Patents by Inventor Naoto Ishii

Naoto Ishii 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: 20240106550
    Abstract: A base station, a method for a base station, and a program capable of appropriately selecting radio terminals for which spatial multiplexing is performed and an MCS, and thereby increasing throughput in multi-user MIMO are provided. A base station 11 according to the present disclosure includes: a correction parameter storage unit 1141 configured to store a plurality of correction parameters for each of a plurality of radio terminals 12, the plurality of correction parameters being provided for each of the radio terminals 12; a correction parameter selection unit 1131 configured to select a predetermined correction parameter from among the plurality of correction parameters based on a combination of radio terminals 12 that are spatially multiplexed in the same radio resource; a correction value calculation unit 1132 configured to calculate a correction value of the radio terminal 12 based on the predetermined correction parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Takanobu DOI, Kazushi MURAOKA, Naoto ISHII, Jun SHIKIDA
  • Publication number: 20240097791
    Abstract: A symbol constellation generation apparatus (2000) acquires specification information (10) of the optical communication system (100). The symbol constellation generation apparatus (2000) uses a first prediction model (50) to generate noise characteristics information (20) based on the specification information (10). The symbol constellation generation apparatus (2000) uses a second prediction model (60) to generate symbol constellation (30) suited to the optical communication system having the noise characteristics represented by the noise characteristics information (20).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Ankith Vinayachandran, Emmanuel Le Taillandier de Gabory, Naoto Ishii, Norifumi Kamiya
  • Patent number: 11933715
    Abstract: A test sample of a vulcanized rubber material is placed under a preset placement condition in a fixing frame in a test tank having a predetermined ozone concentration, and digital image data is acquired by capturing at a fixed point, over time, with at least one camera device, images of a surface of the test sample that has been placed in the test tank; and determining a change in a surface state of the test sample between a plurality of points in time by analyzing, with a computation device, the image data that has been acquired. Such evaluation method for evaluating ozone deterioration of a vulcanized rubber material can accurately determine a change over time in ozone deterioration while reducing working man-hours.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Gang Hou, Taro Takahashi, Masahiko Miyamoto, Naoto Ishii
  • Publication number: 20240031026
    Abstract: An optical communication system includes a first terminal device configured to receive first data, wherein the first terminal device is configured to generate an optical waveform based on the received first data. The optical system further includes an optical communication path configured to receive the optical waveform from the first terminal device. The optical system further includes a second terminal device configured to receive the optical waveform from the optical communication path, wherein the second terminal device is configured to output second data based on the optical waveform. At least one of the first terminal device or the second terminal device includes a nonlinear waveform distortion compensation device. The nonlinear waveform compensation device is configured to correct nonlinear waveform distortion resulting from the optical waveform propagating along the optical communication path, and the nonlinear waveform compensation device includes at least one recursive intermediate layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Shinsuke FUJISAWA, Naoto ISHII, Ankith VINAYACHANDRAN, Emmanuel LE TAILLANDIER DE GABORY, Fatih YAMAN, Hussam G. BATSHON
  • Patent number: 11881970
    Abstract: A signal detection unit detects, from a baseband signal of a received radio wave, two types of fixed signal sections that have different communication information and are present in sufficiently shorter time than a time period in which influence of fading fluctuates, and designate the detected two types of fixed signal sections as an information-1 section and an information-2 section. An information-1 section signal processing unit clips the information-1 section from the baseband signal, and performs Fourier transform on the clipped information-1 section. An information-2 section signal processing unit clips the information-2 section from the baseband signal, and performs Fourier transform on the clipped information-2 section. A feature value computation unit computes a feature value, based on an output of the information-1 section signal processing unit and an output of the information-2 section signal processing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kiyohiko Takahashi, Toshiki Takeuchi, Naoto Ishii
  • Patent number: 11864180
    Abstract: A radio communication system includes: a plurality of cells having different scrambling sequences, respectively, wherein at least two cells communicate with at lease two user terminals connected to different serving cells; and a controller which controls the plurality of cells and provides a single scrambling sequence to said at least two cells and said at least two user terminals for control signal transmission and reception.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Le Liu, Yoshikazu Kakura, Naoto Ishii, Takamichi Inoue
  • Publication number: 20230388015
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a signal processing system for an optical communication system including an optical transmitter and an optical receiver. The signal processing system is configured to: identify a distortion of input signals from an optical receiver in an unsupervised manner to output distortion parameters indicating the distortion identified; and utilize the outputted distortion parameters to modify signal inputted to an optical transmitter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Ankith Vinayachandran, Shinsuke Fujisawa, Naoto Ishii, Emmanuel Le Taillandier de Gabory
  • Patent number: 11831347
    Abstract: A parameter determination apparatus (2) includes: a first learning device (2111) learning a weight between a [j?1]-th layer (j is an integer that satisfies a condition that “2?j?the number of the layer”) and a [j]-th layer to which an output of the [j?1]-th layer is inputted among a plurality of layers of a neural network; a selecting device (2112) selecting at least one valid path for each node included in the [j]-th layer from a plurality of connection paths that connect nodes in the [j?1]-th layer and nodes in the [j]-th layer, respectively, on the basis of the weight learned by the first learning device; and a second learning device (2113) learning at least one of the weight and a bias as the parameters relating to a network structure between the [j?1]-th layer and the [j]-th layer on the basis of the sample signal, the label signal and the valid path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaaki Tanio, Norifumi Kamiya, Naoto Ishii
  • Publication number: 20230375193
    Abstract: A hot-water supply and heating system includes: a first pump that circulates a first heat medium between a heat source unit and a heat-medium heat exchanger; a second pump that causes a second heat medium to flow between a load-side device and the heat-medium heat exchanger; a first temperature sensor that detects a primary fluid temperature that is a temperature of the first heat medium that flows out of the heat source unit; a heat-source-unit controller; and a pump controller. The heat-source-unit controller transmits information indicating the heating capacity of the heat source unit reaches an upper limit value to the pump controller, when it is determined that the primary fluid temperature is lower than a target temperature and the heating capability of the heat source unit is equal to the upper limit value. The pump controller reduces an operation frequency of the second pump when receiving the above information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Takenori MATSUMOTO, Naoto ISHII, Tsukine MATSUGAMI, Kimitaka KADOWAKI
  • Publication number: 20230349565
    Abstract: An outdoor unit of an air-conditioning apparatus, wherein the outdoor unit has a control box and an electrical box accommodated therein, in the control box, devices serving as a controller configured to control refrigeration cycle-related devices are accommodated, and in the electrical box, devices including a thermal relay are accommodated, the devices producing a smaller amount of heat compared to the devices accommodated in the control box, the electrical box being formed separately from the control box.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Kimitaka KADOWAKI, Akinori KURACHI, Naoto ISHII, Tsukine MATSUGAMI, Tomoya KIMURA
  • Patent number: 11796203
    Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus includes: a heat medium circulation circuit including: a heat medium device, a heat medium pipe, a pump, a heat medium detection unit, and a controller that includes a count unit to count an air-conditioning operation time and count a pump operation time based on heat medium detection information of the heat medium detection unit, a storage unit storing a set air-conditioning time and a set pump time, a comparison unit to compare the air-conditioning operation time with the set air-conditioning time and compare the pump operation time with the set pump time, and a device control unit to control driving of the pump so that the pump operation time reaches or exceeds the set pump time when the air-conditioning operation time is longer than or equal to the set air-conditioning time and the pump operation time is shorter than the set pump time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Naoto Ishii, Yuji Motomura, Kimitaka Kadowaki
  • Patent number: 11777585
    Abstract: A wireless receiving apparatus generates an N?×B? weight matrix W whose columns are orthogonal to each other by decomposing an estimated N?×M? channel matrix into the N?×B? weight matrix W and a B?×M? matrix containing two or more non-zero matrix elements in each column, where B? is an integer less than or equal to N?-1 and greater than or equal to M?. Alternatively, the wireless receiving apparatus generates a combination of an N?×B? sub-weight matrix W1 and at least one second sub-weight matrix, where the product of the sub-weight matrix W1 with the at least one second sub-weight matrix is equal to the weight matrix W. The wireless receiving apparatus performs receive beamforming on received signals of N? receiving antennas using the weight matrix W or the sub-weight matrix W1. The wireless receiving apparatus then performs a BP algorithm using receive-beamformed signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignees: NEC CORPORATION, OSAKA UNIVERSITY, THE DOSHISHA
    Inventors: Takanobu Doi, Kazushi Muraoka, Naoto Ishii, Takumi Takahashi, Shinsuke Ibi
  • Publication number: 20230254858
    Abstract: A radio communication system includes: a plurality of cells having different scrambling sequences, respectively, wherein at least two cells communicate with at lease two user terminals connected to different serving cells; and a controller which controls the plurality of cells and provides a single scrambling sequence to said at least two cells and said at least two user terminals for control signal transmission and reception.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Le LIU, Yoshikazu KAKURA, Naoto ISHII, Takamichi INOUE
  • Patent number: 11671963
    Abstract: A radio communication system includes: a plurality of cells having different scrambling sequences, respectively, wherein at least two cells communicate with at lease two user terminals connected to different serving cells; and a controller which controls the plurality of cells and provides a single scrambling sequence to said at least two cells and said at least two user terminals for control signal transmission and reception.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Le Liu, Yoshikazu Kakura, Naoto Ishii, Takamichi Inoue
  • Publication number: 20230171131
    Abstract: A signal detection unit detects, from a baseband signal of a received radio wave, two types of fixed signal sections that have different communication information and are present in sufficiently shorter time than a time period in which influence of fading fluctuates, and designate the detected two types of fixed signal sections as an information-1 section and an information-2 section. An information-1 section signal processing unit clips the information-1 section from the baseband signal, and performs Fourier transform on the clipped information-1 section. An information-2 section signal processing unit clips the information-2 section from the baseband signal, and performs Fourier transform on the clipped information-2 section. A feature value computation unit computes a feature value, based on an output of the information-1 section signal processing unit and an output of the information-2 section signal processing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kiyohiko Takahashi, Toshiki Takeuchi, Naoto Ishii
  • Patent number: 11627485
    Abstract: A computer system includes at least one memory and at least one processor coupled to the at least one memory and configured to execute one or more sets of instructions. The one or more sets of instructions, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the computer system to provide virtualized radio access network functions including executing a BP algorithm and provide controller functions including adjusting the total number of iterations of the BP algorithm depending on available computing resources of the computer system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignees: NEC CORPORATION, OSAKA UNIVERSITY, THE DOSHISHA
    Inventors: Kazushi Muraoka, Naoto Ishii, Takumi Takahashi, Shinsuke Ibi
  • Publication number: 20230075680
    Abstract: A wireless receiving apparatus generates an N?×B? weight matrix W whose columns are orthogonal to each other by decomposing an estimated N?×M? channel matrix into the N?×B? weight matrix W and a B?×M? matrix containing two or more non-zero matrix elements in each column, where B? is an integer less than or equal to N?-1 and greater than or equal to M?. Alternatively, the wireless receiving apparatus generates a combination of an N?×B? sub-weight matrix W1 and at least one second sub-weight matrix, where the product of the sub-weight matrix W1 with the at least one second sub-weight matrix is equal to the weight matrix W. The wireless receiving apparatus performs receive beamforming on received signals of N? receiving antennas using the weight matrix W or the sub-weight matrix W1. The wireless receiving apparatus then performs a BP algorithm using receive-beamformed signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicants: NEC CORPORATION, OSAKA UNIVERSITY, THE DOSHISHA
    Inventors: Takanobu DOI, Kazushi MURAOKA, Naoto ISHII, Takumi TAKAHASHI, Shinsuke IBI
  • Patent number: 11595153
    Abstract: A method implemented in a computer system includes training a network, which is obtained by unfolding an iterative algorithm for demodulation or demodulation and decoding, using a machine learning technique with a loss function that takes into account non-Gaussianity of a log-likelihood ratio (LLR) distribution calculated from an output of the network. The method further includes producing a first set of learned parameters of that iterative algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignees: NEC CORPORATION, OSAKA UNIVERSITY, THE DOSHISHA
    Inventors: Kazushi Muraoka, Takanobu Doi, Naoto Ishii, Takumi Takahashi, Seiichi Sampei, Shinsuke Ibi
  • Publication number: 20230054311
    Abstract: A delta-sigma modulation apparatus performs delta-sigma modulation on a first signal as an input signal and outputs a second signal, outputs, using the second signal and a third signal generated through a transmission process of the second signal, a fourth signal that is an approximated value of a signal which is generated through at least part of the transmission process, and performs the delta-sigma modulation on the first signal using the fourth signal and outputs the second signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Masaaki TANIO, Naoto ISHII, Kazushi MURAOKA
  • Patent number: 11489790
    Abstract: Provided is a mobile station which communicates with abase station using a radio channel, the mobile station comprising: a switching unit configured to switch from a packet reception period, during which packet reception can be executed, to a packet reception halt period, during which packet reception is halted; a transmission unit configured to transmit, to the base station, a result of receiving a packet sent from the base station, as a reception result notification signal; a packet reception determination unit configured to determine a packet reception fault; and a reception period determination unit configured to extend the packet reception period if the packet reception fault is determined by the packet reception determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoto Ishii, Jinsock Lee