Patents by Inventor Taro Suito
Taro Suito 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: 8826131Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a content-list creating unit for selecting, on the basis of a predetermined subject, contents out of recorded program contents, information contents concerning receivable program contents, contents acquired from an outside, and contents stored in the information processing apparatus in advance to thereby create a content list; a content-list selecting unit for selecting out of plural content lists created by the content-list creating unit, on the basis of at least one of contents of the content lists and a situation during user operation, plural content lists to be displayed; and a display control unit for causing a predetermined display unit to display the plural content lists selected by the content-list selecting unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2008Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Taro Suito, Yoshiaki Arishima, Yukihiro Isono, Takashi Karimoto, Rui Sugiuchi, Ryo Takaoka, Takashi Murayama, Kazuhiro Yanase, Yasuaki Yorikane, Nobuyuki Fujiwara, Tatsuya Narahara
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Patent number: 8600219Abstract: Disclosed is a video-signal recording and playback apparatus for recording or playing back a video signal, the video-signal recording and playback apparatus comprising: extracting means for extracting a static picture from a sequence of video signals with a predetermined timing; judgment means for forming a judgment as to whether or not a static picture extracted by the extracting means can be used as a representative picture; and setting means for setting the static picture as a representative picture in accordance with an outcome of a judgment formed by the judgment means.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2006Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Masashi Ohta, Koichi Chotoku, Taro Suito, Toshimichi Hamada
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Patent number: 8467580Abstract: An image data processing apparatus includes recording means for recording contents data containing moving image data, which is encoded by a first scheme, moving image decoding means for loading the contents data recorded in the recording means and decoding the moving image data, still image encoding means for obtaining image data, which corresponds to the image to be displayed at a predetermined time, as data of a still image of image data, which is the moving image data decoded by the moving image decoding means and encoding the image data by a second scheme, and time information creating means for creating information on the time when the still image is shot based on information added to the encoded moving image data.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2007Date of Patent: June 18, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Taro Suito, Yasuhiro Muramatsu, Takuma Morita, Masanori Muroya, Takeshi Yamauchi, Kei Hisano
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Publication number: 20100300310Abstract: A print apparatus includes: a print image generation unit that generates a circular print image by bonding one end and the other end of a single direction of a representative image where an image characteristic portion extending in a single direction is depicted to represent contents recorded on the recording disc; and a print unit that prints the print image on one surface of the recording disc by matching a center of the recording disc with a center of the print image.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2010Publication date: December 2, 2010Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Yukiko Kanekiyo, Taro Suito, Kuriko Takeshima
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Publication number: 20100209166Abstract: A recording device that duplicates contents recorded in a first recording medium on a detachable second recording medium includes: selection means for selecting duplication subject contents to be duplicated on the second recording medium among the contents recorded in the first recording medium; duplicating means for duplicating the selected duplication subject contents on the second recording medium; generation means for generating label surface information that indicates contents recorded in the second recording medium after the duplication subject contents are duplicated thereon and is to be printed on a label surface of the second recording medium; and print control means for causing the generated label surface information to be printed on the label surface of the second recording medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2010Publication date: August 19, 2010Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Yukiko Kanekiyo, Taro Suito, Kuriko Takeshima
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Patent number: 7620105Abstract: An information processing apparatus capable of accurately detecting commercials included in a television broadcast. A commercial candidate section detector detects a commercial candidate section based on the characteristics of transitions between a program and a commercial and based on the characteristics of commercials. Transitional criteria include quiet sections, scene change points and changes in the audio multiplex mode. A commercial block detector detects a commercial block, which is composed of a plurality of commercial sections and is interposed between program portions, in conformity with the number of frames of the individual commercial candidate sections detected by the commercial candidate section detector, and then outputs to a switch a control signal based on the result of such commercial block detection.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2005Date of Patent: November 17, 2009Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Taro Suito, Masashi Ohta, Katsunari Miyata
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Patent number: 7542097Abstract: A video signal processing apparatus and a video signal processing method are capable of outputting a display having a high picture quality by effectively utilizing an output resolution. A microcomputer controls a shrinkage filter, a memory and an enlargement filter to carry out a resolution conversion process of converting the signal format of a video signal into a selected output signal format depending on the output format setting of a D terminal of the video processing apparatus, and outputs the video signal.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2003Date of Patent: June 2, 2009Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Taro Suito
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Publication number: 20080209325Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a content-list creating unit for selecting, on the basis of a predetermined subject, contents out of recorded program contents, information contents concerning receivable program contents, contents acquired from an outside, and contents stored in the information processing apparatus in advance to thereby create a content list; a content-list selecting unit for selecting out of plural content lists created by the content-list creating unit, on the basis of at least one of contents of the content lists and a situation during user operation, plural content lists to be displayed; and a display control unit for causing a predetermined display unit to display the plural content lists selected by the content-list selecting unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2008Publication date: August 28, 2008Inventors: Taro Suito, Yoshiaki Arishima, Yukihiro Isono, Takashi Karimoto, Rui Sugiuchi, Ryo Takaoka, Takashi Murayama, Kazuhiro Yanase, Yasuaki Yorikane, Nobuyuki Fujiwara, Tatsuya Narahara
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Publication number: 20080166021Abstract: An image data processing apparatus includes recording means for recording contents data containing moving image data, which is encoded by a first scheme, moving image decoding means for loading the contents data recorded in the recording means and decoding the moving image data, still image encoding means for obtaining image data, which corresponds to the image to be displayed at a predetermined time, as data of a still image of image data, which is the moving image data decoded by the moving image decoding means and encoding the image data by a second scheme, and time information creating means for creating information on the time when the still image is shot based on information added to the encoded moving image data.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2007Publication date: July 10, 2008Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Taro Suito, Yasuhiro Muramatsu, Takuma Morita, Masanori Muroya, Takeshi Yamauchi, Kei Hisano
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Publication number: 20080065780Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an obtaining unit configured to obtain stream data, the stream data including one or more events captured by an imaging device and arranged in an order that is independent of a time order of time periods of capturing of the individual events, and to obtain additional information including start times and end times of the time periods of capturing of the individual events; a recording controller configured to exercise control so that the stream data obtained by the obtaining unit is recorded on a recording medium; and a generating unit configured to generate a date playlist on the basis of the additional information, the date playlist allowing individual reproduction of titles associated with individual dates, each of the titles being a collection of one or more events having the same date and sorted in order of time among the events captured by the imaging device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2007Publication date: March 13, 2008Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Tomoaki Iwata, Masanori Muroya, Taku Inoue, Taro Suito
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Patent number: 7295756Abstract: By reducing the number of seek operations in an operation to play back a signal from a recording medium, the amount of data temporarily stored in a read buffer memory employed in a signal recording/playback apparatus is large enough to be output as a playback signal during a seek operation, allowing a continuous playback operation to be carried out. In order to reduce the number of seek operations, a signal is always recorded onto the recording medium in continuous free areas each having a size equal to or larger than a predetermined recording/playback time length which is typically set at 1 minute. If it is necessary to insert an additional signal having a length smaller than the predetermined recording/playback time length into a point of insertion in an area already occupied by an existing signal, a continuous free area with a size equal to or larger than the predetermined recording/playback time length is newly allocated to the additional signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2005Date of Patent: November 13, 2007Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Takao Takahashi, Masashi Ohta, Toshiya Akiba, Masami Tomita, Taro Suito
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Publication number: 20070104459Abstract: Disclosed is a video-signal recording and playback apparatus for recording or playing back a video signal, the video-signal recording and playback apparatus comprising: extracting means for extracting a static picture from a sequence of video signals with a predetermined timing; judgment means for forming a judgment as to whether or not a static picture extracted by the extracting means can be used as a representative picture; and setting means for setting the static picture as a representative picture in accordance with an outcome of a judgment formed by the judgment means.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2006Publication date: May 10, 2007Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Masashi OHTA, Koichi Chotoku, Taro Suito, Toshimichi Hamada
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Patent number: 7164846Abstract: Disclosed is a video-signal recording and playback apparatus for recording or playing back a video signal, the video-signal recording and playback apparatus comprising: extracting means for extracting a static picture from a sequence of video signals with a predetermined timing; judgment means for forming a judgment as to whether or not a static picture extracted by the extracting means can be used as a representative picture; and setting means for setting the static picture as a representative picture in accordance with an outcome of a judgment formed by the judgment means.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2001Date of Patent: January 16, 2007Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Masashi Ohta, Koichi Chotoku, Taro Suito, Toshimichi Hamada
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Patent number: 7133593Abstract: By reducing the number of seek operations in an operation to play back a signal from a recording medium, the amount of data temporarily stored in a read buffer memory employed in a signal recording/playback apparatus is large enough to be output as a playback signal during a seek operation, allowing a continuous playback operation to be carried out. In order to reduce the number of seek operations, a signal is always recorded onto the recording medium in continuous free areas each having a size equal to or larger than a predetermined recording/playback time length which is typically set at 1 minute. If it is necessary to insert an additional signal having a length smaller than the predetermined recording/playback time length into a point of insertion in an area already occupied by an existing signal, a continuous free area with a size equal to or larger than the predetermined recording/playback time length is newly allocated to the additional signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2005Date of Patent: November 7, 2006Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Takao Takahashi, Masashi Ohta, Toshiya Akiba, Masami Tomita, Taro Suito
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Patent number: 7130524Abstract: By reducing the number of seek operations in an operation to play back a signal from a recording medium, the amount of data temporarily stored in a read buffer memory employed in a signal recording/playback apparatus is large enough to be output as a playback signal during a seek operation, allowing a continuous playback operation to be carried out. In order to reduce the number of seek operations, a signal is always recorded onto the recording medium in continuous free areas each having a size equal to or larger than a predetermined recording/playback time length which is typically set at 1 minute. If it is necessary to insert an additional signal having a length smaller than the predetermined recording/playback time length into a point of insertion in an area already occupied by an existing signal, a continuous free area with a size equal to or larger than the predetermined recording/playback time length is newly allocated to the additional signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2005Date of Patent: October 31, 2006Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Takao Takahashi, Masashi Ohta, Toshiya Akiba, Masami Tomita, Taro Suito
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Patent number: 7127151Abstract: By reducing the number of seek operations in an operation to play back a signal from a recording medium, the amount of data temporarily stored in a read buffer memory employed in a signal recording/playback apparatus is large enough to be output as a playback signal during a seek operation, allowing a continuous playback operation to be carried out. In order to reduce the number of seek operations, a signal is always recorded onto the recording medium in continuous free areas each having a size equal to or larger than a predetermined recording/playback time length which is typically set at 1 minute. If it is necessary to insert an additional signal having a length smaller than the predetermined recording/playback time length into a point of insertion in an area already occupied by an existing signal, a continuous free area with a size equal to or larger than the predetermined recording/playback time length is newly allocated to the additional signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2005Date of Patent: October 24, 2006Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Takao Takahashi, Masashi Ohta, Toshiya Akiba, Masami Tomita, Taro Suito
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Patent number: 7092619Abstract: By reducing the number of seek operations in an operation to play back a signal from a recording medium, the amount of data temporarily stored in a read buffer memory employed in a signal recording/playback apparatus is large enough to be output as a playback signal during a seek operation, allowing a continuous playback operation to be carried out. In order to reduce the number of seek operations, a signal is always recorded onto the recording medium in continuous free areas each having a size equal to or larger than a predetermined recording/playback time length which is typically set at 1 minute. If it is necessary to insert an additional signal having a length smaller than the predetermined recording/playback time length into a point of insertion in an area already occupied by an existing signal, a continuous free area with a size equal to or larger than the predetermined recording/playback time length is newly allocated to the additional signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2005Date of Patent: August 15, 2006Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Takao Takahashi, Masashi Ohta, Toshiya Akiba, Masami Tomita, Taro Suito
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Patent number: 7085472Abstract: By reducing the number of seek operations in an operation to play back a signal from a recording medium, the amount of data temporarily stored in a read buffer memory employed in a signal recording/playback apparatus is large enough to be output as a playback signal during a seek operation, allowing a continuous playback operation to be carried out. In order to reduce the number of seek operations, a signal is always recorded onto the recording medium in continuous free areas each having a size equal to or larger than a predetermined recording/playback time length which is typically set at 1 minute. If it is necessary to insert an additional signal having a length smaller than the predetermined recording/playback time length into a point of insertion in an area already occupied by an existing signal, a continuous free area with a size equal to or larger than the predetermined recording/playback time length is newly allocated to the additional signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2005Date of Patent: August 1, 2006Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Takao Takahashi, Masashi Ohta, Toshiya Akiba, Masami Tomita, Taro Suito
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Patent number: 7079751Abstract: The invention provides a broadcast signal recording and playback apparatus and method which can detect a CM included in a television broadcast signal with certainty without an error. A CM candidate period detection section detects a CM using an audio mode signal outputted from a tuner, a sound absence discrimination output from a sound absence detection section and a scene change detection output from a scene change detection section as basic materials. A detection operation discrimination section limits operation of the CM candidate period detection section when it is known that the broadcast signal includes no CM or when the electric field is weak.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2001Date of Patent: July 18, 2006Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Taro Suito, Masashi Ohta
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Publication number: 20050231641Abstract: A video signal processing apparatus and a video signal processing method are capable of outputting a display having a high picture quality by effectively utilizing an output resolution. A microcomputer controls a shrinkage filter, a memory and an enlargement filter to carry out a resolution conversion process of converting the signal format of a video signal into a selected output signal format depending on the output format setting of a D terminal of the video processing apparatus, and outputs the video signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2003Publication date: October 20, 2005Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Taro Suito