IP Library Granted Patent US 12,445,193
Granted Patent B2
US 12,445,193 · App. 18/036,351 · Granted Oct 14, 2025

Control apparatus and control method

Inventors: Kazumitsu Sakamoto (Musashino, JP); Yosuke Fujino (Musashino, JP); Yasuyoshi Kojima (Musashino, JP); Daisuke Goto (Musashino, JP); Kiyohiko Itokawa (Musashino, JP)
Assignee: NTT, Inc.
H04B7/18513H04B7/195
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Patent No.
US 12,445,193
App. No.
18/036,351
Granted
Oct 14, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

There is provided a control device of a wireless communication system including the control device that is installed on a moving object and moves, a first communication device that transmits a desired signal to the control device by a first wireless method, a second communication device that transmits an interference signal interfering with the desired signal by a second wireless method, and one or more third communication devices, the control device including: a reception unit that acquires a wireless signal including a reference signal transmitted from the third communication device in the vicinity of the second communication device by a third wireless method and a desired signal transmitted from the first communication device by the first wireless method; an extraction unit that extracts the reference signal from the wireless signal based on the third wireless method; an estimation unit that estimates a propagation channel between the third communication device and the control device based on the reference signal; and a beam control unit that directs a null of a reception beam in an arrival direction of the reference signal based on the propagation channel.

Claims (22)

1. A control device of a wireless communication system including the control device that is installed on a moving object and moves, a first communication device that transmits a desired signal to the control device by a first wireless method, a second communication device that transmits an interference signal interfering with the desired signal by a second wireless method, and one or more third communication devices, the control device comprising:

a receptor that acquires a wireless signal including a reference signal transmitted from the third communication device in the vicinity of the second communication device by a third wireless method and a desired signal transmitted from the first communication device by the first wireless method;

an extractor that extracts the reference signal from the wireless signal based on the third wireless method;

an estimator that estimates a first propagation channel between the third communication device and the control device based on the reference signal; and

a beam controller that directs a null of a reception beam in an arrival direction of the reference signal based on the first propagation channel.

2. The control device according to claim 1 , wherein

the extractor extracts the desired signal from the wireless signal based on the first wireless method,

the estimator estimates a second propagation channel between the first communication device and the control device based on a known signal in the desired signal, and

the beam controller directs a reception beam in an arrival direction of the desired signal based on the second propagation channel.

3. The control device according to claim 1 , wherein

a wireless method of the desired signal, a wireless method of the interference signal, and a wireless method of the reference signal are different from each other.

4. The control device according to claim 1 , wherein

a spreading factor of the desired signal, a spreading factor of the interference signal, and a spreading factor of the reference signal are different from each other.

5. The control device according to claim 1 , wherein

the extractor extracts the reference signal from the wireless signal by despreading processing using a spreading code in the third wireless method.

6. The control device according to claim 1 , wherein

the extractor extracts the reference signals alternately transmitted from a plurality of the third communication devices.

7. A control method executed by a control device of a wireless communication system including the control device that is installed on a moving object and moves, a first communication device that transmits a desired signal to the control device by a first wireless method, a second communication device that transmits an interference signal interfering with the desired signal by a second wireless method, and one or more third communication devices, the control method comprising:

acquiring a wireless signal including a reference signal transmitted from the third communication device in the vicinity of the second communication device by a third wireless method and a desired signal transmitted from the first communication device by the first wireless method;

extracting the reference signal from the wireless signal based on the third wireless method;

estimating a first propagation channel between the third communication device and the control device based on the reference signal; and

directing a null of a reception beam in an arrival direction of the reference signal based on the first propagation channel.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Sep 9, 2025
From: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
To: NTT, INC.
Reel/Frame 072856/0584 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 10, 2023
From: SAKAMOTO, KAZUMITSU; FUJINO, YOSUKE; KOJIMA, YASUYOSHI; GOTO, DAISUKE; ITOKAWA, KIYOHIKO
To: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 063600/0780 →
Continuity (1)
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