Patents by Inventor Kazuko Yamada

Kazuko Yamada 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: 20230196632
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device and an information processing method which are capable of appropriate control of lectures and the like that are held with participants in a plurality of spaces. According to the present technology, received are an operation for displaying an overhead view image of a second space different from a first space in which the information processing device is disposed on a display unit disposed in the first space; an operation for displaying a list of a plurality of images of the second space to be captured at a plurality of captured positions on a display unit disposed in the first space; an operation for displaying an image in the first space on a display unit disposed in the second space; an operation for outputting a sound in the second space from a sound output unit disposed in the first space; and an operation for outputting a sound input from a sound input unit disposed in the first space from a sound output unit disposed in the second space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventor: KAZUKO YAMADA
  • Patent number: 9813256
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including a communication unit and a controller. The communication unit is capable of connecting to, via a fourth network, a first server and a first device existing in a first network, a second server and a second device existing in a second network, and a relay server that exists in a third network and stores connection information with respect to the first server and the second server. The controller is capable of controlling the communication unit to receive the connection information from the relay server and controlling data transmission processing between the first device and the second device via the first server and the second server using the connection information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuko Yamada, Masato Shimakawa, Yoshihiro Manabe, Seiji Miyama, Satoshi Hiroi
  • Patent number: 9436778
    Abstract: Provided is a server apparatus including a storing unit that stores a correspondence between terminal information of one or more information processing terminals connected via a network and one or more pieces of display control information associated with display screens of the information processing terminals; an adding unit that adds a new correspondence between the terminal information of the information processing terminal and the display control information to the storing unit in response to a user operation of at least one information processing terminal; an image data generating unit that generates image data to be displayed on the display screen of the information processing terminal based on the correspondence stored in the storing unit when an access from at least one information processing terminal is made; and a transmitting unit that transmits the image data generated by the image generating unit to the information processing terminal that has made the access.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuko Yamada, Itaru Kawakami, Mitsuru Takehara, Kazuhiro Shitama
  • Patent number: 9424207
    Abstract: Consistent with embodiments of this disclosure, an information processing apparatus is provided. The information processing apparatus comprises an input terminal configured to receive a plurality of Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) descriptions from a plurality of external devices. The UPnP descriptions comprise grouping information indicating one or more groups to which the external devices belong. The information processing apparatus further comprises a processing unit configured to process the UPnP descriptions and assign the external devices to the one or more groups based on the grouping information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuko Yamada
  • Publication number: 20150026302
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including a communication unit and a controller. The communication unit is capable of connecting to, via a fourth network, a first server and a first device existing in a first network, a second server and a second device existing in a second network, and a relay server that exists in a third network and stores connection information with respect to the first server and the second server. The controller is capable of controlling the communication unit to receive the connection information from the relay server and controlling data transmission processing between the first device and the second device via the first server and the second server using the connection information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuko YAMADA, Masato SHIMAKAWA, Yoshihiro MANABE, Seiji MIYAMA, Satoshi HIROI
  • Publication number: 20140108677
    Abstract: Consistent with embodiments of this disclosure, an information processing apparatus is provided. The information processing apparatus comprises an input terminal configured to receive a plurality of Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) descriptions from a plurality of external devices. The UPnP descriptions comprise grouping information indicating one or more groups to which the external devices belong. The information processing apparatus further comprises a processing unit configured to process the UPnP descriptions and assign the external devices to the one or more groups based on the grouping information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2012
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuko Yamada
  • Publication number: 20110316817
    Abstract: Provided is a server apparatus including a storing unit that stores a correspondence between terminal information of one or more information processing terminals connected via a network and one or more pieces of display control information associated with display screens of the information processing terminals; an adding unit that adds a new correspondence between the terminal information of the information processing terminal and the display control information to the storing unit in response to a user operation of at least one information processing terminal; an image data generating unit that generates image data to be displayed on the display screen of the information processing terminal based on the correspondence stored in the storing unit when an access from at least one information processing terminal is made; and a transmitting unit that transmits the image data generated by the image generating unit to the information processing terminal that has made the access.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2009
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Inventors: Kazuko Yamada, Itaru Kawakami, Mitsuru Takehara, Kazuhiro Shitama
  • Publication number: 20110167106
    Abstract: There is provided a communication terminal apparatus including a position information acquisition section which acquires position information indicating a current position, a velocity calculation section which calculates a moving velocity based on variations in amount and time of the position information acquired by the position information acquisition section, and a metadata acquisition section which determines a reference point to be a reference of an acquisition area of position metadata based on the position information and the moving velocity, determines an area size indicating a size of the acquisition area depending on the moving velocity, and acquires position metadata within an acquisition area specified based on the reference point and the area size from a metadata providing server that provides position metadata.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2010
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuko YAMADA, Atsushi Okamori, Mikita Yasuda, Masahiko Naito
  • Patent number: 6602532
    Abstract: A process of preserving food which includes adding serine, especially L-serine, to food. According to the present invention, provided is a convenient process of preserving food for a long term by adding serine to food, in particular by performing a heat treatment after the addition of serine to food. Since serine is one kind of amino acids, it does not deteriorate quality of food itself and can preserve food safely.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2003
    Assignee: F.G.A. Laboratories Flavourence Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuko Yamada, Keiko Saito
  • Publication number: 20010033884
    Abstract: A process of preserving food comprises adding serine, especially L-serine, to food. According to the present invention, provided is a convenient process of preserving food for a long term by adding serine to food, in particular by performing a heat treatment after the addition of serine to food. Since serine is one kind of amino acids, it does not deteriorate quality of food itself and can preserve food safely.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2001
    Publication date: October 25, 2001
    Applicant: F.G.A. Laboratories Flavourence Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuko Yamada, Keiko Saito