Patents by Inventor Wataru Ouchi

Wataru Ouchi 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: 20220264611
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes: a receiver configured to receive a PDCCH including a DCI format including a frequency resource assignment field, and determine that a PDSCH is not scheduled by the DCI format, based at least on a fact that the frequency resource assignment field is set to all ones; and a transmitter configured to transmit a HARQ-ACK codebook on a PUCCH, based at least on the fact that the frequency resource assignment field is set to all ones.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Tomoki YOSHIMURA, Shoichi SUZUKI, Toshizo NOGAMI, Huifa LIN, Wataru OUCHI, Daiichiro NAKASHIMA, Taewoo LEE
  • Publication number: 20220264618
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes: a receiver configured to receive a physical downlink control channel to which a downlink control information format is mapped, and receive a physical downlink shared channel to which a transport block is mapped, the physical downlink shared channel being scheduled by the physical downlink control information format; and a transmitter configured to transmit HARQ-ACK information corresponding to the transport block on a physical uplink control channel. A first time signal for the physical uplink control channel and a second time signal for the physical uplink control channel are generated based on contents of a resource element in an OFDM symbol. The first time signal is present in the OFDM symbol. A demodulation reference signal for the physical uplink control channel is mapped to the resource element, based on the OFDM symbol. The second time signal is transmitted before the OFDM symbol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: TOMOKI YOSHIMURA, SHOICHI SUZUKI, TOSHIZO NOGAMI, HUIFA LIN, WATARU OUCHI, DAIICHIRO NAKASHIMA, TAEWOO LEE
  • Publication number: 20220248448
    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: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Huifa LIN, Shoichi SUZUKI, Daiichiro NAKASHIMA, Toshizo NOGAMI, Wataru OUCHI, Tomoki YOSHIMURA, Taewoo LEE
  • Patent number: 11399402
    Abstract: The present invention includes: a receiver configured to receive a DCI format used for scheduling a PDSCH, and a higher layer parameter including a parameter subframeAssignment-r15; and a transmitter configured to transmit a HARQ-ACK corresponding to the PDSCH, wherein in a case that a duplex mode of a primary cell is an FDD, whether the number of bits in a HARQ process number field in the DCI format is three bits or four bits is determined, based on whether or not an EN-DC is configured, whether or not the higher layer parameter including the parameter subframeAssignment-r15 is configured, and whether or not the DCI format is mapped to a USS given by a C-RNTI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Wataru Ouchi, Shoichi Suzuki, Tomoki Yoshimura, Liqing Liu, Taewoo Lee
  • Publication number: 20220232601
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus receives a PDCCH and receive a PDSCH scheduled by the PDCCH, and transmits (reports), via a PUCCH or a PUSCH, HARQ-ACK information corresponding to the PDSCH. Based at least on the PDCCH, a PDSCH group ID and a toggle bit corresponding to the PDSCH group ID are indicated. In a case that the toggle bit is toggled, HARQ-ACK information being already reported (the HARQ-ACK information other than HARQ-ACK information not being reported yet) is deleted from an HARQ-ACK codebook corresponding to the PDSCH group ID. The HARQ-ACK information corresponding to the PDSCH scheduled by the PDCCH is included in the HARQ-ACK codebook.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Inventors: Huifa LIN, Shoichi SUZUKI, Daiichiro NAKASHIMA, Toshizo NOGAMI, Wataru OUCHI, Tomoki YOSHIMURA, Taewoo LEE
  • Patent number: 11387948
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus is configured to: receive a transport block in a primary cell in a subframe i; in a case that HARQ-ACK and a positive scheduling request are transmitted, select a third transmission method in a case that a subframe j in a secondary cell does not correspond to any of first prescribed subframes, and select a fourth transmission method in a case that the subframe j corresponds to any of the first prescribed subframes; and transmit the HARQ-ACK in a PUCCH resource for a scheduling request, wherein the subframe j is given based on at least (I) whether or not a first parameter for the primary cell is configured, (II) whether or not a first parameter for the secondary cell is configured, and (III) a search space in which a PDCCH for scheduling the transport block is transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Liqing Liu, Shoichi Suzuki, Wataru Ouchi, Tomoki Yoshimura, Taewoo Lee
  • Patent number: 11381351
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive RRC information indicating the maximum number of CBGs X for one transport block in each serving cell; and a generation unit configured to generate X HARQ-ACK bits corresponding to the one transport block, in which the transport block includes NCB code blocks (CBs), in a case that the number of CBs NCB is less than the maximum number of CBGs X, the number of CBGs for the transport block is NCB, and the generation unit generates NCB HARQ-ACK bits for the NCB CBGs and X-NCB NACKs as the X HARQ-ACK bits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Liqing Liu, Shoichi Suzuki, Wataru Ouchi, Tomoki Yoshimura
  • Patent number: 11375546
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus performs a random access procedure; and receives a physical channel, in which the random access procedure includes a 2 step contention based random access procedure, a 4 step contention based random access procedure, and a non-contention based random access procedure, and the physical channel indicates an initiation of any of the 4 step contention based random access procedure and the non-contention based random access procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Shoichi Suzuki, Wataru Ouchi, Tomoki Yoshimura, Liqing Liu
  • Patent number: 11375487
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes a medium access control layer processing unit configured to manage a HARQ process, and a physical layer processing unit configured to perform processing associated with a PUSCH transmission on a physical layer. A first HARQ process configured for the terminal apparatus determines whether or not to indicate to the physical layer processing unit to generate a transmission of the first HARQ process, based at least on whether or not the transmission of the first HARQ process and a transmission of a second HARQ process occur in the same transmission time. The transmission of the second HARQ process is scheduled so as to use short processing time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Liqing Liu, Tomoki Yoshimura, Wataru Ouchi, Shoichi Suzuki, Shohei Yamada
  • Patent number: 11368947
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive a first Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) including a first downlink Bandwidth part Index Field (BIF) based on a PDCCH candidate of a first search space in a first serving cell and receive a second PDCCH including a second downlink BIF based on a PDCCH candidate in a second search space in the first serving cell, and a higher layer processing unit configured to activate any downlink bandwidth part (BWP) of a first set of downlink BWPs in the first serving cell based on information indicated by the first downlink BIF and activate a downlink BWP of a second set of downlink BWPs in a second serving cell based on information indicated by the second downlink BIF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Taewoo Lee, Shoichi Suzuki, Wataru Ouchi, Liqing Liu, Tomoki Yoshimura
  • Patent number: 11368973
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes: a receiver configured to receive a PDCCH including a DCI format used for scheduling of a PDSCH, and the PDSCH; and a transmitter configured to transmit a HARQ-ACK on a PUCCH, wherein an index of a downlink reference signal quasi co-located (QCLed) with an antenna port of a downlink reference signal associated with the PDSCH is given based on a control resource set in which the PDCCH is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Tomoki Yoshimura, Shoichi Suzuki, Wataru Ouchi, Liqing Liu, Taewoo Lee
  • Patent number: 11363579
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes a transmitter configured to transmit a UCI payload with CRC bits by using a PUCCH, wherein a size of the CRC bits added to the UCI payload is a first size, and a number of PRBs of a resource of the PUCCH is given based on a second size of the CRC bits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Taewoo Lee, Shoichi Suzuki, Wataru Ouchi, Tomoki Yoshimura, Liqing Liu
  • Patent number: 11363592
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus determines the parameter fc(i), based on at least whether an RRC layer parameter symPUSCH_UpPTS is configured for the terminal apparatus, calculates transmit power for PUSCH transmission in a subframe i, based on at least the parameter fc(i), maps a PUSCH to a SC-FDMA symbol of a special subframe, based on the RRC layer parameter symPUSCH_UpPTS, and transmits the PUSCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Shoichi Suzuki, Tomoki Yoshimura, Wataru Ouchi, Taewoo Lee, Liqing Liu
  • Publication number: 20220183079
    Abstract: To perform communication efficiently. Provided are a receiver configured to receive a random access preamble and a transmitter configured to transmit one or multiple medium access control random access responses (MAC RARs) corresponding to the random access preamble. The transmitter sets, in a case that a MAC RAR of the one or multiple MAC RARs is transmitted in a new radio access technology (NR) cell, a timing advance command (TAC) field included in the MAC RAR to have a first size and an uplink (UL) grant to have a second size, and sets. in a case that a MAC RAR of the one or multiple MAC RARs is transmitted in an NR-unlicensed (NR-U) cell, a size of the TAC field included in the MAC RAR to be smaller than the first size and a size of the UL grant to be greater than the second size.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: WATARU OUCHI, TOMOKI YOSHIMURA, TAEWOO LEE, Daiichiro Nakashima, SHOICHI SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20220173843
    Abstract: A communication method used for a terminal device is provided. The communication method comprises triggering transmission of a first hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) codebook; and when transmission of a second HARQ-ACK codebook is triggered before the first HARQ-ACK codebook has been transmitted, canceling the transmission of the first HARQ-ACK codebook; and transmitting the second HARQ-ACK codebook.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Daiichiro Nakashima, TOMOKI YOSHIMURA, HUI-FA LIN, TOSHIZO NOGAMI, WATARU OUCHI, SHOICHI SUZUKI, TAEWOO LEE
  • Publication number: 20220173867
    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 a configuration of downlink control (DCI) format 2_0. The method may also comprise monitoring a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) with the DCI format 2_0. The DCI format 2_0 may include a first information field. The first information field may indicate a remaining channel occupancy duration. The remaining channel occupancy duration may be expressed as the number of OFDM symbol(s) starting from a slot where the DCI format 2_0 is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: TOSHIZO NOGAMI, SHOICHI SUZUKI, TOMOKI YOSHIMURA, HUIFA LIN, DAIICHIRO NAKASHIMA, WATARU OUCHI, TAEWOO LEE
  • Publication number: 20220140984
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus that includes: a receiving portion for receiving a PDSCH including a transport block; and a transmitting portion for transmitting, on a PUCCH, HARQ-ACK information corresponding to the transport block. The PDSCH is allocated to first resources other than second resources. The second resources are used for one or more SS/PBCH blocks when an nth bit of a higher layer parameter is set to a specific value. The nth bit corresponds to the one or more SS/PBCH blocks, where each of the one or more SS/PBCH blocks has a first index corresponding to (n?1). The first index is determined by a remainder acquired by dividing a second index by a value indicated by a PBCH in each of the one or more SS/PBCH blocks. The second index is notified based on at least a reference signal of the PBCH in each of the one or more SS/PBCH blocks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: TOMOKI YOSHIMURA, Daiichiro Nakashima, SHOICHI SUZUKI, TOSHIZO NOGAMI, WATARU OUCHI, TAEWOO LEE, HUIFA LIN
  • Publication number: 20220132564
    Abstract: Communication is efficiently performed. A transmitter configured to transmit a random access preamble; a receiver configured to receive one or multiple MAC RARs corresponding to the random access preamble; and a MAC layer unit configured to perform a random access procedure are included. In a case that the random access procedure is not considered to be complete for an NR-Unlicensed (NR-U) cell, prior to transmission of the random access preamble, the transmitter performs a type 2 Channel Access Procedure (CAP) in a case that a value larger than a prescribed value is set to PREAMBLE_BACKOFF, and the transmitter performs a type 1 CAP in a case that a value smaller than the prescribed value is set to the PREAMBLE_BACKOFF.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: WATARU OUCHI, TAEWOO LEE, DAIICHIRO NAKASHIMA, SHOICHI SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20220132620
    Abstract: Methods for a terminal apparatus are disclosed, comprising: receiving a transmission band configuration, wherein the transmission band configuration is provided by an initial downlink bandwidth part (DL BWP) in case that at least one predetermined condition is satisfied, the transmission band configuration is provided by a dedicated radio resource control (RRC) message in case that the at least one predetermined condition is not satisfied, the predetermined condition includes a dedicated RRC parameter is not provided, the terminal apparatus is in idle mode, the terminal apparatus performs an initial connection, the terminal apparatus does not support at least one of one or more carrier bands based on a parameter in a common RRC message, the terminal apparatus supports a band of the initial DL BWP, and the terminal apparatus supports a band of a control resource set with an index equals to zero.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: TOMOKI YOSHIMURA, SHOICHI SUZUKI, TOSHIZO NOGAMI, WATARU OUCHI, TAEWOO LEE, HUIFA LIN
  • Patent number: 11316653
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus is a terminal apparatus for communicating via a primary cell and a secondary cell, the terminal apparatus including: a receiver configured to receive an activation/deactivation MAC CE indicating activation of the secondary cell; and a medium access control layer processing unit configured to: activate a first downlink BWP in multiple downlink BWPs in a case that the activation/deactivation MAC CE is received and the secondary cell is not activated; and not to activate the first downlink BWP in a case that the activation/deactivation MAC CE is received, the secondary cell is activated, and a second downlink BWP of the secondary cell is activated. The first downlink BWP is different from the second downlink BWP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Shoichi Suzuki, Wataru Ouchi, Tomoki Yoshimura, Liqing Liu, Taewoo Lee