Patents by Inventor Kazuyuki Shimezawa
Kazuyuki Shimezawa 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).
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Publication number: 20220287073Abstract: A method of transmitting data by a communications device to a wireless communications network comprising determining, by the communications device, from granted uplink communications resources, OFDM symbols of one or more time slots which are designated for transmitting uplink data, and transmitting the uplink data in the OFDM symbols determined as designated for uplink transmission. The determining the OFDM symbols of the one or more time slots which are designated for transmitting uplink data includes identifying one or more F-symbols of the one or more time slots designated for transmitting the uplink data based on information received with an indication of the communications resources of the uplink.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2020Publication date: September 8, 2022Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Shin Horng WONG, Kazuyuki SHIMEZAWA
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Publication number: 20220286897Abstract: A method of transmitting data by a communications device, the method comprising receiving a plurality of service data units including a first service data unit and a second service data unit at a Service Data Adaptation Protocol (SDAP), service access point (SAP) according to one or more quality of service (QoS) flows, each of the QoS flows defining a quality of service for the data received from the service data units, mapping the service data units received according to the one or more QoS flows on to one or more radio bearers, each of the one or more radio bearers being defined by a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) entity within a PDCP layer, forming the service data units into protocol data units for transmission via the radio bearer to which the corresponding QoS flow has been mapped, and transmitting the protocol data units via the corresponding radio bearer.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2022Publication date: September 8, 2022Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Vivek SHARMA, Samuel Asangbeng ATUNGSIRI, Shin Horng WONG, Kazuyuki SHIMEZAWA, Hideji WAKABAYASHI
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Publication number: 20220279493Abstract: A wireless communication device including an acquisition unit that acquires an information set related to a transmission parameter when transmitting a resource arbitrarily selected from a predetermined resource pool to a transmission target (for example, performing grant-free transmission), and a setting unit that sets the transmission parameter using the information set.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2022Publication date: September 1, 2022Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Hiroki MATSUDA, Kazuyuki SHIMEZAWA, Naoki KUSASHIMA
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Publication number: 20220279559Abstract: A method of operating a terminal device in a wireless telecommunications system, the method comprising: determining first uplink control information should be transmitted using a first set of radio resources; determining the first uplink control information is associated with a first priority level; determining second uplink control information should be transmitted using a second set of radio resources; determining the second uplink control information is associated with a second priority level; determining if there is an overlap between the first and second sets of radio resources, and, in response to determining there is an overlap between the first and second sets of radio resources, selectively multiplexing the first uplink control information and the second uplink control information by taking account of their respective priority levels.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2020Publication date: September 1, 2022Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Shin Horng WONG, Martin Warwick BEALE, Kazuyuki SHIMEZAWA, Yassin Aden AWAD
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Publication number: 20220263637Abstract: A communications device for use in a wireless communications system comprising an infrastructure equipment and the communications device is provided. The communications device is configured to transmit an uplink channel to the infrastructure equipment in a plurality of allocated subcarriers. The communications device comprises circuitry for one or more modulation symbol repetition blocks, each configured to receive modulated symbols mapped to one of a plurality of modulated symbol sets and to repeat each of the received modulated symbols within each of the plurality of modulated symbol sets, and circuitry for a precoder block configured to carry out a precoder function on the repeated modulation symbols, the precoder function comprising multiplying each of the repeated modulation symbols by an element of a precoder vector to produce precoded symbols.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2022Publication date: August 18, 2022Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Shin Horng WONG, Martin Warwick BEALE, Samuel Asangbeng ATUNGSIRI, Kazuyuki SHIMEZAWA
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Patent number: 11419102Abstract: A method comprising receiving from a node of a wireless communications network slot configuration information indicating a configuration of one or more slots of a wireless access interface, and in accordance with the received slot configuration information receiving signals by the communications device in each of the one or more slots on the one or more of the symbols allocated for receiving signals, and transmitting signals from the communications device in each of the one or more slots on the one or more of the symbols allocated to the communications device for transmitting signals.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2018Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Shin Horng Wong, Kazuyuki Shimezawa
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Patent number: 11412562Abstract: [Problem to be Solved] To provide a communication apparatus that allows a coordinated operation to be executed between different operators. [Solution] There is provided a communication apparatus including a communication control unit that performs control to concurrently couple a base station of a first operator and a base station of a second operator wirelessly. A cell group of the base station of the first operator and a cell group of the base station of the second operator are different from each other. The communication control unit receives setting information regarding the base station of the second operator from the base station of the first operator.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2018Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Naoki Kusashima, Hiroki Matsuda
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Patent number: 11411677Abstract: [Object] To provide a terminal device capable of efficiently performing communication in a communication system in which a base station device and the terminal device communicate with each other. [Solution] A terminal device that communicates with a base station device includes: a higher layer processing unit configured to set an STTI channel setting through signaling of a higher layer from the base station device; and a receiving unit configured to receive a first PDSCH in a case in which the STTI channel setting is not set and receive a second PDSCH in a case in which the STTI channel setting is set. The first PDCCH is mapped to one or more resource blocks, the second PDCCH is mapped to one or more sub resource blocks, and the second PDSCH is demodulated using a reference signal mapped to a symbol including the sub resource block or a resource element before the symbol.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2020Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Kazuyuki Shimezawa
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Patent number: 11405811Abstract: Provided are a communication apparatus that is operated under a wireless communication environment to which a full duplex communication scheme is applied and a communication method. The communication apparatus includes a communication section that performs wireless communication and a control section that controls operation of the communication section and processing of a signal transmitted and received by the communication section. Upon receiving, through a downlink control channel from a base station, designation regarding a resource in which interference is to be measured, the control section conducts, in the designated resource, measurement of interference from another terminal. In addition, the control section further controls transmission of interference information obtained by the measurement to the base station.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2018Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Naoki Kusashima, Ryota Kimura, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Ryo Sawai, Hiroto Kuriki, Keiichi Mizutani, Takeshi Matsumura, Hiroshi Harada
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Publication number: 20220232565Abstract: [Object] To provide a mechanism that enables flexible design in relation to communication timing. [Solution] A communication apparatus including: a communication control unit that controls transmission of any one of a first channel that is transmitted in a first direction and a second channel that is transmitted in a second direction that faces the first direction and corresponds to the first channel and reception of the other one of the first channel and the second channel; and a setting unit that sets a control mode of the communication control unit to a first mode or a second mode. The communication control unit transmits and receives the first channel and the second channel in different sub frames in the first mode and transmits and receives the first channel and the second channel in a same sub frame in the second mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2022Publication date: July 21, 2022Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventor: Kazuyuki SHIMEZAWA
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Patent number: 11394496Abstract: A communications device configured to receive data from an infrastructure equipment of a wireless communications network is provided. The communications device comprises transceiver circuitry configured to transmit signals and to receive signals via a wireless access interface provided by the wireless communications network, and controller circuitry. The controller circuitry is configured to control the transceiver circuitry to receive an explicit uplink hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement indicator, e-HARQ indicator, from the infrastructure equipment, and to determine, in accordance with the received e-HARQ indicator, whether or not the communications device should monitor for a first HARQ acknowledgement, HARQ-ACK, in a specific time slot and in a specific frequency resource of the wireless access interface, the first HARQ-ACK being transmitted by the infrastructure equipment in response to an uplink transmission from the communications device to the infrastructure equipment.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2019Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Shin Horng Wong, Martin Warwick Beale, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Vivek Sharma
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Patent number: 11394459Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 15, 2018Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Naoki Kusashima, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Hiromasa Uchiyama, Hiroki Matsuda, Ryota Kimura, Yifu Tang
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Publication number: 20220225400Abstract: A communications device operates to receive data from a wireless communications network. The communications device receives one or more downlink control messages providing indicating a first downlink communications resource of a wireless access interface provided by the wireless communications network from which the communications device can receive first downlink data, and indicating a second downlink communications resource of the wireless access interface from which the communications device can receive second downlink data, and indicating one or more uplink communications resources of the wireless access interface for the communications device to transmit one or more Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request-type (HARQ) feedback messages for indicating whether or not the first and second downlink data is received.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2020Publication date: July 14, 2022Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Shin Horng WONG, Kazuyuki SHIMEZAWA
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Publication number: 20220225303Abstract: A method for receiving data by a communications device data from a wireless communications network, the method comprising: receiving a downlink control message transmitted in first downlink communications resources of a wireless access interface provided by the wireless communications network, the downlink control information providing an indication of second downlink communications resources from which the communications device can receive downlink data, decoding the downlink control message to identify the second downlink communications resources for receiving the downlink data, and receiving the downlink data from the second downlink communications resources, wherein the first and the second downlink communications resources are within a time period of the wireless access interface which ends at a pre-configured end time, the pre-configured end time being before the downlink control message is decoded.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2020Publication date: July 14, 2022Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Shin Horng WONG, Martin Warwick BEALE, Kazuyuki SHIMEZAWA
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Patent number: 11388704Abstract: A terminal device (UE) includes a reception unit configured to monitor an enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH) on a Serving cell with frame structure type 3. In a case that the terminal device detects downlink control information (DCI) in a subframe, the terminal device assumes a configuration of OFDM symbols according to a field in the DCI in the subframe. The OFDM symbols are used for downlink transmission. A demodulation reference signal (DMRS) associated with the EPDCCH is mapped in the subframe according to the configuration of the OFDM symbols.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2016Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Naoki Kusashima, Shoichi Suzuki, Alvaro Ruiz Delgado
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Publication number: 20220201713Abstract: A method of receiving data by a communications device in a wireless communications network, the method comprising receiving a downlink control message transmitted in first downlink communications resources of a wireless access interface provided by the wireless communications network, the downlink control message providing an indication of second downlink communications resources from which the communications device can receive downlink data, and receiving the downlink data from the second downlink communications resources, wherein the communications device is configured to operate in a first reception mode in which a receiver of the communications device is configured to receive the downlink data transmitted according to a first format via the second downlink communications resources, or to operate in a second reception mode in which the receiver of the communications device is configured to receive the downlink data transmitted according to a second format via the second downlink communications resources.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2020Publication date: June 23, 2022Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Martin Warwick BEALE, Shin Horng WONG, Kazuyuki SHIMEZAWA
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Patent number: 11368959Abstract: The present invention provides a base station apparatus, a terminal apparatus, and a communication method, which are capable of throughput improvement. A base station apparatus that communicates with a terminal apparatus, includes a higher layer processing unit that configures a CSI process that is a configuration relating to reporting of a channel state information (CSI), for the terminal apparatus for which a prescribed transmission mode is configured, in which the CSI process includes a configuration of a CSI reference signal and a configuration relating to two different code books.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2015Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryota Yamada, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Hiromichi Tomeba
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Patent number: 11356991Abstract: A wireless communication device including an acquisition unit that acquires an information set related to a transmission parameter when transmitting a resource arbitrarily selected from a predetermined resource pool to a transmission target (for example, performing grant-free transmission), and a setting unit that sets the transmission parameter using the information set.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2017Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroki Matsuda, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Naoki Kusashima
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Patent number: 11343053Abstract: A communications device for use in a wireless communications system comprising an infrastructure equipment and the communications device is provided. The communications device is configured to transmit an uplink channel to the infrastructure equipment in a plurality of allocated subcarriers. The communications device comprises circuitry for one or more modulation symbol repetition blocks, each configured to receive modulated symbols mapped to one of plurality of modulated symbol sets and to repeat each of the received modulated symbols within each of the plurality of modulated symbol sets, and circuitry for a precoder block configured to carry out a precoder function on the repeated modulation symbols, the precoder function comprising multiplying each of the repeated modulation symbols by an element of a precoder vector to produce precoded symbols.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2018Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Shin Horng Wong, Martin Warwick Beale, Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri, Kazuyuki Shimezawa
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Patent number: 11343701Abstract: A method of transmitting data by a communications device, the method comprising receiving a plurality of service data units including a first service data unit and a second service data unit at a Service Data Adaptation Protocol (SDAP), service access point (SAP) according to one or more quality of service (QoS) flows, each of the QoS flows defining a quality of service for the data received from the service data units, mapping the service data units received according to the one or more QoS flows on to one or more radio bearers, each of the one or more radio bearers being defined by a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) entity within a PDCP layer, forming the service data units into protocol data units for transmission via the radio bearer to which the corresponding QoS flow has been mapped, and transmitting the protocol data units via the corresponding radio bearer.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2019Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Vivek Sharma, Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri, Shin Horng Wong, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Hideji Wakabayashi