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).

  • Patent number: 9374129
    Abstract: A sequence allocating method and apparatus wherein in a system where a plurality of different Zadoff-Chu sequences or GCL sequences are allocated to a single cell, the arithmetic amount and circuit scale of a correlating circuit at a receiving end can be reduced. In ST201, a counter (a) and a number (p) of current sequence allocations are initialized, and in ST202, it is determined whether the number (p) of current sequence allocations is coincident with a number (K) of allocations to one cell. In ST203, it is determined whether the number (K) of allocations to the one cell is odd or even. If K is even, in ST204-ST206, sequence numbers (r=a and r=N?a), which are not currently allocated, are combined and then allocated. If K is odd, in ST207-ST212, for sequences that cannot be paired, one of sequence numbers (r=a and r=N?a), which are not currently allocated, is allocated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Daichi Imamura, Takashi Iwai, Kazunori Inogai, Sadaki Futagi, Atsushi Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 9370007
    Abstract: Disclosed are a wireless communication base station device and a division number determination method that improve 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 determines the number of divisions in the frequency domain of a transmission signal from a wireless communication terminal device. Here, the determination unit 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 schedules allocation to the frequency resources of the divided transmission signal according to the number of divisions determined by the determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUST
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Ogawa, Seigo Nakao, Daichi Imamura, Akihiko Nishio, Masayuki Hoshino, Katsuhiko Hiramatsu, Kenichi Miyoshi, Yasuaki Yuda, Sadaki Futagi, Takashi Iwai
  • Patent number: 9313808
    Abstract: Disclosed are a radio transmission device and a radio transmission method which reduce the RACH conflict ratio and improve the RACH detection characteristic. When the device and the method are used: as the number of signature numbers allocated for UE by the network side increases, the condition for allocating a signature by UE itself is mitigated and an expectation value which is a statistic average value of the RA quantity using the signature allocated by UE for itself is decreased; and as the number of signature numbers allocated for UE by the network side decreases, the condition for allocating a signature by UE itself is limited and an expectation value of the RA quantity using the signature allocated by UE for itself is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Daichi Imamura, Sadaki Futagi, Masaru Fukuoka, Takashi Iwai, Atsushi Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 9313795
    Abstract: It is possible to provide a radio communication terminal device and a radio transmission method which can improve reception performance of a CQI and a reference signal. A phase table storage unit stores a phase table which correlates the amount of cyclic shift to complex coefficients {w1, w2} to be multiplied on the reference signal. A complex coefficient multiplication unit reads out a complex coefficient corresponding to the amount of cyclic shift indicated by resource allocation information, from the phase table storage unit and multiplies the read-out complex coefficient on the reference signal so as to change the phase relationship between the reference signals in a slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Tomofumi Takata, Daichi Imamura, Seigo Nakao, Sadaki Futagi, Takashi Iwai, Yoshihiko Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20160099746
    Abstract: A sequence allocating method and apparatus wherein in a system where a plurality of different Zadoff-Chu sequences or GCL sequences are allocated to a single cell, the arithmetic amount and circuit scale of a correlating circuit at a receiving end can be reduced. In ST201, a counter (a) and a number (p) of current sequence allocations are initialized, and in ST202, it is determined whether the number (p) of current sequence allocations is coincident with a number (K) of allocations to one cell. In ST203, it is determined whether the number (K) of allocations to the one cell is odd or even. If K is even, in ST204-ST206, sequence numbers (r=a and r=N?a), which are not currently allocated, are combined and then allocated. If K is odd, in ST207-ST212, for sequences that cannot be paired, one of sequence numbers (r=a and r=N?a), which are not currently allocated, is allocated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventors: Daichi Imamura, Takashi Iwai, Kazunori Inogai, Sadaki Futagi, Atsushi Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20160088655
    Abstract: A mobile station includes communication control circuitry that selects a preamble contained in a first Random Access Preamble group when a message size based on data available for transmission does not meet a first condition or when a value calculated based on a reference signal received power of downlink does not meet a second condition, a preamble contained in a second Random Access Preamble group when the message size based on data available for transmission meets the first condition and the value calculated based on the reference signal received power of downlink meets the second condition, and a preamble contained in the third Random Access Preamble group for a handover, independent of the message size based on data available for transmission and the value calculated based on the reference signal received power of downlink. The communication control circuitry also generates and transmits a selected preamble.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Inventors: Takashi Iwai, Daichi Imamura, Sadaki Futagi, Atsushi Matsumoto, Tomofumi Takata
  • Publication number: 20160066348
    Abstract: Integrated circuitry for use in a mobile radio station includes a receiver that receives control information and a data processor coupled to the receiver. The data processor provides a number of different sequences that are derived from a base sequence. The different derived sequences are respectively associated with different amounts of data or reception qualities, have different cyclic shifts, and are arranged in an increasing order of the cyclic shifts. The data processor randomly selects a sequence from a subset of the derived sequences. The subset of derived sequences depends on the control information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2015
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventors: Daichi Imamura, Sadaki Futagi, Atsushi Matsumoto, Takashi Iwai, Tomofumi Takata
  • Patent number: 9246539
    Abstract: A sequence allocating method and apparatus wherein in a system where a plurality of different Zadoff-Chu sequences or GCL sequences are allocated to a single cell, the arithmetic amount and circuit scale of a correlating circuit at a receiving end can be reduced. In ST201, a counter (a) and a number (p) of current sequence allocations are initialized, and in ST202, it is determined whether the number (p) of current sequence allocations is coincident with a number (K) of allocations to one cell. In ST203, it is determined whether the number (K) of allocations to the one cell is odd or even. If K is even, in ST204-ST206, sequence numbers (r=a and r=N?a), which are not currently allocated, are combined and then allocated. If K is odd, in ST207-ST212, for sequences that cannot be paired, one of sequence numbers (r=a and r=N?a), which are not currently allocated, is allocated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Daichi Imamura, Takashi Iwai, Kazunori Inogai, Sadaki Futagi, Atsushi Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20160014788
    Abstract: It is possible to provide a radio communication terminal device and a radio transmission method which can improve reception performance of a CQI and a reference signal. A phase table storage unit stores a phase table which correlates the amount of cyclic shift to complex coefficients {w1, w2} to be multiplied on the reference signal. A complex coefficient multiplication unit reads out a complex coefficient corresponding to the amount of cyclic shift indicated by resource allocation information, from the phase table storage unit and multiplies the read-out complex coefficient on the reference signal so as to change the phase relationship between the reference signals in a slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Inventors: Tomofumi Takata, Daichi Imamura, Seigo Nakao, Sadaki Futagi, Takashi Iwai, Yoshihiko Ogawa
  • Patent number: 9236900
    Abstract: Disclosed are a radio transmission device and a radio transmission method which can reduce a processing amount or a memory amount while maintaining the randomizing effect of other cell interference. When using as a reference signal, a ZC sequence of the sequence length uniquely correlated to a transmission bandwidth of a reference signal, as the transmission bandwidth becomes smaller and the sequence length of the ZC sequence becomes shorter, the sequence is switched at a shorter time interval and as the transmission bandwidth becomes greater and the sequence length of the ZC sequence becomes longer, the switching is performed at a longer time interval. Thus, a reference signal is generated by using the ZC sequence in accordance with the timing into which the reference signal transmission bandwidth and the sequence are switched.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Takashi Iwai, Daichi Imamura, Sadaki Futagi, Yoshihiko Ogawa, Tomofumi Takata, Atsushi Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 9236918
    Abstract: A MIMO transmitting apparatus, receiving apparatus, transmission signal formation method, and transmission signal separation method with improved transmission efficiency. In communication apparatus, a mapping unit maps code words into a transmission stream on a per code-block basis and changes, between when a transport block is initially transmitted and when the transport block is retransmitted, the combinations of the code blocks mapped in the same transmission zone. In the communication apparatus, an interference replica generation unit forms, based on the decoded data of successfully decoded code blocks, an interference replica signal corresponding to the successfully decoded code blocks, and a signal separation unit removes, from a plurality of reception streams received this time, the interference replica signal formed by the interference replica generation unit received before the last time reception streams was received and then separates the reception streams received this time into each stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Takashi Toda, Masaru Fukuoka, Sadaki Futagi, Masayuki Hoshino
  • Patent number: 9232542
    Abstract: A mobile station includes communication control circuitry that selects a preamble contained in a first Random Access Preamble group when a message size based on data available for transmission does not meet a first condition or when a value calculated based on a reference signal received power of downlink does not meet a second condition, a preamble contained in a second Random Access Preamble group when the message size based on data available for transmission meets the first condition and the value calculated based on the reference signal received power of downlink meets the second condition, and a preamble contained in the third Random Access Preamble group for a handover, independent of the message size based on data available for transmission and the value calculated based on the reference signal received power of downlink. The communication control circuitry also generates and transmits a selected preamble.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Godo Kaisha IP Bridge 1
    Inventors: Takashi Iwai, Daichi Imamura, Sadaki Futagi, Atsushi Matsumoto, Tomofumi Takata
  • Publication number: 20150358110
    Abstract: Disclosed are an encoding ratio setting method and a radio communication device which can avoid encoding of control information at an encoding ratio lower than necessary and suppress lowering of the transmission efficiency of the control information. In the device, an encoding ratio setting unit (122) sets the encoding ratio R?control of the control information which is time-multiplexed with user data, according to the encoding ratio Rdata of the user data, ?PUSCHoffset as the PUSCH offset of each control information, and ?RANKoffset as the rank offset based on the rank value of the data channel using Expression (1). R control ? = O Q ? = max ( O ? O 10 - ? offset PUSCH + ? offset Rank 10 · R data ? , O 4 · M sc ) ( 1 ) Where ?x? is an integer not greater than x, and max(x,y) is the greater one among X and Y.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2015
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Inventors: Sadaki Futagi, Daichi Imamura, Seigo Nakao, Masayuki Hoshino, Akihiko Nishio
  • Publication number: 20150334691
    Abstract: A wireless communication base station device, terminal device, and method have reduced signaling while maintaining high scheduling gain. A judgment unit pre-stores 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. Based on the number of code words for a transmission signal from a terminal, an estimated value for the reception quality, and the maximum value for the number of clusters that is output by the judgment unit, a scheduling unit schedules the allocation of the transmission signal transmitted by each terminal to a transmission band frequency (frequency resource) so as not to exceed the maximum value for the number of clusters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2015
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Inventors: Yoshihiko OGAWA, Akihiko NISHIO, Daichi IMAMURA, Seigo NAKAO, Masayuki HOSHINO, Takashi IWAI, Sadaki FUTAGI
  • Publication number: 20150327270
    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: July 14, 2015
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Inventors: Takashi Iwai, Sadaki Futagi, Daichi Imamura, Akihiko Nishio, Seigo Nakao, Yoshihiko Ogawa
  • Patent number: 9167589
    Abstract: It is possible to provide a radio communication terminal device and a radio transmission method which can improve reception performance of a CQI and a reference signal. A phase table storage unit stores a phase table which correlates the amount of cyclic shift to complex coefficients {w1, w2} to be multiplied on the reference signal. A complex coefficient multiplication unit reads out a complex coefficient corresponding to the amount of cyclic shift indicated by resource allocation information, from the phase table storage unit and multiplies the read-out complex coefficient on the reference signal so as to change the phase relationship between the reference signals in a slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Tomofumi Takata, Daichi Imamura, Seigo Nakao, Sadaki Futagi, Takashi Iwai, Yoshihiko Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20150289213
    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: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Inventors: Sadaki FUTAGI, Daichi IMAMURA, Atsushi MATSUMOTO, Takashi IWAI
  • Patent number: 9155024
    Abstract: A radio transmitter and so forth capable of improving the precision of frequency domain equalization while transmitting a longer pilot sequence. In a series of pilot blocks generated from one pilot sequence with the same length as a data sequence such as a CAZAC sequence, the transmitter defines the rear end of each pilot block as the cyclic prefix of the next pilot block and defines the rear end of the last pilot block as the cyclic prefix of the first pilot block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Takashi Iwai, Sadaki Futagi, Tomofumi Takata, Daichi Imamura, Atsushi Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 9143301
    Abstract: Disclosed are an encoding ratio setting method and a radio communication device which can avoid encoding of control information at an encoding ratio lower than necessary and suppress lowering of the transmission efficiency of the control information. In the device, an encoding ratio setting unit (122) sets the encoding ratio R?control of the control information which is time-multiplexed with user data, according to the encoding ratio Rdata of the user data, ?PUSCHoffset as the PUSCH offset of each control information, and ?RANKoffset as the rank offset based on the rank value of the data channel using Expression (1). R control ? = O Q ? = max ( O ? O 10 - ? offset PUSCH + ? offset RANK 10 · R data ? , O 4 · M sc ) ( 1 ) Where ?x? is an integer not greater than x, and max(x,y) is the greater one among X and Y.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Sadaki Futagi, Daichi Imamura, Seigo Nakao, Masayuki Hoshino, Akihiko Nishio
  • Publication number: 20150263845
    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, 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) are divided 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 sequences 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: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2015
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Ogawa, Daichi Imamura, Sadaki Futagi, Tomofumi Takata