Patent SG-11201807823W-A (SG)
Title: Bandwith agnostic tone mapping
Inventor: ISLAM MUHAMMAD NAZMUL
IPC: H04L5/00
Filed: 2017-04-07
Abstract: 11 11 01 00 11 N 11 O O (12) INTERNATIONAL APPLICATION PUBLISHED UNDER THE PATENT COOPERATION TREATY (PCT) (19) World Intellectual Property Organization International Bureau (43) International Publication Date 02 November 2017 (02.11.2017) W I PO I PC T omit VIII Hot 0 HE 101101 OH OH No oimIE (10) International Publication Number WO 2017/189211 Al (51) International Patent Classification: H04L 5/00 (2006.01) (21) International Application Number: PCT/US2017/026521 (22) International Filing Date: 07 April 2017 (07.04.2017) (25) Filing Language: English (26) Publication Language: English (30) Priority Data: 62/329,045 28 April 2016 (28.04.2016) US 62/337,206 16 May 2016 (16.05.2016) US 15/481,437 06 April 2017 (06.04.2017) US (71) Applicant: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED [US/US]; ATTN: International IP Administration, 5775 Morehouse Drive, San Diego, California 92121-1714 (US). (72) Inventors: ISLAM, Muhammad Nazmul; 5775 More- house Drive, San Diego, California 92121-1714 (US). LUO, Tao; 5775 Morehouse Drive, San Diego, California 92121 (US). CEZANNE, Juergen; 5775 Morehouse Dri- ve, San Diego, California 92121-1714 (US). SADIQ, Bilal; 5775 Morehouse Drive, San Diego, California 92121-1714 (US). SUBRAMANIAN, Sundar; 5775 Morehouse Drive, San Diego, California 92121-1714 (US). LI, Junyi; 5775 Morehouse Drive, San Diego, California 92121-1714 (US). (74) Agent: READ, Randol W. et al.; Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P., 24 Greenway Plaza, Suite 1600, Houston, Texas 77046-2472 (US). (81) Designated States (unless otherwise indicated, for every kind of national protection available): AE, AG, AL, AM, AO, AT, AU, AZ, BA, BB, BG, BH, BN, BR, BW, BY, BZ, CA, CH, CL, CN, CO, CR, CU, CZ, DE, DJ, DK, DM, DO, DZ, EC, EE, EG, ES, FI, GB, GD, GE, GH, GM, GT, HN, HR, HU, ID, IL, IN, IR, IS, JP, KE, KG, KH, KN, KP, KR, KW, KZ, LA, LC, LK, LR, LS, LU, LY, MA, MD, ME, MG, MK, MN, MW, MX, MY, MZ, NA, NG, NI, NO, NZ, OM, PA, PE, PG, PH, PL, PT, QA, RO, RS, RU, RW, SA, SC, SD, SE, SG, SK, SL, SM, ST, SV, SY, TH, TJ, TM, TN, TR, TT, TZ, UA, UG, US, UZ, VC, VN, ZA, ZM, ZW. (84) Designated States (unless otherwise indicated, for every kind of regional protection available): ARIPO (BW, GH, (54) Title: BANDWITH AGNOSTIC TONE MAPPING 700 702 MAP CODED BITS OF AT LEAST ONE OF A PHYSICAL BROADCAST CHANNEL (PBCH) OR A BEAMFORMED REFERENCE SIGNAL (BRS) TO TONES OF A SYMBOL OF A SUBFRAME IN A BANDWIDTH AGNOSTIC MANNER 704 TRANSMIT THE AT LEAST ONE OF THE PBCH OR BRS IN THE SYMBOL ACCORDING TO THE MAPPING FIG. 7 (57) : Disclosed in this application are techniques to enabling and employing bandwidth agnostic tone mapping. Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for mapping coded bits of a broadcast channel to tones of a symbol. Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for mapping bits of a beamformed reference signal (BRS) signal to tones of a symbol. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described. [Continued on next page] WO 2017/189211 Al 11111101MOMOIDEIROIDEM311101110111011MEMOIMIE GM, KE, LR, LS, MW, MZ, NA, RW, SD, SL, ST, SZ, TZ, UG, ZM, ZW), Eurasian (AM, AZ, BY, KG, KZ, RU, TJ, TM), European (AL, AT, BE, BG, CH, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HR, HU, IE, IS, IT, LT, LU, LV, MC, MK, MT, NL, NO, PL, PT, RO, RS, SE, SI, SK, SM, TR), OAPI (BF, BJ, CF, CG, CI, CM, GA, GN, GQ, GW, KM, ML, MR, NE, SN, TD, TG). Published: — with international search report (Art. 21(3))