公开(公告)号：US20250124615A1

公开(公告)日：2025-04-17

申请号：US18024974

申请日：2021-09-07

Applicant: SoftBank Corp.

Inventor： Yuko ISHIWAKA

IPC: G06T11/00 ,  G06T7/00 ,  G06T7/13 ,  G06V10/774 ,  G06V20/70

Abstract: According to the present disclosure, an information processing method is provided that is implemented by a computer and that includes generating a simulation image (SI) that serves as input data (TID) by computer graphics the input data, generating label information based on parameter information that is used for a simulation, and generating ground truth (TOD) that includes the simulation image (SI) and the label information.

公开(公告)号：US12278422B2

公开(公告)日：2025-04-15

申请号：US18012706

申请日：2021-06-29

Applicant: SoftBank Corp.

Inventor： Shoichi Sudo ,  Kenji Hoshino ,  HoYu Lin

IPC: H01Q1/28 ,  H01Q3/06 ,  H01Q3/26 ,  H01Q19/02 ,  H01Q21/20 ,  H04B7/185

Abstract: Provided is an aerial-staying type communication relay apparatus that can suppress fluctuations in a directivity pattern due to reflection at an antenna-mounting member to which a service link antenna is mounted, stably fix a footprint of a cell, and as a result, prevent deterioration of communication quality. The communication relay apparatus includes an antenna having plural antenna elements that form a cell for performing a radio communication of a service link to and from the terminal apparatus and an antenna-mounting member to which the antenna is mounted, and a layer of radio wave absorber or a layer of frequency-selective electromagnetic shielding member that selectively shields radio waves having a frequency of the service link, which is provided on an outer surface exposed to an outside of the antenna-mounting member. Phases and amplitudes of signals transmitted and received via each of the plural antenna elements of the antenna may be controlled.

公开(公告)号：US12276508B2

公开(公告)日：2025-04-15

申请号：US17642955

申请日：2021-03-24

Applicant: SoftBank Corp.

Inventor： Kunimitsu Asanuma ,  Akitoshi Shimada ,  Suguru Yasuraoka

IPC: G01C21/28 ,  G01S19/43 ,  G05D1/00 ,  G08G5/34 ,  A23B40/60 ,  B64C13/20 ,  G01C21/36 ,  G01S19/04 ,  G01S19/07 ,  G01S19/15 ,  H10D64/27 ,  H10D84/01 ,  H10F77/169 ,  H10H29/80

Abstract: A determination device according to one embodiment includes an acquiring unit (231) and a determination unit (233). The acquiring unit (231) acquires positional information that is related to a terminal device installed at an arbitrary location serving as a reference for a path of an air vehicle and that is calculated on the basis of correction information that includes information on coordinates of a reference station associated with an area in which the terminal device is positioned and information based on a satellite signal received by the reference station. The determination unit (233) determines a flight path of the air vehicle on the basis of the positional information acquired by the acquiring unit.

公开(公告)号：US12244394B2

公开(公告)日：2025-03-04

申请号：US18642728

申请日：2024-04-22

Applicant: SoftBank Corp.

Inventor： Naoki Maekawa

IPC: H04B7/00 ,  H04B7/185

Abstract: An information processing device is provided comprising a situation-related information reception unit that receives, for a flight vehicle that functions as a stratospheric platform and forms a wireless communication area by radiating an SL beam from an SL antenna to provide wireless communication service to user terminals within the wireless communication area, situation-related information related to a sky situation above a ground area where the wireless communication service is provided and a deployment determination unit that determines deployment of a mobile object to an area, among the ground area, in which a sky situation meets a predetermined situation condition, based on the situation-related information, in order to establish a feeder link between a gateway mounted on the mobile object and the flight vehicle.

公开(公告)号：US20250015894A1

公开(公告)日：2025-01-09

申请号：US18893993

申请日：2024-09-24

Applicant: MEIJI UNIVERSITY ,  SoftBank Corp.

Inventor： Shiro RYU

IPC: H04B10/2569 ,  H04B10/079 ,  H04B10/2507

Abstract: A control device which controls an operation of a compensation device which compensates for birefringence and/or polarization mode dispersion, which is received by signal light having propagated through an optical transmission line, by digital signal processing using a finite impulse response filter includes: a detection signal reception unit which receives a detection signal which is a signal indicating a detection result of a detection device which optically detects polarization fluctuation in the optical transmission line; and a setting unit which decides a setting regarding an update frequency or an update interval of the number of taps of the finite impulse response filter or an update frequency or an update interval of a tap coefficient of the finite impulse response filter, based on the detection result of the detection device.

公开(公告)号：US20240393802A1

公开(公告)日：2024-11-28

申请号：US18795132

申请日：2024-08-05

Applicant: SoftBank Corp.

Inventor： Tatsushi TSUTSUI ,  Shoichi MAEHARA ,  Satoshi HARADA ,  Takuya SUGASAWA

IPC: G05D1/606 ,  G05D1/644 ,  G05D105/40 ,  G05D109/20 ,  H04W16/26 ,  H04W84/06

Abstract: An information processing apparatus is provided, including: a prediction result obtainment unit which obtains a result of prediction of weather in stratosphere; and a flight path determination unit which determines a flight path of a flight vehicle based on the result of prediction of weather in stratosphere such that the flight vehicle flies through an area in stratosphere that has been predicted to satisfy a predetermined stratospheric path condition, wherein the flight vehicle functions as a stratospheric platform, and forms a wireless communication area by emitting a beam and provides a wireless communication service to a user terminal in the wireless communication area.

公开(公告)号：US12136955B2

公开(公告)日：2024-11-05

申请号：US17684428

申请日：2022-03-02

Applicant: SoftBank Corp.

Inventor： Hiromichi Imai

IPC: H04B10/80 ,  B63B79/15 ,  B64C39/02 ,  G01C19/00 ,  G01P15/08 ,  G01P15/18 ,  G01S19/01 ,  G05D1/00 ,  H04B10/11 ,  G06V20/40

Abstract: Provided is a mobile object including: a mobile object information transmitting unit configured to transmit, to another mobile object by optical wireless communication by a first optical wireless communication unit, first mobile object information including first inertial measurement information and first body control information; a mobile object information receiving unit configured to receive, from the another mobile object by optical wireless communication by the first optical wireless communication unit, second mobile object information including second inertial measurement information and second body control information; and an optical axis direction control unit configured to control a direction of an optical axis of the first optical wireless communication unit on a basis of the first mobile object information and the second mobile object information.

公开(公告)号：US12125998B2

公开(公告)日：2024-10-22

申请号：US17452067

申请日：2021-10-25

Applicant: SOFTBANK CORP.

Inventor： Peter Delioussine ,  Brian Jensen

IPC: H01M10/625 ,  H01M10/6552 ,  H01M10/658 ,  H01M50/204 ,  H01M50/249 ,  H01M50/308

CPC classification number: H01M10/625 ,  H01M10/6552 ,  H01M10/658 ,  H01M50/204 ,  H01M50/249 ,  H01M50/308 ,  H01M2220/20

Abstract: In at least one embodiment, provided is a battery pack for a vehicle including battery pack for a vehicle, the battery pack having a firebox for enclosing batteries, an electronics compartment, thermal insulation surrounding the firebox and the electronics compartment, and heat pipes. The heat pipes may include firebox heat pipes contacting the firebox on an evaporator end and extending to an exterior surface of the battery pack on a condenser end, and electronics compartment heat pipes extending from within the electronics compartment on an evaporators end and extending through the thermal insulation to the exterior surface of the battery pack on a condenser end.

公开(公告)号：US20240339868A1

公开(公告)日：2024-10-10

申请号：US18698052

申请日：2022-08-31

Applicant: SoftBank Corp.

Inventor： Naoki Hasegawa ,  Yuta Nakamoto ,  Takashi Hirakawa ,  Yoshichika Ota

IPC: H02J50/20 ,  H02J50/80 ,  H04L27/00 ,  H04L27/36 ,  H04W72/0446

CPC classification number: H02J50/20 ,  H02J50/80 ,  H04L27/0008 ,  H04L27/361 ,  H04W72/0446

Abstract: Provided is a system comprising a base station and a terminal apparatus that communicate with each other by selectively using plural radio resources, which is capable of supplying a power to the terminal apparatus using a communication-unused radio resource between the base station and the terminal apparatus. The base station generates a transmission signal including a dummy signal for wireless power transfer using a communication-unused radio resource that is not used for communication among plural radio resources, and transmits the generated transmission signal to the terminal apparatus. The terminal apparatus receives the transmission signal including the dummy signal transmitted from the base station, and outputs an electric power of the reception signal as a reception power. A battery may be charged using the reception power.

公开(公告)号：US20240305360A1

公开(公告)日：2024-09-12

申请号：US18016463

申请日：2021-07-07

Applicant: SoftBank Corp.

Inventor： Takafumi Fujii

IPC: H04B7/185 ,  H04B7/0456 ,  H04B7/06

CPC classification number: H04B7/18504 ,  H04B7/0456 ,  H04B7/0617 ,  H04B7/06952

Abstract: It is to mitigate a deterioration of an interference reduction performance between multi-feeder links due to a weight-calculation processing delay, when a combination of plural antennas for feeder link (FL antenna) incorporated in an aerial-staying type communication relay apparatus and plural gateway (GW) stations changes. With respect to each of plural combination patterns in which combinations of plural FL antennas of relay communication station and the plural GW stations are different from each other, a system calculates and stores a weight corresponding to each of the plural GW stations, selects a calculation result of the weight of the combination pattern corresponding to the changed combination, when the combination of the plural FL antennas and the plural GW stations changes due to at least one of a rotation and movement of the communication relay apparatus, and suppresses an interference between the feeder links when transmitting and receiving signals between the relay communication station and the plural GW stations based on the selected calculation result of the weight of the combination pattern.