Patents by Inventor Shunji Miura

Shunji Miura 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: 9042900
    Abstract: A CRS base station (21) includes a transmitting section configured to transmit a synchronization establishment signal, a receiving section configured to receive a random access signal corresponding to the synchronization establishment signal, a determining section configured to determine whether or not the random access signal received by the receiving section has been transmitted from an MCS terminal (12) and an interference reduction processing section configured to perform interference reduction processing on the MCS terminal (12) when the determining section determines that the random access signal has been transmitted from the MCS terminal (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiromasa Fujii, Hiroto Yasuda, Hiroki Harada, Shunji Miura, Hidetoshi Kayama
  • Patent number: 8948068
    Abstract: A wireless station in a second communication system, with at least a portion of a first frequency band used in a first communication system and a portion of a second frequency band used in the second communication system being shared or neighboring, the wireless station including a waveform characteristic quantity extracting unit that extracts a waveform characteristic quantity which shows a statistical characteristic of a signal received from the first communication system; a communication parameter determining unit that determines communication parameters to be used for the wireless station in the second communication system depending on a determination result of whether the extracted waveform characteristic quantity is of a predetermined waveform characteristic quantity for reducing an interference; and a transmission and reception unit that transmits and receives a wireless communication signal in the second communication system in accordance with the determined communication parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroki Harada, Hiromasa Fujii, Shunji Miura, Hidetoshi Kayama
  • Patent number: 8903404
    Abstract: A CRS base station (21) includes a transmitting section configured to transmit a synchronization establishment signal, a receiving section configured to receive a random access signal corresponding to the synchronization establishment signal, a determining section configured to determine whether or not the random access signal received by the receiving section has been transmitted from an MCS terminal (12) and an interference reduction processing section configured to perform interference reduction processing on the MCS terminal (12) when the determining section determines that the random access signal has been transmitted from the MCS terminal (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiromasa Fujii, Hiroto Yasuda, Hiroki Harada, Shunji Miura, Hidetoshi Kayama
  • Publication number: 20140221030
    Abstract: A CRS base station (21) includes a transmitting section configured to transmit a synchronization establishment signal, a receiving section configured to receive a random access signal corresponding to the synchronization establishment signal, a determining section configured to determine whether or not the random access signal received by the receiving section has been transmitted from an MCS terminal (12) and an interference reduction processing section configured to perform interference reduction processing on the MCS terminal (12) when the determining section determines that the random access signal has been transmitted from the MCS terminal (12).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2014
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiromasa Fujii, Hiroto Yasuda, Hiroki Harada, Shunji Miura, Hidetoshi Kayama
  • Patent number: 8706045
    Abstract: A signal detection apparatus includes: a unit configured to select a particular detection target signal from among plural candidates of detection target signals; a unit configured to calculate a cyclic autocorrelation value at a center coordinate point specified by at least a cyclic parameter and a shift parameter of the particular detection target signal; a unit configured to calculate a cyclic autocorrelation value of each of (L?1) coordinate points belonging to a common area that is used commonly for different detection target signals; a unit configured to calculate a test statistic of the particular detection target signal; and a unit configured to determine presence or absence of the particular detection target signal according to a comparison result between the test statistic and a threshold, wherein the test statistic is calculated by using the cyclic autocorrelation value in each of the (L?1) coordinate points belonging to the common area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroki Harada, Hiromasa Fujii, Shunji Miura
  • Patent number: 8542758
    Abstract: Disclosed is a signal generation device that employs a transmission method using inverse Fourier transform. The signal generation device includes: a modulation unit which modulates transmission data to obtain modulation data; a serial-parallel conversion unit which converts the modulation data input in series to parallel data of a predetermined size smaller than the size of inverse Fourier transform; a duplication unit which selects and duplicates all or a portion of the parallel data to obtain duplication data; a first time-axis shift unit which shifts the duplication data along the time axis to obtain time-axis shift data; and an inverse Fourier transform unit which carries out inverse Fourier transform on the parallel data obtained by the serial-parallel conversion unit and the time-axis shift data obtained by the first time-axis shift unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroki Harada, Hiromasa Fujii, Shunji Miura, Tomoyuki Ohya
  • Patent number: 8521174
    Abstract: When a frequency band is shared between a large cell system having a large cell base station and a small cell system having a small cell base station, the large cell base station dynamically controls dedicated resources for the large cell base station and shared resources for both the large cell base station and the small cell base station based on predetermined information, broadcasts allocation information of dedicated resources for the large cell base station and shared resources for both the large cell base station and the small cell base station, to the small cell base station belonging to the own cell, and the small cell base station belongs to at least one large cell base station and determines resource assignment in the own cell based on the resource allocation information broadcast from the large cell base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiromasa Fujii, Hiroto Yasuda, Hiroki Harada, Shunji Miura, Tomoyuki Ohya
  • Patent number: 8503944
    Abstract: A signal detection apparatus 23 for determining whether a detection target signal is included in a received radio signal, includes: a waveform feature amount calculation unit 31 configured to calculate a waveform feature amount Rx? representing a waveform feature; a test statistic calculation unit 32 configured to calculate test statistic Zx? of each detection target signal by using the waveform feature amount; and a signal decision unit 33 configured to determine presence or absence of each detection target signal by comparing the test statistic Zx? of each detection target signal with a threshold ?, wherein, under a condition where a specific detection target signal is removed, the test statistic calculation unit calculates a test statistic for a detection target signal which is not removed, and the signal decision unit determines presence or absence of the detection target signal by comparing the calculated test statistic with the threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroki Harada, Hiromasa Fujii, Shunji Miura, Tomoyuki Ohya
  • Publication number: 20120213102
    Abstract: A wireless station in a second communication system, with at least a portion of a first frequency band used in a first communication system and a portion of a second frequency band used in the second communication system being shared or neighboring, the wireless station including a waveform characteristic quantity extracting unit that extracts a waveform characteristic quantity which shows a statistical characteristic of a signal received from the first communication system; a communication parameter determining unit that determines communication parameters to be used for the wireless station in the second communication system depending on a determination result of whether the extracted waveform characteristic quantity is of a predetermined waveform characteristic quantity for reducing an interference; and a transmission and reception unit that transmits and receives a wireless communication signal in the second communication system in accordance with the determined communication parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroki Harada, Hiromasa Fujii, Shunji Miura, Hidetoshi Kayama
  • Publication number: 20120214525
    Abstract: A CRS base station (21) includes a transmitting section configured to transmit a synchronization establishment signal, a receiving section configured to receive a random access signal corresponding to the synchronization establishment signal, a determining section configured to determine whether or not the random access signal received by the receiving section has been transmitted from an MCS terminal (12) and an interference reduction processing section configured to perform interference reduction processing on the MCS terminal (12) when the determining section determines that the random access signal has been transmitted from the MCS terminal (12).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiromasa FUJII, Hiroto Yasuda, Hiroki Harada, Shunji Miura, Hidetoshi Kayama
  • Publication number: 20120178467
    Abstract: When a frequency band is shared between a large cell system having a large cell base station and a small cell system having a small cell base station, the large cell base station dynamically controls dedicated resources for the large cell base station and shared resources for both the large cell base station and the small cell base station based on predetermined information, broadcasts allocation information of dedicated resources for the large cell base station and shared resources for both the large cell base station and the small cell base station, to the small cell base station belonging to the own cell, and the small cell base station belongs to at least one large cell base station and determines resource assignment in the own cell based on the resource allocation information broadcast from the large cell base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiromasa FUJII, Hiroto YASUDA, Hiroki HARADA, Shunji MIURA, Tomoyuki OHYA
  • Patent number: 8194702
    Abstract: A transmission apparatus including: a layer multiplexing unit configured to assign, to a radio resource which is divided based on a time, a frequency and a layer, a bit sequence which constitutes at least one information source to be transmitted, in accordance with a communication state and a priority level of the information source; and a layer coding unit configured to perform a layer coding processing for the bit sequence assigned to the radio resource. The layer multiplexing unit performs the assignment so that a length of each bit sequence assigned to each radio resource becomes equivalent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Noriyuki Maeda, Hiromasa Fujii, Shunji Miura, Hiromitsu Asakura
  • Publication number: 20120094618
    Abstract: A signal detection apparatus includes: a unit configured to select a particular detection target signal from among plural candidates of detection target signals; a unit configured to calculate a cyclic autocorrelation value at a center coordinate point specified by at least a cyclic parameter and a shift parameter of the particular detection target signal; a unit configured to calculate a cyclic autocorrelation value of each of (L?1) coordinate points belonging to a common area that is used commonly for different detection target signals; a unit configured to calculate a test statistic of the particular detection target signal; and a unit configured to determine presence or absence of the particular detection target signal according to a comparison result between the test statistic and a threshold, wherein the test statistic is calculated by using the cyclic autocorrelation value in each of the (L?1) coordinate points belonging to the common area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2011
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroki HARADA, Hiromasa FUJII, Shunji MIURA
  • Publication number: 20110235740
    Abstract: Disclosed is a signal generation device that employs a transmission method using inverse Fourier transform. The signal generation device includes: a modulation unit which modulates transmission data to obtain modulation data; a serial-parallel conversion unit which converts the modulation data input in series to parallel data of a predetermined size smaller than the size of inverse Fourier transform; a duplication unit which selects and duplicates all or a portion of the parallel data to obtain duplication data; a first time-axis shift unit which shifts the duplication data along the time axis to obtain time-axis shift data; and an inverse Fourier transform unit which carries out inverse Fourier transform on the parallel data obtained by the serial-parallel conversion unit and the time-axis shift data obtained by the first time-axis shift unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2011
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroki HARADA, Hiromasa Fujii, Shunji Miura, Tomoyuki Ohya
  • Publication number: 20110165851
    Abstract: A signal detection apparatus 23 for determining whether a detection target signal is included in a received radio signal, includes: a waveform feature amount calculation unit 31 configured to calculate a waveform feature amount Rx? representing a waveform feature; a test statistic calculation unit 32 configured to calculate test statistic Zx? of each detection target signal by using the waveform feature amount; and a signal decision unit 33 configured to determine presence or absence of each detection target signal by comparing the test statistic Zx? of each detection target signal with a threshold ?, wherein, under a condition where a specific detection target signal is removed, the test statistic calculation unit calculates a test statistic for a detection target signal which is not removed, and the signal decision unit determines presence or absence of the detection target signal by comparing the calculated test statistic with the threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroki Harada, Hiromasa Fujii, Shunji Miura, Tomoyuki Ohya
  • Patent number: 7961677
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to achieve reduction of interference between cells and improvement of maximum throughput so as to improve spectrum efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Hideaki Takahashi, Noriyuki Maeda, Shunji Miura, Hiromitsu Asakura
  • Publication number: 20090137243
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to lower communication costs using a simple configuration by reducing traffic on a communication network resulting from data communications for video conference use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2008
    Publication date: May 28, 2009
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Noriyuki TSUTSUMI, Shunji Miura, Kazuto Nakajima
  • Publication number: 20090034486
    Abstract: The wireless base station 10 includes a multiplexing units 13 generating user data; a channel assignment control unit 14 for selecting subcarrier groups from a plurality of subcarriers on two carriers, forming two wireless frames including subchannels generated from the subcarrier groups, and time-division multiplexes and sets the user data and control data to the two wireless frames; and a transmitting and receiving unit 16 transmitting a wireless signal including the wireless frames, wherein the channel assignment control unit 14 divides all of the subchannels in the two wireless frames into areas of destination sectors, stores the control data only in the corresponding area, and stores the user data in all of the areas in the two wireless frames.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2008
    Publication date: February 5, 2009
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Hideaki Takahashi, Noriyuki Maeda, Shunji Miura, Hiromitsu Asakura
  • Publication number: 20080247356
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to achieve reduction of interference between cells and improvement of maximum throughput so as to improve spectrum efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2008
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc
    Inventors: Hideaki TAKAHASHI, Noriyuki Maeda, Shunji Miura, Hiromitsu Asakura
  • Publication number: 20080159249
    Abstract: The present invention achieves a flexible and efficient use of frequency bands in a radio communication system in which all or part of frequency bands available in a cell is allocated respectively as frequency bands available in each of a plurality of regions in the cell. An allocation control unit included in a radio communication apparatus according to the present invention is configured to allocate all the frequency band f1 to f6 available in the cell, as a frequency band available in an inner region, to allocate specific frequency bands from among all the all the frequency band f1 to f6 available in the cell, as a frequency band available in an outer region, and to notify the specific frequency band available in the outer region in field B1 to B3 corresponding to the outer region in a data frame, by using a bit map pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2007
    Publication date: July 3, 2008
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Hideaki Takahashi, Shinji Takeda, Shunji Miura, Hiromitsu Asakura