Patents by Inventor Ping-Heng Kuo

Ping-Heng Kuo 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: 20140362939
    Abstract: The present disclosure proposes a channel quality indicator (CQI) feedback method applicable to a user equipment (UE) using the same method. According to one of the exemplary embodiments, the channel quality indicator (CQI) feedback method would be applicable to a user equipment (UE) and would include steps of at least but not limited to receiving a N×L precoding matrix having N rows and L columns with each of the N rows corresponding to an antenna port and each of the L columns corresponding to a user, wherein N and L are both integers greater than one, performing a channel quality indicator (CQI) calculation for K of the L columns, where 0<K?L, and K is an integer, determining from the CQI calculation for K of the L columns a preferred column, and transmitting information corresponding to the preferred column.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Applicant: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventor: Ping-Heng Kuo
  • Publication number: 20140301310
    Abstract: A communication station includes a transceiving circuit, a radio signal distribution circuit and a control circuit. The radio signal distribution circuit configures an antenna array to communication with a communication device with a first antenna port formation pattern (APFP) and a second APFP based on an elevation beamforming technique. The control circuit configures the transceiving circuit to generate a first reference signal and a second reference signal, and configures the radio signal distribution circuit to configure the antenna array to transmit the first reference signal and the second reference signal respectively with the first APFP and the second APFP to the communication device. The control circuit further configures the transceiving circuit to receive the first channel state information and the second channel state information respectively corresponding to the first reference signal and the second reference signal through the radio signal distribution circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2014
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventor: Ping-Heng KUO
  • Publication number: 20140185478
    Abstract: A method of handling multiuser channel quality indicators (MU-CQIs) for a communication device comprises transmitting a highest MU-CQI periodically to a network; and transmitting at least one MU-CQI aperiodically to the network according to a request transmitted by the network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2013
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventor: Ping-Heng Kuo
  • Publication number: 20140113669
    Abstract: A method of handling a beamforming feedback for a base station of the wireless communication system comprises receiving a message comprising information of an interference caused by a communication between the base station and a communication device of the wireless communication system; determining an accuracy level of channel information according to the information of the interference; controlling the communication device to transmit the channel information with the accuracy level to the base station; and performing a beamforming according to the channel information to communicate with the communication device, after receiving the channel information transmitted by the communication device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2013
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventor: Ping-Heng Kuo
  • Publication number: 20140056383
    Abstract: A method for data transmission using spatial-domain modulation, and a transmitter using the same has been proposed. The method comprises the following steps including at least but not limited to receiving a plurality of symbols to be transmitted, mapping the symbols as L-dimensional coordinate, wherein 1<L<N, dividing the antennas into L non-overlapping antenna groups, choosing one activating antenna from the antennas in each of the antenna groups according to the coordinate of the symbols, and transmitting modulated signal by using the activating antenna in each of the antenna groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2013
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Ping-Heng Kuo, Sung-En Chiu
  • Publication number: 20130336244
    Abstract: A method of handling channel state information (CSI) reports for a communication device in a wireless communication system comprises determining at least one field difference between a reference CSI report and at least one CSI report; transmitting the reference CSI report to a network of the wireless communication system; and transmitting the at least one field difference to the network, to transmit the at least one CSI report to the network, respectively; wherein the at least one CSI report corresponds to at least one component carrier, respectively, corresponds to at least one transmission point in the network, respectively, or corresponds to at least one coordinated multipoint (CoMP) configuration, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2013
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Inventor: Ping-Heng Kuo
  • Patent number: 8605803
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for generating a precoder for uplink transmission from a mobile station. The method includes receiving information corresponding to a first precoding matrix and a second precoding matrix, and generating the precoder by linearly combining the first precoding matrix and the second precoding matrix. In the method, the first precoding matrix maximizes a transmission power between the mobile station and a serving base station, and the second precoding matrix minimizes an average interference value between the mobile station and at least two neighboring base stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Ping-Heng Kuo, Pang-An Ting
  • Publication number: 20130235815
    Abstract: A method of enhancing performance of downlink multi-user multiple-input-multiple-output transmissions in a wireless communication system comprising a communication device and a network is disclosed. The method comprises generating a feedback report comprising a correlation-based validity threshold (CVT); and transmitting the feedback report from the communication device to the network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2013
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicant: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventor: Ping-Heng Kuo
  • Publication number: 20130163645
    Abstract: A channel information feedback method for multi-antenna system, and a wireless communication device using the same method are provided. The proposed method could reduce feedback overhead for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless channel information, and is based on compressive sensing technique. Prior to sending back channel information, a receiver estimates the channel and multiplies the vectorized channel with a random matrix to generate compressed feedback content. Upon receiving the compressed feedback content at a transmitter, the channel information could be restored with signal recovery algorithms of compressive sensing technique. In the other embodiment, the proposed method further adaptively adjusts compression ratio of the compressed feedback content in accordance to the prevailing channel quality. Further, for slow-varying MIMO channels, there is proposed another channel information feedback method which switches between a fixed spasifying-basis and a signal-dependent sparsifying-basis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2011
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Ping-Heng Kuo, Hsiang-Tsung Kung, Pang-An Ting
  • Publication number: 20120307926
    Abstract: A beam-former searching method and a central unit using the method are proposed. The proposed method is adapted for a coordinated multi-point transmission for macro-diversity or an interference alignment scheme, and includes following steps. A metaheuristic algorithm is used to search for precoders and postcoders respectively for B of collaborative transmitters and U of receivers, where U=B for interference alignment and U=1 for coordinated multi-point transmission for macro-diversity. Memory is initialized by generating solution vectors randomly Utility functions is computed respectively for the generated solution vectors and the generated solution vectors are sorted respectively according to the computed utility functions. A new solution vector is improvised iteratively until the number of iterations reaches a pre-configured algorithm termination upper limit. In addition, a solution vector is selected as an output according to the computed utility functions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2011
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Applicant: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Ping-Heng Kuo, Pang-An Ting
  • Publication number: 20120195268
    Abstract: Network access methods and base stations and wireless communication devices using the same methods are proposed. The proposed method relies on random access parameters assignment through pre-configured information and non-uniform distribution of access timings corresponding to pre-assigned priority group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2011
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Applicant: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Wei-Chieh Huang, Ping-Heng Kuo, Chia-Lung Tsai, Pang-An Ting
  • Publication number: 20120196608
    Abstract: Network access methods for M2M device, M2M devices and base stations using the same methods are proposed. The proposed method allows M2M devices to perform random access process in the synchronous random access channel when the RTD information to the preferred base station is available. In another embodiment, the base station determines mobility type of a M2M device, determines a dedicated random access channel allocation for the M2M device according to the mobility type of the M2M device, and sends a paging message indicating the dedicated random access channel allocation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2011
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Applicant: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Pang-An Ting, Chia-Lung Tsai, Ping-Heng Kuo, Wei-Chieh Huang
  • Publication number: 20110274052
    Abstract: A communication device using user cooperation is provided with a channel information reception unit to receive channel information from a plurality of member terminals within the same group, the channel information being associated with a radio channel formed between the plurality of member terminals and a base station; a member terminal selection unit to select at least one active member terminal from among the plurality of member terminals based on the channel information; and a selection information transmission unit to transmit selection information to the base station, the selection information being associated with a radio channel formed between the at least one active member terminal and the base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2011
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Inventors: Jung Hoon Suh, Sung Jin Kim, Ping-Heng Kuo, Joon-Il Choi
  • Publication number: 20110222615
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for generating a precoder for uplink transmission from a mobile station. The method includes receiving information corresponding to a first precoding matrix and a second precoding matrix, and generating the precoder by linearly combining the first precoding matrix and the second precoding matrix. In the method, the first precoding matrix maximizes a transmission power between the mobile station and a serving base station, and the second precoding matrix minimizes an average interference value between the mobile station and at least two neighboring base stations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2010
    Publication date: September 15, 2011
    Inventors: Ping-Heng KUO, Pang-An TING
  • Patent number: 8010140
    Abstract: A communication device using user cooperation is provided with a channel information reception unit to receive channel information from a plurality of member terminals within the same group, the channel information being associated with a radio channel formed between the plurality of member terminals and a base station; a member terminal selection unit to select at least one active member terminal from among the plurality of member terminals based on the channel information; and a selection information transmission unit to transmit selection information to the base station, the selection information being associated with a radio channel formed between the at least one active member terminal and the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jung Hoon Suh, Sung Jin Kim, Ping-Heng Kuo, Joon-Il Choi
  • Publication number: 20110158341
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for phase quantization and equal gain precoding in a wireless communication system. The method includes scaling, by a receiving device, a phase vector based on a predetermined scaling factor to determine a first lattice point. The method also includes determining, by the receiving device, a second lattice point based on the determined first lattice point. In addition, the method includes determining, by the receiving device, a quantized phase vector based on the determined second lattice point and the predetermined scaling factor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2010
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Inventors: Shang-Ho Tsai, Hsiao-Lan Chiang, Ping-Heng Kuo, Pang-An Ting, Gene C.H. Chuang
  • Publication number: 20110158189
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for reception of multi-input multi-output (MIMO) transmission in a wireless communication system including a plurality of base stations. The method includes receiving, by a receiving device, one or more media access control (MAC) messages including a plurality of identifiers of neighboring base stations, and receiving, by the receiving device, a bistream including a plurality of bits, each bit representing one base station of the plurality of base stations. The method also includes determining, by the receiving device, at least one of the plurality of identifiers of neighboring base stations included in the one or more received MAC messages based on the received bitmap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2010
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Inventors: Ping-Heng Kuo, Chih-Yu Chen, Pang-An Ting, Hsiao-Lan Chiang
  • Publication number: 20090104926
    Abstract: A communication device using user cooperation is provided with a channel information reception unit to receive channel information from a plurality of member terminals within the same group, the channel information being associated with a radio channel formed between the plurality of member terminals and a base station; a member terminal selection unit to select at least one active member terminal from among the plurality of member terminals based on the channel information; and a selection information transmission unit to transmit selection information to the base station, the selection information being associated with a radio channel formed between the at least one active member terminal and the base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2008
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jung Hoon SUH, Sung Jin Kim, Ping-Heng Kuo, Joon-Il Choi