Patents by Inventor Hiroki Kotani

Hiroki Kotani 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: 11945962
    Abstract: The present invention provides a cationic electrodeposition coating composition that has both good anti-cissing property and good coating film appearance. This is a cationic electrodeposition coating composition containing a silicone compound (A) having an SP value of more than 10.5 and 15.0 or less, and a film forming resin (B), wherein the silicone compound (A) is contained in an amount of 0.01 parts by mass or more and 4.5 parts by mass or less per 100 parts by mass of the resin solid content of the film forming resin (B). For example, the silicone compound (A) is at least one species selected from the group consisting of a polyether modified silicone compound (A-1), a polyester modified silicone compound (A-2), and a polyacrylic modified silicone compound (A-3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON PAINT AUTOMOTIVE COATINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masayuki Kotani, Yuko Hasegawa, Yasuyuki Furuya, Keigo Obata, Keisuke Tsutsui, Hiroki Arai, Hiroyoshi Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20240084164
    Abstract: The present invention provides a cationic electrodeposition coating composition that has both good anti-cissing property and good coating film appearance. This is a cationic electrodeposition coating composition containing a silicone compound (A) having an SP value of more than 10.5 and 15.0 or less, and a film forming resin (B), wherein the silicone compound (A) is contained in an amount of 0.01 parts by mass or more and 4.5 parts by mass or less per 100 parts by mass of the resin solid content of the film forming resin (B). For example, the silicone compound (A) is at least one species selected from the group consisting of a polyether modified silicone compound (A-1), a polyester modified silicone compound (A-2), and a polyacrylic modified silicone compound (A-3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON PAINT AUTOMOTIVE COATINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masayuki KOTANI, Yuko HASEGAWA, Yasuyuki FURUYA, Keigo OBATA, Keisuke TSUTSUI, Hiroki ARAI, Hiroyoshi YAMAZAKI
  • Patent number: 7865942
    Abstract: A communication device including an access authority data managing DB device for managing access authority data with which access authority for at least one of storage area defined logically or physically in a storage device. File data stored in the storage area is defined while at least one of a user making the access and a group to which the user concerned belongs is set as a unit. A non-open WWW device controls access to the storage device on the basis of the access authority data achieved from the access authority data managing DB device in accordance with an access from a terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Atsuhiko Mimura, Naoko Kumagai, Hiroki Kotani
  • Patent number: 7596805
    Abstract: A communication device including an access authority data managing DB device for managing access authority data with which access authority for at least one of storage area defined logically or physically in a storage device and file data stored in the storage area is defined while at least one of a user making the access and a group to which the user concerned belongs is set as a unit, and a non-open WWW device for controlling an access to the storage device on the basis of the access authority data achieved from the access authority data managing DB device in accordance with an access from a terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2009
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Atsuhiko Mimura, Naoko Kumagai, Hiroki Kotani
  • Patent number: 7218843
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a recording apparatus and a reproducing apparatus which change a picture compression rate depending upon a picture quality of a source which a user desires to retain, thereby a tape storage space being secured. A video-data compression rate N used by a 1:N video-data compression encoder 3 and a 1:N video-data compression decoder 6 is changed depending upon a picture quality set by a device 5 for setting a picture quality that a user desires. A tape travel speed of an archive VTR 4 is changed in response to the picture compression rate. Thus, an amount of a tape travel is optionally set depending upon a level of the picture quality. Therefore, it is possible to optionally select a tape storage space in response to the level of the picture quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2007
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuo Ogawa, Hiroki Kotani
  • Publication number: 20060265600
    Abstract: A communication device including an access authority data managing DB device for managing access authority data with which access authority for at least one of storage area defined logically or physically in a storage device and file data stored in the storage area is defined while at least one of a user making the access and a group to which the user concerned belongs is set as a unit, and a non-open WWW device for controlling an access to the storage device on the basis of the access authority data achieved from the access authority data managing DB device in accordance with an access from a terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2006
    Publication date: November 23, 2006
    Inventors: Atsuhiko Mimura, Naoko Kumagai, Hiroki Kotani
  • Patent number: 7103673
    Abstract: An ATM I/F for transmitting data to a data transmission destination via a communication network, a data transmission server, and a data transmission managing device for calculating a network necessary for data transmission on the basis of the data quantity of the data to be transmitted and the transmission completion time indicating the time of completion of data transmission to the data transmission destination are provided. Accounting information is generated on the basis of the calculated network band and transmission time. The data is transmitted to the data transmission destination by using the calculated network band. The data transmission to the data transmission destination is completed by the transmission completion time, and accounting information is generated. Thus, when transmitting data via the communication network, the data transmission completion time is designated in advance for data transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2006
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Naoko Kumagai, Hiroki Kotani
  • Patent number: 7058288
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a recording apparatus and a reproducing apparatus which change a picture compression rate depending upon a picture quality of a source which a user desires to retain, thereby a tape storage space being secured. A video-data compression rate N used by a 1:N video-data compression encoder 3 and a 1:N video-data compression decoder 6 is changed depending upon a picture quality set by a device 5 for setting a picture quality that a user desires. A tape travel speed of an archive VTR 4 is changed in response to the picture compression rate. Thus, an amount of a tape travel is optionally set depending upon a level of the picture quality. Therefore, it is possible to optionally select a tape storage space in response to the level of the picture quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2006
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuo Ogawa, Hiroki Kotani
  • Patent number: 7031599
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a recording apparatus and a reproducing apparatus which change a picture compression rate depending upon a picture quality of a source which a user desires to retain, thereby a tape storage space being secured. A video-data compression rate N used by a 1:N video-data compression encoder 3 and a 1:N video-data compression decoder 6 is changed depending upon a picture quality set by a device 5 for setting a picture quality that a user desires. A tape travel speed of an archive VTR 4 is changed in response to the picture compression rate. Thus, an amount of a tape travel is optionally set depending upon a level of the picture quality. Therefore, it is possible to optionally select a tape storage space in response to the level of the picture quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2006
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuo Ogawa, Hiroki Kotani
  • Patent number: 6952804
    Abstract: A video providing device (30) comprises network I/Fs (37), (38) for transmitting/receiving a video to an external network, a high-quality video server (32) for storing the video as a regular editing video, a high-compressed video streamer (35) for storing the video as a rough editing video, a high-compressed video server (31) for reading out and transmitting the rough editing video on the basis of a video transmission request from a production (51) included in the external network (20), and a high-quality video server (32) for extracting and transmitting a part of the regular editing video to a post production (40) on the basis of the result of editing processing from the production (51). Thus, the video providing device (30) receives, for example, a video prepared by the production (51) and supplies a part of the video to the post production (40).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2005
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Naoko Kumagai, Hiroki Kotani
  • Publication number: 20050191038
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a recording apparatus and a reproducing apparatus which change a picture compression rate depending upon a picture quality of a source which a user desires to retain, thereby a tape storage space being secured. A video-data compression rate N used by a 1:N video-data compression encoder 3 and a 1:N video-data compression decoder 6 is changed depending upon a picture quality set by a device 5 for setting a picture quality that a user desires. A tape travel speed of an archive VTR 4 is changed in response to the picture compression rate. Thus, an amount of a tape travel is optionally set depending upon a level of the picture quality. Therefore, it is possible to optionally select a tape storage space in response to the level of the picture quality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2005
    Publication date: September 1, 2005
    Inventors: Tetsuo Ogawa, Hiroki Kotani
  • Publication number: 20050191037
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a recording apparatus and a reproducing apparatus which change a picture compression rate depending upon a picture quality of a source which a user desires to retain, thereby a tape storage space being secured. A video-data compression rate N used by a 1:N video-data compression encoder 3 and a 1:N video-data compression decoder 6 is changed depending upon a picture quality set by a device 5 for setting a picture quality that a user desires. A tape travel speed of an archive VTR 4 is changed in response to the picture compression rate. Thus, an amount of a tape travel is optionally set depending upon a level of the picture quality. Therefore, it is possible to optionally select a tape storage space in response to the level of the picture quality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2005
    Publication date: September 1, 2005
    Inventors: Tetsuo Ogawa, Hiroki Kotani
  • Publication number: 20050179692
    Abstract: A video providing device comprises network I/Fs, for transmitting/receiving a video to an external network, a high-quality video server for storing the video as a regular editing video, a high-compressed video streamer for storing the video as a rough editing video, a high-compressed video server for reading out and transmitting the rough editing video on the basis of a video transmission request from a production included in the external network, and a high-quality video server for extracting and transmitting a part of the regular editing video to a post production on the basis of the result of editing processing from the production. Thus, the video providing device receives, for example, a video prepared by the production and supplies a part of the video to the post production.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2005
    Publication date: August 18, 2005
    Inventors: Naoko Kumagai, Hiroki Kotani
  • Publication number: 20030135761
    Abstract: A communication device including an access authority data managing DB device for managing access authority data with which access authority for at least one of storage area defined logically or physically in a storage device and file data stored in the storage area is defined while at least one of a user making the access and a group to which the user concerned belongs is set as a unit, and a non-open WWW device for controlling an access to the storage device on the basis of the access authority data achieved from the access authority data managing DB device in accordance with an access from a terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2002
    Publication date: July 17, 2003
    Inventors: Atsuhiko Mimura, Naoko Kumagai, Hiroki Kotani
  • Publication number: 20020146240
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a recording apparatus and a reproducing apparatus which change a picture compression rate depending upon a picture quality of a source which a user desires to retain, thereby a tape storage space being secured. A video-data compression rate N used by a 1:N video-data compression encoder 3 and a 1:N video-data compression decoder 6 is changed depending upon a picture quality set by a device 5 for setting a picture quality that a user desires. A tape travel speed of an archive VTR 4 is changed in response to the picture compression rate. Thus, an amount of a tape travel is optionally set depending upon a level of the picture quality. Therefore, it is possible to optionally select a tape storage space in response to the level of the picture quality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2001
    Publication date: October 10, 2002
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuo Ogawa, Hiroki Kotani
  • Patent number: 6347180
    Abstract: Inputted video signals are highly compressed in a high-compression processing means and the compressed signals are saved in a high-compression system processing means, and the video signals lowly compressed in a low-compression processing means and the compressed signals are saved in a first and a second recording means with separating them according to using frequency. The saved videos in the high-compression system processing means are edited and an executing sequence list showing their executing sequence is formed, and a video signal having a high using frequency is outputted from the first memory means which has a small storage capacity (thus, easily accessible), based on the executing sequence list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2002
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki Kotani, Keiko Abe
  • Publication number: 20010052909
    Abstract: A video providing device (30) comprises network I/Fs (37), (38) for transmitting/receiving a video to an external network, a high-quality video server (32) for storing the video as a regular editing video, a high-compressed video streamer (35) for storing the video as a rough editing video, a high-compressed video server (31) for reading out and transmitting the rough editing video on the basis of a video transmission request from a production (51) included in the external network (20), and a high-quality video server (32) for extracting and transmitting a part of the regular editing video to a post production (40) on the basis of the result of editing processing from the production (51). Thus, the video providing device (30) receives, for example, a video prepared by the production (51) and supplies a part of the video to the post production (40).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2001
    Publication date: December 20, 2001
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoko Kumagai, Hiroki Kotani
  • Publication number: 20010034789
    Abstract: An ATM I/F for transmitting data to a data transmission destination via a communication network, a data transmission server, and a data transmission managing device for calculating a network necessary for data transmission on the basis of the data quantity of the data to be transmitted and the transmission completion time indicating the time of completion of data transmission to the data transmission destination are provided. Accounting information is generated on the basis of the calculated network band and transmission time. The data is transmitted to the data transmission destination by using the calculated network band. The data transmission to the data transmission destination is completed by the transmission completion time, and accounting information is generated. Thus, when transmitting data via the communication network, the data transmission completion time is designated in advance for data transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2001
    Publication date: October 25, 2001
    Inventors: Naoko Kumagai, Hiroki Kotani
  • Patent number: 5838925
    Abstract: In this invention, an approach is employed to transmit as a data train in transmitting every frame picture data compressed by using frame correlation and compressed picture data necessary for decoding the corresponding frame in the data train in each of the respective frames and copying compressed picture data of sum sets of compressed picture data included within the respective frames into the respective frames. Thus, in accordance with this invention, in the case where transmission of compressed picture data is carried out in frame units having undergone switching, there is no possibility that degradation of the picture quality has taken place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1998
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroki Kotani
  • Patent number: 5625739
    Abstract: There is disclosed an editing machine for performing a nonlinear edit by a fewer number of video tape recorders than heretofore without requiring a dubbing operation. Where the nonlinear edit is an insertion of other signal, the editing machine comprises a first video tape recorder for reproducing a signal from tape, a second video tape recorder, and a switcher. The first video tape recorder has a delay circuit for delaying the reproduced signal to produce an output signal delayed by a first amount and an output signal delayed by a second amount. The switcher selects one of the signals from the first video tape recorder and the reproduced signal from the second video tape recorder. In the output signal from the switcher, the reproduced signal from the second video tape recorder has been inserted in the reproduced signal from the first video tape recorder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 29, 1997
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroki Kotani