Patents by Inventor Shota NAKAYAMA
Shota NAKAYAMA 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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Publication number: 20240259993Abstract: A control apparatus for controlling a position and a direction of a base station, and a position of a specific terminal that wirelessly communicates with the base station in conjunction with each other, the control apparatus including: a shield detection information acquisition unit which acquires information obtained by detecting the shield; a specific terminal position candidate calculating unit which calculates a position candidate of the specific terminal on the basis of information obtained by detecting the shield; a line-of-sight determination unit which determines whether there is line-of-sight of the specific terminal from the base station for each of the position candidates of the specific terminal; and a base station movement control parameter calculating unit which determines a position of the specific terminal on the basis of a result of determination of the presence or absence of the line-of-sight and calculates a parameter indicating a position and a direction of the base station.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2021Publication date: August 1, 2024Inventors: Daisuke MURAYAMA, Shota NAKAYAMA
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Publication number: 20240259830Abstract: Provided is a control apparatus in a wireless communication system including the control apparatus and a movable base station, the control apparatus including: an information acquisition unit that acquires shield sensing information; a shield map generation unit that generates a shield map on the basis of the shield sensing information; a communication quality calculation unit that calculates an estimated received power in each coverage area element or each terminal for each position and direction of an antenna of the movable base station on the basis of the shield map, calculates an estimated communication quality in each coverage area element or each terminal on the basis of the estimated received power, and calculates an index value for controlling the movable base station on the basis of the estimated communication quality; and a base station control unit that controls the position and direction of the antenna of the movable base station so that the index value is maximized.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2021Publication date: August 1, 2024Inventors: Daisuke MURAYAMA, Shota NAKAYAMA, Takatsune MORIYAMA
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Publication number: 20240251325Abstract: A control apparatus in a communication system including the control apparatus and a mobile base station includes an information acquisition unit that acquires positional information of a specific priority terminal and obstruction sensing information, an obstruction map generation unit that generates an obstruction map based on the obstruction sensing information, a line-of-sight determination unit that determines whether there is a line-of-sight from an antenna of the mobile base station for the specific priority terminal based on the positional information and the obstruction map, and a base station control unit that controls the mobile base station so that the specific priority terminal is positioned at a line-of-sight position from the antenna in a case where communication by the specific priority terminal is not detected for a predetermined time.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2021Publication date: July 25, 2024Inventors: Daisuke MURAYAMA, Shota NAKAYAMA
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Publication number: 20240251253Abstract: Provided is a control apparatus in a wireless communication system including the control apparatus and a plurality of base stations, the control apparatus including: an information acquisition unit that acquires position information of one or more specific priority terminals and shield sensing information; a shield map generation unit that generates a shield map based on the shield sensing information; a line-of-sight determination unit that determines whether or not there is a line of sight from an antenna of each base station to each specific priority terminal based on the position information and the shield map; and a base station control unit that controls movable base stations in the plurality of base stations such that the number of specific priority terminals in a line-of-sight state from the plurality of base stations becomes a maximum.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2021Publication date: July 25, 2024Inventors: Daisuke MURAYAMA, Shota NAKAYAMA
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Publication number: 20240243887Abstract: Provided is a radio communication method to be performed by a radio communication system using a TDD scheme, the radio communication method including: an acquisition step of acquiring a TDD configuration of another radio communication system that might have an overlapping communication area; a determination step of determining priorities of slots of the radio communication system, based on the acquired TDD configuration, such that a priority of a first slot, in which an uplink slot timing and a downlink slot timing overlap those of the another radio communication system, is lower than a priority of a second slot, in which the uplink slot timing and the downlink slot timing do not overlap those of the another radio communication system; and an allocation step of allocating resources to the slots of the radio communication system according to the priorities of the slots.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2021Publication date: July 18, 2024Inventors: Daisuke MURAYAMA, Shota NAKAYAMA
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Publication number: 20240239244Abstract: A lower body structure of a vehicle includes: a left and right pair of left seat rails and a left and right pair of right seat rails configured to make left and right seats of a second-row seat independently slidable; a first cross member including securing portions to which the left seat rails and the right seat rails are secured; a second cross member disposed apart from the first cross member in a vehicle fore-and-aft direction; and a first coupling member that couples the first cross member and the second cross member to each other in the vehicle fore-and-aft direction. The first coupling member is located between the securing portion located on a left side of the right seat rails and the securing portion located on a right side of the left seat rails in a vehicle width direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2023Publication date: July 18, 2024Applicant: Mazda Motor CorporationInventor: Shota NAKAYAMA
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Patent number: 12028751Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication system that performs priority control by setting, depending on a type of transmission data, a channel use period during which exclusive use of a channel after a right to access the channel is acquired is permitted. The wireless communication system includes a measurement unit that measures quality measurement information related to a quality of wireless communication, a parameter setting unit that makes, when a latency in transmission of a prioritized frame due to transmission of a non-prioritized frame is not expected based on the quality measurement information measured by the measurement unit, settings such that the channel use period for the transmission of the non-prioritized frame is changed to be longer, and a MAC frame generation unit that generates a MAC frame which permits continuous transmission of the non-prioritized frames within the channel use period set by the parameter setting unit.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2020Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Keisuke Wakao, Shota Nakayama, Akira Kishida, Kenichi Kawamura, Takatsune Moriyama
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Publication number: 20240196228Abstract: A control system includes a plurality of base stations capable of changing a transmission point of radio waves in a space, and a control device that includes a memory and a processor configured to generate a shield map indicating a position and a shape of a shield against the radio waves in the space; calculate, for each combination of values of one or more parameters for determining the transmission point, an index value related to a range in which radio waves of one or more of the base stations are not shielded by the shield based on the transmission point of each of the plurality of base stations in the combination and the shield map; and control change of the transmission point of each of the plurality of base stations based on the combination in which the index value has a maximum value.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2021Publication date: June 13, 2024Inventors: Daisuke MURAYAMA, Shota NAKAYAMA
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Publication number: 20240172969Abstract: A biological information measuring device includes a light source that irradiates light, a sensor having a plurality of pixels arranged in an array in a two-dimensional plane and a saturation charge number of 1,000,000 or more. The sensor receives irradiated light transmitted, reflected, or scattered from the light source in a living body and outputs information according to the light intensity of the received light. A specific location selection unit selects a measurement target location of the measurement target for the biological information and a reference location different from the measurement target location, based on the information obtained by the image sensor. A biological information acquisition unit acquires biological information from the information obtained by the sensor at the measurement target location, using the information obtained by the sensor at the reference location as a reference.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2022Publication date: May 30, 2024Applicants: ZEON CORPORATION, TOHOKU UNIVERSITY, FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Koji KAWAJIRI, Rihito KURODA, Yasuyuki FUJIHARA, Shota NAKAYAMA, Hideaki HASEGAWA, Takayori ITO, Hiroyuki TAMAOKA
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Patent number: 11985650Abstract: A wireless LAN system in which a BSS composed of one wireless LAN base station and a plurality of wireless LAN terminals belonging to the wireless LAN base station, is set as a unit, and a plurality of the BSSs using an identical channel respectively perform uplink multi-user transmission, includes a radio control apparatus that is connected to the wireless LAN base station of each of the plurality of the BSSs and a wireless LAN terminal of the plurality of wireless LAN terminals of each of the plurality of the BSSs, and configured to collect radio information indicating interference states of respective radio waves, group sets of BSSs of the plurality of the BSSs, which are outside of radio wave reachable ranges of each other, as one of a plurality of groups among the plurality of the BSSs using the identical channel according to the radio information, and perform control to shift a timing of channel access for performing uplink multi-user transmission between the plurality of groups.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2019Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Shota Nakayama, Kenichi Kawamura, Yasushi Takatori, Keisuke Wakao
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Publication number: 20240080677Abstract: A communication system including a control server device and a movable base station device includes: generating, by the control server device, one or more terminal clusters obtained by clustering terminal devices on the basis of information about a location and a material of each shielding object in an area and a location of each terminal device; calculating, by the control server device, a location of a movable base station device for each of the terminal clusters; and moving, by the control server device, the movable base station device to the calculated location in each of the terminal cluster.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2021Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: Shota NAKAYAMA, Daisuke MURAYAMA
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Patent number: 11917682Abstract: Provided is a wireless LAN system in which an interference control signal transmitter that is provided in the surroundings of the wireless LAN base station and the wireless LAN terminal, and is configured to collect wireless environment information regarding the interfering AP/STA, and transmit, to the interfering AP/STA, an interference control signal that is to be used to set a transmission waiting period; and an interference control signal management device configured to collect the wireless environment information from the interference control signal transmitter, determine the interference control signal transmitter whose communication area includes the interfering AP/STA based on the wireless environment information, and control the determined interference control signal transmitter to transmit the interference control signal to be used to set the transmission waiting period that corresponds to a length of time of the communication between the wireless LAN base station and the wireless LAN terminal, wherType: GrantFiled: November 8, 2019Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Kenichi Kawamura, Yasushi Takatori, Tomoyuki Yamada, Hiroshi Nakamoto, Keisuke Wakao, Shota Nakayama
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Patent number: 11895693Abstract: In a random access radio communication system configured to perform downlink communication from a radio base station to radio terminals by random access, the radio terminals include one or more low latency terminals requiring low latency and one or more non-low latency terminals not requiring low latency, and the low latency terminals and the non-low latency terminals are configured to be distinguished by service set identifiers (SSIDs). The random access radio communication system includes terminal assignment destination control unit of distinguishing the low latency terminals and the non-low latency terminals in accordance with the SSIDs and evenly distributing the terminals into a plurality of communication channels, and random access control unit of performing priority control on the low latency terminals and the non-low latency terminals for each communication channel so that the downlink communication in the low latency terminal satisfies a predetermined delay time.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2020Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoyuki Yamada, Keisuke Wakao, Kenichi Kawamura, Akira Kishida, Shota Nakayama, Yasushi Takatori, Takatsune Moriyama
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Publication number: 20240040458Abstract: The present disclosure provides a wireless communication system cooperation method appropriate for cooperation between a mobile communication system and a wireless LAN system involving priority control. In a communication area of 5G, a 5QI representing communication quality is allocated to a service data flow, and the communication of the service data flow is performed via a base station so that the communication quality is realized. A priority condition corresponding to 5QI is set for a communication time condition of the wireless LAN (step 100). When the wireless terminal UE to be protected is handed over to the wireless LAN (step 102), a priority condition set based on 5QI is instructed to the access point (step 106). Thereafter, the access point performs communication of the service data flow according to the priority condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2020Publication date: February 1, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Shota NAKAYAMA, Daisuke MURAYAMA, Kenichi KAWAMURA, Takatsune MORIYAMA
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Publication number: 20240032086Abstract: A relay method is executed by a relay device that relays communication between each of terminals accommodated by wireless communication and an external device. The relay method includes setting, for each terminal of the terminals, a time period from storing a packet in a queue until transmitting the packet to the terminal as a first time period; and setting, for each terminal of the terminals, a time interval in which the terminal is allowed to transmit a packet by the wireless communication as a second time period corresponding to the first time period.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2020Publication date: January 25, 2024Inventors: Shota NAKAYAMA, Kenichi KAWAMURA, Daisuke MURAYAMA, Takatsune MORIYAMA
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Patent number: 11882479Abstract: A wireless LAN communication device generates an MPDU by attaching a MAC header to transmission data, generates an A-MPDU subframe by attaching an MPDU delimiter to the MPDU, generates an A-MPDU by aggregating a plurality of A-MPDU subframes, and transmits the A-MPDU. The wireless LAN communication device includes: an MPDU duplicating means for determining whether or not transmission data is a redundancy target according to a required quality of the transmission data, determining that an MPDU generated from the transmission data determined to be a redundancy target is a redundant MPDU, and generating a duplicate MPDU by duplicating the redundant MPDU; and an A-MPDU generating means for generating an A-MPDU that includes the redundant MPDU and the duplicate MPDU.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2019Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Kenichi Kawamura, Yasushi Takatori, Hiroshi Nakamoto, Tomoyuki Yamada, Keisuke Wakao, Shota Nakayama
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Publication number: 20230399054Abstract: A side sill that is disposed in a lower part and on an outer side in a vehicle width direction of a vehicle and has a side sill inner and a side sill outer which collaborate with each other to form a closed cross section extending in a front-rear direction of the vehicle; a wheel that is located ahead of the side sill outer; an outer-side reinforcement member that has a shape extending along a front face part and a side face part in a front end part of the side sill outer and is joined to the front end part from inside the closed cross section; and an inner-side reinforcement member that diagonally couples a front face part and a side face part in a front end part of the side sill inner to each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2023Publication date: December 14, 2023Applicant: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Ippei KURODA, Masaya NISHIMOTO, Shota NAKAYAMA
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Publication number: 20230328595Abstract: The present disclosure provides a wireless communication system cooperation method appropriate for cooperation between a mobile communication system and a wireless LAN system involving priority control. In a communication area of 5G, a 5QI representing communication quality is allocated to a service data flow, and the communication of the service data flow is performed via a base station so that the communication quality is realized. A priority condition corresponding to 5QI is set for a frequency resource of the wireless LAN (step 100). When the wireless terminal UE to be protected is handed over to the wireless LAN (step 102), a priority condition set based on 5QI is instructed to the access point (step 106). Thereafter, the access point performs communication of the service data flow according to the priority condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2020Publication date: October 12, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Shota NAKAYAMA, Daisuke MURAYAMA, Kenichi KAWAMURA, Takatsune MORIYAMA
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Publication number: 20230308893Abstract: A control system includes a base station and a control apparatus for controlling the base station. The control apparatus includes a processor, and a memory that includes instructions, which when executed, cause the processor to identify an area having a line-of-sight relationship in a communication area of the base station for each parameter for determining a transmission point and a transmission direction of a radio wave transmitted from the base station, and calculate an index value regarding the identified area; and control a transmission point and a transmission direction of a radio wave transmitted from the base station by using a parameter in which the index value becomes maximum.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2020Publication date: September 28, 2023Inventors: Daisuke MURAYAMA, Shota NAKAYAMA, Kenichi KAWAMURA
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Publication number: 20230300707Abstract: There is provided a communication system including: a terminal that communicates with a base station wirelessly; and a control device, in which the terminal includes a transmission unit that transmits information on a location of the terminal, and the control device includes an information collection unit that acquires the information on the location of the terminal, an entry prediction calculation unit that predicts a future location of the terminal based on the information on the location of the terminal and that determines whether the terminal is to enter a dead zone by comparing the future position with the dead zone, and a connection destination control unit that executes control for switching a connection destination of the terminal when the entry prediction calculation unit determines that the terminal is to enter the dead zone.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2020Publication date: September 21, 2023Inventors: Shota Nakayama, Daisuke MURAYAMA, Kenichi Kawamura, Takatsune Moriyama