Patents by Inventor Kosuke AIO

Kosuke AIO 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).

  • Publication number: 20250240055
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a communication control device and a communication control method capable of improving a system throughput at a time of coordinated transmission. The communication control device controls processing of receiving signals to be subjected to coordinated transmission by a plurality of communication devices, and processing related to communication on the basis of a training signal prepared for each piece of coordinated transmission information that is information regarding the coordinated transmission. The present technology can be applied to a wireless communication system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Publication date: July 24, 2025
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Kosuke AIO, Ken TANAKA, Shigeru SUGAYA
  • Patent number: 12369144
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a communication device and a communication method capable of curbing deterioration of frequency utilization efficiency. A communication device including a control unit configured to set a first frequency channel group used at the time of simultaneously transmitting data in cooperation with another communication device constituting another network, to set a second frequency channel group used for communication in a host network, and to dynamically control bandwidths of frequency bands in the first frequency channel group and the second frequency channel group is provided. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a wireless LAN system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigeru Sugaya, Kosuke Aio, Ren Sugai
  • Publication number: 20250226863
    Abstract: A first access point comprises circuitry configured to perform a sounding procedure with one or more first stations associated with the first access point and configured to communicate with the first access point over a respective channel to determine a resource unit allocation and/or a beamforming configuration for use in subsequent communication with respective first stations, and to transmit a training data unit containing signaling information related to the determined resource unit allocation and/or related to the determined beamforming configuration, wherein the training data unit is transmitted with a beamforming configuration derived from the determined resource unit allocation and/or the determined beamforming configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2025
    Publication date: July 10, 2025
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Dana CIOCHINA, Thomas HANDTE, Kazuyuki SAKODA, Kosuke AIO, Hiromasa UCHIYAMA, Yusuke TANAKA, Ken TANAKA, Ryuichi HIRATA, Mohamed ABOULSEOUD, Qing XIA, Liangxiao XIN
  • Publication number: 20250220700
    Abstract: A first multi-link device comprises a first station comprising a transmitter and a receiver and being configured to communicate with a first station of a second multi-link device on a first link; a second station comprising a receiver but no transmitter and being configured to receive control information from another first station of the second multi-link device on a second link different from the first link and/or from another communication device; and circuitry configured to control the first and second stations, wherein the second station is configured to provide the received control information to the circuitry and/or the first station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2023
    Publication date: July 3, 2025
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas HANDTE, Kosuke AIO, Li-hsiang SUN, Daniel VERENZUELA, Ken TANAKA, Dana CIOCHINA-KAR
  • Patent number: 12349192
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a wireless communication device and a method that make it possible to suppress signal collisions and a loss of an opportunity to acquire a transmission right. The wireless communication device transmits and receives signals to and from another wireless communication device, and determines a coordination recommendation channel to be recommended to the other wireless communication device in order to perform coordination communication. The present technology can be applied to wireless communication systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kosuke Aio
  • Publication number: 20250212274
    Abstract: A first multi-link device comprises a first station comprising a transmitter and a receiver and being configured to communicate with a first station of a second multi-link device on a first link; a second station comprising a receiver but no transmitter and being configured to receive data from another first station of the second multi-link device on a second link different from the first link; and circuitry configured to control the first and second stations, wherein the second station is configured to provide the received data to the circuitry and/or the first station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2023
    Publication date: June 26, 2025
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas HANDTE, Kosuke AIO, Li-hsiang SUN, Daniel VERENZUELA, Ken TANAKA, Dana CIOCHINA-KAR
  • Publication number: 20250202629
    Abstract: A communication device that performs wireless communication using a plurality of links includes a common data processing unit that includes a common storage unit of a cache type storing success/failure of acquisition of packets received on the plurality of links, and that performs common data processing on packets received on individual links, and a control unit that controls transmission of a response signal to the packets received. The control unit generates a common response signal including acquisition success/failure information received on the plurality of links on the basis of acquisition success/failure information held in the common storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2025
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Kosuke AIO, Yusuke TANAKA, Ryuichi HIRATA
  • Patent number: 12328750
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a communication apparatus and an information processing method that make it possible to appropriately reduce inter-link interference. The communication apparatus according to the present technology acquires, in a case of simultaneously performing transmission and reception of a data signal with another communication apparatus using a plurality of Links, first interference information concerning interference between Links occurring in the other communication apparatus from the other communication apparatus, and decides a transmission parameter to be used by the other communication apparatus for transmission of a data signal on a basis of the first interference information and second interference information concerning interference between the Links occurring in the communication apparatus. The present technology is applicable to a wireless communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kosuke Aio, Ryuichi Hirata, Shigeru Sugaya
  • Publication number: 20250184827
    Abstract: A wireless communication device includes: a transmission unit that transmits a request frame indicating a request for traffic information; a receiving unit that receives a response frame in which the traffic information is stored; and a control unit that controls transmission of a frame related to permission of transmission directed to a first wireless communication device that is identified on the basis of the traffic information stored in the received response frame and that is permitted to perform multiple access. A wireless communication device includes: a receiving unit that receives a request frame indicating a request for traffic information; a transmission unit that transmits a response frame in which the traffic information is stored in response to the received request frame; and a control unit that controls transmission of a frame related to the traffic information on the basis of a communication parameter related to multiple access.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2025
    Publication date: June 5, 2025
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke TANAKA, Kosuke AIO, Yuichi MORIOKA
  • Patent number: 12302186
    Abstract: A communication device determines a communication quality with a base station, requests a neighboring base station for a transition judgment information to transmit information to become a judgment criterion of the communication quality to be included in a Beacon signal at a stage before the communication quality degrades to an extent that the base station is immediately switched, and selects a base station with which a communication connection should be established on the basis of the transition judgment information included in the Beacon signal transmitted in response to the transition judgment request. The communication device is applicable to a communication system in the wireless LAN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kosuke Aio
  • Publication number: 20250151083
    Abstract: Multiple access points (APs) that transmit jointly at the same time to one or more stations (STAs) need logically to be connected via a link, e.g. a backhaul link. The master AP creates physical layer input data units (PSDUs) to be transmitted during joint transmission and conveys it via the link to one or more slave APs. It may happen that a STA receives the PSDU or parts of it erroneously, in which case a retransmission takes place. A mechanism that allows to reuse the PSDU, which was conveyed by the master AP via the link to the slave AP for the initial transmission, for any subsequent retransmission. Thereby, the bandwidth requirement of the backhaul link is significantly lowered when retransmissions take place. In particular, the difficulty that the PSDU contents change within a retransmission is addressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas HANDTE, Kosuke AIO, Dana CIOCHINA-KAR, Daniel VERENZUELA
  • Patent number: 12289150
    Abstract: A first access point comprises circuitry configured to perform a sounding procedure with one or more first stations associated with the first access point and configured to communicate with the first access point over a respective channel to determine resource unit allocation and beamforming configuration for use in subsequent communication with respective first stations, and to transmit a training data unit containing signaling information related to the determined resource unit allocation and related to the determined beamforming configuration, wherein the training data unit is transmitted with a beamforming configuration derived from the determined resource unit allocation and the determined beamforming configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dana Ciochina, Thomas Handte, Kazuyuki Sakoda, Kosuke Aio, Hiromasa Uchiyama, Yusuke Tanaka, Ken Tanaka, Ryuichi Hirata, Mohamed Aboulseoud, Qing Xia, Liangxiao Xin
  • Publication number: 20250133540
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a communication device and a communication method capable of transmitting the identical signals more appropriately. A communication device includes a control unit configured to perform control such that a first signal related to setting of identical signals are transmitted and received between first other communication devices, and the identical signals are transmitted to a second other communication device based on the first signal, thereby allowing transmission of the identical signals more appropriately. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a wireless LAN system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2024
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke TANAKA, Kosuke AIO
  • Patent number: 12273203
    Abstract: A communication device that performs wireless communication using a plurality of links includes a common data processing unit that includes a common storage unit of a cache type storing success/failure of acquisition of packets received on the plurality of links, and that performs common data processing on packets received on individual links, and a control unit that controls transmission of a response signal to the packets received. The control unit generates a common response signal including acquisition success/failure information received on the plurality of links on the basis of acquisition success/failure information held in the common storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kosuke Aio, Yusuke Tanaka, Ryuichi Hirata
  • Patent number: 12267733
    Abstract: A communication control device that causes a second communication device to generate a switching response frame indicating a response of connection switching that is to be transmitted to a communication terminal configured to switch a connection destination from a first communication device to the second communication device, on the basis of information regarding a connection between the first communication device and the communication terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryuichi Hirata, Kosuke Aio, Shigeru Sugaya
  • Publication number: 20250096858
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a wireless communication device and method, and a wireless communication terminal capable of reducing a processing time. The wireless communication device causes a wireless transmission unit to transmit a reference signal in a known pattern addressed to a wireless communication terminal in coordination with one or more other wireless communication devices, generates a request signal for requesting a second measurement result simpler than a first measurement result of the reference signal from the wireless communication terminal, and causes the wireless transmission unit to transmit the request signal. The present technology can be applied to a communication system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Kosuke AIO, Ken TANAKA
  • Patent number: 12255722
    Abstract: Provided is a communication device including a plurality of antenna elements and that performs wireless communication in a high frequency band while suppressing the circuit scale. The communication device includes: a communication unit that transmits and receives a wireless signal using a plurality of antenna elements; and a control unit that controls compensation for degradation in communication quality in the communication unit on the basis of control information received from outside. The communication unit includes a plurality of wireless interfaces and a delay compensation unit that compensates for delay of the wireless interfaces. The control unit determines whether or not to perform the compensation on the basis of capability information exchanged with a communication partner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ken Tanaka, Yusuke Tanaka, Kosuke Aio
  • Patent number: 12245135
    Abstract: A communication device and a communication method for allowing a communication terminal to be able to search for access points within a short time are provided. A communication device operating as an access point in a wireless network transmits a beacon signal at a predetermined beacon interval on an operation channel selected from available frequency channels. In addition, the communication device performs data transmission and data reception to/from a communication terminal subordinate thereto on the operation channel, and transmits a notification signal including information about the operation channel while switching channels at each predetermined cycle in available frequency channels other than the operation channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigeru Sugaya, Ren Sugai, Yusuke Tanaka, Kosuke Aio
  • Patent number: 12237924
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a communication device and a communication method capable for enabling more reliable acknowledgment of data receipt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigeru Sugaya, Kosuke Aio, Yusuke Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20250062861
    Abstract: In joint transmission using an access point, unnecessary data transmission and occurrence of a waiting time are avoided. A wireless communication devices includes a communication control unit and a signal generation unit. The communication control unit generates control information for requesting communication result information regarding whether reception is successful in a transmission destination device when first joint communication is performed jointly with another wireless communication device. The signal generation unit generates a signal including the control information generated by the communication control unit as a signal for urging second joint communication jointly with the other wireless communication device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2024
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Kosuke Aio, Ken Tanaka