Patents by Inventor Masafumi Tanaka

Masafumi Tanaka 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: 8125771
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an electronic apparatus, including: a base chassis formed as a unitary member from a transparent material and having two faces positioned on the opposite sides to each other and individually formed as a first mounting face section and a second mounting face section; a display unit having a display panel thereon and attached to said first mounting face section of said base chassis; a control circuit board attached to said second mounting face section of said base chassis; and a rear cover attached to said second mounting face section of said base chassis and configured to cover said control circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shuhei Yukawa, Masafumi Tanaka, Yutaka Ogasawara, Tooru Kuronuma
  • Publication number: 20120026070
    Abstract: A projection display apparatus displays an image on a projection surface in cooperation with a second projection display apparatus. The projection display apparatus includes: a detection unit that detects the position of the second projection display apparatus; and a switching unit that performs switching between a stack display mode and a tile display mode on the basis of the position of the second projection display apparatus. In the stack display mode, an image projected by the projection display apparatus and an image projected by the second projection display apparatus are displayed on a projection surface in a stacked manner. In the tile display mode, an image projected by the projection display apparatus and an image projected by the second projection display apparatus are displayed on a projection surface in a side-by-side manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2011
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Azusa OZAKI, Takahisa ANDO, Shinya MATSUMOTO, Makoto MAEDA, Masafumi TANAKA, Yoshinao HIRANUMA
  • Patent number: 8031463
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an electronic apparatus, including: a base chassis formed as a unitary member from a transparent material and having two faces positioned on the opposite sides to each other and individually formed as first and second mounting face sections; a display unit having a display panel thereon and attached to said first mounting face section; a control circuit board attached to said second mounting face section; a rear cover attached to said second mounting face section and configured to cover said control circuit board; a device mounting board having a semiconductor light emitting element disposed thereon; and a luminous lamp section formed at a position of said base chassis on the outer side of said display unit and configured to receive and emit light having been emitted from said semiconductor light emitting element and passed through the inside of said base chassis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shuhei Yukawa, Masafumi Tanaka, Yutaka Ogasawara, Tooru Kuronuma
  • Publication number: 20110188008
    Abstract: A projection display apparatus for projecting an image light onto a projection plane, includes: a detector configured to detect a state of the projection display apparatus with respect to the projection plane; and a controller configured to control a state of the image light according to the detected state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto MAEDA, Masafumi TANAKA, Ken MASHlTANI
  • Publication number: 20110177260
    Abstract: A plasma CVD device that deposits a thin film without using a filament is provided. The plasma CVD device according to the present invention includes: a chamber (1); ring-shaped ICP electrodes (17) and (18) disposed within the chamber; first high-frequency power supplies (7) and (8) electrically connected to the ICP electrodes; a gas supply mechanism that supplies a raw material gas into the chamber; an evacuation mechanism that evacuates the chamber; a disc substrate (2) disposed within the chamber so as to face the ICP electrodes; a second high-frequency power supply (6) connected to the disc substrate; an earth electrode disposed within the chamber on the opposite side of the disc substrate so as to face the ICP electrodes; and plasma walls (24) and (25) disposed within the chamber and provided so as to surround a space between the ICP electrodes and the disc substrate. Here, the plasma wall is set at a float potential.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2009
    Publication date: July 21, 2011
    Inventors: Yuuji Honda, Masafumi Tanaka, Masahisa Oikawa
  • Publication number: 20100110201
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an electronic apparatus, including: a base chassis formed as a unitary member from a transparent material and having two faces positioned on the opposite sides to each other and individually formed as first and second mounting face sections; a display unit having a display panel thereon and attached to said first mounting face section; a control circuit board attached to said second mounting face section; a rear cover attached to said second mounting face section and configured to cover said control circuit board; a device mounting board having a semiconductor light emitting element disposed thereon; and a luminous lamp section formed at a position of said base chassis on the outer side of said display unit and configured to receive and emit light having been emitted from said semiconductor light emitting element and passed through the inside of said base chassis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2010
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shuhei YUKAWA, Masafumi Tanaka, Yutaka Ogasawara, Tooru Kuronuma
  • Patent number: 7695149
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an electronic apparatus, including: a base chassis formed as a unitary member from a transparent material and having two faces positioned on the opposite sides to each other and individually formed as first and second mounting face sections; a display unit having a display panel thereon and attached to said first mounting face section; a control circuit board attached to said second mounting face section; a rear cover attached to said second mounting face section and configured to cover said control circuit board; a device mounting board having a semiconductor light emitting element disposed thereon; and a luminous lamp section formed at a position of said base chassis on the outer side of said display unit and configured to receive and emit light having been emitted from said semiconductor light emitting element and passed through the inside of said base chassis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shuhei Yukawa, Masafumi Tanaka, Yutaka Ogasawara, Tooru Kuronuma
  • Patent number: 7444391
    Abstract: A data terminal, a data distributing system, and an Internet telephoning system are provided where desired data such as advertisements can selectively be determined and used for enjoying its relevant services. The data terminal receives a summary of service data from a data provider apparatus over the Internet, and if desired, demands the data provider apparatus to provide the service data over the Internet. The service data from the data provider apparatus may selectively be received in at least one of an audio form, a text form, and a video form at the data terminal. The service data may be advertisement data, commercial product data, and entertainment data such as music, movies, and games. The entertainment data may selectively be presented as at least one of the title, the artist name, the cost, and a trial sample piece of the content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2008
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomiya Miyazaki, Kazuo Yahiro, Toru Imamura, Masafumi Tanaka, Yutaka Takeda, Keisuke Ogata, Takuji Tsujigawa, Akitoshi Aritaka
  • Patent number: 7306773
    Abstract: A holding material used for a catalytic converter having a catalyst carrier shaped like a cylinder, a casing for receiving the catalyst carrier, and the holding material mounted on the catalyst carrier and interposed in a gap between the catalyst carrier and the casing, the holding material including a molding of inorganic fibers shaped like a mat or a cylinder, wherein at least an exhaust-gas-inlet-side end portion of the holding material is set to be smaller in basis weight than any other area of the holding material over a predetermined axial length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2007
    Assignee: Nichias Corporation
    Inventors: Masafumi Tanaka, Takahito Mochida
  • Publication number: 20070236873
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an electronic apparatus, including: a base chassis formed as a unitary member from a transparent material and having two faces positioned on the opposite sides to each other and individually formed as a first mounting face section and a second mounting face section; a display unit having a display panel thereon and attached to said first mounting face section of said base chassis; a control circuit board attached to said second mounting face section of said base chassis; and a rear cover attached to said second mounting face section of said base chassis and configured to cover said control circuit board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2007
    Publication date: October 11, 2007
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shuhei YUKAWA, Masafumi TANAKA, Yutaka OGASAWARA, Tooru KURONUMA
  • Publication number: 20070236908
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an electronic apparatus, including: a base chassis formed as a unitary member from a transparent material and having two faces positioned on the opposite sides to each other and individually formed as first and second mounting face sections; a display unit having a display panel thereon and attached to said first mounting face section; a control circuit board attached to said second mounting face section; a rear cover attached to said second mounting face section and configured to cover said control circuit board; a device mounting board having a semiconductor light emitting element disposed thereon; and a luminous lamp section formed at a position of said base chassis on the outer side of said display unit and configured to receive and emit light having been emitted from said semiconductor light emitting element and passed through the inside of said base chassis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2007
    Publication date: October 11, 2007
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shuhei Yukawa, Masafumi Tanaka, Yutaka Ogasawara, Tooru Kuronuma
  • Publication number: 20050152458
    Abstract: An error masking method using a moving picture electronic watermark. The method can reduce the operation quantity required for estimating motion vectors and acquire correct motion vectors even in case of high error ratio. The method has the conventional accuracy as the lowest accuracy and the upper layer compatibility with a general-purpose decoder. The digital moving picture signal is divided in area into a plurality of blocks or macro-blocks, each of which comprises N×N pixels and is motion-compensated. In obtaining or not obtaining a differential signal from one of a future or a past image, each block or macro-block is discrete-cosine transformed to issue a discrete cosine transform output. The discrete cosine transform output is quantized to obtain a quantized output. The quantized output is variable-length-encoded to obtain a bit stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2002
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Applicant: TECHNO MATHEMATICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masafumi Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20050049556
    Abstract: In a liquid injector, a piston is pressed by a piston-driving mechanism into a cylinder of a liquid syringe that is held by a cylinder-holding structure, and a stress detection means detects the stress of this pressure. The piston-driving mechanism is displaceably supported by the main body of the injector, and the stress detection means, which is fixed to this injector main body, detects the stress that acts upon the piston-driving mechanism. The configuration of this liquid injector is simple because the stress detection means is not arranged on the movable part of the piston-driving mechanism, and the liquid injector therefore exhibits improved productivity and reliability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2004
    Publication date: March 3, 2005
    Applicant: Nemoto Kyorindo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masafumi Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20040208170
    Abstract: A data terminal, a data distributing system, and an Internet telephoning system are provided where desired data such as advertisements can selectively be determined and used for enjoying its relevant services. The data terminal receives a summary of service data from a data provider apparatus over the Internet, and if desired, demands the data provider apparatus to provide the service data over the Internet. The service data from the data provider apparatus may selectively be received in at least one of an audio form, a text form, and a video form at the data terminal. The service data may be advertisement data, commercial product data, and entertainment data such as music, movies, and games. The entertainment data may selectively be presented as at least one of the title, the artist name, the cost, and a trial sample piece of the content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2004
    Publication date: October 21, 2004
    Inventors: Tomiya Miyazaki, Kazuo Yahiro, Toru Imamura, Masafumi Tanaka, Yutaka Takeda, Keisuke Ogata, Takuji Tsujigawa, Akitoshi Aritaka
  • Publication number: 20040170336
    Abstract: The purpose is the provision of each of a DCT matrix decomposing method and a DCT device, wherein the device decomposes a one-dimensional DCT matrix to make it possible to carrying out a DCT operation only through addition and subtraction. The method is characterized by comprising: a first step of decomposing an N×N one-dimensional DCT matrix into a plurality of sub-matrices and a zero matrix by using the symmetry of a cosine function; a second step of factorizing each of the sub-matrices to make it possible to express each of the sub-matrices by the product of an intermediate matrix and one or more first matrices the elements of which are 1, −1 or 0, wherein the intermediate matrix contains a cosine coefficient as a matrix element; and, a third step of repeating a factorization process of each of the intermediate matrices a desired number of times to make it possible to express each of the intermediate matrices by the product of second matrices the elements of which are 1, −1 or 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2003
    Publication date: September 2, 2004
    Inventor: Masafumi Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20040152979
    Abstract: A liquid injector has a gripping detector disposed on the front face of a piston pusher for detecting when a piston is pushed by the piston pusher for thereby detecting when a piston flange on the piston is gripped by a pair of engaging claws on the piston pusher. The piston pusher is prevented from being actuated when the piston flange is not gripped by the engaging claws.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Applicant: NEMOTO KYORINDO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Sakakibara, Toshio Kanetaka, Masafumi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 6769020
    Abstract: A data terminal, a data distributing system, and an Internet telephoning system are provided where desired data such as advertisements can selectively be determined and used for enjoying its relevant services. The data terminal receives a summary of service data from a data provider apparatus over the Internet, and if desired, demands the data provider apparatus to provide the service data over the Internet. The service data from the data provider apparatus may selectively be received in at least one of an audio form, a text form, and a video form at the data terminal. The service data may be advertisement data, commercial product data, and entertainment data such as music, movies, and games. The entertainment data may selectively be presented as at least one of the title, the artist name, the cost, and a trial sample piece of the content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2004
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomiya Miyazaki, Kazuo Yahiro, Toru Imamura, Masafumi Tanaka, Yutaka Takeda, Keisuke Ogata, Takuji Tsujigawa, Akitoshi Aritaka
  • Publication number: 20040131224
    Abstract: The object of the invention is to provide a method of embedding data in an image and a method of extracting the data, which methods ensures that an image in which data is embedded at the time of JPEG encoding can be decoded by a standard decoder, that the embedded data can be completely extracted at the time of decoding while an irreversible encoding method is used, and that image degradation due to embedding of data is reduced. The invention is characterized in that, at the time of embedding of data in an image, an original image is divided into unit blocks having 8×8 pixels, DCT is performed on the entire frame on a block-by-block basis, each block is quantized according to a quantization table, and one bit of data is substituted for a coefficient value after quantization to embed the data, and in that run-length encoding and Huffman encoding are performed in order, and the value in the quantization table corresponding to the substituted coefficient value after the quantization is replaced with 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2003
    Publication date: July 8, 2004
    Inventor: Masafumi Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20040062690
    Abstract: A holding material used for a catalytic converter having a catalyst carrier shaped like a cylinder, a casing for receiving the catalyst carrier, and the holding material mounted on the catalyst carrier and interposed in a gap between the catalyst carrier and the casing, the holding material including a molding of inorganic fibers shaped like a mat or a cylinder, wherein at least an exhaust-gas-inlet-side end portion of the holding material is set to be smaller in basis weight than any other area of the holding material over a predetermined axial length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2003
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Applicant: NICHIAS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masafumi Tanaka, Takahito Mochida
  • Publication number: 20030185723
    Abstract: A holding material is provided for a catalytic converter having a catalyst carrier, a casing for receiving the catalyst carrier. The holding material is interposed in a gap between the catalyst carrier and the casing while wound on the catalyst carrier. The holding material is constituted by a sewn product of a mat material formed by collection of not smaller than 100 cc/5 g by wet volume of inorganic fiber without use of any binder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2003
    Publication date: October 2, 2003
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Anji, Masafumi Tanaka, Tadashi Sakane, Takahito Mochida