Patents by Inventor YIFU TANG

YIFU TANG 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).

  • Patent number: 11917620
    Abstract: To achieve higher-quality FeD2D communication. A communication apparatus including a communication unit that performs a wireless communication, and a control unit that performs a control to cause control information regarding allocation of a resource for a communication with a first apparatus via a first wireless link to be notified to a second apparatus via a second wireless link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiromasa Uchiyama, Yifu Tang
  • Patent number: 11863969
    Abstract: Provided is a communication apparatus (200) including: an acquisition unit (241) that acquires, from a base station apparatus (100), information for operating as a master for controlling a sidelink communication between other apparatuses; and a control unit (240) that performs a process for operating as the master on the basis of the information acquired by the acquisition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yifu Tang, Hiromasa Uchiyama, Naoki Kusashima
  • Publication number: 20230406336
    Abstract: A configuration for notifying a driver of an allowable activity for the driver according to an automated driving level is realized. The automated driving level of automated driving being executed by a mobile device is acquired, and the driver is notified of the allowable activity for the driver according to the acquired automated driving level. The control unit acquires an automated driving level-corresponding allowable activity list in which the automated driving level and the allowable activity are associated with each other from an external server or a storage unit, refers to the automated driving level-corresponding allowable activity list, acquires the allowable activity corresponding to the automated driving level, and notifies the driver of the acquired allowable activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: YIFU TANG, SHINICHIRO TSUDA
  • Publication number: 20230356755
    Abstract: A data collection unit that acquires observation information of a travel environment of a moving apparatus such as an automated driving vehicle, a driving assistance processing unit that generates control information based on data collected by the data collection unit and performs driving control, and a determination unit that compares the observation information acquired by the data collection unit with external information acquired from an external device via a communication unit and determines a matching degree. In a case where the determination unit determines that a matching degree between the observation information and the external information is low, the driving assistance processing unit outputs a downward shift control request of an automated driving level or a shift request to manual driving, and executes downward shift control processing of the automated driving level or shift processing to the manual driving on the basis of selection of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Yifu TANG, Shinichiro TSUDA
  • Patent number: 11785479
    Abstract: A control unit receives at least one of a plurality of synchronization signals transmitted after undergoing beam sweeping via a wireless communication unit. The beam sweeping includes each of the plurality of synchronization signals forming a different beam and transmitted from the base station during a predetermined period of time. The control unit determines, from a plurality of pieces of beam sweeping configuration information, one piece of the configuration information based on priority between a plurality of types of beam sweeping and receives the synchronization signal or report the received synchronization signal to the base station using the one piece of the configuration information determined based on the priority. The number of the synchronization signals transmitted during a predetermined period of time varies among the plurality of pieces of beam sweeping configuration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki Takano, Naoki Kusashima, Shinichiro Tsuda, Hiroki Matsuda, Yifu Tang, Hiroto Kuriki
  • Patent number: 11742937
    Abstract: Provided is a mechanism which is capable of improving wireless link quality regarding transmission from a terminal device on the ground to a non-ground station device. A terminal device including a control unit configured to acquire information regarding a type of a base station device and control a transmission timing of a signal to the base station device on the basis of the information regarding the type of the base station device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Kusashima, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Hiromasa Uchiyama, Hiroki Matsuda, Ryota Kimura, Yifu Tang
  • Patent number: 11700595
    Abstract: A terminal device including a control unit that transmits first resource information, which indicates a radio resource available to another communication device among radio resources of which access rights are acquired by performing carrier sense, on an uplink or a sidelink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Kusashima, Hiromasa Uchiyama, Hiroki Matsuda, Yifu Tang
  • Patent number: 11695432
    Abstract: There is provided an apparatus including an acquisition unit that acquires an information block generated from transmission data for a user and subjected to error correction coding, and an interleaving unit that interleaves a bit sequence of the information block using an interleaver unique to the user. The interleaving unit interleaves the bit sequence by interleaving each of two or more partial sequences obtained from the bit sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryota Kimura, Yifu Tang
  • Patent number: 11595112
    Abstract: To provide a communication device capable of further improving the quality between wireless links in a communication system in which a base station device and a communication device communicate with each other. Provided is a communication device configured to be capable of floating in the air, the communication device including a control unit that receives information regarding interference with a first communication device from a second communication device, the first communication device being not a communication partner, the second communication device being the communication partner, and controls transmission on the basis of the information regarding the interference and of an altitude of the communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Kusashima, Shinichiro Tsuda, Hiromasa Uchiyama, Yifu Tang
  • Publication number: 20220417923
    Abstract: A communication device that enables sensing of efficient resources in inter device communication such as V2X communication, including a control unit configured to allocate a resource area in which a resource is selectable by a terminal device that executes inter-device communication, and to provide information regarding a range of sensing of the resource area to the terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Hiromasa UCHIYAMA, Yifu TANG
  • Publication number: 20220408413
    Abstract: A wireless communication device (200) according to the present disclosure includes a control unit (240). In a case where a resource selected for use in packet transmission is preempted by another wireless communication device (200) in sidelink communication, the control unit (240) adjusts a transmission parameter and transmits the packet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: YIFU TANG, HIROMASA UCHIYAMA
  • Patent number: 11533663
    Abstract: A wireless communication device is provided which allows proper management of location information for a terminal moving in the air to reduce the power consumption of the terminal and to prevent the terminal from affecting communication. A wireless communication device is provided which includes a determination unit that determines whether the device is a device moving on the ground or a device moving in the air, a neighboring cell determination unit that determines whether or not identification information of a paging area acquired through common information transmitted from a base station is the same as identification information of a paging area for which an update was performed last time when the determination unit determines that the device is moving in the air, and a control unit that determines presence or absence of need for a paging area update on the basis of a condition for initiating a paging area update when the determination unit determines that the device is moving in the air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichiro Tsuda, Naoki Kusashima, Hiromasa Uchiyama, Yifu Tang
  • Patent number: 11496975
    Abstract: A communication device includes: a communication unit that performs wireless communication; and a control unit (103) that performs control so that a plurality of synchronization signals is patterned and arranged in regions to which resources of the wireless communication are allocated and is transmitted to another terminal device, the plurality of synchronization signals being associated with each of a plurality of beams allocated to be available for inter-device communication between different terminal devices, in which the control unit (103) performs control so that a pattern in which the plurality of synchronization signals is arranged is switched according to a predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Kusashima, Hiromasa Uchiyama, Yifu Tang, Hiroki Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20220345908
    Abstract: A control unit receives at least one of a plurality of synchronization signals transmitted after undergoing beam sweeping via a wireless communication unit. The beam sweeping includes each of the plurality of synchronization signals forming a different beam and transmitted from the base station during a predetermined period of time. The control unit determines, from a plurality of pieces of beam sweeping configuration information, one piece of the configuration information based on priority between a plurality of types of beam sweeping and receives the synchronization signal or report the received synchronization signal to the base station using the one piece of the configuration information determined based on the priority. The number of the synchronization signals transmitted during a predetermined period of time varies among the plurality of pieces of beam sweeping configuration information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki TAKANO, Naoki KUSASHIMA, Shinichiro TSUDA, Hiroki MATSUDA, Yifu TANG, Hiroto KURIKI
  • Publication number: 20220330334
    Abstract: A communication control device (30) according to the present disclosure includes a control unit (34). The control unit (34) notifies at least one of a first communication device (401) and a second communication device (402) of information on carrier sense in sidelink communication in an unlicensed band between the first communication device (401) and the second communication device (402).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Yifu TANG, Hiromasa UCHIYAMA, Naoki KUSASHIMA
  • Patent number: 11470584
    Abstract: It is possible to accommodate various communication traffics in a more suitable manner in inter-device communication such as V2X communication. A communication device (100) includes: a communication unit (220) that performs wireless communication; an acquisition unit (243) that acquires information regarding a control resource set from another device, the control resource set including one or more control resources allocated to a partial area included in a control area and defined for every purpose of resources allocated to a data area; and a control unit (241) that extracts the control resource set according to the acquired information regarding the control resource set and controls inter-device communication with another communication device via the wireless communication on the basis of the control resource set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiromasa Uchiyama, Naoki Kusashima, Hiroki Matsuda, Yifu Tang
  • Patent number: 11457447
    Abstract: A communication device that enables sensing of efficient resources in inter device communication such as V2X communication, including a control unit configured to allocate a resource area in which a resource is selectable by a terminal device that executes inter-device communication, and to provide information regarding a range of sensing of the resource area to the terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiromasa Uchiyama, Yifu Tang
  • Publication number: 20220294569
    Abstract: A terminal device includes a communication unit and a control unit. The control unit is configured to receive disabling information of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback via the communication unit, and recognize that one or more pieces of HARQ feedback indicated by the disabling information of the HARQ feedback are disabled, and the disabling information of the HARQ feedback is set for each cell, each beam, each component carrier, each bandwidth part (BWP), each user equipment (UE), or each HARQ process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki Matsuda, Hiromasa Uchiyama, Naoki Kusashima, Yifu Tang
  • Patent number: 11425640
    Abstract: A communication device is provided that further improves the quality between radio links, in a communication system in which a base station apparatus communicates with a communication device. A communication device is provided that includes a reception unit that receives system information including a set of identities indicating virtual cells, and a setting unit that selects a virtual cell identity to be applied, from the set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Kusashima, Hiromasa Uchiyama, Yifu Tang
  • Patent number: 11394459
    Abstract: Provided is a mechanism which is capable of improving wireless link quality regarding transmission from a terminal device on the ground to a non-ground station device. A terminal device including a control unit configured to acquire information regarding a type of a base station device and control a transmission timing of a signal to the base station device on the basis of the information regarding the type of the base station device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Kusashima, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Hiromasa Uchiyama, Hiroki Matsuda, Ryota Kimura, Yifu Tang