Patents by Inventor Akira Nohara

Akira Nohara 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: 6615381
    Abstract: The present invention provides a digital data transmitting/receiving method, a base station unit, and a mobile object terminal unit, which enable collection of information desired by the mobile object terminal among service information distributed by the base station by using a broadcasting channel. The base station transmits data after identification information is added in the header information of the service information provided to the mobile object terminal, and the mobile object terminal has an address showing the identification information. The mobile object terminal analyzes the identification information by indicating the address to identify whether the service information is provided to the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2003
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisaya Fukuda, Akihiro Suzuki, Tomohiko Taniguchi, Akira Nohara
  • Patent number: 6473134
    Abstract: A television signal receiver has: receiving means for receiving a television signal; detecting means for detecting a pulse of a video signal obtained from the receiving means; phase detecting means for detecting the phase of the pulse; video signal stabilizing means for conducting image-stabilization on the video signal obtained in the receiving means, in accordance with control information obtained from the phase detecting means and based on the reception disturbance state; and displaying means for displaying a video signal obtained from the video signal stabilizing means. According to this configuration, therefore, the video signal can be stabilized by the video signal stabilizing means, so that disturbance of an image can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2002
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Nohara, Joji Kane, Noboru Nomura
  • Patent number: 6462115
    Abstract: A water repellent coating composition includes fine particles having functional groups on their surfaces and having a particle diameter ranging from 10 nm to 1 mm; a coupling agent containing (a) a functional group which is capable of reacting with the functional group of the fine particles and (b) a water repellent fluorinated group; a binder resin for binding the fine particles; and a solvent for the binder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2002
    Assignees: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, NTT Advanced Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Masaya Takahashi, Susumu Fujimori, Mamoru Ishitani, Taketoshi Matsuura, Hisao Tabei, Yoshiaki Haga, Akira Nohara, Nobuhiro Funakoshi
  • Patent number: 6057803
    Abstract: A plurality of antennas are disposed in a predetermined area and wherein size, configuration and mounting condition of the antennas are set so that their directivities formed by interference therebetween are most desirable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2000
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial, Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Joji Kane, Takashi Yoshida, Akira Nohara, Noboru Nomura, Makoto Hasegawa, Naoki Adachi
  • Patent number: 6038532
    Abstract: A frequency analysis system for eliminating noise from an information signal. The system receives an input signal containing noise, and discriminates an information signal from the noise in the input signal. The system then uses the detected noise to cancel noise in the input signal. In one embodiment, the system builds a history of noise information based upon prior detected noise in the signal, and uses this history to predict current noise in the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2000
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Joji Kane, Akira Nohara
  • Patent number: 5982901
    Abstract: A noise suppressor has signal detecting device 1 for detecting signals A and B on signal lines, sum signal generating device 21 for summing the detected signals, difference signal generating device 22 for differencing the detected signals, noise canceling device 3 for suppressing or removing noise components in a difference signal generated by the difference signal generating device and signal separating device 4 for separating the signal to those corresponding to the signal lines, according to the difference signal with the noise components suppressed or removed and the sum signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1999
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Joji Kane, Akira Nohara
  • Patent number: 5812673
    Abstract: It is a primary object of the invention to provide a noise suppressing device in which the function to suppress or remove the noise is more improved than the conventional device. The invention comprises a tuner section which detects the radio wave and converts it to the electric signal, an antenna connected to the tuner section, a field/disturbance information-detecting section for detecting the carrier level and the like of the input signal based on the signal from inside of the tuner section, a modulation information-detecting section for detecting the modulation degree and the like based on the signal from inside of the tuner section, a noise suppression control section which suppresses or removes the noise from the noise-containing signal input from the tuner section, a noise cancel section, and a noise data-generating section; and the noise-removed signal is output to an amplifier and amplified and sent to a speaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1998
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Nohara, Joji Kane
  • Patent number: 5652843
    Abstract: An intermittent analog voice signal is coded which is contained in an analog mixed signal having the intermittent analog voice signal mixed with a background analog noise signal. An analog-to-digital converter receives the analog mixed signal and generates a coded output signal by digitizing the analog mixed signal when a control signal is applied thereto and does not generate a coded output signal when the control signal is not applied thereto. A voice signal detector means receives the analog mixed signal and detects periods during which the analog voice signal is present in the analog mixed signal. A control signal generator generates the control signal applied to the analog-to-digital converter during voice periods detected by the voice signal detector during which the analog voice signal is present in the analog mixed signal. The analog mixed signal is thus digitized by the analog-to-digital converter only during the voice periods detected by the voice signal detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 29, 1997
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Joji Kane, Akira Nohara
  • Patent number: 5630015
    Abstract: A band division process including a Fourier transformation is performed for an inputted speech signal, thereby outputting spectrum signals of plural channels. A cepstrum analysis process is performed for the spectrum signals, and a peak of the obtained cepstrum is detected in response to the cepstrum analysis result. Thereafter, a speech signal interval of the inputted noisy speech signal is detected in response to the detected peak, and a noise is predicted in the speech signal in response to the detected speech signal interval. Then, the predicted noise is canceled in the spectrum signals thereby outputting noise-suppressed spectrum signals. Finally, the noise-suppressed spectrum signals are combined and are inverse Fourier-transformed, thereby outputting a noise-suppressed speech signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 13, 1997
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Joji Kane, Akira Nohara
  • Patent number: 5621850
    Abstract: A band division process including a Fourier transformation is performed for an inputted speech signal, thereby outputting spectrum signals of plural channels. A cepstrum analysis process is performed for the spectrum signals, and a peak of the obtained cepstrum is detected in response to the cepstrum analysis result. Thereafter, a speech signal interval of the inputted noisy speech signal is detected in response to the detected peak, and a noise is predicted in the speech signal in response to the detected speech signal interval. Then, the predicted noise is canceled in the spectrum signals thereby outputting noise-suppressed spectrum signals. Finally, the noise-suppressed spectrum signals are combined and are inverse Fourier-transformed, thereby outputting a noise-suppressed speech signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 15, 1997
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Joji Kane, Akira Nohara
  • Patent number: 5617505
    Abstract: A band division process including a Fourier transformation is performed for an inputted speech signal, thereby outputting spectrum signals of plural channels. A cepstrum analysis process is performed for the spectrum signals, and a peak of the obtained cepstrum is detected in response to the cepstrum analysis result. Thereafter, a speech signal interval the inputted noisy speech signal is detected in response to the detected peak, and a noise is predicted in the speech signal in response to the detected speech signal interval. Then, the predicted noise is canceled in the spectrum signals thereby outputting noise-suppressed spectrum signals. Finally, the noise-suppressed spectrum signals are combined and are inverse Fourier-transformed, thereby outputting a noise-suppressed speech signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 1, 1997
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Joji Kane, Akira Nohara
  • Patent number: 5490231
    Abstract: A noise signal prediction system includes a signal detector for receiving a mixed signal having a voice signal and a background noise signal and for detecting the presence and absence of the voice signal contained in the mixed signal. A noise level detector is provided for detecting an actual noise level at each sampling cycle during the absence of the voice signal. A storing circuit stores the noise levels for a predetermined number of past sampling cycles. A predicting circuit predicts a noise level of a next sampling cycle based on the stored noise levels in the storing circuit. The storing circuit receiving and stores the actual noise levels during the absence of the voice signal, but stores the predicted noise levels during the presence of the voice signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 6, 1996
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Joji Kane, Akira Nohara
  • Patent number: 5430894
    Abstract: A noise suppression apparatus includes a tuner 1 which selectively receives a radio wave signal and transforms it into an electric signal H(k) , a field information detector 2 which detects electric field information of the radio wave signal received by the tuner 1, a noise data generator 6 which generates a noise pattern W(k) on the basis of the electric field information detected by the field information detector 2, a noise canceler 4 which removes an noise component from the signal outputted from the tuner 1, and an amplifier 7 which outputs a noiseless signal outputted from the noise canceler 4. The noise canceler 4 obtains a power spectrum .vertline.X(k).vertline..sup.2 on the basis of the signal H(k) fed from the tuner 1. Thereafter, the noise canceler 4 obtains a noise cancel signal S(k) on the basis of the values of the signal H(k), the noise pattern W(k), and the power spectrum .vertline.X(k).vertline..sup.2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 4, 1995
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Nohara, Joji Kane
  • Patent number: 5428832
    Abstract: A noise suppression apparatus comprising a tuner 1 which selectively receiving a radio wave signal to be received and transforming it into an electric signal, a field information detector 2 which detects electric field information of the radio wave signal received by the tuner 1, a noise data generator 6 which generates a noise pattern on the basis of the electric field information .detected by the field information detector 2, a noise canceler 4 which removes an noise component from the signal outputted from the tuner 1 on the basis of the noise pattern generated by the noise data generator 6, and an amplifier 7 which outputs a noiseless signal outputted from the noise canceler 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 27, 1995
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Nohara, Joji Kane
  • Patent number: 5355707
    Abstract: A rolling mill in which an upper housing is guided upward and downward along columns, a fluid chamber is formed between the upper end section of each column and a column insertion hole of the upper housing; a fixed piston fixedly mounted on the column is fitted in the fluid chamber; a roll gap rapid widening piston is fixedly installed on the upper end of the column, and on this piston is vertically movably fitted a hydraulic cylinder; the hydraulic cylinder is fixedly mounted in the upper housing; pressure fluid is constantly supplied to an upper fluid chamber on the piston; a fluid chamber is provided in the column insertion hole of the upper housing, and a column clamping sleeve is fitted therein; and the pressure fluid is fed into, and discharged out of, the fluid chamber to move the upper housing upward and downward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 18, 1994
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho
    Inventors: Tetsuo Inoue, Tohru Yoshioka, Hideaki Yoshimatsu, Akira Nohara
  • Patent number: 5355431
    Abstract: A band division process including a Fourier transformation is performed for an inputted speech signal, thereby outputting spectrum signals of plural channels. A cepstrum analysis process is performed for the spectrum signals, and a peak of the obtained cepstrum is detected in response to the cepstrum analysis result. Thereafter, a speech signal interval of the inputted noisy speech signal is detected in response to the detected peak, and a noise is predicted in the speech signal in response to the detected speech signal interval. Then, the predicted noise is canceled in the spectrum signals thereby outputting noise-suppressed spectrum signals. Finally, the noise-suppressed spectrum signals are combined and are inverse Fourier-transformed, thereby outputting a noise-suppressed speech signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 11, 1994
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Joji Kane, Akira Nohara
  • Patent number: 5295225
    Abstract: A noise signal prediction system includes a signal detector for receiving a mixed signal having a voice signal and a background noise signal and for detecting the presence and absence of the voice signal contained in the mixed signal. A noise level detector is provided for detecting an actual noise level at each sampling cycle during the absence of the voice signal. A storing circuit stores the noise levels for a predetermined number of past sampling cycles. A predicting circuit predicts a noise level of a next sampling cycle based on the stored noise levels in the storing circuit. The storing circuit receiving and stores the actual noise levels during the absence of the voice signal, but stores the predicted noise levels during the presence of the voice signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1994
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Joji Kane, Akira Nohara
  • Patent number: 5293450
    Abstract: A voice signal coding system includes a voice signal detector for receiving a mixed signal of an intermittent voice signal and background noise signal and for detecting the presence and absence of the voice signal contained in the mixed signal. A voice signal period detector is provided for detecting a voice signal period in which the voice signal is present. A coding period control circuit is coupled to the voice signal period detector for producing a coding period control signal during the voice signal period. A coding circuit receives and encodes the mixed signal in response to the coding period control signal. Thus, the mixed signal is coded in the coding circuit only during the voice signal periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 8, 1994
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Joji Kane, Akira Nohara
  • Patent number: 5228088
    Abstract: A voice signal processor features a particular improvement of the S/N ratio. In the voice signal processor, the signal level in the voice band of a signal from which noise is cancelled to some extent is emphasized relative to the signal level in the noise band. Moreover, a cancellation factor is utilized in cancelling the noise, so that the voice level in the voice band is emphasized, or the noise level in the noise band is attenuated, achieving a better noise-suppressed voice signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1991
    Date of Patent: July 13, 1993
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Joji Kane, Akira Nohara
  • Patent number: 5220610
    Abstract: A signal processing apparatus extracts a speech signal from an inputted noisy speech signal. In the signal processing apparatus, a band division process including a Fourier transformation is performed for an inputted speech signal, thereby outputting spectrum signals of plural channels, and a cepstrum analysis process is performed for the spectrum signals of plural channels, thereby outputting a cepstrum analysis result. Thereafter, a speech signal interval of the inputted noisy speech signal is detected in response to the cepstrum analysis result, and then, a speech signal is extracted from the inputted noisy speech signal according to the detected speech signal interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 15, 1993
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Joi Kane, Akira Nohara