Patents by Inventor Ichiro Tsujimoto

Ichiro Tsujimoto 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: 9900187
    Abstract: A wireless communication system is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ichiro Tsujimoto
  • Publication number: 20160352542
    Abstract: In order to prevent a receiving wireless communication device from growing to great size when the variable modulation is used in a multipath-fading channel, a wireless communication system according to an exemplary aspect of the present invention includes: a first wireless communication device; and a second wireless communication device, the first wireless communication device including time-division multiplexing means for time-division multiplexing a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal, and transmission means for transmitting a time-division multiplexed signal, the second wireless communication device including time-division demultiplexing means for time-division demultiplexing the time-division multiplexed signal into a first demodulated signal and a second demodulated signal, a first adaptive filter for the first demodulated signal, a second adaptive filter for the second demodulated signal, adaptive control means for performing an adaptive control on the first adaptive filter and outputti
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2015
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Ichiro TSUJIMOTO
  • Patent number: 9407301
    Abstract: An angle diversity receiving device performs angle diversity reception by configuring branches of angle diversity in accordance with received signals of an array antenna, the angle diversity receiving device being provided with: a plurality of phased array synthesizing unit that generates a received signal of a branch by performing phased array synthesis for the received signals of a plurality of antenna elements included in the array antenna; and a correlation control unit that outputs a correlation value for the received signals of two branches; wherein the phased array synthesizing unit controls the angular difference in the orientations of the branches for which the correlation value was computed so that the correlation value decreases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ichiro Tsujimoto
  • Publication number: 20150072634
    Abstract: An angle diversity receiving device performs angle diversity reception by configuring branches of angle diversity in accordance with received signals of an array antenna, the angle diversity receiving device being provided with: a plurality of phased array synthesizing unit that generates a received signal of a branch by performing phased array synthesis for the received signals of a plurality of antenna elements included in the array antenna; and a correlation control unit that outputs a correlation value for the received signals of two branches; wherein the phased array synthesizing unit controls the angular difference in the orientations of the branches for which the correlation value was computed so that the correlation value decreases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2013
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Inventor: Ichiro Tsujimoto
  • Patent number: 8682265
    Abstract: The present invention provides a radio communication apparatus that does not need installation of multiple radio devices in a communication node and requires only a single radio device to construct a data link of any of line-of-sight communication, over-the-horizon communication and aerial-vehicle communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignees: NEC Corporation, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ichiro Tsujimoto, Takashi Hirano, Yoshihiro Sera, Shingo Nishikata
  • Publication number: 20110269410
    Abstract: The present invention provides a radio communication apparatus that does not need installation of multiple radio devices in a communication node and requires only a single radio device to construct a data link of any of line-of-sight communication, over-the-horizon communication and aerial-vehicle communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2011
    Publication date: November 3, 2011
    Applicants: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ichiro TSUJIMOTO, Takashi HIRANO, Yoshihiro SERA, Shingo NISHIKATA
  • Patent number: 6741838
    Abstract: A transmission side device combines two independent transmission signals (S1, S2) together to produce two combined signals, i.e., a sum signal (S1+S2) and a difference signal (S1−S2), and transmits the produced signals over two radio wave propagation paths, respectively. After the sum signal and the difference signal are received by the reception side device, the sum signal and the difference signal, as received, are subjected to an AGC control operation and a complex-level multiplication operation with a weighting coefficient based on correlation control, and then separated into two, restored, independent signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2004
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Ichiro Tsujimoto
  • Patent number: 6556617
    Abstract: A spread spectrum diversity transmitter/receiver, in which a bit error rate is improved even at a severe multi path fading channel, is provided. At a transmitting section, a multi dimensional transmitting signal by code division is used not only for diversity itself but also for a convolutional encoding among diversity branches by a convolutional encoder. With this, an error correction function can be installed. At a receiving section, a Viterbi decoding is performed before a majority judgment is performed, a bit error at the front stage of a majority judging circuit is suppressed and the likelihood of the majority judgment is increased and consequently the bit error rate is largely improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2003
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Ichiro Tsujimoto
  • Patent number: 6310907
    Abstract: A spread-spectrum transceiver using a combination of time diversity and error-correction is disclosed. An error-correcting encoder encodes N-branch time-diversity signals to produce M-branch transmission signals consisting of N-branch information-bit signals and (M-N)-branch check-bit signals. The M-branch transmission signals are transmitted according to spread-spectrum system. At a receiving side, an error-correcting decoder decodes the M-branch received signals to produce N-branch time-diversity signals. After canceling the delay differences between the N-branch time-diversity signals, a received information signal is determined from the N received information signal according to majority logic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2001
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Ichiro Tsujimoto
  • Publication number: 20010004585
    Abstract: A transmission side device combines two independent transmission signals (S1, S2) together to produce two combined signals, i.e., a sum signal (S1+S2) and a difference signal (S1−S2), and transmits the produced signals over two radio wave propagation paths, respectively. After the sum signal and the difference signal are received by the reception side device, the sum signal and the difference signal, as received, are subjected to an AGC control operation and a complex-level multiplication operation with a weighting coefficient based on correlation control, and then separated into two, restored, independent signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2000
    Publication date: June 21, 2001
    Inventor: Ichiro Tsujimoto
  • Patent number: 6075808
    Abstract: In a time diversity radio communications system, quadrature-modulated spread spectrum signals of different mutual time delay are combined into a code division multiplex signal and up-converted to a radio-frequency signal and transmitted. At a receive site, the signal is received by an antenna and down-converted to recover the code division multiplex signal. Quadrature-modulated component signals contained in the recovered code division multiplex signal are converted to baseband signals which are then time-aligned with each other. The time-aligned baseband signals are multiplied respectively by complex weighting factors and are combined together to produce an input signal for an adaptive equalizer. This input signal is also applied to an AGC amplifier where it is amplified and applied to correlation detectors where correlations between the amplified signal and the baseband signals are detected and the complex weighting factors are derived respectively from the correlations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2000
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Ichiro Tsujimoto
  • Patent number: 6006072
    Abstract: In first radio station and a second radio station constituting a radio transmission system using spatial duplex diversity, interference signals are cancelled by a power inversion adaptive array (PIAA). One branch of the transmission side is multiplied by a complex coefficient multiplier so that the desired received signal has the optimum vector value after a combination of two branches and PIAA processing. An envelope detector detects the received signal level with an envelope detector at the receiving side, feeds back the received signal level information to the transmission side through the transmission baseband circuit, extracts the information with the receiving baseband circuit at the transmission side, and inputs the information into a constant modulus algorithm control circuit. The constant envelope algorithm control circuit sequentially controls the complex coefficient multiplier so that the multiplier has an optimum value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1999
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Ichiro Tsujimoto
  • Patent number: 5982825
    Abstract: At a transmitter side, signals are provided with a delay difference with a plurality of branches, coded multiplexed by spectrum spreaders and a combination unit, and transmitted by a single antenna. At a receiver side, the signals are received by a single antenna, and diversity branches are extracted and separated by first and second spectrum de-spreaders. They are subject to linear combination so that the mean square of the decision error signals is minimized. The output passes through an adaptive matched filter and an adaptive equalizer so as to provide an output from which interference waves are eliminated. Thus, interference is eliminated and diversity gain for a signal is ensured, while reducing the scale and cost of a system without using a plurality of antennae.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1999
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Ichiro Tsujimoto
  • Patent number: 5859870
    Abstract: A time diversity transmission-reception system has, on transmit side, at least one delay of a predetermined delay for providing at least a pair of delayed and undelayed data symbol sequences, at least a pair of modulators for modulating the data symbol sequences into modulated intermediate frequency signals, and at least a pair of spread spectrum signal generators employing mutually different pseudo-random code sequences for code division multiplexing. On receive side, the received signals are subjected to code division demultiplexing, demodulation, and delaying to restore at least a pair of timed demodulated signals. These signals are then subjected to adaptive matched filtering, whose outputs are combined and applied to adaptive equalization to provide diversity reception signal. The present system provides a plurality of diversity branches without employing a plurality of frequencies, planes of polarization of a carrier wave or receiving antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1999
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Ichiro Tsujimoto
  • Patent number: 5757853
    Abstract: In a time diversity radio communications system, quadrature-modulated spread spectrum signals of different mutual time delay are combined into a code division multiplex signal and up-converted to a radio-frequency signal and transmitted. At a receive site, the signal is received by an antenna and down-converted to recover the code division multiplex signal. Quadrature-modulated component signals contained in the recovered code division multiplex signal are converted to baseband signals which are then time-aligned with each other. The time-aligned baseband signals are multiplied respectively by complex weighting factors and are combined together to produce an input signal for an adaptive equalizer. This input signal is also applied to an AGC amplifier where it is amplified and applied to correlation detectors where correlations between the amplified signal and the baseband signals are detected and the complex weighting factors are derived respectively from the correlations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 26, 1998
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Ichiro Tsujimoto
  • Patent number: 5752173
    Abstract: In a diversity communication system, groups of receive units are provided corresponding respectively to arrays of antennas to process incoming signals which are propagated over different paths from a transmitter. In order to orient the directivity patterns of the antenna arrays toward the transmitter, multiple diversity branches are provided corresponding respectively to the groups of receive units. Each diversity branch includes multiple complex multipliers for respectively multiplying the processed incoming signals from the corresponding receive units by weight coefficients. Delays are then introduced respectively to the processed incoming signals so that the delayed signals are time-coincident with a decision signal, and the weight coefficients of the complex multipliers are derived from correlations between the delayed signals and the decision signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 12, 1998
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Ichiro Tsujimoto
  • Patent number: 5689528
    Abstract: In a decision feedback equalizer, symbols from an array of antennas are fed to a first filter where they are respectively multiplied with first weight coefficients and supplied to a combiner where they are combined with second symbols to produce a combined symbol. A decision circuit makes a decision on the combined symbol and produces a decision symbol. Decision symbols successively generated by the decision circuit are fed to a second filter where they are respectively multiplied with second weight coefficients and supplied to the combiner as the second symbols. A difference between the decision symbol and the combined symbol is detected to produce a decision error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 18, 1997
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Ichiro Tsujimoto
  • Patent number: 5646958
    Abstract: In a decision feedback equalizer, transmitted signals are received by an array of antennas and baseband symbols are recovered. A forward filter provides weighting of the recovered baseband symbols with first coefficients so that precursor multipath components of a transmitted symbol are canceled and combines the weighted symbols. A set of first delay elements provide respective delays to one of the baseband symbols to produce a short- and a long-delayed baseband symbol. A set of correlators is provided for detecting correlations between the baseband symbol and the short- and long-delayed baseband symbols. A set of second delay elements provide respective delays to a decision symbol to produce a short- and a long-delayed decision symbol. A selector is responsive to a correlation detected by one of the correlators for selecting one of the short- and long-delayed decision symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 8, 1997
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Ichiro Tsujimoto
  • Patent number: 5636242
    Abstract: After coding transmission data by means of an error-correction coder, the data are divided into N branches, pass through a plurality of delay elements, undergo interleaving in an interleave circuit, primary modulation in a modulator, undergo spread-spectrum processing in a spread-spectrum circuit, and are coded/multiplexed in a synthesizer, and finally transmitted. The signals transmitted by the transmitter are divided into N branches by a branch circuit, undergo inverse spread-spectrum processing in inverse spread-spectrum circuits, undergo demodulation in a demodulator corresponding to the primary modulation on the transmission side, undergo de-interleaving at a de-interleave circuit, and after delay coordination at delay elements, undergo majority-discrimination at a majority-discrimination circuit, and finally are error corrected in an error-correction decoding circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 3, 1997
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Ichiro Tsujimoto
  • Patent number: 5568523
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for adaptively canceling an interference signal in any D/U ratio is disclosed. The method and apparatus are directed to being implemented in a two-branch space-diversity system having an array of first and second receivers assigned to a first diversity branch and a second diversity branch, respectively. The feature resides in the ratiow.sub.2 /w.sub.1 =(m.sub.1 g.sub.1 m.sub.2 g.sub.2 *) / (m.sub.2.sup.2 g.sub.2 g.sub.2 *),wherein w.sub.1 and w.sub.2 are the weights by which a first branch signal and a second branch signal, respectively, are to be multiplied, m.sub.1 and m.sub.2 are the gains of the first and second receivers, and g.sub.1 and g.sub.2 are the transmission coefficients of the interference signals received by the first and second receiver, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 22, 1996
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Ichiro Tsujimoto