Patents by Inventor Yoshihiko Ogawa

Yoshihiko Ogawa 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: 20230048151
    Abstract: Provided are wireless communication methods for D2D communication and UEs therefor. A wireless communication method involves transmitting either a first DCI or a second DCI based on whether a first UE and a second UE are to be in a communication type of groupcast or unicast. In the wireless communication methods, the first DCI and the second DCI are scrambled by the UE ID of the second UE if the first UE and the second UE are in the communication type of unicast upon transmitting the first DCI and the second DCI, and the first DCI and the second DCI are scrambled by the group ID if the first UE and the second UE are in the communication type of groupcast upon transmitting the first DCI and the second DCI.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Lilei WANG, Hidetoshi SUZUKI, Yoshihiko OGAWA, Masayuki HOSHINO
  • Patent number: 11582082
    Abstract: Provided is a transmitter which improves the flexibility of SRS resource allocation without increasing the amount of signaling for notifying the cyclic shift amount. In the transmitter, with regard to each basic shift amount candidate group having a basic shift amount from 0 to N?1, a transmission control unit (206) specifies the actual shift amount imparted to a cyclic shift sequence used in scrambling a reference signal transmitted from each antenna port, said specification being performed based on a table in which cyclic shift amount candidates correspond to each antenna port, and based on setting information transmitted from a base station (100). With regard to basic shift amount candidates for shift amount X, the table differentiates between an offset pattern comprising offset values for cyclic shift amount candidates corresponding to each antenna port and an offset pattern corresponding to basic shift amount candidates of X+N/2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Ogawa, Akihiko Nishio, Masayuki Hoshino, Takashi Iwai
  • Publication number: 20230024432
    Abstract: A radio communication apparatus is provided, which includes a receiver and a controller. The receiver, in operation, receives a first power headroom (PHR), which is obtained by subtracting a transmit power for a data channel from a maximum transmit power at a mobile station and which is transmitted from the mobile station, and receives a second PHR, which is obtained by subtracting the transmit power for the data channel and a transmit power for a control channel from the maximum transmit power at the mobile station and which is transmitted from the mobile station. The controller, in operation, selectively sets a simultaneous transmission of the data channel and the control channel in different frequency bands to be performed by the mobile station. When the data channel and the control channel are simultaneously transmitted in different frequency bands from the mobile station, the second PHR is obtained and transmitted from the mobile station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Takashi IWAI, Akihiko NISHIO, Daichi IMAMURA, Yoshihiko OGAWA, Atsushi MATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230006874
    Abstract: Provided is a radio communication base station device which can suppress a use amount of an SRS communication resource. In this device, a correlation rule setting unit (102) sets a rule for correlating a preamble with an SRS transmission time interval so that the preamble transmission time band and the SRS transmission time band are in the same transmission time band. An SRS transmission band decision unit (103) decides a time interval of a transmission time band which can transmit the SRS according to the preamble transmission time interval inputted from a preamble transmission band decision unit (101) and the correlation rule setting unit (102).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Takashi IWAI, Daichi IMAMURA, Tomofumi TAKATA, Atsushi MATSUMOTO, Yoshihiko OGAWA, Sadaki FUTAGI
  • Patent number: 11540265
    Abstract: The present disclosure aims at allowing a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) pattern suitable for a terminal to be selected from among a plurality of DMRS patterns including Legacy DMRS and Reduced DMRS. Disclosed is a terminal including: reception section 21 that receives uplink control information; control section 23 that determines a specific mapping pattern from among a plurality of mapping patterns for an uplink DMRS on the basis of the control information; and DMRS generating section 24 that generates a DMRS according to the specific mapping pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Lilei Wang, Kazuki Takeda, Ayako Horiuchi, Alexander Golitschek Edler von Elbwart, Masayuki Hoshino, Yoshihiko Ogawa
  • Patent number: 11533147
    Abstract: This invention is directed to a terminal apparatus capable of preventing the degradation of reception quality of control information even in a case of employing SU-MIMO transmission system. A terminal, which uses a plurality of different layers to transmit two code words in which control information is placed, comprises: a resource amount determining unit that determines, based on a lower one of the encoding rates of the two code words or based on the average value of the reciprocals of the encoding rates of the two code words, resource amounts of control information in the respective ones of the plurality of layers; and a transport signal forming unit that places, in the two code words, the control information modulated by use of the resource amounts, thereby forming a transport signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Ogawa, Akihiko Nishio, Seigo Nakao
  • Patent number: 11516774
    Abstract: Provided are wireless communication methods for D2D communication and UEs therefor. A wireless communication method involves transmitting either a first DCI or a second DCI based on whether a first UE and a second UE are to be in a communication type of groupcast or unicast. In the wireless communication methods, the first DCI and the second DCI are scrambled by the UE ID of the second UE if the first UE and the second UE are in the communication type of unicast upon transmitting the first DCI and the second DCI, and the first DCI and the second DCI are scrambled by the group ID if the first UE and the second UE are in the communication type of groupcast upon transmitting the first DCI and the second DCI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Lilei Wang, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Yoshihiko Ogawa, Masayuki Hoshino
  • Publication number: 20220376875
    Abstract: It is possible to improve the CQI reception performance even when a delay is caused in a propagation path, a transmission timing error is caused, or a residual interference is generated between cyclic shift amounts of different ZC sequences. For the second symbol and the sixth symbol of the ACK/NACK signal which are multiplexed by RS of CQI, (+, +) or (?, ?) is applied to a partial sequence of the Walsh sequence. For RS of CQI transmitted from a mobile station, + is added as an RS phase of the second symbol and ? is added as an RS phase of the sixth symbol. A base station (100) receives multiplexed signals of ACK/NACK signals and CQI signals transmitted from a plurality of mobile stations. An RS synthesis unit (119) performs synthesis by aligning the RS phase of CQI.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventors: Seigo Nakao, Daichi Imamura, Yoshihiko Ogawa, Atsushi Matsumoto, Katsuhiko Hiramatsu
  • Publication number: 20220360352
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes circuitry and a transmitter. The circuitry, in operation, generates a reference signal using a cyclic shift value and an orthogonal sequence, which are associated with each other. The orthogonal sequence is one of two orthogonal sequences corresponding to a first orthogonal sequence [1, 1] and a second orthogonal sequence [1, ?1]. The cyclic shift value is one of 12 cyclic shift values ranging from 0 to 11. The transmitter, in operation, transmits the reference signal multiplexed with a data signal. Two of the cyclic shift values having a difference of 6 are respectively associated with the two orthogonal sequences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Ogawa, Akihiko Nishio, Takashi Iwai, Seigo Nakao, Daichi Imamura, Atsushi Sumasu
  • Patent number: 11496973
    Abstract: A radio communication apparatus is provided, which includes a receiver and a controller. The receiver, in operation, receives a first power headroom (PHR), which is obtained by subtracting a transmit power for a data channel from a maximum transmit power at a mobile station and which is transmitted from the mobile station, and receives a second PHR, which is obtained by subtracting the transmit power for the data channel and a transmit power for a control channel from the maximum transmit power at the mobile station and which is transmitted from the mobile station. The controller, in operation, selectively sets a simultaneous transmission of the data channel and the control channel in different frequency bands to be performed by the mobile station. When the data channel and the control channel are simultaneously transmitted in different frequency bands from the mobile station, the second PHR is obtained and transmitted from the mobile station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Takashi Iwai, Akihiko Nishio, Daichi Imamura, Yoshihiko Ogawa, Atsushi Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11476906
    Abstract: Provided is a base station capable of appropriately applying precoding to a PDCCH. At the base station (100), a precoding control unit (105) sets a precoding granularity, which indicates a period in which the same precoding is used, to multiple control channels respectively disposed in different time resources. A transmission unit (108) transmits signals of the multiple control channels to a terminal (200) on the basis of the set precoding granularity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Tomoya Nunome, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Takashi Iwai, Ayako Horiuchi, Yoshihiko Ogawa
  • Patent number: 11469872
    Abstract: Provided is a radio communication base station device which can suppress a use amount of an SRS communication resource. In this device, a correlation rule setting unit (102) sets a rule for correlating a preamble with an SRS transmission time interval so that the preamble transmission time band and the SRS transmission time band are in the same transmission time band. An SRS transmission band decision unit (103) decides a time interval of a transmission time band which can transmit the SRS according to the preamble transmission time interval inputted from a preamble transmission band decision unit (101) and the correlation rule setting unit (102).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Godo Kaisha IP Bridge 1
    Inventors: Takashi Iwai, Daichi Imamura, Tomofumi Takata, Atsushi Matsumoto, Yoshihiko Ogawa, Sadaki Futagi
  • Publication number: 20220321297
    Abstract: Disclosed are a wireless transmitter and a reference signal transmission method that improve channel estimation accuracy. In a terminal, which transmits a reference signal using n (n is a non-negative integer 2 or greater) band blocks (which correspond to clusters here), which are disposed with spaces therebetween in a frequency direction, a reference signal controller switches the reference signal formation method of a reference signal generator between a first formation method and a second formation method based on the number (n) of band blocks. In addition, a threshold value setting unit adjusts a switching threshold value based on the frequency spacing between band blocks. Thus, the reference signal formation method can be selected with good accuracy and, as a result, channel estimation accuracy is further improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Takashi Iwai, Sadaki Futagi, Tomohumi Takata, Daichi Imamura, Yoshihiko Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20220312420
    Abstract: Disclosed are a wireless communication base station device and a division number determination method that improves the frequency diversity effect while maintaining channel estimation accuracy regardless of the number of divisions in the frequency domain of a transmission signal from a wireless communication terminal device. A determination unit determines the number of divisions in the frequency domain of a transmission signal from a wireless communication terminal device. Here, the determination unit increases the number of divisions in the frequency domain of the transmission signal from the wireless communication terminal device as the number of pilot blocks included in the transmission signal increases. In addition, a scheduling unit schedules allocation to the frequency resources of the divided transmission signal according to the number of divisions determined by the determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Yoshihiko OGAWA, Seigo NAKAO, Daichi IMAMURA, Akihiko NISHIO, Masayuki HOSHINO, Katsuhiko HIRAMATSU, Kenichi MIYOSHI, Yasuaki YUDA, Sadaki FUTAGI, Takashi IWAI
  • Publication number: 20220294520
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a receiver and circuitry. The receiver receives configuration information for beam failure recovery (BFR) of a plurality of secondary cells (SCells) operating in a network. The circuitry performs beam failure detection (BFD) and reports based on the configuration information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Xuan Tuong TRAN, Lei HUANG, Tien Ming Benjamin KOH, Yang KANG, Hidetoshi SUZUKI, Ankit BHAMRI, Yoshihiko OGAWA
  • Patent number: 11444739
    Abstract: It is possible to improve the CQI reception performance even when a delay is caused in a propagation path, a transmission timing error is caused, or a residual interference is generated between cyclic shift amounts of different ZC sequences. For the second symbol and the sixth symbol of the ACK/NACK signal which are multiplexed by RS of CQI, (+, +) or (?, ?) is applied to a partial sequence of the Walsh sequence. For RS of CQI transmitted from a mobile station, + is added as an RS phase of the second symbol and ? is added as an RS phase of the sixth symbol. A base station (100) receives multiplexed signals of ACK/NACK signals and CQI signals transmitted from a plurality of mobile stations. An RS synthesis unit (119) performs synthesis by aligning the RS phase of CQI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Godo Kaisha IP Bridge 1
    Inventors: Seigo Nakao, Daichi Imamura, Yoshihiko Ogawa, Atsushi Matsumoto, Katsuhiko Hiramatsu
  • Patent number: 11431429
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes circuitry and a transmitter. The circuitry, in operation, generates a reference signal using a cyclic shift value and an orthogonal sequence, which are associated with each other. The orthogonal sequence is one of two orthogonal sequences corresponding to a first orthogonal sequence [1, 1] and a second orthogonal sequence [1, ?1]. The cyclic shift value is one of 12 cyclic shift values ranging from 0 to 11. The transmitter, in operation, transmits the reference signal multiplexed with a data signal. Two of the cyclic shift values having a difference of 6 are respectively associated with the two orthogonal sequences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Ogawa, Akihiko Nishio, Takashi Iwai, Seigo Nakao, Daichi Imamura, Atsushi Sumasu
  • Publication number: 20220255655
    Abstract: Provided are a wireless communication apparatus and a reference signal generating method, wherein inter-cell interference is reduced inside and outside a CoMP set. A CoMP mode setting unit (101) sets whether the terminal (100) thereof is a CoMP terminal or a Non-CoMP terminal. When the terminal (100) is set as a Non-CoMP terminal, the hopping pattern calculating unit (104) calculates a ZC sequence number to be used as the transmission timing, from among all the ZC sequence numbers that can be used within the system. When the terminal (100) is set as a CoMP terminal, the hopping pattern calculating unit (104) calculates a ZC sequence number to be used as the transmission timing, by hopping the ZC sequence numbers to be used within the CoMP set. A ZC sequence generating unit (105) generates a ZC sequence to be used as an SRS, using the calculated ZC sequence number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Takashi Iwai, Daichi Imamura, Akihiko Nishio, Yoshihiko Ogawa, Masaru Fukuoka
  • Publication number: 20220255709
    Abstract: Provided is a radio communication device which can prevent interference between SRS and PUCCH when the PUCCH transmission bandwidth fluctuates and suppress degradation of CQI estimation accuracy by the band where no SRS is transmitted. The device includes: an SRS code generation unit (201) which generates an SRS (Sounding Reference Signal) for measuring uplink line data channel quality; an SRS arrangement unit (202) which frequency-multiplexes the SRS on the SR transmission band and arranges it; and an SRS arrangement control unit (208) which controls SRS frequency multiplex so as to be uniform in frequency without modifying the bandwidth of one SRS multiplex unit in accordance with the fluctuation of the reference signal transmission bandwidth according to the SRS arrangement information transmitted from the base station and furthermore controls the transmission interval of the frequency-multiplexed SRS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Atsushi MATSUMOTO, Daichi IMAMURA, Takashi IWAI, Yoshihiko OGAWA, Tomofumi TAKATA, Katsuhiko HIRAMATSU
  • Publication number: 20220256476
    Abstract: Disclosed is a wireless communication device that can suppress an increase in power consumption of a terminal while preventing the degradation of SINR measurement precision resulting from TPC errors in a base station. A terminal controls the transmission power of a second signal by adding an offset to the transmission power of a first signal; an offset-setting unit sets an offset correction value in response to a transmission time gap between a third signal transmitted the previous time and the second signal transmitted this time; and a transmission power control unit controls the transmission power of the second signal using the correction value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Takashi Iwai, Daichi Imamura, Akihiko Nishio, Yoshihiko Ogawa, Shinsuke Takaoka