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).

  • Patent number: 11424894
    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: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroaki Takano
  • Publication number: 20220256316
    Abstract: A communication apparatus and corresponding method for performing wireless communication to include controlling deliver of content for plural programs using a directional beam, and notifying a terminal apparatus of first information regarding a timing of transmitting the directional beam in each of a plurality of directions in association with second information notified commonly to one or more of the terminal apparatuses within a communication range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroaki TAKANO
  • Patent number: 11412491
    Abstract: To enable a reduction in the effect of backhauling on wireless communications in the case of carrier aggregation, provided herein is a communication control device that acquires information about a terminal device that uses one component carrier of a macro cell as a primary component carrier, sets one or more component carriers of a small cell partially or fully overlapping with the macro cell as an additional component carrier to be used additionally by the terminal device, and sets one component carrier among the one or more component carriers as a special component carrier on which the terminal device is able to transmit uplink control information on an uplink control channel, wherein the uplink control information includes at least one of an acknowledgement (ACK) and a negative acknowledgement (NACK) regarding reception of a downlink signal, an uplink scheduling request, or periodically reported channel state information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroaki Takano
  • Publication number: 20220239726
    Abstract: A communication device (100) which operates as an application node which executes one or a plurality of applications includes: a communication unit (110) that executes communication with another logical node; and a control unit (130) that controls communication by the communication unit (110). The another logical node is a node which is applied with application function chaining (AFC) in which, in transmission/reception of an application message with the application node as a transmission source or a transmission destination, one or a plurality of application functions act on the application message midway along a path of the transmission/reception, and the control unit (130) causes the communication unit (110) to transmit, to the another logical node, a message according to a publishing/subscription model in order to transmit and receive the application message on which the one or the plurality of application functions act.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Ryota KIMURA, Hiroaki TAKANO, Hirofumi KASAI, Ryo SAWAI, Fumio TERAOKA
  • Patent number: 11388658
    Abstract: A device including a measurement unit configured to perform measurement of each of one or more frequency bands that are a part of a plurality of frequency bands that are not used by a terminal device. The measurement unit does not perform measurement of each of the remaining frequency bands among the plurality of frequency bands or performs measurement of each of the remaining frequency bands at a frequency lower than a frequency of the measurements of each of the one or more frequency bands, which makes it possible to improve measurement performed by a terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiromasa Uchiyama, Hiroaki Takano, Sho Furuichi
  • Patent number: 11387874
    Abstract: A mechanism capable of more appropriately performing antenna switching is provided. A communication device includes: a plurality of antenna panels (60) that each includes one or more antennas (51), one or more transmission analogue circuits (54) for transmitting a signal by using the antenna, and one or more reception analogue circuits (55) for receiving a signal by using the antenna; and a control section (240) that controls, on the basis of indication from a base station, the antenna panel in which antenna switching for switching of connection between the antenna and the transmission analogue circuit is to be performed among a plurality of the antenna panels, and a first resource on which the antenna switching in the corresponding antenna panel is to be performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroaki Takano
  • Patent number: 11387889
    Abstract: [Object] Provided is a communication apparatus capable of effectively using resources in a case where transmission is performed with directional beams. [Solving Means] Provided is a communication apparatus including a control unit configured to change a setting of scan with a directional beam between beam groups each including a plurality of the directional beams, in which the control unit adjusts the setting of the scan with the directional beam of each of the beam groups depending on a status of an area that the beam group covers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroaki Takano
  • Publication number: 20220217700
    Abstract: [Problem] The delivery of content to a terminal apparatus using a directional beam is achievable more suitably. [Solution] There is provided a communication apparatus including a communication unit configured to perform wireless communication, and a control unit configured to control in such a way as to deliver content subjected to multicast from an upper node to a terminal apparatus using at least a part of a plurality of directional beams allocated to the terminal apparatus from the directional beams used for the wireless communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroaki TAKANO
  • Patent number: 11362757
    Abstract: An apparatus including: a first transmission processing unit that generates transmission signal sequences of multiple power layers that are to be multiplexed using power allocation; and a second transmission processing unit that processes a transmission signal sequence of a power layer using an interleaver, a scrambler, or a phase coefficient corresponding to the power layer for each of one or more of the multiple power layers. The apparatus improves accuracy of decoding of a desired signal when multiplexing/multiple access is performed using power allocation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryota Kimura, Hiroaki Takano, Ryo Sawai, Shinichiro Tsuda
  • Patent number: 11356860
    Abstract: [Problem] To enable measurement of interference between a downlink signal and an uplink signal transmitted in different cells in a more suitable manner. [Solution] A communication device includes a communication unit that performs wireless communication with a first terminal device located within a communication range, an acquisition unit that acquires, from another base station, first information related to a second terminal device located within a communication range of the other base station, and a notification unit that notifies the first terminal device of second information for measuring interference of an uplink signal transmitted from the second terminal device to the other base station with a downlink signal transmitted to the first terminal device, based on the acquired first information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroaki Takano
  • Publication number: 20220174704
    Abstract: A communication device (200) includes a determination unit (241) and a selection unit (242). The determination unit (241) determines a plurality of time offset values for determining a combination of a receiving antenna panel and a receiving beam for user data scheduled by control information transmitted from a base station (100). The selection unit (242) selects a time offset value for determining the combination of the receiving antenna panel and the receiving beam for the user data from among the plurality of time offset values based on the control information received from the base station (100).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroaki TAKANO
  • Publication number: 20220166489
    Abstract: A communication device (200) includes an acquisition unit (242) and a reception unit (243). The acquisition unit (242) acquires similarity information indicating the similarity of the beam characteristics of the transmitting antenna panel in a plurality of signal groups transmitted from a base station (100). The reception unit (243) selects and receives a signal group to be received, from among the plurality of signal groups, based on the similarity information acquired by the acquisition unit (242).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroaki TAKANO
  • Publication number: 20220158710
    Abstract: A terminal device (200) includes a plurality of antenna panels, a reception unit (210), a selection unit (241), and a setting unit (244). The reception unit (210) receives one or more reference signals from a base station (100) via the plurality of antenna panels. The selection unit (241) selects one or more receiving beams from among the received one or more reference signals. The setting unit (244) sets a combination of a receiving antenna panel and the receiving beam to be used by the terminal device (200) when receiving one or more pieces of control information transmitted from the base station (100), based on a combination of the receiving antenna panel and the receiving beam used at the reception of the one or more reference signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroaki TAKANO
  • Patent number: 11337218
    Abstract: [Problem] The delivery of content to a terminal apparatus using a directional beam is achievable more suitably. [Solution] There is provided a communication apparatus including a communication unit configured to perform wireless communication, and a control unit configured to control in such a way as to deliver content subjected to multicast from an upper node to a terminal apparatus using at least a part of a plurality of directional beams allocated to the terminal apparatus from the directional beams used for the wireless communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroaki Takano
  • Patent number: 11337081
    Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication apparatus (100) including two-dimensionally-arrayed antenna elements (110), and an arrangement unit (140) configured to arrange IQ data of signals output from the antenna elements, for each time in a state in which an array of the antenna elements is maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroaki Takano
  • Patent number: 11317452
    Abstract: A device includes circuitry that dynamically changes an uplink/downlink configuration of a time division duplex (TDD) carrier. The circuitry notifies a terminal device of a radio resource for device-to-device communication appropriate for the uplink/downlink configuration. The radio resource is a radio resource of at least one uplink subframe of the uplink/downlink configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroaki Takano
  • Publication number: 20220109679
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device and method and a program capable of efficiently protecting sufficient security. An information processing device includes a communication unit that transmits information regarding security of the information processing device and receives designation information indicating processing to be performed for security protection, transmitted in response to the transmission of the information regarding the security and a control unit that performs the processing for security protection on a basis of the designation information in a case where the control unit transmits data to a predetermined device or in a case where the control unit receives data transmitted from the device. The present technology is applicable to a healthcare IoT system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2018
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventors: HIROAKI TAKANO, TAIZO SHIRAI, YOHEI KAWAMOTO, YU TANAKA, SHIGERU SUGAYA
  • Patent number: 11284290
    Abstract: A method and corresponding terminal device that performs communication using at least one of a plurality, of network slices and includes a control circuitry that reports information used to determine a resource allocation to a network slice of the plurality of network slices used by the terminal device to a communication control device that controls the plurality of network slices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroaki Takano
  • Patent number: 11284275
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a control unit that changes, for each of beam groups, setting of scanning for resetting communication with an apparatus. The communication is performed by using a directional beam. The scanning is performed by using the directional beam. The beam groups each include a plurality of the directional beams. The control unit performs allocation of resources to the plurality of beam groups at one time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroaki Takano
  • Patent number: 11284222
    Abstract: A communication apparatus and corresponding method for performing wireless communication, to include controlling delivery of content for plural programs using a directional beam, and notifying a terminal apparatus of first information regarding a timing of transmitting the directional beam in each of a plurality of directions in association with second information notified commonly to one or more of the terminal apparatuses within a communication range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroaki Takano