Patents Assigned to SUN PATENT TRUST
  • Patent number: 11129113
    Abstract: A system includes a terminal apparatus and a base station. The base station includes a transmitter which transmits an offset value for controlling a transmission power of a sounding reference signal (SRS) to the terminal apparatus, and a receiver which receives the SRS from the terminal apparatus. The terminal apparatus includes a transmission controller which controls the transmission power of the SRS using the offset value, and a transmitter which transmits the SRS. The offset value is set within one of a first offset setting range having a first lower limit value and a first upper limit value and a second offset setting range having a second lower limit value and a second upper limit value, wherein a difference between the first lower limit value and the second lower limit value is equal to a difference between the first upper limit value and the second upper limit value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Takashi Iwai, Daichi Imamura, Masayuki Hoshino, Akihiko Nishio, Takashi Tamura, Kazuki Takeda
  • Publication number: 20210289228
    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: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicant: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Toshiyasu SUGIO, Takahiro NISHI, Youji SHIBAHARA, Kyoko TANIKAWA, Hisao SASAI, Toru MATSUNOBU
  • Patent number: 11121827
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to avoid ACK/NACK collision in a system in which E-PDCCH control information is transmitted, increase the utilization efficiency of ACK/NACK resources, and suppress unnecessary PUSCH band reduction. A wireless communications terminal having a configuration comprising: a reception unit that receives control signals including ACK/NACK indexes, via an expanded physical downlink control channel; a control unit that determines, on the basis of the ACK/NACK indexes, whether to use a dynamically allocated dynamic ACK/NACK resource or a specified resource specified beforehand, to send downlink data ACK/NACK signals; and a transmission unit that sends the ACK/NACK signals using the dynamic ACK/NACK resource or the specified resource, as determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Toru Oizumi, Ayako Horiuchi, Akihiko Nishio
  • Patent number: 11121849
    Abstract: The invention relates to methods for communicating within a communication system when re-configured from a source to a target uplink/downlink configuration. The invention is also providing mobile station for performing these methods, and computer readable media the instructions of which cause the mobile station to perform the methods described herein. Specifically, the invention suggests to perform PUSCH transmissions in response to Downlink Control Information, DCI, transmissions such that the source uplink/downlink configuration is applied to PUSCH transmissions relating to DCI transmissions received up to and including subframe N?6, a predefined uplink/downlink configuration is applied to PUSCH transmissions relating to DCI transmissions received during subframes N?5 to N?1; and the target uplink/downlink configuration is applied to PUSCH transmissions relating to DCI transmissions received from subframe N onward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Alexander Golitschek Edler von Elbwart, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Lilei Wang
  • Patent number: 11115677
    Abstract: An image coding method includes: deriving a candidate for a motion vector of a current block from a co-located motion vector; adding the candidate to a list; selecting the motion vector of the current block from the list; and coding the current block, wherein the deriving includes: deriving the candidate by a first derivation scheme in the case of determining that each of a current reference picture and a co-located reference picture is a long-term reference picture; and deriving the candidate by a second derivation scheme in the case of determining that each of the current reference picture and the co-located reference picture is a short-term reference picture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUST
    Inventors: Viktor Wahadaniah, Chong Soon Lim, Sue Mon Thet Naing, Hai Wei Sun, Takahiro Nishi, Hisao Sasai, Youji Shibahara, Kyoko Tanikawa, Toshiyasu Sugio, Kengo Terada, Toru Matsunobu
  • Patent number: 11115664
    Abstract: A moving picture coding apparatus, method, and medium for coding a current block are 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 the current block. A first index identifying a reference picture to be selected for coding the current block is coded. A second candidate having a second motion vector that includes a non-zero value is derived. The non-zero value is assigned to the reference picture. A selected candidate is selected from a plurality of candidates, including the first candidate and the second candidate. A second index identifying the selected candidate is coded. The current block is coded using the selected candidate. The second candidate includes the non-zero value of the reference picture, with the reference picture being selected from a plurality of referable reference pictures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUST
    Inventors: Toshiyasu Sugio, Takahiro Nishi, Youji Shibahara, Kyoko Tanikawa, Hisao Sasai, Toru Matsunobu
  • Patent number: 11108448
    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 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUST
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi
  • Patent number: 11109362
    Abstract: The invention relates to the allocation of radio resources by a transmitting user equipment to perform a plurality of direct SL transmissions to one or more receiving user equipments. The allocation of radio resources within a SC period is restricted, for the SC period, by a maximum number of SL processes with which a transmitting user equipment is configured. A plurality of SL grants is acquired. Among the acquired SL grants a number of those SL grants is selected that have most recently been acquired before the start of the subsequent SC period. A plurality of SL processes is associated such that each of the plurality of SL process is associated with a different one of the selected number of SL grants. For each of the plurality of the SL processes, the radio resources are allocated. Each of the plurality of SL transmissions comprises at least one SCI transmission and at least one data transmission over the SL interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Joachim Loehr, Prateek Basu Mallick, Lilei Wang
  • Patent number: 11109063
    Abstract: An image encoding method is used for encoding a current picture on a block-by-block basis and includes: generating a reference picture list by (i) assigning a reference picture index to a reference picture referable for encoding the current picture and (ii) including the reference picture assigned the reference picture index into the reference picture list; and encoding a current block included in the current picture with reference to a reference picture that is specified, from the reference picture list, for encoding the current block, wherein, when a reference picture belonging to a reference view different from a current view to which the current picture belongs has a chance of being referenced for encoding the current picture, the reference picture belonging to the reference view is added to the reference picture list in the generating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUST
    Inventors: Toshiyasu Sugio, Takahiro Nishi, Youji Shibahara, Kyoko Tanikawa, Hisao Sasai, Toru Matsunobu, Kengo Terada
  • Patent number: 11109043
    Abstract: The image decoding method includes: determining a context for use in a current block to be processed, from among a plurality of contexts; and performing arithmetic decoding on a bit sequence corresponding to the current block, using the determined context, wherein in the determining: the context is determined under a condition that control parameters of neighboring blocks of the current block are used, when the signal type is a first type, the neighboring blocks being a left block and an upper block of the current block; and the context is determined under a condition that the control parameter of the upper block is not used, when the signal type is a second type, and the second type is one of “ref_idx_l0” and “ref_idx_l1”.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUST
    Inventors: Hisao Sasai, Takahiro Nishi, Youji Shibahara, Toshiyasu Sugio, Kyoko Tanikawa, Toru Matsunobu
  • Patent number: 11102769
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for receiving control information within a subframe of a multi-carrier communication system supporting carrier aggregation, the method comprising the following steps performed at a receiving node: performing a blind detection for the control information within a search space by means of a first search pattern, wherein the first search pattern is one of a plurality of search patterns, each of the plurality of search patterns comprising a plurality of candidates distributed on any of a plurality of aggregation levels, and wherein the plurality of search patterns further comprises a second search pattern whose candidates are non-overlapping the candidates of the first search pattern on the same aggregation levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Sujuan Feng, Alexander Golitschek Edler von Elbwart, Christian Wengerter, Michael Einhaus
  • Patent number: 11102547
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a transmission method for enabling transmission of content using a broadcast wave and a communication channel includes: transmitting auxiliary information using at least the broadcast wave, the auxiliary information being information for synchronizing content transmission using the broadcast wave and content transmission using the communication channel when the content is transmitted using the broadcast wave and the communication channel, and the auxiliary information causing a reception side to perform the syncronization when the reception side receives the auxiliary information. Therefore, even if timing of starting reception of the content through the communication is delayed, the reception side can play back the content by a combination of the broadcasting and the communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUST
    Inventors: Tadamasa Toma, Noritaka Iguchi, Takahiro Nishi, Hisaya Katou
  • Patent number: 11096084
    Abstract: The present disclosure mainly relates to improvements for the buffer status reporting and the logical channel prioritization procedures performed in the UE, in scenarios where the UE is in dual connectivity and the PDCP layer of the UE is shared in the uplink for MeNB and SeNB. According to the present disclosure, a ratio is introduced according to which the buffer values for the PDCP are split in the UE between the SeNB and the MeNB according to said ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Prateek Basu Mallick, Joachim Loehr, Hidetoshi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11089336
    Abstract: The present invention provides an improved video encoding and decoding method, which maintains the advantages of LCU-based filter parameter signaling as compared to frame-based filter parameter signaling, but considerably reduces signaling overhead. Therefore, signaling syntax is modified by grouping LCUs (Largest Coding Units) together for signaling employing a mapping function. Consequently, filter parameters no longer need to be signaled for each single LCU, but for a group of several LCUs. The syntax structure of the invention avoids redundancies present in the state of the art as far as possible and thus increases the information content of the syntax elements. At the decoder side, the mapping function is applied to infer information about the filter parameters to be applied to a current LCU from information encoded in different syntax structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Semih Esenlik, Matthias Narroschke, Steffen Kamp, Thomas Wedi
  • Patent number: 11089301
    Abstract: A decoding method includes: predicting a current block in an image using a reference block, to generate a prediction block; and generating a reconstructed block using the prediction block, wherein the generating includes: filtering for a boundary between the reconstructed block and a decoded neighboring block, using a first filter strength set using first prediction information for prediction of the current block and second prediction information for prediction of the decoded neighboring block; filtering for the boundary using a second filter strength set without using the second prediction information of the current block and the decoded neighboring block; and switching whether to execute the second filtering, based on the boundary, wherein the first filtering is in-loop filtering in which a filtered reconstructed block is used as a reference block for another block, and the second filtering is post filtering outside the loop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Hisao Sasai, Takahiro Nishi, Youji Shibahara, Toshiyasu Sugio, Kyoko Tanikawa, Toru Matsunobu, Kengo Terada
  • Patent number: 11082100
    Abstract: A signal generation method is used in a transmission device that transmits a plurality of transmission signals from a plurality of antennas at the same frequency and at the same time, in the case where larger power change is performed on a first transmission signal than on a second transmission signal during generation process of the first transmission signal and the second transmission signal, the first transmission signal and the second transmission signal are mapped before the power change such that a minimum Euclidian distance between possible signal points for the first signal is longer than a minimum Euclidian distance between possible signal points for the second signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUST
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi
  • Patent number: 11082852
    Abstract: A technique is disclosed, according to which a mobile node, having a plurality of interfaces and performing communication according to flow information when an operator is performing communication based on the flow information as defined by a policy, can select an interface suitable for the flow and can perform communication. According to this technique, a mobile node (MN 10) having a plurality of interfaces has a list to indicate domain limited flows to be transmitted only within a specific network (a trusted network), and a list to indicate the trusted networks. When a certain interface performs handover, and in case there is a domain limited flow that uses the interface, it is decided whether the network of handover destination is a trusted network or not, and in case the network of the handover destination is not a trusted network, it is decided whether it is possible or not to transmit and receive the domain limited flow via another interface that is connected to the trusted network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Keigo Aso, Jun Hirano, Chan Wah Ng, Pek Yew Tan, Chun Keong Benjamin Lim, Tien Ming Benjamin Koh
  • Patent number: 11076366
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a power control method and a wireless device, in a cluster comprised of wireless devices including a first wireless device and a second wireless device, comprising: receiving power control information including a second data channel transmission power, from the second wireless device; determining a first data channel transmission power based on the second data channel transmission power; and controlling data channel transmission power of the first wireless device according to the first data channel transmission power; wherein, the first data channel transmission power is a power allowing the first wireless device to reach all wireless devices in the cluster, and the second data channel transmission power is a power allowing the second wireless device to reach all wireless devices in the cluster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Lilei Wang, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Masayuki Hoshino
  • Patent number: 11075714
    Abstract: A transmission device that performs multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transmission of transmit data using a plurality of fundamental bands. The transmission device includes an error correction coding unit, a mapping unit, and a MIMO coding unit. The error correction coding unit, for each data block of predefined length, performs error correction coding and thereby generates an error correction coded frame. The mapping unit maps each predefined number of bits in the error correction coded frame to a corresponding symbol and thereby generates an error correction coded block. The MIMO coding unit performs MIMO coding with respect to the error correction coded block. Components of data included in the error correction coded block are allocated to at least two of the fundamental bands and transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUST
    Inventors: Mikihiro Ouchi, Noritaka Iguchi, Tomohiro Kimura
  • Patent number: RE48726
    Abstract: An image decoding method decodes a coded stream which includes processing units and a header of the processing units, and which is generated by coding a moving picture using inter prediction. The processing units includes at least one processing unit divided in a hierarchy, the hierarchy including a highest hierarchical layer in which a coding unit exists as a largest processing unit and a lower hierarchical layer in which a prediction unit exists. The method includes identifying, by parsing hierarchy depth information stored in the header and indicating a hierarchical layer higher than a lowest hierarchical layer in which a smallest prediction unit exits, a hierarchical layer which is indicated by the hierarchy depth information or a hierarchical layer higher than the indicated hierarchical layer. The hierarchical layer includes a prediction unit in which a reference index is stored. The prediction unit is decoded using the reference index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUST
    Inventors: Hisao Sasai, Takahiro Nishi, Youji Shibahara, Chong Soon Lim, Viktor Wahadaniah, Xuan Jing, Sue Mon Thet Naing