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: 20180205523
    Abstract: The present invention enables efficient transmission/reception of a signal including control information between a base station apparatus and a mobile station apparatus. To realize this, there are provided a receiver configured to receive an enhanced physical downlink control channel from the base station apparatus; a setting unit configured to be able to set, using at least a format of downlink control information included in the received enhanced physical downlink control channel, one of a plurality of possible sets of M, M being the number of first elements that constitute the enhanced physical downlink control channel; and a monitoring unit configured to monitor a search region in which the enhanced physical downlink control channel obtained on the basis of the set possible set of M is possibly mapped.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2018
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kimihiko IMAMURA, Daiichiro NAKASHIMA, Toshizo NOGAMI, Kazuyuki SHIMEZAWA
  • Patent number: 10027445
    Abstract: A base station includes a transmission unit and a reception unit. The transmission unit transmits a first uplink-downlink configuration in notification as information specific to the base station, a second uplink-downlink configuration configured as information specific to the terminal. The reception unit receives HARQ response information by using a PUCCH resource for the HARQ response information to PDSCH transmission of the terminal. The PUCCH resource is given based on elements in a set defined by a table. The table is defined for a combination of the first uplink-downlink configuration and the second uplink-downlink configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Toshizo Nogami, Alvaro Ruiz Delgado, Naoki Kusashima, Takashi Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20180198650
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE includes a higher layer processor configured to acquire a dedicated radio resource control (RRC) message. The RRC message includes a first resource block set configuration and a second resource block set configuration. The UE also includes physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) receiving circuitry configured to monitor a first PDCCH based on the first resource block set configuration and to monitor a second PDCCH based on the second resource block set configuration. A frequency shift is applied to a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) for the first PDCCH, and the frequency shift is not applied to a DMRS for the second PDCCH.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Inventors: Toshizo Nogami, Tatsushi Aiba, Jia Sheng
  • Publication number: 20180198575
    Abstract: In one of its aspects the technology disclosed herein concerns a wireless terminal comprising receiving circuitry. The receiving circuitry is configured to receive, from a base station apparatus, a block of synchronization signals and a physical broadcast channel, the block composing a first sequence and a second sequence and a third sequence and a physical broadcast channel. The first sequence and the second sequence are used for identifying a physical layer cell identity, the first sequence being provided from 3 sequences, the second sequence being provided from 336 sequences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2018
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Inventors: Jia SHENG, Tatsushi AIBA, Toshizo NOGAMI
  • Publication number: 20180199334
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is described that includes receiving circuitry configured to receive, from a base station apparatus, a radio resource control message including first information used for configuring a periodicity for an uplink data transmission, the receiving circuity configured to receive on a physical downlink control channel, from the base station apparatus, second information used for indicating an activation for the uplink data transmission. Transmitting circuitry is configured to transmit, to the base station apparatus, confirmation information Medium Access Control (MAC) Control Element (CE) for the second information, the transmitting circuitry configured to perform on a physical uplink shared channel, to the base station apparatus, the uplink data transmission based on the first information and the second information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2018
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Inventors: Kai Ying, Toshizo Nogami, Tatsushi Aiba, John Michael Kowalski, Zhanping Yin, Jia Sheng
  • Publication number: 20180198657
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) receives, from a base station apparatus (gNB), a radio resource control message including information used for configuring whether a first reference signal is used for uplink transmissions or a second reference signal is used for uplink transmissions. The first reference signal is a demodulation reference signal associated with a physical uplink shared channel. The second reference signal is a demodulation reference signal associated with a physical uplink shared channel. The UE also transmits, based on the information, to the gNB, the first reference signal on an antenna port. The UE transmits, based on the information, to the gNB, the second reference signal on the same antenna port as the antenna port on which the first reference signal is transmitted. The second reference signal is mapped to resource elements in a resource block, which are different from resource elements in a resource block to which the first reference signal is mapped.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2018
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Inventors: Tatsushi Aiba, Jia Sheng, Toshizo Nogami
  • Patent number: 10021651
    Abstract: A power for a physical uplink channel is determined based on whether or not PCMAX that is a maximum transmit power for a terminal device is exceeded, in a case where dual connectivity is not configured for the physical uplink channel, and a power for the physical uplink channel in a first cell group is determined based on whether or not PMCG that is a maximum transmit power for the first cell group is exceeded, a power for the physical uplink channel in a second cell group is determined based on whether or not PSCG that is a maximum transmit power for the second cell group is exceeded, PMCG is calculated by an arithmetic operation that uses at least PCMAX and PSeNB, and PSCG is calculated by an arithmetic operation that uses at least PCMAX and PMeNB, in a case where the dual connectivity is configured for the physical uplink channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshizo Nogami, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Wataru Ouchi, Naoki Kusashima, Alvaro Ruiz Delgado
  • Patent number: 10021675
    Abstract: A terminal device that uses a first serving cell group including a primary cell has a higher layer control information acquisition unit that configures a second serving cell group not including the primary cell, a channel state information generation unit that calculates respective pieces of periodic channel state information of serving cells, an uplink control information generation unit that generates uplink control information by dropping reports of the periodic channel state information other than one thereof in a case where the reports of plural serving cells in the first serving cell group collide with each other in one subframe and by dropping the reports of the periodic channel state information other than one thereof in a case where the reports of plural serving cells in the second serving cell group collide with each other in one subframe, and an uplink control information transmission unit that transmits an uplink subframe including the uplink control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshizo Nogami, Katsunari Uemura, Shoichi Suzuki, Tatsushi Aiba
  • Publication number: 20180192417
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE includes a processor and memory in electronic communication with the processor. Instructions stored in the memory are executable to acquire a first higher layer configuration indicating at least a long uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource configuration. The instructions are also executable to acquire a second higher layer configuration indicating multiple sets of PUCCH resource configurations. One set of PUCCH resource configurations within the multiple sets of PUCCH resource configurations include the long PUCCH resource configuration. The instructions are further executable to select a set of PUCCH resource configurations from the sets of PUCCH resource configurations based on a payload size of uplink control information (UCI). The instructions are additionally executable to transmit the UCI on a PUCCH resource, the PUCCH resource corresponding to a PUCCH resource configuration within the selected set of PUCCH resource configurations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2018
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Inventors: Zhanping Yin, Toshizo Nogami
  • Publication number: 20180192416
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE includes a processor and memory in electronic communication with the processor. Instructions stored in the memory are executable to acquire a first higher layer configuration indicating at least a short uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource configuration. The instructions are also executable to acquire a second higher layer configuration indicating multiple sets of PUCCH resource configurations, one set of PUCCH resource configurations within the multiple sets of PUCCH resource configurations include the short PUCCH resource configuration. The instructions are further executable to select a set of PUCCH resource configurations from the sets of PUCCH resource configurations based on a payload size of uplink control information (UCI). The instructions are additionally executable to transmit the UCI on a PUCCH resource, the PUCCH resource corresponding to a PUCCH resource configuration within the selected set of PUCCH resource configurations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2018
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Inventors: Zhanping Yin, Toshizo Nogami
  • Patent number: 10009886
    Abstract: A base station device and a terminal device efficiently communicate with each other by using a PDSCH. The base station device and the terminal device determine a starting position of an OFDM symbol for a PDSCH in a serving cell based on a transmission mode relating to transmission of the PDSCH, a DCI format that is used for allocation of the PDSCH, an antenna port that is used for the transmission of the PDSCH, and a higher-layer parameter that is determined from a parameter set for a serving cell in which the PDSCH is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shoichi Suzuki, Tatsushi Aiba, Kazunari Yokomakura, Toshizo Nogami, Kimihiko Imamura
  • Patent number: 10009163
    Abstract: A base station is capable of efficiently notifying a terminal of control information. The base station communicates with the terminal using a sub-frame including a plurality of resource block pairs. The base station sets a second control channel region in the terminal through RRC signaling that is higher-layer control information, the second control channel region being a region set differently from a first control channel region in which a first control channel is to be arranged. The base station transmits control information for the terminal by mapping the control information to a second control channel that is to be arranged in the second control channel region. The first control channel region is set in the sub-frame to be specific to the base station, and the second control channel region is set in the sub-frame to be specific to the terminal in units of the resource block pairs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Toshizo Nogami, Kimihiko Imamura, Daiichiro Nakashima
  • Publication number: 20180167933
    Abstract: A method for reporting uplink control information (UCI) by a user equipment (UE) is disclosed. The method includes storing information on whether a simultaneous physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) and physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission is supported. The method also includes, when the simultaneous PUCCH and PUSCH transmission is not supported and in case of a channel collision between a PUCCH and a PUSCH, transmitting, by the UE, the UCI using the PUCCH in an overlapping portion between the PUCCH and the PUSCH, and dropping the overlapping portion of the PUSCH.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Inventors: Zhanping Yin, Toshizo Nogami
  • Patent number: 9998264
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE includes a higher layer processor configured/programmed to configure a plurality of serving cells. The UE also includes a physical downlink shared channel receiver configured/programmed to receive one or more physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) in a subframe. The UE further includes a physical layer controller configured/programmed to determine the number of storing soft channel bits on the basis of N. N is the maximum number of serving cells on which the UE is able to receive physical channels in a subframe. N is smaller than the number of the configured serving cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Toshizo Nogami, Zhanping Yin
  • Publication number: 20180146457
    Abstract: In a wireless communication system in which a base station communicates with a terminal, the base station efficiently notifies of control information for the terminal. A base station apparatus maps an EPDCCH to any of candidates of the EPDCCH included in each of a first EPDCCH set and a second EPDCCH set which are configured by RRC signaling, and a mobile station apparatus monitors the candidate of the EPDCCH. The candidate of EPDCCH is determined at least based on the number of resource elements satisfying a predetermined criterion in one of physical resource block pairs that are configured for EPDCCH transmission in the first EPDCCH set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Inventors: Kazuyuki SHIMEZAWA, Toshizo NOGAMI, Shoichi SUZUKI, Kimihiko IMAMURA
  • Publication number: 20180146461
    Abstract: There is provided a terminal for performing OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing) communication with a base station forming a cell. The terminal includes a control channel processing unit configured to monitor, in a sub-frame, a first control channel in a cell-specific search space that is a search space common within the cell, and a first control channel in a UE-specific search space that is a search space specific to the terminal. In a case where monitoring of a second control channel different from the first control channel that is in the cell-specific search space or the UE-specific search space is configured, the control channel processing unit monitors, in a sub-frame, at least both the first control channel in the cell-specific search space and the second control channel in the UE-specific search space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Inventors: Toshizo NOGAMI, Kazuyuki SHIMEZAWA, Kimihiko IMAMURA, Daiichiro NAKASHIMA
  • Patent number: 9974028
    Abstract: There is provided a terminal device that communicates with a base station device. The terminal device includes: a transmission unit that, in a case where dual connectivity is configured and uplink transmission to a serving cell (first serving cell) belonging to a first cell group (first CG) and uplink transmission to a serving cell (second serving cell) belonging to a second cell group (second CG) overlap with each other, determines a maximum output power in the overlapped portion based on a maximum output power of the first serving cell and a maximum output power of the second serving cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Wataru Ouchi, Toshizo Nogami, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Naoki Kusashima, Takashi Hayashi, Alvaro Ruiz Delgado, Kimihiko Imamura
  • Patent number: 9967863
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is described that includes a processor. The UE is configured with a secondary cell group (SCG). The UE is also configured with a licensed-assisted access (LAA) serving cell as a primary secondary cell (pSCell) of the SCG. The UE receives a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) on at least one LAA serving cell in the SCG. The UE determines a channel to carry uplink control information (UCI), the channel being on any one of the serving cell(s) in the SCG. The UE also determines transmission timing of the channel based on reception timing of the PDSCH. The UE further determines one or more PDSCHs of which HARQ-ACK bits are included in the UCI, the one or more PDSCHs including the PDSCH. The UE additionally determines content of the HARQ-ACK bits. The UE also performs a channel access procedure for the transmission of the channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhanping Yin, Toshizo Nogami
  • Patent number: 9967902
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) for transmitting signals in a Licensed-Assisted Access (LAA) serving cell is described. The UE includes a processor and memory in electronic communication with the processor. Instructions stored in the memory are executable to receive an uplink (UL) grant from a downlink control information. The instructions are also executable to determine a UL contention access region based on the UL grant. The instructions are further executable to determine clear channel assessment (CCA) timeslots in the UL contention access region. The instructions are additionally executable to perform UL contention access in the UL contention access region with a backoff process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhanping Yin, Toshizo Nogami
  • Publication number: 20180124794
    Abstract: A transmission device that generates control information including 3-bit information and transmits a physical downlink shared channel, a reference signal for demodulation of the physical downlink shared channel, and the control information, wherein, in a case that all codewords which are mapped to the physical downlink shared channel are enabled, among a first value to an eighth value indicated by the 3-bit information, the third value to the eighth value indicate that the number of layers is from 3 to 8 respectively, and the first value and the second value indicate that the number of layers is equal to 2, and the first value indicates that the scrambling identity for the reference signal is equal to 0 and the second value indicates that the scrambling identity is equal to 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshizo NOGAMI, Kazuyuki SHIMEZAWA