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: 20200214012
    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: March 10, 2020
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshizo NOGAMI, Kazuyuki SHIMEZAWA
  • Patent number: 10674489
    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: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhanping Yin, Toshizo Nogami
  • Patent number: 10652845
    Abstract: A wireless terminal comprises sidelink controlling circuitry and transmitting circuitry. The sidelink controlling circuitry is configured to select a reference source. The transmitting circuitry is configured to transmit sidelink synchronization signal (SLSS) based on the reference source. In a case that a timing reference is Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and the GNSS is reliable according to a comparison with a threshold value, the sidelink controlling circuitry is configured to select GNSS as the reference source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Jia Sheng, John Michael Kowalski, Toshizo Nogami
  • Patent number: 10638467
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE includes physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) receiving circuitry configured to monitor a first PDCCH with a first DCI format, the first PDCCH with the first DCI format scheduling a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH). The UE also includes PUSCH transmitting circuitry configured to transmit the PUSCH, the first DCI format including a PUSCH trigger A field and a Transmitter Power Control (TPC) command field. The PDCCH receiving circuitry is further configured to, if the PUSCH trigger A field is set to 1, monitor a second PDCCH with a second DCI format in a valid duration, the second DCI format including a PUSCH trigger B field. If the PUSCH trigger A field is set to 1, the TPC command field applies only when the second PDCCH with the second DCI format of which the PUSCH trigger B field set to 1 is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignees: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Toshizo Nogami, Zhanping Yin
  • Patent number: 10638413
    Abstract: In a radio communication system in which a supplemental uplink-downlink configuration can be used, a mobile station device and a base station device efficiently communicate with each other. A mobile station device communicates in prescribed bands. This mobile station device transmits information related to support of a specific uplink-downlink configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takashi Hayashi, Toshizo Nogami, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Wataru Ouchi, Naoki Kusashima, Alvaro Ruiz Delgado
  • Patent number: 10616888
    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 determine whether an uplink control channel (PUCCH) spans over multiple slots based on a signaling from a base station (gNB). The instructions are also executable to determine a PUCCH location in each slot in a multi-slot PUCCH. The instructions are executable to determine a number of slots in the multi-slot PUCCH. The instructions are further executable to determine whether the multi-slot PUCCH conflicts with a slot format indication (SFI). The instructions are also executable to transmit uplink control information (UCI) on a selected channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhanping Yin, Toshizo Nogami, Tatsushi Aiba
  • Patent number: 10616892
    Abstract: A UE includes receiving circuitry that receives a radio resource control (RRC) message including information indicating a subcarrier spacing of a block comprising, at least, a primary synchronization signal (PSS) and a secondary synchronization signal (SSS) and a physical broadcast channel (PBCH). The receiving circuitry also receives, based on the information, the block comprising, at least, the PSS and the SSS and the PBCH. The information is used only for a case where the UE is in a RRC connected. In a case that the information is not configured, the receiving circuitry receives, based on a default value of the subcarrier spacing, the block comprising, at least, the PSS and the SSS and the PBCH. The default value of the subcarrier spacing is given based on a frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignees: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Tatsushi Aiba, Jia Sheng, Toshizo Nogami
  • Patent number: 10609689
    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 determine the uplink control channel (PUCCH) format and configuration based on a signaling from a gNB. The instructions are also executable to determine the control channel used for uplink control information (UCI) feedback. The instructions are further executable to determine the resource of the control channel for UCI feedback. The instructions are additionally executable to transmit UCI on the selected channel. A long PUCCH may employ a format that includes a waveform, a number of resource blocks (RBs), a reference symbol (RS) pattern, and/or orthogonal sequences on RS and data symbols, and/or one or more control resource regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignees: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Zhanping Yin, Toshizo Nogami
  • Patent number: 10609706
    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: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshizo Nogami, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Kimihiko Imamura, Daiichiro Nakashima
  • Patent number: 10601551
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE includes receiving circuitry configured to receive a radio resource control message including first information used for configuring a number of repetitions and a periodicity, the number of the repetitions being for transmissions of a transport block (TB). The receiving circuitry receives a radio resource control message including second information used for configuring a monitoring occasion for a symbol. The receiving circuitry monitors a first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) with cyclic redundancy check (CRC) scrambled by a cell radio network temporary identifier (C-RNTI). The receiving circuitry monitors a second PDCCH with CRC scrambled by a second RNTI different from the C-RNTI. The UE also includes transmitting circuitry configured to perform on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), based on the first information, transmissions of the TB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignees: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Kai Ying, Tatsushi Aiba, Toshizo Nogami, John Michael Kowalski
  • Patent number: 10602490
    Abstract: It is possible to efficiently transmit and receive signals containing uplink control information between a base station apparatus and a mobile station apparatus. eREG is configured with a plurality of resources into which one DL PRB pair is divided, eCCE is configured with an aggregation of a plurality of eREGs, a second PDCCH is configured with an aggregation of one or more eCCEs, a PUCCH resource corresponds to each eCCE, a first reception processing unit receives information indicating a plurality of second PDCCH regions and information indicating a PUCCH resource in which association with eCCE of the second PDCCH region for each second PDCCH region is started, from the base station apparatus, and a first control unit configures a PUCCH resource, in which association with eCCE of the second PDCCH region is started, for each second PDCCH region, based on the received information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daiichiro Nakashima, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Toshizo Nogami, Kimihiko Imamura
  • Patent number: 10601621
    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: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignees: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Tatsushi Aiba, Jia Sheng, Toshizo Nogami
  • Patent number: 10601566
    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 determine an uplink control channel (PUCCH) spans over multiple slots based on a signaling from a base station (gNB). The instructions are also executable to determine a demodulation reference signals (DMRS) structure in the configured multi-slot PUCCH. The instructions are further executable to determine a frequency hopping method of the configured multi-slot PUCCH. The instructions are additionally executable to determine uplink control information (UCI) encoding and loading methods on the configured multi-slot PUCCH. The instructions are also executable to determine a resource of a control channel for UCI feedback. The instructions are further executable to transmit UCI on a selected channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignees: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Zhanping Yin, Toshizo Nogami
  • Publication number: 20200092854
    Abstract: A mobile station device includes an information acquisition unit that is configured to and/or programmed to acquire information, which specifies a system bandwidth and a carrier frequency of a second downlink carrier component different from a first downlink carrier component, transmitted using RRC signaling via a physical downlink shared channel within the first downlink carrier component and a communication unit that is configured to communicate with the base station device by aggregate use of both the first downlink carrier component and the second downlink carrier component, where the first downlink carrier component and the second downlink carrier component have different carrier frequencies and each of the first downlink carrier component and the second downlink carrier component has its own downlink system bandwidth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shohei YAMADA, Toshizo NOGAMI
  • Patent number: 10595318
    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: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshizo Nogami, Kazuyuki Shimezawa
  • Patent number: 10595166
    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 receive a configuration message of processing time reduction from an evolved node B (eNB). The instructions are also executable to determine a processing time value k for a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmission. The instructions are further executable to receive the PDSCH in subframe n?k. The instructions are additionally executable to transmit hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) in subframe n for the PDSCH transmission in subframe n?k.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignees: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Zhanping Yin, Toshizo Nogami
  • Patent number: 10594463
    Abstract: A terminal that communicates with a base station monitors a physical downlink control channel allocated in a physical downlink control channel region and an enhanced physical downlink control channel allocated in a physical downlink shared channel region different from the physical downlink control channel region. If the enhanced physical downlink control channel is detected, the terminal reports response information via a physical uplink control channel resource corresponding to the resource in which the enhanced physical downlink control channel was detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshizo Nogami, Shoichi Suzuki, Tatsushi Aiba, Daiichiro Nakashima, Katsunari Uemura, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Kimihiko Imamura
  • Patent number: 10581559
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is described. A higher-layer processor is configured to configure a short processing time. A physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) receiver is configured to receive, in a subframe n, a PDCCH. A physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) receiver is configured to receive, in the subframe n, a PDSCH corresponding to the PDCCH. An uplink receiver is configured to feedback, in a subframe n+k, a hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) corresponding to the PDSCH. In a case that the PDCCH is a PDCCH in common search space, the k is equal to k1. In a case that the PDCCH is a PDCCH in UE-specific search space, the k is equal to k2. The k2 is smaller than the k1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignees: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Toshizo Nogami, Zhanping Yin
  • Patent number: 10574405
    Abstract: There is provided a terminal device which includes a transmission unit that transmits HARQ response information to a first serving cell and a second serving cell on a physical uplink shared channel in a subframe n. The physical uplink shared channel is transmitted based on a physical downlink control channel or an enhanced physical downlink control channel which is detected in a state of including a downlink control information format 0/4. Two or more serving cells are configured in the terminal device, in a case where frame constitution types of any two configured serving cells are different from each other, and in a case where a primary cell has Frame constitution type 2, BcDL is applied to the first serving cell of Frame constitution type 2 by using the following expression (1), and is applied to the second serving cell of Frame constitution type 1 by using the following expression (2). [Math. 1] BcDL=min(WDAIUL,Mc)??Expression (1) [Math.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoki Kusashima, Toshizo Nogami, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Wataru Ouchi, Kimihiko Imamura
  • Patent number: 10575299
    Abstract: A UE is configured to receive an RRC message including first information containing a frequency hopping mode, a periodicity and a number of repetitions, and second information containing a slot offset, a time domain allocation indicating a start symbol and a length, a frequency domain allocation, and a frequency hopping offset. The UE is configured to determine, according to the first and second information, a plurality of PUSCH resources for repetitions of a transport block. A first one of the plurality of PUSCH resources is determined based on the periodicity, the slot offset, the time domain allocation, and the frequency domain allocation. The remaining ones of the plurality of PUSCH resources are to use consecutive slots. The UE is configured to transmit, on the plurality of PUSCH resources, the repetitions of the transport block, where the repetitions start on the first PUSCH resource associated with Redundancy Version 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kai Ying, Tatsushi Aiba, Toshizo Nogami, John M. Kowalski, Zhanping Yin, KyungHo Kim