Patents by Inventor Xiaofeng Tao

Xiaofeng Tao 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: 20220393750
    Abstract: An electronic device and method for wireless communication, the method including detecting a beam quality of a currently serving beam; starting a prediction window when the detected beam quality is within a particular range, and evaluating the beam quality of the currently serving beam within the prediction window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Jin XU, Wenjing REN, Dongru LI, Hang YANG, Xiaofeng TAO, Jianfei CAO
  • Publication number: 20220385430
    Abstract: An apparatus and method in a wireless communication system, and a computer-readable storage medium The method comprises: determining, based on at least one or more of resource set configuration information, physical channel information, and service type information, configuration information of one or more parameter sets for a sidelink communication; and controlling a base station to send the determined configuration information of the one or more parameter sets to a user equipment so that the user equipment performs sidelink communication on the basis of the one or more parameter sets, the parameter set comprising at least a subcarrier interval and a cyclic prefix type. The method can flexibly configure the parameter set used for the sidelink communication in NR so as to improve the communication performance of the sidelink communication and meet higher requirements on a series of indicators in an NR scene such as the delay and the system stability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Yanzhao HOU, Xiaofeng TAO, Yuming LIU, Xin GUO, Zhaoqi PENG, Min ZHU
  • Patent number: 11498100
    Abstract: An apparatus for cleaning semiconductor substrates including a chamber, a chuck, a liquid collector, an enclosing wall, at least one driving mechanism, at least one internal dispenser, and at least one external dispenser. The chamber has a top wall, a side wall and a bottom wall. The chuck is disposed in the chamber. The liquid collector surrounds the chuck. The enclosing wall surrounds the liquid collector. The driving mechanism drives the enclosing wall to move up and down, wherein when the enclosing wall is driven to move up, a seal room is formed by the liquid collector, the enclosing wall, the top wall and bottom wall of the chamber. The internal dispenser is disposed inside the seal room. The external dispenser is disposed outside the seal room and capable of getting in and out of the seal room after the enclosing wall is driven to move down.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: ACM RESEARCH (SHANGHAI) INC.
    Inventors: Hui Wang, Xiaofeng Tao, Fuping Chen, Shena Jia, Xi Wang, Xiaoyan Zhang, Xuejun Li
  • Publication number: 20220361175
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and electronic apparatus for wireless communication and a computer readable storage medium. The electronic apparatus comprises a processing circuit. The electronic apparatus is configured to determine whether a related parameter of an available component carrier in a sidelink satisfies a preset condition; and if the related parameter satisfies a present condition, to configure the available parameter for use as a secondary component carrier in carrier aggregation of the sidelink.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Yanzhao HOU, Xiaofeng TAO, Yuming LIU, Zhaoqi PENG, Xin GUO
  • Patent number: 11456789
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electronic device, a wireless communication method and a computer-readable medium. According to one embodiment, an electronic device for wireless communication comprises a processing circuit, wherein the processing circuit is configured to conduct control so as to send a reference signal for a direct link to the other user equipment or to receive same from the other user equipment; the processing circuit is also configured to conduct control so as to carry out beamforming-based direct link communication with the other user equipment; and at least one of a sending beam and a receiving beam for direct link communication is determined based on the measurement of the reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yanzhao Hou, Xiaofeng Tao, Zhaoqi Peng, Xin Guo, Yuming Liu, Min Zhu, Wei Ren
  • Patent number: 11456795
    Abstract: An electronic device and method for wireless communication, the method including detecting a beam quality of a currently serving beam; starting a prediction window when the detected beam quality is within a particular range, and evaluating the beam quality of the currently serving beam within the prediction window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jin Xu, Wenjing Ren, Dongru Li, Hang Yang, Xiaofeng Tao, Jianfei Cao
  • Patent number: 11438892
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and electronic apparatus for wireless communication and a computer readable storage medium. The electronic apparatus comprises a processing circuit. The electronic apparatus is configured to determine whether a related parameter of an available component carrier in a sidelink satisfies a preset condition; and if the related parameter satisfies a present condition, to configure the available parameter for use as a secondary component carrier in carrier aggregation of the sidelink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yanzhao Hou, Xiaofeng Tao, Yuming Liu, Zhaoqi Peng, Xin Guo
  • Publication number: 20220278732
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a processing circuit configured to: receive information about a number N of candidate transmit beams from a user device, wherein N is an integer greater than 1; select from the N candidate transmit beams a transmit beam for sending downlink information to the user device; and determine, on the basis of the selected transmit beam, a transmission configuration indication (TCI) state, and send the TCI state to the user device. The electronic device, the wireless communication method and the computer readable storage medium enable a network-side device to notify the user device of the information about transmit beams. In this way, the user device can determine, according to the transmit beam of the network-side device, a proper receiving beam so as to improve the gain of the system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Jin XU, Dongru LI, Wenjing REN, Hang YANG, Xiaofeng TAO, Jianfei CAO
  • Patent number: 11425731
    Abstract: An electronic device, a wireless communication method, and a computer readable medium, where the electronic device for wireless communication includes a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to select resource blocks to be used for automatic uplink transmission from amongst a pre-assigned plurality of resource blocks on an unlicensed band, and implement control to use the selected resource blocks for implementing automatic uplink transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Qimei Cui, Jing Liu, Tao Cui, Xiaofeng Tao
  • Publication number: 20220256518
    Abstract: Provided are an electronic device and method for wireless communication, and a computer-readable storage medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Yanzhao HOU, Lei GAO, Min ZHU, Bing WANG, Xiaofeng TAO, Tao CUI
  • Patent number: 11405118
    Abstract: Disclosed are an electronic device in a wireless communication system, and a wireless communication method. The wireless communication system comprises multiple unlicensed carriers. The electronic device comprises: one or more processing circuits configured to: configure each of a plurality of unlicensed carriers to be a primary channel or a secondary channel, so as to obtain at least two primary channels and at least one secondary channel; perform a first channel detection process over each of the primary channels to detect whether each of the primary channels is idle, and perform a second channel detection process over each of the secondary channels to detect whether each of the secondary channels is idle; and perform downlink data transmission over the primary channel determined to be idle by means of the channel detection or over the primary and secondary channels determined to be idle by means of the channel detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Qimei Cui, Haowei Wang, Xiaofeng Tao, Bingshan Hu
  • Patent number: 11394509
    Abstract: An apparatus and method in a wireless communication system, and a computer-readable storage medium. The method comprises: determining, based on at least one or more of resource set configuration information, physical channel information, and service type information, configuration information of one or more parameter sets for a sidelink communication; and controlling a base station to send the determined configuration information of the one or more parameter sets to a user equipment so that the user equipment performs sidelink communication on the basis of the one or more parameter sets, the parameter set comprising at least a subcarrier interval and a cyclic prefix type. The method can flexibly configure the parameter set used for the sidelink communication in NR so as to improve the communication performance of the sidelink communication and meet higher requirements on a series of indicators in an NR scene such as the delay and the system stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yanzhao Hou, Xiaofeng Tao, Yuming Liu, Xin Guo, Zhaoqi Peng, Min Zhu
  • Patent number: 11388772
    Abstract: The present invention relates to user equipment, an electronic device, a wireless communication method, and a storage medium. According to the present invention, the user equipment comprises a processing circuit, configured to: detect a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) on a first bandwidth part of an unlicensed frequency band in a detection time of a discontinuous reception (DRX) period; and detect the PDCCH on a second bandwidth part of the unlicensed frequency band when the PDCCH is not detected on the first bandwidth part. By using the user equipment, the electronic device, the wireless communication method, and the storage medium in the present invention, a DRX mechanism of the user equipment operating on the unlicensed frequency band can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Qimei Cui, Bowen Cai, Tao Cui, Xiaofeng Tao
  • Publication number: 20220173781
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electronic device, a wireless communication method and a computer-readable medium. According to one embodiment, an electronic device for wireless communication comprises a processing circuit, wherein the processing circuit is configured to conduct control so as to send a reference signal for a direct link to the other user equipment or to receive same from the other user equipment; the processing circuit is also configured to conduct control so as to carry out beamforming-based direct link communication with the other user equipment; and at least one of a sending beam and a receiving beam for direct link communication is determined based on the measurement of the reference signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Yanzhao HOU, Xiaofeng TAO, Zhaoqi PENG, Xin GUO, Yuming LIU, Min ZHU, Wei REN
  • Publication number: 20220167186
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electronic device and method for wireless communication, and a computer readable storage medium. The electronic device comprises a processing circuit, configured to: determine that a beam failure occurs in a downlink of an unlicensed frequency band and generate a beam failure recovery request; perform energy detection on a first channel of a selected candidate beam, so as to send the beam failure recovery request by means of the first channel when the energy detection indicates that the first channel is idle; start a first timer while enabling the energy detection; and in the case that the first timer expires but the energy detection does not indicate that the first channel is idle, reselect a candidate beam and perform energy detection on a first channel of the reselected candidate beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Jin XU, Ying ZHOU, Wenjing REN, Dongru LI, Xiaofeng TAO, Jianfei CAO
  • Publication number: 20220116147
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electronic device, a wireless communication method, and a computer readable medium. According to one embodiment, the electronic device used for wireless communication comprises a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to perform control to send data and information related to retransmission of the data to a target user equipment by means of a sidelink. The processing circuit is further configured to control operation for the retransmission of the data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Yanzhao HOU, Min ZHU, Lei GAO, Xin GUO, Chen SUN, Bing WANG, Xiaofeng TAO
  • Publication number: 20220110133
    Abstract: The present invention provides an electronic device and method for wireless communication, and a computer readable storage medium. The electronic device comprises a processing circuit configured to: set a first timer used for counting the activation time of a current bandwidth part (BWP) for a user equipment on an unlicensed frequency band; and switch, when the first timer times out, the user equipment onto another BWP on the unlicensed frequency band.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Qimei CUI, Zhenyu XU, Tao CUI, Xiaofeng TAO, Bowen CAI, Jing LIU
  • Publication number: 20220070865
    Abstract: An electronic device at a network side serves as a first user equipment and a second user equipment. The electronic device includes a processing circuit and is configured to: determine the second user equipment to share a channel occupy time (COT) of the first user equipment on a time domain, wherein the first user equipment and the second user equipment send uplink information to the electronic device in the COT of the first user equipment using orthogonal frequency domain resources; and generate frequency domain resource indication information of the second user equipment to indicate a frequency domain resource for the second user equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Qimei CUI, Jing LIU, Tao CUI, Xiaofeng TAO
  • Patent number: 11234249
    Abstract: The present invention provides an electronic device and method for wireless communication, and a computer readable storage medium. The electronic device comprises a processing circuit configured to: set a first timer used for counting the activation time of a current bandwidth part (BWP) for a user equipment on an unlicensed frequency band; and switch, when the first timer times out, the user equipment onto another BWP on the unlicensed frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Qimei Cui, Zhenyu Xu, Tao Cui, Xiaofeng Tao, Bowen Cai, Jing Liu
  • Publication number: 20220007364
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electronic device, a wireless communication method, and a computer readable medium. The electronic device for wireless communication according to an embodiment comprises a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to perform control so as to receive indication information from a first user apparatus, the indication information being related to a sidelink bandwidth part (SL-BWP) for data transmission. The processing circuit is further configured to perform, on the basis of the indication information, an operation for performing sidelink communication with the first user apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Yanzhao HOU, Xiaofeng TAO, Min ZHU, Xin GUO, Lei GAO, Zhaoqi PENG