Sun Patent Trust

Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America

Optis Wireless Technology, LLC

Panasonic Holdings Corporation

Godo Kaisha IP Bridge 1

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Nuvoton Technology Corporation Japan

Apple Inc.

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Pansonic Corporation

Akihiko Nishio

Daichi Imamura

Seigo Nakao

Masayuki Hoshino

Ayako Horiuchi

Takashi Iwai

Hidetoshi Suzuki

Yoshihiko Ogawa

Kenichi Miyoshi

Masaru Fukuoka

Toru Oizumi

Katsuhiko Hiramatsu

Christian Wengerter

Yasuaki Yuda

Sadaki Futagi

Kazuki Takeda

Alexander Golitschek Edler Von Elbwart

Kenichi Kuri

Jun Cheng

Shinsuke Takaoka

Atsushi Matsumoto

Ming Xu

Atsushi Sumasu

Yoshiko Saito

Takahisa Aoyama

Sujuan Feng

Isamu Yoshii

Takashi Tamura

Tomohiro Imai

Lilei Wang

Zhi Zhang

Hidenori Matsuo

Hui Tong

Michael Einhaus

Rikin Shah

Ming-Hung Tao

Takashi Toda

Takashi Aramaki

Tadashi Yoshida

Hiroaki Morino

Joachim Löhr

Tomofumi Takata

Ankit Bhamri

Tetsuya Yamamoto

Lei Huang

Yasuhiro Uemoto

Masahiro Hikita

Takahiro Sato

Ryohei Kimura

Katsuyoshi Naka

Shotaro Maki

Hiroki Haga

Toshiyuki Uehara

Hideyuki Okita

Yuichi Kobayakawa

Priya Hariharan

Hidenori Takeda

Siego Nakao

Joachim Loehr

Mitsuru Uesugi

Masaki Hayashi

Eiko Seidel

Quan Kuang

Yoshiaki Kato

Hongchao Li

Shozo Okasaka

Koji Yamamoto

Kaname Motoyoshi

Takashi Yui

Akito Fukui

Yoshiharu Anda

Katsuhiko Kawashima

Tien-Ming Benjamin Koh

Hideyuki Takahashi

Yang Kang

Kenichi Miyajima

Yusuke Kanda

Makis Kasapidis

Fumiyuki Adachi

Xuan Tuong Tran

Noriaki Minamida

Hideo Fujii

Alexander Golitschek Elder Von Elbwart

Tomohiko Mimura

Selgo Nakao

Daichl Imamura

Katsuiko Hiramatsu

Hidetosi Suzuki

Yoshiaki Katou

Alexander Golitchek Edler Von Elbwart

Kazuaki Takeda

Hiromichi Tomeba

Hideki Aoyagi

Tien Ming (Benjamin) Koh

Hiroyuki Doi

Alexander Golitschek Edler Von Elbawart

Kenichi (deceased) Miyoshi

Daishi Imamura

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 () sets whether the terminal () thereof is a CoMP terminal or a Non-CoMP terminal. When the terminal () is set as a Non-CoMP terminal, the hopping pattern calculating unit () 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 () is set as a CoMP terminal, the hopping pattern calculating unit () 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 () generates a ZC sequence to be used as an SRS, using the calculated ZC sequence number.

Communication apparatus and reference signal receiving method

The present disclosure provides a base station, comprising a transceiver; and circuitry which, in operation, controls the transceiver to serve a cell associated with a first tracking area code, TAC, periodically transmit, in system information, a TAC indicator indicating at least one TAC associated with the cell, and transmit a trigger indicator for triggering a transceiver device to perform a system information update procedure when a content of the system information changes, wherein the circuitry, in operation, prevents the transceiver from transmitting the trigger indicator in a case where the cell is being associated with a second TAC due to a movement of the cell.

Tracking area code transmission in non-terrestrial networks

A terminal, with which it is possible to improve the efficiency of a random access process. In a terminal, a control unit dynamically determines a parameter pertaining to the transmission of a data part out of a random access signal that includes a preamble part and the data part. A transmission unit notifies the determined parameter to a base station using the random access signal.

Terminal and communication method

A base station communicates with a terminal, for which an uplink component carrier and downlink component carriers are configured. The base station adjusts a payload size of control information, transmitted in a downlink control channel, based on a basic payload size, and maps the control information onto a search space in at least one of the downlink component carriers. The basic payload size of the control information mapped onto a search space in a primary downlink component carrier is based on a number of information bits obtained from a bandwidth of the primary downlink component carrier, and on a number of information bits obtained from a bandwidth of the uplink component carrier. The basic payload size of the control information mapped onto a search space in a non-primary downlink component carrier is based on a number of information bits obtained from a bandwidth of the non-primary downlink component carrier.

Communication apparatus

A wireless communication base station device which makes it possible to provide a base station, terminal and CCE allocation method capable of reducing the number of times blind decoding of a terminal is performed, without increasing the CCE block rate, even when a plurality of unit bands are set in a terminal. In this device, a search space setting section () sets in each of a plurality of unit bands a common search space in respect of a terminal which is communicating using the plurality of unit bands and other terminals, and sets in each of the plurality of unit bands an individual search space in respect of the terminal. An allocation section () allocates control information solely to CCEs within the common search spaces set in specified unit bands among the plurality of unit bands, or solely to CCEs within individual search spaces set in specified unit bands.

Integrated circuit

Disclosed is an integrated circuit for controlling a mobile station. The integrated circuit includes: transmission circuitry, which, in operation, transmits uplink channels of a first cell group and a second cell group, wherein a cell group includes one or more cells; and power control circuitry, which is coupled to the transmission circuitry and which, in operation, controls a transmission power of the uplink channels of the second cell group, wherein, in response to simultaneous transmission of: the uplink channel(s) of the first cell group on which uplink control information is multiplexed; and a plurality of reference signals on the uplink channels of the second cell group. The power control circuitry uniformly reduces the transmission power of the uplink channels of the second cell group based on a transmission power of the uplink channel(s) of the first cell group.

Communication apparatus and communication method for configuring resource region candidates and mapping downlink control information to same

A semiconductor device for high-frequency amplification includes a substrate; a first nitride semiconductor layer above the substrate; a two-dimensional electron gas layer; a second nitride semiconductor layer; and a source electrode, a drain electrode, and a gate electrode spaced apart from each other above the first nitride semiconductor layer. In a plan view, an active region with a two-dimensional electron gas layer includes a high-electron-mobility transistor and the resistor provided above the second nitride semiconductor layer. In the plan view, a non-active region includes a drain terminal and a gate terminal connected to the drain electrode or the gate electrode; and a first resistor terminal and a second resistor terminal connected to the resistor.

Semiconductor device for power amplification

A communication apparatus has a receiver and a decoder. The receiver receives a control signal including first downlink control information and second downlink control information, and receives decoding area information that indicates whether the extended Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) should be decoded for each of a plurality of terminal apparatuses. The decoder decodes each of a plurality of first mapping candidates in the PDCCH area or decodes each of the plurality of first mapping candidates in the PDCCH area and each of the plurality of second mapping candidates in the extended PDCCH. A number of the second mapping candidates included in the user-specific search space equals to or is more than a number of the first mapping candidates included in the common search space.

Communication apparatus and communication method for receiving control information over a search space

An appropriate MAC Control Element (CE) operation start timing control process is realized in an NTN system. A terminalcomprises: a wireless reception unitthat receives a MAC CE and an offset value (K, etc.); and a control unitthat, on the basis of the offset value, sets a slot for starting an operation based on a MAC CE control command.

Reception device, transmission device, reception method, and transmission method

A power amplifier semiconductor device includes: a substrate; a semiconductor layer provided on the surface of the substrate and including a plurality of unit HEMTs; a connection layer provided on the semiconductor layer and including a source electrode, a drain electrode, and a gate electrode of each of the plurality of unit HEMTs; a terminal layer provided on the connection layer; a back electrode which is provided on the bottom surface of the substrate and whose potential is set to a source potential; and substrate vias that pass through the substrate and have a shield wiring layer on inner walls of the substrate vias. In plan view, either one of the drain aggregation portion or the gate aggregation portion is or both of the drain aggregation portion and the gate aggregation portion are each surrounded by the substrate vias.

Power amplifier semiconductor device

Where first and second reference signals for a first and second communication system, respectively, are transmitted, resources that affect a reception apparatus compatible only with the first communication system can be minimized, and the throughput can be prevented from being deteriorated. As resources for a reference signal CSI-RS for LTE-A, last half symbols in a time direction of a resource unit RB/Sub-frame defined in a frequency-time domain are used, and the CSI-RS is allocated in a position up to the last two symbols or in the last symbol, or the like, of a particular RB/Sub-frame and transmitted when a reference signal 4RS for LTE is transmitted to a reception apparatus in addition to transmitting CSI-RS for LTE-A. The reception apparatus receives CSI-RS allocated in the last half symbol of RB/Sub-frame based on CSI-RS allocation information, measures channel quality by using this CSI-RS, and transmits and reports feedback information.

Radio reception apparatus, radio transmission apparatus, and radio communication method

The present disclosure provides a terminal device that allows constraints on user allocation to be prevented and spread codes to be allocated in a scheduler when non-adaptive HARQ is employed using a PHICH. A codeword generator generates code words by encoding data, a layer mapping unit places each CW in one or a plurality of layers, a DMRS generator generates a reference signal for each layer in which a CW is placed by using any resource among a plurality of resources defined by a mutually orthogonal plurality of OCCs, and an ACK/NACK demodulator receives a response signal indicating a retransmission request. When a response signal requesting retransmission of only a CW placed in a plurality of layers is received, the DMRS generator uses each resource having the same OCC among the plurality of resources for the reference signals generated in the corresponding layers.

Terminal device, base station device, retransmission method, and resource allocation method

Appropriate timing control is realized in accordance with propagation delay between a terminal and a base station. This terminal includes: a control unit that controls a transmission timing on the basis of first information relating to control of transmission timing of signals in a transmission increment of the signals, and second information relating to control of transmission timing in a finer increment than in the transmission increment; and a wireless transmission unit that performs signal transmission on the basis of control of the transmission timing by the control unit.

Transmission device and transmission method

The purpose of the invention is to realize appropriate random-access procedures in accordance with propagation delay between a terminal and a base station. A terminal () comprises a wireless transmission unit () that transmits signals of a random-access channel, and a control unit () that controls resource settings regarding transmission of signals on the random-access channel on the basis of effectiveness of information relating to adjustment of transmission timing.

Transmission device, reception device, transmission method, and reception method

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.

Communication apparatus and communication method thereof

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Akihiko Nishio