Patents by Inventor Hiromasa Umeda

Hiromasa Umeda 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: 20220330179
    Abstract: A terminal includes a receiving unit that receives P-Max that is configuration information of maximum transmit power in a cell in Frequency Range 2 (FR2) among Frequency Range 1 (FR1) and the FR2; and a control unit that performs, when the P-Max of the cell in the FR2 is not supported, an operation of ignoring the P-Max of the cell in the FR2 or an operation of considering the cell in the FR2 as a barred cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hideaki Takahashi, Hiromasa Umeda
  • Publication number: 20220322238
    Abstract: Various techniques are provided for a method including receiving, at a network device from a user equipment (UE), an indication of a UE capability to support a per-band maximum power for a radio band combination (BC) used by the UE, determining whether the UE supports per-band maximum power for the radio BC based on the indication of the UE capability, and in response to determining the UE supports per-band maximum power for the radio BC, determining a total UE transmission power based on a sum of a maximum power of each band in the radio BC.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Hiromasa Umeda, Petri Juhani Vasenkari, Tero Henttonen
  • Publication number: 20220322075
    Abstract: A terminal is disclosed that includes a processor that includes, in capability information, a separation class indicating a frequency separation between a lower edge of a component carrier with a lowest frequency for supported intra-band non-contiguous carrier aggregation and an upper edge of a component carrier with a highest frequency for the supported intra-band non-contiguous carrier aggregation. The terminal further includes a transmitter that transmits the capability information to a base station, where the separation class is indicated by an index to identify a class of the frequency separation. In other aspects, a transmission method and a radio communication system are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hideaki Takahashi, Hiromasa Umeda, Kei Andou
  • Publication number: 20220295300
    Abstract: A UE receives a radio signal via a receive beam. The UE controls the receive beam in a first state or in a second state where control of the receive beam is different from that of the first state. The UE directs at least one receive beam to a serving cell and directs another receive beam to a direction different from the serving cell in a case of controlling the receive beam in the second state and executing configuration regarding a secondary cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Takuma Takada, Hideaki Takahashi, Hiromasa Umeda
  • Publication number: 20220295301
    Abstract: A UE receives a radio signal via a receive beam (Rx). The UE controls the receive beam in a first state or in a second state where control of the receive beam is different from that of the first state. The UE 200 shortens at least any one of a cell detection time and a measurement time for an upper layer in a case of controlling the receive beam in the second state as compared with a case of controlling the receive beam in the first state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Takuma Takada, Hideaki Takahashi, Hiromasa Umeda
  • Publication number: 20220295583
    Abstract: A UE determines frequency allocation (Contiguous/Non-contiguous) of carriers that the UE supports and transmits, to a network, allocation information that can be used to identify the determined frequency allocation. The frequency allocation is applied to dual connectivity over different specific frequency bands.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Takuma Takada, Hiromasa Umeda, Yuta Oguma
  • Publication number: 20220295303
    Abstract: A UE receives a radio signal via a receive beam. The UE controls the receive beam in a first state or in a second state where control of the receive beam is different from that of the first state. The UE executes received power measurement using a synchronization signal block by simultaneously using a plurality of the receive beams in a case of controlling the receive beam in the second state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Takuma Takada, Hideaki Takahashi, Hiromasa Umeda
  • Publication number: 20220232371
    Abstract: A terminal includes a receiving unit that receives, from a base station, information for requesting a report on terminal capability; a control unit that includes, when a plurality of values indicating respective additional spectrum emissions is defined for a frequency band, first information indicating modifications on spectrum emissions corresponding to the respective plurality of values indicating the respective additional spectrum emissions in the report, as the terminal capability; and a transmitting unit that transmits the report to the base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hideaki Takahashi, Hiromasa Umeda
  • Patent number: 11381959
    Abstract: There is provided a terminal including a processor that includes, in capability information, a frequency separation between a lower edge of a component carrier with a lowest frequency for supported carrier aggregation and an upper edge of a component carrier with a highest frequency for the supported carrier aggregation; and a transmitter that transmits the capability information to a base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hideaki Takahashi, Hiromasa Umeda, Kei Andou
  • Patent number: 11330496
    Abstract: User equipment communicates with a first base station apparatus included in a first radio communication system and a second base station apparatus included in a second radio communication system, and includes an interference notification generating part that generates an interference notification including information indicating that an device-internal interference at the user equipment is detected or that resolution of device-internal interference is detected; a sending/receiving part that sends the interference notification to the first base station apparatus or the second base station apparatus, and receives a response to the interference notification from the first base station apparatus or the second base station apparatus; and a switching part that switches an uplink transmission scheme based on the response of the interference notification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hideaki Takahashi, Hiromasa Umeda, Kei Andou
  • Publication number: 20220132503
    Abstract: A radio access network element includes at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code. The at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the radio access network element to: generate a carrier aggregation configuration for a user equipment based on capability information from the user equipment, the capability information including at least supported maximum channel bandwidth information and supported minimum channel bandwidth information for each band within a band combination; and send the carrier aggregation configuration to the user equipment to configure the user equipment for communication with the radio access network element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: Nokia Technologies OY
    Inventors: Hiromasa UMEDA, Petri J. VASENKARI, Amaanat ALI
  • Publication number: 20220124627
    Abstract: A terminal according to the invention is provided with: a control unit that determines a transmission power of an uplink signal on the basis of the association between a first parameter indicating a transmission rate of the uplink signal during a predetermined time period and a second parameter related to the uplink transmission power; and a transmission unit that transmits the uplink signal by use of the transmission power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuta Oguma, Hiromasa Umeda
  • Publication number: 20210377933
    Abstract: A user equipment in a radio communication system including the user equipment and a base station, the user equipment including: a transmission unit that transmits a first maximum bandwidth, which is a maximum bandwidth available to the user equipment for communication, to the base station; and a reception unit that receives, from the base station, a center frequency or frequencies on both ends of a band having a bandwidth, which is equal to or less than the first maximum bandwidth, within a band having a second maximum bandwidth that is a maximum bandwidth available to the base station for communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hideaki Takahashi, Kunihiko Teshima, Hiromasa Umeda, Sadayuki Abeta
  • Patent number: 11190999
    Abstract: A user equipment includes: selection means configured to receive a plurality of signaling values and a plurality of maximum transmission power values corresponding to the plurality of signaling values from a base station, to select one signaling value of the plurality of signaling values, and to select the maximum transmission power value corresponding to the selected signaling value; and control means configured to perform cell selection or cell reselection by determining whether a reception level value in a cell to be determined satisfies a predetermined condition using a correction value, which is obtained by subtracting a compensation value based on the maximum transmission power value from a minimum reception level value predetermined for the cell to be determined in the cell selection or cell reselection, and the reception level value measured for the cell to be determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hideaki Takahashi, Hiromasa Umeda
  • Publication number: 20210306960
    Abstract: A user equipment includes a transmission unit configured to transmit a signal; and a control unit configured to determine, according to a power class, a maximum transmission power for transmitting the signal. The control unit adjusts, according to an instruction from a base station apparatus, the maximum transmission power. The instruction includes information validating or invalidating adjustment of the maximum transmission power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yousuke Sano, Hiromasa Umeda, Hideaki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20210258884
    Abstract: User equipment includes a control unit that compensates for, by a compensation value related to uplink transmission power capability of the user equipment, a threshold value of a received level that defines a condition for performing measurement for cell selection, and that determines, by the compensated threshold value of the received level, whether the measurement for the cell selection is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yousuke Sano, Hiromasa Umeda, Hideaki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11071108
    Abstract: A user equipment for communicating with a base station in a radio communication system that supports narrow band communication is disclosed including a receiver that receives, from the base station via a first frequency band, information for identifying a second frequency band. A synchronization signal and broadcast information are transmitted on the first frequency band, and the synchronization signal and the broadcast information are not transmitted on the second frequency band. The user equipment further includes a processor that identifies a center frequency of the second frequency band based on the received information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hideaki Takahashi, Hiromasa Umeda, Kazuaki Takeda
  • Publication number: 20210195536
    Abstract: A base station includes a control unit that configures, for each power class of a plurality of power classes, SIntraSearchP that is a threshold value of a received level for performing intra-frequency measurement for cell selection and SnonIntraSearchP that is a threshold value of a received level for performing inter-frequency measurement for cell selection; and a transmitting unit that transmits, to the user equipment, the SIntraSearchP and the SnonIntraSearchP that are configured for the power class of the plurality of power classes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yousuke Sano, Hiromasa Umeda, Hideaki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20210176714
    Abstract: A user equipment includes a transmission unit configured to transmit a signal; and a control unit configured to determine, according to a power class, a maximum transmission power for transmitting the signal. The control unit causes the maximum transmission power to change according to a modulation method for the signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yousuke Sano, Hiromasa Umeda, Hideaki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20210176711
    Abstract: A first base station apparatus includes a transmitting unit that transmits, to a second base station apparatus among a plurality of base station apparatuses, information indicating a maximum transmit power of user equipment with respect to the first base station apparatus and the second base station apparatus, a receiving unit that receives, from the second base station apparatus, information for a request to configure the maximum transmit power, and a setting unit that transmits the information indicating the maximum transmit power to the user equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hideaki Takahashi, Hiromasa Umeda, Kei Andou