Patents by Inventor Naganori Shirakata

Naganori Shirakata 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: 20240120983
    Abstract: A reception apparatus includes reception circuitry and decoding circuitry. The reception receives a signal including a legacy header field, an enhanced directional multi-gigabit (EDMG) header field, and a data field. The decoding circuitry decodes data included in the data field of the received signal. The legacy header field includes a Length field comprising multiple bits. The reception apparatus is an EDMG terminal, and a subset of the multiple bits of the Length field included in the legacy header field is used to indicate bandwidth over which the signal is transmitted. Remaining bits of the Length field included in the legacy header field are used to indicate data length of the received signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: HIROYUKI MOTOZUKA, NAGANORI SHIRAKATA, MASATAKA IRIE, TAKENORI SAKAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11940548
    Abstract: Provided is an improved estimation and identification device that estimates the position of a plurality of identification targets and identifies the plurality of identification targets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yohei Morishita, Junji Sato, Naganori Shirakata, Hidekuni Yomo, Kenta Iwasa, Kazuma Nishiyasu, Mei Okamoto
  • Patent number: 11882606
    Abstract: This wireless communication terminal device includes a control circuit that: causes, after receiving a beacon from a base station device, a connection to be established between the wireless communication terminal device and the base station device using a first control program; if a connection notification request to an external server was received from one or more application programs, uses a second control program, after the establishment of the connection, to output a connection establishment notification to the one or more application programs; and after the connection establishment notification is received, outputs to a communication circuit, via the first control program, a communication request to the external server device by the one or more application programs. The communication circuit of the wireless communication terminal device transmits the communication request to the base station device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kosei Nakano, Tomoya Urushihara, Hiroyuki Motozuka, Naganori Shirakata, Koji Takinami, Takenori Sakamoto, Yao Huang Gaius Wee
  • Publication number: 20240019575
    Abstract: This sensor includes: a sensing circuit for detecting an object moving along a path; a receiving circuit for receiving, from other sensors that have detected the object, identification information for the other sensors; and a control circuit for causing a storage circuit to store the most recently received identification information for another sensor in response to the detection of the object by the sensing circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Yohei MORISHITA, Tomohiro MURATA, Naganori SHIRAKATA, Koji TAKINAMI, Mei OKAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11876591
    Abstract: A reception apparatus includes reception circuitry and decoding circuitry. The reception receives a signal including a legacy header field, an enhanced directional multi-gigabit (EDMG) header field, and a data field. The decoding circuitry decodes data included in the data field of the received signal. The legacy header field includes a Length field comprising multiple bits. The reception apparatus is an EDMG terminal, and a subset of the multiple bits of the Length field included in the legacy header field is used to indicate bandwidth over which the signal is transmitted. Remaining bits of the Length field included in the legacy header field are used to indicate data length of the received signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Motozuka, Naganori Shirakata, Masataka Irie, Takenori Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20230412286
    Abstract: In a radio network system containing a first radio apparatus that performs central control and a second radio apparatus, the second radio apparatus receives a first signal containing first identification information indicating a transmission source during a first reception period, receives a second signal containing second identification information indicating a transmission source during a second reception period, measures first reception information on reception of the first signal, measures second reception information on reception of the second signal, and transmits first measurement information containing the first reception information and the first identification information and second measurement information containing the second reception information and the second identification information to the first radio apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Hiroshi TAKAHASHI, Naganori SHIRAKATA, Tomohiro MURATA, Koji TAKINAMI, Yohei MORISHITA, Mei OKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230412289
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus for associating an identifier of each of a plurality of sensors and a known installation position of a corresponding one of the plurality of sensors receives an identifier transmitted by a detection-complete sensor that has detected an object; associates, in a first path that is a part of the path, the identifier with an installation position of the detection-complete sensor in a reception order of a plurality of the identifiers; receives, from a detection-incomplete sensor that has not detected the object, reception strength information including an identifier of the detection-incomplete sensor and a reception strength of a signal of another one or more of the plurality of sensors in the detection-incomplete sensor; and associates, for the detection-incomplete sensor installed on a second path that is a rest of the path, the identifier of the detection-incomplete sensor and an installation position of the detection-incomplete sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Tomohiro MURATA, Naganori SHIRAKATA, Koji TAKINAMI
  • Patent number: 11783699
    Abstract: An intersection information distribution apparatus includes a plurality of image capturers, one or more first wireless communicators, a position estimator, and a controller. The plurality of image capturers capture images in and around an intersection. The one or more first wireless communicators perform directional communication with a second wireless communicator mounted on a vehicle. The position estimator estimates a position of the vehicle in and around the intersection from a communication state of the directional communication. The controller selects a piece of data from among pieces of data of the images captured by the plurality of image capturers on the basis of the estimated position of the vehicle. The one or more first wireless communicators transmit the selected piece of data to the second wireless communicator of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Naganori Shirakata, Koji Takinami, Kenichi Ono, Noboru Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20230297854
    Abstract: The learning apparatus according to one exemplary embodiment includes: a pattern extractor that extracts a time fluctuation pattern of an amplitude of a feature frequency from state observation signal data up to a first time point, the state observation signal data indicating an operation state of equipment, the feature frequency being associated with a part of the equipment; a training data generator that generates, based on the time fluctuation pattern of the amplitude of the feature frequency, simulated state observation signal data representing the time fluctuation pattern of the amplitude of the feature frequency at and after the first time point, and generates training data including the simulated state observation signal data; and a learner that generates a classification model for determination of a failure state of the part of the equipment using the training data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Naganori SHIRAKATA, Zhiqi LIU, Tenta KOMATSU, Takayuki TSUKIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20230253987
    Abstract: A wireless communication device serving as an NG60 WiGig device includes a PPDU generator that generates an MF control PHY PPDU (physical layer protocol data unit) including a legacy preamble, a legacy header, an NG60 header (a non-legacy header), a data field, and identification information indicating that the non-legacy header is included in the PPDU and a transmitter that transmits the generated MF control PHY PPDU.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Lei Huang, Michael Hong Cheng Sim, Takenori Sakamoto, Naganori Shirakata
  • Publication number: 20230246680
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a PHY frame generating circuit that generates a PHY frame including either of a short Sector Sweep frame and a Sector Sweep frame; and an array antenna that selects, based on the PHY frame, any sector from among a plurality of sectors and transmits the PHY frame. In a case where, in the PHY frame including the short Sector Sweep frame, a Direction field of the short Sector Sweep frame indicates Initiator Sector Sweep, the PHY frame generating circuit replaces a Short Sector Sweep Feedback field indicating a number of a selected best short Sector Sweep with a Short Scrambled Basic Service Set ID field indicating an abbreviated address generated from an address of a destination communication apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Motozuka, Masataka Irie, Takenori Sakamoto, Naganori Shirakata, Yao Huang Gaius Wee, Michael Hong Cheng Sim, Lei Huang
  • Publication number: 20230231635
    Abstract: A mobile radio apparatus transmits to a plurality of fixed radio apparatuses, a fingerprint that indicates a reception strength distribution of radio signals from the plurality of fixed radio apparatuses. Each of the plurality of fixed radio apparatuses in which a learning model is installed inputs the fingerprint to the learning model and transmits a degree of proximity of the mobile radio apparatus output from the learning model to another one or more of the plurality of fixed radio apparatuses, and determines a position of the mobile radio apparatus, based on a first degree of proximity output from the learning model and a second degree of proximity received from the other one or more of the plurality of fixed radio apparatuses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Mei OKAMOTO, Naganori SHIRAKATA, Tomohiro MURATA, Hiroshi TAKAHASHI, Yohei MORISHITA
  • Patent number: 11671121
    Abstract: A wireless communication device serving as an NG60 WiGig device includes a PPDU generator that generates an MF control PHY PPDU (physical layer protocol data unit) including a legacy preamble, a legacy header, an NG60 header (a non-legacy header), a data field, and identification information indicating that the non-legacy header is included in the PPDU and a transmitter that transmits the generated MF control PHY PPDU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lei Huang, Michael Hong Cheng Sim, Takenori Sakamoto, Naganori Shirakata
  • Patent number: 11658714
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a PHY frame generating circuit that generates a PHY frame including either of a short Sector Sweep frame and a Sector Sweep frame; and an array antenna that selects, based on the PHY frame, any sector from among a plurality of sectors and transmits the PHY frame. In a case where, in the PHY frame including the short Sector Sweep frame, a Direction field of the short Sector Sweep frame indicates Initiator Sector Sweep, the PHY frame generating circuit replaces a Short Sector Sweep Feedback field indicating a number of a selected best short Sector Sweep with a Short Scrambled Basic Service Set ID field indicating an abbreviated address generated from an address of a destination communication apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Motozuka, Masataka Irie, Takenori Sakamoto, Naganori Shirakata, Yao Huang Gaius Wee, Michael Hong Cheng Sim, Lei Huang
  • Patent number: 11622399
    Abstract: A transmission device includes N wireless transmission circuits and N transmission buffers. N is an integer equal to or greater than two. Each of the N transmission buffers is connected to a respective wireless transmission circuit of the N wireless transmission circuits. At least a part of a piece of delivery data is stored in each of the N transmission buffers before the N wireless transmission circuits establish wireless links. The N wireless transmission circuits are instructed to transmit the piece of delivery data stored in the N transmission buffers after the N wireless transmission circuits establish the wireless links.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Koji Takinami, Naganori Shirakata, Tomoya Urushihara, Masashi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11589275
    Abstract: A terminal device includes: transmission circuitry that transmits a connection request to a first access point in order to connect, by a wireless link, to one of the first access point or a second access point each having a superframe in an initial state in which a control channel period is longer than a data channel period; and reception circuitry that receives, as a connection response, information indicating the second access point as information on a connection destination access point from the first access point after the connection request is transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuma Nishiyasu, Naganori Shirakata, Junichi Morita, Hiroshi Takahashi, Mei Okamoto
  • Patent number: 11522590
    Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus includes a first antenna circuit that forms a beam selected from among a plurality of first beams through a beamforming process performed for communication using a millimeter wave band and a monitor that displays a first pattern indicating a radiation direction of the selected beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Naganori Shirakata, Masayuki Shimizu, Koji Takinami
  • Publication number: 20220377729
    Abstract: A radio communication apparatus includes: control circuitry, which, in operation, selects, as a radio channel used for transmission, at least one radio channel among a plurality of radio channels based on information on a reduction time of a sum of transmission time per unit time in each of the plurality of radio channels; and radio circuitry, which, in operation, performs transmission using the selected radio channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventors: Toshihiro TERAOKA, Naganori SHIRAKATA, Tomohiro MURATA, Yohei MORISHITA
  • Publication number: 20220377644
    Abstract: A radio communication apparatus includes reception circuitry, which, in operation, receives a first frame transmitted by a first node in a wireless mesh network; and control circuitry, which, in operation, configures a relay destination node as second information in case that the first frame includes first information indicating a third node that performs transmission in cooperation with a second node that transmits a radio signal to a radio link in which communication quality is less than a threshold in the wireless mesh network and in case that the third node included in the first information indicates the radio communication apparatus, the relay destination node being a node to which the second node transmits the first frame, the second information indicating a relay destination node to which the third node transmits the first frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventors: Yohei MORISHITA, Naganori SHIRAKATA, Toshihiro TERAOKA, Tomohiro MURATA
  • Publication number: 20220361139
    Abstract: Provided is a position estimation method for a stationary radio device, the method including: calculating a first similarity between a first fingerprint measured by the stationary radio device at a first timing and a second fingerprint measured by a mobile radio device at a second timing and transmitted from the mobile radio device; receiving, from another stationary radio device, a second similarity between a third fingerprint measured by the other stationary radio device at the first timing and the second fingerprint; and determining, a position of the mobile radio device based on a comparison result between the first similarity and the second similarity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Mei OKAMOTO, Naganori SHIRAKATA