Sony Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

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Fujifilm Corporation

Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.

Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.

Copal Company Limited

Hiroaki Takano

Yuichi Morioka

Ryo Sawai

Hiromasa Uchiyama

Ryota Kimura

Atsushi Yoshizawa

Masaki Suzuki

Kazuyuki Sakoda

Shinichiro Tsuda

Toshiaki Nakanishi

Sho Furuichi

Tomoya Yamaura

Hiroo Inaba

Shinichi Kuroda

Nishiki Mizusawa

Hiroshi Takeuchi

Takushi Kunihiro

Satoshi Matsubaguchi

Masahiro Uehara

Hiroaki Takahashi

Fumio Teraoka

Seiichi Izumi

Martin Warwick Beale

Brian Alexander Martin

Anders Berggren

Hirofumi Kasai

Kiyomi Ejiri

Yifu Tang

Koji Naoe

Ryou Sawai

Naoki Takizawa

Masanosuke Kunikata

Masanori Sato

Masatoshi Takahashi

Naoki Kusashima

Hiroki Matsuda

Kazuyuki Shimezawa

Kazuo Kato

Hiroto Kuriki

Xin Guo

Shinji Kato

Hiroshi Hashimoto

Xiaodong Xu

Naoto Abe

Da Wang

Naoyuki Sato

Zhongbin Qin

Tomonori Sato

Yoichi Kobayashi

Akihiro Horii

Yuichiro Murayama

Erika Saito

Hirotaka Suzuki

Jun Iwasaki

Noburo Hibino

Kenichi Masuyama

Toshiyuki Kitahara

Hiroaki Doushita

Kazuko Hanai

Toshihiko Miura

Kazuhisa Takamura

Tatsuo Ishikawa

Takeshi Harasawa

Katsuyoshi Kanemoto

Hiroki Watanabe

Masaki Kishimoto

Masahiko Yamasaki

Chengcheng Yang

Tomoaki Matsumura

Mitsuyoshi Shindo

Hiroyuki Fukada

Nobuo Kohno

Mitsuhiro Isogai

Masatoshi Mikuriya

Michitada Ueda

Taichi Yuki

Kyoko Sugizaki

Toshikazu Kuwabara

Mitsuo Iwatani

Danting Zhang

Satoru Yamazaki

Satoshi Matsubagichi

Toshihiko Konnai

Kazuki Hayashi

To flexibly control the number of user planes in a communication system. In the communication system, a base station located on a local area network is connected to at least one user plane function located on a cloud. Whether or not to add a new user plane function is determined in consideration of an amount of traffic of user data and an assumed amount of traffic of the new user plane function out of a maximum amount of traffic on the local area network, the user data being transferred by the at least one user plane function by use of the local area network.

Control apparatus in communication system and control method therefor

[Object] To provide a mechanism capable of more appropriately ascertaining an interference condition of a data signal. [Solution] An apparatus includes: a processing unit that feeds back a channel quality indicator (CQI) of a serving base station, which is calculated on a basis of results of measuring reference signals received from the serving base station and a neighbor base station and information related to a power difference between the reference signal and a data signal of the neighbor base station, to the serving base station.

Apparatus and method

A terminal device includes a plurality of antenna panels, a reception unit, a selection unit, and a setting unit. The reception unit receives one or more reference signals from a base station via the plurality of antenna panels. The selection unit selects one or more receiving beams from among the received one or more reference signals. The setting unit sets a combination of a receiving antenna panel and the receiving beam to be used by the terminal device when receiving one or more pieces of control information transmitted from the base station (), based on a combination of the receiving antenna panel and the receiving beam used at the reception of the one or more reference signals.

Terminal device, base station device, communication method, and base station device control method

A base station device () includes a control unit (). The control unit () performs operations including: receiving an acquisition request, which is a request for acquiring beam information related to a PDU session established with a terminal device (); and

Base station device, application function node, and communication method

Provided is a communication device including: an acquisition unit that acquires setting for transmitting measurement results of beams by setting synchronization signal blocks transmitted from base stations having the same cell identifier as one synchronization signal group and specifying a synchronization signal block in the synchronization signal group and the base station to which the synchronization signal block belongs; and a communication control unit that transmits the measurement results of the beams on the basis of the setting.

Communication device, communication control device, communication method, and communication control method

Provided is a communication device that operates as a management node in a first zone being a management domain on a network, the communication device including a communication unit that executes communication with another node and a control unit that controls communication executed by the communication unit. The control unit operates such that, when having received, from a user, a request regarding an application that chains one or more application functions (AFs) to act on a packet flowing in the network, the control unit acquires information regarding the application from a second zone being a management domain other than the first zone, and then calculates a deployment destination of the AFs in the network including the first zone and the second zone based on the information.

Communication device and communication method

[Object] To provide a printer system that is simple in structure, and has dual-head capability or duplex printing capability as desired. [Solution] A printer systemincludes a first printer unit, and a second printer unit. The first printer unitincludes a first-printer housing, and a first thermal transfer part. The second printer unitincludes a second-printer housing, and a second thermal transfer part. The first printer unitand the second printer unitare independent of each other and capable of connecting to each other. A sheet printing paperprinted on by the first printer unitis sent to the second printer unitand then continuously printed on by the second printer unit

Printer system

A communication device () includes a determination unit () and a selection unit (). The determination unit () determines a plurality of time offset values for determining a combination of a receiving antenna panel and a receiving beam for user data scheduled by control information transmitted from a base station (). The selection unit () selects a time offset value for determining the combination of the receiving antenna panel and the receiving beam for the user data from among the plurality of time offset values based on the control information received from the base station ().

Communication device, base station device, communication method, and base station device control method

There is provided a communication device including: a communication section that executes communication with another node; and a control section that controls the communication by the communication section, the control section adding, to a packet directed toward a transmission destination node by a transmission source node, header information containing at least path information between the communication device located in a stage subsequent to the transmission source node and a target node located in a stage preceding the transmission destination node, and causing the communication section to send the packet toward another node residing in a path.

Communication device, communication method, and data structure

[Object] To provide a mechanism capable of efficiently operating vast millimeter-wave band resources. [Solution] Provided is an apparatus that operates a small cell, the apparatus including: a processing unit configured to improve a downlink quality of a unit frequency band used in the small cell by limiting resources used for downlink transmission.

Downlink quality improvement method and apparatus

[Object] To provide a wireless communication device which enables paging to be effectively performed with respect to a terminal device that is a target of paging in a system in which another terminal device acts like a cell. [Solution] Provided is a terminal device including: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a paging message from a base station; and a control unit configured to execute paging with respect to one or more other terminal devices that perform wireless communication with the base station via the terminal device on the basis of the paging message acquired by the acquisition unit.

Terminal device, wireless communication device, wireless communication method, and computer program

The present disclosure relates to a control apparatus, a control method, and a vehicle that realize highly reliable communication. Communication with another terminal is controlled by controlling a communication target, a communication method, and communication parameters on the basis of geographic information around an own terminal. The present disclosure can be applied to in-vehicle communication.

Control apparatus, control method, and vehicle

A terminal device () includes a plurality of antenna panels, a reception unit (), a selection unit (), and a setting unit (). The reception unit () receives one or more reference signals from a base station () via the plurality of antenna panels. The selection unit () selects one or more receiving beams from among the received one or more reference signals. The setting unit () sets a combination of a receiving antenna panel and the receiving beam to be used by the terminal device () when receiving one or more pieces of control information transmitted from the base station (), based on a combination of the receiving antenna panel and the receiving beam used at the reception of the one or more reference signals.

In edge computing that deploys a function regarding network user data near equipment, deployment of a network function is flexibly controlled. An acquisition unit acquires information regarding performance corresponding to a deployment position of a predetermined partial function of a network. A fixing unit fixes the deployment position of the predetermined partial function of the network on the basis of the information regarding the performance. A setting request unit issues a request of setting the predetermined partial function of the network for the deployment position fixed by the fixing unit to a network.

Network deployment control apparatus, communication system, and control method therefor

A control device () includes a control unit configured to: acquire a switching request based on a latency measured in a first application function (AF) () disposed in a first network slice () or in a terminal device () communicating with the first AF (); and switch, based on the acquired switching request, a core network to be connected to the terminal device () from a first core network () disposed in the first network slice () to a second core network () disposed in a second network slice () by using the first AF (), or using the first AF () and the terminal device (), as an anchor.

Control device and control method

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Saitama, Japan

Hiroaki Takano