Patents by Inventor Takashi Kinouchi

Takashi Kinouchi 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).

  • Publication number: 20240041311
    Abstract: An image capturing device and an image capturing system are provided for capturing images in the oral cavity. The image capturing device includes: a columnar main body having a prescribed length between the base and leading ends, the longitudinal direction of the main body follows the direction in which the main body is inserted into the oral cavity; a grip disposed on the same line as the main body on the base end side; a camera for capturing a subject image based on reflected light radiated from a light source and reflected by the oral cavity, the camera being disposed on the same line as the main body either inside the main body or closer to the base end than the main body; and a display for displaying the subject image captured by the camera, the display being disposed on the same line as the main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Takashi YASUMI, Takashi KINOUCHI, Akiho SAKUMA
  • Publication number: 20230283699
    Abstract: An information processing terminal includes a camera serving as an image capture unit for capturing an image of a subject; a body part having a front surface which is a predetermined surface on which a display unit for displaying a captured image including the subject captured by the image capture unit is disposed; and a coupling part that directly or indirectly couples the image capture unit relatively rotatably to the body part via a plurality of rotation axes including a pivot axis that is a first rotation axis for changing an angle formed by an optical axis direction of the image capture unit and the normal direction to the display unit, and a pivot axis that is a second rotation axis in a direction different from the first rotation axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventor: Takashi KINOUCHI
  • Patent number: 11659074
    Abstract: Provided is a mobile information terminal that allows a high-performance camera to be directed in any arbitrary direction relative to the terminal body and that allows photographing to be performed in a free position, while allowing for the viewing of a camera viewpoint image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: XLEAP, INC.
    Inventor: Takashi Kinouchi
  • Publication number: 20210234949
    Abstract: Provided is a mobile information terminal that allows a high-performance camera to be directed in any arbitrary direction relative to the terminal body and that allows photographing to be performed in a free position, while allowing for the viewing of a camera viewpoint image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventor: Takashi KINOUCHI
  • Patent number: 11005982
    Abstract: Provided is a mobile information terminal that allows a high-performance camera to be directed in any arbitrary direction relative to the terminal body and that allows photographing to be performed in a free position, while allowing for the viewing of a camera viewpoint image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: XLEAP, INC.
    Inventor: Takashi Kinouchi
  • Patent number: 10901572
    Abstract: A reproduction device including a reproduction unit configured to reproduce content data including at least one of audio, video, and text for which attribute data is assigned for each of a different plurality of attributes; a display unit; and a control unit configured to make the display unit display a playback screen containing at least one attribute data among the plurality of attribute data assigned to the content data when reproducing the content data and, when one attribute data among the attribute data composing the playback screen is selected, switch the display content of the content from the playback screen to the list relating to the selected attribute data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hideo Tsukazaki, Kotaro Asaka, Takashi Kinouchi, Susumu Takatsuka
  • Publication number: 20200344340
    Abstract: Provided is a mobile information terminal that allows a high-performance camera to be directed in any arbitrary direction relative to the terminal body and that allows photographing to be performed in a free position, while allowing for the viewing of a camera viewpoint image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Applicant: XLeap, Inc.
    Inventor: Takashi KINOUCHI
  • Patent number: 10642447
    Abstract: A reproduction device including a reproduction unit configured to reproduce content data including at least one of audio, video, and text for which attribute data is assigned for each of a different plurality of attributes; a display unit; and a control unit configured to make the display unit display a playback screen containing at least one attribute data among the plurality of attribute data assigned to the content data when reproducing the content data and, when one attribute data among the attribute data composing the playback screen is selected, switch the display content of the content from the playback screen to the list relating to the selected attribute data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hideo Tsukazaki, Kotaro Asaka, Takashi Kinouchi, Susumu Takatsuka
  • Publication number: 20190260863
    Abstract: Provided is a mobile information terminal that allows a high-performance camera to be directed in any arbitrary direction relative to the terminal body and that allows photographing to be performed in a free position, while allowing for the viewing of a camera viewpoint image. An information processing terminal 1 comprises: a camera 21 serving as an image capture unit for capturing an image of a subject; a body part 11 having a front surface 11a which is a predetermined surface on which a display unit 13 for displaying a captured image including the subject captured by the image capture unit is disposed; and a coupling part 12 that directly or indirectly couples the image capture unit relatively rotatably to the body part 11 via a plurality of rotation axes including a pivot axis Z1 that is a first rotation axis for changing an angle formed by an optical axis direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Applicant: XLeap, Inc.
    Inventor: Takashi KINOUCHI
  • Patent number: 10002643
    Abstract: A reproducing apparatus is disclosed. The reproducing apparatus includes a reproducing section, a notifying section, and a notification controlling section. The reproducing section reproduces content data. The notifying section notifies a user that there are content data correlated with content data reproduced by the reproducing section. The notification controlling section determines whether content data correlated with content data reproduced by the reproducing section have been retrieved and controls the notifying section to notify the user that there are the correlated content data when the correlated content data have been retrieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yujin Morisawa, Takashi Kinouchi, Hideo Tsukazaki, Takeshi Ozawa
  • Patent number: 9641787
    Abstract: A playback apparatus to play back content data including sound data includes an instruction operating portion to detect an instruction operation that instructs execution of prescribed processing, a hold operating portion to detect a hold setting operation that sets a state of not accepting the instruction operation to the instruction operating portion, a state control portion to set the state of not accepting the instruction operation to the instruction operating portion if the hold setting operation is detected by the hold operating portion, and a video processing portion to perform processing for displaying a video. If the video processing portion performs processing for displaying the video when the hold setting operation is detected, the state control portion controls the video processing portion to suspend at least a part of processing for displaying the video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takashi Kinouchi
  • Patent number: 9619111
    Abstract: There is provided a content selection view in which the user can select a content intuitively and easily. When the user places a touch pen in touch with a touch panel in a position corresponding to a position P1 in a map and drags the touch pen along a locus to a position P2 with the touch pen being kept in touch with the touch panel, PD will judge that a grid is still an option. Thereafter, when the user takes the touch pen off the touch panel surface, the PD will select the grid corresponding to the position P2 where the touch pen has finally been in touch with the touch panel. The PD will output not only content data assigned to the selected grid but a sound corresponding to predetermined content data even while the grid is still an option. The present invention is applicable to a portable recorder/player.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc.
    Inventors: Junichiro Sakata, Kotaro Asaka, Susumu Takatsuka, Hideo Tsukazaki, Takashi Kinouchi, Takeshi Ozawa
  • Publication number: 20160100123
    Abstract: A playback apparatus to play back content data including sound data includes an instruction operating portion to detect an instruction operation that instructs execution of prescribed processing, a hold operating portion to detect a hold setting operation that sets a state of not accepting the instruction operation to the instruction operating portion, a state control portion to set the state of not accepting the instruction operation to the instruction operating portion if the hold setting operation is detected by the hold operating portion, and a video processing portion to perform processing for displaying a video. If the video processing portion performs processing for displaying the video when the hold setting operation is detected, the state control portion controls the video processing portion to suspend at least a part of processing for displaying the video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Takashi KINOUCHI
  • Patent number: 9247185
    Abstract: A playback apparatus to play back content data including sound data includes an instruction operating portion to detect an instruction operation that instructs execution of prescribed processing, a hold operating portion to detect a hold setting operation that sets a state of not accepting the instruction operation to the instruction operating portion, a state control portion to set the state of not accepting the instruction operation to the instruction operating portion if the hold setting operation is detected by the hold operating portion, and a video processing portion to perform processing for displaying a video. If the video processing portion performs processing for displaying the video when the hold setting operation is detected, the state control portion controls the video processing portion to suspend at least a part of processing for displaying the video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takashi Kinouchi
  • Publication number: 20150185978
    Abstract: There is provided a content selection view in which the user can select a content intuitively and easily. When the user places a touch pen in touch with a touch panel in a position corresponding to a position P1 in a map and drags the touch pen along a locus to a position P2 with the touch pen being kept in touch with the touch panel, PD will judge that a grid is still an option. Thereafter, when the user takes the touch pen off the touch panel surface, the PD will select the grid corresponding to the position P2 where the touch pen has finally been in touch with the touch panel. The PD will output not only content data assigned to the selected grid but a sound corresponding to predetermined content data even while the grid is still an option. The present invention is applicable to a portable recorder/player.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2014
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Applicants: Sony Corporation, Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc.
    Inventors: Junichiro Sakata, Kotara Asaka, Susumu Takatsuka, Hideo Tsukazaki, Takashi Kinouchi, Takeshi Ozawa
  • Publication number: 20150189220
    Abstract: A playback apparatus to play back content data including sound data includes an instruction operating portion to detect an instruction operation that instructs execution of prescribed processing, a hold operating portion to detect a hold setting operation that sets a state of not accepting the instruction operation to the instruction operating portion, a state control portion to set the state of not accepting the instruction operation to the instruction operating portion if the hold setting operation is detected by the hold operating portion, and a video processing portion to perform processing for displaying a video. If the video processing portion performs processing for displaying the video when the hold setting operation is detected, the state control portion controls the video processing portion to suspend at least a part of processing for displaying the video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Takashi KINOUCHI
  • Patent number: 9064543
    Abstract: A content data recording and reproducing apparatus including a content data output device, enabling the content to be reproduced to be determined while displaying a content list on an external output device, communicates with the output device, and controls the output device to output data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takashi Kinouchi
  • Patent number: 9043847
    Abstract: A playback apparatus to play back content data including sound data includes an instruction operating portion to detect an instruction operation that instructs execution of prescribed processing, a hold operating portion to detect a hold setting operation that sets a state of not accepting the instruction operation to the instruction operating portion, a state control portion to set the state of not accepting the instruction operation to the instruction operating portion if the hold setting operation is detected by the hold operating portion, and a video processing portion to perform processing for displaying a video. If the video processing portion performs processing for displaying the video when the hold setting operation is detected, the state control portion controls the video processing portion to suspend at least a part of processing for displaying the video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Takashi Kinouchi
  • Patent number: 9032778
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes: a recording unit configured to access a recording medium using a head; an acceleration sensor that detects acceleration generated in the electronic apparatus; and a control unit configured to write, in the recording medium or a predetermined memory, detection data indicating a result of the detection by the acceleration sensor or a state of the electronic apparatus detected on the basis of the detection result and retracting, when the detection result satisfies a drop condition for the electronic apparatus defined in advance, the head of the recording unit to a predetermined retraction position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Takashi Kinouchi
  • Patent number: 8922508
    Abstract: An apparatus and method provide logic for processing information. In one implementation, a method may obtain metadata associated with corresponding values of a first characteristic and a second characteristic of a plurality of content elements. A display including a plurality of display elements may be generated, and the content elements may be assigned to corresponding ones of the display elements, based on a comparison between first and second characteristic values and first and second characteristic value ranges. A first signal may be generated to display a representation of the display to a user, and a selection of a display element may be received from the user. The method may obtain a content element assigned to the selected display element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc.
    Inventors: Junichiro Sakata, Kotaro Asaka, Susumu Takatsuka, Hideo Tsukazaki, Takashi Kinouchi, Takeshi Ozawa