Patents by Inventor Motoki Kobayashi
Motoki Kobayashi 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).
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Publication number: 20190179517Abstract: A screen generating unit generates a home screen for allowing a user to select a desired item of content from among multiple items of content, and the home screen includes a list in which multiple icons representing the multiple items of content are arranged. A display control unit displays the home screen on a television monitor. The screen generating unit further arranges, in the list on the home screen, a search icon used to search for an item of content.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2019Publication date: June 13, 2019Applicant: c/o Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Motoki KOBAYASHI, Yasuhiro YAMANAKA, Shuji HIRAMATSU, Shigeru ENOMOTO, Taku SUGAWARA, Shinji KIMURA, Yumiko TANAKA, George ARRIOLA, Carsten SCHWESIG
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Patent number: 10318124Abstract: A screen generating unit 287 generates a home screen for allowing a user to select a desired item of content from among multiple items of content, and the home screen includes a list in which multiple icons representing the multiple items of content are arranged. A display control unit displays the home screen on a television monitor 204. The screen generating unit 287 further arranges, in the list on the home screen, a search icon used to search for an item of content.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2014Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Motoki Kobayashi, Yasuhiro Yamanaka, Shuji Hiramatsu, Shigeru Enomoto, Taku Sugawara, Shinji Kimura, Yumiko Tanaka, George Arriola, Carsten Schwesig
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Publication number: 20190153616Abstract: A support substrate 2 is a polycrystalline SiC substrate formed of polycrystalline SiC. Assuming that one of the two sides of the polycrystalline SiC substrate is a first side and that the other side is a second side, a substrate grain size change rate of the polycrystalline SiC substrate, which is a value obtained by dividing a difference between the average value of crystal grain sizes of the polycrystalline SiC on the first side and the average value of crystal grain sizes of the polycrystalline SiC on the second side by a thickness of the polycrystalline SiC substrate, is 0.43% or less. A radius of curvature of warpage of the polycrystalline SiC substrate is 142 m or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2017Publication date: May 23, 2019Inventors: Kuniaki YAGI, Motoki KOBAYASHI
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Patent number: 10272345Abstract: A storing section stores an invitation message giving an invitation to an application to be executed by another information processing apparatus. An information displaying section displays the invitation messages on a display device. At this point, the information displaying section displays a valid invitation message and an invalid invitation message in a manner different from each other. The information displaying section may further display an unread invitation message and a read invitation message in a manner different from each other.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2014Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Motoki Kobayashi, Shigeru Enomoto, Nobukazu Koyama, Yuji Nakamura, Akitsugu Tsuchiya
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Patent number: 10191642Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including a novel user interface capable of switching a number of images for display on a screen. The information processing apparatus displays a menu image representing one or more menu item images on a screen, displays, when any one of the one or more menu item images is selected, a selection target image associated with the selected menu item image on the screen, stores a selected order of already-selected ones of the one or more menu item images, displays, when one direction along one side of the screen is specified, another selection target image, which is selected in accordance with the stored selected order and the one direction, and redisplays the menu image when an opposite direction to the one direction is specified in a state in which the selection target image associated with the menu image selected most recently is displayed.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2011Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Munetaka Tsuda, Shuji Hiramatsu, Shigeru Enomoto, Motoki Kobayashi, Toru Morita
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Patent number: 10028007Abstract: A home screen display unit arranges and displays a plurality of content icons indicating a plurality of pieces of content in a first area in a content zone screen. If a specific content icon is focused on by the cursor and if a preset determination operation is performed, a content playback unit starts playback of the content indicated by the focused icon. If a specific content icon is focused on by the cursor, a related information acquiring unit acquires related information relating to the content that is indicated by the focused icon that is registered in an external device from the external device without starting playback of the content. A home screen display unit displays the acquired related information in a second area of the content zone screen and displays, if related information is updated, the updated related information in the second area so as to replace the related information displayed until that moment.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2013Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: George Arriola, Anahi Bagu Casas, Shinji Kimura, Shigeru Enomoto, Yasuhiro Yamanaka, Motoki Kobayashi, Shuji Hiramatsu, Yumiko Tanaka, Taku Sugawara
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Patent number: 9999837Abstract: An acquisition processing section acquires information data addressed to a user and a notification processing section gives notification of the acquired information addressed to the user. When a plurality of users have logged in concurrently, the notification processing section gives notification of user identification information identifying the addressee of the information, along with the information. On the other hand, when only one user has logged in, the notification processing section gives notification of the information but does not give notification of the user identification information. A login managing unit manages login users. The notification processing section determines whether or not to give notification of the user identification information depending on whether one user or a plurality of users are managed by the login managing unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2014Date of Patent: June 19, 2018Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Motoki Kobayashi, Akitsugu Tsuchiya
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Patent number: 9933934Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus that displays on a screen at least a part of a display region, in which display elements are arranged; terminates the display of the display region when an operation of specifying a first direction with respect to a predetermined region in the screen is received from a user; and shifts into a state, in which the termination of the display of the display region, when an operation of specifying a second direction that is different from the first direction with respect to the predetermined region is received from the user.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2011Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Munetaka Tsuda, Shuji Hiramatsu, Shigeru Enomoto, Motoki Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20170339299Abstract: A method of controlling multiple imaging devices includes wirelessly communicating with the imaging devices, and displaying identifiers corresponding to each of the plurality of imaging devices, on the basis of the communication.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2015Publication date: November 23, 2017Inventors: Masaru IKI, Hidenori KARASAWA, Motoki KOBAYASHI
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Patent number: 9773678Abstract: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor substrate may comprise irradiating a surface of a first semiconductor layer and a surface of a second semiconductor layer with one or more types of first impurity in a vacuum. The method may comprise bonding the surface of the first semiconductor layer and the surface of the second semiconductor layer to each other in the vacuum. The method may comprise applying heat treatment to the semiconductor substrate produced in the bonding. The first impurity may be an inert impurity that does not generate carriers in the first and second semiconductor layers. The heat treatment may be applied such that a width of an in-depth concentration profile of the first impurity contained in the first and second semiconductor layers is narrower after execution of the heat treatment than before the execution of the heat treatment.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2015Date of Patent: September 26, 2017Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI, SICOXS CORPORATIONInventors: Ko Imaoka, Motoki Kobayashi, Hidetsugu Uchida, Kuniaki Yagi, Takamitsu Kawahara, Naoki Hatta, Akiyuki Minami, Toyokazu Sakata, Tomoatsu Makino, Mitsuharu Kato
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Patent number: 9762948Abstract: A home screen display unit displays a global navigation screen 12 that is located on an upper layer with respect to a screen transition and that is used for selecting a category of content to be processed. The home screen display unit displays a content zone screen 18 that is located on a lower layer with respect to a screen transition and that is used for selecting a piece of content to be processed from among a plurality of pieces of content corresponding to the category selected in the global navigation screen 12. If a specific piece of content is selected in the content zone screen 18, a game screen display unit displays a screen of the selected content. The home screen display unit displays, in the global navigation screen 12, an image of at least a portion of the content zone screen 18 with image quality lower than that in the case where the image is displayed in the content zone screen 18.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2013Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: George Arriola, Anahi Bagu Casas, Shinji Kimura, Shigeru Enomoto, Yasuhiro Yamanaka, Motoki Kobayashi, Shuji Hiramatsu, Yumiko Tanaka, Taku Sugawara
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Patent number: 9761479Abstract: A technique disclosed herein relates to a manufacturing method for a semiconductor substrate having the bonded interface with high bonding strength without forming an oxide layer at the bonded interface also for the substrate having surface that is hardly planarized. The manufacturing method for the semiconductor substrate may include an amorphous layer formation process in which a first amorphous layer is formed by modifying a surface of a support substrate and a second amorphous layer is formed by modifying a surface of a single-crystalline layer of a semiconductor. The manufacturing method may include a contact process in which the first amorphous layer and the second amorphous layer are contacted with each other. The manufacturing method may include a heat treatment process in which the support substrate and single-crystalline layer are heat-treated with the first amorphous layer and the second amorphous layer being in contact with each other.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2014Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI, SICOXS CORPORATION, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Ko Imaoka, Motoki Kobayashi, Hidetsugu Uchida, Kuniaki Yagi, Takamitsu Kawahara, Naoki Hatta, Akiyuki Minami, Toyokazu Sakata, Tomoatsu Makino, Hideki Takagi, Yuuichi Kurashima
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Publication number: 20170213735Abstract: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor substrate may comprise irradiating a surface of a first semiconductor layer and a surface of a second semiconductor layer with one or more types of first impurity in a vacuum. The method may comprise bonding the surface of the first semiconductor layer and the surface of the second semiconductor layer to each other in the vacuum. The method may comprise applying heat treatment to the semiconductor substrate produced in the bonding. The first impurity may be an inert impurity that does not generate carriers in the first and second semiconductor layers. The heat treatment may be applied such that a width of an in-depth concentration profile of the first impurity contained in the first and second semiconductor layers is narrower after execution of the heat treatment than before the execution of the heat treatment.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2015Publication date: July 27, 2017Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI, SICOXS CORPORATIONInventors: Ko IMAOKA, Motoki KOBAYASHI, Hidetsugu UCHIDA, Kuniaki YAGI, Takamitsu KAWAHARA, Naoki HATTA, Akiyuki MINAMI, Toyokazu SAKATA, Tomoatsu MAKINO, Mitsuharu KATO
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Patent number: 9652126Abstract: Provided is information processing device capable of issuing a notification of an occurrence of an event depending on a current operation mode in a case where the information processing device operates in a plurality of operation modes. An information processing device operates in a plurality of operation modes including at least a first mode and a second mode, receives event information output by an event output program, and notifies a user that the event information has been received, and the information processing device changes a pattern of notification between a case where the event information is received during the operation in the first mode and a case where the event information is received during the operation in the second mode.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2016Date of Patent: May 16, 2017Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Motoki Kobayashi, Shigeru Enomoto
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Patent number: 9507280Abstract: A printer includes: a mask; a cleaning section configured to perform cleaning of the mask by movement relative to the mask in a predetermined direction parallel with an under surface of the mask; a mask holding section capable of turning the mask about an axis perpendicular to the under surface of the mask while holding the mask; and a control section configured to perform a control such that the cleaning is performed on the mask placed in a predetermined position about the axis.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2012Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Motoki Kobayashi, Hidetoshi Sato
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Patent number: 9497382Abstract: A currently captured image R of an object is displayed nearly at a center portion of a display frame SC on a display screen that is a shooting mode. When a time dial 22 is rotated for one step in the counterclockwise direction, the currently captured image R is moved rightward. A reproduced image PI captured before the currently captured image R is displayed on the left thereof. A reproduced image P2 captured before the reproduced image PI is displayed on the left thereof. The currently captured image R and the reproduced images PI and P2 are displayed at the same time on a display screen ST2 as a co-existent state of a shooting mode and a reproducing mode. When the time dial 22 is rotated for one step in the counterclockwise direction, only the reproduced images PI to P4 are displayed on a display screen that is a reproducing mode. As a plurality of reproduced image, the reproduced images PI to P4 are displayed along a time axis.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2013Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignee: THOMSON LICENSINGInventors: Motoki Kobayashi, Miwako Yoritate, Yoshimitsu Funabashi, Shinichi Iriya, Kayo Sasaki
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Publication number: 20160204023Abstract: A technique disclosed herein relates to a manufacturing method for a semiconductor substrate having the bonded interface with high bonding strength without forming an oxide layer at the bonded interface also for the substrate having surface that is hardly planarized. The manufacturing method for the semiconductor substrate may include an amorphous layer formation process in which a first amorphous layer is formed by modifying a surface of a support substrate and a second amorphous layer is formed by modifying a surface of a single-crystalline layer of a semiconductor. The manufacturing method may include a contact process in which the first amorphous layer and the second amorphous layer are contacted with each other. The manufacturing method may include a heat treatment process in which the support substrate and single-crystalline layer are heat-treated with the first amorphous layer and the second amorphous layer being in contact with each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2014Publication date: July 14, 2016Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI, SICOXS CORPORATION, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Ko IMAOKA, Motoki KOBAYASHI, Hidetsugu UCHIDA, Kuniaki YAGI, Takamitsu KAWAHARA, Naoki HATTA, Akiyuki MINAMI, Toyokazu SAKATA, Tomoatsu MAKINO, Hideki TAKAGI, Yuuichi KURASHIMA
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Patent number: 9381735Abstract: A printing device includes a mask raising/lowering mechanical part for raising/lowering, in a state of holding a screen mask, the screen mask in a vertical direction and positioning the screen mask relative to a substrate, a frame part disposed in a state of being independent from a raising/lowering operation of the screen mask, and a print head unit provided movably to the frame part and performing squeegeeing of the screen mask to which a solder has been supplied.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2011Date of Patent: July 5, 2016Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hidetoshi Sato, Motoki Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20160121223Abstract: A storing section stores an invitation message giving an invitation to an application to be executed by another information processing apparatus. An information displaying section displays the invitation messages on a display device. At this point, the information displaying section displays a valid invitation message and an invalid invitation message in a manner different from each other. The information displaying section may further display an unread invitation message and a read invitation message in a manner different from each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2014Publication date: May 5, 2016Inventors: Motoki Kobayashi, Shigeru Enomoto, Nobukazu Koyama, Yuji Nakamura, Akitsugu Tsuchiya
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Publication number: 20160119547Abstract: A currently captured image R of an object is displayed nearly at a center portion of a display frame SC on a display screen that is a shooting mode. When a time dial 22 is rotated for one step in the counterclockwise direction, the currently captured image R is moved rightward. A reproduced image PI captured before the currently captured image R is displayed on the left thereof. A reproduced image P2 captured before the reproduced image PI is displayed on the left thereof. The currently captured image R and the reproduced images PI and P2 are displayed at the same time on a display screen ST2 as a co-existent state of a shooting mode and a reproducing mode. When the time dial 22 is rotated for one step in the counterclockwise direction, only the reproduced images PI to P4 are displayed on a display screen that is a reproducing mode. As a plurality of reproduced image, the reproduced images PI to P4 are displayed along a time axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2013Publication date: April 28, 2016Applicant: THOMSON LICENSINGInventors: Motoki KOBAYASHI, Miwako YORITATE, Yoshimitsu FUNABASHI, Shinichi IRIYA, Kayo SASAKI