Patents by Inventor Kimihiko Imamura

Kimihiko Imamura 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: 11888764
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes a coding unit configured to divide a transport block into one or more code blocks and generate coded bit(s) by coding the one or more code blocks; and a transmitter configured to transmit the coded bit(s) by using a channel, wherein multiplex bit(s) are given based on at least coupling of the coded bit(s) generated by coding of the one or more code blocks, the coding unit maps the multiplex bit(s) to a matrix in a first-axis prioritized manner and reads the multiplex bit(s) from the matrix in the first-axis prioritized manner or in a second-axis prioritized manner, and whether the first axis or the second axis is prioritized in a case that the multiplex bit(s) are read from the matrix is given based on at least whether a signal waveform applied to a prescribed channel is an OFDM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoki Yoshimura, Shoichi Suzuki, Tatsushi Aiba, Liqing Liu, Wataru Ouchi, Takashi Hayashi, Kimihiko Imamura
  • Patent number: 11696323
    Abstract: Uplink communication is efficiently performed in non-allocated frequencies. The terminal apparatus includes: a reception unit configured to receive downlink control information on a PDCCH; and a transmission unit configured to transmit a random access preamble. For a first frame structure type, the downlink control information is used to configure a subframe number of a first uplink subframe in which transmission of the random access preamble is allowed. For a second frame structure type, the downlink control information is used to configure a subframe number of a second uplink subframe in which transmission of the random access preamble is allowed and a symbol number of an uplink symbol in the second uplink subframe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoki Yoshimura, Takashi Hayashi, Naoki Kusashima, Shoichi Suzuki, Tatsushi Aiba, Kazunari Yokomakura, Wataru Ouchi, Kimihiko Imamura
  • Patent number: 11438929
    Abstract: To make a mobile station apparatus efficiently generate a base sequence. In a mobile station apparatus that generates a sequence for a demodulation reference signal on the basis of at least a sequence group number and transmits to a base station apparatus the demodulation reference signal together with a physical uplink shared channel used for transmission of a transport block, the mobile station apparatus receives information indicating a value of a parameter relating to the sequence from the base station apparatus, and determines the sequence group number without using the value of the parameter in a case where the mobile station apparatus performs transmission of the transport block on the physical uplink shared channel as part of a contention based random access procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shoichi Suzuki, Kimihiko Imamura, Tatsushi Aiba, Wataru Ouchi
  • Patent number: 11310818
    Abstract: An apparatus includes: a transmitter configured to transmit a transport block and HARQ-ACK on PUSCH; and a physical layer processing unit configured to calculate a number of coded bits for the HARQ-ACK, at least based on a number of SC-FDMA symbols NPUSCH-initialsymb for PUSCH initial transmission for the transport block, and modulation order for the transport block, wherein the number of the SC-FDMA symbols NPUSCH-initialsymb is given at least based on NLBT and a number of SC-FDMA symbols NULsymb included in an uplink slot, and a value of NLBT is 1 in a case that a time continuous signal of a first SC-FDMA symbol included in the PUSCH is generated based on a content of a resource element corresponding to a second SC-FDMA symbol following the first SC-FDMA symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Tomoki Yoshimura, Wataru Ouchi, Shoichi Suzuki, Liqing Liu, Kimihiko Imamura
  • Patent number: 11228412
    Abstract: There are provided a terminal device, a base station device, and an integrated circuit that enable a base station device and a terminal device to determine parameters related to uplink signals or uplink reference signals and to perform efficient communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tatsushi Aiba, Shoichi Suzuki, Kimihiko Imamura, Wataru Ouchi, Kazunari Yokomakura
  • Patent number: 11140700
    Abstract: A communication method used by a terminal apparatus includes the step of separately generating first coded bits fk of a transport block, second coded bits q0 of control information, and third coded bits q1 of a rank indicator, and multiplexing the first coded bits fk and the second coded bits q0 to generate multiplexed bits gk, and the step of multiplexing the multiplexed bits gk and the third coded bits q1 to generate a first sequence hk, wherein the position where the third coded bits q1 are mapped is given at least based on a part of a first condition, a second condition, and a third condition, the first condition is whether a search space detecting the PDCCH is a CSS or a USS, the second condition is which RNTI is used to scramble CRC parity bits attached to the DCI format, and the third condition is whether the first method or the second method is used for the first coded bits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Tomoki Yoshimura, Shoichi Suzuki, Wataru Ouchi, Liqing Liu, Kimihiko Imamura
  • Publication number: 20210242983
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes a coding unit configured to divide a transport block into one or more code blocks and generate coded bit(s) by coding the one or more code blocks; and a transmitter configured to transmit the coded bit(s) by using a channel, wherein multiplex bit(s) are given based on at least coupling of the coded bit(s) generated by coding of the one or more code blocks, the coding unit maps the multiplex bit(s) to a matrix in a first-axis prioritized manner and reads the multiplex bit(s) from the matrix in the first-axis prioritized manner or in a second-axis prioritized manner, and whether the first axis or the second axis is prioritized in a case that the multiplex bit(s) are read from the matrix is given based on at least whether a signal waveform applied to a prescribed channel is an OFDM.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: Tomoki YOSHIMURA, Shoichi SUZUKI, Tatsushi AIBA, Liqing LIU, Wataru OUCHI, Takashi HAYASHI, Kimihiko IMAMURA
  • Patent number: 11051318
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive a DCI format including an uplink grant, and a transmitter configured to transmit a PUSCH or an sPUSCH based on the uplink grant. A TTI of the PUSCH is one sub-frame. A TTI of the sPUSCH is shorter in value than one slot. In a case that a transmission of a channel quality indicator is triggered in response to a transmission of the PUSCH, the uplink control information is transmitted in the PUSCH. In a case that a transmission of a channel quality indicator is triggered in response to a transmission of the sPUSCH, a transmission of the uplink control information is dropped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Tomoki Yoshimura, Shoichi Suzuki, Wataru Ouchi, Liqing Liu, Kimihiko Imamura
  • Patent number: 11026256
    Abstract: The terminal apparatus 1 receives an uplink grant to be used for scheduling a PUSCH in the serving cell and an uplink grant to be used for scheduling a sPUSCH in the serving cell, transmits a periodic channel state information report using a PUCCH in the serving cell, transmits the periodic channel state information report using the PUSCH in a subframe in which the PUSCH is scheduled, and does not transmit the periodic channel state information report using the sPUSCH in a subframe in which the sPUSCH is scheduled. According to the present invention, the terminal apparatus 1 can efficiently transmit the uplink control information. Also, the base station apparatus 3 can efficiently receive the uplink control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Shoichi Suzuki, Tatsushi Aiba, Kimihiko Imamura, Wataru Ouchi, Takashi Hayashi, Tomoki Yoshimura, Liqing Liu
  • Patent number: 11026181
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus transmits uplink information on an uplink physical channel, encodes the uplink information and sets transmission power for the uplink physical channel at least based on a parameter, wherein in a case that a first error correction encoding method is applied to the uplink information, the parameter is given at least based on a product of a first value and a first number of bits before coding per resource element, and in a case that a second error correction encoding method is applied to the uplink information, the parameter is given at least based on a product of a second value and a second number of bits before coding per resource element, the second value being different from the first value, and the second error correction encoding method being different from the first error correction encoding method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Shoichi Suzuki, Wataru Ouchi, Tomoki Yoshimura, Liqing Liu, Kimihiko Imamura
  • Patent number: 11018815
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes a coding unit configured to divide a transport block into one or more code blocks and generate coded bit(s) by coding the one or more code blocks; and a transmitter configured to transmit the coded bit(s) by using a channel, wherein multiplex bit(s) are given based on at least coupling of the coded bit(s) generated by coding of the one or more code blocks, the coding unit maps the multiplex bit(s) to a matrix in a first-axis prioritized manner and reads the multiplex bit(s) from the matrix in the first-axis prioritized manner or in a second-axis prioritized manner, and whether the first axis or the second axis is prioritized in a case that the multiplex bit(s) are read from the matrix is given based on at least whether a signal waveform applied to a prescribed channel is an OFDM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Tomoki Yoshimura, Shoichi Suzuki, Tatsushi Aiba, Liqing Liu, Wataru Ouchi, Takashi Hayashi, Kimihiko Imamura
  • Patent number: 11005552
    Abstract: A wireless communication device may autonomously transition from a multiple antenna port mode to a single antenna port mode. The wireless communication device may implicitly notify a base station about the autonomous transition from the multiple antenna port mode to the single antenna port mode. The base station may reallocate resources that were previously allocated to the wireless communication device but that are no longer being used by the wireless communication device. In some cases, the base station may configure the wireless communication device's antenna port mode via radio resource control signaling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kimihiko Imamura, John Michael Kowalski, Sayantan Choudhury
  • Patent number: 10986668
    Abstract: Provided is a terminal apparatus that performs an uplink LBT procedure, wherein one or more than one subframes are allocated for transmission of a message 3 in an LAA cell, and an LBT procedure for transmission of a random access preamble is initiated in a case where it is determined that a channel is busy in all of the one or more than one subframes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Liqing Liu, Shoichi Suzuki, Tomoki Yoshimura, Wataru Ouchi, Kimihiko Imamura
  • Publication number: 20210100026
    Abstract: Uplink communication is efficiently performed in non-allocated frequencies. The terminal apparatus includes: a reception unit configured to receive downlink control information on a PDCCH; and a transmission unit configured to transmit a random access preamble. For a first frame structure type, the downlink control information is used to configure a subframe number of a first uplink subframe in which transmission of the random access preamble is allowed. For a second frame structure type, the downlink control information is used to configure a subframe number of a second uplink subframe in which transmission of the random access preamble is allowed and a symbol number of an uplink symbol in the second uplink subframe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventors: TOMOKI YOSHIMURA, TAKASHI HAYASHI, NAOKI KUSASHIMA, SHOICHI SUZUKI, TATSUSHI AIBA, KAZUNARI YOKOMAKURA, WATARU OUCHI, KIMIHIKO IMAMURA
  • Patent number: 10966127
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus configures transmission timing for a PUSCH in a target cell based on first information included in a handover command received. The terminal apparatus initiates a random access procedure in a primary cell, at least in a case that an SR is pending, a UL-SCH resource is not available for transmission in a current subframe, and a valid PUCCH resource for the SR is not available in any one of subframes. The terminal apparatus does not initiate the random access procedure in the primary cell, in the case that the SR is pending, the UL-SCH resource is not available for the transmission in the current subframe, and the valid PUCCH resource for the SR is not available in any one of the subframes, and at least in a case that the first information is configured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Shoichi Suzuki, Wataru Ouchi, Tomoki Yoshimura, Liqing Liu, Kimihiko Imamura
  • Patent number: 10959193
    Abstract: Provided is a transmission unit that, if transmission of a PUCCH of a first CG overlaps transmission of a PUSCH and/or a PUCCH of a second CG in a certain subframe and UCI including HARQ-ACK is transmitted on the PUCCH of the first CG, upon transmit power of the PUCCH of the first CG exceeding a first upper limit value, performs scaling on the transmit power of the PUCCH of the first CG such that the transmit power of the PUCCH does not exceed the first upper limit value, and upon the transmit power of the PUCCH of the first CG not exceeding the first upper limit value, sets the transmit power of the PUCCH of the first CG to power required for the PUCCH of the first CG.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Wataru Ouchi, Toshizo Nogami, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Kimihiko Imamura, Naoki Kusashima, Alvaro Ruiz Delgado
  • Patent number: 10939437
    Abstract: A terminal communicating with a base station by using an FDD cell and a TDD cell includes a reception unit that performs reception over a PDCCH transmitted using a DCI format. In a case where the TDD cell is configured as a primary cell for the terminal, a first uplink reference UL-DL configuration used for determining an interval between reception of the PDCCH indicating transmission of a PUSCH and the transmission of the PUSCH is configured for the TDD cell, and a second uplink reference UL-DL configuration used for determining whether or not to use DAI included in the DCI format of the PDCCH indicating the transmission of the PUSCH is configured for the FDD cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoki Kusashima, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Wataru Ouchi, Alvaro Ruiz Delgado, Kimihiko Imamura, Takashi Hayashi
  • Patent number: 10912065
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) receiving, from a base station (BS), a higher layer signal including first information used for configuring more than one sets of one or more downlink component carriers (DCCs). The UE receives, using a physical downlinkn k control channel (PDCCH) in a UE-specific search space in a first subframe, from the BS, downlink control information (DCI) including second information indicating a trigger for a transmission of channel state information (CSI), the transmission of the CSI being triggered for one set of the more than one sets of one or more DCCs, the DCI being used for scheduling of a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) in one uplink component carrier. The UE transmits, using the PUSCH in a second subframe, to the BS, the CSI for the one set of the more than one sets of one or more DCCs in a case that the DCI including the second information indicating the trigger for the transmission of the CSI is received in the user equipment search space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tatsushi Aiba, Daiichiro Nakashima, Kimihiko Imamura, Shoichi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10904873
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus for performing discontinuous reception (DRX) at least monitors both a PDCCH for C-RNTI and a PDCCH for CC-RNTI for a DRX-related active time and monitors a PDCCH for CC-RNTI in a period of a CC-RNTI monitoring window. The CC-RNTI monitoring window is started in a subframe n?X+1, and in a case that a second PDCCH is detected in a subframe n?X+v or a subframe up to the subframe n?X+v, the CC-RNTI monitoring window is ended in the subframe n in which the second PDCCH is detected, or in a case that the second PDCCH is not detected in the subframe n?X+v or the subframe up to the subframe n?X+v, the CC-RNTI monitoring window is ended in the subframe n?X+v.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Shoichi Suzuki, Wataru Ouchi, Tomoki Yoshimura, Liqing Liu, Kimihiko Imamura
  • Patent number: 10904915
    Abstract: Uplink communication is efficiently performed in non-allocated frequencies. The terminal apparatus includes: a reception unit configured to receive downlink control information on a PDCCH; and a transmission unit configured to transmit a random access preamble. For a first frame structure type, the downlink control information is used to configure a subframe number of a first uplink subframe in which transmission of the random access preamble is allowed. For a second frame structure type, the downlink control information is used to configure a subframe number of a second uplink subframe in which transmission of the random access preamble is allowed and a symbol number of an uplink symbol in the second uplink subframe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoki Yoshimura, Takashi Hayashi, Naoki Kusashima, Shoichi Suzuki, Tatsushi Aiba, Kazunari Yokomakura, Wataru Ouchi, Kimihiko Imamura