Patents by Inventor Koji Arimura

Koji Arimura 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: 11902505
    Abstract: A video decoding device, in the case where a video of the progressive format is inputted, processes a frame as a picture, in the case where a video of the interlace format is inputted, processes a field as a picture. A video decoding device performs display control corresponding to a format of the both video by analyzing display control information in display control information analyzer. The display control information includes sequence unit display control information which is commonly used in a display process of all pictures that belong to a sequence to be decoded and picture unit display control information which is individually used in a display process of a picture to be decoded. A second code string analyzer acquires each of the sequence unit display control information and the picture unit display control information from an extended information area in units of pictures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Kiyofumi Abe, Kazuhito Kimura, Hideyuki Ohgose, Hiroshi Arakawa, Koji Arimura
  • Publication number: 20240040152
    Abstract: An encoding method includes determining video format information, (i) setting each of all frames or all fields which are included in the video, as a picture, regardless of whether the video format is the interlace format or the progressive format, (ii) setting a POC indicating display order to each of all of the set pictures one by one, the POC being different each other, and encoding a picture to be encoded which is the frame or the field with reference to a picture previously encoded before encoding the picture to be encoded. In the encoding, the video is encoded with a syntax structure which is not dependent on the video format, the video format information is encoded in a header of a sequence which is a unit of the video, and the encoded bit stream is generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Kiyofumi ABE, Kazuhito KIMURA, Hideyuki OHGOSE, Hiroshi ARAKAWA, Koji ARIMURA
  • Patent number: 11831919
    Abstract: An encoding method includes determining video format information, (i) setting each of all frames or all fields which are included in the video, as a picture, regardless of whether the video format is the interlace format or the progressive format, (ii) setting a POC indicating display order to each of all of the set pictures one by one, the POC being different each other, and encoding a picture to be encoded which is the frame or the field with reference to a picture previously encoded before encoding the picture to be encoded. In the encoding, the video is encoded with a syntax structure which is not dependent on the video format, the video format information is encoded in a header of a sequence which is a unit of the video, and the encoded bit stream is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Kiyofumi Abe, Kazuhito Kimura, Hideyuki Ohgose, Hiroshi Arakawa, Koji Arimura
  • Patent number: 11815850
    Abstract: An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus, a varnish application apparatus, and a controller. When the image forming apparatus is in a standby state and preheating of varnish in a tank by a heater is completed, if an image forming job of forming a toner image on a first recording material and applying varnish thereto by a varnish coater is received, the controller controls a guide member to guide the first recording material to a first conveyance path. When the image forming apparatus is in a standby state and preheating of varnish in the tank by the heater is not completed, if an image forming job of forming a toner image on a second recording material and not applying varnish thereto by the varnish coater is received, the controller controls the guide member to guide the second recording material to a second conveyance path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koji Arimura, Naoyuki Yamamoto, Kenichiro Kitajima, Shuichi Tamura, Ryota Fujioka, Yoshiro Tsukada, Shohei Okumura, Takahiro Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20230344258
    Abstract: A charging control method includes setting at least a first threshold value and a second threshold value larger than the first threshold value as threshold values with respect to a remaining capacity of a storage battery unit included in each of a plurality of work devices. The method includes outputting, in a first state where the remaining capacity of the storage battery unit included in a work device designated as a target of control is equal to or greater than the first threshold value but less than the second threshold value, a charging start instruction to the work device when a predetermined decision condition is satisfied. The method further includes outputting, in a second state where the remaining capacity of the storage battery unit is less than the first threshold value, the charging start instruction to the work device, no matter whether the condition is satisfied or not.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Koji ARIMURA, Eiji KAWAMOTO, Shimpei HAMAGUCHI, Hideo MORITA
  • Publication number: 20230188703
    Abstract: A video decoding device, in the case where a video of the progressive format is inputted, processes a frame as a picture, in the case where a video of the interlace format is inputted, processes a field as a picture. A video decoding device performs display control corresponding to a format of the both video by analyzing display control information in display control information analyzer. The display control information includes sequence unit display control information which is commonly used in a display process of all pictures that belong to a sequence to be decoded and picture unit display control information which is individually used in a display process of a picture to be decoded. A second code string analyzer acquires each of the sequence unit display control information and the picture unit display control information from an extended information area in units of pictures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Kiyofumi ABE, Kazuhito KIMURA, Hideyuki OHGOSE, Hiroshi ARAKAWA, Koji ARIMURA
  • Publication number: 20230127053
    Abstract: An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus, a varnish application apparatus, and a controller. The varnish application apparatus includes a varnish application unit configured to apply varnish to a recording material, a first conveyance unit configured to convey a recording material in a first conveyance path that passes through the varnish application unit, and a second conveyance unit configured to convey a recording material in a second conveyance path that does not pass through the varnish application unit. When failure is occurred to one or both of the varnish application unit and the first conveyance unit and failure is not occurred to the second conveyance unit, the controller is configured to permit execution of the second image forming job and to convey a recording material by the second conveyance unit in the varnish application apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Koji Arimura, Naoyuki Yamamoto, Kenichiro Kitajima, Shuichi Tamura, Ryota Fujioka, Yoshiro Tsukada, Shohei Okumura, Takahiro Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20230129927
    Abstract: An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus, a varnish application apparatus, and a controller. When the image forming apparatus is in a standby state and preheating of varnish in a tank by a heater is completed, if an image forming job of forming a toner image on a first recording material and applying varnish thereto by a varnish coater is received, the controller controls a guide member to guide the first recording material to a first conveyance path. When the image forming apparatus is in a standby state and preheating of varnish in the tank by the heater is not completed, if an image forming job of forming a toner image on a second recording material and not applying varnish thereto by the varnish coater is received, the controller controls the guide member to guide the second recording material to a second conveyance path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Koji Arimura, Naoyuki Yamamoto, Kenichiro Kitajima, Shuichi Tamura, Ryota Fujioka, Yoshiro Tsukada, Shohei Okumura, Takahiro Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20230115665
    Abstract: An encoding method includes determining video format information, (i) setting each of all frames or all fields which are included in the video, as a picture, regardless of whether the video format is the interlace format or the progressive format, (ii) setting a POC indicating display order to each of all of the set pictures one by one, the POC being different each other, and encoding a picture to be encoded which is the frame or the field with reference to a picture previously encoded before encoding the picture to be encoded. In the encoding, the video is encoded with a syntax structure which is not dependent on the video format, the video format information is encoded in a header of a sequence which is a unit of the video, and the encoded bit stream is generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Kiyofumi ABE, Kazuhito KIMURA, Hideyuki OHGOSE, Hiroshi ARAKAWA, Koji ARIMURA
  • Patent number: 11611741
    Abstract: A video decoding device, in the case where a video of the progressive format is inputted, processes a frame as a picture, in the case where a video of the interlace format is inputted, processes a field as a picture. A video decoding device performs display control corresponding to a format of the both video by analyzing display control information in display control information analyzer. The display control information includes sequence unit display control information which is commonly used in a display process of all pictures that belong to a sequence to be decoded and picture unit display control information which is individually used in a display process of a picture to be decoded. A second code string analyzer acquires each of the sequence unit display control information and the picture unit display control information from an extended information area in units of pictures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Kiyofumi Abe, Kazuhito Kimura, Hideyuki Ohgose, Hiroshi Arakawa, Koji Arimura
  • Patent number: 11570472
    Abstract: An encoding method includes determining video format information, (i) setting each of all frames or all fields which are included in the video, as a picture, regardless of whether the video format is the interlace format or the progressive format, (ii) setting a POC indicating display order to each of all of the set pictures one by one, the POC being different each other, and encoding a picture to be encoded which is the frame or the field with reference to a picture previously encoded before encoding the picture to be encoded. In the encoding, the video is encoded with a syntax structure which is not dependent on the video format, the video format information is encoded in a header of a sequence which is a unit of the video, and the encoded bit stream is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Kiyofumi Abe, Kazuhito Kimura, Hideyuki Ohgose, Hiroshi Arakawa, Koji Arimura
  • Patent number: 11199840
    Abstract: A mover control system according to an embodiment includes a controller, a node generator, and a path generator. The controller controls a mover traveling within a predetermined area. The node generator generates a pair of specified nodes at respective arbitrary locations on a map corresponding to the predetermined area. The pair of specified nodes are nodes where the mover is controllable. The path generator generates a path between the pair of specified nodes. The controller makes the mover travel along a traveling route corresponding to the path within the predetermined area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideo Morita, Takashi Ooyama, Koji Arimura, Keiji Tanaka, Yutaka Mori
  • Publication number: 20210358005
    Abstract: A video coding apparatus including a dividing part that outputs the coding target picture divided for each coding unit (basic CU); a prediction processor that generates a prediction image by performing one of intra prediction and inter-screen prediction; a difference calculator that generates a difference image by calculating a difference between the generated prediction image and an image corresponding to the prediction image in the coding target picture; a residual coder that generates a residual coefficient by performing transform processing and quantization processing on the generated difference image; an integration unit that integrates a plurality of basic CUs included in an N×N-pixel region into one new CU, and a code string generator that generates a code string corresponding to the post-integration new CU by performing variable-length coding and arithmetic coding on coding information and the residual coefficient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Kiyofumi ABE, Kazuhito KIMURA, Hideyuki OHGOSE, Hiroshi ARAKAWA, Koji ARIMURA, Kazuma SAKAKIBARA
  • Publication number: 20210344898
    Abstract: A video decoding device, in the case where a video of the progressive format is inputted, processes a frame as a picture, in the case where a video of the interlace format is inputted, processes a field as a picture. A video decoding device performs display control corresponding to a format of the both video by analyzing display control information in display control information analyzer. The display control information includes sequence unit display control information which is commonly used in a display process of all pictures that belong to a sequence to be decoded and picture unit display control information which is individually used in a display process of a picture to be decoded. A second code string analyzer acquires each of the sequence unit display control information and the picture unit display control information from an extended information area in units of pictures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventors: Kiyofumi ABE, Kazuhito KIMURA, Hideyuki OHGOSE, Hiroshi ARAKAWA, Koji ARIMURA
  • Patent number: 11102472
    Abstract: A video decoding device, in the case where a video of the progressive format is inputted, processes a frame as a picture, in the case where a video of the interlace format is inputted, processes a field as a picture. A video decoding device performs display control corresponding to a format of the both video by analyzing display control information in display control information analyzer. The display control information includes sequence unit display control information which is commonly used in a display process of all pictures that belong to a sequence to be decoded and picture unit display control information which is individually used in a display process of a picture to be decoded. A second code string analyzer acquires each of the sequence unit display control information and the picture unit display control information from an extended information area in units of pictures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Kiyofumi Abe, Kazuhito Kimura, Hideyuki Ohgose, Hiroshi Arakawa, Koji Arimura
  • Publication number: 20210250615
    Abstract: An encoding method includes determining video format information, (i) setting each of all frames or all fields which are included in the video, as a picture, regardless of whether the video format is the interlace format or the progressive format, (ii) setting a POC indicating display order to each of all of the set pictures one by one, the POC being different each other, and encoding a picture to be encoded which is the frame or the field with reference to a picture previously encoded before encoding the picture to be encoded. In the encoding, the video is encoded with a syntax structure which is not dependent on the video format, the video format information is encoded in a header of a sequence which is a unit of the video, and the encoded bit stream is generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Kiyofumi ABE, Kazuhito KIMURA, Hideyuki OHGOSE, Hiroshi ARAKAWA, Koji ARIMURA
  • Patent number: 11025956
    Abstract: An encoding method includes determining video format information, (i) setting each of all frames or all fields which are included in the video, as a picture, regardless of whether the video format is the interlace format or the progressive format, (ii) setting a POC indicating display order to each of all of the set pictures one by one, the POC being different each other, and encoding a picture to be encoded which is the frame or the field with reference to a picture previously encoded before encoding the picture to be encoded. In the encoding, the video is encoded with a syntax structure which is not dependent on the video format, the video format information is encoded in a header of a sequence which is a unit of the video, and the encoded bit stream is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Kiyofumi Abe, Kazuhito Kimura, Hideyuki Ohgose, Hiroshi Arakawa, Koji Arimura
  • Publication number: 20200244952
    Abstract: A video decoding device, in the case where a video of the progressive format is inputted, processes a frame as a picture, in the case where a video of the interlace format is inputted, processes a field as a picture. A video decoding device performs display control corresponding to a format of the both video by analyzing display control information in display control information analyzer. The display control information includes sequence unit display control information which is commonly used in a display process of all pictures that belong to a sequence to be decoded and picture unit display control information which is individually used in a display process of a picture to be decoded. A second code string analyzer acquires each of the sequence unit display control information and the picture unit display control information from an extended information area in units of pictures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventors: Kiyofumi ABE, Kazuhito KIMURA, Hideyuki OHGOSE, Hiroshi ARAKAWA, Koji ARIMURA
  • Patent number: 10659775
    Abstract: A video decoding device, in the case where a video of the progressive format is inputted, processes a frame as a picture, in the case where a video of the interlace format is inputted, processes a field as a picture. A video decoding device performs display control corresponding to a format of the both video by analyzing display control information in display control information analyzer. The display control information includes sequence unit display control information which is commonly used in a display process of all pictures that belong to a sequence to be decoded and picture unit display control information which is individually used in a display process of a picture to be decoded. A second code string analyzer acquires each of the sequence unit display control information and the picture unit display control information from an extended information area in units of pictures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Kiyofumi Abe, Kazuhito Kimura, Hideyuki Ohgose, Hiroshi Arakawa, Koji Arimura
  • Publication number: 20200012284
    Abstract: A mover control system according to an embodiment includes a controller, a node generator, and a path generator. The controller controls a mover traveling within a predetermined area. The node generator generates a pair of specified nodes at respective arbitrary locations on a map corresponding to the predetermined area. The pair of specified nodes are nodes where the mover is controllable. The path generator generates a path between the pair of specified nodes. The controller makes the mover travel along a traveling route corresponding to the path within the predetermined area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Inventors: Hideo MORITA, Takashi OOYAMA, Koji ARIMURA, Keiji TANAKA, Yutaka MORI