Patents by Inventor Tomoaki Iwata

Tomoaki Iwata 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: 20210289256
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program that enable the content transmitted by using MMT to be sent to an external device via a network. An information processing device according to one aspect of the present technology includes: a content acquisition unit that acquires content transmitted by using MMT; and an extraction unit that extracts information from transmission data based on MMT, the information being to be sent, as property information regarding the content, to an external device to which the content is to be sent via a network. The present technology can be applied to a receiver, such as an STB, that receives the content transmitted by using MMT and uploads the content to an external device via a network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventors: KOUICHI UCHIMURA, TOMOAKI IWATA
  • Patent number: 11070764
    Abstract: The problem of the present disclosure relates to enabling smooth communication of high-image-quality video content between apparatuses. A video communication device including: a communication unit that receives, from one or more video processing devices, device information of each of the one or more video processing devices; and a determination unit that determines, on the basis of one or more pieces of device information received by the communication unit, whether or not each of the one or more video processing devices has a high image quality function, the high image quality function being a function that supports any of high image qualities of 4K or more, in which the communication unit transmits video content having the high image quality to a video processing device that has been determined by the determination unit to have the high image quality function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kouichi Uchimura, Tomoaki Iwata
  • Publication number: 20210006745
    Abstract: The problem of the present disclosure relates to enabling smooth communication of high-image-quality video content between apparatuses. A video communication device including: a communication unit that receives, from one or more video processing devices, device information of each of the one or more video processing devices; and a determination unit that determines, on the basis of one or more pieces of device information received by the communication unit, whether or not each of the one or more video processing devices has a high image quality function, the high image quality function being a function that supports any of high image qualities of 4K or more, in which the communication unit transmits video content having the high image quality to a video processing device that has been determined by the determination unit to have the high image quality function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Inventors: KOUICHI UCHIMURA, TOMOAKI IWATA
  • Publication number: 20080065780
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2007
    Publication date: March 13, 2008
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoaki Iwata, Masanori Muroya, Taku Inoue, Taro Suito