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: 20100050044
    Abstract: Provided is a radio communication apparatus capable of always obtaining the optimum error rate characteristic when an LDPC code is used for an error-correcting code. In the apparatus, a temporary bit insertion section (101) inserts a temporary bit into a position equivalent to that of the systematic bit corresponding to a variable node having the largest number of connections with a check node in the Tanner graph corresponding to a check matrix in a transmission bit string and outputs the generated bit string to an LDPC coding section (102), The LDPC coding section (102) performs LDPC coding on the bit string inputted from the temporary bit insertion section (101) by using the check matrix and obtains an LDPC code word composed of the systematic bit and a parity bit. The LDPC code word is outputted to a temporary bit removal section (103).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2008
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi Kuri, Akihiko Nishio, Masaru Fukuoka
  • Publication number: 20100046459
    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 18, 2008
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiko Nishio, Christian Wengerter, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Masaru Fukuoka
  • Publication number: 20100048219
    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: March 21, 2008
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORTION
    Inventors: Masaru Fukuoka, Akihiko Nishio, Seigo Nakao, Alexander Golitschek Edler Von Elbwart
  • Publication number: 20100027501
    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: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2007
    Publication date: February 4, 2010
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masaru Fukuoka, Akihiko Nishio
  • Publication number: 20100027484
    Abstract: Disclosed is a radio transmission device and a radio transmission method which reduces 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: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2007
    Publication date: February 4, 2010
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daichi Imamura, Sadaki Futagi, Masaru Fukuoka, Takashi Iwai, Atsuhi Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20090303944
    Abstract: A base station can perform distributed allocation enabling a resource block allocation with a higher priority while suppressing a control information amount. In this base station, the localized allocation of data to terminals #5 to #8 is set to a higher priority than distributed allocation of data to terminals #1 to #4 among the terminals #1 to #8. The data to the terminals #5 to #8 are allocated to any of the resource blocks #1 to #8 by frequency scheduling based on line quality of each terminal and each resource block. After this, the remaining resource blocks other than the resource blocks used for allocation to the terminals #5 to #8 with a higher priority are used as distributed resource blocks and the data to the terminals #1 to #4 are allocated in the remaining resource blocks according to the allocation rule common to the terminals #1 to #4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2007
    Publication date: December 10, 2009
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masaru Fukuoka, Akihiko Nishio
  • Publication number: 20090279527
    Abstract: A wireless transmitting apparatus capable of improving the reception characteristic at a data stream receiving end. In this apparatus, I/Q separating parts (110, 112) each separate first data modulated symbols included in any of a plurality of data streams, which are to be multiplexed, into first in-phase components and first orthogonal components, while separating second data modulated symbols included in the other ones of the plurality of data streams into second in-phase components and second orthogonal components. An I/Q converting part (114) converts the first in-phase components to third orthogonal components, while converting the second orthogonal components to fourth in-phase components. A multi-code multiplexing part multi-code multiplexes the first and third orthogonal components to provide a first multiplexed signal, while multi-code multiplexing the second and fourth in-phase components to provide a second multiplexed signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2005
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaru Fukuoka, Isamu Yoshii, Kenichi Miyoshi
  • Publication number: 20090257381
    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: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2007
    Publication date: October 15, 2009
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi Kuri, Akihiko Nishio, Masaru Fukuoka, Kenichi Miyoshi
  • Publication number: 20090245188
    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: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2007
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRONIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaru Fukuoka, Akihiko Nishio, Kenichi Miyoshi
  • Publication number: 20090238123
    Abstract: Disclosed are a radio transmission device and a radio transmission method capable of containing a plenty of mobile stations for receiving low-rate data and avoiding lowering a system throughput. A group ID assigning unit (108) groups UE receiving low-rate data and assigns a frequency by using the group ID. An SCCH processing unit (109) generates an SCCH containing the group ID. A low-rate control information processing unit (113) generates low-rate control information indicating a timing slot to which a low-rate UE has been assigned. A multiplexing unit (117) multiplies low-rate control information on RB to which low-rate data is assigned when multiplexing a pilot channel, SCCH, and data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2006
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichi Kuri, Akihiko Nishio, Masaru Fukuoka
  • Publication number: 20090233598
    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: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2006
    Publication date: September 17, 2009
    Inventors: Masaru Fukuoka, Sadaki Futagi, Atsushi Matsumoto, Kenichi Miyoshi, Akihiko Nishio
  • Publication number: 20090190516
    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: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2006
    Publication date: July 30, 2009
    Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaru Fukuoka, Akihiko Nishio, Noriaki Minamida
  • Publication number: 20090168711
    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: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2007
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaru Fukuoka, Akihiko Nishio, Kenichi Miyoshi
  • Patent number: 7545873
    Abstract: A radio transmission apparatus capable of enhancing the diversity effect. In this apparatus, phase rotation section (102) performs phase rotation processing of 40.6°=26.6°+14.0°, interleavers (106,111) perform two-time interleaving processing before IQ combining processing performed in a combining section (107) and after IQ separation processing performed in an IQ separating section (108), and the original modulation symbol obtained in a mapping section (101) is thereby dispersed and mapped to/at signal points of M-ary modulation level higher two ranks or more (for example, from a QPSK symbol to 256QAM symbols).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2009
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Isamu Yoshii, Masaru Fukuoka
  • Publication number: 20090135924
    Abstract: Provided is a radio communication base station device capable of acquiring both a multi-user diversity effect and a frequency diversity effect simultaneously in multi-carrier communications. In this devices modulation units (101-1 to 101-n) modulate data to mobile stations (MS#1 to MS#n) individually to create data symbols. A separation unit (102) separates each data symbol inputted, into an Ich (in-phase components) and a Qch (orthogonal components). An Ich arrangement unit (103) and a Qch arrangement unit (104) arrange the Ich and Qch, respectively, in a plurality of sub-carriers constituting an OFDM symbols, and output the same to a synthesization unit (105). This synthesization unit (105) synthesizes the Ich and Qch arranged for each sub-carrier, to create the synthesized symbol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2006
    Publication date: May 28, 2009
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaru Fukuoka, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Daichi Imamura, Akihiko Nishio, Kenichi Miyoshi
  • Publication number: 20090122752
    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: November 2, 2006
    Publication date: May 14, 2009
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiko Nishio, Daichi Imamura, Masaru Fukuoka
  • Patent number: 7532864
    Abstract: A pilot extract section 14 extracts a pilot signal from received signal. An adder 21 in-phase adds a plurality of correlated values of pilot signals for respective subcarriers. Delay devices 201-1 to 201-6 temporarily maintain one in-phase added value. Multiplier 202-1 to 202-6 multiplies a predetermined coefficient to the in-phase added value that is output from the delay device. The predetermined coefficient reflects the result, which is obtained by correcting for multiple times the difference of channel variation in the different subcarriers that is generated when noise power per one subcarrier is calculated. Each of the multiplying results is added by an adder 24, and is squared by a square device 25. A cumulative adder 26 cumulative-adds the squared values for the whole subcarrier. A multiplier 203 averages by multiplying predetermined values to the cumulative-added values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2009
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masaru Fukuoka, Atsushi Sumasu, Sadayuki Abeta, Noriyuki Maeda, Hiroyuki Atarashi
  • Publication number: 20090103648
    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: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2006
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Inventors: Masaru Fukuoka, Kenichi Miyoshi, Sadaki Futagi, Atsushi Matsumoto, Akihiko Nishio
  • Publication number: 20090104908
    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: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2006
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Matsumoto, Sadaki Futagi, Masaru Fukuoka, Kenichi Miyoshi
  • Publication number: 20090075700
    Abstract: A base station is provided to suppress a drop of receiving power and deterioration of receiving characteristics by cancellation between the same symbols in the case of application of a repetition technology to multiple-carrier communication. In this base station (100), a repetition unit (103) for reproducing (making repetition of) each data symbol input from a modulating unit (102) to make out a plurality of identical data symbols, and a phase rotating unit (106) for giving a phase rotation to a data symbol input from a multiplexing unit (105). This time the phase rotating unit (106) provides the identical symbols made out by the repetition with the phase rotation which has a phase rotating difference different from phase rotating differences among a plurality of identical symbols transmitted with the ones identical to a plurality of the identical symbols at time and a frequency identical to those of a plurality of the identical symbols in adjacent cells or adjacent sectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2007
    Publication date: March 19, 2009
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaru Fukuoka, Akihiko Nishio