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).

  • 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
  • COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20200136710
    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: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroaki TAKANO
  • Device
    Patent number: 10638472
    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: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroaki Takano
  • Communication control device, program, communication control method, and terminal device
    Patent number: 10638382
    Abstract: There is provided a communication control device including an acquisition unit configured to acquire system information of a frequency band that is used in a small cell that is partially or entirely overlapped by a macro cell, and a control unit configured to control downlink transmission of the system information in the macro cell. The control unit notifies a terminal device positioned within the macro cell of radio resource that is used in the downlink transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroaki Takano
  • Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) apparatus
    Patent number: 10630350
    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 subarrays, 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: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroaki Takano
  • BASE STATION, USER EQUIPMENT, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, AND RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20200120562
    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: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki TAKANO, Yuichi MORIOKA, Ryo SAWAI
  • RECEPTION DEVICE, TRANSMISSION DEVICE, RECEPTION METHOD, TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND PROGRAM RELATED TO ALLOCATION OF PARAMETERS TO SIGNALS
    Publication number: 20200112409
    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: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ryota KIMURA, Hiroaki TAKANO, Hiromasa UCHIYAMA, Atsushi YOSHIZAWA, Yuichi MORIOKA, Ryo SAWAI
  • DOWNLINK QUALITY IMPROVEMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20200107306
    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: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroaki TAKANO
  • ALLOCATING TIME-FREQUENCY BLOCKS FOR A RELAY LINK AND AN ACCESS LINK
    Publication number: 20200099440
    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: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroaki TAKANO
  • COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20200099438
    Abstract: [Object] Provided is a communication apparatus capable of selecting a procedure to be performed when plural procedures collide with each other. [Solving Means] Provided is a communication apparatus including a control unit configured to select, based on a predetermined requirement, a signal to be transmitted in a case where transmission of user data, transmission of a first reference signal for channel status acquisition, and transmission of a second reference signal for suitable beam selection from beams emitted by a base station conflict with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroaki TAKANO
  • DEVICE AND METHOD IN A PUBLIC LAND MOBILE NETWORK INCLUDING DIRECT COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN TERMINALS
    Publication number: 20200100233
    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: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiromasa UCHIYAMA, Hiroaki TAKANO
  • COMMUNICATION CONTROL DEVICE, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20200092705
    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: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroaki TAKANO
  • Device for calculating a received quality of reference signal
    Patent number: 10587326
    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: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroaki Takano
  • Telecommunications apparatus and methods
    Patent number: 10582407
    Abstract: A method of operating a terminal device in a wireless telecommunications system that supports a connected mode of operation in which terminal devices receive a type user-plane data from the network infrastructure equipment using primary and/or secondary component carriers operating on different frequency bands and an idle mode of operation in which terminal devices do not receive that type of user-plane data from the network infrastructure equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brian Alexander Martin, Martin Warwick Beale, Hiroaki Takano, Anders Berggren
  • Communication apparatus, communication method, and communication system for handling frames of variable length
    Patent number: 10575214
    Abstract: Frames in a variable length frame format which are addressed to a plurality of users are multiplexed and preferably transmitted. Data frames having different lengths are multiplexed on a same time through space division multiple access, but since the multiplexed frames are transmitted while eventually having a same length, when the multiplexed data frames from the access point STA0 are received in the respective communication stations STA1 to STA3 in FIG. 4 or when data simultaneously transmitted from the respective communication stations STA1 to STA3 are received in the access point STA0 in FIG. 5, it is possible to eliminate an operation instability of AGC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryota Kimura, Hiroaki Takano, Yuichi Morioka
  • DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ASSIGNING SUBFRAMES AS BLANK SUBFRAMES
    Publication number: 20200059789
    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: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiromasa UCHIYAMA, Hiroaki TAKANO
  • TRANSMISSION OF DISCOVERY SIGNAL IN SMALL CELLS WHILE IN OFF STATE
    Publication number: 20200059933
    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: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroaki TAKANO
  • Base station, method, computer readable medium, and system for radio communication for suppressing load of blind decoding using a control signal
    Patent number: 10568083
    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: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroaki Takano
  • CONTROL DEVICE, BASE STATION, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND CONTROL METHOD
    Publication number: 20200053597
    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: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroaki TAKANO