Patents by Inventor Hidekazu Taoka

Hidekazu Taoka 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: 20130163545
    Abstract: A disclosed base station apparatus is capable of communicating with a user equipment terminal in a multi-input multi-output (MIMO) mobile communication system using Pre-coding. The base station apparatus includes a receiving unit receiving a Pre-coding Matrix Indicator (PMI) indicating a specific Pre-coding matrix, a determination unit determining a value of a flag indicator indicating whether the Pre-coding matrix specified in the PMI is to be used for downlink communications, a control signal generation unit generating a downlink control signal including at least the flag indicator, and a transmission unit transmitting a signal including the downlink control signal in downlink.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2013
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Inventors: Hidekazu Taoka, Nobuhiko Miki, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Patent number: 8472548
    Abstract: Provided is a radio base station apparatus capable of selecting an optimal modulation and coding scheme for each transmission stream easily. The radio base station apparatus has a CQI information decoder (101) configured to decode CQIs of plural downlink transmission streams and an MCS selector (102) that has an N-dimensional table (two-dimensional reference table (1021)) in accordance with the number N of downlink transmission streams where combinations of modulation and coding scheme between the plural downlink transmission streams are defined in accordance with each of the CQIs of the downlink transmission streams and is configured to select from the combinations of modulation and coding scheme for the downlink transmission streams based on each of the CQIs of the downlink transmission streams decoded by the CQI information decoder (101).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Hidekazu Taoka, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Patent number: 8462714
    Abstract: A base station communicating using multiple antennas includes a direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation unit configured to estimate a direction of arrival based on a signal from a mobile station and to output direction-of-arrival information regarding the estimated direction of arrival; a DOA information multiplexing unit configured to multiplex the direction-of-arrival information from the direction-of-arrival estimation unit with a shared data channel to be transmitted to the mobile station; and an antenna weight multiplying unit configured to multiply a signal to be transmitted to the mobile station and including the shared data channel multiplexed with the direction-of-arrival information by antenna weights obtained based on the direction-of-arrival information from the direction-of-arrival estimation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Hidekazu Taoka, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Publication number: 20130142278
    Abstract: A transmitter includes multiple transmit antennas, a conversion unit configured to generate multiple signal sequences corresponding to a predefined frequency bandwidth from one or more transmission streams associated with any of the transmit antennas, a precoding unit configured to weight the signal sequences with a precoding matrix selected from a codebook including multiple predefined precoding matrices, and a transmitting unit configured to convert an output signal from the precoding unit into a number of signals corresponding to the number of transmit antennas and transmit the converted signals from the transmit antennas. The precoding unit applies distinct precoding matrices to different signal sequences, and an association between the distinct precoding matrices and the different signal sequences is determined through open-loop control being independent of a feedback from a receiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2013
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Inventors: Hidekazu Taoka, Tetsushi Abe
  • Publication number: 20130114513
    Abstract: In order to reduce the amount of feedback information for specifying a precoding weight, the mobile station apparatus generates a control signal for specifying the precoding weight using bits representing a rank indicator (RI) and bits representing a precoding matrix indicator (PMI) from a bit space, including a plurality of bits representing the RI and a plurality of bits representing the PMI, in which the same bits representing the RI are allocated to a plurality of ranks equal to or higher than a predetermined rank. The control signal is transmitted in uplink using the antennas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2011
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hidekazu Taoka, Bijun Zhang, Xiaoming She
  • Publication number: 20130094449
    Abstract: The present invention provides a base station apparatus, a mobile terminal apparatus and a communication control method that can adequately allocate resources of response signals for retransmission for spatially-multiplexed signals respectively corresponding to a plurality of layers via the uplink and that support next-generation mobile communication systems. Discloses is a configuration to receive signals in which a plurality of layers are spatially-multiplexed on the uplink from a mobile terminal apparatus (10), generate HARQ ACK/NACK for signals received in the layers on the uplink, and allocate HARQ ACK/NACK for transport blocks associated with the layers, to PHICH resources, using the offset values that are fixedly defined in advance with the mobile terminal apparatus (10) for every uplink layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2011
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Takeda, Nobuhiko Miki, Hidekazu Taoka
  • Publication number: 20130094380
    Abstract: The present invention reduces the increase of the amount of feedback information, and, regardless of whether the correlation between antennas is high or low, increases the data rate upon MIMO transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2011
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hidekazu Taoka, Katsutoshi Kusume
  • Patent number: 8422574
    Abstract: A disclosed base station apparatus is capable of communicating with a user equipment terminal in a multi-input multi-output (MIMO) mobile communication system using Pre-coding. The base station apparatus includes a receiving unit receiving a Pre-coding Matrix Indicator (PMI) indicating a specific Pre-coding matrix, a determination unit determining a value of a flag indicator indicating whether the Pre-coding matrix specified in the PMI is to be used for downlink communications, a control signal generation unit generating a downlink control signal including at least the flag indicator, and a transmission unit transmitting a signal including the downlink control signal in downlink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Hidekazu Taoka, Nobuhiko Miki, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Publication number: 20130083757
    Abstract: A data rate in MIMO transmission is increased to a maximum even when the number of transmitting antennas of a mobile station apparatus is different from the number of transmitting antennas of the mobile station apparatus supported by a base station apparatus. The base station apparatus (eNodeB) reports the maximum number of supported antennas of the mobile station apparatus (UE) supported by the base station apparatus (eNodeB) to the mobile station apparatus (UE) (ST11). The mobile station apparatus (UE) compares the number of supported antennas with the number of transmitting antennas of the mobile station apparatus (UE), selects the smaller number of antennas as a number of virtual antennas (ST12), and reports the number of virtual antennas to the base station apparatus (eNodeB) (ST13). The base station apparatus (eNodeB) instructs the mobile station apparatus to transmit a data channel signal in accordance with the number of virtual antennas (ST15).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2011
    Publication date: April 4, 2013
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuichi Kakishima, Hidekazu Taoka
  • Patent number: 8406184
    Abstract: A user apparatus in a mobile communications system is disclosed. The user apparatus includes a unit which receives, from a base station apparatus, a downlink control signal including information for allocating a radio resource; a unit which determines, depending on a channel status, a pre-encoding matrix indicator (PMI) which indicates a pre-encoding matrix to be applied to multiple antennas of the base station apparatus; and a unit which transmits, to the base station apparatus, an uplink signal including the PMI, wherein, if the radio resource is allocated to a physical uplink shared channel of the user apparatus, the PMI is transmitted using a part of the radio resource, and, wherein, if the radio resource is not allocated to the physical uplink shared channel of the user apparatus, the PMI is transmitted in a physical uplink control channel which is allocated, in a fixed manner, to the user apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Hidekazu Taoka, Mamoru Sawahashi, Nobuhiko Miki
  • Publication number: 20130058279
    Abstract: The data rate in MIMO transmission is increased to a maximum even when a number of transmitting antennas of a base station apparatus is different from the number of transmitting antennas of the base station apparatus supported by a mobile station apparatus. The base station apparatus (eNodeB) reports the number of transmitting antennas provided for the base station apparatus to the mobile station apparatus UE (ST11). The mobile station apparatus UE compares the reported number of transmitting antennas with a maximum number of supported antennas of the base station apparatus (eNodeB) supported by the mobile station apparatus UE, selects the smaller number of antennas as a number of virtual antennas (ST12), and reports the number of virtual antennas to the base station apparatus (eNodeB) (ST13). The base station apparatus (eNodeB) transmits a data channel signal in accordance with the reported number of virtual antennas (ST15).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2011
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuichi Kakishima, Hidekazu Taoka
  • Patent number: 8379749
    Abstract: A transmitter includes multiple transmit antennas, a conversion unit configured to generate multiple signal sequences corresponding to a predefined frequency bandwidth from one or more transmission streams associated with any of the transmit antennas, a precoding unit configured to weight the signal sequences with a precoding matrix selected from a codebook including multiple predefined precoding matrices, and a transmitting unit configured to convert an output signal from the precoding unit into a number of signals corresponding to the number of transmit antennas and transmit the converted signals from the transmit antennas. The precoding unit applies distinct precoding matrices to different signal sequences, and an association between the distinct precoding matrices and the different signal sequences is determined through open-loop control being independent of a feedback from a receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Hidekazu Taoka, Tetsushi Abe
  • Publication number: 20130034068
    Abstract: Wideband transmission is performed efficiently using spectrum aggregation. When performing information transmission using spectrum aggregation that aggregates frequency spectra which are non-contiguous and in different frequency bands, first information requiring communication quality is allocated to an anchor spectrum with small path loss among different frequency spectra used for information transmission and transmitted to a mobile station apparatus (UE), and second information requiring lower communication quality than the first information is allocated to a payload spectrum having large path loss and transmitted to the mobile station apparatus (UE).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2011
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hidekazu Taoka, Nobuhiko Miki, Yoshihisa Kishiyama
  • Publication number: 20130034187
    Abstract: To reduce interference among mobile station apparatuses even when the CSI is not transmitted from all mobile station apparatuses as feedback in an environment where Joint Transmission is performed, a channel matrix is generated which is comprised of the CSI from a plurality of mobile station apparatuses (UEs) undergoing spatial multiplexing for each of coordinated cells, and based on the channel matrix, precoding weights are generated successively starting from a cell having the highest number of mobile station apparatuses (UEs) that transmit the CSI as feedback.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2011
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hidekazu Taoka, Kenichi Higuchi
  • Publication number: 20130033979
    Abstract: Provided are a mobile terminal apparatus, a radio base station apparatus and a radiocommunication method, capable of saving PHICH resources enough and realizing effective retransmission control of uplink SU-MIMO. The radio communication method of the present invention is characterized in that a radio base station apparatus receives signals of plural codewords, when there is an error in each of the codewords, generates a one-bit negative response physical HARQ indicator channel signal and transmits the physical HARQ indicator channel signal, and a mobile terminal apparatus receives the physical HARQ indicator channel signal and transmits retransmission signals of all the codewords to the radio base station apparatus based on the negative response physical HARQ indicator channel signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2011
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hidekazu Taoka, Nobuhiko Miki, Teruo Kawamura, Yuichi Kakishima
  • Publication number: 20130034066
    Abstract: To provide a radio base station apparatus, mobile terminal device and wireless communication method for enabling the SRS to be used efficiently in an LTE-A system, a wireless communication method of the invention is characterized in that a radio base station apparatus performs OFDM modulation on a transmission signal including transmission information on sounding reference signals for each transmission antenna, and transmits the OFDM-modulated transmission signal, and that a mobile terminal device receives the signal including the transmission information, controls a transmission aspect of the sounding reference signals for each transmission antenna based on the transmission information, and transmits the sounding reference signals in the transmission aspect for each transmission antenna.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2011
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuichi Kakishima, Hidekazu Taoka, Teruo Kawamura, Yoshihisa Kishiyama
  • Patent number: 8351386
    Abstract: A base station apparatus includes a correction unit for correcting a CQI reported from a user apparatus and a scheduler for scheduling based on the corrected CQI. The correction unit uses a correction table to correct the CQI such that if the reported CQI is poor, the CQI is slightly reduced, and otherwise, the CQI is significantly reduced. One method of generating the correction table includes deriving a first SINR in consideration of the number of interference users less than (n?1) and a second SINR in consideration of the number of interference users equal to (n?1) to explore a distribution of the second SINR to the first SINR. In this method, correspondence between the first SINR and the second SINR is determined based on the distribution to generate the correction table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Hidekazu Taoka, Jianchi Zhu, Xiaoming She, Lan Chen
  • Publication number: 20120320841
    Abstract: The present invention provides a radio base station apparatus, a radio terminal apparatus and a radio communication method that can realize highly efficient fallback mode when transmission diversity is adopted in fallback mode in an LTE-A system. With the radio communication method of the present invention, a radio base station apparatus, in fall back mode, performs scheduling for fallback mode, which takes into account the reference signal structures in fallback mode, and transmits a transmission signal after the scheduling by open loop control transmission diversity, and a mobile terminal apparatus receives a downlink signal including mode information, and, in fallback mode, performs channel estimation for fallback mode based on the mode information, and demodulates the downlink signal using the acquired channel estimation value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2011
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Nobuhiko Miki, Hidekazu Taoka
  • Publication number: 20120314667
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to preventing the load to be required for blind detection in a mobile station apparatus (UE) from increasing and switching between SU-MIMO and MU-MIMO dynamically, even in the event the system bandwidth is expanded. The present invention has a DCI format selection section (209) that selects identification information which identifies between a DCI format for SU-MIMO and a DCI format for MU-MIMO, a control signal generation section (210) that generates control signals including the identification information and including the DCI format for SU-MIMO or MU-MIMO, having the same number of bits, and a transmission section that transmits the control signals to a mobile station apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2011
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hidekazu Taoka, Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Nobuhiko Miki, Katsutoshi Kusume
  • Publication number: 20120314808
    Abstract: To increase a data rate (spectral efficiency) of the entire system also in the case of dynamically switching between SU-MIMO transmission and MU-MIMO transmission, it is a feature that a mobile station apparatus (10) selects a PMI associated with a precoding matrix including matrix elements corresponding to a stream that most approximates a channel matrix indicative of a channel state in a channel transmission path to transmit to a base station apparatus (20) as feedback, and that the base station apparatus (20) extracts the matrix elements corresponding to the stream that most approximates the channel state in the channel transmission path from the precoding matrix associated with the PMI transmitted from the mobile station apparatus (10) as feedback, and based on the extracted matrix elements, generates precoding weights.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2011
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hidekazu Taoka, Katsutoshi Kusume