Patents by Inventor Hirohide Maenaka

Hirohide Maenaka 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).

  • Publication number: 20100097356
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is provided which include a storage unit that stores at least one piece of associated information with which content data or content identification information and processing subject identification information used for identification of a processing subject, which is a device or an application enabled to perform processing on the content data, are associated, an input unit capable of accepting input of selection information to select the content data or the content identification information, and a display control unit that, when the input unit accepts input of selection information, acquires processing subject identification information associated with content data or content identification information selected by the selection information from the associated information stored in the storage unit and outputs the processing subject identification information to a display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2009
    Publication date: April 22, 2010
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hirohide MAENAKA, Yuko TERAO
  • Patent number: 5581486
    Abstract: A maintenance management system includes a storage unit for storing maintenance items and maintenance intervals of the members of an assembly apparatus a time information generation unit which counts the time information concerning the time from a certain reference time or date and outputs the time information signal into a comparing unit that compares the time information signal with the maintenance intervals stored in the storage unit. When a corresponding maintenance item is due, a signal alerting this fact is output to the alerting unit. The value of the maintenance interval is input to the comparing unit, whereby detailed maintenance items corresponding to the maintenance interval are output to the alerting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 3, 1996
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yukihiro Terada, Hirohide Maenaka, Yukio Kawazu