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: 20110299556
    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: August 18, 2011
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hideki Iwami
  • Publication number: 20110252265
    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: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2011
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: HIDEKI IWAMI, EISABURO ITAKURA, SATOSHI TSUBAKI, HIROAKI TAKAHASHI, KEI KAKITANI, TAMOTSU MUNAKATA, HIDEAKI MURAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20110249181
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a transmitting device, including: a reproduction time information adding portion configured to add reproduction time information specifying timing of reproduction of data as an object of transmission to the data; a control time information adding portion configured to add control time information specifying control timing when circuit control is performed on a circuit, the data being to be transmitted through the circuit, to data transfer control information; and a transmitting portion configured to transmit data to which the reproduction time information and the control time information are added.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2011
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: HIDEKI IWAMI, OSAMU YOSHIMURA, CHIHIRO FUJITA, SATOSHI TSUBAKI, YOSHINOBU KURE
  • Patent number: 8009700
    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: March 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hideki Iwami
  • Publication number: 20100246563
    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 10, 2010
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hideki IWAMI
  • Patent number: 7769012
    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: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hideki Iwami
  • Patent number: 7746857
    Abstract: There is provided a transmitting apparatus for transmitting data, which includes: compressing means compressing data to be transmitted; packetizing means packetizing the data compressed by the compressing means; a buffer for accumulating the data which are packetized; transmitting means transmitting the data accumulated in the buffer; clearing means clearing the buffer at each time that a predetermined time is lapsed; number-of-data counting means counting the number of the data which are not transmitted within the predetermined time; time measuring means measuring a transmission idle time which lasts from a transmission completion time to a clearing time, in a case where all of the data accumulated in the buffer are transmitted before the predetermined time is lapsed; and compression controlling means controlling a compression rate of the data, depending on the number of the data counted or the transmission idle time measured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhiko Mizoguchi, Hideki Iwami, Satoshi Futenma, Natsuki Itaya
  • Publication number: 20100150461
    Abstract: There is provided a transmitting apparatus, comprising, an image superimposition section that generates a superimposed image data by superimposing a user interface image generated based on a first control data used to control a user interface onto a content image, an image compression section that encodes the superimposed image data generated by the image superimposition section per an encoding unit corresponding to N lines in one field (N is equal to or greater than 1) and a communication section that transmits the superimposed image data encoded by the image compression section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2009
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Inventor: Hideki IWAMI
  • Publication number: 20100064091
    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: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2009
    Publication date: March 11, 2010
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi FUTENMA, Hideki IWAMI
  • Patent number: 7639661
    Abstract: Each communication station, at least, periodically transmits/receives a beacon at regular intervals and manages the transmission/reception using a neighboring-station list (neighbor list), thereby managing the network of the communications station in a distributed manner. In addition, a save area is provided in which n beacons transmitted/received at regular time intervals are managed in a neighboring-station list, thereby making it easy to schedule list reading/writing processing when the list is updated during the reception of a new beacon. When the network topologies are crossed over, a load for network management can be reduced. Thus, it is possible to provide a wireless communication system in which a system timer and a master station that controls common frame time do not exist in a domain included in the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2009
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki Iwami, Kazuyuki Sakoda, Tomonari Yamagata
  • Publication number: 20090285310
    Abstract: There is provided a receiving apparatus including a header detection section that receives image data encoded per a coding unit corresponding to N (N is equal to or greater than 1) lines in one field and detects control information to decide a decoding start point of the image data from a header attached to the image data, a storage section that stores the image data in each storage area assigned per the coding unit, a decoding start instruction section that decides a decoding start point of the image data based on the control information detected by the header detection section and, after waiting till the decoding start point, instructs a start of decoding per the coding unit, and a decoding section that decodes the image data stored in the storage section per the coding unit after the instruction to start decoding being received from the decoding start instruction section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2009
    Publication date: November 19, 2009
    Inventors: Hideki Iwami, Kazuhisa Hosaka, Satoshi Futenma, Naoto Nishimura, Hiroshi Akinaga
  • Publication number: 20090274101
    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: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2009
    Publication date: November 5, 2009
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuyuki SAKODA, Hideki Iwami, Kenzo Nishikawa
  • Publication number: 20090225884
    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: March 27, 2009
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hideki Iwami
  • Patent number: 7539217
    Abstract: In transmitting first information necessary for gaining synchronism of transmission signal and second information which is the other information by determining a break of a single modulation unit with a simple structure and processing prior to Fourier transformation on the side receiving a signal transmitted as a multi-carrier signal, a transmission symbol stream is expanded on a frequency axis. With a predetermined frequency position (for example, 0 kHz) as reference, a transmission symbol stream symmetrical is generated on the frequency axis and then, the transmission symbol stream symmetrical on the frequency axis is Fourier-transformed and transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2009
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hideki Iwami
  • Publication number: 20090059891
    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: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2008
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Sakoda, Hideki Iwami, Kenzo Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 7426396
    Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus is provided in which a frequency band, a signal type, and a transmission power conforming to radio law of a country that uses a first wireless communication system are set by means of a receiving status of a specific signal of a second wireless communication system, so that user friendly wireless communication apparatus regarding operations thereof can be provided. In the wireless communication system 1 according to the present invention, an area information acquisition portion 2 acquires information on an area in which the wireless communication system presently exists. Based on communication setting information in the wireless communication system corresponding to area information stored in an information memory portion 4, an area information judgment portion 3 judges communication setting information capable of being set in the wireless communication system in accordance with the area information acquired from the area information acquisition portion 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2008
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Jun Iwasaki, Shigeru Sugaya, Satoshi Konya, Yasuhiko Mizoguchi, Hideki Iwami
  • Publication number: 20080151860
    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: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2008
    Publication date: June 26, 2008
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuyuki SAKODA, Hideki Iwami, Kenzo Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 7373135
    Abstract: A collision of data transmitted in an ad hoc network in which a communication system such as a wireless LAN system is managed without a master control station is minimized. A communication station in the network estimates a time at which a neighboring station will transmit a signal and, when a communication start request is received from some other communication station, adds time information, generated based on the length of time to the estimated time, to a response to the communication start request. This allows the reception side communication station, which knows in advance that the transmission will be occupied by a transmission from other communication stations, to cause the transmission side communication station to transmit data at a time other than that occupation time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2008
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeru Sugaya, Tomonari Yamagata, Hideki Iwami
  • Publication number: 20080107040
    Abstract: There is provided a transmitting apparatus for transmitting data, which includes: compressing means compressing data to be transmitted; packetizing means packetizing the data compressed by the compressing means; a buffer for accumulating the data which are packetized; transmitting means transmitting the data accumulated in the buffer; clearing means clearing the buffer at each time that a predetermined time is lapsed; number-of-data counting means counting the number of the data which are not transmitted within the predetermined time; time measuring means measuring a transmission idle time which lasts from a transmission completion time to a clearing time, in a case where all of the data accumulated in the buffer are transmitted before the predetermined time is lapsed; and compression controlling means controlling a compression rate of the data, depending on the number of the data counted or the transmission idle time measured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2007
    Publication date: May 8, 2008
    Inventors: Yasuhiko MIZOGUCHI, Hideki Iwami, Satoshi Futenma, Natsuki Itaya
  • Publication number: 20080063078
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus which sends image data subjected to line based wavelet transformation to another device is disclosed. The apparatus includes: a storing means for splitting the image data supplied in units of precincts that are the set of lines to be a unit of processing for the line based wavelet transformation for every frequency component, and storing a plurality of precincts of image data for every frequency component; a packetizing means for reading and packetizing the plurality of the precincts of image data stored by the storing means for each of the frequency components; and a sending means for sending the plurality of the precincts of image data packetized by the packetizing means for each of the frequency components to the another device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2007
    Publication date: March 13, 2008
    Inventors: Satoshi FUTENMA, Hideki IWAMI