Patents by Inventor Shinobu Fujimoto
Shinobu Fujimoto 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).
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Patent number: 11955007Abstract: A roadside apparatus according to the first aspect includes: a housing including an antenna mounting surface; an antenna connection terminal being provided on the antenna mounting surface, and supporting both a rod antenna and a planar antenna; and a circuit being housed in the housing, and being configured to perform road-to-vehicle communication via a connection antenna connected to the antenna connection terminal. An area of the antenna mounting surface is equal to or larger than an area of the planar antenna. An antenna selected out of the planar antenna and the rod antenna is connected as the connection antenna to the antenna connection terminal.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: KYOCERA CorporationInventor: Shinobu Fujimoto
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Patent number: 11503444Abstract: A base station 200 provided around a road including: a receiver 213 configured to receive a first communication signal broadcasted from a mobile station installed on a vehicle, a controller 230 configured to calculate antenna weight forming a beam to the mobile station based on the received first communication signal, and a transmitter 214 configured to transmit a second communication signal to the mobile station by a transmission beamforming, by using the calculated antenna weight.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2021Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: KYOCERA CorporationInventor: Shinobu Fujimoto
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Publication number: 20220215752Abstract: A roadside apparatus according to the first aspect includes: a housing including an antenna mounting surface; an antenna connection terminal being provided on the antenna mounting surface, and supporting both a rod antenna and a planar antenna; and a circuit being housed in the housing, and being configured to perform road-to-vehicle communication via a connection antenna connected to the antenna connection terminal. An area of the antenna mounting surface is equal to or larger than an area of the planar antenna. An antenna selected out of the planar antenna and the rod antenna is connected as the connection antenna to the antenna connection terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2022Publication date: July 7, 2022Applicant: KYOCERA CorporationInventor: Shinobu FUJIMOTO
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Publication number: 20220130237Abstract: A base station used in a traffic communication system includes a communicator configured to receive, via wireless communication, information transmitted from a vehicle traveling on a road, and a controller configured to identify, based on the information received by the communicator, a traveling behavior including a travel route of the vehicle on the road. The controller is configured to execute first processing for performing statistical learning or machine learning on a plurality of the traveling behaviors respectively identified for a plurality of the vehicles traveling on the road, and second processing for determining, based on a result of the first processing, whether a traffic obstacle is present on the road and a position of the traffic obstacle on the road.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2022Publication date: April 28, 2022Applicant: KYOCERA CorporationInventors: Yuta UMEHARA, Tetsuo OKAMOTO, Hiroshi SAKAI, Hiroki FUJITA, Takatoshi YOSHIKAWA, Shinobu FUJIMOTO
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Patent number: 11282377Abstract: A vehicle that performs communication with a roadside apparatus installed in a roadside of a road at least, the vehicle includes a communicator configured to transmit a message including an information element indicating whether or not one or more towed vehicles are towed by a towing vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2020Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: KYOCERA CorporationInventor: Shinobu Fujimoto
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Publication number: 20210152993Abstract: A base station 200 provided around a road including: a receiver 213 configured to receive a first communication signal broadcasted from a mobile station installed on a vehicle, a controller 230 configured to calculate antenna weight forming a beam to the mobile station based on the received first communication signal, and a transmitter 214 configured to transmit a second communication signal to the mobile station by a transmission beamforming, by using the calculated antenna weight.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2021Publication date: May 20, 2021Applicant: KYOCERA CorporationInventor: Shinobu FUJIMOTO
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Publication number: 20210118287Abstract: A vehicle that performs communication with a roadside apparatus installed in a roadside of a road at least, the vehicle includes a communicator configured to transmit a message including an information element indicating whether or not one or more towed vehicles are towed by a towing vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2020Publication date: April 22, 2021Applicant: KYOCERA CorporationInventor: Shinobu FUJIMOTO
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Patent number: 9585126Abstract: In the presence of an assignment of the downlink resource block to the UE2-1, the eNB1-1 requests the UE2-1 to transmit SRS in the frequency band corresponding to the comb 0, and in the absence of the assignment of the downlink resource block to the UE2-1, the eNB1-1 requests the UE2-1 to transmit SRS in the frequency band corresponding to the comb 1. The UE2-1 transmits the SRS of the frequency band corresponding to the request.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2012Date of Patent: February 28, 2017Assignee: KYOCERA CorporationInventor: Shinobu Fujimoto
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Patent number: 9370015Abstract: An eNB1-1 employs frequency hopping that assigns a radio resource to a UE2-1 in response to switching of a frequency of an SRS from the UE2-1, and determines an MCS in a first radio resource block when a first downlink radio resource block is assigned to the UE2-1, on the basis of SINR acquired for a second downlink radio resource block having a frequency bandwidth equal to a frequency bandwidth of the first downlink radio resource and being assigned to the UE2-1 in the past.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2011Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: KYOCERA CorporationInventors: Shinobu Fujimoto, Nobuaki Takamatsu, Yuuki Nakasato, Masahiro Yagi
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Patent number: 9338764Abstract: A mobile station transmits an appropriate reference signal to substantialize appropriate AAS control. A mobile station 100 according to the present invention includes a transmission and reception unit 110 configured to perform a radio communication with a base station 1 and a control unit 130 configured to, by using a reference signal region of an uplink communication channel in the same frequency band as a downlink communication channel assigned to the mobile station itself in assignment information of a communication channel from the base station 1 received by the transmission and reception unit 110, transmit a reference signal from the transmission and reception unit to the base station.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2011Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: KYOCERA CorporationInventor: Shinobu Fujimoto
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Publication number: 20130329685Abstract: In the presence of an assignment of the downlink resource block to the UE2-1, the eNB1-1 requests the UE2-1 to transmit SRS in the frequency band corresponding to the comb 0, and in the absence of the assignment of the downlink resource block to the UE2-1, the eNB1-1 requests the UE2-1 to transmit SRS in the frequency band corresponding to the comb 1. The UE2-1 transmits the SRS of the frequency band corresponding to the request.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2012Publication date: December 12, 2013Applicant: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventor: Shinobu Fujimoto
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Publication number: 20130242933Abstract: An eNB1-1 employs frequency hopping that assigns a radio resource to a UE2-1 in response to switching of a frequency of an SRS from the UE2-1, and determines an MCS in a first radio resource block when a first downlink radio resource block is assigned to the UE2-1, on the basis of SINR acquired for a second downlink radio resource block having a frequency bandwidth equal to a frequency bandwidth of the first downlink radio resource and being assigned to the UE2-1 in the past.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2011Publication date: September 19, 2013Applicant: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventors: Shinobu Fujimoto, Nobuaki Takamatsu, Yuuki Nakasato, Masahiro Yagi
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Patent number: 8478326Abstract: A communication system includes: an RF/IF/BB unit (21) for receiving, in a mobile station device (20), a transmission signal from a base station device; a received power calculation unit (221) for obtaining received power thereof; a communication rate modification unit (23) for changing a communication rate by changing a modulation scheme used by the base station device to modulate the transmission signal in a predetermined case; and a communication rate increase limit unit (27) for limiting the communication rate to be increased by the communication rate modification unit (23), according to received power required for the mobile station device (20) to demodulate the transmission signal and according to the received power obtained when receiving the transmission signal after the communication rate is changed by the communication rate modification unit (23) and predicted based on the received power obtained by the received power calculation unit (221) and based on a decrease amount of a transmission power of aType: GrantFiled: July 27, 2011Date of Patent: July 2, 2013Assignee: Kyocera CorporationInventors: Toru Sahara, Shinobu Fujimoto
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Publication number: 20130114559Abstract: A mobile station transmits an appropriate reference signal to substantialize appropriate AAS control. A mobile station 100 according to the present invention includes a transmission and reception unit 110 configured to perform a radio communication with a base station 1 and a control unit 130 configured to, by using a reference signal region of an uplink communication channel in the same frequency band as a downlink communication channel assigned to the mobile station itself in assignment information of a communication channel from the base station 1 received by the transmission and reception unit 110, transmit a reference signal from the transmission and reception unit to the base station.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2011Publication date: May 9, 2013Applicant: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventor: Shinobu Fujimoto
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Patent number: 8270349Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a plurality of base stations and a management server. Each base station includes: a carrier sensing unit which performs carrier sensing for other base stations; a list generating unit which generates a monitor list including a difference in frame timing between the base station and each other base station; and a base station transmitter which transmits the monitor list. The management server includes: a management receiver which receives the monitor lists; a calculation unit which calculates a shift amount by which the frame timing of a target base station is to be shifted, based on the monitor lists; and a shift instructing unit which instructs to shift the frame timing of the target base station by the shift amount if the differences in frame timing among the base stations when reflecting the shift amount is improved from those before reflecting the shift amount.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2009Date of Patent: September 18, 2012Assignee: Kyocera CorporationInventor: Shinobu Fujimoto
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Publication number: 20110281529Abstract: A communication system includes: an RF/IF/BB unit (21) for receiving, in a mobile station device (20), a transmission signal from a base station device; a received power calculation unit (221) for obtaining received power thereof; a communication rate modification unit (23) for changing a communication rate by changing a modulation scheme used by the base station device to modulate the transmission signal in a predetermined case; and a communication rate increase limit unit (27) for limiting the communication rate to be increased by the communication rate modification unit (23), according to received power required for the mobile station device (20) to demodulate the transmission signal and according to the received power obtained when receiving the transmission signal after the communication rate is changed by the communication rate modification unit (23) and predicted based on the received power obtained by the received power calculation unit (221) and based on a decrease amount of a transmission power of aType: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2011Publication date: November 17, 2011Applicant: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventors: Toru SAHARA, Shinobu FUJIMOTO
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Patent number: 8014811Abstract: A communication system includes: an RF/IF/BB unit (21) for receiving, in a mobile station device (20), a transmission signal from a base station device; a received power calculation unit (221) for obtaining received power thereof; a communication rate modification unit (23) for changing a communication rate by changing a modulation scheme used by the base station device to modulate the transmission signal in a predetermined case; and a communication rate increase limit unit (27) for limiting the communication rate to be increased by the communication rate modification unit (23), according to received power required for the mobile station device (20) to demodulate the transmission signal and according to the received power obtained when receiving the transmission signal after the communication rate is changed by the communication rate modification unit (23) and predicted based on the received power obtained by the received power calculation unit (221) and based on a decrease amount of a transmission power of aType: GrantFiled: May 11, 2007Date of Patent: September 6, 2011Assignee: Kyocera CorporationInventors: Toru Sahara, Shinobu Fujimoto
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Publication number: 20100003926Abstract: A communication system includes: an RE/IF/BB unit (21) for receiving, in a mobile station device (20), a transmission signal from a base station device; a received power calculation unit (221) for obtaining received power thereof; a communication rate modification unit (23) for changing a communication rate by changing a modulation scheme used by the base station device to modulate the transmission signal in a predetermined case; and a communication rate increase limit unit (27) for limiting the communication rate to be increased by the communication rate modification unit (23), according to received power required for the mobile station device (20) to demodulate the transmission signal and according to the received power obtained when receiving the transmission signal after the communication rate is changed by the communication rate modification unit (23) and predicted based on the received power obtained by the received power calculation unit (221) and based on a decrease amount of a transmission power of aType: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2007Publication date: January 7, 2010Applicant: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventors: Toru Sahara, Shinobu Fujimoto
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Publication number: 20090323590Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a plurality of base stations and a management server. Each base station includes: a carrier sensing unit which performs carrier sensing for other base stations; a list generating unit which generates a monitor list including a difference in frame timing between the base station and each other base station; and a base station transmitter which transmits the monitor list. The management server includes: a management receiver which receives the monitor lists; a calculation unit which calculates a shift amount by which the frame timing of a target base station is to be shifted, based on the monitor lists; and a shift instructing unit which instructs to shift the frame timing of the target base station by the shift amount if the differences in frame timing among the base stations when reflecting the shift amount is improved from those before reflecting the shift amount.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2009Publication date: December 31, 2009Applicant: Kyocera CorporationInventor: Shinobu FUJIMOTO