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).
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Patent number: 11917620Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 22, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Hiromasa Uchiyama, Yifu Tang
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Patent number: 11863969Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 9, 2019Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yifu Tang, Hiromasa Uchiyama, Naoki Kusashima
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Publication number: 20230406336Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2021Publication date: December 21, 2023Inventors: YIFU TANG, SHINICHIRO TSUDA
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Publication number: 20230356755Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2021Publication date: November 9, 2023Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Yifu TANG, Shinichiro TSUDA
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Patent number: 11785479Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroaki Takano, Naoki Kusashima, Shinichiro Tsuda, Hiroki Matsuda, Yifu Tang, Hiroto Kuriki
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Patent number: 11742937Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 20, 2022Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Naoki Kusashima, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Hiromasa Uchiyama, Hiroki Matsuda, Ryota Kimura, Yifu Tang
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Patent number: 11700595Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 29, 2018Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Naoki Kusashima, Hiromasa Uchiyama, Hiroki Matsuda, Yifu Tang
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Patent number: 11695432Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 22, 2021Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Ryota Kimura, Yifu Tang
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Patent number: 11595112Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 15, 2019Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Naoki Kusashima, Shinichiro Tsuda, Hiromasa Uchiyama, Yifu Tang
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Publication number: 20220417923Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2022Publication date: December 29, 2022Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Hiromasa UCHIYAMA, Yifu TANG
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Publication number: 20220408413Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2020Publication date: December 22, 2022Inventors: YIFU TANG, HIROMASA UCHIYAMA
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Patent number: 11533663Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 21, 2019Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Shinichiro Tsuda, Naoki Kusashima, Hiromasa Uchiyama, Yifu Tang
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Patent number: 11496975Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 13, 2019Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Naoki Kusashima, Hiromasa Uchiyama, Yifu Tang, Hiroki Matsuda
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Publication number: 20220345908Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2020Publication date: October 27, 2022Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Hiroaki TAKANO, Naoki KUSASHIMA, Shinichiro TSUDA, Hiroki MATSUDA, Yifu TANG, Hiroto KURIKI
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Publication number: 20220330334Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2020Publication date: October 13, 2022Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Yifu TANG, Hiromasa UCHIYAMA, Naoki KUSASHIMA
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Patent number: 11470584Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 9, 2019Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Hiromasa Uchiyama, Naoki Kusashima, Hiroki Matsuda, Yifu Tang
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Patent number: 11457447Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 10, 2020Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Hiromasa Uchiyama, Yifu Tang
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Publication number: 20220294569Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2020Publication date: September 15, 2022Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Hiroki Matsuda, Hiromasa Uchiyama, Naoki Kusashima, Yifu Tang
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Patent number: 11425640Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 6, 2019Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Naoki Kusashima, Hiromasa Uchiyama, Yifu Tang
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Patent number: 11394459Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 15, 2018Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Naoki Kusashima, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Hiromasa Uchiyama, Hiroki Matsuda, Ryota Kimura, Yifu Tang