Patents by Inventor Yuji Aburakawa

Yuji Aburakawa 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: 7116909
    Abstract: An information transmission system for transmitting information from a sending apparatus to a receiving apparatus is provided. The information transmission system includes: a sending apparatus for modulating an information signal, generating a plurality of signals including an optical signal from the information signal which is modulated, and transmitting the plurality of signals via a plurality of routes; and a receiving apparatus for receiving the plurality of signals from the sending apparatus, diversity-combining the plurality of signals, and outputting the information signal, in which the plurality of signals are a plurality of optical signals or signals including a radio signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2006
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuji Aburakawa, Hitoshi Yoshino, Toru Otsu, Yasushi Yamao
  • Patent number: 7072586
    Abstract: A central control station, which controls radio base stations connected thereto via radio links and optical fiber links, includes a demultiplexing unit which demultiplexes signals supplied from an upper-level station, signal conversion units which convert the respective demultiplexed signals into converted signals having a unified transmission format, and a distribution unit which distributes the converted signals to the radio links and the optical fiber links.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuji Aburakawa, Hirohito Suda, Yasushi Yamao
  • Patent number: 7046965
    Abstract: A radio receiver is provided with a beam-width-variable antenna that receives a radio signal and is capable of changing the beam-width; an interference canceler for removing interference waves from the received radio signal and outputting an interference-wave-removed signal; a measuring device for measuring reception quality of the received signal based on the interference-wave-removed signal; and a beam-width controller for controlling the beam-width of the beam-width-variable antenna based on the reception quality from the measuring device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Maeda, Yuji Aburakawa, Toru Otsu
  • Patent number: 7003321
    Abstract: When a signal is sent from a wireless base station 3-1, a wireless modem 10-1 converts the signal to a signal of a unified transmission form. The switch 11-1 switches the signal to one of wireless transceivers 12-1, 12-2 and the optical transceiver 13-1. The wireless transceiver 12-1 or 12-2 sends the signal to a control station 4 or a wireless base station 3—3 via a wireless circuit 20. The optical transceiver 13-1 converts the signal into an optical signal and sends the optical signal to a wireless base station 3-2 via an optical fiber circuit 30.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2006
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuji Aburakawa, Toru Otsu
  • Patent number: 6985737
    Abstract: A frequency band controlling part 107 determines a frequency band assignable to a transmission line according to the frequency, bandwidth, and the power of the interference wave at a base station 200 by means of a supplied control signal from a separating part 105. The frequency band controlling part 107 selects a frequency band for the transmission line and a frequency band for the reception line for the base station 200 according to this assignable frequency band contained in the control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2006
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Koichiro Yamaguchi, Yuji Aburakawa, Toru Otsu
  • Publication number: 20040203967
    Abstract: A reception side radio station has a notification signal generator 108 which transmits a notification signal for notifying information of a frequency of a radio link being used at the radio station, and a transmitter 111 which transmits information indicating a reception power level and its frequency as radio signal data. On the other hand, a transmission side radio station has a notification signal measurer 106 which measures a reception power level of the notification signal and detects the frequency notified by the signal, and a frequency band controller 109 which determines an assignable frequency band for a radio link between the transmission side radio station and the reception side radio station based on the radio signal data and the notification signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2003
    Publication date: October 14, 2004
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Koichiro Yamaguchi, Yuji Aburakawa, Yuji Nakayama, Toru Otsu
  • Publication number: 20040171352
    Abstract: A radio communication system comprises: a radio receiver including an interference canceller configured to generate a replica of a received signal and remove an interference signal from the received signal, and a frequency offset estimator configured to estimate a carrier frequency offset between a carrier frequency of the interference signal and a carrier frequency of a desired signal included in the received signal; and a radio transmitter including a frequency controller configured to adjust a carrier frequency of a transmitted desired signal to the carrier frequency of the interference signal based on the carrier frequency offset received from the radio receiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2004
    Publication date: September 2, 2004
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Maeda, Yuji Aburakawa, Toru Otsu
  • Publication number: 20030157897
    Abstract: A radio receiver is provided with a beam-width-variable antenna that receives a radio signal and is capable of changing the beam-width; an interference canceller for removing interference waves from the received radio signal and outputting an interference-wave-removed signal; a measuring device for measuring reception quality of the received signal based on the interference-wave-removed signal; and a beam-width controller for controlling the beam-width of the beam-width-variable antenna based on the reception quality from the measuring device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2003
    Publication date: August 21, 2003
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Maeda, Yuji Aburakawa, Toru Otsu
  • Publication number: 20030045282
    Abstract: A frequency band controlling part 107 determines a frequency band assignable to a transmission line according to the frequency, bandwidth, and the power of the interference wave at a base station 200 by means of a supplied control signal from a separating part 105. The frequency band controlling part 107 selects a frequency band for the transmission line and a frequency band for the reception line for the base station 200 according to this assignable frequency band contained in the control signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2002
    Publication date: March 6, 2003
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Koichiro Yamaguchi, Yuji Aburakawa, Toru Otsu
  • Publication number: 20030007214
    Abstract: The present invention is a network system of radio base stations comprising base stations provided in a plurality of cells and a control station controlling the base stations, in which the base stations and the control station are connected by optical fibers using a wavelength multiplexing transmission method, wherein: the base station comprises a variable-wavelength transmitter for transmitting an optical signal having a predetermined wavelength, and an optical coupler for combining optical signals from the variable-wavelength transmitter in order to transmit the optical signals using the wavelength multiplexing transmission method, the control station comprises a plurality of optical receivers for receiving wavelengths of the optical signals transmitted using the wavelength multiplexing transmission method, and an optical coupler for splitting the wavelength-multiplexed optical signals transmitted from the base stations into the optical receivers by wavelength, and when the radio communication terminal comm
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2002
    Publication date: January 9, 2003
    Inventors: Yuji Aburakawa, Hitoshi Yoshino, Toru Otsu, Yasushi Yamao
  • Publication number: 20020109885
    Abstract: An information transmission system for transmitting information from a sending apparatus to a receiving apparatus is provided. The information transmission system includes: a sending apparatus for modulating an information signal, generating a plurality of signals including an optical signal from the information signal which is modulated, and transmitting the plurality of signals via a plurality of routes; and a receiving apparatus for receiving the plurality of signals from the sending apparatus, diversity-combining the plurality of signals, and outputting the information signal, in which the plurality of signals are a plurality of optical signals or signals including a radio signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2001
    Publication date: August 15, 2002
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuji Aburakawa, Hitoshi Yoshino, Toru Otsu, Yasushi Yamao
  • Publication number: 20020109887
    Abstract: In transmitting/receiving optical beams including optical signals via a space transmission path between an optical transmitting apparatus and an optical receiving apparatus, a degree of spread of the optical beam emitted from the optical transmitting apparatus to the-optical receiving apparatus is varied according to a predetermined condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2002
    Publication date: August 15, 2002
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuji Aburakawa, Toru Otsu, Yasushi Yamao
  • Publication number: 20020094842
    Abstract: When a signal is sent from a wireless base station 3-1, a wireless modem 10-1 converts the signal to a signal of a unified transmission form. The switch 11-1 switches the signal to one of wireless transceivers 12-1, 12-2 and the optical transceiver 13-1. The wireless transceiver 12-1 or 12-2 sends the signal to a control station 4 or a wireless base station 3-3 via a wireless circuit 20. The optical transceiver 13-1 converts the signal into an optical signal and sends the optical signal to a wireless base station 3-2 via an optical fiber circuit 30.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2001
    Publication date: July 18, 2002
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc
    Inventors: Yuji Aburakawa, Toru Otsu
  • Publication number: 20020030870
    Abstract: A central control station, which controls radio base stations connected thereto via radio links and optical fiber links, includes a demultiplexing unit which demultiplexes signals supplied from an upper-level station, signal conversion units which convert the respective demultiplexed signals into converted signals having a unified transmission format, and a distribution unit which distributes the converted signals to the radio links and the optical fiber links.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2000
    Publication date: March 14, 2002
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuji Aburakawa, Hirohito Suda, Yasushi Yamao