Patents by Inventor Kazuhito Niwano

Kazuhito Niwano 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).

  • Patent number: 7941100
    Abstract: A communication system includes mobile stations carrying out transmission at report cycles selected from a group consisting of 0, 1 and other integers without having a relation of a multiple and including a lot of prime numbers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kazuhito Niwano
  • Patent number: 7826797
    Abstract: A communication system includes mobile stations carrying out transmission at report cycles selected from a group consisting of 0, 1 and other integers without having a relation of a multiple and including a lot of prime numbers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kazuhito Niwano
  • Patent number: 7813703
    Abstract: A communication system includes mobile stations carrying out transmission at report cycles selected from a group consisting of 0, 1 and other integers without having a relation of a multiple and including a lot of prime numbers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushika Kaisha
    Inventor: Kazuhito Niwano
  • Publication number: 20100220606
    Abstract: A UL-DPCCH processing unit sets up a transmission mode of a channel for transmit power control according to a transmission (or reception) status of a channel exclusively used for a packet, which is monitored by a transmission and reception channel monitoring unit, and the channel for transmit power control is multiplied by a channel coefficient corresponding to the transmission mode set up by the UL-DPCCH processing unit, and the channel for transmit power control multiplied by the channel coefficient and the channel exclusively used for packet are then multiplexed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2006
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuhito Niwano
  • Publication number: 20090154403
    Abstract: In order to define uniquely a transmission control operation of a mobile station in accordance with the present invention at the time of a E-DCH transmission and to increase the efficiency of the operation of a communications system, the mobile station includes a transmission control means for, for each of a first physical data channel via which user data transmitted via a transport channel from an upper layer are transmitted to a fixed station and a second physical data channel which is an extension of the first physical data channel, selecting transmission control information including a transmission rate depending upon the user data, a multiplex modulation means for performing multiplex modulation on transmission data by using the transmission control information selected by the transmission control means and the amplitude coefficients of the first physical data channel and the second physical data channel, and a transmit power control means for performing control of the transmit power of a transmitting me
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2005
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuhito Niwano
  • Publication number: 20080318586
    Abstract: According to a communications method according to the present invention, data is transmitted from a base station to two or more terminals via a common channel, and transmission power, with which the data is transmitted from the base station to the two or more terminals, is controlled according to a reception state of at least one of the two or more terminals. Furthermore, the terminal transmits reception capability information at a time of selection combining, and at least one of the two or more base stations receives the reception capability information at the time of selective combining and notifies the reception capability information to a radio network controller (RNC) which controls the two or more base stations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2008
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI DENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuhito NIWANO, Hideji Wakabayashi, Koutarou Sugisawa
  • Publication number: 20080254819
    Abstract: For lack of a unique, specific and detailed specification for information on the status of a mobile station to be notified by the mobile station to a fixed station, the operation may be varied from one mobile station to another in a communication system, thereby posing a problem that an efficient uplink scheduling (radio resource assignment) is impossible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2005
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhito Niwano, Hideji Wakabayashi, Miho Maeda
  • Publication number: 20080212524
    Abstract: A mobile station includes an amount-of-data information determining means for monitoring data which are stored on a communication-service-by-communication-service basis or on a transmit-channel-by-transmit-channel so as to determine communication-service-by-communication-service or transmit-channel-by-transmit-channel amount-of-data information. The mobile station transmits the communication-service-by-communication-service or transmit-channel-by-transmit-channel amount-of-data information determined by the amount-of-data information determining means to a base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2004
    Publication date: September 4, 2008
    Inventor: Kazuhito Niwano
  • Publication number: 20080159184
    Abstract: Conventionally, there is a problem that a state transition of E-TFC changes according to QoS for descriptions of data to be transmitted, and therefore a mobile station's operation is not decided uniquely. To solve this problem, a transmission control method in accordance with the present invention includes a step of selecting transmission control information according to a combination of user data transmitted, via a transport channel, from an upper layer, and a step of transmitting the transmission control information, as well as a physical channel into which two or more transport channels are multiplexed, to a fixed station, the transmission control information including at least transmit power information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2005
    Publication date: July 3, 2008
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuhito Niwano
  • Publication number: 20080159238
    Abstract: When a mobile station transmitting a plurality of channels having different transmission timings such as a DPDCH and a HS-DPCCH in uplink measures transmission power over a transmission power measurement period with a slot of the DPDCH as a reference, the transmission timing difference between the channels affects the accuracy of the transmission power measurement. Therefore, a transmission power measurement period is changed depending on transmission timings of the uplink channels such as the DPDCH and the HS-DPCCH, the presence or absence of the HS-DPCCH in addition to the DPDCH, or specifications (version) of the standard applied to the mobile station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2006
    Publication date: July 3, 2008
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuhito Niwano
  • Patent number: 7352698
    Abstract: According to a communications method according to the present invention, data is transmitted from a base station to two or more terminals via a common channel, and transmission power, with which the data is transmitted from the base station to the two or more terminals, is controlled according to a reception state of at least one of the two or more terminals. Furthermore, the terminal transmits reception capability information at a time of selection combining, and at least one of the two or more base stations receives the reception capability information at the time of selective combining and notifies the reception capability information to a radio network controller (RNC) which controls the two or more base stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuhito Niwano, Hideji Wakabayashi, Koutarou Sugisawa
  • Publication number: 20080069057
    Abstract: A scrambler performs IQ multiplexing of output signals from a spreader and a distributor in order to generate a complex signal (I signal and Q signal), amplitude coefficients ?cc(I) and ?cc(Q) are determined in accordance with signal powers on I axis and Q axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Publication date: March 20, 2008
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuhito Niwano
  • Publication number: 20080069056
    Abstract: A scrambler performs IQ multiplexing of output signals from a spreader and a distributor in order to generate a complex signal (I signal and Q signal), amplitude coefficients ?cc(I) and ?cc(Q) are determined in accordance with signal powers on I axis and Q axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Publication date: March 20, 2008
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuhito Niwano
  • Publication number: 20080037474
    Abstract: A mobile station includes a radio link control unit for outputting or inputting data that are transmitted or received via a radio channel to or from a higher-level protocol layer, a media access control unit for outputting or inputting the data via a logical channel to or from the radio link control unit, a physical layer control unit for outputting or inputting the data via a transport channel to or from the media access control unit, and for controlling radio communications, and a radio resource control unit for outputting or inputting control data to or from the radio link control unit, media access control unit, and physical layer control unit. The mobile station multiplexes report information therefrom into a channel for packet data transmission so as to transmit it to a base station. The base station carries out assignment of radio resources using the report information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2004
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuhito Niwano
  • Patent number: 7307943
    Abstract: A mobile station, and corresponding system and method, the mobile station including an IQ multiplexer configured to IQ multiplex transmission data for a data channel and control data for a control channel, and to generate a complex signal; and a transmitter configured to modulate the complex signal generated by the IQ multiplexer, and to transmit the modulated complex signal. When control data for a control channel are added, the IQ multiplexer is configured to assign the control data to be added to the Q axis when a set number for the data channel is an odd number, and to the I axis when an even number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2007
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kazuhito Niwano
  • Patent number: 7289423
    Abstract: When a scrambler (54) performs IQ multiplexing of output signals from a spreader 52 and a distributor 53 in order to generate a complex signal (I signal and Q signal), amplitude coefficients ?cc(I) and ?cc(Q) are determined in accordance with signal powers on I axis and Q axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2007
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kazuhito Niwano
  • Publication number: 20070165575
    Abstract: In a communications system, a mobile station sends a transmission request for permission to transmit packet data to a base station and transmits the packet data to the base station according to transmission schedule information about a transmission schedule which the base station determines in response to the transmission request, and the base station transmits a result of judgment of reception of packet data which it has received to the mobile station. The mobile station transmits transmission request information about new packet data which it will transmit to the base station next before completing reception of a result of judgment of reception of packet data which the mobile station has transmitted to the base station from the base station. As a result, since the mobile station can notify a transmission request for permission to transmit next packet data to the base station efficiently, a delay time which occurs due to retransmission of packet data can be shortened.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2004
    Publication date: July 19, 2007
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI DENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kazuhito Niwano
  • Publication number: 20070081498
    Abstract: A mobile station includes a transmission data storage unit for temporarily storing at least one or more input packet data, a priority control unit for generating priority information which a base station uses for determination of a schedule in advance based on the priority of at least the one or more packet data, and a transmitting unit for transmitting the priority information to the base station. Therefore, to generate a schedule such as a transmission timing at which the base station communicates with each mobile station, the base station can know the priority of packet data stored in each mobile station in advance, and can recognize the existence of a mobile station which is trying to transmit packet data with a high priority to the base station at an early stage. As a result, the base station can assign a transmission timing etc. quickly to the mobile station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2003
    Publication date: April 12, 2007
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI DENKI KABUSHKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kazuhito Niwano
  • Publication number: 20070010238
    Abstract: A communication system includes mobile stations carrying out transmission at report cycles selected from a group consisting of 0, 1 and other integers without having a relation of a multiple and including a lot of prime numbers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2006
    Publication date: January 11, 2007
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI DENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kazuhito Niwano
  • Patent number: 7145863
    Abstract: A mobile station, and corresponding system and method, the mobile station including an IQ multiplexer configured to IQ multiplex transmission data for a data channel and a control data for control channel, and to generate a complex signal; and a transmitter configured to modulate the complex signal generated by the IQ multiplexer, and to transmit the modulated complex signal. When control data for a channel are added, the IQ multiplexer is further configured to assign the control data to be added to the I axis or the Q axis according to whether a set number for the data channel is an odd number or an even number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2006
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kazuhito Niwano