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).
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Patent number: 8446556Abstract: Provided are a flexible printed circuit that reduces the chance of the occurrence of short-circuit failures caused by swarf generated from punching out flexible printed circuit, and an electric circuit structure having this flexible printed circuit and an electric circuit substrate to which the flexible printed circuit is connected. A flexible printed circuit (100) has a wiring pattern (2) formed on the flexible base film (1). The flexible printed circuit (100) is individually punched out to be separated in a condition where the wiring pattern (2) is disposed on the base film (1), and the wiring pattern (2) has a narrowed portion (2c) near the edge of the base film (1).Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2009Date of Patent: May 21, 2013Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Teruo Kawamura, Toshio Etoh
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Publication number: 20130114501Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2011Publication date: May 9, 2013Applicant: NTT DOCCOMO, INC.Inventors: Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Teruo Kawamura, Kazuaki Takeda
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Patent number: 8437294Abstract: A mobile station includes a channel quality estimation unit configured to estimate downlink channel quality based on a reference signal from a base station and to output the estimated downlink channel quality as channel estimation information; an acknowledgement information determining unit configured to determine whether a downlink data channel from the base station is correctly received and to output the determination result as acknowledgement information; and an acknowledgement information prioritizing unit configured to cause the acknowledgement information to be preferentially transmitted to the base station if transmission timings of the channel estimation information and the acknowledgement information coincide.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2008Date of Patent: May 7, 2013Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.Inventors: Teruo Kawamura, Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Kenichi Higuchi, Mamoru Sawahashi
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Patent number: 8433328Abstract: A base station apparatus is disclosed which communicates with a user apparatus which transmits an uplink signal using a single-carrier scheme. The base station includes a sequence-identifier determining unit which performs scheduling to allocate a frequency based on an uplink channel reception state of the user apparatus, and which determines a second sequence identifier for use by the user apparatus based on a first sequence identifier in a length of a reference signal sequence for transmitting in a maximum bandwidth in which the user apparatus can transmit, and a frequency bandwidth allocated to the user apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2008Date of Patent: April 30, 2013Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.Inventors: Teruo Kawamura, Kenichi Higuchi, Mamoru Sawahashi
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Publication number: 20130070703Abstract: The present invention aims to realize an uplink assignment information structure that is optimal for signaling of uplink assignment information when a plurality of frequency bands are assigned to an uplink data channel. In a radio communication system where a plurality of frequency bands are assigned to one user on the uplink, uplink assignment information including uplink resource allocation information in which resources are allocated in a bitmap format is defined, this uplink assignment information is formed in the same bit size as downlink assignment information (for example, DCI format 1), in which downlink resource allocation information in which resources are allocated on a bitmap basis is included, and the interpretation of part of the bits of the downlink assignment information (DCI format 1) is changed, so that it is possible to identify the uplink assignment information of the same bit size.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2011Publication date: March 21, 2013Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Shimpei Yasukawa, Teruo Kawamura, Kazuaki Takeda, Nobuhiko Miki
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Publication number: 20130058293Abstract: The present invention provides a radio base station apparatus and a transmission power control method that do not deteriorate the uplink reception quality of cell-edge users when uplink MU-MIMO transmission is applied. The transmission power control method of the present invention includes the steps of: in a radio base station apparatus that performs space division multiplexing between users by uplink MU-MIMO transmission: controlling transmission power according to a number of MU-MIMO multiplexed users; and transmitting transmission power information to match the number of MU-MIMO multiplexed users; and in a mobile terminal apparatus: setting transmission power using the transmission power information; and transmitting an uplink signal by the transmission power.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2011Publication date: March 7, 2013Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Daisuke Nishikawa, Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Teruo Kawamura
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Base station apparatus, mobile station, radio communication system, and communication control method
Patent number: 8385277Abstract: In a radio communication system including a mobile station and a base station apparatus for communicating with the mobile station according to a SC-FDMA scheme in uplink, the mobile station includes a transmitting unit configured to transmit at least one of a first signal and a second signal; and a Sounding RS transmitting unit configured to determine a transmission band for a Sounding Reference Signal (Sounding RS) based on mapping information of at least one of the first signal and the second signal.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2008Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.Inventors: Daisuke Nishikawa, Hiroyuki Ishii, Teruo Kawamura, Kenichi Higuchi -
Publication number: 20130039305Abstract: To efficiently use radio resources used in transmission of SRS, a base station apparatus (eNode B) transmits a scheduling grant including an instruction for transmission of a Sounding Reference Signal (SRS), and a mobile station apparatus (UE) transmits the SRS in response to the scheduling grant. The SRS is transmitted in the same subframe, another subframe or a previous subframe by the predetermined number of subframes as, immediately before, or before a subframe of a PUSCH (Physical Uplink Shared Channel) that the scheduling grant instructs to transmit.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2011Publication date: February 14, 2013Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Teruo Kawamura, Daisuke Nishikawa
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Publication number: 20130034056Abstract: The present invention is provided to, when there is a PUSCH signal to transmit in the same subframe as a UCI signal, make the method of transmitting uplink control information in the LTE system adaptable to a broader system band and increase in transmission layers only by minor changes. A UCI signal is generated to a base station apparatus (20) of a mobile communication system having a system band composed of plural component carriers. The UCI signal is multiplexed to a PUSCH signal in each of component carriers where the PUSCH signal is transmitted in the same subframe as the UCI signal. The PUSCH signal to which the UCI signal is multiplexed is transmitted to the base station apparatus (20).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2011Publication date: February 7, 2013Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Teruo Kawamura, Daisuke Nishikawa
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Publication number: 20130034066Abstract: To provide a radio base station apparatus, mobile terminal device and wireless communication method for enabling the SRS to be used efficiently in an LTE-A system, a wireless communication method of the invention is characterized in that a radio base station apparatus performs OFDM modulation on a transmission signal including transmission information on sounding reference signals for each transmission antenna, and transmits the OFDM-modulated transmission signal, and that a mobile terminal device receives the signal including the transmission information, controls a transmission aspect of the sounding reference signals for each transmission antenna based on the transmission information, and transmits the sounding reference signals in the transmission aspect for each transmission antenna.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2011Publication date: February 7, 2013Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Yuichi Kakishima, Hidekazu Taoka, Teruo Kawamura, Yoshihisa Kishiyama
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Publication number: 20130033979Abstract: Provided are a mobile terminal apparatus, a radio base station apparatus and a radiocommunication method, capable of saving PHICH resources enough and realizing effective retransmission control of uplink SU-MIMO. The radio communication method of the present invention is characterized in that a radio base station apparatus receives signals of plural codewords, when there is an error in each of the codewords, generates a one-bit negative response physical HARQ indicator channel signal and transmits the physical HARQ indicator channel signal, and a mobile terminal apparatus receives the physical HARQ indicator channel signal and transmits retransmission signals of all the codewords to the radio base station apparatus based on the negative response physical HARQ indicator channel signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2011Publication date: February 7, 2013Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Hidekazu Taoka, Nobuhiko Miki, Teruo Kawamura, Yuichi Kakishima
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Patent number: 8369380Abstract: A transmitter includes: spread code multiplying means that multiplies a symbol indicating a reference signal by spread code to generate a chip sequence after spreading; chip pattern generation means that generates a chip pattern by performing chip repetition a predetermined repetition number of times on the chip sequence after spreading; and multiplying means that multiplies a signal having the chip pattern by a phase specific to the transmitter.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2006Date of Patent: February 5, 2013Assignee: NTT Docomo, Inc.Inventors: Hiroyuki Atarashi, Teruo Kawamura, Yoshikazu Goto, Mamoru Sawahashi
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Publication number: 20130028209Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2011Publication date: January 31, 2013Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Teruo Kawamura, Daisuke Nishikawa
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Patent number: 8331301Abstract: The disclosed mobile station includes: a CAZAC code generation unit configured to generate CAZAC code according to a CAZAC sequence number reported from the base station; a cyclic shift unit configured to cyclically shift each symbol of the CAZAC code based on a cyclic shift number reported from the base station, and a block spreading unit that operates with the cyclic shift unit or operates instead of the cyclic shift unit, and that performs block spreading processing for the CAZAC code according to a block spreading number reported from the base station.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2008Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.Inventors: Teruo Kawamura, Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Kenichi Higuchi, Mamoru Sawahashi
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Patent number: 8325593Abstract: A user device transmitting at least an uplink control channel using a single carrier scheme includes a channel quality indicator generating unit configured to generate a channel quality indicator indicating a downlink radio propagation condition; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the uplink control channel including the channel quality indicator using a dedicated frequency band when no radio resource is allocated for transmission of an uplink data channel. The transmitting unit is configured to transmit a predetermined number of unit blocks in each slot period. If a system bandwidth is greater than a predetermined value, a set of factors used to multiply some of the unit blocks belonging to the same slot and containing the same information represents an orthogonal sequence; and a predetermined number of symbol elements constituting each of the some of the unit blocks represent at least a part of the channel quality indicator.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2008Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.Inventors: Teruo Kawamura, Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Kenichi Higuchi, Mamoru Sawahashi
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Publication number: 20120269084Abstract: A reception quality in a radio base station eNB is estimated with a high accuracy by using a reference signal. The radio base station eNB according to the present invention includes signal power estimation units 11B, 12B, and 13B configured to calculate a correlation value Z(a) between a predetermined number N of continuous samples “a” to “a+N?1” in sequences constituting a transmitted signal XL(n) of a predetermined signal transmitted by a mobile station UE#L and a predetermined number N of continuous samples “a” to “a+N?1” in sequences constituting a received signal r(n) of the predetermined signal in the radio base station eNB, and calculate received power Spower of the predetermined signal using the correlation value Z(a).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2010Publication date: October 25, 2012Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Naoto Okubo, Kohei Kiyoshima, Hiroyuki Ishii, Teruo Kawamura
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Publication number: 20120243402Abstract: To provide a mobile terminal apparatus, radio base station apparatus and radio communication method for enabling data signals and control information for a plurality of component carriers to be transmitted efficiently, a radio communication method of the invention is characterized in that a mobile terminal apparatus maps a retransmission response signal and another signal to different resources in a first mode for transmitting a retransmission response signal for each downlink CC of a plurality of downlink CCs, while mapping the retransmission response signal and another signal to the same resources in a second mode for transmitting a single retransmission response signal for a plurality of downlink CCs, and that the radio base station apparatus receives the uplink signal, preforms resource-demapping on each of the retransmission response signal and another signal mapped to different resources in the first mode, while performing resource-demapping on the retransmission response signal and another signal mappeType: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2010Publication date: September 27, 2012Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Teruo Kawamura, Motohiro Tanno
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Publication number: 20120163318Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2010Publication date: June 28, 2012Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Teruo Kawamura, Motohiro Tanno
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Publication number: 20120155412Abstract: To provide a mobile terminal apparatus, radio base station apparatus and radio communication method capable of supporting user multiplexing methods for enabling more users to be efficiently multiplexed on an uplink shared channel, the mobile terminal apparatus performs spreading processing for multiplying a data signal by a code varying for each user, and transmits the spreading-processed data signal to the radio base station apparatus on the uplink shared channel, and the radio base station apparatus receives the data signal, and user-separates a reception signal in which is mixed a plurality of users multiplied by spreading codes varying for each user into desired user signals to be data signals for each user.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2010Publication date: June 21, 2012Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Teruo Kawamura, Mamoru Sawahashi
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Publication number: 20120140725Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2010Publication date: June 7, 2012Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Teruo Kawamura, Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Mamoru Sawahashi