Patents by Inventor Mikihiro Ouchi

Mikihiro Ouchi 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: 11863264
    Abstract: A transmission device includes: a weighting synthesizer that generates a first precoded signal and a second precoded signal; a first pilot inserter that inserts a pilot signal into the first precoded signal; a phase changer that applies a phase change of i×?? to the second precoded signal, where i is a symbol number and an integer that is greater than or equal to 0; an inserter that inserts a pilot signal into the phase-changed second precoded signal; and a phase changer that applies a phase change to the phase-changed and pilot-signal-inserted second precoded signal. ?? satisfies ?/2 radians<??<? radians or ? radians<??<3?/2 radians.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi, Hiroyuki Motozuka
  • Publication number: 20230413068
    Abstract: Provided is a wireless apparatus that can coexist with a wireless communication system, in which a communicatable distance is made longer, by beam forming. This wireless apparatus comprises: a reception circuit that receives a signal using a first directivity; and a control circuit that controls transmission or stand-by of a transmission signal on the basis of reception of the signal. The reception section of the signal is set shorter than the reception section of a signal received using a second directivity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Yutaka MURAKAMI, Mikihiro OUCHI
  • Patent number: 11843430
    Abstract: A signal generation method is used in a transmission device that transmits a plurality of transmission signals from a plurality of antennas at the same frequency and at the same time, in the case where larger power change is performed on a first transmission signal than on a second transmission signal during generation process of the first transmission signal and the second transmission signal, the first transmission signal and the second transmission signal are mapped before the power change such that a minimum Euclidian distance between possible signal points for the first signal is longer than a minimum Euclidian distance between possible signal points for the second signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUST
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi
  • Publication number: 20230387972
    Abstract: Disclosed is a transmission scheme for transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal in the same frequency at the same time. According to the transmission scheme, a precoding weight multiplying unit multiplies a precoding weight by a baseband signal after a first mapping and a baseband signal after a second mapping and outputs the first modulated signal and the second modulated signal. In the precoding weight multiplying unit, precoding weights are regularly hopped.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Yutaka MURAKAMI, Tomohiro KIMURA, Mikihiro OUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230379019
    Abstract: Disclosed is a transmission scheme for transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal over the same frequency at the same time. According to the transmission scheme, a precoding weight multiplying unit multiplies a baseband signal after a first mapping and a baseband signal after a second mapping by a precoding weight and outputs the first modulated signal and the second modulated signal. In the precoding weight multiplying unit, precoding weights are regularly hopped.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Yutaka MURAKAMI, Tomohiro KIMURA, Mikihiro OUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230370196
    Abstract: One coding method of a plurality of coding methods including at least a first coding method and a second coding method is selected, an information sequence is encoded by using the selected coding method, and an encoded sequence obtained by performing predetermined processing on the information sequence is modulated and transmitted. The first coding method is a coding method having a first coding rate, for generating a first encoded sequence by performing puncturing processing on a generated first codeword by using a first parity check matrix. The second coding method is a coding method having a second coding rate, for generating a second encoded sequence by performing puncturing processing on a generated second codeword by using a second parity check matrix that is different from the first parity check matrix, the second coding rate after the puncturing process being different from the first coding rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: Yutaka MURAKAMI, Tomohiro KIMURA, Mikihiro OUCHI
  • Patent number: 11811479
    Abstract: A transmission apparatus includes M signal processors that respectively generate modulated signals directed to M reception apparatuses, M being an integer equal to or greater than 2, and an antenna section. Each signal processor modulates a first bit sequence made up of two bits to generate a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal, and modulates a second bit sequence made up of other two bits to generate a third modulated signal and a fourth modulated signal, in a case of transmitting multiple streams to a corresponding one of the M reception apparatuses. The antenna section includes a first antenna that transmits the first modulated signal and the third modulated signal and a second antenna that transmits the second modulated signal and the fourth modulated signal. At least either the signals transmitted from the first antenna or the signals transmitted from the second antenna are phase-changed signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi
  • Publication number: 20230353217
    Abstract: A transmission apparatus includes M signal processors that respectively generate modulated signals directed to M reception apparatuses, M being an integer equal to or greater than 2, and an antenna section. Each signal processor modulates a first bit sequence made up of two bits to generate a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal, and modulates a second bit sequence made up of other two bits to generate a third modulated signal and a fourth modulated signal, in a case of transmitting multiple streams to a corresponding one of the M reception apparatuses. The antenna section includes a first antenna that transmits the first modulated signal and the third modulated signal and a second antenna that transmits the second modulated signal and the fourth modulated signal. At least either the signals transmitted from the first antenna or the signals transmitted from the second antenna are phase-changed signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: YUTAKA MURAKAMI, TOMOHIRO KIMURA, MIKIHIRO OUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230353202
    Abstract: A transmission method includes generating a first precoded signal and a second precoded signal by performing a precoding process on a first baseband signal and a second baseband signal, outputting a third signal by inserting a pilot signal into the first precoded signal, outputting a fourth signal by applying a first phase change to the second precoded signal, outputting a fifth signal by inserting a pilot signal into the fourth signal, and outputting a sixth signal by applying a second phase change to the fifth signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Yutaka MURAKAMI, Tomohiro KIMURA, Mikihiro OUCHI
  • Patent number: 11804880
    Abstract: A transmission method simultaneously transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal at a common frequency performs precoding on both signals using a fixed precoding matrix and regularly changes the phase of at least one of the signals, thereby improving received data signal quality for a reception device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUST
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi
  • Publication number: 20230344470
    Abstract: By a transmission method according to one aspect of the present disclosure, in a broadcasting system that generates a first broadcasting signal and a second broadcasting signal by performing multi-antenna encoding on program data, and wirelessly transmits a first broadcasting signal and a second broadcasting signal, a first transmit station transmits the first broadcasting signal, a second transmit station transmits the second broadcasting signal, the first transmit station and the second transmit station transmit the first broadcasting signal and the second broadcasting signal to an overlapping area at an identical time using an overlapping frequency band, polarized wave transmitted from the first transmit station differs from polarized wave transmitted from the second transmit station, and arrangement of the first transmit station differs from arrangement of the second transmit station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Tomohiro KIMURA, Yutaka MURAKAMI, Mikihiro OUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230344481
    Abstract: A transmitting device includes a plurality of transmission antennas, and includes: a signal processor which generates a first baseband signal by modulating data of a first stream, and a second baseband signal by modulating data of a second stream; and a transmitter which generates, from the first baseband signal, first transmission signals having different directivities, generates, from the second baseband signal, second transmission signals having different directivities, and transmits the first transmission signals and the second transmission signals at a same time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Yutaka MURAKAMI, Tomohiro KIMURA, Mikihiro OUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230344475
    Abstract: Provided are M signal processors that respectively generate modulated signals for M reception apparatuses (where M is an integer equal to 2 or greater), a multiplexing signal processor, and N antenna sections (where N is an integer equal to 1 or greater). When transmitting multiple streams, each of the M signal processors generates two mapped signals, generates first and second precoded signals by precoding the two mapped signals, periodically changes the phase of signal points in the IQ plane with respect to the second precoded signal, outputs the phase-changed signal, and outputs the first precoded signal and the phase-changed second precoded signal as two modulated signals. When transmitting a single stream, each of the M signal processor outputs a single modulated signal. The multiplexing signal processor multiplexes the modulated signals output from the M signal processors, and generates N multiplexed signals. The N antenna sections respectively transmit the N multiplexed signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Yutaka MURAKAMI, Tomohiro KIMURA, Mikihiro OUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230336222
    Abstract: A precoding process is performed on a first baseband signal and a second baseband signal to generate a first precoding signal and a second precoding signal. A pilot signal is inserted into the first precoding signal and phase change is performed on the second precoding signal. A pilot signal is inserted into the phase changed second precoding signal, and phase change is further performed on the phase-changed second precoding signal with the pilot signal inserted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: YUTAKA MURAKAMI, TOMOHIRO KIMURA, MIKIHIRO OUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230327926
    Abstract: Provided is a precoding method for generating, from a plurality of baseband signals, a plurality of precoded signals to be transmitted over the same frequency bandwidth at the same time, including the steps of selecting a matrix F[i] from among N matrices, which define precoding performed on the plurality of baseband signals, while switching between the N matrices, i being an integer from 0 to N?1, and N being an integer at least two, generating a first precoded signal z1 and a second precoded signal z2, generating a first encoded block and a second encoded block using a predetermined error correction block encoding method, generating a baseband signal with M symbols from the first encoded block and a baseband signal with M symbols the second encoded block, and precoding a combination of the generated baseband signals to generate a precoded signal having M slots.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Yutaka MURAKAMI, Tomohiro KIMURA, Mikihiro OUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230327830
    Abstract: A transmission device that improves data reception quality includes: a first pilot inserter that inserts a pilot signal into a first precoded signal; a phase changer that applies a phase change of i×?? to the second precoded signal, where i is a symbol number and an integer that is greater than or equal to 0; an inserter that inserts a pilot signal into the second precoded signal applied with the phase change; and a phase changer that applies a phase change to the second precoded signal applied with the phase change and inserted with the pilot signal. ?? satisfies n/2 radians<??<? radians or ? radians<??<3?/2 radians. When the communications scheme is an OFDM scheme, the phase changer and the phase changer apply a phase change, and when the communications scheme is a single-carrier scheme, do not apply a phase change.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Yutaka MURAKAMI, Tomohiro KIMURA, Mikihiro OUCHI, Hiroyuki MOTOZUKA
  • Publication number: 20230318902
    Abstract: Embodiments include devices and methods that improves quality in radio transmission/reception using a single-carrier scheme and/or a multi-carrier scheme.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi
  • Patent number: 11777563
    Abstract: Disclosed is a transmission scheme for transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal in the same frequency at the same time. According to the transmission scheme, a precoding weight multiplying unit multiplies a precoding weight by a baseband signal after a first mapping and a baseband signal after a second mapping and outputs the first modulated signal and the second modulated signal. In the precoding weight multiplying unit, precoding weights are regularly hopped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUST
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi
  • Publication number: 20230308161
    Abstract: A transmission method for transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal in the same frequency at the same time. Each signal has been modulated according to a different modulation sheme. The transmission method applies precoding on both signals using a fixed precoding matrix, applies different power change to each signal, and regularly changes the phase of at least one of the signals, thereby improving received data signal quality for a reception device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Yutaka MURAKAMI, Tomohiro KIMURA, Mikihiro OUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230300010
    Abstract: Transmission quality is improved in an environment in which direct waves dominate in a transmission method for transmitting a plurality of modulated signals from a plurality of antennas at the same time. All data symbols used in data transmission of a modulated signal are precoded by hopping between precoding matrices so that the precoding matrix used to precode each data symbol and the precoding matrices used to precode data symbols that are adjacent to the data symbol in the frequency domain and the time domain all differ. A modulated signal with such data symbols arranged therein is transmitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Yutaka MURAKAMI, Tomohiro KIMURA, Mikihiro OUCHI