Patents by Inventor Masakazu Tanikawa

Masakazu Tanikawa 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: 20240131438
    Abstract: Provided are a moving image reception device, a control method, and a program which can reduce a sense of discomfort felt by a user in a situation in which a moving image generated by a moving image transmission device in response to an operation on the moving image reception device is displayed on the moving image reception device. An operation data transmission unit transmits operation data corresponding to an input operation of the user to a cloud server. An image data reception unit receives, from the cloud server, interval data representing a time from reception of the operation data to a start of generation of the frame image based on this operation data in the cloud server. A transmission timing control unit controls a timing of the transmission of the next operation data, on the basis of the interval data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Masakazu TANIKAWA
  • Patent number: 11943496
    Abstract: To reduce the possibility of occurrence of problems such as missing frames and an increase in display delay even if a disturbance occurs in a communication path. A reception device includes a reception unit that sequentially receives image information transmitted by a transmission device at a given first interval by wireless communication, a display unit that sequentially displays frame images on the basis of the image information in accordance with a display clock and generates display time information indicating a time corresponding to the update time of the frame image, and a control unit that calculates a second interval indicating an interval at which the frame images are displayed on the basis of plural pieces of the display time information and controls the update cycle of the frame image in accordance with the display clock such that the second interval approximates to the first interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Masakazu Tanikawa
  • Publication number: 20230086916
    Abstract: An image data acquirement section of an image processing apparatus acquires data regarding a frame of a moving image generated by a server. A decoding/decompression section repeats a cycle of a decoding/decompression process for each of frames at a rate higher than the frame rate of the moving image. An image processing section repeats a cycle of applying a necessary image process to each of the frames at the rate higher than the frame rate of the moving image. The display control section outputs the data regarding the frame ready for displaying to a display panel at the rate higher than the frame rate of the moving image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Katsushi Otsuka, Masakazu Tanikawa
  • Patent number: 11329795
    Abstract: A required time specification unit specifies time it took for a round-trip communication in half-duplex wireless communication. A bitrate determination unit determines a value corresponding to a size of data generated by a video data generation unit per unit time based on the specified time and a given target time regarding the round-trip communication. The search occurrence estimation unit estimates whether or not a communication path search process with an HMD is occurring. The bitrate determination unit changes the determined value so that magnitude of change in the value corresponds to a result of the estimation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Masakazu Tanikawa
  • Publication number: 20220132197
    Abstract: To reduce the possibility of occurrence of problems such as missing frames and an increase in display delay even if a disturbance occurs in a communication path. A reception device includes a reception unit that sequentially receives image information transmitted by a transmission device at a given first interval by wireless communication, a display unit that sequentially displays frame images on the basis of the image information in accordance with a display clock and generates display time information indicating a time corresponding to the update time of the frame image, and a control unit that calculates a second interval indicating an interval at which the frame images are displayed on the basis of plural pieces of the display time information and controls the update cycle of the frame image in accordance with the display clock such that the second interval approximates to the first interval.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Enterainment Inc.
    Inventor: Masakazu Tanikawa
  • Patent number: 11245890
    Abstract: A video data transmission unit transmits data generated by a video data generation unit to an HMD. A sensing data reception unit receives data transmitted from the HMD, the data including size data indicating a size of the data successfully received by the HMD. A required time specification unit specifies time it took for a round-trip communication in half-duplex wireless communication between a relay apparatus and the HMD. A generation control unit controls a size of the data generated by the video data generation unit per unit time based on the specified time, the size indicated in the size data, and a given target time regarding the round-trip communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Masakazu Tanikawa
  • Patent number: 11171700
    Abstract: Provided are a main beam direction determining device, a main beam direction determining method, and a program which are able to shorten a time required to determine a main beam direction. A secondary candidate sector selection unit selects a second number of primary candidates or a third number of primary candidates as a secondary candidate or candidates in accordance with a communication quality of communication by an HMD, the second number being smaller than a first number, the third number being smaller than the second number. A first sector level sweep process performing unit determines one of the secondary candidate or candidates as the main beam direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Issei Chigusa, Masakazu Tanikawa, Katsuyoshi Onishi
  • Publication number: 20210058222
    Abstract: A required time specification unit specifies time it took for a round-trip communication in half-duplex wireless communication. A bitrate determination unit determines a value corresponding to a size of data generated by a video data generation unit per unit time based on the specified time and a given target time regarding the round-trip communication. The search occurrence estimation unit estimates whether or not a communication path search process with an HMD is occurring. The bitrate determination unit changes the determined value so that magnitude of change in the value corresponds to a result of the estimation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2018
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Masakazu Tanikawa
  • Publication number: 20210058601
    Abstract: A video data transmission unit transmits data generated by a video data generation unit to an HMD. A sensing data reception unit receives data transmitted from the HMD, the data including size data indicating a size of the data successfully received by the HMD. A required time specification unit specifies time it took for a round-trip communication in half-duplex wireless communication between a relay apparatus and the HMD. A generation control unit controls a size of the data generated by the video data generation unit per unit time based on the specified time, the size indicated in the size data, and a given target time regarding the round-trip communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2018
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Masakazu Tanikawa
  • Patent number: 10931913
    Abstract: Provided are a reception apparatus, a transmission apparatus, a control method, a transmission method, and a program that can control a frame image size of each frame image so that the frame image constituting a moving image is transmitted at an appropriate timing. A frame-image reception section receives a first frame image constituting the moving image. A control-data update section performs control so that the frame image size of a second frame image constituting the moving image, which is received after the first frame image, corresponds to a time required to receive the first frame image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Masakazu Tanikawa
  • Patent number: 10855435
    Abstract: There are provided a communication apparatus, a generated data size controlling method, and a program for bringing a time required for a round-trip half-duplex communication close to a predetermined target time. A video data transmission section transmits data generated by a video data generation section to an HMD. A sensing data reception section receives data transmitted from the HMD. A required time identification section identifies the time required for the round-trip half-duplex communication between a repeating apparatus and the HMD. A generation control section controls a size of the data generated per unit time by the video data generation section on a basis of the identified time, the size of the data exchanged with the HMD in a round-trip communication, and a predetermined target time for the round-trip communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Masakazu Tanikawa
  • Publication number: 20200112354
    Abstract: Provided are a main beam direction determining device, a main beam direction determining method, and a program which are able to shorten a time required to determine a main beam direction. A secondary candidate sector selection unit selects a second number of primary candidates or a third number of primary candidates as a secondary candidate or candidates in accordance with a communication quality of communication by an HMD, the second number being smaller than a first number, the third number being smaller than the second number. A first sector level sweep process performing unit determines one of the secondary candidate or candidates as the main beam direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2017
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Issei Chigusa, Masakazu Tanikawa, Katsuyoshi Onishi
  • Publication number: 20200067691
    Abstract: There are provided a communication apparatus, a generated data size controlling method, and a program for bringing a time required for a round-trip half-duplex communication close to a predetermined target time. A video data transmission section transmits data generated by a video data generation section to an HMD. A sensing data reception section receives data transmitted from the HMD. A required time identification section identifies the time required for the round-trip half-duplex communication between a repeating apparatus and the HMD. A generation control section controls a size of the data generated per unit time by the video data generation section on a basis of the identified time, the size of the data exchanged with the HMD in a round-trip communication, and a predetermined target time for the round-trip communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Masakazu Tanikawa
  • Publication number: 20190356880
    Abstract: Provided are a reception apparatus, a transmission apparatus, a control method, a transmission method, and a program that can control a frame image size of each frame image so that the frame image constituting a moving image is transmitted at an appropriate timing. A frame-image reception section receives a first frame image constituting the moving image. A control-data update section performs control so that the frame image size of a second frame image constituting the moving image, which is received after the first frame image, corresponds to a time required to receive the first frame image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Masakazu Tanikawa
  • Patent number: 10402602
    Abstract: In a reader for an RFID tag for near-field wireless communication, an antenna selection switch includes a plurality of antennae arranged with an extent within a predetermined range for transmitting and receiving data to and from an RFID tag, and selects one antenna to be used for transmission and reception of data from among the plurality of antennae. A detection part acquires, when a carrier wave transmitted from the RFID tag is received by any of the plurality of antennae, information indicative of an antenna selected by the antenna selection switch under the control of an antenna changeover controlling part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Masakazu Tanikawa, Katsuyoshi Onishi
  • Publication number: 20190036408
    Abstract: A motor includes a rotor that is rotatable around a center axis, a stator that opposes the rotor, and a bracket. The bracket includes a cylindrical portion that accommodates the stator and that extends in an axial direction. The stator includes a stator core, an insulator that covers the stator core, a coil portion, and a terminal portion. The coil portion is formed from a conducting wire wound around the stator core via the insulator. The terminal portion is connected to a substrate, an end portion of the coil portion being bound on the terminal portion. The insulator includes a first protruding portion, at least a part of the first protruding portion protruding towards a radial-direction outer side than the cylindrical portion. Outside the cylindrical portion, the terminal portion is provided at the first protruding portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Inventors: Yusuke IWAI, Ryosuke ISHIDA, Masakazu TANIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20180129840
    Abstract: In a reader for an RFID tag for near-field wireless communication, an antenna selection switch includes a plurality of antennae arranged with an extent within a predetermined range for transmitting and receiving data to and from an RFID tag, and selects one antenna to be used for transmission and reception of data from among the plurality of antennae. A detection part acquires, when a carrier wave transmitted from the RFID tag is received by any of the plurality of antennae, information indicative of an antenna selected by the antenna selection switch under the control of an antenna changeover controlling part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Masakazu Tanikawa, Katsuyoshi Onishi
  • Patent number: 9959436
    Abstract: In a reader for a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag for near-field wireless communication, an antenna selection switch includes a plurality of antennae arranged with an extent within a predetermined range for transmitting and receiving data to and from an RFID tag, and selects one antenna to be used for transmission and reception of data from among the plurality of antennae. A detection part acquires, when a carrier wave transmitted from the RFID tag is received by any of the plurality of antennae, information indicative of an antenna selected by the antenna selection switch under the control of an antenna changeover controlling part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Masakazu Tanikawa, Katsuyoshi Onishi
  • Publication number: 20160004894
    Abstract: In a reader for a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag for near-field wireless communication, an antenna selection switch includes a plurality of antennae arranged with an extent within a predetermined range for transmitting and receiving data to and from an RFID tag, and selects one antenna to be used for transmission and reception of data from among the plurality of antennae. A detection part acquires, when a carrier wave transmitted from the RFID tag is received by any of the plurality of antennae, information indicative of an antenna selected by the antenna selection switch under the control of an antenna changeover controlling part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Applicant: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Masakazu Tanikawa, Katsuyoshi Onishi