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Norio Ebihara — 14 Patents

Sony: 14 patents #3,127 of 25,231Top 15%
Yokohama, JP: #7,549 of 49,234 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #332,869 of 4,157,543Top 9%
14 Patents All Time
Norio Ebihara has been granted 14 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sony. The first was granted in 1980 and the most recent in November 2002. Norio Ebihara ranks #332,869 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.0%). Patent records list Norio Ebihara in Yokohama, JP.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1980 to 2002Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2001.peak 31980: 1 patents19801987: 1 patents1989: 1 patents19891991: 1 patents1993: 1 patents19931994: 1 patents1996: 2 patents19961998: 1 patents1999: 1 patents19992001: 3 patents2002: 1 patents2002

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–14 of 14 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6483875 Picture signal processing apparatus Atsushi Hasebe, Satoshi Yoneya 2002-11-19 $535,000
6314576 Video and audio signal editing and transmitting apparatus and method of same Noboru Asamizuya, Yasumasa Kodama 2001-11-06 $360,000
6286143 Data transmission apparatus Noboru Asamizuya, Haruyuki Karibe, Yasumasa Kodama, Masaaki Kagawa 2001-09-04 $741,000
6233735 Near video-on-demand system and broadcasting method therefor 2001-05-15 $1,886,000
6003071 Image data transmission apparatus using time slots Noboru Asamizuya, Satoshi Yoneya, Yasumasa Kodama, Kenji Mori 1999-12-14 $1,023,000
5757415 On-demand data transmission by dividing input data into blocks and each block into sub-blocks such that the sub-blocks are re-arranged for storage to data storage means Noboru Asamizuya, Haruyuki Karibe, Yasumasa Kodama, Masaaki Kagawa 1998-05-26 $212,000
5585851 Video signal transmission apparatus and video system for transmitting video signals with lower bit rate Noboru Asamizuya, Yoshiyuki Sekine, Yasumasa Kodama 1996-12-17 $142,000
5557413 Image output apparatus Noboru Asamizuya, Nobuchika Momochi 1996-09-17 $142,000
5341178 Send-out convertors for a recording/reproducing system Masakatsu Kaburagi 1994-08-23 $273,000
5231512 Editing apparatus employing serial to parallel converters and parallel to serial converters to achieve a dimensional reduction of the apparatus Satoru Kusaka, Tsutomu Takamori, Tetsuro Kato, Masakatsu Kaburagi, Kiyoshi Inoue 1993-07-27 $150,000
5040149 Semiconductor memory with divided readout from storage Takayuki Sasaki, Hiroyuki Kita, Yoshihito Ohsawa 1991-08-13 $270,000
4864402 Video memory Takayuki Sasaki, Hiroyuki Kita, Yoshihito Ohsawa 1989-09-05 $190,000
4641202 Skip field color recording apparatus Yoshiyuki Nakamura, Tetsuro Kato 1987-02-03 $148,000
4242705 Noise reduction system for video signals 1980-12-30 $323,000