Patents by Inventor Yoshihide Shimpuku

Yoshihide Shimpuku 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: 8406830
    Abstract: A radio frequency signal transmission system is provided which includes a radio frequency signal transmission connector including an antenna for radiating a radio frequency signal having a predetermined frequency band, and a first dielectric body made of a material having a predetermined first permittivity and having the antenna cast therein, and a radio frequency signal transmission cable including a dielectric transmission path formed of a second dielectric body made of a material having substantially the same second permittivity as the first permittivity of the first dielectric body of the radio frequency signal transmission connector. The radio frequency signal transmission connector is connected with the radio frequency signal transmission cable thereby to form a radio frequency signal transmission path through which the radio frequency signal radiated from the antenna is transmitted to the dielectric transmission path via the first dielectric body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hisao Sakurai, Yoshihide Shimpuku
  • Publication number: 20100182336
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires viewing direction information indicating a direction in which a user views a displayed image; a compensation unit that adaptively compensates a chromaticity point in a video signal using the viewing direction information acquired by the acquisition unit together with color shift amount information that uses a color difference to associate the viewing direction with a color shift amount of display light; and a liquid crystal display unit that performs video display based on the video signal compensated by the compensation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2010
    Publication date: July 22, 2010
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuichi HAGA, Hiroaki ETO, Takehiro NAKATSUE, Yoshihide SHIMPUKU
  • Publication number: 20100173595
    Abstract: A radio frequency signal transmission system is provided which includes a radio frequency signal transmission connector including an antenna for radiating a radio frequency signal having a predetermined frequency band, and a first dielectric body made of a material having a predetermined first permittivity and having the antenna cast therein, and a radio frequency signal transmission cable including a dielectric transmission path formed of a second dielectric body made of a material having substantially the same second permittivity as the first permittivity of the first dielectric body of the radio frequency signal transmission connector. The radio frequency signal transmission connector is connected with the radio frequency signal transmission cable thereby to form a radio frequency signal transmission path through which the radio frequency signal radiated from the antenna is transmitted to the dielectric transmission path via the first dielectric body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2010
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Inventors: Hisao SAKURAI, Yoshihide Shimpuku
  • Publication number: 20100165629
    Abstract: A color chart device for providing color standards for a plurality of colors, with less power consumption as well as reduced luminance variations in colored light within an emission surface, is provided. The color chart device includes a plurality of first light emission sections emitting colored light in wavelength ranges corresponding to the plurality of colors. The first light emission section includes: an enclosure having an emission surface; a single-color light source arranged in the enclosure to emit colored light; a reflective sheet formed on inner surfaces other than the emission surface in the enclosure; and a shielding plate arranged between the single-color light source and the emission surface so as to interrupt the colored light emitted from the single-color light source. The wavelength ranges of the colored light emitted from the first light emission sections are different from one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2008
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuichi Haga, Takehiro Nakatsue, Yoshihide Shimpuku
  • Patent number: 7526032
    Abstract: Data having a basic data length of m bits is modulated to a variable-length code having a basic code length of n bits. A sync signal is added to the data after a minimum bit-run in the data. The sync signal exhibits two or more patterns, each pattern breaking a maximum bit-run and having six channel bits for identifying each sync signal. The two or more patterns are distinguished from one another, with a detection distance of at least two therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2009
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Nakagawa, Yoshihide Shimpuku, Tatsuya Narahara
  • Patent number: 7474366
    Abstract: A color liquid crystal display device capable of displaying a large color gamut is provided. A color liquid crystal display device 100 includes: a transmissive color liquid crystal panel 10 having a color filter and a backlight light source 20, in which the backlight light source 20 includes a fluorescent lamp 21 of large color reproduction range, a color filter 19 is made of color filters of three primary colors that select the wavelength to transmit red light, green light and blue light, and the filter of each color has a spectroscopic characteristic suitable for the spectrum of the fluorescent lamp 21 of large color reproduction range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2009
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shuichi Haga, Tatsuhiko Matsumoto, Tsuneo Kusunoki, Takahiro Igarashi, Yoshihide Shimpuku, Takehiro Nakatsue
  • Publication number: 20070242756
    Abstract: A SYNC bit inserting section 14 adds a sync signal to a train of codes, after adding a minimum run, said sync signal having a pattern that breaks a maximum run. It is thereby possible to provide a reliable sync signal pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2007
    Publication date: October 18, 2007
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Nakagawa, Yoshihide Shimpuku, Tatsuya Narahara
  • Patent number: 7283592
    Abstract: A digital sync signal added in a modulator to a train of codes having a digital sum value, and detected in a demodulator. The digital sync signal has a pattern that breaks a maximum run and a pattern that preserves a minimum run and a maximum run. The digital sync signal has a bit that is selectively determined to be a “0” or a “1” for controlling the digital sum value of the train of codes. The minimum run is repeated no more than a predetermined number of times irrespective of whether the digital sync signal includes the minimum run.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Nakagawa, Yoshihide Shimpuku, Tatsuya Narahara
  • Patent number: 7266153
    Abstract: A SYNC bit inserting section 14 adds a sync signal to a train of codes, after adding a minimum run, said sync signal having a pattern that breaks a maximum run. It is thereby possible to provide a reliable sync signal pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2007
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Nakagawa, Yoshihide Shimpuku, Tatsuya Narahara
  • Patent number: 7200175
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for modulating data modulates data having a length of m-bits to a variable length code having a basic code length of n-bits. A SYNC bit inserting section adds a sync signal to a train of codes, after a minimum run. The sync signal has a pattern that breaks a maximum run.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2007
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Nakagawa, Yoshihide Shimpuku, Tatsuya Narahara
  • Patent number: 7190726
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for modulating and demodulating data to transmit or record the data on a recoding medium. Data is modulated and demodulated into a variable-length code. The modulated data comprises a sync signal adding means for adding a sync signal to a train of codes after adding a minimum run. The demodulated data comprises a sync signal detecting means for detecting, from a train of codes, a sync signal having a pattern that breaks a maximum run, after detecting a minimum run. A SYNC bit inserting section adds a sync signal to a train of codes, after adding a minimum run, where the sync signal has a pattern that breaks a maximum run.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2007
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Nakagawa, Yoshihide Shimpuku, Tatsuya Narahara
  • Patent number: 7188299
    Abstract: In order to reproduce data in a stable manner by correction of random and burst errors of a wide range without lowering a transfer speed, C2 error correction for correcting an inter-sector error is carried out in addition to the conventional C1 error correction for correcting an error generated in a sector. The configuration of an error correction unit (or an ECC block) including C1 and C2 codes is formed as a track. That is to say, one track is used as the base of an ECC block unit. In this way, two ECC block units never exist in the same track.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2007
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Nakagawa, Keitarou Kondou, Hiroaki Eto, Yoshihide Shimpuku
  • Publication number: 20070014370
    Abstract: A SYNC bit inserting section 14 adds a sync signal to a train of codes, after adding a minimum run, said sync signal having a pattern that breaks a maximum run. It is thereby possible to provide a reliable sync signal pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2006
    Publication date: January 18, 2007
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Nakagawa, Yoshihide Shimpuku, Tatsuya Narahara
  • Publication number: 20060227260
    Abstract: A color liquid crystal display device capable of displaying a large color gamut is provided. A color liquid crystal display device 100 includes: a transmissive color liquid crystal panel 10 having a color filter and a backlight light source 20, in which the backlight light source 20 includes a fluorescent lamp 21 of large color reproduction range, a color filter 19 is made of color filters of three primary colors that select the wavelength to transmit red light, green light and blue light, and the filter of each color has a spectroscopic characteristic suitable for the spectrum of the fluorescent lamp 21 of large color reproduction range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2006
    Publication date: October 12, 2006
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shuichi Haga, Takehiro Nakatsue, Tatsuhiko Matsumoto, Tsuneo Kusunoki, Takahiro Igarashi, Yoshihide Shimpuku
  • Publication number: 20060115006
    Abstract: A SYNC bit inserting section 14 adds a sync signal to a train of codes, after adding a minimum run, said sync signal having a pattern that breaks a maximum run. It is thereby possible to provide a reliable sync signal pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2006
    Publication date: June 1, 2006
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Nakagawa, Yoshihide Shimpuku, Tatsuya Narahara
  • Patent number: 7054373
    Abstract: A data-demodulating method for demodulating a variable-length code (d, k; m, n; r) having a basic code length of n bits to data having a basic data length of m bits. A train of codes is received, and a sync signal having a pattern that breaks a maximum run is detected. The pattern is repeated twice continuously and the minimum run is repeated no more than six times. The first bit of the sync signal is “1” when the train of modulated codes that immediately precedes the sync signal is included in a termination table used to terminate, at a desired position, a code when less than a predetermined number of variable length codes are available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2006
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Nakagawa, Yoshihide Shimpuku, Tatsuya Narahara
  • Patent number: 7050506
    Abstract: A method of modulating data having a basic data length of m bits, to a variable-length code (d, k; m, n; r) having a basic code length of n bits. A sync signal is added to a received train of codes after a minimum run. The sync signal has a pattern that is repeated twice continuously. The minimum run is repeated no more than six times; and the sync signal exhibits seven types of sync signal IDs, with any adjacent two bits of a sync signal ID being spaced apart by a distance of 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2006
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Nakagawa, Yoshihide Shimpuku, Tatsuya Narahara
  • Patent number: 7046735
    Abstract: Apparatus for modulating data having a basic data length of m bits, to a variable-length code (d, k; m, n; r) having a basic code length of n bits. A sync signal is added to a received train of codes after a minimum run. The sync signal has a pattern that is repeated twice continuously. The minimum run is repeated no more than six times; and the sync signal exhibits seven types of sync signal IDs, with any adjacent two bits of a sync signal ID being spaced apart by a distance of 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Nakagawa, Yoshihide Shimpuku, Tatsuya Narahara
  • Patent number: 7046736
    Abstract: A data-demodulating apparatus for demodulating a variable-length code (d, k; m, n; r) having a basic code length of n bits to data having a basic data length of m bits. A train of codes is received, and a sync signal having a pattern that breaks a maximum run is detected. The pattern is repeated twice continuously and the minimum run is repeated no more than six times. The first bit of the sync signal is “1” when the train of modulated codes that immediately precedes the sync signal is included in a termination table used to terminate, at a desired position, a code when less than a predetermined number of variable length codes are available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Nakagawa, Yoshihide Shimpuku, Tatsuya Narahara
  • Publication number: 20060029141
    Abstract: A SYNC bit inserting section 14 adds a sync signal to a train of codes, after adding a minimum run, said sync signal having a pattern that breaks a maximum run. It is thereby possible to provide a reliable sync signal pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2005
    Publication date: February 9, 2006
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Nakagawa, Yoshihide Shimpuku, Tatsuya Narahara