Patents by Inventor Kazuo Kobo

Kazuo Kobo 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: 5495299
    Abstract: A noise reducer for outputting a noise-reduced signal by extracting noise included in an input video signal so as to produce a noise signal and by subtracting the noise signal from the input video signal is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 27, 1996
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidekazu Suzuki, Masashi Kubota, Kazuo Kobo
  • Patent number: 5353069
    Abstract: A waveform equalizing system includes a clock reproducing phase locked loop circuit for reproducing a clock signal from a television signal; a transversal filter; a first selector circuit for alternatively passing the television signal or an output of a first memory to the transversal filter; a CPU for extracting reference signals contained in the television signal from the input and output of the transversal filter through two second memories respectively and for performing a synchronous addition of the same; the first memory for storing a reference signal processed by the synchronous addition; and a second selector circuit for alternatively delivering the television signal or an output of the transversal filter in response to a control signal from the CPU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 4, 1994
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Kazuo Kobo, Kazuya Uyeda, Robert Ho, Takashi Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 5099328
    Abstract: A ghost canceller includes a ghost cancelling circuit, waveform memories, a CPU, a training signal generating circuit, and a ghost variation detection circuit. By taking in GCR signals from the waveform memories into the CPU, synchronous addition and field sequence processing are effected, and they are transferred to the training signal generating circuit. The input video signal is changed over to the training signal to cancel ghosts, and when ghost variations are is not detected by the ghost variation detection circuit, the input video signal is fed into the ghost cancelling circuit, and is delivered as an output video signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1992
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuo Kobo, Yutaka Miki, Kiyotake Fukui, Hiroyasu Shinbo, Mikio Sasaki, Takashi Yamaguchi, Takaaki Gyoten, Hidefumi Horiuchi
  • Patent number: 4896213
    Abstract: A ghost cancelling reference signal transmission/reception system, which allows a built-in ghost cancelling device to eliminate group-delay distortion, frequency-amplitude characteristic distortion, ghost components generated in a signal transmission path. A digital signal is superposed on a television signal in a vertical blanking period of the television signal as a ghost cancelling reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1986
    Date of Patent: January 23, 1990
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuo Kobo, Kiyotake Fukui, Toshiro Nozoe, Noriaki Morotomi
  • Patent number: 4673979
    Abstract: A digital data reproducing system which carries out quantization by the frequency over the transmission rate with respect to waveform distortion created by a group delay caused by ghosts and repeaters or the like when digital information signals are received so as to thereby perform waveform equalization, and which carries out phase correction to thereby enable data reproduction about equivalent to that quantized by an ideal sampling timing, thus realizing entire digitization of the data reproducing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1985
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1987
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuo Kobo, Noriaki Morotomi, Takeshi Sato