Patents by Inventor Makoto Tabuchi

Makoto Tabuchi 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: 7844913
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is provided including a first display control unit for controlling display of an area to which to paste an image representing a content and selected to start reproduction of the content. A second display control unit displays a list of images when a display instruction to display the list of the images is given. Under control of the first display control unit, one screen including a different number of layers according to a category of data created in the area to which to paste the image is displayed in the area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ryoko Amano, Koichi Sato, Makoto Tabuchi, Susumu Ijichi, Hajime Yoshimasu, Kaori Kashimoto, Koji Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Masuda, Kayoko Yamasaki, Ryuji Takenouchi
  • Publication number: 20080016457
    Abstract: To realize a readily understandable character input interface which does not need many physical keys, a character input device comprises a character input interface image display section for displaying a character input interface image which contains a plurality of key images (a key image alignment) each associated with one or more characters and a list showing one or more character strings; a distinctive display section for selectively and distinctively displaying, using a cursor, one of the plurality of key images and the one or more character strings shown in the list according to a direction operation carried out by the user; an input character string display section for displaying, when one of the plurality of key images is distinctively displayed by the distinctive display section when the user carries out an input operation, one of the characters associated with the key image in a character string display area, and displaying, when one of the one or more character strings is distinctively displayed by
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2007
    Publication date: January 17, 2008
    Applicant: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Makoto Tabuchi, Koichi Sato
  • Patent number: 7302158
    Abstract: When second material data is inserted into first material data, in point and out point are set in the first material data and the second material data to generate editing processing information. On the basis of the editing processing information, there are prepared first virtual file in which recording area of recording medium with respect to the first material data is described by time codes and second virtual file in which recording area of the recording medium with respect to the second material data is described by time codes. Thus, reproduction is carried out from preroll point positioned forward in point of time with respect to the in point up to postroll point positioned backward in point of time with respect to the out point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2007
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoichiro Asato, Makoto Tabuchi, Masakazu Murata
  • Patent number: 7031594
    Abstract: A data recording and/or reproducing apparatus having actuating buttons or adjustment volumes which enable a wide variety of processing operations despite a limited operating space, and which is able to display levels of plural audio data or to display various other data on a limited display area without detracting from viewability. To this end, the apparatus recording and/or reproducing includes a unit for recording and/or reproducing data for a non-linear accessible recording medium, at least one input port and at least one output port. The input port and the output port time-divisionally access the recording and/or reproducing unit to process the data inputted to the input port to output the processed data to the recording and/or reproducing a unit. The data reproduced from the recording and/or reproducing unit is processed by and outputted from the output port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2006
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichi Morishima, Makoto Tabuchi, Masakazu Murata, Kazuo Kamiyama, Toru Eto, Junichi Onodera
  • Patent number: 7016598
    Abstract: A data recording/reproduction apparatus and a data recording/reproduction method according to the invention can effectively and economically utilize the limited resource of hard discs when editing files by defining the editing points on a plurality of data recorded on a non-linearly reproducible recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2006
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Tabuchi, Ichiro Fujisawa
  • Publication number: 20050183026
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present invention includes: first display control unit for controlling display of an area to which to paste an image representing a content and selected to start reproduction of the content; and second display control unit for displaying a list of images when a display instruction to display the list of the images is given. Under control of the first display control unit, one screen including a different number of layers according to a category of data created in the area to which to paste the image is displayed in the area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2005
    Publication date: August 18, 2005
    Inventors: Ryoko Amano, Koichi Sato, Makoto Tabuchi, Susumu Ijichi, Hajime Yoshimasu, Kaori Kashimoto, Koji Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Masuda, Kayoko Yamasaki, Ryuji Takenouchi
  • Publication number: 20050018502
    Abstract: A data recording and/or reproducing apparatus having actuating buttons or adjustment volumes which enable a wide variety of processing operations despite a limited operating space, and which is able to display levels of plural audio data or to display various other data on a limited display area without detracting from viewability. To this end, the apparatus recording and/or reproducing includes a unit for recording and/or reproducing data for a non-linear accessible recording medium, at least one input port and at least one output port. The input port and the output port time-divisionally access the recording and/or reproducing unit to process the data inputted to the input port to output the processed data to the recording and/or reproducing a unit. The data reproduced from the recording and/or reproducing unit is processed by and outputted from the output port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2003
    Publication date: January 27, 2005
    Inventors: Shinichi Morishima, Makoto Tabuchi, Masakazu Murata, Kazuo Kamiyama, Toru Eto, Junichi Onodera
  • Patent number: 6801708
    Abstract: A data recording and reproducing apparatus having a recording and reproducing means for recording and reproducing data containing video data and/or audio data to and from a record medium that is non-linearly accessible and a plurality of input and output processing means for accessing the recording and reproducing means in respectively assigned time slot periods, outputting the data that is output from the outside to the recording and reproducing means, and inputting the data from the recording and reproducing means is disclosed, that comprises an operating means for performing at least a record operation for causing the data to be recorded to the record medium and a reproduction operation for causing the data to be reproduced from the record medium, and a displaying means for displaying the data that is input to and that is output from the plurality of input and output means, wherein the operating means and the displaying means are integrally structured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2004
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kashu Takahashi, Shinichi Morishima, Makoto Tabuchi, Kazuo Kamiyama
  • Patent number: 6771876
    Abstract: A data recording and/or reproducing apparatus includes a unit for recording and/or reproducing data for a non-linear accessible recording medium, at least one input port and at least one output port. The input port and the output port time-divisionally access the recording and/or reproducing unit to process the data inputted to the input port to output the processed data to the recording and/or reproducing a unit. The data reproduced from the recording and/or reproducing unit is processed by and outputted from the output port. The apparatus also includes a port actuation button for selecting the input and output ports, an actuation selection button for selecting recording or playback for the input port or the output port as selected by the port actuation button, and a controller for performing control so that the recording operation or the playback operation as selected by the actuation selection button will be executed by the input port or the output port as selected by the port actuation button.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2004
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichi Morishima, Makoto Tabuchi, Masakazu Murata, Kazuo Kamiyama, Toru Eto, Junichi Onodera
  • Patent number: 6744969
    Abstract: A data recording and reproducing apparatus has facilities for recording and reproducing, inputting and outputting, and editing data and can perform edits by itself. The data recording and reproducing apparatus records AV data inputted from an input port on HDDs by using a recorder and reproducer, and outputs data reproduced from HDDs by the recorder and reproducer through an output port. In an editor inputted is data inputted from outside and data reproduced by the recorder and reproducer. The editor performs edits on at least either of the data above by using a matrix switcher and an audio mixer provided therein. A special effector is utilized as necessary. The editor can output data obtained through editing processing to a switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2004
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuo Kamiyama, Makoto Tabuchi, Masakazu Murata, Shinichi Morishima, Yoshiharu Yamashita, Ichiro Fujisawa, Hiroshi Masuda, Tatsuo Tsukida, Yoshizo Mihara
  • Patent number: 6415095
    Abstract: The A/V server manages data to be edited in the form of edit data pages (will be referred to as “page” herebelow) and program as a collection of the pages. The page data include recorder- and player-side device names, file names and edition points per page. The data in all the pages are collected as a program. A page number to identify each page is represented by a sequence of information assigned in the produced order in each page. The A/V server changes only the page number in the temporal order of the IN points in the destination data and produces a program in which the page data are re-arranged. Also when re-accessing near the same material data recorded in a VTR, the A/V server accesses data recorded in the HDD, not in the VTR.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2002
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichi Morishima, Makoto Tabuchi
  • Publication number: 20020001450
    Abstract: A data recording/reproduction apparatus and a data recording/reproduction method according to the invention can effectively and economically utilize the limited resource of hard discs when editing files by defining the editing points on a plurality of data recorded on a non-linearly reproducible recording medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2001
    Publication date: January 3, 2002
    Inventors: Makoto Tabuchi, Ichiro Fujisawa
  • Patent number: 4823103
    Abstract: To manufacture an electronic component of the present invention and according to a method of manufacturing the electronic component also of the invention, steps of positioning and temporarily fixing the electronic component element are performed by the use of a bent portion formed on the lead wire, the bent portion of the lead wire being pressed into the through hole of the electronic component element. Thereafter, the bonding agent, which was applied to the bent portion, is filled into the through hole of the electronic component element by capillarity. Alternatively, the bonding agent may be injected into the through hole after the lead wire is inserted. Thus, the bonding agent is filled in a shorter time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 1988
    Date of Patent: April 18, 1989
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayuki Nakagawa, Makoto Tabuchi, Mitsuro Hamuro
  • Patent number: 4803777
    Abstract: To manufacture an electronic component of the present invention and according to a method of manufacturing the electronic component also of the invention, steps of positioning and temporarily fixing the electronic component element are performed by the use of a bent portion formed on the lead wire, the bent portion of the lead wire being pressed into the through hole of the electronic component element. Thereafter, the bonding agent, which was applied to the bent portion, is filled into the through hole of the electronic component element by capillarity. Alternatively, the bonding agent may be injected into the through hole after the lead wire is inserted. Thus, the bonding agent is filled in a shorter time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1985
    Date of Patent: February 14, 1989
    Inventors: Masayuki Nakagawa, Makoto Tabuchi, Mitsuro Hamuro
  • Patent number: 4575995
    Abstract: Apparatus for automatically producing a strip-like container housing chip-form electronic parts comprising a tape-like housing body provided with housing holes spaced thereon, a chip-form electronic part having no lead wire being housed in each of said housing holes.According to this automatic producing apparatus, a tape-like housing body is intermittently transported longitudinally, a respective chip-form electronic part being sequentially supplied by a supplying device into each housing hole provided on the housing body in the course of transportation thereof, the housing hole being sealed when the chip-form electronic part has been housed therein by a tape-like cover sheet supplied by a sheet supply device, the cover sheet being applied to the tape-like housing body by a cover sheet applying device, the aggregate of electronic parts thus produced being rolled round a reel of a winding device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 18, 1986
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Tabuchi, Kiyoshi Imanishi
  • Patent number: D437858
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2001
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeya Yasui, Makoto Tabuchi, Shinichi Morishima
  • Patent number: RE41081
    Abstract: A data recording and reproducing apparatus has facilities for recording and reproducing, inputting and outputting, and editing data and can perform edits by itself. The data recording and reproducing apparatus records AV data inputted from an input port on HDDs by using a recorder and reproducer, and outputs data reproduced from HDDs by the recorder and reproducer through an output port. In an editor inputted is data inputted from outside and data reproduced by the recorder and reproducer. The editor performs edits on at least either of the data above by using a matrix switcher and an audio mixer provided therein. A special effector is utilized as necessary. The editor can output data obtained through editing processing to a switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuo Kamiyama, Makoto Tabuchi, Masakazu Murata, Shinichi Morishima, Yoshiharu Yamashita, Ichiro Fujisawa, Hiroshi Masuda, Tatsuo Tsukida, Yoshizo Mihara