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).

  • Patent number: 9426761
    Abstract: A WiGig wireless device partially performs a masking processing on a preamble of a transmission signal frame and generates a repetition pattern of the same pulse capable of being used in a correlation detection of a sensor. That is, a repetition pattern of a Golay code is output by intermittently performing the masking processing on the Golay code sequence. The sensor performs the correlation detection using a pulse compression technology, thereby detecting the antenna radiation pattern even in an environment where a reflected wave is generated, by separating the direct wave and the reflected wave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Tadashi Morita, Takaaki Kishigami, Hirohito Mukai
  • Publication number: 20160238694
    Abstract: A radar device employs a configuration provided with: a receiver which, in operation, receives one or more radar transmission signals transmitted from another radar device, in an interference measurement segment in which transmission of a radar transmission signal from the radar device is stopped; A/D conversion circuitry which, in operation, converts the one or more radar transmission signals from the other radar device received by the receiver from one or more analog signals into one or more digital signals; and an interference detection circuitry which, in operation, performs a correlation calculation between each of one or more discrete samples that is the one or more digital signals and a prescribed coefficient sequence to detect one or more prescribed frequency components included in the one or more digital signals, as one or more interference signal components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Inventors: Takaaki KISHIGAMI, Tadashi MORITA
  • Patent number: 9405003
    Abstract: A transmission signal generating unit generates a transmission signal by multiplying one (selected in prescribed order) of 2N+1 (N: an integer of 1 or more) codes of a Spano code sequence by one code (selected in prescribed order), having a length 1, of one of a first code or a second code each having a code length 2N+1 in every transmission cycle. A transmission RF unit converts the transmission signal into a radio-frequency radar transmission signal and transmits it from a transmission antenna. As for codes used in adjacent two transmission cycles for two times 2N+1 transmission cycles, the sum total of inner products of codes having a length 1 of the first code, inner products of codes having a length 1 of the second code, and inner products of codes of the first code and the second code becomes equal to 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Tadashi Morita, Takaaki Kishigami
  • Publication number: 20160202348
    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: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Inventors: Takaaki Kishigami, Takafumi Tokuhiro, Tadashi Morita
  • Patent number: 9389309
    Abstract: First and second radar modules include channel controllers which set different frequency bands for first and second carrier waves, respectively, and first radar transmitter and receiver which transmit radio-frequency first and second radar transmission signals generated using prescribed first and second transmission code sequences and the first and second carrier waves, which receive first and second radar reflection signals produced as a result of reflection of the first and second radar transmission signals by a target, and which convert them into baseband first and second reception signals. A signal processor performs prescribed combining processing on outputs of the first and second radar modules. The first and second radar transmission signals partially overlap with each other in main beam directivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yoichi Nakagawa, Tadashi Morita, Takaaki Kishigami
  • Patent number: 9372985
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including a first program execution unit that loads, interprets, and executes code of a computer program created by a procedural language. The program execution unit includes at least one port, and via this port, executes a second computer program created by a procedural language executed by a second program execution unit after authenticating with the second program execution unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Tadashi Morita
  • Patent number: 9372259
    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: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takaaki Kishigami, Hirohito Mukai, Tadashi Morita
  • Patent number: 9322905
    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 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 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takaaki Kishigami, Takafumi Tokuhiro, Tadashi Morita
  • Patent number: 9300518
    Abstract: A transmission system is provided with a pulse sequence generator that generates a pulse sequence including Golay code or Spano code, a ?/2-BPSK modulator that applies ?/2-BPSK modulation to the pulse sequence generated by the pulse sequence generator, and a phase rotator that provides phase rotation for every pulse for output of the ?/2-BPSK modulator and a reception system is provided with a phase rotator that provides a phase opposite to a phase provided by the phase rotator of the transmission system and a correlator that performs correlation calculation for output of the phase rotator, based on the output of the ?/2-BPSK modulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadashi Morita, Takaaki Kishigami, Naoya Yosoku
  • Patent number: 9269992
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a battery. The battery includes a contactless communication control block configured to execute contactless communication as a transponder and a reader/writer which are based on electromagnetic induction. The battery further includes an antenna configured to execute the contactless communication as the transponder; and an antenna configured to execute the contactless communication as the reader/writer. The battery further includes a battery control block configured to control a charge operation of a cell block. The contactless communication control block communicates, in a contactless manner, a charge state of the cell block supplied from the battery control block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi Okamura, Tadashi Morita
  • Patent number: 9262128
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including a program execution unit configured to read, interpret and execute a code of a computer program that is created in a procedural language, and a backup unit configured to create a backup in a format in which a variable definition and a function definition in the code being executed by the program execution unit are interpretable as a code in the procedural language.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tadashi Morita
  • Publication number: 20160021536
    Abstract: There is provided an integrated circuit capable of performing more secure encrypted communication using near field non-contact wireless communication. The integrated circuit including a communication processing section configured to communicate with another apparatus through non-contact communication, and an encryption information generation section configured to make a determination on generation of authentication information used to mutually authenticate the other apparatus in performing non-contact communication with the other apparatus depending on presence or absence of a history of non-contact communication with the other apparatus, before the communication processing section executes communication of encrypted information with the other apparatus. The integrated circuit allows more secure near field non-contact wireless communication to be performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2014
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuyuki TERUYAMA, Tadashi MORITA
  • Patent number: 9203448
    Abstract: A transmission RF section (101) up-converts a DA-converted test signal into a high-frequency signal. An amplitude of the high-frequency signal, an envelope of which is detected by a loop-back section, is detected by an amplitude detector (400). An inverse characteristic calculator (402) converts the detected amplitude into an amplitude in the transmission RF section (101) using an inverse conversion table (407) and then calculates amplitude inverse characteristics. An FIR filter (103) corrects a signal band of a transmission signal based on a result of an inverse Fourier transform calculated by an IFFT section (405) based on the amplitude inverse characteristics as a variable factor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Tadashi Morita, Naganori Shirakata
  • Publication number: 20150341203
    Abstract: A transmission system is provided with a pulse sequence generator that generates a pulse sequence including Golay code or Spano code, a ?/2-BPSK modulator that applies ?/2-BPSK modulation to the pulse sequence generated by the pulse sequence generator, and a phase rotator that provides phase rotation for every pulse for output of the ?/2-BPSK modulator and a reception system is provided with a phase rotator that provides a phase opposite to a phase provided by the phase rotator of the transmission system and a correlator that performs correlation calculation for output of the phase rotator, based on the output of the ?/2-BPSK modulator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2015
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Inventors: TADASHI MORITA, TAKAAKI KISHIGAMI, NAOYA YOSOKU
  • Publication number: 20150319566
    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: July 15, 2015
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Takayama, Susumu Kusakabe, Kazushige Tsurumi, Tadashi Morita, Kunihide Fujii
  • Publication number: 20150311958
    Abstract: A method for a communication device includes determining whether a first radio frequency (RF) signal at a level of at least a first predetermined field threshold is detected. The method also includes generating a second RF signal at a level of at least a second predetermined field threshold greater than the first predetermined field threshold, when the communication device receives an instruction to generate the second RF signal and the determining determines that the first RF signal at the level of at least the first predetermined field threshold is not detected. The method further includes receiving a load modulated RF signal in response to the second RF signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2015
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kunihide FUJII, Tadashi MORITA, Shigeru ARISAWA, Yoshihisa TAKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20150242617
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including a first program execution unit that loads, interprets, and executes code of a computer program created by a procedural language. The program execution unit includes at least one port, and via this port, executes a second computer program created by a procedural language executed by a second program execution unit after authenticating with the second program execution unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2012
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Inventor: Tadashi Morita
  • Patent number: 9112624
    Abstract: Provided are a time division receiver and a time division receiving method capable of mitigating leaks between branches for a time division multiplexed signal for which a plurality of branches have been time-division multiplexed even when processing using a single high-frequency circuit. A time division receiver comprises a mixer that down-converts a time-division multiplexed signal resulting from a plurality of branch signals being time-division multiplexed, a demultiplexer that demultiplexes the time-division multiplexed signal down-converted by the mixer, into respective branch signals; and an initializer that initializes a charge remaining in a parasitic capacitance, the parasitic capacitance being generated on a path between the mixer and the demultiplexer, when a first branch signal has passed through the path, before a second branch signal passes through the path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tadashi Morita
  • Patent number: 9106273
    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: December 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Takayama, Susumu Kusakabe, Kazushige Tsurumi, Tadashi Morita, Kunihide Fujii
  • Publication number: 20150212197
    Abstract: A radar device is provided with: a transmitter that transmits a high-frequency radar transmission signal from a transmission antenna; a controller that controls execution or stopping of transmission of the radar transmission signal; a receiver that amplifies a thermal noise signal inputted from reception antenna by using an initial gain value and quantize the amplified thermal noise signal, while the transmission of the radar transmission signal is stopped; and a gain controller that adjusts the prescribed gain value to a gain value suitable for dithering of the thermal noise signal, based on the quantized thermal noise signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2015
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Inventors: TADASHI MORITA, TAKAAKI KISHIGAMI, YOICHI NAKAGAWA