Patents by Inventor Tomohiro Tokuyasu

Tomohiro Tokuyasu 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: 11979898
    Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a plurality of sets of base station devices and terminal station devices configured to perform communications in an equal frame length using a time division duplex scheme, the communications of the plurality of sets being simultaneously operated in adjacent areas, in which each of the base station devices includes a control unit configured to control a transmission timing of a downlink signal transmitted from the base station device itself based on a communication distance between the base station device and the terminal station device of each of the sets or a reception timing of a downlink signal in the terminal station device such that reception timings of downlink signals transmitted from the base station device itself and other base station devices in the terminal station devices of the sets fall within a predetermined range determined in advance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro Tokuyasu, Hiroyuki Furuya, Hayato Fukuzono, Yu Ono, Tsutomu Tatsuta, Tomohiro Nakayama
  • Patent number: 11968324
    Abstract: In a signal transmission system for transmitting an analog signal, in which a billing signal is superposed on an audio signal, from a transmitting device to a receiving device, the transmitting device includes a separation unit configured to separate the audio signal from the analog signal, an AD conversion unit configured to perform AD conversion on the audio signal separated by the separation unit, a detection unit configured to detect the billing signal from the analog signal, a coding unit configured to encode the billing signal detected by the detection unit, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the audio signal subjected to the AD conversion by the AD conversion unit and the billing signal encoded by the coding unit to the receiving device, and the receiving device includes a reception unit configured to receive the audio signal and the billing signal transmitted by the transmission unit, a DA conversion unit configured to perform DA conversion on the audio signal received by the reception uni
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Furuya, Tomohiro Tokuyasu, Hayato Fukuzono, Yu Ono, Tsutomu Tatsuta, Tomohiro Nakayama
  • Patent number: 11838167
    Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication system configured to accommodate a plurality of circuits to transmit a signal from a transmitter to a receiver, the system including a number-of-circuits observation unit configured to observe the number of circuits among the plurality of circuits through which communication is being performed; a quality observation unit configured to observe a quality of each of a plurality of communications; a determination unit configured to determine a modulation scheme for transmitting a signal based on the number of circuits observed by the number-of-circuits observation unit, the quality of each of the plurality of communications observed by the quality observation unit, and a required throughput of each of the plurality of circuits; and a modulation unit configured to modulate the signal using the modulation scheme determined by the determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hayato Fukuzono, Tomohiro Tokuyasu, Keita Kuriyama, Hiroyuki Furuya, Yu Ono, Tsutomu Tatsuta, Tomohiro Nakayama
  • Patent number: 11677597
    Abstract: A wireless communication device includes an estimation observation unit that observes a channel condition by estimating a tendency of a long delay wave and a channel fluctuation from a received signal in which a training signal is added to a data frame, a first equalizer that compensates for the received signal, a second equalizer that compensates for the received signal with a property of having a higher long delay wave tolerance and a lower channel fluctuation tolerance than the first equalizer, and a control unit that performs control which switches such that the first equalizer or the second equalizer performs compensation for the received signal, on the basis of the channel condition observed by the estimation observation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hayato Fukuzono, Keita Kuriyama, Tomohiro Tokuyasu, Tsutomu Tatsuta
  • Publication number: 20220321392
    Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication system configured to accommodate a plurality of circuits to transmit a signal from a transmitter to a receiver, the system including a number-of-circuits observation unit configured to observe the number of circuits among the plurality of circuits through which communication is being performed; a quality observation unit configured to observe a quality of each of a plurality of communications; a determination unit configured to determine a modulation scheme for transmitting a signal based on the number of circuits observed by the number-of-circuits observation unit, the quality of each of the plurality of communications observed by the quality observation unit, and a required throughput of each of the plurality of circuits; and a modulation unit configured to modulate the signal using the modulation scheme determined by the determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hayato FUKUZONO, Tomohiro TOKUYASU, Keita KURIYAMA, Hiroyuki FURUYA, Yu ONO, Tsutomu TATSUTA, Tomohiro NAKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220279368
    Abstract: A wireless base station device includes a test request unit that, upon receipt of a line test request from a host station side, transmits an implementation request for a line test to a wireless terminal station device and a test response unit that transmits at least one of a terminal identification code returned from the wireless terminal station device and a terminal identification code and a line test result of the wireless base station device to the host station side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventors: Yu ONO, Tomohiro TOKUYASU, Hiroyuki FURUYA, Hayato FUKUZONO, Tsutomu TATSUTA, Tomohiro NAKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220263948
    Abstract: In a signal transmission system for transmitting an analog signal, in which a billing signal is superposed on an audio signal, from a transmitting device to a receiving device, the transmitting device includes a separation unit configured to separate the audio signal from the analog signal, an AD conversion unit configured to perform AD conversion on the audio signal separated by the separation unit, a detection unit configured to detect the billing signal from the analog signal, a coding unit configured to encode the billing signal detected by the detection unit, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the audio signal subjected to the AD conversion by the AD conversion unit and the billing signal encoded by the coding unit to the receiving device, and the receiving device includes a reception unit configured to receive the audio signal and the billing signal transmitted by the transmission unit, a DA conversion unit configured to perform DA conversion on the audio signal received by the reception uni
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki FURUYA, Tomohiro TOKUYASU, Hayato FUKUZONO, Yu ONO, Tsutomu TATSUTA, Tomohiro NAKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220240272
    Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a plurality of sets of base station devices and terminal station devices configured to perform communications in an equal frame length using a time division duplex scheme, the communications of the plurality of sets being simultaneously operated in adjacent areas, in which each of the base station devices includes a control unit configured to control a transmission timing of a downlink signal transmitted from the base station device itself based on a communication distance between the base station device and the terminal station device of each of the sets or a reception timing of a downlink signal in the terminal station device such that reception timings of downlink signals transmitted from the base station device itself and other base station devices in the terminal station devices of the sets fall within a predetermined range determined in advance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro TOKUYASU, Hiroyuki FURUYA, Hayato FUKUZONO, Yu ONO, Tsutomu TATSUTA, Tomohiro NAKAYAMA
  • Patent number: 8917642
    Abstract: An application to be booted is selected and operation of the application is controlled according to status of a link between an access point and a station. A station (STA) which can be connected to an access point (AP) includes a link information obtaining procedure which obtains link information including an identifier of the AP to which the STA is connected while the STA is connected to the AP and an application control procedure which selects an application to be booted according to the link information by referring to an action profile in which an identifier of the link information and an application to be booted are related and registered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Umeuchi, Tomohiro Tokuyasu, Takefumi Hiraguri, Toshihiro Manabe
  • Patent number: 8630220
    Abstract: A probe request for an access point scan is transmitted over a specified radio channel according to an order of scanning, a connection candidate AP list including information indicating an access point which transmits a probe response and a received signal strength indication is generated when the probe response is received, the connection candidate AP list is referred to, one access point is selected from access points whose corresponding received signal strength indications exceed a predetermined threshold, connection processing is performed on the one access point being selected on the specified radio channel, and scanning is repeatedly performed by specifying a radio channel which is second in the order until scanning on all radio channels for which the order of scanning is set is completed when no probe response is received or the connection candidate AP list includes no received signal strength indication which exceeds the threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Umeuchi, Tomohiro Tokuyasu, Takefumi Hiraguri, Toshihiro Manabe
  • Patent number: 8619709
    Abstract: In an access point scan method by which a station disconnected from an access point scans for a next access point to which the station can be connected at a predetermined scan interval, the station sets a shorter scan interval when a possibility of connection to the next access point to which the station can be connected is presumed to be high or a need for connection is presumed to be great, and sets a longer scan interval when the possibility of connection is presumed to be low or the need for connection is presumed to be small, based on one of information on the access point to which the station being connected just before disconnection and information on the station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Umeuchi, Takefumi Hiraguri, Tomohiro Tokuyasu, Toshihiro Manabe
  • Patent number: 8284746
    Abstract: A wireless relay device connecting a wireless terminal to one of a plurality of access networks with different wireless interfaces and performing relay processing between the wireless terminal and one of the plurality of access networks being connected, the wireless relay device including a wireless interface on local side to be connected to the wireless terminal, a plurality of wireless interfaces on network side to be connected to the plurality of respective access networks, and a connection control section which boots the plurality of wireless interfaces on network side when the wireless interface on local side receives a signal from the wireless terminal, connects a wireless interface on network side establishing a fastest connection and the wireless interface on local side, and connects the wireless terminal to an access network corresponding to the wireless interface on network side establishing the fastest connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignees: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, NTT Broadband Platform, Inc.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Tokuyasu, Makoto Umeuchi, Toshihiro Manabe, Hiroshi Hojo, Kengo Nagata, Tadao Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20110032857
    Abstract: An application to be booted is selected and operation of the application is controlled according to status of a link between an access point and a station. A station (STA) which can be connected to an access point (AP) includes a link information obtaining procedure which obtains link information including an identifier of the AP to which the STA is connected while the STA is connected to the AP and an application control procedure which selects an application to be booted according to the link information by referring to an action profile in which an identifier of the link information and an application to be booted are related and registered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Publication date: February 10, 2011
    Applicant: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Umeuchi, Tomohiro Tokuyasu, Takefumi Hiraguri, Toshihiro Manabe
  • Publication number: 20100303051
    Abstract: A probe request for an access point scan is transmitted over a specified radio channel according to an order of scanning, a connection candidate AP list including information indicating an access point which transmits a probe response and a received signal strength indication is generated when the probe response is received, the connection candidate AP list is referred to, one access point is selected from access points whose corresponding received signal strength indications exceed a predetermined threshold, connection processing is performed on the one access point being selected on the specified radio channel, and scanning is repeatedly performed by specifying a radio channel which is second in the order until scanning on all radio channels for which the order of scanning is set is completed when no probe response is received or the connection candidate AP list includes no received signal strength indication which exceeds the threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto Umeuchi, Tomohiro Tokuyasu, Takefumi Hiraguri, Toshihiro Manabe
  • Publication number: 20100265885
    Abstract: In an access point scan method by which a station disconnected from an access point scans for a next access point to which the station can be connected at a predetermined scan interval, the station sets a shorter scan interval when a possibility of connection to the next access point to which the station can be connected is presumed to be high or a need for connection is presumed to be great, and sets a longer scan interval when the possibility of connection is presumed to be low or the need for connection is presumed to be small, based on one of information on the access point to which the station being connected just before disconnection and information on the station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2008
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Umeuchi, Takefumi Hiraguri, Tomohiro Tokuyasu, Toshihiro Manabe
  • Publication number: 20100172285
    Abstract: A wireless relay device connecting a wireless terminal to one of a plurality of access networks with different wireless interfaces and performing relay processing between the wireless terminal and one of the plurality of access networks being connected, the wireless relay device including a wireless interface on local side to be connected to the wireless terminal, a plurality of wireless interfaces on network side to be connected to the plurality of respective access networks, and a connection control section which boots the plurality of wireless interfaces on network side when the wireless interface on local side receives a signal from the wireless terminal, connects a wireless interface on network side establishing a fastest connection and the wireless interface on local side, and connects the wireless terminal to an access network corresponding to the wireless interface on network side establishing the fastest connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Applicants: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, NTT BROADFORM PLATFORM, INC.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Tokuyasu, Makoto Umeuchi, Toshihiro Manabe, Hiroshi Hojo, Kengo Nagata, Tadao Kobayashi