Category:Nobuo MASUOKA

Nobuo MASUOKA

Executive Summary

Nobuo MASUOKA is an inventor who has filed 14 patents. Their primary areas of innovation include involving reformatting operations of video signals for household redistribution, storage or real-time display {(details of conversion of video standards at pixel level (4 patents), {using a grid, e.g. sorted out by channel and broadcast time} (4 patents), {by altering the spatial resolution, e.g. for displaying on a connected PDA} (3 patents), and they have worked with companies such as MAXELL, LTD. (12 patents), Maxell, Ltd. (2 patents). Their most frequent collaborators include (13 collaborations), (13 collaborations), (8 collaborations).

Patent Filing Activity

Technology Areas

List of Technology Areas

• H04N21/4402 (involving reformatting operations of video signals for household redistribution, storage or real-time display {(details of conversion of video standards at pixel level): 4 patents
• H04N21/4821 ({using a grid, e.g. sorted out by channel and broadcast time}): 4 patents
• H04N21/440263 ({by altering the spatial resolution, e.g. for displaying on a connected PDA}): 3 patents
• H04N21/4627 (Rights management {associated to the content (security in data switching network management): 3 patents
• H04N5/775 (between a recording apparatus and a television receiver): 2 patents
• H04N21/435 (Processing of additional data, e.g. decrypting of additional data, reconstructing software from modules extracted from the transport stream): 2 patents
• H04N21/47214 ({for content reservation or setting reminders; for requesting event notification, e.g. of sport results or stock market (stock exchange data over packet-switching network): 2 patents
• H04N21/84 (Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors {(systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems): 2 patents
• H04N21/814 ({comprising emergency warnings (arrangements specially adapted for emergency or urgency in broadcast systems): 2 patents
• H04N21/462 (Content or additional data management, e.g. creating a master electronic program guide from data received from the Internet and a Head-end, controlling the complexity of a video stream by scaling the resolution or bit-rate based on the client capabilities): 2 patents
• H04H60/27 (Arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information): 2 patents
• H04N21/4345 ({Extraction or processing of SI, e.g. extracting service information from an MPEG stream}): 2 patents
• H04N21/4623 (Processing of entitlement messages, e.g. ECM [Entitlement Control Message] or EMM [Entitlement Management Message] {(arrangements for conditional access to broadcast information or to broadcast-related services): 2 patents
• H04N5/913 (for scrambling {; for copy protection}): 2 patents
• H04H60/18 (BROADCAST COMMUNICATION (multiplex communication): 2 patents
• G06T2200/24 (IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL): 2 patents
• H04N21/4263 ({involving specific tuning arrangements, e.g. two tuners}): 2 patents
• H04N21/4363 (Adapting the video stream to a specific local network, e.g. a Bluetooth® network): 2 patents
• H04N21/4622 ({Retrieving content or additional data from different sources, e.g. from a broadcast channel and the Internet (web site content organization and management for information retrieval from the Internet): 2 patents
• H04N21/482 (End-user interface for program selection {(broadcast systems using EPGs): 2 patents
• H04N21/4334 ({Recording operations (recording of a television signal): 1 patents
• H04N5/91 (Television signal processing therefor): 1 patents
• H04N21/2265 ({Server identification by a unique number or address, e.g. serial number (network arrangements, protocols or services for addressing or naming): 1 patents
• H04N21/235 (Processing of additional data, e.g. scrambling of additional data or processing content descriptors): 1 patents
• H04N21/2353 ({specifically adapted to content descriptors, e.g. coding, compressing or processing of metadata}): 1 patents
• H04N21/25875 ({involving end-user authentication (restricting access to computer systems by authenticating users using a predetermined code): 1 patents
• H04N21/2747 (Remote storage of video programs received via the downstream path, e.g. from the server): 1 patents
• H04N21/441 (Acquiring end-user identification {, e.g. using personal code sent by the remote control or by inserting a card}): 1 patents
• H04N21/6581 ({Reference data, e.g. a movie identifier for ordering a movie or a product identifier in a home shopping application}): 1 patents
• H04N21/4312 ({involving specific graphical features, e.g. screen layout, special fonts or colors, blinking icons, highlights or animations}): 1 patents
• H04H20/28 (Arrangements for simultaneous broadcast of plural pieces of information): 1 patents
• H04H60/23 (BROADCAST COMMUNICATION (multiplex communication): 1 patents
• H04H60/72 (using electronic programme guides [EPG] (focusing on identifying broadcast space time): 1 patents
• H04H60/80 (BROADCAST COMMUNICATION (multiplex communication): 1 patents
• H04N21/2362 (Generation or processing of Service Information [SI]): 1 patents
• H04H60/15 (BROADCAST COMMUNICATION (multiplex communication): 1 patents
• H04H60/22 (BROADCAST COMMUNICATION (multiplex communication): 1 patents
• H04N21/43635 ({HDMI}): 1 patents
• H04N21/4405 (involving video stream decryption): 1 patents
• H04N2005/91328 (PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION): 1 patents
• H04N21/4394 ({involving operations for analysing the audio stream, e.g. detecting features or characteristics in audio streams (arrangements characterised by components specially adapted for monitoring, identification or recognition of audio in broadcast systems): 1 patents
• H04N21/41407 ({embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop (constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application): 1 patents
• H04N21/4227 ({Providing} Remote input by a user located remotely from the client device, e.g. at work): 1 patents
• H04N21/438 (Interfacing the downstream path of the transmission network originating from a server, e.g. retrieving encoded video stream packets from an IP network): 1 patents
• H04N21/442 (Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. detecting the failure of a recording device, monitoring the downstream bandwidth, the number of times a movie has been viewed, the storage space available from the internal hard disk {(arrangements for monitoring broadcast services or broadcast-related services): 1 patents
• G06T19/20 (Editing of 3D images, e.g. changing shapes or colours, aligning objects or positioning parts): 1 patents
• G01S5/0284 (using radio waves (using satellite radio beacon systems for determining position): 1 patents
• G06F3/011 ({Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality (blind teaching): 1 patents
• G06T2219/2004 (IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL): 1 patents
• G06T2219/2016 (IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL): 1 patents
• G03B13/36 (Autofocus systems): 1 patents
• G01S3/00 (Direction-finders for determining the direction from which infrasonic, sonic, ultrasonic, or electromagnetic waves, or particle emission, not having a directional significance, are being received (position-fixing by co-ordinating a plurality of determinations of direction or position lines): 1 patents
• G06V10/40 (IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING): 1 patents
• G06V10/751 (IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING): 1 patents
• G06V40/20 (IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING): 1 patents
• H01L21/00 (Processes or apparatus adapted for the manufacture or treatment of semiconductor or solid state devices or of parts thereof): 1 patents
• H01L21/32139 ({using masks}): 1 patents
• H01L21/823456 (to produce devices, e.g. integrated circuits, each consisting of a plurality of components): 1 patents
• H01L29/42372 (SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES NOT COVERED BY CLASS): 1 patents
• H01L29/42376 (SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES NOT COVERED BY CLASS): 1 patents
• H01L29/4238 (SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES NOT COVERED BY CLASS): 1 patents
• H01L29/42384 (SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES NOT COVERED BY CLASS): 1 patents
• H01L29/66613 (SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES NOT COVERED BY CLASS): 1 patents
• H01L29/66621 (SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES NOT COVERED BY CLASS): 1 patents
• H01L29/66628 (SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES NOT COVERED BY CLASS): 1 patents
• H01L29/7834 (SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES NOT COVERED BY CLASS): 1 patents
• H01L29/7835 (SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES NOT COVERED BY CLASS): 1 patents
• H01L29/7836 (SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES NOT COVERED BY CLASS): 1 patents
• H04N5/2628 (Studio circuits, e.g. for mixing, switching-over, change of character of image, other special effects {; Cameras specially adapted for the electronic generation of special effects}): 1 patents
• H04N23/45 (PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION): 1 patents
• H04N23/61 (based on recognised objects): 1 patents
• H04N23/63 (by using electronic viewfinders): 1 patents
• H04N23/675 (Focus control based on electronic image sensor signals): 1 patents
• H04N23/69 (Control of means for changing angle of the field of view, e.g. optical zoom objectives or electronic zooming): 1 patents
• H04N23/698 (Control of means for changing angle of the field of view, e.g. optical zoom objectives or electronic zooming): 1 patents
• H04N23/90 (Arrangement of cameras or camera modules, e.g. multiple cameras in TV studios or sports stadiums): 1 patents
• H04N21/4314 ({for fitting data in a restricted space on the screen, e.g. EPG data in a rectangular grid}): 1 patents
• H04N21/4348 ({Demultiplexing of additional data and video streams}): 1 patents
• H04N21/44016 ({involving splicing one content stream with another content stream, e.g. for substituting a video clip}): 1 patents
• H04N21/440218 (involving reformatting operations of video signals for household redistribution, storage or real-time display {(details of conversion of video standards at pixel level): 1 patents
• H04N21/44209 ({Monitoring of downstream path of the transmission network originating from a server, e.g. bandwidth variations of a wireless network (arrangements for maintenance or administration in data switching networks involving bandwidth and capacity management): 1 patents
• H04N21/4621 ({Controlling the complexity of the content stream or additional data, e.g. lowering the resolution or bit-rate of the video stream for a mobile client with a small screen (arrangements for using the results of monitoring on user's side in broadcast systems): 1 patents
• H04N21/4382 ({Demodulation or channel decoding, e.g. QPSK demodulation (analog front ends or means for connecting modulators, demodulators or transceivers to a transmission line): 1 patents
• H04N21/26283 ({for associating distribution time parameters to content, e.g. to generate electronic program guide data}): 1 patents
• H04N21/431 (Generation of visual interfaces {for content selection or interaction}; Content or additional data rendering): 1 patents
• H04N21/4316 ({for displaying supplemental content in a region of the screen, e.g. an advertisement in a separate window}): 1 patents
• H04N21/4882 ({for displaying messages, e.g. warnings, reminders (arrangements for providing short real-time information to substation in data switching networks): 1 patents
• G02B27/0172 (Head-up displays): 1 patents
• G02B2027/0163 (OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS): 1 patents
• G02B2027/0178 (OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS): 1 patents
• G06F3/013 ({Eye tracking input arrangements (): 1 patents
• G06F3/012 ({Head tracking input arrangements}): 1 patents
• G06T3/40 (Scaling of whole images or parts thereof, e.g. expanding or contracting): 1 patents
• G06F3/1454 ({involving copying of the display data of a local workstation or window to a remote workstation or window so that an actual copy of the data is displayed simultaneously on two or more displays, e.g. teledisplay}): 1 patents
• H04N21/44 (Processing of video elementary streams, e.g. splicing a video clip retrieved from local storage with an incoming video stream or rendering scenes according to encoded video stream scene graphs): 1 patents
• H04N21/6377 (directed to server {(one-way streaming services wherein the source is controlled by the destination): 1 patents
• H04H60/13 (BROADCAST COMMUNICATION (multiplex communication): 1 patents
• H04N5/765 (Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus): 1 patents
• H04N21/433 (Content storage operation, e.g. storage operation in response to a pause request, caching operations): 1 patents

Companies

List of Companies

• MAXELL, LTD.: 12 patents
• Maxell, Ltd.: 2 patents

Collaborators

• Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA (13 collaborations)
• Yasunobu HASHIMOTO (13 collaborations)
• Takuya SHIMIZU (8 collaborations)
• Hitoshi AKIYAMA (4 collaborations)
• Hiroshi SHIMIZU (3 collaborations)
• Nobuaki KABUTO (3 collaborations)
• Yusuke UCHIYAMA (2 collaborations)
• Motoyuki SUZUKI (1 collaborations)
• Mayumi NAKADE (1 collaborations)
• Mitsunobu WATANABE (1 collaborations)
• Osamu KAWAMAE (1 collaborations)
• Yoshinori OKADA (1 collaborations)
• Koji KANIWA (1 collaborations)