Patents by Inventor Hideaki Takahashi

Hideaki Takahashi 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).

  • Publication number: 20250031269
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes: a memory storing a program; and one or more processors configured to execute the program to: obtain path information including first information for indicating each of a plurality of waypoints; transmit, to a base station, a message of the completion of a radio resource control, RRC, connection reconfiguration, the message including information for indicating an availability of the path information; receive, from the base station, a UEInformationRequest message including second information used for configuring a granularity of the first information; and transmit in response to the reception of the UEInformationRequest message, to the base station, a UEInformationResponse message including the path information including the first information on a basis of the second information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2024
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Inventors: Tomoyuki YAMAMOTO, Hideaki TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 12177699
    Abstract: A terminal that communicates simultaneously with a first communication node and a second communication node includes a detection unit that detects a failure in communication with the second communication node; and a transmitting unit that transmits notification including failure information and positional information to the first communication node, the failure information concerning a failure in communication with the second communication node and the positional information being obtained at the time when the failure was detected. In another aspect a communication node is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hideaki Takahashi, Tianyang Min, Kenji Kai
  • Publication number: 20240400527
    Abstract: A compound represented by the following Formula (1), a hole transport material containing the compound, a hole transport material composition for a photoelectric conversion element containing the hole transport material, a photoelectric conversion element using the hole transport material composition for a photoelectric conversion element, and a solar cell using the photoelectric conversion element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicant: HODOGAYA CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiaki ITO, Hideaki TAKAHASHI, Atsushi SAKURAI, Hiroshi SATO
  • Publication number: 20240397482
    Abstract: A terminal includes a reception unit that receives system information and receives a radio resource control (RRC) release message and a control unit that stores a serving cell as a last used cell in a case in which the RRC release message is received. The control unit controls to monitor a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) for paging early indication in the last used cell based on information about a cell to which the paging early indication included in paging early indication (PEI) configuration information in the system information is transmitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2024
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Inventors: Tatsuki NAGANO, Hideaki TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20240396697
    Abstract: A communication apparatus that is a second communication apparatus having a communication capability reduced as compared with a first communication apparatus having a designated communication capability, the communication apparatus includes: a transmitter configured to transmit a request message for establishing a radio resource control (RRC) connection or resuming the RRC connection to a base station on a specific initial BWP for the second communication apparatus, which is a bandwidth part (BWP) that is a part of a bandwidth of a cell of the base station; and a controller configured to execute measurement processing and evaluation processing for cell reselection after the request message is transmitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2024
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Inventors: Haruhiko SOGABE, Daiki MAEMOTO, Hideaki TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 12150177
    Abstract: User equipment includes a transmitter configured to transmit a random access preamble or an identifier of the user equipment to a base station apparatus in a two-step random access procedure, a receiver configured to receive a response signal corresponding to at least one of the random access preamble and the identifier of the user equipment, and a downlink signal based on the response signal, from the base station apparatus, and a control unit configured to determine that a contention resolution is successful when information included in the downlink signal matches a part of or all of the identifier of the user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tooru Uchino, Hideaki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20240365333
    Abstract: A terminal includes a reception unit configured to receive system information including second information related to a cell to which first information related to a subgroup in one or more paging occasions is transmitted; and a control unit configured to control monitoring of a PDCCH for first downlink control information including the first information based on the second information in a case of an idle state or an inactive state, in which the control unit is configured to monitor the PDCCH for the first downlink control information including the first information in a cell in which an RRC release message is received when the second information is configured for a last cell indicating the cell in which the RRC release message is received, and monitor the PDCCH for the first downlink control information including the first information in a serving cell when the second information is not configured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2024
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Inventors: Tatsuki Nagano, Hideaki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20240357685
    Abstract: A UE configured to perform communication with an MCG managed by a master node and an SCG managed by a secondary node comprises: including an MAC entity associated with the SCG; and receiving information instructing deactivation of the SCG. The MAC entity manages a BFD parameter for performing BFD on the SCG, and in a case in which the deactivation of the SCG is instructed and the UE is configured to perform the BFD, the controller is configured to control not resetting or not stopping the BFD parameter in a process of resetting the MAC entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: Daiki MAEMOTO, Hideaki TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20240357613
    Abstract: A communication apparatus comprises: a receiver configured to receive a system information block (SIB) from a base station; and a controller configured to determine a number of bits of a bitmap for an availability indication of a tracking reference signal (TRS) in downlink control information (DCI). The controller is configured to determine, in a case where a TRS resource set configuration that is a list of TRS resource sets is included in the SIB, the number of bits on a basis of an identifier related to the TRS resource set, and determine, in a case where the TRS resource set configuration is not included in the SIB, the number of bits as 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: Tatsuki NAGANO, Hideaki TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20240357672
    Abstract: A UE configured to perform communication with an MCG managed by a master node and an SCG managed by a secondary node comprises including an MAC entity associated with the SCG. The MAC entity manages, for each logical channel, a variable that is for uplink resource allocation to each logical channel used for communication with the SCG and has a value increasing with lapse of time. The UE is configured to perform, for the variable, a first process in reset of the MAC entity by deactivation of the SCG, perform a second process while the SCG is in an inactive state, and perform a third process when the SCG is activated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: Daiki MAEMOTO, Hideaki TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 12127033
    Abstract: A terminal includes a reception unit that receives, from a base station, a message for requesting to report a terminal capability, a control unit that configures information for reporting a parameter associated with a codebook based on information for indicating a range of the parameter associated with the codebook included in the message for requesting the report of the terminal capability, and that includes, in a message for reporting the terminal capability, the information for reporting the parameter associated with the codebook, and a transmission unit that transmits the message for reporting the terminal capability to the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hideaki Takahashi, Akihito Hanaki
  • Publication number: 20240349110
    Abstract: A base station configured to operate as an MN in a case of using dual connectivity in which the MN and an SN communicate with a UE, the base station includes: configuring a plurality of measurement gap patterns in the UE; and transmitting MN configuration gap information indicating a configuration of each of the plurality of measurement gap patterns to the SN via a network interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2024
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Inventors: Tomoyuki YAMAMOTO, Hideaki TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20240349388
    Abstract: A communication apparatus that is a second communication apparatus having a communication capability reduced as compared with a first communication apparatus having a designated communication capability, the communication apparatus includes: a controller configured to perform a random access procedure using a specific initial BWP for the second communication apparatus, which is a bandwidth part (BWP) that is a part of a bandwidth of a cell of a base station in a radio resource control (RRC) idle state or an RRC inactive state. The controller is configured to switch the specific initial BWP to an initial BWP in which a CD-SSB is present, when the random access procedure has failed, in a case where no cell defining-synchronization signal block and physical broadcast channel block (CD-SSB) is present on the specific initial BWP.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2024
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Inventors: Haruhiko Sogabe, Daiki Maemoto, Hideaki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20240340682
    Abstract: A base station is configured to operate as an MN in a case of using dual connectivity in which the MN and an SN communicate with a UE. The base station includes: deciding an SN gap upper limit number that is an upper limit number of measurement gap patterns configured in the UE by the SN; and transmitting gap upper limit information for specifying the SN gap upper limit number to the SN via a network interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2024
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Inventors: Tomoyuki YAMAMOTO, Hideaki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20240336254
    Abstract: A control method for a hybrid vehicle configured to switch between stoichiometric combustion and lean combustion in which the target air fuel ratio is set to be leaner than the theoretical air fuel ratio is provided. The control method for the hybrid vehicle includes when the combustion mode is switched from the lean combustion to the stoichiometric combustion, stopping a fuel supply to the internal combustion engine; decreasing an intake air amount of the internal combustion engine during the stop; setting the target air fuel ratio of the internal combustion engine to the theoretical air fuel ratio, or the air fuel ratio richer than the theoretical air fuel ratio, in a state in which the intake air amount of the internal combustion engine is decreased; and restarting the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hideaki TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 12108476
    Abstract: A terminal includes a reception unit for receiving, from a base station that is a master node, a first message to configure communications with a master cell group and a secondary cell group, a communication unit for performing the communications with the master cell group and the secondary cell group configured that are based on the first message, a control unit for detecting an occurrence of a failure in communications with the secondary cell group, and a transmission unit for transmitting, when the control unit detects the occurrence of the failure in the communications with the secondary cell group, a second message including information indicating the occurrence of the failure in the secondary cell group, wherein the control unit includes location information in the second message when the first message is configured to have information indicating that the location information is to be included in the second message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hideaki Takahashi, Kazuaki Takeda, Tianyang Min
  • Publication number: 20240298358
    Abstract: A terminal includes a receiving unit that receives configuration information for transmitting a random access preamble; and a control unit that configures, when a two-step random access procedure is applied, a time domain resource specified by an index for the two-step random access procedure included in the configuration information, as a time domain resource for transmitting the random access preamble.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tomoya Ohara, Hideaki Takahashi, Akihito Hanaki, Hiroki Harada
  • Patent number: 12082256
    Abstract: A user terminal includes a receiving section that receives a signal in initial access or random access, and a control section that determines, based on reception of the signal, a specific signal quasi-co-located with a downlink control channel in a specific control resource set associated with a random access search space. According to an aspect of the present disclosure, monitoring of the downlink control channel can be appropriately controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Tomoya Ohara, Hideaki Takahashi, Yuki Matsumura, Satoshi Nagata, Lihui Wang, Xiaolin Hou
  • Publication number: 20240292372
    Abstract: A terminal that includes a reception unit configured to receive first downlink control information (PEI DCI) including information related to paging in one or more paging occasions detected by monitoring a first search space set, and a control unit configured to control monitoring in a second search space set of second downlink control information (paging DCI) including information related to scheduling of a downlink shared channel for transmitting a paging message in the paging occasion and/or information related to a short message based on the first downlink control information in an idle state or an inactive state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2024
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Inventors: Tatsuki Nagano, Hideaki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 12075336
    Abstract: A user equipment includes a receiving unit configured to receive system information from a cell, a control unit configured to determine, based on an information element and identifiers, whether or not the cell is a candidate to be selected, the information element indicating other uses included in the system information and identifiers being of a plurality of closed access groups (CAGs) identifying groups of subscribers who are allowed to access the cell, and a communication unit configured to perform access to the cell in a case in which the control unit determines that the cell is the candidate to be selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hideaki Takahashi, Tooru Uchino