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).

  • TERMINAL DEVICE, BASE STATION DEVICE, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING TERMINAL DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING BASE STATION DEVICE
    Publication number: 20220294569
    Abstract: A terminal device includes a communication unit and a control unit. The control unit is configured to receive disabling information of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback via the communication unit, and recognize that one or more pieces of HARQ feedback indicated by the disabling information of the HARQ feedback are disabled, and the disabling information of the HARQ feedback is set for each cell, each beam, each component carrier, each bandwidth part (BWP), each user equipment (UE), or each HARQ process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki Matsuda, Hiromasa Uchiyama, Naoki Kusashima, Yifu Tang
  • WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20220279493
    Abstract: A wireless communication device including an acquisition unit that acquires an information set related to a transmission parameter when transmitting a resource arbitrarily selected from a predetermined resource pool to a transmission target (for example, performing grant-free transmission), and a setting unit that sets the transmission parameter using the information set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki MATSUDA, Kazuyuki SHIMEZAWA, Naoki KUSASHIMA
  • Communication device, communication method, and program for selectively switching between a first physical uplink channel and a second physical uplink channel
    Patent number: 11432288
    Abstract: A communication device communicating with a base station, where the communication device includes: communication circuitry for performing wireless communication; and control circuitry for selectively switching between a first Physical Uplink Control CHannel (PUCCH) and a second PUCCH, each of the first PUCCH and second PUCCH for transmitting control information from the communication device to the base station. Here, a number of first symbols and a number of first resource blocks of the first PUCCH are different from a number of second symbols and a second number of resource blocks of the second PUCCH, and the first PUCCH and second PUCCH are allocated by the base station for use by the communication device during one or more predetermined periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Naoki Kusashima
  • Communication device, base station apparatus, method, and program
    Patent number: 11425640
    Abstract: A communication device is provided that further improves the quality between radio links, in a communication system in which a base station apparatus communicates with a communication device. A communication device is provided that includes a reception unit that receives system information including a set of identities indicating virtual cells, and a setting unit that selects a virtual cell identity to be applied, from the set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Kusashima, Hiromasa Uchiyama, Yifu Tang
  • COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND COMMUNICATION PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20220256598
    Abstract: A communication device (20) includes a sensing unit (231) that performs channel sensing in an unlicensed band, and a notification unit (232) that notifies another communication device of space domain information, as channel occupancy information indicating that channel occupancy is performed when the sensing succeeds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Naoki KUSASHIMA
  • Communication apparatus and communication control method
    Patent number: 11412562
    Abstract: [Problem to be Solved] To provide a communication apparatus that allows a coordinated operation to be executed between different operators. [Solution] There is provided a communication apparatus including a communication control unit that performs control to concurrently couple a base station of a first operator and a base station of a second operator wirelessly. A cell group of the base station of the first operator and a cell group of the base station of the second operator are different from each other. The communication control unit receives setting information regarding the base station of the second operator from the base station of the first operator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Naoki Kusashima, Hiroki Matsuda
  • Communication apparatus and communication method
    Patent number: 11405811
    Abstract: Provided are a communication apparatus that is operated under a wireless communication environment to which a full duplex communication scheme is applied and a communication method. The communication apparatus includes a communication section that performs wireless communication and a control section that controls operation of the communication section and processing of a signal transmitted and received by the communication section. Upon receiving, through a downlink control channel from a base station, designation regarding a resource in which interference is to be measured, the control section conducts, in the designated resource, measurement of interference from another terminal. In addition, the control section further controls transmission of interference information obtained by the measurement to the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Kusashima, Ryota Kimura, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Ryo Sawai, Hiroto Kuriki, Keiichi Mizutani, Takeshi Matsumura, Hiroshi Harada
  • COMMUNICATION DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD
    Publication number: 20220232481
    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: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki KUSASHIMA, Ryota KIMURA, Ryo SAWAI, Kyoya TERAMAE, Keiichi MIZUTANI, Hiroshi HARADA
  • Terminal device, base station device, and method
    Patent number: 11394459
    Abstract: Provided is a mechanism which is capable of improving wireless link quality regarding transmission from a terminal device on the ground to a non-ground station device. A terminal device including a control unit configured to acquire information regarding a type of a base station device and control a transmission timing of a signal to the base station device on the basis of the information regarding the type of the base station device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Kusashima, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Hiromasa Uchiyama, Hiroki Matsuda, Ryota Kimura, Yifu Tang
  • Radio communication device, radio communication method, and computer program
    Patent number: 11395263
    Abstract: A radio communication device is provided that includes a communication unit which performs inter-device communication according to carrier aggregation; and a processing unit which selects the transmission resources to be used in the inter-device communication according to carrier aggregation. The processing unit selects, as the transmission resources, carriers that are less affected by the interference based on the information related to inter-carrier interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yifu Tang, Hiromasa Uchiyama, Naoki Kusashima
  • Terminal device, base station device, and communication method
    Patent number: 11388704
    Abstract: A terminal device (UE) includes a reception unit configured to monitor an enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH) on a Serving cell with frame structure type 3. In a case that the terminal device detects downlink control information (DCI) in a subframe, the terminal device assumes a configuration of OFDM symbols according to a field in the DCI in the subframe. The OFDM symbols are used for downlink transmission. A demodulation reference signal (DMRS) associated with the EPDCCH is mapped in the subframe according to the configuration of the OFDM symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Naoki Kusashima, Shoichi Suzuki, Alvaro Ruiz Delgado
  • Communication device, communication method, and program
    Patent number: 11388698
    Abstract: [Object] To achieve communication between terminal devices in a more preferred aspect even in a situation in which wireless access technologies in which definition of resources is different are multiplexed in a communication system in which a base station device and terminal devices communicate with each other. [Solution] A communication device includes: a communication unit configured to perform wireless communication; a control unit configured to allocate a resource to each of a first channel for transmitting control information and a second channel for transmitting data in communication between a plurality of terminal devices; and a notification unit configured to notify at least any terminal device among the plurality of terminal devices of information regarding the resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Kusashima, Hiromasa Uchiyama
  • Wireless communication device and wireless communication method
    Patent number: 11375496
    Abstract: A wireless communication device is provided that is capable of improving transmission efficiency of the entire system. The wireless communication device includes a communication unit and a control unit. The communication unit transmits and receives a signal by wireless communication. The control unit controls use of a resource used for the wireless communication by the communication unit. A part of a resource used to transmit a signal by wireless communication with a first terminal device is used as a resource used to transmit another signal different from the signal exclusively or using by non-orthogonal multiplexing, and the resource used to transmit the another signal has at least a first channel for data. The control unit controls whether the first channel in the resource used to transmit the another signal is used exclusively or used using by non-orthogonal multiplexing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki Matsuda, Naoki Kusashima
  • Wireless communication device, wireless communication method, and computer program
    Patent number: 11356991
    Abstract: A wireless communication device including an acquisition unit that acquires an information set related to a transmission parameter when transmitting a resource arbitrarily selected from a predetermined resource pool to a transmission target (for example, performing grant-free transmission), and a setting unit that sets the transmission parameter using the information set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki Matsuda, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Naoki Kusashima
  • Base station device, terminal device, and method
    Patent number: 11357016
    Abstract: To provide a mechanism in which a plurality of base station devices operated by different operators, respectively, can share a radio resource while cooperating with each other. A base station device includes: a control unit that transmits, to another base station device operated by an operator different from an operator operating the base station device, first configuration information of a first guaranteed resource that is preferentially usable by the base station device among radio resources that are sharable between the operator operating the base station device and the operator operating the other base station device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Kusashima, Hiromasa Uchiyama, Hiroki Matsuda, Yifu Tang
  • COMMUNICATION DEVICE, BASE STATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND COMMUNICATION PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20220124829
    Abstract: A communication device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires information regarding signal processing of predetermined data transmission; and a switching unit that switches a transmission means of a reference signal related to the predetermined data transmission on the basis of the information regarding the signal processing of the predetermined data transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: HIROKI MATSUDA, NAOKI KUSASHIMA
  • Transmission apparatus, reception apparatus, transmission method, reception method, and recording medium
    Patent number: 11297630
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a grant-free transmission mechanism that ensures improved transmission efficiency of a system as a whole. [Solving Means] A transmission apparatus includes a setting section and a communication processing section. The setting section performs settings regarding a resource capable of grant-free transmission and a plurality of transmission patterns corresponding to predetermined pieces of information different from each other. The communication processing section sends data in a grant-free manner in the resource capable of grant-free transmission by using a transmission pattern selected from among the plurality of transmission patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Naoki Kusashima, Hiroki Matsuda
  • COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD
    Publication number: 20220103329
    Abstract: There is provided a communication system in which a base station apparatus communicates with a terminal apparatus and a communication apparatus flexibly designed to address diverse use cases so as to significantly enhance the transmission efficiency of the system as a whole. The communication apparatus includes an acquisition section that acquires information from an apparatus in wireless communication, and a control section that selects either orthogonal multiple access communication or non-orthogonal multiple access communication for communication with the apparatus on the basis of the information acquired by the acquisition section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: HIROKI MATSUDA, KAZUYUKI SHIMEZAWA, NAOKI KUSASHIMA
  • COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD
    Publication number: 20220104282
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a wireless link usable in a more stable manner in a situation where beam management is performed. A communication apparatus includes: a control unit that performs control such that a plurality of reference signals associated with pieces of antenna information different from each other is transmitted to a terminal apparatus; and an acquisition unit that acquires control information corresponding to at least any one of the plurality of reference signals from the terminal apparatus after a random access response in a random access procedure is transmitted to the terminal apparatus. The control unit controls following communication with the terminal apparatus on the basis of the antenna information corresponding to the acquired control information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: NAOKI KUSASHIMA, KAZUYUKI SHIMEZAWA, HIROKI MATSUDA
  • COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20220095329
    Abstract: A communication device, including: 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 according to the results of the sensing, wherein the control unit performs control so that information relating to transmission of uplink control information in a case where transmission of the uplink control information via the carrier is suppressed is acquired from the base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventor: NAOKI KUSASHIMA