Patents by Inventor Yasuyoshi KOJIMA
Yasuyoshi KOJIMA 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: 20240048226Abstract: The receiving apparatus includes a signal receiver, a second signal reception processor, a first signal reception processor, and a controller. The signal receiver receives the second signal indicating the reception time and the waveform data indicating the waveform of the first signal received from the transmission apparatus by each of the plurality of receiving antennas of the relay apparatus. The second signal reception processor performs reception processing of the second signal to acquire waveform data. The first signal reception processor performs reception processing of the first signal indicated by the waveform data to acquire data set to the first signal by the transmission apparatus. The controller calculates a generation time and a generation position of the interference signal with respect to the first signal on the basis of the observation result of the radio signal in the observation apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2020Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Kazumitsu SAKAMOTO, Yosuke FUJINO, Daisuke GOTO, Yasuyoshi KOJIMA, Kiyohiko ITOKAWA
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Publication number: 20240048224Abstract: A wireless communication system includes: one or more first communication devices located in one or more small areas among a plurality of small areas into which a communication target area is divided; a relay device; and a second communication device, in which the relay device includes: an antenna drive unit that drives one or more antennas to scan the plurality of small areas with one or more beams while emitting the beams to the communication target area, the beams each having an emission range narrower than the communication target area; a reception unit that acquires, from the antennas, a first wireless signal transmitted from the first communication devices located in the emission range; and a transmission unit that transmits a second wireless signal depending on the first wireless signal to the second communication device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2020Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Daisuke GOTO, Kiyohiko ITOKAWA, Yasuyoshi KOJIMA, Kazumitsu SAKAMOTO
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Publication number: 20240039619Abstract: A relay device that relays wireless signals transmitted from a plurality of first communication devices to a second communication device while moving includes: a first reception unit configured to receive signals transmitted from the plurality of first communication devices through a reception antenna; and a direction control unit configured to control a reception direction of the reception antenna based on dense district information which is estimated based on the reception of the signals and indicates a district where the first communication devices are located with high density exceeding a predetermined reference.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 25, 2020Publication date: February 1, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Kazumitsu SAKAMOTO, Yosuke FUJINO, Daisuke GOTO, Yasuyoshi KOJIMA, Kiyohiko ITOKAWA
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Publication number: 20240039622Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus includes: a transmission control unit that determines an earlier transmission timing as an elevation angle of a relay apparatus when viewed from the own wireless communication apparatus is larger; and a transmission unit that transmits a wireless signal to the relay apparatus at the transmission timing. The wireless communication apparatus may further include a reception unit that acquires an upper limit value. The transmission control unit may derive a subtraction value, which is a variable value to be used for subtraction, as a larger value as the elevation angle is larger, may subtract the subtraction value from a backoff counter value which is derived based on the upper limit value and is equal to or larger than 0, and may determine, as the transmission timing, a timing at which the backoff counter value becomes equal to or smaller than 0.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2020Publication date: February 1, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Kazumitsu SAKAMOTO, Yosuke FUJINO, Yasuyoshi KOJIMA, Daisuke GOTO, Kiyohiko ITOKAWA
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Publication number: 20240039620Abstract: An acquisition unit acquires a plurality of signals received by a plurality of antennas included in a wireless communication device that moves in a predetermined orbit above a celestial body. A parameter determination unit determines a synthesis parameter of the plurality of signals according to the position of a transmission terminal provided on the celestial body, the orbit, and the reception time of the plurality of signals. A synthesis unit synthesizes a transmission signal of the transmission terminal according to the plurality of signals and the synthesis parameter.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 25, 2020Publication date: February 1, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuyoshi KOJIMA, Kiyohiko ITOKAWA, Daisuke GOTO, Kazumitsu SAKAMOTO
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Publication number: 20240031015Abstract: A relay apparatus includes a receiver, a received waveform recorder, a number-of-antennas determiner, and a transmitter. The receiver receives wireless first signals transmitted from the first communication apparatus through a plurality of receiving antennas. The received waveform recorder generates waveform data of the first signals received by the respective plurality of receiving antennas. The number-of-antennas determiner determines the number of receiving antennas according to a relay apparatus position on the basis of information regarding communication quality between the first communication apparatus and the relay apparatus at the relay apparatus position. The transmitter transmits second signals indicating the waveform data of the first signals received by the respective receiving antennas of the number of receiving antennas determined by the number-of-antennas determiner according to the relay apparatus position.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 25, 2020Publication date: January 25, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Kazumitsu SAKAMOTO, Yosuke FUJINO, Daisuke GOTO, Yasuyoshi KOJIMA, Kiyohiko ITOKAWA
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Publication number: 20230412199Abstract: A wireless communication system includes: a measurement unit that measures a signal level of an analog signal corresponding to a received radio signal; a first output unit that amplifies an amplitude of the analog signal and extracts an analog signal with a desired frequency band from the analog signal with the amplified amplitude; a second output unit that extracts an analog signal with a desired frequency band from the analog signal and amplifies an amplitude of the extracted analog signal; and a switching control unit that inputs the analog signal corresponding to the received radio signal to the first output unit when the signal level of the analog signal other than the desired frequency band is less than a threshold, and inputs the analog signal corresponding to the received radio signal to the second output unit when the signal level of the analog signal other than the desired frequency band is equal to or greater than the threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2020Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Kazumitsu SAKAMOTO, Yosuke FUJINO, Daisuke GOTO, Yasuyoshi KOJIMA, Kiyohiko ITOKAWA
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Publication number: 20230413326Abstract: A wireless communication system includes one or more communication devices located in a communication target area, and a relay device mountable on a moving body, in which the relay device includes a timing control unit that generates a transmission permission signal that is a signal representing transmission permission of an uplink signal, and a first transmission unit that transmits the transmission permission signal to the communication target area by a beam. The communication device includes a reception unit that obtains the transmission permission signal from the relay device, a transmission control unit that determines an earlier transmission timing as an elevation angle of the relay device viewed from the communication device is larger on a basis of the transmission permission signal, and a second transmission unit that transmits the uplink signal to the relay device at the transmission timing.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2020Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Kazumitsu SAKAMOTO, Kento YOSHIZAWA, Yosuke FUJINO, Daisuke GOTO, Yasuyoshi KOJIMA, Kiyohiko ITOKAWA
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Publication number: 20230412261Abstract: A signal acquisition unit acquires a reception signal received by a reception device from a transmission device that moves relative to the reception device. A bandwidth specifying unit specifies a reception bandwidth that is a bandwidth of the reception signal. A shift specifying unit specifies a change amount of a Doppler shift per time on the basis of a difference between a bandwidth of a transmission signal in the transmission device and the reception bandwidth. A compensation unit compensates for a change of the Doppler shift of the reception signal on the basis of the change amount specified.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2020Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Kazumitsu SAKAMOTO, Yosuke FUJINO, Tomoya KAGEYAMA, Daisuke GOTO, Yasuyoshi KOJIMA, Kiyohiko ITOKAWA
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Publication number: 20230412253Abstract: There is provided a control device of a wireless communication system including the control device that is installed on a moving object and moves, a first communication device that transmits a desired signal to the control device by a first wireless method, a second communication device that transmits an interference signal interfering with the desired signal by a second wireless method, and one or more third communication devices, the control device including: a reception unit that acquires a wireless signal including a reference signal transmitted from the third communication device in the vicinity of the second communication device by a third wireless method and a desired signal transmitted from the first communication device by the first wireless method; an extraction unit that extracts the reference signal from the wireless signal based on the third wireless method; an estimation unit that estimates a propagation channel between the third communication device and the control device based on the referenceType: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2020Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Kazumitsu SAKAMOTO, Yosuke FUJINO, Yasuyoshi KOJIMA, Daisuke GOTO, Kiyohiko ITOKAWA
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WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RELAY DEVICE, COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD
Publication number: 20230231596Abstract: A first offset compensator configured to compensate for frequency offsets occurring during communications between a plurality of communication devices and a relay device, wherein when the first offset compensator is provided on the relay device, the first offset compensator gives a statistical frequency offset obtained from a statistic of a plurality of frequency offsets occurring during communications between respective ones of the plurality of communication devices and the relay device to a receiver configured to receive wireless signals transmitted from respective ones of the plurality of communication devices, and when the first offset compensator is provided on each of the plurality of communication devices, the first offset compensator gives a frequency offset occurring during communications between the communication device provided with the first offset compensator and the relay device to a transmitter configured to transmit wireless signals to the relay device.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2020Publication date: July 20, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Daisuke GOTO, Kiyohiko ITOKAWA, Yasuyoshi KOJIMA, Fumihiro YAMASHITA, Yosuke FUJINO, Kento YOSHIZAWA -
Publication number: 20230231691Abstract: A wireless communication system includes one or more communications apparatuses, and a relay device, which is mobile, wherein the relay device includes a transmission unit adapted to transmit a channel change signal to the one or more communications apparatuses, the channel change signal containing channel information that indicates results corresponding to interference levels of a plurality of channels in a frequency band available for use in uplink transmission from the one or more communications apparatuses to the relay device and specifying information used to specify a communications apparatus subject to channel change, and the one or more communications apparatuses include a channel set unit adapted to set a channel having an interference level lower than a threshold as a channel to be used for communications with the relay device when the specifying information contained in the channel change signal is applicable.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2020Publication date: July 20, 2023Inventors: Daisuke GOTO, Kiyohiko ITOKAWA, Yasuyoshi KOJIMA, Fumihiro YAMASHITA
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Publication number: 20230223998Abstract: An antenna orientation deciding method in a wireless communication system that has a communication device provided with an antenna having directionality and a relay device that travels, includes a deciding step of deciding an orientation at which the directionality of the antenna as to the relay device is optimal, on the basis of position information of the communication device, orbit information of the relay device, and information relating to orientation of directionality of the antenna.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2020Publication date: July 13, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Daisuke GOTO, Kiyohiko ITOKAWA, Yasuyoshi KOJIMA, Fumihiro YAMASHITA
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Publication number: 20230217275Abstract: In a wireless communication system in which a relay device provided on a mobile object communicates wirelessly with a plurality of communication devices present in places different from each other, each of the communication devices includes a communication device transmission unit which transmits test signals at a plurality of timings during a time frame when communication with the relay device is possible, a communication device reception unit which receives, from the relay device, communication situation information indicating communication situations at the plurality of timings, and a communication device control unit which controls the communication device transmission unit such that the communication device transmission unit communicates with the relay device at one of the plurality of timings, the communication situation of which is good and which is identified on the basis of the communication situation information, and the relay device includes a relay device reception unit which receives the respectiType: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2020Publication date: July 6, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Daisuke GOTO, Kiyohiko ITOKAWA, Yasuyoshi KOJIMA, Fumihiro YAMASHITA
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Publication number: 20230216559Abstract: A wireless communication system includes: a first wireless communication apparatus; and a second wireless communication apparatus. First wireless communication apparatus wirelessly communicates with second wireless communication apparatus using one or more first antennas. Second wireless communication apparatus wirelessly communicates with the first wireless communication apparatus using one or more second antennas.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2021Publication date: July 6, 2023Inventors: Daisuke GOTO, Fumihiro YAMASHITA, Kiyohiko ITOKAWA, Yasuyoshi KOJIMA, Chihaya KATO, Mitsuhiro NAKADAI
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Publication number: 20230189047Abstract: A relay device provided in a moving body and communicating with a plurality of communication devices present at different locations in a wireless manner includes a reception unit that receives a signal transmitted from each of the plurality of communication devices, a measurement unit that measures a degree of congestion of communication in the reception unit, and a transmission unit that transmits information to each communication device when the relay device is located in a range in which the relay device is able to communicate with the communication device, the information being used to determine the number of times of transmission of the signal to be transmitted from the communication device and being based on the degree of congestion.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2020Publication date: June 15, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Daisuke GOTO, Kiyohiko ITOKAWA, Yasuyoshi KOJIMA, Fumihiro YAMASHITA, Yosuke FUJINO, Kento YOSHIZAWA
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Publication number: 20230179331Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus includes an encoding unit, an interleaving processing unit, a modulation unit, and a transmission unit. The encoding unit divides a bit string to be transmitted to a communication destination apparatus which is a wireless communication apparatus at a communication destination in a predetermined period into a plurality of blocks and performs error correction coding for each of the plurality of blocks to generate encoded data.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2020Publication date: June 8, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Daisuke GOTO, Kiyohiko ITOKAWA, Yasuyoshi KOJIMA, Fumihiro YAMASHITA
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Publication number: 20230179289Abstract: A mobile relay apparatus includes a first signal reception unit, a storage unit, and a second signal transmission unit. The first signal reception unit receives a first signal wirelessly transmitted by a first communication apparatus. The storage unit stores waveform data indicating a waveform of the first signal. The second signal transmission unit wirelessly transmits a second signal indicating the waveform data stored in the storage unit at a timing at which communication with the second communication apparatus is possible. The second communication apparatus includes a second signal reception unit, a second signal reception processing unit, and a first signal reception processing unit. The second signal reception unit receives a second signal. The second signal reception processing unit performs processing of receiving the second signal to acquire waveform data.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2020Publication date: June 8, 2023Inventors: Daisuke GOTO, Kiyohiko ITOKAWA, Yasuyoshi KOJIMA, Fumihiro YAMASHITA, Yosuke FUJINO, Kento YOSHIZAWA, Kazumitsu SAKAMOTO
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Publication number: 20230170984Abstract: A relay apparatus includes a reception unit, a storage unit, and a transmission unit. The reception unit receives data wirelessly transmitted by a first communication apparatus through a plurality of first antennas. The storage unit wirelessly transmits the data received by the reception unit to a second communication apparatus through a plurality of second antennas. The second communication apparatus includes a relay data reception unit. The relay data reception unit receives data wirelessly transmitted by the relay apparatus through a plurality of third antennas.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2020Publication date: June 1, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Daisuke GOTO, Kiyohiko ITOKAWA, Yasuyoshi KOJIMA, Fumihiro YAMASHITA, Yosuke FUJINO, Kento YOSHIZAWA, Kazumitsu SAKAMOTO
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Publication number: 20230170988Abstract: In a wireless communication system in which a relay apparatus provided in a mobile object wirelessly communicates with a plurality of communication apparatuses placed at different locations, the relay apparatus includes a receiver that receives a signal transmitted from each of the plurality of communication apparatus, the signal including position information indicating a position of each communication apparatus, a measurement unit that measures a congestion level of communication, a control unit that divides a communication target area into a plurality of small areas in accordance with the positions of the plurality of communication apparatuses and the congestion level of communication and generates area information indicating a position of each of the small areas, and a transmitter that sequentially transmits a plurality of pieces of the area information when the relay apparatus is positioned in a range in which the relay apparatus can communicate with the communication apparatuses, and each communicationType: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2020Publication date: June 1, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Daisuke GOTO, Kiyohiko ITOKAWA, Yasuyoshi KOJIMA, Fumihiro YAMASHITA