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: 10397921
    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: August 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoki Kusashima, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Wataru Ouchi, Alvaro Ruiz Delgado, Kimihiko Imamura, Takashi Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20190261286
    Abstract: With respect to uplink carrier aggregation, transmit power in a serving cell (c) is determined on the basis of maximum output power (PCMAX, C) for the serving cell c and total maximum output power (PCMAX). The maximum output power (PCMAX, C) for the serving cell (c) is based on maximum output power (PPowerClass) defined by a power class corresponding to a band to which the serving cell (c) belongs, and the total maximum output power (PCMAX) is based on maximum output power (PPowerClass) defined by a power class corresponding to a combination of aggregated bands.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventors: SHOICHI SUZUKI, TATSUSHI AIBA, KIMIHIKO IMAMURA, KAZUNARI YOKOMAKURA, HIROKI TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20190253206
    Abstract: There is provided a terminal device which includes a transmission unit that transmits HARQ response information to a first serving cell and a second serving cell on a physical uplink shared channel in a subframe n. The physical uplink shared channel is transmitted based on a physical downlink control channel or an enhanced physical downlink control channel which is detected in a state of including a downlink control information format 0/4. Two or more serving cells are configured in the terminal device, in a case where frame constitution types of any two configured serving cells are different from each other, and in a case where a primary cell has Frame constitution type 2, BcDL is applied to the first serving cell of Frame constitution type 2 by using the following expression (1), and is applied to the second serving cell of Frame constitution type 1 by using the following expression (2). [Math. 1] BcDL=min(WDAIUL,Mc)??Expression (1) [Math.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoki KUSASHIMA, Toshizo NOGAMI, Kazuyuki SHIMEZAWA, Wataru OUCHI, Kimihiko IMAMURA
  • Patent number: 10375734
    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: September 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shoichi Suzuki, Kimihiko Imamura, Tatsushi Aiba, Wataru Ouchi
  • Publication number: 20190238206
    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: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Inventors: Kimihiko Imamura, John Michael Kowalski, Sayantan Choudhury
  • Publication number: 20190229860
    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: July 18, 2017
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicants: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Tomoki YOSHIMURA, Shoichi SUZUKI, Tatsushi AIBA, Liqing LIU, Wataru OUCHI, Takashi HAYASHI, Kimihiko IMAMURA
  • Publication number: 20190229847
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes: a receiver configured to detect a DCI format in a search space; a coding unit configured to divide a transport block into one or multiple code blocks, based at least on the DCI format and code the one or multiple code blocks to generate coded bits; and a transmitter configured to transmit the coded bits on a PUSCH. Multiplexed bits are given based at least on concatenation of the coded bits generated by coding the one or multiple code blocks. The coding unit maps the multiplexed bits to a matrix in a first-axis prioritized manner and reads out the multiplexed bits mapped to the matrix in the first-axis prioritized manner or a second-axis prioritized manner. Whether to prioritize the first axis or the second axis in a case of reading out the multiplexed bits mapped to the matrix, is based at least on whether or not the search space is CSS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Tomoki YOSHIMURA, Shoichi SUZUKI, Wataru OUCHI, Liqing LIU, Kimihiko IMAMURA
  • Publication number: 20190229861
    Abstract: An 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 the number of OFDM symbols of the channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicants: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Tomoki YOSHIMURA, Shoichi SUZUKI, Tatsushi AIBA, Liqing LIU, Wataru OUCHI, Takashi HAYASHI, Kimihiko IMAMURA
  • Publication number: 20190223162
    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: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventors: Shoichi SUZUKI, Wataru OUCHI, Tomoki YOSHIMURA, Liqing LIU, Kimihiko IMAMURA
  • Patent number: 10356763
    Abstract: Provided is a terminal that performs communication with a base station, in which a Physical Uplink Control Channel is generated by mapping response information to a Physical Uplink Control Channel resource that is determined in accordance with at least a prescribed offset and generates a Physical Uplink Control Channel, in a case where a Physical Downlink Control Channel is detected in a first Enhanced Physical Downlink Control Channel-Physical Resource Block set, and in which a Physical Uplink Control Channel is generated by mapping the response information to a Physical Uplink Control Channel resource that is determined in accordance with at least an offset which is configured individually for every terminal and generates the Physical Uplink Control Channel, in a case where the Physical Downlink Control Channel is detected in a second Enhanced Physical Downlink Control Channel-Physical Resource Block set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshizo Nogami, Shoichi Suzuki, Kimihiko Imamura, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Naoki Kusashima
  • Publication number: 20190207663
    Abstract: There is provided a terminal device that communicates with a base station apparatus. The device includes: a higher layer processing unit that configures a discovery signal which includes cell-specific reference signals present in DwPTSs of all downlink subframes and all special subframes, a first synchronization signal present in a prescribed subframe, a second synchronization signal present in a first subframe, and one or more non-zero power CSI reference signals during a period of continuous subframes in a predetermined cell; and a reception unit that receives the discovery signal. A subframe offset between the second synchronization signal and the non-zero power CSI reference signal is independently configured for each of the non-zero power CSI reference signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Inventors: Kazuyuki SHIMEZAWA, Toshizo NOGAMI, Naoki KUSASHIMA, Kimihiko IMAMURA
  • Patent number: 10342008
    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: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshizo Nogami, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Kimihiko Imamura, Daiichiro Nakashima
  • Patent number: 10341958
    Abstract: There is provided a terminal device that communicates with a base station apparatus. The terminal device includes means for setting a maximum output power value in uplink transmission to a first serving cell group based on a maximum output power value of the terminal device and an output power value for the first serving cell group in a case where the uplink transmission to the first serving cell group overlaps with uplink transmission to a second serving cell group in a certain timing, and means for setting a maximum output power value in the uplink transmission to the second serving cell group based on the maximum output power value of the terminal device, the output power value for the first serving cell group and a value for guaranteeing the uplink transmission to the first serving cell group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoki Kusashima, Toshizo Nogami, Wataru Ouchi, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Takashi Hayashi, Alvaro Ruiz Delgado, Kimihiko Imamura
  • Patent number: 10340992
    Abstract: A terminal device decodes a code block of a transport block, and in a case that a first transmission mode is configured, a rate matching for the code block is processed based on a first total number of soft channel bits; in a case that a second transmission mode is configured and first information is configured, a rate matching for the code block is processed based on the first total number of soft channel bits; and in a case that the second transmission mode is configured and the first information is not configured, a rate matching for the code block is processed based on a second total number of soft channel bits. Here, the first information indicates the maximum number of layers associated with PDSCH transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shoichi Suzuki, Tatsushi Aiba, Kimihiko Imamura, Kazuyuki Shimezawa
  • Publication number: 20190190674
    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: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tatsushi AIBA, Shoichi SUZUKI, Kimihiko IMAMURA, Wataru OUCHI, Kazunari YOKOMAKURA
  • Patent number: 10327231
    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: October 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tatsushi Aiba, Daiichiro Nakashima, Kimihiko Imamura, Shoichi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10321469
    Abstract: A mobile station device (1) includes a measurement unit (1059) that performs interference measurement to calculate channel state information in a first subframe set or a second subframe set to which a channel state information reference resource belongs. A subframe which is valid as the channel state information reference resource and corresponding to report of periodic channel state information is decided based on first UL-DL configuration and third UL-DL configuration. A subframe which is valid as the channel state information reference resource and corresponding to report of aperiodic channel state information is decided based on second UL-DL configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazunari Yokomakura, Shoichi Suzuki, Tatsushi Aiba, Hiroki Takahashi, Kimihiko Imamura
  • Patent number: 10320533
    Abstract: There is provided a terminal device which includes a transmission unit that transmits HARQ response information to a first serving cell and a second serving cell on a physical uplink shared channel in a subframe n. The physical uplink shared channel is transmitted based on a physical downlink control channel or an enhanced physical downlink control channel which is detected in a state of including a downlink control information format 0/4. Two or more serving cells are configured in the terminal device, in a case where frame constitution types of any two configured serving cells are different from each other, and in a case where a primary cell has Frame constitution type 2, BcDL is applied to the first serving cell of Frame constitution type 2 by using the following expression (1), and is applied to the second serving cell of Frame constitution type 1 by using the following expression (2). [Math. 1] BcDL=min(WDAIUL,Mc)??Expression (1) [Math.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoki Kusashima, Toshizo Nogami, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Wataru Ouchi, Kimihiko Imamura
  • Patent number: 10321445
    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: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daiichiro Nakashima, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Toshizo Nogami, Kimihiko Imamura
  • Patent number: 10321411
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus for communication with a base station apparatus includes reception circuitry and a transmission circuitry. The reception circuitry receives a higher layer signal and sets first and second parameter sets for an uplink power control. The transmission circuitry transmits an uplink signal. If a cell of a first base station and a cell of a second base station are configured, the transmission circuitry sets a transmit power for the uplink signal based on the first parameter set upon detecting a DCI format from the first base station and sets transmit power based on the second parameter set upon detecting a DCI format from the second base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Wataru Ouchi, Kimihiko Imamura, Yosuke Akimoto, Toshizo Nogami, Daiichiro Nakashima, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Shoichi Suzuki, Yasuyuki Kato, Katsunari Uemura