Patents by Inventor Takahiro Ushioda
Takahiro Ushioda 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: 10656817Abstract: An apparatus includes a display control unit, including a processor, configured to control a display to display an image on a screen and to scroll the image toward a target position. The display control unit is configured to scroll the image with a scroll speed based on a difference between a current position and the target position.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2011Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLCInventor: Takahiro Ushioda
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Patent number: 9805132Abstract: According to an illustrative embodiment, an information processing apparatus is provided. The information processing apparatus includes a storage for storing content identification and content type information in association with each other, the content identification identifying a content that a renderer acquired from a server and reproduced; an input unit for receiving a reproduction request specifying the content type information; and a transmission unit for retrieving the content identification associated with the specified content type information from the storage and transmitting to the renderer an instruction for reproduction, the instruction for reproduction including the content identification.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2016Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLCInventors: Naoki Yuasa, Takahiro Ushioda, Shuichi Otsu, Mie Namai
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Publication number: 20160292290Abstract: According to an illustrative embodiment, an information processing apparatus is provided. The information processing apparatus includes a storage for storing content identification and content type information in association with each other, the content identification identifying a content that a renderer acquired from a server and reproduced; an input unit for receiving a reproduction request specifying the content type information; and a transmission unit for retrieving the content identification associated with the specified content type information from the storage and transmitting to the renderer an instruction for reproduction, the instruction for reproduction including the content identification.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2016Publication date: October 6, 2016Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Naoki Yuasa, Takahiro Ushioda, Shuichi Otsu, Mie Namai
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Patent number: 9432220Abstract: According to an illustrative embodiment, an information processing apparatus is provided. The information processing apparatus includes a storage for storing content identification and content type information in association with each other, the content identification identifying a content that a renderer acquired from a server and reproduced; an input unit for receiving a reproduction request specifying the content type information; and a transmission unit for retrieving the content identification associated with the specified content type information from the storage and transmitting to the renderer an instruction for reproduction, the instruction for reproduction including the content identification.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2011Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Naoki Yuasa, Takahiro Ushioda, Shuichi Otsu, Mie Namai
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Publication number: 20150283666Abstract: The wire tool with abrasive grains comprises a wire, and abrasive grains fixed by electrification hole plating in electrification holes, which are provided at multiple spots on the outer circumferential surface of the wire. The cylindrical electrification holes are disposed on a helical curve separated from each other by a uniform gap and the gap is larger than ? of the radius (R) of the electrification holes.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2013Publication date: October 8, 2015Applicant: RIKEN CORUNDUM CO., LTD.Inventors: Hidetoshi Nakajima, Katsunori Shioyama, Akihiro Takaiwa, Kazuaki Tanaka, Satoru Suzuki, Takahiro Ushioda
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Patent number: 9013420Abstract: A display device includes a display section displaying instruction information to be instructed to users in an instruction information display region provided corresponding to the instruction information, a touch panel capturing an instruction represented by the instruction information displayed in the instruction information display region, in response to a users' touch operation to a touch detection region provided corresponding to the instruction information display region, and a control section performing a predetermined operation control based on the instruction information inputted through the touch panel. The instruction information display region is provided in an upward zone within the touch detection region.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2011Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Daisuke Kawamura, Takahiro Ushioda, Shingo Utsuki
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Patent number: 8886774Abstract: There is provided a remote control device including: a communication unit that can perform communication through a network; a remote control unit that can transmit one or more control commands to a controlled device in response to an operation by a user; a storage unit that stores control command information specifying the one or more control commands to be transmitted from the remote control unit; and a setting unit that sets the control command information to the storage unit based on a result of communication by the communication unit with a controlled device through the network, wherein the setting unit detects a controlled device connected to the network by transmitting a device search signal from the communication unit, acquires device information of the detected controlled device from the controlled device, and decides the control command information to be set to the storage unit based on the acquired device information.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2011Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Ryo Sokabe, Hiroki Inamitsu, Takahiro Ushioda, Naoki Yuasa
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Patent number: 8719340Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, there is provided an information processing device, comprising a communicating unit capable of communicating with one or more content servers through a network, an information obtaining unit for obtaining content type information indicating a type of content, which may be provided by each of the one or more content servers, from each content server using communication by the communicating unit, and a user interface unit for allowing a user to select a desired content type out of the content type indicated by the content type information and allowing the content server capable of providing at least one content belonging to the selected content type to provide the at least one content. The content type information is the information capable of identifying a type of a container included in a content directory of each content server.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2011Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Takahiro Ushioda, Hiroki Inamitsu, Ryo Sokabe, Naoki Yuasa
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Publication number: 20130257912Abstract: An apparatus includes a display control unit, including a processor, configured to control a display to display an image on a screen and to scroll the image toward a target position. The display control unit is configured to scroll the image with a scroll speed based on a difference between a current position and the target position.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2011Publication date: October 3, 2013Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Takahiro Ushioda
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Publication number: 20120166594Abstract: According to an illustrative embodiment, an information processing apparatus is provided. The information processing apparatus includes a storage for storing content identification and content type information in association with each other, the content identification identifying a content that a renderer acquired from a server and reproduced; an input unit for receiving a reproduction request specifying the content type information; and a transmission unit for retrieving the content identification associated with the specified content type information from the storage and transmitting to the renderer an instruction for reproduction, the instruction for reproduction including the content identification.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2011Publication date: June 28, 2012Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Naoki Yuasa, Takahiro Ushioda, Shuichi Otsu, Mie Namai
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Publication number: 20120113033Abstract: A display device includes a display section displaying instruction information to be instructed to users in an instruction information display region provided corresponding to the instruction information, a touch panel capturing an instruction represented by the instruction information displayed in the instruction information display region, in response to a users' touch operation to a touch detection region provided corresponding to the instruction information display region, and a control section performing a predetermined operation control based on the instruction information inputted through the touch panel. The instruction information display region is provided in an upward zone within the touch detection region.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2011Publication date: May 10, 2012Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Daisuke Kawamura, Takahiro Ushioda, Shingo Utsuki
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Publication number: 20120005337Abstract: There is provided a remote control device including: a communication unit that can perform communication through a network; a remote control unit that can transmit one or more control commands to a controlled device in response to an operation by a user; a storage unit that stores control command information specifying the one or more control commands to be transmitted from the remote control unit; and a setting unit that sets the control command information to the storage unit based on a result of communication by the communication unit with a controlled device through the network, wherein the setting unit detects a controlled device connected to the network by transmitting a device search signal from the communication unit, acquires device information of the detected controlled device from the controlled device, and decides the control command information to be set to the storage unit based on the acquired device information.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2011Publication date: January 5, 2012Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Ryo Sokabe, Hiroki Inamitsu, Takahiro Ushioda, Naoki Yuasa
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Publication number: 20120005265Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, there is provided an information processing device, comprising a communicating unit capable of communicating with one or more content servers through a network, an information obtaining unit for obtaining content type information indicating a type of content, which may be provided by each of the one or more content servers, from each content server using communication by the communicating unit, and a user interface unit for allowing a user to select a desired content type out of the content type indicated by the content type information and allowing the content server capable of providing at least one content belonging to the selected content type to provide the at least one content. The content type information is the information capable of identifying a type of a container included in a content directory of each content server.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2011Publication date: January 5, 2012Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro Ushioda, Hiroki Inamitsu, Ryo Sokabe, Naoki Yuasa