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| 8185075 | System and method for channel bonding in multiple antenna communication systems Systems and methods that provide channel bonding in multiple antenna communication systems are provided. In one embodiment, a method for signal transmission over a plurality of antennas of a transmitter may include, for example, one or more of the following: demulti... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8175564 | Wireless communication apparatus and method of selecting antenna thereof In a wireless communication apparatus for communicating by using a plurality of antennas, a degree of coupling between antennas is detected before communication is initiated, a combination of antennas is selected based on the degree of coupling and communication is ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8150354 | Determining relative phase data of a received signal A method of determining relative phase data of a signal received at multiple antennas, the signal being a phase-modulated data signal having a plurality of periods of constant frequency, the method comprising: within each period of constant frequency, sampling the s... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8107915 | Receiver system and method for receiving signals A receiver system and method for receiving signals are provided, wherein the system includes a plurality of antenna elements configured to receive a transmitted signal. A receiver device is in communication with the plurality of antenna elements, wherein the receive... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8086203 | Method and system for wireless local area network (WLAN) phase shifter training Aspects of a method and system for wireless local area network (WLAN) phase shifter training are presented. Aspect of the system may enable a receiving station, at which is located a plurality of receiving antennas, to estimate the relative phase at which each of th... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8064861 | Circuit and method for antenna selection in an antenna diversity receiver An asynchronous receiver system has multiple antennae and an asynchronous receiver circuit with a signal input. The asynchronous receiver circuit receives a wireless signal at the signal input and generates a first quality signal responsive to the received wireless ... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8019304 | Communication system for WiFi and WiMAX signal transmission A communication system includes a microprocessor, a WiFi device, a WiMAX device, common antennas, and switching devices. The common antennas are for receiving a WiFi signal and a WiMAX signal. Each of the switching devices has an input terminal coupled to the corres... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8019303 | Multi-antenna multicarrier receiver and methods for adaptively adjusting a receive data rate based on channel utilization A multicarrier receiver changes receive capabilities based on a current channel utilization. The number of antennas used to receive multicarrier communication signals may be changed or the channel bandwidth may be changed. ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8014744 | Antenna diversity system and method A wireless network device includes a plurality of antennas for transmitting and receiving data packets. An antenna diversity module measures at least one of an average signal-to-noise ratio and a packet error rate associated with the data packets and selects a given... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7917116 | Method and system for antenna selection diversity with prediction Certain embodiments of the invention may be found in a method and system for antenna selection diversity with prediction. An antenna diversity system may use information that it has stored on the antenna selection process in previous frames to predict the starting r... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7917115 | Method and system for auto detecting and auto switching antennas in a multi-antenna FM transmit/receive system Methods and systems for auto detecting and auto switching antennas in a multi-antenna FM transmit/receive system are disclosed and may include detecting when an external antenna may be coupled to an external port of the wireless device and utilizing the external ant... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7904046 | Radio equipment having an attenuator between antenna and radio module A radio equipment, wherein an attenuator (10) is inserted between antennas (91, 92) and a radio module (2), and output and input sensitivities are raised and lowered simultaneously so as to keep the balance of a radio covering range with an inpu... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7853231 | Mobile communication terminal and associated methodology for reception during diversity interruption When the diversity reception is cut, communications with the base station are continued. When it is judged by the judgment section of the mobile communication terminal that a predetermined disconnection requirement for disconnecting diversity reception is satisfied,... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7844240 | Method of selecting receive antennas for MIMO systems A method of performing receive antenna selection is presented. The method executes a determination operation for a set of receive antennas, determines a maximum result of the determination operation for two of the antennas, eliminates one of the two antennas from th... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7831232 | Multiple input multiple output communication apparatus Signal to interference plus noise ratio information, delay spread information, or condition number information of a channel matrix in a multiple input multiple output communication are taken into account in addition to spatial fading correlation information for sele... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7822398 | Device, system, and method of phased-array calibration Device, system, and method of phased-array calibration. In some demonstrative embodiments, a wireless communication device may include an array of antenna elements; a calibration element located at a predefined location relative to the antenna elements; and an anten... | 10/26/2010 |
| RE41540 | Smart antenna for RF receivers A controller controls the automatic positioning of an antenna. The controller is arranged to position the antenna dependent upon a channel selected by a user, a location of a receiver tuned to the selected channel, and a location of a source of a signal associated w... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7764939 | Apparatus and method for processing input signals corresponding to the same signal source at different timings A receiving apparatus includes a receiving module and a processing module. The receiving module is used for receiving a plurality of received signals and selecting the received signals to generate a plurality of input signals. The processing module is used for proce... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7751789 | Mobile communication terminal and associated methodology for reception during diversity interruption When the diversity reception is cut, communications with the base station are continued. When it is judged by the judgment section of the mobile communication terminal that a predetermined disconnection requirement for disconnecting diversity reception is satisfied,... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7729677 | Method of and device for antennae diversity switching The invention relates to the field of wireless communications, more particularly to a method of and device for switching between antennae in communication with a diversity receiver, each of the antennae receiving signals transmitted from a single source. A packet fr... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7725091 | Method and device for transmitting a signal in a multi-antenna system, signal, and method for estimating the corresponding transmission channels A method for transmitting a digital signal via n transmit antennas, wherein n is strictly greater than 2, comprising the steps of combining with a source data vector n vectors to be transmitted respectively by each of the transmit antennas by a coding matrix M | 05/25/2010 |
| 7706768 | Diversity switching A method for switched diversity, including: determining, on a pair-wise basis, a plurality of comparative quality factors corresponding to at least two antennas based on signals received by the at least two antennas; filtering, over a period of time, multiple instan... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7657244 | Methods of antenna selection for downlink MIMO-OFDM transmission over spatial correlated channels An antenna selection technique (transmitter/receiver antenna selection) that reduces the cost of the MIMO system while maintaining high performance. A combined selection algorithm for MIMO-OFDM is provided which offers the best tradeoff between spatial correlation a... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7639999 | System for diverse path antenna selection System for diverse path antenna selection. A method is provided for receiving a signal in a communication device having first and second antennas. The method includes receiving a first version of the signal using the first antenna, and receiving a second version of ... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7630699 | Systems and methods of scale model correction to account for antenna coupling loss The invention relates to systems and methods which may allow the determination of a correction factor between full scale antennas and scale antennas in order to determine the coupling loss of the full scale antennas on full scale structures based on models of the fu... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7627300 | Dynamically optimized smart antenna system A wireless communications network includes a plurality of wireless devices equipped with direction-agile antenna systems to allow the wireless devices to establish and maintain wireless data links with each other. ... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7623836 | Antenna selection for multicarrier communications Antenna selection is performed in a multicarrier communication system based on antenna scores. In at least one embodiment, an antenna score is calculated for an antenna by determining grades for individual carriers associated with the antenna based on corresponding ... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7558554 | Method and system for antenna selection diversity with prediction Certain embodiments of the invention may be found in a method and system for antenna selection diversity with prediction. An antenna diversity system may use information that it has stored on the antenna selection process in previous frames to predict the starting r... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7558555 | Self-structuring subsystems for glass antenna An antenna system includes a plurality of antenna elements, switching elements, and transmission feed lines disposed on a rear window glass. The switching elements are arranged with the antenna elements and transmission feed lines to, when selectively closed, electr... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7558553 | Advance signaling for multi-stage tranceivers Systems and methods for advanced signaling between stages of transmitters and/or receivers in a digital communication system. One or more intermediate frequency signals and one or more control signals may share the same cable. Also, systems and methods are provided ... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7546103 | Antenna diversity system and method A wireless network device comprises at least two antennas that transmit and receive data packets. An antenna diversity module measures at least one of an average signal to noise ratio (SNR) and an error rate of said data packets during at least one of transmitting a... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7519345 | Receiving apparatus and receiving method, and program A receiving apparatus according to the present invention includes an obtaining unit operable to obtain the reception level of a first radio wave received via one antenna of first and second antennas, and a transmission rate representing the transmission speed of the... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7457602 | Multi-antenna/multi-receiver array diversity system The present invention is a system for increasing Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) in a wireless communication system comprising a plurality of antennas each antenna providing a signal, a device for selecting a subset of signals provided by the plurality of antennas, a ma... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7454183 | Method and system for antenna selection diversity with dynamic gain control A method and system for antenna selection diversity with dynamic gain control. A receiver selects a starting antenna and dwells on it until an incoming signal is detected. An AGC is applied on the received signal and an estimate of the received power is determined f... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7444166 | Wireless diversity receiver with shared receive path A low-cost diversity receiver includes two receiver units for a primary path and a secondary/diversity path. The first receiver unit is compliant with, for example, IS-98D requirements. The second receiver unit is not fully compliant with the IS-98D requirements (e.... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7430407 | Circuitry and method for processing receive signals of a receive system A circuit for providing enhanced directivity in the form of a narrowed receive beam and a relatively small antenna with performance comparable to a much larger antenna at similar frequencies. Received signals are converted to digital values and stored in a manner wh... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7428408 | Method for operating a smart antenna in a WLAN using medium access control information A communications device with a switched beam antenna operates in a wireless local area network (WLAN) that includes a plurality of transmitters. The switched beam antenna generates a plurality of antenna beams. A method for operating the communications device includ... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7424308 | Mobile terminal device and antenna switch A mobile terminal device having an antenna switch able to efficiently switch connection between reception signals from a plurality of antennas and signal processing circuits of the reception signals is provided. The device is able to communicate by a first data tran... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7421288 | Multi-antenna system and antenna unit A multi-antenna system comprising a plurality of linearly connected antenna units, and a base station device connected to at least one of the antenna units. The antenna units connected in a first direction or a second direction are combined to constitute a multi ant... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7398109 | Wireless LAN base station device having antennas and transmission-reception portion In a wireless LAN base station device including plural antennas for making communications with a wireless terminal, plural transmission-reception portions connected to the plural antennas, plural control processors for controlling the plural transmission-reception p... | 07/08/2008 |
