Patents Assigned to NTT Docomo
  • Patent number: 12278785
    Abstract: A terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a receiving section that performs channel state information (CSI) measurement regarding a plurality of panels; and a control section that determines which results of the CSI measurement related to which panel are to be included in a CSI report. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a panel specific CSI report can be appropriately used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Matsumura, Satoshi Nagata, Weiqi Sun, Shaozhen Guo, Jing Wang, Xiaolin Hou
  • Patent number: 12279270
    Abstract: A user terminal includes a receiving section that receives information indicating a type of a codebook corresponding to each service, and a transmitting section that maps, to the codebook, delivery confirmation information for a downlink shared channel associated with each service and that transmits the codebook. Thus, feedback of an HARQ-ACK can be flexibly controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata, Lihui Wang, Shaozhen Guo, Xiaolin Hou
  • Publication number: 20250117818
    Abstract: A traffic demand prediction device (10) includes: a depot headcount prediction unit (10A) that predicts a number of people per depot in an area from a predicted number of people obtained in advance for each of areas including at least one of a departure area and a return area of visitors to a target event based on at least a numerical value regarding a scale of use of each depot in each area obtained in advance; a route headcount prediction unit (13) that predicts a number of people per route between each depot in an area obtained by a route search algorithm and an event nearest depot from the obtained number of people per depot in the area; and a use headcount prediction unit (14) that predicts a number of users per event nearest depot or per nearest rout based on the obtained number of people per route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2023
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yusuke NAKAMURA, Takashi SUZUKI, Akira YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20250119227
    Abstract: Provided is an optical communication system having an aggregate station at a head and a plurality of extension stations connected in series. Each of the plurality of extension stations demultiplexes a signal received from upstream-side equipment into a first demultiplexed signal having a locally allocated wavelength and a second demultiplexed signal having another wavelength and transmits the second demultiplexed signal to downstream-side equipment. Each of the plurality of extension stations multiplexes a signal received from the downstream-side equipment and a locally processed signal and transmits a multiplexing result to the upstream-side equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Applicants: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kota ITO, Yuta TAKAHASHI, Mizuki SUGA, Takuto ARAI, Yushi SHIRATO, Daisei UCHIDA, Hideki TOSHINAGA, Naoki KITA, Yoshihisa KISHIYAMA, Satoshi SUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20250119902
    Abstract: A terminal includes: a control unit configured to determine whether a field included in control information for performing multi-carrier scheduling is configured for each of carriers to be scheduled or is configured in common for the carriers to be scheduled, based on a condition; and a reception unit configured to receive the control information from a base station. The reception unit receives each of the carriers to be scheduled by the control information, based on the determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroki Harada, Mayuko Okano, Masaya Okamura
  • Publication number: 20250119266
    Abstract: A wireless relay device includes: a communication unit configured to relay a downlink wireless signal or an uplink wireless signal; a reception unit configured to receive information related to a control of relaying of the downlink wireless signal or the uplink wireless signal; and a control unit configured to perform the control of relaying the downlink wireless signal or the uplink wireless signal based on the control information during a period from reception of the received control information or from a start of application of the received control information until after a specified period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Haruhi Echigo, Shohei Yoshioka, Shinya Kumagai, Daisuke Kurita, Yuki Takahashi, Satoshi Nagata
  • Publication number: 20250119256
    Abstract: A terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a receiving section that receives downlink control information including a resource assignment of a physical uplink shared channel and a value of an antenna port indication, and a control section that controls transmission of a demodulation reference signal (DMRS), based on an association between the value, the number of code division multiplexing (CDM) groups, and a DMRS port. The number of the CDM groups for DMRS configuration type 1 is larger than 2, and the number of the CDM groups for DMRS configuration type 2 is larger than 3. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, an appropriate number of DMRS ports can be used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Matsumura, Satoshi Nagata, Jing Wang, Lan Chen
  • Publication number: 20250119927
    Abstract: A terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a receiving section that receives configuration information related to a single frequency network (SFN) physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), and a control section that determines, based on a condition related to offset from reception of downlink control information (DCI) for scheduling the SFN PDSCH until reception of the SFN PDSCH, whether the DCI includes a transmission configuration indication (TCI) field, and the configuration information, a TCI state to be applied to the SEN PDSCH. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, it is possible to appropriately control operation related to a TCI state/default TCI state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Matsumura, Satoshi Nagata
  • Publication number: 20250119854
    Abstract: A terminal comprising: a communication unit configured to perform transmission and reception in a first RAT (Radio Access Technology); and a control unit configured to control communications in the first RAT. The control unit performs a synchronization in the first RAT based on a synchronization in a second RAT.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Shohei Yoshioka, Naoya Shibaike, Satoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 12273922
    Abstract: To actualize proper UL communication in a communication system using a cell where application of listening is defined, a user terminal has a reception section that receives a DL signal including a UL transmission indication, and a control section that controls transmission of UL data based on the UL transmission indication and a channel access procedure before UL transmission, where the control section controls so as to perform a channel access procedure with random back-off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroki Harada, Satoshi Nagata, Lihui Wang, Liu Liu, Huiling Jiang
  • Patent number: 12273749
    Abstract: A terminal includes a receiving section that receives cell-specific or terminal-specific configuration information related to a physical downlink control channel, and a control section that controls, on the basis of the configuration information, a configuration of a search space set to monitor a physical downlink control channel to schedule a physical downlink shared channel associated with a multicast traffic channel. Therefore, it is possible to appropriately control monitoring of a physical downlink control channel to schedule a physical downlink shared channel to transfer multicast data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Shohei Yoshioka, Satoshi Nagata, Lihui Wang, Xiaolin Hou
  • Patent number: 12273755
    Abstract: A user equipment includes a transmitting unit that transmits a measurement result of a secondary cell; a receiving unit that receives a signal to activate the secondary cell; and a control unit that uses previously obtained information of the secondary cell to activate the secondary cell when a predetermined condition associated with a power class of the user equipment is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuichi Kakishima, Takuma Takada, Naoki Fujimura, Hiroki Harada
  • Patent number: 12273160
    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: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Nadisanka Rupasinghe, Yuki Matsumura
  • Patent number: 12273836
    Abstract: A session management apparatus including: a reception unit configured to receive, from a user plane apparatus, time comparison information between a TSN time of a TSN time domain and a 5G time, and identification information of the TSN time domain; and a transmission unit configured to transmit, to a base station apparatus, TSN assistance information determined based on the time comparison information and identification information of a TSN stream for each of one or more TSN streams that belong to the TSN time domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Atsushi Minokuchi, Jari Mutikainen
  • Patent number: 12273158
    Abstract: A terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a control section that determines a quasi-co-located (QCL) parameter for downlink, when spatial relation information and path-loss reference signal information for uplink transmission are not provided and default spatial relation and path-loss reference signal enabling information for the uplink transmission is provided, in a case where a plurality of different TCI states mapped to a transmission configuration indication (TCI) code point are not provided; and a transmitting section that transmits the uplink transmission by using the QCL parameter. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a spatial relation can be appropriately determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Matsumura, Satoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 12273173
    Abstract: A terminal is disclosed including a processor and a transmitter. The processor includes, in a UECapabilityInformation message, information indicating whether transmission diversity is supported on a per-band basis. The transmitter transmits, to a base station, the UECapabilityInformation message including the information indicating whether transmission diversity is supported on the per-band basis. In other aspects, a communication method and a radio communication system are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiromasa Umeda, Hideaki Takahashi, Yuta Oguma
  • Publication number: 20250113379
    Abstract: A terminal includes: a reception unit configured to receive information related to a channel access procedure from a base station; a control unit configured to determine the channel access procedure, based on the information; and a communication unit configured to perform transmission to the base station, based on the determined channel access procedure, wherein the control unit supports a channel access procedure with LBT (Listen before talk), and does not assume that the LBT is to be configured in a licensed band.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2022
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Naoya Shibaike, Hiroki Harada, Satoshi Nagata, Qiping Pi
  • Publication number: 20250111393
    Abstract: A return area prediction device (10) includes a prediction unit (12) that acquires a regression result of prediction of a number of visitors in each return area for a target event from event information of the target event using a regularized regression method, specifies, based on the acquired regression result, a nearest-neighbor cluster closest to the regression result among event group clusters previously clustered, and predicts the number of visitors in each return area for the target event based on at least a position of a center of gravity of the nearest-neighbor cluster.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2023
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yusuke NAKAMURA, Takashi SUZUKI, Akira YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20250112747
    Abstract: A terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a receiving section that receives a reference signal (RS); and a control section that, when a single frequency network (SFN) scheme is configured and at least one of a radio link failure (radio link monitoring (RLM))-RS and a beam failure detection (BFD)-RS is not configured, selects the RS corresponding to a control resource set (CORESET) determined based on a specific rule as at least one of the RLM-RS and the BFD-RS. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, at least one of RLM and BFD can be appropriately performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Matsumura, Satoshi Nagata
  • Publication number: 20250112700
    Abstract: Provided is an optical communication system having an aggregate station at a head and a plurality of extension stations connected in series. The aggregate station outputs a downlink optical signal generated by performing electrical-to-optical (E/O) conversion for a radio signal to the plurality of extension stations and acquires radio signals by performing optical-to-electrical (O/E) conversion for uplink optical signals input from the plurality of extension stations. Each extension station transmits a radio signal obtained by performing O/E conversion for the downlink optical signal received from the aggregate station and transmits an uplink optical signal generated by performing E/O conversion for a received radio signal to the aggregate station. Wavelengths of the uplink optical signal and the downlink optical signal allocated to the plurality of extension stations are the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicants: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kota ITO, Yuta TAKAHASHI, Mizuki SUGA, Takuto ARAI, Yushi SHIRATO, Daisei UCHIDA, Hideki TOSHINAGA, Naoki KITA, Yoshihisa KISHIYAMA, Satoshi SUYAMA