Patents Assigned to Qualcomm
  • Patent number: 11184532
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to capturing panorama images using an image capture device including a camera. An example method includes receiving a user command to begin generation of a panorama image, capturing a plurality of images with the camera for generating the panorama image, while capturing the plurality of images, receiving an indication specifying a center region of interest (ROI), completing capture of the plurality of images, and automatically generating the panorama image based on the plurality of image, the panorama image centered at the specified center ROI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hariharan Raju, Raja Shekhar Reddy Annam, Ravi Shankar Kadambala
  • Patent number: 11184665
    Abstract: A device for retrieving media data includes a memory configured to store media data of a media presentation; and one or more processors implemented in circuitry and configured to: retrieve a manifest file for the media presentation, the manifest file including data for an initialization set, the initialization set including initialization parameters for the full duration of the media presentation; initializing playback of the media data of the media presentation using the initialization set; retrieving the media data of the media presentation; and present the media data according to the initialized playback. For example, the initialization parameters may specify a maximum width or a maximum height of pictures of the media presentation or a maximum frame rate of the media presentation. Thus, the processors can process pictures of any size less than or equal to the maximum width/height, or media data equal to or less than the maximum frame rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Thomas Stockhammer, Nikolai Konrad Leung
  • Patent number: 11184923
    Abstract: Various aspects described herein relate to reducing transmission latency in unlicensed spectrum. These latency reduction techniques include enabling ultra low latency (ULL) traffic to gain fast channel access. These latency reduction techniques further include updating a size of a contention window for channel access. In addition, these latency reduction techniques include enhancing CPDCCH-based signaling to accommodate the ULL frame structure. Further, these latency reduction techniques include providing robust operation against bursty interference for ULL transmissions. Moreover, these techniques include managing DRX for ULL. Additionally, these latency reduction techniques include joint scheduling of different TTI durations. These latency reduction techniques further include updating SRS transmission opportunities. In addition, these latency reduction techniques include reducing latency associated with PRACH transmissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Srinivas Yerramalli, Wanshi Chen, Jing Sun, Peter Gaal
  • Patent number: 11182026
    Abstract: An example method of operation may include detecting a user touch in a first area based upon sensor data from one or more sensors of a first type, waking up one or more sensors of a second type configured to measure across some or all of the first area in response to the detecting, obtaining additional sensor data from the one or more sensors of the second type, and determining a location associated with the user touch based in part upon the sensor data from the one or more sensors of the second type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yue Liang, Yipeng Lu, Hrishikesh Vijaykumar Panchawagh, Jessica Liu Strohmann, Changting Xu
  • Patent number: 11184129
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive an indication of a sounding reference signal (SRS) resource set to be used to signal a virtual port used for a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) communication, wherein the virtual port is a combination of at least two non-coherent or partially-coherent antenna ports of the UE using precoding and cyclic delay diversity; and transmit an SRS for the at least two non-coherent or partially-coherent antenna ports using one or more resources of the SRS resource set. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Gokul Sridharan, Yi Huang, Xiao Feng Wang, Wei Yang, Jay Kumar Sundararajan, Peter Gaal
  • Patent number: 11184186
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus may be a UE. The UE determines whether the UE is located within a sub-region of an MBSFN area based on one or more parameters. The UE receives based on the determination a service over broadcast in the sub-region of the MBSFN area or over unicast outside the sub-region. In an aspect, the MBSFN area may be smaller than a unicast area. In an aspect, adaptive retransmission with a group NACK approach may be used to improve an SNR and reliability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Xipeng Zhu, Jun Wang, Xiaoxia Zhang, Gang Bao
  • Patent number: 11184126
    Abstract: Aspects described herein relate to configuring a media access control (MAC)-control element (CE) to update a sounding reference signal (SRS) beam within a wireless communication system. Other aspects described herein relate to configuring default beam information for determining a beam for data channel communications within the wireless communication system. A user equipment (UE) or other device can determine to use the default beam information for configuring the beam for a data channel communication and for performing power control using, e.g., physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) parameters. In addition, in some examples, the device can transmit the data channel communication using a beam configured based on the default beam information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sony Akkarakaran, Xiao Feng Wang, Tao Luo, Makesh Pravin John Wilson, Yan Zhou
  • Patent number: 11184080
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide to techniques for radio link monitoring (RLM), detecting beam failure, and beam failure recovery (BFR) using radio link monitoring reference signal (RML-RS) resources and beam failure recovery reference signal (BFR-RS) resources. An exemplary method by a user equipment (UE) may include obtaining a first configuration indicating one or more radio link monitoring reference signal (RLM-RS) resources and one or more beam failure recovery reference signal (BFR-RS) resources, wherein each RLM-RS resource corresponds to at least a first link, and each BFR-RS resource corresponds to at least a second link, obtaining a first indication that a first link quality for the first link is below a first threshold and a second link quality for the second link is above a second threshold, and taking action regarding a radio link failure (RLF) based on the indication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sumeeth Nagaraja, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11184867
    Abstract: Disclosed aspects relate to methods and apparatus for coexistent radio frequency (RF) systems in a wireless device. Control of a wireless device includes detecting when a turn on signal is issued to a first radio system, and then controlling the second radio system to either modify the operation of receiver circuitry in the second radio system to protect components within that system, or modify transmit circuitry to stop transmissions for protecting components within one radio system potentially affected by transmission from the other radio system in the wireless device. Disclosed also is monitoring of transmission states of the radio systems based on reading messages between the first and second radio systems and issuing a notification message based thereon such that one of the radio systems may suspend monitoring of a transmit channel for permission to transmit in order to reduce power consumption due to such monitoring of the channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Helena Deirdre O'Shea, David Maldonado, Ramakrishna Narayanaswami, Chuan Wang, Wolfgang Roethig
  • Patent number: 11184039
    Abstract: According to certain aspects, a chip includes a first port, a first amplifier, and a first input path coupling the first port to an input of the first amplifier. The chip also includes a second port, a second amplifier, and a second input path coupling the second port to an input of the second amplifier. The chip further includes a switchable path coupled between the first input path and the second input path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Rahul Karmaker, Francesco Gatta
  • Patent number: 11181939
    Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for implementing multi-mode oscillation circuitry with stepping control. In an example aspect, the multi-mode oscillation circuitry comprises a resonator coupled to a first oscillator and a second oscillator. The multi-mode oscillation circuitry is configured to selectively be in a first configuration with the first oscillator in an active state and the second oscillator in an inactive state or a second configuration with the first oscillator in the inactive state and the second oscillator in the active state. The apparatus also includes a step-control circuit coupled to the multi-mode oscillation circuitry. The step-control circuit is configured to cause the first oscillator to switch from the inactive state to the active state and incrementally increase a first gain of the first oscillator based on the first oscillator being in the active state to enable the multi-mode oscillation circuitry to transition from the second configuration to the first configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Shunta Iguchi, Ilker Deligoz, Michael Naone Farias
  • Patent number: 11184607
    Abstract: Techniques are described for video encoding and decoding with same picture or count numbering for scalability support. One example involves obtaining a portion of a picture (e.g., a slice, a block, or other portion) and determining if weighted prediction is enabled for the portion of the picture. When weighted prediction is enabled, a zero value picture order count offset indicating a reference picture from a reference picture can be used, though different portion of the picture (e.g., different slices of a picture) can have different picture order count offset values. The portion of the picture can then be reconstructed using the reference picture identified by the zero value picture order count offset. Additional embodiments can use weighted prediction flags and different offset value determinations to support scalability or reference pictures in weighted prediction with a different size than the picture being reconstructed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Vadim Seregin, Adarsh Krishnan Ramasubramonian, Muhammed Zeyd Coban, Marta Karczewicz
  • Patent number: 11184888
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for rate-matching for a transmission by multiple transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states, such as a multiple transmission reception point (multi-TRP) transmission. A method by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving one downlink control information (DCI) scheduling a downlink transmission associated with multiple transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states. The UE determines whether the downlink transmission is associated with one rate matching or is associated with a separate rate matching for each of the multiple TCI states. The UE derate matches the downlink transmission based on the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Mostafa Khoshnevisan, Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang
  • Patent number: 11184820
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus for wireless communications that support fast user equipment (UE) handover between base stations. A UE may receive, from a source base station, a configuration for reference signal transmission at a set of uplink transmit power levels. The UE may transmit multiple uplink reference signal repetitions based on the configuration. The source base station may transmit a request message to a target base station to measure the multiple uplink reference signal repetitions. The target base station may select an uplink reference signal and measure a transmit power correction. The target base station may transmit an indication to the source base station of the selection and transmit power correction. The source base station may evaluate the indications and select the target base station. The source base station may forward to the indicated contents, and the UE may switch and synchronize with the target base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Tom Chin, Ajith Tom Payyappilly, Min Wang, Xipeng Zhu
  • Patent number: 11184699
    Abstract: Some disclosed systems may include a microphone system having two or more microphones, an interface system and a control system. In some examples, the control system may be capable of receiving, via the interface system, audio data from two or more microphones of the microphone system, of determining a gesture location based, at least in part, on the audio data and of controlling one or more settings of the system based on the gesture location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Feng Han, Jin Won Lee, Xinzhou Wu, Rashid Ahmed Akbar Attar
  • Patent number: 11182972
    Abstract: The techniques disclosed herein include a first device for receiving a communication signal from a second device, the first device including one or more processors configured to receive, in the communication signal, packets that represent a virtual image as part of a virtual teleportation of one or more visual objects embedded in the virtual image. The one or more processors may be configured to decode the packets that represent the virtual image, and output the virtual image at a physical location within a fixed environment. The first device may also include a memory configured to store the packets that represent the virtual image as part of the virtual teleportation of one or more visual objects embedded in the virtual image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Bijan Forutanpour, Shankar Thagadur Shivappa, Phi Hung Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11184870
    Abstract: Discovery and synchronization channels are discussed for user-tracking zones in a cellular network. User-tracking zones reduce the mobility tracking burden on the UE and shift the tracking responsibility to the network. This shift allows for UE and network power savings from reduced searching at the UE as well as through efficient paging area tracking and less broadcast signaling. The various aspects provide channel design for initial synchronization and discovery of the user-tracking zones. A single frequency network (SFN) synchronization channel is provided with at least a reference signal for time synchronization and payload information that may include a zone identifier (ID), formatting for a system information transmission request, and resource allocation for the request. The zone ID may be included in the payload or embedded into the reference signal. Facility is also provided for handling zone nodes of different power classes that allows for maintaining the SFN operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Tingfang Ji, Yichao Huang, Naga Bhushan, Keiichi Kubota, Gavin Bernard Horn
  • Patent number: 11184917
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a UE receives a first uplink grant for a first RAT (e.g., 5G NR) and a second uplink grant for a second RAT (e.g., LTE). In one embodiment, the UE schedules an uplink transmission on the first RAT (e.g., by selectively dropping the uplink transmission on particular resource blocks) so as to manage an amount of time that is based on concurrent uplink transmissions on both the first and second RATs are performed. In another embodiment, the UE establishes a first period of time where a BSR transmitted by the UE on the first RAT is adjusted based on scheduling of concurrent uplink multi-RAT transmissions, and a second period of time where no BSR is transmitted by the UE on the first RAT based where concurrent uplink transmissions on both the first and second RATs are not permitted to be scheduled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Leena Zacharias, Reza Shahidi, Amir Aminzadeh Gohari, Arnaud Meylan, Liang Zhao, Dinesh Kumar Devineni
  • Patent number: 11184821
    Abstract: Various aspects of the disclosure relate to handover of a user equipment (UE) between a standalone mode of operation and a non-standalone mode of operation. For example, a UE may be handed-over from standalone to non-standalone, or vice versa. Moreover, this handover may be an inter-system handover (e.g., between an LTE core network and an NR core network).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Xipeng Zhu, Tom Chin, Kuo-Chun Lee, Ajith Tom Payyappilly, Masato Kitazoe
  • Patent number: 11184902
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A base station may transmit a configuration indicating a transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state switching pattern and a TCI state switching period to a user equipment (UE). The UE may perform TCI state switching according to the TCI state switching pattern and period, and the UE may receive a downlink transmission according to the TCI state switching pattern. The UE may receive a downlink control information (DCI) including an indication of a TCI state for a subsequent TTI. The UE may receive the downlink signal in accordance with both the TCI state switching pattern and the indication in the DCI. The UE may receive a configuration message indicating a first DCI state, receive a DCI indicating a second TCI state for a subsequent TTI, switch to the second TCI state, and receive a downlink signal using the second TCI state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang, Tao Luo, Makesh Pravin John Wilson