Patents by Inventor Seiji Horii

Seiji Horii 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: 6732313
    Abstract: A data transmission apparatus including a receiving unit for receiving transmitted packets; a priority decision unit; a retransmission packet storage unit; a retransmission instruction receiving unit for receiving a retransmission request from a terminal at the receiving end; a retransmission decision unit; a transmission queue management unit; and a transmission unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2004
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki Fukushima, Seiji Horii, Tatsuya Ohnishi, Makoto Hagai, Yoshinori Matsui, Akihiro Miyazaki
  • Publication number: 20040073730
    Abstract: A resource management device of the present invention, used in a system where at least one bus master is connected to each of a plurality of buses, includes: a bus arbitration section for arbitrating an amount of access to be made from the buses to a shared resource; an arbitration information management section for managing, as bus arbitration information, a bus priority order and a highest access priority pattern for ensuring a predetermined access bandwidth to the shared resource for each bus for an arbitration operation by the bus arbitration section; and a resource control section for controlling, based on characteristics of the shared resource, an access to the shared resource from the bus whose access request has been granted by the bus arbitration section. Thus, it is possible to guarantee a minimum bandwidth for access to the shared resource for each of the plurality of bus masters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2003
    Publication date: April 15, 2004
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiji Horii, Yuji Takai, Takahide Baba, Yoshiharu Watanabe, Daisuke Murakami, Tetsuji Kishi
  • Patent number: 6684354
    Abstract: A data transmission apparatus including a receiving unit for receiving transmitted packets; a priority decision unit; a retransmission packet storage unit; a retransmission instruction receiving unit for receiving a retransmission request from a terminal at the receiving end; a retransmission decision unit; a transmission queue management unit; and a transmission unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2004
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki Fukushima, Seiji Horii, Tatsuya Ohnishi, Makoto Hagai, Yoshinori Matsui, Akihiro Miyazaki
  • Publication number: 20030226094
    Abstract: A data transmission apparatus for relaying data transmitted from the transmitting end in units of packets, each packet having additional information relating to its sequence number, priority, and data reproduction time, comprises: a receiving unit for receiving packets transmitted from the transmitting end; a priority decision unit for deciding the priority of each of the received packets; a retransmission packet storage unit for storing packets the priorities of which are equal to or higher than a predetermined value, as retransmission packets, on the basis of the priority of each packet decided by the priority decision unit; a retransmission instruction receiving unit for receiving a retransmission request from a terminal at the receiving end; a retransmission decision unit for deciding whether retransmission of the packet for which the retransmission request has been made should be performed or not, on the basis of the retransmission request and the storage status of the retransmission packets in the retra
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2003
    Publication date: December 4, 2003
    Inventors: Hideaki Fukushima, Seiji Horii, Tatsuya Ohnishi, Makoto Hagai, Yoshinori Matsui, Akihiro Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 6587985
    Abstract: A data transmission apparatus including a receiving unit for receiving transmitted packets; a priority decision unit; a retransmission packet storage unit; a retransmission instruction receiving unit for receiving a retransmission request from a terminal at the receiving end; a retransmission decision unit; a transmission queue management unit; and a transmission unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki Fukushima, Seiji Horii, Tatsuya Ohnishi, Makoto Hagai, Yoshinori Matsui, Akihiro Miyazaki
  • Publication number: 20030009717
    Abstract: A data transmission apparatus for relaying data transmitted from the transmitting end in units of packets, each packet having additional information relating to its sequence number, priority, and data reproduction time, comprises: a receiving unit for receiving packets transmitted from the transmitting end; a priority decision unit for deciding the priority of each of the received packets; a retransmission packet storage unit for storing packets the priorities of which are equal to or higher than a predetermined value, as retransmission packets, on the basis of the priority of each packet decided by the priority decision unit; a retransmission instruction receiving unit for receiving a retransmission request from a terminal at the receiving end; a retransmission decision unit for deciding whether retransmission of the packet for which the retransmission request has been made should be performed or not, on the basis of the retransmission request and the storage status of the retransmission packets in the retra
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2002
    Publication date: January 9, 2003
    Inventors: Hideaki Fukushima, Seiji Horii, Tatsuya Ohnishi, Makoto Hagai, Yoshinori Matsui, Akihiro Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 5757788
    Abstract: In a radio communication system for performing digital radio communications by using time-division multiplexed time slots, a first personal station receives its user's speech through the microphone, converts it into audio data, and transmits them on time slots to a second personal station. On the other hand, the first personal station receives non-audio data from the data processor connected with the second personal station and stores. When the audio data amount inputted to the first personal station in a unit time period is lower than a threshold and the communications between the first personal station and the second personal station are put in a silence condition, the first personal station transmits non-audio data on times slots to the second personal station. When the communications return to a sound condition, audio data transmission is restored. Whether each time slot carries audio data or non-audio data is designated by an identifier which is written in a predetermined field of each time slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 26, 1998
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Ind.
    Inventors: Akinori Tatsumi, Mitsuhiro Suzuki, Mikio Shimazu, Seiji Horii
  • Patent number: 5600635
    Abstract: The caller personal station of the present invention includes the following units: a channel search unit for scanning the plurality of communication channels to search for an unoccupied channel and regarding the unoccupied channel as a multicast channel; and a simultaneous call unit for repeatedly transmitting a simultaneous call frame on the multicast channel for a first predetermined time period, the simultaneous call frame indicating a simultaneous call to the other personal stations; a multicast unit for transmitting multicast frames on the multicast channel when a second predetermined time period has passed, the multicast frames containing data to be multicast. On receiving the simultaneous call frame by sequentially sensing the plurality of communication channels, the other personal stations enter a receiving state of multicast frames on the multicast channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 4, 1997
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Hamaki, Mitsuhiro Suzuki, Akinori Tatsumi, Mikio Shimazu, Jun Yamaguchi, Hiroaki Iwamoto, Masahide Morozumi, Takuya Kobayashi, Seiji Horii, Takako Hirose
  • Patent number: 5535205
    Abstract: A cell station and a personal station at a sender's end in the cell station's radio zone which carry out digital radio communication and monitors whether wave condition is good or bad by calculating a generation rate of errors. When the wave condition is good, data links are established between the cell station and the personal station at the sender's end, and between the cell station and the personal station at the opposite end. Information signals are sent and received through the data links. When the wave condition is good, control delay by processing of layer 2 can be prevented.(Effect)The speed of the digital radio communication increases while the reliability of sending and receiving information signals is ensured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 9, 1996
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Seiji Horii