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: 20160021420
    Abstract: A transmitting apparatus including circuitry configured to generate caption data corresponding to content data and having elements defined in Extensible Markup Language (XML), and output the content data and the generated caption data to a reproducing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Kouichi UCHIMURA
  • Patent number: 9173004
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a reproducing device including: a receiving section configured to receive IP-distributed content data and caption data; a content decoding section configured to generate a content video signal; an input section configured to input a user setting adopted to select at least one of a display mode and an edge of a character in relation to a caption; a retaining section configured to retain the input user setting; a caption information analyzing section configured to separate the caption data in time series, and generate intermediate caption information; an updating section configured to overwrite and update the intermediate caption information; a caption video signal generating section configured to generate a caption video signal; and a synthesizing section configured to superimpose and synthesize the caption video signal on the content video signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kouichi Uchimura
  • Publication number: 20150208102
    Abstract: The present technique relates to a file generation apparatus, a file generating method, a file reproduction apparatus, and a file 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 to the case of acquiring HDR information which is to be applied to an image of a subtitle or the like stored in, for example, an MP4 file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2014
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ryohei Takahashi, Kouichi Uchimura, Shinobu Hattori
  • Publication number: 20150208078
    Abstract: The present technique relates to a file generation apparatus, a file generating method, a file reproduction apparatus, and a file 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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2014
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ryohei Takahashi, Kouichi Uchimura, Shinobu Hattori
  • Publication number: 20150208024
    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: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2014
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ryohei Takahashi, Kouichi Uchimura, Shinobu Hattori
  • Publication number: 20140300812
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a reproducing device including: a receiving section configured to receive IP-distributed content data and caption data; a content decoding section configured to generate a content video signal; an input section configured to input a user setting adopted to select at least one of a display mode and an edge of a character in relation to a caption; a retaining section configured to retain the input user setting; a caption information analyzing section configured to separate the caption data in time series, and generate intermediate caption information; an updating section configured to overwrite and update the intermediate caption information; a caption video signal generating section configured to generate a caption video signal; and a synthesizing section configured to superimpose and synthesize the caption video signal on the content video signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2013
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Inventor: Kouichi UCHIMURA
  • Patent number: 8849094
    Abstract: A data structure includes content data and accompanying data which is formed on the basis of a plurality of first units, the accompanying data being used for displaying information accompanying the content data. Among the first units in which time information is defined, the time of a target first unit based on the order of the first units is set to be later than the decoding time defined in the first unit arranged in the order earlier than the target first unit by an amount equal to N first units where N indicates the upper limit of the number of first units that can be stored in a buffer provided for a decoder for decoding the first units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Kouichi Uchimura
  • Patent number: 8848037
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a data structure, a recording medium, a playing device and a playing method, and a program, which enable providing of a video format for 3D display, suitable for 3D display of subtitles and menu buttons. Subtitle data for the left eye and subtitle data for the right eye which are used for 3D display of subtitles is recorded in a disc 501 in increments of epochs. The structures of epochs of subtitle data for the left eye and subtitle data for the right eye to be played simultaneously are the same. That is to say, the number of display sets making up an epoch of subtitle data for the left eye, and the number of display sets making up an epoch of subtitle data for the right eye, that are to be played simultaneously, are the same. The present invention can be applied to a disc for 3D display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Kouichi Uchimura
  • Patent number: 8849102
    Abstract: A playback apparatus includes the following elements. An input receives content data and accompanying data formed on the basis of a plurality of first units and used for displaying information accompanying the content data. A first storage section stores, among the plurality of first units forming the accompanying data received by the input section, a first unit in which decoding time information concerning a decoding time is defined. A time information storage section stores the decoding time information. A decoder extracts the first unit from the first storage section and decodes the first unit in accordance with the decoding time information stored in the time information storage section. A second storage section stores the first unit decoded by the decoder. The time information storage section at least has a capacity based on an upper limit of the number of first units stored in the first storage section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Kouichi Uchimura
  • Patent number: 8768987
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a reproducing apparatus, a reproducing method, a program, a program storage medium, a data delivery system, a data structure, and a manufacturing method of a recording medium for easily handling a content file recorded on a disk and an update file recorded on a local storage. Downloaded data can be handled with a file having a path name and a file name on the local storage being different from a file having a path name and a file name on a virtual file system based on a path name specified by an src_file_name field of and a path name specified by a dst_file_name field of a manifest ( ) section. The present invention is applicable to reproducing apparatuses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Kouichi Uchimura, Kazuo Yamamoto, Yoshikazu Takashima, Kenjiro Ueda
  • Patent number: 8730304
    Abstract: A data structure, recording medium, playing device, playing method, program, and program storing medium, which enable providing of a video format for 3D display, suitable for 3D display of captions and menu buttons. Caption data used for 2D display of caption and menu data used for 2D display of menu buttons are recorded in a disc as is a database of offset information, in which is described offset information, made up of offset direction representing the direction of shifting of an image for the left eye and an image for the right eye used for 3D display as to images for 2D display regarding the caption data and menu data, and an offset value representing the amount of shifting, correlated with the playing point-in-time of caption data and menu data, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Kouichi Uchimura
  • Patent number: 8638861
    Abstract: A reproducing apparatus and method are provided. The apparatus includes an input section; an operation input section; a first storage section; and a control section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Kouichi Uchimura
  • Publication number: 20130302014
    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: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2012
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Kouichi Uchimura
  • Publication number: 20130195430
    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: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2011
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Inventor: Kouichi Uchimura
  • Patent number: 8488950
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a reproducing apparatus and a reproducing method, a data structure, a recording medium, a recording apparatus and a recording method, and a program that enable, in a case where offset information of a sub-image is arranged in a stream of a main image, easy realization of 3D display of the sub-image based on the offset information. A right-eye video stream includes offset metadata for generating offset information. In a data portion of each TS packet of the right-eye video stream, only any one of video data of an encoded right-eye main image and offset metadata is arranged. In a header of each TS packet of the right-eye video stream, transport priority, which indicates whether data arranged in the data portion of the TS packet is video data of an encoded right-eye main image or offset metadata, is described. The present invention can be applied to, for example, a reproducing apparatus that displays a sub-image in a 3D manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kouichi Uchimura, Motoki Kato, Shinobu Hattori
  • Publication number: 20120242898
    Abstract: Described herein is an information processing device, information processing method, program storage medium, program, data structure, and manufacturing method for storage medium wherein a user can determine subtitles with certainty. That is, an attribute buffer holds at least font style specifying information which specifies a font style to be applied for a character object for a subtitle held in a character object buffer, and width specifying information which can specify the width of the outline of the character object corresponding to the font style having an outline. In the case that the font style having an outline is specified in the font style specifying information, a font rasterizer obtains font style data of the font style having an outline, updates the font style data based on the width specifying information, and converts the character object into subtitle data, using at least the updated font style data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2012
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kouichi UCHIMURA, Kazuo YAMAMOTO, Yoshiyuki KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 8208531
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an information processing device and information processing method, program storage medium, program, data structure, and manufacturing method for storage medium wherein a user can determine subtitles with certainty. That is, an attribute buffer 123 holds at least font style specifying information which specifies a font style to be applied for a character object for a subtitle held in a character object buffer 122, and width specifying information which can specify the width of the outline of the character object corresponding to the font style having an outline. In the case that the font style having an outline is specified in the font style specifying information, a font rasterizer 124 obtains font style data of the font style having an outline, updates the font style data based on the width specifying information, and converts the character object into subtitle data, using at least the updated font style data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kouichi Uchimura, Kazuo Yamamoto, Yoshiyuki Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20120084650
    Abstract: An information processing device includes an information processing unit that determines whether or not a button indicated by an operation is a button which is not expected to be directly indicated, based on button related information which is formed by correlating information related to each button displayed on a screen with each button and is recorded on a necessary recording medium, and operation input information from an operation unit where an operation for directly indicating a display region of each button can be performed, in relation to the button displayed in a predetermined display region on the screen based on the button related information recorded on the recording medium, and does not execute a command correlated with the button related information of the indicated button if the indicated button is the button which is not expected to be directly indicated as a result of the determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2011
    Publication date: April 5, 2012
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Kouichi UCHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20120020640
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a data structure, a recording medium, a playing device and a playing method, and a program, which enable providing of a video format for 3D display, suitable for 3D display of subtitles and menu buttons. A display set includes subtitle data used for 2D display of subtitles. Also, a display set includes offset information made up of offset direction representing the direction of offset of subtitles for the left eye and subtitles for the right eye, used for 3D display of subtitles in each picture plane, as to subtitles in each picture plane corresponding to the subtitle data. The present invention can be applied to a disc for 3D display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2010
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kouichi Uchimura
  • Publication number: 20110194844
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a reproducing apparatus and a reproducing method, a data structure, a recording medium, a recording apparatus and a recording method, and a program that enable, in a case where offset information of a sub-image is arranged in a stream of a main image, easy realization of 3D display of the sub-image based on the offset information. A right-eye video stream includes offset metadata for generating offset information. In a data portion of each TS packet of the right-eye video stream, only any one of video data of an encoded right-eye main image and offset metadata is arranged. In a header of each TS packet of the right-eye video stream, transport priority, which indicates whether data arranged in the data portion of the TS packet is video data of an encoded right-eye main image or offset metadata, is described. The present invention can be applied to, for example, a reproducing apparatus that displays a sub-image in a 3D manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2010
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kouichi Uchimura, Motoki Kato, Shinobu Hattori