Patents by Inventor Masamichi Kotera

Masamichi Kotera 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).

  • Publication number: 20140232686
    Abstract: A display device equipped with a touch panel may include a device chassis provided with an opening section, a display panel having a display surface disposed accessible through the opening section, a touch panel disposed on the display surface of the display panel and capable at least of selecting a function displayed on the display surface in response to a pressing operation on the touch panel, and a surface sheet for covering the touch panel on the opposite side to the display panel, and closing the opening section to form a substantially the same surface with the device chassis, wherein a reinforcing area for improving resistivity against pressing force applied from the outside may be provided in a predetermined range of the surface sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masamichi Kotera, Kouichiro Takashima, Hideki Sato, Minoru Nakano
  • Patent number: 8749492
    Abstract: A display device equipped with a touch panel may include a device chassis provided with an opening section, a display panel having a display surface disposed accessible through the opening section, a touch panel disposed on the display surface of the display panel and capable at least of selecting a function displayed on the display surface in response to a pressing operation on the touch panel, and a surface sheet for covering the touch panel on the opposite side to the display panel, and closing the opening section to form a substantially the same surface with the device chassis, wherein a reinforcing area for improving resistivity against pressing force applied from the outside may be provided in a predetermined range of the surface sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masamichi Kotera, Kouichiro Takashima, Hideki Sato, Minoru Nakano
  • Publication number: 20080281450
    Abstract: An operation to skip plural pieces of music continuously is performed in a reproduction order or a reversed reproduction order circularly. When a piece of music to be reproduced first is selected, identification sound deciding that the piece to be reproduced first is selected is output. Hearing the identification sound allows it to be decided that the piece to be reproduced first is selected without using any display. When the piece to be reproduced first is selected, the skip is stopped to start its reproduction, thereby enable its selection to be surely decided. Every time the piece of music to be reproduced second or later is selected in a continuous skipping operation, the switchover sound different from the identification sound is output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2008
    Publication date: November 13, 2008
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Masamichi Kotera
  • Publication number: 20080007538
    Abstract: A display device equipped with a touch panel may include a device chassis provided with an opening section, a display panel having a display surface disposed accessible through the opening section, a touch panel disposed on the display surface of the display panel and capable at least of selecting a function displayed on the display surface in response to a pressing operation on the touch panel, and a surface sheet for covering the touch panel on the opposite side to the display panel, and closing the opening section to form a substantially the same surface with the device chassis, wherein a reinforcing area for improving resistivity against pressing force applied from the outside may be provided in a predetermined range of the surface sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2007
    Publication date: January 10, 2008
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masamichi Kotera, Kouichiro Takashima, Hideki Sato, Minoru Nakano
  • Publication number: 20050073916
    Abstract: An operation to skip plural pieces of music continuously is performed in a reproduction order or a reversed reproduction order circularly. When a piece of music to be reproduced first is selected, identification sound deciding that the piece to be reproduced first is selected is output. Hearing the identification sound allows it to be decided that the piece to be reproduced first is selected without using any display. When the piece to be reproduced first is selected, the skip is stopped to start its reproduction, thereby enable its selection to be surely decided. Every time the piece of music to be reproduced second or later is selected in a continuous skipping operation, the switchover sound different from the identification sound is output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2004
    Publication date: April 7, 2005
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Masamichi Kotera