Patents by Inventor Yuki Shoji
Yuki Shoji 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: 10210139Abstract: An information processing device includes an acquisition unit that acquires a plurality of content information pieces; and a generation unit that generates a page in which the plurality of content information pieces are disposed in accordance with templates regarding configurations of information elements. Further, the generation unit generates the page in a manner that the plurality of content information pieces are lined up in one direction and the plurality of content information pieces lined up in the one direction are separated from each other by one or more diagonal lines to the one direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2014Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Yuki Shoji
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Patent number: 10198175Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprising a coordinate input unit for inputting coordinate data series, a recognition unit for recognizing a character based on the coordinate data series inputted, and a page/note management unit for managing a data aggregate of the character recognized as a page, receiving a search condition from a user, and managing one or more page aggregates hit by the condition as notes.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2013Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yuki Shoji, Yukiko Akiyama, Yoshinobu Endo
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Patent number: 10177821Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a first antenna, a second antenna with an orientation relative to the first antenna that is changeable around a predetermined axis, and a communication control unit that controls wireless communication based on electric field coupling between the first antenna and the second antenna. The first antenna includes a first electrode including a bored portion, where the predetermined axis passes through an inside of the bored portion. The first antenna also includes a second electrode located inside the bored portion The second antenna includes a third electrode that transmits an electric signal between the first electrode and the third electrode and a fourth electrode that transmits an electric signal between the second electrode and the fourth electrode.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2018Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yuki Shoji
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Publication number: 20180198491Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a first antenna, a second antenna with an orientation relative to the first antenna that is changeable around a predetermined axis, and a communication control unit that controls wireless communication based on electric field coupling between the first antenna and the second antenna. The first antenna includes a first electrode including a bored portion, where the predetermined axis passes through an inside of the bored portion. The first antenna also includes a second electrode located inside the bored portion The second antenna includes a third electrode that transmits an electric signal between the first electrode and the third electrode and a fourth electrode that transmits an electric signal between the second electrode and the fourth electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2018Publication date: July 12, 2018Inventor: Yuki Shoji
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Patent number: 9924218Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus communicable with a plurality of content viewing devices via a network, including a viewing information receiving unit for receiving viewing information of a user in the past, present, and future from each of the content viewing devices, a user viewing content management unit for managing a user viewing content DB based on the viewing information received from each of the content viewing devices and a program guide, the user viewing content DB associating, in a form of program guide, past, present, and future contents represented in the program guide and identification information of users who have viewed the past content, those who are viewing the present content, and those who will view the future content, and a viewing information transmitting unit for transmitting the extracted viewing information of another user to the requesting content viewing device.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2013Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yusuke Sakai, Tomohiro Tsunoda, Kazuto Mugura, Tomohiro Ishii, Yuki Shoji
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Publication number: 20180007441Abstract: An information processing apparatus that can communicate with plural content viewing apparatuses includes a group registering unit that registers users of the content viewing apparatuses in groups, a sharing-level setting unit that sets sharing level information representing an information sharing level among users belonging to an identical group, a viewing-information receiving unit that receives viewing information of the users, a user-viewing-content managing unit that manages a user viewing content database, a discriminating unit that discriminates, when a viewing information request of another user is received, the other users belonging to a group identical with a group to which the user of the content viewing apparatus at the request source belongs, an information extracting unit that extracts viewing information of the discriminated other users from the user viewing content database, and a viewing-information transmitting unit that transmits the viewing information to the content viewing apparatus at tType: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2017Publication date: January 4, 2018Inventors: Yusuke Sakai, Kazuto Mugura, Tomohiro Tsunoda, Tomohiro Ishii, Yuki Shoji
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Patent number: 9788066Abstract: An information processing apparatus that can communicate with plural content viewing apparatuses includes a group registering unit that registers users of the content viewing apparatuses in groups, a sharing-level setting unit that sets sharing level information representing an information sharing level among users belonging to an identical group, a viewing-information receiving unit that receives viewing information of the users, a user-viewing-content managing unit that manages a user viewing content database, a discriminating unit that discriminates, when a viewing information request of another user is received, the other users belonging to a group identical with a group to which the user of the content viewing apparatus at the request source belongs, an information extracting unit that extracts viewing information of the discriminated other users from the user viewing content database, and a viewing-information transmitting unit that transmits the viewing information to the content viewing apparatus at tType: GrantFiled: September 26, 2016Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yusuke Sakai, Kazuto Mugura, Tomohiro Tsunoda, Tomohiro Ishii, Yuki Shoji
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Patent number: 9565478Abstract: An information processing apparatus that can communicate with plural content viewing apparatuses includes a group registering unit that registers users of the content viewing apparatuses in groups, a sharing-level setting unit that sets sharing level information representing an information sharing level among users belonging to an identical group, a viewing-information receiving unit that receives viewing information of the users, a user-viewing-content managing unit that manages a user viewing content database, a discriminating unit that discriminates, when a viewing information request of another user is received, the other users belonging to a group identical with a group to which the user of the content viewing apparatus at the request source belongs, an information extracting unit that extracts viewing information of the discriminated other users from the user viewing content database, and a viewing-information transmitting unit that transmits the viewing information to the content viewing apparatus at tType: GrantFiled: November 3, 2015Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yusuke Sakai, Kazuto Mugura, Tomohiro Tsunoda, Tomohiro Ishii, Yuki Shoji
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Publication number: 20170013317Abstract: An information processing apparatus that can communicate with plural content viewing apparatuses includes a group registering unit that registers users of the content viewing apparatuses in groups, a sharing-level setting unit that sets sharing level information representing an information sharing level among users belonging to an identical group, a viewing-information receiving unit that receives viewing information of the users, a user-viewing-content managing unit that manages a user viewing content database, a discriminating unit that discriminates, when a viewing information request of another user is received, the other users belonging to a group identical with a group to which the user of the content viewing apparatus at the request source belongs, an information extracting unit that extracts viewing information of the discriminated other users from the user viewing content database, and a viewing-information transmitting unit that transmits the viewing information to the content viewing apparatus at tType: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2016Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventors: Yusuke Sakai, Kazuto Mugura, Tomohiro Tsunoda, Tomohiro Ishii, Yuki Shoji
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Publication number: 20160147714Abstract: [Object] To be able to easily recognize a boundary between a plurality of content information pieces. [Solution] Provided is an information processing device including: an acquisition unit that acquires a plurality of content information pieces; and a generation unit that generates a page in which the plurality of content information pieces are disposed in accordance with templates regarding configurations of information elements. The generation unit generates the page in a manner that the plurality of content information pieces are lined up in one direction and the plurality of content information pieces lined up in the one direction are separated from each other by one or more diagonal lines to the one direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2014Publication date: May 26, 2016Inventor: YUKI SHOJI
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Publication number: 20160080818Abstract: An information processing apparatus that can communicate with plural content viewing apparatuses includes a group registering unit that registers users of the content viewing apparatuses in groups, a sharing-level setting unit that sets sharing level information representing an information sharing level among users belonging to an identical group, a viewing-information receiving unit that receives viewing information of the users, a user-viewing-content managing unit that manages a user viewing content database, a discriminating unit that discriminates, when a viewing information request of another user is received, the other users belonging to a group identical with a group to which the user of the content viewing apparatus at the request source belongs, an information extracting unit that extracts viewing information of the discriminated other users from the user viewing content database, and a viewing-information transmitting unit that transmits the viewing information to the content viewing apparatus at tType: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2015Publication date: March 17, 2016Inventors: Yusuke SAKAI, Kazuto Mugura, Tomohiro Tsunoda, Tomohiro Ishii, Yuki Shoji
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Patent number: 9197935Abstract: An information processing apparatus that can communicate with plural content viewing apparatuses includes a group registering unit that registers users of the content viewing apparatuses in groups, a sharing-level setting unit that sets sharing level information representing an information sharing level among users belonging to an identical group, a viewing-information receiving unit that receives viewing information of the users, a user-viewing-content managing unit that manages a user viewing content database, a discriminating unit that discriminates, when a viewing information request of another user is received, the other users belonging to a group identical with a group to which the user of the content viewing apparatus at the request source belongs, an information extracting unit that extracts viewing information of the discriminated other users from the user viewing content database, and a viewing-information transmitting unit that transmits the viewing information to the content viewing apparatus at tType: GrantFiled: January 10, 2013Date of Patent: November 24, 2015Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yusuke Sakai, Kazuto Mugura, Tomohiro Tsunoda, Tomohiro Ishii, Yuki Shoji
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Patent number: 9143830Abstract: An information processing apparatus that can communicate with plural content viewing apparatuses includes a group registering unit that registers users of the content viewing apparatuses in groups, a sharing-level setting unit that sets sharing level information representing an information sharing level among users belonging to an identical group, a viewing-information receiving unit that receives viewing information of the users, a user-viewing-content managing unit that manages a user viewing content database, a discriminating unit that discriminates, when a viewing information request of another user is received, the other users belonging to a group identical with a group to which the user of the content viewing apparatus at the request source belongs, an information extracting unit that extracts viewing information of the discriminated other users from the user viewing content database, and a viewing-information transmitting unit that transmits the viewing information to the content viewing apparatus at tType: GrantFiled: October 19, 2012Date of Patent: September 22, 2015Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yusuke Sakai, Kazuto Mugura, Tomohiro Tsunoda, Tomohiro Ishii, Yuki Shoji
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Publication number: 20140380253Abstract: [Object] To improve operability of an information processing apparatus. [Solving Means] It includes a coordinate input unit for inputting coordinate data series; a recognition unit for recognizing a character based on the coordinate data series inputted; a page/note management unit for managing a data aggregate of the character recognized as a page, receiving a search condition from a user, and managing one or more page aggregates hit by the condition as notes.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2013Publication date: December 25, 2014Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yuki Shoji, Yukiko Akiyama, Yoshinobu Endo
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Publication number: 20140040740Abstract: Disclosed are an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program capable of easily classifying contents as a processing target in reproduction and the like. For example, a screen is displayed by arranging a (thumbnail of a) cover art as a symbol image serving as a symbol representing a content such as a song on a 2-dimensional plane, and a carpet area which is a band-shaped area having a width extending, for example, in an x-direction as a direction perpendicular to a predetermined axis of the 2-dimensional plane is displayed. The content whose symbol image is included in the carpet area is regarded as a processing target in a predetermined process. The present technology may be applied to, for example, a case where a song to be registered in a playlist is classified from contents such as songs.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2012Publication date: February 6, 2014Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Tamaki Asano, Takayuki Kori, Yuki Shoji
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Patent number: 8438598Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus communicable with a plurality of content viewing devices via a network, including a viewing information receiving unit for receiving viewing information of a user in the past, present, and future from each of the content viewing devices, a user viewing content management unit for managing a user viewing content DB based on the viewing information received from each of the content viewing devices and a program guide, the user viewing content DB associating, in a form of program guide, past, present, and future contents represented in the program guide and identification information of users who have viewed the past content, those who are viewing the present content, and those who will view the future content, and a viewing information transmitting unit for transmitting the extracted viewing information of another user to the requesting content viewing device.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2008Date of Patent: May 7, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yusuke Sakai, Tomohiro Tsunoda, Kazuto Mugura, Tomohiro Ishii, Yuki Shoji
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Patent number: 8307389Abstract: An information processing apparatus that can communicate with plural content viewing apparatuses includes a group registering unit that registers users of the content viewing apparatuses in groups, a sharing-level setting unit that sets sharing level information representing an information sharing level among users belonging to an identical group, a viewing-information receiving unit that receives viewing information of the users, a user-viewing-content managing unit that manages a user viewing content database, a discriminating unit that discriminates, when a viewing information request of another user is received, the other users belonging to a group identical with a group to which the user of the content viewing apparatus at the request source belongs, an information extracting unit that extracts viewing information of the discriminated other users from the user viewing content database, and a viewing-information transmitting unit that transmits the viewing information to the content viewing apparatus at tType: GrantFiled: November 13, 2008Date of Patent: November 6, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yusuke Sakai, Kazuto Mugura, Tomohiro Tsunoda, Tomohiro Ishii, Yuki Shoji
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Publication number: 20090133071Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus communicable with a plurality of content viewing devices via a network, including a viewing information receiving unit for receiving viewing information of a user in the past, present, and future from each of the content viewing devices, a user viewing content management unit for managing a user viewing content DB based on the viewing information received from each of the content viewing devices and a program guide, the user viewing content DB associating, in a form of program guide, past, present, and future contents represented in the program guide and identification information of users who have viewed the past content, those who are viewing the present content, and those who will view the future content, and a viewing information transmitting unit for transmitting the extracted viewing information of another user to the requesting content viewing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2008Publication date: May 21, 2009Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Yusuke Sakai, Tomohiro Tsunoda, Kazuto Mugura, Tomohiro Ishii, Yuki Shoji
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Patent number: D750118Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2013Date of Patent: February 23, 2016Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yuki Shoji, Satoshi Asai, Shinichi Iriya
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Patent number: D786930Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2014Date of Patent: May 16, 2017Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Mitsuo Okumura, Katsuji Miyazawa, Tomohiro Ishii, Shingo Kurokawa, Yuki Shoji, Osamu Sakurai, Makoto Niijima, Taku Sugawara, Sanae Hirai