Patents by Inventor Satoshi Ohyama
Satoshi Ohyama 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: 11700059Abstract: A display device includes imaging unit (101) to generate a captured image, image recognizer (102) to recognize whether or not the captured image contains a reception terminal, light emitter (106) to emit light in accordance with a modulation signal, and transmission controller (103) and light emission controller (105) to control driving of light emitter (106) based on a result recognized by image recognizer (102).Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2018Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Shutai Okamura, Masahiko Yamamoto, Toshihiro Ezaki, Satoshi Ohyama, Takeshi Hatakeyama
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Publication number: 20200388212Abstract: A display device includes imaging unit (101) to generate a captured image, image recognizer (102) to recognize whether or not the captured image contains a reception terminal, light emitter (106) to emit light in accordance with a modulation signal, and transmission controller (103) and light emission controller (105) to control driving of light emitter (106) based on a result recognized by image recognizer (102).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2018Publication date: December 10, 2020Inventors: Shutai OKAMURA, Masahiko YAMAMOTO, Toshihiro EZAKI, Satoshi OHYAMA, Takeshi HATAKEYAMA
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Patent number: 10489641Abstract: A server is an image processing apparatus that is connectable to one or more cameras, which shoot images inside an aircraft, and distinguishes a crewmember from among a plurality of people present inside the aircraft. The server includes a memory and a processor. The memory stores image data output from the cameras and behavior patterns specific to the crewmember. The processor determines the crewmember from among the plurality of people by detecting a behavior specific to the crewmember from the image data stored in the memory based on the behavior patterns specific to the crewmember, and outputs a result of the determination.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2018Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Kou Watanabe, Masahiko Yamamoto, Masaaki Higashida, Tsutomu Uenoyama, Takeshi Hatakeyama, Satoshi Ohyama, Takahiro Yamaguchi, Masaharu Matsumoto
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Patent number: 10282423Abstract: An announcement system includes: a sound-pickup apparatus for receiving a speech expressing a fixed-form sentence; a conversion apparatus for generating a translation of the fixed-form sentence based on the speech received; and output apparatus for presenting information indicating the translation.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2017Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventor: Satoshi Ohyama
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Patent number: 10248375Abstract: A sound collecting system includes a plurality of sound collecting units that collect sound and a sound collecting device. The plurality of sound collecting units send sound collection data including audio data and time data to the sound collecting device. The sound collecting device includes a processor that manages time for the plurality of sound collecting units and receives an instruction specifying a sound collecting location, and an output unit. The processor of the sound collecting device synthesizes the audio data of the plurality of sound collecting units on the basis of the time data of the plurality of sound collecting units, and outputs, from the output unit, the audio data of the sound collecting location.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2018Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Takeshi Hatakeyama, Kou Watanabe, Masahiko Yamamoto, Masaaki Higashida, Tsutomu Uenoyama, Satoshi Ohyama, Takahiro Yamaguchi, Masaharu Matsumoto
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Publication number: 20190050638Abstract: A server is an image processing apparatus that is connectable to one or more cameras, which shoot images inside an aircraft, and distinguishes a crewmember from among a plurality of people present inside the aircraft. The server includes a memory and a processor. The memory stores image data output from the cameras and behavior patterns specific to the crewmember. The processor determines the crewmember from among the plurality of people by detecting a behavior specific to the crewmember from the image data stored in the memory based on the behavior patterns specific to the crewmember, and outputs a result of the determination.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2018Publication date: February 14, 2019Inventors: Kou WATANABE, Masahiko YAMAMOTO, Masaaki HIGASHIDA, Tsutomu UENOYAMA, Takeshi HATAKEYAMA, Satoshi OHYAMA, Takahiro YAMAGUCHI, Masaharu MATSUMOTO
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Publication number: 20190012132Abstract: A sound collecting system includes a plurality of sound collecting units that collect sound and a sound collecting device. The plurality of sound collecting units send sound collection data including audio data and time data to the sound collecting device. The sound collecting device includes a processor that manages time for the plurality of sound collecting units and receives an instruction specifying a sound collecting location, and an output unit. The processor of the sound collecting device synthesizes the audio data of the plurality of sound collecting units on the basis of the time data of the plurality of sound collecting units, and outputs, from the output unit, the audio data of the sound collecting location.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2018Publication date: January 10, 2019Inventors: Takeshi HATAKEYAMA, Kou WATANABE, Masahiko YAMAMOTO, Masaaki HIGASHIDA, Tsutomu UENOYAMA, Satoshi OHYAMA, Takahiro YAMAGUCHI, Masaharu MATSUMOTO
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Publication number: 20180217984Abstract: An announcement system includes: a sound-pickup apparatus for receiving a speech expressing a fixed-form sentence; a conversion apparatus for generating a translation of the fixed-form sentence based on the speech received; and output apparatus for presenting information indicating the translation.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2017Publication date: August 2, 2018Inventor: Satoshi Ohyama
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Patent number: 8682161Abstract: An optical data transmission system for transmitting optical data in a flight vehicle, including a head end, optical splitter, N units of terminals that process optical data received from the optical splitter to display such as video, plural optical cables connected between the head end and the optical splitter and between the optical splitter and the terminals, and a seat group including N sets of passenger seats that transmit two-way optical data and are placed close to one another. The N units of terminals are placed in association with the respective N sets of seats. The optical splitter is placed in association with the seat group; sends optical data from the head end to the N units of terminals; and reversely unifies N-series optical data, different from one another, from the N units of terminals into one series and sends it to the head end.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2011Date of Patent: March 25, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Masaaki Higashida, Satoshi Ohyama
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Patent number: 8667129Abstract: Provided is a server including: a storage section for pre-storing information on routes between the server and each of a number of terminals; a transmission/reception section for transmitting/receiving messages to/from the number of terminals; a terminal information acquisition section for acquiring information differentiating the terminals and acquiring delay times for transmission between the server and each of the number of terminals; a transmission distance calculation section for calculating respective transmission distances between the server and the number of terminals, based on the transmission delay times acquired by the terminal information acquisition section; and a terminal installation location identifying section for identifying locations where the number of terminals are installed, based on the differentiating information acquired by the terminal information acquisition section, the transmission distances calculated by the transmission distance calculation section, and the route information stoType: GrantFiled: June 23, 2011Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Satoshi Ohyama, Masaaki Higashida
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Publication number: 20120050191Abstract: An optical data transmission system for transmitting optical data in a flight vehicle, including a head end, optical splitter, N units of terminals that process optical data received from the optical splitter to display such as video, plural optical cables connected between the head end and the optical splitter and between the optical splitter and the terminals, and a seat group including N sets of passenger seats that transmit two-way optical data and are placed close to one another. The N units of terminals are placed in association with the respective N sets of seats. The optical splitter is placed in association with the seat group; sends optical data from the head end to the N units of terminals; and reversely unifies N-series optical data, different from one another, from the N units of terminals into one series and sends it to the head end.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2011Publication date: March 1, 2012Inventors: Masaaki HIGASHIDA, Satoshi OHYAMA
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Publication number: 20110320549Abstract: Provided is a server including: a storage section for pre-storing information on routes between the server and each of a number of terminals; a transmission/reception section for transmitting/receiving messages to/from the number of terminals; a terminal information acquisition section for acquiring information differentiating the terminals and acquiring delay times for transmission between the server and each of the number of terminals; a transmission distance calculation section for calculating respective transmission distances between the server and the number of terminals, based on the transmission delay times acquired by the terminal information acquisition section; and a terminal installation location identifying section for identifying locations where the number of terminals are installed, based on the differentiating information acquired by the terminal information acquisition section, the transmission distances calculated by the transmission distance calculation section, and the route information stoType: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2011Publication date: December 29, 2011Applicant: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Satoshi Ohyama, Masaaki Higashida
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Patent number: 7814515Abstract: A digital data delivery system that delivers video data of a content and audio data of the same content respectively to a first receiver and a second receiver, which are independent of each other, to reproduce the video data and the audio data at the first and second receivers in such a manner as to secure synchronous reproductions between the two data.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2006Date of Patent: October 12, 2010Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Satoshi Ohyama, Masaaki Higashida
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Publication number: 20070250873Abstract: The invention provides a digital data delivery system that delivers video data of a content and audio data of the same content respectively to a first receiver and a second receiver, which are independent of each other, to reproduce the video data and the audio data at the first and second receivers in such a manner as to secure synchronous reproductions between the two data.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2006Publication date: October 25, 2007Inventors: Satoshi Ohyama, Masaaki Higashida
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Patent number: 6826181Abstract: There is disclosed a packet transmission apparatus for transmitting in a packet form a transmission unit including a data string arranged so as to divide predetermined data into a plurality of blocks, each block having a fixed length, block information for specifying the block type being added to each block. A DIF data processing circuit generates a transmission header having a new identifier by deleting predetermined redundancy information from the block information belonging to the plurality of blocks based on inputted data string, and then, generates a transmission unit having the generated transmission header. Next, a transmission terminal unit transmits the generated transmission unit by way of a transmission line.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 1999Date of Patent: November 30, 2004Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masaaki Higashida, Yoshihiro Morioka, Masakazu Nishino, Satoshi Ohyama, Masaaki Kobayashi
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Patent number: 6424483Abstract: A magnetic recording and reproducing device according to the present invention operates with steps of moving a magnetic tape having a plurality of tracks per frame and a plurality of control signals recorded thereon, keeping count of the pulses of a frequency generator signal corresponding to the rotation of a capstan motor by a frequency generator counter, resetting the count of the frequency generator pulses by the control signal reproduced by a fixed magnetic head, detecting the track number by the control signal counter reset by a frame reference signal, controlling, at the start, the start timing on the basis of the tape stop position detected by the frequency generator pulse counter and control counter and the reference frame signal from the reference frame signal generator. The device prevents thinning of tracks at the editing point in after-break recording and the disturbance of images immediately after the start.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 1996Date of Patent: July 23, 2002Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kenichi Honjo, Haruo Isaka, Satoshi Ohyama, Masafumi Nishida, Yoshio Sakakibara, Toshiyuki Kohri, Koji Sakurai
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Patent number: 6278691Abstract: A communications system has a real time signal generating part for generating the real time signal of data rate R with one frame as one unit; a transmission part, having a transmission rate C (C>R), over which the real time signal is transmitted; and a real time signal outputting part for outputting the real time signal stored in a real time signal receive buffer part, wherein after storing the real time signal for a prescribed number, N, of frames in the real time signal receive buffer part, the real time signal outputting part is activated, thereby performing control so that all generated portions of the real time signal can be output at the receiving end without interruption.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 1998Date of Patent: August 21, 2001Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi Ohyama, Masaaki Higashida, Yoshihiro Morioka
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Patent number: 5793925Abstract: A method and apparatus for recording control pulses on a control track are provided. The control pulses correspond to a number M (where M is an integer equal to or larger than four) of azimuthal tracks on the tape on which the number M of segmented data, obtained by dividing image data corresponding to one frame into the number M of segments, are recorded. One period of the control pulses corresponds to a number N (where N is a divisor of M) of azimuthal tracks, and a duty ratio pattern of the control pulses in a number L (L=M/N) of successive periods corresponding to one frame is different in each of a number K (where K is an integer equal to or larger than two) of successive frames.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 1996Date of Patent: August 11, 1998Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshio Sakakibara, Haruo Isaka, Kenichi Honjo, Satoshi Ohyama
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Patent number: 4479165Abstract: A bushing in air is supported upright on one end of a horizontal tank, and a center conductor extending in the bushing is connected to one terminal of a circuit breaker accommodated in the tank. A tank of a disconnecting switch is disposed to extend in the axial direction of the circuit breaker tank and is coupled to the other end thereof through an annular current transformer and also via gas-tight means. A bushing support tank disposed to extend along the ground surface is coupled via gas-tight means to the other end of the disconnecting switch tank. Another bushing in air is supported upright on the bushing support tank. A grounding switch is provided inside the bushing support tank. A center conductor extending in the second bushing is connected to an arrester through a removable conductor.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 1982Date of Patent: October 23, 1984Assignee: Tokyo Shibaura Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Isao Kamata, Satoshi Ohyama
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Patent number: 4468716Abstract: A gas-insulated switchgear apparatus comprises,(a) first and second grounded tanks filled therein with insulating gas,(b) a circuit breaker unit enclosed in the first tank,(c) a disconnecting switch unit connected to an axial extension of the first tank and enclosed in the second tank partitioned off the first tank through a gas,(d) a third grounded tank having a connecting conductor filled therein insulating gas and connected to an axial extension of the second tank as partitioned off the second tank through a gas,(e) a grounding switch connected to the third tank in an opposite side of the disconnecting switch unit, and(f) a lightning arrester connected to the third tank.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 1982Date of Patent: August 28, 1984Assignee: Tokyo Shibaura Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Isao Kamata, Satoshi Ohyama