Patents by Inventor Masaki Ohira

Masaki Ohira 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: 20090052896
    Abstract: A station-side communication device connected to subscriber-side communication devices via an optical combining device; sending, to the subscriber-side communication devices, a distance measurement request signal; computing transmission delay times of optical signals from the individual subscriber-side communication devices by receiving distance measurement signals, and including: a threshold control part identifying the level of distance measurement signals; a signal detection part detecting breaks in the distance measurement signals from the threshold control part; a transmission granting part determining the timing at which transmission of optical signals is granted, and a reset timing generation part that, there is notification of detection of a break in the distance measurement signal from the signal detection part while it is being notified that distance measurement is carried out to and from the subscriber-side communication devices from the transmission granting part, sends a reset signal indicating t
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2008
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Applicant: HITACHI COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tohru KAZAWA, Masaki Ohira, Yusuke Yajima, Norihiro Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20090052897
    Abstract: A station-side communication device connected to subscriber-side communication devices via an optical combining device; sending, to the subscriber-side communication devices, a distance measurement request signal; computing transmission delay times of optical signals from the individual subscriber-side communication devices by receiving distance measurement signals, and including: a threshold control part identifying the level of distance measurement signals; a signal detection part detecting breaks in the distance measurement signals from the threshold control part; a transmission granting part determining the timing at which transmission of optical signals is granted, and a reset timing generation part that, there is notification of detection of a break in the distance measurement signal from the signal detection part while it is being notified that distance measurement is carried out to and from the subscriber-side communication devices from the transmission granting part, sends a reset signal indicating t
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2008
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Applicant: HITACHI COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES, LTD
    Inventors: Tohru KAZAWA, Masaki Ohira, Yusuke Yajima, Norihiro Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 7489869
    Abstract: A station-side communication device connected to subscriber-side communication devices via an optical combining device; sending, to the subscriber-side communication devices, a distance measurement request signal; computing transmission delay times of optical signals from the individual subscriber-side communication devices by receiving distance measurement signals, and including: a threshold control part identifying the level of distance measurement signals; a signal detection part detecting breaks in the distance measurement signals from the threshold control part; a transmission granting part determining the timing at which transmission of optical signals is granted, and a reset timing generation part that, there is notification of detection of a break in the distance measurement signal from the signal detection part while it is being notified that distance measurement is carried out to and from the subscriber-side communication devices from the transmission granting part, sends a reset signal indicating t
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi Communication Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tohru Kazawa, Masaki Ohira, Yusuke Yajima, Norihiro Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20080317469
    Abstract: A station-side communication device connected to subscriber-side communication devices via an optical combining device; sending, to the subscriber-side communication devices, a distance measurement request signal; computing transmission delay times of optical signals from the individual subscriber-side communication devices by receiving distance measurement signals, and including: a threshold control part identifying the level of distance measurement signals; a signal detection part detecting breaks in the distance measurement signals from the threshold control part; a transmission granting part determining the timing at which transmission of optical signals is granted, and a reset timing generation part that, there is notification of detection of a break in the distance measurement signal from the signal detection part while it is being notified that distance measurement is carried out to and from the subscriber-side communication devices from the transmission granting part, sends a reset signal indicating t
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2008
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: Hitachi Communication Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tohru Kazawa, Masaki Ohira, Yusuke Yajima, Norihiro Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20080187312
    Abstract: A Passive Optical Network system implementing a parent station capable of receiving high-speed burst signals transmitted from a plurality of subsidiary stations to a parent station, with excellent bandwidth utilization efficiency in the link from the stations to the parent. The system is provided with a configuration in which, when launched or an addition of a new subsidiary station, the parent stores threshold values appropriate for the received signals on the basis of the strength of the received signal for each subsidiary station, from among a plurality of preset threshold value candidates, and in response to the parent station's sending of a transmission grant with respect to each subsidiary station each time the subsidiary station transmitting optical signals changes, the stored threshold value corresponding to the subsidiary station is set in the receiver circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2007
    Publication date: August 7, 2008
    Inventors: Tohru Kazawa, Masaki Ohira, Yusuke Yajima
  • Publication number: 20080163021
    Abstract: There are provided an optical line terminal and an optical network terminal, which can process with the same forward error correction code even if an EFC frame size of G-PON descending signals is different between two types of 255 and 120. The optical network terminal includes a photoelectric converter, a PON transceiver, and a physical layer. The PON transceiver includes an error correction code encoder including a shortening compensation parameter table and a shortening compensation calculator for calculating compensated data by referring to the shortening compensation parameter table. Also the optical line terminal includes a photoelectric converter, a PON transceiver, and a physical layer. The optical line terminal includes an error correction code encoder including a shortening compensation parameter table and a shortening compensation calculator for calculating compensated data by referring to the shortening compensation parameter table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2007
    Publication date: July 3, 2008
    Inventors: Masaki Ohira, Taro Tonoduka
  • Publication number: 20080155255
    Abstract: There is provided an encryption apparatus including an idle data inserting unit that takes input of a frame including a fixed-length header and a variable-length payload and an encrypting unit that receives an output of the idle data inserting unit. If the length of a block to be processed, included in the payload, is less than a predetermined value, the idle data inserting unit appends idle data following the block and transmits the frame including the block padded with the idle data to the encrypting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2007
    Publication date: June 26, 2008
    Inventors: Masaki Ohira, Norihiro Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20080145064
    Abstract: The optical line terminal has a PON transceiver including an error correction code decoder. The error correction decoder includes: a shortening compensation parameter table; and a syndrome calculator for calculating a syndrome by referring to the shortening compensation parameter table, or an error search part for calculating an error position or an error value by referring to the shortening compensation parameter table. Also the optical network terminal has a PON transceiver including an error correction code decoder. The error code decoder includes: a shortening compensation parameter table; and a syndrome calculator for calculating a syndrome by referring to the shortening compensation parameter table, or an error search part for calculating an error position or an error value by referring to the shortening compensation parameter table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2007
    Publication date: June 19, 2008
    Inventors: Masaki Ohira, Taro Tonoduka
  • Patent number: 7386012
    Abstract: An overhead passing processing circuit in a synchronous multiplex network, with a circuit for extracting predetermined administration and maintenance operating information from multiplexed signals, a crossconnecting circuit for crossconnecting information extracted by the extraction circuit stage, and an insertion circuit for inserting an output of the crossconnecting circuit into a predetermined location in the overhead of the multiplexed signal to be transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2008
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiki Sugawara, Masaki Ohira, Yukio Nakano, Takashi Mori
  • Patent number: 7372807
    Abstract: In a transmission network including multiplex transmission units A, F, G, D and E, when the line breakage has occurred on the OC-12 transmission path of the direction from unit A to unit F, the unit F detects the signal coming in from the OC-12 path indicative of the line breakage. The unit F inserts the APS bytes which comes in from the unit A into the undefined area of the OC-192 transport overhead which is reserved for the through-transport of APS bytes, and transports it to the unit G. On receiving the through-transport APS bytes, the unit G inserts it intact into the defined area for the APS bytes in the OC-12 transport overhead, and sends it to the unit D. In this manner, protection switching between the units A and D is carried out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2008
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki Ohira, Masazumi Noguchi, Takashi Mori, Mitsunobu Kimura, Koji Kato
  • Publication number: 20080089686
    Abstract: A station-side communication device connected to subscriber-side communication devices via an optical combining device; sending, to the subscriber-side communication devices, a distance measurement request signal; computing transmission delay times of optical signals from the individual subscriber-side communication devices by receiving distance measurement signals, and including: a threshold control part identifying the level of distance measurement signals; a signal detection part detecting breaks in the distance measurement signals from the threshold control part; a transmission granting part determining the timing at which transmission of optical signals is granted, and a reset timing generation part that, there is notification of detection of a break in the distance measurement signal from the signal detection part while it is being notified that distance measurement is carried out to and from the subscriber-side communication devices from the transmission granting part, sends a reset signal indicating t
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2007
    Publication date: April 17, 2008
    Inventors: Tohru Kazawa, Masaki Ohira, Yusuke Yajima, Norihiro Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20080089685
    Abstract: In a light reception element such as an APD (Avalanche Photo Diode) used for receiving a high-speed and weak optical signal, it is possible to prevent the phenomenon of distortion of a signal inputted after a large-level light is received. A PON (Passive Optical Network) system includes an OLT (Optical Line Terminal) which can impartially and effectively transmit light reception data to each ONU (Optical Network Unit). According to a light reception amplitude received by each ONU, an inter-frame gap of an appropriate length is assigned for each ONU. The OLT includes a unit for measuring and accumulating the reception light amplitude and data on the inter-frame gap of an appropriate length decided in advance according to the characteristic of the light reception device and generates a grant value for assuring an inter-frame gap of an appropriate length by using the both information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2007
    Publication date: April 17, 2008
    Inventors: Tohru Kazawa, Masaki Ohira, Yusuke Yajima, Akihiko Tsuchiya, Yoshinobu Morita
  • Patent number: 7139479
    Abstract: An optical transmission network allows transmission monitoring zones to be set up or changed in a flexible manner, and allows simultaneous monitoring of communication quality for each of these monitoring zones. Also, provided is an optical transmission zone service provider that varies user fees according to communication quality in the used zones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2006
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki Ohira, Masahiro Takatori, Yuichi Yamaguchi, Toshiyuki Atsumi, Tomohiro Mori, Ryuji Ishii, Kentarou Watanabe, Toru Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20060212780
    Abstract: A client signal having a constant bit rate is segmented every a bytes to create code information blocks. The bit rate of the client signal is increased such that the client signal has the code information block and an empty area comprised of b bytes, and the ratio c/a is equal to or higher than 110% to create a code block 3 comprised of c bytes. The code information block in the code block is encoded such that an error correcting code is included therein to have an encoding gain of 6 dB or higher for a bit error ratio of 10?12. Associated check bits are placed in the empty area to eventually generate a super FEC signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2006
    Publication date: September 21, 2006
    Inventors: Masaki Ohira, Masahiro Takatori, Takashi Mori
  • Patent number: 7024616
    Abstract: A client signal having a constant bit rate is segmented every a bytes to create code information blocks. The bit rate of the client signal is increased such that the client signal has the code information block and an empty area comprised of b bytes, and the ratio c/a is equal to or higher than 110% to create a code block 3 comprised of c bytes. The code information block in the code block is encoded such that an error correcting code is included therein to have an encoding gain of 6 dB or higher for a bit error ratio of 10?12. Associated check bits are placed in the empty area to eventually generate a super FEC signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2006
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki Ohira, Masahiro Takatori, Takashi Mori
  • Patent number: 6871314
    Abstract: An encoder adds an identifier, being different when the coding should be done or not, into a predetermined location in an original signal, while a decoder reads out the identifier added and detects the condition of coding, so as to decide the execution (ON) of the decoding process to be done or not, automatically. Further, in each of the encoder and the decoder, there is provided a delay output portion, which provides an output treated with only a specific delay but not executing the coding/decoding thereon, separately from a coding process portion or a decoding process portion, wherein a selection can be made, at which one of the signals from the respective process portions and the delay output portion should be outputted, by a setup in an outside operation system with use of a selector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2005
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki Ohira, Masatoshi Shibasaki, Yusuke Yajima, Takashi Mori
  • Publication number: 20040184403
    Abstract: In a transmission network including multiplex transmission units A, F, G, D and E, when the line breakage has occurred on the OC-12 transmission path of the direction from unit A to unit F, the unit F detects the signal coming in from the OC-12 path indicative of the line breakage. The unit F inserts the APS bytes which comes in from the unit A into the undefined area of the OC-192 transport overhead which is reserved for the through-transport of APS bytes, and transports it to the unit G. On receiving the through-transport APS bytes, the unit G inserts it intact into the defined area for the APS bytes in the OC-12 transport overhead, and sends it to the unit D. In this manner, protection switching between the units A and D is carried out.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2003
    Publication date: September 23, 2004
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki Ohira, Masazumi Noguchi, Takashi Mori, Mitsunobu Kimura, Koji Kato
  • Publication number: 20040165618
    Abstract: In a synchronous multiplex network including a plurality of multiplex transmission apparatuses, an overhead is passed through intervening multiplex transmission apparatuses such that administration and maintenance operation information is transmitted and received through the overhead between arbitrary multiplex transmission apparatuses. The multiplex transmission apparatus receives a multiplexed signal comprising a payload having a plurality of main signals multiplexed therein and overhead bytes including a plurality of administration and maintenance operation information, performs termination processing for the administration and maintenance operation information and transmission processing for the payload, thereafter converts the multiplexed signal into a different multiplexed signal comprising a payload which has been processed for transmission and a plurality of administration and maintenance operation information, and transmits the different multiplexed signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2003
    Publication date: August 26, 2004
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiki Sugawara, Masaki Ohira, Yukio Nakano, Takashi Mori
  • Patent number: 6735735
    Abstract: An encoder adds an identifier, being different when the coding should be done or not, into a predetermined location in, an original signal, while a decoder reads out the identifier added and detects the condition of coding, so as to decide the execution (ON) of the decoding process to be done or not, automatically. Further, in each of the encoder and the decoder, there is provided a delay output portion, which provides an output treated with only a specific delay but not executing the coding/decoding thereon, separately from a coding process portion or a decoding process portion, wherein a selection can be made, at which one of the signals from the respective process portions and the delay output portion should be outputted, by a setup in an outside operation system with use of a selector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2004
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki Ohira, Masatoshi Shibasaki, Yusuke Yajima, Takashi Mori
  • Patent number: 6721268
    Abstract: In a transmission network including multiplex transmission units A, F, G, D and E, when the line breakage has occurred on the OC-12 transmission path of the direction from unit A to unit F, the unit F detects the signal coming in from the OC-12 path indicative of the line breakage. The unit F inserts the APS bytes which comes in from the unit A into the undefined area of the OC-192 transport overhead which is reserved for the through-transport of APS bytes, and transports it to the unit G. On receiving the through-transport APS bytes, the unit G inserts it intact into the defined area for the APS bytes in the OC-12 transport overhead, and sends it to the unit D. In this manner, protection switching between the units A and D is carried out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2004
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki Ohira, Masazumi Noguchi, Takashi Mori, Mitsunobu Kimura, Koji Kato