Patents Assigned to Saturn Licensing LLC
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Patent number: 12687746Abstract: A display device includes a liquid crystal module (10, 20, 30) including a display panel (10) and a light emitting unit (20) that illuminates the display panel (10). The light emitting unit (20) includes a support substrate (24) that is disposed to face the display panel (10), a light guide member (21) that is provided between the display panel (10) and the support substrate (24), and has a first end surface (213) and a second end surface (214), a light source (22) that is disposed to face the first end surface (213), and a holding member (25) that is provided between the display panel (10) and the support substrate (24) along an outer edge of the support substrate (24), and has a facing surface joined to the second end surface (214). This display device has a structure suitable for a thin profile.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2024Date of Patent: July 21, 2026Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLCInventor: Takeshi Yamamoto
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Patent number: 12676106Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 11, 2024Date of Patent: July 7, 2026Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLCInventors: Masao Zen, Kazuhiro Nukiyama, Syunsuke Kikuchi
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Patent number: 12669728Abstract: A light-emitting unit includes a plurality of lenses; and two or more light-emitting devices covered by each of the lenses, and the two or more light-emitting devices covered by one lens of the lenses are electrically separated from each other.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2023Date of Patent: June 30, 2026Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLCInventor: Takaharu Shimizu
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Patent number: 12638735Abstract: A light-emitting device is provided that has superior reliability while coping with high integration of light sources. The light-emitting device includes light source units, a relay member, and a pressure contact terminal. The light source units each include a light source board extending in a first direction, multiple light sources arranged in the first direction on the light source board, and a first terminal that is coupled to the multiple light sources. The relay member is opposed to the multiple light source units in a second direction intersecting with the first direction, and includes multiple second terminals that are each electrically coupled to a corresponding one of the first terminals of the multiple light source units. The pressure contact terminal is brought into pressure contact with at least one of the first terminal or the second terminal by mechanical biasing force and electrically couples the first terminal and the second terminal.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2023Date of Patent: May 26, 2026Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLCInventor: Mitsuhiro Kawase
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Patent number: 12631322Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 16, 2024Date of Patent: May 19, 2026Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLCInventor: Takaharu Shimizu
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Patent number: 12625399Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 15, 2024Date of Patent: May 12, 2026Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLCInventors: Hiroki Matsuoka, Masaki Fukano, Toshiaki Takahashi, Hiroyuki Takayama, Makoto Kikuchi, Tsuyoshi Iwatsuki, Hiroaki Yokota, Shigeya Kuwao, Hiroyuki Suzukawa
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Patent number: 12607890Abstract: A display according to an embodiment of the disclosure includes a light-emitting device and a display panel unit. The light-emitting device includes a light guide plate, a light source, a reflecting plate, and a dot pattern. The light guide plate has a light-outputting surface including a plurality of band-shaped projections extending in a direction orthogonal to the light-entering end surface. The light source is disposed along the light-entering end surface. The reflecting plate is disposed to face the rear surface of the light guide plate. The dot pattern fixes the light guide plate and the reflecting plate to each other and serves as a light scatterer. The display panel unit includes a display panel, an optical sheet, and a fixing layer. The fixing layer adheres or sticks the display panel and the optical sheet to each other and serves as a light diffuser.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2021Date of Patent: April 21, 2026Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLCInventors: Takeshi Yamamoto, Kouki Miura, Tomoyuki Yoshimatsu
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Patent number: 12604024Abstract: A display device includes circuitry configured to transmit, to a reproduction device, display-capability information representing performance characteristics of the display device. The circuitry receives video data from the reproduction device that includes brightness-characteristic information and information of a master video when the display-capability information represents a display performance of the video data. The circuitry displays an image of the received video data in accordance with brightness designated by the received information, and adjusts the image brightness based on the display device's performance. When the master video is high-dynamic-range (HDR) video data, the circuitry recognizes the HDR content and displays the image in accordance with brightness characteristics of the master video.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2024Date of Patent: April 14, 2026Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLCInventors: Kazuo Yamamoto, Toshiya Hamada, Kuniaki Takahashi, Shinobu Hattori
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Publication number: 20260082100Abstract: 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. A receiver, to automatically switch from presenting a service on a first frequency to a second frequency such as when a mobile receiver is moving through a boundary region between two broadcasters, can temporarily use a satellite link or 5G wireless telephony or other over the top (OTT) source to acquire a service until an OTA link satisfies quality requirements.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2025Publication date: March 19, 2026Applicant: Saturn Licensing LLCInventors: Brant Candelore, Adam Goldberg, Fred Ansfield, Graham Clift, Luke Fay, Loren F. Pineda
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Patent number: 12581030Abstract: The present technology relates to a reproduction device, a reproduction method, and a recording medium that enable content having a wide dynamic range of brightness to be displayed with an appropriate brightness. A recording medium, on which the reproduction device of one aspect of the present technology performs reproduction, records coded data of an extended video that is a video having a second brightness range that is wider than a first brightness range, brightness characteristic information that represents a brightness characteristic of the extended video, and brightness conversion definition information used when performing a brightness conversion of the extended video to a standard video that is a video having the first brightness range. The reproduction device decodes the coded data and converts the extended video obtained by decoding the coded data to the standard video on the basis of the brightness conversion definition information.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2022Date of Patent: March 17, 2026Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLCInventors: Kazuo Yamamoto, Toshiya Hamada, Kuniaki Takahashi, Shinobu Hattori
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Patent number: 12580870Abstract: The present technology relates to a transmission device, a transmission method, a reception device, and a reception method with each of which it becomes possible to perform transmission of control information according to an operation form. The reception device receives first data that includes control information, which includes information necessary for channel selection of a service, and transmission sequence information indicating a sequence in which the control information is transmitted and that is transmitted in a transmission sequence corresponding to the transmission sequence information, and controls processing on second data, which includes data of a component included in the service, on the basis of the control information acquired according to the transmission sequence information. The present technology can be applied, for example, to a television receiver.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2024Date of Patent: March 17, 2026Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLCInventors: Jun Kitahara, Naohisa Kitazato, Kazuyuki Takahashi, Yasuaki Yamagishi, Taketoshi Yamane
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Patent number: 12549821Abstract: Placement of Closed Captioning (CC) in content by a content provider is overridden by means of a user interface (UI) that allows the user to place CC on screen on top of the video. The CC may be derived directly from the audio and synchronized with play of the audio and video.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2021Date of Patent: February 10, 2026Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLCInventors: Brant Candelore, Mahyar Nejat, Peter Shintani
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Patent number: 12546456Abstract: A light emitting device includes: a light emitting element; a reflection wall that surrounds the light emitting element; and a diffusion reflection sheet that includes a plurality of particles and permits entrance of emitted light from the light emitting element and reflected light from the reflection wall.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2022Date of Patent: February 10, 2026Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLCInventors: Takeshi Yamamoto, Tomoyuki Yoshimatsu, Soya Araki, Naoki Tanaka
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Patent number: 12542863Abstract: A reception apparatus is provided that comprises circuitry configured to transmit over a transmission path to a transmission apparatus information on a gamma correction method for image data that the reception apparatus is able to support. The reception apparatus further receives image video data for displaying an image over the transmission path from the transmission apparatus, the image video data transmitted in accordance with the gamma correction method supported by the reception apparatus; receives information on a gamma correction for the image video data over the transmission path from the transmission apparatus; and based on the information on the gamma correction that is received in the information reception unit, processes the HDR image data that is received in the data reception unit. The information on the gamma correction for the image video data includes an indication of the gamma correction method.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2024Date of Patent: February 3, 2026Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLCInventor: Yasuhisa Nakajima
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Patent number: 12536997Abstract: A user is assisted in performing a voice operation appropriately. A situation determination section determines a situation. A state control section controls a voice command appropriate for the determined situation to put the voice command into a receivable state. For example, the user is informed of what the voice command in a receivable state is, by means of display or voice output. The user can utter a voice command without performing a user action to prevent false recognition, such as the utterance of a wake word. This reduces the troublesomeness and burden of the user.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2019Date of Patent: January 27, 2026Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLCInventor: Teruyuki Tanaka
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Patent number: 12530168Abstract: A receiving apparatus includes a control unit that performs a process of searching for one of a channel and a content on the basis of a phrase that is recognized from an uttered speech of a user, a process of selecting one of a single channel and a single content from among a plurality of channels and a plurality of contents obtained through the search process, a process of displaying, on a display unit, one of the selected content and a content that is being broadcasted on the selected channel, and a process of displaying, as options, item images representing a plurality of channels or a plurality of contents that are obtained through the search process on the display unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2023Date of Patent: January 20, 2026Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLCInventor: Shunichi Sugiura
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Patent number: 12531014Abstract: Provided is a signal processing device including a signal processing unit that, when increasing the luminance of an video signal from a low-luminance display signal to a high-luminance display signal, acquires information regarding at least one of luminance enhancement time obtained by measuring the time for enhancing the luminance on a display panel, the temperature rise amount of the display panel, and the feature amount of the video signal corresponding to video displayed on the display panel, and adaptively controls a first gain for enhancing the luminance of the video signal, according to the degree of influence on the temperature rise of the display panel, in reference to the acquired information. The present technique can be applied to a self-luminous display device, for example.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2021Date of Patent: January 20, 2026Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLCInventors: Masao Zen, Syunsuke Kikuchi, Daisuke Miki, Yasushi Konuma, Kazutaka Kobayashi, Kazuhiro Nukiyama, Kazuki Uchida
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Publication number: 20250392784Abstract: The present technology relates to a display control device, a display control method, and a program that have enabled further improvement of operability. Provided is a display control device including a display control unit configured to perform control to display filter information regarding a filter and first information regarding content in a first area of a display screen, and to display, in a case where a user performs a first operation, the filter information and second information regarding the content in a second area of the display screen, the second area being greater than the first area. The present technology can be applied, for example, to a television receiver.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2025Publication date: December 25, 2025Applicant: Saturn Licensing LLCInventors: Takuo Watanabe, Nobuhiro Ozu
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Patent number: 12505792Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 19, 2024Date of Patent: December 23, 2025Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLCInventors: Masao Zen, Syunsuke Kikuchi, Daisuke Miki, Kazuhiro Nukiyama, Kazutaka Kobayashi, Yasushi Konuma, Kazuki Uchida
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Patent number: 12506920Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing apparatus, a control method, an information processing terminal, and an information processing method capable of detecting a voice to be recognized by using a microphone in accordance with a user's intention. An information processing apparatus according to one aspect of the present technology, a main body microphone that is a microphone provided in a housing, and controls which of the main body microphone or a terminal microphone that is a microphone provided in an information processing terminal used for a user's operation is to be used to detect a voice to be recognized, on the basis of a state of the user's operation on the information processing terminal. The present technology can be applied to a TV having a microphone.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2019Date of Patent: December 23, 2025Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLCInventors: Shinpei Kameoka, Hideki Asazu, Hidenori Yamaji