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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120105248 | Physiological Data Acquisition and Management System for Use with an Implanted Wireless Sensor Aspects and embodiments of the present invention provide a system for obtaining, processing and managing data from an implanted sensor. In some embodiments, a patient or other persons can use a flexible antenna to obtain data from the implanted sensor. The flexible ante... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120071121 | MULTI-CONDUCTOR TRANSMIT ANTENNA FOR MAGNETIC COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS A magnetic communication system utilizing a multi-conductor transmit antenna is provided. Each of the conductors is supplied with an identical signal such that the magnetic fields generated by each conductor add together to create a like signal having an increased stren... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120050236 | ELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS PIEZOELECTRIC CONTOUR MODE DIFFERENTIAL RESONATORS AND FILTERS This disclosure provides implementations of electromechanical systems resonator structures, devices, apparatus, systems, and related processes. In one aspect, a contour mode resonator device includes a first conductive layer with a plurality of first layer electrodes in... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120034888 | Method and System for Utilizing a Touchscreen Interface as an Antenna Methods and systems for utilizing a touchscreen interface as an antenna are disclosed and may include configuring one or more antennas in the touchscreen interface by capacitively-coupling conductive layers in the touchscreen interface. RF signals may be communicated ut... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120015615 | DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SELECTIVELY CONNECTING BETWEEN A TRANSMIT CHAIN AND AN ANTENNA Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and/or methods of selectively connecting between a transmit chain and an antenna. For example, a device may include a transmit chain and a non-active connector module configured to electrically connect the transmit... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20110312353 | ENERGY SAVING MODE WITH MAINTAINED NUMBER OF ADVERTISED TRANSMIT ANTENNAS Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for wireless communications, wherein first number of transit antennas is advertised, but a different number of transmit antennas are actually used for transmission.... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110305174 | Broad Propagation Pattern Antenna An antenna includes a diplexer having a high pass filter coupled to first and second radiating elements and a low pass filter coupled to third and fourth radiating elements, the first and second radiating elements oriented in a different direction relative to the third ... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110301040 | HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTOR FILTERS FOR HIGH FREQUENCY SHIPBOARD APPLICATIONS Systems and methods are disclosed relating to transmission of communications via high frequency antenna systems employing high-temperature superconductor filters and/or amplifiers. In certain embodiments, a comb linear amplifier combiner may be modified with, for exampl... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110281536 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING A REFERENCE SIGNAL IN A RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM An apparatus and a method for transmitting a reference signal in a radio communication system are provided. The apparatus comprises: N antennas; and a processor which is connected to the N antennas and which generates K (wherein K<N) reference signal sequence vectors... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110281537 | METHOD, DEVICE, AND SYSTEM FOR SENDING REFERENCE SIGNALS A method, a device, and a system for sending reference signals (RSs) are provided, which are capable of least modifying an original system and controlling the system overhead of the RSs. The method includes: grouping expanded transmitting antennas, wherein each group in... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110281535 | CONTROLLING FIELD DISTRIBUTION OF A WIRELESS POWER TRANSMITTER Exemplary embodiments are directed to control of field distribution of a wireless power transmitter. A transmitter may include a transmit antenna configured to generate a field. The transmitter may further include least one parasitic antenna proximate the transmit anten... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110263217 | Multi-Band Antenna and Communications Device Having the Same A multi-band antenna is adapted for disposing on a substrate with a ground plane and a matching circuit disposed thereon, and includes a feed-in section, a coupling section, a grounding section, a multiple-bend arm, and a conductor section. The feed-in section is connec... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110223876 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR VIRTUAL ANTENNA MAPPING IN MULTI-ANTENNA SYSTEM An apparatus and a method for mapping virtual antennas and physical antennas in a wireless communication system. The method for mapping the virtual antennas and the physical antennas includes generating at least two virtual antenna signals for at least two virtual anten... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110201288 | DEVICE INCLUDING AN ANTENNA AND METHOD OF USING AN ANTENNA An integrated package is disclosed that includes a conductive structure that can be selectively configured to include a radiating element of a planar antenna or to include a radio-frequency shielding structure. Examples of a planar antenna include PIFA antennas, patch a... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110151779 | RADIO ANTENNA ASSEMBLY AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION OF RF SIGNALS An apparatus includes an antenna for transmitting RF radiation and being structured to enable the distribution of RF energy emitted therefrom to be varied in the vertical plane. The apparatus comprises a generator for generating an RF signal and to pass the signal to th... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110151810 | MULTIPLE-INPUT-MULTIPLE-OUTPUT ANTENNA DEVICE A Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) antenna device is adapted for connecting electrically to a radio frequency (RF) circuit for transmitting and receiving RF signals. The MIMO antenna device includes a circuit board, a plurality of antenna units, and a plurality of ... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110105064 | RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD A radio base station (100) is provided with a stream determination unit (141) for determining whether communication quality of a radio communication channel between the radio base station (100) and a receiving device is lower than a predetermined th... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110105065 | DYNAMIC INTERFERENCE CONTROL IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK A method and apparatus for dynamic interference management is disclosed. A frequency channel is partitioned into a plurality of groups. Two or more groups are assigned weights reflecting degrees of disadvantage of a node. Each group is further partitioned into a plurali... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110105062 | COMPACT SATELLITE ANTENNA An apparatus, such as an antenna assembly, can include a flexible dielectric sheet, a first flexible conductor coupled to the flexible dielectric sheet, a second flexible conductor coupled to the flexible dielectric sheet, a matching section electrically coupled to the ... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110105063 | RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND SIGNAL TRANSMISSION METHOD IN MIMO RADIO COMMUNICATION Channel characteristics in MIMO channels are averaged. A radio communication device 2 that performs communication using a plurality of frequencies includes a plurality of antenna elements 2a and 2b, and a transmitted beam forming unit ... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110086597 | APPARATUS FOR BAND PASS FILTERING AND SIGNAL RADIATION IN MOBILE TERMINAL A transmitter for band-pass-filtering a transmission signal and radiating the signal is provided. The transmitter includes a communication unit and a filtena. The communication unit generates a transmission signal. The filtena includes a combined filter and antenna, whe... | 04/14/2011 |
| 20110075757 | RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD A radio communication device capable of lightening the influence of a frequency selective fading in the wide-band transmission of a single carrier thereby to prevent deterioration of error rate characteristics. In this device, an FFT unit (13) subjects a modulate... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110070850 | PREAMBLE TRANSMISSION METHOD IN A MULTIPLE ANTENNA SYSTEM A method of transmitting a preamble for synchronization in a multiple-antenna system includes applying a masking sequence to a plurality of preambles, and transmitting each of the plurality of preambles, to which the masking sequence is applied, through each of a plural... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110070847 | Transmitting a Radio Signal in a Mobile Communication Network System and method for transmitting a radio signal in a mobile communication network. The radio signal has a circular polarisation.... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110065400 | INTEGRATED ANTENNA ARRAY AND RF FRONT END MODULE Apparatus comprising an antenna switch (601) configured to select at least one antenna; and a controller (205b). The controller is configured to control the antenna switch in a first mode of operation and a second mode of operation. The first mode o... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20110053498 | OUT-OF-BAND RADIO LINK PROTOCOL AND NETWORK ARCHITECTURE FOR A WIRELESS NETWORK COMPOSED OF WIRELESS TERMINALS WITH MILLIMETRE WAVE FREQUENCY RANGE RADIO UNITS The present invention relates to a wireless transmitter comprising a transmitter radio unit working a wireless transmitter comprising a transmitter radio unit working in the millimeter wave frequency band using a directional antenna and a bidirectional radio unit workin... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110045768 | CREATION OF A BEAM USING ANTENNAS Method and apparatus for creating a pencil beam using a plurality of small diameter dish antennas. A plurality of small diameter dish antennas are spatially arranged and driven by varying electronic signals in such a way that the plurality of small diameter dish antenna... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110025550 | High-Frequency Module and Method of Manufacturing the Same, and Transmitter, Receiver, Transceiver, and Radar Apparatus Comprising the High-Frequency Module A high-frequency module according to the present embodiment includes a substrate, a circuit board, and a resonator. The substrate has an input-output portion for high-frequency signals formed on one surface thereof. The circuit board includes a dielectric waveguide line... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20100330940 | SENSOR-AIDED WIRELESS COMBINING An apparatus and method are disclosed for achieving receiver diversity. A wireless unit includes a plurality of antennas, an antenna selector to select one or more antennas from the plurality of antennas, a processor with input data from an inertial sensor for monitorin... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100323645 | PHASE SHIFTER AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SAME, AND RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE WITH ARRAY ANTENNA Without influenced by a symbol rate of a baseband signal, a power consumption is kept low approximately to zero in a phase shifter. In order to control an output signal of an orthogonal modulator, in a phase shifter adding phase to I signal... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100311367 | Method and System for a Sub-Harmonic Transmitter Utilizing a Leaky Wave Antenna Methods and systems for a sub-harmonic transmitter utilizing a leaky wave antenna are disclosed and may include transmitting wireless signals at a harmonic frequency of a source signal utilizing one or more leaky wave antennas (LWAs) in a wireless device including one o... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100311368 | Method and System for a Leaky Wave Antenna as a Load on a Power Amplifier Methods and systems for utilizing a leaky wave antenna as a load on a power amplifier are disclosed and may include configuring one or more leaky wave antennas as a load for one or more power amplifiers (PAs) in a wireless device. RF signals may be transmitted via the l... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100311369 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMMUNICATING VIA LEAKY WAVE ANTENNAS WITHIN A FLIP-CHIP BONDED STRUCTURE Methods and systems for communicating via leaky wave antennas (LWAs) within a flip-chip bonded structure are disclosed and may include communicating RF signals in a wireless device including one or more LWAs between a plurality of support structures, the structures bein... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100311363 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR A DISTRIBUTED LEAKY WAVE ANTENNA Methods and systems for a distributed leaky wave antenna (LWA) are disclosed and may include communicating RF signals at one or more frequencies via distributed LWAs in a wireless communication device. The distributed LWAs may be integrated in one or more multi-layer su... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100311326 | SWITCHING BETWEEN MULTIPLE COUPLING MODES A device for transmitting in multiple coupling modes has a transmission module (11), at least one periphery module (18), and an antenna (16, 17) for each of the multiple coupling modes. Further, in a method of switching between multiple coupling mod... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100297971 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH AN IMPROVED ANTENNA ARRANGEMENT An electronic device comprising an antenna arrangement with first and second antenna groups with first (122, 142) and a second (124, 144) radiation elements. The first and second radiation elements in each group have first and second respective polarizatio... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100261445 | DISPLAY ARRANGEMENT The present invention relates to a display arrangement comprising a display means and receiving and/or transmitting means adapted to be arranged in association with said display means. An optically transparent and electrically conductive layer structure is adapted to be... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100253346 | UPCONVERTER An upconverter has a two port parametric amplifier that has a first port to receive an input signal to be amplified and upconverted and a second port to receive a local oscillator signal and to output the amplified, upconverted signal at upper and lower sideband frequen... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100248663 | ANTENNA INSTALLATION METHOD IN A MULTIPLE INPUT MULTIPLE OUTPUT COMMUNICATION METHOD A communication system includes a first communication apparatus and a second communication apparatus. The second communication apparatus transmits different signals from first and second antennas, and first and second antennas of the first communication apparatus receiv... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100202557 | Digital IF Distribution Networks for Radio Communications A radio apparatus comprising: a radio frequency processing module for converting radio frequency signals from an antenna to intermediate frequency signals; an intermediate frequency processing module located remotely from the radio frequency processing module, for recei... | 08/12/2010 |
