Patents by Inventor Kazuhisa Funamoto
Kazuhisa Funamoto 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).
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Patent number: 10177878Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including an acquirer that acquires second data obtained by converting first data constituted by bit data having a first number of bits into symbols having a second number of bits greater than the first number of bits, with respect to each of the bit data, a comparator that compares a first symbol string constituted by a plurality of symbols contained in the second data prior to reverse conversion of the acquired second data into the first data, to a second symbol string representing a code targeted for detection, and a detector that detects the first symbol string as the code targeted for detection from the second data, on the basis of the result of the comparison by the comparator.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2017Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuhisa Funamoto, Tatsuo Shinbashi, Tatsuya Sugioka, Kenichi Maruko, Naohiro Koshisaka, Hiroo Takahashi
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Patent number: 10090935Abstract: A communication device includes a communication unit that communicates with a first communication device or a second communication device by using human body communication, with regard to setting information for establishing communication between the first communication device and the second communication device. A communication device includes a communication unit that communicates with a third communication device by using human body communication with regard to setting information for establishing communication with a second communication device, and establishes communication with the second communication device based on the setting information. A communication device includes a communication unit that communicates with a third communication device by using human body communication with regard to setting information for establishing communication with a first communication device, and establishes communication with the first communication device based on the setting information.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2015Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Katsuyuki Tanaka, Yoshihito Ishibashi, Yuji Ide, Masahiro Uno, Kazuhisa Funamoto
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Publication number: 20170331564Abstract: [Object] To provide a communication device, a communication method, and a communication system, which can reduce the burden of the user, while maintaining convenience of the user at the time of communication establishment. [Solution] A communication device includes a communication unit that communicates with a first communication device or a second communication device by using human body communication, with regard to setting information for establishing communication between the first communication device and the second communication device. A communication device includes a communication unit that communicates with a third communication device by using human body communication with regard to setting information for establishing communication with a second communication device, and establishes communication with the second communication device based on the setting information.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2015Publication date: November 16, 2017Inventors: KATSUYUKI TANAKA, YOSHIHITO ISHIBASHI, YUJI IDE, MASAHIRO UNO, KAZUHISA FUNAMOTO
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Publication number: 20170126361Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including an acquirer that acquires second data obtained by converting first data constituted by bit data having a first number of bits into symbols having a second number of bits greater than the first number of bits, with respect to each of the bit data, a comparator that compares a first symbol string constituted by a plurality of symbols contained in the second data prior to reverse conversion of the acquired second data into the first data, to a second symbol string representing a code targeted for detection, and a detector that detects the first symbol string as the code targeted for detection from the second data, on the basis of the result of the comparison by the comparator.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2017Publication date: May 4, 2017Inventors: Kazuhisa Funamoto, Tatsuo Shinbashi, Tatsuya Sugioka, Kenichi Maruko, Naohiro Koshisaka, Hiroo Takahashi
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Patent number: 9565424Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including an acquirer that acquires second data obtained by converting first data constituted by bit data having a first number of bits into symbols having a second number of bits greater than the first number of bits, with respect to each of the bit data, a comparator that compares a first symbol string constituted by a plurality of symbols contained in the second data prior to reverse conversion of the acquired second data into the first data, to a second symbol string representing a code targeted for detection, and a detector that detects the first symbol string as the code targeted for detection from the second data, on the basis of the result of the comparison by the comparator.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2012Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuhisa Funamoto, Tatsuo Shinbashi, Tatsuya Sugioka, Kenichi Maruko, Naohiro Koshisaka, Hiroo Takahashi
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Patent number: 9426008Abstract: Disclosed herein is a signal processing device including: a correlation signal output unit configured to, about a received signal transmitted from another device, calculate a correlation value between the received signal and a pattern of a waveform of a known signal and output the calculated correlation value as a correlation signal in a time corresponding to one symbol; a known signal determiner configured to determine, based on the correlation signal, whether or not the received signal is modulated by the known signal in a first interval defined when the time corresponding to one symbol is divided into a plurality of intervals; and an identifier configured to identify a series of the symbol based on a result of the determination.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2010Date of Patent: August 23, 2016Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Kazuhisa Funamoto, Kazuhiro Oguchi, Kazukuni Takanohashi
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Patent number: 8970750Abstract: An image outputting apparatus includes a header production section for producing a header including header information formed from first and second frame information regarding whether pixel data included in a payload are of first and last lines of one frame, respectively, first line information regarding whether or not the pixel data included in the payload are valid, and second line information regarding a line number of a line formed from the pixel data included in the payload, and an error detection code for use for detection of an error of the header information. A packet production section produces a packet which includes, in the payload thereof, pixel data for one line which configure an image obtained by imaging by an imaging section and to which the header is added. An outputting section outputs the produced packet to an image processing apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2011Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Tatsuya Sugioka, Hiroshi Shiroshita, Miho Ozawa, Hiroki Kihara, Kenichi Maruko, Tatsuo Shinbashi, Kazuhisa Funamoto, Hideyuki Matsumoto, Takayuki Toyama, Hayato Wakabayashi, Naohiro Koshisaka, Shigetoshi Sasaki, Masato Tamori
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Patent number: 8964073Abstract: The present disclosure provides an image outputting apparatus, including, an image pickup section, an error correction code calculation section adapted to calculate an error correction code using pixel data, which configure an image obtained by image pickup by the image pickup section, as an information word, and an outputting section adapted to output coded data, which are data of a codeword obtained by adding the error correction code to the pixel data, to an image processing apparatus provided in an apparatus in which the image outputting apparatus is provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2011Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Kazuhisa Funamoto, Tatsuo Shinbashi, Hideyuki Matsumoto, Hiroshi Shiroshita, Hiroki Kihara, Kenichi Maruko, Tatsuya Sugioka, Naohiro Koshisaka, Shigetoshi Sasaki, Masato Tamori, Takayuki Toyama, Miho Ozawa, Hayato Wakabayashi
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Publication number: 20140300755Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including an acquirer that acquires second data obtained by converting first data constituted by bit data having a first number of bits into symbols having a second number of bits greater than the first number of bits, with respect to each of the bit data, a comparator that compares a first symbol string constituted by a plurality of symbols contained in the second data prior to reverse conversion of the acquired second data into the first data, to a second symbol string representing a code targeted for detection, and a detector that detects the first symbol string as the code targeted for detection from the second data, on the basis of the result of the comparison by the comparator.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2012Publication date: October 9, 2014Inventors: Kazuhisa Funamoto, Tatsuo Shinbashi, Tatsuya Sugioka, Kenichi Maruko, Naohiro Koshisaka, Hiroo Takahashi
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Patent number: 8812938Abstract: Disclosed herein is a coding apparatus, including: a calculation section adapted to calculate, based on information of a transmission object, a linear code to be used for error detection of the information; a production section adapted to produce coded data including a plurality of sets of the information and the linear code calculated by the calculation section; and a transmission section adapted to transmit the coded data to a reception apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2011Date of Patent: August 19, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Naohiro Koshisaka, Tatsuo Shinbashi, Kazuhisa Funamoto, Hideyuki Matsumoto, Hiroshi Shiroshita, Kenichi Maruko, Tatsuya Sugioka
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Patent number: 8583985Abstract: A transmission apparatus, including an error correction code calculation section adapted to calculate an error correction code from data of a transmission object as an information word is disclosed. The transmission apparatus further includes a division section adapted to allocate coded data which configures a codeword obtained by adding the error correction code determined by the calculation by the error correction code calculation section to the data of the transmission object for each predetermined number of units to a plurality of transmission lines. The transmission apparatus further includes a plurality of transmission sections provided corresponding to the plural transmission lines and adapted to transmit the coded data allocated by the division section to a reception apparatus through the transmission lines.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2011Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Tatsuo Shinbashi, Kazuhisa Funamoto, Hideyuki Matsumoto, Hiroshi Shiroshita, Kenichi Maruko, Tatsuya Sugioka, Naohiro Koshisaka
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Patent number: 8547885Abstract: Disclosed herein is a signal processing apparatus including a plurality of frame head detection sections configured to determine whether a frame head complying with any one of a plurality of different communication methods is detected by comparing the waveform of a signal sent from an external apparatus with a plurality of predetermined different symbol patterns; a communication method selection section configured to select the communication method for communicating with the external apparatus based on results of the determination by the frame head detection sections and on the priority of each of the plurality of communication methods; and a priority changing section configured such that if a second communication method different from an initially selected first communication method is selected anew, then the priority changing section changes the priority of each of the plurality of communication methods based on the newly selected second communication method.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2010Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Inventors: Kazuhisa Funamoto, Kazuhiro Oguchi, Kazukuni Takanohashi
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Patent number: 8437426Abstract: Disclosed herein is a receiving apparatus including: first to third position determination sections configured to determine the start position of an FFT interval which serves as a signal interval targeted for FFT by an FFT section; a selection section configured to select one of those start positions of the FFT interval which are determined by the first through the third position determination section; and the FFT section configured to perform FFT on the OFDM time domain signal by regarding the start position selected by the selection section as the start position of the FFT interval in order to generate the first OFDM frequency domain signal.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2009Date of Patent: May 7, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hidetoshi Kawauchi, Masayuki Hattori, Toshiyuki Miyauchi, Takashi Yokokawa, Kazuhiro Shimizu, Kazuhisa Funamoto
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Patent number: 8385396Abstract: The present invention relates to a waveform equalizer and a method for controlling the same, as well as a receiving apparatus and a method for controlling the same whereby better receiving characteristics are provided than before. In a filter 28, registers 911 through 915 delay an input DT1; multipliers 920 through 925 multiply outputs from the registers by filter coefficients C20 through C25 respectively; and adders 931 through 935 add up outputs from the multipliers to acquire DT2. A selector 81 either outputs a timing signal at intervals of a symbol period of DT1 to drive the filter 82 as a symbol rate equalizer, or outputs the timing signal at intervals of half the symbol period to operate the filter 82 as a fractionally spaced equalizer. The present invention may be applied to waveform equalizers performing waveform equalization of the input signal.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2008Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Kazuhisa Funamoto, Koji Naniwada, Tien Dzung Doan
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Patent number: 8369457Abstract: Disclosed herein is a demodulation apparatus including: an operation determination block configured to determine whether the demodulation apparatus operates as part of either a first device or a second device with which the demodulation apparatus communicates, the first device being configured to ASK-modulate and transmit data, the second device being configured to load-modulate and transmit data; and first and second demodulation control blocks.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2010Date of Patent: February 5, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Kazuhisa Funamoto, Kazukuni Takanohashi, Kazuhiro Oguchi
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Publication number: 20120131422Abstract: A transmitting device includes a setting unit that sets the data length of an error correcting code whose data length is variable, an error correcting code calculator that calculates the error correcting code having the data length set by the setting unit for transmission-subject data as an information word, and a transmitting unit that transmits, to a receiving device existing in the same device, coded data that is data of a codeword obtained by adding the error correcting code obtained by calculation by the error correcting code calculator to the transmission-subject data.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2011Publication date: May 24, 2012Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Tatsuo SHINBASHI, Kazuhisa Funamoto, Hideyuki Matsumoto, Hiroshi Shiroshita, Kenichi Maruko, Tatsuya Sugioka, Naohiro Koshisaka, Shigetoshi Sasaki, Masato Tamori
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Publication number: 20120131412Abstract: Disclosed herein is a transmission apparatus, including: an error correction code calculation section adapted to calculate an error correction code from data of a transmission object as an information word; a division section adapted to allocate coded data which configure a codeword obtained by adding the error correction code determined by the calculation by the error correction code calculation section to the data of the transmission object for each predetermined number of units to a plurality of transmission lines; and a plurality of transmission sections provided corresponding to the plural transmission lines and adapted to transmit the coded data allocated by the division section to a reception apparatus through the transmission lines.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2011Publication date: May 24, 2012Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Tatsuo SHINBASHI, Kazuhisa Funamoto, Hideyuki Matsumoto, Hiroshi Shiroshita, Kenichi Maruko, Tatsuya Sugioka, Naohiro Koshisaka
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Publication number: 20120124455Abstract: Disclosed herein is a coding apparatus, including: a calculation section adapted to calculate, based on information of a transmission object, a linear code to be used for error detection of the information; a production section adapted to produce coded data including a plurality of sets of the information and the linear code calculated by the calculation section; and a transmission section adapted to transmit the coded data to a reception apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2011Publication date: May 17, 2012Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Naohiro Koshisaka, Tatsuo Shinbashi, Kazuhisa Funamoto, Hideyuki Matsumoto, Hiroshi Shiroshita, Kenichi Maruko, Tatsuya Sugioka
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Publication number: 20120120287Abstract: The present disclosure provides an image outputting apparatus, including, an image pickup section, an error correction code calculation section adapted to calculate an error correction code using pixel data, which configure an image obtained by image pickup by the image pickup section, as an information word, and an outputting section adapted to output coded data, which are data of a codeword obtained by adding the error correction code to the pixel data, to an image processing apparatus provided in an apparatus in which the image outputting apparatus is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2011Publication date: May 17, 2012Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Kazuhisa FUNAMOTO, Tatsuo Shinbashi, Hideyuki Matsumoto, Hiroshi Shiroshita, Hiroki Kihara, Kenichi Maruko, Tatsuya Sugioka, Naohiro Koshisaka, Shigetoshi Sasaki, Masato Tamori, Takayuki Toyama, Miho Ozawa, Hayato Wakabayashi
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Publication number: 20120120289Abstract: An image outputting apparatus includes a header production section for producing a header including header information formed from first and second frame information regarding whether pixel data included in a payload are of first and last lines of one frame, respectively, first line information regarding whether or not the pixel data included in the payload are valid, and second line information regarding a line number of a line formed from the pixel data included in the payload, and an error detection code for use for detection of an error of the header information. A packet production section produces a packet which includes, in the payload thereof, pixel data for one line which configure an image obtained by imaging by an imaging section and to which the header is added. An outputting section outputs the produced packet to an image processing apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2011Publication date: May 17, 2012Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Tatsuya SUGIOKA, Hiroshi Shiroshita, Miho Ozawa, Hiroki Kihara, Kenichi Maruko, Tatsuo Shinbashi, Kazuhisa Funamoto, Hideyuki Matsumoto, Takayuki Toyama, Hayato Wakabayashi, Naohiro Koshisaka, Shigetoshi Sasaki, Masato Tamori