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: 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: 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: 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: 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
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Publication number: 20230136032Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to make already installed smart lightings available as optical base stations as they are without modifying them, and perform connection/authentication control for RF communication using an optical signal sent out from the optical base stations.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2020Publication date: May 4, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Ryota SHIINA, Tomohiro TANIGUCHI, Kazutaka HARA, Shinya TAMAKI, Tomoki MURAKAMI, Toshiro NAKAHIRA
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Publication number: 20230130486Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to inform a user of a safe evacuation guidance route in real time using smart lightings without deploying dedicated evacuation guidance facilities. The present disclosure is a wireless communication system including: one or more wireless base stations that wirelessly communicate with a terminal; a plurality of optical base stations that transmit an optical signal to the terminal; and a base station control device that controls the optical signal transmitted by the optical base stations, wherein the base station control device collects environment information around the optical base stations, detects a disaster around the optical base stations using the collected environment information, and when detecting a disaster, causes the optical base station installed at a position close to a disaster occurrence location and the optical base station installed at a position far from the disaster occurrence location to output light of different colors.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2020Publication date: April 27, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Ryota SHIINA, Tomohiro TANIGUCHI, Kazutaka HARA, Shinya TAMAKI, Tomoki MURAKAMI, Toshiro NAKAHIRA
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Publication number: 20230105373Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a data collection system capable of collecting various pieces of metadata other than sensing data and instrument information by existing communication protocols and associating the sensing data, the instrument information, and the metadata with each other without errors.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2020Publication date: April 6, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Tomohiro TANIGUCHI, Shinya TAMAKI, Tetsuya SUZUKI, Yasutaka KIMURA
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Publication number: 20230099790Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a data collection system and a data collection method which are capable of collecting sensing data and various pieces of metadata by a single communication protocol and capable of associating the sensing data with the metadata without errors. A data collection system 301 of the present disclosure is a data collection system that performs communication from a terminal 11 to a data collection unit 12 by a standardized communication protocol (LLDP or HTIP), in which the terminal 11 stores sensing data detected by a sensor device in an extended field different from a field in which metadata is stored, within a frame specified by the communication protocol, and the data collection unit 12 associates the sensing data with the metadata based on information for identifying the terminal described in the frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2020Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Tomohiro TANIGUCHI, Shinya TAMAKI, Tetsuya SUZUKI, Yasutaka KIMURA
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Publication number: 20230033853Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2020Publication date: February 2, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Ryota SHIINA, Tomohiro TANIGUCHI, Kazutaka HARA, Shinya TAMAKI, Tomoki MURAKAMI, Toshiro NAKAHIRA
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Publication number: 20230031460Abstract: A power path switching apparatus includes a first terminal unit and a second terminal unit provided in a battery pack that includes a plurality of battery modules, and a switching unit that is provided in the battery pack, and switches a path for supplying power from the battery modules, the first terminal unit and the second terminal unit being disposed away from each other at different positions in the battery pack, and the switching unit switches between a first state in which one of the first terminal unit and the second terminal unit serves as an output path of power, and a second state in which one of the first terminal unit and the second terminal unit different from the first state serves as an output path of power.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2021Publication date: February 2, 2023Applicants: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventor: Tomohiro TANIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20230022598Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a terminal device, a communication method, and a communication system which are capable of reducing the error rate even if the transmitting side and the receiving side are asynchronous. The terminal device, communication method, and communication system according to the present invention sample an optical signal more finely than a 0/1 bit pattern in optical ID estimation processing for determining which of 1/0 the data acquired by an optical sensor is, and perform a majority decision using a plurality of sampling values in a decision processing window. Thus, even if the correct sampling value fails to be obtained, the correct bit value can be derived from other samplings.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2019Publication date: January 26, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Ryota SHIINA, Tomohiro TANIGUCHI, Kazutaka HARA, Shinya TAMAKI, Tomoki MURAKAMI, Toshiro NAKAHIRA