Patents by Inventor Takuma Takada

Takuma Takada 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: 11968545
    Abstract: A user equipment includes a receiving unit that receives a reference signal from a secondary cell; a transmitting unit that transmits a result of a measurement of the reference signal; and a control unit that selects, when the secondary cell is deactivated after the transmitting unit transmits the result of the measurement and the secondary cell is reactivated, and when a time interval from a timing at which the transmitting unit transmits the result of the measurement until a timing at which the secondary cell is reactivated is within a predetermined time interval, a receiving beam that is applied to the secondary cell upon transmitting the result of the measurement by the transmitting unit, as a receiving beam to be applied to the reactivated secondary cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Takuma Takada, Hiroki Harada, Naoki Fujimura
  • Patent number: 11930560
    Abstract: A user apparatus includes a reception unit that receives, from a base station, information requesting a capability report of the user apparatus; a transmission unit that transmits, to the base station, the capability report of the user apparatus; and a control unit that receives a first signal transmitted from the base station, and a second signal transmitted from another base station or a third signal transmitted from the base station, within a maximum receive timing difference associated with a band combination included in the capability report of the user apparatus, wherein the band combination includes a combination of a band of the first signal and a band of the second signal or the third signal, a radio access technology for the first signal differs from that of the second signal, and the radio access technologies for the first signal and for the third signal are the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Takuma Takada, Yuta Oguma
  • Patent number: 11930553
    Abstract: A terminal is disclosed including a receiver that receives an instruction for a quality measurement of a cell in Dual Connectivity (DC), the cell being in an unconnected state; and a processor that performs the quality measurement in accordance with the instruction, wherein the processor performs the quality measurement in a measurement period based on a discontinuous reception configuration in a Secondary Cell Group (SCG). In other aspects, a measurement method for a terminal is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Takuma Takada, Hiroki Harada, Naoki Fujimura
  • Patent number: 11917438
    Abstract: A user device includes a receiving unit that receives from a base station device a measurement configuration including a condition for triggering a measurement report; a control unit that executes a measurement based on the measurement configuration; and a transmitting unit that transmits a measurement report to the base station device in response to the condition for triggering a measurement report being met, wherein the control unit modifies the measurement configuration based on a parameter indicating mobility capability or based on a type of user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Naoki Fujimura, Takuma Takada
  • Publication number: 20230361892
    Abstract: A terminal includes a receiving unit that receives a reference signal for acquiring a channel state and a control unit that performs measurement related to RSRP (Reference signal received power), based on a result of receiving the reference signal, and subcarrier spacing to be applied to the reference signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuichi Kakishima, Takuma Takada
  • Publication number: 20230300650
    Abstract: A terminal includes a receiving unit that receives a block and a reference signal that is for measuring a channel state, wherein the block includes a synchronization signal and system information; and a control unit that measures L1-SINR (Layer1 Signal to interference plus noise power ratio) based on the block including the synchronization signal and the system information, the reference signal for measuring the channel state, and measurement using a resource for measuring interference, wherein the control unit determines a period of measurement of the Ll-SINR based on a configuration of the resource for measuring the interference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuichi Kakishima, Takuma Takada
  • Publication number: 20230123943
    Abstract: A terminal including: a reception unit configured to receive configuration information of a time length for advancing a measurement gap from a base station apparatus; and a control unit configured to perform measurement, wherein the configuration information includes, as the time length for advancing the measurement gap, a time length selected from a plurality of time lengths including a predetermined time length shorter than 0.25 ms, and wherein the control unit is configured to perform measurement in the measurement gap advanced by the time length included in the configuration information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Tomoki Yokokawa, Yuichi Kakishima, Takuma Takada
  • Publication number: 20230052706
    Abstract: A terminal includes a control unit that measures, for a first component carrier and a second component carrier forming a carrier aggregation in a case where the carrier aggregation is to be executed, a difference between a timing at which a radio frame is received on the first component carrier and a timing at which a radio frame is received on the second component carrier; and a transmission unit that transmits information indicating the difference measured by the control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Takuma Takada, Hiromasa Umeda
  • Publication number: 20230051987
    Abstract: A terminal including: a reception unit configured to receive, from a base station apparatus, configuration information of a time window for measurement based on an SSB; and a control unit configured to measure based on the SSB, wherein the configuration information includes, as a time length of the time window, a time length selected from a plurality of time lengths including a time length shorter than a predetermined time length, and wherein the control unit performs measurement based on the SSB within a time window of a time length included in the configuration information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroki Harada, Takuma Takada, Satoshi Nagata
  • Publication number: 20230035994
    Abstract: A terminal includes, a reception unit configured to receive a configuration regarding measurement from a base station, a control unit configurated to execute measurement based on the configuration regarding the measurement, and a transmission unit configured to transmit a result of the executed measurement to the base station, wherein the control unit is configured to identify a measurement execution interval based on the configuration regarding the measurement, and to configure a communication interruption period, at a head and a tail of the measurement execution interval, in accordance with a capability of the terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Takuma Takada, Hideaki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11546871
    Abstract: A terminal is disclosed including a processor that scales a delay requirement of an intra-frequency measurement based on a synchronization signal block by a scaling factor corresponding to each of a plurality of carriers; and a receiver that receives the synchronization signal block in each of the plurality of carriers, wherein a specified carrier out of the plurality of carriers satisfies a condition, wherein a first scaling factor for an unspecified carrier out of the plurality of carriers is based on a number of the plurality of carriers, and wherein a second scaling factor for the specified carrier is not based on the number of the plurality of carriers. In other aspects, a radio communication method and a base station are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroki Harada, Naoki Fujimura, Takuma Takada
  • Patent number: 11523295
    Abstract: A user apparatus communicates with a first base station apparatus and a second base station apparatus, and the user apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive, from the first base station apparatus, a configuration for measuring a timing difference between the first base station apparatus and the second base station apparatus; a control unit configured to execute measurement with respect to the second base station apparatus, based on the configuration for measuring the timing difference; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit a result of the executed measurement, to the first base station apparatus, wherein the executed measurement is executed before starting to communicate with the second base station apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroki Harada, Yousuke Sano, Takuma Takada
  • Publication number: 20220346047
    Abstract: A terminal including: a reception unit configured to receive, from a base station apparatus of a serving cell, information indicating a relation between a frequency position of a resynchronization signal of the serving cell and a frequency position of a resynchronization signal of a neighbor cell, wherein the reception unit receives the resynchronization signal of the neighbor cell at a frequency position based on the relation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Daiki Takeda, Hiroki Harada, Takuma Takada
  • Publication number: 20220345199
    Abstract: A terminal includes a control unit that calculates a delay time for an L3 measurement based a periodicity of a reference signal and at least one of a number of samples used for the L3 measurement, a coefficient indicating an overlap between a timing of the L3 measurement and a measurement other than the L3 measurement, or a coefficient indicating switching of a reception beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tomoki Yokokawa, Yuichi Kakishima, Takuma Takada
  • Publication number: 20220346043
    Abstract: A terminal includes a controller configured to determine a candidate resource location where a resynchronization signal of a neighbor cell is possibly transmitted based on information on the neighbor cell; and a receiver configured to receive the resynchronization signal of the neighbor cell based on the candidate resource location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Daiki Takeda, Hiroki Harada, Takuma Takada
  • Publication number: 20220345906
    Abstract: A terminal includes a receiving unit that receives scheduling information; and a control unit that continues, in a case where the receiving unit receives the scheduling information within a delay time for switching a maximum number of Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output (MIMO) layers, an operation for switching the maximum number of MIMO layers and ignores the scheduling information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuichi Kakishima, Takuma Takada
  • Publication number: 20220338139
    Abstract: A terminal including: a control unit configured, when support information for supporting measurement by a resynchronization signal of a neighbor cell is not received, to determine a pattern of a position of a resource where the resynchronization signal of the neighbor cell can be transmitted based on information of the neighbor cell; and a reception unit configured to receive the resynchronization signal of the neighbor cell based on the pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Daiki Takeda, Hiroki Harada, Takuma Takada
  • Publication number: 20220329380
    Abstract: A terminal is disclosed including a transmission unit that transmits a Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) and a control unit that switches a carrier so as to transmit the SRS. The control unit determines a period during which no signal transmission is performed in radio frames used in a serving cell, based on a subcarrier spacing of a cell corresponding to a switching destination carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Takuma Takada, Naoki Fujimura
  • Publication number: 20220322122
    Abstract: A terminal includes a reception unit that receives, from a base station, a configuration related to at least one of measurement and reporting, a control unit that performs the measurement based on the configuration related to the at least one of the measurement and the reporting, and a transmission unit that transmits a measurement report to the base station based on the result of the performed measurement. The control unit limits a period related to the measurement or changes the number of times an operation related to the measurement is performed based on whether the terminal is in a specific environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Naoki Fujimura, Takuma Takada
  • Publication number: 20220303811
    Abstract: A user equipment includes a transmitting unit that transmits a measurement result of a secondary cell; a receiving unit that receives a signal to activate the secondary cell; and a control unit that uses previously obtained information of the secondary cell to activate the secondary cell when a predetermined condition associated with a power class of the user equipment is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuichi Kakishima, Takuma Takada, Naoki Fujimura, Hiroki Harada