公开(公告)号：US20180013518A1

公开(公告)日：2018-01-11

申请号：US15656372

申请日：2017-07-21

Applicant: Sony Corporation

Inventor： Luke FAY ,  Lachlan Michael ,  Daniel Schneider ,  Lothar Stadelmeier ,  Samuel Atungsiri

IPC: H04L1/00 ,  H04L27/26 ,  H04H60/13 ,  H04H60/73 ,  H04H20/59 ,  H04H60/72 ,  H04L5/00

CPC classification number: H04L1/0083 ,  H04H20/423 ,  H04H20/59 ,  H04H60/13 ,  H04H60/72 ,  H04H60/73 ,  H04L5/0044 ,  H04L5/0048 ,  H04L27/2602 ,  H04L27/2613 ,  H04L27/2636 ,  H04L27/2666

Abstract: Processing and transmitting transmission frames. A method for processing a transmission frame, includes receiving a transmission frame including a bootstrap portion, a preamble portion, and a payload portion. The boot strap portion of the received transmission frame is processed, by processing circuitry of a reception apparatus, to extract preamble structure information from one of four bootstrap symbols included in the bootstrap portion. The preamble portion of the transmission frame is decoded, by the processing circuitry, based on the extracted preamble structure information. A first one of the four bootstrap symbols is used for synchronization and a last one of the four bootstrap symbols in the bootstrap portion includes the preamble structure information. Further, the preamble structure information indicates a structure of one or more preamble symbols in the preamble portion that follows the last symbol.

公开(公告)号：US20190181985A1

公开(公告)日：2019-06-13

申请号：US16178238

申请日：2018-11-01

Applicant: Sony Corporation

Inventor： Luke Fay ,  Lachlan Michael ,  Daniel Schneider ,  Lothar Stadelmeier ,  Samuel Atungsiri

IPC: H04L1/00 ,  H04L27/26 ,  H04H20/42 ,  H04H60/13 ,  H04H60/73

Abstract: A reception apparatus including a tuner and circuitry is provided. The tuner is configured to receive a transmission frame. The circuitry is configured to detect a last symbol of a first part of the transmission frame. The circuitry is configured to extract first signaling information, from the last symbol of the first part of the transmission frame, to decode a second part of the transmission frame. The circuitry is configured to remove a guard interval of a symbol of the second part of the transmission frame based on the guard interval indicated by the first signaling information. The circuitry is further configured to recover payload data from a third part of the transmission frame based on second signaling information included in the second part of the transmission frame. The first part is a bootstrap portion, the second part is a preamble portion, and the third part is a payload portion.

公开(公告)号：US10193736B2

公开(公告)日：2019-01-29

申请号：US15564993

申请日：2016-04-14

Applicant: Sony Corporation

Inventor： Daniel Schneider ,  Nabil Sven Loghin ,  Lothar Stadelmeier ,  Thomas Handte

IPC: H04L5/00 ,  H04L27/34 ,  H04L1/00

Abstract: A coding and modulation apparatus and method are presented, particularly for use in a system according to IEEE 802.11. The apparatus comprises an encoder configured to encode input data into cell words according to a low density parity check code, LDPC, and a modulator configured to modulate said cell words into constellation values of a non-uniform constellation and to assign bit combinations to constellation values of the used non-uniform constellation, wherein said modulator is configured to use, based on the PHY mode, the total number M of constellation points of the constellation and the code rate, a particular non-uniform constellation.

公开(公告)号：US10116369B2

公开(公告)日：2018-10-30

申请号：US15288417

申请日：2016-10-07

Applicant: SONY CORPORATION

Inventor： Daniel Schneider ,  Andreas Schwager

IPC: H04B7/02 ,  H04B7/06 ,  H04B3/54 ,  H04B3/32 ,  H04L1/00 ,  H04W4/06 ,  H04W72/00 ,  H04B7/0413

Abstract: A control unit of a communication device provides multicast precoding information from at least first beamforming information descriptive for a first transmission channel and second beamforming information descriptive for a second transmission channel. A precoder unit beamforms at least one signal using the multicast precoding information to obtain at least two precoded signals. A transmitter circuit which is electrically coupled to the precoder unit multicasts transmission signals through the at least first and a second transmission channels, wherein the transmission signals are derived from the precoded signals.

公开(公告)号：US09843357B2

公开(公告)日：2017-12-12

申请号：US14880687

申请日：2015-10-12

Applicant: SONY CORPORATION

Inventor： Lothar Stadelmeier ,  Andreas Schwager ,  Daniel Schneider

IPC: H04B3/00 ,  H04L25/00 ,  H04B3/54 ,  H04B3/32 ,  H04L1/00 ,  H04L1/06 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04B3/46

CPC classification number: H04B3/54 ,  H04B3/32 ,  H04B3/46 ,  H04B2203/5425 ,  H04B2203/5466 ,  H04L1/0009 ,  H04L1/0618 ,  H04L5/0044

Abstract: A method for transmitting signals over a power line network, wherein within the power line network at least one transmitter and at least one receiver communicate via at least two channels, each channel including a respective feeding port of at least one transmitter and the respective receiving port of the at least one transmitter and transmitter including at least two feeding ports. The method: determines a channel characteristic of each of the channels; applies a feeding port selection criterion based on the channel characteristic; and selects an excluded feeding port among the at least two feeding ports based on the feeding port selection criterion, wherein the excluded feeding port is not used during further communication. A corresponding power line communication modem can implement the method.

公开(公告)号：US08817893B2

公开(公告)日：2014-08-26

申请号：US14098145

申请日：2013-12-05

Applicant: Sony Corporation

Inventor： Lothar Stadelmeier ,  Dietmar Schill ,  Andreas Schwager ,  Daniel Schneider

IPC: H04B3/00 ,  H04L27/26 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04B3/54 ,  H04L1/06 ,  H04L25/02

CPC classification number: H04L27/2601 ,  H04B3/54 ,  H04B3/542 ,  H04B2203/5408 ,  H04B2203/5425 ,  H04L1/0693 ,  H04L5/0025 ,  H04L5/0058 ,  H04L5/0092 ,  H04L25/0248 ,  H04L27/2646 ,  H04L27/2647

Abstract: A method for transmitting a signal from a transmitter over a channel to a receiver on a Power Line Network, wherein said signal is OFDM-modulated on a set of sub-carriers, is proposed, wherein an OFDM tonemap and an eigenbeamforming encoding matrix are determined based on a channel estimation for each sub-carrier, a tonemap feedback signal and an eigenbeamforming feedback signal are generated, which are descriptive of said OFDM tonemap and said eigenbeamforming encoding matrix, respectively, and transmitted to the transmitter. A corresponding receiver, a transmitter, a power line communication and a power line communication system are described as well.

Abstract translation: 一种用于通过信道将信号从发射机发送到电力线网络上的接收机的方法，其中所述信号在一组子载波上进行OFDM调制，其中确定OFDM子映射和本征波束形成编码矩阵 基于每个子载波的信道估计，生成分别描述所述OFDM tonemap和所述本征波束形成编码矩阵并且发送到发射机的tonemap反馈信号和本征波束形成反馈信号。 还描述了相应的接收机，发射机，电力线通信和电力线通信系统。

公开(公告)号：US10855398B2

公开(公告)日：2020-12-01

申请号：US15741424

申请日：2016-07-07

Applicant: Sony Corporation

Inventor： Thomas Handte ,  Daniel Schneider ,  Nabil Sven Loghin ,  Ben Eitel

IPC: H04L1/00 ,  H04L27/34 ,  H04L27/26 ,  H03M13/25 ,  H03M13/11

Abstract: A coding and modulation apparatus and method are presented, particularly for use in a system according to IEEE 802.11. The apparatus comprises an encoder configured to encode input data into cell words according to a low density parity check code, LDPC, and a modulator configured to modulate said cell words into constellation values of a non-uniform constellation and to assign bit combinations to constellation values of the used non-uniform constellation, wherein said modulator is configured to use, based on the total number N of constellation points of the constellation and the code rate R, a particular non-uniform constellation, which has been optimized using the peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR).

公开(公告)号：US10827496B2

公开(公告)日：2020-11-03

申请号：US16330102

申请日：2017-08-17

Applicant: Sony Corporation

Inventor： Thomas Handte ,  Dana Ciochina ,  Daniel Schneider ,  Nabil Sven Loghin ,  Ben Eitel ,  Felix Fellhauer

IPC: H04B7/08 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04B7/06 ,  H04W64/00 ,  G01S5/02

Abstract: Communication devices and corresponding methods for RF-based communication and position determination are disclosed. An initiator communication device (1) comprises an antenna unit (10) configured to transmit and receive RF signals, a beamforming unit (11) configured to perform beamforming and to control the antenna unit to transmit and/or receive RF signals using one or more selected beams, a control unit (12) configured to control the beamforming unit (11) in a training phase to perform beamforming for determining an initiator line of sight (LOS), beam to a responder communication device (2), and a processing unit (13) configured to determine the initiator LOS beam and/or initiator angular information of the initiator LOS beam and to determine the position of said communication device using the determined initiator LOS beam and/or initiator angular information in a measurement phase.

公开(公告)号：US10536241B2

公开(公告)日：2020-01-14

申请号：US16178238

申请日：2018-11-01

Applicant: Sony Corporation

Inventor： Luke Fay ,  Lachlan Michael ,  Daniel Schneider ,  Lothar Stadelmeier ,  Samuel Atungsiri

IPC: H04L1/00 ,  H04L27/26 ,  H04H20/42 ,  H04H60/13 ,  H04H60/73 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04H20/59 ,  H04H60/72

Abstract: A reception apparatus including a tuner and circuitry is provided. The tuner is configured to receive a transmission frame. The circuitry is configured to detect a last symbol of a first part of the transmission frame. The circuitry is configured to extract first signaling information, from the last symbol of the first part of the transmission frame, to decode a second part of the transmission frame. The circuitry is configured to remove a guard interval of a symbol of the second part of the transmission frame based on the guard interval indicated by the first signaling information. The circuitry is further configured to recover payload data from a third part of the transmission frame based on second signaling information included in the second part of the transmission frame. The first part is a bootstrap portion, the second part is a preamble portion, and the third part is a payload portion.

公开(公告)号：US10153866B2

公开(公告)日：2018-12-11

申请号：US15656372

申请日：2017-07-21

Applicant: Sony Corporation

Inventor： Luke Fay ,  Lachlan Michael ,  Daniel Schneider ,  Lothar Stadelmeier ,  Samuel Atungsiri

IPC: H04L1/00 ,  H04L27/26 ,  H04H60/13 ,  H04H60/73 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04H20/59 ,  H04H60/72

Abstract: Processing and transmitting transmission frames. A method for processing a transmission frame, includes receiving a transmission frame including a bootstrap portion, a preamble portion, and a payload portion. The boot strap portion of the received transmission frame is processed, by processing circuitry of a reception apparatus, to extract preamble structure information from one of four bootstrap symbols included in the bootstrap portion. The preamble portion of the transmission frame is decoded, by the processing circuitry, based on the extracted preamble structure information. A first one of the four bootstrap symbols is used for synchronization and a last one of the four bootstrap symbols in the bootstrap portion includes the preamble structure information. Further, the preamble structure information indicates a structure of one or more preamble symbols in the preamble portion that follows the last symbol.