Patents by Inventor Susumu Nagano

Susumu Nagano 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: 9940388
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including an event cluster creation unit configured to create an event cluster including, among a plurality of types of content, reference content serving as a reference and related content, the related content having a different type from the reference content and indicating the same event as the reference content, and a meta information appending unit configured to create meta information about the event on the basis of the event cluster and append the meta information to the event cluster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yorimitsu Naito, Susumu Nagano, Kazuhiro Nakagomi, Takayuki Ochi, Takamasa Sato
  • Patent number: 9495789
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a display controlling unit configured to, at a time of displaying content on a screen, set one axis in a three-dimensional space as a time axis, arrange pieces of content along one or more of the time axes, cause the time axis to be rotatable in a foreground direction and a background direction of the screen with one axis substantially orthogonal to the time axis regarded as a center, and, in a case where the time axis is inclined by a predetermined angle or more toward a foreground, change a display state of content after a predetermined reference time among the pieces of content arranged along the time axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takamasa Sato, Takayuki Ochi, Yorimitsu Naito, Kazuhiro Nakagomi, Susumu Nagano
  • Publication number: 20150347574
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including an event cluster creation unit configured to create an event cluster including, among a plurality of types of content, reference content serving as a reference and related content, the related content having a different type from the reference content and indicating the same event as the reference content, and a meta information appending unit configured to create meta information about the event on the basis of the event cluster and append the meta information to the event cluster.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2015
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Inventors: Yorimitsu NAITO, Susumu Nagano, Kazuhiro Nakagomi, Takayuki Ochi, Takamasa Sato
  • Patent number: 9202131
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including an image analysis unit to analyze image data, and a protagonist identification unit to identify a protagonist of an event including at least one set of image data. The protagonist identification unit identifies the protagonist of the event by using at least a parameter independent of an analysis of an image provided to the event. If the protagonist of the event is not able to be identified by using the parameter independent of the analysis of the image, the information processing apparatus makes the image analysis unit analyze the image data included in the event to identify the protagonist of the event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yorimitsu Naito, Susumu Nagano, Kazuhiro Nakagomi, Takayuki Ochi, Takamasa Sato
  • Patent number: 9171014
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including an event cluster creation unit configured to create an event cluster including, among a plurality of types of content, reference content serving as a reference and related content, the related content having a different type from the reference content and indicating the same event as the reference content, and a meta information appending unit configured to create meta information about the event on the basis of the event cluster and append the meta information to the event cluster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yorimitsu Naito, Susumu Nagano, Kazuhiro Nakagomi, Takayuki Ochi, Takamasa Sato
  • Patent number: 8606172
    Abstract: A data receiving and recording method and data receiver are provided for receiving data coded by a predetermined method and copyright information attached to the data. While recording the received data on a predetermined recording medium, the copyright information is recorded into a predetermined area of the recording medium. Preferably, the data consists of audio data of the song, lyrics data of the song and image data relating to the song and the copyright information is allotted respectively to the audio data, lyrics data and image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shintaro Tsutsui, Susumu Nagano, Yasushi Katayama
  • Publication number: 20130308864
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including an image analysis unit to analyze image data, and a protagonist identification unit to identify a protagonist of an event including at least one set of image data. The protagonist identification unit identifies the protagonist of the event by using at least a parameter independent of an analysis of an image provided to the event. If the protagonist of the event is not able to be identified by using the parameter independent of the analysis of the image, the information processing apparatus makes the image analysis unit analyze the image data included in the event to identify the protagonist of the event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2013
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yorimitsu NAITO, Susumu NAGANO, Kazuhiro NAKAGOMI, Takayuki OCHI, Takamasa SATO
  • Patent number: 8588678
    Abstract: A data receiving and recording method and data receiver are provided for receiving data coded by a predetermined method and copyright information attached to the data. While recording the received data on a predetermined recording medium, the copyright information is recorded into a predetermined area of the recording medium. Preferably, the data consists of audio data of the song, lyrics data of the song and image data relating to the song and the copyright information is allotted respectively to the audio data, lyrics data and image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shintaro Tsutsui, Susumu Nagano, Yasushi Katayama
  • Publication number: 20130257859
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a display controlling unit configured to, at a time of displaying content on a screen, set one axis in a three-dimensional space as a time axis, arrange pieces of content along one or more of the time axes, cause the time axis to be rotatable in a foreground direction and a background direction of the screen with one axis substantially orthogonal to the time axis regarded as a center, and, in a case where the time axis is inclined by a predetermined angle or more toward a foreground, change a display state of content after a predetermined reference time among the pieces of content arranged along the time axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2013
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takamasa Sato, Takayuki Ochi, Yorimitsu Naito, Kazuhiro Nakagomi, Susumu Nagano
  • Patent number: 8351845
    Abstract: A data receiving and recording method and data receiver are provided for receiving data coded by a predetermined method and copyright information attached to the data. While recording the received data on a predetermined recording medium, the copyright information is recorded into a predetermined area of the recording medium. Preferably, the data consists of audio data of the song, lyrics data of the song and image data relating to the song and the copyright information is allotted respectively to the audio data, lyrics data and image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shintaro Tsutsui, Susumu Nagano, Yasushi Katayama
  • Publication number: 20120317115
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including an event cluster creation unit configured to create an event cluster including, among a plurality of types of content, reference content serving as a reference and related content, the related content having a different type from the reference content and indicating the same event as the reference content, and a meta information appending unit configured to create meta information about the event on the basis of the event cluster and append the meta information to the event cluster.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2012
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yorimitsu NAITO, Susumu NAGANO, Kazuhiro NAKAGOMI, Takayuki OCHI, Takamasa SATO
  • Publication number: 20120313964
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus that acquires familiarity information between a first person and a second person at each of a plurality of points in time in a temporal sequence, and determines a distance between a first node representing the first person and a second node representing the second person at each of the plurality of points in time in a temporal sequence based on a relationship of the familiarity information between the second person and the first person at neighboring points in time in the temporal sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takamasa SATO, Susumu Nagano, Kazuhiro Nakagomi, Yorimitzu Naito, Takayuki Ochi
  • Patent number: 8204789
    Abstract: To compensate a failure in downloading of music piece data. For example, when a viewer instructs purchase of a music pieceC to an IRD at a timing t0 during the sixth transmission of music piece data, the music piece data to be transmitted for the seventh time immediately after the instruction is usually downloaded. When the downloading of the music piece data transmitted for the seventh time fails for some reason, downloading is re-executed on music piece data to be transmitted for the eighth time. The music piece data for the final transmission time in each of musical pieces is used for re-execution. Timing at which downloading of the music piece data transmitted for the time immediately preceding the final time can be instructed is set as purchase limit time by using elapsed time since program start time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ichiro Hamada, Susumu Nagano, Shintaro Tsutsui
  • Patent number: 8032912
    Abstract: In order to easily download a program obtained from the outside onto a connected device while a device on which a program is to be downloaded is being properly selected, when a second device connected to a first device is controlled by executing a first program inputted to the first device from the outside and a second program prepared beforehand in the first device, the most desirable device is selected as the second device by executing the second program and the first program is executed by using information on the selected device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shintaro Tsutsui, Susumu Nagano
  • Patent number: 7973243
    Abstract: A coil insulator of an electrical rotating machine used as a main insulator for insulating a bundle of conductors formed of a plurality of insulated wires to form an armature coil provided in a slot of a rotor core or a stator core of an electrical rotating machine, wherein the coil insulator includes a mica layer including at least one of a peeled-off mica and a composite mica, a woven- or unwoven cloth including at least one of inorganic and organic materials, hexagonal crystal boron nitride particles having a graphitization index of 1.8 or more, and thermosetting polymer organic resin which integrally connects the mica layer and the hexagonal crystal boron nitride particles to each other, and the hexagonal crystal boron nitride particles is oriented in a longitudinal direction of the coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Hiroshi Hatano, Katsuhiko Yoshida, Toshimitsu Yamada, Shinobu Sekito, Susumu Nagano, Hiroyoshi Tsuchiya
  • Publication number: 20100280933
    Abstract: A data receiving and recording method and data receiver are provided for receiving data coded by a predetermined method and copyright information attached to the data. While recording the received data on a predetermined recording medium, the copyright information is recorded into a predetermined area of the recording medium. Preferably, the data consists of audio data of the song, lyrics data of the song and image data relating to the song and the copyright information is allotted respectively to the audio data, lyrics data and image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2010
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shintaro TSUTSUI, Susumu Nagano, Yasushi Katayama
  • Publication number: 20100273413
    Abstract: A data receiving and recording method and data receiver are provided for receiving data coded by a predetermined method and copyright information attached to the data. While recording the received data on a predetermined recording medium, the copyright information is recorded into a predetermined area of the recording medium. Preferably, the data consists of audio data of the song, lyrics data of the song and image data relating to the song and the copyright information is allotted respectively to the audio data, lyrics data and image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2010
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shintaro Tsutsui, Susumu Nagano, Yasushi Katayama
  • Patent number: 7592732
    Abstract: Sub core sections are arranged at the end portions and the center portion of a stator core, and strand conductors are twisted and transposed by 360 degrees continuously toward the extending direction of winding slot. The length corresponding to transposition pitch 180 degrees of the strand conductors of the stator core is set as one core unit area, the sub core sections including portions whose space factors are different are arranged such that the sum of voltages in the strands induced in the strand conductors in the odd-numbered core unit area from one end portion of the stator core offsets the sum of voltages in the strands induced in the strand conductors in the even-numbered core unit area from the end portion of the core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2009
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Masafumi Fujita, Tadashi Tokumasu, Yasuo Kabata, Masanori Arata, Mikio Kakiuchi, Susumu Nagano
  • Patent number: 7579739
    Abstract: Sub core sections are arranged at the end portions and the center portion of a stator core, and strand conductors are twisted and transposed by 360 degrees continuously toward the extending direction of winding slot. The length corresponding to transposition pitch 180 degrees of the strand conductors of the stator core is set as one core unit area, the sub core sections including portions whose space factors are different are arranged such that the sum of voltages in the strands induced in the strand conductors in the odd-numbered core unit area from one end portion of the stator core offsets the sum of voltages in the strands induced in the strand conductors in the even-numbered core unit area from the end portion of the core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2009
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Masafumi Fujita, Tadashi Tokumasu, Yasuo Kabata, Masanori Arata, Mikio Kakiuchi, Susumu Nagano
  • Publication number: 20090197102
    Abstract: The present invention provides a solution to the above-described drawbacks, and more specifically, as the tape-like or sheet-like insulation member, the resin matrix in which the first particles having a heat conductivity of 1 W/mK or higher and 300 W/mK or lower, that are diffused in the resin matrix, and the second particles having a heat conductivity of 0.5 W/mK or higher and 300 W/mK or lower, are diffused, is employed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Publication date: August 6, 2009
    Inventors: Tetsushi Okamoto, Hiroyoshi Tsuchiya, Fumio Sawa, Noriyuki Iwata, Mitsuhiko Koyama, Yukio Suzuki, Akihiko Suzuki, Tooru Ootaka, Shigehito Ishii, Susumu Nagano