Patents by Inventor Zhaocheng Wang
Zhaocheng Wang 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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Publication number: 20250119198Abstract: Provided are an electronic device and method for wireless communication, and a computer-readable storage medium. The electronic device may comprise a processing circuit, the processing circuit being configured to: on the basis of a result that candidate beams are previously used to perform beam tracking with respect to another device in communication with the electronic device, estimate a prediction probability that each candidate beam is an optimal beam; and on the basis of the estimated prediction probability, select, from the candidate beams, a measurement beam for beam tracking of next time.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2023Publication date: April 10, 2025Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Ke MA, Fan ZHANG, Zhaocheng WANG, Jianfei CAO
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Patent number: 12273884Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electronic device, a method, and a storage medium for a wireless communication system. Various embodiments for setting guard periods for downlink-to-uplink switching are described. An embodiment relates to an electronic device for a base station used in a TDD communication system, and the electronic device comprises a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to: set a first guard period for downlink-to-uplink switching for a first terminal device in a first cell; and set a second guard period for downlink-to-uplink switching for a second terminal device in the first cell, wherein the second guard period for downlink-to-uplink switching is different from the first guard period for downlink-to-uplink switching.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2020Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Zhengyi Zhou, Zhaocheng Wang, Ning Ge, Jianfei Cao
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Publication number: 20250105885Abstract: Provided in the present disclosure are an electronic device and method for wireless communication, and a computer-readable storage medium. The electronic device comprises: a processing circuit, which is configured to: determine a sensing beam group, wherein sensing beams in the sensing beam group and a communication beam are selected from the same beam codebook, and the sensing beams are all different from the communication beam; and to send a combined beam, and repeatedly execute the sending to traverse all the sensing beams in the sensing beam group, wherein the combined beam comprises the communication beam and a sensing beam subgroup, and each sensing beam subgroup comprises one or more sensing beams in the sensing beam group.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2023Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Yinxiao ZHUO, Zhaocheng WANG, Jianfei CAO
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Patent number: 12231196Abstract: An electronic device on a control device side for a wireless communication system, includes: a processing circuit configured to group a plurality of terminal devices of the wireless communication system into one linear precoding terminal device group and one or more nonlinear precoding terminal device groups based on respective nonlinear precoding capabilities and channel state information of the plurality of terminal devices; and notify each terminal device whether nonlinear precoding or linear precoding is to be employed in communication for the terminal device by means of a nonlinear precoding indicator based on the grouping.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2024Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Peiyao Zhao, Zhaocheng Wang, Jianfei Cao
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Publication number: 20240380434Abstract: A method includes calculating, by a joint transmission user, a first and a second equivalent channel matrix from the first base station and the second base station to the user; feeding back a first matrix to the first base station based on the first equivalent channel matrix, and feeding back a second matrix to the second base station based on the second equivalent channel matrix; receiving the pre-coded first data demodulation reference signal from the first base station and the pre-coded second data demodulation reference signal from the second base station, and then calculating a decoding matrix, wherein the number of columns of the first feedback equivalent channel matrix and the number of columns of the second equivalent channel matrix are equal to or less than the sum of the number of data layers of the first base station and the second base station.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2022Publication date: November 14, 2024Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Ziyuan SHA, Zhaocheng WANG, Jianfei CAO
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Patent number: 12136976Abstract: An electronic device, a wireless communication method, and a computer-readable storage medium. The electronic device comprises a processing circuit, configured to send two reference signals using identical time-frequency resources and respectively using two beams in a beam pair, wherein a spatial distance between the two beams in the beam pair is greater than a predetermined value, and the two reference signals satisfy a predetermined constraint relation. The efficiency of a beam training process can be improved, and the time consumption of the beam training process is reduced, thereby achieving a compromise between beam training overheads and beamforming gains.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2021Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Ke Ma, Wendong Liu, Zhaocheng Wang, Jianfei Cao
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Patent number: 12136972Abstract: Disclosed are a device and method in a wireless communication system. The device comprises: a first generating unit configured to generate a first pre-coding matrix according to first channel information on a channel between a first communication apparatus and a second communication apparatus; a second generating unit configured to generate a second pre-coding matrix according to the first pre-coding matrix and second channel information on the channel; and a pre-coding unit configured to pre-code a data signal according to the first pre-coding matrix and the second pre-coding matrix. According to the embodiments of the present invention, interference between user equipment can be effectively removed, the operation complexity is reduced, and the whole performance of the system is optimized.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2023Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Chen Qian, Zhaocheng Wang, Wendong Liu, Jinhui Chen
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Patent number: 12133088Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a base station device, a communication method, and a storage medium in a wireless communication system. There is provided a base station device, comprising a processing circuitry configured to: based on a conflicting beam list, determining that at least one conflicting beam is included in a set of transmitting beams to be used for downlink transmission from a local cell in a future specific period; in response to the determining, send beam scheduling information for the future specific period to a base station of an adjacent cell, the beam scheduling information including at least information on time-frequency resources allocated to the at least one conflicting beam by the local cell.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2020Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Ziyuan Sha, Zhaocheng Wang, Jianfei Cao
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Publication number: 20240357521Abstract: The present disclosure relates to electronic device, communication method and computer program product in a wireless communication system. An electronic device on user side is provided, comprising a processing circuitry configured to receive a configuration on a plurality of timing advances (TAs) associated with a plurality of transmit and receive points (TRPs), wherein the plurality of TAs have different values; and transmit uplink transmission frames to the plurality of TRPs simultaneously, wherein the uplink transmission frame transmitted to each of the TRPs is applied with a TA associated with the TRP.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2022Publication date: October 24, 2024Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Zhengyi ZHOU, Fan ZHANG, Zhaocheng WANG, Jianfei CAO
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Publication number: 20240275439Abstract: An electronic device on a control device side for a wireless communication system, includes: a processing circuit configured to group a plurality of terminal devices of the wireless communication system into one linear precoding terminal device group and one or more nonlinear precoding terminal device groups based on respective nonlinear precoding capabilities and channel state information of the plurality of terminal devices; and notify each terminal device whether nonlinear precoding or linear precoding is to be employed in communication for the terminal device by means of a nonlinear precoding indicator based on the grouping.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2024Publication date: August 15, 2024Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Peiyao ZHAO, Zhaocheng WANG, Jianfei CAO
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Patent number: 12052066Abstract: An electronic device includes a processing circuit configured to execute a beam measurement process, so as to determine, under each pre-set interference scene, the channel quality between each receiving beam of the electronic device and each transmitting beam of a network side device serving the electronic device, and determine a receiving beam according to the channel quality under each pre-set interference scene, the transmitting beam of the network side device and a pre-set interference scene in which the electronic device is located, such that a signal-to-interference-and-noise ratio obtained when the electronic device uses the determined receiving beam to receive a signal is the maximum, the pre-set interference scene representing an interference situation of the network side device around the electronic device to the electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2020Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Ziyuan Sha, Zhaocheng Wang, Jianfei Cao
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Patent number: 12035184Abstract: An electronic device on side of user equipment, with an access link between the user equipment and a first node of an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) system, there being a backhaul link between the first node and a second node of the IAB system, wherein the second node is a parent node of the first node in network topology of the IAB system, characterized in that the electronic device includes: processing circuitry that measures a signal inference from a third node; reports an interference measurement to the first node; and in a case where the second node makes a determination to switch the access link used by the user equipment based at least in part on the interference measurement exceeding a predetermined threshold, establishes a direct access link between the user equipment and the second node and disconnect the access link between the user equipment and the first node.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2020Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Wendong Liu, Zhaocheng Wang, Jianfei Cao
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Patent number: 11956112Abstract: An electronic device and communication method are disclosed. The electronic device comprises a processing circuit configured to perform a pre-processing operation on a first one-dimensional sequence of modulation symbols, the pre-processing operation including: performing a dimension-increasing conversion to convert the first one-dimensional sequence of modulation symbols into a first multi-dimensional modulation symbol block; transforming the first multi-dimensional modulation symbol block into a second multi-dimensional modulation symbol block with a first transformation, wherein the first transformation couples each symbol in the first multi-dimensional modulation symbol block with each other; and performing a dimension-decreasing conversion to convert the second multi-dimensional modulation symbol block into a second one-dimensional sequence of modulation symbols, wherein the dimension-decreasing conversion is an inverse process of the dimension-increasing conversion.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Zhengyi Zhou, Zhaocheng Wang, Ning Ge, Jianfei Cao
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Patent number: 11936446Abstract: The present disclosure relates to electronic device, method for wireless communication system and storage medium. The present disclosure proposes an electronic device on a control device side for a wireless communication system, comprising: a processing circuit configured to group a plurality of terminal devices of the wireless communication system into one linear precoding terminal device group and one or more nonlinear precoding terminal device groups based on respective nonlinear precoding capabilities and channel state information of the plurality of terminal devices; and notify each terminal device whether nonlinear precoding or linear precoding is to be employed in communication for the terminal device by means of a nonlinear precoding indicator based on the grouping.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2019Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Peiyao Zhao, Zhaocheng Wang, Jianfei Cao
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Publication number: 20240064043Abstract: A wireless communication method and a wireless communication device. An electronic device for a user equipment in a wireless communication system, including a processing circuit configured to receive, from a base station, channel state information reference signal with a set of reception filters, perform channel estimation on a downlink channel from the base station to the user equipment, select, from the set of reception filters, one or more particular reception filters corresponding to respective channel estimation results that satisfy a first predetermined condition, and signal, from the user equipment to the base station, sounding reference signal with one or more particular transmission filters, wherein the one or more particular transmission filters and one or more particular reception filters are reciprocal respectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2023Publication date: February 22, 2024Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Peiyao ZHAO, Zhaocheng WANG, Jinhui CHEN
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Publication number: 20240048317Abstract: An electronic device and method for wireless communication system, and a storage medium. In the method, reference signal are carried merely on a part of communication sources for channel estimation, channel states on the communication resources carrying the reference signal are estimated, and conditions of channel paths from a transmitter to a receiver are estimated by using the estimated channel states of the communication resources. Thereby, channel states on other communication resources from the transmitter to the receiver can be obtained from the estimated channel path conditions.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Ziyuan SHA, Zhaocheng WANG, Jianfei CAO
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Patent number: 11831708Abstract: A distributed computation offloading method based on computation-network collaboration in a stochastic network is provided. The distributed computation offloading method includes: building a device revenue maximization problem model and a MEC server revenue maximization problem model based on a local computing model and an edge cloud computing model; building composite sets of scenarios for dwell time and waiting latency based on a random movement of a user and burst computation demands; compensating for a game strategy by using a posteriori recourse action and building a game-based stochastic programming model between the device and the MEC server; transforming a multi-stage stochastic regularization problem for both the device and the MEC server into a DEP problem by constructing a scenario tree, and solving the DEP problem to obtain an optimal task strategy for the offloading from the MEC server and an optimal offering strategy of the MEC server to the device.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2021Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: CHONGQING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONSInventors: Yun Li, Shichao Xia, Zhixiu Yao, Guangfu Wu, Hongcheng Zhuang, Zhaocheng Wang
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Patent number: 11831575Abstract: An electronic device and method for wireless communication system, and a storage medium. In the method, reference signal are carried merely on a part of communication sources for channel estimation, channel states on the communication resources carrying the reference signal are estimated, and conditions of channel paths from a transmitter to a receiver are estimated by using the estimated channel states of the communication resources. Thereby, channel states on other communication resources from the transmitter to the receiver can be obtained from the estimated channel path conditions.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Ziyuan Sha, Zhaocheng Wang, Jianfei Cao
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Patent number: 11799693Abstract: A wireless communication method and a wireless communication device. An electronic device for a user equipment in a wireless communication system, including a processing circuit configured to receive, from a base station, channel state information reference signal with a set of reception filters, perform channel estimation on a downlink channel from the base station to the user equipment, select, from the set of reception filters, one or more particular reception filters corresponding to respective channel estimation results that satisfy a first predetermined condition, and signal, from the user equipment to the base station, sounding reference signal with one or more particular transmission filters, wherein the one or more particular transmission filters and one or more particular reception filters are reciprocal respectively.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2022Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Peiyao Zhao, Zhaocheng Wang, Jinhui Chen
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Publication number: 20230318668Abstract: A wireless communication method and a wireless communication device.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Peiyao ZHAO, Zhaocheng WANG, Xudong ZHU, Jinhui CHEN