Patents by Inventor Federico Penna

Federico Penna 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: 20240063852
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided in which channel matrices at time slots are estimated using reference signals received from a base station (BS) at the time slots. A sequence of channel matrices at future time slots are estimated using the estimated channel matrices as input to a neural network (NN) trained based on known sets of past and future channel matrices. A parameter is determined using at least one channel matrix from the sequence of channel matrices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Hyukjoon KWON, Mohamed Mahmoud, Federico Penna, Yanlin Zhou, Ramy E. Ali
  • Patent number: 11909472
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method of providing implicit channel state information (CSI) feedback from a user equipment (UE). The method includes determining a precoding matrix indicator (PMI) selection decision metric, selecting one of a sub-band (SB) linear combination coefficient (LCC) selection method, a wideband (WB) LCC selection method, or a sub-band group (SBG) LCC selection method, based on the determined PMI selection decision metric, determining, using the selected LCC selection method, PMI indices based on sub-bands configured by a base station, and transmitting the determined PMI indices to the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Federico Penna, Hyukjoon Kwon, Dongwoon Bai, Jaein Kim, Junho Lee, Hui Won Je
  • Publication number: 20230231600
    Abstract: A method may include determining, for a channel, a target component of precoding information, determining at least a part of the precoding information based on the target component and a decompressed component of the precoding information, and sending, from a user equipment, the at least a part of the precoding information. Determining the at least a part of the precoding information may be based on a correlation between the target component and the decompressed component. The at least a part of the precoding information may include a vector of coefficients. The vector of coefficients may include a vector of complex numbers. At least one of the complex numbers may include an amplitude representing a scaling coefficient and a phase representing a rotation coefficient. The target component may include a target matrix. The decompressed component may include a decompressed matrix. The target matrix may include a linear combination coefficients matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Qi ZHAN, Jung Hyun BAE, Federico PENNA, Hyukjoon KWON, Dongwoon BAI
  • Publication number: 20230155642
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method of providing implicit channel state information (CSI) feedback from a user equipment (UE). The method includes determining a precoding matrix indicator (PMI) selection decision metric, selecting one of a sub-band (SB) linear combination coefficient (LCC) selection method, a wideband (WB) LCC selection method, or a sub-band group (SBG) LCC selection method, based on the determined PMI selection decision metric, determining, using the selected LCC selection method, PMI indices based on sub-bands configured by a base station, and transmitting the determined PMI indices to the base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: Federico PENNA, Hyukjoon KWON, Dongwoon BAI, Jaein KIM, Junho LEE, Hui Won JE
  • Publication number: 20230134840
    Abstract: A system and method for storing a power delay profile in compressed form. In some embodiments, the method includes: identifying, in a power delay profile including a first group of taps, a first arrival tap corresponding to a first arrival path; identifying a first subset of taps, the first subset being a subset of the first group and including the first arrival tap; identifying a second subset of taps, the second subset being a subset of the first group and being disjoint from the first subset; and storing, in a memory, the union of the first subset and a proper subset of the second subset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Ramin SOLTANI, Hyukjoon KWON, Federico PENNA, Jungmin PARK
  • Publication number: 20220360304
    Abstract: A system comprising a first apparatus, a second apparatus and a third apparatus, wherein the first apparatus is configured to provide, to a second apparatus, information regarding a number of antennas and/or an oversampling factor; the second apparatus is configured to transmit a plurality of beams in accordance with the information received from the first apparatus regarding the number of antennas and the oversampling factor; the third apparatus configured to receive a plurality of beamformed reference signals transmitted by the second apparatus, obtain measurement results for at least two of the plurality of beamformed reference signals, wherein the measurement results comprise one or more of: reference signal received power value, beam identifier, a value indicating uncertainty of the accuracy of the reference signal received power value; and transmit the measurement results to the second apparatus; and wherein the second apparatus is further configured to: process the received measurement results to obtai
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Federico Penna, Daejung Yoon
  • Publication number: 20220209839
    Abstract: Methods and systems of obtaining a beamforming matrix, the method comprising inputting PMI feedback from a user equipment (UE), inputting partial channel estimation derived from sounding reference signal (SRS) switching, and composing a precoding matrix using the PMI feedback and partial channel estimation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Hongbing CHENG, Federico PENNA
  • Patent number: 11283507
    Abstract: Methods and systems of obtaining a beamforming matrix, the method comprising inputting PMI feedback from a user equipment (UE), inputting partial channel estimation derived from sounding reference signal (SRS) switching, and composing a precoding matrix using the PMI feedback and partial channel estimation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hongbing Cheng, Federico Penna
  • Publication number: 20220029684
    Abstract: Methods and systems of obtaining a beamforming matrix, the method comprising inputting PMI feedback from a user equipment (UE), inputting partial channel estimation derived from sounding reference signal (SRS) switching, and composing a precoding matrix using the PMI feedback and partial channel estimation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Hongbing CHENG, Federico PENNA
  • 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: 20200287757
    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: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Federico Penna, Hongbing Cheng, Kee-Bong Song
  • Patent number: 10700896
    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: January 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Federico Penna, Hongbing Cheng, Kee-Bong Song
  • Publication number: 20200153664
    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: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Federico Penna, Hongbing Cheng, Kee-Bong Song
  • Patent number: 10616005
    Abstract: A method for estimating noise in a channel impulse response measurement. In some embodiments, the method includes calculating a first average energy, the first average energy being an average energy of a sequence of time-domain samples of the channel impulse response measurement; setting a detection threshold; identifying a first subset of the sequence of time-domain samples, each element of the first subset of the sequence of time-domain samples having an energy less than the detection threshold; and calculating a second average energy, the second average energy being an average energy of the first subset of the sequence of time-domain samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Federico Penna, Hongbing Cheng, Kee-Bong Song
  • Patent number: 10044423
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method. The apparatus includes a singular value decomposition (SVD) processor configured to receive a channel matrix H and output samples y of an optimal precoding matrix for H; a linear phase estimation (LPE) processor connected to the SVD processor and configured to determine a phase estimate {circumflex over (?)}l of an angle ?l of a horizontal discrete Fourier transform (DFT) index l, where l is an integer; and a decision processor connected to the LPE processor and configured to determine a hard estimate of l.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Federico Penna, Hongbing Cheng, Jungwon Lee
  • Publication number: 20180115351
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method. The apparatus includes a singular value decomposition (SVD) processor configured to receive a channel matrix H and output samples y of an optimal precoding matrix for H; a linear phase estimation (LPE) processor connected to the SVD processor and configured to determine a phase estimate {circumflex over (?)}l of an angle ?l of a horizontal discrete Fourier transform (DFT) index l, where l is an integer; and a decision processor connected to the LPE processor and configured to determine a hard estimate of l.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Inventors: Federico PENNA, Hongbing CHENG, Jungwon LEE
  • Patent number: 9755717
    Abstract: A method for selecting a precoder from a codebook for a channel matrix H and an apparatus. The method includes determining, by a processor, a reference precoder V for the channel H and a phase rotation for V; for all codewords W from a codebook, determining, by the processor, phase rotations for W and phase distances based on differences between phases of elements of V and W; and selecting, by the processor, the codeword W with a minimum phase distance, wherein H has a size of NR×NT, NR is a number of receive antennas, NT is a number of transmit antennas, V has a size of NT×L, and L is a number of data layers transmitted simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Federico Penna, Hongbing Cheng, Jungwon Lee