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Toru Nagara — 38 Patents

Sony: 38 patents #769 of 25,231Top 4%
Tokyo, JP: #3,119 of 90,295 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #84,675 of 4,157,543Top 3%
38 Patents All Time
Toru Nagara has been granted 38 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sony. The first was granted in 2000 and the most recent in November 2025. Toru Nagara ranks #84,675 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.0%). Patent records list Toru Nagara in Tokyo, JP.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 38 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12468397 Signal processing device, signal processing method, and signal processing system Hiroshi Imamura, Seishi Tomonaga, Takashi Takamatsu, Koji Nagata, Hironobu Takeuchi 2025-11-11
12249049 Image processing device, image processing method, and image presentation system Tetsuo Ikeda, Sachiko Nishide, Miyuki Shirakawa, Tomonari Murakami, Akio Suzuki +6 more 2025-03-11
12243331 Control device, projection system, control method, and program Takashi Takamatsu, Hiroshi Imamura, Seishi Tomonaga, Koji Nagata 2025-03-04
12054111 Projector control apparatus and projector control method Hiroshi Imamura, Takashi Takamatsu, Seishi Tomonaga, Koji Nagata 2024-08-06 $649,000
11314981 Information processing system, information processing method, and program for displaying assistance information for assisting in creation of a marker Tetsuo Ikeda, Hiroshi Imamura, Takayuki Sakamoto, Tomohiro Ishii 2022-04-26 $667,000
10936141 Information processing device and information processing method Keisuke Touyama, Kae Nagano, Tomohiro Ishii, Takatoshi Nakamura, Kozue Sasaki +2 more 2021-03-02 $2,255,000
10869081 Image processing device, image reproduction device, and image reproduction system Tomoya Yamaura 2020-12-15 $1,164,000
10503278 Information processing apparatus and information processing method that controls position of displayed object corresponding to a pointing object based on positional relationship between a user and a display region Nobuaki Kawai 2019-12-10 $716,000
10372405 Image generation device, program, image display system, and image display device Tomoya Yamaura, Kenji Fujisaka, Ban Kawamura 2019-08-06 $481,000
10085237 Information processing device, wireless communication system, and information processing method Masanori Inoue 2018-09-25 $1,457,000
10009646 Image processing device, image reproduction device, and image reproduction system Tomoya Yamaura 2018-06-26 $893,000
9641886 Image processing device, image reproduction device, and image reproduction system Tomoya Yamaura 2017-05-02 $482,000
9536280 Transmitting apparatus, receiving apparatus, transmitting method, receiving method, and transmitting and receiving system Hidekazu Kamimura, Haruhiko Yata, Futoshi Takeuchi, Kazuyoshi Maezawa 2017-01-03 $393,000
9094664 Image processing device, image processing method, and program Tomoya Yamaura 2015-07-28 $704,000
8973078 Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing program Kanahiro Shirota 2015-03-03 $349,000
8954594 Communication device, communication method and program Yoshihiro Kobayashi 2015-02-10 $362,000
8902968 Apparatus and method to accommodate changes in communication quality Futoshi Takeuchi, Akihiro Horii, Masanori Sato, Yuji Anami 2014-12-02 $217,000
8874895 Data transmitting apparatus, data receiving apparatus, data transmitting method, and data receiving method 2014-10-28 $158,000
8792394 Wireless communication apparatus, program, wireless communication method, and wireless communication system 2014-07-29 $187,000
8755817 Wireless communication device, program, and wireless communication method Tomoya Yamaura 2014-06-17 $200,000
8316241 Data transmitting apparatus, data receiving apparatus, data transmitting method, and data receiving method 2012-11-20 $102,000
8054725 Optical disk apparatus Yoshio Fukutomi 2011-11-08 $210,000
7590157 Laser noise elimination circuit and optical disc device Yoshio Fukutomi 2009-09-15 $911,000
7570562 Optical disk unit Yoshio Fukutomi 2009-08-04 $1,791,000
7372799 Laser diode drive circuit and amplifying circuit for optical disc recording and/or reproducing apparatus 2008-05-13 $933,000