Patents by Inventor Yasushi Takatori
Yasushi Takatori 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: 20220408453Abstract: A wireless LAN system where an interfering communication device is present around a base station device and a terminal device includes an interference control signal transmitter that transmits an interference control signal that causes the interfering communication device to wait for transmission, and an interference control signal management device that collects wireless environment information, sets wireless LAN communication between the base station device and the terminal device, which are protection targets, as protected communication, and causes the interference control signal transmitter to transmit an interference control signal that causes the interfering communication device to wait for transmission, and the interference control signal management device instructs the interference control signal transmitter to start transmitting the interference control signal when detecting a start of the protected communication and instructs the interference control signal transmitter to stop transmitting the interType: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2019Publication date: December 22, 2022Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Shota NAKAYAMA, Kenichi KAWAMURA, Takatsune MORIYAMA, Keisuke WAKAO, Yasushi TAKATORI
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Patent number: 11528628Abstract: Provided is a wireless base station which uses distributed antennas and selects a combination of a plurality of wireless terminals and the distributed antennas of a wireless base station that performs multi-user transmission with respect to the plurality of wireless terminals in a multi-BSS wireless environment. The wireless base station includes: a scheduling unit that measures reception power (RSSI) from each wireless terminal at each of the distributed antennas and selects a combination of a plurality of wireless terminals and a plurality of antennas having approximately the same RSSIs in descending order for respective wireless terminals; and a transmission power control unit that sets minimum transmission power corresponding to the RSSI of the antenna when multi-user transmission is performed between the plurality of wireless terminals and the plurality of antennas combined by the scheduling unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2019Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Koichi Ishihara, Tomoki Murakami, Hirantha Abeysekera, Toshiro Nakahira, Yasushi Takatori, Takafumi Hayashi
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Patent number: 11523439Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication system in which, based on a random access scheme, a transmission opportunity (TXOP) acquired by a wireless access point is granted to a wireless station when performing uplink data transmission from the wireless station to the wireless access point and the TXOP acquired by the wireless station is granted to the wireless access point when performing downlink data transmission from the wireless access point to the wireless station, the system includes a scheduling unit for TXOP granting determining one or more wireless stations having a quality of an uplink data transmission lower than a prescribed value as TXOP responders to which the wireless access point grants the TXOP, and determining one or more wireless stations having a quality of a downlink data transmission lower than the prescribed value as TXOP holders which grant the TXOP to the wireless access point.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2021Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Riichi Kudo, Hirantha Sithira Abeysekera, Munehiro Matsui, Shoko Shinohara, Yasushi Takatori, Takeo Ichikawa, Masato Mizoguchi
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Publication number: 20220386374Abstract: In a wireless LAN system that performs multi-user transmission, an access point device includes: a selection unit configured to select, as terminals to be caused to transmit CTS in response to an MU-RTS frame, terminals that satisfy predetermined conditions and include at least a terminal that is to be protected and has to satisfy predetermined low latency and low jitter, regardless of whether or not the terminals are terminals to which a resource for transmitting data should be allocated; an allocation unit configured to allocate the resource for transmitting data to the terminals; a frame generation unit configured to generate the MU-RTS frame such that the terminals selected by the selection unit transmit the CTS, and generates a frame that contains a signal indicating the resource allocated by the allocation unit; and a communication unit configured to transmit the frames generated by the frame generation unit to the plurality of terminals.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2019Publication date: December 1, 2022Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Kenichi KAWAMURA, Yasushi TAKATORI, Takatsune MORIYAMA, Shota NAKAYAMA, Keisuke WAKAO
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Publication number: 20220369120Abstract: A wireless communication system including a transmitting station and one or more receiving stations, the one or more receiving stations including a receiving station serving as a destination, the receiving station serving as the destination receiving a transmitted signal from the transmitting station, the wireless communication system including a plurality of relay stations located between the transmitting station and the one or more receiving stations, wherein the transmitting station includes a relay station selection unit configured to select at least one relay station that relays the transmitted signal from among the plurality of relay stations, add information for turning on the at least one selected relay station to the transmitted signal, and transmit the transmitted signal, the at least one selected relay station is configured to be turned on in accordance with the information of the transmitted signal to perform a non-regenerative relay of the transmitted signal, and the receiving station serving asType: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2019Publication date: November 17, 2022Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Riku OMIYA, Tomoki MURAKAMI, Koichi ISHIHARA, Takafumi HAYASHI, Yasushi TAKATORI
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Publication number: 20220360318Abstract: A wireless communication system including, a primary transmitting station and a primary receiving station which are being in communication, a secondary transmitting station and one or more secondary receiving stations which use the identical frequency that are used in the above wireless environment, the one or more secondary receiving stations including a secondary receiving station serving as a destination, the secondary receiving station serving as the destination receiving a transmitted signal from the secondary transmitting station, the wireless communication system including a plurality of relay stations located between the secondary transmitting station and the one or more secondary receiving stations, wherein the secondary transmitting station includes a relay station selection unit configured to select at least one relay station that relays the transmitted signal from among the plurality of relay stations, add information for turning on the at least one selected relay station to the transmitted signalType: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2019Publication date: November 10, 2022Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Riku OMIYA, Tomoki MURAKAMI, Koichi ISHIHARA, Takafumi HAYASHI, Yasushi TAKATORI
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Publication number: 20220345927Abstract: Provided are: a first wireless station, a second wireless station that can move to an arbitrary position in a three-dimensional space and perform wireless communication with the first wireless station, and a measuring device that measures the position of the second wireless station in the three-dimensional space to obtain measurement information. At least one out of the first wireless station, the second wireless station, and the measuring device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires reception signal information that was received by the first wireless station or the second wireless station, and a calculation unit that associates the measurement information and the reception signal information with each other and calculates the propagation characteristics between the first wireless station and the second wireless station.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2019Publication date: October 27, 2022Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Nobuaki KUNO, Wataru YAMADA, Mitsuki NAKAMURA, Takatsune MORIYAMA, Yasushi TAKATORI
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Publication number: 20220345899Abstract: Provided are: an extraction unit that, based on input information from an external source, extracts position information regarding a transmitting station and a receiving station and the frequency of radio waves transmitted by the transmitting station; a calculation unit that calculates the three-dimensional distance between the transmitting station and the receiving station and the free space loss of radio waves based on the position information and the frequency; a processing unit that performs processing for, with use of a two-dimensional image of a region that includes the transmitting station and the receiving station, extracting the edges of structures that reflect radio waves in the two-dimensional image; a generation unit that generates input data for use in machine learning, based on the position information, the three-dimensional distance, the free space loss, and the edge; and a learning unit that performs machine learning to estimate the propagation characteristics of radio waves between the transmType: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2019Publication date: October 27, 2022Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Nobuaki KUNO, Wataru YAMADA, Takatsune MORIYAMA, Yasushi TAKATORI
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Publication number: 20220286955Abstract: Included are a plurality of base stations to which a plurality of terminal stations are connectable and a control station that controls each of the base stations. The control station includes a network communication unit that receives, from each of the base stations, base station information indicating the base station, wireless environment information indicating a reception signal received by the base station from another of the base stations and a signal intensity thereof, and terminal station information indicating the terminal station connected to the base station and a signal intensity and a calculation unit that calculates, based on the base station information, the wireless environment information, and the terminal station information each received from each of the base stations, connection control information for controlling a connection permission from each of the base stations to each of the terminal stations.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2019Publication date: September 8, 2022Inventors: Toshiro Nakahira, Hirantha Abeysekera, Koichi Ishihara, Tomoki Murakami, Takafumi Hayashi, Yasushi Takatori
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Publication number: 20220279426Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a base station to which a plurality of terminal stations are connectable and a control unit that controls the base station.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2019Publication date: September 1, 2022Inventors: Toshiro Nakahira, Hirantha Abeysekera, Koichi Ishihara, Tomoki Murakami, Takafumi Hayashi, Yasushi Takatori
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Patent number: 11432235Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication control method, in which a management server manages line selection of an unlicensed band/licensed band of a UE and manages parameters of the unlicensed band, including a control step of excluding the UE that uses the licensed band from an optimization target in an unlicensed band system and optimizing the parameters of the unlicensed band in consideration of existence of an STA and the UE that uses the unlicensed band, which is caused by the management server. Furthermore, a pattern when a total of a communication capacity in the unlicensed band and a communication capacity in the licensed band after the optimization of the parameters of the unlicensed band becomes high is adopted for the line selection of the UE, and the parameters of the unlicensed band after the optimization of the line selection are set for an AP, the STA, and the UE of the unlicensed band.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2019Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Akiyoshi Inoki, Keisuke Wakao, Hirantha Abeysekera, Munehiro Matsui, Kenichi Kawamura, Yasushi Takatori
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Publication number: 20220248252Abstract: A wireless communication system in which wireless stations perform transmission, a plurality of wireless modules that are operated in a shared frequency band being installed in the wireless stations, wherein the wireless stations each include means for notifying a control device of environment information that includes capacity information regarding the wireless station and information regarding a surrounding wireless environment, and setting frequency channels in the plurality of wireless modules, the wireless stations being notified of the frequency channels by the control device, and the control device includes means for calculating a frequency channel of each wireless module of each wireless station based on the environment information collected from each wireless station, following a control guideline that is determined in advance, and notifying the wireless stations of the frequency channels.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2019Publication date: August 4, 2022Inventors: Toshiro Nakahira, Hirantha Abeysekera, Tomoki Murakami, Koichi Ishihara, Takafumi HAYASHI, Yasushi TAKATORI
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Publication number: 20220240114Abstract: A measurement station collects radio base station performance information related to a radio communication performance of each radio base station, radio connection information related to a radio communication performance and a communication status of a corresponding radio terminal station, generates a measurement condition and an expected measurement result based on the radio base station performance information and the radio connection information, and notifies a measurement control signal corresponding to the measurement condition to the radio terminal station through the radio base station; the radio terminal station performs a communication setting of an own station based on the notified measurement control signal, and notifies a measurement preparation status to the measurement station; and the measurement station measures the radio communication performance by causing a flow of a measurement traffic to the radio terminal station through the radio base station, acquiring a measurement result, and determiType: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2020Publication date: July 28, 2022Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Tomoki MURAKAMI, Hirantha ABEYSEKERA, Koichi ISHIHARA, Takafumi HAYASHI, Yasushi TAKATORI
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Publication number: 20220239391Abstract: An operation test method of a base station to which a plurality of terminal stations are connectable, the method including switching a specific radio communication unit of a plurality of radio communication units to a subordinate mode and setting another radio communication unit of the plurality of radio communication units to a normal mode, the normal mode being a mode in which each of the plurality of radio communication units performs radio communication as a base station, the subordinate mode being a mode in which each of the plurality of radio communication units performs radio communication as a virtual terminal station, each of the plurality of radio communication units being switchable between the normal mode and the subordinate mode, and conducting an operation test of the base station by performing, based on a test policy that sets the operation test, radio communication between the specific radio communication unit switched to the subordinate mode and the other radio communication unit in the normaType: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2020Publication date: July 28, 2022Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Tomoki MURAKAMI, Hirantha ABEYSEKERA, Koichi ISHIHARA, Takafumi HAYASHI, Yasushi TAKATORI
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Publication number: 20220232485Abstract: A wireless communication system in which wireless stations perform transmission, a plurality of wireless modules that are operated in a shared frequency band being installed in the wireless stations, wherein the wireless stations each include means for notifying a control device of environment information that includes capacity information regarding the wireless station and information regarding a surrounding wireless environment, and setting transmission power values in the plurality of wireless modules, the wireless stations being notified of the transmission power values by the control device, and the control device includes means for calculating a transmission power value of each wireless module of each wireless station based on the environment information collected from each wireless station, following a control guideline that is determined in advance, and notifying the wireless stations of the transmission power values.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2019Publication date: July 21, 2022Inventors: Toshiro Nakahira, Hirantha Abeysekera, Tomoki Murakami, Koichi Ishihara, Takafumi HAYASHI, Yasushi TAKATORI
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Publication number: 20220232425Abstract: A wireless communications method for connecting a base station with each of a plurality of terminal stations, the base station being equipped with a plurality of wireless communications units configured to be able to select a plurality of different transmission rates and connectable with one or more of the terminal stations, includes: a collection step of collecting information about a transmission rate and multicast transmission frequency from each of the terminal stations; a policy calculation step of calculating a setting policy for setting a unicast transmission rate and a multicast transmission rate for each of the wireless communications units and a switching policy for setting a condition for switching that one of the wireless communications units which is to be connected, for each of the terminal stations based on the collected information; and a setting step of setting those of the terminal stations which are to be connected, for each of the wireless communications units based on the calculated settiType: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2020Publication date: July 21, 2022Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Tomoki MURAKAMI, Hirantha ABEYSEKERA, Koichi ISHIHARA, Takafumi HAYASHI, Yasushi TAKATORI
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Publication number: 20220232587Abstract: A wireless communication system in which wireless stations perform transmission, a plurality of wireless modules that are operated in a shared frequency band being installed in the wireless stations, wherein the wireless stations each include means for notifying a control device of environment information that includes capacity information regarding the wireless station and information regarding a surrounding wireless environment, the control device includes means for determining an operation mode of each wireless module of each wireless station based on the environment information collected from each wireless station, following a control guideline that is determined in advance, and notifying the wireless stations of the operation modes, and the wireless stations each include means for setting the operation modes in the plurality of wireless modules and changing connection of connection destination wireless stations according to the operation modes of the wireless modules, the wireless stations being notifiedType: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2019Publication date: July 21, 2022Inventors: Toshiro Nakahira, Hirantha Abeysekera, Tomoki Murakami, Koichi Ishihara, Takafumi HAYASHI, Yasushi TAKATORI
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Publication number: 20220225137Abstract: A wireless communication characteristics evaluation method for evaluating wireless communication characteristics of a wireless communication system where a plurality of wireless communication terminals perform communication by transmitting or exchanging signals, the wireless communication characteristics evaluation method including: a step 1 of acquiring power and a band of an interference signal; a step 2 of calculating an interference band rate showing a rate of the band of the interference signal that overlaps with a band of a desired signal; a step 3 of calculating an interference power rate from interference power and the interference band rate and furthermore, calculating steady noise power from the interference power and the interference power rate; a step 4 of determining a real SINR from received power of the desired signal and the steady noise power; and a step 5 of determining wireless communication characteristics of the desired signal from the real SINR.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2020Publication date: July 14, 2022Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Shoko SHINOHARA, Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Yasuhiko INOUE, Hirantha ABEYSEKERA, Koichi ISHIHARA, Takafumi HAYASHI, Yasushi TAKATORI
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Publication number: 20220216930Abstract: A wireless communication characteristic evaluation method for calculating a wireless communication characteristic of a wireless communication system in which a plurality of wireless communication terminals perform communication by transmitting or exchanging signals includes: an RSSI measurement step of measuring an RSSI measurement used for calculation of the wireless communication characteristic; and a calculation step of calculating the wireless communication characteristic based on the RSSI measurement and correction data of the RSSI measurement according to specifications of the wireless communication terminals or a correction calculation model.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2020Publication date: July 7, 2022Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Shoko SHINOHARA, Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Yasuhiko INOUE, Hirantha ABEYSEKERA, Koichi ISHIHARA, Takafumi HAYASHI, Yasushi TAKATORI
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Publication number: 20220217545Abstract: A station installation support system for performing a station installation design of a wireless base station satisfying a required performance and a parameter design includes a station installation support device that acquires a station installation calculation condition required to calculate a station installation of the wireless base station, a parameter calculation condition required to calculate a parameter of the wireless base station, a wireless performance evaluation condition required to evaluate a wireless performance, and a station installation evaluation condition required to evaluate the station installation and performs the station installation design and the parameter design, a wireless signal evaluation unit that outputs a wireless signal evaluation result corresponding to wireless signal evaluation information, a station installation calculation unit that outputs a station installation calculation result corresponding to station installation calculation information, a parameter calculation unType: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2020Publication date: July 7, 2022Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Hirantha ABEYSEKERA, Shoko SHINOHARA, Koichi ISHIHARA, Yasuhiko INOUE, Takafumi HAYASHI, Yasushi TAKATORI