H04L27/2649

DEMODULATION OF FREQUENCY-HOPPING SPREAD SPECTRUM (FHSS) SIGNALS USING SEQUENTIAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE/MACHINE LEARNING (AI/ML) MODELS
20230188400 · 2023-06-15 ·

A method includes using a first trained artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) model to identify occupied frequency channels associated with one or more incoming signals during multiple time periods, where the one or more incoming signals include a frequency-hopping spread spectrum (FHSS) signal. The method also includes generating one or more baseband signals using portions of the one or more incoming signals associated with the occupied frequency channels. The method further includes using a second trained AI/ML model to recover data from the one or more baseband signals, where the recovered data represents at least a portion of data that is encoded in the FHSS signal.

Apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals, apparatus for receiving broadcast signals, method for transmitting broadcast signals and method for receiving broadcast signals

A method and an apparatus for receiving broadcast signals thereof are disclosed. The apparatus for receiving broadcast signals, the apparatus comprises a receiver to receive the broadcast signals, a demodulator to demodulate the received broadcast signals by an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex) scheme, a frame parser to parse a signal frame from the demodulated broadcast signals, wherein the signal frame includes service data corresponding to each of a plurality of physical paths, a time deinterleaver to time deinterleave service data in each physical path by a TI (Time Interleaving) block, wherein the time deinterleaver further performs inserting at least one virtual FEC block into at least one TI block of the service data, wherein each TI block includes a variable number of FEC blocks of the service data, wherein a number of the at least one virtual FEC block is defined based on a maximum number of FEC blocks of a TI block and a decoder to decode the time deinterleaved service data.

Systems and methods for detecting a scrambling seed in communication with an unmanned aircraft system

A system and method for detecting a scrambling seed in communication between a drone and a controller are described. The system comprises a radio-frequency (RF) receiver configured to receive an RF signal transmitted between the drone and a controller. The RF signal includes scrambled data that contain repetitions of unscrambled data based on known scramblers with an unknown scrambling seed. The system further comprises a memory device in communication with a hardware processor and having stored computer-executable instructions to cause the hardware processor to identify the smallest number of bits required in each segment of scrambled data for data combining by finding an invertible predetermined matrix. The hardware processor is configured to determine the unknown scrambling seed based on a function combining the predetermined matrix, transition matrices of scramblers, and segments of received scrambled data.

USING PREAMBLE PORTION HAVING IRREGULAR CARRIER SPACING FOR FREQUENCY SYNCHRONIZATION
20230179464 · 2023-06-08 ·

In one embodiment, an apparatus includes: a radio frequency (RF) front end circuit to receive and downconvert a RF signal to a second frequency signal, the RF signal comprising an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transmission; a digitizer coupled to the RF front end circuit to digitize the second frequency signal to a digital signal; and a baseband processor coupled to the digitizer to process the digital signal. The baseband circuit comprises a first circuit having a first plurality of correlators having an irregular comb structure, each of the first plurality of correlators associated with a carrier frequency offset and to calculate a first correlation on a first portion of a preamble of the OFDM transmission.

APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING BROADCAST SIGNALS, APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING BROADCAST SIGNALS, METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING BROADCAST SIGNALS AND METHOD FOR RECEIVING BROADCAST SIGNALS

The present invention provides an apparatus of transmitting broadcast signals, the apparatus including, an encoder for encoding service data, a frame builder for building at least one signal frame by mapping the encoded service data, a modulator for modulating data in the built at least one signal frame by an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing, OFDM, scheme and a transmitter for transmitting the broadcast signals having the modulated data.

Heart rate sensor and medical diagnostics wireless devices
09813270 · 2017-11-07 ·

A heart generated signal is provided by a heart sensor of a mobile device to an analog to digital (A/D) converter for A/D converting the sensor provided signal. The A/D converted heart signal is processed to provide heart rate. The heart rate is recorded or stored in the mobile device or is transmitted in a wireless communication system. The mobile device receives sensor provided Electro Cardiogram (ECG) signal. The ECG signal is stored or is provided to an interface unit. The mobile device has transceivers for receiving and transmitting Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed (OFDM) signals and for modulating and transmitting spread spectrum baseband signals. The spread spectrum baseband signals have cross-correlated in-phase and quadrature-phase filtered baseband signals.

Architecture of a communications subsystem supporting multi radio frequency band transmission
11489585 · 2022-11-01 ·

A satellite system uses cloud computing virtualized gateways, radio transport protocol and on-ground beamforming to improve wireless communication. A digitized ground based subsystem for use with the satellite system can be employed in transmitting an optical feeder uplink beam to a communications platform that includes a multiple element antenna array. The ground based subsystem is configured to receive the optical feeder uplink beam and, in dependence thereon, use the multiple element antenna feed array to produce and transmit a plurality of RF service downlink beams to a single or plurality of service terminals.

Methods and apparatus for synchronization in multiple-channel communication systems
09800451 · 2017-10-24 · ·

Methods and apparatus for processing multichannel signals in a multichannel receiver are described. In one implementation, a plurality of demodulator circuits may provide a plurality of outputs to a processing module, with the processing module then simultaneously estimating noise characteristics based on the plurality of outputs and generating a common noise estimate based on the plurality of outputs. This common noise estimate may then be provided back the demodulators and used to adjust the demodulation of signals in the plurality of demodulators to improve phase noise performance.

Transmission device, transmission method, reception device, and reception method
11671199 · 2023-06-06 · ·

An FEC coder in a transmission device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure performs BCH coding and LDPC coding based on whether a code length of the LDPC coding is a 16k mode or a 64k mode. A mapper performs mapping in an I-Q coordinate to perform conversion into an FEC block, and outputs pieces of mapping data (cells). The mapper defines different non-uniform mapping patterns with respect to different code lengths even an identical coding rate is used by the FEC coder. This configuration improves a shaping gain for different error correction code lengths in a transmission technology in which modulation of the non-uniform mapping pattern is used.

WIRELESS SIGNAL RECEIVER

A satisfactory list detection (LD) receiver based on spatial modulation (SM) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) waveform is provided. In some embodiments, the LD receiver can implement a suboptimal LD detection process that relies on a reduced search space an optimal joint ML detection-based process for the SM-OFDM transmission mode. In some aspects, the overall search space for the optimal joint ML is determined by the total spectral efficiency, which can be divided into two information categories with two different search spaces defined by the number of bits of each category. As such, in some aspects, the LD receiver can permit detecting, with reduced complexity, antenna bits and data bits based on a determination of respective log-likelihood ratios.