Patents by Inventor Masahiro Takatori

Masahiro Takatori 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: 11785173
    Abstract: A video processing device includes an acquirer that acquires video data via a predetermined transmission line, the video data including video and metadata that indicates a first frequency band that is a spatial frequency range in which the video is present; an adjuster that makes sharpness gain adjustment to video such that, among a plurality of regions of the video included in the video data acquired by the acquirer, a sharpness gain for a first region that belongs to the first frequency band indicated by the metadata exceeds a sharpness gain for a second region that belongs to a second frequency band that is a range outside the first frequency band; and an output device that outputs video adjusted by the adjuster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masahiro Takatori
  • Publication number: 20230076845
    Abstract: A video processing device includes an acquirer that acquires video data via a predetermined transmission line, the video data including video and metadata that indicates a first frequency band that is a spatial frequency range in which the video is present; an adjuster that makes sharpness gain adjustment to video such that, among a plurality of regions of the video included in the video data acquired by the acquirer, a sharpness gain for a first region that belongs to the first frequency band indicated by the metadata exceeds a sharpness gain for a second region that belongs to a second frequency band that is a range outside the first frequency band; and an output device that outputs video adjusted by the adjuster.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventor: Masahiro TAKATORI
  • Patent number: 11270661
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes: an obtainer that obtains HDR video data representing a luminance of each pixel by a code value; a converter that converts the HDR video data into HDR video using a first EOTF; a region extractor that extracts a first region including a pixel having a code value included in a first range of less than a first code value corresponding to a first point at which a slope of a tangent to the first EOTF is a predetermined slope and a second region including a pixel having a code value included in a second range of greater than or equal to the first code value; an adjuster that increases a sharpness gain of the first region relative to a sharpness gain of the second region in the HDR video data; and a display that displays the HDR video using adjusted data resulting from the adjustment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masahiro Takatori
  • Publication number: 20200410957
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes: an obtainer that obtains HDR video data representing a luminance of each pixel by a code value; a converter that converts the HDR video data into HDR video using a first EOTF; a region extractor that extracts a first region including a pixel having a code value included in a first range of less than a first code value corresponding to a first point at which a slope of a tangent to the first EOTF is a predetermined slope and a second region including a pixel having a code value included in a second range of greater than or equal to the first code value; an adjuster that increases a sharpness gain of the first region relative to a sharpness gain of the second region in the HDR video data; and a display that displays the HDR video using adjusted data resulting from the adjustment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2018
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventor: Masahiro TAKATORI
  • Patent number: 8848665
    Abstract: After a first base station connects to a first mobile terminal, a first GW (gateway) receives a request for connection between the first mobile terminal and a second GW and identifiers of the second GW and the first mobile terminal and transmits identifiers of the first mobile terminal and the first GW to the second GW. The second GW transmits an MPLS allocation flag to the first GW. The first GW transmits an MPLS allocation signal including an identifier of the first mobile terminal to the second GW via a second NW (network) apparatus. The first base station receives an identifier of the first GW and the MPLS allocation flag from the first GW via a management server and transmits the MPLS allocation signal including the identifier of the first mobile terminal to the first GW via a first NW apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masashi Yano, Nodoka Mimura, Masahiro Takatori, Naruhito Nakahara
  • Patent number: 8730401
    Abstract: A circuit module for a digital television receiver is formed by multi-layering a decoder LSI including a CPU and a decoder, a decoder layer substrate including a CA interface circuit, a demodulation function layer substrate including a demodulator, and an extension function layer substrate including a communication controller. The demodulation function layer substrate and the extension function layer substrate can be selectively multi-layered to the decoder layer substrate in response to a broadcasting system of a digital television signal or a type of a CA module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiro Takatori
  • Patent number: 8675369
    Abstract: A module board has a configuration in which a first circuit board, a first composite sheet, a second circuit board, a second composite sheet, and a third circuit board are laminated in this order. Inspection terminals are arranged in a matrix shape in a predetermined region on an upper surface of the third circuit board. Electronic components are mounted on the first and second circuit boards. The inspection terminals are electrically connected to the electronic components mounted on the first and second circuit boards through vias and wiring patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Takatori, Yukihiro Ishimaru
  • Publication number: 20130336213
    Abstract: In packet communication using TCP, a gateway device for relaying communication packets between a mobile node and a correspondent node, temporarily rewrites a parameter of the receive window size of the ACK packet of the TCP communication from the mobile node, to adjust the amount of communication packets transmitted from the correspondent node. Whit this configuration, it is possible to reduce the packet loss due to error control for the existing TCP communication with respect to the mobile node, without converting the mobile node and the correspondent node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2013
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Inventors: Nodoka MIMURA, Masashi YANO, Masahiro TAKATORI, Naruhito NAKAHARA
  • Patent number: 8503471
    Abstract: A transmitting party adds reproduction time information to each transport packet to form an extended transport packet, encapsulates the extended transport packet, adds capsule counter information, and transmits the capsule. A receiving party has a storage means, and transmits a re-send request including the capsule count information to the transmitting party when a packet loss occurs. At the receiving party, the re-sent data received overwrites data in its original storage region. At reproduction, the receiving party decodes the data after compensating for jitter referring to reproduction time information. Accordingly, a packet loss or jitter is compensated for at both transmitting and receiving parties in a communications network such as the Internet so as to prevent the occurrence of a decoding error at the receiving party.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Takatori, Shoichi Goto
  • Patent number: 8483063
    Abstract: Disclosed is a mobile communication system preventing the transmission of acknowledgements at a burst leading to a decrease in throughput caused by detecting the retransmission and the congestion of packets at the protocol of a transport layer. In a mobile communication system including a mobile terminal and gateway equipment for relaying a packet between a communication partner and the mobile terminal, if the gateway equipment receives the acknowledgement from the mobile terminal, the gateway equipment waits the transmission of the received acknowledgement to the communication partner until the estimated transmission time passes from the time at which the gateway equipment receives the previous acknowledgement from the mobile terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masashi Yano, Masahiro Takatori, Naruhito Nakahara, Nodoka Mimura
  • Patent number: 8434102
    Abstract: Broadcast points in a broadcaster's sole region are turned into package information by processing the contents transmitted from a broadcaster, and the package information is stored in the receiver common information region of a television broadcast receiver, and thereby, it becomes possible even for a communication browser that is an application of the television broadcast receiver to refer to and use the information of broadcast points. It is possible by using a communication browser to receive a service provided in a home page of a company other than the broadcasting company.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiro Takatori
  • Patent number: 8311541
    Abstract: It is provided a mobile communication system comprising base stations, call control servers and access gateways. The call control servers cause a mobile terminal accommodated in one of the control server to transmit the location registration request so that the mobile terminal accommodates in another control server according to a processing amount of control signals. The base station selects a second call control server into which the one of the mobile terminals is to be newly accommodated. The one of the call control server switches to a power-saving state after the mobile terminal is accommodated into the another call control server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masashi Yano, Hitomi Nakamura, Masahiro Takatori, Takehiro Morishige, Yoshihiro Shimizu
  • Patent number: 8254955
    Abstract: A base station accommodation server can appropriately set a location registration area according to an installation location of a femto base station. The base station accommodation server is coupled to a location management server accommodating at least one first base station coupled to a first communication network, and accommodates at least one second base station connected to a second communication network. The base station is configured to determine a location management group identifier of the second base station based on a location management group identifier of the first base station that is present at a location from which the second base station can receive the location management group identifier broadcast by the first base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitomi Nakamura, Masashi Yano, Masahiro Takatori
  • Patent number: 8238356
    Abstract: A communication system comprising a home server, an access gateway, and a policy server, wherein the policy server transmits, to the first access gateway, a link creation request for associating a communication path of the first terminal and a communication path of the second terminal; and the access gateway sets a fifth communication path which connects the first communication path and the third communication path upon receiving the link creation request, records information on the set fifth communication path in the communication path management information, and transmits the data from the first terminal via the first communication path to the second terminal via the fifth communication path and the third communication path based on the communication path management information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitomi Nakamura, Yuichiro Katsu, Norihisa Matsumoto, Masashi Yano, Masahiro Takatori
  • Publication number: 20120177004
    Abstract: After a first base station connects to a first mobile terminal, a first GW (gateway) receives a request for connection between the first mobile terminal and a second GW and identifiers of the second GW and the first mobile terminal and transmits identifiers of the first mobile terminal and the first GW to the second GW. The second GW transmits an MPLS allocation flag to the first GW. The first GW transmits an MPLS allocation signal including an identifier of the first mobile terminal to the second GW via a second NW (network) apparatus. The first base station receives an identifier of the first GW and the MPLS allocation flag from the first GW via a management server and transmits the MPLS allocation signal including the identifier of the first mobile terminal to the first GW via a first NW apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2011
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masashi YANO, Nodoka MIMURA, Masahiro TAKATORI, Naruhito NAKAHARA
  • Patent number: 8161509
    Abstract: A television broadcasting device 1 transmits a television signal onto which control data for controlling a browser function of a television receiver 2 has been multiplexed. A television screen generating section 20 generates a television screen based on the received television signal. A browser display instruction obtaining section 71, a URL obtaining section 72, and a display style information obtaining section 73 extract the control data multiplexed onto the television signal. When a browser display instruction 111 is received, a microcomputer 51 receives a content 102 corresponding to a URL 112 from a server 3, and generates a browser screen based thereon. A screen combining section 30 combines the browser screen with the television screen in accordance with display style information 113 received from the microcomputer 51. Thus, it is possible to display the browser screen in a combined form with the television screen in accordance with a display style designated by a broadcaster of the television signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiro Takatori
  • Publication number: 20120063110
    Abstract: A module board has a configuration in which a first circuit board, a first composite sheet, a second circuit board, a second composite sheet, and a third circuit board are laminated in this order. Inspection terminals are arranged in a matrix shape in a predetermined region on an upper surface of the third circuit board. Electronic components are mounted on the first and second circuit boards. The inspection terminals are electrically connected to the electronic components mounted on the first and second circuit boards through vias and wiring patterns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2011
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro TAKATORI, Yukihiro ISHIMARU
  • Patent number: 8108889
    Abstract: A DTV module includes a CPU, a decoder, and a CA interface circuit. The decoder executes a decoding processing on a digital television signal inputted from a demodulator provided on a motherboard, so as to decode the digital television signal into a video signal and an audio signal, and outputs the video signal and audio signal. The CA interface circuit is connected to a CA module via a PC card socket, and executes input and output processings on signals communicated among the demodulator, CA module, decoder, and CPU. The CPU controls the CA interface circuit by switching types of the signals, so that a selected type of signal conforms to a type of the CA module, in response to a broadcasting system of a digital television signal or the type of the connected CA module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiro Takatori
  • Patent number: 8077478
    Abstract: A module board has a configuration in which a first circuit board, a first composite sheet, a second circuit board, a second composite sheet, and a third circuit board are laminated in this order. Inspection terminals are arranged in a matrix shape in a predetermined region on an upper surface of the third circuit board. Electronic components are mounted on the first and second circuit boards. The inspection terminals are electrically connected to the electronic components mounted on the first and second circuit boards through vias and wiring patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Takatori, Yukihiro Ishimaru
  • Patent number: 8072824
    Abstract: An operation guarantee system includes a decoder circuit, a comparison circuit, a CPU circuit, a frequency adjustment circuit and a DQ adjustment circuit. The comparison circuit compares a test data signal input from the decoder circuit with an expected value data signal input from the exterior, and detects the presence or absence of an output error in the decoder circuit. The CPU circuit controls the frequency adjustment circuit and the DQ adjustment circuit to vary a frequency of a clock signal input to an external memory and a delay amount of the data signal. In addition, the CPU circuit acquires a result of detection of the comparison circuit under various conditions. Then, the CPU circuit determines an appropriate frequency of the clock signal input to the external memory based on a relationship between the various conditions and the presence or absence of the output error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiro Takatori