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).

  • Patent number: 11895653
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Holdings Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Nishio, Seigo Nakao
  • Publication number: 20240040519
    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: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Takashi IWAI, Akihiko NISHIO, Daichi IMAMURA, Yoshihiko OGAWA, Atsushi MATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240031972
    Abstract: Provided are a user equipment (UE), a base station, and an AMF (Access and Mobility Management Function) system, as well as corresponding methods and integrated circuits. The UE determines, based on a signal strength measurement or a position in combination with either of a list of cell IDs of earth moving cells and a timing or a stored mapping between geographical areas and tracking areas whether the UE is located in a registration area that has been indicated to the UE by the AMF and in which the UE is paged by the base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Quan KUANG, Hidetoshi SUZUKI, Ming-Hung TAO, Akihiko NISHIO
  • Publication number: 20240030970
    Abstract: This invention is a transmission device capable of enhancing the reception characteristics of a terminal when employing transmit diversity using two antenna ports in an ePDCCH. In a base station (100) that transmits a reference signal to a terminal (200) using two antenna ports, a setting unit (102), on the basis of the reception quality of the terminal, sets as the aforementioned two antenna ports either a first antenna port pair for which DMRS (reference signals) do not undergo mutual code multiplexing, or a second antenna port pair for which the DMRS do undergo code multiplexing. A transmitter (109) transmits the DMRS from the two antenna ports set in the setting unit (102).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Tadashi YOSHIDA, Ayako HORIUCHI, Takashi IWAI, Yoshihiko OGAWA, Akihiko NISHIO
  • Patent number: 11882063
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Akihiko Nishio, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Masayuki Hoshino, Hidenori Matsuo, Takashi Tamura
  • Patent number: 11881951
    Abstract: A radio communication terminal that increases the ACK/NACK resource utilization efficiency while preventing ACK/NACK collision, and that causes no unnecessary reduction of the PUSCH band in a system that transmits E-PDCCH control information. The radio communication terminal adopts a configuration including a receiving section that receives a control signal including an ACK/NACK index via an enhanced physical downlink control channel (E-PDCCH) transmitted using one configuration from among one or a plurality of configuration candidates, a control section that selects a resource to be used for an ACK/NACK signal of downlink data from among specified resources specified beforehand based on E-PDCCH configuration information used for transmission or reception of the E-PDCCH and the ACK/NACK index, and a transmitting section that transmits the ACK/NACK signal using the selected specified resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Ayako Horiuchi, Akihiko Nishio
  • Publication number: 20240023124
    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: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Lilei WANG, Ming XU, Masayuki HOSHINO, Akihiko NISHIO
  • Patent number: 11871432
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Akihiko Nishio, Seigo Nakao, Ayako Horiuchi, Yasuaki Yuda, Sujuan Feng, Michael Einhaus
  • Patent number: 11864201
    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: October 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Lilei Wang, Ming Xu, Masayuki Hoshino, Akihiko Nishio
  • Publication number: 20230421323
    Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication device. A PHICH reception unit determines whether a received signal in a PHICH region is an ACK signal or a NACK signal. When doing so, the PHICH reception unit does not receive a PHICH in a subframe in which a terminal monitors an E-PDCCH. A control signal reception unit outputs a retransmission prompting signal to a signal allocation unit when the signal outputted from the PHICH reception unit is a NACK signal and when a UL grant was not detected. Meanwhile, when a UL grant was detected, the control signal reception unit outputs the detected UL grant to the signal allocation unit. The signal allocation unit maps the transmission signal in accordance with the retransmission prompting signal and the UL grant and transmits the transmission signal from a wireless transmission unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Ayako HORIUCHI, Akihiko NISHIO
  • Patent number: 11856515
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Akihiko Nishio, Seigo Nakao, Yoshiko Saito, Alexander Golitschek Edler Von Elbwart
  • Publication number: 20230412340
    Abstract: According to the present invention, the received quality of a terminal is improved. The terminal comprises: a reception circuit (202) which receives information for providing a notification of the port of a reference signal for a downlink data signal; and a control circuit (208) which controls the reception of the downlink data signal and the reference signal, on the basis of a number of ranks less than the number of ports indicated by the received information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Shotaro MAKI, Hidetoshi SUZUKI, Hongchao LI, Ayako HORIUCHI, Akihiko NISHIO, Xuan Tuong TRAN, Yoshihiko OGAWA
  • Patent number: 11848775
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Akihiko Nishio, Seigo Nakao
  • Publication number: 20230403188
    Abstract: Provided is a transmitter which improves the flexibility of SRS resource allocation without increasing the amount of signaling for notifying the cyclic shift amount. In the transmitter, with regard to each basic shift amount candidate group having a basic shift amount from 0 to N?1, a transmission control unit (206) specifies the actual shift amount imparted to a cyclic shift sequence used in scrambling a reference signal transmitted from each antenna port, said specification being performed based on a table in which cyclic shift amount candidates correspond to each antenna port, and based on setting information transmitted from a base station (100). With regard to basic shift amount candidates for shift amount X, the table differentiates between an offset pattern comprising offset values for cyclic shift amount candidates corresponding to each antenna port and an offset pattern corresponding to basic shift amount candidates of X+N/2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Yoshihiko OGAWA, Akihiko NISHIO, Masayuki HOSHINO, Takashi IWAI
  • Publication number: 20230397196
    Abstract: This terminal is provided with: a control circuit which controls uplink transmission timing using either a first offset or a second offset shorter than the first offset, on the basis of information relating to a control signal for scheduling; and a transmitting circuit which performs uplink transmission on the basis of the uplink transmission timing control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Akihiko NISHIO, Hidetoshi SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20230389025
    Abstract: Provided are a radio transmission device and a radio transmission method capable of improving downlink and uplink throughput even when performing dynamic symbol allocation. In the device and the method, BS and MS share a table correlating a basic TF as a combination of parameters such as TB size used for transmitting only user data, an allocation RB quantity, a modulation method, and an encoding ratio, with a derived TF having user data of different TB size by combining L1/L2 control information. Even when multiplexing L1/L2 control information, Index corresponding to the basic TF is reported from BS to MS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Daichi IMAMURA, Hidetoshi SUZUKI, Akihiko NISHIO, Atsushi MATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230388982
    Abstract: In the present invention, a terminal is provided with: a control circuit that determines data size on the basis of information relating to the number of repetitions of a transmission signal, and/or to a scheduling coefficient of the unit data size of the repetition, and a transmission circuit that transmits a transmission signal on the basis of the data size.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Akihiko NISHIO, Hidetoshi SUZUKI, Tetsuya YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11831483
    Abstract: Provided is a transmitter which improves the flexibility of SRS resource allocation without increasing the amount of signaling for notifying the cyclic shift amount. In the transmitter, with regard to each basic shift amount candidate group having a basic shift amount from 0 to N?1, a transmission control unit (206) specifies the actual shift amount imparted to a cyclic shift sequence used in scrambling a reference signal transmitted from each antenna port, said specification being performed based on a table in which cyclic shift amount candidates correspond to each antenna port, and based on setting information transmitted from a base station (100). With regard to basic shift amount candidates for shift amount X, the table differentiates between an offset pattern comprising offset values for cyclic shift amount candidates corresponding to each antenna port and an offset pattern corresponding to basic shift amount candidates of X+N/2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Ogawa, Akihiko Nishio, Masayuki Hoshino, Takashi Iwai
  • Publication number: 20230379959
    Abstract: A terminal capable of reducing the resource regions in an uplink component band without increasing signaling even if a plurality of acknowledgment signals to downlink data transmitted respectively in a plurality of downlink component bands are transmitted from one uplink component band.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Akihiko Nishio, Seigo Nakao
  • Patent number: 11825477
    Abstract: Provided is a base station capable of suppressing increase of overhead of allocation result report in frequency scheduling in multi-carrier communication and obtaining a sufficient frequency diversity effect. In the base station, encoding units (101-1 to 101-n) encode data (#1 to #n) to mobile stations (#1 to #n), modulation units (102-1 to 102-n) modulate the encoded data so as to generate a data symbol, a scheduler (103) performs frequency scheduling according to a CQI from each mobile station so as to uniformly allocate data to the respective mobile stations for a part of RB extracted from a plurality of RB, and an SCCH generation unit (105) generates control information (SCCH information) to report the allocation result in the scheduler (103) to the respective mobile stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Panasonic Holdings Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Kuri, Akihiko Nishio, Masaru Fukuoka, Kenichi Miyoshi