Patents by Inventor Bin-Chul Ihm

Bin-Chul Ihm has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9762425
    Abstract: Method and apparatus of primary cell indication for enhanced control channel demodulation method and apparatus are disclosed. Control information receiving method in a multi-distributed node system includes demodulating a first cell identification (ID) based on a synchronization signal (SS), demodulating information indicating a second cell ID based on a radio resource control (RRC) message and demodulating enhanced physical downlink control channel (e-PDCCH) based on the second cell ID, Accordingly, it may be possible to reduce complexity that occurs when the optimal prediction motion vector is induced and to enhance efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Ji Won Kang, Jin Young Chun, Ki Tae Kim, Su Nam Kim, Bin Chul Ihm, Sung Ho Park
  • Patent number: 9755804
    Abstract: There are provided a method of user equipment monitoring control information and user equipment using the method. The method includes receiving information about a first reference position for a first Enhanced-Physical Control Format Indication Channel (E-PCFICH) from a Base Station (BS); detecting the first E-PCFICH in a resource indicated by the information about the first reference position; obtaining information about a reference position for a second E-PCFICH based on the information about the first reference position, wherein each of the first E-PCFICH and the second E-PCFICH is a control channel including information about the size of the frequency domain for an Enhanced-Physical Downlink Control Channel (E-PDCCH) for demodulating the control information by using a UE-specific Reference Signal (URS); and detecting the second E-PCFICH based on the obtained information about the reference position for the second E-PCFICH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Ji Won Kang, Jin Young Chun, Ki Tae Kim, Su Nam Kim, Bin Chul Ihm, Sung Ho Park
  • Patent number: 9749116
    Abstract: Provided are a method and an apparatus for a terminal performing uplink HARQ in a multi-node system comprising a plurality of nodes and a base station, which is connected to and can control each of the plurality of nodes. The method comprises the following steps: receiving information on control channel allocation from the base station; transmitting uplink data to at least one node from the plurality of nodes; and receiving from the at least one node an acknowledgement/not-acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) signal with respect to the uplink data, based on the information on the control channel allocation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Ji Won Kang, Jin Young Chun, Ki Tae Kim, Su Nam Kim, Bin Chul Ihm, Sung Ho Park
  • Patent number: 9729218
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for transmitting a signal in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes: generating R spatial streams each of which is generated on the basis of an information stream and a reference signal; generating N transmit streams on the basis of the R spatial streams and a precoding matrix (where R<N); mapping the N transmit streams to at least one resource block; and generating N signals from the N transmit streams mapped to the at least one resource block, and the transmitting the N signals to a user equipment through respective antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Moon Il Lee, Wook Bong Lee, Ja Ho Koo, Hyun Soo Ko, Jae Hoon Chung, Bin Chul Ihm
  • Patent number: 9716576
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and device for decoding a channel in a wireless communication system. User equipment receives, from a base station, a candidate group of antenna ports including a plurality of antenna ports, and receives a reference signal from the base station onto enhanced physical downlink control channel (e-PDCCH) ports that correspond to all or some of the plurality of antennas in the candidate group of antenna ports. The user equipment blind-decodes the e-PDCCH configured in a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), on the basis of the received reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jin Young Chun, Bin Chul Ihm, Ji Won Kang, Ki Tae Kim, Sung Ho Park, Su Nam Kim
  • Patent number: 9699046
    Abstract: A method of measuring interference to perform efficient data communication is disclosed. A method of measuring interference of neighboring cells comprises allocating one or more first resource elements, to which pilot signals are allocated, to predetermined symbol regions included in a first resource block; allocating one or more second resource elements for measuring interference of the neighboring cells to a first symbol region of the predetermined symbol regions; and measuring interference of the neighboring cells using the one or more second resource elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jae Hoon Chung, Hyun Soo Ko, Moon Il Lee, Bin Chul Ihm
  • Patent number: 9681429
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and a device for allocating a search space of a control channel in a subframe. A method for monitoring downlink control information comprises the steps of: acquiring first control information on a first enhanced-physical downlink control channel (e-PDCCH) by monitoring a common search space in a first slot of a subframe; and acquiring second control information on a second e-PDCCH by monitoring a user equipment (UE)-specific search space in a second slot of the subframe. Thus, a terminal can obtain cell-specific information through an e-PDCCH even without a legacy physical downlink control channel (PDCCH).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Ji Won Kang, Jin Young Chun, Ki Tae Kim, Su Nam Kim, Bin Chul Ihm, Sung Ho Park
  • Patent number: 9667362
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of operating a terminal in a communication system, including measuring channel quality, and transmitting a Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) based on the channel quality measured on the basis of a target BLock Error Rate (BLER), which is determined by using a ratio between efficiency corresponding to a first CQI and efficiency corresponding to a second CQI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Bin-Chul Ihm
  • Publication number: 20170142699
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the present invention, antennas or antenna nodes spaced away from each other by a predetermined distance or more are configured to be able to transmit control information of mutually different user equipment groups, thereby increasing the efficiency in the operation of control channels. In addition, according to another aspect of the present invention, a resource region for transmitting control information for an improved user equipment, which is a target of a multi-node cooperative transmission, is set differently from a resource region for transmitting control information for a legacy user equipment, thereby increasing the efficiency in the transmission of the control information for the improved user equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Ji Won KANG, Jin Young CHUN, Su Nam KIM, Bin Chul IHM, Sung Ho PARK
  • Patent number: 9635643
    Abstract: A device and method for permuting subcarriers in a subframe which is divided into a plurality of frequency partitions in a wireless mobile communication system is disclosed. The method includes mapping, at a mobile station, physical resource units for localized resource allocation to a frequency partition of the plurality of frequency partitions in units of N_1 number of resource units, and physical resource units for distributed resource allocation to the frequency partition in units of N_d number of resource units, N_1 being different from N_d; and spreading, at the mobile station, subcarriers of the physical resource units for distributed resource allocation across the whole distributed resource allocations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jin Soo Choi, Han Gyu Cho, Bin Chul Ihm
  • Publication number: 20170111900
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system and provides an efficient control information transmission method and apparatus for supporting a multiple antenna transmission technique. A method is provided for transmitting downlink hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) information related to an uplink multiple codeword transmission and includes receiving the uplink multiple codeword transmission, generating HARQ information related to each of the multiple codewords based on a result of decoding each of the multiple codewords, modulating the HARQ information, and transmitting the modulated HARQ information via one or more physical HARQ indicator channels (PHICHs).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyun Soo Ko, Jae Hoon Chung, Bin Chul Ihm, Moon Il Lee
  • Patent number: 9621237
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a terminal which receives signals from a base station, and to a method in which the terminal receives signals from the base station in a distributed antenna system (DAS). The terminal receives, from the base station having a plurality of antennas, control information on one or more active transmission antennas allocated to the terminal, from among the plurality of antennas, and receives signals from the base station via said one or more active transmission antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Ji Won Kang, Bin Chul Ihm, Jin Young Chun
  • Publication number: 20170093535
    Abstract: Provided are a method and an apparatus for allocating a control channel in a wireless communication system. A base station allocates an enhanced physical downlink control channel (e-PDCCH) to a localized region within a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) region, allocates the e-PDCCH to a distributed region within the PDSCH region, and transmits a scheduling assignment via the allocated e-PDCCH.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jin Young CHUN, Bin Chul IHM, Ji Won KANG, Ki Tae KIM, Sung Ho PARK, Su Nam KIM
  • Patent number: 9609644
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the present invention, antennas or antenna nodes spaced away from each other by a predetermined distance or more are configured to be able to transmit control information of mutually different user equipment groups, thereby increasing the efficiency in the operation of control channels. In addition, according to another aspect of the present invention, a resource region for transmitting control information for an improved user equipment, which is a target of a multi-node cooperative transmission, is set differently from a resource region for transmitting control information for a legacy user equipment, thereby increasing the efficiency in the transmission of the control information for the improved user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Ji Won Kang, Jin Young Chun, Su Nam Kim, Bin Chul Ihm, Sung Ho Park
  • Publication number: 20170078072
    Abstract: A method is presented for receiving aperiodic channel state information (CSI). A base station (BS) transmits a CSI request field which is set to trigger a CSI report to a user equipment (UE). The BS receives CSI through a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) from the UE. The CSI request field has a value among a plurality of candidate values. The plurality of candidate values comprises a first value which triggers an aperiodic CSI report for a first set of reference signals and a second value which triggers an aperiodic CSI report for a second set of reference signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Ji Won KANG, Jin Young CHUN, Ki Tae KIM, Su Nam KIM, Bin Chul IHM, Sung Ho PARK
  • Publication number: 20170070273
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for transmitting a signal in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes: generating R spatial streams each of which is generated on the basis of an information stream and a reference signal; generating N transmit streams on the basis of the R spatial streams and a precoding matrix (where R<N); mapping the N transmit streams to at least one resource block; and generating N signals from the N transmit streams mapped to the at least one resource block, and the transmitting the N signals to a user equipment through respective antennas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Moon Il LEE, Wook Bong LEE, Ja Ho KOO, Hyun Soo KO, Jae Hoon CHUNG, Bin Chul IHM
  • Patent number: 9584277
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for transmitting reference signals for measuring a channel in a downlink MIMO (Multi Input Multi Output) system. The method comprises the steps of: configuring, by a base station at which Nt transmit antennas are configured, Nt reference signals for channel measurement, where Nt?1; and transmitting, by the base station, the Nt reference signals to a use equipment in subframes at a specific cycle. The specific cycle is configured to include more than one subframe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Moon Il Lee, Jae Hoon Chung, Hyun Soo Ko, Bin Chul Ihm
  • Patent number: 9584200
    Abstract: A method of transmitting control information includes dividing frequency bandwidth into ranges to which the same PMI (precoding matrix index) is applied, obtaining multiple antenna information by the range to which the same PMI is applied and transmitting the multiple antenna information. Since multiple antenna information is transmitted by the unit of a range to which the same PMI is applied, radio resources allocated for transmitting the multiple antenna information may be reduced, thereby enhancing data transmission efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyun Soo Ko, Bin Chul Ihm, Jin Young Chun, Wook Bong Lee, Moon Il Lee, Jae Wan Kim
  • Patent number: 9577735
    Abstract: A multi-input multi-output (MIMO) system considers either reliability for each antenna or a time/frequency location, and transmits a signal at an unequal ratio for each antenna according to the consideration result. The method for use in the MIMO system including multiple antennas includes processing a signal according to an unequal ratio transmission scheme employing the multiple antennas at an unequal ratio, and transmitting the processed signal via the multiple antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Moon Il Lee, Wook Bong Lee, Bin Chul Ihm, Hyun Soo Ko, Jae Hoon Chung
  • Patent number: RE46529
    Abstract: A method of transmitting and receiving data using a superframe structure is disclosed. A method for transmitting data through a superframe including a superframe header, includes generating the superframe which includes a data region including user data and includes a dedicated control region including data region allocation information indicating resource allocation for the data region, and transmitting the superframe. The dedicated control region is arranged at at least one of locations except for a subframe of the superframe header. A user equipment which does not have to transmit and receive data decodes only data region allocation information using information of the data region indicated by a dedicated control region, thereby minimizing power loss, reducing a feedback delay, and reducing system overhead using a superframe structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Wook Bong Lee, Bin Chul Ihm, Yong Ho Kim, Jin Sam Kwak, Ki Seon Ryu, Jin-Young Chun, Young Soo Yuk