Patents by Inventor Masahito Tomizawa

Masahito Tomizawa 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: 20110262136
    Abstract: An optical digital transmission system of the present invention newly defines one second negative stuff byte in an overhead area for accommodation of the client signals with multiplexing into the OTU frame, newly defines one third positive stuff byte in a corresponding tributary slot in a payload area for accommodation of client signals with multiplexing, newly defines stuff control bits that is used for decision of the use of the second negative stuff byte and the third positive stuff byte in three different places in the overhead area for client signal accommodation with multiplexing, performs control by using the newly defined stuff control bits when accommodation of the client signal with the third positive stuff byte or the second negative stuff byte is required, and performs stuff control without using the newly defined stuff control bits when accommodation of the client signal by the third positive stuff byte and the second negative stuff byte is not required.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2009
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Applicants: NTT Electronics Corporation, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeki Aisawa, Masahito Tomizawa, Yutaka Miyamoto, Yoshiaki Kisaka, Yasuyuki Endo, Katsuyoshi Miura, Kazuhito Takei
  • Patent number: 8005374
    Abstract: An optical transmission system is provided in which the optimum operating point of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer, matched to the optical frequency of the light source on the transmitting side, can be set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Kazushige Yonenaga, Mikio Yoneyama, Masahito Tomizawa, Akira Hirano, Shoichiro Kuwahara, Tomoyoshi Kataoka, Akihide Sano, Gentaro Funatsu
  • Patent number: 7970008
    Abstract: A multiplexing transmission system for adding a management overhead to a client signal, and transparently accommodating or multiplexing the client signal to transmit it is provided. The multiplexing transmission system: accommodates a plurality of client signals of different bit rates including a client signal of a bit rate that is not an integral multiple or an integral submultiple of a bit rate of other client signal, and performs rate adjustment for a part or the whole of the plurality of client signals such that the bit rate of each client signal becomes an integral multiple or integral submultiple of the bit rate of other client signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Kisaka, Shigeki Aisawa, Tetsuo Takahashi, Takuya Ohara, Masafumi Koga, Masahito Tomizawa, Yutaka Miyamoto
  • Publication number: 20100177785
    Abstract: A multiplexing transmission system for adding a management overhead to a client signal, and transparently accommodating or multiplexing the client signal to transmit it is provided. The multiplexing transmission system: accommodates a plurality of client signals of different bit rates including a client signal of a bit rate that is not an integral multiple or an integral submultiple of a bit rate of other client signal, and performs rate adjustment for a part or the whole of the plurality of client signals such that the bit rate of each client signal becomes an integral multiple or integral submultiple of the bit rate of other client signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2007
    Publication date: July 15, 2010
    Applicant: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Kisaka, Shigeki Aisawa, Tetsuo Takahashi, Takuya Ohara, Masafumi Koga, Masahito Tomizawa, Yutaka Miyamoto
  • Publication number: 20100172653
    Abstract: An optical transmission system is provided in which the optimum operating point of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer, matched to the optical frequency of the light source on the transmitting side, can be set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2010
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazushige Yonenaga, Mikio Yoneyama, Masahito Tomizawa, Akira Hirano, Shoichiro Kuwahara, Tomoyoshi Kataoka, Akihide Sano, Gentaro Funatsu
  • Patent number: 7734194
    Abstract: An optical transmission system is provided in which the optimum operating point of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer, matched to the optical frequency of the light source on the transmitting side, can be set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Kazushige Yonenaga, Mikio Yoneyama, Masahito Tomizawa, Akira Hirano, Shoichiro Kuwahara, Tomoyoshi Kataoka, Akihide Sano, Gentaro Funatsu
  • Publication number: 20100080245
    Abstract: A digital transmission system includes at least a client device and a transmission device, and rate-adjusts the client signal transmitted from the client device to the transmission device before accommodating/multiplexing the signal in a frame. The transmission device includes a rate adjusting unit and a frame processing unit. The rate adjusting unit encapsulates the client signal by using a predetermined frame structure, inserts an idle pattern if necessary, and performs rate adjustment into the bit rate which can be contained in the frame. The frame processing unit accommodates/multiplexes the signal after the rate adjustment. The digital transmission system inserts a bit string of the client signal directly in a payload area of the digital frame, or accommodates and multiplexes it. Alternatively, a specific pattern is accommodated in the payload area, or accommodated and multiplexed after performing a reversible digital signal processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2008
    Publication date: April 1, 2010
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Kisaka, Takuya Ohara, Shigeki Aisawa, Yutaka Miyamoto, Kazuhito Takei, Yasuyuki Endoh, Yasuyuki Miura, Tadanobu Nikaido, Masahito Tomizawa
  • Publication number: 20090162061
    Abstract: An optical transmission system for performing frequency synchronization even with a client signal with low frequency accuracy, and for transmitting thereof by accommodating/multiplexing without causing a bit slip. A new overhead is added to the entire client signal, and the signal including the new overhead being stuffed is transmitted in conjunction with a plurality of stuffing bits as an optical signal wherein a data storing bit for a negative stuffing, a stuffing information notification bit, and a stuff bits inserting bit for a positive stuffing in the payload are defined in plurality as stuffing bits for adjusting clock frequencies of the client signal in this new overhead.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2006
    Publication date: June 25, 2009
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Kisaka, Shigeki Aisawa, Yutaka Miyamoto, Masahito Tomizawa, Yasuyuki Endoh, Kazuhito Takei
  • Patent number: 7536108
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an automatic dispersion compensating optical link system. Carrier suppressed RZ encoded optical signals generated using carrier suppressing means and binary NRZ code or partial response code, or carrier suppressed clock signals generated using carrier suppressing means and clock signals are transmitted on an optical transmission line. Two bands of the carrier suppressed RZ encoded optical signals or carrier suppressed clock signals transmitted on the optical transmission line are each divided into bands and are received. Phase information of the respective basebands is extracted from the binary NRZ code components or partial response code components or clock signals in each band and the relative phase difference thereof is detected. The chromatic dispersion value of the optical transmission line is then calculated from the relative phase difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2009
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Hirano, Yutaka Miyamoto, Masahito Tomizawa, Shoichiro Kuwahara, Hiroshi Takahashi, Yasuyuki Inoue
  • Patent number: 7424230
    Abstract: This digital transmission system is provided with a transmitting apparatus that transmits digital data signals and a receiving apparatus that receives the digital data signals transmitted over a transmission path, compares the signals with a predetermined threshold value, and performs decision reproduction. The receiving apparatus is formed by: decision circuits that receive the input of reception signals, discriminate between the respective reception signals using a plurality of threshold values, and output decision results; and a selection circuit that, based on the decision results output from the decision circuit, selects one decision result from one threshold value from among the decision results from each of the plurality of threshold values, and outputs the selected decision result. As a result, the receiving apparatus is able to individually select which decision result to use from which threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2008
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Masahito Tomizawa, Akira Hirano, Yoshiaki Kisaka, Yutaka Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 7116917
    Abstract: The present invention suppresses to a minimum the degradation of the transmission quality caused by chromatic dispersion characteristic of an optical transmission medium, and the interplay between the chromatic dispersion and non-linear optical effects in dense WDM transport systems. A baseband input data signal is pre-coded in advance by a pre-coding unit, phase modulation is carried out using a pre-coded signal by the optical phase modulating unit, and the phase modulated optical signal is converted to an RZ intensity modulated signal by the optical filter unit that performs phase-shift-keying to amplitude-shift-keying conversion. For example, an optical phase modulating unit generates an encoded DPSK phase modulated signal using a differential phase shirt keying (DPSK) format, and a phase modulated signal is converted to an RZ intensity modulated signal by the optical filter unit disposed downstream of the optical phase modulating unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2006
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Coproration
    Inventors: Yutaka Miyamoto, Akira Hirano, Shoichiro Kuwahara, Masahito Tomizawa
  • Publication number: 20060193637
    Abstract: A device and method for adjusting the chromatic dispersion in an optical transmission system includes an optical element having a temperature-dependent chromatic dispersion. The device and method further include a device for adjusting a temperature or a temperature distribution of at least one region of the optical element for providing a predefined chromatic dispersion of the optical element. Therefore, the chromatic dispersion of the optical element may be regulated along an optical transmission path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2003
    Publication date: August 31, 2006
    Inventors: Arnold Mattheus, Yutaka Miyamoto, Masahito Tomizawa
  • Patent number: 7095758
    Abstract: A multiplexing and transmission apparatus including a transmitter and a receiver is provided. The transmitter includes a control pulses generating circuit generating control pulses having different phases; channel-frame generating circuits each outputting low-speed frame signal in synchronization with the control pulse; and a multiplexing circuit multiplexing the low-speed frame signals into the high-speed serial signal. The receiver includes a demultiplexer demultiplexing high-speed serial signal into low-speed frame signals; channel-frame synchronization circuits each generating a frame pulse corresponding to the low-speed frame signal; a switching circuit switching each of the low-speed frame signals to an appropriate port of the channel; and a switch controller circuit controlling the switching circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2006
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Masahito Tomizawa, Takashi Ono, Yoshiaki Kisaka
  • Patent number: 7002968
    Abstract: A signal transport system and a transport method are provided. A whole lowspeed signal containing a client overhead received from a client network is transparently subjected to time division multiplexing and an additional overhead is inserted in the whole signal and further subjected to wavelength division multiplexing, so that the digital signal having the addition overhead is transported in the wavelength division mode represented by one wavelength to a receiving equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2006
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Masahito Tomizawa, Yoshiaki Kisaka, Yutaka Miyamoto, Takashi Ono, Hiromu Toba
  • Publication number: 20040131363
    Abstract: With this polarization mode dispersion compensation method, an optical signal which is sent by an optical signal transmitter 5 is propagated along an optical transmission path 6, and, after having passed through a polarization controller 1, is inputted to a polarizer 2. A specified polarization component is separated out by the polarizer 2 from this optical signal which has been thus inputted. The optical signal which has been thus separated is inputted into a waveform deterioration detector 3, which detects waveform deterioration thereof. Based upon information related to the waveform deterioration which has been detected, a control device 7 controls the polarization controller 1 so that the waveform deterioration becomes a minimum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2003
    Publication date: July 8, 2004
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Kisaka, Masahito Tomizawa, Yutaka Miyamoto, Akira Hirano, Shoichiro Kuwahara
  • Publication number: 20040114638
    Abstract: In a multiplexing repeater a transmitting part is provided with: GbE receiving circuits 101 and 102 of two channels for receiving GbE signals; FIFO memories 105 and 106 which are connected thereto, respectively, and which can be written and read out by independent clocks of two channels; a multiplexing circuit 109 for multiplexing read-out signals of two channels; an OTU frame generating circuit 111 for mapping the multiplexed two-channel signals over an OTU payload of an OTU frame; and an optical transmitting circuit 115 for transmitting a transmission signal of an OTU frame structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2004
    Publication date: June 17, 2004
    Inventors: Akihiko Matsuura, Tomoyoshi Kataoka, Yoshinori Hamada, Yoshiaki Yamada, Shigeki Aisawa, Masahito Tomizawa
  • Publication number: 20030170035
    Abstract: This optical transmission apparatus multiplex-modulates a plurality of input electrical signals into an optical signal with a bit rate of A. This apparatus has a light source which supplies an carrier light; an optical divider which divides the carrier light from the light source into N number of carrier lights (where N is an integer); optical modulators which modulate the carrier lights divided in the optical divider with electrical signals, an optical combiner which combines the optical signals from the optical modulator, and devices which convert the input electrical signals to RZ format signals each with a pulse width of 1/A or less, and applies a different delay to each signal, each delay differing sequentially by 1/A, and then inputs the signals to the optical modulator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2003
    Publication date: September 11, 2003
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Kisaka, Masahito Tomizawa, Akira Hirano
  • Patent number: 6598092
    Abstract: In a trunk transmission network for transmitting information signals between nodes via paths, flexible path operation is achieved by setting up paths between source nodes and destination nodes after pre-classifying paths into a higher service class in which any loss of information occurring in that path is made good restored; and a lower service class which permits loss of information to occur in the path. The flexible operation is further achieved by arranging for each node, when it acts as a source node, to recognize the service class of the information signal it is sending to a destination node, and to select a path corresponding to that service class.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2003
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Masahito Tomizawa, Shinji Matsuoka, Yoshihiko Uematsu
  • Publication number: 20030118345
    Abstract: This digital transmission system is provided with a transmitting apparatus that transmits digital data signals and a receiving apparatus that receives the digital data signals transmitted over a transmission path, compares the signals with a predetermined threshold value, and performs decision reproduction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2002
    Publication date: June 26, 2003
    Inventors: Masahito Tomizawa, Akira Hirano, Yoshiaki Kisaka, Yutaka Miyamoto
  • Publication number: 20030002112
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an automatic dispersion compensating optical link system. Carrier suppressed RZ encoded optical signals generated using carrier suppressing means and binary NRZ code or partial response code, or carrier suppressed clock signals generated using carrier suppressing means and clock signals are transmitted on an optical transmission line. Two bands of the carrier suppressed RZ encoded optical signals or carrier suppressed clock signals transmitted on the optical transmission line are each divided into bands and are received. Phase information of the respective basebands is extracted from the binary NRZ code components or partial response code components or clock signals in each band and the relative phase difference thereof is detected. The chromatic dispersion value of the optical transmission line is then calculated from the relative phase difference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2002
    Publication date: January 2, 2003
    Applicant: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Hirano, Yutaka Miyamoto, Masahito Tomizawa, Shoichiro Kuwahara, Hiroshi Takahashi, Yasuyuki Inoue