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).
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Publication number: 20230114692Abstract: A wireless communication system according to an embodiment includes: a wireless base station device configured to perform wireless communication of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) method; a plurality of dynamic control relay devices for which a reradiation direction of incoming waves is dynamically controllable; and a wireless terminal device configured to perform wireless communication with the wireless base station device. The wireless base station device performs wireless communication with the wireless terminal device using a plurality of propagation paths that go through or do not go through the dynamic control relay devices, and a CP control unit provided in the wireless base station device changes the cyclic prefix length based on whether or not a propagation route from the wireless base station device to the wireless terminal device uses any dynamic control relay device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2020Publication date: April 13, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Masashi IWABUCHI, Tomoaki OGAWA, Tomoki MURAKAMI
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Publication number: 20230085726Abstract: A wireless communication system according to an embodiment includes: a wireless base station device configured to perform wireless communication of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) method; a plurality of dynamic control relay devices for which a reradiation direction of incoming waves is dynamically controllable by the wireless base station device; and a wireless terminal device configured to perform wireless communication with the wireless base station device using a plurality of propagation paths that go through or do not go through the dynamic control relay devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2020Publication date: March 23, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Masashi IWABUCHI, Tomoaki OGAWA, Tomoki MURAKAMI
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Patent number: 11601879Abstract: [Problem] The base station includes a plurality of radio communication units configured to individually support a plurality of communication capabilities, and performs, for a terminal station that is connected to the base station, control for selecting a radio communication unit based on a communication scheme supported in the terminal station. [Solution] Provided is a radio communication method for a radio communication system including a plurality of base stations provided with a plurality of radio communication units for which different communication schemes are settable, and a terminal station configured to perform radio communication with the radio communication unit of the base station by using a specific communication scheme.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2019Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoki Murakami, Toshiro Nakahira, Hirantha Abeysekera, Akiyoshi Inoki, Keisuke Wakao
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Publication number: 20230049652Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2022Publication date: February 16, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoki MURAKAMI, Yusuke ASAI, Riichi KUDO, Koichi ISHIHARA, Masato MIZOGUCHI, Takeo ICHIKAWA
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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: 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
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Publication number: 20230025646Abstract: 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: 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
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Patent number: 11528628Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 13, 2019Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Koichi Ishihara, Tomoki Murakami, Hirantha Abeysekera, Toshiro Nakahira, Yasushi Takatori, Takafumi Hayashi
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Patent number: 11509362Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 3, 2021Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoki Murakami, Yusuke Asai, Riichi Kudo, Koichi Ishihara, Masato Mizoguchi, Takeo Ichikawa
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Publication number: 20220369120Abstract: 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 asType: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2019Publication date: November 17, 2022Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Riku OMIYA, Tomoki MURAKAMI, Koichi ISHIHARA, Takafumi HAYASHI, Yasushi TAKATORI
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Publication number: 20220361070Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2019Publication date: November 10, 2022Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Ryota SHIINA, Kazutaka HARA, Tomohiro TANIGUCHI, Tomoki MURAKAMI, Toshiro NAKAHIRA
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Publication number: 20220360318Abstract: 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 signalType: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2019Publication date: November 10, 2022Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Riku OMIYA, Tomoki MURAKAMI, Koichi ISHIHARA, Takafumi HAYASHI, Yasushi TAKATORI
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Publication number: 20220360984Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 4, 2019Publication date: November 10, 2022Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Kazutaka HARA, Tomohiro TANIGUCHI, Ryota SHIINA, Tomoki MURAKAMI, Toshiro NAKAHIRA
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Publication number: 20220352993Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2019Publication date: November 3, 2022Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Tomohiro TANIGUCHI, Ryota SHIINA, Kazutaka HARA, Tomoki MURAKAMI, Toshiro NAKAHIRA
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Publication number: 20220338103Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2019Publication date: October 20, 2022Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Tomoki MURAKAMI, Ryota SHIINA, Kazutaka HARA, Tomohiro TANIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20220303004Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2019Publication date: September 22, 2022Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Tomohiro TANIGUCHI, Shinya TAMAKI, Ryota SHIINA, Kazutaka HARA, Tomoki MURAKAMI, Toshiro NAKAHIRA
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Publication number: 20220299620Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2020Publication date: September 22, 2022Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoki MURAKAMI, Hirantha ABEYSEKERA, Shunsuke SARUWATARI, Takeru FUKUSHIMA, Yusuke IWASAKI, Takashi WATANABE
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Publication number: 20220286955Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2019Publication date: September 8, 2022Inventors: Toshiro Nakahira, Hirantha Abeysekera, Koichi Ishihara, Tomoki Murakami, Takafumi Hayashi, Yasushi Takatori
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Publication number: 20220279426Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2019Publication date: September 1, 2022Inventors: Toshiro Nakahira, Hirantha Abeysekera, Koichi Ishihara, Tomoki Murakami, Takafumi Hayashi, Yasushi Takatori
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Publication number: 20220264438Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2019Publication date: August 18, 2022Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoki MURAKAMI, Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Ryota SHIINA, Kazutaka HARA, Tomohiro TANIGUCHI