Patents by Inventor Ryosuke Osawa

Ryosuke Osawa 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: 12156281
    Abstract: A user equipment includes a receiving unit that executes sensing for a part of candidate resources to be used for transmission of inter-terminal direct communication, a control unit that determines a resource to be used for transmission based on a result of the sensing, and a transmitting unit that transmits a message to another units of user equipment using the determined resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Ryosuke Osawa, Huan Wang, Xufei Zheng, Xiaolin Hou
  • Patent number: 12082083
    Abstract: A user equipment includes a reception unit that receives control information and data through inter-terminal direct communication; and a control unit that determines, based on the control information or the data, whether the inter-terminal direct communication is unicast, groupcast, or broadcast.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Ryosuke Osawa, Huan Wang, Xiaolin Hou
  • Patent number: 12063603
    Abstract: A user equipment communicates with a first user equipment or a base station apparatus, the user equipment including a receiving unit configured to receive a synchronization signal or a reference signal used in sidelink transmitted from the first user equipment; a control unit configured to measure a channel state of sidelink, based on the synchronization signal or the reference signal; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit, to the base station apparatus or the first user equipment, information indicating the channel state of sidelink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Ryosuke Osawa, Yuichi Kakishima, Huan Wang
  • Patent number: 12047937
    Abstract: A user device includes a transmission unit that transmits a first traffic to a second user device using a resource scheduled for sidelink by a base station device or a first user device, a reception unit that receives from the base station device or the first user device a sidelink pre-emption indication indicating that all or part of the resource scheduled for the sidelink is to be used for a second traffic, and a control unit that excludes a resource used for the second traffic from the resource for the sidelink used for transmitting the first traffic, based on the sidelink pre-emption indication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Ryosuke Osawa, Huan Wang, Xufei Zheng, Xiaolin Hou
  • Patent number: 11924831
    Abstract: A user equipment includes a control unit that controls transmission or reception of a sidelink signal in which a first resource and a second resource are multiplexed in a same slot, wherein at least one of SLSS (Sidelink synchronization signal) or PSBCH (Physical Sidelink Broadcast Channel) is allocated in the first resource, and at least one of PSCCH (Physical Sidelink Control Channel), PSSCH (Physical Sidelink Shared Channel), and PSDCH (Physical Sidelink Discovery Channel) is allocated in the second resource; a reception unit that monitors the first resource, the second resource, or the first resource and the second resource; and a transmission unit that performs transmission using any one of the first resource, the second resource, and the first resource and the second resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Ryosuke Osawa, Huan Wang, Xiaolin Hou
  • Patent number: 11917595
    Abstract: A communication device includes a receiving unit that receives at least one of configuration information of a same center frequency used for downlink reception and sidelink reception in one slot or configuration information of a same center frequency used for uplink transmission and sidelink transmission in the one slot; and a control unit that configures, based on the received configuration information, at least one of the same center frequency for the downlink reception and the sidelink reception in the one slot or the same center frequency for the uplink transmission and the sidelink transmission in the one slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Ryosuke Osawa, Kazuaki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 11903055
    Abstract: The user equipment comprises a reception unit configured to receive allocation information of reference signals from a base station apparatus or a first user equipment, the reference signals being used in a device-to-device direct communication; a control unit for determining a device-to-device direct communication signal based on the allocation information of reference signals used in the device-to-device direct communication; and a transmitter configured to transmit the determined device-to-device direct communication signal to a second user equipment, wherein the allocation information of reference signals used in the device-to-device direct communication includes a transmission density of the reference signals used in the device-to-device direct communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Ryosuke Osawa, Yuichi Kakishima, Satoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 11881968
    Abstract: A user terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a transmitting section that transmits an uplink shared channel by applying a precoder; and a control section that specifies a number of ports used to determine the precoder when a Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) resource is not configured. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, even when an SRS resource is not configured, it is possible to appropriately determine a precoder of a UL signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Ryosuke Osawa, Yuichi Kakishima
  • Patent number: 11849431
    Abstract: A user apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive information indicating resources used for downlink or uplink from a base station apparatus and a transmission unit configured to transmit TDD configuration information used for determining an arrangement of resources used for sidelink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tomoya Ohara, Ryosuke Osawa
  • Patent number: 11711189
    Abstract: The present invention is designed to suitably reduce the degradation of spectral efficiency even when communication is performed using a waveform of a single-carrier transmission scheme. According to one aspect of the present invention, a user terminal has a receiving section that receives a downlink control signal, which schedules transmission of a data signal in accordance with a waveform that is based on a single-carrier transmission scheme, and a transmission section that transmits a sounding reference signal, which is different from an uplink sounding reference signal used in existing LTE and which has a wider transmission bandwidth than the data signal, by using the waveform based on the single-carrier transmission scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Ryosuke Osawa, Kazuki Takeda, Hiroki Harada
  • Patent number: 11683726
    Abstract: A communication device includes a receiving unit that receives information indicating a first set of combinations of radio parameters; a control unit that extracts, based on the first set of the combinations of the radio parameters and a second set of combinations of radio parameters supported by the communication device, a third set of combinations of radio parameters that are common between the first set and the second set; and a transmitting unit that transmits information indicating the third set of the combinations of the radio parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Ryosuke Osawa, Kazuaki Takeda
  • Patent number: 11601892
    Abstract: A user apparatus in a wireless communication system including a base station and a user apparatus, includes a signal reception part that receives, from the base station, a plurality of power control parameters that become candidates for power control parameters to be used by the user apparatus, a transmission power determination part that selects power control parameters to be used, from the plurality of power control parameters, and determines a transmission power of a UL signal, based on the selected power control parameters and a pathloss estimation value, and a signal transmission part that transmits the UL signal using the transmission power determined by the transmission power determination part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Shinpei Yasukawa, Satoshi Nagata, Ryosuke Osawa, Shaozhen Guo
  • Patent number: 11595904
    Abstract: A user terminal according to one aspect of the present invention is characterized by having a receiving section that receives a power control ID, a control section that controls transmit power according to a transmit power parameter set specified by the power control ID, and a transmitting section that transmits a signal corresponding to an object set specified by the power control ID, using the transmit power. According to one aspect of the invention, it is possible to suppress a reduction in communication throughput, even in the case of using beam specific transmit power control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Ryosuke Osawa, Yuichi Kakishima
  • Patent number: 11564203
    Abstract: A user terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a transmitting section that performs uplink (UL) data transmission, independently of a UL transmission indication from a radio base station; a receiving section that receives information of a plurality of candidates, regarding a value of a parameter used for the UL data transmission; and a control section that determines application of a value determined based on the information of the plurality of candidates to the UL data transmission. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, communication throughput reduction and so on can be prevented even when UL grant-free transmission is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventor: Ryosuke Osawa
  • Patent number: 11552742
    Abstract: A user equipment includes a receiving unit configured to receive a first signal of inter-terminal direct communication transmitted from a first user equipment, and information indicating a first resource for transmitting a HARQ (Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request) response corresponding to the first signal of inter-terminal direct communication transmitted from either one of a base station apparatus or the first user equipment; a control unit configured to determine the HARQ response based on a reception result of the first signal of inter-terminal direct communication; and a transmitting snit configured to transmit the determined HARQ response to the base station apparatus or the first user equipment, by using the first resource for transmitting the HARQ response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Ryosuke Osawa, Yuki Matsumura, Kazuaki Takeda, Huan Wang, Xiaolin Hou
  • Patent number: 11528096
    Abstract: The present invention is designed to improve the efficiency of the use of radio resources in retransmission control in future radio communication systems. A user terminal according to one aspect of the present invention has a receiving section that receives a downlink (DL) signal, and a control section that, when a transport block of the DL signal is divided into a plurality of code blocks, controls transmission of retransmission control information representing an acknowledgment (ACK) or a negative acknowledgment (NACK) for each code block, or representing an ACK or a NACK for each code block group, which groups fewer code blocks than the plurality of code blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Kitamura, Hiroki Harada, Ryosuke Osawa
  • Patent number: 11515923
    Abstract: A user terminal includes: a transmission section including a plurality of antennas; and a control section that controls the phase of a signal transmitted from the plurality of antennas to a base station. The control section performs control such that any one of first information and second information is notified to the base station, the first information is information indicating any of a plurality of array patterns that are adoptable by each antenna in a case where the plurality of antennas are all coherent, and the second information is information indicating the number of the coherent antennas in a case where at least two of the plurality of antennas are coherent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuichi Kakishima, Yuki Matsumura, Ryosuke Osawa, Satoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 11502799
    Abstract: A terminal is disclosed including a processor that identifies a resource for a Channel State Information-Reference Signal (CSI-RS); and a transmitter that transmits a Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) by using a precoder based on the resource that was last transmitted. In other aspects, a radio communication method and a base station are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuichi Kakishima, Ryosuke Osawa, Satoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 11399292
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the present invention, a user terminal has a transmission section that transmits a signal in a plurality of CGs, including a first cell group (CG) and a second CG corresponding to a longer slot length than the first CG, and a control section that controls transmission power in each CG, and the control section switches a transmission power control policy in a certain slot based on whether or not the certain slot of the first CG overlaps with a slot boundary of the second CG. According to one aspect of the present invention, even when multiple numerologies are supported in a given carrier, it is possible to reduce the decline in communication throughput and so forth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventor: Ryosuke Osawa
  • Patent number: 11388683
    Abstract: A user equipment communicates with a base station using a first RAT and a second RAT, including: a transmission unit to perform uplink transmission using the first RAT and the second RAT; a control unit to, if a sum of transmission powers of the uplink transmission via the first RAT and the second RAT exceeds a predetermined maximum transmission power, reduce the transmission power of the uplink transmission via the second RAT. If the sum exceeds a maximum transmission power and the transmission unit fails to transmit random access preamble via the second RAT and re-transmits the random access preamble, or if dynamic power sharing is not supported and the random access preamble is not transmitted via the second RAT in a slot where an uplink transmission via the first RAT is scheduled, the control unit changes transmission power control for the re-transmitted random access preamble from normal control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tomoya Ohara, Ryosuke Osawa