Patents by Inventor Naoki Kusashima

Naoki Kusashima 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: 12137422
    Abstract: A communication device includes: a communication unit that is allowed to simultaneously perform data transmission and data reception by using a same band; an acquisition unit that acquires information regarding self-interference generated at a time when the data transmission and the data reception are simultaneously performed by using the same band; and a communication control unit that performs control regarding the data transmission based on information regarding the self-interference or information from another device generated based on the information regarding the self-interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Kusashima, Ryota Kimura, Ryo Sawai, Kyoya Teramae, Keiichi Mizutani, Hiroshi Harada
  • Publication number: 20240365376
    Abstract: A method for communicating in a mobile telecommunications network, the method comprising transmitting, by a first node and in a first transmission portion of a first frame, a grant message to a second node, the grant message scheduling a first transmission, wherein the grant message indicates that the first transmission will be transmitted in a later transmission portion of the first frames; performing, by the first network node, a first contention-based access procedure in respect of the later transmission portion; if the first contention-based access procedure is successful, the first node providing an indication that the later transmission portion was successfully acquired; monitoring, by the second node and based on the received grant, the indication; and determining, by the second node and based on whether the indication was detected, whether the first node successfully acquired the later transmission portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Shin Horng WONG, Naoki KUSASHIMA, Martin Warwick BEALE, Yassin Aden AWAD
  • Patent number: 12120762
    Abstract: A communication device includes: a communication unit configured to perform wireless communication; and a control unit configured to allocate respective resources for communication with a plurality of terminal devices in which at least any of bandwidths or central frequencies of channels to be used is different. The control unit allocates a first control channel to be commonly transmitted to the plurality of terminal devices to a first region overlapping between the respective channels of the plurality of terminal devices in a region in which the resources are allocated. The control unit allocates a second control channel to be individually transmitted to each of the plurality of terminal devices to a second region different from the first region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Naoki Kusashima
  • Publication number: 20240334489
    Abstract: There is proposed a mechanism that makes it possible to achieve fair channel access between a plurality of nodes. A base station including a control unit (150) that notifies a terminal device of setting information regarding a channel access scheme to be used and carrier sense. The terminal device is configured to use, as channel access schemes, a first scheme in which the terminal device performs carrier sense at any timing and a second scheme in which the terminal device performs carrier sense at predetermined timing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Inventors: NAOKI KUSASHIMA, HIROMASA UCHIYAMA, HIROKI MATSUDA, YIFU TANG
  • Publication number: 20240323952
    Abstract: A terminal device includes a transceiver and a hardware processor. The hardware processor receives one physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) via the transceiver. The one PDCCH schedules a plurality of physical shared channels in one or more carriers or one or more slots. The one PDCCH and the plurality of physical shared channels are transmitted to the terminal device. The plurality of physical shared channels is a plurality of physical downlink shared channels (PDSCH) or a plurality of physical uplink shared channels (PUSCH).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuyuki SHIMEZAWA, Naoki KUSASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20240324009
    Abstract: A terminal device is time-synchronized with a communication device at a synchronization boundary. The terminal device includes a wireless communication unit and a control unit. The control unit is configured to transmit determination information for determining whether or not to extend a channel occupancy time (COT) via a wireless communication unit, receive information regarding the COT, and perform uplink transmission on the basis of the information regarding the COT that has been received. In a case where the information regarding the COT does not indicate extension of the COT, the COT ends at least by a first sync boundary. In a case where the information regarding the COT indicates extension of the COT, the COT ends after the first sync boundary and by the end of a second sync boundary that occurs following the first sync boundary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Naoki KUSASHIMA
  • Patent number: 12101676
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes an acquisition unit to acquire, from a base station apparatus being connected, switching information including information used for wireless communication with a movably configured base station apparatus to be a switching destination candidate, a determination unit configured to determine whether or not to switch a base station apparatus to be a connection destination, and a connection unit configured to, upon determining by the determination unit to switch the base station apparatus to be the connection destination, execute connection to the base station apparatus to be the switching destination candidate on a basis of the switching information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki Matsuda, Naoki Kusashima
  • Publication number: 20240313895
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device that includes an acquisition unit that acquires information about sidelink communication. The information processing device further includes a determination unit that determines whether to enable feedback related to a data automatic repeat request in the sidelink communication based on the information about the sidelink communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2024
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Inventors: YIFU TANG, HIROMASA UCHIYAMA, NAOKI KUSASHIMA
  • Patent number: 12095696
    Abstract: Provided is a mechanism capable of improving the transmission efficiency of the entire system in a case where dynamic resource sharing is performed. A terminal device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires first control information and second control information provided in notification from a base station device; and a reception processing unit that performs reception processing of a first data channel scheduled to a first resource, and a reference signal for demodulating the first data channel, on the basis of the first control information, in which the reception processing unit performs the reception processing of the first data channel mapped to a resource other than a second resource that is a part of the first resource in the first resource on the basis of the second control information on the assumption that the reference signal is mapped to the first resource including the second resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Naoki Kusashima
  • Publication number: 20240306197
    Abstract: A communication device (40) includes a control unit (45). The control unit (45) receives an instruction to perform channel sensing in an unlicensed band, from a base station apparatus (20). The control unit (45) performs the channel sensing in a channel occupancy time in which the instruction is received. The control unit (45) transmits second uplink control information that can be multiplexed with first uplink control information and that indicates a result of the channel sensing, to the base station apparatus (20), in the channel occupancy time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Inventor: NAOKI KUSASHIMA
  • Patent number: 12089248
    Abstract: It is possible to further suppress emergence of a half duplex (HD) problem in inter-device communication such as V2X communication. A communication device includes: a communication unit (220) that performs wireless communication; an acquisition unit (243) that acquires first information from a first communication device via the wireless communication, the first information being information regarding a transmission condition of data using a communication mode of switching transmission and reception in a time division manner to perform the inter-device communication; and a control unit (241) that controls an operation related to reception of data transmitted from the first communication device according to the first information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiromasa Uchiyama, Naoki Kusashima, Hiroki Matsuda, Yifu Tang
  • Publication number: 20240298320
    Abstract: A method of operating a communications device configured to transmit data via a wireless access interface is provided. The method comprises operating in accordance with a configured grant, CG, mode of operation comprising determining a sequence of instances of uplink communications resources of the wireless access interface and transmitting uplink data to the wireless communications network in at least one instance of the sequence of instances of uplink communications resources, transmitting, to the wireless communications network, uplink control information relating to the CG mode of operation, CG-UCI, comprising one or more indicators which indicate information required to support one or more of a plurality of services, the plurality of services including Ultra Reliable Low Latency Communications, URLLC, and transmitting the uplink data in accordance with the information required to support the one or more of the plurality of services indicated by the one or more indicators of the transmitted CG-UCI.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Shin Horng WONG, Naoki KUSASHIMA
  • Patent number: 12058656
    Abstract: Base station devices 20 and 30 includes communication units 21 and 31 and control units 24 and 34. The communication units 21 and 31 communicate with the terminal devices 40 and 50. When at least one symbol included in a slot format configured in the terminal devices 40 and 50 is a symbol for communication other than sidelink communication, the control units 24 and 34 transmit, to the terminal devices 40 and 50, information for use by the terminal devices 40 and 50 as a symbol for sidelink communication with at least one symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yifu Tang, Hiromasa Uchiyama, Naoki Kusashima
  • Patent number: 12053254
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus that includes a motion request verifying unit controlling execution of a motion request for a device, on the basis of the motion request based on device side information including device state information indicating a state of the device at a first point in time and target state information indicating a state of an operated target, and device side information updated during time after the first point in time and before a second point in time at which the motion request is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Miyamoto, Naoki Kusashima, Ryota Kimura, Kazuo Hongo
  • Publication number: 20240260014
    Abstract: A terminal device including a control unit that transmits first resource information, which indicates a radio resource available to another communication device among radio resources of which access rights are acquired by performing carrier sense, on an uplink or a sidelink.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2024
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Inventors: NAOKI KUSASHIMA, HIROMASA UCHIYAMA, HIROKI MATSUDA, YlFU TANG
  • Publication number: 20240260099
    Abstract: A communication device is a device in which a radio connection state with another communication device changes from an unconnected state to a predetermined connected state by performing a predetermined connection procedure. The communication device acquires predetermined information for transmitting data to the another communication device in the unconnected state. The communication device then transmits the data to the another communication device in the unconnected state based on the predetermined information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2024
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki MATSUDA, Naoki KUSASHIMA
  • Patent number: 12047928
    Abstract: To enable multiplexing configurations of a plurality of uplink control channels in a preferred mode in a communication system in which a base station device and a terminal device communicate with each other. A communication device includes: a communication unit configured to perform wireless communication; and a control unit configured to selectively switch between a first physical channel and a second physical channel in which both conditions of the number of symbols and the number of resource blocks are different from each other and which are allocated during a predetermined period in a time direction to transmit control information to a base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Naoki Kusashima
  • Patent number: 12040901
    Abstract: An information processing device includes an acquisition unit that acquires information about sidelink communication, and a determination unit that determines whether to enable feedback related to a data automatic repeat request in the sidelink communication based on the information about the sidelink communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yifu Tang, Hiromasa Uchiyama, Naoki Kusashima
  • Patent number: 12041603
    Abstract: Provided is a communication device that includes a communication unit that performs radio communication, and a control unit that performs carrier sensing together with a base station and that performs control so that a radio signal is transmitted via a carrier which is designated by the base station based on results of the carrier sensing. The control unit further performs control so that information relating to transmission of uplink control information in a case where the transmission of the uplink control information via the carrier is suppressed is acquired from the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Naoki Kusashima
  • Publication number: 20240236770
    Abstract: There is provided a communication apparatus including: a communication unit that performs radio communication; a control unit that controls an operation of sensing resources to be used in a communication scheme used for performing inter-device communication with other devices, in which the control unit controls to sense the resource in a predetermined minimum unit on a time axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2024
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Yifu TANG, Naoki KUSASHIMA, Hiromasa UCHIYAMA, Hiroki MATSUDA