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).

  • Publication number: 20130142101
    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: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2013
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Inventors: Motohiro Tanno, Kenichi Higuchi, Mamoru Sawahashi, Yoshihisa Kishiyama
  • Patent number: 8451792
    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: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Motohiro Tanno, Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Kenichi Higuchi, Mamoru Sawahashi, Toshifumi Sato
  • Publication number: 20130128998
    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: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2013
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Inventors: Motohiro Tanno, Kenichi Higuchi, Mamoru Sawahashi, Yoshihisa Kishiyama
  • Patent number: 8428043
    Abstract: A base station for communicating within a system band including plural basic frequency blocks includes a signal generating unit configured to generate data and control signals; an intermediate signal generating unit configured to generate intermediate signals; a multiplexing unit configured to add one or more subcarriers such that center frequencies of signal bands for the respective basic frequency blocks are placed at predetermined frequency intervals, and multiplex the intermediate signals and data and control signals; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the multiplexed signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Motohiro Tanno, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Patent number: 8428641
    Abstract: A transmission power control is disclosed, where the transmission power control includes transferring, from a second radio base station to a first radio base station, a second uplink signal received from a mobile station in a second cell, synthesizing, at the first radio base station, a first uplink signal received from the mobile station in a first cell with the second uplink signal transferred from the second radio base station, and generating and transmitting a transmission power control signal for controlling a transmission power of an uplink signal at the mobile station based on a reception quality of an uplink signal obtained by synthesizing the first uplink signal with the second uplink signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Akihito Morimoto, Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Motohiro Tanno, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Publication number: 20130090127
    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: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2011
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicants: AGENCY FOR SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH, NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Daisuke Nishikawa, Tetsushi Abe, Motohiro Tanno, Zhongding Lei, Sai Ho Wong, Francois Po Shin Chin
  • Patent number: 8391146
    Abstract: A disclosed base station includes a transmission-rate determining unit for determining a transmission rate of a control channel for transmitting an upper-layer control signal, and a transmitter for allocating a predetermined bandwidth to the control channel for transmitting the upper-layer control signal according to the determined transmission rate, and transmitting the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Sadayuki Abeta, Motohiro Tanno, Nobuhiko Miki, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Patent number: 8385236
    Abstract: A user apparatus for use in a mobile communications system is disclosed. The user apparatus includes a unit which determines, using acknowledgement information received from a communications counterpart, whether retransmission is required for a transmitted signal; and a unit which transmits, to the communications counterpart, a signal required to be retransmitted according to a round-trip delay (RTD) which is set for the user apparatus for retransmission control, wherein, the RTD of the user apparatus is arranged to be changed, when the user apparatus enters a region which uses an RTD shorter than the RTD set for the user apparatus to an integer multiple of the shorter RTD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Mamoru Sawahashi, Kenichi Higuchi, Nobuhiko Miki, Motohiro Tanno
  • Patent number: 8385318
    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: June 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Motohiro Tanno, Kenichi Higuchi, Mamoru Sawahashi, Yoshihisa Kishiyama
  • Patent number: 8331341
    Abstract: A base station for transmitting a synchronization signal on a synchronization channel with a system bandwidth which is less than the maximum system bandwidth in a radio communication system supporting multiple system bandwidths includes a multiplexing unit configured to multiplex the synchronization channel and a channel other than the synchronization channel based on a characteristic of a reception filter used in a mobile station. The multiplexing unit may place the synchronization channel and the channel other than the synchronization channel on continuous subcarriers. Alternatively, the multiplexing unit may assign a guard band or a cyclic prefix to a transition band of the reception filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Motohiro Tanno, Kenichi Higuchi, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Patent number: 8320382
    Abstract: A mobile station includes: a QoS (quality of service) requirement determination unit configured to determine a QoS requirement for a data packet; a downlink channel condition estimation unit configured to estimate a downlink channel condition; an identification number extracting unit configured to extract an identification number for the mobile station; and a notification unit configured to notify a base station of the QoS requirement, the identification number for the mobile station, and the downlink channel condition by means of a reservation packet. A base station includes: an uplink channel condition estimation unit configured to estimate an uplink channel condition by means of a reservation packet; a radio parameter control unit configured to determine and control a radio parameter based on the reservation packet and the uplink channel condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Shingo Suwa, Motohiro Tanno, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Publication number: 20120289289
    Abstract: A disclosed base station transmits a broadcast channel to a user device a predefined number of times in a predetermined cycle for communication with the user device. The base station includes a repetition unit configured to repeat the broadcast channel, after the broadcast channel is channel-coded, for the predefined number of times to generate multiple broadcast channels; and a signal waveform changing unit configured to process the generated broadcast channels such that the processed broadcast channels have different signal waveforms. Positions of the broadcast channels in the order of transmission in the predetermined cycle are associated with the signal waveforms of the broadcast channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Publication date: November 15, 2012
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Motohiro Tanno, Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Kenichi Higuchi, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Patent number: 8279742
    Abstract: A transmitter transmits data to a communicating opponent with a better channel condition with use of one or more frequency blocks including one or more carrier frequencies. The transmitter includes a communicating opponent selection unit evaluating the channel condition for each frequency block for each of plural communicating opponents and selecting one or more communicating opponents from the plurality of communicating opponents, a modulation scheme determination unit determining at least a modulation scheme depending on the evaluated channel condition, a control channel generation unit generating a control channel indicative of the determined modulation scheme and one or more frequency blocks available for the selected communicating opponents to receive a data channel, and a channel transmission unit providing the selected communicating opponents with the control channel and the data channel modulated in accordance with the modulation scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Nobuhiko Miki, Kenichi Higuchi, Motohiro Tanno, Hiroyuki Atarashi, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Publication number: 20120243402
    Abstract: To provide a mobile terminal apparatus, radio base station apparatus and radio communication method for enabling data signals and control information for a plurality of component carriers to be transmitted efficiently, a radio communication method of the invention is characterized in that a mobile terminal apparatus maps a retransmission response signal and another signal to different resources in a first mode for transmitting a retransmission response signal for each downlink CC of a plurality of downlink CCs, while mapping the retransmission response signal and another signal to the same resources in a second mode for transmitting a single retransmission response signal for a plurality of downlink CCs, and that the radio base station apparatus receives the uplink signal, preforms resource-demapping on each of the retransmission response signal and another signal mapped to different resources in the first mode, while performing resource-demapping on the retransmission response signal and another signal mappe
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2010
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Teruo Kawamura, Motohiro Tanno
  • Patent number: 8274879
    Abstract: A transmitter transmits data to a communicating opponent with a better channel condition with use of one or more frequency blocks including one or more carrier frequencies. The transmitter includes a communicating opponent selection unit evaluating the channel condition for each frequency block for each of plural communicating opponents and selecting one or more communicating opponents from the plurality of communicating opponents, a modulation scheme determination unit determining at least a modulation scheme depending on the evaluated channel condition, a control channel generation unit generating a control channel indicative of the determined modulation scheme and one or more frequency blocks available for the selected communicating opponents to receive a data channel, and a channel transmission unit providing the selected communicating opponents with the control channel and the data channel modulated in accordance with the modulation scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Nobuhiko Miki, Kenichi Higuchi, Motohiro Tanno, Hiroyuki Atarashi, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Patent number: 8265031
    Abstract: A disclosed base station transmits a broadcast channel to a user device a predefined number of times in a predetermined cycle for communication with the user device. The base station includes a repetition unit configured to repeat the broadcast channel, after the broadcast channel is channel-coded, for the predefined number of times to generate multiple broadcast channels; and a signal waveform changing unit configured to process the generated broadcast channels such that the processed broadcast channels have different signal waveforms. Positions of the broadcast channels in the order of transmission in the predetermined cycle are associated with the signal waveforms of the broadcast channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Motohiro Tanno, Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Kenichi Higuchi, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Publication number: 20120163318
    Abstract: Provided are a mobile terminal apparatus, a radio base station apparatus and a communication method, capable of orthogonalizing uplink reference signals between plural antennas in MIMO transmission. The mobile terminal apparatus has a reference signal generator (11) for generating DM-RSs using ZC sequences and a cyclic shift section (13) for cyclically shifting the DM-RSs by unit of plural antenna ports (19) to orthogonalize the DM-RSs for the antenna ports (19) between the antenna ports (19), and the cyclically shifted DM-RSs are transmitted via the respective antenna ports (19) to a radio base station apparatus eNB in an uplink.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2010
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Teruo Kawamura, Motohiro Tanno
  • Patent number: 8208363
    Abstract: A transmitter transmits data to a communicating opponent with a better channel condition with use of one or more frequency blocks including one or more carrier frequencies. The transmitter includes a communicating opponent selection unit evaluating the channel condition for each frequency block for each of plural communicating opponents and selecting one or more communicating opponents from the plurality of communicating opponents, a modulation scheme determination unit determining at least a modulation scheme depending on the evaluated channel condition, a control channel generation unit generating a control channel indicative of the determined modulation scheme and one or more frequency blocks available for the selected communicating opponents to receive a data channel, and a channel transmission unit providing the selected communicating opponents with the control channel and the data channel modulated in accordance with the modulation scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Nobuhiko Miki, Kenichi Higuchi, Motohiro Tanno, Hiroyuki Atarashi, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Publication number: 20120155423
    Abstract: Provided is a downlink reference signal structure suitable for increase in number of transmission layers. A radio base station device (20) has a plurality of transmission antennas; a orthogonal RS sequence generator (22) for generating orthogonal reference signals based on a two-dimensional orthogonal code, the orthogonal reference signals being orthogonalized between downlink reference signals adjacent in two-dimensional directions of frequency direction and time direction to each other in one transmission layer and being orthogonalized in different transmission layers assigned to one radio resource; a multiplexer (23) for multiplexing transmission data and the orthogonal reference signals in the one transmission layer; and a transmitter for transmitting a transmission signal obtained by multiplexing the transmission data and the orthogonal reference signals, via the transmission antenna in transmission layers simultaneously.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2010
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Kazuaki Takeda, Motohiro Tanno, Hidekazu Taoka
  • Patent number: 8195181
    Abstract: In a radio communication system, a user terminal transmits a reservation packet to a base station using a common control channel (1), and the base station assigns an uplink data channel to the user terminal according to the reservation packet, and assigns a first shared control channel (2b) to the user terminal in association with the uplink data channel, and the mobile station transmits a control signal to the base station using the associated uplink shared control channel. According to status of radio communication, the base station may assign beforehand a second uplink shared control channel (2a) for which occupation by the user terminal is permitted only while the user terminal is performing communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Motohiro Tanno, Kenichi Higuchi, Mamoru Sawahashi