Patents by Inventor Hidekuni Yomo

Hidekuni Yomo 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).

  • Patent number: 8243834
    Abstract: A wireless communication device (1) comprises a spatially-multiplexed PSC extracting section (8) for extracting a spatially multiplexed known pilot subcarrier signal (S5) from the received multicarrier-modulated signal, a reference signal generating section (7) for generating a reference signal (S4) of the spatially-multiplexed pilot subcarrier signal, and a phase compensating section (9) for compensating the phase difference of the received signal (S1) according to the pilot subcarrier signal (S5) extracted by the spatially-multiplexed pilot subcarrier extracting section (8) and the reference signal (S4). Therefore, even if a pilot subcarrier signal is spatially multiplexed and transmitted, phase difference detection and phase compensation can be performed by a simple constitution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takaaki Kishigami, Hidekuni Yomo
  • Patent number: 8233571
    Abstract: A reception device includes reception antennas and an address generation unit that converts a write-in or read-out order of channel estimation values according to a rearrangement rule. A storage unit writes in or reads out channel estimation values in the converted order, and an address generation unit converts a data sequence write-in or read-out order according to the rearrangement rule. A signal storage unit writes in or reads out data sequences in the converted order, and a replica generation unit generates a replica signal by re-modulating the data sequence according to the channel estimation value. A cancel unit successively generates a stream signal in which a data sequence interference signal is cancelled, by using the channel estimation value, the data sequence, and the replica signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hirohito Mukai, Yutaka Murakami, Kiyotaka Kobayashi, Hidekuni Yomo, Yoshinori Kunieda
  • Publication number: 20120127889
    Abstract: A MIMO receiving apparatus that can demodulate a spatially multiplexed signal without using any division operation requiring a large quantity of operation resources. In the MIMO receiving apparatus, stream separation section (105) separates a spatially multiplexed signal into a plurality of streams based on numerator submatrix A. Numerator submatrix A is determined according to channel matrix H and a canceller scheme and corresponds to a numerator of stream separation matrix S that equalizes the phase and amplitude of the spatially multiplexed signal. Denominator part calculation section (108) calculates a denominator (denominator coefficient) of stream separation matrix S and correction section (117) corrects a threshold determined according to a modulation scheme of the spatially multiplexed signal using the denominator (denominator coefficient) of stream separation matrix S.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2011
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidekuni Yomo, Kiyotaka Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20110261762
    Abstract: A wireless base station device includes a plurality of transmit weight generation sections and a beam selection section. The transmit weight generation sections generate pieces of transmit weight information used for spatial division multiplexing transmission according to different algorithms. The pieces of transmit weight information are generated based on channel information on a plurality of terminals each having one or more antennas with which the wireless base station device performs spatial division multiplexing transmission. The beam selection section selects one of the pieces of transmit weight information generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2011
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takaaki Kishigami, Hidekuni Yomo
  • Patent number: 8009578
    Abstract: A wireless base station device includes a plurality of transmit weight generation sections and a beam selection section. The transmit weight generation sections generate pieces of transmit weight information used for spatial division multiplexing transmission according to different algorithms. The pieces of transmit weight information are generated based on channel information on a plurality of terminals each having one or more antennas with which the wireless base station device performs spatial division multiplexing transmission. The beam selection section selects one of the pieces of transmit weight information generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takaaki Kishigami, Hidekuni Yomo
  • Patent number: 7966360
    Abstract: An A/D conversion section performs oversampling on an analog signal at a rate M times a symbol rate to convert the analog signal into a digital signal. A FIR filtering section has two delay-element sequences, each with a plurality of delay elements. The two delay-element sequences have different delay directions, i.e., a forward direction and a reverse direction. The delay directions can be switched, and according to a finite impulse response train having such delay-element sequences, a convolutional calculation is performed. A phase determining section determines a phase used in making a decision in a decision section. The decision section makes a decision on a filtered signal using the phase determined in the phase determining section to generate bit data. A digital signal receiving apparatus is thus achieved which determines a phase with a high accuracy without increasing the oversampling number, and performs a fast calculation while having a reduced circuitry scale.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hidekuni Yomo, Yoshinori Kunieda, Yuuri Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 7937057
    Abstract: A spatial filtering adaptable for an interference wave that appears unsteadily can be implemented and also an interference canceling ability can be increased even in a condition that the interference wave does not steadily exist. At a time of non-active communication, the signals from a plurality of interference source radio communication devices 2 are received in advance by an interference signal receiving section 6 as the pre-process mode, then a resultant interference correlation matrix RI is stored in a storing section 7, and then an interference wave receiving antenna weight WI used to receive selectively the transmission signals from the interference source radio communication devices 2 is prepared based on the resultant interference correlation matrix RI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takaaki Kishigami, Naoki Adachi, Yoichi Nakagawa, Hidekuni Yomo, Shutai Okamura
  • Publication number: 20100091910
    Abstract: Provided is a reception device which can reduce a parallel interference canceller processing delay.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2008
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Inventors: Hirohito Mukai, Yutaka Murakami, Kiyotaka Kobayashi, Hidekuni Yomo, Yoshinori Kunieda
  • Publication number: 20090279486
    Abstract: A wireless base station device includes a plurality of transmit weight generation sections and a beam selection section. The transmit weight generation sections generate pieces of transmit weight information used for spatial division multiplexing transmission according to different algorithms. The pieces of transmit weight information are generated based on channel information on a plurality of terminals each having one or more antennas with which the wireless base station device performs spatial division multiplexing transmission. The beam selection section selects one of the pieces of transmit weight information generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2006
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takaaki Kishigami, Hidekuni Yomo
  • Patent number: 7577124
    Abstract: A relay apparatus, terminal apparatus and relay method for relaying signals with a reduced scale of the apparatus, without temporally switching between transmission and reception and with reduced waste of time when relay is performed at the same frequency on a radio communication network on which bidirectional communication is performed. A radio reception section 202 outputs information signals to a switch 208, outputs relay control signals to a demodulation section 204 after subjecting predetermined radio reception processing. The demodulation section 204 demodulates a relay control signal. A relay control signal processing section 206 decides the possibility of relay of information signals and inquires, when the relay is possible, whether the terminal apparatus on the receiving side can receive this information signal or not. Furthermore, the relay control signal processing section 206 connects a switch 208 during the stored relay time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2009
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hidekuni Yomo, Yoshinori Kunieda, Yuuri Yamamoto, Yoshihito Kawai
  • Publication number: 20090175367
    Abstract: A wireless communication device (1) comprises a spatially-multiplexed PSC extracting section (8) for extracting a spatially multiplexed known pilot subcarrier signal (S5) from the received multicarrier-modulated signal, a reference signal generating section (7) for generating a reference signal (S4) of the spatially-multiplexed pilot subcarrier signal, and a phase compensating section (9) for compensating the phase difference of the received signal (S1) according to the pilot subcarrier signal (S5) extracted by the spatially-multiplexed pilot subcarrier extracting section (8) and the reference signal (S4). Therefore, even if a pilot subcarrier signal is spatially multiplexed and transmitted, phase difference detection and phase compensation can be performed by a simple constitution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2007
    Publication date: July 9, 2009
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takaaki Kishigami, Hidekuni Yomo
  • Publication number: 20090109943
    Abstract: A wireless network system including a first terminal for sending a request-to-send signal including information on a medium use period to a second terminal before sending data, receiving a clear-to-send signal from the second terminal, and sending data to the second terminal during the medium use period; the second terminal for receiving the request-to-send signal and sending the clear-to-send signal; a third terminal for receiving the request-to-send signal and transmitting data to a fourth terminal during the medium use period; ant the fourth terminal. Thus, it is possible to prevent occurrence of a problem that when it is judged that the wireless channel is being used, transmission of the station is suppressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2006
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hidekuni Yomo, Naoki Adachi, Takaaki Kishigami, Yoichi Nakagawa, Shutai Okamura
  • Publication number: 20090016263
    Abstract: It is an object to provide a wireless base station and a terminal equipment capable of shortening the processing time by not requiring the detection of the spatial correlation coefficient, which is required in general technology, and simplifying the selection process for terminal equipments to be connected to each other in a wireless base station that performs spatial multiplexing transmission to a plurality of terminal equipments and a terminal equipment responding for spatial multiplexing transmission. A terminal equipment 12 includes an interference cancellation capability information data maintaining section 20 that maintains interference cancellation capability information data indicating the interference cancellation capability of the terminal equipment 12 and signals the interference cancellation capability information data to a wireless base station 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2006
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takaaki Kishigami, Shutai Okamura, Hidekuni Yomo, Yoshihito Kawai
  • Publication number: 20080293371
    Abstract: A spatial filtering adaptable for an interference wave that appears unsteadily can be implemented and also an interference canceling ability can be increased even in a condition that the interference wave does not steadily exist. At a time of non-active communication, the signals from a plurality of interference source radio communication devices 2 are received in advance by an interference signal receiving section 6 as the pre-process mode, then a resultant interference correlation matrix RI is stored in a storing section 7, and then an interference wave receiving antenna weight WI used to receive selectively the transmission signals from the interference source radio communication devices 2 is prepared based on the resultant interference correlation matrix RI.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2006
    Publication date: November 27, 2008
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takaaki Kishigami, Naoki Adachi, Yoichi Nakagawa, Hidekuni Yomo, Shutai Okamura
  • Patent number: 7406140
    Abstract: A loop interference canceller that carries out an adaptive operation of responding to time variations of the phase or level of loop interference wave or key station wave at high speed and with high accuracy and reduces the size of an apparatus. The loop interference canceller of the present invention limits the number of data pieces of the transmission path characteristic estimation section, realizes expansion to the entire band not through interpolation but through 0 insertion in a frequency domain and windowing after time domain transformation to reduce the number of data pieces processed and speed up the adaptive operation of the loop interference canceller, and can thereby realize high trackability for time variations of the phase and level of loop interference wave or key station wave, increase the accuracy of processing inside, perform high accuracy cancellation operation, reduce the circuit scale and achieve an advantageous effect of realizing miniaturization of the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2008
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Kunieda, Hidekuni Yomo, Yoshihito Kawai, Kenichiro Hayashi, Kazuaki Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20070276892
    Abstract: An A/D conversion section performs oversampling on an analog signal at a rate M times a symbol rate to convert the analog signal into a digital signal. A FIR filtering section has two delay-element sequences, each with a plurality of delay elements. The two delay-element sequences have different delay directions, i.e., a forward direction and a reverse direction. The delay directions can be switched, and according to a finite impulse response train having such delay-element sequences, a convolutional calculation is performed. A phase determining section determines a phase used in making a decision in a decision section. The decision section makes a decision on a filtered signal using the phase determined in the phase determining section to generate bit data. A digital signal receiving apparatus is thus achieved which determines a phase with a high accuracy without increasing the oversampling number, and performs a fast calculation while having a reduced circuitry scale.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2007
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hidekuni YOMO, Yoshinori KUNIEDA, Yuuri YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 7254598
    Abstract: An A/D conversion section performs oversampling on an analog signal at a rate M times a symbol rate to convert the analog signal into a digital signal. A FIR filtering section has two delay-element sequences, each with a plurality of delay elements. The two delay-element sequences have different delay directions, i.e., a forward direction and a reverse direction. The delay directions can be switched, and according to a finite impulse response train having such delay-element sequences, a convolutional calculation is performed. A phase determining section determines a phase used in making a decision in a decision section. The decision section makes a decision on a filtered signal using the phase determined in the phase determining section to generate bit data. A digital signal receiving apparatus is thus achieved which determines a phase with a high accuracy without increasing the oversampling number, and performs a fast calculation while having a reduced circuitry scale.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2007
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidekuni Yomo, Yoshinori Kunieda, Yuuri Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20070110105
    Abstract: In communication transmitting a first stream (intermittent data portion) for burst transmission of packet sets and a second stream (continuous data portion) for transmitting packets at a speed determined by the transmission rate required for the service, the second stream related to the selected service is received and reproduced for the selected service when a service is selected until intermittent data transmitted in the first stream can be received, and reception and playback of the first stream begins when transmission of the intermittent data for the selected service in the first stream begins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2004
    Publication date: May 17, 2007
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Izumi Usuki, Sadashi Kageyama, Akira Kisoda, Hidekuni Yomo
  • Patent number: 7116730
    Abstract: A demodulation apparatus includes an A/D converter for sampling and quantizing a baseband signal, and a demultiplexer for multiple-separating output signals of the A/D converter into two outputs. A first branch unit splits one of the two outputs of the demultiplexer into M outputs, where M is an integer equal to or greater than 2. Also, M/2 delay units delay M/2 outputs of the first branch unit. A second branch unit splits the outputs of the demultiplexer into M. The demodulation apparatus further includes first M/2 transversal filters, second M/2 transversal filters, and third M transversal filters. First M/2 adders each adds one of the output signals of the first transversal filters and one of the output signals of the third transversal filters, and second M/2 adders each adds one of the output signals of the second transversal filters and one of the output signals of the third transversal filters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2006
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Kunleda, Kazuo Tomida, Hidekuni Yomo
  • Publication number: 20060120378
    Abstract: Time slice transmission methods transmit data in bursts, thus creating a delay until playback of a service can begin when changing the service and therefore preventing smooth zapping. To solve this problem, a first stream used for burst transmission of packet sets and a second stream for continuously transmitting packets at a speed determined according to the transmission rate required for a particular service are multiplexed and transmitted. The content is reproduced using the continuously transmitted second stream during zapping, and the first stream transmitted in bursts is reproduced after zapping ends.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2004
    Publication date: June 8, 2006
    Inventors: Izumi Usuki, Sadashi Kageyama, Akira Kisoda, Hidekuni Yomo