Patents by Inventor Toshiaki Kusakabe

Toshiaki Kusakabe 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).

  • Information processing apparatus and method and program
    Patent number: 8521844
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus configured to distribute stored content to a client reproducing apparatus connected to the information processing apparatus via a network, which may include acquiring means; real item information generating means; extracting means; virtual item generating means; reproduction sequence list generating means; virtual item information generating means; collecting means; and distributing means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mariko Yoshida, Toshiaki Kusakabe, Satoshi Hiroi, Masahiro Hara
  • Information processing system, collecting server, information processing method and program
    Patent number: 8515938
    Abstract: An information processing system including, a client capable of receiving and reproducing content from a media server, and a collecting server for receiving content management information on the content from the media server and managing the content management information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiaki Kusakabe, Satoshi Hiroi, Masahiro Hara
  • Information processing apparatus, method and program
    Patent number: 8213764
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes area image extracting means for extracting, as a telop image, an area displaying a telop in contents, detecting means for detecting a scene change in images of the contents, recording means for converting an image at the time when a scene change is detected by the detecting means to a thumbnail image and recording the thumbnail image, display control means for controlling to arrange and display a plurality of the thumbnail images and a plurality of the telop images chronologically, and playing means for playing the contents from the position corresponding to the selected thumbnail image or telop image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuo Kuroiwa, Masachika Sasaki, Satoshi Fujimura, Hisashi Hosaka, Hiroshi Nagatani, Yuki Murata, Satoshi Akagawa, Shigeya Yasui, Yoshiyasu Kubota, Yukiko Sakata, Mitsuo Okumura, Masahide Sumiyoshi, Toshiaki Kusakabe, Masahiro Hara, Masanori Nomura, Satoshi Hiroi, Bin Lin
  • Metadata collection system, content management server, metadata collection apparatus, metadata collection method and program
    Patent number: 8024340
    Abstract: In a metadata collection system comprising a plurality of content management servers each capable of managing content and content metadata as local content and managing content metadata stored in another content management server as reference content and a metadata collection apparatus connected with the plurality of content management servers to collect metadata from the plurality of content management servers, the metadata collection apparatus collects metadata from the individual content management servers based upon server information held at the content management servers and category identifiers appended to tree structures generated at the content management servers by individually referencing the plurality of content management servers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yuichi Kageyama, Yasuaki Honda, Norifumi Kikkawa, Toshiaki Kusakabe, Masahiro Hara, Junichi Nakata, Gen Hamada
  • Information processing apparatus and method and program
    Publication number: 20100115062
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus configured to distribute stored content to a client reproducing apparatus connected to the information processing apparatus via a network, which may include acquiring means; real item information generating means; extracting means; virtual item generating means; reproduction sequence list generating means; virtual item information generating means; collecting means; and distributing means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2010
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mariko Yoshida, Toshiaki Kusakabe, Satoshi Hiroi, Masahiro Hara
  • Information processing apparatus and method and program
    Patent number: 7668933
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus configured to distribute stored content to a client reproducing apparatus connected to the information processing apparatus via a network, which may include acquiring means; real item information generating means; extracting means; virtual item generating means; reproduction sequence list generating means; virtual item information generating means; collecting means; and distributing means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mariko Yoshida, Toshiaki Kusakabe, Satoshi Hiroi, Masahiro Hara
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, COLLECTING SERVER, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20080301103
    Abstract: An information processing system including, a client capable of receiving and reproducing content from a media server, and a collecting server for receiving content management information on the content from the media server and managing the content management information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2008
    Publication date: December 4, 2008
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiaki Kusakabe, Satoshi Hiroi, Masahiro Hara
  • Information processing apparatus and method and program
    Publication number: 20080208952
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus configured to distribute stored content to a client reproducing apparatus connected to the information processing apparatus via a network, which may include acquiring means; real item information generating means; extracting means; virtual item generating means; reproduction sequence list generating means; virtual item information generating means; collecting means; and distributing means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2007
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mariko Yoshida, Toshiaki Kusakabe, Satoshi Hiroi, Masahiro Hara
  • METADATA COLLECTION SYSTEM, CONTENT MANAGEMENT SERVER, METADATA COLLECTION APPARATUS, METADATA COLLECTION METHOD AND PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20080183719
    Abstract: In a metadata collection system comprising a plurality of content management servers each capable of managing content and content metadata as local content and managing content metadata stored in another content management server as reference content and a metadata collection apparatus connected with the plurality of content management servers to collect metadata from the plurality of content management servers, the metadata collection apparatus collects metadata from the individual content management servers based upon server information held at the content management servers and category identifiers appended to tree structures generated at the content management servers by individually referencing the plurality of content management servers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2008
    Publication date: July 31, 2008
    Inventors: Yuichi KAGEYAMA, Yasuaki HONDA, Norifumi KIKKAWA, Toshiaki KUSAKABE, Masahiro HARA, Junichi NAKATA, Gen HAMADA
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20080159718
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes area image extracting means for extracting, as a telop image, an area displaying a telop in contents, detecting means for detecting a scene change in images of the contents, recording means for converting an image at the time when a scene change is detected by the detecting means to a thumbnail image and recording the thumbnail image, display control means for controlling to arrange and display a plurality of the thumbnail images and a plurality of the telop images chronologically, and playing means for playing the contents from the position corresponding to the selected thumbnail image or telop image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2007
    Publication date: July 3, 2008
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuo KUROIWA, Masachika Sasaki, Satoshi Fujimura, Hisashi Hosaka, Hiroshi Nagatani, Yuki Murata, Satoshi Akagawa, Shigeya Yasui, Yoshiyasu Kubota, Yukiko Sakata, Mitsuo Okumura, Masahide Sumiyoshi, Toshiaki Kusakabe, Masahiro Hara, Masanori Nomura, Satoshi Hiroi, Bin Rin