Patents by Inventor Nobuhiko Miki

Nobuhiko Miki 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: 20130163545
    Abstract: A disclosed base station apparatus is capable of communicating with a user equipment terminal in a multi-input multi-output (MIMO) mobile communication system using Pre-coding. The base station apparatus includes a receiving unit receiving a Pre-coding Matrix Indicator (PMI) indicating a specific Pre-coding matrix, a determination unit determining a value of a flag indicator indicating whether the Pre-coding matrix specified in the PMI is to be used for downlink communications, a control signal generation unit generating a downlink control signal including at least the flag indicator, and a transmission unit transmitting a signal including the downlink control signal in downlink.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2013
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Inventors: Hidekazu Taoka, Nobuhiko Miki, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Publication number: 20130163462
    Abstract: A mobile communication terminal includes an interference rejection combining processor for obtaining a received signal vector with regard to each of multiple resource elements and for calculating receiving weights so as to suppress influence to a desired beam of electric wave sent from the desired base station by other beams, on the basis of the received signal vectors; a non-interference-rejection receiving weight calculator for calculating receiving weights so as not to suppress influence to the desired beam by other beams; a signal separator for separating a signal destined for the mobile communication terminal from signals destined for other mobile communication terminals; and an interference rejection combining determiner for determining whether the receiving weights to suppress influence by other beams or the receiving weights calculated by the non-interference-rejection receiving weight calculator should be used for signal separation by the signal separator, on the basis of an index representing a rela
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2012
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yusuke Ohwatari, Nobuhiko Miki, Takahiro Asai, Yukihiko Okumura
  • Patent number: 8472394
    Abstract: A base station includes: means configured to manage frequency blocks; means configured to determine, for each frequency block, scheduling information for assigning one or more resource blocks to a communication terminal being in a good channel state; means configured to generate a control channel including the scheduling information for each frequency block; and means configured to frequency multiplexing control channels within the system frequency band and to transmit it. In addition, the base station transmits the control channel by separating a non-specific control channel to be decoded by a non-specific communication terminal and a specific control channel to be decoded by a communication terminal to which one or more resource blocks are assigned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenichi Higuchi, Mamoru Sawahashi, Nobuhiko Miki, Yoshihisa Kiskiyama
  • Publication number: 20130156015
    Abstract: Provided are a base station apparatus, a mobile terminal apparatus and a communication control method capable of selecting a CSI-RS arrangement flexibly in accordance with a system configuration. The base station apparatus has a CSI-RS arrangement section (211) configured to arrange a CSI-RS in a resource reserved for broadcasting when a mobile terminal apparatus (10) is notified of position information of the CSI-RS by broadcasting or in a resource associated with an cell ID of a serving area when the mobile terminal apparatus (10) obtains the position of the CSI-RS based on the cell ID; an identification information generating section (212) configured to generate an identification bit for identifying whether the CSI-RS is arranged in the resource reserved for broadcasting or in the resource associated with the cell ID; and a transmission/reception section (203) configured to transmit the identification information to the mobile terminal apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2011
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tetsushi Abe, Nobuhiko Miki, Yusuke Ohwatari
  • Publication number: 20130150060
    Abstract: The present invention provides a base station apparatus, a mobile terminal apparatus and a communication control method that support a next-generation mobile communication system and are capable of controlling in an adaptive manner to interference in a heterogeneous network. Provided is a room base station apparatus (30) that covers a femto cell (C2) and shares at least a part of frequency band with a base station apparatus (20) that covers a macro cell (C1), the room base station apparatus (30) comprising: a detecting section (311) configured to detect an unconnected mobile terminal apparatus (10) in the femto cell; an obtaining section (312) configured to obtain resource identification information for identifying a resource of a PDCCH for the unconnected mobile terminal apparatus (10) in the base station apparatus (20); and a blank resource setting section (313) configured to set a resource identified by the resource identification information to be a blank resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2011
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tetsushi Abe, Nobuhiko Miki, Zubin Bharucha, Auer Gunther
  • Publication number: 20130148538
    Abstract: A mobile communication terminal including multiple receiving antennas demodulates an interfering UE-specific reference signal that might be used in another mobile communication terminal, and analyzes interference parameters specified by the interfering UE-specific reference signal demodulated by the interfering UE-specific reference signal demodulator, the interference parameters being parameters with regard to another beam sent to another mobile communication terminal from an interfering base station. Then, the mobile communication terminal calculates receiving weights so as to suppress influence to the desired beam from other beams, on the basis of desired beam parameters and the interference parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2012
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yusuke Ohwatari, Nobuhiko Miki, Takahiro Asai, Yukihiko Okumura
  • Publication number: 20130107836
    Abstract: In order to reduce radio resources allocated to PDCCHs and improve the data rate even when a plurality of component carriers are aggregated into a wide band, the present invention provides a base station apparatus having: a downlink control information generation section (306) configured to generate downlink control information (DCI) to demodulate PDSCHs that are sent independently in respective component carriers (CCs) allocated to a user terminal; and a transmitting section configured to transmit a PDCCH containing the downlink control information (DCI). The downlink control information (DCI) generated by the downlink control information generation section (306) is added with identification information (CIF) that is used to demodulate the PDSCHs assigned to the component carriers and is capable of identifying each of the component carriers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Nobuhiko Miki, Tetsushi Abe, Kazuaki Takeda
  • Publication number: 20130107855
    Abstract: In order to implement optimal CFI control under a cross-carrier scheduling environment and improve PDSCH transmission efficiency, for the MACRO_UE2 where the cross-carrier scheduling is employed, the PDSCH initiation position of CC1 that is used to transmit PDCCH is dynamically controlled, and the PDSCH initiation position of CC2 that is not used to transmit PDCCH is quasi-statically controlled. For the PICO_UE2 where the cross-carrier scheduling is employed, the PDSCH initiation position of CC2 that is used to transmit PDCCH is dynamically controlled, and the PDSCH initiation position of CC1 that is not used to transmit PDCCH is dynamically controlled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Takeda, Nobuhiko Miki
  • Publication number: 20130109384
    Abstract: A base station apparatus, a mobile terminal apparatus and a communication control method are provided which can perform control adaptable to interference in a heterogeneous network and support next-generation mobile communication systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: NITT DOCOMO INC.
    Inventors: Tetsushi Abe, Nobuhiko Miki, Satoshi Nagata, Naoto Okubo, Sangiamwong Jaturong
  • Publication number: 20130100828
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to providing a transmission power control method and a mobile station apparatus that can adequately control the transmission power of a mobile station apparatus having a plurality of transmitting antennas. Uplink transmission power control for a mobile station apparatus having a plurality of transmitting antennas provides a step of measuring the path loss (PL) of at least one transmitting antenna in a plurality of transmitting antennas, a step of setting representative value path loss (PL?) based on the measured path loss values, a step of determining the total transmission power (PTX) of the mobile station apparatus based on the representative value path loss (PL?), and a step of determining the transmission power (PTXn) of each transmitting antenna by distributing the total transmission power (PTX) to the plurality of transmitting antennas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2011
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Daisuke Nishikawa, Tetsushi Abe, Nobuhiko Miki, Hiroyuki Ishii
  • Publication number: 20130102307
    Abstract: To provide a cell selecting method in which an optimal cell can be selected in the case of relay transmission. The cell selecting method includes: in a radio base station apparatus, determining a specified sub-frame including data for measuring reception quality in a mobile terminal device; and in a mobile terminal device, measuring first reception quality using a reference signal of the specified sub-frame transmitted from the radio base station apparatus and second reception quality using a reference signal of the specified sub-frame transmitted from the radio base station apparatus through a radio relay station apparatus, and transmitting the first reception quality and the second reception quality to the radio base station apparatus; and in the radio base station apparatus, selecting a cell to which the mobile terminal device is connected using the first reception quality and the second reception quality, and transmitting information on the selected cell to the mobile terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, Inc.
    Inventors: Satoshi Nagata, Sangiamwong Jaturong, Tetsushi Abe, Nobuhiko Miki, Yasufumi Morioka
  • Patent number: 8428019
    Abstract: A base station communicates with a user device transmitting an uplink signal based on a single-carrier transmission scheme. The base station includes a frequency hopping determining unit configured to determine whether to apply frequency hopping to the user device based on radio-wave propagation information from the user device and a traffic type of data to be transmitted by the user device; a scheduler configured to allocate frequencies to the user device based on uplink channel reception conditions of the user device; and a reporting unit configured to report allocation information indicating resource units allocated by the scheduler to the user device. When the frequency hopping determining unit determines to apply the frequency hopping to the user device, the scheduler allocates, to the user device, resource units with different frequency bands in different slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Nobuhiko Miki, Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Kenichi Higuchi, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Publication number: 20130094449
    Abstract: The present invention provides a base station apparatus, a mobile terminal apparatus and a communication control method that can adequately allocate resources of response signals for retransmission for spatially-multiplexed signals respectively corresponding to a plurality of layers via the uplink and that support next-generation mobile communication systems. Discloses is a configuration to receive signals in which a plurality of layers are spatially-multiplexed on the uplink from a mobile terminal apparatus (10), generate HARQ ACK/NACK for signals received in the layers on the uplink, and allocate HARQ ACK/NACK for transport blocks associated with the layers, to PHICH resources, using the offset values that are fixedly defined in advance with the mobile terminal apparatus (10) for every uplink layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2011
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Takeda, Nobuhiko Miki, Hidekazu Taoka
  • Patent number: 8422574
    Abstract: A disclosed base station apparatus is capable of communicating with a user equipment terminal in a multi-input multi-output (MIMO) mobile communication system using Pre-coding. The base station apparatus includes a receiving unit receiving a Pre-coding Matrix Indicator (PMI) indicating a specific Pre-coding matrix, a determination unit determining a value of a flag indicator indicating whether the Pre-coding matrix specified in the PMI is to be used for downlink communications, a control signal generation unit generating a downlink control signal including at least the flag indicator, and a transmission unit transmitting a signal including the downlink control signal in downlink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Hidekazu Taoka, Nobuhiko Miki, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Publication number: 20130084879
    Abstract: To provide a base station apparatus, mobile terminal apparatus and communication control method for enabling control adapted to interference inside a Heterogeneous network to be performed to support the next-generation mobile communication system, a base station apparatus (20) shares at least a part of the frequency band with another base station apparatus (40) that covers a macro-cell, covers a pico-cell (C1), is capable of transmitting a downlink transmission frame at transmission timing different from the another base station apparatus (40), and is configured to set resources, in which the downlink transmission frame undergoes interference from another downlink transmission frame including a blank period transmitted from the another base station apparatus (40), as blank resources, and assign user data to the downlink transmission frame while avoiding the blank resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2011
    Publication date: April 4, 2013
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tetsushi Abe, Satoshi Nagata, Nobuhiko Miki, Sangiamwong Jaturong
  • Patent number: 8411634
    Abstract: A user apparatus transmits an uplink control signal to a base station apparatus using a single carrier scheme. The user apparatus includes: a unit configured to receive a downlink control signal and a downlink data signal; a unit configured to prepare acknowledgement information indicating positive acknowledgement or negative acknowledgement for the downlink data signal; a unit configured to prepare the uplink control signal including the acknowledgement information; a unit configured to transmit the uplink control signal using different resources which are different from resources that can be used for an uplink data signal; and a storage unit configured to store predetermined correspondence relationship which uniquely associates resources of the downlink control signal or the downlink data signal with resources used for the uplink control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Nobuhiko Miki, Kenichi Higuchi, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Publication number: 20130077576
    Abstract: To partially suppress interference to control channels of a pico-cell from a base station apparatus of a macro-cell and enable assignment of user data to a subframe besides the same subframe using a part of control channels with interference suppressed thereto, a base station apparatus disposed in a second system having a system band comprised of a plurality of component carriers for sharing at least a part of a frequency band with a first system having a macro-cell (C2) and covering a pico-cell (C1) is configured to generate a carrier indicator for indicating another component carrier to which user data is assigned besides the same component carrier on a control channel of the component carrier, while indicating another subframe to which user data is assigned besides the same subframe on the downlink control channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2011
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tetsushi Abe, Nobuhiko Miki, Satoshi Nagata, Sangiamwong Jaturong
  • Patent number: 8406184
    Abstract: A user apparatus in a mobile communications system is disclosed. The user apparatus includes a unit which receives, from a base station apparatus, a downlink control signal including information for allocating a radio resource; a unit which determines, depending on a channel status, a pre-encoding matrix indicator (PMI) which indicates a pre-encoding matrix to be applied to multiple antennas of the base station apparatus; and a unit which transmits, to the base station apparatus, an uplink signal including the PMI, wherein, if the radio resource is allocated to a physical uplink shared channel of the user apparatus, the PMI is transmitted using a part of the radio resource, and, wherein, if the radio resource is not allocated to the physical uplink shared channel of the user apparatus, the PMI is transmitted in a physical uplink control channel which is allocated, in a fixed manner, to the user apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Hidekazu Taoka, Mamoru Sawahashi, Nobuhiko Miki
  • Publication number: 20130070664
    Abstract: To control a radio link capacity in a backhaul link optimally, and to enhance a throughput in an access link, in the radio communications system using the relay transmission technology. A relay frequency allocation method according to the present invention includes: determining whether or not carrier aggregation is to be applied in a backhaul link from a radio base station apparatus to a mobile terminal device under the command of the radio base station apparatus, and/or an access link from a radio relay station apparatus to a mobile terminal device under the command of the radio relay station apparatus; allocating a frequency band for transmitting a downlink signal in the backhaul link and/or the access link, when applying the carrier aggregation; and transmitting the downlink signal with the allocated frequency band in the backhaul link and/or the access link.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Satoshi Nagata, Tetsushi Abe, Nobuhiko Miki, Hideaki Takahashi, Mikio Iwamura
  • Publication number: 20130070703
    Abstract: The present invention aims to realize an uplink assignment information structure that is optimal for signaling of uplink assignment information when a plurality of frequency bands are assigned to an uplink data channel. In a radio communication system where a plurality of frequency bands are assigned to one user on the uplink, uplink assignment information including uplink resource allocation information in which resources are allocated in a bitmap format is defined, this uplink assignment information is formed in the same bit size as downlink assignment information (for example, DCI format 1), in which downlink resource allocation information in which resources are allocated on a bitmap basis is included, and the interpretation of part of the bits of the downlink assignment information (DCI format 1) is changed, so that it is possible to identify the uplink assignment information of the same bit size.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Shimpei Yasukawa, Teruo Kawamura, Kazuaki Takeda, Nobuhiko Miki