Patents by Inventor Jin Niu

Jin Niu 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: 11960919
    Abstract: An example method of virtualizing a hardware accelerator in a host cluster of a virtualized computing system includes: commanding, at an initiator host in the host cluster, a programmable expansion bus device to reconfigure as a virtual accelerator based on specifications of a hardware accelerator in a target host of the host cluster; executing, in the programmable expansion bus device, software to emulate the virtual accelerator as connected to an expansion bus of the initiator host; receiving, at the programmable expansion bus device, compute tasks from an application executing in the initiator host; and sending, to the target host, the compute tasks for processing by the hardware accelerator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: VMware LLC
    Inventors: Bing Niu, Jin He, Qi Liu, Sheng Fang, Xiangdong Che, Xiangjun Song
  • Patent number: 10270623
    Abstract: The invention relates to the field of channel coding and modulation technique, more specifically, to a single-carrier channel estimation method, comprising: equalizing a carrier of an input current-frame signal and of a channel of the current-frame signal, to obtain a sequence code of the current-frame signal, decision value of transmission sequence of the current-frame signal and estimated value of signal-to-noise ratio of the current-frame signal; calculating the current-frame signal, the sequence code and the estimated value of signal-to-noise ratio to obtain a initial channel estimation; calculating the current-frame signal, the decision value of transmission sequence and the estimated value of signal-to-noise ratio to obtain a reference channel; obtaining a filtered channel value after filtering the reference channel; and obtaining the estimated channel of the next-frame signal after implementing adaptive filtering on the estimated value of initial channel and filtered channel value, by reference to the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: AMLOGIC (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jinhong Zhang, Jin Niu, Xiaotong Liu, Chun Wang, Shixi Bu
  • Publication number: 20190116067
    Abstract: The invention relates to the field of channel coding and modulation technique, more specifically, to a single-carrier channel estimation method, comprising: equalizing a carrier of an input current-frame signal and of a channel of the current-frame signal, to obtain a sequence code of the current-frame signal, decision value of transmission sequence of the current-frame signal and estimated value of signal-to-noise ratio of the current-frame signal; calculating the current-frame signal, the sequence code and the estimated value of signal-to-noise ratio to obtain a initial channel estimation; calculating the current-frame signal, the decision value of transmission sequence and the estimated value of signal-to-noise ratio to obtain a reference channel; obtaining a filtered channel value after filtering the reference channel; and obtaining the estimated channel of the next-frame signal after implementing adaptive filtering on the estimated value of initial channel and filtered channel value, by reference to the
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventors: Jinhong ZHANG, Jin NIU, Xiaotong LIU, Chun WANG, Shixi BU
  • Patent number: 10153923
    Abstract: The invention relates to the field of the equalizer, more specifically, to a single carrier equalizer and a receiver system comprises the single carrier equalizer. It is used to gradually improve the performance of the frequency domain equalizer by the way of iterations. The present invention uses an iterative updater to conduct a first iteration based on the frequency domain value of the input signal and the frequency domain value of the channel of the input signal, and transmits the iteration result to the inverse fast Fourier transformer. And the signal decision device is used to judge the value of the output of the inverse fast Fourier transformer, and the output signal of the signal decision device is transmitted to the fast Fourier transformer and the iterative updater respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Inventors: Jin Niu, Xiaotong Liu, Jinhong Zhang, Chun Wang
  • Patent number: 10103909
    Abstract: The invention relates to the field of terrestrial broadcast transmission, more specifically, to a channel estimation method. A channel estimation method used for estimating a channel of a next carrier signal frame, the channel estimation method comprising: equalizing a carrier of the current signal frame and of the channel of the current signal frame, to obtain a transmission sequence of the current signal frame and a signal-to-noise ratio of the current signal frame, calculating the transmission sequence to get the reference channel, generating an initial channel estimation based on the signal-to-noise ratio of the signal frame, processing the estimated initial channel and the reference channel by an adaptive filtering method, to obtain an estimated channel of next signal frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: AMLOGIC (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jinhong Zhang, Jin Niu, Xiaotong Liu, Chun Wang
  • Publication number: 20180191529
    Abstract: The invention relates to the field of equalizer technology, more specifically, to a signal decision device and a signal decision method. By calculating an error for the hard decision signal, and then implementing a condition decision via the threshold condition, the invention decides to output the equalization time domain signal or the hard decision signal, and reduces the error of the output signal. The above technical solution improves the performance of the equalizer by implementing the iteratively update directly via soft bit information instead of the hard decision signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Inventors: Jin NIU, Xiaotong LIU, Jinhong ZHANG, Chun WANG
  • Publication number: 20180191531
    Abstract: The invention relates to the field of the equalizer, more specifically, to a single carrier equalizer and a receiver system comprises the single carrier equalizer. It is used to gradually improve the performance of the frequency domain equalizer by the way of iterations. The present invention uses an iterative updater to conduct a first iteration based on the frequency domain value of the input signal and the frequency domain value of the channel of the input signal, and transmits the iteration result to the inverse fast Fourier transformer. And the signal decision device is used to judge the value of the output of the inverse fast Fourier transformer, and the output signal of the signal decision device is transmitted to the fast Fourier transformer and the iterative updater respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Inventors: Jin NIU, Xiaotong LIU, Jinhong ZHANG, Chun WANG
  • Publication number: 20180191533
    Abstract: The invention relates to the field of terrestrial broadcast transmission, more specifically, to a channel estimation method. A channel estimation method used for estimating a channel of a next carrier signal frame, the channel estimation method comprising: equalizing a carrier of the current signal frame and of the channel of the current signal frame, to obtain a transmission sequence of the current signal frame and a signal-to-noise ratio of the current signal frame, calculating the transmission sequence to get the reference channel, generating an initial channel estimation based on the signal-to-noise ratio of the signal frame, processing the estimated initial channel and the reference channel by an adaptive filtering method, to obtain an estimated channel of next signal frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Inventors: Jinhong Zhang, Jin Niu, Xiaotong Liu, Chun Wang
  • Patent number: 9331834
    Abstract: A method for detecting a channel bandwidth for a signal, comprises the steps of: determining a differential operator between carriers of the signal; determining a signal power for the signal; and detecting the channel bandwidth as a function of the determined differential operator and the determined signal power, wherein the signal is processed as a function of the detected channel bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: Amlogic Co., Limited
    Inventors: Jin Niu, Guogang Li
  • Patent number: 9049090
    Abstract: A method for determining timing synchronization for demodulating a signal by a receiver, comprises the steps of: generating a channel response for the signal; transforming the signal into the time domain using an inverse fast fourier transform (“IFFT”); determining a signal power for the transformed signal as a function of the generated channel response; and calculating the timing synchronization by the receiver as a function of the determined signal power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: Amlogic Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin Niu, Jinhong Zhang
  • Patent number: 9049480
    Abstract: A method for demapping a multicarrier signal into soft bits by a receiver, comprises the steps of: calculating signal to noise ratio (“SNR”) adjustment factors (“A[segidx]”) for segments of the signal, wherein each of the segments has a predefined number of subcarriers of the signal; generating an adjusted SNR (“SNR[segidx]”) as a function of an average SNR over the subcarriers of the signal and of the calculated SNR adjustment factors; and determining the soft bits for the signal as a function of the signal, a channel estimation for the signal, and the adjusted SNR, wherein the receiver decodes the determined soft bits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: Amlogic Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Guogang Li, Jin Niu, Jinhong Zhang
  • Publication number: 20150098344
    Abstract: A method for detecting a channel bandwidth for a signal, comprises the steps of: determining a differential operator between carriers of the signal; determining a signal power for the signal; and detecting the channel bandwidth as a function of the determined differential operator and the determined signal power, wherein the signal is processed as a function of the detected channel bandwidth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2013
    Publication date: April 9, 2015
    Applicant: Amlogic Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin Niu, Guogang Li
  • Publication number: 20150092891
    Abstract: A method for determining timing synchronization for demodulating a signal by a receiver, comprises the steps of: generating a channel response for the signal; transforming the signal into the time domain using an inverse fast fourier transform (“IFFT”); determining a signal power for the transformed signal as a function of the generated channel response; and calculating the timing synchronization by the receiver as a function of the determined signal power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Applicant: Amlogic Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin Niu, Jinhong Zhang
  • Publication number: 20150095966
    Abstract: A method for demapping a multicarrier signal into soft bits by a receiver, comprises the steps of: calculating signal to noise ratio (“SNR”) adjustment factors (“A[segidx]”) for segments of the signal, wherein each of the segments has a predefined number of subcarriers of the signal; generating an adjusted SNR (“SNR[segidx]”) as a function of an average SNR over the subcarriers of the signal and of the calculated SNR adjustment factors; and determining the soft bits for the signal as a function of the signal, a channel estimation for the signal, and the adjusted SNR, wherein the receiver decodes the determined soft bits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Applicant: Amlogic Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Guogang Li, Jin Niu, Jinhong Zhang
  • Publication number: 20150063506
    Abstract: A method for channel estimation of a signal, comprises the steps: estimating a channel response for pilot carriers of the signal; and estimating a channel response for non-pilot carriers of the signal as a function of the channel response for the pilot carriers of the signal and channel estimation coefficients for the pilot carriers, wherein a symbol of the signal is decoded as a function of the estimated channel response for the non-pilot carriers, and wherein certain ones of the channel estimation coefficients are updated as a function of the decoded symbol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: Amlogic Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin Niu, Cindy Wang
  • Patent number: 8971431
    Abstract: A method for channel estimation of a signal, comprises the steps: estimating a channel response for pilot carriers of the signal; and estimating a channel response for non-pilot carriers of the signal as a function of the channel response for the pilot carriers of the signal and channel estimation coefficients for the pilot carriers, wherein a symbol of the signal is decoded as a function of the estimated channel response for the non-pilot carriers, and wherein certain ones of the channel estimation coefficients are updated as a function of the decoded symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Amlogic Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin Niu, Cindy Wang
  • Publication number: 20150043686
    Abstract: A method for channel estimation of a signal by a receiver, comprises the steps of: receiving a symbol of the signal, wherein the signal has a cyclic prefix (“CP”); combining a portion of the CP and an end portion of the symbol; and processing the combined symbol for channel estimation by the receiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2013
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Applicant: Amlogic Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jinhong Zhang, Jin Niu
  • Patent number: 8891705
    Abstract: A method for processing a signal by a receiver, comprises the steps of: receiving the signal by the receiver, calculating one or more symbols based on the received signal; determining a multipath delay spread from the received signal; rebuilding one or more of the calculated symbols as a function of the multipath delay spread; and processing the rebuilt symbols for decoding by the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Amlogic Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jinhong Zhang, Jin Niu