Patents by Inventor Toshiyuki Nakanishi

Toshiyuki Nakanishi 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: 10638476
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a wireless communication device includes a transmitter configured to transmit a beacon signal including first information to specify a first wireless communication device to be reassigned a slot and a start timing to allow use of a reassigned slot, and transmit, after transmission of the first information, a first signal including second information to specify the reassigned slot, the first signal being a signal different from the beacon signal and a receiver configured to receive a signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Ryoko Matsuo, Toshiyuki Nakanishi, Toshihisa Nabetani, Hirokazu Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10531450
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a communication processing device mounted in a wireless communication device which uses a first channel and a second channel, includes controlling circuitry. The circuitry is configured to control to transmit, through the first channel, a first announcement signal including channel information of the second channel and control to transmit, through the second channel, a second announcement signal when slot allocation of a target communication device in the second channel is determined to be changed, the second announcement signal including a notification of the change in the slot allocation of the target communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Ryoko Matsuo, Toshihisa Nabetani, Toshiyuki Nakanishi, Hirokazu Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20190174488
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a wireless communication device includes a transmitter configured to transmit a beacon signal including first information to specify a first wireless communication device to be reassigned a slot and a start timing to allow use of a reassigned slot, and transmit, after transmission of the first information, a first signal including second information to specify the reassigned slot the first signal being a signal different from the beacon signal and a receiver configured to receive a signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Ryoko Matsuo, Toshiyuki Nakanishi, Toshihisa Nabetani, Hirokazu Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10270636
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a wireless communication apparatus may include, but is not limited to, a pilot inserter, a segment divider, a phase rotator, and a first adder. The pilot inserter inserts first and second pilot symbols into a symbol stream. The segment divider divides into a plurality of segments a plurality of subcarriers. Each of the subcarriers is allocated with a respective one of the symbols included in the symbol stream into which the first and second pilot symbols have been inserted. The phase rotator performs, for each segment, a phase rotation to all of the symbols, except for a predetermined one of the first and second pilot symbols, included in the symbol stream. The first adder adds together signals corresponding to the subcarriers included in the plurality of segments to which the phase rotation has been performed by the phase rotator to generate a transmission signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Makoto Tanahashi, Toshiyuki Nakanishi, Yoshimasa Egashira, Noboru Taga
  • Patent number: 10231233
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a wireless communication device includes a transmitter configured to transmit a beacon signal including first information to specify a first wireless communication device to be reassigned a slot and a start timing to allow use of a reassigned slot, and transmit, after transmission of the first information, a first signal including second information to specify the reassigned slot, the first signal being a signal different from the beacon signal and a receiver configured to receive a signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Ryoko Matsuo, Toshiyuki Nakanishi, Toshihisa Nabetani, Hirokazu Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10158397
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a wireless device includes a receiver configured to receive a first beacon signal via a first channel; and control circuitry. The control circuitry is configured to: analyze the first beacon signal to obtain channel information for specifying a second channel, change an operation channel of the receiver from the first channel to the second channel, and change, in a case of not receiving a second beacon signal via the second channel during a predetermined period of time, the operation channel of the receiver from the second channel to the first channel. The receiver is further configured to receive a third beacon signal via the first channel after the operation channel is changed from the second channel to the first channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Ryoko Matsuo, Toshihisa Nabetani, Toshiyuki Nakanishi, Hirokazu Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10159042
    Abstract: A wireless communication device includes: controlling circuitry configured to selectively switch an operating channel between a first channel and a second channel; and a transmitter configured to transmit a first beacon signal through the first channel at a first cycle and transmit a second beacon signal through the second channel at a second cycle. A first period during which transmission/reception of a signal is possible and a second period during which transmission/reception of a signal is not performed are set for the second channel within a transmission interval of second beacon signals. The controlling circuitry switches the operating channel from the second channel to the first channel during the second period. The transmitter transmits the first beacon signal through the first channel during the second period. The controlling circuitry switches the operating channel from the first channel to the second channel by an end of the second period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Ryoko Matsuo, Toshiyuki Nakanishi, Toshihisa Nabetani, Hirokazu Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20180316384
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a wireless device includes a receiver configured to receive a first beacon signal via a first channel; and control circuitry. The control circuitry is configured to: analyze the first beacon signal to obtain channel information for specifying a second channel, change an operation channel of the receiver from the first channel to the second channel, and change, in a case of not receiving a second beacon signal via the second channel during a predetermined period of time, the operation channel of the receiver from the second channel to the first channel. The receiver is further configured to receive a third beacon signal via the first channel after the operation channel is changed from the second channel to the first channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2018
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Ryoko MATSUO, Toshihisa NABETANI, Toshiyuki NAKANISHI, Hirokazu TANAKA
  • Patent number: 10091041
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a wireless communication apparatus may include, but is not limited to, a segment divider, a reference symbol inserter, a phase rotator, an adder, and a peak-to-average power ratio evaluator. The reference symbol inserter inserts at least one reference symbol having a phase into at least one of the subcarrier segments. The phase rotator performs respective phase rotations to the subcarrier segments, based at least in part on a plurality of different combination patterns, each of the different combination patterns identifying a respective phase rotation to the subcarrier segments. The peak-to-average power ratio evaluator calculates, for each of the plurality of different combination patterns, a peak-to-average power ratio of the transmission signals generated. The peak-to-average power ratio evaluator selects, from the transmission signals, a transmission signal having a smallest peak-to-average power ratio among the plurality of peak-to-average power ratios calculated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Makoto Tanahashi, Toshiyuki Nakanishi, Noboru Taga
  • Patent number: 10091804
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a communication processing device is provided which is mounted on a wireless communication device that performs communication using a first channel and performs communication by a communication scheme different from that of the first channel using a second channel. The communication processing device includes a control circuitry to determine whether or not transmission data is data that needs to be preferentially transmitted, specify at least one channel from the first channel and the second channel according to a determination result, and perform control so as to transmit the transmission data using the specified channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Ryoko Matsuo, Toshihisa Nabetani, Toshiyuki Nakanishi, Hirokazu Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10050665
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a wireless device includes a receiver configured to receive a first beacon signal via a first channel; and control circuitry. The control circuitry is configured to: analyze the first beacon signal to obtain channel information for specifying a second channel, change an operation channel of the receiver from the first channel to the second channel, and change, in a case of not receiving a second beacon signal via the second channel during a predetermined period of time, the operation channel of the receiver from the second channel to the first channel. The receiver is further configured to receive a third beacon signal via the first channel after the operation channel is changed from the second channel to the first channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Ryoko Matsuo, Toshihisa Nabetani, Toshiyuki Nakanishi, Hirokazu Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10039129
    Abstract: A wireless device performs communication of a first access period and a second access period, the first access period including a plurality of slots in which communication is performed on a slot basis by allocating the slots and the second access period including a plurality of slots in which communication is performed in a contention-based access scheme on a slot basis, and includes a transmitter, a receiver and an control circuitry. The control circuitry performs, when one slot in the second access period is determined, carrier-sensing during a period of time depending on a type of the frame, and controls to transmit via the transmitter the frame at a timing defined depending on the type of the frame after the period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Ryoko Matsuo, Toshihisa Nabetani, Toshiyuki Nakanishi, Hirokazu Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20180123637
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a wireless device includes a receiver configured to receive a first beacon signal via a first channel; and control circuitry. The control circuitry is configured to: analyze the first beacon signal to obtain channel information for specifying a second channel, change an operation channel of the receiver from the first channel to the second channel, and change, in a case of not receiving a second beacon signal via the second channel during a predetermined period of time, the operation channel of the receiver from the second channel to the first channel. The receiver is further configured to receive a third beacon signal via the first channel after the operation channel is changed from the second channel to the first channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Ryoko Matsuo, Toshihisa Nabetani, Toshiyuki Nakanishi, Hirokazu Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9887732
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a wireless device includes a receiver configured to receive a first beacon signal via a first channel; and control circuitry. The control circuitry is configured to: analyze the first beacon signal to obtain channel information for specifying a second channel, change an operation channel of the receiver from the first channel to the second channel, and change, in a case of not receiving a second beacon signal via the second channel during a predetermined period of time, the operation channel of the receiver from the second channel to the first channel. The receiver is further configured to receive a third beacon signal via the first channel after the operation channel is changed from the second channel to the first channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Ryoko Matsuo, Toshihisa Nabetani, Toshiyuki Nakanishi, Hirokazu Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9730142
    Abstract: A wireless communication device transmits data to a relay destination being one of first relaying devices capable of communicating out of relaying devices; obtains first information, from each first relaying device, that indicates a representative value of remaining operating times of relaying devices present on a relay route from the first relaying device to a target device; determines to perform a new route search, based on the first information; increases a transmission power; then transmits a request; receive responses from all or a part of second relaying devices, which are relaying devices that have received the request, including pieces of second information each of which indicates a representative value of remaining operating times of relaying devices present on a relay route from the second relaying device to the target device; and selects a relay destination of data from among the second relaying devices based on the pieces of second information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Takaomi Murakami, Shinya Murai, Takeshi Ishihara, Ren Sakata, Cam Ly Nguyen, Tatsuma Hirano, Toshiyuki Nakanishi, Keiji Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20170163459
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a wireless communication apparatus may include, but is not limited to, a pilot inserter, a segment divider, a phase rotator, and a first adder. The pilot inserter inserts first and second pilot symbols into a symbol stream. The segment divider divides into a plurality of segments a plurality of subcarriers. Each of the subcarriers is allocated with a respective one of the symbols included in the symbol stream into which the first and second pilot symbols have been inserted. The phase rotator performs, for each segment, a phase rotation to all of the symbols, except for a predetermined one of the first and second pilot symbols, included in the symbol stream. The first adder adds together signals corresponding to the subcarriers included in the plurality of segments to which the phase rotation has been performed by the phase rotator to generate a transmission signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Makoto TANAHASHI, Toshiyuki NAKANISHI, Yoshimasa EGASHIRA, Noboru TAGA
  • Publication number: 20170163458
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a wireless communication apparatus may include, but is not limited to, a segment divider, a reference symbol inserter, a phase rotator, an adder, and a peak-to-average power ratio evaluator. The reference symbol inserter inserts at least one reference symbol having a phase into at least one of the subcarrier segments. The phase rotator performs respective phase rotations to the subcarrier segments, based at least in part on a plurality of different combination patterns, each of the different combination patterns identifying a respective phase rotation to the subcarrier segments. The peak-to-average power ratio evaluator calculates, for each of the plurality of different combination patterns, a peak-to-average power ratio of the transmission signals generated. The peak-to-average power ratio evaluator selects, from the transmission signals, a transmission signal having a smallest peak-to-average power ratio among the plurality of peak-to-average power ratios calculated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Makoto TANAHASHI, Toshiyuki NAKANISHI, Noboru TAGA
  • Publication number: 20170111890
    Abstract: A wireless communication device includes: controlling circuitry configured to selectively switch an operating channel between a first channel and a second channel; and a transmitter configured to transmit a first beacon signal through the first channel at a first cycle and transmit a second beacon signal through the second channel at a second cycle. A first period during which transmission/reception of a signal is possible and a second period during which transmission/reception of a signal is not performed are set for the second channel within a transmission interval of second beacon signals. The controlling circuitry switches the operating channel from the second channel to the first channel during the second period. The transmitter transmits the first beacon signal through the first channel during the second period. The controlling circuitry switches the operating channel from the first channel to the second channel by an end of the second period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Ryoko MATSUO, Toshiyuki NAKANISHI, Toshihisa NABETANI, Hirokazu TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20170105220
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a wireless communication device includes: a first communicator configured to receive a first identification information when a distance from a first communication device becomes a first distance or shorter, the first identification information identifying another communication device; and a second communicator configured to receive a second identification information, the second identification information identifying the other communication device. The second communicator is configured to transmit a wireless signal in response to a result of comparison of the first identification information and the second identification information, the wireless signal being transmitted for connecting to a wireless network formed by either one of the device itself and the other communication device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Toshiyuki NAKANISHI, Ryoko MATSUO, Toshihisa NABETANI, Hirokazu TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20170070992
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a wireless communication device includes a transmitter configured to transmit a beacon signal including first information to specify a first wireless communication device to be reassigned a slot and a start timing to allow use of a reassigned slot, and transmit, after transmission of the first information, a first signal including second information to specify the reassigned slot, the first signal being a signal different from the beacon signal and a receiver configured to receive a signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Ryoko MATSUO, Toshiyuki NAKANISHI, Toshihisa NABETANI, Hirokazu TANAKA