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).
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Publication number: 20240275491Abstract: A wireless communication method in a wireless communication system including an exchange device and a base station device configured to perform beamforming according to the control of the exchange device, in which: the exchange device performs beamforming control of the base station device by transmitting an optically modulated signal to the base station device via an optical transmission line, the optically modulated signal being generated by modulating an intensity of an optical signal on a basis of a transmission signal to be transmitted by controlling any combination of an optical wavelength, a frequency, and an optical polarization or controlling the frequency; and the base station device inputs an electrical signal based on the optically modulated signal to a beamforming circuit having an input port corresponding to the number of combinations of the optical wavelength, the frequency, and the optical polarization or the number of frequencies to perform beamforming in a direction corresponding to the inpuType: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2021Publication date: August 15, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Kota ITO, Mizuki SUGA, Takuto ARAI, Yushi SHIRATO, Naoki KITA
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Patent number: 12063079Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 17, 2019Date of Patent: August 13, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Chunhsiang Huang, Yushi Shirato, Naoki Kita
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Publication number: 20240267122Abstract: A wireless communication method in a wireless communication system including an accommodation station device and a base station device that performs beam formation according to control of the accommodation station device, includes: transmitting an optical modulation signal generated by performing intensity modulation on an optical signal on the basis of a transmission signal to be transmitted to the base station device via an optical transmission line by the accommodation station device controlling any combination of a light wavelength, a frequency, or an optical polarized wave, or a plurality of frequencies or a plurality of light wavelengths, to perform beamforming control of the base station device; transmitting the optical modulation signal after dispersion compensation is performed in an electrical domain or an optical domain in the accommodation station device or performing dispersion compensation on the optical modulation signal on the optical transmission line; and inputting, by the base station devicType: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2021Publication date: August 8, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Kota ITO, Mizuki SUGA, Takuto ARAI, Yushi SHIRATO, Naoki KITA
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Publication number: 20240259098Abstract: A wireless communication method in a wireless communication system including an exchange device and a base station device that performs beamforming according to the control of the exchange device, in which: the exchange device performs beamforming control of the base station device by transmitting an optically modulated signal to the base station device via an optical transmission line, the optically modulated signal being generated by modulating an intensity of an optical signal on a basis of a transmission signal to be transmitted by controlling any combination of an optical wavelength, a frequency, and an optical polarization or controlling the frequency; and the base station device performs beamforming in a direction in which a wireless signal radiated from an antenna to which an electrical signal based on the optically modulated signal has been input is reflected by a reflector or is transmitted through a lens among antennas corresponding to the number of combinations of the optical wavelength, the frequType: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2021Publication date: August 1, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Kota ITO, Mizuki SUGA, Takuto ARAI, Yushi SHIRATO, Naoki KITA
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Patent number: 12052679Abstract: An AP 3 and STAs 5 acquire time information from an external device, and synchronize time. The AP 3 sets, in a first signal, a transmission start time of the first signal, and transmits the first signal to the STA 5. The STAs 5 transmit, to the AP 3, a second signal in which a delay time is set, the delay time being calculated from a difference between the transmission start time acquired from the first signal and a reception start time of the first signal at the own station. The AP 3 acquires delay time from the second signal of each STA 5, decides a timing for permitting transmission by each of the STAs 5 by time division, on the basis of the acquired delay time, and notifies the STAs 5 thereof. The STAs 5 each effect control to start transmission of signals to the AP 3 at the timing notified from the AP 3.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2019Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Mizuki Suga, Nobuaki Otsuki, Kota Ito, Naoki Kita
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Patent number: 12040554Abstract: A wireless communication device is presented. The wireless communication device includes: a high-frequency circuit; and an analog signal processing circuit that performs gain adjustment such that a gain for each of the plurality of antenna elements, in case of a signal transmission or in case of a signal reception, is a predetermined value being dependent on a position of the antenna element. The analog signal processing circuit includes a first splitter/combiner between the high-frequency circuit and the plurality of antenna elements. For each antenna element in the plurality of antenna elements, a second splitter/combiner is coupled to a particular antenna element in the plurality of antenna elements and, for each antenna element in the plurality of antenna elements, two or more phase shifters of a given M system are connected in parallel with each other and coupled between the first splitter/combiner and a corresponding second splitter/combiner.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2019Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi Ota, Naoki Kita, Yushi Shirato, Kazuto Goto, Kota Ito, Chunhsiang Huang
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Patent number: 12022310Abstract: One aspect of the present invention is a shielding rate calculation device including a voxel division unit for dividing a Fresnel zone into a plurality of voxels each having a size corresponding to acquisition conditions at the time of acquiring point group data indicating a shielding object in an inter-wireless-station space between a transmission station and a reception station, and a calculation unit for calculating a shielding rate against a radio wave traveling from the transmission station toward the reception station on the basis of a position, a shape, and a size of a shielding voxel, which is a voxel at a position indicated by the point group data, among the plurality of voxels.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2019Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Hideki Toshinaga, Hideyuki Tsuboi, Kazuto Goto, Naoki Kita
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Patent number: 12009862Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 25, 2019Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Kota Ito, Mizuki Suga, Yushi Shirato, Naoki Kita
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Patent number: 11997507Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 18, 2019Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Shuki Wai, Tatsuhiko Iwakuni, Hideyuki Tsuboi, Daisei Uchida, Hideki Toshinaga, Kazuto Goto, Naoki Kita
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Patent number: 11974312Abstract: An allocation method for allocating individual downlink data signals to positions on a time axis when a base station transmits the individual downlink data signals to a plurality of terminal stations. The allocation method includes provisionally allocating individual downlink data signals of the individual downlink data signals for terminal stations having long propagation delay times to positions of relatively early timings and provisionally allocating individual downlink data signals of the individual downlink data signal for terminal stations having short propagation delay times to positions of relatively late timings, changing the positions such that, when it is estimated that a collision will occur when receiving response signals transmitted from the terminal stations, it is estimated that a collision will not occur, in the provisionally allocating, and fixing, as the positions of the individual downlink data signals on the time axis, the positions changed in the changing of the positions.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuto Goto, Hideki Toshinaga, Yushi Shirato, Mizuki Suga, Kota Ito, Naoki Kita
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Patent number: 11956643Abstract: A station placement design method includes: extracting candidates for an installation location of a wireless base station from point group data in accordance with designated conditions for an installation location of a wireless base station; determining presence/absence of visibility between a plurality of designated wireless terminal stations and the candidates for an installation location of a wireless base station based on the point group data and generating a first list including information in which the candidates for an installation location of a wireless base station and wireless terminal stations determined to have presence of visibility for the candidates for an installation location of a wireless base station are associated with each other; generating a second list including information representing combinations of the candidates for an installation location of a wireless base station that enable all of the plurality of designated wireless terminal stations to be accommodated based on the first listType: GrantFiled: January 15, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Hideki Toshinaga, Naoki Kita, Yushi Shirato, Hideyuki Tsuboi, Kazuto Goto
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Patent number: 11936429Abstract: 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 trType: GrantFiled: November 25, 2019Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Kota Ito, Mizuki Suga, Yushi Shirato, Naoki Kita
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Publication number: 20240072872Abstract: A wireless communication system includes: a communication control device; and a plurality of wireless base station devices capable of forming a plurality of beams and transmitting signals, the communication control device including: an estimation unit configured to estimate whether or not a range of a first beam emitted by a first wireless base station device among the plurality of wireless base station devices is correlated with a range of a second beam emitted by a second wireless base station device different from the first wireless base station device; and a use prohibition unit configured to prohibit the first wireless base station device from using the first beam or prohibit the second wireless base station device from using the second beam in a case where the estimation unit estimates that the range of the first beam is correlated with the range of the second beam.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2021Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Tatsuhiko IWAKUNI, Daisei UCHIDA, Shuki WAI, Naoki KITA
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Patent number: 11916610Abstract: An interference evaluation method for evaluating, over an area, radio-wave interference that occurs between a first radio station and a second radio station includes: a distinguishing step of acquiring information indicating topographic cross-sections of respective azimuths centered about the first radio station, and distinguishing the topographic cross-section into a segment in which there is visibility from the position of the first radio station and a segment in which there is no visibility from the position of the first radio station; and a specification step of specifying a position at which a desired interference amount is reached based on a distance between the first radio station and the second radio station in a segment distinguished as having visibility from the position of the first radio station, and specifying a position at which the desired interference amount is reached by evaluating the radio-wave interference for each square of an evaluation target region segmented into squares in a segment dType: GrantFiled: March 11, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Hideyuki Tsuboi, Hideki Toshinaga, Kazuto Goto, Yushi Shirato, Naoki Kita
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Publication number: 20240063907Abstract: A radio communication method performed by a radio communication device includes an inverse fast Fourier transform step of performing inverse fast Fourier transform on a digital electric signal associated with a downlink radio signal, a digital-to-analogue conversion step of converting the digital electric signal subjected to the inverse fast Fourier transform into a first analogue electric signal, an electro-optic conversion step of converting the first analogue electric signal into an optical signal, a step of transmitting the optical signal, a photoelectric conversion step of converting the transmitted optical signal into a second analogue electric signal, and a step of transmitting the downlink radio signal corresponding to the second analogue electric signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2021Publication date: February 22, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Kota ITO, Mizuki SUGA, Takuto ARAI, Yushi SHIRATO, Daisei UCHIDA, Naoki KITA, Takeshi ONIZAWA
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Patent number: 11902799Abstract: Point cloud data between a base station device and a terminal station device is acquired as a point cloud data group. A radius of a first Fresnel zone defined by the base station device and the terminal station device at each position where the point cloud data group is acquired is calculated. A region specified by the radius at each position where the point cloud data group is acquired is scanned to detect the point cloud data, and a non-line-of-sight region is extracted. A ratio of a total area of all the extracted non-line-of-sight regions to an area of a region constructed by the first Fresnel zone is calculated. A received power is estimated based on the calculated ratio between the areas. Whether or not there is a line of sight between the base station device and the terminal station device is determined based on the received power.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2019Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuto Goto, Hideki Toshinaga, Hideyuki Tsuboi, Yushi Shirato, Naoki Kita
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Patent number: 11902005Abstract: 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 connectType: GrantFiled: August 1, 2019Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Kota Ito, Yushi Shirato, Naoki Kita, Takeshi Onizawa
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Patent number: 11820536Abstract: A projection unit (12) of an interference power estimation device (1) projects an orbit of a satellite onto a map representing a ground surface. A range acquisition unit (13) determines a plurality of ranges on the map so that the projected orbit is included in the ranges. An altitude calculation unit (14) calculates an altitude of the orbit of the satellite in each of the ranges. A range interference calculation unit (16) calculates, for each of the ranges, an interference power between the satellite at a position determined by a latitude and a longitude of the range and the altitude calculated for the range and a radio station installed on the ground surface. An estimation result calculation unit (17) selects, as an estimation result, a maximum value among the interference powers calculated for each of the ranges.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2019Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Hideyuki Tsuboi, Yutaka Imaizumi, Kazuto Goto, Kota Ito, Naoki Kita, Hiroyuki Nakamura
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Patent number: 11804901Abstract: A derivation method includes: a transmission step of transmitting, to a wireless terminal, a first radio-wave signal according to an optical signal with a first wavelength and a second radio-wave signal according to an optical signal with a second wavelength; a communication start time information acquisition step of acquiring information on a first communication start time and information on a second communication start time; a reception time information acquisition step of acquiring information on a first reception time and information on a second reception time; a transmission time period derivation step of deriving a first round trip time and deriving a second round trip time; and an optical fiber length derivation step of deriving an optical fiber length, based on the first round trip time, the second round trip time, a group velocity or a group delay time of the optical signal with the first wavelength, and a group velocity or a group delay time of the optical signal with the second wavelength.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2020Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Mizuki Suga, Kota Ito, Yushi Shirato, Naoki Kita
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Publication number: 20230327746Abstract: A wireless communication method includes a reception step of receiving a signal transmitted from a first wireless station, a transmission step of transmitting the signal received in the reception step to a second wireless station, a control signal transmission/reception step of transmitting/receiving a control signal related to switching of a reception beam used in the reception step or a transmission beam used in the transmission step, and a beam control step of controlling switching of the reception beam or the transmission beam on the basis of the control signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2020Publication date: October 12, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Shuki WAI, Tatsuhiko IWAKUNI, Daisei UCHIDA, Naoki KITA