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).

  • Publication number: 20150092734
    Abstract: The number of communication channels necessary for communication with a terminal is calculated by using type and volume of data to be transmitted. When calculated number of communication channels is one, a single communication channel is allocated based on quality information of a communication line to the terminal and, when calculated number of communication channels is more than one, then more than one communication channels are allocated based on the quality information. Allocation information used for notifying of allocated communication channels is generated based on virtual channels, which are defined in advance as channel units having a combination of a plurality of consecutive communication channels, and the allocation information is transmitted to the terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Noriyuki FUKUI, Shigenori TANI, Fumio ISHIZU
  • Patent number: 8942198
    Abstract: The number of communication channels necessary for communication with a terminal is calculated by using type and volume of data to be transmitted. When calculated number of communication channels is one, a single communication channel is allocated based on quality information of a communication line to the terminal and, when calculated number of communication channels is more than one, then more than one communication channels are allocated based on the quality information. Allocation information used for notifying of allocated communication channels is generated based on virtual channels, which are defined in advance as channel units having a combination of a plurality of consecutive communication channels, and the allocation information is transmitted to the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Noriyuki Fukui, Shigenori Tani, Fumio Ishizu
  • Publication number: 20140286187
    Abstract: Since OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing), which is a downlink access scheme used for an LTE (Long Term Evolution) communication system, is weak at interference, it is preferable that the number of base stations for transmitting the same E-MBMS (Evolved Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service) data be not excessive. Thus, the mobile terminal performs: processing of obtaining measurement quality values by measuring reception quality of each base station; processing of deciding on whether the measurement quality value of a serving base station exceeds a certain receiving level; processing of adding measurement quality values of other base stations to the measurement quality value of the serving base station until the sum exceeds the certain receiving level; and processing of notifying the serving base station of the serving base station and other base stations as candidates for an active set for E-MBMS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuru MOCHIZUKI, Miho MAEDA, Yasushi IWANE, Noriyuki FUKUI, Tetsuya MISHUKU, Michiaki TAKANO, Ryoichi FUJIE, Shigenori TANI, Akira OKUBO, Keisuke OZAKI
  • Publication number: 20140056201
    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: November 4, 2013
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: Mitsubshi 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: 8660046
    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: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Miho Maeda, Mitsuru Mochizuki, Yasushi Iwane, Noriyuki Fukui, Tetsuya Mishuku, Michiaki Takano, Ryoichi Fujie, Shigenori Tani, Akira Okubo, Keisuke Ozaki
  • Publication number: 20130242857
    Abstract: A relay device that relays a signal in which a plurality of signals having respectively different frequencies are multiplexed between a first communication device on a transmission side and a second communication device on a reception side. The relay device includes: a demultiplexing unit; a relay-method decision unit; a signal regeneration unit; and a multiplexing unit. The demultiplexing unit demultiplexes a signal received from the first communication device to a plurality of frequencies. The relay-method decision unit decides which relay method is performed on a signal having been demultiplexed by the demultiplexing unit. The signal regeneration unit performs demodulation, decoding, coding, and modulation on a signal decided to undergo regenerative relay by the relay-method decision unit. The multiplexing unit multiplexes a signal decided to undergo transparent relay by the relay-method decision unit and a signal regenerated by the signal regeneration unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2011
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Shigenori Tani
  • Patent number: 8412248
    Abstract: A wireless system for allocating a predetermined number of subcarriers as a plurality of resource blocks to terminals includes a base station that communicates with the terminals, wherein the base station sets M resource blocks adjacent to one another in a frequency domain as a resource block group, M being a positive integer, and uses a first communication method and a second communication method, the first communication method repeatedly and sequentially classifying the resource block group into M kinds of subsets from a first subset to an M-th subset, and the second communication method allocating two resource blocks, which are separated by a predetermined distance in the frequency domain, to a same terminal, wherein the predetermined distance being an integer multiple of M times M.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Noriyuki Fukui, Shigenori Tani
  • Publication number: 20130023300
    Abstract: A base station that gives a transmission opportunity to a mobile station present in an area of the base station in a unit of a predetermined time length, and controls a transfer rate of an uplink by specifying power of a data transfer channel by a power ratio to a specific channel for which predetermined power control is executed. The base station includes a power measurement unit a reception signal, and an EUL control that measures power of each channel constituting unit that calculates a free resource based on reception power of each channel and determines a power ratio between a data transfer channel through which the mobile station performs transmission and the specific channel, based on a size of data received most recently from the mobile station, the free resource, required communication quality predetermined for each size of reception data, and most recent reception power of the specific channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2011
    Publication date: January 24, 2013
    Applicants: NTT DOCOMO, INC., Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shigenori Tani, Tatsuro Yajima, Akihito Hanaki
  • Publication number: 20120230276
    Abstract: In a wireless communication system where data transmission is performed between a base station and terminals, the base station individually generates, for each terminal, a bit map indicative of scheduling resource numbers to be allocated to terminals to which Localized transmission is applied, based on a resource-number mapping rule defined by providing individual resource block numbers to all resource blocks, taking resource block numbers of resource blocks for Distributed transmission as fixed values, and providing individual scheduling resource numbers to remaining resource blocks for Localized transmission except the resource blocks for Distributed transmission for each of scheduling resources corresponding to the number of aggregation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2012
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noriyuki Fukui, Shigenori Tani
  • Patent number: 8249635
    Abstract: In a wireless communication system where data transmission is performed between a base station and terminals, the base station individually generates, for each terminal, a bit map indicative of scheduling resource numbers to be allocated to terminals to which Localized transmission is applied, based on a resource-number mapping rule defined by providing individual resource block numbers to all resource blocks, taking resource block numbers of resource blocks for Distributed transmission as fixed values, and providing individual scheduling resource numbers to remaining resource blocks for Localized transmission except the resource blocks for Distributed transmission for each of scheduling resources corresponding to the number of aggregation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Noriyuki Fukui, Shigenori Tani
  • Publication number: 20120202547
    Abstract: The number of communication channels necessary for communication with a terminal is calculated by using type and volume of data to be transmitted. When calculated number of communication channels is one, a single communication channel is allocated based on quality information of a communication line to the terminal and, when calculated number of communication channels is more than one, then more than one communication channels are allocated based on the quality information. Allocation information used for notifying of allocated communication channels is generated based on virtual channels, which are defined in advance as channel units having a combination of a plurality of consecutive communication channels, and the allocation information is transmitted to the terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2012
    Publication date: August 9, 2012
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noriyuki FUKUI, Shigenori TANI, Fumio ISHIZU
  • Patent number: 8224365
    Abstract: In a wireless communication system where data transmission is performed between a base station and terminals, the base station individually generates, for each terminal, a bit map indicative of scheduling resource numbers to be allocated to terminals to which Localized transmission is applied, based on a resource-number mapping rule defined by providing individual resource block numbers to all resource blocks, taking resource block numbers of resource blocks for Distributed transmission as fixed values, and providing individual scheduling resource numbers to remaining resource blocks for Localized transmission except the resource blocks for Distributed transmission for each of scheduling resources corresponding to the number of aggregation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Noriyuki Fukui, Shigenori Tani
  • Publication number: 20120170485
    Abstract: A mobile terminal 3 judges whether or not the mobile terminal is able to make a transition to a DTX period during Active, and, when judging that the mobile terminal is able to make a transition to a DTX period during Active, notifies a base station 2 to that effect. If the base station 2 judges that the mobile terminal is able to make a transition to a DRX period during Active when triggered by the notification from the mobile terminal 3, the base station temporarily stops supply of electric power to the data transmission processing units and the data reception processing units of the mobile terminal 3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2012
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Miho MAEDA, Mitsuru Mochizuki, Yasushi Iwane, Tetsuya Mishuku, Masaaki Kusano, Ryoichi Fujie, Shigenori Tani, Keiko Tada, Noriyuki Fukui, Michiaki Takano
  • Patent number: 8165083
    Abstract: A base station divides a packet into a plurality of wireless transfer blocks, determines a priority of a wireless transfer block based on a delivery acknowledged amount accumulated value, allocates wireless resources to the wireless transfer blocks based on determined priority, and transmits generated wireless transfer blocks by using allocated wireless resources. A mobile station transmits a delivery acknowledgement to the base station when the wireless transfer block is properly received and a re-transmission request when the wireless transfer block is not properly received, and reproduces the packet from received wireless transfer blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shigenori Tani, Ryoichi Fujie, Tetsuya Mishuku
  • Patent number: 8165082
    Abstract: The number of communication channels necessary for communication with a terminal is calculated by using type and volume of data to be transmitted (Step S13). When calculated number of communication channels is one, a single communication channel is allocated based on quality information of a communication line to the terminal and, when calculated number of communication channels is more than one, then more than one communication channels are allocated based on the quality information (Step S14). Allocation information used for notifying of allocated communication channels is generated based on virtual channels, which are defined in advance as channel units having a combination of a plurality of consecutive communication channels, and the allocation information is transmitted to the terminal (Steps S15 and S16).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Noriyuki Fukui, Shigenori Tani, Fumio Ishizu
  • Patent number: 8149749
    Abstract: A mobile terminal judges whether or not the mobile terminal is able to make a transition to a DTX period during Active, and, when judging that the mobile terminal is able to make a transition to a DTX period during Active, notifies a base station to that effect. If the base station judges that the mobile terminal is able to make a transition to a DRX period during Active when triggered by the notification from the mobile terminal, the base station temporarily stops supply of electric power to the data transmission processing units and the data reception processing units of the mobile terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Miho Maeda, Mitsuru Mochizuki, Yasushi Iwane, Tetsuya Mishuku, Masaaki Kusano, Ryoichi Fujie, Shigenori Tani, Keiko Tada, Noriyuki Fukui, Michiaki Takano
  • Publication number: 20110090836
    Abstract: Since OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing), which is a downlink access scheme used for an LTE (Long Term Evolution) communication system, is weak at interference, it is preferable that the number of base stations for transmitting the same E-MBMS (Evolved Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service) data be not excessive. Thus, the mobile terminal performs: processing of obtaining measurement quality values by measuring reception quality of each base station; processing of deciding on whether the measurement quality value of a serving base station exceeds a certain receiving level; processing of adding measurement quality values of other base stations to the measurement quality value of the serving base station until the sum exceeds the certain receiving level; and processing of notifying the serving base station of the serving base station and other base stations as candidates for an active set for E-MBMS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2010
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: MITSURU MOCHIZUKI, MIHO MAEDA, YASUSHI IWANE, NORIYUKI FUKUI, TETSUYA MISHUKU, MICHIAKI TAKANO, RYOICHI FUJIE, SHIGENORI TANI, AKIRA OKUBO, KEISUKE OZAKI
  • Patent number: 7885235
    Abstract: Since OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing), which is a downlink access scheme used for an LTE (Long Term Evolution) communication system, is weak at interference, it is preferable that the number of base stations for transmitting the same E-MBMS (Evolved Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service) data be not excessive. Thus, the mobile terminal performs: processing of obtaining measurement quality values by measuring reception quality of each base station; processing of deciding on whether the measurement quality value of a serving base station exceeds a certain receiving level; processing of adding measurement quality values of other base stations to the measurement quality value of the serving base station until the sum exceeds the certain receiving level; and processing of notifying the serving base station of the serving base station and other base stations as candidates for an active set for E-MBMS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2011
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuru Mochizuki, Miho Maeda, Yasushi Iwane, Noriyuki Fukui, Tetsuya Mishuku, Michiaki Takano, Ryoichi Fujie, Shigenori Tani, Akira Okubo, Keisuke Ozaki
  • Publication number: 20100322187
    Abstract: A base station divides a packet into a plurality of wireless transfer blocks, determines a priority of a wireless transfer block based on a delivery acknowledged amount accumulated value, allocates wireless resources to the wireless transfer blocks based on determined priority, and transmits generated wireless transfer blocks by using allocated wireless resources. A mobile station transmits a delivery acknowledgement to the base station when the wireless transfer block is properly received and a re-transmission request when the wireless transfer block is not properly received, and reproduces the packet from received wireless transfer blocks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2007
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigenori Tani, Ryoichi Fujie, Tetsuya Mishuku
  • Publication number: 20100167772
    Abstract: In a wireless communication system where data transmission is performed between a base station and terminals, the base station individually generates, for each terminal, a bit map indicative of scheduling resource numbers to be allocated to terminals to which Localized transmission is applied, based on a resource-number mapping rule defined by providing individual resource block numbers to all resource blocks, taking resource block numbers of resource blocks for Distributed transmission as fixed values, and providing individual scheduling resource numbers to remaining resource blocks for Localized transmission except the resource blocks for Distributed transmission for each of scheduling resources corresponding to the number of aggregation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2007
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noriyuki Fukui, Shigenori Tani