Patents Assigned to Saturn Licensing LLC
  • Patent number: 11356719
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a reception device, a reception method, a transmission device, and a transmission method that make it possible to provide content according to a preference of a user. Provided is a reception device including: a tuning control unit configured to perform tuning control for tuning digital broadcasting using an Internet Protocol (IP) transmission scheme; and an acquisition control unit configured to perform acquisition control for acquiring content transmitted in the digital broadcasting according to a result of a matching process on a provider-side PDI-A indicating an answer set by a provider that provides content to a question on preference of a user included in transmission information transmitted in an upper layer of an IP layer of protocol layers of the IP transmission scheme and client-side PDI-A indicating an answer set by the user to the question in the digital broadcasting. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a television receiver set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Yasuaki Yamagishi, Naohisa Kitazato
  • Patent number: 11356118
    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: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Ryoji Ikegaya, Makiko Yamamoto, Yuji Shinohara
  • Publication number: 20220171231
    Abstract: A display unit of the present disclosure includes: a first plate-like member including a display device; a second plate-like member including a drive circuit, the drive circuit configured to control the display device; and one or two or more wiring sections having flexibility, the wiring sections configured to connect the first plate-like member and the second plate-like member to each other, in which a curvature of the second plate-like member is larger than 0 and equal to or smaller than a curvature of the first plate-like member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventor: Seiji Shibahara
  • Patent number: 11350115
    Abstract: A transmission apparatus configured to mix, at a mixing rate, pixels of first video data with pixels of peripheral frames of the first video data and obtain second video data at a first frame rate. The mixing rate for each pixel of a frame of the first video data is based on a luminance value of the pixel. The second video data includes frames having a second frame rate lower than the first frame rate. The apparatus encodes the frames having the second frame rate to obtain a basic stream and encodes remaining frames of the second video data to obtain an extended stream, inserts information about the mixing rate into the basic stream and the extended stream in association with each frame, and transmits the basic stream and the extended stream into which the information about the mixing rate has been inserted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventor: Ikuo Tsukagoshi
  • Publication number: 20220163850
    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: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2022
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventor: Takaharu Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20220163185
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Takeshi Yamamoto, Tomoyuki Yoshimatsu, Soya Araki, Naoki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11343588
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing apparatus, information processing method, transmission apparatus, and transmission method, capable of improving the convenience of a voice AI assistance service used in cooperation with content. Provided is an information processing apparatus including a processing unit configured to process, in using a voice AI assistance service in cooperation with content, specific information associated with a universal invoking name included in a voice uttered by a viewer watching the content on the basis of the universal invoking name and association information, the universal invoking name being common to a plurality of programs that perform processing corresponding to the voice uttered by the viewer as an invoking name used for invoking the program, the association information being associated with the specific information to each of the programs. The present technology can be applied to a system in cooperation with a voice AI assistance service, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventor: Takumi Tsuru
  • Patent number: 11340498
    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: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING, LLC
    Inventor: Hirohisa Ishino
  • Patent number: 11343549
    Abstract: The present technique relates to a reception apparatus, a reception method, a transmission apparatus, and a transmission method capable of supporting various service modes. The reception apparatus obtains first meta data including class information for providing, in multiple modes, a service transmitted via a digital broadcast signal using an IP transmission method, and controls reproduction of a component of the service by processing a stream including the component of the service for each of the multiple modes based on the class information included in the first meta data. The present technique can be applied to, for example, a fixed receiver such as a television receiver, a mobile receiver such as a smartphone, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Jun Kitahara, Naohisa Kitazato, Yasuaki Yamagishi
  • Patent number: 11343559
    Abstract: A receiving apparatus is provided. The receiving apparatus includes circuitry configured to receive reference time information and metadata including information for executing processing related to the reference time information. The circuitry is configured to execute processing related to the reference time information based on the metadata. The metadata includes a first offset value between the reference time information and a discontinuous time, a second offset value between the discontinuous time and a local time, and a date and time at which a change in a daylight savings time (DST) status is to occur. The local time is determined based on the reference time information and the metadata.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Takahashi, Yasuaki Yamagishi
  • Patent number: 11341047
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus including a frequency interleaves that includes memory configured to write and read data, and an address generator configured to produce a write address and a read address, and that writes the data to the memory in accordance with the write address and reads out the data from the memory in accordance with the read address, thereby carrying out frequency interleaving. The address generator is configured to produce a first pseudo random bit stream, produce a second pseudo random bit stream, alternately produce a bit as 0 and a bit as 1 as an additional bit added as a most significant bit of the first pseudo random bit stream, and produce the write address or the read address by obtaining an exclusive-OR between the first pseudo random bit stream having the additional bit added as the most significant bit and the second pseudo random bit stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventor: Makiko Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11342936
    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 bits. 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: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Ryoji Ikegaya, Makiko Yamamoto, Yuji Shinohara
  • Patent number: 11336933
    Abstract: Reception processing of broadcast content, in transmission of which an IP system is employed, is performed. An SDPT, in a header extension part of which service identification information and an SDP are arranged, in an SSC is transmitted from a broadcasting station. On a reception side, it becomes possible to acquire an intended SDPT from signaling information SSC easily at high speed by performing section filtering processing with respect to a received transport stream. Then, it is possible to access a stream of an intended channel at high speed based on an IP address and a port number described in an SDP stored in a header extension part of the acquired SDPT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Jun Kitahara, Naohisa Kitazato
  • Patent number: 11336957
    Abstract: The present technique relates to a reception apparatus, a transmission apparatus, and a data processing method that enable to execute a process according to delivery of resource files of an application associated with content. The reception apparatus receives content, acquires resource delivery information regarding delivery of one or a plurality of resource files that are part of an application associated with the content, the resource delivery information transmitted along with the content, and executes a process according to the delivery of the resource files on a basis of the acquired resource delivery information. The present technique can be applied to, for example, a television receiver that can receive digital broadcasting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Yasuaki Yamagishi, Tatsuya Igarashi, Yoshiharu Dewa
  • Patent number: 11336937
    Abstract: A reception apparatus includes receiver and processing circuitry. The receiving circuitry is configured to receive a broadcast stream. The processing circuitry is configured to extract a service list table (SLT) from the broadcast stream. The SLT includes service information for each of a plurality of services in the broadcast stream. The processing circuitry is configured to determine whether the broadcast stream includes a digital rights management (DRM) service that is supported by the reception apparatus based on service category information in the service information for the plurality of services in the broadcast stream. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire DRM-related information, which is associated with the reception apparatus and delivered in the DRM service, based on a determination that the broadcast stream includes the DRM service that is supported by the reception apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Mark Eyer, Tatsuya Igarashi, Brant Candelore, Paul Hearty
  • Patent number: 11336967
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a receiver apparatus, a transmitter apparatus, and a data processing method that are configured to execute an operation related with viewing history in a desired operation mode. The receiver apparatus receives broadcast waves of digital broadcasting transmitted from the transmitter apparatus via a transmission path, acquires control information for controlling the recording or the transmission of viewing history information related with the viewing history of content transmitted by broadcast waves, and, on the basis of the acquired control information, controls the recording or the transmission of viewing history information. The present technology is applicable to a television receiver compliant with an IP transmission scheme, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Naohisa Kitazato, Yasuaki Yamagishi, Jun Kitahara, Taketoshi Yamane
  • Patent number: 11329741
    Abstract: A receiving apparatus includes circuitry configured to receive a digital broadcast signal which uses an internet protocol (IP) transfer method. Based on control information included in the digital broadcast signal, the circuitry acquires at least one of a broadcast component or a communication component, and controls an operation of each section which performs a predetermined process relating to the acquired at least one component. The broadcast component and the communication component are associated with a component hierarchy including a first hierarchy level, a second hierarchy level, and a third hierarchy level for each component category.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING, LLC
    Inventor: Naohisa Kitazato
  • Patent number: 11330344
    Abstract: This technology relates to a receiving apparatus, a transmitting apparatus, and a data processing method for displaying emergency information communicated in an emergency at appropriate positions. The receiving apparatus acquires metadata transmitted by a digital broadcast signal, the metadata including first emergency information required to be announced urgently and display position information indicating whether there is second emergency information embedded in uncompressed video data, the display position information further indicating, if the second emergency information is embedded in the uncompressed video data, the display position of the second emergency information on a screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Jun Kitahara, Naohisa Kitazato, Yasuaki Yamagishi, Taketoshi Yamane
  • Patent number: 11330311
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure include a receiving device that includes a receiving unit, a decoder, and a processing unit. The receiving unit receives a predetermined number of video streams containing encoded image data of a plurality of images of a multi-image-arrangement distribution service, position information being inserted in the predetermined number of video streams, and the position information showing arrangement positions of the plurality of images. The decoder unit decodes the predetermined number of video streams, and obtains image data of the plurality of images. The processing unit arranges image data of the plurality of decoded images based on the position information, and obtains image data of a multi-image-arranged image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventor: Ikuo Tsukagoshi
  • Publication number: 20220130333
    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: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventor: Teisuke Kishikawa