Patents by Inventor Zhanping Yin

Zhanping Yin 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: 20230421310
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) includes receiving circuitry configured to receive a radio resource control (RRC) message comprising first information used for indicating a maximum number of Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) processes for reduced capability, the maximum number being no more than 8. The receiving circuitry receives an RRC message comprising second information used for indicating limited buffer rate matching is applied to Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) transmission for reduced capability. The receiving circuitry also receives an RRC message comprising third information used for indicating a Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) limitation for reduced capability. The receiving circuitry receives an RRC message comprising fourth information used for indicating a MCS table for reduced capability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: KAI YING, ZHANPING YIN, JOHN MICHAEL KOWALSKI, KAZUNARI YOKOMAKURA
  • Patent number: 11844077
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE includes a processor and memory in electronic communication with the processor. Instructions stored in the memory are executable to determine the uplink control channel (PUCCH) format and configuration based on a signaling from a base station (gNB). The instructions are also executable to determine the demodulation reference signal (DMRS) locations in the configured PUCCH. The instructions are further executable to determine the uplink control information (UCI) multiplexing methods on the configured PUCCH. The instructions are additionally executable to determine the resource of the control channel for UCI feedback. The instructions are also executable to transmit UCI feedback on the selected control channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Zhanping Yin, Toshizo Nogami
  • Publication number: 20230396370
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE includes a processor configured to determine that joint reporting of uplink control information (UCI) with different priorities is configured and a multiplexing timeline is satisfied. The processor is also configured to multiplex a low priority hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) and a high priority scheduling request (SR) with a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) format 0 or a PUCCH format 1. The UE also includes transmitting circuitry configured to transmit the multiplexed HARQ-ACK and SR on a PUCCH.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: ZHANPING YIN, KAZUNARI YOKOMAKURA, KAI YING
  • Publication number: 20230389040
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is described. Higher layer circuitry is configured to receive first information, second information, and third information. Receiving circuitry is configured to receive a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) and a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH). Transmitting circuitry is configured to transmit a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH). The first information indicates one or more combinations, each combination including a downlink transmission configuration indication (TCI) and an uplink TCI. The second information indicates whether to configure a presence of a TCI field in downlink control information (DCI) carried by the PDCCH. The third information indicates a time duration threshold between the PDCCH and the PDSCH. The transmitting circuitry transmits the PUCCH based on a first combination, a second combination, or a third combination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: KAZUNARI YOKOMAKURA, ZHANPING YIN, KAI YING, JOHN MICHAEL KOWALSKI
  • Publication number: 20230389008
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is described. Higher layer circuitry is configured to receive information to configure a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) repetition. Receiving circuitry is configured to receive downlink control information (DCI) on a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH). Transmitting circuitry is configured to transmit a PUSCH. A redundancy version field in the DCI indicates a pattern of redundancy versions for each repetition. A sounding reference signal index (SRI) field indicates a pattern of sounding reference signal indexes for each repetition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: KAZUNARI YOKOMAKURA, ZHANPING YIN, KAI YING, JOHN MICHAEL KOWALSKI
  • Publication number: 20230388076
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is described. Higher layer circuitry is configured to receive information to configure more than one sounding reference signal (SRS) resource set for aperiodic SRS transmission. Medium access control (MAC) circuitry is configured to receive a MAC control element (MAC CE) to activate one or more of the SRS resource sets. Receiving circuitry is configured to receive downlink control information (DCI) carried by a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH). Transmitting circuitry is configured to transmit an SRS. A configuration of each of the configured SRS resource sets includes a slot offset for the aperiodic SRS transmission. An SRS request field in the DCI indicates one from the activated SRS resource set. The transmitting circuitry transmits the SRS based on the indicated SRS resource set and the slot offset included in the indicated SRS resource set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: KAZUNARI YOKOMAKURA, ZHANPING YIN, KAI YING, JOHN MICHAEL KOWALSKI
  • Publication number: 20230379094
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE includes a processor configured to determine a joint coding for up to two bits of low priority hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) and high priority HARQ-ACK on a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH). The processor is also configured to multiplex the low priority HARQ-ACK and the high priority HARQ-ACK based on the determined joint coding. The UE also includes transmitting circuitry configured to transmit the multiplexed HARQ-ACK on the PUCCH.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: ZHANPING YIN, KAI YING, KAZUNARI YOKOMAKURA
  • Publication number: 20230379917
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE includes a processor configured to determine that joint reporting of uplink control information (UCI) with different priorities is configured and a multiplexing timeline is satisfied. The processor is also configured to multiplex more than two bits of a hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) and a scheduling request (SR) using a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) format 2, PUCCH format 3 or PUCCH format 4. The HARQ-ACK and the SR have different priorities. The UE also includes transmitting circuitry configured to transmit the multiplexed HARQ-ACK and SR on a PUCCH.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: ZHANPING YIN, KAZUNARI YOKOMAKURA, KAI YING
  • Publication number: 20230379916
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE determines a joint coding for more than two bits of total payload for low priority hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) and high priority HARQ-ACK on a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH). The UE also determines a PUCCH resource based on the total HARQ-ACK payload from sets of high priority PUCCH resources. The UE further determines a number of physical resource blocks (PRBs) for a PUCCH transmission based on the total HARQ-ACK payload and a maxCodeRate on the selected PUCCH resource. The UE also multiplexes the low priority HARQ-ACK and the high priority HARQ-ACK based on the determined joint coding. The UE further transmits the multiplexed HARQ-ACK on the PUCCH.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: ZHANPING YIN, KAI YING, KAZUNARI YOKOMAKURA
  • Publication number: 20230379096
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE includes a processor configured to determine that joint reporting of uplink control information (UCI) with different priorities is configured and a multiplexing timeline is satisfied. The processor is also configured to multiplex a hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) and a scheduling request (SR), the HARQ-ACK comprising a low priority HARQ-ACK with a PUCCH format 0 or a PUCCH format 1, and the SR comprising a high priority SR with a PUCCH format 1. The UE also includes transmitting circuitry configured to transmit the multiplexed HARQ-ACK and SR by transmitting the low priority HARQ-ACK on a PUCCH resource for a positive high priority SR using PUCCH format 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: ZHANPING YIN, KAZUNARI YOKOMAKURA, KAI YING
  • Publication number: 20230379090
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE includes receiving circuitry configured to receive downlink control information (DCI) for uplink transmission with downlink support of a non-terrestrial network (NTN). The DCI includes a time domain resource assignment field The UE also includes a processor. The processor is configured to determine a resource allocation based on the DCI with the time domain resource assignment field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: KAI YING, ZHANPING YIN, JOHN MICHAEL KOWALSKI, KAZUNARI YOKOMAKURA
  • Publication number: 20230345466
    Abstract: A wireless terminal comprises receiver circuitry and processor circuitry. The receiver circuitry is configured to receive, over a radio interface, a serving cell frequency resource including a first subset of frequency resources. The processor circuitry is configured to determine, from the serving cell frequency resource, scheduling information for a physical channel; and then to use the scheduling information to either (a) filter reception power outside of the first subset of frequency resources, or (b) filter reception power outside of the serving cell frequency resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Tomoki YOSHIMURA, Zhanping YIN, Jana Marie BLUST
  • Publication number: 20230345390
    Abstract: A network controlled repeater (NCR) is described. The NCR may include receiving circuitry configured to obtain master information block (MIB) or system information block (SIB) information to be broadcast in a local synchronization signal block (SSB) and physical broadcast channel (PBCH). The NCR may also include transmitting circuitry configured to determine a local NCR SSB burst set and beam configuration based on higher layer signaling, regenerate the SSB and PBCH with the obtained information, and transmit the SSB following the local NCR SSB burst set and beam configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Zhanping Yin, Tomoki Yoshimura
  • Publication number: 20230318748
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE includes a processor configured to determine a maximum code rate for a low priority hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) that is multiplexed with a high priority HARQ-ACK on a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH). The low priority HARQ-ACK has a separate code rate than the high priority HARQ-ACK. The processor is also configured to multiplex the low priority HARQ-ACK and the high priority HARQ-ACK based on the determined maximum code rate for the low priority HARQ-ACK. The UE also includes transmitting circuitry configured to transmit the multiplexed HARQ-ACK on the PUCCH.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: ZHANPING YIN, KAZUNARI YOKOMAKURA, KAI YING
  • Publication number: 20230319911
    Abstract: A method by a User Equipment (UE) for sidelink (SL) communication with another UE is disclosed. The method comprises establishing a first SL connection from the UE to the another UE using a first resource set, the first resource set including an identifier (ID) of the first resource set, parameters for configuring a first Vehicle to Everything (V2X) Resource Pool, and Beam Management (BM) parameters associated with the first V2X Resource Pool for enabling a first set of directional transmission beams; receiving, from the another UE, a Quality of Service (QoS) value associated with a first beam of the first set of directional transmission beams used for establishing the first SL connection; and reporting, to a New Radio (NR) V2X Control Function, the ID of the first resource set, a first beam index identifying the first beam, and the QoS value associated with the first beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Kenneth James Park, KAZUNARI YOKOMAKURA, ZHANPING YIN, JOHN MICHAEL KOWALSKI
  • Publication number: 20230308152
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE may include memory configured to store a first quantity value for a channel state information (CSI) quantity type. The UE may also include receiving circuitry configured to calculate a second quantity value for the CSI quantity type based on a CSI measurement event. The UE may also include transmitting circuitry configured to transmit a CSI report including the second quantity value in a physical uplink channel. The transmitting circuitry may also be configured to determine whether to drop the second quantity value from the CSI report by comparing a threshold and a delta value. The transmitting circuitry may also be configured to calculate the delta value by comparing the first quantity value and the second quantity value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Kazunari Yokomakura, Zhanping Yin, Tomoki Yoshimura, Kai Ying
  • Publication number: 20230309156
    Abstract: A method by a User Equipment (UE) for sidelink (SL) communication with another UE is disclosed. The method comprises establishing a first SL connection from the UE to the another UE using a first resource set of a plurality of resource sets stored in the UE, the first resource set including an identifier of the first resource set, parameters for configuring a first Vehicle to Everything (V2X) Resource Pool, and Beam Management parameters associated with the first V2X Resource Pool for enabling a first set of directional transmission beams; receiving, by the UE from the another UE, a Quality of Service value associated with a first beam used for establishing the first SL connection; and determining whether to select a second resource set of the plurality of resource sets to establish a second SL connection from the UE to the another UE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Kenneth James Park, KAZUNARI YOKOMAKURA, ZHANPING YIN, JOHN MICHAEL KOWALSKI
  • Publication number: 20230308151
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE may include memory configured to store a first quantity value for a channel state information (CSI) quantity type. The UE may include receiving circuitry configured to calculate a second quantity value for the CSI quantity type based on a CSI measurement event. The UE may also include transmitting circuitry configured to transmit a CSI report including the second quantity value in a physical uplink channel. The transmitting circuitry may be configured to determine a priority index by comparing a threshold and a delta value. The transmitting circuitry may also be configured to calculate the delta value by comparing the first quantity value and the second quantity value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Kazunari Yokomakura, Zhanping Yin, Tomoki Yoshimura, Kai Ying
  • Publication number: 20230300827
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE receives an RRC message comprising first information used for indicating a reduced UE processing capability from a set of multiple reduced UE processing capabilities. The UE receives an RRC message comprising second information used for indicating a numerology for a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) transmission. The UE receives an RRC message comprising third information used for indicating a scaling factor for reduced UE PUSCH preparation time. The UE receives an RRC message comprising fourth information used for indicating an offset for reduced UE PUSCH preparation time. The UE transmits, to the base station apparatus, a transport block if the first uplink symbol in the PUSCH allocation for a transport block including a Demodulation Reference Signal (DM-RS) is no earlier than at symbol X.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: KAI YING, ZHANPING YIN, JOHN MICHAEL KOWALSKI, KAZUNARI YOKOMAKURA
  • Publication number: 20230300830
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE includes reception circuitry configured to receive first information and second information. The UE also includes transmission circuitry configured to transmit a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH). The first information indicates a number of repetitions of the PUSCH. The second information indicates more than one spatial relation information configurations. Each of the more than one spatial relation information configurations is applied to each repetition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: KAZUNARI YOKOMAKURA, ZHANPING YIN, KAI YING