Patents by Inventor Tomohiro Murakami
Tomohiro Murakami 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: 11973706Abstract: A transmitting method includes: configuring a frame using a plurality of orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols, by allocating time resources and frequency resources to a plurality of transmission data; and transmitting the frame, wherein the frame includes a first period in which a preamble which includes information on a frame configuration of the frame is transmitted, and a second period in which the plurality of transmission data are transmitted by at least one of time division and frequency division, and among the plurality of OFDM symbols, OFDM symbols included in the second period include pilot symbols arranged along a time axis with a predetermined spacing therebetween, and a predetermined number of data symbols.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Yutaka Murakami, Yoshio Urabe, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi
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Publication number: 20240129003Abstract: A transmission device includes: a weighting synthesizer that generates a first precoded signal and a second precoded signal; a first pilot inserter that inserts a pilot signal into the first precoded signal; a phase changer that applies a phase change of i×?? to the second precoded signal, where i is a symbol number and an integer that is greater than or equal to 0; an inserter that inserts a pilot signal into the phase-changed second precoded signal; and a phase changer that applies a phase change to the phase-changed and pilot-signal-inserted second precoded signal. ?? satisfies ?/2 radians<??<? radians or ? radians<??<3?/2 radians.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Yutaka MURAKAMI, Tomohiro KIMURA, Mikihiro OUCHI, Hiroyuki MOTOZUKA
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Patent number: 11956068Abstract: A transmission method for transmitting an emergency warning signal, pertaining to one aspect of the present disclosure, includes: generating control information, the control information including a flag indicating either presence or absence of information related to a region and, when the flag indicates presence, information related to the region; acquiring information related to emergency warning content; and generating the emergency warning signal including the control information and the information related to the emergency warning content. Thus, emergency warning (early warning) information can be transmitted with greater precision.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUSTInventors: Yutaka Murakami, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi
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Publication number: 20240113786Abstract: An optical transmit device includes a conversion device configured to convert an electrical data signal into an optical signal, a control unit configured to change an adjustment value for peaking based on a baud rate of the optical signal, and a driver configured to change a band characteristic of the conversion device based on the adjustment value changed by the control unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Tomohiro NAGANUMA, Shoichi MURAKAMI
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Publication number: 20240113789Abstract: An optical receiver includes a converter that converts an optical signal into an electrical data signal, a controller that changes an adjustment value of peaking based on a baud rate of the optical signal, and an amplifier that changes a band characteristic of the converter based on the adjustment value changed by the controller.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Tomohiro NAGANUMA, Shoichi MURAKAMI
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Publication number: 20240113927Abstract: A transmitting method includes: configuring a frame using a plurality of orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols, by allocating a plurality of transmission data to a plurality of areas; and transmitting the frame. The plurality of areas are each identified by at least one time resource among resources and at least one frequency resource among frequency resources. The frame includes a first period in which a preamble is transmitted, and a second period in which the plurality of transmission data are transmitted by at least one of time division and frequency division. The second period includes a first area, and the first area includes a data symbol generated from first transmission data, a data symbol generated from second transmission data and subsequent to the data symbol generated from the first transmission data, and a dummy symbol subsequent to the data symbol generated from the second transmission data.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Yutaka MURAKAMI, Yoshio URABE, Tomohiro KIMURA, Mikihiro OUCHI
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Patent number: 11949611Abstract: Provided are a frame configuring unit configured to configure a frame using a plurality of orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols, by allocating time resources and frequency resources to a plurality of transmission data, and a transmitter which transmits the frame. The frame includes a first period in which a preamble which includes information on a frame configuration of the frame is transmitted, a second period in which a plurality of transmission data are transmitted by time division, a third period in which a plurality of transmission data are transmitted by frequency division, and a fourth period in which a plurality of transmission data are transmitted by time division and frequency division.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2023Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Yutaka Murakami, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi
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Patent number: 11943032Abstract: A transmission method simultaneously transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal at a common frequency performs precoding on both signals using a fixed precoding matrix and regularly changes the phase of at least one of the signals, thereby improving received data signal quality for a reception device.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2023Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUSTInventors: Yutaka Murakami, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi
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Patent number: 11936470Abstract: An encoder outputs a first bit sequence having N bits. A mapper generates a first complex signal s1 and a second complex signal s2 with use of bit sequence having X+Y bits included in an input second bit sequence, where X indicates the number of bits used to generate the first complex signal s1, and Y indicates the number of bits used to generate the second complex signal s2. A bit length adjuster is provided after the encoder, and performs bit length adjustment on the first bit sequence such that the second bit sequence has a bit length that is a multiple of X+Y, and outputs the first bit sequence after the bit length adjustment as the second bit sequence. As a result, a problem between a codeword length of a block code and the number of bits necessary to perform mapping by a set of modulation schemes is solved.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUSTInventors: Yutaka Murakami, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi
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Patent number: 11929781Abstract: An objective is to provide a terminal device, a communication method, and a communication system in which the time taken by connection operations/authentication operations does not increase proportionally with the pattern length, even if the transmitting side and the receiving side are not synchronized. A terminal device, a communication method, and a communication system according to the present invention create n pieces of signal information (n-bit patterns) by sequentially shifting each bit of a single piece of received signal information (n-bit pattern) one bit at a time. Through the above, signal information time-shifted by one bit each is obtained. Thus, even if the transmitting side and the receiving side are not synchronized, one of the n pieces of signal information is a signal synchronized with the transmitting side. Thereafter, the signal synchronized with the transmitting side can be detected by a brute-force calculation with the patterns (ID information) in the list.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Ryota Shiina, Tomohiro Taniguchi, Kazutaka Hara, Shinya Tamaki, Tomoki Murakami, Toshiro Nakahira
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Patent number: 11923871Abstract: One coding scheme is selected from a plurality of coding schemes, an information sequence is encoded by using the selected coding scheme, and an obtained encoded sequence is modulated to obtain a modulated signal. The obtained modulated signal is subjected to a phase change and is transmitted. The plurality of coding schemes include at least a first coding scheme and a second coding scheme. The first coding scheme is a coding scheme with a first coding rate for forming a generated first codeword as a first encoded sequence by using a first parity check matrix. The second coding scheme is a coding scheme with a second coding rate obtained after puncturing processing, for generating a second encoded sequence by performing the puncturing processing on a generated second codeword by using a second parity check matrix different from the first parity check matrix. The number of bits of the first encoded sequence is equal to the number of bits of the second encoded sequence.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi
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Patent number: 11916627Abstract: A transmission method simultaneously transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal at a common frequency performs precoding on both signals using a fixed precoding matrix and regularly changes the phase of at least one of the signals, thereby improving received data signal quality for a reception device.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUSTInventors: Yutaka Murakami, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi
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Publication number: 20240050153Abstract: A hair removal device performs hair removal treatment with light emitted from a light source, and includes: a light source unit including the light source; an imaging unit capable of taking an image of a treatment target area of the skin; a pore specifying unit that specifies a pore present within the treatment target area on the basis of image data of the treatment target area whose image has been taken by the imaging unit; a shift amount detecting unit that detects a shift amount of a pore position associated with a position shift of the hair removal device from the pore position of the time the image of the treatment target area has been taken; and the irradiation position correcting unit that corrects an irradiation position of light with respect to the pore on the basis of the shift amount detected by the shift amount detecting unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2021Publication date: February 15, 2024Inventor: Tomohiro Murakami
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Publication number: 20240002181Abstract: Provided are a medium conveyance apparatus, control method, and control program to enable determining whether multi-feed of a medium has occurred by a greater precision. A medium conveyance apparatus includes a storage device to store in advance region information of a predetermined region in a medium, a feed roller to feed the medium, a slant detection module to detect an amount of slant of the fed medium, an overlap detection module to detect region information of a region in which overlap has occurred in the fed medium, a correction module to correct the detected region information based on the amount of slant, and a multi-feed determination module to determine that multi-feed of the medium has occurred if the corrected region information does not correspond to the stored region information and determine that multi-feed of the medium has not occurred if the corrected region information corresponds to the stored region information.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2021Publication date: January 4, 2024Inventors: Hiroyuki KITANO, Seiichi TAKEDA, Tomohiro MURAKAMI
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Publication number: 20230042510Abstract: A medium conveyance device includes a conveyor configured to convey a medium along a conveyance path, a first sensor configured to detect whether or not the medium is disposed is a detection region in the conveyance path, and a controller configured to control the conveyor to convey the medium in an ejection direction opposite to a feed direction when the conveyor conveys the medium in the feed detection and when the first sensor no longer detects the medium, wherein the controller controls the conveyor to convey the medium in the ejection direction when the conveyor keeps the medium stopped and when the first sensor no longer detects the medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2022Publication date: February 9, 2023Inventors: Junya MIYAMOTO, Tomohiro Murakami
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Patent number: 11533419Abstract: An imaging apparatus including: an image sensor unit; and a camera unit from which the image sensor unit is detachable, in which the image sensor unit includes at least an image sensor and a first storage unit in which first correction data are stored, the camera unit includes at least a control unit, and the control unit performs an update determination process for determining whether or not the first correction data stored in the first storage unit have been updated.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2018Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Keiichi Okamoto, Masakazu Koyanagi, Hidenori Kushida, Keisuke Hirose, Tomohiro Murakami, Tomotaka Ogura, Mitsuru Shibata
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Patent number: 11496639Abstract: The image reading apparatus includes a separation roller, an imaging device to generate an input image, a conveyance roller to convey the medium separated by the separation roller to the imaging device, a first medium sensor located between the separation roller and the conveyance roller, a second medium sensor located between the conveyance roller and the imaging device, a processor to start imaging by the imaging device in response to detection of the medium by the first medium sensor and generate a cutout image from the input image in response to detection of the medium by the second medium sensor, and an output device to output the cutout image. The processor generates the cutout image based on a position imaged by a predetermined amount before a position imaged at a timing when the second medium sensor detects the medium, in the input image.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2022Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: PFU LIMITEDInventors: Tomohiro Murakami, Hiroyuki Kitano
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Patent number: 11389166Abstract: The ligation device includes a tubular body having a tubular shape and including a hollow part into which a string-shaped body can be inserted. The tubular body includes a proximal opening and a distal opening at a proximal end part and a distal end part, respectively. The proximal opening and the distal opening communicate with each other via a lumen of the tubular body. The side of a first end part of the string-shaped body can be inserted into the hollow part. The tubular body includes, on the distal end part, a locking part capable of locking the side of a second end part of the string-shaped body, after the string-shaped body is wound around the target, in a state where the first end part side of the string-shaped body is inserted into the lumen.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2020Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: FORCE ENGINEERING CO., LTD.Inventors: Takanori Imai, Takaki Sawahata, Hiroshi Hirota, Shinichi Kanno, Shinichi Ono, Tomoyuki Sawahata, Tomohiro Murakami, Tomoaki Higuchi
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Publication number: 20220159138Abstract: The image reading apparatus includes a separation roller, an imaging device to generate an input image, a conveyance roller to convey the medium separated by the separation roller to the imaging device, a first medium sensor located between the separation roller and the conveyance roller, a second medium sensor located between the conveyance roller and the imaging device, a processor to start imaging by the imaging device in response to detection of the medium by the first medium sensor and generate a cutout image from the input image in response to detection of the medium by the second medium sensor, and an output device to output the cutout image. The processor generates the cutout image based on a position imaged by a predetermined amount before a position imaged at a timing when the second medium sensor detects the medium, in the input image.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2022Publication date: May 19, 2022Inventors: Tomohiro Murakami, Hiroyuki Kitano
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Patent number: 11283953Abstract: The image reading apparatus includes a separation roller, an imaging device to generate an input image, a conveyance roller to convey the medium separated by the separation roller to the imaging device, a first medium sensor located between the separation roller and the conveyance roller, a second medium sensor located between the conveyance roller and the imaging device, a processor to start imaging by the imaging device in response to detection of the medium by the first medium sensor and generate a cutout image from the input image in response to detection of the medium by the second medium sensor, and an output device to output the cutout image. The processor generates the cutout image based on a position imaged by a predetermined amount before a position imaged at a timing when the second medium sensor detects the medium, in the input image.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2020Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: PFU LIMITEDInventors: Tomohiro Murakami, Hiroyuki Kitano