Patents by Inventor Yasunori Noda
Yasunori Noda 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: 20230299818Abstract: A reception device receives, by a plurality of antennas, signals in which a plurality of radio signals are superimposed, the reception device including: a weight generation unit that generates a weight for beamforming in order to improve reception quality of a desired signal, which is one of the plurality of the radio signals, on the basis of a reception timing and a frequency of the signals received individually by the antennas; a weight correction unit that performs correction, on the weight, in order to compensate for a Doppler shift between the signals received individually by the antennas on the basis of the frequency of the signals received individually by the antennas; and a combining unit that combines the signals received individually by the antennas using the weight obtained after the correction.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2023Publication date: September 21, 2023Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Yasunori NODA
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Publication number: 20220231888Abstract: A transmitting apparatus includes an analog transmitting unit that performs analog processing on a multiplex signal in which two or more signals are multiplexed and generates a transmission signal, and a signal multiplexing and learning unit that multiplexes the two or more signals with a neural network whose parameters have been adjusted based on the analog characteristics of the analog transmitting unit and constraints on the multiplex signal and generates the multiplex signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2022Publication date: July 21, 2022Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Manabu TAKAGI, Yasunori NODA
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Patent number: 11196459Abstract: A reception device includes an equalization processing unit including a linear filter unit and a nonlinear filter unit and performing equalization process on a reception signal; a linear propagation channel estimation unit making propagation channel estimation using a known signal included in a reception signal to calculate a filter coefficient of the linear filter unit; and a synchronization processing unit performing synchronization process of correcting frequency deviation based on a signal output by the equalization processing unit, and when a predetermined condition is satisfied after executing first equalization process of outputting a reception signal filtered by the linear filter unit to the synchronization processing unit, the equalization processing unit starts second equalization process that is an adaptive equalization process of outputting a result of addition of a reception signal filtered by the linear filter unit and a reception signal filtered by the nonlinear filter unit to the synchronizatiType: GrantFiled: November 2, 2018Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yasunori Noda, Shunsuke Uehashi, Katsuyuki Motoyoshi, Shigeru Uchida
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Patent number: 11070284Abstract: A transmitting station includes an amplifier unit that amplifies a transmitting signal, a transmitting antenna that wirelessly transmits the transmitting signal that has been amplified, and a controller unit that regulates a frequency of the transmitting signal and an input power to the amplifier unit on the basis of an estimation value of reception quality that is a signal quality when the transmitting signal is received by a receiving station.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2017Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Shigenori Tani, Katsuyuki Motoyoshi, Yasunori Noda
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Publication number: 20210050883Abstract: A reception device includes an equalization processing unit including a linear filter unit and a nonlinear filter unit and performing equalization process on a reception signal; a linear propagation channel estimation unit making propagation channel estimation using a known signal included in a reception signal to calculate a filter coefficient of the linear filter unit; and a synchronization processing unit performing synchronization process of correcting frequency deviation based on a signal output by the equalization processing unit, and when a predetermined condition is satisfied after executing first equalization process of outputting a reception signal filtered by the linear filter unit to the synchronization processing unit, the equalization processing unit starts second equalization process that is an adaptive equalization process of outputting a result of addition of a reception signal filtered by the linear filter unit and a reception signal filtered by the nonlinear filter unit to the synchronizatiType: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2018Publication date: February 18, 2021Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yasunori NODA, Shunsuke UEHASHI, Katsuyuki MOTOYOSHI, Shigeru UCHIDA
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Publication number: 20200186241Abstract: A transmitting station includes an amplifier unit that amplifies a transmitting signal, a transmitting antenna that wirelessly transmits the transmitting signal that has been amplified, and a controller unit that regulates a frequency of the transmitting signal and an input power to the amplifier unit on the basis of an estimation value of reception quality that is a signal quality when the transmitting signal is received by a receiving station.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2017Publication date: June 11, 2020Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Shigenori TANI, Katsuyuki MOTOYOSHI, Yasunori NODA
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Patent number: 10608846Abstract: A receiving device includes: a resampler to convert a sampling rate of a reception signal, and output a first signal that is a signal having been subjected to sampling rate conversion; an equalizer to perform an adaptive equalization process using the first signal as an input, and output a second signal that is a signal having been subjected to the adaptive equalization process and having a sampling rate that is an integer fraction of an input signal; a correlation calculator to calculate a correlation function between the first signal and the second signal; and a rate controller to control a rate conversion ratio for sampling rate conversion in the resampler on a basis of the correlation function.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2016Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Yasunori Noda
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Patent number: 10237101Abstract: A receiving device according to the present invention includes: a search range control unit that determines, for a reception signal including a plurality of wireless signals partially overlapping on at least one of a time axis and a frequency axis and received by a moving object, a search range for the plurality of wireless signals in a search space including the time axis and the frequency axis based on information on position and velocity of the moving object; a time frequency detection unit that generates information on time and frequency at which a wireless frame included in each of the plurality of wireless signals is received in the search range for the reception signal determined by the search range control unit; and a detection unit that demodulates the reception signal to acquire the wireless frame based on the information on time and frequency generated by the time frequency detection unit.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2016Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventor: Yasunori Noda
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Publication number: 20190028309Abstract: A receiving device according to the present invention includes: a search range control unit that determines, for a reception signal including a plurality of wireless signals partially overlapping on at least one of a time axis and a frequency axis and received by a moving object, a search range for the plurality of wireless signals in a search space including the time axis and the frequency axis based on information on position and velocity of the moving object; a time frequency detection unit that generates information on time and frequency at which a wireless frame included in each of the plurality of wireless signals is received in the search range for the reception signal determined by the search range control unit; and a detection unit that demodulates the reception signal to acquire the wireless frame based on the information on time and frequency generated by the time frequency detection unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2016Publication date: January 24, 2019Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventor: Yasunori NODA
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Publication number: 20190020508Abstract: A receiving device includes: a resampler to convert a sampling rate of a reception signal, and output a first signal that is a signal having been subjected to sampling rate conversion; an equalizer to perform an adaptive equalization process using the first signal as an input, and output a second signal that is a signal having been subjected to the adaptive equalization process and having a sampling rate that is an integer fraction of an input signal; a correlation calculator to calculate a correlation function between the first signal and the second signal; and a rate controller to control a rate conversion ratio for sampling rate conversion in the resampler on a basis of the correlation function.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2016Publication date: January 17, 2019Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Yasunori NODA
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Patent number: 9531577Abstract: A bit-likelihood calculating apparatus includes an initial-bit-likelihood calculating unit obtaining an inter-transmission-signal-point distance corresponding to N, a region number indicating a determination region of a transmission signal point nearest from data, and inter-nearest-point distance from a transmission signal point of initial bit=0 nearest to the data and a transmission signal point of initial bit=1 nearest to the data, and calculating likelihood of initial bit of the data serving as initial term of a recurrence formula for recursively calculating bit likelihood, an i-th-bit-likelihood calculating unit calculating, when N is 2 or larger, difference between inter-nearest-point distance with respect to (i?1)th bit and inter-nearest-point distance with respect to i-th bit and calculating likelihood of i-th bit of the data from likelihood of (i?1)th bit and the difference using the recurrence formula, and a processing-step control unit controlling calculation processing for bit likelihood based on NType: GrantFiled: October 3, 2013Date of Patent: December 27, 2016Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Akinori Ohashi, Yasunori Noda
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Publication number: 20150295748Abstract: A bit-likelihood calculating apparatus includes an initial-bit-likelihood calculating unit obtaining an inter-transmission-signal-point distance corresponding to N, a region number indicating a determination region of a transmission signal point nearest from data, and inter-nearest-point distance from a transmission signal point of initial bit=0 nearest to the data and a transmission signal point of initial bit=1 nearest to the data, and calculating likelihood of initial bit of the data serving as initial term of a recurrence formula for recursively calculating bit likelihood, an i-th-bit-likelihood calculating unit calculating, when N is 2 or larger, difference between inter-nearest-point distance with respect to (i?1)th bit and inter-nearest-point distance with respect to i-th bit and calculating likelihood of i-th bit of the data from likelihood of (i?1)th bit and the difference using the recurrence formula, and a processing-step control unit controlling calculation processing for bit likelihood based on NType: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2013Publication date: October 15, 2015Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Akinori Ohashi, Yasunori Noda
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Patent number: 8684334Abstract: A tension transmitting device includes a covering body placed over a target drop cable from a side thereof; and a tension transmission belt having a first end secured on a first end side of the covering body and a second end used as a free end, the tension transmission belt receiving the tension during stringing or wiring operation on a free end side thereof. The free end of the tension transmission belt extends from a secured portion thereof secured to the covering body so as to run on a covering surface side of the covering body and is wound around the drop cable. The covering body includes a slit provided on a second end side thereof, and the slit has a side receiving opening through which the tension transmission belt is received in a width direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2008Date of Patent: April 1, 2014Assignee: Nagaki Seiki Co., Ltd.Inventors: Susumu Nago, Yasunori Noda, Makoto Tamai, Naohiro Hirayama, Masaru Kuraishi
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Publication number: 20100283018Abstract: A tension transmitting device can be easily attached to and detached from a drop cable in a simple manner and can efficiently transmit tension when attached. The tension transmitting device includes: a covering body that is place over a target drop cable from a side thereof; and a tension transmission belt having a first end secured on a first end side of the covering body and a second end used as a free end, the tension transmission belt directly or indirectly receiving the tension during stringing or wiring operation on a free end side thereof. The free end side of the tension transmission belt extends from a secured portion thereof secured to the covering body so as to run on a covering surface side of the covering body and is wound around the drop cable, the drop cable being covered with the covering body on the covering surface side thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2008Publication date: November 11, 2010Applicant: NAGAKI SEIKI CO., LTD.Inventors: Susumu Nago, Yasunori Noda, Makoto Tamai, Naohiro Hirayama, Masaru Kuraishi