Patents by Inventor Kensuke Baba

Kensuke Baba 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).

  • Data converting apparatus and method, printing apparatus and method, printing controlling apparatus and method, printing system and method, and data transmitting method for converting print data
    Patent number: 7024500
    Abstract: In a printing system in which with a plurality of different types of controllers connected to one serial bus, different types of print data can be inputted to and printed by a printing unit. When a set top box and desktop and portable personal computers, different in type from each other, are connected to a IEEE 1394 serial bus, screen data is outputted from the set top box to an AV/C printer and PDL data is outputted from the personal computers to the AV/C printer. The AV/C printer judges the image type of the input data. Based on the image type, the printing system converts the print data to a type of print data supported by the AV/C printer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2006
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Ashizaki, Yushi Ihara, Takahiro Nishikawa, Yuji Kawamura, Kohei Nojiri, Tsuyoshi Ide, Toshiya Izumi, Kensuke Baba
  • Digital tuner
    Publication number: 20050064843
    Abstract: A digital tuner of the invention has: a filter section that selects a desired reception signal from inputted reception signals; a converter section that performs frequency conversion on the desired reception signal selected by the filter section; a level monitor section that monitors, with respect to a signal based on the signal outputted from the filter section, the signal levels thereof at two or more frequencies within the reception band; and a waveform shaper section that varies the waveform inclination of signals based on the inputted reception signals within the reception band according to the results of monitoring by the level monitor section. This configuration helps reduce the waveform inclination of the output signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2004
    Publication date: March 24, 2005
    Inventors: Koji Oiwa, Kensuke Baba
  • Data converting apparatus and method, printing apparatus and method, printing controlling apparatus and method, printing system and method, and data transmitting method
    Publication number: 20020059482
    Abstract: In a printing system in which with a plurality of different types of controllers connected to one serial bus, even different types of print data can be inputted to and printed by a printing unit. When a STB 2, desktop PC 3 and portable PC 4, different in type from each other, are connected to the IEEE 1394 serial bus 1 A, screen data is outputted from the STB 2 to an AV/C printer 5 and PDL data is outputted from the desktop PC 3 to the AV/C printer 5, the type of the input data is judged by the AV/C printer 5. Even a PDL data not supported by the AV/C printer 5 can be printed by converting it to PDL data interpretable by the AV/C printer 5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2001
    Publication date: May 16, 2002
    Inventors: Koji Ashizaki, Yushi Ihara, Takahiro Nishikawa, Yuji Kawamura, Kohei Nojiri, Tsuyoshi Ide, Toshiya Izumi, Kensuke Baba