Patents Assigned to NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20250261093
    Abstract: A terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a receiving section that receives configuration information for positioning included in a specific system information block (SIB), the configuration information being associated with a Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) ID, and a control section that performs, based on the configuration information, positioning-related control associated with the PLMN ID. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, it is possible to manage flexible communication for operators.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Publication date: August 14, 2025
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroki Harada, Mayuko Okano, Shinya Kumagai
  • Publication number: 20250261264
    Abstract: A terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a receiving section that receives a first configuration of one or more transmission configuration indication (TCI) states to be applied to a plurality of types of signals for a first bandwidth part (BWP) in a first component carrier (CC) in a specific band; and a control section that applies, when a condition is satisfied, the one or more TCI states to a second BWP in a second CC in the specific band. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, it is possible to appropriately determine a TCI state(s) for a plurality of cells/CCs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Publication date: August 14, 2025
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Matsumura, Satoshi Nagata
  • Publication number: 20250261241
    Abstract: A terminal includes a communication unit configured to transmit and receive a random access channel, and a controller configured to assume that the random access channel is transmitted and received based on at least one of a configuration of the random access channel set individually for a second terminal with reduced functions that is different from a terminal without a first reduced functions or terminal with reduced functions; a configuration of the random access channel set individually for the first terminal with functions, a reduced or configuration of the random access channel for the terminal without reduced functions, wherein second functions, which are different from first functions reduced in the first terminal with reduced functions, are reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Publication date: August 14, 2025
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Shinya Kumagai, Mayuko Okano, Satoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 12389242
    Abstract: A terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a transmitting section that transmits a random access preamble in a given cell when beam failure is detected, and a control section that assumes a same antenna port quasi-co-location parameter as that associated with an index of a reference signal corresponding to the random access preamble for monitoring of a downlink control channel in a given control resource set after a given period from timing at which contention resolution is successful in random access procedure corresponding to the random access preamble and until specific information related to a Transmission Configuration Indication state (TCI state) for a downlink control channel is received. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, it is possible to appropriately update a beam in relation to BFR.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Matsumura, Satoshi Nagata, Jing Wang, Xiaolin Hou
  • Publication number: 20250254017
    Abstract: A wireless relay device includes: a receiving unit configured to receive, from a base station, information about a duplex scheme used in a network; and a control unit configured to relay downlink radio signals and uplink radio signals between the base station and a terminal based on the information about the duplex scheme.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Publication date: August 7, 2025
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Shohei Yoshioka, Daisuke Kurita, Haruhi Echigo, Shinya Kumagai, Yuki Takahashi, Satoshi Nagata
  • Publication number: 20250254014
    Abstract: A terminal includes a communication unit configured to perform uplink or downlink communication in a frequency band aggregated by carrier aggregation, a reception unit configured to receive a cancelation indication for an uplink signal in downlink, and a control unit configured to assume that, in a case where scheduling is performed in a unit including a plurality of component carriers in the aggregated frequency band, the cancelation indication for the uplink signal is transmitted for each of the plurality of component carriers or for the unit including the plurality of component carriers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Publication date: August 7, 2025
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Takahashi, Shinya Kumagai, Shohei Yoshioka, Masaya Okamura, Mayuko Okano, Satoshi Nagata
  • Publication number: 20250253905
    Abstract: A terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a control section that determines a precoder, based on a codebook for transmission using more than four antenna ports, when a codebook subset indicating “non coherent” or “partial coherent” is configured, and a transmitting section that performs uplink full power transmission, based on the precoder. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, UL full power transmission using more than four antenna ports can be appropriately controlled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Publication date: August 7, 2025
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Matsumura, Satoshi Nagata, Jing Wang, Lan Chen
  • Patent number: 12382500
    Abstract: A user equipment includes a transmitting unit configured to transmit a message in a random access procedure by using a preamble resource and a PUSCH resource, and a control unit configured to start a time window for monitoring a random access response after a resource that is one of the preamble resource and the PUSCH resource whichever ends later in time domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventor: Tomoya Ohara
  • Publication number: 20250247856
    Abstract: A terminal includes: a receiving unit that receives data in data delivery to a plurality of terminals via a downlink channel; and a control unit that controls whether or not to enable at least any one of two or more transport blocks based on specified downlink control information newly defined for the data delivery when the two or more transport blocks are configured for the data delivery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Publication date: July 31, 2025
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuki MATSUMURA, Shohei YOSHIOKA, Hiroki HARADA, Satoshi NAGATA
  • Publication number: 20250247832
    Abstract: A terminal includes: a transmission unit configured to report, to a base station, a number of antenna ports that can perform band switching as capability information, in a transmission switching scheme in which at least one antenna port of a plurality of antenna ports can switch bands across two or more bands and the plurality of antenna ports in total switch bands for transmission across three or more bands; and a reception unit configured to receive, from the base station, information on an antenna port that is a target for which band switching is performed, or information on an antenna port that is not a target for which band switching is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Publication date: July 31, 2025
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroki Harada, Takuma Nakamura, Tomoya Ohara
  • Publication number: 20250247839
    Abstract: A terminal includes: a control unit configured to assume that there are a scheduling cell and a scheduled cell in multi-carrier scheduling by single control information; and a reception unit configured to receive the single control information from the scheduling cell. The reception unit receives a plurality of scheduled cells based on the single control information, and the control unit determines whether or not an unlicensed frequency cell can be configured as the scheduled cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Publication date: July 31, 2025
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroki Harada, Mayuko Okano
  • Patent number: 12375137
    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: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Xin Wang, Xiaolin Hou, Anxin Li, Lan Chen, Hiroki Harada
  • Patent number: 12375158
    Abstract: As for appropriate settings in the case of configuration in which search space other than search space for a beam failure recovery request response (BFRQR) signal is monitored in a beam recovery procedure of a future radio communication system, one aspect of a user terminal of the present disclosure includes: a control section that controls monitor setting related to first search space and second search space other than the first search space in accordance with a carrier for which the first search space for a beam failure recovery request response signal is set; and a receiving section that monitors at least one of the first search space and the second search space based on the setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Matsumura, Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 12376134
    Abstract: A terminal includes a control unit configured to determine to, in a case where there are a resource for sidelink HARQ-ACK information (SL-HARQ-ACK information) and a resource for one or more information items other than SL-HARQ-ACK, in a slot, transmit one of the SL-HARQ-ACK information and the one or more information items other than the SL-HARQ-ACK information, according to priority order; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the determined information to a base station by using an uplink control channel in the slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Shohei Yoshioka, Satoshi Nagata
  • Publication number: 20250240070
    Abstract: A terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a receiving section that receives one channel state information (CSI) report configuration, and a control section that performs control of transmitting first CSI at a first timing and second CSI being different from the first CSI at a second timing being different from the first timing, based on the one CSI report configuration. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, preferable channel estimation/use of resources can be implemented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Publication date: July 24, 2025
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Haruhi Echigo, Hiroki Harada, Xufei Zheng, Liu Liu, Jing Wang, Yujia Shan
  • Publication number: 20250238969
    Abstract: A display control apparatus includes a generator configured to generate a virtual object to be placed in a first virtual space visually recognized by a user who is a sender of a message, the virtual object being related to the message; and a setter configured to set whether to permit a change in an appearance of the virtual object to be displayed in a second virtual space visually recognized by a user who is a recipient of the message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2023
    Publication date: July 24, 2025
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventor: Tomohito YAMASAKI
  • Publication number: 20250239074
    Abstract: A pair of XR glasses includes an extractor configured to extract an operation video corresponding to a work area from a captured video, a progress information generator configured to generate, based on the operation video, progress information indicative of progress of the operation, a determiner configured to determine, based on the progress information, a process to be supported from among a plurality of processes, a player configured to repeatedly play support information corresponding to the process determined by the determiner until the determined process is completed, and an output controller configured to, in response to video information indicative of a video being included in the support information played by the player, cause a display to display an explanatory video, the display causing the operator to visually recognize a mixed reality space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2022
    Publication date: July 24, 2025
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuuichi MIZUKOSHI, Nobutaka MATSUSHIMA
  • Patent number: 12368535
    Abstract: A terminal according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: a reception section that receives downlink control information for triggering feedback of a one-shot HARQ-ACK; and a control section that controls feedback of HARQ-ACKs each corresponding to one of a plurality of service types or HARQ-ACKs having different priorities by using different codebooks in a case where the feedback of the HARQ-ACK is performed on the basis of the downlink information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Takahashi, Satoshi Nagata, Xiaohong Zhang, Lihui Wang, Xiaolin Hou
  • Publication number: 20250234310
    Abstract: A terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a receiving section that receives information related to timing advance groups corresponding to a plurality of transmission/reception points of a specific cell, and a control section that, when the timing advance groups corresponding to the plurality of transmission/reception points are configurable separately, controls a timing advance per transmission/reception point, wherein control section judges a timing advance group serving as a primary timing advance group, based on at least one of a cell type and a transmission/reception point index belonging to each timing advance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: July 17, 2025
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Matsumura, Satoshi Nagata, Weiqi Sun, Jing Wang, Lan Chen
  • Publication number: 20250233976
    Abstract: A transmittance control apparatus includes a first identifier configured to identify, based on display information indicating a target for display, a degree of lightness of the target for display; a second identifier configured to identify lightness of an environment in which a see-through display is disposed; a transmittance controller configured to: when the degree of lightness of the target for display does not fluctuate and the lightness of the environment fluctuates in a range less than or equal to a first lightness, reduce transmittance of the target for display displayed on the see-through display with an increase in the lightness of the environment; and control the transmittance of the target for display displayed on the see-through display at a first timing based on: a maximum lightness of the environment in a first period before to the first timing and the degree of lightness of the target for display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Publication date: July 17, 2025
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuki NAKAMURA, Yasuo MORINAGA, Mitsuhiro GOTO, Tatsuya NISHIZAKI, Reo MIZUTA