Patents by Inventor Zhifeng Yuan

Zhifeng Yuan 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: 20240396677
    Abstract: Disclosed are a signal sending method, a signal receiving method, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The signal sending method includes generating a first transmission signal, where the first transmission signal includes a communication signal and a sensing signal and at least two periodic repetitions of the sensing signal exist within the time period of each orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing symbol in the time domain, and sending the first transmission signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Inventors: Yihua MA, Zhifeng YUAN, Shuqiang XIA, Guanghui YU, Liujun HU
  • Publication number: 20240396774
    Abstract: Method, device and computer program product for wireless communication are provided. A method includes: receiving, by a wireless communication terminal from a wireless communication node, a broadcast signal; and backscattering, by the wireless communication terminal, an excitation signal according to the broadcast signal to generate a backscatter signal, wherein the excitation signal is on a first orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing, OFDM, subcarrier, and the backscatter signal is on second OFDM subcarriers associated with a frequency of the first OFDM subcarrier and a subcarrier spacing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2024
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Inventors: Yihua MA, Zhifeng YUAN, Weimin LI, Zhigang LI
  • Publication number: 20240388491
    Abstract: Disclosed are a signal sending method, a signal receiving method, an electronic device and a storage medium. The signal sending method includes the following. A first transmission signal is generated, where the first transmission signal includes a communication signal and a sensing signal, and the sensing signal occupies bandwidth resources of at least two component carriers in a frequency domain; and the first transmission signal is sent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Inventors: Yihua MA, Zhifeng YUAN, Shuqiang XIA, Guanghui YU, Liujun HU
  • Patent number: 12132677
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods, apparatuses, systems, and computer readable media. In one aspect, a wireless communication method is disclosed. The method includes generating, at a first radio terminal, a signal comprising a pilot signal, wherein the pilot signal includes W pilot sequences, wherein W is an integer, and wherein the W pilot sequences are uncorrelated; and transmitting, from the first radio terminal to a second radio terminal, the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Zhifeng Yuan, Yuzhou Hu, Weimin Li, Yihua Ma
  • Publication number: 20240345209
    Abstract: A wireless communication and sensing method for use in a wireless communication and sensing node is disclosed. The method comprises transmitting an integrated sensing and communication, ISAC, signal, wherein a sensing signal in the ISAC signal comprises a wideband signal and at least one single-tone signal, wherein the number of the at least one single-tone signal is less than 10, and wherein a bandwidth of the wideband signal is greater than 1 MHz.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2024
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Applicant: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yihua MA, Zhifeng YUAN, Shuqiang XIA, Guanghui YU, Liujun HU
  • Publication number: 20240319319
    Abstract: A wireless communication and sensing method comprising: performing, by a wireless communication and sensing node, a communication function of an integrated sensing and communication, ISAC, signal via one or more communication antennas; and performing, by the wireless communication and sensing node, a sensing function of the ISAC signal via the one or more communication antennas and one or more sensing-dedicated antennas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yihua MA, Zhifeng YUAN, Shuqiang XIA, Guanghui YU, Liujun HU
  • Publication number: 20240319320
    Abstract: A wireless communication and sensing method is disclosed. The method comprises sending, by a wireless communication and sensing node, an integrated sensing and communication, ISAC, signal comprising a communication signal and a sensing signal, wherein the sensing signal comprises one or more single-tone signals, and wherein the number of the single-tone signals being less than 10.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Yihua Ma, Zhifeng Yuan, Shuqiang Xia, Guanghui Yu, Liujun Hu
  • Patent number: 12101216
    Abstract: Provided are a data sending method and apparatus, a data receiving method and apparatus, a data transmission system, and a storage medium. The data sending method includes: a first data stream is acquired, where the first data stream includes multiple coded data symbols; an N-dimensional orthogonal transformation is performed on the first data stream to obtain an orthogonally transformed first data stream, where N?2; a modulation processing is performed on the orthogonally transformed first data stream to obtain a first radio frequency signal; and the first radio frequency signal is sent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yihua Ma, Zhifeng Yuan, Yuzhou Hu
  • Publication number: 20240255608
    Abstract: Techniques are described for transmission and/or reception of signal structure designs for joint communications and sensing. An example wireless communication method includes transmitting, by a wireless device, a waveform that includes a signal structure having one or more time resources or one or more frequency resources, where the signal structure includes a plurality of data signals, where the signal structure includes a plurality of sensing signals configured to reflect from an object in an area where the wireless device is operating, and where locations of the plurality of sensing signals in the signal structure form an irregular pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2024
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Inventors: Yihua MA, Zhifeng YUAN, Guanghui YU, Shuqiang XIA, Liujun HU
  • Publication number: 20240250734
    Abstract: Techniques are described for transmission and/or reception of signal structure designs for joint communications and sensing. An example wireless communication method includes transmitting, by a wireless device, a waveform that includes a signal structure having one or more time resources or one or more frequency resources, where the signal structure includes a plurality of data signals, where the signal structure includes a plurality of sensing signal configured to reflect from an object in an area where the wireless device is operating, and where, before the transmitting, the plurality of data signals are spread using different spreading codes than that used to spread the plurality of sensing signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2024
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Inventors: Yihua MA, Zhifeng YUAN, Guanghui YU, Shuqiang XIA, Liujun HU
  • Patent number: 12047217
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for contention-based transmissions using differential coding techniques in mobile communication technology are described. An exemplary method for wireless communication includes transmitting, by a wireless device, a payload that comprises an identity of the wireless device and at least one of a user plane data or a control plane data, where the payload is modulated using a differential coding technique. Another exemplary method for wireless communication includes receiving, by a network node, a payload that comprises an identity of the wireless device and at least one of a user plane data or a control plane data, where the payload is modulated using a differential coding technique.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Zhifeng Yuan, Yuzhou Hu, Jianqiang Dai, Weimin Li, Jian Li, Qiujin Guo, Hong Tang
  • Publication number: 20240204856
    Abstract: Disclosed are a full-duplex antenna and a communication node, where the full-duplex antenna may include a transmit antenna, N receive antenna groups and N radio frequency links. Each of the radio frequency links is configured to acquire first signals received by all receive antennas in one of the receive antenna groups connected to the radio frequency link, and synthesize a second signal according to the first signals. A power of a self-interference signal related to the transmit antenna in each of the first signals in a full-duplex transmission mode is defined as a first power, a power of a self-interference signal related to the transmit antenna in the second signal in the full-duplex transmission mode is defined as a second power, and the second power is less than the first power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Applicant: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Yihua Ma, Zhifeng Yuan, Yuzhou Hu, Weimin Li, Zhigang Li
  • Publication number: 20240205066
    Abstract: A symbol transmitting method, including: determining N+1 transmission symbols s0, s1, s2, . . . , sN, according to a reference symbol and (M1+M2)*N bits, where 0, 1, 2, . . . , N are indices of the N+1 transmission symbols, s0 is a reference symbol, an amplitude of a transmission symbol with index n is determined according to M1 bits, a phase of the transmission symbol with index n is determined according to a phase of a transmission symbol with index n?1 and M2 bits, M1 is an integer greater than or equal to 1. M2 is an integer greater than or equal to 1, N is an integer greater than or equal to 1, 1?n?N, and n is an integer; and transmitting the N+1 transmission symbols.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Inventors: Zhifeng YUAN, Yu XIN, Guanghui YU, Jin XU, Liujun HU
  • Publication number: 20240205060
    Abstract: A symbol sending method, a symbol receiving method, a sending device, a receiving device, and a storage medium are disclosed. The method for symbol transmission may include determining, N+transmission symbols of s0, s1, s2, . . . sN, according to a reference symbol and (M+1)*N bits, where 0, 1, 2, . . . , N denote indices of the transmission symbols, s0 denotes the reference symbol; a transmission symbol indexed n is determined according to an amplitude and a phase of a transmission symbol indexed n?1, and M+1 bits, and M is an integer greater than or equal to 1, N is an integer greater than or equal to 1, 1?n?N, n is an integer; and transmitting the N+1 transmission symbols.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Applicant: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Zhifeng Yuan, Yu Xin, Guanghui Yu, Liujun Hu, Jin Xu
  • Patent number: 11997633
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for timing adjustments for data transmissions in mobile communication technology are described. An exemplary method for wireless communication includes determining, by the first device, a distance between the first device and the second device, and performing a transmission based on a timing adjustment that is determined using the distance. Another exemplary method for wireless communication includes broadcasting, by the second device, a location information of the second device, and receiving, from the first device, a transmission, where the first device is configured to communicate the transmission based on a timing adjustment that is determined using the distance, and where the distance is based on a location information of the first device and the location information of the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Zhifeng Yuan, Hong Tang, Weimin Li, Yuzhou Hu, Jian Li, Qiujin Guo, Yihua Ma
  • Patent number: 11974324
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for a two-step random access procedure in mobile communication technology are described. An exemplary method for wireless communication includes receiving, by a network node, a random access message that comprises at least one of a radio network temporary identifier (RNTI), an identity of the wireless device, an establishment cause, uplink control information (UCI) or beam information, and transmitting, to a wireless device, a contention resolution message, wherein at least a portion of the random access message is modulated using a first modulation scheme selected from a modulation group that comprises binary phase shift keying (BPSK) and ?/2-BPSK.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Yuzhou Hu, Zhifeng Yuan, Weimin Li, Hong Tang, Jian Li
  • Publication number: 20240129175
    Abstract: Provided are a symbol sending method, a symbol receiving method, a sending device, a receiving device, and a storage medium. The symbol sending method includes the following: modulating two bits according to a model of a first constellation diagram to obtain a transmission symbol, where the model of the first constellation diagram satisfies the following: four vertices of the first constellation diagram form a rhombus, the lengths of the two diagonal lines of the rhombus are unequal, and each vertex corresponds to one value of the two bits; and sending the transmission symbol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Zhifeng YUAN, Yu XIN, Guanghui YU, Liujun HU, Jin XU
  • Patent number: 11963231
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for transmitter-side processing of preamble and reference signals are described. An exemplary method for wireless communication includes transmitting, by a wireless device, a message comprising modified symbols that are generated by performing a modification on baseline symbols. Another exemplary method for wireless communication includes receiving, by a network node, a message comprising modified symbols that are generated by performing a modification on baseline symbols. In an example, the message may be a random access message that is part of a 2-step random access channel (RACH) process or a contention-based physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) or physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Zhifeng Yuan, Yuzhou Hu, Weimin Li, Hong Tang, Jian Li, Qiujin Guo
  • Patent number: 11924017
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for multiple access with interference mitigation are described. An exemplary implementation of interference mitigation in a multiple access scheme includes rearranging a N-th bit stream corresponding to a N-th portion of the input bit stream to generate a N-th rearranged bit stream of K rearranged bit streams, for N=1, 2, . . . , K, generating a modulated symbol stream of hierarchical QAM symbols based on the K rearranged bit streams, where bits from the first rearranged bit stream correspond to one or more most significant bits of the hierarchical QAM symbols, bits from the K-th rearranged bit stream correspond to one or more least significant bits of the hierarchical QAM symbols, and bits from a second to (K?1)-th rearranged bit stream correspond to one or more remaining bits of the hierarchical QAM symbols, and transmitting a signal generated from the modulated symbol stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Chunlin Yan, Zhifeng Yuan
  • Publication number: 20240048186
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a multi-user detection method and apparatus for cell-free Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO). The method includes: receiving, by a Central Processing Unit (CPU) of a cell-free MIMO system, an MRC merged data symbol stream SMRC=HHY of K users transmitted by an Access Point (AP), and multiplying SMRC by a conjugate transpose matrix SMRCH of SMRC to obtain a K*K matrix SMRCSMRCH; and performing singular value decomposition on the matrix SMRCSMRCH to obtain a unitary matrix V and a diagonal matrix A, obtaining a diagonal matrix A according to the diagonal matrix A, and estimating sending-end data symbols of the K users by a formula {tilde over (S)}=V?VHSMRC.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Zhifeng YUAN, Yihua MA, Guanghui YU