Patents by Inventor Soichiro Atsumi
Soichiro Atsumi 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: 10027730Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 19, 2014Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Toshimasa Miyoshi, Hideo Nagasaka, Takashi Tominaga, Tadaaki Kimijima, Shigeru Inoue, Soichiro Atsumi, Mamoru Tokashiki
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Patent number: 9886502Abstract: A system and method in which metadata associated with content data received from an information processing apparatus is used in determining related content data that includes a similar feature as the content data. The related content data may be determined from a channel in which the content data belongs according to a playback rate determination by the information processing apparatus of give content data used in determining the similar feature as the feature in the content data. The related content data may then be transmitted to the information apparatus, which may selectively playback the content data and the related content data.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2012Date of Patent: February 6, 2018Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yuki Murata, Soichiro Atsumi
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Patent number: 9813471Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 19, 2014Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Toshimasa Miyoshi, Hideo Nagasaka, Takashi Tominaga, Tadaaki Kimijima, Shigeru Inoue, Soichiro Atsumi, Mamoru Tokashiki
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Patent number: 9319487Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 28, 2014Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hideo Nagasaka, Shigeru Inoue, Takashi Tominaga, Yasushi Miyajima, Tadaaki Kimijima, Toshimasa Miyoshi, Mamoru Tokashiki, Soichiro Atsumi, Toru Sasaki
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Patent number: 8959174Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 13, 2012Date of Patent: February 17, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Toshimasa Miyoshi, Hideo Nagasaka, Takashi Tominaga, Tadaaki Kimijima, Shigeru Inoue, Soichiro Atsumi, Mamoru Tokashiki
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Publication number: 20150006576Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2014Publication date: January 1, 2015Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Toshimasa Miyoshi, Hideo Nagasaka, Takashi Tominaga, Tadaaki Kimijima, Shigeru Inoue, Soichiro Atsumi
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Publication number: 20150006575Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2014Publication date: January 1, 2015Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Toshimasa Miyoshi, Hideo Nagasaka, Takashi Tominaga, Tadaaki Kimijima, Shigeru Inoue, Soichiro Atsumi, Mamoru Tokashiki
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Publication number: 20140372562Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2014Publication date: December 18, 2014Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Hideo Nagasaka, Shigeru Inoue, Takashi Tominaga, Yasushi Miyajima, Tadaaki Kimijima, Toshimasa Miyoshi, Mamoru Tokashiki, Soichiro Atsumi, Toru Sasaki
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Patent number: 8862781Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 28, 2012Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hideo Nagasaka, Shigeru Inoue, Takashi Tominaga, Yasushi Miyajima, Tadaaki Kimijima, Toshimasa Miyoshi, Mamoru Tokashiki, Soichiro Atsumi, Toru Sasaki
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Patent number: 8438197Abstract: Incidental content as metadata contains one of primary content and usage editing material content information. The primary content has been used directly as an editing material in a secondary usage mode fashion in order to produce the incident content data and the usage editing material content information indicates the incidental content. A generation structure is recognized by back-tracking content serving as a parent by referencing usage editing material content starting with given incidental content, based on the usage editing material content information of each incidental content.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2008Date of Patent: May 7, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Toshimasa Miyoshi, Hideo Nagasaka, Takashi Tominaga, Tadaaki Kimijima, Shigeru Inoue, Soichiro Atsumi, Mamoru Tokashiki
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Publication number: 20120226783Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a content storage portion to store content data, a content playback portion to play back content data, a metadata acquisition portion to acquire metadata describing information about the content data being played back in the content playback portion, a metadata transmission portion to transmit the metadata acquired in the metadata acquisition portion to the distribution server, a content reception portion to receive content data selected in the distribution server based on the information contained in the metadata and distributed from the distribution server, a content acquisition portion to acquire the content data from the content storage portion based on the information contained in the metadata, and a control portion to control the content playback portion to play back the content data distributed from the distribution server and the content data acquired from the content storage portion by the content acquisition portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2012Publication date: September 6, 2012Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yuki Murata, Soichiro Atsumi
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Publication number: 20120185566Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2012Publication date: July 19, 2012Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Hideo Nagasaka, Shigeru Inoue, Takashi Tominaga, Yasushi Miyajima, Tadaaki Kimijima, Toshimasa Miyoshi, Mamoru Tokashiki, Soichiro Atsumi, Toru Sasaki
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Patent number: 8195639Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a music storage portion to store music data, a music playback portion to play back music data, a metadata acquisition portion to acquire metadata describing information about the music data being played back in the music playback portion, a metadata transmission portion to transmit the metadata acquired in the metadata acquisition portion to the distribution server, a music reception portion to receive music data selected in the distribution server based on the information contained in the metadata and distributed from the distribution server, a music acquisition portion to acquire the music data from the music storage portion based on the information contained in the metadata, and a control portion to control the music playback portion to play back the music data distributed from the distribution server and the music data acquired from the music storage portion by the music acquisition portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2008Date of Patent: June 5, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yuki Murata, Soichiro Atsumi
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Publication number: 20120117191Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2012Publication date: May 10, 2012Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Toshimasa Miyoshi, Hideo Nagasaka, Takashi Tominaga, Tadaaki Kimijima, Shigeru Inoue, Soichiro Atsumi, Mamoru Tokashiki
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Patent number: 8176118Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 3, 2008Date of Patent: May 8, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hideo Nagasaka, Shigeru Inoue, Takashi Tominaga, Yasushi Miyajima, Tadaaki Kimijima, Toshimasa Miyoshi, Mamoru Tokashiki, Soichiro Atsumi, Toru Sasaki
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Patent number: 8112474Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 20, 2008Date of Patent: February 7, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Toshimasa Miyoshi, Hideo Nagasaka, Takashi Tominaga, Tadaaki Kimijima, Shigeru Inoue, Soichiro Atsumi, Mamoru Tokashiki
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Patent number: 7991853Abstract: An information processing system configured to include at least an open server apparatus and a terminal apparatus communicable with each other through a network is disclosed. The system includes: an opening mode setting means for setting an opening mode; a transmitted content information creating means for creating content information including at least body information and predetermined additional information; a content information storing means for storing content information; a content information upload control means for transmitting content information; and an opening mode determining means for determining an opening mode of the content information stored in the content information storing means.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2008Date of Patent: August 2, 2011Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Toshimasa Miyoshi, Hideo Nagasaka, Takashi Tominaga, Tadaaki Kimijima, Shigeru Inoue, Soichiro Atsumi, Mamoru Tokashiki
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Publication number: 20100057234Abstract: An information processing apparatus of the present invention is provided with a musical composition storing unit for storing musical composition data, a reproducing unit for reproducing the musical composition, a meta information storing unit for storing meta information including a position of the musical data and an amount of characteristic indicating characteristics of the musical composition data at the position, an amount of characteristic obtaining unit for obtaining the amount of characteristic at a reproduction position of the musical composition data reproduced by the reproducing unit at predetermined timing, and a blink control unit for controlling a blink of an light emitting unit for emitting light according to the amount of characteristic obtained by the amount of characteristic obtaining unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2009Publication date: March 4, 2010Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yuki MURATA, Soichiro ATSUMI
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Publication number: 20090125527Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a music storage portion to store music data, a music playback portion to play back music data, a metadata acquisition portion to acquire metadata describing information about the music data being played back in the music playback portion, a metadata transmission portion to transmit the metadata acquired in the metadata acquisition portion to the distribution server, a music reception portion to receive music data selected in the distribution server based on the information contained in the metadata and distributed from the distribution server, a music acquisition portion to acquire the music data from the music storage portion based on the information contained in the metadata, and a control portion to control the music playback portion to play back the music data distributed from the distribution server and the music data acquired from the music storage portion by the music acquisition portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2008Publication date: May 14, 2009Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Yuki Murata, Soichiro Atsumi
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Publication number: 20090119273Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2008Publication date: May 7, 2009Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Hideo Nagasaka, Shigeru Inoue, Takashi Tominaga, Yasushi Miyajima, Tadaaki Kimijima, Toshimasa Miyoshi, Mamoru Tokashiki, Soichiro Atsumi, Toru Sasaki