Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki Atarashi

Hiroyuki Atarashi 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: 20090201849
    Abstract: A transmission apparatus which attempts improvement of signal quality in an uplink and a downlink carries out radio transmission of different signals simultaneously from respective ones of a plurality of antennas. The apparatus has pilot multiplexing means for multiplexing a pilot channel to transmit from each antenna in one or more of a time division multiplexing method, a frequency division multiplexing method and a code division multiplexing method, data multiplexing means for time-multiplexing a pilot channel and a data channel, and means for transmitting a signal in a least one of a space division multiplexing (SDM) method and a space time transmission diversity (STTD) method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2006
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Mamoru Sawahashi, Kenichi Higuchi, Hiroyuki Atarashi
  • Publication number: 20090201902
    Abstract: A receiving apparatus receives control, pilot and data channels in an uplink. The apparatus includes a data-channel receiving unit for receiving the pilot channel in an antenna gain pattern of a multi-beam having multiple fixed directional beams with respectively different fixed directional directions or of a variable directional beam having a directional direction varying in accordance with the position of a mobile terminal; and a data-channel receiving unit for receiving the data channel in an antenna gain pattern of a multi-beam or a variable directional beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2006
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Nobuhiko Miki, Hiroyuki Atarashi, Sadayuki Abeta, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Patent number: 7570957
    Abstract: An object is to implement transmission by an appropriate transmission method according to a type of information even in application of directional beam transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2009
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Atarashi, Sadayuki Abeta, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Publication number: 20090185577
    Abstract: A transmitter transmits data to a communicating opponent with a better channel condition with use of one or more frequency blocks including one or more carrier frequencies. The transmitter includes a communicating opponent selection unit evaluating the channel condition for each frequency block for each of plural communicating opponents and selecting one or more communicating opponents from the plurality of communicating opponents, a modulation scheme determination unit determining at least a modulation scheme depending on the evaluated channel condition, a control channel generation unit generating a control channel indicative of the determined modulation scheme and one or more frequency blocks available for the selected communicating opponents to receive a data channel, and a channel transmission unit providing the selected communicating opponents with the control channel and the data channel modulated in accordance with the modulation scheme.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2006
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Nobuhiko Miki, Kenichi Higuchi, Motohiro Tanno, Hiroyuki Atarashi, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Publication number: 20090185602
    Abstract: A transmitter includes: spread code multiplying means that multiplies a symbol indicating a reference signal by spread code to generate a chip sequence after spreading; chip pattern generation means that generates a chip pattern by performing chip repetition a predetermined repetition number of times on the chip sequence after spreading; and multiplying means that multiplies a signal having the chip pattern by a phase specific to the transmitter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2006
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Atarashi, Teruo Kawamura, Yoshikazu Goto, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Publication number: 20090175369
    Abstract: A mobile station includes a control unit configured to change at least one parameter for a retransmission packet from that of a transmission packet, where the at least one parameter is selected from a data modulation scheme; a channel coding rate; a puncturing pattern; a spreading factor; a frequency bandwidth; a frequency allocation position; and transmission power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2007
    Publication date: July 9, 2009
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Atarashi, Nobuhiko Miki, Kenichi Higuchi, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Publication number: 20090161772
    Abstract: A transmission device able to improve signal quality in a downlink channel is disclosed. The transmission device is for transmitting a control channel, a pilot channel, and a data channel, and includes a unit for transmitting the data channel by using a multi-beam or a variable directional beam, and a unit for transmitting a known signal as the pilot channel by using the multi-beam or the variable directional beam. The multi-beam includes plural fixed directional beams having respective fixed directions different from each other, and the variable directional beam is of a direction changing along with a position of a mobile terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2006
    Publication date: June 25, 2009
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Mamoru Sawahashi, Kenichi Higuchi, Hiroyuki Atarashi
  • Publication number: 20090161733
    Abstract: A radio communication system having a radio transmitter and a radio receiver and adopting multiple carrier modulation and code spreading modulation methods is disclosed. The radio communication system comprises a selecting unit provided in the radio transmitter or the radio receiver, for selecting an interleaving mode out of plural interleaving modes depending on radio propagation path conditions; a symbol configuration unit provided in the radio transmitter; and a symbol reconfiguration unit provided in the radio receiver. The symbol configuration unit configures information symbols to be transmitted by the radio transmitter in both time and frequency directions in a pattern according to the interleaving mode selected by the selecting unit, and the symbol reconfiguration unit reconfigures information symbols received by the radio receiver in both time and frequency directions in an inverse pattern of the pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2009
    Publication date: June 25, 2009
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Noriyuki MAEDA, Hiroyuki Atarashi, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Publication number: 20090149187
    Abstract: A transmission apparatus is provided with radio resource assignment means that assigns radio resources to each physical channel according to a type of the physical channel; and transmission means that transmits information to be transmitted by each physical channel using the assigned radio resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2006
    Publication date: June 11, 2009
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Nobuhiko Miki, Motohiro Tanno, Kenichi Higuchi, Mamoru Sawahashi, Hiroyuki Atarashi
  • Publication number: 20090149129
    Abstract: In a radio communication system defining a plurality of bandwidths, mobile terminals of kinds respectively corresponding to the plurality of bandwidths are accommodated in the system, and a minimum transmission bandwidth of the plurality of bandwidths is set as a transmission bandwidth of a downlink common channel. Or, every mobile terminal accommodated in the radio communication system is provided with a capability for processing a bandwidth equal to or greater than a predetermined value, and equal to or more than two transmission bandwidths that are equal to or less than a predetermined value are set as a transmission bandwidth of a downlink common channel. In the latter case, the mobile terminal identifies a bandwidth of a received downlink common channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2008
    Publication date: June 11, 2009
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenichi Higuchi, Hiroyuki Atarashi, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Publication number: 20090147748
    Abstract: A disclosed transmission apparatus comprises a switching portion that switches radio access methods; a frequency domain signal generation portion that allocates a radio resource to a spread chip sequence on which one of a fast Fourier transformation and a series/parallel conversion is performed in accordance with the switched radio accessed method, so as to generate a signal in a frequency domain; and a transmission signal generation portion that performs a fast inverse Fourier transformation on the signal in the frequency domain so as to generate a transmission signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2006
    Publication date: June 11, 2009
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Ofuji, Hiroyuki Atarashi, Kenichi Higuchi, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Patent number: 7532864
    Abstract: A pilot extract section 14 extracts a pilot signal from received signal. An adder 21 in-phase adds a plurality of correlated values of pilot signals for respective subcarriers. Delay devices 201-1 to 201-6 temporarily maintain one in-phase added value. Multiplier 202-1 to 202-6 multiplies a predetermined coefficient to the in-phase added value that is output from the delay device. The predetermined coefficient reflects the result, which is obtained by correcting for multiple times the difference of channel variation in the different subcarriers that is generated when noise power per one subcarrier is calculated. Each of the multiplying results is added by an adder 24, and is squared by a square device 25. A cumulative adder 26 cumulative-adds the squared values for the whole subcarrier. A multiplier 203 averages by multiplying predetermined values to the cumulative-added values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2009
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masaru Fukuoka, Atsushi Sumasu, Sadayuki Abeta, Noriyuki Maeda, Hiroyuki Atarashi
  • Patent number: 7526041
    Abstract: A channel estimation circuit of the present invention includes: a tentative channel estimation unit for performing channel estimation by making use of a received signal and outputting the result of estimation as a tentative channel estimation signal; a noise/interference power estimation unit for estimating noise and interference power by making use of the received signal and outputting the result of estimation as a noise/interference power estimation signal; a threshold decision unit for establishing a threshold signal by making use of the noise/interference power estimation signal to output the threshold signal; and an effective path detection unit for outputting, as a channel estimation signal, paths of the tentative channel estimation signal that remains after noise paths having powers smaller than the threshold signal have been removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2009
    Assignees: NEC Corporation, NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Kakura, Hiroyuki Atarashi, Noriyuki Maeda
  • Patent number: 7526011
    Abstract: A radio communication system having a radio transmitter and a radio receiver and adopting multiple carrier modulation and code spreading modulation methods is disclosed. The radio communication system comprises a selecting unit provided in the radio transmitter or the radio receiver, for selecting an interleaving mode out of plural interleaving modes depending on radio propagation path conditions; a symbol configuration unit provided in the radio transmitter; and a symbol reconfiguration unit provided in the radio receiver. The symbol configuration unit configures information symbols to be transmitted by the radio transmitter in both time and frequency directions in a pattern according to the interleaving mode selected by the selecting unit, and the symbol reconfiguration unit reconfigures information symbols received by the radio receiver in both time and frequency directions in an inverse pattern of the pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2009
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Noriyuki Maeda, Hiroyuki Atarashi, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Publication number: 20090103483
    Abstract: A radio resource assignment method for a physical channel in an uplink directed from a mobile apparatus to a base station in a radio communication system, includes: assigning a contention-based channel and a scheduled channel according to one of a time division scheme, a frequency division scheme, and a hybrid scheme of the time division scheme and the frequency division scheme. In addition, radio resources are properly assigned to each of the contention-based channel, a common control channel of the scheduled channel, and a shared data channel of the scheduled channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2006
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kenichi Higuchi, Hiroyuki Atarashi, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Patent number: 7492794
    Abstract: A multi-carrier CDMA radio transmitting method replicates each information symbol and disposes thus-obtained information symbols along a frequency axis, multiplies the thus-obtained information symbols with a spreading code along the frequency axis, spreads the information symbols into components of a plurality of sub-carriers having different frequencies. The transmission rate of the information is changed by controlling the amount of information transmitted simultaneously by controlling the number of the information symbols to be used for spreading for the plurality of sub-carrier components for each user to which the information is to be transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2009
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Sadayuki Abeta, Hiroyuki Atarashi, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Publication number: 20090034638
    Abstract: An apparatus for generating sets of radio parameters includes a first deriving unit deriving a set of radio parameters for specifying a symbol including an effective symbol part with the same period as the effective symbol part specified by another set of radio parameters and a guard interval part with a different period from the guard interval part specified by the other set of radio parameters. The apparatus further includes a second deriving unit deriving a set of radio parameters so that an occupancy proportion of the guard interval part in a single symbol specified by another set of radio parameters is equal to an occupancy proportion of the guard interval part in a single symbol specified by the other set of radio parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2006
    Publication date: February 5, 2009
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Mamoru Sawahashi, Kenichi Higuchi, Hiroyuki Atarashi, Motohiro Tanno, Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Yoshiaki Ofuji
  • Publication number: 20080318527
    Abstract: In a radio communication system defining a plurality of bandwidths, mobile terminals of kinds respectively corresponding to the plurality of bandwidths are accommodated in the system, and a minimum transmission bandwidth of the plurality of bandwidths is set as a transmission bandwidth of a downlink common channel. Or, every mobile terminal accommodated in the radio communication system is provided with a capability for processing a bandwidth equal to or greater than a predetermined value, and equal to or more than two transmission bandwidths that are equal to or less than a predetermined value are set as a transmission bandwidth of a downlink common channel. In the latter case, the mobile terminal identifies a bandwidth of a received downlink common channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2005
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kenichi Higuchi, Hiroyuki Atarashi, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Patent number: 7457324
    Abstract: A multi-carrier CDMA radio transmitting method replicates each information symbol and disposes thus-obtained information symbols along a frequency axis, multiplies the thus-obtained information symbols with a spreading code along the frequency axis, spreads the information symbols into components of a plurality of sub-carriers having different frequencies. The transmission rate of the information is changed by controlling the amount of information transmitted simultaneously by controlling the number of the information symbols to be used for spreading for the plurality of sub-carrier components for each user to which the information is to be transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2008
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Sadayuki Abeta, Hiroyuki Atarashi, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Publication number: 20080225820
    Abstract: A mobile station for wirelessly transmitting to a base station by DS-CDMA a signal which is spread by multiplying a spreading code includes a high-precision transmission timing control unit configured to control transmitting timings of transmitting signals so that a time difference at the base station among timings of receiving from a plurality of mobile stations approaches zero.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2008
    Publication date: September 18, 2008
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Atarashi, Mamoru Sawahashi, Teruo Kawamura