Patents by Inventor Yasutaka Miwa
Yasutaka Miwa 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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Publication number: 20130117591Abstract: Manipulation receiving unit receives an operation input by a user manipulation. In case the manipulation receiving unit does not receive an input operation for a predetermined time period, a state control unit sets an operation state to a power saving state. However, if the voice receiving unit receives voice input before a non-operation time period reaches the predetermined time period, the status control unit does not set the operation state to the power saving state even if the manipulation receiving unit does not receive an input operation during the predetermined time period. The non-operation time period is defined as a time period during which the manipulation receiving unit does not receive an input operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2012Publication date: May 9, 2013Applicant: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Shigeru ENOMOTO, Haijie HEWU, Yasutaka MIWA
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Patent number: 8437325Abstract: A game device is provided with a processor and an air interface apparatus. In a wireless communication environment such as that of IEEE802.11, a CPU of the air interface apparatus selects, in a search process, an SSID that includes at least in a portion thereof a predetermined pattern. Network information including the selected SSID is retained in a memory unit as a BSS list registering wireless networks that are targets for connection. The processor refers to the BSS list and determines a wireless network to participate in.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2012Date of Patent: May 7, 2013Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Yasutaka Miwa, Kenjiro Komaki, Tetsuo Watanabe
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Publication number: 20120311041Abstract: An acquisition unit acquires presence information of an information processing device of another via server. When the acquisition unit acquires pieces of presence information including the same user account from two or more information processing devices, a status image generation unit generates a status image indicating a status of the user identified by the user account, by referring to the latest presence information. In order to represent the status of the user, the status image generation unit includes a name of an application being run by the user in the status image.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2012Publication date: December 6, 2012Applicant: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Hiroaki Aonuma, Yasutaka Miwa, Masayuki Kasai, Nobukazu Koyama
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Publication number: 20120284651Abstract: Using persistent party rooms, including: initializing, via a computing device, a global array according to a hierarchical server architecture; determining, via the computing device, whether or not to create a new persistent party room or to join a previously bookmarked persistent party room; creating, via the computing device, the new persistent party room within a position indexed in the global array; and joining, via the computing device, the previously bookmarked persistent party room by searching for the previously bookmarked party room utilizing the global array.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2011Publication date: November 8, 2012Inventors: Mohammed Aafaq Khan, Vinod Tandon, Hai Jie Hewu, Ramana Bangalore Prakash, Yasutaka Miwa, Mark Fortuna, Scott Kirkland, Christopher Reese
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Publication number: 20120230314Abstract: A game device is provided with a processor and an air interface apparatus. In a wireless communication environment such as that of IEEE802.11, a CPU of the air interface apparatus selects, in a search process, an SSID that includes at least in a portion thereof a predetermined pattern. Network information including the selected SSID is retained in a memory unit as a BSS list registering wireless networks that are targets for connection. The processor refers to the BSS list and determines a wireless network to participate in.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2012Publication date: September 13, 2012Applicant: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Yasutaka Miwa, Kenjiro Komaki, Tetsuo Watanabe
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Patent number: 8249034Abstract: A game device is provided with a processor and an air interface apparatus. In a wireless communication environment such as that of IEEE802.11, a CPU of the air interface apparatus selects, in a search process, an SSID that includes at least in a portion thereof a predetermined pattern. Network information including the selected SSID is retained in a memory unit as a BSS list registering wireless networks that are targets, for connection. The processor refers to the BSS list and determines a wireless network to participate in.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2005Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Yasutaka Miwa, Kenjiro Komaki, Tetsuo Watanabe
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Publication number: 20120208471Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication terminal that allows a wireless communication connection to be disconnected even when an application program that requires continuation of the communication connection is being executed. The wireless communication terminal transmits data to a communication target in response to a transmission processing request from an application execution section for executing the application program.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2010Publication date: August 16, 2012Applicant: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Koji Shima, Yasutaka Miwa
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Publication number: 20120192170Abstract: An information processing apparatus displays, on a screen of a display device, a program-related image which relates to an application program in a state in which the application program is not executed, starts execution of the application program in a case where an operation of giving an instruction to execute the application program is received from a user in a state in which the program-related image is displayed on the screen, and applies update data to the application program to update the application program in a case where an operation of giving an instruction to apply the update data is received from the user in the state in which the program-related image is displayed on the screen.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2012Publication date: July 26, 2012Applicant: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Motoki Kobayashi, Yasutaka Miwa
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Publication number: 20120184328Abstract: In a mobile terminal device, a communication unit configured to communicate wirelessly in a first communication mode in which the mobile terminal device communicates with another mobile terminal device directly, or a second communication mode in which the mobile terminal device communicates with an external network via a router device. A communication control unit controls the operation of the communication unit. The communication control unit controls the switching of the first communication mode and the second communication mode in the communication unit and notifies the user that the first communication mode is terminated when the first communication mode is switched to the second communication mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2011Publication date: July 19, 2012Applicant: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Kenjiro Komaki, Yasutaka Miwa
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Publication number: 20120166994Abstract: An acquisition unit acquires, via a communication unit, presence information including status information indicating the status of execution of an application from a separate information processing device. A status image generation unit refers to the status information and determines a display mode for presenting the status of execution of the application to a user. The status image generation unit determines a display mode of a mark to indicate whether the user can participate in a session of an application.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2011Publication date: June 28, 2012Applicant: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Hiroaki Aonuma, Yasutaka Miwa, Masayuki Kasai, Nobukazu Koyama
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Publication number: 20110307582Abstract: An activation history storage stores an activation history of applications. A determination unit refers to the activation history and determines a file that is related to an application and that should be downloaded from a server. A processing unit downloads the determined related file. The activation history storage maintains an activation history that maps identification information identifying an application into the latest activation date and time of the application, and the determination unit refers to the activation date and time and determines the related file to be downloaded.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2011Publication date: December 15, 2011Applicant: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Akiko IWAYA, Shinichi TANAKA, Yasutaka MIWA
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Patent number: 8041374Abstract: A game device is provided with an SSID setting unit and a channel setting unit. The SSID setting unit sets up an SSID (a network identifier) in accordance with a communication mode. Communication modes include a download standby mode, a download mode, a lobby mode and a game mode. By setting up an SSID for each communication mode, wireless networks for respective modes are formed. The channel setting unit sets up a communication channel in accordance with the SSID.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2005Date of Patent: October 18, 2011Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Yasutaka Miwa, Kenjiro Komaki, Tetsuo Watanabe
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Publication number: 20110092280Abstract: In a game device, a loading processor loads save data on which user ID information is attached from a storage device 80; an application executing unit executes a game program while using the loaded save data; a game requirement achievement determining unit determines whether or not a predetermined requirement of gameplay is achieved based on a progress status of the game; and item ID acquiring unit acquires an item ID associated with achieved requirement of gameplay; an item acquisition processing unit has a function for generating item acquisition information while using the acquired item ID; and a function limiting unit limits the function of an item acquisition processing unit in accordance with user ID information attached to the save data.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2009Publication date: April 21, 2011Applicant: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Nobukazu Koyama, William Parks, Yasutaka Miwa, Masaharu Sakai, Shinichi Tanaka, Masaki Higuchi
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Publication number: 20100095290Abstract: A version file retrieving unit of a game device retrieves via a network a version file including version information identifying an OS recommended for the execution of game software running. An OS version comparing unit compares first version information on the OS running with second version information identifying the OS recommended for the execution of the game software running. When the second version indicates a version newer than that of the first version information, the OS retrieving unit downloads the latest OS and stores it in the hard disk drive.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2009Publication date: April 15, 2010Applicant: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Yasutaka Miwa, Tsunehisa Kazawa
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Patent number: 7522593Abstract: A transmitter, a communication system, and a communication method of the same capable of realizing communication of more than a set bandwidth with respect to packet communication with a bandwidth guarantee set therefor by using the set bandwidth as the minimum guaranteed bandwidth, wherein when a transmitter transmits packet data, it decides whether or not packet communication guarantees a bandwidth based on a guaranteed bandwidth set in advance and, when guaranteeing the bandwidth, adds a first identifier to the packet data, while when not guaranteeing the bandwidth, adds a second identifier to the packet data and transmits the same to the network and wherein a relay unit connected to the network decides, in accordance with identifiers registered in advance and guaranteed bandwidths corresponding to same, whether or not the received packet data are bandwidth guaranteed, adds the first or second identifier to the packet data in accordance with the result of the decision, and transfers them to the next relay uType: GrantFiled: December 15, 2004Date of Patent: April 21, 2009Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Atsushi Onoe, Kazumi Sato, Yasutaka Miwa
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Patent number: 7474659Abstract: A transmitter, a communication system, and a communication method capable of realizing communication of more than a set bandwidth with respect to a packet communication with a bandwidth guarantee set therefore by using a set bandwidth as the minimum guaranteed bandwidth, wherein when a transmitter transmits packet data, it decides whether or not packet communication guarantees a bandwidth based on a guaranteed bandwidth set in advance, and adds a first identifier to the packet data when guaranteeing bandwidth, and adds a second identifier when not guaranteeing the bandwidth.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2005Date of Patent: January 6, 2009Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Atsushi Onoe, Kazumi Sato, Yasutaka Miwa
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Patent number: 7466707Abstract: A transmitter, a communication system, and a communication method capable of realizing communication of more than a set bandwidth with respect to a packet communication with a bandwidth guarantee set therefore by using a set bandwidth as the minimum guaranteed bandwidth, wherein when a transmitter transmits packet data, it decides whether or not packet communication guarantees a bandwidth based on a guaranteed bandwidth set in advance, and adds a first identifier to the packet data when guaranteeing bandwidth, and adds a second identifier when not guaranteeing the bandwidth.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2005Date of Patent: December 16, 2008Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Atsushi Onoe, Kazumi Sato, Yasutaka Miwa
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Patent number: 7463629Abstract: A transmitter, a communication system, and a communication method capable of realizing communication of more than a set bandwidth with respect to a packet communication with a bandwidth guarantee set therefore by using a set bandwidth as the minimum guaranteed bandwidth, wherein when a transmitter transmits packet data, it decides whether or not packet communication guarantees a bandwidth based on a guaranteed bandwidth set in advance, and adds a first identifier to the packet data when guaranteeing bandwidth, and adds a second identifier when not guaranteeing the bandwidth.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2005Date of Patent: December 9, 2008Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Atsushi Onoe, Kazumi Sato, Yasutaka Miwa
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Patent number: 7463632Abstract: A transmitter, a communication system, and a communication method capable of realizing communication of more than a set bandwidth with respect to a packet communication with a bandwidth guarantee set therefore by using a set bandwidth as the minimum guaranteed bandwidth, wherein when a transmitter transmits packet data, it decides whether or not packet communication guarantees a bandwidth based on a guaranteed bandwidth set in advance, and adds a first identifier to the packet data when guaranteeing bandwidth, and adds a second identifier when not guaranteeing the bandwidth.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2005Date of Patent: December 9, 2008Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Atsushi Onoe, Kazumi Sato, Yasutaka Miwa
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Publication number: 20060068702Abstract: A game device is provided with an SSID setting unit and a channel setting unit. The SSID setting unit sets up an SSID (a network identifier) in accordance with a communication mode. Communication modes include a download standby mode, a download mode, a lobby mode and a game mode. By setting up an SSID for each communication mode, wireless networks for respective modes are formed. The channel setting unit sets up a communication channel in accordance with the SSID.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2005Publication date: March 30, 2006Inventors: Yasutaka Miwa, Kenjiro Komaki, Tetsuo Watanabe