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8 MULTIUSE LOCATION FINDER, COMMUNICATION,
MEDICAL, CONTROL SYSTEM
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Applicant -Inventor:
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FEHER Kamilo
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2 RELATED CO-PENDING U.S. PATENT APPLICATIONS
This application claims the benefit of the following three (3) co-pending
related
4 United States (US) patent applications, submitted by Applicant/Inventor
Kamilo Feher,
and incorporated herein as reference:
6 U.S. utility patent application Ser. No. 11/197,609, Ref. No. (58), entitled
"Multimode communication system", filed in the United States Patent and
Trademark
8 Office (USPTO) on August 3, 2005.
U.S. utility patent application Ser. No. 11/197,610, Ref. No. (56), entitled
"Location
finder, tracker, communication and remote control system ", filed in the
United States
Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on August 3, 2005.
12 U.S. utility patent application Ser. No.11/197,670, Ref. No. (57), entitled
"Medical
diagnostic and communication system", filed in the United States Patent and
Trademark
14 Office (USPTO) on August 3, 2005.
16 CITED REFERENCES -PARTIAL LIST OF RELEVANT LITERATURE
Several references, including issued United States patents, pending US
patents, and
18 other references are identified herein to assist the reader in
understanding the context in
which the invention is made, some of the distinctions of the inventive
structures and
methods over that which was known prior to the invention, and advantages of
this new
invention, the entire contents of which being incorporated herein by
reference. This list is
22 intended to be illustrative rather than exhaustive.
All publications including patents, pending patents, documents, published
papers,
24 articles and reports contained, listed or cited in these mentioned
publications and/or in
this disclosure- patent/invention are herein incorporated by reference to the
same extent
26 as if each publication or report, or patent or pending patent and/or
references listed in
these publications, reports, patents or pending patents were specifically and
individually
28 indicated to be incorporated by reference.
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CROSS REFERENCE TO U.S. PATENTS
2 The following referenced documents contain subject matter related to that
disclosed in
the current disclosure:
4 1. U.S. pat. 6,907,291 issued Jun.14, 2005, Snell et al.: "Secure telemetry
system and
method for an implantable cardiac stimulation device", assigned to Pacesetter,
Inc.,
6 Sylmar, CA.
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modulation
8 wireless transmitter"
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and
tracking system"
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12 Communication Device Functioning as a Cellular Telephone and Personal
Digital
Assistant"
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Estimating
TDOA and FDOA in a Wireless Location System `.`
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apparatus to
locate a device in a dwelling or other enclosed space"
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Communication
Device with Multiple External Communication Links"
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IP device "
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Methods
28 for Delivering Information within a Group of Communication System"
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providing
vehicle alarm alert features and related methods "
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medical
2 device with passive generation of optical sensing signals" issued to Biophan
Technologies, Inc.
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telemetry system and
method for an implantable cardiac stimulation device", assigned to Pacesetter,
Inc.,
6 Sylmar, CA.
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8 determination using RF fingerprinting "
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System"
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data transfer
12 and delivery system "
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System,
14 Digital Map Displaying Method in Navigation Device, and Program", Issued
Aug.3,
2004.
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Multiplexing
High Speed Packet Data Transmission with Voice/Data Transmission", Issued
18 Aug.10, 2004.
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8, 2004.
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Concierge-
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incorporating
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4 Diversity", issued on Dec 26,1995
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8 Systems "issued on May 17,1988
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March 16, 1976.
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Techniques",
issued Jan.19, 1988.
14 34. U.S. pat. 4,350,879 Feher, K. : "Time Jitter Determining Apparatus",
issued Sep 21,
1982.
16 35. U.S. pat. 4,567,602 S. Kato, K. Feher: "Correlated Signal Processor",
issued Jan. 28,
1986.
18 36. U.S. pat. 4,644,565 issued February 17, 1987. J. Seo, K. Feher:
"Superposed
Quadrature Modulated Baseband Signal Processor"
37. U.S. pat. 5,491,457 Issued Feb.13, 1996: K. Feher: "F-Modulation
Amplification"
38. U.S. pat. 5,784,402 Issued July 21, 1998: K. Feher: "FMOD Transceivers
Including
22 Continuous and Burst Operated TDMA, FDMA, Spread Spectrum CDMA, WCDMA
and CSMA,"
24 39. U.S. pat. 6,445,749, Issued Sep 3, 2002 K. Feher: "FMOD Transceivers
Including
Continuous and Burst Operated TDMA, FDMA, Spread Spectrum CDMA, WCDMA
26 and CSMA,"
40. U.S. pat. 6,198,777 issued March 6, 2001. K. Feher: "Feher Keying (FK)
28 Modulation and Transceivers Including Clock Shaping Processors"
41. U.S. pat. 6,470,055 issued Sep. 3, 2002. K. Feher: " Spectrally efficient
FQPSK,
FGMSK, and FQAM for enhanced performance CDMA, TDMA, GSM, OFDN, and
other systems" .
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42. U.S. pat. 6,665,348 , K. Feher: "System and Method for Interoperable
Multiple-
2 Standard Modulation and Code Selectable Feher' s GMSK, Enhanced GSM, CSMA,
TDMA, OFDM, and other Third-Generation CDMA, WCDMA and B-CDMA"
4 issued Dec.16, 2003.
43. U.S. pat. 6,757,334 K. Feher: "Bit Rate Agile Third-Generation wireless
CDMA,
6 GSM, TDMA and OFDM System", issued Jun. 29,2004.
8 CROSS REFERENCES TO RELATED U.S. PATENT APPLICATIONS
44. U.S. pat. Application No.: 10/205,478 K. Feher: "Modulation and
Demodulation
Format Selectable System ", filed 7/24/2002. Continuation of U.S. Pat. App. SN
09/370,360 filed August 9, 1999; and now US pat. 6,470,055;
12 45. U.S. pat. Application No.: 10/831,562 K. Feher: "Adaptive Receivers for
Bit Rate
Agile (BRA) and Modulation Demodulation (Modem) Format Selectable (MFS )
14 Signals ", Continuation of Application No.09/370;362 filed Aug.9.1999 and
now US
pat.6,757,334.
16 46. U.S. pat. Application No.: 10/831,724, filed on Apri124, 2004 K. Feher:
CDMA,W-CDMA, P Generation Interoperable Modem Format Selectable (MFS)
18 systems with GMSK modulated systems ", [Continuation of 09.370,362 filed
Aug.9.1999 and now US pat.6,757,334].
47. U.S. pat. Application No.: 09/732,953 Pub. No.: 2001/0016013 Published Aug
23. 01
K. Feher: "Ultra Efficient Modulation and Transceivers"
22 48. U.S. pat. Application No.: 11/023,279 filed: 12/28/2004 Feher, K.
"BROADBAND,
ULTRA WIDEBAND AND ULTRA NARROWBAND RECONFIGURABLE
24 INTEROPERABLE SYSTEMS", claiming benefits of Provisional Application
"Ultra Wideband Ultra Narrowband and Reconfigurable Interoperable Systems"
26 60/615,678 filed 10/05/2004
49. U.S. pat. Application No.: 11/023,254 filed: filed:12/28/2004; Feher, K.
"DATA
28 COMMUNICATION FOR WIRED AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION"
50. U.S. pat. Application No.: No: 11/102,896, Applicant Feher, K., entitled:
"HYBRID
COMMUNICATION AND BROADCAST SYSTEMS" claiming benefits of
Provisional Application "Ultra Wideband Ultra Narrowband and Reconfigurable
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Interoperable Systems" 60/615,678 filed 10/05/2004. submitted to the USPTO on
2 December 22,2004 and filed by USPTO on 03/28/2005..
51. U.S. pat. Application No.: 11/105,295, Applicant Feher, K., entitled:
"OFDM,
4 CDMA, SPREAD SPECTRUM,TDMA, CROSS-CORRELATED AND FILTERED
MODULATION" a continuation Application of US pat Applic 10/205,478 and of
6 US pat Applic. 09/370,360 now US patent 6,470,055. This application was
Submitted to the USPTO on Apr.11,2005.
8 52. U.S. pat. application Ser. No. 11/023,279, Applicant Feher, K.,
entitled:
"BROADBAND, ULTRA WIDEBAND AND ULTRA NARROWBAND
RECONFIGURABLE INTEROPERABLE SYSTEMS", filed December 28, 2004,
United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
12 53. U.S. pat. application Ser. No. 11/102,896 Applicant Feher, K.,
entitled: "HYBRID
COMMUNICATION AND BROADCAST SYSTEMS". submitted to the United
14 States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on December 22,2004; filed by
USPTO
on 03/28/2005
16 54. U.S. pat. application Ser. No. 11/023,254, Applicant Feher, K.,
entitled: and
entitled "DATA COMMUNICATION FOR WIRED AND WIRELESS
18 COMMUNICATION ", submitted to the United States Patent and Trademark Office
(USPTO) on December 22,2004
55. U.S. patent reexamination application Ser. No. 90/007,305 of U.S. Pat.
6,665,348
issued Dec.16, 2003: "System and Method for Interoperable Multiple-Standard
22 Modulation and Code Selectable Feher' s GMSK, Enhanced GSM,
CSMA,TDMA,OFDM, and other Third-Generation CDMA, WCDMA and B-
24 CDMA". Parent Patent Application No.: 09/370,361. Reexamination application
filed
on 11 / 19/2004
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CROSS REFERENCES TO RELATED CO-PENDING U.S. PATENT
28 APPLICATIONS
The following three (3) related U.S. patent applications, submitted by
Applicant/Inventor Kamilo Feher, are co-pending:
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56. U.S. utility patent application Ser. No. 11/197,610, Ref. No. (56),
entitled "Location
2 finder, tracker, communication and remote control system", submitted to the
United
States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on August 3, 2005.
4 57. U.S. utility patent application Ser. No. 11/197,670, Ref. No. (57),
entitled "Medical
diagnostic and communication system", submitted to the United States Patent
and
6 Trademark Office (USPTO) on August 3, 2005.
58. U.S. utility patent application Ser. No. 11/197,609, Ref. No. (58),
entitled
8 "Multimode communication system", submitted to the United States Patent and
Trademark Office (USPTO) on August 3, 2005.
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2 ACRONYMS
To facilitate comprehension of the current disclosure frequently used acronyms
and or
4 abbreviations used in the prior art and/or in the current disclosure are
highlighted in the
following LIST of acronyms:
6 2G Second generation or 2d generation wireless or cellular system
3D three dimensional
8 3G Third Generation or 3`d generation wireless or cellular system
4G Fourth Generation wireless or cellular system
5G Fifth Generation or future generation
AM Amplitude Modulation
12 AMC Adaptive Modulation and Coding
ACM Adaptive Coding and Modulation
14 Bluetooth Wireless system standardized by the Bluetooth organization
BPSK Binary Phase Shift Keying
16 BRA Bit Rate Agile or Bit Rate Adaptive
BST Base Station Transceiver
18 BWA Broadband Wireless Access
CC cross-correlatiori or cross-correlate
CCOR cross-correlation or cross-correlate
CDMA Code Division Multiple Access
22 CM Clock Modulated
CS Code Selectable
24 CSMA Collision Sense Multiple Access
CL Clock Shaped
26 DECT Digital European Cordless Telecommunication
DNA Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid
28 DS-SS Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum
EDGE Enhanced Digital GSM Evolution; Evolution of GSM or E-GSM
EMI Electromagnetic Interference
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FA Frequency Agile (selectable or switched IF or RF frequency)
2 FDM Frequency Division Multiplex
FH-SS Frequency Hopped Spread Spectrum
4 FQPSK Feher's QPSK or Feher's patented QPSK
FOC Fiber Optic Communication
6 FSK Frequency Shift Keying
GFSK Gaussian Frequency Shift Keying
8 GPS Global Positioning System
GPRS General Packet Radio, Service
GMSK Gaussian Minimum Shift Keying
GSM Global Mobile System
12 HDR Hybrid Defined Radio
IEEE 802 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Standard Number 802
14 IR Infrared
LAN Local Are Network
16 LINA Linearly amplified or Linear amplifier or linearized amplifier Non-
Linearly
LR Long Response
18 MES Modulation Embodiment Selectable
MFS Modulation Format Selectable
MIMO Multiple Input Multiple Output
MISO Multiple Input Single Output
22 MMIMO Multimode Multiple Input Multiple Output
MSDR Multiple Software Defined Radio
24 NLA Non-Linearly Amplified or Non-Linear Amplifier
NQM non-quadrature modulation
26 NonQUAD non-quadrature modulator
NRZ Non Return to Zero
28 OFDM Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access
PDA Personal Digital Assistants
PDD Position Determining Device
PDE Position Determining Entity
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PTT push to talk
2 QUAD Quadrature; also used for quadrature modulation
quad Quadrature; also used for quadrature modulation
4 QM Quadrature Modulation
QPSK Quadrature Phase Shift Keying
6 RC Remote Control
RFA Radio Frequency Agile
8 RFID Radio Frequency Identification
Rx receive
SDR Software Defined Radio (SDR)
SIMO Single Input Multiple Output
12 STCS Shaped Time Constrained Signal
TBD to be decided
14 TCS Time Constrained Signal
TDM Time Division Multiplex
16 TDMA Time Division Multiple Access
TR transceiver (transmitter-receiver)
18 Tx transmit
TV television
UMTS Universal Mobile Telecommunication System
UNB Ultra narrowband or Ultra narrow band
22 URC Universal Remote Control
UWB Ultrawideband or ultra wideband
24 UWN Ultrawideband -Ultra Narrow Band
ViIP Video over Internet Protocol
26 VoIP Voice over Internet Protocol
W waveform, wavelet or wave (signal element)
28 WAN Wide Area Network
WCDMA Wideband Code Division Multiple Access
W-CDMA Wideband Code Division Multiple Access
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Wi Fi Wireless Fidelity or related term used for systems such as IEEE 802.x_
2 standardized systems; See also Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi wireless fidelity
4 WLAN Wireless Local Area Network
www World Wide Web (or WWW or) WEB
6 XCor cross-correlation or cross-correlator or cross-correlate
8 FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The field of the invention includes wired and wireless communication,
broadcasting,
entertainment, remote control, medical diagnostics, emergency and alarm,
interactive
touch screen, fingerprint controlled communication and control systems for
single or
12 multimode communications, broadcasting, teleinformatics and telemetry
systems.
The disclosed subject matter is for multiuse and or multipurpose applications,
devices
14 and systems, including systems for: position determination, location
finding based
services and applications, remote control, wireless, wired, cabled, internet,
web based
16 communication systems, communicator devices, radio frequency identification
(RFID)
systems with single or plurality of devices, emergency and other alarm
systems, medical
18 patient monitor-sensor devices, medical diagnostics devices, fingerprint
identification,
fingerprint control, interactive communication or control of communications
and control
systems, communications, broadcasting, teleinformatics and telemetry systems.
22 BACKGROUND
Prior art references disclose position location, tracking and communication
devices.
24 Exemplary prior art includes: U.S. Pat. 6,865,395, U.S. Pat.6,889,135, U.S.
Pat.
6,879,584, U.S. Pat. 6,876,859, U.S. Pat. 6,876,310 and U.S. Pat. 6,842,617.
From the
26 prior art it is known that it is often desired, and sometimes necessary, to
know the
position, that is, the location of a wireless user. For example, the US
Federal
28 Communications Commission (FCC) has ordered an enhanced emergency 911
(emergency 911 or enhanced emergency E-91 1) wireless service that requires
the
location of a wireless terminal (e.g., a cellular phone) to be provided to a
Public Safety
Answering Point (PSAP) each time a 911 call is made from the terminal. The
recognized
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need for improved personal security and emergency response capability has been
2 documented in the prior art. In situations where an individual is injured,
lost, or
abducted, immediate notification of an emergency situation including location
of the
4 emergency to a local law enforcement or emergency response organization is
required to
maintain the safety of the individual and to mitigate or avoid severe and or
tragic
6 situations.
In addition to emergency situations, there is also a recognized need for
improved
8 personal healthcare and in particular patient monitor and other diagnostic
systems.
Patients are often confined in a fixed area to cabled (or tethered) monitoring
equipment.
An illustrative, cited prior art reference, published by Baisa, N.: "Designing
wireless
interfaces for patient monitoring equipment", RF Design Magazine April 2005,
highlights
12 that recent advances in wireless technologies now make it possible to free
patients from
their equipment, allowing greater freedom and even making possible monitoring
by their
14 health provider while the patient is on the go. The position of a wireless
terminal may be
estimated using various techniques including "range-domain" and "position-
domain"
16 techniques as well as other techniques and/or combined hybrid techniques.
Acronyms and abbreviations: several terms, acronyms and abbreviations, used in
18 literature, including patents, journal papers, conference publications,
books, published
standards and reports have the same and/or similar meaning as in the present
application.
In particular, terms acronyms and abbreviations, used in the prior art Feher
et al. patents:
U.S pat. 6,470,055 (the `055 patent), U.S pat. 6,665,348, U.S pat. 6,757,334,
U.S pat.
22 4,567,602 and U.S pat. 5,491,457 are often used in this document. To
facilitate
comprehension of some of the terms used in the prior art literature, parts of
the prior art
24 `055 patent are reviewed in this application. For other prior art terms,
acronyms and
abbreviations described in the cited references, the references contained in
the cited
26 references and other prior art material are applicable.
Position determining devices (PDD), also designated as position determining
28 entities(PDE) and position determining transmitters mean devices and
transmitters which
generate and transmit signals used by receivers and receive processors for
location or
position determination and/or location or position estimation have been also
described
in the prior art.
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Exemplary prior art single-chamber pacemaker and/or dual-chamber pacemaker and
2 implantable cardiac stimulation devices are described in exemplary cited
U.S. pat.
6,539,253 and in U.S. pat. 6,907,291.
4
SUMMARY AND NEED FOR THIS INVENTION
6 Multiuse wireless communication applications, having extended coverage,
improved
performance, seamless interoperability, high speed operation, enhanced
capacity,
8 multipurpose, multi functionality, multi-mode and multi -standard
interoperability
are highly desired. The current application discloses multiuse and or
multipurpose
applications, devices and systems, including systems for: position
determination, location
finding based services and applications, remote control, wireless, wired,
cabled, internet,
12 web based communication systems, communicator devices, radio frequency
identification
(RFID) systems with single or plurality of devices, emergency and other alarm
systems,
14 medical patient monitor-sensor devices, medical diagnostics devices,
fingerprint
identification, fingerprint control, interactive communication or control of
16 communications and control systems, communications, broadcasting,
teleinformatics and
telemetry systems.
18 Most multi-media and video services require bandwidths and or other
multiuse
capabilities that transcend the capabilities of currently operational second
generation 2G
and or third generation 3G cellular service providers. Hence, many wide
bandwidth
applications and services that are rapidly evolving, for example, on the
Internet, have not
22 to date readily and widely accessible cellular and cellular
interconnections to mobile
wireless users via wireless local area networks (WLAN) and/or other wideband
networks.
24 New systems and end user devices or units are being contemplated that
provide for or
include, respectively, high bandwidth short range networking capabilities,
using WLAN
26 technologies such as IEEE 802.x_ or Bluetooth. These links may allow mobile
handsets
to establish Internet attachments when they approach a network access point
(NAP).
28 These WLAN based systems may create an opportunity for these untethered
devices to
enjoy high bandwidth services, once reserved for fixed devices. However, the
WLAN
systems only provide short range coverage, are not widely deployed, or do not
provide
for user mobility and hence are not generally suitable of providing enhanced
services for
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mobile users over a wide area. It is desirable to develop multiuse, multi-mode
, multi
2 standard interoperable technologies which integrate the capabilities of
cellular,
infrared(IR), satellite, wide area network (WAN) and WLAN systems to provide
4 complete end-to-end enhanced services. This can be achieved by modulation
format
selectable (MFS) and bit rate agile (BRA) multi-mode, multiuse interoperable
systems.
6 Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) systems and Wi-Fi embodiments are included and
integrated
with other implementation architectures in the current disclosure. The terms
Wi-Fi or
8 wireless fidelity or related terms, used in this application, are for
systems such as IEEE
802.x_ standardized systems and are to be used generically when referring of
any type of
802.11 network, whether IEEE 802.11 b, 802.11a, 802.16, 802.20 dual-band, etc.
The
term Wi-Fi is also used as promulgated by the Wi-Fi Alliance and has also
broader
12 interpretations; alternative terms to Wi-Fi, such as UWB/W-USB, ZigBee, NFC
and
WiMax are also used and included in the embodiments of this invention.
14 Nowadays it is not unusual that in an individual has a cellular phone, a
pager, about
three or more remote control(RC) devices e.g. one or more RC for one or more
16 television sets, for VCR for satellite channel TV set, garage opener, car
auto opener,
portable FM radio, video camcorder, computer, PDA, multiple cordless phones
18 and other electronic devices. It is overwhelming just to keep track of all
of these devices.
Thus, consolidation or integration of many devices, units into one
multipurpose or
multiuse unit would be desirable.
W To enable the implementation of efficient multiuse communication devices for
single
22 or multiple information signals and communications between and within
multiple
standardized and a multitude of non-standardized systems, between a large
class of
24 communication and control transmission -reception media, such as wireless
(e.g.
cellular, land mobile, satellite), cable, Fiber Optics Communication(FOC),
internet,
26 intranet and other media there is a need to have adaptable or agile systems
and adaptable
embodiment structures. Such structures including Intermediate Frequency (IF)
and or
28 Radio Frequency(RF) agile, Bit Rate Agile or Bit Rate Adaptable(BRA) ,
Modulation
Format Selectable(MFS) and or Modulation Embodiment Selectable (MES) systems
are
disclosed. The multiuse modulator-demodulator (modem) and or modulator and or
demodulator implementations, disclosed in this application, have Intermediate
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Frequency (IF) and or Radio Frequency(RF) agile, that is IF adaptable and or
RF
2 adaptable embodiments. In IF and or RF adaptable or IF and or RF agile
systems the
center frequency of the modulated signal(s) is selectable and or adaptable to
the desired
4 transmission frequency band. The RF transmitter -receiver (transceiver)
embodiments
are also RF agile implementations. Several features of the multiuse
embodiments are
6 optional and are not included in some implementation structures. Some of
these include
the optional Bit Rate Agile or Bit Rate Adaptable(BRA) structures and or RF
agile
8 implementations and or cross-correlated and or other structures and or
features.
There is a need for one or more of the modulators, in certain embodiments to
have BRA
and or Code Selectable and or MFS and or MES implementations. The term
Modulation
Format Selectable(MFS), as used in this application is defined to mean that
the
12 modulation technique(modulation format) is adaptable,
changeable(selectable) and also
that the coding technique, if coding is used in the system is also adaptable,
14 changeable(selectable) in certain embodiments. In some disclosed
embodiments the same
modulation format and same bit rate is used, however the modulation embodiment
is
16 different. For example, in an application a GMSK modulated system uses a
Quadrature
Modulation(QM) structure for low transmit power applications, while for a high
transmit
18 power application it uses a non-quadrature modulation(NQM), e.g. polar
implementation
structure. Thus, in this example the same GMSK modulation format, having the
same bit
rate (or a different bit rate) is switched (or selected) to be transmitted
instead in the QM
embodiment in a NQM embodiment
22 The disclosed subject matter is for multiuse and or multipurpose
applications, devices
and systems, including systems for: position determination, location based
services and
24 applications, location finding, tracking, single or multiple tracking,
Remote Control (RC),
Universal Remote Control (URC), wireless, wired, cabled, internet, web based
26 communication systems, communicator devices, radio frequency identification
(RFID)
systems with single or plurality of devices, emergency and other alarm
systems, medical
28 patient monitor-sensor devices, diagnostics units and systems, Deoxyribose
Nucleic Acid
(DNA) systems, fingerprint identification, fingerprint control and or using
DNA samples
for interactive communication or control of certain communications and control
systems,
cardiac stimulation devices, systems having push to talk (PTT) options,
interactive touch
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screen controlled communication and control systems for single or multimode
2 communications, broadcasting, teleinformatics and telemetry systems.
The presented implementations and embodiments are for single and multiple
devices in
4 single and multiple mode systems and networks. Location finding, tracking
and
identification of devices, including processing of certain measured parameters
or
6 diagnostics results (via sensors, such as motion detectors, body
temperature, blood
pressure or other devices) are communicated to devices and units which might
be at
8 central locations and or are peers of the monitored located device and are
also mobile
units, e.g. mobile telephones, mobile computers such as Personal Digital
Assistants
(PDA) or laptop computers, mobile entertainment or educational devices, or
mobile
navigational and interactive devices, or are units at fixed locations, e.g.
wired telephones
12 or computers. Interactive location based and educational and or
entertainment devices
and systems for mobile wireless and or wired media or internet web media
information
14 transfer and telematics and telemetry are also included. Regarding images,
pictures and
video and scanned or stored images and pictures three dimensional (3D) images
are
16 included in the communications units. Certain devices have incorporated
touch screens
for control or communication or interaction with the communication and or
display
18 devices.
Multimode, multiuse system operation, multi-purpose diagnostics, patient
monitoring,
multi purpose systems, including connections of multi mode devices to allow
users
communication and control with interoperable connected cellular Global Mobile
22 System (GSM), Wireless-Fidelity(Wi-Fi) systems devices or phones to roam
from wide
area to local area wireless networks and vice versa, with location finder
seamless
24 operation and wired or internet web based monitoring signal processing
implementations
are presented. These systems, in certain applications are connected to
cordless telephones
26 and or other cordless devices. The term signal processing refers to signal
and or data
processing. This application includes multi operation and multi function of a
plurality of
28 embodiments of one or more of the following system components: single or
multiple
location finder, location tracker devices, position finder devices (note the
terms "location
finder", "location tracker" and "position finder" have in several parts of
this disclosure
practically the same meaning ), Radio Frequency Identification Devices(RFID),
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connected with single or multiple Bit Rate Agile(BRA) , and single modulation
or
2 Modulation Format Selectable(MFS) satellite and/or land based devices. These
multiuse
system components assembled in one or more combinations and variations, also
known
4 as "plug and play", are disclosed for operation in standardized systems ,
e.g. GSM,
General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), Enhanced Digital GSM Evolution (EDGE), or
6 Evolution of GSM (E-GSM), Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), Wideband
Code
Division Multiple Access (WCDMA or W-CDMA), Orthogonal Frequency Division
8 Multiple Access (OFDM), Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA), IEEE 802.xx,
Digital European Cordless Telecommunication (DECT), Infrared (IR), Wireless
Fidelity
(Wi-Fi), Bluetooth, and other standardized as well as non-standardized
systems. While,
prior art wireless short range systems such as the standardized Bluetooth
system provide
12 connection to cell phone systems the prior art short range systems do not
provide
connection to selectable enhanced performance multi-standard, multi -niode,
Modulation
14 Format Selectable (MFS) and Bit Rate Selectable systems (also designated as
Bit Rate
Agile(BRA) systems) and cascaded wireless, wired and Internet Pr6tocol(IP) and
16 embodiments, such as described and claimed in this invention. This
application includes
embodiments and architectures for more efficient implementation and of
enhanced
18 performance second generation (2G), third generation (3G), fourth
generation (4G) and
fifth generation (5G) and other new generations of wireless and broadcast,
processing,
storage, medical diagnostics-communications and control, interactive
entertainment and
educational and business systems with or without use of internet and/or
multimedia
22 systems. The terms 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G have a broad generic meaning and are
not limited
to certain specific standards. These terms are interpreted, within the new
inventions
24 disclosed herein, as new generation and or enhanced performance or more
efficient
implementation of prior art systems.
26 In addition to finding lost, runaway or kidnapped humans, lost, runaway or
stolen
pets/animals or objects, several medical applications for patient monitoring
with multi-
28 mode wireless, wired and internet systems are also disclosed in this
application. For
surgery, other medical procedures and medical patient monitoring and
diagnostics, hybrid
wired and wireless or purely wireless systems which reduce or eliminate the
cables and
wires attached to human body are also described. Video broadcasting,
multicasting and
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video conferencing technologies, in conjunction with the aforementioned
technologies
2 are also disclosed. Language translators with written and audio converted
text are
presented. Voice recognition systems and fingerprint recognition transmission
and
4 activation methods are disclosed.
To remove or minimize cables for patient monitoring systems new architectures,
6 structures and embodiments for multi mode, multi standard, non standardized
wireless,
wired, cabled, infrared, multiple "cascaded" switched and combined solutions
and
8 systems are presented in this disclosure. This include cascade of cellular
i.e. GSM or
GSM switched to CDMA systems, with short range wireless systems -one or
multiple
such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or other. Motivation for reducing the number of
cables include,
the desire to eliminate the cumbersome cables connected to the patient,
facilitate the
12 surgery, and facilitate and speed up the patient recovery -enabling the
patient to move,
exercise and improve the quality of life of the patient during surgery,
recovery and post
14 recovery monitoring and shorten emergency time response including a remote
physician, nurse or other authorized health provider -in a reverse link to
control-
16 administer certain medical -pharmaceutical items, e.g. insulin or other;
also to eliminate
or reduce cable caused potentially harmful currents to the patient. The term
reverse link
18 means the link (signal flow) from the physician, nurse or other authorized
health provider
to the patient or patients medical device; the term forward link refers to the
link from the
patients medical device, e.g. from the cardiac stimulation device to the
physician, nurse
or other authorized health provider or health monitoring system.
22 The prior art pacemaker control requires magnet detection circuit for
magnet controlled
pacemaker parameters. Unfortunately this magnet dependent operation /change of
24 parameters of pacemakers is in many cases causing difficulties and or even
rendering
impossible to have Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), and/or Magnetic Resonance
26 Image scanning on a patient who has a pace maker. Since MRI is a frequently
desired
diagnostic procedure for diagnostic purposes, even in an emergency where the
28 information from the MRI scan could be life saving, and since MRI
interferes with the
correct operation of currently available magnetic detection-magnetic
controlled based
pacemakers, it would be highly desirable to develop a new generation of
pacemakers
which could be operated and controlled without substantial magnetic materials,
i.e.
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without the need of magnet based detection and magnet control.
2 In distinction with the prior art magnet detection circuit, in the current
invention there is
no need for magnet detection circuits and no need for magnet's to be placed
over or into
4 the pacemaker to reset or modify parameters and functions/operation of the
pacemaker.
In the current invention magnetic detection and magnet control of pacemaker is
replaced
6 by wireless signal detection and based on the detected wireless signals and
processing of
said wireless detected signals (received from a physician operated wireless
transmitter)
8 control signals are generated to control the parameters and operation of the
pacemaker.
Wireless systems authentication with fingerprint and or other means is also
disclosed.
In this application the terms "multiuse" and or "multipurpose" mean that one
or more
of the aforementioned applications, systems , system architectures and or
embodiments or
12 combinations of the aforementioned system components are used.
14 BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE FIGURES
Fig.l shows implementation structures for single and or multiple
communications
16 systems, including single and or multiple location or position finder
systems, Radio
Frequency Identification Devices(RFID), medical diagnostics, emergency and
remote
18 control systems.
Fig.2 is a structure of a multi mode location and multi-mode communication
system,
including wireless, wired (or cabled) and internet -web based connections with
single or
multiple communication links and or communication transceivers (T/R) and or
22 coniununication and control units.
Fig.3 is a structure of a system having single or a plurality of selectable
Position
24 Determining Entity (PDE), Base Station Controller (BSC), Terminal
(Subscriber Unit)
Base Station Transceiver Subsystem (BTS) devices.
26 Fig. 4 shows embodiments and structures for systems and networks containing
Multiple Position Determining Entity (PDE), Base Station Controller (BSC)
units,
28 Terminal or Subscriber Unit (SU) and Base Station Transceiver Subsystem
(BTS) units.
Fig. 5 represents implementation architectures and structures for single or
multiple
receiver and single or multiple transmitter signals, including location or
position finder
signals, from one or more antennas.
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Fig. 6 is represents a generic prior art transmitter and receiver (transceiver
or T/R),
2 disclosed in Feher' s U.S. Pat.6,665,348 (the'348 patent).
Fig.7 shows prior art cross-correlated signals, and in particular in-phase (I)
and
4 quadrature-phase (Q) signal patterns-displayed in the time domain.
Fig.8 presents prior art measured cross-correlated in-phase (I) and quadrature-
phase
6 (Q) baseband signals of a GMSK modulator, with BTb=0.3, specified for GSM
systems.
FIG. 9 shows Quadrature and Non Quadrature Architectures with one or more
8 processors, and or single or multiple modulators and antennas.
Fig.10 is a multiple BRA and MFS transmitter architecture with one or more
processors, modulators and amplifiers, antennas and interface connection(s) to
wired or
cabled or other transmission media.
12 Fig.lla is a new implementation architecture and block diagram of a
multiple
communication link, also designated as a cascaded link, or a system having
cascaded
14 units which inter operate in a sequence for multimode operated wireless and
or wired and
internet systems including fixed location systems and mobile systems.
16 Fig.llb shows an exemplary prior art quadrature modulator.
Fig.12 is an embodiment of an RF head end (alternatively designated as RF
subsystem
18 or RF part) which is co-located with the baseband and or Intermediate
Frequency(IF)
processing units, or is at a remote location.
Fig. 13 represents an alternative embodiment of a multi mode BRA and MFS
system
connected to single or multitude of wireless, wired, cabled or fiber optic
communication
22 (FOC) connected and or internet or mobile internet web based systems.
FIG. 14 is an embodiment of a multi-mode, multi bit rate system,'with BRA, MFS
and
24 code selectable OFDM, WCDMA, Wi-Fi, Wi-Max, WLAN, infrared, Bluetooth and
or
other spread spectrum or continuous data systems.
26 Fig. 15 is an adaptive Radio Frequency (RF) wave generator, RF processor,
radio and
modulator structure.
28 Fig. 16 is a multimode, multipurpose system embodiment for numerous
applications,
including signal processing and storage, medical diagnostics, broadcasting
entertainment,
educational and alarm system for seamless adaptive communications, emergency
reporting, location finding and remote control embodiments.
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Fig. 17a is a Non-quadrature(non-QUAD) and quadrature modulation (Quad Mod or
2 QUAD mod) multiple modulator embodiment, including polar modulator
structures.
Fig. 17b shows a polar (non Quadrature) exemplary prior art modulator
4 implementation block diagram.
Fig. 17c a Non-Quadrature (non-QUAD) exemplary prior art modulator
architecture
6 is illustrated.
Fig. 18 represents multi-mode location receiver connections to multi-mode or
to single
8 mode wireless transmitters.
Fig. 19 is a Software Defined Radio (SDR), Multiple SDR (MSDR) and Hybrid
Defined Radio (HDR) transmitter and receiver embodiment, with single or
multiple
processors, single and or multiple RF amplifiers and antennas and single or
multiple
12 SDR and or non-SDR implementation architectures.
Fig. 20 shows interface and or processor units, set of modulators, amplifiers,
selection
14 devices and or combiner devices which provide RF signals to the
transmission medium.
Fig. 21 is an embodiment of a single or multiple transmitter architecture
using single
16 or multiple transmitters; the multiple transmitter implementations are also
designated as a
diversity transmitter.
18 Fig.22 shows a Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) system.
Fig. 23 is a Single Input Multiple Output (SIMO), Multiple Input Multiple
Output
(MIMO), and or Multiple Input Single Output (MISO) embodiment having one or
multiple RF interface points and or one or multitude of antennas.
22 Fig. 24 represents an antenna array implementing Multiple Input Multiple
Output
(MIMO) and or Single Input Multiple Output (SIMO) and or Multiple Input Single
24 Output (MISO) communication, position finding and broadcasting transmission-
reception
system, including transmit antenna diversity and receive antenna diversity
systems.
26 Fig. 25 shows Software Defined Radio (SDR) and Hybrid Defined Radio (HDR)
systems for Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) and or Single Input Multiple
Output
28 (SIMO) and or Multiple Input Single Output (MISO), including diversity
systems.
Fig. 26 is an information monitoring processing and communication system. This
system in certain application includes a patient monitor and diagnostic
system.
Fig. 27 depicts a Universal System including one or multiple Remote Control or
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Universal Remote Control(URC) devices, including wired or wireless devices.
2 Fig. 28 shows a test and measurement instrumentation system within a
wireless multi-
mode system.
4 Fig. 29 is an implementation architecture of single or multiple cellular
phones, or of
other mobile devices, communicating with single or multiple Base Station
Transceiver
6 (BST) having single or plurality of antennas.
Fig. 30 represents an implantable cardiac stimulation device, a heart and a
block
8 diagram of a single -chamber and or a dual-chamber pacemaker with single or
multiple
wireless communications and control systems.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION AND OF THE PREFERRED
12 EMBODIMENTS
In this section, the present invention is more fully described with reference
to the
14 accompanying drawings in which preferred embodiments of the invention are
shown.
This invention may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should
not be
16 construed as limited to the illustrated embodiments set forth herein.
Rather, these
embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and
complete, and will
18 fully convey the scope of the invention to those skilled in the art.
One or more devices (alternatively designated as units, elements, systems,
terminals,
devices, leads or connections) are optional in the embodiments. The elements
may be
interconnected and or used in various configurations. In the figures and
relevant
22 descriptions of the figures, as well as in the specifications of this
disclosure, some of the
units or elements are optional and are not required for certain applications,
embodiments
24 and or structures. In this document the term "signal" has the most generic
meaning used
in the prior art and includes electrical, acoustical, infrared , X-ray, fiber
optics, light
26 sound, position, altitude diagnostics, beat, density, and other sensor or
device or human
being or animal or object generated or processed waveforms, images, pictures,
symbols ,
28 wavelets, wave shapes and analog or digital or "hybrid" analog and digital
signals.
Fig.l shows implementation structures for single and or multiple
communications
systems, including single and or multiple location or position finder systems,
Radio
Frequency Identification Devices(RFID), medical diagnostics, emergency
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communication and remote control systems connected with single or multiple Bit
Rate
2 Agile (BRA), and single modulation or Modulation Format Selectable (MFS)
cellular,
other mobile wireless, satellite and/or land based devices for Global Mobile
System
4 (GSM), General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), Enhanced Digital GSM Evolution
(EDGE), or Evolution of GSM (E-GSM), Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA),
6 Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA or W-CDMA), Orthogonal
Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDM), Time Division Multiple Access
(TDMA),
8 IEEE 802.xx, Digital European Cordless Telecommunication (DECT) , Infrared
(IR),
Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi), Bluetooth, and other standardized as well as non-
standardized
systems . In particular, Fig.l is an embodiment of interface units,
processors, transmitters
and receivers (also designated as transceivers or TR), single or multiple
communication
12 and or broadcast devices, location finder, location, position finder and
tracking devices
and processors, connected through selectors or combiners with single or
multiple
14 transceivers, communication systems entertainment devices, educational
systems and or
medical devices, e. g. patient monitor devices and or sensors connected to one
or more
16 communication systems. Interface Unit 1.1 is a device or part of a of a
communication
system and or part of location finder or location tracking or location
positioning system
18 or processor, for example part of a Global Positioning System (GPS)
receiver or an
interface to a GPS receiver or other location finder or tracking device or a
sensor, signal
detector and processor of acoustic (e.g. voice, sound, music) signals, video
and/or visual
and/or image signals (moving video, still photographs, X-Ray pictures,
telemetry
22 signals) , temperature (e.g. human body temperature, animal's body
temperature,
temperature of an object ), electrical signal, Radio Frequency Identification
Devices
24 (RFID) received or generated signal, infrared , X-ray and or of other
signals ,
parameters generated by sensors or obtained from any other sources. Unit 1.1
may
26 contain sensors for heart beat, strength, pulse rate, glucose, arterial
blood gas sensors,
insulin sensors or monitors and or other medical devices. Unit 1.1 may also
contain
28 sensors and medical apparatus or devices connected to a patient during a
surgery, or post
surgery for patient monitoring. Unit 1.1 may contain only one of the mentioned
elements,
or more of the aforementioned elements. Unit 1.1 may contain certain
combinations
and/or variations of the devices described in this section. In some other
embodiments
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Unit 1.1 is a simple interface unit to connect signals from a signal source
and or from
2 multiple sources to and or from the communication medium. The term "signal
source"
or "source" includes a broad class of signal sources, signal processors and or
signal
4 generators, including speech, audio, video, picture, display, data storage,
information
processors and other devices which generate, contain or process signals.
Implementation
6 of interface Unit 1.1 consists of a connection device (such as a wire or
cable or part of
circuit or connection to an antenna or an electronic or acoustical or infrared
or laser
8 coupler or connector, or an electronic or electrical circuit) or a
combination of one or
more devices. Interface Unit 1.1 may be a simple interface for video or
television(TV), or
digital camera (digital photo camera or digicam) signals or interface unit for
a sequence
of images or other visual signals such as photographs, scanned images or
processors or
12 devices of visual signals and or stored and programmable music-such as
contained in
prior art portable music players or integrated prior art MP3 players, with or
without prior
14 art Windows Mobile smart-phone software, computer, entertainment, games,
interactive
video games with or without location finders, location finders with or without
radio
16 FM/AM or digital radio or other radio or television broadcast signals. In
one of the
implementations Unit 1.1 contains the web or WEB or the World Wide Web,
shortly web
18 or www, Mobile Web access from mobile devices. Unit 1.1 contains in some of
the
embodiments a push to talk(PTT) processor. The signal or plurality of
different type of
signals is connected to one,or more transceivers (TR) contained in Unit 1.2.
The term
transceiver refers to one or multiple transmitters and receivers and also to
one or multiple
22 receivers and transmitters. Specifically, the TR, Unit 1.2 may include one
or multiple
entire transceivers or could consist of one or multiple receivers or one or
multiple
24 transmitters. Unit 1.2 (also designated as Element 1.2 or Device 1.2) could
be one or
multiple Bluetooth (BT), infrared (IR), other wireless, e.g. satellite or
cable, or wired
26 transceiver(s), or part of a transceiver(s). Unit 1.3 is a signal splitter
or signal selector
device or connection which selects or combines and connects the Element 1.2
provided
28 signals (one or more signals) to one or more communication systems or
subsystems
contained in communicator devices Unit 1.4, Unit 1.5, and Unit 1.6. The
communicator
devices Unit 1.4, Unit 1.5, and Unit 1.6 are parts or entire GSM, CDMA or
Wireless
Local Area Network (WLAN) or other wired, cabled or wireless devices
respectively.
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Systems components in Unit 1.6 , designated as "OFDM or other", are assembled
in one
2 or more combinations and variations, also known as "plug and play" and are
for
operation in single or multiple standardized systems , e.g. GSM, General
Packet Radio
4 Service (GPRS), Enhanced Digital GSM Evolution (EDGE), or Evolution of GSM
(E-
GSM), Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), Wideband Code Division Multiple
6 Access (WCDMA or W-CDMA), Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access
(OFDM), Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA), IEEE 802.xx, Digital European
8 Cordless Telecommunication (DECT), Infrared (IR), Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi),
Bluetooth, and other standardized as well as non-standardized systems. One or
more of
the Fig. 1 components could be Modulation Format Selectable (MFS) and or Bit
Rate
Agile (BRA) systems. Signal selector or signal combiner Unit 1.7 provides the
selected
12 or combined signals to one or plurality antennas, shown as Unit 1.8a or
other signal
interface units which provide the selected or combined signals to the wireless
or wired, or
14 cabled, or internet medium, such as web (or WEB) or www, represented by
Unit 1.8b.
Single or plurality of signals are received on single or multiple antennas
1.lla and or on
16 single or multiple interface points 1.11b and are provided to Splitter or
switch Unit 1.12
for connecting one or more of the received signal(s) to communication devices,
Unit
18 1.13, Unit 1.14, and /or Unit 1.15, respectively. Unit 1.15 is the receiver
section of the
transmitted signals of Unit 1.6, designated as OFDM or other. In other
embodiments Unit
1.15 is receiver section of other signals, such as OFDM, infrared, WI-Fi,
TDMA, FDMA,
telemetry WLAN, WMAN, GSM, CDMA, WCDMA, or other signals or a combination
22 of one or more of such signals. Signal selector or signal combiner Unit
1.16, provides
one or multiple signals to interface or processor Unit 1.17. In some of the
24 implementations, structures and architectures Units 1.6 and Unit 1.15
contain one or
more of the following devices: interface devices, processors, modulators,
demodulators,
26 transmitters, receivers, splitters, combiners for one or more of OFDM,
infrared,
Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, TDMA, FDMA, FDM, telemetry, RFID, WLAN, MLAN, cellular
28 systems, cable, wireless web wireless internet or other wired or internet
systems.
In the transmitter part shown in the upper part of Fig.l, and also in the
receiver part,
illustrated in the lower part of Fig.l, the selection or combing of signals is
under the
control of processors and or programs and/or manual control. The selection or
combing
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of signals is not shown in Fig.l. Interface and or processor Unit 1.17
interfaces to and or
2 processes one or more of the received signals and may provide control
signals to the
receiver and also to the transmitter. Block arrows Unit 1.9 and Unit 1.10
designate signal
4 and control path and or physical connections for processing and /or control
of parts of
the elements shown in Fig.l .
6 Fig.2 is a structure of a multi mode location and multi-mode communication
system,
including wireless, wired (or cabled) and internet -web based connections with
single or
8 multiple communication links and or communication transceivers (T/R) and or
communication and control units. One or more antennas Unit 2.1, Unit 2.2, Unit
2.3 and
Unit 2.4, transmit or receive one or more signals. On block arrow Unit 2.5 one
or more
other signals are connected to the or from the single or multiple
transceivers. Unit 2.6 is
12 an interface unit or single or multiple transceivers connected to the
signal transmission or
signal reception medium. The signals from or to Unit 2.6 are connected with
the single or
14 multiple communication link, Unit 2.8. Interface Unit 2.17 through
connections 2.16,
2.18, 2.19, 2.20, 2.21 and communication and control Unit 2.10 process signals
and
16 provide communication and control signals from and or to antenna Units
2.11, 2.12,
2.13, 2.14, interface Unit 2.15, interface connection Unit 2.17, antenna Units
2.1, 2.2, 2.3,
18 2.4 and interface connection Unit 2.5. All antenna units and connections
2.5 and
connections 2.15 may provide duplex (bi directional) signal transfers. Units
2.6 and 2.8
are in "cascade", i.e. they are connected to each other in a sequence.
Communication and
Control Unit 2.10 may also operate in cascade with one or more of Unit 2.6 or
2.8. In
22 other embodiments, one or more of the units, shown in Fig.2, are connected
in parallel or
a star or mesh network, or other configurations.
24 Fig.3 is a structure of a system having single or a plurality of selectable
Position
Determining Entity (PDE), Base Station Controller (BSC), Terminal (Subscriber
Unit)
26 Base Station Transceiver Subsystem (BTS) devices. While the cited prior
art, such as
Riley's US pat 6,865,395, Ref. 8, Qualcomm CDMA Technologies' MSM 6275 and
28 Qualcomm CDMA Technologies' MSM 6300 chipset solution Ref. 65 and Ref. 66
disclose system and network operations of PDE, BSC, BTS and subscriber units,
the
prior art does not disclose nor anticipate the structures and connections of
multi-mode,
multi-purpose MFS systems operated in cascaded and or parallel, star or mesh
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configurations, selectable single or multiple single structures such as
disclosed and
2 claimed in this application. The term cascaded or cascade refers to units or
devices
operated in a sequence or in parallel with each other. FIG. 3 includes
processing of
4 Receiver or Location Finder Signals, e.g. GPS signals and or land line and
or web-
internet information signals and it includes Transmit Section of Multiple
Communicator
6 Devices. Elements (also designated as Units or Devices) 3.8, 3.9, 3.11,
3.14, 3.16 and
3.18 are single or multiple antennas which receive and or transmit signals
from to a
8 Position Determining Entity (PDE) transmitter or to one or more Base Station
Transceivers (BTS) devices and/or to subscriber units, including peer to peer
direct
communication between subscribers. In some of the implementations transmitters
of PDE
signals include one or more satellite systems, such as GPS satellites,
cellular base
12 stations, wireless base stations or other wireless transmitters such as
cellular phones PDA
wireless transmitters, Remote Control (RC) transmitters, infrared or any other
14 transmitters. Units 3.1 and 3.3 are interface units and or front end ports
respectively, for
reception of the PDE signals from the antennas, from infrared transmitters,
from laser
16 transmitters and or from wired connections or from the internet. Wired
connections
include fiber optics, copper, cable and any other connection. In some
embodiments the
18 Position Determining Entity (PDE) front end is a Remote Front end while in
other cases
it is co-located with the entire receiver. Units 3.2 and 3.4 are one or a
plurality of Base
Station Controller (BSC) units, designated as units BSC-1 to BSC-N. The BSC
units
control signals of the Base Station Transceiver Subsystem (BTS) units 3.7,
3.10, 3.12,
22 3.13, 3.15 and 3.17. Signal reception and or signal processing and or
signal transmission
by the antenna units or sets of antenna units 3.8 , 3.9, 3.11, 3.14, 3.16 and
or 3.18 is
24 controlled by one or more BSC units or by controller devices located in the
Base Station
Transceivers (BTS), or by control devices located outside of these units.
26 Fig. 4 shows embodiments and structures for systems and networks containing
Multiple Position Determining Entity (PDE), also designated as Position
Determining
28 Device (PDD), location tracker, location finder or position finder devices,
Base Station
Controller (BSC) units and Terminal or Subscriber Unit (SU) Base Station
Transceiver
Subsystem (BTS) units. Remote Control (RC), Universal Remote Control (URC),
wireless, wired, cabled, internet, web based communication systems and
communicator
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devices, radio frequency identification (RFID) systems with single or
plurality of devices,
2 emergency and other alarm systems, medical patient monitor-sensor devices,
diagnostics
units and systems, Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid (DNA) systems, fingerprint
identification,
4 fingerprint control and or using DNA samples for interactive communication
or control
of certain communications and control systems and systems having push to talk
(PTT)
6 options are included in some of the embodiments. Each unit may contain
interface unit
and or processor unit, memory, communication port, single or multiple
modulator or
8 transmitter(s) and single or multiple receivers and or demodulators with or
without single
or multiple switching selection devices and /or signal combining and splitting
devices.
Communications, telematics, telemetry, video broadcasting and or point to
point video
transmission, transmission of audio and or data and or video to mobile units
is embodied
12 by the implementation of single or multiple Bit Rate Agile (BRA), and
single
modulation format and or multimode Modulation Format Selectable (MFS), single
bit
14 rate and or multiple bit rate and or Bit Rate Agile(BRA) systems , such as
enhanced
performance or new features, new applications and new embodiment based GSM,
16 General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), Enhanced Digital GSM Evolution (EDGE),
or
Evolution of GSM (E-GSM), Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), Wideband Code
18 Division Multiple Access (WCDMA or W-CDMA), Orthogonal Frequency Division
Multiple Access (OFDM), Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA), IEEE 802.xx,
Digital European Cordless Telecommunication (DECT) , Infrared (IR), Wireless
Fidelity
(Wi-Fi), Bluetooth, and other standardized as well as non-standardized
systems,
22 disclosed in this application. Units 4.1, 4.3 and 4.5 contain single or
Multiple Position
Determining Entity (PDE) devices, while Units 4.2, 4.4 and 4.6 are single or
multiple
24 BTS devices. Units 4.7, 4.8 and 4.9 are single or multiple transmit and or
receive or
transmit /receive antennas embodied as single band or multiple band antenna
systems.
26 Units 4.14, 4.16 and 4.18 are terminals, also designated as subscriber
units (SU). In
certain implementations the SU contain the PDE or position finder or location
finder or
28 location tracker unit, or RFID units. The BTS devices or BTS units
communicate
directly with the SC devices(units); in other applications some SC units
communicate
with other SC units without the use of BTS devices (also designated as BTS
units).
Block arrows 4.10, 4.11 and 4.12 show communication links between BTS, PDE and
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units and combinations of units, without the need to have all units in the
network.
2 Fig. 5 represents implementation architectures and structures for single or
multiple
receiver and single or multiple transmitter signals, including location or
position finder
4 signals, e.g. wireless signals, cellular signals, GPS signals received from
one or more
satellites or from one or more ground (terrestrial) based single or plurality
of antennas,
6 Units 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.15 and 5.16 or land line or world wide web (www)
signals received
by connections or interface units 5.4 and 5.14 which interface and or receive
signals from
8 Transmit Section of Multiple Communicator Devices. Multiple Position
Determining
Entity (MPDE) is also designated as Position Determining Device(PDD). The
Position
Determining Entity (PDE) ports/units 5.5 and 5.17 , in certain cases are part
of the entire
receivers while in other cases are implemented at separate locations from
other parts of
12 the receivers and designated as remote RF front ends. In addition to the
PDE ports, other
units of the receiver are located at remote locations, from the subsequent
parts of the
14 receivers. Units 5.1 to 5.23 constitute parts of two receivers. Each unit
is optional and
not all units are required for the operation of the system. Units 5.6 and 5.18
are Band
16 Pass Filter (BPF), Units 5.7 and 5.19 are amplifiers, Units 5.8 and 5.20
are signal
multipliers (also known as mixers) for signal down conversion and Units 5.9
and 5.21 are
18 frequency synthesizers or oscillators which provide signals to the mixers.
Units 5.10, 5.22
and 5.11, 5.23 are demodulators and signal processors which provide, through
an
optional signal combiner or signal selector, Unit 5.12, demodulated and
processed single
or multiple output signals to connection lead 5.13. In direct radio frequency
(RF ) to
22 baseband conversion receivers, or any other direct conversion receivers,
including certain
Software Defined Radio (SDR) implementations several aforementioned units are
not
24 used in the implementations. Units 5.24 to 5.40 are elements or devices of
single or
plurality of transmit sections of one or more transmitters of one or more
communicator
26 devices. Software Defined Radio (SDR) systems concepts, principles, SDR
architectures
and SDR technologies have been described in the prior art, including in the
cited
28 reference book Tuttlebee , W. :"Software Defined Radio: Baseband Technology
for 3G
Handsets and Basestations" , John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. , Chichester, England,
ISBN 0-
470-86770-1 , Copyright 2004. On single or multiple input connections or leads
5.24
single or multiple signals are received from one or more input signal sources,
signal
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processors, sensors, detection devices or other systems; these input signals
or signal
2 sources include one or more of the following signals obtained from: Video to
mobile
video transmitters, Video over Internet Protocol (ViIP), Voice over Internet
Protocol
4 (VoIP), wireless systems including GSM, GPRS, TDMA,WCDMA,CDMA, W-CDMA,
Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDM), infrared (IR),
Bluetooth, Wi-
6 Fi, wired systems, cable connected systems and or a combination of
wired/wireless and
or internet web based systems , including mobile web , or mobile internet
based systems.
8 The signal or signals on connection lead 5.24, in certain implementations of
Fig. 5,
consist of one or more of the following signals, further also shown in Fig.16
as elements
16.1 to 16.13 and 16.15: location tracker Unit 16.1, remote control (RC) or
universal
remote control (URC) Unit 16.2, video, digital video or video game Unit 16.3,
digital
12 camera, photo camera, scanner X-ray or any other image Unit 16.4, emergency
or alarm
signals or detector signals or diagnosis signals (such as obtained from
medical sensors or
14 devices) Unit 16.5, voice, music, recorded/stored music, sound recording,
dictation
recorded signals Unit 16.6, telemetry and /or diagnostics telemetry or space
telemetry or
16. other telemetry or telematics signals Unit 16.7, fingerprint or other
personal
identification and/or other signals, such as Deoxyribose nucleic acid (DNA)
information
18 and/or generated or obtained or processed signals from DNA samples. In this
application
the term DNA refers to customary prior art dictionary definitions of DNA such
as:
Deoxyribose nucleic acid (DNA) is a nucleic acid that contains the genetic
instructions
specifying the biological development of all cellular forms of life (and many
viruses).In
22 this application the term DNA refers also to more generic DNA definitions
and to
generic medical diagnostics and diagnostics obtained and related audible,
visual, blood
24 pressure, temperature, density , motion, and other diagnostics signals. In
the lower part
of Fig.5, Unit 5.25, is a splitter or selector or combiner device. The terms
splitter, selector
26 and combiner device or unit mean that each of these terms describes devices
which split
or select or combine one or more input signals, process these signals and
provide one or
28 more output signals. On single or multiple connection lead or leads 5.26 a
signal or
multiple signals are provided toUnit 5.28 the input interface unit of the
first (1 S)
processor and or first transmitter path. On single or multiple connection lead
or leads
5.27 a signal or multiple signals are provided to Unit 5.29 the input
interface unit of the
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second (2" ) processor and or second transmitter path. Input interface Unit
5.28 and
2 interface Unit 5.29 provide signals to one or more single or multiple
modulator Units
5.30 and 5.31. The modulated output signals of these units are provided to one
or more
4 amplif~ers, Unit 5.32a and or 5.32b to optional filters 5.33 and 5.34, to
subsequent
amplifiers 5.35 and or 5.36 and to antennas 5.37 and or 5.39 and or to the
wired or cabled
6 or infrared transmission media on connection leads 5.38 and or 5.40. One or
more of the
mentioned amplifiers are operated in linearly amplified or linearized
amplification mode
8 and or in Non-Linearly Amplified (NLA) mode. While Fig. 5 shows two signal
path (in
the upper part of the figure) and two signal path (in the lower part of the
figure),
implementations have single and multiple mode signal path applications,
including one or
two or three or more signal paths.In some embodiments single selected signals
are
12 transmitted, while in other empbodiments of this invention multiple signals
are
transmitted. In Fig. 5 one of the implementation structures has multiple
traransmitter path,
14 connected to a single antenna 5.42. In some embodiments the amplified
signal or the
amplified signals are connected by a switch or selector or combiner 5.41 to
antenna Unit
16 5.42. Antenna Unit 5.42 may consist of a single antenna or multiple
antennas.
Fig. 6 is represents a generic prior art transmitter receiver (transceiver or
T/R), taken
18 from prior art Fig. 6 of Feher' s U.S. Pat.6,665,348 (the'348 patent), Ref.
[42]. Since
several terms used in the `348 patent and in the current application have the
same and/or
similar meaning as in the prior art and to facilitate reading of the current
application,
without the need to repeatedly refer to the `348 patent, in the following
paragraphs
22 pertinent highlights and or additional explanations of the prior art Fig.
6, of the `348
patent, within the context of this application, are presented. In Fig. 6 of
the current
24 application (which is taken from Fig. 6, of the prior art `348 patent) an
implementation
diagram with cascaded switched transmit (Tx) and receive (Rx) Low-Pass-Filters
(LPF)
26 in conjunction with cross-correlated and other non cross-correlated Time
Constrained
(TCS) waveform and cascaded Long Response(LR) filters or LR processors is
shown.
28 The terms cross-correlated or cross-correlation (abbreviated also as CC, or
CCOR or
Xcor) and cross-correlated have the descriptions, definitions and meanings as
described
in the cited prior art including Feher et al. U.S. Patents: 4,567,602;
5,491,457; 5,784,402;
6,445,749; 6,470,055; 6,665,348; 6,757,334 and in the book Feher, K.:
"Wireless Digital
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Communications: Modulation & Spread Spectrum Applications", Prentice Hall PTR,
2 Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458, Copyright 1995, Book ISBN No:0-13-098617-8. In
general cross-correlated signals or cross-correlated waveforms means that
signals (or
4 waveforms) are related to each other. More specifically, the term "cross-
correlating"
means "processing signals to generate related output signals in the in-phase
(I) and in the
6 quadrature-phase (Q) channels". Related to description of Fig.7, Fig.8 and
Fig.9 it is
noted that if a signal is split into two signal path or two signal channels
and the signals in
8 the two channels are the same, or practically the same, then the signals in
the two
channels are related thus, are cross-correlated. The term "cascade" or "
cascaded "
means that the signal flow or signal connection between filters or units is in
a sequence,
such as serial signal flow between filters , processors or units, or the
signal flow or signal
12 path is simultaneous or parallel between multiple units. In Fig. 6 the LR
filters or LR
processors could be implemented as separate in-phase (I) and quadrature -phase
(Q) LPF
14 s or as an individual time-shared LPF. The transmit Baseband Signal
Processor (BBP)
including the I and Q LPF s could be implemented by digital techniques and
followed by
16 D/A converters or by means of analog implementations or a mixture of
digital and analog
components. In certain embodiments only one signal path is present, that is
there are no
18 separate I and Q signal channels. Certain architectures use Bit Rate
Agile(BRA),
Modulation Format Selectable(MFS), modulation and demodulation filters have
been
implemented and tested with intentionally Mis-Matched (MM) filter parameters.
Some of
the implementations use Agile(Bit rate Agile or BRA) Cascaded Mis-Matched
(ACM)
22 architectures. The term Bit rate Agile or BRA refers to systems in which
the bit rate is
tunable, selectable or changeable. The LR filter units, embodied by the first
and second
24 sets of I and Q are implemented as LPF s or alternately as of other types
of filters such as
Band-Pass Filters (BPF) or High Pass Filters (HPF) or other filter/processor
LR filter
26 combinations. For several embodiments all of the aforementioned processors,
filters and
modulators, demodulators(modems) are BRA, MFS and ACM, while for other
28 implementations bit rate agility and or ACM or MFS implementations may not
be
required. Unit 6.17 is an amplifier that could be operated in a linear (LIN)
or in a NLA
mode. The output of amplifier unit 6.17 is provided on lead 6.18 to the
transmission
medium. In some of the embodiments and structures the units in only one of the
signal
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channels, e.g. the channel designated as the Q channel are implemented while
in the other
2 channel, designated as I channel the components are not used. In yet another
set of
embodiments only the baseband processor part is implemented. In Fig. 6 at the
receiving
4 end, on lead 6.19, is the modulated received signal. Unit 6.21 is a BPF that
is present in
some embodiments while in others it is not required. A more detailed
description of
6 Units 6.1 to 6.35 and embodiments and operation is contained in Feher's U.S.
pat.
6,665,348 (the `348 patent).
8 Fig.7 contains prior art cross-correlated signals, and in particular in-
phase (I) and
quadrature-phase (Q) signal patterns-displayed in the time domain. This figure
is taken
from a prior art cited book, Feher, K.: "Wireless Digital Communications:
Modulation &
Spread Spectrum Applications". Note that the displayed amplitude patterns
(amplitude as
12 a function of time) of the upper signal (designated as I signal) and of the
lower signal
(designated as Q signal) are related, that is these signals are cross-
correlated. This
14 relation or cross-correlation property of the I and Q signals (upper and
lower signals) is
noted in Fig.7, for example, whenever the upper signal (I signal) has its
maximum
16 amplitude, the lower signal (Q signal) has zero value and when the upper
signal has a
local maximum the lower signal has a local minimum. The term zero means zero
or
18 approximately zero, while the terms maximum and minimum mean maximum and
minimum or approximately maximum and approximately minimum.
Fig.8 shows prior art measured cross-correlated signals on a sample Integrated
Circuit
(chip), manufactured by Philips and designated as the PCD-5071 chip. The
Philips PCD-
22 5071 chips was manufactured for use in GSM systems for generation of GSM
system
recommended /specified GMSK modulation signals. This Fig. 8 is taken from the
prior
24 art cited book Feher, K.: "Wireless Digital Communications: Modulation &
Spread
Spectrum Applications", Prentice Hall PTR, Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458,
Copyright
26 1995, Book ISBN No: 0-13-098617-8. The measured signal time patterns (or
waveform)
in the upper channel (designated as I signal) and in the lower channel
(designated as Q
28 signal) are related, i.e. they are cross-correlated. This cross-correlation
or relation
property between the upper and lower signals is evident, for example, whenever
the
upper signal (I signal) has its maximum amplitude, the lower signal (Q signal)
has zero
value.
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Fig.9 shows in the upper part of the figure one or multiple signals, connected
on lead
2 9.1 to an interface unit 9.2 or processor unit 9.2. Interface and or
processor 9.2 provides
single or multiple signals on single or multiple leads 9.3 and or single or
multiple leads
4 9.4 to one or more modulators. Unit 9.5 contains one or more non-quadrature
modulation
implementation structures such as prior art FM modulators and or polar
modulators or
6 other non quadrature modulators. Non quadrature modulators are modulators
which have
structures and implementations which are different from the quadrature(QUAD)
8 implementation structures. Unit 9.6 contains one or a plurality processors
and
modulators which have a quadrature(QUAD) implementation structure. Modulators
having quadrature structure have base band in-phase(I) signals baseband
quadrature-
phase(Q) signals connected to the inputs of the Quadrature modulators. An
illustrative
12 embodiment of a quadrature modulator structure is shown in Fig.6. A prior
art non-
quadrature modulator embodiment is shown in the lower part of Fig.13. Non-
quadrature
14 modulators are described in numerous prior art references; these are
designated as FM
modulators, FSK modulators, BPSK modulators or by similar and or related names
and
16 acronyms. Units 9.7, 9.8, 9.9 and 9.10 provide transmission processing
functions such as
filtering, up-conversion, and linear (LIN) or NLA signal amplification. In the
lower part
18 of Fig. 9, an input signal on connection 9.11, and connection of the 9.11
input signal to
signal lead 9.12 and to signal lead 9.13 is shown. In one of the embodiments,
the same
input signal is provided (split or by the splitter) to the I channel, on
connection 9.12, and
to the Q channel on connection 9.13. Thus, the signals on connection leads
9.12 and 9.13,
22 designated as I and Q signals, in this implementation architecture, are the
same or are
practically the same, thus they are related or cross-correlated signals. In
other
24 embodiments the splitter provides processed and different signals to leads
9.12 and 9.13
respectively, that is the I signal is different than the Q signal. The
different I and Q
26 signals, depending upon the processor/splitter may or may not be related,
that is they
may or may not be cross-correlated.
28 Fig.10 is a multiple BRA and MFS transmitter architectures with one or more
processors, modulators and amplifiers, antennas and interface connection(s) to
wired or
cabled or other transmission media, including but not limited to mobile wired
or wireless
internet systems. On lead 10.1 one or more input signals are provided to
signal interface
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Unit 10.2. These input signals could be analog, mixed analog and digital
(hybrid) or
2 digital baseband signals, such as prior art Non Return to Zero (NRZ) encoded
or other
digital signals. These input signals could be obtained from a sensor, from
RFID devices,
4 from motion detectors, video cameras, television or other picture and or
image processors
or from signals generated by a touch screen operation. Unit 10.2 provides one
or more
6 signals to one or more quadrature (designated also as QUAD or quad) baseband
signal
processors Units 10.3 or 10.4 and or to one or more non-quadrature baseband
signal
8 processors included in Unit 10.17. These baseband signal processors
interface, process
and or generate one or more of OFDM, CDMA, W-CDMA or WCDMA, CDMA-2000,
CDMA EVDO, other CDMA, other spread spectrum or TDMA, or continuous data
streams analog or digital signals for modulation. The embodiment of Fig.10 is
for
12 multiple BRA and MFS signal processing, modulation and transmission and or
for single
modulation format or single modulation format selected systems. The term Bit
Rate
14 Agile(BRA) means that the bit rate is selectable or tunable or adaptable to
the system
requirements and system objectives and the term Modulation Format
Selectable(MFS)
16 means that various modulation formats can be selected and or that the
modulation type
or modulation types are adaptable to the system or user requirements. Units
10.5, 10.11
18 and 10.18 are single or plurality of non-quadrature or quadrature
modulators. Units 10.6,
10.7, 10.8, 10.9, 10.10, 10.13, 10.14, 10.15, 10.16 and 10.19 to 10.23 are
optional
amplifiers, filters, signal conditioners or signal processors antennas and
interface points
to wired or cabled transmission systems. Single or multiple controller Unit
10.24
22 controls through control signals present on connections or leads or
software control
algorithms on 10.25 the selection or combining process of one or more signals
and
24 controls which signals should be connected to the transmission medium and
when should
the selected and or combined signals be transmitted. Unit 10.11 receives
signals from
26 interface or processor Unit 10.2 . Unit 10.11 contains non -quadrature
(also designated as
non quadrature or non-QUAD or non-quad) modulators.
28 Fig.lla is a new implementation architecture and block diagram of a
multiple
communication link, also designated as a cascaded link, or a system having
cascaded
units which inter operate in a sequence for multimode operated wireless and or
wired
and internet systems including fixed location systems and mobile systems. Unit
11.1
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contains one or more of the following devices or signals generated by these
devices: a
2 location finder, also designated as a Position Determining Entity (PDE) or
Position
Determining Device (PDD), a medical apparatus a diagnostic device, voice
processor,
4 data processor, image processor, digital camera processor, video processor,
a finger print
stored or processed signal or image, DNA signal processors, music, other
storage devices
6 or a screen touch generated or processed signal. One or more signals
contained in Unit
11.1 are provided to Unit 11.2 containing a short range system, such as a
WLAN,
8 Bluetooth, infrared or other communication system or sub system. The short
range
systems are connected to an optional medium range communication system, Unit
11.3.
The medium range system provides signals to one or more remote units,
designated as
Unit 11.4 of the system. The remote unit provides signals to the interface
unit or units of
12 the transmission medium, designated as Unit 11.5. The signal path is
implemented from
the location finder, Unit 11.1 to the interface Unit 11.5 and also in the
opposite direction
14 from interface Unit 11.5 to the location finder. The units in this
structure, in one of the
embodiments have fixed parameters while in an other embodiment are BRA and MFS
16 units operated in a single or in plurality of multi mode systems. In the
embodiments of
units 11.1 to 11.5 optional modulation devices and circuits are included. The
prior art
18 implemented modulation circuits have two distinct implementation
architectures. One of
the implementations is known as quadrature modulator (also designated as QUAD-
mod
or quad mod) and the second implementations is known as polar modulation and
or
designated herein as non-Quadrature, or non-QUAD modulation.
22 Fig.l lb shows an exemplary prior art quadrature modulator. In a later part
of this
application, in the description of Fig.17b and Fig.17c two prior art polar and
or non-
24 QUAD architectures are described. In the exemplary prior art quadrature
modulator,
shown in Fig.llb, the input source signals, present on leads 11.6 and 11.7 are
connected
26 to optional Digital to Analog(D/A) converters 11.8and 11.9. These input
signals are also
known as in-phase (I) and quadrature-phase(Q) signals. The I and Q signals are
provided
28 to optional filters, shown as 11.10 Filter-I and shown as 11.11 Filter-Q.
The input
signals on leads 11.6 and or 11.7 may include such signals as a microphone,
video
camera, photo camera, facsimile, wireless internet connection, modem, or other
source of
customer, subscriber, or other user data signals or converted processed
signals. The
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optionally D/A converted and or optionally filtered I and Q signals, or the
signals present
2 on input leads are provided to two multipliers (also known as mixers),
designated as Unit
11.13 and Unit 11.6. These multipliers receive also an unmodulated carrier
wave from a
4 frequency source or frequency generator, designated in the figure as Local
Oscillator
(LO), unit 11.12. In particular mixer 11.13 is provided by an unmodulated
carrier wave
6 (CW) signal on lead 11.14, while mixer 11.16 is provided a CW signal which
is 90
degrees phase shifted from the signal provided to mixer 11.13. Mixer 11.16
receives the
8 90 degree phase shifted signal from the 90 degree phase shifter unit, Unit
11.15. The
outputs of mixers 11.13 and 11.16 are provided to the inputs of a summing
device 11.17.
The output of summing device 11.17 is the quadrature modulated signal. It is
provided to
an optional signal amplifier (Ampl). The modulated signal is provided on lead
11.9 to the
12 transmission medium
Fig.12 is an embodiment of an RF head end (alternatively designated as RF
14 subsystem or RF part) which is co-located with the baseband and or
Intermediate
Frequency(IF) processing units, or is at a remote location. Remote location
means that
16 there is a separate physical unit (enclosure or box) other than is the unit
and/or location
of the baseband processing(BBP) and or Intermediate Frequency(IF) units. Unit
12.1
18 contains the BBP and or IF devices while Unit 12.2 is the RF head. The BBP
circuits in
Unit 12.1 in some embodiments have single processors , for processing a single
baseband
signals , while in other embodiments contain multitude of baseband processors
and or
multitude of IF or multitude of RF processors, or multitude of RF head ends
for
22 processing of more than one signal. The RF head includes one or more of the
following
Radio Frequency (RF) components: RF amplifiers, RF filters, circulators, RF
splitters or
24 RF combiners, RF diplexers, RF switches, and or RF cables or connections
including
fiber optic communication (FOC) links. Unit 12.3 is the embodiment of one or
more
26 transmit and/or receive antennas and Unit 12.4 is the structure for one or
more interface
elements, for interfacing the signals from or to Unit 12.2 to the wired or
cabled or FOC
28 communications or broadcasting medium. All signals are enabled to flow from
Unit 12.1
to Units 12.3 and 12. 4 and in reverse directions from Units 12.3 and or Unit
12.4
towards Unit 12.1. The embodiments and operation of Fig.12 include multi
operation and
multi function of a plurality of systems including: single or multiple
location finder,
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location tracker devices, position finder devices, Radio Frequency
Identification
2 Devices(RFID), connected with single or multiple Bit Rate Agile(BRA) , and
single
modulation or Modulation Format Selectable(MFS) satellite and/or land based
devices.
4 These systems components assembled in one or more combinations and
variations
operate in GSM, General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), Enhanced Digital GSM
6 Evolution (EDGE), or Evolution of GSM (E-GSM), Code Division Multiple Access
(CDMA), Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA or W-CDMA),
8 Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDM), Time Division Multiple
Access (TDMA), IEEE 802.xx, Digital European Cordless Telecommunication
(DECT),
Infrared (IR), Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi), Bluetooth, and other standardized as
well as
non-standardized systems. Fig.12 operations include single mode and or
multimode
12 communication systems with co-located and remote located RF heads with
single and or
plurality of antennas.
14 Fig. 13 represents an alternative embodiment of a multi mode BRA and MFS
system
connected to single or multitude of wireless, wired, cabled or FOC connected
and or
16 internet or mobile internet web based systems. A single bit rate and or a
Bit Rate Agile
(BRA) baseband processor and a single modulation format and/or Modulation
Format
18 Selectable (MFS) system structure is shown. Units 13.1 to 13.4 are the
embodiments of
single bit rate and or single modulation format processors and or of multiple
bit rate or
BRA and MFS processors, filters, modulators and amplifiers. The single or
multiple
amplified signals of the communication structure are provided to interface
points and to
22 single or multiple antennas for wireless transmission, shown as antennas
13.5, and or to
interface points 13.6 for systems having physical hardware or firmware
connections or
.24 connectors. Units 13.1 to 13.4 may contain single processors, filters and
or modulators or
may contain a multitude of processors, filters and or modulators which are
connected in
26 a cascade(serial mode) or parallel or other configuration. Unit 13.2
contains one or more
Time Constrained Signal (TCS) processors and or Long Response(LR) filters. The
28 signals processed and or filtered in Unit 13.2 are provided to single or
multiple
modulators, contained in Unit 13.3. In one of the embodiments, the modulators
in Unit
13.3 are quadrature (QUAD) modulators, while in an other embodiment they are
non-
quadrature(non-QUAD) modulators, while in an other implementation structure or
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embodiment they are a combination of single or multiple QUAD and single or
multiple
2 non-QUAD modulators. Some of the QUAD-modulators have cross-correlated in-
phase
(I) and quadrature-phase(Q) baseband signals, while other QUAD-modulator
4 embodiments have no cross-correlation between the I and Q baseband signals.
In some
of the implementations the transmit filters are matched to the receive filters
, while in
6 other embodiments intentional mis-match between the transmit processor
/filter and
receiver processor/filters is implemented. A prior art non-quadrature
modulator
8 embodiment is shown in the lower part of Fig. 13. Non-quadrature modulators
are
described in numerous prior art references; these are designated as FM
modulators, FSK
modulators, BPSK modulators or by similar and or related names and acronyms.
Interface Unit 13.7a provides signals to optional processor 13.7b. Processor
13.7b
12 implementation structures is an analog or digital or a hybrid (mixed analog
and digital)
baseband processor. The processed baseband signal is provided to non-
quadrature
14 modulator, Unit 13.8 for modulation and connection to amplifier unit 13.9
for modulated
signal amplification. The amplified signal is provided to the transmission
medium,
16 antenna Unit 13.10 or to the wired or cabled transmission mediums interface
Unit 13.11.
FIG. 14 is an embodiment of a multi-mode, multi bit rate system, with BRA, MFS
and
18 code selectable OFDM, WCDMA, Wi-Fi, WLAN, infrared, Bluetooth and or other
spread spectrum or continuous data systems. The embodiments include connection
and or
elements or units of the system architecture operating in a single mode or
simultaneous
multi-mode configuration. On single lead or multiple lead 14.linput analog
and/or digital
22 and/or hybrid signals are provided to interface and or processor unit 14.2.
Hybrid signals
contain combination of single or multiple analog and/or digital signals. The
signal or
24 signals on input lead 14.1 contain in certain embodiments video signals or
audio signals
or signals obtained from processed photography, DNA samples, fingerprints,
touch
26 screen control or identification signals, RFID signals , telemetry,
telematics , Remote
Control processed signals or other web or www based communication or broadcast
28 signals. Interface processor may comprise a simple connection device, or a
splitter or o a
combiner or a signal processing circuit with one or more output connection
leads. The
single or multiple output signal(s) are provided to Units 14.3 to 14.6 for
signal interface
and/or further processing. As shown in Fig.14 these units contain one or more
of the
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following interface units (connections) and/or signal processors: Unit 14.3 is
a GSM
2 and/or GPRS and/or EDGE connection and/or signal processor, Unit 14.4 is a
connection
and/or spread spectrum signal processor, for example a Code Division Multiple
Access
4 (CDMA) processor, an other type of Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum(DS-SS)
processor, a Frequency Hopped Spread Spectrum (FH-SS) processor, a Collision
Sense
6 Multiple Access(CSMA) spread spectrum connection lead and/or processor or an
other
variation of spread spectrum processors. Unit 14.5 is an OFDM signal
connection and/or
8 processor, while Unit 14.6 is an interface unit connection and/or processor
for one
infrared signal or a plurality of infrared signals. In some of the
implementations only one
the Units 14.3-14.6 is used, while in other embodiments a combination of these
units is
embodied. In alternate implementations the interface or processor for one of
the
12 shown/designated processors is replaced by Wi-Fi, or other interfaces such
as Fiber Optic
Communication (FOC), or cable systems or other wired and/or wireless system
14 interfaces. One or multiple output signals of Units 14.3-14.6 are connected
to a selector
(switch, combiner or splitter or similar device), Unit 14.7 and provided to
one or multiple
16 processors embodied in Unit 14.8. One or more output signals, from Unit
14.8, are
connected to one or multiple modulators, shown in Unit 14.10. The output or
outputs of
18 14.10 are connected to single or multiple transmit interface points shown
as Unit 14.11.
A controller, Unit 14.12 provides control signals to one or more Units, shown
in Fig. 14,
for selection and/or processing of one or more signals and/or connection of
the selected
signals to the transmission interface unit(s) 14.11.
22 Fig. 15 is an adaptive Radio Frequency (RF) wave generator, RF processor,
radio and
modulator structure. The implementation includes baseband processor interface
and
24 control unit, data clock interface and RF amplifiers, RF splitters or RF
switch device and
antennas. The implementation embodiments are for single or multi-mode
modulation
26 formats and or for Modulation Format Selectable (MFS) and Bit Rate
Agile(BRA)
systems. The term Bit Rate Agile(BRA) means that the bit rates are adaptable
or
28 selectable. Specifically the embodiment of a direct baseband to RF
transmitter, such as
used in Software Defined Radio (SDR) systems, with or without multiple
transmitters
and with or without diversity is used. A frequency source signal is provided
on single
lead 15.1 or multiple leads 15.1 to adaptive RF frequency and or RF wave
generator Unit
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15.2. The source signal on lead 15.1 consists of a frequency reference source,
such as an
2 oscillator, or a Phase Locked Loop (PLL), or a numerically controlled
oscillator, or a
frequency synthesizer, or a clock signal received from an other system, or an
4 unmodulated carrier wave(CW), or any other signal source. In certain
embodiments RF
frequency and or RF wave generator Unit 15.2 is merely an interface unit which
provides
6 to one or multiple leads(connections) 15.3 the signal received on
lead(connection) 15.1.
In other embodiments RF frequency and or RF wave generator Unit 15.2 is an
adaptive
8 RF agile (RFA) signal processor and signal generator. In some embodiments
the RFA
generator comprises a frequency synthesizer for the generation of multitude of
unmodulated CW signals, in other embodiments it generates one or a plurality
of
unmodulated or modulated RF signals. The generated RF signals might have a
sinusoidal
12 wave shape or rectangular wave shape or other wave shapes or waveforms and
one or
more of the RF signals, provided to connections 15.3 are periodic or non-
periodic signals.
14 On single or multiple connections (connections are also designated as
leads) 15.4 control
signals, obtained from units 15.15 and or 15.16, are provided to the processor
Unit 15.5
16 for control, selection and further processing of one or more selected RF
signals provided
on leads15.3 to processor 15.5. RF Processor Unit 15.5 contains input
selectors, for
18 selecting one or more of the signals, received on leads 15.3 and it also
contains output
selectors for selecting and providing one or more of the output signals to
leads 15.6 and
subsequent connection of the selected output signals to one or multitude of
amplifiers
15.7 and or 15.12. Unit 15.15 is an interface and or a processor unit, which
includes an
22 interface circuit and optional processor circuits for signal conversion,
e.g. Analog to
Digital (A/D) signal conversion, Digital to Analog (D/A) signal conversion;
converters
24 and or transducers for conversion of temperature, blood pressure, heart
rate, fingerprint ,
DNA; touch screen (pressure or mere physical touch) , motion detector,
interactive,
26 emergency sensors and or activators of emergency signals (e.g. smoke fire
or heat
detectors), excess humidity or flood or water level sensors, audio and or
video signals,
28 scanned images, RFID generated signals, location based signals and/or other
signals into
processed electrical, optical, Infrared or other signals. One of the
implementation
structures of Unit 15.15 includes parts of the baseband circuitry of a
Software Defined
Radio (SDR) and or the entire or the entire software part and or hardware or
firmware
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parts of the non RF parts of a SDR. Since the principles and technologies of
Software
2 Defined Radio (SDR) implementations and structures were disclosed in the
prior art,
including in Hickling, R.M.: " New technology facilitates true software -
defined radio",
4 RF Design Magazine April 2005, Tuttlebee, W. :"Software Defined Radio:
Baseband
Technology for 3G Handsets and Basestations", John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. ,
Chichester,
6 West Sussex, England, Copyright 2004, ISBN 0-470-86770-1, and patents such
as US
pat.6,906,996, issued to Ballantyne, G.J. , Assignee Qualcomm, Inc., and US
Pat.
8 5,430,416, issued to Black et al., Assignee Motorola, there is no need to
include
additional details of SDR in this Application. Processor Unit 15.5 contains
one or more
optional circuits . Within Unit 15.5 there are input signal leads (arrows),
shown on the
left hand side, and output signal leads, and shown on the right hand side. In
Unit 15.5 the
12 bold line represents a signal connection between a selected signal from
input lead 15.3 to
output lead 15.6. The signal present on the bold line, (representing a
connection) may be
14 selected or not selected. The 1 st RF processor, 2 d RF processor, Filter
Amplifier LIN or
NLA are implementations of different processors and or different modulators.
The
16 implemented modulators are in some implementations quadrature(QUAD)
modulators,
while in other embodiments they are non-quadrature(non-QUAD) modulators, such
as
18 polar modulators. In certain designs the amplifiers operate in a relatively
linear mode
(LIN amplifier) while in other embodiments they operate in a Non-Linearly
Amplified
(NLA) mode, close or at saturation. In an other implementation the amplifiers
may be
switched or adapted to operate in a LIN or in a NLA mode. In certain
implementations a
22 multiple number of the aforementioned RF processor and or modulators,
filters and
amplifiers are used. The Interface and or Control/Processor Unit 15.5 in
combination
24 with the data clock interface unit 15.16 selects one or more of the output
signals and
connects the single or multitude of selected Unit 15.5 output signals to one
or more
26 optional amplifiers 15.7 and or 15.12. One or a plurality of the output
signals is provided
to one or more of the transmission media interface points, shown as 15.8,
15.10, 15.11
28 and 15.14. Elements 15.9 and 15.13 are optional signal switch or splitter
or combiner or
duplexer or diplexer units.
Fig. 16 is a multimode, multipurpose system which incorporates embodiments for
numerous applications, including but not limited to enhanced performance,
increased
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coverage , higher speed information and data transfer wired and wireless
communications
2 seamless communications, communications over different operating systems and
different standards, including American and internationally standardized
systems, non-
4 standardized systems, signal processing and storage, data manipulation,
diagnostics,
broadcasting entertainment, educational and alarm system for seamless adaptive
6 communications, emergency reporting, location finding and remote control
embodiments. Implementation and or selection of one or more of the system and
8 network components, shown in Fig.16, enable information storage, use of
multimedia
tools including voice, music, camera, high definition camera, real-time one -
way, two-
way or multi-way video and or and or voice calling, broadcasting and
communications,
still and moving image capture and editing. Direct access to launch browsers
from the
12 screen, by touching the screen or other direct access does not require push
buttons.
Addition of supplemental memory or removal of memory and or of other
components is
14 enabled by insertion or removal of components into one or more of the units
shown in
Fig.16. Interconnection between cellular systems, Bluetooth, infrared, Wi-Fi
with remote
16 control devices, with cellular phone and automobile based or home based
radio or
television and or computer systems is enabled. One of Fig.16 optional
interconnections or
18 communications with mobile devices in automobiles, other portable or mobile
devices
including motorcycles or other vehicles, e.g. tractors or trains or boats or
ships or
airplanes and or remote control systems is also shown in Fig.27. Information
and signal
transmission and reception (communication and or broadcasting) are enabled
between
22 two or more than two users. Architectures and embodiments enable a single
user to
process, store and manipulate information and or to transmit it to others, or
transfer to the
24 user, computer, printer camera, facsimile or to other interface. The
different units and or
elements (components) of the system are optional and the system is operative
in multiple
26 embodiments without the use of certain elements (units) and or with an
different
interconnection between the units. In particular one or multiple elements 16.1
to 16.13
28 are connected aiid or selected through single or multiple leads 16.14 for
connection to
and from unit 16.15. Unit 16.1 contains a signal interface and or a signal
processor for
locator and or tracker device generated signals. Unit 16.2 contains a remote
control signal
interface or signal processor unit. Unit 16.3 contains a video game signal
interface or
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signal processor unit. Unit 16.4 contains a digital camera and or scanner
signal interface
2 or signal processor unit. Unit 16.5 contains an emergency and or alarm
signal interface or
signal processor unit. Unit 16.6 contains voice, or telephony signal or music
signal
4 interface or signal processor unit or a combination of these interface
units. Unit 16.7
contains interface circuits or signal processors for telemetry, telematics or
photograph or
6 scanned or facsimile signals. Unit 16.8 contains signal interface or signal
processor
elements for fingerprint identification and or fingerprint control and or
touch screen
8 control or DNA based signals. Unit 16.9 contains signal interface or signal
processor
elements for sensor, transducer, detector (including motion detector, pressure
detector,
heat or smoke detector), Radio Frequency Identification and Detection (RFID)
obtained
signals. Unit 16.10 contains signal interface or signal processor unit to
interface with
12 stored analog or digital information, including stored music, stored video,
stored images,.
stored scanned data information or other stored information. Unit 16.11
contains signal
14 or data interface or signal or data processor device for connection and or
processing of
computer, including mobile computer, Personal Digital Assistant(PDA) and other
digital
16 or analog signals. Unit 16.12 contains signal interface or signal processor
unit for
connection, interface or coupling of music and or video, and or animated
graphics and or
18 sensor detected -transformed signals or other stored and or retrieved
information signals
including signals containing educational and or entertainment materials. Unit
16.13
contains medical and or information signal interface or signal processor unit,
including
diagnostics, sensor, transducer obtained signals, motion detector or pressure
detector or
22 DNA generated or stored signals and or information..
Unit 16.15 embodies one or more signal processors and communication devices
for
24 providing single or multimode communications, multidirectional (to and
from) through
single or multiple communications and or broadcast media to single or multiple
terminals
26 16.18, 16.21 and 16.23 and or to one or multiple interface units 16.1 to
16.13. Terminal
or Subscriber Units(SU), also designated as Subscribers(SC) , are in some of
the
28 embodiments operated in a peer subscriber mode while in other
configurations they are in
a star, mesh or other network configuration, including optional adaptive
network. An
adaptive network is a network in which the connection between various elements
of the
network and the communication system format are changeable, that is, they are
selectable
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or adaptable. The adaptive network configuration, interaction between various
elements,
2 selection of signals, selection and connection of one or of a multitude of
signals and or
interface units and or of one or more processors is controlled by the control
unit, Unit
4 16.24. Control unit 16.24 provides and or receives one or multiple signals
through single
or multiple leads 16.25 from or to Unit 16.15, from or to the Subscriber Units
(SU) and or
6 from or to one more interface units 16.1 to 16.13. The signals from or to
control unit
16.24 are chosen by manual control or voice control or other direct operator
control, and
8 or remotely and or electronically and or by software or firmware and or by
hardware or
firmware. Unit 16.15 is a single and or multimode, single and or multipurpose
communication and signal processing and or data processing unit. Unit 16.15
contains
one or more of the following interface points and or connections and or
communication
12 devices: Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), Video Internet Protocol
(ViIP) or video
over internet or video over intranet, wireless, mobile system elements
including one or
14 more processors, modulators demodulators(modems) , transmitters
receivers(TR) for
TDMA, FDMA, GSM, GPRS EDGE, WCDMA, CDMA lx, EV-DO, WLAN, WMAN,
16 Wi-Fi, IEEE 802.xx, cable, DSL, satellite, cable, infrared(IR), Bluetooth,
location finder,
GPS, emergency alarm medical diagnostics or appliance communicator. These
units
18 operate in a "plug and play" configuration, that is, each unit can operate
as a single unit
or part of simultaneous operation in a network with several other units or in
an adaptive
network. The processors and or modulators contained in Unit 16.15 in certain
implementations have non-quadrature (non-QUAD) architectures, such as in
certain
22 Frequency Modulated(FM) or Phase Modulated(PM) systems, e.g. FSK modulated
or
GFSK modulated systems, and Amplitude Modulated (AM) systems, including but
not
24 limited to implementations of polar modulated systems. In other embodiments
quadrature modulation (QUAD mod) architectures with or without cross-
correlation in
26 the transmit baseband in-phase (I) and quadrature -phase(Q) signals is
implemented. In
some other embodiments multiple modem architectures are implemented. In
certain
28 embodiments Unit 16.15 or one or more of interface Units 16.1 to 16.13 and
or subscriber
units (SU) 16.18, 16.21 and or 16.23 contain one or more of the following
systems,
components or signals: Multi-purpose System and Devices for Locator/Trackers -
Position
Determining Entity (PDE), Remote Control (RC), video, photograph, facsimile,
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emergency alarm, telephony signal, voice, music telemetry fingerprint -DNA
device
2 activation sensor, motion sensor, body temperature sensor; Base Station
Controller
(BSC), Terminal or Subscriber Unit (SU) Base Station Transceiver Subsystem
(BTS)
4. 'devices. Each unit may contain processor, memory, communication port or
interface,
single or multiple modulator and or demodulator, automatic transmission alert
of
6 unauthorized and authorized fingerprint originated signals. Lead or leads
16.25a and
16.25b show optional connections with Units in Fig.27 with one or more
elements of
8 Fig.16 and or units in other figures.
For user identification, user authentication, for medical information,
emergency and
alarm processing, for law enforcement, for financial and or other
transactions, for signal
transmission, reception and or control of one or more of Units 16.1 to 16.13,
these units
12 in certain implementations are interconnected with and or comprise selected
units of Fig.
26 and or of Fig.27 and or of Fig.30 and or of other figures of this
disclosure. As an
14 exemplary embodiment Unit 16.8 contains single and or multiple fingerprint
sensors and
conversion devices for conversion and or coding of the information contained
in the
16 fingerprint to signals suitable for multiuse signal processing, storage,
authentication
and/or identification of one or of a plurality of users and single and or
multiple signal
18 transmission. The signal transmitters transmit the signals provided by the
single or
multiple fingerprint sensors. The signal transmission of the fingerprint
signals ,
depending on the setting of the transmitter is based on the authorized user
and or by
unauthorized user. Authorized and also unauthorized signal transmission is
under the
22 control of control Unit 16.24. Control Unit 16.24 contains in certain
applications
memory, processing and storage devices for storing the fingerprint information
of the
24 authorized and also of the unauthorized user and may provide control
signals for
transmission of the fingerprint information in addition to the dialed
recipient to a third
26 party, e.g. to a police department, to an emergency center or other law
enforcement and
or health care agency, or an individual or an alarm monitoring company, or the
users
28 alternate receiver device, which could include recording and/or storing the
information on
the same device in which the signal transmission originates. The telephone
number(s) and
or other information, e.g. e-mail address of the said third party may be
preprogrammed
by the authorized user and or remotely preprogrammed by law enforcement
agencies. If
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unauthorized signal transmission (or authorized under force and or against the
free will
2 of the authorized user) is underway , the control unit 16.24 inserts "alarm"
or "flag"
signals into the transmitter path, alerting the single or multiple recipients
, including the
4 third party recipient that unauthorized and or emergency signals are
transmitted and
including signals for the recipient to store the unauthorized fingerprint and
or the entire or
6 part of the conversation and or communication. One of the sections of the
fingerprint unit
16.8 and or the control and processor and memory unit 16.24 , if requested by
the control
8 unit, based on reception and detection information of the received signal
may store the
received fingerprint information and or the received communications speech,
picture,
video or DNA or information in other forms. Authorizing may be performed
locally or
based upon a remote authorization signal. In case of unauthorized signal
transmission,
12 based on signal transmission of an unauthorized fingerprint user, Control
Unit 16.24, in
certain applications, directs the camera and or video recorder to take
pictures and or
14 video clips of the unauthorized transmitter `s surroundings and add these
signals to the
intended recipient and to the third party receiver. In some embodiments, Unit
16.8 and or
16 Unit 16.6 in conjunction with one or more other units 16.1 to 16.13,
without the use of
unit 16.8 are used for authorized user authentication and signal transmission
storage,
18 processing to third parties and to the users devices.
In certain embodiments fingerprint sensor and converter of the fingerprint
sensor
provided information into signals which can be processed and stored and or
analyzed,
identified with a particular individual are included for single or multiple
fingerprints in
22 Unit 16.8 and or Unit 16.24. One or multiple fingerprints are used for
single or multiple
communication and or control and or location purposes. For example location of
a mobile
24 unit is enhanced by providing a fingerprint database having a multiplicity
of transmitted
fingerprints, each fingerprint in the fingerprint database having an
associated unique
26 location. Fingerprint information has multiuse benefits, including
authentication of
authorized use or of unauthorized use , locating the position of the device
(mobile device
28 and or stationary device), emergency request and or signal transmission and
or storage to
third parties, identification of the unauthorized user. Barcode reader, Unit
16.13b, within
the structure of Fig.16 and or in combination or connection with the
structures of other
figures of this disclosure, including but not limited to the structures of
Fig.27 has
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multiuse applications, including the above described use and applications.
2 Fig. 17a contains non-quadrature(non-QUAD) and quadrature modulation (Quad
Mod
or QUAD mod) multiple modulator exemplary embodiments, including polar
modulator
4 structures with and or without selection and or combining and connection of
one or more
of the modulated signals to one or a plurality of amplifiers and or one or
more optional
6 antennas, with and without cross-correlated quadrature modulation
implementations for
Bit Rate Agile (BRA) or Bit Rate Adaptive(BRA), Modulation Format
Selectable(MFS)
8, and radio frequency agile (RFA) system implementations having single or
multitude of
modulators, amplifiers and antennas.
Fig. 17b Polar (non Quadrature) exemplary prior art modulator implementation
block
diagram is shown in this figure
12 Fig. 17c An other Non-Quadrature (non-QUAD) exemplary prior art modulator
architecture is shown in this figure.
14 Fig. 17a is described in more detail in this section. While, the prior art
in general and
Feher' s U.S. patents, e.g. U.S. pat: 5,491,457; 6,470,055; 6,198,777;
6,665,348;
16 6,757,334 and Ballantyne' s U.S. pat 6,906,996, assigned to Qualcomm Inc.,
contain
disclosures of multiple modulation wireless transmitters and communication
systems, the
18 prior art does not disclose the Fig. 17a disclosed architectures,
structures and
embodiments for system configurations and implementations of multiple
modulator
embodiments, including polar modulator structures with and or without
selection and or
combining and connection of one or more of the modulated signals to one or a
plurality
22 of amplifiers and or one or more optional antennas, with and without cross-
correlated
quadrature modulation implementations for BRA, MFS, and RFA system
24 implementations having single or multitude of modulators, amplifiers and
antennas with
selectable single or multiple signal sources, disclosed in conjunction with
Fig.17a, Fig.l,
26 Fig.2, Fig.3, Fig.16, Fig.18 , Fig.27 and or other figures and relevant
parts of the
currently disclosed specifications and claims. In Fig. 17a Unit 17.1 is a
single or multiple
28 interface unit for connection of single or multiple signals to one or more
signal and or
data processor elements, shown as Unit 17.2. While four (4) processor units
(boxes) are
illustrated, in certain embodiments only one processor is used, while in other
embodiments two or more processors are implemented. Single or multiple
processor(s)
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provide processed signals to one or more than one (multiple or plurality) of
modulator
2 Unit(s) 17.3 for modulation. The processed signal or processed multiple
signals are
provided to single or multiple modulator Unit(s) 17.3. The signal connection
or multiple
4 connections between the processor(s) 17.2 and modulator(s) 17.3 is/are under
the control
of a control unit 17.9 and or under the control of an operator. One or more of
the
6 modulated signals is provided to a first optional modulated signal selector
(switch) and or
combiner and or splitter unit 17.4. One or more outputs of Unit 17.4 are
connected to one
8 or a plurality of amplifiers 17.5. The amplified signal or signals are
connected to the
second optional selector, combiner or splitter unit 17.6.The outputs of Unit
17.6 are
provided to an optional signal interface unit 17.7 and afterwards to one or
more optional
antennas, Unit 17.8. There is a variety quadrature modulator embodiments
disclosed in
12 the prior art. In Fig.llb of the current application an exemplary prior art
quadrature
modulation implementation is highlighted. One or multiple quadrature modulator
(QUAD
14 mod) implementations and embodiments are used in the embodiments of the
quadrature
modulators, shown in Fig. 17. In certain embodiments of Fig.17 one or more non-
16 quadrature (non-QUAD) modulators are implemented, in addition to QUAD
modulators
and or instead of QUAD modulators. Some of the non-quadrature modulation
structures
18 are known in the prior art as polar modulation, while other non-QUAD
modulators are
prior art Frequency Modulators (FM), Frequency Shift Keying ( FSK), Gaussian
Frequency Shift Keying (GFSK), Amplitude Modulator (AM) systems and devices.
Fig.17b and Fig.17c.show two prior art non-QUAD modulation architectures.
22 Fig.17b is based on Lindoff et al. US patent 6,101,224 and Black et al US
pat
5,430,416, assigned to Motorola. The illustrated non-QUAD modulation technique
is also
24 known as polar modulation, since it is based on a polar representation of
the baseband
signals. In this non-Quad modulator polar components i.e., amplitude (r) and
phase (p)
26 components are used, instead of in-phase (I) and quadrature-phase (Q)
components used
in quad modulation techniques. In this exemplary prior art modulator, the
source signal
28 (or information signal) to be transmitted is present on connection 17.10.
Signal processor
17.11 generates a signal amplitude component and a signal phase component.
These
signal components are provided to a Digital to Analog (D/A) converter and to a
Phase
Modulator (PM) respectively. The phase component modulates the carrier signal
in a
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phase modulator 17.13, resulting in a phase modulation with constant envelope.
The
2 amplitude component is converted to an analog signal in a D/A-converter and
then fed
through a regulator (Reg) 17.14 which adjusts the current or voltage of the
signal
4 controlling the power of a power amplifier (PA) 17.15, based on the signal
and the
output D/A converted signal 17.12 . The regulated analog signal modulates the
phase
6 modulated carrier signal in the power amplifier 17.15 by controlling the
power of the
power amplifier. The resulting amplified signal is then provided for
transmission.
8 Fig.17c shows an exemplary other prior art Non-QUAD modulator. In this
implementation the source signal, present on lead 17.16 is provided to a Phase
Modulator
(PM) or Frequency Modulator (FM), Unit 17.17. The PM and/or FM modulated
signal is
provided to a subsequent Amplitude Modulator (AM) and the AM modulated signal
is
12 provided to the transmission medium interface on lead 17.19.
Fig. 18 is a location (position) finder, communication and or broadcast and
Radio
14 Frequency Identification Detection (RFID) single and or multimode system.
Unit 18.1
contains one or a plurality of location finder (also desigiiated as position
finder) and or
16 tracker interface units or systems, which are satellite based, or land
based or based on or
in water and or air based. On water based systems include ships, boats,
vessels, buoys,
18 swimmers, floating devices. In water systems include submarines, divers,
fish, sharks,
creatures and or their attached devices. Air based systems are in aircraft
such as airplanes,
helicopters, Unmanned Vehicles (UV) or in balloons or in birds or in other
objects or air
based items, including but not limited to rockets, missiles, space shuttles or
other items.
22 In certain embodiments Unit 18.1 includes optional communication and or
control
devices, such as Remote Control (RC) devices. One or multiple communication
and or
24 control devices are contained in one or more units shown in Fig.18. In one
embodiment
all Units 18.1 to 18.15 include interface and or processor circuits for single
or multiple
26 location finders, single or multiple communication and or single or
multiple RFID and or
single or multiple control. Unit 18.2 contains one or more interface and or
processing
28 and or modulation -demodulation units for GSM, GPRS, EDGE, TDMA, OFDMA,
CDMA, WCDMA, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Infrared (IR), CDMA, WCDMA, IEEE 802.xx or
other communication systems. Units 18.3 contains single or multimode wireless
or wired
transceivers and interconnection between a multitude of units, shown in
Fig.18. Optional
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interface units 18.10 and 18.11 provide signals for further processing to one
or more
2 interface connections 18.12, 18.13, 18.14 and or 18.15
Fig. 19 is a Software Defined Radio (SDR), Multiple SDR (MSDR) and Hybrid
4 Defined Radio (HDR) transmitter and receiver embodiment, with single or
multiple
processors, single and or multiple RF amplifiers and antennas and single or
multiple
6 SDR and or non-SDR implementation architectures. While SDR implementations,
and
embodiments have been disclosed in the prior art, including in exemplary cited
8 references: book by Tuttlebee, W.:" Software Defined Radio: Baseband
Technology for
3G Handsets and Basestations ", John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Chichester, West
Sussex,
England, Copyright 2004, ISBN 0-470-86770-1.; article by Hickling, R.M.:" New
technology facilitates true software -defined radio" RF Design Magazine
Apri12005,
12 available from www.rfdesign.com (5 pages), and numerous patents, such as
exemplary
cited patents, including Kohno et al.: U.S. Pat.6,823,181, "Universal platform
for
14 software defined radio", assigned to Sony Corporation, Tokyo, Ballantyne' s
US pat
6,906,996 "Multiple Modulation Wireless Transmitter", assigned to Qualcomm,
Inc., the
16 prior art does not disclose nor anticipate the implementations, embodiments
and
architectures of Software Defined Radio (SDR) and or Multiple SDR (MSDR) and
or
18 Hybrid Defined Radio(HDR) transmitter and receiver embodiments, with single
or
multiple processors, single and or multiple RF amplifiers and antennas and
single or
multiple SDR implementation architectures described in the specifications
related to Fig.
19 and in other sections of this application. An exemplary prior art SDR
contains an
22 interface unit, such as Unit 19.1, a processor and a Digital to Analog
(D/A) converter,
Unit 19.2, an RF subsystem consisting of transmit RF amplifier, Unit 19.3,
signal
24 connection to and from transmit and or receive antenna, Unit 19.4, in the
received signal
path an optional RF Band-Pass-Filter (BPF), Unit 19.9, an Analog to Digital
Converter
26 (A/D) , Unit 19.8, and a signal processor, Unit 19.7. The new Software
Defined Radio
(SDR) system, disclosed in this application contains one or more SDR connected
to one
28 or more RF transmit amplifiers and connected to one or more transmit
antennas and one
or more receive antennas. With multiple antennas transmit and or receive
diversity
systems are implemented. If multiple SDR is used then the system is designated
as a
Multiple SDR (MSDR). The SDR receiver part consists of one or more SDR
receivers
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and or one or more conventional (non SDR) receiver systems. In some of the
2 embodiments one or more SDR transmitters and or SDR receivers are used in
conjunction with one or more non-SDR transmitter or receiver implementations.
Non-
4 SDR systems are radio systems which are implemented by firmware and hardware
components and may include software applications or software processors, such
as
6 Digital Signal Processors. Systems which incorporate SDR components as well
as non-
SDR components (e.g. conventional prior art radio systems having mixed
software,
8 firmware and or hardware at baseband and or IF and or at RF) are designated
as Hybrid
Defined Radio (HDR) systems. Units 19.4 and 19.12 are transmit and or receive
antennas. Additional antennas 19.6 and 19.13 transmit and or receive signals
to the SDR
and or MSDR and or HDR units. In this figure, all units 19.1 to 19.13 are
single units in
12 some embodiments, while all units 19.1 to 19.13 are single or multiple
units in other
embodiments. Unit 19.5 is a control unit for control of one or more units. In
certain
14 implementations selected units in Fig. 19 are BRA and MFS units, while in
other
embodiments single and or multiple units are used for transmission of the same
bit rate
16 and signal having the same specified modulation format. Control unit 19.4
generates and
provides control signals to various transmitters and receivers and antennas
for the
18 selection and reception of specified signals.
Fig. 20 contains an interface unit or multiple interface units, set of
modulators,
amplifiers, selection devices and or combiner devices which provide RF signals
to the
transmission medium. Single or multiple interface units, single or multiple
modulation,
22 single or multiple amplification, BRA and MFS structures and
implementations are
included. In this embodiment input lead 20.1 or multiple input leads 20.1
provide an
24 input signal or multiple input signals to single or multiple interface and
or processor unit
20.2. At the output of Unit 20.2 on one or multiple signal leads quadrature or
non-
26 quadrature signals are provided. In-phase (I) and quadrature-phase(Q)
baseband sigiials
are provided to Unit 20.3a. Unit 20.3a is a quadrature modulator which
provides in some
28 embodiments cross-correlated I and Q (designated also as I/Q) baseband
signals, while
in other embodiments there is no cross-correlation provided for the I/Q
baseband signals,
which are quadrature modulated(QM) in Unit 20.3a. Unit 20.3b contains one or
more
quadrature modulators(QM). The implementation of one or more of the QM,
contained in
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unit 20.3b is in certain embodiments a SDR implementation structure, in some
other
2 embodiments it is a MSDR structure, while in certain other embodiments it is
a HDR and
or it is an other conventional prior art QM structure. Units 20.4a and 20.4b
are non
4 quadrature modulators. One or more of these modulators are embodied by
conventional
prior art non-quadrature modulators, such as FM, PM or AM or BPSK or FSK or
other
6 non SDR architectures, while in certain other embodiments the non-quadrature
modulators are implemented by SDR and or by MSDR and or by HDR architectures
and
8 or by digital or analog polar modulation structures. One or more of the
modulators 20.3a,
20.3b, 20.4a and or 20.4b in certain implementations operate at an
Intermediate
Frequency(IF) and contain an up-converter unit (frequency translation device)
to the
desired Radio Frequency (RF). One or more of the modulators 20.3a, 20.3b,
20.4a and
12 or 20.4b in certain implementations are Bit Rate Agile or Bit Rate
Adaptable(BRA) and
or Modulation Format Selectable(MFS) and or Modulation Embodiment Selectable
14 (MES) systems. In certain designs and or embodiments the same modulation
format and
same bit rate is used, however the modulation embodiment is different. For
example, in
16 an application a GMSK modulated system uses a Quadrature Modulation(QM)
structure
for low transmit power applications, while for a high transmit power
application it uses a
18 non-quadrature modulation(NQM) , e.g. polar implementation structure. Thus,
in this
example the same GMSK modulation format, having the same bit rate (or a
different bit
rate) is switched (or selected) to be transmitted instead in the QM embodiment
in a NQM
embodiment. One or more of the modulators 20.3a, 20.3b, 20.4a and or 20.4b in
certain
22 implementations are IF and or RF agile, that is IF and or RF adaptable
modulators,
having selectable and or adaptable center frequency (and or center
frequencies) of the
24 modulated signal(s), which is (are)most suitable for the desired
transmission frequency
band. One or more of the modulators provides signals to one or more optional
26 preamplifiers 20.5a, 20.5b, 20.6a and or 20.6b and or to one or more
optional Power
Amplifiers (PA) 20.7a, 20.7b, 20.8a and or 20.8b.
28 The preamplifiers operate in a linearized or linearly amplified (LINA) mode
or in a Non-
Linearly Amplified (NLA) mode. One or more of the amplified signals are
provided to
the output connector 20.10 through optional single or multiple combiner unit
20.9.
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Fig. 21 is an embodiment of a single or multiple transmitter architecture
using
2 single or multiple transmitters; the multiple transmitter implementations
are also
designated as a diversity transmitter. This figure contains some of the
elements, disclosed
4 in prior art cited reference Feher's U.S. pat. 6,665,348. On input lead 21.1
there is a
single signal or there are multiple signals provided to Unit 21.2. Unit 21.2
contains one or
6 more interface circuits and or one or more processors and or one or more
splitters and or
one or more Serial to Parallel(S/P) conversion circuits and or one or more
signal switch
8 (selector) circuits, one or more cross-correlator (XCor) circuits and one or
more optional
in-phase (I) and Quadrature -Phase (Q) signal processors and or generators.
Unit 21.3
receives one or more I and Q signals from Unit 21.2. In Unit 21.3 one or more
signal
processors and one or more optional Quadrature Modulators (QM) are
implemented. The
12 output processed and or modulated signals are provided to optional units
21.5, 21.7 and
21.9 and or 21.11 for optional signal amplification by one or more linear
amplifiers
14 (LIN) or one or more Non-Linear Amplifiers(NLA) and or one or more Power
Amplifiers(PA) and provided to one or more antenna 21.9 and or one or more
interface
16 connections 21.12 to interface with one or more communication systems. Unit
21.4
receives one or more signals from Unit 21.2. In Unit 21.4. there are one or
more interface
18 points (or interface connections), processors and or one or more non
Quadrature
modulators (Non Quad or NonQUAD or NQM) modulators. Units 21.5, 21.6, 21.7,
21.8,
21.10 and 21.12 are optional amplifiers, antennas and or interface points.
Fig.22 is a Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) system. On single or
multiple
22 input lead 22.1 one or more input signals are provided to single or
multiple interface and
or single or multiple processor unit 22.2. The non-quadrature input signals
are designated
24 as In, to Inõ , the n subscript indicating that there are n non-quadrature
input signals,
where n is an integer n=1,2,3.., while the quadrature inputs are designated as
Im and Qm,
26 the m subscript indicating that there are m input quadrature signals, where
m is an integer
m=1,2,3...In unit 22.3 a single or multiple interface unit and a single or
multiple
28 processor unit is embodied. The processor(s) process baseband signals into
suitable
baseband formats for subsequent single or plurality of signal selections for
subsequent
modulation of CDMA,WCDMA, EvDo, GSM, GPRS, EDGE, OFDM, TDMA or Video
Digital, or camera signals, photo camera originated signals, diagnostics,
scanner X-ray, or
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medical device signals, Bluetooth originated signals or, infrared originated
signals and
2 selection or connection of one or more of these signals to one or more
quadrature or non-
quadrature modulators, implemented in Unit 22.3. One or multiple modulators,
4 implemented in Unit 22.3 receive one or more of these signals and modulate
them in
single or multiple non-quadrature or quadrature modulator embodiments. One or
multiple
6 optional amplifiers , embodied in optional unit 22.4a are connected by
optional single or
multiple switching or splitting elements 22.4b, 22.5a or 22.5b to one or more
antennas,
8 shown as an antenna array, Unit 22.6 and or to an optional RF unit 22.7.
Unit 22.7
contains an RF interface point and or one or more RF switching, combining,
duplexer or
diplexer and or splitter units. RF unit 22.7 is connected to output interface
point 22.8 and
/or to one or more antennas embodied in unit 22.7. Multiple I and Q inputs
(I/Q inputs)
12 with multiple non-quadrature inputs, connected to one or multiple
processors,
modulators, optional amplifiers RF combiners or RF switching elements and
antennas, as
14 embodied in one or more of the configurations and connection of selected
elements of
Fig.22 distinguishes the embodiments from prior art.
16 Fig. 23 is a Single Input Multiple Output (SIMO), Multiple Input Multiple
Output
(MIMO), and or Multiple Input Single Output (MISO) embodiment having one or
18 multiple RF interface points and or one or multitude of antennas. The
configuration with
multiple antennas is also known as a system with antenna arrays and or a
diversity
system. On input lead or multiple input leads 23.1 one or multiple signals are
connected
to single or multiple interface Unit 23.2. One or more than one optional
baseband
22 processors (BBP) are contained in some of the embodiments of Unit 23.2. One
or
plurality of signals is present on connections(or leads) designated as
1,2,..M. One or more
24 of these signals are connected to one or more modulators, contained in Unit
23.3. These
modulators designated as Mod.1, Mod.2... and Mod.M modulate one or more input
26 signals and provide the modulated signals to one or more optional
amplifiers, contained
in Unit 23.4 Through optional switching elements 23.6, designated as Swl,
Sw2...SwM
28 one or more modulated signals are provided to one or more optional antennas
23.5
(Ant. 1, Ant.2..Ant.N) and or RF Unit 23.7.The number of embodied modulators
in
certain implementations is the same as the number of switches and antennas in
Unit 23.5,
while in other embodiments it is different. In Unit 23.7 there is an RF
interface and
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optional RF combiner, splitter or switch unit for providing one or more RF
signals to the
2 subsequent single or multiple RF interface unit 23.9 and or optional single
or multiple
antenna 23.8.
4 Fig. 24 is an antenna array implementing Multiple Input Multiple Output
(MIMO) and
or Single Input Multiple Output (SIMO) and or Multiple Input Single Output
(MISO)
6 communication, position finding and broadcasting transmission-reception
system,
including transmit antenna diversity and receive antenna diversity systems.
While the
8 system contains elements of one or more Feher's prior art references, e.g.
Feher's US pat.
6,665,348, the configurations, interconnections and operation with other
system elements
disclosed in this application and shown in previous or subsequent figures of
this
disclosure are new. On single or multiple input leads 24.1 one or more
modulated RF
12 signals are received and connected to optional single or multiple RF
interface and or RF
processor 24.2. Unit 24.2 in certain embodiments includes transmit processors,
while in
14 other embodiments it includes transmit and or receive processors. The
received RF
modulated signals on connection 24.1 are provided by one or more disclosed
16 embodiments in the description of previous or subsequent figures of this
disclosure. One
or multiple transmit antennas contained in Unit 24.3 are connected to one or
more RF
18 modulated signals. Single or multiple receivers have a single or multiple
antennas,
embodied in unit 24.4. In certain embodiments transmit and receive components,
including connections /leads, interface units, processors and antennas are the
same
components, or are at the same location, while in other implementations the
transmit and
22 receive components are distinct physical units, while in some alternate
implementations
certain transmit and receive components are contained in the same physical
units, while
24 certain other transmit and receive components are distinct units. On
receive single or
multiple connections 24.5 one or more signals from the receiver antennas are
connected
26 to optional receive RF interface unit 24.6 which contains optional
combiner, selector or
switch or other RF signal processors and or RF processors combined with
frequency
28 down conversion components , IF processors and baseband processors. Single
or multiple
output signals are provided on output connection lead 24.7 Out 1 to Out N.
Fig. 25 Software Defined Radio (SDR) and Hybrid Defined Radio (HDR) systems
for
Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) and or Single Input Multiple Output
(SIMO)
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and or Multiple Input Single Uutput (MISO) communication, position finding and
or
2 broadcasting transmission-reception systems, including diversity systems are
implemented in this figure. On single or multiple input connections signals
are provided
4 to one or more of transmit (Tx) interface and or transmit processor units
25.1, 25.5 and
25.9. These units are parts of SDR and or HDR system embodiments. One or more
of
6 units 25.1, 25.5 and or 25.9 receive signals from one or multiple sources,
for example
from a location finder and or tracker source, a communications device, a
remote
8 controller, multiple remote controllers, an RFID device, a patient
monitoring device, a
video source, a video broadcasting source, video conferencing source, a source
providing
video clips, cellevision (cellular television), mobile vision, WiFi , WiMax an
alarm
monitor, a camera, a source providing data for credit card verification and or
credit card
12 transactions, a source providing bank transactions , a source providing
electronic
commerce signals /data and or other sources. In the SDR, units 25.1 and 25.5
process
14 signals and provide them to Digital to Analog (D/A) converters (DAC) 25.2
and 25.6. In
the HDR, one or more signals and or D/A converted signals are provided to one
or
16 multiple RF processing units 25.3 and/or 25.7 or 25.11.The RF processed and
or RF
amplified outputs, of the SDR units, are provided to single or multiple
transmit interface
18 units or single or multiple transmit antennas, designated as Out 25.4 and
25.8. Element
25.9 receives single or multiple input signals for baseband and or
Intermediate Frequency
(IF) and or IF and or IF and RF or merely RF transmission processing of the
system. The
RF signals are further processed in optional unit 25.10 and provided to single
or multiple
22 transmit interface units or single or multiple transmit antennas;
designated as Out 25.11.
Units 25.9, 25.10 and 25.11 are part of a single or multiple conventional
radio transmitter
24 implementation, in other words these units are not part of a SDR. Since
Units 25.1 to 25.8
are part of single or multiple SDR transmitters, and Units 25.9 to 25.11 of a
conventional
26 Radio Transmitter (Tx), the combinations of SDR and conventional radio
transmitters are
designated as Hybrid Defined Radio (HDR) systems. One or multiple input
signals are
28 connected to one or more SDR and or one or more conventional radio systems
parts of
the HDR. In the receiver section of the HDR on leads 25.12, 25.17 and 25.22
single or
multiple RF signals are received from single or multiple antennas. Units
25.13, 25.18 and
25.23 are single or multiple embodiments of Band Pass Filters (BPF), Units
25.14, 25.19
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and 25.24 are single or multiple embodiments of Analog to Digital (A/D)
Converters
2 (ADC), Units 25.16, 25.21 and 25.26 are single or multiple erribodiments of
signal
interface processor elements which provide single or multiple output signals
on output
4 leads 25.16, 25.21 and 25.26 respectively.
Fig. 26 is an information monitoring processing and communication system. This
6 system in certain application may include a patient monitor system. This
information
processing and transmission of diagnostics signals, other signals including
DNA,
8 fingerprint information and or photo or video clips for single and or
multiple systems is
implemented in this figure. Signal sources include single or multiple sources
including
one or more of sensors, probes or resultant signals from medical procedures or
other
procedure provided signals to one or more interface Units 26.1 to 26.6. The
signal
12 sources could contain one or more devices which provide signals from
medical devices,
sensors, probes or equipment, from diagnostics and or measurement of blood
pressure, or
14 other blood diagnostics, skin diagnostics , diagnostics of internal
medicine information,
body temperature, ECG, Electro Cardiogram or other sensors, information
signals
16 obtained during surgery or post surgery, arterial blood, gas or heart
pacemaker, glucose,
MRI, fingerprint, other medical or diagnostics information signals, e.g. DNA
or other
18 sources, such as photo or video or sound signals or a combination of the
signal sources.
The signals and/or signal sources could also include: blood pressure or other
blood
diagnostics containing signals urine, stool, skin signals ECG, glucose body
temperature
arterial blood gas sensor provided signals, signals containing DNA,
fingerprint or photo
22 or video signals and or video clip signals. During surgery and or post
surgery sensors,
probes and other medical devices are attached and or connected or inserted in
parts of the
24 body of a patient and these devices, in certain implementations are
integrated into one
product. The said product could includes one or more or all the elements shown
in Fig. 26
26 and such integrated product enables providing medical information
containing signals by
wireless means, instead the use of prior art cables and or other physical
cumbersome
28 devices. Units 26.7 to 26.11 are amplifier or signal processor or signal
transformer
devices or transducers , e.g. acoustical to electrical or pres.sure to
electrical or chemical
content to electrical signal transformers (transducers) and or merely
interface points
between the 26.1 to 26.6 signal sources and Unit 26.13. Unit 26.13 contains
single or
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multiple processors and or single or multiple signal modulators for modulation
and
2 connection of one or more modulated signals to the single or multiple signal
transmitters,
Unit 26.14. Single or multiple signal transmitters 26.14 provide signals to
one or more
4 transmit interface output elements 26.15 and or 26.16. On reverse signal
path 26.17
control and information signals are provided to various units of Fig.26. The
purpose of
6 this reverse path control signals is to enable changing some of the
processing means of
signal parameters, signal transmission formats and methods and in certain
medically
8 authorized cases to change the medical treatment, e.g. quantity or speed of
oxygen flow
or of pain relievers, medication or other. The reverse control signal path may
include a
push to talk (PTT) option and in certain cases includes other sets of signals,
e.g. an
emergency physician's orders regarding patient's treatment in a mobile
emergency
12 vehicle, or orders for patient care at a remote facility.
Fig. 27 is a Universal System including one or multiple Remote Control or
Universal
14 Remote Control(URC) devices, including wireless door opener and or ignition
starter, or
window opener of an automobile or motor cycle or of other mobile devices,
garage door
16 or home door opener and or locking control, control of home or office
appliances, turn
off or turn on of computers or other wired or wireless devices , alarm systems
and of
18 other systems including monitoring devices and or directivity and or
recording
parameters of monitoring devices. Optional connection and or communication or
control
between devices, shown in Fig.27 and Units shown in Fig.,16, and or other
figures, e.g.
medical devices shown in Fig. 26 is provided by wired or wireless connections
27.9.
22 Unit 27.1 is an interface device and or a processor device and or sensor
and or signal
generator device and or a communication device for single or multiple signal
24 transmission to and reception from single or multiple antennas 27.2. Unit
27.3 is a
cellular phone (cellphone) and or other wireless or mobile or portable device
containing
26 signal interface units, processors, transmitters, receivers and connections
to transmit and
receive antennas (not shown in the figure) and providing /receiving signals on
leads 27.4
28 containing audio and or television, radio or CD player and or video screen
information
,provided by Unit 27.5. Wired and or wireless connections 27.6 and 27.7
provide
additional communication, processing and control means between units 27.3 and
27.5 and
Unit 27.8. Unit 27.8 contains a Bluetooth or other wireless device. Unit 27.3
is equipped
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to provide signal repeater operations. The term signal repeater means that the
repeater
2 device processes and or amplifies the signal, received from an other
transmitter;
following reception of the transmitted signal, the signal is provided for
processing and
4 amplification for subsequent transmission.
Fig. 28 is a test and measurement instrumentation system within a wireless
multi-mode
6 system. Single or plurality of antennas 28.1, 28.4, 28.6 and 28.8 receive
/transmit signals
from/to single or multiple transceivers 28.2, 28.5, 28.7 and 28.9
respectively. These
8 transceivers are in certain cases parts of base station units and or of
mobile units. Wired
and or wireless connections 28.10 provide control and communications signals
between
one or more or all units shown in Fig.28. Test signals are generated in Unit
28.9. These
test signals are for performance measurement, testing and verification of one
or multiple
12 system performance parameters and or system specifications. In certain
cases entire Unit
28.9 or parts of Unit 28.9 are implemented within Unit 28.2 and or 28.5 or
28.7.
14 Fig. 29 is an implementation of single or multiple cellular phones, or of
other mobile
devices, communicating with single or multiple Base Station Transceiver (BST)
having
16 single or plurality of antennas. The BST are collocated in some of the
implementations,
while in others they are at different locations. Single or multiple antennas
29.1 and or
18 29.4 transmit and or receive signals to/from single or multiple BST 29.2
and 29.5. Unit
29.8 contains one or more cellular phones and or other wireless or other
communication
devices. Single or multiple antennas 29.7 receive and or transmit and connect
signals to
or from Unit 29.8, also designated here as the mobile unit. In one of the
implementations
22 BST 29.2 and or BST 29.5 contain one or more transmitters-receivers(T/R or
transceivers) for WCDMA signals and or CDMA signals and or transceivers for
GSM or
24 GPRS and or EDGE signals and or OFDM signals or other spread spectrum
signals. Unit
29.8 contains one or more transceivers. In some implementations mobile Unit
29.8 and or
26 any of the BST units are connected in a repeater mode. The repeater mode is
used to
enhance signal coverage area by amplifying and retransmitting the received
signal.
28 Fig. 30 shows a cardiac stimulation device, a heart and a block diagram of
a single -
chamber and or a dual-chamber pacemaker with a single or multiple wireless
communications and control systems of the present invention. Exemplary prior
art
single-chamber pacemaker and/or dual-chamber pacemaker and implantable cardiac
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stimulation devices are described in U.S. Pat. 6,539,253 Thompson et al.:
"Implantable
2 medical device incorporating integrated circuit notch filters", issued March
25, 2003 (for
short "Thompson patent" or the `253 patent" or "Thompson's `253 patent) and in
U.S.
4 pat. 6,907,291 issued Jun.14, 2005, Snell et al.: "Secure telemetry system
and method for
an implantable cardiac stimulation device", assigned to Pacesetter, Inc.,
Sylmar, CA (for
6 short "Snell patent" or the "`291 patent" or "Snell's `291 patent"). The
pacemaker and
implantable cardiac stimulation device, of the current invention, is coupled
to a heart 30.1
8 by way of leads 30.4a and 30.4b, lead 30.4a having an electrode 30.2 that is
in contact
with one of the atria of the heart, and lead 30.4b having an electrode 30.3
that is in
contact with one of the ventricles of the heart. Leads 30.4a and 30.4b are
connected to
the pacemaker through a connection interface and or processor unit 30.5 that
forms part
12 of the pacemaker and implantable cardiac stimulation device. In certain
other
implementations and/or other applications, unit 30.1 contains other body parts
or other
14 body organs than the heart, for example unit 30.1 may be the kidney, limb,
head, skin or a
vessel while Unit 30.2 and Unit 30.3 a device or a medical probe or an other
device than
16 an electrode. Unit 30.6 contains single or multiple leads for connection of
single or
multiple signals between Unit 30.5 and 30.7. In certain embodiments unit 30.5
represents
18 an interface connector or connection, and or some signal processing between
leads 30.4a
and 30.4b and Unit 30.7, while in other embodiments unit 30.5 contains a
microprocessor for detection of signals received from Unit 30.7, for
generation of control
signals for the operation and/or modification of the parameters of the cardiac
stimulation
22 device-heart pacemaker, pulse generator, amplifiers, processors, memory
sensors,
battery and other components for the operation, control and modification of
operating
24 conditions of the pacemaker and or of other medical parameters. In some
implementations Unit 30.5 contains stimulating pulse generators for atrial
pulse
26 generation and ventricular pulse generation, one or more detection circuits
and
amplifiers. One of the amplifiers, contained in Unit 30.5 is typically
configured to detect
28 an evoked response from the heart 30.1 in response to an applied stimulus,
thereby aiding
in the detection of "capture." Capture occurs when an electrical stimulus
applied to the
heart is of sufficient energy to depolarize the cardiac tissue, thereby
causing the heart
muscle to contract, or in other words, causing the heart to beat. Capture does
not occur
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when an electrical stimulus applied to the heart is of insufficient energy to
depolarize the
2 cardiac tissue. Unit 30.5 of the current invention may contain a protection
circuit for
protecting the pacemaker from excessive shocks or voltages that could appear
on the
4 electrodes 30.2 and/or 30.3 in the event such electrodes were to come in
contact with a
high voltage signal, for example, from a defibrillation shock.
6 Unit 30.7 comprises one or more transmitters or receivers and/or
transmitters and
receivers, also known as transceivers (T/R), for transmission and or reception
of one or
8 multiple signals connected by leads 30.8 and or 30.11 to Unit 30.10 and or
Unit 30.12.
The single or multiple transceivers of Unit 30.7 contain in certain
embodiments one or
multiple modulation format selectable (MFS) and or/ code selectable
embodiments, such
as previously described, e.g. GSM, WCDMA, spread spectrum, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi
EDGE
12 or other system specified modulation formats. In certain embodiments of
Unit 30.7 there
is at least one notch filter, also known as band stop filter, having an input
and output that
14 blocks predetermined Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) signals Unit 30.10
contains
interface circuitry and or connection circuitry-leads to one or multiple
antennas 30.9. Unit
16 30.12 is an interface connection for transmission and or reception of
signals.
In prior art pacemakers, e.g. Snell's `291 patent the pacemaker further
includes
18 magnet detection circuitry. It is the purpose of the magnet detection
circuitry to detect
when a magnet is placed over the pacemaker, which magnet may be used by a
physician
or other medical personnel to perform various reset functions of the
pacemaker.
The prior art pacemaker control requires magnet detection circuit for magnet
controlled
22 pacemaker parameters. Unfortunately this magnet dependent operation /change
of
parameters of pacemakers is in many cases causing difficulties and or even
rendering
24 impossible to have Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), and/or Magnetic
Resonance
Image scanning on a patient who has a pace maker. Since MRI is a frequently
desired
26 diagnostic procedure for diagnostic purposes, even in an emergency where
the
information from the MRI scan could be life saving, and since MRI interferes
with the
28 correct operation of currently available magnetic detection-magnetic
controlled based
pacemakers, it would be highly desirable to develop a new generation of
pacemakers
which could be operated and controlled without substantial magnetic materials,
i.e.
without the need of magnet based detection and magnet control.
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In distinction with the prior art magnet detection circuit and physician or
other medical
2 personnel performed various reset functions of the pacemaker, by placing a
magnet over
the pacemaker, in the current invention there is no need for magnet detection
circuits and
4 no need for magnet's to be placed over the pacemaker to reset or modify
parameters and
functions/operation of the pacemaker. In the current invention magnetic
detection and
6 magnet control of pacemaker is replaced by wireless signal detection and
based on the
detected wireless signals and processing of said wireless detected signals
(received from
8 a physician operated wireless transmitter) control signals are generated to
control the
parameters and operation of the pacemaker.
In distinction with the prior art and with Snell's `291 patent, the current
invention
provides new structures and embodiments of multiuse and/or multimode wired and
or
12 wireless transmitters and receivers, without need of magnetic coupling for
adjusting or
resetting the parameters of cardiac stimulation e.g. heart pacemaker devices
and or other
14 medical devices. An advantage of the presented embodiments is that the
stimulation
devices can continue to operate even in emergency rooms or other environments
where
16 the patient is having Magnetic Resonant Imaging (MRI) diagnostic tests.
18 Additional Description
Having now described numerous embodiments of the inventive structure and
method
in connection with particular figures or groups of figures, and having set
forth some of
the advantages provided by the inventive structure and method, we now
highlight some
22 specific embodiments having particular combinations of features. It should
be noted that
the embodiments described heretofore, as well as those highlighted below
include
24 optional elements or features that are not essential to the operation of
the invention.
1. A first embodiment (1) is a location finder and communication system
comprising:
26 two or more antennas or receive ports for receiving location determining
signals from
two or more location determining transmitters; two or more receivers for
processing of
28 said location determining signal; a selector or combiner device for
selection or
combining of one or more of the received location determining signals; two or
more
communication transmitters; connection circuitry for connecting the selected
or the
combined processed location determining signal to one or more communication
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transmitters; a control and selection device for selection and connection of
said location
2 determining signals to one or more of said communication transmitters.
2. A second embodiment (2) provides a location finder and modulation-
demodulation
4 (modem) format selectable (MFS) and bit rate agile (BRA) communication
system
comprising: one or more receive ports for receiving location determining
signals from
6 one or more location determining transmitters; one or more receivers and
demodulators
for reception and demodulation of said location determining signals to
baseband signals;
8 a selector for selection of one or more of the baseband signals; connection
circuitry for
connecting the selected baseband signal to one or a plurality of transmitters;
two or more
communication transmitters; a baseband signal interface circuit for
interfacing and
receiving the selected baseband signal; a cross-correlator circuit for
processing the
12 baseband signal provided by said baseband interface circuit and for
generation of cross-
correlated baseband signals; a shaped Time Constrained Signal (TCS) wavelet
processor
14 and bit rate agile Long Response (LR) filter for providing shaped and
filtered signals in
in-phase and quadrature-phase baseband channels; a modulation-demodulation
(modem)
16 format selectable or code selectable baseband structure for providing
either modem
format selectable or code selectable cross-correlated processed and filtered
in-phase and
18 quadrature-phase baseband signals; a modulator for quadrature modulation of
the in-
phase and quadrature-phase baseband signals; one or more amplifiers comprising
linear
and/or nonlinear circuits for linear and/or non-linear amplification (NLA) of
the
modulated output signal of said quadrature modulator; and a switch or level
controller for
22 selecting linearly or non-linearly amplified (NLA) modulated signals.
3. A third embodiment (3) provides a location finding and communication system
24 comprising: two or more receive ports for receiving either location finding
signals and or
other than location finding signals from either one or more location
determining
26 transmitters or from one or more other than location finding signal
transmitters; one or
more receivers and demodulators for receiving and demodulating said location
finding
28 signals to baseband signals; one or more receivers and demodulators for
receiving and
demodulating said other than location finding signals to baseband signals; a
selector or
combiner device for selection or combining of one or multiple baseband
signals; two or
more signal modulators; connection circuitry for connecting the selected or
the combined
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single or multiple baseband signals to one or more of said signal modulators;
a signal
2 processing network for receiving the baseband signals from the connection
circuitry and
for providing cross-correlated in-phase and quadrature-phase baseband signals
at a first
4 specified bit rate; a signal processing network for receiving the selected
or combined
baseband signal and for providing a filtered signal at a second specified bit
rate; and a
6 selector for selecting either the cross-correlated signals, the filtered
signal, or both the
cross-correlated signals and the filtered signal; and connection for providing
the selected
8 signals to one or more modulators for signal modulation.
4. A fourth (4) implementation is a radio frequency identification (RFID)
locator and
communicator system comprising: one or more than one antennas for receiving
Radio
Frequency (RF) signals from one or more RFID and or location determining and
or
12 communication transmitters; one or more receivers and demodulators for
reception and
demodulation of said signals to baseband signals; a baseband signal processing
network
14 for receiving and processing said baseband signals; a cross-correlator
circuit for cross-
correlating said processed baseband signals and for generation of cross-
correlated
16 baseband signals; a shaped Time Constrained Signal (TCS) wavelet processor
and bit rate
agile Long Response (LR) filter structure for providing shaped and bit rate
agile filtered
18 signals in in-phase and quadrature-phase baseband channels; and a modulator
for
quadrature modulation of the in-phase and quadrature-phase baseband signals.
5. A fifth embodiment (5) is a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and
communication system comprising a receiver for reception and demodulation of
RFID
22 transmitted signals to baseband signals; a cross-correlator for processing
of said baseband
signals for generation of cross-correlated in-phase and quadrature-phase
baseband
24 signals; and a modulator for quadrature modulation of the in-phase and
quadrature-phase
baseband signals.
26 6. A sixth embodiment (6) is a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and
communication system, the improvement comprising: one or more receivers and
one or
28 more demodulators for reception and demodulation of RFID transmitted
signals to
baseband signals and for providing said baseband signals to a spread spectrum
baseband
processor and subsequent quadrature modulator for quadrature modulation of
baseband
spread spectrum signals and to a baseband filter and subsequent modulator for
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modulation of the said baseband filtered signal; and a connection circuit for
providing
2 either the spread spectrum modulated signal or the filtered modulated signal
or both the
modulated spread spectrum signal and the filtered modulated signals to one or
more than
4 one transmitters for transmission of the spread spectrum modulated and or
the filtered
modulated signals.
6 7. A seventh embodiment (7) is a location finder and Radio Frequency
Identification
(RFID) signal demodulation and modulation system comprising: one or more
antennas
8 for receiving modulated Radio Frequency (RF) location finder and or Radio
Frequency
Identification (RFID) signals from one or more than one location finder and or
RFID
transmitters; one or more receivers and demodulators for reception and
demodulation of
either said modulated RF or RFID signals to baseband signals; a signal
processing
12 network for receiving said baseband signals and for providing cross-
correlated in-phase
and quadrature-phase baseband signals at a first specified bit rate; a signal
processing
14 network for receiving said baseband signals and for providing a filtered
signal at a second
specified bit rate; a selector for selecting either the cross-correlated
signals or the filtered
16 signal or both the cross-correlated signals and the filtered signal; and a
connection circuit
for providing the selected signals to one or more modulators for signal
modulation.
18 8. An eighth embodiment (8) comprises a location finder and communication
system
having two or more antennas for receiving modulated Radio Frequency (RF)
location
finder signals and communication signals from three or more location finder
and
communication system transmitters; two or more receivers and demodulators for
22 reception and demodulation of said modulated RF signals to baseband
signals; a signal
processing network for receiving said baseband signals and for providing cross-
correlated
24 in-phase and quadrature-phase baseband signals at a first specified bit
rate; a signal
processing network for receiving said baseband signals and for providing a
filtered signal
26 at a second specified bit rate; a selector for selecting either the cross-
correlated signals or
the filtered signal or both the cross-correlated signals and the filtered
signal; a
28 connection circuit for providing the selected signals to one or more than
one modulators
for signal modulation; and a connection circuit for providing the modulated
signals to
two or more than two amplifiers and two or more than two antennas for
amplification
and transmission of the amplified modulated signals.
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9. A ninth embodiment (9) provides a location finder and communication system
2 comprising: one or more receive ports for receiving modulated location
finder signals
from one or more location finder and communication system transmitters; one or
more
4 receivers and demodulators for reception and demodulation of said modulated
signals to
baseband signals; a signal processing network for receiving said baseband
signals and
6 for providing cross-correlated in-phase and quadrature-phase baseband
signals at a first
specified bit rate; a first quadrature modulator for quadrature modulating the
cross-
8 correlated signal; a filter for filtering a second bit rate signal, said
second bit rate signal
having a different bit rate than the first bit rate signal, and providing a
filtered baseband
signal; a second modulator for modulating the filtered baseband signal; and
switch
circuitry for selecting and connecting either the cross-correlated first bit
rate modulated
12 signal or the filtered second bit rate modulated signal to a transmitter.
10. A tenth embodiment (10) is a barcode reader, location finder and
communication
14 system comprising: a barcode reader for reading bar-coded information and
processing
said bar-coded information into electrical signals; one or more receive ports
for receiving
16 modulated location finder signals from one or more location finder and
communication
system transmitters; one or more receivers and demodulators for reception and
18 demodulation of said modulated signals to baseband signals; a signal
processing network
for receiving and processing said baseband signals and said bar-coded
electrical signals
and for providing in-phase and quadrature-phase baseband signals; a filter for
filtering
said baseband signals and said bar-coded electrical signals and for providing
filtered
22 baseband signals and said bar-coded electrical signals; a first quadrature
modulator for
quadrature modulating the in-phase and quadrature-phase baseband signals; a
second
24 modulator for modulating the said filtered baseband and said bar-coded
electrical
signals; and switch circuitry for selecting and connecting either the
quadrature modulated
26 or the filtered modulated signal to a transmitter.
11. An eleventh embodiment (11) is a stimulation device and communication
system
28 comprising: leads for carrying stimulation pulses to and or from one or
more electrodes; a
pulse generator configured to generate stimulation pulses and for providing
said pulses by
said leads to the electrodes; an interface circuit and/or processor for
connection of said
stimulation pulses to and/or from one or more wireless transmitter-receiver
(T/R) circuits
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for transmission and/or reception ot one or more wireless signals; and a
control circuit
2 coupled to one or more of said wireless transmitter-receiver circuits, said
control circuit
comprising a control signal generator for generating control signals for
controlling
4 operation parameters of the implantable cardiac stimulation device .
12. A twelfth embodiment (12) provides a cardiac stimulation and communication
6 system comprising: a pulse generator and processor for processing the
stimulation pulses
to and/or from one or more electrodes, said electrodes located in a heart; a
signal
8 processing network for receiving said stimulation pulses and for providing
cross-
correlated in-phase and quadrature-phase baseband signals; a signal processing
network
for receiving said stimulation pulses and for providing a filtered baseband
signal; and a
selector for selecting either the cross-correlated signals or the filtered
signal or both the
12 cross-correlated signals and the filtered signal; and providing the
selected signals to one
or more modulators for signal modulation.
14 13. A thirteenth embodiment (13) provides an implantable cardiac
stimulation and
modulation system comprising: a processor for processing stimulation pulses to
and/or
16 from one or more electrodes; a signal processing network for receiving said
stimulation
pulses and for providing in-phase and quadrature-phase baseband signals; a
signal
18 processing network for receiving said stimulation pulses and for providing
a filtered
baseband signal; and a selector for selecting either the in-phase and
quadrature-phase
baseband signals or the filtered signal or both the in-phase and quadrature-
phase
baseband signals and the filtered signal; and providing the selected signals
to one or more
22 modulators for signal modulation.
14. A fourteenth embodiment (14) provides a medical diagnostic and
communication
24 system comprising: a processor for processing signals received from one or
more medical
diagnostic devices; a first signal processing network for receiving said
processed signals
26 and for providing in-phase and quadrature-phase baseband signals; a second
signal
processing network for receiving said processed signals and for providing a
filtered
28 baseband signal; and a selector for selecting either the in-phase and
quadrature-phase
baseband signals or the filtered baseband signal or both the in-phase and
quadrature-
phase baseband signals and the filtered signal; and providing the selected
signals to one
or more modulators for signal modulation.
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15. A fifteenth embodiment (15) is a medical diagnostic and communication
system
2 comprising: a processor for processing signals received from one or more
medical
diagnostic devices; a first signal processing network for receiving said
processed signals
4 and for providing baseband signals having a first specified bit rate; a
second signal
processing network for receiving said processed signals and for providing
baseband
6 signals having a second specified bit rate; and a selector for selecting
either the first
specified bit rate signal or the second specified bit rate signal or both the
first specified
8 bit rate signal and the second specified bit rate signal; and providing the
selected signals
to one or more modulators for signal modulation.
16. A sixteenth embodiment (16) is a medical and diagnostic communication
system,
the improvement comprising: a transmitter of signals generated by a medical
device; a
12 receiver for reception and processing of said medical device generated
signals to
baseband signals; circuitry for processing said baseband signals for
generation of in-
14 phase and quadrature-phase spread spectrum baseband signalsi and a
modulator for
quadrature modulation of the in-phase and quadrature-phase baseband spread
spectrum
16 signals.
17. A seventeenth embodiment (17) is a stimulation device and communication
system
18 comprising: leads for carrying stimulating pulses to and or from one or
more electrodes;
a pulse generator configured to generate stimulation pulses and for providing
said pulses
by said leads to the electrodes; an interface circuit and/or processor for
connection of
said stimulating pulses to and/or from one ore more spread spectrum
transmitter-receiver
22 (T/R) circuits for transmission and/or reception of one or more spread
spectrum signals;
a control circuit coupled to one or more of said spread spectrum transmitter-
receiver
24 circuits and the said pulse generator and further arranged to process and
detect one or
more received signals; and said control circuit having a control signal
generator for
26 controlling the operation parameters of the stimulation device.
18. An eighteenth embodiment (18) provides a multiple modulator system
comprising:
28 a fingerprint sensor, detection, identification and processing device for
processing one
or multiple fingerprint information to activate one or multiple modulators for
signal
transmission; a location information receiver and processor for receiving and
processing
the location of the user; a processor device for processing and combining the
location
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information and fingerprint information activated signals with an additional
user signal,
2 said user signal comprising a signal generated by a user and providing the
processed
signals to a first and or to a second modulator; a first modulator for spread
spectrum
4 encoding and modulating the processed baseband signals; a second modulator
for
filtering and modulating the processed baseband signals; a connection circuit
for
6 providing either the spread spectrum modulated signal or the filtered
modulated signal or
both the spread spectrum modulated signal and the filtered modulated signal to
one or
8 more transmitters for signal transmission.
19. A nineteenth embodiment (19) is a dual modulation transmitter apparatus
comprising: a fingerprint sensor, detection, identification and processing
device for
processing one or multiple fingerprints to activate a modulator for signal
transmission; a
12 location information receiver and processor for receiving and processing
the location of
the user; a processor device for processing and combining the location
information and
14 fingerprint activated signals with additional user signals and providing
the processed,
r
baseband signals to a first and to a second modulator; a first modulator for
spread
16 spectrum encoding and modulating the processed baseband signals; a second
modulator
for filtering and modulating the processed baseband signals; a connection
circuit for
18 providing either the spread spectrum modulated signal or the filtered
modulated signal or
both the modulated spread spectrum signal and the modulated filtered signals
to one or
more antennas for signal transmission.
20. A twentieth embodiment (20) provides a multiple purpose system comprising:
22 a fingerprint sensor, detection, identification and processing device for
processing one
or multiple fingerprints to activate one or multiple fingerprint generated
signals for
24 modulation and for signal transmission; a location information receiver and
processor
for receiving and processing the location of the user; a processor device for
processing
26 and combining the location information and fingerprint activated signals
with additional
user signals, said user signals comprising a signal generated by a user, and
providing a
28 processed baseband signal to a first and to a second modulator; a first
modulator for
quadrature modulating the processed baseband signals; a second modulator for
filtering
and modulating the processed baseband signals; a connection circuit for
providing either
the quadrature modulated signal or the filtered modulated signal or both the
quadrature
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modulated signal and the modulated filtered signals to one or more antennas
for signal
2 transmission.
21. A twenty-first embodiment (21) is a multiple path transmitter system
comprising:
4 a fingerprint sensor, detection, identification and processing device for
processing one
or multiple fingerprints to activate one or multiple modulators for signal
transmission; a
6 location information receiver and processor for receiving and processing the
location of
the user; a processor device for processing and combining the location
information and
8 fingerprint activated signals with additional user signals and providing the
processed,
baseband signals to a first and to a second modulator; a first modulator cross-
correlating
and for quadrature modulating the processed baseband signals; a second
modulator for
filtering and modulating the processed baseband signals; a connection circuit
for
12 providing either the quadrature modulated signal or the filtered modulated
signal or both
the quadrature modulated signal and the modulated filtered signals to one or
more
14 antennas for signal transmission.
22. A twenty-second embodiment (22) provides a multiple modulator system
16 comprising: a fingerprint sensor, detection, identification and processing
device for
processing one or multiple fingerprint information to activate one or multiple
modulators
18 for signal transmission; a location information receiver and processor for
receiving and
processing the location of the user; a processor device for processing and
combining the
location information and fingerprint information activated signals with an
additional user
signal, said user signal comprising a signal generated by a user and providing
the
22 processed signals to a first and to a second modulator; a first modulator
cross-correlating
and for quadrature modulating the processed signals; a second modulator for
filtering and
24 modulating the processed signals; a connection circuit for providing either
the quadrature
modulated signal or the filtered modulated signal or both the quadrature
modulated signal
26 and the modulated filtered signals to two or more transmitters for signal
transmission.
23. A twenty-third embodiment (23) is a multi path communication apparatus
28 comprising: a user detection and authentication device for identifying a
user, processing
the detected authentication identification of the user, and generating
authentication
information signals; a first signal path including a modulator coupled to said
information
signals and to an other user generated input signal, said input signal
comprising a signal
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generated by a user; a second signal path including a cross-correlator for
generation of
2 in-phase (I) and quadrature-phase (Q) cross-correlated baseband signals from
said
information signals and or from said user generated signals, and a quadrature
modulator
4 coupled to said cross-correlated baseband signals; a third signal path
coupled to a
transmitter; and a switch or combiner configured to couple the third signal
path to the
6 first signal path under a first condition, to couple the third signal path
to the second signal
path under a second condition, or to couple the third signal path to both the
first signal
8 path and the second signal path under a third condition.
24. A twenty-fourth embodiment (24) is system comprising: a user detection and
authentication device for identifying a user, processing the detected
authentication
identification of the user, and generating authentication information signals;
a first signal
12 path including a modulator coupled to said information signals and to an
other user
generated input signal, said input signal comprising a signal generated by a
user; a second
14 signal path including a quadrature modulator coupled to said information
and or other
user generated signal; and a switch or combiner configured to couple the first
signal path
16 under a first condition, or the second signal path under a second
condition, or the third
signal path under a third condition to the transmitter for signal
transmission.
18 The invention further provides methods and procedures performed by the
structures,
devices, apparatus, and systems described herein before, as well as other
embodiments
incorporating combinations and subcombinations of the structures highlighted
above and
described herein.
22 All publications including patents, pending patents and reports listed or
mentioned in
these publications and/or in this patent/invention are herein incorporated by
reference to
24 the same extent as if each publication or report, or patent or pending
patent and/or
references listed in these publications, reports, patents or pending patents
were
26 specifically and individually indicated to be incorporated by reference.
The invention
now being fully described, it will be apparent to one of ordinary skill in the
art that many
28 changes and modifications can be made thereto without departing from the
spirit or scope
of the appended claims.
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