Patents by Inventor Takashi Sudo

Takashi Sudo 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: 8978055
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a receiver, a generator and a transmitter. The receiver receives operation data indicative of an operating period from each of one or more electronic apparatuses used by a first user, and receives viewing data from a first electronic apparatus of the one or more electronic apparatuses, the viewing data indicative of a program viewed by the first user. The generator generates living pattern data indicative of a living pattern of the first user using the operation data and the viewing data. The transmitter transmits the living pattern data to an electronic apparatus used by a second user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Takashi Sudo, Yasuhiro Kanishima, Shingo Suzuki, Toyokazu Itakura, Kentaro Takeda, Takaya Matsuno
  • Patent number: 8971631
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a data processing system includes a touchscreen display, a recorder, and a processor. The recorder is configured to record a plurality of stroke data indicating loci handwritten on the touchscreen display and times respectively. The processor is configured to execute data processing using a first time indicated by first stroke data associated with first data and a second time indicated by second stroke data associated with second data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Sachie Yokoyama, Rumiko Hashiba, Hideki Tsutsui, Chikashi Sugiura, Toshihiro Fujibayashi, Takashi Sudo, Takehiko Isaka
  • Patent number: 8963875
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a touch panel, an operation module, a detector, and a switch module. The touch panel and the operation module are configured to receive an operation command. The detector detects whether the touch panel is wet based on a touch position detected by the touch panel. The switch module switches, if the touch panel is wet, the receiver of the operation command from the touch panel to the operation module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Chikashi Sugiura, Hiroshi Fujimura, Akinori Kawamura, Takashi Sudo
  • Patent number: 8948417
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a characteristic correcting device includes: a correction filter configured to correct sound quality characteristics of a plurality of bands in a frequency range of an input signal based on a frequency characteristic which is set in advance to generate an output signal; an input module configured to input a surrounding sound signal of sound around an output device outputting the output signal; and an adjusting module configured to reduce the number of the bands of which the sound quality characteristics are to be corrected of the bands in the frequency range of the input signal in accordance with an increase in amplitude of the surrounding sound signal which is input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yusaku Kikugawa, Takashi Sudo, Masataka Osada, Takehiko Isaka
  • Patent number: 8930184
    Abstract: A signal bandwidth extending apparatus including: a bandwidth extending section configured to extend a frequency bandwidth of a target signal, the target signal included in an input signal; a calculating section configured to calculate a degree of the target signal included in the input signal; and a controller configured to change a method of extending the frequency bandwidth by the bandwidth extending section according to a result of the calculating section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Takashi Sudo, Masataka Osada
  • Patent number: 8917887
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a signal processor includes a band divider, a first correction module, a determiner, an adjuster, and a second correction module. The band divider calculates an amplitude indicating sound pressure from an acoustic signal for each frequency range. The first correction module corrects the amplitude to change the dynamic range of the amplitude to a target range. The determiner determines whether the maximum amplitude of amplitudes corrected by the first correction module is equal to or larger than a threshold. The adjuster adjusts first and second coefficients based on the first condition if the maximum amplitude is equal to or larger than the threshold. The second correction module adds a value obtained by multiplying the acoustic signal by the first coefficient to a value obtained by multiplying the correction amount of the amplitude by the second coefficient, and outputs a resulting value as an output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Chikashi Sugiura, Takashi Sudo, Yusaku Kikugawa, Masataka Osada
  • Publication number: 20140320307
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a biological sensor, an extraction module, a state detector, and a transmission controller. The biological sensor generates first biological data. The extraction module extracts one or more first features from the first biological data. The state detector detects a communication state between a communication module and a server. The transmission controller transmits at least one of the first biological data and the one or more first features to the server, based on the detected communication state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Takaya Matsuno, Shingo Suzuki, Yusaku Kikugawa, Koji Yamamoto, Kentaro Takeda, Takashi Sudo, Tadashi Amada, Yasuhiro Kanishima, Chikashi Sugiura
  • Publication number: 20140286498
    Abstract: An echo cancelling device splits a low-band signal through LPFs having characteristics which do not cause aliasing during downsampling of downsamplers, and splits a high-band signal through HPFs having characteristics which do not cause aliasing during downsampling of downsamplers. The echo canceling device generates a mid-band signal by subtracting the low-band signal and the high-band signal from a pre-split signal by adder-subtractors, and cancels an echo on a band-by-band basis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2012
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Sudo, Atsuyoshi Yano, Tomoharu Awano
  • Patent number: 8811623
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a first signal input unit configure to receive a first signal, a second signal input unit configure to receive a signal, a first control unit configure to acquire system resources, a second control unit configure to select, in accordance with information of the system resources acquired by the first control unit, a processing method for suppressing at least one of echo and noise of the second signal input from the second signal input unit containing the echo due to the first signal input from the first signal input unit, a third control unit configure to generate an output signal by suppressing at least one of the echo and the noise from the second signal by the processing method selected by the second control unit, and a signal output unit configure to output the output signal generated by the third control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Takashi Sudo, Kimio Miseki
  • Publication number: 20140203786
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a power supply apparatus includes a battery assembly, a fuse element, a switch unit, and a control unit. The fuse element is connected between the battery assembly and a load unit driven by being supplied with power from the battery assembly. The switch unit is connected in parallel to the load unit. The control unit causes, when an over voltage of at least one of the battery assembly and the load unit is detected, the switch unit to be in an ON state, provides an over current to flow from the battery assembly to the fuse element, and fusing the fuse element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2014
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Takeshi Oosawa, Shinichiro Kosugi, Manabu Murakami, Kazuto Kuroda, Masahiro Sekino, Takashi Sudo, Hideaki Ohsawa, Ryo Okabe
  • Publication number: 20140177856
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a first processing module adds, to a first queue, output sound data output from a first task, with a time stamp attached thereto. A second processing module adds, to a second queue, input sound data received from a microphone, with a time stamp attached thereto. A controller fetches first output sound data as reference data from the first queue, the first output sound data having a time stamp whose time difference from a time stamp of first input sound data in the second queue falls within a predetermined range. An echo canceller performs echo cancelling processing to cancel an echo component in the first input sound data based on the reference data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Takashi Sudo, Osamu Sanbuichi
  • Patent number: 8724828
    Abstract: A correction spectrum calculation unit 6 obtains a correction spectrum by smoothing an estimated noise spectrum in accordance with the degree of its variations, and a suppression quantity limiting coefficient calculation unit 7 decides a suppression quantity limiting coefficient from the correction spectrum. A suppression quantity calculation unit 9 obtains a suppression coefficient based on the suppression quantity limiting coefficient, and the spectrum suppression unit 10 carries out amplitude suppression of spectral components of an input signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Satoru Furuta, Takashi Sudo, Hirohisa Tasaki
  • Patent number: 8711219
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a signal processor includes: a plurality of loudspeakers configured to reproduce sound of a plurality of channels; a plurality of microphones configured to pick up sound of a plurality of channels; a detector configured to detect a user who is present in a direction of a space from which the microphones pick up the sound, and output directional characteristic information indicating a relative direction of the user to the loudspeakers; and a signal processor configured to switch contents of processing to reduce a disturbance signal included in a picked-up sound signal of the sound picked up by the microphones from the picked-up sound signal based on the relative direction indicated by the directional characteristic information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Takashi Sudo, Takehiko Isaka
  • Publication number: 20140075569
    Abstract: Provided are a display apparatus and a display program that may prevent data for personal use from becoming known to a third party, when the third party unexpectedly appears while a user is using the display apparatus. The display apparatus includes a display unit configured to display a screen based on specific data of a specific user for personal use; a detection unit configured to detect a person and determine whether the detected person is the specific user or a third party other than the specific user; and a display control unit configured to convert the screen of the display unit into a screen hiding the specific data when the third party is detected by the detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Inventor: Takashi SUDO
  • Publication number: 20140062408
    Abstract: A power source device includes an assembled battery having a plurality of secondary battery cells connected in series, and a plurality of discharge circuits connected in parallel with the secondary battery cells, respectively. A charge control circuit performs constant current charging to the assembled battery, and when voltages of one or a plurality of the secondary battery cells out of the plurality of secondary battery cells have reached a prescribed first voltage, drives the discharge circuits connected to the secondary battery cells whose voltage have reached the first voltage to discharge, and performs constant voltage charging to the relevant assemble battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Masahiro Sekino, Takashi Sudo, Shinichiro Kosugi
  • Publication number: 20140003612
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, information terminal includes: first audio input module; first audio output module; second audio input module; audio processor; and second audio output module. The first audio input module receives an external sound from an external information terminal connected to the information terminal via an external network. The first audio output module outputs the external sound. The second audio input module receives sounds transmitted from a sound input device of each information terminal within a group connected to the information terminal via the internal network. The audio processor synthesizes the in-group sounds to generate a single input sound, and removes an echo component from the input sound. Here, the echo component is caused due to the external sounds output from the sound output device. The second audio output module outputs the input sound from which the echo component is removed to the external information terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2013
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Saito, Koichi Kaji, Takashi Sudo
  • Publication number: 20130336500
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a signal processing apparatus, including: a speaker; a vibration sensor; and a controller. The speaker is configured to output a sound. The vibration sensor is configured to detect a vibration that is caused by a solid propagation of the sound from the speaker, and to output a reference signal based on the detected variation. The controller is configured to perform a noise suppress control which suppresses a noise due to the vibration using the reference signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventor: Takashi Sudo
  • Publication number: 20130314596
    Abstract: One embodiment provides an electronic apparatus, including: a first detector configured to attempt to detect a telop and a warning sound from a received video content at a first image reading interval and a first sound reading interval, respectively; and a second detector configured to attempt, upon a detection of at least one of a telop and a warning sound by the first detector, to detect a telop and a warning sound from the video content at a second image reading interval and a second sound reading interval which are shorter than the first image reading interval and the first sound reading interval, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Takaya MATSUNO, Koji YAMAMOTO, Takashi SUDO, Chikashi SUGIURA
  • Publication number: 20130300675
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, the electronic device displays on the screen the locus of each of a plurality of strokes which are handwritten by a handwriting input operation which is executed on the touch-screen display. The electronic device stores, in the storage medium, first time-series information including a plurality of stroke data corresponding to the plurality of strokes and indicating an order in which the plurality of strokes were handwritten. The electronic device selects the process-target time-series information part from the first time-series information in accordance with the range designation operation which is executed on the touch-screen display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Hideki Tsutsui, Rumiko Hashiba, Sachie Yokoyama, Toshihiro Fujibayashi, Takehiko Isaka, Takashi Sudo, Chikashi Sugiura
  • Publication number: 20130305146
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a system includes a receiver, a storage, a retrieval module and a transmitter. The receiver receives handwritten document data, which includes stroke data corresponding to strokes, from a first electronic device. The storage stores a handwritten document data in addition to a plurality of document data. The retrieval module retrieves, in response to a request by a second electronic device, first handwritten document data corresponding to the request from the plurality of document data in the storage. The transmitter transmit the first handwritten document data to the second electronic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Rumiko Hashiba, Hideki Tsutsui, Sachie Yokoyama, Toshihiro Fujibayashi, Chikashi Sugiura, Takehiko Isaka, Takashi Sudo