Patents Assigned to Saturn Licensing
  • Patent number: 12158663
    Abstract: To provide a light emitting device that is used for a display that is able to display an image having a wider color gamut. This light emitting device includes: a first light source configured to perform an operation of blinking first emission light including first blue light and first red light; and a second light source configured to perform an operation of blinking second emission light independently of the operation of blinking the first emission light by the first light source. The second emission light includes second red light and green light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventor: Shinpei Nagatani
  • Patent number: 12160631
    Abstract: Determining and hiding a replaceable period of a MP (Media Presentation). A method for determining includes receiving a first MPD (Media Presentation Description) that identifies a predetermined period and at least one media segment of the MP to be presented during the predetermined period. A determination is made as to whether the first MPD includes additional data to be resolved by an application. The additional data is provided to the application when the first MPD is determined to include the additional data. Additional period information is received from the application. A second MPD is generated based on the received additional period information. The MP is output for display to a user based on the second MPD. Each of a subset of the at least one media segment for a replaceable sub-period of the MP is replaceable with an alternate media segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Mark Eyer, Paul Hearty
  • Patent number: 12158736
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus activation control apparatus includes a communication unit and a data processing unit. The communication unit is configured to perform communication via a network. The data processing unit is configured to output an activation instruction to a network apparatus connected to the network through the communication unit. The data processing unit recognizes a state transition from a non-active state to an active state of the electronic apparatus activation control apparatus and outputs the activation instruction to the network apparatus on the basis of recognition of the state transition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Masaharu Yoshino, Takehiko Ueda
  • Patent number: 12155978
    Abstract: A reception apparatus comprises circuitry configured to send, based on an activated mode, to an external apparatus information on gamma correction that the reception apparatus is capable of processing to display high dynamic range images on a display panel. The circuitry is further configured to receive a high dynamic range signal comprising image data in high dynamic range from the external apparatus over a transmission path, and receive information in an InfoFrame packet on gamma correction for the image data in high dynamic range. The circuitry is configured to store EDID data that includes at least information on the gamma correction for the image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventor: Yasuhisa Nakajima
  • Patent number: 12149784
    Abstract: A receiving device is provided that includes circuitry configured to receive a digital broadcast stream. The circuitry is configured to acquire server information corresponding to a viewing history server that collects viewing history information related to a viewing history of content. The server information is included in the digital broadcast stream. The circuitry is further configured to control transmission of the viewing history information to the viewing history server based on the acquired server information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventor: Jun Kitahara
  • Patent number: 12135480
    Abstract: According to some aspects, a liquid crystal display panel comprising an electrode is provided. The electrode comprises a plurality of convex branch electrode portions arranged in a plane, the convex branch electrode portions being convex when viewed from a first direction perpendicular to the plane and extending from a central region of the electrode to a periphery of the electrode, and a plurality of concave branch electrode portions, the concave branch electrode portions being concave when viewed from the first direction, extending from the central region to the periphery and adjacent to convex branch electrode portions. According to some aspects, a method of applying a pretilt to molecules in a liquid crystal layer of a liquid crystal display panel by applying a voltage to the liquid crystal layer via first and second electrodes is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Shunichi Suwa, Masashi Miyakawa, Chikashi Kobayashi, Yoji Nagase
  • Patent number: 12131692
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a signal processing apparatus, a signal processing method, and a display apparatus that may reduce the effect of deterioration in element of a display panel. Provided is a signal processing apparatus including a signal processing unit configured to acquire, in changing a video signal from a low luminance display signal to a high luminance display signal by luminance enhancement, an accumulated load increase amount obtained by measuring and accumulating amounts of increase in load on a display panel caused by luminance enhancement, and adaptively control, in reference to the accumulated load increase amount acquired, a first gain for improving luminance of the video signal, according to a degree of effect of deterioration in element of the display panel. The present technology is applicable to self-luminous display apparatuses, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Masao Zen, Syunsuke Kikuchi, Daisuke Miki, Kazuhiro Nukiyama, Kazutaka Kobayashi, Yasushi Konuma, Kazuki Uchida
  • Patent number: 12126359
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a data processing device and a data processing method which can ensure high communication quality in data transmission using LDPC codes, in group-wise interleaving, an LDPC code having a code length N of 64800 bits and a coding rate r of 13/15 is interleaved in a unit of a bit group of 360 bit. In group-wise deinterleaving, a sequence of bit groups of the LDPC code which has been subjected to the group-wise interleaving is returned to an original sequence, the present technology can be applied to, for example, a case in which data transmission is performed using LDPC codes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Ryoji Ikegaya, Makiko Yamamoto, Yuji Shinohara
  • Patent number: 12126848
    Abstract: Convenience is achieved in performing processing depending on decoding capability in a reception side. High-frame-rate ultra-high-definition image data is processed to obtain first image data for acquisition of a base-frame-rate high-definition image, second image data for acquisition of a high-frame-rate high-definition image by being used with the first image data, third image data for acquisition of a base-frame-rate ultra-high-definition image by being used with the first image data, and fourth image data for acquisition of a high-frame-rate ultra-high definition image by being used with the first to third image data. A container is transmitted including a predetermined number of video streams including encoded image data of the first to fourth image data. Information is inserted into the container, the information corresponding to information that is inserted into each of the predetermined number of video streams and associated with image data included in the video streams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventor: Ikuo Tsukagoshi
  • Patent number: 12125475
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including an analysis unit configured to analyze a character string indicating contents of utterance obtained as a result of speech recognition, and a display control unit configured to display the character string indicating the contents of the utterance and an analysis result on a display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Tomoaki Takemura, Shinya Masunaga, Koji Fujita, Katsutoshi Ishiwata, Kenichi Ikenaga, Katsutoshi Kusumoto
  • Patent number: 12120365
    Abstract: A reception device is provided that comprises processing circuitry configured to extract, from a digital broadcast signal based on an Internet Protocol (IP) transmission scheme, a signaling packet that includes a service table including tuning information and bootstrap information for accessing service signaling information. The processing circuitry is further configured to extract, from the signaling packet during an initial scanning process, the tuning information and the bootstrap information, store the tuning information and the bootstrap information extracted during the initial scanning process, and control a tuning process based on the tuning information stored. The signaling packet is received based on a first protocol layer of the IP transmission scheme and the service signaling information is received based on a second protocol layer of the IP transmission scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Yasuaki Yamagishi, Naohisa Kitazato
  • Patent number: 12120344
    Abstract: High frame rate moving image data is satisfactorily transmitted. Mixing processing is performed in units of two temporally consecutive pictures in predetermined frame rate image data, and base frame rate image data is obtained. Image data of one picture in units of the two temporally consecutive pictures is extracted, and high frame rate enhanced frame image data is obtained. Prediction encoding processing of base frame rate image data is performed to the base frame rate image data, and a base stream is obtained. Prediction encoding processing with respect to the base frame rate image data is performed to the high frame rate enhanced frame image data, and an enhanced stream is obtained. A predetermined format container is transmitted including the base stream and the enhanced stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventor: Ikuo Tsukagoshi
  • Patent number: 12111686
    Abstract: An optical unit includes a ball lens and a light source. The ball lens condenses light and outputs the condensed light. The light source has a light emitting surface and the light source outputs light toward the ball lens. The light emitting surface is located closer to the ball lens than a focal position of the ball lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Norimasa Furukawa, Kenichi Nakaki
  • Patent number: 12111038
    Abstract: A light source device includes: a substrate; a plurality of light sources disposed on the substrate; a wavelength conversion member disposed to face the plurality of light sources; and a diffusion member disposed between the wavelength conversion member and the plurality of light sources, and configured to uniformize distribution of traveling direction angle of incident light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Koichi Yamamoto, Kenji Kobayashi, Yasuhiro Nishida
  • Patent number: 12101526
    Abstract: Techniques are described for expanding and/or improving the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0 television protocol in robustly delivering the next generation broadcast television services. An ATSC 3.0 receiver backs off the live point of a broadcast by a short delay period such that channel change may be rendered perceptibly faster by pre-fetching segments identified in a SegmentTemplate MPD from broadband before the broadcast channel is fully tuned to.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventor: Graham Clift
  • Patent number: 12088889
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing terminal, an information processing method, and a program by which screen display that is easy to understand can be carried out. An information processing terminal according to one embodiment of the present technology displays, in a case where an assist function for voice reading of a description displayed on a screen is on, a screen related to a predetermined description such that the displayed screen has a structure different from that in a case where the assist function is off. The present technology is applicable to apparatuses including a television receiver, a personal computer, and a mobile terminal or the like, which are used for viewing programs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventor: Manabu Yasumi
  • Patent number: 12081317
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing apparatus enabling services using broadcasting and communication to be more flexibly served, a client apparatus, and a data processing method. An information processing apparatus inserts identification information for identifying the identity of a source of content into a request for the content to more flexibly serve services using broadcasting and communication. For example, the present technology can be applied to a gateway apparatus connected to a network such as home LAN or a client apparatus capable of reproducing content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventor: Yasuaki Yamagishi
  • Patent number: 12073780
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a signal processing device, a signal processing method, and a display device for enabling more appropriate improvement of hold blur. There is provided a signal processing device including a detection unit that analyzes a video signal of content and detects an index that correlates with hold blur, a first calculation unit that calculates a light emission duty value of a self-luminous display panel on the basis of the detected index, and a second calculation unit that calculates a gain for luminance compensation on the basis of the calculated light emission duty value. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a self-luminous display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Masao Zen, Kazuhiro Nukiyama, Syunsuke Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 12075581
    Abstract: There is provided a supporting body that is able to select a form of support to a display unit in accordance with a user's purpose or preference, an installation environment, or the like. The supporting body supports the display unit, and includes a first supporting unit and a second supporting unit that are detachably provided on the display unit, and a first form and a second form are configured to be selectable. In the first form, the first supporting unit is mounted at a first position of the display unit and the second supporting unit is mounted at a second position of the display unit. In the second form, the second supporting unit is mounted at the first position or a third position of the display unit, and the first supporting unit is mounted at the second position or a fourth position of the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Hiroki Matsuoka, Masaki Fukano, Toshiaki Takahashi, Hiroyuki Takayama, Makoto Kikuchi, Tsuyoshi Iwatsuki, Hiroaki Yokota, Shigeya Kuwao, Hiroyuki Suzukawa
  • Patent number: 12072090
    Abstract: A display device is provided having light source boards each having a wiring pattern including a plurality of wires, a plurality of light-emitting elements disposed on each light source board, switching on and off of which being controlled by a control board, board-side connectors each attached to a corresponding one of the plurality of light source boards, a flexible flat cable that has a multi-core structure including a flat-shaped insulator and a plurality of conductors aligned in a direction orthogonal to a thickness direction of the insulator that is connected at one end to the control board, and a plurality of cable-side connectors attached to the flexible flat cable and coupled to the board-side connectors to connect the flexible cable to the light source boards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventor: Takaharu Shimizu