Patents by Inventor Shinji Inamoto

Shinji Inamoto 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: 20220035373
    Abstract: To safely transport a transportation target. A control device (20) is a control device that controls movement of a transporting unit (12) connected to a moving unit (11) that is movable. The control device (20) includes: a first control unit (25) that controls a movement speed of the moving unit; and a second control unit (26) that moves the transporting unit with respect to the moving unit according to acceleration or deceleration of the moving unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinji INAMOTO
  • Patent number: 10748162
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including a determination unit that acquires a first history of system information including at least any of input information based on an operation of a user and control information indicating a state at a time of the operation, and to compare the acquired first history with a second history including the system information stored in advance, and a report unit that makes a report for acquiring an opinion related to the first history from the user on the basis of a result of a comparison made by the determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Yoshikawa, Yuuji Ogihara, Shinji Inamoto, Kei Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10261597
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including an acquisition unit configured to acquire device information on a plurality of connected input terminals, and a selection unit configured to determine an importance degree of the input terminals based on information concerning detection units of the input terminals included in the device information to select the input terminal to be used depending on the importance degree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinji Inamoto, Sadakazu Nagao, Katsutoshi Ishiwata, Daisuke Ogata
  • Publication number: 20160140578
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including a determination unit configured to acquire a first history of system information including at least any of input information based on an operation of a user and control information indicating a state at a time of the operation, and to compare the acquired first history with a second history including the system information stored in advance, and a report unit configured to make a report for acquiring an opinion related to the first history from the user on the basis of a result of a comparison made by the determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Inventors: Kiyoshi YOSHIKAWA, Yuuji OGIHARA, Shinji INAMOTO, Kei TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20150145749
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus including a content analysis unit configured to analyze a display range of an object included in content displayed in a plurality of displays, and an image processing unit configured to generate drawing information for drawing the object and to transmit the drawing information to only an apparatus responsible for display processing in at least one of the displays that includes the display range acquired through the analysis by the content analysis unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Inventors: SHINJI INAMOTO, YASUYUKI HIRAO, MAKOTO WAKAMATSU
  • Publication number: 20150077310
    Abstract: There is provided an image display apparatus, including: a display unit capable of displaying an image; a plurality of adjacent portions arranged on the display unit at a predetermined positional relation; senders capable of sending data via near field communication, the senders being arranged on at least two of the plurality of adjacent portions, respectively; and a receiver capable of receiving data via the near field communication from a sender of another image display apparatus, the receiver being arranged on at least one of the plurality of adjacent portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventors: SHINJI INAMOTO, NOBUHIRO OGAWA, HIROYUKI AGA, YOICHI YAGASAKI
  • Publication number: 20140111426
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including an acquisition unit configured to acquire device information on a plurality of connected input terminals, and a selection unit configured to determine an importance degree of the input terminals based on information concerning detection units of the input terminals included in the device information to select the input terminal to be used depending on the importance degree.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Inventors: Shinji Inamoto, Sadakazu Nagao, Katsutoshi Ishiwata, Daisuke Ogata
  • Publication number: 20130332572
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing apparatus and a method, a program, a recording medium, and an information processing system that realizes a number of variations in functions using a plurality of devices connected to a network. RD-Agent and RD-App are executed in each device, the RD-App is described using RD-Library, and a function of the RD-Agent is called by the RD-Library. The RD-Library is a library for calling the function of the RD-Agent from the RD-App. A service a is provided, to which a plurality of devices having RD-App_a1 and RD-App_a2 in execution participates, and a service b in which the plurality of devices in which RD-App_b1 and RD-App_b2 are executed participates is provided. A service a is provided, to which a plurality of devices having RD-App_a1 and RD-App_a2 in execution participates, and a service b is provided, to which a plurality of devices having RD-App_b1 and RD-App_b2 in execution participates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2012
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Inventors: Sadakazu Nagao, Shinji Inamoto, Shinichi Takemura
  • Publication number: 20130300688
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a position detector configured to detect a position of an operating object as a detection position, a state detector configured to detect a state of the operating object as a detection state, and a selection part configured to select any one of a plurality of objects based on the detection position, the detection state, and a priority calculation technique associated with each of the plurality of objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2013
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinji INAMOTO
  • Patent number: 8412001
    Abstract: In an image processing device, a transfer unit enlarges or reduces the image data at the transfer magnification by performing an enlarging or reducing process on the image data once, when the transfer magnification is equal to or smaller than an upper limit or equal to or greater than a lower limit. The transfer unit also repeats, by a plurality of times, a process of performing an enlarging or reducing process on an image data stored in a first region of a storage unit at a divided-transfer magnification equal to or smaller than the upper limit or equal to or greater than the lower limit and then storing the image data in a second region of the storage unit, when the transfer magnification is above the upper limit or below the lower limit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shinji Inamoto, Kazumi Sato, Sadakazu Nagao, Daisuke Ogata
  • Patent number: 8284213
    Abstract: A display control apparatus and method is disclosed wherein the amount of use of a memory to be used to store an image to be displayed can be reduced. The display control apparatus has an execution section, a first retaining section, an image processing section, a second retaining section and reflect section. The image processing section and the first and second retaining sections being controlled with an application program interface provided by the middleware and called by the application program. In addition, a display control method for a display control apparatus which causes an image corresponding to image data to be displayed on a display unit, including a first retaining step, an image processing step, and a reflection step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shinji Inamoto, Hiroaki Toriumi
  • Publication number: 20100177976
    Abstract: In an image processing device, a transfer unit enlarges or reduces the image data at the transfer magnification by performing an enlarging or reducing process on the image data once, when the transfer magnification is equal to or smaller than an upper limit or equal to or greater than a lower limit. The transfer unit also repeats, by a plurality of times, a process of performing an enlarging or reducing process on an image data stored in a first region of a storage unit at a divided-transfer magnification equal to or smaller than the upper limit or equal to or greater than the lower limit and then storing the image data in a second region of the storage unit, when the transfer magnification is above the upper limit or below the lower limit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2010
    Publication date: July 15, 2010
    Inventors: Shinji INAMOTO, Kazumi Sato, Sadakazu Nagao, Daisuke Ogata
  • Publication number: 20100128045
    Abstract: A display control apparatus causing an image corresponding to image data having been written into a front buffer to be displayed on a display includes a decoder decoding encoded image data and writing the decoded image data into a back buffer in groups of pieces of image data of a first size of data, and a transferring section reading out image data in groups of pieces of image data of a second size of data from among the image data having been written into the back buffer, and transferring the read-out image data into the front buffer, and the back buffer is a ring buffer including an area resulting from connection of a secondary area having a storage capacity determined on the basis of the second size of data and a plurality of primary areas each having a storage capacity at least the same as the first size of data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2009
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Inventors: Shinji Inamoto, Ryo Sakuma
  • Publication number: 20070064017
    Abstract: A display control apparatus and method is disclosed wherein the amount of use of a memory to be used to store an image to be displayed can be reduced. The display control apparatus has an execution section, a first retaining section, an image processing section, a second retaining section and reflect section. The image processing section and the first and second retaining sections being controlled with an application program interface provided by the middleware and called by the application program. In addition, a display control method for a display control apparatus which causes an image corresponding to image data to be displayed on a display unit, including a first retaining step, an image processing step, and a reflection step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2006
    Publication date: March 22, 2007
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shinji Inamoto, Hiroaki Toriumi