Patents by Inventor Takashi Kitao
Takashi Kitao 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: 9983773Abstract: Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus including: operation accepting means for accept an operation input; image storing means for storing a plurality of images; management information storing means for storing management information corresponding to the plurality of images stored in the image storing means; image drawing means for drawing, in a display area including at least an image display area, at least one of images stored in the image storing means onto the image display area in a predetermined sequence; and controlling means for, when an operation input commanding selection of an image included in the image display area has been accepted by the operation accepting means, controlling recording of the selection of the image to management information stored in the management information storing means in correspondence with the image.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2015Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Takuo Ikeda, Makoto Imamura, Hidenori Karasawa, Yoshiyasu Kubota, Takashi Kitao, Shogo Sato
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Patent number: 9841890Abstract: A plurality of GUIs are displayed on the screen of a display. A hit determination area of each GUI is defined within a graphic of the GUI. When a user touches a point of contact, four virtual points of contact are generated in the shape of a āVā within the screen. A GUI desired to be selected by the user is identified according to a predetermined rule by referring to whether points of contact are located within each hit determination area, the number of points of contact, the priority level defined for each GUI, etc.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2012Date of Patent: December 12, 2017Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT, INC.Inventors: Takashi Kitao, Katsuya Hyodo, Arito Mochizuki
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Patent number: 9779523Abstract: A display control apparatus includes a search unit for searching for a second content related to a first content in accordance with at least part of metadata attached to each of the first content and the second content, a generating unit for generating a three-dimensional display model, the three-dimensional display model including a first layer and a second layer, the first layer having one of a first image and a first character representing the first content arranged therewithin, and the second layer having one of a second image and a second character representing the second content arranged therewithin, and a display control unit for controlling displaying one of the first image and the first character and one of the second image and the second character using the three-dimensional display model.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2008Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Takuo Ikeda, Kazuto Mugura, Nobuki Furue, Wataru Tajika, Takashi Kitao, Meng Ni, Takatoshi Ono, Kei Tateno, Noriyuki Yamamoto, Tomohiro Tsunoda
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Patent number: 9648315Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus including an operation recognition unit for recognizing an operation signal for identifying a focused image among images displayed on a screen of an image display unit and an image drawing unit for drawing an image on the screen so as to display the image as a stereoscopic image or a planar image on the screen, on the basis of a recognition result provided by the operation recognition unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2011Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Ryo Fukazawa, Yusuke Kudo, Takashi Kitao
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Patent number: 9470607Abstract: A method of producing a standard seawater solution for nutrient salt measurement includes at least: an impurity removal treatment step (S2) of removing an impurity from a seawater sample containing a nutrient salt; a main sterilization treatment step (S4) of killing a microorganism in the seawater sample; a bottling step (S6) including pouring the treated seawater sample into a resin bottle (3) and hermetically sealing the resin bottle; and a metal sealing step (S7) including covering an outer surface of the resin bottle (3) after the hermetic sealing with a film-like material (5) including a metal film (or a metal foil) (5a) and sealing the resin bottle therein by reduced pressure suction.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2011Date of Patent: October 18, 2016Assignee: The General Environmental Technos Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hidekazu Ota, Hitoshi Mitsuda, Munehito Kimura, Takashi Kitao
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Patent number: 9411503Abstract: An information processing device includes: a main unit to be held; a display unit provided on the main unit such that an information display screen is positioned on a front face thereof, to display information on the information display screen; a touch position detection unit to detect a touch position on the information display screen, and generate touch position detection data represented in terms of coordinates based on two axes intersecting at the detected touch position; and a control unit to display predetermined information on the information display screen, in the event of detecting that the touch position on the information display screen is being continually displaced from within a predetermined region on the information display screen in a predetermined first diagonal direction as to two directions following the two axes, based on the touch position detection data generated by the touch position detection unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2009Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Takuo Ikeda, Satoshi Akagawa, Satoshi Asai, Takashi Kitao, Dan Li, Kazuto Mugura, Makoto Nishimura
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Patent number: 9407898Abstract: There is provided a display control device which includes an information acquisition unit for acquiring information related to an object image for a right eye to be observed by a right eye of a viewer and an object image for a left eye to be observed by a left eye of the viewer, a determination unit for determining whether scale correction of the information acquired by the information acquisition unit can be omitted, and a display control unit for performing control of stereoscopically displaying an object based on the information acquired by the information acquisition unit, in a case it is determined that the scale correction can be omitted.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2011Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yusuke Kudo, Takashi Kitao, Ryo Fukazawa
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Publication number: 20160048271Abstract: [Object] To provide a method of enabling a user to select a desired playlist easily from among a plurality of playlists [Solution] Provided is an information processing device including: a playlist acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of playlists each including content, and list evaluation information for each playlist; and a display control unit configured to cause a selection screen for selecting one playlist from among the acquired plurality of playlists to be displayed. On the selection screen, the display control unit adds a virtual object based on the list evaluation information for each playlist and causes the virtual object to be displayed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2014Publication date: February 18, 2016Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Katsuya HYODO, Takashi KITAO, Kenichi YAMAURA, Nobuhiro JOGANO, Kazuto NISHIZAWA, Tatsuya HAMA
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Publication number: 20150324097Abstract: Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus including: operation accepting means for accept an operation input; image storing means for storing a plurality of images; management information storing means for storing management information corresponding to the plurality of images stored in the image storing means; image drawing means for drawing, in a display area including at least an image display area, at least one of images stored in the image storing means onto the image display area in a predetermined sequence; and controlling means for, when an operation input commanding selection of an image included in the image display area has been accepted by the operation accepting means, controlling recording of the selection of the image to management information stored in the management information storing means in correspondence with the image.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2015Publication date: November 12, 2015Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Takuo IKEDA, Makoto IMAMURA, Hidenori KARASAWA, Yoshiyasu KUBOTA, Takashi KITAO, Shogo SATO
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Patent number: 9129407Abstract: Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus including: operation accepting means for accept an operation input; image storing means for storing a plurality of images; management information storing means for storing management information corresponding to the plurality of images stored in the image storing means; image drawing means for drawing, in a display area including at least an image display area, at least one of images stored in the image storing means onto the image display area in a predetermined sequence; and controlling means for, when an operation input commanding selection of an image included in the image display area has been accepted by the operation accepting means, controlling recording of the selection of the image to management information stored in the management information storing means in correspondence with the image.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2014Date of Patent: September 8, 2015Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Takuo Ikeda, Makoto Imamura, Hidenori Karasawa, Yoshiyasu Kubota, Takashi Kitao, Shogo Sato
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Patent number: 9025012Abstract: There is provided a display control device including an image adjustment unit for taking, in a case one object image among an object image for a right eye to be observed by a right eye of a viewer and an object image for a left eye to be observed by a left eye of the viewer includes a non-matching portion not matching an other object image, the non-matching portion as an adjustment target image that is a target of adjustment, and adjusting the adjustment target image to be an image less clear than a base image that is the adjustment target image before adjustment, and a display control unit for performing control of stereoscopically displaying an object based on an object image after adjustment that is the one object image that has been adjusted by the image adjustment unit and the other object image.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2011Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yusuke Kudo, Takashi Kitao, Ryo Fukazawa
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Publication number: 20150077436Abstract: Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus including: operation accepting means for accept an operation input; image storing means for storing a plurality of images; management information storing means for storing management information corresponding to the plurality of images stored in the image storing means; image drawing means for drawing, in a display area including at least an image display area, at least one of images stored in the image storing means onto the image display area in a predetermined sequence; and controlling means for, when an operation input commanding selection of an image included in the image display area has been accepted by the operation accepting means, controlling recording of the selection of the image to management information stored in the management information storing means in correspondence with the image.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2014Publication date: March 19, 2015Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Takuo IKEDA, Makoto Imamura, Hidenori Karasawa, Yoshiyasu Kubota, Takashi Kitao, Shogo Sato
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Publication number: 20140380161Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a communication unit that is capable of communicating with a communication apparatus through a communication network, and a control unit configured to perform control to place, in a virtual space, a communication-apparatus image that represents the communication apparatus and content being executed by the communication apparatus, and to display the virtual space.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2014Publication date: December 25, 2014Inventors: HIKOTATSU CHIN, TAKASHI KITAO, KOJI IHARA, KATSUYA HYODO, RYO FUKAZAWA
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Patent number: 8836642Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including a display control section which causes a three-dimensional space in which an object is arranged to be displayed on a display screen, an acquisition section which acquires a pointing operation in the three-dimensional space, and a position setting section which sets a pointing position in the three-dimensional space on the basis of the pointing operation. The display control section displays the pointing position in the three-dimensional space, a difference of the pointing position from a position of the object in a depth direction of the display screen having been corrected.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2011Date of Patent: September 16, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Maki Mori, Yusuke Kudo, Takashi Kitao, Ryo Fukazawa
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Publication number: 20140191953Abstract: Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus including: operation accepting means for accept an operation input; image storing means for storing a plurality of images; management information storing means for storing management information corresponding to the plurality of images stored in the image storing means; image drawing means for drawing, in a display area including at least an image display area, at least one of images stored in the image storing means onto the image display area in a predetermined sequence; and controlling means for, when an operation input commanding selection of an image included in the image display area has been accepted by the operation accepting means, controlling recording of the selection of the image to management information stored in the management information storing means in correspondence with the image.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2014Publication date: July 10, 2014Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Takuo IKEDA, Makoto Imamura, Hidenori Karasawa, Yoshiyasu Kubota, Takashi Kitao, Shogo Sato
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Patent number: 8762882Abstract: Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus including: operation accepting means for accept an operation input; image storing means for storing a plurality of images; management information storing means for storing management information corresponding to the plurality of images stored in the image storing means; image drawing means for drawing, in a display area including at least an image display area, at least one of images stored in the image storing means onto the image display area in a predetermined sequence; and controlling means for, when an operation input commanding selection of an image included in the image display area has been accepted by the operation accepting means, controlling recording of the selection of the image to management information stored in the management information storing means in correspondence with the image.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2008Date of Patent: June 24, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Takuo Ikeda, Makoto Imamura, Hidenori Karasawa, Yoshiyasu Kubota, Takashi Kitao, Shogo Sato
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Publication number: 20140149941Abstract: A display control apparatus includes a search unit for searching for a second content linked to a first content and a display control unit for controlling display of a search history of content search performed in accordance with one of a first image and a first character, each indicating the first content, one of a second image and a second character, each indicating the second content and link information linking the first content to the second content.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2014Publication date: May 29, 2014Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Takuo Ikeda, Kazuto Mugura, Nobuki Furue, Wataru Tajika, Takashi Kitao, Meng Ni, Taskaoshi Ono, Kei Tateno, Noriyuki Yamamoto, Tomohiro Tsunoda
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Publication number: 20130305660Abstract: Provided is a method of producing a standard seawater solution for nutrient salt measurement, the method including at least: an impurity removal treatment step (S2) of removing an impurity from a seawater sample containing a nutrient salt; a main sterilization treatment step (S4) of killing a microorganism in the seawater sample; a bottling step (S6) including pouring the treated seawater sample into a resin bottle (3) and hermetically sealing the resin bottle; and a metal sealing step (S7) including covering an outer surface of the resin bottle (3) after being hermetically sealed with a film-like material (5) including a metal film (or a metal foil) (5a) and sealing the resin bottle therein by reduced pressure suction.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2011Publication date: November 21, 2013Inventors: Hidekazu Ota, Hitoshi Mitsuda, Munehito Kimura, Takashi Kitao
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Publication number: 20130139079Abstract: A plurality of GUIs are displayed on the screen of a display. A hit determination area of each GUI is defined within a graphic of the GUI. When a user touches a point of contact, four virtual points of contact are generated in the shape of a āVā within the screen. A GUI desired to be selected by the user is identified according to a predetermined rule by referring to whether points of contact are located within each hit determination area, the number of points of contact, the priority level defined for each GUI, etc.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2012Publication date: May 30, 2013Applicants: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC., SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi Kitao, Katsuya Hyodo, Arito Mochizuki
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Publication number: 20120057778Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus including an operation recognition unit for recognizing an operation signal for identifying a focused image among images displayed on a screen of an image display unit and an image drawing unit for drawing an image on the screen so as to display the image as a stereoscopic image or a planar image on the screen, on the basis of a recognition result provided by the operation recognition unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2011Publication date: March 8, 2012Inventors: Ryo FUKAZAWA, Yusuke KUDO, Takashi KITAO