Patents by Inventor Keita KURIYAMA

Keita KURIYAMA 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: 11646772
    Abstract: A transmitting station apparatus includes a training signal generation unit, a transmission end linear equalization unit configured to equalize data signals by a transmission end transfer function, and a transmitting station communication unit configured to transmit a training signal or a plurality of data signals and receive information of the transmission end transfer function from a receiving station apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keita Kuriyama, Hayato Fukuzono, Tsutomu Tatsuta
  • Publication number: 20230106272
    Abstract: A wireless communication method in a wireless communication system which includes a radio transmitting station apparatus having a plurality of antennas and a radio receiving station apparatus having an antenna and which performs transmission and reception of a radio signal with a single carrier, the wireless communication method including: the radio receiving station apparatus or the radio transmitting station apparatus estimating a communication path matrix based on a training signal; the radio receiving station apparatus or the radio transmitting station apparatus transforming the estimated communication path matrix into a frequency domain, transforming a complex conjugate transposed matrix of each of a unitary matrix and an adjoint matrix obtained by performing singular value decomposition for each frequency with respect to the transformed frequency domain communication path matrix into a time domain, and adopting each as a reception weight matrix and a transmission weight matrix; the radio transmitting st
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keita KURIYAMA, Hayato FUKUZONO, Masafumi YOSHIOKA, Takafumi HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20230070849
    Abstract: A transmission apparatus including the number of antennas different from a reception apparatus and performing transmission by SC-MIMO to and from the reception apparatus includes a training signal generation unit that generates a known signal predetermined, a CP addition unit that adds a CP to each symbol of a transmission signal including the known signal, a weight generation unit that multiplies a channel matrix estimated based on the known signal by the reception apparatus by a pseudo-inverse matrix obtained by a predetermined number of iterative calculations to generate a transmission weight that is diagonalizable, and a transmission beam formation unit that uses the transmission weight to form a transmission beam for the transmission signal where the CP is added.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hayato FUKUZONO, Keita KURIYAMA, Masafumi YOSHIOKA, Takafumi HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20230055133
    Abstract: A transmission apparatus including the number of antennas different from a reception apparatus and performing transmission by SC-MIMO to and from the reception apparatus includes a training signal generation unit that generates a known signal predetermined, a CP addition unit that adds a CP to each symbol of a transmission signal including the known signal, a weight generation unit that generates a transmission weight based on a transposed adjugate matrix that is a product of a channel matrix estimated based on the known signal by the reception apparatus and a complex conjugate transpose of the channel matrix, and a transmission beam formation unit that uses the transmission weight to form a transmission beam for the transmission signal where the CP is added.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hayato FUKUZONO, Keita KURIYAMA, Masafumi YOSHIOKA, Takafumi HAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11489557
    Abstract: In the present invention, a transmitting station apparatus includes a training signal generation unit, a transmission end linear equalization unit configured to output a plurality of second data signals obtained by equalizing IAI of a plurality of first data signals by using a transmission end transfer function for equalizing IAI, and a transmitting station communication unit configured to transmit a training signal or the plurality of second data signals to a receiving station apparatus and receive information on the transmission end transfer function from the receiving station apparatus, and the receiving station apparatus includes a communication path estimation unit configured to estimate a communication path response from the training signal received by the receiving station communication unit, a reception end coefficient calculation unit configured to calculate the transmission end transfer function and a reception end transfer function for equalizing ISI, based on the communication path response, and a
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keita Kuriyama, Hayato Fukuzono, Tsutomu Tatsuta
  • Publication number: 20220321392
    Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication system configured to accommodate a plurality of circuits to transmit a signal from a transmitter to a receiver, the system including a number-of-circuits observation unit configured to observe the number of circuits among the plurality of circuits through which communication is being performed; a quality observation unit configured to observe a quality of each of a plurality of communications; a determination unit configured to determine a modulation scheme for transmitting a signal based on the number of circuits observed by the number-of-circuits observation unit, the quality of each of the plurality of communications observed by the quality observation unit, and a required throughput of each of the plurality of circuits; and a modulation unit configured to modulate the signal using the modulation scheme determined by the determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hayato FUKUZONO, Tomohiro TOKUYASU, Keita KURIYAMA, Hiroyuki FURUYA, Yu ONO, Tsutomu TATSUTA, Tomohiro NAKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220302974
    Abstract: In a wireless communication system for performing single-carrier MIMO transmission, a transmitting station apparatus includes a training signal generation unit and a transmit beamforming unit that performs transmit beamforming processing using transmit weights and a receiving station apparatus includes a communication path estimation unit, an interference amount determination unit that determines whether or not a residual inter-stream interference exceeds a predetermined threshold value, a receive weight calculation unit that calculates a receive weight used for receive beamforming processing when the residual inter-stream interference exceeds the threshold value, and a receive beamforming unit that performs receive beamforming processing for suppressing residual inter-stream interferences using the receive weight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keita KURIYAMA, Hayato FUKUZONO, Masafumi YOSHIOKA, Tsutomu TATSUTA
  • Publication number: 20220294506
    Abstract: A transmitting station device at least comprises a training signal generation unit, and a receiving station device at least comprises a communication path estimation unit which estimates a communication path response from the known signal, and a beam forming unit which performs a beam forming process using a weight to suppress inter-stream interference, a channel fluctuation amount calculation unit which calculates as a channel fluctuation amount a difference between the communication path responses estimated in a manner of one following another in time, and a weight calculation unit which calculates a new weight using an updated value of the weight calculated based on the channel fluctuation amount are included in one of the transmitting station device and the receiving station device. This can significantly reduce the amount of calculation related to update of a weight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keita KURIYAMA, Hayato FUKUZONO, Masafumi YOSHIOKA, Tsutomu TATSUTA
  • Publication number: 20220278721
    Abstract: A transmission station device includes a training signal generation unit, a CP addition unit, and a transmission beamforming unit that performs transmission beamforming processing in a time domain using a transmission weight for removing inter-antenna interference. A reception station device includes a CP removal unit, a channel estimation unit, and an equalization unit that performs equalization processing for removing inter-symbol interference in a frequency domain using a reception weight. Either of the transmission station device or the reception station device is provided with a weight calculation unit that calculates the transmission weight and the reception weight based on the channel response, an effective CIR length calculation unit that calculates an effective CIR length between antennas, and a CP length setting unit that sets, to the CP length, a maximum CIR length among the CIR lengths of respective items of the reception weight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hayato FUKUZONO, Keita KURIYAMA, Masafumi YOSHIOKA, Tsutomu TATSUTA
  • Publication number: 20220216900
    Abstract: According to the present invention, in a wireless communication system that performs single carrier MIMO transmission between a transmitting station device and a receiving station device, the transmitting station device includes a time-domain linear equalization unit, a propagation path characteristics estimation unit configured to receive a training signal and estimate a transfer function matrix of propagation path characteristics, a filter tap calculation unit configured to calculate filter tap coefficients for the time-domain linear equalization unit based on the transfer function matrix by a predefined approach, and a transmission mode determination unit configured to make the filter tap calculation unit calculate the filter tap coefficients when the transfer function matrix meets a predefined condition, and to change a transmission mode and determine the transmission mode that meets the predefined condition when the transfer function matrix does not meet the predefined condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keita KURIYAMA, Hayato FUKUZONO, Masafumi YOSHIOKA, Tsutomu TATSUTA
  • Publication number: 20220209830
    Abstract: According to the present invention, in a wireless communication system that performs single carrier MIMO transmission between a transmitting station device and a receiving station device, the transmitting station device including: a time-domain linear equalization unit configured to remove inter-symbol interference and inter-stream interference from a data signal to be transmitted to the receiving station device; a propagation path characteristics estimation unit configured to receive a training signal which is transmitted by the receiving station device and estimate a transfer function matrix of propagation path characteristics; and a filter tap calculation unit configured to calculate filter tap coefficients for the time-domain linear equalization unit by representing the estimated transfer function matrix as a matrix polynomial, taking an inverse response of the matrix polynomial as a transmit weight matrix, and approximating the transmit weight matrix with Neumann series, and the receiving station device
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keita KURIYAMA, Hayato FUKUZONO, Masafumi YOSHIOKA, Tsutomu TATSUTA
  • Publication number: 20220200830
    Abstract: A wireless communication device includes an estimation observation unit that observes a channel condition by estimating a tendency of a long delay wave and a channel fluctuation from a received signal in which a training signal is added to a data frame, a first equalizer that compensates for the received signal, a second equalizer that compensates for the received signal with a property of having a higher long delay wave tolerance and a lower channel fluctuation tolerance than the first equalizer, and a control unit that performs control which switches such that the first equalizer or the second equalizer performs compensation for the received signal, on the basis of the channel condition observed by the estimation observation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hayato FUKUZONO, Keita KURIYAMA, Tomoniro TOKUYASU, Tsutomu TATSUTA
  • Publication number: 20220149898
    Abstract: In the present invention, a transmitting station apparatus includes a training signal generation unit, a transmission end linear equalization unit configured to output a plurality of second data signals obtained by equalizing IAI of a plurality of first data signals by using a transmission end transfer function for equalizing IAI, and a transmitting station communication unit configured to transmit a training signal or the plurality of second data signals to a receiving station apparatus and receive information on the transmission end transfer function from the receiving station apparatus, and the receiving station apparatus includes a communication path estimation unit configured to estimate a communication path response from the training signal received by the receiving station communication unit, a reception end coefficient calculation unit configured to calculate the transmission end transfer function and a reception end transfer function for equalizing ISI, based on the communication path response, and a
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keita KURIYAMA, Hayato FUKUZONO, Tsutomu TATSUTA
  • Publication number: 20220140866
    Abstract: A transmitting station apparatus includes a training signal generation unit, a transmission end linear equalization unit configured to equalize data signals by a transmission end transfer function, and a transmitting station communication unit configured to transmit a training signal or a plurality of data signals and receive information of the transmission end transfer function from a receiving station apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keita KURIYAMA, Hayato FUKUZONO, Tsutomu TATSUTA
  • Patent number: 11303487
    Abstract: [Problem] Conventionally, in a wireless communication system that performs single-carrier communication with formation of symbol blocks, it has been difficult to select the optimal GI length and modulation and coding method that achieve the maximum throughput. [Means of Solution] A transmission device and a reception device are included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keita Kuriyama, Hayato Fukuzono
  • Patent number: 11283492
    Abstract: According to the present invention, a transmitting station apparatus includes: a plurality of modulation units that modulates a plurality of streams into which transmission data is divided to generate a plurality of first data signals; a training signal generation unit that generates a known training signal; a linear equalization unit that linearly equalizes the plurality of first data signals using a tap coefficient for removing inter-antenna interference and inter-symbol interference and outputs second data signals on which transmission beam forming and equalization are simultaneously performed; and a plurality of transmitting station communication units that transmit the training signal or the second data signals to a receiving station apparatus and receive the tap coefficient from the receiving station apparatus, and a receiving station apparatus includes: a coefficient estimation unit that estimates a channel impulse response from the training signal and calculates the tap coefficient based on the channe
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keita Kuriyama, Hayato Fukuzono, Masafumi Yoshioka, Tsutomu Tatsuta
  • Patent number: 11265056
    Abstract: A radio communication system includes a transmitting station, and at least one receiving apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hayato Fukuzono, Keita Kuriyama, Toshio Ito, Shuta Ueno, Masafumi Yoshioka, Tsutomu Tatsuta, Hiroyuki Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20210359727
    Abstract: According to the present invention, a transmitting station apparatus includes: a plurality of modulation units that modulates a plurality of streams into which transmission data is divided to generate a plurality of first data signals; a training signal generation unit that generates a known training signal; a linear equalization unit that linearly equalizes the plurality of first data signals using a tap coefficient for removing inter-antenna interference and inter-symbol interference and outputs second data signals on which transmission beam forming and equalization are simultaneously performed; and a plurality of transmitting station communication units that transmit the training signal or the second data signals to a receiving station apparatus and receive the tap coefficient from the receiving station apparatus, and a receiving station apparatus includes: a coefficient estimation unit that estimates a channel impulse response from the training signal and calculates the tap coefficient based on the channe
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keita KURIYAMA, Hayato FUKUZONO, Masafumi YOSHIOKA, Tsutomu TATSUTA
  • Publication number: 20210273705
    Abstract: A radio communication system includes a transmitting station, and at least one receiving apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hayato FUKUZONO, Keita KURIYAMA, Toshio ITO, Shuta UENO, Masafumi YOSHIOKA, Tsutomu TATSUTA, Hiroyuki NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20210051051
    Abstract: [Problem] Conventionally, in a wireless communication system that performs single-carrier communication with formation of symbol blocks, it has been difficult to select the optimal GI length and modulation and coding method that achieve the maximum throughput. [Means of Solution] A transmission device and a reception device are included.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keita KURIYAMA, Hayato FUKUZONO