Patents by Inventor Takamichi Inoue

Takamichi Inoue 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: 20150043457
    Abstract: A radio communication system includes: a plurality of cells having different scrambling sequences, respectively, wherein at least two cells communicate with at lease two user terminals connected to different serving cells; and a controller which controls the plurality of cells and provides a single scrambling sequence to said at least two cells and said at least two user terminals for control signal transmission and reception.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2012
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Inventors: Le Liu, Yoshikazu Kakura, Naoto Ishii, Takamichi Inoue
  • Patent number: 8953533
    Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication technique capable of supporting communication using a single component carrier, and communication using a plurality of component carriers. The communication using the plurality of carriers comprises a processing means for performing the signal processing in accordance with each of the carriers with respect to the common signal sequence used by the plurality of carriers. The present invention makes it possible to cope with the communication employing a single component carrier and the wireless communication employing a plurality of the component carriers. Further, PAPR of the reference signals can be made small because there is no possibility that the identical CAZAC sequence is used among the component carriers when a plurality of the component carriers are employed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Takamichi Inoue, Kenji Koyanagi, Yoshikazu Kakura
  • Patent number: 8953551
    Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a setting unit for setting a number of resource block groups, each of the resource block groups including consecutive resource blocks on a frequency axis, and an allocating unit for allocating the resource blocks for an uplink channel such that the allocated resource blocks are not contiguous.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Takamichi Inoue, Kenji Koyanagi, Le Liu, Yoshikazu Kakura
  • Publication number: 20150037193
    Abstract: An oil pump has a pump body, a pump cover, an outer rotor, and an inner rotor. The pump body includes a rotor chamber, a first inlet port, a first outlet port, a first inlet passage, a first outlet passage, a relief valve, a relief chamber formed on a discharge side of the relief valve, and a first oil return passage formed from the relief chamber to the first inlet passage. The pump cover has a second oil return passage. The first oil return passage is formed in an inner circumferential support wall of the rotor chamber as a groove-like recess and opens along an outer circumferential surface of the outer rotor. A support protrusion is formed near a portion where the second oil return passage is formed to support a front surface, in a radial direction, of the outer rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Takamichi Inoue, Atsushi Yanagisawa
  • Publication number: 20150003362
    Abstract: A method for controlling reporting setting that enables reporting setting to be changed quickly in a system where CoMP transmission is performed, as well as a wireless communications system using the same are provided. In a wireless communications system based on a coordinated transmission scheme in which multiple transmission stations included in a network perform transmission in coordination with each other, the network notifies multiple pieces of reporting setting information for channel state information to a reception station that is a target of the coordinated transmission scheme, and the transmission stations and the reception station share reporting setting information to be applied among the multiple pieces of reporting setting information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2013
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takamichi Inoue, Kojiro Hamabe, Yoshikazu Kakura, Naoto Ishii, Le Liu
  • Patent number: 8891493
    Abstract: A reference signal sequence assignment method and device are provided by which the influence of inter-cell interference can be reduced and the number of usable cyclic shifted sequences per sector can be increased. In a mobile communications system with a structure including multiple cells each including multiple sectors, a sequence assignment method is employed by which pseudo-orthogonal sequences used for reference signals are assigned to cells or sectors. According to this method, the multiple pseudo-orthogonal sequences are assigned to cells or sectors by using multiple repetition patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Takamichi Inoue, Yoshikazu Kakura
  • Patent number: 8774022
    Abstract: A scheduling technique for limiting a discontinuous spectrum to reduce control information to be transmitted from a base station (BS) to each of mobile stations. The method has a ranking means for ranking the mobile stations for each resource block depending on the channel status, and an allocation means for allocating the resource blocks to the mobile stations depending on the ranking of the mobile stations so that the number of resource blocks in a resource block group for one mobile station may be not more than a set number. The resource block group including at least one or more continuous resource blocks on the frequency axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Le Liu, Kenji Koyanagi, Takamichi Inoue, Yoshikazu Kakura
  • Patent number: 8594039
    Abstract: A reference signal of a user equipment to which a resource (LB#1) is allocated for a L1/L2 control signal, is allocated a resource (SB#1) that is closer on the time axis to the resource (LB#1), which the L1/L2 control signal is allocated, within the same frequency band as the L1/L2 control signal. A reference signal for CQI estimation, independent of a data signal and a L1/L2 control signal, is allocated a resource with which at least one of a reference signal for demodulation of a data signal and a reference signal for demodulation of a L1/L2 control signal is not transmitted at the same timing within the transmission band. The types of bandwidths of the reference signals multiplexed in a same short block within a same band are reduced, whereby restrictions as to the number of reference signal sequences that can be secured are diminished.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Kakura, Shousei Yoshida, Takamichi Inoue
  • Publication number: 20130196678
    Abstract: A scheduling system for coordinated user equipments (UEs) in a network including a plurality of communicating points which can communicate with each other, wherein the coordinated UEs are supported by a serving point and are coordinated with a neighbor point, is characterized in that the serving point and the neighbor point share information related to an available or desired amount of resources for coordinated UEs of the serving point; and the serving point adjusts at least one predetermined parameter related to the coordinated UEs based on the shared information so that the amount of resources for the coordinated UEs at the serving point approaches the available or desired amount of resources for the coordinated UEs at the neighbor point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2010
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Le Liu, Takamichi Inoue, Yoshikazu Kakura
  • Patent number: 8428011
    Abstract: For radio communications between a base station and a mobile station, resource allocation within a resource block including control resources used for control signals (CQI, ACK/NACK) and reference resources used for a reference signal is performed. The base station measures the quality of a channel between the mobile station and the base station itself. Based on the measured channel quality, the base station sets a ratio between resources for the control signals CQI and ACK/NACK in the control resources, and notifies the mobile station of the set resource ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Takamichi Inoue, Yoshikazu Kakura
  • Publication number: 20120281665
    Abstract: A wireless communication system including a base station and a mobile terminal, includes a setting unit to set a number of sets of at least one or more resource blocks for the mobile terminal, the at least one or more resource blocks of each set being consecutive in frequency. An allocation unit allocates the resource blocks for a transmission channel so that the resource blocks are not contiguous in frequency. A controller generates a reference signal sequence corresponding to a bandwidth of the allocated resource blocks, and maps the reference signal sequence to subcarriers according to an allocation of the resource blocks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2012
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takamichi Inoue, Kenji Koyanagi, Le Liu, Yoshikazu Kakura
  • Publication number: 20120269159
    Abstract: A reference signal multiplexing method for multiple mobile stations includes: grouping together control signals for the multiple mobile stations; and multiplexing reference signals corresponding to the control signals by CDM over the same bandwidth as that of grouped control signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2012
    Publication date: October 25, 2012
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takamichi INOUE, Yoshikazu KAKURA
  • Patent number: 8259657
    Abstract: A channel quality measurement method that accomplishes efficient channel quality measurement for each mobile station is presented. In a frequency band including a plurality of frequency blocks, a base station measures the channel quality of each of a plurality of mobile stations. With respect to each mobile station, when a pilot resource for demodulation is not allocated in at least one of the frequency blocks, the base station allocates a specific pilot resource for channel quality measurement in that frequency block. The channel quality of each mobile station in the plurality of frequency blocks is measured by using one or both of the pilot resource for demodulation and the dedicated pilot resource for channel quality measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Takamichi Inoue, Yoshikazu Kakwa
  • Patent number: 8228936
    Abstract: A reference signal multiplexing method for multiple mobile stations includes: grouping together control signals for the multiple mobile stations; and multiplexing reference signals corresponding to the control signals by CDM over the same bandwidth as that of grouped control signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Takamichi Inoue, Yoshikazu Kakura
  • Publication number: 20120113931
    Abstract: In a radio communication system, transmission of CAZAC sequences as the pilot signal sequences by using code division multiplexing as at least one of user multiplexing schemes, is done by dividing a system band as a frequency band usable in the system into frequency blocks B1 and B2 having bandwidths W1 and W2, generating the pilot signals of the frequency blocks B1 and B2 with a single carrier, using the pilot signal sequences having sequence lengths L1 and L2 corresponding to frequency blocks B1 and B2 respectively; and, transmitting the generated pilot signals as the pilot signals corresponding individual users, with multicarriers using an arbitrary number of frequency blocks among the plural frequency blocks
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2012
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takamichi INOUE, Yoshikazu Kakura
  • Patent number: 8125887
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to reduce the amount of calculation performed in a mobile station and amount of information exchanged between a base station and mobile station in a mobile communication system where the base station autonomously assigns a scramble code. In the mobile communication system, the base station starts communication by using a predetermined initialization scramble code used only at its activation time. The mobile station positioned in a cell determines whether the scramble code identified upon cell search time is the initialization scramble code. Only when the scramble code is the initialization scramble code, the mobile station determines a candidate scramble code, determines whether the candidate scramble code is usable in communication, and notifies the base station of the control information including the determination result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Takamichi Inoue, Yoshikazu Kakura
  • Patent number: 8121105
    Abstract: In a radio communication system, transmission of CAZAC sequences as the pilot signal sequences by using code division multiplexing as at least one of user multiplexing schemes, is done by dividing a system band as a frequency band usable in the system into frequency blocks B1 and B2 having bandwidths W1 and W2, generating the pilot signals of the frequency blocks B1 and B2 with a single carrier, using the pilot signal sequences having sequence lengths L1 and L2 corresponding to frequency blocks B1 and B2 respectively; and, transmitting the generated pilot signals as the pilot signals corresponding individual users, with multicarriers using an arbitrary number of frequency blocks among the plural frequency blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Takamichi Inoue, Yoshikazu Kakura
  • Publication number: 20120026962
    Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication technique capable of supporting communication using a single component carrier, and communication using a plurality of component carriers. The communication using the plurality of carriers comprises a processing means for performing the signal processing in accordance with each of the carriers with respect to the common signal sequence used by the plurality of carriers. The present invention makes it possible to cope with the communication employing a single component carrier and the wireless communication employing a plurality of the component carriers. Further, PAPR of the reference signals can be made small because there is no possibility that the identical CAZAC sequence is used among the component carriers when a plurality of the component carriers are employed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2010
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takamichi Inoue, Kenji Koyanagi, Yoshikazu Kakura
  • Publication number: 20120008615
    Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication technique capable of supporting communication using a single component carrier, and communication using a plurality of component carriers. The communication using the plurality of carriers is characterized by using a different signal sequence in each of the carriers, and using the signal sequences as reference signals. The present invention makes it possible to cope with the communication employing a single component carrier and the wireless communication employing a plurality of the component carriers. Further, PAPR of the reference signals can be made small because there is no possibility that the identical CAZAC sequence is used among the component carriers when a plurality of the component carriers are employed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2010
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takamichi Inoue, Kenji Koyanagi, Yoshikazu Kakura
  • Publication number: 20110235604
    Abstract: Provided is a technique for efficiently selecting access schemes for use in communications. This invention includes an identifying means that identifies, from station-on-the-other-end candidate information, which is control information in which information related to an access scheme corresponding to each of a plurality of stations-on-the-other-end of communication is described, and from information related to an access scheme corresponding to the local station, access schemes beforehand one of which can be used in communication with a communication partner station; and a selecting means that selects, as the access scheme to be used in data communication with a communication partner station, one of the identified access schemes when the data communication is started.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2009
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takamichi Inoue, Yoshikazu Kakura