Finesse Wireless, LLC

Other

Parkervision, Inc.

Lockheed Martin Corporation

Avaya Technology LLC

L-3 Communications Corporation

Loral Aerospace Corp.

Lockheed Martin Aerospace Corporation

Francis James Smith

David F Sorrells

Gregory S Rawlins

Michael W Rawlins

Michael J Bultman

Richard C Looke

Robert W Cook

Charley D Moses, Jr

Richard W Koralek

Osama Sami Haddadin

Robert T Short

Yee-Hsiang Sean Chang

Chih-Yuan Chang

Jenwei Liang

Huei-ming Steve Yang

Norman L Swenson

Frank Chethik

Janez Jeraj

Theodore J Wolcott

Joseph D Spencer

Rebekah Reeder

Steven Andersen

Michael E Jacobson

James F Lebar

Chris Hinkle

James Berman

James Pressey

Donald R Pandori

Danny E Stoneking

A method and apparatus for intermodulation product (IMP) cancellation. In one embodiment, the method comprises: acquiring copies of source signals that create IMPs in a passband of interest; creating copies of the IMPs for use as IMP cancellation signals by either multiplying the source signals together as a series of digital samples such that the multiplied signals create a near real and continuous time copy of the IMPs or creating a sum of the source signals in near real and continuous time and convolving the sum of the source signals with a mathematical model to effectively multiply the signals together to create a copy of the IMPs; adjusting one or both of phase and amplitude of the copies; and using the copies to cancel the IMPs inband of the passband of interest.

Cancellation of spurious intermodulation products produced in nonlinear channels by frequency hopped signals and spurious signals

A transmitter channel interference mitigation processing method for cancellation of intermodulation products are described. In one embodiment, a method comprising generating continuous and real time IMP cancellation signals (ICS) in the baseband digital signal set of the transmitter based on a transmitter signal set, combining digital IMP cancellation signals with a digital baseband transmitter signal set such that the digital cancellation signals, when converted to analog signals and transmitted as part of an analog transmitter signal set, are cancelled by and so cancel the IMPs generated by the non-linear components in the analog transmitter hardware, including digitally generating the IMP cancellation signals using a process based on a power series description of a non-linear process generating the IMPs, generating 3order IMP cancellation signals by digitally multiplying two or three signals of the transmitter signal set to create 3order IMP cancellation signals, generating 5order IMP cancellation signals by digitally multiplying two or three or five signals of the transmitter signal set to create 5order IMP cancellation signals, generating 7order IMP cancellation signals by digitally multiplying two or three or five or seven signals of the transmitter signal set to create 7order IMP cancellation signal, generating odd order IMP cancellation signals (ICS) by digitally multiplying an odd number of digital signals and combining multiplied digital signals with the transmitter baseband digital signals, creating IMP cancellation signals in the receiver, and cancelling one or both of active and passive IMPs generated in a transmitter path that fall within a receiver passband.

Mitigation of transmitter passive and active intermodulation products in real and continuous time in the transmitter and co-located receiver

A radio signal transmission technique includes selecting a sample rate from a plurality of predefined sample rates so that the radio signal is contained entirely within a Nyquist zone corresponding to the sample rate. A digitized signal is converted to an analog signal, spectrally enhanced, and passed through a selected one of a plurality of selectable bandpass filters to form the radio signal.

Multi-band direct sampling transmitter

The perceived sample rate at which a DAC can operate can be increased by allowing multiple DACs to process different portions of a digital signal in parallel. In this way, the outputs of multiple DACs can be combined into a single analog signal to achieve the desired speeds and resolutions of the analog output. This parallel processing can be implemented using a time-interleaving technique or a sub-band reconstruction technique. Pre-distortion can be applied to the digital input signal to compensate for degradation detected in the analog output signal. By applying pre-distortion, waveforms having high sampling rates can be efficiently generated.

Time-interleaved and sub-band reconstruction approaches to digital-to-analog conversion for high sample rate waveform generation

An exercise device comprises an elongate rod having opposite ends each being configured to be grasped by a user. The rod includes a flexible inner core having a pair of opposite ends and an outer sheath substantially circumscribing at least a central portion of the inner core. A pair of grip sections are each positioned on an opposite end of the rod, the grip sections being configured to allow a user to grasp each end of the rod when performing exercises. At least one end cap is fixed to one of the opposite ends of the rod, the end cap including engaging structure associated therewith to facilitate engagement with a safety strap. A safety strap is engaged with the end cap and is configured to be releasably secured to the user to prevent accidental release of a grip section of the rod.

Flexible exercise device and related systems

A Multi-mode-multi-band direct conversion receiver with complex I and Q channel interference mitigation processing for cancellation of intermodulation products (IMPs) are described. In one embodiment, a method comprising over sampling of the entire receiver passband to acquire the IMP source signals that can generate IMPs within the signal of interest (SOI), generate a coherent complex I-Q channel estimates of the interference, generating estimates of 2nd and 3rd order IMP products, sampling of the transmitter feed thru signal and blocking signals and computing the cross modulation products estimate, using the cross modulation cancellation to cancel of the effects of the on chip transmitter feed thru to support building a single transceiver chip with full duplex operation, and creation of an estimate of the DC offset in the receiver in a closed loop fashion to cancel the DC offset in the I and Q channels independently and simultaneously, and adjusting the rate of update to match system parameters.

Multi-mode&#x2014;multi-band direct conversion receiver with complex I and Q channel interference mitigation processing for cancellation of intermodulation products

Various apparatuses and methods are described to reduce interference in signals subject to intermodulation products and high power narrow band interfering signals on lower power wideband signals. Apparatuses and methods described herein also provide the capability for supporting multi-standards, multi-modes and multi-bands in wireless and wired applications with a single receiver or a receiver with minor variations. The receiver described herein samples the entire band in which there can be signals of interest or signals that can generate interference. All of these signals are sampled in one bit stream and the bit stream is processed to isolate signals of interest and interfering signals. The isolated interfering signals are then cancelled out of the signals of interest.

Radio receiver

A method and system for converting an optical signal to electrical information signals, including demodulated baseband information signals and modulated baseband signals at multiple harmonics. In an embodiment, the optical information signal is amplitude modulated with information. The method converts an optical signal to electrical charge, accumulates the electrical charge, and periodically transfers the accumulated electrical charge to a storage device, whereby the periodically transferred electrical charge forms the electrical signals. An exemplary system includes an optical transducer and a universal frequency translator coupled to an output of the optical transducer. The optical transducer receives an optical signal and converts the optical signal to electrical charge. The universal frequency translator periodically transfers energy from the electrical charge and forms the electrical signals from the transferred energy. In an embodiment, the present invention converts an I and Q optical signal to electrical signals. In an embodiment, the present invention converts an optical signal to an RF electrical signal using relatively few components, while preserving information content.

Optical down-converter using universal frequency translation technology

This invention provides a technique and an architecture to pre-distort signals such that when the signals are amplified, the non-linear distortions of the amplifier chain are opposite that of the pre-distortion thus yielding a distortion free or nearly distortion free signal at the output of the amplifier chain. This invention provides for a low power application by using a LUT predistortion that is performed on a composite real signal (I and Q combined) such that the size of the LUTs required is reduced to a very small size. In this invention, the I and Q input signals are digitally modulation with quadrature digital sinusoidal signals and then combined to create the real composite signal at a digital IF. The real signal is then pre-distorted to compensate for AM/AM distortion first and then for AM/PM distortion. The pre-distorted signal is then digitally decomposed back in to I and Q samples for conversion to analog and up conversion to RF. The non-pre-distorted real signal is sampled and compared with a sample of the post amplified signal and the non-linear update algorithm is updated to compensate for the variation of non-linear distortion as a function of time and temperature. The architecture and techniques described herein provide for a low power and low memory implementation that can be used in mobile applications such as cell phones and Personal Data Devices (PDAs).

Non-linear adaptive AM/AM and AM/PM pre-distortion compensation with time and temperature compensation for low power applications

A high speed wireless network for the access market where a scheduling algorithm adjusts the ratio of two contention modes used to allocate bandwidth from the Hub. The two contention modes, request and grant mode and contention mode, are utilized so that contention is greater when the system is lightly loaded and seamlessly decreases as the system becomes heavily loaded.

Adaptive cell scheduling algorithm for wireless asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) systems

Coherent detection of a received EM signal using universal frequency translation (UFT) is described herein. The received EM signal is sampled according to a sub-harmonic LO signal, where the LO signal is in frequency and phase coherence with the received EM signal. The coherent receiver includes a down-converter/demodulator and a synthesizer/loop filter that are both implemented using UFT technology. The down-converter/demodulator samples the EM input signal using a UFT module according to the coherent sub-harmonic LO signal that is generated by the synthesizer/loop filter. The synthesizer/loop filter generates the coherent LO signal using a phase detector, a loop filter, and an up-converter. The phase detector and up-converter are implemented using UFT modules.

Carrier and clock recovery using universal frequency translation

A high speed wireless network for the access market where a polling mode, a contention mode, a seamless transition between the two modes and an efficient contention resolution algorithm are utilized to coordinate user transmission while utilizing a splitting tree algorithm to avoid collision of a number of users.

Medium access control (MAC) protocol with seamless polling/contention modes

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Livermore, CA, United States of America

Francis James Smith