Granted Patent B2

US 12,627,399 · App. 18/015,756 · Granted May 12, 2026

Inventors: Lijuan Zhao (Shenzhen, CN); Junling Zhang (Shenzhen, CN)

Assignee: SANECHIPS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD

H04L1/0038H04L1/1642H04W16/28H04W56/0015

Abstract

Claims (43)

1 . A blind detection method, comprising:

de-masking Physical Broadcast Channel (PBCH) information received by a Synchronization Signal Block (SSB) in a target beam direction in at least one synchronization signal period within one Transmission Time Interval (TTI) according to J groups of mask sequences based on System Frame Number (SFN) information, to obtain at least one group of de-masked sequences, wherein J groups of mask sequences based on the SFN information is generated according to the TTI and the synchronous signal period based on the SFN information, wherein J is a positive integer;

determining a combined sequence according to the at least one group of de-masked sequences;

checking a decoding result of the combined sequence; and

responsive to determining that the check succeeds, extracting a Master Information Block (MIB) from the decoding result according to the SFN information so as to accomplish blind detection of the PBCH information.

2 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the de-masking the PBCH information received by the SSB in the target beam direction in at least one synchronization signal period in the one TTI according to J groups of mask sequences based on the SFN information, to obtain the at least one group of de-masked sequences, further comprises:

determining L candidate SSB indexes according to lower 3 bits of an SSB index, or determining L candidate SSB indexes according to lower 2 bits of an SSB index and a half-frame indication bit, wherein L is a positive integer, and each of the candidate SSB indexes corresponds to a PBCH Demodulation Reference Signal (DMRS) sequence and a second-stage scrambling sequence;

calculating a group of Log-Likelihood Ratio (LLR) sequences for each of the candidate SSB indexes, respectively; and

adopting the J groups of mask sequences to de-mask the LLR sequences, respectively, to obtain J groups of de-masked sequences until the check succeeds.

3 . The method according to claim 2 , wherein generating the J groups of mask sequences based on the SFN information according to the TTI and the synchronization signal period, comprises:

generating a bit sequence according to each value of specific bits, wherein the specific bits belong to the lower 3 bits of the SFN information and the half-frame indication bit; and

performing first-stage scrambling, Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) adding and Polar-codes encoding on the bit sequence to obtain the J groups of mask sequences.

4 . The method according to claim 2 , further comprising:

generating the PBCH DMRS sequence according to each value of the lower 3 bit of the SSB index, or generating the PBCH DMRS sequence according to each value of the lower 2 bit of the SSB index and the half-frame indication bit, respectively, to obtain L PBCH DMRS sequences; and

generating L second-stage scrambling sequences according to each value of the lower 3 bits of the SSB index or each value of the lower 2 bits of the SSB index.

5 . The method according to claim 2 , wherein the step of calculating the group of LLR sequences for each of the candidate SSB indexes, respectively comprises:

performing channel estimation and demodulation on a subcarrier position of the PBCH corresponding to the SSB in the target beam direction by adopting the PBCH DMRS sequence corresponding to each candidate SSB index, to obtain an initial sequence corresponding to each candidate SSB index; and

performing second-stage de-scrambling and rate de-matching on the initial sequence by adopting a second-stage scrambling sequence corresponding to each candidate SSB index to obtain the LLR sequences corresponding to each candidate SSB index.

6 . The method according to claim 2 , wherein the adopting the J groups of mask sequences to de-mask the LLR sequences, respectively, to obtain the J groups of de-masked sequences, comprises:

performing XOR operation on each group of the LLR sequences by adopting each group of mask sequences to obtain the J groups of de-masking sequences.

7 . The method of claim 2 , wherein the determining the combined sequence according to the at least one group of de-masked sequences, comprises:

accumulating the J groups of the de-masked sequences corresponding to each of the candidate SSB indexes in each synchronization signal period with current LLR cache data, within one TTI.

8 . The method according claim 2 , wherein the determining the combined sequence according to the at least one group of de-masked sequences, comprises:

responsive to determining that the nth synchronization signal period belongs to the next TTI, updating the current LLR cache data to the J groups of de-masked sequences corresponding to each candidate SSB index in the synchronization signal period.

9 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the checking the decoding result of the combined sequence, comprises:

performing Polar-codes decoding on the combined sequence to obtain the decoding result;

performing CRC check on the decoding result; and

responsive to determining that the CRC check succeeds, performing second check on the decoding result.

10 . The method according to claim 9 , wherein the second check is successful if the decoding result satisfies a condition where all bits corresponding to the specific bits in the decoding result are 0, and bits of the decoding result are not all 0.

11 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the extracting the MIB from the decoding result based on the SFN information, comprises:

complementing the SFN information in the decoding result; and

extracting the MIB from the complemented decoding result.

12 . The method according to claim 11 , wherein the complementing the SFN information in the decoding result comprises:

assigning values of the specific bits corresponding to the nth synchronization signal period and the jth mask sequences to corresponding bits in the decoding result, wherein n is an index of the synchronization signal period corresponding to the success of the check, and j is an index of the mask sequence corresponding to the success of the check.

13 . A blind detection device, comprising:

a constructor, configured to de-mask Physical Broadcast Channel (PBCH) information received by a Synchronization Signal Block (SSB) in a target beam direction in at least one synchronization signal period within one Transmission Time Interval (TTI) according to J groups of mask sequences based on System Frame Number (SFN) information, to obtain at least one group of de-masked sequences, wherein J groups of mask sequences based on the SFN information is generated according to the TTI and the synchronous signal period based on the SFN information, wherein J is a positive integer;

a combiner, configured to determine a combined sequence according to the at least one group of de-masked sequences;

a checker, configured to check a decoding result of the combined sequence; and

a extractor, configured to, responsive to determining that the check succeeds, extract a Master Information Block (MIB) from the decoding result according to the SFN information, so as to accomplish blind detection of the PBCH information.

14 . A terminal, comprising:

at least one processor; and

a storage device, storing at least one program, wherein the at least one program, when executed by the at least one processor, causes the at least one processor to implement the blind detection method according to claim 1 .

15 . A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, storing a computer program, wherein the program, when executed by a processor, implements the blind detection method according to claim 1 .

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