Patents by Inventor Noboru Murabayashi

Noboru Murabayashi 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: 20230196840
    Abstract: In a work management device, a first storage unit stores a first learned model that outputs a plurality of objects defining each of a plurality of work states forming one process of manufacturing work with respect to a determination target image including a hand image that is an image of a hand of a worker who is performing a product manufacturing work, a detection unit detects the plurality of objects with respect to the determination target image by using the first learned model, and a determination unit determines a work state indicated by the determination target image based on the plurality of objects detected by the detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: NOBORU MURABAYASHI, TAKESHI TOKITA
  • Publication number: 20190182466
    Abstract: There is provided a display control device including a related content acquisition unit that acquires related content that relates to predetermined video content, and a display controller that applies control to display the related content after the predetermined video content is recorded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Applicant: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Hideo Nagasaka, Shunji Yoshimura, Noboru Murabayashi, Tomonori Misawa, Nobuyoshi Miyokawa
  • Patent number: 10129515
    Abstract: There is provided a display control device including a related content acquisition unit that acquires related content that relates to predetermined video content, and a display controller that applies control to display the related content after the predetermined video content is recorded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Hideo Nagasaka, Shunji Yoshimura, Noboru Murabayashi, Tomonori Misawa, Nobuyoshi Miyokawa
  • Patent number: 10019058
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a gaze position detection section that detects a gaze position of a user with respect to a display screen; a position information acquisition section that acquires position information of the user; and a control section that judges, based on the detected gaze position, a scene and an object in the scene that the user focuses in a content displayed on the display screen, and generates search information from the judged object and the acquired position information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koichi Kawana, Noboru Murabayashi
  • Patent number: 9854220
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a content reproduction unit, a content part specification unit, a clustering unit, a class detection unit, a common class extraction unit, and a content retrieval unit. The content reproduction unit is configured to reproduce a reproduction content. The content part specification unit is configured to specify a plurality of content parts included in the reproduction content. The clustering unit is configured to classify the plurality of content parts into a plurality of clusters. The class detection unit is configured to detect a class from the plurality of content parts included in each of the plurality of clusters. The common class extraction unit is configured to extract a common class common to the plurality of clusters from the classes detected by the class detection unit. The content retrieval unit is configured to retrieve a content corresponding to the common class.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Koichi Kawana, Noboru Murabayashi
  • Patent number: 9664952
    Abstract: A moisture-proof structure includes: a sealing layer surrounding or covering a moisture-proof target between a first base material and a second base material; a moisture-proof material provided in contact with an outer side of the sealing layer and in a peripheral section of the first base material and the second base material, in which the peripheral section is located outside the sealing layer; and an uneven structure provided in a part of the first base material that makes contact with the moisture-proof material and in a part of the second base material that makes contact with the moisture-proof material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Kenichi Nagaoka, Noboru Murabayashi, Yoshinari Shirata
  • Publication number: 20160353074
    Abstract: There is provided a display control device including a related content acquisition unit that acquires related content that relates to predetermined video content, and a display controller that applies control to display the related content after the predetermined video content is recorded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2016
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hideo Nagasaka, Shunji Yoshimura, Noboru Murabayashi, Tomonori Misawa, Nobuyoshi Miyokawa
  • Patent number: 9451228
    Abstract: There is provided a display control device including a related content acquisition unit that acquires related content that relates to predetermined video content, and a display controller that applies control to display the related content after the predetermined video content is recorded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hideo Nagasaka, Shunji Yoshimura, Noboru Murabayashi, Tomonori Misawa, Nobuyoshi Miyokawa
  • Publication number: 20160209919
    Abstract: [Object] [Solving Means] An information processing apparatus includes: a gaze position detection section that detects a gaze position of a user with respect to a display screen; a position information acquisition section that acquires position information of the user; and a control section that judges, based on the detected gaze position, a scene and an object in the scene that the user focuses in a content displayed on the display screen, and generates search information from the judged object and the acquired position information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2014
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Inventors: Koichi KAWANA, Noboru MURABAYASHI
  • Patent number: 9306420
    Abstract: There is provided a power management system including a detecting apparatus configured to detect electromagnetic waves generated in relation to an operation of an appliance and a receiving apparatus including an appliance determining unit configured to determine a type of the appliance based on a power spectrum of the electromagnetic waves, an operation determining unit configured to determine the operation of the appliance based on the power spectrum of the electromagnetic waves, and a power estimating unit configured to estimate power consumption of the appliance based on the type and operation of the appliance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Noboru Murabayashi, Hiroshige Okamoto
  • Patent number: 9253432
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a recording apparatus and a portable device, wherein the recording apparatus includes a recording control section, a selection section, a creation section, a digest information transfer control section, an operation information reception control section, and an operation information reflection section, and wherein the portable device includes a digest information reception control section, and an operation information transfer control section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masaru Miyamoto, Hiroshige Okamoto, Shunji Yoshimura, Noboru Murabayashi, Tsutomu Seki, Daisuke Negi
  • Publication number: 20160026035
    Abstract: Provided is a display device that makes it possible to restrain color unevenness or display unevenness. A display device includes a display panel. The display panel includes: a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other; a first structure provided on the first substrate; and a second structure provided on the second substrate. Relative positional relation between the first structure and the second structure is adjusted two-dimensionally in accordance with a non-planarity characteristic of the display panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi NAGAOKA, Yoshinari SHIRATA, Tatsuya INOKUCHI, Noboru MURABAYASHI
  • Patent number: 9131207
    Abstract: There is provided a video recording apparatus including a content accumulation part accumulating video content, a feature extraction processing part extracting an image or voice as a feature from the video content accumulated by the content accumulation part, and obtaining word information from the extracted image or the extracted voice, a word information acquisition part acquiring sorted word information obtained using clustering processing on word information identified from an image captured by a camera, and a content retrieval part retrieving relevant video content from the video content accumulated by the content accumulation part based on the sorted word information acquired by the word information acquisition part and the word information acquired by the feature extraction processing part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Takagi, Noboru Murabayashi
  • Patent number: 8850323
    Abstract: An electronic device includes: a communication unit to connect to a different device on a network, the different device storing contents; an output unit to connect to a display apparatus; a control unit; an operation input unit; and a reproduction unit. The control unit searches for contents stored in the different device on the network, generates a list of thumbnail images indicating the searched contents, estimates an error rate when each of the contents is received and reproduced, and outputs the list to the display apparatus, the control unit changing a state of each of the thumbnail images in the list according to the estimated error rate. The operation input unit receives reproduction instruction operation with respect to the content indicated by each of the thumbnail images. The reproduction unit receives the content, which is subjected to the reproduction instruction operation, from the different device, and reproduce the content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Okada, Masahiko Enari, Noboru Murabayashi
  • Publication number: 20140168916
    Abstract: A moisture-proof structure includes: a sealing layer surrounding or covering a moisture-proof target between a first base material and a second base material; a moisture-proof material provided in contact with an outer side of the sealing layer and in a peripheral section of the first base material and the second base material, in which the peripheral section is located outside the sealing layer; and an uneven structure provided in a part of the first base material that makes contact with the moisture-proof material and in a part of the second base material that makes contact with the moisture-proof material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi Nagaoka, Noboru Murabayashi, Yoshinari Shirata
  • Patent number: 8712212
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes: a parallax detecting unit detecting a parallax between L and R images included in 3D contents to be recorded; and a recording control unit recording both of the L and R images at a first section at which the parallax between the L and R images is greater than a threshold value and recording one of the L and R images at a second section at which the parallax between the L and R images is less than the threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Katsunari Miyata, Noboru Murabayashi
  • Patent number: 8693843
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: accepting means for accepting user's input of specification of a remarkable scene during playback processing of a video content to be recorded on a recording medium or a video content already recorded on a recording medium; setting means for setting a scene corresponding to a timing of accepting the input of specification by the accepting means to a user's remarkable scene; acquiring means for acquiring additional information for generating a display indicating the remarkable scene contents; and display controlling means for controlling generation of the display indicating the remarkable scene contents on the basis of the additional information and display of a list screen including an arrangement of the display indicating the remarkable scene contents for each remarkable scene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shunji Yoshimura, Noboru Murabayashi
  • Publication number: 20140072275
    Abstract: There is provided a display control device including a related content acquisition unit that acquires related content that relates to predetermined video content, and a display controller that applies control to display the related content after the predetermined video content is recorded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideo Nagasaka, Shunji Yoshimura, Noboru Murabayashi, Tomonori Misawa, Nobuyoshi Miyokawa
  • Patent number: 8634699
    Abstract: An information signal processing method is provided which is to be used for special playback operations to make summary (digest) playback of image/voice data signals of a broadcast program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Noboru Murabayashi, Hiroshige Okamoto, Masaru Miyamoto
  • Publication number: 20140010518
    Abstract: There is provided a video recording apparatus including a content accumulation part accumulating video content, a feature extraction processing part extracting an image or voice as a feature from the video content accumulated by the content accumulation part, and obtaining word information from the extracted image or the extracted voice, a word information acquisition part acquiring sorted word information obtained using clustering processing on word information identified from an image captured by a camera, and a content retrieval part retrieving relevant video content from the video content accumulated by the content accumulation part based on the sorted word information acquired by the word information acquisition part and the word information acquired by the feature extraction processing part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2013
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Takagi, Noboru Murabayashi