Patents by Inventor Penshun LU

Penshun LU 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: 20210136845
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electronic device and a method for wireless communications. The electronic device comprises a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to: for each candidate resource block, obtain a first receiving signal for a pilot symbol that is measured by the base station in a condition in which a D2D communication group does not perform D2D communication; receive obtaining a second receiving signal for a pilot symbol that is measured by the corresponding cellular user equipment in a condition in which the D2D communication group performs D2D communication; remove the impact of the first receiving signal from the second receiving signal, to serve as an interference signal received by the cellular user equipment from a D2D transmission device of the D2D communication group; and determine a priority order of resource blocks available to the D2D communication group by using interference minimization as an optimization objective.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hao LIU, Pingping XU, Bin SHENG, Wenbo ZHANG, Penshun LU
  • Publication number: 20210136709
    Abstract: An electronic device and method in a wireless communication system. The electronic device includes a processing circuit configured to: determine, according to information about one or more sets of performance parameters from user equipment, one or more reporting periods in which the user equipment reports an out-of-synchronization flag, the user equipment notified of the one or more reporting periods, the out-of-synchronization flag indicating whether a synchronization delay between the user equipment and a base station exceeds a predetermined system tolerance; and if the user equipment indicates that the synchronization delay exceeds the predetermined system tolerance by using an out-of-synchronization flag reported in one of the one or more reporting periods, adjusting a timing advance, such that the user equipment synchronizes with the base station according to the adjusted timing advance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Pingping XU, Bin SHENG, Yicheng XU, Penshun LU
  • Patent number: 10999741
    Abstract: An electronic equipment in a wireless communication system, and a wireless communication method. The wireless communication system includes at least one first cell and at least one second cell, and at least one of the second cells is operating in an unlicensed band. The electronic equipment includes one or more processing circuits configured to perform: configuring for a user equipment at least one second cell operating in an unlicensed band to perform carrier aggregation communication; and generating, dynamically or semi-statically, energy detection threshold information for each second cell operating in the unlicensed band so that the user equipment can perform energy detection on the unlicensed band according to the energy detection threshold information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bingshan Hu, Chen Sun, Yuxin Wei, Jinhui Chen, Xin Guo, Penshun Lu
  • Publication number: 20210099986
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electronic apparatus and method for wireless communication and a computer-readable storage medium. The electronic apparatus comprises: a processing circuit, configured to: determine a signature in a multiple access signature pool to be used for user equipment in which the electronic apparatus is located, wherein the multiple access signature pool is divided into multiple sub-signature pools according to a communication system parameter, and the determined signature belongs to a sub-signature pool corresponding to the communication system parameter used for the user equipment; and using, on the basis of the determined signature, a multiple access time-frequency resource to perform transmission, wherein the multiple access time-frequency resource is shared by a group of user equipment comprising the above user equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Penshun LU, Wenbo ZHANG, Tao CUI, Jianfei CAO, Xin GUO, Chen SUN
  • Publication number: 20210058147
    Abstract: An electronic equipment, a user equipment, a wireless communication method, and a storage medium, the electronic equipment comprising a processing circuit and being configured to: receive from a user equipment a random access request message that is expected access a satellite equipment; and in response to the random access request message, send to the user equipment the advance in timing between the user equipment and the satellite equipment to be accessed. By using said electronic equipment, user equipment, wireless communication method, and storage medium, a user equipment in a satellite communication system may more quickly and efficiently acquire control information relating to uplink transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yuan ZHANG, Penshun LU, Wenbo ZHANG, Hiromasa UCHIYAMA
  • Patent number: 10911117
    Abstract: Disclosed are an electronic device in a wireless communication system, a method, and a computer readable storage medium. The electronic device in the wireless communication system disclosed in the present invention comprises a processing circuit, being configured to: determine an area for beamforming during a specific time period; transmit information associated with the area to one or more auxiliary transmitting devices in the wireless communication system, so that the one or more auxiliary transmitting devices generate beam signals during the specific time period and transmit the beam signals to the area; and generate the beam signals simultaneously with the one or more auxiliary transmitting devices during the specific time period and transmitting the beam signals to the area. By using the electronic device, the method, and the computer readable storage medium disclosed in the present invention, a plurality of transmitting devices can simultaneously transmit beam signals to a same area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bin Sheng, Pingping Xu, Penshun Lu, Wenbo Zhang
  • Patent number: 10904814
    Abstract: An electronic device comprises a processing circuit configured to: perform a first determination for determining whether a mobile device should switch on a current serving base station, and if it is determined that the mobile device should switch on the current serving base station, acquire a channel measurement result of a wireless communication device connected to the mobile device; and perform second determination for determining whether the mobile device should switch on the current serving base station, and if it is determined that the mobile device should switch on the current serving base station, perform, on the basis of at least the channel measurement result of the wireless communication device, a switch of the wireless communication device from the mobile device serving as the current serving base station of the wireless communication device to a target serving base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuan Zhang, Penshun Lu
  • Patent number: 10863519
    Abstract: A wireless communication method and device. The method includes receiving location information from one or more terminals served by a first base station, and identifying, according to the received location information, a first terminal located within the coverage range of the first base station and proximate to the coverage range of at least one second base station, the first terminal served by the first base station being capable of receiving an interference signal from the at least one second base station, and a second terminal served by a corresponding second base station and distant from the coverage range of the first base station existing within the coverage range of each of the at least one second base station. There is a cooperating with the at least one second base station to determine a downlink transmission mode for the first terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Liang Wu, Zaichen Zhang, Lili Zheng, Weiwei Qin, Jian Dang, Penshun Lu
  • Publication number: 20200382263
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electronic device, a User Equipment (UE), a method, and a computer readable storage medium. According to the present invention, a method for determining location of a positioning reference signal (PRS) comprises: obtaining a subcarrier interval of a resource block (RB); and determining a time-frequency location of the PRS in the RB according to the subcarrier interval. The electronic device, the UE, the method, and the computer readable storage medium according to the present invention can be used for designing the PRS with respect to an NR communication system more reasonably, so as to optimize the positioning of the UE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Wei XU, Yucheng WANG, Penshun LU, Wenbo ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20200336184
    Abstract: Disclosed are an electronic device in a wireless communication system, a method, and a computer readable storage medium. The electronic device in the wireless communication system disclosed in the present invention comprises a processing circuit, being configured to: determine an area for beamforming during a specific time period; transmit information associated with the area to one or more auxiliary transmitting devices in the wireless communication system, so that the one or more auxiliary transmitting devices generate beam signals during the specific time period and transmit the beam signals to the area; and generate the beam signals simultaneously with the one or more auxiliary transmitting devices during the specific time period and transmitting the beam signals to the area. By using the electronic device, the method, and the computer readable storage medium disclosed in the present invention, a plurality of transmitting devices can simultaneously transmit beam signals to a same area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2018
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Bin SHENG, Pingping XU, Penshun LU, Wenbo ZHANG
  • Patent number: 10813025
    Abstract: Provided are an electronic device and method used for wireless communication. The electronic device comprises: a processing circuit, configured to: acquire a first candidate list of a first mobile base station, wherein the first candidate list comprises at least some neighbour nodes of the first mobile base station; determine a neighbour node as a second mobile base station from the first candidate list, wherein the second mobile base station is capable of replacing the first mobile base station as a successor base station of the first mobile base station for continuing to provide a service for a current user; and acquiring a second candidate list of the second mobile base station, wherein the second candidate list comprises at least some neighbour nodes of the second mobile base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Penshun Lu, Chen Sun, Xin Guo, Jianfei Cao, Tao Cui
  • Patent number: 10771134
    Abstract: The present application relates to an electronic device and a wireless communication method. The electronic device comprises: a processing circuit, configured to select a modulation codebook from a modulation codebook cluster for use in a multiple-input multiple-output MIMO system on the basis of a channel matrix of the MIMO system, the modulation codebook cluster comprising a plurality of modulation codebooks used by a sending terminal device corresponding to the electronic device for generating modulation signals, wherein the number of data streams transmitted after modulation is greater than the number of orthogonal channels; and a transceiving circuit, configured to send feedback information to the sending terminal device, the feedback information comprising identification information of the selected modulation codebook.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bin Sheng, Pingping Xu, Wanlin Sun, Meng Wang, Penshun Lu
  • Publication number: 20200264636
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method of a wireless communication system, and a computer-readable storage medium are disclosed. The apparatus comprises a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to configure, directly or indirectly on the basis of one or more height thresholds for user equipment and a current height of the user equipment, operation of the user equipment. According to at least one aspect of the embodiments of the disclosure, configuring, on the basis of a height threshold, operation of a user equipment optimizes communication performance in an unmanned aerial vehicle communication scenario.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Wenbo ZHANG, Penshun LU, Chen SUN
  • Publication number: 20200245174
    Abstract: Disclosed are an apparatus and method in a wireless communication system and a computer readable storage medium. The apparatus comprises a processing circuit, configured to: obtain at least height information of each user equipment among one or more user equipments; and for each user equipment, allocate resources to the user equipment on the basis of at least the height information of the user equipment and one or more height thresholds for the user equipment. According to at least one aspect of embodiments of the present disclosure, resources are allocated on the basis of a height threshold, so that time-frequency resource allocation in an unmanned aerial vehicle communication scenario may be optimized, resource utilization efficiency may be improved, and interference may be reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Penshun LU, Wenbo ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20200245340
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electronic apparatus, a method and a computer-readable storage medium for a wireless communication system. The electronic apparatus for a wireless communication system according to the present disclosure comprises: a processing circuit, configured to generate resource allocation information according to interference conditions encountered by user equipment (UE), wherein a current altitude of the UE is higher than an altitude threshold, and sending the resource allocation information to base station equipment of other cells apart from neighboring cells of a current serving cell of the UE, so as to configure information sending resources for the base station equipment of the other cells. The electronic device, method and computer-readable storage medium of the present disclosure are capable of reducing information interference generated in a wireless communication system of an unmanned aerial vehicle device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yuan ZHANG, Penshun LU, Wenbo ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20200245175
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present application are an apparatus and method in a wireless communication system, and a computer readable storage medium. The apparatus comprises a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to determine one or more height thresholds for a user equipment according to at least one of base station-related information, cell-related information and user equipment-related information. According to at least one aspect of embodiments of the present disclosure, a proper height threshold is set for a communication scenario of an unmanned aerial vehicle, which helps to resolve and alleviate various problems that may exist in the communication scenario of the unmanned aerial vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Wenbo ZHANG, Penshun LU, Chen SUN
  • Publication number: 20200236573
    Abstract: A device, a method, and a computer readable storage medium in a wireless communication system are disclosed. The device comprises a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to: generate measurement and reporting configuration information on the basis of at least height information of a user equipment; and notify the user equipment of the measurement and reporting configuration information so that the user equipment performs measuring and reporting on the basis of the measurement and reporting configuration information. According to at least one aspect of the embodiments of the present disclosure, by means of configuring measurement and reporting configuration information specifically relating to an unmanned aerial vehicle, and particularly by means of reasonably configuring each parameter value therein on the basis of at least height information, the accuracy of a switching operation, for example, is improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Wenbo ZHANG, Penshun LU, Chen SUN
  • Patent number: 10721023
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an electronic device, radio communication apparatus, and radio communication method. In one embodiment, an electronic device utilized at base station side comprises a processing circuit configured to: acquire information of an arrival time difference of diversity signals transmitted from two or more base stations to a mobile terminal; determine, on the basis of the information, a precoding matrix utilized in diversity signal transmission to reduce an impact of the arrival time difference on a diversity gain; and utilize the determined precoding matrix to perform precoding on a signal to be transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Zaichen Zhang, Rong Zeng, Penshun Lu, Chen Sun
  • Publication number: 20200213957
    Abstract: A main carrier on a licensed frequency band and a plurality of auxiliary carriers on an unlicensed frequency band exist in a wireless communication system, and a device at a base-station side in the wireless communication system includes: a controller configured to conduct power adjustment according to a result of detecting the usability of the plurality of auxiliary carriers, to enable a predetermined transmission power pre-allocated to one or more unavailable auxiliary carriers to be allocated to an auxiliary carrier to be used in available auxiliary carriers; and a communication unit configured to send a power adjustment result of the control unit to a user equipment, wherein the power adjustment result at least includes information instructing whether the power allocation changes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Bingshan HU, Chen SUN, Xin GUO, Penshun LU
  • Publication number: 20200178283
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication method and device based on a license-free band. A method for wireless communication between a base station and a user terminal comprises: receiving uplink transmission from a first type user terminal, the first type user terminal operating in a license-free mode; and switching at least one first type user terminal to a licensed mode if the evaluated decoding performance of the uplink transmission does not reach a desired level. The decoding performance is an indicator capable of more accurately reflecting the degree of resource contention, and thus can more reasonably determine the time of switching the user terminal to the licensed mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2018
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Jian DANG, Minghao GUO, Weiwen CHU, Penshun LU