Patents by Inventor Yuji Shinohara

Yuji Shinohara 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: 10979078
    Abstract: A transmission method includes performing LDPC coding on a basis of a parity check matrix of an LDPC code having a code length N of 69120 bits and a coding rate r of 3/16, and performing group-wise interleaving in which the LDPC code is interleaved in units of bit groups of 360 bits. The transmission method further includes mapping the LDPC code to one of 16 signal points of uniform constellation (UC) in 16QAM on a 4-bit basis. In the group wise interleaving, an (i+1)th bit group from a head of the LDPC code is set as a bit group i, and a sequence of bit groups 0 to 191 of the 69120-bit LDPC code is interleaved into a sequence of bit groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji Shinohara, Makiko Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10972128
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a data processing device and a data processing method so that an LDPC code with a good bit error rate is provided. An LDPC encoder encodes by an LDPC code whose code length is 16200 bits and code rate is 8/15. The LDPC code includes information bits and parity bits. A parity check matrix H includes an information matrix part corresponding to the information bits of the LDPC code and a parity matrix part corresponding to the parity bits. The information matrix part of the parity check matrix H is represented by a parity check matrix initial value table that indicates a position of an element 1 of the information matrix part for each 360 columns. The present technology is applicable to a case in which LDPC encoding and LDPC decoding are performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Yuji Shinohara, Makiko Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10965320
    Abstract: The present technique relates to a transmission apparatus, a transmission method, a reception apparatus, and a reception method that can ensure favorable communication quality in data transmission using an LDPC code. LDPC coding is performed based on a check matrix of an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits and a code rate r of 2/16, 3/16, or 4/16. The check matrix includes a matrix A with M1 rows and K columns, where M1 represents a predetermined value, and K=N×r represents an information length of the LDPC code, a matrix B with M1 rows and M1 columns in a dual diagonal structure, a matrix Z with M1 rows and N?K?M1 columns that is a zero matrix, a matrix C with N?K?M1 rows and K+M1 columns, and a matrix D with N?K?M1 rows and N?K?M1 columns that is an identity matrix. The matrix A and the matrix C are represented by a check matrix initial value table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji Shinohara, Makiko Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10965323
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a transmission method and a reception device capable of ensuring good communication quality in data transmission by using an LDPC code. In group-wise interleaving, an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits is interleaved in units of bit groups of 360 bits. In group-wise deinterleaving, an arrangement of the LDPC code after the group-wise interleaving is returned to an original arrangement. The present technology can be applied, for example, to the case of performing data transmission by using an LDPC code or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji Shinohara, Makiko Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10958291
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a transmission method and a reception device capable of ensuring good communication quality in data transmission by using an LDPC code. In group-wise interleaving, an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits is interleaved in units of bit groups of 360 bits. In group-wise deinterleaving, an arrangement of the LDPC code after the group-wise interleaving is returned to an original arrangement. The present technology can be applied, for example, to the case of performing data transmission by using an LDPC code or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji Shinohara, Makiko Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10951241
    Abstract: A transmitting device for generating a digital television broadcast signal incudes circuitry configured to receive data to be transmitted in a digital television broadcast signal and perform LDPC (low density parity check) encoding on input bits of the received data according to a parity check matrix initial value table of an LDPC code having a code length of 16200 bits and a code rate of 10/15 to generate an LDPC code word. The LDPC code enables error correction processing to correct errors generated in a transmission path of the digital television broadcast signal. The LDPC code word includes information bits and parity bits, the parity bits being processed by the receiving device to recover information bits corrupted by transmission path errors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Yuji Shinohara, Makiko Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20210075445
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a transmission method and a reception device for securing favorable communication quality in data transmission using an LDPC code. In group-wise interleaving, the LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits is interleaved in units of 360-bit bit groups 0 to 191. In group-wise deinterleaving, a sequence of the LDPC code after group-wise interleaving is returned to an original sequence. The present technology can be applied, for example, in a case of performing data transmission using an LDPC code, and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuji SHINOHARA
  • Patent number: 10944431
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a data processing device and a data processing method, which are capable of securing excellent communication quality in data transmission using an LDPC code. In group-wise interleave, an LDPC code in which a code length N is 16200 bits and an encoding rate r is 10/15 or 12/15 is interleaved in units of bit groups of 360 bits. In group-wise deinterleave, a sequence of the LDPC code that has undergone the group-wise interleave is restored to an original sequence. For example, the present technology can be applied to a technique of performing data transmission using an LDPC code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Ryoji Ikegaya, Makiko Yamamoto, Yuji Shinohara
  • Patent number: 10931312
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a transmission method and a reception device for securing favorable communication quality in data transmission using an LDPC code. In group-wise interleaving, the LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits is interleaved in units of 360-bit bit groups. In group-wise deinterleaving, a sequence of the LDPC code after group-wise interleaving is returned to an original sequence. The present technology can be applied, for example, in a case of performing data transmission using an LDPC code, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji Shinohara, Makiko Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10924136
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a transmission device, a transmission method, a reception device, and a reception method for securing good communication quality in data transmission using an LDPC code. LDPC coding for information bits with an information length K=N×r is performed on the basis of an extended parity check matrix having rows and columns each extended by a predetermined puncture length L with respect to a parity check matrix of an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits and a coding rate r of 14/16, so that an extended LDPC code having parity bits with a parity length M=N+L?K is generated. Then, a head of the information bits of the extended LDPC code is punctured by a puncture length L, so that a punctured LDPC code with the code length N of 69120 bits and the coding rate r is generated. The extended parity check matrix includes an information matrix portion corresponding to the information bits and a parity matrix portion corresponding to the parity bits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makiko Yamamoto, Yuji Shinohara
  • Patent number: 10897272
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a transmission method and a reception device capable of ensuring good communication quality in data transmission by using an LDPC code. In group-wise interleaving, an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits is interleaved in units of bit groups of 360 bits. In group-wise deinterleaving, an arrangement of the LDPC code after the group-wise interleaving is returned to an original arrangement. The present technology can be applied, for example, to the case of performing data transmission by using an LDPC code or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji Shinohara, Makiko Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20200403641
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a transmission method and a reception device for securing favorable communication quality in data transmission using an LDPC code. In group-wise interleaving, the LDPC code with a code length N of 17280 bits is interleaved in units of 360-bit bit groups 0 to 47. In group-wise deinterleaving, a sequence of the LDPC code after group-wise interleaving is returned to an original sequence. The present technology can be applied, for example, in a case of performing data transmission using an LDPC code, and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji SHINOHARA, Makiko YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200403637
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a data processing apparatus and a data processing method which enable provision of an LDPC code that achieves good error-rate performance. An LDPC encoding unit performs encoding using an LDPC code having a code length of 64800 bits and a code rate of 24/30, 25/30, 26/30, 27/30, 28/30, or 29/30. The LDPC code includes information bits and parity bits, and a parity check matrix H is composed of an information matrix portion corresponding to the information bits of the LDPC code, and a parity matrix portion corresponding to the parity bits. The information matrix portion of the parity check matrix H is represented by a parity check matrix initial value table that shows positions of elements of 1 in the information matrix portion in units of 360 columns. The present technology may be applied to LDPC encoding and LDPC decoding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicant: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Yuji SHINOHARA, Makiko Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10873344
    Abstract: The present technique relates to a transmission apparatus, a transmission method, a reception apparatus, and a reception method that can ensure favorable communication quality in data transmission using an LDPC code. LDPC coding is performed based on a check matrix of an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits and a code rate r of 9/16 or 10/16. The LDPC code includes information bits and parity bits, and the check matrix includes an information matrix corresponding to the information bits and a parity matrix corresponding to the parity bits. The information matrix is represented by a check matrix initial value table. The check matrix initial value table is a table indicating positions of elements of 1 in the information matrix on the basis of 360 columns and is a predetermined table. The present technique can be applied to, for example, data transmission using the LDPC code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji Shinohara, Makiko Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10868706
    Abstract: A coding and modulation apparatus and method are presented. The apparatus comprises an encoder that encodes input data into cell words, and a modulator that modulates said cell words into constellation values of a non-uniform constellation. The modulator is configured to use, based on the total number M of constellation points of the constellation and the code rate, a non-uniform constellation from one or several groups of constellations each comprising one or more constellations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Nabil Loghin, Lothar Stadelmeier, Jan Zoellner, Yuji Shinohara
  • Patent number: 10868568
    Abstract: The present technique relates to a transmission apparatus, a transmission method, a reception apparatus, and a reception method that can ensure favorable communication quality in data transmission using an LDPC code. LDPC coding is performed based on a check matrix of an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits and a code rate r of 13/16 or 14/16. The LDPC code includes information bits and parity bits, and the check matrix includes an information matrix corresponding to the information bits and a parity matrix corresponding to the parity bits. The information matrix is represented by a check matrix initial value table. The check matrix initial value table is a table indicating positions of elements of 1 in the information matrix on the basis of 360 columns and is a predetermined table. The present technique can be applied to, for example, data transmission using the LDPC code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji Shinohara, Makiko Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20200382140
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a transmission method and a reception device capable of ensuring good communication quality in data transmission by using an LDPC code. In group-wise interleaving, an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits is interleaved in units of bit groups of 360 bits. In group-wise deinterleaving, an arrangement of the LDPC code after the group-wise interleaving is returned to an original arrangement. The present technology can be applied, for example, to the case of performing data transmission by using an LDPC code or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: YUJI SHINOHARA, MAKIKO YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 10855313
    Abstract: The present technique relates to a transmission apparatus, a transmission method, a reception apparatus, and a reception method that can ensure favorable communication quality in data transmission using an LDPC code. LDPC coding is performed based on a check matrix of an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits and a code rate r of 11/16 or 12/16. The LDPC code includes information bits and parity bits, and the check matrix includes an information matrix corresponding to the information bits and a parity matrix corresponding to the parity bits. The information matrix is represented by a check matrix initial value table. The check matrix initial value table is a table indicating positions of elements of 1 in the information matrix on the basis of 360 columns and is a predetermined table. The present technique can be applied to, for example, data transmission using the LDPC code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji Shinohara, Makiko Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20200358457
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a transmission method and a reception device for securing favorable communication quality in data transmission using an LDPC code. In group-wise interleaving, the LDPC code with a code length N of 17280 bits is interleaved in units of 360-bit bit groups 0 to 47. In group-wise deinterleaving, a sequence of the LDPC code after group-wise interleaving is returned to an original sequence. The present technology can be applied, for example, in a case of performing data transmission using an LDPC code, and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji SHINOHARA, Makiko YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200344001
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a transmission device, a transmission method, a reception device, and a reception method for securing good communication quality in data transmission using an LDPC code. The LDPC coding is performed on the basis of the parity check matrix of the LDPC code with the code length N of 17280 bits and the coding rate r of 11/16 or 12/16. The LDPC code includes information bits and parity bits, and the parity check matrix includes an information matrix portion corresponding to the information bits and a parity matrix portion corresponding to the parity bits. The information matrix portion is represented by a parity check matrix initial value table, and the parity check matrix initial value table is a table representing positions of elements of 1 of the information matrix for every 360 columns. The present technology can be applied to, for example, data transmission using an LDPC code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makiko YAMAMOTO, Yuji SHINOHARA