Patents by Inventor Yutaka Murakami

Yutaka Murakami 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: 11362675
    Abstract: In a multi-antenna communication system using LDPC codes, a simple method is used to effectively improve the received quality by performing a retransmittal of less data without restricting applicable LDPC codes. In a case of a non-retransmittal, a multi-antenna transmitting apparatus (100) transmits, from two antennas (114A,114B), LDPC encoded data formed by LDPC encoding blocks (102A,102B). In a case of a retransmittal, the multi-antenna transmitting apparatus (100) uses a transmission method, in which the diversity gain is higher than in the previous transmission, to transmit only a part of the LDPC encoded data as previously transmitted. For example, the only the part of the LDPC encoded data to be re-transmitted is transmitted from the single antenna (114A).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Kiyotaka Kobayashi, Choo Eng Yap
  • Patent number: 11362709
    Abstract: A signal generation method is used in a transmission device that transmits a plurality of transmission signals from a plurality of antennas at the same frequency and at the same time, in the case where larger power change is performed on a first transmission signal than on a second transmission signal during generation process of the first transmission signal and the second transmission signal, the first transmission signal and the second transmission signal are mapped before the power change such that a minimum Euclidian distance between possible signal points for the first signal is longer than a minimum Euclidian distance between possible signal points for the second signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi
  • Publication number: 20220182113
    Abstract: A transmission method simultaneously transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal at a common frequency performs precoding on both signals using a fixed precoding matrix and regularly changes the phase of at least one of the signals, thereby improving received data signal quality for a reception device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Yutaka MURAKAMI, Tomohiro KIMURA, Mikihiro OUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220183010
    Abstract: A first apparatus that performs sensing to sense a second apparatus via radio waves includes: a communication unit that receives a frame transmitted by the second apparatus via radio waves and senses the second apparatus using the received frame; and a controller that selects, from among predetermined frequencies, a frequency for the second apparatus to transmit the radio waves at, notifies the second apparatus of the selected frequency, and controls the communication unit perform the sensing using the frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Yutaka MURAKAMI, Nobuhiko HASHIDA
  • Publication number: 20220182143
    Abstract: A reception device includes: an image sensor that captures an image, and a reception unit configured to sample a plurality of pixels included in each of N (N being an integer greater than or equal to two) regions included in an imaging surface of the image sensor to receive, in parallel, N mutually different optical signals transmitted from a plurality of light sources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Yutaka MURAKAMI, Ryutaro MONDEN, Nobuhiko HASHIDA
  • Publication number: 20220182269
    Abstract: A transmission device that improves data reception quality includes: a weighting synthesizer that generates a first precoded signal and a second precoded signal from a first baseband signal and a second baseband signal, respectively; a phase changer that applies a phase change of i×?? to the second precoded signal; an inserter that inserts a pilot signal into the second precoded signal applied with the phase change; and a phase changer that applies a phase change to the second precoded signal applied with the phase change and inserted with the pilot signal. ?? satisfies ?/2 radians<??<? radians or ? radians<??<3?/2 radians. Each of the first baseband signal and the second baseband signal is modulated via a modulation scheme of quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) using non-uniform mapping.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Yutaka MURAKAMI, Tomohiro KIMURA, Mikihiro OUCHI, Hiroyuki MOTOZUKA
  • Patent number: 11356156
    Abstract: Disclosed is a transmission scheme for transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal in the same frequency at the same time. According to the transmission scheme, a precoding weight multiplying unit multiplies a precoding weight by a baseband signal after a first mapping and a baseband signal after a second mapping and outputs the first modulated signal and the second modulated signal. In the precoding weight multiplying unit, precoding weights are regularly hopped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUST
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi
  • Patent number: 11349536
    Abstract: A transmission apparatus that (i) generates a Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (QPSK) modulation signal s1(t) by applying a QPSK modulation scheme to a first data sequence, (ii) generates a 16-Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) modulation signal s2(t) by applying a 16-QAM modulation scheme to a second data sequence, (iii) generates a transmission signal z1(t) and a second transmission signal z2(t) by applying a phase hopping process, a precoding process, and a power adjust process to the QPSK modulation signal s1(t) and the 16-QAM modulation signal s2(t), wherein an average transmission power of the 16-QAM modulation signal s2(t) being the same as an average transmission power of the QPSK modulation signal s1(t), and (iv) transmits the transmission signal z1(t) from a first antenna at a first time and a first frequency and the second transmission signal z2(t) from a second antenna at the first time and the first frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUST
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi
  • Patent number: 11350146
    Abstract: Provided is a method for transmitting a broadcasting content and a line content, the broadcasting content and the line content being synchronously displayed, the method including: generating a line parity packet from a plurality of line data packets in each of which the line content is stored; transmitting the line data packet and the line parity packet through a communication line; and transmitting a plurality of broadcasting data packets in each of which the broadcasting content is stored, from a base station using a broadcasting wave, a transfer clock time of the broadcasting content being delayed by a predetermined time compared with a transfer clock time of the line content. At this point, video quality can be improved when the real-time broadcasting program content and the real-time line content are simultaneously displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Tomohiro Kimura
  • Patent number: 11349603
    Abstract: A reception device includes: a receiver that receives a multiplexed signal; a first demapper that demaps the multiplexed signal, with a second modulated symbol stream of a second data series being included in the multiplexed signal as an undefined signal component, to generate a first bit likelihood stream of a first data series; a second demapper that demaps the multiplexed signal, with a first modulated symbol stream of the first data series being included in the multiplexed signal as an undefined signal component, to generate a second bit likelihood stream of the second data series; a first decoder that performs error control decoding on the first bit likelihood stream to derive the first data series; and a second decoder that performs error control decoding on the second bit likelihood stream to derive the second data series.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Tomohiro Kimura, Yutaka Murakami, Mikihiro Ouchi
  • Patent number: 11349535
    Abstract: Provided are M signal processors that respectively generate modulated signals for M reception apparatuses (where M is an integer equal to 2 or greater), a multiplexing signal processor, and N antenna sections (where N is an integer equal to 1 or greater). When transmitting multiple streams, each of the M signal processors generates two mapped signals, generates first and second precoded signals by precoding the two mapped signals, periodically changes the phase of signal points in the IQ plane with respect to the second precoded signal, outputs the phase-changed signal, and outputs the first precoded signal and the phase-changed second precoded signal as two modulated signals. When transmitting a single stream, each of the M signal processor outputs a single modulated signal. The multiplexing signal processor multiplexes the modulated signals output from the M signal processors, and generates N multiplexed signals. The N antenna sections respectively transmit the N multiplexed signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi
  • Publication number: 20220158762
    Abstract: A transmitter apparatus wherein a simple structure is used to successfully suppress the degradation of error rate performance that otherwise would be caused by fading or the like. There are included encoding parts that encode transport data; a mapping part that performs such a mapping that encoded data sequentially formed by the encoding parts are not successively included in the same symbol, thereby forming data symbols; and a symbol interleaver that interleaves the data symbols. In this way, a low computational complexity can be used to perform an interleaving process equivalent to a bit interleaving process to effectively improve the reception quality at a receiving end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Yutaka MURAKAMI, Shutai OKAMURA, Kiyotaka KOBAYASHI, Masayuki ORIHASHI, Kazuaki TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20220141078
    Abstract: Embodiments include devices and methods that improves quality in radio transmission/reception using a single-carrier scheme and/or a multi-carrier scheme.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi
  • Patent number: 11323151
    Abstract: A communication system includes one or more chargers and a server capable of communicating with the one or more chargers. The server obtains first information from a first vehicle via a first charger included in the one or more chargers, during charging of the first vehicle by the first charger, and supplies second information based on the first information to a second vehicle via a second charger included in the one or more chargers, during charging of the second vehicle by the second charger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Nobuhiko Hashida
  • Publication number: 20220131597
    Abstract: Provided is a frame configuration usable for both SISO transmission and MISO and/or MIMO transmission. A frame configurator of a transmission device configures a frame by gathering data for SISO and configures a frame by gathering data for MISO and/or MIMO data, thereby to improve the reception performance (detection performance) of a reception device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Mikihiro OUCHI, Yutaka MURAKAMI, Tomohiro KIMURA
  • Patent number: 11309963
    Abstract: A terminal (1050) includes a light receiver (151) that receives a light signal emitted by an apparatus (1000), the light signal including an identifier (SSID) of at least one base station (470); a receiver (153) that performs a reception process on the received light signal to output reception data; a data analyzer (155) that selects one base station based on the identifier of the at least one base station that is included in the reception data; and a radio device (453) that establishes a wireless connection with the selected base station (470) by using the identifier of the base station (470) and wirelessly communicates with the base station (470).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventor: Yutaka Murakami
  • Publication number: 20220116257
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a receiver and a decoder. The receiver includes a plurality of antenna elements and, in operation, receives from a base station apparatus a modulated signal mapped to one of a plurality of subframes defined in a frame corresponding to a communicable range to which the communication apparatus belongs. The plurality of subframes are defined by time-division, frequency-division, or time-and-frequency division of the frame. A maximum number of modulated signals that can be simultaneously transmitted in a subframe from the base station apparatus varies depending on the communicable range. The decoder, in operation, decodes the received modulated signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventor: YUTAKA MURAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20220116099
    Abstract: A transmission method for transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal in the same frequency at the same time. Each signal has been modulated according to a different modulation scheme. The transmission method applies precoding on both signals using a fixed precoding matrix, applies different power change to each signal, and regularly changes the phase of at least one of the signals, thereby improving received data signal quality for a reception device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Yutaka MURAKAMI, Tomohiro KIMURA, Mikihiro OUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220109471
    Abstract: A transmission method simultaneously transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal at a common frequency performs precoding on both signals using a fixed precoding matrix and regularly changes the phase of at least one of the signals, thereby improving received data signal quality for a reception device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventors: Yutaka MURAKAMI, Tomohiro KIMURA, Mikihiro OUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220109476
    Abstract: A transmission method includes generating a first precoded signal and a second precoded signal by performing a precoding process on a first baseband signal and a second baseband signal, outputting a third signal by inserting a pilot signal into the first precoded signal, outputting a fourth signal by applying a first phase change to the second precoded signal, outputting a fifth signal by inserting a pilot signal into the fourth signal, and outputting a sixth signal by applying a second phase change to the fifth signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventors: Yutaka MURAKAMI, Tomohiro KIMURA, Mikihiro OUCHI