Patents by Inventor Seigo Nakao
Seigo Nakao 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).
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Patent number: 11757551Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes circuitry and a transmitter. The circuitry, in operation, generates a reference signal using a cyclic shift value and an orthogonal sequence, which are associated with each other. The orthogonal sequence is one of two orthogonal sequences corresponding to a first orthogonal sequence [1, 1] and a second orthogonal sequence [1, ?1]. The cyclic shift value is one of 12 cyclic shift values ranging from 0 to 11. The transmitter, in operation, transmits the reference signal multiplexed with a data signal. Two of the cyclic shift values having a difference of 6 are respectively associated with the two orthogonal sequences.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2022Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: Sun Patent TrustInventors: Yoshihiko Ogawa, Akihiko Nishio, Takashi Iwai, Seigo Nakao, Daichi Imamura, Atsushi Sumasu
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Patent number: 11757501Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of generating codebook in a wireless communication system with multiple antenna arrays, as well as a wireless communication system, base station and terminal using the codebook for communication. The method comprises steps of: providing a basic codebook which contains multiple pre-coding matrices; and assigning phase offsets to certain pre-coding matrices in the basic codebook to form a codebook with phase offset. The feedback overhead from a client to a base station side is reduced and a good precision of feedback for multi-antenna array is kept by applying the method of generating codebook and using the generated codebook in the wireless communication system, base station and terminal.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2022Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Hui Tong, Masayuki Hoshino, Ming Xu, Seigo Nakao, Daichi Imamura
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Patent number: 11751181Abstract: 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, a scheduling section allocates frequency resources to frequency allocation target terminals based on set frequency allocation units, and a frequency allocation parameter setting section adjusts the set frequency allocation units set in the scheduling section 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: GrantFiled: December 16, 2021Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: Sun Patent TrustInventors: Takashi Iwai, Sadaki Futagi, Daichi Imamura, Akihiko Nishio, Seigo Nakao, Yoshihiko Ogawa
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Patent number: 11729817Abstract: Provided are a terminal, a base station and a signal transmission control method whereby a response signal can be efficiently transmitted when the terminal receives downstream allocation control information via an R-PDCCH. An extraction unit receives downstream control information via one of a first downstream control channel, which is transmitted by use of one or more control channel elements (CCE) associated with an upstream control channel resource, and a second downstream control channel different from the first downstream control channel, and also receives data via a data channel. A control unit selects, from resources associated with CCE and from particular resources reported by a base station, an upstream control channel resource to be used in transmission of the response signal, and controls the transmission of the response signal.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2022Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: Sun Patent TrustInventor: Seigo Nakao
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Patent number: 11728953Abstract: A wireless communication base station apparatus which is able to prevent deterioration in the throughput of LTE terminals even when LTE terminals and LTE+ terminals coexist. In this apparatus, based on the mapping pattern of the reference signals used only in LTE+ terminals, a setting unit sets, in each subframe, the resource block groups where the reference signals used only by the LTE+ terminals are mapped. For symbols mapped to the antennas, an mapping unit maps, to all the resource blocks within one frame, cell specific reference signals used for both LTE terminals and LTE+ terminals. For the symbols mapped to the antennas, the mapping unit maps, to the plurality of resource blocks, of which part of the resource block groups is comprised, in the same subframe within one frame, the cell specific reference signals used only for LTE+ terminals, based on the setting results inputted from the setting unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2022Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: Sun Patent TrustInventors: Akihiko Nishio, Seigo Nakao, Daichi Imamura
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Patent number: 11716158Abstract: Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) is measured accurately even in a case where a discovery signal is transmitted. A receiver receives a plurality of subframes, at least one of which includes a discovery signal, and a measurer measures Reference Signal Reception Power (RSRP) using a first resource in which the discovery signal is mapped, measures RSSI using a second resource different from the first resource for which the discovery signal is mapped, and calculates Reference Signal Reception Quality (RSRQ) using RSRP and RSSI.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2021Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of AmericaInventors: Ayako Horiuchi, Masayuki Hoshino, Seigo Nakao
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Patent number: 11711174Abstract: Disclosed is a wireless communication base station apparatus whereby it is possible to prevent degradation of throughput of LTE terminals, even when LTE terminals and LTE+ terminals are present together. In this apparatus, a setting section (105) sets in each subframe a resource block in which is arranged a reference signal that is employed solely by LTE+ terminals, based on the pattern of arrangement of reference signals employed solely by LTE+ terminals. In the case of symbols that are mapped to antennas (110-1) to (110-4), an arrangement section (106) arranges the characteristic cell reference signals employed by both LTE terminals and LTE+ terminals in all of the resource blocks in a single frame.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2022Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: Sun Patent TrustInventors: Akihiko Nishio, Seigo Nakao
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Publication number: 20230231676Abstract: Provided is a radio communication device which can separate propagation paths of antenna ports and improve a channel estimation accuracy even when using virtual antennas. The device includes: a mapping unit which maps a data signal after modulation to a virtual antenna and a virtual antenna; a phase inversion unit which inverts the phase of S0 transmitted from an antenna port in synchronization with a phase inversion unit between the odd-number slot and the even-number slot; the phase inversion unit which inverts the phase of R0 transmitted from the antenna port; a phase inversion unit which inverts the phase of S1 transmitted from an antenna port in synchronization with a phase inversion unit; and the phase inversion unit which inverts the phase of R1 transmitted from an antenna port.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2023Publication date: July 20, 2023Inventors: Seigo Nakao, Masayuki Hoshino, Atsushi Sumasu, Katsuhiko Hiramatsu
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Patent number: 11700076Abstract: Provided is a radio communication device which can make Acknowledgement (ACK) reception quality and Negative Acknowledgement (NACK) reception quality to be equal to each other. The device includes: a scrambling unit (214) which multiplies a response signal after modulated, by a scrambling code “1” or “e?j(?/2)”, so as to rotate a constellation for each of response signals on a cyclic shift axis; a spread unit (215) which performs a primary spread of the response signal by using a Zero Auto Correlation (ZAC) sequence set by a control unit (209); and a spread unit (218) which performs a secondary spread of the response signal after subjected to the primary spread, by using a block-wise spread code sequence set by the control unit (209).Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2022Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: Panasonic Holdings CorporationInventors: Seigo Nakao, Daichi Imamura
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Publication number: 20230216618Abstract: Provided is a terminal device that is capable of improving the characteristics of a response signal having poor transmission characteristics when ARQ is utilized in communication using an uplink unit band and a plurality of downlink unit bands associated with the uplink unit band. At the time of channel selection, a control unit selects a resource used in sending a response signal from among specific PUCCH resources notified in advance from a base station and PUCCH resources mapped to a CCE, and controls the transmission of the response signal. A response signal generating unit supports implicit signaling with respect to any given response signal, and at the same time as supporting LTE fallback from 2CC, uses a mapping method that, between bits, smooths the number of PUCCH resources that can determine ACK/NACK simply by determining the PUCCH resource regarding which the response signal had notified.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2023Publication date: July 6, 2023Inventors: Toru OIZUMI, Seigo NAKAO
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Patent number: 11696268Abstract: A wireless communication base station device which makes it possible to provide a base station, terminal and CCE allocation method capable of reducing the number of times blind decoding of a terminal is performed, without increasing the CCE block rate, even when a plurality of unit bands are set in a terminal. In this device, a search space setting section (103) sets in each of a plurality of unit bands a common search space in respect of a terminal which is communicating using the plurality of unit bands and other terminals, and sets in each of the plurality of unit bands an individual search space in respect of the terminal. An allocation section (106) allocates control information solely to CCEs within the common search spaces set in specified unit bands among the plurality of unit bands, or solely to CCEs within individual search spaces set in specified unit bands.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2020Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUSTInventors: Akihiko Nishio, Seigo Nakao
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Patent number: 11696321Abstract: A reception processor receives the cell detection reference signals, each of the cell detection reference signals being transmitted from corresponding one of a plurality of cells. An RRM report generator generates measurement information indicating a measurement result of reception quality measured using the cell detection reference signal. A transmission processor transmits the measurement information. The cell detection reference signals are mapped to any one of a plurality of candidate resources, which is a part of a plurality of resources set for other reference signals in a subframe to which the cell detection reference signals are mapped.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2022Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Masayuki Hoshino, Ayako Horiuchi, Seigo Nakao
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Patent number: 11689986Abstract: An integrated circuit includes circuitry, which, in operation, controls transmitting downlink data to a terminal apparatus; receiving a plurality of transport blocks which are transmitted in a same time period using a same frequency band in a spatial multiplexing scheme, wherein a same acknowledgement information (ACK/NACK) relating to an error detection result of the downlink data is scrambled with different scrambling schemes respectively for the plurality of transport blocks and the respectively scrambled ACK/NACK is multiplexed with data on respective ones of the plurality of transport blocks, and channel quality information (CQI) of a downlink channel is multiplexed with the data on only one transport block of the plurality of transport blocks by the terminal apparatus; and extracting the ACK/NACK and the CQI from the received plurality of transport blocks.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2021Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: Sun Patent TrustInventors: Yoshihiko Ogawa, Seigo Nakao, Akihiko Nishio, Masayuki Hoshino, Daichi Imamura, Atsushi Sumasu
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Publication number: 20230189043Abstract: To measure the channel quality of the own cell accurately in a condition where there is no interference from a neighbor cell. A wireless communication terminal according to the invention is a wireless communication terminal to be connected to a base station for transmitting and receiving data to/from the base station, the wireless communication terminal including: a receiver that receives a signal which includes control information provided for measuring a channel quality of own cell from the base station; an extractor that extracts the control information from the signal received by the receiver; a measurement section that measures, on the basis of the control information, the channel quality of the own cell in a domain where a neighbor cell does not transmit a signal; and a transmitter that transmits a measurement result of the channel quality of the own cell measured by the measurement section, to the base station.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2023Publication date: June 15, 2023Inventors: Yasuaki YUDA, Seigo NAKAO, Ayako HORIUCHI, Daichi IMAMURA, Masayuki HOSHINO, Atsushi SUMASU
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Publication number: 20230180257Abstract: A terminal includes: a receiver, which, in operation, receives downlink control information and downlink data; circuitry, which, in operation, determines, based on the downlink control information and an offset, a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource used for transmission of a response signal for the downlink data; and a transmitter, which, in operation, transmits the response signal using the determined PUCCH resource. A first offset is used as the offset when the terminal is configured in a coverage enhancement mode, in which the response signal is allowed to be transmitted repeatedly for one of plural repetition levels in a plurality of subframes, where the first offset is configured for each of the plural repetition levels. The first offset is different from a second offset, which is used when the terminal is not configured in the coverage enhancement mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2023Publication date: June 8, 2023Inventors: Tetsuya YAMAMOTO, Chi GAO, Hidetoshi SUZUKI, Seigo NAKAO
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Publication number: 20230155726Abstract: Disclosed are a transmission device and a transmission method with which it is possible to prevent delays in data transmission and to minimize the increase in the number of bits necessary for the notification of a CC to be used, in cases where a CC to be used is added during communication employing carrier aggregation. When a component carrier is to be added to a component carrier set, a setting section provided in a base station: modifies a CIF table that defines the correspondence between code points, which are used as labels for the respective component carriers contained in the component carrier set, and the identification information of the respective component carriers; and assigns a vacant code point to the component carrier to be added, while keeping the correspondence between the code points and the component carrier identification information defined in the CIF table before modification.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2023Publication date: May 18, 2023Inventors: Akihiko Nishio, Seigo Nakao
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Patent number: 11646842Abstract: Provided is a radio communication device which can separate propagation paths of antenna ports and improve a channel estimation accuracy even when using virtual antennas. The device includes: a mapping unit which maps a data signal after modulation to a virtual antenna and a virtual antenna; a phase inversion unit which inverts the phase of S0 transmitted from an antenna port in synchronization with a phase inversion unit between the odd-number slot and the even-number slot; the phase inversion unit which inverts the phase of R0 transmitted from the antenna port; a phase inversion unit which inverts the phase of S1 transmitted from an antenna port in synchronization with a phase inversion unit; and the phase inversion unit which inverts the phase of R1 transmitted from an antenna port.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2021Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: Sun Patent TrustInventors: Seigo Nakao, Masayuki Hoshino, Atsushi Sumasu, Katsuhiko Hiramatsu
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Patent number: 11637660Abstract: Provided is a terminal device that is capable of improving the characteristics of a response signal having poor transmission characteristics when ARQ is utilized in communication using an uplink unit band and a plurality of downlink unit bands associated with the uplink unit band. At the time of channel selection, a control unit selects a resource used in sending a response signal from among specific PUCCH resources notified in advance from a base station and PUCCH resources mapped to a CCE, and controls the transmission of the response signal. A response signal generating unit supports implicit signaling with respect to any given response signal, and at the same time as supporting LTE fallback from 2CC, uses a mapping method that, between bits, smooths the number of PUCCH resources that can determine ACK/NACK simply by determining the PUCCH resource regarding which the response signal had notified.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2021Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: Sun Patent TrustInventors: Toru Oizumi, Seigo Nakao
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Publication number: 20230120645Abstract: A base station is disclosed, including an information size adjusting section configured to adjust a size of control information based on a first basic information size of control information mapped on a user equipment (UE) specific search space in a first component carrier. The base station also includes a transmitter configured to transmit the control information mapped on the UE specific search space. A first determination method for determining the first basic information size is different from a second determination method for determining a second basic information size of control information mapped on a common search space in the first component carrier. The first determination method for determining the first basic information size is different from a third determination method for determining a third basic information size of control information mapped on a search space in a second component carrier that is different from the first component carrier.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2022Publication date: April 20, 2023Inventors: Seigo Nakao, Daichi Imamura, Takahisa Aoyama
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Patent number: 11616535Abstract: Provided are a radio communication terminal apparatus and a radio transmission method by which intersymbol interference of DM-RS of a CoMP terminal and a Non-CoMP terminal can be reduced. A CoMP set setting unit (102) sets the cell IDs of all cells in the CoMP set in a cell selection unit (104), and a serving cell setting unit (103) sets the cell ID of the serving cell in the cell selection unit (104). The cell selection unit (104) selects the cell ID having a number closest to the cell ID of the serving cell from the cells in the CoMP set. A sequence information calculation unit (106) derives a sequence group number from the selected cell ID, and the sequence information calculation unit (106) calculates a sequence number from the derived sequence group number and a transmission bandwidth of the DM-RS.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2019Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUSTInventors: Takashi Iwai, Akihiko Nishio, Yoshihiko Ogawa, Seigo Nakao, Masayuki Hoshino