Patents by Inventor Woon Hau Chin
Woon Hau Chin 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).
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Patent number: 10051620Abstract: Certain embodiments provide a system comprising a plurality of Femtocell base stations in communicative contact with each other, in use, via a control channel. The Femtocell base stations arranged to exchange information suitable for controlling a said Femtocell base station via said control channel.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2011Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Parag Gopal Kulkarni, Woon Hau Chin, Russell John Haines
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Publication number: 20180167266Abstract: In an embodiment, a method of medium access control in a co-ordinator node of a body area network is disclosed. The body area network comprises the co-ordinator node and a plurality of sensor nodes. Each of the sensor nodes comprises a sensor and is configured to wirelessly communicate with the co-ordinator node in time slots defined by a plurality of medium access control super-frames. The method comprises receiving at the co-ordinator node, a signal from a first sensor node of the plurality of sensor nodes, the signal comprising an indication of a measured quantity at the first sensor node, the measured quantity being indicative of an attribute of a wireless link of the body area network between the first sensor node and the co-ordinator node; estimating an attribute of the link using the indication; and configuring parameters of a medium access control superframe using the estimated attribute.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2014Publication date: June 14, 2018Inventors: Siva Kupanna SUBRAMANI, Woon Hau CHIN, Mahesh SOORIYABANDARA
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Publication number: 20170251482Abstract: An approach for interference mitigation/avoidance in a first wireless network, for example a Body Area Network (BAN), uses signals from other BANs to adjust data transmissions by the first network.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2015Publication date: August 31, 2017Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Woon Hau CHIN, Hirokazu TANAKA
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Patent number: 9083461Abstract: Localization of an electronic device is enabled by establishing a localization environment wherein sources of visible light are configured to modulate onto emitted light a detectable signal, each signal bearing information identifying that light source, such that light incident on a device can be processed to identify particular sources of incident light and therefrom the location of the device.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2011Date of Patent: July 14, 2015Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Woon Hau Chin, Mahesh Sooriyabandara
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Patent number: 8761682Abstract: A method of interference management in a wireless network includes determining a level of interference within a wireless receiver and transmitting a signal indicative of excessive interference. Within a wireless transmitter, a beam forming vector or a sub-set of transmitter antenna is randomly selected from a set of transmitter antenna available to the transmitter and switching signal transmission from a preceding transmission mode to a transmission mode using the selected beamforming vector or the selected antenna sub-set, following receipt of a signal indicative of excessive interference. It is then determined, within the receiver, whether a level of interference has improved since the transmission of the signal. If not, a signal indicative of a deterioration of said level of interference is sent. If the signal indicative of a deterioration of the level of interference is received at the transmitter, the transmitter reverts to using the preceding transmission mode for signal transmission.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2012Date of Patent: June 24, 2014Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventor: Woon Hau Chin
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Publication number: 20130336660Abstract: Localisation of an electronic device is enabled by establishing a localisation environment wherein sources of visible light are configured to modulate onto emitted light a detectable signal, each signal bearing information identifying that light source, such that light incident on a device can be processed to identify particular sources of incident light and therefrom the location of the device.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2011Publication date: December 19, 2013Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Woon Hau Chin, Mahesh Sooriyabandara
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Publication number: 20120315892Abstract: A method of interference management in a wireless network includes determining a level of interference within a wireless receiver and transmitting a signal indicative of excessive interference. Within a wireless transmitter, a beam forming vector or a sub-set of transmitter antenna is randomly selected from a set of transmitter antenna available to the transmitter and switching signal transmission from a preceding transmission mode to a transmission mode using the selected beamforming vector or the selected antenna sub-set, following receipt of a signal indicative of excessive interference. It is then determined, within the receiver, whether a level of interference has improved since the transmission of the signal. If not, a signal indicative of a deterioration of said level of interference is sent. If the signal indicative of a deterioration of the level of interference is received at the transmitter, the transmitter reverts to using the preceding transmission mode for signal transmission.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2012Publication date: December 13, 2012Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventor: Woon Hau CHIN
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Publication number: 20110292890Abstract: Certain embodiments provide a system comprising a plurality of Femtocell base stations in communicative contact with each other, in use, via a control channel. The Femtocell base stations arranged to exchange information suitable for controlling a said Femtocell base station via said control channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2011Publication date: December 1, 2011Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Parag Gopal KULKARNI, Woon Hau Chin, Russell John Haines
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Publication number: 20110182336Abstract: A method for determining a signal vector comprising a plurality of components from a received signal vector is provided comprising generating an estimation of the signal vector; determining a channel matrix characterizing the communication channel via which the signal vector was received; carrying out a plurality of determination iterations based on the channel matrix, wherein for each iteration a first set of possible sub-vectors of the signal vector is determined based on a second set of possible sub-vectors for the previous iteration and from the first set of possible sub-vectors, a number of sub-vectors is selected based on the distance of the sub-vectors to the estimated signal vector according to a pre-selected metric to form a strict subset of the first set as the second set of possible sub-vectors for the iteration; determining the signal vector based on a possible sub-vector for the last iteration.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2008Publication date: July 28, 2011Applicant: AGENCY FOR SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCHInventors: Woon Hau Chin, Sumei Sun, Po Shin Francois Chin, Chau Yuen, Peng Hui Tan