Patents by Inventor Kohei Mizuno

Kohei Mizuno 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: 11916612
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a mobile terminal capable of predicting fluctuation in communication quality. The mobile terminal according to the present invention uses terminal information consisting of position/orientation/speed/component operation/control command information/camera information/sensor information, and the like of the mobile terminal to model a relationship with communication quality and predict the communication quality using the obtained communication quality prediction model. When fluctuations in communication quality can be predicted, it is possible to cope with the fluctuations (especially deterioration) in communication quality in advance (for example, to change a communication destination station, to decrease a data rate in an application, or to change a control mode of a terminal to a safer mode, by knowing in advance deterioration in quality of a radio signal).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Riichi Kudo, Kahoko Takahashi, Kohei Mizuno
  • Patent number: 11902154
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to perform automatic restoration from network failures even when complicated operations for executing a plurality of commands are required. The present disclosure relates to a network setting device that is communicatively connected to a plurality of network devices and performs a setting of the plurality of network devices. The network setting device performs a first step for determining whether a network including the plurality of network devices satisfies a predetermined operational policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeru Inoue, Atsushi Taniguchi, Toru Mano, Kazuya Anazawa, Kohei Mizuno, Kengo Nakamura, Masaaki Nishino, Norihito Yasuda, Masakazu Ishihata
  • Patent number: 11722397
    Abstract: Provided are a reliability estimation system and a reliability estimation method capable of reducing a calculation amount of a reliability of a plurality of networks between terminals in communication between the terminals over the plurality of networks. The reliability estimation system according to the present invention calculates, for each network, a contraction reliability Rx, a contraction reliability Rx? when nodes are contracted, and a contraction reliability RB? between the networks including the terminals, and a true value of the reliability between the terminals over the plurality of networks is between a product P1 (=RB? Rx) and a product P2 (=RB? Rx?). Instead of calculating the true value of the reliability, only an upper limit and a lower limit are calculated, and thus, it is possible to significantly low additional remark the calculation amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Taniguchi, Takeru Inoue, Kohei Mizuno
  • Publication number: 20230138720
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to search for a command sequence, while preventing overlooking as much as possible, in a shorter period of time than that of searching using only an actual system is used. The present disclosure provides an execution procedure searching device that searches for a command sequence to be set for a plurality of devices constituting a system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeru INOUE, Atsushi TANIGUCHI, Toru MANO, Kazuya ANAZAWA, Kohei MIZUNO, Kengo NAKAMURA, Masaaki NISHINO, Norihito YASUDA, Masakazu ISHIHATA
  • Publication number: 20230132633
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to perform automatic restoration from network failures even when complicated operations for executing a plurality of commands are required. The present disclosure relates to a network setting device that is communicatively connected to a plurality of network devices and performs a setting of the plurality of network devices. The network setting device performs a first step for determining whether a network including the plurality of network devices satisfies a predetermined operational policy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeru INOUE, Atsushi TANIGUCHI, Toru MANO, Kazuya ANAZAWA, Kohei MIZUNO, Kengo NAKAMURA, Masaaki NISHINO, Norihito YASUDA, Masakazu ISHIHATA
  • Publication number: 20230097606
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a communication system and a terminal capable of predicting future communication quality to respond to change in communication quality due to environmental fluctuation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kahoko TAKAHASHI, Riichi KUDO, Takeru INOUE, Kohei MIZUNO
  • Publication number: 20230079581
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to enable prediction of communication quality in accordance with wireless communication under frequency conditions as combinations of frequencies and frequency bandwidths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Riichi KUDO, Kahoko TAKAHASHI, Kohei MIZUNO
  • Publication number: 20230013105
    Abstract: It is an objective of the present disclosure to reduce computational complexity for obtaining a network topology configuration capable of efficiently accommodating a plurality of traffic demands assumed between nodes present in a network. A device of the present disclosure includes: a computation traffic generation unit that creates a traffic demand matrix whose elements are values individually obtained by demands between nodes present in a target network area from a plurality of traffic demand matrices created based on predicted traffic demands between the nodes; and a network topology generation unit that generates a network topology based on the traffic demand matrix generated by the computation traffic generation unit and port information of the nodes in the network area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuya ANAZAWA, Toru MANO, Takeru INOUE, Atsushi TANIGUCHI, Kohei MIZUNO
  • Publication number: 20220352995
    Abstract: An object is to provide a communication system and a terminal capable of predicting future communication quality in order to enable variations in communication quality due to variations in environment to be addressed. A communication system and a terminal according to the present invention learn an input and output relationship from terminal information such as surrounding environment information of the terminal that can be acquired by a camera, a sensor, or the like, and position information of the terminal and current communication quality to generate a learning model, and predict future communication quality using the learning model, the surrounding environment information and the terminal information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Riichi KUDO, Takeru INOUE, Atsushi TANIGUCHI, Kohei MIZUNO
  • Publication number: 20220345919
    Abstract: An object is to provide a wireless terminal and a communication quality prediction method for enhancing the versatility of communication quality prediction. In the wireless terminal and the communication quality prediction method according to the present invention, objects are extracted from surrounding environment information such as a camera image collected by a surrounding environment information collection unit, the objects are classified into predetermined categories (for example, whether the extracted objects are persons or machines or whether their moving speeds are high or low), and an image is reconstructed for each category. It is possible to predict communication quality based also on, for example, operations or materials of the objects, by performing machine learning of the communication quality after reconstructing the image for each category.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kahoko TAKAHASHI, Riichi KUDO, Takeru INOUE, Kohei MIZUNO
  • Publication number: 20220337329
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a mobile terminal capable of predicting fluctuation in communication quality. The mobile terminal according to the present invention uses terminal information consisting of position/orientation/speed/component operation/control command information/camera information/sensor information, and the like of the mobile terminal to model a relationship with communication quality and predict the communication quality using the obtained communication quality prediction model. When fluctuations in communication quality can be predicted, it is possible to cope with the fluctuations (especially deterioration) in communication quality in advance (for example, to change a communication destination station, to decrease a data rate in an application, or to change a control mode of a terminal to a safer mode, by knowing in advance deterioration in quality of a radio signal).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Riichi KUDO, Kahoko TAKAHASHI, Kohei MIZUNO
  • Publication number: 20220321447
    Abstract: Provided are a reliability estimation system and a reliability estimation method capable of reducing a calculation amount of a reliability of a plurality of networks between terminals in communication between the terminals over the plurality of networks. The reliability estimation system according to the present invention calculates, for each network, a contraction reliability Rx, a contraction reliability Rx? when nodes are contracted, and a contraction reliability RB? between the networks including the terminals, and a true value of the reliability between the terminals over the plurality of networks is between a product P1 (=RB? Rx) and a product P2 (=RB? Rx?). Instead of calculating the true value of the reliability, only an upper limit and a lower limit are calculated, and thus, it is possible to significantly low additional remark the calculation amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi TANIGUCHI, Takeru INOUE, Kohei MIZUNO
  • Publication number: 20220210622
    Abstract: An object is to provide a communication system and a base station capable of predicting future communication quality in order to enable variations in communication quality due to variations in environment to be addressed. A communication system and a base station according to the invention learn an input and output relationship from surrounding environment information of the base station that can be acquired by a camera, a sensor, or the like, terminal information such as position information of a terminal and current communication quality to generate a learning model, and predict future communication quality using the learning model, the surrounding environment information, and the terminal information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Riichi KUDO, Takeru INOUE, Atsushi TANIGUCHI, Kohei MIZUNO
  • Publication number: 20220190941
    Abstract: Quality of communication between a terminal and an external communication device in response to control of the terminal is predicted by acquiring surrounding environment information or/and terminal information of the terminal, and the terminal is controlled to improve the communication quality, avoid fatal communication quality degradation, or satisfy a control condition of the terminal for the communication quality, thereby realizing control that satisfies a predefined required condition related to communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Riichi KUDO, Takeru INOUE, Atsushi TANIGUCHI, Kohei MIZUNO
  • Publication number: 20220159512
    Abstract: An event regarding control of a terminal that significantly affects communication quality with which communication between between the terminal and an external communication device is performed is predicted by acquiring surrounding information of the terminal using a surrounding environment information collection unit, and a packet loss caused in communication, communication disconnection, and communication quality that does not meet required performance are prevented using communication control to change setting related to communication, such as selection/addition/deletion of a communication counterpart, selection/change of a communication scheme, a change in modulation scheme, coding rate, and number of spatial multiplexings of communication, and a change in setting of an automatic gain controller of a receiver for communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Riichi KUDO, Takeru INOUE, Atsushi TANIGUCHI, Kohei MIZUNO
  • Patent number: 6934554
    Abstract: Each radio station can manage a plurality of channels, and functions both as a master station which controls transmission in each channel and a slave station which operates under control of a master station. In case of a master station, it transmits a signal under control of the own station, and in case of a slave station, it transmits a signal under control of the master station. Each radio station can communicate with any other radio station either directly or through another radio station. In each channel, communication is carried out in time division of centralized control access phase and distributed control access phase. A master station in case of centralized control access phase is determined in each channel and in each link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2005
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Kohei Mizuno, Eisuke Kudoh, Hirohito Suda
  • Publication number: 20020115458
    Abstract: Each radio station can manage a plurality of channels, and functions both as a master station which controls transmission in each channel and a slave station which operates under control of a master station. In case of a master station, it transmits a signal under control of the own station, and in case of a slave station, it transmits a signal under control of the master station. Each radio station can communicate with any other radio station either directly or through another radio station. In each channel, communication is carried out in time division of centralized control access phase and distributed control access phase. A master station in case of centralized control access phase is determined in each channel and in each link.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2002
    Publication date: August 22, 2002
    Applicant: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Kohei Mizuno, Eisuke Kudoh, Hirohito Suda