Patents by Inventor Makoto Donoura

Makoto Donoura 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).

  • PROGRAM CONTENT VIEW SYSTEM AND CONTENT RECEPTION RECORD REPRODUCTION DEVICE
    Publication number: 20110252449
    Abstract: Upon reception selecting a program to be viewed, upon recording a received program, and upon reproducing a recorded program, as well as at the end of each operation thereof, a master creates viewing information including a corresponding program name, a transmission station name, and a name of a current operating mode thereof, and transmits the created viewing information to the slave via the viewing information management server, and when an option for “viewing an identical program to the master” provided in an input unit for selecting the program to be viewed is selected, a slave receives and displays or receives and records a program having an identical station name to a program that is currently being received and displayed or received and recorded in the master, on the basis of the latest viewing information of the master received from the viewing information management server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2009
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Inventors: Takumi Akiyama, Makoto Donoura, Shigeru Imai, Hiroki Sakaguchi, Takehiko Hanada, Shin Miura, Junichi Yokosato