Patents by Inventor Masakata Minami

Masakata Minami 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: 20060210245
    Abstract: An Audio Visual reproduction system for reproducing data from a composite media stream with various stream types including video, audio, and subtitle stream. The audio stream may include a plurality of interchangeable audio substreams and the subtitle stream may include a plurality of interchangeable subtitle substreams. Selected substreams may be simultaneously reproduced under user control. The reproduction includes a composite media stream separator unit, a video decoder unit, an audio decoder unit, and a subtitle decoder unit. The audio decoder unit can simultaneously decode a plurality of audio substreams to produce a plurality of audio outputs. The subtitle decoding unit can simultaneously decode a plurality of subtitle substreams to produce a plurality of subtitle outputs. A player and user model for simultaneously utilizing multiple substreams of a stream type contained within an application that conforms to a standard wherein only one substream of each stream type is used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2004
    Publication date: September 21, 2006
    Inventors: Joseph McCrossan, Masayuki Kozuka, Masakata Minami