Patents by Inventor Kinya Asano

Kinya Asano 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: 6766172
    Abstract: A road vehicle communication method allows bothway communication to be held between a mobile station, which sends a request for an information service and receives it, and a central base station and local base stations located at a roadside for sending the information service to the mobile station. The central base station and the local base stations use optical fibers in part of the transmission path thereof for the bothway communication and perform at least one of electric-to-optical conversion and optical-to-electric conversion. The mobile station is caused to send the request for an information service beforehand. In response to the request, the local base station covering the mobile station expected to receive the information service is estimated. When the mobile station lies in a service area to which the local base station estimated is assigned, a control station is caused to provide the mobile station with information corresponding to the information service requested.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2004
    Assignees: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd., Communications Research Laboratory, Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, Matsushita Communication Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyohito Tokuda, Kinya Asano, Masayuki Fujise, Fumihide Kojima, Masahiro Watanabe, Ryobun Tachita