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).

  • Publication number: 20230033853
    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: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryota SHIINA, Tomohiro TANIGUCHI, Kazutaka HARA, Shinya TAMAKI, Tomoki MURAKAMI, Toshiro NAKAHIRA
  • Publication number: 20230022598
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryota SHIINA, Tomohiro TANIGUCHI, Kazutaka HARA, Shinya TAMAKI, Tomoki MURAKAMI, Toshiro NAKAHIRA
  • Publication number: 20230025646
    Abstract: An object is to provide a terminal device, a communication method, and a communication system which are capable of acquiring accurate optical ID information regardless of the position of the terminal device and the light receiving angle. The terminal device, the communication method, and the communication system according to the present invention each sets a threshold value for the illuminance of a received optical signal by using a moving average method, a weighted moving average method, or an exponential moving average, so that the optical signal can be binarized with a threshold value according to a change in the position of the terminal device, the light receiving angle, or the like. Information from other sensors may be used to set the threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryota SHIINA, Tomohiro TANIGUCHI, Kazutaka HARA, Shinya TAMAKI, Tomoki MURAKAMI, Toshiro NAKAHIRA
  • Patent number: 11528628
    Abstract: Provided is a wireless base station which uses distributed antennas and selects a combination of a plurality of wireless terminals and the distributed antennas of a wireless base station that performs multi-user transmission with respect to the plurality of wireless terminals in a multi-BSS wireless environment. The wireless base station includes: a scheduling unit that measures reception power (RSSI) from each wireless terminal at each of the distributed antennas and selects a combination of a plurality of wireless terminals and a plurality of antennas having approximately the same RSSIs in descending order for respective wireless terminals; and a transmission power control unit that sets minimum transmission power corresponding to the RSSI of the antenna when multi-user transmission is performed between the plurality of wireless terminals and the plurality of antennas combined by the scheduling unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koichi Ishihara, Tomoki Murakami, Hirantha Abeysekera, Toshiro Nakahira, Yasushi Takatori, Takafumi Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11509362
    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: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoki Murakami, Yusuke Asai, Riichi Kudo, Koichi Ishihara, Masato Mizoguchi, Takeo Ichikawa
  • Publication number: 20220369120
    Abstract: A wireless communication system including a transmitting station and one or more receiving stations, the one or more receiving stations including a receiving station serving as a destination, the receiving station serving as the destination receiving a transmitted signal from the transmitting station, the wireless communication system including a plurality of relay stations located between the transmitting station and the one or more receiving stations, wherein the transmitting station includes a relay station selection unit configured to select at least one relay station that relays the transmitted signal from among the plurality of relay stations, add information for turning on the at least one selected relay station to the transmitted signal, and transmit the transmitted signal, the at least one selected relay station is configured to be turned on in accordance with the information of the transmitted signal to perform a non-regenerative relay of the transmitted signal, and the receiving station serving as
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Riku OMIYA, Tomoki MURAKAMI, Koichi ISHIHARA, Takafumi HAYASHI, Yasushi TAKATORI
  • Publication number: 20220360318
    Abstract: A wireless communication system including, a primary transmitting station and a primary receiving station which are being in communication, a secondary transmitting station and one or more secondary receiving stations which use the identical frequency that are used in the above wireless environment, the one or more secondary receiving stations including a secondary receiving station serving as a destination, the secondary receiving station serving as the destination receiving a transmitted signal from the secondary transmitting station, the wireless communication system including a plurality of relay stations located between the secondary transmitting station and the one or more secondary receiving stations, wherein the secondary transmitting station includes a relay station selection unit configured to select at least one relay station that relays the transmitted signal from among the plurality of relay stations, add information for turning on the at least one selected relay station to the transmitted signal
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Riku OMIYA, Tomoki MURAKAMI, Koichi ISHIHARA, Takafumi HAYASHI, Yasushi TAKATORI
  • Publication number: 20220361070
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryota SHIINA, Kazutaka HARA, Tomohiro TANIGUCHI, Tomoki MURAKAMI, Toshiro NAKAHIRA
  • Publication number: 20220360984
    Abstract: An objective is to provide a communication system, a terminal, a communication method, and a program capable of improving the probability of successful authentication regardless of mobility of the terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2019
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazutaka HARA, Tomohiro TANIGUCHI, Ryota SHIINA, Tomoki MURAKAMI, Toshiro NAKAHIRA
  • Publication number: 20220352993
    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: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro TANIGUCHI, Ryota SHIINA, Kazutaka HARA, Tomoki MURAKAMI, Toshiro NAKAHIRA
  • Publication number: 20220338103
    Abstract: A radio terminal station device includes a communication unit, an information acquisition unit, a threshold calculation unit, a detection unit, and a system selection unit. The communication unit selects any one of a plurality of different communication systems and performs a radio communication. The information acquisition unit acquires information including a communication state of the radio terminal station device and at least communication states of other radio terminal station devices. The threshold calculation unit calculates a threshold value for detecting deterioration of the communication state of the radio terminal station device. The detection unit detects the deterioration of the communication state of a communication system used by the radio terminal station device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Tomoki MURAKAMI, Ryota SHIINA, Kazutaka HARA, Tomohiro TANIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220303004
    Abstract: According to the present disclosure, a wireless base station device delivers, to a wireless terminal device, an optical ID having a simple configuration in accordance with a pre-stored optical ID correspondence list; and the wireless terminal device selects connection authentication information corresponding to the received optical ID from a pre-stored optical ID correspondence list, and transmits predetermined authentication information to the wireless base station device through a predetermined connection method by RF wireless. Upon confirming that the received authentication information matches authentication information corresponding to an optical ID in the optical ID correspondence list, the wireless base station device permits information communication between the wireless terminal device and a higher-level network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro TANIGUCHI, Shinya TAMAKI, Ryota SHIINA, Kazutaka HARA, Tomoki MURAKAMI, Toshiro NAKAHIRA
  • Publication number: 20220299620
    Abstract: A spatial image generation apparatus includes: a propagation channel information measurer that measures propagation channel information of a target area from radio signals delivered between transmitting and receiving stations; a learned model generator that generates a learned model for generating a spatial image of the target area from the newly input propagation channel information using the propagation channel information and image information obtained by imaging the target area with a camera; and an image generator that generates the spatial image of the target area by inputting the propagation channel information newly input from the propagation channel information measurer to the learned model. The object detection apparatus includes: the spatial image generation apparatus; and an object detector that detects an object in the target area from the spatial image generated by the image generator using an image analysis method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoki MURAKAMI, Hirantha ABEYSEKERA, Shunsuke SARUWATARI, Takeru FUKUSHIMA, Yusuke IWASAKI, Takashi WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20220286955
    Abstract: Included are a plurality of base stations to which a plurality of terminal stations are connectable and a control station that controls each of the base stations. The control station includes a network communication unit that receives, from each of the base stations, base station information indicating the base station, wireless environment information indicating a reception signal received by the base station from another of the base stations and a signal intensity thereof, and terminal station information indicating the terminal station connected to the base station and a signal intensity and a calculation unit that calculates, based on the base station information, the wireless environment information, and the terminal station information each received from each of the base stations, connection control information for controlling a connection permission from each of the base stations to each of the terminal stations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Toshiro Nakahira, Hirantha Abeysekera, Koichi Ishihara, Tomoki Murakami, Takafumi Hayashi, Yasushi Takatori
  • Publication number: 20220279426
    Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a base station to which a plurality of terminal stations are connectable and a control unit that controls the base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventors: Toshiro Nakahira, Hirantha Abeysekera, Koichi Ishihara, Tomoki Murakami, Takafumi Hayashi, Yasushi Takatori
  • Publication number: 20220264438
    Abstract: A control station device includes a policy generation unit that calculates a priority order of a plurality of wireless communication systems having different types of systems on a basis of information acquired from a wireless terminal device that selects one wireless communication system from among the plurality of wireless communication systems to perform wireless communication, and generates a selection policy indicating the priority order of the plurality of wireless communication systems, and a policy delivery unit that delivers the selection policy indicating the priority order of the plurality of wireless communication systems to the wireless terminal device. With this configuration, an optimal wireless communication system that maximizes the performance of each wireless terminal device can be selected while reducing the load and calculation time imposed on the control station device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoki MURAKAMI, Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Ryota SHIINA, Kazutaka HARA, Tomohiro TANIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220255634
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2019
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazutaka HARA, Tomohiro TANIGUCHI, Ryota SHIINA, Tomoki MURAKAMI, Toshiro NAKAHIRA
  • Publication number: 20220248252
    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: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Toshiro Nakahira, Hirantha Abeysekera, Tomoki Murakami, Koichi Ishihara, Takafumi HAYASHI, Yasushi TAKATORI
  • Publication number: 20220240114
    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: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Tomoki MURAKAMI, Hirantha ABEYSEKERA, Koichi ISHIHARA, Takafumi HAYASHI, Yasushi TAKATORI
  • Publication number: 20220239391
    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: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Tomoki MURAKAMI, Hirantha ABEYSEKERA, Koichi ISHIHARA, Takafumi HAYASHI, Yasushi TAKATORI