Patents by Inventor Ikuo Someya

Ikuo Someya 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: 9608855
    Abstract: A time control apparatus provided in a slave machine and synchronizing time information with time information of a master machine connected over a network includes: calculation units respectively calculating time difference candidates of the slave machine with respect to the master machine and network delays indicative of an average of times necessary for communication of first and second messages over the network based on transmission and reception times of the first messages which are transmitted from the master machine and received using the slave machine and transmission and reception times of the second messages which are transmitted from the slave machine and received using the master machine; a selection unit selecting one of the calculated time difference candidates as a time difference based on the calculated network delays; and an adjustment unit adjusting the time information of the slave machine based on the selected time difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ikuo Someya, Toshihiko Hamamatsu, Toshiaki Kojima
  • Publication number: 20140241479
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a frequency difference detection device that can synchronize oscillation frequency with a master device in a network with high precision, and also relates to a frequency difference detection method and a program. A frequency difference detection device, as one aspect of the present disclosure is a frequency difference detection device that detects a difference in oscillation frequency between a master device and a slave device connected to each other via a network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2012
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Inventors: Ikuo Someya, Toshihiko Hamamatsu, Toshiaki Kojima
  • Publication number: 20140241381
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a time control device, a time control method, and a program that can synchronize time information with a master device in a network with high precision.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2012
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Inventors: Toshihiko Hamamatsu, Ikuo Someya, Toshiaki Kojima
  • Publication number: 20140233590
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a time control device, a time control method, and a program that can synchronize time information with a master device in a network with high precision.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2012
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Inventors: Ikuo Someya, Toshihiko Hamamatsu, Toshiaki Kojima
  • Publication number: 20140029633
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a data processing unit and a communication unit. The data processing unit performs a clock synchronous process between the communication apparatus and a communication correspondent apparatus. The communication unit performs communication with the communication correspondent apparatus. The data processing unit compares, when the clock synchronous process is performed, an offset window that defines a permissible delay time range of a packet applied to the synchronous process and a network delay time of the synchronous packet, selects the synchronous packet having the network delay time within the offset window, and applies phase offset information calculated from the synchronous packet, to perform phase control, and decreases a width of a current offset window when the network delay time of the synchronous packet is within the current offset window and increases the current offset window width when the network delay time is outside of the current offset window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2013
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihiko Hamamatsu, Ikuo Someya, Toshiaki Kojima
  • Patent number: 7692899
    Abstract: A head suspension prevents a read element from electrostatic discharge damage without employing a static electricity remover or without increasing the number of manufacturing processes. The head suspension has a load beam to apply load to a head that writes and reads data to and from a hard disk, a flexure made of a conductive thin substrate attached to the load beam and supporting the head, an insulating base layer made of flexible resin and formed on the substrate of the flexure, write wires and read wires connected to the head and formed on the insulating base layer, and an insulating cover layer covering the write and read wires on the insulating base layer. The insulating cover layer is made of slightly conductive flexible resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: NHK Spring Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hajime Arai, Ikuo Someya, Ryuichi Kawatake, Tsukasa Higashi
  • Patent number: 7643252
    Abstract: A head suspension prevents a read element from electrostatic discharge damage without employing a static electricity remover, and at the same time, secures the frequency characteristics of a write signal. The head suspension has a load beam to apply load to a slider that writes and reads data to and from a hard disk, a flexture made of a conductive thin plate attached to the load beam, to support the slider, write wires connected to the slider and formed on an insulating base layer that is made of flexible resin and is formed on the flexure, and coating made of conductive flexible resin to discharge static electricity. The coating is formed over the read wires and is extended to the surface of the flexure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignee: NHK Spring Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hajime Arai, Ikuo Someya
  • Patent number: 7529432
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus for converting discrete original image data into interpolated image data having a different number of sampling data from the original image data, including generating means for generating a plurality of the interpolated image data from the original image data, first virtualizing means for generating first virtual data including a virtual succession of the original image data, second virtualizing means for generating second virtual data including a virtual succession of each of the plural interpolated image data, error calculating means for calculating error between each of the second virtual data with respect to the plural interpolated image data and the first virtual data, and selecting means for selecting either one of the plural interpolated image data based on the error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2009
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeo Fujishiro, Ikuo Someya
  • Patent number: 7432931
    Abstract: An apparatus for processing an image signal prevents burn-in of display devices such as a PDP and an LCD. A number-of-pixels conversion section generates pixel data located at interpolation positions in horizontal or vertical directions based on information about the interpolation positions obtained from a controller, to obtain an image signal in which the number of pixels is converted. A panel driver shifts the display position of an image in a PDP in the horizontal or vertical directions by as much as one pixel, each time a predetermined period of time elapses, within a predetermined range based on information about the display position obtained from the controller in order to prevent a screen from being burned-in. The controller changes the phase of each of the interpolation positions in a change unit smaller than 360° for a period of time when the display position of the image is shifted by as much as one pixel, the interval between the interpolation positions being set to 360°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2008
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ikuo Someya, Koji Yamamura
  • Patent number: 7271842
    Abstract: A double-rate signal achieved by subjecting a video signal to double-rate conversion is supplied to a scan line number converter. In the converter, the portion of the effective scan lines of the double-rate signal is written into a frame memory on the basis of a signal achieved by multiplying horizontal and vertical synchronous signals based on the double-rate signal. In the effective scan line section of HDTV signal, the video signal written in the frame memory is read out on the basis of horizontal and vertical reference signals based on the HDTV signal. Out of the effective scan line section of the HDTV signal, a pedestal level signal written in a memory is read out on the basis of the horizontal and vertical reference signals based on the HDTV signal, thereby achieving HDTV signal whose vertical scan line number is equal to 1125 lines. Accordingly, the HDTV signal suffers no degradation because the video signal in the section of 960 effective scan lines of the double-rate signal is not interpolated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2007
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Ikuo Someya
  • Patent number: 7215377
    Abstract: The present invention provides an image signal processing apparatus and a method thereof in which each of the fields forming the unit-frame is specified, with respect to the inputted image signal, based on a difference value calculated in signal level between a detected pixel in a current field and a detected pixel at the same position in a field which comes one frame behind the current field, a motion vector for a field which comes two frames behind the current field is detected, with respect to the detected pixel in the current field, the detected pixel is shifted, with respect to the specified first field, in a direction opposite to the motion vector within the range of the detected motion vector, the detected pixel is shifted, with respect to the specified fourth field, in a direction along the motion vector, and the detected pixels is shifted, with respect to the specified second and third fields, so as to make the pixels gradually closer to the pixel position shifted with respect to the fourth field, in
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2007
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takaya Hoshino, Toshio Sarugaku, Ikuo Someya, Makoto Kondo, Kazuhiko Nishibori, Koji Aoyama, Yukihiko Mogi, Nobuo Ueki, Masuyoshi Kurokawa
  • Patent number: 7212686
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus for expanding the frequency band of enhancement to increase the effect of improvement of the image quality and realizing enhancement in two dimensions for an image signal by a simple circuit configuration, provided with a vertical high-pass filter, a vertical low-pass filter, a horizontal high-pass filter, and a horizontal low-pass filter as enhancers which extract high frequency components and low frequency components in vertical and horizontal directions, respectively and switches for appropriately selecting a signal of predetermined frequency components in the vertical and horizontal directions to enhance a signal of a predetermined frequency band. Accordingly, two-dimensional filtering is able to be achieved using one-dimensional filters in the vertical and horizontal directions and the enhancement effect can be improved by appropriately selecting the enhancement mode in accordance with the characteristic of the image signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2007
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ikuo Someya, Masahiro Komoda, Aya Takechi
  • Patent number: 7119846
    Abstract: A double-rate signal achieved by subjecting a video signal to double-rate conversion is supplied to a scan line number converter. In the converter, the portion of the effective scan lines of the double-rate signal is written into a frame memory on the basis of a signal achieved by multiplying horizontal and vertical synchronous signals based on the double-rate signal. In the effective scan line section of HDTV signal, the video signal written in the frame memory is read out on the basis of horizontal and vertical reference signals based on'the HDTV signal. Out of the effective scan line section of the HDTV signal, a pedestal level signal written in a memory is read out on the basis of the horizontal and vertical reference signals based on the HDTV signal, thereby achieving HDTV signal whose vertical scan line number is equal to 1125 lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2006
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Ikuo Someya
  • Publication number: 20060209054
    Abstract: An apparatus for processing an image signal prevents burn-in of display devices such as a PDP and an LCD. A number-of-pixels conversion section generates pixel data located at interpolation positions in horizontal or vertical directions based on information about the interpolation positions obtained from a controller, to obtain an image signal in which the number of pixels is converted. A panel driver shifts the display position of an image in a PDP in the horizontal or vertical directions by as much as one pixel, each time a predetermined period of time elapses, within a predetermined range based on information about the display position obtained from the controller in order to prevent a screen from being burned-in. The controller changes the phase of each of the interpolation positions in a change unit smaller than 360° for a period of time when the display position of the image is shifted by as much as one pixel, the interval between the interpolation positions being set to 360°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2004
    Publication date: September 21, 2006
    Inventors: Ikuo Someya, Koji Yamamura
  • Publication number: 20060190673
    Abstract: A head suspension prevents a read element from electrostatic discharge damage without employing a static electricity remover or without increasing the number of manufacturing processes. The head suspension has a load beam to apply load to a head (21) that writes and reads data to and from a hard disk, a flexure (7) made of a conductive thin substrate attached to the load beam and supporting the head, an insulating base layer (35) made of flexible resin and formed on the substrate of the flexure, write wires (29) and read wires (31) connected to the head and formed on the insulating base layer, and an insulating cover layer (41, 43) covering the write and read wires on the insulating base layer. The insulating cover layer (41, 43) is made of slightly conductive flexible resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2006
    Publication date: August 24, 2006
    Applicant: NHK SPRING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hajime Arai, Ikuo Someya, Ryuichi Kawatake, Tsukasa Higashi
  • Publication number: 20060187587
    Abstract: A head suspension prevents a read element from electrostatic discharge damage without employing a static electricity remover, and at the same time, secures the frequency characteristics of a write signal. The head suspension has a load beam to apply load to a slider that writes and reads data to and from a hard disk, a flexture made of a conductive thin plate attached to the load beam, to support the slider, write wires connected to the slider and formed on an insulating base layer that is made of flexible resin and is formed on the flexure, and coating made of conductive flexible resin to discharge static electricity. The coating is formed over the read wires and is extended to the surface of the flexure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2006
    Publication date: August 24, 2006
    Inventors: Hajime Arai, Ikuo Someya
  • Patent number: 7092215
    Abstract: A wiring portion has first and second write conductors, first and second read conductors, and an insulating layer. The first write conductor, first and second read conductors, and second write conductor are arranged three-dimensionally at different height levels in the thickness direction of the insulating layer, in a cross section extending in the width direction of the wiring portion. The distance from the first write conductor to the first read conductor is equal to the distance from the first write conductor to the second read conductor. The distance from the second write conductor to the first read conductor is equal to the distance from the second write conductor to the second read conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2006
    Assignee: NHK Spring Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ikuo Someya, Ichiro Takadera, Hajime Arai
  • Patent number: 6963471
    Abstract: A wired flexure comprises a metallic substrate, a polyimide layer formed on the metallic substrate, and read conductors and write conductors formed on the polyimide layer. The polyimide layer has a thick-walled portion and a thin-walled portion that are different in thickness. The read and write conductors extend covering the thick- and thin-walled portions. In order to obtain a desired impedance, the width of the conductors in the thin-walled portion is smaller than that of the conductors in the thick-walled portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2005
    Assignee: NHK Spring Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hajime Arai, Ikuo Someya
  • Patent number: 6947094
    Abstract: An image signal processing apparatus according to the present invention receives an image signal inputted thereto that is generated by subjecting a telecine-converted image to double speed conversion, in which signal one film frame is formed by four fields, identifies a first field on the basis of a difference value calculated between pixel signal levels, and shifts the position of a detected pixel in a vector direction of a motion vector such that an amount of shift is progressively increased as transition is made from the identified first field to the subsequent fields.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2005
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takaya Hoshino, Toshio Sarugaku, Ikuo Someya, Makoto Kondo, Nobuo Ueki, Masuyoshi Kurokawa, Kazuhiko Nishibori, Koji Aoyama, Yukihiko Mogi
  • Publication number: 20050190293
    Abstract: A double-rate signal achieved by subjecting a video signal to double-rate conversion is supplied to a scan line number converter. In the converter, the portion of the effective scan lines of the double-rate signal is written into a frame memory on the basis of a signal achieved by multiplying horizontal and vertical synchronous signals based on the double-rate signal. In the effective scan line section of HDTV signal, the video signal written in the frame memory is read out on the basis of horizontal and vertical reference signals based on'the HDTV signal. Out of the effective scan line section of the HDTV signal, a pedestal level signal written in a memory is read out on the basis of the horizontal and vertical reference signals based on the HDTV signal, thereby achieving HDTV signal whose vertical scan line number is equal to 1125 lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2005
    Publication date: September 1, 2005
    Inventor: Ikuo Someya