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).
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Patent number: 9972333Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 25, 2015Date of Patent: May 15, 2018Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Mitsuyuki Hatanaka, Mitsuru Tanabe
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Patent number: 9893648Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 28, 2015Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mariko Kifuji, Kazunori Kidera, Mitsuru Tanabe, Kazuo Itoh
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Patent number: 9866147Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 27, 2015Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazunori Kidera, Mitsuru Tanabe, Mariko Kifuji
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Patent number: 9821669Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 25, 2014Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventor: Mitsuru Tanabe
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Patent number: 9100105Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 10, 2012Date of Patent: August 4, 2015Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuko Yamamoto, Mitsuru Tanabe, Mitsuru Maeda, Kenji Kuniyoshi
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Publication number: 20150194162Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2015Publication date: July 9, 2015Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Mitsuyuki HATANAKA, Mitsuru Tanabe
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Patent number: 9014234Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 15, 2012Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Teruhito Takeda, Mitsuru Tanabe
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Patent number: 9008810Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 1, 2010Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Mitsuyuki Hatanaka, Mitsuru Tanabe
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Publication number: 20140192907Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2012Publication date: July 10, 2014Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuko Yamamoto, Mitsuru Tanabe, Mitsuru Maeda, Kenji Kuniyoshi
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Publication number: 20140003468Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2012Publication date: January 2, 2014Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Teruhito Takeda, Mitsuru Tanabe
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Patent number: 8312524Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 4, 2010Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Kuno, Mitsuru Tanabe, Koji Yoshimura, Daisaku Hayashi
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Publication number: 20120036350Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2011Publication date: February 9, 2012Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Kuno, Mitsuru Tanabe, Kenjiro Ueda, Koji Yoshimura
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Patent number: 7958366Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 18, 2007Date of Patent: June 7, 2011Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Ryuji Ishiguro, Itaru Kawakami, Mitsuru Tanabe, Yuichi Ezura, Hirokazu Kawahara
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Publication number: 20100318790Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2010Publication date: December 16, 2010Inventors: Hiroshi Kuno, Mitsuru Tanabe, Koji Yoshimura, Daisaku Hayashi
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Publication number: 20100161342Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2010Publication date: June 24, 2010Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Mitsuyuki HATANAKA, Mitsuru Tanabe
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Patent number: 7730345Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 20, 2007Date of Patent: June 1, 2010Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Ryuji Ishiguro, Itaru Kawakami, Mitsuru Tanabe, Yuichi Ezura, Ichiro Sato, Munetake Ebihara
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Patent number: 7702406Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 27, 2006Date of Patent: April 20, 2010Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Mitsuyuki Hatanaka, Mitsuru Tanabe
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Patent number: 7684514Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 11, 2005Date of Patent: March 23, 2010Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Noriaki Saito, Koichiro Tanaka, Mitsuru Tanabe
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Patent number: 7584288Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 6, 2006Date of Patent: September 1, 2009Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Munetake Ebihara, Itaru Kawakami, Ryuji Ishiguro, Mitsuru Tanabe, Yuichi Ezura, Ichiro Sato
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Patent number: 7560984Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 17, 2006Date of Patent: July 14, 2009Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Taiji Akizuki, Mitsuru Tanabe