Patents Assigned to NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20240057133
    Abstract: A terminal includes: a reception unit configured to receive a sidelink signal from a terminal that autonomously selects a resource; and a transmission unit configured to transmit information based on the sidelink signal to a base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Shohei Yoshioka, Satoshi Nagata
  • Publication number: 20240057061
    Abstract: A terminal includes: a control unit configured to select a resource used for sidelink transmission; a transmission unit configured to report information indicating the selected resource to a base station; and a reception unit configured to receive, from the base station, information indicating approval or disapproval for using the selected resource. The transmission unit performs transmission to another terminal using the selected resource in a case where the reception unit receives approval for using the selected resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Shohei Yoshioka, Satoshi Nagata
  • Publication number: 20240056131
    Abstract: A terminal according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: a receiving section that receives information related to schedule; a transmitting section that transmits, to another terminal, information related to part of UL data, the part of the UL data being obtained by dividing the UL data in at least one of a unit of transport block, a unit of codeword, a unit of code block, and a unit of bit; and a control section that performs control to transmit the UL data in cooperation with the another terminal, based on the information related to the schedule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Matsumura, Satoshi Nagata, Naoya Shibaike, Haruhi Echigo
  • Publication number: 20240057088
    Abstract: A terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a receiving section that receives a configuration of a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource for transmission of hybrid automatic repeat reQuest acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) information for a multicast physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH); and a control section that controls transmission of the HARQ-ACK information using the PUCCH resource. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, it is possible to appropriately receive multicast downlink data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Matsumura, Shohei Yoshioka, Satoshi Nagata
  • Publication number: 20240057175
    Abstract: A terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a receiving section that receives configuration information related to channel occupancy time (COT) in a semistatic channel access procedure and configuration information related to a physical random access channel (PRACH), via higher layer signaling, and a control section that controls initiation of the COT, based on the configuration information related to the COT, and controls PRACH transmission in a PRACH transmission opportunity in the COT, based on the configuration information related to the PRACH. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, radio communication in an NR-U system can be appropriately controlled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Shinya Kumagai, Satoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 11902987
    Abstract: A radio node includes: a reception section that receives information used for initial access to another radio node in a first cell; and a control section that controls the initial access based on the information. The control section controls reception of the information based on a period equal to or longer than a period defined for a user terminal in a second cell with respect to transmission of the information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroki Harada, Tomoya Ohara
  • Patent number: 11903055
    Abstract: The user equipment comprises a reception unit configured to receive allocation information of reference signals from a base station apparatus or a first user equipment, the reference signals being used in a device-to-device direct communication; a control unit for determining a device-to-device direct communication signal based on the allocation information of reference signals used in the device-to-device direct communication; and a transmitter configured to transmit the determined device-to-device direct communication signal to a second user equipment, wherein the allocation information of reference signals used in the device-to-device direct communication includes a transmission density of the reference signals used in the device-to-device direct communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Ryosuke Osawa, Yuichi Kakishima, Satoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 11902958
    Abstract: A terminal is disclosed communicating using a first carrier performing at least Downlink (DL) transmission and a second carrier performing only Uplink (UL) transmission. The terminal includes a receiver that receives an indication regarding a UL, the indication included in downlink control information (DCI) that is reported from the first carrier and a processor that transmits a UL signal using the UL based on the indication. In other aspects, a radio communication method, a base station, and a system are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Takeda, Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata
  • 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
  • Patent number: 11902069
    Abstract: A terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a control section that assumes that a frequency domain orthogonal cover code (FD-OCC) having a sequence length of a number larger than two is applied to a demodulation reference signal mapped to a pair of resource elements the number of which is greater than two and that are being different in frequency; and a transmitting/receiving section that performs transmission processing or reception processing of the demodulation reference signal, based on the FD-OCC. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, even when there are terminals according to different releases, each of the terminals can appropriately perform communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Matsumura, Yuichi Kakishima, Satoshi Nagata
  • Publication number: 20240049191
    Abstract: A terminal comprises: a reception unit that receives a first control information by a first control channel on a first carrier and a second control information by a second control channel on a second carrier; and a control unit that controls a reception of the second control channel based on the first control information, and controls a communication of data based on the second control information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2020
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Takahashi, Shohei Yoshioka, Masaya Okamura, Shinya Kumagai, Satoshi Nagata
  • Publication number: 20240048127
    Abstract: An analysis device includes: an estimation unit that obtains a current state variable by state estimation based on a state variable for first sequence data generated by applying a first conversion to observation data, a state space model, and each element included in the first sequence data; an observation unit that generates second sequence data by applying an observation process to the current state variable; an elaboration unit that generates third sequence data by performing an elaboration process of correcting each element included in the second sequence data so that a value of each cell of the estimated observation data does not become a negative value and the number of cells having a value other than 0 included in the estimated observation data is suppressed; and a second conversion unit that generates the estimated observation data by applying a second conversion to the third sequence data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroto AKATSUKA, Masayuki TERADA
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20240049195
    Abstract: A terminal includes: a reception unit configured to receive a block including a synchronization signal and a broadcast channel, a control channel carrying control information, and a shared channel carrying system information by applying single beamforming; and a control unit configured to perform an initial access, based on the system information. The block and one or both of the control channel and the shared channel are frequency-multiplexed, and the control channel and the shared channel are time-multiplexed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Naoya Shibaike, Mayuko Okano, Hiroki Harada, Jing Wang, Qiping PI
  • Publication number: 20240048964
    Abstract: A base station is disclosed that includes a transmitting and receiving circuit that transmits an RLM reference signal (RLM-RS) to a terminal. In Frequency Range 1 (FR1), when the RLM-RS is a synchronization signal block (SSB) and the terminal does not have a capability of simultaneous transmission or reception of data and an SSB with different numerologies, the transmitting and receiving circuit does not transmit or receive data on symbols of the RLM-RS, the data being with a different subcarrier spacing (SCS) than an SCS of the RLM-RS. In Frequency Range 2 (FR2), if the RLM-RS is a quasi-co-located reference signal with active transmission configuration indicator state (TCI-state), then the transmitting and receiving circuit can transmit or receive data on symbols of the RLM-RS. In other aspects, a radio communication method and a system are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventor: Hiroki Harada
  • Patent number: 11895576
    Abstract: An NSSF (69) includes: a selection unit selecting a slice corresponding to a service related to a request from a terminal (10) and a target processing server corresponding to the slice based on slice correspondence information including information where a slice, a processing server corresponding to the slice, and a service used by a terminal are associated with one another; and a notification unit notifying an AMF (30) of selection result including information regarding the slice and target processing server. The AMF includes: a determination processing unit determining whether the AMF is a target processing server based on information on the target processing server in the selection result information, and performing processing for a service when the AMF is the target processing server, or transferring a request for processing for a service to the target processing server when the AMF is not the target processing server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Takuya Shimojou, Atsushi Minokuchi, Ashiq Khan, Srisakul Thakolsri, Malla Reddy Sama, Joan Triay Marques, Irfan Ali
  • Patent number: 11891176
    Abstract: Recovery of a flying vehicle that has fallen to the ground is facilitated. A positioning unit measures a position of the flying vehicle during flight. A specification unit specifies a feature of a region on the ground corresponding to the measured position. A determination unit determines a sending interval of position information indicating the position of the flying vehicle, according to the specified feature. A sending unit sends the position information at the determined sending interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Naoki Kameyama, Tomoe Ushiro, Youhei Oono, Yuichiro Segawa
  • Patent number: 11895523
    Abstract: A user apparatus includes a communication unit configured to communicate with a first base station apparatus and a second base station apparatus, wherein the first base station apparatus is a master node in a New Radio (NR) radio communication system and the second base station apparatus is a secondary node in the NR radio communication system; a reception unit configured to receive from the first base station apparatus an instruction to measure a system frame number and frame timing difference (SFTD) representing a system frame number and frame timing difference between cells; a control unit configured to measure SFTD between a cell of the first base station apparatus and a cell of the second base station apparatus based on the instruction to measure SFTD; and a transmission unit configured to transmit to the first base station apparatus a measurement result including the measured SFTD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hideaki Takahashi, Tianyang Min, Tooru Uchino
  • Patent number: 11895656
    Abstract: The present invention is designed so that, even when a sequence-based uplink control channel is used, uplink control information is reported appropriately. A user terminal according to one aspect of the present invention has a control section that determines to use one or both of a short uplink control channel, which is transmitted in a short period, and a long uplink control channel, which is transmitted in a longer period than the short uplink control channel, based on certain information, and a transmission section that transmits the uplink control information using the determined uplink control channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Matsumura, Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata