# US 11,909,680 B2 · Terminal apparatus and communication method > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 11,909,680 B2 - Document ID: US11909680B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 17/288,884 - Filed: 2019-10-24 - Published: 2022-01-06 - Granted: 2024-02-20 - Earliest claimed: 2018-10-31 - Assignees: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha - Applicants: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha - Inventors: Ryota Yamada; Hiromichi Tomeba; Hideo Namba; Yasuhiro Hamaguchi - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11909680B2 ## CPC - H04B 7/0871: {using different reception schemes, at least one of them being a diversity reception scheme} - H04L 5/0048: {Allocation of pilot signals, i.e. of signals known to the receiver (allocation of control signalling H04L5/0053; use of control signalling H04L5/0091)} - H04B 7/022: Site diversity; Macro-diversity (using two or more spaced independent antennas H04B7/04) - H04L 1/0047: {Decoding adapted to other signal detection operation (in conjunction with sequence estimation or equalization H04L25/03286)} - H04L 1/02: by diversity reception - H04W 16/28: using beam steering - H04W 56/001: {Synchronization between nodes} - H04W 72/1273: of downlink data flows - H04W 72/21: in the uplink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards the network - H04B: TRANSMISSION - H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) - H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72) ## Abstract To provide a terminal apparatus and a communication method capable of improving reliability and frequency efficiency in a case of transmission by beamforming. Provided are a higher layer processing unit configured with demodulation reference signal (DMRS) antenna port groups for indicating two groups of antenna ports of a DMRS, a receiver configured to receive the DMRS, downlink control information (DCI), and a downlink shared channel (PDSCH), and a decoding unit configured to decode the PDSCH, wherein the PDSCH includes a transport block, and in a case that the number of the transport blocks configured in the DCI is one, the PDSCH demodulated using a DMRS of a first group and/or the PDSCH demodulated using a DMRS of a second group is used to decode one transport block. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A terminal apparatus configured to communicate with a base station apparatus, the terminal apparatus comprising: radio reception circuitry configured to receive: downlink control information (DCI), a first predetermined downlink signal and a second predetermined downlink signal, at least one of a first physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) and a second PDSCH, and a first demodulation reference signal (DMRS) and a second DMRS; and signal detection circuitry configured to perform a demodulation of at least one of the first PDSCH based on the first DMRS and the second PDSCH based on the second DMRS, wherein the first predetermined downlink signal is a first channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) or a first synchronization signal block (SSB), and the second predetermined downlink signal is a second CSI-RS or a second SSB, the DCI includes: antenna port information indicating one or more DMRS antenna ports, and a first transmission configuration indication (TCI) and a second TCI, an antenna port used for transmitting the first DMRS and an antenna port used for transmitting the second DMRS are included in the one or more DMRS antenna ports, and each of the one or more DMRS antenna ports is included in a first DMRS antenna port group or a second DMRS antenna port group, the first TCI indicates a quasi-colocation (QCL) between the first predetermined downlink signal and the first DMRS, and the second TCI indicates a QCL between the second predetermined downlink signal and the second DMRS, and in a case where the one or more DMRS antenna ports are included in only one of the first DMRS antenna port group and the second DMRS antenna port group, the first DMRS and the second DMRS are included in the one of the first DMRS antenna port group and the second DMRS antenna port group, the first PDSCH and the second PDSCH include same downlink data, the radio reception circuitry receives: the first DMRS based on the first TCI and the first predetermined downlink signal, and the second DMRS based on the second TCI and the second predetermined downlink signal, and the signal detection circuitry performs: a demodulation of the first PDSCH based on the first DMRS, and a demodulation of the second PDSCH based on the second DMRS. ### Claim 2 A communication method for a terminal apparatus configured to communicate with a base station apparatus, the communication method comprising: receiving: downlink control information (DCI), a first predetermined downlink signal and a second predetermined downlink signal, at least one of a first physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) and a second PDSCH, and a first demodulation reference signal (DMRS) and a second DMRS; and performing a demodulation of at least one of the first PDSCH based on the first DMRS and the second PDSCH based on the second DMRS, wherein the first predetermined downlink signal is a first channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) or a first synchronization signal block (SSB), and the second predetermined downlink signal is a second CSI-RS or a second SSB, the DCI includes: antenna port information indicating one or more DMRS antenna ports, and a first transmission configuration indication (TCI) and a second TCI, an antenna port used for transmitting the first DMRS and an antenna port used for transmitting the second DMRS are included in the one or more DMRS antenna ports, and each of the one or more DMRS antenna ports is included in a first DMRS antenna port group or a second DMRS antenna port group, the first TCI indicates a quasi-colocation (QCL) between the first predetermined downlink signal and the first DMRS, and the second TCI indicates a QCL between the second predetermined downlink signal and the second DMRS, and in a case where the one or more DMRS antenna ports are included in only one of the first DMRS antenna port group and the second DMRS antenna port group, the first DMRS and the second DMRS are included in the one of the first DMRS antenna port group and the second DMRS antenna port group, the first PDSCH and the second PDSCH include same downlink data, the first DMRS is received based on the first TCI and the first predetermined downlink signal and the second DMRS is received based on the second TCI and the second predetermined downlink signal, and a demodulation of the first PDSCH is performed based on the first DMRS, and a demodulation of the second PDSCH is performed based on the second DMRS.