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Hiroto Kimura — 25 Patents

Sony: 24 patents #1,630 of 25,231Top 7%
Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha: 1 patents #2,094 of 3,782Top 60%
Anjo, JP: #114 of 1,609 inventorsTop 8%
Overall (All Time): #158,593 of 4,157,543Top 4%
25 Patents All Time
Hiroto Kimura has been granted 25 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sony. The first was granted in 2005 and the most recent in July 2018. Hiroto Kimura ranks #158,593 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.8%). Patent records list Hiroto Kimura in Anjo, JP.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2005 to 2018Bar chart with a peak of 7 patents in 2011.peak 72005: 1 patents20052006: 1 patents20062007: 2 patents20072008: 3 patents20082009: 2 patents20092010: 4 patents20102011: 7 patents20112012: 3 patents20122013: 1 patents20132018: 1 patents2018

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 25 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10020667 Charging circuit for charging a capacitor Ryo Yoshioka 2018-07-10
8378894 Antenna device Masato Kikuchi, Shunsuke Mochizuki, Masahiro Yoshioka, Ryosuke Araki, Masaki Handa +4 more 2013-02-19 $113,000
8279979 Signal processing apparatus, signal processing method, and program Shunsuke Mochizuki, Takashi Nakanishi, Ryosuke Araki, Seiji Wada, Masahiro Yoshioka +2 more 2012-10-02 $76,000
8218093 Remote controller, image signal processing apparatus, and image signal processing method Tetsujiro Kondo, Yoshiaki Oikawa 2012-07-10 $76,000
8212707 Remote control system and remote control signal processing method Tsugihiko Haga, Masanori Machimura, Koichiro Tsuji, Toshiyuki Hino, Tetsujiro Kondo 2012-07-03 $71,000
8063830 Antenna device Masahiro Yoshioka, Masato Kikuchi, Shunsuke Mochizuki, Ryosuke Araki, Masaki Handa +4 more 2011-11-22 $116,000
7991078 Signal processing apparatus, signal processing method, and program Shunsuke Mochizuki, Takashi Nakanishi, Ryosuke Araki, Seiji Wada, Masahiro Yoshioka +2 more 2011-08-02 $192,000
7986797 Signal processing system, signal processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program Tetsujiro Kondo, Masaaki Hattori, Tsutomu Watanabe, Sakon Yamamoto, Akihiko Arimitsu 2011-07-26 $261,000
7975085 Signal processing device and control method, signal processing method, program, and signal processing system Masaaki Hattori, Tetsujiro Kondo, Hideo Nakaya, Nobuyuki Asakura, Toshihiko Hamamatsu +3 more 2011-07-05 $316,000
7961777 Signal processing apparatus, signal processing method, and program Takashi Nakanishi, Shunsuke Mochizuki, Masahiro Yoshioka, Ryosuke Araki, Seiji Wada +2 more 2011-06-14 $200,000
7936712 Signal processing apparatus, signal processing method, and program Ryosuke Araki, Takashi Nakanishi, Shunsuke Mochizuki, Masahiro Yoshioka, Seiji Wada +2 more 2011-05-03 $320,000
7912711 Method and apparatus for speech data Tetsujiro Kondo, Tsutomu Watanabe, Masaaki Hattori, Yasuhiro Fujimori 2011-03-22 $307,000
7697605 Signal transmitting/receiving system and method, signal transmitting apparatus and method, signal processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program for transmitting/receiving signals unaffected by other apparatuses Masanori Machimura, Masaaki Hattori, Ryosuke Araki, Tetsujiro Kondo, Takashi Tago +2 more 2010-04-13 $344,000
7688921 Transmitting apparatus and transmitting method, receiving apparatus and receiving method, transceiver apparatus, communication apparatus and method, recording medium, and program Tetsujiro Kondo, Tsutomu Watanabe, Masaaki Hattori, Gakuho Fukushi 2010-03-30 $599,000
7688922 Transmitting apparatus and transmitting method, receiving apparatus and receiving method, transceiver apparatus, communication apparatus and method, recording medium, and program Tetsujiro Kondo, Tsutomu Watanabe, Masaaki Hattori, Gakuho Fukushi 2010-03-30 $599,000
7668319 Signal processing system, signal processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program Tetsujiro Kondo, Masaaki Hattori, Tsutomu Watanabe, Sakon Yamamoto, Akihiko Arimitsu 2010-02-23 $613,000
7584008 Digital signal processing method, learning method, apparatuses for them, and program storage medium Tetsujiro Kondo, Tsutomu Watanabe 2009-09-01 $858,000
7515661 Transmission device, transmission method, reception device, reception method, transmission/reception device, communication method, recording medium, and program Tetsujiro Kondo, Tsutomu Watanabe, Masaaki Hattori, Gakuho Fukushi 2009-04-07 $694,000
7467083 Data processing apparatus Tetsujiro Kondo, Tsutomu Watanabe 2008-12-16 $701,000
7379878 Information encoding apparatus and method, information decoding apparatus and method, recording medium utilizing spectral switching for embedding additional information in an audio signal Tetsujiro Kondo, Gakuho Fukushi, Masaaki Hattori, Kazutaka Ando 2008-05-27 $1,123,000
7366660 Transmission apparatus, transmission method, reception apparatus, reception method, and transmission/reception apparatus Tetsujiro Kondo, Masaaki Hattori, Tsutomu Watanabe 2008-04-29 $901,000
7283961 High-quality speech synthesis device and method by classification and prediction processing of synthesized sound Tetsujiro Kondo, Tsutomu Watanabe, Masaaki Hattori, Yasuhiro Fujimori 2007-10-16 $932,000
7269559 Speech decoding apparatus and method using prediction and class taps Tetsujiro Kondo, Tsutomu Watanabe, Masaaki Hattori 2007-09-11 $993,000
6990475 Digital signal processing method, learning method, apparatus thereof and program storage medium Tetsujiro Kondo, Masaaki Hattori, Tsutomu Watanabe 2006-01-24 $866,000
6907413 Digital signal processing method, learning method, apparatuses for them, and program storage medium Tetsujiro Kondo, Masaaki Hattori, Tsutomu Watanabe 2005-06-14 $771,000