Patents by Inventor Akihiko Kinoshita

Akihiko Kinoshita 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).

  • Patent number: 10936011
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program for enabling a user to easily and accurately determine an operation state of the apparatus. [ Solution] An information processing apparatus includes a display panel 101a, a touch panel 101b for detecting a finger moving on the display panel, and a control unit 103 for designating a predetermined moving direction Dd and determining an operation state of the apparatus based on a difference between the designated moving direction Dd and a moving direction Da of the finger moving on the display panel according to the designation. When the apparatus is operated with either hand, a difference due to a finger used for the operation easily occurs between the designated moving direction and the moving direction of the finger due to a structure of the hand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Eiju Yamada, Yoshinori Ohashi, Akihiko Kinoshita
  • Publication number: 20180314294
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program for enabling a user to easily and accurately determine an operation state of the apparatus. [ Solution] An information processing apparatus includes a display panel 101a, a touch panel 101b for detecting a finger moving on the display panel, and a control unit 103 for designating a predetermined moving direction Dd and determining an operation state of the apparatus based on a difference between the designated moving direction Dd and a moving direction Da of the finger moving on the display panel according to the designation. When the apparatus is operated with either hand, a difference due to a finger used for the operation easily occurs between the designated moving direction and the moving direction of the finger due to a structure of the hand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2018
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Applicant: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Eiju Yamada, Yoshinori Ohashi, Akihiko Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 10042386
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program for enabling a user to easily and accurately determine an operation state of the apparatus. [Solution] An information processing apparatus includes a display panel 101a, a touch panel 101b for detecting a finger moving on the display panel, and a control unit 103 for designating a predetermined moving direction Dd and determining an operation state of the apparatus based on a difference between the designated moving direction Dd and a moving direction Da of the finger moving on the display panel according to the designation. When the apparatus is operated with either hand, a difference due to a finger used for the operation easily occurs between the designated moving direction and the moving direction of the finger due to a structure of the hand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Eiju Yamada, Yoshinori Ohashi, Akihiko Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 9965239
    Abstract: Provided is a linked display system capable of improving availability of information having different scales and amounts of information, a linked display method, and a program. A mobile terminal 100 includes a display unit 101 that displays operation display information I1, a range setting unit 105 that sets a predetermined range A containing a specified position in accordance with an operation to specify any position P over operation display information and a communication unit 109 that transmits the predetermined range to a TV set 200.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Yoshinori Ohashi, Eiju Yamada, Akihiko Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 9699430
    Abstract: A network system includes a terminal apparatus, a recording apparatus, and a network. The recording apparatus includes a record-scheduling-state storing section that stores data of a record scheduling state of a program and a record-scheduling-state providing section that transmits the data of the record scheduling state stored in the record-scheduling-state storing section through the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Akihiko Kinoshita, Takashi Kanao, Hiroyuki Chiba, Tsuyoshi Homma, Hirofumi Kouda
  • Patent number: 9344752
    Abstract: Provided is a content reproduction system including a content reproduction apparatus including a first receiving unit receiving a request for a list of reproducible content and a content reproduction request, each transmitted from an information processing apparatus, a confirmation unit confirming predetermined information attached to the request for a content-list having received by the first receiving unit, a generation unit generating a content-list to be transmitted to the information processing apparatus, based on confirmation-results by the confirmation unit, and a first transmitting unit transmitting the content-list generated by the generation unit to the information processing apparatus, and the information processing apparatus including a second transmitting unit transmitting a request for a list of reproducible content and a content reproduction request to the content reproduction apparatus, a second receiving unit receiving a content-list transmitted from the content reproduction apparatus, and a
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Akihiko Kinoshita
  • Publication number: 20160070524
    Abstract: Provided is a linked display system capable of improving availability of information having different scales and amounts of information, a linked display method, and a program. A mobile terminal 100 includes a display unit 101 that displays operation display information I1, a range setting unit 105 that sets a predetermined range A containing a specified position in accordance with an operation to specify any position P over operation display information and a communication unit 109 that transmits the predetermined range to a TV set 200.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshinori Ohashi, Eiju Yamada, Akihiko Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 9226009
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a program distribution schedule information receiver configured to receive program distribution schedule information; a program-associated information acquirer configured to acquire, for each program listed in the program distribution schedule information, information for identifying content associated with the program and program-associated information including information for identifying a recording media to which the content is recorded; and a display controller configured to control displaying of a program guide by allocating a GUI (Graphical User Interface) for controlling a command for reproducing the content corresponding to the program into each display box of the program on the basis of the received program distribution schedule information and the acquired program-associated information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Kinoshita, Takashi Kanao, Hiroyuki Chiba, Tsuyoshi Honma, Hirofumi Kouda
  • Patent number: 9213520
    Abstract: Provided is a linked display system capable of improving availability of information having different scales and amounts of information, a linked display method, and a program. A mobile terminal 100 includes a display unit 101 that displays operation display information I1, a range setting unit 105 that sets a predetermined range A containing a specified position in accordance with an operation to specify any position P over operation display information and a communication unit 109 that transmits the predetermined range to a TV set 200.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinori Ohashi, Eiju Yamada, Akihiko Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 8955019
    Abstract: A network system in which a terminal apparatus, a recording apparatus, and a server apparatus are connectable via a network is disclosed. The server apparatus includes a service processing unit performing a service of reserving recording of a content to the recording apparatus by a request from the terminal apparatus, and an available service information provision unit managing information on the service available to the recording apparatus as available service information and transmitting the available service information to the terminal apparatus in response to a request from the terminal apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Kinoshita, Takashi Kanao, Hiroyuki Chiba, Tsuyoshi Honma, Hirofumi Kouda
  • Patent number: 8942534
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a search information notification section which notifies a search device of search information via a communication section, a search result acquisition section which acquires a plurality of search result pages retrieved from a plurality of search pages, respectively, in accordance with the search information, from the search device via the communication section, and a display control section which causes a display section to display one of the plurality of search result pages acquired by the search result acquisition section from the search device, and which causes the display section to display another one of the plurality of search result pages based on the operation information an input of which is accepted by an input section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shin Ito, Yoshinori Ohashi, Eiju Yamada, Tatsuya Narahara, Akihiko Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 8781303
    Abstract: A program accumulation apparatus includes: a broadcast program acquisition section to acquire data of a broadcast program based on a preset recording reservation; a delivery program acquisition section to acquire data of a delivery program delivered by a downloading method via a network based on a preset download reservation; a storage section to accumulate the data of the broadcast program or the data of the delivery program; a designation section to accept a designation of the broadcast program for the recording reservation; a judgment section to judge whether the recording reservation of the designated broadcast program is possible; and a setting section to judge, when the recording reservation of the designated broadcast program is judged as being impossible, whether the download reservation of the delivery program of the same source as the broadcast program is possible, and set the download reservation of the delivery program when judged possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Kinoshita, Hiroyuki Chiba, Takashi Kanao, Tsuyoshi Honma, Hirofumi Kouda
  • Patent number: 8718450
    Abstract: A portable device includes a setting means that sets a recording reservation; an acquisition means that acquires information that indicates the contents of a recording reservation set in a recording device by requesting the information processing device; an integrating means contained in the portable device that combines a recording reservation set in the portable device with the recording reservation set in the recording device; and a display control means that displays the contents of the recording reservation set in the portable device and the contents of the recording reservation set in the recording device on the basis of the recording reservations combined by the integrating means, and displays information that indicates which recording site the contents will be recorded in, the recording medium of the portable device or a recording medium of the recording device, when recorded in accordance with the respective recording reservations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Kinoshita, Hiroyuki Chiba, Takashi Kanao
  • Patent number: 8705415
    Abstract: A communication system including a controlled device to be controlled and an information processing apparatus, in which the controlled device includes a transmission means for transmitting a message indicating that an event has occurred to the information processing apparatus and a control means for performing processing according to a request from the information processing means, and in which the information processing apparatus includes a receiving means for receiving the message indicating that the event has occurred at the controlled device, which has been transmitted from the controlled device and a request means for deciding processing performed by the controlled device according to the event indicated by the message received by the receiving means and requesting the controlled device to perform the decided processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Chiba, Akihiko Kinoshita, Takashi Kanao
  • Patent number: 8634693
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes: a guide information obtaining section to obtain guide information of a program scheduled to be delivered; a series information obtaining section to obtain series information for specifying a plurality of programs belonging to a series; a program data obtaining section to obtain data of the programs; a program data storage section capable of storing the data of the programs; a program data recording section to store the data of the programs obtained by the program data obtaining section in the program data storage section; a recording history storage section to store information about the programs whose data is stored in the program data storage section, as recording history information; and a detection section to detect a recording status of at least one program belonging to the series intended to be recorded based on the guide information, the series information, and the recording history information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Kinoshita, Takashi Kanao, Hiroyuki Chiba, Tsuyoshi Honma, Hirofumi Kouda
  • Publication number: 20130302009
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an operation information holding unit, an attribution obtaining unit, and an operation information presentation unit. The operation information holding unit is configured to hold operation information for each attribution of content. The attribution obtaining unit is configured to obtain an attribution of reproduction content that is content being reproduced. The operation information presentation unit is configured to present operation information corresponding to the reproduction content based on the attribution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2013
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: AKIHIKO KINOSHITA, NOBORU MURABAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20130272684
    Abstract: A network system including: a terminal unit; one or more recording devices; a service server; and a controller is disclosed. The controller includes: a resource status acquiring unit that, upon receiving a resource status acquisition request to request acquisition of information on resource status of the one or more recording devices, the resource status acquisition request being transmitted from the service server that received the remote recording reservation request from the terminal unit, transmits a resource status acquisition instruction to the one or more recording devices via the local area network and receives a result of determination on remote recording reservation depending on the resource status, as the resource status information, from the one or more recording devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2013
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Inventors: Akihiko KINOSHITA, Takashi Kanao, Hiroyuki Chiba, Tsuyoshi Homma, Hirofumi Kouda
  • Patent number: 8489710
    Abstract: A network system including: a terminal unit; one or more recording devices; a service server; and a controller is disclosed. The controller includes: a resource status acquiring unit that, upon receiving a resource status acquisition request to request acquisition of information on resource status of the one or more recording devices, the resource status acquisition request being transmitted from the service server that received the remote recording reservation request from the terminal unit, transmits a resource status acquisition instruction to the one or more recording devices via the local area network and receives a result of determination on remote recording reservation depending on the resource status, as the resource status information, from the one or more recording devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Kinoshita, Takashi Kanao, Hiroyuki Chiba, Tsuyoshi Homma, Hirofumi Kouda
  • Patent number: 8488939
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a delivery schedule information acquisition section, an update reservation section, and an update data acquisition section. The delivery schedule information acquisition section acquires information on a delivery schedule of update data for updating control software, the update data being delivered from an update delivery server by an IP multicast system. The update reservation section generates, based on the information on the delivery schedule acquired by the delivery schedule information acquisition section, acquisition reservation information of the update data. The update data acquisition section acquires the update data based on the acquisition reservation information generated by the update reservation section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Honma, Takashi Kanao, Hiroyuki Chiba, Hirofumi Kouda, Akihiko Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 8380818
    Abstract: An information processing system that includes first and second information processing devices for performing communication through a network, which include a first transmission unit for, in the case of data to be downloaded being selected, transmitting a data download request to the second information processing device along with downloaded data identification information, and third information processing device identification information. A second transmission unit transmits a data download request to the third information processing device identified with the data identification information and the device identification information in response to the download request from the first information processing device, respectively. A third information processing device downloads data through the network from a distribution server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Kinoshita, Hiroyuki Chiba, Takashi Kanao