Patents by Inventor Weidong Zhang

Weidong Zhang 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: 20240388482
    Abstract: Provided is a method for a user equipment (UE). The UE may performs at least one of: monitoring physical downlink control channels (PDCCHs) in a Type0-PDCCH common search space (CSS) set over one or two consecutive slots, starting from a slot index n_0, with a 480 kHz or 960 kHz subcarrier spacing (SCS); transmitting, to a base station (BS), a report of a UE capability related to search space configurations for multi-slot PDCCH monitoring; or performing a monitoring occasion (MO) shifting operation for a first group of search space (SS) sets in response to a determination that a second group of SS sets is updated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hong He, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Huaning Niu, Oghenekome Oteri, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yushu Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240387970
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a dielectric cavity resonator, comprising: a metallic resonance cavity having a cuboid shape defining three orthogonal axes x, y, z substantially aligned with walls of the metallic resonance cavity and having a central axis extending in the z direction; a dielectric core provided in the metallic resonance cavity, the dielectric core comprising: a central part extending coaxially with respect to the central axis of the metallic resonance cavity; and four columnar parts arranged around the central part and integrally formed with the central part and each extending in the z direction and having a petal-like shape in an x-y cross-section perpendicular to the z direction, every two adjacent columnar parts being spaced by a groove, the dielectric core being centrosymmetric and axisymmetric in each x-y cross-section perpendicular to the z direction, wherein the metallic resonance cavity has a square cross-section, and in each petal-like cross-section, each columnar part extends in a
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Inventors: Jun Fu, Weidong Wang, Honglan Wang, Xueyuan Zhang
  • Patent number: 12150127
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured to handle physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmissions during multi-transmission/reception point (TRP) operation. The UE receives a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) transmission configured with downlink control information (DCI) in a single-DCI, multi-transmission/reception point (TRP) operation, wherein the DCI schedules reception of a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmission, determines whether or not a TCI field is configured in the DCI, when the TCI field is not configured in the DCI, determining a default beam based on a control resource set (CORESET) with the lowest ID in the PDCCH and when the TCI field is configured in the DCI, determining whether the TCI field indicates a TCI codepoint includes two TCI states.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Haitong Sun, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Oghenekome Oteri, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12150183
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) monitors a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) during a random access channel (PRACH) procedure. The UE receives a physical random access channel (PRACH) resource on a first sub-band of a component carrier (CC), wherein the CC is divided into a plurality of sub-bands and receives a Type1-PDCCH CSS (Physical Downlink Control Channel Common Search Space) set on a second sub-band of the CC, wherein the Type1-PDCCH CSS set corresponds to the PRACH resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hong He, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Oghenekome Oteri, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12150143
    Abstract: A cell receives channel state information for multiple transmission reception points (TRPs) from a user equipment (UE). The cell selects a first transmission reception point (TRP) of multiple TRPs associated with a cell of a network, transmits a signal to a user equipment (UE) via the selected TRP, wherein the signal is configured to trigger semi-persistent CSI (SP-CSI) report at the UE and receives the SP-CSI report from the UE that includes CSI corresponding to each TRP of the multiple TRPs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Haitong Sun, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Ismael Gutierrez Gonzalez, Jia Tang, Oghenekome Oteri, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12149966
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for beam indication latency reduction via symbol level beam sweeping capability reporting. A wireless device may transmit, to a base station, a report associated with symbol level beam sweeping. The wire wireless device may receive, from the base station, a symbol level beam sweeping configuration. The symbol level beam sweeping configuration may be based, at least in part, on the report. The wireless device may perform synchronization signal block (SSB) measurements according to the report and the symbol level beam sweeping configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Dawei Zhang, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Haitong Sun, Huaning Niu, Jie Cui, Manasa Raghavan, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yakun Sun, Yang Tang
  • Patent number: 12149306
    Abstract: Systems and methods disclosed herein use channel state information (CSI) reports from a user equipment (UE) having additional CSI beyond CSI directly derived according to a current MIMO configuration between a base station and the UE. In some embodiments, a channel quality indicator (CQI) according to a selected layer of a plurality of layers used to receive the MIMO transmission as determined relative to the MIMO transmission is reported. In some embodiments, a precoding matrix indicator (PMI) according to a selected layer of a plurality of layers useable to receive rank 1 transmissions is reported along with a CQI determined according to that layer, or according to a layer used to receive the MIMO transmission as determined relative to the MIMO transmission. In some embodiments, a base station configures a UE to report more fulsome CSI according to each of a plurality of ranks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang
  • Patent number: 12149969
    Abstract: Interference measurement may include decoding a channel state information (CSI) reporting configuration received from a base station. The CSI reporting configuration may be associated with a set of resources for interference measurement. The first UE may be in communication with at least a first transmission and reception point (TRP) of a plurality of TRPs and at least a second TRP of the plurality of TRPs may also be in communication with a second UE that creates cross-link interference for the first UE. At the first UE, a cross-link interference measurement associated with the second UE may be performed using the CSI reporting configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Oghenekome Oteri, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang
  • Patent number: 12149459
    Abstract: Improved solutions for reliable physical channel, e.g. Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) reception during wireless communications, for example during 3GPP New Radio (NR) communications include continuous channel repetitions that cross slot boundaries, channel repetitions with multiple frequency hops, and joint-repetition channel estimation that uses demodulation reference signals from at least two channel repetitions for the channel estimation. In one aspect, reliable PDSCH reception may have the benefit of aiding target UEs and serving base stations in implementing reliable Multicast and Broadcast Services (MBS).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haijing Hu, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Oghenekome Oteri, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yuqin Chen, Yushu Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240378745
    Abstract: A pose graph synchronous localization and mapping computation method based on a 4D millimeter-wave radar includes comparing two consecutive frames of point clouds in a 4D radar point cloud to remove ghost points below a ground surface and random points, estimating a linear velocity and an angular velocity of a device based on Doppler velocity information in the 4D radar point cloud, and estimating and constructing a pose graph using a relative pose transformation, and estimating an optimal pose for the pose graph through graph optimization. To achieve better accuracy for a sparse point cloud, estimated ego vehicle velocity is pre-integrated to obtain an additional relative pose estimate, and loop closure detection is used to identify places already reached.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2024
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Inventors: Han Zhang, Xingyi Li, Weidong Chen, Changhe Liu, Jingchuan Wang
  • Publication number: 20240381256
    Abstract: Systems, methods, processors, and circuitries are provided for configuring, transmitting, receiving and processing single frequency network wake-up signals. In one example a user equipment (UE) includes a radio frequency (RF) transceiver and a baseband processor. The baseband processor is configured to, when executing instructions stored in a memory, cause the UE to receive, via the RF transceiver, a wake-up signal (WUS). The WUS is transmitted by a plurality of cells in a WUS single frequency network (SFN) and each cell of the plurality of cells transmits the WUS in identical time and frequency resources. Based on the received WUS, the baseband processor causes the UE to configure one or more components of the UE to receive a subsequent signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2024
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Inventors: Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Chunxuan Ye, Hong He, Dawei Zhang
  • Patent number: 12140418
    Abstract: Disclosed are a tool and a method for measuring a parallelism and coaxiality of a rotating shaft of shoulder joint of a crash dummy, relating to the technical field of vehicle safety crash testing dummies. The measuring tool and a method can efficiently and accurately measure the coaxiality and parallelism of the rotating shaft of shoulder joint of the crash dummy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignees: CHINA AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH CENTER CO., LTD., CATARC AUTOMOTIVE TEST CENTER (TIANJIN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yongqiang Wu, Zhixin Liu, Weidong Liu, Shihang Chen, Kai Wang, Hanxiao Zhang, Tianyi Hao
  • Patent number: 12143191
    Abstract: Precoders are provided for multi-panel uplink (UL) transmission. A codebook may support asymmetric multi-panel UL transmission or super UL transmission where new radio (NR) and long-term evolution (LTE) transmissions may be provided through different antenna panels of a user equipment (UE). Sounding reference signal (SRS) enhancement provides support for multi-panel transmission. The UE transmits an indication of a UE capability based on an antenna structure comprising multiple antenna panels of the UE. Further, the UE determines, at the UE, one or more precoders to use for UL transmissions based at least in part on the UE capability, wherein the one or more precoders include a polarization co-phasing factor, an antenna panel co-phasing factor, and a combining weight for antennas for a same polarization. Additionally, the UE transmits, from the multiple antenna panels, the UL transmissions using the one or more precoders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Chunhai Yao, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Oghenekome Oteri, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang
  • Patent number: 12143186
    Abstract: A method for wireless communication includes: receiving, at a base station: (1) a capability report for each of a plurality of antenna panels of a first user device; and (2) an initial antenna panel index for the first user device; transmitting, to the first user device, configuration information corresponding to each antenna panel of the plurality; selecting first configuration information corresponding to the antenna panel with the initial antenna panel index; and receiving a first uplink transmission from the first user device, wherein the first user device uses a selected first antenna panel corresponding to the initial antenna panel index and the first configuration information corresponding to the selected first antenna panel. In other aspects, rather than initially transmitting configuration information corresponding to each antenna panel, the base station may transmit the configuration information for each panel as it is selected by the first user device for an uplink transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Oghenekome Oteri, Weidong Yang, Sigen Ye, Haitong Sun, Chunhai Yao, Dawei Zhang, Chunxuan Ye, Wei Zeng, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian
  • Patent number: 12143847
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure enable a user equipment (UE) to perform measurement object (MO) merging for channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) layer 3 (L3) measurements. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Jie Cui, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Manasa Raghavan, Qiming Li, Weidong Yang, Xiang Chen, Yang Tang
  • Patent number: 12143995
    Abstract: Some aspects of this disclosure relate to apparatuses and methods for implementing techniques for a user equipment (UE) to transmit a configured grant (CG) physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) including an uplink control information (UCI) without transmitting a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH). The UE determines, based on a configuration received from the base station, a first set of CG PUSCHs. Each CG PUSCH of the first set of CG PUSCHs overlaps with the PUCCH, and is configured to transmit data from the UE to the base station. The UE further determines a second set of CG PUSCHs by excluding a third set of CG PUSCHs from the first set of CG PUSCHs. and select a CG PUSCH from the second set of CG PUSCHs to carry the UCI contained in the PUCCH. The UE further transmits the selected CG PUSCH including the UCI without transmitting the PUCCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Wenshu Zhang, Weidong Yang, Fangli Xu, Wei Zeng, Dawei Zhang, Chunhai Yao, Yushu Zhang, Oghenekome Oteri, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Sigen Ye, Ralf Rossbach
  • Patent number: 12143987
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and circuitries are provided for supporting blind retransmission. In one example, a method includes processing control information that indicates resources for communication of a physical downlink shared channel or a physical uplink shared channel (PDSCH/PUSCH) transmission and timing information for a retransmission of the PDSCH/PUSCH. The method includes configuring operation to: receive the PDSCH/PUSCH transmission based on the resources; and determine that a subsequent PDSCH/PUSCH received at a subsequent time corresponds to the retransmission of the PDSCH/PUSCH when the subsequent time coincides with the indicated timing information for the retransmission and, in response combine the PDSCH/PUSCH with the retransmission in a HARQ buffer for decoding purposes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haijing Hu, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Oghenekome Oteri, Sarma V. Vangala, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yushu Zhang, Zhu Ji
  • Patent number: 12143325
    Abstract: User equipment (UE) operation in a single frequency network (SFN). The UE may receive one or more transmission configuration indication (TCI) states corresponding to one or more downlink resources, receive a demodulated reference signal (DMRS) wherein the DMRS is quasi co-located (QCLed) with one or more channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) from multiple cells of a SFN and quasi co-location (QCL) information is included in the one or more TCI and determine a time and frequency offset corresponding to each of the multiple cells based on the CSI-RS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Jie Cui, Oghenekome Oteri, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yang Tang, Yuchul Kim, Yuqin Chen
  • Patent number: 12143978
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for PDCCH enhancements for group-based paging indications. A user equipment device may be configured to receive, from a network, an indication of a paging occasion via a PG-RNTI and/or via at least 6 bits of a DCI. A value of the PG-RNTI may be associated with the paging occasion as well as a set of UEs, including the UE. The UE may be configured to monitor the paging occasion based on the value of the PG-RNTI and receive, during the paging occasion, a paging indication via at least six bits of a DCI, where each bit of the at least six bits may indicate a paging indication for a particular set of UEs and the particular set of UEs may be a subset of the set of UEs. The UE may also be configured to, in response to determining that the UE has a paging message, decode a corresponding PDSCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yuchul Kim, Fangli Xu, Sarma V Vangala, Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Yuqin Chen, Murtaza A Shikari, Zhibin Wu, Haitong Sun, Yushu Zhang, Wei Zeng, Dawei Zhang, Haijing Hu, Hong He, Weidong Yang, Oghenekome Oteri, Chunxuan Ye, Chunhai Yao, Jie Cui, Yang Tang, Srirang A Lovlekar
  • Patent number: 12144023
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for configuring listen before talk and short control signaling in unlicensed spectrum in a wireless communication system. A wireless device may establish a wireless link with a cellular base station on a cell in unlicensed spectrum. The wireless device may receive listen-before-talk configuration information, where the listen-before-talk configuration information indicates whether listen-before-talk is configured for the wireless link. The wireless device may receive short control signaling configuration information, where the short control signaling configuration information indicates whether short control signaling is enabled for one or more types of control signaling. The wireless device may perform short control signaling with the cellular base station on the wireless link when short control signaling is enabled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Huaning Niu, Dawei Zhang, Xiang Chen, Yang Tang, Jie Cui, Manasa Raghavan, Qiming Li, Oghenekome Oteri, Wei Zeng, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Yushu Zhang, Weidong Yang, Sigen Ye