Patents by Inventor Masafumi Sato
Masafumi Sato 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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Patent number: 8208797Abstract: The present invention provides a recording apparatus that generates a transport stream so that a boundary between recording units (aligned units) and a file division point (i.e., a boundary between GOPs) always coincide with each other without obtaining information on the file size or the like. When generating a transport stream by time-division multiplexing transport packets, n or more transport packets (e.g., null packets N) other than a video packet are inserted between a video packet group generated from a single encoding unit (GOP) and a video packet group subsequent to the video packet group. When d indicates the data length of the transport packet, h indicates the data length of a fixed-length header added to each of the transport packets before being recorded on a data recording medium, and L indicates a recording unit length to the data recording medium, L?(n+1)×(d+h) is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2006Date of Patent: June 26, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Masafumi Sato, Hiroaki Shimazaki, Masanori Itoh
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Publication number: 20110273573Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an imaging apparatus for simultaneously taking a still image and a moving image that hardly causes a fail in taking a moving image. The imaging apparatus is characterized by including an imaging means capable of taking a subject image and generating still image data and moving image data, a first storage means capable of temporarily storing the still image data and the moving image data generated by the imaging means, a second storage means, a transfer means capable of reading the still image data and the moving image data stored in the first storage means and transferring them to the second storage means, and a control means for controlling the transfer means so that any one of the still image data and the moving image data is transferred to the second storage means according to a status of use of the first storage means.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2010Publication date: November 10, 2011Inventor: Masafumi SATO
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Publication number: 20110246529Abstract: A data recording system 1 includes: a file generating part 3 for dividing digital data so as to generate a plurality of data files and recording the plurality of the data files sequentially into a recording medium 5; a management file judging part 6 for determining one management file for recording management information of the plurality of the data files; and a management information generating part 4 for recording the management information of the plurality of the data files into the determined management file. The management file judging part 6 determines the management file such that the number of the data files managed by the management file does not exceed a maximum data file number L (L is a natural number) that can be managed by the management file. Thereby, it is possible to record the plurality of the data files that are divided from the digital stream data and are recorded, such that the management of the plurality of the data files is easy.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2011Publication date: October 6, 2011Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Masafumi SATO, Kazuya FUJIMURA, Hiroyuki KAMEZAWA, Tomoo NAKAGAWA
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Patent number: 8028004Abstract: A data recording system 1 includes: a file generating part 3 for dividing digital data so as to generate a plurality of data files and recording the plurality of the data files sequentially into a recording medium 5; a management file judging part 6 for determining one management file for recording management information of the plurality of the data files; and a management information generating part 4 for recording the management information of the plurality of the data files into the determined management file. The management file judging part 6 determines the management file such that the number of the data files managed by the management file does not exceed a maximum data file number L (L is a natural number) that can be managed by the management file. Thereby, it is possible to record the plurality of the data files that are divided from the digital stream data and are recorded, such that the management of the plurality of the data files is easy.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2006Date of Patent: September 27, 2011Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Masafumi Sato, Kazuya Fujimura, Hiroyuki Kamezawa, Tomoo Nakagawa
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Publication number: 20110126270Abstract: A user-manager server device includes: registration information on a local group including a domain user separately from a domain group managed by a directory server device, and authorization information on the domain group, the domain user, and/or the local group. When a logged-in user belongs to the local group, an authorization processing unit transmits the authorization information on the local group to a multifunction periphery (MFP) as the authorization information corresponding to the logged-in user. When the logged-in user does not belong to the local group, the authorization processing unit transmits the authorization information on one of the domain group and the domain user to the MFP as the authorization information corresponding to the logged-in user.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2010Publication date: May 26, 2011Applicant: KYOCERA MITA CORPORATIONInventors: Masafumi Sato, Takashi Oguma, Haruhisa Sumimoto, Toru Yasui
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Publication number: 20110122439Abstract: If a logged-in user to a host terminal device succeeds in user authentication via a directory server device, a user-manager server device transmits a job ticket and authorization information corresponding to the logged-in user to the host terminal device. The host terminal device receives the job ticket and the authorization information, generates a job execution instruction responsive to the authorization information, and transmits the generated job execution instruction to an image forming apparatus along with the job ticket. When the job execution instruction is received from the host terminal device, the image forming apparatus executes a job specified by the job execution instruction if the job ticket received along with the job execution instruction is determined to be valid.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2010Publication date: May 26, 2011Applicant: KYOCERA MITA CORPORATIONInventors: Masafumi Sato, Takashi Oguma
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Publication number: 20100232763Abstract: This invention includes: a menu data recording unit (131) that records a menu file onto a recording medium, the menu file for displaying a menu of contents recorded on the recording medium that is portable; a standard form menu file generation unit (129) that generates the menu file in a standard form; a simple form menu file generation unit (130) that generates the menu file in a simple form that takes shorter time than the generation in the standard form; and a menu file selection unit (128) that selects either the standard form menu file generation unit (129) or the simple form menu file generation unit (130) in order to generate the menu file either in the standard form or in the simple form.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2007Publication date: September 16, 2010Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroaki Shimazaki, Syouzou Fujii, Masafumi Sato
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Publication number: 20100211914Abstract: By a computer executing a driver program, an icon display processing unit, an operation detection unit, a setting change processing unit, and a customization unit are implemented. The icon display processing unit displays on a display device an icon associated with a setting item in an icon list. When a click operation is detected by the operation detection unit, the setting change processing unit changes a value of the setting item associated with the clicked icon to another value. Then, the icon display processing unit switches an icon image corresponding to a change of the value of the setting item. The customization unit customizes the icon list by performing at least one of adding or deleting the setting item to/from the icon list.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2010Publication date: August 19, 2010Applicant: Kyocera Mita CorporationInventors: Yoshiyuki Taira, Shinichiro Watase, Syunta Isami, Masafumi Sato, Haruhisa Sumimoto, Yuichi Komori
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Publication number: 20100142929Abstract: There is provided an operation mechanism for rapidly performing content list display and title menu display in a recording device itself or in other devices such as a player and a recorder while eliminating the necessity of creation or recording of the title menu data by a recording device. A data processing device includes a memory and a recording unit. The memory contains a computer-readable program which can be read out by a computer. The computer program causes the computer to search for a data stream of the content recorded in the recording medium, display the content information concerning the data stream found by the search in a menu, and execute processing enabling selection of a data stream by using the content information. The recording unit records at least one data stream in a given recording medium and records the program stored in the memory on its recording medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2006Publication date: June 10, 2010Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Masanori Itoh, Masafumi Sato, Hiroshi Yahata
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Publication number: 20100007767Abstract: The data transfer apparatus according to the present invention includes a transfer portion that reads out image data stored in a first storage medium, and transfers the image data to a second storage medium; an identification portion that identifies image data stored in the first storage medium and image data stored in the second storage medium; a specification portion that, when transfer of image data by the transfer portion is terminated partway, determines the presence or absence of untransferred image data to the second storage medium among interrelated image data based on the identification result by the identification portion, and that, when the presence of untransferred image data is determined, specifies image data related to the untransferred image data among image data stored in the second storage medium; and a deletion portion that deletes the image data specified by the specification portion from the second storage medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2009Publication date: January 14, 2010Applicant: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Tsuyoshi KAWAGUCHI, Masafumi NOSAKA, Masafumi SATO
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Publication number: 20090271429Abstract: A data recording system 1 includes: a file generating part 3 for dividing digital data so as to generate a plurality of data files and recording the plurality of the data files sequentially into a recording medium 5; a management file judging part 6 for determining one management file for recording management information of the plurality of the data files; and a management information generating part 4 for recording the management information of the plurality of the data files into the determined management file. The management file judging part 6 determines the management file such that the number of the data files managed by the management file does not exceed a maximum data file number L (L is a natural number) that can be managed by the management file. Thereby, it is possible to record the plurality of the data files that are divided from the digital stream data and are recorded, such that the management of the plurality of the data files is easy.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2006Publication date: October 29, 2009Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Masafumi Sato, Kazuya Fujimura, Hiroyuki Kamezawa, Tomoo Nakagawa
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Publication number: 20090263105Abstract: The present invention provides a recording apparatus that generates a transport stream so that a boundary between recording units (aligned units) and a file division point (i.e., a boundary between GOPs) always coincide with each other without obtaining information on the file size or the like. When generating a transport stream by time-division multiplexing transport packets, n or more transport packets (e.g., null packets N) other than a video packet are inserted between a video packet group generated from a single encoding unit (GOP) and a video packet group subsequent to the video packet group. When d indicates the data length of the transport packet, h indicates the data length of a fixed-length header added to each of the transport packets before being recorded on a data recording medium, and L indicates a recording unit length to the data recording medium, L?(n+1)×(d+h) is satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2006Publication date: October 22, 2009Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Masafumi Sato, Hiroaki Shimazaki, Masanori Itoh
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Patent number: 7394606Abstract: On writing information to an information recording medium including multiple recording areas having logical addresses assigned thereto, each of the recording areas having information recorded therein with a check code generated based on the logical address of the recording area added thereto, the logical address is converted to a physical location of the recording area on the information recording medium, the information recorded in the recording area at that location is read and it is checked whether or not there is a match between the check code added to the information and the logical address so as to write the information only in the case where it is confirmed that there is a match.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2006Date of Patent: July 1, 2008Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Masami Tashiro, Masafumi Sato
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Publication number: 20070214312Abstract: On writing information to an information recording medium including multiple recording areas having logical addresses assigned thereto, each of the recording areas having information recorded therein with a check code generated based on the logical address of the recording area added thereto, the logical address is converted to a physical location of the recording area on the information recording medium, the information recorded in the recording area at that location is read and it is checked whether or not there is a match between the check code added to the information and the logical address so as to write the information only in the case where it is confirmed that there is a match.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2006Publication date: September 13, 2007Inventors: Masami Tashiro, Masafumi Sato
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Patent number: 6824358Abstract: A turbo blood pump having a small size, that is, a small amount of blood to be filled and capable of adjusting and maintaining the slight amount of flow, and a turbo blood pump in which hemolysis is not likely to occur even if it is used at a practically high rotational speed necessary to obtain a predetermined discharging ability. The turbo blood pump to be used includes a housing having an inlet port and an outlet port; and an impeller disposed rotatably in the housing; wherein the impeller includes at least a rotation shaft and an annular connection portion to which the plural vanes are attached. The vane is manufactured so that an inlet side part is in the skew position with respect to an outlet side part.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2002Date of Patent: November 30, 2004Assignee: JMS Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kenji Araki, Hirofumi Anai, Hiroyuki Maeda, Masafumi Sato
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Publication number: 20040091354Abstract: A turbo blood pump having a small size, that is, a small amount of blood to be filled and capable of adjusting and maintaining the slight amount of flow, and a turbo blood pump in which hemolysis is not likely to occur even if it is used at a practically high rotational speed necessary to obtain a predetermined discharging ability. The turbo blood pump to be used includes a housing having an inlet port and an outlet port; and an impeller disposed rotatably in the housing; wherein the impeller includes at least a rotation shaft and an annular connection portion to which the plural vanes are attached. The vane is manufactured so that an inlet side part is in the skew position with respect to an outlet side part.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2002Publication date: May 13, 2004Applicant: JMS Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kenji Araki, Hirofumi Anai, Hiroyuki Maeda, Masafumi Sato
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Patent number: 6722863Abstract: A turbo blood pump includes a housing 1 having a pump chamber 2, an inlet port 3, and an outlet port 4, an impeller 5 disposed rotatably in the pump chamber, an upper bearing 9 and a lower bearing 10 supporting the impeller rotatably, and a driving force transmitting unit for driving the impeller to rotate. The upper bearing is supported at a position in the pump chamber below the inlet port, so that a cross-sectional area of the pump chamber in a plane including an upper end of the upper bearing and being orthogonal to a shaft of the impeller is larger than a cross-sectional area of a flow path of the inlet port at a portion where the inlet port is coupled to the pump chamber, and thus obstruction with respect to blood flow by the upper bearing is of such a degree as to be permissible from a practical viewpoint, while an impeller is supported by upper and lower bearings. Thereby, the pump is less likely to cause problems of blood stagnation and thrombus formation.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2001Date of Patent: April 20, 2004Assignee: JMS Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Maeda, Masafumi Sato, Kenji Araki, Hirofumi Anai
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Patent number: 6589031Abstract: A turbo blood pump includes a housing 1 having a pump chamber 2, an inlet port 3, and an outlet port 4, an impeller 5 disposed rotatably in the pump chamber, an upper bearing 9 and a lower bearing 10 supporting the impeller rotatably, and a driving force transmitting unit for driving the impeller to rotate. The upper bearing is supported at a position in the pump chamber below the inlet port, so that a cross-sectional area of the pump chamber in a plane including an upper end of the upper bearing and being orthogonal to a shaft of the impeller is larger than a cross-sectional area of a flow path of the inlet port at a portion where the inlet port is coupled to the pump chamber, and thus obstruction with respect to blood flow by the upper bearing is of such a degree as to be permissible from a practical viewpoint, while an impeller is supported by upper and lower bearings. Thereby, the pump is less likely to cause problems of blood stagnation and thrombus formation.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2001Date of Patent: July 8, 2003Assignee: JMS Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Maeda, Masafumi Sato, Kenji Araki, Hirofumi Anai
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Publication number: 20020076322Abstract: A turbo blood pump includes a housing 1 having a pump chamber 2, an inlet port 3, and an outlet port 4, an impeller 5 disposed rotatably in the pump chamber, an upper bearing 9 and a lower bearing 10 supporting the impeller rotatably, and a driving force transmitting unit for driving the impeller to rotate. The upper bearing is supported at a position in the pump chamber below the inlet port, so that a cross-sectional area of the pump chamber in a plane including an upper end of the upper bearing and being orthogonal to a shaft of the impeller is larger than a cross-sectional area of a flow path of the inlet port at a portion where the inlet port is coupled to the pump chamber, and thus obstruction with respect to blood flow by the upper bearing is of such a degree as to be permissible from a practical viewpoint, while an impeller is supported by upper and lower bearings. Thereby, the pump is less likely to cause problems of blood stagnation and thrombus formation.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2001Publication date: June 20, 2002Inventors: Hiroyuki Maeda, Masafumi Sato, Kenji Araki, Hirofumi Anai
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Publication number: 20020031436Abstract: A turbo blood pump includes a housing, an impeller rotatably disposed in a pumping chamber, bearings for rotatably supporting the impeller, a rotor provided outside the housing and rotationally driven by a motor, driven magnets mounted on the impeller, and driving magnets mounted on the rotor. The driven magnets and the driving magnets face each other via a wall of the housing to form magnetic coupling. The driven magnets and the driving magnets are arranged so that a direction of the magnetic coupling inclines with respect to a rotation axis of the impeller. The pump ensures sufficiently strong magnetic coupling between an impeller and a rotor and effects reduced load on a lower bearing supporting the impeller and little risk of hemolysis and blood stagnation.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2001Publication date: March 14, 2002Applicant: JMS CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki Maeda, Masafumi Sato, Kenji Araki, Hirofumi Anai