Patents by Inventor Masanori Taira
Masanori Taira 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).
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Patent number: 11330425Abstract: A communication system includes: a terminal configured to perform a predetermined operation and including a communication device configured to transmit first information relating to the predetermined operation by a first communication method; and a server apparatus configured to receive information transmitted from the terminal. The communication device transmits second information indicating a status of the terminal by a second communication method different from the first communication method, and the server apparatus determines whether the first information is normally received from the terminal and, when determining that the first information is not normally received, performs predetermined processing depending on a communication status of the terminal based on the received second information.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2020Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Mikio Kuwahara, Masanori Taira
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Publication number: 20200304987Abstract: A communication system includes: a terminal configured to perform a predetermined operation and including a communication device configured to transmit first information relating to the predetermined operation by a first communication method; and a server apparatus configured to receive information transmitted from the terminal. The communication device transmits second information indicating a status of the terminal by a second communication method different from the first communication method, and the server apparatus determines whether the first information is normally received from the terminal and, when determining that the first information is not normally received, performs predetermined processing depending on a communication status of the terminal based on the received second information.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2020Publication date: September 24, 2020Inventors: Mikio KUWAHARA, Masanori TAIRA
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Patent number: 9350830Abstract: To prevent the switching time influences power saving performance and packet loss prevention performance, it is provided a wireless communication base station for communicating with a terminal, comprising: a plurality of baseband signal processing units for performing baseband signal processing; a baseband allocation unit for allocating the baseband signal processing to the plurality of baseband signal processing units; and a linear processing unit for composing signals processed by the plurality of baseband signal processing units. The baseband allocation unit selects, for each data block, a baseband signal processing unit to which the baseband signal processing for the each data block is to be allocated out of the plurality of baseband signal processing units. Each of the plurality of baseband signal processing units performs the allocated baseband signal processing.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2014Date of Patent: May 24, 2016Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Shigenori Hayase, Kenzaburo Fujishima, Hirotake Ishii, Masanori Taira
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Patent number: 9143269Abstract: A method of wireless communication for communication between a base station and a plurality of terminal apparatuses, the method including: dividing an available frequency into a plurality of segments and notifying control information to the terminal apparatus, the control information including setting of a segment of the plurality of segments, communication quality of which will be fed back by the terminal apparatus, and cancellation of a segment of the plurality of segments, communication quality of which has already been fed back from the terminal apparatus; and feeding back communication quality related to a predetermined segment to the base station in accordance with the control information by the terminal apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2014Date of Patent: September 22, 2015Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kenzaburo Fujishima, Masanori Taira
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Publication number: 20150036624Abstract: Provided is a base station apparatus including an upper layer processor and a lower layer processor. The upper layer processor: holds allocation rights information representing that a cell has a right to allocate a part of a wireless resource owned by the cell to a terminal belonging to the cell, and does not have a right to allocate a remaining part of the wireless resource; allocates the part of the wireless resource which the cell has the right to allocate out of the wireless resource owned by the cell to the terminal; and instructs the lower layer processor to carry out wireless signal processing for the communication to/from the terminal. The lower layer processor: carries out, in accordance with the instruction to carry out the wireless signal processing, the wireless signal processing for the communication to/from the terminal; and notifies the upper layer processor of a result thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2014Publication date: February 5, 2015Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kenzaburo FUJISHIMA, Masanori TAIRA, Shigenori HAYASE
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Publication number: 20140293920Abstract: A method of wireless communication for communication between a base station and a plurality of terminal apparatuses, the method including: dividing an available frequency into a plurality of segments and notifying control information to the terminal apparatus, the control information including setting of a segment of the plurality of segments, communication quality of which will be fed back by the terminal apparatus, and cancellation of a segment of the plurality of segments, communication quality of which has already been fed back from the terminal apparatus; and feeding back communication quality related to a predetermined segment to the base station in accordance with the control information by the terminal apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2014Publication date: October 2, 2014Inventors: Kenzaburo Fujishima, Masanori Taira
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Publication number: 20140226619Abstract: To reduce power consumption of a mobile station, this invention provides a wireless communication method for communicating between a base station and a plurality of terminals using a plurality of channels, the channels being slots obtained by dividing frequency-divided carriers by time, in which the base station allocates a set of the channels which is composed of a plurality of neighboring carriers and/or a plurality of successive slots for the each terminal, and the base station allocates at least one of the channels included in the channel sets for packet transmission the terminals.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2014Publication date: August 14, 2014Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Mikio KUWAHARA, Kenzaburo FUJISHIMA, Masanori TAIRA
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Patent number: 8787321Abstract: A method of wireless communication for communication between a base station and a plurality of terminal apparatuses, the method including: dividing an available frequency into a plurality of segments and notifying control information to the terminal apparatus, the control information including setting of a segment of the plurality of segments, communication quality of which will be fed back by the terminal apparatus, and cancellation of a segment of the plurality of segments, communication quality of which has already been fed back from the terminal apparatus; and feeding back communication quality related to a predetermined segment to the base station in accordance with the control information by the terminal apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2012Date of Patent: July 22, 2014Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kenzaburo Fujishima, Masanori Taira
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Publication number: 20140201754Abstract: To prevent the switching time influences power saving performance and packet loss prevention performance, it is provided a wireless communication base station for communicating with a terminal, comprising: a plurality of baseband signal processing units for performing baseband signal processing; a baseband allocation unit for allocating the baseband signal processing to the plurality of baseband signal processing units; and a linear processing unit for composing signals processed by the plurality of baseband signal processing units. The baseband allocation unit selects, for each data block, a baseband signal processing unit to which the baseband signal processing for the each data block is to be allocated out of the plurality of baseband signal processing units. Each of the plurality of baseband signal processing units performs the allocated baseband signal processing.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2014Publication date: July 17, 2014Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Shigenori HAYASE, Kenzaburo FUJISHIMA, Hirotake ISHII, Masanori TAIRA
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Patent number: 8744456Abstract: To reduce power consumption of a mobile station, this invention provides a wireless communication method for communicating between a base station and a plurality of terminals using a plurality of channels, the channels being slots obtained by dividing frequency-divided carriers by time, in which the base station allocates a set of the channels which is composed of a plurality of neighboring carriers and/or a plurality of successive slots for the each terminal, and the base station allocates at least one of the channels included in the channel sets for packet transmission the terminals.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2010Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Mikio Kuwahara, Kenzaburo Fujishima, Masanori Taira
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Publication number: 20130114458Abstract: A wireless communication system comprises radio base station apparatuses each of which transmits an estimation pilot in advance for estimating the quality of a downlink communication after a spatial signal processing performed after a time unified among the radio base station apparatuses; and radio terminal apparatuses each of which receives the estimation pilot to determine the quality of the downlink communication, thereby reporting the determined downlink communication quality to the radio base station apparatus via an uplink channel. The estimation pilot is transmitted at the same time and frequency established among the radio base station apparatuses by use of the same directivity beam as used for transmitting the data after the unified time.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2012Publication date: May 9, 2013Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kenzaburo FUJISHIMA, Masanori TAIRA
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Publication number: 20130003883Abstract: A method of wireless communication for communication between a base station and a plurality of terminal apparatuses, the method including: dividing an available frequency into a plurality of segments and notifying control information to the terminal apparatus, the control information including setting of a segment of the plurality of segments, communication quality of which will be fed back by the terminal apparatus, and cancellation of a segment of the plurality of segments, communication quality of which has already been fed back from the terminal apparatus; and feeding back communication quality related to a predetermined segment to the base station in accordance with the control information by the terminal apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2012Publication date: January 3, 2013Inventors: Kenzaburo FUJISHIMA, Masanori TAIRA
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Patent number: 8340018Abstract: A wireless communication system comprises radio base station apparatuses each of which transmits an estimation pilot in advance for estimating the quality of a downlink communication after a spatial signal processing performed after a time unified among the radio base station apparatuses; and radio terminal apparatuses each of which receives the estimation pilot to determine the quality of the downlink communication, thereby reporting the determined downlink communication quality to the radio base station apparatus via an uplink channel. The estimation pilot is transmitted at the same time and frequency established among the radio base station apparatuses by use of the same directivity beam as used for transmitting the data after the unified time.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2006Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kenzaburo Fujishima, Masanori Taira
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Patent number: 8335529Abstract: A wireless communication method in which a base station and a wireless terminal communicate, including: an operation at which a first and a second base station transmit, for each beam area, a pilot signal including identification information to identify the base station and the beam area, in a beam pattern; an operation at which the wireless terminal obtains received power of each pilot signal; an operation at which the wireless terminal causes one of the beam areas of the first base station to be a desired wave beam area, and determines two data rates for requiring to the base station: one of the data rates being a first data rate used in a case that interference from the second base station is relatively high and another of the data rates being a second data rate used in a case that the interference from the second base station is relatively low.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2011Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Masanori Taira, Kenzaburo Fujishima, Koki Uwano
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Patent number: 8315671Abstract: An antenna pattern assigning method capable of avoiding interference between a plurality of base transmission stations constituting a radio system in a cellular type broad band communication. In the radio system, when assigning a fixed beam pattern different for each frequency, each of the radio base transmission station devices transmits a radio wave having a directivity pattern having a peak in the same direction in two or more different frequencies, and between adjacent radio base transmission station devices, radio transmission is performed by using different directivity patterns in the two or more frequencies.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2011Date of Patent: November 20, 2012Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Mikio Kuwahara, Kenzaburo Fujishima, Masanori Taira
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Patent number: 8290001Abstract: Arrangements for assigning a frequency resource for a wireless communication system. Included are: dividing a frequency available into a plurality of segments and assigning another terminal apparatus to communicate with each segment, wherein, with regard to a first specified number of segments, assigning via the base station apparatus, based on a number of communication times anticipated per each terminal apparatus and a probability of exceeding a communication capacity decided by a threshold value per each terminal apparatus, a second specified number of segments that is smaller than the first to each terminal apparatus, and notifying the terminal apparatuses of the assignment result, referring to the assignment result via the terminal apparatus, and carrying out scheduling via the base station apparatus to decide which terminal apparatus to communicate with per each segment based on the radio channel quality fed back from the each terminal apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2006Date of Patent: October 16, 2012Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kenzaburo Fujishima, Masanori Taira
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Patent number: 8280442Abstract: Even if a receiver has a normal gain and a lowered intermodulation distortion characteristics, a fault detection is possible. A test signal transmitter sends a test signal having at least two frequencies to a radio receiver through a coupler. A digital signal processing section receives a signal which includes an IM3 component generated by the radio receiver and measures the electric power of fundamental wave components and the IM3 component. Then, the digital signal processing section calculates the gain of the radio receiver and IIP3, which is an index for intermodulation distortion characteristics, of the radio receiver 207 from the calculated electric power. A base station control section determines whether the gain and IIP3 of the radio receiver fall in predetermined ranges to determine whether the radio receiver works normally or has a fault.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2009Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Haruo Nakano, Kazuyuki Hori, Masanori Taira, Takahiro Chiba, Yasuyuki Magara
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Patent number: 8140106Abstract: The function of comparing power of a signal obtained by multiplying an input signal by an EVM target value and power of a peak suppression signal, and automatically adjusting a peak factor threshold value Vt in such a manner that the values of both power become equal to each other, is added to the peak factor reduction device. The peak factor reduction device is also added with the function of comparing instantaneous amplitude values of a signal Sout after a peak factor reduction and the peak factor threshold value Vt, and automatically calculating a peak detection width N so as to suppress the residual of each peak.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2010Date of Patent: March 20, 2012Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Takahiro Chiba, Masanori Taira, Kazuyuki Hori
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Patent number: 8130716Abstract: The present invention is to accommodate a large number of users required in a digital radio communication system and to prevent communication quality from deteriorating. The present invention is to prevent the occurrence of a delay by adding a process for restricting packet assignment for a call having low communication quality. When the average DRC value is equal to or smaller than a threshold, assigned slots are thinned out to improve communication quality for radio terminals close to cell boundaries and to increase the number of radio terminals accommodated. As a method for thinning out assigned slots, packets received from an upper level unit of a radio base station are, for example, discarded before transmission as long as the lowest limit sound quality is maintained. With this operation, the lowest limit sound quality is ensured.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2008Date of Patent: March 6, 2012Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Atsushi Abe, Masanori Taira, Shiro Mazawa, Yosuke Takahashi
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Patent number: 8111681Abstract: A wireless data-communication arrangements including a wireless terminal, located in a direction, receiving the pilot signal and determining a data rate according to reception quality of the pilot signal; the wireless terminal transmitting to a base station a signal for requesting the determined data rate; the base station receiving the signal and, based on the requested data rate, transmitting data to the wireless terminal with the radiation pattern, which includes the beam pattern in a same direction as the direction in which the pilot signal was transmitted, using a data channel of a second slot which is a predetermined number of slots after the first slot.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2011Date of Patent: February 7, 2012Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Masanori Taira, Kenzaburo Fujishima