US 12,170,587 B2
Transmitting apparatus
Yutaka Murakami, Kanagawa (JP); Tomohiro Kimura, Osaka (JP); and Mikihiro Ouchi, Osaka (JP)
Assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA, Torrance, CA (US)
Filed by Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America, Torrance, CA (US)
Filed on Apr. 3, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/130,043.
Application 18/130,043 is a continuation of application No. 16/672,694, filed on Nov. 4, 2019, granted, now 11,652,676.
Application 16/672,694 is a continuation of application No. 16/039,658, filed on Jul. 19, 2018, granted, now 10,560,296, issued on Feb. 11, 2020.
Application 16/039,658 is a continuation of application No. 15/295,162, filed on Oct. 17, 2016, granted, now 10,057,096, issued on Aug. 21, 2018.
Application 15/295,162 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2015/002113, filed on Apr. 17, 2015.
Claims priority of application No. 2014-090477 (JP), filed on Apr. 24, 2014; and application No. 2014-105006 (JP), filed on May 21, 2014.
Prior Publication US 2023/0239184 A1, Jul. 27, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04L 27/26 (2006.01); H04B 7/0413 (2017.01); H04J 11/00 (2006.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04B 7/10 (2017.01)
CPC H04L 27/2602 (2013.01) [H04B 7/0413 (2013.01); H04J 11/00 (2013.01); H04L 5/0053 (2013.01); H04L 5/0094 (2013.01); H04L 27/2601 (2013.01); H04B 7/10 (2013.01)] 3 Claims
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1. A transmission method according to Frequency-Division Multiplexing (FDM), the transmission method comprising:
selecting a pattern from among resource allocation patterns, the resource allocation patterns defining respective allocations of Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) subcarriers to subcarrier groups;
mapping data groups onto the subcarrier groups according to the selected pattern to perform Frequency-Division Multiplexing (FDM); and
transmitting allocation information and the mapped data groups according to OFDM, the allocation information indicating the selected pattern, wherein
the subcarrier groups include a fixed subcarrier group having fixed OFDM subcarriers regardless of the selected pattern, the fixed OFDM subcarriers are fixed in a frequency direction, and a data group among the data groups is mapped onto the fixed subcarrier group,
the number of the fixed OFDM subcarriers is fixed regardless of the selected pattern, and
the allocations of the OFDM subcarriers defined by the respective resource allocation patterns are mutually different in a frequency direction.