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).

  • Publication number: 20190356946
    Abstract: This technology relates to a transmission apparatus, a reception apparatus, and a data processing method for easily implementing circuits on the receiving side. There is provided a transmission apparatus including a processing section configured to process a stream with respect to each of multiple PLPs included in a broadcast signal, the stream being constituted by packets, the processing section further causing a header of each of the packets to include mapping information mapped to identification information identifying the PLP to which each of the packets belongs. This technology may be applied to data transmission methods such as the IP transmission method or the MPEG2-TS method, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicants: SONY CORPORATION, SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuyuki TAKAHASHI, Satoshi OKADA, Takeshi OHNO
  • Patent number: 10476711
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Yoshimochi, Satoshi Okada, Makiko Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10433004
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a reception apparatus, a reception method, and a program for generating a time stamp with a simple circuit structure that is realized at low cost. In one example, a reception apparatus includes a reception unit, an obtaining unit, a time stamp increment value specifying unit, a time stamp calculating unit and a time stamp adding unit. The reception unit receives a data stream formed of a series of packets. The obtaining unit obtains a transmission parameter from the received data stream. The time stamp increment value specifying unit specifies a time stamp increment value corresponding to the obtained transmission parameter. The time stamp calculating unit updates the time stamp by adding the specified time stamp increment value to a previous time stamp, and the time stamp adding unit adds the updated time stamp to the packets configuring the data stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Noriaki Ooishi, Satoshi Okada
  • Publication number: 20190268082
    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: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2017
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuyuki TAKAHASHI, Yuichi HIRAYAMA, Satoshi OKADA
  • Publication number: 20190190689
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a transmission apparatus, a reception apparatus, and a data processing method capable of efficiently transmitting time information with high accuracy. The transmission apparatus generates a physical layer frame including the time information and transmits the physical layer frame. The reception apparatus receives the physical layer frame from the transmission apparatus and performs predetermined processing on the basis of the time information included in the physical layer frame. Time information indicating a certain time is included at a head of the physical layer frame. The present technology can be applied to digital television broadcasting using the IP system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi OKADA, Kazuyuki TAKAHASHI, Lachlan Bruce Michael
  • Publication number: 20190182090
    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: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Lachlan Bruce MICHAEL, Kazuyuki TAKAHASHI, Satoshi OKADA
  • Patent number: 10302436
    Abstract: A path searching apparatus includes: a path searching unit that searches for an optimal path of a movable body that performs traveling from a start node to a goal node by performing a path searching process based on A-Star algorithm, and a predicting unit that predicts a surrounding situation of the movable body at each of times in future. The path searching unit determines whether a first surrounding situation involves a change from a second surrounding situation, on a basis of the predicted surrounding situation, and upon determining that the first surrounding situation involves the change, updates an estimated smallest cost value h* of a node on which the searching has been already performed, on a basis of the first surrounding situation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoaki Itabashi, Satoshi Okada, Akihiro Yamane
  • Publication number: 20190149254
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a reception device, a transmission device, and a data processing method with which it becomes possible to operate digital television broadcasting more flexibly. A reception device receives a broadcast signal transmitted by frequency division multiplexing (FDM) and processes, on the basis of control information existence information that is information included in first control information, which is acquired from the broadcast signal and is control information in a physical layer, and that indicates existence/non-existence of second control information that is control information in an upper layer of the physical layer, the second control information transmitted in each hierarchy. The present technology can be applied, for example, to a receiver that can receive digital television broadcasting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuyuki TAKAHASHI, Satoshi OKADA, Lachlan Bruce MICHAEL
  • Patent number: 10284131
    Abstract: A motor-driven compressor for a vehicle includes a housing, a compression unit, a motor, and an inverter device. The inverter device includes an inverter circuit, a capacitor, a current sensor, a determination means configured to control switching elements in response to the current sensor not detecting a flow of current when the motor stops operating and configured to determine whether or not the current sensor detects a flow of current when controlling the switching elements, and a discharge starting means configured to start discharging the capacitor when the determination means determines that the flow of current has not been detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Takashi Kawashima, Yoshiki Nagata, Satoshi Okada, Fumihiro Kagawa, Kazuki Najima, Hiroshi Fukasaku
  • Patent number: 10283555
    Abstract: A radiation detection apparatus employs a sensor panel having first and second opposing surfaces with a pixel array and electrical contacts arranged on the first surface side. A first supporting portion is secured to the panel with an adhesive layer, and supports the pixel array from the second surface side of the panel. A second supporting portion is fixed to the panel so as to inhibit the second supporting portion from being removed from the panel. The second supporting portion supports the electrical contacts from the second surface side of the panel. The elastic modulus of the second supporting portion is higher than that of the adhesive layer, and a number of wiring members are pressure-bonded to the electrical contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoaki Ichimura, Satoshi Okada, Kazumi Nagano
  • Publication number: 20190070072
    Abstract: Provided is a multilayer vessel excellent in gas barrier performance and transparency and its application. The multilayer vessel contains a layer (X) that contains at least one type of polyolefin resin as the major ingredient; and a layer (Y) that contains a polyamide resin (A) as the major ingredient, the polyamide resin (A) being composed of a structural unit derived from diamine, and a structural unit derived from dicarboxylic acid, 70 mol % or more of the structural unit derived from diamine being derived from metaxylylenediamine, meanwhile 30 to 60 mol % of the structural unit derived from dicarboxylic acid being derived from straight chain aliphatic ?,?-dicarboxylic acid having 4 to 20 carbon atoms, and 70 to 40 mol % being derived from isophthalic acid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI GAS CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Shota ARAKAWA, Toshiya NAITO, Satoshi OKADA, Kenichiro USUDA, Takumi TOIDA, Haruka OKAZAKI, Fumihiro ITO
  • Patent number: 10225030
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a reception apparatus and a data processing method that permit efficient processing of time information. The reception apparatus receives a digital broadcasting signal based on an IP transport scheme, acquires time information from a physical layer frame transported in a physical layer of a protocol stack for the IP transport scheme, converts the acquired time information into the same data format as data provided in a payload of the physical layer frame, and outputs the converted time information to a processing section that performs a given process relating to an upper layer that is a layer higher than the physical layer. The present technology is applicable, for example, to a television receiver that supports an IP transport scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Lachlan Bruce Michael, Kazuyuki Takahashi, Satoshi Okada, Yuichi Hirayama
  • Patent number: 10200577
    Abstract: Since an investigation apparatus is connected through a cable and is remotely operated, the cable may be caught by an obstacle, thereby limiting a movement range of the investigation apparatus. An investigation system 15 includes an investigation apparatus 50 which moves to a position where an investigation target is investigated, by using a traveling section 51 and a support apparatus 30 which moves to a position where letting-off and winding of a cable 14 for an investigation apparatus which is connected to the investigation apparatus 50 are performed, by using a traveling section 31. The investigation apparatus 50 outputs an image of the investigation target which is captured by a camera section 53, to an investigation apparatus controller 40 via the cable 14 for an investigation apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Okada, Ryousuke Kobayashi, Kouji Ishizawa, Takanori Satou, Yoshinori Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20190017147
    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: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2017
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Inventors: Chompunoot Wiraseranee, Rinat Mirvaliev, Satoshi Okada
  • Publication number: 20190007708
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a data processing device and a data processing method. The data processing device includes processing circuitry that splits an input stream into a split stream for each of a plurality of channels. The processing circuitry further generates a transmission frame based on the split stream of one of the plurality of channels and channel bonding signaling information for the one of the plurality of channels. The channel bonding signaling information includes signature information that uniquely identifies the input stream. Further, the signature information is contained in a header of the transmission frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Muhammad Nabil Sven LOGHIN, Satoshi OKADA, Lothar STADELMEIER
  • Publication number: 20180354840
    Abstract: A method for immobilizing arsenic includes adding calcium arsenate to a glass-forming material containing iron, silica, and alkaline components so that an iron/silica weight ratio is in a range of 0.5 to 0.9 and an amount of alkaline components is in a range of 14 wt % to 26 wt %, and thereby incorporating the arsenic into a glass solidified body. For example, the method for immobilizing arsenic may include: adding an alkaline solution and an oxidizing agent to a copper-arsenic-containing substance, and thereby carrying out an oxidizing leaching; separating a leach residue by solid-liquid separation; adding calcium hydroxide to a recovered alkaline arsenate solution to generate calcium arsenate; and adding the glass-forming material to the recovered calcium arsenate so that the iron/silica weight ratio and the amount of alkaline components are in the above-mentioned ranges, and thereby incorporating the arsenic into the glass solidified body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventors: Atsuhiro Nabei, Rinato Miruvariefu, Satoshi Okada
  • Patent number: 10150107
    Abstract: Oxygen-absorbing resin composition comprising a polyester containing a constitutional unit (a) comprising tetralin ring structure, for example, an alkyl tetralin dicarboxylate, wherein the alkyl component has, for example, from 2 to 6 carbon atoms, and a constitutional unit (b) derived from a polyfunctional compound, selected from glycerin, trimethylol propane, pentaerythritol, trimellitic acid, trimellitic acid anhydride, pyromellitic acid, and pyromellitic acid anhydride, and a transition metal catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI GAS CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Shinpei Iwamoto, Satoshi Okada, Shinichi Ikeda, Fumihiro Ito
  • Patent number: 10151015
    Abstract: A method of leaching a precious metal contained in decopperized anode slime includes, agitating and circulating a slurry at the same time, in carrying out hydrochloric acid oxidation leaching of the precious metal contained in the decopperized anode slime by adding a hydrochloric acid and an oxidant to the slurry of the decopperized anode slime, wherein in the circulating, the slurry is extracted from a lower portion of a tank and supplied again into an upper portion of the tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryousuke Satou, Takahiro Uno, Satoshi Okada
  • Publication number: 20180352290
    Abstract: Communication reception that enables reception of a packet which may not contain an error without invalidating the same is disclosed. In one example, an information analyzing unit analyzes a data string and frame/slot information, and supplies TMCC information, slot header information, and data length information to a packet length indicating unit and a packet dividing unit. The packet length indicating unit defines the packet length in advance, and indicates the defined packet length to the packet dividing unit. The packet dividing unit performs packet division on the basis of the packet length obtained from the TMCC information, the slot header information, the data length information and the like from the information analyzing unit, and the packet length defined by the packet length indicating unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hirofumi Maruyama, Noriaki Ooishi, Yuichi Hirayama, Satoshi Okada
  • Publication number: 20180346729
    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: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Noriaki MIYAKE, Satoshi Okada, Jun Irisawa, Teppei Konishi, Keigo Matsuura