Patents Examined by John J Lee
  • Patent number: 11533084
    Abstract: Automatic adjustment of the transmission power, of 5G and 6G wireless messages, is necessary for efficient energy utilization and minimizing background generation, especially in high-density communication environments. However, the power level needed for adequate reception is a complex compromise among competing factors related to network performance, message features, and constantly changing noise/interference backgrounds. Disclosed are artificial intelligence systems and methods configured to determine an appropriate power level for communications. The AI model is trained to account for a wide range of conditions in real-time. For field use, an algorithm derived from the AI model, may be simplified and reduced in size to be appropriate for mobile user devices. The base station may prepare a map of signal attenuation factors, noting especially the “dead zones” of poor reception, and increase the transmission power whenever a mobile user device enters such a location. Many other aspects are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: ULTRALOGIC 6G, LLC
    Inventors: David E. Newman, R. Kemp Massengill
  • Patent number: 11528667
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for determining an appropriate transmit power of a cell based on a desired coverage distance, comprising: initializing, at a cell, a cell reference signal transmit power at a high power level; broadcasting a cell signal power measure to require a high signal power level for user devices attempting to connect to the cell; progressively lowering the cell signal power measure at the cell; broadcasting the lowered cell signal power measure; deriving a plurality of user equipment (UE) attach request distances based on a plurality of propagation delay statistics derived from UE attach requests received at the cell; comparing the plurality of UE attach request distances against a maximum distance to obtain a number of UE attach requests received from UEs physically located beyond the maximum distance; and setting the cell reference signal transmit power based on the number of UE attach requests received from beyond the maximum distance, thereby iteratively determining an appropriate cell refere
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Parallel Wireless, Inc.
    Inventor: Eric Mrozinski
  • Patent number: 11528664
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a device and a method for controlling transmission power of an electronic device in a wireless communication system. An electronic device may include: a housing; at least one radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) disposed in the housing and configured to support a first radio access technology (RAT) and a second RAT; a first communication processor electrically or operationally connected to the at least one RFIC; a second communication processor electrically or operationally connected to the at least one RFIC and the first communication processor; and at least one memory which is operationally connected to the first communication processor and the second communication process or is a part of at least one of the first communication processor or the second communication processor, and which is configured to store a first threshold value related to the at least one RFIC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Inventors: Hyoungjoo Lee, Wonsuk Chung, Sangho Lee, Hyejeong Kim, Euichang Jung
  • Patent number: 11516749
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein provide various aspects that would allow for Vehicle to Everything (V2X) or peer-to-peer (P2P) or sidelink (SL) communications. In an embodiment, a communication device may include: a memory for storing computer-readable instructions; and processing circuitry, configured to process the instructions stored in the memory to: obtain a first path loss between the communication device and a base station, wherein the communication device is coupled to the base station; calculate a second path loss based on one or more sidelink reference signal received power (S-RSRP) indicators received by the communication device, wherein the S-RSRP indicators are received from one or more communication devices within a communication range of the communication device; and determine a transmit (Tx) power of the communication device based on the first path loss and the second path loss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Tobias Scholand, Francois Deparis, Yanzhong Dai, Dun Liu, Jun Zhou, Qingyun Guo, Weijie Sun, Donghui Guo, Jun Wang, Wei Jiang, Daguo Li, Yubao Li, Baoyu Sun, Huiqiang Zhou, Xuanbing Liu, Zhibin Yu, Ningbo Gao
  • Patent number: 11516746
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for determining a power offset parameter. One method (500) includes determining (502) a power vector using at least one sounding reference signal resource. The power vector includes a power corresponding to each port of a device. The method (500) includes determining (504) a power offset parameter based on the power vector, and transmitting (506) the power offset parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: LENOVO (BEIJING) LIMITED
    Inventors: Chenxi Zhu, Bingchao Liu
  • Patent number: 11516750
    Abstract: A wireless device receives configuration parameters of: one or more first cells of a first cell type; and one or more second cells of a second cell type. A calculated total transmit power for a plurality of signals is determined. The plurality of signals comprise a first sounding reference signal (SRS) configured for transmission, during a time interval, via the one or more first cells; and a second SRS configured for transmission, during the time interval, via the one or more second cells. The wireless device drops a transmission of the first SRS or scales a transmission power of the first SRS, based on a SRS transmit power priority of the first SRS, when the calculated total transmit power exceeds a first value. The SRS transmit power priority is based on a cell type of the one or more first cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
    Inventor: Esmael Hejazi Dinan
  • Patent number: 11510156
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). The disclosure provides a method for sending a power headroom report (PHR) to a base station in a multi-rat dual connectivity (MR-DC) deployment in a UE (100). The method comprises determining, by the UE (100), that a transmit power required is greater than a maximum transmit power of the UE (100) and determining, by the UE (100), a PHR reporting criteria is met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Fasil Abdul Latheef
  • Patent number: 11501161
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and computer storage media for providing factors that explain the generated results of a deep neural network (DNN). In embodiments, multiple machine learning models and a DNN are trained on a training dataset. A preliminary set of trained machine learning models with similar results to the trained DNN are selected for further evaluation. The preliminary set of machine learning models may be evaluated using a distribution analysis to select a reduced set of machine learning models. Results produced by the reduced set of machine learning models are compared, point-by-point, to the results produced by the DNN. The best performing machine learning model with generated results that performs closest to the DNN generated results may be selected. One or more factors used by the selected machine learning model are determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: ADOBE INC.
    Inventors: Vaidyanathan Venkatraman, Rajan Madhavan, Omar Rahman, Niranjan Shivanand Kumbi, Brajendra Kumar Bhujabal, Ajay Awatramani
  • Patent number: 11496966
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A base station may communicate with a user equipment (UE) or multiple UEs using multicast transmissions, and each of the multiple UEs may use shared resources to transmit feedback. A UE may receive a power control configuration associated with multicast communications and indicating one or more control parameters or weighting factors for uplink feedback. The UE may monitor a set of downlink resources for the multicast message from the base station, and may determine a decoding failure for the multicast message. The UE may determine whether to transmit uplink feedback to the base station based on the received power control parameters, such as adjusting UE transmit power using a weighting factor or other power control parameters. The UE may determine whether to transmit the uplink feedback message indicating the decoding failure based on the power control configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Le Liu, Peter Gaal, Ayan Sengupta, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Xiaoxia Zhang, Tao Luo, Wanshi Chen, Prasad Reddy Kadiri, Mostafa Khoshnevisan, Umesh Phuyal, Xipeng Zhu
  • Patent number: 11496209
    Abstract: In one implementation, a method for a solar cell array is provided, the method includes emitting a communication message from the solar cell array by reverse biasing the solar cell array so as to cause at least a portion of the solar array to emit a detectable amount of radiation corresponding to the communication message. In one embodiment a solar cell array circuit is provided including a solar string comprising a plurality of solar cells coupled together, a charge storage device coupled to a power bus, and a bidirectional boost-buck converter having a first and second pair of MOSFETs connected in series between positive and negative rails of the power bus with an inductor coupled from between the first and second paired MOSFETs to a charging output of the solar string.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: AeroVironment, Inc.
    Inventors: Nader Michael Lotfy, Eric James Aagaard
  • Patent number: 11496971
    Abstract: Dynamically limiting uplink transmit power of wireless devices that are known to be within range of a dense cluster or quantity of access nodes. Wireless devices can report identifiers of nearby access nodes. Responsive to determining a large quantity of identifiers from a wireless device in a specific location, the maximum allowable transmit power of the wireless device (or other wireless devices in the same area) can be reduced Power can be reduced for HPUEs as well as LPUEs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: T-Mobile Innovations LLC
    Inventor: Sreekar Marupaduga
  • Patent number: 11496967
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for power headroom reporting for multiple uplink carriers. One apparatus includes a transceiver that receives a configuration of a plurality of UL carriers for a serving cell. The first apparatus includes a processor that determines that a PHR has been triggered, where the PHR for the serving cell is determined to be a virtual PHR. The processor determines a default power control parameter set for the serving cell and calculates a PHR for the serving cell. Here, calculating the PHR includes calculating a virtual PH based on the default power control parameter set. The processor transmits (via the transceiver) the calculated PHR for the serving cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Ebrahim MolavianJazi, Joachim Loehr, Hyejung Jung, Vijay Nangia, Prateek Basu Mallick
  • Patent number: 11481935
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to systems and methods for iterative reconstruction. Raw data detected from a plurality of angles by an imaging device may be obtained. A first seed image may be generated by performing a filtered back projection on the raw data. A first air mask may be determined by performing a minimum value back projection (BP) on the raw data. One or more images may be reconstructed by performing an iterative reconstruction based on the first seed image, the first air mask, and the raw data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Stanislav Zabic, Patrick Kling, Wenjing Cao, Alexander Zamyatin, Zhicong Yu, Haohua Sun
  • Patent number: 11467001
    Abstract: A non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium has stored therein a program for causing a processor to execute a process that includes: adjusting a difference between a first environment map created based on a feature of a given image among captured first time-series images and a second environment map created based on a feature of a given image among second time-series images captured separately from the first time-series images; comparing a position of an image related to a position and orientation calculated based on information on the first environment map with a position of an image related to a position and orientation calculated based on information on the second environment map, and calculating an adjustment value for adjusting a difference between the first environment map and the second environment map based on a result of the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Asako Kitaura, Takushi Fujita
  • Patent number: 11463965
    Abstract: A technique for power control including receiving, by a user device, a resource block allocation for uplink transmission that includes one or more resource blocks within a frequency channel; determining at least one resource allocation region for which an uplink resource block allocation within the resource allocation region will require an additional maximum power reduction (e.g., to reduce interference to a protected frequency band); and applying, by the user device, the additional maximum power reduction for a transmission power of the user device based on the resource block allocation being within the at least one resource allocation region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Antti Piipponen, Vesa Lehtinen, Petri Vasenkari, Jaakko Marttila
  • Patent number: 11461894
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises: acquiring a first image including at least a part of an inspection device and a second image including at least a part of a subject; estimating a position of the inspection device based on the first image; estimating position and orientation information for the subject based on the second image; identifying an inspection region of the subject from results of estimating; and receiving a finalization instruction to finalize an inspection result to be recorded or output to an external apparatus based on sequentially acquired inspection results of the subject, and a finalization instruction to finalize inspection region information to be recorded or output to the external apparatus in association with the inspection result, wherein the finalization instruction for the inspection region information is received before the finalization instruction for the inspection result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Jun Odagiri
  • Patent number: 11452048
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may identify one or more overlaps between a first set of uplink transmissions on one or more master cell groups (MCGs) and a second set of uplink transmissions on one or more secondary cell groups (SCGs), wherein the first set of uplink transmissions are associated with respective first priority levels and the second set of uplink transmissions are associated with respective second priority levels; determine a power sharing configuration for the first set of uplink transmissions and the second set of uplink transmissions; and drop one or more transmissions, of at least one of the first set of uplink transmissions or the second set of uplink transmissions, based at least in part on the respective first priority levels and the respective second priority levels. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Peter Gaal, Wanshi Chen
  • Patent number: 11452049
    Abstract: This application provides a power sharing method and apparatus. The method includes: estimating a first transmit power based on a traffic volume of terminal devices to be scheduled in a first carrier in a first scheduling period, where the first transmit power is a transmit power required in the first carrier to schedule the to-be-scheduled terminal devices in the first scheduling period; and estimating a second transmit power based on the first transmit power and an initially configured transmit power of the first carrier, where the second transmit power is a remaining transmit power of the first carrier in the first scheduling period. According to the power sharing method and apparatus provided in this application, a remaining transmit power of a carrier in a scheduling period is estimated based on the traffic volume of the to-be-scheduled terminal devices, thereby improving accuracy of transmit power sharing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kang Wu, Yan Zhang
  • Patent number: 11445447
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive an indication of an uplink transmission configuration indication (TCI) state. The UE may determine that the uplink TCI state identifies a pathloss reference signal for an associated uplink transmission. The UE may determine an uplink power control parameter for the uplink transmission based at least in part on the pathloss reference signal. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kiran Venugopal, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo, Tianyang Bai, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11438033
    Abstract: In 5G/6G wireless networks, user devices and base stations may adjust their transmission power according to the distance to the recipient, and thereby provide sufficient reception without wasting energy or generating interference. User devices can determine their own location by GPS, for example, and transmit that data to the base station so that the base station can adjust its downlink power accordingly. Likewise. base stations can transmit their location coordinates to user devices in, for example, a system information message. Sidelink, or V2V and V2X, messages can likewise be power-adjusted after user devices exchange their location coordinates. Mobile user devices can also indicate their speed and direction of travel, so that the base station or other user devices can calculate the changing distance and compensate power accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: ULTRALOGIC 6G, LLC
    Inventors: David E. Newman, R. Kemp Massengill