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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8126489 | Method and system for diversity processing In an RF communication system, aspects for diversity processing may comprise processing a plurality of received multipath signals as clusters of signals. The received multipath signals may be diversity signals received from diversity transmit antennas at a base stat... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126490 | Radio receiver A radio receiver (FM radio receiver) has an amplitude detecting section (13) for detecting the amplitude level of a received radio wave; a multipath occurrence state detecting section (14) for monitoring the amplitude level, and for detecting the degre... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8116795 | Transmission timing control system and method, and mobile station for use therein It is an object of the present invention to hold the detecting range of a timing correlator in a base station to the minimum required and to reduce the circuit scale and power requirement of the timing correlator. Before a mobile station transmits a data signal, it ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116794 | Channel impulse response extraction for mobile terminals Finding a channel impulse response estimation window in a current cell for at least one mobile terminal in a neighboring cell is disclosed. This can serve to mitigate interference caused by mobile terminals in neighboring cells in and among communications ongoing in... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8055289 | Signal processing circuit and signal processing method A signal processing circuit includes a demodulator to demodulate a received signal and output a demodulated signal, a filter to output a signal corresponding to a prescribed frequency component of the demodulated signal, a blending unit to blend the demodulated sign... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8000730 | Method and system for improving performance in a sparse multi-path environment using reconfigurable arrays A wireless communication system supporting improved performance in a sparse multi-path environment is provided that uses spatially reconfigurable arrays. The system includes a first device and a second device. The first device includes a plurality of antennas and a ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7885673 | Transmission method in a wireless telecommunication system including at least a base station intended to communicate with terminals The present invention concerns a transmission method in a wireless telecommunication system including at least a base station intended to communicate with terminals over bidirectional communication channels, each channel supporting frames being divided into downlink... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7738889 | Mobile communication system, base station, and communication control method A wireless communication system comprising a transmitting station and a receiving station, and a control method therefore. A mobile station (101) as the transmitting station has a facility for transmitting a preamble signal to a base station (102) as t... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7715858 | Secondary station and method of operating the station A secondary station has a receiver capable of resolving signals received (504,510) as a plurality of multipath signals from a plurality of base stations during a soft handover process. In order to decode and act upon the received signals in a very short perio... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7689236 | Media device and method of enhancing use of media device A media device, a network element and a method of enhancing use of a media device are provided. The media device is configured to receive a broadcast media stream transmitted by a broadcast system at a given frequency and a service transmission over a radio interfac... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7643839 | Method and system for diversity processing In an RF communication system, aspects for diversity processing may comprise processing a plurality of received multipath signals as clusters of signals. The received multipath signals may be diversity signals received from diversity transmit antennas at a base stat... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7529554 | Subtractive multipath delay detection In a RAKE receiver delays associated with multipath signals are determined by subtracting power values associated with sidelobes of a peak value for each of the multipath signals. The determination can be performed in two stages, in the first stage the determination... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7440766 | Method for employing multipath propagation in wireless radio communications A method of employing multipath propagation in wireless radio communications uses an omnidirectional transmitting/receiving antenna at one end of a transmission link to send an interrogating signal across an environment subject to multipath disturbances to a phase-c... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7400896 | Apparatus and method for estimating a signal power to interference power ratio in a wireless communication system A transmission and reception apparatus and method for use in a wireless communication system, and an apparatus and method for adaptively transmit and receive a signal according to channel state in a wireless communication system. An apparatus for adaptively performi... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7394858 | Systems and methods for adaptive bit loading in a multiple antenna orthogonal frequency division multiplexed communication system In an orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) system, a transmitter and/or receiver communicate separate data streams on non-orthogonal spatial channels. Each spatial channel may use the same set of OFDM subcarriers and may take advantage of the multipath c... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7379745 | Path searcher and path searching method A path searcher used in a receiver includes a power delay profile generating unit configured to generate a power delay profile based on a signal received by the receiver, a sidelobe generating unit configured to identify a sidelobe component of a path contained in t... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7366226 | Pilot channel tracking method based on multipath barycenter tracking loop The present invention discloses a method for pilot channel tracking based on multipath channel barycenter tracking loop, comprises steps of evaluating multipath fading channel parameters, calculating the barycenter of a multipath energy window, and loop filtering an... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362793 | Base station having a set of phased array antennas A spread spectrum base station for receiving a plurality of spread spectrum signals and a plurality of phased spread spectrum signals includes an antenna and a plurality of delay devices connected to the antenna, each delay device outputting a time-delayed spread sp... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7356100 | Estimating channel impulse response and equalizer coefficients in UWB communication systems A method estimates a channel impulse response in an ultra wide bandwidth (UWB) system. Multiple training sequences modulated at a chip rate are received. Each training sequence is sampled by parallel with multiple correlators at sampling rate substantially slower th... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7348922 | Antenna system for a GPS receiver An antenna system for a GPS receiver that includes a casing and a micro processor. The antenna system includes at least two antenna units, a micro controller, a switching unit and a signal processor. The antenna units are used for receiving a satellite signal. Each ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349667 | Simplified noise estimation and/or beamforming for wireless communications A system and method facilitate estimating noise in a received signal. The received signal is formed of a plurality of tones, such as training tones and data tones. Noise is estimated at the training tones, which generally comprise a lesser number of the tones in the... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7343143 | Radio receiver with operation state setting unit There is provided a radio receiver which can set a proper receive state regardless of the existence of an adjacent station. If an adjacent station detection circuit detects an IBOC station having a carrier frequency adjacent to a receive frequency, a control unit tr... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7324793 | Wireless transmission device capable of transmitting media from multiple channels A wireless transmission device capable of transmitting media from different channels concurrently. The transmitter of the device places the inputted TV signals and an audio/video signal on different segments of a frequency spectrum, combines the signals of all segme... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7324784 | Transmission beam control method, adaptive antenna transmitter/receiver apparatus and radio base station Changes in instructions for increasing/decreasing transmission power that have been decoded from TPC bits are monitored, and when the increase/decrease instructions in a prescribed time interval are biased toward instructions for increasing the transmission power, t... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7319690 | Communication signal equalization systems and methods Communication signal equalization methods and systems are disclosed. A CDMA signal having a data portion and a known portion including a known or repeated data sequence and received over a multipath communication channel represents a linear convolution between the m... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7310365 | Group decision rule in code tracking using a delay lock loop (DLL) System and method for code acquisition in a wireless communications system with a delay lock loop. A preferred embodiment comprises assigning a delay lock loop (DLL) to each path in a received signal with multipath, adjusting each DLL to maximize sample strength, gr... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7305213 | Receiver and wireless LAN apparatus in which a received signal is correlated to a reference symbol A receiver comprising: an antenna which receives a radio signal including N possible symbols {c1(n), c2(n), . . . cM−1(n), cM(n)}, an N correlation units which are provided cor... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7292609 | Method and apparatus for CDMA signal reception The N peaks are selected from a delay profile in order starting from the highest peak involved in the delay profile, the path level and path timing are determined for each of the selected peaks, and the identical paths individually responsible for different delay pr... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7289460 | Satellite communications system Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a satellite communications system between satellites and terminal units that are sufficiently small to be handheld units and that operate within the earth power flux density limit. This is accomplished by using sp... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7283790 | Blind process and receiver to determine space-time parameters of a propagation channel Blind or partially blind process to determine characteristic space-time parameters of a propagation channel in a system comprising at least one reception sensor receiving a signal y(t). It comprises at least one step in which the specular type structure of the chann... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7277731 | Adaptive diversity antenna system An antenna system (205) includes an antenna structure (215), a receiver (220), and an antenna system controller (225). The antenna structure includes an arrangement of antennas (237), a signal combiner (240), and a switching... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7272368 | System and method for reduced deviation time domain FM/PM discriminator to achieve a reduced bandwidth frequency or phase modulation communications channels The present disclosure provides a receiver for receiving a narrow frequency deviation frequency modulated or phase modulated base band signal including a mixer for mixing the received narrow frequency deviation signal to generate an intermediate frequency signal, a ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7266345 | System and method for receiving broad-band signals A system and a method for receiving and processing broad-band signals in a software defined radio (SDR) terminal are provided. The system comprises first and second frequency pass units and an analog to digital signal converter (A/D converter). The first frequency p... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7266361 | Multimode receiver An electric circuit suitable for use as a radio receiver or part of a radio receiver, the electric circuit comprising amplification means, frequency mixer means, and filter means, wherein the frequency mixer mans is configurable to down-convert a wanted component of... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7266346 | Base station apparatus and communication terminal apparatus A reception quality reporting system may include a communication terminal that measures reception directivity quality in a quality decision signal received from a base station apparatus. The communication terminal decides a switching timing at which directivities of... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7266355 | Low complexity equalizer for radio receiver A diversity receiver (60) has two diverse channels fed by the antennas, an adaptive equalizer (20,30) for each channel and a coefficient adapter (40) for adapting two sets of coefficients in a time shared manner for the equalizers. A combiner co... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7266385 | Method and system for adjusting downlink outer loop power to control target SIR A wireless communication system and method for controlling transmission power to maintain a received signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) as close as possible to a target SIR. A received quality is maintained as close as possible to a target quality based on block err... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7260366 | Apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving data using an antenna array in a mobile communication system A data transmitting/receiving apparatus and method using an antenna array in a mobile communication system. A Node B measures a transmission status of each transmission antenna, classifies transmission data according to priority, and transmits to a UE high-priority ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7251281 | Method and apparatus for continuous cross-channel interleaving A method of interleaving data for transmission is provided wherein first and second interleaving patterns for arranging data symbols in a source data stream into first and second transmitted data streams are selected. Each of said data symbols has at least one bit. ... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7245680 | Method of differential-phase/absolute-amplitude QAM A method of quadrature amplitude modulation involving encoding phase differentially and amplitude absolutely, allowing for a high data rate and spectral efficiency in data transmission and other communication applications, and allowing for amplitude scaling to facil... | 07/17/2007 |
