Patents by Inventor Toshihiro Fujiki

Toshihiro Fujiki 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: 11848770
    Abstract: To extend the number of bits of an identifier without affecting the number of data bits to be transmitted. The present disclosure provides a receiving apparatus (1102) that identifies a transmitting apparatus (1101) based on a first identifier (10) having been individually given to each transmitting apparatus in order to identify the transmitting apparatus and a second identifier (20) which is for identifying the transmitting apparatus and which is shared among a plurality of transmitting apparatuses. According to this configuration, the number of bits of an identifier can be extended without affecting the number of data bits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshihiro Fujiki, Seiji Kobayashi, Katsuki Hirabayashi
  • Patent number: 11528260
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a transmitting device and a transmitting method, and a receiving device and a receiving method which are capable of improving confidentiality and communication resistance in low power wide area (LPWA) communication. The transmitting device generates a key stream on the basis of GPS time information, encrypts transmitted data on the basis of the key stream to generate encrypted data, and transmits the encrypted data to the receiving device. The receiving device generates a key stream on the basis of GPS time information and decodes the encrypted data into the transmitted data on the basis of the key stream. The present disclosure can be applied to an LPWA communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toshihiro Fujiki
  • Patent number: 11470578
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a transmission device, a transmission method, a reception device, a reception method, and a communication method capable of shortening a pause time of data transmission. According to an aspect of the present technology, a transmission device classifies channels usable for data transmission into a plurality of groups, selects the channels that are used in transmission units and that continue on a time axis from the channels of the different groups in accordance with an identifier, and performs the data transmission of the transmission units by using the selected channels. It is possible to make application to a communication system transmitting data through one-way communication from a transmission device to a reception device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiji Kobayashi, Toshihiro Fujiki, Nobuo Kato, Yusuke Yoneyama
  • Patent number: 11452150
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, a transmitter, a transmission method, a receiver, and a reception method which can provide setting information necessary for each receiver. An information processing device of one aspect of the present technology holds non-common setting information that is not common setting information among setting information used in transmitters for setting for transmitting information in association with identification information of the respective transmitters. In addition, the information processing device transmits, to a receiver that has received identification information transmitted from a predetermined transmitter using common setting information that is setting information common in the plurality of transmitters, the non-common setting information associated with the identification information received by the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Okumura, Toshihiro Fujiki, Kentaro Nakahara, Seiji Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20220150714
    Abstract: A communication device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire first information for communication in which a first frequency band has been used, the first frequency band being an unlicensed band in which a plurality of communication schemes can be mixed, from a second frequency band different from the first frequency band, and a communication control unit configured to control communication in a predetermined communication scheme in which the first frequency band has been used, on the basis of the first information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke YONEYAMA, Toshihiro FUJIKI, Katsuyuki TANAKA, Seiji KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11310628
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to secure a relative relationship when positions are displayed by use of position information transmitted from a plurality of wireless communication devices. Each of the wireless communication devices of the present invention includes a position information acquisition unit and a transmission unit. The position information acquisition unit acquires the position information of the wireless communication devices by the GPS, for example. At that time, the position information acquisition unit also acquires time information when the position information is acquired. The transmission unit transmits transmission data including the position information and the time information when the position information is acquired in a predetermined transmission slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiji Kobayashi, Shinichi Kitazono, Toshihiro Fujiki
  • Publication number: 20210405212
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires first position information indicating a position of a target object in a target region and a generation unit that generates, on the basis of the first position information, second position information including area mesh information that indicates a target area mesh containing the target object and included in plural area meshes produced by dividing the target region in a first direction and a second direction such that a division number in the second direction varies for each position in the first direction in the target region and relative position information that indicates a position of the target object in the target area mesh. The present technology is applicable to a transmission device and a reception device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihiro FUJIKI, Seiji KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20210314307
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a transmitting device and a transmitting method, and a receiving device and a receiving method which are capable of improving confidentiality and communication resistance in low power wide area (LPWA) communication. The transmitting device generates a key stream on the basis of GPS time information, encrypts transmitted data on the basis of the key stream to generate encrypted data, and transmits the encrypted data to the receiving device. The receiving device generates a key stream on the basis of GPS time information and decodes the encrypted data into the transmitted data on the basis of the key stream. The present disclosure can be applied to an LPWA communication system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventor: Toshihiro FUJIKI
  • Publication number: 20210297177
    Abstract: To extend the number of bits of an identifier without affecting the number of data bits to be transmitted. The present disclosure provides a receiving apparatus (1102) that identifies a transmitting apparatus (1101) based on a first identifier (10) having been individually given to each transmitting apparatus in order to identify the transmitting apparatus and a second identifier (20) which is for identifying the transmitting apparatus and which is shared among a plurality of transmitting apparatuses. According to this configuration, the number of bits of an identifier can be extended without affecting the number of data bits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihiro FUJIKI, Seiji KOBAYASHI, Katsuki HIRABAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11102410
    Abstract: In installation work, a camera captures a vehicle including an occupant and a license plate of the vehicle in a view angle from an installation position of the camera and transmits, to the terminal, a captured image of the occupant and a captured image of the license plate in response to a setting request from a terminal. The terminal displays a setting screen including the captured image of the occupant and the captured image of the license plate, receives input of parameters including an operation mode of the camera and positional relationship information indicating a positional relationship between the camera and the vehicle according to manipulations of an operator, and transmits the input parameters to the camera. The camera derives and sets camera parameters corresponding to the operation mode based on the input parameters transmitted from the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshimasa Funaki, Hiroaki Jodan, Toshihiro Fujiki, Toshiyuki Sano, Naoaki Tomisaka, Yuji Arima
  • Publication number: 20210250909
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a transmission device, a transmission method, a reception device, a reception method, and a communication method capable of shortening a pause time of data transmission. According to an aspect of the present technology, a transmission device classifies channels usable for data transmission into a plurality of groups, selects the channels that are used in transmission units and that continue on a time axis from the channels of the different groups in accordance with an identifier, and performs the data transmission of the transmission units by using the selected channels. It is possible to make application to a communication system transmitting data through one-way communication from a transmission device to a reception device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiji KOBAYASHI, Toshihiro FUJIKI, Nobuo KATO, Yusuke YONEYAMA
  • Publication number: 20210195662
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, a transmitter, a transmission method, a receiver, and a reception method which can provide setting information necessary for each receiver. An information processing device of one aspect of the present technology holds non-common setting information that is not common setting information among setting information used in transmitters for setting for transmitting information in association with identification information of the respective transmitters. In addition, the information processing device transmits, to a receiver that has received identification information transmitted from a predetermined transmitter using common setting information that is setting information common in the plurality of transmitters, the non-common setting information associated with the identification information received by the receiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki OKUMURA, Toshihiro FUJIKI, Kentaro NAKAHARA, Seiji KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11012091
    Abstract: LDPC coding is executed using a check matrix of an LDPC code whose code length is 736 bits and whose code rate is 1/4, and modulation is executed using a repetition unit that has an LDPC code obtained by the LDPC coding, repeatedly arranged therein. The LDPC code includes information bits and parity bits, the check matrix includes an information matrix portion corresponding to the information bits and a parity matrix portion corresponding to the parity bits, the parity matrix portion has a stepwise structure, the information matrix portion is indicated by a check matrix initial value table, and the check matrix initial value table is a predetermined table indicating positions of elements of “1” of the information matrix portion for each eight columns. This technique is applicable to, for example, information transmission using the LDPC code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiji Kobayashi, Masanori Sato, Nabil Loghin, Toshihiro Fujiki, Ryoji Ikegaya, Hiroyuki Kamata, Yusuke Yoneyama, Kimiya Kato, Akira Endo, Sawako Kiriyama, Hiroyuki Mita, Hideshi Motoyama, Hiroshi Aoki, Daisuke Kawakami
  • Publication number: 20210021960
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to secure a relative relationship when positions are displayed by use of position information transmitted from a plurality of wireless communication devices. Each of the wireless communication devices (100) of the present invention includes a position information acquisition unit (130) and a transmission unit (170). The position information acquisition unit (130) acquires the position information of the wireless communication devices (100) by the GPS, for example. At that time, the position information acquisition unit (130) also acquires time information when the position information is acquired. The transmission unit (170) transmits transmission data including the position information and the time information when the position information is acquired in a predetermined transmission slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Inventors: SEIJI KOBAYASHI, SHINICHI KITAZONO, TOSHIHIRO FUJIKI
  • Publication number: 20200382705
    Abstract: In installation work, a camera captures a vehicle including an occupant and a license plate of the vehicle in a view angle from an installation position of the camera and transmits, to the terminal, a captured image of the occupant and a captured image of the license plate in response to a setting request from a terminal. The terminal displays a setting screen including the captured image of the occupant and the captured image of the license plate, receives input of parameters including an operation mode of the camera and positional relationship information indicating a positional relationship between the camera and the vehicle according to manipulations of an operator, and transmits the input parameters to the camera. The camera derives and sets camera parameters corresponding to the operation mode based on the input parameters transmitted from the terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshimasa FUNAKI, Hiroaki JODAN, Toshihiro FUJIKI, Toshiyuki SANO, Naoaki TOMISAKA, Yuji ARIMA
  • Publication number: 20190393898
    Abstract: LDPC coding is executed using a check matrix of an LDPC code whose code length is 736 bits and whose code rate is 1/4, and modulation is executed using a repetition unit that has an LDPC code obtained by the LDPC coding, repeatedly arranged therein. The LDPC code includes information bits and parity bits, the check matrix includes an information matrix portion corresponding to the information bits and a parity matrix portion corresponding to the parity bits, the parity matrix portion has a stepwise structure, the information matrix portion is indicated by a check matrix initial value table, and the check matrix initial value table is a predetermined table indicating positions of elements of “1” of the information matrix portion for each eight columns. This technique is applicable to, for example, information transmission using the LDPC code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Applicants: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation, Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Seiji KOBAYASHI, Masanori SATO, Nabil LOGHIN, Toshihiro FUJIKI, Ryoji IKEGAYA, Hiroyuki KAMATA, Yusuke YONEYAMA, Kimiya KATO, Akira ENDO, Sawako KIRIYAMA, Hiroyuki MITA, Hideshi MOTOYAMA, Hiroshi AOKI, Daisuke KAWAKAMI
  • Patent number: 10354687
    Abstract: There is provided a recording adjustment device, a recording adjustment method, and a program of which enables recording compensation for an optical disc for a high-linear density to be realized. The recording adjustment device according to an embodiment of the present technique executes filter processing on the basis of a regenerative signal obtained by reproducing data recorded in a recording medium, and a recording pattern of marks and spaces of the data, identifies an impulse response of a system, calculates a difference in amplitude between an output from the filter processing after the identification of the impulse response and the regenerative signal every edge type, and detects a slope of a step response in the vicinity of an edge position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toshihiro Fujiki
  • Publication number: 20180330752
    Abstract: There is provided a recording adjustment device, a recording adjustment method, and a program of which enables recording compensation for an optical disc for a high-linear density to be realized. The recording adjustment device according to an embodiment of the present technique executes filter processing on the basis of a regenerative signal obtained by reproducing data recorded in a recording medium, and a recording pattern of marks and spaces of the data, identifies an impulse response of a system, calculates a difference in amplitude between an output from the filter processing after the identification of the impulse response and the regenerative signal every edge type, and detects a slope of a step response in the vicinity of an edge position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2017
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toshihiro FUJIKI
  • Patent number: 8013912
    Abstract: An image server includes: a focus position control unit for determining a focus position based on a maximum value of focus evaluation detected by a picture signal level detection unit; and a focus lens driver for moving the focus lens in predetermined control volumes based on an instruction from the focus position control means; characterized in that, in case the exposure time is changed to a longer cycle than a predetermined cycle, the focus position control unit determines a large control volume corresponding to the change in exposure time and moves the focus lens with the control volume to detect the maximum value of focus evaluation and performs focus control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Kikuchi, Toshihiro Fujiki
  • Patent number: 7911912
    Abstract: An optical disc recording apparatus that uses a pseudo-random number sequence for recording auxiliary information, wherein a sequence of data based on auxiliary information is modulated by a signal represented by a combination of a sequence of pseudo-random numbers and a predetermined periodic signal, and recorded traces of the pits or the marks are changed depending on the modulated sequence of data, thereby recording the auxiliary information on the optical disc. By making it difficult to estimate the structure of the sequence of pseudo-random numbers, duplication of an optical disc is hindered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Toshihiro Fujiki