Patents by Inventor Shinichiro Tsuda

Shinichiro Tsuda 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: 11974121
    Abstract: A method comprising receiving a handover request message indicating a request for handover of a wireless communications device from a source infrastructure equipment to a target infrastructure equipment, receiving an indication from the source infrastructure equipment as to whether or not user plane data is being transmitted to or received from the wireless access network via the source infrastructure equipment using an integrity protection scheme, determining whether or not the integrity protection scheme for the user plane data is supported by the target infrastructure equipment, transmitting a handover command to the source infrastructure equipment to indicate to the source infrastructure equipment that the source infrastructure equipment should handover the wireless communications device to indicate to the source infrastructure equipment, and providing an indication as to whether or not the integrity protection scheme can be used for transmitting or receiving user plane data via the target infrastructure
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Vivek Sharma, Hideji Wakabayashi, Shinichiro Tsuda
  • Publication number: 20240121144
    Abstract: A communication apparatus repeatedly transmits a first signal a first number of times. The communication apparatus includes a control unit. The control unit generates a transmission signal including a second signal that is obtained by concatenating the first signal repeated a second number of times, and has a cyclic prefix at a head or a tail, and transmits the transmission signal to a communication partner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki MATSUDA, Shinichiro TSUDA
  • Publication number: 20240120990
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a control unit. The control unit generates a radio signal including a first segment including transmission data and a second segment not including the transmission data, and transmits the radio signal via a plurality of propagation paths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki MATSUDA, Shinichiro TSUDA
  • Patent number: 11956707
    Abstract: A communications device configured to transmit signals representing data to one or more in-coverage communications devices forming with the communications device a group, one of the in-coverage communications devices acting as an active relay node for the communications device, so that the in-coverage communications device can transmit signals representing the data to the infrastructure equipment of the mobile communications network, and to receive signals representing the data from the in-coverage communications device acting as the active relay node. The signals transmitted to the in-coverage communications device are received according to a device-to-device communications protocol, wherein the signals transmitted by the communications device or received by the communications device include an identifier which identifies the signals to the in-coverage communications device. One of the other in-coverage communications device can be selected by the infrastructure equipment to act as the active relay node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brian Alexander Martin, Hideji Wakabayashi, Shinichiro Tsuda
  • Publication number: 20240089833
    Abstract: A mobile telecommunications system entity for a mobile telecommunications system has at least one entity, which serves at least one user equipment. The mobile telecommunications system entity has circuitry which is configured to transmit scheduling information for on-demand system information, which can be requested by the at least one user equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Yuxin WEI, Brian ALEXANDER MARTIN, Vivek SHARMA, Hideji WAKABAYASHI, Shinichiro TSUDA
  • Publication number: 20240080916
    Abstract: A method for controlling a connection procedure for a terminal device requesting a radio connection to a cell supported by network infrastructure equipment in a wireless telecommunication system, the method comprising: determining, at the terminal device, that a request to connect to the cell supported by the network infrastructure equipment is to be made, establishing, at the terminal device, application information relating to an operating context for the terminal device; transmitting a connection request message from the terminal device to the network infrastructure equipment, wherein the connection request message comprises a request for the terminal device to connect to the cell and an indication of the application information; and determining, at the network infrastructure equipment, whether to allow the request for the terminal device to connect to the cell based, at least in part, on the application information received by the network infrastructure equipment from the terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Vivek SHARMA, Brian Alexander MARTIN, Yuxin WEI, Hideji WAKABAYASHI, Shinichiro TSUDA
  • Publication number: 20240080750
    Abstract: A mobile telecommunications system method for transmitting on demand system information to a user equipment includes requesting system information, based on a specific radio resource control connection state, and to transmit system information to the user equipment, based on the system information request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Yuxin WEI, Brian Alexander MARTIN, Hideji WAKABAYASHI, Shinichiro TSUDA
  • Patent number: 11924913
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising circuitry configured to generate a user equipment identifier which is unique on Anchor cell level or which is unique in RAN notified area level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Brian Alexander Martin, Shin Horng Wong, Martin Warwick Beale, Yuxin Wei, Vivek Sharma, Shinichiro Tsuda, Hideji Wakabayashi, Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri
  • Patent number: 11924695
    Abstract: A mobile telecommunications system method is described. A property of a first received reference signal from a first base station operating in a first mobile telecommunications system and a property of a second received reference signal from a second base station or a user equipment operating in a second mobile telecommunications system are measured. It is switched from the first base station to the second base station as a serving base station based on the property of the first received reference signal and on the property of the second received reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichiro Tsuda, Yuxin Wei, Brian Alexander Martin, Hideji Wakabayashi
  • Patent number: 11917693
    Abstract: Infrastructure equipment for use in a wireless telecommunications network, the infrastructure equipment including: receiver circuitry configured to receive a second signal from a terminal device of the wireless telecommunications network; and transmitter circuitry configured to transmit a third signal to the terminal device, the third signal being transmitted in response to the reception of the second signal, the third signal being for the terminal device to determine, in combination with a first signal received by the terminal device, the spatial position of the terminal device, and the third signal being comprised within a system information block (SIB).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignees: SONY GROUP CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC
    Inventors: Hideji Wakabayashi, Anders Berggren, Yuxin Wei, Vivek Sharma, Shinichiro Tsuda
  • Patent number: 11902888
    Abstract: An infrastructure equipment comprising circuitry configured to transmit system information specific for aerial UEs, the system information specific for aerial UEs comprising assistance information for cell selection/reselection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichiro Tsuda, Hideji Wakabayashi, Yuxin Wei, Vivek Sharma
  • Publication number: 20240048266
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a generation unit that generates a bit sequence including a system bit sequence part and a parity bit sequence part, and a processing unit that performs at least one of mapping of the bit sequence to a complex signal point and mapping of the complex signal point mapped with the bit sequence to a resource based on a predetermined condition regarding a channel state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: HIROKI MATSUDA, SHINICHIRO TSUDA
  • Publication number: 20240049167
    Abstract: A terminal device comprising circuitry configured to detect a value of a parameter which is variable in response to a variation in vertical position of the terminal device; receive, from infrastructure equipment of the wireless telecommunications network, a reference value of the parameter, a reference value of a vertical position at which the reference value of the parameter is associated, and a valid duration information of the reference value of the parameter, the reference value of the parameter being defined relative to a first reference vertical position; and determine a value of the vertical position of the terminal device defined relative to the first reference vertical position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicants: Sony Group Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Shinichiro TSUDA, Hideji WAKABAYASHI, Vivek SHARMA, Yuxin WEI, Anders BERGGREN
  • Publication number: 20240024768
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a wireless communication terminal, an information processing device, and an information processing method that enable efficient use of communication resources in a case of playing a game using a mobile communication system. A wireless communication terminal according to one aspect of the present technology executes an application program of a game using a mobile communication system, transmits, during execution of the game, request information that is information indicating that a change of the experience quality of the game is requested to an information processing device that controls the quality of wireless communication provided by the mobile communication system, and changes a setting of the wireless communication on the basis of control information transmitted from the information processing device. The present technology can be applied to a device used for a cloud game.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: HIROMASA UCHIYAMA, HIDEYUKI SUZUKI, SHINICHIRO TSUDA
  • Publication number: 20240023201
    Abstract: A terminal device for use with a wireless telecommunications system, the terminal device comprising: a transmitter; a receiver configured to receive a measurement radio signal from each of one or more potential relay nodes of the wireless telecommunications system, each measurement radio signal being transmitted using the same predetermined radio frequency band and identifying the one of the potential relay nodes from which it is transmitted; and a controller configured: to measure a characteristic of each received measurement radio signal, and based on each received measurement radio signal and its measured characteristic, to determine a suitable one of the one or more potential relay nodes for acting as a relay node for relaying the further radio signal between the terminal device and the infrastructure equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Brian Alexander MARTIN, Shin Horng WONG, Martin Warwick BEALE, Hiromasa UCHIYAMA, Hideji WAKABAYASHI, Shinichiro TSUDA
  • Publication number: 20240023148
    Abstract: A method of communicating data in a telecommunications system comprising a base station and a plurality of terminals operable to communicate data to and from the base station. The system is configured to transmit downlink signals using downlink resources in a frequency band and in a first time period and the method comprises, upon identification of uplink data to be transmitted by a first terminal of the plurality of terminals, dynamically selecting a set of resources for transmitting the uplink data, wherein selecting the set of resources comprises selecting a subset of the frequency band and a subset of the time period of the downlink resources, the selected set of resources being based on the subset of the frequency band and the subset of the time period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Shin Horng WONG, Martin Warwick BEALE, Brian Alexander MARTIN, Vivek SHARMA, Hideji WAKABAYASHI, Shinichiro TSUDA
  • Publication number: 20240015052
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide an information processing device and the like for causing an application that executes calculation based on a DNN to comfortably operate in a communication environment by using distributed learning. [Solution] One information processing device according to the present disclosure receives information regarding resources of a communication network that relays communication between a communication terminal that transits an input to a deep neural network or is in charge of at least a part of a series of calculation of the deep neural network and transmits a result of the calculation and a server that is able to be in charge of at least a part of the series of calculation, and determines an entity to which the series of calculation is assigned from among the communication terminal, the server, and the communication node in the communication network on the basis of the information regarding the resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: HIROMASA UCHIYAMA, SHINICHIRO TSUDA
  • Patent number: 11856442
    Abstract: It is possible to facilitate setting of a request condition in a wireless communication system. A capacity calculating unit calculates a wireless communication capacity in a wireless network including a plurality of wireless communication devices on the basis of information regarding a frequency bandwidth used in the wireless network. A wireless communication request condition acquiring unit acquires a request condition of a service provided in wireless communication between predetermined wireless communication devices among the plurality of wireless communication devices. A determination unit determines whether all wireless communication bearers established between the predetermined wireless communication devices satisfy the request condition of the service on the basis of the wireless communication capacity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Shinichiro Tsuda
  • Publication number: 20230406336
    Abstract: A configuration for notifying a driver of an allowable activity for the driver according to an automated driving level is realized. The automated driving level of automated driving being executed by a mobile device is acquired, and the driver is notified of the allowable activity for the driver according to the acquired automated driving level. The control unit acquires an automated driving level-corresponding allowable activity list in which the automated driving level and the allowable activity are associated with each other from an external server or a storage unit, refers to the automated driving level-corresponding allowable activity list, acquires the allowable activity corresponding to the automated driving level, and notifies the driver of the acquired allowable activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: YIFU TANG, SHINICHIRO TSUDA
  • Patent number: 11832288
    Abstract: A communication control device includes: a selection unit that selects, on the basis of a protection target range which is set to the air above a communication device of a second wireless system on the basis of a position of the communication device of the second wireless system which secondarily uses a frequency resource primarily used by a first wireless system, a communication device of the first wireless system as a target for calculating interference applied by the communication device of the second wireless system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryota Kimura, Sho Furuichi, Hiroto Kuriki, Shinichiro Tsuda, Ryo Sawai