Patents by Inventor Liqing Liu

Liqing Liu 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: 20230319834
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus that communicates with a base station apparatus includes: a reception unit configured to receive a configuration of an initial uplink (UL) bandwidth part (BWP) and a configuration of an additional UL BWP via a radio resource control (RRC) message and receive a random access response (RAR) message including an RAR UL grant; and a transmission unit configured to transmit a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) in an active UL BWP, wherein one of the initial UL BWP and the additional UL BWP is activated as the active UL BWP, the PUSCH is scheduled by using the RAR UL grant, a first field included in the RAR UL grant is used to indicate frequency resource allocation of the PUSCH, and whether the first field is to be truncated or whether a bit is to be inserted into the first field is determined based on a bandwidth of the initial UL BWP.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: LIQING LIU, SHOHEI YAMADA, HIROKI TAKAHASHI, MASAYUKI HOSHINO, HIDEKAZU TSUBOI
  • Patent number: 11778603
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus and a base station apparatus efficiently communicate. A terminal apparatus including a receiver configured to receive an RRC message including first configuration information and to receive DCI on a PDCCH, a determination unit configured to determine a time parameter for transmitting a PUSCH, based on a bit sequence indicated by a first field of the DCI, and a transmitter configured to transmit the PUSCH, based on the time parameter. A relationship between the bit sequence and the time parameter is defined by a first parameter group in a case that a first condition is satisfied and that the first configuration information includes the first parameter group and the relationship between the bit sequence and defined by a second parameter group in a case that a second condition is satisfied and that the first configuration information includes the second parameter group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroki Takahashi, Shohei Yamada, Masayuki Hoshino, Hidekazu Tsuboi, Liqing Liu
  • Patent number: 11770843
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus that communicates with a base station apparatus by using a cell including a first downlink carrier bandwidth part and a second downlink carrier bandwidth part includes a receiver configured to monitor a PDCCH in the first downlink carrier bandwidth part and a decoder configured to decode a PDSCH in the first downlink carrier bandwidth part based on a DCI format included in the PDCCH. The DCI format includes frequency domain resource assignment information of the PDSCH, and a size of the frequency resource assignment information is given at least based on the number of resource blocks included in the second downlink carrier bandwidth part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoki Yoshimura, Shoichi Suzuki, Wataru Ouchi, Liqing Liu, Taewoo Lee
  • Publication number: 20230292316
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE includes control circuitry configured to determine a maximum number of PDCCH candidates per multiple slots, and to allocate PDCCH candidates to be monitored per multiple slots based on the maximum number of PDCCH candidates; and receiving circuitry configured to monitor PDCCH candidates on a serving cell with the maximum number of PDCCH candidates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Meng CHENG, LIQING LIU, SHOHEI YAMADA, HIROKI TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 11729795
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes: a reception unit configured to receive an MIB that configures a first CORESET, receive an SIB1 that configures a second CORESET, receive first information that configures an initial UL BWP and second information that configures an additional UL BWP, and receive a first DCI format that schedules a PUSCH in a common search space; and a transmission unit configured to specify a set of allocated resource blocks based on a first field included in a first DCI format and transmit a PUSCH in an active UL BWP, the active UL BWP being either the initial UL BWP or the additional UL BWP, the first value indicated by a first field is provided based on the size of the initial UL BWP, a first start position that is a start position of a set of allocated resource blocks, and the number of first resource blocks continuously allocated, and the common search space is used for a random access procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Liqing Liu, Shohei Yamada, Hiroki Takahashi, Masayuki Hoshino, Hidekazu Tsuboi
  • Publication number: 20230254828
    Abstract: A method by a user equipment (UE) is described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: LIQING LIU, SHOHEI YAMADA, HIROKI TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 11706777
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus that communicates with a base station apparatus includes: a reception unit configured to receive a configuration of an initial uplink (UL) bandwidth part (BWP) and a configuration of an additional UL BWP via a radio resource control (RRC) message and receive a random access response (RAR) message including an RAR UL grant; and a transmission unit configured to transmit a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) in an active UL BWP, wherein one of the initial UL BWP and the additional UL BWP is activated as the active UL BWP, the PUSCH is scheduled by using the RAR UL grant, a first field included in the RAR UL grant is used to indicate frequency resource allocation of the PUSCH, and whether the first field is to be truncated or whether a bit is to be inserted into the first field is determined based on a bandwidth of the initial UL BWP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Liqing Liu, Shohei Yamada, Hiroki Takahashi, Masayuki Hoshino, Hidekazu Tsuboi
  • Publication number: 20230224865
    Abstract: A method by a user equipment (UE) is described. The method includes receiving, from a base station, a first radio resource control (RRC) parameter related to a first search space set, receiving a second RRC parameter related to a control resource set (CORESET) wherein the CORESET is associated with the first search space set, monitoring a set of PDCCH candidates for the first search space set, wherein each PDCCH candidate is repeated in a first total number of one or more PDCCH monitoring occasions starting from a first slot, the first slot is determined based on the first RRC parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventors: Liqing LIU, Shohei YAMADA, Hiroki TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20230180237
    Abstract: A communication method used by a base station apparatus includes: transmitting a PDCCH, a PDSCH, and a higher layer signaling to configure threshold values; and receiving HARQ-ACKs and an SR, the HARQ-ACKs including a HARQ-ACK. When a number of bits of the HARQ-ACK is equal to or less than two, a resource of the PUCCH is provided from PUCCH resources included in a first PUCCH resource set based on a first value provided based on a number of bits of the HARQ-ACKs received in the PUCCH, regardless of a number of resources of the SR that overlap with the PUCCH, and when the number of bits of the HARQ-ACK exceeds two, the resource of the PUCCH is provided from PUCCH resources included in a second PUCCH resource set based on threshold values, a sum of the number of bits of the HARQ-ACKs, and the number of resources of the SR.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: TOMOKI YOSHIMURA, SHOICHI SUZUKI, WATARU OUCHI, LIQING LIU, TAEWOO LEE
  • Publication number: 20230179386
    Abstract: A method by a user equipment (UE) is described. The method includes receiving, from a base station, first information related to a first search space set and second information related to a control resource set (CORESET), the CORESET is associated with the first search space set, determining, based on the first information, a first set of one or more PDCCH monitoring occasions for the first search space set in the CORESET, and monitoring a set of PDCCH candidates for the first search space set wherein each PDCCH candidate is repeated in the one or more PDCCH monitoring occasions in the first set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Liqing LIU, Shohei YAMADA, Hiroki TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20230156700
    Abstract: A method by a user equipment (UE) is described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: LIQING LIU, SHOHEI YAMADA, HIROKI TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20230137450
    Abstract: A method by a user equipment (UE) is described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Liqing Liu, Shohei Yamada, Hiroki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11638283
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes: a higher layer processing unit configured to configure, in the serving cell, the first set of downlink resource blocks (DL RBs) continuous in a frequency domain and the second set, which is different from the first set, of DL RBs continuous in the frequency domain; and a receiver configured to monitor a first PDCCH with a first DCI format in the first set, the first set being activated, and receive a PDSCH scheduled according to the first DCI format in the first set, wherein in a case that the number of different sizes of DCI formats monitored by using a C-RNTI in the serving cell exceeds three, a size of a first frequency domain resource allocation field included in the first DCI format is provided based on the number of the RBs in the second set, and the first frequency domain resource allocation field is used for scheduling the RBs in the first set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Tomoki Yoshimura, Shoichi Suzuki, Wataru Ouchi, Liqing Liu, Taewoo Lee, Hui-Fa Lin
  • Patent number: 11617191
    Abstract: Included are a receiver receiving a PDCCH and a PDSCH scheduled by the PDCCH, and a transmitter transmitting, on a PUCCH, one or multiple HARQ-ACKs including at least a HARQ-ACK corresponding to a TB included in the PDSCH and an SR. For the HARQ-ACK of two or less bits, a resource of the PUCCH is, from one or multiple PUCCH resources in a PUCCH resource set, based at least on a first value based at least on the number of bits of the one or multiple HARQ-ACKs transmitted in the PUCCH, regardless of the number of resources of the SR overlapping with the PUCCH. For the HARQ-ACK of more than two bits, the resource of the PUCCH is, from the one or multiple PUCCH resources in the PUCCH resource set, based at least on a sum of the number of bits of the one or multiple HARQ-ACKs and the SR.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Tomoki Yoshimura, Shoichi Suzuki, Wataru Ouchi, Liqing Liu, Taewoo Lee
  • Publication number: 20230070450
    Abstract: A method by a user equipment (UE) is described. The method includes receiving, from a base station, a MIB including first information related to a CORESET for a first search space set for the detected SS/PBCH block, monitoring a set of PDCCH candidates for the first search space set in the CORESET, wherein the CORESET comprises a first set of consecutive OFDM symbols and a second set of consecutive OFDM symbols, the CORESET is transmitted by a first time periodicity, the second set of consecutive OFDM symbols is transmitted after a first time offset from the first OFDM symbol for the first set of consecutive OFDM symbols. Further receiving second information indicating the first time offset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: LIQING LIU, SHOHEI YAMADA, HIROKI TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20230046368
    Abstract: A method by a user equipment (UE) is described. The method includes receiving, from a base station, a first radio resource control (RRC) parameter related to a first search space set, to receive a second RRC parameter related to a CORESET wherein the CORESET is associated with the first search space set, monitoring a set of PDCCH candidates for the first search space set in the CORESET, wherein the CORESET comprises one or more sets of consecutive OFDM symbols within a first time duration, the number of consecutive OFDM symbols for each set is determined based on the second RRC parameter, the first time duration is determined based on a RRC parameter included in the first parameter. The first RRC parameter include a third RRC parameter indicating a first symbol for each of the one or more than one sets of consecutive OFDM symbols within a slot, the first duration is determined as one slot, the CORESET comprises one or more sets of consecutive OFDM symbols within a slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: LIQING LIU, SHOHEI YAMADA, HIROKI TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20230023825
    Abstract: A method by a user equipment (UE) is described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: LIQING LIU, SHOHEI YAMADA, HIROKI TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20220408474
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes: a reception unit configured to receive an MIB that configures a first CORESET, receive an SIB1 that configures a second CORESET, receive first information that configures an initial UL BWP and second information that configures an additional UL BWP, and receive a first DCI format that schedules a PUSCH in a common search space; and a transmission unit configured to specify a set of allocated resource blocks based on a first field included in a first DCI format and transmit a PUSCH in an active UL BWP, the active UL BWP being either the initial UL BWP or the additional UL BWP, the first value indicated by a first field is provided based on the size of the initial UL BWP, a first start position that is a start position of a set of allocated resource blocks, and the number of first resource blocks continuously allocated, and the common search space is used for a random access procedure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: LIQING LIU, SHOHEI YAMADA, HIROKI TAKAHASHI, MASAYUKI HOSHINO, HIDEKAZU TSUBOI
  • Publication number: 20220369297
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus detects a first DCI format including first allocation information for identifying a time resource and the number of repetition transmissions that are used to transmit a PUSCH corresponding to a first TB, detects a second DCI format including second allocation information indicating reception of a downlink signal, identifies the time resource for transmitting the PUSCH, based on the first allocation information, and cancels transmission of a first PUSCH corresponding to any one of the repetition transmissions of the PUSCH in a case that the first allocation information indicates that the first PUSCH is to be transmitted in a first symbol set and that the second allocation information indicates that the downlink signal is to be received in a second symbol set and that at least one symbol in the first symbol set is a symbol included in the second symbol set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroki TAKAHASHI, Shohei YAMADA, Liqing LIU
  • Patent number: 11503602
    Abstract: Efficient downlink transmission is implemented. A terminal apparatus includes: a receiver configured to receive a sequence of bits in a physical downlink control channel, wherein the sequence of bits is scrambled with a scrambling sequence initialized by cinit, the cinit is given based at least on NID and NRNTI, the NID is given based at least on a higher layer parameter Control-scrambling-Identity in a case that the higher layer parameter Control-scrambling-Identity is configured and the NRNTI is given based at least on a Cell-Radio Network Temporary Identifier (C-RNTI), and the NID is given based at least on a physical layer cell identity in a case that the higher layer parameter Control-scrambling-Identity is configured and the NRNTI is not given based on the C-RNTI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Shouichi Suzuki, Tomoki Yoshimura, Wataru Ohuchi, Liqing Liu, Taewoo Lee