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).

  • Publication number: 20230209456
    Abstract: Provided 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 the resource price of a base station on the basis of a comparison between an overall wireless resource demand of a user equipment accessed by a base station in a predetermined area and a radio resource that can be provided by the base station; and send the resource price of the base station to the base station, such that the user equipment determines, at least on the basis of the resource price, whether to access the base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Youping ZHAO, Ziqing DONG, Chen SUN, Zhong TIAN
  • Patent number: 11689998
    Abstract: Disclosed are a device and a method for allocating physical cell identifier (PCI) of a mobile base station. The device comprises: an acquiring unit configured to acquire location and movement speed of the mobile base station; a determining unit configured to determine a valid time interval for PCI of the mobile base station based on at least one of the location and the movement speed; an information collection unit configured to collect information relating to network configuration within a predetermined range where the mobile base station is located when the valid time interval is expired; and a PCI determining unit configured to determine the PCI of the mobile base station based on the information relating to network configuration within the predetermined range where the mobile base station is located.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chen Sun, Jinhui Chen
  • Patent number: 11689740
    Abstract: A video coder may determine a motion vector of a non-adjacent block of a current picture of the video data. The non-adjacent block is non-adjacent to a current block of the current picture. Furthermore, the video coder determines, based on the motion vector of the non-adjacent block, a motion vector predictor (MVP) for the current block. The video coder may determine a motion vector of the current block. The video coder may also determine a predictive block based on the motion vector of the current block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Yi-Wen Chen, Wei-Jung Chien, Yu-Chen Sun, Li Zhang, Sungwon Lee, Xiang Li, Hsiao-Chiang Chuang, Jianle Chen, Vadim Seregin, Marta Karczewicz
  • Publication number: 20230198674
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to electronic devices, methods, and storage media for wireless communications. A method is described for a control device in communication with a plurality of terminal devices, the method comprising: generating signals for the plurality of terminal devices; generating signals to be sent to the plurality of terminal devices based on the signals for the plurality of terminal devices, the signals comprising a combined signal to be sent to at least one of the plurality of terminal devices, the combined signal including all or part of signals for at least two terminal devices to facilitate signal reception by the at least two terminal devices; and sending the signals to the plurality of terminal devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Wei XU, Shuhan ZHU, Zhikun WU, Chen SUN
  • Publication number: 20230194782
    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: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: John Fini, Vladimir Stojanovic, Chen Sun, Derek van Orden, Mark Taylor Wade
  • Patent number: 11683696
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electronic device and a method for wireless communication and a computer readable storage medium. The electronic device comprises: a processing circuit, configured to: allocate a spectrum resource for a spectrum allocation object of a first set managed by a first level spectrum management device; and to generate spectrum coordination information for a spectrum allocation object of a second set managed by a second level spectrum management device located on a lower level of the first level spectrum management device, so as to provide the same to the second level spectrum management device, wherein the spectrum coordinate information is used for coordination of spectrum allocation executed by the second level spectrum management device and spectrum allocation executed by the first level spectrum management device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xin Guo, Chen Sun
  • Patent number: 11682879
    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: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Ayar Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Milos Popovic, Rajeev Ram, Vladimir Stojanovic, Chen Sun, Mark Taylor Wade, Alexandra Carroll Wright
  • Publication number: 20230179376
    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: provide configuration information to a receiving terminal device in sidelink communication, the configuration information being used to configure an additional physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) resource that is used by the receiving terminal device to send a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ)) feedback, the additional PSFCH resource being a resource other than a PSFCH resource that is already configured and that is pool-specific; and acquire the HARQ feedback from the receiving terminal device on the basis of the configuration information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Zhikun WU, Chen SUN
  • Publication number: 20230180272
    Abstract: The disclosure is directed to user devices, base station devices, communication methods, and computer-readable storage media. Specifically, a first user device is provided, the first user device being associated with a device cluster, the first user device including a processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to: perform a first transmission between the first user device and a second user device through a master user device of the device cluster via a first link; and perform a direct second transmission between the first user device and the second user device via a second link, wherein the first transmission is performed with non-competitive resources, and the second transmission is performed with competitive resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Wei XU, Shuhan ZHU, Zhikun WU, Chen SUN
  • Publication number: 20230177384
    Abstract: Example embodiments according to aspects of the present disclosure provide an example computer-implemented method for multimodal data processing with improved cross-modal attention. The example method includes inputting a multimodal sequence to an example machine-learned model. The example model includes a first modal processing stream receiving a first modal portion of the multimodal sequence and a second modal processing stream receiving a second modal portion of the multimodal sequence. The example model includes fusing the first modal processing stream and the second modal processing stream across one or more fusion layers of the machine-learned model through a plurality of cross-modal context encodings. The example method includes outputting an inference based at least in part on the plurality of cross-modal context encodings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Arsha Nagrani, Shan Yang, Anurag Arnab, Chen Sun, Cordelia Luise Schmid
  • Patent number: 11671839
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a spectrum management device and method, a wireless network management device and method, and a medium. According to one embodiment, an electronic device for spectrum management comprises a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to perform control in order to send spectrum supply and demand information to one or more first spectrum management nodes and/or receive the spectrum supply and demand information from the one or more first spectrum management nodes. The spectrum supply and demand information is associated with spectrum supply and demand of the electronic device and/or of a wireless network management node managed by the first spectrum management node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xin Guo, Chen Sun
  • Publication number: 20230161106
    Abstract: An optical input polarization management device includes a polarization splitter and rotator (PSR) that directs a portion of incoming light having a first polarization through a first optical waveguide (OW). The PSR rotates a portion of the incoming light having a second polarization to the first polarization so as to provide polarization-rotated light. The PSR directs the polarization-rotated light through a second OW. Light within the first and second OW's is input to a first two-by-two optical splitter (2×2OS). A first phase shifter (PS) is interfaced with either the first or second OW. Light is output from the first 2×2OS into a third OW and a fourth OW. Light within the third and fourth OW's is input to a second 2×2OS. A second PS is interfaced with either the third or fourth OW. Light is output from the second 2×2OS into a fifth OW for further processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2023
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Inventors: Pavan Bhargava, Derek Van Orden, Mark Wade, John Fini, Chen Sun, Milos Popovic, Anatol Khilo
  • Publication number: 20230155764
    Abstract: The present invention provides an electronic device and method for wireless communications, and a computer readable storage medium. The electronic device comprises: a processing circuit, configured to divide an available pilot frequency into a plurality of orthogonal subsets, and allocate a pilot frequency in a first subset for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) device, wherein the first subset is different from a second subset allocated for another UAV device in an adjacent sector of a different cell, and is different from a third subset allocated for a ground UE located in the same sector as the UAV device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Bin SHENG, Zhikun WU, Chen SUN
  • Publication number: 20230156773
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present disclosure are an electronic device and method for use in a resource management device, an electronic device and method for use in a resource management database, and an electronic device and method for use in a resource management object. The electronic device for use in a resource management device comprises a processing circuit, which is configured to: determine a resource usage behavior pattern of a resource management object within a specific time range and a specific space range; allocate a wireless resource to the resource management object according to the resource usage behavior pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2023
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Xin GUO, Chen SUN
  • Publication number: 20230150358
    Abstract: A collision avoidance system for a work machine includes at least one sensor configured to generate a signal indicative of a presence of at least one obstacle in a surrounding area of the work machine, at least one imaging device, a display device, and a controller. The controller receives the signal indicative of the presence of the obstacle and determines a position of the obstacle relative to the work machine based on the signal received from the sensor. The controller generates a first control signal to prevent a movement of the work machine, halt the movement of the work machine, or reduce a velocity of the work machine based on the determination of the position of the obstacle. The controller generates a second control signal for displaying an updated display view that provides a visual indication of the presence of the obstacle in the surrounding area of the work machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Jacob Maley, Chen Sun, Jun Zuo, Venkata Siva Sai Manoj Pothugunti
  • Patent number: 11640327
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a circuit detection method and a data detection circuit. The circuit detection method comprises: if a current time point reaches a preset detection time period, based on a data storage address of a detected module, reading a data to be detected corresponding to the detected module from a storage area corresponding to the data storage address; using a preset calculation method corresponding to the detected module to perform a calculation on the data to be detected to obtain a first calculation result; based on the first calculation result and a preset calculation result corresponding to the data storage address, determining a fault state of the detected module. The embodiments of the present disclosure can detect the storage circuit in a timely and accurate manner without data verification by adding hardware, thereby saving space occupied by the system and reducing power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: HORIZON (SHANGHAI) ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yi Zhou, Honghe Tan, Xiaoqiao Chen, Chen Sun, Wenxing Li, Jing Li, Luyang Zhang
  • Publication number: 20230119195
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a display apparatus, and the display apparatus at least includes a display and a controller. At an initial state, the display presents a homepage; in response to a startup instruction, the display jumps to a search interface from the homepage; the search interface has a user interface, and the user interface is configured to receive a search content input from a user; in response to a search instruction, the controller reads the search content; and if the search content includes a phrase for locating, the controller controls an application corresponding to the phrase for locating to be started so as to transmit the search content to the application to cause the application to send a request carrying the search content to a server of the application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Qi CHEN, Gang LEI, Yuanyuan HUANG, Yuqi LIU, Xiaojie SUN, Chen SUN, Hongwei ZHOU, Peng LI, Yongjian ZHAO
  • Publication number: 20230107308
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus, a method, and a storage medium for federated learning (FL). Various embodiments for FL are described. In an embodiment, a central processing apparatus can be configured to, for a first one of a plurality of distributed computing apparatuses: receive a report message from the first distributed computing apparatus, the report message including at least one of training data set information or device information of the first distributed computing apparatus; evaluate FL performance of the first distributed computing apparatus based on the report message of the first distributed computing apparatus; determine wireless resource requirements of the first distributed computing apparatus based on the FL performance of the first distributed computing apparatus; and notify a wireless network, via a message, of configuring wireless resources for the first distributed computing apparatus based on the wireless resource requirements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Chen SUN, Songtao WU, Kuanhong XU
  • Publication number: 20230088208
    Abstract: Provided are an electronic device, a method therein and a computer-readable storage medium. The electronic device comprises a processing circuit configured to: receive spectrum usage statistical information from at least one spectrum management sub-device, the spectrum usage statistical information comprising spectrum usage related information and interference related information of a subsystem managed by the spectrum management sub-device; and generate, on the basis of the spectrum usage statistical information from the at least one spectrum management sub-device in an off-line state, spectrum usage guidance information of the subsystem managed by each spectrum management sub-device. Even when part of spectrum management devices cannot communicate with other spectrum management devices in real time, spectrum usage statistical information can still be obtained; and on this basis, guidance information is given for the spectrum usage of sub-systems so as to coordinate the spectrum usage of the sub-systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Chen SUN, Yizhi BAI
  • Publication number: 20230070011
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electronic device and method for wireless communication, and a computer-readable storage medium. The electronic device comprises: a processing circuit, configured to acquire a channel state information (CSI) resource configuration and a CSI report configuration from a base station, the CSI report configuration being associated with one or more CSI resource configurations, the CSI resource configuration comprising a resource configuration for a reference signal on one or more bandwidth parts (BWPs), and to send, on the basis of the CSI report configuration, to the base station a measurement result, obtained by measuring a reference signal specified in the associated CSI resource configuration, of a beam corresponding to the reference signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Min LIU, Chen SUN