Patents by Inventor Tetsu Sumii

Tetsu Sumii 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).

  • Video camera system having remote commander
    Patent number: 7545410
    Abstract: An image pickup system that is small in scale, handy to maneuver, easy to operate and advanced in editing capabilities is disclosed. A commander device is used both as a remote commander and as a microphone in operating a video camera for image pickup. Wearing a headset on the head, a user looks at images appearing on a headset display to monitor and verify recorded images without recourse to a view finder of the video camera. Functions of the components making up the system are changed by operation of a mode switch attached to the video camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2009
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki Oka, Toshiyuki Hisatsune, Tetsu Sumii, Osamu Sakurai, Shigeya Yasui
  • Video camera system having remote commander
    Patent number: 6828994
    Abstract: An image pickup system that is small in scale, handy to maneuver, easy to operate and advanced in editing capabilities is disclosed. A commander device is used both as a remote commander and as a microphone in operating a video camera for image pickup. Wearing a headset on the head, a user looks at images appearing on a headset display to monitor and verify recorded images without recourse to a view finder of the video camera. Functions of the components making up the system are changed by operation of a mode switch attached to the video camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2004
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki Oka, Toshiyuki Hisatsune, Tetsu Sumii, Osamu Sakurai, Shigeya Yasui
  • Video camera system having remote commander
    Publication number: 20040051788
    Abstract: An image pickup system that is small in scale, handy to maneuver, easy to operate and advanced in editing capabilities is disclosed. A commander device is used both as a remote commander and as a microphone in operating a video camera for image pickup. Wearing a headset on the head, a user looks at images appearing on a headset display to monitor and verify recorded images without recourse to a view finder of the video camera. Functions of the components making up the system are changed by operation of a mode switch attached to the video camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2003
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Inventors: Hiroki Oka, Toshiyuki Hisatsune, Tetsu Sumii, Osamu Sakurai, Shigeya Yasui
  • Video camera system having remote commander
    Patent number: 6556240
    Abstract: An image pickup system that is small in scale, handy to maneuver, easy to operate and advanced in editing capabilities is disclosed. A commander device is used both as a remote commander and as a microphone in operating a video camera for image pickup. Wearing a headset on the head, a user looks at images appearing on a headset display to monitor and verify recorded images without recourse to a view finder of the video came. Function of the components making up the system are changed by operation of a mode switch attached to the video camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2003
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki Oka, Toshiyuki Hisatsune, Tetsu Sumii, Osamu Sakurai, Shigeya Yasui
  • VIDEO CAMERA SYSTEM HAVING REMOTE COMMANDER
    Publication number: 20030011685
    Abstract: An image pickup system that is small in scale, handy to maneuver, easy to operate and advanced in editing capabilities is disclosed. A commander device is used both as a remote commander and as a microphone in operating a video camera for image pickup. Wearing a headset on the head, a user looks at images appearing on a headset display to monitor and verify recorded images without recourse to a view finder of the video camera. Functions of the components making up the system are changed by operation of a mode switch attached to the video camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 1998
    Publication date: January 16, 2003
    Inventors: HIROKI OKA, TETSU HISATSUNE, TETSU SUMII
  • Video camera system having remote commander
    Publication number: 20020012050
    Abstract: An image pickup system that is small in scale, handy to maneuver, easy to operate and advanced in editing capabilities is disclosed. A commander device is used both as a remote commander and as a microphone in operating a video camera for image pickup. Wearing a headset on the head, a user looks at images appearing on a headset display to monitor and verify recorded images without recourse to a view finder of the video camera. Functions of the components making up the system are changed by operation of a mode switch attached to the video camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2001
    Publication date: January 31, 2002
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION.
    Inventors: Hiroki Oka, Toshiyuki Hisatsune, Tetsu Sumii, Osamu Sakurai, Shigeya Yasui
  • Monitor
    Patent number: D450319
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2001
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsu Sumii, Phillip Mark Rose, Simon John Bradford
  • Television receiver
    Patent number: D472224
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2003
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Tetsu Sumii
  • Stand for television receiver
    Patent number: D478746
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2003
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Tetsu Sumii
  • Projector
    Patent number: D557726
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2007
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Tetsu Sumii
  • Combined hard disc recorder and disc player
    Patent number: D571756
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2008
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Sugiyama, Tetsu Sumii
  • Arithmetic and control unit
    Patent number: D581927
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2008
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Tetsu Sumii
  • Arithmetic and control unit
    Patent number: D590391
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2009
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Tetsu Sumii
  • Server
    Patent number: D598018
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Tetsu Sumii
  • Arithmetic and control unit
    Patent number: D600694
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2009
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Tetsu Sumii
  • Camera
    Patent number: D627384
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Tetsu Sumii
  • Video tape recorder
    Patent number: D398922
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 29, 1998
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Hisatsune, Tetsu Sumii
  • Monitor
    Patent number: D412891
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1999
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Tetsu Sumii
  • Editor
    Patent number: D421255
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 29, 2000
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Hisatsune, Tetsu Sumii
  • Disc player combined with radio receiver, tape player and recorder
    Patent number: D430863
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2000
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsu Sumii, Takayuki Kobayashi