHOD - A radio frequency digital receiver system and method is described in which the radio frequency digital receiver system uses a discrete Fourier transform where detection decisions are made based on a spectral estimate. The spectral estimate is formed from an output of the, in which the spectral estimate is improved by enabling spatially variant apodization (SVA) such that the detection ability of the RF digital receiver is improved. In a further embodiment, the SVA is optimised for use with Digital Signal Processing. | 03-27-2014 |
20140086366 | RECEIVING APPARATUS AND RECEIVING METHOD - A transmitting apparatus and method transmits different modulated signals from a plurality of antennas, and employs a configuration that includes a modulation section that obtains a modulated signal by performing signal point mapping of transmit bits using a signal point arrangement that is divided into a plurality of signal point sets on the IQ plane, whereby the minimum distance between signal points within a signal point set is smaller than the minimum signal point distance between signal point sets; and an antenna that transmits a modulated signal obtained by the modulation section. A signal point generating apparatus generates a first and second symbols to be transmitted by first and second antennas, respectively. | 03-27-2014 |
20140093015 | Circuits and Methods for Time-Average Frequency Based Clock Data Recovery - A clock data recovery circuit includes a binary phase detector configured to receive an incoming data signal and a recovered clock, and output a phase offset signal and recovered data; a digital loop control circuit configured to receive the phase offset signal and output a control signal; and a digital frequency generator configured to receive the control signal and output the recovered clock. A method of clock recovery includes generating a digital phase offset signal from incoming data and feedback clock signals; generating a clock frequency control signal from the phase offset signal; generating a recovered clock in response to the control signal; slowing down the recovered clock when the digital phase offset signal has a first binary state; speeding up the recovered clock when the digital phase offset signal has a second binary state; and holding the recovered clock when the digital phase offset signal has a third binary state. | 04-03-2014 |
20140093016 | RECTIFICATION CIRCUIT AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A rectification circuit includes a first field-effect transistor and a bias voltage generation circuit. The field-effect transistor includes a first gate terminal, a first source terminal, a first source region having a first p-type diffusion layer and connected to the first source terminal, a first drain terminal, and a first drain region having a first n-type diffusion layer and connected to the first drain terminal. The bias voltage generation circuit is configured to apply a DC voltage between the first gate terminal and the first drain terminal. | 04-03-2014 |
20140098909 | Multi-Gigabit Millimeter Wave Receiver System And Demodulator System - A receiver system and a demodulator system are configured to receive and demodulate, respectively, multi-gigabit millimeter wave signals being wirelessly transmitted in the unlicensed wireless band near 60 GHz. | 04-10-2014 |
20140105332 | TIMING SYNCHRONIZATION FOR RECEPTION OF HIGHLY-SPECTRALLY-EFFICIENT COMMUNICATIONS - Methods and systems are provided for timing synchronization for reception of highly-spectrally efficient communications. An example method may include, filtering, in a receiver, a received inter-symbol correlated (ISC) signal to generate a filtered ISC signal. The method may further include locking to a timing pilot signal of the filtered ISC signal. The timing pilot signal may include a sub-harmonic frequency of a clock signal associated with the received ISC signal. A timing pilot estimate signal of the timing pilot signal may be generated. The timing pilot estimate signal may be cancelled from the filtered partial response signal to generate an output ISC signal. The timing pilot signal includes a signal at ±(1/n*Fbaud), where n is an integer greater than 2, and Fbaud is a symbol rate of the clock signal. The clock signal may be recovered from the filtered ISC signal. | 04-17-2014 |
20140112417 | RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD - A radio communication device including: a processor configured to store each of quantization values of codeword to a memory in accordance with a transmission format, so as to fit each of the quantization values within a specified number of areas which are allocated in the memory, each of the areas having a specified size, and so as to satisfy at least one of a first condition and a second condition, the first condition indicating that the specified number is fewer than the maximum first bit number corresponding to a first transmission format with which a first bit number of the codeword is maximum among the predetermined transmission formats, and the second condition indicating that the specified size is fewer than the maximum second bit number corresponding to a second transmission format with which a second bit number of each of the quantization values is maximum among the predetermined transmission formats. | 04-24-2014 |
20140112418 | RECEIVER USING IMPEDANCE SHAPING - A receiver includes a mixer configured to convert a radio frequency (RF) signal into a baseband, an impedance shaping unit configured to shape a magnitude of load impedance seen in an output terminal of the mixer in a frequency band of an interference signal converted into the baseband so as to reduce the magnitude of the load impedance, and a trans-impedance amplifier configured to amplify the signal converted into the baseband. | 04-24-2014 |
20140112419 | Circuit, Use, and Method for Controlling a Receiver Circuit - A circuit, use, and method for controlling a receiver circuit is provided, wherein a complex baseband signal is generated from a received signal, a phase difference between a phase of the complex baseband signal and a phase precalculated from previous sampled values is determined, the phase difference is compared with a first threshold, a number is determined by counting the exceedances of the first threshold by the phase difference, a number of the counted exceedances is compared with a second threshold, and the receiver circuit is turned off if the number of counted exceedances exceeds the second threshold within a time period. | 04-24-2014 |
20140119477 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR JOINT PACKET DETECTION AND RADIO FREQUENCY (RF) PULSE SYNCHRONIZATION IN A SUPER-REGENERATIVE RECEIVER (SRR) - A method of increasing a performance of a super-regenerative receiver (SRR), includes initializing a quench rate to be greater than or equal to 2 based on a parameter, and comparing a decision metric to a lower threshold value, the decision metric established from a first receiver operating characteristic (ROC). The method further includes estimating a phase offset, using an over-quench method, and aligning quench signals at the quench rate of 1, and comparing the decision metric to a higher threshold value to minimize a false alarm probability. The method further includes confirming packet detection and the phase offset, using the over-quench method. | 05-01-2014 |
20140126674 | PARALLEL BIT INTERLEAVER - A bit interleaving method involves applying a bit permutation process to a QC LDPC codeword made up of N cyclic blocks each including Q bits, and dividing the codeword, after the bit permutation process, into a plurality of constellation words each imade up of M bits, the codeword being divided into N/M sections, each constellation word being associated with one of the N/M sections, and the bit permutation process being performed such that each of the constellation words includes one bit from each of M different cyclic blocks associated with a given section. | 05-08-2014 |
20140133605 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SPLITTING RECEIVED SIGNAL - A method and apparatus for splitting signals received via a plurality of antennas. A signal split apparatus of the present disclosure includes a first antenna which receives a first input signal, a second antenna which receives a second input signal, a first phase shifter which shifts phase by applying a first modulation frequency to the first input signal, a second phase shifter which shifts phase by applying a second modulation frequency to the second input signal, a summer which sums the phase-shifted first and second input signals, and an analog-digital converter which converts the summed signal to a digital signal, wherein the first and second modulation frequencies are different from each other. The signal split apparatus and method of the present disclosure is capable of splitting signals efficiently. | 05-15-2014 |
20140133606 | RECEIVING DEVICE AND GAIN CONTROL METHOD - A receiving device performs log noise amplification on radio waves (desired waves and interfering waves), received with an antenna, to generate a received signal, converts the received signal into an intermediate frequency signal, converts the intermediate signal into a digital signal, filters out and demodulates a frequency band of a specific channel from the digital signal. Herein, a first received signal strength (RSSI 1) is detected from the digital signal, while a second received signal strength (RSSI 2) is detected from the digital signal of the specific channel. The intermediate frequency signal is amplified with a first gain which is calculated by way of the comparative judgment on the first receive signal strength and the allowable threshold. The digital signal of the specific channel is amplified with a second gain which is calculated by way of the comparative judgment on the level difference between the first received signal strength and the second received signal strength and the allowable threshold. When the level difference between the first received signal strength and the second received signal strength is smaller than the allowable threshold, the second gain is set to a multiplying factor 1 via multiplication scaling upon determining the nonexistence of interfering waves. Thus, it is possible to reliably receive desired waves, close to the minimum sensitivity, in environments undergoing strong interfering waves, thus demodulating desired waves with an appropriate level. | 05-15-2014 |
20140140446 | Method and System for Corrupt Symbol Handling for Providing High Reliability Sequences - For corrupt symbol handling for providing high reliability sequences, an inter-symbol correlated (ISC) signal is received. During sequence estimation when demodulating the received ISC signal, partial response samples in the ISC may be processed utilizing an erasure mechanism. The partial response samples are spread (e.g. interleaved) over time during modulation by a modulator. A determination is made as to whether to utilize self erasure or external erasure to process the spread partial response samples. The determination may be based on whether or not events of low SNR for corresponding ones of the partial response samples are identified. The external erasure may be utilized for processing the corresponding ones of the partial response samples when the events of low SNR are identified and the self erasure is utilized when the events of low SNR are not identifiable. Erasure results maybe fed back to the modulator. | 05-22-2014 |
20140140447 | Signal Selection - Repeatedly: pre-processing a received signal using feedback to obtain a pre-processed signal, the feedback being based on a previous signal, the previous signal being received prior to the received signal; evaluating at least one of a quality of a demodulated signal and a quality of a decoded signal, the demodulated signal being obtained from the pre-processed signal by demodulating, the decoded signal being obtained by decoding the demodulated signal; deciding if the respective at least one of the quality of the demodulated signal and the quality of the decoded signal is sufficient; selecting neither or one of the demodulated signal and the decoded signal as a selected signal based on the at least one of the quality of the demodulated signal and the quality of the decoded signal for which it is decided whether or not the quality is sufficient; and updating the feedback based on the selected signal. | 05-22-2014 |
20140146924 | Cooperative Subspace Demultiplexing in Content Delivery Networks - A source node selects a plurality of original data components to transfer to at least one destination node. A plurality of transmitting nodes cooperatively encodes the original data components to generate a plurality of subspace coded components and a corresponding code matrix. Each of the transmitting nodes transmits a subset of the plurality of subspace coded components and corresponding code matrix, wherein at least one of the transmitting nodes has a rank that is insufficient for decoding the plurality of subspace coded components. A destination node may employ a plurality of receiving nodes to cooperatively receive a plurality of subspace coded components and their corresponding code vectors, wherein the rank of at least one of the receiving nodes is insufficient for decoding the subspace coded components. The destination node builds up the dimension of the subspace spanned by code vectors it collects from the receiving nodes and then decodes the subspace coded components. | 05-29-2014 |
20140153674 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR A DISTRIBUTED RADIO COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - The present disclosure is directed to methods and systems for providing a distributed radio communications network. Each of a first gateway and a second gateway may separately receive modulated signals comprising at least a portion of data from a first node of a plurality of geographically-dispersed nodes. The modulated signals may be wirelessly transmitted as radio frequency (RF) signals from the first node, the data gathered or generated by the first node at a first location. A server may receive the modulated signals from the first gateway and the second gateway. As configured by software-defined radio (SDR) software, the server may perform processing of the separately received modulated signals to recover the data. The processing may include demodulation of the modulated signals. | 06-05-2014 |
20140153675 | Estimation of a Time, Phase and Frequency Shift of an OQAM Multicarrier Signal - A method is provided for receiving an OQAM multi-carrier signal, which implements a step of estimating, in the time domain, at least one time, phase, and/or frequency shift of the multi-carrier signal. The estimation step implements at least one estimator in order to estimate the time shift, referred to as a time estimator, and/or at least one estimator for estimating the phase shift, referred to as a phase estimator, and/or at least one estimator for estimating the frequency shift, referred to as a frequency estimator. The multi-carrier signal includes at least one preamble, and at least one of the estimators takes into account coefficients of a prototype filter used in transmission in order to shape at least one preamble inserted into the multi-carrier signal. | 06-05-2014 |
20140161212 | APPARATUS FOR DECODING GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEMS NAVIGATION DATA AND ASSOCIATED METHOD - An apparatus for decoding GNSS navigation data to generate at least a target string or subframe includes a demodulator and a processing unit. The demodulator is utilized for demodulating a received signal to generate at least a plurality of strings or subframes having a same string index or subframe index. The processing unit is coupled to the demodulator, and is utilized for determining the target string or subframe according to the plurality of strings or subframes. | 06-12-2014 |
20140169504 | DIGITAL DOWN CONVERTER CIRCUIT - A digital down converter is disclosed. The digital down converter includes an input for receiving a sampled signal having a frequency band of interest, sampled at a first sampling rate, a commutator structure for distributing a set of real sampled signals for polyphase filtering, a complex band pass polyphase filter associated with the distributed signals, for generating in phase and quadrature filtered components, a baseband notch filter, and a frequency translator for generating in phase and quadrature components of the frequency band of interest at baseband. | 06-19-2014 |
20140169505 | SPACE-TIME/SPACE-FREQUENCY CODING FOR MULTI-SITE AND MULTI-BEAM TRANSMISSION - The present invention relates to space-time or space-frequency coding in cellular systems. The same data is transmitted from different antennas with different coverage areas, corresponding to different cells. The different data streams have different parts of the space-time block codes applied. A mobile terminal can combine the different parts of the space-time block codes in different received signals. This provides better performance than the known techniques for single frequency networks. The invention can also be applied to antennas with different coverage areas from the same site, and different beams formed with antenna arrays. | 06-19-2014 |
20140177761 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING AN ENHANCED ZERO-IF RECEIVER ARCHITECTURE FOR A WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - An approach includes injecting a plurality of equal amplitude tones across a frequency band. The approach also includes determining frequency response based on the injected tones, determining an imbalance parameter associated with a quadrature down-converter based on the determined frequency response; determining one or more parameters for wideband quadrature compensation based on the determined frequency response, and compensating an input signal based on the determined imbalance parameter and the determined one or more parameters for the wideband quadrature compensation. | 06-26-2014 |
20140177762 | DATA-MODULATED PILOTS FOR PHASE AND GAIN DETECTORS - Methods, systems, and devices are described for mitigating an unwanted increase in a coding rate of a wireless communication signal. A plurality of symbols including a transmitted codeword is received. The plurality of symbols including a first group of data symbols with a first modulation and coding scheme and a second group of data modulated pilot symbols with a second modulation and coding scheme. Applicable demodulation schemes are adaptively switched for each group of the plurality of symbols. The second group of data modulated pilot symbols are used in lieu of pilot symbols. The second modulation and coding scheme is a more reliable modulation and coding scheme than the first modulation and coding scheme. | 06-26-2014 |
20140177763 | WIRELESS RECEIVING APPARATUS AND PROGRAM - A data signal component output from a reference signal demultiplexer and channel state information obtained by using DM-RS output from a channel estimating unit are input into a modulo estimating unit. In a channel compensator, a first provisional decision value sequence is calculated on the basis of the channel state information. The first provisional decision value sequence is input into a modulo calculator, and modulo calculations are performed on the first provisional decision value sequence to obtain a second provisional decision value sequence. A decision-feedback channel estimating section finds a first channel estimation value based on the first provisional decision value sequence and a second channel estimation value based on the second provisional decision value sequence. A modulo decision section decides whether or not a perturbation term has been added to a code, and uses a decision result for the selection of a demodulation method. | 06-26-2014 |
20140185711 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR FREQUENCY-SELECTIVE AGC - A wideband phase detector configured to receive an intermediate frequency (IF) signal having a plurality of information signals at predetermined carrier frequencies and to generate a carrier indication signal used to control one or more attenuators to equalize the signal levels of the information signals thereby enabling a multichannel receiver to process the two information signals in a parallel fashion using a common analog front-end and analog to digital conversion circuit. The circuit may include an attenuation controller configured to provide control signals to the one or more attenuators to attenuate one or more corresponding information signals based on an average of the carrier indication signal. | 07-03-2014 |
20140185712 | DEMODULATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS AND BASEBAND CHIP IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present disclosure provides a demodulation method and apparatus, a decoding method and apparatus and a baseband chip in a communication system. The decoding method includes: when demodulated data in a buffer space is enough to foam a second predetermined number of CB data, reading the demodulated data to form the second predetermined number of CB data from the buffer space; decoding the second predetermined number of CB data. The buffer space includes a plurality of buffer regions corresponding to different CWs. Each of buffer regions store the demodulated data belonging to the CW, reading the demodulated data to form the second predetermined number of CB data in the buffer space includes reading the demodulated data belonging to the CW in the buffer region corresponding to the CW. The present disclosure saves memory space of the baseband chip. | 07-03-2014 |
20140185713 | OFDM RECEIVER AND OFDM COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - There is provided an OFDM receiver including, a wireless communications unit receiving a transmission signal including wireless data information and pilot information, a signal dividing unit dividing the transmission signal into a plurality of division signals and obtaining frequency offsets for the respective division signals based on the pilot information included in the transmission signal, and a demodulating unit demodulating the transmission signal based on the division signals and the frequency offsets. | 07-03-2014 |
20140185714 | RADIO COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A radio communication apparatus including: an antenna configured to receive a radio frame including first symbols to which reference signals are mapped and second symbols to which data is mapped, and a processor configured to determine a number of third symbols, the third symbols being used for demodulating each of the second symbols, and to select, for each of the second symbols, the third symbols from among the first symbols in accordance with the number. | 07-03-2014 |
20140185715 | Systems and Methods for Performing Demodulation and Modulation on Software Defined Radios - A system and method are provided for extracting and demodulating one or more channels in a radio signal. The method includes receiving a first radio signal using a radio frequency front end, translating a first band of frequencies of the first radio signal to a second band of frequencies to generate a second radio signal, digitizing the second radio signal to generate a digital signal, extracting one or more additional band of frequencies of the digital signal, each additional band of frequencies corresponding to a channel, and demodulating one or more channels to generate a respective demodulated signal. In another aspect, a system and method are provided for modulating and combining one or more channels into a radio signal. | 07-03-2014 |
20140192935 | RECEIVER WITH DUAL CLOCK RECOVERY CIRCUITS - A receiver derives the desired data sampling clock phase by averaging the phase information of transitions before and after a data eye. The average of the phase information reduces data clock phase error due to variations in the phases of transitions in received data signals depending on the polarity and positions of the transitions. | 07-10-2014 |
20140198882 | SYSTEMS, APPARATUS, AND METHODS FOR RECEIVING PAGING MESSAGES BY CREATING FAT PATHS IN FAST FADING SCENARIOS - This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus for receiving paging messages in fast fading scenarios. In one aspect, a method of demodulating a paging message during an assigned time slot by a wireless communications apparatus operating in an idle mode is provided. The method includes determining, in anticipation of the assigned time slot, an expected time position corresponding to a path of a pilot signal having a greater signal strength relative to other pilot signals. The method further includes assigning a first demodulation element to demodulate the pilot signal with reference to the expected time position and assigning a second demodulation element to demodulate the pilot signal with reference to a time offset from the expected time position. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described. | 07-17-2014 |
20140211888 | MIPI SIGNAL RECEIVING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A signal receiving apparatus and method adapted for receiving a MIPI signal are disclosed. The signal receiving apparatus includes a signal receiver, a selector, a decoding apparatus and a byte boundary searcher. The signal receiver receives a clock signal, and obtains an input data stream according to the clock signal. The selector outputs the input data stream to a first or second output terminal according to a decoding error signal. The byte boundary searcher operates a boundary searching operation on the input data stream for generating a byte tuning information, wherein, the signal receiver adjusts the clock according to the byte tuning information for adjusting the input data stream. | 07-31-2014 |
20140211889 | ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEX (OFDM) RECEIVER WITH PHASE NOISE MITIGATION AND REDUCED LATENCY - A system according to one embodiment includes a demodulator configured to receive an orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) modulated signal comprising a current symbol and a sequence of previous symbols, each of the symbols comprising one or more pilot sub-carriers and one or more data sub-carriers; a phase angle computation circuit coupled to the demodulator, the phase angle computation circuit configured to compute a first mean, the first mean computed from the phase angle of one or more of the pilot sub-carriers of a predetermined number of the previous symbols; a predictive filter circuit coupled to the phase angle computation circuit, the predictive filter circuit configured to compute a second mean, the second mean estimating the phase angle of one or more sub-carriers of the current symbol, the estimation based on the first mean; and a phase noise cancelling circuit coupled to the predictive filter circuit, the phase noise cancelling circuit configured to correct the phase of one or more sub-carriers of the current symbol based on the second mean. | 07-31-2014 |
20140211890 | RADIO FREQUENCY RECEIVER SYSTEM FOR WIDEBAND SIGNAL PROCESSING - Wireless communication is ubiquitous today and deployments are growing rapidly leading to increased interference, increasing conflicts, etc. As a result monitoring the wireless environment is increasingly important for regulators, service providers, Government agencies, enterprises etc. Such monitoring should be flexible in terms of the networks being monitored within the wireless environment but should also provide real-time monitoring to detect unauthorized transmitters, provide dynamic network management, etc. Accordingly, based upon embodiments of the invention, a broadband, real-time signal analyzer (RTSA) circuit that allows for the deployment of RTSA devices in a distributed environment wherein determination of policy breaches, network performance, regulatory compliance, etc. are locally determined and exploited directly in network management or communicated to the central server and network administrators for subsequent action. Beneficially the RTSA exploits a broadband RF front end in conjunction with parallel direct down conversion and FFT techniques. | 07-31-2014 |
20140219398 | JOINT DETECTOR/ DECODER DEVICES AND JOINT DETECTION/ DECODING METHODS - According to various embodiments, a joint detection/decoder device may be provided. The detector and decoder device may include: an input circuit configured to receive an input signal; a survivor splitting circuit configured to produce a plurality of survivors of a next instance based on at least one survivor of a previous instance and based on the input signal; and a survivor discarding circuit configured to discard survivors based on a set of predetermined criteria; wherein each survivor has an associated bit sequence. | 08-07-2014 |
20140219399 | Post Conversion Mixing - An input signal having at least one modulated signal is captured. At least four analog sample streams are generated from the input signal. Each analog sample stream is generated by sampling the input signal at a frequency substantially equal to the frequency at which each other analog sample stream is generated and at a phase separate from that at which each other analog sample stream is generated. For each analog sample stream, multiple analog samples of the analog sample stream are combined to create a bandwidth adjusted signal. The bandwidth adjusted signals are jointly representative of the input signal. | 08-07-2014 |
20140219400 | Software Defined Radio Technique - A modulated signal is demodulated to obtain a modulation signal. The modulated signal is contained within an input signal. A periodic time segment sequence is defined having a plurality of ordered time segments. Signal values are acquired, from the input signal, during each ordered time segment. Signal values acquired during each ordered time segment are combined with signal values acquired during the same ordered time segment over multiple periods of the periodic time segment sequence. The modulated signal is demodulated by executing mathematical steps on the combined signal values to obtain the modulation signal. | 08-07-2014 |
20140233679 | Rceiver with Reduced Wake-up Time - An auxiliary reduced power analog-to-digital converter (ADC) is provided for use during sleep periods of a receiver. The auxiliary ADC has a reduced dynamic range but sufficient accuracy to allow demodulation of signaling information contained in an input signal and to update control parameters used for synchronization and channel estimation. As such, a main higher power, higher dynamic range ADC can be turned off during sleep periods, reducing receiver power consumption. The main ADC is turned on at the end of a sleep period, and the receiver can be ready for receiving data immediately using the main ADC because the control parameters are maintained up to date during the sleep period using the auxiliary ADC. | 08-21-2014 |
20140233680 | MAP DECODER HAVING LOW LATENCY AND OPERATION METHOD OF THE SAME - Provided is a maximum a posteriori (MAP) decoder having a low latency and an operation method of the MAP decoder, including a branch metric calculation block to calculate a branch metric based on a received signal, a processor control block to demultiplex a received signal in a certain trellis section, an Extrinsec vector, and the calculated branch metric value, and a processor to calculate a path metric entering each state node in a certain trellis section, compensate for the calculated path metric, and calculate a state metric to be applied to a next trellis section based on the compensated path metric. | 08-21-2014 |
20140233681 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INTERLEAVING AND DEINTERLEAVING DATA - A data processing apparatus is arranged to map input data symbols to be communicated onto a predetermined number of sub-carrier signals of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed OFDM symbols. The predetermined number of sub-carrier signals is determined in accordance with one of a plurality of operating modes and the input data symbols are divided into first sets of input data symbols and second sets of input data symbols. | 08-21-2014 |
20140233682 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A wireless communication apparatus receiving a signal transmitted from multiple transmission antennas by multiple reception antennas, includes a rotational component removal unit to remove rotational components from a channel matrix representing a characteristic of a transmission path between the multiple transmission antennas and reception antennas, the channel matrix being generated based on the reception signal; multiple signal separation units including at least a signal separation unit to use a first signal separation algorithm for a demodulation process of the reception signal, and a signal separation unit to use a second signal separation algorithm for the demodulation process of the reception signal; and a control unit to execute control for determining one of the multiple signal separation units to be used for the demodulation process of the reception signal, based on a predetermined component of the channel matrix having the rotational components removed. | 08-21-2014 |
20140241468 | Radio to Analog-to-Digital Sample Rate Decoupled from Digital Subsystem - A multichannel radio receiver may include a radio frequency (RF) subsystem and a digital subsystem. The RF subsystem may be configured to provide analog information associated with a radio band to an analog to digital converter (ADC). The ADC samples the analog input and sends digital output to the digital subsystem. The digital subsystem may be configured with one or more channelizers and one or more decoders. A channelizer within the digital subsystem may filter and re-sample the digital output to result in a channel plan having a desired bandwidth and a desired sample rate. The sample rate may be selected for compatibility with a decoder. The decoder may have design specifications based in part on a modulation scheme to be decoded. The design specifications may indicate the desired sample rate to be provided by the channelizer. | 08-28-2014 |
20140241469 | Radio to Support Channel Plans of Arbitrary Width and/or Spacing - A multichannel radio receiver may include a radio frequency (RF) subsystem and a digital subsystem. The digital subsystem may be configured to use an analog to digital converter (ADC) to sample input. A channelizer bank within the digital subsystem may include a plurality of channelizers. Each channelizer may receive and translate input into a plurality of channels, the channels having widths that are non-uniform and/or spacing (e.g., spacing center-to-center of adjacent channels) that is not regular. The translation may include re-sampling channels at a rate associated with a modulation scheme. A decoder bank may include a plurality of decoders operating in parallel, each to receive input from a channelizer and each associated with a particular modulation scheme. Thus, the multichannel radio may simultaneously receive on a plurality of channels of arbitrary location, arbitrary spacing and/or arbitrary bandwidth, wherein each channel is associated with one of a plurality of modulation schemes. | 08-28-2014 |
20140241470 | RECEIVER APPARATUS, RECEPTION METHOD, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A receiver apparatus includes a first frequency response estimator configured to calculate a first frequency response estimation value using a reference signal, a duration extractor configured to determine an estimation duration by extracting at least one duration from among a plurality of duration candidates into which a predetermined maximum delay time is divided, and a second frequency response estimator configured to calculate a second frequency response estimation value as a frequency response estimation value for demodulation using the first frequency response and the estimation duration. The receiver apparatus thus performs high-precision channel estimation even if a variety of PDPs occur with time. | 08-28-2014 |
20140247908 | BI-DIRECTIONAL RING-BUS ARCHITECTURE FOR CORDIC-BASED MATRIX INVERSION - A method and a system is provided for Coordinate Rotation Digital Computer (CORDIC) based matrix inversion of input digital signal streams from multiple antennas using an bi-directional ring-bus architecture. The bi-directional ring bus includes a first ring bus having signals flow in a clockwise direction, and a second ring bus having signals flow in a counter-clockwise direction. An I/O controller is coupled to the first and the second ring bus, respectively. A plurality of processing elements (PEs), where each of the plurality of PEs is coupled to the first and the second ring bus, respectively, wherein each of the plurality of PEs includes at least one CORDIC core for performing CORDIC iterations on the plurality of input digital stream signals to produce inversed matrix signals. | 09-04-2014 |
20140247909 | Method and Device for Decoding a Transport Block of a Communication Signal - The present invention relates to a device and method of decoding code blocks of a transport block of a communication signal using a decoder. The method comprises making an assumption about how many decoder iterations should be used for different code blocks of the code blocks of the transport block, wherein the assumption is made based on a study of code block soft-bits. The method also comprises decoding the transport block using different numbers of decoder iterations for the different code blocks, based on the made assumption about how many decoder iterations should be used for the different code blocks. | 09-04-2014 |
20140254724 | DEMODULATING A DATA PACKET BASED ON A DETECTED SYNC WORD - In a particular embodiment, a method includes receiving a first portion of a sync field of a packet at a receiver. The sync field includes the first portion and a second portion. The packet includes the sync field and a payload field. The method includes detecting a sync word associated with the packet. The sync word is detected based on the first portion of the sync field and prior to receiving the second portion of the sync field. The method initiates a demodulation stage of the receiver prior to receiving an initial bit of the payload field. Initiating the demodulation stage prior to receipt of the initial bit of the payload field enables a demodulator to perform initial demodulation activity prior to demodulation of the payload field. Demodulation continues if, after the second portion is received, the entire received sync field matches the detected sync word. | 09-11-2014 |
20140254725 | Parameter Estimation in VAMOUS Receivers - A desired signal and interfering signal are transmitted in the same timeslot and on the same frequency using an Adaptive Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (AQPSK) modulated carrier. When the Sub-Channel Power Imbalance Ratio (SCPIR) for the AQPSK modulated carrier is large and favors the interfering signal, the interfering signal is demodulated first to obtain demodulated soft bits. The demodulated soft bits corresponding to the interfering signal are then used to estimate receiver control parameters, such as Doppler shift, frequency offset, timing error, gain, etc. Using the demodulated soft bits corresponding to the interfering signal improves the accuracy of the receiver control parameters when the SCPIR is large, and results in better overall performance of the receiver. | 09-11-2014 |
20140254726 | ANTENNA SWITCHING APPARATUS BASED ON SPATIAL MODULATION - An antenna switching apparatus based on spatial modulation includes a plurality of antennas; a control signal generator configured to generate a plurality of switching control signals; and a plurality of switches configured to switch on to apply a transmission signal to the respective antennas according to the respective switching control signals. Further, the antenna switching apparatus includes a delay analyzer configured to receive the transmission signal output from each of the plurality of switches to calculate delay information for synchronizing the switching control signals applied to the respective switches; and a delay adjuster configured to synchronize the switching control signals to apply the synchronized switching control signals to the respective switches according to the calculated delay information. | 09-11-2014 |
20140254727 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LATTICE REDUCTION WITH REDUCED COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY - Provided is a method and apparatus for lattice reduction with reduced computational complexity. The apparatus and method include calculating an R matrix using sorted QR decomposition, and conducting an R-value test using an R-value based on diagonal elements of the R matrix and a threshold value. The R matrix is an upper triangular matrix. The apparatus and method further execute a loop comprising a size reduction and a conditional update of a basis vector corresponding to a column element of the R matrix in response to the R-value being greater than or equal to the threshold value. The apparatus and method conduct another R-value test based on the R matrix comprising the updated basis vector in response to the basis vector being updated. | 09-11-2014 |
20140270006 | ENHANCED LOW POWER ACTIVE RADIO RECEPTION - A method and system for offline processing alert messages (AR) on a digital radio broadcast receiver is described. A digital radio broadcast signal is received at the digital radio broadcast receiver. AR receivers will constantly look for AR alerts at a periodic interval by monitoring the station information service (SIS) on Primary IBOC Data Service (PIDS) channel to maximize the battery life at the same time achieving a reasonable latency in receiving AR alerts. | 09-18-2014 |
20140270007 | NOISE-BASED GAIN ADJUSTMENT AND AMPLITUDE ESTIMATION SYSTEM - Methods and systems for amplitude estimation and gain adjustment using noise as a reference are described. An example receiver can include an antenna and a front end amplifier coupled to the antenna. The receiver can also include a detector circuit coupled to the front end amplifier. The receiver can be configured to determine a power of a received signal at the antenna based on a gain of the receiver. The gain of the receiver can be determined based on a noise figure of the front end amplifier and a noise amplitude. | 09-18-2014 |
20140270008 | WIRELESS AUDIO RECEIVER SYSTEM AND METHOD - A wireless audio receiver system and method is provided that is capable of receiving one or more radio frequency (RF) signals containing audio signals modulated by analog and/or digital modulation schemes, operating in full diversity mode or switched diversity mode, demodulating the RF signals, and outputting analog audio signals and a combined digital audio signal. The system and method switches multiple diversity antennas to route received RF signals to respective RF signal processing paths. Digitized passband modulated signals are demodulated to generate analog audio signals, and a combined digital audio signal with one or multiple channels may also be generated. The system and method are capable of demodulating signals modulated using a wide variety of modulation schemes. Reconfigurable computing components are utilized to demodulate digitized passband modulated signals and generate the analog audio signals and combined digital audio signal. | 09-18-2014 |
20140270009 | TURBO DECODING TECHNIQUES - Techniques are disclosed for turbo decoding orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols. Techniques for combined turbo decoding and equalization are disclosed. The disclosed techniques can be implemented in receivers that receive wired or wireless OFDM signals and produce data and control bits by decoding the received signals. | 09-18-2014 |
20140270010 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SOFT-DECISION DETECTION IN 2X2 MIMO SYSTEM - A method for detecting soft-decisions in a 2×2 MIMO system includes detecting all candidate symbol vector sets S in which there exist all values of a real part and an imaginary part, and calculating a log-likelihood ratio (LLR) with respect to the candidate symbol vector sets S from | 09-18-2014 |
20140270011 | PSEUDORANDOM SEQUENCE GENERATION FOR OFDM CELLULAR SYSTEMS - In one embodiment, a transmitter includes a binary sequence generator unit configured to provide a sequence of reference signal bits, wherein the sequence is an inseparable function of a cell identification parameter, a cyclic prefix mode corresponding to the transmitter and one or more time indices of the sequence. The transmitter also include a mapping unit that transforms the sequence of reference signal bits into a complex reference signal, and a transmit unit configured to transmit the complex reference signal. In another embodiment, a receiver includes a receive unit configured to receive a complex reference signal and a reference signal decoder unit configured to detect a sequence of reference signal bits from the complex reference signal, wherein the sequence is an inseparable function of a cell identification parameter, a cyclic prefix mode corresponding to a transmitter and one or more time indices of the sequence. | 09-18-2014 |
20140286458 | RECEIVING APPARATUS AND RECEIVING METHOD - An RF-LSI receives a first signal transmitted with a first system frequency and a second signal transmitted with a second system frequency. In the RF-LSI | 09-25-2014 |
20140286459 | MULTI-MODE ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING RECEIVER FOR HIGHLY-SPECTRALLY-EFFICIENT COMMUNICATIONS - A receiver may comprise a sequence estimation circuit and operate in at least two modes. In a first mode, the sequence estimation circuit may process OFDM symbols received on a first number of data-carrying subcarriers to recover a number of mapped symbols per OFDM symbol that is greater than the first number. In a second mode, the sequence estimation circuit may process OFDM symbols received on a second number of data-carrying subcarriers to recover a number of mapped symbols per OFDM symbol that is equal to the second number. The second number may be equal to or different from the first number. While the receiver operates in the first mode, the sequence estimation circuit may be operable to generate candidate vectors and process the candidate vectors using a controlled ISCI model to generate reconstructed physical subcarrier values. | 09-25-2014 |
20140286460 | SYMBOL DETECTION FOR ALLEVIATING INTER-SYMBOL INTERFERENCE - A receiver is configured to perform symbol detection based on a total frequency domain received signal that comprises contribution from a block of time domain symbols. The receiver is configured to divide the block into plural sub-blocks, and for each sub-block to jointly detect the symbols of the sub-block while treating symbols of the block which are outside of the sub-block as noise. | 09-25-2014 |
20140286461 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION METHOD THAT CAN IMPROVE FREQUENCY USE EFFICIENCY - A communication device receives a reception signal including at least a first reception signal and a second reception signal, where the first reception signal is a signal to be transmitted using a first set of subcarriers and the second reception signal is a signal to be transmitted using a second set of subcarriers which overlaps with at least one end of the first set of subcarriers in a time frame. The communication device also demodulates information indicating data included in the first reception signal after reducing the second reception signal transmitted by using one or more overlapping subcarriers of the second set of subcarriers from the reception signal. | 09-25-2014 |
20140294123 | CHANNEL ESTIMATION IN OFDM TRANSMISSION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method is provided for estimating the channel in OFDM transmission with inter-carrier interference (ICI). A channel in a data subcarrier in a subchannel shared between pilot subcarriers and data subcarriers can be estimated by performing interpolation based on estimated channels in pilot subcarriers in the same OFDM symbol as the subcarrier, such as through spline interpolation. A second estimate of the channel in the subcarrier can be produced by averaging an estimate of the channel in a subcarrier in the subchannel in a previous OFDM symbol and an estimate of the channel in a subcarrier in the subchannel in a succeeding OFDM symbol. A third estimate of the channel in the subcarrier can be produced through a linear combination of the first estimate and the second estimate. The channel in data subcarriers can be estimated through a weighted sum of the channel in nearest subcarriers. | 10-02-2014 |
20140294124 | TRANSMITTER AND METHOD OF TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVER AND METHOD OF DETECTING OFDM SIGNALS - A transmitter transmits payload data using Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed (OFDM) symbols. The first OFDM symbol is a first type having a number of sub-carriers which is less than or equal to the number of sub-carriers of the one or more second OFDM symbols of a second type and a guard interval for the first OFDM symbol is selected in dependence upon the longest possible guard interval of the second OFDM symbol. Accordingly an OFDM communications system can be formed in which data is transmitted using a frame structure in which a guard interval is adapted to allow a mix of different types of OFDM symbols. | 10-02-2014 |
20140294125 | RECEIVER - Appropriate reception processing is performed using a CRS-based estimation method for a covariance matrix R | 10-02-2014 |
20140314186 | LOOP-THROUGH FOR MULTI-CHIP COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - Methods and systems are provided for loop-through for multi-chip communication systems. Receiver circuitry, that is operable to receive one or more input feeds, may comprise a plurality of chips, each of which may be configurable to generate a corresponding output comprising one or more feed elements (e.g., channels) extracted from the input feed(s). However, only a first chip may be operable to handle reception and/or initial processing of the one or more input feeds, with each one of the remaining chips processing a loop-through feed generated by the first chip, in order to generate the corresponding output of that chip. The first chip generates the loop-through feed based on the one or more input feeds, such as after the initial processing thereof in the first chip. Generating the loop-through feed may comprise applying channelization (e.g., separately for each remaining chip), switching based processing, and/or interfacing based processing. | 10-23-2014 |
20140314187 | OFDM COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD HAVING A REDUCED PEAK-TO-AVERAGE POWER RATIO - An OFDM system embeds sequence information in the transmitted signal that reduces peak average power ratio (PAP) with minimal impact on the overall system efficiency. A marker is embedded onto the transmitted information that is used to identify the combining (inversion) sequence at the receiver. In one embodiment, selected tones in a cluster are rotated when the corresponding phase factor rotates the cluster. | 10-23-2014 |
20140321580 | Signal Processing Method - A demapping scheme, having a low computational cost, suitable for any transmission in which only exhaustive demapping can guarantee good performance. The scheme, proposed in this document, can be used in any transmission based on no differential modulation. For example the proposed scheme can be directly applied to a transmission on flat fading AWGN channels or to a transmission on frequency selective channels after equalization or on each sub-carrier of an OFDM System. The proposed solution can be applied for the demapping of any communication system. The proposed scheme can be used for rotated and un-rotated constellation. | 10-30-2014 |
20140321581 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO DETECT THE OCCURRENCE OF ERRONEOUS DEMODULATED BITS FOR DECISION FEEDBACK DEMODULATION - Systems and methods to detect the occurrence of erroneous demodulated bits for decision feedback demodulation are disclosed. In one implementation, an apparatus for detecting demodulation bit errors of a plurality of modulated bits includes a memory component configured to store a first threshold and a second threshold. The apparatus further includes a processor coupled to the memory component, the processor configured to retrieve the first threshold and second threshold from the memory component and to determine a demodulation metric value for each of the plurality of modulated bits, the processor further configured to count the number of demodulation metric values that cross the first threshold and compare the second threshold to the number of demodulation metric values that cross the first threshold. | 10-30-2014 |
20140321582 | PARALLEL DATA PROCESSING - Various embodiments of the present invention provide a method and apparatus for parallel data processing. In one embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method for parallel data processing, comprising: receiving baseband data corresponding to multiple antennas from uplink data; converting the baseband data from time-domain signals to frequency-domain signals; processing the frequency-domain signals at least partially in parallel by multiple processing units in a general-purpose processor so as to restore transmitted code blocks; and constructing transmission block (TB) based on the transmitted code blocks. In one embodiment of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus for parallel data processing. By means of the method and apparatus of the present invention, the parallel data processing capacity of a general-purpose data processor may be used to process, in parallel as much as possible, data in uplink data transmission and further improve the receiver operation efficiency. | 10-30-2014 |
20140321583 | APPARATUS AND ASSOCIATED METHODS FOR SWITCHING BETWEEN ANTENNAS IN A MULTI-ANTENNA RECEIVER - Described herein are one or more apparatus, that at least partially synchronise with a first radio-frequency signal from a first antenna element, of an array of spatially distributed antenna elements in a multi-antenna array receiver, to determine the position of at least one of a repeated guard interval in the first radio-frequency signal from the first antenna element, the repeat occurring at a particular defined characteristic interval. The apparatus then use the determined position of the at least one guard interval in the first radio-frequency signal to switch to a second radio-frequency signal from a second antenna element, of the array of spatially distributed antenna elements in a multi-antenna receiver, and further determine a relative orientation of the multi-antenna receiver from a transmitter of the radio-frequency signals using characteristics determined for the first and second radio-frequency signals following the at least respective partial synchronisations. | 10-30-2014 |
20140328436 | RECEIVER FRONT-END ARCHITECTURE FOR CARRIER AGGREGATION - A receiver front-end includes a receive path configured to receive an input signal. Additionally, the receiver front-end also includes a low noise amplifier having a common input stage and multiple separate output stages, wherein each separate output stage is configured to be separately activated and connected to a receive signal mixer that provides signal demodulation of the input signal employing one of an aggregation of receiver carriers. A method of operating a receiver front-end and a receiver front-end system are also provided. | 11-06-2014 |
20140328437 | Systems and Methods for Selecting Digital Content Channels Using Low Noise Block Converters Including Digital Channelizer Switches - Systems and methods in accordance with embodiments of the invention include converting satellite signals to an intermediate frequency signal for content decoding, and selecting modulated digital data within the satellite signals for content decoding using digital signal processing. One embodiment includes a system configured to select at least one content channel from an input signal including a plurality of content channels modulated onto a carrier, the system including: a digital channelizer switch including: a high speed analog to digital converter configured to digitize the intermediate frequency signal; a digital channelizer configured to digitally tune a content channel from the digitized intermediate frequency signal; and a high speed digital to analog converter configured to generate an analog output signal using the content channel digitally tuned from the digitized intermediate frequency signal by the digital channelizer. | 11-06-2014 |
20140334575 | Active Signal Processing Personal Health Signal Receivers - The invention provides a receiver associated with a body, e.g., located inside or within close proximity to a body, configured to receive and decode a signal from an in vivo transmitter which located inside the body. Signal receivers of the invention provide for accurate signal decoding of a low-level signal, even in the presence of significant noise, using a small-scale chip, e.g., where the chip consumes very low power. Also provided are systems that include the receivers, as well as methods of using the same. | 11-13-2014 |
20140334576 | DIGITAL RADIO RECEIVER SYSTEM AND METHOD - Provided is a digital radio receiver system and method for switching from receiving a first broadcast service to an alternative broadcast service. Also provided is a digital radio receiver system and method for scanning for broadcast services in a broadcast signal to generate an alternative broadcast service list for use in controlling the digital radio receiver system. A digital radio receiver utilises spectrum awareness data, which includes data defining one or more frequencies at which broadcast services may be receivable, in order to faster selection of an alternative broadcast service from an alternative broadcast service list containing data relating to alternative broadcast services that are linked by a relationship to other broadcast services. By using the spectrum awareness data, only entries that are considered valid (i.e. entries that are determined to be alternative services that the receiver may receive) are retrieved from the alternative broadcast service list, which reduces the time taken for a receiver to switch to an alternative broadcast service from an initially received broadcast service. | 11-13-2014 |
20140348271 | Methods and Systems for Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) Multiple Zone Partitioning - Aspects of the invention include methods and devices for inserting data and pilot symbols into Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) frames having a time domain and a frequency domain. A method involves inserting in at least one zone of a first type a two dimensional array of data and pilot symbols in time and frequency and inserting in at least one zone of a second type a two dimensional array of data and pilot symbols in time and frequency. In some implementations the zone of the first type comprises common pilot symbols that can be detected by all receivers receiving the OFDM frame. In some implementations the zone of the second type comprises dedicated pilot symbols that are only detectable by a receiver that is aware of pre-processing used to encode the dedicated pilot symbols. | 11-27-2014 |
20140348272 | CONTROLLABLE FREQUENCY OFFSET FOR INPHASE AND QUADRATURE (IQ) IMBALANCE ESTIMATION - Embodiments of user equipment and methods for determining IQ imbalance parameters are described. In some embodiments, a method for determining in-phase (I) and Quadrature (Q) imbalance (IQ imbalance) parameters based on a known signal in a dual-carrier receiver using at least one controllable frequency offset includes receiving a known signal modulated onto a first radio frequency (RF) carrier frequency and a second RF carrier frequency different than the first RF carrier frequency. The known signal is downconverted to a baseband signal for the carriers by conversion from the respective RF carrier frequencies to an intermediate frequency (IF) using a common RF local oscillator (LO) and by further conversion from IF to baseband using carrier specific IF LOs, where a controllable frequency offset is used. Any controllable frequency offset is removed from the baseband signal for the first and second carriers to produce representations of the received signals. | 11-27-2014 |
20140355721 | DEMODULATION IN VAMOS RECEIVERS - A desired signal and interfering signal are transmitted in the same timeslot and on the same frequency using an Adaptive Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (AQPSK) modulated carrier. When the Subchannel Power Imbalance Ratio (SCPIR) for the AQPSK modulated carrier is large and favors the interfering signal, SIC is used to cancel the interfering signal from the received signal. Following interference cancellation, the desired signal is demodulated using two different estimates of the channel and the demodulated soft bits from demodulated soft bits from each demodulation process are combined to obtain a combined estimate. | 12-04-2014 |
20140355722 | METHOD FOR SIGNAL ESTIMATION AND COMPENSATION AND APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A method for signal estimation and compensation and an apparatus using the same, adapted for estimating and compensating an imbalance effect between an in-phase path and a quadrature path of an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) communication system are provided. The method includes the following steps: receiving a signal, and using a plurality of symbols in a plurality of time frame to generate a plurality of balance coefficient groups, wherein every balance coefficient group includes a plurality of balance coefficient candidates; deriving a balance coefficient according to the balance coefficient set; and compensating the signal according to the balance coefficient. | 12-04-2014 |
20140355723 | DIGITAL BROADCASTING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROCESSING DATA IN DIGITAL BROADCASTING SYSTEM - A digital broadcasting system and a data processing method are disclosed. A receiving system of the digital broadcasting system includes a receiving unit, an SI handler, and a decoding unit. The receiving unit receives broadcast signals including mobile service data and main service data. The mobile service data configure a data group, and the data group includes a signaling information region in some of a plurality of data regions. The signaling information region may include TPC signaling data and FIC signaling data. The SI handler acquires channel configuration information of the mobile service data from the broadcast signal using pre-decided IP access information, and extracts encoding format information for each IP stream component within a corresponding virtual channel service RTP-packetized and received from the acquired channel configuration information. The decoding unit decodes the mobile service data of the corresponding IP stream component based upon the extracted encoding format information. | 12-04-2014 |
20140362953 | Method and system for detecting FSS by peak threshold, and receiver - A method and system for detecting FSS by a peak threshold, and a receiver include: a peak search module configured to perform peak search on a set of inputted CIR average values to obtain a set of CIR peaks; a threshold generation module configured to search for a maximum value from the obtained set of CIR peaks, obtain an FSS search threshold according to the maximum value and a preset threshold, and provide the FSS search threshold to an FSS detection module; and the FSS detection module configured to utilize the FSS search threshold to detect an FFT windowing position of a receiving antenna. The technical solutions according to the disclosure improve the protection capability from exceptions for FSS detection while reducing the detection complexity of FSS. | 12-11-2014 |
20140369446 | COMPUTING SYSTEM WITH DECODING SEQUENCE MECHANISM AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF - A computing system includes: an inter-device interface configured to receive a receiver signal for representing a serving signal and an interference signal; a communication unit, coupled to the inter-device interface, configured to: dynamically generate a decoding target for decoding of the receiver signal, and decode the receiver signal based on the decoding target for decoding the receiver signal for the serving signal or the interference signal with an interference-aware receiver according to the decoding target. | 12-18-2014 |
20140369447 | Resynchronization Method of a Received Stream of Groups of Bits - This invention concerns a resynchronization method by a receiver of a received stream of groups of bits, comprising: detecting a synchronization loss (S | 12-18-2014 |
20140369448 | PORTABLE INFORMATION TERMINAL, DEMODULATION METHOD, AND CONTROL PROGRAM THEREOF - Provided is a portable information terminal, which has a function of receiving digital broadcasting. Information on a Doppler frequency is estimated based on a received wave, and a moving speed is estimated based on the estimated information on the Doppler frequency, thereby determining a parameter of an FIT window in accordance with the estimated moving speed. | 12-18-2014 |
20140376667 | Frequency-Domain Carrier Blanking For Multi-Carrier Systems - Methods and systems are disclosed for frequency-domain carrier blanking in multi-carrier communication systems. When excessive energy is detected in one or more subcarriers within a received symbol for multi-carrier communications, those subcarriers are blanked for subsequent demodulation in order to avoid corruption of the demodulated data. A conversion from time-domain digital samples to frequency-domain values using an FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) and a threshold detector are utilized to detect corrupted subcarriers. Further, this frequency-domain carrier blanking can be implemented dynamically on a symbol-by-symbol basis to further improve demodulation performance by reducing decoding errors. The disclosed embodiments are particularly useful for improving demodulation performance in power line communication (PLC) systems. | 12-25-2014 |
20150010114 | RECEIVER AND RECEIVING METHOD FOR A COMBINERLESS LINC OFDM SYSTEM - A receiver and a receiving method for use in a LINC OFDM system are provided. The receiver receives a signal from a transmitter of the combinerless LINC OFDM system, generates a CP removed signal by removing a CP from the signal, generates a DFT signal by applying a DFT operation to the CP removed signal, generates a plurality of equalized symbols according to the DFT signal, generates a plurality of soft bits from the equalized symbols, generates a plurality of candidates regarding a transmitted bit sequence based on the soft bits by a list-Viterbi decoding algorithm, and decides an estimated transmitted bit sequence corresponding to the transmitted bit sequence from the candidates. The receiving method is able to perform the operations of the receiver. | 01-08-2015 |
20150010115 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVED HIGH CAPACITY IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - An exemplary system comprises at least one antenna, first and second signal paths, and an N-plexer. The first antenna may be configured to receive first and second diversity received signals. The first signal path may have a first converter configured to convert the first diversity received signal to first carrier group. The second signal path may have a second converter configured to convert the second diversity received signal to a second carrier group. The N-plexer may be configured to provide the first and second diversity received signals to a first cable in communication with a first modem. | 01-08-2015 |
20150010116 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING THE PEAK-TO-AVERAGE POWER RATIO OF ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY-DOMAIN SIGNALS - Systems and methods are presented for controlling the peak-to-average-power of a baseband orthogonal-frequency-domain multiplexing (OFDM) signal by designating a subset of the available subcarriers as information-bearing data-subcarriers, and loading remaining subcarriers by symbols that are a function of the symbols loading the data-subcarriers. At the receiver, the data-dependent subcarriers are optionally combined with data-subcarriers to increase error protection. | 01-08-2015 |
20150016572 | Message Retrieving System with Signal Collision Mitigation and A Method Thereof - A message retrieving system and method for signal collision mitigation and the method thereof are disclosed. The message retrieving system transmits two orthogonal signals over two isolated antenna during a time period that it expects to receive the response. Two virtual channels are artificially created and the collision of response signals originated from the respondents is mitigated. | 01-15-2015 |
20150016573 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PASSIVE WIRELESS MONITORING WITH EFFICIENT CHANNELIZATION - Methods and systems for passive monitoring and analysis of large numbers of cellular communication channels. The processing functions of a monitoring system are split between a front-end processor and a host that communicate over an interface. The front-end processor may comprise a signal-processing board installed in the computer, and the interface comprises a Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) bus. A Radio Frequency (RF) receiver receives and down-coverts one or more RF bands of interest, which comprise a large number of communication channels. The front-end processor digitizes the received signals and produces a plurality of single-channel digital signals. In order to avoid high data rates, the front-end processor generates and sends to the host multi-channel digital signals instead of single-channel digital signals for processing. Each multi-channel digital signal comprises a respective set of communication channels (e.g., four channels), which are distributed over frequency. | 01-15-2015 |
20150023453 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - A wireless communication device includes:
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20150036770 | RECEPTION APPARATUS AND RECEPTION METHOD - According to one embodiment, a reception apparatus is configured to receive a radio signal comprising a plurality of modulated subcarriers. The reception apparatus has a demodulator, a subcarrier specification module, and an error correction decoder. The demodulator is configured to demodulate the radio signal to generate the subcarriers. The subcarrier specification module is configured to specify a subcarrier whose frequency overlaps with a spurious frequency among the subcarriers. The error correction decoder is configured to perform error correction, relying more on the subcarriers whose frequencies do not overlap with the spurious frequency than on the subcarrier whose frequency overlaps with the spurious frequency. | 02-05-2015 |
20150036771 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATION CORRECTION - Embodiments of the present invention provide a device and method for communication correction. The device includes a receiving channel and a correction channel, where the receiving channel includes an analogue radio-frequency front end, a demodulator, a first analogue-to-digital converter, and a first channel correction module that are connected sequentially, and the correction channel includes a frequency converter, a second analogue-to-digital converter, and a digital processor that are connected sequentially, where the analogue radio-frequency front end is further connected to the frequency converter, and the digital processor is connected to the first channel correction module. With the technical solutions of the present invention, channel correction is performed on the receiving channel by the correction channel, so as to improve the precision of receiving a radio signal. | 02-05-2015 |
20150043681 | DATA SAMPLER CIRCUIT - A circuit includes: a first circuit stage configured to sample a differential input signal at a first logic state of a sampling clock and regenerate the sampled differential input signal at a second logic state of the sampling clock to output a first regenerated differential signal; a second circuit stage configured to amplify the first regenerated differential signal at the second logic state of the sampling clock to output an amplified differential signal; and a third circuit stage configured to regenerate the amplified differential signal at the first logic state of the sampling clock to output a second regenerated differential signal. | 02-12-2015 |
20150043682 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING THRESHOLD FOR SYMBOL DETECTION - A method of determining a threshold for symbol detection, includes receiving a most previously input sample value and a result of detecting a most previous symbol, and determining the threshold for the symbol detection of a currently input sample value based on the most previously input sample value and the result of detecting the most previous symbol. | 02-12-2015 |
20150043683 | RECEIVING DEVICE, RECEIVING METHOD, AND RECEIVING PROGRAM - GI removers b | 02-12-2015 |
20150049845 | METHOD AND A DEVICE FOR DECODING DIFFERENTIALLY MODULATED SYMBOLS - A method for decoding differentially modulated received symbols, the differentially modulated received symbols corresponding to a transmission of a differentially modulated version of a codeword out of a set of possible codewords, the received symbols being transferred onto resources of a channel, the resources being equally spaced. A receiver, for each possible codeword: obtains a vector of differentially demodulated symbols by differentially demodulating the differentially modulated received symbols obtained by combining two consecutive differentially modulated received symbols; calculates the product of each differentially demodulated symbol by the conjugate of the element of the codeword having the same rank within the codeword as the differentially demodulated received symbol; calculates the sum of the products; decodes the vector of differentially demodulated symbols by selecting the codeword for which the sum of the products is the maximum. | 02-19-2015 |
20150055735 | MULTI-USER MIMO RECEIVER AND METHOD FOR RECEIVING DATA UNITS OVER A WIDEBAND CHANNEL - A multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) receiver includes circuitry to receive a MIMO transmission through a plurality of antennas over a channel comprising two or more 20 MHz portions of bandwidth. The MIMO transmission comprises a plurality of streams, each transmitted over a corresponding spatial channel and configured for reception by multiple user stations. The MIMO receiver also includes circuitry to simultaneously accumulate signal information within at least two or more of the 20 MHz portions of bandwidth. Each 20 MHz portion comprises a plurality of OFDM subcarriers. The MIMO receiver also includes circuitry to demodulate at least one of the steams using receive beamforming techniques. In this way, multi-user protocol data units can be received. | 02-26-2015 |
20150063496 | RECEIVER WITH NOISE COMPENSATION AND METHODS FOR USE THEREWITH - A receiver includes a radio frequency (RF) front end receives a received signal that is modulated via orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) and generates a downconverted signal, based on the received signal. An OFDM demodulator generates subcarrier data based on the downconverted signal. The subcarrier data corresponds to a plurality of subcarriers. A subcarrier weighting module generates weighted subcarrier data by applying subcarrier weights to the subcarrier data corresponding to selected ones of the plurality of subcarriers. An OFDM decoder generates decoded OFDM data based on the weighted subcarrier data. | 03-05-2015 |
20150063497 | Antenna Diversity Combining For Differentially Modulated Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed (OFDM) Signals - In an embodiment, an apparatus includes a first tuner to receive a radio frequency (RF) signal from a first antenna and to process the RF signal to generate a first time-domain quadrature signal, a second tuner to receive the RF signal from a second antenna and to process the RF signal to generate a second time-domain quadrature signal, and a combiner circuit to receive the first and second time-domain quadrature signals. | 03-05-2015 |
20150063498 | Efficient Tree-Based MIMO OFDM Detection - Systems and methods are provided for efficient tree-based detection of multi-carrier modulated signals, such as Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols. In an embodiment, a plurality of signals occupying respective tones are received and processed to determine an order, based on a tone quality metric, for the plurality of signals. The plurality of signals are then dispatched to a pool of tree detectors in accordance with the order. In an embodiment, the order ensures that signals occupying higher quality tones, and requiring shorter detection times, are dispatched first to the pool of tree detectors. In another embodiment, a maximum runtime of busy tree detectors of the pool is updated based signal on actual detection times to exploit the time slack of early terminating detectors. | 03-05-2015 |
20150063499 | TIMING PILOT GENERATION FOR HIGHLY-SPECTRALLY-EFFICIENT COMMUNICATIONS - Methods and systems are provided for timing synchronization for reception of highly-spectrally efficient communications. An example method may include, mapping, in a transmitter, a plurality of transmit bits to a plurality of symbols at a symbol rate that is based on an oscillator signal. The plurality of symbols may be processed via a filter. The processing may result in an inter-symbol correlated (ISC) signal. The oscillator signal may be frequency divided to generate one or more pilot signals having a frequency that is a sub-harmonic of a frequency of the oscillator signal. The pilot signal may be injected into the ISC signal. The injecting may result in an ISC signal with timing carrier. The ISC signal with timing carrier may be transmitted. Gain of the one or more pilot signals may be adjusted based on a spectral mask value associated with the transmitting. | 03-05-2015 |
20150063500 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SWITCHING BETWEEN LOW-POWER, SINGLE-CHAIN LISTEN AND MULTIPLE-CHAIN DEMODULATION - A single receive chain of a MIMO receiver is activated during a low power listen mode. Upon detecting a legacy short training field (L-STF) in a received packet, the single receive chain performs a first frequency estimation, and activates one or more additional receive chains of the MIMO receiver. The MIMO receiver uses maximal ratio combining (MRC) to receive the signal using the first receive chain and the one or more additional activated receive chains, wherein the MRC is based, at least in part, on the first frequency estimation. The MIMO receiver may determine whether the received packet is a high throughput/very high throughput (HT/VHT) packet, and if not, deactivate the one or more additional receive chains. In one alternative, the additional receive chains are not activated until determining that a HT/VHT packet has been received. | 03-05-2015 |
20150063501 | RECEIVING APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - To improve a quality of a combined signal obtained by maximum ratio combining performed when a transmission signal of OFDM system is diversity-received with a small computation amount or a small circuit size. In a receiving apparatus, a combining unit corrects, when combining a sub-carrier signal of each branch obtained by performing Fourier transform on a reception signal of each branch at a maximum ratio for each sub-carrier, a weighting coefficient of each branch according to a magnitude relation of an intensity of the reception signal of each branch before Fourier transform. Specifically, the combining unit corrects the weighting coefficient of each branch so as to weaken an influence of a transmission path response estimated for a sub-carrier signal of the branch in branches with smaller reception signal intensities. | 03-05-2015 |
20150063502 | METHODS OF COMMUNICATING DATA INCLUDING SYMBOL MAPPING/DEMAPPING AND RELATED DEVICES - Data may be transmitted from a RAN node to a wireless terminal using a MIMO antenna array. A plurality of unmapped symbol blocks may be generated. Symbols of a first one of the plurality of unmapped symbol blocks may be mapped to first and second mapped symbol blocks so that the first mapped symbol block includes symbols of the first unmapped symbol block and so that the second mapped symbol block includes symbols of the first unmapped symbol block. The symbols of the first and second mapped symbol blocks may be precoded to provide precoded symbols of respective first and second MIMO precoding layers using a MIMO precoding vector. Each of the precoded symbols of the first and second MIMO precoding layers may be transmitted through the MIMO antenna array to the wireless terminal using a same TFRE. Related devices and terminals are also discussed. | 03-05-2015 |
20150071386 | RECEIVER - According to one embodiment, a receiver, which is configured to receive a radio signal having a preamble including a synchronization pattern and a payload containing data, includes an antenna, a low noise amplifier, a down-conversion module, a variable gain amplifier, an auto gain controller, a synchronization acquisition module, and a demodulator. The antenna is configured to receive the radio signal. The low noise amplifier is configured to amplify an output from the antenna by applying a first variable gain. The down-conversion module is configured to down-convert an output from the low noise amplifier. The variable gain amplifier is configured to amplify an output from the down-conversion module by applying a second variable gain. The auto gain controller is configured to, in accordance with strength of the radio signal, firstly adjust the first variable gain, and after fixing the first variable gain, adjust the second variable gain. | 03-12-2015 |
20150078489 | Signal Reconstruction Method and Apparatus - A method includes determining a correlation between a first residual error and multiple columns in a sensing matrix according to a measured value of an original signal and the sensing matrix, and determining a first array most correlative to the measured value of the original signal in the sensing matrix according to the correlation between the first residual error and the multiple columns; determining a correlation between a k | 03-19-2015 |
20150092891 | Methods and Systems for Fine Timing Synchronization - A method for determining timing synchronization for demodulating a signal by a receiver, comprises the steps of: generating a channel response for the signal; transforming the signal into the time domain using an inverse fast fourier transform (“IFFT”); determining a signal power for the transformed signal as a function of the generated channel response; and calculating the timing synchronization by the receiver as a function of the determined signal power. | 04-02-2015 |
20150092892 | SINGLE PHASE DIFFERENTIAL CONVERSION CIRCUIT, BALUN, SWITCH, AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE - Provided with one or more first transistors of a first conductivity type each including a gate, a source, and a drain, the gate being connected to an input terminal, the source being configured to be connected to a first voltage source, the drain being connected to an output node, one or more second transistors of a second conductivity type each including a gate, a source, and a drain, the gate being connected to the input terminal, the source being configured to be connected to a second voltage source, the drain being connected to the output node, a first resistor that is inserted and connected between the input terminal and the output node, a first output terminal that is connected to the input terminal, and a second output terminal that is directly or indirectly connected to the output node. | 04-02-2015 |
20150092893 | PHYSICAL DOWNLINK CONTROL CHANNEL DECODING - Methods and apparatuses to reduce resource consumption by a mobile wireless device when decoding control channel information, such as a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), in a subframe received from an LTE wireless network are disclosed. Representative methods include demodulating a first set of one or more PDCCH OFDM symbols contained in the subframe based on a first channel estimate; obtaining a second channel estimate based on a second OFDM symbol before demodulating a second set of one or more PDCCH OFDM symbols contained in the subframe based on both the first channel estimate and the second channel estimate. When the PDCCH indicates no downlink assignments for the subframe, the mobile wireless device enters a reduced power consumption mode after demodulating the PDCCH. | 04-02-2015 |
20150098529 | Methods and Systems for Optimal PN Phase Detection in DTMB Receivers - A method and system for pseudorandom noise (“PN”) phase detection in digital terrestrial multimedia broadcast (“DTMB”) receivers. This method selects a detection range of symbols from a frame of the received signal; applies FFT to the PN portion of each of the symbols in the detection range to generate H | 04-09-2015 |
20150098530 | Detecting Repeated Preamble Symbols Using Over-Sized Discrete Fourier Transforms - A technique for detecting symbols includes performing an over-sized discrete Fourier transform (DFT) operation on a received signal that includes at least two repeated symbols. A sum of signal characteristics for subcarriers of one or more possible symbols are determined based on the DFT operation. A sum of signal characteristics for non-subcarriers of the one or more possible symbols is determined based on the DFT operation. Finally, a determination is made as to whether one or more of the one or more possible symbols is detected based on the sum of signal characteristics for the subcarriers and sum of signal characteristics for the non-subcarriers. | 04-09-2015 |
20150110225 | Method for Acquiring and Processing Signals - The invention concerns a signal acquisition and processing method, comprising:
| 04-23-2015 |
20150110226 | DATA CARRIER PROVIDED WITH AT LEAST TWO DECODING STAGES - A data carrier device is disclosed. The data carrier device includes a demodulation device configured to demodulate a received modulated carrier signal and output the included encoded data signal and a decoding device configured to decode the encoded data signal and output data. The decoding device includes a first decoding stage and a second decoding stage, wherein the first decoding stage is configured to decode said data signal in conformity with a first method and the second decoding stage is configured to decode said data signal in conformity with a second method, wherein the first method is Manchester and the second method is Miller. | 04-23-2015 |
20150117571 | RECEIVER AND METHOD FOR GAIN CONTROL - An RFVGA variably controls a gain according to an RFVGA gain control signal and amplifies and outputs a reception signal. A low-pass filter filters a signal output from a frequency converter. An OFDM demodulator generates a digital signal based on an output signal from the low-pass filter. A power detection evaluation circuit controls the RFVGA gain control signal based on a voltage value (DET | 04-30-2015 |
20150117572 | MICROWAVE COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE AND MICROWAVE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - The present invention discloses microwave communications devices. The microwave communications device includes: a first converting module, a second converting module, configured to perform mutual conversion between a baseband signal or an intermediate frequency signal and a microwave signal, where microwave signals received or output by the first converting module and the second converting module respectively have a same polarization direction or perpendicular polarization directions; and an orthomode transducer with three waveguide ports, configured to perform separation and synthesis of orthogonally polarized microwave signals, The microwave communications devices in embodiments of the present invention can, by providing dual channels and integrating an orthomode transducer inside the microwave communications device, increase a transmission capacity while improving equipment application flexibility, reducing installation complexity, and lowering costs. | 04-30-2015 |
20150124908 | Fast Decoding based on ZigZag Deconvolution for Random Projection Code - Multi-level symbols generated by applying a Random Projection Code (RPC) to a source bit sequence are received at a receiver via a noisy channel. The received multi-level symbols are represented in a bipartite graph as constraint nodes connected via weighted edges to binary variable nodes that represent the source bit sequence. A decoder uses ZigZag deconvolution to generate constraint node messages as part of an iterative belief propagation to decode the source bit sequence from the received multi-level symbols. | 05-07-2015 |
20150124909 | RECEPTION APPARATUS AND RECEPTION METHOD - A reception apparatus obtains a first channel estimated value from a reference signal of each layer and a known reference signal that are received and multiplies the first channel estimated value by an orthogonal signal sequence in each layer. Subsequently, the reception apparatus synthesizes a signal in each layer and, from the orthogonal signal sequence and the synthesized signal, calculates an adaptive array antenna weight. Next, the reception apparatus carries out antenna synthesis of the data signal and the reference signal by using the above weight for each layer and obtains a second channel estimated value from the reference signal subjected to the synthesis. Then, the reception apparatus carries out MIMO demodulation from a result of the channel estimation for each layer described above. | 05-07-2015 |
20150124910 | Element Selection Unit and a Method Therein - An element selection unit ( | 05-07-2015 |
20150124911 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVED WIRELESS CHANNEL ESTIMATION - Systems and methods are disclosed herein to provide improved channel estimation in a wireless data communication system, including but not limited to Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) and Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) communication systems. In accordance with one or more embodiments and aspects thereof, a channel estimation system is disclosed that regenerates a representation of the original transmitted signal from the received digital bitstream and selectively applies it to refine and improve channel estimation and signal equalization calculations using the data symbols contained within received frames. Such a system may offer improved capabilities such as more accurate signal reception, reduced bit error ratio, and improved Multi-User MIMO (MU-MIMO) reception. | 05-07-2015 |
20150131758 | METHOD FOR ESTIMATING COVARIANCE MATRICES AND USE THEREOF - The present disclosure relates to an iterative method for estimating covariance matrices of communication signals comprising a) computing a reference symbol covariance matrix estimate | 05-14-2015 |
20150131759 | HYPOTHESES GENERATION BASED ON MULTIDIMENSIONAL SLICING - A receiver is configured to receive a sample of an inter-symbol correlated (ISC) signal, the sample corresponding to a time instant when phase and/or amplitude of the ISC signal is a result of correlation among a plurality of symbols of a transmitted symbol sequence. The receiver may linearize the sample of the ISC signal. The receiver may calculate a residual signal value based on the linearized sample of the ISC signal. The receiver may generate an estimate of one or more of said plurality of symbols based on a slicing of the residual signal value. The linearization may comprise applying an estimate of an inverse of a non-linear model. The non-linear model may be a model of nonlinearity experienced by the ISC signal in a transmitter from which the ISC signal originated, in a channel through which the ISC signal passed en route to the receiver, and/or in a front-end of the receiver. | 05-14-2015 |
20150131760 | METHOD, RECEIVER DEVICE, NETWORK NODE AND MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL FOR DECODING TRANSMISSIONS - A method, performed in a receiver device, for decoding transmissions of a set of coded information bits from a transmitter. The method includes deriving received symbols from first received data and second received data. The received symbols are converted to sets of soft coded bit estimates. The sets of soft coded bit estimates are combined to form a combined set of soft coded bit estimates. The combined set of soft coded bit estimates are decoded to form a set of soft information bit estimates. The set of soft information bit estimates are converted to form a set of binary bits. A determination is made whether the set of binary bits has been correctly or incorrectly decoded. Interference cancellation is performed on the received data, and the method is repeated until either the set of binary bits has been correctly decoded or a predefined maximum number of iterations is reached. | 05-14-2015 |
20150131761 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INCREASING SPOT BEAM SATELLITE BANDWIDTH - A device and method for demodulation of multiple received signals is provided. The device can have a receiver configured to receive a composite signal having two or more constituent signals overlapped in frequency. The device can have one or more processors configured to determine a at least one modulation type and at least one symbol rate corresponding to the two or more constituent signals. The one or more processors can further resample the composite signal at a sampling rate that is a multiple of the at least one symbol rate to determine the characteristics of the two or more constituent signals. The one or more processors can separate and output the two or more constituent signals using the determined characteristics. | 05-14-2015 |
20150131762 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROGRAMMABLE DIGITAL DOWN-CONVERSION - A radio communication apparatus operable over a wide range of frequencies including a signal processing device is provided. The device performs an analog to digital conversion at a predetermined sample rate independent of a selected frequency band within the wide range of frequencies to generate a digital signal, and digitally processes the digital signal to output a data signal at baseband associated with the selected frequency band. | 05-14-2015 |
20150139364 | METHOD FOR DETECTING PHASE AND PHASE DETECTING SYSTEM - A phase detection method includes providing by a controller a second control signal having two or more neighboring pulses when the time during which a state of a second control signal is retained is a predetermined time or more, receiving by the controller phase detection results of a phase of a first control signal different from the second control signal in response to the second control signal, and determining by the controller a phase detection result based on a first pulse of the two neighboring pulses of the second control signal, of the phase detection results. | 05-21-2015 |
20150139365 | DATA UNIT FORMAT FOR MULTI-USER DATA IN LONG-RANGE WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLANS) - A method includes receiving a data unit that includes a signal (SIG) field and a data field. The SIG field provides information for interpreting the data field. The method also includes detecting a first symbol constellation rotation of at least a first orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol in the SIG field of the data unit, determining, based at least in part on the detected first symbol constellation rotation, a number of information bits per OFDM symbol in the SIG field of the data unit, processing the SIG field of the data unit according to the determined number of information bits per OFDM symbol in the SIG field, and processing the data field of the data unit according to the information for interpreting the data field as provided in the SIG field of the data unit. | 05-21-2015 |
20150146824 | INDEXED I/O SYMBOL COMMUNICATIONS - One implementation of the disclosed technology involves detecting a transition in a signal received via one of a first indexed input and a second indexed input. The transition defines a first symbol having a symbol value. This implementation further involves outputting the first symbol in response to detection of a transition. The symbol value of the first symbol is designated by the index of the indexed input upon which the transition is detected. | 05-28-2015 |
20150146825 | SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, RECEIVING DEVICE, AND RECEIVING METHOD - There is provided a signal processing device including a first correction processing section that performs first correction on a predetermined signal, an adaptive processing section that performs predetermined adaptive processing on the signal that has been subjected to the first correction, and a second correction processing section that performs second correction, which is reverse correction of the first correction, on the signal that has been subjected to the adaptive processing, in accordance with the amount of delay in the adaptive processing. | 05-28-2015 |
20150146826 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT IMPLEMENTATION OF METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR MONITORING OCCUPANCY OF WIDEBAND GHz SPECTRUM, AND SENSING RESPECTIVE FREQUENCY COMPONENTS OF TIME-VARYING SIGNALS USING SUB-NYQUIST CRITERION SIGNAL SAMPLING - An ASIC for monitoring wideband GHz spectrum to sense respective frequency components present in the spectrum. The ASIC implements Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) techniques to facilitate identification of one or more frequency components of a sparse signal after the signal is sub-sampled at a rate below the Nyquist criterion. The ASIC computes a first Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) of a first sub-sampled set of samples of a time-varying signal representing the monitored spectrum and sampled at a first sampling rate, and further computes a second FFT of a second sub-sampled set of samples of the time-varying signal sampled at a second sampling rate different from the first sampling rate. In one example, each of the first FFT and the second FFT is a low-radix FFT to facilitate a low-power and low-cost ASIC implementation of wideband spectrum sensing. | 05-28-2015 |
20150295605 | METHOD OF COMPENSATING FOR SIGNAL DEGRADATION IN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS - A method for compensating for transmission channel distortion effects for a data signal transmitted from a first computing device via the transmission channel to a second computing device is provided. The method includes combining the data signal with a reference marker, the reference marker including predetermined signal parameters, to create a composite data signal, transmitting the composite data signal from the first computing device to the second computing device, extracting the reference marker and the data signal from the received composite data signal received at the second computing device, analysing the signal parameters of the extracted reference marker, comparing the analysed signal parameters of the extracted reference marker with the predetermined signal parameters of the reference marker in order to determine transmission channel distortions, and adjusting the extracted data signal based on the determined transmission channel distortions in order to compensate for transmission channel distortion effects. | 10-15-2015 |
20150295739 | Multimode Receiver And Receiving Method Therefor - Disclosed is a multimode receiver, comprising: an antenna system configured to receive a signal sent by a base station and select a receiving circuit front end according to the frequency band of the signal; more than one receiving circuit front end configured to perform down-conversion frequency processing on a signal sent by the antenna system and send the processed signal to an I/Q demodulator; the I/Q demodulator configured to demodulate the signal sent by the receiving circuit front ends and send the demodulated signal to a baseband unit; and the baseband unit configured to decode the demodulated signal. Disclosed is a receiving method for a multimode receiver. By adopting the present invention, one set of receiving circuit front ends can be utilized for signals of the same frequency band and different modes, decreasing the number of radio-frequency chips, and lowering the cost. | 10-15-2015 |
20150303559 | OSCILLATION DEVICE, RECEPTION DEVICE AND SAMPLE INFORMATION ACQUISITION APPARATUS - An oscillation device | 10-22-2015 |
20150303970 | Prefiltering in MIMO Receiver - Data signals transmitted by a plurality of transmitting antennas over a radio channel are demodulated. The method comprises receiving ( | 10-22-2015 |
20150304140 | METHOD FOR DEMODULATING AT LEAST ONE FRAME CONSISTING OF A SUCCESSION OF BITS CODED ACCORDING TO A MANCHESTER CODE - A method for demodulating at least one received frame is provided, where the frame includes of a succession of bits coded according to a Manchester code. The method includes the steps of: generating an interruption at least at each appearance of a rising and/or falling edge of the frame of coded bits; determining the time between each interruption from at least one first counter; reinitialising the demodulation of the frame as soon as one of the determined times is less than a first predetermined value or greater than a second predetermined value, the first and second predetermined values being dependent on the duration of a bit coded according to the code; and demodulating, for each determined time, if the determined time is greater than the first predetermined value and is less than the second predetermined value, at least one binary value of the frame from the determined time. | 10-22-2015 |
20150304148 | DATA TRANSMISSION COEXISTENCE WITHIN TELEVISION WHITE SPACE CHANNELS - Methods, systems, and/or devices are provided that permit data transmissions over unused television channels. A method operational in a receiver device, includes monitoring one or more repurposed channels within a television broadcast frequency spectrum for data waveforms, wherein waveforms of different bandwidths coexist within the one or more repurposed channels, and at least a larger waveform has a first bandwidth larger than a channel bandwidth for each repurposed channel. The method also includes receiving a waveform over a repurposed channel from among the one or more repurposed channels, wherein the received waveform has a second bandwidth smaller than the channel bandwidth. The method further includes processing the received waveform by applying a downclocking factor to a clock of the receiver device that causes the receiver device to process the received waveform according to the second bandwidth to obtain a data payload from the received waveform. | 10-22-2015 |
20150319024 | Adaptive Inverse Signal Transformation - This application presents a direct data recovery from subspaces or parameters subranges of a received OFDM signal preidentified as corresponding to specific data symbols, by applying adaptive inverse signal transformation (AIST) method for reversing both original data coding and deterministic and random distortions introduced by a transmission channel, wherein both reversals are achieved by the same conversion of the subspaces or parameter subranges into data transmitted originally in order to eliminate an intermediate recovery of signals or parameters transmitted originally within the received OFDM signal. The AIST includes using both amplitudes and gradients of amplitudes of OFDM tone signals. | 11-05-2015 |
20150327174 | Receiver With Reduced Wake-Up Time - An auxiliary reduced power analog-to-digital converter (ADC) is, provided for use during sleep periods of a receiver. The auxiliary ADC has a reduced dynamic range but sufficient accuracy to allow demodulation of signaling information contained in an input signal and to update control parameters used for synchronization and channel estimation. As such, a main higher power, higher dynamic range ADC can be turned off during sleep periods, reducing receiver power consumption. The main ADC is turned on at the end of a sleep period, and the receiver can be ready for receiving data immediately using the main ADC because the control parameters are maintained up to date during the sleep period using the auxiliary ADC. | 11-12-2015 |
20150349923 | Sphere Decoding Detection Method And Device - Disclosed are a sphere decoding detection method and apparatus, including: preprocessing a received signal to obtain a signal approximate estimation value X | 12-03-2015 |
20150349985 | GENERATION OF MANCHESTER-DECODED BINARY VALUES - A method for generating Manchester-decoded binary values is disclosed, in which a signal having signal edges is first of all read in. A first sequence of decoded binary values is then generated by means of first Manchester decoding, in which a decoded binary value is allocated to each signal edge of the signal. A second sequence of decoded binary values is then generated by means of second Manchester decoding, in which a decoded binary value is allocated to every second signal edge. The second sequence is rejected if a signal edge of the signal which is not allowed with respect to the second Manchester decoding occurs. The first sequence is rejected if a signal edge of the signal which is required with respect to the first Manchester decoding is missing. | 12-03-2015 |
20150358114 | APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING BROADCAST SIGNALS, APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING BROADCAST SIGNALS, METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING BROADCAST SIGNALS AND METHOD FOR RECEIVING BROADCAST SIGNALS - The present invention provides a method of transmitting broadcast signals. The method includes, formatting, by an input formatting block, input streams into plural PLPs (Physical Layer Pipes); encoding, by an encoder, data in the plural PLPs; time interleaving, by a time interleaver, the encoded data in the plural PLPs, wherein the time interleaving includes: cell interleaving, by a cell interleaver, the encoded data by permuting cells in a FEC (Forward Error Correction) block in the plural PLPs; frame mapping, by a framer, the time interleaved data onto at least one signal frame; and waveform modulating, by a waveform block, the mapped data in the at least one signal frame and transmitting, by the waveform block, broadcast signals having the modulated data. | 12-10-2015 |
20150358188 | JOINT DEMODULATING AND DEMAPPING OF DIGITAL SIGNAL - A method of joint demodulating and demapping of a digital signal includes receiving a first sequence of the digital signal. The digital signal has a pattern in which a norm of an ideal transmitted sequence of symbols for zero is equal to a norm of an ideal transmitted sequence of symbols for one. The method also includes defining a portion of the first sequence as a third sequence, determining, for each element of a set of the third sequence, one of a real part of a value or an imaginary part of the value of the element, calculating a value for a combination of the determined one of the real part of the value or the imaginary part of the value for the each element of the set, and setting a bit equal to one in response to the value for the combination being less than zero. | 12-10-2015 |
20150381211 | Multimode Decoder Implementation Method and Device - Disclosed are a multimode decoder method and device. The method includes: interleaving pre-stored to-be-decoded data to obtain an interleaving address; and based on the interleaving address, using a Radix-4 algorithm architecture, multiplexing a set of MAP decoding units under different standards, and in a parallel processing method, performing MAP iterative decoding processing on the to-be-decoded data according to standard types. | 12-31-2015 |
20150381399 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION IN SUB GIGAHERTZ BANDS - Systems, methods, and devices for wireless communication. In one aspect, an apparatus for wireless communication is provided. The apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive a wireless signal comprising a packet. At least a portion of the wireless signal is configured to be received over a bandwidth lower than or equal to 1.25 MHz. The packet is formed from at least one orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol comprising thirty-two tones. The thirty-two tones correspond to frequency subcarriers within the bandwidth. The thirty-two tones of the at least one OFDM symbol are allocated as: twenty-four data tones, two pilot tones, five guard tones, and one direct current (DC) tone. The apparatus includes a processor configured to evaluate the wireless signal. The processor includes a transform module configured to convert the at least one OFDM symbol into a frequency domain signal using a thirty-two point mode. | 12-31-2015 |
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20160013952 | RECEPTION DEVICE AND RECEPTION METHOD | 01-14-2016 |
20160013959 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD | 01-14-2016 |
20160020824 | Bus Reversable Orthogonal Differential Vector Signaling Codes - Properties and the construction method of Orthogonal Differential Vector Signaling Codes are disclosed which are tolerant of order-reversal, as may occur when physical routing of communications channel wires causes the bus signal order to be reversed. Operation using the described codes with such bus-reversed signals can avoid complete logical or physical re-ordering of received signals or other significant duplication of receiver resources. | 01-21-2016 |
20160028568 | Empirical Mode Decomposition for Spectrum Sensing in Communication Systems - A system and method using an Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD)-based energy detector for spectrum sensing in a communication system. The EMD energy detector needs no prior information of the received signal, has relatively low computational complexity, operates on non-stationary and non-linear signals, and performs well at low SNR. | 01-28-2016 |
20160036392 | DUAL-BAND AMPLIFIER - An apparatus includes: a first amplifier stage configured to receive an input signal through a first gate inductor and a first source inductor; and a second amplifier stage configured to receive the input signal through the first gate inductor in series with a second gate inductor and the first source inductor in series with a second source inductor. | 02-04-2016 |
20160043749 | Intermediate Frequency Spectral Placement of Bandpass Sampled Signals - Systems and methods for bandpass sampling of a continuous analog signal according to several embodiments can use a linear relationship between sampling frequency and intermediate frequency | 02-11-2016 |
20160050035 | WIRELESS RECEIVER WITH SIGNAL PROFILER MONITORING SIGNAL POWER PER FREQUENCY BAND - A signal profiler generates and monitors a signal profile corresponding to signal power (absolute or relative) per frequency band. The signal profiler includes a signal profile generator and a signal profile monitor. The signal profile generator processes a received signal in pre-defined frequency bands, and captures frequency-band signal power information into frequency bins, this frequency-binned signal power information constituting a signal profile. The signal profile monitor monitors the signal profile, including variations in the signal profile based on pre-defined criteria, and output corresponding profile-variation information (such as flags or interrupt requests). The signal profile generator is an FFT engine. The signal profile monitor is an FSM (finite state machine). An example application is use in a direct conversion wireless receiver to monitor relative image channel power as a signal profile variation that can be used to invoke QMC compensation/configuration. | 02-18-2016 |
20160050088 | RECEPTION OF INTER-SYMBOL-CORRELATED SIGNALS USING SYMBOL-BY-SYMBOL SOFT-OUTPUT DEMODULATOR - A receiver comprises a sequence estimation circuit and a soft-input-soft-output (SISO) decoder. The sequence estimation circuit comprises circuitry operable to generate first soft bit decisions for symbols of a received inter-symbol-correlated signal. The SISO decoder comprises circuitry operable to decode the first soft bit decisions to generate corrected soft bit decisions. The circuitry of the sequence estimation circuit is operable to generate, based on the corrected soft bit decisions, second soft bit decisions for the symbols of the received inter-symbol-correlated signal, which are improved/refined relative to the first soft bit decisions. | 02-18-2016 |
20160056850 | RECEIVER, COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - To provide a receiver, a communication device, and a communication method capable of restoring a signal transmitted via a non-contact transmission channel with high accuracy. A communication device has a transmission circuit that converts an input signal into a pulse, a non-contact transmission channel that has a primary side coil and a secondary side coil and transmits the pulse from the transmission circuit in a non-contact manner, a restoration circuit that restores the input signal on the basis of a reception signal corresponding to the pulse transmitted via the non-contact transmission channel, an initialization unit that initializes an output of the non-contact transmission channel, and an initialization control unit that outputs a control signal of controlling the initialization unit on the basis of the reception signal corresponding to the pulse received via the non-contact transmission channel. | 02-25-2016 |
20160065296 | RECEIVER CIRCUIT AND RECEPTION METHOD - First and second transmission channel correction circuits generate a corrected data signal and a corrected control signal by executing a transmission channel correction to a data signal transmitted by a first modulation method and a control signal transmitted by a second modulation method that is more tolerant to noise than the first modulation method. The data signal and control signal are included in reception signals received by first and second antennas. First and second quality information calculation circuits calculate quality information indicating quality of the reception signal on the basis of the corrected control signal. A combination ratio calculation circuit calculates a combination ratio of the corrected data signals generated by the first and second transmission channel correction circuits, on the basis of two types of quality information calculated by the first and second quality information calculation circuits. A combination circuit executes combination at the combination ratio. | 03-03-2016 |
20160072597 | Systems, Methods, and Devices for Electronic Spectrum Management for Identifying Signal-Emitting Devices - Apparatus and methods for identifying a wireless signal-emitting device are disclosed. The apparatus is configured to sense and measure wireless communication signals from signal-emitting devices in a spectrum. The apparatus is operable to automatically detect a signal of interest from the wireless signal-emitting device and create a signal profile of the signal of interest; compare the signal profile with stored device signal profiles for identification of the wireless signal-emitting device; and calculate signal degradation data for the signal of interest based on information associated with the signal of interest in a static database including noise figure parameters of a wireless signal-emitting device outputting the signal of interest. The signal profile of the signal of interest, profile comparison result, and signal degradation data are stored in the apparatus. | 03-10-2016 |
20160080019 | DECIMATORLESS CONTINUOUS-TIME DELTA-SIGMA ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL RECEIVER - A decimatorless continuous-time delta-sigma analog-to-digital receiver includes a continuous-time delta-sigma modulator (CTDSM) that receives a receiving signal and is configured to encode analog signals into digital signals; and a demodulator that receives a digital output of the CTDSM and is configured to recover information content from the receiving signal. | 03-17-2016 |
20160087760 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR STABLE SIGNAL DEMODULATION IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus provide for stable signal demodulation in a communication system. The method and apparatus includes including detecting an erroneous demodulation value based on backward-demodulation of received signals, using a difference between a received signal to be demodulated and a preceding signal of the received signals and correcting the error demodulation value. Alternatively, backward-demodulation is used to confirm received signals. | 03-24-2016 |
20160099816 | RECEIVER PERFORMANCE IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK - Methods and apparatus are described for improving receiver performance in a multicarrier communication network in which an encoded symbol is transmitted over a transmission channel in the communications system. A model of the transmission channel is estimated, said model characterising an effect of intercarrier interference on at least one carrier in the multicarrier system. The received symbol is decoded using the estimated model to remove a predicted effect of intercarrier interference. A pre-processor is also described for operation in conjunction with a communications receiver in the network. The pre-processor includes a channel estimator operable to estimate at least one feature of the communication channel based on a received signal. The pre-processor modifies the received signal dependent on the at least one estimated feature and provides the modified signal to the communications receiver. | 04-07-2016 |
20160105196 | DIRECT SIGMA-DELTA RECEIVER - A sigma delta receiver achieves increased stability and noise reduction. The sigma delta receiver includes a first integrator stage, an isolation stage, a second integrator stage, and a quantization stage. The first integrator stage receives an analog radio frequency (RF) signal from an antenna and generates an analog baseband signal based on the analog RF signal. The isolation stage is coupled to an output of the first integrator stage. The isolation stage receives the analog baseband signal from the first integrator stage and amplifies the analog baseband signal. The second integrator stage is coupled to an output of the isolation stage to receive the analog baseband signal. The second integrator stage further amplifies the analog baseband signal. The quantization stage converts the analog baseband signal to a digital signal, and outputs the digital signal. | 04-14-2016 |
20160105301 | DETECTOR AND METHOD FOR DETECTING IQ SWAP - A detector and a method for detecting IQ swap are provided. The detector includes a first correlator, a second correlator and a comparator. The first correlator calculates a first correlation value between a received symbol stream and a first conjugated symbol stream. The received symbol stream is generated by a transmission of a known symbol stream through a transmission channel. The first conjugated symbol stream is conjugate complex of the known symbol stream. The second correlator calculates a second correlation value between the first conjugated symbol stream and a second conjugated symbol stream. The second conjugated symbol stream is conjugate complex of the received symbol stream. In accordance with a relationship between the first and second correlation values, the comparator determines whether an in-phase component and a quadrature component in the received symbol stream have been swapped. | 04-14-2016 |
20160105303 | De-Mapping Technique with Provision of Probability Information Including a Priori Information - A technique for de-mapping a point in a constellation diagram into a bit sequence is presented. The de-mapping provides for each bit of the bit sequence an output value with a sign of the output value indicating a bit value and a magnitude of the output value indicating probability information in the form of a distance to a decision boundary in the constellation diagram. A method aspect of the technique presented herein comprises receiving a signal indicative of a constellation point, wherein the constellation point represents a bit sequence having a most significant bit and at least one next significant bit, deriving a first output value for the most significant bit based on a first decision boundary, receiving a priori information, and deriving a second output value for the next significant bit based on the first output value, the a priori information and a second decision boundary | 04-14-2016 |
20160112224 | DETERMINING A REPRESENTATION OF AN ELECTRICAL SIGNAL - The invention relates to a method, systems, computer program, and computer-readable medium for reducing artefacts (speckling) which may appear to be noise/errors in a representation of an electrical signal. An Eye Pattern representation of a digital bit stream signal can be used for determining a range of signal quality characteristics, and can be generated from measurements of the proportion of ones and zeroes detected when sampling the signal at both at a reference data sampling position within a bit period and at a range of offset sampling positions. However, the speckling noise which typically exists in such an Eye Pattern reduces the confidence that can be placed in values for different signal characteristics which may be determined from the Eye Pattern. While speckling may be reduced by increasing the sampling frequency used to sample the signal, the present invention reduces speckling by using data gathered at the reference data sampling point to correct data gathered at each of the offset sampling positions. Thereby, the invention reduces the number of samples needed in order to reduce speckling to a particular level. | 04-21-2016 |
20160112236 | Coarse Symbol Boundary Detection in OFDM Receivers - A method for determining a symbol boundary in a data packet belonging to a received OFDM signal is provided. The data packet includes a first training filed and a second training field, which begins with a guard interval. The method includes detecting the beginning of the data packet, and starting an automatic gain control process. The method further includes, after the automatic gain control process is locked, determining autocorrelation peaks and estimating the symbol boundary from times of the autocorrelation peaks. | 04-21-2016 |
20160127163 | OFDM System and Method Employing OFDM Symbols with Known or Information-Containing Prefixes - Systems and methods for transmitting and receiving OFDM symbols are provided which enable the otherwise wasted transmission time normally used as a prefix for each OFDM symbol to contain useful information. At the receiver, the received signal is processed to convert received OFDM symbols from a linear convolution with the channel to a cyclic convolution. | 05-05-2016 |
20160140037 | Systems, Methods, and Computer Readable Media for Digital Radio Broadcast Receiver Memory and Power Reduction - A method of block deinterleaving data received at a digital radio broadcast receiver is described. The method includes providing a block of memory having a n×k addresses, wherein the block comprises a single table, receiving a digital radio broadcast signal at the receiver, and demodulating the digital radio broadcast signal into a plurality of interleaved data units. For at least one series of n×k data units a pointer step size is determined, and for each data unit in the series, an address in the block is calculated based on the pointer step size, and an output data unit is read from the block at the address, such that said output data units represent block deinterleaved data units. An input data unit from the plurality of interleaved data units is then written to the block at the address. Associated systems and computer readable storage media are presented. | 05-19-2016 |
20160142080 | RECEIVER, SENDER, METHOD FOR RETRIEVING AN ADDITIONAL DATUM FROM A SIGNAL AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING A DATUM AND AN ADDITIONAL DATUM IN A SIGNAL - A receiver includes a receiver circuit to receive a first transition in a first direction, a second transition in a second direction after the first transition and a third transition in the first transition after the second transition of a signal, in which a first time period between the first and third transitions is at least partially indicating a datum to be received. The receiver circuit is configured to determine a second time period between the first transition and a second transition and to determine an additional datum to be received based at least on the determined second time period between the first and second transitions. | 05-19-2016 |
20160142085 | SAWLESS ARCHITECTURE FOR RECEIVERS - An apparatus including: at least one differential amplifier configured to amplify a radio frequency signal; a mixer configured to mix the radio frequency signal from the at least one differential amplifier with a local oscillator signal; and a low-pass filter coupled to the mixer, the low-pass filter includes a capacitor and at least one variable resistor configured to tune the low-pass filter. | 05-19-2016 |
20160142125 | A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECEIVING AND PROCESSING ARRAY ANTENNA SIGNALS - A system for receiving signals from an array antenna that includes a first number of antenna elements, including an orthogonal signals generator module configured to generate the first number of orthogonal signals. Plurality of multipliers configured to receive array antenna element analog signals and the first number of orthogonal signals and generate a corresponding multiplied analog signal, giving rise to a first number of multiplied analog signals. A second number of summation modules configured to receive the first number of multiplied analog signals from the multipliers and generate a second number of summed analog signals. A second number of analog to digital converters configured to receive the summed analog signals and generate the second number of summed digital signals. The summed digital signals are capable of being fed to a digital processor for generating a processed signal of the array antenna, wherein the second number falls in the range of 1 to less than the first number. | 05-19-2016 |
20160142231 | RECEIVER FRONT END ARCHITECTURE FOR INTRA BAND CARRIER AGGREGATION - A receiver front end architecture for intra band carrier aggregation is disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment, an apparatus includes a first transistor having a gate terminal to receive an input signal, drain terminal to output an amplified signal, and a source terminal connected to a signal ground by a source degeneration inductor. The apparatus also includes a second transistor having a source terminal connected to the drain terminal of the first transistor and a drain terminal connected to a first load. The apparatus also includes a third transistor having a gate terminal connected to the drain terminal of the first transistor, a drain terminal connected to a second load and a source terminal connected to a signal ground. | 05-19-2016 |
20160149729 | MULTI-WIRE SYMBOL TRANSITION CLOCKING SYMBOL ERROR CORRECTION - Apparatus, systems and methods for error detection in transmissions on a multi-wire interface are disclosed. A method for correcting transmission errors in multi-wire transition-encoded interface may include determining whether a symbol error is present in the sequence of symbols based on a value of an error detection code (EDC) in the received plurality of bits, generating one or more permutations of the sequence of symbols, where each permutation includes one symbol that is different from corresponding symbols in the sequence of symbols and different from corresponding symbols in other permutations. A permutation in the one or more permutations may be identified as including a corrected sequence of symbols when it produces a decoded EDC value that matches an expected EDC value. The expected EDC value may correspond to a predefined value for EDCs transmitted over the multi-wire interface to enable detection of up to two symbol errors at the receiver. | 05-26-2016 |
20160156488 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD | 06-02-2016 |
20160156492 | RADIO SIGNAL DECODING AND DECODER | 06-02-2016 |
20160164711 | APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING BROADCAST SIGNALS, APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING BROADCAST SIGNALS, METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING BROADCAST SIGNALS AND METHOD FOR RECEIVING BROADCAST SIGNALS - A method and an apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals thereof are disclosed. The apparatus for receiving broadcast signals, the apparatus comprises a receiver to receive the broadcast signals, a demodulator to demodulate the received broadcast signals by an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex) scheme, a frame parser to parse a signal frame from the demodulated broadcast signals, a bit deinterleaver to bit deinterleave data in the parsed signal frame and a decoder to decode the bit deinterleaved data. | 06-09-2016 |
20160173298 | DIVERSITY RECEPTION DEVICE, DIVERSITY RECEPTION METHOD PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | 06-16-2016 |
20160182265 | TRANSFERRING DATA BETWEEN ELEMENTS OF A CABLE COMMUNICATION DEVICE | 06-23-2016 |
20160191139 | METHOD FOR THE DETECTION OF AN ELECTROMAGNETIC SIGNAL BY AN ANTENNA ARRAY WITH PATTERN DIVERSITY, AND DEVICE IMPLEMENTING SAID METHOD - A method for detecting an electromagnetic signal by an antenna array with pattern diversity and a device for implementing this method is provided. The method according to the invention requires no prior knowledge of the type of signal and can be implanted on an antenna array with pattern diversity. | 06-30-2016 |
20160191182 | SATELLITE SIGNAL FREQUENCY TRANSLATION AND STACKING - An outdoor satellite receiving unit (ODU) receives several independent satellite signals, selects two signals with a switch matrix, downconverts the two signals to a bandstacked signal with a high and a low band signal, and outputs the bandstacked signal on the same cable to receiver units. Several satellite signals can be selected in groups of two or more and output to independent receiver units. Signal selecting is performed at the received radio frequency (RF) and bandstacking is performed with a single downconversion step to an intermediate frequency (IF). Channel stacking on the same cable of more than two channels from several satellites can be achieved by using frequency agile downconverters and bandpass filters prior to combining at the IF output. A slow transitioning switch minimizes signal disturbances when switching and maintains input impedance at a constant value. | 06-30-2016 |
20160191283 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FM DEMODULATION WITH THRESHOLD EXTENSION - The present disclosure is directed to an FM demodulator having an extended threshold breakdown point. The FM demodulator uses an arcsin demodulator in combination with a frequency compressive loop to produce a demodulated output signal. The FM demodulator includes three filters that use a coefficient α to determine how the filters behave. The FM demodulator extends the threshold breakdown point of the signal-to-noise ratio of the FM signal beyond traditional levels, allowing the FM demodulator to work at long distances from the broadcasting antenna. | 06-30-2016 |
20160191285 | WIDEBAND AND NARROWBAND RECEIVER - Systems and methods provide a receiver design capable of both wideband (high symbol rate) and narrowband (low symbol rate) operations requirements without compromising narrowband performance. Moreover, such a receiver design can be very low cost, and eschewing the need for any expensive and/or specialized elements. A receiver configured in accordance with various embodiments utilizes a fully integrated tuner in which narrowband filters are configured to be bypassable when in wideband (high symbol rate) mode in favor of fixed wideband filters. Additionally, an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) can be implemented with digital gain for wideband operation, as well as digital data bit mapping to accommodate industry standard application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) interfaces, such as from a 12 bit ADC core to an 8 bit digital interface. | 06-30-2016 |
20160191286 | APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING BROADCAST SIGNALS, APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING BROADCAST SIGNALS, METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING BROADCAST SIGNALS AND METHOD FOR RECEIVING BROADCAST SIGNALS - A method and an apparatus for receiving broadcast signals thereof are disclosed. The apparatus for receiving broadcast signals, the apparatus comprises a receiver to receive the broadcast signals, a demodulator to demodulate the received broadcast signals by an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex) scheme, a frame parser to parse a signal frame from the demodulated broadcast signals, a time deinterleaver to time deinterleave data in the parsed signal frame and a decoder to decode the time deinterleaved data. | 06-30-2016 |
20160191291 | DATA RECEIVING METHOD AND RECEIVER - A data receiving method and receiver are provided. A receiver determines the length of a pre-tail and the length of a post-tail of a frame by obtaining a start time and an end time of the main part of the signal of the frame at a fixed time, and determines a start time and an end time of a frame receiving window according to the start time and the end time of the main part of the signal of the frame and according to the length of the pre-tail and the length of the post-tail; and receiving a frame between the start time and the end time of the frame receiving window, so that the receiver can accurately and completely receive the main part of the signal and the pre-tail and post-tail of each frame to accurately and completely receive signals. | 06-30-2016 |
20160191679 | APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING BROADCAST SIGNALS, APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING BROADCAST SIGNALS, METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING BROADCAST SIGNALS AND METHOD FOR RECEIVING BROADCAST SIGNALS - A method and an apparatus for receiving broadcast signals thereof are disclosed. The apparatus for receiving broadcast signals, the apparatus comprises a receiver to receive the broadcast signals, a demodulator to demodulate the received broadcast signals by an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex) scheme, a frame parser to parse a signal frame from the demodulated broadcast signals, a decoder to decode data in the parsed signal frame and an output-processor to output-process the decoded data. | 06-30-2016 |
20160197664 | METHOD FOR THE DETECTION OF AN ELECTROMAGNETIC SIGNAL BY AN ANTENNA ARRAY, AND DEVICE IMPLEMENTING SAID METHOD | 07-07-2016 |
20160197759 | Broadcast Signal Transmitting Apparatus, Broadcast Signal Receiving Apparatus, Broadcast Signal Transmitting Method, and Broadcast Signal Receiving Method | 07-07-2016 |
20160380798 | UART With Line Activity Detector - A universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter (UART) module is disclosed. The UART module may include an edge detector coupled with a data line of the UART module, wherein the edge detector resets a counter on a rising and a falling edge. | 12-29-2016 |
20220140843 | MODULATOR AND MODULATION METHOD USING NON-UNIFORM 16-SYMBOL SIGNAL CONSTELLATION FOR LOW-DENSITY PARITY CHECK CODEWORD HAVING 4/15 CODE RATE - A modulator and a modulation method using a non-uniform 16-symbol signal constellation are disclosed. The modulator includes a memory and a processor. The memory receives a codeword corresponding to a low-density parity check (LDPC) code having a code rate of 4/15. The processor maps the codeword to 16 symbols of the non-uniform 16-symbol signal constellation on a 4-bit basis. | 05-05-2022 |