Patents by Inventor Kee-Bong Song

Kee-Bong Song 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: 11960952
    Abstract: A system and method for configuring an RF network based on machine learning. In some embodiments, the method includes: receiving, by a first neural network, a first state and a first state transition, the first state including: one or more identifiers for available active ports, and a set of available connections between two or more circuit elements, each of the circuit elements being one of: (1) a first circuit type, (2) a second circuit type that operatively connects a circuit element of the first circuit type to one of the available active ports, and (3) the available active ports; and generating, by the first neural network, a first estimated quality value, for the first state transition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shailesh Chaudhari, Hyukjoon Kwon, Kee-Bong Song, Dongwoon Bai
  • Patent number: 11882527
    Abstract: A method and a closed-loop antenna impedance tuning (CL-AIT) system are provided. An input reflection coefficient is determined. The input reflection coefficient and a threshold value are compared to determine whether the input reflection coefficient is greater than the threshold value. In response to determining that the input reflection coefficient is greater than the threshold value, an optimal tuner code is determined based on a tuner code search algorithm. The optimal tuner code is applied to configure the CL-AIT system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Inventors: Donghoon Lee, Pranav Dayal, Kee-Bong Song
  • Patent number: 11870512
    Abstract: A closed-loop power control (CLPC) system is disclosed that includes a first signal path for a first polarization and a second signal path for a second polarization. The first signal path includes a first power amplifier, a first output power detector configured to detect a first output power level of the first power amplifier, and a first processor configured to determine a first analog gain for a first controller and a first gain for a first digital-to-analog converter based on a first accumulated error between the first output power level and a target Effective Isotropically Radiated Power. A second processor is configured to set a first variable gain of a first variable gain amplifier coupled to an input of the first power amplifier. The CLPC can be configured to control the gain of the first signal path separately or as one signal path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Inventors: Yanru Tang, Pranav Dayal, Hou-Shin Chen, Pritesh Vora, Tienyu Chang, Siuchuang Ivan Lu, Kee-Bong Song
  • Publication number: 20230360425
    Abstract: A method and device are disclosed for estimating an interaction with the device. The method includes configuring a first token and a second token of an estimation model according to first features of a 3D object, applying a first weight to the first token to produce a first-weighted input token and applying a second weight that is different from the first weight to the second token to produce a second-weighted input token, and generating, by a first encoder layer of an estimation-model encoder of the estimation model, an output token based on the first-weighted input token and the second-weighted input token. The method may include receiving, at a 2D feature extraction model, the first features from a backbone, extracting, by the 2D feature extraction model, second features including 2D features, and receiving, at the estimation-model encoder, data generated based on the 2D features.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Dongfang Zhao, Yangwen Liang, Shuangquan Wang, Kee-Bong Song
  • Patent number: 11812391
    Abstract: A method of controlling power in a transmission system may include determining a first transmit power of a first transmit path, determining a second transmit power of a second transmit path, and controlling the first transmit path and the second transmit path based on a combination of the first transmit power and the second transmit power. The combination of the first transmit power and the second transmit power may include a sum of the first transmit power and the second transmit power. Controlling the first transmit path and the second transmit path may include determining a first effective power target for the first transmit path based on the first transmit power and the second transmit power, and determining a second effective power target for the second transmit path based on the first transmit power and the second transmit power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Inventors: Pranav Dayal, Kee-Bong Song, Hou-Shin Chen, Sung-En Chiu, Karthik Nagarajan
  • Publication number: 20230353195
    Abstract: A closed-loop power control (CLPC) system is disclosed that includes a first signal path for a first polarization and a second signal path for a second polarization. The first signal path includes a first power amplifier, a first output power detector configured to detect a first output power level of the first power amplifier, and a first processor configured to determine a first analog gain for a first controller and a first gain for a first digital-to-analog converter based on a first accumulated error between the first output power level and a target Effective Isotropically Radiated Power. A second processor is configured to set a first variable gain of a first variable gain amplifier coupled to an input of the first power amplifier. The CLPC can be configured to control the gain of the first signal path separately or as one signal path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Yanru TANG, Pranav DAYAL, Hou-Shin CHEN, Pritesh VORA, Tienyu CHANG, Siuchuang Ivan LU, Kee-Bong SONG
  • Patent number: 11804890
    Abstract: A wireless communication device includes: a processing circuit configured to: receive, from an antenna array during a previous period, a first directional electromagnetic signal including beam sweeping reference symbols of a previous beam sweeping period; compute an estimated combined channel; estimate a dominant angle-of-arrival (AoA) of the first directional electromagnetic signal based on the estimated combined channel and a previous beamforming codebook including two or more beamforming vectors corresponding to different AoAs; construct an updated beamforming codebook based on the estimated dominant AoA and one or more remaining AoAs spaced apart from the estimated dominant AoA; receive, at the antenna array during a current period, a second directional electromagnetic signal including data symbols; determine a beamforming vector for data reception of the second directional electromagnetic signal based on the updated beamforming codebook; and detect the data symbols in the second directional electromagnet
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yanru Tang, Hongbing Cheng, Kee-Bong Song
  • Patent number: 11799213
    Abstract: A first antenna array includes antenna panels including: first antenna panels arranged on a first circle having a first radius, each of the first antenna panels including antenna elements; and second antenna panels arranged on a second circle having a second radius, each of the second antenna panels including antenna elements, the second circle being concentric with the first circle at a center point, the second antenna panels being arranged at a first angle around the center point with respect to the first antenna panels, the first radius, the second radius, and the first angle being computed in accordance with wireless transmission conditions including: a line-of-sight distance to a second antenna array including third antenna panels arranged on two or more circles; and a carrier frequency of a line-of-sight wireless transmission between the first antenna array and the second antenna array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jang Wook Moon, Hongbing Cheng, Kee-Bong Song
  • Publication number: 20230327939
    Abstract: A method of compensating for IQ mismatch (IQMM) in a transceiver may include sending first and second signals from a transmit path through a loopback path, using a phase shifter to introduce a phase shift in at least one of the first and second signals, to obtain first and second signals received by a receive path, using the first and second signals received by the receive path to obtain joint estimates of transmit and receive IQMM, at least in part, by estimating the phase shift, and compensating for IQMM using the estimates of IQMM. Using the first and second signals received by the receive path to obtain estimates of the IQMM may include processing the first and second signals received by the receive path as a function of one or more frequency-dependent IQMM parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Elina NAYEBI, Pranav DAYAL, Kee-Bong SONG, Siu-Chuang Ivan LU, Sang Won SON
  • Publication number: 20230297803
    Abstract: A system and method for configuring an RF network based on machine learning. In some embodiments, the method includes: receiving, by a first neural network, a first state and a first state transition, the first state including: one or more identifiers for available active ports, and a set of available connections between two or more circuit elements, each of the circuit elements being one of: (1) a first circuit type, (2) a second circuit type that operatively connects a circuit element of the first circuit type to one of the available active ports, and (3) the available active ports; and generating, by the first neural network, a first estimated quality value, for the first state transition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2022
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Shailesh CHAUDHARI, Hyukjoon KWON, Kee-Bong SONG, Dongwoon BAI
  • Publication number: 20230275693
    Abstract: Provided is a method of decoding, the method including receiving, by a user equipment (UE), a downlink control information (DCI) that is encoded, identifying, by the UE, a first bit position of the DCI as a known bit, and reducing a number of candidate code words for the DCI based on the known bit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Jung Hyun Bae, Daeson Kim, Jinhong Wu, Mohamad Monzer Mansour, Dongwoon Bai, Kee-Bong Song
  • Patent number: 11695614
    Abstract: A method of compensating for IQ mismatch (IQMM) in a transceiver may include sending first and second signals from a transmit path through a loopback path, using a phase shifter to introduce a phase shift in at least one of the first and second signals, to obtain first and second signals received by a receive path, using the first and second signals received by the receive path to obtain joint estimates of transmit and receive IQMM, at least in part, by estimating the phase shift, and compensating for IQMM using the estimates of IQMM. Using the first and second signals received by the receive path to obtain estimates of the IQMM may include processing the first and second signals received by the receive path as a function of one or more frequency-dependent IQMM parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Inventors: Elina Nayebi, Pranav Dayal, Kee-Bong Song, Siu-Chuang Ivan Lu, Sang Won Son
  • Patent number: 11652669
    Abstract: A method for minimizing a time domain mean square error (MSE) of channel estimation (CE) includes estimating, by a processor, a power delay profile (PDP) from a time domain observation of reference signal (RS) channels; estimating, by the processor, a noise variance of the RS channels; and determining, by the processor, a first arrival path (FAP) value and a delay spread estimation (DSE) value based on the estimated PDP and the estimated noise variance for minimizing the MSE of CE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bofeng Yuan, Hongbing Cheng, Kee-Bong Song
  • Patent number: 11646931
    Abstract: A method of pre-compensating for transmitter in-phase (I) and quadrature (Q) mismatch (IQMM) may include sending a signal through an up-converter of a transmit path to provide an up-converted signal, determining the up-converted signal, determining one or more IQMM parameters for the transmit path based on the determined up-converted signal, and determining one or more pre-compensation parameters for the transmit path based on the one or more IQMM parameters for the transmit path. In some embodiments, the up-converted signal may be determined through a receive feedback path. In some embodiments, the up-converted signal may be determined through an envelope detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Elina Nayebi, Pranav Dayal, Kee-Bong Song
  • Patent number: 11625610
    Abstract: A method and system for training a neural network are herein provided. According to one embodiment, a method includes generating a first labelled dataset corresponding to a first modulation scheme and a second labelled dataset corresponding to a second modulation scheme, determining a first gradient of a cost function between a first neural network layer and a second neural network layer based on back-propagation using the first labelled dataset and the second labelled dataset, and determining a second gradient of the cost function between the second neural network layer and a first set of nodes of a third neural network layer based on back-propagation using the first labelled dataset. The first set of nodes of the third neural network layer correspond to a first plurality of detector classes associated with the first modulation scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Inventors: Hyukjoon Kwon, Shailesh Chaudhari, Kee-Bong Song
  • Publication number: 20230104127
    Abstract: A system and a method are disclosed for receiving an input image, using a domain invariant machine learning model to compute an output based on the input image, wherein the domain invariant machine learning model is trained using domain invariant regularization, and displaying information based on the output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: Behnam BABAGHOLAMI MOHAMADABADI, Mostafa EL-KHAMY, Kee-Bong SONG
  • Patent number: 11616563
    Abstract: A wireless communication device includes: a processing circuit configured to: receive, from an antenna array during a previous period, a first directional electromagnetic signal including beam sweeping reference symbols of a previous beam sweeping period; compute an estimated combined channel; estimate a dominant angle-of-arrival (AoA) of the first directional electromagnetic signal based on the estimated combined channel and a previous beamforming codebook including two or more beamforming vectors corresponding to different AoAs; construct an updated beamforming codebook based on the estimated dominant AoA and one or more remaining AoAs spaced apart from the estimated dominant AoA; receive, at the antenna array during a current period, a second directional electromagnetic signal including data symbols; determine a beamforming vector for data reception of the second directional electromagnetic signal based on the updated beamforming codebook; and detect the data symbols in the second directional electromagnet
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yanru Tang, Hongbing Cheng, Kee-Bong Song
  • Publication number: 20230082170
    Abstract: A method of controlling power in a transmission system may include determining a first transmit power of a first transmit path, determining a second transmit power of a second transmit path, and controlling the first transmit path and the second transmit path based on a combination of the first transmit power and the second transmit power. The combination of the first transmit power and the second transmit power may include a sum of the first transmit power and the second transmit power. Controlling the first transmit path and the second transmit path may include determining a first effective power target for the first transmit path based on the first transmit power and the second transmit power, and determining a second effective power target for the second transmit path based on the first transmit power and the second transmit power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Pranav DAYAL, Kee-Bong SONG, Hou-Shin CHEN, Sung-En CHIU, Karthik NAGARAJAN
  • Publication number: 20230077972
    Abstract: A system and method are provided in which an input including a measurement output of digital channel information is received. The digital channel information includes an estimated digital channel, a beamforming codebook, and quantized angle of arrival (AoA) values. A basis corresponding to one of the quantized AoA values is selected according to a largest projection power of the measurement output. A partial channel is recovered based on the beamforming codebook and the estimated digital channel. An analog channel is recovered based on the partial channel and the basis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Yanru TANG, Hongbing CHENG, Kee-Bong SONG
  • Patent number: 11595239
    Abstract: An in-phase and quadrature mismatch compensator for a quadrature transmitter includes a delay element, a complex-valued filter and an adder. The delay element receives an input transmit signal and outputs a delayed transmit signal. The complex-valued filter receives the input transmit signal and outputs a selected part of a filtered output transmit signal. The adder adds the delayed transmit signal and the selected part of the filtered output transmit signal and outputs a pre-compensated transmit signal. In one embodiment, the selected part of the filtered output transmit signal includes the real part of the complex-valued output transmit signal. In another embodiment, the selected part of the filtered output transmit signal includes the imaginary part of the complex-valued output transmit signal. Two transmit real-valued compensators are also disclosed that combine the in-phase and quadrature signals before being filtered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Inventors: Elina Nayebi, Pranav Dayal, Kee-Bong Song