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).

  • Publication number: 20230308133
    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: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Yutaka MURAKAMI, Nobuhiko HASHIDA
  • Publication number: 20230300010
    Abstract: Transmission quality is improved in an environment in which direct waves dominate in a transmission method for transmitting a plurality of modulated signals from a plurality of antennas at the same time. All data symbols used in data transmission of a modulated signal are precoded by hopping between precoding matrices so that the precoding matrix used to precode each data symbol and the precoding matrices used to precode data symbols that are adjacent to the data symbol in the frequency domain and the time domain all differ. A modulated signal with such data symbols arranged therein is transmitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Yutaka MURAKAMI, Tomohiro KIMURA, Mikihiro OUCHI
  • Patent number: 11764840
    Abstract: Disclosed is a transmission scheme for transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal over the same frequency at the same time. According to the transmission scheme, a precoding weight multiplying unit multiplies a baseband signal after a first mapping and a baseband signal after a second mapping by a precoding weight 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: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUST
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi
  • Publication number: 20230291512
    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 x ?? 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: January 27, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Yutaka MURAKAMI, Tomohiro KIMURA, Mikihiro OUCHI, Hiroyuki MOTOZUKA
  • Patent number: 11757679
    Abstract: A reception apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a receiver which, in operation, receives a downlink signal including a first data signal for the reception apparatus and first Reference Signals for Phase Tracking (PT-RS). The first data signal is mapped on a first set of subcarriers and the first PT-RS is mapped to the downlink signal based on a first Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) configured for the first data signal. The reception apparatus according also includes a circuit which, in operation, estimates a phase noise using the first PT-RS included in the downlink signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Yasuaki Yuda
  • Patent number: 11757569
    Abstract: One coding method of a plurality of coding methods including at least a first coding method and a second coding method is selected, an information sequence is encoded by using the selected coding method, and an encoded sequence obtained by performing predetermined processing on the information sequence is modulated and transmitted. The first coding method is a coding method having a first coding rate, for generating a first encoded sequence by performing puncturing processing on a generated first codeword by using a first parity check matrix. The second coding method is a coding method having a second coding rate, for generating a second encoded sequence by performing puncturing processing on a generated second codeword by using a second parity check matrix that is different from the first parity check matrix, the second coding rate after the puncturing process being different from the first coding rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi
  • Publication number: 20230283993
    Abstract: A controller, which is a communication device, includes: a transfer unit including a function of transferring data received from a first terminal to another communication device via wireless communication; and a determination unit configured to determine whether first information is included in the data received by the transfer unit, the first information indicating that the data is to be multicast. The transfer unit is further configured to multicast the data to a second terminal when the determination unit determines that the first information is included in the data, the second terminal and the first terminal being different terminals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventor: Yutaka MURAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20230275712
    Abstract: When transmitting signals from a plurality of base stations (broadcasting stations), the base stations include at least a first base station having a first antenna with a first polarization and a second base station having a second antenna with a second polarization that is different from the first polarization. Then, when the first base station transmits a signal ? rom the first antenna having the first polarization, the second base station transmits the same signal as the first antenna of the first base station from a second antenna having the second polarization, at the same time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Yutaka MURAKAMI, Tomohiro KIMURA, Mikihiro OUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230275692
    Abstract: In a transmission method according to one aspect of the present disclosure, a encoder performs error correction coding on an information bit string to generate a code word. A mapper modulates a first bit string in which the number of bits is the predetermined integral multiple of (X+Y) in the code word using a first scheme, the first scheme being a set of a modulation scheme in which an X-bit bit string is mapped to generate a first complex signal and a modulation scheme in which a Y-bit bit string is mapped to generate a second complex signal, and modulates a second bit string in which the first bit string is removed from the code word using a second scheme different from the first scheme.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Yutaka MURAKAMI, Tomohiro KIMURA, Mikihiro OUCHI
  • Patent number: 11742903
    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: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventor: Yutaka Murakami
  • Patent number: 11742899
    Abstract: By a transmission method according to one aspect of the present disclosure, in a broadcasting system that generates a first broadcasting signal and a second broadcasting signal by performing multi-antenna encoding on program data, and wirelessly transmits a first broadcasting signal and a second broadcasting signal, a first transmit station transmits the first broadcasting signal, a second transmit station transmits the second broadcasting signal, the first transmit station and the second transmit station transmit the first broadcasting signal and the second broadcasting signal to an overlapping area at an identical time using an overlapping frequency band, polarized wave transmitted from the first transmit station differs from polarized wave transmitted from the second transmit station, and arrangement of the first transmit station differs from arrangement of the second transmit station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Tomohiro Kimura, Yutaka Murakami, Mikihiro Ouchi
  • Patent number: 11742912
    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: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi
  • Patent number: 11742984
    Abstract: A loss correction encoding device having an improved capability of loss correction using LDPC-CC includes a rearranging unit that rearranges information data contained in n information packets according to the constraint length Kmax and the encoding rate (q?1)/q of a check polynomial of the loss correction code used in a loss correction encoding unit. Specifically, the rearranging unit rearranges the information data in such a way that continuous KmaxĂ—(q?1) pieces of information data after rearrangement are contained in different information packets. The rearranging unit distributes the information data to information blocks from n information packets, where n satisfies the formula KmaxĂ—(q?1)?n.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Shutai Okamura
  • Publication number: 20230268962
    Abstract: All data symbols used in data transmission of a modulated signal are precoded by switching between precoding matrices so that the precoding matrix used to precode each data symbol and the precoding matrices used to precode data symbols that are adjacent to the data symbol along the frequency axis and the time axis all differ. A modulated signal with such data symbols arranged therein is transmitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: Yutaka MURAKAMI, Tomohiro KIMURA, Mikihiro OUCHI
  • Patent number: 11736165
    Abstract: A transmitting device includes a plurality of transmission antennas, and includes: a signal processor which generates a first baseband signal by modulating data of a first stream, and a second baseband signal by modulating data of a second stream; and a transmitter which generates, from the first baseband signal, first transmission signals having different directivities, generates, from the second baseband signal, second transmission signals having different directivities, and transmits the first transmission signals and the second transmission signals at a same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi
  • Patent number: 11736160
    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: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi
  • Publication number: 20230261821
    Abstract: This wireless communication system comprises: a first wireless communication device that transmits a plurality of first reference signals having controlled directivity by the orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) method in a first period; and a second wireless communication device that transmits a plurality of second reference signals having controlled directivity to the first wireless communication device in a second period, the second reference signals including information relating to directivity and corresponding any one or more of the first reference signals received from the first wireless communication device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventor: Yutaka MURAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20230261730
    Abstract: Provided is a transmitting device which can expand a communication range when performing multicast/broadcast communication. The transmitting device includes a plurality of transmission antennas, and includes: a signal processor which generates a first baseband signal by modulating data of a first stream, and a second baseband signal by modulating data of a second stream; and a transmitter which generates, from the first baseband signal, first transmission signals having different directivities, generates, from the second baseband signal, second transmission signals having different directivities, and transmits the first transmission signals and the second transmission signals at a same time. When the transmitter has received, from a terminal, a request to transmit the first stream, the transmitter further generates, from the first baseband signal, third transmission signals which are different from the first transmission signals and have different directivities, and transmits the third transmission signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: Yutaka MURAKAMI, Tomohiro KIMURA, Mikihiro OUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230261793
    Abstract: Provided is a transmission method executed by a transmitting apparatus to transmit a content to a plurality of terminals. The content having transmission count information indicating a number of times the content is to be transmitted by the transmitting apparatus. The transmission method including a first transmission step of generating and transmitting a first transmission signal which transfers at least a first portion of a plurality of data packets including a plurality of content packets, storing data of the content therein, and a plurality of parity packets, generated from the content packets, and a second transmission step of, when the transmission count information of the content indicates a plurality of times, generating a second transmission signal including at least a second portion of the plurality of data packets, and transmitting the second transmission signal during a period which differs from a period during which the first transmission signal is transmitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventor: Yutaka MURAKAMI
  • Patent number: D997035
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shogo Kasamatsu, Yo Matsuhashi, Daichi Kimura, Yutaka Murakami