Patents Assigned to SUN PATENT TRUST
  • Patent number: 11563474
    Abstract: A transmission method of simultaneously transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal at a common frequency performs precoding on both signals using a fixed precoding matrix and regularly changes the phase of at least one of the signals. One of signal generation processing in which phase change is performed and signal generation processing in which phase change is not performed is selectable, thereby improving general versatility in signal generation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUST
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi
  • Patent number: 11558888
    Abstract: A base station is disclosed, including an information size adjusting section configured to adjust a size of control information based on a first basic information size of control information mapped on a user equipment (UE) specific search space in a first component carrier. The base station also includes a transmitter configured to transmit the control information mapped on the UE specific search space. A first determination method for determining the first basic information size is different from a second determination method for determining a second basic information size of control information mapped on a common search space in the first component carrier. The first determination method for determining the first basic information size is different from a third determination method for determining a third basic information size of control information mapped on a search space in a second component carrier that is different from the first component carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Seigo Nakao, Daichi Imamura, Takahisa Aoyama
  • Patent number: 11553202
    Abstract: Various embodiments for calculating a motion vector predictor for decoding a motion vector of a current block are provided. The motion vector is selected from a candidate list. When a motion vector used for coding a first block spatially adjacent to the current block in a current picture is useable for coding the current block, one or more first candidates is added to the candidate list based on the motion vector used for coding the first block. A second candidate is added to the candidate list based on a motion vector used for coding a second block within a first collocated picture. When a total number of available candidates in the candidate list is less than a predetermined number, a third candidate is added to the candidate list based on a motion vector used for coding a third block within a second collocated picture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUST
    Inventors: Toshiyasu Sugio, Takahiro Nishi, Youji Shibahara, Kyoko Tanikawa, Hisao Sasai, Toru Matsunobu
  • Patent number: 11553533
    Abstract: In order to provide a transmission device and transmission method with which a response signal for random access preamble transmitted from a preamble transmission device is efficiently transmitted, setting unit in base station sets a first resource candidate group, which enables terminal capable of receiving a latch response transmitted by demodulation reference signal (DMRS) transmission to be selected, and a second resource candidate group, which enables terminal incapable of receiving a latch response transmitted by DMRS transmission but capable of receiving a latch response transmitted by cell-specific reference signal (CRS) transmission to be selected. Control unit selects DMRS transmission as the latch response transmission method when a resource in which latch preamble has been received is included in the first candidate group, but selects CRS transmission as the latch response transmission method when the resource is included in the second resource candidate group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Akihiko Nishio, Masayuki Hoshino, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Takashi Iwai
  • Patent number: 11552759
    Abstract: A Method of scrambling reference signals, device and user equipment using the method are provided. In the method, a plurality of layers of reference signals assigned on predetermined radio resource of a plurality of layers of resource blocks with the same time and frequency resources are scrambled, the method comprising: an orthogonalizing step of multiplying each layer of reference signal selectively by one of a plurality of orthogonal cover codes (OCCs) with the same length wherein the OCC multiplied to a first layer of reference signal can be configured as different from those multiplied to other layers of reference signals; and a scrambling step of multiplying all of symbols obtained from the OCC multiplied to each of the other layers of reference signals by a symbol-common scrambling sequence wherein the symbol-common scrambling sequences can be different from each other for reference signals multiplied by the same OCC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Hui Tong, Masayuki Hoshino, Ming Xu, Daichi Imamura
  • Patent number: 11546606
    Abstract: A video encoding method of performing scalable encoding on input video includes: determining a total number of layers of the scalable encoding to be less than or equal to a maximum layer count determined according to a frame rate; and performing the scalable encoding on the input video to generate a bitstream, using the determined total number of layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUST
    Inventors: Kengo Terada, Takahiro Nishi, Hisao Sasai, Satoshi Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 11540161
    Abstract: In a wireless communication terminal in a wireless communication system for performing a control not to transmit signals, or to transmit signals with a reduction in a transmission power by a part of radio resources for a downlink signal in a cell provided by a base station, the terminal receives control information in generating a report related to a measurement result of the cell provided by the base station, monitors a state of a radio link with an own cell, and performs measurement on reception of the downlink signal. If an instruction for restricting the measurement to a part of the radio resources is included in the control information from the base station after the radio link failure occurs, the terminal generates and transmits a radio link failure report including the measurement result in the radio resources as instructed when the radio link failure occurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Takashi Tamura, Takahisa Aoyama, Hidenori Matsuo
  • Patent number: 11539408
    Abstract: A transmission method simultaneously transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal at a common frequency performs precoding on both signals using a fixed precoding matrix and regularly changes the phase of at least one of the signals, thereby improving received data signal quality for a reception device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUST
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi
  • Patent number: 11533488
    Abstract: An image coding method includes: writing, into a sequence parameter set, buffer description defining information for defining a plurality of buffer descriptions; writing, into the sequence parameter set, reference list description defining information for defining a plurality of reference list descriptions corresponding to the buffer descriptions; and writing, into a first header of each processing unit which is included in a coded bitstream, buffer description selecting information for specifying a selected buffer description.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUST
    Inventors: Viktor Wahadaniah, Chong Soon Lim, Sue Mon Thet Naing, Hai Wei Sun, Takahiro Nishi, Hisao Sasai, Youji Shibahara, Toshiyasu Sugio, Kyoko Tanikawa, Toru Matsunobu, Kengo Terada
  • Patent number: 11533147
    Abstract: This invention is directed to a terminal apparatus capable of preventing the degradation of reception quality of control information even in a case of employing SU-MIMO transmission system. A terminal, which uses a plurality of different layers to transmit two code words in which control information is placed, comprises: a resource amount determining unit that determines, based on a lower one of the encoding rates of the two code words or based on the average value of the reciprocals of the encoding rates of the two code words, resource amounts of control information in the respective ones of the plurality of layers; and a transport signal forming unit that places, in the two code words, the control information modulated by use of the resource amounts, thereby forming a transport signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Ogawa, Akihiko Nishio, Seigo Nakao
  • Patent number: 11528698
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for allocating radio resources to a transmitting terminal for performing direct communication transmission over a direct link connection. The transmitting terminal receives a system information broadcast from the base station, which comprises information on a temporary transmission radio resource pool, indicating radio resources for performing a direct communication transmission, and comprises configuration information on the resource pool to limit the amount of time that the temporary radio resource pool is usable by the transmitting terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Prateek Basu Mallick, Joachim Loehr, Lilei Wang, Sujuan Feng
  • Patent number: 11528738
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for dynamically indicating a TDD reconfiguration to the mobile station by encoding the dynamic TDD re-configuration indication into the DCI or CRC calculated for the DCI. In one embodiment, the TDD configuration indication is implicitly encoded as an RNTI into the CRC, when scrambling the CRC for the DCI with a TDD-RNTI. In another embodiment, the TDD configuration indication is part of the DCI payload, while the CRC for the DCI is scrambled with a cell identifier, identifying the target cell for which the dynamic TDD re-configuration is to be applied. In still another embodiment, the TDD configuration indication is part of the DCI payload, where the DCI payload further includes an invalid parameter indicating to the mobile station that the DCI carries the TDD configuration indication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Alexander Golitschek Edler von Elbwart, Joachim Loehr, Michael Einhaus, Sujuan Feng, Lilei Wang, Toru Oizumi
  • Patent number: 11523337
    Abstract: The transmission of a reference signal, such as a CSI-RS, is enabled while maintaining a power saving effect when performing inter-cell cooperative transmission/reception or the like in a plurality of cells. In order to realize inter-cell cooperative transmission/reception, a CSI-RS which is used for estimating the state of a spatial propagation path of a communication line is generated by a CSI-RS generation unit, and the CSI-RS is disposed in a predetermined subframe by a disposition unit and transmitted. At this time, when a frame has ten subframes #0 to #9, the CSI-RS is disposed in the subframes #4 and #9, which are subframes excluding the subframes #0 and #5 incapable of transmitting a CSI-RS and are subframes other than subframes capable of acting as MBSFN subframes when discontinuous communication (Extended Cell DTX) is performed so as to achieve power saving, and transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUST
    Inventors: Atsushi Sumasu, Daichi Imamura, Ayako Horiuchi, Yasuaki Yuda
  • Patent number: 11523122
    Abstract: A method of encoding an image into a coded image, the method comprising: writing a quantization offset parameter into the coded image, determining a prediction mode type for coding a block of image samples of the image into a coding unit of the coded image, determining a quantization parameter for the block of image samples, and determining if the prediction mode type is of a predetermined type, wherein if the prediction mode type is of the predetermined type, the method further comprises: modifying the determined quantization parameter using the quantization offset parameter, and performing a quantization process for the block of image samples using the modified quantization parameter, and wherein if the prediction mode type is not of the predetermined type, the method further comprises: performing a quantization process for the block of image samples using the determined quantization parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUST
    Inventors: Chong Soon Lim, Viktor Wahadaniah, Sue Mon Thet Naing, Hisao Sasai, Takahiro Nishi, Youji Shibahara, Toshiyasu Sugio
  • Patent number: 11516774
    Abstract: Provided are wireless communication methods for D2D communication and UEs therefor. A wireless communication method involves transmitting either a first DCI or a second DCI based on whether a first UE and a second UE are to be in a communication type of groupcast or unicast. In the wireless communication methods, the first DCI and the second DCI are scrambled by the UE ID of the second UE if the first UE and the second UE are in the communication type of unicast upon transmitting the first DCI and the second DCI, and the first DCI and the second DCI are scrambled by the group ID if the first UE and the second UE are in the communication type of groupcast upon transmitting the first DCI and the second DCI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Lilei Wang, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Yoshihiko Ogawa, Masayuki Hoshino
  • Patent number: 11509928
    Abstract: A moving for transmitting a bitstream via network is provided. A first candidate is derived from a first motion vector that has been used to decode a first block. The first block is adjacent to a current block. A second candidate having a second motion vector that is a non-zero value vector based on an X-Y axis of a fixed offset value is derived. The second motion vector is not derived by decoding a block adjacent to the current block and the fixed offset value is a non-zero value. An index to select a candidate used for coding the current block from a plurality of candidates, including the first candidate and the second candidate, is determined. The current block is coded by including the determined index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUST
    Inventors: Toshiyasu Sugio, Takahiro Nishi, Youji Shibahara, Kyoko Tanikawa, Hisao Sasai, Toru Matsunobu
  • Patent number: 11503584
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a communication method, base station and user equipment for configuring a parameter table in a wireless communication system including a base station and a user equipment, the communication method comprising: defining at both the base station and the user equipment a parameter table which includes whole entries of a legacy parameter table and extended entries; and transmitting from the base station to the user equipment a bitmap indication which indicates a sub-table selected from the parameter table, wherein the number of the entries in the sub-table is the same as in the legacy parameter table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Lilei Wang, Ming Xu, Masayuki Hoshino, Akihiko Nishio
  • Patent number: 11503576
    Abstract: When downlink data allocation is indicated in an ePDCCH, this terminal device can determine PUCCH resources to be used in notification of response signals indicating results of error detection of downlink data without imposing scheduling restrictions on future DL subframes. In this device, an extraction unit receives downlink data on multiple unit bands. A CRC unit detects errors in the downlink data. A response signal generation unit generates a response signal by using the results of error detection of the downlink data obtained by the CRC unit. The control unit arranges the response signal in the PUCCH resources corresponding to the current DL subframe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Toru Oizumi, Ayako Horiuchi, Kazuki Takeda, Akihiko Nishio
  • Patent number: 11496762
    Abstract: With an image coding method which allows reduction of processing loads, when pictures included in a video signal are classified into layers so as to belong to their respective layers, a picture that belongs to the second layer that is located in a range restricted according to the first layer to which a current picture to be coded that is one of the pictures belongs, is referred to as a reference picture for the current picture, and the current picture is coded based on the reference picture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Takahiro Nishi, Youji Shibahara, Hisao Sasai, Toshiyasu Sugio
  • Patent number: 11496973
    Abstract: A radio communication apparatus is provided, which includes a receiver and a controller. The receiver, in operation, receives a first power headroom (PHR), which is obtained by subtracting a transmit power for a data channel from a maximum transmit power at a mobile station and which is transmitted from the mobile station, and receives a second PHR, which is obtained by subtracting the transmit power for the data channel and a transmit power for a control channel from the maximum transmit power at the mobile station and which is transmitted from the mobile station. The controller, in operation, selectively sets a simultaneous transmission of the data channel and the control channel in different frequency bands to be performed by the mobile station. When the data channel and the control channel are simultaneously transmitted in different frequency bands from the mobile station, the second PHR is obtained and transmitted from the mobile station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Takashi Iwai, Akihiko Nishio, Daichi Imamura, Yoshihiko Ogawa, Atsushi Matsumoto