Devices for transmitter path weights and methods therefor

• US 6,192,256 B1
• Filed: 10/08/1999
• Issued: 02/20/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 05/17/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Motorola, Inc. (Motorola Solutions, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Motorola, Inc. (Motorola Solutions, Inc.)
• Inventors: Whinnett, Nicholas
• Primary Examiner(s): Eisenzopf, Reinhard J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): APPIAH, CHARLES NANA
• Application Number:
  US09/415,168
• Time in Patent Office: 501 Days
• Field of Search: 455/562, 455/69, 455/67.3, 455/65, 455/63, 455/504, 455/103, 455/276.1, 455/277.1, 455/277.2, 455/88, 455/102, 455/101, 455/272, 455/24, 342/378, 342/380, 342/383, 342/382, 342/372
• US Class Current: 455/562.1
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 3/26 varying the relative phase or relative amplitude of energisation between two or more active radiating elements; varying the distribution of energy across a radiating aperture H01Q3/12, H01Q3/22, H01Q3/24 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 3/2605 Array of radiating elements provided with a feedback control over the element weights, e.g. adaptive arrays
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/126 having multiple inputs, e.g. auxiliary antenna for receiving interfering signal aerials in general H01Q
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0623 Auxiliary parameters, e.g. power control [PCB] or not acknowledged commands [NACK], used as feedback information
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0636 Feedback format
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0639 Using selective indices, e.g. of a codebook, e.g. pre-distortion matrix index [PMI] or for beam selection

Abstract

A receiving communication device (101) receives a reference signal transmitted through at least one of the antennas (106, 110, 112) of an antenna array of a transmitting communication device (102). The receiving communication device determines a weight to be associated with the at least one of the antennas, and transmits weight information to the transmitting communication device. The transmitting communication device adjusts the weight associated with the at least one of the antennas according to weight information received from the receiving communication device.

Claims

1. A communication device comprising:

a receiver, the receiver receiving a reference signal transmitted through each of a plurality of antennas in a transmitting communication device, the receiver having a memory storing a codebook, the codebook containing codebook weights for a transmit path associated with the transmitting communication device;

circuitry for calculating at least one weight for a transmit path of the transmitting communication device from the reference signal received from each antenna;

a transmitter for transmitting the at least one weight to the transmitting communication device,

the memory storing codebook weights of a previous transmit path, the circuitry using the codebook and the weights of the previous transmit path to calculate the at least one weight, the codebook being checked to see if it is the same as a codebook in the transmitting communication device, by transmitting the codebook from one of the receiving and transmitting communication devices to the other of the receiving and transmitting communication devices.

2. The communication device of claim 1, wherein the codebook weights are associated with codebook indexes, and the codebook indexes include error correction coding.

3. The communication device of claim 1, wherein the weights are selected to limit peak power in the transmit path.

4. The communication device of claim 1, wherein the circuitry calculates a weight and a phase value from a received reference signal and from a copy of a reference signal in the receiving communication device.