45 results about "Power envelope" patented technology

An RFID transponder with an associated sensor used in a security network including at least one RFID reader that transmits signals at a first frequency. The transponder has a processor controlling its other components. Transmitter circuitry coupled to a transmit antenna transmits signals to the reader at a second frequency. A receive antenna receives signals in a frequency band that includes the first frequency. One or more RF diodes obtain the signal from the receive antenna and output a power envelope signal representing the power level of the signal obtained from the receive antenna. An amplifier coupled to the output of the RF diode amplifies the power envelope signal received from the RF diode. The processor receives the amplified power envelope signal and decodes any data that have been encoded using an on-off keyed modulation scheme applied to the signal obtained from the receive antenna.

Systems (400, 500, 600) and methods (300) for generating a chaotic amplitude modulated signal absent of cyclostationary features by preserving a constant variance. The methods involve: generating a PAM signal including pulse amplitude modulation having a periodically changing amplitude; generating a first part of a constant power envelope signal (FPCPES) by dividing the PAM signal by a square root of a magnitude of the PAM signal; generating a second part of the constant power envelope signal (SPCPES) having a magnitude equal to a square root of one minus the magnitude of the PAM signal; and generating first and second spreading sequences (FSS and SSS). The methods also involve combining the FPCPES with the FSS to generate a first product signal (FPS) and combining the SPCPES with the SSS to generate a second product signal (SPS). A constant power envelope signal is generated using the FPS and SPS.

A method and system enhances the gain of a propagation path of a radio frequency (RF) signal while utilizing an envelope tracking (ET) mechanism to provide power to a power amplifier within the propagation path. An envelope tracking (ET) controller detects using the ET mechanism an RF envelope of the RF signal being propagated towards the power amplifier. The ET controller applies envelope pre-distortion to the RF signal. The ET controller initiates a function for shaping the supply voltage of the power amplifier by selecting a shaping table that can provide a specific level of increasing amplifier gain at higher signal drive level. The ET controller shapes the supply voltage for the power amplifier by adjusting values corresponding to the detected RF envelope. As a result, RF signals are propagated from the transceiver to the power amplifier output port across high and low transceiver drive levels with net constant gain.

An over-provisioned multicore processor employs more cores than can simultaneously run within the power envelope of the processor, enabling advanced processor control techniques for more efficient workload execution, despite significantly decreasing the duty cycle of the active cores so that on average a full core or more may not be operating.

The invention relates to a power envelope tracing power supply of a multi-phase interleaving radio-frequency power amplifier, which comprises an envelope detection circuit for detecting a radio-frequency signal, a linear amplification circuit for amplifying an envelope signal, a multi-phase interleaving synchronous BUCK circuit for controlling a current which is supplied by the linear amplification circuit to the radio-frequency power amplifier, and a switch conversion control circuit for driving and controlling the interleaving synchronous BUCK circuit according to the current outputted by the linear amplification circuit, wherein the envelope detection circuit inputs an inputted radio-frequency signal to the linear amplification circuit to be linear amplified after detecting the radio-frequency signal, the switch conversion control circuit produces a multi-phase drive pulse to control the multi-phase interleaving synchronous BUCK circuit according to the current outputted by the linear amplification circuit, so the current which is supplied by the linear amplification circuit to the radio-frequency power amplifier is minimized.

A method for detecting uplink access includes carrying out shape filtering-sampling on received data of current sub frame in detection window of all receiving antennas to obtain detection data vector of current sub frame for each receiving antenna, weighting said vector according to estimation of interference power envelope in detection window of each receiving antenna, carrying out correlation operation on weighted vector and detected signature sequence, making multiantenna combination on obtained correlation calculation result of each receiving antenna and carrying out signature sequence identification on combined result.

The present invention is AGC method and device for the terminal equipment in time division duplex radio communication system. The AGC method includes the following steps: judging whether to reach frame sync; if not, selecting one work frequency for the first radio signal of one frame length the user terminal receives to obtain proper initial gain; calculating the power level variation of the second received radio signal in one frame time to obtain the power envelope of the signal; distinguishing the power envelope to obtain the first sectional message; after obtaining the frame sync, generating the second sectional message with the user terminal based on the specific frame structure of TDD system; and performing the time-dividing AGC to the first radio signal based on the first sectional message or the second sectional message. The present invention makes it possible for the communication system to establish normal sync and communication.

A method of encoding audio information for forward error correction reconstruction of a transmitted audio stream over a lossy packet switched network, the method including the steps of: (a) dividing the audio stream into audio frames; (b) determining a series of corresponding audio frequency bands for the audio frames; (c) determining a series of power envelopes for the frequency bands; (d) encoding the envelopes as a low bit rate version of the audio frame in a redundant transmission frame.

Within audio telecommunications for audio-visual conferencing a means of reliable double-talk detection is required for several reasons, including control of residual echo, and control of adaptive algorithms used to estimate the echo. Existing techniques tend to either fail when echo return loss is very low or require highly complex algorithms to increase the range of detecting whether double-talk is occurring. The invention is based upon a new method of estimating the power envelope of the double-talk signal. This estimation is then employed in conjunction with a slightly modified version of an echo return loss enhancement (ERLE) based statistic, to form a double-talk decision based on a combination of the two statistics. The resulting decision rule works for both low-ERLE and high-ERLE situations, which is useful when there can be large variations in the magnitude of the echo path seen by the algorithms, or where near-end noise prevents the achievement of high ERLE.

The specification describes an improved optical fiber produced by a hybrid VAD / MCVD process. The core of the fiber is produced using VAD and the inner cladding layer has a depressed index and is produced using MCVD. In preferred embodiments, the optical power envelope is essentially entirely contained in VAD produced core material and the MCVD produced depressed index cladding material. Optical loss is minimized by confining most of the optical power to the VAD core where OH presence is low, as well as by maximizing the optical power in the un-doped silica region. The MCVD substrate tube material is essentially devoid of optical power.

The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for scheduling a call for a wireless device in a transmission, e.g., a High Speed Downlink Packet Access transmission from a communication node associated with a network. The method comprises determining a current and a future traffic load on a downlink channel over a plurality of communication periods and adjusting a transmit power of the transmission from the communication node across at least two communication periods of the plurality of communication periods based on the current and future traffic loads. Base station software including a power step limiting algorithm and a scheduler may ramp the transmitted power from a transmitter slowly over several frames as data transmission increases and / or decreases with time at a base station. By smoothing out a transmitted power envelope a carrier may operate at a maximum data and power level during a busy time period. In this manner, an increase may be avoided in a saturated power of a power amplifier and the effects of an increased peak-to average power ratio on a power step limiting algorithm and a pre-distortion unit may be reduced.

Systems, methods, and computer programs are disclosed for providing optimal power / performance thermal mitigation in a portable computing device having a plurality of processing cores. An exemplary method comprises storing a power sweep table defining a power consumption value for each of a plurality of core frequency and core count combinations for an integrated circuit having a plurality of processing cores. A search table is generated by filtering the power sweep table based on one or more configuration parameters associated with the integrated circuit. A target power level is selected to sustain a thermal power envelope for the integrated circuit. The search table is traversed to find one of the plurality of core frequency and core count combinations having a corresponding power consumption value that matches the target power level.

Disclosed is a device having an audio interface configured to generate from the audio signal an outgoing audio signal for supplying to a loudspeaker component. The audio interface is configured, in generating the outgoing audio signal, to apply dynamic range compression to the audio signal. Device software is configured to receive an incoming audio signal and generate an audio signal from the incoming audio signal. The audio signal generated by the software is supplied to the audio interface for outputting by the loudspeaker component and is also used as a reference in audio signal processing. Generating the audio signal comprises the software applying initial nonlinear amplitude processing to the incoming audio signal to modify its power envelope. The modified power envelope is sufficiently smooth to be substantially unaffected by the dynamic range compression when applied by the audio interface.

Various embodiments of methods and systems for intelligent thermal power management implemented in a portable computing device (“PCD”) are disclosed. To reduce or increase power consumption in the PCD, embodiments adjust one or more performance settings for active components in a given use case, the settings of which contribute to power consumption associated with an aggregate power consumption. The selection of active processing components for performance setting adjustment is a function of the change in user experience versus the change in power consumption that will likely result from the setting adjustment.

The invention relates to reconfigurable bias and supply drivers for radio frequency power amplifiers. In some example embodiments, there is provided an apparatus. The apparatus may include a direct current voltage source and / or an alternating current voltage source to track a power envelope of a radio frequency signal. The apparatus may further include first and second power amplifiers with bias voltage inputs and a supply voltage inputs, and a switch matrix. The first input may be coupled to the direct current voltage source, the second input may be coupled to the alternating current voltage source. The outputs may be coupled to the bias and supply inputs to the power amplifiers. The switch matrix may enable activation of the first power amplifier, the second power amplifier, both the first and second power amplifiers, or neither power amplifier.

Systems and methods for leveraging multipath wireless transmissions for high data rate communication and charging devices within multipath vehicle environments are described. The techniques include deploying a wireless charger, including an array of antennas, within a vehicle interior. The wireless charger may detect an incoming signal from a client device (1120). Each antenna in the array may determine an offset for the received signal (1130), which is then used to tune parameters for each antenna individually (1140). Upon transmission, the resulting signal is directionally biased toward theleast lossy pathways between the device and the charger (1170). These pathways avoid passengers and other sources of signal attenuation. Thus, for a given total power envelope, a greater total signalamplitude may be delivered to the device, with reduced exposure to any occupants of the vehicle. Additionally, the interior of the vehicle may be provisioned (910a, 910b, 910c) to help improve multipath focusing of transmissions.

Systems (400, 500, 600) and methods (300) for generating a chaotic amplitude modulated signal absent of cyclostationary features by preserving a constant variance. The methods involve: generating a PAM signal including pulse amplitude modulation having a periodically changing amplitude; generating a first part of a constant power envelope signal (FPCPES) by dividing the PAM signal by a square root of a magnitude of the PAM signal; generating a second part of the constant power envelope signal (SPCPES) having a magnitude equal to a square root of one minus the magnitude of the PAM signal; and generating first and second spreading sequences (FSS and SSS). The methods also involve combining the FPCPES with the FSS to generate a first product signal (FPS) and combining the SPCPES with the SSS to generate a second product signal (SPS). A constant power envelope signal is generated using the FPS and SPS.

The invention discloses a power control device and a method for a mobile communication system, the method comprises that, power envelope type parameters and power attenuation parameters are determined by a power control unit; a power control signal containing modulation information is obtained by multiplying a power-time envelop curve which is obtained according to the power envelope type by a modulated quadrature upconversion signal; an attenuated modulated signal is obtained according to the power control signal and the power attenuation parameters; the modulated signal is sent to a power amplifier for amplification and output after being carried out the digital to analog conversion, the radio frequency mixing and the filter processing. The usage of the invention can not only improve the power control precision, but also can simplify the circuit, lower the cost and facilitate the realization.

A propulsion system for a multirotor aircraft, the propulsion system comprising: at least one power generation module configured to provide a first source of electrical power to one or more propulsion assemblies of the multirotor aircraft; a control system which is configured to determine the required electrical power demand of the propulsion assembly and calculate a predicted electrical power demand for a following period of time; wherein the control system is configured to alter the electrical power produced by the power generation module such as to produce a power envelope which comprises the electrical power produced by the power generation module corresponding to the predicted electrical power demand; wherein the control system is configured to determine if the power envelope meets the required electrical power demand; and wherein when the power envelope is less than the required electrical power demand the control system is configured to selectively connect a second source of electrical power for supplying power to the propulsion assembly such as to compensate for the difference between the power envelope and the required electrical power demand.

A Sustained Thermal Power Envelope may be generated by monitoring a circuitry-level temperature in a portable computing device, monitoring a skin temperature of the portable computing device, monitoring an ambient temperature, operating the portable computing device during multiple time periods during which a circuitry-level temperature remains substantially constant, determining an average skin temperature during each time period, adjusting the skin temperature data by subtracting the ambient temperature, and generating data pairs of adjusted skin temperature and the power consumed during the time period.

The invention discloses a high-voltage envelope tracker for optimizing the performance of a radio frequency power amplifier, including a boost module, a step-down module, and a linear power drive module; The voltage VBAT is converted into a DC voltage slightly larger than the maximum envelope signal, and the DC voltage supplies power to the step-down module and the linear power drive module; the step-down module and the linear power drive module cooperate to supply power to the RF power amplifier to realize An undistorted power envelope; the linear power drive module receives a pair of differential envelope signal inputs Venvp and Venvn. The power supply envelope of the RF power amplifier can be controlled to optimize the efficiency of the power amplifier in a wide output power range and increase its operating bandwidth, which can improve the efficiency of the entire RF power amplification system.

An over-provisioned multicore processor employs more cores than can simultaneously run within the power envelope of the processor, enabling advanced processor control techniques for more efficient workload execution, despite significantly decreasing the duty cycle of the active cores so that on average a full core or more may not be operating.

A power envelope controller configured for use with an amplification stage and method are disclosed. The power envelope controller includes voltage feedback input circuitry configured to receive a voltage feedback signal representing an internal voltage drop across the amplification stage and current feedback input circuitry configured to receive a current feedback signal representing an output current of the amplification stage. An analog multiplier is configured to generate an internal power dissipation signal representing the internal power dissipation of the amplification stage based on the voltage and current feedback signals. A comparator circuit is configured to compare the internal power dissipation signal to a power threshold and generate a power control error signal when the internal power dissipation of the amplification stage exceeds the threshold.

A method of measuring and analyzing the ultra high frequency EKG is performed by measuring the EKG within the frequency range above 250 Hz with a dynamic range of at least 100 dB. In the UHF EKG signal positions of Rm of R wave in QRS complex of EKG are detected on the time axis and the EKG signal is converted to amplitude or power envelopes, the amplitude or power envelopes frequency range is anywhere within the limits from 0.2 Hz to at least 500 Hz. From these envelopes the amplitude and time numerical parameters that describe the myocardium depolarization inhomogeneity and electric myocardium dyssynchrony are determined, and these parameters are used for selecting the patients for multi-chamber stimulators implementation and optimization of their setting.

A device for detecting an interference signal includes an estimator configured to estimate a mean value of received signals output from an analog-digital converter (ADC), a filter configured to filter a low frequency band of the received signals using the estimated mean value to produce filtered received signals, a detector configured to detect, from the filtered received signals, interference signals using a coherent modulation scheme and a non-coherent modulation scheme, and a combiner configured to determine whether interference exists in a frequency channel in response to a result of the interference signal detecting using the coherent modulation scheme and the non-coherent modulation scheme, based on a preset condition.