Patents by Inventor Nobuaki KUNO

Nobuaki KUNO 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: 20240162996
    Abstract: A communication design support apparatus includes: a propagation model storage unit that stores a propagation model; an acquisition unit that acquires data in which structure data containing coordinate data is associated with data indicating propagation loss; and a selection unit that selects data indicating classification of a characteristic of a communication environment in a structure indicated by the structure data based on the acquired data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: Minoru INOMATA, Wataru YAMADA, Nobuaki KUNO, Motoharu SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20240162997
    Abstract: A communication design support apparatus includes: an acquisition unit that acquires point cloud data of a structure and measurement data of a radio field intensity; a structure data generation unit that generates structure data indicating a shape and material of the structure based on a result of object recognition of the point cloud data; a propagation loss calculation unit that calculates propagation loss based on the measurement data of the radio field intensity in an environment including the structure; and an output unit that outputs data in which the structure
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: Minoru INOMATA, Wataru YAMADA, Nobuaki KUNO, Motoharu SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20240161384
    Abstract: An information processing system includes: a first ray tracing unit configured to determine a two-dimensional ray trace from a transmission point at which a radio wave is transmitted, to a reception point at which the radio wave is received; a second ray tracing unit configured to determine a three-dimensional ray trace corresponding to the two-dimensional ray trace, using height information about the transmission point and the reception point; and a radio field intensity calculation unit that calculates the intensity of the radio wave at the reception point, using one or more three-dimensional ray traces determined by the second ray tracing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Minoru INOMATA, Wataru YAMADA, Nobuaki KUNO, Motoharu SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20240155385
    Abstract: A communication design support apparatus includes: a propagation model storage unit that stores a propagation model; an acquisition unit that acquires data in which structure data containing coordinate data is associated with data indicating propagation loss; and a parameter update unit that updates a parameter of the propagation model based on the acquired data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Minoru INOMATA, Wataru YAMADA, Nobuaki KUNO, Motoharu SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20240155369
    Abstract: A communication design support apparatus includes: a propagation model storage unit configured to store a propagation model; a site survey unit configured to collect data obtained by measuring a structure; a data processing unit configured to update a parameter of the propagation model; and a radio field intensity estimation unit configured to estimate a radio field intensity in the structure by applying the propagation model having the parameter having been updated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Minoru INOMATA, Wataru YAMADA, Nobuaki KUNO, Motoharu SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20240135631
    Abstract: An information processing system includes: an acquisition unit configured to divide a target area into a plurality of meshes of a predetermined size, and acquire mesh data indicating the environment of the target area with height information about the plurality of meshes on a per-mesh basis; a first ray tracing unit configured to determine a two-dimensional ray trace from a transmission point to a reception point on the basis of the mesh data, a radio wave being transmitted at the transmission point, the radio wave being received at the reception point; a second ray tracing unit configured to determine a three-dimensional ray trace corresponding to the two-dimensional ray trace, on the basis of the mesh data, and height information about the transmission point and the reception point; and a radio field intensity calculation unit configured to calculate an intensity of the radio wave at the reception point, using one or more three-dimensional ray traces determined by the second ray tracing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2021
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Minoru INOMATA, Wataru YAMADA, Nobuaki KUNO, Motoharu SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20240137138
    Abstract: A communication design support apparatus includes: a propagation model storage unit that stores a propagation model; an acquisition unit that acquires point cloud data of a structure and measurement data of radio wave intensities in a plurality of frequency bands; a parameter update unit that updates a parameter of the propagation model based on the acquired data; and an estimation unit that estimates propagation loss based on the propagation model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2021
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Minoru INOMATA, Wataru YAMADA, Nobuaki KUNO, Motoharu SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20240107413
    Abstract: A connection destination switching control method executed by a communication apparatus, the connection destination switching control method comprising: a data acquisition step of acquiring observed values of received power of signals transmitted from a base station; a prediction processing step of predicting future received power by using the observed values acquired in the data acquisition step as input data into a prediction model; and a connection destination switching processing step of executing control for handover based on the future received power predicted in the prediction processing step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Motoharu SASAKI, Nobuaki KUNO, Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Minoru INOMATA, Wataru YAMADA, Takatsune MORIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220345899
    Abstract: Provided are: an extraction unit that, based on input information from an external source, extracts position information regarding a transmitting station and a receiving station and the frequency of radio waves transmitted by the transmitting station; a calculation unit that calculates the three-dimensional distance between the transmitting station and the receiving station and the free space loss of radio waves based on the position information and the frequency; a processing unit that performs processing for, with use of a two-dimensional image of a region that includes the transmitting station and the receiving station, extracting the edges of structures that reflect radio waves in the two-dimensional image; a generation unit that generates input data for use in machine learning, based on the position information, the three-dimensional distance, the free space loss, and the edge; and a learning unit that performs machine learning to estimate the propagation characteristics of radio waves between the transm
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuaki KUNO, Wataru YAMADA, Takatsune MORIYAMA, Yasushi TAKATORI
  • Publication number: 20220345927
    Abstract: Provided are: a first wireless station, a second wireless station that can move to an arbitrary position in a three-dimensional space and perform wireless communication with the first wireless station, and a measuring device that measures the position of the second wireless station in the three-dimensional space to obtain measurement information. At least one out of the first wireless station, the second wireless station, and the measuring device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires reception signal information that was received by the first wireless station or the second wireless station, and a calculation unit that associates the measurement information and the reception signal information with each other and calculates the propagation characteristics between the first wireless station and the second wireless station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuaki KUNO, Wataru YAMADA, Mitsuki NAKAMURA, Takatsune MORIYAMA, Yasushi TAKATORI