Patents by Inventor Ming Ding

Ming Ding 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: 9913090
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes how a master beacon having a known UUID can be used to capture beacons within its range and superimpose a systematic address scheme on those beacons. The superimposed address scheme can then be used as a proxy for the individual beacons when developing applications that make use of the beacons. A master beacon automatically detects each beacon in a plurality of beacons and, for a set of beacons in the plurality of beacons, automatically changes either the first profile identifier or the second profile identifier for each beacon in the set of beacons. The change is such that the first profile identifier or the second profile identifier is identical for each beacon in the set of beacons and is also associated with the master beacon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: AP1 Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron Lyon Phillips-Lubimiv, Jay Fallah, Ming Ding, Samson Grant Kirk-Koffi
  • Publication number: 20170336567
    Abstract: Embodiments of present invention provide a digital dispersion compensation module. The digital dispersion compensation module includes a multi-port optical circulator and a plurality of dispersion compensation units connected to the multi-port optical circulator, wherein at least one of the plurality of dispersion compensation units includes a first and a second reflectively terminated element and an optical switch being capable of selectively connecting to one of the first and second reflectively terminated elements, and wherein the at least one of the plurality of dispersion compensation units is adapted to provide a substantially zero dispersion to an optical signal, coming from the multi-port optical circulator, when the optical switch connects to the first reflectively terminated element and is adapted to provide a non-zero dispersion to the optical signal when the optical switch connects to the second reflectively terminated element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Inventors: Tongqing Wang, Dobby Lam, Jinghui Li, Ming Ding
  • Patent number: 9814023
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method carried out by a base station, including: a step (S320) of generating a code sequence containing system information of the base station; a step (S330) generating, by modulating the code sequence, a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) sequence including a distributed PRB frequency division multiplexing format or a centralized PRB frequency division multiplexing format; a step (S340) of selecting a physical resource block (PRB) for a PBCH contained in the PBCH sequence; and a step (S350) of carrying out mapping between the PBCH and a resource element (RE) in the PRB thus selected. The present invention also provides (i) a method carried out by a user equipment, (ii) a corresponding base station, and (iii) the corresponding user equipment. According to the present invention, it is possible to increase energy use efficiency of an LTE-Advanced system, improve spectral efficiency, and reduce inter-cell collision of time/frequency resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Feng Wang, Renmao Liu, Ming Ding
  • Publication number: 20170251373
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method performed by a base station for enabling communication on an unlicensed spectrum and the base station. The method comprises: transmitting, by the base station, an Unlicensed-Discovery Reference Signal (U-DRS) on an unlicensed carrier. The base station can configure a UE with unlicensed carriers for the UE to monitor the U-DRS. The method can further comprise: transmitting, by the base station, a reference signal for measuring Channel State Information (CSI) on the unlicensed carrier. The base station can configure a UE with unlicensed carriers for the UE to measure CSI and receive downlink data. The method can further comprise: transmitting, by the base station, downlink data to the UE on the unlicensed carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2015
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ming DING, Qi JIANG, Renmao LIU
  • Publication number: 20170238330
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method in a base station. The method comprises: transmitting to a User Equipment (UE) a measurement configuration set comprising one or more measurement configurations each for configuring measurement for one unlicensed carrier; receiving from the UE a measurement report set comprising one or more measurement reports each associated with one unlicensed carrier configured by at least one measurement configuration in the measurement configuration set; and allocating resources on one or more unlicensed carriers to the UE based on the measurement report set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2015
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Qi JIANG, Renmao LIU, Ming DING
  • Patent number: 9712214
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method in a UE for feeding back channel state information (CSI) and the UE. The method comprises: acquiring a set of CSI processes which are configured by a transmission point (TP) to participate in multi-antenna multi-TP coordination; acquiring a sub-band (SB) inheritance which is configured by a TP for a CSI process from the set of CSI processes; calculating the CSI based on the configuration for the CSI process; and feeding the calculated CSI back to a TP. The present disclosure has the advantages of simple implementation and low signalling overhead and is applicable to enhanced 4G systems and to 5G systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ming Ding, Renmao Liu
  • Patent number: 9560671
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and base station for transmitting scheduling information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ziyuan Guo, Renmao Liu, Ming Ding
  • Patent number: 9537554
    Abstract: A user equipment generates information based on a plurality of values of joint coding of a Rank Index RI and a first Precoding Matrix Index W1 and transmits the information on a physical uplink control channel. The payload size of the information is 5 bits. The first Precoding Matrix Index W1 and a second Precoding Matrix Index W2 correspond to a precoding matrix and 16 values in the plurality of values correspond to the Rank Index RI of 1 or 2 where a part of values in the plurality of values except the 16 values in the plurality of values correspond to the Rank Index RI of more than 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ming Ding, Renmao Liu, Zeng Yang, Yongming Liang, Yingyu Zhang
  • Publication number: 20160358862
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor device package and a manufacturing method thereof. The semiconductor device package includes a carrier, at least one electronic component, a first magnetic layer and a second magnetic layer. The carrier has a top surface on which the electronic component is disposed. The first magnetic layer is disposed on the top surface of the carrier and encapsulates the electronic component. The second magnetic layer is disposed on the first magnetic layer and covers a top surface and a lateral surface of the first magnetic layer. A permeability of the first magnetic layer is less than a permeability of the second magnetic layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Applicant: Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc.
    Inventors: Wei-Hsuan Lee, Chien-Yeh Liu, Sung-Mao Li, Jaw-Ming Ding
  • Patent number: 9491647
    Abstract: A Channel State Information (CSI) feedback method and a User Equipment (UE) are provided for better support of Joint Transmission (JT) and Beamforming/Coordinated Scheduling (CB/CS). For JT, phase information for an adjacent Base Station (BS) is fed back. For CB/CS, enhanced CSI for an adjacent BS is fed back. The UE according to the present invention includes: a coordinated BS set determining unit configured for determining a set of coordinated BSs participating in multi-BS coordination, the set of coordinated BSs containing a serving BS and at least one non-serving BS; and a CSI feedback unit configured for feeding back CSI for JT or CB/CS for each non-serving BS in the set of coordinated BSs. The present invention has the advantages of simple implementation and low overhead and is applicable in LTE-A and 4G systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ming Ding, Lei Huang, Zeng Yang, Yuan Luo
  • Patent number: 9444590
    Abstract: A mobile communication system where a base station and a user equipment communicates on multiple aggregated carriers is disclosed. In the mobile communication system, the base station notifies to the user equipment information which is relevant to inclusion of an information field indicating scheduling carrier in downlink control information format by using radio resource control signaling, and the user equipment receives, from the base station, downlink control information in the downlink control information format according to the information which is relevant to inclusion of the information field indicating scheduling carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Lei Huang, Renmao Liu, Yingyu Zhang, Ming Ding
  • Publication number: 20160173244
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method in a base station for Channel State Information (CSI) process configuration and an associated base station. The method comprises: setting CSI process information for a User Equipment (UE) supporting three dimensional (3D) Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO), the CSI process information including at least an index of a CSI Reference Signal Resource (CSI-RS-R) for a vertical direction of a 3D MIMO antenna array; and transmitting the set CSI process information to the UE. Also disclosed are a method in a UE for CSI feedback and an associated UE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Ming DING
  • Publication number: 20160128049
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes how a master beacon having a known UUID can be used to capture beacons within its range and superimpose a systematic address scheme on those beacons. The superimposed address scheme can then be used as a proxy for the individual beacons when developing applications that make use of the beacons. A master beacon automatically detects each beacon in a plurality of beacons and, for a set of beacons in the plurality of beacons, automatically changes either the first profile identifier or the second profile identifier for each beacon in the set of beacons. The change is such that the first profile identifier or the second profile identifier is identical for each beacon in the set of beacons and is also associated with the master beacon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventors: Aaron Lyon Phillips-Lubimiv, Jay Fallah, Ming Ding, Samson Grant Kirk-Koffi
  • Patent number: 9325390
    Abstract: The present invention provides a precoding method for use in a wireless communications system. According to the precoding method of the present invention, a serving base station and cooperative communication base stations employ an identical precoding matrix so as to weight transmission signals and then transmit them. The weighting stands for multiplication of results of overall precoding or each layer precoding process by weight values at the serving base station and the cooperative communication base stations. A user device corresponding to the serving base station and the cooperative communication base stations receives a signal which is obtained by an operation in which the serving base station and the cooperative communication base stations perform an identical precoding process and additively combine results of overall precoding or each layer precoding process with one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ming Ding, Renmao Liu, Yingyu Zhang, Lei Huang, Chen Chen, Guolin Sun
  • Patent number: 9319001
    Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure illustrates an amplifier circuit comprising an amplifier block and a biasing block. The amplifier block is used to receive an input signal and amplify the input signal to generate an output signal. The a biasing block coupled to the amplifier block is used to provide biasing voltages to bias the amplifier block, and compensate an output gain of the amplifier block before the output gain of the amplifier block is compressed, so as to extend a P1 dB compression point of the amplifier block, wherein the biasing currents are substantially independent to temperature and/or system voltage variation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Advanced Semiconductor Engineering Inc.
    Inventors: Jaw-Ming Ding, Rong-Hsang Ho, Jia-Hong Mou
  • Patent number: 9237562
    Abstract: A method of resource allocation for Channel State Information (CSI) feedback is provided, which comprises the following steps of: configuring, for a User Equipment (UE), a CSI feedback mode for each of a plurality of coordinated cells; allocating feedback resources required for CSI feedback by the UE for each of the plurality of coordinated cells based on the configured feedback modes, such that the CSI feedbacks for different coordinated cells will not collide with each other within one sub-frame; and notifying the configured feedback modes and the allocated feedback resources to the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Zeng Yang, Ming Ding, Lei Huang, Renmao Liu
  • Publication number: 20160006487
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method in a UE for feeding back channel state information (CSI) and the UE. The method comprises: acquiring a set of CSI processes which are configured by a transmission point (TP) to participate in multi-antenna multi-TP coordination; acquiring a sub-band (SB) inheritance which is configured by a TP for a CSI process from the set of CSI processes; calculating the CSI based on the configuration for the CSI process; and feeding the calculated CSI back to a TP. The present disclosure has the advantages of simple implementation and low signalling overhead and is applicable to enhanced 4G systems and to 5G systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ming DING, Renmao LIU
  • Publication number: 20160007375
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and base station for transmitting scheduling information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2014
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ziyuan GUO, Renmao LIU, Ming DING
  • Publication number: 20150341908
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method carried out by a base station, including: a step (S320) of generating a code sequence containing system information of the base station; a step (S330) generating, by modulating the code sequence, a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) sequence including a distributed PRB frequency division multiplexing format or a centralized PRB frequency division multiplexing format; a step (S340) of selecting a physical resource block (PRB) for a PBCH contained in the PBCH sequence; and a step (S350) of carrying out mapping between the PBCH and a resource element (RE) in the PRB thus selected. The present invention also provides (i) a method carried out by a user equipment, (ii) a corresponding base station, and (iii) the corresponding user equipment. According to the present invention, it is possible to increase energy use efficiency of an LTE-Advanced system, improve spectral efficiency, and reduce inter-cell collision of time/frequency resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Feng WANG, Renmao LIU, Ming DING
  • Patent number: 9191165
    Abstract: In a mobile communication system of the present invention, a base station apparatus and mobile station apparatus (user device) communicate each other on a plurality of downlink component carriers and a plurality of uplink component carriers. And while the mobile station apparatus (user device) transmit an uplink data to the base station apparatus on the plurality of uplink component carriers, the mobile station apparatus (user device) transmit a scheduling request for requesting uplink resource for the uplink data to the base station apparatus using a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) only on a specific uplink component carrier of the plurality of uplink component carriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Chen Chen, Renmao Liu, Ming Ding, Lei Huang, Guolin Sun