Patents by Inventor Toshihiro Ezaki

Toshihiro Ezaki 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: 11700059
    Abstract: A display device includes imaging unit (101) to generate a captured image, image recognizer (102) to recognize whether or not the captured image contains a reception terminal, light emitter (106) to emit light in accordance with a modulation signal, and transmission controller (103) and light emission controller (105) to control driving of light emitter (106) based on a result recognized by image recognizer (102).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shutai Okamura, Masahiko Yamamoto, Toshihiro Ezaki, Satoshi Ohyama, Takeshi Hatakeyama
  • Publication number: 20200388212
    Abstract: A display device includes imaging unit (101) to generate a captured image, image recognizer (102) to recognize whether or not the captured image contains a reception terminal, light emitter (106) to emit light in accordance with a modulation signal, and transmission controller (103) and light emission controller (105) to control driving of light emitter (106) based on a result recognized by image recognizer (102).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventors: Shutai OKAMURA, Masahiko YAMAMOTO, Toshihiro EZAKI, Satoshi OHYAMA, Takeshi HATAKEYAMA
  • Patent number: 10687159
    Abstract: In a noise reduction device that generates and outputs a control sound signal for reducing noise, an internal loop control unit controls an internal loop in which a pre-output control sound signal that is acquired from a control sound output unit before output to a speaker is input to a sound receiver. A measurement unit measures an input level of a microphone sound signal and an input level of the pre-output control sound signal that has been input to the sound receiver in the internal loop. A fault detector uses the input level of the microphone sound signal and the input level of the pre-output control sound signal measured by the measurement unit to detect a fault in any one of the microphone, the sound receiver, the speaker, and the control sound output unit. A transmitter sends a result of fault detection performed by the fault detector to a management device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Yamaguchi, Toshihiro Ezaki, Kenichi Kubota, Masaru Matsuoka, Yuji Suzuki, Junji Araki, Shinichi Takayama
  • Patent number: 10418021
    Abstract: A noise reduction device is connectable to a plurality of sound acquisition devices and a plurality of control sound output devices for reducing noises in a given space where seats are arranged and a sound field can be formed. The device includes a sound receiver, a processor, a control sound transmitter. The sound receiver receives a sound signal from at least two of the plurality of sound acquisition devices. The processor detects a state change of the sound field, and generates a control sound signal for reducing noise with respect to the sound signal. The control sound transmitter outputs the control sound signal to each of control sound output devices. The processor acquires, for example, seat information for specifying the reclining state of a seat. The processor controls the generation of the control sound signal based on the change of state of the sound field including the seat information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Yamaguchi, Toshihiro Ezaki
  • Publication number: 20190281398
    Abstract: In a noise reduction device that generates and outputs a control sound signal for reducing noise, an internal loop control unit controls an internal loop in which a pre-output control sound signal that is acquired from a control sound output unit before output to a speaker is input to a sound receiver. A measurement unit measures an input level of a microphone sound signal and an input level of the pre-output control sound signal that has been input to the sound receiver in the internal loop. A fault detector uses the input level of the microphone sound signal and the input level of the pre-output control sound signal measured by the measurement unit to detect a fault in any one of the microphone, the sound receiver, the speaker, and the control sound output unit. A transmitter sends a result of fault detection performed by the fault detector to a management device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Takahiro YAMAGUCHI, Toshihiro EZAKI, Kenichi KUBOTA, Masaru MATSUOKA, Yuji SUZUKI, Junji ARAKI, Shinichi TAKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20190259370
    Abstract: A noise reduction device is connectable to a plurality of sound acquisition devices and a plurality of control sound output devices for reducing noises in a given space where seats are arranged and a sound field can be formed. The device includes a sound receiver, a processor, a control sound transmitter. The sound receiver receives a sound signal from at least two of the plurality of sound acquisition devices. The processor detects a state change of the sound field, and generates a control sound signal for reducing noise with respect to the sound signal. The control sound transmitter outputs the control sound signal to each of control sound output devices. The processor acquires, for example, seat information for specifying the reclining state of a seat. The processor controls the generation of the control sound signal based on the change of state of the sound field including the seat information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventors: Takahiro YAMAGUCHI, Toshihiro EZAKI
  • Patent number: 9178709
    Abstract: A wireless communication system performs high-quality communication using Multicast communication where re-transmission processing is performed. The wireless communication system includes a program distribution unit for distributing a program using the Multicast communication; a first communication path for transmitting the program distributed from the program distribution unit; first communication units; user terminals; and a second and the user terminal and is also a wireless communication path where the re-transmission of a frame is performed, wherein the first communication unit selects a Multicast frame of a program requested by the user terminal from the first communication path, converts the selected Multicast frame into a Unicast frame, and transmits the converted Unicast frame to the user terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaaki Higashida, Shotaro Tanaka, Yasuaki Sakanishi, Seiji Horita, Tadayuki Inoue, Kenshi Taniguchi, Toshihiro Ezaki
  • Patent number: 9090332
    Abstract: A noise reduction device, including a microphone for detecting noise, a noise controller for reversing the phase of noise detected by the microphone based on information outputted from the microphone, and a speaker for outputting sound based on information outputted from the noise controller, is arranged at a seat surrounded by a shell portion having a cavity, wherein a speaker is disposed in the cavity of the shell portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Asao, Hiroyuki Kano, Masaaki Higashida, Tsuyoshi Maeda, Toshihiro Ezaki
  • Patent number: 8949908
    Abstract: A content upload system includes: a content distributing server that is installed in an airplane and distributes audio-video contents into the airplane; and a plurality of content accumulating servers that are installed in a plurality of airports, in which the airplane is parked, and transmit the audio-video contents to the content distributing server through a network. The content distributing server selectively writes audio-video contents that have not been stored in the content distributing server of audio-video contents transmitted from the content accumulating server while the airplane is parked on the airport.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihiro Ezaki, Masaaki Higashida
  • Patent number: 8768347
    Abstract: The present invention is a wireless communication system for establishing wireless communication between a wireless base station installed at the upper part of a communication area in a moving vehicle and a wireless terminal in the communication area, comprising a space surrounded by wall surfaces rising vertically in the communication area, wherein the space has an opening opened by specified width in a plane direction, and the wireless base station is installed in a region extended from the opening of the space by specified width outwardly of the wall surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihiro Ezaki, Masaaki Higashida
  • Patent number: 8718292
    Abstract: It includes a microphone for detecting noise emitted from a noise source, a noise controller for generating control sound signal to reduce noise detected by the microphone based on information from the microphone, and a speaker for outputting control sound based on control sound signal from the noise controller, wherein a plurality of microphones and speakers are arranged for each seat, and a plurality of microphones are arranged in higher density for each seat in a specific direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Asao, Hiroyuki Kano, Masaaki Higashida, Tsuyoshi Maeda, Toshihiro Ezaki
  • Publication number: 20140013365
    Abstract: A communication device wirelessly connected to a seat-side communication device having a wireless communication function disposed on an attachment face of a fixed seat is described herein. The communication device is attached to a moving vehicle that moves substantially parallel to the attachment face of a fixed seat. The communication device comprises first moving vehicle faces disposed substantially parallel to the direction in which the moving vehicle moves and directly face the attachment face of the fixed seat, a second moving vehicle face disposed on the bottom face of the moving vehicle, third moving vehicle faces disposed facing the forward or backward movement direction of the moving vehicle, an antenna component configured to communicate with the seat-side communication device, and a controller configured to control the transmission and reception of data. The antenna component is disposed on at least one of the first, second, and the third moving vehicle faces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2013
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Inventors: Toshihiro EZAKI, Satoshi Oyama
  • Patent number: 8565442
    Abstract: A noise reduction device including a noise detection microphone including a high-frequency noise detection microphone and a low-frequency noise detection microphone for respectively detecting a high-frequency noise and a low-frequency noise generated from a noise source; a noise control unit for generating a control sound signal for cancelling a noise detected by the noise detection microphone in a control center of control space; and a loudspeaker for outputting a control sound based on the control sound signal from the noise controlling unit. The high-frequency noise microphone is disposed in a vicinity of a head portion of a user in a state in which directivity in an opposite direction with respect to the control center is added, and the low-frequency noise detection microphone is disposed outside of a sound-insulating wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Maeda, Masaaki Higashida, Toshihiro Ezaki, Yoshifumi Asao, Hiroyuki Kano
  • Patent number: 8477692
    Abstract: A radio communication system is disclosed. This system includes a wireless base station placed at an upper section of a communicating zone in a mobile unit such as an aircraft, multiple seat-rows arranged along a longitudinal direction in the communicating zone, and wireless terminals placed at each one of seats of the seat rows. Radio communication is done between the wireless base station and the wireless terminals. The wireless base station is placed on the ceiling at the forefront or at the extreme end of the communicating zone relative to the longitudinal direction of the seat rows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihiro Ezaki, Masaaki Higashida
  • Patent number: 8477723
    Abstract: The present invention includes a receiving antenna receiving information while changing plural different wireless base stations; a seat information acquiring unit acquiring position information of a destination seat paired; a wireless base station selecting unit selecting a wireless base station to be connected on the basis of position information; and a directivity switching unit changing directivity of the receiving antenna on the basis of position information, which transmits at least one of video information and audio information from a wireless base station to a user seated on the seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Watanabe, Toshihiro Ezaki, Yasuaki Sakanishi, Wataru Noguchi
  • Patent number: D966024
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaharu Matsumoto, Takeshi Hatakeyama, Toshihiro Ezaki
  • Patent number: D984155
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaharu Matsumoto, Takeshi Hatakeyama, Toshihiro Ezaki
  • Patent number: D989500
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaharu Matsumoto, Takeshi Hatakeyama, Toshihiro Ezaki
  • Patent number: D990181
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaharu Matsumoto, Takeshi Hatakeyama, Toshihiro Ezaki
  • Patent number: D990904
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaharu Matsumoto, Takeshi Hatakeyama, Toshihiro Ezaki