Patents by Inventor Yasushi Shikata
Yasushi Shikata 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: 8731376Abstract: A recorder control apparatus which controls execution of broadcast program recording in a plurality of recorders connected thereto, comprises an acceptance unit configured to accept a request to execute broadcast program recording, an acquisition unit configured to acquire, from each recorder, reservation information related to reserved program recording to be executed by the recorder after a point at which the execution request is accepted, a selection unit configured to select, from the plurality of recorders, a recorder capable of executing broadcast program recording corresponding to the execution request for a longest duration, based on the reservation information, and a request unit configured to request the recorder selected by the selection unit to execute broadcast program recording corresponding to the execution request.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2008Date of Patent: May 20, 2014Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yasushi Shikata, Katsuhiro Miyamoto, Tomoyasu Yoshikawa, Teruki Kikkawa, Satoshi Hanamitsu, Tomoya Asanuma, Osamu Yonishi, Koji Mito
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Patent number: 8717503Abstract: In a television device (audio output device), audio output performance information of the television device is pre-stored in an EDID-ROM. When an AV amplifier is connected to the television device, a control unit rewrites “2ch” audio output performance information of the television device stored in the EDID-ROM of an HDMI port which is different from the HDMI port to which the AV amplifier is connected, to “5.1ch” audio output performance information of the AV amplifier.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2009Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Teruki Kikkawa, Michihiro Izumi, Yoshikazu Shibamiya, Yasushi Shikata, Hirofumi Urabe, Daisuke Takayanagi, Chika Masuda
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Patent number: 8687119Abstract: When a video output apparatus (100) is connected, a video display apparatus (200) obtains information of content data stored in the video output apparatus (100). Then, based on the obtained information, the video display apparatus (200) determines whether the content data is decodable with respect to itself. If it is not decodable, it requests the video output apparatus (100) to decode the content data before transferring the content data using a data transfer method specified. By doing this, an appropriate transfer protocol is selected automatically when transferring content data between the video display apparatus (200) and the video output apparatus (100).Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2012Date of Patent: April 1, 2014Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Teruki Kikkawa, Yoshikazu Shibamiya, Yasushi Shikata, Hirofumi Urabe, Daisuke Takayanagi, Chika Masuda
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Patent number: 8630499Abstract: When an image processing apparatus capable of connecting to a digital camera is to perform image-correction processing on irreversible-compression encoded image data acquired from the digital camera, it is determined whether the image-correction processing can be executed by the connected digital camera. When the processing can be executed, it is confirmed whether or not RAW data that corresponds to the irreversible-compression encoded image data is present in the digital camera. If the corresponding RAW data is present in the digital camera, the digital camera is requested to execute the image-correction processing based on the RAW data. This makes it possible to suppress degradation in the image quality more than when directly correcting an irreversible-compression encoded image.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2008Date of Patent: January 14, 2014Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yasushi Shikata, Teruki Kikkawa, Yoshikazu Shibamiya, Hirofumi Urabe, Daisuke Takayanagi, Chika Masuda
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Patent number: 8565587Abstract: A recording control apparatus is connected to and in communication with a recording apparatus capable of recording a broadcasting video image on a storage unit and has two or more operating state levels that differ in power consumption. The recording control apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire program information about a program currently being viewed, a determination unit configured to determine a user's recording tendency level as to a program currently being viewed based on the program information acquired by the acquisition unit, and a control unit configured to issue a command to control the operating state level of the recording apparatus based on the recording tendency level determined by the determination unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2008Date of Patent: October 22, 2013Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomoya Asanuma, Teruki Kikkawa, Tomoyasu Yoshikawa, Satoshi Hanamitsu, Osamu Yonishi, Yasushi Shikata, Koji Mito, Katsuhiro Miyamoto
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Patent number: 8446533Abstract: In an AV system in which a television apparatus and a recorder are individually connected to an AV amplifier through an HDMI, in the case where sound is output from the AV amplifier, if insertion of headphones into the television apparatus is detected, control information to switch the destination of the audio data is transmitted from the television apparatus to the AV amplifier. The AV amplifier switches the destination of the audio data that is input from the recorder from a speaker output section to the television apparatus in accordance with the control information. Thus, even if the headphones are inserted into the television apparatus while the AV amplifier is outputting sound reproduced by the recorder, the sound can be output from the headphones.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2009Date of Patent: May 21, 2013Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yasushi Shikata, Takashi Yamamoto, Tomoyasu Yoshikawa, Katsuhiro Ito, Tomoki Kuroda, Kiyohiro Uemura, Masaki Tamura, Masatsugu Sasaki, Kinshirou Suzawa
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Patent number: 8340499Abstract: To select a recording device for recording a program in a digital television receiver to which a plurality of recorders (recording devices) are connected, control is performed to acquire image quality information about the program to be recorded and to compare the program image quality to be recorded with the recording image quality of a recording medium for each connected recording device. Based on the result of this comparison, a recorder is selected that can secondarily record the program onto a recording medium without compromising the program image quality.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2008Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Teruki Kikkawa, Yasushi Shikata, Tomoya Asanuma, Tomoyasu Yoshikawa, Osamu Yonishi, Satoshi Hanamitsu, Koji Mito, Katsuhiro Miyamoto
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Publication number: 20120218469Abstract: When a video output apparatus (100) is connected, a video display apparatus (200) obtains information of content data stored in the video output apparatus (100). Then, based on the obtained information, the video display apparatus (200) determines whether the content data is decodable with respect to itself. If it is not decodable, it requests the video output apparatus (100) to decode the content data before transferring the content data using a data transfer method specified. By doing this, an appropriate transfer protocol is selected automatically when transferring content data between the video display apparatus (200) and the video output apparatus (100).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2012Publication date: August 30, 2012Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Teruki Kikkawa, Yoshikazu Shibamiya, Yasushi Shikata, Hirofumi Urabe, Daisuke Takayanagi, Chika Masuda
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Patent number: 8255579Abstract: A device control apparatus in a video image display system including a plurality of connected devices. The apparatus includes an obtaining unit which obtains a logical address of a first device connected to the device control apparatus as a control object, a specifying unit which specifies the device type of the first device if the obtained logical address of the first device is not a logical address according to the device type, a selection unit which selects a second device which is connected to the device control apparatus and is of the same device type as the first device, and a control unit which controls a logical address assigned to the selected second device according to the device type thereof so that the first device obtains a logical address.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2009Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Teruki Kikkawa, Michihiro Izumi, Yoshikazu Shibamiya, Yasushi Shikata, Hirofumi Urabe, Daisuke Takayanagi, Chika Masuda
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Patent number: 8208070Abstract: When a video output apparatus (100) is connected, a video display apparatus (200) obtains information of content data stored in the video output apparatus (100). Then, based on the obtained information, the video display apparatus (200) determines whether the content data is decodable with respect to itself. If it is not decodable, it requests the video output apparatus (100) to decode the content data before transferring the content data using a data transfer method specified. By doing this, an appropriate transfer protocol is selected automatically when transferring content data between the video display apparatus (200) and the video output apparatus (100).Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2009Date of Patent: June 26, 2012Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Teruki Kikkawa, Yoshikazu Shibamiya, Yasushi Shikata, Hirofumi Urabe, Daisuke Takayanagi, Chika Masuda
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Patent number: 8074249Abstract: If there are program-related associated Web pages, a TV receiver 1000 acquires the content information of the associated Web pages from a Web server 2000 and stores it in a Web page storage unit 1006. The correspondence between the stored content information and recorded program is stored in a correspondence information holding unit 1005. The data of the program is outputted to a TV program recorder 3000, where it is recorded. The user can configure the timing, at which the storage of the associated Web pages is carried out.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2007Date of Patent: December 6, 2011Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yasushi Shikata, Yoshikazu Shibamiya, Kazuna Maruyama, Kazuhiro Matsubayashi, Koji Mito, Hirofumi Urabe
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Publication number: 20110066759Abstract: A device control apparatus in a video image display system including a plurality of connected devices. The apparatus includes an obtaining unit which obtains a logical address of a first device connected to the device control apparatus as a control object, a specifying unit which specifies the device type of the first device if the obtained logical address of the first device is not a logical address according to the device type, a selection unit which selects a second device which is connected to the device control apparatus and is of the same device type as the first device, and a control unit which controls a logical address assigned to the selected second device according to the device type thereof so that the first device obtains a logical address.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2009Publication date: March 17, 2011Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Teruki Kikkawa, Michihiro Izumi, Yoshikazu Shibamiya, Yasushi Shikata, Hirofumi Urabe, Daisuke Takayanagi, Chika Masuda
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Patent number: 7890973Abstract: An information processing apparatus which, in addition to displaying an electronic program guide in a display screen, uses URL information in order to display web pages when there is URL information associated with the programs displayed in the electronic program guide. Program information and the URL information concerning associated web pages are stored in correlated form and a determination is made, for instance, as to whether any URL information is associated with an in-focus program in the electronic program guide. If there is associated URL information, the URL information is used to display a web page. If the web page is switched, a determination is made as to whether there is a program associated with the web page obtained as a result of the switch and, if there is an associated program, the focus is changed to that program.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2007Date of Patent: February 15, 2011Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hirofumi Urabe, Yoshikazu Shibamiya, Kazuhiro Matsubayashi, Kazuna Maruyama, Yasushi Shikata, Koji Mito
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Patent number: 7831987Abstract: A program selecting method includes the steps of: storing still pictures or motion pictures of specific scenes of a plurality of viewed programs selected in a predetermined period; presenting the pictures of the specific scenes corresponding to a plurality of programs viewed in the past, during operation of program selection; and selecting the viewed program corresponding to the picture selected by operation of selecting the pictures presented.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2004Date of Patent: November 9, 2010Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yasushi Shikata, Kazuna Maruyama
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Patent number: 7818675Abstract: In a web information processing apparatus (100), a web page information acquisition unit (106) acquires information of a web page being browsed with a web browser (103). Then, an association determination unit (202) determines whether or not that web page is stored in an associated web page information holding unit (109). If it is so stored, then a program search unit (203) searches for an associated program and notifies the existence of an associated program to a user through an associated-program notification unit (204).Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2007Date of Patent: October 19, 2010Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazuna Maruyama, Koji Mito, Yoshikazu Shibamiya, Hirofumi Urabe, Kazuhiro Matsubayashi, Yasushi Shikata
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Patent number: 7756916Abstract: A display method comprises the steps of: searching, from a group of information including information associated with a plurality of programs, information corresponding to information obtained by extracting, using at least one of databases including: databases for a name of person, an attribute name of person, a name of thing and an attribute name of thing; databases for a name of place, an attribute name of place, a name of event, an attribute name of event; and databases into which a part or all of the databases is integrated, at least one of the information which can be identified in the database being used, from a group of information associated with a selected program; and displaying information on a program associated with the searched information.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2006Date of Patent: July 13, 2010Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yasushi Shikata, Kazuna Maruyama
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Publication number: 20100141845Abstract: In a television device (audio output device), audio output performance information of the television device is pre-stored in an EDID-ROM. When an AV amplifier is connected to the television device, a control unit rewrites “2ch” audio output performance information of the television device stored in the EDID-ROM of an HDMI port which is different from the HDMI port to which the AV amplifier is connected, to “5.1ch” audio output performance information of the AV amplifier.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2009Publication date: June 10, 2010Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Teruki Kikkawa, Michihiro Izumi, Yoshikazu Shibamiya, Yasushi Shikata, Hirofumi Urabe, Daisuke Takayanagi, Chika Masuda
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Patent number: 7688390Abstract: There is provided a broadcast receiving apparatus having a broadcast receiving unit. The apparatus includes: an instruction receiving unit which receives a broadcasting type selection instruction or a channel number selection instruction, and a control unit which, when the instruction receiving unit receives the broadcasting type selection instruction, controls the broadcast receiving unit to receive a broadcast wave specified by a combination of a current channel number and a type of broadcasting corresponding to the received selection instruction if an elapsed time from latest reception of a channel number selection instruction is not more than a predetermined time, and receive a broadcast wave specified by a combination of a type of broadcasting corresponding to the received selection instruction and a default channel number associated with the type of broadcasting if the elapsed time from the latest reception of a channel number selection instruction is more than the predetermined time.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2007Date of Patent: March 30, 2010Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazuhiro Matsubayashi, Kazuna Maruyama, Yoshikazu Shibamiya, Osamu Yonishi, Yasushi Shikata, Koji Mito
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Publication number: 20100053471Abstract: In an AV system in which a television apparatus and a recorder are individually connected to an AV amplifier through an HDMI, in the case where sound is output from the AV amplifier, if insertion of headphones into the television apparatus is detected, control information to switch the destination of the audio data is transmitted from the television apparatus to the AV amplifier. The AV amplifier switches the destination of the audio data that is input from the recorder from a speaker output section to the television apparatus in accordance with the control information. Thus, even if the headphones are inserted into the television apparatus while the AV amplifier is outputting sound reproduced by the recorder, the sound can be output from the headphones.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2009Publication date: March 4, 2010Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasushi Shikata, Takashi Yamamoto, Tomoyasu Yoshikawa, Katsuhiro Ito, Tomoki Kuroda, Kiyohiro Uemura, Masaki Tamura, Masatsugu Sasaki, Kinshirou Suzawa
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Patent number: 7600244Abstract: This method facilitates an operation of selecting one program from among a plurality of programs, each having the substantially same content without placing burden on the user, and in particular, an operation of extracting an upward compatible program. The method retrieves a program scheduled to be broadcast having the same content as a pre-recorded program and extracts a difference between the pre-recorded program and the scheduled program and, in the event that the difference satisfies a predetermined criterion of determination, notifies the result to the user. When the difference is extracted, the method gives a plurality of meta data related to each program the order of priority based on information of user's taste and compares the meta data corresponding to each other and extracts an upward compatible program based on the order of priority and the comparison result.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2004Date of Patent: October 6, 2009Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazuna Maruyama, Yasushi Shikata