Patents by Inventor Katsumi Muramatsu

Katsumi Muramatsu 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: 10515021
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kuno, Takamichi Hayashi, Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Katsumi Muramatsu, Koji Yoshimura
  • Patent number: 9805173
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kuno, Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Takamichi Hayashi, Katsumi Muramatsu
  • Patent number: 9684772
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a data processing section for reproducing contents stored in a medium having a general purpose area in which encrypted contents and corresponding utilization controlling information are stored and a protected area including a plurality of blocks having access limitation set thereto and including a block having an encryption key for decrypting the encrypted contents stored therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kuno, Takamichi Hayashi, Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Katsumi Muramatsu
  • Patent number: 9363089
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including: a data processing unit, on which a medium as an information storage apparatus is mounted, which controls reproduction of content stored on the medium, wherein the data processing unit executes host device ID registration processing for outputting a host device ID, which is an identifier of the host device, to the medium and storing the host device ID on the medium, receives the host device ID, which is stored on the medium, from the medium after execution of the host device ID registration processing, executes connection consistency confirmation processing for executing matching processing between the received host ID and the host device ID of the host device, and executes or continues content reproduction under a condition that the matching processing has been established in the connection consistency confirmation processing, or stops the content reproduction if the matching processing has not been established.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kuno, Takamichi Hayashi, Koji Yoshimura, Katsumi Muramatsu, Yoshiyuki Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9053739
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus, including: a data processing section reproducing contents stored in a medium having a general purpose area storing encrypted contents and utilization controlling information corresponding to the contents, and a protected area including blocks to which access limitation is set and which include a title key storage block in which an encryption key for decrypting the contents and validity period information applied to the application contents of the encryption key are stored and a status storage block in which date information upon content first-time reproduction is stored; the data processing section acquires validity period information indicative of the content utilization permission period determined in response to date information upon the content first-time reproduction from the title key storage block and decides whether or not content reproduction is to be permitted based on comparison between the acquired validity period information and current dat
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kuno, Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Takamichi Hayashi, Katsumi Muramatsu
  • Publication number: 20150143131
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2012
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kuno, Takamichi Hayashi, Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Katsumi Muramatsu, Koji Yoshimura
  • Patent number: 9037867
    Abstract: A configuration for achieving efficient content verification processing based on hash values is provided. Hash values of hash units set as segmented data of a content stored on an information storage medium are recorded in a content hash table and are stored on the information storage medium together with the content. An information processing apparatus for executing content playback executes hash-value comparison processing based on one or more randomly selected hash values. Regardless of the data amount of content, the configuration can perform hash-value determination and comparison processing based on hash units having a small amount of data, so that user equipment for executing content playback can perform efficient content verification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kenjiro Ueda, Tateo Oishi, Yoshitomo Osawa, Katsumi Muramatsu, Motoki Kato, Yoshikazu Takashima
  • Patent number: 8929540
    Abstract: To provide a configuration in which a unit classification number corresponding to a content playback path is set based on various units. A unit classification number defining a playback path of content including encrypted data having different variations generated by encrypting a segment portion which forms the content by using a plurality of segment keys and encrypted content generated by encrypting a non-segment portion by a unit key is set based on various units, such as a content management unit and an index. In a CPS unit key file storing key generating information concerning CPS units as content management units, settings of unit classification numbers are indicated. Based on the CPS unit key file, a unit classification number to which content to be played back belongs can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Takashima, Tateo Oishi, Katsumi Muramatsu, Kenjiro Ueda, Motoki Kato
  • Patent number: 8893307
    Abstract: An information processing system includes: a client executing acquisition and reproduction of contents; a management server providing the client with content selection information applied for acquisition of contents; and a content providing server receiving the content selection information from the client and providing the content selected in accordance with the content selection information, wherein the content selection information includes content identifiers as identifiers of encrypted contents respectively encrypted by different encryption keys and range information indicating data areas of range data which is configuration data of respective encrypted contents, and the content providing server provides the client with an encrypted content formed by combining range data as partial data of the encrypted contents specified by the content identifiers and the range information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kuno, Takamichi Hayashi, Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Katsumi Muramatsu
  • Patent number: 8868904
    Abstract: A configuration is provided wherein usage restrictions of an application are determined in accordance with timestamps. A certificate revocation list (CRL) in which the revocation information of a content owner who is a providing entity of an application program recorded in a disc is recorded is referred to verify whether or not a content owner identifier recorded in an application certificate is included in the CRL, and in the case that the content owner identifier is included in the CRL, comparison between a timestamp stored in a content certificate and a CRL timestamp is executed, and in the case that the content certificate timestamp has date data equal to or later than the CRL timestamp, utilization processing of the application program is prohibited or restricted. According to the present configuration, a configuration is realized wherein an unrevoked application is not subjected to utilization restriction, and only a revoked application is subjected to utilization restriction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kenjiro Ueda, Tateo Oishi, Katsumi Muramatsu, Motoki Kato, Yoshiyuki Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8862903
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus, including: a data processing section reproducing contents stored in a medium having a general purpose area in which encrypted contents and utilization controlling information corresponding to the contents are stored, and a protected area configured from a plurality of blocks to which access limitation is set and which include a block in which an encryption key for decrypting the contents and information of a plurality of validity periods indicative of content utilization permission periods applied to the application contents of the encryption key are stored, wherein the data processing section acquires the utilization controlling information of a reproduction object content, extracts selection information of validity period information to be applied to the content, and decides whether or not content reproduction is to be permitted by comparison between the validity period information selected from within the block and current date information in accordance with the selecti
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kuno, Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Takamichi Hayashi, Katsumi Muramatsu
  • Publication number: 20140237235
    Abstract: Content usage control is realized on condition of the establishment of user authentication without having to communicate with a server or the like. An information storage device such as a memory card stores an encrypted content, a converted title key obtained by converting a title key which is an encryption key, and a user token obtained by converting binding secret information to be applied to calculate the title key from the converted title key. A reproducing device that decrypts and reproduces the encrypted content acquires the converted title key and the user token, and generates an authentication key on the basis of user identification information such as a user ID.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2013
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kuno, Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Takamichi Hayashi, Katsumi Muramatsu
  • Publication number: 20140177904
    Abstract: A GUID as title information and a global serial number are recorded in a BCA of a digital video disc. A hash value of the GUID is embedded as an electronic watermark in a data area. When content data is reproduced from the digital video disc, a match of information of the two GUIDs is checked so as to prevent the digital video disc from being illegally copied. A lead-in area and a managing organization provide disc revocation lists. With a global serial number and a disc revocation list, content data can be prevented from being reproduced from an illegally distributed disc. A film WM detector detects data embedded in a movie shown in a theater so as to prevent content data from being reproduced from a disc on which the embedded data is recorded. Thus, content data can be prevented from being reproduced from an illegally distributed disc before a copyright supervisor of the content authorizes the disc to be distributed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicants: Sony Pictures Entertainment, SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi KITANI, Don Charles EKLUND, Hideo SATO, Jun YONEMITSU, Katsumi MURAMATSU
  • Publication number: 20140122887
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including: a data processing unit, on which a medium as an information storage apparatus is mounted, which controls reproduction of content stored on the medium, wherein the data processing unit executes host device ID registration processing for outputting a host device ID, which is an identifier of the host device, to the medium and storing the host device ID on the medium, receives the host device ID, which is stored on the medium, from the medium after execution of the host device ID registration processing, executes connection consistency confirmation processing for executing matching processing between the received host ID and the host device ID of the host device, and executes or continues content reproduction under a condition that the matching processing has been established in the connection consistency confirmation processing, or stops the content reproduction if the matching processing has not been established.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2013
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kuno, Takamichi Hayashi, Koji Yoshimura, Katsumi Muramatsu, Yoshiyuki Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20140115342
    Abstract: A configuration for achieving efficient content verification processing based on hash values is provided. Hash values of hash units set as segmented data of a content stored on an information storage medium are recorded in a content hash table and are stored on the information storage medium together with the content. An information processing apparatus for executing content playback executes hash-value comparison processing based on one or more randomly selected hash values. Regardless of the data amount of content, the configuration can perform hash-value determination and comparison processing based on hash units having a small amount of data, so that user equipment for executing content playback can perform efficient content verification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Inventors: Kenjiro Ueda, Tateo Oishi, Yoshitomo Osawa, Katsumi Muramatsu, Motoki Kato, Yoshikazu Takashima
  • Patent number: 8645710
    Abstract: A configuration for achieving efficient content verification processing based on hash values is provided. Hash values of hash units set as segmented data of a content stored on an information storage medium are recorded in a content hash table and are stored on the information storage medium together with the content. An information processing apparatus for executing content playback executes hash-value comparison processing based on one or more randomly selected hash values. Regardless of the data amount of content, the configuration can perform hash-value determination and comparison processing based on hash units having a small amount of data, so that user equipment for executing content playback can perform efficient content verification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kenjiro Ueda, Tateo Oishi, Yoshitomo Osawa, Katsumi Muramatsu, Motoki Kato, Yoshikazu Takashima
  • Patent number: 8510852
    Abstract: To provide an apparatus, a recording medium and a method for effectively preventing unauthorized use of a content. A content containing broken data different from correct content member data is recorded on an information recording medium. Furthermore, transform data, as the correct member data, to be substituted for the broken data, and a fix-up table storing setting position information of the content are recorded on the information recording medium. During the content playback process, the transform data is substituted for the content member data in accordance with the fix-up table recorded on the information recording medium. With this arrangement, even if the encryption key corresponding to the encrypted content recorded on the information recording medium is leaked, an apparatus unable to acquire the transform data cannot play back the content. Unauthorized use of the content is thus controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Takashima, Kenjiro Ueda, Tateo Oishi, Katsumi Muramatsu, Jun Yonemitsu
  • Patent number: 8474049
    Abstract: A virtual machine can be implemented by anyone because the interface and other information necessary for implementation are publicly available. Hence, if virtual machine is implemented maliciously, a program operating thereon can be made to operate maliciously instead of operating legitimately. By comparing secret information held in memory and specific to the virtual machine with verification information which a program holds itself, the program verifies that the virtual machine on which it is running has been legitimately implemented and excludes illegitimate virtual machines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignees: Panasonic Corporation, Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Senichi Onoda, Masaya Yamamoto, Toshihisa Nakano, Kaoru Murase, Masayuki Kozuka, Takashi Yamanishi, Yoshitomo Osawa, Tateo Oishi, Jun Yonemitsu, Katsumi Muramatsu
  • Publication number: 20130073872
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus, including: a data processing section reproducing contents stored in a medium having a general purpose area storing encrypted contents and utilization controlling information corresponding to the contents, and a protected area including blocks to which access limitation is set and which include a title key storage block in which an encryption key for decrypting the contents and validity period information applied to the application contents of the encryption key are stored and a status storage block in which date information upon content first-time reproduction is stored; the data processing section acquires validity period information indicative of the content utilization permission period determined in response to date information upon the content first-time reproduction from the title key storage block and decides whether or not content reproduction is to be permitted based on comparison between the acquired validity period information and current dat
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2012
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi KUNO, Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Takamichi Hayashi, Katsumi Muramatsu
  • Publication number: 20130073871
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus, including: a data processing section reproducing contents stored in a medium having a general purpose area in which encrypted contents and utilization controlling information corresponding to the contents are stored, and a protected area configured from a plurality of blocks to which access limitation is set and which include a block in which an encryption key for decrypting the contents and information of a plurality of validity periods indicative of content utilization permission periods applied to the application contents of the encryption key are stored, wherein the data processing section acquires the utilization controlling information of a reproduction object content, extracts selection information of validity period information to be applied to the content, and decides whether or not content reproduction is to be permitted by comparison between the validity period information selected from within the block and current date information in accordance with the selecti
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2012
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi KUNO, Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Takamichi Hayashi, Katsumi Muramatsu