Patents Assigned to Qualcomm Incorporated
  • Patent number: 11687316
    Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems for determining image capture settings based on an audio input are disclosed. In some aspects, a device includes a memory, a camera including a lens and a sensor, and a processor coupled to the camera and the memory. The processor may be configured to receive an audio input, determine contextual information based on the audio input, determine one or more image capture settings based on the contextual information, and output the one or more image capture settings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ying Noyes, Ho Sang Lee
  • Patent number: 11686853
    Abstract: In some aspects, a mobile device is configured to obtain a set of satellite signal measurements through measuring, for each satellite in a first plurality of satellites, a first signal from the satellite in a first frequency band and a second signal from the satellite in a second frequency band. The first plurality of satellites can include at least a first satellite, a second satellite, and a third satellite. The mobile device can determine that at least one measurement in the set of satellite signal measurements is impaired, based on a difference between a measurement of the first signal from a particular satellite (e.g., the first satellite, the second satellite, or the third satellite) and a measurement of the second signal from the particular satellite. A position of the mobile device can then be determined based on non-impaired measurements in the set of satellite signal measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jordan Cookman, Krishnaranjan Rao, Sandeep Padmanabhan
  • Patent number: 11689878
    Abstract: A device includes a memory and one or more processors. The memory is configured to store instructions. The one or more processors are configured to execute the instructions to obtain electrical activity data corresponding to electrical signals from one or more electrical sources within a user's head. The one or more processors are also configured to execute the instructions to render, based on the electrical activity data, audio data to adjust a location of a sound source in a sound field during playback of the audio data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Diyan Teng, Junsheng Han, Rashmi Kulkarni
  • Patent number: 11689894
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine a capability of the UE relating to a carrier configuration of the UE, wherein the carrier configuration relates to carriers of at least two different numerologies; and transmit information identifying the capability, wherein the information identifying the capability identifies a bandwidth or number of carriers that is supported for carriers of a first numerology and one or more scaling values associated with one or more numerologies other than the first numerology. A base station may receive information identifying a capability of a UE relating to a carrier configuration of the UE, wherein the carrier configuration relates to carriers of at least two different numerologies; and determine a configuration for communication with the UE based at least in part on the information identifying the capability. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Alberto Rico Alvarino, Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Amir Farajidana, Amer Catovic, Wanshi Chen, Umesh Phuyal, Tae Min Kim, Supratik Bhattacharjee
  • Patent number: 11686850
    Abstract: Described are methods, systems, and devices for correcting ionospheric error. In some aspects, a mobile device equipped with a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver is configured to determine a positioning measurement of a GNSS signal. The mobile device is further configured to receive augmentation data from an augmentation system. When augmentation data for a current measurement period is unavailable, the mobile device can obtain augmentation data associated with Total Electron Content (TEC) values (e.g., vertical TEC values) during one or more prior measurement periods. Based on the augmentation data associated with TEC values during one or more prior measurement periods and a pierce point of the received GNSS signal, an ionospheric error in the positioning measurement of the GNSS signal can be determined and corrected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Min Wang, Ning Luo, Gengsheng Zhang, Kannan Muthuraman
  • Patent number: 11685382
    Abstract: Various embodiments include methods and vehicles that may include determining whether to initiate a configuration change protocol to implement a configuration change for modifying the arrangement of the vehicle internal structure in response to a planned or predicted future operating mode, event or environment. Also, determining whether an occupancy status of the vehicle conflicts with an occupancy status allowed for in a configuration called for by a configuration change input or indication. Further, modifying an arrangement of the vehicle internal structure in accordance with the configuration change input or indication in response to determining that the occupancy status of the vehicle does not conflict with the occupancy status allowed for in the configuration called for by the configuration change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Michael Franco Taveira
  • Patent number: 11689201
    Abstract: An aspect relates to an apparatus including a first pair of switching devices configured to selectively couple an application processor to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) differential data transmission lines; a USB host port connector coupled to the USB differential data transmission lines; a second pair of switching devices configured to selectively couple an audio circuit to the USB differential data transmission lines; and an equalizer including differential terminals coupled to the USB differential data transmission lines, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Vijayakumar Dhanasekaran, Khaled Mahmoud Abdelfattah Aly
  • Patent number: 11689014
    Abstract: An ESD protection circuit in an interface circuit has a first diode coupled between a first power source of an integrated circuit device and an input/output pad of the integrated circuit device, a second diode coupled between a second power source of the integrated circuit device and the input/output pad, and a resistive element that couples the second diode to the first diode and to the input/output pad. The first power source supplies a driver circuit coupled to the input/output pad. The second power source supplies one or more core circuits of the integrated circuit device. The resistive element may be implemented as an interconnect configured to provide a resistance that produces a voltage differential between a terminal of the second diode and a corresponding terminal of the first diode during an electrostatic discharge event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Satish Krishnamoorthy, Young Uk Yim, Ashwin Sethuram
  • Patent number: 11687766
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for an artificial neural network are described. In one example, an artificial neuron in an artificial neural network may include a resistor coupled with an input line and configured to indicate a synaptic weight and a fuse coupled with the resistor. The artificial neuron may also include a selection component coupled with the fuse and configured to activate the fuse for programming the resistor, and a second selection component coupled with the resistor and an output line, the second selection component configured to select the resistor for a read operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Haining Yang, Periannan Chidambaram
  • Patent number: 11687104
    Abstract: In certain aspects, a system includes an amplifying circuit having an input and an output, wherein the input of the amplifying circuit is coupled to a gate of a pass transistor of a low dropout (LDO) regulator. The system also includes a metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) capacitor coupled between the output of the amplifying circuit and the input of the amplifying circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Kuan Chuang Koay, Hua Guan, Jize Jiang
  • Patent number: 11689102
    Abstract: An example power supply circuit includes a boost converter and a feedback control circuit. The boost converter generally includes an inductive element coupled between an input voltage node and a switching node, a first switch coupled between the switching node and a reference potential node, a second switch or a diode coupled between the switching node and an output voltage node. The feedback control circuit has a first input coupled to the output voltage node and has an output coupled to at least a control input of the first switch. The feedback control circuit generally includes a voltage node configured to influence a duty cycle of the boost converter; and a feedforward path coupled to the voltage node and configured to have a voltage signal derived from at least one of an input voltage at the input voltage node or an output signal at the output voltage node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Subbarao Surendra Chakkirala
  • Patent number: 11687106
    Abstract: A system on chip (SOC) includes a power distribution network (PDN) that has two different types of power multiplexers. The first power multiplexer type includes a lower resistance switching logic, and the second type includes a higher resistance switching logic as well as digital logic to provide an enable signal to the first type of power multiplexer. A given first-type power multiplexer may have multiple power multiplexers of the second type in a loop, the loop including communication paths for the enable signal and feeding the enable signal back to an enable input of the first-type power multiplexer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Giby Samson, Harshat Pant, Keyurkumar Karsanbhai Kansagra, Mohammed Yousuff Shariff, Vinayak Nana Mehetre
  • Patent number: 11690094
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for a user equipment (UE) to receive a logical channel configuration indicating whether logical channels at the UE are configured to use an access link, a sidelink, or both. A UE may determine that data is available on one or more logical channels and may transmit a buffer status report and a scheduling request to a base station based on the determination. In response, the base station may transmit an uplink grant to the UE allocating resources for transmitting the available data based on the logical channel configuration. The UE may transmit the available data on the access link, the sidelink, or both, based on the received uplink grant, the logical channels to which the available data applies, and the logical channel configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Linhai He
  • Patent number: 11689893
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for multicast wireless communications are described. A base station may configure a user equipment (UE) for providing feedback for multicast transmissions from the base station while the UE is in an inactive or idle mode. Based on a configuration sent to the UE from the base station, the UE may determine resources or a timing advance (TA) to use for transmission of a feedback message for multicast communications. A base station may configure a UE with multiple TA commands, each corresponding to a TA value and a set of channel metrics associated with group of cells including a serving cell of the UE. Based on measure channel metrics at the UE, the UE may determine a TA to use for multicast feedback. TA values may be determined using neural network modeling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Xiaoxia Zhang, Ayan Sengupta, Le Liu, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Peter Gaal, Juan Montojo, Tao Luo, Mostafa Khoshnevisan, Kazuki Takeda
  • Patent number: 11689314
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for a base station transmitting a modulation and coding scheme index corresponding to a modulation and coding scheme table to a user equipment (UE). The modulation and coding scheme index may be applied to encoding or decoding a transport block. The modulation and coding scheme may be associated with at least two modulation orders or a differential indication according to a modulation and coding scheme table. To determine which of the modulation orders for processing the transport block, the UE and the base station may use a prior modulation order associated with a prior transmission of the transport block. The UE may process the transport block by encoding or decoding the transport block based at least in part on the determined modulation order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Gabi Sarkis, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Alexandros Manolakos, Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli
  • Patent number: 11690104
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some systems, a user equipment (UE) may attempt to connect to a base station using a random access procedure. During the random access procedure, the base station may transmit control information associated with a random access response (RAR) during a RAR window. The UE may attempt to receive a single instance of the control information and, in some cases, may be unable to receive and decode the single instance of the control information. The base station may configure one or more RAR windows (or segment(s) thereof) to support transmitting repeating instances of the control information and/or RAR. The UE may identify a quantity of instances of the repeated control information and combine the instances. The UE may successfully decode the combined instances of control information and identify a location for receiving the RAR.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Mahmoud Taherzadeh Boroujeni, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo, Sony Akkarakaran, Hung Dinh Ly, Wooseok Nam
  • Patent number: 11689252
    Abstract: In an aspect, the present disclosure includes a method, apparatus, and computer readable medium for wireless communications for establishing, by a user equipment (UE), a first time period to evaluate one or more quality parameters of one or more reference signals, wherein the first time period is based on at least one of a number of panels of the UE or a number of beams that the UE monitors simultaneously; determining, by the UE, a quality parameter of a beam or a cell based on the one or more quality parameters of the one or more reference signals; and determining, by the UE, whether the one or more quality parameters of the one or more reference signals exceeds a quality threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Muhammad Nazmul Islam, Juergen Cezanne, Arash Mirbagheri, Awlok Singh Josan
  • Patent number: 11689398
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for scrambling initialization indication for higher bands are described. For example, a user equipment (UE) may receive a synchronization signal block (SSB) from a base station, the SSB including a primary synchronization signal (PSS), a data payload, and a demodulation reference signal (DMRS). The UE may identify a first part of a cell identifier (ID) of the base station, a second part of the cell ID, or both, indicated in a sequence of the DMRS, indicated in the data payload, or a combination thereof. The UE may monitor for a message from the base station based on identifying the cell ID.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Iyab Issam Sakhnini, Tao Luo, Jun Ma, Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang, Hemant Saggar, Morteza Soltani
  • Patent number: 11689257
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for transmitting and processing reference signals for positioning estimation over a multipath multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channel. In aspects, a first node configures first and second reference signal resource sets for transmission of first and second sets of reference signals, wherein the first and second reference signal resource sets occur on first and second subbands of, and/or during first and second time intervals on, the MIMO channel, wherein each reference signal resource in the first and second reference signal resource sets utilize at least first and second MIMO precoders, and transmits, to a second node over the MIMO channel, the first and second sets of reference signals, wherein the first node transmits the first and second sets of reference signals to assist the second node to perform a positioning measurement based on joint processing of the first and second sets of reference signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Alexandros Manolakos, Sony Akkarakaran, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Tao Luo, John Edward Smee, Naga Bhushan
  • Patent number: 11689313
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a cell punctures resource(s) allocated to transmission of UL or DL PRS(s). The cell communicates (e.g., receives or transmits) UL or DL higher-priority signal(s) on the punctured resource(s), and communicates the UL or DL PRS(s) on the non-punctured resource(s). In another embodiment, a second cell neighboring a first cell schedules and transmits the UL or DL higher-priority signal(s) on part of the first cell's PRS resource(s). In another embodiment, the first cell receives an indication of the UL or DL higher-priority signal(s) scheduled for transmission by the second cell, and punctures its PRS resource(s) to reduce interference on the second cell's UL or DL higher-priority signal(s). In a further embodiment, a UE receives an indication of puncturing and selectively modifies its PRS processing on the punctured resource(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Sony Akkarakaran, Tao Luo, Alexandros Manolakos