Patents by Inventor Norio Kobota

Norio Kobota 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).

  • Metadata transmission apparatus, metadata reception apparatus, imaging apparatus, and information management program
    Patent number: 8931018
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a metadata transmission apparatus including a storage section configured to store metadata, and a wireless transmission section configured to transmit the metadata stored in the storage section via a wireless communication network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Norio Kobota
  • Program guide providing system, program guide providing apparatus, program guide providing method, and program guide providing program
    Patent number: 8230459
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a program guide providing system including: a terminal; a content providing server including a service providing section for providing programs and a related service to the terminal in response to a request from the terminal; a SIP proxy server; a program guide providing server including a communication history acquisition section for acquiring a communication history between the content providing server and the terminal, a communication history storage section, an audience situation calculation section for calculating an audience situation concerning each of the programs based on the communication history, a program guide generation section for generating a program guide in which each program is assigned an indicator based on the audience situation, and a program guide providing section for providing the program guide to the terminal; and an NGN to which the terminal, the content providing server, the SIP proxy server, and the program guide providing server are connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Kawada, Honggang Wang, Norio Kobota, Tomoya Oikawa
  • Content providing system, monitoring server, and SIP proxy server
    Patent number: 8219610
    Abstract: A content providing system that provides content to a user terminal via a network includes a content providing server that is connected to the network and provides content, an SIP proxy server that is connected to the network and relays transmission and reception between the user terminal and the content providing server, and a monitoring server that is connected to the network and stores monitoring information regarding transmission and reception between the user terminal and the content providing server, the monitoring information being transmitted from the SIP proxy server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoya Oikawa, Masato Kawada, Norio Kobota, Honggang Wang
  • Metadata transmission apparatus, metadata reception apparatus, imaging apparatus, and information management program
    Publication number: 20090225229
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a metadata transmission apparatus including a storage section configured to store metadata, and a wireless transmission section configured to transmit the metadata stored in the storage section via a wireless communication network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2009
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Norio Kobota
  • CONTENT PROVIDING SYSTEM, MONITORING SERVER, AND SIP PROXY SERVER
    Publication number: 20090119401
    Abstract: A content providing system that provides content to a user terminal via a network includes a content providing server that is connected to the network and provides content, an SIP proxy server that is connected to the network and relays transmission and reception between the user terminal and the content providing server, and a monitoring server that is connected to the network and stores monitoring information regarding transmission and reception between the user terminal and the content providing server, the monitoring information being transmitted from the SIP proxy server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2008
    Publication date: May 7, 2009
    Inventors: Tomoya OIKAWA, Masato Kawada, Norio Kobota, Honggang Wang
  • PROGRAM GUIDE PROVIDING SYSTEM, PROGRAM GUIDE PROVIDING APPARATUS, PROGRAM GUIDE PROVIDING METHOD, AND PROGRAM GUIDE PROVIDING PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20090113482
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a program guide providing system including: a terminal; a content providing server including a service providing section for providing programs and a related service to the terminal in response to a request from the terminal; a SIP proxy server; a program guide providing server including a communication history acquisition section for acquiring a communication history between the content providing server and the terminal, a communication history storage section, an audience situation calculation section for calculating an audience situation concerning each of the programs based on the communication history, a program guide generation section for generating a program guide in which each program is assigned an indicator based on the audience situation, and a program guide providing section for providing the program guide to the terminal; and an NGN to which the terminal, the content providing server, the SIP proxy server, and the program guide providing server are connected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2008
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Inventors: Masato Kawada, Honggang Wang, Norio Kobota, Tomoya Oikawa