Patents by Inventor Tooru Masuda

Tooru Masuda 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).

  • Picture processing apparatus, index creating apparatus, imaging apparatus, index creating method, and program
    Publication number: 20090172032
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a picture processing apparatus including: an attribute information detection section configured to detect attribute information about a plurality of pictures included in moving picture data; an index data creation section configured to create index data for indexing the attribute information to the positions in the moving picture data of those of the plurality of pictures which correspond to the attribute information; and a stream data creation section configured to create stream data including the moving picture data and the index data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2008
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yukio Isobe, Atsushi Mae, Kenichiro Nagao, Tooru Masuda