Patents by Inventor Naoki Yoshimochi
Naoki Yoshimochi 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: 10476711Abstract: The present technology relates to data processing devices and data processing methods that lower costs and enable CB (Channel Bonding). A transmission device divides a BB stream as a stream of BB (Baseband) frames into divisional streams by distributing the BB frames of the BB stream to data slices. The dividing of the BB stream is performed by limiting the data rate ratio between the data rates of the divisional streams. A reception device recomposes the original BB stream from the divisional streams obtained from data transmitted from the transmission device. The present technology can be applied to CB such as PLP (Physical Layer Pipe) bundling.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2015Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Naoki Yoshimochi, Satoshi Okada, Makiko Yamamoto
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Patent number: 10361803Abstract: The present technology relates to a reception device, a reception method, a transmission device, and a transmission method, which are capable of implementing a high transmission rate by effectively utilizing a frequency band in channel bonding. A reception device receives a plurality of divisional streams obtained by distributing baseband (BB) frames of a BB stream which is as a stream of BB frames to a plurality of data slices and reconstructs an original BB stream on the basis of reconfiguration information which is in included in transmission control information and used for reconstructing the original BB stream from the plurality of divisional streams transmitted through the non-neighboring frequency bands when the plurality of divisional streams are transmitted through non-neighboring frequency bands. The present technology can be applied to, for example, channel bonding such as PLP bundling.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2015Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Lachlan Bruce Michael, Naoki Yoshimochi, Makiko Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20190130550Abstract: Provided is a processing apparatus including a processing unit that is connected to a data bus, and performs control involved with an image which is output by each of a plurality of image sensors connected to the data bus, through the data bus.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2017Publication date: May 2, 2019Inventors: Hideki Mitsubayashi, Takashi Yokokawa, Naoki Yoshimochi
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Publication number: 20190124235Abstract: Provided is a processing apparatus including a processing unit that is connectable to a data bus, and performs output control on respective images captured by a plurality of image sensors connected to the data bus during a predetermined period of time. A timing of output of the image performed by each of the plurality of image sensors is changed by the output control.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2017Publication date: April 25, 2019Applicant: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventors: Hideki Mitsubayashi, Takashi Yokokawa, Naoki Yoshimochi
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Patent number: 10122485Abstract: The present technology relates to a signal processing apparatus, a signal processing method, and a program capable of reducing the number of pins for transmitting and receiving data. The signal processing apparatus is provided with a signal transmission unit configured to perform classification for a signal to be transmitted and received between processing units that process an obtained signal, perform time division multiplexing for the signal classified into a group, and transmit the signal. The classification is performed depending on at least one feature of an update period, an update timing, and a tolerable transmission delay of the signal. Further, the signal belonging to the group is subjected to time division multiplexing in such a manner that the transmission is completed within the update period, the transmission is completed within a range of the tolerable delay, and the transmission is performed with a minimum number of pins.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2014Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Naoki Yoshimochi, Satoshi Okada, Misa Nakane
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Patent number: 10117001Abstract: The present technique relates to a data processing device and a data processing method, capable of promptly issuing an emergency alarm under the DVB-C2. A transmission device generates L1 signalling including an emergency alarm signal related to an emergency alarm, in L1 signalling Part 2 under the digital video broadcasting (DVB)-C2. A reception device processes the L1 signalling obtained from data transmitted from the transmission device. The present technique can be applied, under the DVB-C2, for example, to a case where an emergency alarm is issued.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2015Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Naoki Yoshimochi, Makiko Yamamoto, Takashi Yokokawa
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Publication number: 20180210487Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a signal processing apparatus and method that enables to reduce required power. In the signal processing apparatus, a RTC of a main chip and a RTC of a power supply chip are synchronized before power supply of the main chip is stopped, and the RTC of the main chip is synchronized with the time of the RTC of the power supply chip after the power supply of the main chip is restored. In this way, the RTC uses continuous time information before and after the stop. The present disclosure is capable of being applied to, for example, a GPS module in which a digital circuit includes a plurality of chips.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2016Publication date: July 26, 2018Inventors: SOTARO OHARA, KATSUYUKI TANAKA, KATSUMI TAKAOKA, KEITA IZUMI, SUGURU HOUCHI, GAKU HIDAI, YUTAKA TAKAGI, HIDEKI TAKAHASHI, HIDEKI AWATA, YASUSHI KATAYAMA, NAOKI YOSHIMOCHI, TOSHIMASA SHIMIZU
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Publication number: 20180074990Abstract: A bus system of the disclosure includes three or more devices that include one or a plurality of imaging devices, and transmit or receive data signals in a time-division manner; and a bus to which the three or more devices are coupled.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2016Publication date: March 15, 2018Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Hideyuki Matsumoto, Hiroaki Hayashi, Takashi Yokokawa, Naoki Yoshimochi
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Patent number: 9843826Abstract: The present invention relates to a data processor and data processing method that facilitate properly processing a stream. An input stream is formed by a plurality of packets. Each of the packets of the input stream is distributed to one of a plurality of channels and null packets (NP) are distributed to the other channels. This divides the input stream into divided streams on a plurality of channels including the packets of the input stream at a predetermined density. The present invention can be used, for example, for a channel bonding (CB) technique in which an input stream is divided into a plurality of channels and transmitted.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2014Date of Patent: December 12, 2017Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Satoshi Okada, Takashi Yokokawa, Naoki Yoshimochi, Makiko Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20170331576Abstract: The present technology relates to a reception device, a reception method, a transmission device, and a transmission method, which are capable of implementing a high transmission rate by effectively utilizing a frequency band in channel bonding. A reception device receives a plurality of divisional streams obtained by distributing baseband (BB) frames of a BB stream which is as a stream of BB frames to a plurality of data slices and reconstructs an original BB stream on the basis of reconfiguration information which is in included in transmission control information and used for reconstructing the original BB stream from the plurality of divisional streams transmitted through the non-neighboring frequency bands when the plurality of divisional streams are transmitted through non-neighboring frequency bands. The present technology can be applied to, for example, channel bonding such as PLP bundling.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2015Publication date: November 16, 2017Inventors: LACHLAN BRUCE MICHAEL, NAOKI YOSHIMOCHI, MAKIKO YAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20160301489Abstract: The present technology relates to a signal processing apparatus, a signal processing method, and a program capable of reducing the number of pins for transmitting and receiving data. The signal processing apparatus is provided with a signal transmission unit configured to perform classification for a signal to be transmitted and received between processing units that process an obtained signal, perform time division multiplexing for the signal classified into a group, and transmit the signal. The classification is performed depending on at least one feature of an update period, an update timing, and a tolerable transmission delay of the signal. Further, the signal belonging to the group is subjected to time division multiplexing in such a manner that the transmission is completed within the update period, the transmission is completed within a range of the tolerable delay, and the transmission is performed with a minimum number of pins.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2014Publication date: October 13, 2016Inventors: NAOKI YOSHIMOCHI, SATOSHI OKADA, MISA NAKANE
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Publication number: 20160261329Abstract: The present technology relates to a reception apparatus, a reception method, and a program that are capable of improving performance in diversity. A reception apparatus includes: a plurality of demodulation units that each demodulate a supplied branch and generate a symbol; a synthesis unit that synthesizes the symbols demodulated in the plurality of demodulation units and generates a synthesis symbol; an error correction unit that performs error correction of the synthesis symbol; and a smoothing unit that controls a transmission rate of the synthesis symbol from the synthesis unit to the error correction unit to fall within a certain range. The smoothing unit includes a buffer unit that holds the synthesis symbol from the synthesis unit, an input-time estimation unit that estimates a time at which the synthesis symbol is input from the synthesis unit, and an output-time generation unit that generates a time at which the synthesis symbol held in the buffer unit is output to the error correction unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2014Publication date: September 8, 2016Inventors: NAOKI YOSHIMOCHI, HIROFUMI MARUYAMA, SATOSHI OKADA
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Publication number: 20160255416Abstract: The present technique relates to a data processing device and a data processing method, capable of promptly issuing an emergency alarm under the DVB-C2. A transmission device generates L1 signalling including an emergency alarm signal related to an emergency alarm, in L1 signalling Part 2 under the digital video broadcasting (DVB)-C2. A reception device processes the L1 signalling obtained from data transmitted from the transmission device. The present technique can be applied, under the DVB-C2, for example, to a case where an emergency alarm is issued.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2015Publication date: September 1, 2016Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Naoki YOSHIMOCHI, Makiko YAMAMOTO, Takashi YOKOKAWA
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Publication number: 20160234531Abstract: The present invention relates to a data processor and data processing method that facilitate properly processing a stream. An input stream is formed by a plurality of packets . Each of the packets of the input stream is distributed to one of a plurality of channels and null packets (NP) are distributed to the other channels. This divides the input stream into divided streams on a plurality of channels including the packets of the input stream at a predetermined density. The present invention can be used, for example, for a channel bonding (CB) technique in which an input stream is divided into a plurality of channels and transmitted.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2014Publication date: August 11, 2016Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Satoshi OKADA, Takashi YOKOKAWA, Naoki YOSHIMOCHI, Makiko YAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20160227292Abstract: The present technology relates to a data processing device and a data processing method capable of appropriately processing a stream. NPs included in a division stream of a predetermined channel acquired by dividing an input stream configured by a plurality of packets into division streams of a plurality of channels are eliminated, and a NP-eliminated stream including DNP representing the number of eliminated NPs is generated. Then, a stream including the NP-eliminated stream and signaling as a size identifier representing a size of the DNP or a stream including the NP-eliminated stream and a buffer capacity of a buffer storing the NP-eliminated stream and signaling as read start time from the buffer so as to generate a NP-inserted stream acquired by inserting NPs corresponding to a number represented by the DNP into the NP-eliminated stream is generated.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2014Publication date: August 4, 2016Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Satoshi OKADA, Takashi YOKOKAWA, Naoki YOSHIMOCHI, Makiko YAMAMOTO
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Patent number: 9306787Abstract: There is provided a signal processing device including a first correction processing section that performs first correction on a predetermined signal, an adaptive processing section that performs predetermined adaptive processing on the signal that has been subjected to the first correction, and a second correction processing section that performs second correction, which is reverse correction of the first correction, on the signal that has been subjected to the adaptive processing, in accordance with the amount of delay in the adaptive processing.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2013Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Kamata, Hidetoshi Kawauchi, Naoki Yoshimochi, Kenichi Kobayashi, Kazukuni Takanohashi
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Publication number: 20150372845Abstract: The present technology relates to data processing devices and data processing methods that lower costs and enable CB (Channel Bonding). A transmission device divides a BB stream as a stream of BB (Baseband) frames into divisional streams by distributing the BB frames of the BB stream to data slices. The dividing of the BB stream is performed by limiting the data rate ratio between the data rates of the divisional streams. A reception device recomposes the original BB stream from the divisional streams obtained from data transmitted from the transmission device. The present technology can be applied to CB such as PLP (Physical Layer Pipe) bundling.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2015Publication date: December 24, 2015Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Naoki YOSHIMOCHI, Satoshi OKADA, Makiko YAMAMOTO
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Patent number: 9118865Abstract: This technique relates to a receiving device, a receiving method, a program, and a receiving system that are designed to reduce circuit size. A receiving device of one aspect of this technique includes: a de-mapping unit that receives a symbol signal generated by performing mapping on a first branch signal and a second branch signal indicating information about the same transmission target, and performs de-mapping on the symbol signal by a hard decision; a selecting unit that selects, in accordance with a reception state, one signal from the first branch signal and the second branch signal obtained through the de-mapping; and a decoding unit that decodes the information about the transmission target based on the one signal. This technique can be applied to receivers that receive OFDM signals compliant with DVB-C2.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2012Date of Patent: August 25, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Takashi Yokokawa, Naoki Yoshimochi
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Publication number: 20150181305Abstract: The present technique relates to a reception apparatus, method, and program which make it possible to promptly perform reception and demodulation of an intended profile at a low cost and with superior noise resistance in a broadcast signal of DVB-T2 in which various profiles are mixed.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2013Publication date: June 25, 2015Inventor: Naoki Yoshimochi
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Publication number: 20150146825Abstract: There is provided a signal processing device including a first correction processing section that performs first correction on a predetermined signal, an adaptive processing section that performs predetermined adaptive processing on the signal that has been subjected to the first correction, and a second correction processing section that performs second correction, which is reverse correction of the first correction, on the signal that has been subjected to the adaptive processing, in accordance with the amount of delay in the adaptive processing.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2013Publication date: May 28, 2015Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Kamata, Hidetoshi Kawauchi, Naoki Yoshimochi, Kenichi Kobayashi, Kazukuni Takanohashi