Patents by Inventor Kazutomo Watabe

Kazutomo Watabe 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).

  • Program recording and viewing reservation system and method thereof
    Publication number: 20030115604
    Abstract: A method for reserving recording and viewing a broadcast program on a display screen includes the steps of extracting a broadcast program timetable; simultaneously displaying the broadcast program timetable and a viewing reservation timetable; waiting for a selection input to select a broadcast program on the display screen; waiting for an allocation input to allocate a selected program into the viewing reservation timetable; and generating recording instruction to instruct recording of the selected program and reproduction reservation instruction to instruct reproduction of the selected program at a time corresponding to a position at which the selected program is allocated in the viewing reservation timetable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2002
    Publication date: June 19, 2003
    Applicant: Pioneer Corporation
    Inventors: Gaku Yamamura, Tsutomu Takahashi, Tsuyoshi Hasebe, Kazutomo Watabe, Yoshitaka Tanaka, Yosuo Shirosaki, Ryuichiro Morioka, Masao Higuchi, Katsutoshi Inagaki, Kunihiro Minoshima
  • Broadcast program timetable generating apparatus and method thereof
    Publication number: 20030115605
    Abstract: A method for generating a timetable of broadcast programs includes the steps of receiving a broadcast program guidance; identifying at least one tuner for receiving a broadcast program; obtaining the receiving reservation information including a broadcast time frame and a receiving tuner for each of reserved broadcast programs for all of the identified tuners; detecting an unavailable time frame based on the receiving reservation information, the unavailable time frame representing a time period that the reservation time frames of all the identified tuners are overlapped; and generating a display data for displaying the program guidance and the unavailable time frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2002
    Publication date: June 19, 2003
    Applicant: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masao Higuchi, Gaku Yamamura, Tsutomu Takahashi, Kazutomo Watabe, Katsutoshi Inagaki, Yoshitaka Tanaka, Ryuichiro Morioka, Kunihiro Minoshima, Tsuyoshi Hasebe, Yasuo Shirosaki