Patents by Inventor Naoki Kusashima

Naoki Kusashima 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: 20220104282
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a wireless link usable in a more stable manner in a situation where beam management is performed. A communication apparatus includes: a control unit that performs control such that a plurality of reference signals associated with pieces of antenna information different from each other is transmitted to a terminal apparatus; and an acquisition unit that acquires control information corresponding to at least any one of the plurality of reference signals from the terminal apparatus after a random access response in a random access procedure is transmitted to the terminal apparatus. The control unit controls following communication with the terminal apparatus on the basis of the antenna information corresponding to the acquired control information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: NAOKI KUSASHIMA, KAZUYUKI SHIMEZAWA, HIROKI MATSUDA
  • Publication number: 20220095329
    Abstract: A communication device, including: a communication unit that performs radio communication; and a control unit that performs carrier sensing together with a base station and that performs control so that a radio signal is transmitted via a carrier which is designated by the base station according to the results of the sensing, wherein the control unit performs control so that information relating to transmission of uplink control information in a case where transmission of the uplink control information via the carrier is suppressed is acquired from the base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventor: NAOKI KUSASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20220094501
    Abstract: Provided is a mechanism capable of improving the transmission efficiency of the entire system in a case where dynamic resource sharing is performed. A terminal device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires first control information and second control information provided in notification from a base station device; and a reception processing unit that performs reception processing of a first data channel scheduled to a first resource, and a reference signal for demodulating the first data channel, on the basis of the first control information, in which the reception processing unit performs the reception processing of the first data channel mapped to a resource other than a second resource that is a part of the first resource in the first resource on the basis of the second control information on the assumption that the reference signal is mapped to the first resource including the second resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuyuki SHIMEZAWA, Naoki KUSASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20220085876
    Abstract: [Subject] To realize FeD2D communication with higher quality. [Solving Means] A communication apparatus includes: an acquisition unit that acquires, from another apparatus, information regarding a state of communication through a resource pool allocated to wireless links between at least part of a plurality of relay communication apparatuses, which are movable, and a remote communication apparatus; and a control unit that individually controls allocation of the resource pool to each of the wireless links between each of the plurality of relay communication apparatuses and the remote communication apparatus associated with the relay communication apparatus on the basis of the acquired information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Hiromasa UCHIYAMA, Naoki KUSASHIMA, Yifu TANG
  • Patent number: 11277760
    Abstract: [Overview] [Problem to be Solved] To provide a communication apparatus that allows a transmitting station to accurately determine whether or not a receiving station actually has interference. [Solution] There is provided a communication apparatus including a communication control unit that controls a communication process in a cellular system. The communication control unit sets a plurality of reception beams on the basis of information of a direction, measures received power for each of the reception beams, and reports a result of the measurement to a base station. The information of the direction is set from the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Kusashima, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Hiroki Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20220078858
    Abstract: A communication device is a device in which a radio connection state with another communication device changes from an unconnected state to a predetermined connected state by performing a predetermined connection procedure. The communication device acquires predetermined information for transmitting data to the another communication device in the unconnected state. The communication device then transmits the data to the another communication device in the unconnected state based on the predetermined information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki MATSUDA, Naoki KUSASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20220078751
    Abstract: Provided is a communication control device including: an acquisition unit that acquires information regarding slot setting and rewritable slots in the setting, and information regarding a radio wave environment around an own station from another communication control device; a setting unit that selects a slot to be rewritten from the rewritable slots, on the basis of the information regarding the radio wave environment, and rewrites the slot; and a communication control unit that executes communication on the basis of the slot rewritten by the setting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: HIROMASA UCHIYAMA, NAOKI KUSASHIMA, HIROKI MATSUDA
  • Patent number: 11272573
    Abstract: A communication device performs direct communication between terminals. The system transmits and receives wireless signals and controls transmission of data using a predetermined resource pool and reception of feedback from a transmission destination terminal of the data. The system performs control to secure a resource for transmission of the data and a resource for the feedback for the transmission destination terminal of the data within the predetermined resource pool, and notifies the transmission destination terminal of information regarding the resource for the feedback by using SCI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiromasa Uchiyama, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Naoki Kusashima, Hiroki Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20220070829
    Abstract: A communication device comprising: a communication unit that performs radio communication; and a control unit that performs control so that a response to transmission of data from another terminal device via inter-device communication is to be transmitted to the other terminal device via the inter-device communication, wherein the control unit determines a resource to be used for transmission of the response based on a condition related to the inter-device communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki KUSASHIMA, Hiromasa UCHIYAMA, Yifu TANG
  • Publication number: 20220070706
    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: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki KUSASHIMA, Hiromasa UCHIYAMA, Hiroki MATSUDA
  • Publication number: 20220046640
    Abstract: Base station devices 20 and 30 includes communication units 21 and 31 and control units 24 and 34. The communication units 21 and 31 communicate with the terminal devices 40 and 50. When at least one symbol included in a slot format configured in the terminal devices 40 and 50 is a symbol for communication other than sidelink communication, the control units 24 and 34 transmit, to the terminal devices 40 and 50, information for use by the terminal devices 40 and 50 as a symbol for sidelink communication with at least one symbol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Yifu TANG, Hiromasa UCHIYAMA, Naoki KUSASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20220045798
    Abstract: An information processing device includes an acquisition unit that acquires information about sidelink communication, and a determination unit that determines whether to enable feedback related to a data automatic repeat request in the sidelink communication based on the information about the sidelink communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventors: YIFU TANG, HIROMASA UCHIYAMA, NAOKI KUSASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20220046477
    Abstract: A communication device includes a first communication unit that performs wireless communication based on a first communication scheme; a second communication unit that performs communication based on a second communication scheme different from the first communication scheme; and a control unit that controls the communication based on the first communication scheme and the communication based on the second communication scheme, in which a second layer is set for a protocol stack of the second communication scheme as a layer corresponding to a first layer, which is any layer below a layer corresponding to a communication protocol according to selection of a transmission path among a series of layers for each of communication protocols constituting a protocol stack of the first communication scheme, and the control unit converts one of data corresponding to the first layer and data corresponding to the second layer to the other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki KUSASHIMA, Atsushi MIYAMOTO, Ryota KIMURA
  • Patent number: 11240851
    Abstract: Provided is a communication apparatus that includes a control unit that performs control such that a plurality of reference signals associated with pieces of antenna information different from each other is transmitted to a terminal apparatus, and an acquisition unit that acquires control information corresponding to at least any one of the plurality of reference signals from the terminal apparatus after a random access response in a random access procedure is transmitted to the terminal apparatus. The control unit controls following communication with the terminal apparatus on the basis of the antenna information corresponding to the acquired control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Kusashima, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Hiroki Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20220015024
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a communication device and a communication method capable of achieving low-delay communication stably on an unlicensed band. The communication device includes a first communication unit configured to communicate on a first frequency band that is an unlicensed band and a second communication unit configured to communicate on a second frequency band that is an unlicensed band different from the first frequency band. A controller of the communication device is configured to control transmission of data using either one frequency band of communication on the first frequency band or communication on the second frequency band on the basis of information regarding a resource on the second frequency band transmitted from a first communication device. The present technology is applicable to, for example, a communication device and the like that conducts wireless communication standardized by IEEE 802.11.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke TANAKA, Naoki KUSASHIMA
  • Patent number: 11218216
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes: an acquisition unit that acquires, from another apparatus, information regarding a state of communication through a resource pool allocated to wireless links between at least part of a plurality of relay communication apparatuses, which are movable, and a remote communication apparatus; and a control unit that individually controls allocation of the resource pool to each of the wireless links between each of the plurality of relay communication apparatuses and the remote communication apparatus associated with the relay communication apparatus on the basis of the acquired information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiromasa Uchiyama, Naoki Kusashima, Yifu Tang
  • Patent number: 11212025
    Abstract: [Object] Provided is a mechanism for enhancing resistance against an interference that possibly occur due to non-orthogonality of a resource in a communication system holding communication with a mixture of a plurality of communication parameter sets. [Solving Means] A transmitting apparatus holding communication using a plurality of communication parameter sets in a unit resource, and including a processing section that transmits a data signal and a reference signal generated using the parameter sets different between the data signal and the reference signal to a receiving apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryota Kimura, Hiroki Matsuda, Naoki Kusashima, Yifu Tang, Yukitoshi Sanada
  • Patent number: 11212055
    Abstract: There is provided a communication system in which a base station apparatus communicates with a terminal apparatus and a communication apparatus flexibly designed to address diverse use cases so as to significantly enhance the transmission efficiency of the system as a whole. The communication apparatus includes an acquisition section that acquires information from an apparatus in wireless communication, and a control section that selects either orthogonal multiple access communication or non-orthogonal multiple access communication for communication with the apparatus on the basis of the information acquired by the acquisition section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki Matsuda, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Naoki Kusashima
  • Publication number: 20210392547
    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: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yifu TANG, Hiromasa UCHIYAMA, Naoki KUSASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20210385025
    Abstract: [Subject] To make flexible design according to a use case possible and further improve the transmission efficiency of the entire system. [Solving Means] A communication apparatus includes a communication section configured to perform wireless communication, and a control section configured to control such that information corresponding to a plurality of one-encoding units to be made a target of re-transmission is notified to another apparatus, the target of re-transmission being, from among one or a plurality of one-encoding units defined so as to include at least part of a plurality of one-encoding units included in a predetermined transmission unit, any of the plurality of one-encoding units whose reception results in failure and all of the plurality of one-encoding units included in the predetermined transmission unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki MATSUDA, Kazuyuki SHIMEZAWA, Naoki KUSASHIMA