Patents by Inventor Kazuhiro Akaike
Kazuhiro Akaike has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11659316Abstract: An acoustic device according to the present technology includes an operating portion and a control unit. The operating portion generates information for determining whether a state of an earphone portion is a wearing state in which the earphone portion is worn by the user, or a non-wearing state in which the earphone portion is not worn by the user. The control unit determines whether the earphone portion is in the wearing state or in the non-wearing state on the basis of output from the operating portion, and implements a function based on a result of the determination.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2019Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Kazuhiro Akaike
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Patent number: 11146875Abstract: It is intended to improve usability while securing functionality of a sound output device. There are provided: a neck band to be worn on a user's neck and having an insertion hole; a cable partially led out from the neck band; and an earphone connected to the cable. The cable can be drawn out from the neck band to both sides of the insertion hole, and a length of a portion on both sides of the insertion hole in the cable is changed by changing a position of an inserted portion of the cable in the insertion hole. Since a length of each portion of the cable positioned on both sides of the insertion hole is changed by changing a position of the inserted portion of the cable, it is possible to improve usability while securing functionality of the sound output device.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2018Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuhiro Akaike, Tetsu Sumii
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Publication number: 20210306732Abstract: An acoustic device according to the present technology includes an operating portion and a control unit. The operating portion generates information for determining whether a state of an earphone portion is a wearing state in which the earphone portion is worn by the user, or a non-wearing state in which the earphone portion is not worn by the user. The control unit determines whether the earphone portion is in the wearing state or in the non-wearing state on the basis of output from the operating portion, and implements a function based on a result of the determination.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2019Publication date: September 30, 2021Inventor: KAZUHIRO AKAIKE
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Publication number: 20200236457Abstract: An input device of an electronic apparatus including an input detection unit which is provided on the electronic apparatus at a position that is difficult to be seen by a user who uses the input device, and which detects an input operation of the user; a movement distance detection unit that detects a movement distance of an input position over the input detection unit; and an action control unit that controls a predetermined action of the electronic apparatus based on the movement distance detected by the movement distance detection unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2020Publication date: July 23, 2020Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Kazuhiro Akaike, Takahiro Muraguchi
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Patent number: 10645482Abstract: An input device of an electronic apparatus including an input detection unit which is provided on the electronic apparatus at a position that is difficult to be seen by a user who uses the input device, and which detects an input operation of the user; a movement distance detection unit that detects a movement distance of an input position over the input detection unit; and an action control unit that controls a predetermined action of the electronic apparatus based on the movement distance detected by the movement distance detection unit.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2019Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Kazuhiro Akaike, Takahiro Muraguchi
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Publication number: 20200120410Abstract: It is intended to improve usability while securing functionality of a sound output device. There are provided: a neck band to be worn on a user's neck and having an insertion hole; a cable partially led out from the neck band; and an earphone connected to the cable. The cable can be drawn out from the neck band to both sides of the insertion hole, and a length of a portion on both sides of the insertion hole in the cable is changed by changing a position of an inserted portion of the cable in the insertion hole. Since a length of each portion of the cable positioned on both sides of the insertion hole is changed by changing a position of the inserted portion of the cable, it is possible to improve usability while securing functionality of the sound output device.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2018Publication date: April 16, 2020Inventors: KAZUHIRO AKAIKE, TETSU SUMII
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Publication number: 20190253784Abstract: An input device of an electronic apparatus including an input detection unit which is provided on the electronic apparatus at a position that is difficult to be seen by a user who uses the input device, and which detects an input operation of the user; a movement distance detection unit that detects a movement distance of an input position over the input detection unit; and an action control unit that controls a predetermined action of the electronic apparatus based on the movement distance detected by the movement distance detection unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2019Publication date: August 15, 2019Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Kazuhiro Akaike, Takahiro Muraguchi
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Patent number: 10299026Abstract: An input device of an electronic apparatus including an input detection unit which is provided on the electronic apparatus at a position that is difficult to be seen by a user who uses the input device, and which detects an input operation of the user; a movement distance detection unit that detects a movement distance of an input position over the input detection unit; and an action control unit that controls a predetermined action of the electronic apparatus based on the movement distance detected by the movement distance detection unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2014Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Kazuhiro Akaike, Takahiro Muraguchi
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Publication number: 20190042084Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display section, a touch panel on the display surface of the section to allow the user to specify a desired position on the displayed image being displayed on the section by pressing a pointer against it, a display control section causes a plurality of indicators to be displayed on the section for allowing the user to select one of them via the panel and a notifier section notifies the user of the indicator selected from them. The notifier section notifying the user of the selection of a indicator when the indicator of them being displayed on the section is selected by pressing the pointer against the panel, and the control section is adapted to finalize the selection by the user of a indicator when the pointer selecting the indicator is moved away from the panel after selecting it by being pressed against the panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2018Publication date: February 7, 2019Inventors: Kazuhiro Akaike, Takeshi Hizume, Yukiko Onodera
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Publication number: 20140348341Abstract: An input device of an electronic apparatus including an input detection unit which is provided on the electronic apparatus at a position that is difficult to be seen by a user who uses the input device, and which detects an input operation of the user; a movement distance detection unit that detects a movement distance of an input position over the input detection unit; and an action control unit that controls a predetermined action of the electronic apparatus based on the movement distance detected by the movement distance detection unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2014Publication date: November 27, 2014Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Kazuhiro Akaike, Takahiro Muraguchi
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Patent number: 8842850Abstract: An input device of an electronic apparatus including an input detection unit which is provided on the electronic apparatus at a position that is difficult to be seen by a user who uses the input device, and which detects an input operation of the user; a movement distance detection unit that detects a movement distance of an input position over the input detection unit; and an action control unit that controls a predetermined action of the electronic apparatus based on the movement distance detected by the movement distance detection unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2011Date of Patent: September 23, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Kazuhiro Akaike, Takahiro Muraguchi
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Patent number: 8732582Abstract: A display control apparatus which realizes display capable of providing an overview of a group of thumbnail images and which includes an object controller (52a) for performing control to, when a viewer (52) allocates images to be displayed to a predetermined number of image-frame objects (52g), in the case where the number of the images to be allocated to the individual image-frame objects exceeds the number of the image-frame objects (52g), allocate a plurality of images to at least some of the image-frame objects (52g) and, when the plurality of images are allocated to each image-frame object (52g), display all the images to be displayed within a certain time by switching the images to be displayed at predetermined time intervals.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2008Date of Patent: May 20, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Kazuhiro Akaike, Atsushi Okada, Hideyuki Tanaka
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Publication number: 20120082321Abstract: An input device of an electronic apparatus including an input detection unit which is provided on the electronic apparatus at a position that is difficult to be seen by a user who uses the input device, and which detects an input operation of the user; a movement distance detection unit that detects a movement distance of an input position over the input detection unit; and an action control unit that controls a predetermined action of the electronic apparatus based on the movement distance detected by the movement distance detection unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2011Publication date: April 5, 2012Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Kazuhiro Akaike, Takahiro Muraguchi
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Publication number: 20090282340Abstract: A display control apparatus which realizes display capable of providing an overview of a group of thumbnail images and which includes an object controller (52a) for performing control to, when a viewer (52) allocates images to be displayed to a predetermined number of image-frame objects (52g), in the case where the number of the images to be allocated to the individual image-frame objects exceeds the number of the image-frame objects (52g), allocate a plurality of images to at least some of the image-frame objects (52g) and, when the plurality of images are allocated to each image-frame object (52g), display all the images to be displayed within a certain time by switching the images to be displayed at predetermined time intervals.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2008Publication date: November 12, 2009Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Kazuhiro Akaike, Atsushi Okada, Hideyuki Tanaka
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Publication number: 20080303801Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display section, a touch panel on the display surface of the section to allow the user to specify a desired position on the displayed image being displayed on the section by pressing a pointer against it, a display control section causes a plurality of indicators to be displayed on the section for allowing the user to select one of them via the panel and a notifier section notifies the user of the indicator selected from them. The notifier section notifying the user of the selection of a indicator when the indicator of them being displayed on the section is selected by pressing the pointer against the panel, and the control section is adapted to finalize the selection by the user of a indicator when the pointer selecting the indicator is moved away from the panel after selecting it by being pressed against the panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2008Publication date: December 11, 2008Inventors: Kazuhiro Akaike, Takeshi Hizume, Yukiko Onodera
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Publication number: 20070030256Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display section, a touch panel on the display surface of the section to allow the user to specify a desired position on the displayed image being displayed on the section by pressing a pointer against it, a display control section causes a plurality of indicators to be displayed on the section for allowing the user to select one of them via the panel and a notifier section notifies the user of the indicator selected from them. The notifier section notifying the user of the selection of a indicator when the indicator of them being displayed on the section is selected by pressing the pointer against the panel, and the control section is adapted to finalize the selection by the user of a indicator when the pointer selecting the indicator is moved away from the panel after selecting it by being pressed against the panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2006Publication date: February 8, 2007Inventors: Kazuhiro Akaike, Takeshi Hizume, Yukiko Onodera
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Patent number: 6462784Abstract: An apparatus for displaying the program contents and a method for displaying the program contents in which either the channel condition setting or the category setting can be easily carried out in one screen at any one of the present program table and the program table of specified period of time, wherein there are provided a display having a screen, a selector for selecting and displaying a present program table indicating a title of program being broadcast at present in program data supplied through a broadcasting wave and a program table for specified period of time to indicate a title of program to be broadcast within a predetermined period of time and further displaying the table in the screen of the display in such a way that the present program table and the program table for specified period of time may be provided with a channel condition setting section for sorting channels and a category setting section for sorting categories of programs.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 1999Date of Patent: October 8, 2002Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Tetsuya Kohno, Atsuko Deguchi, Kazuhiro Akaike, Satoshi Iino, Yukiko Machiyama
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Publication number: 20010014914Abstract: An information processing apparatus for processing information responsive to a broadcast program in a short duration of time. A viewer inputs information responsive to the broadcasting program presented on a display unit using an input module. The viewer may input the image and sound presented on the display unit to an information processing apparatus through an STB, and then process the image and sound by operating the input module 25. The information processing apparatus transmits the processed image or the data input through the input module 25 to a broadcasting station via the Internet any time convenient to the broadcasting station. The broadcasting station receives and gathers data from numerous viewers through a computing unit linked to the Internet.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 1999Publication date: August 16, 2001Inventors: YASUHIRO MURAMATSU, YURIKO KISHITAKA, YOSHIMOTO MURATSUBAKI, MASAYUKI MIYAGAWA, NAOKI KIGAWA, KAZUHIRO AKAIKE, MIKA ITO
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Patent number: 6128009Abstract: A program table guide control apparatus according to this invention generates program table picture including date and hour information, program title information and genre information to display only title of the program relating to broadcasting channel being received in connection with the title information, and to permit user to arbitrarily register genre information displayed. In addition, programs of high viewing frequency of user are automatically registered, thus permitting registered programs to be included in genre information. Thus, Electronic Program Guide (EPG) extremely easy for user to use can be provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 1998Date of Patent: October 3, 2000Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yukiko Ohkura, Tetsuya Kohno, Keiji Yuzawa, Yuriko Kishitaka, Kazuhiro Akaike
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Patent number: 6084643Abstract: A receiving method in the receiving equipment in, first, a service table composed of channel numbers currently on air is made and, if the channel key is judged to be pressed, a channel number searched from the service table is displayed on the screen. If the channel key is judged to be pressed continuously, only the channel numbers are changed and if the channel key is judged to be released, a channel selection is started. There is thus provideded a receiving equipment capable of swiftly selecting a desired channel of the television broadcasting.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 1997Date of Patent: July 4, 2000Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yuriko Kishtaka, Tetsuya Kohno, Naoki Kigawa, Toshiro Ozawa, Mika Ito, Kazuhiro Akaike