Patents Examined by Khai Tran
  • Patent number: 11616561
    Abstract: There is provided mechanisms for beam selection. A method is performed by a network node. The method comprises performing a beam management procedure for at least two terminal devices. During the beam management procedure reference signals are transmitted in a beam sweep as performed in a set of beams. During the beam management procedure, each of the at least two terminal devices reports at least two beams in the set of beams for which the reference signals have been received with highest power. The method comprises selecting which beams to serve the at least two terminal devices based jointly on the reports and a mutual interference criterion for the at least two terminal devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Andreas Nilsson, Sven Petersson, Niklas Jaldén, Martin Johansson
  • Patent number: 11616537
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Aspects of the present disclosure describe spatial precoding for inter symbol interference reduction in single carrier. Generally, the described techniques provide for one or more wireless devices (e.g., a user equipment (UE) and a network entity) to determine a weighted sum of several beams, each with a different delay, to form a spatial precoder that increases signal to interference noise ratios while improving signaling quality by diversifying the number of beams carrying subsequent messaging. The one or more wireless devices may determine complex gain values and delay parameters based on reference signals. The one or more wireless devices may utilize the complex gain values and delay parameters such that subsequent transmissions may be received coherently over multiple beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Amit Bar-Or Tillinger, Gideon Shlomo Kutz, Shay Landis, Idan Michael Horn
  • Patent number: 11616547
    Abstract: A method pertaining to spatial configuration subfield designs of user field for multi-user multiple-input-multiple-output (MU-MIMO) allocation in extreme-high-throughput (EHT) systems involves determining a spatial stream configuration according to a 6-bit spatial configuration subfield in a lookup table (LUT). The method also involves performing a transmission using one or more spatial streams assigned based on the spatial stream configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: MediaTek Singapore Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Shengquan Hu, Jianhan Liu, Thomas Edward Pare, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11606110
    Abstract: A device and method for a receiver configured to perform timing recovery decoupled feed-forward equalizer (FFE) adaptation. The receiver device can include an analog front-end (AFE) device, which is coupled to a time-interleaved (TI) interface. The TI interface is coupled in a timing recovery feedback loop to FFE equalizers, a digital signal processor (DSP), a delay timing loop (DTL) device, and a clock device, which feeds back to the TI interface. The DSP has an additional pathway to the FFE equalizers, which has an additional pathway to the DTL device. The DTL loop is equipped with an interleave specific enable/disable vector Q[1:N] that can turn on/off the contribution of the specific time interleave errors to the timing recovery loop, which allows the FFE adaptation process to be decoupled from the timing recovery loop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Marvell Asia Pte, Ltd.
    Inventor: Basel Alnabulsi
  • Patent number: 11605899
    Abstract: A radio frequency (RF) aperture includes an array of electrically conductive tapered projections arranged to define a curved aperture surface, such as a semi-cylinder aperture surface, or a cylinder aperture surface (which may be constructed as two semi-circular aperture surfaces mutually arranged to define the cylinder aperture surface). The RF aperture may further include a top array of electrically conductive tapered projections arranged to define a top aperture surface. The top aperture surface may be planar, and a cylinder axis of cylinder aperture surface may be perpendicular to the plane of the planar top aperture surface. The RF aperture may further include baluns mounted on at least one printed circuit board, each having a balanced port electrically connected with two neighboring electrically conductive tapered projections of the array and further having an unbalanced port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Raphael Joseph Welsh, Douglas A. Thornton
  • Patent number: 11595102
    Abstract: Various aspects relate generally to the beam management procedures in wireless communications systems. Some aspects more specifically relate to the selection of beams for communications to and from a UE and a network entity based on quantized orientation information for a user equipment (UE). In some implementations, a network entity can use the quantized orientation information and a machine learning model to predict a set of beams that may be suitable for communications to and from the UE and the network entity, which may be a subset of the beams that the network entity can generally use for communications to and from the UE and the network entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Hamed Pezeshki, Tao Luo, Sony Akkarakaran, Junyi Li, Taesang Yoo, Qiang Wu, Arumugam Chendamarai Kannan, Jingchao Bao
  • Patent number: 11595094
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first device may transmit, to a second device in the wireless network, a first indication of a sequence of one or more beam training phases for a beam training procedure between the first device and the second device. The first device may receive, from the second device, a second indication corresponding to the beam training procedure in response to transmitting the first indication. Both devices may communicate, based on the first and second indications, one or more signals with the second device via one or more communication beams to perform the one or more beam training phases as part of the beam training procedure, the communicating the one or more signals in accordance with the sequence of the one or more beam training phases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Vasanthan Raghavan, Tao Luo, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11588521
    Abstract: Provided is a communication apparatus and communication method for channel estimation. The communication apparatus includes a transmitter, which in operation, transmits a physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) to one or more other communication apparatus in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless network. The PPDU includes a long training field (LTF) that permits the one or more other communication apparatus to estimate respective channels for respective communications with the communication apparatus. The communication apparatus includes a controller, which in operation, establishes the number of LTF symbols (NLTF) for generating the LTF in the PPDU. The NLTF depends on a maximum value (NSTSMAX) of the number of space-time streams for each resource unit (RU) in the PPDU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Lei Huang, Yoshio Urabe, Rojan Chitrakar
  • Patent number: 11587598
    Abstract: A memory device includes a memory cell array and a transmitter, wherein the transmitter includes a pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) encoder configured to generate a PAM-n first input signal (where n is an integer greater than or equal to 4) from data read from the memory cell array; a pre-driver configured to generate a second input signal based on the first input signal and based on a calibration code signal, and output the second input signal using a first power voltage; and a driver configured to output a PAM-n DQ signal using a second power voltage lower than the first power voltage in response to the second input signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Youngdo Um, Younghoon Son, Youngdon Choi, Jindo Byun, Hyunyoon Cho, Junghwan Choi
  • Patent number: 11581934
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method performed by a wireless device, for beam correspondence signalling. The wireless device comprises a plurality of antenna panels including a first antenna panel. The method comprises obtaining, for the first antenna panel, a first beam correspondence, BC, capability parameter associated with a first panel identifier. The method comprises transmitting to a network node a first BC capability indicator. The first BC capability indicator comprises the first BC capability parameter and the first panel identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Olof Zander, Fredrik Rusek, Kun Zhao
  • Patent number: 11581955
    Abstract: A transceiving device includes a calibration signal generation unit, a phase adjusting unit, a transmission unit, a receiving unit, and a calibration unit. In a calibration mode, the calibration signal generation unit generates an in-phase (I) test signal and a quadrature (Q) test signal. The phase adjusting unit adjusts the I test signal and the Q test signal to generate an adjusted I test signal and an adjusted Q test signal according to a phase controlling signal. The transmission unit generates a radio frequency (RF) signal according to the adjusted I test signal and the adjusted Q test signal. The receiving unit receives the RF signal so as to generate an I receiving signal and a Q receiving signal. The calibration unit generates the phase controlling signal according to the I test signal, the Q test signal, the I receiving signal, and the Q receiving signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shin-Lin Cheng
  • Patent number: 11575418
    Abstract: Disclosed are a codebook processing method, a terminal device, and a network device, the method comprising: determining weighting coefficients for codebook calculation based on a first number and a second number, wherein a value of L representing the first number is half of a number of spatial beams, a value of M representing the second number is a number of discrete fourier transform (DFT) basis vectors, L and M are both integers, and the weighting coefficients comprise amplitude coefficients; performing processing on the weighting coefficients; and transmitting the processed weighting coefficients to a network device through channel state information (CSI).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenhong Chen, Yun Fang, Zhihua Shi
  • Patent number: 11565908
    Abstract: This application relates to electric winders, particularly, to an intelligent electric winder and a control method therefor. The intelligent electric winder includes a support, a control unit and a winder body, where the winder body includes a casing, a winding reel, a drive structure, and a cable. The drive structure is electrically connected to the control unit. The control unit includes: a socket and a host; the host is arranged inside the casing, and the socket is arranged outside the casing; a start/stop button is provided on a surface of the socket, and the socket is connected to a free end of the cable. Through the intelligent electric winder and a control method therefor, the winding reel is controlled to start or stop winding by sending a wireless control signal, so that the intelligent electric winder is controlled to wind or unwind cables through the wireless communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: INTRADIN (HUZHOU) PRECISION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xuetao Qiao, Gaofeng Wang
  • Patent number: 11569870
    Abstract: A reception-side apparatus includes: M receive antennas; and a processor configured to execute a first process of acquiring a first signal received from a first transmission-side apparatus from among signals simultaneously received from the N transmission-side apparatuses by receive diversity processing, and acquiring first data by demodulating and decoding the first signal. In the case of N>M, the processor acquires, for each of all patterns of a combination of a first signal, second signals from M-1 transmission-side apparatuses which are to be cancelled by receive diversity processing and third signals from N-M transmission-side apparatuses which are not to be cancelled by the receive diversity processing, a power ratio of power of the first signal relative to total power of the second and third signals based on a predetermined weight and a channel estimate of each signal, and selects a combination with the largest power ratio from among all the patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenichi Takizawa, Masafumi Moriyama, Fumihide Kojima, Atsushi Kurosawa
  • Patent number: 11563477
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device and method capable of suppressing lowering in the quality of user experience. An information processing device includes: a wireless communication unit that sends transmission information to another information processing device through wireless communication; and a control unit that controls at least one of the wireless communication performed by the wireless communication unit, encoding of the transmission information, or a processing process on the transmission information on the basis of blockage prediction period information indicating a prediction result on blockage of a communication path to the another information processing device. The present technology can be applied to a content playback system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kosuke Aio, Sawako Kiriyama, Yuichi Hasegawa, Takefumi Nagumo, Asako Doi
  • Patent number: 11552660
    Abstract: A wireless communication control method suppresses interference using an MMSE weight in an environment of wireless communication where the number of transmission stations transmitting a signal to a receiving station is larger than the number of reception antennas of the receiving station. The receiving station calculates power of an interference signal included in a signal received by the receiving station from the transmission stations the number of which is larger than the number of reception antennas, the interference signal corresponding to a part by which the number of transmission stations exceeds the number of reception antennas. The receiving station calculates the MMSE weight depending on the power of the interference signal, recalculates the power of the interference signal using the MMSE weight, and recalculates the MMSE weight depending on the recalculated power of the interference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenichi Takizawa, Masafumi Moriyama, Fumihide Kojima, Atsushi Kurosawa
  • Patent number: 11552748
    Abstract: A method and system provides for execution of calibration cycles from time to time during normal operation of the communication channel. A calibration cycle includes de-coupling the normal data source from the transmitter and supplying a calibration pattern in its place. The calibration pattern is received from the communication link using the receiver on the second component. A calibrated value of a parameter of the communication channel is determined in response to the received calibration pattern. The steps involved in calibration cycles can be reordered to account for utilization patterns of the communication channel. For bidirectional links, calibration cycles are executed which include the step of storing received calibration patterns on the second component, and retransmitting such calibration patterns back to the first component for use in adjusting parameters of the channel at first component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Rambus Inc.
    Inventors: Frederick A. Ware, Richard E. Perego, Craig E. Hampel
  • Patent number: 11552683
    Abstract: A communications method and apparatus to implement radio frequency link sharing, improve radio frequency link utilization, and increase an uplink transmission rate. The method includes a terminal that receives first configuration information and second configuration information from a first network device. The first configuration information is used to indicate a first reference signal resource of a first antenna port, and the second configuration information is used to indicate a second reference signal resource of a second antenna port; or the first configuration information is used to indicate a third reference signal resource of a first quantity of antenna ports, and the second configuration information is used to indicate a fourth reference signal resource of a second quantity of antenna ports. The terminal sends a first reference signal based on the first configuration information and sends a second reference signal based on the second configuration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yifan Xue, Li Shen, Jian Wang, Da Wang, Haitao Liu
  • Patent number: 11546919
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided to address issues related to poor radio conditions (e.g., SS-RSRP/SS-RSRQ/SS-SINR) associated with poor coverage for user devices (e.g., user equipment (UEs)) positioned between Synchronization Signal Block (SSB) beams emitted from a cell tower. Specifically, Next Generation Node B (gNB) may identify the location of the user devices (reporting poor signal strength due to poor radio conditions) based on angle or arrival and/or timing advance. Systems and methods further include controlling a phase and amplitude of the SSB beam(s) serving the user device to improve the signal strength of these user devices experiencing poor radio conditions, until the signal strength is within/above target threshold value(s). In this manner, user coverage is improved, with the option to prioritize premium subscribers, without the need for employing a more expensive alternative (e.g., building additional cell sites and towers) for improving user coverage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: T-Mobile Innovations LLC
    Inventor: Roopesh Kumar Polaganga
  • Patent number: 11546203
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for estimation of an interfering signal of a signal received by a receiving system and to a method for attenuation of an interfering signal contained in a received signal, and a receiving system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: FAURECIA CLARION ELECTRONICS EUROPE
    Inventors: Xenofon Doukopoulos, Gilles Briand