Patents by Inventor Michihiro Okada

Michihiro Okada 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: 20220408140
    Abstract: A moving image distribution server 12 transfers, by streaming, data of a plurality of moving images representing the same space. A moving image reproduction apparatus 10 separates audio data from any one of the moving images and outputs the audio data after a predetermined period of delay. The moving image reproduction apparatus 10 also separates image data from another moving image and outputs the image data in synchronization with audio. When a user performs an image switching operation, the moving image reproduction apparatus 10 acquires data of a moving image that has been switched from another moving image, separates image data therefrom, and starts outputting the image data given the same PTS as the audio data continuously being output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2020
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventor: Michihiro OKADA
  • Publication number: 20210349622
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device that, while displaying an image, displays a moving image of interest different from the image in a predetermined region inside a display region in which the image is being displayed, and, according to an instruction by a user, arrays and displays, inside the display region, an image string including a plurality of frame images extracted from the moving image of interest, and that displays the image string at a position determined according to the predetermined region inside the display region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: Michihiro OKADA, Akimitsu YASUDA
  • Patent number: 10489658
    Abstract: To provide a video processing device that allows a user to quickly search for a desired scene while at the same time easily confirming details of an image string. There is provided a video processing device that acquires a first image string and a second image string different from each other that are made up of a plurality of frame images extracted from a video of interest, that performs control such that the first image string is shown on a display device screen as an image string of interest, that causes the frame images included in the first image string to scroll in response to a scrolling operation by the user while the first image string is shown, and that switches the image string of interest from the first image string to the second image string if the scrolling operation satisfies a given determination condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventor: Michihiro Okada
  • Publication number: 20180012075
    Abstract: To provide a video processing device that allows a user to quickly search for a desired scene while at the same time easily confirming details of an image string. There is provided a video processing device that acquires a first image string and a second image string different from each other that are made up of a plurality of frame images extracted from a video of interest, that performs control such that the first image string is shown on a display device screen as an image string of interest, that causes the frame images included in the first image string to scroll in response to a scrolling operation by the user while the first image string is shown, and that switches the image string of interest from the first image string to the second image string if the scrolling operation satisfies a given determination condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2015
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Inventor: Michihiro OKADA
  • Patent number: 9220979
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium having embodied thereon a program for implementing functions of managing a recording medium in an electronic device, includes a recording medium management module that includes: an acquisition module configured to acquire an upper limit to the number of recording media registered in the electronic device; and a registering module configured to register the recording medium in which the program is installed in the electronic device such that the acquired upper limit is not exceeded. The recording medium management module may link date and time information to a recording medium identifier identifying the recording medium in which the program is installed, and register the information and the identifier as linked in a management database used to manage the recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Michihiro Okada, Shunichi Soma, Shigeru Enomoto, Toru Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 8799781
    Abstract: A thumbnail display screen is displayed. The thumbnail display screen contains a first thumbnail array and a second thumbnail array, in which the images of two groups of frames extracted from a moving image file according to different rules are aligned in the order of appearance in the moving image. The first thumbnail array can be shifted forward or backward via an input apparatus, and the second thumbnail array is shifted in conjunction with a shift of the first thumbnail array. When one of the frames on the thumbnail display screen is selected, the moving image is played from the selected frame or the nearest scene switching point from the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Yuichi Nishimori, Michihiro Okada
  • Publication number: 20130159301
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium having embodied thereon a program for implementing functions of managing a recording medium in an electronic device, includes a recording medium management module that includes: an acquisition module configured to acquire an upper limit to the number of recording media registered in the electronic device; and a registering module configured to register the recording medium in which the program is installed in the electronic device such that the acquired upper limit is not exceeded. The recording medium management module may link date and time information to a recording medium identifier identifying the recording medium in which the program is installed, and register the information and the identifier as linked in a management database used to manage the recording medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2012
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Michihiro Okada, Shunichi Soma, Shigeru Enomoto, Toru Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 8396982
    Abstract: To provide a device for downloading a digital content file, an information processor stores, in an external storage device, a digital content file obtained from a server through a network through packet communication, where the information processor includes a download control section for keeping a recording area having a size which is equal to the data size of the digital content file in the external storage device and storing the packets in order from the earliest to the latest obtained, in this recording area; and a resume data generation section for generating a resume data indicating the progress of obtaining the digital content file, and the download control section stores the resume data in the subject recording area and removes the resume data from the recording area when the last packet is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Michihiro Okada, Hideki Sato, Shusuke Utsumi
  • Publication number: 20100088646
    Abstract: A thumbnail display screen is displayed. The thumbnail display screen contains a first thumbnail array and a second thumbnail array, in which the images of two groups of frames extracted from a moving image file according to different rules are aligned in the order of appearance in the moving image. The first thumbnail array can be shifted forward or backward via an input apparatus, and the second thumbnail array is shifted in conjunction with a shift of the first thumbnail array. When one of the frames on the thumbnail display screen is selected, the moving image is played from the selected frame or the nearest scene switching point from the frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2009
    Publication date: April 8, 2010
    Inventors: Yuichi NISHIMORI, Michihiro OKADA
  • Publication number: 20090319679
    Abstract: To provide a device for downloading a digital content file. An information processor stores, in an external storage device, a digital content file obtained from a server through a network through packet communication. The information processor includes a download control section for keeping a recording area having a size which is equal to the data size of the digital content file in the external storage device and storing the packets in order from the earliest to the latest obtained, in this recording area; and a resume data generation section for generating a resume data indicating the progress of obtaining the digital content file. The download control section stores the resume data in the subject recording area and removes the resume data from the recording area when the last packet is obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2007
    Publication date: December 24, 2009
    Applicants: SONY CORPORATION, SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Michihiro Okada, Hideki Sato, Shusuke Utsumi