Patents by Inventor Shiro Miyagi
Shiro Miyagi 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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Patent number: 10116990Abstract: This invention provides an information distribution system comprising an image data processing device (11), a server (12), and a portable telephone unit (15 having image data acquisition means for acquiring image data with a destination address attached thereto and display means for displaying the image data, wherein the image data is distributed from the image data processing device (11) to the portable telephone unit (15), and advertisement information based on user information is extracted from an advertisement information storage unit (29) and appended to image/text data by an advertisement information appending unit (30) provided in the server 12.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2007Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Mihoko Kamei, Kimio Maki, Shiro Miyagi
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Patent number: 8976193Abstract: An information processing apparatus that executes information display processing is disclosed. The apparatus includes: a display unit that executes information display; and a data processing unit that executes a control of the information display of the display unit and data processing based on a user input. The data processing unit displays an image browsing screen, which corresponds to image data stored in a storage unit, on the display unit and executes display of a map at the position, which corresponds to position information included in attribute information of a selected image, on the basis of a user's input of image selection information and map display request.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2007Date of Patent: March 10, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hiroki Takakura, Shiro Miyagi, Yoshihiro Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 8862499Abstract: This invention provides an information distribution system comprising an image data processing device (11), a server (12), and a portable telephone unit (15 having image data acquisition means for acquiring image data with a destination address attached thereto and display means for displaying the image data, wherein the image data is distributed from the image data processing device (11) to the portable telephone unit (15), and advertisement information based on user information is extracted from an advertisement information storage unit (29) and appended to image/text data by an advertisement information appending unit (30) provided in the server 12.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2007Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Mihoko Kamei, Kimio Maki, Shiro Miyagi
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Patent number: 8849700Abstract: An information distribution system including an image data processing device, a server, and a portable telephone unit having an image data acquisition unit that acquires image data with a destination address attached thereto and a display unit that displays the image data. The image data is distributed from the image data processing device to the portable telephone unit, and advertisement information based on user information is extracted from an advertisement information storage unit and appended to image/text data by an advertisement information appending unit provided in the server.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2002Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Mihoko Kamei, Kimio Maki, Shiro Miyagi
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Patent number: 8438222Abstract: An information processing system is disclosed. The system includes: a client that executes information display processing; and a server that creates a display structure description file applied in the information display processing, wherein the client acquires image data reference information and transmits display structure description file creating data including the image data reference information to the server, the server creates the display structure description file and transmits the created display structure description file to the client, and the client executes processing for displaying a map on a display unit on the basis of the display structure description file received from the server and acquiring image data from a storage unit within the client on the basis of the image data reference information recorded in the display structure description file and then displaying the acquired image data on the display unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2012Date of Patent: May 7, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hiroki Takakura, Shiro Miyagi, Yoshihiro Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 8275236Abstract: An information-processing device including a recording unit configured to record a plurality of types of content-data items to be recorded onto at least one predetermined recording medium, a determination unit configured to determine whether or not the plurality of types of content-data items recorded onto the recording medium by the recording unit includes at least one content-data item of which reproduction is difficult for a purpose-built reproduction device to perform, the purpose-built reproduction device supporting a predetermined format, and a notification unit configured to make a notification according to a predetermined method when the determination unit determines that the content-data item of which reproduction is difficult to perform is included, the notification indicating details on the determination is provided.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2006Date of Patent: September 25, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hiroki Takakura, Shiro Miyagi
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Patent number: 8224911Abstract: An information distribution system 3 including a portable telephone set (70), having a display unit for displaying image data, and a communication function, and owned by a user, an image data processing device (11), having an image data processing function and a communication function, a server (12) for storing image data transmitted from the image data processing device (11), and a portable telephone base station 13 connected to the portable telephone set (15) over a portable telephone communication network (14). A list of the addresses formulated in the past is displayed on a display unit of the portable telephone set (70). The text data included in the data referenced by the address selected from the list of addresses displayed is modified and a new address is appended to the modified data.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2010Date of Patent: July 17, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Shiro Miyagi, Mihoko Kamei, Kimio Maki
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Publication number: 20120110070Abstract: An information processing system is disclosed. The system includes: a client that executes information display processing; and a server that creates a display structure description file applied in the information display processing, wherein the client acquires image data reference information and transmits display structure description file creating data including the image data reference information to the server, the server creates the display structure description file and transmits the created display structure description file to the client, and the client executes processing for displaying a map on a display unit on the basis of the display structure description file received from the server and acquiring image data from a storage unit within the client on the basis of the image data reference information recorded in the display structure description file and then displaying the acquired image data on the display unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2012Publication date: May 3, 2012Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroki TAKAKURA, Shiro Miyagi, Yoshihiro Yamaguchi
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Publication number: 20110087727Abstract: An information processing system is disclosed. The system includes: a client that executes information display processing; and a server that creates a display structure description file applied in the information display processing, wherein the client acquires image data reference information and transmits display structure description file creating data including the image data reference information to the server, the server creates the display structure description file and transmits the created display structure description file to the client, and the client executes processing for displaying a map on a display unit on the basis of the display structure description file received from the server and acquiring image data from a storage unit within the client on the basis of the image data reference information recorded in the display structure description file and then displaying the acquired image data on the display unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2010Publication date: April 14, 2011Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroki Takakura, Shiro Miyagi, Yoshihiro Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 7870190Abstract: An information processing system is disclosed. The system includes: a client that executes information display processing; and a server that creates a display structure description file applied in the information display processing, wherein the client acquires image data reference information and transmits display structure description file creating data including the image data reference information to the server, the server creates the display structure description file and transmits the created display structure description file to the client, and the client executes processing for displaying a map on a display unit on the basis of the display structure description file received from the server and acquiring image data from a storage unit within the client on the basis of the image data reference information recorded in the display structure description file and then displaying the acquired image data on the display unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2007Date of Patent: January 11, 2011Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hiroki Takakura, Shiro Miyagi, Yoshihiro Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 7860821Abstract: In an information processing system including an information processing apparatus and a content output apparatus which are connected to each other, the content output apparatus is configured to include a function identification file creation unit adapted to, in accordance with a button operation by a user, create a function identification file for causing the information processing apparatus to execute a predetermined function, and a file storage unit adapted to store the function identification file in a storage unit, and the information processing apparatus is configured to include a detector adapted to detect a connection of the content output apparatus to the information processing apparatus, and a controller adapted to, after detecting the connection of the content output apparatus, start an application program to execute the function depending on the presence/absence of the function identification file in the storage unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2006Date of Patent: December 28, 2010Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hiroki Takakura, Shiro Miyagi, Kou Kobayashi, Tetsuo Morimoto, Kenichiro Imai, Katsuhiko Watanabe, Koichi Uchida
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Publication number: 20100185742Abstract: An information distribution system 3 including a portable telephone set (70), having a display unit for displaying image data, and a communication function, and owned by a user, an image data processing device (11), having an image data processing function and a communication function, a server (12) for storing image data transmitted from the image data processing device (11), and a portable telephone base station 13 connected to the portable telephone set (15) over a portable telephone communication network (14). A list of the addresses formulated in the past is displayed on a display unit of the portable telephone set (70). The text data included in the data referenced by the address selected from the list of addresses displayed is modified and a new address is appended to the modified data.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2010Publication date: July 22, 2010Inventors: Shiro MIYAGI, Mihoko KAMEI, Kimio MAKI
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Patent number: 7707253Abstract: An information distribution system 3 including a portable telephone set (70), having a display unit for displaying image data, and a communication function, and owned by a user, an image data processing device (11), having an image data processing function and a communication function, a server (12) for storing image data transmitted from the image data processing device (11), and a portable telephone base station 13 connected to the portable telephone set (15) over a portable telephone communication network (14). A list of the addresses formulated in the past is displayed on a display unit of the portable telephone set (70). The text data included in the data referenced by the address selected from the list of addresses displayed is modified and a new address is appended to the modified data.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2002Date of Patent: April 27, 2010Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Shiro Miyagi, Mihoko Kamei, Kimio Maki
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Patent number: 7610321Abstract: A file transfer system includes a source apparatus and a destination apparatus connected to each other via a predetermined transmission path. The source apparatus includes a source-list generating unit generating a first list, a file storing unit, a list rewriting unit, and a file transmitting unit. The destination apparatus includes a destination-list generating unit generating a second list, a destination-list storing unit, a source-list obtaining unit, a determining unit, a transferred-file storing unit, and a destination-list rewriting unit. The destination apparatus obtains the first list held in the source apparatus, compares the first list with the second list to distinguish an untransferred file from files in the source apparatus, and obtains the untransferred file from the source apparatus while the source apparatus does not rewrite the second list.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2006Date of Patent: October 27, 2009Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hiroki Takakura, Shiro Miyagi
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Publication number: 20080077501Abstract: This invention provides an information distribution system comprising an image data processing device (11), a server (12), and a portable telephone unit (15 having image data acquisition means for acquiring image data with a destination address attached thereto and display means for displaying the image data, wherein the image data is distributed from the image data processing device (11) to the portable telephone unit (15), and advertisement information based on user information is extracted from an advertisement information storage unit (29) and appended to image/text data by an advertisement information appending unit (30) provided in the server 12.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2007Publication date: March 27, 2008Inventors: Mihoko Kamei, Kimio Maki, Shiro Miyagi
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Publication number: 20080046502Abstract: This invention provides an information distribution system comprising an image data processing device (11), a server (12), and a portable telephone unit (15 having image data acquisition means for acquiring image data with a destination address attached thereto and display means for displaying the image data, wherein the image data is distributed from the image data processing device (11) to the portable telephone unit (15), and advertisement information based on user information is extracted from an advertisement information storage unit (29) and appended to image/text data by an advertisement information appending unit (30) provided in the server 12.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2007Publication date: February 21, 2008Inventors: Mihoko Kamei, Kimio Maki, Shiro Miyagi
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Publication number: 20070279438Abstract: An information processing apparatus that executes information display processing is disclosed. The apparatus includes: a display unit that executes information display; and a data processing unit that executes a control of the information display of the display unit and data processing based on a user input. The data processing unit displays an image browsing screen, which corresponds to image data stored in a storage unit, on the display unit and executes display of a map at the position, which corresponds to position information included in attribute information of a selected image, on the basis of a user's input of image selection information and map display request.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2007Publication date: December 6, 2007Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroki Takakura, Shiro Miyagi, Yoshihiro Yamaguchi
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Publication number: 20070282941Abstract: An information processing system is disclosed. The system includes: a client that executes information display processing; and a server that creates a display structure description file applied in the information display processing, wherein the client acquires image data reference information and transmits display structure description file creating data including the image data reference information to the server, the server creates the display structure description file and transmits the created display structure description file to the client, and the client executes processing for displaying a map on a display unit on the basis of the display structure description file received from the server and acquiring image data from a storage unit within the client on the basis of the image data reference information recorded in the display structure description file and then displaying the acquired image data on the display unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2007Publication date: December 6, 2007Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroki Takakura, Shiro Miyagi, Yoshihiro Yamaguchi
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Publication number: 20070150527Abstract: A file transfer system includes a source apparatus and a destination apparatus connected to each other via a predetermined transmission path. The source apparatus includes a source-list generating unit generating a first list, a file storing unit, a list rewriting unit, and a file transmitting unit. The destination apparatus includes a destination-list generating unit generating a second list, a destination-list storing unit, a source-list obtaining unit, a determining unit, a transferred-file storing unit, and a destination-list rewriting unit. The destination apparatus obtains the first list held in the source apparatus, compares the first list with the second list to distinguish an untransferred file from files in the source apparatus, and obtains the untransferred file from the source apparatus while the source apparatus does not rewrite the second list.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2006Publication date: June 28, 2007Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Hiroki Takakura, Shiro Miyagi
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Publication number: 20070150434Abstract: In an information processing system including an information processing apparatus and a content output apparatus which are connected to each other, the content output apparatus is configured to include a function identification file creation unit adapted to, in accordance with a button operation by a user, create a function identification file for causing the information processing apparatus to execute a predetermined function, and a file storage unit adapted to store the function identification file in a storage unit, and the information processing apparatus is configured to include a detector adapted to detect a connection of the content output apparatus to the information processing apparatus, and a controller adapted to, after detecting the connection of the content output apparatus, start an application program to execute the function depending on the presence/absence of the function identification file in the storage unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2006Publication date: June 28, 2007Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Hiroki Takakura, Shiro Miyagi, Kou Kobayashi, Tetsuo Morimoto, Kenichiro Imai, Katsuhiko Watanabe, Koichi Uchida