Patents by Inventor Tomohumi Takata

Tomohumi Takata 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: 11050534
    Abstract: A terminal includes: a circuit that, on the basis of a parameter of a first frequency resource assigned a reference signal (SRS) and a parameter of a second frequency resource, adjacent to the first frequency resource, that uses a subcarrier spacing (SCS) which is different from that used by the first frequency resource, punctures the reference signal at a boundary between the first frequency resource and the second frequency resource; and a radio transmitter that transmits the reference signal thus punctured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Tomohumi Takata, Takashi Iwai, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Ayako Horiuchi
  • Patent number: 11044711
    Abstract: In a base station, a transmission unit transmits a downlink control signal and downlink data assigned by the downlink control signal in a time unit including a downlink time resource for the downlink control signal, a downlink time resource for the downlink data, and an uplink time resource for a response signal for the downlink data. A reception unit receives the response signal in the time unit. A transmission bandwidth of the response signal is equal to or lower than a transmission bandwidth of the downlink data corresponding to the response signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Takashi Iwai, Ayako Horiuchi, Tetsuya Yamamoto, Tomohumi Takata
  • Patent number: 11026222
    Abstract: Provided are a user equipment, base station and wireless communication methods related to uplink control information mapping in physical uplink resources in NR (New Radio access technology). A user equipment comprises: circuitry operative to map, in physical resource blocks (PRBs) for Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH), Uplink Control Information (UCI) to one or more available resource elements according to their distances with resource elements where reference signals are mapped in one or more of time domain, frequency domain and spatial domain; and a transmitter operative to transmit the UCI and the reference signals in PUSCH on the PRBs to a base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Lilei Wang, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Tomohumi Takata, Shotaro Maki
  • Patent number: 11026185
    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: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomohumi Takata, Yoshio Urabe, Takashi Iwai
  • Patent number: 11012208
    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: June 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Tomohumi Takata, Takashi Iwai, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Ayako Horiuchi, Joachim Loehr, Tetsuya Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20210135819
    Abstract: In the multiple short sequence based SRS, multiple items of sequence data having a short sequence length corresponding to a partial band are used for transmitting SRS in discontinuous bands. In the multiple short sequence based SRS, a terminal specifies a frequency domain to be used for transmitting a reference signal using predetermined sequence data, applies a phase shift index associated with the specified frequency domain to the reference signal, and transmits the reference signal to which the phase shift index is applied by using the specified frequency domain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventors: Takashi Iwai, Tomohumi Takata, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Ayako Horiuchi
  • Publication number: 20210111850
    Abstract: Disclosed are a wireless transmitter and a reference signal transmission method that improve channel estimation accuracy. In a terminal, which transmits a reference signal using n (n is a non-negative integer 2 or greater) band blocks (which correspond to clusters here), which are disposed with spaces therebetween in a frequency direction, a reference signal controller switches the reference signal formation method of a reference signal generator between a first formation method and a second formation method based on the number (n) of band blocks. In addition, a threshold value setting unit adjusts a switching threshold value based on the frequency spacing between band blocks. Thus, the reference signal formation method can be selected with good accuracy and, as a result, channel estimation accuracy is further improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: Takashi Iwai, Sadaki Futagi, Tomohumi Takata, Daichi Imamura, Yoshihiko Ogawa
  • Patent number: 10965422
    Abstract: In a terminal, an SRS drop control unit drops a portion of partial bands from among a plurality of partial bands in a case where transmission power for reference signals generated using a plurality of sequences having a sequence length that corresponds to a partial band exceeds a threshold value. Furthermore, a radio transmission unit transmits the reference signals by means of the remaining partial bands other than the portion of partial bands that are dropped from among the plurality of partial bands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Takashi Iwai, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Tomohumi Takata, Ayako Horiuchi
  • Patent number: 10924239
    Abstract: In the multiple short sequence based SRS, multiple items of sequence data having a short sequence length corresponding to a partial band are used for transmitting SRS in discontinuous bands. In the multiple short sequence based SRS, a terminal specifies a frequency domain to be used for transmitting a reference signal using predetermined sequence data, applies a phase shift index associated with the specified frequency domain to the reference signal, and transmits the reference signal to which the phase shift index is applied by using the specified frequency domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Takashi Iwai, Tomohumi Takata, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Ayako Horiuchi
  • Patent number: 10911198
    Abstract: Disclosed are a wireless transmitter and a reference signal transmission method that improve channel estimation accuracy. In a terminal, which transmits a reference signal using n (n is a non-negative integer 2 or greater) band blocks (which correspond to clusters here), which are disposed with spaces therebetween in a frequency direction, a reference signal controller switches the reference signal formation method of a reference signal generator between a first formation method and a second formation method based on the number (n) of band blocks. In addition, a threshold value setting unit adjusts a switching threshold value based on the frequency spacing between band blocks. Thus, the reference signal formation method can be selected with good accuracy and, as a result, channel estimation accuracy is further improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Takashi Iwai, Sadaki Futagi, Tomohumi Takata, Daichi Imamura, Yoshihiko Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20200329459
    Abstract: In a base station, a transmission unit transmits a downlink control signal and downlink data assigned by the downlink control signal in a time unit including a downlink time resource for the downlink control signal, a downlink time resource for the downlink data, and an uplink time resource for a response signal for the downlink data. A reception unit receives the response signal in the time unit. A transmission bandwidth of the response signal is equal to or lower than a transmission bandwidth of the downlink data corresponding to the response signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Inventors: TAKASHI IWAI, AYAKO HORIUCHI, TETSUYA YAMAMOTO, TOMOHUMI TAKATA
  • Publication number: 20200280925
    Abstract: In a terminal, a transmission power control unit controls the transmission power of an uplink channel (the PUSCH) by using transmission power control information (a TPC command) indicating one from among a plurality of candidate values. A wireless transmission unit transmits the uplink channel with the above transmission power. Instruction information for resetting a control value (closed loop correction value) to be used in a closed loop control of the transmission power is associated with at least one value among the above plurality of candidate values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Inventors: TAKASHI IWAI, TOMOHUMI TAKATA, SHOTARO MAKI
  • Publication number: 20200229001
    Abstract: In a terminal, a transmission power calculation unit calculates a transmission power of an uplink signal by using transmission power control information indicating one value from among a plurality of candidate values respectively associated with correction values that correct a control value to use in a closed loop control of the transmission power. A wireless transmission unit transmits the uplink signal with the above transmission power. A first correction value and a second correction value having a larger step size than the first correction value are associated with each of the plurality of candidate values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Inventors: TOMOHUMI TAKATA, TAKASHI IWAI, SHOTARO MAKI, YIHUI LI
  • Patent number: 10708954
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes signal generation circuitry which, in operation, generates a control signal including a plurality of user specific fields, each of the plurality of user specific fields including an Association ID (AID) subfield for specifying a corresponding terminal station, and transmission circuitry which, in operation, transmits the control signal, wherein one of a plurality of AIDs for scheduled access or one of a plurality of random access IDs for random access is assigned to the AID subfield in each of the plurality of user specific fields, and each value of the plurality of random access IDs indicates a type of a terminal station which can perform random access to the at least one resource unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Iwai, Tomohumi Takata, Yoshio Urabe
  • Publication number: 20200214048
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes signal generation circuitry which, in operation, generates a control signal including a plurality of user specific fields, each of the plurality of user specific fields including an Association ID (AID) subfield for specifying a corresponding terminal station, and transmission circuitry which, in operation, transmits the control signal, wherein one of a plurality of AIDs for scheduled access or one of a plurality of random access IDs for random access is assigned to the AID subfield in each of the plurality of user specific fields, and each value of the plurality of random access IDs indicates a type of a terminal station which can perform random access to the at least one resource unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: TAKASHI IWAI, TOMOHUMI TAKATA, YOSHIO URABE
  • Publication number: 20200178222
    Abstract: Provided are a user equipment, base station and wireless communication methods related to uplink control information mapping in physical uplink resources in NR (New Radio access technology). A user equipment comprises: circuitry operative to map, in physical resource blocks (PRBs) for Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH), Uplink Control Information (UCI) to one or more available resource elements according to their distances with resource elements where reference signals are mapped in one or more of time domain, frequency domain and spatial domain; and a transmitter operative to transmit the UCI and the reference signals in PUSCH on the PRBs to a base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2017
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: LILEI WANG, HIDETOSHI SUZUKI, TOMOHUMI TAKATA, SHOTARO MAKI
  • Publication number: 20200163027
    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: January 8, 2020
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: TOMOHUMI TAKATA, YOSHIO URABE, TAKASHI IWAI
  • Publication number: 20200146052
    Abstract: In an AP (100), a Trigger frame generator (104) generates a trigger signal instructing an uplink signal transmission, the trigger signal including a terminal information field that includes a terminal ID subfield and a resource unit allocation information subfield, and a radio transmitter/receiver (106) transmits the trigger signal. In a case where the trigger signal includes a first terminal information field specifying one or more contiguous resource units for random access, the Trigger frame generator (104) sets an unused ID that is not to be used as a terminal ID in the first terminal information field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventors: TAKASHI IWAI, YOSHIO URABE, TOMOHUMI TAKATA
  • Publication number: 20200127756
    Abstract: A signal generator 10 generates an OOK (on-off keying) modulation signal by mapping a CAZAC (constant amplitude zero auto-correlation) sequence to N subcarriers (N being an integer that is greater than or equal to 2) arranged at a determined interval among M subcarriers (M being an integer that is greater than or equal to 3) that are adjacent in the frequency domain, carrying out inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) processing on the mapped CAZAC sequence, and carrying out Manchester coding on a time domain signal generated by the IFFT processing. A radio transmitter 107 transmits the OOK modulation signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: TAKASHI IWAI, YOSHIO URABE, TAKAYUKI NAKANO, TOMOHUMI TAKATA
  • Publication number: 20200083997
    Abstract: A terminal includes: a circuit that, on the basis of a parameter of a first frequency resource assigned a reference signal (SRS) and a parameter of a second frequency resource, adjacent to the first frequency resource, that uses a subcarrier spacing (SCS) which is different from that used by the first frequency resource, punctures the reference signal at a boundary between the first frequency resource and the second frequency resource; and a radio transmitter that transmits the reference signal thus punctured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Inventors: TOMOHUMI TAKATA, TAKASHI IWAI, HIDETOSHI SUZUKI, AYAKO HORIUCHI