Patents by Inventor Ryuhsuke Watanabe
Ryuhsuke Watanabe 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: 8914364Abstract: A program search device is configured to extract a program using search condition attribute information of the program. The device includes a unit storing information concerning the storage condition, and a display control to control display of a list that includes both search condition information and a program list. The display control highlights a search condition as most recently stored in the storing unit.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2010Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Jun Sasaki, Ryuhsuke Watanabe
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Patent number: 8881200Abstract: A television set (100) includes a determination section (330) and a notification section (340). The determination section (330) determines, as program information to be notified to a user, a plurality of pieces of program information each of which matches a search condition set beforehand, from among a plurality of pieces of program information. The notification section (340) notifies the user of the television set (100) of the plurality of pieces of program information thus determined by the determination section (330).Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2011Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Ryuhsuke Watanabe, Yukimi Kawaguchi, Yoshiyasu Ogasawara, Aya Minehara, Shunsuke Uesugi
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Patent number: 8763048Abstract: If there is a service provider for which basic registration has already been performed, the processing proceeds to step S15 to determine whether there is an IP broadcast service or not. If no IP broadcast service is provided, the processing proceeds to step S17 to determine whether there is another service provider for which the basic registration has already been performed. If no other service provider for which the basic registration has already been performed is found in this determination, a transition is made to a portal site of the service provider for which the basic registration has already been performed. If it is determined that an IP broadcast service is provided in step S15, the processing proceeds to step S16 to perform a caution display. In the caution display, a display is made to prompt acquisition of channel information. In the case of acquiring channel information, an indication informing the user is displayed so that the channel information can be acquired at this phase.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2009Date of Patent: June 24, 2014Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Ryuhsuke Watanabe, Toshinori Shimizu, Hajime Yamada
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Patent number: 8667537Abstract: Upon start of processing, a digital broadcast receiver can acquire a CDN configuration information file (XML) after newly connected to a CDN by a user's operation. Next, the digital broadcast receiver acquires a PF configuration information file written in the CDN configuration information. The digital broadcast receiver judges whether there is an IP broadcast or not. If there is an IP broadcast, the digital broadcast receiver connects to a multicast address described in the PF configuration information file (XML), and acquires information on all channels in the PF from a SI dedicated stream (all station SI including no video or audio) (channel scan). The URL of a SNTP is described in the CDN configuration information file. Time information is acquired through the SNTP at the same time as (or at a timing near the timing of, such as immediately before or immediately after) the channel scan.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2009Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshinori Shimizu, Ryuhsuke Watanabe, Hajime Yamada
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Patent number: 8606883Abstract: There is provided an IP broadcast receiver apparatus capable of, even when the input of a stream is delayed, determining whether a stream is to be inputted later and displaying a picture when a stream is inputted. When the content providing side makes a request to set a streamstatus attribute to “play” in a display using BML, the IP broadcast receiver apparatus determines whether channel information has been acquired from an IP broadcast server. The IP broadcast receiver apparatus sets the streamstatus attribute to “play” if channel information has been acquired from the IP broadcast server and sets the streamstatus attribute to “stop” if channel information has not been acquired from the IP broadcast server.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2009Date of Patent: December 10, 2013Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hajime Yamada, Toshinori Shimizu, Ryuhsuke Watanabe
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Publication number: 20130305293Abstract: A television set (100) includes a determination section (330) and a notification section (340). The determination section (330) determines, as program information to be notified to a user, a plurality of pieces of program information each of which matches a search condition set beforehand, from among a plurality of pieces of program information. The notification section (340) notifies the user of the television set (100) of the plurality of pieces of program information thus determined by the determination section (330).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2011Publication date: November 14, 2013Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryuhsuke Watanabe, Yukimi Kawaguchi, Yoshiyasu Ogasawara, Aya Minehara, Shunsuke Uesugi
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Publication number: 20120246680Abstract: Provided is a program-information displaying device characterized by including: a program-information acquiring unit configured to acquire program information pieces; a full-program-display processing unit configured to respectively display the program information pieces in a plurality of program cells in a full-program display region, the program cells being defined by a temporal axis and a channel axis crossing the temporal axis; a recommended-program-information selecting unit configured to select particular program information pieces from the program information pieces acquired by the program-information acquiring unit; a recommended-program storage unit configured to store therein program information pieces of selected recommended programs in a manner associable the program information pieces for displaying the full-program display region; and a recommended-program-display processing unit configured to display the program information pieces of the recommended programs stored in the recommended program stType: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2010Publication date: September 27, 2012Inventors: Toru Hirota, Noriyuki Kudoh, Yukimi Kawaguchi, Yuhji Ohi, Yoshiyasu Ogasawara, Ryuhsuke Watanabe, Hajime Yamada, Nario Okuda, Takahiro Ogasawara
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Publication number: 20120136867Abstract: A program search device is configured to extract a program using search condition attribute information of the program. The device includes a unit storing information concerning the storage condition, and a display control to control display of a list that includes both search condition information and a program list. The display control highlights a search condition as most recently stored in the storing unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2010Publication date: May 31, 2012Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Jun Sasaki, Ryuhsuke Watanabe
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Publication number: 20110197244Abstract: Upon start of processing, a digital broadcast receiver can acquire a CDN configuration information file (XML) after newly connected to a CDN by a user's operation. Next, the digital broadcast receiver acquires a PF configuration information file written in the CDN configuration information. The digital broadcast receiver judges whether there is an IP broadcast or not. If there is an IP broadcast, the digital broadcast receiver connects to a multicast address described in the PF configuration information file (XML), and acquires information on all channels in the PF from a SI dedicated stream (all station SI including no video or audio) (channel scan). The URL of a SNTP is described in the CDN configuration information file. Time information is acquired through the SNTP at the same time as (or at a timing near the timing of, such as immediately before or immediately after) the channel scan.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2009Publication date: August 11, 2011Inventors: Toshinori Shimizu, Ryuhsuke Watanabe, Hajime Yamada
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Publication number: 20110197245Abstract: If there is a service provider for which basic registration has already been performed, the processing proceeds to step S15 to determine whether there is an IP broadcast service or not. If no IP broadcast service is provided, the processing proceeds to step S17 to determine whether there is another service provider for which the basic registration has already been performed. If no other service provider for which the basic registration has already been performed is found in this determination, a transition is made to a portal site of the service provider for which the basic registration has already been performed. If it is determined that an IP broadcast service is provided in step S15, the processing proceeds to step S16 to perform a caution display. In the caution display, a display is made to prompt acquisition of channel information. In the case of acquiring channel information, an indication informing the user is displayed so that the channel information can be acquired at this phase.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2009Publication date: August 11, 2011Inventors: Ryuhsuke Watanabe, Toshinori Shimizu, Hajime Yamada
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Publication number: 20110185046Abstract: There is provided an IP broadcast receiver apparatus capable of, even when the input of a stream is delayed, determining whether a stream is to be inputted later and displaying a picture when a stream is inputted. When the content providing side makes a request to set a streamstatus attribute to “play” in a display using BML, the IP broadcast receiver apparatus determines whether channel information has been acquired from an IP broadcast server. The IP broadcast receiver apparatus sets the streamstatus attribute to “play” if channel information has been acquired from the IP broadcast server and sets the streamstatus attribute to “stop” if channel information has not been acquired from the IP broadcast server.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2009Publication date: July 28, 2011Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hajime Yamada, Toshinori Shimizu, Ryuhsuke Watanabe