Patents Assigned to KDDI Corporation
  • Publication number: 20220208009
    Abstract: A flight management system is configured to manage the flight of a flight vehicle in communication with a user terminal operated by a user. The flight management system includes a receiver configured to receive from the user terminal the flight application information including the identification information of the flight vehicle, a flight path preferred by the user, and a flight time preferred by the user; a determination unit configured to determine whether or not to permit utilization of predetermined radio waves with the flight vehicle to fly along the flight path at the flight time based on the flight application information; and a transmitter configured to transmit the flight information instructing the flight vehicle to fly along the flight path to the flight vehicle identified by the identification information on the condition that the determination unit determines to permit utilization of predetermined radio waves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Applicant: KDDI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sou YAMAZAKI, Takaya TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20220207459
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: an information acquiring unit configured to acquire article identification information from an information terminal; a specifying unit configured to specify a total weight value of one or more delivery target articles corresponding to one or more pieces of the article identification information by referring to an article database; a determination unit configured to determine whether or not the one or more delivery target articles can be delivered by a flying object on the basis of at least the total weight value; and a display control unit configured to cause the information terminal to display a delivery method designation screen on which a delivery method for delivering articles using the flying object can be designated in a case in which the determination unit determines that the one or more delivery target articles can be delivered by the flying object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Applicant: KDDI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayuki TACHIIWA, Tomoaki MATSUKI, Mitsuyoshi MIYAZAWA
  • Patent number: 11373541
    Abstract: A flight permitted airspace setting device has a memory and a processor. The memory stores information of first unmanned flight vehicle including first information enabling first-unmanned-flight-vehicle identification, first identification information enabling identification of a first user of a first communication service, and first airspace information about airspace in which the first unmanned flight vehicle flies. The memory also stores corresponding second-unmanned-flight-vehicle information. The processor that transmits first control information to the first unmanned flight vehicle to control a flight state of the first unmanned flight vehicle by using the first identification information when the first unmanned flight vehicle is flying, and transmits second control information to the second unmanned flight vehicle to control a flight state of the second unmanned flight vehicle by using second identification information of a second user when the second unmanned flight vehicle is flying.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: KDDI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Junichi Tabuchi
  • Publication number: 20220198193
    Abstract: An information display device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires a plurality of sensing data acquired by a sensor provided on a flight device by sensing a sensed object to be sensed at a plurality of flying positions of the flight device when the flight device flies, a plurality of sensing positions at which the plurality of the sensing data are acquired, respectively, and a plurality of directional information each indicating a direction of the sensed object when each of the plurality of sensing data is acquired; and a display control unit that causes a display unit to display the sensing data acquired by sensing the sensed object at each of the acquisition positions, and the directional information for indicating the direction of the sensed object when the sensing data is acquired at the acquisition position at each of the sensing positions, in association with each of the sensing positions, wherein the display control unit causes the display unit to display the sensing data acquired by sensing the
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: KDDI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoaki MATSUKI, Sou YAMAZAKI, Kyohei TSUJI
  • Patent number: 11366885
    Abstract: A vehicle security system includes a terminal device, a server device, and a vehicle. The terminal device includes a token acquisition unit and a terminal communication unit configured to transmit the token, terminal identification information, and vehicle identification information to the server device. The server device includes a server communication unit, a server determination unit configured to determine that authentication has succeeded, and a server storage unit configured to store the terminal identification information and the vehicle identification information received from an authenticated terminal device in association. The server communication unit transmits the token and the terminal identification information to the vehicle of the vehicle identification information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: KDDI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keisuke Takemori, Seiichirou Mizoguchi, Akinori Totsuka, Hiroshi Ishizuka
  • Publication number: 20220187541
    Abstract: A communication device includes: a switching unit connected to a transmission unit, a reception unit, a transmission port, and a reception port, the switching unit being set in a first state in which the transmission unit and the transmission port are connected and the reception unit and the reception port are connected or a second state in which the transmission unit and the reception port are connected and the reception unit and the transmission port are connected; a monitoring unit configured to monitor a light level of light input from the reception port or the transmission port; and a control unit configured to set the switching unit in the first state or the second state based on the light level monitored by the monitoring unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Applicant: KDDI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidenori TAKAHASHI, Daiki SOMA, Shohei BEPPU, Takehiro TSURITANI, Noboru YOSHIKANE
  • Publication number: 20220191845
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus transmits a predetermined message to a base station apparatus based on a two-step random access procedure, upon receiving one signal that is transmitted from the base station apparatus in response to the predetermined message, and includes pieces of upper layer control information for the terminal apparatus and another terminal apparatus in a multiplexed manner, specifies a first radio resource for transmitting a first response signal indicating whether or not succeeded in receiving control information that is for the terminal apparatus and is included in the one signal, and is different from a second radio resource for transmitting a second response signal for the other terminal apparatus, based on at least one of a control signal that is used for transmitting the one signal and the one signal, and transmits the first response signal using the first radio resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Applicant: KDDI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeo OHSEKI, Issei KANNO, Kosuke YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20220190930
    Abstract: A reception apparatus includes: a receiving unit configured to coherently detect an optical signal and output an electrical signal containing a modulated signal and a pilot signal; a first compensating unit configured to detect a frequency of the pilot signal by performing a DFT of the electrical signal, and determine and compensate for frequency error in the electrical signal based on a reference frequency; a frequency converting unit configured to convert the frequency of the pilot signal after the compensating such that the frequency of the pilot signal is lowered by the reference frequency; and a second compensating unit configured to determine frequency error in the modulated signal after the compensating by performing a DFT on the pilot signal after the frequency converting and detecting a frequency of the pilot signal after the frequency converting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Applicants: KDDI CORPORATION, NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shohei BEPPU, Takehiro TSURITANI, Koji IGARASHI, Masahiro SHIGIHARA, Masahiro KIKUTA
  • Patent number: 11356774
    Abstract: A mixing apparatus includes: a first speaker set processing unit to a P-th speaker set processing unit. K-th speaker set processing unit (K being an integer from 1 to P) includes: a mic set processing unit configured to process acoustic signals output by two microphones of a corresponding microphone set and to output a first acoustic signal and a second acoustic signal. The mic set processing unit configured to process acoustic signals output by two microphones of a corresponding microphone set based on an expansion/contraction coefficient for determining an expansion/contraction rate of a sound field, a shift coefficient for determining a shift amount of a sound field, and an attenuation coefficient for determining an attenuation amount of an acoustic signal output by a microphone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: KDDI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toshiharu Horiuchi
  • Publication number: 20220174302
    Abstract: An image decoding device includes: a chroma quantization parameter offset initialization unit configured to initialize a chroma offset based on a result of decoding coded data; a chroma offset deriving unit configured to set and derive the chroma offset based on the result of decoding the coded data; a chroma deriving unit configured to derive a chroma based on the chroma offset derived by the chroma offset deriving unit; and a coding unit level chroma QP initialization unit configured to initialize the chroma QP offset for each coding unit that is not recursively partitioned.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: KDDI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kei KAWAMURA, Sei NAITO
  • Publication number: 20220174283
    Abstract: An image decoding device includes a quantization parameter deriving unit configured to correct a value of a decoded quantization parameter of a target block depending on whether or not adaptive color transform has been applied to the target block, and then set, as the quantization parameter of the target block, the larger of the corrected value of the quantization parameter and a predetermined value of “0” or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: KDDI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kyohei UNNO, Kei KAWAMURA, Sei NAITO
  • Publication number: 20220174325
    Abstract: An image decoding device includes: a decoding unit configured to decode a first flag which is included in a slice header and controls enabling/disabling of PROF processing from encoded data; and an affine prediction signal generation unit configured to perform the PROF processing in a case where the first flag indicates that the PROF processing is enabled in a slice corresponding to the slice header, and generate a prediction signal without performing the PROF processing in a case where the first flag indicates that the PROF processing is disabled in a slice corresponding to the slice header.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: KDDI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kyohei UNNO, Kei KAWAMURA, Sei NAITO
  • Publication number: 20220174314
    Abstract: An image decoding device (200) includes: a prediction signal generation unit (241D) configured to determine whether or not an application condition of BDOF processing is satisfied for each block, generate a prediction signal by executing the BDOF processing in a case where it is determined that the application condition is satisfied, and set the application condition based on a weight coefficient in a case where calculation is performed using pixel values of two reference frames or values calculated from the pixel values in the BDOF processing such that the application condition includes a condition on time distances between the two reference frames and a target frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: KDDI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kyohei UNNO, Kei KAWAMURA, Sei NAITO
  • Publication number: 20220166517
    Abstract: An optical transmitter configured to transmit an optical signal to a photodiode includes: an angle modulator configured to perform angle modulation with respect to a transmission signal; and an optical tone signal generator configured to generate an optical tone signal, and the optical transmitter transmits an optical signal that includes a single sideband signal corresponding to an angle modulated transmission electrical signal and the optical tone signal that is disposed on a higher frequency side or a lower frequency side of a frequency band of the single sideband signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: KDDI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shota ISHIMURA, Hsuan-Yun KAO, Kazuki TANAKA, Kosuke NISHIMURA, Masatoshi SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20220167010
    Abstract: An image decoding device includes: a prediction signal generation unit that generates a prediction signal by intra prediction, wherein in a block to which intra sub-partitions are applied, the prediction signal generation unit refers to a pixel of a decoded block adjacent to the block when generating prediction signals of all sub-blocks in the block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: KDDI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kyohei UNNO, Yoshitaka KIDANI, Kei KAWAMURA, Sei NAITO
  • Patent number: 11341862
    Abstract: A flight management device for managing a flying device which includes an identification unit configured to identify that the flying device is likely to fall and a communication unit configured to transmit the notification information representing that the flying device is likely to fall to the flight management device together with the position information representing a position in flight when the flying device is likely to fall. a notification unit configured to transmit warning information to a vehicle at a position corresponding to position information when notification information has been received from the flying device in flight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: KDDI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masayuki Tachiiwa
  • Publication number: 20220159548
    Abstract: A relay device that relays communication between a base station device and a terminal device receives a signal transmitted for the communication from another device, determines a transfer destination device for data that is included in the received signal based on identification information that is included in the received signal and indicates a path through which the data is transferred between the base station device and the terminal device, and transmits the signal that includes the data to the determined transfer destination device. The relay device determines a specific device as the transfer destination device when the relay device is not included in the path indicated by the identification information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: KDDI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroki TAKEDA
  • Publication number: 20220150915
    Abstract: A plurality of schedulers each corresponding to one or more slices perform, in a same cell formed by one RU, scheduling of radio resources for a UE that uses a corresponding slice. A RAN controller identifies, for each of a plurality of schedulers, an amount of radio resources required for each scheduler in a predetermined period T, based on an amount of data and a communication quality of wireless communication by the UE in the cell. The RAN controller further allocates, to each of the plurality of schedulers, the identified amount of radio resources and a margin of radio resources that can be used for the scheduling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: KDDI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigeo TERABE, Toshiaki YAMAMOTO, Hayato FUKUDA, Yuu TSUKAMOTO, Haruhisa HIRAYAMA, Shinobu NANBA
  • Publication number: 20220148028
    Abstract: A privilege provision device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a payment token request reception unit configured to receive a token request including user identification information from a user terminal, a token generation unit configured to generate a token associated with coupon identification information and the user identification information, a token transmission unit configured to transmit the token to the user terminal, a payment request reception unit configured to receive a payment request including the token from a store terminal, a validity determination unit configured to determine whether or not a coupon associated with the coupon identification information is valid at the time of the reception of the token request, and a privilege provision unit configured to provide the user with a privilege by the coupon associated with the coupon identification information corresponding to the token is in a case where the validity determination unit determines that the coupon is val
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: KDDI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Haruka SHIMIZU, Naoya KADOWAKI
  • Publication number: 20220150902
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus notifies, when transmitting an uplink second signal to a base station apparatus using a wireless resource that is used when receiving a downlink first signal transmitted from the base station apparatus, the base station apparatus of information indicating whether or not the terminal apparatus has a capability of suppressing influence of interference of the second signal on the first signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: KDDI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Issei KANNO, Ryochi KATAOKA, Yutaro KURITA