公开(公告)号：US11469802B2

公开(公告)日：2022-10-11

申请号：US17187607

申请日：2021-02-26

Applicant: Space Exploration Technologies Corp.

Inventor： Alireza Mehrnia ,  Masoud Kahrizi ,  Ka Shun Carson Pun ,  Omid Nasiby ,  Alex Ahmad Mirzaei

IPC: H04B7/02 ,  H04B7/06 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04B7/08

Abstract: In an embodiment, an apparatus includes a first plurality of digital beamformers associated with a first channel, the first plurality of digital beamformers configured to encode each data beam of a first plurality of data beams of the first channel to generate an encoded first plurality of data beams; a second plurality of digital beamformers associated with a second channel different from the first channel, the second plurality of digital beamformers configured to encode each data beam of a second plurality of data beams of the second channel to generate an encoded second plurality of data beams; and a channel combiner, electrically coupled to the first and second plurality of digital beamformers, and configured to generate a combined channel comprising an aggregation of at least a portion of the encoded first plurality of data beams and at least a portion of the encoded second plurality of data beams.

公开(公告)号：US20210194524A1

公开(公告)日：2021-06-24

申请号：US17193633

申请日：2021-03-05

Applicant: Space Exploration Technologies Corp.

Inventor： Alireza Mehrnia ,  Masoud Kahrizi ,  Alex Ahmad Mirzaei ,  Bagher Afshar ,  Ali Sajjadi ,  Bernd Pregardier ,  Ka Shun Carson Pun ,  Omid Nasiby ,  Igor Elgorriaga

IPC: H04B1/16 ,  H04L7/00 ,  H04B7/08

Abstract: In an embodiment, a receiver included in a communications system includes a channel extractor configured to segregate a received signal into a plurality of channel signals, wherein the plurality of channel signals includes a plurality of data signals; and a plurality of decoders electrically coupled to the channel extractor and configured to decode each of the plurality of channel signals into a respective plurality of decoded data beam portions.