Patents by Inventor Shuichi Watanabe
Shuichi Watanabe 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: 10637791Abstract: There is provided a transmitter by which a reception side easily detects packet loss of a transport packet. The transmitter (1) includes a content dividing unit (13) that divides a set composed of a plurality of units into a plurality of subsets, a transport sequence assigning unit (15) that assigns, to the packet, the transport sequence of the unit within a component and the transport sequence of the unit within the subset, and a header generating unit (14) that generates a packet including the transport sequences.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2017Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasuaki Tokumo, Shuichi Watanabe, Takuya Iwanami
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Patent number: 10536681Abstract: A sound and video processing system includes: a display that displays a video image captured by the camera; a sound collector that collects sound; an input device that receives designation of at least one designated location in the video image displayed on the display. A processor generates emphasized audio data, in which sound is emphasized in at least one direction from a position of the sound collector toward at least one position corresponding to the at least one designated location. The processor displays at least one identification shape at the at least one designated location. In response to receiving re-designation of one of the at least one designated location by the input device, the processor outputs audio data in which emphasis of sound stops in a direction from the position of the sound collector toward the position corresponding to the re-designated location.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2017Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Hirotaka Sawa, Shinichi Shigenaga, Shuichi Watanabe, Hiroyuki Matsumoto
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Patent number: 10244162Abstract: A directionality control system includes: a camera; a microphone provided as a separate body from the camera; a display that displays video data captured by the camera; and a processor that computes a sound collection direction, which is directed from the microphone toward a sound position corresponding to a designated position in the video data. The processor computes the sound collection direction by using parameters including: a first height of the camera from a reference surface, a second height of the microphone from the reference surface, a third height of a computation reference point from the reference surface, the computation reference point being positioned in the sound collection direction at a position different from the sound position, a direction which is directed from the camera toward the sound position, and a fourth height of the sound position from the reference surface.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2017Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Hirotaka Sawa, Toshimichi Tokuda, Shinichi Shigenaga, Shuichi Watanabe, Shojiro Matsuo, Takashi Hirabara, Tadashi Maki, Hisashi Tsuji, Teppei Fukuda, Akitoshi Izumi, Shintaro Yoshikuni, Hiroyuki Matsumoto, Kazunori Hayashi, Kosuke Shinozaki
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Patent number: 10244219Abstract: A sound and video processing system includes: a display, having a rectangular display region, that displays a video image in a circular video-image display region smaller than the rectangular display region; and a sound collector that collects sound. A processor generates emphasized audio data, in which sound is emphasized in at least one direction from a position of the sound collector toward at least one position corresponding to at least one designated location in the video image. In response to receiving designation outside the video-image display region, the processor displays a state display area or an adjustment operation area for the sound to be output from the speaker in a rectangular region which has a diagonal line extending from one of four corners of the rectangular display region to a center of the video-image display region and intersecting with a boundary line of the video-image display region.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2017Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Hirotaka Sawa, Shinichi Shigenaga, Shuichi Watanabe, Hiroyuki Matsumoto, Akitoshi Izumi
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Patent number: 10206030Abstract: A microphone array system includes a camera that images a picture for a target place, and a microphone array that picks up sound. A sound source position is calculated based on the picked up sound. An image is displayed on a display, the image including an imaged target place picture and a sound source position mark indicative of the sound source position. An instruction of a specified spot is received in the target place picture displayed on the display. Sound directivity is formed in a direction from the microphone array toward the specified spot based on the picked up sound, and sound data is generated by emphasizing sound in the direction in which the sound directivity is formed. The generated sound data is output to the speaker to reproduce the sound data.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2016Date of Patent: February 12, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki Matsumoto, Shuichi Watanabe, Hisashi Tsuji
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Patent number: 10105364Abstract: Provided is an ink composition less likely to cause offset and sticking. Provided is a printed matter and a printing method using such ink composition. The ink composition includes a (meth) acrylic resin and a drying oil, the (meth)acrylic resin: containing at least 40% by weight or more of a structural unit derived from (meth)acryl monomer having a straight-chain alkyl group having 4 or more carbon atoms, branched alkyl group having 4 or more carbon atoms, or cyclic alkyl group having 4 or more carbon atoms (1); having a glass transition temperature of 63° C. to 180° C. (2); and having a weight-average molecular weight of 1000 to 80,000 (3).Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2015Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: T&K TOKA CO., LTD.Inventors: Shuichi Matakawa, Shuichi Watanabe
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Patent number: 10071096Abstract: Provided is an ink composition less likely to cause offset and sticking. Provided is a printed matter and a printing method using such ink composition. The ink composition includes a (meth) acrylic resin and a drying oil, the (meth)acrylic resin: containing at least 40% by weight or more of a structural unit derived from (meth)acryl monomer having a straight-chain alkyl group having 4 or more carbon atoms, branched alkyl group having 4 or more carbon atoms, or cyclic alkyl group having 4 or more carbon atoms (1); having a glass transition temperature of 63° C. to 180° C. (2); and having a weight-average molecular weight of 1000 to 80,000 (3).Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2015Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignee: T&K TOKA CO., LTD.Inventors: Shuichi Matakawa, Shuichi Watanabe
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Publication number: 20180167598Abstract: A client (1) is provisioned with a content selection unit (13) for referencing description information (26), selecting content to be played in a certain period, and at the same time, and selecting content to be played at the next period from an id of a subset that is the same as the subset selected at the period, a request execution unit (14) for requesting the transmission of the selected content, and a content playback unit (15) for continuously playing the content transmitted in response to the request.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2018Publication date: June 14, 2018Inventors: Shuichi WATANABE, Yasuaki TOKUMO, Maki TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20180160032Abstract: A directionality control system includes: a camera; a microphone provided as a separate body from the camera; a display that displays video data captured by the camera; and a processor that computes a sound collection direction, which is directed from the microphone toward a sound position corresponding to a designated position in the video data. The processor computes the sound collection direction by using parameters including: a first height of the camera from a reference surface, a second height of the microphone from the reference surface, a third height of a computation reference point from the reference surface, the computation reference point being positioned in the sound collection direction at a position different from the sound position, a direction which is directed from the camera toward the sound position, and a fourth height of the sound position from the reference surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2017Publication date: June 7, 2018Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Hirotaka SAWA, Toshimichi Tokuda, Shinichi Shigenaga, Shuichi Watanabe, Shojiro Matsuo, Takashi Hirabara, Tadashi Maki, Hisashi Tsuji, Teppei Fukuda, Akitoshi Izumi, Shintaro Yoshikuni, Hiroyuki Matsumoto, Kazunori Hayashi, Kosuke Shinozaki
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Patent number: 9973846Abstract: A camera and a microphone array configuring a monitoring system are capable of receiving electric power from a PoE apparatus through a LAN cable. In a case where a first switching operation is performed on a microphone array side, an output terminal of an input switch is connected to an input terminal of a PoE electric power reception circuit side. An input terminal of an output switch is connected to an output terminal of a PoE electric power transmission circuit side. On a camera side, an output terminal of the input switch is connected to an input terminal of a PoE electric power receptor side. The microphone array receives electric power that is supplied from the PoE apparatus for operation and transmits the electric power towards the camera. The camera receives the supplied electric power from the PoE apparatus through the microphone array and the LAN cable for operation.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2017Date of Patent: May 15, 2018Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Teppei Fukuda, Shuichi Watanabe, Hiroyuki Matsumoto, Hisashi Tsuji
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Publication number: 20180115759Abstract: A sound and video processing system includes: a display that displays a video image captured by the camera; a sound collector that collects sound; an input device that receives designation of at least one designated location in the video image displayed on the display. A processor generates emphasized audio data, in which sound is emphasized in at least one direction from a position of the sound collector toward at least one position corresponding to the at least one designated location. The processor displays at least one identification shape at the at least one designated location. In response to receiving re-designation of one of the at least one designated location by the input device, the processor outputs audio data in which emphasis of sound stops in a direction from the position of the sound collector toward the position corresponding to the re-designated location.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2017Publication date: April 26, 2018Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Hirotaka SAWA, Shinichi SHIGENAGA, Toshimichi TOKUDA, Shintaro YOSHIKUNI, Shuichi WATANABE, Tadashi MAKI, Hirokazu TASAKA, Susumu ONO, Keisuke FUJIMOTO, Shojiro MATSUO, Teppei FUKUDA, Hiroyuki MATSUMOTO, Akitoshi IZUMI, Hisashi TSUJI, Kazunori HAYASHI, Ryoichi YUGE
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Publication number: 20180115760Abstract: A sound and video processing system includes: a display, having a rectangular display region, that displays a video image in a circular video-image display region smaller than the rectangular display region; and a sound collector that collects sound. A processor generates emphasized audio data, in which sound is emphasized in at least one direction from a position of the sound collector toward at least one position corresponding to at least one designated location in the video image. In response to receiving designation outside the video-image display region, the processor displays a state display area or an adjustment operation area for the sound to be output from the speaker in a rectangular region which has a diagonal line extending from one of four corners of the rectangular display region to a center of the video-image display region and intersecting with a boundary line of the video-image display region.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2017Publication date: April 26, 2018Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LT D.Inventors: Hirotaka SAWA, Shinichi SHIGENAGA, Toshimichi TOKUDA, Shintaro YOSHIKUNI, Shuichi WATANABE, Tadashi MAKI, Hirokazu TASAKA, Susumu ONO, Keisuke FUJIMOTO, Shojiro MATSUO, Teppei FUKUDA, Hiroyuki MATSUMOTO, Akitoshi IZUMI, Hisashi TSUJI, Kazunori HAYASHI, Ryoichi YUGE
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Patent number: 9936183Abstract: A client (1) is provisioned with a content selection unit (13) for referencing description information (26), selecting content to be played in a certain period, and at the same time, and selecting content to be played at the next period from an id of a subset that is the same as the subset selected at the period, a request execution unit (14) for requesting the transmission of the selected content, and a content playback unit (15) for continuously playing the content transmitted in response to the request.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2016Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shuichi Watanabe, Yasuaki Tokumo, Maki Takahashi
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Publication number: 20180077487Abstract: A camera and a microphone array configuring a monitoring system are capable of receiving electric power from a PoE apparatus through a LAN cable. In a case where a first switching operation is performed on a microphone array side, an output terminal of an input switch is connected to an input terminal of a PoE electric power reception circuit side. An input terminal of an output switch is connected to an output terminal of a PoE electric power transmission circuit side. On a camera side, an output terminal of the input switch is connected to an input terminal of a PoE electric power receptor side. The microphone array receives electric power that is supplied from the PoE apparatus for operation and transmits the electric power towards the camera. The camera receives the supplied electric power from the PoE apparatus through the microphone array and the LAN cable for operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2017Publication date: March 15, 2018Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Teppei FUKUDA, Shuichi WATANABE, Hiroyuki MATSUMOTO, Hisashi TSUJI
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Publication number: 20180070148Abstract: A content transmission unit (22) is provided that performs chunk transfer of a segment to a client (2) in subsegment unit, the subsegment being formed by dividing the segment into a plurality of pieces after receiving a request requiring transmission of the segment from the client (2).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2017Publication date: March 8, 2018Inventors: Yasuaki TOKUMO, Takuya IWANAMI, Shuichi WATANABE, Hideki SUZUKI
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Patent number: 9894392Abstract: A distribution server (1) according to the present invention acquires composition information (17) including information specifying each of a plurality of components included in acquired content and information indicating a reproduction mode of the components, and includes a composition information generation unit (15) rewriting a part of the information included in the composition information (17) in a reference format to generate main composition information and to generate sub-composition information including the information referred to with the main composition information and a distribution control unit (16) distributing the main composition information and the sub-composition information generated by the composition information generation unit (15). Thus, the composition information can be distributed with high efficiency without using on-demand distribution.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2013Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shuichi Watanabe, Maki Takahashi
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Publication number: 20180041441Abstract: There is provided a transmitter by which a reception side easily detects packet loss of a transport packet. The transmitter (1) includes a content dividing unit (13) that divides a set composed of a plurality of units into a plurality of subsets, a transport sequence assigning unit (15) that assigns, to the packet, the transport sequence of the unit within a component and the transport sequence of the unit within the subset, and a header generating unit (14) that generates a packet including the transport sequences.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2017Publication date: February 8, 2018Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasuaki TOKUMO, Shuichi WATANABE, Takuya IWANAMI
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Patent number: 9860635Abstract: When a microphone array apparatus sound-picks up voice in a prescribed sound volume or higher, which is output from a sound source, and sends voice data on the voice to voice processing apparatus, a sound source direction detection unit causes sound source marks, each of which indicates a directivity direction, to be displayed on a display, and urges a user to make a selection among the sound source marks and to input camera information. A voice processing apparatus transmits the camera information that is input, and the directivity direction, to the microphone array apparatus. The microphone array apparatus stores the camera information and the directivity direction, as a preset information table, in a storage unit. Accordingly, where a positional relationship between the camera and the microphone array is unclear, directionality is formed in a determined image capture position, and voice in the predetermined image capture position is output clearly.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2015Date of Patent: January 2, 2018Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Teppei Fukuda, Shuichi Watanabe, Hiroyuki Matsumoto, Hisashi Tsuji
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Patent number: 9860439Abstract: Sound collection directionality is formed toward a location corresponding to a position designated in a video of a predetermined region which is imaged by a camera apparatus with a microphone array apparatus as a reference, and audio data is collected with high accuracy. In a directionality control system (10), a signal processing unit (33) derives a sound collection direction (?MAh,?MAv) which is directed from an installation position of a microphone array apparatus (2) toward a sound position corresponding to a position designated in video data on a screen of the display device (36) in response to a user's designation of any position in the video data displayed on the screen. The signal processing unit (33) forms sound collection directionality of audio data in the derived sound collection direction (?MAh,?MAv).Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2014Date of Patent: January 2, 2018Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Hirotaka Sawa, Toshimichi Tokuda, Shinichi Shigenaga, Shuichi Watanabe, Shojiro Matsuo, Takashi Hirabara, Tadashi Maki, Hisashi Tsuji, Teppei Fukuda, Akitoshi Izumi, Shintaro Yoshikuni, Hiroyuki Matsumoto, Kazunori Hayashi, Kosuke Shinozaki
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Publication number: 20170368064Abstract: Provided is an ink composition less likely to cause offset and sticking. Provided is a printed matter and a printing method using such ink composition. The ink composition includes a (meth) acrylic resin and a drying oil, the (meth)acrylic resin: containing at least 40% by weight or more of a structural unit derived from (meth)acryl monomer having a straight-chain alkyl group having 4 or more carbon atoms, branched alkyl group having 4 or more carbon atoms, or cyclic alkyl group having 4 or more carbon atoms (1); having a glass transition temperature of 63° C. to 180° C. (2); and having a weight-average molecular weight of 1000 to 80,000 (3).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2015Publication date: December 28, 2017Applicant: T&K Toka Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shuichi Matakawa, Shuichi Watanabe