Patents by Inventor Yoshiko Saito

Yoshiko Saito 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: 20130155996
    Abstract: A base station (100) transmits a DL grant for a terminal (200) by mapping it to an R-PDCCH region, thus transmitting a series of data groups to the terminal (200) by the SPS method. A transmission control unit (102) sets in the R-PDCC H region a control resource region which maps a data resource and the DL grant i n a resource block group common in frames to be transmitted by the SPS method. A resource region which was defined as a control resource region in a first fram e to be transmitted among a plurality of frames to be transmitted is defined as a d ata resource in a second or subsequent frame to be transmitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2012
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ayako Horiuchi, Akihiko Nishio, Yoshiko Saito, Daichi Imamura
  • Patent number: 8467723
    Abstract: A mobile communication system includes a plurality of RAT (Radio Access Technology) and can eliminate the need of a control channel for reporting RAT information. An LTE relay station has a cover area identical to a cover area owned by a WLAN host station and relays/transmits the signal received from an LTE base station to a mobile station in the cover area of the LTE relay station. The LTE relay station adds to the signal received from the LTE base station, one of the offsets: a frequency offset, a time offset, and a power offset as information indicating that the mobile station which receives a relay signal from the local station is located in the cover area of WLAN and transmits the signal after offset addition to the mobile station located in the cover area of the LTE relay station (i.e., the cover area of WLAN).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiko Saito, Takashi Aramaki, Kenichi Miyoshi, Katsuhiko Hiramatsu, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Jun Hirano
  • Publication number: 20130121295
    Abstract: A base station device causing no decrease in system throughput and guaranteeing the reception quality at a terminal when a DCI directed toward the terminal is mapped to a PDCCH region and an R-PDCCH region. A search space setting unit (103) sets a search space having a plurality of allocation candidates, in both regions. An allocation unit (106) allocates control information to a resource in one allocation candidate in the search space. The ratio of the number of allocation candidates in the R-PDCCH region to the number of allocation candidates in the PDCCH region in the search space for a terminal using DM-RS in the R-PDCCH region is equal to or greater than the ratio of the number of allocation candidates in the R-PDCCH region to the number of allocation candidates in the PDCCH region in the search space for a terminal using CRS in the R-PDCCH region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2011
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiko Saito, Ayako Horiuchi, Seigo Nakao, Akihiko Nishio, Daichi Imamura, Alexander Golitschek Edler Von Elbwart, Sujuan Feng
  • Patent number: 8422943
    Abstract: Provided is a mobile communication system capable of eliminating the use of a control channel for transmitting specific area information and suppressing the overhead caused by a frequency change process for a mobile station to receive the specific area information. In the mobile communication system, a relay station (20) has a coverage area (21) (specific area) and relays and transmits, in the coverage area (21), a signal received from a base station (10) to a mobile station (30). The relay station (20) adds, to the signal received from the base station (10), the offset of any of a frequency offset, a time offset, and a power offset depending on a risk indicated by risk information in the coverage area (21) (specific area) and transmits the signal after the addition of the offset to the mobile station (30) located in the coverage area (21).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiko Saito, Takashi Aramaki, Katsuhiko Hiramatsu, Hideshi Taki, Daichi Imamura, Ayako Horiuchi, Yuichi Kobayakawa, Megumi Ichikawa
  • Publication number: 20120309390
    Abstract: A mobile communication system includes a plurality of RAT (Radio Access Technology) and can eliminate the need of a control channel for reporting RAT information. An LTE relay station has a cover area identical to a cover area owned by a WLAN host station and relays/transmits the signal received from an LTE base station to a mobile station in the cover area of the LTE relay station. The LTE relay station adds to the signal received from the LTE base station, one of the offsets: a frequency offset, a time offset, and a power offset as information indicating that the mobile station which receives a relay signal from the local station is located in the cover area of WLAN and transmits the signal after offset addition to the mobile station located in the cover area of the LTE relay station (i.e., the cover area of WLAN).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2012
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiko SAITO, Takashi Aramaki, Kenichi Wiyochi, Katsuhiko Hiramatsu, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Jun Hirano
  • Publication number: 20120294229
    Abstract: When a terminal (200) is capable of connecting to two relay devices that are adjacent to the terminal, from among a plurality of relay devices, a receiving unit (208) receives signals in a first period and a second period for communication among the plurality of relay stations, which are transmitted from the higher order device to the lower order device toward other terminal devices. An interference removal unit (209) obtains a signal transmitted toward the terminal (200) from the higher order relay device by employing the signals toward the other terminal devices that are received in the first period and the second period and removing a signal toward other terminal devices that is transmitted in a third period for communication between the plurality of relay devices and the terminal device from the lower order device from a signal that is received in the third period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiko Saito, Kenichi Miyoshi, Daichi Imamura, Yasuaki Yuda
  • Patent number: 8265551
    Abstract: Provided is a mobile communication system which includes a plurality of RAT (Radio Access Technology) and can eliminate the need of a control channel for reporting RAT information so as to prevent congestion or shortage of the control channel capacity. In the mobile communication system, an LTE relay station (30) has a cover area (31) identical to a cover area (21) owned by a WLAN host station (20) and relays/transmits the signal received from an LTE base station (10) to a mobile station (40) in the cover area (31). The LTE relay station (30) adds to the signal received from the LTE base station (10), one of the offsets: a frequency offset, a time offset, and a power offset as information indicating that the mobile station (40) which receives a relay signal from the local station is located in the cover area (21) of WLAN and transmits the signal after offset addition to the mobile station (40) located in the cover area (31) (i.e., the cover area (21)).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiko Saito, Takashi Aramaki, Kenichi Miyoshi, Katsuhiko Hiramatsu, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Jun Hirano
  • Publication number: 20120147930
    Abstract: Disclosed is a wireless relay device wherein the number of stream multiplexes between a wireless transmission device and a wireless reception device can be increased without increasing the number of antennas for the wireless transmission device or the number of antennas for the wireless reception device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2010
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Miyoshi, Daichi Imamura, Yoshiko Saito
  • Publication number: 20120051301
    Abstract: A radio transmitting apparatus wherein even if a preamble sequence transmitted via any one of the antennas of the radio transmitting apparatus is detected, the order of the space diversity can be determined with reliability and data signals can be normally decoded. In this apparatus, a deciding unit (101) decides preamble sequences the number of which is equal to the order of the space diversity and further decides transmission block intervals the number of which is equal to or greater than the order of the space diversity. An allocating unit (102) sequentially allocates the preamble sequences, the number of which is equal to the order of the space diversity, to the respective antennas, the number of which is equal to the order of the space diversity, within the respective transmission block intervals. The allocating unit (102) allocates different ones of the preamble sequences to the respective antennas at the respective same transmission timings that are within the respective transmission block intervals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2010
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiko Saito, Kenichi Miyoshi, Megumi Ichikawa, Daichi Imamura
  • Publication number: 20120028684
    Abstract: Provided is a radio communication device which can obtain an error ratio characteristic equivalent to the one obtained by using a tail bit, without using a tail bit in the error correction and encoding. The device includes: a blocking unit (106) which adds a bit indicating an error detection result in a CRC unit (105) to control data (a bit string) so as to constitute an encoded block and outputs the encoded block to an encoding unit (107); and the encoding unit (107) which corrects and encodes the encoded block. The blocking unit (106) forms an encoded block by a bit string of control data and a probability deviation existence bit added to the tail of the bit string.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2009
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi Miyoshi, Megumi Ichikawa, Daichi Imamura, Seigo Nakao, Yuichi Kobayakawa, Yoshiko Saito, Kenichi Kuri, Alexander Golitschek Edler Von Elbwart
  • Publication number: 20120014279
    Abstract: A wireless transmission apparatus able to reliably increase outage capacity according to the state of a propagation path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2010
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi Miyoshi, Megumi Ichikawa, Yoshiko Saito, Shinsuke Takaoka, Daichi Imamura, Seigo Nakao, Fumiyuki Adachi
  • Publication number: 20120014373
    Abstract: Provided is a wireless transmitter capable of accurately specifying the number of multiplexed streams and correctly decoding the data signals when a preamble sequence transmitted from any antenna of a wireless transmitter is detected. In this device, a multiplex count determination unit (101) determines the number of streams used by the device itself from the same number of candidates as the number of spatially multiplexed streams. A sequence group generator (104) forms a plurality of preamble sequences into the same number of groups as the number of candidates, which is the number of streams. A sequence group selector (105) selects the group matching the number of streams determined by the multiplex count determination unit (101) from a plurality of groups. A preamble generator (106) selects the same number of preamble sequences as the number of streams in the group selected by the sequence group selector (105) and generates the preamble sequence used by the device itself.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2010
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Miyoshi, Yoshiko Saito, Daichi Imamura
  • Publication number: 20110299407
    Abstract: A base station apparatus, in a wireless communication system supporting band aggregation, able to limit drops in throughput while lowering the amount of control information for the rank of an added band; and a terminal device and rank setting method of the same. An added band rank setting unit (108) includes a memory (1084) which defines, as a rank and from the eigenvalue distributions of the channel matrices of the master band and added band, the number of eigenvalues of the channel matrix of the added band that satisfy channel quality according to the rank of the master band, and associates that number with the frequency band and rank of the master band and the frequency band of the added band. The added band rank setting unit (108) acquires, from the memory (1084), the rank that is associated with the information on the frequency band and rank of the master band and the information on the frequency band of the added band, and sets the same as the rank of the added band.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2010
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiko Saito, Masayuki Hoshino, Kenichi Miyoshi, Seigo Nakao, Daichi Imamura
  • Publication number: 20110176474
    Abstract: A wireless relay station apparatus for enabling a mobile station and a base station to reliably receive network coding data and to provide sufficient reception performance is provided. (1) A repeater divides data X received from a mobile station into important data and non-important data and divides data Y received from eNB into important data and non-important data. Next, (2) the repeater places the data so that important data Sx for the mobile station and important data Sy for the eNB do not overlap, XORs (exclusive ORs) them, and generates network coding data X (X) Y. (3) The repeater applies downlink propagation inverse characteristic H1?1 to important data portion Px (X) Sy for the mobile station and on the other hand, applies uplink propagation inverse characteristic H0?1 to important data portion Sx (X) Py for the eNB in the network coding data X (X) Y for transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2009
    Publication date: July 21, 2011
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiko Saito, Katsuhiko Hiramatsu, Ayako Horiuchi, Kenichi Miyoshi, Masayuki Hoshino, Shinsuke Takaoka, Seigo Nakao, Yasuaki Yuda, Kenichi Kuri
  • Publication number: 20110141998
    Abstract: Disclosed is a wireless communication base station device capable of reducing the power consumption of a terminal when broadband transmission is performed with only an uplink. With this device, a setting unit (101) sets mutually different terminal IDs per a plurality of uplink unit bands for a terminal (200) that communicates using a plurality of uplink unit bands and prescribed downlink unit bands which are fewer in number than the uplink unit bands; a control unit (102) that respectively allocates resource allocation information per a plurality of uplink unit bands to a PDCCH arranged in a prescribed downlink unit band; and a PDCCH creation unit (103) that creates a PDCCH signal by respectively masking the resource allocation information per a plurality of uplink unit bands with the terminal ID that has been set per a plurality of uplink unit bands.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2009
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Nishio, Seigo Nakao, Yoshiko Saito, Alexander Golitschek Edler von Elbwart
  • Publication number: 20110111693
    Abstract: It is possible to provide a radio communication base station device, a radio communication relay station device, a radio communication terminal device, a radio communication system, and a radio communication method which can minimize a delay and effectively use resources. When a terminal starts an uplink communication with a base station via a repeater, [ST403] a base station transmits to a repeater, Grant 1 for the base station to allocate an initial transmission resource to the terminal and Multi-direction Grant which can be applied either to retransmission from the terminal to the repeater or the relay from the repeater to the base station, and [ST404] the Grant 1 and the Multi-direction Grant are relayed to the terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2009
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Inventors: Seigo Nakao, Ayako Horiuchi, Yoshiko Saito, Kenichi Miyoshi, Yoshikazu Ishii
  • Publication number: 20110103297
    Abstract: A repeater capable of improving the data decoding performance at a base station while achieving sharing of processing for data exchange between repeaters and initial data transmission to the base station (eNB) is provided. A repeater 100 which cooperates with another repeater 200 to relay data to a base station 300 includes a storage section 113 which stores first data of the local apparatus, a receiving section 101 which receives at least a portion of the second data of another repeater 200, an interleave section 111 which applies interleaving to at least a portion of the first data and the second data in accordance with a difference in propagation quality between the base station 300 and each of the repeaters, and segments data after interleaving, and a transmitting section 116 which, if data after interleaving is segmented, transmits segmented data to the base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2009
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiko Saito, Ayako Horiuchi, Seigo Nakao, Katsuhiko Hiramatsu, Yuichi Kobayakawa, Atsushi Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20110105016
    Abstract: Provided is a mobile communication system capable of eliminating the use of a control channel for transmitting specific area information and suppressing the overhead caused by a frequency change process for a mobile station to receive the specific area information. In the mobile communication system, a relay station (20) has a coverage area (21) (specific area) and relays and transmits, in the coverage area (21), a signal received from a base station (10) to a mobile station (30). The relay station (20) adds, to the signal received from the base station (10), the offset of any of a frequency offset, a time offset, and a power offset depending on a risk indicated by risk information in the coverage area (21) (specific area) and transmits the signal after the addition of the offset to the mobile station (30) located in the coverage area (21).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2009
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiko Saito, Takashi Aramaki, Kenichi Miyoshi, Katsuhiko Hiramatsu, Hideshi Taki, Daichi Imamura, Ayako Horiuchi, Yuichi Kobayakawa
  • Publication number: 20110098004
    Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication device which can improve the notification accuracy of the channel state information (CSI) without straining the feedback circuit. In this device, a channel estimator (105) uses a pilot signal input from a wireless receiver (102) to estimate the channel and obtain a plurality of path gains in each of a plurality of delay periods. Then, the channel estimator (105) outputs the plurality of path gains to a quantizer (107). The quantizer (107) quantizes the plurality of path gains in the number of notification bits corresponding to each of the plurality of delay periods based on the correspondence of the delay period and the number of notification bits input from a setting unit (106).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2009
    Publication date: April 28, 2011
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinsuke Takaoka, Kenichi Miyoshi, Katsuhiko Hiramatsu, Akihiko Nishio, Ryohei Kimura, Yoshiko Saito
  • Patent number: RE43614
    Abstract: An assignment section 101 determines communication resource assignment to communication terminals based on a transmission rate at which communication is possible for each subcarrier of each communication terminal, and instructs a buffer section 102 to output forward transmission data. In addition, the assignment section 101 instructs a frame creation section 103 to perform forward transmission data symbolization, and also outputs a signal indicating communication resource assignment to each communication terminal. The buffer section 102 holds forward transmission data, and outputs forward transmission data to the frame creation section 103 in accordance with instructions from the assignment section 101. The frame creation section 103 symbolizes a resource assignment signal and transmission data to create a frame, which it outputs to a spreading section 104.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Sumasu, Osamu Kato, Mitsuru Uesugi, Yoshiko Saito, Toyoki Ue, Junichi Aizawa, Keiichi Kitagawa, Toshiyuki Uehara, Guizeng Shi