Patents Examined by Sam K. Ahn
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Patent number: 11683075Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and device for multi-antenna transmission in UE and base station. The user equipment receives a first wireless signal at first; then transmits a second wireless signal, and monitors a first signaling in a first sub-time resource pool. Wherein the first wireless signal is transmitted by K antenna port group(s) and the second wireless signal is used to determine the first antenna port group. The first antenna port group is one of the K antenna port group(s). The first sub-time resource pool is reserved to the first antenna port group, or the index of the first antenna port group is used to determine the first sub-time resource pool. One antenna port group includes positive integer number of antenna ports, and the K is a positive integer greater than 1. The disclosure reduces the complexity of blind detection of downlink signaling by the UE.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2022Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: SHANGHAI LANGBO COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITEDInventor: Xiaobo Zhang
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Patent number: 11658798Abstract: A method includes: scheduling transmission of a first synchronization signal by a first node; and scheduling transmission of a second synchronization signal by a second node. The method also includes, after transmission of the first synchronization signal: receiving, from the first node, a first phase reference associated with the first synchronization signal; and receiving, from the second node, a first phase-of-arrival of the first synchronization signal at the second node. The method additionally includes, after transmission of the second synchronization signal: receiving, from the second node, a second phase reference associated with the second synchronization signal; and receiving, from the first node, a second phase-of-arrival of the second synchronization signal at the first node.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: ZaiNar, Inc.Inventors: Philip A. Kratz, Mainak M. Chowdhury, Jonathan Lu, Siamak Yousefi
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Patent number: 11646762Abstract: A master-slave system for communication over an ultra-wideband radio connection is proposed. The master-slave system comprises at least one slave device and one master device, wherein the slave device and the master device are configured to communicate over the ultra-wideband radio connection. The master device is configured to generate and transmit a request message to the slave device over a first channel of the ultra-wideband radio connection. The slave device is configured to receive the request message over the first channel of the ultra-wideband radio connection, generate at least one response message based on the request message, and transmit the at least one response message to the master device over the first channel of the ultra-wideband radio connection, and the master device is configured to receive the at least one response message.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2019Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventor: Alexander Krebs
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Patent number: 11646839Abstract: A receiver for detecting and recovering payload data from a received signal comprises a radio frequency demodulation circuit, a detector circuit and a demodulator circuit. The radio frequency demodulation circuit detects the received signal. The received signal carries the payload data as OFDM symbols in one or more of a plurality of time divided frames, each frame including a bootstrap signal, a preamble signal and a plurality of sub-frames. The demodulator circuit detects bootstrap OFDM symbols to identify communications parameters for detecting the fixed length signalling data, detects the fixed length signalling data to identify the communications parameters for detecting the variable length signalling data, detects the variable length signalling data, and uses the fixed and variable length signalling data to detect the payload data.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2021Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLCInventor: Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri
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Patent number: 11646784Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, the described techniques allow a channel engineering device (CED) to identify a suitable configuration for deflecting uplink transmissions from a user equipment (UE) to a base station. The base station may transmit control signaling to the CED indicating multiple configurations for deflecting uplink reference signals. The UE may then transmit the uplink reference signals to the CED, and the CED may deflect the uplink reference signals using the indicated configurations. The base station may receive the uplink reference signals from the UE via the CED, and the base station may perform measurements on the uplink reference signals. The base station may then identify a configuration for the CED to use to deflect subsequent transmissions from the UE to the base station based on the measurements, and the base station may transmit an indication of the configuration to the CED.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2021Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Ran Berliner, Shay Landis, Yehonatan Dallal
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Patent number: 11645504Abstract: A convolutional engine is configured to process input data that is organized into vertical stripes.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2022Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: Recogni Inc.Inventor: Eugene M. Feinberg
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Patent number: 11646778Abstract: A method for controlling a beam in a cell, includes obtaining traffic distribution data of a plurality of beam areas included in the cell, obtaining a total number of a plurality of beams for a beam area among the plurality of the beam areas, based on the obtained traffic distribution data, and obtaining a beam width of one among the plurality of beams for the beam area, based on the obtained total number of the plurality of beams. The method further includes obtaining, from a candidate beam set, candidate beams for the beam area, based on the obtained total number of the plurality of beams and the obtained beam width of the one among the plurality of beams, and obtaining, from the obtained candidate beams, multiple beams for the beam area, based on a distance between the obtained candidate beams and the beam area.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2020Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Hao Ni, Meifang Jing, Shoufeng Wang, Seho Kim, Junyi Yu, Jiajia Wang, Xiaohui Yang, Yi Zhao
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Patent number: 11638255Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may determine a first transmission on a first set of beams is unsuccessful and determine a second transmission on a second set of beams is successful. The UE may identify a beam from the second set of beams based on the determination that the second transmission on the second set of beams is successful. The UE may transmit, to a base station, an indication of the identified beam from the second set of beams and communicate with the base station via the identified beam from the second set of beams.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2020Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Yan Zhou, Tao Luo, Xiaoxia Zhang
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Patent number: 11632192Abstract: A transmission device that performs multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transmission of transmit data using a plurality of fundamental bands. The transmission device includes an error correction coding unit, a mapping unit, and a MIMO coding unit. The error correction coding unit, for each data block of predefined length, performs error correction coding and thereby generates an error correction coded frame. The mapping unit maps each predefined number of bits in the error correction coded frame to a corresponding symbol and thereby generates an error correction coded block. The MIMO coding unit performs MIMO coding with respect to the error correction coded block. Components of data included in the error correction coded block are allocated to at least two of the fundamental bands and transmitted.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2021Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUSTInventors: Mikihiro Ouchi, Noritaka Iguchi, Tomohiro Kimura
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Patent number: 11621740Abstract: Systems and methods for operating a communication device. The methods comprise: receiving a carrier signal modulated with a modulation signal comprising a symbol conveyed in a symbol timing window; determining an energy value for each timeslot in the symbol timing window; combining the energy values to determine a combined energy value for each bit of the symbol in a manner in which the combined energy value is penalized if more than one timeslot of the symbol timing window comprises energy contained in the carrier signal; and generating a soft value for each bit of the sequence of bits by combining the combined energy value with a weight value, where the weight value is selected from a plurality of weight values based on a number of timeslots in the symbol timing window which comprises energy contained in the carrier signal.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2021Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: L. Carl Christensen, Ihab Francis
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Patent number: 11621761Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a method, performed by a requirements-using network entity having an array of antenna elements, comprises determining a plurality of antenna subarray configurations, each antenna subarray configuration comprising a different subset of the antenna elements in the array of antenna elements. The method further comprises receiving, from a requirements-providing network entity, a set of one or more accuracy requirements, each accuracy requirement comprising a positioning accuracy requirement or a measurement accuracy requirement for azimuth, elevation, or both.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2021Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Vasanthan Raghavan, Sony Akkarakaran, Tao Luo, Junyi Li, Mohammad Ali Tassoudji
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Patent number: 11616667Abstract: Disclosed are techniques related to wireless communication system in which multi-level encoded modulation (MLCM) is applied to non-coherent communication. In the proposed techniques, a small fraction of differential phase rotations or bits participating in differential symbol coding are protected with strong codes while other complementary differential phase rotations or bits are protected with weaker codes. Compared to conventional non-coherent communication techniques in which a uniform protection is applied to any fraction of differential phase rotation or any bit of a differential symbol, the proposed MLCM approach enables more spectrally efficient scheme.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2020Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Michael Levitsky, Assaf Touboul, Amit Bar-Or Tillinger, Gideon Shlomo Kutz, Shay Landis
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Patent number: 11611376Abstract: In NR, a gNB utilizes multiple antennas and beam forming techniques for downlink transmissions to UEs. Described herein are methods and apparatus by which a UE measures the quality of multiple directional beams received from a gNB.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2019Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Hua Li, Jie Cui, Yang Tang, Yushu Zhang, Manasa Raghavan
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Patent number: 11610034Abstract: A method for synchronizing a simulation of a simulation model on a computer with a real-time system, the simulation and the real-time system each having a computing clock having a matching macro increment. The method includes the following features: awaiting a message from the real-time system, measuring a receiving instant of the message by the simulation, awaiting at least one further message of the real-time system, measuring the receiving instant of the further message by the simulation; calculating an averaged receiving instant based on the receiving instants of the message and the at least one further message; determining a starting instant of the simulation based on the averaged receiving instant such that the results of a macro increment of the real-time system are available to the simulation at the start of a macro increment.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2018Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBHInventors: Lars Mikelsons, Michael Baumann, Oliver Kotte, Peter Baumann
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Patent number: 11606427Abstract: A synchronized communication system includes a plurality of network communication devices, one of which is designated as a root device and the others designated as slave devices. Each network communication device includes one or more ports and communications circuitry, which processes the communication signals received by the one or more ports so as to recover a respective remote clock from each of the signals. A synchronization circuit is integrated in the root device and provides a root clock signal, which is conveyed by clock links to the slave devices. A host processor selects one of the ports of one of the network communication devices to serve as a master port, finds a clock differential between the root clock signal and the respective remote clock recovered from the master port, and outputs, responsively to the clock differential, a control signal causing the synchronization circuit to adjust the root clock signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2020Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.Inventors: Dotan David Levi, Avraham Ganor, Arnon Sattinger, Natan Manevich, Reuven Kogan, Artiom Tsur, Ariel Almog, Bar Shapira
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Patent number: 11593630Abstract: A hardware architecture for implementing a convolutional neural network. Certain ones of the convolver units may be controlled to be active and others may be controlled to be non-active by a controller in order to perform convolution with a striding of greater than or equal to two.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2022Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Recogni Inc.Inventor: Eugene M. Feinberg
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Patent number: 11593690Abstract: Provided is a data prediction system for predicting a future prediction value. The data prediction system has a data management device which manages data and a prediction operation device which models tendency of an error amount of a prediction operation result calculated on the basis of a correlation with a major explanatory variable and corrects a future prediction value. The data management device includes a storage unit which stores prediction target past measurement data observed with a time transition and explanatory factor data explaining the prediction target past measurement data.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2017Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Masato Utsumi, Tohru Watanabe, Ikuo Shigemori, Youko Sakikubo, Toshiyuki Sawa, Hiroshi Iimura, Hiroaki Ogawa, Yoshihisa Okamoto
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Patent number: 11588515Abstract: A spread-spectrum transmitter is disclosed. The transmitter includes a modulator configured to produce an intermediate frequency signal, a frequency shifter configured to shift the intermediate frequency factor by a first factor, and a local oscillator (LO) configured to generate a LO signal. The transmitter further includes a ramp signal generator configured to determine the value of the first factor and a second factor, is configured to transmit the value of the factor to the frequency shifter, is configured to transmit the value of the second factor to the LO, where the frequency of the intermediate frequency signal shifted by the first factor is shifted synchronously with the frequency of the LO signal shifted by the second factor. The transmitter includes a mixer configured to mix the shifted intermediate frequency with the shifted LO signal that has been shifted by the second factor, producing a spread leaked LO signal.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2021Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.Inventors: Carlos J. Chavez, Sasha Oster, Vadim Olen
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Patent number: 11580372Abstract: A hardware architecture for implementing a convolutional neural network.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2022Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: Recogni Inc.Inventor: Eugene M. Feinberg
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Patent number: 11569882Abstract: An electronic device for a multi-antenna communication apparatus in a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to: map a first information bit to a first reconstructed channel in a plurality of reconstructed channels associated with a plurality of antennas of a multi-antenna communication apparatus; and provide a reconstruction parameter corresponding to the first reconstructed channel, so as to reconstruct an actual channel from the multi-antenna communication apparatus to a peer communication apparatus to bear the first information bit, wherein the plurality of reconstructed channels are determined by configuring, based on a plurality of groups of reconstruction parameters, the plurality of antennas of the multi-antenna communication apparatus, so that the plurality of reconstructed channels have a low correlation with each other.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2017Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Xudong Zhu, Zhaocheng Wang, Chen Sun