Patents by Inventor Hiromasa Uchiyama

Hiromasa Uchiyama 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: 20240147503
    Abstract: A terminal device (200) performs sidelink communication with another terminal device. The terminal device (200) includes a control unit (240). The control unit (240) acquires resource pool information regarding a resource pool allocated by a base station device (100) for sidelink communication with another terminal device. The control unit (240) transmits control information to another terminal device by using at least one of a plurality of sidelink control channels allocated to a slot included in the resource pool in a time axis direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: KAZUYUKI SHIMEZAWA, HIROMASA UCHIYAMA, NAOKI KUSASHIMA
  • Patent number: 11956675
    Abstract: There is provided a communication apparatus including: a communication unit that performs radio communication; a control unit that controls an operation of sensing resources to be used in a communication scheme used for performing inter-device communication with other devices, in which the control unit controls to sense the resource in a predetermined minimum unit on a time axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yifu Tang, Naoki Kusashima, Hiromasa Uchiyama, Hiroki Matsuda
  • Patent number: 11943779
    Abstract: A terminal device that performs communication with a base station, including: a wireless transmitter that transmits an uplink channel using a first signal waveform or a second signal waveform, the first signal waveform is a signal generated without performing a predetermined conversion process, and the second signal waveform is a signal uenerated by performing the predetermined conversion process, in a case where the uplink channel is a predetermined control channel, the second signal waveform is used for transmitting the uplink channel, and in a case where the uplink channel is a predetermined shared channel, either the first signal waveform or the second signal waveform is used for transmitting the uplink channel based on control information uniquely notified from the base station to the terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Naoki Kusashima, Hiromasa Uchiyama, Hiroki Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20240089873
    Abstract: Disclosed is a user equipment for satellite communication, comprising one or more processing circuits configured to execute the following operations: evaluating a transmission power requirement for a user equipment to communicate with a satellite; and assisting, via an auxiliary device, the user equipment in executing at least part of the communication with the satellite when the transmission power constraint of the user equipment fails to meet the transmission power requirement, wherein the processing circuits are further configured to acquire, via the satellite, a communication mode to be switched to, and the processing circuits transmit, to the satellite, a notification indicating that a current communication mode needs to be switched, with the notification comprising information indicating the need to switch to a communication mode that meets the transmission power requirement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Yuan ZHANG, Penshun LU, Wenbo ZHANG, Hiromasa UCHIYAMA
  • Patent number: 11924664
    Abstract: A communication device includes: a communication unit that performs wireless communication; a notification unit that notifies another communication device of first information regarding setting related to measurement of a communication environment with the other communication device transmitting a reference signal, on the basis of predetermined conditions; and an acquisition unit that acquires second information regarding the setting from the other communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Kusashima, Hiromasa Uchiyama, Hiroki Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20240073778
    Abstract: A wireless communication device (200) performs sidelink communication by a plurality of the wireless communication devices (200). The wireless communication device (200) includes a control unit (240). The control unit (240) acquires determination information for determining a plurality of master devices (200M) that communicate with a base station (100) in sidelink communication. The control unit (240) determines whether or not an own device is one of the plurality of master devices (200M) based on the determination information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: KAZUYUKI SHIMEZAWA, HIROMASA UCHIYAMA, NAOKI KUSASHIMA, REN SUGAI
  • Patent number: 11917620
    Abstract: To achieve higher-quality FeD2D communication. A communication apparatus including a communication unit that performs a wireless communication, and a control unit that performs a control to cause control information regarding allocation of a resource for a communication with a first apparatus via a first wireless link to be notified to a second apparatus via a second wireless link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiromasa Uchiyama, Yifu Tang
  • Publication number: 20240056164
    Abstract: A communication device is a communication device capable of using uni-directional relay communication in which one communication of uplink communication and downlink communication with another communication device is relay communication via a relay station and the other communication is direct communication, and the communication device acquires an HARQ ID different from at least one of an HARQ ID for communication between the other communication device and the relay station and an HARQ ID for communication between the communication device and the relay station, the HARQ ID being used in end-to-end between the other communication device and the communication device in the uni-directional relay communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: HIROKI MATSUDA, HIROMASA UCHIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20240024768
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a wireless communication terminal, an information processing device, and an information processing method that enable efficient use of communication resources in a case of playing a game using a mobile communication system. A wireless communication terminal according to one aspect of the present technology executes an application program of a game using a mobile communication system, transmits, during execution of the game, request information that is information indicating that a change of the experience quality of the game is requested to an information processing device that controls the quality of wireless communication provided by the mobile communication system, and changes a setting of the wireless communication on the basis of control information transmitted from the information processing device. The present technology can be applied to a device used for a cloud game.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: HIROMASA UCHIYAMA, HIDEYUKI SUZUKI, SHINICHIRO TSUDA
  • Publication number: 20240022315
    Abstract: A communication device includes a reception unit that receives, from the base station, a physical control signal used to control a physical layer of the communication device, the physical control signal including beam information about a beam used for communication between the communication device and the terminal device; and a communication control unit that controls a beam used for communication between the communication device and the terminal device based on the beam information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: NAOKI KUSASHIMA, HIROMASA UCHIYAMA, HIROKI MATSUDA
  • Publication number: 20240023201
    Abstract: A terminal device for use with a wireless telecommunications system, the terminal device comprising: a transmitter; a receiver configured to receive a measurement radio signal from each of one or more potential relay nodes of the wireless telecommunications system, each measurement radio signal being transmitted using the same predetermined radio frequency band and identifying the one of the potential relay nodes from which it is transmitted; and a controller configured: to measure a characteristic of each received measurement radio signal, and based on each received measurement radio signal and its measured characteristic, to determine a suitable one of the one or more potential relay nodes for acting as a relay node for relaying the further radio signal between the terminal device and the infrastructure equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Brian Alexander MARTIN, Shin Horng WONG, Martin Warwick BEALE, Hiromasa UCHIYAMA, Hideji WAKABAYASHI, Shinichiro TSUDA
  • Patent number: 11877277
    Abstract: Provided is a terminal device including a measuring unit that performs downlink measurement on the basis of a downlink reference signal, and a transmitting unit that transmits a first uplink reference signal on the basis of first setting related to measurement for radio resource management. The transmitting unit transmits the first uplink reference signal in a case in which a first condition is satisfied, and the measuring unit performs the downlink measurement in a case in which a second condition is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Kusashima, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Hiromasa Uchiyama, Ryota Kimura, Hiroki Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20240015052
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide an information processing device and the like for causing an application that executes calculation based on a DNN to comfortably operate in a communication environment by using distributed learning. [Solution] One information processing device according to the present disclosure receives information regarding resources of a communication network that relays communication between a communication terminal that transits an input to a deep neural network or is in charge of at least a part of a series of calculation of the deep neural network and transmits a result of the calculation and a server that is able to be in charge of at least a part of the series of calculation, and determines an entity to which the series of calculation is assigned from among the communication terminal, the server, and the communication node in the communication network on the basis of the information regarding the resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: HIROMASA UCHIYAMA, SHINICHIRO TSUDA
  • Patent number: 11871365
    Abstract: Disclosed is a user equipment for satellite communication, comprising one or more processing circuits configured to execute the following operations: evaluating a transmission power requirement for a user equipment to communicate with a satellite; and assisting, via an auxiliary device, the user equipment in executing at least part of the communication with the satellite when the transmission power constraint of the user equipment fails to meet the transmission power requirement, wherein the processing circuits are further configured to acquire, via the satellite, a communication mode to be switched to, and the processing circuits transmit, to the satellite, a notification indicating that a current communication mode needs to be switched, with the notification comprising information indicating the need to switch to a communication mode that meets the transmission power requirement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Yuan Zhang, Penshun Lu, Wenbo Zhang, Hiromasa Uchiyama
  • Patent number: 11863969
    Abstract: Provided is a communication apparatus (200) including: an acquisition unit (241) that acquires, from a base station apparatus (100), information for operating as a master for controlling a sidelink communication between other apparatuses; and a control unit (240) that performs a process for operating as the master on the basis of the information acquired by the acquisition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yifu Tang, Hiromasa Uchiyama, Naoki Kusashima
  • Publication number: 20230361865
    Abstract: Provided is a mechanism which is capable of improving wireless link quality regarding transmission from a terminal device on the ground to a non-ground station device. A terminal device including a control unit configured to acquire information regarding a type of a base station device and control a transmission timing of a signal to the base station device on the basis of the information regarding the type of the base station device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: NAOKI KUSASHIMA, KAZUYUKI SHIMEZAWA, HIROMASA UCHIYAMA, HIROKI MATSUDA, RYOTA KIMURA, YlFU TANG
  • Publication number: 20230362975
    Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus: performs communication using a first link; performs communication using a second link; and performs allocation control of allocating transmission data to first data and second data, transmission control of controlling transmission of the first data using the first link and transmission of the second data using the second link, and reception control of controlling reception using the first link of a first response including reception success/failure information indicating a success/failure of reception with respect to the first data and at least a part of the second data and reception using the second link of a second response including the reception success/failure information indicating a success/failure of reception with respect to the second data and at least a part of the first data. The present technique can be applied to wireless communication systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Ryuichi HIRATA, Yusuke TANAKA, Hiromasa UCHIYAMA, Shigeru SUGAYA, Kosuke AIO
  • Publication number: 20230337262
    Abstract: A method for a communications device which is configurable to transmit or receive data on a sidelink using communcation resources of a first frequency range and is configurable to transmit or receive data on a sidelink using communication resources of a second frequency range, the first frequency range being a licensed frequency range, and the second frequency range being an unlicensed frequency range, the method comprising determining that the communications device is not permitted to transmit the data on a sidelink using communication resources of the first frequency range, determining that the communications device is permitted to transmit the data on a sidelink using communication resources of the second frequency range, and transmitting or receiving data on a sidelink using communication resources of the second frequency range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Vivek SHARMA, Kazuyuki SHIMEZAWA, Hiromasa UCHIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20230328594
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a communication device enabling improvement of communication quality. A communication device includes a control unit configured to, in performing joint reception with a first communication device on a reception signal from one or more second communication devices, perform control of: generating first information indicating likelihood information of the reception signal for every second communication device; generating second information regarding an information amount of the first information that can be stored in a storage unit configured to temporarily store the likelihood information; and transmitting the first information and the second information to the first communication device. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a device constituting a wireless LAN system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: KEN TANAKA, KOSUKE AIO, HIROMASA UCHIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20230312092
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a structure of wireless communication for a device which can fly freely in 3-dimensional space. [Solution] A circuit includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire information regarding a flight; and a measurement report control unit configured to control a measurement report process on a reference signal transmitted from a base station device, on a basis of the information regarding the flight acquired by the acquisition unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuyuki SHIMEZAWA, Hiromasa UCHIYAMA