Patents by Inventor Bong Song

Bong Song 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).

  • Publication number: 20210367687
    Abstract: A method of optimizing at least one IQMC parameter value for an IQMC includes: generating a set of tested IQMC candidate parameter values by performing an iterative method including selecting a first IQMC candidate parameter value for the at least one parameter of the IQMC; determining, using the first IQMC candidate parameter value, a performance metric value that comprises at least one of (i) an image rejection ratio (IRR) value, (ii) a signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) value, or (iii) a signal-to-image ratio (SImR) value; and determining a second IQMC candidate parameter value that is an update to the first IQMC candidate parameter value. The method of optimizing at least one IQMC parameter value for an IQMC further includes determining an IQMC candidate parameter value of the set of tested IQMC candidate parameter values that optimizes the performance metric.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: Elina Nayebi, Pranav Dayal, Kee-Bong Song
  • Publication number: 20210360537
    Abstract: According to one general aspect, an apparatus may include a pre-transmission circuit configured to encode a data signal for communication. The apparatus may include a peak-to-average-power ratio (PAPR) controlling circuit configured to set a power level for a level-adjusted data signal. In some embodiments, the PAPR circuit may be configured to set the power level by employing a multi-loop, multi-phase technique, wherein an inner loop employs multiple phases to constrain the PAPR and reduce at least one power-related error condition, and wherein an outer loop updates the power level. The apparatus may include a transmitter circuit configured to transmit the level-adjusted data signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Hamed MALEKI, Gennady FEYGIN, Pranav DAYAL, Kee-Bong SONG
  • Publication number: 20210359895
    Abstract: An in-phase and quadrature mismatch compensator for a quadrature transmitter includes a delay element, a complex-valued filter and an adder. The delay element receives an input transmit signal and outputs a delayed transmit signal. The complex-valued filter receives the input transmit signal and outputs a selected part of a filtered output transmit signal. The adder adds the delayed transmit signal and the selected part of the filtered output transmit signal and outputs a pre-compensated transmit signal. In one embodiment, the selected part of the filtered output transmit signal includes the real part of the complex-valued output transmit signal. In another embodiment, the selected part of the filtered output transmit signal includes the imaginary part of the complex-valued output transmit signal. Two transmit real-valued compensators are also disclosed that combine the in-phase and quadrature signals before being filtered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Elina Nayebi, Pranav Dayal, Kee-Bong Song
  • Publication number: 20210359896
    Abstract: A method of pre-compensating for transmitter in-phase (I) and quadrature (Q) mismatch (IQMM) may include sending a signal through an up-converter of a transmit path to provide an up-converted signal, determining the up-converted signal, determining one or more IQMM parameters for the transmit path based on the determined up-converted signal, and determining one or more pre-compensation parameters for the transmit path based on the one or more IQMM parameters for the transmit path. In some embodiments, the up-converted signal may be determined through a receive feedback path. In some embodiments, the up-converted signal may be determined through an envelope detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Elina NAYEBI, Pranav DAYAL, Kee-Bong SONG
  • Patent number: 11165473
    Abstract: A method and system analog beamforming for a single-connected antenna array is herein disclosed. A method includes estimating analog channels on a per-antenna basis, calculating explicitly an analog beamforming matrix based on the estimated analog channels, and performing analog beamforming based on the calculated analog beamforming matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Inventors: Hongbing Cheng, Hyukjoon Kwon, Qi Zhan, Kee-Bong Song
  • Publication number: 20210328653
    Abstract: A wireless communication device includes: a processing circuit configured to: receive, from an antenna array during a previous period, a first directional electromagnetic signal including beam sweeping reference symbols of a previous beam sweeping period; compute an estimated combined channel; estimate a dominant angle-of-arrival (AoA) of the first directional electromagnetic signal based on the estimated combined channel and a previous beamforming codebook including two or more beamforming vectors corresponding to different AoAs; construct an updated beamforming codebook based on the estimated dominant AoA and one or more remaining AoAs spaced apart from the estimated dominant AoA; receive, at the antenna array during a current period, a second directional electromagnetic signal including data symbols; determine a beamforming vector for data reception of the second directional electromagnetic signal based on the updated beamforming codebook; and detect the data symbols in the second directional electromagnet
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventors: YANRU TANG, HONGBING CHENG, KEE-BONG SONG
  • Patent number: 11153123
    Abstract: A method for minimizing a time domain mean square error (MSE) of channel estimation (CE) includes estimating, by a processor, a power delay profile (PDP) from a time domain observation of reference signal (RS) channels; estimating, by the processor, a noise variance of the RS channels; and determining, by the processor, a first arrival path (FAP) value and a delay spread estimation (DSE) value based on the estimated PDP and the estimated noise variance for minimizing the MSE of CE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bofeng Yuan, Hongbing Cheng, Kee-Bong Song
  • Patent number: 11146287
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for optimizing a physical layer parameter is provided. According to one embodiment, an apparatus includes a first neural network configured to receive a transmission environment and a block error rate (BLER) and generate a value of a physical layer parameter; a second neural network configured to receive the transmission environment and the BLER and generate a signal to noise ratio (SNR) value; and a processor connected to the first neural network and the second neural network and configured to receive the transmission environment, the generated physical layer parameter, and the generated SNR, and to generate the BLER.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Inventors: Kee-Bong Song, Ahmed A. Abotabl, Jung Hyun Bae
  • Publication number: 20210314056
    Abstract: Compressive sensing (CS) channel recovery using history measurements. Both current and history measurements for AoAs estimation, and only use current measurement for coefficient estimation. The dominant angle of arrival (AoA) is estimated using history and current measurements. In Approach 1, the dominant AoA is invariant and the coefficients are uncorrelated. In Approach 2, the dominant AoA is invariant and the coefficients are fully correlated. The remaining AoAs are estimated. The coefficients corresponding to each estimated dominant AoA are estimated. And the channel is recovered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventors: YANRU TANG, HONGBING CHENG, KEE-BONG SONG
  • Patent number: 11140633
    Abstract: A method of gain step calibration by a user equipment (UE) includes selecting, a l th antenna path having a gain GT for a transmitter (Tx) of the UE and a corresponding m th antenna path having a gain GR for a receiver (Rx) of the UE; determining, a first loopback signal power for the l th antenna path having the gain GT for the transmitter (Tx) of the UE and the corresponding m th antenna path having the gain GR for the receiver (Rx) of the UE; determining, a second loopback signal power for the l th antenna path having a gain G?T for the transmitter (Tx) and the corresponding m th antenna path having the gain GR for the receiver (Rx); and determining, a transmitter gain step of the UE based on the first loopback signal power and the second loopback signal power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung-En Chiu, Pranav Dayal, Kee-Bong Song, Siuchuang Ivan Lu, Hou-Shin Chen, Sang Won Son
  • Patent number: 11128330
    Abstract: A method for providing nonlinear self-interference cancellation of a wireless communication device includes: receiving digital samples of an interfering signal having a first sampling rate and a corrupted victim signal having a second sampling rate; generating a kernel vector based on the interfering signal, wherein the kernel vector has terms of nonlinear self-interference; estimating the nonlinear self-interference of the corrupted victim signal using the terms of the nonlinear self-interference; and providing an estimation of a desired signal by cancelling the nonlinear self-interference from the corrupted victim signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Inventors: Hamed Maleki, Elina Nayebi, Pranav Dayal, Kee-Bong Song
  • Publication number: 20210273345
    Abstract: A first antenna array includes antenna panels including: first antenna panels arranged on a first circle having a first radius, each of the first antenna panels including antenna elements: and second antenna panels arranged on a second circle having a second radius, each of the second antenna panels including antenna elements, the second circle being concentric with the first circle at a center point, the second antenna panels being arranged at a first angle around the center point with respect to the first antenna panels, the first radius, the second radius, and the first angle being computed in accordance with wireless transmission conditions including: a line-of-sight distance to a second antenna array including third antenna panels arranged on two or more circles; and a carrier frequency of a line-of-sight wireless transmission between the first antenna array and the second antenna array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: Jang Wook Moon, Hongbing Cheng, Kee-Bong Song
  • Patent number: 11108600
    Abstract: A receiver circuit for separating a plurality of layers multiplexed in an orthogonal frequency domain multiplexed (OFDM) signal includes: a descrambling sub-circuit configured to descramble a plurality of signals received on non-adjacent subcarriers of the OFDM signal to generate a plurality of descrambled signals; an inverse fast Fourier transform sub-circuit configured to transform the descrambled signals from a frequency domain to a received signal including a plurality of samples in a time domain; and a layer separation sub-circuit configured to separate the layers multiplexed in the received signal by: defining a first time domain sampling window and a second time domain sampling window in accordance with a size of the inverse fast Fourier transform; extracting one or more first layers from the samples in the first time domain sampling window; and extracting one or more second layers from the samples in the second time domain sampling window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Federico Penna, Hongbing Cheng, Kee-Bong Song
  • Publication number: 20210258883
    Abstract: A method of gain step calibration by a user equipment (UE) includes selecting, a l th antenna path having a gain GT for a transmitter (Tx) of the UE and a corresponding m th antenna path having a gain GR for a receiver (Rx) of the UE; determining, a first loopback signal power for the l th antenna path having the gain GT for the transmitter (Tx) of the UE and the corresponding m th antenna path having the gain GR for the receiver (Rx) of the UE; determining, a second loopback signal power for the l th antenna path having a gain G?T for the transmitter (Tx) and the corresponding m th antenna path having the gain GR for the receiver (Rx); and determining, a transmitter gain step of the UE based on the first loopback signal power and the second loopback signal power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Sung-En Chiu, Pranav Dayal, Kee-Bong Song, Siuchuang Ivan Lu, Hou-Shin Chen, Sang Won Son
  • Patent number: 11062157
    Abstract: Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for detecting a fallen object which adjust a passenger's seat to easily pick up the fallen object in the vehicle. A fallen object detecting apparatus according to one embodiment of the present disclosure is an apparatus for detecting a fallen object in a vehicle which includes a camera configured to generate at least one image of an inside of the vehicle; an image identifier configured to identify at least one passenger and at least one object from the image, and to determine a location of the fallen object in response to a falling of the object in the vehicle; and a controller configured to provide the determined location of the fallen object via at least one component located in the vehicle and adjust a seat of the passenger based on the location of the fallen object and a condition of the passenger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Chul Hee Lee, Hyun Kyu Kim, Ki Bong Song, Sang Kyeong Jeong, Jun Young Jung
  • Patent number: 11038601
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus are provided. The method includes (a) turning on an antenna of an antenna array, wherein other antennas of the antenna array are turned off; (b) measuring power for the antenna at each phase of a phase array; (c) repeating step (b) for each antenna of the antenna array; and (d) estimating gain errors based on the measured power for each antenna of the antenna array at each phase of the phase array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Inventors: Joyson Sebastian, Pranav Dayal, Kee-Bong Song
  • Publication number: 20210110184
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for monitoring an object in a vehicle which recognize a state of an object from a different type of image through an artificial intelligence algorithm are disclosed. The in-vehicle object monitoring apparatus is an apparatus which monitors an in-vehicle object by using a first image and a second image, and comprises: an interface configured to receive a first image generated by a first camera in a vehicle and a second image generated by a second camera in the vehicle; and a processor configured to, when it is determined that there is an object in each of the first image and the second image, extract the first feature information about the object from the first image, extract the second feature information about the object from the second image, and recognize a state of the object, based on the first feature information and the second feature information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: Hyun Kyu KIM, Ki Bong SONG
  • Patent number: 10951251
    Abstract: A system, method, and electronic device for compensating in-phase (I) and quadrature (Q) mismatch (IQMM) are herein disclosed. The system includes an IQ mismatch compensator (IQMC) configured to compensate for IQMM between a time-domain I signal and a time-domain Q signal using filter weight coefficients, and output a compensated I signal and a compensated Q signal, a fast Fourier transformation (FFT) circuit configured to perform an FFT on the compensated I signal and the compensated Q signal to a frequency-domain compensated signal, and a coefficient updater configured to update the filter weight coefficients based on a frequency-domain observation of the frequency-domain compensated signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Inventors: Elina Nayebi, Pranav Dayal, Kee-Bong Song
  • Patent number: 10944520
    Abstract: A system and method for transmitting an orthogonal frequency-division multiplexed signal with a group distributed phase tracking reference signal subcarrier structure, and for estimating, and compensating for, both common phase error, and inter-carrier interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hamed Maleki, Pranav Dayal, Kee-Bong Song
  • Publication number: 20210067232
    Abstract: A system and method for providing channel recovery for angle domain sparse channels is herein provided. According to one embodiment, a method includes receiving an input including a measurement output, and recovering analog channels utilizing bases derived from the measurement output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Yanru TANG, Hongbing CHENG, Kee-Bong SONG