Patents by Inventor Satoshi Okada

Satoshi Okada 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: 11336381
    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: September 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Okada, Kazuyuki Takahashi, Takeshi Ohno
  • Patent number: 11323767
    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: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Okada, Yuichi Hirayama, Kazuyuki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11290200
    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: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Lachlan Bruce Michael, Kazuyuki Takahashi, Satoshi Okada
  • Patent number: 11279987
    Abstract: The present invention provides a separation method of a rare earth element and iron including: forming alkali silicate slag incorporating a rare earth element, by melting a rare earth-iron-containing material together with an alkali silicate flux in a metallic silicon melt or an iron-silicon alloy melt; and separating rare earth-containing slag from an iron-silicon alloy, in which volatilization of alkaline components contained in the flux is suppressed by performing heating and melting under an oxidizing atmosphere, and the rare earth-containing slag having a SiO2/Na2O molar ratio of 2.1 or less is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chompunoot Wiraseranee, Rinat Mirvaliev, Satoshi Okada
  • Publication number: 20220078508
    Abstract: In a receiver that receives signals of the ATSC 3.0 standard, a terrestrial digital broadcasting signal is extracted from the received signals. A reception unit performs reception processing of sequentially receiving a predetermined number of reception target frames, each of which is a transmission unit of the terrestrial digital broadcasting signal. A reception interval acquisition unit obtains, as a reception interval, an interval between respective reception start timings of the predetermined number of reception target frames. A frame length acquisition unit acquires a frame length of each of the reception target frames on the basis of the reception target frames. A reception control unit stops the reception processing for a period of a length of a difference between the reception interval and the frame length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: SATOSHI OKADA, KENICHI KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11190625
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a reception device, a data processing method, and a transmission/reception system capable of shortening time to output a packet. The reception device receives a transmission signal obtained by processing a multiplexed stream including a plurality of packets, analyzes transmission control information for controlling transmission of the transmission signal, decodes the transmission signal on the basis of an analysis result of the transmission control information, analyzes the multiplexed stream obtained by decoding the transmission signal and sets packet division information for dividing the packets from the multiplexed stream, the packet division information according to at least one of the analysis result of the transmission control information or an analysis result of the multiplexed stream, and divides the multiplexed stream into the packets on the basis of the set packet division information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Okada, Yuichi Hirayama, Hirofumi Maruyama
  • Publication number: 20210344353
    Abstract: There is provided a decoding circuit including; a first decoding unit that decodes a first signal from a multiplexed signal in which the first signal and a second signal are multiplexed in an LDM (Layered Division Multiplexing) system; and a second decoding unit that decodes the second signal from the multiplexed signal using the decoding result of the decoded first signal, wherein the second signal is selectively decoded based on noise information related to a reception state of the multiplexed signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventors: YUTAKA NAKADA, SATOSHI OKADA
  • Publication number: 20210314634
    Abstract: A data processing method is provided in which a transmission frame is received from a transmitting device. The transmission frame is based on a split stream for one of a plurality of channels and channel bonding signaling information. Further, the received transmission frame is processed. The channel bonding signaling information includes signature information that uniquely identifies the input stream, and the signature information is contained in a header of the transmission frame.of a plurality of channels and transmits the split streams, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Muhammad Nabil Sven Loghin, Satoshi Okada, Lothar Stadelmeier
  • Publication number: 20210289257
    Abstract: Channel bonding is realized in a receiving apparatus that receives terrestrial digital broadcasting compliant with an ATSC 3.0 Standard. A receiving section selects any one of a plurality of frequency channels as a bonding source channel and receives a frame from the bonding source channel. A control section performs processing for obtaining one frequency channel in which packets are to be bonded with the bonding source channel among the plurality of frequency channel as a bonding destination channel on the basis of the frame and processing for controlling the receiving section to newly receive a frame from the bonding destination channel. A decoding section decodes the frame and acquires the packets. A bonding section bonds together the packets corresponding to the bonding source channel and the packets corresponding to the bonding destination channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventors: SATOSHI OKADA, YUTAKA NAKADA, RYOSUKE SUDA
  • Publication number: 20210250642
    Abstract: [Problem] Provided is a demodulation circuit, a processing method, and a processing device which are capable of improving robustness in demodulating a broadcast signal. [Solution] Provided is a demodulation circuit including a demodulation unit that demodulates a broadcast signal received by a reception circuit that receives the broadcast signal, an error correction processing unit that performs an error correction on a first packet obtained by demodulation, and a packet processing unit that extracts a second packet from the first packet on which an error correction has been performed, in which when an error correction is unsuccessfully performed on the first packet that was to be processed immediately before, the packet processing unit extracts the second packet from the first packet to be processed based on pointer information included in the first packet to be processed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: SATOSHI OKADA, RYOSUKE SUDA
  • Patent number: 11070856
    Abstract: A data processing method is provided in which a transmission frame is received from a transmitting device. The transmission frame is based on a split stream for one of a plurality of channels and channel bonding signaling information. Further, the received transmission frame is processed. The channel bonding signaling information includes signature information that uniquely identifies the input stream, and the signature information is contained in a header of the transmission frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Muhammad Nabil Sven Loghin, Satoshi Okada, Lothar Stadelmeier
  • Patent number: 11059977
    Abstract: Provided is a near-infrared-absorbing dye increasing a visible light transmittance and having a near-infrared blocking characteristic. The near-infrared-absorbing dye has an absorption characteristic measured by dissolving the dye in dichloromethane satisfying the following requirements. ?In an absorption spectrum at a wavelength of 400 to 800 nm, there is a maximum absorption wavelength ?max in a wavelength region of 670 nm or more. ?The following relational expression is established between a maximum absorption constant ?A with respect to light with a wavelength of 430 to 550 nm and a maximum absorption constant ?B with respect to light with a wavelength of 670 nm or more, where ?B/?A?65. ?In a spectral transmittance curve, an average transmittance of light with a wavelength of 430 to 460 nm is 94.0% or more when a transmittance at the maximum absorption wavelength ?max is set to 1%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Noriaki Miyake, Satoshi Okada, Jun Irisawa, Teppei Konishi, Keigo Matsuura
  • Publication number: 20210195001
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a reception device, a data processing method, and a transmission/reception system capable of shortening time to output a packet. The reception device receives a transmission signal obtained by processing a multiplexed stream including a plurality of packets, analyzes transmission control information for controlling transmission of the transmission signal, decodes the transmission signal on the basis of an analysis result of the transmission control information, analyzes the multiplexed stream obtained by decoding the transmission signal and sets packet division information for dividing the packets from the multiplexed stream, the packet division information according to at least one of the analysis result of the transmission control information or an analysis result of the multiplexed stream, and divides the multiplexed stream into the packets on the basis of the set packet division information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: SATOSHI OKADA, YUICHI HIRAYAMA, HIROFUMI MARUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20210168429
    Abstract: Channel bonding is realized in a receiving apparatus that receives terrestrial digital broadcasting compliant with an ATSC 3.0 standard. A first receiving circuit receives a first frame obtained by encoding first packets within a stream containing the first packets and second packets via a first frequency channel. A second receiving circuit receives a second frame obtained by encoding the second packets via a second frequency channel different from the first frequency channel. A first integrated circuit decodes the first frame and acquires the first packets. The second integrated circuit performs processing for decoding the second frame and acquiring the second packets and processing for bonding the first packets and the second packets together and reconstructing the stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventors: SATOSHI OKADA, RYOSUKE SUDA
  • Publication number: 20210164459
    Abstract: An electric compressor includes an electric motor, and a motor controller configured to drive the electric motor. The motor controller includes a high voltage circuit board on which switching elements are mounted, a low voltage circuit board on which a control circuit controlling switching operation of the switching elements is mounted, an input connector, an output connector, and a current sensor. The high voltage circuit board and the low voltage circuit board are stacked with each other. The output connector is integrated with a detection busbar that provides electrical connection between the high voltage circuit board and the low voltage circuit board, and through which detection signals indicative of the output current are output to the control circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Satoshi Okada, Yoshifumi Tada, Yusuke Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 10951336
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a data processing apparatus and a data processing method capable of achieving higher convenience in a case where a plurality of transmission formats is available in a transmission frame. The data processing apparatus installed in a transmission-side facility processes a transmission frame transmitted as a broadcast signal and adds identification information for identifying the transmission format of the transmission frame, while a data processing apparatus installed in a reception-side facility processes a transmission frame in which a transmission frame has been identified, on the basis of identification information added to the transmission frame transmitted as the broadcast signal. The present technology can be applied as a method of a test stream, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Takahashi, Yuichi Hirayama, Satoshi Okada
  • Patent number: 10917277
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a transmission device, a transmission method, a reception device, and a reception method for sufficiently securing an information amount of additional information of a physical layer. The transmission device generates and transmits an OFDM signal in which additional information of a physical layer is allocated to additional carriers in each of groups, the groups being obtained by grouping the additional carriers to be used for transmission of the additional information, of carriers of the OFDM signal of one frame, into the groups of the number of groups according to a DFT size of when IDFT of the OFDM signal is performed. The reception device receives the OFDM signal, and acquires the additional information corresponding to the number of groups according to the DFT size from the OFDM signal. The present technology can be applied to, for example, transmission and reception of the OFDM signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Lachlan Bruce Michael, Kazuyuki Takahashi, Satoshi Okada
  • Publication number: 20210036793
    Abstract: To provide a demodulation circuit, a processing circuit, a processing method, and a processing device that are capable of implementing more prompt acquisition of alert information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventors: SATOSHI OKADA, KENICHI KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20200412467
    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: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicants: SONY CORPORATION, SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi OKADA, Kazuyuki Takahashi, Takeshi Ohno
  • Publication number: 20200351546
    Abstract: A signal processing device includes an interface, which includes a demodulation processing unit that executes demodulation processing, a processing unit that executes demux processing or the like, and a sync signal line, a valid signal line, a clock signal line, and a data signal line disposed between the demodulation processing unit and the processing unit, that transmits data signals as two-bit parallel transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Inventors: SATOSHI OKADA, YUICHI HIRAYAMA, TOSHIHIRO YAMAGUCHI