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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2020

Filed:

Apr. 16, 2019
Applicant:

Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Sakai, Osaka, JP;

Inventors:

Hiromichi Tomeba, Sakai, JP;

Takashi Onodera, Sakai, JP;

Minoru Kubota, Sakai, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/0456 (2017.01); H04B 7/04 (2017.01); H04M 1/725 (2006.01); H04B 7/06 (2006.01); H04B 7/0404 (2017.01); H04L 27/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/0456 (2013.01); H04B 7/04 (2013.01); H04B 7/0404 (2013.01); H04B 7/0617 (2013.01); H04B 7/0619 (2013.01); H04M 1/725 (2013.01); H04L 2027/0053 (2013.01);
Abstract

A base station apparatus is capable of adjusting antenna gains in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction of the plurality of antennas included in the base station apparatus, by adjusting a phase and an amplitude of a signal addressed and transmitted to a terminal apparatus, stores a codebook which is shared with the terminal apparatus and describes a plurality of linear filters associated with antenna gains in the horizontal direction and antenna gains in the vertical direction, acquires control information indicating at least one out of a plurality of linear filters described in the codebook, of which notification is sent from the terminal apparatus, performs precoding on the signal addressed to the terminal apparatus, based on the control information and the first codebook, and transmits the signal subjected to the precoding.


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