Patents by Inventor Hodaka Irikuchi

Hodaka Irikuchi 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).

  • Recording/reproducing apparatus and method, simultaneous processing program storage medium, and simultaneous processing program
    Patent number: 8213777
    Abstract: The present invention aims to certainly use an electronic program guide. According to the present invention, a switch circuit part 24 for connecting a first tuner 2 and a second tuners 3 that take in a television signal S2 on plural channels including a program guide providing channel and select one of them, to a first and a second signal processing systems 30 and 31 that perform predetermined processing to the television signal S2, and a VBI slicer 23 that extracts an electronic program guide from the television signal S2 on the program guide providing channel, is controlled so that the first and the second signal processing systems 30 and 31 that simultaneously perform predetermined different processing to the above one television signal S2, are collectively connected to one of the first tuner 2 and the second tuner 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hodaka Irikuchi, Junji Oiwa
  • Recording/reproducing apparatus and method, simultaneous processing program storage medium, and simultaneous processing program
    Publication number: 20050158029
    Abstract: The present invention aims to certainly use an electronic program guide. According to the present invention, a switch circuit part 24 for connecting a first tuner 2 and a second tuners 3 that take in a television signal S2 on plural channels including a program guide providing channel and select one of them, to a first and a second signal processing systems 30 and 31 that perform predetermined processing to the television signal S2, and a VBI slicer 23 that extracts an electronic program guide from the television signal S2 on the program guide providing channel, is controlled so that the first and the second signal processing systems 30 and 31 that simultaneously perform predetermined different processing to the above one television signal S2, are collectively connected to one of the first tuner 2 and the second tuner 3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2003
    Publication date: July 21, 2005
    Inventors: Hodaka Irikuchi, Junji Oiwa