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: 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
  • Patent number: 11395263
    Abstract: A radio communication device is provided that includes a communication unit which performs inter-device communication according to carrier aggregation; and a processing unit which selects the transmission resources to be used in the inter-device communication according to carrier aggregation. The processing unit selects, as the transmission resources, carriers that are less affected by the interference based on the information related to inter-carrier interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yifu Tang, Hiromasa Uchiyama, Naoki Kusashima
  • Publication number: 20220185487
    Abstract: To provide a structure capable of further improving safety of a device that autonomously moves in an emergency situation. Provided is a circuit including: a report unit configured to report action-allowable time information regarding an action-allowable time to a base station; and an action control unit configured to control an action of a moving object on the basis of an action instruction decided on the basis of the reported action-allowable time information and notified of by the base station and to control an action with reference to a map in which a danger level for each place is defined in an emergency situation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: YIFU TANG, HIROMASA UCHIYAMA
  • Patent number: 11357016
    Abstract: To provide a mechanism in which a plurality of base station devices operated by different operators, respectively, can share a radio resource while cooperating with each other. A base station device includes: a control unit that transmits, to another base station device operated by an operator different from an operator operating the base station device, first configuration information of a first guaranteed resource that is preferentially usable by the base station device among radio resources that are sharable between the operator operating the base station device and the operator operating the other base station device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Kusashima, Hiromasa Uchiyama, Hiroki Matsuda, Yifu Tang
  • Publication number: 20220116933
    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: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: HIROMASA UCHIYAMA, YIFU TANG
  • Patent number: 11292602
    Abstract: Provided is a circuit including a report unit that reports action-allowable time information regarding an action-allowable time to a base station, and an action control unit that controls an action of a moving object on the basis of an action instruction. The action instruction is decided on the basis of the reported action-allowable time information and notified of by the base station. The action control unit further controls the action with reference to a map in which a danger level for each place is defined in an emergency situation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yifu Tang, Hiromasa Uchiyama
  • Publication number: 20220085876
    Abstract: [Subject] To realize FeD2D communication with higher quality. [Solving Means] A communication apparatus includes: an acquisition unit that acquires, from another apparatus, information regarding a state of communication through a resource pool allocated to wireless links between at least part of a plurality of relay communication apparatuses, which are movable, and a remote communication apparatus; and a control unit that individually controls allocation of the resource pool to each of the wireless links between each of the plurality of relay communication apparatuses and the remote communication apparatus associated with the relay communication apparatus on the basis of the acquired information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Hiromasa UCHIYAMA, Naoki KUSASHIMA, Yifu TANG
  • Publication number: 20220070829
    Abstract: A communication device comprising: a communication unit that performs radio communication; and a control unit that performs control so that a response to transmission of data from another terminal device via inter-device communication is to be transmitted to the other terminal device via the inter-device communication, wherein the control unit determines a resource to be used for transmission of the response based on a condition related to the inter-device communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki KUSASHIMA, Hiromasa UCHIYAMA, Yifu TANG
  • Publication number: 20220045798
    Abstract: An information processing device includes an acquisition unit that acquires information about sidelink communication, and a determination unit that determines whether to enable feedback related to a data automatic repeat request in the sidelink communication based on the information about the sidelink communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventors: YIFU TANG, HIROMASA UCHIYAMA, NAOKI KUSASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20220045698
    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: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventors: RYOTA KIMURA, YIFU TANG
  • Publication number: 20220046640
    Abstract: Base station devices 20 and 30 includes communication units 21 and 31 and control units 24 and 34. The communication units 21 and 31 communicate with the terminal devices 40 and 50. When at least one symbol included in a slot format configured in the terminal devices 40 and 50 is a symbol for communication other than sidelink communication, the control units 24 and 34 transmit, to the terminal devices 40 and 50, information for use by the terminal devices 40 and 50 as a symbol for sidelink communication with at least one symbol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Yifu TANG, Hiromasa UCHIYAMA, Naoki KUSASHIMA
  • Patent number: 11229015
    Abstract: 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: June 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiromasa Uchiyama, Yifu Tang
  • Patent number: 11218216
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes: an acquisition unit that acquires, from another apparatus, information regarding a state of communication through a resource pool allocated to wireless links between at least part of a plurality of relay communication apparatuses, which are movable, and a remote communication apparatus; and a control unit that individually controls allocation of the resource pool to each of the wireless links between each of the plurality of relay communication apparatuses and the remote communication apparatus associated with the relay communication apparatus on the basis of the acquired information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiromasa Uchiyama, Naoki Kusashima, Yifu Tang
  • Patent number: 11212025
    Abstract: [Object] Provided is a mechanism for enhancing resistance against an interference that possibly occur due to non-orthogonality of a resource in a communication system holding communication with a mixture of a plurality of communication parameter sets. [Solving Means] A transmitting apparatus holding communication using a plurality of communication parameter sets in a unit resource, and including a processing section that transmits a data signal and a reference signal generated using the parameter sets different between the data signal and the reference signal to a receiving apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryota Kimura, Hiroki Matsuda, Naoki Kusashima, Yifu Tang, Yukitoshi Sanada
  • Publication number: 20210392547
    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: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yifu TANG, Hiromasa UCHIYAMA, Naoki KUSASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20210378012
    Abstract: There is proposed a mechanism that makes it possible to achieve fair channel access between a plurality of nodes. A base station including a control unit (150) that notifies a terminal device of setting information regarding a channel access scheme to be used and carrier sense. The terminal device is configured to use, as channel access schemes, a first scheme in which the terminal device performs carrier sense at any timing and a second scheme in which the terminal device performs carrier sense at predetermined timing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: NAOKI KUSASHIMA, HIROMASA UCHIYAMA, HIROKI MATSUDA, YIFU TANG
  • Publication number: 20210352599
    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: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki KUSASHIMA, Hiromasa UCHIYAMA, Yifu TANG, Hiroki MATSUDA
  • Patent number: 11171669
    Abstract: There is provided an apparatus including an acquisition unit configured to acquire an information block generated from transmission data for a user and subjected to error correction coding; and an interleaving unit configured to interleave 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: June 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryota Kimura, Yifu Tang
  • Publication number: 20210329498
    Abstract: There is provided a communication apparatus including: a communication unit that performs radio communication; a control unit that controls an operation of sensing resources to be used in a communication scheme used for performing inter-device communication with other devices, in which the control unit controls to sense the resource in a predetermined minimum unit on a time axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yifu TANG, Naoki KUSASHIMA, Hiromasa UCHIYAMA, Hiroki MATSUDA
  • Publication number: 20210314930
    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: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiromasa UCHIYAMA, Naoki KUSASHIMA, Hiroki MATSUDA, Yifu TANG