Patents by Inventor Shunsuke Mochizuki

Shunsuke Mochizuki 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: 20130027424
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a clipping section that clips, from a captured image in which a food is captured as a subject, regions for each food to generate food images, and a grouping section that groups the generated food images for each identical subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke MOCHIZUKI, Tomohiko Gotoh, Tatsuhito Sato, Shunsuke Mochizuki, Yuki Okamura, Yun Sun, Takeshi Yaeda
  • Patent number: 8334730
    Abstract: A connection method includes the step of connecting, using a line on a dielectric element, two points through which a signal flows, the two points having different heights and the widths of the line at the positions of the two points having been adjusted on the basis of the thickness of the dielectric element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Kikuchi, Shunsuke Mochizuki, Masahiro Yoshioka, Ryosuke Araki, Masaki Handa, Takashi Nakanishi, Hiroshi Ichiki, Tetsujiro Kondo
  • Publication number: 20120313971
    Abstract: There is provided a display apparatus including a relation score calculation unit calculating a relation score indicating closeness of a relation between characters based on a common appearance relation using segment metadata indicating a segment in a moving image where each of the characters appears, and an object display unit displaying an object corresponding to each of the characters appearing in the moving image. Further, the object display unit displays a pair of objects corresponding to a pair of characters with a high relation score to be closely positioned to each other, and displays a pair of objects corresponding to a pair of characters with a low relation score to be positioned far from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Inventors: Makoto MURATA, Tomohiko Gotoh, Naoki Shibuya, Shunsuke Mochizuki, Takeshi Yaeda
  • Patent number: 8320444
    Abstract: A transmission apparatus includes a modulating section configured to modulate a baseband signal by using a carrier wave; a determining section configured to determine a pattern of the carrier wave, in accordance with a characteristic of a transmission channel on which a waveform represented by a signal value of a specific symbol is stationarily distorted according to a value of a symbol transmitted before or after the specific symbol; and a transmitting section configured to transmit a modulation signal through the transmission channel, the modulation signal being obtained by modulation using the determined carrier-wave pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Nakanishi, Masato Kikuchi, Shunsuke Mochizuki, Masahiro Yoshioka, Ryosuke Araki, Masaki Handa, Hiroshi Ichiki, Tetsujiro Kondo
  • Patent number: 8290071
    Abstract: A modulating device configured to perform modulation with the orthogonal frequency division multiplexing method, includes: a modulating unit configured to modulate main information with the orthogonal frequency division multiplexing method; and a determining unit configured to determine a subcarrier pattern employed when modulating the main information by the modulating unit based on additional information relating to the main information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Nakanishi, Masato Kikuchi, Shunsuke Mochizuki, Masahiro Yoshioka, Ryosuke Araki, Masaki Handa, Hiroshi Ichiki, Tetsujiro Kondo
  • Patent number: 8279979
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a signal processing apparatus that processes a signal transmitted over a transmission path that causes stationary distortion to occur in a waveform representing a signal value of a specific symbol in accordance with a value of a symbol transmitted before the specific symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shunsuke Mochizuki, Takashi Nakanishi, Ryosuke Araki, Seiji Wada, Masahiro Yoshioka, Hiroto Kimura, Hiroshi Ichiki, Tetsujiro Kondo
  • Publication number: 20120182083
    Abstract: A connection method includes the step of connecting, using a line on a dielectric element, two points through which a signal flows, the two points having different heights and the widths of the line at the positions of the two points having been adjusted on the basis of the thickness of the dielectric element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masato KIKUCHI, Shunsuke MOCHIZUKI, Masahiro YOSHIOKA, Ryosuke ARAKI, Masaki HANDA, Takashi NAKANISHI, Hiroshi ICHIKI, Tetsujiro KONDO
  • Publication number: 20120057794
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing device including a recognition unit configured to recognize a plurality of users being present in an input image captured by an imaging device, an information acquisition unit configured to acquire display information to be displayed in association with each user recognized by the recognition unit, and an output image generation unit configured to generate an output image by overlaying the display information acquired by the information acquisition unit on the input image. The output image generation unit may determine which of first display information associated with a first user and second display information associated with a second user is to be overlaid on a front side on the basis of a parameter corresponding to a distance of each user from the imaging device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2011
    Publication date: March 8, 2012
    Inventors: Shingo TSURUMI, Shunsuke MOCHIZUKI, Munechika MAEKAWA
  • Publication number: 20120056898
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing device including: a recognition unit configured to recognize a plurality of users present in an input image captured by an imaging device; an information acquisition unit configured to acquire display information to be displayed in association with each user recognized by the recognition unit; a weight determination unit configured to determine a weight of each user recognized by the recognition unit; and an output image generation unit configured to generate an output image by determining a display position of the display information associated with each user on the basis of the weight of each user determined by the weight determination unit and overlaying the display information on the input image in the determined display position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2011
    Publication date: March 8, 2012
    Inventors: Shingo TSURUMI, Shunsuke Mochizuki, Munechika Maekawa
  • Patent number: 8063830
    Abstract: A planar antenna device is mounted on a board including a dielectric layer and two conductor layers vertically sandwiching the dielectric layer. The upper conductor layer includes a first radiating element having an end portion connected through a via hole to a ground formed by the lower conductor layer, a second radiating element having an open end portion, first and second ground conductors connected to respective base portions of the first and second radiating elements via resistors, and a feeder line configured to feed power to the first and second radiating elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Yoshioka, Masato Kikuchi, Shunsuke Mochizuki, Ryosuke Araki, Masaki Handa, Takashi Nakanishi, Hiroto Kimura, Seiji Wada, Hiroshi Ichiki, Tetsujiro Kondo
  • Publication number: 20110249904
    Abstract: Provided is a face clustering device that detects a face included in an image, detects a direction of the detected face, detects, taking into account the detected direction of the face, a face with a similar feature and forms a collection of pieces of face information showing a feature of this face, narrows down, for each collection of pieces of face information which has been formed, the number of pieces of face information to a number set in advance for each face direction and sets each collection of pieces of face information for which the number has been narrowed down as a unit group, and performs, with the set unit group as a unit, clustering based on pieces of face information included in each unit group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2011
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shunsuke MOCHIZUKI, Makoto Murata, Yun Sun, Tomohiko Gotoh
  • Patent number: 7991078
    Abstract: In a signal processing apparatus adapted to process a signal transmitted via a transmission path, distortion of a waveform of a signal value of a specific symbol is predicted on the basis of a characteristic of distortion depending on values of symbols transmitted before the specific symbol, and the distortion is removed from the waveform of the received signal thereby producing a distortion-removed waveform. A comparison value is calculated for each allowable value of the specific symbol by subtracting a predicted signal value of the specific value from the distortion-removed waveform. A symbol value corresponding to the smallest comparison value is determined as the value of the specific symbol. An error suspicion level value indicating the degree of suspicion of being incorrect is calculated for each of the predetermined number of symbols, and already determined values of symbols are corrected in accordance with the error suspicion level values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shunsuke Mochizuki, Takashi Nakanishi, Ryosuke Araki, Seiji Wada, Masahiro Yoshioka, Hiroto Kimura, Hiroshi Ichiki, Tetsujiro Kondo
  • Publication number: 20110150340
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: an extracting unit configured to extract a face from an image; a grouping unit configured to classify the image extracted by the extracting unit into a group; an adding unit configured to add to a group generated by the grouping unit a tag indicating relationship between persons within the group; a closeness calculating unit configured to calculate the closeness of the person of the face from distance between groups generated by the grouping unit; and a person correlation data generating unit configured to generate person correlation data including at least the tag and the closeness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2010
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiko Gotoh, Shunsuke Mochizuki, Yun Sun, Tatsuhito Sato
  • Patent number: 7961777
    Abstract: A signal processing apparatus configured to process a signal transmitted via a transmission path where a waveform represented by a signal value of a particular symbol is stationarily distorted in accordance with values of symbols transmitted prior to the particular symbol, including the following elements: a receiving unit configured to receive a test signal which is the signal including symbols set to predetermined values via the transmission path; an obtaining unit configured to obtain the signal value of the particular symbol from the test signal received by the receiving unit; and a characteristic computing unit configured to compute a characteristic of distortion of the waveform represented by the signal value of the particular symbol in accordance with the values of the symbols transmitted prior to the particular symbol on the basis of waveforms represented by signal values obtained by the obtaining unit from a plurality of test signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Nakanishi, Shunsuke Mochizuki, Masahiro Yoshioka, Ryosuke Araki, Hiroto Kimura, Seiji Wada, Hiroshi Ichiki, Tetsujiro Kondo
  • Patent number: 7936712
    Abstract: In a signal processing apparatus adapted to process a signal transmitted via a transmission path, an acquisition unit acquires a signal value of a specific symbol from a signal transmitted via the transmission path, and a prediction unit predicts a signal value of the specific symbol for each of values allowed to be taken by the specific symbol, on the basis of values taken by a plurality of symbols transmitted before the transmission of the specific symbol and on the basis of characteristics of influences of the signal values of the plurality of symbols transmitted before the transmission of the specific symbol on the signal value of the specific symbol. A determination unit determines the value taken by the specific symbol, on the basis of the signal value of the specific symbol acquired by the acquisition unit and the predicted values for respective values allowed to be taken by the specific symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ryosuke Araki, Takashi Nakanishi, Shunsuke Mochizuki, Masahiro Yoshioka, Hiroto Kimura, Seiji Wada, Hiroshi Ichiki, Tetsujiro Kondo
  • Patent number: 7904763
    Abstract: A reception device configured to receive a signal of a transmitted bit string transmitted from a transmission device which transmits a bit string includes: a receiving unit arranged to receive a signal from the transmission device and output a received bit string corresponding to the transmitted bit string; a storing unit arranged to store an error rate table wherein said received bit string is correlated with an error rate of post-data which is data of one bit or greater received following the received bit string being in error; and an error correcting unit arranged to perform error correcting of the post-data of the received bit string.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ryosuke Araki, Masato Kikuchi, Shunsuke Mochizuki, Masahiro Yoshioka, Masaki Handa, Takashi Nakanishi, Hiroshi Ichiki, Tetsujiro Kondo
  • Patent number: 7876243
    Abstract: A transmission device configured to transmit a transmission bit string which is an arrangement of a unit bit string of multiple N bits includes: a conversion unit configured to convert the unit bit string into a converted bit string in accordance with a conversion table obtained by obtaining an error rate wherein a k'th bit out of the N bits is in error; obtaining an error expectancy which is an expectancy that a significant bit of the N bits in the unit bit string will err; and creating a conversion table that correlates the unit bit string and a converted bit string obtained by converting the insignificant bit of the unit bit string to a smallest error expectancy bit pattern which is a bit pattern that minimizes the error expectancy of the multiple bit patterns; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the converted bit string.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shunsuke Mochizuki, Masato Kikuchi, Masahiro Yoshioka, Ryosuke Araki, Masaki Handa, Takashi Nakanishi, Hiroshi Ichiki, Tetsujiro Kondo
  • Publication number: 20090309679
    Abstract: A connection method includes the step of connecting, using a line on a dielectric element, two points through which a signal flows, the two points having different heights and the widths of the line at the positions of the two points having been adjusted on the basis of the thickness of the dielectric element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2009
    Publication date: December 17, 2009
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masato KIKUCHI, Shunsuke MOCHIZUKI, Masahiro YOSHIOKA, Ryosuke ARAKI, Masaki HANDA, Takashi NAKANISHI, Hiroshi ICHIKI, Tetsujiro KONDO
  • Publication number: 20090279640
    Abstract: A transmission apparatus includes a modulating section configured to modulate a baseband signal by using a carrier wave; a determining section configured to determine a pattern of the carrier wave, in accordance with a characteristic of a transmission channel on which a waveform represented by a signal value of a specific symbol is stationarily distorted according to a value of a symbol transmitted before or after the specific symbol; and a transmitting section configured to transmit a modulation signal through the transmission channel, the modulation signal being obtained by modulation using the determined carrier-wave pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2009
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Nakanishi, Masato Kikuchi, Shunsuke Mochizuki, Masahiro Yoshioka, Ryosuke Araki, Masaki Handa, Hiroshi Ichiki, Tetsujiro Kondo
  • Publication number: 20090232237
    Abstract: A modulating device configured to perform modulation with the orthogonal frequency division multiplexing method, includes: a modulating unit configured to modulate main information with the orthogonal frequency division multiplexing method; and a determining unit configured to determine a subcarrier pattern employed when modulating the main information by the modulating unit based on additional information relating to the main information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2009
    Publication date: September 17, 2009
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi NAKANISHI, Masato KIKUCHI, Shunsuke MOCHIZUKI, Masahiro YOSHIOKA, Ryosuke ARAKI, Masaki HANDA, Hiroshi ICHIKI, Tetsujito KONDO