Patents by Inventor Makoto Niijima
Makoto Niijima 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: 7076152Abstract: An information processing method and apparatus, an information furnishing method and apparatus, a picture recording system and a medium, in which reservation recording can be performed readily and promptly. To this end, a message asking a server for recording reservation data is transmitted at step S11, data for recording reservation, transmitted from the server, is received at step S13, and control is managed to record a pre-set picture at step S16 based on the recording reservation data.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2000Date of Patent: July 11, 2006Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Tatsuo Eguchi, Yasuhiko Terashita, Yasuo Nomura, Yasushi Miyajima, Yoshikazu Watanabe, Nobuaki Yamaguchi, Kumiko Sasaki, Makoto Niijima, Al Suzuki, Shinya Fujii
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Publication number: 20040190865Abstract: This invention relates to an information processing apparatus for recording a first picture supplied and for reproducing a second picture recorded, the apparatus comprising: recording means for recording the first picture; reproducing means for reproducing the second picture; and display controlling means for providing display control in such a manner as to display a first screen through which to input orders for operating the recording means, and a second screen through which to input orders for operating the reproducing means.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2004Publication date: September 30, 2004Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Yasuo Nomura, Tatsuo Eguchi, Yasuhiko Terashita, Yasushi Miyajima, Yoshikazu Watanabe, Nobuaki Yamaguchi, Kumiko Sasaki, Makoto Niijima, Ai Suzuki
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Apparatus, method, and medium for displaying a moving picture in alternative display picture formats
Patent number: 6590585Abstract: This invention relates to an information processing apparatus comprising: recording means for recording a moving picture; and display controlling means for controlling an operation to display information on said moving picture stored in said recording means as a first picture represented by an icon, a second picture represented by a string of characters or a third picture represented by an icon or a predetermined still picture in one of display areas each corresponding to a recording date or a recording plan date of a moving picture wherein said display areas are obtained as a result of division of a display screen.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2000Date of Patent: July 8, 2003Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Ai Suzuki, Tatsuo Eguchi, Yasuhiko Terashita, Yasuo Nomura, Yasushi Miyajima, Yoshikazu Watanabe, Nobuaki Yamaguchi, Kumiko Sasaki, Makoto Niijima -
Patent number: 6411307Abstract: An internet on-demand system for television presents internet content and traditional television programming as part of a single coherent interface. The user can select a channel from a rotary menu wheel. The system includes a server and a client capable of providing a dynamic graphical user interface. The system can display an internet gateway interface which actively scrolls through and highlights links to selected web pages which are organized according to templates corresponding to their content. The web pages are presented on the graphical user interface as channels as part of the same milieu as channels of traditional television programming. An intelligent agent passively filters selected web pages for a user to explore based on the user's past pattern of usage of the client.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2000Date of Patent: June 25, 2002Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics, Inc.Inventors: Robert Rosin, Yumie Sonoda, Makoto Niijima, Hiroaki Nakano
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Publication number: 20020078467Abstract: An internet on-demand system for television presents internet content and traditional television programming as part of a single coherent interface. The system includes a server and a client capable of providing a dynamic graphical user interface. The system can display an internet gateway interface which actively scrolls through and highlights links to selected web pages which are organized according to templates corresponding to their content. The web pages are presented on the graphical user interface as channels as part of the same milieu as channels of traditional television programming. The user can select a channel from a rotary menu wheel or via channel-up, channel-down buttons on the remote control device. An intelligent agent passively filters selected web pages for a user to explore based on the user's past pattern of usage of the client.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2001Publication date: June 20, 2002Inventors: Robert Rosin, P. Robert Hsu, Yumie Sonoda, Makoto Niijima, Hiroaki Nakano
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Patent number: 6397387Abstract: An internet on-demand system for television presents internet content and traditional television programming as part of a single coherent interface. The system includes a server and a client capable of providing a dynamic graphical user interface. The system can display an internet gateway interface which actively scrolls through and highlights links to selected web pages which are organized according to templates corresponding to their content. The web pages are presented on the graphical user interface as channels as part of the same milieu as channels of traditional television programming. The user can select a channel from a rotary menu wheel or via channel-up, channel-down buttons on the remote control device. An intelligent agent passively filters selected web pages for a user to explore based on the user's past pattern of usage of the client.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 1997Date of Patent: May 28, 2002Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics, Inc.Inventors: Robert Rosin, P. Robert Hsu, Yumie Sonoda, Makoto Niijima, Hiroaki Nakano
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Patent number: 6295057Abstract: An internet on-demand system for television presents internet content and traditional television programming as part of a single coherent interface. The system can display an internet gateway interface which actively scrolls through and highlights links to selected web pages which are organized according to templates corresponding to their content. The links are highlighted in a dynamic revolving sequence with associated graphics and sounds. The system includes a server and a client capable of providing a dynamic graphical user interface. The web pages are presented on the graphical user interface as channels as part of the same milieu as channels of traditional television programming. The user can select a channel from a rotary menu wheel. An intelligent agent passively filters selected web pages for a user to explore based on the user's past pattern of usage of the client.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2000Date of Patent: September 25, 2001Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics, Inc.Inventors: Robert Rosin, P. Robert Hsu, Yumie Sonoda, Makoto Niijima, Hiroaki Nakano
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Patent number: 6260192Abstract: An internet on-demand system for television presents internet content and traditional television programming as part of a single coherent interface. The system includes a server and a client capable of providing a dynamic graphical user interface. An intelligent agent passively filters selected web pages for a user to explore based on the user's past pattern of usage of the client. The system can display an internet gateway interface which actively scrolls through and highlights links to selected web pages which are organized according to templates corresponding to their content. The web pages are presented on the graphical user interface as channels as part of the same milieu as channels of traditional television programming. The user can select a channel from a rotary menu wheel.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 1997Date of Patent: July 10, 2001Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony ElectronicsInventors: Robert Rosin, P. Robert Hsu, Yumie Sonoda, Makoto Niijima, Hiroaki Nakano
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Patent number: 6072483Abstract: An internet on-demand system for television presents internet content and traditional television programming as part of a single coherent interface. The system can display an internet gateway interface which actively scrolls through and highlights links to selected web pages which are organized according to templates corresponding to their content. The links are highlighted in a dynamic revolving sequence with associated graphics and sounds. The system includes a server and a client capable of providing a dynamic graphical user interface. The web pages are presented on the graphical user interface as channels as part of the same milieu as channels of traditional television programming. The user can select a channel from a rotary menu wheel. An intelligent agent passively filters selected web pages for a user to explore based on the user's past pattern of usage of the client.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 1997Date of Patent: June 6, 2000Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics, Inc.Inventors: Robert Rosin, P. Robert Hsu, Yumie Sonoda, Makoto Niijima, Hiroaki Nakano
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Patent number: 6028600Abstract: An internet on-demand system for television presents internet content and traditional television programming as part of a single coherent interface. The user can select a channel from a rotary menu wheel. The system includes a server and a client capable of providing a dynamic graphical user interface. The system can display an internet gateway interface which actively scrolls through and highlights links to selected web pages which are organized according to templates corresponding to their content. The web pages are presented on the graphical user interface as channels as part of the same milieu as channels of traditional television programming. An intelligent agent passively filters selected web pages for a user to explore based on the user's past pattern of usage of the client.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 1997Date of Patent: February 22, 2000Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony ElectronicsInventors: Robert Rosin, Yumie Sonoda, Makoto Niijima, Hiroaki Nakano
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Patent number: 5926230Abstract: An electrical program guide system and method by which a desired program can be selected rapidly with certainty, intuitively and directly from among a large number of programs, in which nine reduced screens reduced from nine screens of different programs are arranged in a 3.times.3 matrix to construct one multi-screen as a screen for program selection. Six such screens for program selection are individually produced by multi-screen production circuits and encoded by MPEG video encoders, and then multiplexed by a multiplexer so that they may be transmitted via a single transmission channel. The multiplexed signal is subjected to error correction coding and QPSK modulation by a transmission line coding apparatus and then it is further subjected to frequency conversion by an up converter. The resultant signal is transmitted to an artificial satellite through a mixer and a parabola antenna. Each multi-screen received on the reception side from the satellite is displayed as 3.times.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 1996Date of Patent: July 20, 1999Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Makoto Niijima, Hiroaki Nakano, Yumie Sonoda, Yoshiaki Kumagai, Junichi Nagahara, Tatsushi Nashida, Hirofumi Tamori, Hiroyuki Hanaya
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Patent number: 5903314Abstract: The invention provides an electrical program guide system and method by which a desired program can be rapidly selected directly from among a large number of programs with certainty. A program selection screen as a multi-screen is formed from nine reduced screens reduced to one third in the horizontal and vertical directions from screens of programs broadcast on different broadcasting channels. A plurality of such program selection screens are transmitted to a reception side. On the reception side, the program selection screens are stored into a virtual frame memory so that reduced screens of them may make a single virtual screen. From among the reduced screens of the virtual frame, desired 3.times.3 reduced screens are read out and displayed on a multi-screen of full motion. A viewer finds and directly selects a desired program from within the 3.times.3 reduced screens of full motion displayed as the multi-screen.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 1996Date of Patent: May 11, 1999Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Makoto Niijima, Hiroaki Nakano, Yumie Sonoda, Yoshiaki Kumagai, Junichi Nagahara, Tatsushi Nashida, Hirofumi Tamori, Hiroyuki Hanaya
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Patent number: 5901366Abstract: The invention provides a program selection method and apparatus using a cordless telephone set by which a desired program can be selected from among a large number of programs in a direct rapid and accurate manner. A TEL key changes over a mode of a cordless telephone set between a first mode in which the cordless telephone set is used as a telephone set and a second mode in which the cordless telephone set is used as a remote commander for remotely controlling an electronic apparatus. A monitor apparatus displays a first display corresponding to a function allocated to any of the keys of the cordless telephone set in the first mode and a second display different from the first display and corresponding to another function allocated to any of the keys in the second mode for remotely controlling the electronic apparatus. A transmission circuit generates a signal corresponding to the manually operated key in response to a manual operation of any of the keys.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 1996Date of Patent: May 4, 1999Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hiroaki Nakano, Makoto Niijima, Yumie Sonoda, Junichi Nagahara, Hirofumi Tamori
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Patent number: 5845260Abstract: A charging method for use in an interactive on-line service where a server and terminals of users are mutually connected by a transmission medium, where a predetermined service is provided from the server to the terminals via the transmission medium, and where the fee for such service is collected from each user individually, includes the steps of opening, in the server, an imaginary account for a child of the relevant user with a limited maximum amount, and withdrawing from the imaginary account the fee for the service provided to the user's child. The server can provide a predetermined service to the relevant user's child within a range of the limited maximum amount preset in the imaginary account. When withdrawing the fee from the imaginary account, the server can restrict the service providable to the terminal.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 1996Date of Patent: December 1, 1998Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hiroaki Nakano, Makoto Niijima, Yumie Sonoda, Yoshiaki Kumagai, Junichi Nagahara, Tatsushi Nashida
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Patent number: 5754172Abstract: An information display method of transmitting predetermined information through a transmission path, receiving the transmitted information by a receiving apparatus, recording the information received by the receiving apparatus onto a recording medium, and displaying the information recorded on the recording medium to a display apparatus. Titles of a plurality of information are displayed. Only a predetermined number of predetermined ones of the titles are designated. The designated information is automatically and sequentially displayed. The information is associated with genres and the information is designated every genre. The information is multimedia news articles.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 1996Date of Patent: May 19, 1998Assignees: Sony Corporation, Asahi Shimbun Publishing CompanyInventors: Ichiro Kubota, Makoto Niijima
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Patent number: D443623Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 1999Date of Patent: June 12, 2001Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Makoto Niijima
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Patent number: D549724Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2005Date of Patent: August 28, 2007Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Makoto Niijima
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Patent number: D549725Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2005Date of Patent: August 28, 2007Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Makoto Niijima
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Patent number: D550242Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2005Date of Patent: September 4, 2007Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Makoto Niijima
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Patent number: D420994Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 1998Date of Patent: February 22, 2000Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Makoto Niijima