Patents by Inventor Jianwei Zhou

Jianwei Zhou 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).

  • Publication number: 20240162908
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a phase-locked loop, a radar system and a method for randomizing initial phases of FMCW signals. The phase-locked loop includes a phase-locked loop circuit and a random control signal generator. In response to a clock signal indicating a respective target moment of one or more target moments, the random control signal generator inputs a random control signal to the phase-locked loop circuit, so that the accumulated value of the plurality of fractional frequency division values is converted into a random value, and that a plurality of phase differences respectively corresponding to the plurality of chirp signals form a non-arithmetic sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: Jianwei YANG, Wenting ZHOU
  • Publication number: 20240146686
    Abstract: A network includes at least two nodes that employ a routing protocol to communicate across a network. One of the nodes is a parent node and another of the nodes is a child node of the parent node. An address generator assigns a unique network address to the child node by appending an address value of a number of bits to a parent address of the parent node to create the unique network address for the child node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2024
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Alper S. Akyurek, Ariton E. Xhafa, Jianwei Zhou, Ramanuja Vedantham
  • Publication number: 20240147391
    Abstract: A network includes an intermediate node to communicate with a child node via a wireless network protocol. An intermediate node synchronizer in the intermediate node facilitates time synchronization with its parent node and with the child node. A child node synchronizer in the child node to facilitates time synchronization with the intermediate node. The intermediate node synchronizer exchanges synchronization data with the child node synchronizer to enable the child node to be time synchronized to the intermediate node before the intermediate node is synchronized to its parent node if the intermediate node has not synchronized to its parent node within a predetermined guard time period established for the child node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2024
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: ARITON E. XHAFA, JIANWEI ZHOU, XIAOLIN LU
  • Publication number: 20240135892
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method for adjusting a signal of a display panel, a time controller integrated circuit, a display panel, and a storage medium. The method includes: converting first data into a first data voltage signal using a first data voltage, in response to a set condition being reached, sending the first data voltage signal to a chip on film integrated circuit, the chip on film integrated circuit identifies the first data voltage signal to obtain a second data; acquiring the second data from the chip on film integrated circuit, determining that the chip on film integrated circuit fails to identify the first data in response to the second data being different from the first data; and adjusting the first data voltage until a second data voltage signal converted from the first data using a second data voltage after adjustment being successfully identified by the chip on film integrated circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Yunlu CHEN, Changcheng LIU, Liugang ZHOU, Liu HE, Kun YANG, Jianwei SUN, Jun WANG, Yunyun LIANG, Qing LI, Yu QUAN, Yanting HUANG, Zhengru PAN, Bingbing YAN, Jiantao LIU
  • Patent number: 11968640
    Abstract: This application provides an example timing advance update method, an example terminal, and an example base station. One example method includes receiving, by a terminal, an updated timing advance TA value and a beam cell identity of a beam cell in which the terminal is located that are sent by a base station. The example method also includes obtaining, by the terminal, corresponding TA compensation information based on the beam cell identity. The example method further includes performing, by the terminal, TA compensation in a TA update period based on the updated TA value and the TA compensation information. The example method also includes sending, by the terminal, uplink data by using a TA value obtained after TA compensation is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chenlei Xu, Jianwei Zhou, Zhenjun Jiang, Hejia Luo
  • Patent number: 11902923
    Abstract: A network includes an intermediate node to communicate with a child node via a wireless network protocol. An intermediate node synchronizer in the intermediate node facilitates time synchronization with its parent node and with the child node. A child node synchronizer in the child node to facilitates time synchronization with the intermediate node. The intermediate node synchronizer exchanges synchronization data with the child node synchronizer to enable the child node to be time synchronized to the intermediate node before the intermediate node is synchronized to its parent node if the intermediate node has not synchronized to its parent node within a predetermined guard time period established for the child node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Ariton E. Xhafa, Jianwei Zhou, Xiaolin Lu
  • Patent number: 11902244
    Abstract: A network includes at least two nodes that employ a routing protocol to communicate across a network. One of the nodes is a parent node and another of the nodes is a child node of the parent node. An address generator assigns a unique network address to the child node by appending an address value of a number of bits to a parent address of the parent node to create the unique network address for the child node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Alper S. Akyurek, Ariton E. Xhafa, Jianwei Zhou, Ramanuja Vedantham
  • Publication number: 20240040466
    Abstract: A network includes a mobile network node (MNN) that includes a mobile node communications manager (MNCM) to facilitate wireless communications to a plurality of stationary network nodes (SNNs) in a wireless network via a wireless network protocol. The MNCM utilizes a multicast address received over the wireless network. The multicast address is assigned to a predetermined network time slot to communicate uplink data from the MNN to the SNNs. The MNN receives downlink data via a separate predetermined network address and time slot assigned to a given SNN.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: ARITON XHAFA, JIANWEI ZHOU, XIAOLIN LU, IL HAN KIM, KAICHIEN TSAI
  • Patent number: 11889563
    Abstract: This application provides a random access method and an apparatus. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal device, a broadcast signal; and sending, by the terminal device, a random access signal, where a preamble sequence in the random access signal includes K first symbols and Q second symbols, the first symbol and the second symbol are different from each other, K and Q are integers greater than or equal to 1, K+Q=NSEQ, and NSEQ is a quantity of symbols included in the preamble sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chenlei Xu, Jianwei Zhou, Hejia Luo, Jun Wang
  • Publication number: 20240031966
    Abstract: A communication parameter indication method and apparatus is provided. The method includes: obtaining first information, where the first information requests a first parameter of a terminal device, and the first parameter includes at least one of: location information of the terminal device and a parameter related to a timing advance TA that is determined based on a round-trip transmission delay between a first reference point and the terminal device, or a round-trip transmission delay between a network device and the terminal device; sending second information based on the first information, where the second information indicates the first parameter; and obtaining third information indicating a timing offset, the timing offset is for determining a scheduling delay degree of sending information by the terminal device, and is related to at least one of a communication parameter corresponding to a cell in which the terminal device is located and the first parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ying CHEN, Yunfei QIAO, Jianwei ZHOU, Xiaolu WANG, Jun WANG
  • Patent number: 11818643
    Abstract: A network includes a mobile network node (MNN) that includes a mobile node communications manager (MNCM) to facilitate wireless communications to a plurality of stationary network nodes (SNNs) in a wireless network via a wireless network protocol. The MNCM utilizes a multicast address received over the wireless network. The multicast address is assigned to a predetermined network time slot to communicate uplink data from the MNN to the SNNs. The MNN receives downlink data via a separate predetermined network address and time slot assigned to a given SNN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Ariton Xhafa, Jianwei Zhou, Xiaolin Lu, Il Han Kim, Kaichien Tsai
  • Publication number: 20230319751
    Abstract: An uplink signal sending and receiving method includes that a first communication apparatus obtains a first timing advance (TA) change rate, and sends an uplink signal in a plurality of first time periods. There is a first time interval between the plurality of first time periods to compensate for a time synchronization drift. A length of the first time interval and a location of the first time interval between the plurality of first time periods are determined based on the first TA change rate, and the first TA change rate is a TA change rate in a communication process of the first communication apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Ying Chen, Jianwei Zhou, Chenlei Xu, Hejia Luo, Jun Wang
  • Patent number: 11770159
    Abstract: This application discloses a frequency compensation method and apparatus, to improve performance of frequency compensation. The method includes: determining a change rate of a Doppler frequency shift value based on a weighted change rate of a change rate of a timing advance TA, determining the Doppler frequency shift value based on the change rate of the Doppler frequency shift value, and performing frequency compensation based on the determined Doppler frequency shift value; or determining a frequency offset value based on the Doppler frequency shift value with reference to pre-compensation and based on a reference signal, to further determine a frequency offset value, and performing frequency compensation based on the frequency offset value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ying Chen, Jianwei Zhou, Hejia Luo, Xiaolu Wang, Rong Li, Jun Wang
  • Publication number: 20230300576
    Abstract: A method for managing Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) addresses in a wireless sensor network is provided that includes storing, on a wireless sensor device in the wireless sensor network, a prefix of an IPv6 address in association with a key, forming an address indicator for the IPv6 address, the address indicator consisting of the key and a node address of the IPv6 address, and storing the address indicator in at least one memory location on the wireless sensor device in lieu of the IPv6 address.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Alper Sinan Akyurek, Ariton E. Xhafa, Jianwei Zhou, Ramanuja Vedantham
  • Patent number: 11765749
    Abstract: A selected network element is arranged for distributed transmission resource allocation conflict reduction. The selected network element receives a transmission from one of a first other network element and a second other network element and identifies at least one transmission resource indicated by the received transmission as being reserved by the first other network element and the second other network element. The selected network element stores an indication of each of the at least one identified transmission resource. In response to reading the stored indications, the selected network element selects a different transmission resource that is different from the transmission resource indicated by the stored indications. The selected network element transmits a transmission from the selected network element using the selected different transmission resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Wonsoo Kim, Il Han Kim, Jianwei Zhou
  • Publication number: 20230283350
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a channel matrix determining method, an apparatus, and a system, relating to the field of communication technologies, to resolve a technical problem that a manner in which a network device determines a precoding matrix based on an existing PMI indicator is not applicable to long-distance communication. The method includes: A terminal device obtains a plurality of reference signals, determines a first channel matrix based on the plurality of reference signals, and feeds back, to a network device, first information indicating some channel elements in the first channel matrix. The terminal device may further receive a downlink signal determined based on the first information and sent by the network device. A channel element in the some channel elements is determined based on signal strength and/or a time-frequency resource of the reference signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Ying CHEN, Jianwei ZHOU, Hejia LUO, Yu WANG, Jun WANG
  • Publication number: 20230275639
    Abstract: This application relates to the field of communication technologies, and provides a precoding method and a communication apparatus. The method includes: A terminal device obtains a first reference signal, where the first reference signal is a reference signal precoded by using a first precoding matrix. Then the terminal device sends first information, where the first information is determined based on a measurement result of the first reference signal, and is used to determine a target precoding matrix. Then the terminal device obtains information precoded by using the target precoding matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Ying Chen, Jianwei Zhou, Jiayu Zheng, Hejia Luo, Rong Li, Jun Wang
  • Publication number: 20230262677
    Abstract: A bandwidth part switching method, is applicable to a non-terrestrial network (NTN) to implement BWP switching based on multi-color frequency-division multiplexing. In the method, a terminal device may report, in a second BWP to a network device, an index of a first SSB whose signal quality is greater than or equal to a first threshold in one or more SSBs in a first BWP, and switch from the second BWP to a third BWP. The one or more SSBs correspond to at least one BWP other than the first BWP, and the third BWP is in the at least one BWP and corresponds to the first SSB. After receiving the index of the first SSB in the second BWP, the network device determines the third BWP, and performs service data transmission with the terminal device in the third BWP.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: Jianwei Zhou, Yu Wang, Ying Chen, Hejia Luo, Chenlei Xu, Jun Wang
  • Publication number: 20230254830
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus receives a parameter that is configured by a network apparatus and that is used to calculate an update period, where the update period is used to indicate time at which the terminal apparatus receives an uplink time-frequency synchronization parameter. The terminal apparatus receives an updated uplink time-frequency synchronization parameter based on the update period. The network apparatus configures the parameter for calculating the update period, so that the terminal apparatus can update the uplink time-frequency synchronization parameter in time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Xiaolu Wang, Hejia Luo, Jianwei Zhou, Rong Li, Jun Wang
  • Publication number: 20230247576
    Abstract: Example frequency compensation methods and apparatus are described. One example method includes determining first information and sending the first information by a network device to a terminal device, where the first information indicates a frequency compensation manner of an uplink signal of the terminal device or the first information indicates a configuration parameter of the terminal device. The terminal device receives the first information, and determines, based on the first information, the frequency compensation manner to be used to send the uplink signal. The terminal device performs frequency compensation for the uplink signal based on the frequency compensation manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Hejia LUO, Xiaolu WANG, Jianwei ZHOU, Ying CHEN, Chenlei XU, Jun WANG