Patents by Inventor Takanobu Kamo

Takanobu Kamo 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: 6804209
    Abstract: In a wireless transmission control method for controlling wireless communication access among a plurality of communication stations via wireless transmission of a control signal from a central control station to a terminal station, a communication station selected as the central control station judges a station with which each terminal station in a wireless network is capable of directly making communication. When it is detected that each terminal station is capable of directly making communication with a communication station having many more stations than those directly making wireless communication with the central control station, processing for changing the detected terminal station to the central control station is performed. Thus, when the control station is set and the access management of wireless communication is carried out under the control of the control station, the control station can be selected easily and satisfactorily.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2004
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeru Sugaya, Hidemasa Yoshida, Takanobu Kamo, Takehiro Sugita
  • Patent number: 6728231
    Abstract: A method for allowing a communication station to newly join an existing radio network constituted of plural units of communication stations includes a radio transmission a method for carrying out radio transmission in a radio network formed of plural communication stations by a control signal from a communication station set up as a central control station, including the steps of: specifying a frame cycle of a radio transmission signal by a control of the centrat control station; setting a predetermined position in the specified frame cycle as a slot for newly joining the radio network; and if a predetermined signal is transmitted through the slot, carrying out a processing for allowing a transmission source of the signal to join the radio network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2004
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeru Sugaya, Takanobu Kamo, Hidemasa Yoshida
  • Patent number: 6567386
    Abstract: Within a frame period there are defined a managing data transmission area and a data transfer area. Within the managing data transmission area there is made a transmission of data for determining a state of polling control and within the data transfer area there is performed the communication among a plurality of the communicating stations through the polling control based on the data transmitted within the managing data transmission area. As a result of this, in a case where access management of the communication is performed by polling, the transmission efficiency within the network is enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2003
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeru Sugaya, Takanobu Kamo
  • Patent number: 6542494
    Abstract: A frame period is specified by means of a predetermined signal; a management data transmission region is set in this frame period; and when common information to be transmitted from the control station in the management data transmission region is received at a plurality of communication stations, any of these communication stations performs processing for repeatedly transmitting the received common information, whereby when communications in a network system are controlled by a control station, a station incapable of directly making communication with a control station can be controlled satisfactorily.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2003
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeru Sugaya, Hidemasa Yoshida, Takanobu Kamo, Takehiro Sugita
  • Patent number: 6490459
    Abstract: When an access of wireless communication among a plurality of communication stations is polling-controlled by a control station, polling control information is transmitted to a specific communication station incapable of directly making wireless communication with the control station by relaying a predetermined communication station, whereby a station incapable of directly making communication with a control station can be controlled satisfactorily when control in a network system is controlled by the control station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2002
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeru Sugaya, Hidemasa Yoshida, Takanobu Kamo
  • Patent number: 6487238
    Abstract: A signal receiving device, and a radio transmission device and radio transmission method utilized a code sequence extracting circuit for receiving transmission data that is information data to be transmitted having a code sequence of a fixed bit length, formed based on prescribed identification data, and for extracting the code sequence from said transmission data received, a comparison circuits for comparing the code sequence previously allocated to the receiving side with the code sequence of the transmission data extracted by the code sequence extracting circuit, and a control unit for conducting control based on the information data of the transmission data when the comparison result of said comparison circuit shows identity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2002
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Takanobu Kamo