Patents Assigned to Qualcomm Incorporated
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Publication number: 20150311783Abstract: In one embodiment, a circuit comprises a first load circuit coupled to a first input voltage. A current sinking circuit is coupled to an output of the first load circuit. A second load circuit is coupled to ground. A current sourcing circuit is coupled between a second input voltage and an output of the second load circuit. A charge-recycling circuit is coupled between the output of the first load circuit and the output of the second load circuit to provide current from the current sinking circuit to the output of the current sourcing circuit to reduce current through the current sourcing circuit. The charge-recycling circuit can be a charge pump.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2014Publication date: October 29, 2015Applicant: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Seyed Mahmoudreza Saadat, Chunlei Shi, Chenchang Zhan
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Publication number: 20150310990Abstract: Aspects of a method of manufacturing a capacitor are provided. The method includes layering a plurality of dielectric plates. The plurality of dielectric plates includes a first dielectric plate having a first conductive region and a second conductive region on a surface of the first dielectric plate. The method further includes forming an inner electrode through an axis of the layered plurality of dielectric plates. The inner electrode electrically couples to the first conductive region on the surface of the first dielectric plate. The method further includes forming an outer electrode, where the outer electrode electrically couples to the second conductive region on the surface of the first dielectric plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2014Publication date: October 29, 2015Applicant: QUALCOMM INCORPORATEDInventors: Lalan Jee Mishra, Shree Krishna Pandey, Nazanin Darbanian, John David Eaton
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Publication number: 20150312549Abstract: Certain aspects relate to systems and techniques for efficiently recording captured plenoptic image data and for rendering images from the captured plenoptic data. The plenoptic image data can be captured by a plenoptic or other light field camera. In some implementations, four dimensional radiance data can be transformed into three dimensional data by performing a Radon transform to define the image by planes instead of rays. A resulting Radon image can represent the summed values of energy over each plane. The original three-dimensional luminous density of the scene can be recovered, for example, by performing an inverse Radon transform. Images from different views and/or having different focus can be rendered from the luminous density.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2014Publication date: October 29, 2015Applicant: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Todor Georgiev Georgiev, Salil Tambe
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Publication number: 20150310904Abstract: In a memory having a first memory cell array, a second memory cell array, an address is received on an address port. Based on the address, an internal address is transmitted, and it is latched and held for a first interval as a first array address. The first memory cell array is accessed over the first interval, based on the first array address. Another address is received at the address port, during the first interval, and another internal address is transmitted, and latched and held for a second interval that overlaps the first interval, as a second array address. The second memory cell array is accessed during the second interval, based on the second array address.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2014Publication date: October 29, 2015Applicant: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Taehyun KIM, Jung Pill KIM, Sungryul KIM, Xiangyu DONG
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Publication number: 20150311977Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a computer-readable medium for configuring an image sensor for processing a visible light communication (VLC) signal are provided. The apparatus instructs the image sensor to operate at a first exposure setting, the first exposure setting lower than a second exposure setting for capturing a photographic image, captures, via the image sensor, at least one VLC signal frame at the first exposure setting, detects at least one communication symbol included in the at least one captured VLC signal frame, and decodes a message associated with the at least one VLC signal frame captured by the image sensor by decoding a number of detected communication symbols.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2013Publication date: October 29, 2015Applicant: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Aleksandar JOVICIC, Kumar APPAIAH, Junyi LI
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Publication number: 20150309098Abstract: A device comprises a multiplication circuit configured to derive a product of a first signal S1 and a second signal S2, S2 having a phase difference ? relative to the first signal S1, a low pass filter configured to remove a selected frequency component from the product of S1 and S2 to derive a dot product S1·S2; and a calculation circuit configured to receive the dot product S1·S2 and generate a signal output having a ratio |S1|/|S2| and the phase difference ?.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2014Publication date: October 29, 2015Applicant: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventor: Peter van der Cammen
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Publication number: 20150312718Abstract: Methods, apparatuses and systems are described for conveying location information from an announcing user device to a listening user device engaged in ProSe discovery communications. The announcing user device may use a first expression to broadcast an initial announcement, and then use a second expression to broadcast the location of the announcing user device. The first expression may be in the form of a public expression while the second expression may be in the form of a private expression.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2014Publication date: October 29, 2015Applicant: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Arthur Stephens, Michaela Vanderveen, Vincent Douglas Park
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Patent number: 9173190Abstract: The disclosure relates to systems and methods for controlling a delay probability distribution associated with receiving a response to a page. The method entails performing a series of page operations, wherein each page operation entails transmitting a page and scanning for a page response. The method further entails adjusting at least one timing parameter associated with performing the series of page operations based on a characteristic of one or more scans for the page performed by the at least one remote device. The characteristic may be the period of periodic page scans performed by the at least one remote device.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2012Date of Patent: October 27, 2015Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Edward Harrison Teague, Qingjiang Tian, David Jonathan Julian, Zhanfeng Jia
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Patent number: 9173209Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication where a macro eNB or similar device may be configured to adjust an ABS configuration that is used for designating ABS subframes are provided to provide a VoLTE service to a UE. The ABS configuration may be adjusted by imposing one or more restrictions, such as alignment of the DRX OnDuration of a UE with some offset to the serving cell non-ABS subframes, and imposing restrictions on the ABS subframe settings at the macro eNB. The method or apparatus may initiate or terminate a wireless communication feature for a UE, and may adjust an ABS configuration based on the wireless communication feature, such that a maximum limit is set on a number of ABS subframes or a minimum limit is set on a number of non-ABS subframes based on the wireless communication feature.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2013Date of Patent: October 27, 2015Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Rajat Prakash, Durga Prasad Malladi, Vikas Jain, Ajay Gupta, Madhavan Srinivasan Vajapeyam
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Patent number: 9172486Abstract: Disclosed are apparatus and method for time division multiplexing of a dedicated channel. In one aspect, the apparatus and method are configured to assign a common spreading code to two or more User Equipments (UEs); encode a downlink (DL) dedicated channel (DCH) with the common spreading code; time-division multiplex a Dedicated Physical Data Channel (DPDCH) data for each of the two or more UEs on the encoded DL DCH; and transmit the multiplexed data on the DL DCH to the UEs.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: October 27, 2015Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Sharad Deepak Sambhwani, Peyman Razaghi, Sony J. Akkarakaran
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Patent number: 9171224Abstract: An electronic device and method receive (for example, from a memory), a grayscale image of a scene of real world captured by a camera of a mobile device. The electronic device and method also receive a color image from which the grayscale image is generated, wherein each color pixel is stored as a tuple of multiple components. The electronic device and method determine a new intensity for at least one grayscale pixel in the grayscale image, based on at least one component of a tuple of a color pixel located in correspondence to the at least one grayscale pixel. The determination may be done conditionally, by checking whether a local variance of intensities is below a predetermined threshold in a subset of grayscale pixels located adjacent to the at least one grayscale pixel, and selecting the component to provide most local variance of intensities.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2013Date of Patent: October 27, 2015Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Kishor K. Barman, Hemanth P. Acharya, Pawan Kumar Baheti
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Patent number: 9173161Abstract: A method for discovering P2P service capabilities of peer devices in a Wi-Fi network is disclosed. A client device scans one or more channels of the P2P network to discover peer devices, and receives one or more data frames from a set of peer devices. Each of the data frames includes management information to enable the client device to establish a connection with a corresponding peer device. Each data frame further includes a first set of service information, which includes data indicating whether the corresponding peer device is configured to provide a P2P service. The client device then selectively establishes a P2P connection with a peer device from the set based, at least in part, on the first set of service information.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2013Date of Patent: October 27, 2015Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventor: Seng Khoon Tng
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Patent number: 9173218Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques and apparatus for operating in a television white space (TVWS) network. One example method generally includes receiving, at an apparatus, a message with a field indicating a current version of an unused frequency spectrum map (e.g., a white space map (WSM)), the unused frequency spectrum map indicating channels usable for wireless communications; determining whether the current version of the unused frequency spectrum map is different than a previous version of the unused frequency spectrum map; and using a channel for wireless communications based on the determination. Another example method generally includes accessing a database of available channels for a current location of an apparatus via a neighboring portable or fixed enabling apparatus and enabling one or more portable dependent apparatuses for the wireless communications via one or more of the available channels.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2011Date of Patent: October 27, 2015Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Santosh Paul Abraham, Avinash Jain, Stephen J. Shellhammer, Hemanth Sampath
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Patent number: 9170931Abstract: Examples disclose partitioning a volatile memory into a high performance partition and a low performance partition. Further the example discloses retrieving an application with a high performance data and a low performance data from a non-volatile memory to place the high and the low performance data in the high and low performance partitions, respectively. Additionally, the example also discloses receiving a request to decrease power and in response, reduce an amount of power to the high performance partition and maintaining an amount of power provided to the low performance partition.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2011Date of Patent: October 27, 2015Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATEDInventor: Yoon K Wong
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Patent number: 9170676Abstract: Methods and systems according to one or more embodiments are provided for enhancing interactive inputs. In an embodiment, a method includes concurrently capturing touch input data on a screen of a user device and non-touch gesture input data off the screen of the user device. The method also includes determining an input command based at least in part on a combination of the concurrently captured touch input data and the non-touch gesture input data. And the method further includes affecting an operation of the user device based on the determined input command.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: October 27, 2015Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Darrell L. Krulce, Francis B. MacDougall, Virginia Walker Keating, Andrew J. Everitt
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Patent number: 9171384Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for providing hands-free augmented reality on a wireless communication device (WCD). According to the techniques, an application processor within the WCD executes an augmented reality (AR) application to receive a plurality of image frames and convert the plurality of image frames into a single picture comprising the plurality of image frames stitched together to represent a scene. The WCD executing the AR application then requests AR content for the scene represented in the single picture from an AR database server, receives AR content for the scene from the AR database server, and processes the AR content to overlay the single picture for display to a user on the WCD. In this way, the user may comfortably look at the single picture with the overlaid AR content on a display of the WCD to learn more about the scene represented in the single picture.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2012Date of Patent: October 27, 2015Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Babak Forutanpour, Ruben M. Velarde, David L. Bednar, Brian Lee Momeyer
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Patent number: 9172414Abstract: The various embodiments include a dual-SIM-dual-active (DSDA) device and methods for implementing robust receive (Rx) processing to resolve radio frequency coexistence interference between two subscriptions operating on the DSDA device. The DSDA device may detect when a subscription (the “aggressor”) de-senses the other subscription (the “victim”) as a result of the aggressor's transmissions, and in response, implement robust Rx processing to mitigate the effects of de-sense on the victim while causing minimal impact to the aggressor.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2013Date of Patent: October 27, 2015Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Wenjun Li, Huang Lou, Michael L. McCloud, Amit Mahajan, Nate Chizgi, Jing Sun, Francis M. Ngai, Jun Hu, Vansh Pal Singh Makh, Prashanth Akula, Tsai-Chen Huang, Jittra Jootar, Erdogan Dede, Narendra Varma Gottimukkala, Yingbo Li
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Patent number: 9172561Abstract: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate adaptively communicating data to wireless devices. An access point can precode a dedicated reference signal (DRS) for transmitting to a wireless device, and the wireless device can receive the precoded DRS. The wireless device can determine the precoder by estimating a channel of the DRS and can provide channel condition feedback to the access point. The access point can create data signals including a single or a burst of data transmissions according to the feedback and can precode the data signals using the same precoder. The wireless device can additionally decode the data signals using the precoder. Moreover, the access point can cycle through precoders according to a patterned, random, pseudo-random, and/or similar sequence.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2010Date of Patent: October 27, 2015Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATEDInventors: Tao Luo, Durga Prasad Malladi, Xiaoxia Zhang, Yongbin Wei, Juan Montojo, Ke Liu
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Patent number: 9172976Abstract: A reduction in the number of binarizations and/or contexts used in context adaptive binary arithmetic coding (CABAC) for video coding is proposed. In particular, this disclosure proposes techniques that may lower the number contexts used in CABAC by up to 56.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2014Date of Patent: October 27, 2015Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Wei-Jung Chien, Joel Sole Rojals, Marta Karczewicz
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Patent number: 9170668Abstract: A touch screen monitor having a display monitor and an ultrasonic device. The ultrasonic device may include a sensor array using piezoelectric sensors to detect the surface topology of a biological or other object that is in contact with a surface of the display monitor. The display monitor may be a LCD or LED monitor.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2013Date of Patent: October 27, 2015Assignee: Qualcomm IncorporatedInventors: John K. Schneider, Jack C. Kitchens