Patents by Inventor Hideki TOSHINAGA
Hideki TOSHINAGA 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: 20250119227Abstract: Provided is an optical communication system having an aggregate station at a head and a plurality of extension stations connected in series. Each of the plurality of extension stations demultiplexes a signal received from upstream-side equipment into a first demultiplexed signal having a locally allocated wavelength and a second demultiplexed signal having another wavelength and transmits the second demultiplexed signal to downstream-side equipment. Each of the plurality of extension stations multiplexes a signal received from the downstream-side equipment and a locally processed signal and transmits a multiplexing result to the upstream-side equipment.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2022Publication date: April 10, 2025Applicants: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Kota ITO, Yuta TAKAHASHI, Mizuki SUGA, Takuto ARAI, Yushi SHIRATO, Daisei UCHIDA, Hideki TOSHINAGA, Naoki KITA, Yoshihisa KISHIYAMA, Satoshi SUYAMA
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Publication number: 20250112700Abstract: Provided is an optical communication system having an aggregate station at a head and a plurality of extension stations connected in series. The aggregate station outputs a downlink optical signal generated by performing electrical-to-optical (E/O) conversion for a radio signal to the plurality of extension stations and acquires radio signals by performing optical-to-electrical (O/E) conversion for uplink optical signals input from the plurality of extension stations. Each extension station transmits a radio signal obtained by performing O/E conversion for the downlink optical signal received from the aggregate station and transmits an uplink optical signal generated by performing E/O conversion for a received radio signal to the aggregate station. Wavelengths of the uplink optical signal and the downlink optical signal allocated to the plurality of extension stations are the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2022Publication date: April 3, 2025Applicants: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Kota ITO, Yuta TAKAHASHI, Mizuki SUGA, Takuto ARAI, Yushi SHIRATO, Daisei UCHIDA, Hideki TOSHINAGA, Naoki KITA, Yoshihisa KISHIYAMA, Satoshi SUYAMA
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Patent number: 12225389Abstract: The present invention performs: generating base station positional relationship specification data indicating a positional relationship between travel trajectory and a base station candidate position, and terminal station positional relationship specification data indicating a positional relationship between the travel trajectory and a terminal station candidate position, based on travel trajectory data indicating the travel trajectory of a moving body for measuring an object present in a three-dimensional space within a measurable distance predetermined and acquiring point cloud data indicating a position of the object measured in the three-dimensional space, the measurable distance, base station candidate position data indicating a candidate position for installing a base station apparatus, and terminal station candidate position data indicating a candidate position for installing a terminal station apparatus; and specifying a reliability coefficient indicating a degree of reliability of a processing resultType: GrantFiled: December 25, 2019Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Hideyuki Tsuboi, Kazuto Goto, Hideki Toshinaga, Shuki Wai, Tatsuhiko Iwakuni, Daisei Uchida, Naoki Kita
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Patent number: 12185120Abstract: An installation candidate presentation device extracts, for each of one or more installation candidates that are candidates for an installation place of a first wireless device, by using planar map data indicating a planar map of a region including the installation candidates, and a target building at which second wireless devices are to be installed, respectively, an outline range of the building, which is visible from the installation candidate. The installation candidate presentation device calculates, for each installation candidate, by using three-dimensional map data indicating a three-dimensional map obtained by measuring the same region as the planar map data, area of part of a wall surface corresponding to the extracted outline range, the part being visible from the installation candidate, and calculates a total of the area calculated for the building in the region. The installation candidate presentation device presents an installation candidate selected based on the calculated total.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2020Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Hideyuki Tsuboi, Kazuto Goto, Hideki Toshinaga, Yushi Shirato, Naoki Kita
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Publication number: 20240372611Abstract: According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a radio communication device that performs communication with a terminal-side communication device having an antenna using an analog signal for transmitting information by a waveform of an amplitude or a phase of light to receive a signal received by the antenna and transmit a signal radiated by the antenna, the terminal-side communication device and the radio communication device being included in a radio communication system that performs radio communication with a communication target terminal via the antenna using time division duplex (TDD), the radio communication device including: an uplink delay adjustment unit configured to adjust a delay caused by propagation of an uplink signal that is a signal flowing from the terminal to the radio communication device via the antenna; and a downlink delay adjustment unit configured to adjust a delay caused by propagation of a downlink signal that is a signal flowing from the radio communication deType: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2021Publication date: November 7, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Takuto ARAI, Hideki TOSHINAGA, Naoki KITA, Yushi SHIRATO, Daisei UCHIDA, Mizuki SUGA, Kota ITO
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Patent number: 12120532Abstract: On two-dimensional map data indicating buildings serving as candidates for installing terminal station devices, locations of base station installation structures serving as candidates for installing base station devices are set as base station candidate locations, and for each of the base station candidate locations, buildings that have other buildings between themselves and the base station candidate location are selected as visibility detection subject buildings. The heights of the buildings are set at an identical length, a higher position than the buildings is set as an installation altitude of the base station devices, and for each selected visibility detection subject building, a visibility range of the visibility detection subject building from the installation altitude of the base station device in the base station candidate location is detected.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2019Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Hideyuki Tsuboi, Hideki Toshinaga, Kazuto Goto, Shuki Wai, Yushi Shirato, Naoki Kita, Takeshi Onizawa
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Publication number: 20240276235Abstract: An area design assistance method includes: an evaluation range determination step of determining an evaluation range on a map generated from map information; a mesh creation step of creating a mesh group that divides the evaluation range; a representative point determination step of determining a representative point of the mesh; a visibility decision step of deciding visibility between a base station and the representative point based on an outline of a building included in the evaluation range; and a communication availability decision step of deciding communication availability between the base station and the representative point by using point cloud data in a region corresponding to the map information for the representative point decided as having the visibility by the visibility decision step.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2021Publication date: August 15, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Hideki TOSHINAGA, Hideyuki TSUBOI, Kazuto GOTO, Naoki KITA
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Patent number: 12022310Abstract: One aspect of the present invention is a shielding rate calculation device including a voxel division unit for dividing a Fresnel zone into a plurality of voxels each having a size corresponding to acquisition conditions at the time of acquiring point group data indicating a shielding object in an inter-wireless-station space between a transmission station and a reception station, and a calculation unit for calculating a shielding rate against a radio wave traveling from the transmission station toward the reception station on the basis of a position, a shape, and a size of a shielding voxel, which is a voxel at a position indicated by the point group data, among the plurality of voxels.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2019Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Hideki Toshinaga, Hideyuki Tsuboi, Kazuto Goto, Naoki Kita
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Patent number: 11997507Abstract: A line-of-sight determination method includes: a point cloud data acquisition step of acquiring point cloud data including a first position indicating a position of a first wireless station and a plurality of second positions indicating positions on a structure serving as a candidate in which a second wireless station opposing the first wireless station is to be installed; and a line-of-sight determination step of determining whether or not there is a line of sight between the first position and at least one of the second positions, and determining whether or not there is a line of sight between the first wireless station and the structure based on the determination result.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2019Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Shuki Wai, Tatsuhiko Iwakuni, Hideyuki Tsuboi, Daisei Uchida, Hideki Toshinaga, Kazuto Goto, Naoki Kita
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Patent number: 11974312Abstract: An allocation method for allocating individual downlink data signals to positions on a time axis when a base station transmits the individual downlink data signals to a plurality of terminal stations. The allocation method includes provisionally allocating individual downlink data signals of the individual downlink data signals for terminal stations having long propagation delay times to positions of relatively early timings and provisionally allocating individual downlink data signals of the individual downlink data signal for terminal stations having short propagation delay times to positions of relatively late timings, changing the positions such that, when it is estimated that a collision will occur when receiving response signals transmitted from the terminal stations, it is estimated that a collision will not occur, in the provisionally allocating, and fixing, as the positions of the individual downlink data signals on the time axis, the positions changed in the changing of the positions.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuto Goto, Hideki Toshinaga, Yushi Shirato, Mizuki Suga, Kota Ito, Naoki Kita
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Patent number: 11956643Abstract: A station placement design method includes: extracting candidates for an installation location of a wireless base station from point group data in accordance with designated conditions for an installation location of a wireless base station; determining presence/absence of visibility between a plurality of designated wireless terminal stations and the candidates for an installation location of a wireless base station based on the point group data and generating a first list including information in which the candidates for an installation location of a wireless base station and wireless terminal stations determined to have presence of visibility for the candidates for an installation location of a wireless base station are associated with each other; generating a second list including information representing combinations of the candidates for an installation location of a wireless base station that enable all of the plurality of designated wireless terminal stations to be accommodated based on the first listType: GrantFiled: January 15, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Hideki Toshinaga, Naoki Kita, Yushi Shirato, Hideyuki Tsuboi, Kazuto Goto
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Patent number: 11916610Abstract: An interference evaluation method for evaluating, over an area, radio-wave interference that occurs between a first radio station and a second radio station includes: a distinguishing step of acquiring information indicating topographic cross-sections of respective azimuths centered about the first radio station, and distinguishing the topographic cross-section into a segment in which there is visibility from the position of the first radio station and a segment in which there is no visibility from the position of the first radio station; and a specification step of specifying a position at which a desired interference amount is reached based on a distance between the first radio station and the second radio station in a segment distinguished as having visibility from the position of the first radio station, and specifying a position at which the desired interference amount is reached by evaluating the radio-wave interference for each square of an evaluation target region segmented into squares in a segment dType: GrantFiled: March 11, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Hideyuki Tsuboi, Hideki Toshinaga, Kazuto Goto, Yushi Shirato, Naoki Kita
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Patent number: 11902799Abstract: Point cloud data between a base station device and a terminal station device is acquired as a point cloud data group. A radius of a first Fresnel zone defined by the base station device and the terminal station device at each position where the point cloud data group is acquired is calculated. A region specified by the radius at each position where the point cloud data group is acquired is scanned to detect the point cloud data, and a non-line-of-sight region is extracted. A ratio of a total area of all the extracted non-line-of-sight regions to an area of a region constructed by the first Fresnel zone is calculated. A received power is estimated based on the calculated ratio between the areas. Whether or not there is a line of sight between the base station device and the terminal station device is determined based on the received power.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2019Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuto Goto, Hideki Toshinaga, Hideyuki Tsuboi, Yushi Shirato, Naoki Kita
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Patent number: 11770720Abstract: In two-dimensional map information showing communication equipment installation structures on which communication equipment is installed, roads, and buildings, a narrow region between the buildings is detected based on a distance of an interval of the buildings adjacent to each other and a predetermined length and a connection line connecting the buildings is imparted to an opened portion of the detected narrow region, a line-of-sight detection line is extended with any one of the communication equipment installation structures set as a start point and the line-of-sight detection line is rotated around the start point, intersections of the line-of-sight detection line and a contour line of the building or the connection line is detected and the intersection at a shortest distance from the start point among the detected intersections is detected as a line-of-sight intersection, and, when the line-of-sight intersection and another line-of-sight intersection belong to the same building, a line-of-sight range linType: GrantFiled: January 8, 2020Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Hideyuki Tsuboi, Hideki Toshinaga, Kazuto Goto, Yushi Shirato, Naoki Kita, Takeshi Onizawa
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Publication number: 20230280443Abstract: A position measurement method includes a point group data generation step of generating point group data indicating a position of an object around a predetermined route measured by a measurement unit moving along the route, an acquisition step of acquiring a plurality of pieces of point group data generated by being measured at different timings with respect to the same route, and a position identification step of identifying a detection target position indicating a position of a predetermined object present around the route on the basis of a difference in the position for each of the plurality of pieces of point group data.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2020Publication date: September 7, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Hideyuki TSUBOI, Kazuto GOTO, Hideki TOSHINAGA, Naoki KITA, Takeshi ONIZAWA
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Publication number: 20230273356Abstract: A shielding object identifying unit identifies a partial point cloud representing a shielding object existing in a Fresnel zone on a basis of point cloud data indicating a position of the shielding object in the Fresnel zone between two wireless stations. A criterion decision unit decides an evaluation criterion of propagation loss by the shielding object on a basis of distribution of the partial point cloud. A determination unit makes determination related to communication between the two wireless stations on a basis of the evaluation criterion.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2020Publication date: August 31, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Hideki TOSHINAGA, Kazuto GOTO, Hideyuki TSUBOI, Naoki KITA
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Publication number: 20230171609Abstract: A method includes generating, based on data indicating the travel trajectory of a mobile object, which acquires point group data indicating the position of an object present in a three-dimensional space within a predetermined measurable distance, the measurable distance, candidate base station position data indicating a candidate position for installing a base station apparatus, and candidate terminal station position data indicating a candidate position for installing a terminal station apparatus, data indicating the positional relationship between the travel trajectory and a candidate base station position, and data indicating the positional relationship between the travel trajectory and a candidate terminal station position; generating data indicating a measurable range based on the travel trajectory data and the measurable distance; generating data indicating a connecting line segment connecting the candidate base station position and the candidate terminal station position based on the candidate base staType: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2020Publication date: June 1, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Hideyuki TSUBOI, Kazuto GOTO, Hideki TOSHINAGA, Tatsuhiko IWAKUNI, Shuki WAI, Daisei UCHIDA, Yushi SHIRATO, Naoki KITA, Takeshi ONIZAWA
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Publication number: 20230156483Abstract: A station deployment support method includes a positional relationship identification step of, based on travel trajectory data of a mobile object that measures an object present in a three-dimensional space within a predetermined measurable distance and acquires point group data on the measured object, the measurable distance, candidate base station position data, and candidate terminal station position data, generating base station positional relationship identification data and terminal station positional relationship identification data; a measurable range identification step of generating measurable range data based on the travel trajectory data and the measurable distance; and a travel trajectory selection step of selecting at least one piece of travel trajectory data so that the proportion of the measurable range in a predetermined evaluation area satisfies a predetermined value.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2020Publication date: May 18, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Hideyuki TSUBOI, Hideki TOSHINAGA, Kazuto GOTO, Tatsuhiko IWAKUNI, Shuki WAI, Daisei UCHIDA, Yushi SHIRATO, Naoki KITA, Takeshi ONIZAWA
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Publication number: 20230022178Abstract: The present invention performs: generating base station positional relationship specification data indicating a positional relationship between travel trajectory and a base station candidate position, and terminal station positional relationship specification data indicating a positional relationship between the travel trajectory and a terminal station candidate position, based on travel trajectory data indicating the travel trajectory of a moving body for measuring an object present in a three-dimensional space within a measurable distance predetermined and acquiring point cloud data indicating a position of the object measured in the three-dimensional space, the measurable distance, base station candidate position data indicating a candidate position for installing a base station apparatus, and terminal station candidate position data indicating a candidate position for installing a terminal station apparatus; and specifying a reliability coefficient indicating a degree of reliability of a processing resultType: ApplicationFiled: December 25, 2019Publication date: January 26, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Hideyuki TSUBOI, Kazuto GOTO, Hideki TOSHINAGA, Shuki WAI, Tatsuhiko IWAKUNI, Daisei UCHIDA, Naoki KITA
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Publication number: 20230020465Abstract: A line-of-sight determination method includes: a point cloud data acquisition step of acquiring point cloud data including a first position indicating a position of a first wireless station and a plurality of second positions indicating positions on a structure serving as a candidate in which a second wireless station opposing the first wireless station is to be installed; and a line-of-sight determination step of determining whether or not there is a line of sight between the first position and at least one of the second positions, and determining whether or not there is a line of sight between the first wireless station and the structure based on the determination result.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2019Publication date: January 19, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Shuki WAI, Tatsuhiko IWAKUNI, Hideyuki TSUBOI, Daisei UCHIDA, Hideki TOSHINAGA, Kazuto GOTO, Naoki KITA