Patents by Inventor Satoshi Suyama

Satoshi Suyama 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).

  • Patent number: 11939028
    Abstract: A bicycle component controller is basically provided with a processor. The processor is configured to perform a gear shift control based on a sprocket assembly information of at least one sprocket assembly. The sprocket assembly information at least includes a single shifting distance and shifting gate information. The single shifting distance corresponds to an axial spacing between adjacent sprockets of the at least one sprocket assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Shimano Inc.
    Inventors: Satoshi Shahana, Mitsuhiko Kawasaki, Shota Suyama
  • Patent number: 11863261
    Abstract: This base station comprises: a control unit that allocates, on the basis of a doppler shift estimated using an uplink reference signal, a downlink reference signal common to a plurality of beams; and a transmission unit that transmits the common downlink reference signal via the plurality of beams. According to this base station communication method, the base station allocates, on the basis of a doppler shift estimated using an uplink reference signal, a downlink reference signal common to a plurality of beams, and transmits the common downlink reference signal via the plurality of beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Nobuhide Nonaka, Tatsuki Okuyama, Satoshi Suyama, Yukihiko Okumura
  • Publication number: 20230116416
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes a control section that determines, for each terminal, a method for a coordinated operation performed between a plurality of radio apparatuses for signal transmission to the terminal, and a transmission section that outputs control information on the method determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Nobuhide Nonaka, Tatsuki Okuyama, Satoshi Suyama
  • Publication number: 20230106451
    Abstract: A communication apparatus is disclosed including a reception unit that receives an uplink signal; a control unit that determines one or more signal processes to be applied to the uplink signal, among a plurality of signal processes for the uplink signal; and a transmission unit that transmits to a backhaul the uplink signal that received the determined one or more signal processes. In another aspect, a communication method is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tatsuki Okuyama, Satoshi Suyama, Nobuhide Nonaka
  • Patent number: 11457418
    Abstract: A radio terminal that performs radio communication with a radio base station including a plurality of transmission points each including at least one antenna element and a signal processing unit connected to the plurality of transmission points includes a plurality of antenna elements, an estimating section that estimates path-loss between each of the plurality of antenna elements and the plurality of transmission points, and a calculating section that calculates a power control weight for controlling transmission power of the plurality of antenna elements based on the path-loss for the antenna element that has been estimated by the estimating section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tatsuki Okuyama, Satoshi Suyama, Jun Mashino, Shohei Yoshioka, Yukihiko Okumura
  • Patent number: 11387872
    Abstract: Radio base station 10 in a radio communication system that performs MIMO transmission between a plurality of radio base stations and at least one user terminal 20 includes: precoding section 110 that applies precoding to data signals based on channel information indicating channels between radio base stations 10 and the user terminal; and communication section 112 that transmits the precoded data signals, in which the precoding in a first radio base station of the plurality of radio base stations is applied based on the channel information including at least a channel between the first radio base station and a first user terminal connected to a second radio base station other than the first radio base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Shohei Yoshioka, Satoshi Suyama, Jun Mashino, Tatsuki Okuyama, Yukihiko Okumura
  • Publication number: 20220200672
    Abstract: This base station comprises: a control unit that allocates, on the basis of a doppler shift estimated using an uplink reference signal, a downlink reference signal common to a plurality of beams; and a transmission unit that transmits the common downlink reference signal via the plurality of beams. According to this base station communication method, the base station allocates, on the basis of a doppler shift estimated using an uplink reference signal, a downlink reference signal common to a plurality of beams, and transmits the common downlink reference signal via the plurality of beams.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Nobuhide Nonaka, Tatsuki Okuyama, Satoshi Suyama, Yukihiko Okumura
  • Patent number: 11197305
    Abstract: A radio base station includes: an obtaining section that obtains a first communication quality of each of first communication terminals and obtains a second communication quality of each of second communication terminals having a lower communication speed than the first communication terminals; and a scheduler that schedules the first communication terminals based on the first communication qualities and schedules the second communication terminals based on the second communication qualities, and when the scheduler schedules the first communication terminals and the second communication terminals, the scheduler subjects the first communication terminals to space-division multiplexing and subjects the second communication terminals to frequency-division multiplexing or time-division multiplexing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Jun Mashino, Tatsuki Okuyama, Satoshi Suyama, Yukihiko Okumura
  • Patent number: 11129111
    Abstract: In a radio base station including: a plurality of transmission points each including at least one antenna element; and a signal processing unit connected to the plurality of transmission points, the signal processing unit includes: an estimating section that estimates, in each of the antenna elements, a path-loss with a radio terminal; and a calculating section that calculates a power control weight for controlling transmission power of each of the antenna elements based on the path-loss of the antenna element, which is estimated by the estimating section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tatsuki Okuyama, Satoshi Suyama, Jun Mashino, Shohei Yoshioka, Yukihiko Okumura
  • Patent number: 10985810
    Abstract: User terminal 20 configured to perform MIMO transmission with radio base station 10 includes: control section 200 configured to generate first channel estimation information based on a reference signal transmitted by radio base station 10, and perform an operation for elimination of an interference signal on the first channel estimation information to generate second channel estimation information; and postcoder 208 configured to perform postcoding, based on the second channel estimation information, on a data signal to be transmitted by the radio base station 10, so as to detect a desired signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Miyazaki, Satoshi Suyama, Jun Mashino, Yukihiko Okumura
  • Patent number: 10917160
    Abstract: Radio base station 10 configured to perform MIMO transmission with user terminals 20 includes: beam selecting section 100 configured to select at least one used beam from among a plurality of beams based on beam-selection reference parameters to be computed based on beam information transmitted by user terminals 20; and user terminal selecting section 102 configured to select, from among at least one of user terminals 20 which has selected the at least one used beam, at least one of user terminals 20 to be a target for the at least one used beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Miyazaki, Satoshi Suyama, Jun Mashino, Yukihiko Okumura
  • Publication number: 20210022153
    Abstract: Deterioration in communication characteristics is prevented by performing scheduling in which movement/stillness of user terminals is taken into consideration. Received-power measurement section 103 measures the power of a reference signal from each of the user terminals. Movement/stillness determination section 104 determines whether each of the user terminals is a moving terminal or an unmoving terminal based on over-time variations in received power at transmission points for each of the user terminals. Group selection section 105 groups the user terminals into a moving terminal group and an unmoving terminal group, and selects one of the groups as a signal-transmission target. Transmission control section 108 performs open-loop signal processing without precoding when the moving terminal group is selected, or performs closed-loop signal processing with precoding when the unmoving terminal group is selected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tatsuki Okuyama, Satoshi Suyama, Yukihiko Okumura
  • Patent number: 10897297
    Abstract: A transmission and reception apparatus includes a plurality of antenna ports. The transmission and reception apparatus includes at least one orthogonal beam fixed beamforming circuit and a high-speed switching circuit between a transmission and reception circuit and the antenna ports. For example, the transmission and reception circuit outputs a transmission signal subjected to transmission signal processing to the high-speed switching circuit during signal transmission, the high-speed switching circuit selects at least one port from a plurality of ports provided at the orthogonal beamforming circuit, and outputs the transmission signal to the selected port, and the orthogonal beamforming circuit forms a beam corresponding to the selected port to transmit the transmission signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Inoue, Satoshi Suyama, Yukihiko Okumura
  • Patent number: 10848208
    Abstract: In a radio communication system that performs beamforming in MIMO transmission between a radio base station and at least one user terminal, radio base station (10) includes: weight control section (104) that determines a beamforming weight used for the beamforming, for each of subbands formed by dividing a transmission band; and communication section (109) that transmits a signal to which the beamforming is applied using the beamforming weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Shohei Yoshioka, Satoshi Suyama, Jun Mashino, Tatsuki Okuyama, Yukihiko Okumura
  • Patent number: 10742279
    Abstract: In user terminal 20, communication section 202 receives a data signal to which precoding based on first channel information indicating a channel between radio base station 10 and user terminal 20 estimated in first channel estimation and beamforming are applied. The first channel information is an equivalent channel matrix including a beamforming weight. Stage-2 channel estimation section 205 performs second channel estimation for estimating second channel information indicating a channel between radio base station 10 and user terminal 20. The second channel information is an equivalent channel matrix including the beamforming weight and a precoding matrix. Postcoding section 207 performs postcoding on the data signal based on the second channel information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Shohei Yoshioka, Satoshi Suyama, Jun Mashino, Tatsuki Okuyama, Yukihiko Okumura
  • Patent number: 10742274
    Abstract: A radio communication device includes: a full-digital array that has a first antenna element group including multiple antenna elements and that has no analog variable phase shifter; and a hybrid beamformer that has a second antenna element group including multiple antenna elements and that has an analog variable phase shifter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Satoshi Suyama, Yukihiko Okumura
  • Patent number: 10708821
    Abstract: A management apparatus in a wireless communication system including multiple transmission points transmitting reference signals, the management apparatus managing the transmission points, and a mobile station, includes: a management unit for managing first and second clusters generated by grouping one or more transmission points used to communicate with the mobile station among the multiple transmission points; and a control unit for controlling allocation of the reference signals transmitted from the multiple transmission points in the first and second clusters. The management unit detects that multiple cells formed by the transmission points in the first cluster overlap some of multiple cells formed by the transmission points in the second cluster. When the management unit detects the overlap, the control unit allocates the orthogonal reference signals to the multiple cells formed by the transmission points in the first cluster and the multiple cells formed by the transmission points in the second cluster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tatsuki Okuyama, Satoshi Suyama, Tatsunori Obara, Yukihiko Okumura
  • Patent number: 10700756
    Abstract: A user equipment UE includes: a measurer that measures, for each of a plurality of candidate beams, a benchmark pertaining to communication quality; a comparer that compares the benchmark with a first threshold value and a second threshold value; and a feedback unit that transmits the benchmark to the base station as feedback information pertaining to an interference beam if the benchmark is the first threshold value or higher and lower than the second threshold value, transmits the benchmark to the base station as feedback information pertaining to a desired beam if the benchmark is the second threshold value or higher, and transmits no feedback information to the base station if the benchmark is lower than the first threshold value, based on the comparison results of the comparer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tatsuki Okuyama, Satoshi Suyama, Tatsunori Obara, Yukihiko Okumura
  • Patent number: 10637542
    Abstract: Provided is a base station for communicating with mobile stations of a radio communication system including the base station and mobile stations including an obtaining unit that obtains a channel matrix for each mobile stations; a selector that selects, among the mobile stations, a combination of two or more mobile stations with which communication based on multi-user MIMO is to be performed; and a communication unit that communicates, based on multi-user MIMO, with the two or more mobile stations of the selected combination, wherein the selector calculates, for each of all combinations of two mobile stations of the two or more mobile stations, a correlation value between the channel matrices for the two mobile stations, and selects the combination of the two or more mobile stations, so that, for all the combinations of the two mobile stations, the correlation values is less than or equal to a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tatsuki Okuyama, Satoshi Suyama, Tatsunori Obara, Yukihiko Okumura
  • Patent number: 10637543
    Abstract: There is provided a base station that supports multi-user MIMO and performs communication with a plurality of mobile stations of a radio communication system including the base station and the plurality of mobile stations, the base station including a determination unit that determines a number of a plurality of streams to be transmitted to each of the plurality of mobile stations and parameters to be applied to each of the plurality of streams to be transmitted to each of the plurality of mobile stations based on a channel estimation value for each of the plurality of mobile stations, and a transmitter that generates a determined number of streams according to the parameters determined by the determination unit to be transmitted to the respective plurality of mobile stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tatsunori Obara, Satoshi Suyama, Tatsuki Okuyama, Yukihiko Okumura