Patents Assigned to Softbank Corp.
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Patent number: 12761983Abstract: There is provided a data processing apparatus including: a set data recording unit configured to record set data obtained by combining an event representing data which is generated by processing data by a program, with a program which is started when a plurality of events including the event are complete and processes the plurality of events; and a data processing execution unit configured to execute a plurality of programs by a plurality of pieces of set data recorded by the set data recording unit. There is provided a data processing method including: recording set data obtained by combining an event representing data which is generated by processing data by a program, with a program which is started when a plurality of events including the event are complete and processes the plurality of events; and executing a plurality of programs by a plurality of pieces of set data recorded.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2023Date of Patent: October 13, 2026Assignee: SoftBank Corp.Inventor: Minoru Owada
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Patent number: 12751433Abstract: An estimation program according to the application concerned causes a computer to execute an obtaining step and an estimating step. The obtaining step includes obtaining behavior information which indicates the behavior exhibited by a specific fish species having a predetermined physical abnormality. The estimating step includes estimating, based on the behavior information obtained at the obtaining step and based on state information indicating the state of the target fish for processing, behavioral features of the target fish for processing that are attributable to the predetermined physical abnormality seen in the target fish for processing.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2021Date of Patent: October 6, 2026Assignee: SOFTBANK CORP.Inventor: Yuko Ishiwaka
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Patent number: 12747954Abstract: Included are a storage unit which stores position information of a plurality of risk areas which may pose a risk for a vehicle to travel; a rearrangement unit which rearranges the plurality of risk areas in order of proximity to a vehicle which is a transmission destination of the plurality of risk areas; and a transmitting unit which transmits the position information of the plurality of risk areas rearranged by the rearrangement unit to the vehicle. A risk area information transmitting method comprises: storing position information of a plurality of risk areas which may pose a risk for a vehicle to travel; rearranging the plurality of risk areas in order of proximity to a vehicle which is a transmission destination of the plurality of risk areas; and transmitting the position information of the plurality of risk areas rearranged by the rearrangement unit to the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2024Date of Patent: September 29, 2026Assignees: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., SoftBank Corp.Inventors: Moriya Horiuchi, Takahiro Kurehashi, Yuta Sakagawa, Koichi Serizawa, Koyo Enomoto
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Patent number: 12743007Abstract: An imaging system equipped with a subject device includes a plate group constituted of multiple plates arranged at a position opposing a light source for imaging; and a supporting member that supports the plate group. The plate group is constituted of plates arranged in a planar manner, and includes at least one of a rotating plate that is a plate rotatable around one side as a rotation axis, and the supporting member axially supports one side corresponding to the rotation axis of the rotating plate.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2023Date of Patent: September 22, 2026Assignee: SOFTBANK CORP.Inventors: Yuko Ishiwaka, Gaku Yasui, Tomohiro Yoshida, Tadayuki Tone, Tadaaki Ito
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Patent number: 12726033Abstract: Provided is a power generation system including a photovoltaic unit arranged in a flight vehicle which provides a wireless communication service to a user terminal in a communication area formed over a ground, an electric storage unit which is connected to the photovoltaic unit and stores electric power generated by the photovoltaic unit, and a power conditioner which converts the electric power generated by the photovoltaic unit. The electric storage unit is connected, for example, in parallel to connection between the photovoltaic unit and the power conditioner, and the electric power stored in the electric storage unit is supplied to the power conditioner.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2025Date of Patent: September 1, 2026Assignee: SoftBank Corp.Inventors: Kohei Okada, Marika Ueda
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Patent number: 12726258Abstract: Provided is a flight vehicle which has an antenna for forming a wireless communication area by irradiating beam towards a ground to provide a wireless communication service to a user terminal in the wireless communication area, the flight vehicle including an FL communication unit which communicates with a core network on the ground via a feeder link, a UP execution unit which executes a user plane function, and a communication control unit which performs control such that communication between a first user terminal in the wireless communication area and a second user terminal is relayed without intermediation of the core network by the user plane function.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2023Date of Patent: September 1, 2026Assignee: SoftBank Corp.Inventor: Makoto Takahashi
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Publication number: 20260238312Abstract: In a base station of performing a beamforming control by using a codebook, it is to achieve a significant interference reduction effect, similar to a null forming in which a null of an antenna directivity pattern is formed toward an interference-receiving object.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2024Publication date: August 13, 2026Applicant: SoftBank Corp.Inventors: Koji Tashiro, Kenji Hoshino, Atsushi Nagate
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Publication number: 20260215402Abstract: An information processing program causes a computer to execute: an acquisition process of acquiring an image including a fish group, the image including an indistinct region that is a region where individual fish included in the fish group are unable to be visually distinguished, and a shadow region corresponding to a shadow of a fish group corresponding to the indistinct region; and an estimation process of estimating information related to a volume of space between fish included in the fish group corresponding to the indistinct region, and estimating, based on of the information related to the volume of the space between the fish, a fish count for the fish included in the fish group corresponding to the indistinct region.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2023Publication date: July 30, 2026Applicant: SoftBank Corp.Inventors: Yuko ISHIWAKA, Shun OGAWA, Tadayuki TONE, Tomohiro YOSHIDA
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Patent number: 12689543Abstract: This invention enables flexible connection with a wide variety of core networks even without changing, for example, equipment and/or operating systems related to existing base stations. This invention serves as at least one of (i) an interface via which a base station and a first core network are connected with each other and (ii) an interface via which a terminal device connected with the first core network via the base station and the first core network are connected with each other, and includes: a first stateful communication section (51) carrying out communication with the base station according to a stateful protocol; and a stateless communication section (52) carrying out communication with the first core network according to a stateless protocol.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2023Date of Patent: July 21, 2026Assignee: SOFTBANK CORP.Inventors: Katsuhiro Horiba, Keiichi Shima, Hiroki Watanabe, Tomoya Hasegawa, Tatsuro Murata, Tomoaki Kanaya, Hirotaka Nishino, Ryoji Hirai
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Publication number: 20260205150Abstract: Provided is a satellite ground station that comprises an interference suppression apparatus capable of suppressing interference from a base station of a mobile communication system in a downlink of a satellite communication system. The interference suppression apparatus receives, via a wired network, a reference signal branched from a transmission signal transmitted from an antenna of the base station of the mobile communication system, estimates a propagation path response of an interference signal from the base station in a radio propagation path between the antenna of the base station and an antenna of the satellite ground station, based on the reference signal and a reception signal received via the antenna of the satellite ground station, and generates an interference replica signal corresponding to the interference signal included in the reception signal, based on the estimation result and the reference signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2023Publication date: July 16, 2026Applicant: SoftBank Corp.Inventors: Takafumi Fujii, Teruya Fujii
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Publication number: 20260204092Abstract: An information processing program including a first generation step of generating image data in which estimation target predetermined fish that has a certain characteristic corresponding to an evaluation value is reproduced, by machine learning that is based on a real image that is an image in which the predetermined fish is captured and to which the evaluation value of the predetermined fish is added, a second generation step of generating a Computer Graphics (CG) image in which the predetermined fish is reproduced by computer graphics based on the image data, and an estimation step of estimating an evaluation value of the predetermined fish that appears in an input image based on a model that is trained by using, as training data, a combination of the CG image and the evaluation value that is indicated by a characteristic of the predetermined fish that is reproduced in the CG image.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2023Publication date: July 16, 2026Applicant: SoftBank Corp.Inventor: Yuko ISHIWAKA
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Patent number: 12683652Abstract: Provided is an antenna apparatus mounted on a movable object, the antenna apparatus including an antenna array including: a plurality of first antennas which are arranged by being shifted by a distance equivalent to an odd multiple of a half period of a maximum fluctuation period of a radio wave having a longest fluctuation period among a plurality of radio waves received from an antenna of a communication partner; and a plurality of second antennas which are respectively arranged by being shifted with respect to the plurality of first antennas by a distance equivalent to an odd multiple of a half period of a minimum fluctuation period of a radio wave having a shortest fluctuation period among the plurality of radio waves.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2024Date of Patent: July 14, 2026Assignee: SoftBank Corp.Inventor: Takahiro Tsuchiya
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Patent number: 12666234Abstract: A vehicle (101) includes: a plurality of sensors (S); an acquisition section (11) that acquires detection data from the plurality of sensors (S); a prediction section (12) that uses a trained model (31) to predict a future state of the vehicle (101) on the basis of detection data (D1) and that outputs a prediction result for the future state as prediction data (D2); and a communication section (2) that transmits, to a server 102, usage information which is based on either the detection data (D1) or the prediction data (D2), after transmitting the usage information, the communication section (2) transmitting subsequent usage information on the basis of a determination result indicating whether it is possible to transmit the subsequent usage information.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2023Date of Patent: June 23, 2026Assignee: SoftBank Corp.Inventor: Yosuke Komiyama
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Patent number: 12662267Abstract: There is provided a flight vehicle including: a wing unit; a main body unit; a battery that is arranged in the wing unit; a payload that is arranged in the main body unit; a radiator; and a heat pipe that exchanges heat between the battery, the payload, and the radiator and that has a check valve which causes a hydraulic fluid to be circulated to transfer the heat of the battery to the payload and the radiator.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2023Date of Patent: June 23, 2026Assignee: SoftBank Corp.Inventor: Noritomo Yanagimoto
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Patent number: 12659192Abstract: A system for suppressing an interference occurring between a plurality of base stations in a mobile communication system is provided. In the present system, each of the plurality of the base stations comprises an antenna section, a transmitter, a first receiver that processes a reception signal received by the antenna section, one or two or more second receivers that process reception signals received by the antenna sections of one or two or more surrounding base stations and transferred via a signal transportation means, and an estimation section that estimates information of propagation channels h between an own cell terminal and the plurality of the base stations, based on a reception result of a base-station specific signal (for example, a pilot signal) received by the first receiver from an own cell terminal and a reception result of the base-station specific signal received by the second receiver from the own cell terminal.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2023Date of Patent: June 16, 2026Assignee: SoftBank Corp.Inventors: Takafumi Fujii, Teruya Fujii
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Patent number: 12647302Abstract: This invention enables flexible connection with a wide variety of core networks even without changing, for example, equipment and/or operating systems related to existing base stations. This invention serves as at least one of (i) an interface via which a base station and a first core network are connected with each other and (ii) an interface via which a terminal device connected with the first core network via the base station and the first core network are connected with each other, and includes: a first stateful communication section (51) carrying out communication with the base station according to a stateful protocol; and a stateless communication section (52) carrying out communication with the first core network according to a stateless protocol.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2023Date of Patent: June 2, 2026Assignee: SOFTBANK CORP.Inventors: Katsuhiro Horiba, Keiichi Shima, Hiroki Watanabe, Tomoya Hasegawa, Tatsuro Murata, Tomoaki Kanaya, Hirotaka Nishino, Ryoji Hirai
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Publication number: 20260148408Abstract: An information processing program causes a computer to obtain a plurality of captured images of fish in a plurality of directions within a corf from a plurality of imaging devices. Based on the distance from the imaging devices to each of the captured images of each of the fish, a plurality of sets of first fish positional information in a given area from a given position in the corf is aggregated into a second fish positional information representing a position of one fish, and estimating information on the fish based on the second fish positional information.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2023Publication date: May 28, 2026Applicant: SoftBank Corp.Inventor: Yuko ISHIWAKA
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Patent number: 12632278Abstract: Provided is a processing unit including a parallel processing determination unit configured to determine whether parallel processing is to be performed on at least some of processing target data, a VM execution control unit configured to cause each of a plurality of cores included in a parallel processing execution unit to execute a VM when the parallel processing determination unit determines that the parallel processing is to be performed, a storage control unit configured to divide at least some of the processing target data into partial data that can be processed in parallel and to cause a memory of the parallel processing execution unit to store the partial data, and a processing result obtaining unit configured to obtain a plurality of processing results of the partial data processed by VMs of the plurality of cores from the parallel processing execution unit.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2022Date of Patent: May 19, 2026Assignee: SoftBank Corp.Inventor: Minoru Owada
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Publication number: 20260135379Abstract: Provided is a power supply system that can increase a power supplied by a whole of the system that supplies a power to a target apparatus. The power supply system comprises a plurality of DC power sources including an environmental-power-generation apparatus and a power-reception apparatus for wireless power transfer, and a switching circuit. The switching circuit has a plurality of input sections to which the plurality of the DC power sources are connected, and a plurality of output sections that output DC powers to a plurality of power-supply targets, and switches connection states between the plurality of the input sections and the plurality of the output sections. One or plural power-reception apparatuses for wireless power transfer and one or plural environmental-power-generation apparatuses may be included. The plurality of the DC power sources may include one or plural photovoltaic-power-generation apparatuses.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2024Publication date: May 14, 2026Applicant: SoftBank Corp.Inventors: Takashi Hirakawa, Naoki Hasegawa, Yuta Nakamoto, Yoshichika Ota
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Publication number: 20260113102Abstract: Provided is a system capable of reducing a residual interference when forming a null of a directional beam from an upper-airspace relay communication station that forms a wide-area cell, toward an antenna of a terrestrial-cell base station. The wide-area cell base station and the terrestrial-cell base station perform service-link communications in the same frequency band using radio frames that are time-synchronized with each other. The wide-area cell base station determines a null scheduling regarding a null allocation on time axis and frequency axis based on information regarding the terrestrial-cell base station, and transmits information on the null scheduling to the terrestrial-cell base station.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2024Publication date: April 23, 2026Applicant: SoftBank Corp.Inventors: Tsutomu Ishikawa, Koji Tashiro, Kenji Hoshino, Atsushi Nagate