Patents by Inventor Yasutoshi Matsumura

Yasutoshi Matsumura 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).

  • Device and method for ordering process execution using process step tables
    Patent number: 8732710
    Abstract: An electronic device that exercises control over processes arbitrary in number for execution using a control program, including: storage means for forming each of the processes for execution by the electronic device with any of various combinations of a plurality of unit processes, creating, for each of the processes, the control program for use by the electronic device to execute the processes by a unit program for execution of the unit processes and a process step table in which an execution sequence of the unit programs is defined, storing the process step table for each of the processes, and storing the unit programs listed in each of the process step tables; and execution means for executing, in the defined execution sequence, when any predetermined one of the processes is directed, the unit programs defined in any of the process step tables stored corresponding to the directed process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Shimizu, Yasutoshi Matsumura
  • Electronic device, control method and control program
    Publication number: 20080040719
    Abstract: An electronic device that exercises control over processes arbitrary in number for execution using a control program, including: storage means for forming each of the processes for execution by the electronic device with any of various combinations of a plurality of unit processes, creating, for each of the processes, the control program for use by the electronic device to execute the processes by a unit program for execution of the unit processes and a process step table in which an execution sequence of the unit programs is defined, storing the process step table for each of the processes, and storing the unit programs listed in each of the process step tables; and execution means for executing, in the defined execution sequence, when any predetermined one of the processes is directed, the unit programs defined in any of the process step tables stored corresponding to the directed process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2007
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Shimizu, Yasutoshi Matsumura