Patents by Inventor Masachika Sasaki

Masachika Sasaki 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: 10929565
    Abstract: A memory region on an IC card has a hierarchical structure. Each application allocated on the memory region is registered in a directory, and the memory region is managed in directory units. A personal identification code is set for each application and directory, and the access right is controlled in application units or directory units. If a mobile terminal is lost, the right to access each application in the IC card automatically disappears. Therefore, the right to access each application allocated to the memory region on the IC card is efficiently controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Yamagata, Masachika Sasaki, Masahiro Sueyoshi, Fumio Kubono, Akira Fukada
  • Publication number: 20160283730
    Abstract: A memory region on an IC card has a hierarchical structure. Each application allocated on the memory region is registered in a directory, and the memory region is managed in directory units. A personal identification code is set for each application and directory, and the access right is controlled in application units or directory units. If a mobile terminal is lost, the right to access each application in the IC card automatically disappears. Therefore, the right to access each application allocated to the memory region on the IC card is efficiently controlled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Inventors: Akihiko Yamagata, Masachika Sasaki, Masahiro Sueyoshi, Fumio Kubono, Akira Fukada
  • Patent number: 9384618
    Abstract: A memory region on an IC card has a hierarchical structure. Each application allocated on the memory region is registered in a directory, and the memory region is managed in directory units. A personal identification code is set for each application and directory, and the access right is controlled in application units or directory units. If a mobile terminal is lost, the right to access each application in the IC card automatically disappears. Therefore, the right to access each application allocated to the memory region on the IC card is efficiently controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiko Yamagata, Masachika Sasaki, Masahiro Sueyoshi, Fumio Kubono, Akira Fukada
  • Patent number: 8942544
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including a storage part for storing criteria information of a plurality of destinations, and a display control part for performing control to display transmission capability information indicating whether it is possible to transmit, to each of the destinations, a selected motion picture file in a predetermined range selected from a motion picture file by a user, the transmission capability information being derived based on information about the selected motion picture file and the criteria information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeru Ichikawa, Masachika Sasaki
  • Patent number: 8824862
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a display unit including a screen; a detection unit configured to detect a position designated by a user on the screen; and a controller configured to display, with at least a partial range of a moving image being a display range, a plurality of images corresponding to a plurality of frames belonging to the display range by annularly arranging them in time series, and shift, when an operation is judged to be made along a direction in which the plurality of images are arranged based on a result of the detection by the detection unit, the display range in the moving image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masachika Sasaki, Kenji Shoda, Takahiro Shimada, Kunihiro Iwakiri
  • Publication number: 20130034341
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including a storage part for storing criteria information of a plurality of destinations, and a display control part for performing control to display transmission capability information indicating whether it is possible to transmit, to each of the destinations, a selected motion picture file in a predetermined range selected from a motion picture file by a user, the transmission capability information being derived based on information about the selected motion picture file and the criteria information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2012
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeru Ichikawa, Masachika Sasaki
  • Patent number: 8316395
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a content metadata obtaining unit configured to obtain content metadata; a determination unit configured to determine the category of the content metadata; an editing unit configured to edit the content metadata so that, when text data of the content metadata is to be reproduced on the basis of the category of the content metadata determined by the determination unit, information on a predetermined link destination is displayed in response to a predetermined operation being performed on the reproduced text data; a reproduction unit configured to reproduce the text data of the content metadata in synchronization with the reproduction of the content; and a display unit configured to display the information on the link destination on the basis of the content metadata edited by the editing unit when the predetermined operation is performed on the text data of the content metadata reproduced by the reproduction unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuo Kuroiwa, Masachika Sasaki, Satoshi Fujimura, Hisashi Hosaka
  • Patent number: 8213764
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes area image extracting means for extracting, as a telop image, an area displaying a telop in contents, detecting means for detecting a scene change in images of the contents, recording means for converting an image at the time when a scene change is detected by the detecting means to a thumbnail image and recording the thumbnail image, display control means for controlling to arrange and display a plurality of the thumbnail images and a plurality of the telop images chronologically, and playing means for playing the contents from the position corresponding to the selected thumbnail image or telop image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuo Kuroiwa, Masachika Sasaki, Satoshi Fujimura, Hisashi Hosaka, Hiroshi Nagatani, Yuki Murata, Satoshi Akagawa, Shigeya Yasui, Yoshiyasu Kubota, Yukiko Sakata, Mitsuo Okumura, Masahide Sumiyoshi, Toshiaki Kusakabe, Masahiro Hara, Masanori Nomura, Satoshi Hiroi, Bin Lin
  • Publication number: 20120045188
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a display unit including a screen; a detection unit configured to detect a position designated by a user on the screen; and a controller configured to display, with at least a partial range of a moving image being a display range, a plurality of images corresponding to a plurality of frames belonging to the display range by annularly arranging them in time series, and shift, when an operation is judged to be made along a direction in which the plurality of images are arranged based on a result of the detection by the detection unit, the display range in the moving image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2011
    Publication date: February 23, 2012
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masachika Sasaki, Kenji Shoda, Takahiro Shimada, Kunihiro Iwakiri
  • Publication number: 20100218262
    Abstract: A memory region on an IC card has a hierarchical structure. Each application allocated on the memory region is registered in a directory, and the memory region is managed in directory units. A personal identification code is set for each application and directory, and the access right is controlled in application units or directory units. If a mobile terminal is lost, the right to access each application in the IC card automatically disappears. Therefore, the right to access each application allocated to the memory region on the IC card is efficiently controlled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2010
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiko Yamagata, Masachika Sasaki, Masahiro Sueyoshi, Fumio Kubono, Akira Fukada
  • Patent number: 7742604
    Abstract: A memory region on an IC card has a hierarchical structure. Each application allocated on the memory region is registered in a directory, and the memory region is managed in directory units. A personal identification code is set for each application and directory, and the access right is controlled in application units or directory units. If a mobile terminal is lost, the right to access each application in the IC card automatically disappears. Therefore, the right to access each application allocated to the memory region on the IC card is efficiently controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Yamagata, Masachika Sasaki, Masahiro Sueyoshi, Fumio Kubono, Akira Fukada
  • Patent number: 7734935
    Abstract: An IC card issuer issues an IC card and requests a card memory area operator to lend part of a memory area of the IC card to another card memory area user. The card memory area operator provides a memory area division apparatus and various data to the memory area division apparatus under the control of an operator communication apparatus 12. The card memory area user divides the memory area of the IC card into a memory area to be used by the IC card issuer and a memory area to be used by the card memory area user. The operation file registration apparatus writes file data for the card memory area user to the memory area of the card memory area user obtained by the above division.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Takada, Susumu Kusakabe, Masachika Sasaki, Tadashi Moriya
  • Patent number: 7613301
    Abstract: A code range which is the range of usable identification codes (corresponding to file names or directory names) is stored in an area defining area corresponding to a directory, and a layer structure in which the area defining area concerned is set as a parent layer and the other area defining areas are set as child layers is constructed on the basis of the code range. Further, the capacity (empty capacity) of the usable storage area is stored in the area defining area, and the capacity and identification codes which are usable in the layer of an area defining area are restricted by the empty capacity and the code range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2009
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Susumu Kusakabe, Masayuki Takada, Masachika Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20090173787
    Abstract: A memory region on an IC card has a hierarchical structure. Each application allocated on the memory region is registered in a directory, and the memory region is managed in directory units. A personal identification code is set for each application and directory, and the access right is controlled in application units or directory units. If a mobile terminal is lost, the right to access each application in the IC card automatically disappears. Therefore, the right to access each application allocated to the memory region on the IC card is efficiently controlled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2009
    Publication date: July 9, 2009
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiko Yamagata, Masachika Sasaki, Masahiro Sueyoshi, Fumio Kubono, Akira Fukada
  • Patent number: 7508946
    Abstract: A memory region on an IC card has a hierarchical structure. Each application allocated on the memory region is registered in a directory, and the memory region is managed in directory units. A personal identification code is set for each application and directory, and the access right is controlled in application units or directory units. If a mobile terminal is lost, the right to access each application in the IC card automatically disappears. Therefore, the right to access each application allocated to the memory region on the IC card is efficiently controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2009
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Yamagata, Masachika Sasaki, Masahiro Sueyoshi, Fumio Kubono, Akira Fukada
  • Publication number: 20080168499
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a content metadata obtaining unit configured to obtain content metadata; a determination unit configured to determine the category of the content metadata; an editing unit configured to edit the content metadata so that, when text data of the content metadata is to be reproduced on the basis of the category of the content metadata determined by the determination unit, information on a predetermined link destination is displayed in response to a predetermined operation being performed on the reproduced text data; a reproduction unit configured to reproduce the text data of the content metadata in synchronization with the reproduction of the content; and a display unit configured to display the information on the link destination on the basis of the content metadata edited by the editing unit when the predetermined operation is performed on the text data of the content metadata reproduced by the reproduction unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2008
    Publication date: July 10, 2008
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuo KUROIWA, Masachika Sasaki, Satoshi Fujimura, Hisashi Hosaka
  • Publication number: 20080159718
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes area image extracting means for extracting, as a telop image, an area displaying a telop in contents, detecting means for detecting a scene change in images of the contents, recording means for converting an image at the time when a scene change is detected by the detecting means to a thumbnail image and recording the thumbnail image, display control means for controlling to arrange and display a plurality of the thumbnail images and a plurality of the telop images chronologically, and playing means for playing the contents from the position corresponding to the selected thumbnail image or telop image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2007
    Publication date: July 3, 2008
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuo KUROIWA, Masachika Sasaki, Satoshi Fujimura, Hisashi Hosaka, Hiroshi Nagatani, Yuki Murata, Satoshi Akagawa, Shigeya Yasui, Yoshiyasu Kubota, Yukiko Sakata, Mitsuo Okumura, Masahide Sumiyoshi, Toshiaki Kusakabe, Masahiro Hara, Masanori Nomura, Satoshi Hiroi, Bin Rin
  • Patent number: 7376973
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus that allows separately forming regions having different roles. When an area definition region #0100h is newly formed under an area definition region #0000h that is formed on an IC card, information of the area definition region #0100h is encrypted using a service key stored in an area registration service definition region #0020h that is formed in advance, and the encrypted information is supplied to the IC card. Upon receiving that information, the IC card decrypts the encrypted information using the service key stored in the area registration service definition region #0020h. Then, the area definition region #0100h is formed based on the result of decryption. The present invention may be applied to an IC card that exchanges information in a non-contact manner and to an apparatus that exchanges data with the IC card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2008
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Susumu Kusakabe, Tadashi Morita, Masachika Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20070079144
    Abstract: An IC card issuer issues an IC card and requests a card memory area operator to lend part of a memory area of the IC card to another card memory area user. The card memory area operator provides a memory area division apparatus and various data to the memory area division apparatus under the control of an operator communication apparatus 12. The card memory area user divides the memory area of the IC card into a memory area to be used by the IC card issuer and a memory area to be used by the card memory area user. The operation file registration apparatus writes file data for the card memory area user to the memory area of the card memory area user obtained by the above division.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2006
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mayasuki Takada, Susumu Kusakabe, Masachika Sasaki, Tadashi Morita
  • Patent number: 7178040
    Abstract: An IC card issuer issues an IC card and requests a card memory area operator to lend part of a memory area of the IC card to another card memory area user. The card memory area operator provides a memory area division apparatus and various data to the memory area division apparatus under the control of an operator communication apparatus 12. The card memory area user divides the memory area of the IC card into a memory area to be used by the IC card issuer and a memory area to be used by the card memory area user. The operation file registration apparatus writes file data for the card memory area user to the memory area of the card memory area user obtained by the above division.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2007
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Takada, Susumu Kusakabe, Masachika Sasaki, Tadashi Morita