Patents by Inventor Takamichi Inoue

Takamichi Inoue 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: 20120008615
    Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication technique capable of supporting communication using a single component carrier, and communication using a plurality of component carriers. The communication using the plurality of carriers is characterized by using a different signal sequence in each of the carriers, and using the signal sequences as reference signals. The present invention makes it possible to cope with the communication employing a single component carrier and the wireless communication employing a plurality of the component carriers. Further, PAPR of the reference signals can be made small because there is no possibility that the identical CAZAC sequence is used among the component carriers when a plurality of the component carriers are employed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2010
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takamichi Inoue, Kenji Koyanagi, Yoshikazu Kakura
  • Publication number: 20110235604
    Abstract: Provided is a technique for efficiently selecting access schemes for use in communications. This invention includes an identifying means that identifies, from station-on-the-other-end candidate information, which is control information in which information related to an access scheme corresponding to each of a plurality of stations-on-the-other-end of communication is described, and from information related to an access scheme corresponding to the local station, access schemes beforehand one of which can be used in communication with a communication partner station; and a selecting means that selects, as the access scheme to be used in data communication with a communication partner station, one of the identified access schemes when the data communication is started.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2009
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takamichi Inoue, Yoshikazu Kakura
  • Publication number: 20110110322
    Abstract: To solve a problem that although the increase of the number of frequency blocks by allocating discontinuous subcarriers (RBs) as in OFDM enables an increase in multi-diversity effect and an improvement in throughput, the number of RB allocation patterns increases with the increase of the number of frequency blocks, resulting in an increase in the amount of information relating to the allocated RBs, the resource block allocation unit is determined when resource blocks discontinuous on the frequency axis are allocated to a terminal, and the number of bits of scheduling information indicating the allocated resource blocks by using Tree Based is set to the number of bits corresponding to the determined allocation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2009
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Koyanagi, Takamichi Inoue, Le Liu, Yoshikazu Kakura
  • Publication number: 20110113433
    Abstract: Provided is a technique capable of reporting resource block allocation information with no waste when an allocated resource block is reported, because in the current LTE downlink, the waste of the amount of resource allocation information increases in some cases since a restriction is imposed such that 37-bit fixed scheduling information is transmitted. A resource block group consisting of at least one or more resource blocks continuous on the frequency axis is allocated to a terminal, and the number of controlling signals for reporting allocation information indicating the allocated resource blocks is determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2009
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Koyanagi, Takamichi Inoue, Le Liu, Yoshikazu Kakura
  • Publication number: 20110002282
    Abstract: The problem is that, in a mobile wireless system, when more than one frequency block composed of resource blocks that are consecutive on a frequency axis is assigned to one mobile station, the multi-diversity effect due to scheduling increases by the number of assigned frequency blocks being increased, but the overhead caused by the scheduling information increases. Accordingly, there is a tradeoff between the multi-diversity effect and the scheduling overhead. However, when the aforementioned tradeoff was considered with OFDM and SC-FDMA, the same fixed number of frequency blocks would have been used for all mobile stations. Accordingly, an optimization that takes into account the tradeoff between the multi-diversity effect and scheduling overhead has not been sufficiently achieved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2009
    Publication date: January 6, 2011
    Inventors: Takamichi Inoue, Kenji Koyanagi, Le Liu, Yoshikazu Kakura
  • Publication number: 20100329199
    Abstract: A scheduling technique for limiting a discontinuous spectrum to reduce control information to be transmitted from a base station (BS) to each of mobile stations. The method has a ranking means for ranking the mobile stations for each resource block depending on the channel status, and an allocation means for allocating the resource blocks to the mobile stations depending on the ranking of the mobile stations so that the number of resource blocks in a resource block group for one mobile station may be not more than a set number. The resource block group including at least one or more continuous resource blocks on the frequency axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2009
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Inventors: Le Liu, Kenji Koyanagi, Takamichi Inoue, Yoshikazu Kakura
  • Publication number: 20090097465
    Abstract: In a radio communication system, transmission of CAZAC sequences as the pilot signal sequences by using code division multiplexing as at least one of user multiplexing schemes, is done by dividing a system band as a frequency band usable in the system into frequency blocks B1 and B2 having bandwidths W1 and W2, generating the pilot signals of the frequency blocks B1 and B2 with a single carrier, using the pilot signal sequences having sequence lengths L1 and L2 corresponding to frequency blocks B1 and B2 respectively; and, transmitting the generated pilot signals as the pilot signals corresponding individual users, with multicarriers using an arbitrary number of frequency blocks among the plural frequency blocks
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2007
    Publication date: April 16, 2009
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takamichi Inoue, Yoshikazu Kakura
  • Publication number: 20090011765
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to reduce the amount of calculation performed in a mobile station and amount of information exchanged between a base station and mobile station in a mobile communication system where the base station autonomously assigns a scramble code. In the mobile communication system, the base station starts communication by using a predetermined initialization scramble code used only at its activation time. The mobile station positioned in a cell determines whether the scramble code identified upon cell search time is the initialization scramble code. Only when the scramble code is the initialization scramble code, the mobile station determines a candidate scramble code, determines whether the candidate scramble code is usable in communication, and notifies the base station of the control information including the determination result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2007
    Publication date: January 8, 2009
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takamichi Inoue, Yoshikazu Kakura
  • Publication number: 20080318608
    Abstract: A reference signal sequence assignment method and device are provided by which the influence of inter-cell interference can be reduced and the number of usable cyclic shifted sequences per sector can be increased. In a mobile communications system with a structure including multiple cells each including multiple sectors, a sequence assignment method is employed by which pseudo-orthogonal sequences used for reference signals are assigned to cells or sectors. According to this method, the multiple pseudo-orthogonal sequences are assigned to cells or sectors by using multiple repetition patterns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2008
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takamichi INOUE, Yoshikazu KAKURA
  • Publication number: 20080225788
    Abstract: For radio communications between a base station and a mobile station, resource allocation within a resource block including control resources used for control signals (CQI, ACK/NACK) and reference resources used for a reference signal is performed. The base station measures the quality of a channel between the mobile station and the base station itself. Based on the measured channel quality, the base station sets a ratio between resources for the control signals CQI and ACK/NACK in the control resources, and notifies the mobile station of the set resource ratio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2008
    Publication date: September 18, 2008
    Inventors: Takamichi Inoue, Yoshikazu Kakura
  • Publication number: 20080080560
    Abstract: A reference signal multiplexing method for multiple mobile stations includes: grouping together control signals for the multiple mobile stations; and multiplexing reference signals corresponding to the control signals by CDM over the same bandwidth as that of grouped control signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2007
    Publication date: April 3, 2008
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takamichi INOUE, Yoshikazu Kakura
  • Publication number: 20080049668
    Abstract: A reference signal of a user equipment to which a resource (LB#1) is allocated for a L1/L2 control signal, is allocated a resource (SB#1) that is closer on the time axis to the resource (LB#1), which the L1/L2 control signal is allocated, within the same frequency band as the L1/L2 control signal. A reference signal for CQI estimation, independent of a data signal and a L1/L2 control signal, is allocated a resource with which at least one of a reference signal for demodulation of a data signal and a reference signal for demodulation of a L1/L2 control signal is not transmitted at the same timing within the transmission band. The types of bandwidths of the reference signals multiplexed in a same short block within a same band are reduced, whereby restrictions as to the number of reference signal sequences that can be secured are diminished.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2007
    Publication date: February 28, 2008
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshikazu KAKURA, Shousei Yoshida, Takamichi Inoue
  • Publication number: 20070293233
    Abstract: A channel quality measurement method that accomplishes efficient channel quality measurement for each mobile station is presented. In a frequency band including a plurality of frequency blocks, a base station measures the channel quality of each of a plurality of mobile stations. With respect to each mobile station, when a pilot resource for demodulation is not allocated in at least one of the frequency blocks, the base station allocates a specific pilot resource for channel quality measurement in that frequency block. The channel quality of each mobile station in the plurality of frequency blocks is measured by using one or both of the pilot resource for demodulation and the dedicated pilot resource for channel quality measurement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2007
    Publication date: December 20, 2007
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takamichi Inoue, Yoshikazu Kakura