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Ikuo Someya — 19 Patents

Sony: 14 patents #3,127 of 25,231Top 15%
NCNhk Spring Co.: 5 patents #150 of 1,116Top 15%
Tokyo, JP: #7,965 of 90,295 inventorsTop 9%
Overall (All Time): #229,345 of 4,157,543Top 6%
19 Patents All Time
Ikuo Someya has been granted 19 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sony. The first was granted in 1989 and the most recent in March 2017. Ikuo Someya ranks #229,345 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.5%). Patent records list Ikuo Someya in Tokyo, JP.

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Showing 1–19 of 19 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9608855 Time control apparatus, time control method, and program Toshihiko Hamamatsu, Toshiaki Kojima 2017-03-28 $381,000
7692899 Head suspension having wiring disposed in contact with slightly conductive flexible resin Hajime Arai, Ryuichi Kawatake, Tsukasa Higashi 2010-04-06
7643252 Head suspension having wiring disposed with conductive layer Hajime Arai 2010-01-05
7529432 Data processing apparatus, data processing method, program, and recording medium Shigeo Fujishiro 2009-05-05 $733,000
7432931 Apparatus and method for processing image signal and image display apparatus utilizing the same Koji Yamamura 2008-10-07 $513,000
7271842 Video signal processing circuit and method for converting number of scan lines and image display device using the same 2007-09-18 $1,336,000
7215377 Image signal processing apparatus and processing method Takaya Hoshino, Toshio Sarugaku, Makoto Kondo, Kazuhiko Nishibori, Koji Aoyama +3 more 2007-05-08 $1,172,000
7212686 Image processing apparatus Masahiro Komoda, Aya Takechi 2007-05-01 $1,058,000
7119846 Video signal processing circuit and method for converting number of scan lines and image display device using the same 2006-10-10 $740,000
7092215 Disc drive suspension including a wired flexure with conductors arranged to reduce crosstalk Ichiro Takadera, Hajime Arai 2006-08-15 $43,000
6963471 Wiring member of a disc drive suspension having an insulating layer with thick-walled and thin-walled portions Hajime Arai 2005-11-08 $59,000
6947094 Image signal processing apparatus and method Takaya Hoshino, Toshio Sarugaku, Makoto Kondo, Nobuo Ueki, Masuyoshi Kurokawa +3 more 2005-09-20 $434,000
6927800 Video signal processing circuit and method for converting number of scan lines and image display device using the same 2005-08-09 $577,000
6807029 Wiring member of suspension for disc drive having electrically conductive substrate with slit between read wire and write wire 2004-10-19
6466269 Video signal converter, conversion method of video signal, image display unit using them and television receiver Akira Shimizu, Nobuo Ueki 2002-10-15 $555,000
5252932 Waveform equalizing filter unit Masahiro Komoda 1993-10-12 $85,000
5150207 Video signal transmitting system 1992-09-22 $179,000
5148270 Television signal receiving apparatus 1992-09-15 $92,000
4821102 Video display system with selective display of operating conditions Norihito Ichikawa, Osamu Oda, Toshio Amano 1989-04-11 $152,000