Patents by Inventor Tadashi Morita

Tadashi Morita 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: 20170201093
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a DC power transmission device capable of supplying properly a previously agreed amount of power between the power transmission side and the power reception side when customers supply power to each other. [Solution] Provided is the DC power transmission device including: a power supply request acquisition unit configured to acquire a power supply request from a DC power reception device, the DC power reception device being configured to receive DC power from a DC bus line; and a transmission power decision unit configured to decide a parameter of DC power to be outputted to the DC power reception device via the DC bus line based on the power supply request and a characteristic of a power storage device, the power storage device being configured to supply DC power to the DC bus line. The parameter includes power transmission time of DC power that reflects a power transmission loss occurred until DC power reaches the DC power reception device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2015
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventor: TADASHI MORITA
  • Publication number: 20170180365
    Abstract: An application program relating to a process of an integrated circuit is stored in a virtual integrated circuit storage area server apparatus. Following a mutual authentication between the IC and the virtual storage area server apparatus through a portable communication function unit, the server apparatus executes the application program. Additionally, through the IC, the portable communication function unit, a wireless communication line, and a network, communicate with an IC_R/W apparatus and perform a process relating to a service in collaboration with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventors: Akihiko Yamagata, Shigeru Arisawa, Kenji Nakada, Akira Fukada, Tadashi Morita
  • Publication number: 20170160390
    Abstract: A pulse transmission controller generates transmission timing signals for a high-frequency radar transmission signal in every transmission cycle. A transmission phase shifter gives a transmission signal generated by a modulator phase shifts each corresponding to a transmission cycle on the basis of the transmission timing signals generated at intervals that are equal to the transmission cycle. A reception phase shifter gives a reception signal that is output from an A/D converter reception phase shifts that are opposite in direction to the respective transmission phase shifts given by the transmission phase shifter on the basis of the transmission timing signals generated at intervals that are equal to the transmission cycle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2016
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Inventors: Takaaki KISHIGAMI, Hirohito MUKAI, Tadashi MORITA
  • Publication number: 20170163051
    Abstract: A method of operating a first battery server for use with a first node of a power interchange system that distributes direct current (DC) power between nodes, wherein each node of the nodes comprises a storage battery to store electrical energy and a battery server to control transmission of DC power from the storage battery of the node to one or more other nodes and to control receipt of DC power at the node from one or more storage batteries of one or more other nodes. The method comprises, in response to detecting that a state of charge of the first storage battery and/or a usage rate of power satisfies one or more conditions, requesting that a master node of the power interchange system control transmission of power from another node of the nodes to the first node, wherein the master node is one of the nodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2015
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tadashi Morita, Annette Werth
  • Publication number: 20170141561
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an isolated DC power supply device capable of efficiently using ground fault detection for safety protection and communication in a DC power supply network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2015
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: TADASHI MORITA
  • Patent number: 9628936
    Abstract: An application program relating to a process of an integrated circuit is stored in a virtual integrated circuit storage area server apparatus. Following a mutual authentication between the IC and the virtual storage area server apparatus through a portable communication function unit, the server apparatus executes the application program. Additionally, through the IC, the portable communication function unit, a wireless communication line, and a network, communicate with an IC_R/W apparatus and perform a process relating to a service in collaboration with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiko Yamagata, Shigeru Arisawa, Kenji Nakada, Akira Fukada, Tadashi Morita
  • Patent number: 9612324
    Abstract: A transmission sequence generated by a first sector radar is a sequence obtained by multiplying a predetermined code sequence by a first orthogonalized code, and a transmission sequence generated by a second sector radar is a sequence obtained by multiplying a predetermined code sequence by a second orthogonalized code. A value obtained by multiplication of the ith element of the first orthogonalized code and the ith element of the second orthogonalized code is equal to the ith element of a fundamental sequence VV_2n having a length of 2n (n is an integer greater than or equal to 1). The fundamental sequence VV_2n includes a sub fundamental sequence VV_2(n?1) having a length of n and satisfies VV_2n={VV_2(n?1), ?VV_2(n?1)} or {?VV_2(n?1), VV_2(n?1)}.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Tadashi Morita, Takaaki Kishigami
  • Patent number: 9614664
    Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus includes multiple antenna devices, a signal generator, a phase shifter, a phase controller, and a quadrature error corrector (phase error corrector and amplitude error corrector). The signal generating circuitry, in operation, generates an IQ signal having an I signal and a Q signal. The plurality of phase shifting circuitry provided for each of the plurality of antenna devices, in operation, generates a plurality of combination signals by combining the I signal and the Q signal based on a predetermined combining scheme. The phase controlling circuitry, in operation, controls the predetermined combining scheme in each of the plurality of phase shifting circuitry. The quadrature error correcting circuitry, in operation, corrects at least one of amplitude combining scheme and phase combining scheme of the predetermined combining scheme in a correction of the predetermined combining scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadashi Morita, Yukio Okazaki
  • Publication number: 20170091499
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes processing circuits that have respective identification information and that perform processing corresponding to a request from another information processing apparatus, and a reporting circuit that stores the respective identification information of the processing circuits and, instead of the processing circuits, that reports the identification information to the another information processing apparatus in response to a request for reporting the identification information, the request being issued from the another information processing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: Katsuyuki Teruyama, Tadashi Morita, Hiroaki Hamada, Masato Kita
  • Patent number: 9600248
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device including a program execution unit that loads, interprets, and executes a computer program code created by a first procedural language. The program execution unit opens a communication channel in response to a communication connection request from an external unit, and returns to each communication channel a result for a processing request sent from an external unit on the opened communication channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Tadashi Morita
  • Publication number: 20170041047
    Abstract: A communication system and communication method enable various types of near field communication. NFC communication apparatuses have two features in that each can perform communication in two communication modes and that each can perform data transmission at a plurality of transfer rates. The two communication modes consist of a passive mode and an active mode. In the passive mode, between the NFC communication apparatuses, for example, a first NFC communication apparatus transmits data to a second NFC communication apparatus by modulating electromagnetic waves generated by itself, while the second NFC communication apparatus transmits data to the first NFC communication apparatus by performing load modulation on the electromagnetic waves generated by the first NFC communication apparatus. Alternatively, in the active mode, either of the NFC communication apparatuses transmits data by modulating electromagnetic waves generated by itself.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2016
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Takayama, Susumu Kusakabe, Kazushige Tsurumi, Tadashi Morita, Kunihide Fujii
  • Patent number: 9547073
    Abstract: A radar transmitting unit Tx transmits a radio-frequency radar transmission signal from a transmission antenna which is inclined in the direction of a depression angle ?. A radar receiving unit Rx estimates the height and speed of a vehicle which travels on a road surface using a reflected wave signal from the vehicle. A template generating unit 19 generates a variation in a phase component of the reflected wave signal corresponding to N heights and speeds of the vehicle as N templates. N vehicle height/speed template correlation calculation units #1 to #Nrep calculate correlation on the basis of any one of the N templates and a correlation value between the reflected wave signal and a transmission code of the radar transmission signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takaaki Kishigami, Takafumi Tokuhiro, Tadashi Morita
  • Patent number: 9542680
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: processing sections that have respective identification information and that perform processing corresponding to a request from another information processing apparatus; and a reporting section that stores the respective identification information of the processing sections and, instead of the processing sections, that reports the identification information to the another information processing apparatus in response to a request for reporting the identification information, the request being issued from the another information processing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuyuki Teruyama, Tadashi Morita, Hiroaki Hamada, Masato Kita
  • Patent number: 9513365
    Abstract: Respective sector radars generate first and second transmission signals by multiplying any one Spano code sequence and any one orthogonal code sequence, selected among 2(N+1) first and second Spano code sequences which are different from each other and 2(N+1) first and second orthogonal code sequences which are different from each other, in a predetermined order in each transmission period, where N is an integer of 1 or greater. Respective sector radars convert the first and second transmission signals into first and second high frequency signals, and transmit the first and second high frequency signals through first and second transmission antennas. The 2(N+1) first orthogonal code sequences and the 2(N+1) second orthogonal code sequences used in the respective sector radars are orthogonal over transmission periods of M multiples of 2(N+1), where M is an integer of 2 or greater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Tadashi Morita, Takaaki Kishigami
  • Publication number: 20160352507
    Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus includes multiple antenna devices, a signal generator, a phase shifter, a phase controller, and a quadrature error corrector (phase error corrector and amplitude error corrector). The signal generating circuitry, in operation, generates an IQ signal having an I signal and a Q signal. The plurality of phase shifting circuitry provided for each of the plurality of antenna devices, in operation, generates a plurality of combination signals by combining the I signal and the Q signal based on a predetermined combining scheme. The phase controlling circuitry, in operation, controls the predetermined combining scheme in each of the plurality of phase shifting circuitry. The quadrature error correcting circuitry, in operation, corrects at least one of amplitude combining scheme and phase combining scheme of the predetermined combining scheme in a correction of the predetermined combining scheme.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Inventors: TADASHI MORITA, YUKIO OKAZAKI
  • Patent number: 9497588
    Abstract: A communication system and communication method enable various types of near field communication. NFC communication apparatuses have two features in that each can perform communication in two communication modes and that each can perform data transmission at a plurality of transfer rates. The two communication modes consist of a passive mode and an active mode. In the passive mode, between the NFC communication apparatuses, for example, a first NFC communication apparatus transmits data to a second NFC communication apparatus by modulating electromagnetic waves generated by itself, while the second NFC communication apparatus transmits data to the first NFC communication apparatus by performing load modulation on the electromagnetic waves generated by the first NFC communication apparatus. Alternatively, in the active mode, either of the NFC communication apparatuses transmits data by modulating electromagnetic waves generated by itself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Takayama, Susumu Kusakabe, Kazushige Tsurumi, Tadashi Morita, Kunihide Fujii
  • Publication number: 20160329744
    Abstract: [Object] To propose a power control device enabling a system that interchanges DC power to be realized with a simple configuration, and also enabling scalable construction of the system. [Solution] There is provided a power control device including a reception unit configured to receive a power supply demand from a cell connected to a first bus line that transmits direct-current (DC) power, a transmission unit configured to transmit, in response to the power supply demand from the cell connected to the first bus line that was received by the reception unit, the power supply demand to a cell connected to a second bus line that transmits DC power, and a power control unit configured to control, by a reply to the power supply demand transmitted to the cell connected to the second bus line, power conversion between the first bus line and the second bus line on a basis of information relating to respective voltages of the first bus line and the second bus line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2014
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Annette Werth, Shigeru Tajima, Yoshihito Ishibashi, Tadashi Morita
  • Patent number: 9442182
    Abstract: A transmission signal generator produces N transmission pulses for every transmission period from N (N: an integer of 2 or more) kinds of transmission code sequences and (N×M) (M: an integer of 2 or more) kinds of orthogonal code sequences, the transmission pulses being obtained by multiplying transmission codes of the N kinds of transmission code sequences, with selected N orthogonal codes of the (N×M) kinds of orthogonal code sequences. In one transmission period, a radio transmitter converts the N transmission pulses to high-frequency signals, and transmits the signals through a transmission antenna. The (N×M) kinds of orthogonal code sequences are code sequences which satisfy a predetermined mathematical expression in M transmission periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Tadashi Morita, Takaaki Kishigami
  • Publication number: 20160259036
    Abstract: A radar apparatus includes a correlator which, in operation, calculates a correlation value between the digital transmission pulse signals and the digital reception pulse signals, an error estimator which, in operation, estimates, on the basis of the correlation value, an I component error and a Q component error included in the digital reception pulse signals, a correction parameter calculator which, in operation, calculates a correction parameter for correcting the I component error and the Q component error, and an error corrector which, in operation, corrects, on the basis of the correction parameter, the I component error and the Q component error included in at least one of the digital transmission pulse signals and the digital reception pulse signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2016
    Publication date: September 8, 2016
    Inventor: TADASHI MORITA
  • Publication number: 20160248261
    Abstract: [Object] To propose a power supplying device capable of efficiently supplying power through a direct-current power line when an anomaly occurs in external power supply. [Solution] Provided is a power supplying device including: a reception unit configured to receive, from another device, a request for power supply performed through a direct-current bus line through which DC power flows; a power determination unit configured to determine whether power supply is possible, on the basis of the request for power supply; and a power control unit configured to, when the power determination unit determines that the power supply is possible, preform control to determine presence or absence, and in a case of the absence of the control right, acquire the control right and notify the other device of the acquisition of the control right.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: YOSHIICHI TOKUDA, TADASHI MORITA