Patents by Inventor Yutaka Suwa

Yutaka Suwa 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: 10542200
    Abstract: A camera transmits a DECT registration request including DECT camera information. A controller stores the DECT camera information and transmits a DECT registration response including DECT controller information. The camera stores the DECT controller information and transmits a wireless LAN registration request including wireless LAN camera information. The controller stores the wireless LAN camera information and transmits a wireless LAN registration response including wireless LAN controller information. The camera stores the wireless LAN controller information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMANT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yutaka Suwa
  • Publication number: 20180343379
    Abstract: A camera transmits a DECT registration request including DECT camera information. A controller stores the DECT camera information and transmits a DECT registration response including DECT controller information. The camera stores the DECT controller information and transmits a wireless LAN registration request including wireless LAN camera information. The controller stores the wireless LAN camera information and transmits a wireless LAN registration response including wireless LAN controller information. The camera stores the wireless LAN controller information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2018
    Publication date: November 29, 2018
    Inventor: Yutaka SUWA
  • Patent number: 9479318
    Abstract: A channel determination method is disclosed that can avoid performance deterioration caused by interference even in a situation in which radio waves from other communication apparatuses including a microwave oven using the same frequency band are mixed. This method detects a predetermined preamble in a received signal when performing carrier sensing while switching between reception frequencies of a receiving section. The method examines, using a counter, how often electric field strength exceeds a predetermined threshold for each channel during the carrier sensing, disables, upon detecting a signal from another 802.11 apparatus, a channel from which the signal is detected and also disables a channel for which the counter shows a count value exceeding the threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yutaka Suwa
  • Patent number: 9386548
    Abstract: A base station apparatus includes a wireless communication unit, a wired communication unit, and a communication timing correction unit. If the wireless communication unit fails to receive a synchronization signal from another base station apparatus at given reception timing, the wired communication unit transmits a synchronization state confirmation signal for confirming a synchronization state between the base station and another base station apparatus, and receives a synchronization state response signal including a determination result of the synchronization state. The communication timing correction unit corrects a communication timing based on the synchronization state response signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Ishihara, Yutaka Suwa, Akira Shibuta
  • Patent number: 9288839
    Abstract: Each of the base station apparatuses measures received electric field strength of receivable signals from other base station apparatuses, and superiority in cases of indirectly connecting each of the base station apparatuses to another or other plural base station apparatuses by a route in which one or plural base station apparatuses are interposed and a case of making direct connection between the base station apparatuses are determined based on a measurement result of the received electric field strength and thereby, the base station apparatus used as the highest master is decided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yutaka Suwa
  • Patent number: 9270419
    Abstract: A device divides a sampled sound signal into a high frequency signal and a low frequency signal, individually encodes the high frequency signal and the low frequency signal, and generates error detection code pertinent to the high frequency ADPCM data and the low frequency ADPCM data. The device replaces data pertinent to some of a plurality of bits which configure the low frequency ADPCM data with the error detection code and transmits them. A receiver side receives the high frequency ADPCM data and the low frequency ADPCM data, and individually processes the high frequency ADPCM data and the low frequency ADPCM data in accordance with a value of the error detection code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Shibuta, Yutaka Suwa, Hiroyuki Ishihara, Kyoichi Obana
  • Patent number: 9204465
    Abstract: In a wireless communication system that conducts a communication between a base station and a terminal the base station includes a first communication unit using a first communication system of a TDMA system, and a second communication unit using a second communication system, and the terminal includes a third communication unit using the first communication system, and a fourth communication unit using the second communication system. The base station transmits a control signal in the first communication system with the use of the first communication unit, and the base station determines timing of transmission for the second communication unit according to timing of TDMA of the first communication unit. The third communication unit receives the control signal transmitted from the base station in the first communication system, and the fourth communication unit controls receiving operation according to information included in the control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Pansonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yutaka Suwa, Hiroyuki Ishihara, Akira Shibuta, Konomi Suwa
  • Publication number: 20150200748
    Abstract: A device divides a sampled sound signal into a high frequency signal and a low frequency signal, individually encodes the high frequency signal and the low frequency signal, and generates error detection code pertinent to the high frequency ADPCM data and the low frequency ADPCM data. The device replaces data pertinent to some of a plurality of bits which configure the low frequency ADPCM data with the error detection code and transmits them. A receiver side receives the high frequency ADPCM data and the low frequency ADPCM data, and individually processes the high frequency ADPCM data and the low frequency ADPCM data in accordance with a value of the error detection code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Publication date: July 16, 2015
    Inventors: Akira SHIBUTA, Yutaka SUWA, Hiroyuki ISHIHARA, Kyoichi OBANA
  • Patent number: 9021318
    Abstract: A voice processing apparatus is provided in an ADPCM (Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation) voice transmission system in which voice data that is differentially quantized through an ADPCM scheme is transmitted. The voice processing apparatus includes an error detector which detects whether or not an error occurs in a transmission frame containing data that indicates a differential value, and an error determiner which determines a level of the error detected by the error detector when the error detector detects the error. The voice processing apparatus also includes a voice processor which corrects the voice data with a correction value depending on the level of the error detected by the error detector and an ADPCM decoder which decodes the voice data corrected by the voice processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yutaka Suwa, Yukio Naka, Hiroyuki Ishihara, Norihiro Toyomura
  • Publication number: 20150003344
    Abstract: A channel determination method is disclosed that can avoid performance deterioration caused by interference even in a situation in which radio waves from other communication apparatuses including a microwave oven using the same frequency band are mixed. This method detects a predetermined preamble in a received signal when performing carrier sensing while switching between reception frequencies of a receiving section. The method examines, using a counter, how often electric field strength exceeds a predetermined threshold for each channel during the carrier sensing, disables, upon detecting a signal from another 802.11 apparatus, a channel from which the signal is detected and also disables a channel for which the counter shows a count value exceeding the threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventor: Yutaka Suwa
  • Publication number: 20140169342
    Abstract: A base station apparatus includes a wireless communication unit, a wired communication unit, and a communication timing correction unit. If the wireless communication unit fails to receive a synchronization signal from another base station apparatus at given reception timing, the wired communication unit transmits a synchronization state confirmation signal for confirming a synchronization state between the base station and another base station apparatus, and receives a synchronization state response signal including a determination result of the synchronization state. The communication timing correction unit corrects a communication timing based on the synchronization state response signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki ISHIHARA, Yutaka SUWA, Akira SHIBUTA
  • Publication number: 20130301474
    Abstract: Each of the base station apparatuses measures received electric field strength of receivable signals from other base station apparatuses, and superiority in cases of indirectly connecting each of the base station apparatuses to another or other plural base station apparatuses by a route in which one or plural base station apparatuses are interposed and a case of making direct connection between the base station apparatuses are determined based on a measurement result of the received electric field strength and thereby, the base station apparatus used as the highest master is decided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2013
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yutaka SUWA
  • Publication number: 20130279483
    Abstract: A base station apparatus includes a wireless communication unit, a wired communication unit, and a communication timing correction unit. If the wireless communication unit fails to receive a synchronization signal from another base station apparatus at given reception timing, the wired communication unit transmits a synchronization state confirmation signal for confirming a synchronization state between the base station and another base station apparatus, and receives a synchronization state response signal including a determination result of the synchronization state. The communication timing correction unit corrects a communication timing based on the synchronization state response signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2013
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki ISHIHARA, Yutaka SUWA, Akira SHIBUTA
  • Publication number: 20130272277
    Abstract: In a wireless communication system that conducts a communication between a base station and a terminal the base station includes a first communication unit using a first communication system of a TDMA system, and a second communication unit using a second communication system, and the terminal includes a third communication unit using the first communication system, and a fourth communication unit using the second communication system. The base station transmits a control signal in the first communication system with the use of the first communication unit, and the base station determines timing of transmission for the second communication unit according to timing of TDMA of the first communication unit. The third communication unit receives the control signal transmitted from the base station in the first communication system, and the fourth communication unit controls receiving operation according to information included in the control signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2011
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yutaka Suwa, Hiroyuki Ishihara, Akira Shibuta
  • Patent number: 8457185
    Abstract: A wireless communication device sets a digital link on a wireless channel between a master device and a slave device, compresses a sound signal in an ADPCM scheme, and carries the sound signal in a sound packet to perform communication. In a master device, a PCM signal is converted into ADPCM data by an ADPCM encoding unit. Next, the least significant bit of n-bits is set according to the number of “1” of the n-bits of the ADPCM data by a transmission conversion table. In a slave device, it is determined whether error has occurred according to the number of “1” of the n-bit data in received data. If error exists, the n-bit sound data is converted into mute data through a reception conversion table. The sound data converted through the reception conversion table is converted into a PCM signal from an ADPCM format by an ADPCM decoding unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yutaka Suwa, Hiroyuki Ishihara
  • Patent number: 8447241
    Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a wireless transceiver which conducts communication with another wireless communication apparatus using a channel belonging to a first band of a plurality of frequency bands, and a switching unit which switches the channel being used by the wireless transceiver to a different channel of a second band of the plurality of frequency bands other than the first band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yutaka Suwa, Hiroyuki Ishihara, Toshihiko Sakata, Koji Hayashida, Akira Shibuta, Norihiro Toyomura, Kyoichi Obana
  • Patent number: 8407536
    Abstract: A voice processing apparatus includes: an error detector which detects an error in a frame containing voice data; a correction value calculator which determines a level of the error detected by the error detector and calculates a correction value according to the level; and a voice data corrector which corrects the voice data by using the correction value calculated by the correction value calculator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yutaka Suwa, Yukio Naka, Hiroyuki Ishihara, Norihiro Toyomura
  • Patent number: 8300576
    Abstract: A base unit of a radio communication apparatus of the present invention includes a controller that discriminates whether or not company identifying information transmitted from a cordless handset is specific information in connecting a line in a Bluetooth (BT) communication mode, performs communication in another radio communication standard (company's own mode) on determining that the company identifying information is the specific information, and performs the communication in a BT standard on determining that the company identifying information is not the specific information, and a registering unit for registering an ID peculiar to the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Yutaka Suwa
  • Publication number: 20110261869
    Abstract: The present invention provides a wireless communication device and a wireless communication system which can improve the error detection accuracy with the sound quality maintained to some extent even if the communication environment is deteriorated. A cordless phone establishes a digital link on a wireless channel between a master device and a slave device, compresses a sound signal in an ADPCM scheme, and carries the sound signal in a sound packet to perform communication. In a master device side, a PCM signal is converted into ADPCM data by an ADPCM encoding unit. Next, the least significant bit of n-bits is set according to the number of “1” of the n-bits of the ADPCM data by a transmission conversion table. In a slave device side, it is determined whether an error has occurred according to the number of “1” of the n-bit data in received data. If the error exists, the n-bit sound data is converted into mute data through a reception conversion table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2009
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yutaka Suwa, Hiroyuki Ishihara
  • Publication number: 20090291644
    Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a wireless transceiver which conducts communication with another wireless communication apparatus using a channel belonging to a first band of a plurality of frequency bands, and a switching unit which switches the channel being used by the wireless transceiver to a different channel of a second band of the plurality of frequency bands other than the first band.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2009
    Publication date: November 26, 2009
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yutaka Suwa, Hiroyuki Ishihara, Toshihiko Sakata, Koji Hayashida, Akira Shibuta, Norihiro Toyomura, Kyoichi Obana