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).
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Publication number: 20110207457Abstract: 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 synchroniType: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2009Publication date: August 25, 2011Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Satoshi Nagata, Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Motohiro Tanno, Mamoru Sawahashi
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Publication number: 20110206026Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2009Publication date: August 25, 2011Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Motohiro Tanno, Mamoru Sawahashi
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Publication number: 20110189988Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2009Publication date: August 4, 2011Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Akihito Morimoto, Motohiro Tanno, Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Mamoru Sawahashi
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Publication number: 20110188558Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2009Publication date: August 4, 2011Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Satoshi Nagata, Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Motohiro Tanno
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Patent number: 7991064Abstract: An apparatus for generating sets of radio parameters includes a first deriving unit deriving a set of radio parameters for specifying a symbol including an effective symbol part with the same period as the effective symbol part specified by another set of radio parameters and a guard interval part with a different period from the guard interval part specified by the other set of radio parameters. The apparatus further includes a second deriving unit deriving a set of radio parameters so that an occupancy proportion of the guard interval part in a single symbol specified by another set of radio parameters is equal to an occupancy proportion of the guard interval part in a single symbol specified by the other set of radio parameters.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2010Date of Patent: August 2, 2011Assignee: NTT Docomo, Inc.Inventors: Mamoru Sawahashi, Kenichi Higuchi, Hiroyuki Atarashi, Motohiro Tanno, Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Yoshiaki Ofuji
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Publication number: 20110183705Abstract: A centralized-control base station connected to a first transceiving unit and a second transceiving unit includes a first signal quality obtaining unit configured to obtain both uplink signal quality from a mobile station to the first transceiving unit and downlink signal quality from the first transceiving unit to the mobile station; a second signal quality obtaining unit configured to obtain both uplink signal quality from the mobile station to the second transceiving unit and downlink signal quality from the second transceiving unit to the mobile station; and a control unit configured to allow downlink data to be transmitted from the first transceiving unit, downlink feedback information to be received by the second transceiving unit, uplink data to be received by the second transceiving unit, and uplink feedback information to be transmitted from the first transceiving unit, when the downlink signal quality from the first transceiving unit to the mobile station is better than the downlink signal quality fType: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2009Publication date: July 28, 2011Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Motohiro Tanno, Mamoru Sawahashi, Yoshihisa Kishiyama
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Publication number: 20110170438Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2009Publication date: July 14, 2011Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Motohiro Tanno, Mamoru Sawahashi
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Publication number: 20110116465Abstract: A downlink control channel transmitted from a base station apparatus includes multiple control channel elements (CCEs), and different PUCCH resources are determined depending on which CCEs are associated with control information destined for user equipments. If a PDSCH in a certain subframe is assigned to a user equipment in an old system, the control information destined for the user equipment is assigned to a certain CCE, and a PDSCH in a subframe after a predefined time period from the certain subframe is assigned to a user equipment in a new system, the control information destined for the user equipment may be associated with a CCE different from the certain CCE. Alternatively, the control information destined for the user equipment in the second system may be associated with the same CCE as the control information destined for the user equipment in the first system but may be spread with different spread codes.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2009Publication date: May 19, 2011Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Nobuhiko Miki, Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Motohiro Tanno, Mamoru Sawahashi
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Publication number: 20110110321Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2009Publication date: May 12, 2011Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Motohiro Tanno, Mamoru Sawahashi
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Publication number: 20110110320Abstract: A base station for transmitting both common information which is used in common by plural mobile stations and control information indicating that the common information is changed includes a common information generating unit configured to generate the control information and the common information; a lower-layer control information generating unit configured to generate 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; a multiplexing unit configured to multiplex the first lower-layer control information and the control information into a plurality of frequency blocks included within a system bandwidth and multiplex the second lower-layer control information and the common information into one or more frequency blocks among the plurality of frequency blocks included within the system bandwidth, the system bandwidth being divided intoType: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2009Publication date: May 12, 2011Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Motohiro Tanno, Mamoru Sawahashi
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Publication number: 20110105138Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2009Publication date: May 5, 2011Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Akihito Morimoto, Motohiro Tanno, Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Kenichi Higuchi, Mamoru Sawahashi
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Publication number: 20110103366Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2009Publication date: May 5, 2011Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Akihito Morimoto, Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Nobuhiko Miki, Motohiro Tanno, Kenichi Higuchi, Mamoru Sawahashi
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Publication number: 20110075750Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2009Publication date: March 31, 2011Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Nobuhiko Miki, Motohiro Tanno, Mamoru Sawahashi, Kenichi Higuchi, Yoshihisa Kishiyama
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Patent number: 7912011Abstract: In a radio communication system including a plurality of base stations and a plurality of mobile stations, a base station includes a reception timing difference report unit measuring a reception timing difference of reference signals transmitted from neighboring base stations, and reporting the reception timing difference to one or more base stations. A base station has a transmission timing difference computation unit computing a transmission timing difference of reference signals between the base station and neighboring base stations based on the reception timing difference, and a transmission timing difference information report unit reporting the transmission timing difference to the mobile station. The mobile station further includes a cell search unit performing cell search on a cell search range limited based on the transmission timing difference transmitted from the base station.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2006Date of Patent: March 22, 2011Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.Inventors: Motohiro Tanno, Kenichi Higuchi, Mamoru Sawahashi
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Publication number: 20110051711Abstract: A base station includes a receiving unit configured to receive a UE capability regarding a bandwidth from a mobile station; and a specifying unit configured to specify, among plural basic frequency blocks included in a system band, one or more basic frequency blocks to be used by the mobile station based on the UE capability.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2009Publication date: March 3, 2011Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Motohiro Tanno, Nobuhiko Miki, Hidekazu Taoka, Kenichi Higuchi, Mamoru Sawahashi
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Publication number: 20110044159Abstract: A base station apparatus is disclosed for use in a mobile communication system including multiple cells having multiple sectors. The base station apparatus includes a synchronization channel generation unit configured to generate a synchronization channel for use in cell search by a user apparatus and a transmitting unit configured to wirelessly transmit a signal including the synchronization channel. The synchronization channel includes a primary synchronization channel and a secondary synchronization channel. The primary synchronization channel includes multiple types of sequences, and the secondary synchronization channel transmitted in a sector of a cell includes a code derived from a predefined generation polynomial equation corresponding to the primary synchronization channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2008Publication date: February 24, 2011Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Satoshi Nagata, Motohiro Tanno, Kenichi Higuchi, Mamoru Sawahashi
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Publication number: 20110038434Abstract: An apparatus for generating sets of radio parameters includes a first deriving unit deriving a set of radio parameters for specifying a symbol including an effective symbol part with the same period as the effective symbol part specified by another set of radio parameters and a guard interval part with a different period from the guard interval part specified by the other set of radio parameters. The apparatus further includes a second deriving unit deriving a set of radio parameters so that an occupancy proportion of the guard interval part in a single symbol specified by another set of radio parameters is equal to an occupancy proportion of the guard interval part in a single symbol specified by the other set of radio parameters.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2010Publication date: February 17, 2011Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Mamoru Sawahashi, Kenichi Higuchi, Hiroyuki Atarashi, Motohiro Tanno, Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Yoshiaki Ofuji
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Publication number: 20110002235Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2010Publication date: January 6, 2011Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Sadayuki Abeta, Motohiro Tanno, Nobuhiko Miki, Mamoru Sawahashi
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Patent number: 7848447Abstract: An apparatus for generating sets of radio parameters includes a first deriving unit deriving a set of radio parameters for specifying a symbol including an effective symbol part with the same period as the effective symbol part specified by another set of radio parameters and a guard interval part with a different period from the guard interval part specified by the other set of radio parameters. The apparatus further includes a second deriving unit deriving a set of radio parameters so that an occupancy proportion of the guard interval part in a single symbol specified by another set of radio parameters is equal to an occupancy proportion of the guard interval part in a single symbol specified by the other set of radio parameters.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2006Date of Patent: December 7, 2010Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.Inventors: Mamoru Sawahashi, Kenichi Higuchi, Hiroyuki Atarashi, Motohiro Tanno, Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Yoshiaki Ofuji
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Publication number: 20100302987Abstract: In a mobile communication system, a downlink MBMS channel is transmitted from a plurality of cells in timing synchronized with each other. The system includes: a unit configured to collectively transit a notification of setting up an uplink line for responding to the downlink MBMS channel to a plurality of user apparatuses specified by an upper node of the base station apparatus; a unit configured to set up the uplink line for a user apparatus that responds to the notification; and a unit configured to transfer a signal received from each user apparatus via the uplink line to the upper node.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2008Publication date: December 2, 2010Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Mamoru Sawahashi, Kenichi Higuchi, Nobuhiko Miki, Motohiro Tanno