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US 12,603,723 · App. 18/664,459 · Granted Apr 14, 2026

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 12,603,723
App. No.
18/664,459
Granted
Apr 14, 2026
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 2048 QAM and 4096 QAM as the modulation scheme.

Claims (92)

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:

transmitting a radio frame including a preamble of a physical (PHY) layer and a data field,

wherein the preamble includes a first SIG (Signal Field) and a second SIG,

the second SIG is transmitted right after a transmission of the first SIG,

the first SIG includes a first subfield indicating information of a modulation scheme and a coding rate (MCS, Modulation and Coding Scheme) of the second SIG, the MCS of the second SIG being used for modulation and coding of information used by a plurality of partner devices in common,

the first subfield does not designate any MCS of which a data rate is greater than a data rate of a MCS that is 64QAM modulation and 1/2 coding rate, and the first subfield is configured to be capable of designating a MCS from at least BPSK and 1/2 coding rate, QPSK and 1/2 coding rate, 16 QAM and 1/2 coding rate,

the second SIG includes a second subfield indicating information of a MCS of the data field,

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 a MCS from at least BPSK and 1/2 coding rate, QPSK and 1/2 coding rate, 16 QAM and 1/2 coding rate, and 4096QAM and 3/4 coding rate.

2 . The communication device according to claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprises identifying, based on a communication quality between the communication device and a partner device and an address to which the radio frame is transmitted, a value to be set in the second sub field,

wherein the second SIG includes a plurality of User fields each of which corresponds to a respective address of the radio frame and each of the plurality of the User field includes the second field and STA-ID corresponding to the respective address.

3 . The communication device according to claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprises setting, in accordance with a user operation, the MCS used for a data communication.

4 . The communication device according to claim 1 , wherein the first subfield consists of a first number of bits, the second subfield consists of a second number of bits, and the second number is greater than the first number.

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

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

7 . The communication device according to claim 1 , further comprising a projector that performs a projection.

8 . The communication device according to claim 1 , wherein the second subfield is further configured to be capable of designating a MCS of 4096 QAM and 5/6 coding rate.

9 . The communication device according to claim 1 , wherein the second subfield is configured to be capable of designating a MCS from at least 17 classes of MCSs.

10 . The communication device according to claim 1 , wherein the second subfield consists of 5 bits.

11 . The communication device according to claim 1 , wherein the communication device is a communication device complying with IEEE 802.11 standard series.

12 . 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 a radio frame including a preamble of a physical (PHY) layer and a data field,

wherein the preamble includes a first SIG (Signal Field) and a second SIG,

the second SIG is received right after a receiving of the first SIG,

the first SIG includes a first subfield indicating information of a modulation scheme and a coding rate (MCS, Modulation and Coding Scheme) of the second SIG, the MCS of the second SIG being used for modulation and coding of information commonly used by a plurality of communication devices including the communication device,

the first subfield does not designate any MCS of which a data rate is greater than a data rate of a MCS that is 64QAM modulation and 1/2 coding rate, and the first subfield is configured to be capable of designating a MCS from at least BPSK and 1/2 coding rate, QPSK and 1/2 coding rate, 16 QAM and 1/2 coding rate,

the second SIG includes a second subfield indicating information of a MCS of the data field,

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 a MCS from at least BPSK and 1/2 coding rate, QPSK and 1/2 coding rate, 16 QAM and 1/2 coding rate, and 4096QAM and 3/4 coding rate.

13 . The communication device according to claim 12 , wherein the first subfield consists of a first number of bits, the second subfield consists of a second number of bits, and the second number is greater than the first number.

14 . The communication device according to claim 12 , wherein the communication device is a printing device.

15 . The communication device according to claim 12 , wherein the communication device is a camera device.

16 . The communication device according to claim 12 , further comprising a projector that performs a projection.

17 . The communication device according to claim 12 , wherein the second subfield is further configured to be capable of designating a MCS of 4096 QAM and 5 / 6 coding rate.

18 . The communication device according to claim 12 , wherein the second subfield is configured to be capable of designating a MCS from at least 17 classes of MCSs.

19 . The communication device according to claim 12 , wherein the second subfield consists of 5 bits.

20 . The communication device according to claim 12 , wherein the communication device is a communication device complying with IEEE 802.11 standard series.

21 . An information processing apparatus, comprising:

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

at least one processing circuit,

wherein the information processing apparatus 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 a radio frame including a preamble of a physical (PHY) layer and a data field,

wherein the preamble includes a first SIG (Signal Field) and a second SIG,

the second SIG is transmitted right after a transmission of the first SIG,

the first SIG includes a first subfield indicating information of a modulation scheme and a coding rate (MCS, Modulation and Coding Scheme) of the second SIG, the MCS of the second SIG being used for modulation and coding of information used by a plurality of partner devices in common,

the first subfield does not designate any MCS of which a data rate is greater than a data rate of a MCS that is 64QAM modulation and 1/2 coding rate, and the first subfield is configured to be capable of designating a MCS from at least BPSK and 1/2 coding rate, QPSK and 1/2 coding rate, 16 QAM and 1/2 coding rate,

the second SIG includes a second subfield indicating information of a MCS of the data field,

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 a MCS from at least BPSK and 1/2 coding rate, QPSK and 1/2 coding rate, 16 QAM and 1/2 coding rate, and 4096QAM and 3/4 coding rate.

22 . A communication method, comprising:

transmitting a radio frame including a preamble of a physical (PHY) layer and a data field,

wherein the preamble includes a first SIG (Signal Field) and a second SIG,

the second SIG is transmitted right after a transmission of the first SIG,

the first SIG includes a first subfield indicating information of a modulation scheme and a coding rate (MCS, Modulation and Coding Scheme) of the second SIG, the MCS of the second SIG being used for modulation and coding of information used by a plurality of partner devices in common,

the first subfield does not designate any MCS of which a data rate is greater than a data rate of a MCS that is 64QAM modulation and 1/2 coding rate, and the first subfield is configured to be capable of designating a MCS from at least BPSK and 1/2 coding rate, QPSK and 1/2 coding rate, 16 QAM and 1/2 coding rate,

the second SIG includes a second subfield indicating information of a MCS of the data field,

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 a MCS from at least BPSK and 1/2 coding rate, QPSK and 1/2 coding rate, 16 QAM and 1/2 coding rate, and 4096QAM and 3/4 coding rate.

23 . A communication method, comprising:

receiving a radio frame including a preamble of a physical (PHY) layer and a data field,

wherein the preamble includes a first SIG (Signal Field) and a second SIG,

the second SIG is received right after a receiving of the first SIG,

the first SIG includes a first subfield indicating information of a modulation scheme and a coding rate (MCS, Modulation and Coding Scheme) of the second SIG, the MCS of the second SIG being used for modulation and coding of information commonly used by a plurality of communication devices,

the first subfield does not designate any MCS of which a data rate is greater than a data rate of a MCS that is 64QAM modulation and 1/2 coding rate, and the first subfield is configured to be capable of designating a MCS from at least BPSK and 1/2 coding rate, QPSK and 1/2 coding rate, 16 QAM and 1/2 coding rate,

the second SIG includes a second subfield indicating information of a MCS of the data field,

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 a MCS from at least BPSK and 1/2 coding rate, QPSK and 1/2 coding rate, 16 QAM and 1/2 coding rate, and 4096QAM and 3/4 coding rate.

24 . The communication method according to claim 23 , wherein the first subfield consists of a first number of bits, the second subfield consists of a second number of bits, and the second number is greater than the first number.

25 . A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing instructions executed by at least one circuit to cause a communication device to perform:

transmitting a radio frame including a preamble of a physical (PHY) layer and a data field,

wherein the preamble includes a first SIG (Signal Field) and a second SIG,

the second SIG is transmitted right after a transmission of the first SIG,

the first SIG includes a first subfield indicating information of a modulation scheme and a coding rate (MCS, Modulation and Coding Scheme) of the second SIG, the MCS of the second SIG being used for modulation and coding of information used by a plurality of partner devices in common,

the first subfield does not designate any MCS of which a data rate is greater than a data rate of a MCS that is 64QAM modulation and 1/2 coding rate, and the first subfield is configured to be capable of designating a MCS from at least BPSK and 1/2 coding rate, QPSK and 1/2 coding rate, 16 QAM and 1/2 coding rate,

the second SIG includes a second subfield indicating information of a MCS of the data field,

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 a MCS from at least BPSK and 1/2 coding rate, QPSK and 1/2 coding rate, 16 QAM and 1/2 coding rate, and 4096QAM and 3/4 coding rate.

26 . A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing instructions executed by at least one circuit to cause a communication device to perform:

receiving a radio frame including a preamble of a physical (PHY) layer and a data field,

wherein the preamble includes a first SIG (Signal Field) and a second SIG,

the second SIG is received right after a receiving of the first SIG,

the first SIG includes a first subfield indicating information of a modulation scheme and a coding rate (MCS, Modulation and Coding Scheme) of the second SIG, the MCS of the second SIG being used for modulation and coding of information commonly used by a plurality of communication devices including the communication device,

the first subfield does not designate any MCS of which a data rate is greater than a data rate of a MCS that is 64QAM modulation and 1/2 coding rate, and the first subfield is configured to be capable of designating a MCS from at least BPSK and 1/2 coding rate, QPSK and 1/2 coding rate, 16 QAM and 1/2 coding rate,

the second SIG includes a second subfield indicating information of a MCS of the data field,

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 a MCS from at least BPSK and 1/2 coding rate, QPSK and 1/2 coding rate, 16 QAM and 1/2 coding rate, and 4096QAM and 3/4 coding rate.

Priority Claims (1)
JP 2019-036406 · Feb 28, 2019 · national
Continuity (3)
Continuation 17409847 · Aug 24, 2021
Continuation PCTJP2020004257 · Feb 5, 2020
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