Patents by Inventor Yasutaka Kimura

Yasutaka Kimura 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: 20240334387
    Abstract: To solve the above problem, an object of the present invention is to provide a communication control device, a communication control method, a communication system, and a program that do not require addition of a function to facility equipment, for communication resource allocation corresponding to a physical location of a terminal indoors. The communication system includes a location metadata source (26, 27) in an arbitrary area 5 and a communication control device 35. The communication control device 35 includes: a reception unit 31 that receives information of the location metadata source (26, 27) from a communication terminal 10 in the arbitrary area 5; and a controller 30 that calculates a location of the communication terminal 10 in the arbitrary area 5 on the basis of the information of the location metadata source (26, 27) and allocates a communication resource depending on the location of the communication terminal 10.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinya TAMAKI, Ryota SHIINA, Tetsuya SUZUKI, Yasutaka KIMURA, Tomohiro TANIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20240317765
    Abstract: The present invention provides a heterocyclic compound having an orexin type 2 receptor agonist activity. A compound represented by the formula (I): wherein each symbol is as described in the specification, or a salt thereof, is useful as an agent for the prophylaxis or treatment of narcolepsy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: Yasushi HATTORI, Marilena PIRA, Yoshiteru ITO, Kohei TAKEUCHI, Eiji KIMURA, Norihito TOKUNAGA, Shuhei IKEDA, Martin Alexander PAWLICZEK, Noriyuki TEZUKA, Yasutaka HOASHI, Yuhei MIYANOHANA, Yuichi KAJITA, Tatsuki KOIKE
  • Publication number: 20240323704
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to reduce traffic required for transmission of beacon information from a sensor apparatus to an access point and reduce power consumption without affecting position estimation processing in a high-order cloud or server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryota SHIINA, Shinya TAMAKI, Tetsuya SUZUKI, Yasutaka KIMURA, Tomohiro TANIGUCHI, Sei KOU, Tomoya HATANO, Takashi YAMADA
  • Patent number: 12074945
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a data collection system capable of collecting various pieces of metadata other than sensing data and instrument information by existing communication protocols and associating the sensing data, the instrument information, and the metadata with each other without errors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro Taniguchi, Shinya Tamaki, Tetsuya Suzuki, Yasutaka Kimura
  • Patent number: 12068776
    Abstract: In response to the above issue, an object of the present invention is to provide a diagnostic apparatus and a diagnostic method capable of accurately recognizing whether to use a long extension function at the time of relocation of an accommodation station of an OLT. The diagnostic apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention has an allowable line length list that is a relationship between a center wavelength and an allowable line distance that satisfies a selected spectrum width in an optical fiber used in an optical communication system, measures a center wavelength and a spectrum width of a spectrum for each ONU, matches the allowable line length list, and obtains an allowable line distance of each ONU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasutaka Kimura, Kazutaka Hara, Atsuko Kawakita
  • Patent number: 12058018
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to collectively collect sensing data and metadata regarding normality of equipment by utilizing light communication protocol. The present disclosure is a system that collects sensing data from a sensor terminal in a data collection unit using a data collection network, the sensor terminal including a detection unit configured to detect metadata regarding internal information of the sensor terminal other than a sensor device that detects sensing data and equipment information and transmitting the metadata detected by the detection unit using an extended area or an optional area defined in communication protocol for transmitting the sensing data or the equipment information in a frame defined in the communication protocol, and the data collection unit associating the sensing data, the equipment information, and the metadata on the basis of information for identifying the sensor terminal described in the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Shinya Tamaki, Ryota Shiina, Tetsuya Suzuki, Yasutaka Kimura, Tomohiro Taniguchi, Sei Kou, Tomoya Hatano
  • Publication number: 20240244405
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a sensor terminal, a data collection unit, a data collection system, a data collection method, and a program capable of handling highly real-time sensing data while eliminating the need to generate a highly reliable timestamp. In a data collection system 302, a sensor terminal 11 receives broadcast time information (step S01), the sensor terminal 11 transmits related time information related to the time information and sensing data as a set (step S02), a data collection unit 12 receives the set (step S03), and the data collection unit 12 organizes the related time information and the sensing data included in the set in a database 12d on the basis of information for identifying the sensor terminal 11 (step S04).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinya TAMAKI, Ryota SHIINA, Tetsuya SUZUKI, Yasutaka KIMURA, Tomohiro TANIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20240187121
    Abstract: The present disclosure is a base station system S that connects each of base station functional units that provides each of radio schemes and each of antenna units in each of provision areas via an optical fiber section, the base station system including passive light functional units disposed between each of base station functional units and each of antenna unit and including each downlink signal output port to which each downlink signal wavelength is allocated and each uplink signal output port to which each uplink signal wavelength is allocated and an optical switch disposed between each of the antenna units and the passive light functional units, accommodates some of each of the radio schemes, and switches to which one of the provision areas the some of the radio schemes are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Inventors: Kazunari MASE, Katsuya MINAMI, Yasutaka KIMURA, Yasutaka OKAZAKI
  • Patent number: 11996895
    Abstract: In order to solve the problems described above, an object of the present invention is to provide an optical communication system and a control method that automatically adjust a branching ratio of an optical splitter in accordance with a connection of a new ONU. An optical communication system according to the present invention causes an operation system or a DBA (Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation) function and a determining unit of a branching ratio of an optical splitter to cooperate with each other, adjusts the branching ratio so as to enable ranging with an active ONU, and takes into consideration an initial connection sequence through which an ONU is newly connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazutaka Hara, Yasutaka Kimura, Atsuko Kawakita
  • Patent number: 11979462
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a data collection system and a data collection method which are capable of collecting sensing data and various pieces of metadata by a single communication protocol and capable of associating the sensing data with the metadata without errors. A data collection system 301 of the present disclosure is a data collection system that performs communication from a terminal 11 to a data collection unit 12 by a standardized communication protocol (LLDP or HTIP), in which the terminal 11 stores sensing data detected by a sensor device in an extended field different from a field in which metadata is stored, within a frame specified by the communication protocol, and the data collection unit 12 associates the sensing data with the metadata based on information for identifying the terminal described in the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro Taniguchi, Shinya Tamaki, Tetsuya Suzuki, Yasutaka Kimura
  • Patent number: 11956009
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an optical communication system and an optical communication method capable of achieving a long transmission distance with a passive element and obtaining redundancy of a ring topology. The optical communication system according to the present invention is a PON system having a ring configuration, in which an unequal branch optical splitter having a left-right symmetrical configuration is disposed in a trunk fiber wired in a loop shape. An OLT and an ONU have a configuration in which two sets of Tx (transmitter) and Rx (receiver) are mounted. Two sets of Tx (transmitters) and Rx (receivers) in each of a plurality of ONUs are respectively connected to left and right symmetrical ports of one unequally branched light beam SP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsuko Kawakita, Yasutaka Kimura, Kazutaka Hara
  • Publication number: 20240089712
    Abstract: An object is to provide a data collection device and the like capable of reducing a load on an IoT terminal in metadata transmission and power consumption associated with the metadata transmission. In the present invention, a controller is provided on a data collection side that collects metadata, the metadata transmitted from an IoT terminal is grasped, and the IoT terminal is instructed to reduce the transmission frequency of metadata that does not need high real-time property according to a sensor, the type of the IoT terminal, or the like. The IoT terminal transmits the metadata only at a window time (transmission timing, data size, metadata type, or the like) permitted by the metadata controller. As a result, the IoT terminal transmits the metadata only at a limited timing, and thus can reduce a transmission load and power consumption.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Shinya TAMAKI, Ryota SHIINA, Tetsuya SUZUKI, Yasutaka KIMURA, Tomohiro TANIGUCHI, Sei KOU, Tomoya HATANO, Takashi YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20240053430
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a position estimation system capable of grasping position information of a plurality of wireless devices without using an external device such as a fixed beacon or a GPS, a position estimation method, a wireless device, and an analysis device. A position estimation system according to the present invention includes a plurality of wireless devices 11 and an analysis device 12, wherein the wireless devices 11 are each configured to: send beacon signals; transfer the beacon signals between the wireless devices 11 in a range that the beacon signals reach; update flags indicating transfer histories of the beacon signals at the time of transfer; and discard beacon signals sent by own wireless devices upon reception thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinya TAMAKI, Ryota SHIINA, Tetsuya SUZUKI, Yasutaka KIMURA, Tomohiro TANIGUCHI, Sei KOU, Tomoya HATANO, Takashi YAMADA
  • Patent number: 11881893
    Abstract: An optical communication system according to the present invention cancels waveform distortion due to wavelength dispersion by extracting the spectrum of a transmitted optical signal and passing the optical signal to a fiber having a dispersion value opposite to a dispersion amount corresponding to a transmission distance received by the spectrum component and compensates for a transmission path loss due to the fiber having the opposite dispersion value using optical splitters having different split ratios. With this configuration, the present invention can compensate for waveform distortion due to wavelength dispersion by a simple method in an access network and achieve an increase in the reachable transmission distance of the farthest user or an increase in the number of connectable users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazutaka Hara, Yasutaka Kimura, Atsuko Kawakita
  • Patent number: 11863211
    Abstract: An optical communication system configured with a station-side apparatus and a plurality of subscriber-side apparatuses in a bus network topology includes an optical amplification unit installed on a station side, and a drop unit configured to branch an optical signal and excitation light, wherein the optical amplification unit includes an amplifier configured to amplify a downlink signal, and an excitation light output unit configured to output the excitation light for amplifying an uplink signal to a communication path, and the drop unit changes a branching ratio in accordance with a wavelength of the optical signal so that a transmission loss of the excitation light with respect to a trunk fiber is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Igarashi, Masamichi Fujiwara, Kazutaka Hara, Takuya Kanai, Yasutaka Kimura, Atsuko Kawakita
  • Publication number: 20230336448
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to collectively collect sensing data and metadata regarding normality of equipment by utilizing light communication protocol. The present disclosure is a system that collects sensing data from a sensor terminal in a data collection unit using a data collection network, the sensor terminal including a detection unit configured to detect metadata regarding internal information of the sensor terminal other than a sensor device that detects sensing data and equipment information and transmitting the metadata detected by the detection unit using an extended area or an optional area defined in communication protocol for transmitting the sensing data or the equipment information in a frame defined in the communication protocol, and the data collection unit associating the sensing data, the equipment information, and the metadata on the basis of information for identifying the sensor terminal described in the frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Shinya Tamaki, Ryota SHIINA, Tetsuya Suzuki, Yasutaka KIMURA, Tomohiro TANIGUCHI, Sei KOU, Tomoya HATANO
  • Patent number: 11711150
    Abstract: An object is to provide an optical communication system and an optical communication method that are capable of, when assigning wavelengths on a per-service basis and providing services on a per-area basis, preventing degradation of signal quality due to linear crosstalk and preventing an increase in cost and size. An optical communication system according to the present invention includes an optical splitter 300 connecting N first ports and M second ports by a combination of 2×2 fiber optical splitters, N and M each being an integer of two or more, where wavelengths of optical signals to be received are limited for each group of optical receivers 106, by using a correlation between a fused extension length of at least one 2×2 fiber optical splitter directly connected to the first port, among the 2×2 fiber optical splitters, and wavelength output characteristics of the second port of the optical splitter 300.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsuko Kawakita, Kazutaka Hara, Yasutaka Kimura, Kenji Horikawa, Hiroyuki Furukawa
  • Publication number: 20230232215
    Abstract: A location information transmitter transmits location information within a prescribed area. An IoT terminal receives the location information and transmits the location information and a device identifier. An address setting management device receives the location information and the device identifier and sets an IP address to be assigned to the IoT terminal on the basis of the location information and the device identifier and transmits the IP address to the IoT terminal. The IoT terminal sets the IP address received from the address setting management device for itself.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Sei KOU, Tomoya HATANO, Tetsuya SUZUKI, Yasutaka KIMURA, Tomohiro TANIGUCHI, Shinya TAMAKI
  • Publication number: 20230215254
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a monitoring system including an edge processing apparatus including a space distinct ID management database, a space distinct ID control unit, a storage unit, an analysis unit, and an abnormality determination unit, and a controller, a transmitter, and a camera with sensor that are installed in a location to be monitored, in which the space distinct ID management database stores a space distinct ID and a transmission time of the space distinct ID in association with the location to be monitored, the space distinct ID control unit acquires the space distinct ID associated with the location to be monitored from the space distinct ID management database and transmits the space distinct ID that is acquired to the controller in the associated location to be monitored, the controller transmits the space distinct ID acquired from the space distinct ID control unit to the transmitter, the transmitter generates a signal based on the space distinct ID acquired from the controller and di
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryota SHIINA, Tomohiro TANIGUCHI, Shinya TAMAKI, Kazutaka HARA, Koji TSUJI, Tetsuya SUZUKI, Yasutaka KIMURA
  • Patent number: 11689311
    Abstract: An object is to provide an optical communication system capable of controlling the output ratio by port and by wavelength for incident light of different wavelengths, a method of determining the split ratio of an uneven-split optical splitter for controlling the output ratio by port and by wavelength, and a transmission range determination method for the optical communication system. The split ratio determination method for an uneven-split optical splitter according to the present invention uses the melt-draw distance to adjust the split ratio of each fiber-optic splitter included in the uneven-split optical splitter such that the light output from the farthest ONUs among each of the ports connected under the ports B to M of the uneven-split optical splitter arrives with the minimum reception sensitivity at OLT receivers in a PON system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsuko Kawakita, Kazutaka Hara, Yasutaka Kimura, Kenji Horikawa, Hiroyuki Furukawa