Patents by Inventor Tomoki Murakami

Tomoki 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).

  • Patent number: 11956662
    Abstract: A wireless communication system in which wireless stations perform transmission, a plurality of wireless modules that are operated in a shared frequency band being installed in the wireless stations, wherein the wireless stations each include means for notifying a control device of environment information that includes capacity information regarding the wireless station and information regarding a surrounding wireless environment, and setting frequency channels in the plurality of wireless modules, the wireless stations being notified of the frequency channels by the control device, and the control device includes means for calculating a frequency channel of each wireless module of each wireless station based on the environment information collected from each wireless station, following a control guideline that is determined in advance, and notifying the wireless stations of the frequency channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiro Nakahira, Hirantha Abeysekera, Tomoki Murakami, Koichi Ishihara, Takafumi Hayashi, Yasushi Takatori
  • Patent number: 11950115
    Abstract: A measurement station collects radio base station performance information related to a radio communication performance of each radio base station, radio connection information related to a radio communication performance and a communication status of a corresponding radio terminal station, generates a measurement condition and an expected measurement result based on the radio base station performance information and the radio connection information, and notifies a measurement control signal corresponding to the measurement condition to the radio terminal station through the radio base station; the radio terminal station performs a communication setting of an own station based on the notified measurement control signal, and notifies a measurement preparation status to the measurement station; and the measurement station measures the radio communication performance by causing a flow of a measurement traffic to the radio terminal station through the radio base station, acquiring a measurement result, and determi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiro Nakahira, Tomoki Murakami, Hirantha Abeysekera, Koichi Ishihara, Takafumi Hayashi, Yasushi Takatori
  • Publication number: 20240097775
    Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a sensor that acquires a position of an obstacle present between a transmitting station and a receiving station; an obstacle region detector that detects an obstacle region on the basis of the position acquired by the sensor; and a reflector region setter that sets, as a reflector setting region, a region on an opposite side of the obstacle region with reference to a tangent from the transmitting station toward the obstacle region and on an opposite side of the obstacle region with reference to a tangent from the receiving station toward the obstacle region. Further, there is a reflector selector that selects a reflector present in the reflector setting region among the plurality of reflectors, and a controller that controls communication such that the receiving station and the transmitting station perform wireless communication by radio waves reflected by the reflector selected by the reflector selector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Riku OMIYA, Tomoaki OGAWA, Tomoki MURAKAMI, Yasushi TAKATORI
  • Publication number: 20240088955
    Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a sensing unit that detects an obstacle currently present between a transmitting station and a receiving station. There is an environment memory that stores information on a detection result of the sensing unit, an environment prediction unit that predicts a variation in a radio wave propagation environment between the transmitting station and the receiving station from the information stored in the environment memory. There is further a simulation calculation unit that simulates an environment in which a communication path between the receiving station and a reflector and a communication path between the transmitting station and the reflector are a line-of-sight environment on the basis of a prediction result of the environment prediction unit and calculates a control parameter of the reflector that achieves the environment. Further, a reflector control unit controls the reflector in accordance with the control parameter calculated by the simulation calculation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Riku OMIYA, Tomoaki OGAWA, Tomoki MURAKAMI, Yasushi TAKATORI
  • Patent number: 11929781
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryota Shiina, Tomohiro Taniguchi, Kazutaka Hara, Shinya Tamaki, Tomoki Murakami, Toshiro Nakahira
  • Patent number: 11917455
    Abstract: The invention of the present application provides a transmission parameter control method in a radio communication system that performs, between a radio base station and a plurality of radio terminal stations, communication of a first method in which reception confirmation is enabled and communication of a second method in which reception confirmation is not possible. The radio base station selects transmission parameters including a transmission rate in the communication of the second method with the radio terminal stations, based on radio communication information in the communication of the first method with the radio terminal stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiro Nakahira, Tomoki Murakami, Hirantha Abeysekera, Koichi Ishihara, Takafumi Hayashi, Yasushi Takatori
  • Patent number: 11917454
    Abstract: A wireless communications method for connecting a base station with each of a plurality of terminal stations, the base station being equipped with a plurality of wireless communications units configured to be able to select a plurality of different transmission rates and connectable with one or more of the terminal stations, includes: a collection step of collecting information about a transmission rate and multicast transmission frequency from each of the terminal stations; a policy calculation step of calculating a setting policy for setting a unicast transmission rate and a multicast transmission rate for each of the wireless communications units and a switching policy for setting a condition for switching that one of the wireless communications units which is to be connected, for each of the terminal stations based on the collected information; and a setting step of setting those of the terminal stations which are to be connected, for each of the wireless communications units based on the calculated setti
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiro Nakahira, Tomoki Murakami, Hirantha Abeysekera, Koichi Ishihara, Takafumi Hayashi, Yasushi Takatori
  • Patent number: 11903025
    Abstract: A wireless communications method for connecting a base station with each of a plurality of terminal stations, the base station being equipped with a plurality of wireless communications units each configured to be able to selectively enable or disable an RTS/CTS function and a NoACK function and connectable with one or more of the terminal stations, includes: a collection step of collecting information as to whether each of the terminal stations is a hidden terminal and information about transmission characteristics of each of the terminal stations; a policy calculation step of calculating a setting policy for enabling or disabling the RTS/CTS function and the NoACK function for each of the wireless communications units and a switching policy for setting a condition for switching that one of the wireless communications units which is to be connected, for each of the terminal stations, based on the collected information; and a setting step of setting those of the terminal stations which are to be connected, fo
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiro Nakahira, Tomoki Murakami, Hirantha Abeysekera, Koichi Ishihara, Takafumi Hayashi, Yasushi Takatori
  • Patent number: 11901959
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro Taniguchi, Ryota Shiina, Kazutaka Hara, Tomoki Murakami, Toshiro Nakahira
  • Publication number: 20240048217
    Abstract: A receiving apparatus comprising: an antenna control unit; a variable characteristic antenna that receives MIMO signals transmitted from a plurality of antennas while switching an antenna characteristic on the basis of a control signal output from the antenna control unit; a conversion unit that samples reception signals received by the variable characteristic antenna at a predetermined sampling period; a signal division unit that extracts each signal from a plurality of signals corresponding to a plurality of antenna characteristics obtained by the conversion unit; and a MIMO signal demodulation unit that performs MIMO demodulation processing on a signal output from the signal division unit, wherein the variable characteristic antenna includes a plurality of parasitic elements, and the antenna control unit outputs a control signal to each of the parasitic elements by providing a time difference among the control signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Tomoki MURAKAMI, Masashi IWABUCHI, Riku OMIYA, Tomoaki OGAWA, Yasushi TAKATORI
  • Publication number: 20240036227
    Abstract: A capture device which captures propagation path information communicated between the two or more wireless devices and transmits the propagation path information to a first detection device and a second detection device; and a learning model generation device which generates a learning model for object detection using supervised machine learning are provided. The first detection device performs object detection between the wireless devices using a learning model generated by the learning model generation device, the second detection device performs object detection with higher accuracy than the first detection device, and the learning model generation device generates and updates a learning model which is used by the first detection device as teacher data using determination data including object detection results of the second detection device. This makes it possible to easily generate a learning model using supervised machine learning without spending time or manpower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Shinya Otsuki, Tomoki Murakami, Tomoaki Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20240015058
    Abstract: Interference in preamble signals and pilot signals in cooperative transmission using interference suppressing technology is avoided. A wireless apparatus for transmitting a wireless signal on which directivity control has been performed to stations in a wireless system including at least one wireless apparatus is provided with a known signal generating unit which generates a known signal to be added to the wireless signal, a weighting processing unit which performs weighting on the known signal generated by the known signal generating unit, and a wireless processing unit which transmits the known signal on which the weighting has been performed by the weighting processing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoki MURAKAMI, Yusuke ASAI, Riichi KUDO, Koichi ISHIHARA, Masato MIZOGUCHI, Takeo ICHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240004052
    Abstract: A wireless communication method according to an embodiment includes: capturing an image by each of radio wave reflection devices; detecting a position of a person captured in the image on the basis of the image captured by each of the radio wave reflection devices; determining whether or not each of propagation paths between a reflection unit and a wireless terminal is in a line of sight on the basis of the detected position of the person and the compass information transmitted by the wireless terminal; selecting the radio wave reflection device in which the propagation path between the reflection unit and the wireless terminal is in the line of sight on the basis of each piece of line-of-sight information indicating a result of the determination; and performing control such that the wireless terminal and the base station perform wireless communication using radio waves reflected by the selected radio wave reflection device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Riku OMIYA, Masashi IWABUCHI, Tomoki MURAKAMI, Tomoaki OGAWA, Yasushi TAKATORI
  • Publication number: 20240004053
    Abstract: A wireless communication method according to an embodiment includes: capturing an image by each of relay devices; detecting a position of a person captured in the image on the basis of the image captured by each of the relay devices; determining whether or not a propagation path between a radiation unit and a wireless terminal is in a line of sight on the basis of the detected position of the person and the compass information transmitted by the wireless terminal; measuring each of strengths of radio waves transmitted by the wireless terminal each time the radiation unit changes a direction in which the radio waves are radiated; selecting the relay device in which the propagation path between the radiation unit and the wireless terminal is in the line of sight on the basis of each piece of line-of-sight information indicating a result of the determination; specifying, for each of the relay devices, a direction in which radio waves radiated by the radiation unit are strongest on the basis of each piece of stre
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Riku OMIYA, Masashi IWABUCHI, Tomoki MURAKAMI, Tomoaki OGAWA, Yasushi TAKATORI
  • Patent number: 11838087
    Abstract: Provided is an antenna placement method in a system for detecting an object in a detection area between at least one set of a transmission station and a reception station by a wireless signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoki Murakami, Shinya Otsuki, Takafumi Hayashi, Yasushi Takatori
  • Patent number: 11824596
    Abstract: An operation test method of a base station to which a plurality of terminal stations are connectable, the method including switching a specific radio communication unit of a plurality of radio communication units to a subordinate mode and setting another radio communication unit of the plurality of radio communication units to a normal mode, the normal mode being a mode in which each of the plurality of radio communication units performs radio communication as a base station, the subordinate mode being a mode in which each of the plurality of radio communication units performs radio communication as a virtual terminal station, each of the plurality of radio communication units being switchable between the normal mode and the subordinate mode, and conducting an operation test of the base station by performing, based on a test policy that sets the operation test, radio communication between the specific radio communication unit switched to the subordinate mode and the other radio communication unit in the norma
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiro Nakahira, Tomoki Murakami, Hirantha Abeysekera, Koichi Ishihara, Takafumi Hayashi, Yasushi Takatori
  • Patent number: 11817982
    Abstract: A wireless communication method for connecting a base station with each of a plurality of terminal stations set to differ in Guard interval length, with the base station being equipped with a plurality of wireless communications units each configured to be connectable with one or more of the terminal stations, includes: a collection step of collecting information about the Guard interval length set for each of the terminal stations and connection information about the terminal stations; a policy calculation step of calculating a setting policy for setting the Guard interval length permitted for each of the wireless communications units and a switching policy for setting a condition for switching that one of the wireless communications units which is to be connected, for each of the terminal stations, based on each of the collected information about the Guard interval length and connection information about the terminal stations; and a setting step of setting those of the terminal stations which are to be conn
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiro Nakahira, Tomoki Murakami, Hirantha Abeysekera, Koichi Ishihara, Takafumi Hayashi, Yasushi Takatori
  • Patent number: 11818670
    Abstract: A wireless communication system in which wireless stations perform transmission, a plurality of wireless modules that are operated in a shared frequency band being installed in the wireless stations, wherein the wireless stations each include means for notifying a control device of environment information that includes capacity information regarding the wireless station and information regarding a surrounding wireless environment, and setting transmission power values in the plurality of wireless modules, the wireless stations being notified of the transmission power values by the control device, and the control device includes means for calculating a transmission power value of each wireless module of each wireless station based on the environment information collected from each wireless station, following a control guideline that is determined in advance, and notifying the wireless stations of the transmission power values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiro Nakahira, Hirantha Abeysekera, Tomoki Murakami, Koichi Ishihara, Takafumi Hayashi, Yasushi Takatori
  • Publication number: 20230362877
    Abstract: A positioning system according to an aspect of the present invention includes a wireless base station device that communicates with a wireless terminal; one or more relay devices that relay a signal between the wireless terminal and the wireless base station device; and a positioning device that estimates a position of the wireless terminal on the basis of a first signal received by the wireless base station device from the wireless terminal via a first relay device, which is one of the one or more relay devices, a position of the one or more relay devices, and a position of the wireless base station device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masashi IWABUCHI, Tomoaki OGAWA, Tomoki MURAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20230361890
    Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication system that detects an object inside a communication area including: a base station device; and a terminal device, in which the base station device controls a timing for transmitting a reference signal for measuring a state of a propagation path on the basis of a pilot signal included in a wireless signal received from the terminal device during wireless communication and detects an object inside the communication area on the basis of propagation state information indicating a state of the propagation path received from the terminal device during wireless sensing, and the terminal device transmits, to the base station device, propagation state information measured on the basis of a reference signal received from the base station device. It is thus possible to transmit the reference signal for measuring a state of the propagation path without degrading a throughput of wireless communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinya OTSUKI, Tomoki MURAKAMI, Tomoaki OGAWA