Patents Assigned to Saturn Licensing LLC
  • Patent number: 11689776
    Abstract: This information processing apparatus includes: an AV decoder 41 that acquires and reproduces video data including a service object, for which a service that processes a request from a user through voice is available; and an application execution environment 43 that adds an additional image for informing the user about the service object to the reproduced video. The additional image includes a visual feature unique to each service object such that the service object is uniquely determined by voice recognition in the service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventor: Yasuaki Yamagishi
  • Patent number: 11683559
    Abstract: A method, non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, and reception apparatus for extracting metadata, and an information providing apparatus for providing the metadata. The method for extracting metadata includes processing, by circuitry of the reception apparatus, content that includes the metadata embedded therein. The metadata is embedded as a watermark in a first portion of a video frame of the content. The circuitry determines symbol values of the watermark from the video frame based on luminance values in pixels of the first portion of the video frame of the content to extract the metadata. At least one of the luminance values is less than 16.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Mark Eyer, Paul Hearty
  • Patent number: 11683893
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel, a substrate, and a frame structure. The substrate has an outer circumference end face including a first end face part and a second end face part intersecting the first end face part at a first intersection, a first groove formed on the first end face part and extending in a first direction, and a second groove formed on the second end face part and extending in a second direction. The frame structure holds the display panel and the substrate, and has a cyclic frame part surrounding the substrate and the display panel, a first rib erected on a first part of the frame part, and a second rib erected on a second part of the frame part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventor: Masayasu Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11681180
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventor: Takaharu Shimizu
  • Patent number: 11682355
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a display apparatus, a display control method, a portable terminal apparatus, and a program capable of representing various states of an apparatus in a limited region. A television receiver includes a display unit that displays a predetermined image, a communication unit that performs communication of image data with another image display apparatus, an indicator unit that is disposed at at least a part of surroundings of the display unit and includes an indicator which is turned on with predetermined luminance, and a control unit that turns on the indicator so as to correspond to a transmission operation of the image data in another image display apparatus. The present invention is applicable to, for example, a display apparatus such as a television receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Masao Kondo, Fumiya Matsuoka, Ken Yano, Hirotaka Tako
  • Patent number: 11683555
    Abstract: A multi-window user interface (UI) is presented in various configurations and operational uses to leverage the relatively large display canvas afforded by large screen display devices such as 4K or 8K displays. Along with the various “Multiview” aspects, content delivery techniques, content selection techniques, and level of service techniques also are presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Steven Martin Richman, Jason Clement, Frederick J. Zustak
  • Patent number: 11683402
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a transmission apparatus, a transmission method, a reception apparatus, and a reception method which make it possible to control redundancy of a header in packet communication. A region representing a packet length in a header of a packet is set according to a size of a payload of an input packet. A header of a baseband packet includes a minimum fixed length header including type identification information for identification of a type of the input packet or the stream and information of a packet length of the input packet or the stream stored in a payload of the baseband flame packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventor: Lachlan Michael
  • Patent number: 11676595
    Abstract: A reception apparatus, including processing circuitry that is configured to receive a voice command related to content from a user during presentation of the content to the user. The processing circuitry is configured to transmit the voice command to a server system for processing. The processing circuitry is configured to receive a response to the voice command from the server system. The response to the voice command is generated based on the voice command and content information for identifying the content related to the voice command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventor: Tatsuya Igarashi
  • Patent number: 11676578
    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: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Tomoaki Takemura, Shinya Masunaga, Koji Fujita, Katsutoshi Ishiwata, Kenichi Ikenaga, Katsutoshi Kusumoto
  • Patent number: 11677999
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a data processing apparatus and a data processing method that enable correct clock synchronization by use of clock information. The data processing apparatus receives a digital broadcast signal so as to process content included in the digital broadcast signal and clock information also included therein for use in presentation synchronization on the content and sends via a transmission path the processed content and clock information to another data processing apparatus that presents the received content. On the other hand, the another data processing apparatus receives via the transmission path the content and clock information sent from the data processing apparatus so as to process presentation synchronization on the received content on the basis of the received clock information. The present technology is applicable to data processing apparatuses configured to process content, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventor: Kazuyuki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11668459
    Abstract: A plurality of 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, and 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 are included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventor: Takaharu Shimizu
  • Patent number: 11668974
    Abstract: An illumination unit according to the present disclosure includes a plurality of first light-emission blocks, a plurality of second light-emission blocks, and a light-emission controller. The first light-emission blocks each include a plurality of first light-emitting devices arranged in a first direction. The second light-emission blocks are partially overlapped with the respective first light-emission blocks, and each include a plurality of second light-emitting devices arranged in a second direction different from the first direction. The light-emission controller performs light-emission control of the first light-emitting devices for each of the first light-emission blocks, and performs the light-emission control of the second light-emitting devices for each of the second light-emission blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Hiroaki Matsui, Takashi Ikuta
  • Patent number: 11663970
    Abstract: A display device including a display unit which has a plurality of pixels and a plurality of driving lines for driving the plurality of pixels; a driving circuit which drives the plurality of pixels through the plurality of driving lines; and a control unit which adjusts a driving capability of the driving circuit according to the number of simultaneous driving lines of the driving circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventor: Teisuke Kishikawa
  • Patent number: 11658683
    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 6/15, 8/15, or 10/15 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: May 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Ryoji Ikegaya, Makiko Yamamoto, Yuji Shinohara
  • Patent number: 11646839
    Abstract: A receiver for detecting and recovering payload data from a received signal comprises a radio frequency demodulation circuit, a detector circuit and a demodulator circuit. The radio frequency demodulation circuit detects the received signal. The received signal carries the payload data as OFDM symbols in one or more of a plurality of time divided frames, each frame including a bootstrap signal, a preamble signal and a plurality of sub-frames. The demodulator circuit detects bootstrap OFDM symbols to identify communications parameters for detecting the fixed length signalling data, detects the fixed length signalling data to identify the communications parameters for detecting the variable length signalling data, detects the variable length signalling data, and uses the fixed and variable length signalling data to detect the payload data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventor: Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri
  • Patent number: 11630344
    Abstract: Provided is a light-emitting device that makes it possible to emit, with high efficiency, light having higher uniformity. The light-emitting device includes a light source, a wavelength conversion unit, and a wall member. The light source is disposed on a substrate. The wavelength conversion unit includes a wavelength conversion member and a transparent member that contains the wavelength conversion member therein. The wavelength conversion member is disposed to face the light source in a thickness direction and converts first wavelength light from the light source to second wavelength light. The wall member is provided on a substrate and surrounds the light source in a plane that is orthogonal to the thickness direction. A region occupied by the wavelength conversion member is wider than a region surrounded by the wall member, and entirety overlaps with the region surrounded by the wall member in the thickness direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventor: Tomoharu Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11627382
    Abstract: A transmitter for transmitting payload data and emergency information using data symbols in a single-carrier or multi-carrier broadcast system comprises a modulator configured to modulate one or more transmission symbols with signaling data for use in detecting and recovering the payload data at a receiver and to modulate one or more transmission symbols with the payload data. An emergency information receiver receives emergency information carrying information of an actual emergency. An emergency information embedder embeds emergency information into one or more transmission symbols, wherein the emergency information is embedded within a predetermined time period after its reception by using a resource used for carrying signaling data and/or payload data if no emergency information shall be transmitted. A transmission unit transmits the transmission symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Lothar Stadelmeier, Makiko Kan, Nabil Loghin, Daniel Schneider, Jan Zoellner, Lachlan Bruce Michael, Yuji Shinohara, Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri, Gholam Hosein Asjadi, Matthew Paul Athol Taylor
  • Patent number: 11622088
    Abstract: A reception apparatus is provided that includes circuitry configured to receive a digital data stream. The circuitry is configured to acquire closed caption information included in the digital data stream. The circuitry is configured to acquire control information including selection information indicating a selection of a specific mode from a plurality of modes for specifying when closed caption text is to be displayed. The circuitry is further configured to output the closed caption text included in the closed caption information for display to a user, at a display time according to the specific mode, based on the selection information included in the control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Naohisa Kitazato, Yasuaki Yamagishi, Taketoshi Yamane
  • Patent number: 11621993
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program that can ensure content-related application programs can be reliably utilized. A client 11 reproduces content distributed from a content server 12 via a network 21, and if the content being reproduced is identified by an ACR server 13, a T/SS for managing an application relating to the identified content is acquired from a T/SS server 14, a predetermined application distributed from an application server 15 is acquired on the basis of the T/SS acquired, and the activation and so on of that application is managed, and the application can therefore be reliably utilized. The present technology can, for example, be applied to a content distribution system that distributes content and content-linked applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Yasuaki Yamagishi, Naohisa Kitazato
  • Patent number: 11621301
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a display device and a signal processing device that have made it possible to actively utilize maximumly a color gamut that a display panel can express. Provided is a display device, including: a display section in which display pixels that each include a first subpixel, a second subpixel, and a third subpixel that emit three-basic-color light and a fourth subpixel that emits non-basic-color light are arranged two-dimensionally; a first signal processing section that expands a video signal being input and corresponding to the basic-color light and adapts the video signal to a color gamut that the display section can express; and a second signal processing section that converts an expanded video signal being the video signal having been expanded into a first signal, a second signal, and a third signal that correspond to the basic-color light and a fourth signal that corresponds to the non-basic-color light, and outputs the signals to the display section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventor: Yasuo Inoue