Patents by Inventor Suguru Houchi

Suguru Houchi 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: 20220369463
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a mounting member having a surface, an electronic component, a solder and a sidefill. The electronic component has a plurality of electrodes on a surface and is mounted on the surface of the mounting member so that the surface of the electronic component having the electrodes faces the surface of the mounting member. The solder is disposed between the mounting member and at least one of the electrodes of the electronic component to electrically and mechanically connect between the at least one of the electrodes and the mounting member. The sidefill is disposed on a periphery of the solder and mechanically connects between the electronic component and the mounting member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Keitaro ITO, Teruhisa AKASHI, Hideki TERASAWA, Suguru HOUCHI, Naoki YOSHIDA
  • Patent number: 10591953
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a signal processing apparatus and method that enables to reduce required power. In the signal processing apparatus, a RTC of a main chip and a RTC of a power supply chip are synchronized before power supply of the main chip is stopped, and the RTC of the main chip is synchronized with the time of the RTC of the power supply chip after the power supply of the main chip is restored. In this way, the RTC uses continuous time information before and after the stop. The present disclosure is capable of being applied to, for example, a GPS module in which a digital circuit includes a plurality of chips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sotaro Ohara, Katsuyuki Tanaka, Katsumi Takaoka, Keita Izumi, Suguru Houchi, Gaku Hidai, Yutaka Takagi, Hideki Takahashi, Hideki Awata, Yasushi Katayama, Naoki Yoshimochi, Toshimasa Shimizu
  • Patent number: 10228469
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a reception device that can realize low power consumption. The reception device comprises an RF unit, a demodulating unit, and a control unit. The RF unit includes a filtering unit, an amplifying unit, and an A/D converter. The filtering unit allows an IF signal to pass within a predetermined band. The IF signal is acquired by mixing a reception signal received from a positioning satellite with a local oscillation signal generated by a local oscillation unit to perform frequency conversion of the reception signal into an intermediate frequency. The amplifying unit amplifies the IF signal with a predetermined amplification factor. The A/D converter converts the IF signal from an analog signal into a digital signal. The demodulating unit demodulates the digital signal. Based on the demodulation, the control unit controls an operation of the RF unit. The present technology is applicable to a GNSS receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hitoshi Tomiyama, Suguru Houchi, Katsuyuki Tanaka, Hideki Yokoshima, Yuya Kondo
  • Publication number: 20180210487
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a signal processing apparatus and method that enables to reduce required power. In the signal processing apparatus, a RTC of a main chip and a RTC of a power supply chip are synchronized before power supply of the main chip is stopped, and the RTC of the main chip is synchronized with the time of the RTC of the power supply chip after the power supply of the main chip is restored. In this way, the RTC uses continuous time information before and after the stop. The present disclosure is capable of being applied to, for example, a GPS module in which a digital circuit includes a plurality of chips.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Inventors: SOTARO OHARA, KATSUYUKI TANAKA, KATSUMI TAKAOKA, KEITA IZUMI, SUGURU HOUCHI, GAKU HIDAI, YUTAKA TAKAGI, HIDEKI TAKAHASHI, HIDEKI AWATA, YASUSHI KATAYAMA, NAOKI YOSHIMOCHI, TOSHIMASA SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20170212246
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a receiving apparatus, a receiving method, and a program for a global navigation satellite system that enable the reception of various satellite signals with an inexpensive configuration. By using memories 173-2 and 174-2 for 1024 words included in a signal capturing tool 101-2 for receiving a GPS satellite signal in addition to memories 173-1 and 174-1 for 1024 words included in a signal capturing tool 101-1 for receiving the GPS satellite signal, a frequency domain correlation unit 124? calculates a correlation in a frequency domain through FFT calculation relative to a pseudo signal generated from a spreading code of a BeiDou satellite signal with 2048 words. Accordingly, when signal capturing tools 101 that receive a GPS satellite signal are simply combined with one another in a plurality of manners, various satellite signals can be received. The present technology can be applied to a GNSS receiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2015
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Applicant: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Suguru Houchi, Yutaka Ichimura, Hiroshi Kawashima
  • Publication number: 20170010362
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a reception device that can realize low power consumption. There are provided an RF unit, a demodulating unit, and a control unit . The RF unit includes a filtering unit, an amplifying unit, and an A/D converter. The filtering unit allows an IF signal to pass within a predetermined band. The IF signal is acquired by mixing a reception signal received from a positioning satellite with a local oscillation signal generated by a local oscillation unit to perform frequency conversion of the reception signal into an intermediate frequency. The amplifying unit amplifies the IF signal with a predetermined amplification factor. The A/D converter converts the IF signal from an analog signal into a digital signal. The demodulating unit demodulates the digital signal. Based on a result of the demodulation by the demodulating unit, the control unit controls an operation of the RF unit. The present technology can be applied to a GNSS receiver, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: HITOSHI TOMIYAMA, SUGURU HOUCHI, KATSUYUKI TANAKA, HIDEKI YOKOSHIMA, YUYA KONDO
  • Patent number: 9121938
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a Doppler shift amount calculation unit configured to calculate a Doppler shift amount of a reception signal which is obtained by modulating a signal, for which spectrum spreading is performed by using a predetermined spread code, by a predetermined carrier frequency, a frequency shift amount setting unit configured to set a frequency shift amount on the basis of the Doppler shift amount, a frequency conversion unit configured to shift the frequency of the reception signal by the frequency shift amount, a coherent addition unit configured to perform coherent addition of the reception signal, a spread code generation unit configured to generate a spread code, and a phase detection unit configured to perform correlation calculation between a calculation result of the coherent addition and the spread code and detect a phase of the spread code of the reception signal on the basis of the correlation calculation result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Suguru Houchi
  • Patent number: 9014235
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a Doppler shift amount calculation unit configured to calculate a Doppler shift amount of a reception signal which is received from an artificial satellite and is obtained by modulating a signal, for which spectrum spreading is performed by using a predetermined spread code, by a predetermined carrier frequency, a sampling interval setting unit configured to set a sampling interval, at which down sampling is performed for the reception signal, a down sampling unit configured to perform the down sampling for the reception signal, a coherent addition unit configured to perform coherent addition of the reception signal, a spread code generation unit configured to generate a spread code, and a phase detection unit configured to perform correlation calculation between a calculation result of the coherent addition and the spread code and detects a phase of the spread code of the reception signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Suguru Houchi
  • Publication number: 20140169413
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a Doppler shift amount calculation unit configured to calculate a Doppler shift amount of a reception signal which is received from an artificial satellite and is obtained by modulating a signal, for which spectrum spreading is performed by using a predetermined spread code, by a predetermined carrier frequency, a sampling interval setting unit configured to set a sampling interval, at which down sampling is performed for the reception signal, a down sampling unit configured to perform the down sampling for the reception signal, a coherent addition unit configured to perform coherent addition of the reception signal, a spread code generation unit configured to generate a spread code, and a phase detection unit configured to perform correlation calculation between a calculation result of the coherent addition and the spread code and detects a phase of the spread code of the reception signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Suguru Houchi
  • Publication number: 20140168011
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a Doppler shift amount calculation unit configured to calculate a Doppler shift amount of a reception signal which is obtained by modulating a signal, for which spectrum spreading is performed by using a predetermined spread code, by a predetermined carrier frequency, a frequency shift amount setting unit configured to set a frequency shift amount on the basis of the Doppler shift amount, a frequency conversion unit configured to shift the frequency of the reception signal by the frequency shift amount, a coherent addition unit configured to perform coherent addition of the reception signal, a spread code generation unit configured to generate a spread code, and a phase detection unit configured to perform correlation calculation between a calculation result of the coherent addition and the spread code and detect a phase of the spread code of the reception signal on the basis of the correlation calculation result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Suguru Houchi
  • Patent number: 8634486
    Abstract: A signal receiving apparatus includes: a processing unit configured to carry out Fourier transform on Fourier-transform data serving as a Fourier-transform object and carry out Fourier transform on inverse-Fourier-transform data serving as an inverse-Fourier-transform object; and a control unit configured to output pieces of data obtained as a result of the Fourier transform carried out on the Fourier-transform data in an order, in which the pieces of data have been obtained, in a process of outputting the pieces of data and output other pieces of data obtained as a result of the Fourier transform carried out on the inverse-Fourier transform data by rearranging the other pieces of data in a process of outputting the other pieces of data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ryoji Ikegaya, Hidetoshi Kawauchi, Suguru Houchi, Naoki Yoshimochi
  • Patent number: 8509327
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a receiving apparatus including a preamble analyzer configured to receive a frame of DVB-T2 made up of an OFDM signal and analyze a preamble contained in the received frame; an offset detector configured to detect a fine offset and a coarse offset on the basis of the analyzed preamble; a carrier frequency corrector configured to execute carrier frequency correction on an OFDM time domain signal obtained by quadrature demodulation on the basis of the detected fine offset and the detected coarse offset; a determiner configured to determine whether the detection of the coarse offset has been completed; and a control signal outputter configured, if the detection of the coarse offset is determined to be completed, to output a control signal for feeding back the fine offset detected on the basis of an OFDM frequency domain signal obtained by FFT computation to the carrier frequency corrector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yuken Goto, Kenichi Kobayashi, Suguru Houchi
  • Patent number: 8488695
    Abstract: A receiving apparatus for receiving an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signal including a frame having one frame length of a plurality of patterns. The apparatus comprises an acquiring section to acquire information regarding a preamble signal from an OFDM signal from a transmitting apparatus; a frame determining section to determine whether the one frame length is short in the frame based on the information regarding the acquired preamble signal; and a time interpolating section to obtain transmission path characteristics by comparing a pilot contained in the preamble signal with a known pilot corresponding to the pilot in a phase of transmission, when the frame determining section determines that the one frame length is short in the frame, and to interpolate a data portion in a time direction based on transmission path characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Yokokawa, Tadaaki Yuba, Hidetoshi Kawauchi, Hitoshi Sakai, Yuken Goto, Suguru Houchi
  • Patent number: 8363755
    Abstract: A signal receiving apparatus includes: an acquisition section configured to acquire an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing signal resulting from combination of a plurality of signals transmitted by a plurality of signal transmitting apparatus by adoption of an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing method; and a demodulation section configured to carry out partial processing of processing to demodulate the Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing signal acquired by the acquisition section by making use of either first pilot signals or second pilot signals where the first pilot signals are pilot signals extracted from the Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing signal acquired by the acquisition section as signals having the same phase for all the signal transmitting apparatus, and the second pilot signals are pilot signals extracted from the Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing signal acquired by the acquisition section as signals having different phases depending on the signal transmitt
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Suguru Houchi, Naoki Yoshimochi, Takuya Okamoto, Yuken Goto, Takashi Yokokawa
  • Publication number: 20120099677
    Abstract: A signal receiving apparatus includes: a processing unit configured to carry out Fourier transform on Fourier-transform data serving as a Fourier-transform object and carry out Fourier transform on inverse-Fourier-transform data serving as an inverse-Fourier-transform object; and a control unit configured to output pieces of data obtained as a result of the Fourier transform carried out on the Fourier-transform data in an order, in which the pieces of data have been obtained, in a process of outputting the pieces of data and output other pieces of data obtained as a result of the Fourier transform carried out on the inverse-Fourier transform data by rearranging the other pieces of data in a process of outputting the other pieces of data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2011
    Publication date: April 26, 2012
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ryoji IKEGAYA, Hidetoshi Kawauchi, Suguru Houchi, Naoki Yoshimochi
  • Publication number: 20110142176
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a receiving apparatus for receiving an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing signal, namely, OFDM signal having a frame having one frame length of a plurality of patterns, including: an acquiring section configured to acquire information on a preamble signal from the OFDM signal transmitted from a transmitting apparatus in accordance with an OFDM system; a frame determining section configured to determine whether or not the one frame length is short in the frame based on the information on the preamble signal acquired from the acquiring section; and a time interpolating section configured to obtain transmission path characteristics by comparing a pilot contained in the preamble signal and a known pilot corresponding to the pilot in a phase of transmission with each other when the frame determining section determines that the one frame length is short in the frame, and interpolate a data portion in a time direction based on the transmission path characteristics thus obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2010
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi YOKOKAWA, Tadaaki Yuba, Hidetoshi Kawauchi, Hitoshi Sakai, Yuken Goto, Suguru Houchi
  • Publication number: 20110019101
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a receiving apparatus including a preamble analyzer configured to receive a frame of DVB-T2 made up of an OFDM signal and analyze a preamble contained in the received frame; an offset detector configured to detect a fine offset and a coarse offset on the basis of the analyzed preamble; a carrier frequency corrector configured to execute carrier frequency correction on an OFDM time domain signal obtained by quadrature demodulation on the basis of the detected fine offset and the detected coarse offset; a determiner configured to determine whether the detection of the coarse offset has been completed; and a control signal outputter configured, if the detection of the coarse offset is determined to be completed, to output a control signal for feeding back the fine offset detected on the basis of an OFDM frequency domain signal obtained by FFT computation to the carrier frequency corrector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2010
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Inventors: Yuken GOTO, Kenichi Kobayashi, Suguru Houchi
  • Publication number: 20100310013
    Abstract: A signal receiving apparatus includes: an acquisition section configured to acquire an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing signal resulting from combination of a plurality of signals transmitted by a plurality of signal transmitting apparatus by adoption of an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing method; and a demodulation section configured to carry out partial processing of processing to demodulate the Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing signal acquired by the acquisition section by making use of either first pilot signals or second pilot signals where the first pilot signals are pilot signals extracted from the Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing signal acquired by the acquisition section as signals having the same phase for all the signal transmitting apparatus, and the second pilot signals are pilot signals extracted from the Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing signal acquired by the acquisition section as signals having different phases depending on the signal transmitt
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2010
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Inventors: Suguru HOUCHI, Naoki Yoshimochi, Takuya Okamoto, Yuken Goto, Takashi Yokokawa