Patents by Inventor Zhi Zhang

Zhi Zhang 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: 20200092851
    Abstract: Provided are a resource indicating method, an apparatus, an access network device, a terminal and a system, which relate to the field of communications. The method includes: an access network device sends configuration information to a terminal, where the configuration information includes time domain resource grouping information for indicating a time domain distribution of at least one group of time domain resource units; and the access network device sends resource indication information to the terminal, and the terminal determines a time domain resource unit used by the terminal according to the resource indication information and the time domain resource grouping information. Resources that are discontinuous in the time domain can be flexibly indicated, thereby achieving the effect of indicating resources that are discontinuous in the time domain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Applicant: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhi ZHANG, Hai Tang
  • Publication number: 20200092888
    Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication method and device. Frequency-domain resource allocation and/or bandwidth part configuration is flexibly performed on a terminal device in conjunction with a synchronous signal block, and the performance of a communication system can be raised. The method comprises: a network device receiving a first message sent by a terminal device, the first message being used for indicating a first synchronous signal block detected by the terminal device; and according to the first synchronous signal block, the network device performing frequency-domain resource allocation and/or bandwidth part configuration on the terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventor: Zhi Zhang
  • Publication number: 20200084758
    Abstract: Method of scrambling signals, transmission point device, and user equipment using the method are provided. The method includes: sending an ID table to a user equipment through higher layer signaling, the ID table being a subset of the whole ID space and containing available IDs for the user equipment; notifying the user equipment an ID in the ID table to be used through physical layer signaling or UE specific higher layer signaling; generating a random seed based on the notified ID; initializing a scrambling sequence by the random seed; and scrambling the signals with the initialized scrambling sequence. The method of the disclosure, by combining physical layer signaling and higher layer signaling, may notify the used group ID and the blind detection space to a UE, wherein the blind detection for the UE is enabled and the signaling overhead is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Inventors: Zhi Zhang, Ming Xu, Masayuki Hoshino, Daichi Imamura, Akihiko Nishio
  • Publication number: 20200082747
    Abstract: A display driving circuit includes a control sub-circuit and a gate drive sub-circuit connected to the control sub-circuit. The control sub-circuit is configured to: receive an effective display data enable signal; determine whether the effective display data enable signal is lost; and control each stage of shift register in the gate drive sub-circuit to output a disabling signal via an output terminal of the shift register in response to determining that the effective display data enable signal is lost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Inventors: Zhenguo TIAN, Shuang HU, Lijun XIONG, Shuai CHEN, Taoliang TANG, Xing DONG, Xuebo LIANG, Zhi ZHANG
  • Patent number: 10587493
    Abstract: Various communication systems may benefit from techniques and systems for resource allocation. For example, communication systems of the third generation partnership project may benefit from device to device discovery resource allocation methods and systems. A method can include determining that downlink data transmission may cause conflict between uplink control channel transmission and device to device discovery signal transmissions or that uplink shared channel transmissions may conflict with device to device discovery signal transmissions; and requesting a user equipment to report device to device discovery needs based on the determining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Zhi Zhang, Juha Sakari Korhonen, Kodo Shu, Zexian Li, Haipeng Lei, Yixue Lei
  • Publication number: 20200076491
    Abstract: Provided are a wireless communication method and device. A feedback method for feeding back the signal quality of multiple transmitting beams of a network device by means of a terminal device can be improved, so that the communication performance of the terminal device can be improved. The method comprises: a terminal device determining a first feedback mode for feeding back the signal quality of multiple transmitting beams of a network device, wherein the first feedback mode differs from the other feedback modes supported by the terminal device in at least one of the following aspects: receiving the capability of receiving beams or receiving beam groups for signal quality feedback, and the number of receiving beams or receiving beam groups for signal quality feedback; and the terminal device feeding back the signal quality to the network device according to the first feedback mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2017
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Applicant: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhi ZHANG, Hai TANG
  • Publication number: 20200074929
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a pixel driving circuit and method thereof, a display driving circuit and method thereof, and a display panel. The pixel driving circuit includes: a first pixel driving sub-circuit configured to provide a driving signal to a driving signal output terminal in a first period and perform threshold voltage compensation on a second pixel driving sub-circuit in a second period under control of signals at a first scanning signal terminal, a first control signal terminal, and a first data signal terminal; and the second pixel driving sub-circuit configured to provide a driving signal to the driving signal output terminal in the second period and perform threshold voltage compensation on the first pixel driving sub-circuit in the first period under control of signals at a second scanning signal terminal, a second control signal terminal, and a second data signal terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: Shuai Chen, Zhi Zhang, Xiuzhu Tang, Xing Dong, Zhenguo Tian, Xuebo Liang, Ying Huang, Jianfeng Yuan
  • Publication number: 20200068545
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method for transmitting a signal, a network device, and a terminal device. The method includes: a network device determines transmission information of a synchronization signal block, where the transmission information includes information on the number m of the synchronization signal block, and information on a time-domain resource set over which the m synchronization signal block is transmitted, where the time-domain resource set includes m time-domain resource unit over which the m synchronization signal block is transmitted, and locations of m time-domain resource units in different time-domain resource sets are not completely the same; the network device sending the transmission information to a terminal device, so that the terminal device receives, according to the transmission information, the m synchronization signal block transmitted by the network device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Applicant: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhi ZHANG, Hai TANG
  • Publication number: 20200059876
    Abstract: A method for determining timing of a synchronization signal block (SS block) includes: receiving, by a user equipment, timing information of the SS block sent by a network apparatus; and determining, by the user equipment, timing of the SS block according to the timing information of the SS block. Embodiments of the present disclosure can be employed to achieve accurate timing for an SS block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2017
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventor: Zhi ZHANG
  • Patent number: 10567163
    Abstract: A processor using an internal memory to store constants Kt required in a secure hash algorithm (SHA). The latency due to loading the constants Kt from an external memory, therefore, is eliminated. The processor further introduces an instruction set architecture that provides one instruction for the processor to read the constants Kt from the internal memory and perform a particular process on the read constants Kt. Thus, the SHA works efficiently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: VIA ALLIANCE SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zhi Zhang
  • Patent number: 10564932
    Abstract: The invention introduces a method for calculating floating-point operands, which contains at least the following steps: receiving an FP (floating-point) operand in a first format from a source register, wherein the first format is one of a group of first formats of different kinds; converting the FP operand in the first format into an FP operand in a second format; generating a calculation result in the second format by calculating the FP operand in the second format; converting the calculation result in the second format into a calculation result in the first format; and writing-back the calculation result of the first format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: VIA ALLIANCE SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhi Zhang, Jing Chen
  • Publication number: 20200053727
    Abstract: A method and device for transmitting a synchronization signal are provided. The method includes: a terminal device receives time domain position indication information sent by a network device, wherein the time domain position indication information is used for indicating an offset of a position of a time domain resource of each SS block in M SS blocks relative to a predetermined position, and the M is a positive integer greater than or equal to 1; and the terminal device determines the time domain resource of each SS block according to the time domain position indication information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2017
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventors: Zhi Zhang, Hai Tang
  • Patent number: 10553176
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a display drive circuit, a display device, and a method for driving the same, where the display drive circuit includes a control circuit arranged between a power supply management circuit and a level conversion circuit, and the control circuit is configured to boost a standard gate turn-on voltage signal provided by the power supply management circuit, and to generate and then output a higher gate turn-on voltage signal to the level conversion circuit, upon determining that an ambient temperature is below a set temperature, and/or an output of a gate drive circuit of a display panel is abnormal, so that the level conversion circuit generates and then outputs a corresponding gate drive signal at higher voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Chongqing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lijun Xiong, Zhi Zhang, Heecheol Kim, Xiuzhu Tang, Shuai Chen, Jingpeng Zhao, Xing Dong, Xiaolong Liu, Gang Chen, Yanli Zhao
  • Publication number: 20200033977
    Abstract: A method for driving a display panel, a display panel, and a display device are provided. The display panel includes: a first gate driver circuit, a second gate driver circuit, common electrodes in an array, data lines, and gate lines, where the gate lines include first and second gate lines alternately row by row in the extension direction of the data lines, the first gate driver circuit is connected with the first gate lines, the second gate driver circuit is connected with the second gate lines, and the common electrodes are reused as touch electrodes; and in one frame, a gate scan signal or an alternating-current touch scan signal is input respectively to the first gate lines and the second gate lines in different periods so that a display function can be enabled, but also a touch report rate can be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventors: Jingpeng ZHAO, Jieqiong WANG, Zhi ZHANG, Guangquan WANG, Xiang WANG, Panpan LI, Yanfei REN, Xiuzhu TANG, Shuai CHEN
  • Publication number: 20200029367
    Abstract: A method for a terminal device to access a network, a terminal device and a network device are provided. The method includes: sending a random access preamble by a terminal device; receiving, by the terminal device, indication information sent by a first network device; and receiving, by the terminal device, random access response information sent by at least one network device according to the indication information, wherein the at least one network device comprises the first network device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventor: Zhi Zhang
  • Publication number: 20200028606
    Abstract: Transmitting, by the network device, the configuration information to a user equipment, wherein the configuration information is used to instruct the user equipment to use a measurement set to measure a synchronization signal, wherein the measurement set is used by a user equipment in a connected state to measure a synchronization signal, the measurement set is a first synchronization signal block (SS block) set, and the first SS block set includes a number of SS blocks smaller than a number of SS blocks included in a second SS block set which includes an SS block used by the user equipment in an idle state to measure the synchronization signal; or the measurement set is a signal set, and the signal set includes a part of signals in Y SS blocks, and Y is a positive integer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventor: Zhi ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20200026126
    Abstract: A backlight module is provided, including: a back frame in a box shape opening at an opening side; a sealant frame within the back frame; and a light guide plate and a membrane on the light guide plate, both surrounded by the sealant frame; the sealant frame has a step structure including a base portion whose upper surface is a step surface facing towards the opening side and a surrounding wall; the sealant frame has at least one positioning notch recessed into the base portion and the surrounding wall; the membrane has at least one positioning lug at an edge thereof, below the step surface and extending into the positioning notch; and the backlight module includes at least one positioning insert within a respective positioning notch and having a plate piece whose upper surface being an auxiliary supporting surface, facing towards the opening side and flush with the step surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: Xiaolong Liu, Taeyup Min, Zhi Zhang, He Sun, Keguo Liu, Gang Chen, Taoliang Tang, Changgong Zhu, Jianghong Wen
  • Publication number: 20200015209
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a control signaling transmission method, a base station and a terminal, the method includes: sending, by a base station, a first downlink control signaling to a terminal, and indicating, through the first downlink control signaling, whether the terminal needs to feed back an acknowledgement message corresponding to a reception of the first downlink control signaling; and receiving the acknowledgement message fed back by the terminal if the base station indicates that the terminal needs to feed back the acknowledgement message corresponding to the reception of the first downlink control signaling. The embodiments of the present disclosure can ensure that the base station knows the reception of important control signaling in time, facilitate the configuration and transmission of subsequent control signaling, and improve the reliability of a 5G NR system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Applicant: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Zhi ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20200015265
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method for transmitting system information, a base station and a terminal, the method including: receiving, by a base station, MSG1 transmitted by a terminal; determining an access purpose of the terminal according to a preset mapping relationship between a physical random access channel resource used by the terminal to transmit the MSG1 and the access purpose of the terminal, the access purpose including requesting the system information, requesting initial access, or requesting the system information and the initial access at one time; transmitting, by the base station, MSG2 to the terminal if the access purpose of the terminal is to request the system information, or to request the system information and the initial access at one time. It is possible to transmit the system information according to the requirements of the terminal, which is beneficial to optimize the system efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Applicant: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhi ZHANG, Ning YANG
  • Publication number: 20200015281
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a system information transmission method, a base station and a terminal. The method includes: a base station configuring physical random access channel (PRACH) parameters according to an access purpose of a terminal, and transmitting to the terminal, the access purpose comprising to request system information or to request initial access, the PRACH parameters comprising a number of a PRACH occasion and a time interval for the terminal to retransmit a random access request, each of the PRACH occasion corresponding to a different PRACH resource; receiving a random access request transmitted by the terminal according to the PRACH parameters selected according to the access purpose; if the access purpose of the terminal is to request the system information, transmitting system information to the terminal. The embodiments of the present disclosure facilitate system efficiency optimization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Inventors: Zhi ZHANG, Ning YANG