Patents by Inventor Hiroki Mizosoe

Hiroki Mizosoe 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: 12131753
    Abstract: Module compressing/encoding plural images for recording, or an image recording apparatus or image recording system including the module. At least two first and second image input module types capture an image of frames from a video signal source, and convert into digital image data for output; an image input arbitration module arbitrates to place digital image data provided by the first type before digital image data provided by the second type. The first type image input module is provided with a real-time image. The apparatus or system further includes: a memory module temporarily storing the real-time image by a processing time for the arbitration module to process digital image data provided by the second type of image input module, an image encoding module compressing and encoding the digital image data, and changing a processing speed to perform a process of compression and encoding more in real time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Maxell, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo Mutsuro, Keisuke Inata, Hiroki Mizosoe, Akihito Nishizawa
  • Publication number: 20240179273
    Abstract: A videophone system includes a processor which selectively sets a television (TV) broadcast program viewing function mode and videophone function mode in response to manual operation of a remote control, a decoder which performs, in the TV program view mode, a TV program-use decode function for decoding a broadcast program signal received from a TV tuner to thereby display it on a display screen while producing audio sounds by loudspeakers and which performs, in the videophone function mode a videophone-use decode function for decoding a videophone signal received from a distant party to thereby display on the screen an image of the distant party using the screen and speakers, and an encoder which performs a videophone-use encode function for encoding a video signal from a camera and a voice signal from a microphone to generate a videophone signal, which is sent to the distant party via a network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2024
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Inventors: Kazunori IWABUCHI, Hiroki MIZOSOE, Mutsumi SHIMODA, Setiawan BONDAN, Manabu SASAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240098222
    Abstract: A videophone system includes a processor which selectively sets a television (TV) broadcast program viewing function mode and videophone function mode in response to manual operation of a remote control, a decoder which performs, in the TV program view mode, a TV program-use decode function for decoding a broadcast program signal received from a TV tuner to thereby display it on a display screen while producing audio sounds by loudspeakers and which performs, in the videophone function mode a videophone-use decode function for decoding a videophone signal received from a distant party to thereby display on the screen an image of the distant party using the screen and speakers, and an encoder which performs a videophone-use encode function for encoding a video signal from a camera and a voice signal from a microphone to generate a videophone signal, which is sent to the distant party via a network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Kazunori IWABUCHI, Hiroki MIZOSOE, Mutsumi SHIMODA, Setiawan BONDAN, Manabu SASAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240089344
    Abstract: A transmitting terminal can transmit a content held by itself to a specific receiving terminal having no email software as if using a mailer. The transmitting terminal (10) and the receiving terminal (20) are connected to a delivery server (30) via a network (4). The delivery server (30) comprises: a database (36) for registering the device ID that specifies the receiving terminal (20); a content storage (39) for temporarily storing a content transmitted from the transmitting terminal (10); and table (33, 37) for managing contents separately on a per device ID basis of the receiving terminal. The delivery server (30), when receiving a request from the receiving terminal (20), refers to the tables (33, 27) and transmits to the receiving terminal (20) a content, the transmission destination of which corresponds to the device ID of the receiving terminal (20).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroki Mizosoe, Junji Shiokawa, Kazuto Yoneyama, Kunihiro Nomura, Masaaki Hiramatsu, Yasuhisa Mori, Takashi Yoshimaru, Kazuaki Aoyama, Tomomu Ishikawa, Yo Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 11863648
    Abstract: A transmitting terminal can transmit a content held by itself to a specific receiving terminal having no email software as if using a mailer. The transmitting terminal (10) and the receiving terminal (20) are connected to a delivery server (30) via a network (4). The delivery server (30) comprises: a database (36) for registering the device ID that specifies the receiving terminal (20); a content storage (39) for temporarily storing a content transmitted from the transmitting terminal (10); and table (33, 37) for managing contents separately on a per device ID basis of the receiving terminal. The delivery server (30), when receiving a request from the receiving terminal (20), refers to the tables (33, 27) and transmits to the receiving terminal (20) a content, the transmission destination of which corresponds to the device ID of the receiving terminal (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Maxell, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroki Mizosoe, Junji Shiokawa, Kazuto Yoneyama, Kunihiro Nomura, Masaaki Hiramatsu, Yasuhisa Mori, Takashi Yoshimaru, Kazuaki Aoyama, Tomomu Ishikawa, Yo Miyamoto
  • Publication number: 20230087288
    Abstract: A videophone system includes a processor which selectively sets a television (TV) broadcast program viewing function mode and videophone function mode in response to manual operation of a remote control, a decoder which performs, in the TV program view mode, a TV program-use decode function for decoding a broadcast program signal received from a TV tuner to thereby display it on a display screen while producing audio sounds by loudspeakers and which performs, in the videophone function mode a videophone-use decode function for decoding a videophone signal received from a distant party to thereby display on the screen an image of the distant party using the screen and speakers, and an encoder which performs a videophone-use encode function for encoding a video signal from a camera and a voice signal from a microphone to generate a videophone signal, which is sent to the distant party via a network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Kazunori IWABUCHI, Hiroki MIZOSOE, Mutsumi SHIMODA, Setiawan BONDAN, Manabu SASAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220415364
    Abstract: Module compressing/encoding plural images for recording, or an image recording apparatus or image recording system including the module. At least two first and second image input module types capture an image of frames from a video signal source, and convert into digital image data for output; an image input arbitration module arbitrates to place digital image data provided by the first type before digital image data provided by the second type. The first type image input module is provided with a real-time image. The apparatus or system further includes: a memory module temporarily storing the real-time image by a processing time for the arbitration module to process digital image data provided by the second type of image input module, an image encoding module compressing and encoding the digital image data, and changing a processing speed to perform a process of compression and encoding more in real time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Yasuo MUTSURO, Keisuke INATA, Hiroki MIZOSOE, Akihito NISHIZAWA
  • Patent number: 11539921
    Abstract: A videophone system includes a processor which selectively sets a television (TV) broadcast program viewing function mode and videophone function mode in response to manual operation of a remote control, a decoder which performs, in the TV program view mode, a TV program-use decode function for decoding a broadcast program signal received from a TV tuner to thereby display it on a display screen while producing audio sounds by loudspeakers and which performs, in the videophone function mode a videophone-use decode function for decoding a videophone signal received from a distant party to thereby display on the screen an image of the distant party using the screen and speakers, and an encoder which performs a videophone-use encode function for encoding a video signal from a camera and a voice signal from a microphone to generate a videophone signal, which is sent to the distant party via a network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Maxell, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazunori Iwabuchi, Hiroki Mizosoe, Mutsumi Shimoda, Setiawan Bondan, Manabu Sasamoto
  • Publication number: 20220385742
    Abstract: A transmitting terminal can transmit a content held by itself to a specific receiving terminal having no email software as if using a mailer. The transmitting terminal (10) and the receiving terminal (20) are connected to a delivery server (30) via a network (4). The delivery server (30) comprises: a database (36) for registering the device ID that specifies the receiving terminal (20); a content storage (39) for temporarily storing a content transmitted from the transmitting terminal (10); and table (33, 37) for managing contents separately on a per device ID basis of the receiving terminal. The delivery server (30), when receiving a request from the receiving terminal (20), refers to the tables (33, 27) and transmits to the receiving terminal (20) a content, the transmission destination of which corresponds to the device ID of the receiving terminal (20).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroki Mizosoe, Junji Shiokawa, Kazuto Yoneyama, Kunihiro Nomura, Masaaki Hiramatsu, Yasuhisa Mori, Takashi Yoshimaru, Kazuaki Aoyama, Tomomu Ishikawa, Yo Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 11456018
    Abstract: Module compressing/encoding plural images for recording, or an image recording apparatus or image recording system including the module. At least two first and second image input module types capture an image of frames from a video signal source, and convert into digital image data for output; an image input arbitration module arbitrates to place digital image data provided by the first type before digital image data provided by the second type. The first type image input module is provided with a real-time image. The apparatus or system further includes: a memory module temporarily storing the real-time image by a processing time for the arbitration module to process digital image data provided by the second type of image input module, an image encoding module compressing and encoding the digital image data, and changing a processing speed to perform a process of compression and encoding more in real time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Maxell, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo Mutsuro, Keisuke Inata, Hiroki Mizosoe, Akihito Nishizawa
  • Patent number: 11451646
    Abstract: A transmitting terminal can transmit a content held by itself to a specific receiving terminal having no email software as if using a mailer. The transmitting terminal (10) and the receiving terminal (20) are connected to a delivery server (30) via a network (4). The delivery server (30) comprises: a database (36) for registering the device ID that specifies the receiving terminal (20); a content storage (39) for temporarily storing a content transmitted from the transmitting terminal (10); and table (33, 37) for managing contents separately on a per device ID basis of the receiving terminal. The delivery server (30), when receiving a request from the receiving terminal (20), refers to the tables (33, 27) and transmits to the receiving terminal (20) a content, the transmission destination of which corresponds to the device ID of the receiving terminal (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Maxell, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroki Mizosoe, Junji Shiokawa, Kazuto Yoneyama, Kunihiro Nomura, Masaaki Hiramatsu, Yasuhisa Mori, Takashi Yoshimaru, Kazuaki Aoyama, Tomomu Ishikawa, Yo Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 11195249
    Abstract: A processing device includes a low-speed storage unit that stores an image extending in a column direction and a row direction, a high-speed storage unit on which reading is executed at a higher speed than the low-speed storage unit and which stores a region corresponding to the entire image in the column direction and a predetermined storage row that is a portion in the row direction of the image, a reading unit that continuously reads the image in the column direction from the high-speed storage unit, and a determining unit that reads the image from the low-speed storage unit and writes the image to the high-speed storage unit. The determining unit determines a row number to be read next in the image based on the minimum or maximum row number in the row direction of the image, stored in the high-speed storage unit for each of targets that are to be processed and are obtained by dividing the column direction into predetermined pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yusuke Uchida, Hiroki Mizosoe
  • Publication number: 20210150662
    Abstract: A processing device includes a low-speed storage unit that stores an image extending in a column direction and a row direction, a high-speed storage unit on which reading is executed at a higher speed than the low-speed storage unit and which stores a region corresponding to the entire image in the column direction and a predetermined storage row that is a portion in the row direction of the image, a reading unit that continuously reads the image in the column direction from the high-speed storage unit, and a determining unit that reads the image from the low-speed storage unit and writes the image to the high-speed storage unit. The determining unit determines a row number to be read next in the image based on the minimum or maximum row number in the row direction of the image, stored in the high-speed storage unit for each of targets that are to be processed and are obtained by dividing the column direction into predetermined pixels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2018
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Yusuke UCHIDA, Hiroki MIZOSOE
  • Publication number: 20210120211
    Abstract: A videophone system includes a processor which selectively sets a television (TV) broadcast program viewing function mode and videophone function mode in response to manual operation of a remote control, a decoder which performs, in the TV program view mode, a TV program-use decode function for decoding a broadcast program signal received from a TV tuner to thereby display it on a display screen while producing audio sounds by loudspeakers and which performs, in the videophone function mode a videophone-use decode function for decoding a videophone signal received from a distant party to thereby display on the screen an image of the distant party using the screen and speakers, and an encoder which performs a videophone-use encode function for encoding a video signal from a camera and a voice signal from a microphone to generate a videophone signal, which is sent to the distant party via a network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: Kazunori IWABUCHI, Hiroki MIZOSOE, Mutsumi SHIMODA, Setiawan BONDAN, Manabu SASAMOTO
  • Patent number: 10911719
    Abstract: A videophone system includes a processor which selectively sets a television (TV) broadcast program viewing function mode and videophone function mode in response to manual operation of a remote control, a decoder which performs, in the TV program view mode, a TV program-use decode function for decoding a broadcast program signal received from a TV tuner to thereby display it on a display screen while producing audio sounds by loudspeakers and which performs, in the videophone function mode a videophone-use decode function for decoding a videophone signal received from a distant party to thereby display on the screen an image of the distant party using the screen and speakers, and an encoder which performs a videophone-use encode function for encoding a video signal from a camera and a voice signal from a microphone to generate a videophone signal, which is sent to the distant party via a network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Maxell, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazunori Iwabuchi, Hiroki Mizosoe, Mutsumi Shimoda, Setiawan Bondan, Manabu Sasamoto
  • Publication number: 20200314206
    Abstract: A transmitting terminal can transmit a content held by itself to a specific receiving terminal having no email software as if using a mailer. The transmitting terminal (10) and the receiving terminal (20) are connected to a delivery server (30) via a network (4). The delivery server (30) comprises: a database (36) for registering the device ID that specifies the receiving terminal (20); a content storage (39) for temporarily storing a content transmitted from the transmitting terminal (10); and table (33, 37) for managing contents separately on a per device ID basis of the receiving terminal. The delivery server (30), when receiving a request from the receiving terminal (20), refers to the tables (33, 27) and transmits to the receiving terminal (20) a content, the transmission destination of which corresponds to the device ID of the receiving terminal (20).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroki Mizosoe, Junji Shiokawa, Kazuto Yoneyama, Kunihiro Nomura, Masaaki Hiramatsu, Yasuhisa Mori, Takashi Yoshimaru, Kazuaki Aoyama, Tomomu Ishikawa, Yo Miyamoto
  • Publication number: 20200286522
    Abstract: Module compressing/encoding plural images for recording, or an image recording apparatus or image recording system including the module. At least two first and second image input module types capture an image of frames from a video signal source, and convert into digital image data for output; an image input arbitration module arbitrates to place digital image data provided by the first type before digital image data provided by the second type. The first type image input module is provided with a real-time image. The apparatus or system further includes: a memory module temporarily storing the real-time image by a processing time for the arbitration module to process digital image data provided by the second type of image input module, an image encoding module compressing and encoding the digital image data, and changing a processing speed to perform a process of compression and encoding more in real time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Yasuo MUTSURO, Keisuke INATA, Hiroki MIZOSOE, Akihito NISHIZAWA
  • Patent number: 10728362
    Abstract: A transmitting terminal can transmit a content held by itself to a specific receiving terminal having no email software as if using a mailer. The transmitting terminal (10) and the receiving terminal (20) are connected to a delivery server (30) via a network (4). The delivery server (30) comprises: a database (36) for registering the device ID that specifies the receiving terminal (20); a content storage (39) for temporarily storing a content transmitted from the transmitting terminal (10); and table (33, 37) for managing contents separately on a per device ID basis of the receiving terminal. The delivery server (30), when receiving a request from the receiving terminal (20), refers to the tables (33, 27) and transmits to the receiving terminal (20) a content, the transmission destination of which corresponds to the device ID of the receiving terminal (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Maxell, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroki Mizosoe, Junji Shiokawa, Kazuto Yoneyama, Kunihiro Nomura, Masaaki Hiramatsu, Yasuhisa Mori, Takashi Yoshimaru, Kazuaki Aoyama, Tomomu Ishikawa, Yo Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 10685681
    Abstract: Module compressing/encoding plural images for recording, or an image recording apparatus or image recording system including the module. At least two first and second image input module types capture an image of frames from a video signal source, and convert into digital image data for output; an image input arbitration module arbitrates to place digital image data provided by the first type before digital image data provided by the second type. The first type image input module is provided with a real-time image. The apparatus or system further includes: a memory module temporarily storing the real-time image by a processing time for the arbitration module to process digital image data provided by the second type of image input module, an image encoding module compressing and encoding the digital image data, and changing a processing speed to perform a process of compression and encoding more in real time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Maxell, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo Mutsuro, Keisuke Inata, Hiroki Mizosoe, Akihito Nishizawa
  • Patent number: 10554986
    Abstract: Reduction in power consumption is not considered in the prior art documents. Provided is an encoding method for encoding image information and having: a step in which image information is input; an analysis step in which the characteristics of the input image information are analyzed; a bit depth output step in which the bit depth for video encoding is determined and output; and an encoding step in which the bit depth output in the bit depth output step is used and the input image information is encoded. The encoding method is characterized by the output bit depth being switched in the bit depth output step, on the basis of the analysis results from the analysis step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Maxell, Ltd.
    Inventors: Keisuke Inata, Mitsuhiro Okada, Hiroki Mizosoe