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: 10499387
    Abstract: A base station device and a terminal device efficiently communicate with each other by using a PDSCH. The base station device and the terminal device determine a starting position of an OFDM symbol for a PDSCH in a serving cell based on a transmission mode relating to transmission of the PDSCH, a DCI format that is used for allocation of the PDSCH, an antenna port that is used for the transmission of the PDSCH, and a higher-layer parameter that is determined from a parameter set for a serving cell in which the PDSCH is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shoichi Suzuki, Tatsushi Aiba, Kazunari Yokomakura, Toshizo Nogami, Kimihiko Imamura
  • Patent number: 10492047
    Abstract: In order to perform efficient communications, provided is a terminal device configured to communicate with a base station device. The terminal device includes: a reception unit configured to receive a higher layer signal including a configuration relating to a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH); a scrambling sequence generator configured to, if the terminal device supports a capability relating to low complexity and/or coverage enhancement, apply the same scrambling sequence to the PUSCH during a certain period; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the PUSCH, on the basis of the number of repetitions in the configuration relating to the PUSCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Wataru Ouchi, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Shohei Yamada, Takashi Hayashi, Yasuyuki Kato, Naoki Kusashima, Alvaro Ruiz Delgado, Kimihiko Imamura
  • Publication number: 20190356449
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes: a receiver configured to receive higher layer signaling; and a decoding unit configured to attempt to decode a PDCCH in a control resource set, in which in a time domain, granularity of a physical characteristic of the PDCCH is considered to be X symbols, a value of the X is given by the higher layer signaling, and the higher layer signaling includes information for indicating the number of OFDM symbols of the control resource set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Tomoki YOSHIMURA, Shoichi SUZUKI, Wataru OUCHI, Liqing LIU, Kimihiko IMAMURA
  • Publication number: 20190349937
    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: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Inventors: Naoki KUSASHIMA, Kazuyuki SHIMEZAWA, Wataru OUCHI, Alvaro RUIZ DELGADO, Kimihiko IMAMURA, Takashi HAYASHI
  • Patent number: 10477487
    Abstract: In a communication system in which a base station apparatus and a terminal apparatus communicate with each other, a base station apparatus, a terminal apparatus, and a communication system with which the base station apparatus and the terminal apparatus can efficiently communicate with each other are provided. The terminal apparatus that communicates with the base station apparatus includes a radio resource control section 6011 that configures a plurality of uplink physical channels and that configures an uplink power control-related parameter for each of the plurality of uplink physical channels in accordance with information included in a radio resource control (RRC) signal and a transmission power control section 6015 that sets transmission power of the uplink physical channels on the basis of the uplink power control-related parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Wataru Ouchi, Kimihiko Imamura, Daiichiro Nakashima, Toshizo Nogami, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Shoichi Suzuki, Yasuyuki Kato, Katsunari Uemura
  • Publication number: 20190327761
    Abstract: Provided is a terminal apparatus configured to: receive, in a first PDCCH, a first uplink grant to which first CRC parity bits scrambled with a C-RNTI for a dynamically scheduled transmission is attached; receive, in a second PDCCH, a second uplink grant to which second CRC parity bits scrambled with SPS C-RNTI for a semi-persistently scheduled transmission is attached; perform multiple transmissions corresponding to a bundle, based on the first uplink grant or the second uplink grant; and determine a redundancy version corresponding to each of the multiple transmissions, excluding a first transmission of the multiple transmissions, based at least on whether the bundle is associated with the second uplink grant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Inventors: Shoichi SUZUKI, Tatsushi AIBA, Wataru OUCHI, Takashi HAYASHI, Tomoki YOSHIMURA, Liqing LIU, Kimihiko IMAMURA
  • Patent number: 10447451
    Abstract: A terminal device and a base station device efficiently communicate with each other. For the terminal device, in a case that third information is configured, a third maximum number of the layers assumed for determining a bit width for a first RI and a fourth maximum number of the layers assumed for determining a bit width for a second RI are provided, based on the third information. In case that the third information is not configured, the third maximum number and the fourth maximum number are provided, based on a smallest one of a first number and a second number. The first number is a second maximum number of the layers indicated by second information, and the second number is a largest one of the number of antenna ports of a first CSI-RS resource and the number of antenna ports of a second CSI-RS resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shoichi Suzuki, Tatsushi Aiba, Kazunari Yokomakura, Wataru Ouchi, Takashi Hayashi, Kimihiko Imamura
  • Publication number: 20190313451
    Abstract: Provided is a terminal apparatus configured to receive a PDCCH including DCI format 1C to which CRC parity bits scrambled with a CC-RNTI are added, and to transmit a preamble in an LAA cell, wherein a type of an uplink LBT procedure for a PRACH transmission is determined based on whether or not a PRACH resource to be used for the PRACH transmission is at least included in a subframe in an uplink duration in which no downlink physical channel is received, and a value of the uplink duration is given based at least on an ‘Uplink transmission duration and offset indication’ field included in the DCI format 1C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Inventors: Liqing LIU, Shoichi SUZUKI, Tomoki YOSHIMURA, Wataru OUCHI, Kimihiko IMAMURA
  • Publication number: 20190313465
    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: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shoichi SUZUKI, Kimihiko IMAMURA, Tatsushi AIBA, Wataru OUCHI
  • Publication number: 20190281594
    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: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tatsushi AIBA, Daiichiro NAKASHIMA, Kimihiko IMAMURA, Shoichi SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20190281636
    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: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Liqing LIU, Shoichi SUZUKI, Tomoki YOSHIMURA, Wataru OUCHI, Kimihiko IMAMURA
  • Publication number: 20190280842
    Abstract: Uplink control information can be efficiently transmitted. A terminal apparatus (1): (i) receives an uplink grant used for scheduling of a PUSCH and an uplink grant used for scheduling of a sPUSCH; (ii) transmits uplink control information; and (iii) in a first case of performing sPUSCH transmission in a first subframe in the primary cell and performing PUSCH transmission in the first subframe in the secondary cell, transmits the uplink control information by using the PUSCH in the first subframe in the secondary cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2017
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shoichi SUZUKI, Tatsushi AIBA, Kimihiko IMAMURA, Wataru OHUCHI, Takashi HAYASHI, Tomoki YOSHIMURA, Liqing LIU
  • Publication number: 20190281591
    Abstract: There is provided a terminal for performing OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing) communication with a base station forming a cell. The terminal includes a control channel processing unit configured to monitor, in a sub-frame, a first control channel in a cell-specific search space that is a search space common within the cell, and a first control channel in a UE-specific search space that is a search space specific to the terminal. In a case where monitoring of a second control channel different from the first control channel that is in the cell-specific search space or the UE-specific search space is configured, the control channel processing unit monitors, in a sub-frame, at least both the first control channel in the cell-specific search space and the second control channel in the UE-specific search space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Toshizo NOGAMI, Kazuyuki SHIMEZAWA, Kimihiko IMAMURA, Daiichiro NAKASHIMA
  • Patent number: 10411774
    Abstract: Provided is a terminal device configured to transmit an RI for PDSCH transmission, to receive first information used for determining a first maximum number of layers being a first maximum number assumed for determining the bit width for the RI, to receive a transport block on the PDSCH, and to decode a code block of the transport block. Here, in a case that the decoding of the coded block fails, at least soft channel bits corresponding to a range of prescribed soft channel bits are stored, and the prescribed soft channel bits are based on the first information used for determining the aforementioned first maximum number of layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shoichi Suzuki, Tatsushi Aiba, Kimihiko Imamura, Kazuyuki Shimezawa
  • Publication number: 20190274133
    Abstract: It is possible to efficiently transmit and receive signals containing uplink control information between a base station apparatus and a mobile station apparatus. eREG is configured with a plurality of resources into which one DL PRB pair is divided, eCCE is configured with an aggregation of a plurality of eREGs, a second PDCCH is configured with an aggregation of one or more eCCEs, a PUCCH resource corresponds to each eCCE, a first reception processing unit receives information indicating a plurality of second PDCCH regions and information indicating a PUCCH resource in which association with eCCE of the second PDCCH region for each second PDCCH region is started, from the base station apparatus, and a first control unit configures a PUCCH resource, in which association with eCCE of the second PDCCH region is started, for each second PDCCH region, based on the received information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Inventors: Daiichiro NAKASHIMA, Kazuyuki SHIMEZAWA, Toshizo NOGAMI, Kimihiko IMAMURA
  • Publication number: 20190274077
    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: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Inventors: Shoichi SUZUKI, Wataru OUCHI, Tomoki YOSHIMURA, Liqing LIU, Kimihiko IMAMURA
  • Publication number: 20190274149
    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: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Inventors: Tomoki YOSHIMURA, Shoichi SUZUKI, Wataru OUCHI, Liqing LIU, Kimihiko IMAMURA
  • Publication number: 20190268854
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus transmits an uplink physical channel including a transport block, and sets transmission power to transmit the uplink physical channel based on at least a first element and/or a second element described below.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Shoichi SUZUKI, Wataru OUCHI, Tomoki YOSHIMURA, Liqing LIU, Kimihiko IMAMURA
  • Publication number: 20190268119
    Abstract: Provided is a terminal that performs communication with a base station, the terminal retaining first information that specifies a first starting position which is a starting position of OFDM symbols in which an enhanced physical downlink control channel in a common search space is mapped, and second information, independent of the first information, which specifies a second starting position which is a starting position of OFDM symbols in which an enhanced physical downlink control channel in a terminal-specific search space is mapped; and detecting the enhanced physical downlink control channel in the common search space and the terminal-specific search space, based on the first information and the second information, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshizo NOGAMI, Kazuyuki SHIMEZAWA, Kimihiko IMAMURA
  • Publication number: 20190268926
    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: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Applicants: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Tomoki YOSHIMURA, Shoichi SUZUKI, Wataru OUCHI, Liqing LIU, Kimihiko IMAMURA