Patents by Inventor Tomoko Shintani

Tomoko Shintani 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).

  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATIC SECOND SCREEN ENGAGEMENT
    Publication number: 20160044360
    Abstract: A method includes displaying content on a television, detecting a personal display device in proximity of the television, detecting a selection of content displayed on the television, detecting an instruction associated with the selection, displaying, based on the instruction, information associated with the selection on the personal display device and displaying on the television an alert indicating that the information associated with the selection is on the personal display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Applicant: Roku, Inc.
    Inventors: Greg GARNER, Tomoko Shintani
  • Method and apparatus for automatic second screen engagement
    Patent number: 9185446
    Abstract: A method includes displaying content on a television, detecting a personal display device in proximity of the television, detecting a selection of content displayed on the television, detecting an instruction associated with the selection, displaying, based on the instruction, information associated with the selection on the personal display device and displaying on the television an alert indicating that the information associated with the selection is on the personal display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Roku, Inc.
    Inventors: Greg Garner, Tomoko Shintani
  • Method and apparatus for automatic second screen engagement
    Patent number: 8959562
    Abstract: A method includes displaying content on a television, detecting a personal display device in proximity of the television, detecting a selection of content displayed on the television, detecting an instruction associated with the selection, displaying, based on the instruction, information associated with the selection on the personal display device and displaying on the television an alert indicating that the information associated with the selection is on the personal display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Roku, Inc.
    Inventors: Greg Garner, Tomoko Shintani
  • Method and apparatus of error reporting
    Patent number: 8839050
    Abstract: A method includes receiving an error signal from a client device receiving a video stream. A portion of the video stream associated with the error signal is detected. An error selection listing based on the portion of the video stream is transmitted. The client device receives a selection based on the error selection listing. The selection is stored as an error listing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Roku, Inc.
    Inventors: Tomoko Shintani, David Sharp
  • Method and Apparatus of Error Reporting
    Publication number: 20140245083
    Abstract: A method includes receiving an error signal from a client device receiving a video stream. A portion of the video stream associated with the error signal is detected. An error selection listing based on the portion of the video stream is transmitted. The client device receives a selection based on the error selection listing. The selection is stored as an error listing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: Roku, Inc.
    Inventors: Tomoko Shintani, David Sharp
  • Method and Apparatus for Automatic Second Screen Engagement
    Publication number: 20140240597
    Abstract: A method includes displaying content on a television, detecting a personal display device in proximity of the television, detecting a selection of content displayed on the television, detecting an instruction associated with the selection, displaying, based on the instruction, information associated with the selection on the personal display device and displaying on the television an alert indicating that the information associated with the selection is on the personal display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: ROKU, INC.
    Inventors: Greg Garner, Tomoko Shintani
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND PRINT APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR
    Publication number: 20140104639
    Abstract: In the case that a plurality of users execute output reservations while looking at targets to be output together, the necessity for an operation to sort the output materials by user after output is eliminated. The plurality of users are classified, the plurality of targets to be output selected in a scattered manner by the plurality of classified users are bulked together as selected targets to be output for each user, and those bulked targets to be output are output for each user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keita Yoshida, Nobuo Oshimoto, Tomoko Shintani, Nobuyuki Imai
  • Information processing apparatus and control method therefor, and print apparatus and control method therefor
    Patent number: 8630020
    Abstract: In the case that a plurality of users execute output reservations while looking at targets to be output together, the necessity for an operation to sort the output materials by user after output is eliminated. The plurality of users are classified, the plurality of targets to be output selected in a scattered manner by the plurality of classified users are bulked together as selected targets to be output for each user, and those bulked targets to be output are output for each user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Keita Yoshida, Nobuo Oshimoto, Tomoko Shintani, Nobuyuki Imai
  • Method and apparatus of error reporting
    Patent number: 8539286
    Abstract: A method includes receiving an error signal from a client device receiving a video stream. A portion of the video stream associated with the error signal is detected. An error selection listing based on the portion of the video stream is transmitted. The client device receives a selection based on the error selection listing. The selection is stored as an error listing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Roku, Inc.
    Inventors: Tomoko Shintani, David Sharp
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND PRINT APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR
    Publication number: 20100141971
    Abstract: In the case that a plurality of users execute output reservations while looking at targets to be output together, the necessity for an operation to sort the output materials by user after output is eliminated. The plurality of users are classified, the plurality of targets to be output selected in a scattered manner by the plurality of classified users are bulked together as selected targets to be output for each user, and those bulked targets to be output are output for each user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2009
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keita Yoshida, Nobuo Oshimoto, Tomoko Shintani, Nobuyuki Imai