Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Kuno
Hiroshi Kuno 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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Patent number: 11951583Abstract: An electrostatic chuck includes a ceramic base, a ceramic dielectric layer, an electrostatic electrode, and a ceramic insulating layer. The ceramic dielectric layer is positioned on the ceramic base and is thinner than the ceramic base. The electrostatic electrode is embedded between the ceramic dielectric layer and the ceramic base. The ceramic insulating layer is positioned on the ceramic dielectric layer and is thinner than the ceramic dielectric layer. The ceramic insulating layer has a higher volume resistivity and withstand voltage than the ceramic dielectric layer, and the ceramic dielectric layer has a higher dielectric constant than the ceramic insulating layer.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Takebayashi, Kenichiro Aikawa, Tatsuya Kuno
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Patent number: 11948825Abstract: A wafer placement table includes: an electrostatic chuck that is a ceramic sintered body in which an electrode for electrostatic adsorption is embedded; a cooling member which is bonded to a surface on an opposite side of a wafer placement surface of the electrostatic chuck, and cools the electrostatic chuck; a hole for power supply terminal, the hole penetrating the cooling member in a thickness direction; and a power supply terminal which is bonded to the electrode for electrostatic adsorption from the surface on the opposite side of the wafer placement surface of the electrostatic chuck, and is inserted in the hole for power supply terminal. The outer peripheral surface of a portion of the power supply terminal is covered with an insulating thin film that is formed by coating of an insulating material, the portion being inserted in the hole for power supply terminal.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.Inventors: Kenichiro Aikawa, Hiroshi Takebayashi, Tatsuya Kuno
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Publication number: 20240087091Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a server device and a network control method that are configured to reduce traffic of object data constituting a virtual space. A live entertainment broker filters each of first object data that is object data of a first object and second object data that is object data of a second object based on a determined filtering condition, the first object and the second object being to be displayed in a virtual space, and sends the filtered object data to a rendering server. This technology can be applied, for example, to a data processing system that provides a live entertainment service that provides live performances of artists in real time.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2021Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Yasuaki YAMAGISHI, Hiroshi KUNO, Kazuhiko TAKABAYASHI
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Publication number: 20230394826Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a data processing device and method, and a data processing system, capable of reducing application loads in a cloud server by controlling sensor data flowing over a network. A sensor data monitor controls, based on a result of determining a sameness of subjects using DVS data output from DVS sensors that output temporal luminance changes in optical signals as event data, data transfer of image frame data in which the subjects have been shot on a frame basis. The present disclosure can be applied in, for example, an image network system or the like that transmits image frame data shot on a frame basis.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2021Publication date: December 7, 2023Inventors: YASUAKI YAMAGISHI, HIROSHI KUNO, KAZUHIKO TAKABAYASHI
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Publication number: 20230239245Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a network control method and a data processing system for reducing traffic in a network and reducing a processing load of an application that performs data processing. A network connection device determines, on the basis of a manifest, an optimal location for execution of an application that processes sensor data generated by a sensor device, from among the sensor device and a device on a path in a network connected to the sensor device. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a network control method of cloud computing.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2020Publication date: July 27, 2023Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Yasuaki YAMAGISHI, Hiroshi KUNO
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Publication number: 20230043591Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus and method capable of more easily comparing 3D objects. Comparison information which is information for displaying a plurality of 3D objects of 6DoF content in a comparable manner is generated. Further, the plurality of 3D objects of the 6DoF content is displayed in a comparable manner on the basis of comparison information which is information for displaying the plurality of 3D objects in a comparable manner. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, an information processing system, and the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 25, 2020Publication date: February 9, 2023Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Yuka KIYAMA, Ryohei TAKAHASHI, Tsuyoshi ISHIKAWA, Mitsuhiro HIRABAYASHI, Jun KIMURA, Hiroshi KUNO
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Publication number: 20220303641Abstract: Provided is an appropriate viewing experience according to the intention of a provider. A metadata generation unit (122) generates timed playback information indicating a display order along time passage for playback of each scene of 6DoF content including a three-dimensional model in a three-dimensional space, and modified timed metadata including recommended viewing information indicating a viewpoint position and a line-of-sight direction at each time point along time passage for playback, and generates association information indicating that the timed playback information and the modified timed metadata correspond to each time point along the time passage for playback.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2020Publication date: September 22, 2022Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Yuka KIYAMA, Ryohei TAKAHASHI, Mitsuhiro HIRABAYASHI, Hiroshi KUNO
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Publication number: 20210367780Abstract: The present technology relates to an adapter apparatus configured to enabling a recording medium to be more safely and easily carried, and a processing method. An encryption processing part in an adapter apparatus encrypts data written in a storage apparatus, and a decryption processing part decrypts the data read from the storage apparatus. A key storage part stores the same common key as a key used to encrypt and decrypt the data and stored in another adapter apparatus. The present technology is applicable to encryption adapters configured to connect a USB memory to PCs placed at a worksite and home, respectively, for example.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2017Publication date: November 25, 2021Inventors: MUNETAKE EBIHARA, HIROSHI KUNO, KOJI YOSHIMURA
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Patent number: 10882569Abstract: A vehicle body reinforcing structure includes: a panel-shaped reinforcing member having a through-hole penetrating through the reinforcing member in a plate-thickness direction of the reinforcing member and located inside a closed-section structure of a vehicle body framework portion; a first panel located at a position closer to an outside of the vehicle than the reinforcing member is; a second panel constituting the closed-section structure with the first panel and located at a position closer to an inside of the vehicle than the reinforcing member is; and a foaming adhesive member filled in an internal space of the closed-section structure, wherein the first panel and the second panel are bonded to each other by the foaming adhesive member penetrating through the through-hole of the reinforcing member, and the foaming adhesive member is filled between the first panel and the reinforcing member and between the second panel and the reinforcing member.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2019Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Haruki Suzumura, Hiroshi Kuno, Tomoki Kitagawa
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Patent number: 10515021Abstract: According to a first aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided an information storage device including a storage unit that stores encrypted content, usage control information of the encrypted content, and a revocation list in which revocation information of a content reproduction device is recorded, and a data processing unit that determines whether content reproduction of an information processing device which performs decoding of the encrypted content is permitted.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2012Date of Patent: December 24, 2019Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Kuno, Takamichi Hayashi, Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Katsumi Muramatsu, Koji Yoshimura
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Publication number: 20190300073Abstract: A vehicle body reinforcing structure includes: a panel-shaped reinforcing member having a through-hole penetrating through the reinforcing member in a plate-thickness direction of the reinforcing member and located inside a closed-section structure of a vehicle body framework portion; a first panel located at a position closer to an outside of the vehicle than the reinforcing member is; a second panel constituting the closed-section structure with the first panel and located at a position closer to an inside of the vehicle than the reinforcing member is; and a foaming adhesive member filled in an internal space of the closed-section structure, wherein the first panel and the second panel are bonded to each other by the foaming adhesive member penetrating through the through-hole of the reinforcing member, and the foaming adhesive member is filled between the first panel and the reinforcing member and between the second panel and the reinforcing member.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2019Publication date: October 3, 2019Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Haruki Suzumura, Hiroshi Kuno, Tomoki Kitagawa
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Patent number: 10120984Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a data processing unit which executes processing for decoding and reproducing encrypted content. The data processing unit executes processing for determining whether the content can be reproduced by applying an encrypted content signature file. The encrypted content signature file stores information on issue date of the encrypted content signature file and an encrypted content signature issuer certificate with a public key of an encrypted content signature issuer. In determining whether the content can be reproduced, the data processing unit compares expiration date of the encrypted content signature issuer certificate with the information on issue date of the encrypted content signature file, and does not perform processing for decoding and reproducing the encrypted content when the expiration date is before the issue date, and performs the processing for decoding and reproducing the encrypted content only when the expiration date is not before the issue date.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2012Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Hiroshi Kuno, Takamichi Hayashi
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Patent number: 10020019Abstract: An information processing device includes: a data processing unit that executes a process of reproducing content recorded in a medium; and a memory storing a content revocation list in which an identifier (ID) of revoked content is recorded, wherein the data processing unit compares a minimum allowable version of a content revocation list recorded in a token which is management data corresponding to content recorded in the medium with a version of a content revocation list acquired from the memory, and when the version of the content revocation list acquired from the memory is an old version lower than the minimum allowable version of the content revocation list recorded in the token, the data processing unit halts determination on revocation of content based on the content revocation list acquired from the memory and reproduction of content.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2011Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Kenjiro Ueda, Koji Yoshimura, Hiroshi Kuno, Takamichi Hayashi, Munetake Ebihara
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Patent number: 9871661Abstract: To realize a configuration to output content to a medium and to use the content stored in the medium under control of the use of content. A content-output-device outputs an encrypted content and an encryption key to be applied to the using process to the medium, and a management server generates a media ID verification value based on a media ID that is an identifier of the medium and transmits the value to the medium. The medium stores the encrypted content, the encryption key, and the media ID verification value in a storage unit. A reproduction device loads the medium and calculates a verification value based on the media ID acquired from the medium, and executes a reproducing process of the encrypted content stored in the medium by data processing to which the encryption key is applied on condition that a matching process performed between the verification value and the media ID verification value stored in the medium is established.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2012Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Motoki Kato, Hiroshi Kuno, Takamichi Hayashi
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Patent number: 9822579Abstract: A vehicle door structure includes a door lock unit configured to lock a sliding door and a swing door when the sliding door is in a fully opened state, and a lock detection unit configured to detect a locked state between the sliding door and the swing door by the door lock unit. The door lock unit has a locking pin disposed at a guide body, a locking pin biasing member configured to bias the locking pin toward the swing door, and a fitting section formed at a slide rail and fitted onto the locking pin. The lock detection unit detects the locked state between the sliding door and the swing door by detecting the locking pin being fitted into the fitting section.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2016Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Katsuya Maruyama, Hiroshi Kuno
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Patent number: 9811670Abstract: An information processing device including: a data processing unit that generates an encryption key of content; and a communication unit that transmits an encryption key generated by the data processing unit, wherein the data processing unit generates, as the encryption key, individual keys that are different for each new content recording processing on a recording medium in a content recording device, and transmits the individual keys through the communication unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2014Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Kuno, Kenjiro Ueda, Munetake Ebihara, Takamichi Hayashi, Koji Yoshimura
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Patent number: 9805173Abstract: An information storage device including one or more processors configured to store an encrypted content and to control access of an external device to the information storage device is provided. The one or more processors are further configured to store a converted title key obtained by converting a title key which is an encryption key to be applied to decryption of the encrypted content, and a user token obtained by converting binding secret information to be applied to calculate the title key from the converted title key. The one or more processors are further configured to allow the external device having a confirmed access right to the information storage device to read out the user token.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2013Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Kuno, Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Takamichi Hayashi, Katsumi Muramatsu
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Patent number: 9767298Abstract: There is provided a device and a method for preventing using of illegitimate content or manufacturing of the illegitimate media that uses illegitimate media. In a system that has an information storage device, a license management apparatus that generates a media key set (MKS) that is stored in the information storage device, and a content provision apparatus, at the time of manufacturing of the information storage device, the license management apparatus compares an MKS version that is set in the MKS that is stored in the information storage device, and an allowance minimum MKS version that is recorded in a controller of the information storage device, and thus records key information stored in the MKS, in a storage unit under the condition that it is confirmed that the MKS version is equal to or greater in value than the allowance minimum MKS version.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2012Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Takamichi Hayashi, Hiroshi Kuno, Koji Yoshimura
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Patent number: 9731583Abstract: A vehicle door structure 1 includes a lock mechanism 40. The lock mechanism 40 includes a portion to be locked 50 provided to a guided body 18, a first locking portion 60 arranged at a position that corresponds to the portion to be locked 50 when the slide door 6 is in the fully closed position, and a second locking portion 70 arranged at a position that corresponds to the portion to be locked 50 when the slide door 6 is in the fully open position. The portion to be locked 50, in the fully closed position or the fully open position, protrudes toward the first locking portion 60 or the second locking portion 70 and is locked by the first locking portion 60 or the second locking portion 70. The second locking portion 70 protrudes toward the portion to be locked 50 when the swing door 70 is opened.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2016Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Katsuya Maruyama, Hiroshi Kuno
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Patent number: 9734306Abstract: Disclosed is a structure that includes: an information processing apparatus that stores content into an information storage device such as a memory card including an access allowed block based on an access right check made on each block, and uses the content; a content usage managing server that provides content usage permission information to the information processing apparatus; and a content correspondence information providing server that provides the encryption key to be used in decrypting the encrypted content stored in the information storage device. The content usage managing server determines the block for storing the encryption key and notifies the content correspondence information providing server of a block identifier that is the identifier of the determined block, and the content correspondence information providing server performs a process to write the encryption key into the block corresponding to the received block identifier.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2013Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Kenjiro Ueda, Hiroshi Kuno, Yoshiyuki Kobayashi