Patents by Inventor Akihiko Nishio
Akihiko Nishio has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20240146434Abstract: Provided are a wireless communication apparatus and a reference signal generating method, wherein inter-cell interference is reduced inside and outside a CoMP set. A CoMP mode setting unit (101) sets whether the terminal (100) thereof is a CoMP terminal or a Non-CoMP terminal. When the terminal (100) is set as a Non-CoMP terminal, the hopping pattern calculating unit (104) calculates a ZC sequence number to be used as the transmission timing, from among all the ZC sequence numbers that can be used within the system. When the terminal (100) is set as a CoMP terminal, the hopping pattern calculating unit (104) calculates a ZC sequence number to be used as the transmission timing, by hopping the ZC sequence numbers to be used within the CoMP set. A ZC sequence generating unit (105) generates a ZC sequence to be used as an SRS, using the calculated ZC sequence number.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2024Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Takashi IWAI, Daichi IMAMURA, Akihiko NISHIO, Yoshihiko OGAWA, Masaru FUKUOKA
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Patent number: 11963141Abstract: Method of scrambling signals, transmission point device, and user equipment using the method are provided. The method includes: sending an ID table to a user equipment through higher layer signaling, the ID table being a subset of the whole ID space and containing available IDs for the user equipment; notifying the user equipment an ID in the ID table to be used through physical layer signaling or UE specific higher layer signaling; generating a random seed based on the notified ID; initializing a scrambling sequence by the random seed; and scrambling the signals with the initialized scrambling sequence. The method of the disclosure, by combining physical layer signaling and higher layer signaling, may notify the used group ID and the blind detection space to a UE, wherein the blind detection for the UE is enabled and the signaling overhead is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2023Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUSTInventors: Zhi Zhang, Ming Xu, Masayuki Hoshino, Daichi Imamura, Akihiko Nishio
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Patent number: 11963196Abstract: This invention concerns concepts for signaling resource allocation information to a terminal that indicates to the terminal assigned resources for the terminal. The terminal can receives downlink control information (DCI), which comprises a field for indicating the resource allocation information of the terminal. This resource assignment field within the DCI has a predetermined number of bits. The terminal can determines its assigned resource allocation information from the content of the received DCI, even though the bit size of the resource allocation field in the received DCI is insufficient to represent all allowed resource allocations. According to an embodiment, the received bits that are signaled to the terminal in the DCI represent predetermined bits of the resource allocation information. All remaining one or more bits of the resource allocation information that are not included in the field of the received DCI are set to predetermined value.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2023Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Sun Patent TrustInventors: Alexander Golitschek Edler von Elbwart, Akihiko Nishio
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Patent number: 11963177Abstract: Provided are a communication device and an SRS transmission method capable of reducing the possibility of a difference in recognition between the presence or absence of an SRS transmission between a base station and a terminal or of an SRS resource so as to prevent degradation of system throughput. At a terminal (200), a reception processing unit (203) detects control information indicating whether or not to request transmission of a sounding reference signal (SRS), whereupon a transmission signal forming unit (207) transmits an A-SRS by way of control by a transmission control unit (206) on the basis of control information. The transmission control unit (206) determines whether or not to execute SRS transmission on the basis of an “SRS Transmission Execution Rule” and the reception status of trigger information.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2023Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Sun Patent TrustInventors: Akihiko Nishio, Daichi Imamura
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Publication number: 20240121783Abstract: An integrated circuit includes receiving circuitry and transmitting circuitry. The receiving circuitry, in operation, controls reception of a downlink control information on one or more consecutive control channel elements (CCEs) in a search space, and controls reception of downlink data on a downlink resource that is indicated by the downlink control information, the search space being comprised of a plurality of CCEs that includes the one or more consecutive CCEs, and the plurality of CCEs starting on a CCE that is determined from both a number of the one or more consecutive CCEs, and a total number of CCEs configured in a subframe. The transmitting circuitry, in operation, controls transmission of uplink control information on an uplink resource, which is associated with a CCE index of a first CCE of the one or more consecutive CCEs.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Akihiko NISHIO, Seigo NAKAO
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Publication number: 20240113819Abstract: Provided is a terminal including a receiver, which, in operation, receives a Channel State Information Reference Signal (CSI-RS) candidate list for CSI-RS configuration information. The CSI-RS candidate list is indicated as Radio Resource Control (RRC) control information for respective terminals. The terminal further includes circuitry, which, in operation, specifies at least one CSI-RS resource information of a measurement target based on the CSI-RS candidate list, and measures a reception power using the specified CSI-RS resource information. The terminal also includes a transmitter, which, in operation, reports the result of the reception power measurement. A reception power measurement method is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Akihiko NISHIO, Hidetoshi SUZUKI, Masayuki HOSHINO, Hidenori MATSUO, Takashi TAMURA
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Patent number: 11949624Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 11, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Sun Patent TrustInventors: Yoshihiko Ogawa, Akihiko Nishio, Seigo Nakao
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Patent number: 11949626Abstract: The present disclosure provides a terminal device that allows constraints on user allocation to be prevented and spread codes to be allocated in a scheduler when non-adaptive HARQ is employed using a PHICH. A codeword generator generates code words by encoding data, a layer mapping unit places each CW in one or a plurality of layers, a DMRS generator generates a reference signal for each layer in which a CW is placed by using any resource among a plurality of resources defined by a mutually orthogonal plurality of OCCs, and an ACK/NACK demodulator receives a response signal indicating a retransmission request. When a response signal requesting retransmission of only a CW placed in a plurality of layers is received, the DMRS generator uses each resource having the same OCC among the plurality of resources for the reference signals generated in the corresponding layers.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2023Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Sun Patent TrustInventors: Masayuki Hoshino, Akihiko Nishio, Daichi Imamura
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Publication number: 20240105970Abstract: A hydrogen production supply system that produces hydrogen gas to be supplied to a hydrogen storage tank, the hydrogen production supply system including a control circuit configured to control an operation load ratio of the hydrogen production apparatus to a predetermined operation load ratio, to increase the operation load ratio of the hydrogen production apparatus to a first operation load ratio larger than the predetermined operation load ratio at first timing, and to decrease the operation load ratio of the hydrogen production apparatus to the predetermined operation load ratio from the first load operation ratio at second timing, wherein an increase in the operation load ratio at the first timing takes precedence over a decrease in the operation load ratio at the second timing.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: ENEOS CORPORATIONInventors: Akihiko FUKUNAGA, Toshio TEZUKA, Tadashi SEIKE, Hirofumi NISHIO, Daisaku TATEISHI
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Publication number: 20240107548Abstract: Provided are a base station, whereby the erroneous detection of control information can be reduced, thereby preventing the degradation of the system throughput. A base station maps a downstream allocation control information unit, which is addressed to a terminal, to a first resource region, which can be used for any of a downstream control channel region and a downstream data channel region, or to a second resource region, which can be used only for the downstream control channel, so as to transmit the downstream allocation control information unit. In the base station, a control unit establishes a scale of the PDCCH region, and a transmission region establishing unit establishes, on the basis of a scale value established by the control unit, a mapping region to which the DCI is mapped within the R-PDCCH region and the PDCCH region.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Akihiko NISHIO, Seigo NAKAO, Ayako HORIUCHI, Yasuaki YUDA, Sujuan FENG, Michael EINHAUS
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Patent number: 11943752Abstract: Provided is a radio communication base station device which can prevent lowering of use efficiency of a channel communication resource for performing a frequency diversity transmission when simultaneously performing a frequency scheduling transmission and the frequency diversity transmission in a multicarrier communication. In the device, a modulation unit (12) executes a modulation process on Dch data after encoded so as to generate a Dch data symbol. A modulation unit (22) executes a modulation process on the encoded Lch data so as to generate an Lch data symbol. An allocation unit (103) allocates the Dch data symbol and the Lch data symbol to respective subcarriers constituting an OFDM symbol and outputs them to a multiplexing unit (104). Here, when a plurality of Dch are used for a Dch data symbol of one mobile station, the allocation unit (103) uses Dch of continuous channel numbers.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Panasonic Holdings CorporationInventors: Akihiko Nishio, Christian Wengerter, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Masaru Fukuoka
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Patent number: 11943757Abstract: In a wireless communication base station device, a modulation unit carries out modulation processing for Dch data after coding to generate a Dch data symbol. A modulation unit carries out modulation processing for Lch data after coding to generate an Lch data symbol. An allocation unit allocates the Dch data symbol and Lch data symbol to each sub-carrier composing an OFDM symbol and outputs the allocated sub-carrier to a multiplex unit. In this case, the allocation unit allocates the Dch data symbol to a plurality of resource blocks where one Dch is arranged at an interval equal to integral multiples of the number of resource blocks composing a resource block group.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Panasonic Holdings CorporationInventors: Akihiko Nishio, Christian Wengerter, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Katsuhiko Hiramatsu
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Publication number: 20240080760Abstract: Disclosed is a wireless communication base station device capable of reducing the power consumption of a terminal when broadband transmission is performed with only an uplink. With this device, a setting unit sets mutually different terminal IDs per a plurality of uplink unit bands for a terminal that communicates using a plurality of uplink unit bands and prescribed downlink unit bands which are fewer in number than the uplink unit bands; a control unit that respectively allocates resource allocation information per a plurality of uplink unit bands to a PDCCH arranged in a prescribed downlink unit band; and a PDCCH creation unit that creates a PDCCH signal by respectively masking the resource allocation information per a plurality of uplink unit bands with the terminal ID that has been set per a plurality of uplink unit bands.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: Akihiko NISHIO, Seigo NAKAO, Yoshiko SAITO, Alexander GOLITSCHEK EDLER VON ELBWART
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Publication number: 20240080131Abstract: Disclosed are a transmission device and a transmission method with which it is possible to prevent delays in data transmission and to minimize the increase in the number of bits necessary for the notification of a CC to be used, in cases where a CC to be used is added during communication employing carrier aggregation. When a component carrier is to be added to a component carrier set, a setting section provided in a base station: modifies a CIF table that defines the correspondence between code points, which are used as labels for the respective component carriers contained in the component carrier set, and the identification information of the respective component carriers; and assigns a vacant code point to the component carrier to be added, while keeping the correspondence between the code points and the component carrier identification information defined in the CIF table before modification.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: Akihiko Nishio, Seigo Nakao
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Patent number: 11924851Abstract: Disclosed is a base station in which the frequency usage efficiency can be improved when the communication bandwidths are asymmetric in the uplink line and the downlink line. A base station can communicate by using a plurality of downlink unit bands and a smaller number of uplink unit bands. A control unit allocates uplink resource allocation information and downlink resource allocation information to a PDCCH which is arranged in each of the plurality of downlink unit bands, and allocates a response signal to the uplink line data to a PHICH which is arranged in the same number of downlink unit bands from the plurality of downlink unit bands as there are uplink unit bands. A transmit RF unit transmits the resource allocation information or the response signal.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Sun Patent TrustInventors: Seigo Nakao, Akihiko Nishio, Daichi Imamura
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Patent number: 11917439Abstract: There are provided a wireless communication method of configuring a measurement resource and a wireless communication device therefor. The method comprises determining a measurement resource to be disregarded when the number of measurement resources configured in one subframe exceeds the maximum number of measurement resources that a user equipment is able to measure in one subframe, wherein the measurement resource with lower priority is determined to be disregarded, and the measurement resource is not disregarded A times within the duration of N subframes, where A is an integer larger than 1, N corresponds to one plus B*periodicity of the measurement resource, and B is an integer equal to or larger than 1.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Sun Patent TrustInventors: Hui Tong, Masayuki Hoshino, Akihiko Nishio, Ming Xu
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Patent number: 11917640Abstract: A communication apparatus has a receiver and a decoder. The receiver receives a control signal including first downlink control information and second downlink control information, and receives decoding area information that indicates whether the extended Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) should be decoded for each of a plurality of terminal apparatuses. The decoder decodes each of a plurality of first mapping candidates in the PDCCH area or decodes each of the plurality of first mapping candidates in the PDCCH area and each of the plurality of second mapping candidates in the extended PDCCH. A number of the second mapping candidates included in the user-specific search space equals to or is more than a number of the first mapping candidates included in the common search space.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUSTInventors: Yoshiko Saito, Ayako Horiuchi, Seigo Nakao, Akihiko Nishio, Daichi Imamura, Alexander Golitschek Edler Von Elbwart, Sujuan Feng
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Patent number: 11916266Abstract: An operation method is provided for a hydrogen production apparatus that is disposed in a hydrogen station and produces hydrogen gas to be supplied to a fuel cell vehicle (FCV) arriving at the hydrogen station. The operation method includes starting up a hydrogen production apparatus up to a first operation load ratio preset for a rated operation. The operation method includes increasing an operation load of the hydrogen production apparatus to a second operation load ratio, which is larger than the first operation load ratio, at first timing associated with an arrival of the FCV, and decreasing the operation load of the hydrogen production apparatus to a third operation load ratio, which is smaller than the second operation load ratio, at second timing associated with a completion of hydrogen filling into the FCV.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: ENEOS CORPORATIONInventors: Akihiko Fukunaga, Toshio Tezuka, Tadashi Seike, Hirofumi Nishio, Daisaku Tateishi
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Patent number: 11909511Abstract: Provided are a wireless communication apparatus and a reference signal generating method, wherein inter-cell interference is reduced inside and outside a CoMP set. A CoMP mode setting unit (101) sets whether the terminal (100) thereof is a CoMP terminal or a Non-CoMP terminal. When the terminal (100) is set as a Non-CoMP terminal, the hopping pattern calculating unit (104) calculates a ZC sequence number to be used as the transmission timing, from among all the ZC sequence numbers that can be used within the system. When the terminal (100) is set as a CoMP terminal, the hopping pattern calculating unit (104) calculates a ZC sequence number to be used as the transmission timing, by hopping the ZC sequence numbers to be used within the CoMP set. A ZC sequence generating unit (105) generates a ZC sequence to be used as an SRS, using the calculated ZC sequence number.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUSTInventors: Takashi Iwai, Daichi Imamura, Akihiko Nishio, Yoshihiko Ogawa, Masaru Fukuoka
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Publication number: 20240056961Abstract: This terminal comprises: a reception circuit that receives a parameter relating to cell selection set on the basis of the function, type, and/or operation mode of the terminal; and a control circuit that performs a process for cell selection on the basis of the parameter.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2021Publication date: February 15, 2024Inventors: Tetsuya YAMAMOTO, Hidetoshi SUZUKI, Xuan Tuong TRAN, Akihiko NISHIO, Ayako HORIUCHI