Patents Assigned to NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
  • Patent number: 11881115
    Abstract: Assignment unit assigns flight vehicles having radio communication apparatuses to airspaces. At this time, assignment unit limits the assignment of flight vehicle to a specified airspace in which a parameter specified by specification unit is in a predetermined range (e.g., an airspace in which the path loss of the physical downlink channel to radio communication apparatus is less than or equal to a threshold value).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Takefumi Yamada, Youhei Oono, Yuichiro Segawa
  • Publication number: 20240023081
    Abstract: A terminal includes: a reception unit configured to receive data according to SPS (Semi persistent scheduling) from a base station; a control unit configured to determine HARQ-ACK (Hybrid automatic repeat request Acknowledgement) feedback information corresponding to the data, wherein transmission of the HARQ-ACK feedback information is required to be postponed until a valid uplink resource is found, configure a HARQ-ACK codebook related to the feedback information, and determine bits of the feedback information by applying the codebook; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the feedback information to the base station. The control unit configures the codebook based on priorities configured to the bits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Shinya Kumagai, Satoshi Nagata, Qiping Pi, Jing Wang, Lan Chen
  • Publication number: 20240022289
    Abstract: A terminal for performing Channel State Information (CSI) reporting for type II port selection codebook includes a receiver that receives beamformed CSI reference signal (RS) ports comprising spatial domain (SD) beams and frequency domain (FD) base. In addition, the terminal includes a processor that, using higher layer signaling, configures a number of SD beam selection and a number of FD base selection, and selects a first value from a first set of values for the number of SD beam selection and a second value from a second set of values for the number of FD base section. The terminal further includes a transmitter that transmits the first value and the second values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Nadisanka Rupasinghe, Yuki Matsumura
  • Patent number: 11876745
    Abstract: A terminal according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a control section that reduces a resource to which at least one of an uplink channel and a sounding reference signal (SRS) is mapped, in a case that a first resource provided for the uplink channel overlaps a second resource provided for the SRS, and a transmitting section that performs at least one of a transmission of the uplink channel and a transmission of the SRS. According to an aspect of the present disclosure, in a case that a resource provided for an uplink transmission overlaps a resource provided for an SRS, appropriate processing is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Matsumura, Yuichi Kakishima, Satoshi Nagata
  • Publication number: 20240015750
    Abstract: A terminal includes: a control unit that multiplexes uplink control information on an uplink shared channel; and a communication unit that transmits an uplink signal using the uplink shared channel on which the uplink control information is multiplexed. The control unit multiplies a number of bits constituting the uplink control information by a coefficient in a rate matching of the uplink control information. The control unit applies, as a range of coefficient, a specific range corresponding to a combination of a priority of the uplink control information and a priority of the uplink shared channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Takahashi, Satoshi Nagata, Qiping Pi
  • Publication number: 20240015753
    Abstract: A terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a control section that determines two values of a power control parameter when physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) spatial relation information is not provided; and a transmitting section that transmits a PUCCH by using at least one of the two values of the power control parameter and one or more transmission occasions. The two values are associated with two respective indices. The two indices are either two index values of a control resource set (CORESET) pool index or two index values of a transmission configuration indication (TCI) state associated with one codepoint of a field in downlink control information. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a power control parameter can be appropriately determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Matsumura, Satoshi Nagata, Weiqi Sun, Jing Wang, Lan Chen
  • Publication number: 20240014988
    Abstract: A terminal (UE 200) receives from a radio base station (gNB 100) information including a first series length corresponding to a first subcarrier spacing and configure to a number greater than a first specified value, or information including a second series length corresponding to a second subcarrier spacing and configure to a number greater than a second specified value, and transmits to the radio base station a random access preamble having the first series length or the second series length corresponding to the received information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Haruhi Echigo, Hiroki Harada, Daisuke Kurita
  • Publication number: 20240015708
    Abstract: A terminal includes a receiving unit that receives configuration information for configuring a time and frequency domain in which a transmission is stopped; a transmitting unit that transmits terminal capability information indicating that the terminal is capable of performing calibration by stopping the transmission in the time and frequency domain; and a control unit that performs the calibration by stopping the transmission in the time and frequency domain based on the configuration in a case where the receiving unit receives the configuration information and the transmitting unit transmits the terminal capability information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuta Oguma, Ryu Kitagawa
  • Publication number: 20240014972
    Abstract: A terminal according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: a reception section that receives a configuration indicating an uplink period and a downlink period and receives a slot offset for aperiodic sounding reference signal (SRS) transmission; and a control section that determines whether or not to receive at least one of a first piece of downlink control information that triggers the SRS transmission and a second piece of downlink control information indicating a slot format. According to an aspect of the present disclosure, SRS transmission is flexibly controlled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Matsumura, Satoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 11871452
    Abstract: In order to perform appropriate communication in an unlicensed band, a user terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a receiving section that receives at least one of a synchronization signal block and a reference signal for measurement in a given duration of a frequency domain to which listening is applied, and a control section that controls reception of a physical downlink channel based on a transmission candidate position of at least one of the synchronization signal block and the reference signal for measurement when the physical downlink channel is received in the given duration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroki Harada, Daisuke Murayama, Shohei Yoshioka
  • Patent number: 11870536
    Abstract: A terminal (200) configures PCell and SCell simultaneously. The terminal (200) includes a receiving unit (220) that receives a reference signal for use in a detection of a beam failure in the SCell, and a controller (270) that performs at least one of the detection of the beam failure and a beam failure recovery request based on a reception quality of the reference signal. The controller (270) performs at least one of the detection of the beam failure and the beam failure recovery request when a predetermined condition is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tooru Uchino, Yuki Matsumura, Hideaki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11868734
    Abstract: The dialogue system includes a keyword acquisition unit configured to acquire an input key group containing one or a plurality of input keywords on the basis of an input of a character string, a category generation unit configured to classify the resulting sentence candidates into a plurality of categories on the basis of a comparison between the input key group acquired by the keyword acquisition unit and the storage key group contained in an FAQ database, an intra-category ranking determination unit configured to determine a priority ranking of the resulting sentence candidates within each of the categories, and a presentation unit configured to select a resulting sentence candidate of a highest priority ranking determined by the intra-category ranking determination unit from within a category of a highest priority ranking determined in advance, and present a response for prompting a user to make an additional input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Takanori Hashimoto, Hiroshi Fujimoto, Yuriko Ozaki
  • Patent number: 11871258
    Abstract: A user terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a measurement section that performs an L1 measurement by using a given reference signal in a particular frequency band; and a control section that controls data transmission and/or reception on the particular frequency band at a time of the measurement, based on a sub-carrier spacing (SCS) of the given reference signal. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, even in a case of performing a measurement other than an SSB measurement, data transmission and/or reception which is simultaneous with the measurement can be appropriately controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventor: Hiroki Harada
  • Patent number: 11871290
    Abstract: A user terminal includes a control section that, in a case where a maximum number of secondary cells to which a beam failure recovery is applied is 1 and where a specific secondary cell for an uplink control channel is configured, applies the beam failure recovery to the specific secondary cell, and a transmitting section that transmits, in the beam failure recovery, a beam failure recovery request to one of a plurality of cells. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a BFR procedure can be appropriately executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Matsumura, Satoshi Nagata
  • Publication number: 20240007911
    Abstract: A radio base station (MN) receives the configuration information related to the secondary cell group and executes the conditional adding/modifying procedure of the secondary cell based on the received configuration information. The radio base station receives configuration information including execution condition of a secondary cell group and identification information of a secondary cell from a plurality of secondary nodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventor: Tianyang Min
  • Publication number: 20240008052
    Abstract: A terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a receiving section that receives a medium access control-control element (MAC CE) to activate two transmission configuration indication (TCI) states for one codepoint of a field in downlink control information, and a control section that determines one or more reference signals in a case where a reference signal for beam failure detection (BFD) is not configured, the one or more reference signals being used for BFD. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, it is possible to appropriately determine a BFD RS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Matsumura, Satoshi Nagata, Jing Wang, Lan Chen
  • Patent number: 11862167
    Abstract: A spoken dialogue device includes a recognition unit that recognizes an acquired user speech, a barge-in speech control unit that determines whether to engage a barge-in speech, a dialogue control unit that outputs a system response to a user based on a recognition result of the user speech other than the barge-in speech determined not to be engaged by the barge-in speech control unit, a response generation unit that generates a system speech based on the system response, and an output unit that outputs a system speech. When each user speech element included in the user speech corresponds to a predetermined morpheme included in the immediately previous system speech and does not correspond to a response candidate to the immediately previous system speech by a user, the barge-in speech control unit does not engage at least the user speech element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Mariko Chiba, Taichi Asami
  • Patent number: 11863261
    Abstract: This base station comprises: a control unit that allocates, on the basis of a doppler shift estimated using an uplink reference signal, a downlink reference signal common to a plurality of beams; and a transmission unit that transmits the common downlink reference signal via the plurality of beams. According to this base station communication method, the base station allocates, on the basis of a doppler shift estimated using an uplink reference signal, a downlink reference signal common to a plurality of beams, and transmits the common downlink reference signal via the plurality of beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Nobuhide Nonaka, Tatsuki Okuyama, Satoshi Suyama, Yukihiko Okumura
  • Patent number: 11864237
    Abstract: A terminal includes a receiver configured to receive a Timing Advance command; and a controller configured to control a timer related to uplink time alignment, wherein, in response to receiving the Timing Advance command by the receiver, the controller starts the timer, and wherein, upon receiving, by the receiver, a contention resolution message, the controller stops the timer after a time period from the reception of the contention resolution message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tooru Uchino, Hideaki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11864080
    Abstract: A disclosed user device includes a receiver configured to receive emergency information from a network; and a control unit configured to change a process of detecting whether first emergency information is duplicated with second emergency information upon receiving, by the receiver, the second emergency information after the first emergency information, based on the first emergency information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kenichiro Aoyagi, Atsushi Minokuchi, Hiroshi Ishikawa, Shinya Takeda, Maoki Hikosaka