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).

  • Publication number: 20120056884
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Publication date: March 8, 2012
    Inventors: Yusuke Kudo, Takashi Kitao, Ryo Fukazawa
  • Publication number: 20120056883
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Publication date: March 8, 2012
    Inventors: Yusuke KUDO, Takashi Kitao, Ryo Fukazawa
  • Publication number: 20120056880
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus including a drawing position calculation unit for calculating a drawing position of each image of a group of at least two images in a shape being divided at predetermined distance in the width direction so that each of the images is to be displayed on a screen as a stereoscopic image, the shape which is expected to be displayed on a screen as a stereoscopic image, and an image drawing unit for drawing each image of the group of images at the drawing position calculated by the drawing position calculation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2011
    Publication date: March 8, 2012
    Inventors: Ryo Fukazawa, Takashi Kitao, Yusuke Kudo, Maki Mori
  • Publication number: 20120056877
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2011
    Publication date: March 8, 2012
    Inventors: Maki MORI, Yusuke Kudo, Takashi Kitao, Ryo Fukazawa
  • Patent number: 8103963
    Abstract: There is provided a graphical user interface that is displayed within one screen of a display device. The graphical user interface includes a matrix-shaped display area that is partitioned along a first axis by types of content and partitioned along a second axis by units of time. Items of information on the content that is processed within a specified unit of time are displayed within the matrix-shaped display area, closed together along the second axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takuo Ikeda, Hidenori Karasawa, Kazuto Mugura, Mayu Irimajiri, Shinji Kimura, Yoshiyasu Kubota, Takashi Kitao, Shogo Sato, Dan Li
  • Patent number: 7839405
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display control apparatus which may include an image conversion unit, a display unit, a point specifying unit, and a visual-point position setting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shinya Ishii, Takashi Kitao
  • Patent number: 7840907
    Abstract: The present invention provides an information processing apparatus that can make the user easily search for desired data. By mutually superposing and displaying icons of respective plural files and folders, and carrying out the flipping operation for thus superposed and displayed icons, an arbitrary icon is shifted and displayed such that the icon is spread. Accordingly, the operation of searching for a desired icon from among the plural icons can be made more intuitive and comprehensible with a sense of flipping a page of a book. Furthermore, since plural icons indicative of the contents of files and folders corresponding to the respective plural icons are displayed such that the icons are not superposed one another, the user can visually confirm the contents of the respective icons, which makes it possible to easily search for an icon of a desired file or folder, and easily search for desired data consequently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yuhei Kikuchi, Takashi Kitao
  • Patent number: 7806767
    Abstract: Game system in which an object is arranged in a virtual three-dimensional space including a display device, an input device for outputting signals according to player operations and a game control device for executing a game according to a program while checking the output of the input device and displaying a visual field image including the object on the display device. The visual field image is viewed from a predetermined view point position in the virtual three-dimensional space. The game control device includes a position determining device for determining whether to view the object from a first view point position which is a back and slightly inclined position toward a moving direction of the object to view an observation position set forward the object, or from a second view point position from which the observation point is viewed in a fixed direction regardless of the movement of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignee: Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takashi Kitao
  • Patent number: 7802178
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an information display apparatus includes: candidate object display means configured to display selectable candidate objects in a first display layer; and selected object display processing means configured to display a selected object, which is selected by user from the candidate objects, in a second display layer, which is superposed over the first display layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takuo Ikeda, Nobuki Furue, Wataru Tajika, Takashi Kitao, Yuhei Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 7734612
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an information search apparatus includes: search means configured to search for an associated object associated with a specified search source object; associated object display means configured to display a searched associated object onto a display screen; display count setting object display means configured to display a display count setting object for setting the number of the associated objects to be displayed on the display screen onto the display screen; and associated object display count control means configured to, if a setting of the number of associated objects has been changed by an operation executed on the display count setting object, adjust the number of associated objects displayed on the display screen in accordance with the changed setting and display the resultant number of associated objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takuo Ikeda, Nobuki Furue, Wataru Tajika, Takashi Kitao, Yuhei Kikuchi
  • Publication number: 20100013780
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2009
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takuo IKEDA, Satoshi Akagawa, Satoshi Asai, Takashi Kitao, Dan Li, Kazuto Mugura, Makoto Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20090051703
    Abstract: There is provided a graphical user interface that is displayed within one screen of a display device. The graphical user interface includes a matrix-shaped display area that is partitioned along a first axis by types of content and partitioned along a second axis by units of time. Items of information on the content that is processed within a specified unit of time are displayed within the matrix-shaped display area, closed together along the second axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2008
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takuo IKEDA, Hidenori Karasawa, Kazuto Mugura, Mayu Irimajiri, Shinji Kimura, Yoshiyasu Kubota, Takashi Kitao, Shogo Sato, Dan Li
  • Publication number: 20080295036
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2008
    Publication date: November 27, 2008
    Inventors: Takuo IKEDA, Kazuto MUGURA, Nobuki FUKUE, Wataru TAJIKA, Takashi KITAO, Meng NI, Takatoshi ONO, Kei TATENO, Noriyuki YAMAMOTO, Tomohiro TSUNODA
  • Publication number: 20080187248
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2008
    Publication date: August 7, 2008
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takuo IKEDA, Makoto Imamura, Hidenori Karasawa, Yoshiyasu Kubota, Takashi Kitao, Shogo Sato
  • Publication number: 20080036766
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display control apparatus which may include an image conversion unit, a display unit, a point specifying unit, and a visual-point position setting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2007
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shinya Ishii, Takashi Kitao
  • Publication number: 20070226652
    Abstract: The present invention provides an information processing apparatus that can make the user easily search for desired data. By mutually superposing and displaying icons of respective plural files and folders, and carrying out the flipping operation for thus superposed and displayed icons, an arbitrary icon is shifted and displayed such that the icon is spread. Accordingly, the operation of searching for a desired icon from among the plural icons can be made more intuitive and comprehensible with a sense of flipping a page of a book. Furthermore, since plural icons indicative of the contents of files and folders corresponding to the respective plural icons are displayed such that the icons are not superposed one another, the user can visually confirm the contents of the respective icons, which makes it possible to easily search for an icon of a desired file or folder, and easily search for desired data consequently.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2007
    Publication date: September 27, 2007
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuhei Kikuchi, Takashi Kitao
  • Publication number: 20070179938
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an information search apparatus includes: search means configured to search for an associated object associated with a specified search source object; associated object display means configured to display a searched associated object onto a display screen; display count setting object display means configured to display a display count setting object for setting the number of the associated objects to be displayed on the display screen onto the display screen; and associated object display count control means configured to, if a setting of the number of associated objects has been changed by an operation executed on the display count setting object, adjust the number of associated objects displayed on the display screen in accordance with the changed setting and display the resultant number of associated objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2007
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuo Ikeda, Nobuki Furue, Wataru Tajika, Takashi Kitao, Yuhei Kikuchi
  • Publication number: 20070176922
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an information display apparatus includes: candidate object display means configured to display selectable candidate objects in a first display layer; and selected object display processing means configured to display a selected object, which is selected by user from the candidate objects, in a second display layer, which is superposed over the first display layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2007
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuo Ikeda, Nobuki Furue, Wataru Tajika, Takashi Kitao, Yuhei Kikuchi
  • Publication number: 20050049047
    Abstract: Game system in which an object is arranged in a virtual three-dimensional space including a display device, an input device for outputting signals according to player operations and a game control device for executing a game according to a program while checking the output of the input device and displaying a visual field image including the object on the display device. The visual field image is viewed from a predetermined view point position in the virtual three-dimensional space. The game control device includes a position determining device for determining whether to view the object from a first view point position which is a back and slightly inclined position toward a moving direction of the object to view an observation position set forward the object, or from a second view point position from which the observation point is viewed in a fixed direction regardless of the movement of the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2004
    Publication date: March 3, 2005
    Applicant: Konami Computer Entertainment Japan, Inc.
    Inventor: Takashi Kitao
  • Patent number: 6835136
    Abstract: Game system in which an object is arranged in a virtual three-dimensional space including a display device, an input device for outputting signals according to player operations and a game control device for executing a game according to a program while checking the output of the input device and displaying a visual field image including the object on the display device. The visual field image is viewed from a predetermined view point position in the virtual three-dimensional space. The game control device includes a position determining device for determining whether to view the object from a first view point position which is a back and slightly inclined position toward a moving direction of the object to view an observation position set forward the object, or from a second view point position from which the observation point is viewed in a fixed direction regardless of the movement of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2004
    Assignee: Konami Computer Entertainment Japan, Inc.
    Inventor: Takashi Kitao