Patents Assigned to NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20230397226
    Abstract: A terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a receiving section that receives DCI based on a specific assumption regarding a size of a sounding reference signal resource indicator (SRI) field of the DCI scheduling a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) when a control resource set (CORESET) pool index is configured to at least one CORESET, and a control section that determines spatial relation information for the PUSCH based on at least one of the SRI field and a CORESET pool index of a CORESET in which the DCI is detected. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, UL transmission can be appropriately controlled even in a case where multi-TRPs are used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Matsumura, Satoshi Nagata, Weiqi Sun, Jing Wang
  • Publication number: 20230395265
    Abstract: A blood information estimating apparatus that determines a blood status such as a blood pressure of a user is provided. The blood information estimating apparatus 100 includes a data acquiring function 41 serving as a log acquiring unit that acquires a terminal use log of a user terminal such as a mobile terminal and a hypertension detecting function serving as an estimation unit that estimates blood information on change of a blood status based on the terminal use log. The blood information estimating apparatus 100 includes a hypertension detection model that outputs blood information based on the terminal use log. The hypertension detecting function 45 estimates the blood information using the hypertension detection model. With this configuration, it is possible to estimate a blood status of a user without imposing a burden on the user. Accordingly, it is possible to simply estimate a status such as masked hypertension.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuuki IKEZOE, Takafumi YAMAUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230397057
    Abstract: A terminal includes: a reception unit that receives a first message requesting a configuration of a specific secondary cell configured with a physical uplink control channel; and a control unit that configures the specific secondary cell in response to the reception of the first message; wherein the control unit performs an activation of the specific secondary cell so as not to exceed a first request delay time in a first procedure for performing the activation of the specific secondary cell in response to receiving a second message requesting the activation of the specific secondary cell, and performs the activation of the specific secondary cell so as not to exceed a second request delay time in a second procedure for performing the activation of the specific secondary cell without depending on the second message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hidekazu Shimodaira, Tomoki Yokokawa
  • Publication number: 20230397121
    Abstract: A terminal according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: a receiving section that receives information of a plurality of power control parameters corresponding to one code point of a sounding reference signal resource indicator (SRI) field; and a control section that determines transmit power for an uplink shared channel (Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH)) by using one of the plurality of power control parameters selected based on a value of the SRI field of downlink control information (DCI) for scheduling the PUSCH. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, UL transmission can be appropriately controlled even in a case where multi-TRPs are used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Matsumura, Satoshi Nagata, Weiqi Sun, Jing Wang, Lan Chen
  • Publication number: 20230397214
    Abstract: A terminal comprises: a control unit that multiplexes two or more uplink control information having mutually different priorities on an uplink control channel; and a communication unit that transmits an uplink signal using the uplink control channel on which the two or more uplink control information are multiplexed; wherein the control unit determines a number of resource blocks related to the uplink control channel in a separate coding of the two or more uplink control information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Takahashi, Satoshi Nagata, Qiping Pi, Jing Wang, Lan Chen
  • Patent number: 11836978
    Abstract: A related information output apparatus 1 includes an acquisition unit 10 that acquires a captured image, a recognition unit 12 that recognizes one or more objects included in the captured image acquired by the acquisition unit 10, and an output unit 13 that outputs related information related to the objects recognized by the recognition unit 12. The output unit 13 may output the related information based on a combination of a plurality of the objects recognized by the recognition unit 12.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yoonok Heo, Kevin Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11838941
    Abstract: A terminal is disclosed that includes a receiver that receives a first downlink control information for scheduling a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission, and a second downlink control information for notifying a time region and a frequency region in which the PUSCH is not to be transmitted. The terminal further includes a processor that supports reception of the second downlink control information in a slot that is shorter than a slot for transmitting the PUSCH. In other aspects, a radio communication method and a base station are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata, Qun Zhao, Xiaohang Chen, Lihui Wang
  • Patent number: 11838933
    Abstract: The present invention is designed to appropriately select PUCCH resources used to transmit HARQ-ACK. According to one aspect of the present invention, a user terminal has a control section that monitors candidate resources of one or more downlink (DL) control channels (DL) transmitted in multiple different time and/or frequency resources, and detects one or more downlink control information (DCI), and a transmission section that transmits delivery acknowledgment information in response to a downlink (DL) data channel by using an uplink (UL) control channel, and the control section selects resources for the UL control channel based on the DCI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata, Qin Mu, Liu Liu, Chongning Na, Xin Wang, Jing Wang, Lihui Wang, Min Liu, Huiling Jiang
  • Publication number: 20230389082
    Abstract: A terminal includes: a transmission unit that transmits a random access preamble as the first message in a random access channel procedure; and a reception unit that receives a response message to the first message as the second message in the random access channel procedure; wherein the transmission unit transmits a third message via a physical uplink shared channel in the random access channel procedure, after receiving the second message, and the transmission unit performs a repetitive transmission of the third message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Haruhi Echigo, Daisuke Kurita, Hiroki Harada
  • Publication number: 20230389038
    Abstract: A terminal according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a receiving section that receives TCI state information indicating a plurality of transmission configuration indication (TCI) states applicable to a plurality of kinds of channels and receives downlink control information indicating resources of one or more channels, and a control section that determines a first TCI state applied to a signal after the one or more channels and determines a second TCI state applied to the one or more channels, on the basis of the TCI state information and the downlink control information. According to an aspect of the present disclosure, the information related to QCL can be appropriately determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Matsumura, Satoshi Nagata, Jing Wang, Weiqi Sun
  • Publication number: 20230388932
    Abstract: A radio communication node (100 B) receives a plurality of control parameters of transmission power of a radio signal to an upper node, and controls transmission power by using any of the control parameters based on a transmission/reception pattern of the radio signal with a child node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Daisuke Kurita, Hiroki Harada, Weiqi Sun, Jing Wang, Lan Chen
  • Publication number: 20230388820
    Abstract: A terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a receiving section that receives one or more beam failure detection reference signals (BFD-RSs) corresponding to a plurality of transmission/reception points, and a control section that, when radio link quality of at least part of configured BFD-RSs is less than a threshold value, controls beam failure recovery procedure in units of one transmission/reception point or in units of a transmission/reception point set including a plurality of transmission/reception points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Matsumura, Satoshi Nagata, Jing Wang, Lan Chen
  • Publication number: 20230388806
    Abstract: A channel access procedure is executed in a second frequency band different from the first frequency band. A radio base station executes a channel access procedure using a single directional reception beam, and transmits a single synchronization signal block in a channel occupancy time after the channel access procedure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroki Harada, Shinya Kumagai, Naoya Shibaike, Mayuko Okano
  • Patent number: 11832114
    Abstract: The present invention is designed to reduce the time it takes to form adequate beams, in communication using beamforming. According to one aspect of the present invention, a user terminal has a receiving section that, using temporally orthogonal radio resources, forms receiving beams and receives reference signals that are transmitted in different transmitting beams respectively, a measurement section that performs measurements based on the reference signals, and a control section that controls the forming of the receiving beams so that at least one of the reference signal is received in a given period set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Hiroki Harada, Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Satoshi Nagata, Yousuke Sano
  • Patent number: 11832278
    Abstract: A terminal is disclosed including a receiver that receives a synchronization signal block comprising a broadcast channel comprising given information, provided by higher layer signaling, regarding a control resource set for a control channel; and a processor that determines an offset in a frequency direction with respect to a synchronization signal block including the broadcast channel and the control resource set, wherein the offset is based on the given information. In other aspects, a radio communication method, a base station, and a system are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroki Harada, Kazuki Takeda, Daisuke Murayama, Satoshi Nagata
  • Publication number: 20230379663
    Abstract: A population estimation server 10 according to an embodiment includes a signal acquisition unit 11 that acquires a location registration signal periodically transmitted from a mobile terminal 20 carried by a user, and an estimation unit 12 that aggregates the acquired location registration signals for each area and for each estimation-unit-period and estimates a population for each area and for each estimation-unit-period based on an aggregation result. When an absent period in which the signal from the mobile terminal 20 staying in a target area is not acquired occurs after the location registration signal from the mobile terminal 20 is acquired, the estimation unit 12 interpolates a pseudo signal associated with the mobile terminal 20 in the absent period, and aggregates signals while excluding a location registration signal first transmitted from the mobile terminal after the absent period from an aggregation target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2021
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Satoshi KAWASAKI, Shin ISHIGURO
  • Publication number: 20230379936
    Abstract: A terminal according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a receiving section that receives TCI state information indicating a plurality of transmission configuration indication (TCI) states applicable to a plurality of kinds of channels and receives downlink control information, and a control section that determines one of the plurality of TCI states on the basis of the downlink control information and does not use the downlink control information for scheduling a channel. According to an aspect of the present disclosure, the information related to QCL can be appropriately determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Matsumura, Satoshi Nagata, Jing Wang, Weiqi Sun
  • Publication number: 20230379898
    Abstract: A terminal includes a receiver configured to receive data according to SPS (Semi Persistent Scheduling); a controller configured to postpone transmission of a first channel for transmitting feedback information with respect to the data until a valid uplink resource is determined, and determine a resource for transmitting the first channel in a case where the postponed first channel is overlapped in a time domain with a second channel, the second channel being another uplink channel; and a transmitter configured to transmit the feedback information to a base station in the determined resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Shinya Kumagai, Satoshi Nagata, Lan Chen, Jing Wang, Qiping Pi
  • Publication number: 20230379932
    Abstract: A terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a receiving section that receives first downlink control information indicating a transmission configuration indication (TCI) state applicable to multiple types of channels, and a control section that applies the TCI state to the multiple types of channels after timing at which specific time passes from an end of operation for any one of transmission of an uplink channel based on the first downlink control information and reception of second downlink control information after the first downlink control information. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, it is possible to appropriately determine information related to QCL.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Matsumura, Satoshi Nagata, Jing Wang, Weiqi Sun
  • Publication number: 20230379902
    Abstract: A terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a receiving section that receives a TCI list indicating a plurality of transmission configuration indication (TCI) states applicable to multiple types of channels, that receives an update list indicating a plurality of serving cells, and that receives indication information to indicate one or more TCI states out of the plurality of TCI states in one of the plurality of serving cells, and a control section that applies the one or more TCI states to the multiple types of channels in the plurality of serving cells. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, it is possible to appropriately determine information related to QCL.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Matsumura, Satoshi Nagata