Patents by Inventor Hirofumi Kouda

Hirofumi Kouda 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: 9699430
    Abstract: A network system includes a terminal apparatus, a recording apparatus, and a network. The recording apparatus includes a record-scheduling-state storing section that stores data of a record scheduling state of a program and a record-scheduling-state providing section that transmits the data of the record scheduling state stored in the record-scheduling-state storing section through the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Akihiko Kinoshita, Takashi Kanao, Hiroyuki Chiba, Tsuyoshi Homma, Hirofumi Kouda
  • Patent number: 9623073
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide antidepressants which are free from the problem of side effects and are excellent in safety. The present invention also aims to provide learning motivation improvers which are useful for improvement of learning motivation and can be ingested continuously. The present invention provides antidepressants and learning motivation improvers, each comprising a cyclic dipeptide with the 2,5-diketopiperazine structure as an active ingredient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignees: SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITED, CEREBOS PACIFIC LIMITED
    Inventors: Nobuo Tsuruoka, Yoshinori Beppu, Hirofumi Kouda, Hiroshi Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20160058831
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide antidepressants which are free from the problem of side effects and are excellent in safety. The present invention also aims to provide learning motivation improvers which are useful for improvement of learning motivation and can be ingested continuously. The present invention provides antidepressants and learning motivation improvers, each comprising a cyclic dipeptide with the 2,5-diketopiperazine structure as an active ingredient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2015
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Applicants: SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITED, CEREBOS PACIFIC LIMITED
    Inventors: Nobuo TSURUOKA, Yoshinori BEPPU, Hirofumi KOUDA, Hiroshi WATANABE
  • Patent number: 9226009
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a program distribution schedule information receiver configured to receive program distribution schedule information; a program-associated information acquirer configured to acquire, for each program listed in the program distribution schedule information, information for identifying content associated with the program and program-associated information including information for identifying a recording media to which the content is recorded; and a display controller configured to control displaying of a program guide by allocating a GUI (Graphical User Interface) for controlling a command for reproducing the content corresponding to the program into each display box of the program on the basis of the received program distribution schedule information and the acquired program-associated information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Kinoshita, Takashi Kanao, Hiroyuki Chiba, Tsuyoshi Honma, Hirofumi Kouda
  • Patent number: 8955019
    Abstract: A network system in which a terminal apparatus, a recording apparatus, and a server apparatus are connectable via a network is disclosed. The server apparatus includes a service processing unit performing a service of reserving recording of a content to the recording apparatus by a request from the terminal apparatus, and an available service information provision unit managing information on the service available to the recording apparatus as available service information and transmitting the available service information to the terminal apparatus in response to a request from the terminal apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Kinoshita, Takashi Kanao, Hiroyuki Chiba, Tsuyoshi Honma, Hirofumi Kouda
  • Patent number: 8781303
    Abstract: A program accumulation apparatus includes: a broadcast program acquisition section to acquire data of a broadcast program based on a preset recording reservation; a delivery program acquisition section to acquire data of a delivery program delivered by a downloading method via a network based on a preset download reservation; a storage section to accumulate the data of the broadcast program or the data of the delivery program; a designation section to accept a designation of the broadcast program for the recording reservation; a judgment section to judge whether the recording reservation of the designated broadcast program is possible; and a setting section to judge, when the recording reservation of the designated broadcast program is judged as being impossible, whether the download reservation of the delivery program of the same source as the broadcast program is possible, and set the download reservation of the delivery program when judged possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Kinoshita, Hiroyuki Chiba, Takashi Kanao, Tsuyoshi Honma, Hirofumi Kouda
  • Patent number: 8634693
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes: a guide information obtaining section to obtain guide information of a program scheduled to be delivered; a series information obtaining section to obtain series information for specifying a plurality of programs belonging to a series; a program data obtaining section to obtain data of the programs; a program data storage section capable of storing the data of the programs; a program data recording section to store the data of the programs obtained by the program data obtaining section in the program data storage section; a recording history storage section to store information about the programs whose data is stored in the program data storage section, as recording history information; and a detection section to detect a recording status of at least one program belonging to the series intended to be recorded based on the guide information, the series information, and the recording history information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Kinoshita, Takashi Kanao, Hiroyuki Chiba, Tsuyoshi Honma, Hirofumi Kouda
  • Publication number: 20130331344
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide antidepressants which are free from the problem of side effects and are excellent in safety. The present invention also aims to provide learning motivation improvers which are useful for improvement of learning motivation and can be ingested continuously. The present invention provides antidepressants and learning motivation improvers, each comprising a cyclic dipeptide with the 2,5-diketopiperazine structure as an active ingredient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2013
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Applicants: CEREBOS PACIFIC LIMITED, SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITED
    Inventors: Nobuo TSURUOKA, Yoshinori BEPPU, Hirofumi KOUDA, Hiroshi WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20130272684
    Abstract: A network system including: a terminal unit; one or more recording devices; a service server; and a controller is disclosed. The controller includes: a resource status acquiring unit that, upon receiving a resource status acquisition request to request acquisition of information on resource status of the one or more recording devices, the resource status acquisition request being transmitted from the service server that received the remote recording reservation request from the terminal unit, transmits a resource status acquisition instruction to the one or more recording devices via the local area network and receives a result of determination on remote recording reservation depending on the resource status, as the resource status information, from the one or more recording devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2013
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Inventors: Akihiko KINOSHITA, Takashi Kanao, Hiroyuki Chiba, Tsuyoshi Homma, Hirofumi Kouda
  • Patent number: 8488939
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a delivery schedule information acquisition section, an update reservation section, and an update data acquisition section. The delivery schedule information acquisition section acquires information on a delivery schedule of update data for updating control software, the update data being delivered from an update delivery server by an IP multicast system. The update reservation section generates, based on the information on the delivery schedule acquired by the delivery schedule information acquisition section, acquisition reservation information of the update data. The update data acquisition section acquires the update data based on the acquisition reservation information generated by the update reservation section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Honma, Takashi Kanao, Hiroyuki Chiba, Hirofumi Kouda, Akihiko Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 8489710
    Abstract: A network system including: a terminal unit; one or more recording devices; a service server; and a controller is disclosed. The controller includes: a resource status acquiring unit that, upon receiving a resource status acquisition request to request acquisition of information on resource status of the one or more recording devices, the resource status acquisition request being transmitted from the service server that received the remote recording reservation request from the terminal unit, transmits a resource status acquisition instruction to the one or more recording devices via the local area network and receives a result of determination on remote recording reservation depending on the resource status, as the resource status information, from the one or more recording devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Kinoshita, Takashi Kanao, Hiroyuki Chiba, Tsuyoshi Homma, Hirofumi Kouda
  • Patent number: 8351764
    Abstract: A network system includes a terminal apparatus, a recording apparatus, and a network. The recording apparatus includes a record-scheduling-state storing section that stores data of a record scheduling state of a program and a record-scheduling-state providing section that transmits the data of the record scheduling state stored in the record-scheduling-state storing section through the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Kinoshita, Takashi Kanao, Hiroyuki Chiba, Tsuyoshi Homma, Hirofumi Kouda
  • Patent number: 8335826
    Abstract: A network system is disclosed. The system includes: a terminal device; a network appliance to be controlled by the terminal device; a service server that provides a service for controlling the network appliance over a network to the terminal device; and an access management server that receives/transmits information for accessing the network appliance over the network. The network appliance has a message transmitting section, and the access management server has: a storage section and an event message transmission control section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Kinoshita, Takashi Kanao, Hiroyuki Chiba, Tsuyoshi Honma, Hirofumi Kouda
  • Publication number: 20120283178
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide antidepressants which are free from the problem of side effects and are excellent in safety. The present invention also aims to provide learning motivation improvers which are useful for improvement of learning motivation and can be ingested continuously. The present invention provides antidepressants and learning motivation improvers, each comprising a cyclic dipeptide with the 2,5-diketopiperazine structure as an active ingredient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2010
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Applicants: Cerebos Pacific Limited, Suntory Holdings Limited
    Inventors: Nobuo Tsuruoka, Yoshinori Beppu, Hirofumi Kouda, Hiroshi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 8307140
    Abstract: Disclosed is a content reception apparatus capable of receiving a content distributed from a server apparatus via a first network and a second network, the content reception apparatus including a plurality of content reception apparatuses capable of being connected to the second network that is local and connected to the first network, the server apparatus being capable of distributing a content and capable of being connected to the first network. The content reception apparatus includes an arbitration condition storage unit to store an arbitration condition for an arbitration, an arbitration table storage unit to store an arbitration table, an input unit with which a content reception request is input, an arbitration start request transmission unit to generate and transmit an arbitration start request, and an arbitration unit to execute arbitration processings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Homma, Takashi Kanao, Hiroyuki Chiba, Hirofumi Kouda, Akihiko Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 7853692
    Abstract: A server connectable to a client apparatus over a network is disclosed. The server includes: means for generating a file containing an address of a download server that can distribute a download file to the client apparatus over the network and a first parameter that temporally regulates access from the client apparatus to the download server; and means for distributing the file to the client apparatus in response to a request from the client apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hirofumi Kouda
  • Publication number: 20100131690
    Abstract: Disclosed is a content reception apparatus capable of receiving a content distributed from a server apparatus via a first network and a second network, the content reception apparatus including a plurality of content reception apparatuses capable of being connected to the second network that is local and connected to the first network, the server apparatus being capable of distributing a content and capable of being connected to the first network. The content reception apparatus includes an arbitration condition storage unit to store an arbitration condition for an arbitration, an arbitration table storage unit to store an arbitration table, an input unit with which a content reception request is input, an arbitration start request transmission unit to generate and transmit an arbitration start request, and an arbitration unit to execute arbitration processings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2009
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Homma, Takashi Kanao, Hiroyuki Chiba, Hirofumi Kouda, Akihiko Kinoshita
  • Publication number: 20100011348
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a delivery schedule information acquisition section, an update reservation section, and an update data acquisition section. The delivery schedule information acquisition section acquires information on a delivery schedule of update data for updating control software, the update data being delivered from an update delivery server by an IP multicast system. The update reservation section generates, based on the information on the delivery schedule acquired by the delivery schedule information acquisition section, acquisition reservation information of the update data. The update data acquisition section acquires the update data based on the acquisition reservation information generated by the update reservation section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2009
    Publication date: January 14, 2010
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi HONMA, Takashi Kanao, Hiroyuki Chiba, Hirofumi Kouda, Akihiko Kinoshita
  • Publication number: 20090279847
    Abstract: A program accumulation apparatus includes: a broadcast program acquisition section to acquire data of a broadcast program based on a preset recording reservation; a delivery program acquisition section to acquire data of a delivery program delivered by a downloading method via a network based on a preset download reservation; a storage section to accumulate the data of the broadcast program or the data of the delivery program; a designation section to accept a designation of the broadcast program for the recording reservation; a judgment section to judge whether the recording reservation of the designated broadcast program is possible; and a setting section to judge, when the recording reservation of the designated broadcast program is judged as being impossible, whether the download reservation of the delivery program of the same source as the broadcast program is possible, and set the download reservation of the delivery program when judged possible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2009
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Kinoshita, Hiroyuki Chiba, Takashi Kanao, Tsuyoshi Honma, Hirofumi Kouda
  • Publication number: 20090274448
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes: a guide information obtaining section to obtain guide information of a program scheduled to be delivered; a series information obtaining section to obtain series information for specifying a plurality of programs belonging to a series; a program data obtaining section to obtain data of the programs; a program data storage section capable of storing the data of the programs; a program data recording section to store the data of the programs obtained by the program data obtaining section in the program data storage section; a recording history storage section to store information about the programs whose data is stored in the program data storage section, as recording history information; and a detection section to detect a recording status of at least one program belonging to the series intended to be recorded based on the guide information, the series information, and the recording history information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2009
    Publication date: November 5, 2009
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Kinoshita, Takashi Kanao, Hiroyuki Chiba, Tsuyoshi Honma, Hirofumi Kouda