Patents by Inventor Kazuyuki Takahashi

Kazuyuki Takahashi 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: 10615951
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a transmission apparatus, a reception apparatus, and a data processing method capable of efficiently transmitting time information with high accuracy. The transmission apparatus generates a physical layer frame including the time information and transmits the physical layer frame. The reception apparatus receives the physical layer frame from the transmission apparatus and performs predetermined processing on the basis of the time information included in the physical layer frame. Time information indicating a certain time is included at a head of the physical layer frame. The present technology can be applied to digital television broadcasting using the IP system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Okada, Kazuyuki Takahashi, Lachlan Bruce Michael
  • Patent number: 10611810
    Abstract: Compounds of the present invention of formula I and formula II are disclosed in the specification and wherein the compounds are modulators of Bone Morphogenic Protein activity. Compounds are synthetic peptides having a non-growth factor heparin binding region, a linker, and sequences that bind specifically to a receptor for Bone Morphogenic Protein. Uses of compounds of the present invention in the treatment of bone lesions, degenerative joint disease and to enhance bone formation are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: FERRING INTERNATIONAL CENTER S.A.
    Inventors: Paul O. Zamora, Louis A. Pena, Xinhua Lin, Kazuyuki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10615895
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a transmitting apparatus, a transmitting method, a receiving apparatus, and a receiving method that facilitate tuning setting. A transmitting apparatus generates and transmits transmission data including an index in data of a physical layer, the index being associated with predetermined processing-related information in a relation table in which processing-related information related to setting processing of tuning on a receiving side is registered in association with an index representing a region to be subjected to the setting processing corresponding to the processing-related information and provided as being included in data of an upper layer higher than the physical layer. A receiving apparatus acquires the relation table, while receiving the transmission data, and acquires the index included in the data of the physical layer from the transmission data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Takahashi, Lachlan Bruce Michael
  • Patent number: 10574375
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a transmission device, a transmission method, a reception device, and a reception method that permit efficient transfer of time and other information. The transmission device generates a physical layer frame having preambles and a payload that includes, in the preamble, time information representing time of a given position in a stream of physical layer frames and transmits the physical layer frame. The reception device receives the physical layer frame and performs processes using time information. The present technology is applicable, for example, to IP packet broadcasting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Lachlan Bruce Michael, Kazuyuki Takahashi, Satoshi Okada
  • Publication number: 20200059319
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a transmission device and a transmission method, each of which enables to efficiently transfer time information. A physical-layer frame is generated on the basis of an FEC frame obtained from input data. A transmission device that transmits a physical-layer frame includes, in a top area of the physical-layer frame, time information indicating the time of a starting position of the top area, which enables to efficiently transfer the time information. The present technology can be applied to, for example, data transfer corresponding to a predetermined broadcasting method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventor: KAZUYUKI TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 10567455
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a reception device, a reception method, a transmission device, and a transmission method in which a convergence service of broadcasting and communication can be realized more effectively. A FLUTE processing unit is configured to acquire one or more components constituting a specific service of a plurality of services included in broadcast waves of digital broadcasting using an IP transfer system, in accordance with a first control signal including information indicating types and a transfer system of the one or more components constituting the specific service such that the convergence service of broadcasting and communication can be realized more effectively. The present technology is applicable to, for example, a television receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Jun Kitahara, Yasuaki Yamagishi, Naohisa Kitazato, Kazuyuki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20200043247
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a mounting unit on which a medium storing authentication information for passing through a toll road is mountable, a detector which is configured to detect a state where the medium is mounted on the mounting unit or a state where the medium is not mounted on the mounting unit, and an automated driving controller which is configured to perform automated driving and change control details of the automated driving on the basis of detection results obtained by the detector, wherein the automated driving controller configured to determine whether to change a target gate or not on the basis of a relationship between a time when the mounting state detected by the detector is changed and a time when the vehicle is expected to arrive at the target gate or a relationship between a position of the vehicle at the time when the mounting state detected by the detector is changed and a position of the target gate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Takahashi, Atsushi Ishioka, Akihiko Otsu, Akira Mizutani, Daichi Kato
  • Publication number: 20200044761
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a transmission device, a transmission method, a reception device, and a reception method that permit efficient transfer of time and other information. The transmission device generates a physical layer frame having preambles and a payload that includes, in the preamble, time information representing time of a given position in a stream of physical layer frames and transmits the physical layer frame. The reception device receives the physical layer frame and performs processes using time information. The present technology is applicable, for example, to IP packet broadcasting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Lachlan Bruce MICHAEL, Kazuyuki TAKAHASHI, Satoshi OKADA
  • Publication number: 20200044774
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a reception apparatus, a transmission apparatus, and a data processing method that can prevent useless discard of packets. The reception apparatus performs an error detection process by using an error detection code included in a header of a transport packet. The plurality of transport packets are provided in a payload of a baseband packet that has gone through demodulation. The transport packets include the header and a payload. The header includes the error detection code. The payload has an IP packet provided therein, and the IP packet includes a UDP packet. The present technology is applicable, for example, to data transport compliant with a broadcasting standard such as ATSC 3.0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2017
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michito ISHII, Lachlan Bruce MICHAEL, Kazuyuki TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20200041299
    Abstract: A passing gate determining device includes: an information acquirer configured to acquire information; and a gate selector configured to select a gate near a destination set in advance with priority at a tollgate in which a plurality of gates are disposed in parallel with each other on the basis of the information acquired by the information acquirer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventors: Daichi Kato, Akihiko Otsu, Akira Mizutani, Atsushi Ishioka, Kazuyuki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20200028604
    Abstract: This technology relates to a reception apparatus and a data processing method for easily implementing circuits on the receiving side. There is provided a reception apparatus including: a demodulation section configured to demodulate packets obtained with respect to each of multiple PLPs included in a broadcast signal; and a processing section configured to process the packets demodulated by the demodulation section. The demodulation section and the processing section are connected with each other via a single interface or interfaces fewer than the number of the PLPs. The demodulation section adds identification information to a specific packet among the packets obtained with respect to each of the PLP, the identification information identifying the PLP to which each of the packets belongs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Applicants: SONY CORPORATION, SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi OKADA, Kazuyuki TAKAHASHI, Takeshi OHNO
  • Publication number: 20200029132
    Abstract: There is provided a transmission device including circuitry configured to generate a physical layer frame. A time information descriptor is included in a preamble of the physical layer frame. The time information descriptor includes a time information flag that indicates presence or absence of time information in the time information descriptor. The circuitry is configured to transmit the physical layer frame including the preamble and a payload. The time information indicates a time of a predetermined position in a stream of the physical layer frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuyuki TAKAHASHI, Lachlan Bruce MICHAEL
  • Publication number: 20190389463
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a vehicle selector configured to select, from among other vehicles present near an own vehicle, another vehicle that the own vehicle is to follow when traveling in front of a gate as a following target vehicle, and a gate passage controller configured to cause the own vehicle to travel following the following target vehicle selected by the vehicle selector when passing through the gate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventors: Akira Mizutani, Atsushi Ishioka, Akihiko Otsu, Daichi Kato, Kazuyuki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20190387388
    Abstract: There is provided a reception apparatus including a first acquisition unit which acquires, preceding text format second signaling data to be transmitted in a lower-level layer than an IP layer in a hierarchy of a protocol of an IP transmission system and containing control information independent of a service identified by an IP address, binary format first signaling data containing a flag indicating whether the second signaling data exists in digital broadcast using the IP transmission system, a second acquisition unit which acquires the second signaling data on the basis of the first signaling data, and a control unit which controls operation of the units which perform various types of processing on the basis of the second signaling data. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a television receiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuyuki TAKAHASHI, Naohisa KITAZATO, Jun KITAHARA, Yasuaki YAMAGISHI
  • Publication number: 20190387260
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a transmitting apparatus, a receiving apparatus, and a data processing method each of which enables channel bonding to be more reliably performed. There is provided a transmitting apparatus generating physical layer signaling including first identification information with which a group of frequency bands constituting channel bonding is identified, and second identification information with which the frequency band belonging to the group is identified; and transmitting a broadcasting signal which includes the physical layer signaling and is changed in frequency band thereof by a relay apparatus by utilizing a predetermined frequency band. The present technology, for example, can be applied to a broadcasting system utilizing channel bonding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuyuki TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20190377344
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes: a static information acquirer that is configured to acquire static information that is static information relating to gates; a dynamic information acquirer that is configured to acquire dynamic information that is dynamic information relating to the gates; a selector that is configured to select a gate among a plurality of gates on the basis of the static information acquired by the static information acquirer and thereafter correct a selection result of gates on the basis of the dynamic information acquired by the dynamic information acquirer; and a gate passage controller that is configured to perform control of a vehicle such that the vehicle passes through the gate selected by the selector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Inventors: Atsushi Ishioka, Akihiko Otsu, Akira Mizutani, Daichi Kato, Kazuyuki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20190359209
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a recommended lane determiner which determines a recommended lane in which a vehicle will travel, an acquirer which acquires road information including a road shape, and an automated driving controller which causes the vehicle to travel along the recommended lane determined by the recommended lane determiner, and determines details of control of automated driving on the basis of the road information acquired by the acquirer when the recommended lane determined by the recommended lane determiner is switched from a first recommended lane to a second recommended lane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2017
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: Akira Mizutani, Atsushi Ishioka, Akihiko Otsu, Daichi Kato, Kazuyuki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10491869
    Abstract: Provided are an illumination device and a display apparatus capable of reducing generation of an interference pattern, while achieving downsizing and enhancing light use efficiency. An illumination device includes: a light source section that includes a laser light source; an optical device disposed on a light path through which laser light from the laser light source travels; an optical member that outputs illumination light; and a driving section that displaces a relative position between the optical device and the optical member to vary at least one of an incidence position and an incidence angle, in an incidence surface of the optical member, of the laser light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuya Oiwa, Kazuyuki Takahashi, Koji Miura
  • Publication number: 20190356946
    Abstract: This technology relates to a transmission apparatus, a reception apparatus, and a data processing method for easily implementing circuits on the receiving side. There is provided a transmission apparatus including a processing section configured to process a stream with respect to each of multiple PLPs included in a broadcast signal, the stream being constituted by packets, the processing section further causing a header of each of the packets to include mapping information mapped to identification information identifying the PLP to which each of the packets belongs. This technology may be applied to data transmission methods such as the IP transmission method or the MPEG2-TS method, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicants: SONY CORPORATION, SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuyuki TAKAHASHI, Satoshi OKADA, Takeshi OHNO
  • Publication number: 20190354107
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a virtual line setter configured to set virtual lines in front of a gate on the basis of the position of the gate, and a gate passing controller configured to perform vehicle control when a vehicle passes through the gate on the basis of the virtual lines set by the virtual line setter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Daichi Kato, Kazuyuki Takahashi, Akihiko Otsu, Akira Mizutani, Atsushi Ishioka