Patents by Inventor Masaaki Fujii

Masaaki Fujii 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: 8090039
    Abstract: The present invention is provided with a wireless transceiver and wireless transmitting/receiving method and program thereof capable of improving the robustness against Doppler frequency by containing transmit diversity signals in one spreading region. In the present invention, the transmitter encodes the transmit signals using a space-time matrix and transmits the encoded space-time signals after being spread with different spreading codes, and the receiver de-spreads the received spread signals, in unit of time slot, with the spreading codes corresponding to the respective time slots and then decodes the de-spread signals using the space-time matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masaaki Fujii
  • Patent number: 7936740
    Abstract: Provided are a radio transmission apparatus and method, a radio receiving apparatus and method, a transmitting and receiving method, and a recording medium for use in a mobile communication system according to an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing-Code Division Multiplexing (OFDM-CDM)-based transmission diversity method. The radio transmitter codes transmission data into a plurality of time-space codes, generates spread signals by respectively mapping a plurality of spread codes and the time-space codes, and transmits the spread signals via a plurality of transmission antennae, each of the spread codes containing a combination of codes whose signs are alternately equal and opposite in units of specific spreading lengths. Accordingly, it is possible to transmit data without a feedback of control information from a radio receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masaaki Fujii
  • Publication number: 20100158162
    Abstract: Disclosed is a QR decomposition device supporting interference whitening. The QR decomposition device supporting interference whitening may calculate a whitening matrix based on an interference channel matrix. The QR decomposition device supporting the interference whitening may simultaneously support interference whitening and detection of a transmission symbol vector through QR decomposition. A vector manufactured during the whitening and a result of the QR decomposition may be used for detecting the transmission symbol vector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2009
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Inventor: Masaaki FUJII
  • Publication number: 20100027688
    Abstract: A multi-input multi-output orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) transceiving system is provided, in which an MIMO-OFDM receiver feeds back ordering information, such as the order of power intensities of reception signals of a plurality of reception antennas, to an MIMO-OFDM transmitter. The MIMO-OFDM transmitter arranges subcarriers, to which data symbols have been allocated, so that the subcarriers respectively correspond to a plurality of transmission antennas, according to the fed-back information. Thus, a specific substream can be transmitted via a transmission antenna having the greatest channel gain. Consequently, the probability of properly recovering the specific substream is greatly increased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2007
    Publication date: February 4, 2010
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jung-hoon Suh, Masaaki Fujii, Sung-jin Kim, Ho-jin Kim
  • Publication number: 20090262468
    Abstract: A temperature protection circuit comprises means adapted to compare the temperature being monitored with each of threshold temperatures and judging that the temperature being monitored reaches a threshold temperature when the temperature being monitored is maintained at the threshold temperature or more for a predetermined confirmation period, means adapted to set a longer confirmation period as the threshold temperature compared with the temperature being monitored is lower, means adapted to generate one of corresponding temperature protection signals (Sarm, Slmt, Stsd1, Stsd2) according to the judgment of which threshold temperature the temperature being monitored reaches. With this constitution, temperature protection operation can be preformed with high accuracy and high safety without unnecessarily narrowing the range of the operating temperature of an IC to be protected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2006
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Applicant: Rohm Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuzo Ide, Yuichi Aoki, Masaaki Fujii, Hirokazu Oki
  • Patent number: 7551350
    Abstract: A super-resolution microscope includes an optical system for combining a part of a first coherent light from a first light source and a part of a second coherent light from a second light source and focusing the coherent lights onto a sample, scanning , unit for scanning the coherent lights, and a detecting unit for detecting an optical response signal from the sample. The microscope is configured so as to satisfy the following conditions: ?01Ip??1, and 0.65(?e/?p)???dipIe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2009
    Assignees: Olympus Corporation, Tokyo Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Yoshinori Iketaki, Takeshi Watanabe, Masaaki Fujii
  • Publication number: 20090080579
    Abstract: A receiving apparatus includes a combining and quantizing unit that combines channel vectors corresponding to a combination of a plurality of antennas in order to generate a combination channel vector and selects a predetermined quantization vector according to the generated combination channel vector, an error detecting unit that detects whether there is an error in received signals, and an antenna switchover unit that switches over the combination of the antennas according to a result of the error detection, in which the combining and quantizing unit feeds an index of the selected predetermined quantization vector back to a transmitting apparatus. In this way, diversity effect can be obtained by means of repeat control while reducing the amount of feedback information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2008
    Publication date: March 26, 2009
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masaaki FUJII
  • Patent number: 7505875
    Abstract: A monitor system is formed with a programmable controller for executing a user program, a data collecting unit connected to the programmable controller for collecting variable data of the programmable controller and a monitor device connected to the data collecting unit through a communication line. The functions of the system include that of storing a preliminarily defined virtual variable apart from the user program of the programmable controller and from the variable data of the programmable controller and a calculation formula using one or more real variables for obtaining the virtual variable, that of collecting real variable data in the stored calculation formula and any other real variables from the programmable controller, that of carrying out a calculation according to the stored calculation formula based on the collected real variable data, and that of displaying correspondence of the collected real variables and the result of the calculation as waveforms on a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2009
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Tadamitsu Jinzenji, Masaaki Fujii, Yoshihide Nishiyama
  • Publication number: 20090046009
    Abstract: A transmitting apparatus includes a subset matrix setting unit to set a subset matrix corresponding to a channel matrix with respect to each of a plurality of antennas of at least one of a plurality of user terminals, using channel matrices fed back from the plurality of user terminals; a beamforming matrix calculator to perform a predetermined operation using the set subset matrix so as to calculate a beamforming matrix composed of weight vectors respectively corresponding to the plurality of antennas of each of the plurality of user terminals; a beamforming processor to perform a beamforming process on data to be transmitted according to the calculated beamforming matrix so as to generate a transmission signal; and antennas to transmit the transmission signal to the plurality of user terminals. The transmitting apparatus obtains a diversity effect while removing interference between user terminals with a small quantity of computations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2008
    Publication date: February 19, 2009
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: MASAAKI FUJII
  • Publication number: 20080316099
    Abstract: A wireless transmitting method includes calculating a beamforming channel matrix which is a channel matrix generated at a time when a transmitting apparatus applies a beamforming matrix to a data signal and transmits the data signal to receiving apparatuses, selecting a parameter to be used while transmitting the data signal based on the beamforming channel matrix and noise information fed back from the receiving apparatuses, and transmitting the data signal by using the selected parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2008
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masaaki FUJII
  • Publication number: 20080185997
    Abstract: A battery pack employing a charge control device includes a charge detection circuit for checking whether a secondary cell is in a charged state or not based on at least a charge voltage or a charge current of the secondary cell; a control circuit for controlling feeding of electric power to the secondary cell according to an output of the charge detection circuit; and a setting circuit for setting a level of the charge voltage or the charge current at which the charge detection circuit recognizes the charged state according to control information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2008
    Publication date: August 7, 2008
    Inventor: Masaaki Fujii
  • Patent number: 7386058
    Abstract: In a transmitting method for transmitting a transmit signal sequence by a number of subcarriers, a plurality of subcarriers F1, F2, . . . FNSCH exclusively for a synchronization channel are provided, a signal sequence of synchronization channel SCH is transmitted by the plurality of exclusive subcarriers, and a common pilot CPICH or dedicated signal DPCH is transmitted on the other subcarriers. In this case, the signal sequence of the synchronization channel is subjected to differential encoding processing and the differentially encoded signal sequence is transmitted by the exclusive subcarriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2008
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventor: Masaaki Fujii
  • Patent number: 7372234
    Abstract: A battery pack employing a charge control device of the present invention includes a charge detection circuit for checking whether a secondary cell is in a charged state or not based on at least a charge voltage or a charge current of the secondary cell, a control circuit for controlling feeding of electric power to the secondary cell according to an output of the charge detection circuit, and a setting circuit for setting a level of the charge voltage or the charge current at which the charge detection circuit recognizes the charged state according to control information fed in directly from outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2008
    Assignee: Rohm Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masaaki Fujii
  • Publication number: 20080043864
    Abstract: A communication apparatus, method, and system are provided. The communication apparatus receives through a transmission path a combined signal in which modulated signals are combined. The communication apparatus converts a channel matrix indicating transmission characteristics of the transmission path using a basis conversion matrix which converts column vectors forming the channel matrix to cross at right angles, estimates a transmission symbol using the converted channel matrix, and calculates a likelihood of each bit of the estimated transmission symbol being a “1” and a “0”, respectively, using an inverse matrix of the basis conversion matrix. The method includes converting a channel matrix; estimating a transmission symbol; and calculating a likelihood of each bit being a “1” and a “0”, respectively, of the estimated transmission symbol using a basis conversion matrix. The system includes a transmitter and receiver for transmitting and receiving, respectively, a combined signal according to the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2007
    Publication date: February 21, 2008
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masaaki FUJII
  • Publication number: 20070291353
    Abstract: [Task] To provide a super-resolution microscope whereby the light source of pump light and erase light can be selected easily and a super-resolution can be reliably achieved through a simple and inexpensive arrangement. [Solution of the Task] A super-resolution microscope includes an optical system (3, 4, 9) for combining a part of a first coherent light from a first light source (2) and a part of a second coherent light from a second light source (1) and focusing the coherent lights onto a sample (10), scanning means (6, 7) for scanning the coherent lights, and detecting means (16) for detecting an optical response signal from the sample (10). The microscope is configured so as to satisfy the following conditions: ?01Ip??1, and 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2005
    Publication date: December 20, 2007
    Applicants: Olympus Corporation, Tokyo Institute Of Technology
    Inventors: Yoshinori Iketaki, Takeshi Watanabe, Masaaki Fujii
  • Patent number: 7304315
    Abstract: A three-dimensional analyzing device includes a first beam source for generating a first beam, a second beam source for generating a second beam, an optical system for spatially overlapping the first and second beams at least partly and irradiating the beams onto a specimen to three-dimensionally confine a photoactive region in a specimen, and a photo acceptance element for accepting a response light emitted from the photoactive region. Preferably, the device further includes an operation unit for calculating a correlation function of a response light in the time domain based on the output of the photo acceptance element to analyze a desired physical value of the specimen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2007
    Assignees: Japan Science & Technology Agency, Olympus Corporation, Nippon Roper Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Iketaki, Masaaki Fujii, Takeshi Watanabe, Takashige Omatsu, Kimihisa Yamamoto, Toshio Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20070203676
    Abstract: A monitor system is formed with a programmable controller for executing a user program, a data collecting unit connected to the programmable controller for collecting variable data of the programmable controller and a monitor device connected to the data collecting unit through a communication line. The functions of the system include that of storing a preliminarily defined virtual variable apart from the user program of the programmable controller and from the variable data of the programmable controller and a calculation formula using one or more real variables for obtaining the virtual variable, that of collecting real variable data in the stored calculation formula and any other real variables from the programmable controller, that of carrying out a calculation according to the stored calculation formula based on the collected real variable data, and that of displaying correspondence of the collected real variables and the result of the calculation as waveforms on a display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2007
    Publication date: August 30, 2007
    Inventors: Tadamitsu Jinzenji, Masaaki Fujii, Yoshihide Nishiyama
  • Publication number: 20060290924
    Abstract: A three-dimensional analyzing device includes a first beam source for generating a first beam, a second beam source for generating a second beam, an optical system for spatially overlapping the first and second beams at least partly and irradiating the beams onto a specimen to three-dimensionally confine a photoactive region in a specimen, and a photo acceptance element for accepting a response light emitted from the photoactive region. Preferably, the device further includes an operation unit for calculating a correlation function of a response light in the time domain based on the output of the photo acceptance element to analyze a desired physical value of the specimen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2006
    Publication date: December 28, 2006
    Applicants: JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY, OLYMPUS CORPORATION, NIPPON ROPER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Iketaki, Masaaki Fujii, Takeshi Watanabe, Takashige Omatsu, Kimihisa Yamamoto, Toshio Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20060251149
    Abstract: The present invention is provided with a wireless transceiver and wireless transmitting/receiving method and program thereof capable of improving the robustness against Doppler frequency by containing transmit diversity signals in one spreading region. In the present invention, the transmitter encodes the transmit signals using a space-time matrix and transmits the encoded space-time signals after being spread with different spreading codes, and the receiver de-spreads the received spread signals, in unit of time slot, with the spreading codes corresponding to the respective time slots and then decodes the de-spread signals using the space-time matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2004
    Publication date: November 9, 2006
    Inventor: Masaaki Fujii
  • Publication number: 20060209814
    Abstract: Provided are a radio transmission apparatus and method, a radio receiving apparatus and method, a transmitting and receiving method, and a recording medium for use in a mobile communication system according to an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing-Code Division Multiplexing (OFDM-CDM)-based transmission diversity method. The radio transmitter codes transmission data into a plurality of time-space codes, generates spread signals by respectively mapping a plurality of spread codes and the time-space codes, and transmits the spread signals via a plurality of transmission antennae, each of the spread codes containing a combination of codes whose signs are alternately equal and opposite in units of specific spreading lengths. Accordingly, it is possible to transmit data without a feedback of control information from a radio receiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2006
    Publication date: September 21, 2006
    Inventor: Masaaki Fujii