Patents by Inventor Masaaki Shimada

Masaaki Shimada 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: 20180115761
    Abstract: A video reproduction device (100) reproduces expanded video data (DV1) whose brightness dynamic range is wider than a standard video. The video reproduction device (100) includes a brightness information adjustment unit (150). The brightness information adjustment unit (150) changes first output brightness levels of the expanded video data (DV1) to second output brightness levels. When the expanded video data (DV1) is reproduced at a second reproduction speed faster than a first reproduction speed which is a normal speed, the brightness information adjustment unit (150) reduces the first output brightness levels to the second output brightness levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2016
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaaki SHIMADA, Nobuo TAKESHITA, Kosuke YAGI
  • Publication number: 20180108379
    Abstract: In a recording medium on which is recorded a multiplexed stream including a plurality of first packets (V_main) constituting a first I-picture in a first video stream and a plurality of second packets (V_sub) constituting a second I-picture in a second video stream, information for identifying the first I-picture and information for identifying the second I-picture are recorded on the medium. A recording medium can thereby be obtained that enables the rapid detection, from a small amount of information, of a particular picture included in a stream such as a TS in which multiple content streams are multiplexed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaaki Shimada, Tomoaki Ryu, Kazuhiko Nakane
  • Publication number: 20180054591
    Abstract: Access point pictures designated as randomly accessible positions are I pictures or P pictures. Information indicating the decoding sequence (I1, P1, B1, B2, B3, B4, P2, . . . ) of pictures functioning as access points and attribute information (picture_type) indicating whether a picture functions as an access point or is necessary for decoding of the access point following a given access point are recorded on the video information recording medium. Random access is possible even if the GOP interval is lengthened.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomoaki RYU, Kazuhiko NAKANE, Masaaki SHIMADA, Yoshihisa YAMADA
  • Patent number: 9899060
    Abstract: In a recording medium on which is recorded a multiplexed stream including a plurality of first packets (V_main) constituting a first I-picture in a first video stream and a plurality of second packets (V_sub) constituting a second I-picture in a second video stream, information for identifying the first I-picture and information for identifying the second I-picture are recorded on the medium. A recording medium can thereby be obtained that enables the rapid detection, from a small amount of information, of a particular picture included in a stream such as a TS in which multiple content streams are multiplexed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaaki Shimada, Tomoaki Ryu, Kazuhiko Nakane
  • Patent number: 9848162
    Abstract: Access point pictures designated as randomly accessible positions are I pictures or P pictures. Information indicating the decoding sequence (I1, P1, B1, B2, B3, B4, P2, . . . ) of pictures functioning as access points and attribute information (picture_type) indicating whether a picture functions as an access point or is necessary for decoding of the access point following a given access point are recorded on the video information recording medium. Random access is possible even if the GOP interval is lengthened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoaki Ryu, Kazuhiko Nakane, Masaaki Shimada, Yoshihisa Yamada
  • Patent number: 9748850
    Abstract: A switching power-supply device applies a DC voltage to a primary winding of a transformer and performs a switching operation of a switching element connected to a primary winding to generate and output an output voltage to a load. The switching power-supply device includes: an error amplifier, which compares the output voltage with a reference voltage and sends an error voltage as a feedback signal to a primary side; a frequency generation circuit, which generates a switching frequency according to the feedback signal; an off timing determination circuit, which determines a timing at which the switching element is turned off, by comparing a signal depending on the feedback signal with a current flowing through the switching element; and a frequency correction circuit, which corrects the switching frequency generated by the frequency generation circuit, according to an on-duty of the switching element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Sanken Electric Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Hayakawa, Masaaki Shimada
  • Publication number: 20170178691
    Abstract: In a recording medium on which is recorded a multiplexed stream including a plurality of first packets (V_main) constituting a first I-picture in a first video stream and a plurality of second packets (V_sub) constituting a second I-picture in a second video stream, information for identifying the first I-picture and information for identifying the second I-picture are recorded on the medium. A recording medium can thereby be obtained that enables the rapid detection, from a small amount of information, of a particular picture included in a stream such as a TS in which multiple content streams are multiplexed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaaki SHIMADA, Tomoaki RYU, Kazuhiko NAKANE
  • Patent number: 9627008
    Abstract: In a recording medium on which is recorded a multiplexed stream including a plurality of first packets (V_main) constituting a first I-picture in a first video stream and a plurality of second packets (V_sub) constituting a second I-picture in a second video stream, information for identifying the first I-picture and information for identifying the second I-picture are recorded on the medium. A recording medium can thereby be obtained that enables the rapid detection, from a small amount of information, of a particular picture included in a stream such as a TS in which multiple content streams are multiplexed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaaki Shimada, Tomoaki Ryu, Kazuhiko Nakane
  • Patent number: 9614448
    Abstract: A switching power-supply device, in which an input power is applied to a primary winding of a transformer, a pulse voltage is induced in a secondary winding of the transformer by turning on and off a switching element connected to the primary winding of the transformer and an output voltage rectified and smoothed by a secondary-side rectifying-and-smoothing circuit having a rectifier diode and a smoothing capacitor is outputted. The switching power-supply device includes: a transient state detection circuit, which detects a transient state and outputs a soft-drive instruction signal; and a drive circuit which turns on-and-off the switching element in a soft-drive operation, in which a charging speed of a gate voltage at a time of passing a gate threshold voltage is delayed as compared to a normal operation, in a case where the soft-drive instruction signal is inputted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Sanken Electric Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Hayakawa, Masaaki Shimada, Yoichi Terasawa
  • Patent number: 9564813
    Abstract: Disclosed is a switching power-supply device that induces a pulse voltage in a secondary winding of the transformer, and outputs, to a load, an output voltage rectified and smoothened by a secondary-side rectification smoothing circuit including a rectifier diode and a smoothing capacitor. An input-voltage detection circuit detects the input voltage of the alternating-current power supply. An error amplifier compares the output voltage with a reference voltage, and transmits a resultant error voltage to a primary side as a feedback signal. An internal oscillation circuit selects any of frequency decrease settings according to the input voltage detected by the input-voltage detection circuit, and performs, by using the selected frequency decrease setting, a frequency decreasing function of decreasing a switching frequency of the switching element at a light load, in response to the feedback signal transmitted from a secondary side to inform a state of the load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: SANKEN ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Hayakawa, Masaaki Shimada
  • Patent number: 9559600
    Abstract: An error amplifier outputs an error voltage to the primary side as a feedback signal indicating a state of the load. An oscillator controls a switching frequency of the switching operation such that the switching frequency is reduced from a highest normal frequency to a lowest normal frequency based on the feedback signal in a load range from a heavily-loaded state to a lightly-loaded state in a normal oscillating operation that continuously performs the switching operation. An intermittent oscillation control circuit intermittently performs the switching operation by stopping the switching operation based on the feedback signal when the load is lighter than a previously set reference. The oscillator increases the switching frequency from an intermittent-operation frequency lower than the lowest normal frequency in an intermittent oscillation duration in which the switching operation is performed in the intermittent oscillating operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: SANKEN ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Hayakawa, Masaaki Shimada, Tatsuhiko Koga
  • Patent number: 9531101
    Abstract: The connector comprises a holding member and a contact which is held by the holding member. The contact has a fixed portion, a first spring portion and a second spring portion. The fixed portion is held by and fixed on the holding member. The first spring portion extends from the fixed portion. The first spring portion includes two pressed portions, a movable starting point and a movable end portion which is movable. When an inserting object is moved along a moving direction which is a forward direction or a rearward direction, the pressed portions are pressed by a press portion to be moved downward perpendicular to the moving direction. The inserting object is a card or a card adapter. The inserting object has the press portion. The second spring portion is provided with a free end and a contact point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited
    Inventors: Kazuya Mikawa, Akihiro Matsunaga, Masaaki Shimada
  • Patent number: 9525353
    Abstract: A switching power-supply device performs a control of an output voltage by switching operation of a switching element and has an integrated circuit including the switching element and a driving circuit for performing on-and-off control of the switching element. The integrated circuit includes an input terminal connected to the switching element, a voltage detection circuit, which detects a voltage of the input terminal, a timing control circuit, which controls a timing of detecting the voltage by the voltage detection circuit, and a control unit, which performs a control according to the voltage detected by the voltage detection circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Sanken Electric Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Hayakawa, Masaaki Shimada, Yoshimichi Tadamasa
  • Patent number: 9490715
    Abstract: A transformer comprises a primary winding to which a DC voltage is applied and a secondary winding. A switching circuit is connected to the primary winding. A rectifying-smoothening circuit rectifies and smoothens a pulse voltage generated at the secondary winding, by switching the switching element. An output unit outputs an output voltage obtained by the rectifying-smoothening circuit to a load. An error amplifier outputs an error voltage between the output voltage and a reference voltage to a primary side as a feedback signal. an oscillator lowers a switching frequency of the switching element in accordance with the feedback signal during a light load state. A frequency correction circuit corrects the switching frequency by the oscillator by changing a frequency correction rate in accordance with a value of the feedback signal along an approximate line along which the transformer is not saturated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: SANKEN ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Hayakawa, Masaaki Shimada
  • Publication number: 20160294293
    Abstract: A switching power-supply device applies a DC voltage to a primary winding of a transformer and performs a switching operation of a switching element connected to a primary winding to generate and output an output voltage to a load, and the switching power-supply device includes: an error amplifier, which compares the output voltage with a reference voltage and sends an error voltage as a feedback signal to a primary side; a frequency generation circuit, which generate a switching frequency according to the feedback signal; an off timing determination circuit, which determines a timing at which the switching element is turned off, by comparing the feedback signal with a current flowing through the switching element; and a frequency correction circuit, which corrects the switching frequency generated by the frequency generation circuit, according to an on-duty of the switching element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Inventors: Akira HAYAKAWA, Masaaki SHIMADA
  • Patent number: 9455639
    Abstract: A switched-mode power supply device is disclosed including an AC power supply, a transformer including a primary winding and a secondary winding, a switching element electrically connected to the primary winding, a secondary-side rectifying and smoothing circuit that generates an output voltage by rectifying and smoothing the pulse voltage, a load ratio detection circuit that detects if a load ratio is not greater than a load ratio threshold value during steady load, and outputs a drive switch signal based on the detection, and a drive circuit that, on the basis of the drive switch signal, causes the switching element to perform switching operation in one of a normal drive in which a speed of charging a gate voltage is faster and a soft drive in which the speed of charging the gate voltage is slower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: SANKEN ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Hayakawa, Masaaki Shimada
  • Publication number: 20160276923
    Abstract: An embodiment of a snubber circuit that absorbs a surge voltage generated in a transformer of a switching power supply, comprises a diode, a zener diode electrically connected to the diode, and a first capacitor electrically connected to the zener diode. The diode, the zener diode, and the first capacitor are serially connected such that, at occurrence of the surge voltage, the diode operates in a forward direction and the first capacitor is charged with the surge voltage via a breakdown voltage of the zener diode, and the diode has reverse recovery time that is longer than a half of a cycle of a ringing voltage generated in a winding of the transformer and is in a range of 125 ns to 7 ?s.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Applicant: SANKEN ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira HAYAKAWA, Masaaki SHIMADA, Koji IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20160254029
    Abstract: In a recording medium on which is recorded a multiplexed stream including a plurality of first packets (V_main) constituting a first I-picture in a first video stream and a plurality of second packets (V_sub) constituting a second I-picture in a second video stream, information for identifying the first I-picture and information for identifying the second I-picture are recorded on the medium. A recording medium can thereby be obtained that enables the rapid detection, from a small amount of information, of a particular picture included in a stream such as a TS in which multiple content streams are multiplexed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2016
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaaki SHIMADA, Tomoaki RYU, Kazuhiko NAKANE
  • Publication number: 20160226383
    Abstract: A transformer comprises a primary winding to which a DC voltage is applied and a secondary winding. A switching circuit is connected to the primary winding. A rectifying-smoothening circuit rectifies and smoothens a pulse voltage generated at the secondary winding, by switching the switching element. An output unit outputs an output voltage obtained by the rectifying-smoothening circuit to a load. An error amplifier outputs an error voltage between the output voltage and a reference voltage to a primary side as a feedback signal. an oscillator lowers a switching frequency of the switching element in accordance with the feedback signal during a light load state. A frequency correction circuit corrects the switching frequency by the oscillator by changing a frequency correction rate in accordance with a value of the feedback signal along an approximate line along which the transformer is not saturated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2015
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Inventors: Akira HAYAKAWA, Masaaki SHIMADA
  • Publication number: 20160172986
    Abstract: An error amplifier outputs an error voltage to the primary side as a feedback signal indicating a state of the load. An oscillator controls a switching frequency of the switching operation such that the switching frequency is reduced from a highest normal frequency to a lowest normal frequency based on the feedback signal in a load range from a heavily-loaded state to a lightly-loaded state in a normal oscillating operation that continuously performs the switching operation. An intermittent oscillation control circuit intermittently performs the switching operation by stopping the switching operation based on the feedback signal when the load is lighter than a previously set reference. The oscillator increases the switching frequency from an intermittent-operation frequency lower than the lowest normal frequency in an intermittent oscillation duration in which the switching operation is performed in the intermittent oscillating operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: SANKEN ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira HAYAKAWA, Masaaki SHIMADA, Tatsuhiko KOGA