Patents Assigned to Qualcomm
  • Patent number: 11159805
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer readable media are described for generating a regional nesting message. In some examples, a video bitstream is obtained and an encoded video bitstream is generated using the video data. The encoded video bitstream includes a regional nesting message that contains a plurality of nested messages and a plurality of region data defining a plurality of regions of a picture of the encoded video bitstream. For example, a first nested message of the regional nesting message includes a first set of data and a first region identifier indicating that the first set of data is to be applied to a first region of the plurality of regions of the picture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Adarsh Krishnan Ramasubramonian, Joel Sole Rojals, Ye-Kui Wang, Dmytro Rusanovskyy, Done Bugdayci Sansli, Marta Karczewicz
  • Patent number: 11159917
    Abstract: In an aspect, a method for a network access node for broadcasting content includes receiving a message from a broadcast coordination entity, the message including information associated with content to be broadcasted to one or more user equipments (UEs), caching the content locally at the network access node, and sending the cached content to the one or more UEs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Xipeng Zhu, Gavin Bernard Horn, Haris Zisimopoulos
  • Patent number: 11160117
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that provide for transmission of idle mode requests using random access techniques, and for identifying a response window for a response to idle mode requests. A user equipment (UE) may transmit an idle mode request using random access channel resources, and the response window may be longer than a response window associated with a random access procedure for initial system access. The response window may be determined based at least in part on a base station that is to provide the response to the idle mode request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sony Akkarakaran, Tao Luo, Xiao Feng Wang
  • Patent number: 11159822
    Abstract: An example device for coding (encoding or decoding) video data includes a memory configured to store video data; and one or more processors implemented in circuitry and configured to: code data representing a location of a virtual boundary defining a clean side of a picture of video data and a dirty side of the picture; disable use of blocks on the dirty side for intra-prediction reference of blocks on the clean side; and code the picture without using the blocks on the dirty side for intra-prediction reference of the blocks on the clean side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Muhammed Zeyd Coban, Vadim Seregin
  • Patent number: 11158119
    Abstract: A method performed by an electronic device is described. The method includes receiving first optical data and first depth data corresponding to a first frame. The method also includes registering the first depth data to a first canonical model. The method further includes fitting a three-dimensional (3D) morphable model to the first optical data. The method additionally includes registering the 3D morphable model to a second canonical model. The method also includes producing a 3D object reconstruction based on the registered first depth data and the registered 3D morphable model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yan Deng, Michel Adib Sarkis, Yingyong Qi
  • Patent number: 11160109
    Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, devices, systems, and computer programs encoded on storage media, for clear channel assessment (CCA) for a wide bandwidth channel. For example, a wide bandwidth channel may have a bandwidth that is greater than 160 MHz bandwidth. An example wide bandwidth channel has a 320 MHz bandwidth. The CCA techniques include detection thresholds that may be used for wide bandwidth channels. In some implementations, a CCA process may be extended to include assessments of extended portions of a wide bandwidth channel (such as a tertiary 80 MHz bandwidth channel and a quaternary 80 MHz bandwidth channel). In some implementations, a CCA process may be extended to use an assessment of a secondary channel of the wide bandwidth channel that has a 160 MHz bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Lin Yang, Bin Tian
  • Patent number: 11160020
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. An access point (AP) may identify a sequence of on symbols and off symbols for transmission to a wake-up radio (WUR) of a wireless device. The AP may assign a modulation symbol from a set of possible modulation symbol waveforms to at least each on symbol in the sequence. The modulation symbol waveforms may be assigned to sequential on symbols in a random or pseudorandom order, e.g., by applying a random phase rotation to a stored modulation symbol waveform, by applying a random cyclic shift to a stored modulation symbol waveform, or by applying a random or pseudorandom phase-shift keying value to each subcarrier in a multicarrier system to generate a modulation symbol waveform. The AP may transmit the sequence to the WUR based at least in part on the assigned modulation symbol waveforms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Stephen Jay Shellhammer, Didier Johannes Richard Van Nee, Bin Tian
  • Patent number: 11157051
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure include methods, components and wireless devices configured to determine appropriate generalized system-wide thermal management policies and settings in wireless devices depending upon whether communication activities are driving or otherwise causing thermal conditions. In various aspects, a processor may determine workload characteristics and select and apply an appropriate thermal management policy/solution (or thermal configuration, settings etc.) based on the determine workload characteristics. The processor may determine workload characteristics based upon data from two or more temperature sensors within the wireless device. The processor may select a generalized system-wide thermal management policy suitable for operating when communication activities (e.g., 5G communication activities) are generating so much heat that CPU-centric thermal management policies are in appropriate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kwangyoon Lee, Adam Cunningham, Melanie Dolores Oclima, Ronald Alton, Jon James Anderson, Heekab Shin, Henri Begin
  • Patent number: 11159295
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some wireless communications systems, a base station may implement polar coding to generate codewords for transmission, for example, in a physical broadcast channel (PBCH). The base station may identify a subset of the bandwidth allocated for PBCH transmission (e.g., corresponding to a bandwidth for a synchronization signal), and may assign sub-channels to information bits based on the identified bandwidth subset. The base station may generate a codeword based on the assigned sub-channels, and may map a subset of encoded bits for the codeword to the subset of the bandwidth such that the subset of encoded bits includes bits corresponding to the assigned subchannels for the information bits. A user equipment (UE) may receive the encoded bits in the subset of the bandwidth, and may decode the subset of encoded bits to determine the information bits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Changlong Xu, Liangming Wu, Kai Chen, Chao Wei, Hao Xu
  • Patent number: 11160041
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first wireless node may receive, from a second wireless node, a first type of timing advance indicator, wherein the first type of timing advance indicator is associated with a first type of connection associated with a first group of wireless nodes, of a network, that includes the first wireless node and the second wireless node and is different from a second type of timing advance indicator used for a second type of connection associated with a second group of wireless nodes of the network. In some aspects, the first wireless node may synchronize a timing configuration of the first wireless node based at least in part on the first type of timing advance indicator. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Navid Abedini, Muhammad Nazmul Islam, Jianghong Luo, Tao Luo, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11159270
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive demodulation reference signal (DMRS) information that indicates a first DMRS configuration for a first transmit receive point (TRP) and a second DMRS configuration for a second TRP; generate a first DMRS-based channel quality report, based at least in part on a first set of DMRS received from the first TRP according to the first DMRS configuration, and a second DMRS-based channel quality report based at least in part on a second set of DMRS received from the second TRP according to the second DMRS configuration; and transmit the first DMRS-based channel quality report and the second DMRS-based channel quality report. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Mostafa Khoshnevisan, Xiaoxia Zhang, Jing Sun
  • Patent number: 11157066
    Abstract: A floorplan independent and cross-current free distributed adaptive power multiplexer (APM) is disclosed. In some implementations, an APM includes a first switch path coupled between a first voltage supply rail and an output terminal, the first switch path including a first switch; a second switch path coupled between a second voltage supply rail and the output terminal, the second switch path including a second switch, wherein the first switch and the second switch are configured to select one of a first voltage supply and a second voltage supply as an output voltage supply to be output at the voltage output terminal; and a comparator coupled to the first and the second voltage supply rails, and the voltage output terminal, wherein the comparator is configured to compare the output voltage supply with one of the first and the second voltage supplies and to output a control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Byron Murphy, Rajeev Jain, Lipeng Cao, Harshat Pant
  • Patent number: 11160021
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for group wake up signaling for millimeter wave relay node discovery. A method that may be performed by a base station (BS) includes communicating with a plurality of user equipments (UEs) in a cell, configuring a plurality of wake-up signals (WUSs) to transmit to different groups of UEs of the plurality of UEs in the cell, wherein configuring the plurality of WUSs is based, at least in part, on a relative location of each of the UEs in the different groups of UEs, and transmitting the plurality of WUSs to the different groups of UEs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Vasanthan Raghavan, Tianyang Bai, Jung Ho Ryu, Hua Wang, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11160084
    Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, devices, and techniques to indicate operations by extremely high throughput (EHT) devices on an operating bandwidth, including devices in a basic service set (BSS) supporting the use of a 320 MHz channel. In some aspects, the supported functionality may include extensions to flexibility and support rules, structures, and signaling using legacy fields, frames, and features. In addition, the supported functionality may include channel sensing and reporting, such as per-channel network allocation vectors (NAVs) for the sub-channels of the operating bandwidth. A device may identify an operating mode for an operating bandwidth and determine a value for a bandwidth query report (BQR) or a target wake time (TWT) element. The device may check multiple NAVs for sub-channels of the operating bandwidth. The operating bandwidth may span concurrent operations on traditional Wi-Fi frequency bands including the 2.4 and 5 GHz bands as well as the 6 GHz band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Alfred Asterjadhi, George Cherian, Abhishek Pramod Patil, Bin Tian
  • Publication number: 20210329567
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to techniques for controlling transmission power and prioritizing transmission carriers. A method of power distribution for different physical layer channels over one or more carriers in case of power limited user equipment (UE) is proposed. Operation modes of the UE with single and multiple power amplifiers/antennas can be supported.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jelena DAMNJANOVIC, Juan MONTOJO, Peter GAAL, Wanshi CHEN
  • Patent number: 11153830
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described in which a base station may signal one or more emission limits for one or more different frequency bands, and two or more values for one of the emission limits may be provided. A first subset of user equipments (UEs) may be capable of aerial operations (e.g., unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones) and may use a first value of the first emission limit and the second subset of UEs may not capable of aerial operations and may use a second value of the first emission limit. A UE status such as altitude or position, or transmission directivity may also be used to determine if the UE is to apply the first value or the second value for an emission limit of a frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Alberto Rico Alvarino, Marco Papaleo, Le Liu, Umesh Phuyal, Stefano Faccin, Timo Ville Vintola, Gene Fong, Valentin Alexandru Gheorghiu
  • Patent number: 11153829
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that provide for managing transmissions using multiple component carriers (CCs) in which transmissions using one or more of the CCs may span less than a full transmission time of a slot or other transmission time interval. A UE may signal a capability to transmit such transmissions, and one or more capabilities related to carrier aggregation that may be used by a base station for scheduling of transmissions on different CCs. In the event that overlapping transmissions on two or more CCs exceed a maximum power threshold, various techniques for dropping at least a portion of one or more transmissions of one or more CCs are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Xiao Feng Wang, Peter Gaal, Wanshi Chen, Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Tao Luo, Juan Montojo, Tingfang Ji
  • Patent number: 11153504
    Abstract: Example systems and methods for controlling an illumination source are described. An example apparatus for controlling an illumination source may include a memory and a processor implemented in circuitry and coupled to the memory. The processor may be configured to process a first frame captured by a video capture device when an illumination source is active, process a second frame captured by the video capture device when the illumination source is inactive, and compare the first frame and the second frame. The processor may also be configured to instruct the illumination source to be active or inactive, based on the comparison, for capture of a third frame by the video capture device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventor: Ben Zion Shaick
  • Patent number: 11148675
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein provide mechanisms for controlling a sensor in a multiple System on Chip (SoC) environment that allows one of the multiple System on Chips to be selected as a host System on Chip. The host System on Chip may lock the sensor to apply setting updates only from the host System on Chip that has locked the sensor. This lock may be broadcast to all sensors over an embedded data channel sent to all System on Chips receiving the sensor data. In addition, a safety monitor may be included to detect if the host System on Chip is functioning properly so that another System on Chip may be selected as a new host System on Chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Jeffrey Hao Chu
  • Patent number: 11153880
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described that provide for power allocation across different carriers using shared and dedicated radio frequency spectrum for a power-limited UE. In cases where a power-limited UE is to transmit control information, power allocation across different carriers may be determined based on one or more of a number of parameters, such as a type of control channel for transmission of control information, an outcome of an LBT procedure for a carrier using shared radio frequency spectrum, a timing of the LBT procedure, one or more other concurrent transmissions, or any combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Srinivas Yerramalli, Wanshi Chen, Peter Gaal, Xiaoxia Zhang