Patents by Inventor Akinobu Horigome

Akinobu Horigome 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).

  • Camera system, master camera device, and slave camera device
    Patent number: 10154188
    Abstract: A master camera device and a plurality of slave camera devices are directly connected through a network, and form one network segment. The master camera device performs multicast communication with each slave camera device, and acquires information representing a transmission condition from each slave camera device. In a case where a worsening transmission condition relative to a predetermined threshold is detected from a transmission condition of each slave camera device and a transmission condition of the master camera device, the master camera device performs multicast communication with each slave camera device, and controls an encoding level representing a degree of encoding process, sequentially from an encoder having a lower priority, including the encoder of the master camera device, to improve the transmission condition. Thus, by an efficient communication, the transmission condition is improved from an initial stage having an unstable transmission condition, to obtain a preferable real-time image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
    Inventors: Akinobu Horigome, Kazuya Tanaka, Akio Kongo
  • CAMERA SYSTEM, MASTER CAMERA DEVICE, AND SLAVE CAMERA DEVICE
    Publication number: 20160127626
    Abstract: A master camera device and a plurality of slave camera devices are directly connected through a network, and form one network segment. The master camera device performs multicast communication with each slave camera device, and acquires information representing a transmission condition from each slave camera device. In a case where a worsening transmission condition relative to a predetermined threshold is detected from a transmission condition of each slave camera device and a transmission condition of the master camera device, the master camera device performs multicast communication with each slave camera device, and controls an encoding level representing a degree of encoding process, sequentially from an encoder having a lower priority, including the encoder of the master camera device, to improve the transmission condition. Thus, by an efficient communication, the transmission condition is improved from an initial stage having an unstable transmission condition, to obtain a preferable real-time image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2016
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventors: Akinobu Horigome, Kazuya Tanaka, Akio Kongo