Patents by Inventor Kazuyuki Takahashi

Kazuyuki Takahashi 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: 10880597
    Abstract: A first video stream having video data of a first view, a second video stream having video data of a second view, and an audio stream having audio data of an object sound source and positional information based on the first view of the object sound source are generated. A container of a predetermined format including the first video stream, the second video stream, the audio stream, and position correction information for correcting the positional information of the object sound source to positional information based on the second view is transmitted. Thereby, it is possible to accurately perform 3D audio rendering even in a case that view switching is performed at a reception side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Takahashi, Naohisa Kitazato
  • Patent number: 10863214
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a transmission device, a transmission method, a reception device, and a reception method that can improve transmission efficiency. An encoded signal is generated based on realtime data indicated by a waveform L using a predetermined fixed bit rate as a maximum code amount Sx and the encoded signal into which non-realtime data with an insufficient code amount is inserted is transmitted at the fixed bit rate, as indicated by a range Z12, when a code amount of the generated encoded signal is insufficient for the maximum code amount Sx. The present technology can be applied to broadcasting communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Takahashi, Lachlan Bruce Michael
  • Publication number: 20200383169
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a transmission apparatus, a transmission method, a reception apparatus, and a reception method that enable channel selection information and time information to be transmitted effectively. A transmission apparatus acquires channel selection information for selecting a service and time information used for synchronizations on a transmission side and a reception side, generates, as a physical layer frame constituted of a preamble and a data portion, the physical layer frame in which specific information including at least one of the channel selection information and the time information is arranged at a head of the data portion right after the preamble, and transmits the physical layer frame as digital broadcast signals. The present technology is applicable to IP packet broadcasting, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Kazuyuki TAKAHASHI, Lachlan Bruce Michael
  • Publication number: 20200359071
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a data processing apparatus and a data processing method that enable correct clock synchronization by use of clock information. The data processing apparatus receives a digital broadcast signal so as to process content included in the digital broadcast signal and clock information also included therein for use in presentation synchronization on the content and sends via a transmission path the processed content and clock information to another data processing apparatus that presents the received content. On the other hand, the another data processing apparatus receives via the transmission path the content and clock information sent from the data processing apparatus so as to process presentation synchronization on the received content on the basis of the received clock information. The present technology is applicable to data processing apparatuses configured to process content, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Applicant: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventor: Kazuyuki TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20200351568
    Abstract: A transmission apparatus that includes circuitry configured to generate transport protocol selection information used for selecting a transport protocol to be used in a specific service from a plurality of transport protocols conforming to a predetermined standard; and transmit, together with the transport protocol selection information, a content provided by the specific service according to the transport protocol set in the transport protocol selection information, and the plurality of transport protocols include at least ROUTE (Real-Time Object Delivery over Unidirectional Transport) and MMT (MPEG Media Transport).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Applicant: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Kazuyuki TAKAHASHI, Yasuaki Yamagishi
  • Patent number: 10827337
    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: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Takahashi, Naohisa Kitazato, Jun Kitahara, Yasuaki Yamagishi
  • Patent number: 10812207
    Abstract: A reception apparatus includes a demodulation circuit configured to demodulate packets obtained with respect to each of multiple PLPs included in a broadcast signal; and a processing circuit configured to process the packets demodulated by the demodulation circuit. The demodulation circuit and the processing circuit are connected with each other via a single interface or interfaces fewer than the number of the PLPs. The demodulation circuit adds identification information to a specific packet among the packets obtained with respect to each of the PLP, the identification information identifying the PLP to which each of the packets belongs. The processing circuit identifies the PLP to which belongs each of the packets input from the demodulation circuit via the single interface or the interfaces fewer than the number of the PLPs, based on the identification information obtained from the specific packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Okada, Kazuyuki Takahashi, Takeshi Ohno
  • Patent number: 10812844
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a transmitting apparatus, a receiving apparatus, and a data processing method each of which enables channel bonding to be more reliably performed. There is provided a transmitting apparatus generating physical layer signaling including first identification information with which a group of frequency bands constituting channel bonding is identified, and second identification information with which the frequency band belonging to the group is identified; and transmitting a broadcasting signal which includes the physical layer signaling and is changed in frequency band thereof by a relay apparatus by utilizing a predetermined frequency band. The present technology, for example, can be applied to a broadcasting system utilizing channel bonding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuyuki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10812872
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a transmitting device, a transmitting method, a receiving device, and a receiving method, which are capable of improving immediacy and flexibility of an alert. A transmitting device generates transmission data in which an index associated with predetermined process-related information in a relevant table in which process-related information related to an output process of outputting an alert on a receiving side is registered in association with an index is included in data of a physical layer, the relevant table being included in data of a higher layer higher than the physical layer and supplied, and transmits the transmission data. The receiving device obtains a relevant table, receives transmission data, and acquires an index included in data of a physical layer from the transmission data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Takahashi, Lachlan Bruce Michael
  • Patent number: 10798778
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a transmission apparatus, a transmission method, a reception apparatus, and a reception method that enable channel selection information and time information to be transmitted effectively. A transmission apparatus acquires channel selection information for selecting a service and time information used for synchronizations on a transmission side and a reception side, generates, as a physical layer frame physical layer frame constituted of a preamble and a data portion, the physical layer frame in which specific information including at least one of the channel selection information and the time information is arranged at a head of the data portion right after the preamble, and transmits the physical layer frame as digital broadcast signals. The present technology is applicable to IP packet broadcasting, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Takahashi, Lachlan Bruce Michael
  • Patent number: 10798439
    Abstract: A receiving apparatus, a sending apparatus, and a data processing method that are configured to execute processing related with time information corresponding to a variety of operations. The receiving apparatus receives metadata that includes information for executing processing related with time information in accordance with a mode corresponding to two or more pieces of time information and executes the processing related with the time information on the basis of the received metadata, thereby executing the processing related with the time information corresponding to a variety of operations. The technology is applicable to television receivers, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Takahashi, Yasuaki Yamagishi
  • Patent number: 10785525
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a reception apparatus and a data processing method that enable clock synchronization in a more suitable manner. The reception apparatus receives a digital broadcast signal of an IP transmission method that includes time information and a stream of content. The time information includes a seconds field and a nanoseconds field. The reception apparatus then generates a processing clock synchronized with the time information on the basis of the time information included in the digital broadcast signal, and processes the stream included in the digital broadcast signal on the basis of the processing clock. The present technology can be applied to, for example, television receivers conforming to the IP transmission method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Takahashi, Lachlan Bruce Michael, Yuichi Hirayama, Satoshi Okada
  • Patent number: 10763295
    Abstract: Achieving an imaging apparatus capable of performing both photographing of visible light and photographing of invisible light with a normal solid-state imaging element used for visible light photographing. An imaging apparatus including: a solid-state imaging element having a plurality of pixels two-dimensionally arrayed on an imaging surface; a light shielding unit that shields an invisible light imaging region of the solid-state imaging element in a space above the imaging surface of the solid-state imaging element; a first optical system that allows light corresponding to visible light contained in external light to be incident on the visible light imaging region of the solid-state imaging element; and a second optical system that allows light corresponding to invisible light contained in external light to be incident on an invisible light imaging region covered by the light shielding unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Warashina, Kazuyuki Takahashi, Mutsumi Kubota
  • Publication number: 20200275170
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a transmission apparatus, a transmission method, a reception apparatus, and a reception method that make it possible to detect a watermark more easily. The transmission apparatus includes a generation section and a transmission section. The generation section generates watermark information for detecting a watermark. The transmission section transmits a broadcast signal including the watermark and the watermark information. When the transmission apparatus is provided, it enables the reception apparatus at a receiving end to detect the watermark more easily. The present technology is applicable, for example, to a transmission system including the transmission apparatus and the reception apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuyuki TAKAHASHI, Takeshi OHNO
  • Patent number: 10750221
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a data processing apparatus and a data processing method that enable correct clock synchronization by use of clock information. The data processing apparatus receives a digital broadcast signal so as to process content included in the digital broadcast signal and clock information also included therein for use in presentation synchronization on the content and sends via a transmission path the processed content and clock information to another data processing apparatus that presents the received content. On the other hand, the another data processing apparatus receives via the transmission path the content and clock information sent from the data processing apparatus so as to process presentation synchronization on the received content on the basis of the received clock information. The present technology is applicable to data processing apparatuses configured to process content, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventor: Kazuyuki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10735789
    Abstract: A transmitting apparatus, a receiving apparatus, and a data processing method that enable efficient transmission of periodically transmitting information. The transmitting apparatus arranges, in a physical layer frame including a preamble and a data portion, periodically transmitting transmission information in an area that is extractable temporally before other information arranged in the data portion, and transmits the physical layer frame as a digital broadcast signal. The apparatuses and method are applicable to, for example, digital broadcasting using an IP transmission method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventor: Kazuyuki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10715857
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a reception apparatus that includes demodulation circuitry configured to obtain packets included in a plurality of PLPs (Physical Layer Pipes) of a broadcast stream, and processing circuitry configured to process the packets obtained by the demodulation circuitry. The demodulation circuitry and the processing circuitry are interconnected via a single interface. Each combination of an IP (Internet Protocol) address and a port number of an IP packet or a UDP (User Datagram Protocol) packet included in the plurality of PLPs is unique for each PLP in which the corresponding IP packet or the corresponding UDP packet is included. The processing circuitry is configured to identify a PLP in which one of the packets input via the single interface from the demodulation circuitry is included according to the combination of the IP address and the port number of the one of the packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Lachlan Bruce Michael, Kazuyuki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10696301
    Abstract: A vehicle control device is installed in a host vehicle and is configured to be capable of performing automatic driving or providing a driving support. The vehicle control device includes a left/right boundary line generating unit that calculates left and right boundary lines of a travel path on which the host vehicle travels. Further, the vehicle control device includes an ideal travel route generating unit that sets constraint points through which the host vehicle passes within a range of the left and right boundary lines, and furthermore, calculates an ideal travel route in which a curvature with the constraint points serving as a constraint condition, a travel distance, and a difference from a center line are minimized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chihiro Abe, Daichi Kato, Tadashi Sumioka, Kazuyuki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20200169346
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a transmission device, a transmission method, a reception device, and a reception method that permit efficient transfer of time and other information. The transmission device generates a physical layer frame having preambles and a payload that includes, in the preamble, time information representing time of a given position in a stream of physical layer frames and transmits the physical layer frame. The reception device receives the physical layer frame and performs processes using time information. The present technology is applicable, for example, to IP packet broadcasting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Lachlan Bruce MICHAEL, Kazuyuki TAKAHASHI, Satoshi OKADA
  • Publication number: 20200145715
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a demodulation device, a processing device, a reception device, and a data processing method for more flexibly coping with change in transmission method. Provided is a demodulation device including a demodulation unit configured to demodulate a first transmission packet obtained from a broadcast signal, and an output unit configured to output a divided packet via a predetermined interface, the divided packet being obtained by dividing the first transmission packet that is a variable-length packet used in a first transmission method into a packet length according to a second transmission packet that is a fixed-length packet used in a second transmission method and arranging the first transmission packet in a payload, and adding a header including information for restoring the first transmission packet to the payload. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a demodulation IC incorporated in a television receiver or a set top box.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLITIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi OKADA, Yiuichi HIRAYAMA, Kazuyuki TAKAHASHI