Patents by Inventor Masahito Tomizawa

Masahito Tomizawa 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: 9621299
    Abstract: The estimation of an amount of chromatic dispersion using a training signal sequence is possible. A transmission method includes: a training signal sequence generation step of generating, as training signal sequences, a plurality of signal sequences having power concentrated in a plurality of frequency bands, the power concentrated at different frequency bands; a training signal sequence selection step of selecting at least one training signal sequence from among the plurality of training signal sequences generated in the training signal sequence generation step, a signal multiplexing step of generating a signal sequence obtained by time-division multiplexing the training signal sequence selected in the training signal sequence selection step with a transmission data sequence, and an electrical-to-optical conversion step of transmitting the signal sequence generated in the signal multiplexing step as an optical signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Koichi Ishihara, Masato Mizoguchi, Tomoki Murakami, Tomoyoshi Kataoka, Yoshiaki Kisaka, Tadao Nakagawa, Etsushi Yamazaki, Seiji Okamoto, Kengo Horikoshi, Masahito Tomizawa, Riichi Kudo
  • Publication number: 20170070296
    Abstract: An optical signal transmission apparatus includes a modulation unit which modulates a transmission signal, a training signal sequence generation unit which generates a plurality of signal sequences having power concentrated in a plurality of different frequency bands, at least one of an amplitude and a phase of the plurality of signal sequences being modulated, as a training signal sequence, a signal multiplexing unit which appends the training signal sequence to the transmission signal, and an electro-optical conversion unit which converts a signal sequence obtained by appending the training signal sequence to the transmission signal into an optical signal and transmits the optical signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2015
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiji OKAMOTO, Koichi ISHIHARA, Etsushi YAMAZAKI, Mitsuteru YOSHIDA, Tomoyoshi KATAOKA, Kazushige YONENAGA, Yoshiaki KISAKA, Masanori NAKAMURA, Masahito TOMIZAWA
  • Patent number: 9438365
    Abstract: A client signal mapping circuit for accommodating a client signal in a transmission frame, including: a buffer unit configured to temporarily store the client signal; a buffer used amount monitoring unit configured to report a used amount of the buffer unit; a stuff processing determination unit configured to compare the used amount of the buffer unit with a predetermined reference value, and a pseudo random sequence signal and the comparison result; an overhead insertion unit configured to add an overhead to the client signal read from the buffer unit to form a transmission frame; and a reading control unit configured to perform control for reading the client signal from the buffer unit based on determination by the stuff processing determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Suzuki, Takuya Ohara, Takashi Ono, Shigeki Aisawa, Masahito Tomizawa
  • Publication number: 20160065326
    Abstract: An optical transmission and reception system includes a transmitter and receiver. The transmitter differentially encodes control information to generate a differentially coded signal; uses the differentially coded signal to modulate a signal sequence in which electricity concentrates at a particular frequency; applies time-division multiplexing on the modulated signal sequence and a primary signal in one of two polarized wave components, and applies time-division multiplexing on the other polarized wave components and the signal sequence itself; and polarization-multiplexes the both of the time-division multiplexed polarized waves into an optical signal; and transmits the optical signal to the receiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventors: Yoshiaki KISAKA, Koichi ISHIHARA, Masahito TOMIZAWA, Etsushi YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20160006525
    Abstract: A client signal mapping circuit for accommodating a client signal in a transmission frame, including: a buffer unit configured to temporarily store the client signal; a buffer used amount monitoring unit configured to report a used amount of the buffer unit; a stuff processing determination unit configured to compare the used amount of the buffer unit with a predetermined reference value, and a pseudo random sequence signal and the comparison result; an overhead insertion unit configured to add an overhead to the client signal read from the buffer unit to form a transmission frame; and a reading control unit configured to perform control for reading the client signal from the buffer unit based on determination by the stuff processing determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro SUZUKI, Takuya OHARA, Takashi ONO, Shigeki AlSAWA, Masahito TOMIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20150372766
    Abstract: An increase in circuit scale is suppressed and a phase variation caused in a transmission path or the like is compensated for.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2014
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuteru YOSHIDA, Etsushi YAMAZAKI, Seiji OKAMOTO, Hiroyuki UZAWA, Kengo HORIKOSHI, Koichi ISHIHARA, Takayuki KOBAYASHI, Yoshiaki KISAKA, Masahito TOMIZAWA, Naoki FUJIWARA, Tomoyoshi KATAOKA, Kazushige YONENAGA
  • Publication number: 20150341138
    Abstract: The estimation of an amount of chromatic dispersion using a training signal sequence is possible. A transmission method includes: a training signal sequence generation step of generating, as training signal sequences, a plurality of signal sequences having power concentrated in a plurality of frequency bands, the power concentrated at different frequency bands; a training signal sequence selection step of selecting at least one training signal sequence from among the plurality of training signal sequences generated in the training signal sequence generation step, a signal multiplexing step of generating a signal sequence obtained by time-division multiplexing the training signal sequence selected in the training signal sequence selection step with a transmission data sequence, and an electrical-to-optical conversion step of transmitting the signal sequence generated in the signal multiplexing step as an optical signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2014
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koichi ISHIHARA, Masato MIZOGUCHI, Tomoki MURAKAMI, Tomoyoshi KATAOKA, Yoshiaki KISAKA, Tadao NAKAGAWA, Etsushi YAMAZAKI, Seiji OKAMOTO, Kengo HORIKOSHI, Masahito TOMIZAWA, Riichi KUDO
  • Publication number: 20150333838
    Abstract: An optical receiving device receives an optical signal that has been modulated by means of phase modulation or quadrature amplitude modulation, converts the received optical signal into an electrical signal using coherent detection, and performs phase compensation on the converted received signal, and includes: a carrier phase estimation unit that estimates carrier phase errors in a received symbol string obtained from the received signal; a gain adjustment unit that performs gain adjustment on symbols input into the carrier phase adjustment unit; a phase cycle slip reduction unit that, by performing statistical processing on an output from the carrier phase estimation unit, detects general noise that causes a phase cycle slip, and reduces the phase cycle slip; and a phase compensation circuit that compensates carrier phase errors contained in the received signal using an output from the carrier phase estimation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kengo HORIKOSHI, Kohki SHIBAHARA, Etsushi YAMAZAKI, Mitsuteru YOSHIDA, Koichi ISHIHARA, Takayuki KOBAYASHI, Yoshiaki KISAKA, Takuya OHARA, Masahito TOMIZAWA, Tomoyoshi KATAOKA
  • Patent number: 9178614
    Abstract: A wavelength dispersion amount estimation method, a wavelength dispersion compensation circuit, and a receiving device which rapidly estimate and set a wavelength dispersion amount to compensate with high accuracy at the receiving device which compensates waveform distortion at an optical fiber transmission path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Etsushi Yamazaki, Takayuki Kobayashi, Masahito Tomizawa, Riichi Kudo, Koichi Ishihara, Tadao Nakagawa, Mitsuteru Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 9160479
    Abstract: A client signal mapping circuit for accommodating a client signal in a transmission frame, including: a buffer unit configured to temporarily store the client signal; a buffer used amount monitoring unit configured to report a used amount of the buffer unit; a stuff processing determination unit configured to compare the used amount of the buffer unit with a predetermined reference value, and a pseudo random sequence signal and the comparison result; an overhead insertion unit configured to add an overhead to the client signal read from the buffer unit to form a transmission frame; and a reading control unit configured to perform control for reading the client signal from the buffer unit based on determination by the stuff processing determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Suzuki, Takuya Ohara, Takashi Ono, Shigeki Aisawa, Masahito Tomizawa
  • Patent number: 8977120
    Abstract: In an apparatus for accommodating and multiplexing asynchronous client signals in which an idle signal is defined, the transmission side transmits client signals after synchronizing the client signals by inserting or removing, with reference to a specific client signal, an idle signal to/from the same type of another client signal, and in the receiving side, a PLL part is shared by recovering a clock from a client signal and distributing the clock for another client signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignees: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Takuya Ohara, Takashi Ono, Shigeki Aisawa, Masahito Tomizawa, Hiroyuki Honma, Satoru Saitoh, Masahiro Shioda
  • Patent number: 8971703
    Abstract: A wavelength dispersion amount estimation method, a wavelength dispersion compensation circuit, and a receiving device which rapidly estimate and set a wavelength dispersion amount to compensate with high accuracy at the receiving device which compensates waveform distortion at an optical fiber transmission path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Etsushi Yamazaki, Takayuki Kobayashi, Masahito Tomizawa, Riichi Kudo, Koichi Ishihara, Tadao Nakagawa, Mitsuteru Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20140016929
    Abstract: A wavelength dispersion amount estimation method, a wavelength dispersion compensation circuit, and a receiving device which rapidly estimate and set a wavelength dispersion amount to compensate with high accuracy at the receiving device which compensates waveform distortion at an optical fiber transmission path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2012
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Etsushi Yamazaki, Takayuki Kobayashi, Masahito Tomizawa, Riichi Kudo, Koichi Ishihara, Tadao Nakagawa, Mitsuteru Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20130343749
    Abstract: A wavelength dispersion amount estimation method, a wavelength dispersion compensation circuit, and a receiving device which rapidly estimate and set a wavelength dispersion amount to compensate with high accuracy at the receiving device which compensates waveform distortion at an optical fiber transmission path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2012
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Inventors: Etsushi Yamazaki, Takayuki Kobayashi, Masahito Tomizawa, Riichi Kudo, Koichi Ishihara, Tadao Nakagawa, Mitsuteru Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 8571037
    Abstract: An optical digital transmission system of the present invention newly defines one second negative stuff byte in an overhead area for accommodation of the client signals with multiplexing into the OTU frame, newly defines one third positive stuff byte in a corresponding tributary slot in a payload area for accommodation of client signals with multiplexing, newly defines stuff control bits that is used for decision of the use of the second negative stuff byte and the third positive stuff byte in three different places in the overhead area for client signal accommodation with multiplexing, performs control by using the newly defined stuff control bits when accommodation of the client signal with the third positive stuff byte or the second negative stuff byte is required, and performs stuff control without using the newly defined stuff control bits when accommodation of the client signal by the third positive stuff byte and the second negative stuff byte is not required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignees: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, NTT Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeki Aisawa, Masahito Tomizawa, Yutaka Miyamoto, Yoshiaki Kisaka, Yasuyuki Endo, Katsuyoshi Miura, Kazuhito Takei
  • Publication number: 20130259481
    Abstract: A client signal mapping circuit for accommodating a client signal in a transmission frame, including: a buffer unit configured to temporarily store the client signal; a buffer used amount monitoring unit configured to report a used amount of the buffer unit; a stuff processing determination unit configured to compare the used amount of the buffer unit with a predetermined reference value, and a pseudo random sequence signal and the comparison result; an overhead insertion unit configured to add an overhead to the client signal read from the buffer unit to form a transmission frame; and a reading control unit configured to perform control for reading the client signal from the buffer unit based on determination by the stuff processing determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Suzuki, Takuya Ohara, Takashi Ono, Shigeki Aisawa, Masahito Tomizawa
  • Patent number: 8514881
    Abstract: A digital transmission system includes at least a client device and a transmission device, and rate-adjusts the client signal transmitted from the client device to the transmission device before accommodating/multiplexing the signal in a frame. The transmission device includes a rate adjusting unit and a frame processing unit. The rate adjusting unit encapsulates the client signal by using a predetermined frame structure, inserts an idle pattern if necessary, and performs rate adjustment into the bit rate which can be contained in the frame. The frame processing unit accommodates/multiplexes the signal after the rate adjustment. The digital transmission system inserts a bit string of the client signal directly in a payload area of the digital frame, or accommodates and multiplexes it. Alternatively, a specific pattern is accommodated in the payload area, or accommodated and multiplexed after performing a reversible digital signal processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignees: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, NTT Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Kisaka, Takuya OHara, Shigeki Aisawa, Yutaka Miyamoto, Kazuhito Takei, Yasuyuki Endoh, Katsuyoshi Miura, Tadanobu Nikaido, Masahito Tomizawa
  • Publication number: 20130004168
    Abstract: In an apparatus for accommodating and multiplexing asynchronous client signals in which an idle signal is defined, the transmission side transmits client signals after synchronizing the client signals by inserting or removing, with reference to a specific client signal, an idle signal to/from the same type of another client signal, and in the receiving side, a PLL part is shared by recovering a clock from a client signal and distributing the clock for another client signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2011
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Applicants: FUJITSU LIMITED, NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Ohara, Takashi Ono, Shigeki Aisawa, Masahito Tomizawa, Hiroyuki Honma, Satoru Saitoh, Masahiro Shioda
  • Patent number: 8254789
    Abstract: A device and method for adjusting the chromatic dispersion in an optical transmission system includes an optical element having a temperature-dependent chromatic dispersion. The device and method further include a device for adjusting a temperature or a temperature distribution of at least one region of the optical element for providing a predefined chromatic dispersion of the optical element. Therefore, the chromatic dispersion of the optical element may be regulated along an optical transmission path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignees: Deutsche Telekom AG, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Arnold Mattheus, Yutaka Miyamoto, Masahito Tomizawa
  • Patent number: 8135285
    Abstract: An optical transmission system for performing frequency synchronization even with a client signal with low frequency accuracy, and for transmitting thereof by accommodating/multiplexing without causing a bit slip. A new overhead is added to the entire client signal, and the signal including the new overhead being stuffed is transmitted in conjunction with a plurality of stuffing bits as an optical signal wherein a data storing bit for a negative stuffing, a stuffing information notification bit, and a stuff bits inserting bit for a positive stuffing in the payload are defined in plurality as stuffing bits for adjusting clock frequencies of the client signal in this new overhead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: NTT Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Kisaka, Shigeki Aisawa, Yutaka Miyamoto, Masahito Tomizawa, Yasuyuki Endoh, Kazuhito Takei