Patents Assigned to MEDIATEK
  • Publication number: 20240113727
    Abstract: Current steering digital-to-analog converters (DACs) are described. These DACs are suitable for high speed operation. Weight transistors conventionally used in DACs are replaced with resistors, resulting in a lower RC constant. Further, the resistors cause a smaller voltage drop, thus improving the voltage headroom of the DAC. Additionally, the current steering switches are biased in the triode region, as opposed to the saturation region as in conventional designs. Biasing the switches in the triode region results in a smaller drain-source voltage, which further improves the voltage headroom of the DAC. The triode operation further results in a substantially smaller output impedance, which leads to the output voltage being dictated primarily by the output transistor of the current path. Lastly, reset switches are added which reduce data-dependent memory effects that can otherwise produce distortion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: MediaTek Inc.
    Inventor: Nathan Egan
  • Publication number: 20240114168
    Abstract: The techniques described herein relate to methods, apparatus, and computer readable media configured to encode and/or decode video data. Immersive media data includes a first patch track comprising first encoded immersive media data that corresponds to a first spatial portion of immersive media content, a second patch track comprising second encoded immersive media data that corresponds to a second spatial portion of the immersive media content that is different than the first spatial portion, an elementary data track comprising first immersive media elementary data, wherein the first patch track and/or the second patch track reference the elementary data track, and grouping data that specifies a spatial relationship between the first patch track and the second patch track. An encoding and/or decoding operation is performed based on the first patch track, the second patch track, the elementary data track and the grouping data to generate decoded immersive media data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: MEDIATEK Singapore Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Xin Wang, Lulin Chen
  • Publication number: 20240114458
    Abstract: The present invention provides a wireless communication method, wherein the wireless communication method includes the steps of: controlling the electronic device to operate in an active mode and communicating with an access point; after a traffic between the electronic device and the access point ends, controlling the electronic device to operate in a first mode, and transmitting a null frame to notify the access point that the electronic device enters a power saving mode; and during the first mode, controlling the electronic device to leave the power saving mode and transmitting at least one query signal to the access point to ask data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Cheng-Kung Lai, Chia-Ning Chang, Po-Hao Hsiao
  • Patent number: 11949249
    Abstract: A wireless power transmitter may receive a request from a wireless power receiver to perform recalibration for a first type of foreign object detection (FOD) in response to the wireless power receiver attempting to change an electromagnetic parameter supplied by the wireless power transmitter. In response to receiving the request, the wireless power transmitter may perform a second type of FOD to produce a FOD result. When the FOD result indicates a foreign object is present or likely present, the wireless power transmitter may discontinue or limit wireless power transfer, and/or communicate the FOD result to the wireless power receiver. When the FOD result indicates a foreign object is not present or likely not present, the wireless power transmitter may communicate the FOD result to the wireless power receiver, perform the recalibration and continue with wireless power transfer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: MEDIATEK Singapore Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Vladimir Alexander Muratov
  • Patent number: 11949920
    Abstract: A video decoding method includes: before residual decoding of a coding unit is completed, referring to available information to determine whether to decode information that an inverse transform (IT) circuit needs for applying inverse transform to transform blocks of the coding unit, and generating a determination result; and controlling coefficient transmission of the coding unit to the IT circuit according to the determination result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Ming-Hsien Lai, Min-Hao Chiu, Chia-Yun Cheng
  • Patent number: 11950016
    Abstract: The present invention provides a control method of a receiver. The control method includes the steps of: when the receiver enters a sleep/standby mode, continually detecting an auxiliary signal from an auxiliary channel to generate a detection result; and if the detection result indicates that the auxiliary signal has a preamble or a specific pattern, generating a wake-up control signal to wake up the receiver before successfully receiving the auxiliary signal having a wake-up command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Chun-Chia Chen, Chih-Hung Pan, Chia-Chi Liu, Shun-Fang Liu, Meng-Kun Li, Chao-An Chen
  • Patent number: 11949609
    Abstract: Various proposed schemes pertaining to extreme high-throughput (EHT) preamble designs for transmissions to mixed clients in wireless communications are described. In one example, an aggregated Physical Layer Convergence Procedure (PLCP) protocol data unit (PPDU), which is transmitted over a plurality of 80-MHz bandwidths with data for a plurality of stations (STAs), is received. A preamble of a specific one of the plurality of 80-MHz bandwidths is then decoded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: MediaTek Singapore Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Jianhan Liu, Hung-Tao Hsieh, Shengquan Hu
  • Patent number: 11948895
    Abstract: A semiconductor package structure includes a substrate having a wiring structure. A first semiconductor die is disposed over the substrate and is electrically coupled to the wiring structure. A second semiconductor die is disposed over the substrate and is electrically coupled to the wiring structure, wherein the first semiconductor die and the second semiconductor die are arranged side-by-side. Holes are formed on a surface of the substrate, wherein the holes are located within a projection of the first semiconductor die or the second semiconductor die on the substrate. Further, a molding material surrounds the first semiconductor die and the second semiconductor die, and surfaces of the first semiconductor die and the second semiconductor die facing away from the substrate are exposed by the molding material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Tzu-Hung Lin, Chia-Cheng Chang, I-Hsuan Peng, Nai-Wei Liu
  • Publication number: 20240103600
    Abstract: A control system includes multiple device controllers and a device root. Each of the multiple device controllers corresponds to at least one processing unit, and is arranged to receive a hint from an application processor (AP), and generate a control signal for managing the at least one processing unit according to the hint. The device root is coupled to the multiple device controllers and includes a manager, wherein the manager is arranged to manage multiple processing units corresponding to the multiple device controllers according to multiple control signals corresponding to the multiple device controllers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventor: Chih-Hsiang Hsiao
  • Publication number: 20240107454
    Abstract: A User Equipment (UE) including a wireless transceiver and a controller is provided. The wireless transceiver performs wireless transmission and reception to and from one or more peer UEs. The controller determines a Sidelink (SL) Discontinuous Reception (DRX) configuration set, and applies the SL DRX configuration set to enable a DRX operation for SL communications with the peer UEs via the wireless transceiver; wherein the SL DRX configuration set is determined based on one of the following: one or more types of one or more SL services which the UE is participating with the peer UEs; one or more SL DRX configurations received from the peer UEs; and control information received from a Base Station (BS).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Guan-Yu LIN, Ming-Yuan CHENG, Nathan Edward TENNY, Xuelong WANG
  • Publication number: 20240103602
    Abstract: A power consumption control device applied to an electronic device includes an image signal processor (ISP), a storage device, a processing circuit, and a control circuit. The ISP is arranged to receive an image signal captured by a camera of the electronic device, and process the image signal to generate a processed image signal. The storage device is arranged to store at least one predetermined image class. The processing circuit is arranged to analyze the processed image signal to detect whether the processed image signal belongs to the at least one predetermined image class to generate a control signal. The control circuit is arranged to switch a mode of the electronic device to a first mode or a second mode according to the control signal, wherein power consumption and performance of the electronic device in the first mode are lower than that in the second mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Ming-Yu Chen, Yen-Hsiang Li
  • Publication number: 20240107541
    Abstract: Mechanisms of uplink resource allocation in a subband full duplex (SBFD) system for transmissions of physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) and sounding reference signal (SRS) are disclosed. A PUCCH or SRS resource configuration can be received from a base station in the SBFD system. The PUCCH or SRS resource configuration can indicate, or provide parameters of, a first frequency domain starting position for PUCCH or SRS transmissions in SBFD slots and a second frequency domain position for PUCCH transmissions in non-SBFD slots. Periodic or semi-persistent PUCCH or SRS transmissions can be performed across multiple slots including SBFD slots and non-SBFD slots based on the PUCCH or SRS resource configuration. The periodic or semi-persistent PUCCH or SRS transmissions across the SBFD slots use the first frequency domain starting position. The periodic or semi-persistent PUCCH or SRS transmissions across the non-SBFD slots use the second frequency domain starting position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: MediaTek Singapore Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Sumaila Anning MAHAMA, Mohammed S Aleabe AL-IMARI, Jozsef Gabor NEMETH
  • Publication number: 20240105259
    Abstract: A pseudo multi-port memory includes a memory array, a row decoder circuit, a timing controller circuit, a sense amplifier circuit, and a write driver circuit. The timing controller circuit outputs a timing control signal to the row decoder circuit, wherein during one memory clock cycle, the row decoder circuit is controlled by the timing control signal to make a read wordline (RWL) signal have an enable pulse and a write wordline (WWL) signal have multiple enable pulses. During one memory clock cycle, the sense amplifier circuit performs read operations upon a selected memory cell when the selected RWL is enabled by the enable pulse and the selected WWL is enabled by at least one first enable pulse, and the write driver circuit performs a write operation upon the selected memory cell when the selected WWL is enabled by one second enable pulse.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Weinan Liao, Chi-Hao Hong
  • Publication number: 20240107250
    Abstract: A method for performing audio enhancement with aid of timing control includes: utilizing a UE to determine a first predetermined synchronization delay and notify a first earphone of the first predetermined synchronization delay, wherein a first DSP circuit in the first earphone is arranged to determine a synchronization point according to a first time point of a first event and the first predetermined synchronization delay for the first earphone; utilizing the UE to determine a second predetermined synchronization delay and notify a second earphone of the second predetermined synchronization delay, wherein a second DSP circuit in the second earphone is arranged to determine the synchronization point according to a second time point of a second event and the second predetermined synchronization delay for the second earphone; and utilizing the UE to receive first uplink audio data from the first earphone and receive second uplink audio data from the second earphone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Hsi-Hsien Chen, Yili Wang, Chia-Wei Tao, Sheng-Ming Wang
  • Publication number: 20240106757
    Abstract: A method of wireless signal transmission management includes transmitting a plurality of data packets to tethering equipment from user equipment to tethering equipment, determining a size of each of the plurality of data packets by the tethering equipment, designating data packets of the plurality of data packets having a specific range of sizes as control signal packets by the tethering equipment, and prioritizing in transmitting the control signal packets to a cellular network by the tethering equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Ching-Hao Lee, Yi-Lun Chen, Ho-Wen Pu, Yu-Yu Hung, Jun-Yi Li, Ting-Sheng Lo
  • Patent number: 11943012
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide an apparatus and method for a MAP wireless network that includes a collaborative channel sounding measurement phase to determine channel state information between devices (e.g., the channel state between an STA and a collaborative AP) for efficient configuration of the MAP wireless network and to improve the performance of the MAP wireless networks. The wireless AP and wireless STAs associated with the collaborative APs can simultaneously transmit by applying collaborative beamforming where the interferences between channels nullify each other (e.g., nulling), and the beamforming is performed based on a sounding phase performed by the collaborative APs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: MediaTek Singapore Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Yongho Seok, Jianhan Liu, James Chih-Shi Yee, Thomas Edward Pare, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11943643
    Abstract: An access point (AP) and a station (STA) communicate with each other, with the AP indicating to the STA either or both of a preamble detection (PD) channel and a signaling (SIG) content channel and with the STA being initially monitoring a primary frequency segment of a plurality of frequency segments in an operating bandwidth of the AP. A downlink (DL) or triggered uplink (UL) communication is performed between the AP and the STA during a transmission opportunity (TXOP) such that: (i) during the TXOP, the STA monitors a preamble on the PD channel and decodes a SIG content on the SIG content channel; and (ii) after an end of the TXOP, the STA switches to the primary frequency segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: MediaTek Singapore Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Kai Ying Lu, Yongho Seok, Hung-Tao Hsieh, Cheng-Yi Chang, James Chih-Shi Yee, Jianhan Liu, Po-Yuen Cheng
  • Patent number: 11942399
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a plurality of functional blocks, each being configured to provide at least one predetermined function. The functional blocks at least include a first functional block and a second functional block. The first functional block and the second functional block are coupled in serial with a predetermined current flowing therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Yi-Tao Tsai, Yun-Tai Hsiao
  • Patent number: 11937947
    Abstract: The present invention provides a circuitry of a biopotential acquisition system, where the circuitry includes an input node, an ETI transmitter, a capacitor and an ETI receiver. The input node is configured to receive an input signal from an electrode of the biopotential acquisition system. The ETI transmitter is configured to generate a transmitter signal. A first node of the capacitor is coupled to the ETI transmitter, and a second node of the capacitor is coupled to the input node. The ETI receiver is coupled to the input node, and is configured to receive the transmitter signal via the capacitor to generate an ETI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventor: Chih-Hsin Chen
  • Patent number: 11941741
    Abstract: A graphics system includes an effect engine and a graphics pipeline. The graphics pipeline performs pipeline operations on graphical objects in a frame. The graphics pipeline includes at least a fragment shader stage. An application programming interface (API) provides an instruction that specifies a subset of the graphical objects in the frame for the effect engine to execute. When detecting the instruction, the graphics pipeline invokes the effect engine to perform a predefined set of graphics operations on the subset of the graphical objects in the frame. The predefined set of graphics operations has a higher computational complexity than the pipeline operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: MediaTek Inc.
    Inventors: Chien-Chih Wang, Ying-Chieh Chen