Patents by Inventor Yoko Masuda

Yoko Masuda 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: 10231265
    Abstract: MU-MIMO is implemented with little changes in the mechanism of the DCF. There is provided a wireless terminal station apparatus that is used in a wireless communication system formed of one wireless base station apparatus and a plurality of wireless terminal station apparatus, in which grouping is performed on the wireless terminal station apparatus in such a way that the wireless terminal station apparatus belongs to any one of a plurality of groups, and the wireless terminal station apparatus includes a backoff controlling portion that performs control such that a backoff value at the time of random backoff, the backoff value of the wireless terminal station apparatus belonging to at least one group, is selected from a set of candidates for a backoff value which is a set of values formed of predetermined limited numbers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: /SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoko Masuda, Hideo Namba, Takashi Onodera, Hiromichi Tomeba, Minoru Kubota
  • Publication number: 20160029377
    Abstract: Demodulation is effectivley performed that uses an MMSE adaptive array which uses a guard section of a signal that uses a cyclic prefix. According the present invention, there is provided a wireless terminal station that is applied to a wireless communication system which is made up of multiple wireless terminal stations and a base station, the wireless terminal station including: a delay time setting module 123 that sets a delay time based on a transmission timing identification number; and a transmission module 108 that, in a case where any other wireless terminal station starts transmission within a predetermined time after all communication within the wireless communication system is ended, starts transmission after the delay time has elapsed from a point in time at which the transmission has started.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoko MASUDA, Hideo NAMBA, Minoru KUBOTA
  • Publication number: 20150139106
    Abstract: MU-MIMO is implemented with little changes in the mechanism of the DCF. There is provided a wireless terminal station apparatus that is used in a wireless communication system formed of one wireless base station apparatus and a plurality of wireless terminal station apparatus, in which grouping is performed on the wireless terminal station apparatus in such a way that the wireless terminal station apparatus belongs to any one of a plurality of groups, and the wireless terminal station apparatus includes a backoff controlling portion that performs control such that a backoff value at the time of random backoff, the backoff value of the wireless terminal station apparatus belonging to at least one group, is selected from a set of candidates for a backoff value which is a set of values formed of predetermined limited numbers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2013
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventors: Yoko Masuda, Hideo Namba, Takashi Onodera, Hiromichi Tomeba, Minoru Kubota
  • Patent number: D1017018
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takumi Masuda, Yoko Sakamoto