Patents by Inventor Shimpei To

Shimpei To 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: 20140086186
    Abstract: A radio communication system converts a time domain signal into a plurality of frequency signals to be allocated onto a plurality of subcarriers to be transmitted. The radio communication system changes a method of allocating the plurality of frequency signals onto the plurality of subcarriers based on transmission power information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2013
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuhrio HAMAGUCHI, Minoru KUBOTA, Hideo NAMBA, Shimpei TO, Seiichi SAMPEI, Shinichi MIYAMOTO
  • Patent number: 8625504
    Abstract: A radio communication system converts a time domain signal into a plurality of frequency signals to be allocated onto a plurality of subcarriers to be transmitted. The radio communication system changes a method of allocating the plurality of frequency signals onto the plurality of subcarriers based on transmission power information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Hamaguchi, Minoru Kubota, Hideo Namba, Shimpei To, Seiichi Sampei, Shinichi Miyamoto
  • Publication number: 20130336418
    Abstract: A terminal device notifies a base station device about control information associated with a receive quality of the terminal device. The base station device performs data modulation on a plurality of pieces of transmit data for the terminal device, by using a plurality of different data modulation schemes one by one, based on the control information, and spatially multiplexes the plurality of pieces of transmit data after the data modulation over a single wireless resource and transmits a spatially multiplexed signal. The terminal device receives the signal with the plurality of pieces of transmit data spatially multiplexed, and detects desirable transmit data from the receive signal, based on a first channel matrix which represents channel state information between the base station device and the terminal device and a second channel matrix in which the first channel matrix is multiplied by a transform matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiromichi Tomeba, Takashi Onodera, Hiroshi Nakano, Alvaro Ruiz Delgado, Shimpei To
  • Publication number: 20130286949
    Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a base station apparatus having a plurality of antennas and a plurality of mobile station apparatuses each having, at least, one antenna. The base station apparatus acquires channel state information of the plurality of mobile station apparatuses, based on any one of a plurality of different channel state information formats, and, separately precodes data signals addressed to the plurality of mobile station apparatuses based on the channel state information, and spatially multiplexes and transmits the precoded signals. The mobile station apparatus receives the precoded signals and detects a desired data signal from the multiplexed signals addressed to mobile station apparatuses, based on the channel state information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2011
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiromichi Tomeba, Shimpei To, Takashi Onodera, Hideo Namba, Hiroshi Nakano, Alvaro Ruiz Delgado
  • Publication number: 20130286940
    Abstract: A wireless communication system in which a base station apparatus having a plurality of transmission antennas and one or more terminal apparatuses communicate with each other is provided with at least two methods of a first feedback method and a second feedback method regarding propagation path information at the time of reception. In accordance with a communication condition between the base station apparatus and the terminal apparatus, or the function of the terminal apparatus, the terminal apparatus performs feedback by one of the two methods of the first feedback method and the second feedback method. The base station apparatus performs spatial multiplexing transmission on the basis of the propagation path information that has been fed back. Thus, in a system in which CSI is fed back for MIMO transmission, desired transmission characteristics can be efficiently obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2011
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shimpei To, Takashi Onodera, Hiroshi Nakano, Hiromichi Tomeba, Minoru Kubota, Kozue Hirata, Alvaro Ruiz Delgado
  • Publication number: 20130242849
    Abstract: In a codebook-based closed loop type MIMO, improvement for complexity in a mobile station apparatus, and reduction of amount of overhead needed for notification from the mobile station apparatus should be provided. A wireless transmission apparatus that includes a plurality of transmission antennas, performs precoding on a data signal for each of a plurality of reception apparatuses and spatially multiplexes and transmits the signal after the precoding. The wireless transmission apparatus performs sharing a codebook describing a plurality of linear filters associated with each other is shared with the each reception apparatus, and precoding on the data signal for each reception apparatus, based on a first linear filter that is extracted from the codebook in each reception apparatus based on the association and that is notified from each reception apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2011
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiromichi Tomeba, Shimpei To, Takashi Onodera, Hiroshi Nakano, Alvaro Ruiz Delgado
  • Publication number: 20130223269
    Abstract: Provided is a radio communication system in which a base station apparatus with a plurality of transmission antennas spatially multiplexes and transmits a transmission signal addressed to a plurality of mobile station apparatuses, and in which the mobile station apparatuses receive the signal transmitted from the base station apparatus. The mobile station apparatuses select a desired precoding vector from predetermined candidates, and give the base station apparatus information identifying the selected precoding vector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2011
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shimpei To, Hiromichi Tomeba, Minoru Kubota, Takashi Onodera, Kozue Hirata, Hiroshi Nakano, Alvaro Ruiz Delgado
  • Patent number: 8520748
    Abstract: In a cellular system using an OFDM scheme, a transmitter multiplies subcarriers for channel estimation by codes and transmits them, the codes being such that a phase difference ? of the code multiplied with consecutive subcarriers for channel estimation is constant, and a code of every M consecutive subcarriers (M being 2 or an integer greater than 2) is mutually orthogonal with a code multiplied with same subcarriers of another transmitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Hamaguchi, Kimihiko Imamura, Shimpei To, Hideo Namba
  • Patent number: 8514962
    Abstract: Improving the accuracy of estimation of channel responses in receiving signals from a plurality of antennas is disclosed. A transmitting device of a base station includes a preamble A generating unit 010, a preamble B generating unit 011, phase rotating units 012 and 013, multiplexing units 014 and 015, an forward error correction coding unit 016, an S/P converting unit 017, a mapping unit 018, a changeover switch 019, IDFT (or IFFT) units 020 and 026, P/S converting units 021 and 027, GI (Guard Interval) inserting units 022 and 028, D/A converting units 023 and 029, radio transmitting units 024 and 030 and antenna units 025 and 031. In the preamble A generating unit 010 and the preamble B generating unit 011, a preamble A and a preamble B (see the packet format in FIG. 1) are generated, respectively. The preamble A is outputted to the multiplexing units 014 and 015, while the preamble B is outputted to the phase rotating units 012 and 013.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignees: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka University, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
    Inventors: Shimpei To, Yasuhiro Hamaguchi, Hideo Nanba, Seiichi Sampei, Hiroshi Harada, Masafumi Moriyama
  • Patent number: 8503502
    Abstract: A clipping rate is controlled in spectrum shaping according to a propagation path to thereby improve transmission characteristics and perform communication at a stable transmission rate. Propagation path characteristics are detected by a propagation path information detection unit 5 for detecting propagation path information fed back from a base station device and a water filling principle for distributing energy by a primary spectrum shaping unit 6 according to the propagation path characteristics is applied to transmission spectrum obtained by a DFT unit 4. Clipping information in secondary spectrum shaping fed back from the base station device is detected by a clipping information detection unit 7 to perform the secondary spectrum shaping by a secondary spectrum shaping unit 8. At this time, with the clipping rate by the secondary spectrum shaping unit 8, clipping rates of all transmission devices multiplexed in a scheduling unit 26 of the base station device are controlled adaptively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinsuke Ibi, Seiichi Sampei, Shinichi Miyamoto, Kazunari Yokomakura, Minoru Kubota, Yasuhiro Hamaguchi, Shimpei To, Osamu Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8494080
    Abstract: A reception device which receives a signal transmitted by a transmission device which changes at least one of a modulation scheme and a coding rate. The reception device includes an equalization unit which equalizes a received signal in frequency domain, a reliability calculation unit which calculates the reliability of a transmitted bit from the received signal after equalization, a mutual information amount calculation unit which calculates a mutual information amount based on the reliability of the transmitted bit calculated by the reliability calculation unit, and a notification signal generation unit which sets at least one of a modulation scheme and a coding rate based on the mutual information amount calculated by the mutual information amount calculation unit to generate a signal to be reported to the transmission device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazunari Yokomakura, Yasuhiro Hamaguchi, Hideo Namba, Shimpei To
  • Patent number: 8488664
    Abstract: A reception device which receives a signal transmitted by a transmission device that changes at least one of a modulation scheme and a coding rate based on information reported from the reception device, the reception device includes an equalization unit which equalizes a received signal in a frequency domain, a signal-noise ratio measuring unit which measures a signal-noise ratio from the received signal after equalization, and a notification signal generation unit which sets at least one of a modulation scheme and a coding rate from the quality of reception and generates a signal to be reported to the transmission device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazunari Yokomakura, Yasuhiro Hamaguchi, Hideo Namba, Shimpei To
  • Patent number: 8477746
    Abstract: Allocation of transmission power is carried out adaptively without affecting adjacent cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideo Nanba, Yasuhiro Hamaguchi, Shimpei To
  • Patent number: 8477694
    Abstract: Allocation of transmission power is carried out adaptively without affecting adjacent cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideo Nanba, Yasuhiro Hamaguchi, Shimpei To
  • Patent number: 8467462
    Abstract: To suppress effects produced on other terminals as much as possible, while obtaining the advantage of soft-combining. A multicarrier receiving apparatus that receives a packet comprised of at least a propagation path estimation symbol and a scrambled information symbol to demodulate, and has propagation path estimating sections 3-a and 3-b that respectively estimate propagation paths of radio signals transmitted from a plurality of transmission antennas, scramble multiplying sections 5-a and 5-b that respectively perform the same scrambling on propagation path estimation values output from the propagation path estimating sections 3-a and 3-b as scrambling provided in the information symbol on the transmission antennas sides, an adding section 3-c that adds scrambled propagation path estimation values, and a propagation path compensating section 7 that performs propagation path compensation of the information symbol included in the received packet using a signal output from the adding section 3-c.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Hamaguchi, Minoru Kubota, Shimpei To, Shoichi Shitara, Kimihiko Imamura
  • Publication number: 20130136050
    Abstract: To realize transmission performances equivalent to those of an MU-MIMO BLAST ZF-THP system without increasing a signal processing amount in a base station apparatus in a downlink MU-MIMO transmission system. A transmission apparatus is provided with a plurality of transmission antennas, generates a transmission signal addressed to each reception apparatus based on information indicating spatial correlation of channels to and from a plurality of reception apparatuses, space-multiplexes the generated each transmission signal in the same wireless resource, and transmits it to each reception apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2011
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiromichi Tomeba, Minoru Kubota, Takashi Onodera, Shimpei To, Kozue Hirata, Hiroshi Nakano
  • Patent number: 8451709
    Abstract: The invention provides precise estimation of a channel response and correct demodulation of an information signal even in the circumstance of being likely suffering interference. The invention includes an error correcting code unit 1, an S/P converting unit 2, a mapping unit 3, an IDFT (Inverse Discrete Fourier Transform) unit (IFFT: Inverse Fast Fourier Transform can be used) 4, a P/S converting unit 5, a GI (Guard Interval) inserting unit 6, preamble (A, B0, B1) storage selecting units 11-a and 11-b, switch units 12-a and 12-b, D/A converting units 13-a and 13-b, radio units 14-a and 14-b and antenna units 15-a and 15-b.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignees: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka University, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Hamaguchi, Shimpei To, Hideo Nanba, Seiichi Sampei, Hiroshi Harada, Masafumi Moriyama
  • Patent number: 8447229
    Abstract: In a radio communication system including a base station apparatus 10, a relay station apparatus 20 that receives a signal transmitted from base station apparatus 10 and re-transmits the signal to terminal apparatuses, a terminal apparatus 30 that directly receives the signal transmitted from the base station apparatus and a terminal apparatus 32 that receives the signal transmitted from base station apparatus 10 via relay station apparatus 20, base station apparatus 10 sets the transmission power of a signal addressed to terminal apparatus 30 high and the transmission power of a signal addressed to terminal apparatus 32 low, adds up the signals and transmits the resultant signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shimpei To, Minoru Kubota, Yasuhiro Hamaguchi, Osamu Nakamura, Kazunari Yokomakura
  • Publication number: 20130121277
    Abstract: When signals received by receiving antennas included in each terminal are subjected to MMSE combining, it is configured that each terminal is able to grasp position of desired signal in signal vector obtained after combining. A base station 100 receives by a receiving antenna 23 from the terminal apparatus channel state information between a transmitting antenna 16 and spatial multiplexing object antennas included in each terminal apparatus. A transmit weight calculation unit 19 calculates a transmit weight for performing spatial multiplexing transmission to the terminal apparatus based on the channel state information. Transmit weight multiplication unit s 12 and 18 multiplies an information signal addressed to each terminal apparatus to be performed spatial multiplexing by the transmit weight. A signal multiplexing unit 13 multiplexes the information signal multiplied by the transmit weight and an information to specify the information signal that needs to be demodulated by each terminal apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2011
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shimpei To, Takashi Onodera, Kozue Hirata, Hiroshi Nakano, Hiromichi Tomeba, Minoru Kubota
  • Patent number: 8423862
    Abstract: An execution decision apparatus decides whether to execute a detection process for a turbo equalization apparatus which detects data before coding, by repeating processes performed on transmission data coded by error correction coding, by an equalization unit for compensating distortion by a propagation path and a decoding unit for performing an error correction process, and includes an equalization unit I/O characteristic acquisition unit which acquires an I/O characteristic of the equalization unit; a decoding unit I/O characteristic acquisition unit which acquires an I/O characteristic of the decoding unit; and a decision unit which decides whether to execute the detection process in the turbo equalization apparatus based on the I/O characteristic acquired for each of the equalization unit and the decoding unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazunari Yokomakura, Yasuhiro Hamaguchi, Hideo Namba, Shimpei To