Patents by Inventor Hui Tong

Hui Tong 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: 20170149482
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of generating codebook in a wireless communication system with multiple antenna arrays, as well as a wireless communication system, base station and terminal using the codebook for communication. The method comprises steps of: providing a basic codebook which contains multiple pre-coding matrices; and assigning phase offsets to certain pre-coding matrices in the basic codebook to form a codebook with phase offset. The feedback overhead from a client to a base station side is reduced and a good precision of feedback for multi-antenna array is kept by applying the method of generating codebook and using the generated codebook in the wireless communication system, base station and terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2017
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Inventors: Hui Tong, Masayuki Hoshino, Ming Xu, Seigo Nakao, Daichi Imamura
  • Patent number: 9602179
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of generating codebook in a wireless communication system with multiple antenna arrays, as well as a wireless communication system, base station and terminal using the codebook for communication. The method comprises steps of: providing a basic codebook which contains multiple pre-coding matrices; and assigning phase offsets to certain pre-coding matrices in the basic codebook to form a codebook with phase offset. The feedback overhead from a client to a base station side is reduced and a good precision of feedback for multi-antenna array is kept by applying the method of generating codebook and using the generated codebook in the wireless communication system, base station and terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Hui Tong, Masayuki Hoshino, Ming Xu, Seigo Nakao, Daichi Imamura
  • Publication number: 20170029290
    Abstract: The invention discloses a method of removing dissolved elements from a liquid. The method comprises a first heating step for heating the liquid using a first heat source, a plurality of distillation steps for purifying the liquid heated by the first heating step, each of the plurality of distillation steps comprising at least one evaporation step and at least one condensation step, and a second heating step, using a second heat source to heat a plurality of flashing chambers, each generating a volume of vapor; wherein the vapor from at least one of the plurality of flashing chambers of the second heating step is introduced into at least one of the plurality of distillation steps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2015
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Applicant: Murdoch University
    Inventors: Bijan RAHIMI, Hui Tong CHUA, Alexander CHRIST
  • Patent number: 9544109
    Abstract: A method and a system of setting up a reference signal in a radio communication system are disclosed. The radio communication system includes a serving cell and a neighboring cell, and a mobile terminal of the serving cell uses the same temporal frequency resource to receive a serving resource block from the serving cell and an interference resource block from the neighboring cell. The method includes setting up a user-specific reference signal in the interference resource block and puncturing at the same temporal frequency position as the temporal frequency position at which the user-specific reference signal is set up on the interference resource block of the serving resource block to prevent any signal from being transmitted at the punctured temporal frequency position. When the method and the system are used and the interference power between cells is measured, it is possible to effectively reduce feedback overhead in a coordinated beamforming.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Hui Tong, Ming Xu, Masayuki Hoshino, Daichi Imamura
  • Patent number: 9538519
    Abstract: The wireless communication comprises: transmitting downlink control information (DCI) from a transmission point to an UE for the enabled TB and the disabled TB, wherein the DCI comprises a 8-value indicator to indicate CoMP states for the enabled TB in conjunction with the new data indicator (NDI) of the disabled TB; if the NDI of the enabled TB is untoggled or the value of the 8-value indicator for the enabled TB is equal to 0, 1, 2, or 3, the UE using the NDI of the disabled TB to select a CoMP state from a first CoMP state and a second CoMP state; and if the NDI of the enabled TB is toggled and the value of the 8-value indicator is 4, 5, 6, or 7, the UE obtaining the information of whether the enabled TB is initial transmission or retransmission based on the NDI of the disabled TB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Hui Tong, Masayuki Hoshino, Akihiko Nishio, Hidetoshi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9365438
    Abstract: There is provided an apparatus 2 for desalinating non-potable water. The apparatus has a first vapor producing module 5 configured to receive a heated working fluid for producing vapor from a volume of non-potable water for driving at least one first distillation module 10 for producing condensate 12. The apparatus also includes a second vapor producing module 14 configured to receive working fluid from the first vapor producing module 5 for producing additional vapor from a further volume of non-potable water 8?.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: The University of Western Australia
    Inventors: Hui Tong Chua, Xiaolin Wang, Klaus Regenauer-Lieb
  • Publication number: 20160156051
    Abstract: A process for producing hydrogen from a hydrocarbon gas comprising contacting at elevated temperature the hydrocarbon gas with a catalyst to catalytically convert the hydrocarbon gas to hydrogen and solid carbon; wherein, the catalyst comprises one or both of the following: (a) a calcined Fe-containing catalyst; or (b) a bimetallic MxNiy-type catalyst supported on a substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Inventors: Hui Tong Chua, Andrew Cornejo, Colin Llewellyn Raston, Lizhen Gao
  • Patent number: 9350431
    Abstract: A wireless communication method, a terminal and a base station are provided. The method includes the step of transmitting a plurality of best companion pre-coding matrix indexs (BCIs) and corresponding delta channel quality indicators (?CQIs) from the terminal to the base station, wherein the period of frames for transmitting the plurality of BCIs is larger than the period of frames for transmitting a single BCI. The method, terminal and base station according to the present disclosure can greatly increase scheduling flexibility at base station side and improve MU-MIMO performance without increasing feedback overhead of channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Hui Tong, Ming Xu, Masayuki Hoshino, Seigo Nakao, Daichi Imamura
  • Patent number: 9161324
    Abstract: A transmission point device, user equipment, and method of reporting phase offsets between signals received from a serving cell and neighbor cells in a communication system are disclosed. The method comprises steps of: quantizing the phase offsets using a predetermined number of bits; utilizing another bit to indicate constellation of the phase offsets; reporting the quantized phase offsets and the constellation to transmission point. The present disclosure may improve the signal combining gain from multiple transmission points with minimum overhead increasing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Hui Tong, Masayuki Hoshino, Akihiko Nishio, Ming Xu, Daichi Imamura
  • Publication number: 20150230214
    Abstract: The wireless communication comprises: transmitting downlink control information (DCI) from a transmission point to an UE for the enabled TB and the disabled TB, wherein the DCI comprises a 8-value indicator to indicate CoMP states for the enabled TB in conjunction with the new data indicator (NDI) of the disabled TB; if the NDI of the enabled TB is untoggled or the value of the 8-value indicator for the enabled TB is equal to 0, 1, 2, or 3, the UE using the NDI of the disabled TB to select a CoMP state from a first CoMP state and a second CoMP state; and if the NDI of the enabled TB is toggled and the value of the 8-value indicator is 4, 5, 6, or 7, the UE obtaining the information of whether the enabled TB is initial transmission or retransmission based on the NDI of the disabled TB.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2012
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Hui Tong, Masayuki Hoshino, Akihiko Nishio, Hidetoshi Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20150155923
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of generating codebook in a wireless communication system with multiple antenna arrays, as well as a wireless communication system, base station and terminal using the codebook for communication. The method comprises steps of: providing a basic codebook which contains multiple pre-coding matrices; and assigning phase offsets to certain pre-coding matrices in the basic codebook to form a codebook with phase offset. The feedback overhead from a client to a base station side is reduced and a good precision of feedback for multi-antenna array is kept by applying the method of generating codebook and using the generated codebook in the wireless communication system, base station and terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2015
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Inventors: Hui Tong, Masayuki Hoshino, Ming Xu, Seigo Nakao, Daichi Imamura
  • Patent number: 8995541
    Abstract: A method, mobile terminal, and system for reporting BCI are provided, the method comprises the steps of: obtaining a PMI W1 set and a PMI W2 to be used for a mobile terminal based on a double codebook; computing a BCI W1 set to be used for another mobile terminal based on the PMI W1 set; selecting a BCI W2 from the BCI W1 set based on the PMI W2; and reporting the BCI W1 set and the BCI W2 to a base station, wherein W1 indicates a long-term or wideband component of the PMI and BCI, and W2 indicates a short-term or narrowband component of the PMI and BCI. With the present disclosure, the probability that the optimal BCI W2 is included in the shifted BCI W1 set is increased, and the overhead for feeding-back the BCI is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Hui Tong, Ming Xu, Masayuki Hoshino, Daichi Imamura
  • Patent number: 8995557
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of generating codebook in a wireless communication system with multiple antenna arrays, as well as a wireless communication system, base station and terminal using the codebook for communication. The method comprises steps of: providing a basic codebook which contains multiple pre-coding matrices; and assigning phase offsets to certain pre-coding matrices in the basic codebook to form a codebook with phase offset. The feedback overhead from a client to a base station side is reduced and a good precision of feedback for multi-antenna array is kept by applying the method of generating codebook and using the generated codebook in the wireless communication system, base station and terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Hui Tong, Masayuki Hoshino, Ming Xu, Seigo Nakao, Daichi Imamura
  • Patent number: 8934563
    Abstract: There is provided a method and device for feeding back a pre-coding matrix index of a dual-polarized antenna which has a first antenna array and a second antenna array and is arranged at a base station to which the index of a first pre-coding matrix for the first antenna array, the index of a second pre-coding matrix for the second antenna array and the phase offset between the first pre-coding matrix and the second pre-coding matrix are fed back from a terminal, comprising: computing a distance between the first pre-coding matrix and the second pre-coding matrix; judging whether the distance is larger than a predetermined threshold or not; and assigning less bits to indicate the phase offset if the distance is larger than the predetermined threshold. The method and device according to the present disclosure can effectively advance the feedback accuracy of a system thus improving the bit error rate and throughput of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Hui Tong, Ming Xu, Masayuki Hoshino, Daichi Imamura
  • Publication number: 20140355408
    Abstract: A Method of scrambling reference signals, device and user equipment using the method are provided. In the method, a plurality of layers of reference signals assigned on predetermined radio resource of a plurality of layers of resource blocks with the same time and frequency resources are scrambled, the method comprising: an orthogonalizing step of multiplying each layer of reference signal selectively by one of a plurality of orthogonal cover codes (OCCs) with the same length wherein the OCC multiplied to a first layer of reference signal can be configured as different from those multiplied to other layers of reference signals; and a scrambling step of multiplying all of symbols obtained from the OCC multiplied to each of the other layers of reference signals by a symbol-common scrambling sequence wherein the symbol-common scrambling sequences can be different from each other for reference signals multiplied by the same OCC.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2012
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Hui Tong, Masayuki Hoshino, Ming Xu, Daichi Imamura
  • Publication number: 20140334328
    Abstract: A method and a system of setting up a reference signal in a radio communication system are disclosed. The radio communication system includes a serving cell and a neighboring cell, and a mobile terminal of the serving cell uses the same temporal frequency resource to receive a serving resource block from the serving cell and an interference resource block from the neighboring cell. The method includes setting up a user-specific reference signal in the interference resource block and puncturing at the same temporal frequency position as the temporal frequency position at which the user-specific reference signal is set up on the interference resource block of the serving resource block to prevent any signal from being transmitted at the punctured temporal frequency position. When the method and the system are used and the interference power between cells is measured, it is possible to effectively reduce feedback overhead in a coordinated beamforming.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Inventors: Hui TONG, Ming XU, Masayuki HOSHINO, Daichi IMAMURA
  • Publication number: 20140307823
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of generating codebook in a wireless communication system with multiple antenna arrays, as well as a wireless communication system, base station and terminal using the codebook for communication. The method comprises steps of: providing a basic codebook which contains multiple pre-coding matrices; and assigning phase offsets to certain pre-coding matrices in the basic codebook to form a codebook with phase offset. The feedback overhead from a client to a base station side is reduced and a good precision of feedback for multi-antenna array is kept by applying the method of generating codebook and using the generated codebook in the wireless communication system, base station and terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Inventors: Hui TONG, Masayuki HOSHINO, Ming XU, Seigo NAKAO, Daichi IMAMURA
  • Patent number: 8825095
    Abstract: A method and a system of setting up a reference signal in a radio communication system. The radio communication system includes a serving cell and a neighboring cell, and a mobile terminal of the serving cell uses the same temporal frequency resource so as to receive a serving resource block from the serving cell and receive an interference resource block from the neighboring cell. The method according to the present disclosure includes a step of setting up a user-specific reference signal in the interference resource block and a step in which puncturing is performed at same temporal frequency position as the temporal frequency position at which the user-specific reference signal is set up on the interference resource block of the serving resource block so as to prevent any signal from being transmitted at the punctured temporal frequency position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Hui Tong, Ming Xu, Masayuki Hoshino, Daichi Imamura
  • Patent number: 8797993
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of superimposing data signals and reference signals in a space division multiple access communication system, a base station of the communication system transmitting the first layer resource block and another layer resource block to a terminal using the same time/frequency resources, reference signals in the first layer resource block and reference signals in the other layer resource block being orthogonal to each other, the method including superimposing data signals transmitted in the first layer resource block at positions of reference signals in the first layer resource block, making a spreading sequence of the superimposed data signals orthogonal to a spreading sequence of the reference signals in the first layer resource block. The present invention can effectively use resources consumed under a multiuser MIMO system and drastically improve the system performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Hui Tong, Ming Xu, Masayuki Hoshino, Seigo Nakao, Daichi Imamura
  • Patent number: 8798195
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of generating codebook in a wireless communication system with multiple antenna arrays, as well as a wireless communication system, base station and terminal using the codebook for communication. The method comprises steps of: providing a basic codebook which contains multiple pre-coding matrices; and assigning phase offsets to certain pre-coding matrices in the basic codebook to form a codebook with phase offset. The feedback overhead from a client to a base station side is reduced and a good precision of feedback for multi-antenna array is kept by applying the method of generating codebook and using the generated codebook in the wireless communication system, base station and terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Hui Tong, Masayuki Hoshino, Ming Xu, Seigo Nakao, Daichi Imamura