Patents by Inventor Ayako Horiuchi

Ayako Horiuchi 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: 12167421
    Abstract: A terminal is disclosed, which is capable of appropriately determining a resource to which a DCI is mapped. A DCI receiver (203) receives first and second downlink (DL) control signals, and a signal demultiplexer (202) demultiplexes a DL data signal from a received signal, using the first and the second DL control signals. The DCI receiver (203) identifies a resource for the second DL control signal based on information on the first DL control signal, or information on the DL data signal, indicated by the first DL control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Ayako Horiuchi, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Lilei Wang
  • Patent number: 12160872
    Abstract: A signal assignment unit (105) assigns a downlink control signal including resource assignment information of a PDSCH to a downlink resource. A specification unit (108) specifies a PUCCH resource using an offset value set to either a first PRB set or a second PRB set when the downlink control signal is disposed to spread over the first PRB set and the second PRB set. A signal separation unit (109) separates an ACK/NACK signal included in the specified PUCCH resource from a received signal from a terminal to which the downlink control signal has been transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Ayako Horiuchi, Hidetoshi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 12160396
    Abstract: In a base station, a DCI generation unit selects one pattern (mode) for use when data is allocated from among a plurality of patterns (modes) of a resource area where data (PDSCH) is allocated, and a transmission unit provides notification about setting information regarding the plurality of patterns (modes) by signaling of a higher layer and provides notification about the one pattern (mode) selected from the plurality of patterns by a downlink control signal (DCI).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Ayako Horiuchi, Hidetoshi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 12155597
    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: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Ayako Horiuchi, Akihiko Nishio
  • Patent number: 12149391
    Abstract: There are provided an apparatus, a method and a system. The apparatus comprises: a transmitter operative to transmit wireless data or signals to a second node; and a circuitry operative to determine whether one or more reserved periods are reserved between two continuous data or signals transmitted by the transmitter based on a length of configured transmission time intervals (TTIs), wherein the circuitry is further operative to: determine the one or more reserved periods are reserved between two continuous data or signals in a case that the length of configured TTI is shorter than or equal to a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Lilei Wang, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Ayako Horiuchi
  • Patent number: 12149392
    Abstract: In the multiple short sequence based SRS, multiple items of sequence data having a short sequence length corresponding to a partial band are used for transmitting SRS in discontinuous bands. In the multiple short sequence based SRS, a terminal specifies a frequency domain to be used for transmitting a reference signal using predetermined sequence data, applies a phase shift index associated with the specified frequency domain to the reference signal, and transmits the reference signal to which the phase shift index is applied by using the specified frequency domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Takashi Iwai, Tomohumi Takata, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Ayako Horiuchi
  • Patent number: 12137443
    Abstract: A DCI receiving unit receives downlink control information (DCI) indicative of allocation of an uplink (UL) signal of a first TTI (long TTI) or an uplink signal of a second TTI (sTTI) having a shorter TTI length than the first TTI; a transmission power determination unit determines transmission power of the uplink signal of the first TTI and transmission power of the uplink signal of the second TTI; and a transmitting unit transmits the uplink signal of the first TTI and the uplink signal of the second TTI by using the determined transmission power on the basis of the downlink control information. The transmission power determination unit reserves desired transmission power for the uplink signal of the second TTI in the first TTI in a case where decoding of the downlink control information indicative of allocation of the uplink signal of the second TTI to be transmitted within the first TTI (e.g., a subframe) is completed before start of transmission of the uplink signal of the first TTI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Ayako Horiuchi, Hidetoshi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 12132527
    Abstract: Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) is measured accurately even in a case where a discovery signal is transmitted. A receiver receives a plurality of subframes, at least one of which includes a discovery signal, and a measurer measures Reference Signal Reception Power (RSRP) using a first resource in which the discovery signal is mapped, measures RSSI using a second resource different from the first resource for which the discovery signal is mapped, and calculates Reference Signal Reception Quality (RSRQ) using RSRP and RSSI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Ayako Horiuchi, Masayuki Hoshino, Seigo Nakao
  • Publication number: 20240357426
    Abstract: Data communication can be appropriately performed in unlicensed bands. A mobile station (200) includes: reception circuitry, which, in operation, receives first information relating to a size configured for data, and second information relating to a resource to which the data is assigned; and control circuitry, which, in operation, controls reception of the data based on the first information and the second information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: Shotaro MAKI, Lilei WANG, Hidetoshi SUZUKI, Ayako HORIUCHI
  • Patent number: 12126454
    Abstract: Provided is a terminal device with which deterioration in hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) retransmission performance can be inhibited by continuing a downlink (DL) HARQ process for DL data before and after changing the uplink link-DL configuration. In this device, a decoder stores, in a retransmission buffer, DL data transmitted from a base station, and decodes the DL data, and a wireless transmitter transmits a response signal generated using a DL-data-error detection result. A soft buffer is partitioned into a plurality of regions for each retransmission process on the basis of the highest values among retransmission process numbers respectively stated in a plurality of configuration patterns which can be set in the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Toru Oizumi, Ayako Horiuchi, Akihiko Nishio
  • Patent number: 12127100
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes circuitry and a transmitter. The circuitry sets a number of physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) candidates per aggregation level in a search space of a signal, and indicates the set number of PDCCH candidates to a user equipment (UE) wherein the search space is monitored by the UE based on the set number of PDCCH candidates. The transmitter transmit the signal. A maximum number of monitored PDCCH candidates per slot depends on a subcarrier interval. A first subcarrier interval is one-quarter as wide as a second subcarrier interval, and a first maximum number of monitored PDCCH candidates per slot with the first subcarrier interval is not four times as high as a second maximum number of monitored PDCCH candidates per slot with the second subcarrier interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Ayako Horiuchi, Hidetoshi Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20240349025
    Abstract: In a base station, control circuitry determines, based on an offset for defining a frequency position of a narrowband allocated to an MPDCCH and a resource block group size of a system band, allocations of a first EPDCCH set and a second EPDCCH set that constitute the MPDCCH. The MPDCCH is a PDCCH for MTC. The second EPDCCH set has a different number of PRBs from the first EPDCCH set. A transmitter transmits a control signal according to the allocations of the first EPDCCH set and the second EPDCCH set. Further, the control circuitry controls a number of RBGs in which both the first EPDCCH set and the second EPDCCH set are allocated to be zeto or one.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2024
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Inventors: Ayako HORIUCHI, Hidetoshi SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20240340862
    Abstract: This terminal is provided with: a control circuit for setting some or all synchronization signal block numbers associated with a first transmission opportunity for a terminal of a first type in one time resource to a synchronization signal block number associated with a second transmission opportunity for a terminal of a second type in one time resource; and a transmitting circuit for transmitting a signal in a transmission opportunity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Inventors: Shotaro MAKI, Ayako HORIUCHI, Akihiko NISHIO, Tetsuya YAMAMOTO, Hidetoshi SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20240340870
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes multi-fluid kits for three-dimensional printing, three-dimensional printing kits, and methods of making three-dimensional printed articles. In one example, a multi-fluid kit for three-dimensional printing can include a fusing agent and a second fluid agent. The fusing agent can include water and a radiation absorber. The radiation absorber can absorb radiation energy and convert the radiation energy to heat. The fusing agent or the second fluid agent can include a water-soluble or water-dispersible dihydrazide antioxidant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Inventors: Shotaro MAKI, Tetsuya YAMAMOTO, Ayako HORIUCHI, Akihiko NISHIO, Hidetoshi SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 12114368
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes as one aspect a device comprising: a receiver capable of receiving control signal from a base station in a first set of control resources and in a second set of control resources, a transmitter capable of transmitting control signals and data, a circuitry which, when in operation, controls: the transmitter to transmit a random access message associated with the first set of control resources and to transmit communication device capability indication; the receiver to monitor control resources in the first set of control resources after transmitting the random access message and to receive within the first set of control resources configuration of the second set of control resources; the receiver to monitor control resources in the first set of control resources and/or in the second set of control resources after receiving the configuration of the second set of control resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Quan Kuang, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Ayako Horiuchi, Lilei Wang, Alexander Golitschek Edler Von Elbwart
  • Publication number: 20240334446
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a user equipment, UE, comprising the following. A processor determines a capability of the UE for operating a monitoring function, involving the following capability condition: —the capability condition regarding a minimum group time gap between two consecutive groups of time spans within a grouping window having a length of one or more slots. A transmitter transmits a capability indication to a base station, indicating the capability condition of the UE. A receiver receives, from the base station, information for configuring the monitoring function, including one or more monitoring occasions in which the UE monitors the downlink control channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Inventors: Quan KUANG, Hidetoshi SUZUKI, Ayako HORIUCHI
  • Patent number: 12107622
    Abstract: In the present invention, regarding a narrowband used in a subframe for transmitting uplink data, if a switch is made from a first narrowband used in a first subframe to a second narrowband that is different from the first narrowband, with respect to a second subframe continuing to the first subframe, a final one symbol of the first subframe and an initial one symbol of the second subframe are punctured and set as a retuning time to transmit the uplink data in the first narrowband and the second narrowband.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Tetsuya Yamamoto, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Ayako Horiuchi
  • Publication number: 20240313932
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes circuitry that determines a number of resource blocks forming a resource block group, which is a unit used to allocate a resource to the communication apparatus, in a first band or in a second band that is an expanded band to which the first band is expanded, and a subcarrier spacing for the second band is same or different from a subcarrier spacing for the first band; and a transceiver that is coupled to the circuitry and that communicates with a base station using the resource. One of the number of resource blocks set for the first band and the number of resource blocks set for the second band is an integer multiple of the other, and the number of resource blocks set for the first band and the number of resource blocks set for the second band are values that are a power of two.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2024
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Inventors: Tetsuya YAMAMOTO, Alexander GOLITSCHEK EDLER VON ELBWART, Lilei WANG, Ayako HORIUCHI, Hidetoshi SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20240314756
    Abstract: In an operation in a license-exempt band (unlicensed band), the present invention contributes to the provision of a mobile station, a base station, a transmission method and a receiving method which suitably transmit and receive a signal. The mobile station 200 includes: a transmission unit 205 which transmits an uplink signal; and a control unit 201 which, when a first number indicating a first resource amount that can be used in the transmission of the uplink signal includes a third number, which is different from a specific second number, as a prime factor, controls the transmission of a signal of a fourth number that does not include the third number as the prime factor by using a second resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2024
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Inventors: Shotaro MAKI, Ayako HORIUCHI, Tetsuya YAMAMOTO, Yoshihiko OGAWA, Yihui LI, Madhav GUPTA
  • Publication number: 20240297812
    Abstract: A repetition unit (212) performs a repetition for mapping a data signal and a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) repeatedly at a symbol level over a plurality of subframes. A signal allocation unit (213) maps, in the a plurality of subframes, the repeated DMRS to symbols other than symbols corresponding to an SRS resource candidate, which is a candidate for a resource to which a sounding reference signal (SRS) to be used to measure an uplink received signal quality is to be mapped. A transmission unit (216) transmits an uplink signal (PUSCH) including the DMRS and the data signal over the a plurality of subframes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2024
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Inventors: Tetsuya YAMAMOTO, Ayako HORIUCHI