Patents by Inventor Tomoyuki Ohya
Tomoyuki Ohya 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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Patent number: 9337942Abstract: A propagation path estimation method using an imaging method according to the invention includes a step of, in a case where a reflectarray which causes reflection and scattering in a different direction (???)° from a specular reflection direction ?° exists on a propagation path from a transmission point to a reception point RX of the radio wave, calculating a virtual reception point VRX by rotating the reception point RX about a rotation center point O, and estimating the propagation path by using the virtual reception point VRX.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2010Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Tamami Maruyama, Tatsuo Furuno, Tomoyuki Ohya, Yasuhiro Oda, Ngoc Hao Tran, Jiyun Shen
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Patent number: 9264157Abstract: A propagation path estimation method using an imaging method according to the invention includes a step of, in a case where a reflect array 1 (structure) which causes reflection and scattering in a predetermined direction (?-?)° different from a specular reflection direction ?° exists on a propagation path, rotating the reflect array 1 by ?/2° about a rotation center O to set a virtual rotated reflect array 2 (virtual structure), and estimating the propagation path by using the virtual rotated reflect array 2.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2010Date of Patent: February 16, 2016Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Tamami Maruyama, Tatsuo Furuno, Tomoyuki Ohya, Jiyun Shen, Yasuhiro Oda, Ngoc Hao Tran
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Patent number: 9031009Abstract: The present invention provide a transmitting/receiving device that includes a sensing period information setting part for, in an interfering system that shares at least a part of a frequency band with an interfered system, setting sensing period information that shows a sensing period for a signal using a shared frequency band; and a transmission prohibition period information notifying part for notifying a terminal in the interfering system of transmission prohibition period information for prohibiting transmission processing in the interfering system until an end of the sensing period, a maximum transmission period for one transmission by the terminal in the interfering system prior to a start point of the sensing period.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2010Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Hiromasa Fujii, Takahiro Asai, Tomoyuki Ohya
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Patent number: 8988287Abstract: An apparatus having multiple mushroom structures is disclosed. Each of the multiple mushroom structures includes: a ground plate; a patch provided parallel to the ground plate with a separation of a distance to the ground plate, wherein a distance between a ground plate and a patch in a certain mushroom structure is different from a distance between a ground plate and a patch in a different mushroom structure.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2011Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Tamami Maruyama, Tatsuo Furuno, Yasuhiro Oda, Jiyun Shen, Tomoyuki Ohya
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Patent number: 8952849Abstract: An apparatus having multiple mushroom structures is disclosed. Each of the multiple mushroom structures includes: a ground plate; a patch provided parallel to the ground plate with a separation of a distance to the ground plate, wherein a distance between a ground plate and a patch in a certain mushroom structure is different from a distance between a ground plate and a patch in a different mushroom structure.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2011Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Tamami Maruyama, Tatsuo Furuno, Yasuhiro Oda, Jiyun Shen, Tomoyuki Ohya
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Patent number: 8847822Abstract: An apparatus having multiple mushroom structures is disclosed. Each of the multiple mushroom structures including: a ground plate; a first patch provided parallel to the ground plate with a separation of a distance to the ground plate; and a second patch provided parallel to the ground plate with a separation of another distance to the ground plate, which another distance being different from the distance from the first patch to the ground plate, wherein the second patch is a passive element which is capacitatively coupled with at least the first patch.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2011Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.Inventors: Tamami Maruyama, Tatsuo Furuno, Yasuhiro Oda, Jiyun Shen, Tomoyuki Ohya
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Patent number: 8836583Abstract: A reflectarray, including: a substrate; and a plurality of patches formed on each of areas into which a principal surface of the substrate is divided, wherein the plurality of patches are formed by including a gap.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2011Date of Patent: September 16, 2014Assignees: NTT DoCoMo, Inc., Tohoku UniversityInventors: Tamami Maruyama, Tomoyuki Ohya, Tatsuo Furuno, Kunio Sawaya, Qiang Chen, Jianfeng Li, Shiwei Qu, Qiaowei Yuan
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Patent number: 8830126Abstract: An apparatus having multiple mushroom structures is disclosed. Each of the multiple mushroom structures includes: a ground plate; a first patch provided parallel to the ground plate with a separation of a distance to the ground plate; and a second patch provided parallel to the ground plate with a separation of another distance to the ground plate, which another distance being different from the distance from the first patch to the ground plate, wherein the second patch is a passive element which is capacitatively coupled with at least the first patch.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2011Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.Inventors: Tamami Maruyama, Tatsuo Furuno, Yasuhiro Oda, Jiyun Shen, Tomoyuki Ohya
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Patent number: 8779984Abstract: An apparatus having multiple mushroom structures is disclosed. Each of the multiple mushroom structures includes: a ground plate; a first patch provided parallel to the ground plate with a separation of a distance to the ground plate; and a second patch provided parallel to the ground plate with a separation of another distance to the ground plate, which another distance being different from the distance from the first patch to the ground plate, wherein the second patch is a passive element which is capacitatively coupled with at least the first patch.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2011Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.Inventors: Tamami Maruyama, Tatsuo Furuno, Yasuhiro Oda, Jiyun Shen, Tomoyuki Ohya
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Patent number: 8700078Abstract: The invention has a step where a transmitting station in a second radio communication system determines whether transmission of a second radio communication system signal using a shared frequency band is possible or not based on load information of a first radio communication system broadcast from a base station in the first radio communication system, a step where the transmitting station in the second radio communication system calculates predicted interference power caused in a receiving station in the first radio communication system by the second radio communication system signal transmitted using the shared frequency band, and a step where the base station in the first radio communication system increases an allowable interference level of a first radio communication system signal transmitted using the shared frequency band based on the predicted interference power broadcast from the transmitting station in the second radio communication system.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2012Date of Patent: April 15, 2014Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.Inventors: Hiroki Harada, Hiromasa Fujii, Takahiro Asai, Tomoyuki Ohya
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Patent number: 8693527Abstract: A relay apparatus is disclosed for relaying a signal from a transmitter to a receiver in a MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) based communication system, comprising: a power difference determination unit configured to determine a difference of reception levels between a direct wave and a relayed wave based on positional relationship among the transmitter, the relay apparatus and the receiver, the direct wave traveling from the transmitter to the receiver without the relay apparatus, the relayed wave traveling from the transmitter to the receiver via the relay apparatus; a gain determination unit configured to determine an amplification gain of the relay apparatus to make the difference smaller; and a transmitting unit configured to amplify the signal from the transmitter at the determined amplification gain and transmit the amplified signal to the receiver.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2011Date of Patent: April 8, 2014Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.Inventors: Jiyun Shen, Yasuhiro Oda, Tamami Maruyama, Tatsuo Furuno, Tomoyuki Ohya
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Patent number: 8542758Abstract: Disclosed is a signal generation device that employs a transmission method using inverse Fourier transform. The signal generation device includes: a modulation unit which modulates transmission data to obtain modulation data; a serial-parallel conversion unit which converts the modulation data input in series to parallel data of a predetermined size smaller than the size of inverse Fourier transform; a duplication unit which selects and duplicates all or a portion of the parallel data to obtain duplication data; a first time-axis shift unit which shifts the duplication data along the time axis to obtain time-axis shift data; and an inverse Fourier transform unit which carries out inverse Fourier transform on the parallel data obtained by the serial-parallel conversion unit and the time-axis shift data obtained by the first time-axis shift unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2011Date of Patent: September 24, 2013Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.Inventors: Hiroki Harada, Hiromasa Fujii, Shunji Miura, Tomoyuki Ohya
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Patent number: 8521174Abstract: When a frequency band is shared between a large cell system having a large cell base station and a small cell system having a small cell base station, the large cell base station dynamically controls dedicated resources for the large cell base station and shared resources for both the large cell base station and the small cell base station based on predetermined information, broadcasts allocation information of dedicated resources for the large cell base station and shared resources for both the large cell base station and the small cell base station, to the small cell base station belonging to the own cell, and the small cell base station belongs to at least one large cell base station and determines resource assignment in the own cell based on the resource allocation information broadcast from the large cell base station.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2011Date of Patent: August 27, 2013Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, Inc.Inventors: Hiromasa Fujii, Hiroto Yasuda, Hiroki Harada, Shunji Miura, Tomoyuki Ohya
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Patent number: 8503944Abstract: A signal detection apparatus 23 for determining whether a detection target signal is included in a received radio signal, includes: a waveform feature amount calculation unit 31 configured to calculate a waveform feature amount Rx? representing a waveform feature; a test statistic calculation unit 32 configured to calculate test statistic Zx? of each detection target signal by using the waveform feature amount; and a signal decision unit 33 configured to determine presence or absence of each detection target signal by comparing the test statistic Zx? of each detection target signal with a threshold ?, wherein, under a condition where a specific detection target signal is removed, the test statistic calculation unit calculates a test statistic for a detection target signal which is not removed, and the signal decision unit determines presence or absence of the detection target signal by comparing the calculated test statistic with the threshold.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2010Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.Inventors: Hiroki Harada, Hiromasa Fujii, Shunji Miura, Tomoyuki Ohya
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Publication number: 20130144986Abstract: When only part of content that is stored inside a terminal is updated, the updated content is allowed to be received efficiently, taking into account reducing the power consumption of the terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2011Publication date: June 6, 2013Applicants: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION, NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Akira Yamada, Tomoyuki Ohya, Hosei Matsuoka, Norihiko Nakazawa, Masayuki Baba
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Publication number: 20130124677Abstract: Provided is a broadcast supplemental data transmission device, a broadcast supplemental data transmission method, and a broadcast system that can reduce the traffic of a communication network as much as possible at the time of supplementing missing data in broadcasted content data. When “GET HTTP/1.1 If Unmodified Since Time Information”, which is a request for retransmission of missing data containing time information, is received from a receiving device, an HTTP response module determines whether there is rebroadcast of contents containing missing data based on the time information contained in the request for retransmission. When it is determined by the HTTP response module that there is rebroadcast, “412 Precondition Failed”, which is one of error notifications, is transmitted as a response to the receiving device, and the transmission of the contents through a communication network is not performed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2011Publication date: May 16, 2013Applicants: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION, NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Hosei Matsuoka, Akira Yamada, Tomoyuki Ohya, Norihiko Nakazawa, Masayuki Baba
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Patent number: 8442817Abstract: It is provided a voice activity decision apparatus capable of accurately performing the decision on the state being associated with a sound interval or a silence interval also in terms of the input signal having many aperiodic components and/or plural mixed different periodic components. The apparatus 1 comprises: an autocorrelation calculating unit 11 for calculating autocorrelation values of an input signal; a delay calculating unit 12 for calculating plural delays at which autocorrelation values calculated by the autocorrelation calculating unit 11 become maximums; a noise deciding unit 13 for deciding whether the input signal is a noise or not based on the plurality of delays calculated by the delay calculating unit 12; and an activity decision unit 14 for performing the activity decision in terms of the input signal based on results of decision by the noise deciding unit 13 and the input signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2004Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.Inventors: Nobuhiko Naka, Tomoyuki Ohya
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Patent number: 8396498Abstract: The invention has a step where a transmitting station in a second radio communication system determines whether transmission of a second radio communication system signal using a shared frequency band is possible or not based on load information of a first radio communication system broadcast from a base station in the first radio communication system, a step where the transmitting station in the second radio communication system calculates predicted interference power caused in a receiving station in the first radio communication system by the second radio communication system signal transmitted using the shared frequency band, and a step where the base station in the first radio communication system increases an allowable interference level of a first radio communication system signal transmitted using the shared frequency band based on the predicted interference power broadcast from the transmitting station in the second radio communication system.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2010Date of Patent: March 12, 2013Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.Inventors: Hiroki Harada, Hiromasa Fujii, Takahiro Asai, Tomoyuki Ohya
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Publication number: 20120302177Abstract: A propagation path estimation method using an imaging method according to the invention includes a step of, in a case where a reflectarray which causes reflection and scattering in a different direction (???)° from a specular reflection direction ?° exists on a propagation path from a transmission point to a reception point RX of the radio wave, calculating a virtual reception point VRX by rotating the reception point RX about a rotation center point O, and estimating the propagation path by using the virtual reception point VRX.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2010Publication date: November 29, 2012Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Tamami Maruyama, Tatsuo Furuno, Tomoyuki Ohya, Yasuhiro Oda, Ngoc Hao Tran, Jiyun Shen
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Publication number: 20120303328Abstract: A propagation path estimation method using an imaging method according to the invention includes a step of, in a case where a reflect array 1 (structure) which causes reflection and scattering in a predetermined direction (?-?)° different from a specular reflection direction ?° exists on a propagation path, rotating the reflect array 1 by ?/2° about a rotation center O to set a virtual rotated reflect array 2 (virtual structure), and estimating the propagation path by using the virtual rotated reflect array 2.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2010Publication date: November 29, 2012Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INCInventors: Tamami Maruyama, Tatsuo Furuno, Tomoyuki Ohya, Jiyun Shen, Yasuhiro Oda, Ngoc Hao Tran