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).

  • Patent number: 8077667
    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 apart 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: April 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Kuri, Akihiko Nishio, Masaru Fukuoka, Kenichi Miyoshi
  • Patent number: 8064919
    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: January 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masaru Fukuoka, Akihiko Nishio, Seigo Nakao, Alexander Golitschek Edler Von Elbwart
  • Patent number: 8064393
    Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication apparatus by which reduction of a diversity gain can be suppressed at minimum in the case of employing a repetition technology in multicarrier communication. In the wireless communication apparatus (100), repetition sections (102-1 to 102-n) repeat each data symbol inputted from modulating sections (101-1 to 101-n) to create a plurality of identical data symbols. An allocating section (103) outputs each data symbol to a multiplexing section (105) by allocating the data symbol to a plurality of subcarriers constituting an OFDM symbol. At this time, the allocating section (103) allocates at least one of the repeated identical symbols to a subcarrier different from a subcarrier to which the symbol is allocated in an adjacent sector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masaru Fukuoka, Akihiko Nishio, Kenichi Miyoshi, Daichi Imamura, Kenichi Kuri
  • Publication number: 20110275398
    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 sub carriers 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: July 15, 2011
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiko Nishio, Christian Wengerter, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Masaru Fukuoka
  • Publication number: 20110268082
    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 sub carriers 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: July 15, 2011
    Publication date: November 3, 2011
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiko Nishio, Christian Wengerter, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Masaru Fukuoka
  • Patent number: 8040832
    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: July 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Nishio, Christian Wengerter, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Masaru Fukuoka
  • Patent number: 8027278
    Abstract: In ARQ where a plurality of mobile stations share and use a single channel for response signals (ACK/NACK signals), a wireless communication base station apparatus can prevent failure of the ARQ control. In this apparatus, a CRC part (114) performs an error detection using CRC for an uplink data, and generates, as a response signal, an ACK signal in a case of CRC=OK or a NACK signal in a case of CRC=NG. A retransmittal determining part (115) determines whether the response signal is for an initially transmitted data or for a retransmitted data. A constellation control part (116) controls, in accordance with a determination result of the retransmittal determining part (115), a constellation pattern to be used in a modulation in a modulating part (105).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masaru Fukuoka, Akihiko Nishio, Katsuhiko Hiramatsu, Kenichi Kuri, Daichi Imamura
  • Publication number: 20110182265
    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: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2011
    Publication date: July 28, 2011
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi KURI, Akihiko NISHIO, Masaru FUKUOKA, Kenichi MIYOSHI
  • Publication number: 20110167312
    Abstract: Provided are a radio transmission device and a radio transmission method which can reduce the transmission packet collision generation ratio even when no resource allocation signal is detected in retransmission. When control information outputted from a decoding unit (204) contains NACK and retransmission Grant, a retransmission resource check unit (205) determines that the resource indicated by the retransmission Grant is the retransmission resource. Moreover, when no retransmission Grant is detected and the initial transmission is a wideband transmission, the retransmission resource check unit (205) determines that no retransmission resource exists and instructs an RB allocation unit (209) to stop retransmission. Moreover, when no retransmission Grant is detected and the initial transmission is a narrow band transmission, a predetermined resource is determined to be the retransmission resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2009
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Ogawa, Seigo Nakao, Katsuhiko Hiramatsu, Daichi Imamura, Masayuki Hoshino, Atsushi Sumasu, Ayako Horiuchi, Sadaki Futagi, Masaru Fukuoka, Takashi Iwai
  • Patent number: 7961695
    Abstract: Provided is a radio communication base station device capable of suppressing degradation of a signal error ratio characteristic for a mobile station in the vicinity of the cell center when a plurality of signals whose transmission power is to be controlled are frequency-multiplexed or code-multiplexed. In the device (100), a classification unit (118) classifies a plurality of DPCCH according to the MCS of SCCH into a plurality of groups based on the transmission power intensity. A spread code is allocated for each DPCCH according to the classification result. A spread code for spreading a response signal (ACK signal/NACK signal) is instructed to spread units (103-1 to 103-n). The spread units (103-1 to 103-n) spread the response signal by the spread code instructed from the classification unit (118). According to the classification result in the classification unit (118), a mapping unit (104) maps the response signal after the spread to one of the subcarriers constituting the OFDM symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masaru Fukuoka, Akihiko Nishio, Seigo Nakao, Katsuhiko Hiramatsu
  • Patent number: 7953197
    Abstract: There is provided a mobile station device capable of effectively performing interference suppression symbol synthesis while suppressing the lowering of the transfer rate when using the repetition technique in multi-carrier communication. In the mobile station device (100), when the interference level exceeds a threshold value, a switching control unit (110) controls a switch (109) to connect a P/S unit (106) to a weight multiplication unit (113) and controls a switch (111) to connect a channel estimation unit (108) to a weight calculation unit (112). The weight calculation unit (112) calculates an interference suppression weight based on MMSE from a pilot symbol and a channel estimation value. The weight multiplication unit (113) multiplies a data symbol by the interference suppression weight. A synthesis unit (114) synthesizes the data symbol multiplied by the interference suppression weight in repetition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masaru Fukuoka, Sadaki Futagi, Atsushi Matsumoto, Kenichi Miyoshi, Akihiko Nishio
  • Publication number: 20110110319
    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: January 3, 2011
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaru FUKUOKA, Akihiko Nishio, Seigo Nakao, Alexander Golitschek Edler Von Elbwart
  • Patent number: 7941153
    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: March 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masaru Fukuoka, Akihiko Nishio, Seigo Nakao, Alexander Golitchek Edler Von Elbwart
  • Publication number: 20110096928
    Abstract: A wireless communication base station device which does not fail in ARQ control even when a mobile station fails to receive allocation information and collision of the uplink data transmitted from mobile stations occurs. In the device, a CRC unit (123) detects an error, if any, in the decoded uplink data by using a CRC and generates a response signal, a modulation unit (105) modulates the response signal, a repetition unit (106) duplicates the modulated response signal and obtains the same response signals, a scrambling code selection unit (107) receives a method of scheduling the uplink data channel from an allocation information generation unit (101) and selects a scrambling code of a PSA mobile station or a DSA mobile station, and a scrambling unit (108) scrambles the response signal with the scrambling code selected by the scrambling code selection unit (107).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2008
    Publication date: April 28, 2011
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaru Fukuoka, Akihiko Nishio, Daichi Imamura
  • Publication number: 20110080975
    Abstract: Provided are a MIMO transmitting apparatus, a MIMO receiving apparatus, a MIMO transmission signal formation method, and a MIMO transmission signal separation method that improve a transmission efficiency. In a MIMO communication apparatus (100), a mapping unit (120) maps code words into a transmission stream on a per code-block basis and changes, between when a transport block is initially transmitted and when the transport block is retransmitted, the combinations of the code blocks mapped in the same transmission zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2009
    Publication date: April 7, 2011
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Toda, Masaru Fukuoka, Sadaki Futagi, Masayuki Hoshino
  • Publication number: 20110051856
    Abstract: A wireless transmission device enabled to improve an error rate performance at a receiver, by acquiring at least one of frequency diversity effect and a time diversity effect while keeping the interference resistance which is acquired by diffusion. In this transmission device, a modulation unit (101) modulates data to create a modulation symbol having in-phase components and quadrature components. An IQ individual spreading unit (102) arranges the diffusion chips, which are obtained by spreaing the modulation symbol, of the in-phase components and the quadrature components, in areas extending in diffusion domains set individually for the in-phase components and the quadrature components. An IQ combining unit (103) combines the arranged spreading chips of the in-phase components and the quadrature components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2010
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaru Fukuoka, Isamu Yoshii, Kenichi Miyoshi
  • Publication number: 20110019636
    Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication base station device that can avert PHICH collisions between mobile stations when using a frequency hopping retransmission method in combination with a PHICH grouping method. A base station (100) is used in a wireless transmission system in which uplink data is allocated to multiple resource blocks, each M consecutive resource blocks form a block (M being an integer greater than 1), and each N consecutive resource blocks form a group (N being an integral multiple of M). A demultiplexer (115) follows a hopping pattern which changes the frequency for each block of multiple resource blocks, and extracts from the resource blocks uplink data for each of multiple mobile stations. Also, a mapping unit (103) maps PHICHs, to which response signals for uplink data for each mobile station are allocated, to downlink resources in accordance with associations between groups and PHICHs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2009
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaru Fukuoka, Akihiko Nishio, Daichi Imamura
  • Patent number: 7873117
    Abstract: A base station apparatus wherein the interference suppression symbol combination can be performed in a case of using the repetition technique in a multicarrier communication. In a base station (100), a repetition part (103) repeats or copies each of data symbols received from a modulating part (102) to create a plurality of same data symbols. A phase rotating part (106) imparts, in accordance with a phase rotation angle set by a setting part (107), phase rotations to the pilot and data symbols received from a multiplexing part (105). At this moment, the phase rotating part (106) imparts the phase rotations of the same angle to the pilot and data symbols assigned to the same subcarrier. Further, the phase rotating part (106) causes the phase rotation difference between the same data symbols in a cell to be different from the phase rotation difference between the same symbols in an adjacent cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masaru Fukuoka, Kenichi Miyoshi, Sadaki Futagi, Atsushi Matsumoto, Akihiko Nishio
  • Patent number: 7852903
    Abstract: A wireless transmission device enabled to improve an error rate performance at a receiver, by acquiring at least one of frequency diversity effect and a time diversity effect while keeping the interference resistance which is acquired by diffusion. In this transmission device, a modulation unit (101) modulates data to create a modulation symbol having in-phase components and quadrature components. An IQ individual spreading unit (102) arranges the diffusion chips, which are obtained by spreading the modulation symbol, of the in-phase components and the quadrature components, in areas extending in diffusion domains set individually for the in-phase components and the quadrature components. An IQ combining unit (103) combines the arranged spreading chips of the in-phase components and the quadrature components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masaru Fukuoka, Isamu Yoshii, Kenichi Miyoshi
  • Patent number: 7852966
    Abstract: A wireless communication base station apparatus that can raise the usage efficiency of the frequency resources of the whole system in a multicarrier transmission. In this apparatus, a separating part (103) separates symbols received from a modulating part (102) into symbols to be assigned to a first subcarriers group and into symbols to be assigned to a second subcarriers group. A setting part (106-1) sets the transmission power of the symbols, which are to be assigned to the first subcarriers group, to a power value as calculated by a power calculating part (105), while a setting part (106-2) sets the transmission power of the symbols, which are to be assigned to the second subcarriers group, to a power value as calculated by the power calculating part (105). Thus, the transmission power control is differently performed between the symbols to be assigned to the first subcarriers group and the symbols to be assigned to the second subcarriers group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Matsumoto, Sadaki Futagi, Masaru Fukuoka, Kenichi Miyoshi