Patents by Inventor Ji-Won Kang

Ji-Won Kang has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9370000
    Abstract: Provided are a method and an apparatus for downlink control channel allocation in a wireless communication system. A base station allocates a downlink control channel which supports a multi-node system to a data region within an resource block (RB), and transmits a downlink control signal to a user equipment through the allocated downlink channel. The multi-node system comprises a plurality of nodes connected to one macro node, and the macro node and the plurality of nodes have the same cell identifier (ID).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jin Young Chun, Ki Tae Kim, Su Nam Kim, Ji Won Kang, Bin Chul Ihm, Sung Ho Park
  • Patent number: 9363056
    Abstract: Provided are a method for operating a user equipment in a wireless communication system and the user equipment for performing same. The user equipment receives a plurality of channel state information (CSI) reference signal (RS) configurations for indicating different usages, and performs an action based on each of the CSI RS configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jin Young Chun, Ki Tae Kim, Su Nam Kim, Sung Ho Park, Bin Chul Ihm, Ji Won Kang
  • Patent number: 9356662
    Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for transmitting feedback information of a terminal in a multi-node system in which a plurality of antennas are distributed and disposed in a cell. The method comprises the steps of: transmitting first feedback information, indicating a state between a channel and at least one of antennas, to a base station; and transmitting second feedback information, indicating at least one antenna, to the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jin Young Chun, Ki Tae Kim, Su Nam Kim, Ji Won Kang, Bin Chul Ihm, Sung Ho Park
  • Patent number: 9350397
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for transmitting an uplink reference signal in a multi-node system and a terminal using same. The method comprises the steps of: receiving a synchronization signal from a node; receiving parameters for a virtual cell identifier (ID) from the node; generating an uplink demodulation reference signal (DM-RS) using the parameters for the virtual cell ID; and transmitting the generated uplink DM-RS to the node, wherein a physical cell ID is a cell ID obtained from the synchronization signal, and the parameters for the virtual cell ID are parameters used for generating the uplink DM-RS in the replacement of the physical cell ID.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Ji Won Kang, Jin Young Chun, Min Seok Noh, Ki Tae Kim, Su Nam Kim, Bin Chul Ihm, Sung Ho Park
  • Patent number: 9350502
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for transmitting data in a wireless communication system are provided. A base station transmits to a terminal a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) through a macro node, and transmits a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) through at least one radio remote head (RRH) having a cell identity (ID) that is identical to the macro node, so as not to overlap in with the PDCCH in a time domain. A time gap can be set between a last orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol to which the PDCCH is allocated and a first OFDM symbol to which the PDSCH is allocated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jin Young Chun, Ki Tae Kim, Su Nam Kim, Ji Won Kang, Bin Chul Ihm, Sung Ho Park
  • Patent number: 9344231
    Abstract: There are provided a method of user equipment searching for control information and an apparatus using the same. The method includes receiving information about the position of an Enhanced-Physical Control Format Indication Channel (E-PCFICH) from a base station, receiving an E-PCFICH based on the information about the position of the E-PCFICH, obtaining information about the frequency band of an Enhanced Physical Downlink Control Channel (E-PDCCH) region through the E-PCFICH, and searching the E-PDCCH region for an E-PDCCH for the user equipment, wherein the E-PCFICH is transmitted in an OFDM symbol between a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH), transmitted in the first N (N is one of natural numbers 1 to 4) Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols of a subframe in the time domain, and the E-PDCCH region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Ji Won Kang, Jin Young Chun, Ki Tae Kim, Su Nam Kim, Bin Chul Ihm, Sung Ho Park
  • Publication number: 20160135197
    Abstract: An interference removal method in a multi-node system is provided. A user equipment (UE) receives node information from a base station, a first signal from a first node, and a second signal from a second node. The first signal and the second signal are used to remove an interference. The node information includes configuration information related to the first signal and the second signal. The configuration information includes information related to at least one of a number of antenna ports of the first node and the second node, a number of data streams, and a node identifier (ID). A pattern of the first signal or the second signal is determined according to at least one of the number of antenna ports of the first node and the second node, the number of data streams, and the node ID.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Ji Won Kang, Jin Young Chun, Su Nam Kim, Bin Chul Ihm, Sung Ho Park
  • Publication number: 20160134409
    Abstract: A method performed by a base station (BS) is provided for receiving aperiodic channel state information (CSI). The BS transmits a CSI request field which is set to trigger a CSI report to a user equipment (UE), and receives CSI through a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) from the UE. The CSI request field has a value among a plurality of candidate values and the plurality of candidate values comprises a first value which triggers an aperiodic CSI report for a first set of reference signals and a second value which triggers an aperiodic CSI report for a second set of reference signals. The first set and the second set of reference signals are configured by a higher layer signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Ji Won KANG, Jin Young CHUN, Ki Tae KIM, Su Nam KIM, Bin Chul IHM, Sung Ho PARK
  • Patent number: 9338774
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for searching for a user equipment searching for a control channel in a multi-node system. The method comprises: searching inside an E-PDCCH region for a first piece of downlink control information (DCI), which is determined according to a transmission mode; and searching inside the E-PDCCH region for a second piece of DCI, regardless of the transmission mode, wherein the E-PDCCH region is a control channel region to which the DCI, which is decoded on the basis of a user equipment-specific reference signal (URS), is transmitted from a subframe comprising a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Bin Chul Ihm, Ki Tae Kim, Su Nam Kim, Ji Won Kang, Jin Young Chun, Sung Ho Park
  • Publication number: 20160112100
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a terminal which receives signals from a base station, and to a method in which the terminal receives signals from the base station in a distributed antenna system (DAS). The terminal receives, from the base station having a plurality of antennas, control information on one or more active transmission antennas allocated to the terminal, from among the plurality of antennas, and receives signals from the base station via said one or more active transmission antennas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2015
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Ji Won KANG, Bin Chul IHM, Jin Young CHUN
  • Patent number: 9306649
    Abstract: Provided is a method for transmitting feedback information of a UE in a distributed antenna system in which a plurality of antennas are distributedly disposed within a cell is provided. The method includes transmitting first feedback information used for a base station (BS) to allocate at least one of a plurality of antennas to a UE, to the BS; receiving antenna allocation information determined based on the first feedback information from the BS; and transmitting second feedback information indicating a channel state with respect to an antenna allocated according to the antenna allocation information to the BS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Ji Won Kang, Jin Young Chun, Su Nam Kim, Bin Chul Ihm, Sung Ho Park
  • Patent number: 9294947
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for measuring interference in a wireless communication system. User equipment (UE) receives a common reference signal (CRS) from a first domain having the same cell identity and a channel state information (CSI) reference signal (RS) from a second domain including a configuration of the CSI RS designated by the UE. The UE measures interference for the second domain on the basis of the received CRS and CSI RS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jin Young Chun, Ki Tae Kim, Ji Won Kang, Sung Ho Park, Su Nam Kim, Bin Chul Ihm
  • Publication number: 20160065335
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for controlling inter-cell interference is disclosed. The user equipment for controlling inter-cell interference in a wireless communication system includes an interference level measuring module configured to measure interference levels of neighboring cells using at least one of information about the number of antennas among antennas deployed in the neighboring cells, information about indexes of the effective antennas, and information about reference signal of the neighboring cells, an interference restriction request determination module configured to compare the interference levels of the neighboring cells with a predetermined threshold and to determine whether or not UE requests an interference restriction to the neighboring cells, and a transmitter configured to transmit information about one or more neighboring cells, to which the interference restriction request will be transmitted, to a serving base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2015
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Ja Ho KOO, Jin Young CHUN, Ji Won KANG, Su Nam KIM, Bin Chul IHM, Sung Ho PARK
  • Patent number: 9264918
    Abstract: Provided are a resource allocation method and device in a multi-node system comprising a plurality of nodes and a base station which is connected to each of the plurality of nodes and controls same. The method comprises: partitioning wireless resources which the base station can use; and allocating the partitioned wireless resources to the plurality of nodes, respectively, wherein the wireless resources allocated to the plurality of nodes, respectively, have different frequency bands or frame structures between the nodes which may cause interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jin Young Chun, Ki Tae Kim, Su Nam Kim, Ji Won Kang, Bin Chul Ihm, Sung Ho Park
  • Patent number: 9258066
    Abstract: The present invention provides an interference removal method in a multi-node system. The interference removal method comprises receiving node information from a base station; receiving a first signal from an objective node and a second signal from an interference node; and removing interference due to the second signal by applying a receive filter to a receive signal including the first and the second signal, where the node information includes at least one of information about a reference signal included in the second signal and information about a pre-coding matrix applied to the second signal and the receive filter is determined based on the node information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Ji Won Kang, Jin Young Chun, Su Nam Kim, Bin Chul Ihm, Sung Ho Park
  • Patent number: 9258094
    Abstract: A method and apparatus of feeding back channel state information in a multi-node system are provided. The method includes receiving a reference signal of N nodes, wherein N is a natural number equal to or more than 2, aligning the N nodes in an order of preferring the N nodes based on a result of measuring the reference signal, generating channel state information for the aligned nodes, and transmitting the generated channel state information to the base station, wherein the channel state information is generated with respect to N node combinations configured from the aligned nodes, and wherein the N node combinations are obtained by adding next highest-priority nodes to a first node combination one by one, the first node combination consisting a highest-priority node among the aligned nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Ji Won Kang, Jin Young Chun, Ki Tae Kim, Su Nam Kim, Bin Chul Ihm, Sung Ho Park
  • Publication number: 20160036575
    Abstract: A method of performing cooperative transmission in a multi-node system including a Base Station (BS) and a plurality of nodes controlled by the BS is provided. The method comprises: transmitting a first signal generated using a first cell identifier (ID) from the plurality of nodes; and transmitting a second signal generated using a second cell ID from at least one of the plurality of nodes, wherein the first cell ID is identical with a cell ID used by the BS, and the second cell ID is different from the first cell ID.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2015
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC
    Inventors: Ji Won KANG, Jin Young CHUN, Moon Il LEE, Ki Tae KIM, Su Nam KIM, Bin Chul IHM, Sung Ho PARK
  • Patent number: 9253791
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for reference signal dropping and an apparatus for the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Bin Chul Ihm, Ki Tae Kim, Su Nam Kim, Ji Won Kang, Jin Young Chun, Sung Ho Park
  • Patent number: 9246660
    Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for mitigating the interference of an interfering base station (eNB) in a heterogeneous network. The method comprises: transmitting threshold value information to an interfered eNB; receiving second feedback information, which takes into account interference caused by the interfering eNB to an interfered user equipment (UE) selected by the interfered eNB, from the interfered UE on the basis of the threshold value information and first feedback information; selecting a precoding matrix for minimizing interference to the interfered UE on the basis of the second feedback information; and applying the precoding matrix and transmitting a signal to an UE, to which the interfering eNB provides service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Sung Ho Park, Jin Young Chun, Ki Tae Kim, Su Nam Kim, Ji Won Kang, Bin Chul Ihm
  • Patent number: 9247564
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of user equipment transmitting aperiodic channel state information and user equipment using the method. The method includes receiving a channel state information request for a plurality of reference signals, receiving the plurality of reference signals, generating channel state information on each of the plurality of reference signals in response to the channel state information request, and transmitting the channel state information through a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH), wherein the channel state information request is included in only some of subframes in which the plurality of reference signals is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Ji Won Kang, Jin Young Chun, Ki Tae Kim, Su Nam Kim, Bin Chul Ihm, Sung Ho Park