Patents by Inventor Shigenori Tani

Shigenori Tani 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).

  • Patent number: 11894822
    Abstract: A filter device includes: delay units serially connected to delay an input signal and output a delayed signal; multiplication units multiplying the delayed signal by a filter coefficient based on a predetermined value and a multiplying factor adjustment value; a coefficient adjustment unit that, when a multiplication result obtained by multiplying the predetermined value by the multiplying factor adjustment value exceeds a maximum value of a filter-coefficient representation range, divides the multiplication result exceeding the maximum value by the maximum value, and outputs a quotient of division as a coefficient adjustment value; a signal conversion unit outputting a signal obtained by adding after-filter-coefficient-multiplication signals outputted by the multiplication units and an adjusted signal obtained by adjusting a corresponding delayed signal using the coefficient adjustment value; and a division unit generating an output signal by dividing the signal outputted by the signal conversion unit by the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yasutaka Yamashita, Shigenori Tani, Kazuma Kaneko, Shigeru Uchida
  • Publication number: 20230367552
    Abstract: A calculation circuit includes: processing circuitry that divides a quantized signal into a first bit string and a second bit string, and converts the first bit string into a sequence including two or more bits and representing a numerical value by a ratio of 1 present therein; calculates the sequence converted by the conversion unit by stochastic signal processing using a combinational circuit; and adds a ratio of 1 present in a sequence after calculation and a value obtained by multiplying the second bit string by a number represented by the first bit string, and performs reconversion into a quantized signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shigenori TANI, Yasutaka YAMASHITA
  • Publication number: 20230361858
    Abstract: A terminal to be installed in a machine having rotor blades in a communication system in which the terminal and a base station transmit and receive data via a relay station to and from each other, includes a rotor blade state monitoring unit that monitors a rotor blade state by measuring the timing at which the rotor blades block a communication path in midair between the relay station and the terminal, and a transceiver that transmits the rotor blade state to the base station and transmit the data using radio resources allocated by the base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shigenori TANI, Koichi NATSUME, Akihiro OKAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20230232190
    Abstract: In a communications system including a base station capable of altering a frequency bandwidth which is used for transmitting broadcast data for providing point-to-multipoint broadcasting communications service and which is used for transmitting individual communications data for providing point-to-point individual communications service, and a mobile terminal capable of altering a receivable bandwidth which is used for receiving at least the broadcast data and the individual communications data transmitted from the base station, decision processing of making a decision as to whether the mobile terminal can receive reception-desired content it desires to receive among contents provided by the broadcasting communications service is executed in accordance with a frequency occupying bandwidth used for transmitting the reception-desired content. Thus, the mobile terminal becomes able to make a decision as to whether it can receive particular E-MBMS content considering its own UE position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2023
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Miho MAEDA, Mitsuru MOCHIZUKI, Yasushi IWANE, Noriyuki FUKUI, Tetsuya MISHUKU, Michiaki TAKANO, Ryoichi FUJIE, Shigenori TANI, Akira OKUBO, Keisuke OZAKI
  • Patent number: 11621736
    Abstract: A data processing device includes a restoration unit that performs a conversion operation on an input signal to convert the input signal into a signal having no distortion caused by an external factor, and a selection unit that selects and outputs either an unrestored signal, which is the input signal, or a restored signal, which is a signal obtained by the restoration unit by performing the conversion operation, based on a feature quantity of the unrestored signal and on a feature quantity of the restored signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigenori Tani, Yasutaka Yamashita
  • Patent number: 11552696
    Abstract: A relay station includes a beam formation unit capable of emitting multiple beams to multiple respective emission areas. The beam formation unit forms clusters each from two or more of the emission areas, and emits the beams based on assignment information indicating which slot is assigned to which of the emission areas on a per cluster basis. One emission area belongs to multiple clusters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigenori Tani, Katsuyuki Motoyoshi
  • Patent number: 11515932
    Abstract: A terminal according to the present invention includes an array antenna including an aperture, and an antenna pattern calculation unit. The antenna pattern calculation unit calculates antenna patterns of the array antenna that divide the aperture to correspondingly orient each of the aperture divisions toward a plurality of relay stations when control frames are received, and orient the aperture toward one of the plurality of relay stations when a data frame is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shogo Tsuzaki, Katsuyuki Motoyoshi, Shigenori Tani
  • Publication number: 20220279534
    Abstract: A wireless communication device includes a transmission processing unit communicable with each of multiple communication peer devices through switching between beam directions in a time division manner, and a control unit that allows beam information representing how beams are used by the multiple communication peer devices with which the transmission processing unit is communicable to be shared by the multiple communication peer devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Fumihiro HASEGAWA, Shigenori TANI, Nobuyoshi HORIE, Hiroyasu SANO, Yoshihisa KAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20220239283
    Abstract: A filter device includes: delay units serially connected to delay an input signal and output a delayed signal; multiplication units multiplying the delayed signal by a filter coefficient based on a predetermined value and a multiplying factor adjustment value; a coefficient adjustment unit that, when a multiplication result obtained by multiplying the predetermined value by the multiplying factor adjustment value exceeds a maximum value of a filter-coefficient representation range, divides the multiplication result exceeding the maximum value by the maximum value, and outputs a quotient of division as a coefficient adjustment value; a signal conversion unit outputting a signal obtained by adding after-filter-coefficient-multiplication signals outputted by the multiplication units and an adjusted signal obtained by adjusting a corresponding delayed signal using the coefficient adjustment value; and a division unit generating an output signal by dividing the signal outputted by the signal conversion unit by the
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yasutaka YAMASHITA, Shigenori TANI, Kazuma KANEKO, Shigeru UCHIDA
  • Patent number: 11381458
    Abstract: A network management device according to the present invention includes a metric calculation unit that calculates, using location information of multiple nodes constituting a network, metrics for respective combinations of the nodes, a false detection determination unit that determines, using the metrics and using link estimation information, which is information indicating a combination of nodes presumed that has a link therebetween, a falsely detected link corresponding to a combination of nodes indicated as having a link therebetween in the link estimation information, but presumed that has no link therebetween in reality, and a non-detection determination unit that determines, using the metrics and the link estimation information, an undetected link corresponding to a combination of nodes indicated as having no link therebetween in the link estimation information, but presumed that has a link therebetween in reality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasutaka Yamashita, Shigenori Tani, Katsuyuki Motoyoshi
  • Publication number: 20220173757
    Abstract: A data processing device includes a restoration unit that performs a conversion operation on an input signal to convert the input signal into a signal having no distortion caused by an external factor, and a selection unit that selects and outputs either an unrestored signal, which is the input signal, or a restored signal, which is a signal obtained by the restoration unit by performing the conversion operation, based on a feature quantity of the unrestored signal and on a feature quantity of the restored signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shigenori TANI, Yasutaka YAMASHITA
  • Patent number: 11271639
    Abstract: Provided is a communication system including a control station and a satellite repeater capable of forming two or more beams. The control station includes a control unit that classifies the two or more beams into clusters each made up of two or more beams among the two or more beams and allocates different frequencies to the beams belonging to one of the clusters. The satellite repeater includes a channelizer that performs exchanging processing on an input reception signal and outputs the reception signal having undergone the exchanging processing, as a transmission signal. A signal used in the exchanging processing includes a signal obtained by combining signals corresponding to the beams defining the one cluster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigenori Tani, Akinori Fujimura, Katsuyuki Motoyoshi, Tsuyoshi Sasaki, Futaba Ejima
  • Publication number: 20210359753
    Abstract: Provided is a communication system including a control station and a satellite repeater capable of forming two or more beams. The control station includes a control unit that classifies the two or more beams into clusters each made up of two or more beams among the two or more beams and allocates different frequencies to the beams belonging to one of the clusters. The satellite repeater includes a channelizer that performs exchanging processing on an input reception signal and outputs the reception signal having undergone the exchanging processing, as a transmission signal. A signal used in the exchanging processing includes a signal obtained by combining signals corresponding to the beams defining the one cluster.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shigenori TANI, Akinori FUJIMURA, Katsuyuki MOTOYOSHI, Tsuyoshi SASAKI, Futaba EJIMA
  • Publication number: 20210349688
    Abstract: A digital filter includes: a data conversion unit converting data into a first data sequence; a coefficient storage unit storing a weighting coefficient weighted for each first data sequence; a coefficient conversion unit converting the weighting coefficient into a weighting coefficient sequence; first weighted addition units generating a second data sequence obtained by weighting and adding up the first data sequences using the first data sequences and the weighting coefficient sequences; second weighted addition unit generating a third data sequence obtained by weighting and adding up the second data sequences using the second data sequences and the weighting coefficient sequence; and a control unit selecting the first data sequences to be inputted to the first weighted addition units such that operation error levels in the first weighted addition units and the second weighted addition unit become below a predetermined value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shigenori TANI, Michiya HAYAMA
  • Patent number: 11070284
    Abstract: A transmitting station includes an amplifier unit that amplifies a transmitting signal, a transmitting antenna that wirelessly transmits the transmitting signal that has been amplified, and a controller unit that regulates a frequency of the transmitting signal and an input power to the amplifier unit on the basis of an estimation value of reception quality that is a signal quality when the transmitting signal is received by a receiving station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigenori Tani, Katsuyuki Motoyoshi, Yasunori Noda
  • Patent number: 11063659
    Abstract: A control station includes: a location managing unit that calculates communicable times for combinations of a satellite station and an earth station that can perform communication with each other, based on a location of a satellite station and locations of earth stations serving as candidates to which the satellite station transmits the data; a data managing unit that holds information on a retention state of the data in the satellite having generated the data; and a transmission predicting unit that calculates data transmission completion times for one or more transmission paths from the satellite station to the earth station, based on the communicable times and the information on a retention state of the data, and generates control information for satellite stations and the earth station in a transmission path determined based on the data transmission completion times, to transmit the data in the determined transmission path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigenori Tani, Katsuyuki Motoyoshi
  • Publication number: 20210135747
    Abstract: A control station includes: a location managing unit that calculates communicable times for combinations of a satellite station and an earth station that can perform communication with each other, based on a location of a satellite station and locations of earth stations serving as candidates to which the satellite station transmits the data; a data managing unit that holds information on a retention state of the data in the satellite having generated the data; and a transmission predicting unit that calculates data transmission completion times for one or more transmission paths from the satellite station to the earth station, based on the communicable times and the information on a retention state of the data, and generates control information for satellite stations and the earth station in a transmission path determined based on the data transmission completion times, to transmit the data in the determined transmission path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2017
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigenori TANI, Katsuyuki MOTOYOSHI
  • Patent number: 10938467
    Abstract: A transmitting station includes a transmitting antenna whose orientation direction is changeable, and a controller that controls the orientation direction of the transmitting antenna according to an orientation direction of the transmitting antenna determined together with receiving stations to receive data transmitted from the transmitting antenna based on estimate values of received signal quality at receiving stations that are candidates for receiving stations to receive data transmitted from the transmitting antenna. The transmitting station can maintain received signal quality at a plurality of receiving stations at a desired value or more in a data transmission system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shigenori Tani, Hiroyasu Sano, Katsuyuki Motoyoshi, Akinori Fujimura, Futaba Ejima, Kyoichiro Izumi
  • Publication number: 20210058138
    Abstract: A relay station includes a beam formation unit capable of emitting multiple beams to multiple respective emission areas. The beam formation unit forms clusters each from two or more of the emission areas, and emits the beams based on assignment information indicating which slot is assigned to which of the emission areas on a per cluster basis. One emission area belongs to multiple clusters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigenori TANI, Katsuyuki MOTOYOSHI
  • Publication number: 20210050912
    Abstract: A terminal according to the present invention includes an array antenna including an aperture, and an antenna pattern calculation unit. The antenna pattern calculation unit calculates antenna patterns of the array antenna that divide the aperture to correspondingly orient each of the aperture divisions toward a plurality of relay stations when control frames are received, and orient the aperture toward one of the plurality of relay stations when a data frame is received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shogo TSUZAKI, Katsuyuki MOTOYOSHI, Shigenori TANI