Patents by Inventor Tomonari Sonoda

Tomonari Sonoda 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).

  • Two-way broadcasting system allowing a viewer to produce and send a program
    Patent number: 7609287
    Abstract: A program broadcasting system is provided with: a material server; a plurality of communication terminal apparatuses; and an information management server connected through a communication network. The material server comprises a material DB which accumulates material composing a program. The communication terminal apparatus comprises a program progress table and a HDD which accumulates the material. The information management server comprises a material index list DB which stores contents of the material corresponding to the material server or the communication terminal apparatus, and a program DB which stores the program progress table corresponding to the communication terminal apparatus. In accordance with the program progress table, the information management server instructs the material server to send the material, and the communication terminal apparatus to send or receive the material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2009
    Assignees: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Xing Inc.
    Inventors: Yuichi Yasutomo, Kazuhiro Omura, Kazuyuki Shudo, Tomonari Sonoda
  • Two-way broadcasting system allowing a viewer to produce and send a program
    Publication number: 20050151834
    Abstract: A program broadcasting system is provided with: a material server; a plurality of communication terminal apparatuses; and an information management server connected through a communication network. The material server comprises a material DB which accumulates material composing a program. The communication terminal apparatus comprises a program progress table and a HDD which accumulates the material. The information management server comprises a material index list DB which stores contents of the material corresponding to the material server or the communication terminal apparatus, and a program DB which stores the program progress table corresponding to the communication terminal apparatus. In accordance with the program progress table, the information management server instructs the material server to send the material, and the communication terminal apparatus to send or receive the material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2004
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Applicants: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, XING INC., UTAGOE, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuichi Yasutomo, Kazuhiro Omura, Kazuyuki Shudo, Tomonari Sonoda
  • World Wide Web-based melody retrieval system with thresholds determined by using distribution of pitch and span of notes
    Patent number: 6121530
    Abstract: A World Wide Web-based melody retrieval system takes a sung melody as a query and retrieves the song's title or other information from a music database over a WWW network which comprises a method of obtaining search clues with the maximum quantity of information from pitch and span (dynamic threshold determination) and a method of effectively reducing the number of answer candidates (coarse-to-fine matching), thus increasing the matching accuracy, and it is characterized in that a user can retrieve music or media with music by singing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2000
    Inventor: Tomonari Sonoda