Patents by Inventor Bruno Clerckx

Bruno Clerckx 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: 20240121050
    Abstract: This application provides a communication method and apparatus. According to the method, a first terminal apparatus can determine, based on second information, information that is in first demodulation information and second demodulation information and that is used to demodulate a first data stream, and determine information that is used to demodulate a second data stream. The first data stream is a common stream, and the second data stream is a private stream of the first terminal apparatus. The first terminal apparatus may first demodulate, based on the information that is used to demodulate the first data stream, a signal received by the first terminal apparatus on a first resource, to obtain the first data stream, and then may obtain the second data stream based on the first data stream, the information that is used to demodulate the second data stream, and the signal received on the first resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Yunhao ZHANG, Yiqun WU, Wei HAN, Bruno CLERCKX, Onur DIZDAR, Yijie MAO
  • Patent number: 11758569
    Abstract: A method and system for resource allocation is provided. A method includes transmitting, to the terminal, information including first information indicating a set of resource blocks associated with a control channel and second information indicating a number of symbols corresponding to the set of resource blocks by a radio resource control (RRC) message; transmitting, to the terminal, control information including information for downlink data on the control channel identified based on the first information and the second information; and transmitting, to the terminal, the downlink data on a data channel based on the control information. The set of resource blocks includes at least one control channel resource, and wherein a search space for the control channel of the terminal is defined based on an aggregation level, and a number of the at least one control channel resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Inventors: Youngbum Kim, Cheng Shan, Younsun Kim, Bruno Clerckx
  • Publication number: 20220385116
    Abstract: A wireless charging apparatus of a wireless charging system obtains, in a charging period, channel information of a transmission channel and a waveform parameter used to indicate a waveform of an electromagnetic wave signal; generates a target electromagnetic wave signal based on the channel information and the waveform parameter; and sends the target electromagnetic wave signal to a to-be-charged device through the transmission channel. The channel information includes signal attenuation and a transmission delay that are of an electromagnetic wave signal transmitted through the transmission channel. The to-be-charged device converts the received target electromagnetic wave signal into a direct current signal, and performs charging based on the direct current signal. The target electromagnetic wave signal determined by the wireless charging apparatus can adapt to channel transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Ning PAN, Zhixia DU, Bruno CLERCKX, Junghoon KIM
  • Publication number: 20210092746
    Abstract: A method and system for resource allocation is provided. A method includes transmitting, to the terminal, information including first information indicating a set of resource blocks associated with a control channel and second information indicating a number of symbols corresponding to the set of resource blocks by a radio resource control (RRC) message; transmitting, to the terminal, control information including information for downlink data on the control channel identified based on the first information and the second information; and transmitting, to the terminal, the downlink data on a data channel based on the control information. The set of resource blocks includes at least one control channel resource, and wherein a search space for the control channel of the terminal is defined based on an aggregation level, and a number of the at least one control channel resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventors: Youngbum KIM, Cheng SHAN, Younsun KIM, Bruno CLERCKX
  • Patent number: 10863517
    Abstract: A method and system for resource allocation is provided. A method includes identifying a set of resource blocks associated with a control channel for a terminal; transmitting, to the terminal, information on the set of resource blocks on a radio resource control signal, the information including first information indicating resource blocks included in the set of resource blocks and second information indicating a number of symbols corresponding to the set of resource blocks; transmitting, to the terminal, control information including information for downlink data on the control channel identified based on the first information and the second information; and transmitting, to the terminal, the downlink data on a data channel based on the control information. The set of resource blocks includes at least one control channel resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Inventors: Youngbum Kim, Cheng Shan, Younsun Kim, Bruno Clerckx
  • Patent number: 10701704
    Abstract: A method and system for resource allocation is provided. A method includes identifying bit map information on a set of resource blocks associated with a control channel for a UE, through radio resource control (RRC) signaling from a base station; receiving, from the base station, control information for downlink data on the control channel identified based on the bit map information; and receiving, from the base station, the downlink data on a data channel based on the control information. The control information is received on at least one control channel resource, which is included in the set of resource blocks. A search space for the control channel of the UE is defined based on an aggregation level, a number of the at least one control channel resource included in the set of resource blocks, and a number of a candidate associated with the control channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Youngbum Kim, Cheng Shan, Younsun Kim, Bruno Clerckx
  • Publication number: 20200077408
    Abstract: A method and system for resource allocation is provided. A method includes identifying a set of resource blocks associated with a control channel for a terminal; transmitting, to the terminal, information on the set of resource blocks on a radio resource control signal, the information including first information indicating resource blocks included in the set of resource blocks and second information indicating a number of symbols corresponding to the set of resource blocks; transmitting, to the terminal, control information including information for downlink data on the control channel identified based on the first information and the second information; and transmitting, to the terminal, the downlink data on a data channel based on the control information. The set of resource blocks includes at least one control channel resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: Youngbum KIM, Cheng SHAN, Younsun KIM, Bruno CLERCKX
  • Patent number: 10469237
    Abstract: Provided is a feedback method and apparatus in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication system. A terminal may determine a preferred pre-coding matrix for a neighboring terminal, based on a reference rank determined by a base station and a preferred pre-coding matrix of the terminal. The terminal may calculate a channel quality indicator (CQI) based on the preferred precoding matrix for the neighboring terminal, and may feed the CQI back to the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bruno Clerckx, Jun Il Choi, Ki Il Kim
  • Publication number: 20190305603
    Abstract: The disclosure concerns a WPT link optimization and discloses a method for designing low-complexity multisine waveforms for WPT. Assuming the CSI is available to the transmitter, the waveforms are expressed as a scaled matched filter and shown through realistic simulations to achieve performance very close to the optimal waveforms that would result from a non-convex posynomial maximization problem. Given the low complexity of the design, the proposed waveforms are very suitable for practical implementation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventor: Bruno CLERCKX
  • Publication number: 20190281593
    Abstract: Provided is an uplink feedback channel allocation method and apparatus used to feedback data to indicate whether data packets corresponding an enhanced physical downlink control channel (E-PDCCH) were successfully decoded. A terminal may use an additional resource area of an uplink feedback channel or may use an empty resource area of the uplink feedback channel to which feedback information of a data packet corresponding to a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) is not allocated, to perform feedback.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Heun Chul LEE, Bruno CLERCKX, Young Ho JUNG
  • Patent number: 10383094
    Abstract: Provided is an uplink feedback channel allocation method and apparatus used to feedback data to indicate whether data packets corresponding an enhanced physical downlink control channel (E-PDCCH) were successfully decoded. A terminal may use an additional resource area of an uplink feedback channel or may use an empty resource area of the uplink feedback channel to which feedback information of a data packet corresponding to a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) is not allocated, to perform feedback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Korea Aerospace University
    Inventors: Heun Chul Lee, Bruno Clerckx, Young Ho Jung
  • Publication number: 20190191438
    Abstract: A method and system for resource allocation is provided. A method includes identifying bit map information on a set of resource blocks associated with a control channel for a UE, through radio resource control (RRC) signaling from a base station; receiving, from the base station, control information for downlink data on the control channel identified based on the bit map information; and receiving, from the base station, the downlink data on a data channel based on the control information. The control information is received on at least one control channel resource, which is included in the set of resource blocks. A search space for the control channel of the UE is defined based on an aggregation level, a number of the at least one control channel resource included in the set of resource blocks, and a number of a candidate associated with the control channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Inventors: Youngbum Kim, Cheng Shan, Younsun Kim, Bruno Clerckx
  • Patent number: 10219282
    Abstract: A method and system for resource allocation for data and control channels is provided. A downlink transmission method of a base station in a the system includes determining, by the base station, whether resources for a terminal are restricted; determining a sub-set of resource blocks for the terminal from among all resource blocks, if the resources for the terminal are restricted; transmitting information about the sub-set of the resource blocks to the terminal; and allocating a first sub-sub-set of the sub-set of the resource blocks for control channel transmission, and a second sub-sub-set of the sub-set of the resource blocks for data channel transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Youngbum Kim, Cheng Shan, Younsun Kim, Bruno Clerckx
  • Patent number: 10177827
    Abstract: The embodiment of the disclosure discloses a base station, a mobile station and a method thereof. The base station includes a processor and a transceiver. The processor determines a first subgroup to which a first mobile station belongs, wherein the first mobile station is one of a plurality of mobile stations, the plurality of mobile stations are grouped into G groups based on spatial correlation, the mobile stations in each of the G groups are further grouped into S subgroups based on polarization, the mobile stations in a same subgroup have a same polarization and the mobile stations in different subgroups have different polarizations. The transceiver communicates with the first mobile station according to the polarization of the first subgroup. The embodiments of the disclosure utilize polarization jointly with the spatial correlation in dual structured procoding so that feedback overhead can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd
    Inventors: JaeHyun Park, Bruno Clerckx, Kunpeng Liu
  • Patent number: 10103904
    Abstract: A method for estimating a channel in a wireless communication system in which a plurality of terminals and a base station communicate with each other, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: receiving reference signals transmitted through a plurality of slots; and estimating a channel by using the reference signals. Here, for the channel estimation, the number of reference signals received through at least one slot among the plurality of slots is different from the number of reference signals received through the other slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, Imperial lnnovations Limited
    Inventors: Seung-Hoon Choi, Bruno Clerckx, Chenxi Hao
  • Patent number: 10056957
    Abstract: A method provides mixed analog/digital beamforming by a transmitter in a mobile communication system. The method includes converting a modulation symbol into a parallel symbol stream, performing digital beamforming on the parallel symbol stream, performing an IFFT operation on the digital-beamformed parallel symbol stream to generate a time-domain symbol, converting the IFFT-operated time-domain symbol into a serial time-domain symbol, inserting a CP into the serial time-domain symbol, performing a DAC operation on the CP-inserted symbol to generate an analog signal, and performing analog beamforming by multiplying the analog signal by the analog beamforming precoder optimized for the first subcarrier transmitted through at least one RF channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuangfeng Han, Bruno Clerckx
  • Publication number: 20180076943
    Abstract: Provided is a feedback method and apparatus in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication system. A terminal may determine a preferred pre-coding matrix for a neighboring terminal, based on a reference rank determined by a base station and a preferred pre-coding matrix of the terminal. The terminal may calculate a channel quality indicator (CQI) based on the preferred precoding matrix for the neighboring terminal, and may feed the CQI back to the base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bruno CLERCKX, Jun Il CHOI, Ki Il KIM
  • Patent number: 9887758
    Abstract: A method for transmitting and receiving a codebook subset restriction bitmap is provided. The Codebook Subset Restriction (CSR) bitmap transmission method of an evolved Node B (eNB) in transmission mode 9 for communication with 8 antenna ports includes generating a CSR bitmap including bits corresponding to restricted precoding matrix indicators and rank indicators that are not allowed for reporting and transmitting the CSR bitmap to a User Equipment (UE). The CSR bitmap comprises 53 bits corresponding to a first codebook and 56 bits corresponding to a second codebook, the 53 bits corresponding to a first codebook comprise 16, 16, 4, 4, 4, 4, and 1 bits for layers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8, respectively, and the 56 bits corresponding to a second codebook comprise 16, 16, 16 and 8 bits for layers 1, 2, 3, and 4, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin Kyu Han, Bruno Clerckx
  • Patent number: 9876553
    Abstract: A multiple input multiple output (MIMO) communication system using a first codebook and a second codebook is provided. The first codebook and the second codebook may independently exist, or may exist in a form of an overall codebook in which the first codebook and the second codebook are integrated with each other. A receiver may extract a first precoding matrix indicator from the first codebook, and may extract a second precoding matrix indicator from the second codebook. The receiver may also extract the first precoding matrix indicator and the second precoding matrix indicator from the overall codebook. The first precoding matrix indicator and the second precoding matrix indicator may be fed back to a transmitter. The transmitter may determine a precoding matrix based on the first precoding matrix indicator and the second precoding matrix indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Joon-Il Choi, Bruno Clerckx, Ki Il Kim
  • Patent number: 9800388
    Abstract: Provided is a feedback method and apparatus in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication system. A terminal may determine a preferred pre-coding matrix for a neighboring terminal, based on a reference rank determined by a base station and a preferred pre-coding matrix of the terminal. The terminal may calculate a channel quality indicator (CQI) based on the preferred precoding matrix for the neighboring terminal, and may feed the CQI back to the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bruno Clerckx, Jun Il Choi, Ki Il Kim