Patents by Inventor Shigeru Inoue

Shigeru Inoue 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: 20170353570
    Abstract: [Object] To enable devices to notify of information in a preferred mode depending on a situation in which the plurality of devices operating in cooperation with one another are used. [Solution] Provided is an information processing device including: a control unit configured to select a device caused to perform information notification from a plurality of devices each including a notification unit and cooperating via a network on the basis of information regarding the devices; and an acquisition unit configured to acquire information regarding a user. The control unit selects the device caused to perform the information notification on the basis of the acquired information regarding the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2016
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: MASATOSHI HAYASHI, TOMOHISA NARA, SHIGERU INOUE, KOJI OHATA
  • Patent number: 9813471
    Abstract: In response to a request, one of primary content data as a copyrighted work and incidental content data is received from a server. With a music editing and sharing application, the content data is used in a secondary usage fashion for editing in order to produce new incidental content data. The incidental content data is not the one that is produced by arranging directly the primary content data as an editing material but play control information for giving an instruction defining a play mode. The incidental content data is uploaded to an incidental content server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshimasa Miyoshi, Hideo Nagasaka, Takashi Tominaga, Tadaaki Kimijima, Shigeru Inoue, Soichiro Atsumi, Mamoru Tokashiki
  • Patent number: 9657176
    Abstract: A C.I. Pigment Yellow 74 as an insoluble azo pigment is provided. This C.I. Pigment Yellow 74 is crystalline particles. The ratio (26.6°/11.7°) of a diffraction intensity of a peak at 26.6° to a diffraction intensity of a peak at 11.7° in terms of Bragg angle (2?±0.2°) as measured by powder X-ray diffraction using CuK ?-radiation is 0.85 to 1.12, and the average primary particle size is 20 to 130 nm. The use of this C.I. Pigment Yellow 74 as a colorant in a coloring composition enables to provide the coloring composition with excellent dispersibility and good particle size stability and storage stability compared with conventional pigments. The use of this coloring composition enables the formation (recording) of images having excellent clarity and transparency of such high levels that have not been achievable by conventional technologies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: DAINICHISEIKA COLOR & CHEMICALS MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo Hoshino, Shigeyuki Nagasato, Masahiro Takayama, Shigeru Inoue, Satoru Matsuzaki
  • Publication number: 20160118533
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a nanostructure semiconductor light emitting device may include: stacking a mask layer on a conductive base layer and forming a through hole penetrating the mask layer; growing a nanocore through the through hole from the conductive base layer using precursor gas including indium-containing precursor gas in a mixed gas atmosphere of nitrogen and hydrogen; removing the mask layer; and sequentially growing an active layer and a first conductivity type semiconductor layer on a surface of the nanocore.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2015
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Inventors: MISAICHI TAKEUCHI, Sam Mook KANG, Shigeru INOUE, Ki Se KIM
  • Patent number: 9319487
    Abstract: An information processing method of an information processing system including a client device functioning as a client and a server device functioning as a server which are capable of communication via a network, includes the steps of: at the server device, managing format identification information provided so as to be unique for each content data within the range of each data format, corresponding to the contents of each content; at the client device, causing execution of communication via network, for specifying a content, as to the server device; at the server device, transmitting, to the client device, format identification information correlated with a specified content in response to specification of a content via network from the client device; and at the client device, managing the received and obtained format identification information as corresponding to the specified content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hideo Nagasaka, Shigeru Inoue, Takashi Tominaga, Yasushi Miyajima, Tadaaki Kimijima, Toshimasa Miyoshi, Mamoru Tokashiki, Soichiro Atsumi, Toru Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20150316103
    Abstract: A rolling bearing includes an inner ring having an inner raceway face, an outer ring having an outer raceway face opposed to the inner raceway face, rolling elements rolling along the inner and outer raceway faces, in an interior of the bearing between the inner and outer rings, a first seal member interposed between an outer peripheral face of the inner ring and an inner peripheral face of the outer ring, and sealing the interior of the bearing, and a second seal member arranged in parallel with the first seal member, outside in an axial direction. The first and second seal members are disposed at a side closer to the interior of the bearing than an end face of the inner ring and an end face of the outer ring in the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2013
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Inventors: Shigeru INOUE, Yutaka KOMA, Masao TAKIMOTO, Yuya ONO
  • Publication number: 20150244789
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a terminal device and a server device. When recommending subsidiary contents, recommended contents are extracted at the server, and recommended content information is returned to the terminal device. At the terminal device, a recommendation order is set regarding the recommended contents which the recommended content information indicates, upon which the recommended contents are presented, such that recommended content extracting processing and recommendation order setting processing is dispersed among the server device and terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2015
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hideo Nagasaka, Nobuyuki Fujiwara, Tadaaki Kimijima, Toshimasa Miyoshi, Mamoru Tokashiki, Takashi Tominaga, Shigeru Inoue, Yasushi Miyajima
  • Patent number: 9116095
    Abstract: In a method of inspecting a wheel hub unit configured by attaching a rolling bearing, which has an inner ring and an outer ring, to a hub wheel, an acoustic inspection dement is arranged so as to be in contact with an outer peripheral face of the outer ring, and the wheel hub unit (components except the outer ring) is rotated to measure an acoustic value of the outer ring and hence conduct inspection. When the wheel hub unit (components except the outer ring) is rotated, a preloading load that is equal to or higher than a load at which an axial internal clearance of the rolling bearing is a negative clearance is applied to the rolling bearing, and the axial internal clearance of the rolling bearing A is changed from a positive clearance before application of the load to a negative clearance after application of the load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigeru Inoue, Kenjiro Matsumura, Masaki Yukawa
  • Patent number: 8996412
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a terminal device and a server device. When recommending subsidiary contents, recommended contents are extracted at the server, and recommended content information is returned to the terminal device. At the terminal device, a recommendation order is set regarding the recommended contents which the recommended content information indicates, upon which the recommended contents are presented, such that recommended content extracting processing and recommendation order setting processing is dispersed among the server device and terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hideo Nagasaka, Nobuyuki Fujiwara, Tadaaki Kimijima, Toshimasa Miyoshi, Mamoru Tokashiki, Takashi Tominaga, Shigeru Inoue, Yasushi Miyajima
  • Publication number: 20150066999
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a storage management unit configured to store and manage content files; a metadata obtaining unit configured to obtain metadata of a recommendation source content; a content selecting unit configured to select, from content files managed by the storage management unit, recommended contents to be recommended to a recommendation-receiving user, based on metadata obtained by the metadata obtaining unit; an information obtaining unit configured to obtain held content information, which is information regarding held content files which a recommendation-receiving user is deemed to hold; and a recommendation order setting unit configured to set a recommendation order, regarding recommended contents selected by the content selecting unit, based on metadata added to held content files indicated by the held content information obtained by the information obtaining unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hideo Nagasaka, Nobuyuki Fujiwara, Tadaaki Kimijima, Toshimasa Miyoshi, Mamoru Tokashiki, Takashi Tominaga, Shigeru Inoue, Yasushi Miyajima
  • Patent number: 8959174
    Abstract: In response to a request, one of primary content data as a copyrighted work and incidental content data is received from a server. With a music editing and sharing application, the content data is used in a secondary usage fashion for editing in order to produce new incidental content data. The incidental content data is not the one that is produced by arranging directly the primary content data as an editing material but play control information for giving an instruction defining a play mode. The incidental content data is uploaded to an incidental content server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshimasa Miyoshi, Hideo Nagasaka, Takashi Tominaga, Tadaaki Kimijima, Shigeru Inoue, Soichiro Atsumi, Mamoru Tokashiki
  • Publication number: 20150006576
    Abstract: In response to a request, one of primary content data as a copyrighted work and incidental content data is received from a server. With a music editing and sharing application, the content data is used in a secondary usage fashion for editing in order to produce new incidental content data. The incidental content data is not the one that is produced by arranging directly the primary content data as an editing material but play control information for giving an instruction defining a play mode. The incidental content data is uploaded to an incidental content server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshimasa Miyoshi, Hideo Nagasaka, Takashi Tominaga, Tadaaki Kimijima, Shigeru Inoue, Soichiro Atsumi
  • Publication number: 20150006575
    Abstract: In response to a request, one of primary content data as a copyrighted work and incidental content data is received from a server. With a music editing and sharing application, the content data is used in a secondary usage fashion for editing in order to produce new incidental content data. The incidental content data is not the one that is produced by arranging directly the primary content data as an editing material but play control information for giving an instruction defining a play mode. The incidental content data is uploaded to an incidental content server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshimasa Miyoshi, Hideo Nagasaka, Takashi Tominaga, Tadaaki Kimijima, Shigeru Inoue, Soichiro Atsumi, Mamoru Tokashiki
  • Patent number: 8924404
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a storage management unit configured to store and manage content files; a metadata obtaining unit configured to obtain metadata of a recommendation source content; a content selecting unit configured to select, from content files managed by the storage management unit, recommended contents to be recommended to a recommendation-receiving user, based on metadata obtained by the metadata obtaining unit; an information obtaining unit configured to obtain held content information, which is information regarding held content files which a recommendation-receiving user is deemed to hold; and a recommendation order setting unit configured to set a recommendation order, regarding recommended contents selected by the content selecting unit, based on metadata added to held content files indicated by the held content information obtained by the information obtaining unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hideo Nagasaka, Nobuyuki Fujiwara, Tadaaki Kimijima, Toshimasa Miyoshi, Mamoru Tokashiki, Takashi Tominaga, Shigeru Inoue, Yasushi Miyajima
  • Publication number: 20140372562
    Abstract: An information processing method of an information processing system including a client device functioning as a client and a server device functioning as a server which are capable of communication via a network, includes the steps of: at the server device, managing format identification information provided so as to be unique for each content data within the range of each data format, corresponding to the contents of each content; at the client device, causing execution of communication via network, for specifying a content, as to the server device; at the server device, transmitting, to the client device, format identification information correlated with a specified content in response to specification of a content via network from the client device; and at the client device, managing the received and obtained format identification information as corresponding to the specified content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hideo Nagasaka, Shigeru Inoue, Takashi Tominaga, Yasushi Miyajima, Tadaaki Kimijima, Toshimasa Miyoshi, Mamoru Tokashiki, Soichiro Atsumi, Toru Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20140335358
    Abstract: A C.I. Pigment Yellow 74 as an insoluble azo pigment is provided. This C.I. Pigment Yellow 74 is crystalline particles. The ratio (26.6°/11.7°) of a diffraction intensity of a peak at 26.6° to a diffraction intensity of a peak at 11.7° in terms of Bragg angle (2?±0.2°) as measured by powder X-ray diffraction using CuK ?-radiation is 0.85 to 1.12, and the average primary particle size is 20 to 130 nm. The use of this C.I. Pigment Yellow 74 as a colorant in a coloring composition enables to provide the coloring composition with excellent dispersibility and good particle size stability and storage stability compared with conventional pigments. The use of this coloring composition enables the formation (recording) of images having excellent clarity and transparency of such high levels that have not been achievable by conventional technologies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2012
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Inventors: Ryo Hoshino, Shigeyuki Nagasato, Masahiro Takayama, Shigeru Inoue, Satoru Matsuzaki
  • Patent number: 8862781
    Abstract: An information processing method of an information processing system including a client device functioning as a client and a server device functioning as a server which are capable of communication via a network, includes the steps of: at the server device, managing format identification information provided so as to be unique for each content data within the range of each data format, corresponding to the contents of each content; at the client device, causing execution of communication via network, for specifying a content, as to the server device; at the server device, transmitting, to the client device, format identification information correlated with a specified content in response to specification of a content via network from the client device; and at the client device, managing the received and obtained format identification information as corresponding to the specified content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hideo Nagasaka, Shigeru Inoue, Takashi Tominaga, Yasushi Miyajima, Tadaaki Kimijima, Toshimasa Miyoshi, Mamoru Tokashiki, Soichiro Atsumi, Toru Sasaki
  • Patent number: 8770848
    Abstract: An axle bearing system includes a bearing portion which includes an inner ring, an outer ring and a plurality of rolling elements which are interposed between the inner ring and the outer ring and which is installed on a hub shaft with seal portions which are each formed by a slinger, a core metal and a non-conductive seal provided therebetween mounted in annular opening portions formed between the inner ring and the outer ring. A conductive body is attached to the seal portion so as to provide an electrical conducting state between the outer ring and the inner ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventors: Yutaka Koma, Shigeaki Furusawa, Keiichi Furukawa, Shigeru Inoue
  • Patent number: 8676363
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a communication unit, an incoming data determining unit, and an audio processing command generator. The communication unit communicates with an external apparatus that splits outgoing audio data and sequentially sends transmission audio signals, each signal having a header and transmission audio data containing some of the split audio data with an appended first counter. The incoming data determining unit determines the existence of continuity-related errors in a received transmission audio signal, on the basis of the first counter, as well as a second counter contained in the header. The audio processing command generator selectively generates an audio processing command on the basis of the determination results in the incoming data determining unit, wherein the audio processing command stipulates audio data playback processing to be conducted in the event of an error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeru Inoue, Shinya Okada
  • Publication number: 20130298680
    Abstract: In a method of inspecting a wheel hub unit configured by attaching a rolling bearing. Which has an inner ring and an outer ring, to a hub wheel, an acoustic inspection dement is arranged so as to be in contact with an outer peripheral face of the outer ring, and the wheel hub unit (components except the outer ring) is rotated to measure an acoustic value of the outer ring and hence conduct inspection. When the wheel hub unit (components except the outer ring) is rotated, a preloading load that is equal to or higher than a load at which an axial internal clearance of the rolling bearing is a negative clearance is applied to the rolling bearing, and the axial internal clearance of the rolling bearing A is changed from a positive clearance before application of the load to a negative clearance after application of the load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2013
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Applicant: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeru INOUE, Kenjiro MATSUMURA, Masaki YUKAWA