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Hidekazu Seto — 18 Patents

Sony: 13 patents #3,398 of 25,231Top 15%
Canon: 5 patents #9,300 of 19,416Top 50%
Tokyo, JP: #8,479 of 90,295 inventorsTop 10%
Overall (All Time): #245,716 of 4,157,543Top 6%
18 Patents All Time
Hidekazu Seto has been granted 18 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sony. The first was granted in 1993 and the most recent in October 2023. Hidekazu Seto ranks #245,716 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.9%). Patent records list Hidekazu Seto in Tokyo, JP.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1993 to 2023Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2000.peak 41993: 1 patents19931995: 1 patents1997: 1 patents19971999: 1 patents2000: 4 patents20002002: 1 patents2007: 1 patents20072009: 2 patents2010: 1 patents20102015: 1 patents2017: 1 patents20172020: 2 patents2023: 1 patents2023

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–18 of 18 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11797857 Image processing system, image processing method, and storage medium 2023-10-24
10733920 Image processing apparatus, method for controlling the same, and storage medium 2020-08-04 $22,000
10545649 Information processing apparatus, display control method for information processing apparatus, and storage medium 2020-01-28 $16,000
9600057 Information processing apparatus, information processing system, and method for controlling the same 2017-03-21 $25,000
9069542 Power consumption amount management system for managing power consumption amount, power consumption management method, and storage medium 2015-06-30 $33,000
7665100 Disk drive Takashi Aoyama, Kiyoshi Omori, Kiyoaki Tsuji 2010-02-16 $547,000
7627875 Disk drive Takashi Aoyama, Kiyoshi Omori, Kiyoaki Tsuji 2009-12-01 $479,000
7493631 Disc drive apparatus Kiyoshi Omori, Takashi Aoyama, Hitoshi Taniguchi 2009-02-17 $554,000
7200851 Disk drive Takashi Aoyama, Kiyoshi Omori, Takeshi KUNISHIMA 2007-04-03 $995,000
6449230 Optical disc drive apparatus 2002-09-10 $829,000
6122237 Disc drive apparatus with optical axis inclination adjustment based on a skew sensor and reference Kiyoshi Ohmori 2000-09-19 $2,805,000
6034939 Optical pickup device and optical disc reproducing apparatus including multiple objective lenses Takeharu Takasawa, Hiroyuki Ito, Shoji Sato, Junichi Suzuki 2000-03-07 $1,365,000
6021102 Disc drive apparatus for more than one type of disc Kenji Nagashima 2000-02-01 $1,360,000
6016301 Optical pickup device and optical disc reproducing apparatus Takeharu Takasawa, Hiroyuki Ito, Shoji Sato, Junichi Suzuki 2000-01-18 $2,412,000
5970035 Disc device that controls the incident angle of a light beam striking a disc Kiyoshi Ohmori 1999-10-19 $831,000
5623457 Photomagnetic disc drive system having a locking mechanism Sunao Aoki 1997-04-22 $216,000
5448537 Magnet-optical disc drive device with sure disc placement Nobuhiko Tsukahara, Takeshi Mizutani, Yasuaki Kano, Katsumi Maekawa 1995-09-05 $122,000
5191568 Disc drive apparatus with tracking control based on multiple reference tracks and with automatic seek time adjustment Takayasu Muto, Mamoru Osato, Junkichi Sugita, Masami Kashiwagi, Toru Tanaka 1993-03-02 $110,000