Patents by Inventor Hideo Abe

Hideo Abe 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: 8570839
    Abstract: A time-information obtaining apparatus is provided with an input waveform data pattern generating unit for sampling a received standard-time radio wave signal to generate an input waveform data pattern, an internal time counting unit for generate a base time, a calculation-waveform data pattern generating unit for generating plural calculation-waveform data patterns based on the base time, an invalid-bit detecting unit for detecting in the plural calculation-waveform data patterns, invalid bits not to be compared with the input waveform data pattern, an error counting unit for comparing the sample values of valid bits of the plural calculation-waveform data patterns with the invalid bits removed and the corresponding sample values of the input waveform data pattern to detect discrepancies between them, and a present-time correcting unit for correcting the base time based on the calculation-waveform data pattern having the smallest number of errors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiichi Nomura, Hideo Abe
  • Patent number: 8472484
    Abstract: A signal processing circuit for controlling reading of segment data from a buffer in which a plurality of segment data generated by dividing a frame and received via a plurality of switches which direct each of the segment data to a designated destination are stored, comprises: a start detecting unit which detects a starting segment representing the first transmitted segment data to the switch among the segment data received after the buffer has emptied; a transmission time acquiring unit which acquires a transmission time at which the starting segment was transmitted to the switch; and a read timing control unit which determines, based on the transmission time, a read timing for reading the segment data from the buffer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Hidenori Sugai, Satoshi Nemoto, Hideo Abe, Hiroshi Tomonaga, Takashi Kuwabara
  • Patent number: 8446800
    Abstract: A time information acquisition apparatus comprises an input waveform data pattern generator configured to sample a standard time radio wave signal in order to generate an input waveform data pattern, a predicted waveform data pattern generator configured to generate predicted waveform data patterns, represents a string of codes based on a base time, and has a head position, an error detector configured to detect non-coincidence between the input waveform data pattern and each of the predicted waveform data patterns in order to acquire a number of errors indicative of a number of non-coincidences, a current time correction module configured to correct the base time based on the predicted waveform data pattern indicative of a minimum value of the number of errors, and a controller configured to determine the number of predicted waveform data patterns to be generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Hideo Abe
  • Publication number: 20130077510
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a first switch circuit in an active mode and a second switch circuit in a standby mode. The apparatus receives high-priority packets and low-priority packets. Each switch circuit stores the high-priority packets and the low-priority packets into first and second buffers, respectively. The each switch circuit performs packet-readout processing reading out a packet from the first and second buffers where the packet-readout processing is performed on the first buffer on a priority basis. The apparatus controls the first switch circuit so that a back-pressure time for the high-priority packets becomes longer with increasing amount of data transmitted by the high-priority packets, when a low-priority packet outputted from the first switch circuit is determined to be a packet that has been received at a first time that is later than a second time at which another low-priority packet outputted from the second switch circuit has been received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2012
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Kazuto NISHIMURA, Hideo Abe, Satoshi Nemoto
  • Patent number: 8391422
    Abstract: A time information receiver including a reception unit for receiving and demodulating a standard radio wave containing a time code in which data pulses are arranged at a predetermined period; an analyzer for analyzing the time code from a demodulated signal obtained by demodulating the standard radio wave; a time-shift adder for executing an addition processing of adding a pulse waveform of the demodulated signal and a pulse waveform of a signal obtained by shifting the demodulated signal by a predetermined time; and a judger for judging a code type of the time code contained in the received standard radio wave on the basis of a addition result of the time-shift adder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiichi Nomura, Hideo Abe
  • Patent number: 8379490
    Abstract: A time information-acquiring apparatus comprises a receiver receiving a standard time radio wave, an input waveform generator sampling a signal output from the receiver and to generating input waveform data with one or more unit time lengths, the input waveform data at each sampling point having a first value indicating a low level or a second value, the input waveform data within a first characteristic section having a predetermined value unique to codes forming a time code included in the standard time radio wave, an accumulator accumulating the value of the input waveform data during the first characteristic section, a calculator multiplying the accumulated value by characteristic values, and calculating correlation values between the input waveform data and the codes based on multiplied values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideo Abe, Keiichi Nomura
  • Patent number: 8310900
    Abstract: Disclosed is a time information obtaining device comprising: a reception section to receive a standard time radio wave; an input waveform data generation section to generate input waveform data, based on data having the unit of time length; an estimated waveform data generation section to generate estimated waveform data, wherein the estimated waveform data comprises the value in which each sample point is described by the plurality of bits, and has the same time length as the input waveform data, and comprises at least one code which configures the time code, and a waveform of the estimated waveform data is sequentially shifted by a predetermined sample; a correlation value calculation section to calculate a correlation value; a correlation value comparison section to compare the correlation value to calculate an optimal value; and a control section to specify a beginning position of a second in the time code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideo Abe
  • Publication number: 20120282871
    Abstract: A radio wave receiver having an antenna for receiving a radio wave; a tuning unit for switching a frequency characteristic of the antenna in a stepwise fashion; an oscillation unit for oscillating a circuit section including the antenna and the tuning unit; a receiving process unit for executing a signal process by extracting a signal of a desired wave among received signals received by the antenna; and a search control unit for causing the oscillation unit to generate an oscillation signal at the circuit section and for searching, by switching a setting of the tuning unit, a setting condition of the tuning unit at which condition the oscillation signal is extracted by the receiving process unit; wherein the search control unit changes the number of minimum switching steps to be taken at a time or set pattern according to an adjustable range of the tuning unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2012
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuaki ABE, Hideo ABE
  • Patent number: 8270922
    Abstract: Disclosed is a radio wave receiver including an antenna to receive a radio wave, a tuning unit to switch a frequency characteristic of the antenna in a stepwise fashion, an oscillation unit to oscillate the antenna and a circuit section of the tuning unit, a receiving process unit to carry out a signal process by extracting a signal of a desired wave among received signals which are received from the antenna, a search control unit in which the oscillation unit is made to generate an oscillation signal at the circuit section and in which the oscillation signal searches a setting condition of the tuning unit which is extracted in the receiving process unit by switching a setting of the tuning unit and a search range deciding unit to selectively decide an adjustable range in which the switching of the setting of the tuning unit is carried out by the search control unit so as to be a specific adjustable range which is a portion of an entire adjustable range of the tuning unit corresponding to a frequency of the d
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Abe, Hideo Abe
  • Patent number: 8264915
    Abstract: A time information-acquiring apparatus comprises an input waveform generator which generates an input waveform, a predicted waveform generator which generates plural phase-shifted predicted waveforms, a correlation calculator which calculates a positive correlation based on a first value of the input waveform and a first value of the predicted waveform or a second value of the input waveform and a second value of the predicted waveform, and calculates a negative correlation based on the first value of the input waveform and the second value of the predicted waveform or the second value of the input waveform and the first value of the predicted waveform, a comparator which compares the correlation values to detect an optimal value, and a controller which detects a head position of a second based on a predicted waveform related to the optimal value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Hideo Abe, Keiichi Nomura
  • Patent number: 8264913
    Abstract: A time information obtaining apparatus, comprises: an input waveform data generating section for sampling a received signal including a time code at a predetermined sampling period to obtain sampling points every one unit time length, and generating input waveform data having one or more unit time lengths based on data having at least one unit time length including the obtained sampling points; a predicted waveform data generating section for generating a plurality of pieces of predicted waveform data with respect to each class of a standard time radio wave; a correlation value calculating section for calculating correlation values between the input waveform data and the plurality of pieces of predicted waveform data of each of the classes; a correlation value comparing section for comparing the correlation values to calculate optimum values; and a judging section for judging the class of the standard time wave based on the optimum values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideo Abe
  • Patent number: 8218691
    Abstract: A time information receiver including a reception unit for receiving and demodulating a standard radio wave containing a time code in which data pulses are arranged at a predetermined period; a determining section for determining rising and falling points of a demodulated signal; a first calculator for calculating first differences between respective time intervals of any pair of the rising points and a time period concerned with the predetermined period, and calculating a rising dispersion amount; a second calculator for calculating second differences between respective time intervals of any pair of the falling points and a time period concerned with the predetermined period, and calculating a falling dispersion amount; a comparison section for comparing the rising dispersion amount and the falling dispersion amount; and a judger for judging a code type of the received time code on the basis of a comparison result of the comparison section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiichi Nomura, Hideo Abe
  • Publication number: 20120134241
    Abstract: A time-information obtaining apparatus is provided with an input waveform data pattern generating unit for sampling a received standard-time radio wave signal to generate an input waveform data pattern, an internal time counting unit for generate a base time, a calculation-waveform data pattern generating unit for generating plural calculation-waveform data patterns based on the base time, an invalid-bit detecting unit for detecting in the plural calculation-waveform data patterns, invalid bits not to be compared with the input waveform data pattern, an error counting unit for comparing the sample values of valid bits of the plural calculation-waveform data patterns with the invalid bits removed and the corresponding sample values of the input waveform data pattern to detect discrepancies between them, and a present-time correcting unit for correcting the base time based on the calculation-waveform data pattern having the smallest number of errors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2011
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keiichi Nomura, Hideo Abe
  • Patent number: 8182637
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide an optical display manufacturing system or method that allows an increase in the yield of an optical film, a reduction in cost and an improvement in inventory control. An optical display manufacturing system includes feeding means (11, 14) that feeds a belt and sheet-shaped product (3) having an optical film from a roll (4) of the belt and sheet-shaped product, detection means (12) that detects a defect of the belt and sheet-shaped product fed by the feeding means, cutting means (13) that cuts the belt and sheet-shaped product into individual sheet-shaped products based on the result of the detection, transfer means (16) that transports each of the sheet-shaped products from the cutting process to a sticking process, and sticking means (17) that sticks the transported sheet-shaped product to an optical display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Yasushi Nakahira, Hideo Abe
  • Patent number: 8170061
    Abstract: A device including: a receiving unit receiving a packet; a packet determining unit determining whether the received packet is a head fragment packet or an intermediate or last fragment packet; a search control unit using search data registered previously for searching for packet information and search data used for identifying the same fragment of the fragment packet on the same search address; and an assembly processing unit assembling the fragment packets, wherein the search control unit extracts a fragment identifier from the head fragment packet and registers the fragment identifier as the search data on the same search address as the search address of the search data registered previously for searching for the packet information and extracts the fragment identifier of the intermediate fragment packet or the last fragment packet, makes a search in a way that uses the fragment identifier as search target data, and assembles the fragment packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Hideo Abe, Kenji Fukuda, Mitsunari Takahashi, Kazuhiro Yasuno
  • Publication number: 20120097316
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide an optical display manufacturing system or method that allows an increase in the yield of an optical film, a reduction in cost and an improvement in inventory control. An optical display manufacturing system includes feeding means (11, 14) that feeds a belt and sheet-shaped product (3) having an optical film from a roll (4) of the belt and sheet-shaped product, detection means (12) that detects a defect of the belt and sheet-shaped product fed by the feeding means, cutting means (13) that cuts the belt and sheet-shaped product into individual sheet-shaped products based on the result of the detection, transfer means (16) that transports each of the sheet-shaped products from the cutting process to a sticking process, and sticking means (17) that sticks the transported sheet-shaped product to an optical display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2012
    Publication date: April 26, 2012
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasushi Nakahira, Hideo Abe
  • Patent number: 8073651
    Abstract: A received waveform memory 22 stores one (1) frame of received waveform data acquired by sampling a signal including a time code with a predetermined sampling period, where each sample is represented by a plurality of bits. Correlation value calculating sections 24-26 compare the received waveform data with one (1) frame of first prediction code data corresponding to a code of a position marker or a marker, where each sample is represented by a plurality of bits, one (1) frame of second prediction code data corresponding to a code “0”, and one (1) frame of third prediction code data corresponding to a code “1” respectively. Correlation value comparing section 27 compares the first, second and third correlation values with one another to specify the prediction code data whose correlation is largest to output the code data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideo Abe
  • Publication number: 20110255377
    Abstract: A time information acquisition apparatus comprises an input waveform data pattern generator configured to sample a standard time radio wave signal in order to generate an input waveform data pattern, a predicted waveform data pattern generator configured to generate predicted waveform data patterns, represents a string of codes based on a base time, and has a head position, an error detector configured to detect non-coincidence between the input waveform data pattern and each of the predicted waveform data patterns in order to acquire a number of errors indicative of a number of non-coincidences, a current time correction module configured to correct the base time based on the predicted waveform data pattern indicative of a minimum value of the number of errors, and a controller configured to determine the number of predicted waveform data patterns to be generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2011
    Publication date: October 20, 2011
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hideo Abe
  • Patent number: 8000173
    Abstract: In a time correcting apparatus, a signal including time codes is sampled to generate a bit sequence of input TCO data. A prognostic TCO data generating unit 33 generates a bit sequence of prognostic TCO data based on a current time calculated by a time calculating circuit 17. An error number calculating unit 34 compares bits of the input TCO data with bits of the prognostic TCO data to count the number of discrepancy, thereby calculating the number of errors, and shifts bits of the prognostic TCO data to generate new TCO data and compares bits of the new TCO data with bits of the input TCO data to calculate the number of errors. A judging unit 35 judges if the number of errors is valid. When the number of errors is valid, a time correcting unit 36 calculates a time difference of the calculated current time based on the number of shifting bits, as much as which number of shifting bits the prognostic TCO data has been shifted to calculate such valid number of errors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideo Abe
  • Patent number: 8000429
    Abstract: In a jitter correction method and circuit, combination data combined by adding, to referenced data, an end bit of data 1 clock prior to and a head bit of data 1 clock subsequent to the referenced data is sequentially generated. Each bit of the combination data is sequentially referred. When a change between a referenced bit and a bit directly adjoining the referenced bit is detected, and when a number of references reaches a multiplication number of the oversampling and a change between at least three adjoining bits including the referenced bit is not detected, change position display data regarding the directly adjoining bit as a change bit of the referenced data is generated and the number of references is initialized. When the change is not detected and the number of references does not reach the multiplication number, the number of references is incremented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Hideo Abe, Yuji Obana, Hideaki Mochizuki