Patents by Inventor Kazuaki Takeda

Kazuaki Takeda 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: 20210400661
    Abstract: A radio node includes: a reception section that receives first configuration information relating to a first radio backhaul link and second configuration information relating to at least one of a second radio backhaul link and a radio access link; and a control section that controls a first resource configuration for the first radio backhaul link and a second resource configuration for at least one of the second radio backhaul link and the radio access link, based on the first configuration information and the second configuration information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroki Harada, Kazuaki Takeda
  • Publication number: 20210400594
    Abstract: An apparatus according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a communication module that includes a transmitter that carries out an uplink transmission of an uplink shared channel (physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH)), and a processor that controls a transmission power used in the uplink transmission based on: a value that is calculated based on a number of resource blocks of the uplink transmission and one of a plurality of numerologies having different subcarrier spacings, and a transmission power command (TPC) included in a downlink control information (DCI) format, wherein information about the one of the plurality of numerologies is received via higher layer signaling; and an input apparatus that accepts an input, wherein the PUSCH contains information based on the input. In another aspect, a system is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Takeda, Kazuki Takeda, Hiroki Harada, Satoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 11206694
    Abstract: It is one of the objects to achieve an appropriate communication in a next generation communication system. The user terminal according to one aspect of the present invention includes a receiving section that receives a synchronization signal and a transmitting section that uses a sequence and/or a radio resource determined based on the synchronization signal to transmit a random access preamble.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroki Harada, Kazuki Takeda, Kazuaki Takeda, Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Satoshi Nagata
  • Publication number: 20210391932
    Abstract: A terminal is disclosed that includes a receiver that receives, via higher layer signaling, configuration information indicating a first resource for interference measurement, a second resource of non-zero power (NZP) channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) for interference measurement, and a third resource of NZP CSI-RS for channel measurement. The terminal also includes a processor that performs interference measurement by using the first resource or the second resource, and performs channel measurement by using the third resource. The configuration information indicates a plurality of combinations of a third resource candidate and at least one of a first resource candidate and a second resource candidate. The processor uses, for measurement, a combination indicated by downlink control information among the plurality of combinations. In other aspects, a radio communication method, a base station, and a system are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata, Chongning Na, Xin Wang, Huiling Jiang, Yuichi Kakishima
  • Patent number: 11196531
    Abstract: The present invention is designed so that multiple UL signals of varying RATs are transmitted properly in non-stand-alone radio communication systems. A user terminal has a transmission section that transmits a first uplink (UL) signal of a first radio access technology (RAT) and a second UL signal of a second RAT, at different times, and a control section that controls switching between a first time, which is used to transmit the first UL signal using a first UL carrier of the first RAT, and a second time, which is used to transmit the second UL signal using a second UL carrier of the second RAT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Takeda, Kazuki Takeda, Tooru Uchino, Satoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 11196602
    Abstract: A terminal is disclosed including a processor configured to map a phase tracking reference signal, PTRS, to at least one symbol used for an uplink shared channel starting from a leading symbol of the uplink shared channel; and a transmitter configured to perform transmission processing for the uplink shared channel and the PTRS. In other aspects, another terminal and a base station are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Keisuke Saito, Kazuaki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata, Yuichi Kakishima
  • Patent number: 11197284
    Abstract: A terminal is disclosed including a receiver that receives downlink control information (DCI) including information indicating a mapping pattern of a demodulation reference signal, and a processor that controls reception of the demodulation reference signal based on the information indicating the mapping pattern of the demodulation reference signal. In other aspects, another terminal and a radio communication method are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Keisuke Saito, Kazuaki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata
  • Publication number: 20210377806
    Abstract: A communication device includes a receiving unit that receives information indicating a first set of combinations of radio parameters; a control unit that extracts, based on the first set of the combinations of the radio parameters and a second set of combinations of radio parameters supported by the communication device, a third set of combinations of radio parameters that are common between the first set and the second set; and a transmitting unit that transmits information indicating the third set of the combinations of the radio parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Ryosuke Osawa, Kazuaki Takeda
  • Patent number: 11184896
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for allowing user terminal to acquire information about paging physical resource blocks (PRBs), a method of allowing a base station to indicate information about paging PRBs to UE, a method of allowing UE to determine allocation of paging PRBs, a method of allowing a base station to allocate paging PRBs, a base station and UE. The above method of allowing user terminal to acquire information about paging physical resource blocks (PRBs) includes detecting an anchor PRB, reading information carried by the anchor PRB, and acquiring information about the non-anchor paging PRBs associated with the anchor PRB based on the information carried by the anchor PRB. By this method, non-anchor paging PRBs can be specified to the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Takeda, Naoto Ookubo, Jiahui Liu, Qin Mu, Liu Liu, Huiling Jiang
  • Patent number: 11184123
    Abstract: A terminal is disclosed that includes a receiver that receives a downlink (DL) signal transmitted from each of a plurality of component carriers (CC) in dual connectivity and a processor that makes measurement of the DL signal based on a measurement requirement. The terminal further includes a first measurement requirement of a first secondary CC to which listening before transmission is applied is different from a second measurement requirement of a second secondary CC to which the listening before transmission is not applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroki Harada, Kazuki Takeda, Kazuaki Takeda, Tooru Uchino, Satoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 11178627
    Abstract: The present invention is designed so that frequency bands can be used efficiently depending on what capabilities user terminals have. According to one aspect of the present invention, a user terminal includes a receiving section that receives a plurality of synchronization signal blocks, transmitted in each of a plurality of frequency bands in a specific frequency band, and a control section that controls transmission and/or receipt to use the specific frequency band, based on at least one of the plurality of synchronization signal blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Takeda, Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata, Hiroki Harada
  • Publication number: 20210345253
    Abstract: A user terminal includes: a transmitting section configured to transmit a signal based on a precoding matrix; and a control section configured to correct transmission power of the signal when a value of a part of the precoding matrix is zero. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, the transmission power when performing precoding can be appropriately determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Matsumura, Yuichi Kakishima, Kazuaki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata
  • Publication number: 20210337503
    Abstract: The present invention is designed so that beamforming can be executed properly even when user terminals are in idle mode. A user terminal according to the present invention communicates with a radio base station that uses a plurality of beam patterns, and has a receiving section that performs a receiving process for paging information which is transmitted in varying beam patterns, in a paging time period comprised of a plurality of unit periods, and a transmission section that transmits a response signal in response to receipt of the paging information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Applicants: NTT DOCOMO, INC., NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Takeda, Hiroki Harada, Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata, Yuichi Kakishima
  • Patent number: 11153855
    Abstract: The present invention is designed so that control information and reference signals that are transmitted by using control channels can be multiplexed adequately in the UL/DL in future radio communication systems. According to the present invention, A transmission apparatus transmits control information by using a control channel, and this transmission apparatus has a multiplexing section that multiplexes the control information and a reference signal in a time domain in one symbol, and a transmission section that transmits the control information and the reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Matsumura, Kazuki Takeda, Kazuaki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 11153827
    Abstract: Transmission power is appropriately controlled for various techniques to be introduced for radio communication. A user terminal includes: a transmission section that transmits an uplink signal; and a control section that controls transmission power of the uplink signal based on at least one of received power of a user terminal specific reference signal to which downlink beam forming has been applied and/or received power of a reference signal associated with the downlink beam forming, and a Transmission Power Control (TPC) command included in downlink control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Takeda, Kazuki Takeda, Hiroki Harada, Satoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 11153902
    Abstract: A terminal is disclosed including a transceiver that transmits or receives a transport block (TB) based on a downlink control information and a processor that applies a same symbol allocation across a plurality of slots when transmission or reception of the TB is carried out over the plurality of slots. In other aspects, a radio communication method for a terminal is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Keisuke Saito, Kazuaki Takeda, Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata, Lihui Wang, Xiaolin Hou
  • Patent number: 11153051
    Abstract: A user terminal (20) is provided with: a reception unit (202) which receives a downlink signal containing a demodulation reference signal; a control unit (203) which separates the demodulation reference signal from the downlink signal; and a channel estimation unit (204) which calculates a channel estimation value using the demodulation reference signal. The demodulation reference signal is mapped to a resource element defined for a transmission pattern for a user terminal, and the transmission pattern for a user terminal is selected from among a plurality of transmission patterns for user terminals, so as to be different among the user terminals, and the demodulation reference signals to be mapped to the respective resource elements defined for the plurality of user terminal transmission patterns are configured to be mutually orthogonal to one another among the different user terminal transmission patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Keisuke Saito, Kazuaki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 11153868
    Abstract: Disclosed is to properly perform communications even in an environment enabled to use different TTI lengths in combination. User equipment in one aspect of the present invention includes: a control unit that specifies a configuration of a plurality of transmission time intervals (TTI: Transmission Time Interval) contained in one subframe of an existing system; and a reception unit that receives downlink control information at a radio resource receiving allocation of PDCCH (Physical Downlink Control Channel) of the existing system or at a first TTI of the plural TTIs, and receives data at, at least, one of the plural TTIs on the basis of the downlink control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Takeda, Hiroki Harada, Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata
  • Publication number: 20210321421
    Abstract: A user equipment includes a receiving unit that receives first information indicating a first resource usable for D2D direct communication and second information indicating a second resource usable for the D2D direct communication, a control unit that determines a resource to be used for the D2D direct communication when the first resource and the second resource overlap, and a communication unit that executes the D2D direct communication using the determined resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Ryosuke Osawa, Kazuaki Takeda, Kazuki Takeda
  • Publication number: 20210314097
    Abstract: A user equipment includes a receiving unit configured to receive a first signal of inter-terminal direct communication transmitted from a first user equipment, and information indicating a first resource for transmitting a HARQ (Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request) response corresponding to the first signal of inter-terminal direct communication transmitted from either one of a base station apparatus or the first user equipment; a control unit configured to determine the HARQ response based on a reception result of the first signal of inter-terminal direct communication; and a transmitting snit configured to transmit the determined HARQ response to the base station apparatus or the first user equipment, by using the first resource for transmitting the HARQ response.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Ryosuke Osawa, Yuki Matsumura, Kazuaki Takeda, Huan Wang, Xiaolin Hou