Patents by Inventor Takayuki Niitsuma

Takayuki Niitsuma 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: 8903523
    Abstract: An audio processing device includes an audio input selecting unit configured to select a predetermined audio input from among a plurality of audio inputs; a signal processing unit configured to give a predetermined sound field characteristic to audio signals of the audio input selected by the audio input selecting unit; a signal output unit configured to output the audio signals obtained in the signal processing unit; a genre information receiving unit configured to receive genre information transmitted from any of audio signal output devices; and a sound field control unit configured to control the signal processing unit to give a sound field characteristic corresponding to the genre information if the genre information received by the genre information receiving unit is determined to be the genre information corresponding to the audio input selected by the audio input selecting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Higuchi, Keisuke Satou, Takayuki Niitsuma
  • Publication number: 20130283333
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a first output terminal connected to a first control bus capable of bi-directionally transmitting a control signal; a second output terminal connected to a second control bus capable of bi-directionally transmitting the control signal, the first and second output terminals being configured to output baseband video and audio signals; and a controller configured to execute a separation output mode in which the video signal is output from the first terminal and the audio signal is output from the second terminal, to exclusively control valid and invalid states of the first and second buses, and in a case where a user instructs an execution of the separation output mode, to transmit a first control signal to a first device in a valid state of the first bus and transmit a second control signal to a second device in a valid state of the second bus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Naoyuki SATO, Takayuki Niitsuma
  • Patent number: 8451388
    Abstract: An audio processing apparatus includes: a transmission signal input/output unit that inputs or outputs a video signal, an audio signal, and a control signal; a reproduction processing unit that reproduces the audio signal inputted to the transmission signal input/output unit or an audio signal inputted to any other audio signal input unit; an output unit that outputs the audio signal, which is processed by the reproduction processing unit, through a loudspeaker; and a control unit that when detecting that a control signal signifying that a predetermined mode concerning the display image quality represented by the video signal should be designated is inputted to the transmission signal input/output unit, instructs the reproduction processing unit to perform predetermined sound-field processing or sound-quality processing during the reproduction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Higuchi, Takayuki Niitsuma, Keisuke Satou, Junichiro Matsumoto, Hiromichi Fujita
  • Publication number: 20130053992
    Abstract: There is provided an apparatus including a device control apparatus including one or two or more connection sections which are connected to an external device, and a control section which controls a sound output from a sound output section of sound data input from the one or two or more connection sections. The control section controls the sound output from the sound output section in accordance with a first sound output mode using a first logical address or a second sound output mode using a second logical address, the second sound output mode having functions which are more limited than functions of the first sound output mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Higuchi, Takayuki Niitsuma, Osamu Nishida
  • Publication number: 20130051584
    Abstract: There is provided a device control apparatus including a wearing information detection section which detects wearing information of a sound output apparatus, and an output control section which switches an output destination of an input sound between the sound output apparatus and another sound output apparatus in accordance with a detection result obtained by the wearing information detection section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Higuchi, Takayuki Niitsuma, Osamu Nishida
  • Publication number: 20120230525
    Abstract: An audio device includes: a reproduction unit that reproduces an audio signal of a plurality of channels; an input unit that receives a detection signal indicating the positions of the reproduction unit and a listener; and a control unit that changes the audio signal to be reproduced by the reproduction unit depending on the position based on the detection signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2012
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Higuchi, Takayuki Niitsuma, Akihito Masumura
  • Publication number: 20100271560
    Abstract: An audio processing apparatus includes: a transmission signal input/output unit that inputs or outputs a video signal, an audio signal, and a control signal; a reproduction processing unit that reproduces the audio signal inputted to the transmission signal input/output unit or an audio signal inputted to any other audio signal input unit; an output unit that outputs the audio signal, which is processed by the reproduction processing unit, through a loudspeaker; and a control unit that when detecting that a control signal signifying that a predetermined mode concerning the display image quality represented by the video signal should be designated is inputted to the transmission signal input/output unit, instructs the reproduction processing unit to perform predetermined sound-field processing or sound-quality processing during the reproduction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2010
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Higuchi, Takayuki Niitsuma, Keisuke Satou, Junichiro Matsumoto, Hiromichi Fujita
  • Publication number: 20090281643
    Abstract: An audio processing device includes an audio input selecting unit configured to select a predetermined audio input from among a plurality of audio inputs; a signal processing unit configured to give a predetermined sound field characteristic to audio signals of the audio input selected by the audio input selecting unit; a signal output unit configured to output the audio signals obtained in the signal processing unit; a genre information receiving unit configured to receive genre information transmitted from any of audio signal output devices; and a sound field control unit configured to control the signal processing unit to give a sound field characteristic corresponding to the genre information if the genre information received by the genre information receiving unit is determined to be the genre information corresponding to the audio input selected by the audio input selecting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2009
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Higuchi, Keisuke Satou, Takayuki Niitsuma