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Sony patents granted on 16 February 2010
Tuesday February 16th 2010, 9:51 am
Filed under: Patents, Sony

59 US patents granted on 16 February 2010 and assigned to Sony

1 D610,162 Disc player
2 D610,129 Earphone
3 7,665,100 Disk drive
4 7,664,953 Data processing device, method of same, and program of same
5 7,664,951 Transmitting apparatus for providing information by effective use of bands
6 7,664,922 Data transfer arbitration apparatus and data transfer arbitration method
7 7,664,912 Data recording apparatus, data recording method, and program
8 7,664,899 Communication system, communication apparatus, control method therefor, and computer program
9 7,664,863 Data transferring method
10 7,664,830 Method and system for utilizing embedded MPEG-7 content descriptions
11 7,664,718 Method and system for seed based clustering of categorical data using hierarchies
12 7,664,709 Method and system for securely distributing computer software products
13 7,664,569 Robot device operation control device and operation control method
14 7,664,538 Wireless communication device and control method for the device
15 7,664,476 Human body communication system and communication device
16 7,664,474 Portable electronic device and a method in a portable electronic device
17 7,664,389 System and method of photography using desirable feature recognition
18 7,664,384 User defined autofocus area
19 7,664,383 Multiple frame photography
20 7,664,376 Information signal processing apparatus and method, information signal processing system and method, and information signal playback apparatus and method
21 7,664,373 Program, data processing method, and system of same
22 7,664,342 Information processing system, information processing apparatus, and method
23 7,664,340 Imaging device
24 7,664,311 Component mounting board inspecting apparatus
25 7,664,256 Mobile terminal apparatus
26 7,664,208 Evaluating device, reproducing device, and evaluating method
27 7,664,205 Frequency-shift-keying demodulator and method of frequency-shift-keying
28 7,664,189 OFDM demodulator, receiver, and method
29 7,664,130 Wireless communication system, wireless communication apparatus, wireless communication method and computer program
30 7,664,030 Radio communication system, radio communication apparatus, radio communication method, and computer program
31 7,664,009 Pilot pattern design for a STTD scheme in an OFDM system
32 7,663,999 Disc drive apparatus and electronic appliance
33 7,663,998 Information reproduction device and read clock monitoring method
34 7,663,831 Reproduction device and method, recording medium, and program
35 7,663,825 Lens barrel device and image capture device
36 7,663,730 Heat radiator and display unit
37 7,663,714 Backlight device and color liquid crystal display apparatus
38 7,663,699 Television unit
39 7,663,689 Method and apparatus for optimizing capture device settings through depth information
40 7,663,669 Imaging apparatus including an XY-address-scanning imaging device, imaging method, and recording medium
41 7,663,642 Systems and methods for rendering a polygon in an image to be displayed
42 7,663,634 Drawing processing apparatus and drawing processing method for multipass rendering
43 7,663,604 Input device and electronic device using the input device
44 7,663,593 Level shift circuit and shift register and display device
45 7,663,569 Image display apparatus, image display system, and image display method
46 7,663,541 Method of tracking radio frequency signals
47 7,663,514 Encoding processing apparatus and decoding processing apparatus
48 7,663,509 Hand-held electronic equipment
49 7,663,440 Amplifier circuit, semiconductor device, and controlling method
50 7,663,362 Device and method for detecting deformation of the viscoelastic magnet
51 7,663,085 Optical sensor and method of selection of pixel of optical sensor
52 7,663,068 Switch dome device
53 7,662,446 Polarizing plate
54 7,661,964 Connecting parts and multilayer wiring board
55 7,661,893 Lens barrel
56 7,661,892 Image-capturing device, light adjustment mechanism, and light control blade
57 7,661,890 Imagine apparatus with rotatable lens barrel
58 7,661,601 Object, image data, image data transmission method, card, game mat, card game system, image analysis device, and image analysis method
59 7,661,215 Mounting structure for marking plate