Patents by Inventor Masanori Nomura

Masanori Nomura 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: 20170300147
    Abstract: A flexible touch sensor comprises: a first sheet material that has a first major surface, and that has a cushioning property; a second sheet material that includes a conductive material, and that is disposed on the first major surface of the first sheet material; and a conductive wire that is disposed on the first major surface of the first sheet material, and that is sunk into the first sheet material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Inventors: Yoshihiro TOMITA, Koji KAWAKITA, Koichi HIRANO, Masanori NOMURA, Susumu SAWADA, Takashi ICHIRYU
  • Publication number: 20170216721
    Abstract: In an information processing apparatus of a guest user, an image data acquisition unit acquires content image data from a host user, and a reproduction processing unit reproduces the content image data and outputs the content image data from an outputting apparatus. An information acquisition unit acquires information for specifying a sharing mode of a content image, and a notification unit notifies the user of the information indicative of the mode of the sharing process in an associated relationship with the reproduced content image. Further, if the information acquisition unit acquires information indicating that the content is within a sharing restriction period, then the notification unit notifies the user of the information indicating that the content is within the sharing restriction period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2015
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Masanori Nomura
  • Publication number: 20170209790
    Abstract: A game image being played by a user A is shared with a user C. A mode setting unit sets one sharing mode from between at least two sharing modes. The first mode is a mode in which a game image is shared while the user C does not have a control right of a game, and the second mode is a mode in which the control right of the game is passed to a user B in place of the user A. The third mode is a mode in which both of the user A and the user C have the control right of the game. The mode setting unit sets one mode from among the modes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2015
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Masanori NOMURA
  • Publication number: 20170209791
    Abstract: On a participation member screen image of a chat room, user information is displayed such that a host user and a guest user who perform share play can be specified. In a member information area, an information displaying field for the host user and an information displaying field for the guest user are disposed in a juxtaposed relationship from the uppermost stage, and a share play mark is added to the host user. Further, in a share play item, a check mark is displayed to indicate that share play is proceeding, and time information is displayed to indicate an implementation time period of the share play.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2015
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Masanori Nomura, Yuichi Yoshizawa, Fumiaki Hisamatsu
  • Publication number: 20170181277
    Abstract: A flexible substrate is provided with: a stretchable sheet; a member located on the sheet; and a stretchable strip connected to the member, and located on the sheet. When the amount of extension of the sheet is equal to or less than a predetermined value, the sheet has a first elastic modulus, and when the amount of extension of the sheet exceeds the predetermined value, the sheet has a second elastic modulus that is greater than the first elastic modulus and greater than the elastic modulus of the strip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventors: YOSHIHIRO TOMITA, KOICHI HIRANO, SUSUMU SAWADA, KOJI KAWAKITA, TAKASHI ICHIRYU, MASANORI NOMURA
  • Publication number: 20170063970
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an event management server for providing services related to participation in events to an information processing device that performs an information processing task using data provided as an event by a content provision server, the event management server including: an event information storage section adapted to store event-related information; and a correlation information preparation section adapted to acquire details of a user operation, extract events that match the details of the user operation, prepare event data that represents the events in a given format, transmit the data to the information processing device, acquire details of a user operation performed on the information processing device to register for participation, prepare registration information that correlates a user with the event, and store the registration information in a storage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Masanori Nomura
  • Publication number: 20170064014
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an information processing device for acquiring, via a network, data provided as an event by a content provision server for a set duration and performing an information processing task using the data, the information processing device including: an event participation operation control section adapted to acquire, from a management server that manages an event in which a user of the information processing device is registered for participation, setup data that sets up a given operation to be started at a given time relative to a start time of the event in which the user is registered for participation, and to control the given operation such that the operation is performed at the time specified by the setup; and an information processing section adapted to perform an information processing task using the event data acquired from the content provision server and generate output data after the given operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Masanori Nomura
  • Publication number: 20160353567
    Abstract: A stretchable flexible substrate according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: an electronic component; a first insulating layer located around the electronic component and having first and second main surfaces facing each other; a first metal layer that is in contact with the first main surface; a second metal layer that is in contact with the second main surface and electrically connected to the electronic component; and a second insulating layer that seals the electronic component, first insulating layer, and second metal layer, in plan view, a curved wiring portion extending from a central portion made up of at least the electronic component, portions of the first insulating layer and first and second metal layers, the curved wiring portion being made up of at least other portions of the first insulating layer, first and second metal layers, and the curved wiring portion being curved at least partially.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Inventors: TAKASHI ICHIRYU, KOJI KAWAKITA, MASANORI NOMURA, YOSHIHIRO TOMITA
  • Publication number: 20160351481
    Abstract: An electronic component package according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a metal pattern layer having a first principal surface and a second principal surface, an electronic component disposed on the first principal surface and electrically connected to the metal pattern layer, at least one metal member disposed on the first principal surface and electrically connected to the metal pattern layer, a sealing resin layer disposed on the first principal surface, the electronic component and the at least one metal member, and an insulating layer disposed on the second principal surface. The at least one metal member is thicker than the electronic component. In plan view, the at least one metal member is disposed on an area of the first principal surface, the area including an end of the first principal surface. The at least a part of the metal pattern layer is exposed from the insulating layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Inventors: KOJI KAWAKITA, TAKASHI ICHIRYU, MASANORI NOMURA
  • Publication number: 20160256774
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device capable of accepting operation information from a game controller. An acceptance section accepts operation information from a terminal device different from the game controller. An application execution section executes an application in accordance with operation information accepted by the acceptance section. A delivery processing section transmits application image data to the terminal device. An auxiliary storage device holds input assignment information of the terminal device. The delivery processing section transmits, to the terminal device, input assignment information of the application under execution held by a storage section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Publication date: September 8, 2016
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Takenori Oshima, Masanori Nomura
  • Publication number: 20160250550
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an information processor including: an acquisition section adapted to acquire, from other information processor, information about a connection status between the information processors; and a message processing section adapted to display a message on the basis of the connection status information. The connection status information includes information about a communication environment of the other information processor, and the message processing section displays a message about the communication environment of the other information processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Inventors: Masanori NOMURA, Shigetaka KUDO
  • Publication number: 20160250556
    Abstract: A technology by which content image data is streaming-distributed in various distribution modes is disclosed an information processing apparatus includes: an execution unit configured to generate image data of a content in response to operation information; an acceptance unit configured to accept a designation of a distribution form of the image data; and a transmission processing unit configured to transmit the image data to a distribution destination. When the acceptance unit accepts a designation of a first distribution form and a designation of a second distribution form, the transmission processing unit transmits first image data and second image data to respective corresponding distribution destinations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Inventors: Masanori NOMURA, Shigetaka KUDO
  • Patent number: 9373762
    Abstract: An electronic part package comprises a sealing resin layer, an electronic part and a metal plating pattern layer. The sealing resin layer is provided with a principal surface including a first region that has a bellows-like shape having alternate ridges and valleys and a second region that is flat. The electronic part includes an electrode having a principal surface and is covered by the sealing resin layer except the principal surface, which is surrounded by the second region. The metal plating pattern layer is integrally provided on the first and second regions and on the principal surface of the electrode. A portion of the metal plating pattern layer, the portion located on the first region, has a bellows-like shape having alternate ridges and valleys along an outline of the first region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Susumu Sawada, Yoshihiro Tomita, Koji Kawakita, Masanori Nomura
  • Publication number: 20160127504
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a request transmitting unit configured to transmit a request to download contents; a condition receiving unit configured to receive download conditions of the contents in another terminal device than the information processing device; and a notification processing unit configured to notify the received download conditions to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2015
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventors: Masaki Takahashi, Masanori Nomura
  • Publication number: 20150378569
    Abstract: An image of a folder linked to one program is displayed on a display section by a simpler operation than a conventional operation. A control section displays a program icon image on a display section, the program icon image being an image associated with a program, and being an image causing processing related to the program to be performed in response to reception of a predetermined operation on the image. The control section changes the program icon image displayed on the display section and associated with the program to a folder corresponding image in response to reception of an instruction to generate a folder linked to the program, the folder corresponding image being an image associated with the folder linked to the program, and being an image causing the program corresponding image associated with the program linked to the folder to be displayed on the display section in response to reception of the predetermined operation on the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2014
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Inventors: Sumino SATO, Norihiro NAGAI, Toru YAMAMOTO, Yuji NAKAMURA, Ryota UCHINO, Takeshi NAKAGAWA, Makoto SAITO, Masanori NOMURA
  • Publication number: 20150370342
    Abstract: The present invention is intended to realize character string input using two or more devices by an efficient technique. A character string input system includes a first information processing apparatus and a second information processing apparatus. The first information processing apparatus acquires an operation done on a first input device and acquires a first character string on the basis of the acquired operation. The second information processing apparatus acquires an operation done on a second input device and acquires a second character string on the basis of the acquired operation. The first information processing apparatus outputs an input character string on the basis of the first character string acquired by the time input of the second character string is started by use of the second input device and the second character string.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2014
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Inventors: Masanori NOMURA, Tomohiro OGAWA, Satoru MATSUDA, Takenori OSHIMA, Junichi NAOI
  • Publication number: 20150364661
    Abstract: An electronic part package comprises a sealing resin layer, an electronic part and a metal plating pattern layer. The sealing resin layer is provided with a principal surface including a first region that has a bellows-like shape having alternate ridges and valleys and a second region that is flat. The electronic part includes an electrode having a principal surface and is covered by the sealing resin layer except the principal surface, which is surrounded by the second region. The metal plating pattern layer is integrally provided on the first and second regions and on the principal surface of the electrode. A portion of the metal plating pattern layer, the portion located on the first region, has a bellows-like shape having alternate ridges and valleys along an outline of the first region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Inventors: SUSUMU SAWADA, YOSHIHIRO TOMITA, KOJI KAWAKITA, MASANORI NOMURA
  • Patent number: 8249252
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus for outputting a predetermined video signal from a component output terminal includes signal detection means for detecting a copy protection signal embedded in the video signal to protect copyright, setting detection means for detecting a currently set output format of the video signal output from the component output terminal when the copy protection signal is detected by the signal detection means, and changing means for changing the output format detected by the setting detection means to an alternative output format when the output format is a predetermined format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Sakuma, Iori Matsuto, Hiroyuki Yoshida, Hirooki Tajima, Masanori Nomura, Hiroshi Nagatani, YuHang Shen
  • 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
  • Patent number: 7889217
    Abstract: A display control apparatus for controlling display in a first display device that displays a predetermined display range of an entire supplied image is provided. The display control apparatus includes an image scaledown unit adapted to scale down a first image based on a scaledown ratio that is preset in accordance with the size of the display range relative to the entire image; and a display control unit adapted to control display of the first image that is scaled down by the image scaledown unit in the first display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Sakuma, Masanori Nomura, Hiroshi Nagatani, Haruhiko Sakata, Hiroyuki Yoshida, Hirooki Tajima