Patents by Inventor Tomohiro Taniguchi
Tomohiro Taniguchi 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: 20240053430Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a position estimation system capable of grasping position information of a plurality of wireless devices without using an external device such as a fixed beacon or a GPS, a position estimation method, a wireless device, and an analysis device. A position estimation system according to the present invention includes a plurality of wireless devices 11 and an analysis device 12, wherein the wireless devices 11 are each configured to: send beacon signals; transfer the beacon signals between the wireless devices 11 in a range that the beacon signals reach; update flags indicating transfer histories of the beacon signals at the time of transfer; and discard beacon signals sent by own wireless devices upon reception thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2021Publication date: February 15, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Shinya TAMAKI, Ryota SHIINA, Tetsuya SUZUKI, Yasutaka KIMURA, Tomohiro TANIGUCHI, Sei KOU, Tomoya HATANO, Takashi YAMADA
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Patent number: 11901959Abstract: An object is to provide a communication system, a base station, and a communication method that can avoid a state in which an RF wireless communication cannot be started due to the quality of optical wireless communication. In an optical communication system according to the present invention, a base station device repeatedly transmits an authentication information frame addressed to a terminal device at a predetermined cycle by the optical wireless communication, the frame including authentication information for connection to the terminal device by the RF wireless communication. Even if the terminal fails to acquire the authentication information at a certain timing due to the quality of optical wireless communication, the communication system has a mechanism that acquires the same authentication information at regular time intervals, so that terminal authentication processing can be performed at the time when the terminal acquires the authentication information.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2019Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Tomohiro Taniguchi, Ryota Shiina, Kazutaka Hara, Tomoki Murakami, Toshiro Nakahira
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Publication number: 20230408761Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to alleviate deterioration of transmission characteristics of a fiber due to transmission of ultraviolet light, and to eliminate complication of operation due to frequent replacement of an optical fiber in which deterioration has occurred. The present disclosure is an ultraviolet light irradiation system including: an optical transmission unit that propagates ultraviolet light using a plurality of optical transmission lines; an ultraviolet light source unit that inputs ultraviolet light to each of the optical transmission lines with arbitrary power; and an irradiation unit that irradiates a target location with the ultraviolet light propagated through the plurality of optical transmission lines.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2020Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Tomohiro TANIGUCHI, Ayako IWAKI, Kazuhide NAKAJIMA, Nobutomo HANZAWA, Takashi MATSUI, Yuto SAGAE, Chisato FUKAI
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Publication number: 20230396605Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a network authentication system and a network authentication method capable of highly securely authenticating connection or a use place of a device without depending on a connection interface system in a mode in which a device such as audio/video equipment is directly connected to a public network. A network authentication system according to the present invention generates authentication information by a device other than a device such as audio/video equipment, and transmits the authentication information to the device as a media signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2020Publication date: December 7, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Toshihito FUJIWARA, Tatsuya FUKUI, Tomohiro TANIGUCHI, Tomohiko IKEDA, Hiroya ONO, Ryota SHIINA
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Publication number: 20230390436Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an ultraviolet light irradiation system and an ultraviolet light irradiation method which are not limited in an ultraviolet light irradiation region and can be introduced economically. The present ultraviolet light irradiation system is a system configured to connect a single ultraviolet light source part and an irradiation part installed in the vicinity of an object place to be sterilized or the like by the optical cable formed by bundling a plurality of optical fibers (the single-core or the multi-core) or the multi-core optical fiber. Since the optical fiber is very thin and does not require power supply for transmitting the ultraviolet rays, even in a fine place where a person or a robot cannot enter, the ultraviolet light can be irradiated by laying the optical fiber or the optical cable.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2020Publication date: December 7, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Tomohiro TANIGUCHI, Ayako IWAKI, Kazuhide NAKAJIMA, Nobutomo HANZAWA, Takashi MATSUI, Yuto SAGAE, Chisato FUKAI
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Patent number: 11838574Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to distribute content with a high quality and low latency without being limited by a low-rate and unstable network and a low-capacity reception-side edge servers while maintaining sufficient traffic reduction effects. A content distribution system according to the present disclosure converts part of communication for distribution into multicast communication. In the content distribution system, a transmission-side edge server (UC/MC) generates and transmits a plurality of multicast streams having different transfer rates for the same input content, and a reception-side edge server (MC/UC) selects and receives a multicast stream having a desired transfer rate among the plurality of transmitted multicast streams.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2020Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Toshihito Fujiwara, Tomohiro Taniguchi, Hiroya Ono
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Publication number: 20230336448Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to collectively collect sensing data and metadata regarding normality of equipment by utilizing light communication protocol. The present disclosure is a system that collects sensing data from a sensor terminal in a data collection unit using a data collection network, the sensor terminal including a detection unit configured to detect metadata regarding internal information of the sensor terminal other than a sensor device that detects sensing data and equipment information and transmitting the metadata detected by the detection unit using an extended area or an optional area defined in communication protocol for transmitting the sensing data or the equipment information in a frame defined in the communication protocol, and the data collection unit associating the sensing data, the equipment information, and the metadata on the basis of information for identifying the sensor terminal described in the frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2020Publication date: October 19, 2023Inventors: Shinya Tamaki, Ryota SHIINA, Tetsuya Suzuki, Yasutaka KIMURA, Tomohiro TANIGUCHI, Sei KOU, Tomoya HATANO
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Publication number: 20230310674Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a light irradiation system capable of securing economic efficiency, flexibility, reliability, and safety, and further capable of reducing a transmission loss between a center side and a remote side. The present light irradiation system can secure economic efficiency by sharing a single light source installed on the center side with a plurality of irradiation places. The present light irradiation system can irradiate a place to be sterilized with ultraviolet light output by moving the optical fiber tip end on the remote side in a pinpoint manner, and can also secure flexibility. In addition, the present light irradiation system can secure reliability and safety by performing output control of the light source on the center side.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2020Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Tomohiro TANIGUCHI, Ayako IWAKI, Kazuhide NAKAJIMA, Nobutomo HANZAWA, Takashi MATSUI, Yuto SAGAE, Chisato FUKAI, Kazutaka HARA, Atsuko KAWAKITA
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Publication number: 20230302173Abstract: In order to solve the above problems, an object of the present invention is to provide an ultraviolet light irradiation system and an ultraviolet light irradiation method with a few transmission losses in an optical fiber. The ultraviolet light irradiation system 301 includes: a light source unit 11 for injecting transmission infrared light into an optical fiber 50, a wavelength conversion unit 12 for converting the transmission infrared light propagated through the optical fiber 50 into ultraviolet light, and an irradiation unit 13 for irradiating the ultraviolet light on a desired place. The light source unit 11 has a polarization scrambler 11b, and infrared light output from one infrared light source 11a is made to be transmission infrared light by the polarization scrambler 11b.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2020Publication date: September 28, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Tomohiro TANIGUCHI, Ayako IWAKI, Kazuhide NAKAJIMA, Nobutomo HANZAWA, Takashi MATSUI, Yuto SAGAE, Chisato FUKAI
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Publication number: 20230298130Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a remote rendering system, an image processing method, a server device, and a program capable of efficiently performing pre-rendering, reducing a delay in displaying an image to a user, and reducing a deviation between a line-of-sight direction of the user and a rendered image.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2020Publication date: September 21, 2023Inventors: Shinya Tamaki, Toshihito Fujiwara, Tomohiro Taniguchi
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Publication number: 20230293741Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an ultraviolet light irradiation system and a decontamination method that are economical and easy to operate, and that can perform decontamination without any input from a user. In the present invention, an optical fiber or an optical waveguide that radiates ultraviolet light in a lateral direction, the optical fiber or the optical waveguide is built in a sheet shape, and irradiates a surface with the ultraviolet light. Specifically, a material in which a material having a high scattering coefficient is added to the optical fiber is used, a grating is formed in the optical fiber, the optical fiber is given a minute bending with a minute ruggedness, and an arbitrary bending is given on the optical fiber, or the like, thereby achieving side radiation. By such a feature, it has the effect that ultraviolet light decontamination can be performed at all times or at necessary timing for an object touched by an unspecified number of people.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2020Publication date: September 21, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi MATSUI, Kazuhide NAKAJIMA, Nobutomo HANZAWA, Yuto SAGAE, Chisato FUKAI, Ayako IWAKI, Tomohiro TANIGUCHI, Kazutaka HARA, Atsuko KAWAKITA
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Publication number: 20230283816Abstract: The present disclosure has an object to make it possible to transfer a large volume of image data to display devices that are at remote locations and that have different display performances, through a plurality of networks having different available bandwidths. In an image delivery system in the present disclosure, a sending device packetizes image data by at least one of a frame and a scanning line, writes a plurality of identifiers in headers, and sends packets, and a receiving device selectively receives image data for which a predetermined identifier of the plurality of identifiers is written in the header.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2020Publication date: September 7, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Toshihito FUJIWARA, Tomohiro TANIGUCHI, Hiroya ONO
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Publication number: 20230270898Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an ultraviolet light irradiation system and a decontamination method that can perform decontamination economically without any input from a user. The ultraviolet light irradiation system forms a linear or planar ultraviolet light irradiation space by spatially bundling a plurality of ultraviolet light beams with high energy density or moving the ultraviolet light with high energy density at high speed. The ultraviolet light irradiation system can decontaminate a human body and clothing simply by passing through the space. Further, since the ultraviolet light irradiation system performs decontamination in the space, bacteria and viruses emitted from a carrier are not passed through the space.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2020Publication date: August 31, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi MATSUI, Kazuhide NAKAJIMA, Nobutomo HANZAWA, Yuto SAGAE, Chisato FUKAI, Ayako IWAKI, Tomohiro TANIGUCHI, Kazutaka HARA, Atsuko KAWAKITA
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Patent number: 11728904Abstract: In the present disclosure, a wireless base station apparatus sends out continuous light having a predetermined characteristic to a wireless terminal apparatus, and the wireless terminal apparatus selects authentication information corresponding to the predetermined characteristic, and transmits the authentication information to the wireless base station apparatus by RF wireless. When confirming that the received authentication information matches authentication information corresponding to the predetermined characteristic, the wireless base station apparatus permits information communication between the wireless terminal apparatus and an upper network.Type: GrantFiled: July 4, 2019Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Kazutaka Hara, Tomohiro Taniguchi, Ryota Shiina, Tomoki Murakami, Toshiro Nakahira
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Publication number: 20230232215Abstract: A location information transmitter transmits location information within a prescribed area. An IoT terminal receives the location information and transmits the location information and a device identifier. An address setting management device receives the location information and the device identifier and sets an IP address to be assigned to the IoT terminal on the basis of the location information and the device identifier and transmits the IP address to the IoT terminal. The IoT terminal sets the IP address received from the address setting management device for itself.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2020Publication date: July 20, 2023Inventors: Sei KOU, Tomoya HATANO, Tetsuya SUZUKI, Yasutaka KIMURA, Tomohiro TANIGUCHI, Shinya TAMAKI
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Patent number: 11700560Abstract: The present disclosure aims to enable communication to be performed with stable quality even when a user uses a terminal while moving. In the wireless communication system according to the present disclose, a switching control unit 15 sets switching illuminance pth for maintaining illuminance of an optical signal received by a terminal 91 at requested illuminance corresponding to throughput or higher during the time until connection switching between the communication with an optical wireless access point 92 and the communication with an RF wireless access point 93 is completed, and when the received illuminance p becomes lower than the switching illuminance pth during connection with the optical wireless access point 92, the switching control unit 15 performs connection switching from the optical wireless communication to the RF wireless communication.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2019Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Ryota Shiina, Kazutaka Hara, Tomohiro Taniguchi, Tomoki Murakami, Toshiro Nakahira
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Publication number: 20230215254Abstract: The present disclosure provides a monitoring system including an edge processing apparatus including a space distinct ID management database, a space distinct ID control unit, a storage unit, an analysis unit, and an abnormality determination unit, and a controller, a transmitter, and a camera with sensor that are installed in a location to be monitored, in which the space distinct ID management database stores a space distinct ID and a transmission time of the space distinct ID in association with the location to be monitored, the space distinct ID control unit acquires the space distinct ID associated with the location to be monitored from the space distinct ID management database and transmits the space distinct ID that is acquired to the controller in the associated location to be monitored, the controller transmits the space distinct ID acquired from the space distinct ID control unit to the transmitter, the transmitter generates a signal based on the space distinct ID acquired from the controller and diType: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2020Publication date: July 6, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Ryota SHIINA, Tomohiro TANIGUCHI, Shinya TAMAKI, Kazutaka HARA, Koji TSUJI, Tetsuya SUZUKI, Yasutaka KIMURA
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Publication number: 20230179531Abstract: The present disclosure aims to make it possible to transfer multicast packets at as high a rate as possible according to a state of a network, to perform high-quality and low-latency content distribution, and to perform stable multicast distribution on a network that is less likely to ensure a fixed available band such as a best-effort or wireless network. The present disclosure is a content distribution system for converting part of communication for distribution into multicast communication, in which a transmission-side edge server (UC/MC) applies Forward Error Correction to a multicast packet and transmits the multicast packet, a reception-side edge server (MC/UC) notifies the transmission-side edge server of information of packet loss of the received multicast packet, and the transmission-side edge server (UC/MC) changes a transfer rate of a multicast packet to be transmitted based on the notified information of packet loss.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2020Publication date: June 8, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Toshihito FUJIWARA, Hiroya ONO, Tomohiro TANIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20230161039Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a position measuring system, a position measuring device, and a method for measuring a position that can accurately measure the position of an object to be measured without being limited by an environment or an optical axis. A position measuring device 20 according to the present invention is characterized by including a light receiving unit 21 configured to receive scattered light Lsc emitted from a side surface of an optical fiber 50, a database 22 configured to store a correspondence between information on the scattered light and a position of the object to be measured, and a determination unit 23 configured to determine, based on the correspondence stored in the database, a position of the object to be measured from information on the scattered light received by the light receiving unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2020Publication date: May 25, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Atsuko KAWAKITA, Tomohiro TANIGUCHI, Kazutaka HARA
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Publication number: 20230140859Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to distribute content with a high quality and low latency without being limited by a low-rate and unstable network and a low-capacity reception-side edge servers while maintaining sufficient traffic reduction effects. A content distribution system according to the present disclosure converts part of communication for distribution into multicast communication. In the content distribution system, a transmission-side edge server (UC/MC) generates and transmits a plurality of multicast streams having different transfer rates for the same input content, and a reception-side edge server (MC/UC) selects and receives a multicast stream having a desired transfer rate among the plurality of transmitted multicast streams.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2020Publication date: May 11, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Toshihito FUJIWARA, Tomohiro TANIGUCHI, Hiroya ONO