Patents by Inventor Toshizo Nogami

Toshizo Nogami 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: 20240251444
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE comprises physical layer control circuitry configured to, prior to a multiple PRACH retransmission, determine whether to change a number of transmissions of the multiple PRACH transmission, and send higher layers a notification to suspend the power ramping counter in case the number of transmissions is determined to be changed and higher layer control circuitry configured to determine whether to increment the ramping counter based on whether the notification is sent or not.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2023
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Inventors: HIROKI TAKAHASHI, TOSHIZO NOGAMI, KOZUE YOKOMAKURA, Makoto KITAHARA
  • Publication number: 20240251422
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE may comprise high-layer processing circuitry configured to acquire at least a first RRC parameter for indicating that a first information field is present in a DCI format, the first information field indicating whether a transform precoder is enabled or disabled for a PUSCH. The UE may also comprise reception circuitry configured to monitor the DCI format with CRC scrambled by C-RNTI and the DCI format with CRC scrambled by CS-RNTI. A first number of bits may be included in a second information field in the DCI format with CRC scrambled by C-RNTI with the first information field indicating the transform precoder as disabled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2023
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Inventors: TOSHIZO NOGAMI, HIROKI TAKAHASHI, KOZUE YOKOMAKURA, Makoto KITAHARA
  • Patent number: 12048000
    Abstract: A method for a base station which communicates with a user equipment (UE) in a bandwidth including a plurality of channel access sub-bands in a serving cell is described. The method may comprise sensing each of the plurality of the channel access sub-bands. The method may also comprise transmitting downlink signal after sensing. A counter and a contention window size may be managed per sub-band for channel access.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshizo Nogami, Daiichiro Nakashima, Shoichi Suzuki, Wataru Ouchi, Tomoki Yoshimura, Taewoo Lee, Huifa Lin
  • Patent number: 12047969
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus receives a DCI format used for scheduling of a PDSCH, and transmits HARQ-ACK information in a slot n. In a case that a higher layer parameter is given, for a PDSCH group g, a monitoring occasion for PDCCH corresponding to a DCI format satisfying a condition is included in a set of monitoring occasions for PDCCH for the slot n. Based at least on the set of monitoring occasions for PDCCH for the slot n, the HARQ-ACK information is generated. The condition includes the following: condition 1 is that the HARQ-ACK information corresponding to the PDSCH scheduled by the DCI format is triggered to be transmitted in the lot n, and condition 2 is that the PDSCH group g is indicated by a PGI field included in the DCI format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Huifa Lin, Shoichi Suzuki, Daiichiro Nakashima, Toshizo Nogami, Wataru Ouchi, Tomoki Yoshimura, Taewoo Lee
  • Publication number: 20240243890
    Abstract: Terminal device receives a SS/PBCH block and a high-layer parameter and determines a point A. A common resource block is determined at least based on a subcarrier 0 of the SS/PBCH block. The point A is determined at least based on a subcarrier 0 of the common resource block and an offset provided by the high-layer parameter. The offset is expressed in units of resource blocks assuming 120 KHz for FR2-2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Inventors: HUIFA LIN, SHOICHI SUZUKI, DAIICHIRO NAKASHIMA, TOSHIZO NOGAMI, WATARU OUCHI, TOMOKI YOSHIMURA, Takahisa FUKUI
  • Publication number: 20240236991
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes a reception circuitry that receives a PDCCH where a DCI format is mapped; and a transmission circuitry that transmits a PUCCH corresponding to a PUCCH resource indicated based on the DCI format. A first higher layer parameter is configured for a PUCCH format corresponding to the PUCCH. In a case that a second higher layer parameter is configured for the PUCCH resource, the number of repetitions of the PUCCH is a value of the second higher layer parameter, and in a case that the second higher layer parameter is not configured, the number of repetitions of the PUCCH is a value of the first higher layer parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventors: Takahisa FUKUI, TOMOKI YOSHIMURA, SHOICHI SUZUKI, TOSHIZO NOGAMI, DAIICHIRO NAKASHIMA, WATARU OUCHI, HUIFA LIN
  • Publication number: 20240235723
    Abstract: A terminal device includes encoding circuitry configured to encode a code block and output coded bits for the code block, and rate-matching circuitry configured to perform bit-selection procedure for the coded bits, wherein the rate-matching circuitry is configured to determine a starting coded bit index for the bit-selection procedure based on a rate-matching sequence length or an index of an instance of a PUSCH in which the coded bits are mapped.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventors: TOMOKI YOSHIMURA, TOSHIZO NOGAMI, SHOICHI SUZUKI, DAIICHIRO NAKASHIMA, HUIFA LIN, WATARU OUCHI, Takahisa FUKUI
  • Publication number: 20240236996
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive a PDCCH including a DCI format indicating transmission of a PUCCH, and a transmitter configured to transmit the PUCCH. In a case that a higher layer parameter InterSlotFrequencyHopping is configured for a PUCCH format corresponding to the PUCCH to perform frequency hopping and a length of a time domain window is configured by a higher layer parameter, a hopping interval for the frequency hopping is the same as the length of the time domain window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventors: Takahisa FUKUI, Toshizo NOGAMI, Tomoki YOSHIMURA, Shoichi SUZUKI, Daiichiro NAKASHIMA, Wataru OUCHI, Huifa LIN
  • Publication number: 20240187035
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive a PDCCH including a DCI format indicating transmission of a PUCCH, and a transmitter configured to transmit the PUCCH. The number of slots NrepeatPUCCH is configured by a higher layer parameter NrofSlots, the PUCCH is repeated in the NrepeatPUCCH slots, a first PRB is configured by a higher layer parameter StartingPRB, a second PRB is configured by a higher layer parameter SecondHopPRB, one hopping pattern is determined based on the DCI format, and whether repetition of the PUCCH in each of the NrepeatPUCCH slots is allocated at least in the first PRB or at least in the second PRB is determined based on the one hopping pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Inventors: Takahisa FUKUI, Tomoki YOSHIMURA, Shoichi SUZUKI, Toshizo NOGAMI, Daiichiro NAKASHIMA, Wataru OUCHI, Huifa LIN
  • Publication number: 20240179746
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE comprises reception circuitry to receive a DCI with a DCI format for RA procedure initiated by PDCCH order, transmission circuitry to transmit N repetitions of PRACH transmission using N RACH occasions, based on the DCI, wherein the DCI format includes a first field indicating a preamble index used for the PRACH transmission, a second field indicating a SS/PBCH index, and a third field indicating the N RACH occasions associated with a SS/PBCH indicated by the SS/PBCH index for the PRACH transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2023
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Inventors: HIROKI TAKAHASHI, TOSHIZO NOGAMI, KOZUE YOKOMAKURA, MAKOTO KITAHARA
  • Publication number: 20240179759
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE comprises reception circuitry to receive an information including multiple first configurations for a repetition of a PRACH transmission, wherein the first configuration is associated with a certain repetition number implicitly and the different first configurations are associated with the different repetition number, and control circuitry to apply one of the multiple first configurations and to determine a repetition number of the PRACH transmission based on the applied first configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2023
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Inventors: HIROKI TAKAHASHI, TOSHIZO NOGAMI, KOZUE YOKOMAKURA, Makoto KITAHARA
  • Patent number: 11997694
    Abstract: The PUSCH is scheduled by a random-access response grant included in the random-access response, ML interlaces are configured for the active UL BWP, ILth interlace in the ML interlaces includes a set of resource blocks with index IVRB each of which satisfies relationship lL=mod(IVRB+Nstart,uBWP,i, ML), the Nstart,uBWP,i is a starting common resource block of the active UL BWP with index i, resource block assignment information in the random-access response grant indicates one or more interlaces from the ML interlaces, a first resource blocks assigned for the PUSCH in a case that the active UL BWP is different from an initial UL BWP are resource blocks in the one or more interlaces in the initial UL BWP, and a second resource blocks assigned for the PUSCH in a case that the active UL BWP is the initial UL BWP are same as the first resource blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoki Yoshimura, Shoichi Suzuki, Toshizo Nogami, Huifa Lin, Daiichiro Nakashima, Wataru Ouchi, Taewoo Lee
  • Patent number: 11997048
    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: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Wataru Ouchi, Toshizo Nogami, Daiichiro Nakashima, Shoichi Suzuki, Tomoki Yoshimura, Taewoo Lee, Huifa Lin
  • Patent number: 11997042
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE includes transmitting circuitry configured to transmit hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgment/negative acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) and scheduling request (SR) on a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) scheduled for the HARQ-ACK transmission. The HARQ-ACK and the SR are transmitted on the PUCCH by applying a cyclic shift on sequences of symbols carrying uplink control information (UCI) bits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Zhanping Yin, Toshizo Nogami, Tatsushi Aiba
  • Publication number: 20240172289
    Abstract: A terminal device is described. The terminal device includes transmission circuitry configured to transmit a PRACH of a first subcarrier spacing; and reception circuitry configured to receive a DCI format with CRC scrambled by a RA-RNTI in response to the PRACH transmission; wherein the RA-RNTI is calculated at least based on a predetermined second subcarrier spacing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: HUIFA LIN, SHOICHI SUZUKI, DAIICHIRO NAKASHIMA, TOSHIZO NOGAMI, WATARU OUCHI, TOMOKI YOSHIMURA, Takahisa FUKUI
  • Publication number: 20240172267
    Abstract: A terminal device comprising: transmission circuitry configured to transmit multiple instances numbered from 0 to Krep?1 for a repetition of a PUSCH, and higher layer processing circuitry configured to perform processes of a RRC layer, wherein a redundancy version for the nth instance is determined by mod(n,Ns) where Ns is a length of the redundancy version sequence, the multiple instances are determined based on a slot configuration provided through the RRC layer and the Krep, and the multiple instances are mapped on Krep slots which don't include a slot where a set of OFDM symbols allocated for an instance in a slot overlap with a downlink region for the slot configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: TOMOKI YOSHIMURA, TOSHIZO NOGAMI, SHOICHI SUZUKI, DAIICHIRO NAKASHIMA, HUIFA LIN, WATARU OUCHI, Takahisa FUKUI
  • Patent number: 11991115
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes a processing circuitry configured to determine one or multiple first indexes of one or multiple physical resource blocks (PRBs) to which a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) is mapped, and a transmitting circuitry configured to transmit the PUCCH in a bandwidth part (BWP). In a case that the PUCCH is transmitted using an interlace, the one or multiple first indexes are determined based on a resource block (RB) used for the interlace, the number of interlaces, and the number of the one or multiple PRBs from zero to a starting PRB of the BWP in a common resource block (CRB) index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Taewoo Lee, Wataru Ouchi, Toshizo Nogami, Shoichi Suzuki, Tomoki Yoshimura, Huifa Lin, Daiichiro Nakashima
  • Publication number: 20240163869
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE may comprise high-layer processing circuitry configured to acquire a RRC parameter and transmission circuitry configured to transmit a PUSCH in multiple slots. The RRC parameter may indicate that the multiple slots are determined according to slots which are available for transmission(s) of the PUSCH. If the RRC parameter is not provided, processing time for canceling a transmission of the PUSCH may be required to be shorter than or equal to a first length. If the RRC parameter is provided, the processing time for canceling a transmission of the PUSCH may be required to be shorter than or equal to a second length. The second length is longer than the first length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: TOSHIZO NOGAMI, TOMOKI YOSHIMURA, HUIFA LIN, WATARU OUCHI, Takahisa FUKUI, SHOICHI SUZUKI, DAIICHIRO NAKASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20240155610
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes a reception circuitry that receives a PDCCH including a DCI format; and a transmission circuitry that transmits a PUCCH. The DCI format indicates transmission of the PUCCH. In a case that a first higher layer parameter NrofSlots indicating the number of repetitions is configured for a PUCCH format corresponding to the transmission of the PUCCH, the number of repetitions of the transmission of the PUCCH is determined based on the first higher layer parameter. In a case that the number of repetitions per transmission of the PUCCH is indicated to be valid for the transmission of the PUCCH based on a second higher layer parameter, the number of repetitions of the transmission of the PUCCH is determined based on a value set in a PUCCH-RepetitionFactor field for the transmission of the PUCCH, included in the DCI format.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: WATARU OUCHI, Takahisa FUKUI, TOMOKI YOSHIMURA, SHOICHI SUZUKI, TOSHIZO NOGAMI, DAIICHIRO NAKASHIMA, HUIFA LIN
  • Patent number: 11974258
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes a receiver configured to monitor a PDCCH with a DCI format in a control resource set, and receive a PDSCH scheduled by the DCI format, wherein the DCI format includes a frequency domain resource assignment field, in a case that the number of bits of the frequency domain resource assignment field is given at least based on the number NtargetRB of resource blocks of a first bandwidth, and the frequency domain resource assignment field is applied to the first bandwidth, a value NRIV indicated by the frequency domain resource assignment field is given based on a first method, and in a case that the number of bits of the frequency domain resource assignment field is given at least based on the number NsizeRB of resource blocks of a second bandwidth, and the frequency domain resource assignment field is applied to the first bandwidth, the value NRIV is given based on a second method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoki Yoshimura, Shoichi Suzuki, Toshizo Nogami, Wataru Ouchi, Taewoo Lee, Huifa Lin