Patents by Inventor Toshiro NAKAHIRA

Toshiro NAKAHIRA 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: 20230292140
    Abstract: A determination method of determining an installation position of a movable base station and a connection destination base station, executed by an information processing device including a memory and a processor, includes: determining a mesh in which the movable base station can be installed, and a base station to which the movable base station can be connected in the mesh, based on a reception strength of a radio signal from each of one or more base stations in each of one or more meshes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Motoharu SASAKI, Koichi ISHIHARA, Takatsune MORIYAMA, Yasushi TAKATORI
  • Publication number: 20230262476
    Abstract: A radio signal strength information calculation method performed by a control apparatus includes: a generation step of calculating radio information regarding each of a plurality of meshes into which an area where base stations are placed is divided and generating mesh radio information; and a calculation step of placing a virtual base station at a position to where any of the base stations would be moved in the area, and calculating radio signal strength information between a plurality of base stations including the base stations and the virtual base station based on the mesh radio information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Motoharu SASAKI, Koichi ISHIHARA, Takatsune MORIYAMA, Yasushi TAKATORI
  • Publication number: 20230247441
    Abstract: A method of determining a location at which a movable base station is to be installed is provided. In the method, an information processing device performs first determination processing of determining a base station providing radio communication that does not satisfy a predetermined condition based on information of a radio signal of each base station, second determination processing of determining a number of virtual terminals to be set in a coverage area of the base station providing the radio communication that does not satisfy the predetermined condition based on the information of the radio signal of the base station, and third determination processing of determining the location at which the movable base station is to be installed based on a location of each virtual terminal set in the coverage area of the base station providing the radio communication that does not satisfy the predetermined condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Motoharu SASAKI, Koichi ISHIHARA, Takatsune MORIYAMA, Yasushi TAKATORI
  • Publication number: 20230224737
    Abstract: An information processing method includes: an association step of associating pieces of wireless signal information that are respectively transmitted by a plurality of base stations and are measured at a plurality of measurement positions with cells of the base stations, for each of the measurement positions; and an interference calculation step of calculating interference between cells of the plurality of base stations based on the pieces of wireless signal information associated with the cells of the base stations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Hirantha ABEYSEKERA, Koichi ISHIHARA, Takatsune MORIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20230142888
    Abstract: In a wireless communication system including a plurality of base stations to which one or more terminal stations are connectable, and a base station control device which controls each of the base stations, the base station control device includes an information collection unit configured to collect connection information regarding the terminal stations connected to the base stations from each of the base stations, a list generation unit configured to generate a white list indicating the terminal stations which are allowed to be connected to the base stations for each of the base stations based on the connection information, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the white list generated by the list generation unit to each of the base stations, and each of the base stations includes a reception unit configured to receive the white list transmitted by the transmission unit, and a setting unit configured to perform setting so as to allow or inhibit connection of each of the terminal stations to the base
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventors: Hirantha ABEYSEKERA, Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Shoko SHINOHARA, Koichi ISHIHARA, Yasushi TAKATORI
  • Publication number: 20230137745
    Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a wireless base station that performs wireless communication with a wireless terminal; and a wireless communication control station that is communicably connected to the wireless base station. The wireless communication control station includes a determination unit that determines a requirement that is prioritized among multiple types of requirements in wireless communication, a setting unit that sets the information indicating the parameter to be used for communication control by the wireless base station, and a transmission unit that transmits the information set by the setting unit to the wireless base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Shoko SHINOHARA, Hirantha ABEYSEKERA, Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Koichi ISHIHARA, Yasushi TAKATORI
  • Publication number: 20230136032
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to make already installed smart lightings available as optical base stations as they are without modifying them, and perform connection/authentication control for RF communication using an optical signal sent out from the optical base stations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryota SHIINA, Tomohiro TANIGUCHI, Kazutaka HARA, Shinya TAMAKI, Tomoki MURAKAMI, Toshiro NAKAHIRA
  • Patent number: 11641659
    Abstract: [Problem] A base station includes a plurality of radio communication units individually supporting a plurality of communication capabilities, and controls a terminal station to be connected with the base station to select a radio communication unit according to a communication scheme of the terminal station. [Solution] Provided is a radio communication method of a radio communication system. The radio communication system includes a plurality of base stations mounted with a plurality of radio communication units for which different communication schemes are settable, a terminal station configured to perform radio communication in a certain communication scheme, and a centralized control station configured to control the plurality of base stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiro Nakahira, Tomoki Murakami, Hirantha Abeysekera, Akiyoshi Inoki, Keisuke Wakao
  • Publication number: 20230130486
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to inform a user of a safe evacuation guidance route in real time using smart lightings without deploying dedicated evacuation guidance facilities. The present disclosure is a wireless communication system including: one or more wireless base stations that wirelessly communicate with a terminal; a plurality of optical base stations that transmit an optical signal to the terminal; and a base station control device that controls the optical signal transmitted by the optical base stations, wherein the base station control device collects environment information around the optical base stations, detects a disaster around the optical base stations using the collected environment information, and when detecting a disaster, causes the optical base station installed at a position close to a disaster occurrence location and the optical base station installed at a position far from the disaster occurrence location to output light of different colors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryota SHIINA, Tomohiro TANIGUCHI, Kazutaka HARA, Shinya TAMAKI, Tomoki MURAKAMI, Toshiro NAKAHIRA
  • Publication number: 20230121752
    Abstract: In a wireless communication system including a plurality of base stations to which terminal stations are connectable, and a monitoring station which monitors each of the base stations, the monitoring station includes an information collection unit configured to collect wireless environment information including a plurality of information items indicating wireless environments around the base stations and the terminal stations, from each of the base stations, a defect detection unit configured to detect whether or not one or more defects occur based on a combination of the information items, and a defect determination unit configured to determine estimated occurrence probabilities of the defects detected by the defect detection unit based on a combination of the information items.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Hirantha ABEYSEKERA, Shoko SHINOHARA, Koichi ISHIHARA, Yasushi TAKATORI
  • Publication number: 20230113366
    Abstract: In a wireless communication system including a plurality of base stations to which terminal stations are connectable, and a base station control device which controls each of the base stations, the base station control device includes an information collection unit configured to collect wireless environment information indicating wireless environments around the base stations and the terminal stations from each of the base stations, and a policy calculation unit configured to calculate policy for connecting the base stations and the terminal stations based on the wireless environment information collected by the information collection unit, each of the base stations includes a reception unit configured to receive the policy calculated by the policy calculation unit, a transition destination calculation unit configured to calculate a transition destination to which a terminal station left unaccommodated is to be connected based on the policy received by the reception unit, and a transmission unit configured to
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Hirantha ABEYSEKERA, Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Shoko SHINOHARA, Koichi ISHIHARA, Yasushi TAKATORI
  • Publication number: 20230102173
    Abstract: According to an information processing method of associating a plurality of base stations serving as transmission sources with pieces of information of beacons in a one-to-one manner, the beacons being transmitted by the plurality of base stations in an environment in which cells of the plurality of base stations overlap each other and measured at a plurality of measurement locations, the method includes performing first processing of associating an MAC address and a signal intensity of a beacon transmitted by one or more of the base stations with each of the measurement locations, performing second processing of associating, as a transmission source candidate of the beacon, one or more of the base stations located around each of the measurement locations that have undergone the first processing with the measurement location in ascending order of distance to the measurement location, performing third processing of associating one of the base stations closest to each of the measurement locations as a transmiss
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Hirantha ABEYSEKERA, Koichi ISHIHARA, Yasushi TAKATORI
  • Publication number: 20230087262
    Abstract: There are provided a collection unit that collects priority information indicating priority of radio communication set for each base station and route information for specifying a wired communication route for each base station, a radio parameter calculation unit that calculates a radio parameter of radio communication of each base station to reflect the priority indicated by the priority information, a wired parameter calculation unit that calculates, for each wired communication route specified by the route information, a wired parameter of wired communication of a corresponding base station based on the radio parameter calculated by the radio parameter calculation unit to reflect the priority indicated by the priority information, and a setting unit that sets the radio parameter calculated by the radio parameter calculation unit for each base station and sets the wired parameter calculated by the wired parameter calculation unit for each wired communication route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Hirantha ABEYSEKERA, Koichi ISHIHARA, Takatsune MORIYAMA, Yasushi TAKATORI
  • Patent number: 11601879
    Abstract: [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: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoki Murakami, Toshiro Nakahira, Hirantha Abeysekera, Akiyoshi Inoki, Keisuke Wakao
  • Publication number: 20230035896
    Abstract: In a wireless communication system including a plurality of base stations to which terminal stations are connectable and a base station control device which controls each of the base stations, the base station control device includes an information collection unit configured to collect wireless environment information indicating wireless environments around the base stations and the terminal stations from each of the base stations, a parameter calculation unit configured to calculate a parameter for correcting radio wave interference relationship among the base stations based on the wireless environment information collected by the information collection unit and priority set in advance for each of the base stations, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the parameter calculated by the parameter calculation unit to each of the base stations, and each of the base stations includes a reception unit configured to receive the parameter transmitted by the transmission unit, and a setting unit configured t
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirantha ABEYSEKERA, Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Shoko SHINOHARA, Koichi ISHIHARA, Yasushi TAKATORI
  • 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: 20230034313
    Abstract: In a wireless communication system including an intermediate processing device which performs processing between a plurality of base stations to which terminal stations are connectable and a base station control device which controls each of the base stations, the intermediate processing device includes an information collection unit configured to collect wireless environment information which includes information regarding the terminal stations connected to the base stations and which indicates wireless environments around the base stations and the terminal stations, from each of the base stations, a first conversion unit configured to convert the wireless environment information collected by the information collection unit into first information which is equally processable by the base station control device without distinction for each of the base stations, a transmission unit configured to transmit the first information to the base station control device, a reception unit configured to receive a parameter
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirantha ABEYSEKERA, Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Shoko SHINOHARA, Koichi ISHIHARA, Yasushi TAKATORI
  • Publication number: 20230035101
    Abstract: In a wireless communication system including a plurality of base stations to which terminal stations are connectable, and a monitoring station which monitors each of the base stations, the monitoring station includes an information collection unit configured to collect wireless environment information including a plurality of information items indicating wireless environments around the base stations and the terminal stations, from each of the base stations, a point calculation unit configured to calculate a total point of points to be respectively provided to a plurality of defect items determined in advance in a case where a determination condition determined in advance for each of the information items is satisfied, and a defect detection unit configured to detect whether or not a defect listed as one or more of the defect items occurs based on the total point calculated by the point calculation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Hirantha ABEYSEKERA, Shoko SHINOHARA, Koichi ISHIHARA, Yasushi TAKATORI
  • 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