Patents by Inventor Teruo Kawamura

Teruo Kawamura 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: 20190279545
    Abstract: A system of inspecting a display panel includes an inspection apparatus configured to determine whether the display panel has a lighting defect. If determining that the display panel has a lighting defect, the inspection apparatus is configured to make a cleaner to clean a portion of the display panel having the lighting defect. The inspection apparatus is configured to determine presence or absence of the lighting defect again at least on the portion of the display panel having the lighting defect after the cleaning. The inspection apparatus determines that the display panel has no defect if detecting no lighting defect after the cleaning or if determining that pre-cleaning lighting defect information and post-cleaning lighting defect information does not match, and the inspection apparatus determines that the display panel has a defect if determining that the pre-cleaning lighting defect information and the post-cleaning lighting defect information match.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: HIDEKI SHINOBU, NOBUYUKI KAWASE, TERUO KAWAMURA
  • Patent number: 10177887
    Abstract: A radio base station that communicates with a user terminal, and has a control section that executes control so that signals are time-division-multiplexed over a first radio resource region where symbols are multiplexed at a rate equal to or below a Nyquist rate and a second radio resource region where symbols are multiplexed at a faster rate than the Nyquist rate. The radio base station also includes a transmission section that transmits the signals that are time-division-multiplexed in the first radio resource region and the second radio resource region, to the user terminal to reduce the interference against predetermined signals in a radio communication system in which Faster-Than-Nyquist (FTN) is used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Mamoru Sawahashi, Teruo Kawamura, Yoshihisa Kishiyama
  • Patent number: 10033441
    Abstract: To provide a radio communication method for enabling a control signal to be received with high quality and high efficiency, in the case of using spatial multiplexing transmission in data signals to transmit, and also transmitting the control signal in the same sub-frame, in the radio communication method of the invention, a mobile terminal apparatus receives a downlink signal including precoding information, separates a data signal and a control signal to assign to different radio resources, and performs MIMO-transmission on a signal of each transmission layer based on the precoding information, and a radio base station apparatus receives an uplink signal including the data signal and the control signal subjected to MIMO transmission, divides the uplink signal into data signals for each transmission layer, and reproduces the control signal from the uplink signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Teruo Kawamura, Nobuhiko Miki, Yoshihisa Kishiyama
  • Publication number: 20170078061
    Abstract: A radio base station that communicates with a user terminal, and has a control section that executes control so that signals are time-division-multiplexed over a first radio resource region where symbols are multiplexed at a rate equal to or below a Nyquist rate and a second radio resource region where symbols are multiplexed at a faster rate than the Nyquist rate. The radio base station also includes a transmission section that transmits the signals that are time-division-multiplexed in the first radio resource region and the second radio resource region, to the user terminal to reduce the interference against predetermined signals in a radio communication system in which Faster-Than-Nyquist (FTN) is used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Mamoru SAWAHASHI, Teruo KAWAMURA, Yoshihisa KISHIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20170070377
    Abstract: A user terminal with a transmission processing section that generates an SC-FDMA (Single Carrier Frequency Division Multiple Access) signal by blocking symbols that are arranged in a given time region at a symbol rate equal to or lower than a Nyquist rate. The transmission processing section converts the blocks into symbols that are multiplexed in a high density, in block units, in the time domain, by allowing an overlap between the symbols in the blocks. The user terminal also includes a transmission section that transmits the SC-FDMA signal to a radio base station to improve uplink throughput.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Mamoru Sawahashi, Teruo Kawamura, Yoshihisa Kishiyama
  • Publication number: 20170012687
    Abstract: A radio base station with a transmission processing section that converts a symbol allocated at a higher symbol rate than a Nyquist rate in a given time domain and/or frequency domain into a symbol allocated at a symbol rate of the Nyquist rate or less in the given time domain and/or frequency domain to generate an OFDMA (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access) signal for each of a plurality of antennas. The radio base station also includes a transmission section that transmits the 01-DMA signal of each of the plurality of antennas to a user terminal, where the transmission processing section applies transmit diversity with the plurality of antennas to the symbol allocated at the higher symbol rate to improve throughput in a radio communication system using transmit diversity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Mamoru Sawahashi, Teruo Kawamura, Yoshihisa Kishiyama
  • Publication number: 20160381583
    Abstract: The present invention is designed to reduce the overhead of reference signals for measuring CSI in high-order MIMO multiplexing technique. A radio base station is used in a radio communications system of a frequency division duplexing (FDD) scheme, and has a receiving section that receives reference signals for measuring time division duplex (TDD) channel state information, transmitted from a plurality of antennas provided in a user terminal, a measurement section that measures the channel state information, in a plurality of receiving antennas, by using the reference signals, a generation/selection section that generates an optimal precoding vector from the channel state information measured in each receiving antenna, or selects the optimal precoding vector from a set of precoding vectors that is defined in advance, and a transmission section that transmits a physical downlink shared channel, in MIMO multiplexing transmission, by using the precoding vector selected in the generation/selection section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Mamoru Sawahashi, Teruo Kawamura, Yoshihisa Kishiyama
  • Patent number: 9137789
    Abstract: To suppress and minimize changes from the method of transmitting an uplink control information in the LTE system, while supporting increases in the system band and increases in the transmission layer when there is a PUSCH signal transmitted in the same subframe, provided is a configuration for generating a UCI signal for a base station apparatus (20) in a mobile communication system having a system band comprised of a plurality of component carriers, multiplexing the UCI signal into a PUSCH signal transmitted in the same subframe as the UCI signal in a user specific component carrier used in transmission of a PUCCH signal, and transmitting the PUSCH signal into which the UCI signal is multiplexed to the base station apparatus (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Teruo Kawamura, Daisuke Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 9136996
    Abstract: A user device for a mobile communication system employing a multicarrier scheme is disclosed. The user device includes a control signal generating unit for generating a control signal. The user device also includes a transmitting unit for transmitting the control signal to a base station. The control signal sent by the user device is mapped to multiple frequency bands throughout a time period of a subframe but separated from each other in a frequency domain. Each of the frequency bands includes subcarriers used in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Teruo Kawamura, Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Nobuhiko Miki, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Patent number: 9130699
    Abstract: A transmitting device for a mobile communication system employing a multicarrier scheme includes a mapping unit configured to map control information to subcarriers in a subframe; an inverse Fourier transform unit configured to inverse-Fourier-transform a signal of the mapped control information; and a transmitting unit configured to wirelessly transmit a transmission signal including the inverse-Fourier-transformed signal to a receiving device. The control information is mapped to control frequency bands that are discontinuous in the frequency domain and are provided across the subframe separately from frequency bands for a shared data channel. The mapping is performed such that the control information for the receiving device mapped to one of the control frequency bands is transmitted at the same time as the control information or the shared data channel for the receiving device mapped to a different frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Teruo Kawamura, Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Publication number: 20150181591
    Abstract: To suppress and minimize changes from the method of transmitting an uplink control information in the LTE system, while supporting increases in the system band and increases in the transmission layer when there is a PUSCH signal transmitted in the same subframe, provided is a configuration for generating a UCI signal for a base station apparatus (20) in a mobile communication system having a system band comprised of a plurality of component carriers, multiplexing the UCI signal into a PUSCH signal transmitted in the same subframe as the UCI signal in a user specific component carrier used in transmission of a PUCCH signal, and transmitting the PUSCH signal into which the UCI signal is multiplexed to the base station apparatus (20).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Teruo Kawamura, Daisuke Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 9048912
    Abstract: Provided are a mobile terminal apparatus, a radio base station apparatus and a communication method, capable of orthogonalizing uplink reference signals between plural antennas in MIMO transmission. The mobile terminal apparatus has a reference signal generator (11) for generating DM-RSs using ZC sequences and a cyclic shift section (13) for cyclically shifting the DM-RSs by unit of plural antenna ports (19) to orthogonalize the DM-RSs for the antenna ports (19) between the antenna ports (19), and the cyclically shifted DM-RSs are transmitted via the respective antenna ports (19) to a radio base station apparatus eNB in an uplink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Teruo Kawamura, Motohiro Tanno
  • Patent number: 9042299
    Abstract: A mobile terminal apparatus and a radio communication method are provided which can efficiently transmit feedback control information through a physical uplink control channel. The radio communication method according to the present invention uses a plurality of ACK/NACK control bits as data signals, adds cyclic shifts to a plurality of reference signal blocks of a plurality of time blocks in a physical uplink control channel format comprised of a plurality of time blocks, multiplies the plurality of reference signal blocks by orthogonal codes and transmits a control channel signal including reference signals by which orthogonal codes are multiplied to a radio base station apparatus through a physical uplink control channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Teruo Kawamura, Kazuaki Takeda
  • Patent number: 9025561
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a transmitter, a receiver and a radio communication method capable of preventing any increase in overhead due to insertion of reference signals without deteriorating the channel estimation accuracy. The radio communication method is provided for mapping reference signals to radio resources of a plurality of layers and transmitting the reference signals, having the steps of: generating the reference signals; oversampling the reference signals; and mapping the oversampled reference signals to resource elements of the layers respectively. Reference signals to be mapped to different layers are subjected to frequency division multiplexing in resource elements of same time and frequency domains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventor: Teruo Kawamura
  • Patent number: 9008019
    Abstract: To suppress and minimize changes from the method of transmitting an uplink control information in the LTE system, while supporting increases in the system band and increases in the transmission layer when there is a PUSCH signal transmitted in the same subframe, provided is a configuration for generating a UCI signal for a base station apparatus (20) in a mobile communication system having a system band comprised of a plurality of component carriers, multiplexing the UCI signal into a PUSCH signal transmitted in the same subframe as the UCI signal in a user specific component carrier used in transmission of a PUCCH signal, and transmitting the PUSCH signal into which the UCI signal is multiplexed to the base station apparatus (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Teruo Kawamura, Daisuke Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 9001638
    Abstract: To enable an uplink control signal subjected to user multiplexing by an orthogonally multiplexing method using the cyclic shift to be user-demultiplexed, and further enable channel estimation accuracy to be improved, a radio communication method of the invention is characterized in that a mobile terminal apparatus provides a plurality of subcarriers with phase rotation amounts set to minimize the number of unit subcarriers for coherent averaging in association with the number of multiplexed users, and transmits an uplink control signal using the plurality of subcarriers provided with the phase rotation amounts, and that a radio base station apparatus receives the uplink control signal, performs coherent averaging on reference signal using the different number of unit subcarriers corresponding to the number of multiplexed users to demultiplex into a reference signal for each of the users, and estimates a channel variation using the demultiplexed reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Teruo Kawamura, Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Patent number: 8873501
    Abstract: A base station used in a mobile communication system employing a single carrier scheme for uplink transmission is disclosed. The base station includes a scheduler configured to allocate one or more uplink resource blocks to a user device according to uplink channel conditions of the user device; and a reporting unit configured to report scheduling information indicating the allocation result to the user device. An uplink control channel of the user device is mapped to a resource block in a transmission frame including multiple resource blocks according to a hopping pattern based on the scheduling information; and the uplink control channel is mapped to a resource block according to the same hopping pattern regardless of whether the uplink control channel is associated with a user data channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Teruo Kawamura, Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Kenichi Higuchi, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Patent number: 8873499
    Abstract: A user apparatus generates an uplink control channel including at least one of acknowledgement information and channel condition information on an downlink, and transmits the uplink control channel in a predefined dedicated band if no resource is assigned to transmit an uplink data channel. The uplink control channel includes multiple unit block sequences resulting from multiplication of the same factor with all chips of a CAZAC code sequence for the user apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Teruo Kawamura, Kenichi Higuchi, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Patent number: 8868122
    Abstract: A user apparatus to which radio access schemes that are a single-carrier scheme and a multicarrier scheme are applied, includes: a radio access scheme setting unit configured to set a radio access scheme; a discrete Fourier transform unit configured to perform discrete Fourier transform on a modulated symbol sequence when the set radio access scheme is the single-carrier scheme; a serial parallel conversion unit configured to perform serial parallel conversion on a modulated symbol sequence when the set radio access scheme is the multicarrier scheme; a frequency domain signal generation unit configured to assign a radio resource to the modulated symbol sequence on which discrete Fourier transform has been performed or to the modulated symbol sequence on which serial parallel conversion has been performed to generate a frequency domain signal; a transmission signal generation unit configured to perform inverse fast Fourier transform on the frequency domain signal to generate a transmission signal; a transmissi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Hidekazu Taoka, Teruo Kawamura, Nobuhiko Miki, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Patent number: 8817753
    Abstract: To provide a mobile terminal apparatus and radio communication method for enabling feedback control information to be efficiently transmitted on uplink channels, a radio communication method of the invention is characterized by having in a mobile terminal apparatus the steps of receiving a signal for each of a plurality of component carriers from a radio base station apparatus, generating feedback control information for each component carrier from the signal, mapping the feedback control information for each component carrier to suitable radio resources based on the number of component carriers, the presence or absence of uplink transmission data, and the number of bits of control information to transmit as feedback, and transmitting an uplink transmission signal mapped to the radio resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Teruo Kawamura, Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Mamoru Sawahashi