Patents Examined by John J Lee
  • Patent number: 11330534
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit, and a base station may receive, a report that includes information related to a power headroom available to the UE at a current power level and information related to a duty cycle that the UE can sustain over a moving integration window based at least in part on a maximum permissible exposure limit. In some aspects, the base station may transmit, and the UE may receive, scheduling information based at least in part on the information related to the power headroom available to the UE at the current power level and the information related to the duty cycle that the UE can sustain over the moving integration window. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Valentin Alexandru Gheorghiu, Raghu Narayan Challa, Timo Ville Vintola, Tienyow Liu, Farhad Meshkati
  • Patent number: 11329679
    Abstract: Methods and systems for interference management are described. Methods and systems can be used for minimizing interference among communication and/or electronic devices. Interference data can be gathered/received from interference sources such as weather and natural patterns, various electronic devices, and one or more network protocols. The interference data can be used to generate interference patterns of each interference source in an interference map. The interference map can be used to determine how a particular interference pattern can affect a system. The interference map can also be used to evaluate a new source of interference (e.g., cordless phones, weather conditions) to determine how a system can be affected. The interference data can also be associated with an interference signature (e.g., an interference pattern, a fingerprint) for an interference source in a database. The database can be used based on the interference signature to identify known and/or unknown interference sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS MANAGEMENT, LLC
    Inventors: Erami Botchway, Phillip Chang, Mark Francisco, Jim Poder, Jorge Salinger
  • Patent number: 11317356
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless node may receive a plurality of sets of parameters for uplink transmit power control configuration; select a set of parameters, from the plurality of sets of parameters, based at least in part on a configuration of an uplink communication; select one or more parameters from the set of parameters based at least in part on the configuration of the uplink communication; and transmit the uplink communication in accordance with the one or more parameters. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM incorporated
    Inventors: Navid Abedini, Wanshi Chen, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11309944
    Abstract: A method and device for allocating transmission powers, wherein the method and the device are applied to a base station. The method includes: acquiring channel data of terminals that are connected to the base station; according to the channel data of the terminals, from the terminals, virtually pre-dispatching first terminals of a first preset quantity; performing interference suppression to the first terminals, to obtain beamforming-weight-amplitude factors of the first terminals; dispatching second terminals of a second preset quantity from the first terminals, and, from the beamforming-weight-amplitude factors of the first terminals, screening out beamforming-weight-amplitude factors of the second terminals; and according to the beamforming-weight-amplitude factors of the second terminals, allocating transmission powers to the second terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD
    Inventors: Yuetan Chen, Xi Wang, Wenjing Wang, Shaoyuan Li
  • Patent number: 11309929
    Abstract: An example electronic device includes a wireless communication component and a controller. The controller is to set an output power of the wireless communication component based on: whether a first external object is in proximity to a first side of the electronic device; whether the electronic device is stationary; and whether a second external object is in proximity to a second side of the electronic device, where the second side is opposite to the first side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Simon Wong, Shih-Huang Wu
  • Patent number: 11310633
    Abstract: A multicast control device capable of reducing the distribution time of multicast data is provided. A multicast control device (10) according to the present disclosure includes a determination unit (11) configured to determine whether the number of communication terminals joining a multicast service exceeds a predetermined threshold, and a session control unit (12) configured to start a multicast session for a plurality of communication terminals joining the multicast service when it is determined that the number of communication terminals joining the multicast service exceeds the predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Kamei, Toru Yamada, Kyoji Hirata, Masahiro Serizawa, Satoshi Hasegawa, Masashi Shimoma
  • Patent number: 11310747
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for distinguishing between an antenna of a user equipment (UE) being blocked by a cover (e.g., a protective rubber or plastic case) or by human tissue (e.g., a finger or palm). The transmission power of uplink (UL) signals may be adjusted accordingly, with relatively higher transmission power for open space or a cover and relatively lower transmission power for human tissue. One example method for wireless communications by a UE generally includes transmitting a first signal from the UE, receiving a plurality of signals at the UE based on the transmitted first signal, determining values for at least two different types of parameters based on the received plurality of signals, determining an environmental scenario for the UE based on the values for the at least two different types of parameters, and transmitting a second signal using a transmission power based on the determined environmental scenario.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Seunghwan Kim, Udara Fernando, Eyosias Yoseph Imana, Robert Gilmore
  • Patent number: 11302098
    Abstract: A system for supporting timely, informed decision making with respect to commencing and terminating offshore construction operations within a predetermined zone using a situational awareness tool not compromised by weather, poor-visibility, or a simple protected species observer (PSO) conundrum of not being able to see all things at all times, and for identification of marine mammalian species present at an offshore construction site that is sensor and platform agnostic comprises a plurality of sensors, a predetermined subset of the plurality of sensors operational without requiring daylight, the sensors operative to deliver data from which targets are determined and from which their position information can be derived; a data communicator operative to allow provide real-time data to a data viewer; a data processor operatively in communication with the plurality of sensors and the data communicator; and a display operatively in communication with the data communicator and operative to display a representation
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Oceaneering International, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric H Galerne, Miles Roden, Nat Spencer
  • Patent number: 11301186
    Abstract: A communication system may comprise an information processing device and a communication device. Communication between the communication device and the information processing device using the first wireless communication scheme may be performed. The communication device may send the connectable network identification information to the information processing device. Communication between the information processing device and the communication device using the second wireless communication scheme and using the second network may be executed, in case that the first network is not included in one or more networks identified by the connectable network identification information. Communication between the information processing device and the communication device using the second wireless communication scheme and using the first network may be executed, in case that the first network is included in the one or more networks identified by the one or more connectable network identification information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hirotaka Kubota, Yoshitsugu Tomomatsu
  • Patent number: 11288524
    Abstract: A system is comprised of one or more processors coupled to memory. The one or more processors are configured to receive image data based on an image captured using a camera of a vehicle and to utilize the image data as a basis of an input to a trained machine learning model to at least in part identify a distance of an object from the vehicle. The trained machine learning model has been trained using a training image and a correlated output of an emitting distance sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Tesla, Inc.
    Inventors: James Anthony Musk, Swupnil Kumar Sahai, Ashok Kumar Elluswamy
  • Patent number: 11272459
    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: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    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: 11259150
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for performing direct communication with at least one other user equipment are provided. The method and apparatus comprises upon generation of an event requiring the direct communication, transmitting a floor request, monitoring whether a response to the floor request is received from at least one adjacent UE, if a response to the floor request is not received until the floor request is transmitted a predetermined number of times at a predetermined interval, determining that a transmission right for the direct communication is granted, and if it is determined that the transmission right is granted, transmitting a signal to the at least one other UE by the direct communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Inventors: Yun-Sun Baek, Hyeon-Mok Ko, Sung-Jin Park
  • Patent number: 11257223
    Abstract: A system and method includes detecting motion in a space; capturing images of a scene in a direction of the motion within the space by peripheral image capturing devices and detecting a body of a person within the images of the scene; extracting an image of the body from the images of the scene; identifying a head of the body based on the extracted at least one image of the body and extracting an image of a head from the extracted the one image of the body; transmitting the one image of the body to a body tracking module; transmitting the extracted image of the head to a face detection module; in parallel, tracking the body within the space and performing by a facial recognition module facial recognition of the extracted image of the head of the body; and determining an identity of a user associated with the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Creavision Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Victor Mudretsov, Raimilson Carlos Medeiros, Dmitry Markuza, Sylvie Chih Wei Ong, Bin Zhou
  • Patent number: 11252675
    Abstract: Provided is a method for a terminal to transmit sidelink signals in a wireless communication system according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprising the steps of: determining transmission power of a sidelink packet in each of a plurality of carriers; and on the basis of the determined transmission power, transmitting the sidelink signals through one or more carriers of the plurality of the carriers, wherein the transmission power is determined on the basis of a priority of the sidelink packet scheduled for transmission on each of the plurality of carriers, a sum of the transmission power of the sidelink packet scheduled for transmission on each of the plurality of carriers, and maximum transmission power of the terminal. The UE is capable of communicating with at least one of another UE, a UE related to an autonomous driving vehicle, the BS or a network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Uihyun Hong, Seungmin Lee, Hanbyul Seo
  • Patent number: 11252674
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for multi-antenna panel transmission power control are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Juha Karjalainen, Kyoungmin Park, Sami Hakola, Jorma Kaikkonen, Timo Koskela
  • Patent number: 11240761
    Abstract: A method for power control for uplink transmission is provided. In an embodiment, a method in a user equipment (UE) for reference signal (RS) relationship specific uplink (UL) transmission power control includes transmitting, by the UE, a first UL signal according to a first power control set including at least one of a first target power, a second target power, a DL reference signal (RS) for pathloss estimation, a pathloss compensation factor, and a transmit power command (TPC). The first power control set is determined according to a first RS relationship between one first RS and a first UL signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhengwei Gong, Amine Maaref, Kelvin Kar Kin Au, Mohammadhadi Baligh, Weimin Xiao
  • Patent number: 11240765
    Abstract: A method for modifying an electromagnetic field distribution of a node in a telecommunication network, comprising determining the presence of an entity within a region of interest, and regulating transmission power to the region of interest from the node by varying a spatio-temporal transmission profile of the node in response to determining the presence of the entity in the region for a period of time longer than a predetermined threshold value, wherein modifying the electromagnetic field distribution of the node comprises modifying an average electromagnetic field distribution of said node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Paolo Baracca, Adrian Garcia Rodriguez, Lorenzo Galati Giordano, Giovanni Geraci, David Lopez-Perez
  • Patent number: 11238583
    Abstract: A system and method for generating a stained image including the steps of obtaining a first image of a key sample section; and processing the first image with a stain learning engine arranged to generate at least one stained image, wherein the at least one stained image represents the key sample section stained with at least one stain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: City University of Hong Kong
    Inventors: Condon Lau, Yixuan Yuan, Chi Shing Cho, Wah Cheuk, Wan San Victor Ma, Wing Lun Law
  • Patent number: 11234198
    Abstract: An SRS transmission method is provided, including: determining a quantity of ports corresponding to each of a plurality of SRS resources on a first time domain resource, where the plurality of SRS resources belong to a first SRS resource set; determining, based on the quantity of ports and transmit power corresponding, in a first time unit, to the first SRS resource set, transmit power of each port corresponding to each of the plurality of SRS resources, where a sum of transmit power of all ports corresponding to the plurality of SRS resources is less than or equal to transmit power corresponding to the first SRS resource set, and the first time unit includes the first time domain resource; and simultaneously transmitting, on the first time domain resource based on the transmit power of each port, SRSs carried in the plurality of SRS resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhengwei Gong, Yi Qin
  • Patent number: 11228988
    Abstract: A communication circuit includes a first transfer circuit that includes a first transmitter circuit, and a second transfer circuit that includes a second transmitter circuit that can transmit a signal simultaneously with the first transmitter circuit. The second transmitter circuit is configured to be placed in a transmission halt state when a difference between requested power and scheduled power is greater than a predetermined value, the requested power being requested transmission power, the scheduled power being transmission power to be transmitted based on the requested power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinya Hitomi, Hidenori Obiya, Hirotsugu Mori