Patents by Inventor Tadao Nakagawa

Tadao Nakagawa 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: 9621299
    Abstract: The estimation of an amount of chromatic dispersion using a training signal sequence is possible. A transmission method includes: a training signal sequence generation step of generating, as training signal sequences, a plurality of signal sequences having power concentrated in a plurality of frequency bands, the power concentrated at different frequency bands; a training signal sequence selection step of selecting at least one training signal sequence from among the plurality of training signal sequences generated in the training signal sequence generation step, a signal multiplexing step of generating a signal sequence obtained by time-division multiplexing the training signal sequence selected in the training signal sequence selection step with a transmission data sequence, and an electrical-to-optical conversion step of transmitting the signal sequence generated in the signal multiplexing step as an optical signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Koichi Ishihara, Masato Mizoguchi, Tomoki Murakami, Tomoyoshi Kataoka, Yoshiaki Kisaka, Tadao Nakagawa, Etsushi Yamazaki, Seiji Okamoto, Kengo Horikoshi, Masahito Tomizawa, Riichi Kudo
  • Patent number: 9614621
    Abstract: To enable signal position detection, frequency offset compensation, clock offset compensation, and chromatic dispersion amount estimation in a communication system based on coherent detection using an optical signal, even on a signal having a great offset in an arrival time depending on a frequency due to chromatic dispersion. An optical signal transmitting apparatus generates specific frequency band signals having power concentrated on two or more specific frequencies and transmits a signal including the specific frequency band signals. An optical signal receiving apparatus converts a received signal into a digital signal, detects positions of the specific frequency band signals from the converted digital signal, estimates frequency positions of the detected specific frequency band signals, and detects a frequency offset between an optical signal receiving apparatus and an optical signal transmitting apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph And Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Koichi Ishihara, Takayuki Kobayashi, Riichi Kudo, Yasushi Takatori, Munehiro Matsui, Masato Mizoguchi, Akihide Sano, Shogo Yamanaka, Etsushi Yamazaki, Yutaka Miyamoto, Eiji Yoshida, Tadao Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 9520947
    Abstract: To enable signal position detection, frequency offset compensation, clock offset compensation, and chromatic dispersion amount estimation in a communication system based on coherent detection using an optical signal, even on a signal having a great offset in an arrival time depending on a frequency due to chromatic dispersion. An optical signal transmitting apparatus generates specific frequency band signals having power concentrated on two or more specific frequencies and transmits a signal including the specific frequency band signals. An optical signal receiving apparatus converts a received signal into a digital signal, detects positions of the specific frequency band signals from the converted digital signal, estimates frequency positions of the detected specific frequency band signals, and detects a frequency offset between an optical signal receiving apparatus and an optical signal transmitting apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Koichi Ishihara, Takayuki Kobayashi, Riichi Kudo, Yasushi Takatori, Munehiro Matsui, Masato Mizoguchi, Akihide Sano, Shogo Yamanaka, Etsushi Yamazaki, Yutaka Miyamoto, Eiji Yoshida, Tadao Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20150341138
    Abstract: The estimation of an amount of chromatic dispersion using a training signal sequence is possible. A transmission method includes: a training signal sequence generation step of generating, as training signal sequences, a plurality of signal sequences having power concentrated in a plurality of frequency bands, the power concentrated at different frequency bands; a training signal sequence selection step of selecting at least one training signal sequence from among the plurality of training signal sequences generated in the training signal sequence generation step, a signal multiplexing step of generating a signal sequence obtained by time-division multiplexing the training signal sequence selected in the training signal sequence selection step with a transmission data sequence, and an electrical-to-optical conversion step of transmitting the signal sequence generated in the signal multiplexing step as an optical signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2014
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koichi ISHIHARA, Masato MIZOGUCHI, Tomoki MURAKAMI, Tomoyoshi KATAOKA, Yoshiaki KISAKA, Tadao NAKAGAWA, Etsushi YAMAZAKI, Seiji OKAMOTO, Kengo HORIKOSHI, Masahito TOMIZAWA, Riichi KUDO
  • Patent number: 9178614
    Abstract: A wavelength dispersion amount estimation method, a wavelength dispersion compensation circuit, and a receiving device which rapidly estimate and set a wavelength dispersion amount to compensate with high accuracy at the receiving device which compensates waveform distortion at an optical fiber transmission path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Etsushi Yamazaki, Takayuki Kobayashi, Masahito Tomizawa, Riichi Kudo, Koichi Ishihara, Tadao Nakagawa, Mitsuteru Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 9160600
    Abstract: A frequency domain multiplexed signal receiving method which decodes received signals that are multiplexed in a frequency domain, includes: a digital signal acquisition step of acquiring digital signals from the received signals that are multiplexed in the frequency domain; an offset discrete Fourier transform step of applying an offset discrete Fourier transform to odd discrete point numbers based on the acquired digital signals; and a decode step of decoding frequency domain digital signals in the frequency domain obtained by the offset discrete Fourier transform, and that are the frequency domain digital signals of one or more frequency channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Riichi Kudo, Takayuki Kobayashi, Koichi Ishihara, Yasushi Takatori, Hideyuki Nosaka, Munehiro Matsui, Masato Mizoguchi, Tadao Nakagawa, Etsushi Yamazaki, Akihide Sano, Yutaka Miyamoto, Eiji Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20150078765
    Abstract: To enable signal position detection, frequency offset compensation, clock offset compensation, and chromatic dispersion amount estimation in a communication system based on coherent detection using an optical signal, even on a signal having a great offset in an arrival time depending on a frequency due to chromatic dispersion. An optical signal transmitting apparatus generates specific frequency band signals having power concentrated on two or more specific frequencies and transmits a signal including the specific frequency band signals. An optical signal receiving apparatus converts a received signal into a digital signal, detects positions of the specific frequency band signals from the converted digital signal, estimates frequency positions of the detected specific frequency band signals, and detects a frequency offset between an optical signal receiving apparatus and an optical signal transmitting apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventors: Koichi Ishihara, Takayuki Kobayashi, Riichi Kudo, Yasushi Takatori, Munehiro Matsui, Masato Mizoguchi, Akihide Sano, Shogo Yamanaka, Etsushi Yamazaki, Yutaka Miyamoto, Eiji Yoshida, Tadao Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20150078762
    Abstract: To enable signal position detection, frequency offset compensation, clock offset compensation, and chromatic dispersion amount estimation in a communication system based on coherent detection using an optical signal, even on a signal having a great offset in an arrival time depending on a frequency due to chromatic dispersion. An optical signal transmitting apparatus generates specific frequency band signals having power concentrated on two or more specific frequencies and transmits a signal including the specific frequency band signals. An optical signal receiving apparatus converts a received signal into a digital signal, detects positions of the specific frequency band signals from the converted digital signal, estimates frequency positions of the detected specific frequency band signals, and detects a frequency offset between an optical signal receiving apparatus and an optical signal transmitting apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventors: Koichi Ishihara, Takayuki Kobayashi, Riichi Kudo, Yasushi Takatori, Munehiro Matsui, Masato Mizoguchi, Akihide Sano, Shogo Yamanaka, Etsushi Yamazaki, Yutaka Miyamoto, Eiji Yoshida, Tadao Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 8971703
    Abstract: A wavelength dispersion amount estimation method, a wavelength dispersion compensation circuit, and a receiving device which rapidly estimate and set a wavelength dispersion amount to compensate with high accuracy at the receiving device which compensates waveform distortion at an optical fiber transmission path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Etsushi Yamazaki, Takayuki Kobayashi, Masahito Tomizawa, Riichi Kudo, Koichi Ishihara, Tadao Nakagawa, Mitsuteru Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 8934782
    Abstract: A polarization state of a transmission signal can be changed at a high speed based on a symbol-rate By switching a first switch, a second switch, and a third switch with time, one of an X-polarized wave_I-signal as a Y-polarized wave_I-signal, a signal caused by performing logical inversion for an X-polarized wave_I-signal, an X-polarized wave_Q-signal and a signal caused by logical inversion for an X-polarized wave_Q-signal is input to a second modulator. Further, by switching the first switch, the second switch and the third switch with time, the second modulator is input one of the X-polarized wave_I-signal as the Y-polarized wave_Q-signal, the X-polarized wave_I-signal, the signal caused by performing logical inversion for the X-polarized wave_I-signal, the X-polarized wave_Q-signal and the signal caused by performing logical inversion for the X-polarized wave_Q-signal. Thereby, a polarization state of a transmission signal can be changed at high speed based on a symbol-rate speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Tadao Nakagawa, Etsushi Yamazaki, Koichi Ishihara, Takayuki Kobayashi, Riichi Kudo, Yasushi Takatori, Munehiro Matsui, Yutaka Miyamoto, Akihide Sano, Eiji Yoshida, Masato Mizoguchi
  • Patent number: 8929750
    Abstract: To enable signal position detection, frequency offset compensation, clock offset compensation, and chromatic dispersion amount estimation in a communication system based on coherent detection using an optical signal, even on a signal having a great offset in an arrival time depending on a frequency due to chromatic dispersion. An optical signal transmitting apparatus generates specific frequency band signals having power concentrated on two or more specific frequencies and transmits a signal including the specific frequency band signals. An optical signal receiving apparatus converts a received signal into a digital signal, detects positions of the specific frequency band signals from the converted digital signal, estimates frequency positions of the detected specific frequency band signals, and detects a frequency offset between an optical signal receiving apparatus and an optical signal transmitting apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Koichi Ishihara, Takayuki Kobayashi, Riichi Kudo, Yasushi Takatori, Munehiro Matsui, Masato Mizoguchi, Akihide Sano, Shogo Yamanaka, Etsushi Yamazaki, Yutaka Miyamoto, Eiji Yoshida, Tadao Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 8855485
    Abstract: When a circuit that calculates a frequency offset using a shape of a frequency spectrum is implemented by hardware, the circuit size can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Tadao Nakagawa, Yasushi Takatori, Riichi Kudo, Munehiro Matsui, Koichi Ishihara, Takayuki Kobayashi, Etsushi Yamazaki, Akihide Sano, Eiji Yoshida, Masato Mizoguchi, Yutaka Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 8787769
    Abstract: In order to compensate for chromatic dispersion caused by optical fiber transmission in a communication system with coherent detection using optical signals, specific frequency band signals are used to enable estimation of a chromatic dispersion value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Koichi Ishihara, Takayuki Kobayashi, Riichi Kudo, Yasushi Takatori, Munehiro Matsui, Masato Mizoguchi, Tadao Nakagawa, Etsushi Yamazaki, Akihide Sano, Yutaka Miyamoto, Eiji Yoshida, Shogo Yamanaka
  • Patent number: 8781029
    Abstract: Provided is a frequency offset estimation apparatus that appropriately estimates and compensates for a frequency offset of a received signal when estimating the frequency offset which is the difference between a carrier frequency of the received signal and the frequency of an output signal of a local oscillator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Tadao Nakagawa, Munehiro Matsui, Koichi Ishihara, Riichi Kudo, Takayuki Kobayashi, Etsushi Yamazaki, Akihide Sano, Eiji Yoshida, Masato Mizoguchi, Yutaka Miyamoto, Yasushi Takatori
  • Publication number: 20140016929
    Abstract: A wavelength dispersion amount estimation method, a wavelength dispersion compensation circuit, and a receiving device which rapidly estimate and set a wavelength dispersion amount to compensate with high accuracy at the receiving device which compensates waveform distortion at an optical fiber transmission path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2012
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Etsushi Yamazaki, Takayuki Kobayashi, Masahito Tomizawa, Riichi Kudo, Koichi Ishihara, Tadao Nakagawa, Mitsuteru Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20130343749
    Abstract: A wavelength dispersion amount estimation method, a wavelength dispersion compensation circuit, and a receiving device which rapidly estimate and set a wavelength dispersion amount to compensate with high accuracy at the receiving device which compensates waveform distortion at an optical fiber transmission path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2012
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Inventors: Etsushi Yamazaki, Takayuki Kobayashi, Masahito Tomizawa, Riichi Kudo, Koichi Ishihara, Tadao Nakagawa, Mitsuteru Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20130070874
    Abstract: Provided is a frequency offset estimation apparatus that appropriately estimates and compensates for a frequency offset of a received signal when estimating the frequency offset which is the difference between a carrier frequency of the received signal and the frequency of an output signal of a local oscillator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2011
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadao Nakagawa, Munehiro Matsui, Koichi Ishihara, Riichi Kudo, Takayuki Kobayashi, Etsushi Yamazaki, Akihide Sano, Eiji Yoshida, Masato Mizoguchi, Yutaka Miyamoto, Yasushi Takatori
  • Publication number: 20130028595
    Abstract: When a circuit that calculates a frequency offset using a shape of a frequency spectrum is implemented by hardware, the circuit size can be reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2011
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadao Nakagawa, Yasushi Takatori, Riichi Kudo, Munehiro Matsui, Koichi Ishihara, Takayuki Kobayashi, Etsushi Yamazaki, Akihide Sano, Eiji Yoshida, Masato Mizoguchi, Yutaka Miyamoto
  • Publication number: 20120315043
    Abstract: A polarization state of a transmission signal can be changed at a high speed based on a symbol-rate By switching a first switch, a second switch, and a third switch with time, one of an X-polarized wave_I-signal as a Y-polarized wave_I-signal, a signal caused by performing logical inversion for an X-polarized wave_I-signal, an X-polarized wave_Q-signal and a signal caused by logical inversion for an X-polarized wave_Q-signal is input to a second modulator. Further, by switching the first switch, the second switch and the third switch with time, the second modulator is input one of the X-polarized wave_I-signal as the Y-polarized wave_Q-signal, the X-polarized wave_I-signal, the signal caused by performing logical inversion for the X-polarized wave_I-signal, the X-polarized wave_Q-signal and the signal caused by performing logical inversion for the X-polarized wave_Q-signal. Thereby, a polarization state of a transmission signal can be changed at high speed based on a symbol-rate speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2011
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadao Nakagawa, Etsushi Yamazaki, Koichi Ishihara, Takayuki Kobayashi, Riichi Kudo, Yasushi Takatori, Munehiro Matsui, Yutaka Miyamoto, Akihide Sano, Eiji Yoshida, Masato Mizoguchi
  • Publication number: 20120106618
    Abstract: A frequency domain multiplexed signal receiving method which decodes received signals that are multiplexed in a frequency domain, includes: a digital signal acquisition step of acquiring digital signals from the received signals that are multiplexed in the frequency domain; an offset discrete Fourier transform step of applying an offset discrete Fourier transform to odd discrete point numbers based on the acquired digital signals; and a decode step of decoding frequency domain digital signals in the frequency domain obtained by the offset discrete Fourier transform, and that are the frequency domain digital signals of one or more frequency channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2010
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Riichi Kudo, Takayuki Kobayashi, Koichi Ishihara, Yasushi Takatori, Hideyuki Nosaka, Munehiro Matsui, Masato Mizoguchi, Tadao Nakagawa, Etsushi Yamazaki, Akihide Sano, Yutaka Miyamoto, Eiji Yoshida