Patents by Inventor Kenzaburo Fujishima

Kenzaburo Fujishima 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: 8792444
    Abstract: In the case where a base station other than of a distributed antenna system provides a time or frequency at which a transmitted power is low, an antenna group configuration unit estimates a communication area of a mobile station using an uplink reference signal that the mobile station transmits, calculates an inter-system interference power for the communication area of each mobile station based on a received power of the out-of-system base station that the each mobile station reports, calculates the inter-system interference power to each of antennas by averaging the inter-system interference powers that the multiple mobile stations report, and decides antennas that form an antenna group according to magnitudes of the calculated inter-system interference powers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: HItachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Ishida, Kenzaburo Fujishima, Yunjian Jia
  • Patent number: 8787146
    Abstract: A discontinuous change in a transmission timing in a time domain, which is caused by a transmission timing adjustment processing of an OFDMA uplink or the like, brings about a discontinuous rotation of a signal phase in a frequency domain, resulting in reduced communication quality. A wireless communication system of the present invention allows the signal phase of the frequency domain in a receiving station to be continuous before and after the timing adjustment processings by controlling a signal sequence in a transmission signal after conversion in the time domain in synchronization with the timing adjustment processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Tamaki, Mikio Kuwahara, Kenzaburo Fujishima, Pinai Linwong, Katsuhiko Tsunehara
  • Patent number: 8787321
    Abstract: A method of wireless communication for communication between a base station and a plurality of terminal apparatuses, the method including: dividing an available frequency into a plurality of segments and notifying control information to the terminal apparatus, the control information including setting of a segment of the plurality of segments, communication quality of which will be fed back by the terminal apparatus, and cancellation of a segment of the plurality of segments, communication quality of which has already been fed back from the terminal apparatus; and feeding back communication quality related to a predetermined segment to the base station in accordance with the control information by the terminal apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenzaburo Fujishima, Masanori Taira
  • Publication number: 20140201754
    Abstract: To prevent the switching time influences power saving performance and packet loss prevention performance, it is provided a wireless communication base station for communicating with a terminal, comprising: a plurality of baseband signal processing units for performing baseband signal processing; a baseband allocation unit for allocating the baseband signal processing to the plurality of baseband signal processing units; and a linear processing unit for composing signals processed by the plurality of baseband signal processing units. The baseband allocation unit selects, for each data block, a baseband signal processing unit to which the baseband signal processing for the each data block is to be allocated out of the plurality of baseband signal processing units. Each of the plurality of baseband signal processing units performs the allocated baseband signal processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2014
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigenori HAYASE, Kenzaburo FUJISHIMA, Hirotake ISHII, Masanori TAIRA
  • Patent number: 8744456
    Abstract: To reduce power consumption of a mobile station, this invention provides a wireless communication method for communicating between a base station and a plurality of terminals using a plurality of channels, the channels being slots obtained by dividing frequency-divided carriers by time, in which the base station allocates a set of the channels which is composed of a plurality of neighboring carriers and/or a plurality of successive slots for the each terminal, and the base station allocates at least one of the channels included in the channel sets for packet transmission the terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mikio Kuwahara, Kenzaburo Fujishima, Masanori Taira
  • Patent number: 8675588
    Abstract: In a wireless communication system, when data communication is performed between a relay device and a terminal (in a second path), the same amount of data is required to be transferred between a base station and the relay device (in a third path). An amount of wireless communication resources required is obtained by adding an amount inversely proportional to a capacity of each of the second and third wireless transmission-paths. Therefore, the amount inversely proportional to the capacity of the third path is consumed in excess. Based on a channel quality of a first wireless channel between the base station and the terminal, a channel quality of a second wireless channel between the terminal and the relay station, and a channel quality of a third wireless channel between the base station and the relay station, it is determined whether data communication between the base station and the terminal is relayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenzaburo Fujishima, Toshiyuki Saito, Yuta Muto, Kouki Uwano
  • Publication number: 20130331110
    Abstract: A base station performs an association between frequency range and combinations of a plurality of base stations including an local base station to notify a terminal of the association. According to the notified association, the terminal, for each frequency, calculates quality of communication with one base station or quality of communication with the combination of the plurality of base stations. The base station and the control station determine the base station/the plurality of base stations that communicate with the terminal, the wireless resource and the transmission scheme, based on the result. Further, the base station selects whether to notify an entirety of or a part of the association to the terminal using positional information of the terminal. Since the association information that is unnecessary for the terminal is not communicated, it is possible to further lighten the load of control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Inventors: Yunjian Jia, Kenzaburo Fujishima
  • Publication number: 20130272274
    Abstract: In an environment in which a macro base station and a low transmission power base station exist, the ratio of the interference reduction time period of the macro base station is optimized, and the throughput of the low transmission power base station is improved, while minimizing a reduction in throughput. The macro base station causes a high interference to other base stations and one or a plurality of low power nodes (LPN) subjected to interference from the macro base station. The macro base station sets first and second data transmission time periods and then determines the ratio of the second time period and the pattern of the first time period and the second time period based on communication quality in the first time period and communication quality in the second time period of the macro base station and the LPN.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Hitoshi ISHIDA, Kenzaburo FUJISHIMA, Yunjian JIA
  • Publication number: 20130201896
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to achievement of a data transmission control to cause base stations to cooperate with one another, taking into account efficient use of radio resources. A wireless communication system, which is an aspect of the present invention, includes: a first base station; a second base station connected via a wired network; and a wireless communication terminal that conducts at least one of single data transmission in which a single base station transmits data and cooperative data transmission in which a plurality of base stations cooperate to transmit data. The base stations notify the wireless communication terminal of a condition indicating a case where the cooperative data transmission can be performed. If the communication quality of the propagation path meets the condition, the wireless communication terminal transmits, to the base stations, information that is required for the cooperative data transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2010
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Inventors: Go Ono, Kenzaburo Fujishima, Mikio Kuwahara
  • Publication number: 20130128760
    Abstract: A distributed antenna system that forms a plurality of communication areas and allows a plurality of terminals to communicate simultaneously, while minimizing variability in the quality of communication among the terminals. Said distributed antenna system: provides one or more logical antenna ports to wireless front-end units provided with remote radio heads (RRHs); forms a plurality of communication areas; determines the terminals that will communicate in each communication area; controls connection between the logical antenna port(s) and the front-end units per communication area; and uses signal-processing devices associated with the logical antenna ports to perform signal processing for each terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2011
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Inventors: Kenzaburo Fujishima, Tsuyoshi Tamaki
  • Patent number: 8447311
    Abstract: A radio communications system includes at least one terminal communication unit having one antenna that conducts a radio communication with a plurality of terminals; and at least one baseband modem that generates and decrypts a data signal, a cell being configured by at least one of the antenna, wherein the baseband modem divides a radio frequency band used for the radio communication into two or more subbands, generates and decrypts the data signal specific to each of the divided subbands, and allocates the data signal specific to the subband to the terminal communication unit, and wherein the terminal communication unit receives the data signal specific to the subband generated by the baseband modem, and forms the cell of each the subband by the data signal specific to the received subband.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenzaburo Fujishima, May Takada, Katsuhiko Tsunehara, Satoshi Tamaki, Shinya Sasaki, Go Ono, Koki Uwano
  • Publication number: 20130114458
    Abstract: A wireless communication system comprises radio base station apparatuses each of which transmits an estimation pilot in advance for estimating the quality of a downlink communication after a spatial signal processing performed after a time unified among the radio base station apparatuses; and radio terminal apparatuses each of which receives the estimation pilot to determine the quality of the downlink communication, thereby reporting the determined downlink communication quality to the radio base station apparatus via an uplink channel. The estimation pilot is transmitted at the same time and frequency established among the radio base station apparatuses by use of the same directivity beam as used for transmitting the data after the unified time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenzaburo FUJISHIMA, Masanori TAIRA
  • Publication number: 20130070625
    Abstract: To reduce an uplink interference in a network with a first base station of a large output and a second base station of a small output. Detecting the interference, the second base station urges the first base station to hand over a terminal causing it to the second base station. Multiple base stations and one or more terminals exist in this system, each terminal connects with one base station, and a serving base station is changed according to a communication state of each terminal. If the different second base station other than the first base station to which the terminal connects detects a large interference, the second base station will multicast transmit information for urging handover to the base stations except itself. The base station having received the information specifies a terminal giving the interference to the second base station, and makes it to be handed over thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2012
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Inventors: Kenzaburo FUJISHIMA, Tsuyoshi TAMAKI, Rintaro KATAYAMA, Hitoshi ISHIDA
  • Publication number: 20130005403
    Abstract: A base station broadcasts a message saying that transmittable ranging codes are limited by antenna IDs to limit antennas and the ranging codes to be searched, thereby reducing a processing load of the search. In a cellular radio communication system in which a base station device is connected to plural antennas, and antenna IDs for identifying the antennas are transmitted from the respective antennas, the base station device broadcasts a message saying that a group of ranging codes transmittable by a terminal device is limited by the antenna IDs, the terminal device receives the message, identifies the antenna ID, selects the ranging code from the group of the ranging codes corresponding to the antenna ID, and transmits the selected ranging code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Inventors: MIKIO KUWAHARA, Kenzaburo Fujishima, Yunjian Jia
  • Publication number: 20130003883
    Abstract: A method of wireless communication for communication between a base station and a plurality of terminal apparatuses, the method including: dividing an available frequency into a plurality of segments and notifying control information to the terminal apparatus, the control information including setting of a segment of the plurality of segments, communication quality of which will be fed back by the terminal apparatus, and cancellation of a segment of the plurality of segments, communication quality of which has already been fed back from the terminal apparatus; and feeding back communication quality related to a predetermined segment to the base station in accordance with the control information by the terminal apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Inventors: Kenzaburo FUJISHIMA, Masanori TAIRA
  • Patent number: 8340018
    Abstract: A wireless communication system comprises radio base station apparatuses each of which transmits an estimation pilot in advance for estimating the quality of a downlink communication after a spatial signal processing performed after a time unified among the radio base station apparatuses; and radio terminal apparatuses each of which receives the estimation pilot to determine the quality of the downlink communication, thereby reporting the determined downlink communication quality to the radio base station apparatus via an uplink channel. The estimation pilot is transmitted at the same time and frequency established among the radio base station apparatuses by use of the same directivity beam as used for transmitting the data after the unified time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenzaburo Fujishima, Masanori Taira
  • Patent number: 8335529
    Abstract: A wireless communication method in which a base station and a wireless terminal communicate, including: an operation at which a first and a second base station transmit, for each beam area, a pilot signal including identification information to identify the base station and the beam area, in a beam pattern; an operation at which the wireless terminal obtains received power of each pilot signal; an operation at which the wireless terminal causes one of the beam areas of the first base station to be a desired wave beam area, and determines two data rates for requiring to the base station: one of the data rates being a first data rate used in a case that interference from the second base station is relatively high and another of the data rates being a second data rate used in a case that the interference from the second base station is relatively low.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanori Taira, Kenzaburo Fujishima, Koki Uwano
  • Publication number: 20120314665
    Abstract: In the case where a base station other than of a distributed antenna system provides a time or frequency at which a transmitted power is low, an antenna group configuration unit estimates a communication area of a mobile station using an uplink reference signal that the mobile station transmits, calculates an inter-system interference power for the communication area of each mobile station based on a received power of the out-of-system base station that the each mobile station reports, calculates the inter-system interference power to each of antennas by averaging the inter-system interference powers that the multiple mobile stations report, and decides antennas that form an antenna group according to magnitudes of the calculated inter-system interference powers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2012
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi ISHIDA, Kenzaburo Fujishima, Yunjian Jia
  • Patent number: 8315671
    Abstract: An antenna pattern assigning method capable of avoiding interference between a plurality of base transmission stations constituting a radio system in a cellular type broad band communication. In the radio system, when assigning a fixed beam pattern different for each frequency, each of the radio base transmission station devices transmits a radio wave having a directivity pattern having a peak in the same direction in two or more different frequencies, and between adjacent radio base transmission station devices, radio transmission is performed by using different directivity patterns in the two or more frequencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mikio Kuwahara, Kenzaburo Fujishima, Masanori Taira
  • Patent number: 8290001
    Abstract: Arrangements for assigning a frequency resource for a wireless communication system. Included are: dividing a frequency available into a plurality of segments and assigning another terminal apparatus to communicate with each segment, wherein, with regard to a first specified number of segments, assigning via the base station apparatus, based on a number of communication times anticipated per each terminal apparatus and a probability of exceeding a communication capacity decided by a threshold value per each terminal apparatus, a second specified number of segments that is smaller than the first to each terminal apparatus, and notifying the terminal apparatuses of the assignment result, referring to the assignment result via the terminal apparatus, and carrying out scheduling via the base station apparatus to decide which terminal apparatus to communicate with per each segment based on the radio channel quality fed back from the each terminal apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenzaburo Fujishima, Masanori Taira