Patents by Inventor Shoji Kawamura
Shoji Kawamura 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: 8964859Abstract: A 3D decoding apparatus according to the present invention includes: a decoding unit which decodes left-eye and right-eye code signals to generate left-eye and right-eye decode signals; an error determining unit which determines an error of the left-eye and the right-eye code signals; an output determining unit which determines, when there is an error in one of the left-eye and the right-eye code signals, whether the one of the code signals that is determined as including an error has an error data mount equal to or greater than a first threshold; and an output unit which outputs neither the left-eye nor the right-eye code signal when the error data amount is smaller than the first threshold, and outputs only the decode signal obtained by decoding the other of the code signals when the error data amount is equal to or greater than the first threshold.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2013Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Yohei Ikeuchi, Kengo Nishimura, Shoji Kawamura
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Patent number: 8704876Abstract: A 3D video processor that outputs a left-eye image and a right-eye image to be superimposed on main video includes: a left-eye object processing unit that outputs the left-eye image; a right-eye object processing unit that outputs the right-eye image; and an image output control unit that controls the left-eye object processing unit and the right-eye object processing unit so that the images are synchronously outputted. The left-eye object processing unit determines if image output preparation of the left-eye image is completed. The right-eye object processing unit determines if image output preparation of the right-eye image is completed. The image output control unit instructs to skip the output of both the images, when the image output preparation of one of the left-eye image and the right-eye image is not completed.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2012Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Tomoki Mizobuchi, Yohei Ikeuchi, Shoji Kawamura, Kengo Nishimura
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Publication number: 20130343469Abstract: A 3D decoding apparatus according to the present invention includes: a decoding unit which decodes left-eye and right-eye code signals to generate left-eye and right-eye decode signals; an error determining unit which determines an error of the left-eye and the right-eye code signals; an output determining unit which determines, when there is an error in one of the left-eye and the right-eye code signals, whether the one of the code signals that is determined as including an error has an error data mount equal to or greater than a first threshold; and an output unit which outputs neither the left-eye nor the right-eye code signal when the error data amount is smaller than the first threshold, and outputs only the decode signal obtained by decoding the other of the code signals when the error data amount is equal to or greater than the first threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2013Publication date: December 26, 2013Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yohei IKEUCHI, Kengo NISHIMURA, Shoji KAWAMURA
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Patent number: 8577208Abstract: A 3D decoding apparatus according to the present invention includes: a decoding unit which decodes left-eye and right-eye code signals to generate left-eye and right-eye decode signals; an error determining unit which determines an error of the left-eye and the right-eye code signals; an output determining unit which determines, when there is an error in one of the left-eye and the right-eye code signals, whether the one of the code signals that is determined as including an error has an error data mount equal to or greater than a first threshold; and an output unit which outputs neither the left-eye nor the right-eye code signal when the error data amount is smaller than the first threshold, and outputs only the decode signal obtained by decoding the other of the code signals when the error data amount is equal to or greater than the first threshold.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2011Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Yohei Ikeuchi, Kengo Nishimura, Shoji Kawamura
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Publication number: 20120182389Abstract: A 3D video processor that outputs a left-eye image and a right-eye image to be superimposed on main video includes: a left-eye object processing unit that outputs the left-eye image; a right-eye object processing unit that outputs the right-eye image; and an image output control unit that controls the left-eye object processing unit and the right-eye object processing unit so that the images are synchronously outputted. The left-eye object processing unit determines if image output preparation of the left-eye image is completed. The right-eye object processing unit determines if image output preparation of the right-eye image is completed. The image output control unit instructs to skip the output of both the images, when the image output preparation of one of the left-eye image and the right-eye image is not completed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2012Publication date: July 19, 2012Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoki MIZOBUCHI, Yohei IKEUCHI, Shoji KAWAMURA, Kengo NISHIMURA
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Patent number: 8169465Abstract: A 3D video processor that outputs a left-eye image and a right-eye image to be superimposed on main video includes: a left-eye object processing unit that outputs the left-eye image; a right-eye object processing unit that outputs the right-eye image; and an image output control unit that controls the left-eye object processing unit and the right-eye object processing unit so that the left-eye image and the right-eye image are synchronously outputted. The left-eye object processing unit determines whether or not image output preparation of the left-eye image is completed. The right-eye object processing unit determines whether or not image output preparation of the right-eye image is completed. The image output control unit instructs to skip the output of both the left-eye image and the right-eye image, when the image output preparation of one of the left-eye image and the right-eye image is not completed.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2011Date of Patent: May 1, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Tomoki Mizobuchi, Yohei Ikeuchi, Shoji Kawamura, Kengo Nishimura
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Publication number: 20110280552Abstract: A 3D decoding apparatus according to the present invention includes: a decoding unit which decodes left-eye and right-eye code signals to generate left-eye and right-eye decode signals; an error determining unit which determines an error of the left-eye and the right-eye code signals; an output determining unit which determines, when there is an error in one of the left-eye and the right-eye code signals, whether the one of the code signals that is determined as including an error has an error data mount equal to or greater than a first threshold; and an output unit which outputs neither the left-eye nor the right-eye code signal when the error data amount is smaller than the first threshold, and outputs only the decode signal obtained by decoding the other of the code signals when the error data amount is equal to or greater than the first threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2011Publication date: November 17, 2011Applicant: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Yohei IKEUCHI, Kengo NISHIMURA, Shoji KAWAMURA
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Publication number: 20110261159Abstract: A 3D video processor that outputs a left-eye image and a right-eye image to be superimposed on main video includes: a left-eye object processing unit that outputs the left-eye image; a right-eye object processing unit that outputs the right-eye image; and an image output control unit that controls the left-eye object processing unit and the right-eye object processing unit so that the left-eye image and the right-eye image are synchronously outputted. The left-eye object processing unit determines whether or not image output preparation of the left-eye image is completed. The right-eye object processing unit determines whether or not image output preparation of the right-eye image is completed. The image output control unit instructs to skip the output of both the left-eye image and the right-eye image, when the image output preparation of one of the left-eye image and the right-eye image is not completed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2011Publication date: October 27, 2011Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoki MIZOBUCHI, Yohei IKEUCHI, Shoji KAWAMURA, Kengo NISHIMURA
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Patent number: 6898814Abstract: A bed cushion providing a soft feeling without bottomed feeling and providing a cushionability even against a small load and a durability, and a bed using the cushion; a forming die for cushion capable of smoothly and neatly releasing a product by reducing a sticky feeling and a blocking produced when releasing the cushion formed by using elastomer; the cushion, comprising thin-walled partition walls erected parallel with each other generally in a lattice shape in plan view, whereby a soft contact feeling near a water bed can be provided while preventing air blow noise from being produced by a user.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2002Date of Patent: May 31, 2005Assignee: France Bed Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shoji Kawamura, Yukihiro Takeda, Kenichi Tsuruhashi, Hirotoshi Kubota, Masao Sasaki
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Publication number: 20030110567Abstract: A bed cushion providing a soft feeling without bottomed feeling and providing a cushionability even against a small load and a durability, and a bed using the cushion; a forming die for cushion capable of smoothly and neatly releasing a product by reducing a sticky feeling and a blocking produced when releasing the cushion formed by using elastomer; the cushion, comprising thin-walled partition walls erected parallel with each other generally in a lattice shape in plan view, whereby a soft contact feeling near a water bed can be provided while preventing air blow noise from being produced by a user.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2002Publication date: June 19, 2003Inventors: Shoji Kawamura, Yukihiro Takeda, Kenichi Tsuruhashi, Hirotoshi Kubota, Masao Sasaki
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Publication number: 20030037377Abstract: A bed cushion providing a soft feeling without bottomed feeling and providing a cushionability even against a small load and a durability, and a bed using the cushion; a forming die for cushion capable of smoothly and neatly releasing a product by reducing a sticky feeling and a blocking produced when releasing the cushion formed by using elastomer; the cushion, comprising thin-walled partition walls erected parallel with each other generally in a lattice shape in plan view, whereby a soft contact feeling near a water bed can be provided while preventing air blow noise from being produced by a user.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2002Publication date: February 27, 2003Inventors: Shoji Kawamura, Yukihiro Takeda, Kenichi Tsuruhashi, Hirotoshi Kubota, Masao Sasaki
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Publication number: 20020051136Abstract: The present invention provides a printer device which is capable of, when there is no frame in which print control information is written exist in a storage medium such as a memory card, notifying a user by displaying a message to that effect on a display unit. A printer device comprises a mode setting unit capable of setting a print control mode in which print control information written corresponding to image information is read; a judging unit for judging whether or not a frame in which predetermined print control information is written exists when the print control mode is set; and a display control unit for displaying a message that the print control information is not set in any frame when it is judged that the print control information is not set in any frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2001Publication date: May 2, 2002Inventors: Shoji Kawamura, Azuma Miyazawa
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Patent number: 5752089Abstract: The camera system comprises a camera and an external device. The camera includes a microcomputer, a write control circuit for receiving replacement data from the external device and writing the replacement data into a replacement program memory of the microcomputer, and an interface circuit for controlling a camera element in accordance with the decoded value output from an instruction decoder (ID) of the microcomputer. The external device includes a memory for storing address data to be changed in the microcomputer in the camera and replacement program data, and a transmission circuit for reading out the replacement data from the memory and transmitting the read-out data to the camera.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 1994Date of Patent: May 12, 1998Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Azuma Miyazawa, Satoshi Miyazaki, Tetsuo Miyasaka, Toshiaki Ishimaru, Kazutada Kobayashi, Shoji Kawamura
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Patent number: 5647077Abstract: A cushion unit is provided which is elastically compression-deformable on load. A case is stacked on the upper surface of the cushion unit. The case has an upper surface and lower surface with a receiving section open relative to the upper surface. A water bag is formed of a flexible water-proof sheet and containing a liquid. The stacked cushion unit and case are covered with an outer layer unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 1995Date of Patent: July 15, 1997Assignee: France Bed Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takeo Abe, Shoji Kawamura
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Patent number: 5574926Abstract: A one-chip microcomputer system includes a one-chip microcomputer, a nonvolatile memory which can electrically rewritably store changing data of a program stored in a mask ROM of the one-chip microcomputer, an input unit (connection unit) for receiving data to be written in the nonvolatile memory from an external device, and an object to be controlled by the one-chip microcomputer. In one aspect, the nonvolatile memory has first and second correction data areas, and first and second memories for respectively designating these areas. Upon reception of an initialization signal from the external device connected to the input unit, only the second memory for designating the second correction data area is initialized. In another aspect, the mask ROM stores ROM version data, and the nonvolatile memory stores board version data.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 1994Date of Patent: November 12, 1996Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Azuma Miyazawa, Junichi Itoh, Yuji Imai, Minoru Hara, Kazutada Kobayashi, Shoji Kawamura, Kenji Fujibayashi, Yuichi Saito, Yoichiro Okumura
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Patent number: 5513401Abstract: A watermattress apparatus has a cushion body which is elastically compressed when a load has been exerted thereon. A case is laminated on the upper surface of the cushion body. The case has upper and lower surfaces and a receiving portion opening to the upper surface. A water bag formed of a flexible waterproof sheet and containing a liquid therein is received in the receiving portion. An envelope covers the laminated cushion body and case.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 1994Date of Patent: May 7, 1996Assignee: France Bed Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takeo Abe, Shoji Kawamura
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Patent number: 4851869Abstract: A power focusing apparatus, while a rotary operating member is rotated calculates a motor driving speed in accordance with a rotating speed of the operating member or calculates an amount of driving the motor in accordance with a speed and an amount of rotating the operating member and drives a lens with the calculated speed or amount of driving the motor.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 1988Date of Patent: July 25, 1989Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toshiaki Ishimaru, Shoji Kawamura, Shunji Matsutani