Patents by Inventor Jun Kitahara

Jun Kitahara has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10510241
    Abstract: Provided is a configuration that permits confirmation of emergency information viewing results on a reception apparatus, an endpoint of emergency information such as TV. A data processing section of a reception apparatus such as TV that receives and outputs emergency information generates an emergency information viewing result report that contains a record of emergency information viewing result information and sends the generated emergency information viewing result report to a management server and so on. The data processing section generates an emergency information viewing result report that contains a record of an identifier of emergency information output by the reception apparatus and emergency information output time information in accordance with a CDM (Consumption Data Message) format. The CDM keeps a record of not only emergency information output time information but also reception apparatus position information, emergency information sender information, and so on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taketoshi Yamane, Naohisa Kitazato, Jun Kitahara, Yasuaki Yamagishi
  • Publication number: 20190342862
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a reception apparatus, a reception method, a transmission apparatus, and a transmission method, by which channel selection information can be acquired more efficiently. Provided is a reception apparatus, including: a reception unit that receives a broadcast wave of digital broadcasting using an IP (Internet Protocol) transmission system; a communication unit that receives first signaling information for acquiring broadcast content transmitted by the broadcast wave through communication with a server via a network; an acquisition unit that acquires, on the basis of the first signaling information, a physical parameter used in a physical layer in a hierarchy of a protocol of the IP transmission system; and a control unit that controls, on the basis of the physical parameter, operations of respective units that perform channel selection processing. The present technology is applicable to a portable receiver that is movable, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naohisa KITAZATO, Jun Kitahara, Yasuaki Yamagishi
  • Publication number: 20190342110
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a reception apparatus, a reception method, a transmission apparatus, and a transmission method, by which efficient filtering processing can be performed. Provided is a reception apparatus, including: a reception unit that receives a broadcast wave of digital broadcasting using an IP (Internet Protocol) transmission system; and a filtering processing unit that performs filtering processing on a packet by using filtering information, the filtering information being provided in a header of the packet, the packet being transmitted in a baseband stream in a first layer via the broadcast wave, the first layer being lower than an IP layer in a hierarchy of a protocol of the IP transmission system. The present technology is applicable to a television receiver, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun KITAHARA, Naohisa KITAZATO, Yasuaki YAMAGISHI
  • Patent number: 10462768
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a reception apparatus, a reception method, a transmission apparatus, and a transmission method, by which channel selection information can be acquired more efficiently. Provided is a reception apparatus, including: a reception unit that receives a broadcast wave of digital broadcasting using an IP (Internet Protocol) transmission system; a communication unit that receives first signaling information for acquiring broadcast content transmitted by the broadcast wave through communication with a server via a network; an acquisition unit that acquires, on the basis of the first signaling information, a physical parameter used in a physical layer in a hierarchy of a protocol of the IP transmission system; and a control unit that controls, on the basis of the physical parameter, operations of respective units that perform channel selection processing. The present technology is applicable to a portable receiver that is movable, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naohisa Kitazato, Jun Kitahara, Yasuaki Yamagishi
  • Publication number: 20190297128
    Abstract: Disclosed is a reception device configured to acquire second metadata including a flag, the flag indicating whether or not there is a component stream transmitted from a server via the Internet for a service. The reception device is also configured to acquire first metadata based on the second metadata, the first metadata including information related to a component stream for the service transmitted in a broadcast signal using an Internet Protocol (IP) transmission scheme. Finally, the reception device is configured to access the component stream transmitted in the broadcast signal based on the first metadata, and control reproduction of the component stream transmitted in the broadcast signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun KITAHARA, Naohisa KITAZATO
  • Publication number: 20190281136
    Abstract: [Abstract] To support transfer of an application to an external device in an apparatus that performs a control of the application using an AIT. [Solving Means] An application destination descriptor (Application_destination_discriptor) for specifying a corresponding device of an application is newly provided as an application descriptor of an AIT. An information processing apparatus determines based on this application destination descriptor whether or not the application is an application for its own device or an application for an external device. If the application is the application for the external device, the information processing apparatus transfers the application to the external device to start it.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Jun KITAHARA, Naohisa KITAZATO
  • Publication number: 20190268391
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a reception device, a reception method, a transmission device, and a transmission method in which a convergence service of broadcasting and communication can be realized more effectively. A FLUTE processing unit is configured to acquire one or more components constituting a specific service of a plurality of services included in broadcast waves of digital broadcasting using an IP transfer system, in accordance with a first control signal including information indicating types and a transfer system of the one or more components constituting the specific service such that the convergence service of broadcasting and communication can be realized more effectively. The present technology is applicable to, for example, a television receiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Applicant: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Jun Kitahara, Yasuaki Yamagishi, Naohisa Kitazato, Kazuyuki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10390066
    Abstract: [Object] To improve a quality of a service that uses an application that uses a broadcast resource. [Solving Means] There is provided an information processing apparatus including: a broadcast processing unit that receives and processes a broadcast resource constituted of a plurality of types of media information; and a controller that acquires an application information table which stores information requisite for activating an application that can use the broadcast resource and first definition information for specifying the type of the media information of the broadcast resource usable by the application, and judges whether the broadcast resource can be used by the application in a unit of the media information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Jun Kitahara, Naohisa Kitazato
  • Patent number: 10362369
    Abstract: This receiving apparatus includes a broadcast reception unit configured to receive a broadcasting signal including a broadcast program and tag information, the broadcast program including at least one scene, the tag information including information that is transmitted temporally corresponding to each of at least one scene of the broadcast program and is necessary for acquiring related information related to the broadcast program; an application controller configured to acquire an application that uses the related information and an application information table in which at least identification information for identifying the tag information including information for controlling an operation of the application and information for identifying the related information used by the application is described, and to control the operation of the application based on the application information table; a tag information processing unit configured to acquire the tag information based on the identification information de
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naohisa Kitazato, Jun Kitahara
  • Patent number: 10362076
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a reception device, a reception method, a transmission device, and a transmission method in which a convergence service of broadcasting and communication can be realized more effectively. A FLUTE processing unit is configured to acquire one or more components constituting a specific service of a plurality of services included in broadcast waves of digital broadcasting using an IP transfer system, in accordance with a first control signal including information indicating types and a transfer system of the one or more components constituting the specific service such that the convergence service of broadcasting and communication can be realized more effectively. The present technology is applicable to, for example, a television receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Jun Kitahara, Yasuaki Yamagishi, Naohisa Kitazato, Kazuyuki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10356592
    Abstract: There is provided a reception apparatus including a first acquisition unit which acquires, preceding text format second signaling data to be transmitted in a lower-level layer than an IP layer in a hierarchy of a protocol of an IP transmission system and containing control information independent of a service identified by an IP address, binary format first signaling data containing a flag indicating whether the second signaling data exists in digital broadcast using the IP transmission system, a second acquisition unit which acquires the second signaling data on the basis of the first signaling data, and a control unit which controls operation of the units which perform various types of processing on the basis of the second signaling data. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a television receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Takahashi, Naohisa Kitazato, Jun Kitahara, Yasuaki Yamagishi
  • Patent number: 10333728
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a reception apparatus, a reception method, a transmission apparatus, and a transmission method, by which efficient filtering processing can be performed. Provided is a reception apparatus, including: a reception unit that receives a broadcast wave of digital broadcasting using an IP (Internet Protocol) transmission system; and a filtering processing unit that performs filtering processing on a packet by using filtering information, the filtering information being provided in a header of the packet, the packet being transmitted in a baseband stream in a first layer via the broadcast wave, the first layer being lower than an IP layer in a hierarchy of a protocol of the IP transmission system. The present technology is applicable to a television receiver, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Kitahara, Naohisa Kitazato, Yasuaki Yamagishi
  • Patent number: 10321207
    Abstract: This receiving apparatus includes a broadcast reception unit configured to receive a broadcasting signal including a broadcast program and tag information, the broadcast program including at least one scene, the tag information including information that is transmitted temporally corresponding to each of at least one scene of the broadcast program and is necessary for acquiring related information related to the broadcast program; an application controller configured to acquire an application that uses the related information and an application information table in which at least identification information for identifying the tag information including information for controlling an operation of the application and information for identifying the related information used by the application is described, and to control the operation of the application based on the application information table; a tag information processing unit configured to acquire the tag information based on the identification information de
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naohisa Kitazato, Jun Kitahara
  • Patent number: 10305949
    Abstract: Disclosed is a reception device configured to acquire second metadata including a flag, the flag indicating whether or not there is a component stream transmitted from a server via the Internet for a service. The reception device is also configured to acquire first metadata based on the second metadata, the first metadata including information related to a component stream for the service transmitted in a broadcast signal using an Internet Protocol (IP) transmission scheme. Finally, the reception device is configured to access the component stream transmitted in the broadcast signal based on the first metadata, and control reproduction of the component stream transmitted in the broadcast signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Kitahara, Naohisa Kitazato
  • Publication number: 20190149890
    Abstract: There is provided a receiving apparatus including circuitry that is configured to receive a broadcasting stream including digital data according to an IP (Internet Protocol) having a protocol stack of layers. The circuitry is configured to use a first key acquired based on a first control signal at a first layer to decode a second key included in a second control signal transferred at a second layer, and decrypt an encoded component that corresponds to a particular broadcasting service which is included in a stream obtained through the broadcasting stream, the second layer being a higher layer than the first layer in the protocol stack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Applicant: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Jun KITAHARA, Naohisa KITAZATO, Yasuaki YAMAGISHI
  • Patent number: 10271110
    Abstract: Transmission of emergency alert information using a broadcasting service in an appropriate manner is achieved. A transmitter 200 (broadcasting station) inserts a wake-up signal as signaling of emergency alert information, describes information including a scale (category), type, occurrence time, and occurrence position of disaster, and version information as a message of emergency alert information, and transmits the message using a packet structure of a physical layer. A simple and inexpensive receiver 300 equipped with only a receiving antenna for broadcasting and a demodulator can receive the message of emergency alert information. An evacuation direction and a map or route to a shelter can be displayed using digital signage or streetlights, and an evacuation route can be instructed using streetlights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Jun Kitahara, Yoshiharu Dewa, Katsunori Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 10244078
    Abstract: [Object] To support transfer of an application to an external device in an apparatus that performs a control of the application using an AIT. [Solving Means] An application destination descriptor (Application_destination_discriptor) for specifying a corresponding device of an application is newly provided as an application descriptor of an AIT. An information processing apparatus determines based on this application destination descriptor whether or not the application is an application for its own device or an application for an external device. If the application is the application for the external device, the information processing apparatus transfers the application to the external device to start it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Jun Kitahara, Naohisa Kitazato
  • Patent number: 10231007
    Abstract: Clock synchronization and presentation synchronization are appropriately achieved in the case where transmission is performed by carrying, on a broadcast signal, a transmission media packet obtained by fragmenting transmission media such as video and audio. A clock of 27 MHz synchronized with time information acquired from a time information server is generated. Time information including frequency information of the clock of 27 MHz and synchronized with the time information acquired from the time information server is generated. A transmission medium is encoded. The encoded transmission medium is fragmented in a predetermined unit, and a transmission media packet including each fragment is generated. A stream that includes, on time division basis, the transmission media packet, a packet including the time information, and a packet having a control signal is carried on a broadcast wave and transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Naohisa Kitazato, Jun Kitahara, Kazuyuki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10206000
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a receiving apparatus, a receiving method, and a program which are configured to provide application programs to be executed in response to AV content. The receiving apparatus includes: a receiving block; a trigger acquisition block; an application acquisition block; and a control block. The control block acquires trigger information and, on the basis of a command obtained from the acquired trigger information, acquires a data broadcast application from an application server on the Internet or a data broadcast application transmitted as NRT content of an NRT service using a FLUTE session by referencing an FDT identified by an SMT and an NRT-IT. In accordance with a command obtained from the acquired trigger information, the control block controls an operation of the acquired application program. The present technology is applicable to television receivers configured to receive digital television broadcast signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Naohisa Kitazato, Yoshiharu Dewa, Yasuaki Yamagishi, Jun Kitahara, Mark Eyer
  • Publication number: 20190026444
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a reception device, a transmission device, and a data processing method that enable a flexible operation of a service using an application that accompanies content. A reception device includes: a reception unit that receives content; an acquisition unit that acquires an application in accordance with acquisition source information indicating an acquisition source of the application accompanying the content, the acquisition source information being included in control information transmitted together with the content; and a control unit that instantly starts the acquired application. The present technology can be applied to a television set capable of receiving digital broadcasts, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2017
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuaki YAMAGISHI, Tatsuya IGARASHI, Kazuhiko TAKABAYASHI, Jun KITAHARA