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Granted Patent B2
US 12,549,228 · App. 18/293,682 · Granted Feb 10, 2026

Communication equipment, control methods and programs

Inventors: Takuto Arai (Musashino, JP); Daisei Uchida (Musashino, JP); Tatsuhiko Iwakuni (Musashino, JP); Shuki Wai (Musashino, JP)
Assignee: NTT, Inc.
H04B7/0617H04W16/28
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Patent No.
US 12,549,228
App. No.
18/293,682
Granted
Feb 10, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

According to embodiment of the present invention, a communication equipment includes an acquirer configured to acquire obstruction information including a distance from a radiator radiating a beam to an obstruction obstructing the beam; a derivator configured to derive a beam width of the beam radiated from the radiator in accordance with the distance to the obstruction acquired by the acquirer; and a beam controller configured to control the radiator such that the beam is radiated with the beam width derived by the derivator.

Claims (11)

1 . A communication equipment comprising: an acquirer configured to acquire obstruction information including a distance from a radiator radiating a beam to an obstruction obstructing the beam; a derivator configured to derive a beam width for the beam radiated from the radiator; wherein the beam width is widening in accordance with the distance to the obstruction acquired by the acquirer; and a beam controller configured to control the radiator such that the beam is radiated with the beam width derived by the derivator.

2 . The communication equipment according to claim 1 , wherein the derivator derives a beam width in which a communicable distance by the beam radiated by the radiator is equal to or greater than the distance to the obstruction.

3 . The communication equipment according to claim 1 , wherein the obstruction information further includes a direction from the radiator to the obstruction.

4 . The communication equipment according to claim 3 , wherein the derivator sets the beam width of the beam in a direction in which the obstruction is not located as a narrowest beam width.

5 . The communication equipment according to claim 4 , further comprising a storage configured to store a combination of a direction of the beam in which a predetermined area is coverable with the beam and the beam width of the beam radiated in the direction of the beam.

6 . The communication equipment according to claim 5 , wherein the beam controller performs beam search using the combination stored in the storage.

7 . The communication equipment according to claim 2 , wherein the obstruction information further includes a direction from the radiator to the obstruction.

8 . The communication equipment according to claim 1 , wherein the derivator is configured to derive the beam width for the beam radiated from the radiator in a direction in which the obstruction is located, in accordance with the distance to the obstruction acquired by the acquirer, to be wider than in a direction in which the obstruction is not located, and the beam controller is configured to control the radiator to radiate the beam with the beam width derived by the derivator in the direction in which the obstruction is located, and to reduce the number of beams to reduce the number of beam searches.

9 . Th com dication equipment according to claim 8 , wherein the beam is for searching for a terminal.

10 . A control method for a communication equipment, the method comprising: acquiring obstruction information including a distance from a radiator radiating a beam to an obstruction obstructing the beam; deriving a beam width for the beam radiated from the radiator; wherein the beam width is widening in accordance with the distance to the obstruction acquired; and controlling the radiator such that the beam is radiated with the beam width derived.

11 . A non-transitory computer recording medium recording a program causing a computer to function as a communication equipment, the program causing the computer to function as: an acquirer configured to acquire obstruction information including a distance from a radiator radiating a beam to an obstruction obstructing the beam; a derivator configured to derive a beam width for the beam radiated from the radiator; wherein the beam width is widening in accordance with the distance to the obstruction acquired by the acquirer; and a beam controller configured to control the radiator such that the beam is radiated with the beam width derived by the derivator.

Assignments (3)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Oct 3, 2025
From: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
To: NTT, INC.
Reel/Frame 072997/0354 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Oct 2, 2025
From: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
To: NTT, INC.
Reel/Frame 073006/0352 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 13, 2024
From: ARAI, TAKUTO; UCHIDA, DAISEI; IWAKUNI, TATSUHIKO; WAI, SHUKI
To: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 066452/0086 →
Continuity (1)
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