Patents Examined by John J Lee
  • Patent number: 12041557
    Abstract: Wireless communications may be used to support transmission power control. A message to schedule a transmission may be received without indicating a parameter for determining a power for the transmission. The transmission power may be determined based on a pathloss reference signal associated with a default index of a power control parameter set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Ali Cirik, Esmael Dinan, Yunjung Yi, Hua Zhou, Alireza Babaei, Youngwoo Kwak, Kyungmin Park
  • Patent number: 12041558
    Abstract: Wireless communications may be used to support transmission power control. A reference signal may be mapped to a power control parameter set. A message to schedule a transmission may be received that indicates the power control parameter set. A transmission power for the scheduled transmission may be determined based on the reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Ali Cagatay Cirik, Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Yunjung Yi, Hua Zhou, Alireza Babaei, Youngwoo Kwak, Kyungmin Park
  • Patent number: 12022992
    Abstract: An image signal processing device includes: a base component extractor that generates an original base component signal; a base component adjuster that generates a first base component signal by performing weighted average processing; a detail component extractor that generates a first detail component signal based on the first base component signal; a relative emphasizer that outputs a second base component signal and a second detail component signal by relatively emphasizing the first detail component signal to the first base component signal; a combiner that generates a combined image signal by combining the second base component signal and the second detail component signal; and a storage that stores control parameters regarding similarity between the image signal and the first base component signal. The base component adjuster generates the first base component signal by performing the weighted average processing by using a weight coefficient determined in accordance with selected control parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomoya Sato
  • Patent number: 12015969
    Abstract: A system for tracking vehicle position using a smart phone in the vehicle as an active transponder, which is detected by roadside equipment is disclosed. In an embodiment, the system uses existing RF transceivers on the smart-phone, such as Bluetooth LE or WiFi to periodically transmit an identifying message. Road-based equipment detects and locates the smart phone. In a further embodiment, the smart phone is alerted by roadside beacons and only then responds with its identification information. Processing can be performed either on the smart phone or by roadside or central office equipment as is the case in prior art active or passive transponder-based tolling systems. Vehicle location detection can be enhanced through the use of directional antenna matrices such as a Butler matrix. The system can be used for automated roadway tolling and monitoring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Amtech Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Kelly Gravelle, John Todd Elson, Greg Lantz, Michael Melville, Paul Hamel
  • Patent number: 12004086
    Abstract: Method, carried out in a radio terminal (130), for configuring uplink output power of radio transmission from the radio terminal, comprising determining (402) a demand power reduction (P-MPR1) based on a maximum power level associated with a first uplink duty cycle (UDC1); transmitting (403), to a radio network node (120), an indication (233) of the demand power reduction; receiving (404), from the network node, an indication (253) of a target power reduction (P-MPR2) associated with an actual uplink duty cycle (UDC2); and configuring (406) the output power based on the target power reduction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Kun Zhao, Olof Zander, Rickard Ljung
  • Patent number: 11992265
    Abstract: There are provided an ophthalmologic information analysis apparatus and an ophthalmologic information analysis program capable of efficiently performing follow-up observation of a subject eye. There is provided: a central processing unit configured to: acquire first analysis data obtained by analyzing an analysis region of the subject eye in first OCT data including the analysis region; acquire second OCT data captured on a day different from that of the first OCT data; perform an analysis comprising: specifying the analysis region corresponding to the first analysis data from the second OCT data; and acquiring second analysis data obtained by analyzing the analysis region in the second OCT data; and control a display to display the first analysis data and the second analysis data in a comparable manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: NIDEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryosuke Shiba, Tetsuya Kano, Yukihiro Higuchi
  • Patent number: 11991643
    Abstract: Generally, the described techniques provide for efficiently transmitting uplink signals to a base station using shared antennas associated with different power classes. A first device may be in communications with a base station using local antennas and may identify a second device having auxiliary antennas available for transmitting uplink signals to the base station. The local and auxiliary antennas may be associated with different power classes, and the first device may transmit a message to a base station indicating that the first device is capable of transmitting using antennas associated with different power classes. The first device may then receive configurations from a base station of different transmit powers to transmit on the antennas associated with the different power classes, and the first device may transmit uplink signals to the base station in accordance with the different transmit power configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yi Huang, Prashanth Haridas Hande, Jay Kumar Sundararajan, Gokul Sridharan, Wei Yang, Wanshi Chen, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli, Allen Minh-Triet Tran, Joseph Patrick Burke, Naga Bhushan
  • Patent number: 11990593
    Abstract: In at least one embodiment, provided is a battery pack for a vehicle including a thin firebox for enclosing batteries and containing thermal runaway gases, thermal insulation surrounding the firebox, and a vent hole extending through the firebox and the thermal insulation to an exterior of the vehicle with vent hole plug and a pressure relief frangible vent cover at least partially covering the vent hole plug to retain it within the vent hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: SoftBank Corp.
    Inventors: Peter Delioussine, Brian Jensen
  • Patent number: 11991644
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus, and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for managing MPE conditions in over-the-air gradient vector aggregation for federated learning. A UE may receive a federated learning model from a base station for participating in a federated learning procedure with the base station. The UE may update the federated learning model for an iteration of the federated learning procedure based on whether an uplink transmission would cause an MPE threshold to be exceeded. The uplink transmission may have a Tx power level that corresponds to a configured Rx power level at the base station. The UE may drop the uplink transmission if the uplink transmission would cause the MPE threshold to be exceeded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hamed Pezeshki, Tao Luo, Sony Akkarakaran
  • Patent number: 11985607
    Abstract: An apparatus of user equipment (UE) includes processing circuitry coupled to a memory, where to configure the UE for dynamic transmit power adjustment, the processing circuitry is to decode baseband configuration information received from a base station. The baseband configuration information including at least a modulation and coding scheme (MCS), resource block (RB) allocation, and carrier assignment for uplink (UL) transmission and downlink (DL) reception. A communication mode is selected based on the baseband configuration information. An additional maximum power reduction (A-MPR) is determined based on the baseband configuration information and the selected communication mode. UL data is encoded for transmission to the base station via the selected communication mode and using transmit power adjusted based on the determined A-MPR. New signaling enhancements between the UE and the network (on a Uu interface) and between two UEs (on a PC5 sidelink interface) are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Amith Vikram Chincholi, Anthony Tsangaropoulos, Sumit Verma, Mariam Motamed, Divyaprakash Bhojkumar
  • Patent number: 11985604
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive a first control message indicating an uplink power control configuration for the UE. The uplink power control configuration may be associated with a power control identifier and a resource set identifier. The UE may receive a second control message that schedules an uplink message for the UE. The second control message may indicate the resource set identifier and the power control identifier for transmission of the uplink message. The UE may determine a transmit power for the uplink message based on a set of power control parameters, the set of power control parameters corresponding to the resource set identifier and the power control identifier. The UE may transmit the uplink message using a resource set associated with the resource set identifier and in accordance with the determined transmit power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Mostafa Khoshnevisan, Yitao Chen, Xiaoxia Zhang, Tao Luo, Fang Yuan
  • Patent number: 11979840
    Abstract: A method and user equipment to select an emission power from a set of possible emission powers depending on their location relative to a base station. In a 5G development scenario, a massive number of user equipment will be deployed. The data exchanged by this user equipment is mainly signalling data whose volume generates an overload of the network resources. A resource access scheme called uncoordinated resource access scheme reduces the volume of the exchanged data. So that the base station can decode all signals emitted by the user equipment, it is necessary to have a number of emission power levels greater than the number of user equipment. By proposing the user equipment to select an emission power from a set of possible emission powers depending on their location relative to the base station, the solution allows the base station to decode the signals emitted by a greater number of user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: ORANGE
    Inventors: Asma Selmi, Jean Schwoerer, Raphaƫl Visoz, Jean-Pierre Cances
  • Patent number: 11974230
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine, for a sounding reference signal (SRS) transmission, one or more uplink power control parameters based at least in part on whether the one or more uplink power control parameters are associated with a transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state that is associated with at least one of an uplink control channel or an uplink shared channel. The UE may transmit the SRS transmission based at least in part on the one or more uplink power control parameters. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Tianyang Bai, Yan Zhou, Junyi Li, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11969145
    Abstract: A medical endoscope image recognition method is provided. In the method, endoscope images are received from a medical endoscope. The endoscope images are filtered with a neural network, to obtain target endoscope images. Organ information corresponding to the target endoscope images is recognized via the neural network. An imaging type of the target endoscope images is identified according to the corresponding organ information with a classification network. A lesion region in the target endoscope images is localized according to an organ part indicated by the organ information. A lesion category of the lesion region in an image capture mode of the medical endoscope corresponding to the imaging type is identified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Zijian Zhang, Zhongqian Sun, Xinghui Fu, Hong Shang, Xiaoning Wang, Wei Yang
  • Patent number: 11968629
    Abstract: There is provided a UE for configured to operate in a wireless system. The UE comprises: at least one transceiver; at least one processor; and at least one computer memory operably connectable to the at least one processor and storing instructions that, based on being executed by the at least one processor, perform operations comprising: determining SL transmit power for SL signal based on MPR value; determining UL transmit power for UL signal based on the MPR value; transmitting the SL signal based on the SL transmit power; and transmitting the UL signal based on the UL transmit power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Yoonoh Yang, Sangwook Lee, Suhwan Lim, Jinyup Hwang, Jinwoong Park
  • Patent number: 11956736
    Abstract: An access point (AP) communicates to one or more stations (STAs) information indicating a set of channels and/or resource units (RUs), corresponding to a wideband basis service set (BSS) for an authorized unlicensed radio local area network (RLAN) using 6 GHz spectrum, which are subject to a lower power spectral density (PSD) level than other portions of the BSS frequency range or are not to be used for transmission. In some, but not necessarily all, embodiments, the AP and the STAs do not encode data on the identified channels or RUs, but do encode data on other channels and/or other RUs, which are not subject to the lower PSD constraint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLC
    Inventor: Ahmad Reza Hedayat
  • Patent number: 11950760
    Abstract: An endoscope apparatus includes: a lesion information acquisition unit that acquires acquired lesion information; a lesion identification unit that compares existing lesion information with the acquired lesion information and determines whether the acquired lesion information corresponds to the same lesion indicated by the existing lesion information; a lesion count unit that counts a lesion count, which is the number of lesions detected in a single endoscopic examination; a display unit; and a control unit that increments the lesion count counted by the lesion count unit by one when the lesion identification unit determines that the acquired lesion information does not correspond to the same lesion indicated by the existing lesion information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Toshihiro Usuda
  • Patent number: 11956734
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a power control method and a wireless device, in a cluster comprised of wireless devices including a first wireless device and a second wireless device, comprising: receiving power control information including a second data channel transmission power, from the second wireless device; determining a first data channel transmission power based on the second data channel transmission power; and controlling data channel transmission power of the first wireless device according to the first data channel transmission power; wherein, the first data channel transmission power is a power allowing the first wireless device to reach all wireless devices in the cluster, and the second data channel transmission power is a power allowing the second wireless device to reach all wireless devices in the cluster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Lilei Wang, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Masayuki Hoshino
  • Patent number: 11954888
    Abstract: A device includes an image processing unit configured to calculate color information of at least one cell in a captured image and a determination unit configured to determine a cultured state of the cell on the basis of the color information calculated by the image processing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki Kii, Shinichi Takayama
  • Patent number: 11941839
    Abstract: Provided is a 10-20 system-based position information providing method performed by a computer. The method comprises the steps of: obtaining a head image of a subject; receiving, from a user, an input of at least four reference points on the basis of the head image; calculating central coordinates in the head image on the basis of the at least four reference points; and providing 10-20 system-based position information on the basis of the central coordinates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: NEUROPHET Inc.
    Inventors: Dae Gyu Min, Jun Kil Been, Dong Hyeon Kim