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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2016

Filed:

Jan. 06, 2015
Applicant:

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Inventors:

Dong-Yun Jung, Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Sung-Tae Choi, Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Dong-Woo Kang, Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Ji-Hoon Kim, Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Yi-Ju Roh, Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Yun-A Shim, Gangwon-do, KR;

Dong-Hyun Lee, Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Seung-Pyo Hong, Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/38 (2015.01); H04L 5/16 (2006.01); H04B 7/06 (2006.01); H04B 7/08 (2006.01); H04B 1/30 (2006.01); H04B 1/52 (2015.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/0617 (2013.01); H04B 1/30 (2013.01); H04B 1/52 (2013.01); H04B 7/086 (2013.01);
Abstract

An electronic device for beamforming and a method thereof in a wireless communication system are provided. The electronic device includes a plurality of antennas. The electronic device also includes a plurality of transmitter and receiver switches connected to the antennas and configured to select a plurality of transmission paths and a plurality of reception paths. The electronic device further includes a plurality of first Phase Shifters (P/Ss) configured to shift a phase of Radio Frequency (RF) signals received via the antennas and the transmitter and receiver switches. The electronic device includes a combiner configured to combine the phase-shifted RF signals to one RF signal. The electronic device also includes a quadrature signal generator configured to generate a quadrature signal. The electronic device further includes a down-mixer configured to convert the quadrature signal and the combined RF signal to a first baseband signal and configured to output the first baseband signal to a modem. The electronic device includes a controller configured to control the transmitter and receiver switches, the first P/Ss, and a plurality of second P/Ss to determine a transmission or reception mode of the transmitter and receiver switches, and the phase of the RF signals transmitted and received.


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