Patents by Inventor Hiroaki Takano

Hiroaki Takano 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).

  • Downlink quality improvement method and apparatus
    Patent number: 10560927
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a mechanism capable of efficiently operating vast millimeter-wave band resources. [Solution] Provided is an apparatus that operates a small cell, the apparatus including: a processing unit configured to improve a downlink quality of a unit frequency band used in the small cell by limiting resources used for downlink transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroaki Takano
  • TERMINAL APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20200045580
    Abstract: [Object] To allow an increase in load on the base station to be suppressed when the device-to-device communication is performed. [Solution] There is provided a terminal apparatus capable of communicating with a base station, the terminal apparatus including an acquisition unit that acquires radio resource information related to a radio resource usable for device-to-device communication not via the base station, of radio resources controllable by the base station, and a determination unit that determines a size of data to be transmitted and received in the device-to-device communication on the basis of the radio resource information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ryota KIMURA, Hiromasa UCHIYAMA, Ryo SAWAI, Sho FURUICHI, Hiroaki TAKANO, Shinichiro TSUDA
  • BEAMFORMING DEVICE FOR PROVIDING WEIGHT SETS
    Publication number: 20200044697
    Abstract: [Object] To enable a cell appropriate for a terminal device to be selected when beamforming is performed. [Solution] Provided is a device including: an acquisition unit configured to acquire multiple weight sets for beamforming; and a control unit configured to map a reference signal for measurement to radio resources associated with a weight set in advance for each weight set included in the multiple weight sets, and multiply the reference signal by the weight set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroaki TAKANO
  • Base station, user equipment, communication control method, and radio communication system
    Patent number: 10555225
    Abstract: A base station includes a radio communication unit that establishes communication with a mobile communication terminal using a plurality of component carriers. The base station further includes a determination unit that determines a handover factor. The base station also includes a control unit allocates to the mobile communication terminal a measurement time interval for at least one component carrier from the plurality of component carriers according to the handover factor. A channel quality of the at least one component carrier of another base station is measured during the measurement time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Takano, Yuichi Morioka, Ryo Sawai
  • APPARATUS AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20200037302
    Abstract: An apparatus including an acquisition unit configured to acquire setting information from a base station, and a selection support unit configured to transmit an uplink reference signal to be used for selecting a beam to be used by the base station in downlink transmission using at least one first unit frequency band of a group including a plurality of unit frequency bands indicated by the setting information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventor: HIROAKI TAKANO
  • Device and method in a public land mobile network including direct communications between terminals
    Patent number: 10536929
    Abstract: There is provided a device that acquires resource information indicating a radio resource for use in device-to-device (D2D) communication between a first terminal device belonging to a first public land mobile network (PLMN) and a second terminal device belonging to a second PLMN; and controls D2D communication between the first terminal device and the second terminal device based on the resource information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiromasa Uchiyama, Hiroaki Takano
  • Allocating time-frequency blocks for a relay link and an access link
    Patent number: 10530460
    Abstract: A base station is provided with a communication unit for communicating with a mobile terminal via a relay link between the base station and a relay device and an access link between the relay device and the mobile terminal, and a selection unit for selecting an allocation pattern of an uplink of the relay link, a downlink of the relay link, an uplink of the access link, and a downlink of the access link to frequency-time blocks from a plurality of allocation patterns that are different in delay occurring between the base station and the mobile terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroaki Takano
  • Device and a method for measuring a channel quality of a secondary cell in an on/off state
    Patent number: 10531327
    Abstract: [Object] To make it possible to perform measurement reporting suitable for an environment in which the on/off state of a cell is switched. [Solution] There is provided a device including: an acquiring unit configured to acquire information indicating that a serving cell is scheduled to be in an off state; and a control unit configured to perform measurement reporting before the serving cell is in the off state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiromasa Uchiyama, Hiroaki Takano, Atsushi Yoshizawa, Shinichiro Tsuda, Sho Furuichi
  • Communication control device, communication control method, terminal device, and information processing device
    Patent number: 10531270
    Abstract: A communication control device including an acquisition unit configured to acquire radio resource information indicating a radio resource, the radio resource being a unit time of cellular communication, for transmitting a discovery signal enabling another device to discover a device conducting device-to-device communication, and a control unit configured to control transmission of the radio resource information to a terminal device The control device makes it possible to moderate load for a device conducting device-to-device communication (D2D communication).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroaki Takano
  • Device and associated methodology for management of resource pools of resources used in device-to-device communications
    Patent number: 10517086
    Abstract: The present application relates to a device including circuitry configured to acquire information indicating one or more resource pools serving as radio resources available for device-to-device communication, and notify a terminal device of the one or more resource pools. The one or more resource pools are resource pools that are selected from among a resource pool set including multiple resource pools, and the multiple resource pools are determined in advance as candidates for radio resources available for device-to-device communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroaki Takano
  • Reception device, transmission device, reception method, transmission method, and program related to allocation of parameters to signals
    Patent number: 10516511
    Abstract: A transmission device that: allocates at least partially shared transmission parameters to at least a subset of a plurality of signals to which resource blocks are allocated, the resource blocks having at least partially overlapping frequency resources or time resources; and controls a transmission process of the plurality of signals based on the shared transmission parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryota Kimura, Hiroaki Takano, Hiromasa Uchiyama, Atsushi Yoshizawa, Yuichi Morioka, Ryo Sawai
  • Transmission of discovery signal in small cells while in off state
    Patent number: 10512086
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a mechanism that enables a signal for measurement to be transmitted in a partial frequency band and measured on the terminal apparatus side. [Solution] An apparatus that operates a small cell, the apparatus including: a processing unit configured to select, from among one or more unit frequency bands in an off state in a plurality of unit frequency bands that may be brought into an on state for uplink communication or downlink communication in the small cell, the unit frequency band in an off state to be used for transmission of a discovery signal to enable measurement in the unit frequency band in an off state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroaki Takano
  • TERMINAL DEVICE, BASE STATION, CONTROL DEVICE, METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20190380088
    Abstract: To provide a mechanism capable of efficiently operating a plurality of forms of communication coping with various use cases. A terminal device includes a communication control unit that controls communication with a communication system which provides one or more logical networks for respectively providing communication services different from each other, an acquisition unit that acquires information regarding the logical network which is providable by the communication system, and a selection unit that selects the communication system to be connected on the basis of the information regarding the logical network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2018
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroaki TAKANO
  • TERMINAL MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND TERMINAL DEVICE
    Publication number: 20190377695
    Abstract: An optimal network is constructed in a case in which a plurality of IoT standards or IoT platforms coexist. According to the present disclosure, provided is a terminal management device including a receiving unit that receives, from a terminal that collects information from a sensor, access timing information related to an accessible timing to the terminal and a transmitting unit that transmits the access timing information to a server that searches for the information. With this configuration, it is possible to construct an optimal network in a case in which a plurality of IoT standards or IoT platforms coexist.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki TAKANO, Naoyuki SATO, Katsuyoshi KANEMOTO, Erika SAITO, Hirotaka SUZUKI, Taichi YUKI
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20190379793
    Abstract: In a system in which a wireless access network and another network are connected to each other, an accurate fee is charged in a case where data held in an application server disposed in the wireless access network is used. The application server holds an application and data relating to the application. A usage mode information generating unit generates usage mode information which is information relating to a usage mode when the wireless terminal uses the held data. A network data usage amount measuring unit measures a network data usage amount when the wireless terminal uses data on another network via a wireless access network connected to the wireless terminal. A fee charging unit charges a fee on the basis of the measured network data usage amount and charge a fee on a basis of the generated usage mode information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroaki TAKANO
  • DEVICE
    Publication number: 20190380057
    Abstract: [Object] To make it possible to perform measurement reporting suitable for an environment in which the on/off state of a cell is switched. [Solution] There is provided a device including: an acquiring unit configured to acquire information indicating that a serving cell is scheduled to be in an off state; and a control unit configured to perform measurement reporting before the serving cell is in the off state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiromasa UCHIYAMA, Hiroaki TAKANO, Atsushi YOSHIZAWA, Shinichiro TSUDA, Sho FURUICHI
  • Control device, base station, terminal device, and control method
    Patent number: 10506470
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a control device, base station that reduces the response time of UE by determining a base station in which data on an application is held in advance and by causing the determined base station to hold the data. [Solution] There is provided a control device including: a control unit configured to determine a base station from among a plurality of base stations on the basis of a predetermined condition, the base station causing data on an application used by a terminal device to be linked, the terminal device wirelessly communicating with the base station; and a notification unit configured to notify all base stations determined by the control unit that the data is caused to be linked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroaki Takano
  • Device and method for assigning subframes as blank subframes
    Patent number: 10506441
    Abstract: [Object] To make it possible to suppress deterioration of communication quality of a terminal device while reducing interference from a small cell. [Solution] There is provided a device including: an acquiring unit configured to acquire information about a plurality of small cells; and a control unit configured to assign blank subframes in which no signal is transmitted and received to each of the plurality of small cells. The control unit assigns the same subframes to one or more small cells that are a part of the plurality of small cells as the blank subframes and does not assign the same subframes to the remaining small cells among the plurality of small cells as the blank subframes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiromasa Uchiyama, Hiroaki Takano
  • Terminal apparatus, communication control method and communication control apparatus
    Patent number: 10499277
    Abstract: [Object] To allow an increase in load on the base station to be suppressed when the device-to-device communication is performed. [Solution] There is provided a terminal apparatus capable of communicating with a base station, the terminal apparatus including an acquisition unit that acquires radio resource information related to a radio resource usable for device-to-device communication not via the base station, of radio resources controllable by the base station, and a determination unit that determines a size of data to be transmitted and received in the device-to-device communication on the basis of the radio resource information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ryota Kimura, Hiromasa Uchiyama, Ryo Sawai, Sho Furuichi, Hiroaki Takano, Shinichiro Tsuda
  • Apparatus and method
    Patent number: 10498518
    Abstract: [Object] To enable interference of directional beams between cells to further decrease. [Solution] Provided is an apparatus including: an acquisition unit that acquires information about a directional beam that is provided from a neighbor base station of a base station, the directional beam serving as an interference source for a terminal apparatus connected to the neighbor base station among a plurality of directional beams which is able to be formed by the base station; and a control unit that decides an operation of the base station regarding transmission of a signal over the directional beam on the basis of the information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroaki Takano