IP Library Patent Application 18292256
Patent Application
App. No. 18/292,256

BEAM SETTING METHOD, BEAM SETTING APPARATUS AND PROGRAM

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18/292,256
Abstract

A beam setting method includes a communication method prediction step of predicting a communication method performed on the basis of whether there is a line-of-sight between a first radio station device and a second radio station device; a first beam number setting step of setting the number of beams transmitted by a beam sweep, in which signals using formable beams are sequentially transmitted in a time-division manner, to a first constant, when the communication method prediction step predicts that communication is performed by the communication method using reflected waves; and a second beam number setting step of setting the number of beams transmitted by the beam sweep to a second constant smaller than the first constant, when the communication method prediction step predicts that communication is performed by the communication method using line-of-sight waves.

Claims (16)

1 . A beam setting method comprising:

a communication method prediction step of predicting a communication method performed on the basis of whether there is a line-of-sight between a first radio station device and a second radio station device;

a first beam number setting step of setting the number of beams transmitted by a beam sweep, in which signals using formable beams are sequentially transmitted in a time-division manner, to a first constant when it is predicted in the communication method prediction step that communication is performed by the communication method using reflected waves; and

a second beam number setting step of setting the number of beams transmitted by the beam sweep to a second constant smaller than the first constant when it is predicted in the communication method prediction step that communication is performed by the communication method using line-of-sight waves.

2 . A beam setting method comprising:

a communication method prediction step of predicting a communication method performed on the basis of whether there is a line-of-sight between a first radio station device and a second radio station device;

a first beam number setting step of setting the number of beams transmitted by a beam sweep, in which signals using formable beams are sequentially transmitted in a time-division manner, to a number larger than a set number when it is predicted in the communication method prediction step that communication is performed by a communication method using reflected waves; and

a second beam number setting step of setting the number of beams transmitted by the beam sweep to a number smaller than the set number when it is predicted in the communication method prediction step that communication is performed by the communication method using line-of-sight waves.

3 . The beam setting method according to claim 1 ,

wherein the first beam number setting step includes setting the number of beams transmitted by the beam sweep to the first constant when it is predicted that communication is performed by the communication method using the reflected waves a predetermined number of times or more, and

the second beam number setting step includes setting the number of beams transmitted by the beam sweep to the second constant when it is predicted that communication is performed by the communication method using line-of-sight waves a predetermined number of times or more.

4 . A beam setting device comprising:

a communication method prediction unit which predicts a communication method performed on the basis of whether there is a line-of-sight between a first radio station device and a second radio station device;

a first beam number setting unit which sets the number of beams transmitted by a beam sweep, in which signals using formable beams are sequentially transmitted in a time-division manner, to a first constant when the communication method prediction unit predicts that communication is performed by the communication method using reflected waves; and

a second beam number setting unit which sets the number of beams transmitted by the beam sweep to a second constant smaller than the first constant when the communication method prediction unit predicts that communication is performed by the communication method using line-of-sight waves.

5 . A non-temporal storage medium storing a program which causes a computer to execute the beam setting method according to claim 1 .

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Oct 3, 2025
From: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
To: NTT, INC.
Reel/Frame 072996/0032 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 26, 2024
From: IWAKUNI, TATSUHIKO; UCHIDA, DAISEI; ARAI, TAKUTO; WAI, SHUKI; KITA, NAOKI; ONIZAWA, TAKESHI
To: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 066253/0878 →