Patents by Inventor Kazuhiro Mochinaga
Kazuhiro Mochinaga 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).
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Publication number: 20240135715Abstract: A storage-retrieval management device includes: an image capturer that captures, from above a refrigerator that includes a main body and a door attached to the main body, images of the refrigerator with the door in an open state; a setter that sets a boundary along contours of the main body and the door in the images; and a determiner that determines whether an object is stored into the refrigerator or whether the object is retrieved from the refrigerator, based on whether the object is moved beyond the boundary that is set, the object being captured in one or more of the images.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Kazuhiro MOCHINAGA, Taku KARIYAZAKI, Wataru SUDA, Shinichi HORII
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Publication number: 20240095674Abstract: A storage-retrieval management device includes: an image capturer that captures images each including markers as subjects from above a refrigerator that includes a first storage structure and a second storage structure, the images showing a scene in which an object is put into or taken out of the refrigerator, the markers being provided on the first storage structure and the second storage structure, the second storage structure being at a position different from a position of the first storage structure in a vertical direction; and a determiner that determines a storage position at which the object is stored, based on whether the markers included in the images are visible or hidden.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2022Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Wataru SUDA, Taku KARIYAZAKI, Kazuhiro MOCHINAGA
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Patent number: 11636877Abstract: A content recording apparatus includes an obtaining unit which obtains a content having a variable-length packet structure, an encrypter which generates encrypted data by encrypting the content, and a recorder which records the encrypted data in a block unit having a fixed length in a recording medium. The encrypted data includes an invalidated region unnecessary for reproduction of the content. The recorder records a size of the invalidated region in the recording medium.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2022Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshiyuki Fukushima, Tokuo Nakatani, Nobuyuki Enoki, Kazuhiro Mochinaga, Masaya Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20230069920Abstract: An estimation device includes: an obtainer that obtains first content associated with a first time and second content associated with a second time, the second time preceding the first time by a predetermined amount of time; a determiner that, by applying first processing for determining a type of content to each of the first content and the second content, obtains first type information indicating a type of the first content and second type information indicating a type of the second content; a calculator that, using the first type information and the second type information, calculates confidence level information indicating a confidence level of the first type information; and an outputter that, using the confidence level information calculated by the calculator, outputs specifying information specifying the type of the first content derived from the first type information.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2021Publication date: March 9, 2023Inventors: Takashi SUGIMOTO, Isao UEDA, Kazuhiro MOCHINAGA, Yuto MATSUSHITA
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Publication number: 20230036109Abstract: An image processing device includes an obtainer that obtains a single image and meta information indicating additional information of the image; and an analyzer that performs an analysis of a meaning of the image and the meta information obtained, determines an event shown in the image, using the meaning obtained by the analysis, and outputs event information that identifies the event determined.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2020Publication date: February 2, 2023Inventors: Kazuhiro MOCHINAGA, Yasushi UESAKA, Isao UEDA, Takashi SUGIMOTO, Takeshi HIROTA
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Publication number: 20220375499Abstract: A content recording apparatus includes an obtaining unit which obtains a content having a variable-length packet structure, an encrypter which generates encrypted data by encrypting the content, and a recorder which records the encrypted data in a block unit having a fixed length in a recording medium. The encrypted data includes an invalidated region unnecessary for reproduction of the content. The recorder records a size of the invalidated region in the recording medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2022Publication date: November 24, 2022Inventors: Toshiyuki FUKUSHIMA, Tokuo NAKATANI, Nobuyuki ENOKI, Kazuhiro MOCHINAGA, Masaya YAMAMOTO
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Patent number: 11443768Abstract: A content recording apparatus includes an obtaining unit which obtains a content having a variable-length packet structure, an encrypter which generates encrypted data by encrypting the content, and a recorder which records the encrypted data in a block unit having a fixed length in a recording medium. The encrypted data includes an invalidated region unnecessary for reproduction of the content. The recorder records a size of the invalidated region in the recording medium.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2018Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshiyuki Fukushima, Tokuo Nakatani, Nobuyuki Enoki, Kazuhiro Mochinaga, Masaya Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20210352241Abstract: A recording method includes: acquiring a video stream containing a picture that is independently decodable; recording the acquired video stream on a recording medium; storing, in memory, a value indicating a data size of a picture defined in a third GOP management table obtained by merging a first GOP management table with a second GOP management table; and converting the stored value into either a first value defined in the first GOP management table or a second value defined in the second GOP management table, and recording the converted value on the recording medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2018Publication date: November 11, 2021Inventors: Tokuo NAKATANI, Kazuhiro MOCHINAGA
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Patent number: 11138999Abstract: A playback method of reading out and playing streams from a recording medium is provided in which are recorded a stream file, a playlist file, first and second combination information, elementary streams that can be played at the same time with the first luminance video, and elementary streams that can be played at the same time with the second luminance video. The playback method includes in a case of playing the first luminance video, reading out any one of the elementary streams listed in the first combination information of the playlist file, and playing at the same time with the first luminance video, and in a case of playing the second luminance video, reading out any one of the elementary streams listed in the second combination information of the playlist file, and playing at the same time with the second luminance video.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2020Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Hiroshi Yahata, Kazuhiro Mochinaga
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Patent number: 11133034Abstract: A playback method of reading out and playing streams from a recording medium is provided in which are recorded a stream file, a playlist file, first and second combination information, elementary streams that can be played at the same time with the first luminance video, and elementary streams that can be played at the same time with the second luminance video. The playback method includes in a case of playing the first luminance video, reading out any one of the elementary streams listed in the first combination information of the playlist file, and playing at the same time with the first luminance video, and in a case of playing the second luminance video, reading out any one of the elementary streams listed in the second combination information of the playlist file, and playing at the same time with the second luminance video.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2020Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Hiroshi Yahata, Kazuhiro Mochinaga
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Publication number: 20200411046Abstract: A content recording apparatus includes an obtaining unit which obtains a content having a variable-length packet structure, an encrypter which generates encrypted data by encrypting the content, and a recorder which records the encrypted data in a block unit having a fixed length in a recording medium. The encrypted data includes an invalidated region unnecessary for reproduction of the content. The recorder records a size of the invalidated region in the recording medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2018Publication date: December 31, 2020Inventors: Toshiyuki FUKUSHIMA, Tokuo NAKATANI, Nobuyuki ENOKI, Kazuhiro MOCHINAGA, Masaya YAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20200365190Abstract: A playback method of reading out and playing streams from a recording medium is provided in which are recorded a stream file, a playlist file, first and second combination information, elementary streams that can be played at the same time with the first luminance video, and elementary streams that can be played at the same time with the second luminance video. The playback method includes in a case of playing the first luminance video, reading out any one of the elementary streams listed in the first combination information of the playlist file, and playing at the same time with the first luminance video, and in a case of playing the second luminance video, reading out any one of the elementary streams listed in the second combination information of the playlist file, and playing at the same time with the second luminance video.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2020Publication date: November 19, 2020Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Hiroshi YAHATA, Kazuhiro MOCHINAGA
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Publication number: 20200365189Abstract: A playback method of reading out and playing streams from a recording medium is provided in which are recorded a stream file, a playlist file, first and second combination information, elementary streams that can be played at the same time with the first luminance video, and elementary streams that can be played at the same time with the second luminance video. The playback method includes in a case of playing the first luminance video, reading out any one of the elementary streams listed in the first combination information of the playlist file, and playing at the same time with the first luminance video, and in a case of playing the second luminance video, reading out any one of the elementary streams listed in the second combination information of the playlist file, and playing at the same time with the second luminance video.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2020Publication date: November 19, 2020Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Hiroshi YAHATA, Kazuhiro MOCHINAGA
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Patent number: 10770115Abstract: A playback method of reading out and playing streams from a recording medium is provided. A stream file. including a first luminance video and a second luminance video, a playlist file, first and second combination information, elementary streams that can be played together with the first luminance video, and elementary streams that can be played together with the second luminance video are recorded in the recording medium. The playback method includes, when playing the first luminance video, reading out any one of the elementary streams listed in the first combination information of the playlist file, and playing at the same time with the first luminance video, and when playing the second luminance video, reading out any one of the elementary streams listed in the second combination information of the playlist file, and playing at the same time with the second luminance video.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2019Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Hiroshi Yahata, Kazuhiro Mochinaga
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Publication number: 20200118596Abstract: A playback method of reading out and playing streams from a recording medium is provided. A stream file. including a first luminance video and a second luminance video, a playlist file, first and second combination information, elementary streams that can be played together with the first luminance video, and elementary streams that can be played together with the second luminance video are recorded in the recording medium. The playback method includes, when playing the first luminance video, reading out any one of the elementary streams listed in the first combination information of the playlist file, and playing at the same time with the first luminance video, and when playing the second luminance video, reading out any one of the elementary streams listed in the second combination information of the playlist file, and playing at the same time with the second luminance video.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2019Publication date: April 16, 2020Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Hiroshi YAHATA, Kazuhiro MOCHINAGA
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Patent number: 10553253Abstract: A recording medium is provided in which are recorded a stream file, including a first luminance video expressed by luminance of a first dynamic range, and a second luminance video expressed by luminance of a second dynamic range that is broader than the first dynamic range, and a playlist file for controlling playback of the stream file. The recording medium includes first and second combination information, representing combinations of first and second audio streams that each can be played at the same time in a same playback section with the first luminance video and the second luminance video, being described in the playlist file. The recording medium also includes the first audio streams that can be played at the same time with the first luminance video in this playback section being all listed in the first combination information.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2019Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Hiroshi Yahata, Kazuhiro Mochinaga
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Publication number: 20190156863Abstract: A recording medium is provided in which are recorded a stream file, including a first luminance video expressed by luminance of a first dynamic range, and a second luminance video expressed by luminance of a second dynamic range that is broader than the first dynamic range, and a playlist file for controlling playback of the stream file. The recording medium includes first and second combination information, representing combinations of first and second audio streams that each can be played at the same time in a same playback section with the first luminance video and the second luminance video, being described in the playlist file. The recording medium also includes the first audio streams that can be played at the same time with the first luminance video in this playback section being all listed in the first combination information.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2019Publication date: May 23, 2019Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Hiroshi YAHATA, Kazuhiro MOCHINAGA
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Patent number: 10236030Abstract: A playback method of reading out and playing streams from a recording medium is provided, in which are recorded a stream file including a first luminance video expressed by luminance of a first dynamic range, and a second luminance video expressed by luminance of a second dynamic range that is broader than the first dynamic range, and a playlist file for controlling playback of the stream file. The playback method includes, in a case of playing the first luminance video, reading out the first audio streams listed in the first combination information of the playlist file, and playing at the same time with the first luminance video, and in a case of playing the second luminance video, reading out the second audio streams listed in the second combination information of the playlist file, and playing at the same time with the second luminance video.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2018Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Hiroshi Yahata, Kazuhiro Mochinaga
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Publication number: 20190013048Abstract: A playback method of reading out and playing streams from a recording medium is provided, in which are recorded a stream file including a first luminance video expressed by luminance of a first dynamic range, and a second luminance video expressed by luminance of a second dynamic range that is broader than the first dynamic range, and a playlist file for controlling playback of the stream file. The playback method includes, in a case of playing the first luminance video, reading out the first audio streams listed in the first combination information of the playlist file, and playing at the same time with the first luminance video, and in a case of playing the second luminance video, reading out the second audio streams listed in the second combination information of the playlist file, and playing at the same time with the second luminance video.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2018Publication date: January 10, 2019Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Hiroshi YAHATA, Kazuhiro MOCHINAGA
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Patent number: 10116908Abstract: A playback device plays video streams recorded in a recording medium, in which are one or more video streams including at least one of an HDR stream whose dynamic range of luminance of video corresponds to a high dynamic range (HDR), and an SDR stream whose dynamic range of luminance of video corresponds to a standard dynamic range (SDR) narrower than HDR, and identification information indicating whether the HDR stream is included in the one or more video streams. A playback method of the playback device includes: reading the identification information from the recording medium; acquiring playback capability information indicating whether the playback device can play the HDR stream, and display capability information indicating whether a connected display device can display the HDR video; and deciding on a video stream from the one or more video streams, according to the identification information, the playback capability information, and the display capability information.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2017Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Kazuhiro Mochinaga, Hiroshi Yahata