Patents by Inventor Shinpei Yasukawa

Shinpei Yasukawa 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: 11963135
    Abstract: There is provided user equipment of a radio communication system that supports TTIs having a plurality of lengths and that includes a base station and the user equipment, the user equipment including an acquisition unit configured to acquire, from the base station, information indicating a plurality of UL resources which are allocated to a plurality of symbols included in a TTI having a predetermined length and with which a scheduling request can be transmitted; and a transmission unit configured to select a UL resource from the plurality of UL resources and transmit the scheduling request to the base station with the selected UL resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Shinpei Yasukawa, Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 11956759
    Abstract: A terminal is disclosed including a selection unit that selects first resource candidates for sidelink transmission based on monitoring in a sensing window, and specifies second resource candidates by excluding specific periodic resources that are reserved by another terminal from the first resource candidates; and a transmission unit that performs sidelink transmission using a resource selected from the second resource candidates. In another aspect, a transmission method executed by a terminal is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Shinpei Yasukawa, Satoshi Nagata, Qun Zhao, Jing Wang, Huan Wang, Liu Liu, Anxin Li, Huiling Jiang
  • Patent number: 11743901
    Abstract: A user equipment in a radio communication system including a base station and the user equipment, the user equipment including: a resource management unit that retains configuration information of a resource capable of transmitting uplink data without receiving uplink data transmission permission from the base station; and a transmission unit that transmits a signal indicating that uplink data transmission using the resource is performed to the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Shinpei Yasukawa, Satoshi Nagata, Kazuaki Takeda, Yousuke Sano
  • Patent number: 11705994
    Abstract: A communication apparatus in a radio communication system, including: a reception unit configured to receive control information including puncture information which indicates that there is a puncture resource in resources allocated to the communication apparatus from another communication apparatus; and a decoding unit configured to decode data received from the other communication apparatus in the allocated resources, wherein the decoding unit performs the decoding using the puncture information included in the control information received by the reception unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Shinpei Yasukawa, Yousuke Sano, Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 11601892
    Abstract: A user apparatus in a wireless communication system including a base station and a user apparatus, includes a signal reception part that receives, from the base station, a plurality of power control parameters that become candidates for power control parameters to be used by the user apparatus, a transmission power determination part that selects power control parameters to be used, from the plurality of power control parameters, and determines a transmission power of a UL signal, based on the selected power control parameters and a pathloss estimation value, and a signal transmission part that transmits the UL signal using the transmission power determined by the transmission power determination part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Shinpei Yasukawa, Satoshi Nagata, Ryosuke Osawa, Shaozhen Guo
  • Patent number: 11425734
    Abstract: A user equipment in a wireless communication system includes a configuration information management unit configured to retain configuration information for transmitting a reference signal used for measuring interference in other user equipments, and a signal transmitter configured to transmit the reference signal based on the configuration information. When transmission of the reference signal contends with transmission or reception of another signal, the signal transmitter determines whether the reference signal is to be transmitted or not based on a predetermined priority level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Shinpei Yasukawa, Satoshi Nagata, Shaozhen Guo, Xin Wang, Chongning Na, Xiaolin Hou
  • Patent number: 11419112
    Abstract: A user device performing communication with another user device by beamforming in a first frequency and a second frequency different from the first frequency is provided. The user device includes a receiving unit configured to receive a first sensing signal in the first frequency; a control unit configured to select a resource in the second frequency used for transmission, based on a resource location on a radio frame in which the first sensing signal is provided, or based on information, contained in the first sensing signal, indicating a resource location on a radio frame in the second frequency; and a transmitting unit configured to perform data transmission in the second frequency by using the selected resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Shinpei Yasukawa, Satoshi Nagata, Huan Wang, Xiaolin Hou
  • Patent number: 11412480
    Abstract: A user equipment including: a selection unit that selects, based on a result of sensing performed in a first time window and on a transmission interval of a signal, one or more resource candidates in a second time window after the first time window; and a transmission unit that selects a resource for transmitting a signal from the selected one or more resource candidates, and transmits the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Shinpei Yasukawa, Satoshi Nagata, Qun Zhao, Jing Wang, Huan Wang, Liu Liu, Anxin Li, Huiling Jiang
  • Patent number: 11395261
    Abstract: User equipment in a radio communication system is provided. The user equipment includes a configuration information management unit configured to retain configuration information in relation to a plurality of divided resources that are capable of transmitting data without receiving data transmission permission from a communication device that is different from the user equipment, the plurality of divided resources each being associated with retransmission control processes, and a transmitter configured to select, from the plurality of divided resources, a divided resource that is associated with a given retransmission control process whose retransmission control buffer is empty, so as to transmit data by using the divided resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Shinpei Yasukawa, Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata, Qun Zhao
  • Publication number: 20220194697
    Abstract: A waste transporting mobile unit includes a waste container that collects waste, a sensor configured to sense the amount of waste accumulated in the waste container, and a travel device configured to travel when the amount of waste sensed by the sensor reaches a predetermined amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Katsuhisa Yoshikawa, Shigeru Inamori, Mitsuyoshi Ohno, Kosuke Sakakibara, Nao Yamamoto, Shinpei Yasukawa, Katsuhito Yamauchi, Hiroaki Namba, Tatsuya Ono
  • Publication number: 20220198837
    Abstract: A path acquiring unit that tracks a visitor of an amusement facility, and acquires a movement path of the visitor, and a print creating unit that creates a visit record by combining the movement path acquired by the path acquiring unit with a picture acquired at a prescribed place on the acquired movement path are included, and the visit record created by the print creating unit is provided to the visitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Katsuhisa Yoshikawa, Shigeru Inamori, Mitsuyoshi Ohno, Kosuke Sakakibara, Nao Yamamoto, Shinpei Yasukawa, Katsuhito Yamauchi, Hiroaki Namba, Tatsuya Ono
  • Publication number: 20220124848
    Abstract: Provided is a user equipment including a transmitting unit that indicates release information of a wireless communication system supported by the user equipment to another user equipment and a receiving unit that receives release information of a wireless communication system supported by the another user equipment from the another user equipment. The another user equipment supports terminal-to-terminal direct communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Shohei Yoshioka, Kazuaki Takeda, Shinpei Yasukawa, Tomoki Maruko
  • Publication number: 20220046469
    Abstract: A user apparatus in a radio communication system supporting a D2D technology, includes a message generating unit configured to generate a message including a first segment and a second segment; and a message transmitting unit configured to transmit, multiple times, the message within a predetermined period, wherein information reported by a plurality of the first segments transmitted within the predetermined period by the message transmitting unit, is not changed within the predetermined period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Shinpei Yasukawa, Satoshi Nagata, Qun Zhao
  • Publication number: 20210392663
    Abstract: A user equipment in a radio communication system including a base station and the user equipment, the user equipment including: a reception unit that receives control information, which includes allocation information of a resource for downlink data reception, and allocation information of a resource for uplink control information transmission, from the base station by a downlink control channel; and a transmission unit that transmits the uplink control information to the base station on the basis of the control information that is received by the reception unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Shinpei Yasukawa, Satoshi Nagata, Kazuki Takeda
  • Patent number: 11190976
    Abstract: A user apparatus in a radio communication system supporting a D2D technology, includes a message generating unit configured to generate a message including a first segment and a second segment; and a message transmitting unit configured to transmit, multiple times, the message within a predetermined period, wherein information reported by a plurality of the first segments transmitted within the predetermined period by the message transmitting unit, is not changed within the predetermined period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Shinpei Yasukawa, Satoshi Nagata, Qun Zhao
  • Publication number: 20210345298
    Abstract: A terminal is disclosed including a selection unit that selects first resource candidates for sidelink transmission based on monitoring in a sensing window, and specifies second resource candidates by excluding specific periodic resources that are reserved by another terminal from the first resource candidates; and a transmission unit that performs sidelink transmission using a resource selected from the second resource candidates. In another aspect, a transmission method executed by a terminal is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Shinpei Yasukawa, Satoshi Nagata, Qun Zhao, Jing Wang, Huan Wang, Liu Liu, Anxin Li, Huiling Jiang
  • Publication number: 20210243773
    Abstract: A communication device includes a transmitter that transmits data; and a controller that causes, based on information indicating priority levels of respective radio resources of a plurality of radio resources and a priority level of the data, the transmitter to transmit the data using a radio resource provided with a priority level corresponding to the priority level of the data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Ryosuke Osawa, Kazuaki Takeda, Shinpei Yasukawa
  • Publication number: 20210243726
    Abstract: A disclosed communication apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive control information for a specified communication apparatus from a base station; and a transmitter configured to identify, based on the control information, a resource used by the specified communication apparatus for communication, and to execute a process of not performing transmission using the identified resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Ryosuke Osawa, Shinpei Yasukawa, Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata
  • Publication number: 20210235471
    Abstract: A communication apparatus is disclosed including a reception unit configured to receive assignment information of an uplink resource from a base station; and a transmission unit configured to transmit, to the base station, by the uplink resource, a signal received by a sidelink resource associated with the uplink resource. In another aspect, another communication apparatus is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Ryosuke Osawa, Shinpei Yasukawa, Satoshi Nagata
  • Publication number: 20210168589
    Abstract: A user equipment in a radio communication system, includes a configuration information managing unit configured to hold mapping information indicating mapping between capability information and a resource in sidelink; and a signal transmitting unit configured to report capability information of the user equipment, by transmitting a report signal by using a resource corresponding to the capability information of the user equipment in the sidelink, based on the mapping information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Shinpei Yasukawa, Satoshi Nagata, Huan Wang