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).

  • COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD
    Publication number: 20200245156
    Abstract: [Problem to be Solved] To provide a communication apparatus that makes it possible to promptly decide a beam suitable for communication when it is no longer possible to perform communication by using a beam while transmission is performed by using a directional beam. [Solution] There is provided a communication apparatus including 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: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroaki TAKANO
  • Apparatus and method
    Patent number: 10727921
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a mechanism capable of more appropriately ascertaining an interference condition of a data signal. [Solution] An apparatus includes: a processing unit that feeds back a channel quality indicator (CQI) of a serving base station, which is calculated on a basis of results of measuring reference signals received from the serving base station and a neighbor base station and information related to a power difference between the reference signal and a data signal of the neighbor base station, to the serving base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroaki Takano
  • Apparatus and method
    Patent number: 10721048
    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: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroaki Takano
  • DEVICE
    Publication number: 20200229163
    Abstract: [Object] To enable a frequency band shared between wireless communication of a cellular system and wireless communication conforming to a wireless LAN standard to be more appropriately used in the cellular system. [Solution] There is provided a device including an acquisition unit configured to acquire information indicating a terminal device which is a device candidate for performing wireless communication of a cellular system using a frequency band shared between the wireless communication of the cellular system and wireless communication conforming to a wireless local area network (LAN) standard, and a control unit configured to notify the terminal device that the terminal device is the device candidate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroaki TAKANO
  • Apparatus for acquiring and reporting power allocation
    Patent number: 10708941
    Abstract: There is provided a device including: an acquisition unit configured to acquire information on power allocation to a data signal serving as a target for multiplexing using power allocation; and a reporting unit configured to report the information on the power allocation to a terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryota Kimura, Shinichiro Tsuda, Hiroaki Takano
  • Apparatus for wireless communication
    Patent number: 10707978
    Abstract: [Object] To suppress the overhead related to the transmission of the reference signal when beamforming is performed. [Solution] Provided is an apparatus, including: an acquiring unit configured to acquire antenna-related information related to an antenna port allocated to a directional beam for transmission by the directional beam; and a notifying unit configured to notify a terminal apparatus of the antenna-related information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroaki Takano
  • MULTIPLE-INPUT MULTIPLE-OUTPUT (MIMO) APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20200204219
    Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed that includes a processor configured to acquire subarray information indicating a plurality of subarrays usable for multilayer Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO), notify a terminal apparatus of information related to the subarray, wherein the terminal apparatus is a terminal apparatus that performs a report related to a combination of two or more subarrays included in the plurality of subarrays, and wherein the plurality of subarrays includes two or more subarrays that share one or more antenna ports.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroaki TAKANO
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND A PROGRAM FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING FOR PERFORMING MEASUREMENT OF FIRST AND SECOND FREQUENCY BANDS BASED ON FIRST AND SECOND DISCOVERY REFERENCE SIGNALS WITHIN FIRST AND SECOND PERIODS RESPECTIVELY
    Publication number: 20200205064
    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: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiromasa UCHIYAMA, Hiroaki TAKANO, Sho FURUICHI
  • Device and method for controlling use of a frequency band shared by a cellular system and wireless system among multiple base stations
    Patent number: 10694391
    Abstract: A device includes a carrier sense unit configured to perform carrier sense for predetermined radio resources among radio resources of a frequency band shared by a cellular system and a wireless local area network (LAN) and a first control unit configured to control wireless communication of a base station of the cellular system in the frequency band in a manner that no signal is transmitted through the predetermined radio resources among the radio resources of the frequency band, and a signal is transmitted through radio resources other than the predetermined radio resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroaki Takano
  • Wireless communication device, wireless communication system, wireless communication method, and computer-readable medium for transmission of transmission weight information
    Patent number: 10693534
    Abstract: An electronic device including circuitry configured to control receiving a first reference signal or a second reference signal. The second reference signal is formed by weighting the first reference signal. The circuitry is configured to determine first transmission weight information and second transmission weight information based on reception of the first reference signal and the second reference signal. The circuitry is further configured to control transmitting of the first transmission weight information according to a first period and the second transmission weight information according to a second period, the first period being different from the second period. The second transmission weight information is determined and transmitted after the first transmission weight information is transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroaki Takano
  • Terminal device, wireless communication device, wireless communication method, and computer program
    Patent number: 10687304
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a wireless communication device which enables paging to be effectively performed with respect to a terminal device that is a target of paging in a system in which another terminal device acts like a cell. [Solution] Provided is a terminal device including: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a paging message from a base station; and a control unit configured to execute paging with respect to one or more other terminal devices that perform wireless communication with the base station via the terminal device on the basis of the paging message acquired by the acquisition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiromasa Uchiyama, Hiroaki Takano, Atsushi Yoshizawa
  • DEVICE FOR CALCULATING A RECEIVED QUALITY OF REFERENCE SIGNAL
    Publication number: 20200186223
    Abstract: [Object] To make it possible to select a cell that is more preferable for a terminal device in an environment in which beamforming is performed. [Solution] There is provided a device including: an acquiring unit configured to acquire first received power information indicating received power of a reference signal for measurement transmitted by a target base station using a weight set for beamforming in a terminal device and second received power information indicating received power of a reference signal for measurement transmitted by another base station using a weight set for beamforming in the terminal device; and a control unit configured to calculate received quality of the reference signal transmitted by the target base station in the terminal device based on the first received power information and the second received power information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroaki TAKANO
  • Method and apparatus for network allocation vector frequency band sharing between wireless communication of the cellular system and other wireless communication
    Patent number: 10681726
    Abstract: There is provided a device including a control unit configured to control a wireless communication device for performing wireless communication of a cellular system so that the wireless communication device transmits a frame including duration information for setting a network allocation vector (NAV) using a frequency band shared between the wireless communication of the cellular system and wireless communication conforming to a wireless local area network (LAN) standard. The control unit controls a base station of the cellular system so that the wireless communication of the cellular system is performed using the frequency band in a period after the transmission of the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroaki Takano
  • BASE STATION, METHOD FOR RADIO COMMUNICATION, RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND RADIO TERMINAL
    Publication number: 20200178227
    Abstract: Provided is a base station including a transmitter section that transmits a radio signal in a frame including a control region and a data region, a control signal generating section that generates a control signal which includes reference information identified by a group identifier assigned to a plurality of radio terminals and which is transmitted in the control region, and a data signal generating section that generates a data signal by disposing information for the plurality of radio terminals in a reference region indicated by the reference information in the data region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventor: HIROAKI TAKANO
  • Wireless communications system, wireless communications apparatus, wireless communications method and computer program for wireless communication
    Patent number: 10673655
    Abstract: In performing SVD-MIMO transmission, a set-up procedure is simplified while assuring a satisfactory decoding capability with a reduced number of antennas. A transmitter estimates channel information based on reference signals sent from a receiver, determines a transmit antenna weighting coefficient matrix based on the channel information, calculates a weight to be assigned to each of components of a multiplexed signal, and sends, to the receiver, training signals for respective signal components, the training signals being weighted by the calculated weights. On the other hand, the receiver determines a receive antenna weighting coefficient matrix based on the received training signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichi Kuroda, Hiroaki Takano
  • Device and method
    Patent number: 10674554
    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: April 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroaki Takano
  • Device and method
    Patent number: 10667269
    Abstract: [Object] To enable radio resources to be used more efficiently in non-orthogonal multiple access. [Solution] There is provided a device including: a grouping unit configured to perform grouping of a plurality of terminal devices that support non-orthogonal multiple access on the basis of a size of transmission data of each of the plurality of terminal devices; and an allocation unit configured to allocate the same radio resources to each of groups obtained as a result of the grouping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiromasa Uchiyama, Atsushi Yoshizawa, Ryota Kimura, Hiroaki Takano
  • Communication control device, communication control method, and terminal device
    Patent number: 10660099
    Abstract: A communication control device including: an acquisition unit configured to acquire band use information indicating which cell of a macro cell and a small cell partially or entirely overlapping with the macro cell uses each of a plurality of frequency bands used by one of the macro cell and the small cell; and a communication control unit configured to notify a terminal device of the band use information. The communication control device improves radio communication of a terminal device when a small cell is disposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroaki Takano
  • Information processing device, information processing method, and a program for information processing for performing measurement of first and second frequency bands based on first and second discovery reference signals within first and second periods respectively
    Patent number: 10652805
    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 wait 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: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiromasa Uchiyama, Hiroaki Takano, Sho Furuichi
  • Communication control device, communication control method, and terminal device
    Patent number: 10652842
    Abstract: A communication control device including an acquisition unit that acquires synchronization relation information indicating which frequency bands are mutually synchronized among a plurality of frequency bands used for radio communication, and a control unit that controls transmission of the synchronization relation information to a terminal device. The plurality of frequency bands include one or more frequency bands with which a common reference signal is not transmitted in at least one subframe among subframes which are units of time in the radio communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroaki Takano