Patents by Inventor Takashi Onodera

Takashi Onodera 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: 20230382397
    Abstract: A detection function control device includes: a vehicle situation determining unit configured to determine a situation of a vehicle on the basis of detection results of one or more of an ignition state, whether a driver is seated in a seat, the acceleration of the vehicle, the position of the vehicle, the speed of the vehicle, and sound which is collected; and a detection function control unit configured to determine which of one or more detection functions for detecting dangerous driving is to be activated on the basis of the situation determined by the vehicle situation determining unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Yoshiharu KOJI, Takashi ONODERA
  • Patent number: 11546027
    Abstract: A base station apparatus is capable of adjusting antenna gains in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction of the plurality of antennas included in the base station apparatus, by adjusting a phase and an amplitude of a signal addressed and transmitted to a terminal apparatus, stores a codebook which is shared with the terminal apparatus and describes a plurality of linear filters associated with antenna gains in the horizontal direction and antenna gains in the vertical direction, acquires control information indicating at least one out of a plurality of linear filters described in the codebook, of which notification is sent from the terminal apparatus, performs precoding on the signal addressed to the terminal apparatus, based on the control information and the first codebook, and transmits the signal subjected to the precoding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiromichi Tomeba, Takashi Onodera, Minoru Kubota
  • Patent number: 11516847
    Abstract: A CCA level is made to be variable efficiently while maintaining the fairness relating to acquisition of a transmission opportunity by wireless terminal apparatuses, and thus efficiency of a radio resource is improved. Provided is a terminal apparatus that performs wireless communication with a base station apparatus, and includes; a MAC frame categorization unit categorizing MAC frames, in each of which media access control header is attached to transmission data, based on a type of MAC frame; and a QoS control unit performing a carrier sense using a first CCA level, in a case where the MAC frame is included in a first category that results from the categorization by the MAC frame categorization unit, and performing the carrier sense using a second CCA level different from the first CCA level, in a case where the MAC frame is included in a second category different from the first category.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoki Yoshimura, Hiromichi Tomeba, Takashi Onodera
  • Patent number: 11470638
    Abstract: Provided are a terminal apparatus and a communication method that are able to improve communication quality and an acquisition rate of transmission opportunity in a communication system requiring carrier sense. The terminal apparatus of the invention includes a reception unit that receives a frame and changes a CCA method on the basis of information included in the frame. The CCA method includes a method of setting a CCA level as a value other than a predetermined value of the CCA level. The reception unit has a function of performing carrier sense and a method of changing the CCA level includes a method of setting a period in which the carrier sense is performed as a value other than a value of a predetermined carrier sense period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiromichi Tomeba, Tomoki Yoshimura, Takashi Onodera, Yasuhiro Hamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20220263551
    Abstract: A base station apparatus is capable of adjusting antenna gains in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction of the plurality of antennas included in the base station apparatus, by adjusting a phase and an amplitude of a signal addressed and transmitted to a terminal apparatus, stores a codebook which is shared with the terminal apparatus and describes a plurality of linear filters associated with antenna gains in the horizontal direction and antenna gains in the vertical direction, acquires control information indicating at least one out of a plurality of linear filters described in the codebook, of which notification is sent from the terminal apparatus, performs precoding on the signal addressed to the terminal apparatus, based on the control information and the first codebook, and transmits the signal subjected to the precoding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Hiromichi TOMEBA, Takashi ONODERA, Minoru KUBOTA
  • Patent number: 11388749
    Abstract: Communication opportunities of existing terminal devices are ensured, in a communication system in which terminal devices capable of using a new CCA level and the existing terminal devices using an existing CCA level coexist, on the premise of CSMA/CA. A communication method of a radio transmission device of the present invention includes a step of signaling information indicating a first CCA section and a second CCA section to the radio reception device. A communication method of a radio reception device of the present invention includes a step of performing the carrier sense based on a first CCA level and a second CCA level, and a step of performing the carrier sense based on the first CCA level, in the first CCA section, based on information indicating the first CCA section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiromichi Tomeba, Tomoki Yoshimura, Takashi Onodera
  • Publication number: 20220159211
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a video processing apparatus includes: a video obtaining unit configured to obtain a video image taken by a video camera; a supplementary information reading unit configured to detect a supplementary information tag recorded in the video image obtained by the video obtaining unit, and read supplementary information in an additional information file; an additional information file obtaining unit configured to obtain the additional information file, based on the supplementary information read by the supplementary information reading unit; and an additional information generation unit configured to generate additional information from the additional information file obtained by the additional information file obtaining unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventor: Takashi ONODERA
  • Publication number: 20220141071
    Abstract: In a communication scheme using a radio frame used in a mobile communication system, a reduction in transmission efficiency that occurs in a case of performing Listen Before Talk (LBT) that performs carrier sense for transmission is relieved. An OFDM signal generated in a terminal apparatus includes any of a first OFDM signal including a signal resulting from inverse discrete Fourier transform and a cyclic prefix (CP) using a portion of the signal resulting from the inverse discrete Fourier transform, and a second OFDM signal obtained by replacing a partial segment of the first OFDM signal with a prescribed number of continuous zeros, a transmission signal is managed with a resource grid of which a unit includes one or more subcarriers and an OFDM symbol length including the CP, and in a case that a period between the transmission occasion based on the carrier sense and the boundary of the resource grid is less than or equal to a prescribed time, the second OFDM signal is transmitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: HIDEO NAMBA, HIROMICHI TOMEBA, TAKASHI ONODERA, YASUHIRO HAMAGUCHI, FUMIAKI MAEHARA
  • Patent number: 11323163
    Abstract: A base station apparatus is capable of adjusting antenna gains in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction of the plurality of antennas included in the base station apparatus, by adjusting a phase and an amplitude of a signal addressed and transmitted to a terminal apparatus, stores a codebook which is shared with the terminal apparatus and describes a plurality of linear filters associated with antenna gains in the horizontal direction and antenna gains in the vertical direction, acquires control information indicating at least one out of a plurality of linear filters described in the codebook, of which notification is sent from the terminal apparatus, performs precoding on the signal addressed to the terminal apparatus, based on the control information and the first codebook, and transmits the signal subjected to the precoding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiromichi Tomeba, Takashi Onodera, Minoru Kubota
  • Patent number: 11324003
    Abstract: A radio transmission apparatus selects any one group from a plurality of groups each indicating a combination of a plurality of radio reception apparatuses, notifies at least a plurality of radio reception apparatuses belonging to the selected group of an identification number assigned in advance to the selected group, and allocates transmission data addressed to the radio reception apparatuses belonging to the selected group to each of a plurality of frequency resources based on order of the radio reception apparatuses, which is determined in advance in the selected group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiromichi Tomeba, Takashi Onodera
  • Publication number: 20220109150
    Abstract: According to the present invention, a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes an accommodation container including a positive electrode can, a gasket, and a negative electrode can, and a power generation element containing an electrolytic solution. The positive electrode can is formed in a bottomed-cylindrical shape having a bottom wall portion and an outer wall portion. The negative electrode can is formed in a topped-cylindrical shape having a top wall portion and an inner wall portion. A portion of the outer wall portion located on a top wall portion side is made as a crimping portion 12b curved with a curvature radius R gradually toward an inner wall portion side as it extends from a bottom wall portion side toward an opening end edge of the outer wall portion. A diameter D of the non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery is set to 4.6 mm to 5.0 mm. A height H2 of the positive electrode can is set to be in a range of 74% to 79% of a height H1 of the non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventor: Takashi ONODERA
  • Patent number: 11172431
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to protect the communication of a legacy terminal while achieving favorable communication by rendering the CCA level of a CCA-variable terminal apparatus variable in an environment, premised on CSMA/CA, where the CCA-variable terminal apparatus and a legacy terminal apparatus coexist. A terminal apparatus for performing wireless communication with a base station apparatus includes: a receiving unit that receives a radio signal transmitted from the base station apparatus; a CCA-variable channel information processing unit that acquires first CCA-variable channel instruction information contained in the radio signal and containing information regarding a range of a CCA level that is available on a certain channel and that is used for clear channel assessment; and a higher layer unit that selects, according to the first CCA-variable channel instruction information, a channel to be used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoki Yoshimura, Hiromichi Tomeba, Takashi Onodera
  • Publication number: 20210235498
    Abstract: A CCA level is made to be variable efficiently while maintaining the fairness relating to acquisition of a transmission opportunity by wireless terminal apparatuses, and thus efficiency of a radio resource is improved. Provided is a terminal apparatus that performs wireless communication with a base station apparatus, and includes; a MAC frame categorization unit categorizing MAC frames, in each of which media access control header is attached to transmission data, based on a type of MAC frame; and a QoS control unit performing a carrier sense using a first CCA level, in a case where the MAC frame is included in a first category that results from the categorization by the MAC frame categorization unit, and performing the carrier sense using a second CCA level different from the first CCA level, in a case where the MAC frame is included in a second category different from the first category.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventors: TOMOKI YOSHIMURA, HIROMICHI TOMEBA, TAKASHI ONODERA
  • Publication number: 20210144678
    Abstract: Provided is a terminal apparatus for communicating with a base station apparatus by using a plurality of subcarriers by a grant free access scheme, the terminal apparatus includes: a configuration unit configured to configure the number of the plurality of subcarriers to be used for transmission to the specific number of the plurality of subcarriers less than or equal to the prescribed number of the plurality of subcarriers; and a transmitter configured to transmit, in a prescribed communication band, a transmit signal by using the plurality of subcarriers of the specific number among the plurality of subcarriers of the prescribed number, in which the transmit signal does not include information for indicating the specific number of the plurality of subcarriers, the transmitter performs determination of a frequency in the prescribed communication band to which the plurality of subcarriers of the specific number are allocated, and the determination of the frequency in the prescribed communication band is not c
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventors: HIROMICHI TOMEBA, HIDEO NAMBA, TAKASHI ONODERA, YASUHIRO HAMAGUCHI, FUMIAKI MAEHARA
  • Patent number: 11006453
    Abstract: A CCA level is made to be variable efficiently while maintaining the fairness relating to acquisition of a transmission opportunity by wireless terminal apparatuses, and thus efficiency of a radio resource is improved. Provided is a terminal apparatus that performs wireless communication with a base station apparatus, and includes; a MAC frame categorization unit categorizing MAC frames, in each of which media access control header is attached to transmission data, based on a type of MAC frame; and a QoS control unit performing a carrier sense using a first CCA level, in a case where the MAC frame is included in a first category that results from the categorization by the MAC frame categorization unit, and performing the carrier sense using a second CCA level different from the first CCA level, in a case where the MAC frame is included in a second category different from the first category.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoki Yoshimura, Hiromichi Tomeba, Takashi Onodera
  • Publication number: 20210092479
    Abstract: By transmitting region reconstruction information from a network side device to a terminal side device, quality is enhanced in video reconstruction by super resolution techniques or the like. A video is divided into multiple regions, and the region reconstruction information includes video reconstruction information for each of the multiple regions divided. The region reconstruction information is generated based on the classification information associated with the video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventors: HIDEO NAMBA, HIROMICHI TOMEBA, TOMOHIRO IKAI, TAKASHI ONODERA, YASUHIRO HAMAGUCHI, NORIO ITOH
  • Publication number: 20200314847
    Abstract: A radio transmission apparatus selects any one group from a plurality of groups each indicating a combination of a plurality of radio reception apparatuses, notifies at least a plurality of radio reception apparatuses belonging to the selected group of an identification number assigned in advance to the selected group, and allocates transmission data addressed to the radio reception apparatuses belonging to the selected group to each of a plurality of frequency resources based on order of the radio reception apparatuses, which is determined in advance in the selected group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Hiromichi TOMEBA, Takashi ONODERA
  • Publication number: 20200259538
    Abstract: A base station apparatus is capable of adjusting antenna gains in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction of the plurality of antennas included in the base station apparatus, by adjusting a phase and an amplitude of a signal addressed and transmitted to a terminal apparatus, stores a codebook which is shared with the terminal apparatus and describes a plurality of linear filters associated with antenna gains in the horizontal direction and antenna gains in the vertical direction, acquires control information indicating at least one out of a plurality of linear filters described in the codebook, of which notification is sent from the terminal apparatus, performs precoding on the signal addressed to the terminal apparatus, based on the control information and the first codebook, and transmits the signal subjected to the precoding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventors: Hiromichi TOMEBA, Takashi ONODERA, Minoru KUBOTA
  • Patent number: 10721736
    Abstract: A radio transmission apparatus selects any one group from a plurality of groups each indicating a combination of a plurality of radio reception apparatuses, notifies at least a plurality of radio reception apparatuses belonging to the selected group of an identification number assigned in advance to the selected group, and allocates transmission data addressed to the radio reception apparatuses belonging to the selected group to each of a plurality of frequency resources based on order of the radio reception apparatuses, which is determined in advance in the selected group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiromichi Tomeba, Takashi Onodera
  • Publication number: 20200178300
    Abstract: Communication opportunities of existing terminal devices are ensured, in a communication system in which terminal devices capable of using a new CCA level and the existing terminal devices using an existing CCA level coexist, on the premise of CSMA/CA. A communication method of a radio transmission device of the present invention includes a step of signaling information indicating a first CCA section and a second CCA section to the radio reception device. A communication method of a radio reception device of the present invention includes a step of performing the carrier sense based on a first CCA level and a second CCA level, and a step of performing the carrier sense based on the first CCA level, in the first CCA section, based on information indicating the first CCA section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Hiromichi TOMEBA, Tomoki YOSHIMURA, Takashi ONODERA