Patents by Inventor Masaru Fukuoka

Masaru Fukuoka 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).

  • Publication number: 20140293934
    Abstract: A wireless communication base station apparatus wherein when a frequency scheduling transmission and a frequency diversity transmission are performed in a multicarrier communication at the same time, the adaptive control of a channel for performing the frequency scheduling transmission can be prevented from being complicated. In this apparatus, a modulating part (12) modulates an encoded Dch data to generate Dch data symbols. A modulating part (22) modulates an encoded Lch data to generate Lch data symbols. An assigning part (103) assigns the Dch and Lch data symbols to subcarriers constituting OFDM symbols and outputs them to a multiplexing part (104). At this moment, the assigning part (103) assigns a set of Dch and Lch data symbols to each subcarrier for a respective subband.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Inventors: Akihiko Nishio, Daichi Imamura, Masaru Fukuoka
  • Publication number: 20140286260
    Abstract: Provided are a wireless communication apparatus and a reference signal generating method, wherein inter-cell interference is reduced inside and outside a CoMP set. A CoMP mode setting unit (101) sets whether the terminal (100) thereof is a CoMP terminal or a Non-CoMP terminal. When the terminal (100) is set as a Non-CoMP terminal, the hopping pattern calculating unit (104) calculates a ZC sequence number to be used as the transmission timing, from among all the ZC sequence numbers that can be used within the system. When the terminal (100) is set as a CoMP terminal, the hopping pattern calculating unit (104) calculates a ZC sequence number to be used as the transmission timing, by hopping the ZC sequence numbers to be used within the CoMP set. A ZC sequence generating unit (105) generates a ZC sequence to be used as an SRS, using the calculated ZC sequence number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Takashi Iwai, Daichi Imamura, Akihiko Nishio, Yoshihiko Ogawa, Masaru Fukuoka
  • Publication number: 20140269568
    Abstract: Provided is a radio communication base station device which can obtain a maximum frequency diversity effect of a downstream line control channel. The device includes: an RB allocation unit (101) which allocates upstream line resource blocks continuous on the frequency axis for respective radio communication mobile stations by the frequency scheduling and generates allocation information indicating which upstream line resource block has been allocated to which radio communication mobile station device; and an arrangement unit (109) which arranges a response signal to the radio communication mobile station device in the downstream line control channels distributed/arranged on the frequency axis while being correlated to the continuous upstream line resource blocks according to the allocation information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Optis Wireless Technology, LLC
    Inventors: Masaru FUKUOKA, Akihiko NISHIO, Seigo NAKAO, Alexander GOLITSCHEK EDLER VON ELBWART
  • Patent number: 8824409
    Abstract: Disclosed are a radio transmission device and a radio transmission method which reduce the RACH conflict ratio and improve the RACH detection characteristic. When the device and the method are used: as the number of signature numbers allocated for UE by the network side increases, the condition for allocating a signature by UE itself is mitigated and an expectation value which is a statistic average value of the RA quantity using the signature allocated by UE for itself is decreased; and as the number of signature numbers allocated for UE by the network side decreases, the condition for allocating a signature by UE itself is limited and an expectation value of the RA quantity using the signature allocated by UE for itself is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Daichi Imamura, Sadaki Futagi, Masaru Fukuoka, Takashi Iwai, Atsushi Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20140233487
    Abstract: Provided is a radio communication base station device which can prevent lowering of use efficiency of a channel communication resource for performing a frequency diversity transmission when simultaneously performing a frequency scheduling transmission and the frequency diversity transmission in a multicarrier communication. In the device, a modulation unit (12) executes a modulation process on Dch data after encoded so as to generate a Dch data symbol. A modulation unit (22) executes a modulation process on the encoded Lch data so as to generate an Lch data symbol. An allocation unit (103) allocates the Dch data symbol and the Lch data symbol to respective subcarriers constituting an OFDM symbol and outputs them to a multiplexing unit (104). Here, when a plurality of Dch are used for a Dch data symbol of one mobile station, the allocation unit (103) uses Dch of continuous channel numbers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Nishio, Christian Wengerter, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Masaru Fukuoka
  • Patent number: 8797986
    Abstract: Provided are a wireless communication apparatus and a reference signal generating method, wherein inter-cell interference is reduced inside and outside a CoMP set. A CoMP mode setting unit (101) sets whether the terminal (100) thereof is a CoMP terminal or a Non-CoMP terminal. When the terminal (100) is set as a Non-CoMP terminal, the hopping pattern calculating unit (104) calculates a ZC sequence number to be used as the transmission timing, from among all the ZC sequence numbers that can be used within the system. When the terminal (100) is set as a CoMP terminal, the hopping pattern calculating unit (104) calculates a ZC sequence number to be used as the transmission timing, by hopping the ZC sequence numbers to be used within the CoMP set. A ZC sequence generating unit (105) generates a ZC sequence to be used as an SRS, using the calculated ZC sequence number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Takashi Iwai, Daichi Imamura, Akihiko Nishio, Yoshihiko Ogawa, Masaru Fukuoka
  • Patent number: 8792635
    Abstract: Provided is a radio communication base station device which can prevent damage of ARQ control in an ARQ in which a response signal (ACK/NACK) channel is shared by a plurality of mobile stations. In the device, a repetition unit (106) repeats a response signal inputted from a modulation unit (105) so as to obtain a plurality of identical response signals and outputs the plurality of response signals to a scrambling unit (107). The scrambling unit (107) scrambles the identical response signals by using a scrambling code corresponding to a mobile station ID number inputted from an allocation information generation unit (101) (that is, a scrambling code unique to each of mobile stations) and outputs the scrambled response signals to an S/P unit (108).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Masaru Fukuoka, Akihiko Nishio
  • Patent number: 8787291
    Abstract: A wireless communication base station apparatus wherein when a frequency scheduling transmission and a frequency diversity transmission are performed in a multicarrier communication at the same time, the adaptive control of a channel for performing the frequency scheduling transmission can be prevented from being complicated. In this apparatus, a modulating part modulates an encoded Dch data to generate Dch data symbols. A modulating part modulates an encoded Lch data to generate Lch data symbols. An assigning part assigns the Dch and Lch data symbols to subcarriers constituting OFDM symbols and outputs them to a multiplexing part. At this moment, the assigning part assigns a set of Dch and Lch data symbols to each subcarrier for a respective subband.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Akihiko Nishio, Daichi Imamura, Masaru Fukuoka
  • Patent number: 8774107
    Abstract: Provided is a retransmission method capable of improving reception quality in retransmission control. In this method, for the first transmission, LRB (Localized Resource Block) method is selected as a resource allocation method according to the CQI fed back from the mobile station. A frequency resource having the best reception quality according to the LRB format is allocated for the transmission data. For the second transmission, the same resource allocation method (LRB) as the first transmission is used and the transmission data is allocated fro the same frequency resource. For the third transmission, the resource allocation method is switched from the method of the first and the second transmission and transmission data is allocated to the frequency resource by using DRB (Distributed Resource Block) format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masaru Fukuoka, Akihiko Nishio, Kenichi Miyoshi
  • Patent number: 8705476
    Abstract: Provided is a radio communication base station device which can obtain a maximum frequency diversity effect of a downstream line control channel. The device includes: an RB allocation unit (101) which allocates upstream line resource blocks continuous on the frequency axis for respective radio communication mobile stations by the frequency scheduling and generates allocation information indicating which upstream line resource block has been allocated to which radio communication mobile station device; and an arrangement unit (109) which arranges a response signal to the radio communication mobile station device in the downstream line control channels distributed/arranged on the frequency axis while being correlated to the continuous upstream line resource blocks according to the allocation information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masaru Fukuoka, Akihiko Nishio, Seigo Nakao, Alexander Golitschek Edler Von Elbwart
  • Patent number: 8654696
    Abstract: A base station realizing enhancement of the interpolation accuracy of the channel estimate between sub-frames. In a base station (100), a scrambling section (105) carries out scrambling such that a predetermined pilot signal sequence is multiplied by a scrambling sequence containing both a sequence unique to the base station (100) and different with cells and a sequence common to base stations for each chip and generates a pilot sequence containing both a pilot for unicast sub-frame and a pilot for multicast sub-frame, a multiplexing section (106) for time-multiplexing the pilot sequence, the unicast data symbol, and a multicast data symbol for each sub-frame, and an S/P section (107) converts the pilot sequences, the unicast data symbols, and the multicast data symbols sequential serially inputted from the multiplexing section (106) the numbers of which are equal to the number of subcarries included in one OFDM symbol into parallel ones and outputs them to an IFFT section (108).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masaru Fukuoka, Akihiko Nishio, Noriaki Minamida
  • Patent number: 8649333
    Abstract: Provided is a resource allocation method capable of improving a reception quality when connecting a plurality of sub frames into one frame and performing a communication process for each of the frames. In this method, when a sub frame #1 is transmitted, LRB is selected as a resource allocation format according to CQI fed back from a mobile station and RB having a preferable propagation quality is allocated for transmission data according to the LRB format. When a sub frame #2 is transmitted, the same resource allocation method (LRB) as the head sub frame is used and the transmission data is allocated for the same RB. When a sub frame #3 is transmitted, the resource allocation method is switched from the sub frame #1 and the sub frame #2 and the transmission data is allocated for RB by using the DRB format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masaru Fukuoka, Akihiko Nishio, Kenichi Miyoshi
  • Publication number: 20130315199
    Abstract: Provided is a radio communication base station device which can prevent lowering of use efficiency of a channel communication resource for performing a frequency diversity transmission when simultaneously performing a frequency scheduling transmission and the frequency diversity transmission in a multicarrier communication. In the device, a modulation unit (12) executes a modulation process on Dch data after encoded so as to generate a Dch data symbol. A modulation unit (22) executes a modulation process on the encoded Lch data so as to generate an Lch data symbol. An allocation unit (103) allocates the Dch data symbol and the Lch data symbol to respective subcarriers constituting an OFDM symbol and outputs them to a multiplexing unit (104). Here, when a plurality of Dch are used for a Dch data symbol of one mobile station, the allocation unit (103) uses Dch of continuous channel numbers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2013
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Nishio, Christian Wengerter, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Masaru Fukuoka
  • Patent number: 8588171
    Abstract: Provided is a radio communication device capable of reducing the number of pilots while maintaining a channel estimation accuracy. The radio communication device includes: a unicast pilot generation unit (105) which generates a unicast pilot sequence and outputs it to an arrangement unit (106); and an arrangement unit (106) arranges unicast data, multicast data, a unicast pilot sequence, and a multicast pilot sequence at a position on the two-dimensional plane formed by a frequency axis and a time axis for output to an IFFT (Inverse Fast Fourier Transform) unit (107). Here, the arrangement unit (106) does not arrange pilots of the multicast pilot sequence at a time when the single frequency is different from the position where identical pilots are arranged between sectors among the respective pilots of the unicast pilot sequence in one sub frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masaru Fukuoka, Akihiko Nishio
  • Patent number: 8509141
    Abstract: Provided is a radio communication base station device which can prevent lowering of use efficiency of a channel communication resource for performing a frequency diversity transmission when simultaneously performing a frequency scheduling transmission and the frequency diversity transmission in a multicarrier communication. In the device, a modulation unit (12) executes a modulation process on Dch data after encoded so as to generate a Dch data symbol. A modulation unit (22) executes a modulation process on the encoded Lch data so as to generate an Lch data symbol. An allocation unit (103) allocates the Dch data symbol and the Lch data symbol to respective subcarriers constituting an OFDM symbol and outputs them to a multiplexing unit (104). Here, when a plurality of Dch are used for a Dch data symbol of one mobile station, the allocation unit (103) uses Dch of continuous channel numbers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Nishio, Christian Wengerter, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Masaru Fukuoka
  • Patent number: 8416810
    Abstract: Provided is a base station capable of giving a pilot appropriate for both of multicast data and unicast data which are frequency-multiplexed. In a pilot generation unit (105) of the base station, an insertion unit (1051) inserts a pilot (common pilot) common to a plurality of cells to generate an orthogonal pilot sequence (2). In accordance with the insertion process in the insertion unit (1051), an insertion unit (1052) inserts a sequence (common sequence) common to a plurality of cells to a unique scrambling sequence to generate a scrambling sequence. A scrambling unit (1053) performs a scrambling process for multiplying the orthogonal pilot sequence (2) by the scrambling sequence. This scrambling process generates, in a part of pilot sequences different for respective cells, a pilot sequence containing a pilot common to the cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Isamu Yoshii, Akihiko Nishio, Masaru Fukuoka, Katsuhiko Hiramatsu
  • Publication number: 20130072242
    Abstract: Provided are a wireless transmission device, a wireless reception device, and a bandwidth allocation method for, when non-contiguous bands allocation is performed, improving the frequency resource use efficiency of a system and thereby improving the system performance. RIV decoding unit (106) decodes start RBG# and end RBG# that are indicated by each RIV output from scheduling information decoding unit (104). Allocation boundary setting unit (107) previously adds a predetermined predetermined offset to the boundary of each RIV so that the boundaries of the allocations of respective RIVs are different from each other. Based on the start RBG# and end RBG# output from RIV decoding unit (106) and the boundaries of the allocations of respective RIVs output from allocation boundary setting unit (107), transmission bandwidth determination unit (108) determines, as allocated bandwidths, the bandwidths that are indicated by a plurality of RIVs and are not overlapped with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2011
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Iwai, Akihiko Nishio, Daichi Imamura, Seigo Nakao, Yoshihiko Ogawa, Shozo Okasaka, Masaru Fukuoka
  • Publication number: 20130064227
    Abstract: Disclosed are a wireless communication method and device which can maintain frequency scheduling flexibility and improve system throughput performance. A Walsh sequence number determination unit (108) acquires Walsh sequence numbers used in each cluster according to a bandwidth notification order indicated by a plurality of RIVs, on the basis of associations between the bandwidth notification order indicated by the plurality of RIVs and Walsh sequence numbers used in each cluster. Furthermore, the Walsh sequence number determination unit (108) independently sets the acquired Walsh sequence number to each cluster multiplexed between two different terminals in the same bandwidth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2011
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Iwai, Akihiko Nishio, Masaru Fukuoka, Seigo Nakao, Masayuki Hoshino, Yoshihiko Ogawa
  • Patent number: 8385287
    Abstract: Provided is a base station capable of suppressing increase of overhead of allocation result report in frequency scheduling in multi-carrier communication and obtaining a sufficient frequency diversity effect. In the base station, encoding units (101-1 to 101-n) encode data (#1 to #n) to mobile stations (#1 to #n), modulation units (102-1 to 102-n) modulate the encoded data so as to generate a data symbol, a scheduler (103) performs frequency scheduling according to a CQI from each mobile station so as to uniformly allocate data to the respective mobile stations for a part of RB extracted from a plurality of RB, and an SCCH generation unit (105) generates control information (SCCH information) to report the allocation result in the scheduler (103) to the respective mobile stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Kuri, Akihiko Nishio, Masaru Fukuoka, Kenichi Miyoshi
  • Patent number: 8345619
    Abstract: Provided is a base station capable of suppressing increase of overhead of allocation result report in frequency scheduling in multi-carrier communication and obtaining a sufficient frequency diversity effect. In the base station, encoding units (101-1 to 101-n) encode data (#1 to #n) to mobile stations (#1 to #n), modulation units (102-1 to 102-n) modulate the encoded data so as to generate a data symbol, a scheduler (103) performs frequency scheduling according to a CQI from each mobile station so as to uniformly allocate data to the respective mobile stations for a part of RB extracted from a plurality of RB, and an SCCH generation unit (105) generates control information (SCCH information) to report the allocation result in the scheduler (103) to the respective mobile stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Kuri, Akihiko Nishio, Masaru Fukuoka, Kenichi Miyoshi