Patents by Inventor Mitsuru Hirakawa

Mitsuru Hirakawa 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: 9934678
    Abstract: A remote controller 101 includes: an operation unit 11; a power generating unit 12 that generates electric power by operation on the operation unit 11; a signal generating unit 13 that operates by using the electric power generated by the power generating unit 12 and is able to output a signal of a kind corresponding to the content of each operation on the operation unit 11; a storage unit 15 that operates by using the electric power generated by the power generating unit 12 and nonvolatilely stores the content of an output signal of the signal generating unit 13; and a transmission control unit 14 that operates by using the electric power generated by the power generating unit 12 and transmits a wireless signal including information corresponding to the content of the output signal stored in the storage unit 15 when the operation on the operation unit 11 satisfies a predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuru Hirakawa, Sei Teki
  • Patent number: 9626861
    Abstract: A wireless device 101 is a wireless device having identification information, and includes: an operation unit 11; a power generating unit 12 that generates electric power by operation on the operation unit 11; a signal generating unit 13 that operates by using the electric power generated by the power generating unit 12 and is capable of outputting a signal of a kind corresponding to the content of each operation on the operation unit 11; a storage unit 15 that operates by using the electric power generated by the power generating unit 12 and nonvolatilely stores the content of an output signal of the signal generating unit 13, the identification information, and reference information; and a transmission control unit 14 that compares the content of the output signal with the reference information when the operation on the operation unit 11 satisfies a predetermined condition, the content of the output signal and the reference information being stored in the storage unit 15, and transits to a transmission perm
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Sei Teki, Mitsuru Hirakawa
  • Publication number: 20160378301
    Abstract: Provided are a screen information processing apparatus, a screen information processing method, and a screen information processing program, which are capable of improving visibility in a configuration where icons respectively indicating the positions of sensors in a predetermined area are displayed on a screen. The screen information processing apparatus includes: an evaluation unit configured to, when a plurality of icons respectively indicating positions of a plurality of sensors are to be displayed on a screen, evaluate an overlapping degree or crowdedness of the icons on the screen; and a display control unit configured to perform control of displaying, on the screen, an auxiliary icon which is a separate icon that groups the icons in accordance with a content of the evaluation performed by the evaluation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventor: Mitsuru HIRAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20160171877
    Abstract: A wireless device 101 is a wireless device having identification information, and includes: an operation unit 11; a power generating unit 12 that generates electric power by operation on the operation unit 11; a signal generating unit 13 that operates by using the electric power generated by the power generating unit 12 and is capable of outputting a signal of a kind corresponding to the content of each operation on the operation unit 11; a storage unit 15 that operates by using the electric power generated by the power generating unit 12 and nonvolatilely stores the content of an output signal of the signal generating unit 13, the identification information, and reference information; and a transmission control unit 14 that compares the content of the output signal with the reference information when the operation on the operation unit 11 satisfies a predetermined condition, the content of the output signal and the reference information being stored in the storage unit 15, and transits to a transmission perm
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Sei TEKI, Mitsuru HIRAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20160110995
    Abstract: A remote controller 101 includes: an operation unit 11; a power generating unit 12 that generates electric power by operation on the operation unit 11; a signal generating unit 13 that operates by using the electric power generated by the power generating unit 12 and is able to output a signal of a kind corresponding to the content of each operation on the operation unit 11; a storage unit 15 that operates by using the electric power generated by the power generating unit 12 and nonvolatilely stores the content of an output signal of the signal generating unit 13; and a transmission control unit 14 that operates by using the electric power generated by the power generating unit 12 and transmits a wireless signal including information corresponding to the content of the output signal stored in the storage unit 15 when the operation on the operation unit 11 satisfies a predetermined condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2014
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Inventors: Mitsuru HIRAKAWA, Sei TEKI
  • Patent number: 8842655
    Abstract: A communication apparatus capable of simultaneously receiving signals from a plurality of users by an SC-FDMA scheme reduces its circuit size. A communication apparatus BS1, BS2 is capable of simultaneously receiving signals from a plurality of users by the SC-FDMA scheme. The communication apparatus BS1, BS2 includes a plurality of antennas 1a and 1b; a processing unit 6 that performs multi-antenna signal processing on a plurality of received SC-FDMA signals in a frequency domain, the received SC-FDMA signals being received by the plurality of antennas 1a and 1b; and a user separating unit 7 that demultiplexes a signal obtained through the multi-antenna signal processing, into signals for each user based on user allocation information in the SC-FDMA scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Eiji Mochida, Mitsuru Hirakawa
  • Patent number: 8553670
    Abstract: A radio communication device performing radio communication using OFDMA system includes: a SMI weight deriving unit (14) calculating a correlation matrix and a correlation vector using a plurality of received signal vectors as sample values, and deriving a SMI weight based on the calculated correlation matrix and correlation vector; and a weight multiplying unit (15) for multiplying the received signal vector by the SMI weight derived by the SMI weight deriving unit (14). The SMI weight deriving unit (14) uses a received signal vector of each of a plurality of subcarriers included in a user allocated region in the OFDMA system as a sample value, and thereby derives the SMI weight for the user allocated region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Mitsuru Hirakawa
  • Publication number: 20110294496
    Abstract: A small-size base station is obtained that allows an authorized user to reliably perform communication via the small-size base station by avoiding a mobile communication terminal of a third person from being connected to the small-size base station. A femtocell base station 101F is the small-size base station that performs transmission and reception of radio waves with a mobile phone 110 located within a femtocell 103F, and includes a registering unit 132 registering an IMSI of a mobile phone 110X allowed to access the femtocell base station 101F; and a determining unit 131 determining whether an IMSI of a mobile phone 110 accessing the femtocell base station 101F is registered in the registering unit 132, and thereby determines whether the mobile phone 110 is a registered terminal or unregistered terminal. Access by an unregistered terminal to the femtocell base station 101F is limited based on a result of the determination made by the determining unit 131.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2009
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Inventors: Mitsuru Hirakawa, Kenichi Murakami
  • Publication number: 20110286412
    Abstract: A communication apparatus capable of simultaneously receiving signals from a plurality of users by an SC-FDMA scheme reduces its circuit size. A communication apparatus BS1, BS2 is capable of simultaneously receiving signals from a plurality of users by the SC-FDMA scheme. The communication apparatus BS1, BS2 includes a plurality of antennas 1a and 1b; a processing unit 6 that performs multi-antenna signal processing on a plurality of received SC-FDMA signals in a frequency domain, the received SC-FDMA signals being received by the plurality of antennas 1a and 1b; and a user separating unit 7 that demultiplexes a signal obtained through the multi-antenna signal processing, into signals for each user based on user allocation information in the SC-FDMA scheme.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2009
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Inventors: Eiji Mochida, Mitsuru Hirakawa
  • Publication number: 20100316042
    Abstract: A radio communication device performing radio communication using OFDMA system includes: a SMI weight deriving unit (14) calculating a correlation matrix and a correlation vector using a plurality of received signal vectors as sample values, and deriving a SMI weight based on the calculated correlation matrix and correlation vector; and a weight multiplying unit (15) for multiplying the received signal vector by the SMI weight derived by the SMI weight deriving unit (14). The SMI weight deriving unit (14) uses a received signal vector of each of a plurality of subcarriers included in a user allocated region in the OFDMA system as a sample value, and thereby derives the SMI weight for the user allocated region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2008
    Publication date: December 16, 2010
    Inventor: Mitsuru Hirakawa