Pilot, preamble and midamble patterns are provided that are particularly suited for four transmit antenna OFDM systems. Pilots are inserted in a scattered manner for each of the four antennas, either uncoded, space-time coded in pairs, space-time frequency coded in pairs, or space-time-frequency coded.

Disclosed is a precoding method comprising the steps of: generating a first coded block and a second coded block with use of a predetermined error correction block coding scheme; generating a first precoded signal z1 and a second precoded signal z2 by performing a precoding process, which corresponds to a matrix selected from among the N matrices F[i], on a first baseband signal s1 generated from the first coded block and a second baseband signal s2 generated from the second coded block, respectively; the first precoded signal z1 and the second precoded signal z2 satisfying (z1, z2).sup.T=F[i] (s1, s2).sup.T; and changing both of or one of a power of the first precoded signal z1 and a power of the second precoded signal z2, such that an average power of the first precoded signal z1 is less than an average power of the second precoded signal z2.

A transmission device includes: a weighting synthesizer that generates a first precoded signal and a second preceded signal; a first pilot inserter that inserts a pilot signal into the first precoded signal; a phase changer that applies a phase change of i×Δλ to the second precoded signal, where i is a symbol number and an integer that is greater than or equal to 0; an inserter that inserts a pilot signal into the phase-changed second precoded signal; and a phase changer that applies a phase change to the phase-changed and pilot-signal-inserted second precoded signal. Δλ satisfies π/2 radians<Δλ<π radians or π radians<Δλ<3π/2 radians.

A system for displaying content to a plurality of users in a multiplayer venue including: a plurality of wearable display systems, each display system being worn by a user, a content system that generates a plurality of content streams, each content stream being associated with a corresponding display system, a location system that detects a location of each display system within the venue, a transmission system including a number of transmission system antennas that wirelessly communicate with the display systems to transmit content to the wearable display systems and to receive data from the wearable display systems and a control system that determines the location of each display system within the venue from the location system and selectively controls transmitting antennas in accordance with the location of each display system to transmit each content stream to the corresponding display system or receive data from a corresponding display system.

A base station for communicating with multiple groups of wireless communication devices is described. The base station includes a processor and executable instructions stored in memory that is in electronic communication with the processor. The base station determines a number of wireless communication devices. The base station also splits the number of wireless communication devices into groups. The base station further determines a precoding matrix for each group. The base station additionally transmits a beamformed signal to each group using the precoding matrix for each group.

A variable gain amplifier and an electronic apparatus. The variable gain amplifier includes a first transconductance stage circuit and a second transconductance stage circuit, where the first transconductance stage circuit includes a first amplifying circuit and a second amplifying circuit, the second transconductance stage circuit includes a third amplifying circuit and a fourth amplifying circuit, the first amplifying circuit and the fourth amplifying circuit form a differential input pair, and the second amplifying circuit and the third amplifying circuit form a differential input pair, and where each amplifying circuit of the first amplifying circuit, the second amplifying circuit, the third amplifying circuit, and the fourth amplifying circuit includes a plurality of parallel transistors, and bias control of the plurality of transistors is independent of each other.

The disclosure relates to method and system for providing a MIMO transceiver in high speed mobility. The method includes dividing, by the wireless MIMO transmitter, transmission data into a plurality of transmit chains corresponding to an antenna. The method further includes generating for the plurality of transmit chains, a Circularly Pulse Shaped Orthogonal Time Frequency Space (CPS-OTFS) time frequency signal based on a first primary parameter. Value of the first primary parameter is determined based on a first predefined algorithm. The method further includes converting for the plurality of transmit chains, the CPS-OTFS time frequency signal to a CPS-OTFS time domain signal based on at least one of a plurality of secondary parameters. A first plurality of N-point Inverse Fast Fourier Transform (IFFT) are employed on the CPS-OTFS time frequency signal. The first plurality corresponds to the number of sub-carriers and N corresponds to a set of time symbols.

A transmission method includes generating a first precoded signal and a second precoded signal by performing a precoding process on a first baseband signal and a second baseband signal, outputting a third signal by inserting a pilot signal into the first precoded signal, outputting a fourth signal by applying a first phase change to the second precoded signal, outputting a fifth signal by inserting a pilot signal into the fourth signal, and outputting a sixth signal by applying a second phase change to the fifth signal.

A wireless device includes a plurality of antenna and a plurality of wireless modules that transmit or receive signals via the plurality of antennas. Each of the plurality of wireless modules includes: a generator that generates a high-frequency signal; and a high-frequency circuit that transmits or receives, based on the generated high-frequency signal, a signal via at least one of the plurality of antennas. The wireless device further includes a controller. The controller obtains, each time the plurality of wireless modules start generation of a plurality of the high-frequency signals, a difference of phases of the plurality of high-frequency signals, and controls, based on the obtained difference, at least one phase of a plurality of signals to be transmitted or received by the plurality of wireless modules.

The invention is directed to systems, methods and computer program products for determining an operational mode for a device in a network. An exemplary method comprises determining a device has a first antenna and a second antenna; determining a first number of multipath components and associated power levels for the first antenna; determining a second number of multipath components and associated power levels for the second antenna; and determining an operational mode for the device based on the first number of multipath components and its associated power levels for the first antenna and the second number of multipath components and its associated power levels for the second antenna.