Patents Assigned to Saturn Licensing LLC
  • 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: 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
  • 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: 12063411
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a reception apparatus including: a reception portion configured to receive AV content; a trigger acquisition portion configured to acquire trigger information for operating an application program to be executed in interlocked relation to the AV content; a table acquisition portion configured to acquire a correspondence table associating a command for controlling the operation of the application program with a valid time of the command; and a control portion configured such that when the time acquired from the trigger information as indicative of the progress of the AV content satisfies a predetermined condition of validity in reference to the valid time of the command on the basis of the acquired correspondence table, the control portion controls the operation of the application program in accordance with the command being valid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Naohisa Kitazato, Yasuaki Yamagishi, Yoshiharu Dewa, Mark Eyer
  • Patent number: 12058420
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an image processing apparatus, a display control method, and a program that enable a user to view a video image as intended by a content provider side. In an image processing apparatus according to one aspect of the present technology, an image quality adjustment menu is displayed that includes display related to setting of an image quality adjustment mode for a specific distribution service, in a case where an instruction is made to perform image quality adjustment during execution of an application that is used for viewing a content distributed by the specific distribution service. The present technology can be applied to television receivers that support video image content distribution services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Mitsutoshi Aoyagi, Hidetaka Honji
  • Publication number: 20240250860
    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: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2024
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Nabil LOGHIN, Lothar STADELMEIER, Jan ZOELLNER, Yuji SHINOHARA
  • Patent number: 12045325
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a reception device, a transmission device, and a data processing method that enable a flexible operation of a service using an application that accompanies content. A reception device includes: a reception unit that receives content; an acquisition unit that acquires an application in accordance with acquisition source information indicating an acquisition source of the application accompanying the content, the acquisition source information being included in control information transmitted together with the content; and a control unit that instantly starts the acquired application. The present technology can be applied to a television set capable of receiving digital broadcasts, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Yasuaki Yamagishi, Tatsuya Igarashi, Kazuhiko Takabayashi, Jun Kitahara
  • Patent number: 12040932
    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 signal-to-noise ratio SNR in dB, a non-uniform constellation from a group of constellations comprising one or more of predetermined constellations defined by the constellation position vector w0 . . . b-1, wherein b=M/4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Lothar Stadelmeier, Nabil Sven Loghin, Jan Zoellner
  • Patent number: 12028562
    Abstract: To secure easiness of component selection at a reception side. A transmission stream is generated in which a first transmission packet including a predetermined component and a second transmission packet including signaling information related to the predetermined component are multiplexed in a time division manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventor: Naohisa Kitazato
  • Patent number: 12019941
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing apparatus and an information processing method that enable screen sharing to be easily and reliably performed. Provided is an information processing apparatus including a processing unit that generates, on the basis of a message transmitted from a sharing source device that performs screen sharing, identification information that identifies the information processing apparatus serving as a sharing candidate device as a candidate for screen sharing, provides the sharing source device with device information regarding the information processing apparatus, and outputs the generated identification information. The present technology can be applied to a device that performs screen sharing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Masahiko Sato, Hideaki Miyahara
  • Patent number: 12007635
    Abstract: There is provided a display device having a configuration suitable for increasing a screen size and reducing a thickness while ensuring adequate strength. The display device includes: a frame structure having a plurality of extrusion molded members coupled to one another; a display panel; and an intermediate member attached to the frame structure and holding the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventor: Nobuki Oshima
  • Patent number: 11979594
    Abstract: Provided is a transmitting device including a hierarchical classification section that classifies image data of each picture constituting moving image data into a plurality of layers, an image coding section that codes the classified image data of each layer, and generates a video stream holding the coded image data of each layer, and a transmitting section that transmits a container in a prescribed format that includes the generated video stream. The image coding section performs coding so that a referenced picture belongs to a layer of referencing image data and/or a layer lower than the layer of the referencing image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Keiji Yuzawa, Teruhiko Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11977298
    Abstract: Provided is an illumination device that makes it possible to enhance utilization efficiency of light, and a display device that includes the illumination device. The illumination device includes: a light source that is configured to generate light of a first wavelength; a luminescent body that is configured to wavelength-convert the light of the first wavelength to light of a second wavelength, the second wavelength being different from the first wavelength; and a wavelength selective filter that is provided on a light-incident side of the luminescent body, the wavelength selective filter being configured to transmit the light of the first wavelength and to reflect the light of the second wavelength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventor: Hirohisa Ishino
  • Patent number: 11968072
    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: June 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Nabil Loghin, Lothar Stadelmeier, Jan Zoellner, Yuji Shinohara
  • Patent number: RE49939
    Abstract: An illumination device includes: a light source; an optical component provided separately from the light source; a holding member holding the light source and the optical component; and a variable pressing member variably pressing the optical component against the holding member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Abe