Patents by Inventor Kenichi Higuchi

Kenichi Higuchi 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: 8971283
    Abstract: A radio resource assignment method for a physical channel in an uplink directed from a mobile apparatus to a base station in a radio communication system, includes: assigning a contention-based channel and a scheduled channel according to one of a time division scheme, a frequency division scheme, and a hybrid scheme of the time division scheme and the frequency division scheme. In addition, radio resources are properly assigned to each of the contention-based channel, a common control channel of the scheduled channel, and a shared data channel of the scheduled channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kenichi Higuchi, Hiroyuki Atarashi, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Patent number: 8971902
    Abstract: A mobile communication system includes a first assignment unit configured to assign radio resources to a user in a W-CDMA system, a second assignment unit configured to assign radio resources to a user in a LTE system, a dual mode terminal capable of communicating in the W-CDMA system and the LTE system, and a selection unit configured to select the first assignment unit or the second assignment unit depending on a type of user traffic data in communication with the dual mode terminal. The assignment unit selected by the selection unit determines which of the radio resources is available for the dual mode terminal and signals the determined radio resources to the dual mode terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Nobuhiko Miki, Mamoru Sawahashi, Kenichi Higuchi
  • Patent number: 8948159
    Abstract: A transmitter includes an amplitude adjustment unit multiplying an amplitude adjustment sequence value for adjusting amplitude with a synchronization channel transmitted from a base station for establishing synchronization with a mobile station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Motohiro Tanno, Kenichi Higuchi, Mamoru Sawahashi, Yoshihisa Kishiyama
  • Patent number: 8913555
    Abstract: A radio relay station apparatus has a receiving section configured to receive a downlink signal including relay information as to whether or not a mobile terminal apparatus performs relay transmission, a relay amplification factor control section configured to control a relay amplification factor when performing the relay transmission when the relay information is information indicating that the relay transmission is performed, and a transmitting section configured to transmit an uplink signal amplified at the controlled relay amplification factor. The relay amplification factor control section controls the relay amplification factor so that a power density of a signal from the mobile terminal apparatus received at a radio base station apparatus via the radio relay station apparatus becomes substantially equal to a case where the mobile terminal apparatus exists at a position of the radio relay station apparatus and performs transmission without relay transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventor: Kenichi Higuchi
  • Patent number: 8897231
    Abstract: A disclosed mobile station includes a multiplexing portion that multiplexes a contention-based channel and a non-contention-base channel, and a transmitting portion that transmits the multiplexed contention-based and non-contention-based channels to a base station. In the mobile station, the contention-based channel and the non-contention-based channel are distinguished from whether scheduling is performed before transmission in the base station. The contention-based channel includes one or more of a fast access channel, a reservation channel, and a synchronization channel. The non-contention-based channel includes one or more of an uplink shared data channel and an uplink shared control channel. The fast access channel includes traffic data, or control data having a data size smaller than a predetermined size, or a combination thereof. The reservation channel includes information to request scheduling the non-contention-based channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Mamoru Sawahashi, Kenichi Higuchi
  • Patent number: 8880089
    Abstract: In a mobile communication system including a first base station and a second base station, the first base station includes: a user information obtaining unit configured to obtain user information in the first base station, and the second base station includes: a user information obtaining unit configured to obtain user information in the second base station; a base station internal information collection unit configured to collect user information in the first and the second base stations; and a resource assignment determination unit configured to determine radio resources that can be used by the first base station and radio resources that can be used by the second base station based on the user information in the first and the second base stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Akihito Morimoto, Motohiro Tanno, Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Kenichi Higuchi, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Patent number: 8873501
    Abstract: A base station used in a mobile communication system employing a single carrier scheme for uplink transmission is disclosed. The base station includes a scheduler configured to allocate one or more uplink resource blocks to a user device according to uplink channel conditions of the user device; and a reporting unit configured to report scheduling information indicating the allocation result to the user device. An uplink control channel of the user device is mapped to a resource block in a transmission frame including multiple resource blocks according to a hopping pattern based on the scheduling information; and the uplink control channel is mapped to a resource block according to the same hopping pattern regardless of whether the uplink control channel is associated with a user data channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Teruo Kawamura, Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Kenichi Higuchi, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Patent number: 8873499
    Abstract: A user apparatus generates an uplink control channel including at least one of acknowledgement information and channel condition information on an downlink, and transmits the uplink control channel in a predefined dedicated band if no resource is assigned to transmit an uplink data channel. The uplink control channel includes multiple unit block sequences resulting from multiplication of the same factor with all chips of a CAZAC code sequence for the user apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Teruo Kawamura, Kenichi Higuchi, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Patent number: 8873437
    Abstract: A base station apparatus in a mobile communication system allowing for user equipment terminals having different numbers of receiving antennas is disclosed. The base station apparatus includes a mapping unit mapping a reference signal, a primary broadcasting signal, a synchronization signal, and an L1/L2 control signal onto a predetermined signal format; and a transmission unit transmitting the mapped signals, in which, within a sub-frame, the mapping unit maps the L1/L2 control signal and the primary broadcasting signal so as to be time-domain multiplexed, maps the primary broadcasting signal and the synchronization signal within a predetermined bandwidth in a middle of a system bandwidth, maps a reference signal included in a predetermined transmission stream within the predetermined bandwidth, but does not map a reference signal included in a transmission stream other than the predetermined transmission stream within the predetermined bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Kenichi Higuchi, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Patent number: 8851826
    Abstract: A bottom surface part of a bucket includes first and second curved surface parts. The second curved surface part is positioned closer to a back surface part than the first curved surface part. A second curvature radius of the second curved surface part is shorter than a first curvature radius of the first curved surface part. The center of the first curvature radius is positioned to the outside of a main bucket body when viewed from the side. In a horizontal state, the first curved surface part is arranged along or above a reference curved surface when viewed from the side. A connecting part between the first curved surface part and the second curved surface part is positioned more towards a lip part than the portion of the bottom surface part that is positioned lowest in the bottom surface part in the horizontal state when viewed from the side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Takanori Nagata, Kenichi Higuchi, Masakuni Ueda, Kouzou Ishida, Daijirou Itou
  • Patent number: 8797946
    Abstract: A disclosed user device generates an uplink control channel including at least one of acknowledgement information and a channel quality indicator regarding downlink and transmits the uplink control channel via a dedicated frequency band when no resource is allocated for transmission of an uplink data channel. The uplink control channel includes multiple unit blocks constituting a subframe and each of the unit blocks includes a sequence generated by multiplying all chips of an orthogonal code sequence assigned to the user device by the same factor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Teruo Kawamura, Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Kenichi Higuchi, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Patent number: 8780851
    Abstract: In a radio communication system including a mobile station and a base station apparatus for communicating with the mobile station according to a SC-FDMA scheme in uplink, the mobile station includes a transmitting unit configured to transmit at least one of a first signal and a second signal; and a Sounding RS transmitting unit configured to determine a transmission band for a Sounding Reference Signal (Sounding RS) based on mapping information of at least one of the first signal and the second signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Daisuke Nishikawa, Hiroyuki Ishii, Teruo Kawamura, Kenichi Higuchi
  • Patent number: 8780850
    Abstract: A user equipment terminal for transmitting an uplink control channel to a base station according to a single carrier scheme includes a reception determining unit configured to determine reception of data, which are transmitted from the base station according to scheduling, and generate a reception determination result as first control information; and a control information multiplexing unit configured to assign the first control information to a first radio resource positioned at an end of a system band and assign second control information, which is transmitted with a radio resource dedicated to the user equipment terminal, to a predetermined position in a second radio resource adjacent to the first radio resource, to multiplex the first control information and the second control information into the uplink control channel. The present invention also relates to a base station and an uplink control channel configuration method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Kenichi Higuchi, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Patent number: 8755457
    Abstract: In MIMO multiplex transmission accompanied by precoding, a reduction of peak power is realized while minimizing deterioration of transmission quality. The present MIMO multiplex transmission method includes a step of generating transmission data corresponding to a plurality of streams to be transmitted simultaneously, a step of performing precoding so that the transmission data is received by a receiver as data orthogonal to each other, a step of applying amplitude clipping to the precoded transmission data in stream units to suppress peaks of the entire transmission power, and a step of suppressing allocation of interference power caused by the amplitude clipping to streams in a good channel state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc
    Inventor: Kenichi Higuchi
  • Patent number: 8737380
    Abstract: A transmitter includes an amplitude adjustment unit multiplying an amplitude adjustment sequence value for adjusting amplitude with a synchronization channel transmitted from a base station for establishing synchronization with a mobile station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Motohiro Tanno, Kenichi Higuchi, Mamoru Sawahashi, Yoshihisa Kishiyama
  • Patent number: 8737283
    Abstract: A disclosed OFDM-based transmission device includes a unicast channel generating unit configured to generate a unicast channel; an MBMS channel generating unit configured to generate an MBMS channel; a multiplexing unit configured to time-division-multiplex the unicast channel and the MBMS channel in the same frequency band; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit time-division-multiplexed transmission symbols. In the disclosed transmission device, the guard interval length for the MBMS channel is set longer than the guard interval length for the unicast channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenichi Higuchi, Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Patent number: 8725186
    Abstract: The present invention provides a base station apparatus capable of preventing degrading of throughput performance even when feedback information amount on precoding in uplink MIMO transmission is reduced. This base station (200) has a scheduler (231) for determining resource blocks used in wireless communications with each mobile station (100) adaptively, a precoding weight selecting section (232) for selecting a precoding weight for controlling phase and/or amplitude of a transmission signal for each antenna in the mobile station (100) based on reception quality on uplink at the resource blocks determined to the mobile station (100); and transmission/reception sections (206a and 206b) for transmitting the determined precoding weight to the mobile station (100).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Hidekazu Taoka, Yuichi Kakishima, Hiroyuki Kawai, Kenichi Higuchi, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Patent number: 8711770
    Abstract: A base station apparatus used in a mobile communication system to which an OFDM scheme is applied in downlink is provided with: a scheduler configured to perform assignment of radio resources to a user apparatus for each subframe; a control channel generation unit configured to generate a control channel for reporting a result of scheduling by the scheduler to the user apparatus; and a mapping unit configured to map the control channel and a data channel, wherein the control information includes information indicating a radio resource amount used for the control channel, and the mapping unit multiplexes information indicating the radio resource amount used for the control channel into a first OFDM symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Nobuhiko Miki, Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Kenichi Higuchi, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Patent number: 8711670
    Abstract: One aspect of the present invention relates to a base station apparatus in a mobile communication system, comprising: an acquisition unit configured to receive an uplink signal from a user equipment and acquire channel condition information and an average value of the channel condition information for each of one or more frequency resource blocks; a reference metric calculation unit configured to calculate a reference metric indicative of priority of assignment of the frequency resource blocks to the user equipment based on the channel condition information and the average value of the channel condition information acquired by the acquisition unit; a modification unit configured to modify the reference metric calculated by the reference metric calculation unit with a first parameter to generate a modified metric; a scheduler configured to compare the modified metrics of the individual frequency resource blocks generated by the modification unit and determine an assignment plan of radio resources; and a transm
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: NTT Docomo, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenichi Higuchi, Daisuke Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 8699443
    Abstract: A base station communicates with a user device transmitting an uplink signal based on a single-carrier transmission scheme. The base station includes a frequency hopping determining unit configured to determine whether to apply frequency hopping to the user device based on radio-wave propagation information from the user device and a traffic type of data to be transmitted by the user device; a scheduler configured to allocate frequencies to the user device based on uplink channel reception conditions of the user device; and a reporting unit configured to report allocation information indicating resource units allocated by the scheduler to the user device. When the frequency hopping determining unit determines to apply the frequency hopping to the user device, the scheduler allocates, to the user device, resource units with different frequency bands in different slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Nobuhiko Miki, Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Kenichi Higuchi, Mamoru Sawahashi