Patents by Inventor Toshikazu Munezane

Toshikazu Munezane 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: 8189990
    Abstract: A digital broadcast receiving apparatus which enables simple programming for receiving a digital television broadcast and/or a radio broadcast. The digital broadcast receiving apparatus includes: a broadcast receiving unit receiving a digital broadcast; an extraction unit extracting a service description table from the received digital broadcast; an identification unit identifying, from the extracted service description table, transport stream identification information, network identification information, and service identification information, as stream identification information; and a transmission unit transmitting, to a recording apparatus, the identified stream identification information and a recording command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masazumi Yamada, Junji Yoshida, Toshikazu Munezane, Kei Ichikawa
  • Publication number: 20100178040
    Abstract: The present invention provides a digital broadcast receiving apparatus which enables simple programming for receiving a digital television broadcast and/or a radio broadcast. The digital broadcast receiving apparatus according to the present invention is a digital broadcast receiving apparatus which receives a digital broadcast, and includes: a broadcast receiving unit that receives a digital broadcast; an extraction unit that extracts a service description table from the received digital broadcast; an identification unit that identifies, from the extracted service description table, transport stream identification information, network identification information, and service identification information, as stream identification information; and a transmission unit that transmits, to a recording apparatus, the identified stream identification information and a recording command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2006
    Publication date: July 15, 2010
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masazumi Yamada, Junji Yoshida, Toshikazu Munezane, Kei Ichikawa
  • Patent number: 7058458
    Abstract: A command transmission/reception section (4R), a power-control determination section (8) and a power control section (9) are provided in a controlled device (3) which is connected to a network (1) and which performs power control in response to a command transmitted from a control device (2). Upon receipt of a power control command from the control device (2), the power-control determination section (8) determines as to power-on/power-off in units of a block, and performs power control on the basis of a result of the determination. Consequently, unnecessary power-on in, for example, video reservation can be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2006
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Toshikazu Munezane
  • Publication number: 20030149492
    Abstract: A command transmission/reception section (4R), a power-control determination section (8) and a power control section (9) are provided in a controlled device (3) which is connected to a network (1) and which performs power control in response to a command transmitted from a control device (2). Upon receipt of a power control command from the control device (2), the power-control determination section (8) determines as to power-on/power-off in units of a block, and performs power control on the basis of a result of the determination. Consequently, unnecessary power-on in, for example, video reservation can be prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2003
    Publication date: August 7, 2003
    Inventor: Toshikazu Munezane