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).

  • Patent number: 8208797
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masafumi Sato, Hiroaki Shimazaki, Masanori Itoh
  • Publication number: 20110273573
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2010
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Inventor: Masafumi SATO
  • Publication number: 20110246529
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2011
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masafumi SATO, Kazuya FUJIMURA, Hiroyuki KAMEZAWA, Tomoo NAKAGAWA
  • Patent number: 8028004
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masafumi Sato, Kazuya Fujimura, Hiroyuki Kamezawa, Tomoo Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20110126270
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2010
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Applicant: KYOCERA MITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masafumi Sato, Takashi Oguma, Haruhisa Sumimoto, Toru Yasui
  • Publication number: 20110122439
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2010
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Applicant: KYOCERA MITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masafumi Sato, Takashi Oguma
  • Publication number: 20100232763
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2007
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki Shimazaki, Syouzou Fujii, Masafumi Sato
  • Publication number: 20100211914
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2010
    Publication date: August 19, 2010
    Applicant: Kyocera Mita Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Taira, Shinichiro Watase, Syunta Isami, Masafumi Sato, Haruhisa Sumimoto, Yuichi Komori
  • Publication number: 20100142929
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2006
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masanori Itoh, Masafumi Sato, Hiroshi Yahata
  • Publication number: 20100007767
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2009
    Publication date: January 14, 2010
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi KAWAGUCHI, Masafumi NOSAKA, Masafumi SATO
  • Publication number: 20090271429
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2006
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masafumi Sato, Kazuya Fujimura, Hiroyuki Kamezawa, Tomoo Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20090263105
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2006
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masafumi Sato, Hiroaki Shimazaki, Masanori Itoh
  • Patent number: 7394606
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2008
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Masami Tashiro, Masafumi Sato
  • Publication number: 20070214312
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2006
    Publication date: September 13, 2007
    Inventors: Masami Tashiro, Masafumi Sato
  • Patent number: 6824358
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2004
    Assignee: JMS Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Araki, Hirofumi Anai, Hiroyuki Maeda, Masafumi Sato
  • Publication number: 20040091354
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2002
    Publication date: May 13, 2004
    Applicant: JMS Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Araki, Hirofumi Anai, Hiroyuki Maeda, Masafumi Sato
  • Patent number: 6722863
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2004
    Assignee: JMS Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Maeda, Masafumi Sato, Kenji Araki, Hirofumi Anai
  • Patent number: 6589031
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2003
    Assignee: JMS Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Maeda, Masafumi Sato, Kenji Araki, Hirofumi Anai
  • Publication number: 20020076322
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2001
    Publication date: June 20, 2002
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Maeda, Masafumi Sato, Kenji Araki, Hirofumi Anai
  • Publication number: 20020031436
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2001
    Publication date: March 14, 2002
    Applicant: JMS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Maeda, Masafumi Sato, Kenji Araki, Hirofumi Anai