Patents by Inventor Tokuro Noda

Tokuro Noda 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).

  • CONTENT PROVIDING SYSTEM, RECEIVING APPARATUS AND METHOD, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20160118018
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a content providing system, a receiving apparatus and method, a storage medium, and a program, which enable to perform a variety of contents provisions. An operational terminal 21 can obtain, from a storage terminal 1, contents corresponding to utilization information sent from an operational terminal 11 that is receiving provision of predetermined contents from a storage terminal 1. That is, if a user 23 is interested in contents that a user 13 is watching and listening to on the operational terminal 11, and desires to watch and listen to it, the user 23 can watch and listen to on the operational terminal 21, the contents that the user 13 is watching and listening to, by holding the operational terminal 21 very close to the operational terminal 11, or holding the operational terminal 11 very close to the operational terminal 21.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2016
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoriko KOMATSUZAKI, Makoto SATO, Tokuro NODA
  • CONTENT PROVIDING SYSTEM, RECEIVING APPARATUS AND METHOD, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20120239780
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a content providing system, a receiving apparatus and method, a storage medium, and a program, which enable to perform a variety of contents provisions. An operational terminal 21 can obtain, from a storage terminal 1, contents corresponding to utilization information sent from an operational terminal 11 that is receiving provision of predetermined contents from a storage terminal 1. That is, if a user 23 is interested in contents that a user 13 is watching and listening to on the operational terminal 11, and desires to watch and listen to it, the user 23 can watch and listen to on the operational terminal 21, the contents that the user 13 is watching and listening to, by holding the operational terminal 21 very close to the operational terminal 11, or holding the operational terminal 11 very close to the operational terminal 21.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2012
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Inventors: Yoriko Komatsuzaki, Makoto Sato, Tokuro Noda