Patents Examined by Jaison Joseph
  • Patent number: 11838079
    Abstract: According to the present disclosure there is provided a multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) transmitter for transmitting wireless communication signals over a communication channel to a receiver, the transmitter including a digital signal processor configured to perform pre-coding on a plurality Ns of data streams; a plurality NRF of radio-frequency (RF) chains each configured to pass a pre-coded data stream from the digital signal processor to generate a signal representing that data stream; a lens antenna array comprising an array of NT antenna elements; and a selecting unit coupled between the plurality NRF of RF chains and the lens antenna array, the selecting unit including a plurality of separate coupling units each configured to couple a respective RF chain to a selective sub-array of NTBRF antenna elements concurrently for transmitting the signal representing the data stream passed through that RF chain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: British Telecommunications Public Limited Company
    Inventors: Linglong Dai, Bichai Wang, Richard Mackenzie, Mo Hao, Xinyu Gao
  • Patent number: 11811482
    Abstract: A method for sidelink beam acquisition for device to device (D2D) communication includes calculating, by a base station, one or more first directions, where the one or more first directions are directions of a second electronic device located relative to a first electronic device; calculating, by the base station, one or more second directions, where the one or more second directions are directions of the first electronic device located relative to the second electronic device; transmitting, by the base station and to the first electronic device, the one or more first directions; and transmitting, by the base station and to the second electronic device, the one or more second directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Pengfei Xia, Bin Liu, Young Hoon Kwon
  • Patent number: 11811577
    Abstract: A method is provided for estimating at least one characteristic of a signal received by a receiver, the signal having been transmitted in succession by a plurality of antennas in successive time segments, each segment being dedicated to one separate antenna, the signal being modulated into the form of pulses according to ultra-wideband modulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventor: François Dehmas
  • Patent number: 11804812
    Abstract: A method of operating a radio receiver device comprises receiving a plurality of signals with a plurality of corresponding frequencies; applying respective gains to each of the plurality of signals; and storing the gain applied to each signal and its corresponding frequency. The method comprises subsequently receiving a further signal with a further frequency; and applying a further gain to the further signal. The further gain is determined using at least one of the stored gains according to a difference between the further frequency and at least one of the plurality of corresponding frequencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Nordic Semiconductor ASA
    Inventors: Jani Ståhlberg, Timo Sillanpää
  • Patent number: 11799521
    Abstract: A method for operating a user equipment (UE) for channel state information (CSI) feedback in a wireless communication system is provided. The method comprises receiving, from a base station (BS), CSI reference signals (CSI-RSs) and CSI feedback configuration information, estimating a channel based on the received CSI-RSs, determining, based on the estimated channel and the CSI feedback configuration information, a number of non-zero coefficients (KlNZ) for each layer (l) of a total number of ? layers, wherein ??1 is a rank value, and a sum of the KlNZ across each of the ? layers as a total number of non-zero coefficients (KNZ), where KNZ=?l=1?KlNZ. The method further comprises transmitting, to the BS, the CSI feedback including the KNZ value over an uplink (UL) channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Md. Saifur Rahman, Eko Onggosanusi
  • Patent number: 11785479
    Abstract: A control unit receives at least one of a plurality of synchronization signals transmitted after undergoing beam sweeping via a wireless communication unit. The beam sweeping includes each of the plurality of synchronization signals forming a different beam and transmitted from the base station during a predetermined period of time. The control unit determines, from a plurality of pieces of beam sweeping configuration information, one piece of the configuration information based on priority between a plurality of types of beam sweeping and receives the synchronization signal or report the received synchronization signal to the base station using the one piece of the configuration information determined based on the priority. The number of the synchronization signals transmitted during a predetermined period of time varies among the plurality of pieces of beam sweeping configuration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki Takano, Naoki Kusashima, Shinichiro Tsuda, Hiroki Matsuda, Yifu Tang, Hiroto Kuriki
  • Patent number: 11778487
    Abstract: A scene-based beam generation method for ground-to-air coverage based on convex polygon subdivision is provided and includes: obtaining a collection of base station positions by using a method of universal transverse mercator projection; constructing a three-dimensional (3D) low altitude signal coverage area; performing convex polygon subdivision on the area to be covered; and generating a beam configuration of each base station. The method realizes generation of beam configurations of base stations in the 3D low altitude signal coverage area, overcomes a problem that the existing 17 kind of scene-based beams cannot realize the coverage of 3D area, overcomes a problem of mismatch between network state information and beam configuration caused by dynamic adjustment of beam configurations. The beam configurations generated by the method does not need to obtain the number of users in real time to adjust the beam, and has a good coverage ability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: XIDIAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Junyu Liu, Min Sheng, Songtao Lei, Ziye Zhang, Yan Shi, Yu Su, Jiandong Li
  • Patent number: 11777581
    Abstract: One disclosure of the present specification provides an operation method in a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) device mounted on a vehicle. The method comprises the steps of: receiving a capability enquiry message from a base station; and transmitting capability information to the base station. The capability information includes information on whether a wireless link with the base station and a sidelink with a neighboring V2X device are supported through the same antenna. The method comprises a step of receiving, from the base station, information about a default beam set on the basis of the capability information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Yoonoh Yang, Ilnam Cho, Sangwook Lee, Jinyup Hwang, Seungmin Woo
  • Patent number: 11764853
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides for beam selection by a mobile device based on a sensor state of the mobile in order to mitigate hand blockage. The mobile device detects, during operation of the mobile device, a sensor state caused by a hand of an operator on the mobile device. The mobile device selects for communication, while operating in the sensor state, a refined beam set corresponding to the sensor state based on reference signals. The mobile device trains a machine learning model based on a set of training data including pairs of the sensor state and the refined beam set to select a first set of beam weights from a second set of beam weights based on a detected sensor state. The mobile device selects for communication a hand blockage state including the first set of beam weights for a current detected sensor state based on the machine learning model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Vasanthan Raghavan, Mohammad Ali Tassoudji, Tao Luo, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11757504
    Abstract: The present disclosure pertains to a network entity for a mobile telecommunications system having circuitry configured to communicate with at least one user equipment, wherein the circuitry is further configured to transmit, to the at least one user equipment, time information for indicating a beam which will cover the at least one user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuxin Wei, Yassin Aden Awad, Vivek Sharma, Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri, Hideji Wakabayashi
  • Patent number: 11742918
    Abstract: A method for operating a UE for CSI reporting in a wireless communication system is provided. The method comprises receiving, from a BS, configuration information for a CSI report, the CSI report comprising a first CSI part and a second CSI part, the second CSI part including a total of KNZ non-zero coefficients across ? layers, determining a priority value for each of the total of KNZ non-zero coefficients, partitioning the second CSI part into Group 0, Group 1, and Group 2 such that, based on the determined priority values of the total of KNZ non-zero coefficients, indicators to non-zero coefficients having higher priority values are included in Group 1 and indicators to non-zero coefficients having lower priority values are included in Group 2, and transmitting, to the BS over an uplink (UL) channel, UL control information (UCI) including Group 0 or (Group 0, Group 1) or (Group 0, Group 1, Group 2) of the second CSI part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Md. Saifur Rahman, Eko Onggosanusi
  • Patent number: 11737147
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes as one aspect a device comprising: a receiver capable of receiving control signal from a base station in a first set of control resources and in a second set of control resources, a transmitter capable of transmitting control signals and data, a circuitry which, when in operation, controls: the transmitter to transmit a random access message associated with the first set of control resources and to transmit communication device capability indication; the receiver to monitor control resources in the first set of control resources after transmitting the random access message and to receive within the first set of control resources configuration of the second set of control resources; the receiver to monitor control resources in the first set of control resources and/or in the second set of control resources after receiving the configuration of the second set of control resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Quan Kuang, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Ayako Horiuchi, Lilei Wang, Alexander Golitschek Edler Von Elbwart
  • Patent number: 11723103
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for wireless communications. A base station may indicate one or more resources for beam failure recovery. The one or more resources may comprise one or more resources for downlink transmission and one or more resources for uplink transmission. A beam failure recovery may be based on the one or more resources for downlink transmission. A wireless device may send, based on the one or more resources for uplink transmission, uplink information for beam failure recovery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Hua Zhou, Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Ali Cagatay Cirik, Alireza Babaei, Hyoungsuk Jeon, Kyungmin Park
  • Patent number: 11722196
    Abstract: In certain embodiments, a method performed by a wireless device comprises estimating a channel state of a downlink channel and transmitting a CSI report for the downlink channel based on the channel state. The CSI report indicates a plurality of precoder vectors, each corresponding to a frequency sub-band of the bandwidth of the downlink channel, a precoder vector being expressed as a linear combination of spatial-domain components and frequency-domain component wherein each of the spatial-domain components is associated with a respective set of one or more frequency-domain components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Niklas Wernersson, Sebastian Faxér, Maksym Girnyk
  • Patent number: 11716152
    Abstract: The application discloses a transceiver, including a calibration signal generation unit, a transmission unit, a receiving unit and a control unit. The calibration signal generation unit generates test signal to the transmission unit in a phase calibration mode. The receiving unit generates a digital receiving signal. The control unit calculates a phase difference between the digital receiving signal and a given reference phase and selectively adjust the transmission unit or the receiving unit accordingly. The application discloses a transceiver calibration method as well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bishen Tseng, Meng Che Li
  • Patent number: 11716129
    Abstract: A method and a device are provided. The device includes an antenna module, an interface for delivery to a protocol for transmission, a memory, and a processor, wherein the processor is set to determine antenna information for each beam index based on a transmission beam that can be generated in the antenna module, generate beam book information based on the determined antenna information, and transmit the beam book information and device connection information, related to an electronic device present inside the coverage of a base station, to an external server through the interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jaeyoung Huh, Sunmin Park, Sangwon Chae, Mooyoung Kim, Minjung Kim, Jungeun Lee
  • Patent number: 11695455
    Abstract: A relay device relaying, to a reception device, a signal stream transmitted by a transmission device through MIMO transmission, the relay device including a lattice base reduction processing unit transforming bases of the signal stream transmitted by the transmission device through MIMO transmission, to increase orthogonality of a lattice of the signal stream, a MIMO equalization unit detecting, by equalization, reception symbols in the signal stream with the bases transformed by the lattice base reduction processing unit, a symbol quantization unit performing quantization by mapping the reception symbols detected by the MIMO equalization unit, to a region on a complex plane delimited by quantization threshold values, and a transmission unit transmitting, to the reception device, at least a signal quantized by the symbol quantization unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naotaka Shibata, Jun Terada, Shinsuke Ibi, Seiichi Sanpei
  • Patent number: 11689937
    Abstract: A wireless device receives configuration parameters indicating that a default beam is used for uplink transmissions via physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) resources. A downlink control information indicating a first uplink transmission via a first PUSCH resource of the PUSCH resources is received. In response to the configuration parameters indicating that the default beam is used, it is determined, for the first uplink transmission, a spatial relation information of the default beam based on a downlink reference signal. A transport block is transmitted via the first PUSCH resource and according to the spatial relation information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
    Inventors: Hua Zhou, Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Kyungmin Park, Ali Cagatay Cirik, Hyoungsuk Jeon, Yunjung Yi, Alireza Babaei, Kai Xu
  • Patent number: 11689270
    Abstract: Provided are a method and device for determining precoding, a method and device for detecting data, a storage medium and an electronic device. The method for determining precoding includes: receiving, by a first communication node, a precoding matrix indicator (PMI) sent by a second communication node; and determining a precoding matrix used on a control channel according to the PMI and a precoding parameter; where the precoding parameter includes at least one of: a PMI delay, the number of repetitions of the control channel, an aggregation level of the control channel, a candidate resource of the control channel, a starting physical resource block (PRB) sequence number of the control channel, a repetition resource group of the control channel, or a PRB set of the control channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Luanjian Bian, Bo Dai, Kun Liu, Weiwei Yang
  • Patent number: 11689268
    Abstract: A method for operating a user equipment (UE) comprises receiving information about a channel state information (CSI) report, the information including information about a parameter ?, wherein the parameter ? is a rational number?1; determining a value of K1 based on the parameter ?; selecting K1 CSI reference signal (CSI-RS) ports from a total of P CSI-RS ports; determining the CSI report including an indicator indicating the selected K1 CSI-RS ports; and transmitting the CSI report including the indicator indicating the selected K1 CSI-RS ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Md. Saifur Rahman, Eko Onggosanusi