Patents Examined by Dhaval V Patel
  • Patent number: 10941328
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods of making wellbore fluids with enhanced electrical conductivities. In some embodiments, such methods comprise: (1) pre-treating a carbon material with an acid; and (2) adding the carbon material to the wellbore fluid. Further embodiments of the present disclosure pertain to wellbore fluids formed by the methods of the present disclosure. Additional embodiments of the present disclosure pertain to methods for logging a subterranean well by utilizing the aforementioned wellbore fluids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: M-l L.L.C.
    Inventors: James M. Tour, Gabriel Ceriotti, Alexander Slesarev, Ruquan Ye, Katherine Price-Hoelscher, Cara Bovet, Jim Friedheim, Steve Young
  • Patent number: 10938442
    Abstract: A base station for a wireless communications system operating in an unlicensed target band of a wireless medium includes a receiver configured to wirelessly (i) receive non-cooperative carrier data within the target band from a user equipment, and (ii) detect an operation of at least one spread spectrum channel within the target band. The station further includes a transmitter configured to wirelessly send non-cooperative carrier data within the target band to the user equipment, a memory configured to store computer-executable instructions, and a processor configured to (i) execute the computer-executable instructions, (ii) determine, based on the detection operation of the receiver, at least one sequence of the at least one spread spectrum channel, and (iii) perform at least one corrective action to mitigate interference between the transmitter and an operation of the at least one spread spectrum channel based on the determination of the at least one sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark J. Poletti, Joseph Padden
  • Patent number: 10922612
    Abstract: [Problem] Effectively speeding up the learning using the DNN regardless of a learning technique. [Solution] An information processing apparatus is provided, which includes a learning unit that executes learning using a neural network, and the learning unit dynamically changes the value of the batch size during learning based on the gap value with the ideal state for learning output from the neural network. Furthermore, an information processing method is provided, which includes executing, by a processor, learning using a neural network, and the learning further includes dynamically changing the value of the batch size during learning based on the gap value with the ideal state for learning output from the neural network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroaki Mikami
  • Patent number: 10917275
    Abstract: An information transmission method for reducing Peak to Average Power Ratio (PAPR), a transmitting terminal and a receiving terminal are provided, to solve the technical problem that it is difficult for a transmitting terminal to reliably transmit side information to a receiving terminal by using conventional methods for reducing PAPR. The method includes: scrambling an initial data block according to a predetermined scrambling mode to obtain a scrambled target data block; determining a scrambling mode index corresponding to the predetermined scrambling mode according to a predetermined relation between scrambling mode indexes and scrambling modes; generating side information carrying the determined scrambling mode index based on the scrambling mode index; and transmitting the side information and the target data block to a receiving terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xiaodong Shen
  • Patent number: 10917097
    Abstract: A method for transferring first and second encoded client clock signals over a carrier clock domain between integrated circuits, including in a first integrated circuit encoding a phase change of the first client clock signal from a last recorded phase onto the carrier clock signal in first bit positions, encoding a phase change of the second client clock signal from a last recorded phase onto the carrier clock signal in second bit positions different from the first bit positions, and transmitting the carrier clock signal with the encoded phases of the first client clock signal and the second client clock signal over a single wire from the first integrated circuit to a second integrated circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Microsemi Semiconductor ULC
    Inventors: Peter Meyer, Kamran Rahbar, Drew Jenkins
  • Patent number: 10911011
    Abstract: A coherent optical modem includes one or more inputs; one or more amplifier circuits, each coupled to a respective input of the one or more inputs; and one or more receiver circuits each including an analog-to-digital converter, each coupled to a respective amplifier circuit of the one or more amplifier circuits; wherein the one or more amplifier circuits are configured to implement an automatic gain control loop to provide a constant signal amplitude at an input of the analog-to-digital converter of a respective receiver circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Ciena Corporation
    Inventors: Tom Luk, Michael Vitic, Ron Hartman
  • Patent number: 10903881
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for a terminal reporting channel status information (CSI) to a base station in a wireless communication system. The method comprises receiving, via an upper later, information associated with a single CSI process comprising a firs enhanced multiple input multiple output (eMIMO) type and a second eMIMO type; reporting, to a base station, a first CSI updated on the basis of a first channel status information-reference signal (CSI-RS) corresponding to the first eMIMO type received from a first subframe; and receiving, from the base station, a triggering message of a second CSI calculated on the basis of a second CSI-RS corresponding to the second eMIMO type from a second subframe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyungtae Kim, Jonghyun Park, Haewook Park, Daesung Hwang
  • Patent number: 10897291
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for precoding matrix indicator feedback reduce a quantity of bits in the feedback. In the method, a terminal device receive a reference signal from a base station, determines a precoding matrix W in a precoding matrix set corresponding to a rank indication. W satisfies W=W1×W2×W3, W1, W2 and W3 and matrices and respectively corresponding to a first, second and third precoding matrix indicator. None of W1, W2, and W3 is an identity matrix, and the 2M columns in W1 comprise every column in W1×W2. The terminal device transmits the rank indication, the first precoding matrix indicator, the second precoding matrix indicator, and the third precoding matrix indicator to the base station. Therefore, a quantity of to-be-selected vectors is reduced by using a first-stage feedback and a second-stage feedback, thereby reducing calculation complexity of third-stage feedback, and reducing a quantity of bits in the third-stage feedback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ruiqi Zhang, Jianqin Liu
  • Patent number: 10896338
    Abstract: A control system comprising a reference image setting part setting a reference image of the face of the driver based on the image captured by the driver monitor camera, a monitoring part monitoring a condition of the driver based on the image captured by the driver monitor camera and the reference image, a first judging part judging if the face of the driver can no longer be recognized when monitoring the condition of the driver, a second judging part judging if the driver has been changed when the face of the driver can no longer be recognized, and a reference image resetting part resetting the reference image of the face of the driver based on the image captured by the driver monitor camera when it is judged that the driver has been changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takeshi Matsumura, Jun Sato, Kenichiroh Hara, Junya Kasugai, Koichiro Yamauchi, Kazuhiro Tomosue
  • Patent number: 10896510
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an image processing apparatus including: a position acquisition section configured to acquire a position of a first tetrahedron and a position of a second tetrahedron; a separational axis acquisition section configured to acquire a separational axis extending in a direction from the first tetrahedron to the second tetrahedron; a technique selection section configured to project a vertex of the first tetrahedron and a vertex of the second tetrahedron on the separational axis and select a calculation technique for a contact point on a basis of an order in which the projected vertex of the first tetrahedron and vertex of the second tetrahedron align on the separational axis; a contact point calculation section configured to calculate one or a plurality of contact points between the first tetrahedron and the second tetrahedron by the selected calculation technique; and an image drawing section configured to draw an image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventor: Shin Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10880140
    Abstract: A receive device includes: a quadrature detector; and a first signal detector that detects whether a signal subjected to detection in the quadrature detector is a received signal. The first signal detector assigns the signal subjected to quadrature detection in the quadrature detector to an orthogonal plane divided into a plurality of quadrants and derives an amount of movement of the signal assigned between quadrants, integrates absolute values of derived amounts of movement over a predetermined period of time, and determines whether the signal subjected to quadrature detection is a received signal by comparing an integrated value derived from integration with a threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: JVCKENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ryo Kuboshima
  • Patent number: 10880133
    Abstract: Devices and methods for finite impulse response (FIR) feed forward equalization (FFE) at a transmitter are provided. A voltage-mode driver circuit has a main driver and an equalization driver. The main driver drives the digital output signal based on a received digital input signal. The equalization function of the equalization driver is enabled or disabled for a short duration of time to provide at least one of FIR equalization and pre-emphasis to the digital output signal. Pre-emphasis is effected by enabling a low-resistance path of the equalization driver based on the digital input signal such that, when the low-resistance path is enabled, it reduces the transmission resistance for a short period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Euhan Chong
  • Patent number: 10879983
    Abstract: Multiple antennas of a beamformer may simultaneously transmit wireless signals at different frequencies. The signals may comprise synchronized, identical wireless commands, each at a different carrier frequency. The transmitted signals may constructively and destructively interfere with each other at a receiver antenna, to form a beat signal. When the transmitted signals constructively interfere, the beat signal may cause a voltage in the receiver to exceed a threshold voltage. The threshold voltage may be a minimum voltage at which a device, which is operatively connected to the receiver antenna, is able to perform energy harvesting or wireless communication. The beamformer may operate under blind channel conditions, because the transmitted frequencies may be selected in such a way as to maximize peak power delivered under all possible channel conditions. The beamformer may deliver wireless power to a sensor or actuator that is located deep inside bodily tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Yunfei Ma, Zhihong Luo, Christoph Steiger, Carlo Giovanni Traverso, Fadel Adib
  • Patent number: 10878295
    Abstract: An image recognition method using a region-based convolutional neural network (R-CNN) includes generating a feature map from an input image, detecting one or more regions of interest (ROIs) in the feature map, classifying the ROIs into groups based on setting information, performing pooling on the ROIs classified into the groups independently for each of the groups, and performing a regression operation on a result of the pooling and applying an image classifier to a result of the regression operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hee Min Choi
  • Patent number: 10879967
    Abstract: Disclosed is a 5th generation (5G) or pre-5G communication system to be provided for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4th generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). Examples of the present invention provide a beam selection and feedback device and method for minimizing complexity and overhead without performance deterioration in a beamforming MIMO wireless communication system. According to one example of the present invention, an apparatus of a receiving device in a wireless communication system comprises: a transceiver; and at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor is configured to: select at least one beam pair from among a plurality of transmission/reception beam pairs, and control the transceiver to transmit feedback information including indication information indicating whether the at least one beam pair is identical to a beam pair selected in a previous beamforming procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jung Ju Kim, Yongseok Kim, Hyunyong Lee
  • Patent number: 10873297
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for envelope tracking systems with automatic mode selection are provided herein. In certain configurations, a power amplifier system includes a power amplifier configured to provide amplification to a radio frequency signal and to receive power from a power amplifier supply voltage, and an envelope tracker including a signal bandwidth detection circuit configured to generate a detected bandwidth signal based on processing an envelope signal corresponding to an envelope of the radio frequency signal. The envelope tracker further includes a switch bank configured to receive a plurality of regulated voltages, a filter configured to filter an output of the switch bank to generate the power amplifier supply voltage, and a mode control circuit configured to control a filtering characteristic of the filter based on the detected bandwidth signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Sabah Khesbak, Serge Francois Drogi, Florinel G. Balteanu
  • Patent number: 10868603
    Abstract: A method of a user equipment (UE) for a channel state information (CSI) feedback in a wireless communication system is provided. The method comprises receiving, from a base station (BS), CSI feedback configuration information including a number (NSB) of subbands (SB) and a number (R) of frequency domain (FD) units per SB, wherein NSB and R determine a total number (N3) of FD units; deriving CSI feedback based on the CSI feedback configuration information, wherein the CSI feedback includes a precoding matrix indicator (PMI) indicating a precoding matrix for each FD unit of the total number (N3) of FD units; and transmitting the CSI feedback over an uplink channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Md Saifur Rahman, Eko Onggosanusi
  • Patent number: 10863156
    Abstract: Image data representative of at least a portion of an image comprising first and second sets of pixels associated with first and second colour channels, respectively, is received. It is determined that a first pixel of the first set of pixels is a saturated pixel. First data based on a value of the first pixel of the second set of pixels is obtained for a first image region comprising the first pixel of the first set of pixels and a first pixel of the second set of pixels. Second data based on respective values of second pixels of the first and second sets of pixels are obtained, based on the first data, for a second image region. The second data is processed to generate output data representative of an estimated value associated with the first colour channel for the first pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Apical Ltd.
    Inventors: Dumidu Talagala, David Hanwell, Viacheslav Chesnokov, Alexey Kornienko
  • Patent number: 10862550
    Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed that includes a processor configured to acquire subarray information indicating a plurality of subarrays usable for multilayer Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO), notify a terminal apparatus of information related to the subarray, wherein the terminal apparatus is a terminal apparatus that performs a report related to a combination of two or more subarrays included in the plurality of subarrays, and wherein the plurality of subarrays includes two or more subarrays that share one or more antenna ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroaki Takano
  • Patent number: 10860875
    Abstract: A user registration device and method is disclosed. The user registration device compares an initial image stored in a database and a newly input candidate image, and determines whether to generate and manage an additional database based on the similarity between the initial image and the candidate image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seungju Han, Minsu Ko, Chang Kyu Choi, Jaejoon Han, Wonsuk Chang