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Yoichi Hirota — 23 Patents

Sony: 20 patents #2,052 of 25,231Top 9%
Dai Nippon Printing Co.: 2 patents #976 of 2,222Top 45%
SHSantec Holdings: 1 patents #18 of 32Top 60%
Overall (All Time): #178,160 of 4,157,543Top 5%
23 Patents All Time
Yoichi Hirota has been granted 23 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sony. The first was granted in 1997 and the most recent in March 2025. Yoichi Hirota ranks #178,160 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.3%). Patent records list Yoichi Hirota in Tokyo, CA, JP.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1997 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2019.peak 51997: 1 patents19972008: 1 patents2012: 3 patents20122013: 3 patents2014: 2 patents20142016: 2 patents2017: 3 patents20172018: 1 patents2019: 5 patents20192020: 1 patents2025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–23 of 23 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12250489 Information processing device and method for generating composite video Hisako Sugano 2025-03-11
10534428 Image processing device and image processing method, display device and display method, and image display system Mariko Sakuta 2020-01-14 $1,102,000
10453244 Multi-layer UV map based texture rendering for free-running FVV applications 2019-10-22 $632,000
10432902 Information processing device and information processing method 2019-10-01 $678,000
10324523 Rendering virtual images based on predicted head posture Yuki Yamamoto, Kenta Kawamoto 2019-06-18 $1,003,000
10319078 Image signal processing apparatus and image signal processing method to suppress color shift caused by lens distortion 2019-06-11 $480,000
10185389 Posture measuring device, posture measuring method, image processing device, image processing method, and image display system Naomasa Takahashi, Tetsuya Hayashi 2019-01-22 $637,000
9990032 Image processing for generating a display image based on orientation information and an angle of view Mariko Sakuta 2018-06-05 $747,000
9813697 Head mount display and display control method Masaaki Yamamoto, Masaomi Nabeta, Naomasa Takahashi, Yohsuke Kaji 2017-11-07 $557,000
9723280 Projection type image display device, image processing device and image processing method, and computer program Naoki Kobayashi, Naomasa Takahashi, Yohsuke Kaji, Noriyuki Yamashita, Masatoshi Nishino 2017-08-01 $436,000
9582073 Image processing device and image processing method, display device and display method, computer program, and image display system Mariko Sakuta 2017-02-28 $377,000
9489723 Image signal processing apparatus, image signal processing method and program to suppress color shift caused by lens distortion 2016-11-08 $478,000
9316831 Head mounted display and display control method Naomasa Takahashi, Yohsuke Kaji, Masaomi Nabeta, Hiroaki Itou 2016-04-19 $415,000
8780273 Signal processing apparatus, signal processing method, and program Kiyoshi Ikeda, Toshimichi Hamada 2014-07-15 $157,000
8665315 Signal processing device, reproducing device, signal processing method and program 2014-03-04 $295,000
8472742 Signal processing device, signal processing method, and program 2013-06-25 $178,000
8401322 Image recording device, image recording method and program Toshimichi Hamada, Masashi Ota, Kiyoshi Ikeda, Hiromasa Naganuma 2013-03-19 $155,000
8363167 Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and communication system Masashi Ota, Toshimichi Hamada, Kiyoshi Ikeda, Hiromasa Naganuma, Naomasa Takahashi 2013-01-29 $93,000
8208074 Information processing apparatus and method, computer program, and information processing system Chikara Mizuno, Jun Takeshita, Hiroaki Itou, Hidetoshi Yamaguchi 2012-06-26 $118,000
8187695 Shaping sheet, resin decorative material and method of producing the same Takashi Iizuka, Kenichi Tachihara 2012-05-29
8184179 Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program for combining still images Hiroshi Kobayashi 2012-05-22 $134,000
7450239 Optical pulse evaluation device and in-service optical pulse evaluation device Noboru Uehara, Yuichi Takushima, Yasuyuki Ozeki 2008-11-11
5656359 Decorative sheet Ichiro Kawahata, Takashi Matano 1997-08-12