Patents by Inventor Kazushi Muraoka

Kazushi Muraoka 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: 20230054311
    Abstract: A delta-sigma modulation apparatus performs delta-sigma modulation on a first signal as an input signal and outputs a second signal, outputs, using the second signal and a third signal generated through a transmission process of the second signal, a fourth signal that is an approximated value of a signal which is generated through at least part of the transmission process, and performs the delta-sigma modulation on the first signal using the fourth signal and outputs the second signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Masaaki TANIO, Naoto ISHII, Kazushi MURAOKA
  • Publication number: 20230044557
    Abstract: A radio terminal (2) is used in a radio communication system (100) and communicates with a radio station (1). The radio terminal (2) includes a measurement unit (20). The measurement unit (20) operates to perform, using a terminal measurement procedure for executing a first terminal measurement corresponding to radio access technology applied to the radio communication system (100), a second terminal measurement of a shared frequency shared by a plurality of radio systems including the radio communication system (100).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Hisashi FUTAKI, Hiroaki AMINAKA, Hiroto SUGAHARA, Yoshikazu KAKURA, Kazushi MURAOKA
  • Patent number: 11528627
    Abstract: A radio terminal (2) is used in a radio communication system (100) and communicates with a radio station (1). The radio terminal (2) includes a measurement unit (20). The measurement unit (20) operates to perform, using a terminal measurement procedure for executing a first terminal measurement corresponding to radio access technology applied to the radio communication system (100), a second terminal measurement of a shared frequency shared by a plurality of radio systems including the radio communication system (100).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisashi Futaki, Hiroaki Aminaka, Hiroto Sugahara, Yoshikazu Kakura, Kazushi Muraoka
  • Publication number: 20220368476
    Abstract: A radio communication apparatus includes a distortion calculation unit and an assignment unit. The distortion calculation unit calculates the degree of distortion of the frequency response of the channel between the radio communication apparatus and the radio terminal. Further, the assignment unit assigns the reference signal to the radio terminal based on the degree of distortion calculated by the distortion calculation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Jun SHIKIDA, Kazushi Muraoka
  • Publication number: 20220337341
    Abstract: A method implemented in a computer system includes training a network, which is obtained by unfolding an iterative algorithm for demodulation or demodulation and decoding, using a machine learning technique with a loss function that takes into account non-Gaussianity of a log-likelihood ratio (LLR) distribution calculated from an output of the network. The method further includes producing a first set of learned parameters of that iterative algorithm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicants: NEC CORPORATION, OSAKA UNIVERSITY, THE DOSHISHA
    Inventors: Kazushi MURAOKA, Takanobu Doi, Naoto Ishii, Takumi Takahashi, Seiichi Sampei, Shinsuke Ibi
  • Patent number: 11452173
    Abstract: Provided a Remote Radio Head (RRH) with multiple antennas generating a plurality of analog beams in a wireless communication system serving at least one user terminal, including a metric calculator that calculates at least one metric representing a traffic demand as a function of spatial direction by using at least a signal of each Radio Frequency chain and a beam former that generates analog beams directed towards a spatial direction determined based on the calculated at least one metric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dileep Kumar, Kazushi Muraoka, Naoto Ishii
  • Patent number: 11452118
    Abstract: An apparatus (1 or 3) determines a device-to-device (D2D) radio resource to be allocated to one or more D2D transmissions from at least one remote terminal (1) to a first relay terminal (2) while considering a quality metric of an uplink from the first relay (2) terminal to a base station (3). In this way, for example, it is possible to contribute to avoiding inconsistency of performance between sidelink transmission from the remote terminal to the relay terminal and uplink transmission from the relay terminal to the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki Inokuchi, Kazushi Muraoka
  • Patent number: 11394586
    Abstract: A wireless apparatus includes a channel estimation part that acquires an estimated impulse response which is an estimate value of an impulse response of a channel between a wireless terminal and the wireless apparatus, a tap location error detection part that detects a tap location error between estimated impulse responses at different time points out of the estimated impulse responses, and a channel prediction part that calculates a predicted impulse response which is an impulse response of the channel at a future time point by using the estimated impulse responses and the tap location error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Shikida, Kazushi Muraoka, Naoto Ishii
  • Patent number: 11309991
    Abstract: A BP detector of a wireless receiver apparatus reads a first parameter set or a second parameter set. The first parameter set includes a plurality of scaling factors and a plurality of damping factors learned together using a deep learning technique. The second parameter set includes a plurality of scaling factors and a plurality of node selection factors learned together using a deep learning technique from a memory. The BP detector executes an iterative BP algorithm that uses the first parameter set or the second parameter set in order to perform multi-user detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignees: NEC CORPORATION, OSAKA UNIVERSITY, THE DOSHISHA
    Inventors: Kazushi Muraoka, Naoto Ishii, Takumi Takahashi, Seiichi Sampei, Shinsuke Ibi
  • Publication number: 20210344524
    Abstract: A wireless apparatus includes a channel estimation part that acquires an estimated impulse response which is an estimate value of an impulse response of a channel between a wireless terminal and the wireless apparatus, a tap location error detection part that detects a tap location error between estimated impulse responses at different time points out of the estimated impulse responses, and a channel prediction part that calculates a predicted impulse response which is an impulse response of the channel at a future time point by using the estimated impulse responses and the tap location error.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun SHIKIDA, Kazushi MURAOKA, Naota ISHII
  • Publication number: 20210320750
    Abstract: A BP detector of a wireless receiver apparatus reads a first parameter set or a second parameter set. The first parameter set includes a plurality of scaling factors and a plurality of damping factors learned together using a deep learning technique. The second parameter set includes a plurality of scaling factors and a plurality of node selection factors learned together using a deep learning technique from a memory. The BP detector executes an iterative BP algorithm that uses the first parameter set or the second parameter set in order to perform multi-user detection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Applicants: NEC CORPORATION, OSAKA UNIVERSITY, THE DOSHISHA
    Inventors: Kazushi MURAOKA, Naoto ISHII, Takumi TAKAHASHI, Seiichi SAMPEI, Shinsuke IBI
  • Publication number: 20210321284
    Abstract: A computer system includes at least one memory and at least one processor coupled to the at least one memory and configured to execute one or more sets of instructions. The one or more sets of instructions, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the computer system to provide virtualized radio access network functions including executing a BP algorithm and provide controller functions including adjusting the total number of iterations of the BP algorithm depending on available computing resources of the computer system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Applicants: NEC CORPORATION, OSAKA UNIVERSITY, THE DOSHISHA
    Inventors: Kazushi Muraoka, Naoto Ishii, Takumi Takahashi, Shinsuke Ibi
  • Publication number: 20210235295
    Abstract: A radio terminal (2) is used in a radio communication system (100) and communicates with a radio station (1). The radio terminal (2) includes a measurement unit (20). The measurement unit (20) operates to perform, using a terminal measurement procedure for executing a first terminal measurement corresponding to radio access technology applied to the radio communication system (100), a second terminal measurement of a shared frequency shared by a plurality of radio systems including the radio communication system (100).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Hisashi FUTAKI, Hiroaki AMINAKA, Hiroto SUGAHARA, Yoshikazu KAKURA, Kazushi MURAOKA
  • Patent number: 11076131
    Abstract: A video collection system includes: a plurality of terminals; and a video collection server that requests at least one of the plurality of terminals to perform information provision. The video collection server includes a calculation part, a determination part, and a request part. The calculation part calculates, based on information acquired from a camera(s), a first area(s) imaged by the camera(s). The determination part determines a second area(s) as an information provision target(s) based on a location(s) of the first area(s). The request part selects, based on respective locations of the plurality of terminals and a location(s) of the second area(s), a terminal(s) to be requested to perform the information provision from the plurality of terminals and requests the selected terminal(s) to provide video data of the second area(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Norio Yamagaki, Dai Kanetomo, Hiroaki Aminaka, Kazushi Muraoka, Taichi Ohtsuji, Takashi Yoshinaga
  • Patent number: 11071119
    Abstract: An apparatus (1 or 3) adjusts a bandwidth, throughput, or radio resource used for device-to-device (D2D) transmission from a remote terminal (1) to a relay terminal (2), based on an amount of pending uplink data in the relay terminal (2) to be transmitted from the relay terminal (2) to a base station (3). In this way, for example, it is possible to contribute to avoiding inconsistency of performance between sidelink transmission from the remote terminal to the relay terminal and uplink transmission from the relay terminal to the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki Inokuchi, Kazushi Muraoka
  • Patent number: 11049374
    Abstract: A tracking support system includes a position calculating section connected with a plurality of cameras arranged in a predetermined monitoring area to transmit video images imaged by the plurality of cameras and configured to calculate a position of the tracking target based on the video images received from the plurality of cameras; a tracker selecting section configured to select a tracker to be instructed to track the tracking target, based on position information of the terminal received from the terminal and the calculated position of the tracking target; and an information transmitting section configured to transmit information of a distance between the tracking target and the terminal during the tracking of the tracking target to the terminal carried by the selected tracker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taichi Ohtsuji, Kazushi Muraoka, Hiroaki Aminaka, Dai Kanetomo, Norio Yamagaki, Takashi Yoshinaga
  • Publication number: 20210166536
    Abstract: A tracking support system includes a position calculating section connected with a plurality of cameras arranged in a predetermined monitoring area to transmit video images imaged by the plurality of cameras and configured to calculate a position of the tracking target based on the video images received from the plurality of cameras; a tracker selecting section configured to select a tracker to be instructed to track the tracking target, based on position information of the terminal received from the terminal and the calculated position of the tracking target; and an information transmitting section configured to transmit information of a distance between the tracking target and the terminal during the tracking of the tracking target to the terminal carried by the selected tracker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taichi OHTSUJI, Kazushi Muraoka, Hiroaki Aminaka, Dai Kanetomo, Norio Yamagaki, Takashi Yoshinaga
  • Patent number: 11012876
    Abstract: A radio terminal (2) is used in a radio communication system (100) and communicates with a radio station (1). The radio terminal (2) includes a measurement unit (20). The measurement unit (20) operates to perform, using a terminal measurement procedure for executing a first terminal measurement corresponding to radio access technology applied to the radio communication system (100), a second terminal measurement of a shared frequency shared by a plurality of radio systems including the radio communication system (100).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisashi Futaki, Hiroaki Aminaka, Hiroto Sugahara, Yoshikazu Kakura, Kazushi Muraoka
  • Patent number: 11012821
    Abstract: Radio terminals (1A, 1B, 1C) each receive a broadcast/multicast signal (220) from a cellular communication network (10). The representative terminal (1A) receives response messages from the respective neighboring radio terminals (1B, 1C) via D2D communication (231, 232). Each response message is generated based on reception of the broadcast/multicast signal (220) by each neighboring radio terminal (1B, 1C). The representative terminal (1A) generates a representative response message and transmits it to the cellular communication network (10) or another node (7) via uplink transmission (240). It is thus, for example, possible to contribute to improving efficiency of transmission by radio terminals of response messages related to a broadcast/multicast service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taichi Ohtsuji, Kazushi Muraoka
  • Patent number: 11012168
    Abstract: A wireless terminal (1) includes at least one memory (706), at least one processor coupled to the at least one memory (706); and an RF transceiver (701) capable of performing device-to-device (D2D) communication. The wireless terminal (1) receives a discovery signal transmitted from another wireless terminal (1) by using the RF transceiver (701), estimates a transmission power value of a transmission terminal of the discovery signal in accordance with a type of the discovery signal, and determines an inter-terminal path loss between the wireless terminals by using the estimated transmission power value and the received power value of the discovery signal. In this way, the inter-terminal path loss is estimated without the need for receiving notification regarding a transmission power value from a base station (2) to the terminal (1) when ProSe direct discovery is used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazushi Muraoka