Patents by Inventor Kiyohiko ITOKAWA
Kiyohiko ITOKAWA 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).
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Publication number: 20250112693Abstract: A capacity estimation unit estimates a channel capacity related to wireless communication between a communication device and a relay device. A scheme determination unit determines a transmission scheme of the data from the communication device to the relay device to be a scheme in which transmission efficiency is lower and transmission quality is higher as the channel capacity is larger, or to be a scheme in which the transmission quality is lower and the transmission efficiency is higher as the channel capacity is smaller.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2022Publication date: April 3, 2025Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuyoshi KOJIMA, Daisuke GOTO, Kiyohiko ITOKAWA, Kazumitsu SAKAMOTO, Tomoya KAGEYAMA
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Publication number: 20250106734Abstract: A second communication device transmits notification information related to a communication status between a transmission device and a first communication device to the transmission device. The transmission device determines a transmission method of data to the first communication device on the basis of the notification information received from the second communication device, and transmits the data to the first communication device by the determined transmission method.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2022Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuyoshi KOJIMA, Daisuke GOTO, Kiyohiko ITOKAWA, Kazumitsu SAKAMOTO, Tomoya KAGEYAMA
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Publication number: 20250106073Abstract: Each transmitting apparatus transmits the same radio signals a plurality of times. A communication apparatus includes a plurality of antennas, a signal storage unit, a reading unit, an equalization unit, and a demodulation unit. The plurality of antennas receives radio signals transmitted from a plurality of the transmitting apparatuses. The signal storage unit stores reception signals received by each of the plurality of antennas. The reading unit reads, from the signal storage unit, reception signals including radio signals transmitted from a demodulation processing target transmitting apparatus, the reception signals being received by each of the plurality of antennas at different times. The equalization unit equalizes the plurality of reception signals read by the reading unit. The demodulation unit demodulates the equalized reception signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2022Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Daisuke GOTO, Kiyohiko ITOKAWA, Yasuyoshi KOJIMA, Kazumitsu SAKAMOTO, Tomoya KAGEYAMA
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Publication number: 20250105916Abstract: An acquisition unit acquires environment information indicating an installation environment of a communication apparatus. A scheme specifying unit specifies a transmission scheme of data on the basis of relational data indicating a relationship between the environment information and the transmission scheme and the acquired environment information. A transmission unit transmits the data to a relay device on the basis of the specified transmission scheme.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2022Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuyoshi KOJIMA, Daisuke GOTO, Kiyohiko ITOKAWA, Kazumitsu SAKAMOTO, Tomoya KAGEYAMA
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Patent number: 12261676Abstract: An acquisition unit acquires a plurality of signals received by a plurality of antennas included in a wireless communication device that moves in a predetermined orbit above a celestial body. A parameter determination unit determines a synthesis parameter of the plurality of signals according to the position of a transmission terminal provided on the celestial body, the orbit, and the reception time of the plurality of signals. A synthesis unit synthesizes a transmission signal of the transmission terminal according to the plurality of signals and the synthesis parameter.Type: GrantFiled: December 25, 2020Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuyoshi Kojima, Kiyohiko Itokawa, Daisuke Goto, Kazumitsu Sakamoto
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Publication number: 20250097944Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a transmission apparatus and a communication apparatus that moves. Further, the wireless communication system includes a statistics calculation unit, an information generation unit, and a notification unit. The statistics calculation unit acquires a transmission condition used for a first radio signal transmitted from the transmission apparatus in an area and normally received by a reception unit of the communication apparatus, and generates statistical information of the acquired transmission condition. The information generation unit extracts a transmission condition having a high probability that a radio signal is normally received on the basis of the statistical information, and generates transmission control information indicating the extracted transmission condition. The notification unit notifies the transmission apparatus in the area of the transmission control information.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2022Publication date: March 20, 2025Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Daisuke GOTO, Fumihiro YAMASHITA, Kiyohiko ITOKAWA, Yasuyoshi KOJIMA, Tomoya KAGEYAMA, Kazumitsu SAKAMOTO, Takeshi ONIZAWA
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Publication number: 20250096887Abstract: There is provided a wireless communication device in a wireless communication system including one or more communication devices installed on the ground and a moving wireless communication device, the wireless communication device including: an activation signal generation unit that generates an activation signal for activating the one or more communication devices; a distribution unit that distributes the activation signal generated by the activation signal generation unit; one or more frequency change application units that apply a frequency change to the activation signal distributed by the distribution unit; and a transmission unit that transmits an activation signal to which a frequency change is applied to the one or more frequency change application units.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2022Publication date: March 20, 2025Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Kazumitsu SAKAMOTO, Tomoya KAGEYAMA, Yosuke FUJINO, Daisuke GOTO, Yasuyoshi KOJIMA, Kiyohiko ITOKAWA
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Publication number: 20250096913Abstract: In a wireless communication system including a first communication device, one or more second communication devices disposed around the first communication device, and a relay device that moves, the second communication device includes a second reception unit that attempts to receive a radio wave in a predetermined band and measures reception strength, and a second transmission unit that transmits, to the first communication device, reception result information indicating a peripheral radio wave condition based on the reception strength measured by the second reception unit, and the first communication device includes a first reception unit that attempts to receive a radio wave in the predetermined band and measures reception strength, a determination unit that determines a band to be used for transmission of data to the relay device on a basis of a peripheral radio wave condition based on the reception strength measured by the first reception unit and the peripheral radio wave condition based on the receptioType: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2022Publication date: March 20, 2025Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuyoshi KOJIMA, Daisuke GOTO, Kiyohiko ITOKAWA, Kazumitsu SAKAMOTO, Tomoya KAGEYAMA
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Publication number: 20250097816Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a first communication apparatus that moves, a second communication apparatus that moves, and a reception apparatus. A first control unit of the first communication apparatus, when an own apparatus can communicate with any of the reception apparatuses, transmits transmission data acquired by the own apparatus from a first communication unit to the reception apparatus, and, when the own apparatus cannot communicate with any of the reception apparatuses, transmits the transmission data from a second communication unit to the second communication apparatus capable of communicating with the own apparatus. A second control unit of the second communication apparatus transmits the transmission data received by a third communication unit from the first communication apparatus from a fourth communication unit to a reception apparatus capable of communicating with the own apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2022Publication date: March 20, 2025Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Daisuke GOTO, Fumihiro YAMASHITA, Kiyohiko ITOKAWA, Yasuyoshi KOJIMA, Takeshi ONIZAWA, Kazumitsu SAKAMOTO, Tomoya KAGEYAMA
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Publication number: 20250088262Abstract: In a wireless communication system including a communication device and a plurality of relay devices that moves, the relay device includes: a signal reception unit that receives a signal transmitted from the communication device; a reception status information generation unit that generates reception status information indicating a reception status of the signal by the signal reception unit; a reception status information transmission unit that transmits the reception status information generated by the reception status information generation unit to another relay device; a reception status information reception unit that receives reception status information transmitted from another relay device; a calculation unit that calculates a communication parameter value suitable for retransmission of a signal from the communication device to the local device on a basis of the reception status information received by the reception status information reception unit; and a setting information transmission unit that traType: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2022Publication date: March 13, 2025Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuyoshi KOJIMA, Daisuke GOTO, Kiyohiko ITOKAWA, Kazumitu SAKAMOTO, Tomoya KAGEYAMA
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Patent number: 12244398Abstract: A method or a first earth station in a satellite communication system including a plurality of earth stations connected by a single-hop connection accommodating corresponding terminals is provided. The method includes encapsulating a first control message received from a first terminal in a first control signal to transfer the first control signal including the encapsulated first control message through a first controlling line to a second earth station accommodating a second terminal on an incoming side among the plurality of earth stations; and performing circuit-switching of the first communicating line between the first earth station and the second earth station in accordance with the first control message.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2020Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Masaki Shima, Fumihiro Yamashita, Hiroki Shibayama, Kiyohiko Itokawa, Mitsuru Nishino, Koichi Harada
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Patent number: 12207210Abstract: A plurality of control signals transmitted in individual frequency bands by a moving transmission station via a plurality of transmission antennas and a plurality of data signals transmitted in a common frequency band by the transmission station via the plurality of transmission antennas in synchronization with the control signals are received by each of a plurality of antennas disposed at different positions. Based on symbol timings of the control signals received by the antenna, a sampling rate error between the plurality of control signals transmitted by the plurality of transmission antennas, respectively, is compensated for. Based on the control signals subjected to the sampling rate error compensation, frame timings of the plurality of data signals transmitted by the transmission station via the plurality of transmission antennas are synchronized.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2020Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Daisuke Goto, Fumihiro Yamashita, Kiyohiko Itokawa
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Patent number: 12177016Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus includes an encoding unit, an interleaving processing unit, a modulation unit, and a transmission unit. The encoding unit divides a bit string to be transmitted to a communication destination apparatus which is a wireless communication apparatus at a communication destination in a predetermined period into a plurality of blocks and performs error correction coding for each of the plurality of blocks to generate encoded data.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2020Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Daisuke Goto, Kiyohiko Itokawa, Yasuyoshi Kojima, Fumihiro Yamashita
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Publication number: 20240214033Abstract: A signal acquisition unit acquires a reception signal received by a reception device from a transmission device that moves relative to the reception device. A compensation unit compensates for a Doppler shift of the reception signal on the basis of a possibility of a change amount of the Doppler shift. A search unit changes a value of a possibility of the change amount of the Doppler shift in a case where a bandwidth having a power equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold in frequency components of the reception signal after the compensation is larger than a predetermined value.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2020Publication date: June 27, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Kazumitsu SAKAMOTO, Yosuke FUJINO, Daisuke GOTO, Yasuyoshi KOJIMA, Kiyohiko ITOKAWA
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Publication number: 20240106524Abstract: A transmission data controller determines a frequency bandwidth according to a relay apparatus position, the frequency bandwidth being used for a first signal transmitted from a first communication apparatus, on the basis of information regarding the number of first communication apparatuses with which a relay apparatus communicates at the relay apparatus position. The transmission data controller transmits band information indicating a frequency band selected from radio frequency bands that can be used for the first signal on the basis of the determined frequency bandwidth to the first communication apparatus. The first communication apparatus transmits the first signal having a frequency included in the frequency band indicated by the band information. The relay apparatus acquires waveform data of the first signal transmitted by the first communication apparatus, and transmits the acquired waveform data to a second communication apparatus by a second signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2020Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Kazumitsu SAKAMOTO, Yosuke FUJINO, Daisuke GOTO, Yasuyoshi KOJIMA, Kiyohiko ITOKAWA
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Publication number: 20240063895Abstract: A wireless communication device includes: a transmission unit that transmits a signal to another wireless communication device mounted on a moving object; a timing control unit that starts transmission of the signal by the transmission unit at a timing at which communication with the other wireless communication device is possible; a distance calculation unit that acquires orbit information indicating a geocentric orbit of the moving object and self-position information indicating a self-position to calculate a positional relationship between the self-position and a position of the moving object at the timing based on the orbit information and the self-position information; and an output control unit that controls a transmission output of the signal by the transmission unit according to the positional relationship.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 25, 2020Publication date: February 22, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Kiyohiko ITOKAWA, Yasuyoshi KOJIMA, Daisuke GOTO, Kazumitsu SAKAMOTO
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Publication number: 20240056169Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication system including a plurality of terminal devices, a relay device mounted on a mobile object, and at least one base station device, in which the terminal device includes a terminal device transmission unit that transmits a signal including transmission data to the relay device, and the relay device includes: a relay device reception unit that receives the signal transmitted from the terminal device; a plurality of queues that stores the transmission data included in the signal; a sorting unit that sorts and records the transmission data included in the signal into any one of the plurality of queues on the basis of a preamble pattern included in the signal or a reception timing of the signal; and a relay device transmission unit that transmits signals indicating the transmission data recorded in the plurality of queues to the base station device at a timing at which communication with the base station device is possible, while prioritizing transmission data recorded in a preType: ApplicationFiled: December 25, 2020Publication date: February 15, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Kiyohiko ITOKAWA, Yasuyoshi KOJIMA, Daisuke GOTO, Kazumitsu SAKAMOTO
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Publication number: 20240055757Abstract: A communication device includes an antenna, a support portion, an actuator, a floating body, a sensor, and a control device. The antenna has a rod-shaped element. The instruction unit supports the antenna rotatably about a rotation axis orthogonal to an extending direction of the element. The actuator rotates the antenna about the rotation axis. The floating body supports the support portion and floats on water. The sensor measures a physical quantity related to inclination of the support portion. The control device includes a measurement value acquisition unit and a rotation control unit. The measurement value acquisition unit acquires a measurement value of the sensor. The rotation control unit drives the actuator on the basis of the measurement value to match a direction in which a change in the inclination is smallest with an extending direction of the antenna.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2020Publication date: February 15, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Kazumitsu SAKAMOTO, Yosuke FUJINO, Daisuke GOTO, Yasuyoshi KOJIMA, Kiyohiko ITOKAWA
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Publication number: 20240056172Abstract: A receiving unit receives a signal from a transmission terminal. A capacity specifying unit specifies a channel capacity related to wireless communication with a base station. A data generation unit generates waveform data representing the received signal. A data size of the waveform data increases as the channel capacity increases. A transmission unit transmits the waveform data to the base station.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 25, 2020Publication date: February 15, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuyoshi KOJIMA, Kiyohiko ITOKAWA, Daisuke GOTO, Kazumitsu SAKAMOTO
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Publication number: 20240056168Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a plurality of communication apparatuses and a relay apparatus which is mobile, in which the relay apparatus includes a classification unit that groups the plurality of communication apparatuses by using position information of each of the plurality of communication apparatuses, a set determination unit that determines a set of communication apparatuses belonging to different groups that transmit and receive data within the same period, a transmission timing control unit that determines a transmission period for each determined set, and a plurality of antennas that receive data transmitted from the plurality of communication apparatuses in the determined transmission period for each determined set, and the plurality of communication apparatuses include a communication unit that transmits data to the relay apparatus within the transmission period for each set determined by the relay apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2020Publication date: February 15, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Daisuke GOTO, Kiyohiko ITOKAWA, Yasuyoshi KOJIMA, Kazumitsu SAKAMOTO