Patents Assigned to Qualcomm
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Patent number: 12380909Abstract: A device to perform speech enhancement includes one or more processors configured to process image data to detect at least one of an emotion, a speaker characteristic, or a noise type. The one or more processors are also configured to generate context data based at least in part on the at least one of the emotion, the speaker characteristic, or the noise type. The one or more processors are further configured to obtain input spectral data based on an input signal. The input signal represents sound that includes speech. The one or more processors are also configured to process, using a multi-encoder transformer, the input spectral data and the context data to generate output spectral data that represents a speech enhanced version of the input signal.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2023Date of Patent: August 5, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Kyungguen Byun, Shuhua Zhang, Lae-Hoon Kim, Erik Visser, Sunkuk Moon, Vahid Montazeri
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Patent number: 12380689Abstract: A method for object tracking includes receiving a target image of an object of interest. Latent space features of the target image is modified at a forward pass for a neural network by dropping at least one channel of the latent space features, dropping a channel corresponding to a slice of the latent space features, or dropping one or more features of the latent space features. At the forward pass, a location of the object of interest in a search image is predicted based on the modified latent space features. The location of the object of interest is identified by aggregating predicted locations from the forward pass.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2021Date of Patent: August 5, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Deepak Kumar Gupta, Efstratios Gavves, Arnold Wilhelmus Maria Smeulders
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Patent number: 12381703Abstract: Full-duplex communication techniques are described. Some aspects may utilize full-duplex-slot formats, such as may be provided in addition to or in the alternative to uplink, downlink, and flexible slot formats. A full-duplex slot implemented in accordance with a full-duplex-slot format provides a slot in which the frequency band may be used for both uplink and downlink transmissions. Downlink and/or uplink transmissions of a full-duplex slot may occur in overlapping frequency bands or in adjacent frequency bands. A first wireless device may transmit slot signaling comprising one or more full-duplex-slot-indicator parameters. A second wireless device may base one or more full-duplex slot configuration determinations on a full-duplex-slot configuration. The second wireless device may apply one or more full-duplex-slot-indicator-parameter rules with respect to full-duplex-slot-indicator parameters for determining a full-duplex-slot format. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2024Date of Patent: August 5, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Ahmed Attia Abotabl, Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar, Huilin Xu, Wanshi Chen, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli, Tingfang Ji, Shimman Arvind Patel
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Patent number: 12382317Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for beam failure detection and recovery. A method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes monitoring one or more reference signals for beam failure detection for a plurality of component carriers (CCs), detecting a beam failure for a subset of one or more CCs of the plurality of CCs based on the one or more reference signals, generating a beam failure recovery request (BFRQ) indicating that a beam failure has occurred for the plurality of CCs in response to the detection of the beam failure for the subset of one or more CCs, and transmitting the BFRQ.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2020Date of Patent: August 5, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Kiran Venugopal, Yan Zhou, Tianyang Bai, Tao Luo, Jung Ho Ryu, Junyi Li
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Patent number: 12380047Abstract: Aspects relate to an expanded data link width for a chip connection. In one example a sideband transmitter of a module of a first die is configured to send an expanded data link width enable request to a module partner through a sideband of a die-to-die connection to set an expanded data link width of a main band of the die-to-die connection. The expanded data link width includes data lines of the main band and redundant data lines of the main band reconfigured as data lines. A sideband receiver of the module is configured to receive an expanded data link width enable response from the module partner through the sideband to set the expanded data link width of the main band. A main band transmitter is configured to communicate data with the module partner through the main band using the expanded data link width.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2023Date of Patent: August 5, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Ravindranath Doddi, Umamaheshwaran V, Afreen Haider, Lekhya Pavani Godavarthi, Harinatha Reddy Ramireddy
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Patent number: 12382296Abstract: Techniques for improved spatial reuse for wireless local area network (WLAN) networks are described. An access point (AP) may win a contention to a wireless medium and obtain a transmission opportunity (TXOP). The AP may perform a procedure to identify a group of un-managed APs for participation in spatial reuse opportunities for synchronous transmission over the TXOP. The AP may perform the procedure using over-the-air signaling. The AP may transmit a spatial reuse (SR) poll frame to one or more un-managed APs of the network, either sequentially or as part of a multiple-AP procedure. The AP may receive an SR response frame, or directly measure potential interference of a station (STA) serviced by one or more un-managed APs, and select a group of APs for coordinated reuse over the TXOP. The AP may select the group of APs based on one or more criteria for coordinated reuse.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2023Date of Patent: August 5, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: George Cherian, Alfred Asterjadhi, Abhishek Pramod Patil
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Patent number: 12382464Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may be configured to receive control signaling indicating a beam update configuration that defines a timing for updating a common beam for communications with the UE in relation to a communication and in response to a downlink control information (DCI) message that schedules the communication and indicates an update to the common beam. In some aspects, the common beam is shared across a set of channels, a set of reference signals, or both. The UE may then receive, from a base station, the DCI message that schedules the communication and indicates the update to the common beam. The UE may then perform at least one beam switching procedure to update the common beam at the UE based on receiving the DCI message and in accordance with the beam update configuration.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2021Date of Patent: August 5, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Hamed Pezeshki, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo
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Patent number: 12382479Abstract: Various embodiments may provide streaming service downlink network assistance and/or uplink network assistance mechanisms in a fifth generation (5G) system (5GS) network via an Application Function (AF) computing device in a 5GS. In some embodiments, a computing device and/or the AF computing device may inform the network about needs for capacity for downlink or uplink traffic. Various embodiments may include sending radio access network (RAN) capacity requests to a network computing device of the 5GS network including a 5G RAN. In some embodiments, the network computing device of the 5GS network may be a computing device that is not part of the 5G RAN. In some embodiments, capacity need messages may be sent directly from user equipment (UE) computing devices to computing devices of the 5G RAN. In some embodiments, capacity information of the RAN may be delivered to an AF computing device via an intermediate network function.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2023Date of Patent: August 5, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATEDInventors: Charles Nung Lo, Imed Bouazizi, Nikolai Konrad Leung, Thomas Stockhammer
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Patent number: 12382524Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatuses for early measurement associated with configuring with multiple secondary nodes (SNs). In one aspect, the configuration of multiple SNs may be improved by allowing a master node (MN) to determine a multi-SN configuration based at least in part on measurements of actual channel conditions as seen by the UE. Enabling the MN to receive the measurement information early during a process associated with establishing a connection between the UE and the MN may thereby improve efficiency and reduce latency associated with the configuration of multiple SNs.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2019Date of Patent: August 5, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Peng Cheng, Karthika Paladugu, Gavin Bernard Horn, Punyaslok Purkayastha, Masato Kitazoe, Ozcan Ozturk, Huichun Liu
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Patent number: 12381656Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a network node, downlink control information (DCI) that includes a request for a dropped hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) codebook, wherein the DCI indicates a codebook identifier (ID) associated with the dropped HARQ codebook. The UE may transmit, to the network node, the dropped HARQ codebook based at least in part on the codebook ID associated with the dropped HARQ codebook, as indicated in the DCI. Numerous other aspects are described.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2022Date of Patent: August 5, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Konstantinos Dimou, Yan Zhou, Peter Gaal, Tao Luo
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Patent number: 12381657Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive signaling indicating one or more selected priorities, of at least two priorities, to which a trigger for hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback applies. The UE may receive downlink control information (DCI) including the trigger for the HARQ feedback and omitting a field indicating the one or more selected priorities. The UE may transmit the HARQ feedback for the one or more selected priorities in accordance with the signaling. Numerous other aspects are described.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2022Date of Patent: August 5, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Konstantinos Dimou, Ahmed Elshafie, Wei Yang, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo
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Patent number: 12381670Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless communication device may determine a first set of parameters associated with a first transport block (TB) repetition of a TB and a second set of parameters associated with a second TB repetition of the TB; and determine a TB size of the TB based at least in part on the first set of parameters, the second set of parameters, or both the first set of parameters and the second set of parameters. Numerous other aspects are provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2023Date of Patent: August 5, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Mostafa Khoshnevisan, Xiaoxia Zhang, Jing Sun
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Patent number: 12381675Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive an indication of an antenna port mapping from a network entity. The antenna port mapping may be between a tracking reference signal and a corresponding reference signal, the antenna port mapping indicating a mapping of a tracking reference signal port to a plurality of reference signal antenna ports associated with the corresponding reference signal. The UE may receive a tracking reference signal via the tracking reference signal port based on the antenna port mapping. The UE may perform a channel measurement procedure using the tracking reference signal based on the mapping.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2022Date of Patent: August 5, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Jae Won Yoo, Jing Jiang, Wei Yang, Yongle Wu, Vamsi Krishna Amalladinne, Hari Sankar, Alexei Yurievitch Gorokhov
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Patent number: 12381682Abstract: Techniques are provided for utilizing sounding reference signals (SRS) in full duplex scenarios. An example method for facilitating a measurement of a propagation channel in a wireless network includes receiving first sounding reference signal configuration information associated with a first frequency location in the component carrier, receiving second sounding reference signal configuration information associated with a second frequency location in the component carrier, wherein the second frequency location is disjoint from the first frequency location in the component carrier, and transmitting a first sounding reference signal and a second sounding reference signal based on the respective first sounding reference signal configuration information and the second sounding reference signal configuration information.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2021Date of Patent: August 5, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Alexandros Manolakos, Ahmed Attia Abotabl, Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar
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Patent number: 12382078Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for image signal processing that support compression of phase detection (PD) data. In a first aspect, a method of image processing includes receiving image data and first phase detection data corresponding to the image data; determining a first channel of the first phase detection data and a second channel of the first phase detection data; and coding the first phase detection data to determine second phase detection data by separately coding the first channel and the second channel. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2023Date of Patent: August 5, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Abhijeet Dey, Micha Galor Gluskin, Joby Abraham, Shrey Shailesh Gadiya, Raghavendra Prasad Nerlige Onkarappa, Shridhar Prakash Patil
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Patent number: 12379505Abstract: Systems and techniques are provided for performing Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS) signal acquisition. For example, an example of a method for performing QZSS signal acquisition includes obtaining a modulated message signal using a frequency band and generating, based on an estimated set of signal acquisition parameters associated with an acquired signal, an energy grid of correlation codes. A series of extracted data bytes can be generated for each respective hypothesis of a plurality of hypotheses, based on a location of a peak energy within the energy grid of correlation codes. A correct hypothesis out of the plurality of hypotheses can be determined, wherein the correct hypothesis is associated with a generated series of extracted data bytes that includes a pre-determined header preamble pattern. The modulated message signal can be decoded using an initial code phase associated with the correct hypothesis.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2022Date of Patent: August 5, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Pulkit Rajgadiya, Fnu Siddhant, Jordan Cookman, Mukesh Kumar
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Patent number: 12381658Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for are described. A user equipment (UE) may transmit, via a first transmission-reception point (TRP), a first sidelink control information (SCI) scheduling a first sidelink transmission from the UE, the first SCI including an indication that a first hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process associated with the first sidelink transmission is enabled. The UE may transmit, via a second TRP different from the first TRP, a second SCI scheduling a second sidelink transmission from the UE, the second SCI including an indication that a second HARQ process associated with the second sidelink transmission is disabled. The UE may transmit the first sidelink transmission and the second sidelink transmission via the first TRP and the second TRP, respectively, based on transmitting the first and second SCI. The UE may monitor, via the first TRP, for a feedback message based on transmitting the first sidelink transmission.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2020Date of Patent: August 5, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Sourjya Dutta, Kapil Gulati, Junyi Li, Shuanshuan Wu, Hui Guo
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Patent number: 12381662Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for facilitating control channel carrier switching for subslot-based cell. A method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving signaling configuring a first cell with physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resources, configuring a second cell with PUCCH resources, and configuring at least one of the first cell or the second cell for subslot-based hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) reporting, receiving a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), selecting, based on target PUCCH cell switching information, the first cell or the second cell as a target PUCCH cell for transmitting a PUCCH with HARQ-ACK feedback for the PDCCH or a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) scheduled by the PDCCH, and transmitting the PUCCH with the HARQ-ACK feedback in a subslot or slot on the target PUCCH cell, in accordance with the selection.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2022Date of Patent: August 5, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Wei Yang, Yi Huang
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Patent number: 12381680Abstract: Disclosed are techniques related to wireless communication system in which a network node (e.g., a base station, gNB, etc.) may be allowed to puncture a reference signal (RS) to deliver high priority data (e.g., URLLC data) to a user equipment (UE) that is not currently being served by the network node. The RS may comprise a puncturable subset and an unpuncturable subset. The puncturable subset may comprise resources of the RS that are allowed to be punctured, and the unpuncturable subset may comprise resources of the RS that are prohibited from being punctured. The network node may transmit the RS such that unpuncturable subset indicates whether or not the puncturable subset of the RS has or has not been punctured.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2024Date of Patent: August 5, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Alexandros Manolakos, Sony Akkarakaran, Guttorm Ringstad Opshaug, Peter Gaal
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Patent number: 12381691Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a mobile station may transmit, from the mobile station to an encoding device, acknowledgement or negative acknowledgement (ACK-NACK) feedback based at least in part on a transmission by the encoding device, wherein the ACK-NACK feedback is associated with a feedback bin, and wherein the feedback bin is associated with a location of the mobile station. The mobile station may receive, at the mobile station from the encoding device, a network coding transport block, wherein the network coding transport block is formed based at least in part on the transmission and the ACK-NACK feedback associated with the feedback bin. Numerous other aspects are described.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2021Date of Patent: August 5, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Guangyi Liu, Tien Viet Nguyen, Gabi Sarkis, Gene Wesley Marsh, Shuanshuan Wu, Kapil Gulati