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).
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Publication number: 20180115761Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2016Publication date: April 26, 2018Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Masaaki SHIMADA, Nobuo TAKESHITA, Kosuke YAGI
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Publication number: 20180108379Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2017Publication date: April 19, 2018Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Masaaki Shimada, Tomoaki Ryu, Kazuhiko Nakane
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Publication number: 20180054591Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2017Publication date: February 22, 2018Applicant: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomoaki RYU, Kazuhiko NAKANE, Masaaki SHIMADA, Yoshihisa YAMADA
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Patent number: 9899060Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 8, 2017Date of Patent: February 20, 2018Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Masaaki Shimada, Tomoaki Ryu, Kazuhiko Nakane
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Patent number: 9848162Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 15, 2015Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Tomoaki Ryu, Kazuhiko Nakane, Masaaki Shimada, Yoshihisa Yamada
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Patent number: 9748850Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 17, 2015Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: Sanken Electric Co., LTD.Inventors: Akira Hayakawa, Masaaki Shimada
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Publication number: 20170178691Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2017Publication date: June 22, 2017Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Masaaki SHIMADA, Tomoaki RYU, Kazuhiko NAKANE
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Patent number: 9627008Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 6, 2016Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Masaaki Shimada, Tomoaki Ryu, Kazuhiko Nakane
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Patent number: 9614448Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 25, 2015Date of Patent: April 4, 2017Assignee: Sanken Electric Co., LTD.Inventors: Akira Hayakawa, Masaaki Shimada, Yoichi Terasawa
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Patent number: 9564813Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 19, 2014Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: SANKEN ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Akira Hayakawa, Masaaki Shimada
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Patent number: 9559600Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 11, 2015Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: SANKEN ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Akira Hayakawa, Masaaki Shimada, Tatsuhiko Koga
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Patent number: 9531101Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 10, 2015Date of Patent: December 27, 2016Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, LimitedInventors: Kazuya Mikawa, Akihiro Matsunaga, Masaaki Shimada
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Patent number: 9525353Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 19, 2014Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: Sanken Electric Co., LTD.Inventors: Akira Hayakawa, Masaaki Shimada, Yoshimichi Tadamasa
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Patent number: 9490715Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 18, 2015Date of Patent: November 8, 2016Assignee: SANKEN ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Akira Hayakawa, Masaaki Shimada
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Publication number: 20160294293Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2015Publication date: October 6, 2016Inventors: Akira HAYAKAWA, Masaaki SHIMADA
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Patent number: 9455639Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 15, 2015Date of Patent: September 27, 2016Assignee: SANKEN ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Akira Hayakawa, Masaaki Shimada
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Publication number: 20160276923Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2015Publication date: September 22, 2016Applicant: SANKEN ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Akira HAYAKAWA, Masaaki SHIMADA, Koji IKEDA
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Publication number: 20160254029Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2016Publication date: September 1, 2016Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Masaaki SHIMADA, Tomoaki RYU, Kazuhiko NAKANE
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Publication number: 20160226383Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2015Publication date: August 4, 2016Inventors: Akira HAYAKAWA, Masaaki SHIMADA
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Publication number: 20160172986Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2015Publication date: June 16, 2016Applicant: SANKEN ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Akira HAYAKAWA, Masaaki SHIMADA, Tatsuhiko KOGA