Patents by Inventor Hideki Kanemoto

Hideki Kanemoto has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20230130636
    Abstract: A communication apparatus mounted on a vehicle includes: a camera that captures a still image used for generating a map; a positioning circuit that positions a captured position of the still image; a control circuit that associates position information indicating the captured position with image data of the still image; and a communication circuit that establishes a radio communication with a roadside unit and transmits the image data by radio to the roadside unit, in which the control circuit rearranges an transmission order of the image data to be transmitted by radio to the roadside unit, based on the position information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Noriyuki SHIMIZU, Hideki KANEMOTO, Yuzo MORIUCHI, Takeshi YASUNAGA, Rei HASEGAWA
  • Publication number: 20230124953
    Abstract: Provided are an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program that enable construction of a wireless system with consideration given to interference with the surroundings of a certain area. The information processing device is provided with: an evaluation unit which evaluates interference with the outside of a specific area caused by beams that are formed at transmission points set inside the specific area and that radiate in a plurality of directions; and a determination unit which determines, on the basis of the result of the evaluation of the interference, the beam width of at least some of the beams that radiate in the plurality of directions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Hideki KANEMOTO, Yuzo MORIUCHI, Rei HASEGAWA
  • Publication number: 20230023406
    Abstract: Provided are an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program that enable construction of a wireless system with consideration given to interference with the surroundings of a certain area. This information processing device is provided with: a first evaluation unit that evaluates a distribution of first wireless radio waves entering the inside of a certain area when wireless radio waves are radiated from one or more transmission points set outside the area; and a determination unit that determines, on the basis of the evaluation result regarding the distribution of the first wireless radio waves, information about the disposition candidate position of a wireless base station to be disposed inside the area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Rei HASEGAWA, Yuzo MORIUCHI, Hideki KANEMOTO
  • Patent number: 11283513
    Abstract: According to the present application, an aircraft terminal device for air-to-ground communication includes an in-flight communication controller configured to control communication with multiple user terminals, and, when a counterpart based station device on the ground needs to reserve a communication resource for ground-to-ground communication, the in-flight communication controller cuts off communication with at least one of the multiple user terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Yasunaga, Hideki Kanemoto, Ritsu Miura
  • Publication number: 20220053432
    Abstract: A wireless system can use a shared frequency mainly used by an existing first wireless system under predetermined sharing conditions, and includes a communication unit performing wireless communication with a terminal accommodated in a communication area, at least one sensor disposed around the communication area and measuring reception power of a signal sent from the inside of the communication area via the communication unit, a memory storing beam data indicating a correspondence relationship between a beam direction of the signal and a measurement result in the sensor, a determination unit determining allowable maximum transmission power of the signal in each beam direction on the basis of the sharing conditions and the beam data, and an allocation unit allocating a radio resource to the terminal on the basis of the allowable maximum transmission power in each beam direction and channel state information reported from the terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: Osamu KATO, Hideki KANEMOTO, Hiroaki ASANO
  • Patent number: 11245466
    Abstract: According to the present application, a base station device is configured to manage a vertically-oriented cell and a ground cell with respective IDs used to identify each cell, to determine whether or not a counterpart terminal device is an aircraft terminal device for air-to-ground communication based on a terminal ID included in a message received therefrom, and to control communication with the counterpart terminal device such that, if the counterpart terminal device is an aircraft terminal device, the base station selects the vertically-oriented cell as a connection destination of the counterpart terminal device and transmits a connection instruction message including a cell ID of the vertically-oriented cell to the counterpart terminal device, otherwise, the base station selects the ground cell as a connection destination of the counterpart terminal device and transmits a connection instruction message including a cell ID of the ground cell to the counterpart terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideki Kanemoto, Takeshi Yasunaga, Ritsu Miura
  • Patent number: 11191039
    Abstract: A wireless system can use a shared frequency mainly used by an existing first wireless system under predetermined sharing conditions, and includes a communication unit performing wireless communication with a terminal accommodated in a communication area, at least one sensor disposed around the communication area and measuring reception power of a signal sent from the inside of the communication area via the communication unit, a memory storing beam data indicating a correspondence relationship between a beam direction of the signal and a measurement result in the sensor, a determination unit determining allowable maximum transmission power of the signal in each beam direction on the basis of the sharing conditions and the beam data, and an allocation unit allocating a radio resource to the terminal on the basis of the allowable maximum transmission power in each beam direction and channel state information reported from the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Osamu Kato, Hideki Kanemoto, Hiroaki Asano
  • Patent number: 11089483
    Abstract: A shared frequency management apparatus includes a communicator receiving application information regarding use of a shared frequency band from each of base stations of plural different communication companies, a determiner determining whether or not allocation of different TDD patterns during use of adjacent carrier frequencies among plural carrier frequencies included in the shared frequency band is possible on the basis of the application information from each base station, a setter setting the TDD pattern for each of the carrier frequencies on the basis of the application information from each base station and a determination result of whether or not allocation of the different TDD patterns is possible, and a decision unit deciding an allocation content of the shared frequency band to each base station, satisfying the application information from each base station, on the basis of a setting result of the TDD pattern for each carrier frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Osamu Kato, Hideki Kanemoto, Hiroaki Asano
  • Patent number: 11076339
    Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a first base station connectable to a backbone network by a wireless backhaul, and a path generator generating a wireless multi-hop path including the first base station and one or more second base stations connected to the first base station by a wireless multi-hop. The first base station reports a measurement result of a line quality of the wireless backhaul and a measurement result of a line quality between the first base station and the second base station disposed around the first base station. The first base station is switched to a first mode connected to the backbone network by the wireless backhaul or to a second mode connected to the second base station by a wireless multi-hop, in response to the path signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Osamu Kato, Hideki Kanemoto, Hiroaki Asano
  • Patent number: 11057124
    Abstract: A wireless receiver measures a reception parameter while scanning multiple pieces of reception directivity for an interval during which a signal is not transmitted from a wireless transmitter. The wireless transmitter transmits a signal while scanning multiple pieces of transmission directivity, and the wireless receives measures a reception parameter relating to reception of the signal and determines k pieces of transmission directivity that correspond to high-ranking k results, respectively, of the measurement that have a great reception parameter. The wireless transmitter forms any transmission directivity and transmits a signal, and the wireless receives measures a reception parameter while scanning M pieces of reception directivity and determines reception directivity that is to be used for data communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Osamu Kato, Hiroaki Asano, Hideki Kanemoto
  • Patent number: 10939439
    Abstract: A base station holds information on uplink radio resources which has been allocated to at least one already connected communication terminal for performing radio communication using a high frequency with the base station, receives a notification of participation in a radio communication system from a new communication terminal, and allocates unallocated uplink radio resources using high frequencies to the new communication terminal based on the information on the uplink radio resources when received the notification of participation. The new communication terminal transmits data to the base station by using the allocated uplink radio resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Osamu Kato, Hiroaki Asano, Hideki Kanemoto
  • Patent number: 10912099
    Abstract: Provided is a communication terminal configured to communicate with base stations, including a memory and a processor. The processor executes a position acquisition task that acquires position information on the communication terminal, an accumulation task that accumulates connection frequency information and discontinuance frequency information that relate to communication with each of the base stations at a position of the communication terminal, a determination task that determines a connection priority for preferentially making a connection to each of the base stations from a position of the communication terminal, based on the connection frequency information and the discontinuance frequency information at the position of the communication terminal, a connection control task that controls a connection to each of one or more base stations, in a descending order of the determined connection priority, and a communication task that performs data communication with the one or more base stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Osamu Kato, Hiroaki Asano, Hideki Kanemoto
  • Publication number: 20200367063
    Abstract: A shared frequency management apparatus includes a communicator receiving application information regarding use of a shared frequency band from each of base stations of plural different communication companies, a determiner determining whether or not allocation of different TDD patterns during use of adjacent carrier frequencies among plural carrier frequencies included in the shared frequency band is possible on the basis of the application information from each base station, a setter setting the TDD pattern for each of the carrier frequencies on the basis of the application information from each base station and a determination result of whether or not allocation of the different TDD patterns is possible, and a decision unit deciding an allocation content of the shared frequency band to each base station, satisfying the application information from each base station, on the basis of a setting result of the TDD pattern for each carrier frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: Osamu KATO, Hideki KANEMOTO, Hiroaki ASANO
  • Publication number: 20200344701
    Abstract: A wireless system can use a shared frequency mainly used by an existing first wireless system under predetermined sharing conditions, and includes a communication unit performing wireless communication with a terminal accommodated in a communication area, at least one sensor disposed around the communication area and measuring reception power of a signal sent from the inside of the communication area via the communication unit, a memory storing beam data indicating a correspondence relationship between a beam direction of the signal and a measurement result in the sensor, a determination unit determining allowable maximum transmission power of the signal in each beam direction on the basis of the sharing conditions and the beam data, and an allocation unit allocating a radio resource to the terminal on the basis of the allowable maximum transmission power in each beam direction and channel state information reported from the terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Osamu KATO, Hideki KANEMOTO, Hiroaki ASANO
  • Patent number: 10805806
    Abstract: A shared frequency management system that manages sharing of frequencies of a shared frequency band mainly used by a first wireless system with a second wireless system, includes an input unit that receives first border information regarding a first border indicating a border of a first region in which a reception level based on transmission of a first wireless signal using the frequencies of the shared frequency band from the first wireless system becomes a defined value, a deriving unit that derives second border information regarding a second border indicating a border of a second region in which a reception level based on transmission of a second wireless signal using the frequencies of the shared frequency band from the second wireless system becomes the defined value, and a permission condition determination unit that determines a sharing permission condition regarding the frequencies of the shared frequency band for the second wireless system on the basis of the first border information and the second
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Osamu Kato, Hideki Kanemoto, Hiroaki Asano
  • Publication number: 20200295820
    Abstract: According to the present application, an aircraft terminal device for air-to-ground communication includes an in-flight communication controller configured to control communication with multiple user terminals and, and, when a counterpart based station device on the ground needs to reserve a communication resource for ground-to-ground communication, the in-flight communication controller cuts off communication with at least one of the multiple user terminals and.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi YASUNAGA, Hideki KANEMOTO, Ritsu MIURA
  • Publication number: 20200287618
    Abstract: According to the present application, a base station device is configured to manage a vertically-oriented cell and a ground cell with respective IDs used to identify each cell, to determine whether or not a counterpart terminal device is an aircraft terminal device for air-to-ground communication based on a terminal ID included in a message received therefrom, and to control communication with the counterpart terminal device such that, if the counterpart terminal device is an aircraft terminal device, the base station selects the vertically-oriented cell as a connection destination of the counterpart terminal device and transmits a connection instruction message including a cell ID of the vertically-oriented cell to the counterpart terminal device, otherwise, the base station selects the ground cell as a connection destination of the counterpart terminal device and transmits a connection instruction message including a cell ID of the ground cell to the counterpart terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideki KANEMOTO, Takeshi YASUNAGA, Ritsu MIURA
  • Publication number: 20200260357
    Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a first base station connectable to a backbone network by a wireless backhaul, and a path generator generating a wireless multi-hop path including the first base station and one or more second base stations connected to the first base station by a wireless multi-hop. The first base station reports a measurement result of a line quality of the wireless backhaul and a measurement result of a line quality between the first base station and the second base station disposed around the first base station. The first base station is switched to a first mode connected to the backbone network by the wireless backhaul or to a second mode connected to the second base station by a wireless multi-hop, in response to the path signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventors: Osamu KATO, Hideki KANEMOTO, Hiroaki ASANO
  • Publication number: 20200245151
    Abstract: A shared frequency management system that manages sharing of frequencies of a shared frequency band mainly used by a first wireless system with a second wireless system, includes an input unit that receives first border information regarding a first border indicating a border of a first region in which a reception level based on transmission of a first wireless signal using the frequencies of the shared frequency band from the first wireless system becomes a defined value, a deriving unit that derives second border information regarding a second border indicating a border of a second region in which a reception level based on transmission of a second wireless signal using the frequencies of the shared frequency band from the second wireless system becomes the defined value, and a permission condition determination unit that determines a sharing permission condition regarding the frequencies of the shared frequency band for the second wireless system on the basis of the first border information and the second
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventors: Osamu KATO, Hideki KANEMOTO, Hiroaki ASANO
  • Publication number: 20200236516
    Abstract: A communication charging system includes a first measuring device that measures an amount of communication established by a terminal in utilization of a first communication service using a first communication network and a second measuring device that measures an amount of communication established by the terminal in utilization of a second communication service using a second communication network. The first measuring device transmits information regarding the measured amount of communication in the utilization of the first communication service to the second measuring device. The second measuring device associates with information regarding the terminal and stores the information regarding the amount of communication in the utilization of the first communication service, which has been transmitted from the first measuring device, and information regarding the measured amount of communication in the utilization of the second communication service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Osamu KATO, Hiroaki ASANO, Yasuhiro AOYAMA, Hideki KANEMOTO