Patents by Inventor Tomonori Nakajima
Tomonori Nakajima 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: 10257459Abstract: A receiving apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives expected waves, and a control unit that sets the receiving unit to an operational state that has a lower electricity consumption within a range in which reception performance is allowed, depending on interference waves with respect to the expected waves that the receiving unit receives.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2017Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yasunari Takiguchi, Takahiro Furuya, Tomonori Nakajima, Mitsuru Ikeda, Hiroyuki Shimizu, Masaru Fujii, Toshikazu Yoshida
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Patent number: 9991916Abstract: At least one distributor that distributes a high-frequency signal received by an antenna; and a high-frequency processing unit that outputs a received signal obtained by mixing the high-frequency signal distributed by the distributor with a local oscillator frequency generated by a local oscillator that includes a voltage-controlled oscillator are included. Furthermore, a control unit that, when executing a local oscillator frequency search to investigate a correspondence between a control voltage applied to the voltage-controlled oscillator and the local oscillator frequency of the voltage-controlled oscillator, sets to a dormant state parts constituting the local oscillator that are uninvolved in operation of the local oscillator frequency search is included.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2014Date of Patent: June 5, 2018Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Shimizu, Tomonori Nakajima, Toshikazu Yoshida
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Patent number: 9906251Abstract: There is provided a reception device including first and second reception circuits configured to receive transmission signals, a first oscillation circuit configured to generate a differential signal having a predetermined frequency on the basis of an oscillation signal acquired from a connected crystal oscillator, and to supply the generated differential signal to the first reception circuit as a reference frequency signal, and a second oscillation circuit configured to be supplied with an oscillation signal having one of phases in the differential signal acquired by the first oscillation circuit, to generate a differential signal having a predetermined frequency on the basis of the supplied oscillation signal, and to supply the generated differential signal to the second reception circuit as a reference frequency signal.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2016Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventors: Tomonori Nakajima, Norihiro Murayama, Toshikazu Yoshida
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Publication number: 20170339368Abstract: A receiving apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives expected waves, and a control unit that sets the receiving unit to an operational state that has a lower electricity consumption within a range in which reception performance is allowed, depending on interference waves with respect to the expected waves that the receiving unit receives.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2017Publication date: November 23, 2017Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Yasunari Takiguchi, Takahiro Furuya, Tomonori Nakajima, Mitsuru Ikeda, Hiroyuki Shimizu, Masaru Fujii, Toshikazu Yoshida
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Patent number: 9781375Abstract: A receiving apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives expected waves, and a control unit that sets the receiving unit to an operational state that has a lower electricity consumption within a range in which reception performance is allowed, depending on interference waves with respect to the expected waves that the receiving unit receives.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2014Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yasunari Takiguchi, Takahiro Furuya, Tomonori Nakajima, Mitsuru Ikeda, Hiroyuki Shimizu, Masaru Fujii, Toshikazu Yoshida
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Publication number: 20170033820Abstract: There is provided a reception device including first and second reception circuits configured to receive transmission signals, a first oscillation circuit configured to generate a differential signal having a predetermined frequency on the basis of an oscillation signal acquired from a connected crystal oscillator, and to supply the generated differential signal to the first reception circuit as a reference frequency signal, and a second oscillation circuit configured to be supplied with an oscillation signal having one of phases in the differential signal acquired by the first oscillation circuit, to generate a differential signal having a predetermined frequency on the basis of the supplied oscillation signal, and to supply the generated differential signal to the second reception circuit as a reference frequency signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2016Publication date: February 2, 2017Applicant: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventors: Tomonori Nakajima, Norihiro Murayama, Toshikazu Yoshida
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Patent number: 9484972Abstract: There is provided a reception device including first and second reception circuits configured to receive transmission signals, a first oscillation circuit configured to generate a differential signal having a predetermined frequency on the basis of an oscillation signal acquired from a connected crystal oscillator, and to supply the generated differential signal to the first reception circuit as a reference frequency signal, and a second oscillation circuit configured to be supplied with an oscillation signal having one of phases in the differential signal acquired by the first oscillation circuit, to generate a differential signal having a predetermined frequency on the basis of the supplied oscillation signal, and to supply the generated differential signal to the second reception circuit as a reference frequency signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2014Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventors: Tomonori Nakajima, Norihiro Murayama, Toshikazu Yoshida
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Publication number: 20160295155Abstract: A housing has a vertical dimension, a horizontal dimension, a height dimension, a diagonal dimension, and an arbitrary dimension that are each shorter than a half wavelength of a maximum frequency of a source oscillation frequency of an oscillator of a tuner IC that is contained in the housing. Furthermore, pin positions in a pin connector including a plurality of pins connected to the tuner IC are arranged in a zig-zag manner, and the pin connector has a size shorter than a length decided by multiplying a number of the pins and a pin interval of the pin connector.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2014Publication date: October 6, 2016Inventors: TOMONORI NAKAJIMA, MITSURU IKEDA, TOSHIYUKI SUDO
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Publication number: 20160142664Abstract: A receiving apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives expected waves, and a control unit that sets the receiving unit to an operational state that has a lower electricity consumption within a range in which reception performance is allowed, depending on interference waves with respect to the expected waves that the receiving unit receives.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2014Publication date: May 19, 2016Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Yasunari Takiguchi, Takahiro Furuya, Tomonori Nakajima, Mitsuru Ikeda, Hiroyuki Shimizu, Masaru Fujii, Toshikazu Yoshida
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Publication number: 20160028422Abstract: At least one distributor that distributes a high-frequency signal received by an antenna; and a high-frequency processing unit that outputs a received signal obtained by mixing the high-frequency signal distributed by the distributor with a local oscillator frequency generated by a local oscillator that includes a voltage-controlled oscillator are included. Furthermore, a control unit that, when executing a local oscillator frequency search to investigate a correspondence between a control voltage applied to the voltage-controlled oscillator and the local oscillator frequency of the voltage-controlled oscillator, sets to a dormant state parts constituting the local oscillator that are uninvolved in operation of the local oscillator frequency search is included.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2014Publication date: January 28, 2016Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Shimizu, Tomonori Nakajima, Toshikazu Yoshida
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Publication number: 20150373297Abstract: A receiving device includes a plurality of receiving circuits, a plurality of local oscillation circuits that supply local oscillation signals to each of the plurality of receiving circuits, and a control unit that controls each receiving circuit and each local oscillation circuit. The control unit provides a plurality of search algorithms for searching for a reception frequency in each of the receiving circuits, and selects a search algorithm at the time of searching for the reception frequency of each receiving circuit according to a frequency which is handled by other receiving circuit or other local oscillation circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2014Publication date: December 24, 2015Inventors: Hiroyuki SHIMIZU, Tomonori NAKAJIMA
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Publication number: 20150372704Abstract: There is provided a reception device including first and second reception circuits configured to receive transmission signals, a first oscillation circuit configured to generate a differential signal having a predetermined frequency on the basis of an oscillation signal acquired from a connected crystal oscillator, and to supply the generated differential signal to the first reception circuit as a reference frequency signal, and a second oscillation circuit configured to be supplied with an oscillation signal having one of phases in the differential signal acquired by the first oscillation circuit, to generate a differential signal having a predetermined frequency on the basis of the supplied oscillation signal, and to supply the generated differential signal to the second reception circuit as a reference frequency signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2014Publication date: December 24, 2015Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Tomonori Nakajima, Norihiro Murayama, Toshikazu Yoshida
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Patent number: 9215013Abstract: A reception apparatus includes a plurality of reception circuits that receive transmission signals, a plurality of local oscillation circuits that respectively supply the plurality of reception circuits with local oscillation signals, and a control unit that controls tunings in the plurality of reception circuits. When at least one reception circuit among the plurality of reception circuits is not used to receive the transmission signals, the control unit searches for an interference wave using the unused reception circuit.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2014Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Shimizu, Tomonori Nakajima
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Patent number: 8958017Abstract: A reception apparatus includes a plurality of reception circuits disposed in a predetermined arrangement state, a plurality of local oscillation circuits each of which supplies a local oscillation signal to each of the plurality of reception circuits, and a control unit that controls each reception circuit and each local oscillation circuit. When there is a specific reception circuit to which a local oscillation signal is supplied, of which frequency matches or is close to a passing frequency during a search of a reception signal with a tuning request, the control unit performs the search of the reception signal with the tuning request in a reception circuit disposed at a position far from the specific reception circuit.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2014Date of Patent: February 17, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Shimizu, Tomonori Nakajima
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Publication number: 20140267930Abstract: A reception apparatus includes a plurality of reception circuits disposed in a predetermined arrangement state, a plurality of local oscillation circuits each of which supplies a local oscillation signal to each of the plurality of reception circuits, and a control unit that controls each reception circuit and each local oscillation circuit. When there is a specific reception circuit to which a local oscillation signal is supplied, of which frequency matches or is close to a passing frequency during a search of a reception signal with a tuning request, the control unit performs the search of the reception signal with the tuning request in a reception circuit disposed at a position far from the specific reception circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2014Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Shimizu, Tomonori Nakajima
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Publication number: 20140273876Abstract: A reception apparatus includes a plurality of reception circuits that receive transmission signals, a plurality of local oscillation circuits that respectively supply the plurality of reception circuits with local oscillation signals, and a control unit that controls tunings in the plurality of reception circuits. When at least one reception circuit among the plurality of reception circuits is not used to receive the transmission signals, the control unit searches for an interference wave using the unused reception circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2014Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Shimizu, Tomonori Nakajima
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Publication number: 20140267920Abstract: There is provided a receiving apparatus including at least one divider configured to divide a high-frequency signal received by an antenna, a high-frequency processing unit configured to output a reception signal obtained by mixing the high-frequency signal divided by the divider and a local oscillation frequency generated by a local oscillator that includes a voltage-controlled oscillator, and a control unit configured to execute voltage-controlled oscillator optimization for searching for a relationship between a control voltage applied to the voltage-controlled oscillator and a local oscillation frequency of the voltage-controlled oscillator, and increase a clock frequency speed when executing the optimization of the voltage-controlled oscillator.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2014Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: Sony CorporationInventor: Tomonori NAKAJIMA
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Patent number: 8836452Abstract: A tuner module includes a tuner module substrate having a tuner function part formed thereon, a case body having a shielding function of holding and incorporating at least the tuner module substrate, a circuit board on which the tuner module substrate is mounted, and at least one antenna connector to be fixed to the case body and having a core wire connected to the tuner module substrate incorporated in the case body. A part of the circuit board is contained inside the case body.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2011Date of Patent: September 16, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Tadashi Imai, Makoto Watanabe, Toshiyuki Sudo, Toshiyuki Nagano, Mitsuru Ikeda, Teruyuki Toyoda, Hideaki Ozawa, Tomonori Nakajima, Goujin Arakawa, Norio Uchida, Hiroyuki Takamatsu
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Publication number: 20140168519Abstract: There is provided a tuner module of the present disclosure includes a tuner module board on which a tuner function unit is formed, a case body that holds at least the tuner module board so as to contain the board, and at least one antenna connector fixed to the case body and whose core wire is connected to the tuner module board contained in the case body.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2012Publication date: June 19, 2014Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Tadashi Imai, Hideaki Ozawa, Toshiyuki Nagano, Teruyuki Toyoda, Tomonori Nakajima, Mitsuru Ikeda, Goujin Arakawa, Toshiyuki Sudo, Norio Uchida, Hiroyuki Takamatsu
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Patent number: 8185071Abstract: A tuner module includes a filter that reduces the signal level outside the frequency band of a selected channel in an input RF signal of terrestrial television broadcasting, a local oscillation circuit that oscillates a local oscillation signal, a mixing circuit that mixes the RF signal in which the signal level outside the frequency band of the selected channel is reduced by the filter and the local oscillation signal oscillated by the local oscillation circuit to downconvert the RF signal to an intermediate frequency signal, and a control circuit that controls the local oscillation frequency of the local oscillation signal oscillated by the local oscillation circuit. The control circuit adjusts the local oscillation frequency to a value that suppresses an effect of a disturbance wave from other channels within a frequency band of the intermediate frequency signal of the selected channel.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2009Date of Patent: May 22, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Eiichi Sano, Tomonori Nakajima