Patents by Inventor Kazumitsu Sakamoto

Kazumitsu Sakamoto 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: 20250112693
    Abstract: A capacity estimation unit estimates a channel capacity related to wireless communication between a communication device and a relay device. A scheme determination unit determines a transmission scheme of the data from the communication device to the relay device to be a scheme in which transmission efficiency is lower and transmission quality is higher as the channel capacity is larger, or to be a scheme in which the transmission quality is lower and the transmission efficiency is higher as the channel capacity is smaller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuyoshi KOJIMA, Daisuke GOTO, Kiyohiko ITOKAWA, Kazumitsu SAKAMOTO, Tomoya KAGEYAMA
  • Publication number: 20250105916
    Abstract: An acquisition unit acquires environment information indicating an installation environment of a communication apparatus. A scheme specifying unit specifies a transmission scheme of data on the basis of relational data indicating a relationship between the environment information and the transmission scheme and the acquired environment information. A transmission unit transmits the data to a relay device on the basis of the specified transmission scheme.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuyoshi KOJIMA, Daisuke GOTO, Kiyohiko ITOKAWA, Kazumitsu SAKAMOTO, Tomoya KAGEYAMA
  • Publication number: 20250106734
    Abstract: A second communication device transmits notification information related to a communication status between a transmission device and a first communication device to the transmission device. The transmission device determines a transmission method of data to the first communication device on the basis of the notification information received from the second communication device, and transmits the data to the first communication device by the determined transmission method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuyoshi KOJIMA, Daisuke GOTO, Kiyohiko ITOKAWA, Kazumitsu SAKAMOTO, Tomoya KAGEYAMA
  • Publication number: 20250106073
    Abstract: Each transmitting apparatus transmits the same radio signals a plurality of times. A communication apparatus includes a plurality of antennas, a signal storage unit, a reading unit, an equalization unit, and a demodulation unit. The plurality of antennas receives radio signals transmitted from a plurality of the transmitting apparatuses. The signal storage unit stores reception signals received by each of the plurality of antennas. The reading unit reads, from the signal storage unit, reception signals including radio signals transmitted from a demodulation processing target transmitting apparatus, the reception signals being received by each of the plurality of antennas at different times. The equalization unit equalizes the plurality of reception signals read by the reading unit. The demodulation unit demodulates the equalized reception signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke GOTO, Kiyohiko ITOKAWA, Yasuyoshi KOJIMA, Kazumitsu SAKAMOTO, Tomoya KAGEYAMA
  • Patent number: 12261676
    Abstract: An acquisition unit acquires a plurality of signals received by a plurality of antennas included in a wireless communication device that moves in a predetermined orbit above a celestial body. A parameter determination unit determines a synthesis parameter of the plurality of signals according to the position of a transmission terminal provided on the celestial body, the orbit, and the reception time of the plurality of signals. A synthesis unit synthesizes a transmission signal of the transmission terminal according to the plurality of signals and the synthesis parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuyoshi Kojima, Kiyohiko Itokawa, Daisuke Goto, Kazumitsu Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20250096913
    Abstract: In a wireless communication system including a first communication device, one or more second communication devices disposed around the first communication device, and a relay device that moves, the second communication device includes a second reception unit that attempts to receive a radio wave in a predetermined band and measures reception strength, and a second transmission unit that transmits, to the first communication device, reception result information indicating a peripheral radio wave condition based on the reception strength measured by the second reception unit, and the first communication device includes a first reception unit that attempts to receive a radio wave in the predetermined band and measures reception strength, a determination unit that determines a band to be used for transmission of data to the relay device on a basis of a peripheral radio wave condition based on the reception strength measured by the first reception unit and the peripheral radio wave condition based on the receptio
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuyoshi KOJIMA, Daisuke GOTO, Kiyohiko ITOKAWA, Kazumitsu SAKAMOTO, Tomoya KAGEYAMA
  • Publication number: 20250097944
    Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a transmission apparatus and a communication apparatus that moves. Further, the wireless communication system includes a statistics calculation unit, an information generation unit, and a notification unit. The statistics calculation unit acquires a transmission condition used for a first radio signal transmitted from the transmission apparatus in an area and normally received by a reception unit of the communication apparatus, and generates statistical information of the acquired transmission condition. The information generation unit extracts a transmission condition having a high probability that a radio signal is normally received on the basis of the statistical information, and generates transmission control information indicating the extracted transmission condition. The notification unit notifies the transmission apparatus in the area of the transmission control information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke GOTO, Fumihiro YAMASHITA, Kiyohiko ITOKAWA, Yasuyoshi KOJIMA, Tomoya KAGEYAMA, Kazumitsu SAKAMOTO, Takeshi ONIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20250096887
    Abstract: There is provided a wireless communication device in a wireless communication system including one or more communication devices installed on the ground and a moving wireless communication device, the wireless communication device including: an activation signal generation unit that generates an activation signal for activating the one or more communication devices; a distribution unit that distributes the activation signal generated by the activation signal generation unit; one or more frequency change application units that apply a frequency change to the activation signal distributed by the distribution unit; and a transmission unit that transmits an activation signal to which a frequency change is applied to the one or more frequency change application units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazumitsu SAKAMOTO, Tomoya KAGEYAMA, Yosuke FUJINO, Daisuke GOTO, Yasuyoshi KOJIMA, Kiyohiko ITOKAWA
  • Publication number: 20250097816
    Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a first communication apparatus that moves, a second communication apparatus that moves, and a reception apparatus. A first control unit of the first communication apparatus, when an own apparatus can communicate with any of the reception apparatuses, transmits transmission data acquired by the own apparatus from a first communication unit to the reception apparatus, and, when the own apparatus cannot communicate with any of the reception apparatuses, transmits the transmission data from a second communication unit to the second communication apparatus capable of communicating with the own apparatus. A second control unit of the second communication apparatus transmits the transmission data received by a third communication unit from the first communication apparatus from a fourth communication unit to a reception apparatus capable of communicating with the own apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke GOTO, Fumihiro YAMASHITA, Kiyohiko ITOKAWA, Yasuyoshi KOJIMA, Takeshi ONIZAWA, Kazumitsu SAKAMOTO, Tomoya KAGEYAMA
  • Publication number: 20250070871
    Abstract: A communication method in a communication system including an optical transmission device and an optical reception device includes: detecting wave-front distortions of a reference optical signal used for wave-front observation which arrives at a first time point and a second time point before a compensation start time point at which compensation for wave-front distortion is performed, by a plurality of sensors; estimating spatial phase distributions of a plurality of atmospheric layers between the optical transmission device and the optical reception device, respectively, at the first time point and the second time point, based on the wave-front distortions detected by the plurality of sensors, respectively; predicting the respective spatial phase distributions of the plurality of atmospheric layers at the compensation start time point by using estimation results of the respective spatial phase distributions of the plurality of atmospheric layers estimated at the first time point and the second time point; co
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2021
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazumitsu SAKAMOTO, Takeshi KINOSHITA, Takuya OHARA, Etsushi YAMAZAKI
  • Patent number: 12224797
    Abstract: A switching instructor outputs a beacon light selection notification signal when a optical transceiver transmits a optical wireless signal of a beacon light and outputs a signal light selection notification signal when the optical transceiver transmits the optical wireless signal of the signal light. A spatial light modulator controller performs switching of a control signal given to each of the plurality of pixels of a spatial light modulator to: cause a phase delay in light received by each of the plurality of pixels of the spatial light modulator when the switching instructor outputs the beacon light selection notification signal and cause a phase delay in light received by each of the plurality of pixels of the spatial light modulator when the switching instructor outputs the signal light selection notification signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazumitsu Sakamoto, Yohei Katayama, Kento Yoshizawa, Takeshi Kinoshita, Etsushi Yamazaki, Takayuki Mizuno, Takuya Ohara
  • Patent number: 12206458
    Abstract: A communication device includes: a light output unit for outputting light; a light splitting unit for splitting the light output by the light output unit into a plurality of split beams; and a plurality of spatial optical communication units provided in correspondence to the plurality of split beams, wherein the spatial optical communication units respectively transmit a corresponding split beam which is input from the light splitting unit to a partner communication device across space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yohei Katayama, Kazumitsu Sakamoto, Kento Yoshizawa, Hiroyuki Fukumoto, Takuya Ohara, Takeshi Kinoshita, Etsushi Yamazaki, Takayuki Mizuno
  • Patent number: 12206450
    Abstract: A phase difference distribution estimation method includes: receiving an optical signal via a space and detecting a phase of the optical signal; calculating characteristic values related to characteristics of the atmosphere through which the optical signal propagates from the optical signal received in the receiving; estimating a phase difference distribution of an optical signal received after a certain period of time, on the basis of the characteristic values calculated in the calculating; and controlling a phase of an optical signal in the receiving on the basis of the phase difference distribution estimated in the estimating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yohei Katayama, Kazumitsu Sakamoto, Kento Yoshizawa, Hiroyuki Fukumoto, Takuya Ohara, Takeshi Kinoshita, Etsushi Yamazaki, Takayuki Mizuno
  • Patent number: 12192783
    Abstract: A station installation designing assistance device that divides a service providing area into a plurality of areas, and performs station installation designing for the plurality of areas in parallel, the station installation designing assistance device including: an area dividing unit that divides an entirety of the service providing area into a plurality of areas that are each composed of a predetermined number of small areas; a small area specifying unit that specifies a small area number that identifies a small area in each of the areas, where the same number is given to the small area in each of the areas; and a station installation location selecting unit that selects, for each of the plurality of areas, a plurality of station installation locations from among station installation location candidates that are present in the small area specified by the small area specifying unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazumitsu Sakamoto, Kenji Suzuki, Yohei Katayama, Yosuke Fujino, Hiroyuki Fukumoto
  • Patent number: 12149285
    Abstract: In an optical wireless communication system including: an optical wireless communication apparatus that moves along with a first optical wireless station; and a second optical wireless station opposed to the first optical wireless station, the optical wireless communication apparatus includes at least one reference light transmitting unit that transmits reference light to the second optical wireless station with a position in front in a moving direction of the first optical wireless station defined as a transmission position, the second optical wireless station includes a reference light receiving unit that receives the reference light transmitted from the at least one reference light transmitting unit, an estimation unit that estimates an influence of atmospheric air on transmission of signal light based on a reception state of the reference light received by the reference light receiving unit, a compensation unit that performs compensation processing on the signal light based on the influence of the atmosph
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazumitsu Sakamoto, Yohei Katayama, Kento Yoshizawa, Takeshi Kinoshita, Etsushi Yamazaki, Takayuki Mizuno, Takuya Ohara
  • Patent number: 12143924
    Abstract: A communication quality calculation unit (11) of a base station placement design device (1) calculates communication quality of each terminal in a case where a base station is installed at a base station placement candidate location for a plurality of base station placement candidate locations. An aggregation unit (12) aggregate the number of terminals whose communication quality calculated by the communication quality calculation unit (11) is equal to or greater than a threshold value for each of the plurality of base station placement candidate locations. A base station placement location selection unit (13) selects a base station placement location from among the plurality of base station placement candidate locations, based on the number of terminals aggregated by the aggregation unit (12) for each of the plurality of base station placement candidate locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazumitsu Sakamoto, Kenji Suzuki, Yohei Katayama, Yosuke Fujino, Hiroyuki Fukumoto
  • Patent number: 12127231
    Abstract: A communication control device that transmits a packet to be transmitted to a terminal to a base station that performs wireless communication with the terminal, includes: a terminal classification unit that classifies, on the basis of a magnitude of radio wave interference from a base station different from a neighboring base station, a plurality of the terminals into a first terminal set and a second terminal set that is relatively larger in the magnitude of radio wave interference than the first terminal set; and a transmission unit that transmits, in a case where packets destinations of which are terminals belonging to the first terminal set are to be transmitted to respective neighboring base stations of the terminals, the packets at the same timing and transmits, in a case where packets destinations of which are terminals belonging to the second terminal set are to be transmitted to respective neighboring base stations of the terminals, the packets at timings different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yohei Katayama, Kenji Suzuki, Kazumitsu Sakamoto, Yosuke Fujino, Hiroyuki Fukumoto
  • Patent number: 12063520
    Abstract: A station installation designing assistance device that divides a service providing area into a plurality of areas, and performs station installation designing for the plurality of areas in parallel, the station installation designing assistance device including: an area dividing unit that divides an entirety of the service providing area into the plurality of areas; a station installation priority determining unit that determines, for each of the plurality of areas, station installation priorities of station installation location candidates that are present in the area; and a station installation priority adjusting unit that adjusts the station installation priorities determined by the station installation priority determining unit, based on a degree of overlap of cells formed as a result of base stations being installed in station installation location candidates in the areas, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazumitsu Sakamoto, Kenji Suzuki, Yohei Katayama, Yosuke Fujino, Hiroyuki Fukumoto
  • Publication number: 20240214033
    Abstract: A signal acquisition unit acquires a reception signal received by a reception device from a transmission device that moves relative to the reception device. A compensation unit compensates for a Doppler shift of the reception signal on the basis of a possibility of a change amount of the Doppler shift. A search unit changes a value of a possibility of the change amount of the Doppler shift in a case where a bandwidth having a power equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold in frequency components of the reception signal after the compensation is larger than a predetermined value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazumitsu SAKAMOTO, Yosuke FUJINO, Daisuke GOTO, Yasuyoshi KOJIMA, Kiyohiko ITOKAWA
  • Patent number: 11991545
    Abstract: An arrival rate estimation device includes an average received power calculation unit that calculates an average received power for each mesh that constitutes an area, with respect to each of a plurality of base stations and each of a plurality of antennas included in each of the base stations and an arrival rate estimation unit that calculates a communication arrival rate by substituting the average received power into a cumulative distribution function of an instantaneous received power value, and based on the calculated communication arrival rate, calculates a communication arrival rate while giving consideration to a site diversity effect and an antenna diversity effect, the cumulative distribution function being obtained from a probability density function of an amplitude that instantaneously changes due to Rayleigh fading.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazumitsu Sakamoto, Kenji Suzuki, Yohei Katayama, Yosuke Fujino, Hiroyuki Fukumoto