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: 20220345920
    Abstract: A method by a user equipment (UE) is described. The method includes transmitting, to a base station, a capability to indicate multiple combinations (X, Y) for PDCCH monitoring, each combination (X, Y) is associated with a respective maximum number of monitored PDCCH candidates, determining spans in which PDCCH is monitored, and each span is a number of consecutive OFDM symbols up to Y, determining, from the multiple combinations (X, Y), one or more combinations (X, Y) in which the value of X is equal to or less than the minimum value of the gap separation of every two consecutive spans, determining, from the one or more combinations (X, Y), a combination (X, Y) with a larger maximum number of monitored PDCCH candidates for PDCCH monitoring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Liqing LIU, Shohei YAMADA, Hiroki TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20220345921
    Abstract: A method by a user equipment (UE) is described. The method includes monitoring one or more of DCI formats, and determining whether a DCI size alignment procedure is complete based on a first condition and determine whether a DCI size alignment procedure is complete based on a second condition. In a first case that the UE does not indicate a first capability, the first condition is used. In a second case that UE indicates a first capability, the second condition is used The first condition is that, the total number of different DCI sizes configured to monitor is no more than 4 for the cell and the total number of different DCI sizes with C-RNTI configured to monitor is no more than 3 for the cell. The second condition is that, the total number of different DCI sizes configured to monitor is no more than 5 for the cell and the total number of different DCI sizes with C-RNTI configured to monitor is no more than 4 for the cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Liqing LIU, Shohei YAMADA, Hiroki TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 11483826
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes: a monitor unit configured to monitor a first PDCCH candidate with aggregation level 8 and a second PDCCH candidate with aggregation level 16 in a CORESET mapped to one OFDM symbol; and a receiver configured to receive a PDSCH, by assuming that a symbol of the PDSCH is mapped to a resource element that is not overlapping the second PDCCH candidate, based on a PDCCH detected in the first PDCCH candidate, the PDCCH scheduling the PDSCH, wherein a CCE that constitutes the first PDCCH candidate and has a lowest index is identical to a CCE that constitutes the second PDCCH candidate and has a lowest index, and a plurality of the CCEs constituting the CORESET each include six contiguous REGs in a frequency domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Shoichi Suzuki, Tomoki Yoshimura, Taewoo Lee, Wataru Ouchi, Liqing Liu
  • Publication number: 20220322256
    Abstract: A method by a user equipment (UE) is described. The method includes receiving, from a base station, system information including physical random access channel (PRACH) configuration information, wherein the PRACH configuration information includes a list of preamble index ranges and one or more first reference signal received power (RSRP) thresholds, wherein each preamble index range is associated with a synchronization signal block (SSB); selecting, based on a quantity of antenna branch equipped for the UE, one first RSRP threshold from the one or more first RSRP thresholds; selecting, based on one or more synchronization signal (SS)-RSRP values of a set of SSBs and the selected first RSRP threshold, an SSB from the set of SSBs; selecting a preamble index from the first preamble index range associated with the selected SSB; selecting, for the UE, a non-coverage enhancement (CE) mode or a CE mode, at least based on the selected first RSRP threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Meng CHENG, SHOHEI YAMADA, LIQING LIU, HIROKI TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 11456842
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus receives a message including configuration information of a set of downlink bandwidth parts (BWPs) for a primary cell; and deactivates a downlink MVP of the downlink BWPs, the downlink BWP being activated in the primary cell and activates any one of the downlink BWPs in the set of the downlink BWPs for the primary cell, wherein the deactivation and the activation are based on information, included in the message, for indicating the downlink BWP to be activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Shoichi Suzuki, Wataru Ouchi, Tomoki Yoshimura, Liqing Liu, Taewoo Lee
  • Patent number: 11457380
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus including a coding unit configured to code a payload of uplink control information (UCI) and to perform rate matching of coded bits of the payload and a transmitter configured to transmit the UCI, wherein the payload includes part or all of hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) information, a scheduling request, and channel state information (CSI), a length EUCI of an output sequence of the rate matching is given based on a first number OCRC of cyclic redundancy check (CRC) bits, the first number OCRC of CRC bits is given based on a size of the payload, and a size of second CRC bits added to the payload is given based on the size of the payload and the length EUCI of the output sequence of the rate matching.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Taewoo Lee, Shoichi Suzuki, Wataru Ouchi, Tomoki Yoshimura, Liqing Liu
  • Patent number: 11445530
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes a coding unit configured to map coded bits for an uplink shared channel (UL-SCH) and a first sequence to a set of elements, and a transmitter configured to transmit a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), wherein each of the elements is identified by a subcarrier index of the PUSCH and an OFDM symbol index of the PUSCH, and whether the first sequence is mapped without using a prescribed set of elements is given based on at least the number of hybrid automatic repeat request HARQ-ACK bits mapped to the PUSCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Tomoki Yoshimura, Shoichi Suzuki, Wataru Ouchi, Liqing Liu, Taewoo Lee
  • Patent number: 11445533
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive a PDCCH including a DCI format, and a transmitter configured to transmit a PUCCH. In a case that the DCI format schedules a PDSCH and that a last OFDM symbol of the PDSCH is mapped in a first slot, the PUCCH is transmitted in a second slot, the number of slots from the first slot to the second slot is given based on a PDSCH-to-HARQ-timing-indicator field, and a length of each of the slots is given based on a subcarrier spacing configuration of the PUCCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Tomoki Yoshimura, Shouichi Suzuki, Wataru Ohuchi, Liqing Liu, Taewoo Lee
  • Publication number: 20220279551
    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, monitoring a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) with a first DCI format, receiving a transport block (TB) in a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) scheduled by the PDCCH with the first DCI format, wherein the first RRC parameter contains one or more MCS entries, each entry provides a modulation order and a target code rate, determining a modulation order and a target code rate used for the TB in the PDSCH at least based on a modulation code scheme (MCS) field and one, a part, or all of a plurality of specified DCI fields other than the MCS field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventors: Liqing LIU, Shohei YAMADA, Masayuki HOSHINO, Hiroki TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20220264341
    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 to define how and where to search for PDCCH candidates for a DCI format, the first RRC parameter further includes a second RRC parameter and a third RRC parameter, the second RRC parameter indicates a first pair of DCI formats to be monitored in a UE-specific search space (USS) set, the third RRC parameter indicates a second pair of DCI formats to be monitored in a USS set, wherein the first pair of DCI formats can be configured to be monitored in a common search space (CSS) set as well, the second pair of DCI formats can not be configured to be monitored in a CSS set, and a pair of DCI formats includes a DCI format for downlink transmission and a DCI format for uplink transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Liqing LIU, Shohei YAMADA, Masayuki HOSHINO, Hiroki TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20220264555
    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 with a first information element structure to define how and where to search for PDCCH candidates of a search space set, receiving a second RRC parameter with a second information element structure to define how and where to search for PDCCH candidates of a search space set, and a search space set corresponds to two types of search space set, wherein the first information element structure is capable of indicating of which one of the two types the search space set is, the second information element structure is only capable of indicating one fixed type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Liqing LIU, Shohei YAMADA, Masayuki HOSHINO, Hiroki TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 11405140
    Abstract: To enable efficient uplink transmission. A terminal apparatus includes: a coder configured to code a UCI payload and perform rate matching of coded bits of the UCI payload; and a transmitter configured to transmit the UCI payload by using a PUSCH, the UCI payload includes at least HARQ-ACK information and/or CSI, a length of an output sequence EUCI of the rate matching is provided based on a first number of CRC bits LUCI, the first number of CRC bits LUCI is provided based on a size of the payload, and a size of second CRC bits added to the payload is provided based on the size of the payload and the length of the output sequence EUCI of the rate matching.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Taewoo Lee, Shouichi Suzuki, Wataru Ohuchi, Tomoki Yoshimura, Liqing Liu, Huifa Lin
  • Patent number: 11399402
    Abstract: The present invention includes: a receiver configured to receive a DCI format used for scheduling a PDSCH, and a higher layer parameter including a parameter subframeAssignment-r15; and a transmitter configured to transmit a HARQ-ACK corresponding to the PDSCH, wherein in a case that a duplex mode of a primary cell is an FDD, whether the number of bits in a HARQ process number field in the DCI format is three bits or four bits is determined, based on whether or not an EN-DC is configured, whether or not the higher layer parameter including the parameter subframeAssignment-r15 is configured, and whether or not the DCI format is mapped to a USS given by a C-RNTI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Wataru Ouchi, Shoichi Suzuki, Tomoki Yoshimura, Liqing Liu, Taewoo Lee
  • Patent number: 11387948
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus is configured to: receive a transport block in a primary cell in a subframe i; in a case that HARQ-ACK and a positive scheduling request are transmitted, select a third transmission method in a case that a subframe j in a secondary cell does not correspond to any of first prescribed subframes, and select a fourth transmission method in a case that the subframe j corresponds to any of the first prescribed subframes; and transmit the HARQ-ACK in a PUCCH resource for a scheduling request, wherein the subframe j is given based on at least (I) whether or not a first parameter for the primary cell is configured, (II) whether or not a first parameter for the secondary cell is configured, and (III) a search space in which a PDCCH for scheduling the transport block is transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Liqing Liu, Shoichi Suzuki, Wataru Ouchi, Tomoki Yoshimura, Taewoo Lee
  • Patent number: 11381351
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive RRC information indicating the maximum number of CBGs X for one transport block in each serving cell; and a generation unit configured to generate X HARQ-ACK bits corresponding to the one transport block, in which the transport block includes NCB code blocks (CBs), in a case that the number of CBs NCB is less than the maximum number of CBGs X, the number of CBGs for the transport block is NCB, and the generation unit generates NCB HARQ-ACK bits for the NCB CBGs and X-NCB NACKs as the X HARQ-ACK bits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Liqing Liu, Shoichi Suzuki, Wataru Ouchi, Tomoki Yoshimura
  • Patent number: 11375487
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes a medium access control layer processing unit configured to manage a HARQ process, and a physical layer processing unit configured to perform processing associated with a PUSCH transmission on a physical layer. A first HARQ process configured for the terminal apparatus determines whether or not to indicate to the physical layer processing unit to generate a transmission of the first HARQ process, based at least on whether or not the transmission of the first HARQ process and a transmission of a second HARQ process occur in the same transmission time. The transmission of the second HARQ process is scheduled so as to use short processing time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Liqing Liu, Tomoki Yoshimura, Wataru Ouchi, Shoichi Suzuki, Shohei Yamada
  • Patent number: 11375546
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus performs a random access procedure; and receives a physical channel, in which the random access procedure includes a 2 step contention based random access procedure, a 4 step contention based random access procedure, and a non-contention based random access procedure, and the physical channel indicates an initiation of any of the 4 step contention based random access procedure and the non-contention based random access procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Shoichi Suzuki, Wataru Ouchi, Tomoki Yoshimura, Liqing Liu
  • Publication number: 20220201725
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus receives a higher layer parameter and a PDSCH, and generates a HARQ-ACK codebook and transmits the generated HARQ-ACK codebook on a PUCCH. In a case that a first parameter is configured, a first HARQ-ACK codebook and a second HARQ-ACK codebook are generated, the first HARQ-ACK codebook is used to transmit a HARQ-ACK bit corresponding to a PDSCH A, and the second HARQ-ACK codebook is used to transmit a HARQ-ACK bit corresponding to a PDSCH B. In a case that the first parameter is not configured, the first HARQ-ACK codebook is generated, and the first HARQ-ACK codebook is used to transmit the HARQ-ACK bit corresponding to the PDSCH B.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Liqing LIU, Shohei YAMADA, Masayuki HOSHINO, Hiroki TAKAHASHI, Hidekazu TSUBOI
  • Patent number: 11368973
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes: a receiver configured to receive a PDCCH including a DCI format used for scheduling of a PDSCH, and the PDSCH; and a transmitter configured to transmit a HARQ-ACK on a PUCCH, wherein an index of a downlink reference signal quasi co-located (QCLed) with an antenna port of a downlink reference signal associated with the PDSCH is given based on a control resource set in which the PDCCH is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Tomoki Yoshimura, Shoichi Suzuki, Wataru Ouchi, Liqing Liu, Taewoo Lee
  • Patent number: 11368947
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive a first Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) including a first downlink Bandwidth part Index Field (BIF) based on a PDCCH candidate of a first search space in a first serving cell and receive a second PDCCH including a second downlink BIF based on a PDCCH candidate in a second search space in the first serving cell, and a higher layer processing unit configured to activate any downlink bandwidth part (BWP) of a first set of downlink BWPs in the first serving cell based on information indicated by the first downlink BIF and activate a downlink BWP of a second set of downlink BWPs in a second serving cell based on information indicated by the second downlink BIF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Taewoo Lee, Shoichi Suzuki, Wataru Ouchi, Liqing Liu, Tomoki Yoshimura