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US 12,021,612 · App. 17/409,847 · Granted Jun 25, 2024

Communication device, information processing device, communication method, and computer-readable storage medium

Inventor: Hirohiko Inohiza (Kanagawa, JP)
Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
H04L1/0003H04L1/0013H04L1/0083H04L27/34H04W84/12
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Patent No.
US 12,021,612
App. No.
17/409,847
Granted
Jun 25, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

A communication device transmits a radio frame including a preamble and a data field of a physical (PHY) layer. The preamble includes an L-STF, an L-LTF, an L-SIG, an EHT-SIG-A, an EHT-STF, and an EHT-LTF, the EHT-SIG-A includes a subfield indicating information of a modulation scheme and a code rate (MCS, Modulation and Coding Scheme), the data field includes data modulated and encoded in accordance with the modulation scheme and the code rate indicated by the subfield, and the subfield is configured to be capable of designating one of at least 2048QAM and 4096QAM as the modulation scheme.

Claims (74)

1. A communication device, comprising:

at least one memory that stores a set of instructions; and

at least one processing circuit,

wherein the communication device is caused, by the at least one processing circuit executing the instructions and/or the at least one processing circuit itself operating, to perform operations comprising:

generating an EHT PPDU (Extremely High Throughput Physical layer Protocol Data Unit) including a preamble and a data field, and

transmitting the EHT PPDU,

wherein the preamble includes an L-STF (Legacy Short Training Field), an L-LTF (Legacy Long Training Field), an L-SIG (Legacy Signal Field), a second Signal Field, a third Signal Field, an EHT-STF (EHT Short Training Field), and an EHT-LTF (EHT Long Training Field),

the second Signal Field includes a first subfield indicating information of a modulation scheme and a code rate (MCS, Modulation and Coding Scheme) of the third Signal Field,

the third Signal Field includes a second subfield indicating information of a MCS of the data field,

the first subfield designates a MCS from a number of MCSs where a data rate of a MCS is not greater than a data rate of MCS that is 64QAM modulation and 1/2 coding rate and the first subfield does not designate a MCS where a data rate of a MCS is greater than a data rate of MCS that is 64QAM modulation and 1/2 coding rate,

the data field includes data modulated and encoded in accordance with the information of the MCS indicated by the second subfield, and

the second subfield is configured to be capable of designating 4096QAM as the modulation scheme.

2. The communication device according to claim 1 , wherein the communication device is a printing device.

3. The communication device according to claim 1 , wherein the communication device is a camera device.

4. The communication device according to claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise performing a projection processing.

5. A communication device, comprising:

at least one memory that stores a set of instructions; and

at least one processing circuit,

wherein the communication device is caused, by the at least one processing circuit executing the instructions and/or the at least one processing circuit itself operating, to perform operations comprising:

receiving an EHT PPDU (Extremely High Throughput Physical layer Protocol Data Unit) including a preamble and a data field, and

decoding the EHT-PPDU,

wherein the preamble includes an L-STF (Legacy Short Training Field), an L-LTF (Legacy Long Training Field), an L-SIG (Legacy Signal Field), a second Signal Field, a third Signal Field, an EHT-STF (EHT Short Training Field), and an EHT-LTF (EHT Long Training Field),

the second Signal Field includes a first subfield indicating information of a modulation scheme and a code rate (MCS, Modulation and Coding Scheme) of the third Signal Field,

the third Signal Field includes a second subfield indicating information of a MCS of the data field,

the first subfield designates a MCS from a number of MCSs where a data rate of a MCS is not greater than a data rate of MCS that is 64QAM modulation and 1/2 coding rate and the first subfield does not designate a MCS where a data rate of a MCS is greater than a data rate of MCS that is 64QAM modulation and 1/2 coding rate,

the data field includes data modulated and encoded in accordance with the information of the MCS indicated by the second subfield, and

the second subfield is configured to be capable of designating 4096QAM as the modulation scheme.

6. The communication device according to claim 5 , wherein the communication device is a printing device.

7. The communication device according to claim 5 , wherein the communication device is a camera device.

8. The communication device according to claim 5 , the operations further comprise performing a projection processing.

9. An information processing device, comprising:

at least one memory that stores a set of instructions; and

at least one processing circuit,

wherein the information processing device is caused, by the at least one processing circuit executing the instructions and/or the at least one processing circuit itself operating, to perform operations comprising:

generating an EHT PPDU (Extremely High Throughput Physical layer Protocol Data Unit) including a preamble and a data field,

wherein the preamble includes an L-STF (Legacy Short Training Field), an L-LTF (Legacy Long Training Field), an L-SIG (Legacy Signal Field), a second Signal Field, a third Signal Field, an EHT-STF (EHT Short Training Field), and an EHT-LTF (EHT Long Training Field), the second Signal Field includes a first subfield indicating information of a modulation scheme and a code rate (MCS, Modulation and Coding Scheme) of the third Signal Field,

the third Signal Field includes a second subfield indicating information of a MCS of the data field,

the first subfield designates a MCS from a number of MCSs where a data rate of a MCS is not greater than a data rate of MCS that is 64QAM modulation and 1/2 coding rate and the first subfield does not designate a MCS where a data rate of a MCS is greater than a data rate of MCS that is 64QAM modulation and 1/2 coding rate,

the data field includes data modulated and encoded in accordance with the information of the MCS indicated by the second subfield, and

the second subfield is configured to be capable of designating 4096QAM as the modulation scheme.

10. A communication method performed by a communication device, comprising:

generating an EHT PPDU (Extremely High Throughput Physical layer Protocol Data Unit) including a preamble and a data field; and

transmitting the EHT PPDU, wherein

the preamble includes an L-STF (Legacy Short Training Field), an L-LTF (Legacy Long Training Field), an L-SIG (Legacy Signal Field), a second Signal Field, a third Signal Field, an EHT-STF (EHT Short Training Field), and an EHT-LTF (EHT Long Training Field),

the second Signal Field includes a first subfield indicating information of a modulation scheme and a code rate (MCS, Modulation and Coding Scheme) of the third Signal Field,

the third Signal Field includes a second subfield indicating information of a MCS of the data field,

the first subfield designates a MCS from a number of MCSs where a data rate of a MCS is not greater than a data rate of MCS that is 64QAM modulation and 1/2 coding rate and the first subfield does not designate a MCS where a data rate of a MCS is greater than a data rate of MCS that is 64QAM modulation and 1/2 coding rate,

the data field includes data modulated and encoded in accordance with the information of the MCS indicated by the second subfield, and

the second subfield is configured to be capable of designating 4096QAM as the modulation scheme.

11. A communication method performed by a communication device, comprising:

receiving an EHT PPDU (Extremely High Throughput Physical layer Protocol Data Unit) including a preamble and a data field, and

decoding the EHT-PPDU, wherein

the preamble includes an L-STF (Legacy Short Training Field), an L-LTF (Legacy Long Training Field), an L-SIG (Legacy Signal Field), a second Signal Field, a third Signal Field, an EHT-STF (EHT Short Training Field), and an EHT-LTF (EHT Long Training Field),

the second Signal Field includes a first subfield indicating information of a modulation scheme and a code rate (MCS, Modulation and Coding Scheme) of the third Signal Field,

the third Signal Field includes a second subfield indicating information of a MCS of the data field,

the first subfield designates a MCS from a number of MCSs where a data rate of a MCS is not greater than a data rate of MCS that is 64QAM modulation and 1/2 coding rate and the first subfield does not designate a MCS where a data rate of a MCS is greater than a data rate of MCS that is 64QAM modulation and 1/2 coding rate,

the data field includes data modulated and encoded in accordance with the information of the MCS rate indicated by the second subfield, and

the second subfield is configured to be capable of designating 4096QAM as the modulation scheme.

12. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium that stores a program for causing, when executed by a computer included in a communication device, the computer to perform operations comprising:

generating an EHT PPDU (Extremely High Throughput Physical layer Protocol Data Unit) including a preamble and a data field; and

transmitting the EHT PPDU, wherein

the preamble includes an L-STF (Legacy Short Training Field), an L-LTF (Legacy Long Training Field), an L-SIG (Legacy Signal Field), a second Signal Field, a third Signal Field, an EHT-STF (EHT Short Training Field), and an EHT-LTF (EHT Long Training Field),

the second Signal Field includes a first subfield indicating information of a modulation scheme and a code rate (MCS, Modulation and Coding Scheme) of the third Signal Field, the third Signal Field includes a second subfield indicating information of a MCS of the data field,

the first subfield designates a MCS from a number of MCSs where a data rate of a MCS is not greater than a data rate of MCS that is 64QAM modulation and 1/2 coding rate and the first subfield does not designate a MCS where a data rate of a MCS is greater than a data rate of MCS that is 64QAM modulation and 1/2 coding rate,

the data field includes data modulated and encoded in accordance with the information of the MCS rate indicated by the second subfield, and

the second subfield is configured to be capable of designating 4096QAM as the modulation scheme.

13. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium that stores a program for causing, when executed by a computer included in a communication device, the computer to perform operations comprising:

receiving an EHT PPDU (Extremely High Throughput Physical layer Protocol Data Unit) including a preamble and a data field, and

decoding the EHT-PPDU, wherein

the preamble includes an L-STF (Legacy Short Training Field), an L-LTF (Legacy Long Training Field), an L-SIG (Legacy Signal Field), a second Signal Field, a third Signal Field, an EHT-STF (EHT Short Training Field), and an EHT-LTF (EHT Long Training Field),

the second Signal Field includes a first subfield indicating information of a modulation scheme and a code rate (MCS, Modulation and Coding Scheme) of the third Signal Field, the third Signal Field includes a second subfield indicating information of a MCS of the data field,

the first subfield designates a MCS from a number of MCSs where a data rate of a MCS is not greater than a data rate of MCS that is 64QAM modulation and 1/2 coding rate and the first subfield does not designate a MCS where a data rate of a MCS is greater than a data rate of MCS that is 64QAM modulation and 1/2 coding rate,

the data field includes data modulated and encoded in accordance with the information of the MCS rate indicated by the second subfield, and

the second subfield is configured to be capable of designating 4096QAM as the modulation scheme.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 6, 2021
From: INOHIZA, HIROHIKO
To: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 057886/0535 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2019-036406 · Feb 28, 2019 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTJP2020004257 · Feb 5, 2020
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