Patents by Inventor Yousuke Sano

Yousuke Sano 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: 20210258884
    Abstract: User equipment includes a control unit that compensates for, by a compensation value related to uplink transmission power capability of the user equipment, a threshold value of a received level that defines a condition for performing measurement for cell selection, and that determines, by the compensated threshold value of the received level, whether the measurement for the cell selection is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yousuke Sano, Hiromasa Umeda, Hideaki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11057906
    Abstract: A radio communication apparatus functioning as a transmitter in a radio communication system including the transmitter and a receiver includes a first data generation unit that generates first data which are to be transmitted in accordance with a first transmission scheme, a second data generation unit that generates second data which are to be transmitted in accordance with a second transmission scheme, and a transmission unit that, when the second data are generated during transmission of the first data, punctures a portion in which a predetermined signal is transmitted in a resource allocated for the transmission of the first data, transmits the first data in an unpunctured portion, and transmits the second data in the punctured portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yousuke Sano, Kazuaki Takeda, Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata
  • Publication number: 20210195536
    Abstract: A base station includes a control unit that configures, for each power class of a plurality of power classes, SIntraSearchP that is a threshold value of a received level for performing intra-frequency measurement for cell selection and SnonIntraSearchP that is a threshold value of a received level for performing inter-frequency measurement for cell selection; and a transmitting unit that transmits, to the user equipment, the SIntraSearchP and the SnonIntraSearchP that are configured for the power class of the plurality of power classes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yousuke Sano, Hiromasa Umeda, Hideaki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20210176714
    Abstract: A user equipment includes a transmission unit configured to transmit a signal; and a control unit configured to determine, according to a power class, a maximum transmission power for transmitting the signal. The control unit causes the maximum transmission power to change according to a modulation method for the signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yousuke Sano, Hiromasa Umeda, Hideaki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10952195
    Abstract: Provided is a technique that transmits data, which is transmitted without obtaining transmission permission, with low delay and high reliability. An aspect of the invention relates to a transmitter including a resource determination unit that determines whether a first type of resource has been allocated in response to the generation of a transmission event for a predetermined type of information and a transmitting unit that transmits the predetermined type of information to a receiver, using the first type of resource, without obtaining transmission permission, when the first type of resource has been allocated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yousuke Sano, Kazuaki Takeda, Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 10911172
    Abstract: A user apparatus, in a radio communication system including a plurality of base stations, including a reception unit configured to receive, from a connecting base station, control information to be used for reducing an interference signal sent from an interference base station for the user apparatus; and an interference reducing unit configured to reduce the interference signal by using the control information to obtain a desired signal sent from the connecting base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yousuke Sano, Yusuke Ohwatari, Satoshi Nagata, Yuta Sagae, Yukihiko Okumura
  • Patent number: 10873979
    Abstract: The present invention is designed to reduce the latency due to collisions in UL transmission when contention-based UL data transmission is employed. A user terminal communicates using a second transmission time interval (TTI), having a shorter TTI duration than a first TTI, and this user terminal has a transmission section that transmits multiple UL data without a UL grant from a radio base station, and a control section that controls allocation of the multiple UL data individually, and the control section applies frequency hopping to allocate the multiple UL data to resources of different second TTIs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Takeda, Kazuki Takeda, Yousuke Sano, Satoshi Nagata
  • Publication number: 20200396740
    Abstract: Disclosed is a second base station device communicating with a first base station device. The second base station device includes a receiver configured to receive, from the first base station device, information for limiting radio resource allocation; a controller configured to allocate a radio resource based on the received information for limiting radio resource allocation; and a transmitter configured to transmit information for limiting radio resource allocation to the first base station device. The information for limiting radio resource allocation includes information indicating at least one of a frequency domain and a time domain indicating a location of a radio resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Teruaki Toeda, Anil Umesh, Hiromasa Umeda, Yousuke Sano, Akihito Hanaki
  • Publication number: 20200389929
    Abstract: A user apparatus communicates with a first base station apparatus and a second base station apparatus, and the user apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive, from the first base station apparatus, a configuration for measuring a timing difference between the first base station apparatus and the second base station apparatus; a control unit configured to execute measurement with respect to the second base station apparatus, based on the configuration for measuring the timing difference; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit a result of the executed measurement, to the first base station apparatus, wherein the executed measurement is executed before starting to communicate with the second base station apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroki Harada, Yousuke Sano, Takuma Takada
  • Patent number: 10862655
    Abstract: The present invention is designed to reduce the impact which the variation of the amount of overhead within a subframe has upon the throughput of data channels. A user terminal, according to the present invention, has a transmitting/receiving section that receives a downlink (DL) signal and/or transmits an uplink (UL) signal in a subframe, and a control section that controls transport block sizes (TBSs) of the DL signal and/or the UL signal. The user terminal controls the TBSs based on overhead in the subframe or a desired coding rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Keisuke Saito, Yousuke Sano, Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 10862618
    Abstract: The present invention is designed to reduce the impact of communication using TTIs with different numbers of symbols (or different numbers of REs) on the throughput of data channels. A transmitting/receiving section that transmits and receives signals using a plurality of transmission time intervals (TTIs) with different numbers of symbols, and a control section that controls the transmission and receipt of the signals by applying a predetermined transport block size (TBS) in each TTI are provided, where the predetermined TBS in each TTI is controlled according to the number of symbols in each TTI or a target coding rate that is configured in advance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Keisuke Saito, Yousuke Sano, Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata
  • Publication number: 20200366398
    Abstract: A terminal is disclosed including a receiver that receives a synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel (SS/PBCH) block including a synchronization signal (SS) and a physical broadcast channel (PBCH); and a processor that determines a control resource set based on configuration information in a configuration information set of a plurality of configuration information sets, the configuration information set being associated with information based on the SS/PBCH block, the configuration information being associated with a value of a field in the PBCH, and the configuration information including a plurality of parameters regarding the control resource set. In other aspects, a radio communication method and a base station are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Daiki Takeda, Kazuki Takeda, Hiroki Harada, Yousuke Sano
  • Publication number: 20200359398
    Abstract: User equipment communicates with a base station apparatus. The user equipment includes a generating unit that generates terminal capability information including information indicating an uplink band combination; information indicating whether simultaneous transmissions in the uplink band combination is allowed; and information indicating maximum sensitivity degradation when the simultaneous transmissions are executed in the uplink band combination; a transmitting unit that transmits the generated terminal capability information to the base station apparatus; and a receiving unit that receives an uplink scheduling allocation from the base station apparatus. The user equipment executes the simultaneous transmissions in the uplink band combination based on the uplink scheduling allocation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hideaki Takahashi, Yousuke Sano, Hiromasa Umeda
  • Publication number: 20200322991
    Abstract: There is provided user equipment of a radio communication system including a base station and the user equipment, the user equipment includes a receiver that receives a plurality of user equipment identifier candidates from the base station; a selector that selects one user equipment identifier from the plurality of user equipment identifier candidates; and a transmitter that transmits a signal of an uplink shared channel using the one user equipment identifier that is selected, without performing contention resolution of the user equipment identifier used by the user equipment with the base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Applicants: NTT DOCOMO, INC., NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yousuke Sano, Kazuaki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 10797837
    Abstract: The present invention is designed to reduce the time it takes to form adequate beams, in communication using beamforming. According to one aspect of the present invention, a user terminal has a transmission section that, using temporally orthogonal radio resources, forms different transmitting beams and transmits reference signals respectively to a radio base station, and a control section that controls the forming of the transmitting beams so that at least one of the reference signals is received in a receiving beam which the radio base station forms in a given period set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Hiroki Harada, Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Satoshi Nagata, Yousuke Sano
  • Publication number: 20200305123
    Abstract: The present invention is designed to make it possible to acquire broadcast information in a suitable manner. According to one aspect of the present invention, a user terminal has a receiving section that receives a synchronization signal and a broadcast signal, and a control section that specifies a frequency hopping pattern that is applied to the broadcast signal based on the synchronization signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Takeda, Yousuke Sano, Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata
  • Publication number: 20200305187
    Abstract: A user equipment is disclosed including a processor that selects a parameter set from a parameter set group generated by grouping radio parameters used for transmission of an uplink signal or reception of a downlink signal, and selects a radio parameter to be applied to the uplink signal or the downlink signal from the selected parameter set, and a transceiver that performs the transmission of the uplink signal or the reception of the downlink signal using the selected radio parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Takeda, Yousuke Sano, Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata, Qin Mu, Liu Liu
  • Publication number: 20200260299
    Abstract: A terminal is disclosed including a processor that controls reception of a first synchronization signal (PSS), a second synchronization signal (SSS), and a broadcast channel (PBCH) in a predetermined block that is formed by a predetermined number of symbols and a predetermined number of subcarriers; and a receiver that receives the PSS, the SSS and the PBCH that form the predetermined block, wherein the PSS and the SSS are located in a first frequency domain, wherein the PBCH is located in at least part of a second frequency domain that is broader than the first frequency domain, and wherein the PBCH is located in at least part of a first predetermined domain neighboring the SSS in the frequency direction in the predetermined block and the PBCH is not located in a second predetermined domain neighboring the PSS in the frequency direction in the predetermined block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroki Harada, Yousuke Sano, Daiki Takeda
  • Publication number: 20200236696
    Abstract: A user apparatus communicates with a base station. The user apparatus includes a generation unit configured to generate terminal capability information including information indicating an uplink band combination and information indicating whether capable of simultaneous transmission in the uplink band combination, a transmission unit configured to transmit the generated terminal capability information to the base station apparatus, and a reception unit configured to receive an uplink scheduling assignment from the base station apparatus. The simultaneous transmission is performed in the uplink band combination based on the uplink scheduling assignment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hideaki Takahashi, Yousuke Sano, Hiromasa Umeda
  • Publication number: 20200195399
    Abstract: A radio communication system that forms a plurality of cells including a first cell and a second cell adjacent to the first cell, including: a first communication apparatus in the first cell; and a second communication apparatus in the second cell, wherein the first communication apparatus includes a first transmitting unit that transmits a reference signal and the second communication apparatus includes a second transmitting unit that transmits a reference signal, and the reference signal transmitted by the first transmitting unit and the reference signal transmitted by the second transmitting unit are orthogonalized in the same radio resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yousuke Sano, Kazuki Takeda, Kazuaki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata, Shaozhen Guo