Patents by Inventor Yosuke SAMURA

Yosuke SAMURA 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: 11356789
    Abstract: To enable channel setting to be performed easily and accurately to speakers. Thus, provided is a speaker system including: N number of speakers, the N being three or more; and a signal processing device capable of communicating with each speaker. The signal processing device performs processing of recognizing two arrangement reference speakers with reception of notification that a designation operation has been received from a user, from two speakers among the N number of speakers, and processing of acquiring distance information between each speaker. The signal processing device recognizes a relative-position relationship between the N number of speakers, with the two arrangement reference speakers and the distance information between each speaker. Then, the signal processing device automatically sets a channel to each speaker, on the basis of the relative-position relationship recognized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuya Tamaki, Yoshikazu Ohura, Kenji Yorimoto, Yosuke Samura
  • Patent number: 8631167
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus with a plurality of USB (universal serial bus) ports to which USB devices can be connected, includes: detection means for detecting the USB port of the plurality of USB ports to which the USB device that is in the course of data communication is connected; and first display control means for displaying on a display unit provided in a position corresponding to the detected USB port the fact that the USB device connected to the detected USB port is in the course of data communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yosuke Samura
  • Publication number: 20100180052
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus with a plurality of USB (universal serial bus) ports to which USB devices can be connected, includes: detection means for detecting the USB port of the plurality of USB ports to which the USB device that is in the course of data communication is connected; and first display control means for displaying on a display unit provided in a position corresponding to the detected USB port the fact that the USB device connected to the detected USB port is in the course of data communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2009
    Publication date: July 15, 2010
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yosuke SAMURA