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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120128100 | FREQUENCY SHIFT CIRCUIT AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE A frequency shift circuit that shifts the frequency of an input signal using a rotor corresponding to a predetermined phase rotation amount, the frequency shift circuit includes a table look-up unit that includes a plurality of tables that store complex data and outputs... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128035 | LOW POWER ULTRA WIDEBAND TRANSCEIVERS Low-power transmitter and/or receiver devices are provided by sacrificing time and/or frequency diversity in exchange for lower power consumption. When channel conditions indicate that time and/or frequency spreading are unnecessary for transmissions, a transmitter may ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120106660 | RECEPTION APPARATUS, RECEPTION METHOD, DEMODULATION APPARATUS, DEMODULATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM Disclosed herein is a reception apparatus including: a reception section configured to receive a signal modulated by a predetermined system defined by a predetermined standard; a decoding section configured to decode transmission parameters included in the received sign... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120082266 | RECEPTION APPARATUS, RECEPTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM Disclosed herein is a reception apparatus including: a reception block configured to receive broadcast content broadcast via a broadcasting network; an acquisition block configured to acquire inserted content that is inserted in the broadcast content during the receptio... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082249 | SIGNAL EXTENDER SYSTEM AND SIGNAL EXTENDER THEREOF A signal extender system including a first electronic apparatus, a second electronic apparatus, and a signal extender. The signal extender system includes a transmission module, a receiving module, and pairs of differential transmission lines. The receiving module inclu... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082268 | METHOD FOR DIGITAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS In a multivalue modulation type with one pilot symbol inserted for every 3 or more symbols, signal points of each one symbol immediately before and after a pilot symbol are modulated using a modulation type different from that for pilot symbols. In this way, it is possi... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120069934 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REDUCING POWER CONSUMPTION IN A FLO-EV RECEIVER A method for exiting receiver processing in a FLO-EV receiver comprises receiving a communication signal comprising at least one received symbol, deriving a channel performance metric based on the received symbol, determining whether the metric exceeds a threshold, and ... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120069935 | SYMBOL-LEVEL COMBINING FOR MULTIPLE INPUT MULTIPLE OUTPUT (MIMO) SYSTEMS WITH HYBRID AUTOMATIC REPEAT REQUEST (HARQ) AND/OR REPETITION CODING Systems and methods are provided for decoding signal vectors in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, where the receiver has received one or more signal vectors from the same transmitted vector. The symbols of the received signal vectors are combined, forming a... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120051461 | RECEIVING APPARATUS OF COMMUNICATION SYSTEM The present invention relates to a receiving apparatus of a communication system, which comprises a receiving module, a selection unit, and a processing module. The receiving module receives an input signal and produces a first signal and a second signal. The phases of ... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120051460 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING DATA IN A COMMUNICATION OR BROADCASTING SYSTEM USING LINEAR BLOCK CODE Provided is a method for transmitting data in a communication or broadcasting system using a linear block code by generating a codeword by encoding input information data bits, interleaving the codeword; outputting modulation signal-constituting bits by bit-mapping the ... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120044976 | MULTI-CARRIER RECEIVER, MULTI-CARRIER TRANSMITTER AND MULTI-CARRIER TRANSCEIVER SYSTEM A multi-carrier receiver, multi-carrier transmitter and a multi-carrier transceiver system are provided. The multi-carrier receiver includes a first processing unit, a router and a second processing unit. The first processing unit has M first processing paths, applies i... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120045002 | System and Method for Sharing Information Between Two or More Devices A system and method for sharing digital information between two or more devices in close proximity using a sound signal. The sending device obtains a globally unique share identifier from an information sharing system. The sending device then uploads the digital informa... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120045007 | INSERTING AND DECODING REPLICATED DATA SYMBOLS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS Examples are generally described that include transmission methods including inserting at least a portion of data from a first data stream into a second data stream to be transmitted over a communications channel. On receipt of the two data streams, examples of receivin... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120044975 | MULTI-CARRIER RECEIVER, MULTI-CARRIER TRANSMITTER AND MULTI-CARRIER TRANSCEIVER SYSTEM A multi-carrier receiver, multi-carrier transmitter and a multi-carrier transceiver system are provided. The multi-carrier receiver includes at least a first processing unit, a routed switch and a second processing unit. The first processing unit has M first processing ... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120039417 | BAND PASS SAMPLING RECEIVER Provided is a band pass sampling receiver which performs a sampling operation to a combined signal of RF signals of different frequency bands. The band pass sampling receiver performs the sampling operation by applying a sampling rate having a time lag to a combined sig... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120039418 | Dual Channel Reception There is provided a solution for simultaneous reception of dual channel transmission. The solution is based on applying a first and a second oscillating signals, mixing and adding in order to separate the in-phase and quadrature components of first and second signal fro... | 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 |
| 20120039370 | PHASE SHIFTER, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, AND PHASE CONTROL METHOD Disclosed are a phase shifter, a wireless communication apparatus, and a phase control method in which power consumption is reduced. A phase shifter includes a 90° step phase shifter (17) and a 45° phase shifter (18) and adds phase information to two bas... | 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 ... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120033714 | High data rate transmitter and receiver A high-speed transmitter and receiver are provided. In one embodiment, a transmitter comprises a baseband processor structured to receive data and to convert the data into a multiplicity of high and low signal values, with each high and low signal value having a first t... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120033763 | Method and Apparatus for Channel Response Calculation in an OFDM Receiver An efficient algorithm is described for use with OFDM receivers that characterizes the impulse response of a communication channel using frequency domain techniques that reduce computational and memory requirements, relative to time-domain cross-correlation methods, wit... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120033761 | Hybrid Adaptive Antenna Array Disclosed is a hybrid antenna array (100) comprising a plurality of digital branches (145), each digital branch including an analogue beamforming sub-array (e.g. 110-1), each sub-array having a plurality of antenna elements (120), a ph... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120033767 | SELECTIVE QUANTIZATION OF DECISION METRICS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION A method for quantizing decision metrics (e.g., log likelihood ratios (LLRs)) for reduction of memory requirements in wireless communication is described. The method includes selecting a quantization algorithm. The quantization algorithm may be selected as a function of... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120033762 | METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY ADJUSTING ONE OR MORE RF PARAMETERS AND COMMUNICATIONS APPARATUSE UTILIZING THE SAME A communications apparatus is provided. A radio frequency (RF) circuit is arranged to receive an RF signal from an antenna and process the RF signal according to one or more RF parameters to generate an intermediate signal. A signal processing unit is arranged to proces... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120027055 | Satellite On-Board RFI Detection In one embodiment there are provided systems and methods for detecting radio frequency interference (RFI) on a satellite that implements on-board processing. The system leverages an on-board programmable modem complex, and in some cases reprograms portions thereof, to f... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120027120 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING REFERENCE SIGNAL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM A method and apparatus for transmitting a reference signal in a wireless communication system is provided. CSI-RSs are generated for each of a plurality of antennas. The CSI-RS are mapped to a resource region on a basis of a CSI-RS pattern according to the number of the... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120027126 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONSTELLATION REARRANGEMENT IN BROADBAND WIRELESS ACCESS SYSTEM An apparatus and a method for operating a transmitter supporting constellation rearrangement for 256-Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) in a broadband wireless access system are provided. The method include generating complex symbols according to a first version of a... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120027128 | Phase Aligned Sampling of Multiple Data Channels Using a Successive Approximation Register Converter Provided is a method for processing data samples from a plurality of data channels. The method may include obtaining a plurality of data samples from the plurality of data channels. Obtaining the plurality of data samples may involve successively obtaining a data sample... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120026862 | VARIABLE BANDWIDTH OFDM RECEIVER AND METHODS FOR RECEIVING OFDM SIGNALS OF DIFFERENT BANDWIDTHS A variable bandwidth OFDM receiver and methods for receiving OFDM signals of different bandwidths are generally disclosed herein. The variable bandwidth OFDM receiver may be configured to receive signals over wider bandwidths by processing a resource block of subcarrier... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120027140 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CHANNEL ESTIMATION A method for channel estimation includes receiving data at a number of frequency intervals in a frequency band over a number of first time intervals. A first set of channel estimates is determined for each pilot symbol within the data over a second time interval compris... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120028638 | RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICES, INFORMATION PROVIDERS, METHODS FOR CONTROLLING A RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING AN INFORMATION PROVIDER In an embodiment, a radio communication device may be provided. The radio communication device may include a first receiver configured to receive from a first cell first data representing a content encoded using a first codec; a second receiver configured to receive fro... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120020436 | Method and device for multi-channel data alignment in transmission system A method and a device for multi-channel data alignment in a transmission system are provided, wherein the method comprises receiving a first stream data and a second stream data, determining a deleting/inserting state of the first stream data and the second stream data ... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120019730 | RECEIVER The receiver diversity-receives radio wave with a plurality of antennas. The receiver includes a conductive case having a receiving section for executing diversity-receiving processing, a first through hole and a second through hole that are disposed on the surface of t... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120020437 | OFDM COMMUNICATION RECEPTION DEVICE An reception device includes: a fast-fourier-transform (FFT) circuit to FFT a first Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) signal including a plurality of first symbols with a guard interval and a valid symbol using a plurality of FFT windows that includes di... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120014478 | ADVANCED LLR PROCESSOR FOR WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEM A method and system for processing LLRs, in a receiver, of transmissions over a wireless telecommunication system, the method including receiving multiple soft symbols, selecting a set of appropriate instructions for LLR calculation for the soft symbols, arranging the s... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120014472 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR MICROWAVE SIGNAL CORRECTION A method, an apparatus, and a system are provided in various embodiments of the present invention. According to embodiments of the present invention, the receiver samples the frequency signal from the transmitter to obtain sampling data and obtain the feedback IQ signal... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120014477 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING REFERENCE SIGNAL IN MULTI-ANTENNA SYSTEM A method for transmitting a reference signal in a multi-antenna system is provided. The method includes: selecting at least one orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol in a subframe containing a plurality of OFDM symbols; allocating a channel quality in... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120008709 | SINGLE CARRIER HIGH RATE WIRELESS SYSTEM A signal generator and signal processor for single carrier wireless communication systems with frequency domain equalizer operable to use pseudorandom-noise sequences for cyclic prefix, the pseudorandom-noise sequences for coarse timing synchronization, channel estimati... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120008710 | Mapping Schemes for Secondary Synchronization Signal Scrambling Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a transmitter, a receiver and methods of operating a transmitter and a receiver. In one embodiment, the transmitter includes a synchronization unit configured to provide a primary synchronization signal and a secondary synch... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120008719 | DIGITAL BROADCAST RECEPTION APPARATUS An object of the present invention is to provide a digital broadcast reception apparatus that allows a stable viewing even if a reception environment changes along with a movement. In the present invention, based on current position information indicating a current posi... | 01/12/2012 |
