41st week of 2021 patent applcation highlights part 56 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20210320649 | METHOD OF DYNAMICALLY CONTROLLING MINIMUM DUTY CYCLE AND RELATED HALF-BRIDGE BOOTSTRAP CIRCUIT - A half-bridge bootstrap circuit includes a high-side switch, a low-side switch, and a boot capacitor. A dynamically controlled minimum duty cycle curve is adopted to guarantee the minimum turn-on time of the low-side switch so that the boot capacitor can be sufficiently charged for keeping the high-side switch in the turn-on state. Also, the value of the minimum duty cycle curve can be dynamically set according to different operational phases of a load, thereby increasing the maximum output power of the load. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320650 | LOW CLOCK LOAD DYNAMIC DUAL OUTPUT LATCH CIRCUIT - The present disclosure relates to integrated circuits, and more particularly, to a low clock load dynamic dual output latch circuit and methods of operation. The structure includes: a plurality of dynamic clocked stacks which are configured to receive input data and provide a true logical value and a complement logical value; and a plurality of holding stacks which are configured to provide a hold signal to the dynamic clocked stacks and output the true logical value and the complement logical value in response to the hold signal being activated. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320651 | DELAY CIRCUIT AND PHASE INTERPOLATOR - A delay circuit includes a first delay line suitable for delaying a first clock by a delay value that is adjusted based on a delay control code; a delay control circuit suitable for comparing a phase of the first clock delayed through the first delay line with a phase of a second clock to generate the delay control code; and a second delay line having, based on a delay control code, a delay value corresponding to a half of the delay value of the first delay line. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320652 | DUTY CYCLE CORRECTION SYSTEM AND LOW DROPOUT (LDO) REGULATOR BASED DELAY-LOCKED LOOP (DLL) - An apparatus is provided, where the apparatus includes a plurality of components; a first circuitry to generate a clock signal, and to supply the clock signal to the plurality of components; a second circuitry to estimate, for each of two or more components of the plurality of components, a corresponding duty cycle of the clock signal received at the corresponding component, wherein two or more duty cycles corresponding to the two or more components are determined; a third circuitry to determine an average of the two or more duty cycles; and a fourth circuitry to correct a duty cycle of the clock signal generated by the first circuitry, based at least in part on the average. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320653 | DRIVING CIRCUIT FOR SWITCHING ELEMENT AND SWITCHING CIRCUIT - A switching element | 2021-10-14 |
20210320654 | SOURCE SIGNAL OUTPUT CIRCUIT AND INVERTER THEREOF - The present disclosure discloses a source signal output circuit and an inverter thereof. The inverter is configured to provide a multiplexer with a control signal having a full range for selecting a source signal and to output the control signal having the full range by using elements operating in a low voltage range. Therefore, the present disclosure has an advantage in that it can fabricate a driving circuit having a small area at a low process cost. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320655 | MOTION DETECTION DEVICE - A motion detection device includes an attached member on a vehicle body side, a sensor electrode configured to detect capacitance, and a sensor bracket. The sensor bracket has a sensor holding portion holding the sensor electrode and is attached to an inner surface of the attached member. The sensor holding portion includes a holding piece that extends from a side away from an inner surface of the attached member to a side approaching the inner surface and holds the sensor electrode, and the holding piece holds the sensor electrode at a position at which an axis of the sensor electrode is separated from the inner surface of the attached member by at least 15 mm or more. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320656 | Capacitive proximity sensor - A capacitive proximity sensor of the present invention principally comprises a sensor electrode, a sensor circuit, a detection circuit, and a microcomputer. The sensor circuit has an LC parallel circuit and an LC series resonant circuit. Furthermore, the single sensor electrode is connected in parallel with the LC parallel circuit. By decreasing the drive voltage applied to the sensor electrode, the radiated noise generated by the sensor electrode is also decreased. In addition, foot detection sensitivity can be improved by amplifying the detection signal with the LC series resonant circuit. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320657 | Flexible Sensing Interface Systems and Methods - Disclosed herein is a flexible sensing interface, comprising: a sensor, comprising: a core; an inner electrode in the form of a conductive material in contact with the core; an inner dielectric material substantially encasing the inner electrode; an outer electrode in the form of a conductive material in contact with the inner dielectric material and in electrical communication with the inner electrode; and an outer dielectric material substantially encasing the outer electrode; wherein the inner dielectric material and the outer dielectric material comprise an elastic material. Also disclosed herein are systems and methods for making and using the same. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320658 | USER INTERFACE AND MEDICAL DEVICE - The present application relates to an operating appliance for interacting with a user, including a transparent cover device, a support device with a sensor cutout, and a pressure switch, wherein the transparent cover device forms an operating area and a lower side lying opposite to the operating area and the support device is arranged on or at the lower side and the pressure switch is located and aligned within the sensor cutout in such a way that a user input by means of a finger of the user on the operating area is detectable by the pressure switch, wherein a finger indentation is provided on the operating area and arranged above the pressure switch. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320659 | KEY UNIT AND KEYBOARD USING THE SAME - A key unit and a keyboard using the same are provided. The key unit includes a circuit board, an elastic element, a keycap, and a processing circuit. The circuit board includes a capacitance sensing circuit embedded therein, and the capacitance sensing circuit includes a pair of sensor electrodes. The elastic element is disposed on the circuit board. The keycap is moveably disposed above and spaced apart from the circuit board. The elastic element is disposed between the keycap and the circuit board so that the keycap moves between a non-depressed position and a depressed position with respect to the circuit board. The processing circuit is electrically connected to the pair of sensor electrodes to obtain a variation of a coupling capacitance between the pair of sensor electrodes and to determine whether the keycap is touched or depressed according to the variation of coupling capacitance. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320660 | CLOCK GATING CELL WITH LOW POWER AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT INCLUDING THE SAME - In an integrated circuit including a clock gating cell based on a set-reset (SR) latch, the clock gating cell includes a first 2-input logic gate configured to receive a clock input and a first signal, and generate a second signal, a first inverter configured to receive the second signal, and generate a clock output, and a 4-input logic gate including a 4-input keeping logic gate configured to generate the SR latch by being cross-coupled to the first 2-input logic gate and keep a level of the first signal. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320661 | SOFT NETWORK-ON-CHIP OVERLAY THROUGH A PARTIAL RECONFIGURATION REGION - An integrated circuit device includes a programmable logic fabric that has programmable logic circuitry and a partial reconfiguration region. The integrated circuit device also includes a network-on-chip formed in soft logic of the integrated circuit device. Additionally, the network-on-chip is configurable to remain operable during a partial reconfiguration of the partial reconfiguration region. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320662 | MATRIX PHASE INTERPOLATOR FOR PHASE LOCKED LOOP - Generating a composite interpolated phase-error signal for clock phase adjustment of a local oscillator by forming a summation of weighted phase-error signals generated using a matrix of partial phase comparators, each of which compare a phase of the local oscillator with a corresponding phase of a reference clock. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320663 | DRIVE SUBSTRATE FOR CAMERA AND BROADCAST CAMERA - A drive substrate for a camera and a broadcast camera which are free from the occurrence of bit errors in video over a low to high temperature range while achieving reduction in a production cost and development time are provided. The phase of a clock is appropriately adjusted by repeating the processes of shifting the clock phase in a first period within a blanking period during which effective pixel data of each frame in a video signal is not used, detecting the occurrence/non-occurrence of a bit error based on the phase-shifted clock in a second period within the blanking period, and further shifting the clock phase in a third period within the blanking period. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320664 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE INCLUDING DELAY COMPENSATION CIRCUIT - A semiconductor device includes an internal clock generation circuit configured to generate an internal clock; a plurality of unit circuits configured to have a first unit circuit and a second unit circuit operating while being synchronized with an internal clock; a plurality of transfer circuits including a first transfer circuit configured to provide a first transfer path having a first delay time, and a second transfer circuit configured to provide a second transfer path having a second delay time different from the first delay time; and a delay compensation circuit configured to compare a first clock input to the first unit circuit through the first transfer path with a second clock input to the second unit circuit through the second transfer path, and to adjust the second delay time so that the adjusted second delay time matches the first delay time. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320665 | FREQUENCY GENERATION AND SYNCHRONIZATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A clock generator can include a Fin Field Effect Transistor (FinFET) oscillator and a phased-locked loop (PLL). The FinFET oscillator can generate a FinFET signal. The PLL can generate an output clock signal based on a reference clock signal and the FinFET signal. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320666 | INJECTION-LOCKED OSCILLATOR DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES - Systems and methods for integrating injection-locked oscillators into transceiver arrays are disclosed. In one aspect, there is provided an injection-locked oscillator (ILO) distribution system including a master clock generator configured to generate a master clock signal. The ILO distribution system also includes an ILO distribution circuit including an ILO and configured to receive the master clock signal. The ILO is configured to generate a reference clock signal based on the master clock signal. The ILO distribution circuit is further configured to generate an output signal indicative of an operating frequency of the ILO. The ILO distribution system further includes an injection-locked detector (ILD) configured to receive the master clock signal and the output signal. The ILD is further configured to determine whether the ILO is in a locked state or in an unlocked state based on the master clock signal and the output signal. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320667 | Analog/Digital Converter - A wide-band analog input signal is converted into a digital output signal on the basis of a band division method without the need for filter circuits. An analog processing block A | 2021-10-14 |
20210320668 | Delay Circuit, Time To Digital Converter, And A/D Conversion Circuit - A delay circuit includes a state transition section configured to start state transition based on a trigger signal and output state information indicating the internal state and a transition-state acquisition section configured to latch and hold the state information. The state transition section includes a tapped delay line in which a plurality of delay elements are coupled, a logical circuit configured to generate a third signal based on a first signal based on the trigger signal and a second signal, which is an output signal of the delay element, and a synchronous transition section configured to count an edge of the third signal. The state information is having an output signal of the synchronous transition section and an output signal of the tapped delay line. A humming distance of the state information before and after the state transition is 1. A time from when the internal state transitions from a first internal state to a second internal state until when the internal state transitions to the first internal state again is longer than an interval of a time for updating the state information held by the transition-state acquisition section. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320669 | ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTER, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, AND ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERSION METHOD - An analog-to-digital converter ( | 2021-10-14 |
20210320670 | ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTER, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, AND ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERSION METHOD - An analog-to-digital converter ( | 2021-10-14 |
20210320671 | HIGH EFFICIENCY CURRENT SOURCE/SINK DAC - A current source and/or current sink digital-to-analog converter (DAC) includes a DAC circuit that converts a digital code to an analog current or voltage signal, an optional transconductance circuit that converts a voltage output of the DAC circuit into a current signal, and an output circuit that amplifies a current output of the DAC circuit or optionally amplifies a current output of the transconductance circuit to set a desired high current output for application to an output of the current source and/or current sink DAC. A power supply control current may be coupled to a power supply circuit that supplies power to the output circuit of the current source and/or current sink DAC. The power supply control current adjusts the output of the power supply circuit to cause the current source and/or current sink DAC to operate at a higher power efficiency. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320672 | ENERGY EFFICIENT ADAPTIVE DATA ENCODING METHOD AND CIRCUIT - Various energy efficient data encoding schemes and computing devices are disclosed. In one aspect, a method of transmitting data from a transmitter to a receiver connected by plural wires is provided. The method includes sending from the transmitter on at least one but not all of the wires a first wave form that has first and second signal transitions. The receiver receives the first waveform and measures a first duration between the first and second signal transitions using a locally generated clock signal not received from the transmitter. The first duration is indicative of a first particular data value. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320673 | ERROR CORRECTION CIRCUIT AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF - An error correction circuit includes: a first error correction encoder for generating a plurality of row-codewords by performing first error correction encoding on each of a plurality of messages; a second error correction encoder for generating a plurality of column-codewords; a first error correction decoder for performing first error correction decoding on each of read row-vectors corresponding to the plurality of row-codewords, and outputting a soft information of the first error correction decoding; and a second error correction decoder for determining whether each of m-bit symbols in read column-vectors corresponding to the column-codewords is reliable, based on the soft information corresponding to each of the p-bit symbols, and performing second error correction decoding on the read column-vectors, based on the determination of whether each of the m-bit symbols is reliable. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320674 | SEQUENCE INTERLEAVING FOR CONVEYING MULTI-BIT PAYLOADS - Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A communication device, otherwise known as a user equipment (UE) or a base station may select a sequence from a set of sequences for conveying a payload including a set of bits. A length of the selected sequence may be based on a number of time periods for conveying the payload and a number of frequency tones for conveying the payload. The communication device may apply an interleaving function to the selected sequence to generate an interleaved sequence, and transmit the payload including the set of bits using the interleaved sequence. Likewise, the communication device may receive the payload including the set of bits using an interleaved sequence, and apply an interleaving function to de-interleave the interleaved sequence to generate a selected sequence. The communication device may thereby decode the payload based on the selected sequence. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320675 | OPTIMIZED IMPLEMENTATION OF (DE-)INTERLEAVING AND RATE (DE-)MATCHING FOR 3GPP NEW RADIO - Apparatuses and methods are disclosed for a communication device associated with a wireless transmission. In one embodiment, a method includes performing one of a low-density parity check, LDPC, decoding process and an LDPC encoding process by loading a set of bits, in parallel, into a plurality of registers, the set of bits being distributed among the plurality of registers; one of de-interleaving and interleaving the loaded set of bits within the plurality of registers by rearranging the loaded set of bits into one of a de-interleaved and an interleaved set of bits; and after the set of bits is rearranged into the one of the de-interleaved and the interleaved set of bits within the plurality of registers, writing the one of the de-interleaved and the interleaved set of bits, in parallel, from the plurality of registers to memory. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320676 | LLR ESTIMATION FOR SOFT DECODING - A method of soft decoding received signals. The method comprising defining quantisation intervals for a signal value range, determining a number of bits in each quantisation interval that are connected to unsatisfied constraints, providing, the number of bits in each quantisation interval that are connected to unsatisfied constraints, as an input to a trained model, wherein the trained model has been trained to cover an operational range of a device for soft decoding of signals, determining, using the trained model, a log likelihood ratio for each quantisation interval, and performing soft decoding using the log likelihood ratios. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320677 | RADIO FREQUENCY MODULE AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A radio frequency module including a module substrate including a first principal surface and a second principal surface; a power amplifier; an inductor disposed on the second principal surface and connected to the power amplifier; and an external connection terminal configured to receive a power supply voltage. The first external connection terminal is disposed on the second principal surface and connected to the power amplifier via the inductor. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320678 | SELF INTERFERENCE NOISE CANCELLATION TO SUPPORT MULTIPLE FREQUENCY BANDS WITH NEURAL NETWORKS OR RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORKS - Examples described herein include systems and methods which include wireless devices and systems with examples of multiple frequency bands transmission with a recurrent neural network that compensates for the self-interference noise generated by power amplifiers at harmonic frequencies of a respective wireless receiver. The recurrent neural network may be coupled to antennas of a wireless device and configured to generate the adjusted signals that compensate self-interference. The recurrent neural network may include a network of processing elements configured to combine transmission signals into sets of intermediate results. Each set of intermediate results may be summed in the recurrent neural network to generate a corresponding adjusted signal. The adjusted signal is receivable by a corresponding wireless receiver to compensate for the self-interference noise generated by a wireless transmitter transmitting on the same or different frequency band as the wireless receiver is receiving. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320679 | DC-COUPLED SERDES RECEIVER - A receiver includes a first T-coil circuit at an input of the receiver and configured to receive an input signal, a termination impedance coupled to the first T-coil circuit and configured to match an impedance of a transmission line coupled to the first T-coil circuit, and an amplifier including a first input and a second input and configured to amplify a differential signal at the first and second inputs, a calibration switch coupled to the amplifier and configured to selectively electrically connect or disconnect the first and second inputs of the amplifier, and a first receive switch configured to selectively electrically connect or disconnect a center node of the first T-coil circuit and the amplifier. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320680 | CASE OF FLEXIBLE DISPLAY DEVICE - The present disclosure relates to a flexible display device case that is mounted to a flexible display device including a first body and a second body configured to be movable relative to the first body, and including a first member mounted to the first body to surround a side surface portion of the first body, and a second member mounted to the second body to surround a side surface portion of the second body, wherein an area overlapped by the first member and the second member changes as the first body and the second body move relative to each other. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320681 | PORTABLE TERMINAL COVER FOR SUPPORTING UWB COMMUNICATION - A portable terminal cover fastened to a portable terminal not including a UWB module comprises: a first antenna driven by receiving wireless power through a wireless power transmission with a portable terminal; a second antenna, which is driven by the wireless power supplied from the first antenna so as to measure and receive the location and distance data for an object within a communication range; a third antenna, which is operated by the wireless power supplied from the first antenna so as to transmit the location and distance data, having been measured by the second antenna, to the portable terminal; and a control unit for controlling the first, second and third antennas. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320682 | RADIO FREQUENCY MODULE AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A radio frequency module includes: a power amplifier; an inductor connected to the power amplifier; an external connection terminal that is connected to the power amplifier via the inductor and is configured to receive a power supply voltage from an outside source; a low-noise amplifier; a matching circuit connected to input of the low-noise amplifier; and a module substrate including a first principal surface and a second principal surface on opposite sides of the module substrate. The inductor is disposed on one of the first principal surface and the second principal surface, and the matching circuit is disposed on the other of the first principal surface and the second principal surface. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320683 | FRONT-END MODULE - A front-end module is provided. The front-end module includes a reception amplifier configured to amplify a received radio-frequency (RF) signal, first and second series switches configured to control a switching operation to electrically connect an output terminal of the reception amplifier and first and second reception ports to each other, a radio-frequency (RF) splitter configured to simultaneously transfer a received RF signal, amplified by the reception amplifier or bypassing the reception amplifier, to the first and second reception ports, first and second shunt switches configured to control a switching operation to electrically connect a ground and first and second branch nodes between the RF splitter and the first and second reception ports to each other, and first and second reflected wave removing impedance elements electrically connected between the first and second branch nodes and a ground. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320684 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An utterance detection unit | 2021-10-14 |
20210320685 | FREQUENCY PRE-COMPENSATION FOR HIGH-SPEED TRAIN SINGLE FREQUENCY NETWORKS - Wireless communication devices, systems, and methods related to mechanisms for transmitting and receiving reference signals in a high-speed train (HST) single frequency network (SFN). A base station (BS) determines a first frequency pre-compensation value for a reference signal transmitted via a first transmission and reception point (TRP) and a second frequency pre-compensation value for a reference signal via a second TRP. The BS notifies a user equipment (UE) of the first and second pre-compensation values through at least one of the TRPs. The BS applies the first pre-compensation value to the reference signal via the first TRP and the second pre-compensation value to the reference signal via the second TRP. The UE adjusts its tracking loop for the reference signal based on the pre-compensation values, reducing estimation and/or search overhead at the UE. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320686 | DETECTING DISTORTION IN SPREAD SPECTRUM SIGNALS - Detecting distortion in spread spectrum signals, including: identifying, based on a reference clock signal, one or more edges in a spread spectrum clock signal; incrementing one or more counters corresponding to the one or more edges, the one or more counters included in a plurality of counters; providing each bit of a respective output of the plurality of counters to a respective OR gate of a plurality of OR gates; and outputting, based on an output of an OR gate of the plurality of OR gates corresponding to a selected bit, an indication of whether distortion exists in the spread spectrum clock signal. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320687 | SLEEPY DEVICE OPERATION IN ASYNCHRONOUS CHANNEL HOPPING NETWORKS - A radio communications device includes a RTC configured to run even during sleep for receiving from a coordinator node (CN) in an asynchronous channel hopping WPAN an asynchronous hopping sequence (AHS) frame that includes the CN's hopping sequence. A processor implements a stored sleepy device operation in asynchronous channel hopping networks algorithm. The algorithm is for determining a time stamp for the AHS frame and the CN's initial timing position within the hopping sequence, storing the time stamp, going to sleep and upon waking up changing a frequency band of its receive (Rx) channel to an updated fixed channel. A data request command frame is transmitted by the device on the CN's listening channel that is calculated from the CN's hopping sequence, time stamp, CN's initial timing position and current time, and the device receives an ACK frame transmitted by the CN at the updated fixed channel of Rx operation. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320688 | System and Method for Establishing an Intervehicle Communication - A system for establishing an intervehicle communication for at least a first and a second commercial vehicle includes several wireless and/or wired communication lines, at least one message sending module and at least one message receiving module. The message sending module is configured and arranged to send the at least one message over one or more lines. The message receiving module is configured to receive the message over one or more lines. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320689 | SYSTEM AND RELATED METHOD TO DIAGNOSE NOISE AFFECTING IMPAIRMENTS USING DEEP LEARNING - A system for diagnosing noise impacting impairments affecting a Digital Subscriber Line includes at least one processor and at least one memory storing instructions. The at least one memory and the instructions configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the system at least to, receive noise sequences for said Digital Subscriber Line; detect noise symptoms in said noise sequences and identify noise impacting impairments associated with said noise symptoms using a trained machine learning model; and determine an impact on said Digital Subscriber Line of a plurality of noise impacting impairments. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320690 | APPLIANCE CONTROL SYSTEM USING POWER LINE COMMUNICATIONS - A system for controlling multiple electric appliances connected to an AC power line comprises multiple appliance controllers, each of which is connected to a PLC module. Each appliance controller is electrically connected between one of the electric appliances and the AC power line and is operable to control and provide power to the connected appliance. Each appliance controller receives, through the AC power line, appliance control signals containing an appliance address code, which is uniquely assigned to the appliance controller. In response to the appliance control signals, the appliance controller changes the status of the appliance to which it is connected. The PLC modules are contained in modular switch boxes. Each PLC module is programmable to transmit appliance control signals to one of the appliance controllers using the assigned appliance address code. The PLC module is part of a modular switch box, which is replaceably insertable into one of multiple receptacle boxes connected to the AC power line. Electrical power is transferred to the switch box through the receptacle box by conjugate electrical contacts on the exterior of the switch box and on the interior of the receptacle box. The receptacle boxes themselves are mechanically and electrically interconnected through conjugate electrical and mechanical connectors on the exterior of the receptacle boxes. This feature enables the receptacle boxes to be serially ganged, so that receptacle boxes can be added to the system without re-wiring. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320691 | TRANSMISSION METHOD, TERMINAL, NETWORK DEVICE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a transmission method, a terminal, a network device, and a computer-readable storage medium. The transmission method may be performed by a terminal or a network device. The transmission method performed by the terminal includes sending at least one piece of control information by using a target uplink channel, where each piece of control information corresponds to Transmission Reception Point (TRP) identifier information, the TRP identifier information is used to determine a target TRP corresponding to the control information, and the target TRP is one TRP in multi-TRP transmission. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320692 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MASSIVE MU-MIMO - Disclosed is a method of a first wireless communication device configured for massive multi-user multiple-input multiple output (MU-MEMO) communication with two or more second wireless communication devices. The first wireless communication device comprises a plurality of antenna ports, each antenna port associated with at least one of a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) and an analog-to-digital converter (ADC). The method comprises acquiring an estimation of a communication channel between the in first wireless communication device and the second wireless communication devices and acquiring an estimation of a quantization distortion caused by either DACs or ADCs. The method also comprises jointly determining (for the two or more second wireless communication devices) a transmission power and a transmission resource for each of the second wireless communication devices, wherein the joint determination is based on the estimation of the communication channel and on the estimation of the quantization distortion. Corresponding apparatus, network node and computer program product are also disclosed. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320693 | UPLINK AND DOWNLINK RECIPROCITY MANAGEMENT OF INTERFERENCE - The present disclosure relates to methods and devices for mitigating inter-cluster interference in clusters where one or more network nodes are transmitting in coordination using several transceiver antennas. In particular the disclosure relates to improved precoder algorithms to be used for coordinated multipoint transmission applications. The disclosure also relates to corresponding computer programs. The disclosure proposes a method, performed in a communication system, of mitigating inter-cluster interference, wherein the communication system is configured to coordinate transmissions of one or more wireless devices within two or more wireless device categories and one or more network nodes, wherein the one or more network nodes are transmitting in coordination to the wireless devices in the cluster using several transceiver antennas. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320694 | Channel Measurement Method And Communications Apparatus - Example channel measurement methods and communications apparatus are described. One example method includes receiving a precoded reference signal by a terminal device, where the precoded reference signal is obtained by precoding a reference signal based on K angle vectors and L delay vectors. First indication information is generated and sent, where the first indication information is used to indicate P weighting coefficients corresponding to P angle-delay pairs. The P weighting coefficients are determined by using the precoded reference signal. The P angle-delay pairs and the P weighting coefficients corresponding to the P angle-delay pairs are used to determine a precoding matrix. Each angle-delay pair includes one of the K angle vectors and one of the L delay vectors. The K angle vectors and the L delay vectors are determined based on uplink channel measurement. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320695 | BASE STATION AND MODULATION METHOD SUPPORTING LATTICE-PARTITION-BASED NON-ORTHOGONAL MULTIPLE ACCESS - The invention discloses a base station and a modulation method supporting lattice-partition-based downlink non-orthogonal multiple access. The modulation method includes: modulating at least one most significant bit (MSB) of weak user equipment (UE) into a first signal with first transmission power; modulating at least one least significant bit (LSB) of the weak UE into a second signal with second transmission power, where the second transmission power is less than the first transmission power; and modulating at least one second MSB of strong UE into a third signal with third transmission power, where the third transmission power is between the first transmission power and the second transmission power. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320696 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT FOR TRANSMITTING A PUCCH REPETITION SIGNAL USING A CHANNEL FORMAT THAT ACCOMMODATES SRS TRANSMISSION - A repeater generates repetition signals by repeating an uplink signal over a plurality of subframes. If the plurality of subframes do not include a transmission candidate subframe of a sounding reference signal used to measure uplink reception quality, a controller sets a first transmission format to all the plurality of subframes, and if the plurality of subframes include the transmission candidate subframe, the controller sets a second transmission format to all the plurality of subframes. A transmitter transmits the repetition signals using the set transmission format. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320697 | ANTENNA MANAGEMENT IN DUAL CONNECTIVITY - An apparatus may operate in a dual connectivity mode in which the apparatus is simultaneously connected to carriers of different radio access technologies. The apparatus may operate via a first antenna set of a plurality of antenna sets, the first antenna set including a first communication path. The apparatus may determine to operate via a second antenna set of the plurality of antenna sets based on whether one or more criteria is satisfied. The apparatus may select at least one second communication path for the second antenna set based on the one or more criteria. The apparatus may operate via the second antenna set over the at least one second communication path when the criteria is satisfied. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320698 | HYBRID BEAMFORMING IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - A method for hybrid digital-analog beamforming a communication system. The method includes obtaining a plurality of transmit phase shifted signals by obtaining a hybrid precoding matrix F | 2021-10-14 |
20210320699 | DEFAULT CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION (CSI)-REFERENCE SIGNAL (RS) BEAM - Certain aspects of the subject matter described in this disclosure can be implemented in a method for wireless communication by a user equipment (UE). The method generally includes determining whether a plurality of beam configurations configured for processing one or more downlink (DL) signals are different than a first beam configuration for processing at least one CSI-RS, the one or more DL signals to be received in the same symbol as the at least one CSI-RS; selecting a second beam configuration for processing the at least one CSI-RS based on the determination; receiving the at least one CSI-RS; and processing the at least one CSI-RS based on the selected second beam configuration. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320700 | PRIORITY LEVELS FOR CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION REPORTING - Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described to provide for a user equipment (UE) and a base station to dynamically change a priority level of channel state information (CSI) reporting, such as from a low level to a high priority level, and in some cases back to the low level. If a condition is met, the UE and the base station may determine to change the priority of the CSI reporting from a low priority level to a high priority level. When the priority level for the CSI reporting is changed to a high priority level, the UE may transmit one or more CSI reports to the base station. The UE and the base station may change the priority level of the CSI reporting back to a low priority level if a second condition is met. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320701 | TRIGGERING APERIODIC CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION (A-CSI) REPORTS ON A PHYSICAL UPLINK CONTROL CHANNEL (PUCCH) - Aspects of the present disclosure provide apparatus, methods, processing systems, and computer readable mediums for scheduling and triggering aperiodic channel state information (A-CSI) reporting on a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) using a downlink grant. An example method generally includes receiving, from a network entity, a downlink grant including a trigger to transmit an aperiodic channel state information (A-CSI) report on a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH), generating the A-CSI report, and transmitting the A-CSI report on the PUCCH using timing and resources indicated in the downlink grant. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320702 | TECHNIQUES FOR REPORTED RESOURCE INDICATOR AND MAXIMUM RESOURCE NUMBER FOR SIGNAL-TO-INTERFERENCE-AND-NOISE RATIO (SINR) IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present disclosure relates to reported channel state information (CSI) reference signal (RS) resource indicator (CRI)/synchronization signal block resource indicator (SSBRI) and maximum resource number for Layer 1 signal-to-interference-and-noise ratio (SINR). In one aspect, a user equipment (UE) may receive a CSI report configuration that includes a report quantity parameter set to indicate use of a SINR, obtain an SINR measurement, and transmit a CSI report including the SINR measurement to the network entity. In another aspect, a network entity may transmit a CSI report configuration that includes a report quality parameter set to indicate use of a SINR, the report quantity parameter is configured to trigger the UE to measure the SINR of at least one communication channel associated with the network entity, and receive a CSI report including an SINR measurement from the UE. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320703 | METHOD FOR REPORTING MULTIPLE CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND APPARATUS THEREFOR - According to an embodiment of the disclosure, a method for reporting a plurality of channel state information by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system comprises receiving association information related to a plurality of channel state reports and reporting a plurality of channel state information using the association information, wherein in reporting the plurality of channel state information, remaining channel state information except for specific channel state information among the plurality of channel state information is excluded from being reported or is reported in a form of a reduced payload size, according to the association information. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320704 | CSI REPORT CONFIGURATION WITH A CODEBOOK LIST - Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for a channel state information (CSI) report configuration with a codebook list, for example, for non-coherent joint transmission (NCJT). A method for wireless communication that can be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving a CSI report configuration. The CSI report configuration is associated with one or more CSI reference signal (RS) resources. Each CSI-RS resource includes a set of ports or port groups. The UE receives a list of codebooks associated with the configuration. The UE determines at least one codebook, from the list of codebooks, to apply for one or more triggered CSI-RS resources. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320705 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - The present invention provides an information processing method, comprising: generating signaling comprising configuration information of channel state information process (CSI process); and sending the signaling comprising the configuration information of the CSI process. The present invention resolves the problem in the related art of being unable to use one CSI-RS resource overhead to meet the transmission requirements of multiple CSI-RSs having different port numbers, thereby achieving the technical effect of reducing resource overheads. The present invention also provides an information processing device and a storage medium. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320706 | COMMUNICATION TIME ALLOCATION METHOD USING REINFORCEMENT LEARNING FOR WIRELESS POWERED COMMUNICATION NETWORK AND BASE STATION - The disclosure provides a communication time allocation method using reinforcement learning for a wireless powered communication network and a base station. The method includes: determining a communication time allocation corresponding to the t-th time block according to an objective function associated with the total estimated throughput of the communication nodes; requesting each communication node to perform specific communication behaviors according to the corresponding communication time interval in the t-th time block; obtaining the actual throughput of each communication node in the t-th time block; generating the weight vector of each communication node in the (t+1)-th time block according to the actual throughput, the weight vector, and the estimated throughput of each communication node in the t-th time block. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320707 | SIGNAL ESTIMATION APPARATUS, SIGNAL ESTIMATION METHOD AND PROGRAM RECORDING MEDIUM - An apparatus performs a discrete Fourier transform process on M×N received signal components included in a received signal, by a unit of N received signal components; and estimates an estimated signal containing M×N estimated signal components, which are estimated values of M×N transmission signal components, on the basis of the received signal on which the discrete Fourier transform process is performed. When the estimated signal xe is newly estimated, the apparatus performs an exclusion operation of excluding an estimated value xe | 2021-10-14 |
20210320708 | PRECONFIGURED ANTENNA BEAMFORMING - System and techniques are provided for preconfigured antenna beamforming. A device having a first antenna system for communicating over a first wireless link and a second antenna system for communicating over a second wireless link may be provided. For different transmit power levels of the first and/or second wireless links, an antenna coupling factor between the first antenna system and the second antenna system may be measured for different beamforming configurations of the first antenna system, a received signal strength indicator (RSSI) of the first and/or second wireless link may be measured for the different beamforming configurations of the first antenna system, and a beamforming configuration at each of the different transmit power levels with the measured antenna coupling factor and the measured RSSI may be stored in a memory as a predefined beamforming configuration. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320709 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DESIGNING A GRID-OF-BEAMS USING MACHINE LEARNING - Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for determining a grid-of-beams (GoB) are provided. One method may include collecting network data for training a neural network, train the neural network, using the collected data, to learn a non-discounted cumulative reward Q that evaluates a benefit of including a given beam into a grid-of-beams (GoB), iteratively applying the trained neural network to select at least one optimal beam to include in the grid-of-beams (GoB), and selecting one or more beams from the grid-of-beams (GoB) to transmit to a user equipment or to receive transmission from the user equipment. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320710 | Facilitating Efficient Multi-Beam Beam Recovery - A method includes determining whether a downlink beam signal is being received from a base station ( | 2021-10-14 |
20210320711 | OPERATION METHOD OF TERMINAL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND TERMINAL SUPPORTING SAME - The present disclosure proposes an operation method of a terminal operating on the basis of one primary cell (PCell) and one or more secondary cells (SCell) in a wireless communication system, and a terminal supporting same. According to one embodiment applicable to the present disclosure, a terminal may adaptively change a PRACH resource having successfully performed BFR to an uplink beam of an SCell or maintain an uplink beam of an existing SCell, on the basis of whether an uplink beam related to a PCell is possible to be used as an uplink beam related to the SCell. Through this, the terminal may properly manage the uplink beam of the SCell. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320712 | Communication System Apparatus and Methods - The invention relates to the implementation of wireless communications for a moving platform, wherein the moving platform is provided connectivity to a network via terrestrial base stations and satellite. The network is designed such that the most cost-efficient delivery method is deployed, so in regions in which there is affordable access to power and communication networks, base stations may be deployed, and in regions in which power and communications network access is prohibitively expensive, satellite may be used. The network adapts to changes in moving platform location and provides smooth service transitions as moving platforms move from the service area of a first base station to the service area of a second base station and between a service of a base station and a service area of a satellite. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320713 | UPLINK BEAMFORMING BETWEEN AN AIRBORNE TRANSCEIVER AND A TERRESTRIAL TRANSCEIVER - A wireless communication system beamforms an uplink from an airborne transceiver to a terrestrial transceiver. The airborne transceiver comprises antennas that have an antenna type an aperture beamwidth. The airborne transceiver transfers a transceiver ID to the terrestrial transceiver. The terrestrial transceiver initiates aerial uplink beamforming for the antenna type and the aperture beamwidth based on the airborne transceiver ID. The terrestrial transceiver determines uplink beamforming metrics and altitude for the airborne transmitter. The terrestrial transceiver generates an uplink beamforming instruction and an uplink power instruction for the antenna type and the aperture beamwidth of the airborne transceiver based on the uplink beamforming metrics and altitude. The terrestrial transceiver transfers the uplink beamforming instruction and the uplink power instruction to the airborne transceiver. The airborne transceiver beamforms, amplifies, and transmits an uplink wireless signal to the terrestrial transceiver per the uplink beamforming instruction and the uplink power instruction. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320714 | RECONFIGURABLE AND PRIORITIZABLE WIRELESS RADIO SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING MASSIVE BANDWIDTH TO THE SKY USING A LIMITED NUMBER OF FREQUENCIES AND ADAPTABLE HARDWARE - An air-to-ground communication system including: a plurality of ground stations, where each ground station includes a plurality of ground-based directional antennae having a beam width associated with a particular area of the sky above the ground station and for each ground-based directional antenna, a least one software defined radio coupled to the directional antenna to enable the ground-based directional antenna to transmit radio frequency signals generated by the software defined radio and to provide to the software defined radio frequency signals received by the ground-based directional antenna and a plurality of air stations, each including a number of air-based directional antennae and an air station control unit, each air-based directional antenna having a beam width associated with a particular area of the sky below the air station; for each air-based directional antenna, a least one software defined radio coupled to the air-based directional antenna in such a manner as enable the air-based directional antenna to transmit radio frequency signals generated by the software defined radio and to provide to the software defined radio frequency signals received by the air-based directional antenna; wherein the control unit of each air station is configured to enable bi-directional communications between each air-based directional antenna a ground-based directional antenna, at any given time, the ground-based directional antennas in communication with the air-based directional antenna are all from different ground stations. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320715 | HYBRID DUAL-BAND SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A hybrid satellite communication system in which a hub station transmits signals to remote stations through a satellite at a relatively low frequency unaffected by weather effects and in which the remote stations transmit signals to the hub station at a relatively higher frequency which enables use of more economical equipment at remote stations. The hub station senses signal quality or strength received from each remote station and transmits power control signals to remote stations with poor signal strengths to cause such remote stations to increase output power to overcome weather effects. The power control signals are transmitted on the lower frequency to prevent the power control signals from being masked by the weather effects. A communications satellite can the either geostationary or low Earth orbit (LEO). Data can also be transmitted on the relatively low frequency. The communication system can utilize antennae with dish, array and other suitable configurations. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320716 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FORWARD ERROR CORRECTING ACROSS MULTIPLE SATELLITES - An illustrated embodiment disclosed herein is a method including receiving, by a gateway, a first physical data unit (PDU) of a plurality of PDUs from an endpoint via a first satellite, receiving, by the gateway, a second PDU of the plurality of PDUs from the endpoint via a second satellite, and decoding, by the gateway, a payload from the first PDU and the second PDU. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320717 | WIRELESS CONTROL OF A PASSENGER SERVICE UNIT USING A PERSONAL DEVICE OF A PASSENGER - A method for controlling a passenger service unit includes receiving, by a personal device of a passenger, an electromagnetic (EM) signal. The EM signal includes identification information of the passenger service unit. The method also includes transmitting, by the personal device, a message for controlling operation of one or more selected devices of the passenger service unit. The message includes an identification of the one or more selected devices of the passenger service unit and a control input for each of the one or more selected devices. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320718 | OPTICALLY-ENHANCED MULTICHIP PACKAGING - Optical chip-to-chip interconnects may use microLEDs as light sources. The interconnected chips may be on a same substrate. A pair of endpoint chips may each have associated optical transceiver subsystems, with transceiver circuitry in transceiver chips. Optical communications may be provided between the optical transceiver subsystems, with the optical transceiver subsystems in communication with their associated endpoint chips by way of metal layers in the substrate. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320719 | OPTICAL MODULE - An optical module includes: a laser device; a wavelength detector; a modulator; a modulator driver; a coherent mixer; a photoelectric element; a transimpedance amplifier; and a casing. Further, the laser device is arranged such that the laser device outputs a laser light beam in a direction opposite to a side on which the optical output unit is arranged in the casing. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320720 | OPTICAL TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, OPTICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND OPTICAL SIGNAL TRANSMISSION METHOD - An object is to perform wavelength filtering of an optical signal while preventing filter narrowing in an optical transmission apparatus. A branching unit branches a wavelength-multiplexed optical signal including an optical signal of a first wavelength into two optical signals. A wavelength selection unit blocks an optical signal of a first wavelength band including the first wavelength in the optical signal. A filter unit allows passage of an optical signal of a second wavelength band including the first wavelength in the optical signal. A multiplexing unit multiplexes and the optical signal and an optical signal of a second wavelength. The second wavelength band is wider than the first wavelength band. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320721 | PARALLEL OPTICAL COMMUNICATION CHANNELS USING MICROLEDS - Coupling of light from large angular distribution microLEDs into smaller angular acceptance distribution of transmission channels is performed using optical elements. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320722 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING ERROR CORRECTION BASED ON LASER POWER SETTING - In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a processor, a laser, and a modulator. The processor is to generate a first electrical signal including first data and a second electrical signal including second data. The laser is to generate a multiplexed carrier signal comprising a first carrier signal and a second carrier signal, the laser to operate at a first laser power setting. The modulator is to generate a multiplexed optical signal including a first optical signal based in part on the first electrical signal and the first carrier signal and a second optical signal based in part on the second electrical signal and the second carrier signal. The apparatus is to transmit the multiplexed optical signal to a device and to retransmit the first data from the apparatus to the device based on a detection of error in a received version of the first data at the device. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320723 | Coherent Detection Implementing Apparatus, System and Method - Provided is a coherent detection implementing apparatus, system and method. The apparatus includes: a first transceiver unit, configured to send an optical signal in a first direction to a second device, wherein the optical signal in the first direction includes a direct current optical signal with a first wavelength and a modulated optical signal with a second wavelength; and configured to receive an optical signal in a second direction from the second device; and a first coherent receiver, connected with the first transceiver unit, and configured to take a part of the direct current optical signal with the first wavelength in the optical signal in the first direction as a Local Oscillator (LO) light for coherent reception, perform coherent frequency mixing between the LO light and the optical signal in the second direction, and demodulate the optical signal in the second direction. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320724 | FLEXIBLE BAUD RATE - A method, system, and apparatus enabled to selectively choose a baud rate for communication of optical data using a modem enabled to operate with an optical signal modulated at plurality of finely tuned baud rates. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320725 | INTEGRATED PHOTONIC CHIP STRUCTURE FOR UNIVERSAL QUANTUM WALK SIMULATION - The present invention discloses an integrated photonic chip structure for universal quantum walk simulation which combines the multiphoton source that can generate the spatially entangled multi-photon state and the linear optical network that can implement the unitary transformation, and establishes mapping between on-chip spatial-entangled multi-photon state and quantum walk state and mapping between on-chip linear optical unitary transformation and the evolution process of multi-particle quantum walk. By manipulating the spatially entangled multi-photon state generated via the multi-photon sources and the optical unitary transformation implemented via the universal linear optical networks, the chip structure can implement universal quantum walk simulation with the control over all parameters of multiple-particle quantum walks including such as evolution Hamiltonian, evolution time, initial evolution state and particle properties (i.e., particle indistinguishability and particle exchange symmetry). | 2021-10-14 |
20210320726 | INTERCONNECT NETWORKS USING MICROLED-BASED OPTICAL LINKS - Integrated circuit chips may be optically interconnected using microLEDs. Some interconnections may be vertically-launched parallel optical links. Some interconnections may be planar-launched parallel optical links. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320727 | Audio Receiver Device Calibration for Audio Communications Between a Broadcaster Device and a Receiver Device - An operator selects an application on a first user computing device to request a data transfer with a second user computing device. The first user computing device broadcasts an audio token comprising data. The first user computing device activates a microphone component, successively cycles through available audio configurations, applies each selected audio configuration to received audio token data, determines a signal score for each applied audio configuration, and transmits processed audio token data and signal scores to an account management system. The account management system also receives processed audio token data from multiple other computing devices of the same model as the first user computing device. The account management system selects a default audio configuration for the model based on the determined signal scores. The account management system transmits instructions to known computing devices of the model to apply the default audio configuration to future reception of audio token data. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320728 | ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCERS AND RECEIVERS - The present disclosure relates generally to utilizing ultrasonic transducers and receivers to implement directional sound in combination with gesture detection in an Electronic Gaming Machine (EGM). In one embodiment, a set of ultrasound transducers transmits positional ultrasound pulses to identify the player and/or his gesture, as well as an audio carrier signal, e.g., through a direction speaker, providing directional sound based on the feedback from the ultrasound pulses. Further, embodiments may implement air haptics in both or either of the transmitted pulses of the ultrasonic transducers and/or the audio signal from the directional speaker to provide an enhanced user experience. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320729 | DETERMINING PROXIMITY OF TRANSMITTER ANTENNAS OF PORTABLE DEVICES TO A HUMAN BODY FOR LIMITING TRANSMITTER OUTPUT POWER TO MEET SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE (SAR) REQUIREMENTS - A method for adjusting transmitter output power (P | 2021-10-14 |
20210320730 | METHOD FOR DETECTING AT LEAST ONE COMPROMISED COMPUTER DEVICE IN AN INFORMATION SYSTEM - Disclosed is a method for detecting at least one compromised computer device in an information system, the method including: performing a frequency scan involving dividing the electromagnetic spectrum into frequency sub-bands; performing, in each frequency sub-band, a time envelope demodulation in order to recover signals transmitted by at least one computer device of the information system; converting each demodulated signal in the frequency domain; constructing a frequency spectrum on the basis of the demodulated signals in all the frequency sub-bands; finding, in each frequency sub-band of the frequency spectrum, at least one amplitude line having energy that is greater than a first predefined energy threshold; and, if at least one line having energy that is greater than the first predefined energy threshold is found, indicating the presence of at least one compromised computer device transmitting compromising spurious signals. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320731 | SYSTEM AND A METHOD FOR DETERMINING LOCATION OF AN ASSET - A system and a method for determining location of an asset. A method includes receiving a request from a user for locating an asset and transmitting the signal to a plurality of sensors. Each of the plurality of sensors configured to transmit a beacon for locating the asset and to receive a communication in response to the transmitted beacon from a module coupled with the asset. The method further includes receiving the communication from each of the plurality of sensors for evaluation and determining the location of the asset coupled with the module by evaluating the communication received from each of the plurality of sensors. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320732 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IN-LINE INTERFERENCE DETECTION IN POINT-TO-POINT RADIO LINKS - An interference detection system comprises memory storing computer instructions to cause a processor to perform gathering a temporal snapshot of radio parameter values associated with a first site of a point-to-point radio system, the radio parameter values including at least a receive signal level (RSL) value and at least one other radio parameter value correlated with signal degradation; determining whether the RSL value is greater than an RSL threshold; determining whether the other radio parameter value indicates a threshold level of signal degradation; when the RSL is greater than the RSL threshold and the other parameter indicates a threshold level of signal degradation during the temporal snapshot, determining that external interference is present during the temporal snapshot; when the RSL is not greater than the RSL threshold, determining that the external interference is not present; and performing a responsive action to a determination of the external interference being likely present. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320733 | APPARATUS FOR RADIO-FREQUENCY RECEIVER WITH INTERFERENCE DETECTION AND ASSOCIATED METHODS - An apparatus includes a radio-frequency (RF) receiver, which includes an automatic gain-control (AGC) circuit to use a gain signal to set a gain of front-end circuitry of the RF receiver. The RF receiver further includes an interference-detection circuit to use a value of the gain signal to detect an interference signal. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320734 | RADIO WAVE ENVIRONMENT DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING RADIO WAVE ENVIRONMENT - A radio wave environment display device includes a display unit that displays a radio wave environment and a controller. The radio wave environment display device displays a radio wave environment in an area where a plurality of wireless transmitters located at different positions transmit radio waves. The controller selects, at each of a plurality of points in the area, a maximum intensity among intensities that are magnitudes of received power of radio waves transmitted from the wireless transmitters and causes the display unit to display the radio wave environment at each of the plurality of points based on the maximum intensity selected and an arrival direction of a radio wave with the maximum intensity selected. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320735 | Signal Generation Device - A signal generating device includes a digital signal processing unit, M sub DACs of which an analog bandwidth is f | 2021-10-14 |
20210320736 | Fault Tolerant Design For Clock-Synchronization Systems - A system is provided for synchronizing clocks. The system includes a plurality of devices in a network, each device having a local clock. The system is configured to synchronize the local clocks according to a primary spanning tree, where the primary spanning tree has a plurality of nodes connected through a plurality of primary links, each node of the plurality of nodes representing a respective device of the plurality of devices. The system is also configured to compute a backup spanning tree before a failure is detected in the primary spanning tree, wherein the backup spanning tree includes one or more backup links that are different from the primary links. As such, upon detection of a failure in the primary spanning tree, the system reconfigures the plurality of devices such that clock synchronization is performed according to the backup spanning tree. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320737 | OPEN REAL-TIME ETHERNET PROTOCOL - A real-time Ethernet (RTE) protocol includes start-up frames originated by a master device for network initialization including a preamble, destination address (DA), source address (SA), a type field, and a status field including state information that indicates a current protocol state that the Ethernet network is in for the slave devices to translate for dynamically switching to one of a plurality of provided frame forwarding modes. The start-up frames include device Discovery frames at power up, Parameterization frames that distribute network parameters, and Time Synchronization frames including the master's time and unique assigned communication time slots for each slave device. After the initialization at least one data exchange frame is transmitted exclusive of SA and DA including a preamble that comprises a header that differentiates between master and slave, a type field, a status field excluding the current protocol state, and a data payload. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320738 | SWICH, CONTROL APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A switch includes a control entry holding part which holds a control entry(ies) set by a predetermined control apparatus; a packet processing part which processes a received packet with reference to the control entry(ies); a time synchronization part which performs time synchronization among a device(s) and an apparatus(es) mounted on a vehicle; and a state change part which changes a combination of the control entry(ies) which the packet processing part refers to using a time. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320739 | MULTI-BIT PAYLOAD TRANSMISSION WITH ORTHOGONAL SEQUENCES - Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may transmit an uplink payload in a wireless communications system. The UE may identify a set of sequences configured for conveying a payload including a set of bits, where each sequence of the set of sequences is orthogonal to each other sequence of the set of sequences. The UE may select a first sequence from the set of sequences based on a mapping between the set of sequences and payload values corresponding to the set of bits. The UE may transmit the payload including the set of bits using the first sequence. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320740 | ADD/DROP MULTIPLEXER, NETWORK SYSTEM, TRANSMISSION METHOD, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND MANAGEMENT DEVICE - Provided is a wavelength path communication node device with no collision of wavelengths and routes, capable of outputting arbitrary wavelengths, and capable of outputting them to arbitrary routes. An add/drop multiplexer ( | 2021-10-14 |
20210320741 | OPTICAL TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, METHOD FOR ANALYZING THEREOF, TERMINAL STATION DEVICE, AND MANAGEMENT DEVICE - An optical transmission system includes: a terminal station device that transmits a wavelength multiplexed optical signal resulting from multiplexing an optical signal and dummy light; and an optical add-drop multiplexer that receives respective wavelength multiplexed optical signals transmitted from a plurality of the terminal station devices and performs add-drop processing on the wavelength multiplexed optical signals. The dummy light has a wavelength arrangement in which adjacent wavelengths are arranged with equal spacing, and the wavelength arrangement of the dummy light differs between the terminal station devices. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320742 | Polarization-Dependent Loss Determining Method, Detection System, and Optical Signal Transmission Structure - A polarization-dependent loss (PDL) determining method includes obtaining two groups of optical powers within first duration, selecting at least one group of target optical powers that satisfy a same power constraint from the two groups of optical powers, where each group of target optical powers includes a first target power and a second target power from the two groups of optical powers, and determining a PDL of the optical device based on the at least one group of target optical powers. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320743 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR CHANNEL MANAGEMENT IN PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORK - A method for channel management in an optical network unit includes receiving a disable channel action message sent by an optical line terminal, wherein the disable channel action message is used to instruct disabling a first channel of the optical network unit; transferring the state machine of the optical network unit on the first channel from the association substate of the operation state to the pending substate according to the disable channel action message; and turning off the transmitter and/or the receiver on the first channel after a specified time is reached, transferring the state machine from the pending substate of the operation state to the disabling channel status, and starting a timer. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320744 | COMMUNICATION CONTROL DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL SYSTEM - According to an embodiment, a communication control device includes a communication unit and a jamming control unit. The communication unit wirelessly communicates with a first device and uploads information acquired from the first device to a second device via a network. The jamming control unit allows jamming radio waves to be output to interfere with wireless communication between the first device and a device other than the communication control device, the device being to perform wireless communication in a communication band used by the first device. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320745 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING CHANGEABLE COMMUNICATION SPEED IN WIRELESS POWER TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and a method for supporting an improved communication speed in a wireless power transmission system. In such present specification, provided is the method comprising the steps of: transmitting at least one data packet to a wireless power reception apparatus; receiving, from the wireless power reception apparatus, a first request packet requesting a change in a communication speed of the wireless power transmission apparatus; and changing the communication speed of the wireless power transmission apparatus on the basis of the first request packet, and transmitting, at the changed communication speed, a first response packet in response to the first request packet to the wireless power reception apparatus. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320746 | WIRELESS DEVICE TRANSMIT AND RECEIVE CAPABILITY IN SIDELINK CONTROL INFORMATION - Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. One or more UEs communicating over sidelink may indicate transmit and receive categories to other UEs. A first UE may receive, in a sidelink communication message, an indication of a receive category of a second wireless device. The first UE may then transmit a shared sidelink channel message to the second wireless device based on the receive category of the second wireless device. In another case, a first UE may receive, in a sidelink communication message, an indication of a transmit category of a second wireless device. The first wireless device may then compare the transmit category of the second wireless device with a receive category of the first wireless device. The first wireless device may determine whether to decode a shared sidelink channel message from the second UE based on the comparing. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320747 | USER TERMINAL AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD - A user terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a receiving section that receives downlink control information for scheduling a downlink shared channel or an uplink shared channel; and a control section that determines a time density of a Phase Tracking Reference Signal (PTRS) based on a plurality of thresholds and a Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) index in the downlink control information, wherein the plurality of thresholds is associated with at least one of a table and whether or not transform precoding is applied, and the table is used to determine at least one of a modulation order and a code rate of the downlink shared channel or the uplink shared channel. | 2021-10-14 |
20210320748 | Data Transmission Method and Communications Device - A data transmission method and a communications device, the method including: determining, by a first communications device, a target data transmission mode, where the target data transmission mode is used to indicate a quantity of times that the first communications device transmits an encoded-bit combination to a second communications device and an encoded-bit combination transmitted each time, the encoded-bit combination transmitted each time may include one encoded bit sequence or a plurality of encoded bit sequences, where the encoded bit sequence is obtained by encoding all or some of K information bits, and K is a positive integer, and sending, by the first communications device, the encoded-bit combination to the second communications device in the target data transmission mode, and receiving, by the second communications device, the encoded-bit combination sent by the first communications device, and decoding the encoded bit sequence included in the encoded-bit combination. | 2021-10-14 |