Patents by Inventor Yoji Kawamoto

Yoji Kawamoto 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).

  • Patent number: 11549561
    Abstract: A disk rotor of a vehicle brake with improved efficiency in cooling the disk rotor by a synergy effect that comes from ensuring velocity of airflow flowing between cooling fins, ensuring surface areas of the cooling fins, and generating turbulent flow by second fins. A plurality of cooling fins each extending radially from an inner peripheral edge to an outer peripheral edge of a disk rotor are provided inside the disk rotor at intervals in the circumferential direction. Each of the plurality of the cooling fins includes a radial fin extending radially and a second fin spaced apart from the radial fin in the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoji Kawamoto, Natsumi Sato, Shunsaku Shibata, Tomoki Nakayama, Shoji Goto, Yuki Ikawa, Kentaro Ota
  • Publication number: 20210108689
    Abstract: A disk rotor of a vehicle brake with improved efficiency in cooling the disk rotor by a synergy effect that comes from ensuring velocity of airflow flowing between cooling fins, ensuring surface areas of the cooling fins, and generating turbulent flow by second fins. A plurality of cooling fins each extending radially from an inner peripheral edge to an outer peripheral edge of a disk rotor are provided inside the disk rotor at intervals in the circumferential direction. Each of the plurality of the cooling fins includes a radial fin extending radially and a second fin spaced apart from the radial fin in the radial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoji KAWAMOTO, Natsumi SATO, Shunsaku SHIBATA, Tomoki NAKAYAMA, Shoji GOTO, Yuki IKAWA, Kentaro OTA
  • Publication number: 20160261710
    Abstract: A user information processing method including receiving use history information from a plurality of terminals associated with a same user, the use history information being stored in each terminal; storing the use history information; generating updated user profile information based on the use history information and past user profile information; selecting suitable content based on the updated user profile information; and transmitting the selected content to one of the terminals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Publication date: September 8, 2016
    Inventors: Yoji Kawamoto, lsao Hidaka, Tomohiro Tsunoda
  • Patent number: 9088374
    Abstract: When a user gets interested in some music he/she listens to somewhere, for example, in a coffee shop, the user records that music in a memory provided in a portable terminal. A processor reads the information recorded in the memory and performs a predetermined process on it. The resultant information is stored on a storage device. The information stored on the storage device is then transferred to a remote server via a communication device. The remote server searches the database for the title of the music corresponding to the received information and returns the results to the terminal. Thus, the user can easily get information about the title of the music.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: MobileMedia Ideas LLC
    Inventor: Yoji Kawamoto
  • Patent number: 8996063
    Abstract: When a user gets interested in some music he/she listens to somewhere, for example, in a coffee shop, the user records that music in a memory provided in a portable terminal. A processor reads the information recorded in the memory and performs a predetermined process on it. The resultant information is stored on a storage device. The information stored on the storage device is then transferred to a remote server via a communication device. The remote server searches the database for the title of the music corresponding to the received information and returns the results to the terminal. Thus, the user can easily get information about the title of the music.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: MobileMedia Ideas LLC
    Inventor: Yoji Kawamoto
  • Publication number: 20150087225
    Abstract: When a user gets interested in some music he/she listens to somewhere, for example, in a coffee shop, the user records that music in a memory provided in a portable terminal. A processor reads the information recorded in the memory and performs a predetermined process on it. The resultant information is stored on a storage device. The information stored on the storage device is then transferred to a remote server via a communication device. The remote server searches the database for the title of the music corresponding to the received information and returns the results to the terminal. Thus, the user can easily get information about the title of the music.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventor: Yoji KAWAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20140047032
    Abstract: A user information processing method, an apparatus thereof and a user information processing system in which personal information can be more effectively employed. Terminal use record information is obtained when a user employs terminal units. The profile information of the user is generated on the basis of the accumulated terminal use record information and the generated profile information is stored, so that information peculiar to the user can be provided on the basis of the stored profile information of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2013
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoji Kawamoto, Isao Hidaka, Tomohiro Tsunoda
  • Patent number: 8595350
    Abstract: A user information processing method, an apparatus thereof and a user information processing system in which personal information can be more effectively employed. Terminal use record information is obtained when a user employs terminal units. The profile information of the user is generated on the basis of the accumulated terminal use record information and the generated profile information is stored, so that information peculiar to the user can be provided on the basis of the stored profile information of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoji Kawamoto, Isao Hidaka, Tomohiro Tsunoda
  • Patent number: 8544108
    Abstract: To provide a copyright protection storage medium in which copyright protected contents are recorded by an information recording apparatus connected to a content server providing copyright protected contents and a license server handling licenses concerning recording/playback of the copyright protected contents through a network, in which the copyright protected contents are written by a simple copy-and-paste when the information recording apparatus is possessed by a prescribed user, and the copyright protected contents are written by combining a domain model which assures playback in the apparatus and a media-bind model when the information recording apparatus is possessed by another user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoji Kawamoto, Norifumi Goto, Ryuji Ishiguro
  • Publication number: 20130244567
    Abstract: When a user gets interested in some music he/she listens to somewhere, for example, in a coffee shop, the user records that music in a memory provided in a portable terminal. A processor reads the information recorded in the memory and performs a predetermined process on it. The resultant information is stored on a storage device. The information stored on the storage device is then transferred to a remote server via a communication device. The remote server searches the database for the title of the music corresponding to the received information and returns the results to the terminal. Thus, the user can easily get information about the title of the music.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: MOBILEMEDIA IDEAS LLC
    Inventor: Yoji KAWAMOTO
  • Patent number: 8437800
    Abstract: When a user gets interested in some music he/she listens to somewhere, for example, in a coffee shop, the user records that music in a memory provided in a portable terminal. A processor reads the information recorded in the memory and performs a predetermined process on it. The resultant information is stored on a storage device. The information stored on the storage device is then transferred to a remote server via a communication device. The remote server searches the database for the title of the music corresponding to the received information and the singer's name, and returns the results to the terminal. Thus, the user can easily get information about the title of the music and the singer's name.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Mobilemedia Ideas LLC
    Inventor: Yoji Kawamoto
  • Patent number: 8396805
    Abstract: A management apparatus includes a registering unit configured to issue a first key corresponding to a first service in response to a request for registration with the first service from a first information processing apparatus; a storage unit configured to store an apparatus ID of the first information processing apparatus, the first key, and a second key corresponding to a second service while associating the apparatus ID, the first key, and the second key with each other; and a composite license issuing unit configured to issue a composite license including a first license and a second license, the first license including first encrypted data, which is a content key that is used to decrypt the encrypted content and that is encrypted with the first key, and the second license including second encrypted data, which is the content key that is encrypted with the second key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Seiichi Adachi, Yoji Kawamoto, Motomasa Futagami, Atsushi Nakamura, Mitsuhiro Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8301569
    Abstract: A content information providing system is disclosed which can protect the copyrights of contents while permitting users who do not purchase the contents to utilize the contents. A content information providing server includes a user information storage section for storing a user key unique to each user, a content key storage section for storing content keys unique to individual contents, a recommendation section for selecting a content to be recommended to the user, a content key encryption section for encrypting the selected content key with a user key of the user of a target of the recommendation, and a content information sender section for transmitting the encrypted content key to a content reproduction apparatus used by the user. The content reproduction apparatus includes a content information receiver section for receiving the content key, and a content key decryption section for decrypting the encrypted content key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoji Kawamoto, Yutaka Nagao, Seiichi Adachi, Atsushi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20120231725
    Abstract: When a user gets interested in some music he/she listens to somewhere, for example, in a coffee shop, the user records that music in a memory provided in a portable terminal. A processor reads the information recorded in the memory and performs a predetermined process on it. The resultant information is stored on a storage device. The information stored on the storage device is then transferred to a remote server via a communication device. The remote server searches the database for the title of the music corresponding to the received information and the singer's name, and returns the results to the terminal. Thus, the user can easily get information about the title of the music and the singer's name.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2012
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Inventor: Yoji Kawamoto
  • Patent number: 8239961
    Abstract: A method for monitoring time so that the use of protected content can be controlled includes receiving a trusted time value from a trusted authority external to a client device. When the client is no longer in communication with the trusted authority, the previously-received trusted time value is updated by use of the client's operating system counter so that a calculated trusted time value is derived for content license evaluation purposes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Marc E. Strohwig, Yoji Kawamoto, Motohiko Nagano, Pierre Chavanne, Norifumi Goto, Oscar H. Steele, III, Eric John Swenson
  • Patent number: 8190202
    Abstract: When a user gets interested in some music he/she listens to somewhere, for example, in a coffee shop, the user records that music in a memory provided in a portable terminal. A processor reads the information stored in the memory and performs a predetermined process on it. The resultant information is stored on a storage device. The information stored on the storage device is then transferred to a server via a communication device. The server searches the database for the title of the music corresponding to the received information, and returns the result to the terminal. Thus, the user can easily get information about the title of the music.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Mobilemedia Ideas LLC
    Inventor: Yoji Kawamoto
  • Patent number: 8161129
    Abstract: Information of a terminal equipment used by a user among the pieces of terminal equipment connected to a network is registered in prescribed registering means and a transmission path from the terminal equipment of a transmitter to the terminal equipment of a receiver is determined based on the registered information of the terminal equipment, so that the user can assuredly transmit the information to the terminal equipment of the receiver in the transmission path suitable for the information without any consciousness of the user. The information of the terminal equipment used by a user and the terminal equipment connected to the terminal equipment used by the user among the pieces of terminal equipment connected to the network is registered in prescribed registering means together with information for identifying the user as available environmental information, and provided information is transmitted to the terminal equipment specified by the registered available environmental information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoji Kawamoto, Hirofumi Kawamura, Motomasa Futagami, Motohiko Nagano
  • Patent number: 8103004
    Abstract: The present embodiments advantageously provide methods and systems for use in decrypting content, and in some preferred embodiments expanding a security environment to distribute the computational processing involved in decryption. In some embodiments, a method for use in decrypting content is provided that receives a first content key at a first system for the decryption of a first track of encrypted content; encrypts the first content key according to a first instance key known at the first system; communicates the first encrypted content key over an externally accessible communication link to a second system; generates the first instance key at the second system independent of the first system; decrypts the first encrypted content key using the generated first instance key at the second system; and decrypts the first track of encrypted content using the first unencrypted content key at the second system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Pierre Chavanne, Oscar Steele, Yoji Kawamoto, Eric Swenson
  • Patent number: 8042192
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, a recording medium, and a program for importing and exporting a content with information missing controlled. A CPU extracts a sound track contained in the content in step S301, and converts a format of the extracted sound track into a format compatible with a memory stick in step S302. The CPU generates a predetermined file from data contained in the content and excluding the sound track in step S304. In step S306, the CPU attaches reference information of the sound track to the file. In step S307, the CPU controls the writing of the sound track in the converted format and the file to the memory stick. The present invention is applied to clients of a DRM system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoji Kawamoto, Ryuji Ishiguro, Yuichi Ezura, Motohiko Nagano
  • Patent number: 7991431
    Abstract: When a user gets interested in some music he/she listens to somewhere, for example, in a coffee shop, the user records that music in a memory provided in a portable terminal. A processor reads the information stored in the memory and performs a predetermined process on it. The resultant information is stored on a storage device. The information stored on the storage device is then transferred to a server via a communication device. The server searches the database for the title of the music corresponding to the received information, and returns the result to the terminal. Thus, the user can easily get information about the title of the music.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: MobileMedia Ideas LLC
    Inventor: Yoji Kawamoto