Patents Assigned to Qualcomm
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Patent number: 9516634Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for transmitting data are described herein. In some aspects, a method comprises generating a first message. The first message may comprise an allocation of a first station to a first frequency channel and a second station to a second frequency channel. The method further comprises transmitting the first message over the first frequency channel and the second frequency channel. The method further comprises transmitting, after transmission of the first message, a second message to the first station using the first frequency channel. The method further comprises transmitting, after transmission of the first message, a third message to the second station using the second frequency channel.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2014Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Hemanth Sampath, Bin Tian, Rahul Tandra, Gwendolyn Denise Barriac, Yan Zhou, Sameer Vermani, Simone Merlin
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Patent number: 9516582Abstract: Method and system for providing information of an access point database are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of providing information of an access point database comprises receiving a request to access an access point database from a mobile client, generating a segment of the access point database in accordance with at least an application requirement of the mobile client, and providing the segment of the access point database to the mobile client. The application requirement of the mobile client comprises precision level requested by the mobile client, and cache level of the mobile client. The method of generating a segment of the access point database comprises at least one of: generating the segment of the access point database in real-time, and providing the segment of the access point database previously generated and stored in the access point database.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2013Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Ferit Ozan Akgul, Weihua Gao, David Richard Coleman, Bruce Everett Wilson
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Patent number: 9514574Abstract: Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for constructing a representation of a planar object are presented. In some embodiments, techniques for constructing a representation of a planar object are disclosed. According to some embodiments, a method for constructing a representation of a planar object may include obtaining a depth image of a physical scene as captured from a viewing position. The depth image may comprise a plurality of depth values and corresponding to a plurality of points in the physical scene. The method may further include identifying a planar surface along which the planar object is estimated to be positioned. Furthermore, the method may include constructing a support map. Moreover, the method may include constructing an occlusion map, the occlusion map indicating portions of the planar surface where the planar object is missing. Subsequently, the method may include constructing a representation of at least one boundary of the planar object, using the occlusion map.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2014Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventor: Gerhard Reitmayr
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Patent number: 9513714Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided that may be implemented in a mobile device to: determine whether the mobile device is in a gesture command input ready state based, at least in part, on a display portion of the mobile device remaining in a horizontal viewable position for a threshold period of time; with the mobile device in a gesture command input ready state, determine whether a detected movement of the mobile device represents a gesture command input; and in response to the determined gesture command input, affect a user perceivable output.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2015Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Mathew William Bevilacqua, Newfel Harrat, Peter Ring
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Patent number: 9516547Abstract: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate employing a variety of medium access control (MAC) header formats in wireless communications. The MAC header formats can be specialized for a particular type of data included in a protocol data unit (PDU). In addition, the MAC headers can have a variable length to accommodate payloads of varying sizes without incurring unnecessary overhead. Further, mechanisms are provided to enable direct access and delivery of control PDUs to associated protocol layers to ensure better quality of service treatment.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2014Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventor: Sai Yiu Duncan Ho
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Patent number: 9516557Abstract: Various embodiments provide methods and apparatus for network-controlled DRVCC. In an embodiment method, a wireless user equipment may include requesting handover of a voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) call from a first network to a second network, activating a second radio, continuing the voice call on the circuit switched (CS) domain of the second network, and communicating data for applications other than the voice call via the first network. An embodiment method may include determining whether the first network supports voice-over-LTE (VoLTE) calls, and deactivating a radio in response to determining that the first network supports VoLTE calls. An embodiment method may include determining whether a quality of the VoIP call satisfies a quality threshold, deactivating the radio continued to the second network when the quality of the VoIP call satisfies the quality threshold, and activating the second radio when the VoIP call quality does not satisfy the quality threshold.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2014Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Xipeng Zhu, Yan Li, Jun Wang, Roozbeh Atarius, Arvind Vardarajan Santhanam
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Publication number: 20160350573Abstract: Systems and methods for multi-spectral ultrasonic imaging are disclosed. In one embodiment, a finger is scanned at a plurality of ultrasonic scan frequencies. Each scan frequency provides an image information set describing a plurality of pixels of the finger including a signal-strength indicating an amount of energy reflected from a surface of a platen on which a finger is provided. For each of the pixels, the pixel output value corresponding to each of the scan frequencies is combined to produce a combined pixel out put value for each pixel. Systems and methods for improving the data capture of multi-spectral ultrasonic imaging are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2015Publication date: December 1, 2016Applicant: Qualcomm IncorporatedInventors: Jack Conway Kitchens, II, John Keith Schneider, Ashish Hinger, Ranjith Ranganathan, Nai-Kuei Kuo, Kostadin Dimitrov Djordjev, Stephen Michael Gojevic, David William Burns, Nao Sugawara Chuei, Eliza Yingzi Du, Ming Yu Chen, Kwokleung Chan, Jin Gu, Esra Vural
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Patent number: 9510286Abstract: Methods, devices, and computer program products for synchronization of wireless devices in a peer-to-peer network are described herein. In one aspect, a method for determining at least one of a time for exiting and a time for entering a low power sleep mode to utilize a discovery window is provided. The method includes determining an earliest possible start time of a discovery window according to a clock at the first device. The method further includes transitioning from the low power sleep mode to a higher power active mode approximately at the determined earliest possible start time, wherein the determined earliest possible start time is based at least in part on a clock drift value associated with the first device and a clock drift value associated with a second device of the wireless network.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2014Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Santosh Paul Abraham, George Cherian, Alireza Raissinia, Guido Robert Frederiks
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Patent number: 9510212Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to techniques that may be utilized in networks with relatively dense deployments of nodes, such as remote radio heads (RRHs) and UE relays.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2013Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Hao Xu, Durga Prasad Malladi, Yongbin Wei, Peter Gaal, Wanshi Chen, Tao Luo, Aleksandar Damnjanovic, Stefan Geirhofer
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Patent number: 9510000Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques for performing sample adaptive offset signaling and coding in a video coding process. Techniques of the disclosure include both a merge-based and prediction-based signaling process for sample adaptive offset information (i.e., offset values and offset type). The techniques includes determining offset information for a current partition, comparing the offset information of the current partition with offset information of one or more neighbor partitions, coding a merge instruction in the case that the offset information of one of the one or more neighbor partitions is the same as the offset information of the current partition, and coding one of a plurality of prediction instructions in the case that the offset information of the one or more neighbor partitions is not the same as the offset information of the current partition.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2015Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: In Suk Chong, Geert Van der Auwera, Marta Karczewicz
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Patent number: 9504909Abstract: Apparatuses for motion capture are disclosed that includes a surface configured to support an object; and at least one sensor arranged with the surface, wherein the at least one sensor is configured to obtain at least one of ranging or inertial information for use in estimating a motion of the surface with respect to the object. A method for motion capture is also disclosed that includes providing a surface configured to support an object; and obtaining at least one of ranging or inertial information for use in estimating a motion of the surface with respect to the object via at least one sensor.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2011Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Anthony G. Persaud, Adrian J. Prentice, George Joseph, Mark R. Storch
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Patent number: 9505315Abstract: A wireless power transfer system for selectively disabling a transmit antenna of a plurality of transmit antennas when a foreign object is detected is described. The system comprises a first transmit antenna configured to charge an electric vehicle positioned over a charging region via a first area of the charging region and also comprises a second transmit antenna configured to charge via a second area of the charging region. The system further comprises a controller circuit configured to selectively disable the first transmit antenna when a foreign object is detected in a first space that affects charging via the first area of the charging region. The controller circuit is further configured to selectively maintain activation of the second transmit antenna while the electric vehicle is positioned to receive power from the second transmit antenna via the second area when the foreign object is detected in the first space.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2014Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Alberto Garcia Briz, Grzegorz Ombach
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Patent number: 9509980Abstract: A monoscopic low-power mobile device is capable of creating real-time images and videos for multiple viewpoints from a single captured view. The device uses statistics from an autofocusing process to create a block depth map of a single capture view. Artifacts in the block depth map are reduced and an image depth map is created. Alternate views are created from the image depth map using a Z-buffer based surface recover process and a disparity map which is a function of a geometric vision model.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2014Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATEDInventors: Haohong Wang, Hsiang-Tsun Li, Sharath Manjunath
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Patent number: 9505314Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus are disclosed for communicating between a charging station and an electric vehicle. In one aspect, a method of pairing a charging station with an electric vehicle is provided, including providing wireless power via a magnetic field having a first intensity level that is sufficient to charge or power the electric vehicle, providing an information signal via the magnetic field when the magnetic field is set at a second intensity level that is lower than the first intensity level, the information signal uniquely identifying the charging station from a plurality of charging stations, communicating with the electric vehicle via a communication link that is different from the magnetic field, communicating comprising communicating with the electric vehicle parking guidance information to the location of the charging station, and establishing the communication link based at least in part on the information signal provided via the magnetic field.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2014Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventor: Hanspeter Widmer
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Patent number: 9510268Abstract: Determining the early arrival path (EAP) based on a channel energy response (CER) can involve the use one or more masks to identify one or more peaks in the CER. Masks can be applied to the CER in an iterative process that can help identify the earliest peak corresponding to the EAP. Alias cancelation may also be implemented.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2015Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATEDInventors: Guttorm Opshaug, Weihua Gao, Mayur Shah, Arash Mirbagheri, Borislav Ristic
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Patent number: 9509318Abstract: Aspects disclosed in the detailed description include apparatuses, methods, and systems for glitch-free clock switching. In this regard, in one aspect, an electronic circuit is switched from a lower-frequency reference clock to a higher-frequency reference clock. An oscillation detection logic is configured to determine the stability of the higher-frequency reference clock prior to switching the electronic circuit to the higher-frequency reference clock. The oscillation detection logic derives a sampled clock signal from the higher-frequency reference clock, wherein the sampled clock signal has a slower frequency than the lower-frequency reference clock. The oscillation detection logic then compares the sampled clock signal against the lower-frequency reference clock to determine the stability of the higher-frequency reference clock.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2015Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Chad Everett Winemiller, Behnam Amelifard, Kenneth Luis Arcudia, Jon Raymond Boyette, Chia Heng Chang, Russell Coleman Deans, Kevin Wayne Spears
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Patent number: 9509970Abstract: In one example, a method includes identifying a pixel in an image frame that is a candidate for causing crosstalk between the image frame and a corresponding image frame in a multiview image system. The method further includes, for a pixel identified as a candidate for causing crosstalk, applying crosstalk correction to the pixel. The method further includes applying a location-based adjustment to the pixel, wherein the location-based adjustment is based at least in part on which of two or more portions of the image frame the pixel is in.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2012Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Gokce Dane, Vasudev Bhaskaran
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Patent number: 9510349Abstract: Methods and apparatus for wireless communication are provided. In one aspect, a method of wireless communication comprises receiving a first resource request including a first interval for at least one timing-priority task associated with a first radio access technology and a second resource request including a second interval for at least one timing-non-priority task associated with the first radio access technology. The method comprises granting the first resource request and reserving the first interval for the at least one timing-priority task associated with the first radio access technology. The method comprises receiving at least a third resource request including a third interval for at least one timing-priority task associated with a second radio access technology.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2014Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Bhaskara Viswanadham Batchu, Parthasarathy Krishnamoorthy, Rashid Ahmed Akbar Attar, Jun Hu, Anand Rajurkar, Dhananjaya Sarma Ponukumati
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Patent number: 9510196Abstract: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for authenticating a user on a mobile device. The method may include initiating authentication of the user for access to the mobile device, where access to the mobile device is granted upon successful authentication of the user by the mobile device. The method may also include performing face recognition analysis on an image of a face of the user to determine an identity of the user. Furthermore, the method may also include determining whether a first pulse information and a second pulse information associated with the user indicate a pulse match. The method may also include authenticating the user for access to the mobile device when a pulse match is determined and the determined identity of the user has permission to access the mobile device.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2014Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Saurabh Sensharma, Arvind Kulathu Ramachandran, Seyfullah Halit Oguz, Khaled Helmi El-Maleh
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Patent number: 9510208Abstract: Methods, systems, apparatuses, and devices are described for wireless communication. In one example, a sequence may be determined based on at least one of: an operator identifier associated with an operator using a spectrum or a clear channel assessment (CCA) slot index associated with the operator using the spectrum. At least one channel based on the determined sequence may be used to communicate over the spectrum.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2014Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Yongbin Wei, Wanshi Chen, Tao Luo, Peter Gaal, Hao Xu, Tingfang Ji, Naga Bhushan