Patents by Inventor Xiaolin Hou

Xiaolin Hou 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: 11974270
    Abstract: In order to suppress deterioration of communication quality even when communication is performed using a plurality of transmission/reception points, an aspect of user terminal of the present disclosure includes: a reception section that receives given downlink control information including information regarding TCI states corresponding to the plurality of transmission/reception points; and a control section that controls reception of physical shared channels transmitted from the plurality of transmission/reception points based on the given downlink control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Matsumura, Satoshi Nagata, Jing Wang, Xiaolin Hou
  • Publication number: 20240137186
    Abstract: A terminal is disclosed including a receiver that receives information including multiple spatial relation information; and a processor that controls transmission of channel state information using first spatial relation information that corresponds to a first transmission and reception point among the multiple spatial relation information, on a first repetition of multiple repetitions of an uplink shared channel, and controls transmission of the channel state information using second spatial relation information that corresponds to a second transmission and reception point among the multiple spatial relation information, on a second repetition of the multiple repetitions of the uplink shared channel. In other aspects, a communication method, a base station, and a system are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata, Lihui Wang, Xiaolin Hou
  • Publication number: 20240121037
    Abstract: A radio communication node is disclosed including an upper node connecting unit that is used for connecting with an upper node; a lower node connecting unit that is used for connecting with a lower node; and a control unit that notifies the upper node or a network whether or not the upper node connecting unit and the lower node connecting unit are compatible with at least one of a space division multiplexing and a frequency division multiplexing. In another aspect, a radio communication method is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Daisuke Kurita, Hiroki Harada, Jing Wang, Xiaolin Hou
  • Patent number: 11943720
    Abstract: A user equipment includes a transmitting unit configured to transmit a groupcast to a group including a plurality of user equipments, a receiving unit configured to receive a response related to a retransmission control for the groupcast, and a control unit configured to control a leakage power to another channel arranged by frequency division with a channel via which a response related to the retransmission control for the groupcast is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Shohei Yoshioka, Satoshi Nagata, Huan Wang, Xiaolin Hou
  • Publication number: 20240089953
    Abstract: An aspect of a terminal according to the present disclosure includes: a reception section that receives information regarding a configured grant configuration; and a control section that, when a multi configured grant configuration is configured, determines a configured grant configuration to be applied based on the number of repeats and a redundancy version corresponding to each configured grant configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Takahashi, Satoshi Nagata, Lihui Wang, Xiaolin Hou
  • Patent number: 11924831
    Abstract: A user equipment includes a control unit that controls transmission or reception of a sidelink signal in which a first resource and a second resource are multiplexed in a same slot, wherein at least one of SLSS (Sidelink synchronization signal) or PSBCH (Physical Sidelink Broadcast Channel) is allocated in the first resource, and at least one of PSCCH (Physical Sidelink Control Channel), PSSCH (Physical Sidelink Shared Channel), and PSDCH (Physical Sidelink Discovery Channel) is allocated in the second resource; a reception unit that monitors the first resource, the second resource, or the first resource and the second resource; and a transmission unit that performs transmission using any one of the first resource, the second resource, and the first resource and the second resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Ryosuke Osawa, Huan Wang, Xiaolin Hou
  • Patent number: 11924139
    Abstract: In order to properly transmit UCI, even when PUCCH repetition transmission is used in future radio communication systems, a user terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a control section that determines a codebook for physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmission per slot, based on at least one of physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) candidate occasions, a timing of hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) transmission corresponding to a received PDSCH and a PUCCH repetition factor, when PUCCH repetition transmission and a semi-static HARQ-ACK codebook are configured; and a transmitting section that transmits HARQ-ACK based on the codebook by applying the PUCCH repetition transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata, Lihui Wang, Shaozhen Guo, Xiaolin Hou
  • Publication number: 20240073839
    Abstract: A radio communication node 100A acquires, in a case in which a DL transmission timing and a UL transmission timing in a radio communication node 100B, a propagation delay between the radio communication node 100A and the radio communication node 100B and transmits timing information including the propagation delay to the radio communication node 100B.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Daisuke Kurita, Hiroki Harada, Weiqi Sun, Jing Wang, Xiaolin Hou
  • Publication number: 20240063969
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a base station, a terminal and channel reconstruction methods performed by a base station and a terminal. The base station includes: a transmitting unit configured to transmit channel state information reference signals of multiple ports to a terminal, wherein the channel state information reference signals of multiple ports have a first density in frequency domain in one time interval; a receiving unit configured to receive precoding matrix indication information of a first granularity from the terminal; a processing unit configured to determine a channel of a second granularity according to the precoding matrix indication information of the first granularity, and perform downlink precoding on the channel, wherein the second granularity is finer than the first granularity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Xin Wang, Xiaolin Hou, Anxin Li, Lan Chen, Hiroki Harada
  • Patent number: 11909696
    Abstract: A terminal is disclosed including a transmitter that performs an uplink (UL) transmission; and a receiver that performs a downlink (DL) reception, wherein the transmitter does not perform the UL transmission in a period after a last symbol of the DL reception. In other aspects, a radio communication method, a base station, and a system are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata, Lihui Wang, Shaozhen Guo, Xiaolin Hou
  • Patent number: 11909465
    Abstract: A terminal according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a receiving section that receives one piece of downlink control information (DCI) for scheduling a plurality of downlink shared channels (PDSCHs), and a control section that determines either a single TCI state or a plurality of TCI states for the plurality of PDSCHs in at least one of a first case and a second case, the first case being a case that a time offset from the DCI to the plurality of PDSCHs is shorter than a threshold, the second case being a case that a transmission configuration indication (TCI) field is not configured. According to an aspect of the present disclosure, QCL parameters for multi-panel/TRP can be appropriately determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Matsumura, Satoshi Nagata, Shaozhen Guo, Jing Wang, Xiaolin Hou
  • Publication number: 20240056142
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a base station and a terminal. The base station includes: a receiving unit configured to receive precoding matrix indicator information of a first granularity from a terminal; and a processing unit configured to perform channel reconstruction according to the precoding matrix indicator information to obtain a first channel, use a super-resolution network to perform interpolation and denoising processing on a channel having the first granularity to obtain a second channel, and perform downlink precoding on the second channel, wherein the first channel has the first granularity, the second channel has a second granularity, and the second granularity is finer than the first granularity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Xin Wang, Xiaolin Hou, Anxin Li, Lan Chen, Hiroki Harada
  • Patent number: 11902932
    Abstract: A user equipment includes a receiving unit configured to receive a physical control channel and a physical shared channel from another user equipment; a control unit configured to calculate a distance that is an estimated distance between the another user equipment and the user equipment, based on information acquired via the physical control channel; and a transmitting unit configured to determine whether to transmit, via a channel used for transmitting and receiving a response relating to retransmission control, the response relating to the retransmission control of the physical shared channel transmitted from the another user equipment, based on the calculated distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Shohei Yoshioka, Satoshi Nagata, Huan Wang, Xiaolin Hou
  • Publication number: 20240048289
    Abstract: A terminal according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: a control section that determines a size of a semi-static hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) codebook including HARQ-ACK corresponding to a downlink shared channel (physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH)) of semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) based on the number of configured SPS configurations, the number of configured or activated cells, and the number of HARQ-ACK timing values included in a set of the configured HARQ-ACK timing values; and a transmitting section that transmits an HARQ-ACK information bit corresponding to the HARQ-ACK codebook by using a resource of an uplink control channel. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, the HARQ-ACK can be appropriately feed back even in a case where multiple SPSs are used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Takahashi, Satoshi Nagata, Xiaohong Zhang, Shaozhen Guo, Lihui Wang, Xiaolin Hou
  • Publication number: 20240048190
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a terminal and a base station in a communication system. The terminal includes: a receiving unit configured to receive, from a base station, first information indicating a first parameter, where the first parameter indicates a number of candidate transform domain vectors regarding a subcarrier-level precoding matrix, and a value of the first parameter is smaller than a number of subcarriers of the communication system; the receiving unit being further configured to receive, from the base station, second information indicating a second parameter, where the second parameter indicates a number of transform domain vectors used to determine the subcarrier-level precoding matrix; and a control unit configured to determine, from the number of candidate transform domain vectors indicated by the first information, the number of transform domain vectors indicated by the second information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Wenjia Liu, Xiaolin Hou, Xin Wang, Yuki Matsumura, Nadisanka Rupasinghe
  • Patent number: 11895657
    Abstract: A user terminal according to the present invention includes: a transmitting section that transmits Uplink Control Information (UCI) including at least one of retransmission control information for a downlink data channel, a Scheduling Request (SR) and Channel State Information (CSI); and a control section that controls the transmission of the UCI when a first uplink control channel and a second uplink control channel having a longer duration than that of the first uplink control channel are subjected to time division multiplexing in one or more slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata, Lihui Wang, Xiaolin Hou
  • Publication number: 20240039604
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for precoding matrix indicator (PMI) transmission and a method for determining precoding granularity performed by a terminal, and a corresponding terminal and base station. The terminal includes: a receiving unit configured to receive first information about the precoding matrix indicator (PMI) from a base station of the communication system; and a control unit configured to determine whether to transmit second information about the precoding matrix indicator according to the first information, wherein the precoding matrix indicator is for a subcarrier-level precoding matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Wenjia Liu, Xiaolin Hou, Xin Wang, Yuki Matsumura, Nadisanka Rupasinghe
  • Patent number: 11889534
    Abstract: To prevent deterioration of communication quality even when communication is performed by using a plurality of transmission points, one aspect of a user terminal according to the present disclosure includes: a receiving section that receives a physical shared channel transmitted from a plurality of transmission points, based on certain downlink control information; and a control section that determines at least one of rate matching, quasi-co-location, and a resource to be assigned for the physical shared channel transmitted from the plurality of transmission points, based on the downlink control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Matsumura, Satoshi Nagata, Jing Wang, Min Liu, Huiling Li, Xin Wang, Xiaolin Hou
  • Patent number: 11889564
    Abstract: A terminal is disclosed including a receiving section that receives information indicating a first number of preamble transmission, the information being a condition for switching from a 2-step random access procedure to a 4-step random access procedure, and information indicating a second number which is a maximum number of preamble transmission; and a control section that when a number of preamble transmission is the first number, controls to switch from a 2-step random access procedure to a 4-step random access procedure, and when the number of preamble transmission is the second number, determines a failure of the 4-step random access procedure. In other aspects a radio communication method and a system are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Shohei Yoshioka, Satoshi Nagata, Lihui Wang, Shaozhen Guo, Xiaolin Hou
  • Publication number: 20240030988
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a terminal and a base station. The terminal includes: a control unit, configured to determine at least one group of transform domain vectors, the at least one group of transform domain vectors being used for determining a precoding matrix for a subcarrier level, and a sending unit, configured to send precoding matrix indication information to a base station, the precoding matrix indication information including first information, the first information being used for indicating at least one group of transform domain vectors. The base station includes a receiving unit, configured to receive precoding matrix indication information from a terminal, the precoding matrix indication information at least including first information, the first information being used for indicating at least one group of transform domain vectors, and a control unit, configured to determine a precoding matrix according to the precoding matrix indication information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Wenjia Liu, Xiaolin Hou, Xin Wang, Yuki Matsumura, Nadisanka Rupasinghe