Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Apple Inc.

Naganori Shirakata

Takenori Sakamoto

Hiroyuki Motozuka

Masataka Irie

Hiroshi Takahashi

Koichiro Tanaka

Junichi Morita

Shuya Hosokawa

Koji Takinami

Lei Huang

Michael Hong Cheng Sim

Yasuo Harada

Koji Imamura

Tomohiro Kimura

Tomoya Urushihara

Kenji Miyanaga

Yao Huang Gaius Wee

Kazuma Nishiyasu

Hiroshi Hayashino

Hideki Nakahara

Yoshio Urabe

Masashi Kobayashi

Mei Okamoto

Kenichi Ono

Noboru Yamamoto

Naoya Yosoku

Tsutomu Mukai

Kazuaki Takahashi

Tadashi Morita

Hironori Nakae

Naoki Adachi

Masayuki Shimizu

Yoshitaka Ohta

Takayuki Sotoyama

Yuji Tomisawa

Junji Sato

Hidekuni Yomo

Seiichi Sampei

Hiroyuki Yoshikawa

Shinichi Miyamoto

Kenta Iwasa

Hiroshi Doi

Yohei Morishita

Yoshinori Shirakawa

Naotake Yamamoto

Yukihiro Omoto

Daisuke Kobayashi

Kosei Nakano

Kei Sakaguchi

Ehab Mahmoud Mohamed Mahmoud

Provided is a position estimation method for a stationary radio device, the method including: calculating a first similarity between a first fingerprint measured by the stationary radio device at a first timing and a second fingerprint measured by a mobile radio device at a second timing and transmitted from the mobile radio device; receiving, from another stationary radio device, a second similarity between a third fingerprint measured by the other stationary radio device at the first timing and the second fingerprint; and determining, a position of the mobile radio device based on a comparison result between the first similarity and the second similarity.

Position estimating method, position estimating program, fixed wireless device, and mobile wireless device

This wireless communication system comprises: a first wireless node; a second wireless node that transmits a signal to the first wireless node in response to a request from the first wireless node; and a third wireless node that transmits a connection request to the second wireless node in response to reception of the signal. The second wireless node transmits to the third wireless node connection permission for the connection request, and the first wireless node detects the third wireless node by receiving the connection permission.

Wireless communication system, wireless communication device, and wireless communication control method

A position estimation apparatus includes a selection circuit and an estimation circuit. The selection circuit selects at least one radio electronic device as an anchor used for estimating a position of a mobile terminal, based on first information and second information, the first information being related to an arrangement in a first region in which at least one of radio electronic devices including the at least one radio electronic device is arranged, the second information being related to a second region within which the mobile terminal is movable in the first region. The estimation circuit estimates a position of the mobile terminal based on third information related to radio communication quality between the anchor and the mobile terminal and on information related to the anchor in the first information.

Position estimation apparatus, position estimation system, and position estimation method

A wireless communication device serving as an NG60 WiGig device includes a PPDU generator that generates an MF control PHY PPDU (physical layer protocol data unit) including a legacy preamble, a legacy header, an NG60 header (a non-legacy header), a data field, and identification information indicating that the non-legacy header is included in the PPDU and a transmitter that transmits the generated MF control PHY PPDU.

Wireless communication device and wireless communication method

A selection circuit selects, as anchors, at least two of a plurality of radio electronic devices and updates the selected anchors based on first information and second information, the anchors being used for position estimation for a mobile terminal, the first information being related to an arrangement of the radio electronic devices, the second information being related to a first position resulting from estimation of a position of the mobile terminal, using the selected anchors. A estimation circuit estimates the first position of the mobile terminal based on third information related to radio communication quality between the selected anchors and the mobile terminal and on the first information related to the selected anchors, and estimates a second position of the mobile terminal based on fourth information related to radio communication quality between the updated anchors and the mobile terminal and on the first information related to the updated anchors.

This position estimation system comprises a first wireless node for forming a wireless area; second wireless nodes which move within the wireless area; a plurality of third wireless nodes which are provided within the wireless area; and a position estimation device which estimates the position of the second wireless nodes on the basis of information indicating wireless reception quality at the third wireless nodes and the second wireless nodes. The position estimation device determines, for each of section areas, and on the basis of information pertaining to time resource capacity for wireless communication directed towards second wireless nodes, section areas which collect, in place of the first wireless node, information containing wireless reception quality at the second wireless nodes, and transmits, to one of third wireless nodes provided in the determined section area, and instruction to collect wireless reception quality at second wireless nodes within said section area.

Position estimation system, position estimation device, and position estimation method

A communication apparatus includes a PHY frame generating circuit that generates a PHY frame including either of a short Sector Sweep frame and a Sector Sweep frame; and an array antenna that selects, based on the PHY frame, any sector from among a plurality of sectors and transmits the PHY frame. In a case where, in the PHY frame including the short Sector Sweep frame, a Direction field of the short Sector Sweep frame indicates Initiator Sector Sweep, the PHY frame generating circuit replaces a Short Sector Sweep Feedback field indicating a number of a selected best short Sector Sweep with a Short Scrambled Basic Service Set ID field indicating an abbreviated address generated from an address of a destination communication apparatus.

Communication apparatus and communication method

Provided is an improved estimation and identification device that estimates the position of a plurality of identification targets and identifies the plurality of identification targets. The estimation and identification device has a configuration comprising: a plurality of tracking devices that emit electromagnetic waves or sound waves and detect the position of an identification target on the basis of reflected electromagnetic waves or sound waves from the identification target holding a wireless transmission terminal; a plurality of wireless communications devices that wirelessly communicate with wireless communications terminals and receive identification information for the wireless communications terminals from the wireless communications terminals; and an analysis circuit that identifies the identification target and estimates the position of the identification target, on the basis of the results of the wireless communications results, the detected position of the identification target, and the identification information.

Estimation and identification device and estimation and identification system

This wireless communication terminal device includes a control circuit that: causes, after receiving a beacon from a base station device, a connection to be established between the wireless communication terminal device and the base station device using a first control program; if a connection notification request to an external server was received from one or more application programs, uses a second control program, after the establishment of the connection, to output a connection establishment notification to the one or more application programs; and after the connection establishment notification is received, outputs to a communication circuit, via the first control program, a communication request to the external server device by the one or more application programs. The communication circuit of the wireless communication terminal device transmits the communication request to the base station device.

Wireless communication terminal device, and wireless communication method therefor

A reception apparatus includes reception circuitry and decoding circuitry. The reception receives a signal including a legacy header field, an enhanced directional multi-gigabit (EDMG) header field, and a data field. The decoding circuitry decodes data included in the data field of the received signal. The legacy header field includes a Length field comprising multiple bits. The reception apparatus is an EDMG terminal, and a subset of the multiple bits of the Length field included in the legacy header field is used to indicate bandwidth over which the signal is transmitted. Remaining bits of the Length field included in the legacy header field are used to indicate data length of the received signal.

Transmitting device, transmission method, receiving device, and reception method

An intersection information distribution apparatus includes a plurality of image capturers, one or more first wireless communicators, a position estimator, and a controller. The plurality of image capturers capture images in and around an intersection. The one or more first wireless communicators perform directional communication with a second wireless communicator mounted on a vehicle. The position estimator estimates a position of the vehicle in and around the intersection from a communication state of the directional communication. The controller selects a piece of data from among pieces of data of the images captured by the plurality of image capturers on the basis of the estimated position of the vehicle. The one or more first wireless communicators transmit the selected piece of data to the second wireless communicator of the vehicle.

Intersection information distribution apparatus and intersection information distribution method

A transmission device includes N wireless transmission circuits and N transmission buffers. N is an integer equal to or greater than two. Each of the N transmission buffers is connected to a respective wireless transmission circuit of the N wireless transmission circuits. At least a part of a piece of delivery data is stored in each of the N transmission buffers before the N wireless transmission circuits establish wireless links. The N wireless transmission circuits are instructed to transmit the piece of delivery data stored in the N transmission buffers after the N wireless transmission circuits establish the wireless links.

Transmission device, transmission method, reception device, and reception method

A terminal device includes: transmission circuitry that transmits a connection request to a first access point in order to connect, by a wireless link, to one of the first access point or a second access point each having a superframe in an initial state in which a control channel period is longer than a data channel period; and reception circuitry that receives, as a connection response, information indicating the second access point as information on a connection destination access point from the first access point after the connection request is transmitted.

Wireless communication system, control device, access point, and terminal device

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Kanagawa, Japan

Naganori Shirakata