Patents by Inventor Motohiro Tanno

Motohiro Tanno 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: 8958374
    Abstract: A base station for transmitting common information which is used in common by plural mobile stations includes a common information generating unit configured to generate the common information; a lower-layer control information generating unit configured to generate lower-layer control information indicating a radio resource where the common information is to be placed; a multiplexing unit configured to multiplex the lower-layer control information and the common information into one or more frequency blocks among a plurality of frequency blocks included within a system bandwidth, the system bandwidth being divided into the plurality of frequency blocks each corresponding to a minimum value of maximum transmission and reception bandwidths used by the plural mobile stations; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the multiplexed lower-layer control information and common information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Motohiro Tanno, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Patent number: 8948159
    Abstract: A transmitter includes an amplitude adjustment unit multiplying an amplitude adjustment sequence value for adjusting amplitude with a synchronization channel transmitted from a base station for establishing synchronization with a mobile station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Motohiro Tanno, Kenichi Higuchi, Mamoru Sawahashi, Yoshihisa Kishiyama
  • Patent number: 8923878
    Abstract: A mobile station, where the mobile station includes a reception quality measurement unit, a channel quality information transmission unit, and a control signal transmission unit, where the reception quality measurement unit is configured to measure a reception quality of a pilot signal of each of a plurality of cells, when a radio link is established with the plurality of cells, where the channel quality information transmission unit is configured to transmit, to a first cell having the beset reception quality among the plurality of cells, channel quality information corresponding to the reception quality, and where the control signal transmission unit is configured to transmit, to a cell other than the first cell among the plurality of cells, a control signal requesting not to transmit a data signal by using the same resource as the first cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Akihito Morimoto, Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Motohiro Tanno, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Publication number: 20140378139
    Abstract: To provide a radio base station apparatus and mobile terminal for enabling cell selection to be performed in a faster cell switching period in handover, the radio base station apparatus of the invention has a plurality of transmission/reception sections capable of being extended to remote sites, an FCS application determining section that determines whether to apply fast cell selection in handover based on information from the mobile terminal, and a multi-cell scheduling control section that controls transmission/non-transmission of the first and second transmission/reception sections when the FCS application determining section determines that FCS is applied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Motohiro Tanno, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Patent number: 8886204
    Abstract: A telecommunication control method for a heterogeneous network is provided. Uplink interference created by first user equipment (MUE) connected to a first-type cell (MeNB) is detected at the second-type cell (HeNB). The second-type cell reports the interference pattern of the detected interference to the first-type cell. The first-type cell identifies the interfering first user equipment based upon the interference pattern. The first-type cell notifies the second-type cell of the scheduling information of the interfering first user equipment. The second-type cell determines scheduling for second user equipment (HeUE) connected to the second-type cell based upon the scheduling information of the first user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignees: NTT DoCoMo, Inc., Agency for Science, Technology and Research
    Inventors: Daisuke Nishikawa, Tetsushi Abe, Motohiro Tanno, Zhongding Lei, Sai Ho Wong, Francois Po Shin Chin
  • Patent number: 8880089
    Abstract: In a mobile communication system including a first base station and a second base station, the first base station includes: a user information obtaining unit configured to obtain user information in the first base station, and the second base station includes: a user information obtaining unit configured to obtain user information in the second base station; a base station internal information collection unit configured to collect user information in the first and the second base stations; and a resource assignment determination unit configured to determine radio resources that can be used by the first base station and radio resources that can be used by the second base station based on the user information in the first and the second base stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Akihito Morimoto, Motohiro Tanno, Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Kenichi Higuchi, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Publication number: 20140226515
    Abstract: A mobile communications system having a first base station and one or more second base stations is disclosed, wherein the first base station includes a first generator which generates a first known signal for use in common between the first base station and the second base station and a second known signal use specific to each of the first base station and the second base station, and a radio transmitter which wirelessly transmits, to a subordinate terminal apparatus, the first known signal and the second known signal which are generated by the first generator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2014
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Motohiro Tanno, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Patent number: 8743714
    Abstract: A mobile communications system having a first base station and one or more second base stations is disclosed, wherein the first base station includes a first generator which generates a first known signal for use in common between the first base station and the second base station and a second known signal use specific to each of the first base station and the second base station, and a radio transmitter which wirelessly transmits, to a subordinate terminal apparatus, the first known signal and the second known signal which are generated by the first generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: NTT Docomo, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Motohiro Tanno, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Patent number: 8737380
    Abstract: A transmitter includes an amplitude adjustment unit multiplying an amplitude adjustment sequence value for adjusting amplitude with a synchronization channel transmitted from a base station for establishing synchronization with a mobile station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Motohiro Tanno, Kenichi Higuchi, Mamoru Sawahashi, Yoshihisa Kishiyama
  • Patent number: 8700025
    Abstract: A mobile communications system includes a radio base station and a remote radio apparatus connected with a high-speed transmission medium to the radio base station. A user apparatus includes a unit which measures a received level of a signal transmitted from the radio base station and a received level of a signal transmitted from the remote radio apparatus and detects a change in relative magnitudes of measured values; a unit which measures a path loss between the user apparatus and the radio base station and a path loss between the user apparatus and the remote radio apparatus and detects a change in relative magnitudes of measured values; and a transmitter which transmits a report signal which shows that a predetermined event has occurred. The predetermined event occurs if the relative magnitudes of the received levels are reversed and/or if the relative magnitudes of the path losses are reversed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: NTT Docomo, Inc.
    Inventors: Akihito Morimoto, Motohiro Tanno, Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Publication number: 20140098800
    Abstract: A mobile station, a base station, a mobile communication system and a communication method enabling operations associated with simultaneous uplink reception in multiple stations to be simplified are provided. The base station includes a transmission timing determining unit determining a transmission timing based on scheduling conducted upon a data transmission request from a mobile station and notifying the mobile station of the transmission timing, and a receiving unit receiving data in accordance with the transmission timing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihito MORIMOTO, Kenichi HIGUCHI, Motohiro TANNO, Mamoru SAWAHASHI, Toshifumi SATO
  • Patent number: 8634404
    Abstract: A mobile station, a base station, a mobile communication system and a communication method enabling operations associated with simultaneous uplink reception in multiple stations to be simplified are provided. The base station includes a transmission timing determining unit determining a transmission timing based on scheduling conducted upon a data transmission request from a mobile station and notifying the mobile station of the transmission timing, and a receiving unit receiving data in accordance with the transmission timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Akihito Morimoto, Kenichi Higuchi, Motohiro Tanno, Mamoru Sawahashi, Toshifumi Sato
  • Patent number: 8630366
    Abstract: A mobile station configured to perform MIMO communication is disclosed, where the mobile station includes a control unit configured to determine a radio access scheme to be applied, based on at least one of a transmission frequency bandwidth to be used and a transmission stream number used in the MIMO communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Motohiro Tanno, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Patent number: 8605663
    Abstract: A base station for transmitting a radio frame where an L1/L2 control channel is multiplexed into a portion of a subframe to transmit data on a shared data channel includes a broadcast channel generating unit configured to generate a broadcast channel; an L1/L2 control channel generating unit configured to generate the L1/L2 control channel corresponding to the broadcast channel, which includes at least one broadcast channel control information from the group consisting of: an update flag indicating whether information on the broadcast channel is modified, broadcast channel allocation information, and L3 control information for the broadcast channel; and a multiplexing unit configured to multiplex the broadcast channel, the shared data channel, and the L1/L2 control channel into the subframe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Motohiro Tanno, Kenichi Higuchi, Mamoru Sawahashi, Minami Ishii
  • Patent number: 8570966
    Abstract: Provided is a base station comprising a multiplexer so constituted as to frequency-divide/multiplex a first channel for transmitting first data to be transmitted to a plurality of mobile stations, and a second channel for transmitting second data to be transmitted to one mobile station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Akihito Morimoto, Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Nobuhiko Miki, Motohiro Tanno, Kenichi Higuchi, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Patent number: 8553632
    Abstract: A base station apparatus is used in a region in which a first system and a second system co-exist. In the first system, mobile communication is conducted using a variable system bandwidth not more than a basic bandwidth. In the second system, mobile communication is conducted using a variable system bandwidth which is not more than a bandwidth of an advanced system band which is at least as wide as multiple of the basic bandwidths. The base station apparatus generates a control signal for the first system and a control signal for the second system, orthogonally multiplexes them, and includes the same in a downlink signal to transmit the downlink signal. The advanced system band is divided such that it includes multiple of areas (P, Q, R, S) of the basic bandwidth. The control signal for the first system is included in one of the areas (Q). The control signal for the second system is included in at least one of the areas (P, Q, R, S).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Nobuhiko Miki, Motohiro Tanno, Mamoru Sawahashi, Kenichi Higuchi, Yoshihisa Kishiyama
  • Patent number: 8526555
    Abstract: A user apparatus for performing cell search includes: a timing information detection unit configured to detect timing information of a synchronization signal transmitted from a connected base station; a secondary synchronization channel correlation detection unit configured to detect a correlation of a secondary synchronization channel included in a synchronization signal transmitted by other base station other than the connected base station by using the timing information detected by the timing information detection unit; and a secondary synchronization channel detection unit configured to detect the secondary synchronization channel based on a result of the correlation detection by the secondary synchronization channel correlation detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Satoshi Nagata, Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Motohiro Tanno
  • Publication number: 20130223260
    Abstract: The object is achieved by providing a base station apparatus for performing time and frequency scheduling in uplink packet access with: an interference amount measurement part configured to measure an uplink interference amount for each interference amount measurement unit which comprises a predetermined period and a predetermined number of frequency blocks; an interference amount determination part configured to determine whether the uplink interference amount satisfies a predetermined condition; and an overload indicator reporting part configured to report an overload indicator to a neighboring cell when the predetermined condition is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2013
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Motohiro Tanno, Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Kenichi Higuchi, Mamoru Sawahashi, Toshifumi Sato
  • Patent number: 8488528
    Abstract: User equipment for performing cell search using a synchronization channel including a primary synchronization channel and a secondary synchronization channel includes a reception unit configured to receive a signal including the synchronization channel, a symbol timing candidate detection unit configured to detect multiple synchronization signal symbol timing candidates from the synchronization channel based on a correlation value in a time domain between the signal received at the reception unit and a replica signal of the primary synchronization channel, a secondary synchronization channel correlation detection unit configured to perform correlation detection for the secondary synchronization channel based on the multiple synchronization signal symbol timing candidates detected in the symbol timing candidate detection unit and a secondary synchronization channel detection unit configured to detect the secondary synchronization channel based on a result of the correlation detection by the secondary synchroni
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: NTT Docomo, Inc.
    Inventors: Satoshi Nagata, Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Motohiro Tanno, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Patent number: 8472385
    Abstract: A base station, for transmitting common information and control information, includes a common information generating unit that generates the control information and the common information, a lower-layer control information generating unit that generates first lower-layer control information indicating a radio resource where the control information is to be placed and second lower-layer control information indicating a radio resource where the common information is to be placed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Kishyama, Motohiro Tanno, Mamoru Sawahashi