Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Kanma

Hiroshi Kanma 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: 20230179811
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus as a server apparatus that performs transfer from an imaging apparatus to a client terminal includes: a control unit that performs: initial information transfer processing of obtaining additional information on the basis of associated information and transmitting the associated information and the additional information to a client terminal in response to reception of the associated information that is information associated with an image captured by the imaging apparatus and has a smaller data amount than a captured image, and main image transfer processing of transmitting an image transmitted from the imaging apparatus to the client terminal according to request information generated by selection processing in the client terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Ryo Jinnouchi, Hiroshi Kanma
  • Publication number: 20220294972
    Abstract: Facilitation of FTP settings on an imaging device side. An information processing device executes user interface processing of presenting a communicable imaging device and enabling an operation to designate an imaging device to serve as a transfer destination, and communication control processing of executing transfer of FTP setting information to the imaging device designated by the user interface processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiaki ISOYA, Masahiko MINAGAWA, Hiroaki YAMAGUCHI, Hiroshi KANMA
  • Publication number: 20220141900
    Abstract: A communication method includes; transmitting, by a first wireless communication device, channel designation information designating a channel to be used for a second communication to a second wireless communication device through a first communication; activating, by the second wireless communication device, a communication function of performing the second communication through the designated channel, and transmitting, by the first wireless communication device, a connection request for the second communication using the designated channel to the second wireless communication device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventor: Hiroshi Kanma
  • Publication number: 20220078350
    Abstract: There is provided a data transmission system including a plurality of image capturing devices, a plurality of control devices each configured to control a different one of the image capturing devices, and an information processing device configured to communicate with the control devices, in which, on the basis of a predetermined rule, the information processing device obtains, from the control devices, image captured by the image capturing devices at a timing in accordance with the rule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kanma, Tatsuya Ueda
  • Patent number: 10345891
    Abstract: There is provided a first information processing apparatus capable of wirelessly communicating with a second information processing apparatus, the first information processing apparatus including a storage unit configured to store a maximum number of connections that the first information processing apparatus is able to establish with an apparatus in a network through wireless communication, an identifier generating section configured to generate identifier information of the first information processing apparatus, the identifier information including the stored maximum number of connections, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the generated identifier information to the second information processing apparatus, the second information processing apparatus searching for an apparatus in the network via the first information processing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroshi Kanma
  • Patent number: 9106835
    Abstract: Even when a posture of an imaging device changes, the imaging device can display a compass image in a natural mode when seen from a user's viewpoint and record a correct image capturing azimuth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kanma, Ryunosuke Oda, Takuma Nishikawa
  • Publication number: 20130342710
    Abstract: There is provided a first information processing apparatus capable of wirelessly communicating with a second information processing apparatus, the first information processing apparatus including a storage unit configured to store a maximum number of connections that the first information processing apparatus is able to establish with an apparatus in a network through wireless communication, an identifier generating section configured to generate identifier information of the first information processing apparatus, the identifier information including the stored maximum number of connections, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the generated identifier information to the second information processing apparatus, the second information processing apparatus searching for an apparatus in the network via the first information processing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2013
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Inventor: Hiroshi Kanma
  • Patent number: 8564719
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus that has a frame buffer that stores an input video signal, that loads a video signal at an asynchronous timing with the video signal input from the frame buffer and then that I/P-converts the loaded video signal from an interlaced signal into a progressive signal includes: pulldown determination means that determines whether the input video signal is subjected to a process of skipping or repeating a source video signal through a pulldown process; and control means that, when it is determined that the input video signal is subjected to the process of skipping or repeating, controls a process of skipping or repeating the loaded video signal to obtain a pulldown pattern supported at an I/P conversion side at which the I/P-conversion is performed, when the loaded video signal is converted from an interlaced signal into a progressive signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Yamauchi, Nobutoshi Shida, Hiroshi Kanma
  • Publication number: 20130002923
    Abstract: Even when a posture of an imaging device changes, the imaging device can display a compass image in a natural mode when seen from a user's viewpoint and record a correct image capturing azimuth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2010
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kanma, Ryunosuke Oda, Takuma Nishikawa
  • Publication number: 20120268621
    Abstract: Provided is an imaging apparatus including an imaging unit configured to capture an object according to an imaging start instruction and output a captured image, a geomagnetic sensor configured to detect geomagnetism, an imaging controlling unit configured to control components of the imaging unit in an imaging processing period from the imaging start instruction to the output of the captured image and determine an operation period of a magnetic field generating component affecting a detection value of the geomagnetic sensor, among the components of the imaging unit, an azimuth calculating unit configured to calculate an imaging azimuth based on the detection value detected by the geomagnetic sensor, in a period other than an operation period of the magnetic field generating component, during the imaging processing period, and a recording unit configured to record the imaging azimuths on a recording medium in association with the captured image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2010
    Publication date: October 25, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kanma, Ryunosuke Oda
  • Patent number: 8259185
    Abstract: A terminal device includes: a communication means radio communicatable to access points; a storage means for storing a database associating identification information and position information of an access point connected with the communication means in association with each other; a position information acquiring section that acquires current position information; and a control section that causes a display section to display related information of the access point based on the database when the communication means does not detect a connectable access point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Kanma
  • Publication number: 20100079599
    Abstract: A terminal device includes: a communication means radio communicatable to access points; a storage means for storing a database associating identification information and position information of an access point connected with the communication means in association with each other; a position information acquiring section that acquires current position information; and a control section that causes a display section to display related information of the access point based on the database when the communication means does not detect a connectable access point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2009
    Publication date: April 1, 2010
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi KANMA
  • Publication number: 20090251598
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus that has a frame buffer that stores an input video signal, that loads a video signal at an asynchronous timing with the video signal input from the frame buffer and then that I/P-converts the loaded video signal from an interlaced signal into a progressive signal includes: pulldown determination means that determines whether the input video signal is subjected to a process of skipping or repeating a source video signal through a pulldown process; and control means that, when it is determined that the input video signal is subjected to the process of skipping or repeating, controls a process of skipping or repeating the loaded video signal to obtain a pulldown pattern supported at an I/P conversion side at which the I/P-conversion is performed, when the loaded video signal is converted from an interlaced signal into a progressive signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2009
    Publication date: October 8, 2009
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Yamauchi, Nobutoshi Shida, Hiroshi Kanma