5G, the next generation of wireless communications technology, is making possible billions of new connections, and making those connections secure and instantaneous. This in turn makes Max's work and personal life more efficient and more personalized.
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Max's connected home continually adjusts to his habits and anticipates needs—adjusting lighting and room temperature, and even predicting the global financial data he wants to see in the morning. Even when he’s at work, Max's home alerts his smartphone when his front door of his home is unexpectedly opened. (Fortunately, it was just his daughter home early from university).
Through 5G’s ultra-fast and reliable communications, sensors on cars are connected to sensors on bikes, roads and emergency services to both prevent and respond to accidents. Cars and drivers will be alerted to what’s around the corner and down the road, improving safety, fuel consumption and navigation so Max can get where he’s going faster and more efficiently.
With the nearly infinite and secure connections of 5G, Max’s healthcare providers can be alerted to problems before they become an emergency. As a diabetic, Max is able to check his insulin levels and send the data directly to his doctor. By leveraging key health components like biometric input, medication management, and the secure storage of health information, Max and his doctor have real-time access to his health data in a way that has never before been possible.
From factory floors to field operations to the stores where customers will ultimately shop for products from Max’s companies, the instantaneous connections of 5G will allow users of Augmented Reality to judge and compare what they’d see with the naked eye to what they wouldn’t. Plant inspectors will compare what’s within walls and machinery to what they see on the outside, while Max’s grandchildren could visit historical sites without leaving their classrooms.
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For Namita, the introduction of LTE made it possible for her to communicate with friends and family back home in her local village, watch video, and access high-speed internet from nearly anywhere with a wireless signal. High-speed data rates have changed the lives of millions of people like Namita, whose access was previously limited by geography.
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Namita works in the city but is able to video-chat with her aging parents, who live hundreds of miles away in a small seaside village. Before the introduction of 4G, communication with her family was infrequent and expensive. Now she can chat with them everyday and watch her nieces and nephews grow up.
When Namita returns to her village, she can now watch her favorite TV shows, engage in video chats with her team, attend teleconferences, and watch video seminars from her smartphone – giving her family and friends access to her life in the city. The whole world is now brought to her tiny village.
Back in her village, Namita’s brother is a fisherman and used to be vulnerable to storms and shifting fishing zones that prevented him from being able to provide for his family. Wireless Reach’s Fisher Friend Mobile Application provides critical information about weather and ocean conditions, including disaster alerts, Potential Fishing Zones (PFZs) and current market prices of fish, helping him improve his catch and income.
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No matter where she is, Rose uses her smartphone to access dozens of apps that allow her to track legislation, follow the news, and stay on the pulse of what’s happening in Washington. She can also securely communicate with her congresswoman boss and colleagues, conference with others on Capitol Hill, and share files, as if she never left her office.
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On a daily basis, Rose checks a dozen news apps to follow local and national news. She also uses reference apps like Congress Pro, which allows her to quickly look up a member’s voting history, or Track Bill, where she can get the gist of legislative changes in moments. Having this data available at hand was impossible just 10 years ago.
Apps enhance Rose’s personal life as well as her professional tasks. From her mobile device she can make reservations for her family – and her boss -- summon Uber, and quickly get the stats on her favorite baseball team before a mid-hearing update.
Jumping on a plane for a weekend campaign trip, Rose can switch to airplane mode (US Patent #6725060), which turns off wireless connectivity while allowing her to use other functions of the device. This Qualcomm innovation lets Rose get work done on her tablet while in-flight.
For work on Homeland Security policy, Rose has heard from first responders who expect the ultra-quick and ultra-reliable connections of 5G to help with disaster response, crime mapping, urban planning and so much more.
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For Sofie, being able to instantly watch, record, and share video from her mobile device allows her to communicate with friends, keep up on current events, and take remote classes. And with 5G, there will be virtually no difference between watching at home and watching wirelessly somewhere else.
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Every morning, Sofie watches videos that her friends shared on social media, uses Snapchat to keep her friends up-to-date on her life, and uses video chat to talk to friends who attend the other high school across town.
Sofie wants to be a doctor someday, so she uses an online video-learning program to take college-level science classes to help prepare for her first year of college. Whether she’s at school, home, or on the subway, she can always access her video classes.
Sofie plays competitive soccer, and through video blogging has developed a fan base across Europe. The introduction of Gigabit LTE and promise of 5G, allowing crisp and perfect 4K video streaming from wherever she’s playing, have boosted Sofie’s following – and allowed Sofie to attend her little brother’s game while watching friends play a world away.
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Every day, grape grower Oscar uses apps and devices equipped with Qualcomm’s location-service innovations and 5G connections to make his vineyards more efficient and less costly to operate.
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When a sensor on a harvesting machine detects a problem somewhere on his 500-acre ranch, Oscar uses his smartphone to get there quickly. Oscar can then share that location with a local parts supplier who is able to find their location and repair the machine immediately, keeping the harvest on schedule.
Hundreds of apps use location services to personalize service and connect Oscar to what’s going on around him. At the touch of a button, he can see a microanalysis of local weather, follow local news, and locate businesses in his area.
Across his fields, tiny sensors monitor fertilizer levels and water levels, and communicate with drones overhead that report back to Oscar to let him know when more fertilizer is needed or if there’s a leak. Thanks to the low power usage of 5G technology, the sensors can stay out in the field for a long time and not require new batteries.
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Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) allows multiple users to share the same frequency channel at the same time.
This invention led to a 10x increase in cellular network capacity.
In a CDMA system, increases in system capacity may be realized by controlling the transmit power of each mobile user so as to minimize interference to other users.
This invention provides a way for each phone to continuously determine the best power level at which to transmit.
"Make before break": When a phone crosses the boundary between cellular towers, the call continues on both the original tower and the new tower until the handoff is successful.
This invention greatly reduces the number of dropped calls while the user is in motion.
This invention provides safe and secure application distribution and execution on wireless devices, by providing systems and methods that test an application to ensure it satisfies predetermined criteria associated with the environment in which it will operate.
It also determines whether an application has been modified, determines if it has permission to execute in a given environment, and removes the application should it be desirable to do so.
Because of uncertainty in user demands, data usage from mobiles transmitting to the network may fluctuate widely and cannot be predicted at the network.
This invention creates mechanisms to quickly assign resources to support demand and to quickly reassign resources when not needed, or to maintain system stability. Mechanisms are also provided to control the transmit power and/or data rate of the mobiles to achieve high performance and system stability.
Given the increasing number of sensors within the mobile device, and the fact that certain types of sensors may draw a relatively significant amount current (e.g., certain image sensors), it is beneficial to implement techniques for managing sensor power consumption, and thus extend the operational time of the battery within a mobile device.
This invention provides a dynamic method for managing power consumption of one or a plurality of sensors within a mobile device.
Cellular phone systems were originally designed for voice, which has fixed and stringent requirements around delay and grade of service.
This invention improves system capacity and data throughput by taking advantage of the different characteristics of data versus voice, enabling data to be sent at much higher rates.
Graphics processing units (GPUs) are specialized hardware units used to render two-dimensional or three-dimensional images for various applications such as video games, graphics, imaging, etc. 2-D graphics may be compared to painting, whereas 3-D graphics may be compared to sculpting.
This invention provides techniques such that each stage of the 2-D graphics pipeline may be mapped to at least one stage of the 3-D graphics pipeline, so that processing units within the GPU may be efficiently used to perform processing for both 2-D and 3-D graphics.
As digital communications progressed and demand for wireless data increased substantially, it became necessary to accommodate transmission of multiple simultaneous data types from the mobiles - for example, exchanging a data file while maintaining a video interface.
This invention provides a higher data rate, bandwidth efficient CDMA interface over which multiple types of communication can be performed.
LTE uses OFDM, or Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing, a method of encoding digital data on multiple carrier frequencies. Each of these frequencies may experience different link conditions, such as fading and multi-path effects, which are also time variant.
This invention creates a novel, flexible coding scheme for encoding data for transmission on multiple channels at different information bit rates, based on the channel conditions.
GPS receivers normally determine their position by computing relative times of arrival of signals transmitted simultaneously by multiple satellites. The process of searching for and acquiring these signals may result in a processing time and battery consumption that is unacceptable in a mobile device. In addition, GPS operation is limited to situations in which the receiver can receive multiple satellite signals without obstruction.
This invention uses a cellular base station to improve processing speed and accuracy of positioning in challenging conditions. It also provides a method of power management to improve battery life.
LTE uses OFDM, or Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing, a method of encoding digital data on multiple carrier frequencies.
In order to optimize this method for use in a cellular system, this invention creates a scheme to optimize the hopping pattern between frequencies for voice and data users, the frequency tone assignments, and the bandwidth reuse.
The mobile nature of a wireless communication device and the small display increase the probability that a video conferencing user will transmit a video image that is too dark, too bright, too close, too far, improperly centered, or improperly oriented in the video-image frame.
This invention recognizes characteristics in a video image and provides feedback that can be used to maintain or adjust the video image received by the device.
LTE uses OFDM, or Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing, a method of encoding digital data on multiple carrier frequencies. OFDM communication systems can be inefficient due to high peak-to-average ratio of the transmitted signal, which requires a large amount of power at the base station and at the wireless device.
This invention reduces the peak-to-average ratio of the signal to be transmitted, while simultaneously taking advantage of the larger (than single carrier) communication bandwidth offered by an OFDM communication system.
This invention provides a low-cost wireless link that can be used for data communication between a central storage system (e.g., for music) and a mobile remote system (e.g., a vehicle), or between two mobile remote systems.
The invention also provides for automatic downloading of data and for storing such data on inexpensive, compact memory.
GPS receivers normally determine their position by computing relative times of arrival of signals transmitted simultaneously by multiple satellites. The process of searching for and acquiring these signals may result in a processing time and battery consumption that is unacceptable in a mobile device. In addition, GPS operation is limited to situations in which the receiver can receive multiple satellite signals without obstruction.
This invention provides two signal paths for GPS processing to improve operation during blockage conditions.
Typically, system services, including virtual machines, viewers and plug-ins, need to be installed on a device in order to be used by applications that require them. Because a wireless device is typically constrained with regards to memory and processing, it is advantageous to only download or install some system services on an as needed basis.
This invention provides a system and method for dynamically downloading and installing system services, such as virtual machines, viewers, plug-ins, flash-players, other executable content or data, in a device based on the needs of the application running on the device.
LTE uses OFDM, or Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing, a method of encoding digital data on multiple carrier frequencies. OFDM communication systems can be inefficient due to high peak-to-average ratio of the transmitted signal, which requires a large amount of power at the base station and at the wireless device.
This invention reduces the peak-to-average ratio of the signal to be transmitted, while simultaneously taking advantage of the larger (than single carrier) communication bandwidth offered by an OFDM communication system.
In a wireless ad hoc network, a terminal has to combat certain challenges to set up communication with a peer terminal. One challenge is to make the terminals in the vicinity synchronized to a common timing and/or frequency reference so that they may discover one another.
This invention uses a beacon signal from the base station to convey information to facilitate peer-to-peer communication.
With the increasing popularity of wireless telephones, engineers at Qualcomm envisioned that the next generation of wireless phones would offer customers the ability to self-download new programs from remote servers via the wireless link, and self install these programs for use on that phone.
This invention provides a method that flexibly handles a wide variety of both static (built-in) objects and dynamic (user-downloaded) objects, reducing the complexity of circuitry required to process and activate static and dynamic objects.
In order to produce commercially acceptable image quality from a cellphone camera or other inexpensive digital camera, it may be desirable to perform a filtering operation (also called a “post-processing procedure”) on the captured image.
This invention addresses the problem that camera sensors in cell phones are subject to a variety of difficulties that are not present in a dedicated digital camera, such as physical limitations of the image sensor, and interference from illumination. This invention takes advantage of the processing power on the phone to tune and correct for these issues.
The use of computer mapping technology has been growing dramatically in recent years. Traditionally, the orientation of a map placed north at the top. The user was left to abstract this orientation to the physical world.
This invention provides a method for orienting the map display relative to the direction of the device, using sensors and/or the GPS receiver.
Semiconductor wafers are processed to produce integrated circuit (IC) chips having ever-increasing device density and shrinking feature geometries. Multiple conductive and insulating layers are required to enable the interconnection and isolation of the large number of semiconductor devices in different layers. Such large-scale integration results in an increasing number of electrical connections between various layers and semiconductor devices. It also leads to an increasing number of leads to the resultant IC chip.
This invention provides techniques in IC packaging that enable a high throughput and low cost approach while addressing significant challenges in manufacturability and structural reliability.
Today's smart devices combine user applications with wireless telephony.
This invention relates to a method for reducing power consumption in a multi-function integrated device.
Content provided to a device may take a variety of different forms, for example data files for use with particular applications installed on the device, or application programs themselves.
This invention provides a method of managing distribution of content to a device, which may only make periodic connections to a network, and when not connected to a network will still need to have content stored locally for its own use.
Presence detection and location based services require accurate and reliable position detection.
This invention provides improved position location using access points to transmit a reference signal to access terminals. The access terminals may use the received reference transmission to perform a position-location measurement, and report back the measured information, thus establishing location relative to the access point.
A biometric authentication solution that uses ultrasonic sound waves to create a highly detailed 3D representation of your fingerprint.
By capturing three-dimensional details, Sense ID creates a highly detailed surface map of your fingerprint, including additional characteristics such as sweat pores and ridge flow characteristics. The level of detail enables a higher level of security.
Systems, methods and apparatus for a car to detect foreign objects, and for use in an automotive wireless charging system.
There is a significant advantage to not need to remember to plug your electric car in every day, as it would begin charging as soon as you parked it in your garage over the charging pad.
A wirelessly connected biometric patch that automatically and electronically verifies the identity of a hospital patient.
An adhesive patch with sensors and a connection to a processor (computer) that verifies that the static biometrics that it is reading is the same as the static biometrics of the person the patch was originally applied to. If the biometrics measured match and the patch is still attached, then you have an electronic verification that is accurate, non-evasive, and reliable.
A collaborative intelligence and decision-making process for a group of Internet of Things (IoT) devices working together.
One IOE device's decision may impact other IOE devices, so before making a decision (like going to hibernation mode, etc.), IOE devices can use collaboration mechanisms and achieve distributed intelligence in the group.