Patents by Inventor Mitsuru Tanabe

Mitsuru Tanabe 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: 9972333
    Abstract: In order to obtain coded data which does not strike viewers and listeners as being incongruous, when plural audio data are to be coded, a coding program groups the respective audio data into one audio data, codes the grouped audio data in sequence with a predetermined number of samples being treated as units, and sets delimitations corresponding to the delimitations of the plural audio data in the coded data at coding units of the coded data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuyuki Hatanaka, Mitsuru Tanabe
  • Patent number: 9893648
    Abstract: A controller switches between modes each having a different connection state of a DC power supply and the capacitor with respect to first and second output points by controlling switches. A generation unit generates a reference wave including at least one carrier wave. The modes are classified into a sustaining mode in which no current is caused to flow to the capacitor, a charging mode in which a current is caused to flow to the capacitor, and a discharging mode in which a current in a direction opposite to that in the charging mode is caused to flow to the capacitor. The controller switches between the sustaining mode and a charging or discharging mode according to the comparison result between a signal wave and the reference wave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mariko Kifuji, Kazunori Kidera, Mitsuru Tanabe, Kazuo Itoh
  • Patent number: 9866147
    Abstract: A first bidirectional switch is electrically connected between a first connection point which is a connection point of a first switching element and a second switching element and a second connection point which is a connection point of a seventh switching element and an eighth switching element. A second bidirectional switch is electrically connected between a third connection point which is a connection point of a third switching element and a fourth switching element and a fourth connection point which is a connection point of a fifth switching element and a sixth switching element. A power-converting device is configured to generate an output voltage between a first output point and a second output point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazunori Kidera, Mitsuru Tanabe, Mariko Kifuji
  • Patent number: 9821669
    Abstract: The electric vehicular connector includes: a connection terminal block including a primary power transmission terminal to be electrically connected to a first power terminal of a power converter; a plug including a secondary power transmission terminal to be electrically connected to a second power terminal of an inlet of an electric vehicle; a breaker which is connected between the primary power transmission terminal and the secondary power transmission terminal and has a closed state of electrically interconnecting the primary power transmission terminal and the secondary power transmission terminal and an open state of electrically separating the primary power transmission terminal and the secondary power transmission terminal from each other; and a breaker controller configured to set the connector-side breaker in the closed state during a normal state and to set the connector-side breaker in the open state during an abnormal state in which abnormality occurs in the electric vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mitsuru Tanabe
  • Patent number: 9100105
    Abstract: A splitter includes, in parallel between trunk terminals and branch terminals, a signal branching circuit that blocks distributed power and passes a PLC communication signal and a power branching circuit that blocks the communication signal and passes the distributed power. In the signal branching circuit, impedance viewed from the branch terminal side is matched with characteristic impedance of a power line and impedance viewed from the trunk terminal side is higher than impedance viewed from the branch terminal side, in the frequency band of the communication signal. In the power branching circuit, input/output impedance is set to be sufficiently higher than the impedance of the signal branching circuit viewed from the trunk terminal side, in the frequency band of the communication signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuko Yamamoto, Mitsuru Tanabe, Mitsuru Maeda, Kenji Kuniyoshi
  • Publication number: 20150194162
    Abstract: In order to obtain coded data which does not strike viewers and listeners as being incongruous, when plural audio data are to be coded, a coding program groups the respective audio data into one audio data, codes the grouped audio data in sequence with a predetermined number of samples being treated as units, and sets delimitations corresponding to the delimitations of the plural audio data in the coded data at coding units of the coded data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuyuki HATANAKA, Mitsuru Tanabe
  • Patent number: 9014234
    Abstract: A communication system comprises: a communication apparatus that is configured to transmit communication data, which includes a plurality of known synchronization symbols subjected to spread modulation with a spread code; and a communication apparatus that is configured to perform, when receiving the communication data, processing for detecting a synchronization timing, based on a correlation value between the received communication data and a reference signal. The communication apparatus comprises: a disturbing wave detection part configured to detect a period of a disturbing wave; a communication control part configured to set a transmission period of the synchronization symbol to be integer multiple of the period of the disturbing wave; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the communication data in which the transmission period of the synchronization symbol has been set by the communication control part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Teruhito Takeda, Mitsuru Tanabe
  • Patent number: 9008810
    Abstract: In order to obtain coded data which does not strike viewers and listeners as being incongruous, when plural audio data are to be coded, a coding program groups the respective audio data into one audio data, codes the grouped audio data in sequence with a predetermined number of samples being treated as units, and sets delimitations corresponding to the delimitations of the plural audio data in the coded data at coding units of the coded data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuyuki Hatanaka, Mitsuru Tanabe
  • Publication number: 20140192907
    Abstract: A splitter includes, in parallel between trunk terminals and branch terminals, a signal branching circuit that blocks distributed power and passes a PLC communication signal and a power branching circuit that blocks the communication signal and passes the distributed power. In the signal branching circuit, impedance viewed from the branch terminal side is matched with characteristic impedance of a power line and impedance viewed from the trunk terminal side is higher than impedance viewed from the branch terminal side, in the frequency band of the communication signal. In the power branching circuit, input/output impedance is set to be sufficiently higher than the impedance of the signal branching circuit viewed from the trunk terminal side, in the frequency band of the communication signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2012
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuko Yamamoto, Mitsuru Tanabe, Mitsuru Maeda, Kenji Kuniyoshi
  • Publication number: 20140003468
    Abstract: A communication system comprises: a communication apparatus that is configured to transmit communication data, which includes a plurality of known synchronization symbols subjected to spread modulation with a spread code; and a communication apparatus that is configured to perform, when receiving the communication data, processing for detecting a synchronization timing, based on a correlation value between the received communication data and a reference signal. The communication apparatus comprises: a disturbing wave detection part configured to detect a period of a disturbing wave; a communication control part configured to set a transmission period of the synchronization symbol to be integer multiple of the period of the disturbing wave; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the communication data in which the transmission period of the synchronization symbol has been set by the communication control part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Teruhito Takeda, Mitsuru Tanabe
  • Patent number: 8312524
    Abstract: A card management device includes: a card device configured to include a controller on which a cryptographic IP is mounted in advance; and an individual information writing device configured to allow the card device to be connected to the individual information writing device in such a way that the card device is capable of data transfer to the individual information writing device, individual information assigned to the card device in advance being set in the individual information writing device, the individual information writing device being capable of writing the individual information to the card device connected to the individual information writing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kuno, Mitsuru Tanabe, Koji Yoshimura, Daisaku Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20120036350
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a data processing unit which generates content to be distributed to a client; and a communication unit which sends the content generated by the data processing unit, wherein the data processing unit combines a plurality of watermarking record blocks, each of which is obtained by embedding watermarking data into a block as section data of the content, generates content in which different watermarking data sequences are set in units of distribution processing with respect to the clients, and sends the generated content to the clients through the communication unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2011
    Publication date: February 9, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kuno, Mitsuru Tanabe, Kenjiro Ueda, Koji Yoshimura
  • Patent number: 7958366
    Abstract: A system is provided for preventing recorded data from being illicitly read out and analyzed. An Internet connection interface transmits a program executed by an adapter to an authentication station, while receiving the program in an encrypted form from the authentication station. A hard disc records the encrypted program, received from the authentication station. An interface transmits the program recorded on the horizontal direction on the adapter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ryuji Ishiguro, Itaru Kawakami, Mitsuru Tanabe, Yuichi Ezura, Hirokazu Kawahara
  • Publication number: 20100318790
    Abstract: A card management device includes: a card device configured to include a controller on which a cryptographic IP is mounted in advance; and an individual information writing device configured to allow the card device to be connected to the individual information writing device in such a way that the card device is capable of data transfer to the individual information writing device, individual information assigned to the card device in advance being set in the individual information writing device, the individual information writing device being capable of writing the individual information to the card device connected to the individual information writing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2010
    Publication date: December 16, 2010
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kuno, Mitsuru Tanabe, Koji Yoshimura, Daisaku Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20100161342
    Abstract: In order to obtain coded data which does not strike viewers and listeners as being incongruous, when plural audio data are to be coded, a coding program groups the respective audio data into one audio data, codes the grouped audio data in sequence with a predetermined number of samples being treated as units, and sets delimitations corresponding to the delimitations of the plural audio data in the coded data at coding units of the coded data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2010
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuyuki HATANAKA, Mitsuru Tanabe
  • Patent number: 7730345
    Abstract: Even if contents data distributed over a network are once destroyed, the contents data are restored, as the copyright protection is maintained. A PC memorizes backup of distributed music contents on a hard disc, at the same time as it transmits the using log information of the music contents stored in the hard disc to an EMD server. If the music contents in the hard disc are destroyed, the PC acquires the using log information from the EMD server to reproduce the backup data memorized in the hard disc depending on the using log information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ryuji Ishiguro, Itaru Kawakami, Mitsuru Tanabe, Yuichi Ezura, Ichiro Sato, Munetake Ebihara
  • Patent number: 7702406
    Abstract: In order to obtain coded data which does not strike viewers and listeners as being incongruous, when plural audio data are to be coded, a coding program groups the respective audio data into one audio data, codes the grouped audio data in sequence with a predetermined number of samples being treated as units, and sets delimitations corresponding to the delimitations of the plural audio data in the coded data at coding units of the coded data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuyuki Hatanaka, Mitsuru Tanabe
  • Patent number: 7684514
    Abstract: A transmitter providing a wide output control variable width with high efficiency is provided. Saturation mode operation is performed in the vicinity of the maximum transmission power and the input level of a large power amplifier is enlarged and fixed. When the large power amplifier is operated in a saturation state, the amplitude component of a modulation signal is input to an R input terminal in the range responsive to an output power control level and power supply voltage of a power supply terminal is amplitude-modulated, whereby highly efficient polar coordinate modulation is performed. In smaller transmission power, linear mode operation is performed, the input level of the large power amplifier is lessened for operating the large power amplifier in the linear mode, and the power supply voltage of the power supply terminal is made variable in response to the output power control level, whereby transmission power control is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Noriaki Saito, Koichiro Tanaka, Mitsuru Tanabe
  • Patent number: 7584288
    Abstract: There is provided a processing apparatus which increments and thereby restores a lendable number upon receiving a content returned from a portable device, and which confirms the return of the content and increments the lendable number even when the portable device does not have or deletes the content borrowed from the processing apparatus before returning the content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2009
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Munetake Ebihara, Itaru Kawakami, Ryuji Ishiguro, Mitsuru Tanabe, Yuichi Ezura, Ichiro Sato
  • Patent number: 7560984
    Abstract: A transmitter according to the present invention is a transmitter conforming to the EER method, wherein a modulated signal is separated into phase and amplitude components, and the components are input to the high-frequency input terminal and the power supply voltage terminals of a high-frequency power amplifier. This transmitter comprises an amplitude delay corrector and a phase delay corrector capable of correcting delay time so that the phase and amplitude components are optimally synthesized using two or more stages of saturation-type amplifiers constituting the high-frequency power amplifier. With this configuration, a synthesis error can be reduced in each stage of the saturation-type amplifier, and distortion components in the output waveform can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2009
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Taiji Akizuki, Mitsuru Tanabe