Patents by Inventor Tomoki Yoshimura

Tomoki Yoshimura 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).

  • TERMINAL APPARATUS, BASE STATION APPARATUS, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD
    Publication number: 20220078769
    Abstract: It is possible to efficiently perform uplink transmission. A terminal apparatus includes: a receiver configured to receive a PDCCH, and receive a PDSCH scheduled based at least on a DCI format included in the PDCCH; and a transmitter configured to report (transmit) HARQ-ACK information corresponding to the PDSCH. A slot for transmitting the HARQ-ACK information is indicated based at least on a combination of a value indicated by a PDSCH-to-HARQ feedback timing indicator field included in the DCI format and a prescribed element. The prescribed element at least includes some or all of an element 1, an element 2, an element 3, an element 4, an element 5, an element 6, an element 7, and an element 8.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Huifa LIN, Shoichi SUZUKI, Daiichiro NAKASHIMA, Toshizo NOGAMI, Wataru OUCHI, Tomoki YOSHIMURA, Taewoo LEE
  • Terminal apparatus, base station apparatus, and communication method
    Patent number: 11265138
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus capable of efficiently performing the uplink and/or downlink communication is provided. The terminal apparatus receives higher layer signaling used for configuration of multiple scheduling request configurations, and transmits HARQ-ACK bits and scheduling request bits by using a HARQ-ACK PUCCH resource. Each of the multiple scheduling request configurations corresponds to one or more logical channels. Each of the multiple scheduling request configurations includes an SR PUCCH resource. The scheduling request bits are added to a sequence of the HARQ-ACK bits. In a case that the HARQ-ACK PUCCH resource and SR PUCCH resource overlap with each other in a time domain, a size of the scheduling request bits is given based on a number of scheduling request configurations with the overlapping SR PUCCH resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Liqing Liu, Shouichi Suzuki, Wataru Ohuchi, Tomoki Yoshimura, Taewoo Lee
  • Terminal apparatus, base station apparatus, and communication method
    Patent number: 11265133
    Abstract: Provided is a terminal apparatus capable of efficiently performing uplink and/or downlink communication. A coding unit (1071) configured to divide a transport block into multiple CBs and code each of the multiple CBs, a transmitter (107) configured to transmit the transport block by using a PUSCH, and a receiver (105) configured to receive a first HARQ-ACK are included, wherein each of the multiple CBs is included in any one of multiple CBGs, the first HARQ-ACK includes a second HARQ-ACK for each of the multiple CBGs or a third HARQ-ACK for the transport block, in a case that a signal waveform applied to the PUSCH is OFDM, whether the first HARQ-ACK includes the second HARQ-ACK or the third HARQ-ACK is given based on higher layer signaling, and in a case that a signal waveform applied to the PUSCH is DFT-s-OFDM, the first HARQ-ACK includes the third HARQ-ACK.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Tomoki Yoshimura, Shouichi Suzuki, Wataru Ohuchi, Liqing Liu
  • Terminal apparatus, base station apparatus, and communication method using modulation and coding scheme table
    Patent number: 11259319
    Abstract: Transform precoding is applied to the complex value modulation symbol in a case that transform precoding is enabled for PUSCH, the prescribed modulation scheme is provided based at least on a first MCS table and an MCS field value included in the DCI format in a case that the DCI format includes a CRC scrambled by a TC-RNTI and the transform precoding is enabled for the PUSCH, and the prescribed modulation scheme is provided based on at least a second MCS table and/or the MCS field value in a case that the DCI format is a first uplink DCI format with the CRC scrambled by a C-RNTI, the transform precoding is enabled for the PUSCH, and a higher layer parameter MCS-Table-PUSCH-tp is set to a first value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Tomoki Yoshimura, Shoichi Suzuki, Wataru Ouchi, Liqing Liu, Taewoo Lee
  • TERMINAL DEVICE, BASE-STATION DEVICE, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD
    Publication number: 20220053525
    Abstract: Uplink transmission can be performed efficiently. A transmission unit that transmits performance information and/or a PUSCH of a terminal device is provided. CSI-Part2 that is multiplexed in the PUSCH is dropped until a code rate of the CSI-Part2 becomes equal to or less than a target code rate of the CSI-Part2, and the code rate of the CSI-Part2 is determined based on a calculation performance of decimal places supported in the performance information of the terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: TAEWOO LEE, SHOICHI SUZUKI, WATARU OUCHI, TOMOKI YOSHIMURA, TOSHIZO NOGAMI, HUI-FA LIN
  • Terminal device, communication method, and communication system
    Patent number: 11246158
    Abstract: A method that carries out uplink multiple access while reducing complexity in processing accompanying exchange of control information. A terminal device that performs uplink multiple access communication includes a reception unit that receives a frame including first uplink multiple access information, and a transmission unit that transmits a frame including second uplink multiple access information based on the frame including the first uplink multiple access information, and further, after standby of a predetermined period, initiates the uplink multiple access communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoki Yoshimura, Hiromichi Tomeba, Yasuhiro Hamaguchi
  • TERMINAL APPARATUS, BASE STATION APPARATUS, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD
    Publication number: 20220039131
    Abstract: It is possible to efficiently perform uplink transmission. A terminal apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive a PDCCH and receive a PDSCH scheduled based at least on the PDCCH, in which either a first generation method or a second generation method is selected as a method for generating a HARQ-ACK codebook, in the HARQ-ACK codebook, as the first generation method, a HARQ-ACK information bit is set to an NACK, the HARQ-ACK information bit corresponding to a PDSCH that is not associated with the HARQ-ACK codebook according to a HARQ-ACK timing based on the certain information, and the second generation method is different from the first generation method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Huifa LIN, Shoichi SUZUKI, Daiichiro NAKASHIMA, Toshizo NOGAMI, Wataru OUCHI, Tomoki YOSHIMURA, Taewoo LEE
  • Wireless communication apparatus, communication method, and integrated circuit
    Patent number: 11240875
    Abstract: A BSS to which a destination wireless communication apparatus of a physical layer frame belongs is identified, and accuracy of preamble detection is improved by changing a reception operation. A wireless communication apparatus includes a reception unit that detects a frame including information for identifying a BSS, and a control unit that switches between a first operation in a case where the frame is a frame which is associated with a BSS to which the wireless communication apparatus belongs and a second operation in a case where the frame is a frame which is not associated with the BSS to which the wireless communication apparatus belongs. Carrier sensing is not performed in the first operation, and the carrier sensing is performed in the second operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoki Yoshimura, Hiromichi Tomeba, Yasuhiro Hamaguchi
  • Terminal apparatus and method
    Patent number: 11240695
    Abstract: The present invention efficiently performs communication. Included are a transmitter configured to transmit a measurement report including a measurement result for a serving cell c and/or a PUSCH for the serving cell c, wherein in a case that the number of SS blocks and/or CSI-RSs used for the RSRP measurement is greater than one for the serving cell c, the measurement result of RSRP included in the measurement report and the RSRP used for evaluation of a path loss for transmit power of the PUSCH are calculated separately.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignees: FG Innovation Company Limited, Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Wataru Ohuchi, Tomoki Yoshimura, Shouichi Suzuki, Liqing Liu, Taewoo Lee
  • Terminal apparatus, base station apparatus, communication method, and integrated circuit
    Patent number: 11239975
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes: a reception unit configured to: receive a PDCCH or an EPDCCH with a DCI format and a first RRC parameter, and decode a PDSCH according to detection of the PDCCH or the EPDCCH; and a transmission unit configured to: transmit a HARQ-ACK in a subframe n according to detection of the PDSCH in a subframe n?k. Whether the PUCCH resource is given at least based on the first RRC parameter is determined at least based on part of or all of the first condition and the second condition described below: first condition: the value k, and second condition: which one of CSS and USS is a search space to which a physical downlink control channel including the DCI format is mapped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Liqing Liu, Shoichi Suzuki, Wataru Ouchi, Tomoki Yoshimura, Tatsushi Aiba
  • TERMINAL APPARTUS AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20220014337
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus and a method are provided. The terminal apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive at least a channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) in a bandwidth part (BWP), a measurer configured to measure and evaluate one or more values of a channel quality indicator (CQI) by using at least the CSI-RS, the CQI including a wideband CQI or a subband CQI, and to measure and update a value of the wideband CQI in a case that an indicator, corresponding to the BWP, indicates the wideband CQI, and at least one of a first condition and a second condition is not satisfied, and a transmitter configured to transmit a CSI report including the value of the wideband CQI.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: WATARU OUCHI, TOSHIZO NOGAMI, Daiichiro Nakashima, SHOICHI SUZUKI, TOMOKI YOSHIMURA, TAEWOO LEE, HUIFA LIN
  • Terminal apparatus, base station apparatus, and communication method
    Patent number: 11224035
    Abstract: An apparatus includes: a receiver configured to receive a PDCCH including downlink control information; and a transmitter configured to transmit a sPUSCH, based at least on detection of the PDCCH. The sum of the number of symbols to which the sPUSCH is mapped and the number of SC-FDMA symbols to which a DMRS associated with the sPUSCH is mapped is 2 and/or 3. In a case that a CRC added to the downlink control information is scrambled with a C-RNTI, the index of the SC-FDMA symbol to which the DMRS associated with the sPUSCH is mapped is given based at least on the downlink control information. In a case that the CRC added to the downlink control information is scrambled with an SPS C-RNTI, the index of the symbol to which the DMRS associated with the sPUSCH is mapped is given based at least on higher layer signaling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Tomoki Yoshimura, Shoichi Suzuki, Wataru Ouchi, Liqing Liu, Taewoo Lee
  • TERMINAL APPARATUS, BASE STATION APPARATUS, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD
    Publication number: 20220007356
    Abstract: Transmission in uplink and downlink can be efficiently performed. A terminal apparatus includes a processing unit configured to resolve overlapping of multiple PUCCH resources, and a transmitter configured to transmit a PUCCH as an output of the processing unit, wherein in a case that a first PUCCH resource overlaps a second PUCCH resource, the processing unit multiplexes first UCI included in the first PUCCH resource and second UCI included in the second PUCCH resource into a third PUCCH resource, and a first parameter NPUCCHrepeat for a first PUCCH format of the first PUCCH resource and a second parameter NPUCCHrepeat for a second PUCCH format of the second PUCCH resource are expected to be identical to a third parameter NPUCCHrepeat for a third PUCCH format of the third PUCCH resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventors: TAEWOO LEE, SHOICHI SUZUKI, WATARU OUCHI, TOMOKI YOSHIMURA, TOSHIZO NOGAMI, HUIFA LIN
  • Terminal apparatus, base station apparatus, and communication method
    Patent number: 11219007
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive a PDCCH including downlink control information used for scheduling of a PUSCH, a coding unit configured to encode uplink control information, and a transmitter configured to transmit the uplink control information by using the PUSCH. A coding rate R and a modulation order Qm are given based on one field included in the downlink control information. The number Q of coded bits of the uplink control information is given at least based on the number Q? of coded modulation symbols for the uplink control information and the modulation order Qm. The number Q? of coded modulation symbols is given at least based on the coding rate R and the modulation order Qm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Shoichi Suzuki, Tomoki Yoshimura, Wataru Ouchi, Taewoo Lee, Liqing Liu
  • Terminal apparatus, base station apparatus, and communication method
    Patent number: 11201713
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus receives a transport block in a primary cell, selects a first transmission method in a case that a scheduling request is a negative scheduling request, HARQ-ACK is transmitted in a subframe n, and a subframe q in a secondary cell does not correspond to any of first prescribed subframes, selects a second transmission method in a case that the subframe q corresponds to one of the first prescribed subframes, and transmits the HARQ-ACK in a PUCCH resource for the HARQ-ACK, wherein the subframe q is given by n?4 in a case that a first higher layer parameter for the secondary cell is not configured, and the subframe q is given by n?3 in a case that the first higher layer parameter for the secondary cell is configured for the terminal apparatus 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Liqing Liu, Shoichi Suzuki, Wataru Ouchi, Tomoki Yoshimura, Taewoo Lee
  • USER EQUIPMENTS, BASE STATIONS, AND METHODS
    Publication number: 20210385831
    Abstract: A method for a user equipment (UE) which communicates with a base station is described. The method may comprise acquiring radio resource control (RRC) configuration information. The RRC configuration information may indicate one or more entries, each of the entries specifying a slot format. The method may also comprise receiving a physical signal and a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) with a downlink control (DCI) format. The DCI format may include a first information field and a second information field. The first information field may indicate an entry out of the entries. The second information field may indicates channel occupancy status of all channel access bandwidths in a bandwidth part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventors: Toshizo NOGAMI, Daiichiro NAKASHIMA, Shoichi SUZUKI, Wataru OUCHI, Tomoki YOSHIMURA, Taewoo LEE, Huifa LIN
  • Terminal apparatus, base station apparatus, and communication method
    Patent number: 11196509
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus capable of efficiently performing uplink and/or downlink communication is provided. Multiple CBs included in the transport block is decoded. HARQ-ACKs corresponding to multiple CBG are transmitted. The multiple CBs include one or more first CBs and one or more second CBs. A first size of a first CB of the one or more first CBs is greater than a second size of a second CB of the one or more second CBs. Each of the multiple CBs is included in any one of the multiple CBGs. The multiple CBGs include one or more first CBGs and one or more second CBGs. A first total number of the one or more first CBs and the one or more second CBs included in each of the one or more first CBGs is greater than a second total number of the one or more first CBs and the one or more second CBs included in each of the one or more second CBGs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Tomoki Yoshimura, Shouichi Suzuki, Wataru Ohuchi, Liqing Liu
  • TERMINAL APPARATUS, BASE STATION APPARATUS, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD
    Publication number: 20210368528
    Abstract: Included are a receiver receiving a PDCCH and a PDSCH scheduled by the PDCCH, and a transmitter transmitting, on a PUCCH, one or multiple HARQ-ACKs including at least a HARQ-ACK corresponding to a TB included in the PDSCH and an SR. For the HARQ-ACK of two or less bits, a resource of the PUCCH is, from one or multiple PUCCH resources in a PUCCH resource set, based at least on a first value based at least on the number of bits of the one or multiple HARQ-ACKs transmitted in the PUCCH, regardless of the number of resources of the SR overlapping with the PUCCH. For the HARQ-ACK of more than two bits, the resource of the PUCCH is, from the one or multiple PUCCH resources in the PUCCH resource set, based at least on a sum of the number of bits of the one or multiple HARQ-ACKs and the SR.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: TOMOKI YOSHIMURA, SHOICHI SUZUKI, WATARU OUCHI, LIQING LIU, TAEWOO LEE
  • TERMINAL DEVICE, AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20210360666
    Abstract: The present invention is capable of performing communication efficiently.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: TOMOKI YOSHIMURA, DAIICHIRO NAKASHIMA, TOSHIZO NOGAMI, SHOICHI SUZUKI, WATARU OUCHI, TAEWOO LEE, HUIFA LIN
  • TERMINAL APPARATUS, BASE STATION APPARATUS, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD
    Publication number: 20210360687
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes a transmitter configured to transmit, in one uplink BWP of one serving cell, a first PUSCH corresponding to a configured uplink grant, and a receiver configured to receive, in one downlink BWP of the one serving cell, downlink control information to be used to schedule a second PUSCH on a PDCCH, in which, in a case that a duration of the first PUSCH overlaps a duration of the second PUSCH in the one uplink BWP, a first uplink symbol of the first PUSCH is expected to not be earlier than a first (next) uplink symbol at which a CP begins after a predetermined period of time after a last symbol of the PDCCH.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2019
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Shoichi SUZUKI, Tomoki YOSHIMURA, Toshizo NOGAMI, Wataru OUCHI, Taewoo LEE, Huifa LIN