Patents by Inventor Naoki Kita

Naoki Kita 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: 20230097466
    Abstract: A plurality of ground station devices perform wireless communication processing for a side of a terminal station; and a single or a plurality of mobile station devices perform wireless communication processing for a side of a base station, so as to make a wireless connection in parallel with a plurality of the ground station devices having a line of sight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisei UCHIDA, Tatsuhiko IWAKUNI, Chunhsiang HUANG, Shuki WAI, Naoki KITA
  • Publication number: 20230034598
    Abstract: A control device controls an object to be controlled. The device includes a generator configured to generate a probability distribution used to determine a manipulated variable, and a determinator configured to determine the manipulated variable based on the probability distribution generated by the generator. In an operation phase, the determinator determines the manipulated variable in accordance with an expectation value of the probability distribution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Naoki Kiyohara, Naoki Kita
  • Publication number: 20230036874
    Abstract: A base station apparatus includes a centralized station apparatus and a plurality of access points connected to the centralized station apparatus via optical fibers. Based on propagation delay times in the optical fibers, the centralized station apparatus performs grouping such that access points, among a plurality of access points, with a difference in propagation delay time within a threshold value, belong to the same group. The plurality of access points perform connection processing for each of the groups, to communicate with wireless terminals subordinate to the plurality of access points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chunhsiang HUANG, Yushi SHIRATO, Naoki KITA
  • Publication number: 20230022178
    Abstract: The present invention performs: generating base station positional relationship specification data indicating a positional relationship between travel trajectory and a base station candidate position, and terminal station positional relationship specification data indicating a positional relationship between the travel trajectory and a terminal station candidate position, based on travel trajectory data indicating the travel trajectory of a moving body for measuring an object present in a three-dimensional space within a measurable distance predetermined and acquiring point cloud data indicating a position of the object measured in the three-dimensional space, the measurable distance, base station candidate position data indicating a candidate position for installing a base station apparatus, and terminal station candidate position data indicating a candidate position for installing a terminal station apparatus; and specifying a reliability coefficient indicating a degree of reliability of a processing result
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2019
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideyuki TSUBOI, Kazuto GOTO, Hideki TOSHINAGA, Shuki WAI, Tatsuhiko IWAKUNI, Daisei UCHIDA, Naoki KITA
  • Publication number: 20230020465
    Abstract: A line-of-sight determination method includes: a point cloud data acquisition step of acquiring point cloud data including a first position indicating a position of a first wireless station and a plurality of second positions indicating positions on a structure serving as a candidate in which a second wireless station opposing the first wireless station is to be installed; and a line-of-sight determination step of determining whether or not there is a line of sight between the first position and at least one of the second positions, and determining whether or not there is a line of sight between the first wireless station and the structure based on the determination result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuki WAI, Tatsuhiko IWAKUNI, Hideyuki TSUBOI, Daisei UCHIDA, Hideki TOSHINAGA, Kazuto GOTO, Naoki KITA
  • Publication number: 20230002867
    Abstract: A metal wire, which is one of a tungsten wire and a tungsten alloy wire, includes alkali metal on the surface thereof. The amount of alkali metal is at most 2.0 ?g per 1 g of the metal wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akitoshi KASAHARA, Naoki KOHYAMA, Tomohiro KANAZAWA, Kenshi TSUJI, Yoshiyuki KITA, Atsushi SHIMADA, Yuuki SASAGAWA
  • 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
  • Patent number: 11516681
    Abstract: SeNBs generate first identification information for specifying wireless access networks on the basis of system information provided in a notification from a relay communication device, wirelessly transmit the first identification information to UE, and notifiy an MeNB of second identification information for specifying wireless resources, utilization of which is permitted, via the relay communication device. The MeNB sets, in a signal directed to an SeNB selected from the SeNBs in the first identification information received from the UE, the first identification information of the SeNB, sets the second identification information of the selected SeNB in the signal directed to the UE, and transmits the signal to the relay communication device. The relay communication device transfers the signal received from the master base station to the SeNB in accordance with the first identification or the second identification information set in the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chunhsiang Huang, Tatsuya Fukui, Go Yazawa, Naoki Kita
  • Publication number: 20220377576
    Abstract: A wireless communication system has a communication control device and a plurality of wireless communication devices. The communication control device transmits, to one of the wireless communication devices, information regarding a measurement target device that is another one of the wireless communication devices with which interference power is to be measured. Each of the wireless communication devices includes a wireless unit, a power measurement unit, and a communication control unit. The wireless unit forms a beam and transmits and receives a wireless signal using the formed beam. The power measurement unit measures power of a wireless signal received by the wireless unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuhiko IWAKUNI, Daisei UCHIDA, Shuki WAI, Naoki KITA
  • Patent number: 11509378
    Abstract: A wireless communication system which includes first and second wireless station apparatuses having a plurality of antenna elements and performs directivity forming. For T1 and T2 such that T2=N2×T0 and T1=N1×T2 with a predetermined period T0, the wireless communication system performs the steps of sequentially switching N1 types of directional beams at intervals of period T2 and transmitting signals while performing switching with an identical directional beam switching pattern maintained over period T1, sequentially switching N2 types of directional beams at intervals of period T0 and receiving signals over the period T1 or more while performing switching with an identical directional beam switching pattern maintained over the period T2, searching for a directional beam having a highest reception level among those acquired over a predetermined period, and setting the searched directional beam as a directional beam to be used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Ota, Naoki Kita, Yushi Shirato, Yutaka Imaizumi, Kazuto Goto, Chunhsiang Huang
  • 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: 20220326387
    Abstract: An aspect of the present invention provides a shield factor calculation apparatus including: a point cloud data selection unit that selects point cloud data that satisfies a condition from point cloud data acquired in a multiple-passing area that is a region through which a mobile body that acquires the point cloud data indicating a shielding object in a space between a transmitting station and a receiving station has passed a predetermined number of times or more from among areas through which the mobile body has passed; a voxel splitting unit that splits a Fresnel zone into a plurality of voxels with sizes in accordance with positions in the Fresnel zone, based on information indicating an acquisition condition when the point cloud data selected by the point cloud data selection unit is acquired and information indicating an acquisition condition when the point cloud data is acquired in an area other than the multiple-passing area; a calculation unit that calculates a shield factor of a radio wave based on
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuto GOTO, Hideki TOSHINAGA, Hideyuki TSUBOI, Yushi SHIRATO, Naoki KITA
  • Publication number: 20220312223
    Abstract: In two-dimensional map data showing buildings to be candidates in which terminal station devices are to be installed, a position of a base station installation structure to be a candidate in which a base station device is to be installed is set as a base station candidate position, an unobstructed view for each of the buildings from the base station candidate position is determined based on the map data while excluding a region blocked by the building having an unobstructed view from the base station candidate position, and a range of a contour line having an unobstructed view of the building determined as having the unobstructed view is detected as an unobstructed view range. A candidate of, among wall surfaces of the building corresponding to the detected unobstructed view range, the wall surface on which the terminal station device can be installed is extracted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideyuki TSUBOI, Hideki TOSHINAGA, Kazuto GOTO, Shuki WAI, Yushi SHIRATO, Naoki KITA
  • Publication number: 20220295293
    Abstract: On two-dimensional map data indicating buildings serving as candidates for installing terminal station devices, locations of base station installation structures serving as candidates for installing base station devices are set as base station candidate locations, and for each of the base station candidate locations, buildings that have other buildings between themselves and the base station candidate location are selected as visibility detection subject buildings. The heights of the buildings are set at an identical length, a higher position than the buildings is set as an installation altitude of the base station devices, and for each selected visibility detection subject building, a visibility range of the visibility detection subject building from the installation altitude of the base station device in the base station candidate location is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideyuki TSUBOI, Hideki TOSHINAGA, Kazuto GOTO, Shuki WAI, Yushi SHIRATO, Naoki KITA, Takeshi ONIZAWA
  • 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