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: 20230412253
    Abstract: There is provided a control device of a wireless communication system including the control device that is installed on a moving object and moves, a first communication device that transmits a desired signal to the control device by a first wireless method, a second communication device that transmits an interference signal interfering with the desired signal by a second wireless method, and one or more third communication devices, the control device including: a reception unit that acquires a wireless signal including a reference signal transmitted from the third communication device in the vicinity of the second communication device by a third wireless method and a desired signal transmitted from the first communication device by the first wireless method; an extraction unit that extracts the reference signal from the wireless signal based on the third wireless method; an estimation unit that estimates a propagation channel between the third communication device and the control device based on the reference
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2020
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazumitsu SAKAMOTO, Yosuke FUJINO, Yasuyoshi KOJIMA, Daisuke GOTO, Kiyohiko ITOKAWA
  • Patent number: 11785475
    Abstract: A radio terminal accommodation determination device includes: an average received power calculation unit for calculating an average received power for each mesh constituting an area; an interfering signal power CDF creation unit for creating a cumulative distribution function of all interfering signal powers; an intended signal power PDF creation unit for creating a fourth probability density function indicating a probability density function of an intended signal power; and a communication success rate estimation unit for calculating, for each base station, a communication success rate of the intended terminal based on the cumulative distribution function and the fourth probability density function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazumitsu Sakamoto, Kenji Suzuki, Yohei Katayama, Yosuke Fujino, Hiroyuki Fukumoto
  • Publication number: 20230291479
    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: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yohei KATAYAMA, Kazumitsu SAKAMOTO, Kento YOSHIZAWA, Hiroyuki FUKUMOTO, Takuya OHARA, Takeshi KINOSHITA, Etsushi YAMAZAKI, Takayuki MIZUNO
  • Publication number: 20230291471
    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: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yohei KATAYAMA, Kazumitsu SAKAMOTO, Kento YOSHIZAWA, Hiroyuki FUKUMOTO, Takuya OHARA, Takeshi KINOSHITA, Etsushi YAMAZAKI, Takayuki MIZUNO
  • Publication number: 20230224036
    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: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazumitsu SAKAMOTO, Yohei KATAYAMA, Kento YOSHIZAWA, Takeshi KINOSHITA, Etsushi YAMAZAKI, Takayuki MIZUNO, Takuya OHARA
  • Publication number: 20230208521
    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: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazumitsu SAKAMOTO, Yohei KATAYAMA, Kento YOSHIZAWA, Takeshi KINOSHITA, Etsushi YAMAZAKI, Takayuki MIZUNO, Takuya OHARA
  • Publication number: 20230179289
    Abstract: A mobile relay apparatus includes a first signal reception unit, a storage unit, and a second signal transmission unit. The first signal reception unit receives a first signal wirelessly transmitted by a first communication apparatus. The storage unit stores waveform data indicating a waveform of the first signal. The second signal transmission unit wirelessly transmits a second signal indicating the waveform data stored in the storage unit at a timing at which communication with the second communication apparatus is possible. The second communication apparatus includes a second signal reception unit, a second signal reception processing unit, and a first signal reception processing unit. The second signal reception unit receives a second signal. The second signal reception processing unit performs processing of receiving the second signal to acquire waveform data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Daisuke GOTO, Kiyohiko ITOKAWA, Yasuyoshi KOJIMA, Fumihiro YAMASHITA, Yosuke FUJINO, Kento YOSHIZAWA, Kazumitsu SAKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230170984
    Abstract: A relay apparatus includes a reception unit, a storage unit, and a transmission unit. The reception unit receives data wirelessly transmitted by a first communication apparatus through a plurality of first antennas. The storage unit wirelessly transmits the data received by the reception unit to a second communication apparatus through a plurality of second antennas. The second communication apparatus includes a relay data reception unit. The relay data reception unit receives data wirelessly transmitted by the relay apparatus through a plurality of third antennas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke GOTO, Kiyohiko ITOKAWA, Yasuyoshi KOJIMA, Fumihiro YAMASHITA, Yosuke FUJINO, Kento YOSHIZAWA, Kazumitsu SAKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220386180
    Abstract: A control device includes a logic slot allocation unit and a logic slot notification unit. The logic slot allocation unit generates a set of one or more terminals such that each terminal included in the same set has at least one receiving base station, which is a base station that receives wireless communication from the terminal, and allocates each generated set to a logic slot that has a different combination of a channel and a transmission sequence number. The logic slot notification unit notifies each terminal of the logic slot that was allocated to the terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yohei KATAYAMA, Yosuke FUJINO, Kazumitsu SAKAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11477099
    Abstract: A monitoring system comprises a monitoring agent that keeps information related to a communication status of a low-power terminal that communicates under low power, and a monitoring device that monitors the status of the low-power terminal. The monitoring device includes a requesting unit that requests information related to the communication status of the low-power terminal. The monitoring agent includes a response generation unit that generates a response to the request from the monitoring device on a basis of the information related to the communication status of the low-power terminal, and a transmission unit that transmits the response to the monitoring device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Yohei Katayama, Kenji Suzuki, Kazumitsu Sakamoto, Yosuke Fujino, Hiroyuki Fukumoto
  • Publication number: 20220322212
    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: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazumitsu SAKAMOTO, Kenji SUZUKI, Yohei KATAYAMA, Yosuke FUJINO, Hiroyuki FUKUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220240100
    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: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazumitsu SAKAMOTO, Yohei KATAYAMA, Yosuke FUJINO, Hiroyuki FUKUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220240101
    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: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazumitsu SAKAMOTO, Kenji SUZUKI, Yohei KATAYAMA, Yosuke FUJINO, Hiroyuki FUKUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220225336
    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: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yohei KATAYAMA, Kenji SUZUKI, Kazumitsu SAKAMOTO, Yosuke FUJINO, Hiroyuki FUKUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220174520
    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: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazumitsu SAKAMOTO, Kenji SUZUKI, Yohei KATAYAMA, Yosuke FUJINO, Hiroyuki FUKUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220132357
    Abstract: A radio terminal accommodation determination device includes: an average received power calculation unit for calculating an average received power for each mesh constituting an area; an interfering signal power CDF creation unit for creating a cumulative distribution function of all interfering signal powers; an intended signal power PDF creation unit for creating a fourth probability density function indicating a probability density function of an intended signal power; and a communication success rate estimation unit for calculating, for each base station, a communication success rate of the intended terminal based on the cumulative distribution function and the fourth probability density function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazumitsu SAKAMOTO, Kenji SUZUKI, Yohei KATAYAMA, Yosuke FUJINO, Hiroyuki FUKUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220131778
    Abstract: A monitoring system comprises a monitoring agent that keeps information related to a communication status of a low-power terminal that communicates under low power, and a monitoring device that monitors the status of the low-power terminal. The monitoring device includes a requesting unit that requests information related to the communication status of the low-power terminal. The monitoring agent includes a response generation unit that generates a response to the request from the monitoring device on a basis of the information related to the communication status of the low-power terminal, and a transmission unit that transmits the response to the monitoring device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Yohei Katayama, Kenji Suzuki, Kazumitsu Sakamoto, Yosuke Fujino, Hiroyuki FUKUMOTO