Patents by Inventor Tomofumi Moriya

Tomofumi Moriya 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).

  • Method of recording multiple programs over a specified time period in separate program data files
    Patent number: 7486875
    Abstract: In digital broadcast recording for automatically recording broadcasts on a channel selected from a plurality of digital broadcast programs on a recording medium, in accordance with a booking that is performed by specifying a time zone and giving a command to record a stream of broadcast contents on the user-selected channel during the time zone, the stream of broadcast contents on the channel is recorded, separated into a plurality of units for the programs broadcasted during the time zone. Thus, the recorded stream can be handled program by program in a later editing or playback operation, despite that it was recorded by booked recording for which only the time zone was specified, and thus the user-friendliness is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomochika Yamashita, Satoshi Takahashi, Atsuhiro Ono, Toshiya Takko, Nobumitsu Mabe, Tomofumi Moriya, Hiroki Fukumoto, Chikara Maezono
  • Recording apparatus, recording method, and program product
    Publication number: 20060024026
    Abstract: In digital broadcast recording for automatically recording broadcasts on a channel selected from a plurality of digital broadcast programs on a recording medium, in accordance with a booking that is performed by specifying a time zone and giving a command to record a stream of broadcast contents on the user-selected channel during the time zone, the stream of broadcast contents on the channel is recorded, separated into a plurality of units for the programs broadcasted during the time zone. Thus, the recorded stream can be handled program by program in a later editing or playback operation, despite that it was recorded by booked recording for which only the time zone was specified, and thus the user-friendliness is improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2004
    Publication date: February 2, 2006
    Inventors: Tomochika Yamashita, Satoshi Takahashi, Atsuhiro Ono, Toshiya Takko, Nobumitsu Mabe, Tomofumi Moriya, Hiroki Fukumoto, Chikara Maezono