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Yoshio Osakabe — 41 Patents

Sony: 41 patents #678 of 25,231Top 3%
Sumitomo Electric Industries: 2 patents #9,741 of 21,551Top 50%
Overall (All Time): #76,780 of 4,157,543Top 2%
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Showing 26–41 of 41 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
5768224 AV system and method of establishing a connection setting for AV component devices Shigeo Tanaka, Hiroshi Yamazaki, Noriko Kotabe, Kouichi Sugiyama, Makoto Sato +2 more 1998-06-16
5712738 Method of controlling signal lines among audio and/or video apparatus Noriko Kotabe, Yasuo Kusagaya, Shigeo Tanaka, Akira Katsuyama, Hiroshi Yamazaki +2 more 1998-01-27
5666363 Method for transmission, method for reception, method for communication and bidirectional bus system Hiroshi Yamazaki, Yasuo Kusagaya, Noriko Kotabe, Koji Iwamoto, Yoko Souma +2 more 1997-09-09
5608730 Bi-directional communication system Shigeo Tanaka, Akira Katsuyama, Hiroshi Yamazaki, Yasuo Kusagaya, Noriko Kotabe +2 more 1997-03-04
5598278 System configuration method for audio-video apparatus with digital bus interface Shigeo Tanaka, Hiroshi Yamazaki, Noriko Kotabe, Kouichi Sugiyama, Makoto Sato +2 more 1997-01-28
5550826 Communication protocol for communicating image data Shigeo Tanaka, Hiroshi Yamazaki, Noriko Kotabe, Koji Iwamoto, Yoko Souma +2 more 1996-08-27
5550979 Audio video system Shigeo Tanaka, Hiroshi Yamazaki, Noriko Kotabe, Kouichi Sugiyama, Makoto Sato +2 more 1996-08-27
5548725 System for transmitting command and/or data in a single packet and automatically reporting status a predetermined time after receiving a command Shigeo Tanaka, Hiroshi Yamazaki, Noriko Kotabe, Koichi Sugiyama, Makoto Sato +2 more 1996-08-20
5488357 Remote controlling method and system feature starting method and controlling method for audio/visual system Makoto Sato, Hiroshi Yamazaki, Noriko Kotabe, Yasuo Kusagaya, Shigeo Tanaka +2 more 1996-01-30
5448562 Bi-directional bus system and transmitting, receiving, and communication methods for same Shigeo Tanaka, Akira Katsuyama, Hiroshi Yamazaki, Yasuo Kusagaya, Noriko Kotabe +2 more 1995-09-05
5402419 Transmitting method, receiving method, and communication method for bi-directional bus system, and bi-directional bus system Shigeo Tanaka, Akira Katsuyama, Hiroshi Yamazaki, Yasuo Kusagaya, Noriko Kotabe +2 more 1995-03-28
4989081 Home-bus-information system Masayuki Miyagawa, Takao Itabashi, Hisafumi Yamada 1991-01-29
4598287 Remote control apparatus Tadao Suzuki 1986-07-01
4392253 Phase locked loop circuit Takaaki Yamada, Yukio Tsuda 1983-07-05
4280199 Apparatus for scanning an addressable memory Hiroshi Yasuda 1981-07-21
4267603 Memory control circuit Hiroshi Yasuda 1981-05-12