Patents by Inventor Yasuhiko Inoue

Yasuhiko Inoue 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: 11812279
    Abstract: A method includes a step 1 of performing processing for determining wireless terminal stations that are inside cover areas of existing wireless base stations, and excluding the existing wireless base stations and the wireless terminal stations inside the cover areas from a wireless base station installation area, a step 2 of performing processing for optimizing, with respect to each first wireless terminal station that is outside the cover areas of the existing wireless base stations and has been left in the processing for excluding in the step 1, a combination of the first wireless terminal station and the closest additional wireless base station from which received power is the largest, and optimizing installation positions of additional wireless base stations, a step 3 of determining, with respect to the combinations of the additional wireless base stations and the first wireless terminal stations that were optimized in the step 2, whether wireless terminal stations are inside or outside cover areas of the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiro Nakahira, Hirantha Abeysekera, Shoko Shinohara, Yasuhiko Inoue, Koichi Ishihara, Takafumi Hayashi, Daisuke Goto, Yasushi Takatori
  • Publication number: 20230354186
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a base station includes first and second wireless signal processing units and a link management unit. The first and second wireless signal processing units transmit and receive a wireless signal using first and second channels, respectively. The link management unit sets a multi-link to a first or second state. In the first state, a first link in which the first wireless signal processing unit is used and a second link in which the second wireless signal processing unit is used are each in an active mode in which communication is possible. In the second state, the first link is in the active mode or an intermittent operation mode in which an operation is intermittent, and the second link is an operation pause mode in which power consumption is less than in the intermittent operation mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira KISHIDA, Kengo NAGATA, Yasuhiko INOUE, Yusuke ASAI, Yasushi TAKATORI
  • Publication number: 20230328816
    Abstract: A base station (10) according to one aspect of the present invention includes a plurality of radio signal processing units (130, 140, and 150), a carrier sense control unit (160), and a management unit (120). The plurality of radio signal processing units (130, 140, and 150) transmit and receive radio signals of different channels. The carrier sense control unit (160) executes collective carrier sensing on a channel of each of the plurality of radio signal processing units (130, 140, and 150) using an access parameter common to the plurality of radio signal processing units (130, 140, and 150) and determines whether the channel is in an idle state or busy state. The management unit (120) performs processing for transmitting radio signals by a multi-link wirelessly connected through a plurality of types of channels when there are a plurality of links formed between a radio signal processing unit having the channel determined to be in an idle state and a terminal (20).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiko INOUE, Kengo NAGATA, Akira KISHIDA, Yasushi TAKATORI, Yusuke ASAI
  • Publication number: 20230326311
    Abstract: A wireless system according to an embodiment includes at least one terminal and a base station. The terminal includes a wireless communication module and a first control unit. The wireless communication module transmits and receives data to and from the base station. When motion is detected from an acquired video, the first control unit transmits a frame image, which is a still image extracted from the video, to the base station by using the wireless communication module, and transmits the video to the base station by using the wireless communication module when transmission of the video is requested by the base station as a result of transmitting the frame image. The base station includes a second control unit. The second control unit determines whether or not to request transmission of a video on the basis of a frame image, and requests a terminal to transmit a video when determining to request transmission of a video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuki NAKAMURA, Wataru YAMADA, Yasuhiko INOUE, Shoko SHINOHARA, Yusuke ASAI, Yasushi TAKATORI
  • Publication number: 20230328776
    Abstract: A wireless communication method in a wireless communication system includes carrier sense processing for determining whether a carrier sense band is in a busy state or an idle state on the basis of a reception state of a reception signal in the carrier sense band before transmitting a transmission signal using a transmission channel. The carrier sense band is set so as to include not only a transmission channel band which is a frequency band of a transmission channel but also an adjacent carrier sense band adjacent to the transmission channel band. When it is determined that the carrier sense band is in an idle state, transmission processing for transmitting a transmission signal by using a transmission channel is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoko SHINOHARA, Yusuke ASAI, Yasushi TAKATORI, Yasuhiko INOUE, Mitsuki NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20230327839
    Abstract: A base station according to an embodiment includes an antenna, a wireless device, a wireless information acquisition unit, a control unit, a directivity setting unit, a directivity control unit, and a communication instruction unit. The antenna has an omni-directional array antenna. The wireless device communicates with one or more terminals in a cover area by using a wireless signal via the antenna. The wireless information acquisition unit acquires wireless information including the position of the terminal and a communication time block. On the basis of the wireless information, the control unit determines a communication execution time block, which is a time block for executing communication with the terminal, and an antenna gain of the antenna for communicating with the terminal. On the basis of the antenna gain, the directivity setting unit sets a directivity pattern of the omni-directional array antenna so as to have directivity in the direction of the terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuki NAKAMURA, Wataru YAMADA, Yasuhiko INOUE, Shoko SHINOHARA, Yusuke ASAI, Yasushi TAKATORI
  • Publication number: 20230319876
    Abstract: A base station according to an aspect of the present invention operates as a first base station (121) in a base station system (12) including the first base station (121) and a plurality of second base stations (122), the base station including a carrier sensing control unit (66) that determines whether a channel of each of the plurality of second base stations (122) is in an idle state or a busy state by using an access parameter common to the plurality of second base stations (122), and a processing unit (63) that transmits a first signal to be transmitted to a first wireless terminal (14) and a second signal to be transmitted to a second wireless terminal (14) using multi-user MIMO which uses the two or more second base stations (122) whose channels have been determined to be in the idle state in a coordinated manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiko INOUE, Kengo NAGATA, Akira KISHIDA, Yusuke ASAI, Yasushi TAKATORI
  • Publication number: 20230299814
    Abstract: A base station (10-1) includes a radio signal processing unit (102) capable of using a first channel (CH4), a second channel (CH3), and a third channel (CH2). The radio signal processing unit is configured to perform signaling with a second other base station (10-3) using the second channel while performing signaling with a first other base station (10-4) using the first channel when the radio signal processing unit acquires transmission rights of the first channel, the second channel, and the third channel, and execute cooperative processing with at least one of the first other base station and the second other base station on the basis of a result of the signaling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira KISHIDA, Kengo NAGATA, Yasuhiko INOUE, Yusuke ASAI, Yasushi TAKATORI
  • Publication number: 20230292385
    Abstract: A base station of an embodiment includes first and second wireless signal processing units and a link management unit. The link management unit establishes a multi-link with a terminal apparatus by using the first and second wireless signal processing units, and sets a primary link used as a main and a secondary link used as an auxiliary during the multi-link. The link management unit transmits a first wireless frame requesting a change of the primary link to the terminal apparatus by using the first wireless signal processing unit set to the primary link, and the link management unit changes the primary link from the first wireless signal processing unit to the second wireless signal processing unit if either the first or second wireless signal processor receives the affirmative response from the terminal apparatus after the first wireless frame is transmitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira KISHIDA, Kengo NAGATA, Yasuhiko INOUE, Yusuke ASAI, Yasushi TAKATORI
  • Publication number: 20230269683
    Abstract: A base station of an embodiment includes first and second wireless signal processing units, and a link management unit. The first wireless signal processing unit is configured to transmit and receive a wireless signal using a first channel. The second wireless signal processing unit is configured to transmit and receive a wireless signal using a second channel that is different from the first channel. The link management unit stores shared time information synchronizing multi-links. The link management unit establishes a multi-link with a terminal apparatus using the first and second wireless signal processing units, and causes each of the first and second wireless signal processing units to transmit a beacon signal including the shared time information while the multi-link is established.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira KISHIDA, Kengo NAGATA, Yasuhiko INOUE, Yusuke ASAI, Yasushi TAKATORI
  • Publication number: 20230269804
    Abstract: A base station of the embodiment includes first and second wireless signal processing units and a link management unit. The first and second wireless signal processing units are configured to transmit and receive wireless signals using first and second channels, respectively. The link management unit establishes a multi-link with a terminal apparatus using the first and second wireless signal processing units, sets the first wireless signal processing unit as a primary link, and sets the second wireless signal processing unit to a secondary link. When the secondary link is in an active mode and a first condition is satisfied, the link management unit sets the secondary link to the operation pause mode. When the secondary link is in an operation pause mode and a second condition is satisfied, the link management unit sets the secondary link to the active mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira KISHIDA, Kengo NAGATA, Yasuhiko INOUE, Yusuke ASAI, Yasushi TAKATORI
  • Publication number: 20230224729
    Abstract: A radio communication apparatus according to an embodiment includes a radio communication unit (1011), a radio information acquisition unit (1013), and a transmission condition setting unit (104). The radio communication unit transmits a radio signal. The radio information acquisition unit continuously acquires radio information containing received signal strength in the radio communication unit. The transmission condition setting unit sets a transmission time slot for transmitting the radio signal in the radio communication unit and an index value of a modulation and error correction coding rate in the radio communication unit in accordance with the radio information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuki NAKAMURA, Wataru YAMADA, Yasuhiko INOUE, Shoko SHINOHARA, Yusuke ASA, Yasushi TAKATORI
  • Publication number: 20230199598
    Abstract: A radio communication apparatus according to an embodiment includes a first radio communication unit (1011) that transmits a radio signal by using a first channel, a second radio communication unit (1021) that transmits a radio signal by using a second channel different from the first channel, a first radio information acquisition unit (1013) that acquires first radio information containing received signal strength in the first radio communication unit and usage of the first channel, a second radio information acquisition unit (1023) that acquires second radio information containing received signal strength in the second radio communication unit and usage of the second channel, a determination unit (104) that determines whether to switch between the first radio communication unit and the second radio communication unit in accordance with the first radio information and the second radio information, and a switching unit (105) that switches between the first radio communication unit and the second radio communi
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuki NAKAMURA, Wataru YAMADA, Yasuhiko INOUE, Shoko SHINOHARA, Yusuke ASAI, Yasushi TAKATORI
  • Publication number: 20230180318
    Abstract: A base station (10) of an embodiment includes a first wireless signal processing unit, a second wireless signal processing unit, and a link management unit (120). The first wireless signal processing unit is configured to be able to transmit and receive wireless signals using the first band. The second wireless signal processing unit is configured to be able to transmit and receive wireless signals using a second band that is different from the first band. The link management unit manages a link state of the first wireless signal processing unit and a link state of the second wireless signal processing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Yasuhiko INOUE, Akira KISHIDA, Kengo Nagata, Yusuke Asai, Yasushi TAKATORI
  • Publication number: 20230147391
    Abstract: A base station (20A) that, in a base station system (1) including a first base station (10) and at least two second base stations (20A, 20B), functions as the first base station (10), includes: a MAC processing unit (103) that performs MAC layer processing and generates a first MAC frame used in common between the first base station (10) and the second base station (20A); and a communication processing unit (105A) that transmits the first MAC frame to the second base station (20A).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiko INOUE, Akira KISHIDA, Kengo NAGATA, Yusuke ASAI, Yasushi TAKATORI
  • Publication number: 20230142340
    Abstract: A base station (10) of an embodiment includes a first wireless signal processing unit (140), a second wireless signal processing unit (150), and a link management unit (120). The first wireless signal processing unit is configured to be able to transmit and receive wireless signals using the first channel. The second wireless signal processing unit is configured to be able to transmit and receive wireless signals using a second channel that is different from the first channel. The link management unit manages a link state of the first wireless signal processing unit and a link state of the second wireless signal processing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventors: Akira KISHIDA, Kengo Nagata, Yasuhiko INOUE, Yusuke Asai, Yasushi TAKATORI
  • Publication number: 20230140487
    Abstract: A base station serving as a second base station includes a wireless signal processing unit capable of using a first channel held in common with another base station serving as a first base station. The wireless signal processing unit is configured to execute first cooperative processing in a case of the first base station acquiring a transmission right for the first channel that is a primary channel. The first cooperative processing includes, on the basis of the second base station acquiring a transmission right for a second channel that is a secondary channel of the second base station, deciding to transmit by the second channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira KISHIDA, Yasuhiko INOUE, Kengo NAGATA, Yusuke ASAI, Yasushi TAKATORI
  • Publication number: 20230119202
    Abstract: A transmitting station according to an embodiment includes a first wireless signal processing unit 140, a second wireless signal processing unit 150, and a link management unit 120. The first wireless signal processing unit is configured to transmit wireless signals including data, using a first channel. The second wireless signal processing unit is configured to transmit wireless signals including data, using a second channel that is different from the first channel. The link management unit manages a link state of the first wireless signal processing unit and a link state of the second wireless signal processing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira KISHIDA, Yasuhiko INOUE, Kengo NAGATA, Yusuke ASAI, Yasushi TAKATORI
  • Publication number: 20230104897
    Abstract: A terminal (20) includes a transmission control unit (203). The transmission control unit (20) sets a plurality of LL transmission queues (113_LL1, 113_LL2, 113_LL3), into each of which is input low latency data, regarding which latency conditions relating to latency are stricter than predetermined latency conditions. The latency conditions demanded of the low latency data that is input are different from each other among the plurality of LL transmission queues (113_LL1, 113_LL2, 113_LL3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira KISHIDA, Yasuhiko INOUE, Kengo NAGATA, Yusuke ASAI, Yasushi TAKATORI
  • Publication number: 20230061186
    Abstract: A base station (10) according to an embodiment includes a data processing unit (101) and a wireless signal processing unit (103). The data processing unit (101) generates a MAC frame. The MAC frame includes input data and an identification bit (CB). The identification bit (CB) indicates that data is extended broadcast data. The wireless signal processing unit (103) converts the MAC frame into a wireless signal to distribute the wireless signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiko INOUE, Shoko SHINOHARA, Akira KISHIDA, Kengo NAGATA, Yusuke ASAI, Yasushi TAKATORI