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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120128048 | Detection and Estimation of Narrowband Interference By Matrix Multiplication One or more processing units are programmed to select from among M tones in a frequency domain representation of a signal, a set of tones including at least a strongest tone (relative to background noise) and a tone adjacent thereto. From among M complex numbers in the ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128049 | Confirmation of Presence of Narrowband Interference By Harmonic Analysis One or more processing units confirm existence of narrow band interference in a signal by using an estimate f of the frequency, to check for one or more harmonics. In illustrative embodiments, the estimate f is automatically identified as a second harmonic if a predeter... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128050 | FEEDBACK SCHEME FOR MULTI-CELL INTERFERENCE MITIGATION CONSIDERATION LEGACY MOBILE USERS The present invention relates to a Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) communication system and more particularly, to a method for precoding matrix index (PMI) restriction/recommendation in a multi-cell wireless communication system. A method of codebook based precoding mat... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128052 | CARRIER FREQUENCY ACQUISITION METHOD AND APPARATUS HAVING IMPROVED RELIABILITY FOR DETECTING CARRIER ACQUISITION OR LOSS THEREOF A carrier signal acquisition technique is disclosed. An improved course carrier frequency offset algorithm is employed in conjunction with a conventional fine carrier frequency offset algorithm. The course carrier frequency offset algorithm estimates large offsets that ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128044 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR OPERATING A PRECODED MIMO SYSTEM A method is provided for generating precoder data (600), comprising: obtaining transmit power data indicative of a transmit power of a plurality of multiple-input/multiple-output signals (610); obtaining signal quality data, the signal quality data includi... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120106609 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CHANNEL CLASSIFICATION A system and method for classifying a channel with regard to delay spread in a wireless network applying orthogonal frequency division multiplexing. In one embodiment, a wireless receiver includes a channel classifier. The channel classifier is configured to compute a c... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106613 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTING RECONFIGURABLE ANTENNAS IN MIMO SYSTEMS A method allows reconfigurable multi-element antennas to select the antenna configuration in MIMO, SIMO and MISO communication system. This selection scheme uses spatial correlation, channel reciprocal condition number, delay spread and average Signal to Noise Ratio (SN... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106608 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM A signal processing apparatus is disclosed which includes: a detection section configured such that based on a result of the error correction of a signal generated by a single carrier system, the detection section detects the presence or absence of spectrum inversion in... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106614 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CHANNEL INTERPOLATION A system and method for channel interpolation in a wireless device. In one embodiment a wireless device includes a channel estimator. The channel estimator is configured to generate estimated channel coefficients for a wireless channel over which the wireless device rec... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106610 | TRANSMITTER APPARATUS, RECEIVER APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD A transmitter apparatus includes a reference signal transmitting unit that transmits a both of a first reference signal and a second reference signal differing from the first reference signal to a first receiver apparatus performing non-cooperative communication and to ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106595 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPTIMIZING POWER DISTRIBUTION BETWEEN SYMBOLS A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided in which a first pre-coding matrix for use on a portion of a set of resource blocks (RBs) is determined. At least one beamforming vector of the set of beamforming vectors is m... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106607 | Systems and Methods for Variable Thresholding in a Pattern Detector Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for pattern identification. As an example, a pattern detection circuit is discussed that include: a distance calculation circuit operable to calculate a distance value corresponding to a difference... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120082197 | Method and Apparatus for Enhancing the Accuracy of the Estimated Covariance Matrix in Wideband-CDMA Systems A set of channelization codes to be monitored is divided into two groups. The first group includes those codes for which an associated symbol modulation and transmit-diversity scheme is known. In the second group are those codes that are characterized by an unknown symb... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082198 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OBTAINING CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION REQUIRED FOR BEAMFORMING The present invention provides a method for obtaining channel state information required for beamforming, comprising: estimating current channel state information according to a received signal; predicting future channel state information which is expected to be used by... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082199 | ANTENNA MEASUREMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD The present invention relates to an antenna measurement system and a corresponding method for measuring parameters of the transfer function of an antenna transmission system comprising a transmit antenna, a receive antenna and a transmission channel between said transmi... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120069884 | DIGITAL PHASE DETECTOR AND DIGITAL PHASE-LOCKED LOOP According to one embodiment, a digital phase detector includes a chain of delay devices configured to receive a reference signal through a first stage and delay the reference signal at each stage. The phase detector includes a sampler group configured to include a first... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120069885 | Method and Apparatus Providing Signal Metric for Transmitter The present invention provides a method and associated apparatus providing a signal metric for a transmitter of a communication system. While the transmitter transmitting a signal with amplitudes scaled by scaling combinations selected from a plurality of scaling combin... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120069888 | Method and Arrangement for Estimating the Quality Degradation of a Processed Signal An objective quality assessment method for obtaining an improved estimate of a perceptual quality degradation of a processed signal, and an arrangement for executing such a method, is provided, which is executed on a processed signal and an associate reference signal. B... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120069887 | Method of Minimizing Feedback Overhead Using Spatial Channel Covariance in a Multi-Input Multi-Output System Disclosed is a method for minimizing feedback overhead in a multi-input multi-output (MIMO) communication method using multiple transmission and reception antennas. In particular, a method for minimizing feedback overhead in a multi-input multi-output (MIMO) communicati... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120069886 | WIRELESS STATION, AN INTERFERENCE ESTIMATION METHOD, A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND A COMPUTER PROGRAM A wireless station of the present invention includes: a synchronization unit configured to synchronize with a transmission suspension period of a transmitting station of a wireless system, a measurement unit configured to measure a reception level of a wireless signal o... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120051412 | SYMMETRICAL DATA SIGNAL PROCESSING A digital communications receiver includes an input configured to receive, via a communications channel, a received first signal representing a sequence of symbols, each symbol being encoded to be representative of a plurality of data bits. A processor adjusts a magnitu... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120051413 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING CHANNEL QUALITY FEEDBACK IN AN ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING COMMUNICATION SYSTEM In an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing communication system, a user equipment reports channel quality information that is sufficient to construct a fading profile of a frequency bandwidth and that does not consuming the overhead resulting from the reporting of... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120051411 | FULL-DUPLEX RADIO FREQUENCY ECHO CANCELLATION A system comprising a transmitter element creating an interrogation signal and transmitting the interrogation signal and a receiver element receiving a reflection signal of the interrogation signal and combining the reflection signal and a feedback signal to cancel at l... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120051410 | DSL NOISE CANCELLATION A method and apparatus in a noise cancellation system that receives a noise reference signal via a noise reference signal input port, and performs at least one of procedures a and b set forth below for reducing noise in a DSL data signal transmitted on a DSL transmissio... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120044981 | METHOD, APPARATUS, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM DISTRIBUTION MEDIUM FOR A COMMUNICATION RECEIVER The invention relates to an apparatus comprising, a sampler configured to receive and sample a signal for producing signal samples; a first configured to receive or determinate a scaling factor for a reliability factor and to determine power or energy of an input signal... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120044982 | CQI AND RANK PREDICTION FOR LIST SPHERE DECODING AND ML MIMO RECEIVERS Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate integrating a list-sphere decoding design in a multiple input-multiple output (MIMO wireless communication environment. According to various aspects, optimal rank selection and CQI computation for an optimal rank c... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120039377 | Multiple-Input Multiple-Output System And Method A multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system can transmit on multiple antennas simultaneously and receive on multiple antennas simultaneously. Unfortunately, because a legacy 802.11a/g device is not able to decode multiple data streams, such a legacy device may “sto... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120039375 | QUADRATURE RECEIVER AND METHOD OF COMPENSATING FOR I/Q IMBALANCE USING A CALIBRATION SIGNAL A quadrature demodulator receiver unit (100) comprises a first filter unit (360) that may delay an intermediate signal x(t) whose real part is based on a sampled in-phase IF signal (xi(t)) and whose imaginary part is based on a sampled quadratur... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120039367 | SMART GRID RFI DETECTION A method, system, network and device provide Smart Grid RFI detection. One or more symbols or chips present in one or more received radio frequency signals are detected and the presence of one or more erred symbols or chips in the detected one or more symbols present in... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120039376 | Systems And Methods For Digital Control Utilizing Oversampling Methods and systems for digital control utilizing oversampling.... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120039374 | TIME-DOMAIN SEARCHING IN A TEST AND MEASUREMENT INSTRUMENT Embodiments of the invention include devices and methods for searching IQ-based time-domain traces for events, marking the events, and analyzing intervals of interest at or around the events on a display unit of a test and measurement instrument. The test and measuremen... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120033719 | TRANSMITTER AND CONTROL METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND CALIBRATING A PHASE SIGNAL AND AN AMPLITUDE SIGNAL A transmitter for transmitting and calibrating a phase signal and an amplitude signal. The transmitter comprises a phase modulation path, an amplitude modulation path, and a control unit. The phase modulation path transmits the phase signal. The amplitude modulation pat... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120027067 | Narrowband Diagnostics for Twisted Pair Wiring A test system for diagnosing twisted pair wiring includes a system processor in communication with a subscriber line interface module, which includes a codec and a SLIC (Subscriber Line Interface Circuit). The SLIC transmits a waveform having a frequency used for voice ... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120027066 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR CALIBRATING AN ANTENNA ARRAY A method for calibrating (700) an antenna array comprises a plurality of antenna elements coupled to a plurality of respective receive paths in a wireless communication system. The method comprises, in receive mode, applying a test signal to an individual single ... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120027068 | RADIO WAVE PROPAGATION CHARACTERISTIC ESTIMATION APPARATUS, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM To estimate radio wave propagation characteristics with high estimation accuracy, even when used for a variety of purposes. An estimation technique determining unit determines, for each of groups classified in accordance with a measurement condition, an optimum radio wa... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120027062 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR SETTING AN ADAPTIVE FREQUENCY BAND FOR POWER LINE COMMUNCIATION Apparatuses and methods relating to power line communication are disclosed, and in particular, to an adaptive frequency band for power line communication. A power line communication device is disclosed. The power line communication device comprises a cutoff frequency es... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120026841 | TIME INFORMATION ACQUIRING APPARATUS AND RADIO-CONTROLLED TIMEPIECE Disclosed is a time information acquiring apparatus wherein: a second data acquiring section acquires a second data by measuring pulse signals of a frame of a time code signal during a period of time including a period of time a first data acquiring section acquires a f... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120027069 | Protection of Communication Systems Against Repetitive Electrical Impulse Noise A method limits the effect of repetitive electrical impulse noise in a communication system. The presence of the repetitive electrical impulse noise is detected during communication service. If the repetitive electrical impulse noise is detected, then a message is trans... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120027063 | CALIBRATION SYSTEM AND METHOD Receiving a modulated carrier signal that is modulated using a reference signal, wherein an acquisition by a digitizer is synced to the reference signal such that the modulated carrier signal has known timing with respect to a start of an acquisition within the digitize... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120027064 | Identifying Rogue GSM Base Stations by Intercepting Downlink Beacon Channels System and methods and memory media for identifying a rogue base station. A receiver captures an input signal that includes a mixture of the rogue station's transmission and the transmission of a victim base station. The victim station's transmission is removed from the... | 02/02/2012 |
