Patents by Inventor Satoshi Sera

Satoshi Sera 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: 20100138408
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided an information processing apparatus including: an associated information acquiring module configured to acquire associated information of content selected from plural contents data; a first search module configured to search the contents data for first content having first associated information that is relevant to the associated information of the selected content; a second search module configured to search the contents data for second content having second associated information that satisfies a given condition; and a content display module configured to display the first content and the second content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2009
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Satoshi Sera
  • Publication number: 20060129519
    Abstract: A signal output apparatus is provided comprising an input unit configured to receive a main data and a notice of the presence of any further information related to the main data, a notifying unit configured to notify the presence of the related information in response to the notice received from the input unit, an acquiring unit configured to acquire the related information in response to the notice received from the input unit, and an output unit configured to multiplex and output the related information acquired by the acquiring unit with the main data received by the input unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2005
    Publication date: June 15, 2006
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Satoshi Sera, Katsuyuki Nomura
  • Patent number: 6481620
    Abstract: A bill receiving and paying port and a bill discriminating unit are arranged in the upper part of the bill recycling machine, bill accommodating boxes (a reject box, recycling boxes, and a charge and collection box) are arranged in the lower part of the bill recycling machine, and each of the reject box, and the charge and collection box is horizontally provided with two bill accommodating units. In the reject box, a bill accommodation carrying path to the reject box and a bill carrying path to the charge and collection box arranged in the lower row are provided. The low bill carrying paths are arranged in the vicinity of the sidewall face on the user manipulation side and in the vicinity of the sidewall face opposite thereto, respectively, so that the bill accommodating boxes can be made detachable in the front direction as well as in the back direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2002
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Riichi Katou, Itsunori Utsumi, Kunihisa Matsuura, Satoshi Sera, Shinji Shibata, Katsuhiro Suzuki, Minoru Kadowaki