Patents by Inventor Shotaro MAKI

Shotaro MAKI 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: 20220167212
    Abstract: Data communication can be appropriately performed in unlicensed bands. A mobile station (200) includes: reception circuitry, which, in operation, receives first information relating to a size configured for data, and second information relating to a resource to which the data is assigned; and control circuitry, which, in operation, controls reception of the data based on the first information and the second information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Shotaro MAKI, Lilei WANG, Hidetoshi SUZUKI, Ayako HORIUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220166565
    Abstract: An EVM measurement value is appropriately determined while CPE/ICI correction is taken into account. In a measurement apparatus (300), an EVM measurer (305) measures a modulation quality of a signal transmitted from a transmission apparatus. An EVM determiner (306) determines whether or not the measurement value of the modulation quality is equal to or less than a first requirement value, in a case where correction relating to a phase noise of the transmission apparatus is necessary in a reception apparatus. The first requirement value herein is higher than a second requirement value used in the determination of the measurement value in a case where the correction relating to the phase noise of the transmission apparatus is unnecessary in the reception apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Shotaro MAKI, Hidetoshi SUZUKI, Lilei WANG
  • Publication number: 20220140974
    Abstract: In a transmitter, an assignment circuit maps a phase tracking reference signal (PT-RS) onto a subcarrier, and a transmitting circuit transmits a signal containing the phase tracking reference signal. The phase tracking reference signal is mapped onto a different subcarrier for each cell, group, or mobile station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Shotaro MAKI, Hidetoshi SUZUKI, Ayako HORIUCHI
  • Patent number: 11283557
    Abstract: An EVM measurement value is appropriately determined while CPE/ICI correction is taken into account. In a measurement apparatus (300), an EVM measurer (305) measures a modulation quality of a signal transmitted from a transmission apparatus. An EVM determiner (306) determines whether or not the measurement value of the modulation quality is equal to or less than a first requirement value, in a case where correction relating to a phase noise of the transmission apparatus is necessary in a reception apparatus. The first requirement value herein is higher than a second requirement value used in the determination of the measurement value in a case where the correction relating to the phase noise of the transmission apparatus is unnecessary in the reception apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Shotaro Maki, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Lilei Wang
  • Patent number: 11277757
    Abstract: In a terminal, a transmission power calculation unit calculates a transmission power of an uplink signal by using transmission power control information indicating one value from among a plurality of candidate values respectively associated with correction values that correct a control value to use in a closed loop control of the transmission power. A wireless transmission unit transmits the uplink signal with the above transmission power. A first correction value and a second correction value having a larger step size than the first correction value are associated with each of the plurality of candidate values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Tomohumi Takata, Takashi Iwai, Shotaro Maki, Yihui Li
  • Patent number: 11258558
    Abstract: In a transmitter, an assignment circuit maps a phase tracking reference signal (PT-RS) onto a subcarrier, and a transmitting circuit transmits a signal containing the phase tracking reference signal. The phase tracking reference signal is mapped onto a different subcarrier for each cell, group, or mobile station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Shotaro Maki, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Ayako Horiuchi
  • Publication number: 20210400696
    Abstract: Provided is a mobile station that can appropriately allocate resources in an unlicensed band. In the mobile station (200), on the basis of resource association between an uplink reference signal and another uplink signal different from the reference signal, a control unit (205) determines a frequency resource to be used for uplink transmission. A transmission unit (209) uses the frequency resource to transmit at least one of the reference signal and the other uplink signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventors: Shotaro MAKI, Takashi IWAI, Tomofumi TAKATA
  • Patent number: 11191030
    Abstract: In a terminal, a transmission power control unit controls the transmission power of an uplink channel (the PUSCH) by using transmission power control information (a TPC command) indicating one from among a plurality of candidate values. A wireless transmission unit transmits the uplink channel with the above transmission power. Instruction information for resetting a control value (closed loop correction value) to be used in a closed loop control of the transmission power is associated with at least one value among the above plurality of candidate values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Takashi Iwai, Tomohumi Takata, Shotaro Maki
  • Publication number: 20210368505
    Abstract: In an operation in a license-exempt band (unlicensed band), the present invention contributes to the provision of a mobile station, a base station, a transmission method and a receiving method which suitably transmit and receive a signal. The mobile station 200 includes: a transmission unit 205 which transmits an uplink signal; and a control unit 201 which, when a first number indicating a first resource amount that can be used in the transmission of the uplink signal includes a third number, which is different from a specific second number, as a prime factor, controls the transmission of a signal of a fourth number that does not include the third number as the prime factor by using a second resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: Shotaro MAKI, Ayako HORIUCHI, Tetsuya YAMAMOTO, Yoshihiko OGAWA, Yihui LI, Madhav GUPTA
  • Publication number: 20210273759
    Abstract: Provided is a base station with which it is possible to appropriately arrange a reference signal. In a base station (100), a control unit (101) determines a second threshold value on the basis of a first threshold value used in determining the arrangement of a reference signal. A transmission unit (105) transmits the reference signal arranged on the basis of the second threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: Shotaro MAKI, Takashi IWAI, Ayako HORIUCHI, Ankit BHAMRI, Yoshihiko OGAWA
  • Publication number: 20210266883
    Abstract: Provided are a user equipment, base station and wireless communication methods related to uplink control information mapping in physical uplink resources in NR (New Radio access technology). A user equipment comprises: circuitry operative to map, in physical resource blocks (PRBs) for Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH), Uplink Control Information (UCI) to one or more available resource elements according to their distances with resource elements where reference signals are mapped in one or more of time domain, frequency domain and spatial domain; and a transmitter operative to transmit the UCI and the reference signals in PUSCH on the PRBs to a base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: LILEI WANG, HIDETOSHI SUZUKI, TOMOHUMI TAKATA, SHOTARO MAKI
  • Patent number: 11026222
    Abstract: Provided are a user equipment, base station and wireless communication methods related to uplink control information mapping in physical uplink resources in NR (New Radio access technology). A user equipment comprises: circuitry operative to map, in physical resource blocks (PRBs) for Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH), Uplink Control Information (UCI) to one or more available resource elements according to their distances with resource elements where reference signals are mapped in one or more of time domain, frequency domain and spatial domain; and a transmitter operative to transmit the UCI and the reference signals in PUSCH on the PRBs to a base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Lilei Wang, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Tomohumi Takata, Shotaro Maki
  • Publication number: 20210045071
    Abstract: The present invention provides a transmitter which can suitably perform a transmission power control in a PT-RS port. In this transmitter (100), a control unit (101) determines a transmission power for transmitting a reference signal (PT-RS) for phase tracking and a data signal within a range in which the maximum transmission power for each antenna port is not exceeded. In addition, a transmission unit (105) transmits the reference signal for phase tracking and the data signal at the transmission power determined by the control unit (101).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2019
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Inventors: Shotaro MAKI, Takashi IWAI, Hidetoshi SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20200295893
    Abstract: In a transmitter, an assignment circuit maps a phase tracking reference signal (PT-RS) onto a subcarrier, and a transmitting circuit transmits a signal containing the phase tracking reference signal. The phase tracking reference signal is mapped onto a different subcarrier for each cell, group, or mobile station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2018
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: SHOTARO MAKI, HIDETOSHI SUZUKI, AYAKO HORIUCHI
  • Publication number: 20200280925
    Abstract: In a terminal, a transmission power control unit controls the transmission power of an uplink channel (the PUSCH) by using transmission power control information (a TPC command) indicating one from among a plurality of candidate values. A wireless transmission unit transmits the uplink channel with the above transmission power. Instruction information for resetting a control value (closed loop correction value) to be used in a closed loop control of the transmission power is associated with at least one value among the above plurality of candidate values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Inventors: TAKASHI IWAI, TOMOHUMI TAKATA, SHOTARO MAKI
  • Publication number: 20200229001
    Abstract: In a terminal, a transmission power calculation unit calculates a transmission power of an uplink signal by using transmission power control information indicating one value from among a plurality of candidate values respectively associated with correction values that correct a control value to use in a closed loop control of the transmission power. A wireless transmission unit transmits the uplink signal with the above transmission power. A first correction value and a second correction value having a larger step size than the first correction value are associated with each of the plurality of candidate values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Inventors: TOMOHUMI TAKATA, TAKASHI IWAI, SHOTARO MAKI, YIHUI LI
  • Publication number: 20200220755
    Abstract: In a base station, an assignment circuit maps a phase tracking reference signal onto a subset of antenna ports of antenna ports each included in at least one group into which a plurality of antenna ports have been grouped. The group is determined on the basis of a measured value of phase noise measured for each of the plurality of antenna ports. A transmitting unit transmits a data signal and the phase tracking reference signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Inventors: SHOTARO MAKI, HIDETOSHI SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20200178222
    Abstract: Provided are a user equipment, base station and wireless communication methods related to uplink control information mapping in physical uplink resources in NR (New Radio access technology). A user equipment comprises: circuitry operative to map, in physical resource blocks (PRBs) for Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH), Uplink Control Information (UCI) to one or more available resource elements according to their distances with resource elements where reference signals are mapped in one or more of time domain, frequency domain and spatial domain; and a transmitter operative to transmit the UCI and the reference signals in PUSCH on the PRBs to a base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2017
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: LILEI WANG, HIDETOSHI SUZUKI, TOMOHUMI TAKATA, SHOTARO MAKI
  • Publication number: 20200127776
    Abstract: An EVM measurement value is appropriately determined while CPE/ICI correction is taken into account. In a measurement apparatus (300), an EVM measurer (305) measures a modulation quality of a signal transmitted from a transmission apparatus. An EVM determiner (306) determines whether or not the measurement value of the modulation quality is equal to or less than a first requirement value, in a case where correction relating to a phase noise of the transmission apparatus is necessary in a reception apparatus. The first requirement value herein is higher than a second requirement value used in the determination of the measurement value in a case where the correction relating to the phase noise of the transmission apparatus is unnecessary in the reception apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: Shotaro MAKI, Hidetoshi SUZUKI, Lilei WANG