Patents by Inventor Shirou Wakayama
Shirou Wakayama 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: 8756630Abstract: An imaging distribution apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive a distribution request for distribution of a specific program from a client apparatus via a network, a program scenario acquisition unit configured to acquire a program scenario corresponding to the specific program requested for by the distribution request, a content acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of information contents based on the program scenario, a conversion unit configured to convert the information contents to image scene based on the program scenario, an encoding unit configured to encode the image scene, to generate a stream, and a stream distribution unit configured to distribute the stream to the client apparatus via the network.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2009Date of Patent: June 17, 2014Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Keiichi Teramoto, Shirou Wakayama, Satoshi Ozaki, Isao Takeyasu, Yoshiki Terashima, Kenji Odaka, Eiji Tokita
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Patent number: 8752192Abstract: Whether a combination method defined in an output rule satisfies a combination condition of each content specified in a play list is judged in order of priority defined in a priority list. Based on the judgment result, the output rule is edited in such a manner that the combination condition of each content specified in the play list is satisfied. The resources of the combination target contents specified in the play list are combined in accordance with the combination method of the edited output rule.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2009Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Kenji Odaka, Yoshiki Terashima, Satoshi Ozaki, Shirou Wakayama, Keiichi Teramoto, Eiji Tokita
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Patent number: 8737812Abstract: According to one embodiment, a content playback apparatus includes a playback module, a decision module, and a management module. The playback module is configured to play back a content includes components selected from moving picture data, image data, sound data and text data, thereby to produce video data and audio data. The decision module is configured to determine, based on a state of the content playback apparatus, whether the components of the content can be viewed and listened to. The management module is configured to manage video-audio management data includes data items based on a decision result of the decision module, each data item representing whether a video or audio data item has been viewed or listened to.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2011Date of Patent: May 27, 2014Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Kenji Odaka, Satoshi Ozaki, Naoki Esaka, Shirou Wakayama, Kensaku Fujimoto, Yosuke Takahashi
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Patent number: 8706780Abstract: A content item recommendation device includes; a storage which stores information of a plurality of content items describing identifiers and usage characteristics of the resources used in the content items; a first specifying unit which specifies first content items which use at least S number of resources in common with a specified content item; a second specifying unit which specifies second content items which use at least K number of resources in common with each of the first content items; a calculator which calculates relationship levels between the specified content item and each of the second content items; a selector which selects recommended content items from the second content items based on the relationship levels.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2009Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Eiji Tokita, Satoshi Ozaki, Kenji Odaka, Shirou Wakayama, Yoshiki Terashima, Kensaku Fujimoto
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Patent number: 8635239Abstract: A keyword acquiring unit transmits a keyword acquisition request to a first server serving as a keyword providing service, and receives a keyword from the first server. An information acquiring unit transmits an acquisition request of information related to the keyword to a second server serving as an information providing service, and receives the information from the second server. A cover unit presents information acquired by the information acquiring unit to a user. An input unit receives selection of at least one of information presented by the cover unit. A service acquiring unit transmits a search request based on the keyword related to information selected at the input unit to a third server serving as a search service, and acquires a search result from the third server. A socket unit presents the search result to the user.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2012Date of Patent: January 21, 2014Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Shirou Wakayama, Sumihiko Yamamoto, Satoshi Ozaki, Hirokazu Nagata
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Patent number: 8478943Abstract: A first acquisition unit acquires each of the resources defined by the scenario, from locations depending on identifiers of the resources. A judging unit judge, when a resource having same identifier and structure as the resource acquired is existent in the cache storage, erases the resource, the identifier thereof, and the receipt time information from the cache storage, and when not existent, stores the acquired resource in association with the identifier thereof and the receipt time information of the bookmark instruction, in the cache storage. A second acquisition, when the identifiers of the resources specified by a first scenario are existent in the cache storage, acquires the resources from the cache storage according to the receipt time information corresponding to the first scenario and identifiers of the resources, and when not existent, acquires the resources from a location depending on the identifiers.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2011Date of Patent: July 2, 2013Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Shirou Wakayama, Satoshi Ozaki, Naoki Esaka, Kensaku Fujimoto, Kenji Odaka, Yosuke Takahashi
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Publication number: 20130007048Abstract: A keyword acquiring unit transmits a keyword acquisition request to a first server serving as a keyword providing service, and receives a keyword from the first server. An information acquiring unit transmits an acquisition request of information related to the keyword to a second server serving as an information providing service, and receives the information from the second server. A cover unit presents information acquired by the information acquiring unit to a user. An input unit receives selection of at least one of information presented by the cover unit. A service acquiring unit transmits a search request based on the keyword related to information selected at the input unit to a third server serving as a search service, and acquires a search result from the third server. A socket unit presents the search result to the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2012Publication date: January 3, 2013Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Shirou Wakayama, Sumihiko Yamamoto, Satoshi Ozaki, Hirokazu Nagata
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Patent number: 8341243Abstract: An apparatus includes unit storing scripts includes a tree structure, each of the scripts including at least one of a child-node script and content, unit selecting a parent-node script among the scripts, and acquiring to analyze a child-node script if the child-node script exists, unit acquiring content if content exists, unit retrieving substitute content if the acquisition of content ends in failure and if content indicates retrieving substitute content, unit retrieving the substitute-child-node script if the acquisition of the child-node script ends in failure and if the child-node script indicates retrieving the substitute-child-node script, and retrieving the substitute-parent-node script when content or the child-node script shows retrieving the substitute-parent-node script, unit acquiring substitute content when substitute content is found, unit acquiring the substitute-child-node script and the substitute-parent-node script when the substitute-child-node script and the substitute-parent-node script aType: GrantFiled: October 19, 2009Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Kenji Odaka, Satoshi Ozaki, Eiji Tokita, Shirou Wakayama, Yoshiki Terashima, Kensaku Fujimoto
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Publication number: 20120219270Abstract: According to one embodiment, a content playback apparatus includes a playback module, a decision module, and a management module. The playback module is configured to play back a content includes components selected from moving picture data, image data, sound data and text data, thereby to produce video data and audio data. The decision module is configured to determine, based on a state of the content playback apparatus, whether the components of the content can be viewed and listened to. The management module is configured to manage video-audio management data includes data items based on a decision result of the decision module, each data item representing whether a video or audio data item has been viewed or listened to.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2011Publication date: August 30, 2012Inventors: Kenji Odaka, Satoshi Ozaki, Naoki Esaka, Shirou Wakayama, Kensaku Fujimoto, Yosuke Takahashi
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Publication number: 20120166732Abstract: A first acquisition unit acquires each of the resources defined by the scenario, from locations depending on identifiers of the resources. A judging unit judge, when a resource having same identifier and structure as the resource acquired is existent in the cache storage, erases the resource, the identifier thereof, and the receipt time information from the cache storage, and when not existent, stores the acquired resource in association with the identifier thereof and the receipt time information of the bookmark instruction, in the cache storage. A second acquisition, when the identifiers of the resources specified by a first scenario are existent in the cache storage, acquires the resources from the cache storage according to the receipt time information corresponding to the first scenario and identifiers of the resources, and when not existent, acquires the resources from a location depending on the identifiers.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2011Publication date: June 28, 2012Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Shirou WAKAYAMA, Satoshi OZAKI, Naoki ESAKA, Kensaku FUJIMOTO, Kenji ODAKA, Yosuke TAKAHASHI
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Patent number: 8201091Abstract: The program synthesizing device according to the embodiment of the present invention includes: a coupling unit configured to couple an information acquiring plug-in module, an information processing plug-in module, and a presentation plug-in module through their input interfaces and output interfaces based on a mashup scenario; a plug-in module driving unit configured to sequentially drive the coupled plug-in modules; an information acquiring unit configured to acquire information when the information acquiring plug-in module is driven; an information processing unit configured to perform a predetermined process on the information when the information processing plug-in module is driven; an object resolving unit configured to determine a value of object presented by a specified presentation scenario when the presentation plug-in module is driven; and a program output unit configured to output a program being a presentation scenario in which the object value is resolved.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2011Date of Patent: June 12, 2012Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Satoshi Ozaki, Naoki Esaka, Kensaku Fujimoto, Shirou Wakayama, Kenji Odaka, Yosuke Takahashi
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Publication number: 20120137222Abstract: The program synthesizing device according to the embodiment of the present invention includes: a coupling unit configured to couple an information acquiring plug-in module, an information processing plug-in module, and a presentation plug-in module through their input interfaces and output interfaces based on a mashup scenario; a plug-in module driving unit configured to sequentially drive the coupled plug-in modules; an information acquiring unit configured to acquire information when the information acquiring plug-in module is driven; an information processing unit configured to perform a predetermined process on the information when the information processing plug-in module is driven; an object resolving unit configured to determine a value of object presented by a specified presentation scenario when the presentation plug-in module is driven; and a program output unit configured to output a program being a presentation scenario in which the object value is resolved.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2011Publication date: May 31, 2012Inventors: Satoshi Ozaki, Naoki Esaka, Kensaku Fujimoto, Shirou Wakayama, Kenji Odaka, Yosuke Takahashi
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Publication number: 20100241730Abstract: An information processing apparatus has an information acquiring unit which acquires a plurality of pieces of information over a network in accordance with an acquisition script included in a scenario, an information converting unit which extracts portions represented to a user from the respective pieces of acquired information in accordance with a conversion script included in the scenario, a movement adding unit which processes all or part of the presented portion so that display contents can be presented in such a form as to change and/or be accompanied with the sound output in accordance with a movement adding script included in the scenario, a statistics recording unit which records processing cost for each of the information acquiring unit, the information converting unit and the movement adding unit, an extraction unit which extracts dependency information showing a dependency relationship between the processes from the scenario, and a control unit which determines the priority of the processes to be cType: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2009Publication date: September 23, 2010Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Kensaku FUJIMOTO, Satoshi Ozaki, Yoshiki Terashima, Shirou Wakayama, Kenji Odaka, Eiji Tokita
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Publication number: 20100198945Abstract: An apparatus includes unit storing scripts includes a tree structure, each of the scripts including at least one of a child-node script and content, unit selecting a parent-node script among the scripts, and acquiring to analyze a child-node script if the child-node script exists, unit acquiring content if content exists, unit retrieving substitute content if the acquisition of content ends in failure and if content indicates retrieving substitute content, unit retrieving the substitute-child-node script if the acquisition of the child-node script ends in failure and if the child-node script indicates retrieving the substitute-child-node script, and retrieving the substitute-parent-node script when content or the child-node script shows retrieving the substitute-parent-node script, unit acquiring substitute content when substitute content is found, unit acquiring the substitute-child-node script and the substitute-parent-node script when the substitute-child-node script and the substitute-parent-node script aType: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2009Publication date: August 5, 2010Inventors: Kenji Odaka, Satoshi Ozaki, Eiji Tokita, Shirou Wakayama, Yoshiki Terashima, Kensaku Fujimoto
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Publication number: 20100180203Abstract: A content item recommendation device includes; a storage which stores information of a plurality of content items describing identifiers and usage characteristics of the resources used in the content items; a first specifying unit which specifies first content items which use at least S number of resources in common with a specified content item; a second specifying unit which specifies second content items which use at least K number of resources in common with each of the first content items; a calculator which calculates relationship levels between the specified content item and each of the second content items; a selector which selects recommended content items from the second content items based on the relationship levels.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2009Publication date: July 15, 2010Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Eiji TOKITA, Satoshi Ozaki, Kenji Odaka, Shirou Wakayama, Yoshiki Terashima, Kensaku Fujimoto
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Publication number: 20100050269Abstract: Whether a combination method defined in an output rule satisfies a combination condition of each content specified in a play list is judged in order of priority defined in a priority list. Based on the judgment result, the output rule is edited in such a manner that the combination condition of each content specified in the play list is satisfied. The resources of the combination target contents specified in the play list are combined in accordance with the combination method of the edited output rule.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2009Publication date: February 25, 2010Inventors: Kenji Odaka, Yoshiki Terashima, Satoshi Ozaki, Shirou Wakayama, Keiichi Teramoto, Eiji Tokita
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Publication number: 20090249425Abstract: An imaging distribution apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive a distribution request for distribution of a specific program from a client apparatus via a network, a program scenario acquisition unit configured to acquire a program scenario corresponding to the specific program requested for by the distribution request, a content acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of information contents based on the program scenario, a conversion unit configured to convert the information contents to image scene based on the program scenario, an encoding unit configured to encode the image scene, to generate a stream, and a stream distribution unit configured to distribute the stream to the client apparatus via the network.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2009Publication date: October 1, 2009Inventors: Keiichi TERAMOTO, Shirou WAKAYAMA, Satoshi OZAKI, Isao TAKEYASU, Yoshiki TERASHIMA, Kenji ODAKA, Eiji TOKITA
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Publication number: 20090244385Abstract: An information display apparatus includes an information acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of information items through a network in accordance with an acquisition script in a scenario, the scenario including a conversion script and a motion addition script, an information conversion unit configured to extract one or more parts to be displayed from each information item acquired by the information acquisition unit in accordance with the conversion script included in the scenario, a motion addition unit configured to process all or some of the parts extracted by the information conversion unit, to be displayed with changing in content automatically and/or with an audio output, respectively, in accordance with the motion addition script included in the scenario.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2009Publication date: October 1, 2009Inventors: Shirou WAKAYAMA, Satoshi OZAKI, Yoshiki TERASHIMA, Kenji ODAKA
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Publication number: 20090234789Abstract: An information reproducing apparatus includes: a content storage configured to store content which includes a plurality of resources and a utilization condition of the resources; a scenario storage configured to store a scenario which includes output rules each defining a way of combining one or more resources selected from the plurality of resources and a play list defining an order of reading the output rules; a reading out unit configured to read out the scenario and the content from the storages; a condition processing unit configured to perform processing for satisfying the utilization condition in the content; and an information combining unit configured to read the output rules in the order specified by the play list, combine the one or more resources according to respective one of the output rules and output combined resources for the respective one of the output rules.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2009Publication date: September 17, 2009Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Kenji Odaka, Yoshiki Terashima, Satoshi Ozaki, Shirou Wakayama, Keiichi Teramoto
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Wireless tag reader, wireless tag system, computer readable medium and wireless communication method
Patent number: 7450009Abstract: There is provided with a wireless tag reader communicating with a plurality of wireless tags each of which retains tag information piece and a bloom filter, the wireless tag reader comprising: a transmitter configured to transmit a read request signal simultaneously to the wireless tags to request the wireless tags to read out the bloom filters; a receiver configured to receive bloom filter signals simultaneously from the wireless tags to acquire a colliding bloom filter signal; a decoder configured to decode the colliding bloom filter signal to acquire a composite bloom filter which is equivalent to logic operation OR on the bloom filters; a data storage configured to store tag information pieces; and a filter verifier configured to verify each of tag information pieces in the data storage with the composite bloom filter to detect tag information pieces for which a verification result is positive or negative.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2006Date of Patent: November 11, 2008Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Yusuke Doi, Satoshi Ozaki, Shirou Wakayama, Masahiro Ishiyama, Toshiyuki Umeda