Patents by Inventor Taichi OHTSUJI

Taichi OHTSUJI 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: 20210258081
    Abstract: A transmission device identification system includes: one or more reception units; a feature output unit that outputs, for each of the one or more reception units, a feature of a reception signal of the reception unit, the feature being corrected based on a receiver characteristic of the reception unit; and an identification unit that identifies a transmission device that is a radio wave transmitting source based on the feature and a transmission radio wave feature, the transmission radio wave feature indicating a feature of a transmission radio wave for each transmission device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Taichi OHTSUJI
  • Publication number: 20210250894
    Abstract: A terminal number estimating system includes: a plurality of receivers that receive a wireless signal transmitted from a plurality of terminal devices by frequency-division multiple access; a Fourier transform unit that performs a discrete Fourier transform on each wireless signal received by the plurality of reception means and outputs a discrete Fourier coefficient; and a terminal number estimation unit that estimates a position of each terminal device by clustering a resource block of each wireless signal based on each discrete Fourier coefficient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Taichi OHTSUJI, Toshiki TAKEUCHI, Masaki KITSUNEZUKA
  • Patent number: 11076131
    Abstract: A video collection system includes: a plurality of terminals; and a video collection server that requests at least one of the plurality of terminals to perform information provision. The video collection server includes a calculation part, a determination part, and a request part. The calculation part calculates, based on information acquired from a camera(s), a first area(s) imaged by the camera(s). The determination part determines a second area(s) as an information provision target(s) based on a location(s) of the first area(s). The request part selects, based on respective locations of the plurality of terminals and a location(s) of the second area(s), a terminal(s) to be requested to perform the information provision from the plurality of terminals and requests the selected terminal(s) to provide video data of the second area(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Norio Yamagaki, Dai Kanetomo, Hiroaki Aminaka, Kazushi Muraoka, Taichi Ohtsuji, Takashi Yoshinaga
  • Patent number: 11049374
    Abstract: A tracking support system includes a position calculating section connected with a plurality of cameras arranged in a predetermined monitoring area to transmit video images imaged by the plurality of cameras and configured to calculate a position of the tracking target based on the video images received from the plurality of cameras; a tracker selecting section configured to select a tracker to be instructed to track the tracking target, based on position information of the terminal received from the terminal and the calculated position of the tracking target; and an information transmitting section configured to transmit information of a distance between the tracking target and the terminal during the tracking of the tracking target to the terminal carried by the selected tracker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taichi Ohtsuji, Kazushi Muraoka, Hiroaki Aminaka, Dai Kanetomo, Norio Yamagaki, Takashi Yoshinaga
  • Publication number: 20210166536
    Abstract: A tracking support system includes a position calculating section connected with a plurality of cameras arranged in a predetermined monitoring area to transmit video images imaged by the plurality of cameras and configured to calculate a position of the tracking target based on the video images received from the plurality of cameras; a tracker selecting section configured to select a tracker to be instructed to track the tracking target, based on position information of the terminal received from the terminal and the calculated position of the tracking target; and an information transmitting section configured to transmit information of a distance between the tracking target and the terminal during the tracking of the tracking target to the terminal carried by the selected tracker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taichi OHTSUJI, Kazushi Muraoka, Hiroaki Aminaka, Dai Kanetomo, Norio Yamagaki, Takashi Yoshinaga
  • Patent number: 11012821
    Abstract: Radio terminals (1A, 1B, 1C) each receive a broadcast/multicast signal (220) from a cellular communication network (10). The representative terminal (1A) receives response messages from the respective neighboring radio terminals (1B, 1C) via D2D communication (231, 232). Each response message is generated based on reception of the broadcast/multicast signal (220) by each neighboring radio terminal (1B, 1C). The representative terminal (1A) generates a representative response message and transmits it to the cellular communication network (10) or another node (7) via uplink transmission (240). It is thus, for example, possible to contribute to improving efficiency of transmission by radio terminals of response messages related to a broadcast/multicast service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taichi Ohtsuji, Kazushi Muraoka
  • Publication number: 20210105584
    Abstract: Radio terminals (1A, 1B, 1C) each receive a broadcast/multicast signal (220) from a cellular communication network (10). The representative terminal (1A) receives response messages from the respective neighboring radio terminals (1B, 1C) via D2D communication (231, 232). Each response message is generated based on reception of the broadcast/multicast signal (220) by each neighboring radio terminal (1B, 1C). The representative terminal (1A) generates a representative response message and transmits it to the cellular communication network (10) or another node (7) via uplink transmission (240). It is thus, for example, possible to contribute to improving efficiency of transmission by radio terminals of response messages related to a broadcast/multicast service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2018
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Taichi OHTSUJI, Kazushi MURAOKA
  • Publication number: 20200314597
    Abstract: A moving body tracking system more efficiently identifies a moving body sending a particular radio wave, by including a memory that stores a set of instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the set of instructions to identify, when a feature value of a radio wave received by a terminal is registered in a database, a moving body sending the radio wave, based on a plurality of images captured by the terminal and associated with the feature value of the radio wave.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji ADACHI, Kazuya Tsujimoto, Ryuichiro Matsuoka, Taichi Ohtsuji, Toshiki Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 10778324
    Abstract: A D2D communication control apparatus (10) according to the present invention includes: a communication unit (11) configured to receive determination information that can be used to determine whether each of a plurality of radio terminals is capable of performing device-to-device (D2D) communication with another radio terminal; and a selection unit (12) configured to select, using the determination information between radio terminals that may operate as relay radio terminals, a candidate for a relay radio terminal that relays the communication between one of the plurality of radio terminals and a network, the relay radio terminal candidate transmitting a response signal in response to a first discovery signal transmitted from one of the radio terminals by performing D2D communication with the one of the plurality of radio terminals and performing cellular communication with the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki Aminaka, Kazushi Muraoka, Taichi Ohtsuji
  • Patent number: 10660010
    Abstract: A wireless terminal apparatus (2) is configured, before the wireless terminal apparatus (2) is requested by another wireless terminal (1) or a D2D controller (5) to start a relay operation between the other wireless terminal (1) and the cellular network (3, 4), to hold connection information necessary to allow the other wireless terminal (1) to communicate with the cellular network (3, 4) or with a node (7) in an external network (6) via the relay operation performed by the wireless terminal apparatus (2). It is thus, for example, possible to contribute to reducing latency from when a mobile relay is requested to start a relay operation until the relay operation can be started.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki Aminaka, Kazushi Muraoka, Taichi Ohtsuji
  • Publication number: 20200008127
    Abstract: A relay terminal (2) transmits selection assistance information to a remote terminal (1). The selection assistance information includes a first information element transmitted from a base station (3) and received by the relay terminal (2). The first information element indicates at least one of: (a) a frequency band of the base station (3); a system bandwidth; downlink transmission power; UL/DL configuration; the number of cells provided to the relay terminal; a type of a cell; a RAT or a communication scheme used between the base station (3) and the relay terminal (2); and a name or identifier of a mobile operator providing the base station. This is thus, for example, possible to contribute to improving appropriateness of a relay selection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Taichi OHTSUJI
  • Patent number: 10524235
    Abstract: A network apparatus (2) transmits, to at least one of a D2D transmitting terminal (1A) and a D2D reception terminal (1B), a first control signal (501) including an indication indicating which of first and second D2D transmission modes is activated. The first D2D transmission mode conforms to a first resource pattern that is repeated every first time period. The second D2D transmission mode conforms to a second resource pattern that is repeated every second time period, the second time period being the same as or different from the first time period. The second resource pattern is defined so as to allow low-latency transmission. In an example, the second resource pattern does not include a control channel subframe pool that is used for transmission of D2D control information indicating resource allocation for data transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taichi Ohtsuji, Hiroaki Aminaka, Kazushi Muraoka
  • Patent number: 10511976
    Abstract: A radio terminal (1) selects, from a resource pool in a discovery period, NTX sets of resource blocks for NTX transmissions of a discovery signal based on a first value n1 that is a resource value autonomously selected by the radio terminal (1) or is a parameter received from a base station (2). A frequency domain shift from a second resource block set used in (j?1)th transmission (j is an integer no less than 2) to a first resource block set used in j-th transmission of the discovery signal in the discovery period depends on at least one of the first value n1 and a frequency domain position of the second resource block set in the resource pool. It is thus, for example, possible to attenuate decline in reception quality of a discovery signal due to interference resulting from In-Band Emissions (IBE) when direct discovery of D2D communication is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kazushi Muraoka, Taichi Ohtsuji
  • Publication number: 20190371143
    Abstract: A tracking support system includes a position calculating section connected with a plurality of cameras arranged in a predetermined monitoring area to transmit video images imaged by the plurality of cameras and configured to calculate a position of the tracking target based on the video images received from the plurality of cameras; a tracker selecting section configured to select a tracker to be instructed to track the tracking target, based on position information of the terminal received from the terminal and the calculated position of the tracking target; and an information transmitting section configured to transmit information of a distance between the tracking target and the terminal during the tracking of the tracking target to the terminal carried by the selected tracker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taichi OHTSUJI, Kazushi MURAOKA, Hiroaki AMINAKA, Dai KANETOMO, Norio YAMAGAKI, Takashi YOSHINAGA
  • Publication number: 20190364249
    Abstract: A video collection system includes: a plurality of terminals; and a video collection server that requests at least one of the plurality of terminals to perform information provision. The video collection server includes a calculation part, a determination part, and a request part. The calculation part calculates, based on information acquired from a camera(s), a first area(s) imaged by the camera(s). The determination part determines a second area(s) as an information provision target(s) based on a location(s) of the first area(s). The request part selects, based on respective locations of the plurality of terminals and a location(s) of the second area(s), a terminal(s) to be requested to perform the information provision from the plurality of terminals and requests the selected terminal(s) to provide video data of the second area(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Norio YAMAGAKI, Dai KANETOMO, Hiroaki AMINAKA, Kazushi MURAOKA, Taichi OHTSUJI, Takashi YOSHINAGA
  • Publication number: 20190361434
    Abstract: A surveillance system includes an unmanned flying object information management part configured to store information on each of a plurality of unmanned flying objects including a predetermined flying pattern of each of the unmanned flying objects, each of the unmanned flying objects including a surveillance apparatus and being configured to move in the predetermined flying pattern; an unmanned flying object selection part configured to select at least one of the unmanned flying objects to which the surveillance of a surveillance target is requested, based on a predetermined switching condition and information received from each of the unmanned flying objects; and a surveillance instruction part configured to instruct the selected unmanned flying object(s) to surveil the surveillance target by transmitting identification information of the surveillance target to the selected unmanned flying object(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taichi OHTSUJI, Kazushi MURAOKA, Hiroaki AMINAKA, Dai KANETOMO, Norio YAMAGAKI, Takashi YOSHINAGA
  • Publication number: 20190036595
    Abstract: A relay selecting entity (1, 3, 5) is configured to select at least one specific relay terminal (2) suitable for a first remote terminal (1) from among one or more relay terminals (2) while considering the number of other remote terminals connected to or communicating with each relay terminal (2). Each specific relay terminal (2) relays traffic between the first remote terminal (1) and a base station (3) through a device-to-device (D2D) link (102) between the specific relay terminal (2) and the first remote terminal (1) and through a backhaul link (101) between the specific relay terminal and the base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taichi OHTSUJI, Kazushi MURAOKA
  • Publication number: 20190029029
    Abstract: A network apparatus (2) transmits, to at least one of a D2D transmitting terminal (1A) and a D2D reception terminal (1B), a first control signal (501) including an indication indicating which of first and second D2D transmission modes is activated. The first D2D transmission mode conforms to a first resource pattern that is repeated every first time period. The second D2D transmission mode conforms to a second resource pattern that is repeated every second time period, the second time period being the same as or different from the first time period. The second resource pattern is defined so as to allow low-latency transmission. In an example, the second resource pattern does not include a control channel subframe pool that is used for transmission of D2D control information indicating resource allocation for data transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taichi OHTSUJI, Hiroaki AMINAKA, Kazushi MURAOKA
  • Publication number: 20180199206
    Abstract: A radio terminal (1) selects, from a resource pool in a discovery period, NTX sets of resource blocks for NTX transmissions of a discovery signal based on a first value n1 that is a resource value autonomously selected by the radio terminal (1) or is a parameter received from a base station (2). A frequency domain shift from a second resource block set used in (j?1)th transmission (j is an integer no less than 2) to a first resource block set used in j-th transmission of the discovery signal in the discovery period depends on at least one of the first value n1 and a frequency domain position of the second resource block set in the resource pool. It is thus, for example, possible to attenuate decline in reception quality of a discovery signal due to interference resulting from In-Band Emissions (IBE) when direct discovery of D2D communication is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kazushi MURAOKA, Taichi OHTSUJI
  • Publication number: 20180192458
    Abstract: A D2D communication control apparatus (10) according to the present invention includes: a communication unit (11) configured to receive determination information that can be used to determine whether a plurality of radio terminals are capable of performing direct communication with another radio terminal; and a selection unit (12) configured to select, in a situation in which a first radio terminal included in the plurality of radio terminals is performing D2D communication with a relay radio terminal that performs cellular communication with a network, a radio terminal in which the determination information between the radio terminal and the relay radio terminal satisfies a predetermined condition among radio terminals capable of performing D2D communication with the first radio terminal, as a preliminary relay radio terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2016
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki AMINAKA, Kazushi MURAOKA, Taichi OHTSUJI