Patents by Inventor Kota Ito

Kota Ito 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: 20240117393
    Abstract: A method for producing an L-amino acid such as L-glutamic acid is provided. An L-amino acid is produced by culturing in a culture medium a bacterium belonging to the family Enterobacteriaceae and having an L-amino acid-producing ability, and collecting the L-amino acid from the culture medium and/or cells of the bacterium, wherein the bacterium has been modified to have one or more of the following modifications: (A) modification of reducing the activity of a BudA protein; (B) modification of reducing the activity of a BudB protein; (C) modification of reducing the activity of a BudC protein; (D) modification of reducing the activity of a PAJ_3461 protein; (E) modification of reducing the activity of a PAJ_3462 protein; and (F) modification of reducing the activity of a PAJ_3463 protein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: AJINOMOTO CO., INC.
    Inventors: Chie HAMANO, Yoshihiro ITO, Naoki EBARA, Kota INOUE, Yukiko ONO, Rihito ISHIDA, Fumito ONISHI, Yoshihiko HARA
  • Patent number: 11936429
    Abstract: An accommodation station transmission unit modulates light based on an RF signal to generate an optical signal and outputs the generated optical signal, a base station transmission unit demultiplexes the output optical signal for each of wavelengths, outputs the demultiplexed optical signals, converts the demultiplexed optical signals into electrical signals to demodulate the RF signal, outputs the demodulated RF signal, and each of first ports of a matrix operation unit including the plurality of first ports and a plurality of second ports and configured to use each of the first ports as a reference port and perform, on signals obtained by the reference ports, a BFN matrix operation of performing phase changes that are different for each of positions of the reference ports and cause each of phases of signals output from the plurality of second ports to have a linear inclination receives the demodulated RF signal and forms transmission beams in different directions for each of wavelengths by a plurality of tr
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kota Ito, Mizuki Suga, Yushi Shirato, Naoki Kita
  • Publication number: 20240063907
    Abstract: A radio communication method performed by a radio communication device includes an inverse fast Fourier transform step of performing inverse fast Fourier transform on a digital electric signal associated with a downlink radio signal, a digital-to-analogue conversion step of converting the digital electric signal subjected to the inverse fast Fourier transform into a first analogue electric signal, an electro-optic conversion step of converting the first analogue electric signal into an optical signal, a step of transmitting the optical signal, a photoelectric conversion step of converting the transmitted optical signal into a second analogue electric signal, and a step of transmitting the downlink radio signal corresponding to the second analogue electric signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kota ITO, Mizuki SUGA, Takuto ARAI, Yushi SHIRATO, Daisei UCHIDA, Naoki KITA, Takeshi ONIZAWA
  • Patent number: 11902005
    Abstract: Using an array antenna in which a spacing between adjacent antenna elements is constant, each of combinations of two antenna elements in positions symmetrical relative to a center of an array is connected by wire connections in two paths, and a path length between the antenna elements in the combination of two antenna elements is the same in all of the combinations: a phase adjustment amount is calculated for each wire connection aside from a reference wire connection on the basis of an arrival direction of a wireless signal received by one antenna element in the combination of two antenna elements and a re-radiation direction of a wireless signal transmitted as a re-radiated wave by the other antenna element corresponding to the one antenna element, taking into account a phase difference between a signal transmitted by the wire connections connected to the one antenna element and a signal transmitted by the reference wire connection; and phase rotation is applied to the signal transmitted by the wire connect
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kota Ito, Yushi Shirato, Naoki Kita, Takeshi Onizawa
  • Patent number: 11820536
    Abstract: A projection unit (12) of an interference power estimation device (1) projects an orbit of a satellite onto a map representing a ground surface. A range acquisition unit (13) determines a plurality of ranges on the map so that the projected orbit is included in the ranges. An altitude calculation unit (14) calculates an altitude of the orbit of the satellite in each of the ranges. A range interference calculation unit (16) calculates, for each of the ranges, an interference power between the satellite at a position determined by a latitude and a longitude of the range and the altitude calculated for the range and a radio station installed on the ground surface. An estimation result calculation unit (17) selects, as an estimation result, a maximum value among the interference powers calculated for each of the ranges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideyuki Tsuboi, Yutaka Imaizumi, Kazuto Goto, Kota Ito, Naoki Kita, Hiroyuki Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11804901
    Abstract: A derivation method includes: a transmission step of transmitting, to a wireless terminal, a first radio-wave signal according to an optical signal with a first wavelength and a second radio-wave signal according to an optical signal with a second wavelength; a communication start time information acquisition step of acquiring information on a first communication start time and information on a second communication start time; a reception time information acquisition step of acquiring information on a first reception time and information on a second reception time; a transmission time period derivation step of deriving a first round trip time and deriving a second round trip time; and an optical fiber length derivation step of deriving an optical fiber length, based on the first round trip time, the second round trip time, a group velocity or a group delay time of the optical signal with the first wavelength, and a group velocity or a group delay time of the optical signal with the second wavelength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mizuki Suga, Kota Ito, Yushi Shirato, Naoki Kita
  • Patent number: 11736191
    Abstract: n wavelengths set such that delay differences between optical signals due to wavelength dispersion in an optical fiber between accommodation and base stations are at equal intervals are assigned to n antenna elements of the base station which are at predetermined intervals. The accommodation station adjusts the phases of optical signals of the wavelengths or modulated signals that modulate the optical signals such that the amounts of phase shift of their RF signals are at predetermined intervals. The accommodation station transmits beacon signals multiple times while varying a transmission phase shift interval ?1 and the terminal transmits beacon number information of a beacon signal selected based on received power multiple times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kota Ito, Mizuki Suga, Yushi Shirato, Naoki Kita
  • Patent number: 11736190
    Abstract: A derivation method is a derivation method performed by a communication system, including: a transmission step of transmitting a first radio-wave signal according to an optical signal with a first wavelength and a second radio-wave signal according to an optical signal with a second wavelength; a communication start time information acquisition step of acquiring information on a first communication start time and information on a second communication start time; a reception time information acquisition step of acquiring information on a first reception time that is a reception time related to the first radio-wave signal, and information on a second reception time that is a reception time related to the second radio-wave signal; and an optical fiber length derivation step of deriving a length of the optical fiber, based on the first communication start time, the first reception time, the second communication start time, the second reception time, a group velocity or a group delay time of the optical signal wit
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mizuki Suga, Kota Ito, Yushi Shirato, Naoki Kita
  • Publication number: 20230261746
    Abstract: A communication system includes a central station device and a base station device. The central station device includes: a plurality of signal processing units, each generating an electrical signal of a wireless signal by performing signal processing corresponding to a wireless system; a conversion unit that generates an optical signal by performing intensity modulation on the electrical signal; and a signal processing control unit that controls the conversion unit to generate an optical signal in which a plurality of the electrical signals are multiplexed. The base station device includes: an electrical signal generation unit that receives the optical signal generated in the central station device via an optical transmission path and converts the received optical signal into a plurality of electrical signals; and a plurality of antenna devices, each wirelessly transmitting the wireless signal according to the electrical signal generated by the electrical signal generation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: Kota ITO, Mizuki SUGA, Yushi SHIRATO, Naoki KITA
  • Patent number: 11637575
    Abstract: A first wireless communication apparatus assigns a pilot signal without an effective signal component at least in an adjacent frequency component to a generated transmit signal, and transmits the transmit signal including the pilot signal. A second wireless communication apparatus converts the received signal or a frequency-converted signal obtained by frequency conversion of the signal into a signal in a frequency domain, sets an approximate value of the distance between the second wireless communication apparatus and the first wireless communication apparatus, calculates a coefficient ?k, based on the approximate value of the distance, the effective bandwidth, the speed of light, the number of FFT points, and the frequency component number, extracts a signal in the frequency domain, generates a phase noise compensated sampling signal, and reproduces data transmitted by the first wireless communication apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Ota, Kota Ito, Kazuto Goto, Yushi Shirato, Naoki Kita
  • Patent number: 11539464
    Abstract: A receiving station performs first signal detection processing on a received radio signal, performs a retransmission request to a transmitting station in a case in which a code error is detected in a detected radio packet for user data, and enqueues the radio packet in a reception buffer in a case in which no code error is detected. In parallel with the first signal detection processing, the receiving station performs second signal detection processing on the received signal with a longer processing delay than that of the first signal detection processing, and in a case in which no code error is detected in the detected radio packet for user data, the receiving station enqueues the radio packet in the reception buffer. The receiving station outputs, at a predetermined timing, the radio packet for user data with no code error detected, the radio packet being enqueued in the reception buffer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Ota, Naoki Kita, Yutaka Imaizumi, Satoshi Kurosaki, Kazuto Goto, Kota Ito
  • Publication number: 20220393764
    Abstract: An accommodation station transmission unit modulates light to generate an optical signal based on an RF signal and outputs the generated optical signal, a base station transmission unit obtains the optical signal from an input port, demultiplexes the obtained optical signal for each wavelength, outputs the demultiplexed optical signals from output ports of corresponding wavelengths from among a plurality of output ports allocated to each of the wavelengths of the light, and demodulates the RF signal by converting the optical signals output by the output ports into electrical signals, a plurality of transmission antennas emit the demodulated RF signal, and a reflect array or a transmit array receives the RF signal emitted by each of the transmission antennas and forms a transmission beam in a different direction for each position of the transmission antenna that is a transmission source of the RF signal for each RF signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kota ITO, Mizuki SUGA, Yushi SHIRATO, Naoki KITA
  • Publication number: 20220385368
    Abstract: An accommodation station transmission unit modulates light based on an RF signal to generate an optical signal and outputs the generated optical signal, a base station transmission unit demultiplexes the output optical signal for each of wavelengths, outputs the demultiplexed optical signals, converts the demultiplexed optical signals into electrical signals to demodulate the RF signal, outputs the demodulated RF signal, and each of first ports of a matrix operation unit including the plurality of first ports and a plurality of second ports and configured to use each of the first ports as a reference port and perform, on signals obtained by the reference ports, a BFN matrix operation of performing phase changes that are different for each of positions of the reference ports and cause each of phases of signals output from the plurality of second ports to have a linear inclination receives the demodulated RF signal and forms transmission beams in different directions for each of wavelengths by a plurality of tr
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kota ITO, Mizuki SUGA, Yushi SHIRATO, Naoki KITA
  • Publication number: 20220368422
    Abstract: n wavelengths set such that delay differences between optical signals due to wavelength dispersion in an optical fiber between accommodation and base stations are at equal intervals are assigned to n antenna elements of the base station which are at predetermined intervals. The accommodation station adjusts the phases of optical signals of the wavelengths or modulated signals that modulate the optical signals such that the amounts of phase shift of their RF signals are at predetermined intervals. The accommodation station transmits beacon signals multiple times while varying a transmission phase shift interval ?1 and the terminal transmits beacon number information of a beacon signal selected based on received power multiple times.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kota ITO, Mizuki SUGA, Yushi SHIRATO, Naoki KITA
  • Patent number: 11476958
    Abstract: To provide an interference evaluation apparatus including a station information storage unit configured to store interfering station information indicating station information related to an interfering station causing radio interference in radio communication and interfered station information indicating station information related to an interfered station receiving the interference, and a determination unit configured to perform an interference calculation for calculating an interference power, based on the interfering station information and the interfered station information stored in the station information storage unit, and determine whether the interfering station and the interfered station are usable together, based on the calculated interference power and an acceptable interference power in the interfered station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideyuki Tsuboi, Kota Ito, Yutaka Imaizumi, Yushi Shirato, Naoki Kita
  • Publication number: 20220290990
    Abstract: A measurement method includes: a data acquisition step of acquiring position data output from a measurement device configured to move round-trip on a movement route and measure a position of an object in a periphery of the movement route, the measurement device using a plane having a depression angle or an elevation angle with respect to a plane that is orthogonal to a forward direction as a measurement target; and a point group data generation step of generating point group data for an object in the periphery of the movement path using the position data obtained during movement of the measurement device on an outbound trip and position data obtained during movement of the measurement device on a return trip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideyuki TSUBOI, Hideki TOSHINAGA, Kazuto GOTO, Satoshi KUROSAKI, Mizuki SUGA, Kota ITO, Naoki KITA
  • Publication number: 20220278739
    Abstract: Using an array antenna in which a spacing between adjacent antenna elements is constant, each of combinations of two antenna elements in positions symmetrical relative to a center of an array is connected by wire connections in two paths, and a path length between the antenna elements in the combination of two antenna elements is the same in all of the combinations: a phase adjustment amount is calculated for each wire connection aside from a reference wire connection on the basis of an arrival direction of a wireless signal received by one antenna element in the combination of two antenna elements and a re-radiation direction of a wireless signal transmitted as a re-radiated wave by the other antenna element corresponding to the one antenna element, taking into account a phase difference between a signal transmitted by the wire connections connected to the one antenna element and a signal transmitted by the reference wire connection; and phase rotation is applied to the signal transmitted by the wire connect
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kota ITO, Yushi SHIRATO, Naoki KITA, Takeshi ONIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20220260719
    Abstract: A measurement device configured to move along a movement path and measure the position of an object in surroundings of the movement path includes: a measurement unit configured to measure the position of the object with a plurality of surfaces as measurement targets, the plurality of surfaces facing in directions different from each other; and a point group data generation unit configured to generate point group data of the object in surroundings of the movement path by using positional data representing the position of the object measured by the measurement unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideyuki TSUBOI, Hideki TOSHINAGA, Kazuto GOTO, Satoshi KUROSAKI, Kota ITO, Mizuki SUGA, Naoki KITA
  • Patent number: 11405124
    Abstract: A master station device is connected to a slave station device that emits a transmission signal received by light via an optical transmission path from a plurality of antenna elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kota Ito, Nobuaki Otsuki, Mizuki Suga, Naoki Kita
  • Patent number: 11382251
    Abstract: A component mounting system includes a component mounting device including a component mounting unit configured to mount a component on a substrate, and a controller, and a server configured to be communicable with the controller. The controller is configured or programmed to acquire a plurality of types of operating state changes that are likely to cause a quality defect, and to transmit, to the server, information according to the types of the operating state changes. The server is configured to provide information indicating an inspection type for the substrate based on the information according to the types of the operating state changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kotaro Sugiyama, Kota Ito