Patents by Inventor Tamotsu Munakata
Tamotsu Munakata 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).
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Patent number: 10306268Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including an adjustment unit that adjusts respective lengths of delay times, which delay data transmission, for a plurality of different delay elements regarding the data transmission, so as to match with the longest delay time of the plurality of delay times or a predetermined time equal to or more than the longest delay time, and a setting unit that sets the respective plurality of delay times of which the lengths are adjusted by the adjustment unit in a processing unit which performs a process for the data transmission.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2011Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yoshinobu Kure, Hideaki Murayama, Tamotsu Munakata, Chihiro Fujita, Osamu Yoshimura
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Patent number: 10070017Abstract: The present technique relates to an information processing apparatus, a method, and a program allowing for easily controlling video synchronization in image data transmission. The information processing apparatus according to the present technique includes a synchronization cancellation unit configured to cancel synchronization between synchronization timing of a network to which image data are transmitted and synchronization timing of the image data, on the basis of a delay time of image data transmission, an adjusting unit configured to adjust synchronization timing of the image data of which synchronization with the synchronization timing of the network is cancelled by the synchronization cancellation unit, and a synchronization connection unit configured to synchronize the synchronization timing of the image data, which is adjusted by the adjusting unit, with the synchronization timing of the network. The present technique can be applied to, for example, an information processing apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2013Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hideki Iwami, Tamotsu Munakata, Hiroshi Okawa
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Patent number: 9344645Abstract: A camera system includes: a camera device which outputs a picked-up image signal in synchronization with an input synchronization signal; a camera controller which is input with the image signal of the camera device; and a relay device which is connected between the camera device and the camera controller and relays the image signal to be transmitted from the camera device to the camera controller, wherein the relay device transmits at least an externally input synchronization signal to the camera device and outputs the image signal to the camera device in synchronization with the externally input synchronization signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2011Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Hideaki Murayama, Satoshi Tsubaki, Tamotsu Munakata, Eisaburo Itakura
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Patent number: 9032459Abstract: A system and method for adjusting one or more signal delays. The signal delays are adjusted by obtaining delay amounts of video signals associated with respective camera units and respective camera control units, the camera units being coupled to respective ones of the camera control units via an asynchronous network, and adjusting one or more of the delay amounts.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2011Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hiroaki Takahashi, Tamotsu Munakata, Hideaki Murayama, Satoshi Tsubaki, Eisaburo Itakura
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Publication number: 20150085190Abstract: The present technique relates to an information processing apparatus, a method, and a program allowing for easily controlling video synchronization in image data transmission. The information processing apparatus according to the present technique includes a synchronization cancellation unit configured to cancel synchronization between synchronization timing of a network to which image data are transmitted and synchronization timing of the image data, on the basis of a delay time of image data transmission, an adjusting unit configured to adjust synchronization timing of the image data of which synchronization with the synchronization timing of the network is cancelled by the synchronization cancellation unit, and a synchronization connection unit configured to synchronize the synchronization timing of the image data, which is adjusted by the adjusting unit, with the synchronization timing of the network. The present technique can be applied to, for example, an information processing apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2013Publication date: March 26, 2015Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Hideki Iwami, Tamotsu Munakata, Hiroshi Okawa
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Patent number: 8982219Abstract: A transmitting device in accordance with the present invention includes an encoding unit that converts an input video signal into encoded data and sends out the encoded data to a transmission line, and a synchronization signal generation unit that generates a synchronization signal SYNC for adjusting the phase of an input video signal on the basis of phase information transmitted through the transmission line, wherein the phase information PHS includes information indicating that a timing of a synchronization signal generated by the synchronization signal generation unit is to be advanced by the time necessary for transmission, and the synchronization signal generation unit generates the synchronization signal SYNC so that an input video signal is advanced by the time necessary for transmission.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2011Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Satoshi Tsubaki, Tamotsu Munakata, Hideaki Murayama, George Fujita, Kei Kakitani
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Patent number: 8964921Abstract: The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus, a method, and a program capable of suppressing deterioration of content quality. An integrated reception buffer time adjustment unit 114 obtains a maximum transmission delay time that is the longest delay time among the transmission delays of data transmission performed by each reception unit 113. The reception buffer time setting unit 208 calculates a reception buffer time using the maximum transmission delay time, a transmission delay time of the data transmission by the reception unit 113, and a prescribed reception buffer time. The reception buffer time setting unit 208 sets various delay times and waiting times such as a variable compression encoding delay time, a redundant encoding block reception waiting time, an ARQ retransmission packet waiting time, and a network jitter handling buffer time from the reception buffer time. The present invention can be applied to an information processing apparatus, for example.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2011Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yoshinobu Kure, Hideaki Murayama, Tamotsu Munakata, Chihiro Fujita, Osamu Yoshimura
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Patent number: 8817117Abstract: A camera system having a plurality of camera pairs is provided. Each pair may have a camera control unit and a camera head unit respectively connected together by way of an asynchronous transmission network. The camera system may also have a central processing unit configured to obtain a video signal delay amount, representative of a time delay between a respective camera control unit and its respective camera head unit, for each of the plurality of camera pairs, and to adjust the video signal delay amount between at least one said camera control unit and its respective camera head unit to be equal to a selected video signal delay amount of another said camera control unit and its respective camera head unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2011Date of Patent: August 26, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hiroaki Takahashi, Satoshi Tsubaki, Tamotsu Munakata, Eisaburo Itakura, Hideaki Murayama
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Patent number: 8745432Abstract: A delay controller includes an acquiring section that acquires synchronization timings indicating timings when a plurality of controllers, which control via a line a plurality of transmitters that transmit data, synchronously control the transmitters, a determining section that determines a reference synchronization timing serving as a reference for synchronization between the controllers, on the basis of the synchronization timings acquired by the acquiring section, and a synchronization information transmitting section that transmits synchronization information to the controllers, the synchronization information being used when the controllers receive data from each of the transmitters at the reference synchronization timing determined by the determining section.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2011Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hideki Iwami, Eisaburo Itakura, Satoshi Tsubaki, Hiroaki Takahashi, Kei Kakitani, Tamotsu Munakata, Hideaki Murayama
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Publication number: 20130136218Abstract: The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus, a method, and a program capable of suppressing deterioration of content quality. An integrated reception buffer time adjustment unit 114 obtains a maximum transmission delay time that is the longest delay time among the transmission delays of data transmission performed by each reception unit 113. The reception buffer time setting unit 208 calculates a reception buffer time using the maximum transmission delay time, a transmission delay time of the data transmission by the reception unit 113, and a prescribed reception buffer time. The reception buffer time setting unit 208 sets various delay times and waiting times such as a variable compression encoding delay time, a redundant encoding block reception waiting time, an ARQ retransmission packet waiting time, and a network jitter handling buffer time from the reception buffer time. The present invention can be applied to an information processing apparatus, for example.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2011Publication date: May 30, 2013Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Yoshinobu Kure, Hideaki Murayama, Tamotsu Munakata, Chihiro Fujita, Osamu Yoshimura
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Patent number: 8422584Abstract: A transmission method including the steps of: dividing an input video signal into a plurality of packets which comply with a predetermined transmission standard and preferentially selecting, as a transmission path for each of the plurality of packets, a transmission channel, to which a lower frequency band is allocated, from among the plurality of transmission channels which are allocated along a frequency axis; and modulating, by using a multicarrier modulation method, the plurality of packets and transmitting the modulated packets to a receiving device along a cable through the selected transmission channel, the cable having a transmission characteristic such that attenuation of a signal to be transmitted increases with the frequency of the signal.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2010Date of Patent: April 16, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: George Fujita, Tamotsu Munakata, Hideaki Murayama
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Publication number: 20120098980Abstract: A camera system having a plurality of camera pairs is provided. Each pair may have a camera control unit and a camera head unit respectively connected together by way of an asynchronous transmission network. The camera system may also have a central processing unit configured to obtain a video signal delay amount, representative of a time delay between a respective camera control unit and its respective camera head unit, for each of the plurality of camera pairs, and to adjust the video signal delay amount between at least one said camera control unit and its respective camera head unit to be equal to a selected video signal delay amount of another said camera control unit and its respective camera head unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2011Publication date: April 26, 2012Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroaki Takahashi, Satoshi Tsubaki, Tamotsu Munakata, Eisaburo Itakura, Hideaki Murayama
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Publication number: 20120086814Abstract: A transmitting device in accordance with the present invention includes an encoding unit that converts an input video signal into encoded data and sends out the encoded data to a transmission line, and a synchronization signal generation unit that generates a synchronization signal SYNC for adjusting the phase of an input video signal on the basis of phase information transmitted through the transmission line, wherein the phase information PHS includes information indicating that a timing of a synchronization signal generated by the synchronization signal generation unit is to be advanced by the time necessary for transmission, and the synchronization signal generation unit generates the synchronization signal SYNC so that an input video signal is advanced by the time necessary for transmission.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2011Publication date: April 12, 2012Inventors: Satoshi Tsubaki, Tamotsu Munakata, Hideaka Murayama, George Fujita, Kei Kakitani
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Publication number: 20120062755Abstract: A system and method for adjusting one or more signal delays. The signal delays are adjusted by obtaining delay amounts of video signals associated with respective camera units and respective camera control units, the camera units being coupled to respective ones of the camera control units via an asynchronous network, and adjusting one or more of the delay amounts.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2011Publication date: March 15, 2012Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroaki Takahashi, Tamotsu Munakata, Hideaki Murayama, Satoshi Tsubaki, Eisaburo Itakura
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Publication number: 20120039194Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including an adjustment unit that adjusts respective lengths of delay times, which delay data transmission, for a plurality of different delay elements regarding the data transmission, so as to match with the longest delay time of the plurality of delay times or a predetermined time equal to or more than the longest delay time, and a setting unit that sets the respective plurality of delay times of which the lengths are adjusted by the adjustment unit in a processing unit which performs a process for the data transmission.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2011Publication date: February 16, 2012Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Yoshinobu Kure, Hideaki Murayama, Tamotsu Munakata, Chihiro Fujita, Osamu Yoshimura
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Publication number: 20110305281Abstract: A receiver includes a receiving section that receives communication packets transmitted from a transmitter, which transmits the communication packets each including encoded data, and an image header, sequentially from the encoded data corresponding to the beginning of an image, a first accumulating section that accumulates the encoded data and the image header included in each of the received communication packets, a detecting section that detects a picture header transmitted together with the encoded data corresponding to the beginning of the image, from the image header of each of the received communication packets, in a predetermined observation interval, a second accumulating section that accumulates the detected picture header, and a control section that reads out the picture header accumulated in the second accumulating section, and causes the picture header to be accumulated into the first accumulating section, if the picture header is not detected within the observation interval.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2011Publication date: December 15, 2011Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Osamu Yoshimura, Hideki Iwami, Chihiro Fujita, Hideaki Murayama, Tamotsu Munakata, Yoshinobu Kure
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Publication number: 20110252265Abstract: A delay controller includes an acquiring section that acquires synchronization timings indicating timings when a plurality of controllers, which control via a line a plurality of transmitters that transmit data, synchronously control the transmitters, a determining section that determines a reference synchronization timing serving as a reference for synchronization between the controllers, on the basis of the synchronization timings acquired by the acquiring section, and a synchronization information transmitting section that transmits synchronization information to the controllers, the synchronization information being used when the controllers receive data from each of the transmitters at the reference synchronization timing determined by the determining section.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2011Publication date: October 13, 2011Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: HIDEKI IWAMI, EISABURO ITAKURA, SATOSHI TSUBAKI, HIROAKI TAKAHASHI, KEI KAKITANI, TAMOTSU MUNAKATA, HIDEAKI MURAYAMA
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Publication number: 20110249132Abstract: A camera system includes: a camera device which outputs a picked-up image signal in synchronization with an input synchronization signal; a camera controller which is input with the image signal of the camera device; and a relay device which is connected between the camera device and the camera controller and relays the image signal to be transmitted from the camera device to the camera controller, wherein the relay device transmits at least an externally input synchronization signal to the camera device and outputs the image signal to the camera device in synchronization with the externally input synchronization signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2011Publication date: October 13, 2011Inventors: Hideaki Murayama, Satoshi Tsubaki, Tamotsu Munakata, Eisaburo Itakura
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Publication number: 20100260244Abstract: A transmission method including the steps of: dividing an input video signal into a plurality of packets which comply with a predetermined transmission standard and preferentially selecting, as a transmission path for each of the plurality of packets, a transmission channel, to which a lower frequency band is allocated, from among the plurality of transmission channels which are allocated along a frequency axis; and modulating, by using a multicarrier modulation method, the plurality of packets and transmitting the modulated packets to a receiving device along a cable through the selected transmission channel, the cable having a transmission characteristic such that attenuation of a signal to be transmitted increases with the frequency of the signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2010Publication date: October 14, 2010Inventors: George FUJITA, Tamotsu Munakata, Hideaki Murayama
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Publication number: 20100166053Abstract: The present invention relates to an information processing device and method, program, and communication system, whereby encoded data can be transmitted with low delay. A data control unit 137 causes encoded data supplied in order from lowband component to be temporarily accumulated in a memory unit 301 and counts the code amount of the encoded data accumulated, cuts off obtaining of encoded data at the stage where the encoded data reaches a predetermined amount, reads out part or all of encoded data accumulated in the memory unit 301, and supplies to a packetizing unit 302 as return encoded data. The present invention can be applied to, for example, a digital triax system.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2008Publication date: July 1, 2010Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Takahiro Fukuhara, Junya Araki, Kazuhisha Hosaka, Satoshi Tsubaki, Tamotsu Munakata, Koji Kamiya, George Fujita