Abstract: A plurality of lenses (1a-1d) of a lens module (1), a plurality of wavelength selection regions (2a-2d) each having at least one optical filter, and a plurality of imaging regions (4a-4d) are placed in one-to-one correspondence. At least two of the plurality of wavelength selection regions transmit light in at least one wavelength band among infrared light, red light, green light, and blue light. The distance to an object is calculated based on at least two pieces of image information outputted respectively from at least two imaging regions respectively corresponding to the at least two wavelength selection regions. Furthermore, a camera module outputs an image signal based on image information outputted from at least one of the plurality of imaging regions. This can realize a small and low-cost camera module capable of measuring the distance to an object and capturing the object.

Abstract: Transmission power relative to a propagation path having a variation in gain is controlled to increase communication channel capacity, and a data rate is controlled in accordance with the variation of the increased communication channel capacity. In order to increase the communication channel capacity, the transmission power is determined so that the sum of noise power (=received noise power/propagation path gain) converted into one at a transmitter and the transmission power becomes constant. As a result, contrary to the background art, the transmission power is controlled to be reduced when the propagation path gain decreases and to be increased when the propagation path gain increases.

Abstract: The total amount of power for communications transmitted over channels susceptible to quality fluctuation is decreased to reduce interference with other communications and increase the system's overall capacity. When channel-encoded data is to be transmitted, the quality of a transmission channel is judged. The data is transmitted when the judged quality is higher than predefined. However, if the quality is lower than predefined, the data transmission to a wireless section is suppressed to avoid a signal transmission that cannot effectively be used at a receiving station, decrease the average transmission power, and reduce interference with other communications. Even if the channel quality is lower than predefined at the time of assigning a code word created by channel encoding, the same code word assignment operation as for a transmission portion is performed with respect to a no-transmission portion that a transmitting station does not send to a wireless section.

Abstract: A communication quality is improved or signal processing is simplified in a multi-carrier communication system such as OFDM. Information different in communication quality such as systematic bits and parity bits of turbo encoded code words is combined together, and information that requires a high communication quality such as the systematic bits is mapped to carriers having a frequency close to the carriers in which the pilot signal exists used as a reference phase of demodulation than the information such as the parity bits which does not require the high communication quality such as the systematic bits.

Abstract: The present invention provides a camera module including: a lens portion (10) including at least one lens (11); an imaging element (4) having a light-receiving surface that is substantially perpendicular to an optical axis direction of the lens (11); a fixed portion (30) provided on an outer peripheral side of the lens portion (10); a first elastic body (41a) that is provided on a side opposite to the imaging element (4) side with respect to the lens (11) and couples the lens portion (10) and the fixed portion (30); and a second elastic body (41b) that is provided on the imaging element (4) side with respect to the lens (11) and couples the lens portion (10) and the fixed portion (30). The first elastic body (41a) and the second elastic body (41b) have the same shape. The first elastic body (41a) and the second elastic body (41b) are arranged so as to oppose each other while sharing a common central axis.

Abstract: A prior art MIMO technique assumes one-to-one communication in which a transmitter and a receiver exist and does not assume a cellular system in which plural access points and access terminals exist. When the prior art is applied to the cellular system, the characteristic can be deteriorated. MIMO signal processing is not performed in access points. Signal processing units in the access points are integrated into an access point controller controlling plural access points and the MIMO signal processing for plural access points is performed together.

Abstract: A transmitter and a receiver share a maximum number of transmission bits per symbol as a parameter. The transmitter modulates an encoded and interleaved transmission signal in accordance with a modulation scheme which enables the transmission of one bit or more per symbol, while the receiver demodulates a received signal based on a channel quality in accordance with a modulation scheme which has a higher modulation level as the channel quality is higher. When the number of demodulated bits per symbol is smaller than the maximum number of transmission bits per symbol, the receiver deinterleaves and decodes a received signal after the demodulation on the assumption that the received signal has likelihoods of zero as much as the number of missing bits.

Abstract: A signal pair interference power ratio of the received signal at a user terminal is obtained and this ratio is then compared with the signal pair interference power ratio required for correct demodulation. Accordingly, the user terminals can be classified into those in the non-interference domain and those in the interference domain. A plurality of access points make the simultaneous communications to the user terminals in the non-interference domain and also make the communications on the time-division basis to the user terminals in the interference domain.

Abstract: In a radio communication system, transmitter and receiver stations share information on a maximum number of bits communicated per symbol. The transmitter station encodes a signal with sufficient error correcting capabilities to create a codeword. The transmitter station allocates the bits from the codeword to each symbol, modulates the symbols using a modulation type which processes symbols each having a number of bits equal to or smaller than the maximum number of bits per symbol, and transmits the modulated symbols. The receiver station demodulates the symbols using a modulation type which processes a larger number of bits per symbol as the transmission path quality is higher from among modulation types which process symbols having a number of bits equal to or smaller than the maximum number of bits per symbol.

Abstract: A radio communication system for enabling control of a modulation scheme following variation in the propagation channel and control of a coding rate in a small amount of delay and arithmetic operation. In order to attain the object explained above, a transmitter station and a receiver station use in common the information of the maximum number of bits used for communication of each symbol. The transmitter station generates codeword by previously encoding the communication signal with the code having sufficient error correcting capability, assigns, to each symbol, the codeword to result in the maximum number of bits per symbol, and modulates and transmits the bits using the modulation scheme in which the number of bits per symbol is equal to or less than the maximum number of bits per symbol.

Abstract: A subchannel scheduling method in a multi-user MIMO-OFDM environment modifies proportional fairness scheduling specifications and maximizes a system throughput under conditions that a minimum data transmission rate required by a multimedia user be ensured. In a method for allocating subchannels in a wireless network, plural users are subscribed in the wireless network, a base station has NT transmission antennas, a user i has NR reception antennas, a network capacity determined by the NT transmission antennas and K subcarrier groups is divided into K transmission subchannel groups, and a network bandwidth determined by the NT transmission antennas is divided into the K subchannel groups. The base station sequentially allocates channels to the users on the basis of a proportional value of a data transmission rate supported to each user and an average throughput of each user in a predetermined time and a service quality required by each user.

Abstract: In a radio-communication system and a radio station, one or more subcarriers are grouped, and the maximum bit number per symbol of the modulation method used for each subcarrier is determined for each group and shared between a transmitting station and a receiving station. The transmitting station divides and allocates a coded signal to subcarriers in accordance with the bit number per symbol, modulates each of the allocated signals by a predetermined modulation method, and transmits the modulated signals. The receiving station demodulates the received signal by the predetermined modulation method, adds a signal having zero likelihood when the bit number per symbol of a modulation method for demodulation is different from a maximum bit number, and decodes the demodulated signal by summarizing the demodulated results.

Abstract: In a permanent magnet-embedded, concentrated winding motor, plurality of stator teeth are divided into, for example, three groups that include a plurality of adjacent stator teeth having coils wound around and that are provided with voltage in phase that are set as one group. Coils are wound in opposite directions around adjacent stator teeth in the same group, while the relation between the angle h of a slot opening between adjacent stator teeth of the same group and the angle H of a slot opening formed between adjacent stator teeth of different groups satisfies h<H?3h.

Abstract: A transmitter station and receiver station have common maximum number of transmission bits per symbol of each subcarrier and information of encoding types to be selected. The transmitter station selects the modulation type from the propagation path quality of each subcarrier, executes the encoding with the encoding type corresponding to the number of bits for communication with the selected modulation type, distributes the maximum number of transmission bits per symbol of each subcarrier by dividing the code, and transmits the data through modulation of only the number of bits for communication with the selected modulation type among distributed bits in each subcarrier. The receiver station executes demodulation by selecting the modulation type used for demodulation from the propagation path quality, summarizes the demodulation result with addition of reception of the signal having a zero degree of likeliness for the number of wanted bits, and executes decoding to the result of demodulation.

Abstract: To provide a positioning system, a positioning method, and a positioning server, which are capable of improving accuracy in detection of a position. In a positioning system, three or more access points connected to a terminal station by wireless communication are connected to a positioning server through a network, the access points transmit, to the positioning server, information regarding times of having received a signal transmitted from any one of the access points or the terminal station, and the positioning server measures a position of the terminal station based on the information regarding the times, the information having been received from the access points.

Abstract: A permanent magnet embedded type concentrated winding motor generator, wherein of the mechanically and electrically independent first and second winding groups (4, 5), the plurality of first teeth (2) wound with the first winding groups (4) are divided into three groups (I, II, III) for example, and the winding directions of the windings of adjacent first teeth (2) within the same group (I, II, III) are opposite. Furthermore, one second tooth (3) wound with a second winding group (5) with a different winding specification from the first winding groups (4) is provided between each of the groups (I, II, III).

Abstract: A transmitter and a receiver share a maximum number of transmission bits per symbol as a parameter. The transmitter modulates an encoded and interleaved transmission signal in accordance with a modulation scheme which enables the transmission of one bit or more per symbol, while the receiver demodulates a received signal based on a channel quality in accordance with a modulation scheme which has a higher modulation level as the channel quality is higher. When the number of demodulated bits per symbol is smaller than the maximum number of transmission bits per symbol, the receiver deinterleaves and decodes a received signal after the demodulation on the assumption that the received signal has likelihoods of zero as much as the number of missing bits.

Abstract: Adaptive modulation/demodulation method in a radio communication system is provided. A modulation multi-level number in a transmission device and a demodulation multi-level number in a reception device are judged independently from each other according to a propagation condition and communication is performed by controlling the likelihood when the multi-level numbers of the transmission side and the reception side are different. The reception device can perform operation by controlling likelihood information on lower bit of the multi-level modulation even when the modulation multi-level number and the demodulation multi-level number used at the transmission side are different. Moreover, the transmission device and the reception device independently decide the modulation multi-level number and the demodulation multi-level number, thereby following an instantaneous propagation fluctuation and improving the throughput.

Abstract: A motor generator is provided with a stator having a winding around each of a plurality of stator teeth, and a rotor having a plurality of permanent magnets by the number larger than that of the stator teeth, arranged in the circumferential direction at equal intervals. The stator teeth are formed of a first stator teeth section including a plurality of stator teeth groups I, II, and III each including the adjacent stator teeth around which a winding to which the same phase voltage is applied is wound and in which winding directions of the stator teeth are opposite to each other, and a second stator teeth section including a stator teeth having a winding wound therearound and being placed among stator teeth groups of different phases such that electric power is independently input and output with respect to the first and second winding sections.

Abstract: A permanent magnet embedded type concentrated winding motor generator, wherein of the mechanically and electrically independent first and second winding groups (4, 5), the plurality of first teeth (2) wound with the first winding groups (4) are divided into three groups (I, II, III) for example, and the winding directions of the windings of adjacent first teeth (2) within the same group (I, II, III) are opposite. Furthermore, one second tooth (3) wound with a second winding group (5) with a different winding specification from the first winding groups (4) is provided between each of the groups (I, II, III).