Patents by Inventor Kouichi Uchimura

Kouichi Uchimura 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).

  • Publication number: 20170221524
    Abstract: To acquire attribute information of high dynamic range (HDR) data from a playlist file and a clip information file to realize video reproduction according to a display device. A data processing unit that executes reproduction processing of disk recorded data acquires the playlist file and the clip information file as reproduction control information files corresponding to reproduction data recorded on a disk, determines whether HDR graphics data is recorded on the disk on the basis of record data of these files, and further acquires attribute information of the HDR graphics data from reproduction control information, and executes control of output data for the display device according to the acquired information in a case where the HDR graphics data is recorded on the disk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kouichi UCHIMURA, Ryohei TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20170223329
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a reproducing apparatus for enabling an appropriate video depending on a viewing environment to be reproduced, a reproducing method, an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, a program, and a recording medium. The reproducing apparatus according to the present technology analyzes reproduction management information describing therein type information on a form of providing a HDR video which is compatible with a SDR video with a standard luminance range and whose luminance range is wider than the standard luminance range or a form of providing the SDR video compatible with the HDR video. Further, the reproducing apparatus acquires and reproduces encoding data of the HDR video or encoding data of the SDR video provided in a form indicated by the type information. The present technology is applicable to Blu-ray Disc players.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kouichi UCHIMURA, Ryohei TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20170223327
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method and a program, and a recording medium that can generate graphics in colors in a predetermined dynamic range from the data of graphics of colors in a plurality of dynamic ranges. A processor identifies an SDR PDS that is an information item of a color in the SDR available for the graphics, an HDR PDS that is an information item of a color in the HDR available for the graphics from a graphics stream including the SDR PDS, and the HDR PDS, and a segment_type used to identify the SDR PDS and the HDR PDS on the basis of the segment_type. A CLUT management unit generates the SDR graphics on the basis of the SDR PDS identified by the processor. The present disclosure can be applied, for example, to a reproducing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kouichi UCHIMURA, Ryohei TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 9706184
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a reproduction device, a reproduction method, and a recording medium capable of displaying graphics with a broader dynamic range of luminance and appropriate brightness. An optical disc records tone_mapping_info including HDR information indicating a luminance feature of HDR graphics which are graphics with a second luminance range different from and broader than a first luminance range, tone_mapping_info which is tone mapping definition information used when luminance conversion from the HDR graphics to STD graphics which are graphics with the first luminance range is performed, and a graphics stream including data of the HDR graphics. The present technology is applicable to a recording medium recording graphics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kouichi Uchimura, Ryohei Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20170163950
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device, an information processing method, a program, and a recording medium that make it possible to set a dynamic range of an image to be reproduced. A BD-J execution unit sets a dynamic range of a screen to be reproduced. A video decoder generates a main video to be reproduced in the dynamic range set by the BD-J execution unit. The present disclosure can be applied, for example, to a reproducing device or the like that reproduces an optical disk that records an AV stream of a main video in a standard dynamic range (SDR) and an AV stream of a main video in a high dynamic range (HDR).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kouichi UCHIMURA, Ryohei TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20170162223
    Abstract: To determine whether or not a correct continuous reproduction disk has been attached, and perform control in accordance with a determination result in a data reproduction process including a first information recording medium and a second information recording medium. A first root certificate transform value is calculated by applying a first transform function to data constituting a first root certificate recorded in the first information recording medium and a second root certificate transform value is calculated by applying a second transform function to data constituting a second root certificate recorded in the second information recording medium. Transform values based on first and second root certificates are compared. A process under execution is continued when the first and second root certificate transform values match. However, the process under execution is stooped or a warning is output when the first and second root certificate transform values do not match.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki KOBAYASHI, Kouichi UCHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20170148483
    Abstract: It is possible to accurately and securely execute conversion from an MPEG-2TS format to an MP4 format. A data converting unit that executes format conversion from an MPEG-2TS format to an MP4 format sorts out TS packets storing video data from MPEG-2TS format data, selects a TS packet having a start code (SC) at the top of a payload on the basis of header information of the sorted out TS packets, and extracts payload configuration data other than the start code (SC) and sets the payload configuration data as configuration data of MP4 format data. The data converting unit determines, on the basis of, for example, a value of a transport priority set in a header of the TS packet, whether or not the TS packet is a TS packet in which a start code (SC) is set in a top region of a payload.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2015
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryohei TAKAHASHI, Kouichi UCHIMURA
  • Patent number: 9596430
    Abstract: The present technique relates to a data generation apparatus, a data generating method, a data reproduction apparatus, and a data reproducing method capable of enabling a user to enjoy an HDR image. HDR information designated by HDR designating information is acquired from a file storing a track of a stream including the HDR information which is configured with feature information representing features of luminance of an HDR (high dynamic range) image having a dynamic range higher than that of an STD (standard) image and conversion information representing a conversion rule of converting the one of the STD image and the HDR image into the other and a target track including the HDR designating information designating the HDR information which is to be applied to the target track of interest in the HDR information of the track. The present technique can be applied, for example, to the case of applying HDR information to a subtitle having an SMPTE-TT format using XML.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ryohei Takahashi, Kouichi Uchimura, Shinobu Hattori
  • Patent number: 9571813
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a playback device, a playback method, a program, and a recording medium that enable 3D playback in accordance with the capabilities of the playback device. A storage unit 24 stores a one-plane offset capability flag indicating whether or not 3D playback is possible in a one-plane offset mode, which is a mode in which one of two images obtained by shifting an image recorded on a disc 11 in a horizontal direction is output as a left-eye image and the other is output as a right-eye image, and a two-plane capability flag indicating whether or not 3D playback is possible in a two-plane mode, which is a mode in which a left-eye image and a right-eye image that are recorded on the disc are output as they are. A control unit 22 sets a playback mode for 3D playback in accordance with the one-plane offset capability flag and the two-plane capability flag stored in the storage unit 24. The present invention can be applied to, for example, a playback device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kouichi Uchimura
  • Publication number: 20160328174
    Abstract: A situation where some data is missing is to be prevented in a process of recording data on a second medium in a different format from the data recording format of a first medium. An information processing device that reads the data recorded on the first medium, and performs a process of recording data on the second medium receives copy permission information from a management server, and acquires, from a data providing server, additional data that cannot be acquired directly from the first medium. The information processing device reads a copy control management file recorded on the first medium, and accesses and acquires the additional data by using access information recorded in the copy control management file. The information processing device then uses data containing the acquired additional data as the data to be recorded on the second medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kouichi UCHIMURA, Ryohei TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20160307603
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including: a data processing unit configured to execute a playback process of playing back data recorded on disc. The data processing unit acquires a playback control information file corresponding to playback data recorded on disc, acquires a plurality of video information corresponding to a plurality of video data in a same playback segment from the acquired playback control information file, and applies the acquired plurality of video information to execute a decoding and playback process of decoding and playing back the plurality of video data in the same playback segment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryohei TAKAHASHI, Kouichi UCHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20160301907
    Abstract: Image reproduction according to a display apparatus is realized by acquiring image information of an ultra-high definition (UHD) image from a playlist file or a clip information file. A data processing unit that performs a reproduction process of a disc recording data acquires a playlist file or a clip information file as a reproduction control information file corresponding to reproduction data recorded in a disc, determines whether or not an ultra-high definition (UHD) image is recorded in the disc based on recording data of such a file, and, in a case where the ultra-high definition (UHD) image is recorded in the disc, acquires image information of the ultra-high definition (UHD) image from the reproduction control information and controls output data for a display apparatus based on the acquired image information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kouichi UCHIMURA, Ryohei TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20160212399
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a reproduction device, a reproduction method, and a recording medium, which are capable of displaying closed captions having a wide dynamic range of luminance at appropriate brightness. HDR closed captions serving as closed captions of a second luminance range that is different from and larger than a first luminance range, tone_mapping_info including HDR information indicating characteristics of luminance of the HDR closed captions, and tone_mapping_info serving as tone mapping definition information used when luminance conversion from the HDR closed captions to STD closed captions serving as closed captions of the first luminance range are recorded on an optical disc. The present technology can be applied to a recording medium on which closed captions are recorded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2014
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Inventor: Kouichi UCHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20160191883
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a reproduction device, a reproduction method, and a recording medium capable of displaying graphics with a broader dynamic range of luminance and appropriate brightness. An optical disc records STN_table associating HDR graphics, which are graphics having a second luminance range different from and broader than a first luminance range, with tone_mapping_info including HDR information indicating a luminance characteristic of the HDR graphics and tone_mapping_info, which is tone mapping definition information used when luminance conversion from the HDR graphics to STD graphics which are graphics having the first luminance range is performed, the HDR graphics, and the tone_mapping_info. The present technology is applicable to a recording medium recording graphics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2014
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventors: KOUICHI UCHIMURA, RYOHEI TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20160173845
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a reproduction device, a reproduction method, and a recording medium capable of displaying graphics with a broader dynamic range of luminance and appropriate brightness. An optical disc records tone_mapping_info including HDR information indicating a luminance feature of HDR graphics which are graphics with a second luminance range different from and broader than a first luminance range, tone_mapping_info which is tone mapping definition information used when luminance conversion from the HDR graphics to STD graphics which are graphics with the first luminance range is performed, and a graphics stream including data of the HDR graphics. The present technology is applicable to a recording medium recording graphics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: KOUICHI UCHIMURA, RYOHEI TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20160173846
    Abstract: There is provided an apparatus and method to control reproduction of content recorded to a recording medium; control reading, from the recording medium, first content information indicating whether an initial output mode at a start of reproduction is 4K or 2K; and output a notification based on the initial output mode at start of reproduction indicated by the first content information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kouichi UCHIMURA, Ryohei TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20160155466
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device including a data processing unit that executes reproduction processing of content recorded in an information recording medium. The content includes an individual segment region formed of a plurality of variation data in which identification information different from each other is embedded and each of which can be decrypted by a different key, and a common segment region formed of single data. The variation data is formed of a 6144 byte aligned unit. The data processing unit calculates a reproduction path by applying a device key held in a memory, and selects an aligned unit corresponding to one variation data that corresponds to the calculated reproduction path from a plurality of aligned units configuring the plurality of variation data in the individual segment region included in the data read from the information recording medium, and then, executes the decryption and reproduction processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2015
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Applicants: SONY CORPORATION, PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenjiro UEDA, Tateo OISHI, Kouichi UCHIMURA, Masaya YAMAMOTO, Kaoru MURASE, Hiroshi YAHATA
  • Publication number: 20160142695
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a reproduction device, a reproduction method, and a recording medium capable of displaying graphics with a broader dynamic range of luminance and appropriate brightness. An optical disc records a Tone_map stream including tone_mapping_info including HDR information indicating a luminance feature of HDR graphics which are graphics with a second luminance range different from and broader than a first luminance range and tone_mapping_info which is tone mapping definition information used when luminance conversion from the HDR graphics to STD graphics which are graphics with the first luminance range is performed, and a graphics stream of the HDR graphics. The present technology is applicable to a recording medium recording graphics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2014
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Inventors: KOUICHI UCHIMURA, RYOHEI TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 9338422
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a display control method, a recording medium, and a display control device with which a subtitle forced display function can be implemented on the basis of TTML (Timed Text Markup Language). TTML data in which predetermined attribute information pertaining to subtitle forced display is described in a tag defining an element of text is used. At a content playback side, control is performed on the basis of the predetermined attribute information in the TTML data, in such a way that characters based on text data designated by the tag in which the attribute information is written are displayed on a display unit regardless of whether a subtitle display setting is ON or OFF. Owing to this kind of configuration, text data serving as a predetermined text element from among text elements (text data serving as subtitles) within the TTML data can be displayed regardless of whether a subtitle display setting is ON or OFF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kouichi Uchimura
  • Publication number: 20160064028
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a data processing unit which executes a reproduction process of recorded data of a disc, in which the data processing unit reads disc type information that is recorded on the disc, and ascertains a recorded data configuration of the disc based on the disc type information that is read, and executes data reading-out and reproduction processes according to a reading-out rate corresponding to the ascertained recorded data configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2014
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Applicants: Sony Corporation, Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Kouichi UCHIMURA, Yoshikazu Takashima