Patents by Inventor Akihiro Miyazaki

Akihiro Miyazaki has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 8014484
    Abstract: When recording stream data, index information and time correction information are recorded in correspondence with the stream data. The index information specifies a position of an invalid section in the stream data. The time correction information specifies a time which, supposing that a PCR included in the invalid section was able to be got, a time clock would have shown in synchronization with the PCR. When reproducing the stream data recorded together with the time correction information and the index information, at a position where the invalid section ends, the time clock can be set to a time intended by a broadcasting system, by referencing the index information and the time correction information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Michiko Fuchikami, Akihiro Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 7930925
    Abstract: An art of hydrogen concentration measurement in which the hydrogen concentration of any given location of an object to be measured can be nondestructively obtained is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: Global Nuclear Fuel-Japan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Ishii, Akihiro Miyazaki, Masafumi Nakatsuka, Shinji Ishimoto
  • Publication number: 20110090999
    Abstract: When recording stream data, index information and time correction information are recorded in correspondence with the stream data. The index information specifies a position of an invalid section in the stream data. The time correction information specifies a time which, supposing that a PCR included in the invalid section was able to be got, a time clock would have shown in synchronization with the PCR. When reproducing the stream data recorded together with the time correction information and the index information, at a position where the invalid section ends, the time clock can be set to a time intended by a broadcasting system, by referencing the index information and the time correction information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2010
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Inventors: Michiko FUCHIKAMI, Akihiro Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 7925753
    Abstract: In a normal operation state, a connection management section writes data transmitted from a first processing section to a data temporary storage section and reads data to be received by a second processing section from the data temporary storage section. Upon receiving control signals which instruct a change of the subject of processing, the first processing section and the second processing section output a transmitting-end clear request and a receiving-end clear request, respectively. The connection management section reads data from the empty data storage section after a transmitting-end clear request is received and until a receiving-end clear request is received, and writes data to the empty data storage section after a receiving-end clear request is received and until a transmitting-end clear request is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Inami, Shigenori Maeda, Akihiro Miyazaki, Tadashi Ono, Fukutaro Sekine, Joerg Vogler, Gerald Pfeiffer, Toshimasa Takaki
  • Patent number: 7891344
    Abstract: A fuel tank has a tank body and a fuel inlet projecting upwardly from the tank body. The fuel tank includes a cylindrical member extending into the tank body, a canister, and a discharging passage in communication with the canister housing an adsorbent for absorbing fuel vapor from the fuel tank. A space between an outer circumferential surface of the cylindrical member and an inner circumferential surface of the fuel inlet is hermetically sealed by a seal. The cylindrical member has a passage for communicating an inside of the cylindrical member with a portion of an outside of the cylindrical member that is lower than the hermetically sealed space. The passage allows air in the tank body to enter the fuel inlet when fuel overflows from the fuel inlet, thereby inhibiting flow of fuel into the canister through the discharging passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: Yamaha Motor Power Products Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akihiro Miyazaki, Takahide Sugiyama, Shinichi Kajiya
  • Publication number: 20110032416
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a camera apparatus, including: a lens block having an image capturing lens provided therein; a substrate having an image pickup element mounted thereto; a housing for accommodating therein the lens block and the substrate; and a supporting block for supporting the substrate so that the image pickup element and the image capturing lens face each other by bonding thereto the substrate by using an adhesive agent, wherein the supporting block has a side surface making a right angle with an adhesion surface to which the substrate is bonded, and a bottom surface parallel with the adhesion surface on the adhesion surface, and a filling groove which is filled with the adhesive agent is formed in the supporting block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2010
    Publication date: February 10, 2011
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Jumpei Naito, Akihiro Miyazaki, Akihiro Nakamura
  • Patent number: 7885366
    Abstract: When recording stream data, index information and time correction information are recorded in correspondence with the stream data. The index information specifies a position of an invalid section in the stream data. The time correction information specifies a time which, supposing that a PCR included in the invalid section was able to be got, a time clock would have shown in synchronization with the PCR. When reproducing the stream data recorded together with the time correction information and the index information, at a position where the invalid section ends, the time clock can be set to a time intended by a broadcasting system, by referencing the index information and the time correction information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Michiko Fuchikami, Akihiro Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 7812886
    Abstract: In synchronization of a conventional AV system, when a stream as the master stops, a system clock cannot be corrected for synchronization. Since the correction is consistently performed even when an error is small, overhead of correction is large. On the other hand, when an error is large, sharp correction causes a feeling that something wrong. In the present invention, when the stream as the master stops, previously registering the degree of priority regarding the master, consideration of a corrected period or a previous error for the system clock, or transmitting a stream containing information regarding the master can allow for other process to serves as the master. Accordingly, it is possible to provide a method for synchronization with maintaining correction of the system clock. When a corrected error is large, gradual correction or reference can provide a system with normal feeling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Uchida, Kengo Nishimura, Akihiro Miyazaki, Jyunichi Nakahashi, Kunihiko Hayashi, Satoshi Ikawa
  • Publication number: 20100208856
    Abstract: When recording stream data, index information and time correction information are recorded in correspondence with the stream data. The index information specifies a position of an invalid section in the stream data. The time correction information specifies a time which, supposing that a PCR included in the invalid section was able to be got, a time clock would have shown in synchronization with the PCR. When reproducing the stream data recorded together with the time correction information and the index information, at a position where the invalid section ends, the time clock can be set to a time intended by a broadcasting system, by referencing the index information and the time correction information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2006
    Publication date: August 19, 2010
    Inventors: Michiko Fuchikami, Akihiro Miyazaki
  • Publication number: 20100067545
    Abstract: A packet compressor 12 operates under a reliable mode or an optimistic mode. A mode determination unit 31 counts the number of ACK packets or NACK packets received by a unit time X by an ACK/NACK packet receiver 14. When the counted number of NACK packets is larger than a predetermined value Y, the mode determination unit 31 switches the operation mode of the packet compressor 12 to the reliable mode. When the counted number of ACK packets is larger than a predetermined value Z, the mode determination unit 31 switches the operation mode of the packet compressor 12 to the optimistic mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2009
    Publication date: March 18, 2010
    Inventors: Koichi Hata, Akihiro Miyazaki, Koji Imura, Daiji Ido
  • Patent number: 7644186
    Abstract: A packet compressor 12 operates under a reliable mode or an optimistic mode. A mode determination unit 31 counts the number of ACK packets or NACK packets received by a unit time X by an ACK/NACK packet receiver 14. When the counted number of NACK packets is larger than a predetermined value Y, the mode determination unit 31 switches the operation mode of the packet compressor 12 to the reliable mode. When the counted number of ACK packets is larger than a predetermined value Z, the mode determination unit 31 switches the operation mode of the packet compressor 12 to the optimistic mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Koichi Hata, Akihiro Miyazaki, Koji Imura, Daiji Ido
  • Publication number: 20090249038
    Abstract: In a normal operation state, a connection management section writes data transmitted from a first processing section to a data temporary storage section and reads data to be received by a second processing section from the data temporary storage section. Upon receiving control signals which instruct a change of the subject of processing, the first processing section and the second processing section output a transmitting-end clear request and a receiving-end clear request, respectively. The connection management section reads data from the empty data storage section after a transmitting-end clear request is received and until a receiving-end clear request is received, and writes data to the empty data storage section after a receiving-end clear request is received and until a transmitting-end clear request is received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2009
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Inventors: Satoshi Inami, Shigenori Maeda, Akihiro Miyazaki, Tadashi Ono, Fukutaro Sekine, Joerg Vogler, Gerald Pfeiffer, Toshimasa Takaki
  • Publication number: 20090220217
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a contents reproducing device which can perform an intermittent operation with improved responsiveness to user request. The contents reproducing device according to the present invention includes: an input operation unit (1100), a system state managing unit (1210), a system information storing unit (1220), a contents reproduction control unit (A) (1230), a state after next candidate extracting unit (1240), a contents reproduction control determining unit (1250), and a contents reproducing unit (1300). The contents reproduction control determining unit (1250) determines whether or not a candidate related to the contents reproduction control is in the state after next candidates extracted by the state after next candidate extracting unit (1240).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2007
    Publication date: September 3, 2009
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki Ejima, Yoichi Nishida, Akihiro Miyazaki, Yasunori Sato, Masaru Ohba
  • Patent number: 7583701
    Abstract: A data transmission apparatus for sequentially transmitting data in units of packets each containing transmission data to the receiving end, comprises: a reception unit for receiving the transmission data as an input signal; a packet formation unit for receiving the transmission data received, and forming an uncompressed packet in which predetermined transmission data is stored as uncompressed data, and a compressed packet in which at least a portion of transmission data that follows the predetermined transmission data is compressed and stored as compressed data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2009
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiro Miyazaki, Hideaki Fukushima, Carsten Burmeister, Rolf Hakenberg
  • Publication number: 20090103892
    Abstract: A stream data recording device is provided for recording stream data on a recording medium. The stream data recording device includes a stream reception/analysis unit (101), for acquiring stream data from reception data; a missing portion detection unit (102) for detecting a missing packet portion in the acquired stream data; a section information generation unit (103) for generating time information specifying the duration of the unreceivable section including the packets whose missing portion has been detected and position information specifying the position of the unreceivable section in the stream data; and a recording unit (105) for recording the acquired stream data, the generated time information and position information on the recording medium. Thus, even if the recording-target stream data is missing a portion during reception of the stream data, the data can be correctly played back from the seek time specified by a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2006
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Hirayama, Akihiro Miyazaki, Michiko Fuchikami, Norihiro Matsui, Nobunari Murai
  • Publication number: 20090070610
    Abstract: The present invention provides a data processor which can reduce the power consumption with the continuous compressed data, such as AV reproduction data, broadcast data or the like, to be reproduced, viewed and listened.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2006
    Publication date: March 12, 2009
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoichi Nishida, Takayuki Ejima, Akihiro Miyazaki, Yasunori Sato
  • Publication number: 20090056415
    Abstract: An art of hydrogen concentration measurement in which the hydrogen concentration of any given location of an object to be measured can be nondestructively obtained is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2006
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicants: The Tokyo Electric Power Company, Incorporated, Global Nuclear Fuel-Japan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Ishii, Akihiro Miyazaki, Masafumi Nakatsuka, Shinji Ishimoto
  • Publication number: 20090052867
    Abstract: A recording apparatus that generates meta-information that includes an initial address of TS packets constituting a PES packet that includes an independently-decodable picture, and size information pertaining to the picture, and records the generated meta-information in a recording medium, comprising: a detection unit operable to detect, from the TS packets constituting a transport stream, a TS packet at a head of a PES packet; a judging unit operable to judge whether the PES packet includes an independently-decodable picture; and a generation unit operable to generate meta-information that includes, as the size information, a size from a head of a PES packet that is judged as including an independently-decodable picture to a head of a succeeding PES packet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2006
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Inventors: Yasunori Sato, Kazuhiro Hirayama, Akihiro Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 7490335
    Abstract: A disk tray includes a storage concave portion that is to store a disk-shaped recording medium. The disk tray is supported by a carrying mechanism to thereby be carried from an opening portion provided to a front face of an apparatus main body (main body of an apparatus for storing the disk tray) over a range between the inside and outside of the apparatus main body, the disk tray comprising. The disk tray further includes a buffer material provided on a peripheral surface of the storage concave portion that stores the disk-shaped recording medium. Thereby, the disk-shaped recording medium, such as an optical disk, is restrained from being crushed even when being rotationally driven at high speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2009
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiro Miyazaki, Yuka Yamasaki, Atsumu Takahashi, Mikio Kato
  • Patent number: 7486700
    Abstract: A data transmission apparatus is provided for sequentially transmitting data in units of packets each containing transmission data to the receiving end, the apparatus including: a reception unit for receiving the transmission data as an input signal; a packet formation unit for receiving the transmission data received, and forming an uncompressed packet in which predetermined transmission data is stored as uncompressed data, and a compressed packet in which at least a portion of transmission data that follows the predetermined transmission data is compressed and stored as compressed data; a reference information management unit for holding and managing, as reference information, information relating to the uncompressed packet formed by the packet formation unit; and a transmission unit for transmitting the respective packets formed by the packet formation unit, as a transmission signal, to the receiving end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2009
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiro Miyazaki, Hideaki Fukushima, Carsten Burmeister, Rolf Hakenberg