Patents Examined by John J Lee
  • Emission limit indication techniques for aerial wireless devices
    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
  • Method for power control, and terminal device and network device
    Patent number: 11147030
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose power control method, a terminal device, and a network device. The method includes: determining, by a terminal device, a first downlink reference signal (DL RS) resource group corresponding to a first bandwidth part (BWP), where the first DL RS resource group includes at least one DL RS resource; and determining, by the terminal device according to a signal corresponding to the at least DL RS resource in the first DL RS resource group, a path loss value used to calculate a transmit power for to-be-transmitted uplink data. The method, the terminal device, and the network device of the embodiments of this application help to improve system performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhihua Shi, Wenhong Chen, Zhi Zhang
  • Method for managing optimal transmission power of a Wi-Fi access point
    Patent number: 11147027
    Abstract: A method is provided for managing an optimal transmission power of a Wi-Fi access point. Electronic devices are connected to the Wi-Fi access point, and the Wi-Fi access point is able to transmit with a variable transmission power. The method is executed by the Wi-Fi access point and includes the steps of determining a minimum value of a quality indicator associated with a connection of an electronic device to the Wi-Fi access point. A minimum transmission power value of the access point is determined making it possible to obtain, for the electronic device connected to the Wi-Fi access point, a value of the quality indicator associated with the connection thereof to the Wi-Fi access point higher than the minimum value. The optimal transmission power of the Wi-Fi access point is configured as being equal to the minimum transmission power determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: SAGEMCOM BROADBAND SAS
    Inventors: Philippe Lefevere, Didier Thouvenin
  • Method and apparatus for a millimeter wave communication system
    Patent number: 11140608
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for millimeter wave (mmW) beam acquisition are disclosed. An apparatus may include a processor and a transceiver configured to receive configuration information from a first network node using a first radio access technology (RAT). The configuration information may include an index associated with a beam of a second network node and timing information corresponding to the first RAT. The second network node may use a second RAT. The apparatus may be further configured to transmit a measurement report to the first network node that includes a measurement of the beam and index associated with the beam of the second network node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Carl Wang, Yingxue K. Li, Onur Sahin, Philip J. Pietraski, Ravikumar V. Pragada, Gregg A. Charlton
  • Medical image processing apparatus
    Patent number: 11132795
    Abstract: A medical image processing apparatus includes: a medical image acquisition unit that acquires a medical image including a subject image; a display unit that displays a plurality of the medical images; an abnormal region determination unit that determines an abnormal region by using the medical images; a malignancy discrimination unit that discriminates a degree of malignancy of an abnormality included in the abnormal region; and a display control unit that emphasizes or suppresses display of at least some medical images among the plurality of medical images by using the degree of malignancy, in displaying the plurality of medical images on the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Maiko Endo
  • UE power control for multiple uplink carriers
    Patent number: 11122515
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for UE power control for multiple uplink carriers. One apparatus includes a transceiver that performs a random-access procedure, wherein performing the random-access procedure includes transmitting a physical uplink shared channel (“PUSCH”) Msg3. The apparatus includes a processor that determines whether the apparatus is in RRC_CONNECTED state and identifies a number of configured closed-loop power control (“CL-PC”) process for an uplink (“UL”) channel or signal. The processor calculates a transmit power for the PUSCH Msg3 using a CL-PC process with index zero in response to the apparatus being in RRC_CONNECTED state and the number of configured CL-PC processes for the UL channel or signal being more than one.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Ebrahim MolavianJazi, Joachim Loehr, Hyejung Jung, Vijay Nangia, Prateek Basu Mallick
  • Method for determining transmit power in coverage enhancement scenario and device
    Patent number: 11122526
    Abstract: A method includes: obtaining, by a terminal, configuration information, wherein the configuration information comprises a maximum quantity of signal transmitting attempts corresponding to each coverage enhancement level; determining, by the terminal according to the obtained configuration information, a transmit power used for transmitting the signal at a coverage enhancement level currently used by the terminal; and transmitting the signal using the determined transmit power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiangdong Zhang, Jinhuan Xia
  • Method for applying P-MPR and apparatus thereof
    Patent number: 11122518
    Abstract: There is provided a method for determining an uplink transmit power. The method may performed by a user equipment (UE) and comprise: measuring an uplink duty cycle; comparing the measured uplink duty cycle with a maximum uplink duty cycle; calculating a value for a power management UE maximum power reduction (P-MPR), based on that the measured uplink duty cycle is greater than the maximum uplink duty cycle; and determining the uplink transmit power based on the calculated value for P-MPR.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Manyoung Jung, Yoonoh Yang, Sangwook Lee, Suhwan Lim, Jinyup Hwang, Jongkeun Park
  • Low data volume satellite communication system
    Patent number: 11115116
    Abstract: Systems are disclosed for a communication system optimized for low data volume communications. In embodiments of the invention, a terminal in the communication system is configured to receive beam shape information from a satellite and use the beam shape information for calculating the terminal's initial transmit power based on the beam shape information. The terminal can also determine the terminal's location and calculate an achievable information data rate of transmitted bursts based on the beam shape information. The terminal can also determine an estimated terminal position based on correlating signal-to-noise ratio measurements on the camped beam and at least one neighbor beam neighboring the camped beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: eSat Global, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Parr
  • Method for obtaining noise power and terminal
    Patent number: 11115940
    Abstract: A method for obtaining a noise power and a terminal are provided. The obtaining method includes: obtaining a first power offset value of an actual automatic gain control (AGC) received power relative to a first predetermined received power within a predetermined transmission time interval (TTI); obtaining, according to a preset correspondence between a modulation mode and an AGC backoff value, a target AGC backoff value corresponding to a current modulation mode; and obtaining the noise power according to the first power offset value, the target AGC backoff value, and a current AGC received power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Li Zhao, Rui Zhao, Ying Peng
  • Uplink transmission power management for unmanned aerial vehicles
    Patent number: 11102726
    Abstract: An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) user equipment (UE) device determines uplink transmission power based on a reduced power factor in response to receiving an interference indicator from a neighboring base station. The reduced power factor results in an uplink transmission power for an uplink signal that is less than the uplink transmission power based on a standard power factor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventors: Amit Kalhan, Henry Chang
  • Transmitting with an uplink transmission power based on a pathloss reference identified by a pathloss index
    Patent number: 11096126
    Abstract: A wireless device receives at least one radio resource control message from a base station. The at least one radio resource control message comprises configuration parameters of a cell. The configuration parameters comprise: a cell index identifying the cell; and an index identifying downlink subcarriers as a pathloss reference signal of the cell. The downlink subcarriers identified by the index are measured to determine a pathloss for uplink transmission of at least one uplink signal. An uplink transmission power for the at least one uplink signal is determined based on the pathloss. The wireless device transmits, via uplink subcarriers, the at least one uplink signal employing the uplink transmission power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
    Inventor: Esmael Dinan
  • Apparatus and method for controlling uplink transmission power in wireless communication system
    Patent number: 11089554
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). A method for operating a terminal in a wireless communication system may comprise the steps of: receiving a first signal by using a first number of antennas during a first downlink interval; receiving a second signal by using a second number of antennas during a second downlink interval; and transmitting a third signal by using the second number of antennas during an uplink interval, with output power compensated on the basis of the first signal and the second signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuichi Aoki
  • Resource management method and system thereof
    Patent number: 11088810
    Abstract: The present invention provides a resource management method and system thereof. The resource management method includes: judging whether the variation degree of work state of a communication system will result in the change of resource management information of the communication system or not, if so, then the resource management information is re-collected, wherein the resource management information includes the state, the interference state among links and service stream information relating to each node in the communication system; and determining the resource allocation strategy of the communication system according to the resource management information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Xin Guo
  • Power control method and user equipment in device to device communication in serving cell
    Patent number: 11076363
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a power control method in device to device (D2D) communication and a user equipment for performing the power control method. The method includes computing a power value of device to device (D2D) transmission of a user equipment performing D2D communication in a subframe in a serving cell, based on a power control adjustment state of a Long Term Evolution (LTE) wide area network (WAN) uplink channel of the user equipment and an offset or a ratio indicated by a transmit power control (TPC) command indicated in D2D grant or downlink control information (DCI) format 3/3A.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Lilei Wang, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Sujuan Feng, Masayuki Hoshino, Joachim Loehr
  • Wireless device and power control method
    Patent number: 11076366
    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: April 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Lilei Wang, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Masayuki Hoshino
  • Client terminal for performing hybrid machine vision and method thereof
    Patent number: 11068734
    Abstract: A client terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a communication unit receiving a request for object recognition; a recognition unit performing the object recognition through machine vision; a determination unit determining devices that will perform distributed object recognition; and a control unit setting parameters affecting the object recognition, and performing learning for the object recognition through artificial intelligence on the basis of the set parameters, wherein the control unit controls the determination unit to determine the devices by taking into account the parameters when the request for object recognition is received, and controls the recognition unit to integrate results obtained from the devices performing the distributed object recognition so as to perform the object recognition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: IPIXEL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jang Sik Park
  • Method and apparatus for sampling training data and computer server
    Patent number: 11068719
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for sampling training data and a computer server. The method includes: inputting a video to a target detection model to obtain a detection result for each frame of image; inputting the detection results for all frames of images in the video to a target tracking model, to obtain a tracking result for each frame of image; and for each frame of image in the video: matching the detection result and the tracking result for the frame of image, and when the detection result and the tracking result for the frame of image are inconsistent with each other, determining the frame of image as a sample image to be marked, for which processing by the target detection model is not optimal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: TuSimple, Inc.
    Inventors: Zehao Huang, Naiyan Wang
  • Interference aware transmission power control method and device for IEEE 802.11 based wireless network with nodes having a directional antenna
    Patent number: 11057842
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a transmission power control method and device capable of dynamically selecting optimal transmission power for the nodes in wireless network considering its surrounding interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: INESC TEC—INSTITUTO DE ENGENHARIA DE SISTEMAS E
    Inventors: Saravanan Kandasamy, Manuel Alberto Pereira Ricardo
  • Compressive environmental feature representation for vehicle behavior prediction
    Patent number: 11055857
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a method for representing a surrounding environment of an ego autonomous driving vehicle (ADV) is described. The method represents the surrounding environment using a first set of features from a definition (HD) map and a second set of features from a target object in the surrounding environment. The first set of features are extracted from the high definition map using a convolutional neural network (CNN), and the second set of features are handcrafted features from the target object during a predetermined number of past driving cycles of the ego ADV. The first set of features and the second set of features are concatenated and provided to a number of fully connected layers of the CNN to predict behaviors of the target object. In one embodiment, the operations in the method can be repeated for each driving cycle of the ego ADV.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: BAIDU USA LLC
    Inventors: Liangliang Zhang, Hongyi Sun, Dong Li, Jiangtao Hu, Jinghao Miao