Patents by Inventor Akinori Taira
Akinori 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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Publication number: 20240098684Abstract: A master device that is a fixed device belongs to any of a plurality of areas, and includes: a notification information generation unit that generates notification information including position information of a plurality of fixed devices installed in the area to which the fixed device belongs; and a communication unit that transmits a notification signal including the notification information to a mobile device at a timing different from a timing of transmission of the notification signal from another area, the mobile device being configured to estimate a position based on the notification information.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Shusaku UMEDA, Akinori TAIRA, Hiroyasu SANO, Mari OCHIAI
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Patent number: 11895044Abstract: A base station includes: a control unit that allocates one or more layers per terminal for transmission to one or more terminals, and configures positions in a frequency domain and a time domain of reference signals of each of the layers on the basis of at least one of information indicating a position of each of the terminals and information indicating condition of each of channel between the transmission device and the one or more terminals; a processing unit that arranges the reference signals of each of the layers in the frequency domain and the time domain on the basis of the positions in the frequency domain and the time domain configured by the control unit; and a precoding unit and a transmitting unit that perform space-division multiplexing on signals of one or more layers arranged by the processing unit, and transmit the multiplexed signals.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2021Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Fumihiro Hasegawa, Akinori Taira, Shigeru Uchida, Noriyuki Fukui, Akihiro Okazaki, Hiroki Iura
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Patent number: 11888671Abstract: A transmitting apparatus includes a first signal generating unit that generates, on the basis of data a first signal transmitted by single carrier block transmission; a second signal generating unit that generates, on the basis of an RS, a second signal transmitted by orthogonal frequency division multiplex transmission; a switching operator that selects and outputs the second signal in a first transmission period and selects and outputs the first signal in a second transmission period; an antenna that transmits the signal output from the switching operator; and a control-signal generating unit that controls the second signal generating unit such that, in the first transmission period, the RS is arranged in a frequency band allocated for transmission of the RS from the transmitting apparatus among frequency bands usable in OFDM.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2022Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Fumihiro Hasegawa, Akinori Taira
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Patent number: 11856482Abstract: A mobile apparatus according to the disclosure includes: a sensor unit to calculate a moving distance and a moving direction; a positioning unit to calculate a first current position by using positioning information for positioning provided in a calibration area that is among areas in which the positioning information is provided, the calibration area being the area in which first reliability representing accuracy of the positioning information is equal to or higher than a first threshold; a current position calculation unit to estimate a second current position by using the moving distance and the moving direction calculated by the sensor unit; and a calibration unit to calibrate a parameter to be used to estimate the second current position in the current position calculation unit, by using the first current position.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2020Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Akinori Taira, Seiji Kozaki
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Publication number: 20230388867Abstract: An application server delivers dynamic map information to a mobile object that receives the dynamic map information, the dynamic map information being information of a dynamic map that is used for execution of fully automated driving under a specific condition. When the mobile object executes a handover from a base station capable of transmitting the dynamic map information in a first area to a base station capable of transmitting the dynamic map information in a second area, in a case where the mobile object is in fallback operation in which simultaneous communication with the base stations is unavailable, the application server delivers the dynamic map information to the mobile object via the base station and a mobile object capable of receiving the dynamic map information from the base station.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2023Publication date: November 30, 2023Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Shusaku UMEDA, Akinori TAIRA, Mari OCHIAI, Takeshi SUEHIRO, Teruko FUJII, Takashi ASAHARA, Masaaki TAKEYASU
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Publication number: 20230358875Abstract: An object scanning device generates an image of a radio wave scatterer that is a measurement subject disposed in a measurement area based on reflected waves of radio waves including a plurality of frequencies radiated to the radio wave scatterer, and includes a phase composite image generation unit that generates a phase composite image into which a plurality of images obtained through imaging based on the reflected waves are composed by performing complex addition for each pixel of the plurality of images.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2023Publication date: November 9, 2023Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Michiya HAYAMA, Akinori TAIRA, Kazuaki ISHIOKA
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Patent number: 11812283Abstract: A transmission device according to the present invention includes a reference-signal information management unit as an identifier to identify an interfering terminal that is a possible terminal to perform communication interfering with communication with a target terminal that is a destination terminal of a data signal, and a transmitter to set a group ID for reference signal generation to a group formed by the interfering terminal and the target terminal.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Fumihiro Hasegawa, Akinori Taira
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Publication number: 20230319777Abstract: A positioning system includes: an approximate position calculation unit that calculates an approximate position of a mobile station; a database that stores information indicating a zone in which the mobile station is able to be present, information indicating an anchor to be used in each zone, and information on a communication parameter; a zone judgement unit that judges a zone to which the mobile station belongs based on the approximate position and information in the database; an anchor-to-be-used determination unit that determines an anchor to be used by the mobile station based on the zone and information in the database; a positioning information acquisition unit that acquires positioning information indicating a positional relationship between the determined anchor and the mobile station; and a position calculation unit that calculates a position of the mobile station based on the positioning information and information in the database.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Akinori TAIRA
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Publication number: 20230088622Abstract: A communication system includes a communication terminal, and a plurality of networks configured to perform radio communication with the communication terminal. A priority of at least one of a paging timing and a paging type is assigned to a paging to be transmitted from each of the plurality of networks. The communication terminal selects a corresponding one of the pagings to be received, based on the priority.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2021Publication date: March 23, 2023Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Tadahiro SHIMODA, Mitsuru MOCHIZUKI, Masayuki NAKAZAWA, Akinori TAIRA, Fumihiro HASEGAWA
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Patent number: 11606174Abstract: When arranging a reference signal generated by a pseudorandom number on specified time and frequency, an information processing unit (101) determines whether or not to arrange a 1 OFDM symbol or 2 OFDM symbols including a reference signal at a position determined in each slot, and determines whether or not to additionally arrange an OFDM symbol including a reference signal in the same slot. A multiplexing unit (108) performs multiplexing of a reference signal in accordance with the determination by the information processing unit (101).Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2021Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Fumihiro Hasegawa, Akinori Taira
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Publication number: 20220342064Abstract: A wireless ranging system includes a ranging terminal that transmits a wireless signal including a ranging signal and a communication signal indicating an order of ranging with respect to a first ranging target terminal and a second ranging target terminal, and a first ranging target terminal and a second ranging target terminal that, when receiving the wireless signal, respectively transmits a first response signals and a second response signals consecutively a plurality of times to the ranging terminal. For each time the ranging terminal receives each of the plurality of response signals, the ranging terminal measures an elapsed time from transmission of the wireless signal, and calculates a relative distance between the ranging terminal and the ranging target terminals from a propagation time of each of the plurality of response signals calculated using the elapsed time.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2022Publication date: October 27, 2022Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Shusaku UMEDA, Akinori TAIRA, Hiroyasu SANO
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Publication number: 20220194317Abstract: An on-board device in a control system in which frequencies used for transmitting and receiving a signal between the on-board device and an electronic key are known, and the electronic key transmits a response signal to a desired signal within a specified period when completing reception of the desired signal from the on-board device, the on-board device transmits the desired signal on a first frequency included in a specified frequency band; transmits a dummy signal on a second frequency included in the specified frequency band and different from the first frequency; receives the response signal to the desired signal from the electronic key; and controls to transmit the dummy signal in a period from before stopping transmitting the desired signal to after starting reception of the response signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2022Publication date: June 23, 2022Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Akinori TAIRA
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Publication number: 20220131732Abstract: A transmitting apparatus includes a first signal generating unit that generates, on the basis of data a first signal transmitted by single carrier block transmission; a second signal generating unit that generates, on the basis of an RS, a second signal transmitted by orthogonal frequency division multiplex transmission; a switching operator that selects and outputs the second signal in a first transmission period and selects and outputs the first signal in a second transmission period; an antenna that transmits the signal output from the switching operator; and a control-signal generating unit that controls the second signal generating unit such that, in the first transmission period, the RS is arranged in a frequency band allocated for transmission of the RS from the transmitting apparatus among frequency bands usable in OFDM.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2022Publication date: April 28, 2022Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Fumihiro HASEGAWA, Akinori Taira
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Patent number: 11303489Abstract: A transmitting apparatus includes a first signal generating unit that generates, on the basis of data a first signal transmitted by single carrier block transmission; a second signal generating unit that generates, on the basis of an RS, a second signal transmitted by orthogonal frequency division multiplex transmission; a switching operator that selects and outputs the second signal in a first transmission period and selects and outputs the first signal in a second transmission period; an antenna that transmits the signal output from the switching operator; and a control-signal generating unit that controls the second signal generating unit such that, in the first transmission period, the RS is arranged in a frequency band allocated for transmission of the RS from the transmitting apparatus among frequency bands usable in OFDM.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2020Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Fumihiro Hasegawa, Akinori Taira
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Patent number: 11303406Abstract: The base station allocates, to one terminal, at least one transmission layer and allocates at least one resource block that is a minimum allocation unit of a communication resource in each transmission layer, to transmit a signal to the terminal, and includes processing units each associated with one of the transmission layers, the processing units being equal in number to the transmission layers. Each processing unit includes a reference signal generation unit to generate a reference signal to be used by the terminal in demodulation processing on a received signal, and an information processing unit to determine an arrangement of the resource block in which to transmit the reference signal to the terminal, based on at least one of a state of a channel between the base station and the terminal or information on the resource block to be used in transmission of the reference signal in an adjacent cell.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2017Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Fumihiro Hasegawa, Akinori Taira, Hiroki Iura, Shigeru Uchida, Mitsuru Mochizuki, Tadahiro Shimoda
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Patent number: 11271786Abstract: When arranging a reference signal generated by a pseudorandom number on specified time and frequency, an information processing unit (101) determines whether or not to arrange a 1 OFDM symbol or 2 OFDM symbols including a reference signal at a position determined in each slot, and determines whether or not to additionally arrange an OFDM symbol including a reference signal in the same slot. A multiplexing unit (108) performs multiplexing of a reference signal in accordance with the determination by the information processing unit (101).Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2017Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Fumihiro Hasegawa, Akinori Taira
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Publication number: 20220026517Abstract: A base station includes a reception processing unit that receives a signal for use in positioning transmitted from a terminal device, and a positioning processing unit that computes the location of the terminal device using the signal for use in positioning.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2019Publication date: January 27, 2022Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Fumihiro HASEGAWA, Akinori TAIRA, Mitsuru MOCHIZUKI, Tadahiro SHIMODA
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Publication number: 20220029869Abstract: When arranging a reference signal generated by a pseudorandom number on specified time and frequency, an information processing unit (101) determines whether or not to arrange a 1 OFDM symbol or 2 OFDM symbols including a reference signal at a position determined in each slot, and determines whether or not to additionally arrange an OFDM symbol including a reference signal in the same slot. A multiplexing unit (108) performs multiplexing of a reference signal in accordance with the determination by the information processing unit (101).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2021Publication date: January 27, 2022Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Fumihiro HASEGAWA, Akinori TAIRA
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Patent number: 11184137Abstract: A lower base station according to the present invention includes: a CSI acquisition unit that acquires channel information indicating a channel state between the lower base station and one or more mobile terminals; a lower scheduler unit that transmits the channel information to a higher base station, and determines the number of signal streams and a modulation and coding scheme for a destination terminal that is a mobile terminal selected from among the one or more mobile terminals, based on the destination terminal and a data transmission rate for the destination terminal, sent for notification by the higher base station; and an MU-MIMO signal processing unit that performs Multi User-Multiple Input Multiple Output precoding for the mobile terminal.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2017Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Nishimoto, Akinori Taira, Shigeru Uchida
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Publication number: 20210314791Abstract: A transmission device according to the present invention includes a reference-signal information management unit as an identifier to identify an interfering terminal that is a possible terminal to perform communication interfering with communication with a target terminal that is a destination terminal of a data signal, and a transmitter to set a group ID for reference signal generation to a group formed by the interfering terminal and the target terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2021Publication date: October 7, 2021Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Fumihiro Hasegawa, Akinori Taira