Patents by Inventor Masaya HANAZONO

Masaya HANAZONO 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: 11083069
    Abstract: A microphone picks up a speech and outputs a speech signal. A lighting control unit recognizes the speech by performing speech recognition on the speech signal, thereby generating command data corresponding to the speech recognized. The lighting control unit controls a light fixture based on the command data. A state decision unit makes a state decision of the light fixture. A condition setting unit sets, depending on the state decision made by the state decision unit, a condition for a speech recognition unit to perform the speech recognition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaya Hanazono, Katsuhiko Kimura, Ryuji Natsume, Minoru Fukushima
  • Publication number: 20200205269
    Abstract: A microphone picks up a speech and outputs a speech signal. A lighting control unit recognizes the speech by performing speech recognition on the speech signal, thereby generating command data corresponding to the speech recognized. The lighting control unit controls a light fixture based on the command data. A state decision unit makes a state decision of the light fixture. A condition setting unit sets, depending on the state decision made by the state decision unit, a condition for a speech recognition unit to perform the speech recognition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Masaya HANAZONO, Katsuhiko KIMURA, Ryuji NATSUME, Minoru FUKUSHIMA
  • Patent number: 10591169
    Abstract: In a signal processing device, a signal processing method, a recording medium, and a rangehood apparatus, a filter coefficient is set in a sound cancelling filter, and the sound cancelling filter outputs a cancellation signal. A coefficient calculator calculates a first filter coefficient. An oscillation suppressor calculates a second filter coefficient by applying a window function to the first filter coefficient to set the second filter coefficient as the filter coefficient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaya Hanazono, Wakio Yamada
  • Patent number: 10240812
    Abstract: Provided are a signal processing device, a program, a range hood device, and a selection method for frequency bins in a signal processing device with which it is possible to reduce the load on computation processing for computing filter coefficients and provide an excellent muting effect even when there are a peak band and a notch band in transmission characteristics from a speaker to an error microphone. A parameter setter sets an update parameter ? such that a filter coefficient W is corrected, only for a first frequency bin that corresponds to a frequency band of a first noise and a second frequency bin that corresponds to a frequency band of a second noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaya Hanazono, Wakio Yamada
  • Patent number: 10229666
    Abstract: A signal processing device includes a coefficient updater configured to calculate a filter coefficient based on a reference signal, an error signal, and an update parameter to set the filter coefficient in a noise cancelling filter. A parameter adjuster adjusts the update parameter according to fluctuation of the reference signal produced from an output of a reference microphone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaya Hanazono, Wakio Yamada
  • Publication number: 20180135864
    Abstract: In a signal processing device, a signal processing method, a recording medium, and a rangehood apparatus, a filter coefficient is set in a sound cancelling filter, and the sound cancelling filter outputs a cancellation signal. A coefficient calculator calculates a first filter coefficient. An oscillation suppressor calculates a second filter coefficient by applying a window function to the first filter coefficient to set the second filter coefficient as the filter coefficient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2016
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Inventors: Masaya HANAZONO, Wakio YAMADA
  • Patent number: 9865244
    Abstract: A silencer is to be used in combination with a range hood system to suppress noise made by a fan. In a silencing circuit, a disturbance detector detects mixing of disturbance sound to a correction signal and an error signal. When the disturbance detector detects the mixing of the disturbance sound, an updating stopper causes a coefficient updater to stop a processing of updating a filter coefficient of a silencer filter, relating to, as an object, at least a frequency band other than a frequency band of the noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaya Hanazono, Wakio Yamada
  • Publication number: 20170276398
    Abstract: Provided are a signal processing device, a program, a range hood device, and a selection method for frequency bins in a signal processing device with which it is possible to reduce the load on computation processing for computing filter coefficients and provide an excellent muting effect even when there are a peak band and a notch band in transmission characteristics from a speaker to an error microphone. A parameter setter sets an update parameter ? such that a filter coefficient W is corrected, only for a first frequency bin that corresponds to a frequency band of a first noise and a second frequency bin that corresponds to a frequency band of a second noise.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2015
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Inventors: Masaya HANAZONO, Wakio YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20170229111
    Abstract: A signal processing device includes a coefficient updater configured to calculate a filter coefficient based on a reference signal, an error signal, and an update parameter to set the filter coefficient in a noise cancelling filter. A parameter adjuster adjusts the update parameter according to fluctuation of the reference signal produced from an output of a reference microphone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2015
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Inventors: Masaya HANAZONO, Wakio YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20160372106
    Abstract: A silencer is to be used in combination with a range hood system to suppress noise made by a fan. In a silencing circuit, a disturbance detector detects mixing of disturbance sound to a correction signal and an error signal. When the disturbance detector detects the mixing of the disturbance sound, an updating stopper causes a coefficient updater to stop a processing of updating a filter coefficient of a silencer filter, relating to, as an object, at least a frequency band other than a frequency band of the noise.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventors: Masaya HANAZONO, Wakio YAMADA