Patents by Inventor Takashi Iwai

Takashi Iwai 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: 20240023027
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes: signal generation circuitry which, in operation, generates a control signal including a target reception power value regarding a target value of a reception power for the communication apparatus to receive an uplink (UL) response frame transmitted by each of one or more terminal stations, the control signal being a trigger frame that solicits transmission of the UL response frame from each of the one or more terminal stations; and transmission circuitry which, in operation, transmits the generated signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: TOMOHUMI TAKATA, YOSHIO URABE, TAKASHI IWAI
  • Patent number: 11863478
    Abstract: A base station (100, 300) is provided with a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter (109) transmits a downlink signal in a downlink transmission region, in a time unit that includes the downlink transmission region, an uplink transmission region, and a gap period that is a switching point between the downlink transmission region and the uplink transmission region. The receiver (111) receives an uplink signal in the uplink transmission region, in the time unit. Furthermore, a delay tolerant signal for which a delay is tolerated more than for the downlink signal and the uplink signal is mapped to within the gap period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Tomohumi Takata, Takashi Iwai, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Ayako Horiuchi, Joachim Loehr, Tetsuya Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11863496
    Abstract: Provided is a radio communication device which can prevent interference between SRS and PUCCH when the PUCCH transmission bandwidth fluctuates and suppress degradation of CQI estimation accuracy by the band where no SRS is transmitted. The device includes: an SRS code generation unit (201) which generates an SRS (Sounding Reference Signal) for measuring uplink line data channel quality; an SRS arrangement unit (202) which frequency-multiplexes the SRS on the SR transmission band and arranges it; and an SRS arrangement control unit (208) which controls SRS frequency multiplex so as to be uniform in frequency without modifying the bandwidth of one SRS multiplex unit in accordance with the fluctuation of the reference signal transmission bandwidth according to the SRS arrangement information transmitted from the base station and furthermore controls the transmission interval of the frequency-multiplexed SRS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Holdings Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Matsumoto, Daichi Imamura, Takashi Iwai, Yoshihiko Ogawa, Tomofumi Takata, Katsuhiko Hiramatsu
  • Publication number: 20230422179
    Abstract: This terminal comprises: a control circuit that determines, on the basis of a plurality of signals received from a plurality of transmission sources that carry out uplink cooperative communication, the uplink transmission power; and a transmission circuit that carries out uplink transmission via the determined transmission power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Hiroyuki KANAYA, Takashi IWAI, Tomofumi TAKATA, Yoshio URABE, Taichi MIURA
  • Publication number: 20230406546
    Abstract: Provided is a space vehicle that includes: a main body; a movable portion configured to reciprocate in an axial direction with respect to the main body; and a magnetic force generation unit attached to a distal end of the movable portion, and attracts, by a magnetic force, a platelike body attached to an object in outer space. The magnetic force generation unit includes: a magnet support member attached to a distal end of the movable portion via a buffer elastic body; and a plurality of permanent magnets laid on a surface of the magnet support member to form an attraction region. When a drive unit moves the movable portion away from the main body, the attraction region protrudes from the main body while maintaining a fixed orientation crossing the axial direction, and is changeable in position and/or orientation by the buffer elastic body when an external force is applied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Takashi Iwai, Kenji Sagara, Sho Fujita
  • Publication number: 20230403188
    Abstract: Provided is a transmitter which improves the flexibility of SRS resource allocation without increasing the amount of signaling for notifying the cyclic shift amount. In the transmitter, with regard to each basic shift amount candidate group having a basic shift amount from 0 to N?1, a transmission control unit (206) specifies the actual shift amount imparted to a cyclic shift sequence used in scrambling a reference signal transmitted from each antenna port, said specification being performed based on a table in which cyclic shift amount candidates correspond to each antenna port, and based on setting information transmitted from a base station (100). With regard to basic shift amount candidates for shift amount X, the table differentiates between an offset pattern comprising offset values for cyclic shift amount candidates corresponding to each antenna port and an offset pattern corresponding to basic shift amount candidates of X+N/2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Yoshihiko OGAWA, Akihiko NISHIO, Masayuki HOSHINO, Takashi IWAI
  • Publication number: 20230403710
    Abstract: Provided is a terminal that can appropriately transmit an uplink signal. In a terminal (200), a control unit (211) determines a processing mode with respect to uplink data and uplink control information according to a requirement for at least one of uplink data and uplink control information when transmission of an uplink data channel that includes the uplink data and transmission of an uplink control channel that includes the uplink control information temporally overlap. A transmission unit (218) transmits the at least one of the uplink data and the uplink control information on the basis of the determined processing mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Tetsuya YAMAMOTO, Hongchao LI, Hidetoshi SUZUKI, Takashi IWAI
  • Publication number: 20230403722
    Abstract: A communication device (100) comprises: a circuit (11) that sets a first value to an association ID (AID) 12 subfield of the first field of a trigger frame requesting an extremely high throughput (EHT) trigger-based (TB) physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU); and a transmitter (12) that transmits the trigger frame. The first value indicates that the first field contains information to be shared for the transmission of the EHT TB PPDU.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Takashi IWAI, Tomofumi TAKATA, Yoshio URABE, Takayuki NAKANO, Taichi MIURA
  • Publication number: 20230403170
    Abstract: A terminal includes circuitry and a transmitter. The circuitry, in operation, determines a first transmission power for a first uplink signal and a second transmission power for a second uplink signal by prioritizing allocation of a transmission power to the second transmission power for the second uplink signal, responsive to, in a first transmission time interval (TTI) where the first uplink signal is transmitted, the second uplink signal being transmitted in a second TTI that is shorter than the first TTI. The transmitter, in operation, transmits the first uplink signal with the determined first transmission power and transmits the second uplink signal with the determined second transmission power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Ayako HORIUCHI, Hidetoshi SUZUKI, Lilei WANG, Takashi IWAI
  • Publication number: 20230403187
    Abstract: This communication device is provided with: a reception circuit that receives information pertaining to at least one of a plurality of modes which pertain to the allocation of a common data signal to a plurality of sub-carrier groups; and a control circuit that, on the basis of the information pertaining to the at least one mode, controls the synthesis of the signal allocated to the plurality of sub-carrier groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Jun MINOTANI, Yoshio URABE, Takashi IWAI, Tomofumi TAKATA
  • Patent number: 11838877
    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: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Shotaro Maki, Takashi Iwai, Hidetoshi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11831483
    Abstract: Provided is a transmitter which improves the flexibility of SRS resource allocation without increasing the amount of signaling for notifying the cyclic shift amount. In the transmitter, with regard to each basic shift amount candidate group having a basic shift amount from 0 to N?1, a transmission control unit (206) specifies the actual shift amount imparted to a cyclic shift sequence used in scrambling a reference signal transmitted from each antenna port, said specification being performed based on a table in which cyclic shift amount candidates correspond to each antenna port, and based on setting information transmitted from a base station (100). With regard to basic shift amount candidates for shift amount X, the table differentiates between an offset pattern comprising offset values for cyclic shift amount candidates corresponding to each antenna port and an offset pattern corresponding to basic shift amount candidates of X+N/2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Ogawa, Akihiko Nishio, Masayuki Hoshino, Takashi Iwai
  • Patent number: 11825426
    Abstract: A radio communication apparatus is provided, which includes a receiver and a controller. The receiver, in operation, receives a first power headroom (PHR), which is obtained by subtracting a transmit power for a data channel from a maximum transmit power at a mobile station and which is transmitted from the mobile station, and receives a second PHR, which is obtained by subtracting the transmit power for the data channel and a transmit power for a control channel from the maximum transmit power at the mobile station and which is transmitted from the mobile station. The controller, in operation, selectively sets a simultaneous transmission of the data channel and the control channel in different frequency bands to be performed by the mobile station. When the data channel and the control channel are simultaneously transmitted in different frequency bands from the mobile station, the second PHR is obtained and transmitted from the mobile station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Takashi Iwai, Akihiko Nishio, Daichi Imamura, Yoshihiko Ogawa, Atsushi Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20230370976
    Abstract: Disclosed is a wireless communication device that can suppress an increase in power consumption of a terminal while preventing the degradation of SINR measurement precision resulting from TPC errors in a base station. A terminal controls the transmission power of a second signal by adding an offset to the transmission power of a first signal; an offset-setting unit sets an offset correction value in response to a transmission time gap between a third signal transmitted the previous time and the second signal transmitted this time; and a transmission power control unit controls the transmission power of the second signal using the correction value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: Takashi IWAI, Daichi Imamura, Akihilo Nishio, Yoshihiko Ogawa, Shinsuke Takaoka
  • Publication number: 20230370188
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: Yoshihiko OGAWA, Akihiko NISHIO, Takashi IWAI, Seigo NAKAO, Daichi IMAMURA, Atsushi SUMASU
  • Publication number: 20230371026
    Abstract: This base station comprises: a control circuit that determines a format for a control signal on the basis of the type of cooperative communication; and a transmission circuit that transmits, according to the format, the control signal to another base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: Takayuki NAKANO, Tomofumi TAKATA, Takashi IWAI, Hiroyuki KANAYA, Yoshio URABE
  • Publication number: 20230362840
    Abstract: This terminal comprises: a control circuit that controls transmission power of a sidelink on the basis of information about a power control method corresponding to the purpose of usage of a communication link at a base station; and a transmission circuit that carries out sidelink transmission in accordance with the control of the transmission power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Takashi IWAI, Hidetoshi SUZUKI, Ayako HORIUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230362909
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Takashi Iwai, Sadaki Futagi, Daichi Imamura, Akihiko Nishio, Seigo Nakao, Yoshihiko Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20230363013
    Abstract: A communication apparatus in the present disclosure comprises an AID generator, a Trigger frame generator, and a wireless transmitter/receiver. When a Trigger Type in a trigger frame is an RA trigger, the AID generator generates, as information for an AID12 subfield, information that is different from an AID. The Trigger frame generator generates a RA variant Trigger frame when the Trigger Type in the trigger frame is an RA trigger, and sets, in the AID12 subfield included in the RA variant Trigger frame, the information output from the AID generator. The wireless transmitter/receiver transmits the Trigger frame, generated by the Trigger frame generator, to a terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: TAKASHI IWAI, TOMOHUMI TAKATA, ATSUSHI MATSUMOTO
  • Patent number: 11811430
    Abstract: This invention is a transmission device capable of enhancing the reception characteristics of a terminal when employing transmit diversity using two antenna ports in an ePDCCH. In a base station (100) that transmits a reference signal to a terminal (200) using two antenna ports, a setting unit (102), on the basis of the reception quality of the terminal, sets as the aforementioned two antenna ports either a first antenna port pair for which DMRS (reference signals) do not undergo mutual code multiplexing, or a second antenna port pair for which the DMRS do undergo code multiplexing. A transmitter (109) transmits the DMRS from the two antenna ports set in the setting unit (102).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Tadashi Yoshida, Ayako Horiuchi, Takashi Iwai, Yoshihiko Ogawa, Akihiko Nishio