Patents by Inventor Atsushi Harada

Atsushi Harada 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: 9712271
    Abstract: The present invention is designed to reduce the impact of interference even when different DL/UL configurations are applied between neighboring transmission points (radio base stations). A radio base station which can communicate with a user terminal by means of time division duplexing, and furthermore change and control the DL/UL configuration, has an interference measurement section that measures the interference level from other radio base stations in at least a UL subframe, and a scheduling control section that changes the feedback method of uplink control signals, which the user terminal feeds back in the UL subframe in response to downlink signals that have been transmitted in DL subframes, based on the measured interference level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Satoshi Nagata, Chunyi Wang, Xiaolin Hou, Atsushi Harada
  • Publication number: 20170151671
    Abstract: A control device is capable of controlling each of a robot having a robot arm, and an imaging portion which is capable of capturing a first reference marker, a second reference marker, and a third reference marker, any one of the imaging portion, the first reference marker, the second reference marker, and the third reference marker is provided in the robot, and a posture of a reference surface parallel to a plane which passes through the first reference marker, the second reference marker, and the third reference marker, is acquired based on a first image in which the first reference marker is captured by the imaging portion, a second image in which the second reference marker is captured by the imaging portion, and a third image which captures the third reference marker by the imaging portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Inventors: Taro ISHIGE, Atsushi HARADA, Yukihiro YAMAGUCHI, Hiromitsu ABE
  • Publication number: 20170066137
    Abstract: A control device controls a robot including an arm, an end effector provided in the arm, and a force detector provided in the arm and configured to detect force. After bringing a first portion of the end effector close to a work surface and detecting contact of the first portion and the work surface on the basis of an output from the force detector, the control device brings a second portion of the end effector different from the first portion close to the work surface, detects contact of the second portion and the work surface on the basis of an output from the force detector, and teaches the robot a position of the end effector with respect to the work surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2016
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Inventors: Atsushi HARADA, Kenji ONDA
  • Patent number: 9520976
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present invention provide a mobile communication method, a wireless base station and a mobile station. The mobile communication method according to the embodiment of the present invention is applied to the wireless base station. The method comprises: determining resource group offset information used for a mobile station; offsetting an initial physical channel resource group allocated to the mobile station according to the resource group offset information; determining cyclic shift information of demodulation reference signal used for the mobile station according to unused physical channel resources in the offset physical channel resource group; and transmitting the resource group offset information and the cyclic shift information to the mobile station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Anxin Li, Atsushi Harada
  • Publication number: 20160354929
    Abstract: A robot includes: a local coordinate system deriving portion which derives a local coordinate system having two shafts which are parallel to a work plane and orthogonal to each other, based on an image in which markers illustrating three or more points on the work plane which is not horizontal are captured; and a control parameter obtaining portion which obtains control parameters via the local coordinate system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Taro ISHIGE, Atsushi HARADA, Yukihiro YAMAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 9360860
    Abstract: An entry detection device includes first light marks and second light marks. A control signal corresponding to a part of the first light marks is an error detection code of the control signal corresponding to the other part of the first light marks. A first inspection value is generated based on a first part of a light receiving signal corresponding to the other part of the first light marks. A second inspection value is generated based on a reverse bit string of a third part of the light receiving signal corresponding to a part of the second light mark paired with the other part of the first light marks. An entry is detected based on the first inspection value and the second inspection value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Atsushi Harada
  • Publication number: 20160143042
    Abstract: In order to avoid interference efficiently and control the amount of radio resources that are not used for interference avoidance, the present invention provides a radio base station connected to a neighbor radio base station via inter-radio base station interface. The radio base station has: a radio communication section that performs radio communication with a user terminal using a UL/DL configuration indicating a configuration of uplink and downlink subframes in a radio frame; an interference detecting section that measures and detects interference that the radio base station suffers from; and a selecting section that uses an interference detection result as a basis to determine which to apply to each subframe, between a resource allocation-unrestricted scheme and an inter-cell uplink/downlink orthogonalization scheme.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Satoshi Nagata, Chongning Na, Xiaolin Hou, Atsushi Harada
  • Publication number: 20160128073
    Abstract: The present invention is designed to reduce the impact of inter-cell interference by interference control using signaling between radio base stations. In the radio communication system of the present invention, a radio base station carries out radio communication with a user terminal by using a UL/DL configuration, which represent the configuration of uplink subframes and downlink subframes in a radio frame. Also, the radio base station determines the interference control information to use in interference control in the fixed subframe and the flexible subframe in the above UL/DL configuration. Also, the radio base station transmits the above interference control information to the neighboring radio base stations via an inter-radio-base-station interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2014
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Satoshi Nagata, Xiaolin Hou, Chongning Na, Chunyi Wang, Atsushi Harada
  • Publication number: 20160099801
    Abstract: The present invention is designed to feed back feedback signals such as delivery acknowledgement signals properly even when the DL/UL configuration is reconfigured in TDD. A user terminal communicates, in time division duplexing, with a radio base station that reconfigures the DL/UL configuration, and has a judging section that judges a delivery acknowledgement in response to each DL subframe, and a feedback control section that allocates a delivery acknowledgement signal in response to each DL subframe to a UL subframe and sends feedback, and, when the number of DL subframes that correspond to a UL subframe is greater than a predetermined value in a radio frame after the reconfiguration of the DL/UL configuration, the feedback control section bundles at least part of the delivery acknowledgement signals for a plurality of DL subframes corresponding to the UL subframe, and sends feedback.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2014
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Satoshi Nagata, Kazuki Takeda, Chunyi Wang, Xiaolin Hou, Atsushi Harada
  • Publication number: 20160072617
    Abstract: In order to provide feedback information of a transmission acknowledgement signal or the like appropriately even in change in DL/UL configuration in TDD, the present invention provides a radio base station that communicates with a user terminal by time division duplex and is capable of controlling change in DL/UL configuration. The radio base station includes: a determining section that determines feedback timing of a transmission acknowledgement signal of a DL subframe in a radio frame before change in DL/UL configuration; and a control section that controls a UL subframe to use in feedback of the transmission acknowledgement signal of the DL subframe, based on the feedback timing. When the transmission acknowledgement signal is to be fed back in a radio frame after change in DL/UL configuration, the control section reconfigures the UL subframe to use in feedback based on a feedback range covered by a UL subframe after change in DL/UL configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2014
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Satoshi Nagata, Chunyi Wang, Xiaolin Hou, Atsushi Harada
  • Publication number: 20160013921
    Abstract: To achieve traffic adaptation gain, while reducing inter-cell interference, a radio communication system in which TDD is used is disclosed. The radio communication system is one in which each radio base station in a cluster communicates with a user terminal by using a UL/DL configuration, and has a subset selection section that selects the subset to use in the cluster, from a plurality of subsets each of which includes a plurality of UL/DL configurations determined based on the number of fixed subframes, in which the transmission direction is fixed in the cluster, and a UL/DL configuration selection section that selects the UL/DL configuration to use to communicate with the user terminal, from a plurality of UL/DL configurations that are included in the selected subset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Satoshi Nagata, Chongning Na, Xiaolin Hou, Atsushi Harada
  • Publication number: 20160007347
    Abstract: A radio base station capable of reducing the impact of interference and improving the efficiency of the use of radio resources even when different DL/UL configurations are employed between neighboring transmitting/receiving points is disclosed. The radio base station can communicate with user terminals via time division duplex and is able to change and control DL/UL configurations, has a subframe type determining section that classifies subframes into fixed subframes or flexible subframes, in accordance with the relationship between the DL/UL configurations that are employed in the radio base station and the DL/UL configurations that are employed in other radio base stations, and a frequency allocation control section that applies mutually different frequency allocation methods to the fixed subframes and the flexible subframes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2014
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Satoshi Nagata, Xiaolin Hou, Chongning Na, Atsushi Harada
  • Publication number: 20150358098
    Abstract: The present invention is designed to reduce the impact of interference even when different DL/UL configurations are applied between neighboring transmission points (radio base stations). A radio base station which can communicate with a user terminal by means of time division duplexing, and furthermore change and control the DL/UL configuration, has an interference measurement section that measures the interference level from other radio base stations in at least a UL subframe, and a scheduling control section that changes the feedback method of uplink control signals, which the user terminal feeds back in the UL subframe in response to downlink signals that have been transmitted in DL subframes, based on the measured interference level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2013
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Satoshi Nagata, Chunyi Wang, Xiaolin Hou, Atsushi Harada
  • Patent number: 9171683
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a switch device (100) for use in hand-held power tools. The switch device (100) may include at least one chamber (102) whose interior serves as an accommodation space. The chamber (102) may partially encase an operational member (104) for actuating the hand-held power tool through the switch device (100). Further, the switch device (100) is provided with multiple holes (202) on side walls (204) of the chamber (102) to create a passageway for external particulate materials. Also, a bottom surface (205) of the chamber (102) may be sloped to extend from an interior of the chamber (102) to each of the multiple holes (202), to enhance the discharging of the external particulate materials through the holes (202).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignees: HUSQVARNA ZENOAH CO., LTD., NITTEI MUSEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Harada, Kohki Kamagome, Kiyotsugu Arai
  • Patent number: 9166759
    Abstract: A method for transmitting control information in a wireless communication system includes: determining a link adaptation method of a user group according to quality of channels of each user in the user group; generating first control information according to common control information of all users in the user group and the link adaptation method corresponding to the user group, and transmitting the first control information to each user in the user group; obtaining contents of second control information according to particular control information of each user in the user group; performing link adaptation process for the contents of the second control information according to the link adaptation method corresponding to the user group, generating the second control information, and transmitting the second control information to each user in the user group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Anxin Li, Atsushi Harada
  • Publication number: 20150295671
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a base station, a communication system and a method thereof. The communication system includes three base stations adjacent to each other, and each base station serves at least one UE. The method includes: acquiring, by each base station, a channel matrix of a channel from the base station to an adjacent base station; calculating an interference alignment-based transmission precoding matrix for each base station based on the channel matrices of the channels between the base stations; and precoding, by each base station, data to be transmitted with the interference alignment-based transmission precoding matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2015
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Chongning NA, Xiaolin HOU, Atsushi HARADA, Hidetoshi KAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20150245320
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present invention provide an uplink resource scheduling method, a wireless base station and a mobile station. The method comprises: generating group dedicated signaling respectively for mobile station groups managed by the wireless base station, wherein group dedicated signaling of each mobile station group indicates uplink resources allocated to the mobile station group; multiplexing the generated group dedicated signaling into different positions of a first channel and transmitting the multiplexed group dedicated signaling; generating mobile station dedicated signaling for each mobile station in each of the mobile station groups, wherein the mobile station dedicated signaling at least includes group information indicating the mobile station group to which the mobile station belongs; and multiplexing the generated mobile station dedicated signaling into a second channel and transmitting the multiplexed mobile station dedicated signaling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2015
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaohang CHEN, Anxin LI, Atsushi HARADA
  • Publication number: 20150212514
    Abstract: An entry detection device includes first light marks and second light marks. A control signal corresponding to a part of the first light marks is an error detection code of the control signal corresponding to the other part of the first light marks. A first inspection value is generated based on a first part of a light receiving signal corresponding to the other part of the first light marks. A second inspection value is generated based on a reverse bit string of a third part of the light receiving signal corresponding to a part of the second light mark paired with the other part of the first light marks. An entry is detected based on the first inspection value and the second inspection value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2015
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Inventor: Atsushi HARADA
  • Patent number: 9031694
    Abstract: An entry detection device includes first light marks and second light marks. A control signal corresponding to a part of the first light marks is an error detection code of the control signal corresponding to the other part of the first light marks. A first inspection value is generated based on a first part of a light receiving signal corresponding to the other part of the first light marks. A second inspection value is generated based on a reverse bit string of a third part of the light receiving signal corresponding to a part of the second light mark paired with the other part of the first light marks. An entry is detected based on the first inspection value and the second inspection value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Atsushi Harada
  • Publication number: 20150009911
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present invention provide a mobile communication method, a wireless base station and a mobile station. The mobile communication method according to the embodiment of the present invention is applied to the wireless base station. The method comprises: determining resource group offset information used for a mobile station; offsetting an initial physical channel resource group allocated to the mobile station according to the resource group offset information; determining cyclic shift information of demodulation reference signal used for the mobile station according to unused physical channel resources in the offset physical channel resource group; and transmitting the resource group offset information and the cyclic shift information to the mobile station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2014
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Anxin LI, Atsushi HARADA