Patents Examined by Fitwi Y Hailegiorgis
  • Patent number: 12267408
    Abstract: A method includes, at a first node: transmitting a first calibration signal at a first time-of-departure measured by the first node; and transmitting a second calibration signal at a second time-of-departure measured by the first node. The method also includes, at a second node: receiving the first calibration signal at a first time-of-arrival measured by the second node; and receiving the second calibration signal at a second time-of-arrival measured by the second node. The method further includes: defining a first calibration point and a second calibration point in a set of calibration points, each calibration point comprising a time-of-departure and a time-of-arrival of each calibration signal; calculating a regression on the set of calibration points; and calculating a frequency offset between the first node and the second node based on the first regression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: ZaiNar, Inc.
    Inventors: Philip A. Kratz, Daniel M. Jacker, Mainak Chowdhury, Alexander Hooshmand
  • Patent number: 12262056
    Abstract: A decoding unit decodes data corresponding to an N×M array of quantized coefficients from a bit stream. An inverse quantization unit derives orthogonal transform coefficients from the N×M array of quantized coefficients by using at least a quantization matrix. An inverse orthogonal transform unit performs inverse orthogonal transform on the orthogonal transform coefficients generated by the inverse quantization unit to generate prediction residuals corresponding to a block of a P×Q array of pixels. An inverse quantization unit derives the orthogonal transform coefficients by using at least a quantization matrix of an N×M array of elements, and the inverse orthogonal transform unit generates prediction residuals for the P×Q array of pixels having a size larger than the N×M array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masato Shima
  • Patent number: 12261930
    Abstract: Technologies directed to the distribution of local oscillator (LO) signals and reference clock signals to beamforming circuits of a panel with an array of antenna elements are described. A communication system includes antenna elements, beamforming circuits, driver circuitry, and diplexing circuitry with signal paths between the diplexing circuitry and the beamforming circuits. The driver circuitry outputs a first signal having a first frequency and a second signal having a second frequency lower than the first frequency. The diplexing circuitry generates a combined signal comprising the first and second signals and sends the combined signal to each beamforming circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Sean Timothy Nicolson, Joung Won Park, Satwik Patnaik
  • Patent number: 12261730
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for multi-user multiplexing for block transmissions by an electronic device includes generating a user signal that includes a number of first samples in the time domain. The number of first samples are generated based on a discrete-time baseband signal and a predetermined guard period. A discrete Fourier transform (DFT) operation is performed on the number of first samples to obtain a number of second samples in the frequency domain. An interleaving operation is performed on the number of second samples to obtain a number of third samples in the frequency domain. An inverse-DFT (IDFT) operation is performed on the number of third samples to obtain a number of fourth samples in the time domain. A time shifting is performed on the number of fourth samples to obtain a number of shifted fourth samples. A block transmission is sent using the number of shifted fourth samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Philipp Walk, Weimin Xiao
  • Patent number: 12244377
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method is disclosed for port reduction, comprising: calculating, at a distributed unit (DU), beamforming weights based on received DMRS channel estimates; sending the calculated beamforming weights to a radio unit (RU); applying, at the RU, port reduction to DMRS symbols based on the calculated beamforming weights; compressing IQ data and received DMRS symbol data to compensate for an underlying bandwidth increase, thereby enabling beamforming at the RU. PUSCH data may be compressed. Beamforming weight calculations may be performed in the O-DU. Beamforming weight calculations may be provided to the L2 scheduler. BFP format compression may be performed. Channel information may be compressed for non-signal data. DMRS compression may be performed at the CU. The DMRS pattern may be received from the control plane. An equalizer weight calculation may be performed to merge a plurality of CSI estimates from different RUs for a given user to calculate joint equalization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Parallel Wireless, Inc.
    Inventors: Praneet Chivate, Juwendo Denis
  • Patent number: 12237894
    Abstract: A method, system and apparatus for an optimized radiation pattern for an indoor ceiling and/or wall mounted radio unit for distributed antenna systems/radio dot systems (DAS/RDS) are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method includes obtaining beam forming weights for generating a shaped radiation pattern that provides a same effective isotropic power radiated (EIPR) at multiple locations inside a target cell, and applying the obtained beam forming weights to signals directed to an array of antenna elements of the radio interface to generate the shaped radiation pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Hadi Bahramiabarghouei, Dongxun Jia, Xiaochuan Li, Izabela Kurek
  • Patent number: 12231201
    Abstract: A reconfiguration intelligent surface device and a beamforming method thereof, the beamforming method adapted to the reconfiguration intelligent surface device is described below. A timing synchronization signal is received. A frame boundary synchronized with a radio signal transmission/reflection device is established according to the timing synchronization signal. Beam control information is received. A reflected beam is formed by reflecting a radio signal beam transmitted or reflected by the radio signal transmission/reflection device according to the beam control information based on the frame boundary synchronized with the radio signal transmission/reflection device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Chiu-Ping Wu, Shih-Hao Fang, Hsin-An Hou, Jen-Yuan Hsu
  • Patent number: 12199619
    Abstract: A receiver includes a multi-phase clock generator to generate phases of a clock signal and a global phase interpolator (PI) circuit coupled to the multi-phase clock generator and to clock and data recovery (CDR) circuitry. The global PI circuit generates initial-adjusted phases from the phases of the clock signal based on a control signal received from the CDR circuitry. A first local PI receives the initial-adjusted phases of the clock signal and applies a first fixed phase shift to the initial-adjusted phases to generate first final-adjusted phases of the clock signal that are useable to sample a first level of multiple levels of a pulse-amplitude-modulated (PAM) data stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Ofek Abadi, Omer Wolkovitz
  • Patent number: 12200576
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for determining a feedback resource associated with groupcast data. One method includes receiving a configuration associated with a resource pool for PSFCH. The method includes receiving groupcast data via sidelink and determining HARQ feedback based at least in part on the received groupcast data. The method includes determining a PSFCH resource for the HARQ feedback based at least in part on the resource pool for the PSFCH and transmitting the HARQ feedback using the determined PSFCH resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Karthikeyan Ganesan, Prateek Basu Mallick, Joachim Loehr, Alexander Johann Maria Golitschek Edler von Elbwart, Ravi Kuchibhotla, Vijay Nangia, Robert T. Love
  • Patent number: 12199724
    Abstract: A method includes determining one or more delay values and one or more phase shift values for generation of multiple desired frequency-dependent analog beams. The method also includes configuring one or more true-time delay (TTD) elements and one or more phase shifters of a transceiver based on the one or more delay values and the one or more phase shift values, the transceiver having one or more radio-frequency (RF) chains connected to multiple antennas via the one or more TTD elements and the one or more phase shifters. The method also includes operating the transceiver to generate the multiple desired frequency-dependent analog beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Vishnu Vardhan Ratnam, Shadi Abu-Surra, Jianhua Mo, Gang Xu, Jin Yuan, Ahmad AlAmmouri, Boon Loong Ng, Jianzhong Zhang
  • Patent number: 12192040
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for wireless communications by an apparatus. Certain techniques include sending an indication that the apparatus is capable of supporting lattice reduction (LR) demodulation; receiving a first LR transformation matrix (to be used for demodulating a modulated signal); and receiving the modulated signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jacob Pick, Shay Landis, Peer Berger, Tomer Geva
  • Patent number: 12192485
    Abstract: An on-vehicle device uploads information concerning a vehicle to an external device with a predetermined period, and includes a processor that uploads, to an external device, trimming information where a target area is trimmed from image information that is captured by the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventor: Hideaki Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 12188963
    Abstract: An oscilloscope includes a memory that stores instructions; and a processor that executes the instructions. When executed by the processor, the instructions cause the oscilloscope to obtain a measurement of a first radio frequency signal; split a first spectrum based on the first radio frequency signal into a first low-frequency band and a first high-frequency band; perform a first Fourier transform to compute a first new spectrum based on the first spectrum; compute a first waveform of the first new spectrum with noise of the oscilloscope reduced by performing a first inverse Fourier transform based on the first new spectrum; and combine the first new spectrum with noise of the oscilloscope reduced with the first low-frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: KEYSIGHT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: David L. Gines
  • Patent number: 12184365
    Abstract: A dual-polarized multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) mobile device is provided that includes a first array of antennas and a second array of antennas. Based upon a blockage of at least one of the array of antennas being less than a blockage threshold, the mobile device operates in a default configuration in which a default polarization selection from the second array is used in combination with a fixed polarization selection from the first array to form a first MIMO layer signal and a second MIMO layer signal. Should the blockage exceed the blockage threshold and an optional performance threshold be satisfied, the mobile device may operate in a dynamic configuration in which a dynamic polarization selection from the second array is reversed as compared to the default polarization selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Vasanthan Raghavan, Sinan Adibelli, Mohammad Ali Tassoudji, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 12170559
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless communication device may identify, based at least in part on a scaling factor, one or more phase weights associated with a transmit beam of the wireless communication device. The scaling factor is associated with a frequency in a frequency band associated with the wireless communication device. The wireless communication device may generate, based at least in part on the one or more phase weights, the transmit beam. The wireless communication device may transmit a wireless communication using the transmit beam. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Surendra Kompala, Sachin Jain, Mihir Vijay Laghate, Isan Doshi, Raghu Narayan Challa
  • Patent number: 12155433
    Abstract: An antenna alignment device may have a camera that takes a line-of-sight image. For an antenna alignment device directed to a boresight of an antenna, the line-of-sight image is the “view” from the antenna to the surrounding environment. An antenna radiation pattern, based on the antenna type, may be overlaid on the line-of-sight image. A technician and or other user can therefore observe the radiation pattern vis-à-vis the surrounding environment. Therefore, it can be determined during the initial alignment stage, whether the antenna alignment may have to be changed to account for structures and or other blockages in the surrounding environment rather than just relying antenna alignment based on an ideal model site. The overlaying also speeds up troubleshooting as it can be used to provide clear and specific alignment instructions prior to deploying crew to the antenna site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Viavi Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Pettygrove, Jim Neuens
  • Patent number: 12155450
    Abstract: A WTRU may include a memory and a processor. The processor may be configured to receive beam grouping information from a gNB or transmission and reception point (TRP). The beam grouping information may indicate a group of beams that the WTRU may report using group-based reporting. The group-based reporting may be a reduced level of reporting compared to a beam-based reporting. The group-based report may include measurement information for a representative beam. The representative beam may be one of the beams in the group or represents an average of the beams in the group. Alternatively, the representative beam may be a beam that has a maximum measurement value compared to other beams in the group. The group-based report may include a reference signal received power (RSRP) for the representative beam and a differential RSRP for each additional beamin the beam group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Kyle Jung-Lin Pan, Fengjun Xi, Afshin Haghighat, Oghenekome Oteri, Chunxuan Ye, Frank La Sita, Robert Olesen, Moon-il Lee
  • Patent number: 12149316
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for wireless communication. Various aspects support beam switching and changing antenna array configurations for communicating in a near field range. In some examples, a user equipment (UE) may transmit a beam group indicator to a network entity, and the UE and the network entity may perform beam switching operations associated with switch communication beams in association with changes to a distance between the UE and the network entity. In some such examples, the beam switching may switch from using beam weights for communications in a far field range to beam weights for communications in a near field range. Additionally or alternatively, the network entity may change configurations of an antenna array used to communicate with the UE in association with changes to the distance. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Vasanthan Raghavan, Juergen Cezanne, Mohammad Ali Tassoudji, Yu-Chin Ou, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 12147899
    Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for training an action selection neural network. One of the methods includes receiving an observation characterizing a current state of the environment; determining a target network output for the observation by performing a look ahead search of possible future states of the environment starting from the current state until the environment reaches a possible future state that satisfies one or more termination criteria, wherein the look ahead search is guided by the neural network in accordance with current values of the network parameters; selecting an action to be performed by the agent in response to the observation using the target network output generated by performing the look ahead search; and storing, in an exploration history data store, the target network output in association with the observation for use in updating the current values of the network parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: DeepMind Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Karen Simonyan, David Silver, Julian Schrittwieser
  • Patent number: 12149311
    Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer readable medium for special thermal density reduction by antenna thinning. A system comprises N transmit/receive (TX/RX) chains, where each TX/RX chain comprises an RFFE and each RFFE comprises one or more thermal sensors configured to measure heat in the RFFE. An antenna array coupled to the plurality of TX/RX chains. A codebook that comprises a plurality of code words configured to respond to real-time heat measurements from the thermal sensors in each TX/RX chain is configured to switch off selected TX/RX chains to reduce thermal density at the antenna array while maintaining M RFFEs switched on, where M<N and the desired beamforming gain is 10 log 10(M).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Oner Orhan, Brent Elliott, Hosein Nikopour, Eren Sasoglu, Shilpa Talwar