Patents by Inventor Soichiro Niho

Soichiro Niho 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).

  • Patent number: 8600211
    Abstract: [Object] To reproduce a plurality of video contents recorded on a recording medium on one screen and select and reproduce any of the video contents without using a plurality of dedicated decoders. [Solving Means] A recording/reproducing apparatus (100) reads single angle videos (21) that are shot from a plurality of angles and a multi-angle video (22) obtained by performing authoring on those single angle videos (21) so as to be reproducible on one screen from a BD-ROM (10), combines a time-line operation bar (61) and a cursor (66) with the multi-angle video (22), and displays a multi-angle screen (60). When an operation of selecting a single angle video (21) on which the cursor (66) is positioned is performed on the multi-angle screen (60), the single angle video (21) is reproduced in full screen based on a time code at a time when the selection operation is made.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kae Nagano, Soichiro Niho
  • Patent number: 8274604
    Abstract: A image display unit is allowed to reproduce display characteristics substantially equivalent to that obtained with use of a cinema projector, when performing a image display based on a film image signal or an equivalent. The image display unit including: an image insertion section inserting an interpolation frame image into an input video signal as the film image signal or the equivalent; and a display section performing image display based on a video signal where the interpolation frame image is inserted. The image insertion section generates an optimized image as the interpolation frame image in which the insertion time period and the signal level are optimized based on display characteristics to be achieved in a projected image projected with the cinema film by a cinema projector, thereby to insert the optimized image into the input video signal at a position corresponding to a gap between frames of the cinema film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takayuki Ohe, Soichiro Niho
  • Publication number: 20100278509
    Abstract: [Object] To reproduce a plurality of video contents recorded on a recording medium on one screen and select and reproduce any of the video contents without using a plurality of dedicated decoders. [Solving Means] A recording/reproducing apparatus (100) reads single angle videos (21) that are shot from a plurality of angles and a multi-angle video (22) obtained by performing authoring on those single angle videos (21) so as to be reproducible on one screen from a BD-ROM (10), combines a time-line operation bar (61) and a cursor (66) with the multi-angle video (22), and displays a multi-angle screen (60). When an operation of selecting a single angle video (21) on which the cursor (66) is positioned is performed on the multi-angle screen (60), the single angle video (21) is reproduced in full screen based on a time code at a time when the selection operation is made.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2008
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Inventors: Kae Nagano, Soichiro Niho
  • Publication number: 20100060785
    Abstract: A image display unit is allowed to reproduce display characteristics substantially equivalent to that obtained with use of a cinema projector, when performing a image display based on a film image signal or an equivalent. The image display unit including: an image insertion section inserting an interpolation frame image into an input video signal as the film image signal or the equivalent; and a display section performing image display based on a video signal where the interpolation frame image is inserted. The image insertion section generates an optimized image as the interpolation frame image in which the insertion time period and the signal level are optimized based on display characteristics to be achieved in a projected image projected with the cinema film by a cinema projector, thereby to insert the optimized image into the input video signal at a position corresponding to a gap between frames of the cinema film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2009
    Publication date: March 11, 2010
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takayuki Ohe, Soichiro Niho
  • Patent number: 6611652
    Abstract: An AV data input/output controlling circuit is connected through a data bus to a synchronous-asynchronous conversion circuit and through a control bus to a recording and reproduction controlling circuit. The AV data input/output controlling circuit inputs and outputs audio and/or video data of a normal data rate. The AV data input/output controlling circuit also inputs and outputs audio and/or video data of a higher data rate than usual. In the data recording and reproducing apparatus, audio and/or video data is transferred through a data bus synchronized with a reference synchronization signal S28 etc., the audio and/or video data input from an external unit is recorded in a storage device, and the audio and/or video data recorded in the storage device is reproduced and supplied to the outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2003
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuya Iwamoto, Yoshinori Suzuki, Hiroshi Inamura, Atsumu Soda, Tatsuji Yamazaki, Junichi Ogikubo, Soichiro Niho, Nirokazu Ito, Hiroyuki Fujita, Yuichi Kojima