Patents by Inventor Hideki Iwami

Hideki Iwami 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).

  • Publication number: 20150067452
    Abstract: The present technique relates to an information processing apparatus and a method, and a program, capable of reducing a delay time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki Iwami, Chihiro Fujita, Osamu Yoshimura
  • Patent number: 8891456
    Abstract: Access control based on CSMA is favorably carried out with the RTS/CTS method used together. If the RTS/CTS procedure is used together, CTS information is transmitted in response to the reception of RTS information, and data is transmitted in response to the reception of CTS. The CTS transmitting station measures the quality of RTS receive signal, and thereby determines a transmission rate at which it can receive and notifies a station as the destination of CTS. The station as the destination of CTS transmits data in response to CTS information. As the transmission rate for this data, the transmission rate indicated in the RATE field in CTS is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Sakoda, Hideki Iwami, Kenzo Nishikawa
  • Publication number: 20140211815
    Abstract: A multi-carrier signal transmission apparatus transmits a transmission stream including at least preamble information necessary for synchronizing a transmission signal and data information as a multi-carrier signal. A modulator generates a transmission symbol stream by modulating an arrangement of the preamble information and the data information. A symbol expanding portion expands the transmission symbol stream on a frequency axis by generating a complex conjugate value of at least one part of the preamble information symmetrically on the frequency axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2013
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hideki Iwami
  • Patent number: 8745432
    Abstract: A delay controller includes an acquiring section that acquires synchronization timings indicating timings when a plurality of controllers, which control via a line a plurality of transmitters that transmit data, synchronously control the transmitters, a determining section that determines a reference synchronization timing serving as a reference for synchronization between the controllers, on the basis of the synchronization timings acquired by the acquiring section, and a synchronization information transmitting section that transmits synchronization information to the controllers, the synchronization information being used when the controllers receive data from each of the transmitters at the reference synchronization timing determined by the determining section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki Iwami, Eisaburo Itakura, Satoshi Tsubaki, Hiroaki Takahashi, Kei Kakitani, Tamotsu Munakata, Hideaki Murayama
  • Patent number: 8644345
    Abstract: A multi-carrier signal transmission apparatus transmits a transmission stream including at least preamble information necessary for synchronizing a transmission signal and data information as a multi-carrier signal. A modulator generates a transmission symbol stream by modulating an arrangement of the preamble information and the data information. A symbol expanding portion expands the transmission symbol stream on a frequency axis by generating a complex conjugate value of at least one part of the preamble information symmetrically on the frequency axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hideki Iwami
  • Patent number: 8565574
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes bank overflow flag confirming means for confirming whether a bank overflow flag is set, the bank overflow flag notifying the occurrence of a bank-full state where, in a storage area including plural banks formed therein to store data, not-yet-read data is stored in all the banks, read pointer control means for, upon confirming that the bank overflow flag is set, moving a location designated by a read pointer cyclically designating each of the banks as a bank, from which the data is to be read, to a bank positioned next to a bank at a location designated by a write pointer cyclically designating each of the banks as a bank, into which the data is to be written, and reading means for reading the data from the bank designated by the read pointer after the location designated by the read pointer has been updated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Futenma, Hideki Iwami
  • Publication number: 20130272201
    Abstract: To provide a stable high speed wireless network, the relay process is solved at the lower layers (PHY layer, MAC layer) without depending on upper layers to reduce the load of the upper layers to the utmost. Discrimination is made between a packet of one's own station and a relay packet to process the presence and absence of the relay packet without using a CPU to construct a wireless network executing the relay processing at a high speed. Further, the retransmission is executed without using a CPU to provide a stable wireless network. In addition, the table for relay process (routing table) is constantly updated to add to the table the information of the packets of which processes are not executed to eventually suppress unnecessary processes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2013
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Inventor: Hideki IWAMI
  • Patent number: 8477783
    Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus includes a header recognition section that recognizes a header included in a packet. The apparatus also includes a packet determining section that determines whether the packet is directed to the wireless communication apparatus itself, and a table to recognize a next transmission destination based on a destination of the packet. The apparatus further includes a relay station packet determining section that determines a packet to be relayed through the table and the header recognition section. The apparatus additionally includes a security table to store security data for a recognition of a communication counterpart.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hideki Iwami
  • Patent number: 8432888
    Abstract: Access control based on CSMA is favorably carried out with the RTS/CTS method used together. If the RTS/CTS procedure is used together, CTS information is transmitted in response to the reception of RTS information, and data is transmitted in response to the reception of CTS. The CTS transmitting station measures the quality of RTS receive signal, and thereby determines a transmission rate at which it can receive and notifies a station as the destination of CTS. The station as the destination of CTS transmits data in response to CTS information. As the transmission rate for this data, the transmission rate indicated in the RATE field in CTS is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Sakoda, Hideki Iwami, Kenzo Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 8428041
    Abstract: Access control based on CSMA is favorably carried out with the RTS/CTS method used together. If the RTS/CTS procedure is used together, CTS information is transmitted in response to the reception of RTS information, and data is transmitted in response to the reception of CTS. The CTS transmitting station measures the quality of RTS receive signal, and thereby determines a transmission rate at which it can receive and notifies a station as the destination of CTS. The station as the destination of CTS transmits data in response to CTS information. As the transmission rate for this data, the transmission rate indicated in the RATE field in CTS is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Sakoda, Hideki Iwami, Kenzo Nishikawa
  • Publication number: 20130093853
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing apparatus and an information processing method that can reproduce high-quality stereoscopic images with low delay. An interpolation data storing unit (112) stores received L image data and R image data as interpolation data. A line-based multiple data link managing unit (105) manages a management table in which the numbers of packet errors in the L image data and the R image data of each line block and the like are registered. Based on the management table, an image data input switching unit (106) outputs the reception data when both of the numbers of packet errors in the L image data and the R image data contained in the reception data are smaller than a threshold value, and outputs interpolation data that corresponds to the reception data, is stored in the interpolation data storing unit (112), and has a smaller number of errors than a threshold value when both of the numbers of errors are not smaller than the threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2011
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Inventors: Hideki Iwami, Eisaburo Itakura, Satoshi Tsubaki, Kei Kakitani, Hiroaki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 8406213
    Abstract: Access control based on CSMA is favorably carried out with the RTS/CTS method used together. If the RTS/CTS procedure is used together, CTS information is transmitted in response to the reception of RTS information, and data is transmitted in response to the reception of CTS. The CTS transmitting station measures the quality of RTS receive signal, and thereby determines a transmission rate at which it can receive and notifies a station as the destination of CTS. The station as the destination of CTS transmits data in response to CTS information. As the transmission rate for this data, the transmission rate indicated in the RATE field in CTS is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Sakoda, Hideki Iwami, Kenzo Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 8325817
    Abstract: A communication apparatus dividing an image for one field into a plurality of groups each including N lines (N?1) and performing compression/decompression for each group includes a separator separating image data from reception data; a determination unit determining whether an error exists in the separated image data; a storage unit storing the image data as interpolation data when the determination unit determines that no error exists in the image data; a decoder decoding the image data; a first detection unit detecting a decoding position of the image data and a corresponding position of the interpolation data stored in the storage unit when the determination unit determines that an error exists in the image data and that the amount of missing data of the image data exceeds a threshold; and a reading unit reading the interpolation data in accordance with the detected decoding position and corresponding position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki Iwami, Satoshi Futenma
  • Publication number: 20120300612
    Abstract: There is provided a communication apparatus including a communication unit that receives first communication data transmitted from a transmitting apparatus to a first receiving apparatus through unicast and second communication data transmitted from the transmitting apparatus to a second receiving apparatus, respectively and a processing unit that processes processing data included in the received first communication data and second communication data. When there is missing data in either of first processing data included in the first communication data and second processing data included in the second communication data, the processing unit executes processing using the other processing data in which there is no missing data, and the processing unit does not make the communication unit transmit a reply with respect to external apparatuses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2012
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Itagaki, Hideki Iwami, Tomoya Yamaura, Osamu Yoshimura, Chihiro Fujita
  • Publication number: 20120256965
    Abstract: There is provided a display control device, including a communication section for communicating with an external device, a position specification section for specifying positions of an imaging device, which captures an image, and a display device, which displays the image, a process determination section for determining whether to cause the captured image to be reversed in a horizontal direction on the basis of the positions of the display device and the imaging device and a processing section for selectively reversing the captured image in the horizontal direction, wherein the processing section causes the display device to display the image reversed in the horizontal direction by reversing the captured image in the horizontal direction, if the image is determined to be reversed in the horizontal direction, and causes the display device to display the captured image, if the image is determined not to be reversed in the horizontal direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki Iwami, Tomoya Yamaura, Osamu Yoshimura
  • Publication number: 20120250547
    Abstract: A wireless communication device includes: a data transmission unit that transmits data to one or more receiving terminals; and a communication mode determination unit that determines a communication mode in which the data is transmitted from the data transmission unit, wherein the communication mode determination unit selects a first communication mode in which unicast communication is used when the number of receiving terminals to which the data is transmitted is equal to or less than a predetermined number, and selects a second communication mode in which unicast communication is performed to one or some of receiving terminals as a destination and the other receiving terminals than the destination also receive packets in unicast communication when the number of receiving terminals to which the data is transmitted exceeds the predetermined number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chihiro Fujita, Hideki Iwami, Osamu Yoshimura
  • Publication number: 20120254354
    Abstract: There is provided a communication device including a communication unit configured to receive communication data transmitted/received between a transmitting device and a receiving device that is a transmission target of transmission data transmitted by the transmitting device by unicast, a data determination unit configured to determine data to be used for a process from among the received communication data, and a processing unit configured to process the data determined to be used for the process. The processing unit, in processing the determined data, prevents the communication unit from responding to the transmitting device or the receiving device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2012
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki IWAMI, Osamu YOSHIMURA, Tomoya YAMAURA, Katsutoshi ITOH
  • Patent number: 8274961
    Abstract: Access control based on CSMA is favorably carried out with the RTS/CTS method used together. If the RTS/CTS procedure is used together, CTS information is transmitted in response to the reception of RTS information, and data is transmitted in response to the reception of CTS. The CTS transmitting station measures the quality of RTS receive signal, and thereby determines a transmission rate at which it can receive and notifies a station as the destination of CTS. The station as the destination of CTS transmits data in response to CTS information. As the transmission rate for this data, the transmission rate indicated in the RATE field in CTS is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Sakoda, Hideki Iwami, Kenzo Nishikawa
  • Publication number: 20120147140
    Abstract: A video image data encoder comprises an input to receive stereoscopic image data. The stereoscopic image data includes first and second image data having chronological correspondence. An error correction encoding unit combines portions of the first image data and corresponding portions of the second image data from the input unit into a common encoding matrix. An error correcting code derived from the combined portions is added to the encoding matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2011
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Inventors: Eisaburo Itakura, Hideki Iwami, Satoshi Tsubaki, Hiroaki Takahashi, Kei Kakitani
  • Publication number: 20110305281
    Abstract: A receiver includes a receiving section that receives communication packets transmitted from a transmitter, which transmits the communication packets each including encoded data, and an image header, sequentially from the encoded data corresponding to the beginning of an image, a first accumulating section that accumulates the encoded data and the image header included in each of the received communication packets, a detecting section that detects a picture header transmitted together with the encoded data corresponding to the beginning of the image, from the image header of each of the received communication packets, in a predetermined observation interval, a second accumulating section that accumulates the detected picture header, and a control section that reads out the picture header accumulated in the second accumulating section, and causes the picture header to be accumulated into the first accumulating section, if the picture header is not detected within the observation interval.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2011
    Publication date: December 15, 2011
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Osamu Yoshimura, Hideki Iwami, Chihiro Fujita, Hideaki Murayama, Tamotsu Munakata, Yoshinobu Kure