Patents by Inventor Motohiro Tanno
Motohiro Tanno 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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Patent number: 10959237Abstract: The object is achieved by providing a base station apparatus for performing time and frequency scheduling in uplink packet access with: an interference amount measurement part configured to measure an uplink interference amount for each interference amount measurement unit which comprises a predetermined period and a predetermined number of frequency blocks; an interference amount determination part configured to determine whether the uplink interference amount satisfies a predetermined condition; and an overload indicator reporting part configured to report an overload indicator to a neighboring cell when the predetermined condition is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2018Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Motohiro Tanno, Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Kenichi Higuchi, Mamoru Sawahashi, Toshifumi Sato
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Patent number: 10104562Abstract: A mobile communications system having a first base station and one or more second base stations is disclosed, wherein the first base station includes a first generator which generates a first known signal for use in common between the first base station and the second base station and a second known signal use specific to each of the first base station and the second base station, and a radio transmitter which wirelessly transmits, to a subordinate terminal apparatus, the first known signal and the second known signal which are generated by the first generator.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2014Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Motohiro Tanno, Mamoru Sawahashi
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Publication number: 20180160434Abstract: The object is achieved by providing a base station apparatus for performing time and frequency scheduling in uplink packet access with: an interference amount measurement part configured to measure an uplink interference amount for each interference amount measurement unit which comprises a predetermined period and a predetermined number of frequency blocks; an interference amount determination part configured to determine whether the uplink interference amount satisfies a predetermined condition; and an overload indicator reporting part configured to report an overload indicator to a neighboring cell when the predetermined condition is satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2018Publication date: June 7, 2018Applicant: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Motohiro Tanno, Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Kenichi Higuchi, Mamoru Sawahashi, Toshifumi Sato
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Patent number: 9924524Abstract: The object is achieved by providing a base station apparatus for performing time and frequency scheduling in uplink packet access with: an interference amount measurement part configured to measure an uplink interference amount for each interference amount measurement unit which comprises a predetermined period and a predetermined number of frequency blocks; an interference amount determination part configured to determine whether the uplink interference amount satisfies a predetermined condition; and an overload indicator reporting part configured to report an overload indicator to a neighboring cell when the predetermined condition is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2016Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Motohiro Tanno, Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Kenichi Higuchi, Mamoru Sawahashi, Toshifumi Sato
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Publication number: 20170034836Abstract: The object is achieved by providing a base station apparatus for performing time and frequency scheduling in uplink packet access with: an interference amount measurement part configured to measure an uplink interference amount for each interference amount measurement unit which comprises a predetermined period and a predetermined number of frequency blocks; an interference amount determination part configured to determine whether the uplink interference amount satisfies a predetermined condition; and an overload indicator reporting part configured to report an overload indicator to a neighboring cell when the predetermined condition is satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2016Publication date: February 2, 2017Applicant: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Motohiro TANNO, Yoshihisa KISHIYAMA, Kenichi HIGUCHI, Mamoru SAWAHASHI, Toshifumi SATO
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Patent number: 9525528Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 15, 2014Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Nobuhiko Miki, Motohiro Tanno, Kenichi Higuchi, Mamoru Sawahashi, Hiroyuki Atarashi
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Patent number: 9474079Abstract: The object is achieved by providing a base station apparatus for performing time and frequency scheduling in uplink packet access with: an interference amount measurement part configured to measure an uplink interference amount for each interference amount measurement unit which comprises a predetermined period and a predetermined number of frequency blocks; an interference amount determination part configured to determine whether the uplink interference amount satisfies a predetermined condition; and an overload indicator reporting part configured to report an overload indicator to a neighboring cell when the predetermined condition is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2013Date of Patent: October 18, 2016Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Motohiro Tanno, Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Kenichi Higuchi, Mamoru Sawahashi, Toshifumi Sato
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Patent number: 9391750Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 20, 2006Date of Patent: July 12, 2016Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Nobuhiko Miki, Motohiro Tanno, Kenichi Higuchi, Mamoru Sawahashi, Hiroyuki Atarashi
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Patent number: 9370014Abstract: In a radio communication system, a downlink frequency band includes a plurality of frequency blocks including one or more carrier frequencies, and one or more frequency blocks are used for data transmission to a single user. A radio communication apparatus for use in the communication system has an evaluation unit evaluating the quality of a received signal for each frequency block and storing plurality of stored quality evaluations of the received signal, a comparison unit comparing the plural quality evaluations of the received signal, and a transmission unit transmitting a predetermined number of the quality evaluations of the received signal over an uplink control channel.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2013Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Motohiro Tanno, Hiroyuki Atarashi, Kenichi Higuchi, Mamoru Sawahashi
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Patent number: 9232447Abstract: To provide a radio base station apparatus and mobile terminal for enabling cell selection to be performed in a faster cell switching period in handover, the radio base station apparatus of the invention has a plurality of transmission/reception sections capable of being extended to remote sites, an FCS application determining section that determines whether to apply fast cell selection in handover based on information from the mobile terminal, and a multi-cell scheduling control section that controls transmission/non-transmission of the first and second transmission/reception sections when the FCS application determining section determines that FCS is applied.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2014Date of Patent: January 5, 2016Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Motohiro Tanno, Mamoru Sawahashi
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Patent number: 9144078Abstract: In a radio communication system, a downlink frequency band includes a plurality of frequency blocks including one or more carrier frequencies, and one or more frequency blocks are used for data transmission to a single user. A radio communication apparatus for use in the communication system has an evaluation unit evaluating the quality of a received signal for each frequency block and storing plurality of stored quality evaluations of the received signal, a comparison unit comparing the plural quality evaluations of the received signal, and a transmission unit transmitting a predetermined number of the quality evaluations of the received signal over an uplink control channel.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2006Date of Patent: September 22, 2015Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Motohiro Tanno, Hiroyuki Atarashi, Kenichi Higuchi, Mamoru Sawahashi
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Patent number: 9088985Abstract: A base station includes a receiving unit configured to receive a UE capability regarding a bandwidth from a mobile station; and a specifying unit configured to specify, among plural basic frequency blocks included in a system band, one or more basic frequency blocks to be used by the mobile station based on the UE capability.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2009Date of Patent: July 21, 2015Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Motohiro Tanno, Nobuhiko Miki, Hidekazu Taoka, Kenichi Higuchi, Mamoru Sawahashi
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Patent number: 9048912Abstract: Provided are a mobile terminal apparatus, a radio base station apparatus and a communication method, capable of orthogonalizing uplink reference signals between plural antennas in MIMO transmission. The mobile terminal apparatus has a reference signal generator (11) for generating DM-RSs using ZC sequences and a cyclic shift section (13) for cyclically shifting the DM-RSs by unit of plural antenna ports (19) to orthogonalize the DM-RSs for the antenna ports (19) between the antenna ports (19), and the cyclically shifted DM-RSs are transmitted via the respective antenna ports (19) to a radio base station apparatus eNB in an uplink.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2010Date of Patent: June 2, 2015Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Teruo Kawamura, Motohiro Tanno
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Patent number: 9048914Abstract: Provided is a downlink reference signal structure suitable for increase in number of transmission layers. A radio base station device (20) has a plurality of transmission antennas; a orthogonal RS sequence generator (22) for generating orthogonal reference signals based on a two-dimensional orthogonal code, the orthogonal reference signals being orthogonalized between downlink reference signals adjacent in two-dimensional directions of frequency direction and time direction to each other in one transmission layer and being orthogonalized in different transmission layers assigned to one radio resource; a multiplexer (23) for multiplexing transmission data and the orthogonal reference signals in the one transmission layer; and a transmitter for transmitting a transmission signal obtained by multiplexing the transmission data and the orthogonal reference signals, via the transmission antenna in transmission layers simultaneously.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2010Date of Patent: June 2, 2015Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Kazuaki Takeda, Motohiro Tanno, Hidekazu Taoka
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Patent number: 9036543Abstract: A mobile terminal apparatus and radio base station apparatus supporting each of a plurality of mobile communication systems when the plurality of mobile communication systems coexists is disclosed, wherein the mobile terminal apparatus is a mobile terminal apparatus in a radio communication system for performing transmission and reception in uplink and downlink, each assigned to a relatively wide system band obtained by aggregating a plurality of component carriers, each of which is a relatively narrow system band, and has coding and data modulation sections that perform coding and data modulation on uplink control signals including report information of individual component carriers assigned to downlink, and mapping sections that map the control signals subjected to coding and data modulation to uplink communication channels.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2009Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Motohiro Tanno, Mamoru Sawahashi
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Patent number: 9008034Abstract: A disclosed base station transmits a broadcast channel to a user device a predefined number of times in a predetermined cycle for communication with the user device. The base station includes a repetition unit configured to repeat the broadcast channel, after the broadcast channel is channel-coded, for the predefined number of times to generate multiple broadcast channels; and a signal waveform changing unit configured to process the generated broadcast channels such that the processed broadcast channels have different signal waveforms. Positions of the broadcast channels in the order of transmission in the predetermined cycle are associated with the signal waveforms of the broadcast channels.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2012Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Motohiro Tanno, Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Kenichi Higuchi, Mamoru Sawahashi
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Publication number: 20150063292Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2014Publication date: March 5, 2015Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Nobuhiko Miki, Motohiro Tanno, Kenichi Higuchi, Mamoru Sawahashi, Hiroyuki Atarashi
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Patent number: 8971286Abstract: A mobile terminal apparatus and radio base station apparatus supporting each of a plurality of mobile communication systems when the plurality of mobile communication systems coexists, where the mobile terminal apparatus performs a cell search using an SCH signal included in one downlink CC among a plurality of downlink CCs, and where the radio base station apparatus broadcasts a DBCH signal including information of an uplink CC paired with an initial downlink CC including the SCH signal obtained by the cell search, and transmits a response signal of an RACH signal from the mobile terminal apparatus to the mobile terminal apparatus in the initial downlink CC, and where the mobile terminal apparatus transmits a shared channel signal including information of a transmission/reception bandwidth of the mobile terminal apparatus to the radio base station apparatus in the uplink CC, and where the radio base station apparatus transmits a control signal including assignment information of a downlink CC and an uplink CType: GrantFiled: September 18, 2009Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Motohiro Tanno, Mamoru Sawahashi
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Patent number: 8971897Abstract: A centralized-control base station connected to a first transceiving unit and a second transceiving unit includes a first signal quality obtaining unit configured to obtain both uplink signal quality from a mobile station to the first transceiving unit and downlink signal quality from the first transceiving unit to the mobile station; a second signal quality obtaining unit configured to obtain both uplink signal quality from the mobile station to the second transceiving unit and downlink signal quality from the second transceiving unit to the mobile station; and a control unit configured to allow downlink data to be transmitted from the first transceiving unit, downlink feedback information to be received by the second transceiving unit, uplink data to be received by the second transceiving unit, and uplink feedback information to be transmitted from the first transceiving unit, when the downlink signal quality from the first transceiving unit to the mobile station is better than the downlink signal quality fType: GrantFiled: June 22, 2009Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Motohiro Tanno, Mamoru Sawahashi, Yoshihisa Kishiyama
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Patent number: 8964607Abstract: A communication apparatus to be used for a newer system employing an FDD scheme in an area where an older system and the newer system coexist. The communication apparatus includes a first communication unit communicating at least a downlink data channel of the newer system using a frequency band belonging to a first frequency range (3.4-3.8 GHz); and a second communication unit communicating at least an uplink control channel of the newer system using a frequency band belonging to a second frequency range (2 GHz band) lower than the first frequency range. The second frequency range is used for uplink and downlink communications in the older system.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2009Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Motohiro Tanno, Mamoru Sawahashi, Seizo Onoe, Nobuhiko Miki, Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Hidekazu Taoka