Patents by Inventor Tetsuro Kida

Tetsuro Kida 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: 20200092594
    Abstract: [Object] To make it possible to effectively guide a user to related content pertaining to a distribution program. [Solution] Provided is an information processing device including: an extraction unit configured to, on the basis of log information pertaining to a distribution program and acquired from a distribution destination device, extract a target distribution destination device from a plurality of the distribution destination devices; an identifier specifying unit configured to acquire an identifier of a guidance target associated with an identifier of the target distribution destination device; and a guidance control unit configured to cause the guidance target to display guidance information that directs to related content pertaining to the distribution program on the basis of the identifier of the guidance target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Applicant: SONY NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Wataru KASAI, Tomoyuki SUZUKI, Tetsuro KIDA, Yohei HASHIMOTO, Yutaka KIMURA, Taku SEIMIYA, Makoto SUNAYAMA, So KATAGIRI, Asuka MOMOSE
  • Publication number: 20160153795
    Abstract: A information processing apparatus including an inquiry section configured to make an inquiry to a server about desired search information on the basis of setting information preliminarily input by a user operation, the server being connected to a network, a receiving section configured to receive the search information about which the inquiry section makes an inquiry to the server, and a notifying section configured to provide notification of the search information, which is received by the receiving section, at a predetermined timing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2016
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshio ITO, Tetsuro KIDA
  • Publication number: 20100211585
    Abstract: A information processing apparatus including an inquiry section configured to make an inquiry to a server about desired search information on the basis of setting information preliminarily input by a user operation, the server being connected to a network, a receiving section configured to receive the search information about which the inquiry section makes an inquiry to the server, and a notifying section configured to provide notification of the search information, which is received by the receiving section, at a predetermined timing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2010
    Publication date: August 19, 2010
    Inventors: Yoshio Ito, Tetsuro Kida
  • Patent number: 7593003
    Abstract: A display of “scroll up by 1 hour” is overlaid on sections of station name of a program schedule Fa1 when an up arrow key of a cross key provided to a remote commander is operated when a cursor K is on the upper border of a program frame, and when there is any preceding program (past program) not currently displayed in the program schedule Fa1. Then when an enter key provided to the remote commander is operated, the 1-hour-scrolled-up program schedule Fa1 is responsively displayed after reconfiguration. In such a manner, the display range of the program schedule can be changed with ease, and the present invention is applicable to television receivers for digital broadcasting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2009
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akio Koresawa, Tetsuro Kida, Yasuo Nomura, Mitsuru Nagasaka, Tomoe Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20050114886
    Abstract: A display of “scroll up by 1 hour” is overlaid on sections of station name of a program schedule Fa1 when an up arrow key of a cross key provided to a remote commander is operated when a cursor K is on the upper border of a program frame, and when there is any preceding program (past program) not currently displayed in the program schedule Fa1. Then when an enter key provided to the remote commander is operated, the 1-hour-scrolled-up program schedule Fa1 is responsively displayed after reconfiguration. In such a manner, the display range of the program schedule can be changed with ease, and the present invention is applicable to television receivers for digital broadcasting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2004
    Publication date: May 26, 2005
    Inventors: Akio Koresawa, Tetsuro Kida, Yasuo Nomura, Mitsuru Nagasaka, Tomoe Tanaka