Patents by Inventor Khoki Watanabe

Khoki Watanabe 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).

  • Information processing apparatus and associated method of prioritizing content for playback
    Publication number: 20060045475
    Abstract: A cache control unit of a video data playback control apparatus sets priority video data in order to efficiently use a storage area of a cache memory. The priority video data includes video data which includes a greater number of portions of video data than that of data displayed in a display unit, which includes a smaller number of portions of video data than a maximum number that can be held in the cache memory, and which has a high possibility of being output from the cache memory to the display unit. Also, the cache control unit preferentially reads the priority video data from a recording medium and stores it in the cache memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2005
    Publication date: March 2, 2006
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Khoki Watanabe, Tatsuya Kubota