Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
375239000 | PULSE POSITION, FREQUENCY, OR SPACING MODULATION | 39 |
20080198917 | PULSE-BASED COMMUNICATION FOR DEVICES CONNECTED TO A BUS - A method for communicating data is disclosed. The method includes receiving a sequence of electrical pulses during an interval having a pre-determined time period, the sequence of electrical pulses representing a message from one of a plurality of devices, determining the number of received electrical pulses in the sequence of electrical pulses, and decoding the message based on the determined number of electrical pulses received during the interval. | 08-21-2008 |
20080260019 | BURST OSCILLATION DEVICE, BURST OSCILLATION METHOD, AND RANGING/COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The burst oscillation device 20 includes the data generation part | 10-23-2008 |
20080267280 | TIME-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTER - A Time-to-Digital Converter (TDC) is constructed using simple digital delay circuits. The design uses a clock compensation scheme to modify and adjust the TDC's operation under integrated circuit fabrication process variations. The TDC design is based on a novel digital processing algorithm that produces one conversion every clock cycle. Therefore, this TDC is the “first” single cycle latency TDC targeted at high speed circuit applications such as (but not limited to) time-based Analog to Digital Converters (ADCs) for direct analog to digital conversion of radio frequency signals in wireless communication systems and high speed signal measurement applications. Due to its hierarchical design approach, the TDC design uses an optimized number of delay circuits and therefore requires very little power consumption and silicon area. | 10-30-2008 |
20080304560 | RANGING AND COMMUNICATION MULTIFUNCTION SYSTEM - A ranging and communication multifunction system processable by integrating a ranging function and a communication function is provided. | 12-11-2008 |
20090010321 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROCESSING A PULSE TRAIN OF A MODULATED SIGNAL, IN PARTICULAR AN ULTRA WIDEBAND SIGNAL MODULATED BY A DIGITAL PULSE INTERVAL MODULATION - The pulse train of a signal is modulated by a DPIM modulation involving a discrete random time parameter. A first processing is performed on the signal to deliver a sampled signal. A second processing is performed on the sampled signal, comprising a correlation processing including at least one elementary correlation processing with a correlation mask corresponding to the shape of at least part of a sampled pulse, and delivering second information items. A third processing is performed for detecting the pulses following a first pulse by taking account of the position of the first pulse, on packets of second information items, which are separated by a duration related to the discrete random parameter. | 01-08-2009 |
20090028236 | POSITION CONTROL METHOD, POSITION CONTROL DEVICE AND ELECTRIC DEVICE INCLUDING THE POSITION CONTROL DEVICE - A position control method, a position control device and an electric device and an electric device including the position control device are provided. The position control device includes a common motor ( | 01-29-2009 |
20090046774 | SPACE-TIME CODING/DECODING METHOD FOR MULTI-ANTENNA PULSE TYPE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A space-time coding method for a UWB pulse type transmission/reception system. The space-time code, given for P=2, 4 or 8 transmission antennas, makes it possible to code 2-PPM information symbols and to modulate the position of UWB pulse signals using coded symbols, without requiring extension of the modulation alphabet. The space-time code is real with maximum diversity, and is full speed. The space-time decoding method is capable of estimating the information symbols thus transmitted. | 02-19-2009 |
20090060023 | TRANSMISSION CIRCUIT, CMOS SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND DESIGN METHOD THEREOF - A transmission circuit, which transmits a differential signal having pulse time larger than a predetermined minimum pulse time, includes: a driving unit for feeding the differential signal as a potential difference between two transmission lines; a driven unit for operating on the basis of the differential signal by receiving the differential signal by the potential difference between the two transmission lines; and a connecting resistor for electrically connecting the two transmission lines. Further, a connecting MOS transistor may be provided near a receiving end of the driven unit. | 03-05-2009 |
20090110050 | SPACE-TIME CODING METHOD USING A PARTITIONED POSITION MODULATION ALPHABET - The invention relates to a space-time coding method for a MIMO-UWB system with P antennas using information symbols belonging to an M-PPM, where M is a multiple of P. The modulation alphabet is partitioned into P sub-alphabets corresponding to successive ranges of modulation positions. An extension of the initial alphabet is obtained by forcing the information symbols to belong to some sub-alphabets, thereby increasing the binary rate of said system. | 04-30-2009 |
20090122856 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING DATA - A method and apparatus for reducing the number of DQ pins and current used to access data in a memory system or data transfer device, wherein an additional bit is temporally encoded on a data word during a singular access cycle. During an access cycle, the pulse level or levels of encoded bits may determine one or more bits values in a data word being expressed, while the pulse/pulses position in time within a data access cycle determines the remaining bits. | 05-14-2009 |
20090122857 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING RANK OVERRIDING IN LONG TERM EVOLUTION NETWORKS - Apparatus and method of generating a long term evolution (LTE) codebook and performing rank overriding are disclosed. Reordering rules are presented, whereby a second column vector of each rank-4 precoding matrix will not appear in column vectors of a rank-3 precoding matrix, and the first column vector of each rank-4 precodingmatrix is identical to the first column vector of the corresponding rank-3 precodingmatrix. Furthermore, precoder hopping between two precoding matrices corresponding to a particular precoding matrix index (PMI) is implemented, whereby a first one of the two precoding matrices comprises a first subset of column vectors of an original precoding matrix that corresponds to the particular PMI, and a second one of the two precoding matrices comprises a second subset of column vectors of the original precoding matrix. The precoder hopping is performed in time and/or frequency domain. | 05-14-2009 |
20090232197 | PULSE MODULATED WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE - The transmission device includes a first transmission RF part for RF modulating the pulse signal generated at the timing of a clock signal so as to generate a clock RF signal and for outputting the clock RF signal to a synchronization signal channel; a transmission data generator for generating transmission data in synchronization with the timing of the clock signal; a PPM modulator for PPM modulating the transmission data and for outputting a PPM modulation signal; and a second transmission RF part for RF modulating the PPM modulation signal so as to generate a data RF signal and for outputting the data RF signal to a data signal channel different from the synchronization signal channel. The reception device receives reference synchronization information so as to maintain phase synchronization in data reception. | 09-17-2009 |
20090316773 | WORD SYNCHRONIZATION FOR SERVO READ SIGNALS IN TAPE DRIVES - Methods and apparatus for detecting L-bit sync words occurring at N-bit intervals in PPM-encoded servo pattern read signals read in magnetic tape drives. A soft output detector processes the PPM-encoded servo pattern read signal to produce a series of soft output samples corresponding to respective bits encoded in the servo pattern. A sync word detector then produces block correlation values for respective positions of a sliding L-sample block in the series of soft output samples by (i) calculating at each block position bit correlation values indicating correlation between respective samples and corresponding bits of the sync word and (ii) summing each bit correlation value minus a predetermined function of the corresponding sample value. The sync word detector then detects a sync word at the block position with the maximum block correlation value in an (N+L−1)-sample sequence of the series of soft output samples. | 12-24-2009 |
20100020863 | DETERMINATION OF RECEIVE DATA VALUES - Adverse effects associated with collisions in a wireless communication system are mitigated by defining one or more values for receive data. Here, data that is expected to be received during a data transmission may be set to a defined value. In some cases the defined value is a predefined value (e.g., zero or some other value). In some cases the defined value is based on noise and/or signals levels in the system. In some implementations a device may define receive data values for a period of time during which data is expected to be received and during which a transmission occurs. In some aspects a hybrid on-off keying scheme is employed to determine received data values. | 01-28-2010 |
20100020864 | PULSE TRANSMITTING DEVICE, PULSE RECEIVING DEVICE, PULSE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND PULSE COMMUNICATION METHOD - A pulse transmitting device is provided to avoid interference between pulses due to multipath influence even in a high speed pulse transmission that is typical of a UWB by making use of a relatively simple method and to improve receiving quality. In the device, a pulse adjusting unit ( | 01-28-2010 |
20100046603 | Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving convolutionally coded data - The invention describes a method and apparatus for transmitting data using a convolutional code used with a combination of Pulse Position Modulation and Binary Phase Shift Keying which has error rate performance that is as good as the best convolutional code when used with the more common binary phase shift keying (BPSK). | 02-25-2010 |
20100124269 | METHOD FOR MODULATING AND DEMODULATING DATA - Disclosed is a method for modulating and demodulating data. The method composes symbols by grouping a plurality of symbols for pulse position modulation to newly add symbol compositions to fixed symbols used for the pulse position modulation of the related art. Further, the method uses grouped symbols to improve data transmission rate as the average amount of information increases. | 05-20-2010 |
20100128776 | PULSE SHAPING METHOD - Provided is a pulse shaping method. A time interval is predefined so as to shape a pulse used for a transmit pulse and a receive filter response, a parameter is generated by using a weight coefficient and a plurality of cosine functions that are multiplied and added to be output during the predetermined time interval, and 0 is output during another interval, thereby shaping the pulse. The weight coefficient is updated by using the normalized MSE so as to shape the pulse to be optimized for the predetermined time interval. | 05-27-2010 |
20100142612 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INCREASING DATA RATE IN A MOBILE TERMINAL USING SPATIAL MULTIPLEXING FOR DVB-H COMMUNICATION - A method and system for increasing data rate in a mobile terminal using spatial multiplexing for digital video broadcasting for handhelds (DVB-H) communication are provided. A reconfigurable orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) chip may be utilized in a mobile terminal to process received spatially multiplexed signals. The mobile terminal may be utilized in a spatially multiplexed multiple-input-multiple-output (SM-MIMO) wireless system. The spatially multiplexed signals may be quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) modulated and may utilize OFDM subcarries. A processor may be utilized to configure the OFDM chip to process signals such as IEEE 802.11 and 802.16, and DVB. The OFDM chip may generate channel weights to be applied to the spatially multiplexed signals received in multiple receive antennas. The weighted signals may be combined to generate multiple RF received signals from which channel estimates may be generated. Subsequent channel weights may be dynamically generated from generated channel estimates. | 06-10-2010 |
20100183066 | DIGITAL TO TIME CONVERTER AND DIGITAL TO TIME CONVERTING METHOD - A digital-to-time converter for generating a first and a second output signal separated by a predetermined delay includes first and second periodic signal generators, respectively, generating a first and a second periodic signal, a periodic signal synchronizer detecting a phase difference between the first and the second periodic signals, and first and second output pulse generators, respectively, starting a count of the first and the second periodic signals when a phase of the first periodic signal coincides with a phase of the second periodic signal. When a first value is counted, the first output pulse generator outputs a pulse as the first output signal, and when a second value is counted, the second output pulse generator outputs a pulse as the second output signal. | 07-22-2010 |
20100246659 | GLOBAL INSTRUCTION BROADCASTING FOR PULSE-POSITION MODULATED DATA TRANSMISSION - In one embodiment, a circuit is provided that includes: an impulse generator operable to provide a pulse train; a pulse position modulator having a splitting junction configured to receive the pulse train, the pulse position modulator including a plurality of n transmission lines, wherein n is an integer, the n transmission lines being selectably coupled in parallel between the splitting junction and a combining junction, the impulse generator driving each transmission line having a unique delay such that if the transmission line is selected, each pulse received at the splitting junction is uniquely delayed into a delayed pulse, whereby if all the transmission lines are selected, each pulse received at the splitting junction is uniquely delayed into a corresponding plurality of n delayed pulses; and a controller operable to select the transmission lines responsive to received words of n bits in length, each word arranged from a first bit to an nth bit, and wherein the transmission lines are arranged from a first transmission line to an nth transmission line corresponding to the bits in the received words such that a given bit in a received word controls the selection of the corresponding transmission line. | 09-30-2010 |
20100246660 | Pulse-Sync Demodulator - A received pulse signal based on an on-off keying modulation scheme is alternately sampled by AD conversion sections operated by a clock signal whose frequency is one-half of a transmission rate. In the synchronization, amounts of delay in sampling timing adjustment sections are made different from each other, whereby phases of two different points in a symbol pulse are sampled. An amount of delay in a variable delay section is adjusted in accordance with a result of comparison of the sampled values, thereby achieving synchronization. At the time of demodulation, the amount of delay in the variable delay section is held, and the amounts of delay in the sampling timing adjustment sections are switched to the same value, and the symbol pulse is alternately sampled. The sampled values are subjected to threshold value determination, and the determination result is subjected to parallel-to-serial conversion, whereby a demodulation output is acquired. | 09-30-2010 |
20100290516 | PULSE EDGE MODULATION - Systems and methods for the pulse edge modulation of digital carrier signals for communications systems which are useful in body implanted electronics. A digital carrier signal is generated and the carrier is pulse edge modulated with digital data. A pulse edge modulated signal is generated by either retarding or advancing each pulse edge of a carrier to be modulated relative to its original position in time, depending on the state of the digital bit to be modulated on that edge. | 11-18-2010 |
20100290517 | PULSE EDGE DEMODULATION - Systems and methods for the demodulation of pulse edge modulated signals for communications systems which are useful in body implanted electronics. A pulse edge modulated signal is generated by retarding or advancing each pulse edge of a carrier to be modulated relative to its original position in time, depending on the state of the digital bit to be modulated on that edge. Each modulated edge of a pulse edge modulated signal is demodulated by determining the position in time of the modulated edge relative to the original respective position of the modulated edge prior to modulation. | 11-18-2010 |
20110058602 | Method for Identifying Data Encoded by PPM Modulation, and Receiver for Said Method - An identification method for a data Sk is disclosed which includes; | 03-10-2011 |
20120069893 | COMMUNICATIONS APPARATUS, COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM, COMMUNICATIONS METHOD, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT | 03-22-2012 |
20120128057 | NETWORK NODE, IN PARTICULAR, FOR A SENSOR NETWORK, AND OPERATIONAL METHOD FOR A NETWORK NODE - A network node, in particular, for a sensor network, is configured to receive sensor data from at least one further network node transmitting the sensor data. The network node has a time stamp device, which is configured to assign received sensor data values time stamps, which represent a time of reception of the sensor data values at the network node with respect to a primary time reference assigned to the network node. | 05-24-2012 |
20120163444 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING - A transmitting apparatus groups a data bit sequence to groups each formed of a predetermined number of bits, modulates predetermined bits of one of groups through a frequency shift keying (FSK) modulation method, non-continuously aligns the FSK modulation signals, and transmits the non-continuous FSK modulation signals. | 06-28-2012 |
20120177099 | SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - A signal processing method for enhancing the dynamic range of a signal is disclosed. The method comprises:
| 07-12-2012 |
20120230387 | CARRIER CURRENT COMMUNICATION SYSTEM WITH INFRARED RECEIVER - Embodiments of a method and apparatus are described to transmit a data signal from a power supply unit, over existing direct current (DC) power transmission lines, to a residential gateway which includes an infrared (IR) receiver designed to receive optical signals. In one embodiment, the IR receiver is configured to receive a carrier current communication signal from the power supply unit over a pair of copper wires coupled to the IR receiver. The carrier current communication signals may be encoded by a transmission encoding logic circuit using pulse position modulation techniques. The received carrier current communication signals may be demodulated and decoded to reproduce an input data stream. | 09-13-2012 |
20130101013 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO DETECT A SYMBOL IN RECEIVER INCLUDING MULTIPLE RECEIVING ANTENNAS - A receiver of a wireless communication system and method thereof include antennas configured to receive data, wherein the data comprises a preamble, a header, and a payload. The receiver also includes a synchronizer configured to perform time synchronization of the data received through corresponding paths of each antenna using corresponding preambles of the data. The receiver includes a header detector configured to detect a header from the data of each of the paths. A surviving path selector in the receiver is configured to select a signal of a surviving path from among the paths based on the header or the preamble. The receiver also includes combiner configured to combine the signal existing in the surviving path to demodulate the payload. | 04-25-2013 |
20130142246 | Radio Frequency Transmitter Adaptors, Methods and Articles of Manufacture - Radio Frequency (RF) transmitter adaptors, methods and articles of manufacture are disclosed. A method of adapting an RF transmitter for using in controlling a radio controlled (R/C) device having an RF receiver includes receiving a pulse-position modulation (PPM) signal from the RF transmitter, automatically selecting a channel assignment map based on the PPM signal, and generating, from the PPM signal, an RF communication signal compatible with the RF receiver for use in controlling the R/C device based on the selected channel assignment map. | 06-06-2013 |
20130279561 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TIME REVERSAL DATA COMMUNICATIONS ON PIPES USING GUIDED ELASTIC WAVES - Embedded piezoelectric sensors in large civil structures for structural health monitoring applications require data communication capabilities to effectively transmit information regarding the structure's integrity between sensor nodes and to the central processing unit. Conventional communication modalities include electromagnetic waves or acoustical waves. While guided elastic waves can propagate over long distances on solid structures, their multi-modal and dispersive characteristics make it difficult to interpret the channel responses and to transfer useful information along pipes. Time reversal is an adaptive transmission method that can improve the spatiotemporal wave focusing. The present disclosure presents the basic principles of a time reversal based pulse position modulation (TR-PPM) method and demonstrates TR-PPM data communication by simulation. The present disclosure also experimentally demonstrates data communication with TR-PPM on pipes. Simulated and experimental results demonstrate that TR-PPM for data communications can be achieved successfully using guided elastic waves. | 10-24-2013 |
20140119427 | Method and Apparatus for High Density Pulse Density Modulation - A method and system for high density pulse density modulation is disclosed. In accordance with the present disclosure, a modulation function is split in to two band limited streams using a complementary pair of non-linear functions. More specifically, one bitstream definition contains the peaks of the original function while the other bitstream contains a soft clipping version of the original bitstream. The bitstreams are applied to a pair of switching amplifiers, and the bitstreams can be combined again to reconstruct the original function. The method in accordance with the present disclosure limits the amount of input power necessary to achieve higher output power, lowers operating voltage and improves power amplifier efficiency. | 05-01-2014 |
20140153632 | PARALLEL-FREQUENCY PARTIALLY-COHERENT RECEPTION OF PULSE-POSITION MODULATED ADS-B MESSAGES - One embodiment is directed towards an RF receiver for receiving a pulse-position modulated signal transmitted with a 1090 MHz ADS-B transmitter, wherein the pulse-position modulated signal is preceded by a preamble of 4 pulses that conform to an ADS-B protocol. The receiver can filter a digital sample stream with a filter matched to pulses in an earlier half of an expected preamble sequence to produce a first matched filter output sample stream. The receiver can also filter the digital sample stream with a filter matched to a pulses in a latter half of the expected preamble sequence to produce a second matched filter output sample stream. The receiver can determine that a sequence of pulses match the expected preamble sequence based on when the first matched filter output sample stream and the second matched filter output sample stream are above a minimum trigger level at the same time. | 06-05-2014 |
20140301435 | Communications System - A communications system comprising a signal transmission arrangement for outputting a first signal for transmission, a first controller operable to control transmission of the first signal such that the transmitted signal takes a pulsed form including a plurality of first periods in which the first signal is transmitted separated by second periods in which the first signal is not transmitted, a radio signal receiver arrangement including or forming a bandpass filter and arranged to receive a second signal, and a second controller operable such that during a plurality of third periods the second signal is processed by at least part of the radio receiver arrangement, the third periods being separated by fourth periods in which the radio receiver arrangement does not process the second signal, wherein the first and second controllers are synchronised such that the second periods are synchronised with the third periods, at the radio signal receiver arrangement, such that the pulsed signal received by the receiver arrangement is reconstituted in the bandpass filter into a continuous signal, free or substantially free of interference from the first signal. | 10-09-2014 |
20140328381 | Electronic device, communication method, audio device and amplifier device using pulse density modulation for communication - The present invention discloses an electronic device using pulse density modulation for communication, comprising: a pulse density modulation interface; a first circuit to output a clock signal and a data signal through the pulse density modulation interface; and a second circuit to receive the clock and data signals and thereby determine whether the level change times of the data signal reach a predetermined threshold while the clock signal remains unchanged, so as to verify whether the clock and data signals satisfy a start protocol. In an embodiment of the present invention, the above-mentioned predetermined threshold is equal to or more than three. | 11-06-2014 |
20150030064 | SIGNAL TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - A signal transmission system has a modulation signal converter | 01-29-2015 |
20160112225 | Measuring Waveforms With The Digital Infinite Exponential Transform - A method is performed of selecting a signal of interest from a compound signal. The method includes generating a matrix and initializing a first row of the matrix to zero. The compound signal is obtained as a digital waveform signal, with sampling rate S samples per second. For each sample of the digital signal, a new entry is recursively computed for the matrix. For each frequency bin in the matrix (where f is the center frequency of the bin) the value in the new row is computed by multiplying the value for that bin in the previous row by the complex number r*e | 04-21-2016 |