Patents by Inventor Hiroaki Takano

Hiroaki Takano 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: 20240137775
    Abstract: [Problem] Provided are a communication control device, a network device, a communication control system, a communication control method, and an information communication method that make it possible to increase a usage efficiency of a frequency band. [Solution] A communication control device according to the present disclosure includes: a receiving unit that receives a request for radio wave use pertaining to a first wireless communication device; a transmitting unit that, when the request is received, transmits an obtainment request for communication status information indicating a communication status of a second wireless communication device; and a control unit that receives the communication status information of the second wireless communication device after the obtainment request has been transmitted, and determines a condition of the radio wave use by the first wireless communication device based on the communication status information of the second wireless communication device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Hirofumi KASAI, Sho FURUICHI, Hiroaki TAKANO
  • Publication number: 20240108186
    Abstract: A charging base includes: a base seat installed on a floor surface; a columnar tower part provided on the base seat; a first support provided on the tower part and capable of supporting a vertical first electric vacuum cleaner; and a second support provided on the tower part and capable of supporting a vertical second electric vacuum cleaner. An electric vacuum cleaner system includes the charging base configured as described above, the vertical first electric vacuum cleaner, and the vertical second electric vacuum cleaner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Koshiro TAKANO, Eigo SHIMIZU, Yumi KUROKAWA, Shigeyuki NAGATA, Eunjin CHOI, Isamu OKUDA, Tsutomu MATSUBARA, Takenori SEKIGUCHI, Hiroaki ITO, Kenji YANAGISAWA
  • Patent number: 11937118
    Abstract: In edge computing that deploys a function regarding network user data near equipment, deployment of a network function is flexibly controlled. An acquisition unit acquires information regarding performance corresponding to a deployment position of a predetermined partial function of a network. A fixing unit fixes the deployment position of the predetermined partial function of the network on the basis of the information regarding the performance. A setting request unit issues a request of setting the predetermined partial function of the network for the deployment position fixed by the fixing unit to a network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroaki Takano
  • Patent number: 11863283
    Abstract: A communication device (200) includes an acquisition unit (242) and a reception unit (243). The acquisition unit (242) acquires similarity information indicating the similarity of the beam characteristics of the transmitting antenna panel in a plurality of signal groups transmitted from a base station (100). The reception unit (243) selects and receives a signal group to be received, from among the plurality of signal groups, based on the similarity information acquired by the acquisition unit (242).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroaki Takano
  • Publication number: 20230387997
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a mechanism capable of more appropriately ascertaining an interference condition of a data signal. [Solution] An apparatus includes: a processing unit that feeds back a channel quality indicator (CQI) of a serving base station, which is calculated on a basis of results of measuring reference signals received from the serving base station and a neighbor base station and information related to a power difference between the reference signal and a data signal of the neighbor base station, to the serving base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroaki TAKANO
  • Patent number: 11824686
    Abstract: A control device (15a) includes a control unit configured to: acquire a switching request based on a latency measured in a first application function (AF) (30) disposed in a first network slice (5) or in a terminal device (40) communicating with the first AF (30); and switch, based on the acquired switching request, a core network to be connected to the terminal device (40) from a first core network (10a) disposed in the first network slice (5) to a second core network (10b) disposed in a second network slice (6) by using the first AF (30), or using the first AF (30) and the terminal device (40), as an anchor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroaki Takano
  • Publication number: 20230370145
    Abstract: A base station device (100) transmits, to a terminal device (200), repetition information instructing repetition transmission of a signal in an uplink and beam information instructing a beam to be used for the repetition transmission in association with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventor: HIROAKI TAKANO
  • Patent number: 11797458
    Abstract: An optimal network is constructed in a case in which a plurality of IoT standards or IoT platforms coexist. According to the present disclosure, provided is a terminal management device including a receiving unit that receives, from a terminal that collects information from a sensor, access timing information related to an accessible timing to the terminal and a transmitting unit that transmits the access timing information to a server that searches for the information. With this configuration, it is possible to construct an optimal network in a case in which a plurality of IoT standards or IoT platforms coexist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki Takano, Naoyuki Sato, Katsuyoshi Kanemoto, Erika Saito, Hirotaka Suzuki, Taichi Yuki
  • Publication number: 20230337016
    Abstract: An information processing device (260) includes a control unit (263). The control unit (263) acquires information from a device (100) that provides an application function to a terminal device (400). The control unit (263) notifies a base station device (300) that communicates with the terminal device (400) of setting information regarding intermittent reception of the terminal device (400) using an application programming interface (API) on the basis of the information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: HIROAKI TAKANO, HIROTO KURIKI, SHINICHIRO TSUDA
  • Patent number: 11785479
    Abstract: A control unit receives at least one of a plurality of synchronization signals transmitted after undergoing beam sweeping via a wireless communication unit. The beam sweeping includes each of the plurality of synchronization signals forming a different beam and transmitted from the base station during a predetermined period of time. The control unit determines, from a plurality of pieces of beam sweeping configuration information, one piece of the configuration information based on priority between a plurality of types of beam sweeping and receives the synchronization signal or report the received synchronization signal to the base station using the one piece of the configuration information determined based on the priority. The number of the synchronization signals transmitted during a predetermined period of time varies among the plurality of pieces of beam sweeping configuration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki Takano, Naoki Kusashima, Shinichiro Tsuda, Hiroki Matsuda, Yifu Tang, Hiroto Kuriki
  • Publication number: 20230319542
    Abstract: To detect and recover from failure occurring in a core network. A subscriber information holding unit holds subscriber information indicating association between a terminal and a user plane function in a communication system. A failure detection unit detects a failure related to the user plane function. A control unit changes the subscriber information held in the subscriber information holding unit so as to associate a new user plane function with the terminal associated with the user plane function in which the failure is detected by the failure detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: HIROAKI TAKANO, HIROFUMI KASAI, TOMOAKI MATSUMURA, HIROTO KURIKI
  • Publication number: 20230291807
    Abstract: In an information processing device having a function of a push notification server, messages and the like are exchanged by a simple procedure. The information processing device according to the present disclosure has a function of performing push notification. An information processing device having a function of performing the push notification is disposed in a local area network (LAN) including a base station device to which a terminal device is connected and a core network, and performs the push notification to the terminal device on the basis of a connectionless protocol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki TAKANO, Hiroto KURIKI, Shinichiro TSUDA
  • Patent number: 11750259
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a mechanism capable of more appropriately ascertaining an interference condition of a data signal. [Solution] An apparatus includes: a processing unit that feeds back a channel quality indicator (CQI) of a serving base station, which is calculated on a basis of results of measuring reference signals received from the serving base station and a neighbor base station and information related to a power difference between the reference signal and a data signal of the neighbor base station, to the serving base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroaki Takano
  • Patent number: 11751019
    Abstract: A communication apparatus and corresponding method for performing wireless communication to include controlling deliver of content for plural programs using a directional beam, and notifying a terminal apparatus of first information regarding a timing of transmitting the directional beam in each of a plurality of directions in association with second information notified commonly to one or more of the terminal apparatuses within a communication range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroaki Takano
  • Patent number: 11743322
    Abstract: A communication device (100) which operates as an application node which executes one or a plurality of applications includes: a communication unit (110) that executes communication with another logical node; and a control unit (130) that controls communication by the communication unit (110). The another logical node is a node which is applied with application function chaining (AFC) in which, in transmission/reception of an application message with the application node as a transmission source or a transmission destination, one or a plurality of application functions act on the application message midway along a path of the transmission/reception, and the control unit (130) causes the communication unit (110) to transmit, to the another logical node, a message according to a publishing/subscription model in order to transmit and receive the application message on which the one or the plurality of application functions act.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryota Kimura, Hiroaki Takano, Hirofumi Kasai, Ryo Sawai, Fumio Teraoka
  • Patent number: 11736257
    Abstract: [Object] To provide the uplink reference signal for beam tracking. [Solution] A terminal apparatus, including: a communication unit configured to perform communication with a base station configured to form beams and perform communication; and a control unit configured to transmit a first uplink reference signal and a second uplink reference signal which has a narrower target frequency bandwidth and a shorter transmission period than the first uplink reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroaki Takano
  • Publication number: 20230246681
    Abstract: A communication device (200) includes a plurality of antenna panels (60) and a control unit (240). The antenna panel (60) includes one or more antennas (50), one or more transmission analog circuits (54) for signal transmission using the antennas (50), and one or more reception analog circuits (55) for signal reception using the antennas (50). When having received a notification including information regarding a reference signal of downlink from a second communication device (100), the control unit (240) performs antenna switching being an operation of switching a connection between the antenna (50) included in the antenna panel (60) that has received the reference signal and the transmission analog circuit (54).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroaki TAKANO
  • Patent number: 11711702
    Abstract: Provided is a mechanism capable of reducing a burden on a beam selection procedure on a plurality of frequency bandwidths. A communication device includes: a setting section (151) that performs setting of beam groups defined in a plurality of frequency bandwidths, respectively; and a notification section (153) that notifies a terminal device of information regarding identicalness between the beam groups defined in the frequency bandwidths different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroaki Takano
  • Publication number: 20230224218
    Abstract: To flexibly control the number of user planes in a communication system. In the communication system, a base station located on a local area network is connected to at least one user plane function located on a cloud. Whether or not to add a new user plane function is determined in consideration of an amount of traffic of user data and an assumed amount of traffic of the new user plane function out of a maximum amount of traffic on the local area network, the user data being transferred by the at least one user plane function by use of the local area network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki TAKANO, Hiroto KURIKI, Shinichiro TSUDA, Tomoaki MATSUMURA, Hirofumi KASAI
  • Publication number: 20230179973
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a control apparatus, a control method, and a vehicle that realize highly reliable communication. Communication with another terminal is controlled by controlling a communication target, a communication method, and communication parameters on the basis of geographic information around an own terminal. The present disclosure can be applied to in-vehicle communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2023
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: HIROMASA UCHIYAMA, HIROAKI TAKANO