Patents by Inventor Etsushi Yamazaki

Etsushi Yamazaki 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: 20190074903
    Abstract: A reception circuit includes a first adaptive compensator compensating distortion of a received signal. An adaptive compensation coefficient calculator includes a known-signal detector detecting first and second known-signals from the received signal, a second adaptive compensator compensating distortion of the received signal, a tap coefficient initial value calculator calculating an initial value of a tap coefficient of the second adaptive compensator by comparing the first known-signal with its true value, a first phase shift compensator compensating phase shift of an output of the second adaptive compensator using the second known-signal, and a tap coefficient calculator calculating tap coefficients of the first and second adaptive compensators by comparing at least one of the first and second known-signals compensated by the second adaptive compensator and the first phase shift compensator with its true value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Tomohiro TAKAMUKU, Etsushi YAMAZAKI, Katsuichi OYAMA, Yasuharu ONUMA, Kazuhito TAKEI, Masanori NAKAMURA, Mitsuteru YOSHIDA, Masahito TOMIZAWA, Yoshiaki KISAKA
  • Publication number: 20190074909
    Abstract: A symbol phase difference compensating portion (6) calculates a first phase difference which is a phase difference between a known pattern extracted from a received signal and a true value of the known pattern and performs phase compensation for the received signal based on the first phase difference. A tentative determination portion (12) tentatively determines an output signal of the symbol phase difference compensating portion (6) to acquire an estimated value of a phase. A first phase difference acquiring portion (13) acquires a second phase difference which is a phase difference between a phase of the output signal and the estimated value of the phase acquired by the tentative determination portion (12). A first phase difference compensating portion (14) performs phase compensation for the output signal based on the second phase difference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Etsushi YAMAZAKI, Hiroyukl NOUCHI, Yasuharu ONUMA, Tomohiro TAKAMUKU, Katsuichi OYAMA, Kazuhito TAKEI, Masahito TOMIZAWA, Yoshiaki KISAKA, Mltsuteru YOSHIDA, Masanori NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20190036613
    Abstract: In a method in which a compensation coefficient calculating portion (6) calculates a compensation coefficient of a compensation portion (5) which compensates transmission characteristics of a signal, a known signal is extracted from the signal. Next, a pseudo-random number is added to the extracted known signal. Next, the compensation coefficient is calculated by comparing a true value of the known signal with the known signal to which the pseudo-random number is added.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Inventors: Tomohiro TAKAMUKU, Etsushi YAMAZAKI, Yuki YOSHIDA, Katsuichi OYAMA, Yasuharu ONUMA, Akihiro YAMAGISHI
  • Publication number: 20190013876
    Abstract: A coherent optical reception device includes a local oscillation laser that supplies laser light, a coherent optical reception front-end unit that receives a multi-level modulated optical signal, demodulates the optical signal on the basis of the laser light, and converts a demodulated optical signal into an electrical analog signal, an analog-to-digital converter that converts the analog signal into a digital signal, a compensation unit that compensates for an influence of dispersion due to a wavelength or a polarized wave of the optical signal and recovers a carrier phase of the digital signal, a constellation distortion compensation unit that compensates for constellation distortion of the multi-level modulation included in the digital signal in which an influence of dispersion is compensated for by the compensation unit, and an error correction decoding unit that performs error correction of the digital signal in which the constellation distortion is compensated for.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2016
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Applicants: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, NTT Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Kengo HORIKOSHI, Mitsuteru YOSHIDA, Seiji OKAMOTO, Eiichi HOSOYA, Etsushi YAMAZAKI, Yasuharu ONUMA, Tomohiro TAKAMUKU, Naoki MIURA, Sadayuki YASUDA
  • Patent number: 10171173
    Abstract: An optical signal transmission apparatus includes a modulation unit which modulates a transmission signal, a training signal sequence generation unit which generates a plurality of signal sequences having power concentrated in a plurality of different frequency bands, at least one of an amplitude and a phase of the plurality of signal sequences being modulated, as a training signal sequence, a signal multiplexing unit which appends the training signal sequence to the transmission signal, and an electro-optical conversion unit which converts a signal sequence obtained by appending the training signal sequence to the transmission signal into an optical signal and transmits the optical signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiji Okamoto, Koichi Ishihara, Etsushi Yamazaki, Mitsuteru Yoshida, Tomoyoshi Kataoka, Kazushige Yonenaga, Yoshiaki Kisaka, Masanori Nakamura, Masahito Tomizawa
  • Patent number: 10128818
    Abstract: A parallel transfer rate converter inputs first parallel data with number of samples being S1 pieces in synchronism with a first clock, and outputs second parallel data with number of samples being S2=S1×(m/p) pieces (p is an integer equal to or larger than 1) in synchronism with a second clock having a frequency which is p/m times of a frequency of the first clock. A convolution operation device inputs the second parallel data in synchronism with the second clock, generates third parallel data with number of samples being S3=S2×(n/m) pieces (S3 is an integer equal to or larger than 1) by executing a convolution operation with a coefficient indicating a transmission characteristic to the second parallel data, and outputs the third parallel data in synchronism with the second clock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignees: NTT ELECTRONICS CORPORATION, NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuharu Onuma, Etsushi Yamazaki, Kazuhito Takei, Osamu Ishida, Kengo Horikoshi, Mitsuteru Yoshida, Yoshiaki Kisaka, Masahito Tomizawa
  • Patent number: 10122462
    Abstract: A transport apparatus includes: a client signal transceiving unit which transceives a client signal; a line signal transceiving unit which performs electric-optic conversion on a line signal to be transmitted, transmits an optical line signal, performs optic-electric conversion on a received line signal, and outputs an electrical line signal; and a plurality of signal processing units which perform signal processing on the client signal to generate the line signal to be transmitted and perform signal processing on the electrical line signal to generate the client signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph And Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Takuya Ohara, Kei Kitamura, Yoshiaki Kisaka, Shigeki Aisawa, Masahiro Suzuki, Etsushi Yamazaki, Tomoyoshi Kataoka, Masahito Tomizawa, Yoshiaki Yamada, Mitsuhiro Teshima, Akira Hirano
  • Patent number: 10122465
    Abstract: Signal processing sections selectively switch modulation/demodulation in low-efficiency modulation system and modulation/demodulation in high-efficiency modulation system, and perform digital signal processing. Parallel-side interfaces of input/output interface sections are electrically connected to the signal processing section. A serial-side interface of the input/output interface section is electrically connected to a serial-side interface of the input/output interface section. A selection section electrically connects a parallel-side interface of the input/output interface section to the signal processing section when the low-efficiency modulation system is selected, and electrically connects the parallel-side interface of the input/output interface section to a parallel-side interface of the input/output interface section when the high-efficiency modulation system is selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignees: NTT ELECTRONICS CORPORATION, NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osamu Ishida, Etsushi Yamazaki, Kazuhito Takei, Masahito Tomizawa, Hideki Nishizawa
  • Publication number: 20180302211
    Abstract: An FIR filter convolutes sampled data obtained by sampling a reception signal with tap coefficients. A phase difference detector detects a phase difference between a synchronization timing of a signal waveform estimated from an output signal of the FIR filter and a sampling timing of the output signal. A tap coefficient adjuster adjusts the tap coefficients so as to reduce the phase difference detected by the phase difference detector and causes the sampling timing of the output signal of the FIR filter to track the synchronization timing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2017
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Inventors: Yasuharu ONUMA, Masahiro TACHIBANA, Etsushi YAMAZAKI, Kazuhito TAKEI, Yuki YOSHIDA, Masayuki IKEDA, Yoshiaki KISAKA, Masahito TOMIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20180252614
    Abstract: A Fourier-transformer performs Fourier transform on a filter coefficient output from an adaptive equalizer which comprises a finite impulse response filter of N taps (N represents an integer of 2 or more) in a time direction. An eigenvalue sum calculator integrates a frequency-differentiation result of the Fourier-transformed filter coefficient and a complex conjugate of the Fourier-transformed filter coefficient to calculate a matrix, and calculates a sum of two eigenvalues of the matrix. A proportionality factor calculator calculates a proportionality factor for frequency from the sum of the two eigenvalues.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Inventors: Etsushi YAMAZAKI, Tomohiro TAKAMUKU, Yuki YOSHIDA, Mitsuteru YOSHIDA, Koki SHIBAHARA, Kengo HORIKOSHI, Yoshiaki KISAKA
  • Patent number: 10038507
    Abstract: An increase in circuit scale is suppressed and a phase variation caused in a transmission path or the like is compensated for.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuteru Yoshida, Etsushi Yamazaki, Seiji Okamoto, Hiroyuki Uzawa, Kengo Horikoshi, Koichi Ishihara, Takayuki Kobayashi, Yoshiaki Kisaka, Masahito Tomizawa, Naoki Fujiwara, Tomoyoshi Kataoka, Kazushige Yonenaga
  • Publication number: 20180175830
    Abstract: A parallel transfer rate converter inputs first parallel data with number of samples being S1 pieces in synchronism with a first clock, and outputs second parallel data with number of samples being S2=S1×(m/p) pieces (p is an integer equal to or larger than 1) in synchronism with a second clock having a frequency which is p/m times of a frequency of the first clock. A convolution operation device inputs the second parallel data in synchronism with the second clock, generates third parallel data with number of samples being S3=S2×(n/m) pieces (S3 is an integer equal to or larger than 1) by executing a convolution operation with a coefficient indicating a transmission characteristic to the second parallel data, and outputs the third parallel data in synchronism with the second clock.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2017
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: Yasuharu ONUMA, Etsushi YAMAZAKI, Kazuhito TAKEI, Osamu ISHIDA, Kengo HORIKOSHI, Mitsuteru YOSHIDA, Yoshiaki KISAKA, Masahito TOMIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20180152247
    Abstract: Signal processing sections selectively switch modulation/demodulation in low-efficiency modulation system and modulation/demodulation in high-efficiency modulation system, and perform digital signal processing. Parallel-side interfaces of input/output interface sections are electrically connected to the signal processing section. A serial-side interface of the input/output interface section is electrically connected to a serial-side interface of the input/output interface section. A selection section electrically connects a parallel-side interface of the input/output interface section to the signal processing section when the low-efficiency modulation system is selected, and electrically connects the parallel-side interface of the input/output interface section to a parallel-side interface of the input/output interface section when the high-efficiency modulation system is selected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2016
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Inventors: Osamu ISHIDA, Etsushi YAMAZAKI, Kazuhito TAKEI, Masahito TOMIZAWA, Hideki NISHIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20180068095
    Abstract: A processing equipment includes a processing unit having a plurality of functions. A retaining unit retains a device identifier capable of identifying the processing equipment. An interface unit receives a function authentication key which is a code for setting a specific function among the plurality of functions to be enabled or disabled. A control unit sets the specific function to be enabled or disabled according to the function authentication key when a device identifier included in the received function authentication key coincides with the device identifier retained in the retaining unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Inventors: Etsushi YAMAZAKI, Osamu ISHIDA, Kazuhito TAKEI, Yasuhiro SUZUKI, Hideki NISHIZAWA
  • Patent number: 9698932
    Abstract: An optical transmission and reception system includes a transmitter and receiver. The transmitter differentially encodes control information to generate a differentially coded signal; uses the differentially coded signal to modulate a signal sequence in which electricity concentrates at a particular frequency; applies time-division multiplexing on the modulated signal sequence and a primary signal in one of two polarized wave components, and applies time-division multiplexing on the other polarized wave components and the signal sequence itself; and polarization-multiplexes the both of the time-division multiplexed polarized waves into an optical signal; and transmits the optical signal to the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Kisaka, Koichi Ishihara, Masahito Tomizawa, Etsushi Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 9667350
    Abstract: The optical receiving device with phase compensation apparatus uses coherent opto-electric conversion and is designed for receiving phase- or quadrature-amplitude-modulated optical signals. The phase compensation apparatus includes following elements: a carrier-phase estimation unit that estimates carrier phase errors in a received symbol string; a gain adjustment unit that adjusts weighting of each symbols in phase error evaluation performed in the carrier-phase adjustment unit; a phase-cycle-slip reduction unit with a phase-cycle-slip detector using statistical processing performed on the output symbols from the carrier-phase estimation unit; and a phase compensation circuit that compensates carrier phase errors of the received signal using an output from the carrier phase estimation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph And Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Kengo Horikoshi, Kohki Shibahara, Etsushi Yamazaki, Mitsuteru Yoshida, Koichi Ishihara, Takayuki Kobayashi, Yoshiaki Kisaka, Takuya Ohara, Masahito Tomizawa, Tomoyoshi Kataoka
  • Publication number: 20170111116
    Abstract: A transport apparatus includes: a client signal transceiving unit which transceives a client signal; a line signal transceiving unit which performs electric-optic conversion on a line signal to be transmitted, transmits an optical line signal, performs optic-electric conversion on a received line signal, and outputs an electrical line signal; and a plurality of signal processing units which perform signal processing on the client signal to generate the line signal to be transmitted and perform signal processing on the electrical line signal to generate the client signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2014
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya OHARA, Kei KITAMURA, Yoshiaki KISAKA, Shigeki AISAWA, Masahiro SUZUKI, Etsushi YAMAZAKI, Tomoyoshi KATAOKA, Masahito TOMIZAWA, Yoshiaki YAMADA, Mitsuhiro TESHIMA, Akira HIRANO
  • Patent number: 9621299
    Abstract: The estimation of an amount of chromatic dispersion using a training signal sequence is possible. A transmission method includes: a training signal sequence generation step of generating, as training signal sequences, a plurality of signal sequences having power concentrated in a plurality of frequency bands, the power concentrated at different frequency bands; a training signal sequence selection step of selecting at least one training signal sequence from among the plurality of training signal sequences generated in the training signal sequence generation step, a signal multiplexing step of generating a signal sequence obtained by time-division multiplexing the training signal sequence selected in the training signal sequence selection step with a transmission data sequence, and an electrical-to-optical conversion step of transmitting the signal sequence generated in the signal multiplexing step as an optical signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Koichi Ishihara, Masato Mizoguchi, Tomoki Murakami, Tomoyoshi Kataoka, Yoshiaki Kisaka, Tadao Nakagawa, Etsushi Yamazaki, Seiji Okamoto, Kengo Horikoshi, Masahito Tomizawa, Riichi Kudo
  • Patent number: 9614621
    Abstract: To enable signal position detection, frequency offset compensation, clock offset compensation, and chromatic dispersion amount estimation in a communication system based on coherent detection using an optical signal, even on a signal having a great offset in an arrival time depending on a frequency due to chromatic dispersion. An optical signal transmitting apparatus generates specific frequency band signals having power concentrated on two or more specific frequencies and transmits a signal including the specific frequency band signals. An optical signal receiving apparatus converts a received signal into a digital signal, detects positions of the specific frequency band signals from the converted digital signal, estimates frequency positions of the detected specific frequency band signals, and detects a frequency offset between an optical signal receiving apparatus and an optical signal transmitting apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph And Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Koichi Ishihara, Takayuki Kobayashi, Riichi Kudo, Yasushi Takatori, Munehiro Matsui, Masato Mizoguchi, Akihide Sano, Shogo Yamanaka, Etsushi Yamazaki, Yutaka Miyamoto, Eiji Yoshida, Tadao Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20170070296
    Abstract: An optical signal transmission apparatus includes a modulation unit which modulates a transmission signal, a training signal sequence generation unit which generates a plurality of signal sequences having power concentrated in a plurality of different frequency bands, at least one of an amplitude and a phase of the plurality of signal sequences being modulated, as a training signal sequence, a signal multiplexing unit which appends the training signal sequence to the transmission signal, and an electro-optical conversion unit which converts a signal sequence obtained by appending the training signal sequence to the transmission signal into an optical signal and transmits the optical signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2015
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiji OKAMOTO, Koichi ISHIHARA, Etsushi YAMAZAKI, Mitsuteru YOSHIDA, Tomoyoshi KATAOKA, Kazushige YONENAGA, Yoshiaki KISAKA, Masanori NAKAMURA, Masahito TOMIZAWA