Patents by Inventor Toshimasa Miyoshi
Toshimasa Miyoshi 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).
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Patent number: 10027730Abstract: In response to a request, one of primary content data as a copyrighted work and incidental content data is received from a server. With a music editing and sharing application, the content data is used in a secondary usage fashion for editing in order to produce new incidental content data. The incidental content data is not the one that is produced by arranging directly the primary content data as an editing material but play control information for giving an instruction defining a play mode. The incidental content data is uploaded to an incidental content server.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2014Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Toshimasa Miyoshi, Hideo Nagasaka, Takashi Tominaga, Tadaaki Kimijima, Shigeru Inoue, Soichiro Atsumi, Mamoru Tokashiki
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Patent number: 9813471Abstract: In response to a request, one of primary content data as a copyrighted work and incidental content data is received from a server. With a music editing and sharing application, the content data is used in a secondary usage fashion for editing in order to produce new incidental content data. The incidental content data is not the one that is produced by arranging directly the primary content data as an editing material but play control information for giving an instruction defining a play mode. The incidental content data is uploaded to an incidental content server.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2014Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Toshimasa Miyoshi, Hideo Nagasaka, Takashi Tominaga, Tadaaki Kimijima, Shigeru Inoue, Soichiro Atsumi, Mamoru Tokashiki
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Patent number: 9319487Abstract: An information processing method of an information processing system including a client device functioning as a client and a server device functioning as a server which are capable of communication via a network, includes the steps of: at the server device, managing format identification information provided so as to be unique for each content data within the range of each data format, corresponding to the contents of each content; at the client device, causing execution of communication via network, for specifying a content, as to the server device; at the server device, transmitting, to the client device, format identification information correlated with a specified content in response to specification of a content via network from the client device; and at the client device, managing the received and obtained format identification information as corresponding to the specified content.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2014Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hideo Nagasaka, Shigeru Inoue, Takashi Tominaga, Yasushi Miyajima, Tadaaki Kimijima, Toshimasa Miyoshi, Mamoru Tokashiki, Soichiro Atsumi, Toru Sasaki
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Patent number: 9213724Abstract: An information processing terminal device includes: a communication unit; a primary content information acquiring unit for acquiring primary content information; a primary content information holding managing unit for holding and managing primary content information, in correlation with a unique primary content identifier; a subsidiary content information holding managing unit for obtaining subsidiary content information configured having at least playback control information and having a subsidiary content identifier corresponding to itself and an editing history identifier; an editing processing unit for executing editing processing with secondary usage of at least one of primary content information and subsidiary content information; a subsidiary content information creating unit for creating subsidiary content information; an editing history identifier managing unit for generating the editing history identifier; and a subsidiary content identifier managing unit for generating a subsidiary content identifiType: GrantFiled: January 17, 2013Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hideo Nagasaka, Tadaaki Kimijima, Mamoru Tokashiki, Toshimasa Miyoshi
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Publication number: 20150244789Abstract: An information processing system includes a terminal device and a server device. When recommending subsidiary contents, recommended contents are extracted at the server, and recommended content information is returned to the terminal device. At the terminal device, a recommendation order is set regarding the recommended contents which the recommended content information indicates, upon which the recommended contents are presented, such that recommended content extracting processing and recommendation order setting processing is dispersed among the server device and terminal device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2015Publication date: August 27, 2015Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Hideo Nagasaka, Nobuyuki Fujiwara, Tadaaki Kimijima, Toshimasa Miyoshi, Mamoru Tokashiki, Takashi Tominaga, Shigeru Inoue, Yasushi Miyajima
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Patent number: 8996412Abstract: An information processing system includes a terminal device and a server device. When recommending subsidiary contents, recommended contents are extracted at the server, and recommended content information is returned to the terminal device. At the terminal device, a recommendation order is set regarding the recommended contents which the recommended content information indicates, upon which the recommended contents are presented, such that recommended content extracting processing and recommendation order setting processing is dispersed among the server device and terminal device.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2009Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hideo Nagasaka, Nobuyuki Fujiwara, Tadaaki Kimijima, Toshimasa Miyoshi, Mamoru Tokashiki, Takashi Tominaga, Shigeru Inoue, Yasushi Miyajima
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Publication number: 20150066999Abstract: An information processing device includes: a storage management unit configured to store and manage content files; a metadata obtaining unit configured to obtain metadata of a recommendation source content; a content selecting unit configured to select, from content files managed by the storage management unit, recommended contents to be recommended to a recommendation-receiving user, based on metadata obtained by the metadata obtaining unit; an information obtaining unit configured to obtain held content information, which is information regarding held content files which a recommendation-receiving user is deemed to hold; and a recommendation order setting unit configured to set a recommendation order, regarding recommended contents selected by the content selecting unit, based on metadata added to held content files indicated by the held content information obtained by the information obtaining unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2014Publication date: March 5, 2015Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Hideo Nagasaka, Nobuyuki Fujiwara, Tadaaki Kimijima, Toshimasa Miyoshi, Mamoru Tokashiki, Takashi Tominaga, Shigeru Inoue, Yasushi Miyajima
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Patent number: 8959174Abstract: In response to a request, one of primary content data as a copyrighted work and incidental content data is received from a server. With a music editing and sharing application, the content data is used in a secondary usage fashion for editing in order to produce new incidental content data. The incidental content data is not the one that is produced by arranging directly the primary content data as an editing material but play control information for giving an instruction defining a play mode. The incidental content data is uploaded to an incidental content server.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2012Date of Patent: February 17, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Toshimasa Miyoshi, Hideo Nagasaka, Takashi Tominaga, Tadaaki Kimijima, Shigeru Inoue, Soichiro Atsumi, Mamoru Tokashiki
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Publication number: 20150006576Abstract: In response to a request, one of primary content data as a copyrighted work and incidental content data is received from a server. With a music editing and sharing application, the content data is used in a secondary usage fashion for editing in order to produce new incidental content data. The incidental content data is not the one that is produced by arranging directly the primary content data as an editing material but play control information for giving an instruction defining a play mode. The incidental content data is uploaded to an incidental content server.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2014Publication date: January 1, 2015Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Toshimasa Miyoshi, Hideo Nagasaka, Takashi Tominaga, Tadaaki Kimijima, Shigeru Inoue, Soichiro Atsumi
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Publication number: 20150006575Abstract: In response to a request, one of primary content data as a copyrighted work and incidental content data is received from a server. With a music editing and sharing application, the content data is used in a secondary usage fashion for editing in order to produce new incidental content data. The incidental content data is not the one that is produced by arranging directly the primary content data as an editing material but play control information for giving an instruction defining a play mode. The incidental content data is uploaded to an incidental content server.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2014Publication date: January 1, 2015Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Toshimasa Miyoshi, Hideo Nagasaka, Takashi Tominaga, Tadaaki Kimijima, Shigeru Inoue, Soichiro Atsumi, Mamoru Tokashiki
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Patent number: 8924404Abstract: An information processing device includes: a storage management unit configured to store and manage content files; a metadata obtaining unit configured to obtain metadata of a recommendation source content; a content selecting unit configured to select, from content files managed by the storage management unit, recommended contents to be recommended to a recommendation-receiving user, based on metadata obtained by the metadata obtaining unit; an information obtaining unit configured to obtain held content information, which is information regarding held content files which a recommendation-receiving user is deemed to hold; and a recommendation order setting unit configured to set a recommendation order, regarding recommended contents selected by the content selecting unit, based on metadata added to held content files indicated by the held content information obtained by the information obtaining unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2009Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hideo Nagasaka, Nobuyuki Fujiwara, Tadaaki Kimijima, Toshimasa Miyoshi, Mamoru Tokashiki, Takashi Tominaga, Shigeru Inoue, Yasushi Miyajima
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Publication number: 20140372562Abstract: An information processing method of an information processing system including a client device functioning as a client and a server device functioning as a server which are capable of communication via a network, includes the steps of: at the server device, managing format identification information provided so as to be unique for each content data within the range of each data format, corresponding to the contents of each content; at the client device, causing execution of communication via network, for specifying a content, as to the server device; at the server device, transmitting, to the client device, format identification information correlated with a specified content in response to specification of a content via network from the client device; and at the client device, managing the received and obtained format identification information as corresponding to the specified content.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2014Publication date: December 18, 2014Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Hideo Nagasaka, Shigeru Inoue, Takashi Tominaga, Yasushi Miyajima, Tadaaki Kimijima, Toshimasa Miyoshi, Mamoru Tokashiki, Soichiro Atsumi, Toru Sasaki
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Patent number: 8862781Abstract: An information processing method of an information processing system including a client device functioning as a client and a server device functioning as a server which are capable of communication via a network, includes the steps of: at the server device, managing format identification information provided so as to be unique for each content data within the range of each data format, corresponding to the contents of each content; at the client device, causing execution of communication via network, for specifying a content, as to the server device; at the server device, transmitting, to the client device, format identification information correlated with a specified content in response to specification of a content via network from the client device; and at the client device, managing the received and obtained format identification information as corresponding to the specified content.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2012Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hideo Nagasaka, Shigeru Inoue, Takashi Tominaga, Yasushi Miyajima, Tadaaki Kimijima, Toshimasa Miyoshi, Mamoru Tokashiki, Soichiro Atsumi, Toru Sasaki
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Patent number: 8438197Abstract: Incidental content as metadata contains one of primary content and usage editing material content information. The primary content has been used directly as an editing material in a secondary usage mode fashion in order to produce the incident content data and the usage editing material content information indicates the incidental content. A generation structure is recognized by back-tracking content serving as a parent by referencing usage editing material content starting with given incidental content, based on the usage editing material content information of each incidental content.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2008Date of Patent: May 7, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Toshimasa Miyoshi, Hideo Nagasaka, Takashi Tominaga, Tadaaki Kimijima, Shigeru Inoue, Soichiro Atsumi, Mamoru Tokashiki
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Patent number: 8402389Abstract: A content display method includes the steps of acquiring an icon image corresponding to a data content set composed of a plurality of data contents, generating a plurality of specific icons which are different from each other and correspond to the data contents, on the basis of the icon image and a predetermined generation rule, and displaying the specific icons on a display.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2008Date of Patent: March 19, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hideo Nagasaka, Mamoru Tokashiki, Toshimasa Miyoshi
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Patent number: 8386925Abstract: An information processing terminal device includes: a communication unit; a primary content information acquiring unit for acquiring primary content information; a primary content information holding managing unit for holding and managing primary content information, in correlation with a unique primary content identifier; a subsidiary content information holding managing unit for obtaining subsidiary content information configured having at least playback control information and having a subsidiary content identifier corresponding to itself and an editing history identifier; an editing processing unit for executing editing processing with secondary usage of at least one of primary content information and subsidiary content information; a subsidiary content information creating unit for creating subsidiary content information; an editing history identifier managing unit for generating the editing history identifier; and a subsidiary content identifier managing unit for generating a subsidiary content identifiType: GrantFiled: October 8, 2008Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hideo Nagasaka, Tadaaki Kimijima, Mamoru Tokashiki, Toshimasa Miyoshi
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Patent number: 8249427Abstract: A content playing device includes: an identifying unit to identify, with regard to subsidiary contents created by secondarily using contents as editing material and having playback control information instructing playback of actual content data of source editing material contents which are primary contents serving as source editing material, lacking primary contents which are the source editing material contents that are not included in held primary contents deemed to be held by a user; a sample content obtaining unit to externally obtain sample contents corresponding to the lacking primary contents; and a playback processing unit to execute, at the time of playing subsidiary contents following playback control information, playback signal processing for actual content data of held source editing material contents currently existing as the held primary contents regarding held source editing material contents, and playback signal processing for actual content data of corresponding sample contents regarding theType: GrantFiled: June 2, 2009Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hideo Nagasaka, Sho Murakoshi, Toshimasa Miyoshi, Tadaaki Kimijima
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Publication number: 20120185566Abstract: An information processing method of an information processing system including a client device functioning as a client and a server device functioning as a server which are capable of communication via a network, includes the steps of: at the server device, managing format identification information provided so as to be unique for each content data within the range of each data format, corresponding to the contents of each content; at the client device, causing execution of communication via network, for specifying a content, as to the server device; at the server device, transmitting, to the client device, format identification information correlated with a specified content in response to specification of a content via network from the client device; and at the client device, managing the received and obtained format identification information as corresponding to the specified content.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2012Publication date: July 19, 2012Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Hideo Nagasaka, Shigeru Inoue, Takashi Tominaga, Yasushi Miyajima, Tadaaki Kimijima, Toshimasa Miyoshi, Mamoru Tokashiki, Soichiro Atsumi, Toru Sasaki
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Publication number: 20120117191Abstract: In response to a request, one of primary content data as a copyrighted work and incidental content data is received from a server. With a music editing and sharing application, the content data is used in a secondary usage fashion for editing in order to produce new incidental content data. The incidental content data is not the one that is produced by arranging directly the primary content data as an editing material but play control information for giving an instruction defining a play mode. The incidental content data is uploaded to an incidental content server.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2012Publication date: May 10, 2012Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Toshimasa Miyoshi, Hideo Nagasaka, Takashi Tominaga, Tadaaki Kimijima, Shigeru Inoue, Soichiro Atsumi, Mamoru Tokashiki
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Patent number: 8176118Abstract: An information processing method of an information processing system including a client device functioning as a client and a server device functioning as a server which are capable of communication via a network, includes the steps of: at the server device, managing format identification information provided so as to be unique for each content data within the range of each data format, corresponding to the contents of each content; at the client device, causing execution of communication via network, for specifying a content, as to the server device; at the server device, transmitting, to the client device, format identification information correlated with a specified content in response to specification of a content via network from the client device; and at the client device, managing the received and obtained format identification information as corresponding to the specified content.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2008Date of Patent: May 8, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hideo Nagasaka, Shigeru Inoue, Takashi Tominaga, Yasushi Miyajima, Tadaaki Kimijima, Toshimasa Miyoshi, Mamoru Tokashiki, Soichiro Atsumi, Toru Sasaki