An electronic device and method of operating an electronic device are provided. The method includes receiving a wireless charging request from an external electronic device while wireless communication with the external electronic device is performed through a communication circuit of the electronic device, identifying a second frequency, based on a first frequency being used by the wireless communication circuit for the wireless communication, in response to the wireless charging request, and transmitting wireless power to the external electronic device, based on the identified second frequency through a wireless charging circuit of the electronic device while wireless communication with the external electronic device is performed.

Disclosed herein is a new type of fully-connected, hybrid beamforming transceiver architecture. The transceiver described herein is bi-directional and can be configured as a transmit beamformer or a receive beamformer. A method and apparatus are described that allows the beamformer to operate in “carrier aggregated” mode, where communication channels in multiple disparate frequency bands can be simultaneously accessed.

Described herein are variable gain amplifiers and multiplexers that embed programmable attenuators into switchable paths to provide variable gain for individual amplifier inputs. The variable gain for an individual input is provided using an amplification stage that is common for each input of the amplifier. A variable attenuation is provided for individual inputs through a combination of a band selection switch and an attenuation selection branch. Individual inputs can be configured to bypass the variable attenuation in a high gain mode.

An equipment comprising an array of radio antennas and a switching device placed as a cutoff between the antennas and the associated reception channels, the switching device comprising a first so-called operational operating mode wherein each input interface is then connected directly to a different output interface so as to connect each antenna with at least the associated reception channel thereof, and a second so-called calibration operating mode, wherein an input interface corresponding to a predetermined antenna is then connected to all the output interfaces so as to transmit the electrical signal coming from the predetermined antenna to all the reception channels, the equipment being adapted for implementing a method for autocalibration of the reception channels when the switching device is in the second operating mode.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described for mitigation of blockages in wireless signals between wireless devices. A UE may detect that a blockage is present (e.g., a hand blockage), such as by detecting that a received signal strength from a transmitting device (e.g., a base station or access network entity) has dropped by greater than a threshold value. Based on the blockage detection, the UE may measure an amplitude of one or more reference signals at one or more antenna elements of multiple antenna elements. The UE may also measure one or more reference signals for one or more phase shifter values that are applied to the multiple antenna elements. The UE may determine a set of amplitude weightings, and a set of phase weightings, for the multiple antenna elements based on the measuring, and apply the sets of weightings for communications with the transmitting device.

A receiver system (100) comprising: a plurality of receiver-input-terminals (102), each of which is configured to receive an input-signal from a respective antenna (106), wherein the input-signals comprise: i. one or more undesired-signal-components; and ii. one or more combined-signal-components. The receiver system (100) also includes a spatial-information-processing-block (112; 212) configured to: calculate spatial information (222) of the undesired-signal-components of the plurality of input-signals; calculate spatial information (220) of the combined-signal-components of the plurality of input-signals; calculate weighting-coefficients (226) for each of the input-signals based on the spatial information (220) of the combined-signal-components and the spatial information (222) of the undesired-signal-components; and combine the plurality of input-signals by applying the weighting-coefficients to each of the input-signals to provide a spatial-output-signal (114; 214). The receiver system (100) further includes a signal-combiner (130) configured to combine a plurality of signal-processing-path-output-signals (110) with the spatial-output-signal (114; 214) in order to provide a receiver-output-signal (108).

Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for channel state information calculation. One method (900) includes receiving (902) information indicating at least one channel state information reference signal resource for channel measurement transmitted from a first transmission resource and at least one non-zero-power channel state information reference signal resource for interference measurement transmitted from a second transmission resource. The method (900) includes determining (904) a channel state information reference signal resource and a non-zero-power channel state information reference signal resource for calculating channel state information. The method (900) includes calculating (906) the channel state information based on the channel state information reference signal resource and the non-zero-power channel state information reference signal resource. The channel state information reference signal resource and the non-zero-power channel state information reference signal resource are received using a receiving spatial filter. The method (900) includes transmitting (908) the channel state information.

A beam-forming circuit includes a multi mode power amplifier, a variable gain low noise amplifier, a variable gain phase shifter and a first switch circuit. The multi mode power amplifier amplifies a first RF intermediate signal generated based on a first RF input signal to generate a first RF output signal and performs a first transmission gain adjustment function based on a first control signal in a transmission mode. The variable gain low noise amplifier amplifies a second RF input signal to generate a second RF intermediate signal and performs a first reception gain adjustment function based on a second control signal in a reception mode. The variable gain phase shifter controls a gain and a phase of the first RF input signal at one time to generate the first RF intermediate signal and performs a second transmission gain adjustment function and a transmission phase adjustment function at one time based on a third control signal in the transmission mode, and controls a gain and a phase of the second RF intermediate signal at one time to generate a second RF output signal and performs a second reception gain adjustment function and a reception phase adjustment function at one time based on the third control signal in the reception mode. The first switch circuit receives the first RF input signal in the transmission mode, and outputs the second RF output signal in the reception mode.

A signal is transmitted and received between a base station device and a communication terminal device that are included in a communication system, through a multi-element antenna including a plurality of antenna elements. At least one of the base station device and the communication terminal device includes a PHY processing unit that is a calibration unit that performs calibration of phases and amplitudes of beams formed by the antenna elements when the signal is transmitted and received. The PHY processing unit obtains a correction value for the phases and the amplitudes of the beams in the respective antenna elements so that the phases and the amplitudes of the beams are identical among the antenna elements, and performs the calibration based on the obtained correction value.

Disclosed herein is a new type of fully-connected, hybrid beamforming transceiver architecture. The transceiver described herein is bi-directional and can be configured as a transmit beamformer or a receive beamformer. A method and apparatus are described that allows the beamformer to operate in “carrier aggregated” mode, where communication channels in multiple disparate frequency bands can be simultaneously accessed.