Patents by Inventor Sadaki Futagi

Sadaki Futagi 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: 20120087438
    Abstract: A radio transmitting device and method enables reduction of an increase of CGI memories for the control channel and an improvement of the throughput of the data channel. When multiplex transmission through the control channel and the data channel is carried out and when adaptive modulation is applied to both channels, an MCS selecting section (108) is provided with one CQI table for the data channel and CQI tables for the control channel, and a table selecting MCS determining section (201) selects one of the tables depending on the transmission bandwidth of the terminal and determines the MCS of the control channel while looking up the selected CQI table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sadaki Futagi, Daichi Imamura, Seigo Nakao, Tomofumi Takata
  • Patent number: 8155656
    Abstract: Provided is a sequence allocation method capable of reducing inter-cell interference of a reference signal when a ZC sequence is used as the reference signal in a mobile communication system. In the sequence allocation method divides R×M sequences specified by a ZC sequence number r (r=1 to R) and a cyclic shift sequence number m (m=1 to M) into a plurality of sequence groups X (X=1 to R) in accordance with the transmission band width of the reference signal, so that the ZC sequence is allocated to each cell in each sequence group unit. When it is assumed that R=9 and M=6, the number of sequence is 54. Each of the sequence groups is formed by two sequences. Accordingly, the number of sequence groups is 27. The 27 types of sequence groups are allocated to each cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Ogawa, Daichi Imamura, Sadaki Futagi, Tomofumi Takata
  • Patent number: 8149727
    Abstract: Provided is a communication device, which is enabled to improve the throughput of a communication system by reducing the difference of a transmission power between an SCCH and an SDCH thereby to satisfy the required quality of a PAPR. In this device, an MCS selection unit (111) of a transmission unit (110) decides, with reference to a CQI lookup table, an MCS pattern (MCS1) of the SDCH, an MCS pattern (MCS2) of the SCCH and information (multiplex information) on multiplex positions on the time axes of those two channels, on the basis of the CQI information. On the basis of the MCS2 and the MCS1, encoding modulation units (112 and 113) perform encoding and modulating operations. According to the multiplex information, a channel multiplexing unit (114) time-division multiplexes the SCCH and the SDCH thereby to generate a transmission signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Sadaki Futagi, Daichi Imamura, Atsushi Matsumoto, Takashi Iwai
  • Patent number: 8144746
    Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus wherein the performance can be prevented from degrading due to the affection of a frequency offset, while the sequence length of Zadoff-Chu sequence (ZC sequence) being kept long. In this wireless communication apparatus, a ZC sequence generating part (11) generates a ZC sequence corresponding to a preamble number that is selected at random and then inputted; a randomizing part (12) randomizes the ZC sequence; a preamble generating part (13) generates a preamble from the randomized ZC sequence; and a radio transmitting part (14) transmits, via an antenna (15), the preamble after subjecting it to predetermined radio transmission processes, such as a D/A conversion, an up-conversion and so on. For example, the randomizing part (12) multiplies the ZC sequence by a PN sequence so as to randomize the ZC sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Iwai, Daichi Imamura, Sadaki Futagi, Atsushi Matsumoto, Tomofumi Takata
  • Patent number: 8139473
    Abstract: Provided is a mobile station capable of effectively reporting control information in RACH. In the mobile station, a signature selection unit (111) selects one of different code sequences as a signature according to inputted control information and a modulation unit (112) modulates a signature (code sequence). In a table provided in the signature selection unit (111), for control information ‘000’, CAZAC sequence #1 as a basic code sequence and a derived code sequence of shifts 0 to 7 derived from the CAZAC sequence #1 are set while being correlated to each other. The derived code sequence of shifts 0 to 7 of the CAZAC sequence #1 respectively correspond to signatures #1 to #8. Moreover, for control information ‘001’, CAZAC sequence #2 as a basic code sequence and a derived code sequence of shifts 0 to 7 derived from CAZAC sequence #2 are set while being correlated to each other. The derived code sequence of shifts 0 to 7 of the CAZAC sequence #2 respectively correspond to the signatures #9 to #16.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Daichi Imamura, Sadaki Futagi, Atsushi Matsumoto, Takashi Iwai, Tomofumi Takata
  • Publication number: 20120064837
    Abstract: Disclosed are a sequence report method and a sequence report device for reducing a signaling amount for reporting a Zadoff-Chu sequence or a GCL sequence allocated for a cell. Indexes starting at 1 are correlated to different ZC sequences and are allocated for cells so that the indexes are continuous. When such ZC sequences are reported from BS to UE, a start index indicating the start of the continuous indexes is combined with the number of allocated sequences and they are reported as allocation sequence information by a report channel. The UE and the BS share the correlation between the ZC sequences and the indexes and the UE identifies a usable sequence number according to the correlation and the allocation sequence information reported from the BS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2011
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daichi Imamura, Takashi Iwai, Kazunori Inogai, Sadaki Futagi, Atsushi Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20120063469
    Abstract: Provided are a scheduling device and a scheduling method, in which the amount of signaling of frequency resource allocation information can be reduced while the system throughput is maintained. In a base station device (100), a scheduling unit (113) selects, as an allocation resource for a terminal to which resources are to be allocated, at most one cluster band in each of a plurality of allocatable ranges set within a system band and generates allocation resource information including information relating to the selected cluster, and an encoding unit (114), a modulation unit (115), and a transmission RF unit (116) which serve as a transmission means transmit the allocation resource information generated by the scheduling unit (113) to the terminal to which the resources are to be allocated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2010
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Inventors: Takashi Iwai, Akihiko Nishio, Daichi Imamura, Kenichi Miyoshi, Megumi Ichikawa, Yoshihiko Ogawa, Sadaki Futagi
  • Publication number: 20120057495
    Abstract: Provided is a radio communication base station device which can suppress a use amount of an SRS communication resource. In this device, a correlation rule setting unit (102) sets a rule for correlating a preamble with an SRS transmission time interval so that the preamble transmission time band and the SRS transmission time band are in the same transmission time band. An SRS transmission band decision unit (103) decides a time interval of a transmission time band which can transmit the SRS according to the preamble transmission time interval inputted from a preamble transmission band decision unit (101) and the correlation rule setting unit (102).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2011
    Publication date: March 8, 2012
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Iwai, Daichi Imamura, Tomofumi Takata, Atsushi Matsumoto, Yoshihiko Ogawa, Sadaki Futagi
  • Patent number: 8130707
    Abstract: Disclosed are a radio communication system, a radio transmission device, and a Random Access Channel (RACH) transmission method capable of reducing the important information conflict probability and improving the communication system throughput in a channel transmitted at a random timing such as RACH. In a frame configuration used by the communication system, the number of slots of RACH is reduced by one and the resource for the slot is equally allocated as a resource for a pilot/User Equipment-Identification (UE-ID) of other slots. This increases the resource amount of the pilot/UE-ID. Furthermore, the resource of the pilot/UE-ID is divided into a plurality of sub slots, which are allocated as resource blocks for respective mobile stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Iwai, Daichi Imamura, Sadaki Futagi, Atsushi Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 8121175
    Abstract: Provided is a radio communication device which can suppress inter-code interference between an ACK/NACK signal and a CQI signal which are code-multiplexed. In this device, a diffusion unit (214) diffuses the ACK/NACK signal inputted from a judgment unit (208) by using a ZC sequence. A diffusion unit (219) diffuses the CQI signal by using a cyclic shift ZC sequence. By using a Walsh sequence, a diffusion unit (216) further diffuses the ACK/NACK signal which has been diffused by using the ZC sequence. A control unit (209) controls the diffusion unit (214), the diffusion unit (216), and the diffusion unit (219) so that the minimum value of the difference between the CQI signals from a plurality of mobile stations and a cyclic shift amount of the ACK/NACK signal is not smaller than the minimum value of the difference between the cyclic shift amounts of the ACK/NACK signals from the plurality of mobile stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Sadaki Futagi, Seigo Nakao, Daichi Imamura
  • Patent number: 8111639
    Abstract: A radio transmitting apparatus and a radio transmitting method wherein the increase of the guard time in a random access region is reduced to secure the data transmitting region of an upstream line. In this apparatus, when a received signal power estimated by a received signal power estimating part (205) is the higher, a RACH format selecting part (206) selects a RACH format having the longer frame length. Contrarily, when a received signal power estimated by the received signal power estimating part (205) is the lower, the RACH format selecting part (206) selects a RACH format having the shorter frame length. A RACH data part arranging part (207) appropriately selects, in accordance with the selected RACH format, top-priority information, such as terminal identifiers, priority information, such as connection request information or band assignment request information, and non-priority information and arranges RACH data parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Daichi Imamura, Atsushi Matsumoto, Takashi Iwai, Sadaki Futagi, Tomofumi Takata
  • Publication number: 20120026948
    Abstract: Disclosed are a wireless communication base station device and a division number determination method that improves the frequency diversity effect while maintaining channel estimation accuracy regardless of the number of divisions in the frequency domain of a transmission signal from a wireless communication terminal device. A determination unit (117) determines the number of divisions in the frequency domain of a transmission signal from a wireless communication terminal device. Here, the determination unit (117) increases the number of divisions in the frequency domain of the transmission signal from the wireless communication terminal device as the number of pilot blocks included in the transmission signal increases. In addition, a scheduling unit (118) schedules allocation to the frequency resources of the divided transmission signal according to the number of divisions determined by the determination unit (117).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2009
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Ogawa, Selgo Nakao, Daichl Imamura, Akihiko Nishio, Masayuki Hoshino, Katsuhiko Hiramatsu, Kenichi Miyoshi, Yasuaki Yuda, Megumi Ichikawa, Sadaki Futagi, Takashi Iwai
  • Publication number: 20120026953
    Abstract: Disclosed are a wireless communication base station device, a wireless communication terminal device, and a wireless communication method with which the amount of signaling is reduced while maintaining a high scheduling gain. A judgment unit (117) stores in advance a correspondence between the number of code words and the number of clusters to reduce the maximum value for the number of clusters allocated to each terminal as the number of code words increases, and thus determines the maximum value for the number of clusters based on the number of code words acquired.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2010
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Ogawa, Akihiko Nishio, Daichi Imamura, Seigo Nakao, Masayuki Hoshino, Takashi Iwai, Sadaki Futagi
  • Publication number: 20120021754
    Abstract: Disclosed is a radio communication device that, even when a terminal erroneously receives a retransmission grant or a response signal from a base station, can reduce the number of other terminals in which the terminal interferes at a retransmission. In this device, a determination unit (205) determines a bandwidth between the two ends of a transmission band allocated to a transmitted signal at the retransmission of the transmitted signal. An allocation unit (209) allocates the transmitted signal to a frequency resource based on the bandwidth that is input from the determination unit (205). The determination unit (205) increases at the retransmission the amount of decrease in the bandwidth from the previous transmission, as the consecutiveness of the transmitted signal in the frequency region decreases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2009
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Ogawa, Sergio Nakao, Daichi Imamura, Katsuhiko Hiramatsu, Kenichi Miyoshi, Megumi Ichikawa, Sadaki Futagi, Yasuaki Yuda, Ayako Horiuchi
  • Patent number: 8098759
    Abstract: A radio transmitting device and method enables reduction of an increase of CGI memories for the control channel and an improvement of the throughput of the data channel. When multiplex transmission through the control channel and the data channel is carried out and when adaptive modulation is applied to both channels, an MCS selecting section (108) is provided with one CQI table for the data channel and CQI tables for the control channel, and a table selecting MCS determining section (201) selects one of the tables depending on the transmission bandwidth of the terminal and determines the MCS of the control channel while looking up the selected CQI table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Sadaki Futagi, Daichi Imamura, Seigo Nakao, Tomofumi Takata
  • Patent number: 8085724
    Abstract: Disclosed are a sequence report method and a sequence report device for reducing a signaling amount for reporting a Zadoff-Chu sequence or a GCL sequence allocated for a cell. Indexes starting at 1 are correlated to different ZC sequences and are allocated for cells so that the indexes are continuous. When such ZC sequences are reported from BS to UE, a start index indicating the start of the continuous indexes is combined with the number of allocated sequences and they are reported as allocation sequence information by a report channel. The UE and the BS share the correlation between the ZC sequences and the indexes and the UE identifies a usable sequence number according to the correlation and the allocation sequence information reported from the BS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Daichi Imamura, Takashi Iwai, Kazunori Inogai, Sadaki Futagi, Atsushi Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 8081617
    Abstract: A radio transmitting apparatus and a radio transmitting method wherein the interference between codes can be reduced and the degradation of preamble detection capability can be prevented. According to these apparatus and method, a signature table storing part (103) that stores a table including a plurality of signatures obtained by classifying the magnitudes of propagation loss levels into levels in accordance with the distances from a base station, associating preamble detection window widths with those levels as classified, and by circularly shifting the pattern of a detection window signature #n corresponding to a signature #n to generate a signature #n+1. A signature selecting part (104) selects, based on the magnitude of a propagation loss level outputted by a propagation loss level determining part (102), one of the corresponding signatures from the signature table storing part (103) at random. A RACH signal generating part (105) uses the selected signature to generate a RACH signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Iwai, Sadaki Futagi, Daichi Imamura, Atsushi Matsumoto, Yoshihiko Ogawa
  • Patent number: 8077594
    Abstract: Provided is a radio communication base station device which can suppress a use amount of an SRS communication resource. In this device, a correlation rule setting unit (102) sets a rule for correlating a preamble with an SRS transmission time interval so that the preamble transmission time band and the SRS transmission time band are in the same transmission time band. An SRS transmission band decision unit (103) decides a time interval of a transmission time band which can transmit the SRS according to the preamble transmission time interval inputted from a preamble transmission band decision unit (101) and the correlation rule setting unit (102).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Iwai, Daichi Imamura, Tomofumi Takata, Atsushi Matsumoto, Yoshihiko Ogawa, Sadaki Futagi
  • Patent number: 8077593
    Abstract: Provided is a radio communication base station device which can suppress a use amount of an SRS communication resource. In this device, a correlation rule setting unit (102) sets a rule for correlating a preamble with an SRS transmission time interval so that the preamble transmission time band and the SRS transmission time band are in the same transmission time band. An SRS transmission band decision unit (103) decides a time interval of a transmission time band which can transmit the SRS according to the preamble transmission time interval inputted from a preamble transmission band decision unit (101) and the correlation rule setting unit (102).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Iwai, Daichi Imamura, Tomofumi Takata, Atsushi Matsumoto, Yoshihiko Ogawa, Sadaki Futagi
  • Publication number: 20110299496
    Abstract: A scheduling apparatus and a scheduling method, wherein the amount of signaling for frequency resource allocation information can be reduced while maintaining system throughput performance. In a base station apparatus (100), a scheduling section (113) allocates frequency resources to frequency allocation target terminals based on set frequency allocation units, and a frequency allocation parameter setting section (112) adjusts the set frequency allocation units set in the scheduling section (113) based on cluster numbers. Due to this, in each cluster number, frequency resources can be allocated based on the most suitable frequency allocation units with respect to the signaling bit number. As a result, the amount of signaling for frequency resource allocation information can be reduced. Further, system throughput can be maintained by making the cluster number, which is a parameter having little effect on system throughput, a setting parameter for frequency allocation units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2010
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Iwai, Sadaki Futagi, Daichi Imamura, Akihiko Nishio, Seigo Nakao, Yoshihiko Ogawa