Patents by Inventor Makoto Umehara

Makoto Umehara 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: 20240048433
    Abstract: A communication device communicates a physical (PHY) frame including a preamble and a data field. The preamble includes a Legacy Short Training Field (L-STF), a Legacy Long Training Field (L-LTF), a Legacy Signal Field (L-SIG), an EHT Signal Field (EHT-SIG-A), an EHT Short Training Field (EHT-STF), and an EHT Long Training Field (EHT-LTF), and the EHT-SIG-A includes fields indicating a modulation scheme and information indicating which one of a UC (Uniform Constellation) scheme and an NUC (Non Uniform Constellation) scheme is used as the modulation scheme, and the data field includes data that has undergone modulation corresponding to the modulation scheme and the information indicated by the fields.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventor: Makoto Umehara
  • Patent number: 11817991
    Abstract: A communication device communicates a physical (PHY) frame including a preamble and a data field. The preamble includes a Legacy Short Training Field (L-STF), a Legacy Long Training Field (L-LTF), a Legacy Signal Field (L-SIG), an EHT Signal Field (EHT-SIG-A), an EHT Short Training Field (EHT-STF), and an EHT Long Training Field (EHT-LTF) and the EHT-SIG-A includes fields indicating a modulation scheme and information indicating which one of a UC (Uniform Constellation) scheme and an NUC (Non Uniform Constellation) scheme is used as the modulation scheme, and the data field includes data that has undergone modulation corresponding to the modulation scheme and the information indicated by the fields.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Makoto Umehara
  • Publication number: 20230346245
    Abstract: A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus according to an embodiment includes a main unit and a receiver coil unit. The main unit includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry generates a first clock signal. The processing circuitry receives a clock signal sent by the receiver coil unit in a wireless manner, and generates a second clock signal. The processing circuitry performs, in a first time period which is based on pulse sequence information, phase control of a third clock signal, based on the phase difference between the first clock signal and the second clock signal; and stops the phase control in a second time period which is based on the pulse sequence information. Then, the processing circuitry sends the third clock signal in a wireless manner to the receiver coil unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Makoto UMEHARA
  • Publication number: 20220394721
    Abstract: A communication device performs, based on a frequency resource that is to be allocated to communication of a first other communication device in accordance with a first communication standard, frequency resource allocation for communication of a second other communication device that conforms to a second communication standard. In the frequency resource allocation, in a case where the first other communication device and the second other communication device concurrently communicate with the communication device, a distribution of a first frequency resource to be allocated for communication using the first communication standard and a second frequency resource to be allocated for communication using the second communication standard in an available frequency band is determined, and a frequency resource included in the second frequency resource is allocated to the second other communication device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventor: Makoto Umehara
  • Publication number: 20220394693
    Abstract: A communication device that supports first and second communication standards using an OFDMA (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access) technique allocates, based on a frequency resource that has been allocated for a first other communication device in accordance with the first communication standard that uses a first pattern for allocating a frequency resource, a frequency resource for a second other communication device that conforms to the second communication standard that uses a second pattern for allocating a frequency resource. The communication device specifies, from among frequency resources in the second pattern, a second frequency resource that partially or entirely overlaps with a first frequency resource that has been allocated to the first other communication device, and allocates a frequency resource that are not included in the second frequency resource in the second pattern to the second other communication device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventor: Makoto Umehara
  • Publication number: 20220322432
    Abstract: A communication apparatus is capable of using a method of transmitting a signal using a plurality of wireless links, based on confirmation that a wireless medium related to one wireless link among the plurality of wireless links varying in frequency channels is idle for a random backoff time determined by a first method, and a method of transmitting a signal using one wireless link, based on confirmation that a wireless medium related to the one wireless link is idle for a random backoff time determined by a second method, wherein an expectation value of the random backoff time determined by the first method is larger than an expectation value of the random backoff time determined by the second method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventor: Makoto Umehara
  • Publication number: 20220256540
    Abstract: There is provided a wireless communication apparatus that is able to perform a first wireless communication and a second wireless communication, the second wireless communication having power consumption lower than that of the first wireless communication. The wireless communication apparatus receives, from another wireless communication apparatus through the second wireless communication, information indicating a channel which the another wireless communication apparatus is able to use in the first wireless communication, selects a communication parameter to be provided to the another wireless communication apparatus based on the received information, the communication parameter being required by the another wireless communication apparatus to connect to an apparatus that forms a network in which the first wireless communication occurs; and transmits the selected communication parameter to the another wireless communication apparatus through the first wireless communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventor: Makoto Umehara
  • Patent number: 11337216
    Abstract: There is provided a wireless communication apparatus that is able to perform a first wireless communication and a second wireless communication, the second wireless communication having power consumption lower than that of the first wireless communication. The wireless communication apparatus receives, from another wireless communication apparatus through the second wireless communication, information indicating a channel which the another wireless communication apparatus is able to use in the first wireless communication, selects a communication parameter to be provided to the another wireless communication apparatus based on the received information, the communication parameter being required by the another wireless communication apparatus to connect to an apparatus that forms a network in which the first wireless communication occurs; and transmits the selected communication parameter the another wireless communication apparatus through the first wireless communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Makoto Umehara
  • Publication number: 20220045724
    Abstract: The invention provides a mechanism for reducing residual frequency differences in distributed MIMO using a slave trigger, and increasing synchronization precision between APs. The communication device, which constitutes a wireless network by cooperating with another communication device, has a transmission unit for transmitting a frame for synchronization to the other communication device to cooperate with the other communication device. The transmission unit includes: a setting unit that sets a value exceeding 4 as a repetition number for an EHT Long Training Field (EHT-LTF) in a preset position of an EHT Signal Field (EHT-SIG-A) of a frame for synchronization; and a generation unit that generates a frame for synchronization, the frame including EHT-LTFs whose quantity is the set repetition number. The transmission unit transmits the generated frame to the other communication device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventor: Makoto Umehara
  • Publication number: 20210385118
    Abstract: A communication device communicates a physical (PHY) frame including a preamble and a data field. The preamble includes a Legacy Short Training Field (L-STF), a Legacy Long Training Field (L-LTF), a Legacy Signal Field (L-SIG), an EHT Signal Field (EHT-SIG-A), an EHT Short Training Field (EHT-STF), and an EHT Long Training Field (EHT-LTF) and the EHT-SIG-A includes fields indicating a modulation scheme and information indicating which one of a UC (Uniform Constellation) scheme and an NUC (Non Uniform Constellation) scheme is used as the modulation scheme, and the data field includes data that has undergone modulation corresponding to the modulation scheme and the information indicated by the fields.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventor: Makoto Umehara
  • Publication number: 20200413403
    Abstract: There is provided a wireless communication apparatus that is able to perform a first wireless communication and a second wireless communication, the second wireless communication having power consumption lower than that of the first wireless communication. The wireless communication apparatus receives, from another wireless communication apparatus through the second wireless communication, information indicating a channel which the another wireless communication apparatus is able to use in the first wireless communication, selects a communication parameter to be provided to the another wireless communication apparatus based on the received information, the communication parameter being required by the another wireless communication apparatus to connect to an apparatus that forms a network in which the first wireless communication occurs; and transmits the selected communication parameter the another wireless communication apparatus through the first wireless communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventor: Makoto Umehara
  • Patent number: 10791572
    Abstract: A communication apparatus, method of communication, and storage medium storing a computer program are provided. The communication apparatus selects, based on a first signal received from another apparatus that belongs to a BSS (Basic Service Set) complying with IEEE802.11 standard, a first or second mode. In the first mode, a first NAV (Network Allocation Vector) and a second NAV are maintained. In the second mode, one NAV is maintained. The first and second NAVs are updated based on signals received from another apparatus that does belongs to a first BSS, or does not belong to the first BSS, respectively. If the first mode is selected and the first NAV is not zero, the second NAV is zero, and a Trigger Frame (TF) complying with IEEE802.11ax standard is received, the communication apparatus responds to the TF. If the second NAV is not zero, the communication apparatus does not response to the TF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Makoto Umehara
  • Publication number: 20180084584
    Abstract: Provided is a communication apparatus that selects whether to operate in a first mode in which one of a first period set for a first group to which the communication apparatus belongs and a second period set for a second group to which the communication apparatus does not belong is managed, or in a second mode in which both of the first period and the second period are managed, performs communication during a period while a managed period is the first period if the first mode is selected, and performs communication in a period that is during the first period and not in the second period if the second mode is selected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Inventor: Makoto UMEHARA
  • Patent number: 9805691
    Abstract: A display obtains a first image by image capturing, receives, from an external apparatus, a second image generated based on the first image, determines a communication quality with the external apparatus in reception of the second image, and controls to display the second image on a display unit until a value indicating a degree of degradation of the communication quality exceeds a first threshold as a result of determination, and display the first image on the display unit when the value indicating the degree of degradation of the communication quality exceeds the first threshold. The display controls to display the first image until the value indicating the degree of degradation of the communication quality becomes smaller than a second threshold smaller than the first threshold after exceeding the first threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Makoto Umehara, Hiroichi Yamaguchi, Kazuki Takemoto
  • Patent number: 9320004
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect received powers of a plurality of radio signals received during a first predetermined time period from another apparatus, and a transmission unit configured to transmit by proxy identification information of the another apparatus using a detection result by the detection unit as at least one condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Makoto Umehara
  • Publication number: 20160027401
    Abstract: A display obtains a first image by image capturing, receives, from an external apparatus, a second image generated based on the first image, determines a communication quality with the external apparatus in reception of the second image, and controls to display the second image on a display unit until a value indicating a degree of degradation of the communication quality exceeds a first threshold as a result of determination, and display the first image on the display unit when the value indicating the degree of degradation of the communication quality exceeds the first threshold. The display controls to display the first image until the value indicating the degree of degradation of the communication quality becomes smaller than a second threshold smaller than the first threshold after exceeding the first threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2015
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Inventors: Makoto Umehara, Hiroichi Yamaguchi, Kazuki Takemoto
  • Patent number: 8942261
    Abstract: A burst signal generator generates a burst signal that is a variable length portion whose length changes in accordance with fluctuations in data input at a predetermined period. An OFDM modulator generates an OFDM signal (including a guard interval portion and an effective symbol portion) that is a fixed length portion containing data corresponding to n (n is a positive integer) times or 1/n of the predetermined period. A frame includes the variable length portion and the fixed length portion. This makes a transmission signal actually have a frame period almost equal to the period of a signal synchronized with the clock of a player, including the fluctuations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Takada, Noriyuki Suzuki, Makoto Umehara
  • Publication number: 20140354478
    Abstract: In a communication system including a transmission apparatus which includes a transmission antenna capable of changing a direction of directivity and a reception apparatus which includes a reception antenna capable of changing a direction of directivity, one of the transmission apparatus and the reception apparatus obtains the time of arrival of a radio wave for each of a plurality of pairs of the directions of directivity of the transmission antenna and reception antenna, and extracts a plurality of pairs of the directions of directivity to be used for communication so that the difference between the time of arrival for one of the pairs and the time of arrival for another one of the pairs is not shorter than a predetermined time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Makoto Umehara
  • Patent number: 8837516
    Abstract: A communication apparatus performs communication of data using assigned time slots within a frame. In a case where data cannot be transmitted in a transmission time slot that has been assigned in order to transmit data, a time slot later than this transmission time slot is reserved as a time slot used to transmit the data, this later time slot being reserved within the frame having the transmission time slot in which the data cannot be transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Makoto Umehara, Naoto Takahashi, Tomoyuki Takada, Wataru Tachiwa, Hitoshi Asai
  • Patent number: 8831007
    Abstract: A communication system including a parent station and a plurality of child stations, the parent station and the plurality of child stations being line-connected or loop-connected in a plurality of stages, and the parent station comprises a decision unit configured to decide, based on information representing states of the plurality of child stations, which one a first data relay method of transmitting data to a subsequent station in accordance with a clock reproduced from data received from a preceding station and a second data relay method of transmitting data to the subsequent station in accordance with a local clock generated in a local station should be employed by each of the plurality of child stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hitoshi Asai, Tomoyuki Takada, Wataru Tachiwa, Naoto Takahashi, Makoto Umehara