Patents by Inventor Kazuyoshi Suzuki

Kazuyoshi Suzuki 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: 8705737
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a video processing apparatus for generating video data capable of representing a color gamut beyond a first color gamut specified by a predetermined requirement. The video processing apparatus includes: a detector detecting, from the video data, a section corresponding to video of a color gamut beyond the first color gamut; a supplemental-data generator generating supplemental data pertaining to the video data; and an embedding unit embedding the supplemental data generated by the supplemental-data generator in the section detected by the detector, with a change to a color beyond the first color gamut, the color having substantially a same hue as that of video to be represented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuyoshi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 8707374
    Abstract: An electronic device includes: a digital signal transmission/reception unit configured to perform two-way transmission of a digital signal using multiple differential signal lanes prepared at a transmission path with an external device; a transmission path arrangement determining unit configured to determine a transmission path arrangement including the number of use lanes, a use lane number, and a transmission direction by performing communication with the external device using a two-way communication line prepared at the transmission path with the external device; and a transmission path arrangement control unit configured to control the arrangement of the digital signal transmission/reception unit based on the information of the transmission path arrangement determined at the transmission path arrangement determining unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuaki Toba, Gen Ichimura, Kazuyoshi Suzuki, Toshihide Hayashi, Hideyuki Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20140092211
    Abstract: The present invention makes it possible to perform transmission of stereo image data between devices in a favorable manner. A source device (disc player 210) receives E-EDID from a sink device (television receiver 250) via DDC of an HDMI cable 350. This E-EDID contains information on 3D image data transmission modes that can be supported by the sink device. On the basis of the information on 3D image data transmission modes from the sink device, the source device selects a predetermined transmission mode from among the 3D image data transmission modes that can be supported by the sink device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhisa Nakajima, Kazuyoshi Suzuki, Akihiko Tao, Shigehiro Kawai
  • Patent number: 8675136
    Abstract: An image display apparatus is provided which includes an image display unit for displaying a still image or a moving image, an imaging unit for capturing an image in a direction in which the image display unit is displaying the still image or the moving image, a detecting unit for detecting a light emitting unit of a remote controlling device included in the image captured by the imaging unit, and detecting a movement amount of the light emitting unit within the captured image, the remote controlling device controlled by a user, and a control unit for controlling a movement amount of a pointer displayed on the image display unit, depending on the movement amount of the light emitting unit detected by the detecting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Suzuki, Shiro Omori
  • Patent number: 8564642
    Abstract: A communication method of transmitting video data which may include a predetermined number of bits as a unit from a source device to a sink device in sync with pixel clock and using individual transmission lines for respective color data or the like, may include preparing video data for three-dimensional display including the video data for a left eye and the video data for a right eye; forming the data for the left eye and for the right eye including the predetermined number of bits per pixel respectively; adding one of the data for the left eye and data for the right eye to the other thereof per pixel; forming the data of one pixel including twice the predetermined number of bits and transmitting the data at a timing in sync with the pixel clock; and transmitting the data for three-dimensional display from the source device to the sink device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuyoshi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 8564645
    Abstract: There is provided a signal processing device including an image analysis portion that analyzes content of an input image, a distance information acquisition portion that acquires distance information between a viewer who views a screen on which the input image is displayed and the screen, and a stereoscopic image generation portion that generates a stereoscopic image from the original input image, using an analysis result of the input image analyzed by the image analysis portion, the distance information acquired by the distance information acquisition portion, and information about a specification of the screen in a horizontal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuyoshi Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20130191563
    Abstract: To enable signal transmission at a high data rate while securing backward compatibility. A source device 110 and a sink device 120 are connected by an HDMI cable 200. The source device 110 is compatible with both current HDMI and new HDMI. The number of differential signal channels for transmitting digital signals such as video data is three in the current HDMI, but is six in the new HDMI, for example. In a case where the cable 200 is compatible with the new HDMI, and the sink device 120 is compatible with the new HDMI, a control unit 113 of the source device 110 controls a data transmitting unit 112 to operate in a new HDMI operating mode. In a case where the control unit 113 determines that at least the sink device 120 is compatible only with the current HDMI, or at least the cable 200 is compatible with the current HDMI, the control unit 113 controls the data transmitting unit 112 to operate in a current HDMI operating mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Publication date: July 25, 2013
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuaki Toba, Kazuyoshi Suzuki, Gen Ichimura, Toshihide Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20120274849
    Abstract: An HDMI® source determines whether or not an HDMI® sink can receive a sub-signal based on VSDB of E-EDID. When the HDMI® sink can receive the sub-signal, the HDMI® source adds a sub-signal to pixel data of a main image composed of pixel data whose number of bits is smaller than that of transmission pixel data transmitted by a transmitter, thereby constructing transmission pixel data. This data is transmitted by the transmitter through TMDS channels #0 to #2. Furthermore, the HDMI® source transmits a general control packet containing sub-signal information indicating whether or not the sub-signal is contained in the transmission pixel data in the control period of a vertical blanking period. The present invention can be applied to, for example, HDMI®.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2012
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Suzuki, Katsuji Matsuura
  • Patent number: 8279223
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus capable of displaying image data on a display device that has resolution lower than that of the image data, includes a processor that categorizes image data of one screen into a plurality of groups by setting two or more pixels of the image data being mutually adjacent on the screen as one group and that outputs data to be displayed time-divisionally and sequentially on one pixel of the display device respectively based on data of the pixels in each of the groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuyoshi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 8253859
    Abstract: An HDMI(R) source determines whether or not an HDMI(R) sink can receive a sub-signal based on VSDB of E-EDID. When the HDMI(R) sink can receive the sub-signal, the HDMI(R) source adds a sub-signal to pixel data of a main image composed of pixel data whose number of bits is smaller than that of transmission pixel data transmitted by a transmitter, thereby constructing transmission pixel data. This data is transmitted by the transmitter through TMDS channels #0 to #2. Furthermore, the HDMI(R) source transmits a general control packet containing sub-signal information indicating whether or not the sub-signal is contained in the transmission pixel data in the control period of a vertical blanking period. The present invention can be applied to, for example, HDMI(R).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Suzuki, Katsuji Matsuura
  • Patent number: 8230292
    Abstract: An apparatus for correcting and detecting multiple spotty-byte errors within a byte occurred in a limited number of bytes and which has a function capable of controlling multiple spotty-byte errors within a byte occurred in the limited number of bytes, is provided. The apparatus for correcting and detecting multiple spotty-byte errors within a byte occurred in a limited number of bytes, comprises an encoding means for generating a transmitted word based on input information data; and a decoding means for inputting the transmitted word where errors occurred in an information transmission channel as a received word and correcting and detecting the errors. The encoding means generates the transmitted word by adding check information generated based on a parity check matrix expressing a spotty-byte error control code and the input information data to the input information data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignees: Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
    Inventors: Eiji Fujiwara, Kazuyoshi Suzuki, Toshihiko Kashiyama, Satoshi Ichikawa
  • Publication number: 20120166702
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a first communication unit configured to perform I2C bidirectional communication with an external apparatus using two signal lines included in a transmission path as I2C communication lines, a second communication unit configured to perform bidirectional differential communication with the external apparatus using the two signal lines as high-speed data communication lines, a switching unit configured to select a first communication state in which the first communication unit is connected to the two signal lines or a second communication state in which the second communication unit is connected to the two signal lines, and a controller configured to control operation of the switching unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2011
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuaki Toba, Gen Ichimura, Kazuyoshi Suzuki, Hideyuki Suzuki, Toshihide Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20120167149
    Abstract: An electronic device includes: a digital signal transmission/reception unit configured to perform two-way transmission of a digital signal using multiple differential signal lanes prepared at a transmission path with an external device; a transmission path arrangement determining unit configured to determine a transmission path arrangement including the number of use lanes, a use lane number, and a transmission direction by performing communication with the external device using a two-way communication line prepared at the transmission path with the external device; and a transmission path arrangement control unit configured to control the arrangement of the digital signal transmission/reception unit based on the information of the transmission path arrangement determined at the transmission path arrangement determining unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2011
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuaki Toba, Gen Ichimura, Kazuyoshi Suzuki, Toshihide Hayashi, Hideyuki Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20110135114
    Abstract: Provided is an image display device provided with an image display unit for displaying a still image or a moving image, an image capturing unit for capturing the image in a direction in which the image display unit displays the image on the image display unit, and a face detection unit for performing, at predetermined intervals, face detection processing for detecting a face included in the image captured by the image capturing unit, wherein the predetermined intervals are variable according to whether or not the face of a user is included in the image captured by the image capturing unit, and when the position of the detected face does not change for a predetermined period of time in the face detection processing, the face detection unit does not detect the face as the face of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2009
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Haruo Oba, Yusuke Sakai, Tamaki Kojima, Kazumoto Kondo, Naoki Okamoto, Satoru Inoue, Kazuyoshi Suzuki, Yasuhisa Nakajima, Masahiro Nakano, Takashi Tsurumoto
  • Patent number: 7876315
    Abstract: A thin image display apparatus includes a thin image display apparatus body, a hollow support member having a first end at which the hollow support member supports the thin image display apparatus body through a rocking mechanism section and a second end at which a plug element configured to engage with an illumination apparatus wiring member attached to the ceiling or a wall is provided, and a power line extending through the hollow support member and configured to connect the plug element and the thin image display apparatus body to each other. The thin image display apparatus body receives, when the plug element engages with the illumination apparatus wiring member, power supplied through the power line together with a modulated image signal supplied through the power line such that an image based on the modulated image signal is displayed on the thin image display apparatus body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Suzuki, Yasuhisa Nakajima
  • Patent number: 7852489
    Abstract: A reference plane is arranged in a posture obliquely tilted at an optional angle relative to a traveling direction of a light-beam, so that an interference fringe is generated from the reflected light-beams which are reflected from a target plane and the reference plane and, then, return on a single optical path. An image of the interference fringe is taken by a CCD camera to acquire intensity value data of each pixel. A phase of an interference fringe waveform is obtained for each pixel by a CPU by fitting the intensity value data to a model equation expressing the interference fringe waveform, where the intensity value data contain that of each pixel and those of the pixels in the vicinity of the relevant pixel, on assumption that DC components, AC amplitudes and phases of the interference fringe waveforms are respectively constant in the vicinity of the relevant pixel. The obtained phase is converted into a height to measure a surface profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignees: Tokyo Institute of Technology, Toray Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masashi Sugiyama, Hidemitsu Ogawa, Katsuichi Kitagawa, Kazuyoshi Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20100182409
    Abstract: There is provided a signal processing device including an image analysis portion that analyzes content of an input image, a distance information acquisition portion that acquires distance information between a viewer who views a screen on which the input image is displayed and the screen, and a stereoscopic image generation portion that generates a stereoscopic image from the original input image, using an analysis result of the input image analyzed by the image analysis portion, the distance information acquired by the distance information acquisition portion, and information about a specification of the screen in a horizontal direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2010
    Publication date: July 22, 2010
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuyoshi Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20100182402
    Abstract: The present invention makes it possible to perform transmission of stereo image data between devices in a favorable manner. A source device (disc player 210) receives E-EDID from a sink device (television receiver 250) via DDC of an HDMI cable 350. This E-EDID contains information on 3D image data transmission modes that can be supported by the sink device. On the basis of the information on 3D image data transmission modes from the sink device, the source device selects a predetermined transmission mode from among the 3D image data transmission modes that can be supported by the sink device. The sink device transmits 3D image data in the selected transmission mode to the sink device. For the convenience of processing in the sink device, the source device transmits information on the transmission mode for the 3D image data transmitted, to the sink device by using an AVI InfoFrame packet or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2009
    Publication date: July 22, 2010
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhisa Nakajima, Kazuyoshi Suzuki, Akihiko Tao, Shigehiro Kawai
  • Patent number: 7732950
    Abstract: A radiator for a linear or curved mobile motor for removing the thermal distortion of a mover and a transporting member of a linear or curved mobile motor, and a high-accuracy, high-reliability linear or curved mobile motor using it. The linear or curved mobile motor includes a field pole having a plurality of permanent magnets with different magnetic poles arranged alternately along a field yoke, and an armature arranged opposite to the field pole via a magnetic gap and formed by winding a single or a plurality of coils around a core. The field pole is used as a stator and the armature being used as a mover that is relatively moved along the longitudinal direction of the stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: TS Heatronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Yamaoka, Kazuyoshi Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20100066855
    Abstract: An image display apparatus is provided which includes an image display unit for displaying a still image or a moving image, an imaging unit for capturing an image in a direction in which the image display unit is displaying the still image or the moving image, a detecting unit for detecting a light emitting unit of a remote controlling device included in the image captured by the imaging unit, and detecting a movement amount of the light emitting unit within the captured image, the remote controlling device controlled by a user, and a control unit for controlling a movement amount of a pointer displayed on the image display unit, depending on the movement amount of the light emitting unit detected by the detecting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2009
    Publication date: March 18, 2010
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Suzuki, Shiro Omori