Patents by Inventor Hiroki Matsuda

Hiroki Matsuda 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: 20220385523
    Abstract: A communication device includes an acquisition unit that acquires a bit sequence, and a conversion unit that converts the bit sequence to a predetermined complex constellation point sequence including a plurality of complex constellation points including a non-zero complex constellation point and a zero complex constellation point. At least one of the predetermined complex constellation point sequences is a first complex constellation point sequence in which each of a plurality of complex constellation points constituting the complex constellation point sequence is converted to any complex constellation point or zero complex constellation point of a first signal constellation including non-power of two number of complex constellation points. The conversion unit converts one of the bit sequences to at least the first complex constellation point sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: RYOTA KIMURA, HIROKI MATSUDA, YUKITOSHI SANADA
  • Patent number: 11516790
    Abstract: To provide a wireless communication apparatus that makes it possible to perform wireless communication more efficiently by switching setting or the like for transmission or reception in accordance with whether the wireless communication is non-orthogonal multiple access or orthogonal multiple access. [Solution] There is provided a wireless communication apparatus including: a communication section that performs wireless communication; and a control section that selects setting to be used for transmission control or reception control by the communication section in accordance with whether the wireless communication is non-orthogonal multiple access or orthogonal multiple access.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki Matsuda, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Naoki Kusashima
  • Patent number: 11516715
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes an acquisition unit to acquire, from a base station apparatus being connected, switching information including information used for wireless communication with a movably configured base station apparatus to be a switching destination candidate, a determination unit to determine whether or not to switch a base station apparatus to be a connection destination, and a connection unit to, upon determining by the determination unit to switch the base station apparatus to be the connection destination, execute connection to the base station apparatus to be the switching destination candidate on a basis of the switching information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki Matsuda, Naoki Kusashima
  • Publication number: 20220376745
    Abstract: The terminal device (50) includes a communication unit (51) and a control unit (55). The control unit (55) transmits or receives predetermined data a predetermined number of times via the communication unit (51). In addition, the control unit (55) transmits or receives predetermined data a predetermined number of times in cooperation with other terminal devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroki MATSUDA
  • Patent number: 11509433
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a communication device that enables degradation in the quality of communication between a base station device and a terminal device to be avoided when a sidelink channel is set. [Solution] There is provided a communication device including: a control unit configured to allocate a predetermined gap to a boundary of a resource of a channel to be used in inter-device communication with a resource other than the resource of the channel in a communication system in which signals from different transmission sources are mixed and placed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryota Kimura, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Naoki Kusashima, Hiroki Matsuda, Hiromasa Uchiyama
  • Patent number: 11496975
    Abstract: A communication device includes: a communication unit that performs wireless communication; and a control unit (103) that performs control so that a plurality of synchronization signals is patterned and arranged in regions to which resources of the wireless communication are allocated and is transmitted to another terminal device, the plurality of synchronization signals being associated with each of a plurality of beams allocated to be available for inter-device communication between different terminal devices, in which the control unit (103) performs control so that a pattern in which the plurality of synchronization signals is arranged is switched according to a predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Kusashima, Hiromasa Uchiyama, Yifu Tang, Hiroki Matsuda
  • Patent number: 11490401
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a mechanism that makes it possible to reduce overhead of control information and flexibly control terminal devices. [Solution] There is provided a base station device including a transmission processing unit configured to transmit first control information including information specific to a terminal group, to the terminal group including one or more terminal devices, and transmit second control information to the terminal group on a basis of the information specific to the terminal group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Kusashima, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Hiroki Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20220345908
    Abstract: A control unit receives at least one of a plurality of synchronization signals transmitted after undergoing beam sweeping via a wireless communication unit. The beam sweeping includes each of the plurality of synchronization signals forming a different beam and transmitted from the base station during a predetermined period of time. The control unit determines, from a plurality of pieces of beam sweeping configuration information, one piece of the configuration information based on priority between a plurality of types of beam sweeping and receives the synchronization signal or report the received synchronization signal to the base station using the one piece of the configuration information determined based on the priority. The number of the synchronization signals transmitted during a predetermined period of time varies among the plurality of pieces of beam sweeping configuration information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki TAKANO, Naoki KUSASHIMA, Shinichiro TSUDA, Hiroki MATSUDA, Yifu TANG, Hiroto KURIKI
  • Publication number: 20220329315
    Abstract: Provided is a mechanism which is capable of improving wireless link quality regarding transmission from a terminal device on the ground to a non-ground station device. A terminal device including a control unit configured to acquire information regarding a type of a base station device and control a transmission timing of a signal to the base station device on the basis of the information regarding the type of the base station device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: NAOKI KUSASHIMA, KAZUYUKI SHIMEZAWA, HIROMASA UCHIYAMA, HIROKI MATSUDA, RYOTA KIMURA, YlFU TANG
  • Patent number: 11470584
    Abstract: It is possible to accommodate various communication traffics in a more suitable manner in inter-device communication such as V2X communication. A communication device (100) includes: a communication unit (220) that performs wireless communication; an acquisition unit (243) that acquires information regarding a control resource set from another device, the control resource set including one or more control resources allocated to a partial area included in a control area and defined for every purpose of resources allocated to a data area; and a control unit (241) that extracts the control resource set according to the acquired information regarding the control resource set and controls inter-device communication with another communication device via the wireless communication on the basis of the control resource set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiromasa Uchiyama, Naoki Kusashima, Hiroki Matsuda, Yifu Tang
  • Patent number: 11464052
    Abstract: Provided are a communication device and a communication method capable of further improving the quality between radio links in a communication system in which a base station device and the communication device communicate with each other. A communication device (50) according to the present disclosure includes a receiver (511a) and a transmitter (512d). The receiver (511a) receives a synchronization signal transmitted from a base station device (20, 30). The transmitter (512d) transmits a physical random access channel (PRACH) including a feature capable of uniquely identifying the synchronization signal received by a receiver (511a) and/or a PRACH resource to the base station device (20, 30).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki Matsuda, Naoki Kusashima
  • Publication number: 20220303000
    Abstract: In a wireless communication terminal (50) that performs repetition transmission in which predetermined data is repeatedly transmitted, a wireless communication unit (51) receives continuation information which is information on continuation of the repetition transmission before and after handover, and a control unit (55) performs the repetition transmission after the handover based on the continuation information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki MATSUDA, Naoki KUSASHIMA
  • Patent number: 11451273
    Abstract: A mechanism of modulation in a more appropriate spatial domain is to be provided. A transmission device includes a signal processing unit that applies a precoding matrix on the basis of a first bit sequence to a complex signal point sequence converted from a second bit sequence, and the precoding matrix applied to the complex signal point sequence corresponds to the first bit sequence in a predetermined combination of a first bit sequence candidate and each element of a set of precoding matrices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryota Kimura, Hiroki Matsuda, Yukitoshi Sanada
  • Publication number: 20220294569
    Abstract: A terminal device includes a communication unit and a control unit. The control unit is configured to receive disabling information of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback via the communication unit, and recognize that one or more pieces of HARQ feedback indicated by the disabling information of the HARQ feedback are disabled, and the disabling information of the HARQ feedback is set for each cell, each beam, each component carrier, each bandwidth part (BWP), each user equipment (UE), or each HARQ process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki Matsuda, Hiromasa Uchiyama, Naoki Kusashima, Yifu Tang
  • Publication number: 20220279493
    Abstract: A wireless communication device including an acquisition unit that acquires an information set related to a transmission parameter when transmitting a resource arbitrarily selected from a predetermined resource pool to a transmission target (for example, performing grant-free transmission), and a setting unit that sets the transmission parameter using the information set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki MATSUDA, Kazuyuki SHIMEZAWA, Naoki KUSASHIMA
  • Patent number: 11412562
    Abstract: [Problem to be Solved] To provide a communication apparatus that allows a coordinated operation to be executed between different operators. [Solution] There is provided a communication apparatus including a communication control unit that performs control to concurrently couple a base station of a first operator and a base station of a second operator wirelessly. A cell group of the base station of the first operator and a cell group of the base station of the second operator are different from each other. The communication control unit receives setting information regarding the base station of the second operator from the base station of the first operator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Naoki Kusashima, Hiroki Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20220236466
    Abstract: An optical film includes a plurality of alternating first and second polymeric layers, such that the first polymeric layers have a smaller average in-plane index of refraction than the second polymeric layers and the first polymeric layers have a glass transition temperature of at least 107 deg. C. The optical film may be a reflective polarizer. An optical stack includes a linear absorbing polarizer and the reflective polarizer disposed on, and bonded to, the absorbing polarizer. The reflective polarizer has an optical reflectance of at least 60% for a first polarization state and an optical transmittance of at least 60% for an orthogonal second polarization state. When heated at 105 deg. C. for 15 minutes, a difference in shrinkage of the reflective polarizer and the absorbing polarizer along the first and second polarization states is greater than about zero and 0.2%, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Adam D. Haag, Yi-Chen Chen, Tze Yuan Wang, Hiroki Matsuda, Michelle L. Toy, Ryan J. Eismin, John F. VanDerlofske, III, David J. McDaniel, Matthew B. Johnson
  • Patent number: 11394459
    Abstract: Provided is a mechanism which is capable of improving wireless link quality regarding transmission from a terminal device on the ground to a non-ground station device. A terminal device including a control unit configured to acquire information regarding a type of a base station device and control a transmission timing of a signal to the base station device on the basis of the information regarding the type of the base station device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Kusashima, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Hiromasa Uchiyama, Hiroki Matsuda, Ryota Kimura, Yifu Tang
  • Patent number: 11375496
    Abstract: A wireless communication device is provided that is capable of improving transmission efficiency of the entire system. The wireless communication device includes a communication unit and a control unit. The communication unit transmits and receives a signal by wireless communication. The control unit controls use of a resource used for the wireless communication by the communication unit. A part of a resource used to transmit a signal by wireless communication with a first terminal device is used as a resource used to transmit another signal different from the signal exclusively or using by non-orthogonal multiplexing, and the resource used to transmit the another signal has at least a first channel for data. The control unit controls whether the first channel in the resource used to transmit the another signal is used exclusively or used using by non-orthogonal multiplexing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki Matsuda, Naoki Kusashima
  • Patent number: 11356991
    Abstract: A wireless communication device including an acquisition unit that acquires an information set related to a transmission parameter when transmitting a resource arbitrarily selected from a predetermined resource pool to a transmission target (for example, performing grant-free transmission), and a setting unit that sets the transmission parameter using the information set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki Matsuda, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Naoki Kusashima