Patents by Inventor Yuken Goto

Yuken Goto 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: 9210017
    Abstract: There is provided a reception device including a reception unit configured to receive an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) signal, an acquisition unit configured to acquire a transmission parameter concerning the OFDM signal contained in the OFDM signal, and a selection unit configured to select a demodulation mode of the OFDM signal in accordance with the acquired transmission parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Yokokawa, Hiroyuki Kamata, Hidetoshi Kawauchi, Yuken Goto, Kenichi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9203678
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a receiving device, a receiving method, a program, and a receiving system which may improve reception performance in the case of receiving a signal with a variable frequency band. A receiving device according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a demodulation unit configured to convert a received signal to a baseband signal in the case where a first frequency differs from a second frequency, wherein the first frequency is a center frequency in a band of the received signal, the second frequency is a center frequency in a band of a desired signal included in a part of the band of the received signal, and a DC component of the baseband signal is to be a frequency in the vicinity of the second frequency. The present technology may be applied to a receiver which receives an OFDM signal of DVB-C2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Okamoto, Hiroo Takahashi, Yuken Goto
  • Patent number: 9094635
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a reception device, a reception method, a program, and a reception system that make it possible for the location of a frequency band that is used for the transmission of a signal of a predetermined standard to be promptly detected. A reception device according to one aspect of the present technology is including: a reception unit that receives an OFDM signal of a predetermined frequency band; a calculation unit that obtains correlation values between signals transmitted using carriers used for the transmission of a known signal, from within the predetermined frequency band; and a detection unit that, on the basis of the correlation values, detects a frequency band used for the transmission of a signal of a predetermined standard and in which transmission of the known signal is continuously carried out in the same carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yuken Goto
  • Publication number: 20150085910
    Abstract: There is provided a reception device including a reception unit configured to receive an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) signal, an acquisition unit configured to acquire a transmission parameter concerning the OFDM signal contained in the OFDM signal, and a selection unit configured to select a demodulation mode of the OFDM signal in accordance with the acquired transmission parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2013
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventors: Takashi Yokokawa, Hiroyuki Kamata, Hidetoshi Kawauchi, Yuken Goto, Kenichi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8964900
    Abstract: Disclosed are a receiving apparatus, a receiving method, and a program capable of shortening time taken in tuning. A broadband signal where a plurality of signals is arranged is received. Control information used to extract a predetermined signal from the broadband signal is obtained from the broadband signal. The obtained control information is stored. After the control information is stored, the stored control information is read when a predetermined signal is extracted from the broadband signal. The predetermined signal is extracted from the broadband signal based on the read control information. This technology is applicable to a receiving apparatus that receives a signal according to a DVB-C2 standard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yuken Goto
  • Patent number: 8885107
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a signal processing device, a signal processing method, and a program capable of appropriately demodulating a desired signal from a multiplexed signal obtained by multiplexing a plurality of signals. A preamble signal is detected from a multiplexed signal obtained by multiplexing a plurality of signals. When information for discriminating each of the signals that is contained in the preamble signal indicates a first signal, demodulation by a demodulator is continued and the first signal is demodulated. When information for discriminating each of the signals that is contained in the preamble signal indicates a second signal, demodulation is not performed by stopping the demodulation by the demodulator. The present technology can be applied to a signal processing device that processes signals for digital broadcasting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Yokokawa, Lachlan Bruce Michael, Yuken Goto, Kenichi Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20140010332
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a receiving device, a receiving method, a program, and a receiving system which may improve reception performance in the case of receiving a signal with a variable frequency band. A receiving device according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a demodulation unit configured to convert a received signal to a baseband signal in the case where a first frequency differs from a second frequency, wherein the first frequency is a center frequency in a band of the received signal, the second frequency is a center frequency in a band of a desired signal included in a part of the band of the received signal, and a DC component of the baseband signal is to be a frequency in the vicinity of the second frequency. The present technology may be applied to a receiver which receives an OFDM signal of DVB-C2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Okamoto, Hiroo Takahashi, Yuken Goto
  • Publication number: 20140009685
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a reception device, a reception method, a program, and a reception system that make it possible for the location of a frequency band that is used for the transmission of a signal of a predetermined standard to be promptly detected. A reception device according to one aspect of the present technology is including: a reception unit that receives an OFDM signal of a predetermined frequency band; a calculation unit that obtains correlation values between signals transmitted using carriers used for the transmission of a known signal, from within the predetermined frequency band; and a detection unit that, on the basis of the correlation values, detects a frequency band used for the transmission of a signal of a predetermined standard and in which transmission of the known signal is continuously carried out in the same carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2012
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuken Goto
  • Publication number: 20130342764
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a signal processing device, a signal processing method, and a program capable of appropriately demodulating a desired signal from a multiplexed signal obtained by multiplexing a plurality of signals. A preamble signal is detected from a multiplexed signal obtained by multiplexing a plurality of signals. When information for discriminating each of the signals that is contained in the preamble signal indicates a first signal, demodulation by a demodulator is continued and the first signal is demodulated. When information for discriminating each of the signals that is contained in the preamble signal indicates a second signal, demodulation is not performed by stopping the demodulation by the demodulator. The present technology can be applied to a signal processing device that processes signals for digital broadcasting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2012
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Yokokawa, Lachlan Bruce Michael, Yuken Goto, Kenichi Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20130336431
    Abstract: Disclosed are a receiving apparatus, a receiving method, and a program capable of shortening time taken in tuning. A broadband signal where a plurality of signals is arranged is received. Control information used to extract a predetermined signal from the broadband signal is obtained from the broadband signal. The obtained control information is stored. After the control information is stored, the stored control information is read when a predetermined signal is extracted from the broadband signal. The predetermined signal is extracted from the broadband signal based on the read control information. This technology is applicable to a receiving apparatus that receives a signal according to a DVB-C2 standard.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2012
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuken Goto
  • Publication number: 20130336433
    Abstract: Disclosed are a receiving apparatus, a receiving method, and a program capable of reliably obtaining predetermined information. In a case where a broadband signal where the same control information is arranged in different frequency bands is received and processed, a frequency where the control information is stably received is detected, and the control information is obtained again using the detected frequency. This frequency detection is performed by detecting a frequency capable of avoiding a no-signal band in a signal array of the broadband signal determined based on the obtained control information and the like. This technology can be applied to a receiving apparatus that receives a signal conforming to a DVB-C2 standard.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2012
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroo Takahashi, Yuken Goto, Takuya Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20130329775
    Abstract: The present technique relates to a receiving device, a receiving method, and a program for realizing a prompt start of data demodulation. A receiving device of one aspect of the present technique includes: a detecting unit that detects a first preamble signal from a frame signal having a frame structure that contains the first preamble signal indicating a frame partition, a second preamble signal containing control information to be used in processing a data signal, and the data signal, the second preamble signal being transmitted after the first preamble signal; an accumulating unit that accumulates the second preamble signal when the first preamble signal is detected; and a processing unit that processes the data signal based on the control information contained in the second preamble signal accumulated in the accumulating unit, the data signal being contained in the same frame as the second preamble signal accumulated in the accumulating unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2012
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Inventors: Takashi Yokokawa, Yuken Goto, Kenichi Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20130315351
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a reception device, a reception method, and a program therefor that enable improvement in reception performance when information on a frequency band in which no data is transmitted is known. The reception device receives a broadcast wave of an OFDM signal transmitted from a transmission device at a broadcast station that is not shown. A transmission parameter interpretation unit acquires band information indicating a “no signal” band contained in transmitted control information. An interference rejection filter unit performs filtering at least when a signal with a level higher than a predetermined level is detected on the basis of the band information from the transmission parameter interpretation unit. The disclosed technology can be applied to a reception device that receives OFDM signals, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2012
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Yokokawa, Yuken Goto, Hiroo Takahashi
  • Patent number: 8509327
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a receiving apparatus including a preamble analyzer configured to receive a frame of DVB-T2 made up of an OFDM signal and analyze a preamble contained in the received frame; an offset detector configured to detect a fine offset and a coarse offset on the basis of the analyzed preamble; a carrier frequency corrector configured to execute carrier frequency correction on an OFDM time domain signal obtained by quadrature demodulation on the basis of the detected fine offset and the detected coarse offset; a determiner configured to determine whether the detection of the coarse offset has been completed; and a control signal outputter configured, if the detection of the coarse offset is determined to be completed, to output a control signal for feeding back the fine offset detected on the basis of an OFDM frequency domain signal obtained by FFT computation to the carrier frequency corrector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yuken Goto, Kenichi Kobayashi, Suguru Houchi
  • Patent number: 8509328
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a reception apparatus including: an acquisition section configured to acquire an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing signal composed resultingly of signals transmitted by the orthogonal frequency division multiplexing method from a plurality of transmission apparatuses; a correction value calculation block configured to calculate a correction value for correcting a drift amount of the orthogonal frequency division multiplexing signal using the phase of either a first pilot signal or a second pilot signal extracted from the acquired orthogonal frequency division multiplexing signal, the first pilot signal being obtained from pilot signals which are in phase with one another coming from the plurality of transmission apparatuses, the second pilot signal being acquired from pilot signals which are out of phase with one another coming from the plurality of transmission apparatuses; and a correction block configured to correct the drift amount of the orthogonal frequency division multiple
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Lachlan Bruce Michael, Yuken Goto, Kenichi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8488695
    Abstract: A receiving apparatus for receiving an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signal including a frame having one frame length of a plurality of patterns. The apparatus comprises an acquiring section to acquire information regarding a preamble signal from an OFDM signal from a transmitting apparatus; a frame determining section to determine whether the one frame length is short in the frame based on the information regarding the acquired preamble signal; and a time interpolating section to obtain transmission path characteristics by comparing a pilot contained in the preamble signal with a known pilot corresponding to the pilot in a phase of transmission, when the frame determining section determines that the one frame length is short in the frame, and to interpolate a data portion in a time direction based on transmission path characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Yokokawa, Tadaaki Yuba, Hidetoshi Kawauchi, Hitoshi Sakai, Yuken Goto, Suguru Houchi
  • Patent number: 8402332
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a reception apparatus, including an acquisition section adapted to receive a signal which includes at least one of a first signal and a second signal which have different structures from each other except that the first and second signals have a preamble signal and acquire the preamble signal from the received signal; a detection section adapted to detect a value for correcting the signal using the signal; and a correction section adapted to correct, if it is decided based on the preamble signal acquired by the acquisition section that the signal is the first signal, the signal using the value detected by the detection section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yuken Goto, Kenichi Kobayashi, Kentaro Nakahara
  • Patent number: 8385480
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a receiving apparatus including a first correlation value computation section, an operation section, a second correlation value computation section, a decoding section, and a determination section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yuken Goto, Naoto Nagaki, Satoshi Okada, Kentaro Nakahara, Koji Naniwada
  • Patent number: 8374264
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a signal processing apparatus, including: a computation device operable to perform transform computation adapted to Fourier-transform a time domain OFDM i.e., Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing signal into a frequency domain OFDM signal; a processing device operable to perform carrier frequency offset detection adapted to detect an estimated carrier frequency offset that is an error of a carrier used for demodulation of the OFDM signal; and a carrier frequency offset correction device operable to perform carrier frequency offset correction adapted to correct the carrier frequency offset of the frequency domain OFDM signal in accordance with the estimated carrier frequency offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Kobayashi, Yuken Goto, Takuya Okamoto, Lachlan Bruce Michael
  • Patent number: 8363755
    Abstract: A signal receiving apparatus includes: an acquisition section configured to acquire an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing signal resulting from combination of a plurality of signals transmitted by a plurality of signal transmitting apparatus by adoption of an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing method; and a demodulation section configured to carry out partial processing of processing to demodulate the Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing signal acquired by the acquisition section by making use of either first pilot signals or second pilot signals where the first pilot signals are pilot signals extracted from the Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing signal acquired by the acquisition section as signals having the same phase for all the signal transmitting apparatus, and the second pilot signals are pilot signals extracted from the Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing signal acquired by the acquisition section as signals having different phases depending on the signal transmitt
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Suguru Houchi, Naoki Yoshimochi, Takuya Okamoto, Yuken Goto, Takashi Yokokawa