Patents Assigned to Qualcomm
  • Patent number: 9665336
    Abstract: A source device comprises a memory to store video data and one or more processors, wherein the one or more processors are configured to obtain encoded video data for a frame of video data; output, via a display interface for the source device and for display at a display device, a predefined frame for the frame of video data; and send, to a sink device via a wireless communication channel, the encoded video data for display at a display device associated with the sink device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sanal Kumar Karunakaran, Sanjay Kumar Agrawal, Sateesh Naidu Gorrepati, Devraj Gajraj Gupta
  • Patent number: 9666562
    Abstract: A three-dimensional integrated circuit (3D-IC) architecture incorporates multiple layers, each layer including at least one die and at least one switch to connect the dies on the different layers. In some aspects, a power distribution network (PDN) is routed from a first layer through the switches to supply power to at least one other layer, thereby reducing routing congestion on the layers. The switches can be placed around the periphery of an IC package to improve heat dissipation (e.g., by improving heat transfer from the center to the edge of the IC package). The switches can be used for routing test signals and/or other signals between layers, thereby improving test functionality and/or fault recovery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Oscar Law, Chunchen Liu, Ju-Yi Lu
  • Patent number: 9668232
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices are describe for signaling protocols for device-to-device discovery operations in a wireless communication system. A user equipment (UE) may be communicating with a serving base station using a first frequency in a first frequency band. The UE may transmit, to the serving base station, information associated with performing a discovery scan procedure on a second frequency in a second frequency band during a discovery scan interval. The first frequency may be different from the second frequency. The UE may identify a capability to skip one or more downlink transmissions from the serving base station during the discovery scan interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Shailesh Patil, Saurabha Rangrao Tavildar, Sudhir Kumar Baghel, Kapil Gulati
  • Patent number: 9664520
    Abstract: Assistance data for indoor positioning is generated with vertical access areas, such as stairs, elevators, and escalators, identified along with predicted vertical movement models for the vertical access area. The predicted vertical movement models provide probabilities of movement to different floors by the vertical access areas. The assistance data may be generated by acquiring a floor plan data for a structure having multiple floors and analyzing the floor plan data to detect vertical access areas. The predicted vertical movement model for the vertical access area may then be generated and included in the assistance data along with the vertical access area. Mobile devices using the assistance data may provide vertical access area feedback information that may be used to modify the assistance data. For example, the probability of movement to different floors by a vertical access area may be modified, or additional vertical access areas identified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Ju-Yong Do
  • Patent number: 9668204
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a collaborative demand-based dual-mode Wi-Fi network control framework that may optimize wireless power and performance on wireless devices that may support multiple Wi-Fi networking technologies. In particular, a high performance Wi-Fi link may be reserved to services or applications that have substantial quality of service (QoS) requirements and conventional Wi-Fi links may be utilized to transfer data for services or applications that have typical performance requirements. For example, bandwidth requirements associated with forward traffic may be measured according to sizes and latency requirements associated with the forward traffic and the appropriate Wi-Fi networking mode may be controlled according to the forward traffic bandwidth requirements in combination with the average bandwidth and average retransmission rate associated with the conventional Wi-Fi links, among other factors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Inc.
    Inventors: Khosro Mohammad Rabii, Vijay Naicker Subramaniam, Shivakumar Balasubramanyam, Fawad Shaukat
  • Patent number: 9667280
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a technique for touch temperature management of a wireless communications device based on power dissipated over time, and possibly internal temperature readings. For example, the information about power dissipated over time can be utilized along with monitored internal temperatures of a device's internal circuitry to reduce transmit power and/or data rates as required in order to keep a surface temperature of the wireless device below a specified limit. A knowledge of how the device's touch temperature varies with the dissipated power and a knowledge of the power dissipation history can be utilized to determine when to reduce the transmit power in order to avoid overheating (e.g., exceeding the touch temperature limit).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Reza Shahidi, Jon J Anderson, Eric S Mattis
  • Patent number: 9668225
    Abstract: A first receiver device receives a first pilot signal from a first transmitter device and a second pilot signal from a second transmitter device. The second pilot signal indicates that the second transmitter device intends to transmit a second traffic signal. The first receiver device determines a transmission rate for the first transmitter device as a function of the received signal strength of the first pilot and a predicted amount of the total interference to be perceived by the first receiver device. The predicted amount of the total interference being determined as a function of a SIC success probability. The transmission rate is sent to the first transmitter device. The first receiver device predicts whether the second traffic signal can be decoded and subtracted before the first receiver device decodes the first traffic signal to be transmitted by the first transmitter device as a function of the SIC success probability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Junyi Li, Rajiv Laroia, Saurabh Tavildar, Xinzhou Wu
  • Patent number: 9667224
    Abstract: An electroacoustic filter has improved low-pass characteristics. The filter includes a first electroacoustic converter, an electroacoustic element and a grid structure between the converter and the element. The grid structure is acoustically active in one frequency range that lies above the acoustically active frequency range of the first electroacoustic converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Holger Emrich, Clemens Ruppel, Martin Störkle, Werner Ruile, Thomas Finteis, Tilo Gärtner, Ingo Bleyl, Markus Mayer
  • Patent number: 9662023
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments pertain to the measurement of heart rate in the presence of motion and noise. Spectral peaks in measurements by an optical sensor are compared with spectral peaks obtained from a motion sensor signal measurements, to obtain a fundamental frequency in the optical sensor signal, where the fundamental frequency is associated with a user's heart rate. A first heart rate may be estimated based on the fundamental frequency. A variety of quality metrics may be determined for the first heart rate estimate. A second estimated heart rate may be determined based by processing a frequency domain representation of the optical sensor signal based on a frequency domain representation of the motion sensor signal. One or more of the previously determined quality metrics may be dynamically adjusted based on a comparison of first and second estimated heart rates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ramin Samadani, Carlos Manuel Puig, Russel Allyn Martin, Victor Kulik
  • Patent number: 9667959
    Abstract: A device for processing video data includes a memory; a receiver configured to real-time transport protocol (RTP) packets; and one or more processors configured to receive a first fragmentation unit comprising a subset of a fragmented network abstraction layer (NAL) unit; parse a start bit of the fragmentation unit to determine if the first fragmentation unit comprises a start of the fragmented NAL unit; in response to the first fragmentation unit comprising the start of the fragmented NAL unit and one or both of a transmission mode for the first fragmentation unit being a multi-session transmission mode and a first parameter being greater than a first value, parse a second parameter to determine a decoding order for the fragmented NAL unit; decode the fragmented NAL unit based on the determined decoding order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Ye-Kui Wang
  • Patent number: 9667880
    Abstract: A method, which is performed by an electronic device, of automatically activating a flash for an image sensor of the electronic device is disclosed. The method may include receiving a first image including at least one text region and determining feature data characterizing the at least one text region in the first image. The method may also identify at least one candidate specular reflection region in the first image. Based on the feature data and the at least one candidate specular reflection region, the flash may be activated. Upon activating the flash, a second image including the at least one text region may be captured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Seungwoo Yoo, Hyun-Mook Cho, Hee-Seok Lee, Duck Hoon Kim
  • Patent number: 9666481
    Abstract: Systems and methods are directed to an integrated circuit comprising a reduced height M1 metal line formed of an exemplary material with lower mean free path than Copper, for local routing of on-chip circuit elements of the integrated circuit, wherein the height of the reduced height M1 metal line is lower than a minimum allowed or allowable height of a conventional M1 metal line formed of Copper. The exemplary materials for forming the reduced height M1 metal line include Tungsten (W), Molybdenum (Mo), and Ruthenium (Ru), wherein these exemplary materials also exhibit lower capacitance and lower RC delays than Copper, while providing high electromigration reliability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Stanley Seungchul Song, Choh Fei Yeap, Zhongze Wang, Niladri Mojumder, Mustafa Badaroglu
  • Patent number: 9667942
    Abstract: A method of coding video data includes deriving prediction weights for illumination compensation of luma samples of a video block partition once for the video block partition such that the video block partition has a common set of prediction weights for performing illumination compensation of the luma samples regardless of a transform size for the video block partition, calculating a predicted block for the video block partition using the prediction weights using illumination compensation, and coding the video block partition using the predicted block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ying Chen, Jewon Kang, Li Zhang
  • Patent number: 9667331
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus may be a UE. The UE determines a first CSI subframe set including a first set of subframes of a frame and a second CSI subframe set including a second set of subframes of the frame. Subframes in the first set of subframes are different than subframes in the second set of subframes. The UE determines a CSI reference subframe in one of the first CSI subframe set or the second CSI subframe set. The UE measures CSI in the CSI reference subframe. The UE receives an aperiodic CSI request in a triggering subframe in one of the first CSI subframe set or the second CSI subframe set. The triggering subframe is after the CSI reference subframe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Chao Wei, Wanshi Chen, Peter Gaal
  • Patent number: 9668206
    Abstract: Techniques for multiplexing and transmitting multiple data streams are described. Transmission of the multiple data streams occurs in “super-frames”. Each super-frame has a predetermined time duration and is further divided into multiple (e.g., four) frames. Each data block for each data stream is outer encoded to generate a corresponding code block. Each code block is partitioned into multiple subblocks, and each data packet in each code block is inner encoded and modulated to generate modulation symbols for the packet. The multiple subblocks for each code block are transmitted in the multiple frames of the same super-frame, one subblock per frame. Each data stream is allocated a number of transmission units in each super-frame and is assigned specific transmission units to achieve efficient packing. A wireless device can select and receive individual data streams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Rajiv Vijayan, Aamod Khandekar, Fuyun Ling, Gordon Kent Walker, Murali Ramaswamy Chari
  • Patent number: 9664773
    Abstract: Example methods, apparatuses, or articles of manufacture are disclosed herein that may be utilized, in whole or in part, to facilitate or support one or more operations or techniques for utilizing a mobile communication device to learn parameters of a radio heat map for use in or with a mobile communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Shrinivas S. Kudekar, Cyril Measson, Ravi Palanki, Thomas Joseph Richardson
  • Patent number: 9668265
    Abstract: Techniques for mitigating interference in a wireless communication network are described. A terminal may desire to communicate with a weaker serving base station and may observe high interference from a strong interfering base station. The two base stations may be asynchronous and have different frame timing. In an aspect, high interference may be mitigated by having the interfering base station reserve downlink and/or uplink resources. The interfering base station may transmit at a low power level or not at all on the reserved downlink resources to reduce interference to the terminal. Terminals served by the interfering base station may transmit at a low power level or not at all on the reserved uplink resources to reduce interference at the serving base station. The terminal may then be able to communicate with the serving base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Inc.
    Inventors: Ravi Palanki, Aamod D. Khandekar, Avneesh Agrawal
  • Patent number: 9667996
    Abstract: Techniques are described for sub-prediction unit (PU) based motion prediction for video coding in HEVC and 3D-HEVC. In one example, the techniques include an advanced temporal motion vector prediction (TMVP) mode to predict sub-PUs of a PU in single layer coding for which motion vector refinement may be allowed. The advanced TMVP mode includes determining motion vectors for the PU in at least two stages to derive motion information for the PU that includes different motion vectors and reference indices for each of the sub-PUs of the PU. In another example, the techniques include storing separate motion information derived for each sub-PU of a current PU predicted using a sub-PU backward view synthesis prediction (BVSP) mode even after motion compensation is performed. The additional motion information stored for the current PU may be used to predict subsequent PUs for which the current PU is a neighboring block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ying Chen, Geert Van der Auwera, Li Zhang, Hongbin Liu
  • Patent number: 9666183
    Abstract: Disclosed is a feature extraction and classification methodology wherein audio data is gathered in a target environment under varying conditions. From this collected data, corresponding features are extracted, labeled with appropriate filters (e.g., audio event descriptions), and used for training deep neural networks (DNNs) to extract underlying target audio events from unlabeled training data. Once trained, these DNNs are used to predict underlying events in noisy audio to extract therefrom features that enable the separation of the underlying audio events from the noisy components thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Erik Visser, Yinyi Guo, Lae-Hoon Kim, Raghuveer Peri, Shuhua Zhang
  • Patent number: 9666357
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for wireless power transfer. In one aspect, an apparatus is provided that includes a first conductive structure configured to wirelessly receive power via a magnetic field generated by a transmitter conductive structure having a length greater than a width. The first conductive structure has a length greater than a width and includes co-planar loops enclosing first and second areas. The first conductive structure has first and second edges each intersecting a first geometric line running along the length of the first conductive structure. The apparatus includes a second conductive structure configured to wirelessly receive power via the magnetic field. The second conductive has a length greater than a width. The first geometric line runs along the length of the second conductive structure. The first geometric line is substantially perpendicular to a second geometric line running along the length of the transmitter conductive structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Nicholas A Keeling