Patents by Inventor Atsushi Harada

Atsushi Harada 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: 20150009911
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present invention provide a mobile communication method, a wireless base station and a mobile station. The mobile communication method according to the embodiment of the present invention is applied to the wireless base station. The method comprises: determining resource group offset information used for a mobile station; offsetting an initial physical channel resource group allocated to the mobile station according to the resource group offset information; determining cyclic shift information of demodulation reference signal used for the mobile station according to unused physical channel resources in the offset physical channel resource group; and transmitting the resource group offset information and the cyclic shift information to the mobile station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2014
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Anxin LI, Atsushi HARADA
  • Patent number: 8861637
    Abstract: The transmitter and a mobile terminal based on interference alignment use pre-coding and pre-decoding methods. An antenna mapping matrix is computed according to a downlink channel state information, wherein the antenna mapping matrix is used for antenna mapping for the current transmitter to perform interference alignment. A multi-cell pre-coding matrix according to the downlink channel state information and the antenna mapping matrix; a single cell multi-user pre-coding matrix and pre-coding user data using the single cell multi-user pre-coding matrix and the multi-cell pre-decoding matrix and performing an antenna mapping using the antenna mapping matrix are computed. A system which cannot use the interference alignment method directly may be transformed to use the interference alignment method directly. In addition, the interference suppression between cells and the interference management inside cells are two separate processes, in which different linear pre-coding and decoding methods may be used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Chongning Na, Xiaolin Hou, Atsushi Harada
  • Publication number: 20140254461
    Abstract: A method for transmitting control information in a wireless communication system includes: determining a link adaptation method of a user group according to quality of channels of each user in the user group; generating first control information according to common control information of all users in the user group and the link adaptation method corresponding to the user group, and transmitting the first control information to each user in the user group; obtaining contents of second control information according to particular control information of each user in the user group; performing link adaptation process for the contents of the second control information according to the link adaptation method corresponding to the user group, generating the second control information, and transmitting the second control information to each user in the user group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2014
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Anxin Li, Atsushi Harada
  • Patent number: 8817768
    Abstract: A mobile station is configured to send a base station a buffer status report explicitly indicating that the amount of a transmission signal in a buffer of the mobile station has become zero. This configuration makes it possible to efficiently allocate radio resources of an uplink shared channel and thereby to increase uplink capacity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Ishii, Atsushi Harada, Anil Umesh
  • Patent number: 8588800
    Abstract: A communication control method used by a base station to allocate a radio resource to a user terminal which performs different-frequency measurement includes the steps of transmitting to the base station, by the user terminal, a request indicating whether a measurement gap for different-frequency measurement is needed, when a need for data communications between the user terminal and the base station arises while the user terminal is performing discontinuous reception; and controlling, by the base station, the radio resource allocated to the user terminal based on whether the measurement gap is needed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Mikio Iwamura, Minami Ishii, Atsushi Harada
  • Patent number: 8583191
    Abstract: A base station apparatus includes a unit configured to determine a discontinuous reception pattern for a user apparatus that is classified according to a channel state of a radio link; and a unit configured to report the discontinuous reception pattern to the user apparatus. The discontinuous reception pattern specifies at least a cycle of discontinuous reception.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Mikio Iwamura, Atsushi Harada, Minami Ishii
  • Patent number: 8571006
    Abstract: In a mobile communication method by which a mobile station (UE) transmits a control signal to a radio base station (eNB) in an uplink by using an uplink dedicated resource, different methods for determining whether or not a synchronization state is established in the uplink, are used depending on whether or not the uplink dedicated resource is set up.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Atsushi Harada, Minami Ishii
  • Patent number: 8548471
    Abstract: A user apparatus in a mobile communication system includes: a unit configured to receive a downlink control signal using a frequency of a residing cell; and a unit configured to perform cell search using a frequency different from the frequency of the residing cell during an interval between reception timings of the downlink control signal in response to an occurrence of a predetermined event for different frequency measurement in the user apparatus or a base station apparatus. When the reception timing interval of the downlink control signal is not longer than the threshold reported from the base station apparatus, and when the predetermined event for different frequency measurement occurs in the user apparatus or the base station apparatus, different frequency measurement is performed in a cycle, different from the reception timing interval, reported from the base station apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Mikio Iwamura, Minami Ishii, Atsushi Harada
  • Patent number: 8537666
    Abstract: A mobile station performing a voice communication by using a radio resource, including a determination unit configured to determine whether an inputted packet is in a talk-spurt state or in a silent state; a message generating unit configured to generate a resource release request, when the determination unit determines that the inputted packet is in the silent state; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the resource release request to a radio base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Atsushi Harada, Minami Ishii, Sadayuki Abeta, Anil Umesh
  • Patent number: 8478285
    Abstract: A synchronization control method in a communication system including a mobile station and a base station includes generating a synchronization request at the base station when data addressed to the mobile station arrives, receiving the synchronization request from the base station at the mobile station, transmitting feedback information at the mobile station as a response to the synchronization request, receiving the feedback information at the base station, generating timing advance information at the base station based on a reception timing of the feedback information, transmitting the timing advance information from the base station to the mobile station, and adjusting a transmission timing of uplink data at the mobile station, based on the timing advance information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Mikio Iwamura, Minami Ishii, Atsushi Harada
  • Patent number: 8442027
    Abstract: A mobile station (UE) is configured to establish uplink synchronization with a radio base station (eNB). The mobile station (UE) is configured not to return transmission acknowledgment information for downlink data until receiving a command for adjusting uplink transmission timing, when the radio base station (eNB) allocates a radio resource for transmission of the downlink data to the mobile station (UE).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc
    Inventors: Atsushi Harada, Anil Umesh, Minami Ishii
  • Publication number: 20130112534
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a switch device (100) for use in hand-held power tools. The switch device (100) may include at least one chamber (102) whose interior serves as an accommodation space. The chamber (102) may partially encase an operational member (104) for actuating the hand-held power tool through the switch device (100). Further, the switch device (100) is provided with multiple holes (202) on side walls (204) of the chamber (102) to create a passageway for external particulate materials. Also, a bottom surface (205) of the chamber (102) may be sloped to extend from an interior of the chamber (102) to each of the multiple holes (202), to enhance the discharging of the external particulate materials through the holes (202).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2010
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Applicants: NITTEI MUSEN CO., LTD., HUSQVARNA ZENOAH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Harada, Kohki Kamagome, Kiyotsugu Arai
  • Patent number: 8400962
    Abstract: A transmitter apparatus includes an MAC-PDU generator section configured to generate an MAC-PDU by multiplexing information elements in an MAC layer and a first data unit transmitter section configured to transmit the generated MAC-PDU. Each of the information elements is any of an MAC-SDU received from an RLC layer, an MAC control block and Padding. The MAC-PDU generator section is configured to add an MAC header to the first data unit. The MAC header includes a C/T identifying a type of each of the information elements multiplexed into the MAC-PDU and an LI indicating a size of each of the information elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Atsushi Harada, Minami Ishii, Sadayuki Abeta, Anil Umesh
  • Publication number: 20130058433
    Abstract: The transmitter and a mobile terminal based on interference alignment use pre-coding and pre-decoding methods. An antenna mapping matrix is computed according to a downlink channel state information, wherein the antenna mapping matrix is used for antenna mapping for the current transmitter to perform interference alignment. A multi-cell pre-coding matrix according to the downlink channel state information and the antenna mapping matrix; a single cell multi-user pre-coding matrix and pre-coding user data using the single cell multi-user pre-coding matrix and the multi-cell pre-decoding matrix and performing an antenna mapping using the antenna mapping matrix are computed. A system which cannot use the interference alignment method directly may be transformed to use the interference alignment method directly. In addition, the interference suppression between cells and the interference management inside cells are two separate processes, in which different linear pre-coding and decoding methods may be used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Chongning NA, Xiaolin Hou, Atsushi Harada
  • Patent number: 8385273
    Abstract: A base station according to the present invention includes: a scheduling unit configured to perform a persistent scheduling for transmitting data at a predetermined timing; and a scheduling information generating unit configured to generate scheduling information and to notify the scheduling information to a predetermined mobile station, when the persistent scheduling is performed. The scheduling information includes resource assignment information that indicates a radio resource assigned to the predetermined mobile station at the predetermined timing in the persistent scheduling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: NTT Docomo, Inc.
    Inventors: Atsushi Harada, Anil Umesh, Sadayuki Abeta
  • Patent number: 8386871
    Abstract: A retransmission control method involving a physical control channel transmitting step of transmitting, at a transmitting side apparatus, a new data indicator updated upon transmission of a new packet, and a retransmission sequence number indicating whether transmission is first transmission or retransmission, through a physical control channel associated with a physical data channel, and a transmission acknowledgement information transmitting step of transmitting, at a receiving side apparatus, transmission acknowledgment information on a packet received through the physical data channel, on the basis of the new data indicator and the retransmission sequence number received through the physical control channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Atsushi Harada, Hiroyuki Ishii, Anil Umesh
  • Publication number: 20130007550
    Abstract: A retransmission side apparatus including a physical control channel receiver unit to receive a physical control channel which includes a new data indicator updated upon transmission of a new packet and a retransmission sequence number indicating whether transmission is first transmission or retransmission. The physical data channel receiver unit is configured to receive a physical data channel associated with the physical control channel. A transmission acknowledgment information transmitter unit transmits transmission acknowledgment information on a packet received through the physical data channel, on the basis of the new data indicator and the retransmission sequence number received through the physical control channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2012
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Atsushi Harada, Hiroyuki Ishii, Anil Umesh
  • Patent number: 8345706
    Abstract: A base station (eNodeB) performing a radio communication with a user equipment (UE) includes: a transmission format determining unit (16) configured to determine a transmission format of a downlink data channel not to be associated by a control channel, based on a downlink reception signal quality measured by the user equipment; a notification unit (18) configured to notify, to the user equipment, the transmission format determined by the transmission format determining unit; a transmission power controlling unit (19) configured to control a transmission power of the downlink data channel; and a transmitting unit (18) configured to transmit downlink data to the user equipment via the downlink data channel, by using the transmission format determined by the transmission format determining unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Atsushi Harada, Minami Ishii, Sadayuki Abeta
  • Patent number: 8331238
    Abstract: A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes the steps of: (A) activating a first timer, when the radio base station (eNB) transmits a downlink data signal to the mobile station (UE) operating in a continuous reception cycle; and (B) changing a reception cycle of the mobile station (UE) from the continuous reception cycle to a first discontinuous reception cycle, and releasing the uplink dedicated resources, when the first timer expires with no downlink data signal transmitted after the activation of the first timer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Atsushi Harada, Minami Ishii
  • Patent number: 8318205
    Abstract: The invention provides block copolymers formed of poly(ethylene glycol) segments and poly(amino acid derivative) segments having side chains of at least one kind of specific amine residue. The invention also provides polyion complexes of such copolymers with polynucleotides and the like. These block copolymers are useful as carriers for in vivo delivery of active substances such as DNA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: The University of Tokyo
    Inventors: Kazunori Kataoka, Naoki Kanayama, Keiji Itaka, Shigeto Fukushima, Atsushi Harada