Patents by Inventor Hitoshi Yoshino

Hitoshi Yoshino 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: 8483038
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a communication channel with a low inter-cell interference while suppressing variation in the amount of inter-cell interference. Provided is a base station arranged in a radio communication system configured to implement a frequency division multiple access method by using a frequency division multiplexing method as a modulation method, and configured of cells each divided into an inner region and an outer region. The base station includes an allocation controller configured to perform subchannelization using a perfectly-orthogonal channel in the outer region of the cell, and to perform subchannelization using a quasi-orthogonal channel in the inner region of the cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiromasa Fujii, Hitoshi Yoshino, Junichiro Hagiwara
  • Patent number: 8470829
    Abstract: An imidazole derivative represented by formula (I): wherein Q is: A is hydrogen, halogen, or a substituted or unsubstituted C1-4 alkyl group; E is independently selected from a C1-6 alkyl group; R2 and R3 are independently selected from C1-6 alkyls; X1 and X2 are independently selected from O and S; Y is selected from a substituted or unsubstituted arylene group and a substituted or unsubstituted divalent 5- or 6-membered monocyclic or 8- to 10-membered condensed heterocyclic group; Z is —CON(—Ra)—, —CO—, —OOO—, —NRa—C(?NH)NRb—, —NRa—C(?N—CN)NRb—, —N(—Ra)COO—, —C(?NH)—, —SO2—, —SO2N(—Ra)—, —SO2NR1—, —N(—Ra)CO—, —N(—Ra)CON(—Rb)—, —N(COR1)CO—, —N(—Ra)SO2—, —N(SO2R1)SO2—, —N(—Ra)— or —N(—Ra)SO2N(—Rb)—; R1 is independently a hydrogen atom, a hydroxyl group, or substituted or unsubstituted group selected from C1-6 alkyl group, heterocyclic group, aryl group, C3-8 cycloalkyl group and C3-8 cycloalkenyl group; or salt or prodrug thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Chugai Seiyaku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazutaka Tachibana, Haruhiko Sato, Masateru Ohta, Mitsuaki Nakamura, Takuya Shiraishi, Hitoshi Yoshino, Takashi Emura, Akie Honma, Etsuro Onuma, Hiromitsu Kawata, Kenji Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 8379577
    Abstract: A wireless resource assigning apparatus for assigning wireless resources to transmission data of a plurality of users is disclosed. The wireless resource assigning apparatus includes a scheduling part configured to start scheduling for all users from a first wireless resource among a plurality of wireless resources prioritized according to a predetermined criterion, and repeat scheduling up to the last wireless resource for users except for users to whom any wireless resource has been assigned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Masashige Shirakabe, Naoto Matoba, Takatoshi Sugiyama, Hitoshi Yoshino, Tatsuro Masamura
  • Patent number: 8345582
    Abstract: A base station apparatus used for a FDD mobile communications system which uses at least a predetermined frequency bandwidth is disclosed. The base station apparatus includes a control unit which provides an instruction signal which at least indicates a frequency band used in wireless communications; and a unit which wirelessly communicates with a user apparatus according to the instruction signal, wherein, if the base station apparatus belongs to a predetermined border area between mobile communications systems, an instruction signal which indicates that use of one part of the predetermined frequency band is permitted, but use of another part is prohibited is provided by the control unit, and, if the base station apparatus belongs to a predetermined non-border area, an instruction signal which indicates that use of one part and use of the other part are permitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuta Sagae, Hitoshi Yoshino
  • Patent number: 8328341
    Abstract: The invention provides an ink jet recording ink containing a self-dispersion pigment, to the surface of which an anionic functional group represented by the following general formula (I) has been bonded directly or through another atomic group, water, a water-soluble substance having a coefficient of hydrophilicity-hydrophobicity of 0.37 or more as defined by the following equation (A) and a water-soluble substance having a coefficient of hydrophilicity-hydrophobicity of 0.25 or less as defined by the equation (A), and having a surface tension of 34 mN/m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shoji Koike, Ryota Kato, Hitoshi Yoshino
  • Patent number: 8328926
    Abstract: The invention provides an ink jet recording ink containing a self-dispersion pigment having a lactone group and a carboxyl group, an organic carboxylic acid salt, water and a water-soluble substance having a coefficient of hydrophilicity-hydrophobicity of 0.37 or more as defined by the following equation (A), and having a surface tension of 34 mN/m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shoji Koike, Ryota Kato, Hitoshi Yoshino
  • Patent number: 8295226
    Abstract: A disclosed radio communication apparatus includes an intermediate band detecting unit detecting an intermediate band which is a band between a first frequency band and a second frequency band which are allocated to a same mobile communication system or different mobile communication systems, a use status detecting unit detecting an uplink/downlink multiplexing method used in each of the first frequency band and the second frequency band, and a determination unit determining, based on the intermediate band and the uplink/downlink multiplexing method, the uplink/downlink multiplexing method usable in the intermediate band and a guard band in which use of frequencies are prevented, the guard band being included in the intermediate band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiromasa Fujii, Hitoshi Yoshino
  • Patent number: 8252393
    Abstract: The invention relates to a surface-modified inorganic pigment which has an inorganic pigment having acid function and an amorphous body located on the surface of the inorganic pigment having acid function and formed by at least a divalent or higher-valent metal and an anion component in a state where the inorganic pigment and the amorphous body do not chemically bond to each other, and which does not exhibit acid function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akira Nagashima, Kenji Nakajima, Sadayuki Sugama, Hitoshi Yoshino, Masaya Asao
  • Patent number: 8204004
    Abstract: This invention relates to a frequency channel assignment system which enables adaptive overlapping use of the same frequency band in a plurality of radio communications systems. The frequency channel assignment system includes radio communications systems 1 and 2 which use a common frequency band, and controllers 31 and 141. The controllers 31 and 141 include a system characteristics information management function 317 configured to manage system characteristics information showing characteristics of frequency channels in the radio communications systems 1 and 2, and a frequency channel assignment function 1411 configured to assign frequency channels to each of the radio communications systems 1 and 2, based on the system characteristics information and channel status information showing status of frequency channels, so as to avoid inter-system interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Kozue Hamamoto, Satoru Fukumoto, Hitoshi Yoshino
  • Patent number: 8200169
    Abstract: The present invention has an object of providing a transmitter apparatus, a mobile communication system, a base station and a communication enable signal transmitter unit, which can prioritize communications of a mobile station in a priority communication system over communications of a mobile station in a non-priority communication system, in a network where the priority communication system and the non-priority communication system coexist in the same communication area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiromasa Fujii, Junichiro Hagiwara, Hitoshi Yoshino
  • Patent number: 8180391
    Abstract: A prohibiting-signal transmitting apparatus for use in a combined system such that there is at least a partial overlap between bands allocated to an old communications system and bands allocated to a new communications system is disclosed. The apparatus includes a unit which monitors for a band-in-use, over which communications are actually being conducted, out of the bands allocated to the old communications system; a unit which generates a prohibiting signal indicating that the band-in-use should not be used in the new communications system; and a unit which transmits the prohibiting signal to a communications apparatus of the new communications system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiromasa Fujii, Hitoshi Yoshino
  • Patent number: 8163360
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a pigment dispersion having an inorganic pigment dispersed therein, characterized in that a metal compound adheres to the inorganic pigment and a metal ion concentration of the metal compound in the pigment dispersion does not exceed 0.05 mol/L.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaya Asao, Kenji Nakajima, Sadayuki Sugama, Hitoshi Yoshino, Akira Nagashima
  • Patent number: 8135356
    Abstract: To provide a radio communication control apparatus and a radio communication control method capable of controlling simultaneous transmission and reception so as not to degrade system throughput. A simultaneous transmission and reception controller 106 determines whether the simultaneous transmission and reception using the same frequency are possible, based on radio spectrum environment information of an opposite party of communication and radio spectrum environment information of a self-apparatus. When the simultaneous transmission and reception using the same frequency are determined to be possible, a control signal transmission section 109 transmits instruction information, indicating that the simultaneous transmission and reception are possible, and a transmission parameter thereof, to the above communication terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: NTT Docomo, Inc.
    Inventors: Masashige Shirakabe, Takahiro Asai, Naoto Matoba, Hitoshi Yoshino
  • Patent number: 8086258
    Abstract: A disclosed base station is used in a first wireless communication system using a first frequency band that is the same as or adjacent to a second frequency band used by a second wireless communication system, and includes a propagation loss estimation unit configured to estimate propagation loss of a signal in the first frequency band when the signal arrives at a receiving device of the second wireless communication system; a frequency difference calculation unit configured to calculate a frequency difference between the first frequency band and the second frequency band; a maximum transmission power determining unit configured to determine maximum transmission power based on the estimated propagation loss and the calculated frequency difference; and a transmission control unit configured to transmit a signal with transmission power less than or equal to the maximum transmission power determined by the maximum transmission power determining unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiromasa Fujii, Hitoshi Yoshino
  • Publication number: 20110306615
    Abstract: According to the present invention, a compound represented by formula (I): wherein Q is: A is a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, —ORa or a C1-4 alkyl group which may be substituted by one or more halogen atoms; E is independently selected from a C1-6 alkyl group; m is selected from integers from 0 to 3; R2 and R3 are independently selected from a C1-6 alkyl group; X1 and X2 are independently selected from O and S; Y is selected from an arylene group and a divalent 5- or 6-membered monocyclic or 8- to 10-membered condensed heterocyclic group, wherein the arylene group and the heterocyclic group may be substituted by 1 to 3 substituents independently selected from E1; E1 is independently selected from a hydroxyl group, a halogen atom, a C1-4 alkyl group, a cyano group, a C1-4 alkoky group, a carbamoyl group, a C1-4 alkylcarbamoyl group, a di(C1-4 alkyl)carbamoyl group, an amino group, a C1-4 alkylamino group, a di(C1-4 alkylamino group, a sulfamoyl group, a C1-4 alkylsulfamoyl group and a di(C1-4 alkyl)su
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2005
    Publication date: December 15, 2011
    Applicant: CHUGAI SEIYAKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazutaka Tachibana, Haruhiko Sato, Masateru Ohta, Mitsuaki Nakamura, Takuya Shiraishi, Hitoshi Yoshino, Takashi Emura, Akie Honma, Etsuro Onuma, Hiromitsu Kawata, Kenji Taniguchi
  • Publication number: 20110255439
    Abstract: To provide a radio communication control apparatus and a radio communication control method capable of controlling simultaneous transmission and reception so as not to degrade system throughput. A simultaneous transmission and reception controller 106 determines whether the simultaneous transmission and reception using the same frequency are possible, based on radio spectrum environment information of an opposite party of communication and radio spectrum environment information of a self-apparatus. When the simultaneous transmission and reception using the same frequency are determined to be possible, a control signal transmission section 109 transmits instruction information, indicating that the simultaneous transmission and reception are possible, and a transmission parameter thereof, to the above communication terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2011
    Publication date: October 20, 2011
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Masashige Shirakabe, Takahiro Asai, Naoto Matoba, Hitoshi Yoshino
  • Patent number: 8041311
    Abstract: To provide a radio communication control apparatus and a radio communication control method capable of controlling simultaneous transmission and reception so as not to degrade system throughput. A simultaneous transmission and reception controller 106 determines whether the simultaneous transmission and reception using the same frequency are possible, based on radio spectrum environment information of an opposite party of communication and radio spectrum environment information of a self-apparatus. When the simultaneous transmission and reception using the same frequency are determined to be possible, a control signal transmission section 109 transmits instruction information, indicating that the simultaneous transmission and reception are possible, and a transmission parameter thereof, to the above communication terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Masashige Shirakabe, Takahiro Asai, Naoto Matoba, Hitoshi Yoshino
  • Publication number: 20110250835
    Abstract: A distribution apparatus distributes a common control signal to one or more regions with one or more communications system which can be used. The common control signal includes system information required for accessing the communications system of each of the regions. The distribution apparatus has a unit which generates the common control signal of each of the regions, a unit which receives a distribution request signal from a terminal apparatus which requests for distribution of the common control signal, and a unit which transmits the common control signal according to a distribution rule. The distribution rule is updated according to a statistical trend of the distribution request signals received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2009
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuta Sagae, Hitoshi Yoshino
  • Publication number: 20110244903
    Abstract: A delivery system includes a delivery apparatus for delivering a common control signal to an area having one or more available communication systems and a terminal apparatus for receiving the common control signal transmitted from the delivery apparatus. The common control signal includes system information required to access the communication systems in the area, and the system information includes multiple control information items. The delivery system causes the delivery apparatus to generate a first common control signal commonly used in one or more areas, to receive a delivery request signal from the terminal apparatus requesting to deliver a certain control information item and to generate a second common control signal including the certain control information item to transmit to the terminal apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2009
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuta Sagae, Hitoshi Yoshino
  • Publication number: 20110244904
    Abstract: A delivery apparatus for delivering to multiple areas, wherein one or more radio communication systems are available in each of the areas, includes a storage unit configured to store system information for each of the areas, the system information being required to connect to the available radio communication systems, a detection unit configured to detect a second delivery apparatus for delivering to a portion of the delivery areas of the delivery station and a delivery unit configured to deliver system information for each of the areas as control information, the system information being required to connect to a radio communication system available in the area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2009
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuta Sagae, Hitoshi Yoshino