Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Ohue

Hiroshi Ohue 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: 20100289871
    Abstract: A source device transmits an output format notify message for video data to a sink device before transmitting the video data to the sink device, the output format notify message including a 3D field storing data for identifying whether the video data to be transmitted is two-dimensional video data or three-dimensional video data transmitted using frame packing. In response to this, the sink device identifies a type and a format structure of the video data, and decodes the received video data based on the identified type and format structure of the video data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2009
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Inventors: Akihiro TATSUTA, Makoto Funabiki, Hiroshi Ohue, Hiroshi Mitani, Toshiroh Nishio
  • Publication number: 20100289872
    Abstract: A sink device (120) transmits a video information message to the source device (110), the video information message including video format information identifiers for identifying video formats supported by the sink device (120), which are selected from among a plurality of video format information identifiers for identifying video formats each including a resolution of the video data and a type of the video data, and a three-dimensional transmission method for three-dimensional video data when the type of the video data is the three-dimensional video data including first and second video frame data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2009
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Inventors: Makoto Funabiki, Akihiro Tatsuta, Hiroshi Ohue, Hiroshi Mitani, Toshiroh Nishio
  • Publication number: 20100272054
    Abstract: In response to a video and audio bandwidth allocation request command signal and an audio bandwidth allocation request command signal from a source device, a coordinator device allocates a first reservation period for transmitting AV stream data from the source device to a sink device and a second reservation period for transmitting audio stream data from the source device to a sink device within a predetermined frame period, and transmits a beacon signal including information on allocation of the first reservation period and the second reservation period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2008
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Inventors: Akihiro Tatsuta, Makoto Funabiki, Hiroshi Ohue
  • Publication number: 20100165912
    Abstract: In a wireless communication system including a source device and a sink device for wirelessly transmitting and receiving a CEC message specified in an HDMI standard, a CEC controller of the source device generates and outputs a CEC frame including the CEC message. A controller generates a wireless data packet including the CEC message in the generated CEC frame. A wireless transceiver circuit wirelessly transmits a wireless signal including the generated wireless data packet to the sink device, and receives a wireless signal including a wireless ACK packet and wirelessly transmitted from the sink device in response to the wireless data packet in the wirelessly-transmitted wireless signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2007
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Inventors: Makoto Funabiki, Akihiro Tatsuta, Hiroshi Ohue
  • Publication number: 20100074134
    Abstract: Upon measuring a packet round trip time RTT from a source device to a sink device, the source device requests a band management unit of a network to allocate bands for round trip packets. The band management unit notifies a reservation period Tsource for transmitting a packet from the source device to the sink device and a reservation period Tsink for sending back a packet from the sink device to the source device, using a beacon signal. The reservation period Tsource is allocated within a time period starting from a middle timing of a time cycle Tbeacon of the beacon signal, and the reservation period Tsink is allocated at a middle timing between the reservation period Tsource and the beacon signal right after the reservation period Tsource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2008
    Publication date: March 25, 2010
    Inventors: Akihiro Tatsuta, Makoto Funabiki, Hiroshi Ohue, Toshio Sakimura
  • Publication number: 20100067393
    Abstract: When a source device measures a packet round trip time RTT from the source device to a sink device, a band management unit allocates a reservation period for transmitting an RTT test command from the source device to the sink device and a reservation period for transmitting an RTT response setting request command from the sink device to the source device within a super frame period. At a start timing of the reservation period, a controller transmits the RTT test command and starts measuring the RTT. Upon receiving the RTT response setting request command, the controller finishes measuring the RTT.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2008
    Publication date: March 18, 2010
    Inventors: Toshio Sakimura, Makoto Funabiki, Akihiro Tatsuta, Hiroshi Ohue
  • Publication number: 20100061406
    Abstract: A source device counts a clock CLKpixel for pixel data using a transmitting counter, adds a counted value Csource(t) of the transmitting counter at a timing of transmitting a video packet Pvideo to the sink device to a header part of the video packet Pvideo as a time stamp value Csource(t), and transmits the video packet Pvideo to the sink device. The sink device receives the video packet Pvideo, extracts the time stamp value Csource(t) from the header part of the video packet Pvideo, generates a fixed reference clock CLKref based on the counted value Csource(t) of the transmitting counter using a first PLL, circuit, and generates the clock CLKpixel for the pixel data of the source device based on the reference clock CLKref using a second PLL circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2008
    Publication date: March 11, 2010
    Inventors: Akihiro Tatsuta, Makoto Funabiki, Hiroshi Ohue
  • Publication number: 20100050214
    Abstract: A wireless node device determines an origination port number, communicates with the wireless node device to exchange a destination port number determined by the wireless node device and the origination port number determined by the wireless node device, associates the origination port number with the destination port number, obtains input formats supported by the wireless node device, reserves wireless resources for wirelessly transmitting the content data, determines one of the obtained input formats as an output format and notifies the wireless node device of the determined output format, and wirelessly transmits the content data to the wireless node device through a pair of ports indicated by the origination port number and the destination port number associated with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2007
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Inventors: Makoto Funabiki, Akihiro Tatsuta, Hiroshi Ohue
  • Publication number: 20090322948
    Abstract: In a wireless communication system including a source device for wirelessly transmitting a video signal, and a sink device for receiving the wirelessly transmitted video signal and displaying the received video signal on a display, the sink device reads out EDID information from a ROM and wirelessly transmits a wireless data signal including the EDID information to the source device. The source device wirelessly receives the wire less data signal including the EDID information and wirelessly transmitted from the sink device, and wirelessly transmits the video signal to the sink device based on the EDID information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2007
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Inventors: Makoto Funabiki, Akihiro Tatsuta, Hiroshi Ohue
  • Publication number: 20090290600
    Abstract: An audio frame format includes a channel field indicating a number of audio multi-channels, an ignore bit indicating whether or not an audio sample is present in a predetermined region of a packet format, an A channel audio sample field for transmitting the audio sample, and a B channel audio sample field for transmitting the audio sample, and a payload of the packet includes a repetition of an audio frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2009
    Publication date: November 26, 2009
    Inventors: Akihiro TATSUTA, Makoto FUNABIKI, Hiroshi OHUE
  • Publication number: 20090260043
    Abstract: An adapter apparatus wirelessly transmits a TMDS signal to an adapter apparatus using a first radio channel, wirelessly transmits a DDC downstream signal and a CEC downstream signal to an adapter apparatus using a second radio channel, and receives a radio signal including a DDC upstream signal and a CEC upstream signal from the adapter apparatus using the second radio channel. The adapter apparatus receives the TMDS signal using the first radio channel, receives the radio signal including the DDC downstream signal and the CEC downstream signal using the second radio channel, and wirelessly transmits the DDC upstream signal and the CEC upstream signal to the adapter apparatus using the second radio channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Publication date: October 15, 2009
    Inventors: Akihiro Tatsuta, Yoshikane Nishikawa, Makoto Funabiki, Hiroshi Ohue
  • Publication number: 20090210539
    Abstract: A CEC controller of a wireless node device determines a destination logical address of a polling message received through a wired interface circuit based on an address list table in an address list memory when the polling message is received from a wired interface circuit, and transmits an ACK for the received polling message through the wired interface circuit in the case that the destination logical address of the polling message is a logical address of a node device connected over a wireless interval.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2007
    Publication date: August 20, 2009
    Inventors: Makoto Funabiki, Akihiro Tatsuta, Hiroshi Ohue
  • Publication number: 20090138779
    Abstract: When a wired interface circuit receives a CEC message destined for a node device connected through a wireless transceiver circuit, a CEC controller of a wireless node device outputs an ACK for the received CEC message from the wired interface circuit, transmits a wireless data packet containing contents of the CEC message from the wireless transceiver circuit, and waits for the wireless interface transceiver circuit to receive a wireless ACK packet for the transmitted wireless data packet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2007
    Publication date: May 28, 2009
    Inventors: Makoto Funabiki, Akihiro Tatsuta, Hiroshi Ohue
  • Publication number: 20090102927
    Abstract: A wireless communication system is disclosed, which includes a source device having a high-rate wireless transmitter circuit for wirelessly transmitting a video signal, and a sink device having a high-rate wireless receiver circuit for receiving the wirelessly transmitted video signal. The source device includes a memory for storing a device ID of the source device and a low-rate wireless transceiver circuit, in addition to the high-rate wireless transmitter circuit. The low-rate wireless transceiver circuit wirelessly transmits a control signal including the device ID read-out from the memory to the sink device, and wirelessly receives a registration control signal for registering the source device in the sink device, from the sink device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2007
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Inventors: Akihiro Tatsuta, Makoto Funabiki, Hiroshi Ohue
  • Patent number: 4928272
    Abstract: A two-way CATV system, in which a plurality of communication channels are set simultaneously in an upstream communication line between a plurality of end terminal equipment and a center equipment by using frequency division multiplexing, is disclosed. A digital transmultiplexer is arranged at each junction between a trunk line and a branch line for converting a frequency division multiplex signal into a time division multiplex signal. Frequency division multiplex signals from the terminal equipment are converted into time division multiplex signals, and then only a time slot corresponding to a frequency slot containing a signal therein is picked up to thereby prevent upstream noises from flowing into the trunk line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 22, 1990
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Ohue