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US 12,542,582 · App. 18/567,648 · Granted Feb 3, 2026

Reconfigurable intelligent surface

Inventors: Xiang Li (Beijing, CN); Xin Wang (Beijing, CN); Xiaolin Hou (Beijing, CN); Lan Chen (Beijing, CN); Satoshi Suyama (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
H04B7/0456H04W16/26
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Patent No.
US 12,542,582
App. No.
18/567,648
Granted
Feb 3, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present disclosure provides a reconfigurable intelligent surface, including: a receiving unit which receives subarray division setting information sent from a base station; a reconfigurable panel; and a processing unit, which divides, based on the subarray division setting information, the reconfigurable panel into M subarrays, where M is a positive integer greater than 1, wherein, the subarray division setting information is determined based on a distance between a target device and the reconfigurable panel, N subarrays of the M subarrays serve one target device, and N is a positive integer greater than 1 and less than or equal to M.

Claims (26)

1 . A reconfigurable intelligent surface, comprising:

a receiving unit which receives subarray division setting information sent from a base station;

a reconfigurable panel; and

a processing unit, which divides, based on the subarray division setting information, the reconfigurable panel into M subarrays, where M is a positive integer greater than 1,

wherein, the subarray division setting information is determined based on a distance between a target device and the reconfigurable panel,

N subarrays of the M subarrays serve one target device, and N is a positive integer greater than 1 and less than or equal to M,

wherein, each of the M subarrays corresponds to a specific beam respectively.

2 . The reconfigurable intelligent surface of claim 1 , wherein, the specific beam of each of the N subarrays in the M subarrays is converged on the one target device.

3 . The reconfigurable intelligent surface of claim 1 , wherein the specific beam of each of the N subarrays in the M subarrays is dispersed within a specific range relative to the one target device.

4 . The reconfigurable intelligent surface of claim 1 , wherein,

the M subarrays serve multiple target devices,

a number of subarrays serving each of the target devices is a positive integer, and the number of subarrays is greater than 1 and less than or equal to M.

5 . A reconfigurable intelligent surface, comprising:

a receiving unit configured to receive position information of a target device;

a reconfigurable panel; and

a processing unit configured to determine a first codebook based on a direction of the reconfigurable panel relative to the target device, and perform calculation on the first codebook based on a distance between the reconfigurable panel and the target device and a position of each subarray in M subarrays included in the reconfigurable panel to determine a second codebook,

wherein, the M is a positive integer greater than 1,

wherein, the reconfigurable intelligent surface determines a first beam of the each subarray through the first codebook.

6 . The reconfigurable intelligent surface of claim 5 , wherein

each of the subarrays comprises multiple array elements,

the second codebook comprises an array element deflection sub-codebook and a phase compensation sub-codebook,

the array element deflection sub-codebook performs deflection on each array element in the subarray respectively,

the phase compensation sub-codebook performs phase compensation on the subarray.

7 . The reconfigurable intelligent surface of claim 6 , wherein the reconfigurable intelligent surface performs the deflection and the phase compensation on the first beam through the second codebook.

8 . The reconfigurable intelligent surface of claim 5 , wherein the target device comprises at least one of a terminal and a base station.

9 . The reconfigurable intelligent surface of claim 5 , wherein the reconfigurable intelligent surface oversamples the first codebook and the second codebook.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 12, 2023
From: LI, XIANG; WANG, XIN; HOU, XIAOLIN; CHEN, LAN; SUYAMA, SATOSHI
To: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
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Continuity (1)
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