Patents by Inventor Kojiro Umemura
Kojiro Umemura 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).
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Patent number: 9729831Abstract: A wireless surgical loupe enables a user to use the wireless loupe to perform a procedure, transmit information acquired by the wireless loupe and display patient information on a wireless loupe display. The transmitted information is able to be used to aid the operating room procedure, enhance education and be recorded for later use.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2012Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Marc Birnkrant, Allen Poirson, Kelly Davis, Kojiro Umemura, Hitoshi Namba
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Publication number: 20140146153Abstract: A wireless surgical loupe enables a user to use the wireless loupe to perform a procedure, transmit information acquired by the wireless loupe and display patient information on a wireless loupe display. The transmitted information is able to be used to aid the operating room procedure, enhance education and be recorded for later use.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2012Publication date: May 29, 2014Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Marc Birnkrant, Allen Poirson, Kelly Davis, Kojiro Umemura, Hitoshi Namba
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Patent number: 8519955Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for displaying a plurality of character key images in a first display area on the computing device, each character key image representing and being associated with at least one of the character groups, each character group including a plurality of characters; and displaying, in a case where one of the character key images is selected by a user of the computing device, a plurality of input candidate characters in a second display area on the computing device, the plurality of input candidate characters including at least some of the plurality of characters in the character group associated with the selected one of the character key images, the second display area being set in a partially overlapping manner over the first display area.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2012Date of Patent: August 27, 2013Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Tadashi Nakamura, Kojiro Umemura
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Patent number: 8463103Abstract: A small-size digital device requires preferable operability and userfriendliness of the user interface. In a multimedia reproduction device (10), an operation unit (40) acquires an instruction concerning content reproduction via a user operation. A read-out unit (44) reads out a content from an external recording medium mounted as a content data storage area. A Storage unit (80) holds data on a plurality of function icons symbolizing a plurality of content reproduction function types and data on a plurality of media icons symbolizing the external recording medium types. A display processing unit (46) processes menu screen display and content reproduction. A menu unit (48) generates image data on a menu screen where a plurality of function icons and a plurality of media icons are arranged two-dimensionally according to a user function.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2010Date of Patent: June 11, 2013Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Masaharu Sakai, Kojiro Umemura, Shuji Hiramatsu, Ryuji Nakayama
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Publication number: 20130038523Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for displaying a plurality of character key images in a first display area on the computing device, each character key image representing and being associated with at least one of the character groups, each character group including a plurality of characters; and displaying, in a case where one of the character key images is selected by a user of the computing device, a plurality of input candidate characters in a second display area on the computing device, the plurality of input candidate characters including at least some of the plurality of characters in the character group associated with the selected one of the character key images, the second display area being set in a partially overlapping manner over the first display area.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2012Publication date: February 14, 2013Applicant: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Tadashi Nakamura, Kojiro Umemura
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Patent number: 8274474Abstract: To provide a character input device allowing a user to smoothly carry out a “character input operation which is carried out by initially selecting any character group from a plurality of character groups each corresponding to a plurality of characters, then selecting any character from among those corresponding to that group, and determining the selected character as an input character”.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2006Date of Patent: September 25, 2012Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Tadashi Nakamura, Kojiro Umemura
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Publication number: 20110010667Abstract: A small-size digital device requires preferable operability and userfriendliness of the user interface. In a multimedia reproduction device (10), an operation unit (40) acquires an instruction concerning content reproduction via a user operation. A read-out unit (44) reads out a content from an external recording medium mounted as a content data storage area. A Storage unit (80) holds data on a plurality of function icons symbolizing a plurality of content reproduction function types and data on a plurality of media icons symbolizing the external recording medium types. A display processing unit (46) processes menu screen display and content reproduction. A menu unit (48) generates image data on a menu screen where a plurality of function icons and a plurality of media icons are arranged two-dimensionally according to a user function.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2010Publication date: January 13, 2011Applicant: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Masaharu Sakai, Kojiro Umemura, Shuji Hiramatsu, Ryuji Nakayama
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Patent number: 7801419Abstract: A small-size digital device requires preferable operability and user-friendliness of the user interface. In a multimedia reproduction device (10), an operation unit (40) acquires an instruction concerning content reproduction via a user operation. A read-out unit (44) reads out a content from an external recording medium mounted as a content data storage area. A storage unit (80) holds data on a plurality of function icons symbolizing a plurality of content reproduction function types and data on a plurality of media icons symbolizing the external recording medium types. A display processing unit (46) processes menu screen display and content reproduction. A menu control unit (48) generates image data on a menu screen where a plurality of function icons and a plurality of media icons are arranged two-dimensionally according to a user instruction.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2005Date of Patent: September 21, 2010Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Masaharu Sakai, Kojiro Umemura, Shuji Hiramatsu, Ryuji Nakayama
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Publication number: 20080062136Abstract: To provide a character input device allowing a user to smoothly carry out a “character input operation which is carried out by initially selecting any character group from a plurality of character groups each corresponding to a plurality of characters, then selecting any character from among those corresponding to that group, and determining the selected character as an input character”.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2006Publication date: March 13, 2008Applicant: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Tadashi Nakamura, Kojiro Umemura
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Publication number: 20070160345Abstract: A small-size digital device requires preferable operability and user-friendliness of the user interface. In a multimedia reproduction device (10), an operation unit (40) acquires an instruction concerning content reproduction via a user operation. A read-out unit (44) reads out a content from an external recording medium mounted as a content data storage area. A storage unit (80) holds data on a plurality of function icons symbolizing a plurality of content reproduction function types and data on a plurality of media icons symbolizing the external recording medium types. A display processing unit (46) processes menu screen display and content reproduction. A menu control unit (48) generates image data on a menu screen where a plurality of function icons and a plurality of media icons are arranged two-dimensionally according to a user instruction.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2005Publication date: July 12, 2007Inventors: Masaharu Sakai, Kojiro Umemura, Shuji Hiramatsu, Ryuji Nakayama
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Patent number: 5708637Abstract: Data of a recording medium in a storage device is read out for every sector and is stored in a ring buffer under the control of a CPU which can vary the speed of readout from the buffer as the load on the system varies. Data stored in the ring buffer is read out for every frame and is outputted to an output device. When data read out from the recording medium is to be reproduced in real time, the data can be reproduced substantially at a speed corresponding to a reading speed of the data from the recording medium, with a minimum of data loss and enhanced temporal quality.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 1995Date of Patent: January 13, 1998Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Kojiro Umemura, Masakazu Suzuoki, Teiji Yutaka