Patents by Inventor Kee-Bong Song

Kee-Bong Song 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: 20230051037
    Abstract: A method and a closed-loop antenna impedance tuning (CL-AIT) system are provided. An input reflection coefficient is determined. The input reflection coefficient and a threshold value are compared to determine whether the input reflection coefficient is greater than the threshold value. In response to determining that the input reflection coefficient is greater than the threshold value, an optimal tuner code is determined based on a tuner code search algorithm. The optimal tuner code is applied to configure the CL-AIT system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Donghoon LEE, Pranav DAYAL, Kee-Bong SONG
  • Patent number: 11569881
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communication system are provided. A signal is received over a channel. The channel is decomposed into a plurality of virtual channels. Symbol detection is performed on each of the plurality of virtual channels. Values are obtained for the channel. Decoding is performed using the values to output a decoded symbol value of the received signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Inventors: Hyukjoon Kwon, Xiaoqiang Ma, Kee-Bong Song
  • Patent number: 11558837
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided. The method includes, but is not limited to, receiving a universal synchronization signal (USS) including a universal primary synchronization signal (UPSS) and a universal secondary synchronization signal (USSS), wherein the USS is coded using a mother code which is extended to m resource blocks (RBs) and n orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols and a code cover of m RBs and n symbols is applied to the mother code, determining a cell identity based on the USS, determining a frame timing based on the USS, and connecting a user equipment to a network using the cell identity and the frame timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Inventors: Hyukjoon Kwon, Niranjan Nayak Ratnakar, Kee-Bong Song, Jungwon Lee
  • Patent number: 11539424
    Abstract: A system and method for providing channel recovery for angle domain sparse channels is herein provided. According to one embodiment, a method includes receiving an input including a measurement output, and recovering analog channels utilizing bases derived from the measurement output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Inventors: Yanru Tang, Hongbing Cheng, Kee-Bong Song
  • Patent number: 11540230
    Abstract: According to one general aspect, an apparatus may include a pre-transmission circuit configured to encode a data signal for communication. The apparatus may include a peak-to-average-power ratio (PAPR) controlling circuit configured to set a power level for a level-adjusted data signal. In some embodiments, the PAPR circuit may be configured to set the power level by employing a multi-loop, multi-phase technique, wherein an inner loop employs multiple phases to constrain the PAPR and reduce at least one power-related error condition, and wherein an outer loop updates the power level. The apparatus may include a transmitter circuit configured to transmit the level-adjusted data signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Inventors: Hamed Maleki, Gennady Feygin, Pranav Dayal, Kee-Bong Song
  • Publication number: 20220385380
    Abstract: A method of optimizing at least one IQMC parameter value for an IQMC includes: generating a set of tested IQMC candidate parameter values by performing an iterative method including selecting a first IQMC candidate parameter value for the at least one parameter of the IQMC; determining, using the first IQMC candidate parameter value, a performance metric value that comprises at least one of (i) an image rejection ratio (IRR) value, (ii) a signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) value, or (iii) a signal-to-image ratio (SImR) value; and determining a second IQMC candidate parameter value that is an update to the first IQMC candidate parameter value. The method of optimizing at least one IQMC parameter value for an IQMC further includes determining an IQMC candidate parameter value of the set of tested IQMC candidate parameter values that optimizes the performance metric.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Elina Nayebi, Pranav Dayal, Kee-Bong Song
  • Patent number: 11496969
    Abstract: A method of controlling power in a transmission system may include determining a first transmit power of a first transmit path, determining a second transmit power of a second transmit path, and controlling the first transmit path and the second transmit path based on a combination of the first transmit power and the second transmit power. The combination of the first transmit power and the second transmit power may include a sum of the first transmit power and the second transmit power. Controlling the first transmit path and the second transmit path may include determining a first effective power target for the first transmit path based on the first transmit power and the second transmit power, and determining a second effective power target for the second transmit path based on the first transmit power and the second transmit power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Inventors: Pranav Dayal, Kee-Bong Song, Hou-Shin Chen, Sung-En Chiu, Karthik Nagarajan
  • Publication number: 20220337455
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic device including a processor and memory, the processor being configured to perform frequency interpolation on a channel estimation at all resource elements (REs) located where a demodulation reference signal is transmitted, perform time interpolation on a frequency domain interpolated channel obtained from the frequency interpolation, and calculate an enhanced channel estimation based on channel estimates at REs in a frequency domain and REs in a time domain, the channel estimates being output from the time interpolation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: Hyukjoon Kwon, Kee-Bong Song, Nitin Jonathan Myers, Yacong Ding
  • Publication number: 20220318598
    Abstract: A learning-based system and method for interference whitening method. In some embodiments, the method includes receiving a signal; extracting a first set of features from the signal; making a first selection, by a first neural network, based on the first set of features; and selecting a first covariance matrix, from a plurality of covariance matrices, based on the first selection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Shailesh Chaudhari, Hyukjoon Kwon, Kee-Bong Song
  • Patent number: 11452058
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a processor configured to receive a synchronization signal (SS) and identify timing of the SS based on a primary spreading signal (PSS) in the SS, identify tentative secondary spreading signals (SSSs) based on the identified timing, and group the tentative SSSs; a register configured to receive the SS; and a memory configured to store the tentative SSSs for each group of the tentative SSSs; wherein the processor is further configured to cross correlate the tentative SSSs, combine cross correlated outputs with weights by group, determine an SSS as the tentative SSS with a maximum combined cross correlation outputs, and determine a cell identification based on the determined SSS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Inventors: Bemini Hennadige Janath Peiris, Hongbing Cheng, Kee-Bong Song
  • Patent number: 11438850
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a method in a closed-loop antenna impedance tuning (CL-AIT) system is provided. The method includes determining whether a transmitted power is above a pre-determined threshold, when the transmitted power is above the pre-determined threshold, determining a bypass input reflection coefficient, determining whether the bypass input reflection coefficient is greater than a bypass threshold, and when the bypass input reflection coefficient is greater than the bypass threshold, determining an optimal tuner code based on a tuner code search algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Inventors: Donghoon Lee, Pranav Dayal, Kee-Bong Song
  • Publication number: 20220247091
    Abstract: A first antenna array includes antenna panels including: first antenna panels arranged on a first circle having a first radius, each of the first antenna panels including antenna elements; and second antenna panels arranged on a second circle having a second radius, each of the second antenna panels including antenna elements, the second circle being concentric with the first circle at a center point, the second antenna panels being arranged at a first angle around the center point with respect to the first antenna panels, the first radius, the second radius, and the first angle being computed in accordance with wireless transmission conditions including: a line-of-sight distance to a second antenna array including third antenna panels arranged on two or more circles; and a carrier frequency of a line-of-sight wireless transmission between the first antenna array and the second antenna array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Jang Wook Moon, Hongbing Cheng, Kee-Bong Song
  • Patent number: 11405116
    Abstract: A method of optimizing at least one IQMC parameter value for an IQMC includes: generating a set of tested IQMC candidate parameter values by performing an iterative method including selecting a first IQMC candidate parameter value for the at least one parameter of the IQMC; determining, using the first IQMC candidate parameter value, a performance metric value that comprises at least one of (i) an image rejection ratio (IRR) value, (ii) a signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) value, or (iii) a signal-to-image ratio (SImR) value; and determining a second IQMC candidate parameter value that is an update to the first IQMC candidate parameter value. The method of optimizing at least one IQMC parameter value for an IQMC further includes determining an IQMC candidate parameter value of the set of tested IQMC candidate parameter values that optimizes the performance metric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Elina Nayebi, Pranav Dayal, Kee-Bong Song
  • Publication number: 20220131735
    Abstract: An in-phase and quadrature mismatch compensator for a quadrature transmitter includes a delay element, a complex-valued filter and an adder. The delay element receives an input transmit signal and outputs a delayed transmit signal. The complex-valued filter receives the input transmit signal and outputs a selected part of a filtered output transmit signal. The adder adds the delayed transmit signal and the selected part of the filtered output transmit signal and outputs a pre-compensated transmit signal. In one embodiment, the selected part of the filtered output transmit signal includes the real part of the complex-valued output transmit signal. In another embodiment, the selected part of the filtered output transmit signal includes the imaginary part of the complex-valued output transmit signal. Two transmit real-valued compensators are also disclosed that combine the in-phase and quadrature signals before being filtered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Elina NAYEBI, Pranav DAYAL, Kee-Bong SONG
  • Publication number: 20220116884
    Abstract: A method of controlling power in a transmission system may include determining a first transmit power of a first transmit path, determining a second transmit power of a second transmit path, and controlling the first transmit path and the second transmit path based on a combination of the first transmit power and the second transmit power. The combination of the first transmit power and the second transmit power may include a sum of the first transmit power and the second transmit power. Controlling the first transmit path and the second transmit path may include determining a first effective power target for the first transmit path based on the first transmit power and the second transmit power, and determining a second effective power target for the second transmit path based on the first transmit power and the second transmit power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Pranav DAYAL, Kee-Bong SONG, Hou-Shin CHEN, Sung-En CHIU, Karthik NAGARAJAN
  • Patent number: 11296428
    Abstract: A first antenna array includes antenna panels including: first antenna panels arranged on a first circle having a first radius, each of the first antenna panels including antenna elements; and second antenna panels arranged on a second circle having a second radius, each of the second antenna panels including antenna elements, the second circle being concentric with the first circle at a center point, the second antenna panels being arranged at a first angle around the center point with respect to the first antenna panels, the first radius, the second radius, and the first angle being computed in accordance with wireless transmission conditions including: a line-of-sight distance to a second antenna array including third antenna panels arranged on two or more circles; and a carrier frequency of a line-of-sight wireless transmission between the first antenna array and the second antenna array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jang Wook Moon, Hongbing Cheng, Kee-Bong Song
  • Patent number: 11290127
    Abstract: An apparatus and method are provided. The apparatus includes a decoder including a first input configured to receive transport blocks, a second input, and an output configured to provide a decoded codeword, and an offset value updater including an input connected to the output of the decoder, and an output, connected to the second input of the decoder, configured to provide an updated offset value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Inventors: Ahmed A. Abotabl, Kee-Bong Song, Jung Hyun Bae
  • Publication number: 20220094419
    Abstract: A wireless communication device includes: a processing circuit configured to: receive, from an antenna array during a previous period, a first directional electromagnetic signal including beam sweeping reference symbols of a previous beam sweeping period; compute an estimated combined channel; estimate a dominant angle-of-arrival (AoA) of the first directional electromagnetic signal based on the estimated combined channel and a previous beamforming codebook including two or more beamforming vectors corresponding to different AoAs; construct an updated beamforming codebook based on the estimated dominant AoA and one or more remaining AoAs spaced apart from the estimated dominant AoA; receive, at the antenna array during a current period, a second directional electromagnetic signal including data symbols; determine a beamforming vector for data reception of the second directional electromagnetic signal based on the updated beamforming codebook; and detect the data symbols in the second directional electromagnet
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventors: YANRU TANG, HONGBING CHENG, KEE-BONG SONG
  • Publication number: 20220094586
    Abstract: A method of pre-compensating for transmitter in-phase (I) and quadrature (Q) mismatch (IQMM) may include sending a signal through an up-converter of a transmit path to provide an up-converted signal, determining the up-converted signal, determining one or more IQMM parameters for the transmit path based on the determined up-converted signal, and determining one or more pre-compensation parameters for the transmit path based on the one or more IQMM parameters for the transmit path. In some embodiments, the up-converted signal may be determined through a receive feedback path. In some embodiments, the up-converted signal may be determined through an envelope detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventors: Elina NAYEBI, Pranav DAYAL, Kee-Bong SONG
  • Publication number: 20220078722
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a method in a closed-loop antenna impedance tuning (CL-AIT) system is provided. The method includes determining whether a transmitted power is above a pre-determined threshold, when the transmitted power is above the pre-determined threshold, determining a bypass input reflection coefficient, determining whether the bypass input reflection coefficient is greater than a bypass threshold, and when the bypass input reflection coefficient is greater than the bypass threshold, determining an optimal tuner code based on a tuner code search algorithm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Donghoon LEE, Pranav DAYAL, Kee-Bong SONG