Patents by Inventor Chen Sun

Chen Sun 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: 11822119
    Abstract: An electro-optical chip includes an optical input port, an optical output port, and an optical waveguide having a first end optically connected to the optical input port and a second end optically connected to the optical output port. The optical waveguide includes one or more segments. Different segments of the optical waveguide extends in either a horizontal direction, a vertical direction, a direction between horizontal and vertical, or a curved direction. The electro-optical chip also includes a plurality of optical microring resonators is positioned along at least one segment of the optical waveguide. Each microring resonator of the plurality of optical microring resonators is optically coupled to a different location along the optical waveguide. The electro-optical chip also includes electronic circuitry for controlling a resonant wavelength of each microring resonator of the plurality of optical microring resonators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Ayar Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: John Fini, Vladimir Stojanovic, Chen Sun, Derek van Orden, Mark Taylor Wade
  • Publication number: 20230370170
    Abstract: A computer memory system includes an electro-optical chip, an electrical fanout chip electrically connected to an electrical interface of the electro-optical chip, and at least one dual in-line memory module (DIMM) slot electrically connected to the electrical fanout chip. A photonic interface of the electro-optical chip is optically connected to an optical link. The electro-optical chip includes at least one optical macro that converts outgoing electrical data signals into outgoing optical data signals for transmission through the optical link. The optical macro also converts incoming optical data signals from the optical link into incoming electrical data signals and transmits the incoming electrical data signals to the electrical fanout chip. The electrical fanout chip directs bi-directional electrical data communication between the electro-optical chip and a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) DIMM corresponding to the at least one DIMM slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: Roy Edward Meade, Vladimir Stojanovic, Chen Sun, Mark Wade, Hugo Saleh, Charles Wuischpard
  • Publication number: 20230371058
    Abstract: Disclosed are a wireless communication method and a wireless communication device. Provided is a resource management device, comprising one or a plurality of processors, said processor or processors being configured to: obtain interference information from another resource management device, said interference information comprising mutual interference between a plurality of managed systems managed by the resource management device, and interference of a plurality of managed systems by one or a plurality of non-managed systems not managed by the resource management device; determine a communication resource for each managed system on the basis of the obtained interference information; and notify a corresponding managed system of the determined communication resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Chen SUN, Xin GUO
  • Publication number: 20230367072
    Abstract: An electro-optic receiver includes a polarization splitter and rotator (PSR) that directs incoming light having a first polarization through a first end of an optical waveguide, and that rotates incoming light from a second polarization to the first polarization to create polarization-rotated light that is directed to a second end of the optical waveguide. The incoming light of the first polarization and the polarization-rotated light travel through the optical waveguide in opposite directions. A plurality of ring resonators is optically coupled the optical waveguide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: Pavan Bhargava, Derek Van Orden, Mark Wade, John Fini, Chen Sun, Milos Popovic, Anatol Khilo
  • Publication number: 20230362780
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electronic device, a wireless communication method, and a computer-readable storage medium. The electronic device according to the present disclosure comprises a processing circuit and is configured to: determine one or more relay vehicles that must forward a message related to a vehicle; generate the message related to the vehicle, the message comprising information of the one or more relay vehicles; and send the message. By using the electronic device, wireless communication method, and computer-readable storage medium according to the present disclosure, the redundancy of information sending can be reduced while expanding the coverage range of a message so as to save on overhead and reduce interference, thereby optimizing a message sending process in the Internet of Vehicles. (FIG.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Jian LI, Tao CUI, Chen SUN
  • Publication number: 20230352897
    Abstract: A laser light generator is configured to generate one or more wavelengths of continuous wave laser light. The laser light generator is configured to collectively and simultaneously transmit each of the wavelengths of continuous wave laser light through an optical output of the laser light generator as a laser light supply. An optical fiber is connected to receive the laser light supply from the optical output of the laser light generator. An optical distribution network has an optical input connected to receive the laser light supply from the optical fiber. The optical distribution network is configured to transmit the laser light supply to each of one or more optical transceivers and/or optical sensors. The laser light generator is physically separate from each of the one or more optical transceivers and/or optical sensors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Milos Popovic, Rajeev Ram, Vladimir Stojanovic, Chen Sun, Mark Taylor Wade, Alexandra Carroll Wright
  • Publication number: 20230354044
    Abstract: A first spectrum management apparatus that includes circuitry that acquires spectrum utilization information, determines a probability of getting spectrum resources, determines, based on the probability, adjusted spectrum sensing parameters to be used by the first wireless communication system, the adjusted spectrum sensing parameters including an energy detection threshold for spectrum sensing, transmits, to the first wireless communication system, an instruction to change original spectrum sensing parameters of the first wireless communication system to the adjusted spectrum sensing parameters, receives, from a second spectrum management apparatus that manages a second wireless communication system, spectrum sensing parameters changing feedback indicating that the second wireless communication system has been influenced by the first wireless communication system using the adjusted spectrum sensing parameters, and transmits, to the first wireless communication system, another instruction to change the adjust
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Chen SUN, Bingshan HU
  • Patent number: 11804917
    Abstract: Provided in the present disclosure are an electronic device and a method for wireless communication, and a computer-readable storage medium, the electronic device for wireless communication comprising a processing circuit, the processing circuit configured such that: if it is determined that the electronic device is in a frequency spectrum transaction verification region, verifying an effectiveness of a frequency spectrum transaction, the verification region being determined on the basis of interference generated when a frequency spectrum acquirer in the frequency spectrum transaction uses the transaction frequency spectrum; determining an electronic device signal-to-noise ratio according to interference of the electronic device when the frequency spectrum acquirer uses the transaction frequency spectrum, and if the signal-to-noise ratio is greater than a preset signal-to-noise ratio threshold configured for the electronic device, verifying that the frequency spectrum transaction is in effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Youping Zhao, Cong Lu, Chen Sun
  • Publication number: 20230345439
    Abstract: A system that receives a request for resources from a first system of a plurality of systems having different levels of priority; identifies resources that are available in a second system different from the plurality of systems based on the received request; and determines whether to adjust a resource assigned to the plurality of systems based on the priority level of the first system and the resources that are available in the second system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Chen SUN, Xin GUO
  • Publication number: 20230345530
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a processing circuit, configured as: to determine multiple partial sensing windows separated on a time domain, in the multiple partial sensing windows, a user equipment executing sidelink communication performing sensing with respect to at least some time-frequency resources in a resource pool for use in sidelink communication; and to determine a partial sensing-resource selection window and one or more resource selection windows, where the partial sensing-resource selection window is a time-frequency window defined by multiple earlier partial sensing windows when resource selection is triggered, an occupancy state of time-frequency resources in the partial sensing-resource selection window is known to the user equipment; moreover, the user equipment selects the time-frequency resources in the one or more resource selection windows to execute sidelink transmission, where the partial sensing-resource selection window covers the one or more resource selection windows.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Zhikun WU, Chen SUN
  • Publication number: 20230344891
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for quality measurement for videoconferencing may include (i) measuring the interaction levels of a plurality of video conference attendees in a group video conference, (ii) designating, based at least in part on the interaction levels, a current dominant speaker in the group video conference, (iii) calculating a video conference quality level for the current dominant speaker in the group video conference, and (iv) providing the video conference quality level for the current dominant speaker as the video conference quality level for the group video conference. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: David Frenk, Chia-Yang Tsai, Yu-Chen Sun
  • Patent number: 11799554
    Abstract: An interposer device includes a substrate that includes a laser source chip interface region, a silicon photonics chip interface region, an optical amplifier module interface region. A fiber-to-interposer connection region is formed within the substrate. A first group of optical conveyance structures is formed within the substrate to optically connect a laser source chip to a silicon photonics chip when the laser source chip and the silicon photonics chip are interfaced to the substrate. A second group of optical conveyance structures is formed within the substrate to optically connect the silicon photonics chip to an optical amplifier module when the silicon photonics chip and the optical amplifier module are interfaced to the substrate. A third group of optical conveyance structures is formed within the substrate to optically connect the optical amplifier module to the fiber-to-interposer connection region when the optical amplifier module is interfaced to the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Ayar Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Chen Sun, Roy Edward Meade, Mark Wade, Alexandra Wright, Vladimir Stojanovic, Rajeev Ram, Milos Popovic, Derek Van Orden, Michael Davenport
  • Publication number: 20230337209
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a wireless communication device and a wireless communication method. The wireless communication device according to one embodiment comprises one or more processors, wherein the processor(s) is/are configured to acquire the type of information to be transmitted via device-to-device communication, wherein the type is one of a plurality of types at least including a first type and a second type; and the processor(s) is/are also configured to determine a resource use manner and a power control manner which are used for transmitting information at least according to the type of the information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Yanzhao HOU, Qimei CUI, Shiwei CAO, Hui LIANG, Qinyan JIANG, Shiyu ZHANG, Xin GUO, Chen SUN
  • Publication number: 20230327831
    Abstract: Provided in the present disclosure are an electronic device and method for wireless communication, and a computer readable storage medium. The electronic device comprises: a processing circuit, which is configured to: determine whether a target user equipment (UE) will apply a large intelligent surface (LIS)-assisted communication mode; and, if it is determined that the target UE will apply the LIS-assisted communication mode, send to the target UE configuration information of an LIS reference signal for channel state measurement in the LIS-assisted communication mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Wei XU, Yuwei GAO, Zhikun WU, Chen SUN
  • Publication number: 20230328542
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus and method used in wireless communications, and a computer readable storage medium, the electronic apparatus comprising: a processing circuit configured to determine by dynamic means a partitioning solution for a virtual cell in a predetermined region, determination of the partitioning solution for the virtual cell comprising partitioning of a plurality of access points in the predetermined region to be one or more virtual cells, and designating each of the virtual cells to serve as master access points; and generating a message indicating the virtual cell partitioning solution so as to notify all of the designated master access points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Youping ZHAO, Dongzhi ZHU, Chen SUN, Xin GUO
  • Publication number: 20230326792
    Abstract: A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes the steps of first forming an active device having a gate structure and a source/drain region on a substrate, forming an interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer on the active device, removing part of the ILD layer to form a contact hole on the active device without exposing the active device and the bottom surface of the contact hole is higher than a top surface of the gate structure, and then forming a metal layer in the contact holt to form a floating contact plug.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventor: Chia-Chen Sun
  • Publication number: 20230319525
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to electronic device and method in a wireless communication system. There is provided a terminal-side electronic device in a wireless communication system includes a processing circuit, which is configured to acquire information about an internal state of a terminal-side device associated with the terminal-side electronic device, and transmit the information about the internal state of the terminal-side device to another device in the wireless communication system periodically or in a trigger mode, wherein, once information about an abnormal internal state of the terminal-side device is acquired, the information about the abnormal internal state of the terminal-side device is actively broadcasted to a surrounding communicable terminal-side electronic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Tao CUI, Chen SUN
  • Publication number: 20230316459
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an information processing apparatus and method, an electronic device and computer readable medium. According to an embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to compare environment data acquired by a user equipment with reference data; determine, based on the comparison, an adjustment for an acquisition manner of the environment data; and perform a control to notify the user equipment of indication information related to the adjustment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Chen SUN, Xin GUO, Lingming KONG
  • Publication number: 20230319863
    Abstract: Provided are an electronic device and method for wireless communication, and a computer-readable storage medium. The electronic device comprises: a processing circuit, configured to: construct an interference overlapping diagram based on an interference/coexistence relationship between resource application systems within a management range, wherein a connection point of the interference overlapping diagram represents one or more resource application systems, and an edge of the interference overlapping diagram represents the fact that interference exists between the resource application systems represented by two connection points linked with the edge; remove one or more edges in the interference overlapping diagram so as to enable the interference overlapping diagram to meet a pre-determined condition after the removal; and carry out channel/resource allocation based on the adjusted interference overlapping diagram.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Youping ZHAO, Lu SHI, Yu ZHAO, Chen SUN, Xin GUO
  • Publication number: 20230313321
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides materials and methods for detecting the presence of a target, such as a nucleic acid, biomolecule or biological particle, or virus genome in a sample. The present disclosure further provides point of care detection methods that cane done quickly and simply, optionally without sophisticated instrumentation. The present disclosure further provides improved methods for detecting and quantifying detection signals from various emulsions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Adam Abate, Harish Vasudevan, Peng Xu, Krzysztof Langer, Xiangpeng Li, Leqian Liu, Chen Sun, Daniel Weisgerber