Patents by Inventor Ryo Sawai
Ryo Sawai 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: 11832288Abstract: A communication control device includes: a selection unit that selects, on the basis of a protection target range which is set to the air above a communication device of a second wireless system on the basis of a position of the communication device of the second wireless system which secondarily uses a frequency resource primarily used by a first wireless system, a communication device of the first wireless system as a target for calculating interference applied by the communication device of the second wireless system.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2020Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Ryota Kimura, Sho Furuichi, Hiroto Kuriki, Shinichiro Tsuda, Ryo Sawai
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Publication number: 20230318885Abstract: [Object] To adaptively adjust a symbol interval in accordance with a communication environment. [Solution] An apparatus including: a communication unit configured to perform radio communication; and a control unit configured to perform control such that control information for adjusting a symbol interval in a complex symbol sequence into which a bit sequence is converted is transmitted from the communication unit to a terminal, the control information being set on a basis of a predetermined condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Ryota KIMURA, Ryo SAWAI
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Patent number: 11743322Abstract: A communication device (100) which operates as an application node which executes one or a plurality of applications includes: a communication unit (110) that executes communication with another logical node; and a control unit (130) that controls communication by the communication unit (110). The another logical node is a node which is applied with application function chaining (AFC) in which, in transmission/reception of an application message with the application node as a transmission source or a transmission destination, one or a plurality of application functions act on the application message midway along a path of the transmission/reception, and the control unit (130) causes the communication unit (110) to transmit, to the another logical node, a message according to a publishing/subscription model in order to transmit and receive the application message on which the one or the plurality of application functions act.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2020Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Ryota Kimura, Hiroaki Takano, Hirofumi Kasai, Ryo Sawai, Fumio Teraoka
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Patent number: 11700106Abstract: Provided is a communication apparatus that flexibly switches execution/non-execution of FD. The communication apparatus includes the followings: a resource allocation unit that allocates, to another communication apparatus, reception radio resources in a predetermined frequency channel and allocates transmission radio resources at least partially overlapping the reception radio resources on a time axis; and a notification unit that notifies the other communication apparatus of information regarding the reception radio resources and the transmission radio resources. The resource allocation unit further allocates transmission radio resources at least partially overlapping the reception radio resources on a frequency axis.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2018Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Ryota Kimura, Ryo Sawai, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Naoki Kusashima, Hiroshi Harada, Keiichi Mizutani, Takeshi Matsumura, Hiroto Kuriki
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Patent number: 11689396Abstract: [Object] To adaptively adjust a symbol interval in accordance with a communication environment. [Solution] An apparatus including: a communication unit configured to perform radio communication; and a control unit configured to perform control such that control information for adjusting a symbol interval in a complex symbol sequence into which a bit sequence is converted is transmitted from the communication unit to a terminal, the control information being set on a basis of a predetermined condition.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2021Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Ryota Kimura, Ryo Sawai
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Patent number: 11595136Abstract: A communication control device that acquires first interference information indicating a first interference from communication involving a communication node that is not controlled by the communication control device and second interference information indicating a second interference from communication involving another communication node that is controlled by the communication control device. The communication control device classifies the communication nodes into groups related to a decision of a radio resource that is available for use by a communication node based on the first interference information and the second interference information.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2020Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Sho Furuichi, Ryo Sawai, Ryota Kimura, Hiromasa Uchiyama
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Patent number: 11582674Abstract: A communication device is provided that makes a single or a plurality of functions desired by a service user act on a packet desired by the service user in a service for transferring a packet in a network. A communication device is provided that includes a communication unit that communicates with another node and a control unit that controls the communication by the communication unit, in which the control unit generates path information with a target node, and in the path information with the target node, at least information regarding communication with at least a single relay node that exists between the communication device and the target node, information regarding a function to be performed by the relay node, and content of processing according to the function execution result by the relay node are written.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2019Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Ryota Kimura, Hiroaki Takano, Hirofumi Kasai, Ryo Sawai, Fumio Teraoka
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Patent number: 11570673Abstract: A mobile station in a wireless communication network. The mobile station includes a radio communication that transmits an access request message to a base station via a first communication resource, and receives a timing adjustment in response to the access request message from the base station. The mobile station also includes an adjustment value storage unit that stores the timing adjustment, and a control unit that adjusts access timing corresponding to a second communication resource based on the timing adjustment value stored in the adjustment value storage unit. The radio communication unit then communicates with the base station via the first communication resource and the second communication resource.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2021Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Hiroaki Takano, Yuichi Morioka, Ryo Sawai
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Publication number: 20230025104Abstract: A communication control device (40) includes a control unit (44) configured to select one protection method from a plurality of primary system protection methods including a dynamic or static protection method on the basis of a use form and use position information of a wireless station of a primary system and protect the wireless station of the primary system on the basis of the selected protection method.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2020Publication date: January 26, 2023Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Hiroto KURIKI, Ryota KIMURA, Ryo SAWAI
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Publication number: 20230022683Abstract: A communication device according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes an acquisition unit, a calculation unit, and a radio wave communication unit. The acquisition unit acquires a position of a reference point provided in a region related to a first wireless system and a limit value of an interference quantity at the reference point. The calculation unit calculates, on the basis of at least the position and the limit value, allowable power by which an interference quantity of a radio wave transmitted by beamforming at the reference point is equal to or less than the limit value. The radio wave communication unit that transmits a radio wave having a frequency within a second frequency band partially or entirely overlapping with a first frequency band allocated to the first wireless system by beamforming with power equal to or less than the allowable power.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2020Publication date: January 26, 2023Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Keita ONOSE, Ryo SAWAI, Ryota KIMURA, Hiroto KURIKI
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Publication number: 20220322472Abstract: A communication device includes: a communication unit that, while wirelessly communicating in a first communication mode using a first resource of a predetermined frequency channel, wirelessly communicates in a second communication mode in which a lower delay is required than in the first communication mode using a second resource at least partially overlapping the first resource on a frequency axis and a time axis; and a notification unit that notifies a reception destination in the first communication mode, of the second resource.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2020Publication date: October 6, 2022Inventors: NAOKI KUSASHIMA, RYOTA KIMURA, RYO SAWAI, KYOYA TERAMAE, KEIICHI MIZUTANI, HIROSHI HARADA
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Patent number: 11445479Abstract: There is provided a communication apparatus including a communication control section that performs, using a network address configured by m bytes, communication control on one or more network slices, and the network address has a prefix section that includes, in a portion of high-order n bytes, a slice number that identifies the one or more network slices and a subnet number in the one or more network slices.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2018Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Ryota Kimura, Hiroaki Takano, Ryo Sawai, Fumio Teraoka
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Patent number: 11405811Abstract: Provided are a communication apparatus that is operated under a wireless communication environment to which a full duplex communication scheme is applied and a communication method. The communication apparatus includes a communication section that performs wireless communication and a control section that controls operation of the communication section and processing of a signal transmitted and received by the communication section. Upon receiving, through a downlink control channel from a base station, designation regarding a resource in which interference is to be measured, the control section conducts, in the designated resource, measurement of interference from another terminal. In addition, the control section further controls transmission of interference information obtained by the measurement to the base station.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2018Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Naoki Kusashima, Ryota Kimura, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Ryo Sawai, Hiroto Kuriki, Keiichi Mizutani, Takeshi Matsumura, Hiroshi Harada
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Publication number: 20220239726Abstract: A communication device (100) which operates as an application node which executes one or a plurality of applications includes: a communication unit (110) that executes communication with another logical node; and a control unit (130) that controls communication by the communication unit (110). The another logical node is a node which is applied with application function chaining (AFC) in which, in transmission/reception of an application message with the application node as a transmission source or a transmission destination, one or a plurality of application functions act on the application message midway along a path of the transmission/reception, and the control unit (130) causes the communication unit (110) to transmit, to the another logical node, a message according to a publishing/subscription model in order to transmit and receive the application message on which the one or the plurality of application functions act.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2020Publication date: July 28, 2022Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Ryota KIMURA, Hiroaki TAKANO, Hirofumi KASAI, Ryo SAWAI, Fumio TERAOKA
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Publication number: 20220232481Abstract: A communication device includes: a communication unit that is allowed to simultaneously perform data transmission and data reception by using a same band; an acquisition unit that acquires information regarding self-interference generated at a time when the data transmission and the data reception are simultaneously performed by using the same band; and a communication control unit that performs control regarding the data transmission based on information regarding the self-interference or information from another device generated based on the information regarding the self-interference.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2020Publication date: July 21, 2022Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Naoki KUSASHIMA, Ryota KIMURA, Ryo SAWAI, Kyoya TERAMAE, Keiichi MIZUTANI, Hiroshi HARADA
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Patent number: 11394503Abstract: A communication control device, a communication control method, and a program which can reduce interference caused among different radio systems. The communication control device includes: a communication unit configured to communicate with an apparatus belonging to a first radio network; and a control unit configured to control whether or not a radio communication apparatus belonging to the first radio network performs frequency hopping based on information of a second radio network different from the first radio network.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2019Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Ryota Kimura, Ryo Sawai, Sho Furuichi
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Patent number: 11377004Abstract: Disclosed is a vehicle seat (1) comprising a seat cushion (2) and a seat back (4), wherein the seat cushion and the seat back are comprised of: a frame structure (8) to be fixed to the vehicle body; and a seating member (10) supported by the frame structure having an elastic deformation property and a vibration damping property and allow an occupant to be seated therein, and wherein the vehicle seat satisfies the following relationship: DS/DF?20, where DS denotes a deformation amount of the seating member itself in a situation where a load W is applied at a position XS of the seating member, and DF denotes a displacement of a position XF of the frame structure corresponding to the position XS, in a situation where the frame structure is fixed to the vehicle body, and the given load W is applied at the position XF.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2018Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventor: Ryo Sawai
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Patent number: 11363537Abstract: [Object] To achieve both prevention of harmful interference and promptness of power allocation under conditions in which multiple secondary systems may be managed. [Solution] Provided is a communication control apparatus including: a calculation unit configured to calculate a transmit power to be allocated, including a nominal transmit power and a margin for interference avoidance, for one or more secondary systems that secondarily use frequency channels protected for a primary system; and a determination unit configured to determine a variation in a number of secondary systems, and cause the calculation unit to adjust the margin for interference avoidance on a basis of the determined variation.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2020Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Sho Furuichi, Ryo Sawai, Ryota Kimura, Hiromasa Uchiyama, Takashi Usui
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Patent number: 11362757Abstract: An apparatus including: a first transmission processing unit that generates transmission signal sequences of multiple power layers that are to be multiplexed using power allocation; and a second transmission processing unit that processes a transmission signal sequence of a power layer using an interleaver, a scrambler, or a phase coefficient corresponding to the power layer for each of one or more of the multiple power layers. The apparatus improves accuracy of decoding of a desired signal when multiplexing/multiple access is performed using power allocation.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2020Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Ryota Kimura, Hiroaki Takano, Ryo Sawai, Shinichiro Tsuda
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Patent number: 11350292Abstract: An electronic device comprising circuitry that controls transmitting signals through a first communication link toward a base station or a second communication link toward a mobile station. The second communication link uses an uplink resource of the first communication link. The circuitry determines transmission power for the second communication link based on a first parameter and a second parameter. The first parameter indicates a signal level, a power level, or a noise level in the first communication link. The second parameter corresponds to path loss information for the first communication link.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2020Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Ryo Sawai, Ryota Kimura